How many TD catches left?

Joe sure hopes Mike Evans returns for 2026. Because he sure does look like he’s got gas left in the tank. Baker Mayfield sure thinks Evans will be back. (more…)

Buccaneers stud rookie receiver Emeka Egbuka made his way to Super Bowl’s Radio Row today in San Francisco. (more…)

So Jay Glazer of FOX Sports is on the list of NFL super insiders with contacts spanning from players to owners to executives that like to suck up to him. (more…)

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Sage Ira checks in for Episode 1 of this Super Bowl week.

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Each snap must have value.

Joe learned way back in high school that the mark of a good coach is if he knows all sorts of little things to help a player perform. (more…)

No Bucs buzz.

Remember last year? So many Bucs fans, even as high up as Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht, wondered why every half-ass team and two-bit player in the league got run but the Bucs were virtually ignored? (more…)

Former NFL QB big fan of Bucs QB coach Chandler Whitmer.

Yeah, sure, someone will hammer Joe for quoting this former quarterback. But Joe makes zero apologies for heeding the words of a guy who played in the league, something Joe never did and Joe’s guessing most readers here didn’t either. (more…)

Offensive line ealth as important as Baker Mayfield’s health.

Joe thinks healthy Baker Mayfield is the best quarterback in the NFC South. (more…)

Interesting choice of words from a Bucs legend not named Rondé Barber. (more…)

Joe hates quoting one of the great enemies of the Buccaneers, but the future Hall of Famer is a heck of a talker and he will be highly visible in the media for decades to come. (more…)

Eight years ago many NFL fans had been blasting the Pro Bowl for years. They called it a sham of a game with no defense.

The Joe typing here wasn’t on that bandwagon. In fact, the photo above is of former Bucs linebacker Kwon Alexander drillling Tyreek Hill after sprinting downfield in punt coverage in a rainstorm during the January 2018 Pro Bowl in Orlando. (more…)

“C’mon Todd, you gotta start embracing an edge rush. I have no friggin’ idea if Maxx Crosby can cover his mouth when he coughs, forget covering receivers. But the man destroys quarterbacks!”

For those who follow Chucky on social media, you know the following. (more…)

Like most Bucs fans, Joe remains flabbergasted by the Bucs losing to the Saints, Falcons, Panthers and Dolphins in consecutive weeks to march themselves out of this season’s playoff hunt. (more…)

Baker Mayfield has a lot of friends around the NFL but they’ll be found on the offensive side of the ball. (more…)

Bucs OC Zac Robinson.

This is refreshing. (more…)

Running QB necessitates a good backup.

Watching Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield run the ball is a double-edged sword. (more…)

Inside linebacker blues.

Joe might get in trouble typing the following sentence. Blame the caffeine. Or blame it on the cold weather that has turned Joe surly. Or the lack of football this past weekend. (more…)

Bucs fans looking for value.

The odds should be pretty long on this, which means Bucs fans who enjoy wagering could hit a major payday. (more…)

New Bucs QB coach Chandler Whitmer.

The last time Joe felt this good about a Bucs hire of an assistant coach, then-Bucs coach Dirk Koetter hired Southern Miss coach Todd Monken as his wide receivers coach/offensive coordinator. (more…)

The shakeup of the Buffalo Bills after the firing of head coach Sean McDermott raises the likelihood of five-time Pro Bowl edge rusher Joey Bosa looking for work in five weeks when the free agency dinner bell rings. (more…)

Mike Evans’ fan, too.

Though rumors were floated at the Senior Bowl practices last week in Mobile (Joe suspects planted by Mike Evans’ agent) that the Bucs’ Hall of Fame receiver has a less than 50 percent chance of re-signing with Tampa Bay, no one really knows what Evans will do as Joe burrows through these too-cold days of early February. (more…)