Could second place really be the situation in three short hours?

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Starting right tackle Gosder Cherilus will join Gerald McCoy in street clothes.

Starting right tackle Gosder Cherilus takes a seat today, along with Gerald McCoy. (more…)

Game 12

Dixie Chicks (6-5) at Bucs (5-6)

Kickoff: 1 p.m. (more…)

Has Lovie’s bromance with CB Mike Jenkins come to an end?

The secondary of the Bucs, specifically the cornerbacks, struggled terribly after Johnthan Banks hurt his knee in a loss at Houston. (more…)

Smooth-talking Ronnie Lane of WDAE-AM 620 has his weekly sitdown with Joe talkin’ Bucs.

It is Joe’s weekly sitdown with smooth-talking Ronnie Lane of WDAE-AM 620. Joe knows you can’t live without it. (more…)

Austin Seferian-Jenkins (right) will play in his 12th career game today.

It’s 6 a.m. and Joe’s morning film study and oatmeal inhalation is interrupted by what seems to be impossible news. (more…)

Yes, Joe was on ESPN Tallahassee radio earlier this week talking Bucs with Jeff Cameron, he of “The Jeff Cameron Show.”

Joe has long been a fan of Cameron, a St. Pete native who puts together damned good radio. (more…)

Physically limited in practice Friday. National report emerges.

Updated: 5:45 a.m.: Well, Gerald McCoy was listed as “doubtful” on the Bucs’ injury report Friday, after having what GMC deemed a “small procedure” on his left hand. (more…)

V-Jax details rookie torture and huddle dancing

So much for Vincent Jackson being a robotic and rather stoic workaholic, a man whose military upbringing let him fit right in with Greg Schiano and have a Pro Bowl season in 2012. (more…)

You asked for it, you got it. It’s the TV map for tomorrow’s game between the Dixie Chicks and the Bucs, a 1 p.m. kickoff at the Den of Depression. (more…)

The Bucs will be flush with a pile of cash they have to spend

A fun March is coming to Tampa. (more…)

This can’t happen again

You want a good feel for Falcons football? When Atlanta comfortably marched up and down the field on the Bucs last month, Julio Jones caught 12 balls on 13 targets for 162 yards and a touchdown.

Their next busiest wide receiver caught two balls for 24 yards. (more…)

Stat geeks rate CB Sterling Moore best of the Bucs, but not that high.

Yes, regular readers understand Joe has serious reservations about the stat nerds over at Pro Football Focus.

Hey, if they want to do missed tackles and dropped passes, fine. When they start grading players is when the whole operation runs off the tracks. (more…)

Leading a turnaround.

Just looking at the top teams in third down conversion, Joe did a bit of a double-take. The Bucs are No. 10. (more…)

The Falcons sport the NFL’s fourth-ranked offense and ninth-ranked defense, yet they’re struggling mightily. (more…)

“Doubtful” for Sunday.

Bucs fans who holler about the rotation on the defensive front may get their wish to stop the rotation. Because the Bucs may run out of players to rotate. (more…)

Cleared for contact by Bucs’ medical staff.

Joe knows after the false alarms and teasing of the past month or so, it is dubious to type the following words, but here goes: Bucs tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins may play Sunday. (more…)

This sure puts an interesting twist on Sunday’s critical Bucs-Falcons game. (more…)

Logan Mankins has a gushing fan that might surprise you

A prime member of the new breed of Buccaneers was caught bowing to the old guard yesterday. (more…)

Joe doesn’t know how to act. The Bucs are playing a meaningful game in December. Should Joe break out the Crown Royal or stick with Jack? (more…)