The repeated shots fired by Warren Sapp at Michael Strahan, which are growing more powerful, are wearing on Tampa Bay Times columnist and notorious Joe basher Tom Jones.

Jones, who also co-hosts Sports Page on WDAE-AM 620, is disgusted by Sapp verbally trampling on the career of Strahan as Sapp tries to make a case that Simeon Rice was a better player.

“He’s being an A-Hole,” Jones said of Sapp this week.

“Show some class. You’re going into the Hall of Fame. Everybody’s celebrating your career. Why run people down along the way?” said Jones, who added the everybody knows Sapp is being “small.”

Joe might agree with Jones here, but for Joe there’s an awful lot of gray area, as Sapp is a national analyst on NFL Network. Sapp, like Jones, is paid handsomely for his candid opinions and to keep himself relevant, classy or not. (You can catch Jones’ full discussion of the subject below.)

It’s quiet at One Buc Palace. Many football operations’ staff have gone fishing, trying to charge their batteries for the long, long, long haul ahead.

Still, with the “Gone Fishing” sign posted, that doesn’t mean others are resting.

In an interesting breakdown of what the roster may look like when training camp practices begin July 25, an article on Buccaneers.com (intrepid Scott Smith?) details why the roster is still fluid until that time.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are currently putting the finishing touches on the 90-man roster they will take to training camp in late July. You may have caught some recent tweaks to that roster, such as the additions of Derek Hagan and Michael Adams. In those cases, the receiver position kept the same numbers (the waiver paired with Hagan’s signing was rookie wideout Jheranie Boyd) while the cornerback crew got a slight bump at the expense of the offensive line (rookie guard Jeremy Lewis).

There could be another move or two before the start of camp on July 25. All players, coaches and football operations folks will be taking some vacation time between now and training camp, but the NFL waiver wire never shuts down. The Bucs will surely keep an eye on that wire, and they may choose to massage the numbers at one position or another before camp starts.

Still, we have a pretty good working camp roster at this point, so it’s instructive to look at how those 90 spots break down by position. You’ll find those numbers in the table below along with, for comparison’s sake, the breakdown from the first day of training camp in 2012, Head Coach Greg Schiano’s first season at the helm. The last column in the table below shows how the 53 spots broke down by position when the Bucs opened the regular season a year ago, which helps demonstrate which spots will be most competitive in camp.

Look, there is little question to Joe that the 88th or 89th or 90th guy on the training camp roster won’t be starting when the Bucs open against the Jets in the New Jersey Swamplands. That’s highly unlikely, and Joe will take such a bet any day, any time.

But who knows, maybe the last guy signed (in July) makes the practice squad, or at best plays special teams for the Bucs.

The fact the Bucs are not settled on a roster is actually a good thing, not something to loathe.

While many Bucs fans were pacing their bedrooms in the middle of the night, bottle of antacid in hand and worried about the horrid Bucs secondary from the previous year, Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik was doing something about it, unbeknownst to the public.

One remedy was signing punishing free agent safety Dashon Goldson. In this countdown of the top 25 players in the NFC South, ESPN NFC South blogger Pat Yasinskas lists Goldson at No. 18, before the man has played a snap in the division.

What he did in 2012: In helping the San Francisco 49ers reach the Super Bowl, Goldson had 69 tackles, three interceptions and a forced fumble.

Why he’s No. 18 in 2013: Signing Goldson was the first big move the Bucs made in the offseason because they believe he can help fix a pass defense that ranked No. 32 in the league in 2012. Last season, the Bucs used Ronde Barber at free safety. Barber did a decent job, but often played in the box and that forced strong safety Mark Barron to end up in coverage more than the team wanted. Goldson is more of a natural center fielder and his presence should free up Barron from deep coverage duties and allow him to take more advantage of his physical style of play. Goldson also is known as a leader and he’s been on some teams that have won big. The Bucs are hoping Goldson’s ability and experience can help improve the entire defense.

Joe believes Yasinskas nailed it in his last point: Leadership. Joe has seen with his own eyes how the younger members of the Bucs’ secondary are following Goldson around like ducklings would their mother. He works with the young guys sometimes 30 minutes after practice. Not that he’s told to do it, but he knows the work necessary to hone your craft and build a winner.

Goldson has lived the life of playing on a putrid team that transformed itself into a Super Bowl team. Just judging by his leadership skills, Goldson’s salary is already beginning to pay off, and it’s not yet July.

Bucs rookie defensive end William Gholston, an athletic freak at 6-6, 281 pounds, talks in this video about his love of football and how he believes study is the key.

The latest power rankings on NFL.com rank the Bucs at No. 20 but, more troubling, 12th among NFC teams.

News flash: there are only 16 teams in the conference. Six make the playoffs.

Analyst Elliot Harrison was the evaluator. And it’s no surprise he was focused on whether Josh Freeman can make the leap from talented to winner.

Freeman does have a load of pressure on him, but in many ways he doesn’t. No. 5 has a stout running game, a phenomenal offensive line, two true stud receivers, and a comfort level within his offense. A quarterback couldn’t ask for much more.

