Recognition.

Joe doesn’t think it is crazy to suggest that if not for Bucky Irving, the Bucs wouldn’t have made the playoffs. (more…)

A major change seems inevitable for Baker Mayfield and Joe’s not sure Mayfield knows how to handle it successfully. (more…)

Shoutout from Todd Bowles.

Teams change, teams grow and teams take steps back during a season.

That’s why the regular season has so much drama. A team could look like the 2020 Bucs in the season opener and end up looking like the 2011 Bucs at season’s end (minus Albert Haynesworth, of course). (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Joe loves hearing crying out of NFC South cities not named Tampa. (more…)

Jamel Dean

Do the Bucs have a good tandem of starting outside cornerbacks?

Todd Bowles seemed to deliver a simple answer to that question on Tuesday: (more…)

Rookie mistakes happen.

Joe wrote last week about how much different and intense playoff games are over regular season games. (more…)

Predicament.

For those hellbent on running Todd Bowles out of town, you may want to skip this next paragraph. (more…)

Weighs in on Bucs’ errors.

Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians often used a now-famous phrase in his first Tampa Bay season when the team almost weekly did something dumb. (more…)

Evaluations coming.

This may be a surprise to some — it is to Joe only because Joe is like, “Damn, that soon?” (more…)

Talking with the Jags.

So today is the day for the Bucs and offensive coordinator Liam Coen. (more…)

Flash poll posted at 12:27 p.m. Poll closed 2:15 p.m. Last week’s results linked here.

How bout Bucs interior beasts Vita Vea, Calijah Kancey and Logan Hall combining for 20 sacks this season?

Impressive stuff, especially with a weak edge rush keeping a lot of attention up the middle. (more…)

So how much will Bucs left guard Ben Bredeson earn when his contract expires in two months.

Will it be $8 million per year? $10 million? More? (more…)

Notre Dame CB Benjamin Morrison.

Joe really tries to wait to jump into the draft pool until after free agency. That doesn’t mean Joe won’t monitor the draft — shoot, Joe will be at the combine in six weeks. (more…)

Staff changes not off the table.

One could argue some new coaching voices are needed on the defensive side of the ball. (more…)

Lay off the Bucs defense.

That was the message from a very angry-sounding Jon Gruden in an epic rant after Tampa Bay lost to the Commanders on Sunday. (more…)

Screenshot of All-22 film a split-second after Baker Mayfield and Jalen McMillan mishandled the handoff. No defender was outside the numbers. Not shown is a Washington safety between the hashmarks standing at the Bucs-28.

Some Bucs fans are grumbling (well, maybe more than grumbling) saying no way Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen should ever have called a jet sweep with the ball on the Bucs-15 on Sunday night. (more…)