Captain Davin Joseph goes deep into the Bucs’ communication troubles in hostile territory at the Meadowlands yesterday, via the WDAE-AM 620 audio below.

Unfortunately, Joseph explains in detail that the Bucs didn’t prepare well enough for noise. Keep in mind the first-half safety, a signaling foul-up between Jeremy Zuttah and Josh Freeman, cost the Bucs dearly in the one-point loss.

“There were a lot of things that were happening in training camp and in practice that kind of caught up with us. It kind of opened all of our eyes really. And so we’ve got to fix it. We’re going to take this week and really work on our communication even though we’re home. And just really working hard at being able to communicate in the noise, being that in our own division we play at New Orleans, at Carolina, at Atlanta, and it’s really loud so we have to be able to communicate in the noise. I don’t think we did enough to be ready for [the noise] and that’s what I mean by it caught up with us. Our focuses were on the cadence and we needed to be able to go silent count. We weren’t focusing on that very much so it kind of caught up with us.”

On the upside, Joseph says his body feels great — Joseph missed last season with a blown knee — and he’s fired up about the Bucs’ “hard-hitting” defense “that’s going to win us a championship.” (Click the button below.)

Greg Schiano met the media today, and highlights included the head coach saying multiple times that the Bucs were big, impressive hitters on defense and he doesn’t want to change much of that.

“I want us flying around the way we flew around yesterday because that was as hard a hitting Bucs defense that’s been around here in a long time.” Schiano went on to say the Bucs would keep watching “strike zone” videos to try and avoid personal fouls for rough hits.

Schiano also praised the kicking game and special teams, and the overall greatness of Lavonte David.

Of course, the head coach also was unhappy about his team’s sloppy offense and penalties, saying the Bucs were “very prepared” but perhaps “too excited to play together.” (You can catch the full audio below, via 620wdae.com.)

The heat under Greg Schiano has reached unprecedented levels.

Surely the most powerful and influential blow torch belongs to the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig, of WDAE-AM 620. Duemig delivered a scathing indictment of Schiano’s coaching during his opening monologue moments ago.

Duemig has seen and heard enough from the head coach. “This guy will not make it through the season, nor should he. Go back to college,” Duemig said of Schiano. (You can hear the entire audio below.)

Duemig’s take is significant. He’s got a top-rated show. Team Glazer said when it fired Chucky that fan opinion weighed heavily in that surprise move.

Of course, Schiano can extinguish the fire under him in six days, if he can lead the Bucs to victory over the Saints.

A New Jersey columnist says Greg Schiano is producing familiar results

They know Greg Schiano pretty darn well in central New Jersey, where the Star-Ledger covers Rutgers like a glove and treated Schiano moving on the Bucs like a president leaving office.

Schiano is respected in Jersey, but columnist Steve Politi reminds fans today that Schiano did yesterday what he often did at Rutgers: drop a dud performance at a critical time.

Things change fast in the NFL, but it must be hard for Rutgers fans not to have flashbacks. Every time Rutgers seemed on the verge of something, there was always a loss like this. The loss to Cincinnati in 2006 comes to mind, the awful performance after the thrilling win over Louisville. So does the start to the 2007 season, when Rutgers was supposed to build on that breakthrough year.

So does the ugly one in Connecticut, just before Schiano left town, when the Scarlet Knights had a chance to clinch a share of their first league title and played like they had the weight of the world on their shoulders.

This was always the knock on Schiano, the college coach: He was exactly the man you wanted in that job except for those pesky three hours on game day. That he spent five minutes with Eric LeGrand and his family after the way that game ended speaks to the other side.

Yes, winning big games — and titles — was a big knock on Schiano in college, but Joe wiped Schiano’s slate clean when he got to the Bucs.

However, Joe wrote many times that a huge X-factor for this Bucs season would be Schiano’s ability to prove himself as a strong NFL game coach. That wasn’t evident last season. And on top of that, Schiano would need to be able to outcoach Mike Smith and Sean Payton to rule the NFC South.

Joe’s still waiting for evidence to call Schiano a great gameday leader.

