Feelin’ “nicey.”

Chucky is fired up! (more…)

If you like lots of punts, blocked punts and poor quarterback play, last night’s Raiders-Falcons game was your Super Bowl. (more…)

Dominant.

Although Cheetah Hill is having a down year, pretty much anyone who follows football wouldn’t argue (much) if he was delcared the best receiver in the game. (more…)

Needy NFL teams watching.

Long-time NFL.com columnist Jeffri Chadiha decided to cobble together a winners and losers list for this past weekend’s games. (more…)

Enrages Chargers fans.

You know the Bucs truly curb-stomped the Chargers if Chargers fans are crying about Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. (more…)

Stat says it all.

One only needs to read one stat to know the Bucs took a frozen lead pipe to the Chargers yesterday in a dicey Los Angeles back alley. (more…)

So the Bucs lead the NFL in one objective statistic that has mesmerized the exiled chieftain of the PFF Tribe (Pro Football Focus). (more…)

Chimes in on Mike Evans.

Bucs stud left tackle Tristan Wirfs has some words for world-renowned JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman, or whomever replaces Ira as Tampa Bay’s selector to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. (more…)

A lot of NFL fans thought surely the Bucs-Cowboys game in Week 16, next Sunday, Dec. 22, would be flexed out of its scheduled time slot of an 8:20 p.m. kickoff. This was simply silly non-logic. (more…)

Beastly edge rushers Joey Bosa and Khalil Mack each played more than half the Chargers’ defensive snaps yesterday.

Yeah, Bosa forced a fumble from the paws of Rachaad White, but what else did those monsters collectively do? (more…)

Bucs electric rookie running back Bucky Irving isn’t just having a strong rookie season. (more…)

Mike Evans opens up.

When Mike Evans caught a bullet of a pass from Baker Mayfield down the left seam for a 35-yard touchdown catch late in the third quarter yesterday, Joe could just hear it. (more…)

How about a Buccaneers-Lions NFC Championship game?

One NFL analyst thinks it’s a distinct possibility, and no, it’s not Bucs homer and NFL Network personality Gerald McCoy. (more…)

Smelled blood in the water.

Joe still believes the turning point in the game yesterday, a huge Bucs win, was the Jamel Dean interception. (more…)

The Bucs hold the No. 3 NFC playoff seed if the postseason ended today.

But it doesn’t. (more…)

Will Gholston and Shelton Quarles already know Mike Evans is gone on his 57-yard catch-and-run from Baker Mayfield Sunday. (Photo courtesy Buccaneers.com.)

Good effing morning, Bucs fans! What an absolutely awesome Victory Monday this is. Joe hasn’t been this stoked since — well, Joe doesn’t kiss and tell. Joe hasn’t been this stoked over a Bucs win since maybe the Super Bowl win over the Chiefs. That’s how huge yesterday’s curb-stomping of the Chargers was. Make sure your coffee is hot and the mug is filled to the brim.

Let’s roll! (more…)

Team Glazer needs to get creative and aggressive.

It’s time for Team Glazer to get clever and creative and open its vault like never before. (more…)

The Bucs don’t only look destined to make the playoffs, they now hold the No. 3 seed in the NFC. (more…)

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

It’s all about the streaks.

Where shall we start? How about Mike Evans? He entered Sunday’s matchup needing to average 102.5 yards in the final four games to keep his 1,000-yard streak alive.

With 159 yards and two TDs on his nine catches against the Chargers, Evans now needs to average 83.7 yards against the Cowboys, Panthers and Saints to reach 1,000 once again. That’s a far more manageable number for the future Hall of Famer.

Then we come to the strange case of Jamel Dean, who caught a Justin Herbert floater. That set off a celebration with teammates who perhaps had no idea that Dean had gone 37 consecutive games without an interception.

With those two streaks out of the way, we come to the most important one of all — a four-game run that lifted Tampa Bay to 8-6 and guarantees the Bucs will remain atop the NFC South for at least another week.

This 40-17 beatdown was a huge victory, but it wasn’t a shocking upset because the Bucs were only a slight underdog. What WAS shocking was how thoroughly Tampa Bay embarrassed a solid opponent in its own stadium, using a second-half blitz to send Charger fans back to La La Land wondering what they had just witnessed.

For the second time this season, both on the road, the Bucs won the second half 27-0, erasing deficits at New Orleans and at Los Angeles. (more…)

Proud of defensive effort.

Lavonte David was ready for physicality. (more…)

Explains change in strategy.

As Joe noted, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh likes to build a team the way his old Michigan coach Bo Schembechler built them: Tough, physical, scary defense and pounding the football on the ground.

The Bucs today showed Harbaugh how it’s done with the big boys in the NFL. (more…)