So the Bucs have new weapons and toys on offense for starting quarterback Mike Glennon Josh McCown to play with. Bucs general manager Jason Licht explained that both Austin Seferian-Jenkins and Charles Sims were too high up their draft board to pass when their respective picks were made. (more…)

Don’t you dare accuse Lovie Smith and Jason Licht of coming to the NFL Draft expressly to try and fill needs.

These guys don’t roll that way. (more…)

“Just coach’em up, Greg. Enough with the linguini length.”

As it stands now after free agency and three rounds of the 2014 NFL Draft (the Bucs have no fourth-round pick), Tampa Bay likely will have only three new starters on defense: Alterraun Verner, Clinton McDonald and Michael Johnson.

That’s the equivalent of Lovie Smith grabbing a bullhorn and telling the world Greg Schiano didn’t know how to coach defense. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht explains Friday’s draft picks.

A giddy Bucs general manager Jason Licht took the podium at One Buc Palace after the team’s second draft pick tonight to explain himself.

The two positions on offense where the Bucs did not need an upgrade, did not have any holes, were tight end and running back. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht said new RB Charles Sims of West Virginia had the best receiving hands of any running back in the draft.

Joe had heard about the speed-in-space mantra of new offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford. It seems we have a better idea now of what that may entail.

The third-round pick of the Bucs this evening, running back Charles Sims of West Virginia is that. Bucs general manager Jason Licht said the Bucs rated Sims as having the best receiving hands of any running back in the draft. (more…)

Raise your beer if you thought the Bucs would walk away from the first two days of the NFL Draft with a shiny new running back and no new offensive lineman?

(Yeah the Bucs could still trade back up into the third round, but time is ticking away quickly.) (more…)

Here are highlights of the third round pick of the Bucs tonight, Charles Sims from West Virginia.

Whoa!

The Bucs just snagged a running back in the third round, Charles Sims, the pride of the West Virginia Mountaineers. Huh? (more…)

Here we go folks. The 2014 NFL draft resumes shortly. What will the Bucs do? Will they add another receiver (smart) or decide to take care of the offensive line, which is begging for bodies at guard, or, dare Joe say, Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford reunites with his long-time friend Derek Carr? (more…)

After drafting pass catching manbeast Washington tight end Austin Sefferian-Jenkins in the second round tonight, the Bucs now have seven tight ends on the roster.

That’s too many. And now’s the time to start trying to move one. (more…)

New Bucs TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins lit up Jeff Tedford’s Cal teams.

If the Bucs wanted athletes, then they sure are getting them. Basketball types in fact.

Yesterday, the Bucs selected wide receiver Mike Evans, who turned down a basketball scholarship to the University of Texas. Tonight, the Bucs got another hoops head, tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins from the University of Washington, where he also played basketball. (more…)

A focus of the new Bucs offensive coordinator offers insight into the drafting of a tight end tonight

Shortly after the Bucs hired offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, Joe delivered the scoop of how Tedford went to New England to study offense under Bill Belicheat and Josh McDaniels.

Tedford came back to his head coaching gig at “Cal” a changed man. (more…)

Though Joe has read and heard bad things about how much Bucs second round pick Austin Seferian-Jenkins’ numbers have fallen off, Joe notices consistency.

Seferian-Jenkins saw his number of catches drop the past season from 69 catches in 2012, to 41 last season. It could be that Washington had garbage for quarterbacks. (more…)

Here are some video clips of new Bucs tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins from the University of Washington.

Now this has Joe totally stunned. After grabbing a tight end in free agency and already having one of the better tight ends in the NFL (look it up) in Tim Wright, a position not even close to a need, the Bucs draft a tight end/basketball player Austin Seferian-Jenkins of Washington. (more…)

Olivia Stacey and Woody Cummings discuss the Bucs’ selection of wide receiver Mike Evans and what Tampa Bay may do tonight in the second and third rounds, via this TBO.com video.

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Many players dream of the NFL from the moment they started tossing around a football as kids in the back yard. So when a player is drafted, it is understandable that they get misty-eyed. (more…)

Record viewers for the NFL draft last night all but ensures the May draft is locked in stone.

Joe knows NFL fans, Bucs fans in particular, absolutely hated the draft being pushed back to May. Loathed it. Made them grit their teeth until the enamel was worn off.

Joe didn’t like it much either, and felt Bucs fans’ pain. The mock draft industrial complex is way out of hand, especially so with extra time for nimble fingers to tap on a keyboard. (more…)

NFL Network weighs in

How about another mock draft, just in case you didn’t get your fill.

This one, however, is a second-round mock, and the Bucs are on the clock in roughly three hours. NFL Network draft guru Bucky Brooks weighs in and seems to be thinking like Joe. (more…)

Bucs fans seem generally giddy today, except when they’re attacking Joe in waves upon waves upon waves of hate and angst both here and on Twitter for no good reason.

You would have thought Joe engineered a plot to have Son of Bob become the next starting quarterback. (more…)

Bucs WR Mike Evans was a star high school hoops player in Galveston, Tex. with sights on the NBA until a Texas football coach changed Evans’ mind, and his life.

Few people in the state of Florida have heard of a guy by the name of David Suggs. But he could become a critical figure for the Bucs if coach Lovie Smith can turn around a once proud franchise.

Suggs resides in the Galveston, Tex. region that produced new Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans. And because Suggs was a persistent fellow, not taking “no” for an answer, the Bucs could have their hands on the NFL’s next dynamic receiver. (more…)

How to read Lovie’s Mike Glennon endorsement?

Yes, Joe is at One Buc Palace today waiting for the arrival of new wide receiver Big Mike Evans. And the echoes of Lovie Smith’s endorsement of backup quarterback Mike Glennon as the future of the Bucs is still bouncing off the walls.

To be polite, it’s a head scratcher. One would be hard-pressed to find such a strong endorsement for a quarterback who led the Bucs to the worst offense in the NFL and was benched by Lovie. (more…)