Getting noticed.

Yes, we all know Gerald McCoy is the face of the defensive line, one of the NFL’s top players annually, except in the clouded eyes of a loud rabble of Bucs fans. (more…)

Ignorant of NFL history.

People wonder why Joe doesn’t watch BSPN outside of live games (likely football or college basketball). Well, here is Exhibit No. 2305. (more…)

Ex-Buc Roy Miller will face his former team this morning.

Your Buccaneers are practicing against the Jaguars in Jacksonville today.

The pads will be on and bones will be cracking in the smothering heat. (more…)

“The Big Dog”

Joe was back in the steel cage with The Big Dog, Steve Duemig, the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio on WDAE-AM 620. (more…)

The cupboard is full, says Dirk Koetter. (more…)

It’s Joe’s 24-hour poll that will run every Tuesday beginning today.

Tricky guy, that Dirk Koetter. (more…)

America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, let fans into his mind Saturday afternoon. (more…)

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Bigger and faster?

Just eye-balling Ali Marpet, it sure looks like he’s put on some poundage. (more…)

Earning starting spot.

Everything Joe has heard off the record at One Buc Palace about the saga of J.R. Sweezy reveals Bucs types are not concerned about his status. (more…)

Fans loudly approve big play.

As Joe has stated, it’s hard to see each and every move of 90 players on a practice field with one pair of eyes, even two or three.

So the following may or may not have been the play of the day yesterday. (more…)

Bullish on Bucs.

If the Bucs were a stock, Pat Kirwan would be laying lots of cash on the franchise. (more…)

Demands results.

Bucs fans watching the defense last week in the preseason opener at Philadelphia needed a drool towel. (more…)

Doug Martin speaks

There was a major injury in the NFC South today, the kind that wouldn’t have happened to a Buccaneer so far this summer. (more…)

Training camp wore on early this morning at One Buc Palace.

Joe’s got highlights. (more…)

Next up

Another rough day for the Kenny Bell Mob, as Dirk Koetter shed more light on the kick returner position following practice today. (more…)

$$

The Bucs waved a new fat check in front of Demar Dotson, and he was smart enough to sign it today and not mess around like he did last year. (more…)

Jameis Winston talks change

There is one thing the Bucs’ offense definitely took from the training camp practice fields into their preseason game in Philadelphia on Thursday. (more…)

Thursday just a preview.

Vanilla defense? Wow. (more…)

Perspective on the J.R. Sweezy comparison

Saturday, the Tampa Bay Times issued an unsourced report stating big-money Bucs free agent guard J.R. Sweezy had a herniated disc surgery (“discectomy”) similar to what defensive tackle Akeem Spence had last year.

Beat writer Rick Stroud claimed Spence returned in October and “showed no ill effects after missing five games.” Apparently, Stroud didn’t talk to Spence. (more…)

Will once again terrorize offenses.

Bucs stud Lavonte David didn’t know it at the time, but when he flipped on Twitter when Lovie Smith was jettisoned, his career just got better. (more…)