Dealing with the crowd noise at Death Valley and the well-oiled Cajuns at the Superdome are a bit different.

So now that America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, has his first home game under his belt, it is on to bigger challenges. That would be a road game. (more…)

Joe dove into the steel cage this evening with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620.

There was plenty of hollering and passionate debate. (more…)

America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, had a busy offseason. (more…)

Joe’s known for his addiction to SiriusXM NFL Radio, and Joe fed that addiction this afternoon listening to former Super Bowl quarterback Rich Gannon talk about Marcus Mariota. (more…)

Bucs OC Dirk Koetter was in no mood to hand out empty praise today.

Dirk Koetter could turn out to be the second coming of Jeff Jagodzinski for all Joe cares, and Joe already is smitten with the Bucs’ offensive coordinator.

When asked a question, any type of question, Koetter has no filters. (more…)

Lollipop snaps to America’s Quarterback are a new problem.

Joe got this a lot since the Titanic loss to the Titans Sunday.

And that was feedback from fans about the snaps of Bucs veteran center Evan (nee: Dietrich-) Smith. (more…)

Jameis Winston was a quote machine this afternoon.

The Tennessee Titans aren’t the University of Pittsburgh and Oklahoma State, the last two opening day opponents of Florida State University. (more…)

New Bucs right tackle Gosder Cherilus had a rough day

Back in preseason, offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter spoke following the beating by the Browns and said, “We stunk.”

Today, he sang a similar tune at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Has Lovie painted himself into a corner?

Joe just has to link to an article that used the word “plague” in the second paragraph when it comes to the current miserable state of the Bucs.

And who else to use such a word than hand-grenade-tosser, ornery Alan Dell of the Bradenton Herald. (more…)

Lovie might be unhappy with Trent Dilfer this morning

Trent Dilfer was left scratching his head after watching what he called a “benign,” misguided defensive game plan to thwart Marcus Mariota and the Tennessee Titans. (more…)

Buried in the soul-sucking Bucs loss to the Titans was a pivotal screwup on special teams that was a real points-stealing, momentum killer.

Yes, Joe has tortured himself by re-watching the game and studying it frame-by-frame. (more…)

Yesterday, Lavonte David identified one problem with the Bucs’ defense.

And it wasn’t their mental collapse with 59 1/2 minutes to play. (more…)

Jameis wasted little time Sunday breaking down film. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

A lot of fans scoffed when Lovie Smith aid it was just one game, after his defense was pistol-whipped (again) Sunday, this time by a rookie quarterback making his NFL debut.

Lovie was right. It is just one loss in the first game of the season. (more…)

Former Bucs commander Greg Schiano offers his two cents on his former team.

Through 17 games under Lovie Smith, it is easy to argue the previous Bucs administration under former commander Greg Schiano had more success. (more…)

Joe likes to call the first Monday after the NFL season-opening weekend, “Overreation Monday.”

Fans, and sometimes media types, often take the result of the first game over the edge whether it is good or bad. (more…)

There’s a damning report on Lovie Smith’s defense from one of the more respected NFL analysts going. And that would be Mike Tanier of FootballOutsiders.com.

Joe has met (and had beers with) Tanier a few times, and though Tanier, a former math teacher (a cursed profession of masochists if there ever was one), decided to go the stat geek route, what Joe loves about Tanier is his common-sense approach with stats. (more…)

Sunday’s brutal loss is eating Joe’s core.

And the explanations for the debacle are making things a lot tougher. (more…)

As Joe tries to transport from planet gloom and doom, Joe is aided by a film look at rookie right guard Ali Marpet. (more…)

Titans WR Kendall Wright doesn’t think much of Lovie Smith’s defense.

Very damning words from Titans wide receiver Kendall Wright about Bucs coach Lovie Smith’s defense, or Lovie’s gameplan against the Titans, whichever you prefer.

In a story typed by Jenny Vrentas of theMMQB.com, she spoke with Wright after the game about how the Titans chain-whipped the Bucs so badly at the Den of Depression, as if the Bucs defense was too busy gawking at cheerleaders. (more…)

There was a constant through the endless Bucs training camp practices: rookie guard Ali Marpet got noticed, grinding play after play to the final whistle.

Yeah, Marpet was seen getting schooled — see Browns preseason game for more of that — but Marpet showed the talent and drive to be a winner. (more…)

Veteran sports columnist Gary Shelton chimes in.

Bucs fans were galled at the Den of Depression by what they witnessed Sunday.

It will take months — years? — of expensive therapy to somehow deal with that embarrassing display of defensive football, a defense whose charges were allegedly prepared (coughcoughcough) by a defensive mind. (more…)

The doormat of the NFL last season with a division winner under .500, the NFC South is back in a big way after Week 1. (more…)