Joe has written many times that coincidences are as rare as Joe getting invited to pool parties by hot women.

(Yeah, it happens once every decade.) (more…)

Bucs RB Doug Martin’s season was turned upside down today. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

The almost-NFL’s leading rusher sure looked like the scrub from the past two years today. Doug Martin was a total non-factor. (more…)

Austin Seferian-Jenkins (right) had plenty of time on the bench today.

Joe finds it noteworthy that Tampa Bay second-year tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins is healthy and revived but is getting limited snaps. (more…)

Jameis says blame Jameis. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

In his post-game comments, America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, was rather subdued. Whether he was still feeling the effects of a vicious hit in the third quarter (he was walking in the locker room like Frankenstein) is unclear. (more…)

Gerald McCoy talks run defense

One shocking reality of the Bucs’ throttling by the Bears today was Tampa Bay’s stellar run defense not showing up.

The Bears had 39 rushes for 174 yards. This was a Bucs defense allowing an NFC-best 3.3 yards per carry. (more…)

Final bow before Bucs fans?

Alterraun Verner, a former Pro Bowler, came to the Bucs with high hopes last season, for all intents and purposes to replace future Hall of Famer Darrelle Revis, who Lovie Smith deemed unworthy of playing for him. (more…)

Feel free to scream till you can’t breathe. Joe gets the frustration, but Lovie Smith is not getting fired in eight days, nor should he be fired. (more…)

What the hell is going on here? The Bucs have gone from “relevant” and “good” — Lovie Smith’s adjectives — to losers of three consecutive games to stinky football teams.

Your Buccaneers are a hot mess. (more…)

Will Bucs be “flat” for the third consecutive game? Joe will blow a gasket if that’s the case.

Show some pride, especially for the home fans that will be surrounded by Bears fans today at the Den of Depression.

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He’s back!

Demar Dotson is back in the starting lineup today at right tackle, per Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com. Gosder Cherilus will sit but officially is active.

The following guys are ruled out the home finale of the 2015 season. (more…)

Game 15

Bears (5-9) at Bucs (6-8)

Kickoff: 1 p.m. (more…)

Gerald McCoy says his head coach is extraordinarily hungry

Man, Joe can’t wait to see if the Bucs show up today and come out with a fire for their allegedly beloved head coach, in addition to the legions of suffering Bucs fans. (more…)

Last Bucs home game?

On one hand, Joe suspects massive change is coming to the Bucs’ secondary. With plenty of cap money and, of course, the draft, the secondary very well could be overhauled for 2016. (more…)

Jameis picking the brains of Bears coaches sold them on America’s Quarterback.

Months ago, when America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was still working the wrinkles out of his Bucs practice jersey during rookie minicamp, Joe brought word that Jameis had a sitdown with cornerback Stephon Morris, who was a Bucs tryout player formerly with the Belicheats. (more…)

The Buccaneers’ rookie running back lighting it up in 2013, Mike James, largely has been an invisible man in Tampa ever since. (more…)

You want to smile out there tomorrow in the sweltering winter sun surrounded by tens of thousands of Bears fans? (more…)

Teddy Bridgewater torched the Bears for four touchdowns last weekend. A noted national voice and former team executive believes Chicago has mailed in its season.

So how bad are the Bears? (more…)

You asked for it, you got it. It’s the TV map for tomorrow’s game between the Bears and the Bucs, a 1 p.m. kickoff at the Den of Depression. (more…)

America’s Quarterback has Peyton Manning-like numbers.

Joe remembers back at the 2015 NFL Scouting Combine, when rumors and chatter ran rampant among the hundreds of reporters, radio types and TV talking heads all cocooned in Lucas Oil Stadium in sub-Arctic Indianapolis.

Word was America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was acing all of his tests and interviews with flying colors. (more…)

Atop Bears injury report.

The toasty Bucs secondary, not exactly comparable to the 1981 49ers, got a bit of a break on Christmas when NFL teams released their final injury reports of the week. (more…)

Mike Glennon is the sixth-best quarterback in the NFC South, just behind former Pro Bowler and renowned Bucs killer Derek Anderson.

But take a look at the mess of QBs expected to start in Week 16: (more…)