“Hey Todd, the young guys look pretty good.”

Spring practices with rookies and veterans (OTAs) kicked off today at One Buc Palace and Joe has plenty to share from the sidelines of the indoor facility (Glazer Shed?) as rain soaked the grass fields. (more…)

Vernon Hargreaves was a spectator at today’s practice

Vernon Hargreaves, the cornerback Bucco Bruce Arians has said he wants to lead the that position group, did not practice at today’s opening OTA session at One Buc Palace. (more…)

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Devin White responds to the doubters

Interesting insight from the anointed savior of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense, No. 5 overall pick Devin White. (more…)

Coach shares a story

Buccaneers assistant head coach Harold Goodwin, also the team’s offensive line guru, talked to media today and Joe had one question that strayed from Goodwin’s chatter about all things running game and O-line. (more…)

There’s track speed and there’s football speed.

Bucco Bruce Arians has talked about this many times. Arians is no fan of 40-yard-dash times; he likes to see how speed looks on film and on the field. (more…)

Knows pressure.

New Bucs kicker Matt Gay may never be a full-time kicker for the Bucs. But he’s handled adversity before. (more…)

No. Joe doesn’t like the Devin White pick at No. 5 overall.

Sure, he might be an excellent player, but he’s going to have to damn near be a superhero to be worth that pick on a team in need of defensive linemen. (more…)

Curious prediction.

Many folks inside and outside of NFL circles believe the Bucs will soon part ways with stud defensive tackle Gerald McCoy.

The man who drafted GMC isn’t on board with this concept. (more…)

Bruce Arians speaks

Bucco Bruce Arians put his foot down this afternoon at One Buc Palace after addressing media for the first time in about four weeks. (more…)

Yes, it’s the season of smoke, draft nonsense and misdirection.

However, studying over time always reveals at least a few good indications of a team’s plan in the draft. (more…)

After general manager Jason Licht talked this week about defensive end Noah Spence, the No. 39 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft, Joe did a lot of head-shaking and sighing.

The comments were hard to stomach. (more…)

Interesting twist this morning at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Bucs angle in Pittsburgh.

Joe has decided to document highlights of Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians captured when he coached Arizona during the inaugural season of “All or Nothing,” a “Hard Knocks”-like miniseries by NFL Films that follows a pro or college team throughout a season and is exclusive to Amazon Prime. Joe hopes these highlights will help Bucs fans learn what to expect from the 12th coach in franchise history. This series of posts will appear periodically until the days leading up to the draft later this month.

Last year the Bucs defense was a football atrocity. The pass defense was just horrid beyond words. The rush defense was just plain bad. (more…)

Remember when Joe explained the simple Rule of 27 swirling through the brain of Bucco Bruce Arians? (more…)

In NFL circles, there is a real and positive buzz about the Buccaneers — believe it or not.

Joe believes it, even in the season of smoke, because Joe looked the man saying it in the eye when he shared the info. (more…)

Ready to kiss Mike Smith’s coverages goodbye.

It is starting to smell as if Bucs defensive coaches last year tried to shove round pegs into square holes. (more…)

The question had to be asked of Bruce Arians when it comes to how he’ll allocate his time considering he’s made a big effort to tell seemingly everyone that he won’t be doing a lot of what he used to do when he coached the Arizona Cardinals.

Joe laid it on Arians this morning at the swanky Arizona Biltmore resort. (more…)

BY IRA KAUFMAN

All of a sudden a 5-11 football team is going to get picky? (more…)

Yes, Bucco Bruce Arians is going to demand Chucky-era accountability from his players without the Greg Schiano stupidity. It will be so refreshing.

But the bigger plan at One Buc Palace is simpler than that. (more…)

The love for Peyton Barber inside the walls of One Buc Palace runs extremely deep. Joe learned last week that it runs far deeper than Joe ever imagined. (more…)

The wacky interpretations of NFL rules are always changing, so Bucco Bruce Arians has hired a retired NFL official to help him navigate all that and to serve as an in-game, instant-replay guru. (more…)

The fixer for Jason Licht?

Lost in all the hustling to keep together the roster of a Tampa Bay team that went 5-11 in back-to-back seasons is the fact the Buccaneers need a kicker.

And what does Jason Licht do when he needs a kicker? (more…)