Ira Reveals Chilling Gruden Analysis Of 2017 Bucs, Talks Uber-Jameis Updates, Licht-Koetter Messages To Fans, Internal O-Line Scrutiny, Free Agency Calls & Much More
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Plenty of fresh Bucs subjects are stimulating the mind of the Sage of Tampa Bay sports today. There’s a lot on the table in advance of Dirk Koetter and Jason Licht holding their first news conferences of the new season. Dive in here with Ira and Joe, or enjoy at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com. Ranked on the Google Play podcast “Top Charts” for 4 consecutive months (all genres nationwide), the Ira Kaufman Podcast keeps you informed and entertained every Tuesday & Thursday — and there is NO offseason. Click or download above. It’s fun — free and easy, too. Enjoy!
February 27th, 2018 at 3:29 pm
Ira claims that OJ Howard was a surprise to Bucs fans… Wrong. Any reasonably well informed fan had a pretty good idea that, if Howard was there, that there would be a good chance they’d take him. You guys aren’t some magnificent prognosticators.
February 27th, 2018 at 5:01 pm
100% agree bucs_365 with everything but the last line
But another great podcast Ira. Thanks
February 27th, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Wow, intriguing Gruden commentary.
How does a culture get so lax, so spitty and so soft?
How are the Glazers not putting their foot down?
How dysfunctional is this organization?
A good analogy would be if the Glazers owned a Subway
sandwich shop. They’d have all the latest tech so no one could
embezzle, but other than that they wouldn’t care.
They wouldn’t show up unexpectedly. They wouldn’t train people,
etc, etc….
The employees would be smoking weed in the store, sleeping,
basically doing nothing or as little as possible.
February 27th, 2018 at 6:55 pm
Kudos to Ira for being so bold as to ask, in light of Winston’s abject failure to fulfill his commitment and obligation to the Bucs to report on the Uber incident, does this shade our view of the ongoing investigation? Unfortunately, both of his pod-cast companions avoided answering.
?? Nobody avoided answering. And that subject has been discussed previously on the podcast. –Joe
February 27th, 2018 at 8:07 pm
Some think Licht did not go after Calais Campbell, because of his friendship with Kiem, his old boss in Arizona.
February 27th, 2018 at 8:57 pm
Chris.. that might be true…but wouldn’t it be stupid of Licht if he lost his job at the end of this season and went back to the “minor leagues” because we don’t have Calais on the D line?
February 27th, 2018 at 9:40 pm
Glad Calais Campbell was brought up. We deserve to know if the Bucs provided the strongest offer, or any offer for that matter.
BPA all the way @ #7 overall.
Some say Quentin Nelson is more pro ready than Zach Martin was coming out of Notre Dame. I’d be all over taking a potential all pro lineman. Lord knows we need the best damn player available at 7.
February 27th, 2018 at 10:02 pm
Interesting comment/observation by Gruden prior to the 2nd Atlanta game. Surprisingly that bad week of practice didn’t carry over to the game. They gave Atlanta all they could handle that night.
Gruden is the type of guy that anything he says I would have to size it up and think thru his angle before deciding how to take his comments. Prior to that Monday night game against Atlanta he was in a full PR campaign mode down in the Tampa Bay area and probably fully expected the Bucs to get dismantled by the Falcons. Planting the seed that the team was having an awful week of practice would only help his cause to give the impression that Koetter lost the team and further increase his negotiating power over the Glazers.
February 27th, 2018 at 11:03 pm
…either that or he honestly thought it was a lame practice and was just being straightforward.
Howard thinks Gruden was planning Raiders all along. Better QB, way better ownership, the list goes on.
Frankly Howard doesn’t think Gruden gave 2 spits what the Glazers thought at that point in the season. Raiders were a 99% done deal. Saying the Bucs had a bad practice for Machiavellian reasons makes little, if any sense.
Howard suspects the Raiders will come our stomping next season. Gruden is just a good coach who (unlike the Bucs( doesn’t tolerate spitty practices.
February 27th, 2018 at 11:18 pm
When Malcolm laid all the chips down to trade for Gru, and yes I said Malcolm not McKay, Chucky came in exciting and roaring to go. We win Superbowl. Gruden lived in Tampa all this time. Now he gets hired and accepts the Oakland job for 100 million reasons and now I’m supposed to buy that he never wanted to leave Oakland. Please. Gruden is trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge and I ain’t buying. That one was for Ira.
February 27th, 2018 at 11:50 pm
Has it occcurred to anyone that the Bucs know this will destroy season ticket sales so they requested this “investigation” be pushed until after the money has come in as they know this will destroy sales.
February 28th, 2018 at 12:20 am
Ticket sales already destroyed (5-11).
February 28th, 2018 at 12:26 am
Gruden is the type of guy that anything he says I would have to size it up and think thru his angle before deciding how to take his comments.
Good point.