Joe has often referred to the day after the first Sunday slate of NFL games each season as “Overreaction Monday.” Fans of winning teams believe their team will hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy aloft in victory in February. Fans of losing teams are convinced their team will pick first in next spring’s draft.

That’s part of what makes the NFL so great. Fans are so passionate.

The Bucs played a trainwreck of a football game yesterday. It was awful, but given it’s Week 1, Joe is trying to temper his disgust.

One very fed up person Pewter Report chieftain Scott Reynolds who, after watching the tripe the Bucs claimed was professional football, has seen enough to reach strong conclusions. He thinks he knows what ails the Bucs and it happens to be Bucs coach Greg Schiano and his staff.

I believed in the talent on the roster and the new talent that general manager Mark Dominik had acquired through free agency, such as free safety Dashon Goldson, through trades, like the one that acquired cornerback Darrelle Revis, and through the draft, where players like cornerback Johnthan Banks and defensive tackle Akeem Spence were found.

I believed that the bevy of talented players in Tampa Bay could flip the switch and turn off a dreadful, uninspiring preseason and turn on some Pro Bowl-caliber performances and beat up on a talent-void New York Jets team in Week 1. Some players, like wide receiver Vincent Jackson, who had seven catches for 154 yards in a stunning 18-17 loss at New York, did just that.

The thing is, I still believe in the Bucs players. But after watching an offense sputter, stall and struggle to generate just 17 points, witnessing a rookie quarterback do enough to prevail in his first NFL game against the revamped defense, and watching the Bucs record a whopping 13 penalties for 102 yards, I don’t have a lot of faith in Schiano and his coaching staff.

Reynolds went on to list what a circus the game was for the Bucs, from the communication issues to Josh Freeman struggles (yet again), to backup quarterback Mike Glennon taking precious preseason snaps away from Freeman to beating Doug Martin into a wall, to the offensive line acting like windmills, to the general lack of preparation, pathetically so.

Joe surely cannot argue with any of Reynolds points. Joe has already touched upon this but it bears repeating. It is galling for a disciplinarian like Schiano to have a team play so grossly undisciplined and unprepared yesterday.

The Bucs organization likes to brag that Schiano’s assistant coaches are good teachers. What exactly were they teaching this summer? It’s not like this collage of coaches needs to add to its ranks. How many assistants do the Bucs have now, 74?

Joe doesn’t think there is any doubt that starters should have played more in preseason. Maybe Schiano needs to re-evaluate just how his coaches are teaching. Whatever they did the past six weeks or so feels like a giant waste.

At least on this Overreaction Monday.

Just in case you forgot what it looked like, that was a Bucs pass rush yesterday. Hallejuah! Blitzes were effective, and there were even some good 1-on-1 efforts, see Lavonte David’s interceptions forced by Trevor Scott’s edge rush.

The Bucs threw all kinds of looks at Jets rookie QB Geno Smith. Not all the looks were pretty or effective, some stunts were downright bizarre. But the pressure was delivered, and it generated five sacks and turnovers. Mission accomplished. The formerly heinous secondary also held up.

But those five sacks aren’t today’s glory call, largely because of David’s end-of-game gaffe, as well as the Bucs’ failure after taking a 14-5 lead in the second quarter. The Bucs’ next five drives after that point came up empty, before their final field goal drive put them ahead 17-15.

There’s only so much the Bucs defense can do. The Jets defense is good, not great. When you have Pro Bowlers on offense like the Bucs do, and a QB that can make all the throws, you’re offense just can’t turn worthless and vanilla with a lead.

It’s an extremely emotional day for Bucs fans. The wound of the historically ugly loss to the Jets is fresh. And Joe can’t imagine there’s a more passionate fan out there than “Todd in Tampa,” who called the Ron and Ian show on WDAE-AM 620 this morning to express his thorough contempt for Bucs defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan.

Todd is livid that the Bucs didn’t come after Jets QB Geno Smith with the game on the line, and Todd is bitter that Greg Schiano and/or Mike Sullivan continues to take the ball out of Josh Freeman’s hands when they have a shot to go for the jugular.

Here’s the audio of Todd’s call. It’s an entertaining 40 seconds. Enjoy. And keep calm.

