Bucs fans are doing way too much reading between the lines to figure out the future.

Tampa Bay fans are eager for their team to rise from the ashes like a phoenix to burn the NFL next year.

Despite playing a lot of close games, the Bucs are a long, long, long way from being a good team. Way too many holes, including the most important, quarterback. (more…)

Sorry Hawk lovers, but Dashon Goldson won’t be back with the Buccaneers, barring a heck of a contract restructuring. (more…)

Bucs icon Chucky, the self-proclaimed quarterbacks guru, is all pumped up for his annual made-for-TV quarterbacks camp on BSPN. (more…)

Spreadsheeters were not overly impressed with Bucs OLB Lavonte David in 2014.

Joe brought word last week that stud outside linebacker Lavonte David was trying to get both his name and likeness out there for deserved recognition.

In fact, David is going to the Valley of the Sun this week to press flesh with NFL movers and shakers, and likely take a trip through radio row, and the makeshift studios of the NFL Network, Fox Sports 1 and BSPN, as well. (more…)

Seahawks DE Michael Bennett — who the Bucs let walk away for no good reason — ride’s a cop’s bike in glee after defeating the Packers in the NFC title game last week. Joe hopes to talk to him tomorrow.

As you are reading this here corner of the interwebs, Joe is en route to Tampa International Airport where he will board a plane for the Valley of the Sun and Phoenix, as Joe makes his annual trip to Super Bowl Media Day.

Joe will be in downtown Phoenix (no, the event will not be held at the birdcage the Cardinals call home in Glendale, due west of Phoenix) to catch all the hoopla, hysteria and, yes, hotties flaunting their wares at media day. (more…)

A report on new Bucs quarterbacks coach Mike Bajakian is interesting but misleading. (more…)

Joe knows the Bucs-junkie audience here is drooling for any juicy piece of Bucs insight on this football-free Sunday.

No, the Pro Bowl isn’t football, and no Buccaneer is playing anyway. (more…)

Somehow, Bucs TE Kellen Winslow got called for pass interference on this touchdown play, which cost the Bucs a playoff berth and changed NFL history.

The NFL loves controversy. And controversy equals drama, and the NFL loves, loves, loves drama.

Fans slam their fists on bars and claim they hate drama, but no, fans love drama. Nothing gets eyeballs to the NFL like drama.

The ball-fondling in New England? Perfect timing. Perfect! (more…)

Catching a football in his rookie year was more the exception than the norm for WR Robert Herron.

Joe knows in the fast-food, drive-up, Twitter, instant-everything world we live in, fans cannot rest until they see a draft grade in the waning minutes of a team’s spring draft. Bucs fans are no different.

Joe always believes it is unfair to grade a draft until three years have passed. By that time, it is clear what a player is or can be. (more…)

Are the Bucs leaning towards drafting University of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota?

A former college QB and a leading FOX analyst says look closely. (more…)

The ol’ ball coach appears to have found himself a new job, a better one than serving as Redskins’ defensive backs coach under a wacky coordinator. (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…)

Mike Evans offers thoughts on who should win NFL “Rookie of the Year” and who the Bucs should draft at No. 1.

Just about the only bright spot at the Den of Depression, other than gawking at Bucs cheerleader Tricia Cusmano, was the play of rookie receiver Mike Evans.

The rest of the team? It was only slightly better than watching a Bucs fan in the men’s room heave up his tailgating brunch after throwing down too many not-so-cold-beers-turned-warm, compounded by witnessing Josh McCown’s garish turnovers. That’s a toxic blend. (more…)

New Bucs QB coach Mike Bajakian isn’t just a spread-option guy, his star pupil said.

Moments after the hiring became official, new Bucs quarterbacks coach Mike Bajakian was already labeled, and maybe a bit prematurely. (more…)

There is no way to be polite about this without shameless spinning. Michael Koenen’s punting last year was horrible.

When a team sinks to the worst record in the NFL, fans nitpick every little thing that went wrong. And when a team has the worst record in football, that team gives fans tons of reasons to nitpick.

One area — surely not the lone area — Bucs fans grumbled about was special teams. (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…)

More light was shed yesterday on the relaxed management style of Tampa Bay head coach Lovie Smith. (more…)

Are the Bucs ready to handle a high-maintenance draft pick?

That’s a damn good question. (more…)

A former Buccaneer weighs in on new Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter

For years in Chicago, Lovie Smith tried to turn All-World returner Devin Hester into a premier wide receiver.

The experiment failed. (more…)

Is LB Danny Lansanah a rising player?

It’s hard to find something positive about the Bucs’ last year. The team stunk up the joint (but did win the Chase for Jameis).

Oh, there was rookie wide receiver Mike Evans. After that? Well, trying to find another positive is sort of like Joe staring at an empty beer bottle after last call. (more…)

In what turned out to be his final game, Jeff Tedford thought he had the offense right on track.

Though the Bucs now have a new offensive coordinator and a new quarterbacks coach, Joe thought he would give readers one last peek into his interview with former OC Jeff Tedford last week.

If Bucs fans haven’t quite washed away memories of 2014 with their favorite brand of bourbon, they’d remember that after a couple of horrific offensive performances in the preseason, the Bucs’ offense looked sharp in the third preseason game at Buffalo. (more…)

The Bucs announced the hiring of Mike Bajakian as their new QB coach.

What was rumored earlier today is now fact. The Bucs have a new quarterbacks coach and his name is Mike Bajakian, by way of the University of Tennessee. (more…)