“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…)

Former Bucs commander Greg Schiano may be gone, but his philosophy is very much still with the Bucs defense.

When former Bucs commander Greg Schiano first came to town, it didn’t take long for him to alienate a lot of Bucs fans when he bristled at the cliché, “Make a play.” (more…)

This was not the scene at One Buc Palace this afternoon

The Mike Evans hamstring watch remains in full swing. (more…)

Joe has no issue with starting rookies on the front line, like LT Donovan Smith. (Nor does Joe have an issue with Colleen Wolfe.)

Joe knows Bucs fans are screaming that their beloved pewter pirates are starting two rookies on the offensive line. Screaming! However, Joe is fine with that.

After all, these guys, Donovan Smith and Ali Marpet, were drafted in the second round for a reason. (more…)

It shouldn’t get much easier than Sunday for starting defensive end Jacquies Smith.

It’s the 255-pound speedster versus the gargantuan 335-pound rookie right tackle; Bucs leading sackmaster (Joe uses the term loosely here) Jacqueis Smith simply can’t lose this battle on Sunday. (more…)

Superstar, $10-million-a-year linebacker Lavonte David has endured nothing but losing since arriving in Tampa in 2012. (more…)

Iconic Derrick Brooks weighed in on many things Bucs yesterday during the kickoff to his annual Tampa-2 show with Steve Duemig on WDAE-AM 620. (more…)