Lavonte David talks to Joe

Tampa Bay defensive co-captain Lavonte David was one surprised dude yesterday right before the Giants-Bucs game. (more…)

Mike Evans talks blue

Anyone at the Den of Depression yesterday saw a sea of Giants fans greater than the overflow at the Buccaneers’ last playoff game following the 2007 season.

Disgusting. (more…)

“Hey Jude” made his first NFL start. Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Joe’s not all negative on the Bucs like other media. Joe loves celebrating success, such as the undrafted rookie starting at cornerback yesterday. (more…)

Harsh words for Gerald McCoy from the sports duo of WFLA-TV.

Look, Joe is a Gerald McCoy defender. The guy almost always has been cooperative and forthright after ugly. While GMC may not be a great player, he is a good player. There is no sin in that. (more…)

(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Well, you can’t pin yesterday’s loss on Lovie Smith’s defense.

For the first time since New Orleans, the Bucs’ defense actually, sort of, kind of came to play. A pick on the game’s first play. A forced punt (remember what those were?). No, the defense didn’t cough away the game. (more…)

Worst day by an NFL receiver in years.

Watching Mike Evans drop pass after pass after pass after pass from America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, Joe could hear mean grumblings about former Bucs hands of stone receiver Michael Clayton. (more…)

No wonder Lovie Smith was so in love with Jeff Demps last spring. Speed cost him again today.

Speed is not the Bucs’ thing. It’s a recurring issue that’s very likely cost Tampa Bay games — two this year, including one today. (more…)

Strong game today.

Until today, one could say Doug Martin was the gas that fueled the Bucs’ offensive engine. Not today.

Giants linebackers did a helluva job plugging holes and holding Martin to a paltry 31 yards. But his backup, Charles Sims, continued to improve. (more…)

As many penalties as tackles today.

Joe is a Gerald McCoy defender. But Joe also must share what he is seeing, even if he wants to not believe what he is seeing.

And what Joe is seeing from Gerald McCoy of late is painful to watch. The past three games, GMC is playing a helluva lot more like Ghost Johnson than like a Pro Bowler. (more…)

Halfway through the NFL season the Bucs have yet to execute the “we’ll clean it up” Lovie Smith keeps talking about when it comes to penalties. (more…)

James said blame him for red zone woes.

Losing another game within their grasp, it would be easy for the Bucs to point fingers. Too easy.

There were drops by Mike Evans. There was a terrible drop by Doug Martin that likely would have been six points. There was Gerald McCoy pretending to be Ghost Johnson and stomping out of the locker room nearly running over two TV camera crews. (more…)

What was Dirk Koetter thinking?

Joe must nitpick here because it’s the kind of decision that will drive Joe to the Valium bottle after midnight.

Why did the Bucs decide to give Bobby Rainey his first carry since opening day on a critical fourth-quarter drive? (more…)

Bucs DT Akeem Spence said he was blasted in the grill and reacted when flagged late in the game.

The Bucs were clinging to hope. They had just kicked a field goal with 7:24 left to come within 23-18.

If the Bucs could hold the Giants on the next possession, it would set Tampa Bay up for a potential winning touchdown drive. (more…)

Evan Smith was thrust into guard today and talked to Joe about it.

Joe has fired plenty of daggers at former starting center Evan (Dietrich) Smith, many for his ridiculous attitude toward Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, this spring.

But Smith deserves plenty of love today. (more…)

Joe is about fed up with Mike Evans’ NBA-like whining on every friggin’ pass he doesn’t catch.

Mike, you are NOT interfered with on every play! Stop it! Stop it now! (more…)

Rain-slick balls foiled Mike Evans

Mike Evans stood tall before the media in the grumpy Bucs locker room this evening and talked about his dropped balls against the Giants

All four of them. (more…)

A couple of big-name Bucs handled todays’ frustrating defeat and their respective rough outings in different but very similar ways. (more…)

Michael Clayton is alive and well, but his ghost is clearly hard at work on wide receiver Mike Evans.

The Twitter jokes already are flowing that Jason Pierre-Paul has better hands than the Bucs’ second-year wide receiver. (more…)

Sterling Moore broke a dubious Bucs streak. (Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)

Hats off to Lovie Smith for shaking up the Bucs’ sour cornerback play.

Lovie stunned Tampa Bay fans by starting Sterling Moore and Jude Adjei-Barimah. (more…)

The red zone was the dead zone.

Simple as that, as Lovie Smith likes to say. Tampa Bay could not execute and settled for field goals repeatedly. (more…)

Can the Bucs start a Wild Card berth run with a win against the Giants?

All playoff hopes will be dashed if they can’t. The Bucs defense has to find a way to be at least decent.

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Game Eight

Giants (4-4) at Bucs (3-4)

Kickoff: 4:05 p.m. (more…)