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Loads Of Bucs Walking Wounded

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Injuries mounting.

UPDATED: Man, Bucs coach Todd Bowles sure was dour about injuries suffered yesterday in the loss to the Eagles. (more…)

Todd Bowles Takes A Blowtorch To Bucs’ Special Teams

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Joe hasn’t heard Todd Bowles critique an element of his team this harshly. But any drunk (or sober) Bucs fan who has watched every game this year will agree Bowles’ harsh words are more than justified. (more…)

Haason Reddick: I’ll Be Ready For The Seahawks

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Haason Reddick.

So Bucs edge rusher Haason Reddick left yesterday’s soul-sucking loss to the Eagles in the second half with what was deemed neck issue/possible concussion. (more…)

Get Outta Here With This Atlanta Noise

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Still Kings of the South.

Man, BSPN is so desperate for the Dixie Chicks to win the NFC South, it wouldn’t shock Joe one bit if it leaked that the suits at BSPN asked NFL strongman Roger Goodell for some zebra intervention to make sure the Bucs lost yesterday. (more…)

Losing Streak Without Mike Evans Extends To Six Games

Monday, September 29th, 2025

So durable Mike Evans has missed only 13 games in his 12-year career.

What’s Tampa Bay’s record in those games? (more…)

Four Games, Six Catches By Tight Ends

Monday, September 29th, 2025

While Joe is ignoring the trend that’s seen Bucky Irving’s yards per carry plummet this season to 3.3, Joe can’t write off the Bucs’ bizarre lack of tight end production. (more…)

Baker Mayfield On Pace For 34 Touchdowns, 4 Interceptions And 3,842 Yards

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Weeks ago Joe wrote about how expecting an improved season from Baker Mayfield is unfair and unrealistic after his stunning 2024 campaign. (more…)

Tristan Wirfs Details The Hassle He Was Involved In

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Don’t poke the bear.

Tristan Wirfs is one of the kindest guys Joe has ever met. That doesn’t mean Wirfs has no bad moments. (more…)

Five Things

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Baker Mayfield scrambles against the Eagles yesterday. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

What a bummer of a game. It was bad enough seeing that invasion of Eagles fans. Joe’s good friend Rock Riley, who has been covering the Bucs for some three decades, said it was the largest contingent of visiting fans he’s ever seen. The Sage of Tampa Bay sports, Ira Kaufman, thought 40 percent of the crowd was Eagles fans. Joe thought that was a conservative estimate. Joe remembers in 2023 Lions fans coming out of the woodwork to fill The Licht House. And back in 2010, the Terrible Towel-waving Steelers fans took over the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway. Yesterday was right up there.

Walking up to the stadium, Joe briefly thought he was transported to Philadelphia. The place was that green.

But enough of that. Let’s look back at what may have been yesterday and how that impacts the future. (more…)

Lavonte David Speaks To The Bucs

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Addresses team after loss.

Almost to a man, everyone Joe spoke to yesterday in the Bucs’ locker room was of the same mind: The Bucs dug their own grave yesterday by coughing up 14 quick points to the defending Super Bowl champions and not answering on offense. (more…)

Bucs Cannot Afford To Start Games “Lifeless”

Monday, September 29th, 2025

Need to be ready to play.

When Joe spoke with right tackle Charlie Heck in the locker room following the game yesterday, he summed up the loss to the Eagles very simply: (more…)

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Sunday, September 28th, 2025

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“A Ton Of Emotion”

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Full-time workload today for Chris Godwin.

Even though Bucs receiver Chris Godwin didn’t play near his elite standard today, it was fantastic seeing him back on the field after tearing up his ankle 11 months ago. (more…)

Ira Kaufman’s 10 Takeaways From Eagles-Bucs

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

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The masters of the late comeback failed to show up early. (more…)

Should The Bucs Hire A Special Teams Consultant?

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

“Mr. Glazer, we need a new line item in the budget. We’ll take it out of Greenberg’s 2026 raise.”

Literally from the opening kickoff today, one the Bucs botched and let bounce at the 15 yard line and roll into the back of the end zone for a start-at-the-20 touchback, the Tampa Bay special teams were a wild roller coaster ride. (more…)

Rotten Third-Down Offense

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Laments missed opportunties.

The Bucs, unfortunately, gave Joe and Bucs fans several ways to pick apart this ugly loss, the first of the season. (more…)

“Straight Discipline”

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Bucky Irving’s fumble gave the Eagles a very short field. Baker Mayfield’s needless red zone interception channeled the ghost of Jameis Winston. And the Eagles’ opening drive punt block for a touchdown is the kind of stuff that happens in JV high school games. (more…)

Charlie Heck: Impotent Start Doomed Bucs

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Slow start doomed Bucs.

The defense woke up in the second half. One Bucs tackle says the game shouldn’t have needed a heroic effort by the defense if the offense only did its job. (more…)

376 Yards Of Bucs Offense

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Bucs offensive coordiantor Josh Grizzard.

So in the 20 Eagles games prior to today’s Philadelphia beating of the Bucs, only one team put more yards on the Philly defense than the Bucs did today. (more…)

Bucs Have One-Game Lead In NFC South

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

The division standings shifted this afternoon. (more…)

Chase McLaughlin Makes NFL History

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

NFL record.

At least the Bucs got something right with the special teams today. (more…)

Jamel Dean Era On Thin Ice

Sunday, September 28th, 2025

Will we see this scene again?

Joe is not trying to be mean; it’s just reality in the NFL.

“Your best ability is your availability.” (more…)