The JoeBucsFan.com Radio Network takes on all things Arron Sears

Joe and former Bucs defensive end Steve White kick around the often taboo subject of Arron Sears.

Settle in. This is a fun ride.

The conversation is heated. Power running schemes, public relations, the TMZ media, hitting people in the mouth, Sears as a right tackle? – no stone is left unturned.

Some Friday night fun on the JoeBucsFan.com Radio Network.

Enjoy.

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With horny Ben Roethlisberger seemingly on the verge of copulating himself out of the NFL, the salacious Super Bowl-winning Steelers quarterback, alleged to be involved in a(nother) sordid sexual scandal that could land him behind bars, forcing him to meld into an alternative lifestyle to feed his hungers, the Steelers may be in a quick need of a new quarterback.

Bucs backup quarterback Bryon Leftwich may be the answer, so writes Mike Florio, the creator, curator and overall guru of ProFootballTalk.com, typing a column for SportingNews.com.

Two years ago, Leftwich, then a backup for Big Ben, came off the bench to win a game at Washington as the Steelers marched to Tampa to win their sixth Super Bowl.

Florio believes the Steelers might need Leftwich again, if in fact Roethlisberger is unavailable due to his (alleged) felonious fornicating ways.

When Batch broke a collarbone during the 2008 preseason, Leftwich quickly was added to the team. He was solid in limited duty throughout the season, winning a Super Bowl ring and making himself attractive to the Buccaneers as a free agent.

Currently languishing on the Tampa depth chart, Leftwich likely could be had for a late-round pick. It might be wise for the Steelers to try to get the deal done now, before the Bucs acquire even more leverage via Big Ben doing a perp walk.

The way Bucs general manager Mark Dominik conned the Bears out of a second round pick for a guy who couldn’t start on the NFL’s worst defense, Joe can only dream what they might pry away from Pittsburgh in a time of need.

Joe understands many Bucs fans are frustrated. Some are so frustrated they are beginning to become hysterical.

One Bucs fan has the gall to e-mail eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune to suggest Bucs general manager Mark Dominik’s days are numbered.

Q: Is it safe to start the “hot seat” talks for GM Mark Dominik? Last year he spent money on Angello Crowell and Derrick Ward. This year he lets Bryant go because of his knees, his age, and to avoid the big contract. Then he brings in Reggie Brown. A 29-year-old with injuries in the past. Not to mention the Bengals signed Bryant to a $28 million contract. That’s too expensive? Didn’t Michael Clayton get a similar contract a year ago?

D.J. Smith, Tampa

A: There’s little doubt Dominik is battling for his professional life in 2010. He made a flurry of mistakes in his first season calling the shots, costing ownership significant money, but he has an opportunity to right the ship with a dynamic draft. If he nails it and adds 3 or 4 new starters who can play, all will be forgiven. Any way you look at it, that’s a lot of pressure on any NFL executive.

– Ira Kaufman

Even if the Bucs only win three games this year, Joe would be shocked if Dominik was shown the door. Rarely do general managers only get two years to succeed, especially a general manager who by all indications was directed by the owners to tear a team apart and rebuild.

Has Dominik made mistakes? Of course. And Joe is confident even Dominik would admit it. Blocking icon Michael Clayton’s re-signing springs to mind. Angelo Crowell is another mistake. Perhaps not bringing back Antonio Bryant may be another.

However, in Dominik’s first year, it appears he did well in the draft. Just the fact alone he was able to thieve a second round pick from the Bears for a guy who couldn’t start for one of the NFL’s worst defenses should at least give Dominik some political capital.

Joe is told that the Illinois state police have issued an arrest warrant for Dominik on grand theft charges as a result of the Gaines Adams trade.

Joe believes how the Bucs (read: Dominik) select players in next month’s draft will go a long way to answering his long-term job security as the Bucs’ head honcho.

It’s a gloomy Friday in the Tampa Bay area. So Joe thought he’d bring you a treat.

Joe understands, to a degree, that Joe’s readers who do not have the NFL Network — women — likely have never seen one of the greatest NFL Films productions, “America’s Game,” a mini-series on the NFL Network which is basically an hour-long documentary devoted to each Super Bowl winning team.

