Joe’s identified one of a few stains on Kevin O’Dea’s special teams

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…)

So what was Seahawks general manager Jon Schneider doing six days before the Super Bowl?

He was studying guys like Da’Quan Bowers. (more…)

Mock drafts annoy Joe only a little bit less than warm beer, overcooked fish and the Bucs calling timeout in Detroit before their first snap of the third quarter.

But some mock drafts are worthwhile. (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…)

Jim Miller of SiriusXM NFL Radio explains solid offensive linemen will be drafted after Day 1.

The biggest argument the Woody Hayes disciples offer for trading the first overall pick (and passing on a quarterback. UH-gen!) is that the Bucs’ offensive line is such a miserable lot.

No argument there.

Gutting an allegedly overrated offensive line last offseason probably turned out to be the biggest blunder the Bucs made all last year. (more…)

Just how thin is the ice under ghostly Bucs DE Michael Johnson?

Joe will never forget regularly typing up highlights of training camp practices last summer and getting berated for not including Bucs defensive end Michael Johnson.

Well, to have a highlight you have to make a highlight. (more…)

No, Joe is not a deranged hater. Joe is not dancing with glee because Johnny Football is seeking help to become the best he can be at the NFL level.

The mental patients who celebrate this are the ones who truly need counseling, if not institutionalization themselves.

(So too did Brett Favre seek treatment. How many of you psychopaths were high-fiving over his problems? Buncha animals.) (more…)

Now here’s something that might catch the eye of Team Glazer. (more…)

One of the worst losses in Bucs history led to this glorious moment.

Joe can almost sympathize with Seahawks fans. It’s easy to respect the hell out of Bill Belicheat and Tom Brady, but if that team lost every game for the next decade, Joe would offer a toast.

As sunken of a feeling Joe had watching the Patriots win, folks must be downright suicidal in Seattle.

Joe all too well remembers Don Denkinger. Nearly 30 years later, he still haunts Joe. (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…)

A popular thought is good NFL teams have owners that stay out of football operations and decisions.

Those who believe that might want to hear what back-to-back NFC champion general manager John Schneider told Joe last week. (more…)

Bucs OC Dirk Koetter doesn’t believe there is a perfect offense

Joe isn’t sure how many of his readers watched the Bill Walsh documentary that aired recently on the man’s channel, NFL Network, but it was riveting if not eye-opening.

It also helped one decipher exactly why the Bucs offense blew up like someone rolled a hand grenade into a china shop when former offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford grew ill. (more…)

A key cause of Joe Flacco’s five TD throws in a record 17 minutes.

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…)

Former NFL QB and current SiriusXM NFL Radio host Jim Miller.

If there is a better football show available to a fans’ ears than “Movin’ the Chains,” heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio during afternoon drivetime, Joe has not heard it.

Co-hosts Jim Miller, a former NFL quarterback for the Steelers and Bears, and Pat Kirwan, a former linebackers coach and front office executive for the Jets, are music to football fan’s ears. They bring unmatched insight from the football field, the locker room and the front office. (more…)

Bucs fans will hang their heads in shame for the next two years (at least), if the team does not address the QB chasm on April 30.

After the Bucs were alley-beaten by the Dixie Chicks — on national TV no less — and chain-whipped by the Crows, Bucs fans had checked out.

The only thing exciting at that point was the season ending and, in particular, winning the Chase for Jameis. (more…)

Was Bucs QB Mike Glennon hung out to dry last year?

Joe mentioned in his “Top 30 Buccaneers Mysteries Of 2014” that it was awfully suspicious that the quarterback of the future and quarterback of the past but not the quarterback of the present, Mike Glennon, was benched.

Remember, it was Glennon, not turnover-prone Josh McCown, who rallied Tampa Bay at Heinz Field to beat the playoff-bound Steelers for half of the Bucs’ wins last year. (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…)

Bucs OC Dirk Koetter

Though NFL drama pushed the transaction off the front page of Bucs news, Tampa Bay fans should be excited about new offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.

With Jameis Winston on board, Koetter can mold him the way molded Matty Ice. Joe knows Bucs fans grumble that Matty Ice is overrated, but compared to Josh McCown, Matty Ice is Dan Marino. (more…)

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…)

Legions of NFL insiders were all over Tampa Bay last summer. They were talking playoffs and about how the Bucs could be the 2013 version of the Chiefs. (more…)

Questions about their influence reach a national stage

You and Joe know the Bucs need a quarterback. Hell, Stevie Wonder can see the Bucs need a quarterback.

The only folks who don’t think so are the few Woody Hayes disciples who have yet to be thinned out by evolution.

You know the kind. They’re like the Japanese soldiers who took to the jungles of the South Pacific in the final weeks of World War II only to be found 30 years later thinking the war was still on. (more…)