There is one absolute reason Lovie Smith will return next season. It is because Lovie has done a masterful job developing and managing America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston.

And that great job should not end now. (more…)

Joe doesn’t think the following is outrageous, but some will not believe the following. (more…)

Lovie likes stats, so long as they don’t paint a negative picture.

Get a chance to ask questions of Bucs coach Lovie Smith, and he will have you know he is a new-age coach. He embraces football analytics. (more…)

Lovie — and the numbers — speak.

Numbers don’t lie when it comes to how much a player gets on the field compared to his teammates at the same position. (more…)

The GM sounds off

The Bucs have a couple of superstars on defense, but Jason Licht says only one of them is the best of the best. (more…)

How brutal has it been for Bucs fans the past five years? Losing is expected. Thanksgiving draft talk is the norm. Hope is fleeting if not hopeless. (more…)

Bucs cannot let OC Dirk Koetter escape.

Right now the most important employee of Team Glazer after rising star AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht (he of the grand slam) is offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter. (more…)

OLB Danny Lansanah didn’t register one play yesterday.

The following sentence is both a damning sword and an uplifting thought: The Bucs terribly missed rookie middle linebacker Kwon Alexander. (more…)

A former Bucs teammate of Jameis Winston talks Jameis.(Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Joe has admitted his minor obsession with Bears right guard Patrick Omameh, the guy who started 16 games at right guard for the Bucs last year only to be told this offseason that he couldn’t play the position. (more…)

Jason Licht speaks

Though the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have left a nasty skid mark on this season by losing to the lousy Saints, Rams and Bears these past few weeks, general manager Jason Licht is brimming with confidence. (more…)

Joe’s not going to act like a fool and start blubbering about how the Cover-2/Tampa-2 philosophy is dead. It’s not. (See Panthers)

However, the Lovie Smith/Rod Marinelli brand is having serious issues. The data is overwhelming. (more…)

Brace for the spin

Prepare yourself to hear a statistic this offseason that will make you take a hammer to your midsection. (more…)

OK, so after two years this much is clear: For whatever reason, Lovie Smith and/or his staff cannot coach up cornerbacks. The evidence is too clear. (more…)

Lovie’s best friend right now is Bucs OC Dirk Koetter.

Earlier this year, when the Bucs started terribly, Joe openly wondered how Lovie Smith was going to save his job. Oh, there was time to turn things around, but limited time. (more…)

CB Alterraun Verner understands what soon may be his Bucs fate

When the Bucs signed Alterraun Verner to essentially replace Darrelle Revis in early 2014, both the Bucs and Verner were riding high. (more…)

This Bucs season just got a few hours longer. (more…)

Losing has its privilege.

Yes, there is a silver lining from the deuce the Bucs took on their home turf this afternoon. (more…)

The Bucs will get one heck of an honest test next Sunday. The Panthers still haven’t locked up the No. 1 seed in the NFC. (more…)

Over in Jacksonville, Jaguars fans screamed for head coach Gus Bradley’s head after last year’s 3-13 finish with a rookie quarterback in 2014.

They bellyached that Bradley should be fired for two consecutive ugly seasons. (more…)

Lovie was surprised.

Nope, nope, nope. The Bucs were not surprised by anything the Bears did, offense or on defense. That’s what the Bucs told Joe repeatedly in the locker room. (more…)

Some folks need counseling.

As Bobby Bowden might have said, “Why, people have plumb lost their dang-gum minds.”

Joe was actually getting Twitters late in the game today claiming the problem with the Bucs is not the sieve of a secondary in Lovie Smith’s defense, is not impotent pass rush, is not the chronic dropsies of Bucs receivers. (more…)

Joe has written many times that coincidences are as rare as Joe getting invited to pool parties by hot women.

(Yeah, it happens once every decade.) (more…)