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Ohio State TE Max Klare.

Joe doesn’t know what to make of pre-draft visits prospects make to NFL facilities. The Bucs rarely draft guys who they brought in for interviews. [read more]

New Buccaneers inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.

Alex Anzalone is just like any Bucs fan, it seems. [read more]

Five!

Joe actually wouldn’t mind if the Bucs had a new King Kong Bundy-like monster in the middle of the defensive line. [read more]

New Bucs CB Chase Lucas.

Joe’s not trying to be mean in any way. Anyone on an NFL squad is in the top 1 percent of humanity. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has draft trends. [read more]

Freedom to choose.

One of the most profound things Joe ever heard didn’t come from a man of the cloth or a college professor. [read more]

Take a look at this, Mike, while you try to figure out why $1.5 million only gets you 1,100 square feet of house and no trees in Sunnyvale, California. [read more]

New Bucs inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.

When fans think of tough-guy NFL coaches demanding aggressive play, most put Lions head coach Dan Campbell in their top-5 or top-10. [read more]

Miami edge Rueben Bain.

Joe doesn’t give a damn if a guy has a baby arm or not. If the man can punish quarterbacks, so what? He’s Joe’s kind of guy. [read more]

Cool Lavonte David story.

Former NFL players with large platforms — significantly larger than the veteran journalists who serve as selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame — have had Lavonte David’s back. [read more]

Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.

If you clip a bird’s wings, you’re basically left with a feathered squirrel. [read more]

“The Beast” has been unleashed. [read more]

So Joe asked Panthers head coach and 2023 Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales what the NFL world needs to know about Lavonte David. [read more]

Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has put the NFL on notice. [read more]

So Bucs head coach Todd Bowles flatly rejected the notion Joe posed to him last week — that Bucs opponents last season played hungrier than Tampa Bay down the stretch. [read more]

Joe had a long, private chat with Todd Bowles’ friend and supporter Pat Kirwan last week at the NFL annual meeting in Phoenix. [read more]

The Bucs select…

A year ago at the NFL owners meetings, Bucs coach Todd Bowles told assembled media types at the NFC coaches breakfast that he absolutely would not rule out taking an offensive player in the first round. [read more]

No Jeff Fisher.

Bucs coach Todd Bowles has a .515 winning percentage through four seasons as head coach. So it stands to reason some think he’s an average coach. [read more]

Ohio State DT Kayden McDonald.

Joe has been borderline obsessed with the possiblity the Bucs may throw a curveball at fans and rather than draft an inside linebacker or edge rusher in Round 1, instead draft a defensive tackle. [read more]

Miami edge Akheem Mesidor.

Before Joe gets rolling here, clarity is required. [read more]