No one loves Bucs linebacker Lavonte David more than Joe. Sift through Joe’s archives and you will notice Joe pimped Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik to draft David out of Nebraska months before the draft — well before anyone else — where David was a terror on the football field.

But yesterday’s totally braindead play by David to go after Jets quarterback Geno Smith, who was headed out of bounds to kill the clock, and give the referees an opportunity to throw a flag and give the Jets a chance to win the game, will be remembered for years, and not in a good way.

It was so mind-numbing awful of a play that Olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball box score-reading Peter King, in his must-read “Monday Morning Quarterback” column, crowned David with his weekly “Goat of the Week” award.

Lavonte David, LB, Tampa Bay. His hit on Geno Smith in the final seconds of the crushing loss at the Jets hands him the goat horns, though it wasn’t the kind of egregious sideline smash that you think was a cheap shot. Whether you agree with the call or not, whether you felt it was ticky-tack—and it was close—it sticks. David’s hit on Smith with seven seconds left gave the Jets the chance to kick the game-winning field goal, a 48-yarder by Nick Folk. Jets 18, Bucs 17.

And if you think Joe and/or King is harsh on David, one of the most underrated players in the NFL, you better stay away from the New York tabloids, which are crucifying David for handing the Jets a win.

Sorry, Joe doesn’t live in a world with only seashells and balloons. He has to call it as he sees it, bad or good. And this play by David, Joe just cannot comprehend how awful it was. And to suggest this didn’t cost the Bucs a win, then you are either in serious denial and need mental health counseling, or Joe wants to sample the narcotics you are using.

The sad thing about this play; it was acted out before the media capital of the world. It’s going to be a long time before that stain is washed away, no matter how good of a player David is or will be (think Joe Pisarcik).

Courtesy of BusinessInsider.com

ProFootballTalk.com guru Mike Florio dug deep into the Lavonte David penalty that cost the Bucs the win yesterday, the Sabby moment that has been debated hotly.

It was a stupid play by David and, per ProFootballTalk.com, it definitely was against the rules.

Per a league source, the NFL’s position on plays of that nature is that, if a guy is running out of bounds, any forceful pushing or shoving will be viewed as unnecessary roughness.

It’s similar to the slide.  The player in that situation is giving himself up.

If Smith had been running along the sidelines, he would have been fair game.  But he was clearly running out of bounds.

So if, as David said after the game, he believes Smith was in bounds, it shows that David simply doesn’t understand the rules.  Yes, Smith was in bounds.  But he was going out of bounds, and he shouldn’t have been shoved.

It means that he either hasn’t been taught the rules properly, or that he ignored the information the team provided to him.

Was David taught the rule? Is it possible that the leader of the New Schiano Order didn’t teach the leader of his defense, the playcaller, the rules of the game?

Joe doesn’t know the answer. Regardless, The Bucs displayed undisciplined football from their first offensive series to their final defensive series. The celebrated “culture change” didn’t show up yesterday.

Perhaps safety Dashon Goldson’s bone-crushing, head-rattling hits are a good thing in the end. .

Yes, those hits draw costly penalties, but if they can send receivers to the locker room like they did yesterday, and intimidate, maybe that’s got more upside over the course of a season. Hey, wishful thinking never hurt.

Keep in mind, the Bucs knew what they were getting in Goldson. He was fined four times last season for hits and conduct. Tampa Bay paid him a lot of money to hit like he did against the Jets, hits that will incur hefty fines for his repeated skull-bashing. And Goldson says he won’t be changing anytime soon.

“How do you tell Goldson not to hit the guy?” Buccaneers Radio Network analyst and former tight end Dave Moore wondered aloud. Moore seems to believe the threat of Goldon’s punishment over the middle comes with plenty of upside.

Regardless, Joe knows the NFL wants to play touch football and call it tackle football.

It sucks. The safety rules don’t all make a lot of sense when you start to break them down. Soon the NFL won’t allow low hits, either. Look for more personal fouls for Goldson.

“But I thought you’d yell at me if I called my own play.”

On the Bucs’ opening drive, Tampa Bay was flagged for consecutive delay of game penalties following a timeout. Joe was in stunned disbelief.

