There goes Jorvorskie Lane

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 over the next 30 days. (more…)

Tony Romo isn’t a Lovie Smith kind of guy

With two games remaining in the 2014 season, Lovie Smith made his famous proclamation, “True football fans can see we’re on the verge.”

He might have been the most confident 2-14 coach in history. (You can read the full quote via the link above). (more…)

The Bucs had a rotten time, for the most part, running the ball last year.

Yeah, Doug Martin was hurt early — so he told Joe after the season. And Bobby Rainey was benched, with some claiming he put the ball on the ground too much, despite not fumbling fumbled since September. (more…)

The great popularity of Joe’s summer countdown feature, Worst Buccaneers Of The Past 10 Years, has spawned a new offseason examination that kicks off tomorrow before the Super Bowl. (more…)

During the Super Bowl Media Day frenzy, Joe talked to Patriots guard Dan Connelly about Logan Mankins’ famous barbecues.

On radio, Joe has talked extensively about the nonsense of the Logan Mankins barbecue chatter but has yet to detail it here.

It was so infuriating that Joe couldn’t write about it without feeling the onset of a seizure. (more…)

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Is Lovie listening?

Truly fantastic interview here that Bucs fans — new and old — will want to see. (more…)

Former Bucs DT Brian Price never recovered fully from a freak injury early in his rookie year.

It is often said, and Joe agrees, that it takes three seasons to fairly assess whether a draft class was any good.

However, in this microwave, DVR-rewind, drive-through age we live in, few want to wait three weeks much less three years for anything. (more…)

Derrick Brooks is putting on the pressure

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…)

LeGarrette Blount talks to Joe at Super Bowl Media Day

LeGarrette Blount is a superstar these days, far removed from the days of Commander Schiano not knowing how to use him.

Now he’s the big, nasty, sometimes misbehaving running back on the AFC Champs playing for a Hall of Fame head coach. (more…)

So how will new Tampa Bay quarterbacks coach Mike Bajakian drill and guide the mind and body of Jameis Winston a shiny new Buccaneers rookie quarterback?

Joe’s got some insight. (more…)

Rodney Harrison of NBC Sports invoked the notorious Ryan Leaf in discussing the Bucs

Yes, Joe brought you the explosive words from Phoenix for Dashon Goldson, delivered by former Chargers and Patriots safety Rodney Harrison. It was blunt and it was passionate and it was not pretty.

But it wasn’t just Goldson that had Harrison’s attention. (more…)

Eagles strongman Chip Kelly would have to trade away his team to get the No. 1 pick from the Bucs.

A segment of misguided Bucs fans really believes the Bucs should trade down in the draft. Really, it’s true.

For reasons Joe cannot grasp, the team is in position to rid itself of the ball and chain that has kept this franchise in the lower reaches for far too many years, and address its most important and glaring need. (more…)

It’s good to be bad sometimes, notes a former Buccaneers quarterback, who says Marcus Arroyo cost the team three or four wins. (more…)

Man, yesterday was a zoo at radio row at the Super Bowl. And Joe learned something: Handlers of every two-bit celebrity (not to mention the real celebrities) DO NOT like reporters.

These suits have no use for reporters. The hired guns treated Joe and others like mosquitoes, swatting at them and shoveling their clients from radio table to radio table. A reporter wanting questions just screws up everything for them. (more…)

Demar Dotson has been an almost average right tackle on an underperforming offensive line for two consecutive seasons.

And now your Tampa Bay Buccaneers want him to shift to left tackle — as he approaches his 30th birthday. (more…)

The dot connecting sect of the Marcus Mariota Gang erupted in glee yesterday when Adam Schefter became the second BSPNer in recent weeks to knight the Oregon quarterback as the first overall pick in April’s draft.

Never mind that Mariota hasn’t been interviewed by the Bucs. Never mind he has a bum shoulder. Never mind he hasn’t had a pro day. Never mind he has never diagrammed a play for the Tampa Bay. Never mind the NFL Scouting Combine is a month away. (more…)

Brett Favre offers an intriguing take

Joe was very intrigued to hear of Brett Favre’s recent commentary on old school Tampa-2 defense.

And, yes, Lovie Smith is running old school Tampa-2. (more…)

Did you miss the JoeBucsFan Hour live on Radio Row in Phoenix, with Joe joining the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620?

Well, Joe’s got it all here. (more…)

Spreadsheeters don’t think the pass blocking of the Bucs was all that horrible.

Joe has stated before he would not be shocked if the Bucs replaced four of their five starting offensive linemen.

Apparently, those who make a living with Excel spreadsheets have other ideas. The nerds over at Pro Football Focus banged out data on pass blocking for every NFL team, and if you think Josh McCown was a garish turnover machine, well, you may be wrong. (more…)

Joe’s not sure of what to make of BSPN super insider Adam Schefter’s latest call on the Bucs’ choice with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft. (more…)

Former Bucs TE Tim Wright, now a member of the Patriots, talked about his days with the Pewter Pirates, some of the most turbulent in franchise history;.

One of Joe’s favorite players is in the Super Bowl this Sunday. Naturally, he’s not playing for the Bucs.

Tight end Tim Wright was used for trade bait to lure he-left-his-heart-in-New England barbecue pitmaster guard Logan Mankins. Since, Wright has continued to develop as a fine NFL player and Mankins is still searching for that elusive spot in Florida for a barbecue. (more…)