Best Bucs rookie?

Bucky Irving is beginning to show he’s one of the best running backs in the NFL. [read more]

Decisive action.

Yesterday in his day-after presser, Bucs coach Todd Bowles virtually promised the Bucs would bring in punters this week to work out and perhaps join the Bucs. Joe didn’t blame him. [read more]

“Sore leg.”

So Bucs coach Todd Bowles, wearing a sharp creamsicle hoodie, offered up info on a few Bucs players dealing with injuries. [read more]

National expectations.

Four big names paid big money to cover the NFL believe the Bucs are a massive favorite to win the NFC South, despite being tied with the Falcons and Atlanta owning the head-to-head tiebreaker. [read more]

Gerald McCoy

Once upon a time in The Lost Decade of Buccaneers football, Tampa Bay was the 2024 Panthers, seizing losses from the jaws of victory. [read more]

Bucs RB Bucky Irving.

Joe thinks it is fairly obvious by now that Bucky Irving is the best running back the Bucs have drafted since Doug Martin, maybe not since Cadillac Williams. [read more]

Feared the worst.

For a guy who is a warrior competitor willing to play with pain and do whatever he must to help his team win, it’s a helluva confession to admit he was scared on the field. [read more]

There’s a reason for the old cliché, “It’s tough to win in the NFL.” [read more]

Flash poll posted at 7:25 a.m. Poll closed at 8:59 a.m.

What happened to heart?

Joe didn’t expect Todd Bowles to pull a Bobby Knight yesterday. [read more]

Anyone else remember how the Bucs needed witchcraft and a miracle forced fumble to beat the Panthers last year in Week 18 to make the playoffs?

Joe sure does. [read more]

Already a star? (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Welcome to a hollow Victory Monday. Yeah, a win is a win, in theory. And the standings. But man, there was nothing winning about that game yesterday. Coffee mugs full? OK, let’s go. [read more]

Available, says insider.

Last week there seemed for Joe to be unusual chatter from a respected league insider that linked currently unemployed six-time Super Bowl-winning coach Bill Belichick to the Bucs. [read more]

Earlier this year when the Bucs hosted the Dixie Chicks, Antoine Winfield sure looked as if he stripped Atlanta tight end Kyle Pitts of the football before he reached the goal line. [read more]

Happy coach.

Santa Claus came early for the Bucs yesterday in more than one way. [read more]

Das Boot.

This is very likely just precautionary, as Baker Mayfield returned to the game and sure didn’t play like he had a sprained ankle or worse. [read more]

Record still within reach.

Mike Evans has never not had 1,000 yards receiving in a season. To do this for his 11th straight year, he’s going to take it down to the wire. [read more]

Some easily could argue that Bucky Irving is on pace for the greatest season ever by a Buccaneers running back.

Yeah, it’s been that good. [read more]

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Had it all the way.

The Bucs took advantage of some major breaks to avoid a broken heart Sunday during a 26-23 OT victory at Charlotte that left Carolina fans stunned and Buc Nation elated.

The Panthers had the better of play for much of the afternoon before dynamic rookie Bucky Irving took command and Baker Mayfield rebounded from what looked like a serious leg injury.

The result, coupled with a loss by the reeling Falcons, leaves Tampa Bay and Atlanta tied atop the NFC South at 6-6. The Falcons own the tie-breaker edge with five games remaining, but the schedule favors the Bucs and Kirk Cousins is playing so poorly, the calls for rookie Michael Penix Jr. under center are sure to grow. [read more]

“Greeny, we only buy the groceries. That’s all we can do.”

Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has handed his head coach a stellar young offensive line, an upper tier quarterback, a Hall of Fame receiver, a Pro Bowl rookie running back, the best kicker in Bucs history and a load of talent on defense.

And still the Bucs struggle. [read more]