(Little known fact: One of the reasons there is so much unrest among the millions of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip is the resident arrogant, Satanic cable company, Out House Networks, has held the locals hostage by cruelly denying them the NFL Network yet brazenly forcing them to have countless mind numbing shopping channels and relegating Al Jazeera to a costly “premium-tier.” That alone would certainly drive Joe to throw rocks at army soldiers and provoke him to walk into a sidewalk cafe and set off a backpack explosive.)

Recently, the intelligent executives at the NFL have decided to upload loads of NFL content onto Hulu.com, including all episodes of America’s Game. Below, Joe brings you the Bucs segment.

Despite Hulu, and indirectly, the NFL, offering embed codes, Joe suspects for some reason he may get an angry e-mail or phone call from some suit. If the NFL doesn’t want Hulu to share the videos, why offer embed codes? As a preemptive measure, Joe would like to thank those responsible for the video:

Steve Sabol, Ed Sabol, Rich Eisen, the NFL Network, Mark Dominik, the NFL, Chucky, the Oakland Raiders, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Rachel Watson, Bryan and Joel Glazer, Al Davis and anyone else remotely connected to the aforementioned organizations.

Though it’s looking more and more like the Bucs will be able to select either defensive tackles manbeast Ndamukong Suh or Gerald McCoy, there’s still the very real possibility that the Bucs will get neither, that the Lambs and Kittens will grab both players before the Bucs draft at No. 3.

While the conventional wisdom for the Bucs would then be to trade down, thereby picking up more draft choices and still getting the player they want (Eric Berry?), a Bucs fan, using the TBO.com Bucs question-and-answer vehicle, believes the Bucs should go unconventional:

Draft quarterback Sam Bradford.

Q: Submitting a hypothetical draft day scenario: Let’s assume that the two teams drafting before the Bucs, the Rams and Lions, choose DTs Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy, the players that the Bucs seemingly covet the most. Knowing how stocked with talent this draft is, doesn’t it make sense for the Bucs to then select the next-most valued player, QB Sam Bradford? Not to keep him, but to use him as trade bait. After all, the Redskins and Seahawks –and very possibly the Bills, Broncos, etc. — are looking to land a franchise-type QB like Bradford, and by holding his draft rights, the Bucs would be in a favorable position to quickly trade him to the team ready to make the best deal. By doing so the Bucs would acquire a high-to-mid 1st round choice plus additional pick(s) in the second or third round. Your thoughts?

Andy Pollack, Atlanta, Ga.

A: It’s not far-fetched to consider trading back if Suh and McCoy are both gone by pick No. 3, but the Bucs have to be careful not to go move back so far that the other prospects they covet are off the board by the time they make their first selection. If players like Berry and Okung and gone within the top 7 and the Bucs slide back to No. 9, they may not get the kind of impact player they need so desperately.

Your scenario makes sense, but the Bucs would have to have several big-time players in mind they could choose from with a realistic chance of still being available after they slide back.

– eye-RAH! Kaufman

This is actually an interesting proposal and perhaps smart, but very risky. Let’s be honest, if the Kittens draft McCoy/Suh, Bucs general manager Mark Dominik has a grand total of 12 minutes to consummate a deal. Not a whole lot of time to barter.

By drafting Bradford, you essentially hold whatever team wants him hostage. You have hours, days to get a deal done with the highest bidder; Dominik wouldn’t be under a gun.

Though this type of maneuver is rare, it worked for San Diego when the Chargers drafted — against his will — Eli Manning and squeezed the Giants out of more than maybe they would have gotten by trading the pick earlier.

Soon to be a Buccaneer?

It’s time to belly up the the computer with a tray of the best wings in the Tampa Bay area and settle in for a draft education.

NFL Draft guru Justin Pawlowski, of WDAE-AM 620, continues his position breakdowns today taking on the running backs class. Last week, he got the position ball rolling with offensive linemen.

In this 2,000-word draft orgasm, Pawlowski details positives and negatives on each player and his potential impact on the Bucs’ roster, plus each potential draft pick is ranked and compared to a current NFL player.

Where else can you get such a written breakdown?

Enjoy. …{+}

Despite the apparent job security of Raheem The Dream, the head coach will have to take the team to a new level next year.

So just what does Raheem The Dream have to accomplish?

