The Bucs’ face of the franchise, Gerald McCoy, continues to share his theme of 2015. (more…)

Whoa! It’s yet another busy day in store for Joe and Bucs fans from Lakeland to Largo to Lake Keystone.

Tampa Bay is back on the practice field this afternoon for Day 1 of their three-day mandatory minicamp. It’s still underwear football, but Joe will get to watch all the two-hour sessions and mingle with players afterwards.

Come back for all kinds of goodies.

Lavonte David explains

Bo Pelini and Greg Schiano are high on the list of supreme football lunatics of this century.

They’ve broken their share of players, and common-decency rules in the process. (more…)

The Bucs’ mandatory, three-day minicamp starts this afternoon

Many folks out there believe the Buccaneers have open competitions for every starting job this season. Joe knows that’s naïve silly talk. (more…)

Robert Herron should be worried.

Right about now, the myth that speed equals football talent should be put to rest by Bucs fans.

Oh, Joe remembers how way too many jumped up and down on their beds when the Bucs got track star Jeff Demps. (more…)

John Clayton is not impressed.

Yesterday, Joe brought words that gave many a Bucs fan the shivers.

Woody Cummings of The Tampa Tribune said the quarterback of the past and quarterback of the future but not the quarterback of the present, Mike Glennon, has a slight upperhand in OTA practices over “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston. (more…)

NFL.com pillories Doug Martin and his fellow Bucs RBs.

Joe has typed and typed and typed how there is a reason the Bucs stunk up the NFL last year and finished 2-14. They had more holes than a beehive. (more…)

Adam Humphries?

Roughly this time last year, Lovie Smith was glowing about having the fastest man in football on his roster, former Gators star and Olympic sprinter Jeff Demps. (more…)

Bucs fans who have yet to release themselves from the gut-sucking humiliation of last season might find the following disturbing. (more…)

Could new/old Bucs TE Tim Wright be the best on the roster? Ten teams wanted him.

When the Bucs plucked former tight end Tim Wright after Bill Belicheat tossed him to the curb, it was a no-brainer. A nice move by Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht.

Look, the Bucs are 2-14. Any time a young guy with a ring is available, the Bucs ought to be all over him like a hungry dog on a steak. (more…)

Gerald McCoy rarely fumbles for words. The man can talk.

But McCoy bumbled and stumbled this weekend while trying to tell the world his body is not that of a loser. (more…)

Joe swears a day doesn’t go by that someone doesn’t Twitter him asking about the offensive line. Two weeks ago, Dan Connelly was the flavor of the week. Last week, it was Evan Mathis. (more…)

Jameis Winston euphoria aside, these are tough times for Bucs fans listening to knowledgeable national media talk about their team. (more…)

Right now on StubHub, you can score the worst seat in the Lightning house for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup (if necessary) for $648.09.

That’s the price of two full Buccaneers season tickets, and extra money to buy an America’s Quarterback t-shirt! (more…)

Yes, Joe was surprised when the Bucs claimed tight end Tim Wright off waivers after he was cut by Bill Belicheat. It is a pleasant surprise.

What Joe wonders is where Wright will play. Last year, Lovie Smith openly groused about Wright’s inability to block. (more…)

Does Mike Glennon have the edge?

Last week, a lot of news came out of One Buc Palace, including Demar Dotson’s holdout/non-holdout and the waiver claim of tight end Tim Wright, after Bill Belicheat waved him goodbye.

But potentially the biggest news came from Woody Cummings of The Tampa Tribune. (more…)

Recently, Senior Bowl stardom rarely translates to the NFL.

When the Bucs traded up into the second round to draft Ali Marpet, the pride of Division-III Hobart College, it wasn’t just Joe that raised a Derrick Brooks-like eyebrow.

A Division-III offensive lineman, really? Division-III is glorified high school football. Marpet was used to blocking tackling dummies with a pulse and now he is expected to handle the best defensive tackles on the planet? (more…)