Mankins made a move

Joe’s trained reporter eye looks for all the details.

And Joe finds this one telling from yesterday’s victorious locker room scene. (more…)

Team still with him.

It is easy to wonder if the message is getting through.

Lovie Smith, who seized defensive coordinator duties prior to the season, is in charge of a defense that is so frightening, Kirk Herbstreit would be unable to watch. (more…)

Joe saw Lovie step out of character during the final two-minute warning.

Joe already applauded Lovie Smith for going for the win on 4th-and-1 with two minutes remaining in regulation yesterday.

It was the right time for a gutsy and intelligent decision, but the call itself, and circumstances surrounding it, appeared sloppy. (more…)

Bucs coach Lovie Smith addresses his team just after the overtime upset over Atlanta. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Welcome to Victory Monday, Bucs fans.

No, the Bucs are not a perfect team. Far from it. But they are back in the playoff race. (more…)

No trade talks. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Though it was sort of a cool baseball-type, hot-stove-league kind of thought to trade Doug Martin to a contender only to pocket a draft pick and then re-sign him in the offseason, that apparently is just bar room chatter. (more…)

Time to call the cleaners, again.

The tradition continues. (more…)

Photo Courtesy Of Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Sitting in the Georgia Dome press box today, Joe could have screamed horrific insults at the guy next to him and they wouldn’t have been heard.

That’s how loud it was at times, certainly through the fourth quarter and overtime. (more…)

A matter of seconds after Jameis Winston threw his big third-quarter touchdown pass to Cameron Brate, this is what America’s Quarterback was doing.

Throughout the Bucs’ long offseason, Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, spent countless hours poring over film of Matt Ryan operating Dirk Koetter’s offense, when the duo were paired up last year in Atlanta. (more…)

Nothing crazy here.

Joe’s just sharing the scene in the Bucs’ postgame locker room. Starting defensive end Jacquies Smith had his left foot in a walking boot after the game. He was walking gingerly and it looked like something more than precautionary.

The Bucs typically update injuries on Wednesdays.

You better believe it, Bucs fans.

When you’re 3-4 and 2-1 in the division, and playing in a weak conference, you’re in the playoff hunt. (more…)

The way Atlanta WR Julio Jones and RB Devonta Freeman ran through the Bucs defense without breaking a sweat is a slap in the face to any sober NFL fan.

Yes, the win was thrilling. But let’s not let the lipstick hide the pig.

Or for that matter, the hog shat that is the Bucs’ defense. (more…)

The Bucs learned yesterday that Kwon Alexander’s teenage brother died

Saturday morning, the Bucs learned that Kwon Alexander’s teenage brother died earlier in the week. (more…)

Playing with limited weapons, America’s Quarterback was not fazed. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

It didn’t look good for America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston. He began the game without three of his top four targets. (more…)

Joe applauds the newly aggressive Lovie Smith.

Joe gets all sorts of feedback from angry Bucs fans that Lovie Smith is such a turtle some wonder whether he lives at the Clearwater Aquarium next door to Winter the Dolphin. (more…)

Tosses props to teammates.

Want to know why the Bucs were so giddy about getting America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston?

Consider the very first words out of his mouth when interviewed on the postgame show heard on the Buccaneers Radio Network. (more…)

Whatever you think about the Bucs right now, it’s undeniable that there is some wizardry at play in the Tampa Bay front office.

Seven games into the NFL season, and the Bucs have three legitimate Rookie of the Year candidates. (more…)

Finally!

The GMC haters were out in full force. And for a change, Joe was about to jump on the bandwagon.

The self-proclaimed leader of one of the most putrid defenses Joe has ever seen, a guy who readily and openly admits the only season in the NFL he didn’t have fun was the lone season he was part of a winning football team, was totally invisible in the second half today. (more…)