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…)

A BSPNer believes LT Anthony Collins should be kept as a reserve lineman, which he was at Cincinnati.

After the Bucs select a quarterback to begin the 2015 NFL draft — if they don’t, they have major, serious ‘splainin’ to do — things get interesting.

The Bucs need help at safety. The Bucs need help at linebacker. Dear God, the Bucs need help at defensive end, and dudes walking around with a white cane can see what a colossal mess the offensive line is. (more…)

Joe stated previously that the Bucs could look to upgrade as many as nine starting positions. If Joe can see that, surely Bucs coach Lovie Smith can see that.

And how that translates into “on the verge,” Joe just can’t quite figure out without the help of Jack Daniels. (more…)

Who could forget the Captain?

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…)

The stat geeks are not impressed with Bucs DE Jacquies Smith.

It just blows Joe’s mind that year after year after year, no matter who runs the show, no matter who the shot-caller is, the Bucs urinate in the wind trying to find an edge rusher.

It is sad the team has yet to retain a replacement for Simeon Rice (who Joe thinks should be under serious consideration for the Pro Football Hall of Fame). For goodness sake, that was nine years ago. (more…)

During the glory years, Bucs fans, and the President, embraced a running back with a bad history.

Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy is a manbeast young Pro Bowl pass rusher who missed nearly all of last season courtesy of the NFL, a result of a North Carolina judge saying he was guilty of misdemeanor domestic abuse. (Chilling and sometimes humorous highlights here.)

But Hardy appealed and demanded a jury trial, and his case was thrown out today. (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…)

Awaken the Mike Glennon Mob!

A man inside the Bucs’ locker room last season weighs in on the ousting of Tampa Bay’s young quarterback. (more…)

Joe just doesn’t get it. The thought drives him out of his mind. The following premise makes zero sense in any way shape or form:

The Bucs should trade back and pass on drafting a quarterback. (more…)

Joe’s somewhat stunned by a new plateau that was reached over the weekend.

As JoeBucsFan.com turned 6 1/2 years old, Joe typed up his 20,000th post on these pages. (more…)

New Bucs OC Dirk Koetter wants a quick mind calling signals.

Bucs fans are trying to play Maxwell Smart to figure out who the Bucs will choose as their next quarterback come April 30 (if Tampa Bay drafts a quarterback).

One reason fans are trying to be sleuths (and the Bucs are doing their best with their own version of Enigma) is there is nothing else going on. (more…)