Super Bowl-winning coach Brian Billick said he wouldn’t want to be “conned” by Jameis Winston.

Yeah, the crazy fun starts in the heart of the Midwest — in a sick way for NFL suits and potential draft picks — at the NFL Scouting Combine in frozen Indianapolis this week.

(As you read this story, Joe is likely enroute to the Crossroads of America.)

It’s the weird time when team executives try to throw off players during interviews, players who have been well-coached in what to say. (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 and Josh McCown.

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

Joe has tremendous respect for super draft guru Mike Mayock of NFL Network, but enough is enough.

Mayock’s comments about the Buccaneers during his annual pre-combine news conference today bordered on ridiculous. (more…)

Here’s a legitimately tough question: Who would have a better season starting at right defensive end for Tampa Bay next season, Da’Quan Bowers, Michael Johnson or Adrian Clayborn? (more…)

Lovie Smith’s beloved 12th man, the nickel cornerback position he considers the 12th starter on his defense, gave the head coach headaches last season.

Keep in mind Lovie once simultaneously was head coach of the Bears and Chicago’s nickel back position coach, a true rarity in the NFL. (more…)

Joe isn’t sure what popular sports radio and TV personality Adam Schein sees in Josh McCown.

Joe has nothing against former Bucs turnover-prone quarterback Josh McCown. Good dude. Team guy. Did everything he could to get the Bucs to turn around their fortunes.

Problem was, McCown simply didn’t have it.

Things happened last offseason that didn’t pass the smell test. (more…)

OK, Joe has had it. You fantasy football fools, will you just stop with this Ndamukong Suh nonsense? Really? It is so idiotic.

The Bucs just broke the bank for Gerald McCoy. You know, a defensive tackle. As Warren Sapp would say with his eyes bugged out and head cocked like a pointer hearing a whistle, “Hello?” (more…)

Joe has no idea why too many Bucs fans want to trade down in the draft, when Tampa Bay has such a glaring need at the most important position on the field. It makes no sense. (more…)

Even Stevie Wonder can see why the Bucs are on the cusp of rancid NFL history.

The last decade has been so frustrating for Bucs fans they have kept countless bars in business just trying to wash away painful memories. (more…)

In many ways, Tampa Bay’s 2014 season was more bizarre than the MRSA-infected, quarterback-gone-mental, Fire-Schiano-billboards campaign of 2013.

There were plenty of real Bucs mysteries last year, and Joe’s revisiting the most interesting of the bunch. (more…)

Tears of joy today for Josh McCown

Life is good for Josh McCown.

The NFL’s worst team cut him last week and a playoff contender with a lousy quarterback situation now wants him real bad. (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 and Josh McCown.

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

Last year, when it was clearly obvious to everyone not named “Lovie Smith” that Tampa Bay was out of contention for January games, the Bucs allegedly rebuffed trade offers for wide receiver Vincent Jackson.

It was a smart move.

First, it was forward thinking. (more…)

Jonathan Banks, the Bucs’ 2013 second-round pick.

The popular underwear Olympics kick off this week in Indianapolis, the glorified track meet known as the NFL Scouting Combine.

Joe will be there braving the ridiculously cold temperatures, chatting with Bucs officials, top prospects and various NFL types. (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 and Josh McCown.

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

Big bucks defensive end Michael Johnson delivered four sacks and about five quarters of good football last year.

His play was ghastly, ghostly and soft.  (more…)

Of course, Joe, like many, thought Lovie Smith was settled on using Josh McCown as a bridge quarterback of sorts for Jameis Winston — that McCown would start until Winston was deemed ready to rock and roll. (more…)

Just because you have money, fame and live in a gated community doesn’t mean you are safe.

Just ask Donald Penn.

The former Bucs Pro Bowl left tackle (boy, the Bucs sure could have used a guy like him last year. Oh, wait…) spent a quiet day at his Los Angeles home recently. (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 and Josh McCown.

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

In many ways, Tampa Bay’s 2014 season was more bizarre than the MRSA-infected, quarterback-gone-mental, Fire-Schiano-billboards campaign of 2013.

There were plenty of real Bucs mysteries last year, and Joe’s revisiting the most interesting of the bunch. (more…)

Ask Bucs general manager Jason Licht about the NFL Scouting Combine, which kicks off in Indianapolis next week, and Licht will tell you it’s “underwear Olympics” and he won’t adjust his draft board much based on combine stats.

Lovie Smith is the opposite. (more…)

Joe never dreamed Josh McCown would have been cut like he was — when he was. That’s not to say he shouldn’t have been cut.

When you are the worst starting quarterback in the NFL on the worst team in the NFL, you shouldn’t have job security. (more…)