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Very special edition of the JoeBucsFan Show at NOON today on WDAE radio, 95.7 FM and AM 620. Joe and Ira Kaufman will chop it up on all things Buccaneers filling in for The Nick Wize Show.

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“Jamel, you have any tricks I can pass on to Jacob Parrish?”

When the 2025 offseason began, Joe was ready to cut bait with Jamel Dean. [read more]

Get it done now or wait?

As you have probably read a time or two on this here corner of the interwebs, there is a disagreement at JoeBucsFan.com World Headquarters when it comes to Baker Mayfield. [read more]

Need more impact.

Last year the Bucs had a soft, quitting defense. Thankfully, the organization saw the same thing and made a concerted effort to bring in guys with passion in their hearts and violence on their minds.

Good start. [read more]

It’s known that the Bucccaneers’ decision makers offered Baker Mayfield a contract extension.

They want to keep him after his current deal expires in March. But how much was offered and for how long? [read more]

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The latest.

Baker Mayfield is on record, several times since he came to the Bucs, that Tampa Bay is the first team to embrace him for who he is and never tried to change him. [read more]

Exit won’t doom Bucs.

It seems a guy who swallowed a calculator believes the Bucs shouldn’t lose much sleep because Mike Evans couldn’t bolt out of town fast enough. [read more]

The time is now.

If Joe didn’t know better, famed handicapper-turned-stathead Warren Sharp is like many of Joe’s commenters and many callers to WDAE-AM 620/WDAE-FM 95.7: [read more]

Human snowplow.

Tristan Wirfs is Joe’s favorite player. Love everything about him. He’s building a Hall of Fame career. [read more]

Baker backup speaks.

Here’s a fresh nugget from an unlikely source, a guy who spends every football day around Baker Mayfield. [read more]

Rookie Bucs linebacker Josiah Trotter.

So it seems Bucs rookie inside linebacker Josiah Trotter was trained by the best straight-line linebacker in the history of football. [read more]

Team Glazer.

So legendary JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman made a powerful point in his recent column. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

For football fans, summer brings that awful, hollow word “hope.” And for the Bucs, that’s no different. [read more]

Lone issue as July begins.

So what’s the big issue sticking out like a hanging chad for the Bucs as we roll into July? There is only one. [read more]

Blitzes went up in smoke in 2025.

Regular readers know Joe thinks pressures are pretty close to a worthless stat. At best, their value is grossly overrated. [read more]

Important.

Look out Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht. Your question to re-up Baker Mayfield just got more important. [read more]