Now this has Joe totally stunned. After grabbing a tight end in free agency and already having one of the better tight ends in the NFL (look it up) in Tim Wright, a position not even close to a need, the Bucs draft a tight end/basketball player Austin Seferian-Jenkins of Washington. (more…)

Olivia Stacey and Woody Cummings discuss the Bucs’ selection of wide receiver Mike Evans and what Tampa Bay may do tonight in the second and third rounds, via this TBO.com video.

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Many players dream of the NFL from the moment they started tossing around a football as kids in the back yard. So when a player is drafted, it is understandable that they get misty-eyed. (more…)

Record viewers for the NFL draft last night all but ensures the May draft is locked in stone.

Joe knows NFL fans, Bucs fans in particular, absolutely hated the draft being pushed back to May. Loathed it. Made them grit their teeth until the enamel was worn off.

Joe didn’t like it much either, and felt Bucs fans’ pain. The mock draft industrial complex is way out of hand, especially so with extra time for nimble fingers to tap on a keyboard. (more…)

NFL Network weighs in

How about another mock draft, just in case you didn’t get your fill.

This one, however, is a second-round mock, and the Bucs are on the clock in roughly three hours. NFL Network draft guru Bucky Brooks weighs in and seems to be thinking like Joe. (more…)

Bucs fans seem generally giddy today, except when they’re attacking Joe in waves upon waves upon waves of hate and angst both here and on Twitter for no good reason.

You would have thought Joe engineered a plot to have Son of Bob become the next starting quarterback. (more…)

Bucs WR Mike Evans was a star high school hoops player in Galveston, Tex. with sights on the NBA until a Texas football coach changed Evans’ mind, and his life.

Few people in the state of Florida have heard of a guy by the name of David Suggs. But he could become a critical figure for the Bucs if coach Lovie Smith can turn around a once proud franchise.

Suggs resides in the Galveston, Tex. region that produced new Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans. And because Suggs was a persistent fellow, not taking “no” for an answer, the Bucs could have their hands on the NFL’s next dynamic receiver. (more…)

How to read Lovie’s Mike Glennon endorsement?

Yes, Joe is at One Buc Palace today waiting for the arrival of new wide receiver Big Mike Evans. And the echoes of Lovie Smith’s endorsement of backup quarterback Mike Glennon as the future of the Bucs is still bouncing off the walls.

To be polite, it’s a head scratcher. One would be hard-pressed to find such a strong endorsement for a quarterback who led the Bucs to the worst offense in the NFL and was benched by Lovie. (more…)

Shaun King explains a little known fact that makes Mike Evans special

Man, that Michael Clayton could block. He was such a great blocker former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik gave him $10 million guaranteed despite years of evidence that No. 80 had Vaseline hands compared to other NFL wide receivers.

(And no, that’s not a filthy DJ Toes On The Line reference.) (more…)

NFC starting quarterbacks appear set for 2014. How the Buccaneers stack up — for now and the future — is the question that keeps Joe awake at night and will keep Joe hoping the Bucs upgrade their potential at the position in the coming hours.

Here’s the NFC list, in no particular order:

Aaron Rodgers
Jay Cutler
Teddy Bridgewater/Matt Cassel
Matthew Stafford
Colin Kaepernick
Carson Palmer
Russell Wilson
Sam Bradford
Drew Brees
Matt Ryan
Cam Newton
Josh McCown/Mike Glennon
Eli Manning
Tony Romo
Nick Foles
RGIII (more…)

It seems the Bucs will be throwing long passes mostly this season, based on Bucs GM Jason Licht’s words.

Last night, for a brief moment, Joe thought uber wide receiver Sammie Watkins would be falling to the Bucs. That would have been a chance Joe never would have predicted.

But it didn’t happen. Buffalo traded up and snagged him. And the Bucs got their target, Texas A&M wide receiver Mike Evans.

Bucs general manager Jason Licht explained the difference between Watkins and Evans. (more…)

Mammoth Bucs manbeast rookie receiver Mike Evans has a message for fans. (more…)

The next O-line upgrade?

Joe realizes Lovie Smith said last night that he’s never been a head coach around a quarterbacks group better than Josh McCown, Mike Glennon and Mike Kafka. (Take that, Jay Cutler!)

However, as special as these Bucs quarterbacks might be, they still need an offensive line that doesn’t resemble swiss cheese and 1-ply toilet paper. (more…)

No. 99 is in a mambo mood over the newest Buccaneer

Sitting side by side and smiling on the NFL Network studio set last night was a funny sight. Warren Sapp, the man who threw more public daggers at Greg Schiano than Joe lobbed at Sabby The Goat, was alongside Schiano talking about the Bucs drafting of manbeast receiver Mike Evans. (more…)

“Just talking about our quarterback position: our quarterback position is as strong as, to me, any quarterback position I’ve had when I’ve been a head coach. You know how much I like Josh McCown as our starter here, but I love Mike Glennon. Mike Glennon is our quarterback of the future here. Why would we want to add a third quarterback to the mix? We needed other positions and forget just a quarterback position — yeah, we like it, but we thought this was the best available player for us [in Mike Evans]. It was an easy decision for us.” — Bucs head coach Lovie Smith, Thursday night.
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Will new Bucs WR Mike Evans make people forget what could have been?

No, Joe’s not going to write daily Johnny Football stories. He’s gone. He’s in Cleveland now, where quarterbacks go to die.

That said, imagine what could have been. Imagine how the buzz around the Bucs would have exploded like a cannon at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway.

Veteran scribe Gary Shelton of the Tampa Bay Times believes the Bucs got their man, and possibly their best pick at No. 7. Still, Shelton couldn’t help but wonder what could have been. (more…)

Teddy Bridgewater is a Minnesota Viking

Despite Lovie Smith’s public Mike Glennon love tonight, Joe can’t believe Lovie is really satisfied with his stable of quarterbacks.

Remember, Lovie is the same man who couldn’t wait to see Darrelle Revis play some old school Tampa-2. (more…)

If new Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans is half the receiver he is in the NFL as he was in college, then he will be a very nice complement during Vincent Jackson’s remaining years as a Buccaneer.

Last year, Evans became a record-holder for the Texas A&M Aggies, which is saying something given the rich history of the school’s football program, notes Brent Zwerneman of the Houston Chronicle. (more…)

Goodbye, Johnny. (more…)

Fans sound off

So it is finally here. The first round of the NFL draft. The painful, painful, painful wait has finally reached an end.

The wait was so long, Joe was actually more looking forward more to the return of “24” than the draft. Joe was mocked out. (more…)

The anchor of the 32nd-ranked offense last season, Bucs backup quarterback Mike Glennon, has a loud advocate (for now) at One Buc Palace. (more…)

A relaxed and slightly nervous Mike Evans, the new Bucs manbeast wide receiver from Texas A&M, just talked to the local pen and mic club at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Take a peek inside the Bucs war room with Bucs coach Lovie Smith and general manager Jason Licht in the early minutes of tonight’s first round of the NFL draft. There is no audio to the video. (Video courtesy of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)