{"id":6048,"date":"2011-04-25T16:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2011-04-25T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T20:07:35","slug":"bucs-hope-to-build-on-recent-draft-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=6048","title":{"rendered":"Bucs Hope To Build On Recent Draft Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay needs a pass rusher.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics suggest it, NFL draft analysts believe it, and even Buccaneers general manager <strong>Mark Dominik <\/strong>concedes it. Yes, a defensive end with the ability to put heat on quarterbacks is the most pressing need for a team that won 10 games and narrowly missed making the playoffs last season.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay ranked 30th among 32 teams in sacks with 26 a year ago, despite using their first two picks in the 2010 draft on a pair of defensive tackles who arrived with strong pass rushing resumes from college.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gerald McCoy<\/strong>, the third overall pick behind <strong>Sam Bradford<\/strong> and <strong>Ndamukong Suh<\/strong>, got off to a slow start in an injury-shortened rookie season and finished with three sacks in 13 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Bay needs a pass rusher. Statistics suggest it, NFL draft analysts believe it, and even Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik concedes it. Yes, a defensive end with the ability to put heat on quarterbacks is the most pressing need for a team that won 10 games and narrowly missed making the playoffs last season. [&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-6048","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\/6048","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=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}