But then Josh Freeman was sacked and the Bucs were flagged for consecutive false start penalties before punting. Also unthinkable.

Former Bucs guard Ian Beckles went wild this morning on Freeman for the delay of game calls. “Put your head in the huddle and call a play,” Beckles said on the Ron and Ian show on WDAE-AM 620.

Beckles continued: “I’m putting it on Greg Schiano. They were not ready to play football. … They were not prepared for a full-speed football game.”

How could one argue with Beckles’ points? It can’t be done.

Yes, Lavonte David Sabbied the game away, but it was bad football like the exchange above that cost the Bucs repeatedly.

The New Schiano Order was not ready. And they’re all about readiness. Joe can’t help but be very concerned. This is the NFLs biggest coaching and advisory staff with established veteran players throughout the offense.

The sun had yet to rise over Tampa Bay when Joe typed this, but Joe already can hear the sports radio meltdown underway. Last night, postgame call-in tirades were seemingly orchestrated by the Mike Glennon Mob, but the daggers this morning are coming after Greg Schiano for the Bucs’ sloppiness and uninspired offense.

Yes, the loss to the Jets was one of the most heinous in team history. No question. However, if the Bucs beat the Saints at home Sunday, then the Bucs — literally — will sit alone atop the NFC South if you factor in tiebreaker considerations. The Falcons lost in New Orleans yesterday, and the Panthers in Seattle. And Atlanta and Carolina don’t play each other next week.

So there you have it. Keep calm. Keep perspective. Don’t let angst destroy your Monday.

A win on Sunday and the Bucs get complete redemption and Bucs fans will celebrate a division leader.

Joe’s going to try something new for the 2013 season, and maybe beyond. It’s sort of a morning stream of consciousness about the game yesterday, what Joe will write today, and what to look for in the future, along with random non-Bucs thoughts, as well.

Here goes:

The Lavonte David brainfart: Joe is shocked so many Bucs fans, for reasons unknown and somewhat twisted, refuse to acknowledge David’s grossly stupid error, giving the Jets a chance to kick a game-winning field goal, which Nick Folk drilled.

Donald Penn was not on the field at the time of the act. Neither was Josh Freeman. Nor Doug Martin, not even Michael Clayton, Jr. Kevin Ogletree.

David was. David opened the door for the Jets, begging the zebras to throw a flag by placing his hands on the NFL’s version of a porcelain doll, a quarterback, in this case the Jets Geno Smith. The referees, under direct orders of NFL honchos to protect quarterbacks to silly degrees, were only happy to oblige.

Stop with the “but if David pulls up, Smith could have run up field.” Good! Even more reason to not touch him. IF Smith tries to turn up field, the clock runs out and the game is over. Bucs win. Smith had to run out of bounds to kill the clock or the game would have been over at that point. If he throws an incomplete pass before running out of bounds, the game is over.

Joe cannot find a reasonable mind to suggest David didn’t cost the Bucs a win. It was that ignorant of a play, that critical of a play at the game’s most crucial moment. His action directly led to the game-winning play. It sure as heck wasn’t Luke Stocker who got flagged.

Sure, David wasn’t the only guy who got a penalty on defense. So too did Dashon Goldson and Mark Barron. Joe got Twitters during the game gloating over Goldson’s hits, no matter they cost the Bucs 15 yards. Yeah, Joe likes good hitting, but Joe always thought the object of the defense was to get off the field, not to produce NFL Films highlights.

It galled Joe that Goldson — who Joe really likes — was celebrating like he won Lotto while a flag lay on the ground.

Look, you can whine and cry about how the NFL is now flag football and Joe doesn’t disagree. But rules are rules, and until the competition committee changes the rules, if you don’t follow them, there will be consequences, in yesterday’s case, that consequence was a loss.

Which brings Joe to coaching. David, Barron and to a lesser degree, Mason Foster, defiantly noted in the locker room that this is how the Bucs play defense. Well, someone better tell defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan that the NFL has changed rules, and unless the Bucs decide to follow those same rules, he can and should expect flags, which very well could cost the Bucs another game, or maybe more.

