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Creeping Ben Bredeson Hatred

Friday, January 31st, 2025

Bucs LG Ben Bredeson.

Joe has noticed over the past week or so that some Bucs fans are anxious to dump left guard Ben Bredeson. Joe doesn’t see why. (more…)

No, Wide Receiver Is Not A Priority

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

PFF tribe weighs in.

“This Joe” believes there is nothing resembling the crater-sized hole on the Bucs’ roster than the one at inside linebacker. But a member of the PFF tribe seems to think otherwise. (more…)

Is This The Year For A Veteran Bucs Backup QB?

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

“Don’t take Liam’s calls, Kyle.”

Yes, popular Bucs backup quarterback Kyle Trask is a pending free agent.

And considering he was “this close” to beating out Pro Bowler Baker Mayfield for the 2023 starting job, Joe suspects there will be significant demand for Trask’s services. (more…)

Todd Bowles Has Graham Barton’s Back

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Promising rookie season.

Joe likes to say rookies play like rookies because they are rookies. But there is one Bucs rookie that Bucs coach Todd Bowles is confident will raise his game in 2025. (more…)

Why The Rush To Extend Luke Goedeke?

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

Contract year.

Unless Bucs right tackle Luke Goedeke has been telling people off the record he’s going launch Operation Shutdown like left tackle Tristan Wirfs did last year, Joe doesn’t understand the hyperventilating to extend Goedeke’s contract. (more…)

Blocked!

Thursday, January 30th, 2025

“Nah Graham, I’m not really that much into Lynyrd Skynyrd anyway. Do like the Allman Brothers, though.”

Just as Joe believed, new Jags coach and former Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen tried to pluck someone from his former offensive staff with the Bucs. (more…)

Josh Grizzard And Jeff Jagodzinski

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Bucs offensive assistant coach Josh Grizzard.

So once upon a time in 2009, when the Bucs were enduring excruciating growing pains, the team hired an offensive coordinator to call plays — except he literally couldn’t do it. (more…)

Attacking The Weakest Link

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Alabama ILB Jihaad Campbell.

For Joe, there is no doubt where the Bucs’ biggest roster hole is. (more…)

Report: Bucs QB Coach Thad Lewis Interviews For OC Job In Houston

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Bucs QB coach Thad Lewis.

So which in-house offensive coordinator candidate do the Bucs want to replace Liam Coen, if any?

Well, at least one is garnering a lot of interest. (more…)

Kacy Rodgers Left Bucs In Good Shape

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Props from Todd Bowles.

Joe knows every Bucs fan and their brother is still fixated on the Liam Coen saga and who the Bucs will choose to replace him. (more…)

Cody Mauch’s Improvement Helped Offensive Line Rise

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Key to strong o-line.

One player Joe felt needed to pick things up for the 2024 season at times seemed overwhelmed in 2023. (more…)

Bucs May Hang On To Deion Jones

Wednesday, January 29th, 2025

Bucs LB Deion Jones.

About eight years ago, Deion Jones looked to be the next big thing at linebacker playing for the team that drafted him, the Dixie Chicks. (more…)

“Clown” Label Suggested For Some Bucs Fans

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

A guy who collects a check from the Buccaneers reached his personal hate tolerance, apparently, as the calls for Todd Bowles’ firing spread like a wildfire through Bucs fandom late this season. (more…)

Baker Mayfield Makes Pro Bowl

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

MVP!

Another day, another Bucs Pro Bowler announced. (more…)

Evaluating Ben Bredeson

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

Disrespected.

Joe chuckled hearing former Jets and Jaguars pass rusher Jeff Lageman take a shot at the Bucs’ interior offensive line this week.

But he’s sort of not alone. (more…)

Bucs Spending Hours Tapping Into Rams’ Intel

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

Dave Ragone with one of his former pupils.

Either the Bucs really want another coach from the Sean McVay tree or they’re pulling an Al Davis, trying to capture Rams intel the way the paranoid feds think Red China is using TikTok as a tool against innocent Americans. (more…)

“Furious” Jason Licht

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

So a Google search shows many media references to Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht being “furious” after Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen’s controversial departure from Tampa.

In fact, “furious” was used again yesterday to describe Licht, four days after Coen bolted for Jacksonville. (more…)