“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. [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

“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. [read more]

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This Buc offseason is all about trying to gain an edge.

Don’t be fooled by the numbers. Todd Bowles always finds a way to stack up impressive sack totals, but anyone who watched the 2024 Bucs knows this defense lacked a consistent pass rush. [read more]

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. [read more]

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Alabama ILB Jihaad Campbell.

For Joe, there is no doubt where the Bucs’ biggest roster hole is. [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

Key to strong o-line.

One player Joe felt needed to pick things up for the 2024 season at times seemed overwhelmed in 2023. [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

MVP!

Another day, another Bucs Pro Bowler announced. [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

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. [read more]

Yes, Jaguars head coach Liam Coen was talking Bucs yesterday. And no, Joe’s not referring to El Serpiente, the former Bucs offensive coordinator, speaking at his introductory news conference. [read more]

Underwhelmed.

The Bucs had a lot of disappointing play from many defenders this season. [read more]

Chances of a return?

On face value, it seems like an easy decision to make on Chris Godwin. [read more]

“Greeny, if you go to Jacksonville, you better learn to like Lynyrd Skynyrd. They’re like the GD Beatles in that town.”

Joe was always scared that ex-Bucs offensive coordinator and current Jags head coach Liam Coen would lift Bucs offensive line coach Kevin Carberry and bring him to Jacksonville.

But it appears another Team Glazer employee is his target. [read more]