Glove work.

We won’t know until later today when KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles speaks after practice. But it sure looks like Baker Mayfield will start at Carolina on Sunday. [read more]

It seems the Buccaneers’ nastiest and most productive edge rusher is relegated to scout team duty during game weeks.

Yes, fact always is stranger than fiction. [read more]

Down with the “illness.”

Brace yourselves, Bucs fans. When you tune to the Bucs game at Carolina on Sunday, you may think you are watching something other than an NFL regular season game. [read more]

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It was a throw-away line that should serve as an alarming keeper at Buc headquarters.

Are you listening, Glazer family? [read more]

Screenshot from The Rondé Barber Show, a WFLA-TV streaming production.

Rondé Barber continues to be in disbelief over the usage Bucs edge rusher David Walker. [read more]

Floated as a trade option.

Short of a miracle, the Bucs will miss the playoffs this season. [read more]

Keionte Scott and YaYa Diaby celebrate Scott’s sack of Aaron Rodgers Sunday. Rodgers feels Scott’s sting.

Yeah, this season has really, really stunk. So many things have gone wrong and the Bucs have only played six games. [read more]

Hardly any spark from leadership.

When it rains, it pours. [read more]

How will the thumb respond?

A little after 11 a.m. this morning will be telling for the Bucs and how they develop a battle plan for their game Sunday at Carolina. [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]

Under the weather.

There appears to be a virus among us. At least in the Bucs locker room. [read more]

Unsettling explanation.

Boy, this is a sad statement. And it makes Joe wonder even more how Zac Robinson is still employed. [read more]

Full practice today.

So Baker Mayfield returned to practice today, the first time full-go since he dislocated the thumb on his throwing hand in the loss to Minnesota. [read more]

One man is completely in charge of who gets on the field for the Buccaneers. [read more]

“Jeff, did you hear the one about the coach who won’t play a hot, high-impact edge rusher?”

Joe sincerely hopes Team Glazer has a membership meeting and all attendees are strapped to a polygraph machine and asked what they think the Buccaneers’ record would be this season if edge rusher David Walker played twice as much. [read more]

Ready?

It’s a prove-it week for Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield. [read more]

Todd Bowles has been known to have favorite players and share that information publicly. [read more]