Flash poll posted at 7:38 a.m. Last week’s poll results linked here.

The first official Bucs injury report of the week was issued last night and one name particularly troubled Joe.

It also told the same old story for Chris Godwin and Bucky Irving. [read more]

Outside snaps Sunday.

Joe browsed through a story on NFL.com about overlooked players having really good 2025 seasons. [read more]

Iowa “thoroughbred.”

NFL Films had some Bills players mic’d up and a native of Iowa was glazing another guy from Iowa who just happened to be wearing a different color jersey Sunday in Buffalo. [read more]

Quick.

Just because you are quick doesn’t mean you can put a quarterback on the ground. [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]

Future head coach?

Thanksgiving is in seven days. And the week after Thanksgiving is when the coaching rumor mill really heats up. [read more]

On notice.

For Joe, there was no question that the loss to Buffalo was Todd Bowles’ worst-coached game this year. Easily. [read more]

There’s a bug buzzing around the locker room at One Buc Palace. And Joe suspects the bug wasn’t someone leaving the back door open for Joe Tryon-Shoyinka to crawl in. [read more]

Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman asked Todd Bowles a tough question about his beleaguered defense today. [read more]

Chris Braswell was part of the Bucs’ kickoff coverage teams on Sunday.

Todd Bowles’ film review of his Sunday kickoff coverage unit is in. [read more]

Now a rival.

The Kyle Trask crowd is now throwing its Bucs gear in the trash (or at least shoving it into trash bags and throwing the bags in closets) and running to their local sporting goods store to stock up on Dixie Chicks gear. [read more]

This sure will serve as jet fuel for the stop-using-edge-rushers-in-pass-coverage crowd. [read more]

Problems broken down by coach.

Rookie cornerback Benjamin Morrison’s growing pains have been felt by Bucs fans, especially the past two weeks.

Joe’s not exaggerating. [read more]

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Studying the passing chart from Baker Mayfield’s play at Buffalo last Sunday raises two questions for Joe. [read more]

Expectations dampened.

So as Joe sets up this quote from former Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians, Joe has to make the following perfectly clear: Arians was not talking about his successor with the Bucs, Todd Bowles. [read more]

Big plays will kill Bucs.

It pained Marcus Spears to say it, but unless Bucs coach Todd Bowles can repair his suddenly porous defense, it will be the defense and not the Bucs’ injury-riddled offense that will drag the Bucs down in the playoffs. [read more]

Bucs OC Josh Grizzard.

When you don’t have a defense, you better have an offense. A powerful offense. [read more]