Watching the Seahawks and the Patriots in the Super Bowl made it really, really, really difficult to comprehend the Bucs being on the greatest stage in sports within the next five years.

Look, when you are in the basement of the worst division in the NFL, when the division winner had a losing record, and you haven’t won a division game since the words “Bucs” and “Schiano” were used in the same sentence, you are not just a bad team, you are brutal. (more…)

Leaky Sean Glennon

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…)

Fired.

Joe isn’t sure if former Bucs great and Pro Football Hall of Famer Warren Sapp has bailed himself out of an Arizona jail yet. If he hasn’t, he is in for a rude awakening when he hits the street. (more…)

Hall of Famer Michael Irvin checks in with Joe

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…)

Pro Football Hall of Famer and Bucs great Warren Sapp had an eventful time in Phoenix during Super Bowl Week. Apparently, too eventful.

Per TMZ.com, Sapp was pinched in Phoenix for soliciting a woman of the evening. The site has all the details. (more…)

Before last night’s Super Bowl, Seahawks guard James Carpenter had started 40+ NFL games over his first four seasons.

So he’s got a feel for tough guys in the NFL trenches. (more…)

Joe’s been hammering barbecue-venue-challenged Logan Mankins lately.

The Bucs have a big decision ahead of them, whether to pay the declining veteran guard about $7 million next season. (more…)

Joe’s already fired up. There’s no doubt the Bucs will be shopping for bodies on March 10, when the free agency dinner bell rings that Tuesday afternoon.

The only real question is whether or not Tampa Bay will be discount shopping. “Value” is the buzz word from the Bucs’ front office.

As always, stick with Joe all month long for all kinds of angles on free agency. Joe’s already taken a look at Bengals guards Clint Boling and James Carpenter, among others.

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter

The Super Bowl is over and the New England Schianos were victorious, but Joe still has all kinds of Bucs-related goodies to share from his journey to Phoenix.

The latest comes from a four-time Pro Bowl quarterback who is a big fan of new Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter. (more…)

The “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune, left, with Chris “Mad Dog” Russo from the SiriusXM stage at Radio Row in Phoenix.

On Thursday, Adam Schefter of BSPN floated the notion the Bucs were narrowing their quarterback search to Marcus Mariota of Oregon with the No. 1 overall pick.

That got the attention of the “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune. (more…)

Looking at the downtown Phoenix skyline from inside the Phoenix Convention Center, the epicenter of Super Bowl activities.

Joe usually does this after he returns from a work trip, give a quick recap of his stay in a strange land. Joe’s notes from Phoenix continue the tradition. (more…)

Was the hiring of Mike Bajakian as Bucs QB coach a good hire?

One could argue the Bucs’ season went down the drain the day former offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford had a heart issue. That meant ill-suited quarterbacks coach Marcus Arroyo, who may have been over his head as a quarterback coach in the NFL given his zero experience in the league, was suddenly thrust into running the offense.

This flashes back to the Bucs’ recent hire of Mike Bajakian as quarterbacks coach, a guy with scant NFL experience but seemed to be an up-and-comer as a quarterbacks coach in college. (more…)

Ahh, nothing like watching a couple of great football teams. This won’t be a typical Bucs game this evening.

Joe’s got a hard time envisioning Seattle getting beat by the New England Schianos.

Joe doesn’t expect the Patriots to be able to run the ball effectively. However, Joe does expect big plays out of the Patriots defense, and they have what Tampa Bay doesn’t — a winner at quarterback.

Should be a fun one. Bang your comments all game long right here.

Al Michaels calls tonight’s Super Bowl

Among the heavy hitters Joe spoke with in his days in Phoenix lsst week was arguably the greatest broadcaster walking the face of the earth. That would be Al Michaels.

What hasn’t this guy called?

From the “Miracle on Ice” to World Series to college football and the NFL, Michaels’ resume is astounding. He could make a broadcast of a guy mowing his backyard sound exciting. (more…)

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…)