{"id":20045,"date":"2013-03-14T13:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2013-03-14T13:58:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T17:58:36","slug":"bucs-lure-pro-bowl-safety-goldson-in-41m-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20045","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Lure Pro Bowl Safety Goldson In $41M Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent the No. 7 pick in last April\u2019s draft on safety <strong>Mark Barron<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, they found him some help in the secondary, agreeing to a five-year deal with former 49er <strong>Dashon Goldson<\/strong>. The Buccaneers headed into free agency with upwards of $30 million available under the cap, coupled with a need to improve on a pass defense that was worst in the league last season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goldson<\/strong> certainly should help with the latter \u2014 and it was that extra cash that helped pry him away from San Francisco. <strong>Goldson<\/strong> reportedly received a five-year deal worth $41.25 million, $22 million of which will be guaranteed. For the Bucs, with all that money to spend, <strong>Goldson\u2019s<\/strong> contract may not cause too much stress. However, that $8.25 million per-year average is the third-highest number for any safety in the league.<\/p>\n<p>Can<strong> Goldson<\/strong> live up to that contract?<\/p>\n<p>While <strong>Goldson<\/strong>, who will turn 29 in mid-September, picked off 14 passes over the past four season in San Francisco, he struggled down the stretch in coverage \u2014 particularly in the NFC title game against Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay will need him to be much better than that to free up Barron. And it\u2019s worth pointing out that Tampa Bay\u2019s cornerbacks remain a relative weak spot, increasing the pressure on <strong>Goldson<\/strong> deep.<\/p>\n<p>That said, <strong>Goldson<\/strong> often did yeoman\u2019s work for the 49ers, both before and during 2012. He absolutely upgrades Tampa Bay\u2019s defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Buccaneers spent the No. 7 pick in last April\u2019s draft on safety Mark Barron. Wednesday, they found him some help in the secondary, agreeing to a five-year deal with former 49er Dashon Goldson. The Buccaneers headed into free agency with upwards of $30 million available under the cap, coupled with a need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}