Joe wants to help everyone be 100 percent ready for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ first playoff game in forever.

You know, ordering a tray from your local Hooters or filling your fridge with Florida’s best craft beer takes at least a little planning. (more…)

Joe loves getting the inside line on key game decisions at One Buc Palace. (more…)

(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

OK, the Bucs are peaking and the three- (four-?) day weekend is over. Grab some java and hop on the Bucs’ playoff train with Joe. (more…)

Go-to on go-routes.

Bucs star receiver Mike Evans needs 40 yards to reach 1,000 yards receiving this season. (more…)

It’s a party of bad football teams in the NFC East, as the football gods continue to cater to the 2020 Bucs. (more…)

High praise for Bucs ILB.

A former NFL offensive lineman believes a young Bucs defender has transformed himself into a beast of a linebacker. (more…)

Joe and every other Buccaneers fan is in win-now mode. But Bucco Bruce Arians isn’t afraid to talk about 2021. (more…)

Bucs GM Jason Licht gets in the face of Team Glazer during the pre-mask era.

What a day this must be for Bucs general manager Jason Licht. (more…)

The Goat is up and talking to fans. (more…)

Survivor.

Three Bucs have endured some of the worst football seasons in recent memory, and yesterday they finally saw all their sweat and toil pay off when the Tampa Bay clinched a playoff berth, its first since 2007. (more…)

“We will approach this game as if it were Game 1 of the season and treat it like that every game. We don’t want to set a pattern of different behavior. I don’t think you get anything out of resting guys, especially playing a team that’s in our division and we haven’t beaten them at home in a couple of years. We don’t want to start a precedent.” Bruce Arians, Dec. 28, 2015. (more…)

Red hot.

The past couple of weeks park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady has been playing NFL defenses like the late great Eddie Van Halen played guitars.

Ruthless, uncompromising and dominating. (more…)

Joe hasn’t been this happy on a Sunday morning since a wild night in Vegas last century. But today tops that. The Bucs are back in the playoffs.
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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Everyone in the Buc organization hated to hear those damning words.

Writing it was no great thrill, either.

On a relatively frigid afternoon in Tampa, the Bucs warmed the hearts of their supporters with a record-shattering victory in Detroit. Following a 47-7 walkover, this organization no longer has to deal with the phrase that is etched into my computer screen: The NFC’s longest playoff drought.

The drought is over and this team’s real agenda is about to start. (more…)

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NFL Network analyst Steve Smith.

The Bucs had just completed four quarters of football (Atlanta second half, Detroit first half) that the NFL has not seen in 40 years. (more…)