Buccaneers GM Jason Licht may have smiled in Mobile, Alabama, last week.

The Bucs need edge rush help again. (more…)

At high noon on Monday, March 9, the annual free agency dinner bell will ring.

That’s when Bucs fans will begin to find out if Tampa Bay is all-in on the 2026 season. (more…)

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ILB Patrick Queen.

Would Joe like to see Lavonte David back in 2026? Sure, but that doesn’t mean the Bucs should not draft his replacement and it sure doesn’t mean they shouldn’t sign a linebacker in free agency. (more…)

The JoeBucsFan Show has an 9 a.m. kickoff today on WDAE radio, 95.3 FM and AM 620. Joe and Ira Kaufman are talking all things Bucs. Listen online to Tampa Bay’s all-sports powerhouse, or via the iHeart Radio app, or below.

Joe’s been back on the WDAE airwaves every weekend since February 2024. Varying times.

Takeaways didn’t help much.

Joe is an old-school football guy in one respect: Joe believes if you do not play fundamentally sound football, your team has a ceiling. (more…)

Frustrates gamblers.

Joe has typed the following and likely will again. It’s astounding how unpopular Bucs coach Todd Bowles is. (more…)

The Joe typing here would wager large quantities of cash that Mike Evans will suit up for the Buccaneers later this year. (more…)

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Joe is just taking a moment to wish Bucco Bruce Arians well.

Arians hopped on Today on NBC this week for an in-studio promotional sitdown with Rob Gronkowski. There, Arians shared that he will have “open heart surgery” on Friday, Feb. 6, in Philadelphia. No other details were shared, other than that Arians will watch the Super Bowl from a hospital room.

Obviously, this isn’t emergency surgery, but open heart surgery is always serious. Arians is 73 years old.

Good luck, Coach!

Baker Mayfield likes a fiery hot kind of coach. (more…)

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Fall guy 2025 Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard landed squarely on his feet under the umbrella of a Super Bowl-winning head coach and a future Hall of Fame general manager. (more…)

Get him the ball.

Back in his lone season running the Bucs’ offense, Liam Coen had probably the most complete offense Tampa Bay has seen outside of the two seasons the Bucs won the Super Bowl. (more…)

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It’s that time of year, when the Best In Class podcast heats up studying draft prospects and the Bucs’ offseason happenings and plans.

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Where does he rank?

Joe has never seen anything like it. Or heard anything like it. Or read anything like it. (more…)

The JoeBucsFan Show has an 11 a.m. kickoff today on WDAE radio, 95.3 FM and AM 620. Joe is talking all things Bucs immediately following The Rock Riley Show. Listen online to Tampa Bay’s all-sports powerhouse, or via the iHeart Radio app, or below.

Joe’s been back on the WDAE airwaves every weekend since February 2024. Varying times.