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]

Gets noticed.

When you go beasting on one of the NFL’s premier quarterbacks in a very popular, old-school division, you will get noticed. [read more]

The 13-season leader of the Buccaneers wants to eat “Ws” and isn’t thinking much about style points on game days. [read more]

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Todd Bowles used to have the secret sauce for winning on opening day, but Bowles always claimed there was no such thing. [read more]

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Josiah Trotter chugs to paydirt after picking off Joe Burrow Sunday.

The haters are quiet. For the time being. [read more]

So the Bucs had a miserable edge rush on Sunday in Cincinnati.

Perhaps it’s because their secret weapon got no snaps. [read more]

There was no luck tied to the Josiah Trotter pick-6 on Sunday. No tipped ball or fluky happening.

It was all the rookie, and he explained it started days prior. [read more]

Bummed but not discouraged.

Joe is not freaking out about the loss Sunday to the Bengals. [read more]

Career low.

It wasn’t like the Bengals played the game of the century Sunday along the banks of the Ohio River when they outlasted the Bucs by six points, 33-27. [read more]

Ball security wasn’t an issue for Baker Mayfield on this play. It was too many times, otherwise.

One sports fad of the third decade of the 21st century is a complete and total mystery to Joe. [read more]

Rejects Week 1 analysis.

What guys say at a news conference and what they’ll say in the locker room are often different takes. [read more]

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Inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.

Joe has gone back to the Alex Anzalone film against the Bengals. [read more]

Rough start.

Rookie edge rusher Rueben Bain, Tampa Bay’s first-round draft pick, had a rough Week 1.

Joe thought Bain looked a little gassed and perhaps dogged by his healed/healing(?) shoulder. [read more]

Starting cornerback Jacob Parrish was lost in the first half yesterday with a back injury.

It’s not that bad, Todd Bowles said today.

X-ray and MRI tests were clean, per Bowles, so Parrish simply has a sprain and how he can handle it will determine his availability.

Bowles praised the play of second-year man Benjamin Morrison in Parrish’s absence.

Todd Bowles said this month that the biggest change in the Bucs seen by fans this season would be the leadership sparked by the arrival of A’Shawn Robinson and Rakeem Nuñez-Roches. [read more]