This is undisciplined football, and Joe is shocked that a discipline guy like Greg Schiano would allow this defiance to NFL rules.. Someone needs to teach these guys the new rules. In some circles, that’s called coaching.

Yes, Joe loves physical football. The Steelers-Raiders street brawls in the 1970s were awesome. But we don’t live in 1975 any longer. To ignore the changes the NFL has made in the game is akin to passing a cop on the highway going 90 mph and then after getting pulled over, whining to the officer about how you hate a 65 mph limit.

Doug Martin’s beating: Joe’s all for sticking to a gameplan but geez, about the only run Martin had was late in the game when it appeared Freeman read a run blitz and audibled with Martin running right at the blitzer for a big gain.

No, Freeman was not Joe Montana yesterday, but that slant from the left with Vincent Jackson was open all day long and produced many big plays. Joe would have rather seen Bucs offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan call that play time and again as opposing to running Martin into a wall.

Taking the foot off the throat: The Bucs, up 14-5, had the Jets on the ropes and had the ball in the first half. You go up 17-5 or 21-5, and force a rookie quarterback to play that kind of catch-up football, well, the game is all but in the bag. As we all know, the Bucs not just took their feet off the Jets’ throats, they helped them up, dusted them off, offered them a sandwich, and bought them a cold beer.

Cut the head off the snake when you get a chance! Don’t let it slither away only to bite you later.

No discipline: Joe was shocked by how sloppy, lethargic and undisciplined the Bucs played yesterday.

Joe used to go diving off the Pinellas County shoreline at a place called “The Barges.” Shipwrecks have been there for decades, yet some of the pieces of those ships weren’t even close to being as rusty as the Bucs looked on offense early. Wow, was there any guess Freeman had fewer snaps in preseason than the number of beers Joe guzzles in a weekend? Add to that dropped passes, two timeouts, and a delay of game penalty on three consecutive plays. Throw in all the silly defensive penalties and it makes Joe wonder where the Bucs’ heads were?

Schiano is a disciplinarian and he runs a tight ship and rigid practices. He had to be out of his mind. After six weeks of practices, training camp, preseason games and for the Bucs to come out and play like a bad high school team, well, Joe’s guessing Schiano was eating a steady diet of Tums last night.

DJ Toes on the Line: How galling was it that Kellen Winslow, Sgt. Winslow, who couldn’t handle Schiano’s tough guy ways, and quit on Bill Belicheat, was talking about playing disciplined football in his Jets’ win? Winslow had a critical touchdown late in the first half and that had to be unsettling for “DJ Toes on the Line” to be preaching discipline in his first game against the Bucs since being dumped by the current Bucs regime.

Return of Darrelle Revis: If there was one positive, it was the play of Revis. Yes, Revis Island sure looked like old Revis. Sure, it was against a rookie QB. But it was damned good to see Revis deny the Jets a few passes.

Revis will surely be tested by Drew Brees in six days.

Ugly near future: Oh, the next two quarterbacks to test Revis and the Bucs? Tom Brady and Brees. Yikes. If the Bucs let a rookie quarterback beat them, what can two future Hall of Famers do? Oh, and so much for the Saints not having any defense, holding Matty Ice and the Dixie Chicks to 17 points.

Quarterbacks: Bucs franchise quarterback Josh Freeman didn’t do a whole lot to muzzle the Mike Glennon Mob.

He nearly bailed the Bucs out by marching the Bucs to a go-ahead field goal with 34 seconds left. Joe sure wishes Freeman could play a full game the way he plays most fourth quarters.

Rookie quarterbacks E.J. Manuel damn near knocked off Bill Belicheat and, of course, we all saw Smith beat the Bucs. Meanwhile, Josh Freeman’s record in road contests the past 16 games is a woeful 4-12.

Mason Foster strong: Though he started slow (who didn’t?) with poor pass defense, Bucs middle linebacker Mason Foster had a helluva game and a sack that forced a fumble. Great stuff.

VJax: He played outstanding football. If half the team played as well as Vincent Jackson, then a win would have been in the bag. Man, where would the Bucs be without this guy?

Mike Williams: He gave Bucs fans a major scare when he cramped up in the first half, but he returned to be productive again. The Bucs offense was so lethargic at points during the game that the best thing about the offense was Williams’ fire engine red shoes.

