This kind of stuff happens, especially when the highest tiers of Bucs management fail to clear the air. [read more]

One sad note to the Bucs’ division-winning season was star safety Antoine Winfield, Jr. having an off year.

It happens. But Joe’s real sadness is thinking about how Winfield injured his foot in Week 1 with the Bucs’ victory already locked up. [read more]

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Graded in and out of Bucs headquarters.

Forget Mike Evans, Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has his own streak. It’s finding quality offensive lineman at schools big and small. [read more]

No true offseason.

Joe reads this a fair amount from commenters on this here corner of the interwebs. [read more]

Not good enough. [read more]

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“Liam, think about it: If Urban Meyer couldn’t work with Trevor Lawrence, what shot do you have?“

If Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians was the quarterback whisperer, then Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen is the Baker Mayfield whisperer. [read more]

Clock management and timeouts.

Is Bucs coach Todd Bowles the perfect coach? No. His lack of aggressiveness with his offense at certain points leaves Joe’s mouth agape. [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]

Recognition.

Joe doesn’t think it is crazy to suggest that if not for Bucky Irving, the Bucs wouldn’t have made the playoffs. [read more]

A major change seems inevitable for Baker Mayfield and Joe’s not sure Mayfield knows how to handle it successfully. [read more]

Shoutout from Todd Bowles.

Teams change, teams grow and teams take steps back during a season.

That’s why the regular season has so much drama. A team could look like the 2020 Bucs in the season opener and end up looking like the 2011 Bucs at season’s end (minus Albert Haynesworth, of course). [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Joe loves hearing crying out of NFC South cities not named Tampa. [read more]

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Do the Bucs have a good tandem of starting outside cornerbacks?

Todd Bowles seemed to deliver a simple answer to that question on Tuesday: [read more]

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Rookie mistakes happen.

Joe wrote last week about how much different and intense playoff games are over regular season games. [read more]

Predicament.

For those hellbent on running Todd Bowles out of town, you may want to skip this next paragraph. [read more]

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They said he was nuts.

On this day 30 years ago, Malcom Glazer coughed up nearly $200 million to purchase the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For some, that was considered an outrageous amount to spend on a franchise that hadn’t been to the postseason in 12 years.

Tampa Stadium was antiquated and half-empty while the Bucs were annual strangers to prime-time games.

Some fans that did show up in previous years came adorned with bags over their heads to protest the team’s irrelevance and attempt to shame former owner Hugh Culverhouse, who was viewed as frugal and indifferent. [read more]

Weighs in on Bucs’ errors.

Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians often used a now-famous phrase in his first Tampa Bay season when the team almost weekly did something dumb. [read more]