How bout Bucs interior beasts Vita Vea, Calijah Kancey and Logan Hall combining for 20 sacks this season?

Impressive stuff, especially with a weak edge rush keeping a lot of attention up the middle. (more…)

So how much will Bucs left guard Ben Bredeson earn when his contract expires in two months.

Will it be $8 million per year? $10 million? More? (more…)

Notre Dame CB Benjamin Morrison.

Joe really tries to wait to jump into the draft pool until after free agency. That doesn’t mean Joe won’t monitor the draft — shoot, Joe will be at the combine in six weeks. (more…)

Staff changes not off the table.

One could argue some new coaching voices are needed on the defensive side of the ball. (more…)

Lay off the Bucs defense.

That was the message from a very angry-sounding Jon Gruden in an epic rant after Tampa Bay lost to the Commanders on Sunday. (more…)

Screenshot of All-22 film a split-second after Baker Mayfield and Jalen McMillan mishandled the handoff. No defender was outside the numbers. Not shown is a Washington safety between the hashmarks standing at the Bucs-28.

Some Bucs fans are grumbling (well, maybe more than grumbling) saying no way Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen should ever have called a jet sweep with the ball on the Bucs-15 on Sunday night. (more…)

Joe doesn’t have a great answer for why Trey Palmer went from 39 catches as a rookie to just 12 this season.

The Bucs planned/hoped/expected to use him more. (more…)

Before the season, if Bucs fans knew the Bucs would win 10 games, nearly all would raise a glass and toast head coach Todd Bowles. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht

Joe knows there are still media types and fans in disbelief that Todd Bowles will be the 2025 Buccaneers head coach.

Joe sort of understands.

Heck, Joe was in disbelief when the Bucs decided to bring Doug Martin back for the 2017 season. (more…)

Legend building against Bucs.

The Bucs may have just fallen victim to the newest fourth-quarter killer on the NFL’s landscape. (more…)

So head coach Todd Bowles and key players and coaches typically meet with TV broadcasters the day before each game. (more…)

Tell Joe. Flash poll posted at 2:16 p.m. Poll closed at 3:15 p.m.

Joe’s a fan of the Green Light with Chris Long podcast.

He’s a smart ex-player who actually watches most NFL games and does his homework. (more…)

“You’re not my guy, Greeny.”

Joe wrote about this possibility last week, and now it’s come to fruition. (more…)

So last night Joe watched Sam Darnold eat sack after sack against the Rams, nine total.

It was like Joe tackling the midnight fried chicken fingers served in The Licht House press box. (more…)

“Chucky, can you develop an edge rusher?”

Joe doesn’t have to guess. Joe can read how some Bucs fans are out for blood. (more…)

Tampa Bay’s rookie playmaker at nickel cornerback and safety had 2 interceptions, 7 passes defensed and 3 forced fumbles through Week 14. (more…)

Pondering the future.

As Joe has typed many times, the Bucs won’t look the same when the team shows up for underwear football after the draft. (more…)

Second interview set.

Bucs assistant general manager John Spytek took a leap in trying to land the Titans’ GM job, as he has now reached the second round of interviews in Nashville. (more…)

Revisting critical fumble.

Joe sees a lot of howling comments from folks outraged that Liam Coen, the savvy Bucs offensive coordinator, called for a jet sweep late in the game deep in Bucs territory. Baker Mayfield botched the handoff to Jalen McMillan. (more…)