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BY IRA KAUFMAN

It’s not a stretch to suggest the Buccaneer season effectively ended Thursday at 11:35 p.m.

A team that hit the bye week at 6-2 is cratering in front of Buc Nation. Another crushing blow landed during a stunning 29-28 loss to Atlanta as a national audience witnessed what Tampa Bay fans already sensed:

This team is lost. [read more]

Troubling words from Gerald McCoy on X this morning regarding what’s going on behind the scenes at One Buc Palace. [read more]

After last night’s choke job against the miserable Falcons, Baker Mayfield fell on his sword. [read more]

Baker Mayfield

The Bucs like to brag loud and proud of their “I Am That Man” slogan for selecting players. [read more]

Bucs co-owner Joel Glazer met with Jason Pierre-Paul on the field prior to last night’s game.

Bucs-fan rage is at an all-time high.

Heck, Joe is absorbing venemous darts for not calling for Todd Bowles to be fired this morning. [read more]

Safety Antoine Winfield, Jr., with no receiver behind him, is about 10 yards off the receiver as Kirk Cousins releases the football on 4th-and-14 during the Falcons’ game-winning drivfe.

So Todd Bowles would not name who made the “big blunder that was inexcusable” on 4th-stand-14 during the Falcons’ game-winning drive last night. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles reacts to a play Thursday night.

The Bucs looked like they had wrapped up a win. The Bucs led 28-26 with just over a minute to play. [read more]

Tight end Devin Culp celebrates his first NFL touchdown Thursday.

Joe thinks the Bucs are on the verge of upheaval at One Buc Palace in some form or another. That’s what happens when you may have the worst defense in the league and your team is cratering so bad in the past seven weeks you’re on the cusp of missing the playoffs. So start chugging that mug of java, you will need it. [read more]

Some players tuned out?

Joe has suspected, maybe going back to last year, that the Bucs have a locker room issue. [read more]

Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction. [read more]

Baker Mayfield

Baker Mayfield doesn’t want to hear any smack run about the Bucs defense. [read more]

Look, Joe fully understands that every team, on occasion, will have a defensive lineman drop into coverage. This is nothing new. [read more]

Chase McLaughlin had a different kind of night.

No mas!

Todd Bowles decided the miserable Bucs kickoff coverage unit would no longer pollute the team. [read more]

Made huge difference.

The Bucs offense was not perfect. But the offense didn’t choke the game away and let a quarterback who otherwise looked like he had one foot in a retirement home look like Dan Marino in his prime. [read more]

“You like that?”

The nicest way Joe can put this is that someone in authority with the Bucs doesn’t learn from past mistakes. [read more]

Tonight Todd Bowles channeled one of his mentors, Bruce Arians.

Whoa!! [read more]

So the Bucs have painted themselves into the mother of all corners. The Bucs, barring something totally unforeseen, will need to beat Carolina twice to make the playoffs. [read more]

A week ago the Bucs were struggling but hadn’t lost to a bad football team all year. [read more]

So the Bucs allowed two touchdowns and a field goal to the miserable Falcons in the fourth quarter tonight.

Keep in mind Atlanta was playing a backup quarterback and was without their No. 1 receiver. [read more]