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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers could be active in trades on draft day. Specifically, Charlie Campbell reported on the Pat and Aaron Show on 620 WDAE that they could trade back up into the first round to draft Miami tackle Ereck Flowers. Campbell used to cover the Bucs for Pewter Report, so he certainly has some connections in the area.

Flowers is an intriguing prospect, playing left tackle for Miami over the past three years. CBS Sports have him as their 21st overall prospect, while ESPN have him as their 16th overall prospect. At 6'6", 329 lbs. he has outstanding size and he moves very smoothly in pass protection, although he can get sloppy. His size probably precludes him from moving inside, and tall guys like him tend to have leverage issues in run blocking, but the consensus seems to be that he's very talented if a little raw in technique.

Campbell also noted that T.J. Clemmings wasn't a very hot prospect among teams.

Trading up for a quality tackle would make sense, because the Bucs simply need offensive linemen. They're likely to sign one or two in free agency, but they need to build up young talent at the position too. Logan Mankins is old, Demar Dotson won't be around forever, and Evan Dietrich-Smith is highly replaceable. They really don't have any long-term building blocks.

So yeah, trading up for Flowers or some other offensive lineman would make quite a bit of sense.


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As a Bucs fan I would love to get Big Red but Lovie is going to draft the Criminole. We equally need to upgrade the QB and OL very badly.
 
The Bucs missed badly last year in FA for OL. The line needs help right now. I doubt that Lovie has time to allow a young OL to develop so I would not hold my breath waiting on this.
 
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talk about a bummer lol we finally get the #1 pick with 2 heisman winning QB's who had fantastic college careers to pick from and we're trying to trade back? lol i would be so ****ed

honestly id be done with the bucs **** em ive been watching garbage qb's for too **** long
 
travis said:
talk about a bummer lol we finally get the #1 pick with 2 heisman winning QB's who had fantastic college careers to pick from and we're trying to trade back? lol i would be so ****ed

honestly id be done with the bucs **** em ive been watching garbage qb's for too **** long
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The article indicates that the Bucs want to make a trade to get back into the first round to grab Flowers. It's obvious they will get Winston with the first pic.
 
tbaycane said:
Better than Winston... take
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If we could get 4 first round draft picks like the Rams did a few years back then I am all for trading down.. but more than likely, we draft Winston & just pray that the kid grows up.

After the combine, there's no more discussing as to who will be picked #1.
 
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bigpurk45 said:
ilovelamp51 said:
tbaycane said:
Better than Winston... take
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If we could get 4 first round draft picks like the Rams did a few years back then I am all for trading down.. but more than likely, we draft Winston & just pray that the kid grows up.

After the combine, there's no more discussing as to who will be picked #1.
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Winston will have a lot of growing pains... good luck...
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Brooks said on Tampa sports radio that he would mentor and help Winston. Brooks being on board and helping the kid makes me feel confident if the Bucs take Winston
 
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For a franchise that loves to build thru the draft, unless Flowers takes an unexpected fall, i think its too far for a trade up. Would be too costly unless we did an unforseen blockbuster trade back with the Eagles.
 
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