Power football excites Tristan Wirfs.

Joe has stated the following before, but it’s so cool that Joe will type it again.

Joe is a huge fan of the passing game, in part, because that’s how you win ballgames in the NFL in the 21st century.

You damn right no risk it, no biscuit!

Still, a bludgeoning run game, which the Bucs had last week at Carolina, well, there is something about that type of power football that gets the testosterone pumping.

While Bucs left tackle Tristan Wirfs noted last week was an “extreme case” of a powerful run game, he admitted to Joe on Wednesday that before the season, that’s sort of what the Bucs wanted to do on offense is to rely on a muscular rushing attack as the backbone of their offense, with the ability to slice defenses with key passes.

“Obviously that’s kind of like extreme, an extreme case,” Wirfs said. “But yeah, we want to run the ball.

“I think that’s when we’re at our best: Is when we have a good ground game and can get that rolling with the guys up front.”

The way the Bucs’ offensive line dominated Carolina, it made Joe wonder what the hell was going on. The front line, uncharacteristically, has not been its best self this season, especially early on.

On the FOX broadcast, windy analyst “Moose” Johnston suggested he spoke with Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson and that the Bucs tinkered with the blocking scheme.

Joe asked Wirfs if the Bucs did change their blocking scheme. He denied it, but that doesn’t mean Robinson and the Bucs didn’t tinker with the blocking scheme, not unlike what they may do given the gameplan for a specific opponent.

“You change things every game,” Wirfs said. “Depending on the front, depending on what they’re, you know, like on the main front, the penetrating front, something like that.

“But I wouldn’t say — it wasn’t like a total revamp or anything. There’s some little things here and there, but nothing crazy.”

Wirfs did say how much he and his brothers on the offensive line had fun last week in Carolina. Offensive linemen love owning defenders in the run game.

Wirfs joked with Joe that the Bucs dominated with the run so much, it sort of reminded Wirfs of his college days at Iowa. (For those unaware, Iowa, for decades, has been an old-school Big Ten traditional, blood-and-guts, ground-and-pound offense.)

“Yeah,” Wirfs laughed. The Bucs’ run game against Carolina was “a little bit like Iowa.”