The Bucs entered the bye week victorious. Additionally, the Bucs entered the bye week with a home win, which has become about as rare in these parts as a snowplow. (more…)

Can TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins play in a smashmouth offense?

Soon, maybe as soon as Sunday against the Redskins, tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins will return from battling an injured shoulder he suffered in the win over New Orleans.

Joe is wondering how ASJ will fit in? (more…)

The right medicine for struggling defensive playcaller Lovie Smith.

There’s a reason Joe drank so much beer today. Suffering through four quarters of Redskins-Jets football will do that to a man. (more…)

Doug Martin gets loose against Jacksonville. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

It began in training camp, where Doug Martin ran like a wild man. So much so that Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht was scared by the defensive front and ran out to sign defensive tackle Tony McDaniel. (more…)

Given the bizarre illness of moldy Mike Koenen, the viral mess Lovie Smith cooked up in his Chicago basement during his year out of football, and the Bucs’ devastating pre-Lovie woes with the MRSA, is it any wonder Lovie just sold his suburban Chicago house to an infectious disease professor? (more…)

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It’s not a huge surprise that Lovie Smith ripped defensive end George Johnson from the starting lineup and replaced him with true manbeast Will Gholston, who has very little fat on him but still stands 6-6, 280 pounds.

Johnson and fellow defensive end Jacquies Smith were very skinny on the NFL scale for defensive ends. (more…)

Gerald McCoy dishes on “America’s Quarterback.”

Gerald McCoy, who enters the bye week with the most sacks of any defensive tackle in the NFL, hopped on “Movin’ the Chains” co-hosted by Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller last week. (more…)

Mike Jenkins and the Bucs’ secondary cannot continue to let receivers run free like coyotes in Pinellas County.

If Lovie Smith is watching gametape of his defense — and we know he is — then he must be galled.

That is the suggestion from the “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman, of The Tampa Tribune. (more…)

What better to do on a bye week Saturday than engage in deep thought about the Bucs’ logical and best next moves this offseason? (more…)

Bucs defensive end Jacquies Smith, the team’s reigning sack master, has more than the weight of the Bucs’ pass rush on his shoulders. (more…)

“America’s Quarterback” and other Bucs players are as passionate about college football as fans.

A neat thing about the Bucs’ locker room, and Joe is guessing it’s across the NFL, is that while players may be rock-solid teammates, when it comes to college football, their school passion pours out of their hearts. (more…)

The “Custodian of Canton” likes the play of Kevin Pamphile and the rest of the front five.

If you pressed Joe to identify the best element of a 2-3 team, that being your current 2015 Tampa Bay Bucs, Joe would say it is the development of the offensive line.

For Joe, that is a staggering admission. (more…)

An exceptionally broad range of rapid-fire Bucs topics were on the table this afternoon during Joe’s weekly visit to the Ron and Ian show on WDAE-AM 620. (more…)

More NFL honors.

Blowhard haters, you may want to skip this story.

For the second time this season, America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, has been named “Rookie of the Week.” (more…)

Bucs legend Derrick Brooks is a skilled diplomat when he talks about the Buccaneers on his weekly show, Tampa-2 on WDAE-AM 620.

So it’s always noteworthy when Brooks offers a strong message of praise directed at a player. (more…)

As Joe wrote Sunday, if the season ended now, a two-win team would make the playoffs in the NFC.

Guess what? Your Bucs have two wins, and the NFC South just tightened up. (more…)

The Bucs had done their homework on DE Howard Jones long before last week. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Joe was like almost everyone in the press box of the Den of Depression last Sunday, not to mention hundreds of thousands of Bucs fans watching on the tube.

Joe joined in the murmur, “Who is that?” referring to the immortal Howard Jones. (more…)

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America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, is just a 21-year-old rookie, but he doesn’t act like one, and his teammates don’t treat him like one. (more…)

All-22 video is not kind to Bucs CB Tim Jennings. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Joe is a big believer that the eye in the sky never lies.

We may see something with the naked eye, but after further video examination it becomes something better — or worse. (more…)