“Jason, if you really are targeting Matthew Golden, you’re playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers.”

A man forever in Bucs lore is very much a low key savvy NFL talent evaluator. (more…)

Intrigue.

Now this throwaway line in a mock draft certainly caught Joe’s attention. (more…)

Ole Miss DT Walter Nolen.

Joe remembers this like it was yesterday. (more…)

Bucs are in good hands.

When it comes to the Bucs and this weekend’s draft, which begins tonight, Adam Schefter may have just as easily quoted Nick Saban. (more…)

It seems when Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht said at the NFL Scouting Combine that second-year edge rusher Chris Braswell will “shock” people this season, he wasn’t widely believed. (more…)

Flash poll posted at 7:44 a.m. Flash poll closed at 8:55 a.m.

The chorus continues. (more…)

“Look, Glazer, stop asking about the redacted lines.”

The picks are in and Team Glazer has them.
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(This is a repost of a published article Joe runs as an annual tradition for the morning of the first night of the NFL draft.)

Joe’s going to go slightly personal here, a rare, albeit tiny window into Joe’s background on this holiest of high football holidays. (more…)

NFL Network draft analyst Daniel Jeremiah.

It’s very interesting to Joe that respected insiders who Joe knows talk to the right people at One Buc Palace have built a case for the Bucs picking a wide receiver at No. 19 within 36 hours of the draft commencing in Green Bay. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht

Do the Bucs want to blow the minds of their fan base and become a greater Super Bowl contender?

Or, well, Jamel Dean. (more…)

This love caught Joe’s ear because it comes from a guy who trends a little curmudgeonly. (more…)

Ohio State receiver Emeka Egbuka.

Look, while Joe could see the Bucs adding a defensive player at any position, the Bucs have been not so secretive in suggesting if a playmaker receiver is there at No. 19, the Bucs won’t hesitate to pull the trigger. (more…)

One X-factor in this week’s Bucs draft is how highly the team evaluates the play of defensive end/defensive tackle Logan Hall.

Hall plays half the defensive snaps and starts most games, including against Washington in the playoffs three months ago. (more…)

Analyst believes Bucs’ pick is in!

There are two big reasons Joe puts a lot of stock into what Peter Schrager has to say about the Bucs. (more…)

A man with a key card to One Buc Palace, a man who has said publicly that he’s seen the Bucs’ draft big board (he didn’t specify 2025), a man who has the trust and friendship of Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht, has weighed in on Tampa Bay’s draft. (more…)

Quicker get-off = sacks.

The best thing to happen to Bucs edge rusher YaYa Diaby is the signing of fellow edge rusher Haason Reddick. Less pressure on YaYa to produce. (more…)

Brendan Donahue has been on a helluva run the past five years. (more…)

Michigan CB Will Johnson.

This will make Michigan Men, Jamel Dean haters and weirdos who like ugly blue football pants rejoice. It leaves Joe scratching his head. (more…)

So a young head coach on a Hall of Fame track, Sean McVay, and one of the game’s great general managers, Les Snead, were openly pining today for cornerback Jalen Ramsey to return to their 10-7 Rams football team. (more…)