Winning beats numbers.

Bucs rookie wide receiver Emeka Egbuka has cooled down of late. [read more]

Talks game-winning stop.

Of late, Bucs outside linebacker YaYa Diaby is starting to rise to the occasion. [read more]

Laugher today?

If the Bucs don’t make the playoffs, that’s on them. Because BSPN believes the road to the playoffs for the Bucs is paved with cupcakes. [read more]

Pop-gun offense.

Joe is beginning to wonder if Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard has grown scared his receivers cannot get open. [read more]

Game 13

Cardinals (2-10) at Bucs (7-5)

Kickoff: 1 p.m.

TV: CBS (WTSP-TV Channel 10, locally). Hollerin’ Kevin Harlan, Gracie Hunt’s future father-in-law Trent Green and visually-pleasing Melanie Collins. To find out if this Bucs game will be broadcast via your local CBS affiliate today, click here.

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Out?

Bucs All-Pro Tristan Wirfs has battled an oblique injury this week and was listed as questionable for tomorrow’s game with the slimy Saints. [read more]

There’s a simple reason why the Bucs should/will beat the two-win slimy Saints tomorrow at The Licht House. [read more]

Calijah Kancey

The Buccaneers’ senior advisor to the general manager was chatting publicly this week. [read more]

Buccaneers GM Jason Licht.

So the chieftain over at GoLongTD.com (as in write real long NFL features) made his way to Tampa about a month ago and popped a Baker Mayfield feature yesterday. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Joe always hears football people talk about how football begins after Thanksgiving. That’s when the wheat is separated from the chaff, the contenders from the pretenders. [read more]

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Ed Glazer chose the right guy.

When the co-chairman of the Buccaneers decided to commission a documentary to celebrate the franchise’s 50 years in the NFL, he turned to Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Trent Cooper to oversee the assignment.

Glazer had worked with Cooper on a previous project and he knew Cooper, who grew up in Lakeland, was a long-time Buc fan.

Cooper’s passion and insight shows through every frame of a 10-part series that will drop on Amazon Dec. 11.

I’ve seen quite a bit of the footage in advance and every Buc fan from Brooksville to Bartow will be thrilled and entertained by Cooper’s handiwork. Judging by the excerpts, the Bucs gave Cooper an unlimited budget to get this thing done right. [read more]

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This will be the free TV broadcast audience for friends and family only. [read more]

Taking advantage of a rookie?

This would be making a scene. [read more]

Just a few more days for Mike Evans.

So despite Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan returning to the practice fields at One Buc Palace earlier this week, Bucs coach Todd Bowles told the local pen and mic club yesterday to hold up. Fans won’t get to see the Bucs’ wide receiver duo back in action. Yet. [read more]

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Inching towards 10 sacks.

Five Bucs games remain in the regular season. Who knows if there will be meaningful January football? [read more]

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The fixability of the Bucs defense is up for debate. [read more]