Lousy stunts: Once in the second half, on a pass play, the Bucs called a silly stunt where Gerald McCoy looped way, way, way to his left. The stunt was so far out to the left that GMC effectively took himself out of the play. He may as well have sat on the bench and taken a break.

When your best defensive lineman is takeb out of a play due to a stunt, Joe wonders just how effective these things can actually be?

NFL thoughts:

Panthers: The Stinking Panthers served notice they are no pushover. Facing a playoff team last year in Seattle, the Panthers held Seattle to 12 points — four field goals! Think it is safe to say the Panthers defense is for real?

Bears: Bratty Jay Cutler threw two touchdowns in the Bears win over the Bengals. This is a team to look out for. The Bears launched Lovie Smith after winning 10 games last year, in part, to light a fire under Cutler.

If the Bucs are going to make the playoffs (quit laughing, there are 15 more games to play), then add the Bears to the Wild Card chase.

Dolphins: They clobbered the hapless Brownies and Joe is thinking Ryan Tannehill could be a top-level quarterback when all is said and done this season. Joe’s not ready to call the Fish a playoff team, but watch out for Tannehill.

Lions: Matt Stafford threw a pair of touchdowns in a win against the Vikings, a playoff team last season. Joe doesn’t know why people rag on Stafford. When healthy, he is a fine quarterback. He’s done something Freeman has never done: get his team to the postseason.

Colts: Andrew Luck wasn’t spectacular, but he picked up where he left off with a pair of touchdowns in a win over the worthless Raiders. New offensive coordinator? No problem.

Chiefs: Joe’s not jumping on the “Andy Reid is God” bandwagon, yet. The Jags are putrid. Totally and completely putrid. Joe’s not sure they could have a winning record in the CFL.

Titans: Like the Chiefs, it was more their opponent’s struggles than anything the Titans did right. People rag on Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik’s efforts to build a defensive line, but what about the Steelers and their offensive line? The Men of Steel have drafted and signed several offensive linemen the past three years and still Mike Tomlin cant’t put together a line that can block a stiff breeze. Injuries are part of the equation, but still.

49ers: Really solid outing against the Packers in a rematch of two playoff teams. Sure, the Packers got hosed over a bad math call by the zebras. Joe has a hunch these two old rivals will face each other again in January.

Rams: Joe’s not sure this is significant or not. Just how good are the Cardinals? But as the old saying in the NFL, a win is a win. Sam Bradford nearly had 300 yards passing. Wonder if he has turned the corner?

Cowgirls: Joe only has three words: Crying David Wilson (remember how Dominik stole Doug Martin from the Giants by trading up ahead of New York?).

Non-NFL thoughts:

1) Wonder if Georgiafan is still crying over Mark Richt after the Bulldogs throttled South Carolina? Speaking of the Cocks, Joe always thinks it’s cool when assistant coaches get into a fight during the game.

2) People rooting for Johnny Football’s demise mightwant to settle down. He is actually playing better than he was last year, albeit against cupcakes. Bama in five days is anything but a cupcake.

3) How does Mack Brown have a job? No coach — none! — gets less out of his recruits than Mack Brown. The good taxpayers of the Lone Star State are paying this guy $5 million a year for this schlap? Unless somehow he gets Texas to totally turn things around, it’s hard to see how Brown returns to Austin next fall. What will be funny is watching all those oil barons rustle up spare change to make a run at Nick Saban for a cool $8 million a year.

4) Have the Rays finally stopped their freefall? Hopefully. Man, what a choke job the Rays are in the middle of. They were in first place; now they are fighting for their wild card lives.

5) The Redbirds and Reds had sweeps over the weekend and the National League Central is a true three-team race. Is there a more overrated manager than Cardinals Mike Matheny? He is brutal. Just exactly how can he justify trotting out Amy Lynn every five days and expect people to pay their hard-earned cash to watch such tripe?

6) Sorry folks, the USA has zero business in Syria. Joe can understand carpet bombing the place for using gas, but in no uncertain terms should an American serviceman step foot on that poisoned soil.

