Start your day with the Morning Cup of Joe from HootersCalendar.com. And don’t forget to visit HootersCalendar.com for the 2014 calendar, amazing videos, pictures and cool gifts. It’s Joe’s second favorite website.

Bucs news forthcoming.
Pretty cool read: How Florida State handles the crush of celebrity for Jameis Winston.

A chat with FOX Sports 1′s Katie Nolan. [TheBigLead]

Apparently, Nick Saban isn’t popular with Catholics among the plains in Alabama. [The War Eagle Reader]

So now it’s cool to be Colonel Klink? [New York Times]

So Andre Rison is going to be a high school coach? Hope the coaches’ office has fire insurance. [AZCentral]

Joe Maddon and Allen Iverson.[RaysIndex]

“Prime Time” Talks n-word, quarterbacks.

This edition of “Late Night Videos With Joe,” touches on the NFL wanting to penalize players for dropping the n-word. Hall of Famer Deion Sanders offers his thoughts on this, in addition to his two favorite quarterbacks in this spring’s draft (hint: Johnny’s one of them). [read more]

Last year, Greg Schiano and former rockstar general manager Mark Dominik gambled that four Buccaneers coming off major surgery would perform at a high level at critical positions.

How the hell did that turn out? [read more]

Former Bucs quarterback Shaun King, one of three QBs to the lead the Bucs to the NFC Championship game, tells his NBC Sports Network brethren why Johnny Football will not be a first-round draft pick in May.

There is no truth to the rumor that King was taken to a mental institution for testing following shooting this video.

Joe knows that quarterback is a divisive position on the Bucs. Whether it was leaky Rip Van Freeman or Mike Glennon, nothing short of uniforms gets Bucs fans worked up more than talking about quarterbacks.

Of course, there is the Mike Glennon Mob who believes the youngster is the second-coming of Brad Johnson, though Joe cannot remember when Johnson led the 32nd-ranked offense. [read more]

Yes, the Bucs uniform chatter hasn’t died down much since they were unveiled Monday. And one would have to search long and hard on the interwebs to find a positive critique (short of perhaps a NIKE employee).

It’s no surprise that ornery Alan Dell of the Bradenton Herald is no fan of the uniforms. And while some focus on the CFL-like different colored shoulders or the alarm-clock-number font, Dell’s criticism comes with a unique angle.

Dell believes the new Bucs uniforms look too much like Rutgers’ and believes former Bucs commander Greg Schiano — who Dell despised and had an ax to grind with from his first day as head coach – had a hand somehow in the design.

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Great audio below of Buccaneers free-agent-to-be defensive end Jared Allen on SiriusXM NFL Radio this morning.

Allen says his family’s happiness in his next city is “heavy on my mind.” He loved his previous communities of Kansas City and Minneapolis during his first two NFL stops. It sure sounds to Joe like Allen and his wife would be down on a big-city, less-family-friendly town. Having spent time in Kansas City and Minneapolis-St. Paul, Joe can say that Tampa is similar in many ways.

Allen didn’t hide his uneasiness about joining the Raiders, citing their woes in general, and specifically at quarterback and running back. Enjoy via the orange button below.

With free agency looming in just five days — five days! – it’s the time of year Joe actually cares about accounting and salary cap numbers.

Per the reputable salary tracker OverTheCap.com, the Bucs have the seventh-highest amount of 2014 funds devoted to defense in the NFL. That’s stunning, especially considering it’s no secret Lovie Smith is gearing up to invest heavily and quickly at defensive end. [read more]

Laid back Lovie Smith is very much on top of what’s happening in his locker room. Funny business is not permitted. No hazing. Lovie demands to know what’s being said. 

Former Bears great Brian Urlacher reminisced with the Waddle and Silvy show on WMVP-AM in Chicago this week. [read more]

The Tampa Bay injury attorneys and Florida brain injury lawyers at Dolman Law Group always churn out great information at http://www.DolmanLaw.com. Check out their blog to learn about personal injury claims, automobile and motorcycle accident claims, bad drugs, assistance for the brain-injured, malpractice, and much more.

That’s right. Real talk from real attorneys. You can even email your legal questions NOW to Matt Dolman, matt@dolmanlaw.com. Dolman Law Group serves clients throughout Florida and the Tampa area from offices in Clearwater, Bradenton and Melbourne.

For almost a year, some Bucs fans, in a perverse way, were looking past the 2013 season to the free agency season of 2014, hoping, drooling that Vikings defensive end Jared Allen would become a free agent and the Bucs could land him.

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Money is the mystery

It seems famed kick return specialist Devin Hester and Florida native Devin Hester would welcome a reunion with his former Bears coach, current Bucs head coach Lovie Smith. But do the Bucs want to revisit the relationship?

Yesterday, NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport crushed and quashed the dreams of many Bucs fans hoping free agent return wizard Hester would want to come to Tampa Bay. Rapoport hinted there isn’t much interest from the Bucs. [read more]

Start your day with the Morning Cup of Joe from HootersCalendar.com. And don’t forget to visit HootersCalendar.com for the 2014 calendar, amazing videos, pictures and cool gifts. It’s Joe’s second favorite website.

Bucs news forthcoming.

Joe told ya this Mike McQueary gambling thing was going to blow up. [TheBigLead]

No more “home” games in Toronto for the Bills. [Buffalo News]

Profile of the dude who left the NFL Combine because God told him he would play for the Seahawks. [Los Angeles Times]

Drunk claims he lost half-million in a casino wagering. Now suing casino for taking advantage of him. Of course he is. [MyNews3]

This guy really does look like someone who just might fornicate with a pit bull; which is what police allege he did. [Twitter]

Desmond Jennings hits homer out of Steinbrenner Field. [RaysIndex]

Click below to hear Joe’s full hour this evening with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620. It’s the Wednesday JoeBucsFan hour!

Among many topics, Joe dove into Bucs leadership, free agency priorities and Mike Glennon lunacy. [read more]