Jump-starting the passing game.

Entering the season, the Bucs’ passing game was thought to be one of the best in the NFL. [read more]

Status.

Last week Bucs running back Bucky Irving was practicing. There was hope he could play for the Bucs in Los Angeles. [read more]

Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction. [read more]

Helped Bucs out.

The 49ers put the hammer down on the Stinking Panthers last night. [read more]

What a rough Sunday night it was for the Kyle Trask faithful. [read more]

“No additional damage.” That’s the inte Jeremy Fowler of ESPN has on the shoulder test results of Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield.

So what the Bucs thought was wrong with Mayfield turned out to be true.

Mayfield taking the field for the Bucs against the Cardinals is not off the table. Yet.

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Stink on stink.

Todd Bowles characterized last week’s loss at Buffalo as “a stinker” and the 34-7 setback we just witnessed against the Rams was worse.
Much worse.

Tampa Bay lost a shootout against the Bills that featured nine lead changes. Sunday’s matchup was over in 13 minutes. The Bucs were lifeless from the start, not ready for prime time and overwhelmed on both sides of the ball. [read more]

Chris Godwin

So what’s been going on with receiver Chris Godwin behind the scenes at One Buc Palace? [read more]

About eight months ago at the NFL Owners meetings, Todd Bowles made it clear that Zyon McCollum was his 1A cornerback and Jamel Dean was his 1B. [read more]

It may not be that bad. [read more]

 Chris Godwin

The way the Bucs panicked late in the second quarter and basically waved the white flag by pulling an ESPN Analytics and going for it on fourth down from their own 28, Joe figured maybe someone wised up on the sidelines and decided not to risk Bucs receiver Chris Godwin getting injured again. [read more]

Members of Team Glazer huddle with Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht before last night’s game.

The Joe typing here isn’t swallowing all the prevailing Bucs gloom and doom whole.

Why? Because it feels fraudulent. [read more]

Talks Baker Mayfield.

Graham Barton is a stand-up dude. Says what he thinks. But you could tell his spirit was broken a little worse from Sunday’s loss to the Rams than in other losses. [read more]

Head coach Todd Bowles barks at a referee in the Bucs’ embarrassing loss to the Rams on Sunday night.

This is a depressing one so you will likely need more than one cup of the real stuff to get you going this morning. Black, of course. [read more]

Choice words for his defense.

Apparently, Lavonte David had a talking-to with his teammates after the game. And the message was specifically directed at his defensive teammates. [read more]

Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction. [read more]

What’s wrong with the Bucs?

A couple of locker room comments might shed some light. [read more]

Bucs are a bad team.

Since all the injuries to the offense mounted and defenses began respecting Emeka Egbuka, and since the Bucs defense started playing as if Mike Smith returned to coach them, this Bucs team has turned bad. [read more]

Status.

As you likely already saw, Joe’s photographer on the scene in Los Angeles had one of the first pictures of Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield with his left arm in a sling. [read more]

Latest QB to light up the Bucs.

Here we go again. [read more]