When Baker Mayfield feels the heat.

Baker Mayfield has numbers and tendencies to really craft an offense around. [read more]

Rookie cornerback Jacob Parrish.

The greater Topeka, Kansas region is its own TV market and they love their Kansas State players. [read more]

Collapsing the pocket.

Regular readers of Joe know Joe isn’t much of a fan — hell, no fan at all — of quarterback pressures. [read more]

Ranking.

Whenever Joe types a post about Todd Bowles, the Bucs coach seems to lure both defenders and haters alike. [read more]

Dominant.

Joe knows who to lay cash on for the NFL’s new award, “Protector of the Year.” [read more]

Sealing wins.

Garbage take on Bucs defensive lineman Logan Hall. [read more]

Joe sees greatness in Calijah Kancey, when he’s not wearing street clothes injured, and so does a former Buccaneer. [read more]

Benjamin Morrison is not a win-the-day, one-day-at-a-time kind of guy. [read more]

The Bucs are not like other teams.

Not only does Tampa Bay give rookies significant playing time under Todd Bowles, the team steadily has quality rookies, guys relied upon heavily. [read more]

Growing respect.

Just a couple of years ago, Baker Mayfield was thrown on the trash heap of the NFL. [read more]

Baller.

It seems a Bucs rookie may have been the catalyst for one of the best offenses in the game last season. [read more]

So two big-name NFL analysts seem in agreement about the state of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Primetime record makes one want to drink heavily.

Want to know why the Bucs may not get much respect from national hollering shows and stenographers? The keep shatting themselves before the eyes of the nation. [read more]

Respected stathead defends.

It’s a holiday weekend and Joe should be hungover this morning from a full day of sipping good Kentucky bourbon and having a few ice cold Florida beers celebrating Uncle Sam’s birthday. [read more]

Road throwbacks?

Joe is a huge fan of the creamsicles. But once, maybe twice a year is fine. [read more]

Joe’s not sure if Team Glazer proverbially showed Todd Bowles the money last month, but they did extend his contract through the 2028 season.

It’s unclear whether Bowles’ initial contract was through 2025 or 2026. [read more]

“Mr. Glazer, let’s roll up to city hall for a chat.”

Joe finds the words of a Dade City Commissioner to be neither cute nor appropriate. [read more]

Production.

Joe still gets a kick out of the following, and it just goes to show how folks perceive things differently. [read more]