You know the Bucs have a long, long, long road to travel and mountains to climb before we soberly can discuss the Bucs and the Super Bowl in the same sentence.

When a team is 2-14, that is about as far away from a Super Bowl as one can get.

Off the top of Joe’s head, the only position group the Bucs may have that’s better than the team that lost the Super Bowl, the Seahawks, would be wide receiver. (more…)

There’s a new draft guru in town, and he played years for the Buccaneers.

When pressed for a Tampa Bay second-round pick on the offensive line, this guy moved his chips all in for Ereck Flowers, the gargantuan out of Miami. (more…)

Since his Pro Bowl, rookie season of 2012, Doug Martin just hasn’t been the same. Injuries have something to do with that.

Martin lost a good chunk of 2013 with a shoulder injury and, after getting off to a terrible start, Martin admitted to Joe after the final game that he was injured early in the year, which affected his rushing prowess. (more…)

Is stud franchise quarterback Philip Rivers on the trading block for the right draft pick? (more…)

It doesn’t happen often, but there is dissent at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. (more…)

It was a bad year to have an ugly season and emerge with a pile of available salary cap money.

That was the word from one NFL executive. (more…)

How would UCLA DE Owamagbe Odighizuwa look in pewter and red?

OK, so free agency, unless the Bucs are looking for bargains at depth, is over. Given how the Bucs “won” free agency season last spring, Joe is happy the Bucs lost so terribly this spring.

Just a hunch, but Joe’s guessing Team Glazer is happy Nexium can be purchased over the counter now. (more…)

The spreadsheeters find an interesting nugget

There are only three things you need to know about the 2014 Bucs offense:

1. The starting quarterback was jettisoned well before the free agency dinner bell rang. Never made it to an OTA.

2. The Bucs will likely draft a quarterback first overall. (more…)

No, Joe can’t come to grips with the Woody Hayes crowd, the same crowd that cries “defense wins championships” in a quarterback-driven league, like a neighbor’s dog howling at the moon at 2 a.m. (more…)

How dare the Tennessee Titans invite the heir apparent to the Tampa Bay throne to their Nashville facility for a private workout!

And Jameis Winston accepted, per ProFootballTalk.com and 24/7 Sports. (more…)

Joe vividly remembers eating eggs, melon and toast with Lovie Smith at last year’s NFL Owners meetings and hearing Lovie say he signs free agents who plan to be starters. (more…)

According to NFL.com, Sterling Moore, the Cowboys’ part-time nickel cornerback last year, finished the season with 12 passes defensed.

In Tampa, starters Johnthan Banks and Alterraun Verner combined for 19. (more…)

Joe was torn about the Greg Hardy sweepstakes.

Joe thoroughly understood why folks didn’t want Hardy and his legal problems infesting the Bucs locker room. But on the other hand, it’s rare to have a team without a proven double-digit sack artist, like the Bucs have been for a decade. (more…)

Boston College center on Bucs’ radar.

Joe has been adamant that the Bucs should draft nothing but offensive linemen after they select Jameis Winston, followed their choice of an edge rusher.

Between the two milk cartons O-linemen the Bucs drafted last year, and whoever they draft this year, one would suspect a decent lineman or two would shake out from that group. (more…)

A prominent voice on the Buccaneers beat says Tampa Bay has a personality issue with one of this year’s elite quarterback prospects. (more…)

Yes, many Bucs fans were angered  when the Bucs pulled out of the Greg Hardy sweepstakes yesterday, watching the proven double-digit sackmeister run off to Dallas without even slapping skin in Tampa.

Joe understands why the Bucs, eventually, passed. Most fans didn’t. (more…)

Now that the rage and hopelessness over the loss of Greg Hardy to the Cowboys has subsided a bit, it’s time for a dose of reality.

The contract Hardy signed with Dallas would have been worthless to Tampa Bay. (more…)

Yes, Bucs fans were angry their team passed on sackmeister defensive end Greg Hardy yesterday. The vast majority  wanted Hardy, though there were some unnerved by Hardy’s legal hassles. (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 man who understands the barbecue pain of Buccaneers left guard Logan Mankins is his former teammate, Patriots free agent right guard Dan Connolly.

Connolly, who took over spatula duties for the Super Bowl champs, has caught the interest of the Buccaneers. (more…)

Dante Fowler with the No. 1 overall pick?

Joe has long maintained Bucs coach Lovie Smith is thoroughly unpredictable when it comes to personnel.

Just look at last year, for example: It feels like yesterday when Lovie dismissed Joe’s question about whether Lovie had reservations because Jeff Tedford had no NFL experience. (more…)