Tampa Bay can’t just make Band-Aid moves on their offensive line, they must groom it for the long term and Jameis Winston’s rise to prominence.

Finding a replacement for Logan Mankins should be a priority. (more…)

Joe talked to Andy Reid, Steve Keim, Jason Licht and others about building an offensive line.

Developing a sound offensive line is getting harder and harder.

Gimmick college offenses haven’t prepared players. Better athletes are playing defensive line. Teams dump offensive coordinators every couple of years. And leaguewide impatience has taken its toll on a position that demands time on many fronts. (more…)

Sacks seem to be an issue.

Since the end of the college football season, the spreadsheeters over at ProFootballFocus.com have updated their Excel programs and tapped away at their keyboards inputing data to determine the best players in the 2015 NFL draft. (more…)

Herm Edwards talks about his friend Lovie Smith

Among NFL head coaches in Year 1 of their programs last year, Lovie Smith had a rough time.

Some, like Mike Zimmer, Mike Pettine and Bill O’Brien, managed to advance their franchises. (more…)

The Bucs seem pleased Jameis Winston is losing his pitching-motion-like football delivery

Of course, Jameis Winston haters threw all sorts of mean words at him when the Bucs won the Chase for Jameis with the worst record in the NFL.

One slur was “Leftwich.”

That came because Winston had somewhat baseball-like windup in his release. Understandable because Winston is also a pitcher, and a damned impressive one. (more…)

Caution: This is another in a long series about the offensive line of the Bucs. Naturally, it is not pleasant. Read at your own peril.

So as it stands, the rotten Tampa Bay offensive line is no better. Last seen, it was so frightening Freddie Krueger had an accident in his pants watching it. (more…)

Joe knows that not everyone had a chance to watch Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston throw. Not everyone could blow off work to watch his entire pro day on NFL Network last week.

Likewise, not everyone remembered to DVR the program. Or they had better things to do when the pro day was rebroadcast. That is why Joe has your back. (more…)

The Bucs’ new cornerback talks about his free agency experience

The journey into free agency is different for every player.

The range of emotions can be great. (more…)

Mark Dominik weighs in after Josh Freeman’s re-emergence.

The gloves have come off. Not all the way, but they’re getting there.

Former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik was pressed to answer the question, “What went wrong with Josh Freeman?” (more…)

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida. (more…)

A drunk in a bar couldn’t have picked a worse draft than what the Bucs did in 2007, highlighted by DE Gaines Adams.

With the draft less than four weeks away, it is hard to think about anything else. Especially when the Bucs are hurting more for a quarterback than any team in the NFL — and the best one, Jameis Winston, is there for the taking. (more…)

Video on NFL.com and other websites shows Buccaneers defensive line coach Joe Cullen running workouts at the University of Washington Pro Day this week.

The last time Joe saw Cullen run a pro day, it was at Georgia Tech last year. Soon after, Tampa Bay signed Georgia Tech defensive lineman Euclid Cummings as an undrafted free agent. (more…)

Miami has embraced Josh Freeman

Last year, when former Buccaneers franchise quarterback Josh Freeman signed in the spring with the New York Giants, things felt differently than when Freeman signed with the Dolphins on Thursday.

The Dolphins seem to giving the Freeman the full team embrace. (more…)

50 and counting

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida. (more…)

Flexibility.

Have your read this year that the Bucs have a subpar offensive line? You have? Surprising, no?

And that underperforming (Joe is in a nice mood) line is worse than when we last saw it at the Den of Depression.

Left tackle Anthony Collins was jettisoned and right guard Oniel Cousins is gone. So the Bucs have two big holes to fill. (more…)

A guy who coached Eli Manning and Drew Bledsoe thinks about those stud quarterbacks when he watches Jameis Winston.

Joe is talking about longtime offensive guru Kevin Gilbride, now retired after many years calling plays for Manning in New York. (more…)

For Bucs fans losing sleep over the team not having a bruising fullback on the roster, you may relax now. It appears the Bucs have signed one. (more…)

Former Bucs safety Dashon “Hawk” Goldson had kind words for Bucs fans on his way out the door.

Joe knows there are plenty of anti-Hawk Goldson types because he wasn’t able to play to the level he did when he made his bones with the 49ers.

That’s fair. (more…)

Football junkies like Joe absolutely must grab a cold beer and dive into former Bucs defensive end Steve White’s detailed breakdown of University of Miami manbeast left tackle Erick Flowers for SBNation.com. (more…)

The Bucs’ newest safety will compete

Now that the Bucs have released Dashon “Hawk” Goldson from his Tampa Bay perch, their safety position appears more wide open than ever. (more…)

Bucs safety Dashon “Hawk” Goldson was traded to the Redskins today.

Hawk Goldson has flown away.

The Bucs’ hard-hitting, flag-drawing safety was traded this morning to the Redskins along with a seventh round pick to the Redskins. In return, the Bucs got a sixth round draft pick in 2016. (more…)