Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.

We’ve heard this one before. Bucs fans can only hope to have similar results. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Success breeds confidence.

That was a topic Joe hit general manager Jason Licht with during a chat under the sunny Phoenix skies last week. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Joe is not usually a trade-down kind of guy. If you want a guy, go get him, don’t invite disaster by waiting. (more…)

Team Glazer

Patience can be elusive among NFL fans, and certainly among Bucs fans. (more…)

Penn State safety Ji’Ayir Brown.

This guy sort of sounds like the second coming of Antoine Winfield. (more…)

“Nothing, crusty, old school or predictable about this guy, Jason. Dennis Allen will have night sweats.”

Joe already shared the declaration, “I love Russell Gage,” from new Buccaneers offensive coordinator Dave Canales.

Turns out it was part of his overall sales pitch from Day 1 at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer.

Joe doesn’t try to pull teeth from Team Glazer to get their stance on various ownership issues at the NFL Annual Meeting (nee: owners meetings) because, those issues are usually boring as hell. (more…)

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

The horse is out of the barn. But yeah, in theory, this makes sense. (more…)

Todd Bowles reacts.

He’s not wrong! (more…)

When Joe chatted with Team Glazer last week at the NFL Annual Meeting, the subject of defrocked offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich was raised. (more…)

Former GM not a fan.

A former NFL general manager and coffee fetcher believes the Bucs made an awful signing with quarterback Baker Mayfield. But Joe believes the guy has a hidden reason. (more…)

“Go, Kyle!”

It’s been said publicly by Bucs officials that quarterback Kyle Trask is great when it comes to working by himself on the fields of One Buc Palace.

But what is he doing? (more…)

Bucs QB Kyle Trask

There are many ways to manage employees successfully — regardless of the business. (more…)

Todd Bowles explains.

Anyone remember the NFL Films clip of Chucky lecturing his Bucs from early in his Tampa Bay coaching days? (more…)

“Scooter, you just signed with a run-first team.”

After watching every Baker Mayfield snap from the 2022 season via NFL Game Pass, Joe finally got around to watching Scotty Miller’s introdcutory news conference in Atlanta. (more…)

Did the Bucs decide to invest more at cornerback than at offensive line? (more…)

Research.

There is one star quarterback out there, only 26, who could be had by an interested team. (more…)

Alabama RB Jahmyr Gibbs.

You’ve probably heard a critique about the Bucs just like Joe has: the Bucs last year were a slow, plodding team and in need of speed. (more…)

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Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Yes, Joe can almost smell it. This month’s draft — this month! — is around the corner. (more…)