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Training camp is here! And The Sage of Tampa Bay Sports is all over the Bucs happenings of the day, and a lot more with Joe. All the fun in the twice-weekly Ira Kaufman Podcast presented by Bill Currie Ford, Tampa’s first family of Ford.

Ask Ira’s friend and Bill Currie Ford general manager Sean Sullivan for the Ira/JoeBucsFan discount at Bill Currie Ford. He will assist you personally! And remember their nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles, and 0% financing for 72 months.

Big Storm beer from Big Storm Brewing Co. is the official beer of the podcast. Try Florida’s best craft beer, especially Bromosa, their amazing tangerine IPA. Listening to Ira is fun, free and easy! Click play above or listen Apple Podcasts, Google Play or Podbean.com, Stitcher, too.

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Many third-round-pick running backs have torn up the NFL in recent years.

Fourth- and fifth-round backs have kicked butt, too. But none have been wearing pewter and red. (more…)

Time for flexibility?

It might be time to break out the shotgun more often. (more…)

A ranking to drink to?

First, a well-respected gambler and stat researcher had him at No. 10.

Now a gaggle of suits, coaches, scouts and players have Bucs tight end Rob Gronkowski ranked a little higher. (more…)

The in-your-face, feel-my-wrath version of Bucco Bruce Arians won’t be the same this season. (more…)

Joe has written about The War on Tom Brady, aka allegedly morally superior media types screaming about Brady working out mask-free with teammates legally in a private setting, despite players union doctors saying workouts like those should stop because they are unsafe with “The Sickness” around. (more…)

Freakout over workouts.

The message seems clear from a borderline hysterical national NFL writer: (more…)

“Joel, I thought the media loved Tom Brady.”

One massive irony of the national uproar over Tom Brady having mask-free workouts at Berkeley Prep in Tampa with about a dozen Buccaneers is that all day long at the Tampa private school, kids and counselors are engaged in summer camp — including sports camps where everyone is seemingly breathing all over each other. (more…)

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The unmatched passion and free-flowing energy of The Ira Kaufman Podcast is presented by Bill Currie Ford, Tampa’s first family of Ford, which delivers all of Ira’s work at JoeBucsFan.com. Just ask Ira’s friend, GM Sean Sullivan, for the Ira/JoeBucsFan discount. He will assist you personally in any way he can! And remember their nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles.

Big Storm beer from Big Storm Brewing Co. is the official beer of the podcast. Try Florida’s best craft beer, especially Bromosa, their amazing tangerine IPA. Listening to Ira is fun, free and easy! Click play above or listen at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com, Stitcher, too.

Click through to shop now at Tampa’s first family of Ford for nearly 60 years. Many incredible 0% financing offers NOW at BillCurrieFord.com.

“No matter what, you are my MVP, Tom.”

So could park-violating, home-invading Bucs quarterback Tom Brady win the NFL MVP Award this year? A guy with a pair of Super Bowl rings seems to think that’s entirely possible. (more…)

Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon pulled no punches during a chat on national television this week. (more…)

TAMPA TWO returns with Part II of its Vincent Jackson interview, presented by Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating. Derrick Brooks, Ira Kaufman and Jackson dive into the 2020 Bucs. More fun from The Identity Tampa Bay and Joe.

Enjoy!

Overcame soft play.

When the Bucs signed Ryan Jensen two years ago, he became the highest-paid center in the league.

And Jensen admitted, as a result, he got satisfied and soft. (more…)

The NFL’s unbiased tracking technology in balls and players’ uniforms has spoken. (more…)

Backup solution?

Now this is a very interesting suggestion. (more…)

Some really meaty football stuff on the Buccaneers pass rush here. And it identifies one clear deficiency. (more…)

Tampa PD is a regular fixture in the waters outside Tom Brady’s Davis Islands home.

One of the busiest boating weekends of the year in the Tampa Bay area won’t feature many boats and jet skis pulling up to Tom Brady’s waterfront rental on Davis Islands. (more…)

No “I” in team.

Who the hell is Joe to argue with a Hall of Famer? (more…)