“Schedule a Zoom call with Rondé, please.”

So Rondé Barber works for the Buccaneers and talked yesterday about walking around team headquarters this week and feeling a somber vibe.

Barber also is a personal friend of Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht. (more…)

Todd Bowles is looking for help. (more…)

The 2025 Bucs defense couldn’t tackle, couldn’t understand all its assignments and it had a propensity to make life very easy on offenses.

When the dust on the regular season cleared, their league-worst red zone defense was no surprise; the Bucs ranked 9th last year and 32nd this year. (more…)

“I’m glad you forgot about Randy Gregory, Mr. Glazer.”

A Denver-based NFL insider who has great contacts with agents let it slip on a Commandos-centric podcast earlier this week that Team Glazer called John Harbaugh’s representatives moments after Team Glazer learned that Baltimore canned him.

The call was to gauge his Harbaugh’s interest in coming to the Bucs. (more…)

His call.

It seems yesterday’s upheaval of the Bucs’ coaching staff was not because of any edict or order from Team Glazer. (more…)

Defends Todd Bowles.

Joe doesn’t know one Bucs fan who has a gripe about Kay Adams. (more…)

Chris Long

There will be questions for years to come about the 2025 Bucs, some of which we may never get a straight answer to. (more…)

The man running the 2026 Bucs defense, as of now, is the same man who ran the 2025 Bucs defense.

And that defense was riddled with problems in every way. (more…)

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Buccaneers fans are struggling, collectively speaking, to understand why Team Glazer retained a head coach who oversaw an implosion during his fourth season captaining the pirate ship.

There may be an easy answer rooted in data and history. (more…)

Defensive staff purge.

The last one out, please flip the light switch off. (more…)

Gone.

The housecleaning continues at One Buc Palace. (more…)

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Retired.

Iconic offensive coach Tom Moore said he wants to coach until he dies.

Thankfully, he’s still alive at 87 years old, but he did quit coaching. (more…)

Pipedream… but what if?

OK, Joe began spitballing names of potential new offensive coordinators for the Bucs. There is one caveat, though, with this new hire. (more…)

So the Dolphins just canned their head coach, a skilled playcaller who had the NFL’s No. 1-ranked offense — and what a sight it was — in 2023. And the Bucs now have a fresh vacancy at offensive coordinator. (more…)

“We’re not twinning anymore, Grizz.”

Most smart NFL organizations are all about keeping their franchise quarterback happy. (more…)

Gone.

Less than two days after being retained as Bucs coach, Todd Bowles isn’t messing around. (more…)