Joe took on this topic on the JoeBucsFan.com Radio Network with former Bucs defensive end Steve White. The conversation spiraled to Jim Bates and how he was even hired.

Fun stuff. Enjoy.

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Team Glazer apparently keeps tabs on agent-driven speculation from publications eager to spread homemade gossip for the sake of Web traffic.

How can Joe make such a statement?

Well, Raheem The Dream himself admitted this during a visit to the TBO.com/Tampa Tribune/NewsChannel 8 war room in downtown Tampa, so claims columnist Joe Henderson. 

“I’m sitting on my couch, watching “SportsCenter,” and I see that rumor about the Josh Johnson trade. I immediately text Mark, and he sends back, ‘No, what are you talking about?’ He’s not watching television at home,” Morris said.

“Stuff pops up. Our owners even call sometimes – ‘We did that?’ People throw stuff against the wall sometimes. A lot of that is agent stuff. There are so many rumors.”

Morris said he called Johnson right away.

“I called Josh and told him, ‘Don’t worry about it – Bill Cowher’s getting hired here in three days, too.’ “

Joe’s guessing here. But Joe’s giving 5-1 odds Team Glazer made one of these phone calls when the Aaron Kampman rumor was floated last week. …Joe believes he may have found a secret transcript of said phone call.

Team Glazer:  Dominik, it’s us.
Mark Dominik: Yes, gentlemen.
Team Glazer: You realize we’re not paying that cash for anyone, let alone a 30-year-old defensive end with a crappy knee.
Mark Dominik: Of course, sir. We’re sticking to the plan.

Eagles beat writer Les Bowen, of Philly.com, told the JoeBucsFan.com Radio Network that Reggie Brown had a habit of not laying out for balls thrown his way.

What the hell happened to wide receiver Reggie Brown in Philadelphia?

Joe is obsessed with learning everything he can about Brown. After all, he is the Bucs’ big offseason acquisition.

In this interview on the JoeBucsFan.com Radio Network, Joe and former Bucs defensive end Steve White probe Eagles beat writer Les Bowen, of the Philadelphia Daily News, for everything he knows about Brown.

Bowen had quite a bit to say.

Among other things, he characterizes Brown as a very laid back guy who didn’t have a friendship with Donovan McNabb and seemed to give up on some balls thrown to him by McNabb (but not Jeff Garcia in 2006).

He also says Brown was a disinterested special teams player while he rode the bench the past couple of seasons.

There’s a lot more. And Bowen’s got positive things to say about Brown, too.

Enjoy.

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Joe Henderson of the Tampa Tribune is pretty disgusted the Bucs didn't bring back Antonio Bryrant.

Yesterday, Joe brought you Adam Schein’s tirade about the Bucs, heard on Sirius NFL Radio.

Maybe influenced by that post, or perhaps he heard the broadcast, Tampa Tribune columnist Joe Henderson decided to break out the artillery on the Bucs for not bringing back wide receiver Antonio Bryant into the fold.

They essentially replaced Antonio Bryant with journeyman Reggie Brown from Philadelphia – banking (key word there) no doubt on a return to greatness by Michael Clayton. On the Clayton reference, I trust you understand sarcasm when you read it.

Bryant made nearly $10 million last season and at 29 years old would seem to be entering the prime of his career, a fact underscored by the four-year deal worth $28 million he signed Wednesday with Cincinnati after the Bucs told him to move on.

My friends, this is what it is has come down to: the Cincinnati Bengals are more willing to pay for talent than the Bucs. The Bengals, one of the cheapest organizations in the history of the National Football League, paid the man.

In the rest of his column Henderson tempers his writings and is even objective. Clearly, Henderson believes the Bucs could have helped themselves by keeping Bryant, especially given the fact his contract with the Bengals is nearly identical to blocking icon Michael Clayton’s.

NFL Draft guru Justin Pawlowski, WDAE-AM, continues to track the rise of offensive tackle Russell Okung, who could be the No. 2 overall pick in April.

On his draft page at 620WDAE.com, Pawlowski offers the latest out of Okung’s Pro Day.

Joe has to fantasize. In this scenario, might the Bucs be crazy enough to keep their No. 3 pick and trade up for the No. 4 pick to grab both manbeast Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy? Not going to happen. But that would generate some serious excitement.