Will Bucs be “flat” for the third consecutive game? Joe will blow a gasket if that’s the case.

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He’s back!

Demar Dotson is back in the starting lineup today at right tackle, per Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com. Gosder Cherilus will sit but officially is active.

The following guys are ruled out the home finale of the 2015 season. (more…)

Game 15

Bears (5-9) at Bucs (6-8)

Kickoff: 1 p.m. (more…)

Gerald McCoy says his head coach is extraordinarily hungry

Man, Joe can’t wait to see if the Bucs show up today and come out with a fire for their allegedly beloved head coach, in addition to the legions of suffering Bucs fans. (more…)

Last Bucs home game?

On one hand, Joe suspects massive change is coming to the Bucs’ secondary. With plenty of cap money and, of course, the draft, the secondary very well could be overhauled for 2016. (more…)

Jameis picking the brains of Bears coaches sold them on America’s Quarterback.

Months ago, when America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was still working the wrinkles out of his Bucs practice jersey during rookie minicamp, Joe brought word that Jameis had a sitdown with cornerback Stephon Morris, who was a Bucs tryout player formerly with the Belicheats. (more…)

The Buccaneers’ rookie running back lighting it up in 2013, Mike James, largely has been an invisible man in Tampa ever since. (more…)

You want to smile out there tomorrow in the sweltering winter sun surrounded by tens of thousands of Bears fans? (more…)

Teddy Bridgewater torched the Bears for four touchdowns last weekend. A noted national voice and former team executive believes Chicago has mailed in its season.

So how bad are the Bears? (more…)

You asked for it, you got it. It’s the TV map for tomorrow’s game between the Bears and the Bucs, a 1 p.m. kickoff at the Den of Depression. (more…)

America’s Quarterback has Peyton Manning-like numbers.

Joe remembers back at the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine, when rumors and chatter ran rampant among the hundreds of reporters, radio types and TV talking heads all cocooned in Lucas Oil Stadium in sub-Arctic Indianapolis.

Word was America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was acing all of his tests and interviews with flying colors. (more…)

Atop Bears injury report.

The toasty Bucs secondary, not exactly comparable to the 1981 49ers, got a bit of a break on Christmas when NFL teams released their final injury reports of the week. (more…)

Mike Glennon is the sixth-best quarterback in the NFC South, just behind former Pro Bowler and renowned Bucs killer Derek Anderson.

But take a look at the mess of QBs expected to start in Week 16: (more…)

Lifesaver?

You know it is a big game — even if both the Bears and the Bucs are out of the playoffs — when a beat reporter who covers the visiting team spends the preceding week in Tampa writing advance stories. (more…)

Few football fans don’t like watching a roadgrading offensive lineman who freight trains would-be tacklers. (more…)

A star ex-linebacker weighs in. (Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

You think Lavonte David got screwed again by no Pro Bowl selection for the fourth consecutive year?

Well, a former outside linebacker who might have been screwed out of pineapple eight times has weighed in. (more…)

What does Lovie want?

Who is the real Santa Claus at One Buc Palace when it comes to the NFL Draft?

Who’s placing gifts under the Tampa Bay tree in late April? (more…)