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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Youth wasn’t just served Sunday evening — youth ruled. (more…)

What a night (and a week ahead) of ecstasy for Joe and all the Bucs fans across the globe.

So much joy for so many reasons.

General manager Jason Licht talked last night about one reason he is so full of appreciation and confidence. (more…)

Look at that headline.

Read it again. (more…)

Perhaps the greatest and purest insight into the Buccaneers’ losing mentality during The Lost Decade was delivered by Lavonte David after the Bucs tanked their season opener in 2015. Joe still can’t believe David’s historic explanation.

Today, David gave some insight into the 2020 season. (more…)

Mike Evans inked two more impressive lines on his resume yesterday. (more…)

No longer is Lavonte David on the list of special Bucs players that never won a damn thing worth mentioning when they wore a Tampa Bay jersey.

And look who was there last night with the game on the line. (more…)

Fingers poor defensive effort.

While you were sitting at home or at Big Storm Brewery watching the Bucs’ first playoff game since 2007, you were likely cursing out loud at the Bucs’ defense. (more…)

Look, Joe was suspicious when the Bucs signed furniture-tossing, bicycle-throwing receiver Antonio Brown. (more…)

So with a 44-27 lead, the Bucs didn’t just fail to hand off to Ronald Jones so he could get a shot at 1,000 yards rushing, coaches freakin’ asked RoJo to block while they threw short twice to Antonio Brown.

What the hell was that? (more…)

Buccaneers co-chairmen Bryan and Joel Glazer

The 12-season Buccaneers playoff drought is over!

And Joe’s all fired up for Team Glazer, the ownership class presiding over the spectacular pile of garbage that collectively was the Buccaneers from 2008 through 2019. (more…)

Joe wrote a lot in the spring and summer of 2019 that there was an over-the-top but unstated effort at One Buc Palace to jack up the confidence of running back Ronald Jones. (more…)

Another great episode of TAMPA TWO loaded with insight from Buccaneers legend Derrick Brooks alongside JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman.

Don’t miss this one as the Bucs sit on the cusp of the playoffs.

The football gods were miraculously giving to the Bucs today.

The biggest upset of the NFL season, one of the biggest in history, was a special gift to Tampa Bay. (more…)

Bucco Bruce Arians knows he has a ridiculously unique and rather strange football team that sits with a 9-5 record on the cusp of the playoffs. (more…)

Joe apologizes for the graphic nature of the photograph, but it’s not every day that you see a guy significantly ill on the sidelines head back into a football game.

That’s Mike Evans. (more…)

It seems there is a critical reason Rob Gronkowski is a Buccaneer, one that has nothing to do with him being a Hall of Fame producer at the tight end position. (more…)

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Change agent

Hidden by the Bucs’ 26-14 victory was Todd Bowles’ defense getting gutted and gashed in various ways yesterday.

Joe will start at an unexpected place: Kirk Cousins rushing for a career high.

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Bucs OLB coach Larry Foote.

Last week former Super Bowl-winning general manager Scott Pioli took to the NFL Network airwaves and explained how a team prepares for the stretch run of a playoff season. (more…)

LeGarrette Blount

Leave it to the Bucs to get rid of a punishing young 1,000-yard running back who later won three Super Bowls and became a folk hero with the Belicheats. (more…)

This is a good one from a reputable reporter who always seems extremely closely connected to Tom Brady’s inner circle. (more…)