It’s Joe’s high-energy, weekly hour of all-things-Bucs talk with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620. Enjoy the audio below of Wednesday’s action. Joe’s gets after it again next Wednesday with Duemig, too.

Bucs G Jamon Meredith was working with the first team offense yesterday in OTA practice.

Yesterday at practice, working with the first team offense, was a pair of guys who give Bucs fans chills down their spines, and not in a good way.

Since starting left guard/MRSA victim/ugly toe on the line Carl Nicks was nowhere in sight, not even with Joe’s binoculars, the guards working with the first team offense were Oneil Cousins on the left, and Jamon Meredith at right. (more…)

There is a bit, well, a lot more access given to the Tampa Bay pen and mic club than in recent years past. Of course, the tradeoff is no Twittering during practice. It’s a fair scratch-my-back-I’ll-scratch-yours swap.

Joe is happy with the open society that has enveloped One Buc Palace. (more…)

One of the more bizarre sights at Bucs practice yesterday was hard to see.

But you sure could hear it. (more…)

Rookie Mike Evans has plenty in common with a former Bucs receiver taken in the first round

There’s no diva in 20-year-old rookie receiver Mike Evans. Not yet, anyway.

Evans even said he’d be proud to be known as a blocking icon. (more…)

Yes, the Bucs have a quarterback. No, he’s not Josh McCown. No, he’s not the future. He’s not even Mike Kafka nor is he linguine-armed Brett Smith. He is Alex Tanney, pride of Monmouth College, a small school located in west-central Illinois, surrounded by cornfields, as virtually everything in Illinois is south of Chicago.

While Tanney, who has spent time on the rosters of the Chiefs, Cowboys and Browns the past three years, may never make the Bucs roster, accuracy should never be an issue with him as evidenced by this trick shot video he did three years ago while in college. (more…)

Former Bucs DE Steve White

Hours after taking the Buccaneers head coaching gig, Lovie Smith said he was eager to get former Glory Days Bucs into the mix of his regime. They’d be welcome with open arms to mingle, mentor, or motivate, Lovie said.

Well, Lovie was true to his word. (more…)

The Bucs signed the “trick shot quarterback”

Apparently, the Bucs’ hierarchy saw what Joe saw over the past five days: Wyoming QB Brett Smith looked like a noodle-armed college quarterback.

Quickly signed by the Bucs as an undrafted free agent, and a guy many fans believed was a “quarterback of the future,” Smith was cut today in a flurry of roster moves. (more…)

A fantastic charity event will be held this evening at Plant High School, 2415 South Himes Ave., Tampa.

Dozens of ex-NFL players, including Mike Alstott, Earnest Graham, Jack Youngblood and many former Bucs, will play in a “Tribute to Heroes” flag football game versus the undefeated Wounded Warrior Amputee football team.

Tickets are $10 for adults. Kids 9-17 are $5. Children 8 years old and younger are free. The first 1,000 military members get in free.

The Wounded Warrior Amputee Football Team is made up of dedicated former and active service members who lost a limb or limbs in combats tours in Iraq, Afghanistan & Vietnam.  These guys and gals (yes, there are two women on the team) are incredibly athletic and their record over the last year is 6-0.

Buy tickets now and get more information at http://www.wwaft.org, or you can purchase at the game. Gates open at 6 p.m.

Joe would like to issue a special thanks to Joe’s friends at Ed Morse Cadillac Tampa for being a major sponsor of this wonderful charity event. Here’s a Tampa Bay Times story about the game and the cause.

Lovie Smith has been talking up “The Fastest Man In The NFL” for months. The Bucs head coach said he couldn’t wait to get Olympian Jeff Demps on the practice field and, based on Lovie’s chatter yesterday, Demps has lived up to the hype. (more…)

Blade-in-the-back rookie Chaz Sutton has impressed the Bucs heirarchy

It appeared the last straw for receiver Mike Williams under the new Bucs regime was the blade he took in the leg from his brother. The gall of Williams to get sliced by a sibling!

