Goose egg

The 50 esteemed media gurus across the nation who vote for the All-Pro teams and the official NFL individual honors have abandoned Gerald McCoy. (more…)

Dirk Koetter famously said, “All that anyone gives a sh*t in this league about is Ws.”

But that quote was a tiny bit vague.  (more…)

Development issues stand out.

Yeah, Dirk Koetter said he would retain his staff. That was Jan. 1. (more…)

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Buc fans can only hope this franchise does a better job of addressing its priorities in 2018.

A year ago, Dirk Koetter singled out the lack of explosive plays as a major issue after a 9-7 season. In that regard, Tampa Bay zeroed in on DeSean Jackson in free agency, adding a speedy target who can stretch the field. (more…)

Chief of the 32nd-ranked defense will return

It’s official. (more…)

Dirk Koetter believes Team Glazer has a set a brass ones. (more…)

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The walls of One Buc Place are closing in on Dirk Koetter.

The steady drip, drip, drip of reports that Jon Gruden is returning for a second stint in Tampa is taking its toll on a proud second-year head coach.

So how has Koetter responded? With class. With dignity. (more…)

Battling Glennon

Jameis Winston’s NFL offenses don’t score points. It’s been bad.

Mike Glennon put up as many points per game as a 13-game rookie starter than Jameis Winston has this year. (more…)

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The Glazers need to do the right thing and bring back the man they fired in 2009, a Buc icon who can help lead them back to relevance.

Put down your Chucky dolls for a minute, people … I’m talking Derrick Brooks here.

In the spirit of giving, I’m offering ownership some sage advice. Mr. Brooks, also known as The Godfather around these parts, needs to be made an offer he can’t refuse. (more…)

It has happened.

The Bucs got a prize by the way of the NFL outcomes yesterday and it is nothing to be proud of. (more…)

Chris “Swaggy” Baker, the Bucs’ half-sack defensive tackle, who is half the player he was in Washington, was Sunday’s most glaring goat in Charlotte.

With the game literally on the line, 45 seconds left with Carolina at 4th-and-3 on Tampa Bay’s 5 yard line, Baker jumped offsides. (more…)

It’s the weekly, 24-hour Dirk Koetter Confidence Poll. Vote below. Poll posted at 4:30 a.m. See last week’s results linked here.

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America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, delivered quite a passionate rant defending, praising and feeling for Dirk Koetter after last night’s loss to the Falcons.

Man, it was something. (more…)

Marvin Lewis

Remember as this lost Bucs season comes to a close that what you think means nothing and what Joe thinks is trivial.

What only matters is what the cooperative known as Team Glazer thinks. (more…)

“Jason, if I call you in the fourth quarter tonight, please pick up the phone.”

The draft freaks and the tank-now crowd among the Bucs faithful were popping champagne last night. (more…)

Man, somebody or somebodies out there really is out to get America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston.

That mysterious entity sought to make Jameis look like a petulant, spoiled child to the nation yesterday and largely succeeded. (more…)

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Gather ’round Buc fans, we’ve got a classic whodunit on our hands.

Somebody wants Dirk Koetter fired, that much is clear. If the Glazers haven’t already made up their minds about whether to bring Koetter back for 2018, the best way to get him out of town is to suggest things have soured between the head coach and the face of the franchise. (more…)

Remember when a couple of Lions, including Matthew Stafford, took shots at America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, for his finger-sucking W antics before the Bucs were blown out by the Saints? (more…)

General manager Jason Licht

The question in the headline is fired at Joe at least 10 times a day.

For now, it’s even a much more pressing thought in fans’ minds than whether America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, actually crotch-grabbed a female Uber driver without permission. (more…)

BY IRA KAUFMAN

They played hard, they played physical … and they lost.

Blame this setback on lack of football smarts. Tampa Bay kicked Green Bay’s rump up and down Lambeau Field all afternoon in a game the Packers simply had to have. (more…)