Consider that through this ugly Bucs four-game losing streak the Todd Bowles defense has allowed 15 touchdown passes against 0 interceptions — all while opposing quarterbacks have completed 99 of 131 passes, a 75.6 completion rate. [read more]
So we have officially reached the bye week. The Bucs are 4-6.
Other than calling the Bucs a bad team — you are what your record says you are — Joe thinks it is fair to judge what a team is through 10 games. [read more]
So the Tampa Bay public address announcer was loud and proud in the first quarter today bellowing at Bucs fans to welcome Jon Gruden, the Super Bowl-winning head coach ousted from the Buccaneers Ring of Honor.
OK, it is warm and breezy at The Licht House today where way too many 49ers fans have infiltrated the building. Big game for Bucs if they hope to make the playoffs.
Feel free to bang it here for your thoughts, comments and observations of the game.
And as always, Joe hopes that you please do behave. [read more]
Once upon a time in 2015, then-Bucs head coach Lovie Smith got annoyed with media for asking about the Tampa Bay defense allowing a galling 70-plus percent completion rate.
If Joe were locked in a room with Todd Bowles and was asked to tell the head coach something that would hurt his feelings, Joe would go directly to one thing. [read more]
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For weeks it has been speculated that Bucs future Hall of Famer Mike Evans might return from his hamstring injury Week 11 at the Giants, the Bucs’ first game after the bye on Nov. 24. [read more]