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The controversy stirred up by intern-loving, former Giants disgruntled running back and fallen media mogul Tiki Barber’s statement that Warren Sapp is “an idiot” for saying former Bucs defensive end Simeon Rice has just as much if not a better resume for the Pro Football Hall of Fame than former Giants Michael Strahan continues.

This time, it is Rice who is talking on the record. Still giddy off his Chicago Blackhawks winning the Stanley Cup, Rice spoke with Booger McFarland, co-host of the “Booger and Rich Show,” heard on WHFS-FM 98.7. Rice not only thanked Sapp for sticking up for him, and lauded Strahan, but slapped Tiki Barber for sticking his nose where it shouldn’t have been, Rice feels.

Booger McFarland: I agree with Sapp. I think you were one of the greatest pass rushers of all tiem and way better than Michael Strahan.

Simeon Rice: I felt mine [skills] is unparalleled. My skill level was unparalleled. You ask me a straight question, I this [Strahan] is great too. I thought his [skills] were really good. He had a great career, too. I felt like I was in a class of my own.

When I played, I played with a chip because I never got the respect I truly deserved. I always thought brilliance and greatness goes noticed but felt mine was associated with great talent, not hard work. “Stra” had a great career. I was different, a different breed.

As for Sapp pimping Rice both in print and on the NFL Network, Rice seemed humbled but also irritated by Tiki Barber.

“We weren’t the best of friends,” Rice said of Sapp. “One thing about Sapp is, although he seems like he is speaking out of the ordinary, he is speaking 100 percent real. The truth about football is the only thing important to him and he never did liked posers. If you balled, he would be the first one to give you props whether he liked you or not. I don’t think Tiki knows the knowledge that Warren is coming with. A great mind.”

As for how good Rice was, he said he would let the late, great Deacon Jones speak for himself. Rice talked about the time Jones visited the Bucs.

“He came into our meeting room and said, ‘Where is Simeon Rice?’ Then he told me, ‘I love the way you play. Keep doing what you are doing.'”

What more street cred can a defensive end get than props from the greatest of them all, Deacon Jones? That’s surely good enough for Joe.

Yes, Joe likes to boast a little bit that he began begging Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik to draft Nebraska linebacker Lavonte David back in December 2011, as a fourth-round, perhaps a third-round pick.

Dominik drafted David in the late second round, but the way David played as a rookie, he could have been the first overall pick and the Bucs still would have looked smart.

David was simply outstanding last year. He even drew comparisons to another speedy, undersized linebacker some Bucs fans may remember — a guy by the name of Derrick Brooks.

A certain NFC South blogger mocked those who compared David to Brooks. After watching him perform as a rookie, Pat Yasinskas admits he’s been won over by the No. 20 player in the NFC South, David.

What he did in 2012: As a rookie, he was in on 139 tackles with two sacks and an interception while starting 16 games.

Why he’s No. 20 in 2013: It didn’t take David long to emerge as a defensive leader last year and I expect him to be even better in his second season. I chuckled when some people compared David to Derrick Brooks prior to last season. I’m not laughing now. It still may be a little premature to put David in the same class as a guy who will be heading for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But there are a lot of similarities between the two. The next step for David is to become more of a playmaker. I expect that to start happening this year and that’s why David is in my top 20.

If David was this good as a rookie, Joe positively drools over how he might play this season in both his second year in the NFL and his second year in the New Schiano Order.

David very well may be the top up-and-comer in the NFC. He should be the anchor to the Bucs defense for quite some time.

This afternoon, the Bucs released 2013 training camp dates and times that are open to the public at One Buc Palace. Currently, there are 10 practices for fan viewing. Of course, dates and times are subject to change.

Thursday, July 25: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Friday, July 26: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, July 27: 6:30 – 9 p.m. (at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway).
Monday, July 29: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Wednesday, July 31: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Thursday, Aug. 1: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Friday, Aug. 2: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 3: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Tuesday, Aug. 6: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.
Saturday, Aug. 10: 8:45 – 11:30 a.m.

As fans can read as well as Joe, all but the night practice at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway are morning practices.

In other words, bring your caffeine and bagels.

While Donald Penn may have passed on TV time this morning on NFL Network’s glorified waste of electricity, the dancing-obsessed “NFL AM,” Warren Sapp did not.

No, Sapp wasn’t scheduled to go on NFL AM to discuss his dance moves. Sapp, soon to be inducted in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, appeared last night on “Total Access” — a show that somehow avoids forced dancing talk into each episode — and again, campaigned for his former teammate Simeon Rice to join him in Canton. That continued Sapp’s war of words against former Giants defensive end Michael Strahan.

When asked to comment on intern-loving, former Giants disgruntled running back and fallen media mogul Tiki Barber’s statement that Sapp is “an idiot” for mocking Strahan, Sapp tried to dodge it, but when pressed, he came out firing like only Sapp can.

The Giants “drafted Michael Strahan to replace the great Lawrence Taylor on the right side and he averaged four sacks a year [at right end],” Sapp said. Strahan had 128 sacks and “Simeon Rice had 122 and had never been moved.

