Mickey is flummoxed why he cannot watch the Bucs Sunday.

Of course, Joe later will post the weekly in-season TV map for Bucs fans to learn where in the country they can lay prone on their Barcalounger and watch the Titans-Bucs game without the need for DirecTV.

One area where Bucs fans must cough up money for NFL Sunday Ticket or get off that Barcalounger and head to the local watering hole is Orlando, which for decades was deemed by the Bucs as its secondary market. (more…)

Doug Martin has made it clear that he hates the perfectly good nickname “Muscle Hamster.” Don’t dare call Martin that.

But what do his teammates call him? (more…)

Intense praise for the Bucs’ 21-year-old middle linebacker

Only one college man received the high blessing by the defensive gurus, wizards and personnel chiefs at One Buc Palace over the past two years.

And Lovie Smith showered him with a great compliment yesterday. (more…)

If Joe is doing a podcast with smooth-talking Ronnie Lane of the Buccaneers Radio Network, then you know it is football season.

In this first weekly edition of 2015, Joe talks the offensive line, the embarrassing recent history of non-edge rushers and honeys on Instagram. (more…)

Help him!

There is no question that the front line for the Bucs is a major question mark.

Can Logan Mankins right himself? Can Evan Smith save his career? Does Gosder Cherilus have anything left in his tank and old knees? Can Donovan Smith and Ali Marpet not play like rookies? (more…)

When the Bucs invested a third-round pick on Charles Sims, despite not needing a running back, Tampa Bay officials and national media were lauding the golden soft hands of Sims. (more…)

It was time for Joe’s weekly visit to the popular Ron & Ian show and a spirited rapid-fire interview on WDAE-AM 620. (more…)

“It’s not about that.”

No, this game has nothing to do with two rookie quarterbacks who won the last two Heisman trophies facing each other in their first NFL game.

Yet it’s a catchy hook. Much sexier than two s(p)it 2-14 teams squaring off. (more…)

Is Bucs DC Leslie Frazier building a top rush defense?

Joe understands Tampa Bay fans have done their best to rinse away the memories of the 2014 Bucs with untold number of beers if not fifths of Sambuca.

Yet, through the long nights and even longer head-pounding mornings, the tactic never works. (more…)

Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, made a gesture of agony touching near his abdomen this week. (more…)

Joe has written several times about Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht working alongside Bill Belicheat in New England.

Licht often recites a lesson he learned from Belicheat: move on from your mistakes right away. Learn and turn the page. (more…)

Hammy trouble still plaguing Mike Evans

It’s looking like wide receiver Louis Murphy will not be called on again to foil legendary defensive coordinator Dick LeBeau (again). (more…)

Chucky has words for Dirk Koetter

Chucky, the Buccaneers’ Super Bowl head coach, gushed and gushed over Titans quarterback Marcus Mariota during an interview on WDAE-AM 620 this morning.

Chucky sees him as a do-it-all quarterback. (more…)

Five big names like the Bucs on Sunday

Five astute NFL analysts, including three former players, see a victory coming for Tampa Bay on Sunday. (more…)

Joe was really sickened by a piece of commentary from Gerald McCoy yesterday.

A rookie back in 2010, McCoy started 13 games for a 10-6 team, his only winning team in five seasons, and McCoy didn’t have fun so it wasn’t a happy memory for him.

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Bucs fans are hungry for victory, hungry to see Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, wash the stain of losing that’s soiled the proud Buccaneers franchise for too long. (more…)

Lauds Jameis.

Asked about the rookie quarterbacks starting Sunday, Marcus Mariota and America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, Gerald McCoy sounded like Dick LeBeau.

McCoy said Mariota is not a rookie to him, instead, he is the starting quarterback of the team he needs to beat. When the subject of Jameis came up, GMC raved about Jameis like few other teammates have. (more…)

Talkin’ Jameis.

When the PC crowd and those who daily look for reasons to be offended and outraged learned the Bucs were interested in drafting America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, their reaction was as if Team Glazer ordered cable TV stations to remove Lifetime and MSNBC from their channel options. (more…)

Former Bucs OC Jeff Tedford’s offense in the CFL is struggling.

When Lovie Smith brought Jeff Tedford to be his offensive coordinator, it was thought by some to be a bold strike by Lovie.

Tedford, who ran pretty good offenses in college, was a supposed to be a new breed of play caller. (more…)

The “Custodian of Canton” has troubling data on the Bucs.

Yes, the Bucs are 30-70 in their last 100 games. A brutal, brutal stretch that harkens to the last month of the Chucky administration when he lost his final four games as Bucs coach (one to, of all people, JaMarcus Russell at home).

Few dreamed it at the time, but it proved to be a harbinger of terrible times. (more…)

A legend weighs in on Jameis Winston

Crusty, crafty, 78-year-old Hall of Famer Dick LeBeau, the Tennessee Titans’ mad scientist defensive coordinator, had a lot to say about Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback. (more…)

Lovie Smith just delivered the biggest admission to date that his Buccaneers’ effort last year was a problem. (more…)

Former Bucs QB Shaun King

The Bucs’ offensive line cannot be expected to pass block consistently. Evidence to the contrary simply doesn’t exist. (more…)