This came on top of the nerve of Williams to burn food on his stove, dabble in rap music, drive his car too fast, and allegedly have a Tempur-Pedic on his front lawn and a stripper pole in his living room. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht described WR Mike Evans as “a Godzilla.”

Joe must give Bucs general manager props for being up on pop culture.

Either that, or he has impeccable timing and is a stickler for research.

There are all sorts of superlatives to use to describe rookie wide receiver Mike Evans. Big, physical, quick, strong, athletic. But leave it to Licht to tab the No. 1 movie at the box office last weekend. (more…)

The Bucs GM weighed in last night

Mike Glennon is the “quarterback of the future” for the Bucs. Joe is going to guess you heard that somewhere before.

Now, when future becomes present, that’s anyone’s guess. But Glennon is the future. Bank on it. Write it down. Bookmark it. Don’t believe Joe? Just ask Jason Licht. (more…)

So who taught manbeast Gerald McCoy how to tackle at a Pro Bowl level? Greg Schiano, of course.

Please don’t tell you Joe forgot that critical nugget of Bucs history. Ask Mason Foster and Johnthan Banks about their tackling skills, and they’ll talk about their Schiano transformation, too. (more…)

“Trust your team leaders, my son.”

One reason Bucs coach Lovie Smith has fallen in love with Josh McCown isn’t because he will confuse Bucs fans with Joe Montana. But Lovie believes what McCown does off the field is as important as what he does on it.

Lovie always gushes about McCown. And one of the reasons he brought McCown to Tampa Bay, aside from to be the starting quarterback, of course, was to be a big brother of sorts to backup quarterback Mike Glennon. Try to be Glennon’s unofficial coach. (more…)

Joe joined his fellow media types at Buccaneers practice today under the broiling late-morning sun at One Buc Palace (When will Team Glazer sell ice cold beer at these things?) Of course, Joe took all kinds of notes from drills and offense-vs-defense work.

Here you go: (more…)

Joe remembers last year when the Bucs signed “Hawk” Dashon Goldson, many Bucs fans and national football observers grumbled about how Goldson and Mark Barron were too much alike, therefore, it was a wasted acquisition. (more…)

Bucs coach Lovie Smith was a little excited today, more than his usual calm, stoic self, because his team, his Bucs, were on the field practicing.

Lovie, however, cautioned reporters not to draw too many conclusions from what they are seeing. (more…)

The Bucs’ named “quarterback of the future” said today that Lovie Smith called him twice in the days before the draft to advise not to believe the rumors and hype of the Bucs drafting a quarterback.

Yes, the Mike Glennon Mob can take a break from printing “19 and 9” bumper stickers and celebrate the decision of the Lovie Smith regime. (more…)

The Buccaneers’ cornerbacks coach really was getting after it today on the sunny practice fields of One Buc Palace.

Gil Byrd, a former Pro Bowl player with the Chargers, was all over his troops during man coverage drills against real receivers. (more…)

A scary sight occurred at Bucs practice this morning about five yards in front of Joe.

It was a roughly 15 yard out route during a 1-on-1 drill with Mike Jenkins covering. (more…)

The Bucs are back on the practice field this morning, and Joe is here at One Buc Palace to bring you the sights, sounds and assorted fun.

It’s the full team today, rookies mingling with veterans, and then talking about it afterwards.

Stick with Joe through the day and night for all the need-to-know.

Buffalo WR Sammy Watkins claims the Bucs were one of two teams that told him they would trade up to select him in the draft two weeks ago.

Hordes of Bucs fans are still cracking open bottles of beer to celebrate the drafting of Mike Evans at No. 7 overall. While there was little if anything to judge Evans during rookie camp, his making the two plays of the day, spectacular plays, each time the Tampa Bay pen and mic club was allowed to watch, certainly didn’t damper any hopes.

But, if Joe is to believe the words from wide receiver Sammy Watkins own mouth, the No. 4 overall draft pick, the Bucs wanted him more than Evans.

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