It’s time for America to stop being the world’s cop. With so many Americans needing jobs, healthcare, etc., there is no rational reason to invest billions of Benjamins over there.

7) Joe likes the blonde edict of Fox Sports 1.

8) Joe saw Fox Sports sideline princess Erin Andrews covort with eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune Sunday. Man, she is skinny!

9) Joe will have more on this later this week, but he will recount his trip to the Big Apple and Sopranosland. In short, his stories will include a lost cabbie/thief, body painting, Cornhusker Beer in Times Square and the Gettysburg Address.

10) Joe is so tired, he doesn’t even want a cold beer.

Greg Schiano didn’t like his offense today.

“I think the flow of our offense, we had no flow. It was choppy at best,” Schiano said, via the Buccaneers Radio Network audio below. “Some individuals made some good plays, but we just never got on a roll.”

Too many penalties on both sides of the ball — 13 total — were “unexcusable,” Schiano said. “That’s not going to be who we are going forward, but it cost us today.”

Joe can’t disagree. Joe’s already dropped a load of blame on Mike Sullivan. But Joe’s not sure how this gets fixed so fast. And Joe doesn’t know how a team drilled on details comes out sloppy and high schoolish?  Schiano needed weeks to right the ship last season, ending a five-game losing streak in grand fashion in Atlanta to close the season. (Hear the full audio below, via 620wdae.com.)

There are few players Joe likes more than Bucs linebacker Lavonte David. He will be in Pro Bowls. He will have a wonderful career in the NFL. But there is no way anyone can justify — or deny — his complete brain-dead play of a late hit on Jets quarterback Geno Smith that allowed the Jets to kick a game-winning field goal to open the 2013 season.

David, being the stand up guy he is, talked to Joe and maybe a dozen other reporters after the game about the play in question.

[Jets quarterback Geno Smith] just made a good play,” David said. “Nah, they just called the flag, I guess they thought I hit him out of bounds.“

David, who was in tears over the play and the outcome it forced, was nearly inconsolable on the sidelines but defensive line coach Bryan Cox and his teammates rushed to prop him up.

Players and coaches told David “’just keep your head up.’ Guys around here are very supportive. That’s what you need to be a great team. One play doesn’t make you.”

The Bucs were called for several personal fouls on defense for either late hits or what referees determined were hits on defenseless players, or hits to the head. David, maybe unaware the NFL has rules against such hits, noted this is the way the Bucs play.

“That’s the way our defense is, play aggressive, just play physical,” David said. “You are going to get called those calls. You may not feel like that’s the right call but you can’t do anything about it. That’s the way it is. We are aggressive and that’s what makes it great.”

Yes, there are things you can do about it. Do what most teams in the NFL do. They adjust to the rules of the game, whether they like the rules or not.

Roger Goodell isn’t going to order a stable of referees to call a different game just because the Bucs are playing.

It’s hard for any Bucs fan to not think the sky is falling tonight, after the Bucs delivered one of the ugliest losses in team history — to the hands of the sorry New York Jets and rookie QB Geno Smith.

However, all is not lost. Don’t head for the Skyway yet.

Darrelle Revis made his long awaited return and he played quite a bit, about two-thirds of the of the Bucs’ snaps on defense. He looked good. He broke up passes. The Jets tested him early and often, and Revis was up to the task. He’ll get better, stronger and more confident.

Revis, of course, will be a lot busier against the Saints next Sunday, when the Bucs will have to generate more pass rush.

There’s no way the Bucs can get away with blitzing Drew Brees like they did Smith today. But if Revis can revive his proverbial island, and Dashon Goldson and Darrelle Revis can continue to hit and intimidate, Joe’s confident the Bucs’ defense will be alright this season. It’s the offense Joe’s most worried about.

Yes, it was an ugly, brutal loss for the Bucs. A stinging loss. But Joe’s good friends at WDAE-AM 620 and the Buccaneers Radio Network have all sorts of audio from the primary players in today’s game, as well as Bucs coach Greg Schiano.

Included in the audio clips are wide receiver Mike Williams, linebacker Mason Foster, safety Mark Barron, cornerback Leonard Johnson, linebacker Lavonte David, defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, safety Dashon Goldson, linebacker Dekoda Watson, offensive tackle Donald Penn and quarterback Josh Freeman.

