Not long after landing the Buccaneers general manager job, Jason Licht said one big thing he learned during his years under Bill Belicheat in New England is to be unafraid to move on from a player that underperformed; accept the loss and never look back. (more…)

Remember when Joe talked to former Bucs starting linebacker Jonathan Casillas during Super Bowl week, and Casillas talked about how Mike Glennon definitely should be the Bucs’ quarterback of the future?

Well, Casillas had more to say about inner thoughts of the Bucs’ locker room. (more…)

Without Josh McCown soiling the Tampa Bay roster any longer, Mike Glennon’s NFL stock just shot up fast. (more…)

Good riddance to arguably the worst starting quarterback in Buccaneers history.

Sorry. Josh McCown is a nice guy, but this is football. Unlike McCown, Joe’s not shedding a tear tonight. (more…)

Starting quarterback Josh McCown was released this afternoon by the Bucs.

The Bucs have released starting quarterback Josh McCown.

In a stunning move, the Bucs waved goodbye to turnover-prone Josh McCown today, the club announced this afternoon. Joe will let Buccaneers.com editor Scott Smith offer the details. (more…)

The Bucs became so painful to watch last year, even if Joe was working the game, he was tested. It was bad football, which is expected from a 2-14 team.

Joe can only imagine how awful it was for fans seeking enjoyment. (more…)

No. 78 likely will be on the market when the free agency dinner bell rings in 27 days

Joe’s not in the fairy dust crowd that believes magic dust and fresh air will transform the play of Evan Dietrich-Smith, Logan Mankins and Anthony Collins, and make Demar Doston a good starting NFL left tackle. (more…)

It’s the time of year when hot NFL prospects pay big bucks for private coaching and head to places like IMG Academy in Bradenton to spend every waking hour tuning up their bodies. (more…)

Could Lovie Smith get fired after the 2015 season?

Lots of Bucs fans and analysts think the answer to that question is, “Absolutely.” (more…)

The popular belief of how Team Glazer and the Bucs handle the draft is that Team Glazer simply delegates authority to employees and trusts them to run the draft. And if everything goes as the football operations plans, then Team Glazer toasts the weekend’s efforts with a glass of champagne and begins worrying about training camp. (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…)

Rick Stroud paints a different picture of the feelings inside One Buc Palace

Yesterday, Bucs fans were sent into a full-blown panic when the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, suggested there is rancor within the walls of One Buc Palace regarding what to do with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 draft.

One sect, Florio believes, wants to trade down, and the other wants a quarterback at No. 1. (more…)

Could the Bucs pass on a quarterback (dear, God!) in the draft and turn to brittle Rams QB Sam Bradford?

The suggestion yesterday from the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, that the Bucs braintrust is split over trading down or drafting Jameis Winston nearly sent Joe into a bottle-nursing, fetal-curling, deep, dark depression.

Just thinking the Bucs would pass on two potential franchise quarterbacks again this spring made Joe nearly nauseous.

Combined with passing on four potential signal-callers last year, when that is clearly the biggest hole on the roster, well, that would be simply irresponsible. (more…)

It’s February, but the “JoeBucsFan Hour” with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, is still in midseason form.

There were a few screaming matches this evening. (more…)

Evan Dietrich-Smith was in the center of an unsolved mystery

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…)

Is safety Hawk Goldson worth his salary?

Joe still shakes his head thinking about how Lovie Smith professed his love in training camp for twice-cut cornerback Mike Jenkins, despite fellow healthy corner Johnthan Banks clearly showing as much if not more skill.

Despite Jenkins missing virtually all of training camp and preseason to an injury, Lovie was adamant Jenkins would be his starter opposite Alterraun Verner. (more…)

Since the acid reflux-inducing 2014 season ended, Joe has been able to talk to several scouts and a few NFL front office types. Of course, Joe asked the question, in a roundabout way, the only question that matters to Bucs fans.

(No, not Rachel Watson or Tricia Cusmano.) (more…)

Bucs OC Dirk Koetter explains his three-point offensive philosophy.

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has only been on the job a handful of weeks. Naturally, being the insider multimedia maven Scott Smith is (hey, his office is inside One Buc Palace), he coerced Koetter to cough up insight into his offensive goals.

Koetter described his Holy Trinity of offensive football. (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…)

One of the NFL’s biggest insider voices made a bold statement about the Buccaneers yesterday. (more…)

Stat nerds are big on Austin Seferian-Jenkins for 2015.

Though it is too early for a final grade on the 2014 draft, it sure seems a whole lot of shaky after the Albert Pujols home run of wide receiver Mike Evans.

That guy is another reason to draft Jameis Winston. Why waste years with turnover-prone Josh McCown? (more…)

The NFL’s hottest and most controversial free agent, defensive end Greg Hardy, is a guy with pretty strong opinions.

One of them he shared with Joe last year. (more…)