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Ohio State TE Max Klare.

Joe doesn’t know what to make of pre-draft visits prospects make to NFL facilities. The Bucs rarely draft guys who they brought in for interviews. (more…)

New Buccaneers inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.

Alex Anzalone is just like any Bucs fan, it seems. (more…)

Five!

Joe actually wouldn’t mind if the Bucs had a new King Kong Bundy-like monster in the middle of the defensive line. (more…)

New Bucs CB Chase Lucas.

Joe’s not trying to be mean in any way. Anyone on an NFL squad is in the top 1 percent of humanity. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has draft trends. (more…)

Freedom to choose.

One of the most profound things Joe ever heard didn’t come from a man of the cloth or a college professor. (more…)

Take a look at this, Mike, while you try to figure out why $1.5 million only gets you 1,100 square feet of house and no trees in Sunnyvale, California. (more…)

New Bucs inside linebacker Alex Anzalone.

When fans think of tough-guy NFL coaches demanding aggressive play, most put Lions head coach Dan Campbell in their top-5 or top-10. (more…)

Miami edge Rueben Bain.

Joe doesn’t give a damn if a guy has a baby arm or not. If the man can punish quarterbacks, so what? He’s Joe’s kind of guy. (more…)

Cool Lavonte David story.

Former NFL players with large platforms — significantly larger than the veteran journalists who serve as selectors for the Pro Football Hall of Fame — have had Lavonte David’s back. (more…)

Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.

If you clip a bird’s wings, you’re basically left with a feathered squirrel. (more…)

“The Beast” has been unleashed. (more…)

So Joe asked Panthers head coach and 2023 Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales what the NFL world needs to know about Lavonte David. (more…)

Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht has put the NFL on notice. (more…)

So Bucs head coach Todd Bowles flatly rejected the notion Joe posed to him last week — that Bucs opponents last season played hungrier than Tampa Bay down the stretch. (more…)

Joe had a long, private chat with Todd Bowles’ friend and supporter Pat Kirwan last week at the NFL annual meeting in Phoenix. (more…)

The Bucs select…

A year ago at the NFL owners meetings, Bucs coach Todd Bowles told assembled media types at the NFC coaches breakfast that he absolutely would not rule out taking an offensive player in the first round. (more…)