In addition, there are press conferences from Freeman and from Schiano, as well as Schiano’s one-on-one interview with the Buccaneers Radio Network.

All audio courtesy of Joe’s trusty recorder, WDAE-AM 620, and the Buccaneers Radio Network.

Every Bucs fan’s favorite tight end, Sgt. Winslow, who bristled at Bucs coach Greg Schiano’s New Schiano Order, and who quit on Bill Belicheat last year, caught a late first half touchdown against the Bucs today and was gloating in the win against his former team.

“It was huge,” Winslow said. “I’ve been in this type of situation many times and never managed to pull it out. This is what the hard work is put in for. It always seems to come down to six points or two minutes left in the game so we were prepared for it.

“It feels really good. I was real emotional before the game and I had to control myself. But it felt real good and I’m glad we came out with a win. It’s all about situational football. When you play situational football, you practice it and execute it on Sunday. It becomes easier.”

Joe is getting inundated by Bucs fans who are crying that Lavonte David is not at fault for handing the Jets the upset win. Instead, they claim David did the right thing by shoving Jets quarterback Geno Smith out of bounds, drawing a late-hit penalty, which gave the Jets a chance to kick a game-winning field goal.

Joe is covering the game in New Jersey and was just chatting with good guy Peter Schrager of FoxSports.com, who told Joe to watch the replay of the play in question because Gerald McCoy understood the circumstance and pulled up on the play.

Indeed. In this NFL.com video, at the 2:30 mark, you can see that GMC clearly had an angle on Smith as the Jets quarterback was headed out of bounds to kill the clock, and GMC pulled up on the play as to avoid getting flagged for a personal foul, which is exactly what happened to David.

The difference was GMC used his head on the play.

One reason the Bucs jettisoned Raheem Morris and brought in commander Greg Schiano was to bring discipline to the team. To bring order to what was considered a circus.

If Joe didn’t know any better, then Joe would have thought Raheem Morris was back with the club.

Penalties, dropped balls, boneheaded plays, guys not knowing situations, slow starts. Good grief, it was as if a high school team was playing at the Meadowlands today.

Yes, of course, the worst example was Lavonte David’s personal foul on a play he didn’t need to make, and one he shouldn’t have made, pushing Jets quarterback Geno Smith.

There were others. Leonard Johnson’s blatant holding penalty kept a Jets drive alive, which ended in a field goal.

Oh, and then there was Kevin Ogletree’s drop of a very catchable pass along the left sidelines, plus 13 penalties in all.

Two timeouts and a delay of game on three consecutive plays in the first half? Really? A high school coach would have had a conniption over such a stunt.

Stop with the helmet communication malfunction. You don’t think Schiano and the Bucs don’t practice for such things? There’s a reason the Bucs daily practice with fake crowd noise that is so loud you cannot hear yourself think much less what others are saying.

Joe thinks it’s pretty obvious that at least the first team offense needed just a few more snaps than what it received this summer. That Bucs offense, especially in the first half, looked rustier than a German U-Boat shipwreck off the Cayman Islands.

Last year, Greg Schiano set up his Buccaneers for a late-fourth-quarter punt against the Eagles. Why? Because rather than put the game in the hands of Josh Freeman and Vincent Jackson, for example, Schiano preferred to let his porous secondary match up against rookie Nick Foles.

The Bucs lost.

Today, the Bucs got a huge third-down play from Vincent Jackson. With 1:06 remaining against the Jets, the Bucs had momentum and a first down at the Jets’ 26 yard line trailing 15-14.

Did Greg Schiano go for the jugular? Did he go back to one of his elite receivers for a shot in the end zone to put away the game? Did he throw for another first down to get in position to tick the clock down to nothing for a final field goal?

Nope.

Schiano ran three times, played it safe, and Rian Lindell kicked a 37-yard field goal to give the Bucs the lead with :34 seconds remaining.

Jets win.

Joe knows fans can second guess Schiano all day long. There’s no right answer. But Schiano does trend very conservative, and he doesn’t seem to trust his offense. Today it didn’t work.