Podcast (free-stretch-bobby-fenton): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

Great fun ahead on Saturday, and loads of fun and thoughtful takes on today’s Free Stretch. Never boring, The Free Stretch podcast is proudly presented by Bill Currie Ford, home of the nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles. Follow Bobby on Twitter, @bobbygameday.

Listen or download above. Or listen and/or subscribe free at Podbean, iTunes and Google Play.

PRESENTED BY BILL CURRIE FORD

Leading a turnaround.

For too long the Bucs’ pass defense was so horrible, you just wanted to punch someone. (more…)

Key in game tomorrow.

In some ways, Joe cannot blame him. (more…)

Scorching hot.

Have Bucs wide receivers been making Jameis look good or has something clicked in the noggin of Mr. Entertainment, America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston? (more…)

Gun it.

It’s full steam ahead for the Bucs offense, despite the wide receiver corps being virtually wiped out by injuries. (more…)

Podcast (todd-wright-fantasy-football-podcast): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

Click above to listen or download, or at iTunes, Google Play, and via Podbean and more platforms!

It’s always great when a head coach is put on the spot. (more…)

Ira’s award-winning column pops three times a week. Click through here to shop the great end-of-year deals at BillCurrieFord.com.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The standings tell the story for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as this decade comes to a close, and it’s not a pretty tale.

Zero playoff appearances, few All-Pro honors, five head coaches and a half-empty stadium. That’s tough to stomach.

As the Bay area representative for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I’ll have a voice in selecting the NFL’s All-Decade team. (more…)

Researched.

Joe tries to keep an open mind about the PFF tribe and some of their silly analysis (which includes their irresponsible “grades,” particularly of offensive linemen). So this time Joe must doff his cap in appreciation. (more…)

Podcast (todd-wright-fantasy-football-podcast): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

Bucs DC Todd Bowles.

Easily the best story for the Bucs this year is how they signed a backup linebacker to a prove-it contract, and the guy blew up to lead the NFL in sacks. (more…)

Bruce Arians calls out a looming “problem”

Hall of Fame general manager Bill Polian looks at the Houston Texans defense (the Bucs’ opponent Saturday) and sees a unit you want to diffuse by playing up tempo offense.

A true Bucs insider says Tampa Bay probably won’t be able to do that. (more…)

It’s great that the Bucs mauled a horrid Lions team, throttled an imploding Jaguars club, squeaked by a Colts franchise in a death spiral, and kicked the ass of the Falcons, who are the best dang 5-9 team in the NFL. (more…)

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich.

There are flukes and there are patterns. And when there’s a pattern, there’s a problem and it should be easy to fix. (more…)

Bucs coach Bruce Arians.

This really surprised Joe. (more…)

Staying at tight end.

Joe has written a few times in recent days with the rash of injuries to perhaps the best set of wide receivers in the NFL, the Bucs should give a super-talented player a spin at a new position. (more…)

Joe hears over and over from fans and media that the Bucs should replace right tackle Demar Dotson.

Why? Because he’s old? Because the Bucs want to do something goofy and draft a right tackle in the first round? (more…)

Talks return.

Unless something changes, the current NFL sacks leader is going to prep in the offseason as if he’s the sackmeister of Tampa Bay. (more…)

Two blown hamstrings; two starters to injured reserve. (more…)