“The only Tiki I want to talk about is at the Postcard Inn.”

Joe thinks Sapp makes a great point. Rice nearly had as many sacks as Strahan and neither the Cardinals, who drafted Rice, nor the Bucs had to find a position for him to excel. Rice dominated at right defensive end.

Joe fears Rice will go down in NFL history as the L.C. Greenwood of his day: a ferocious pass rusher who was the odd man out with so many teammates getting into Canton.

And Joe believes there will be three more of Sapp’s former teammates who will reach Canton.

Props to Donald Penn for his reaction to the Aaron Hernandez arrest mess

The heinous NFL AM show on NFL Network was supposed to have Donald Penn as a special in-studio guest this morning, but Penn wisely gave a last-minute “no thanks.”

Penn explained via Twitter that he didn’t want to be part of the ratings-grabbing, TMZ-like coverage all morning of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez’s arrest. Yes, NFL Network had a reporter camped out on the scene and cameras outside Hernandez’s house.

‏@DPENN70  –  I want 2 thank @NFL_AM staff 4 giving me a choice 2go on or not 2 I chose not 2 didn’t want 2 talk about the Hernandez arrest the whole time

Penn really made the right call.

Aside from precious diluted national exposure for the Bucs — from arguably their most colorful personality– Penn also avoided the inevitable line of questioning about what it was like in the Bucs’ locker room during the multiple arrests of helmet-wielding, cabbie-slugging, Adderrall-popping, coach-cussing, referee-charging, pistol-friendly, granny-hassling Aqib Talib.

While his take on all that likely would have been priceless, Penn wisely took a rain check.

The Bucs’ former manbeast backup running back, the pride of 2010 Buccaneers history and an extraordinary talent, LeGarrette Blount, likely had enough of being a “Buccaneer Man” and asked to be traded, so claims Luke Hughes of NESN.com out of Boston.

Hughes shared the vibe he got from what Blount didn’t say while being peppered by media questions after a Patriots practice earlier this month. Blount’s attitude also is impressing Patriots coaches.

Per the trade, Blount has remained tight-lipped since coming to the Patriots, but a little question dodging at OTAs sure made it seem like he requested it.

That uncertainty isn’t an issue for the Patriots, and neither is his attitude thus far. “I love him in the meetings, I love being around him,” [running back coach] Fears said. “So, we’ll see what he does when it counts. That’s when you’re really gonna love the guy, when he gets out on the field and makes some things happen.”

Good behavior will help Blount in his quest to make the final roster, but, even as a former 1,000-yard back (2010), nothing is guaranteed — a feeling he knows quite well. “I’m always going to feel like I have something to prove,” Blount said. “It’s just as a football player and a competitor, I’m always going to feel like I have something to prove.”

Blount requesting a trade is a fresh angle Joe hadn’t explored. It makes sense.

When Blount agreed to a new contract from the Bucs this winter, rather than have a restricted free agent tender slapped on him, it not only freed up the Bucs to trade him, but it increased the odds Blount wouldn’t have to spend another season grounded as a backup running back in a one-back system. Blount’s agent would have been wise to push the Bucs to move Blount and/or make him easy to trade.

Regardless, Joe wouldn’t have traded Blount for a seventh-round pick. He was good insurance. Heaven forbid Doug Martin goes down injured this season, Joe suspects that would lead legions of Bucs fans to wish Blount was pounding the rock behind Carl Nicks and Davin Joseph and maintaining his 4.6 yards per carry career average.

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Joe’s got a hearty breakfast here for those starving for football Xs and Os and real strategy talk. It comes from the outspoken yet anonymous “NFLosophy,” who is rumored to be a former NFL front office type and has quite a following on Twitter (@NFLosophy).

After the Bucs acquired Darrelle Revis, this NFLosophy dude went deep into what he calls The Revis Effect, complete with an NFL “all-22” film breakdown and all kinds of detail.

Here’s a snippet:

What you see here is Revis on an island at the top of the screen. The single-high safety is shading over top of the 2 wide receivers and tight end towards the bottom of the shot. In 11-personnel (1 running back, 1 tight end) and a 3×1 formation (3 receivers to one side) a lot of defenses will elect to play Cover-2 or if they go Cover-3 or Cover-1 man, the CB on an island will usually play in off-coverage. This will allow the receiver a short to intermediate route to ensure that he doesn’t beat the single coverage over the top.

As you see it, even in a personnel package that screams pass, the Jets have 8 men in the box. They’re comfortable leaving Revis in press man outside and a single safety over top of the 3 receivers to one side. The Jets are set up to defend both the run and the pass because of the flexibility that Revis gives them. They’re also daring Tannehill to try to throw at Revis here – something they like to do.

One of the other things that Revis allows is that by dropping a safety in the box the Jets can clutter the middle of the field making it harder to find windows to throw into. Revis essentially has the left 1/3 of the field covered. The Jets have more than enough available players to drop into coverage to blanket the remaining 2/3 of the field.

You can click the link above to read the whole examination of Revis. What Joe enjoyed most is the video below. The author uses this film from Revis’ final game of 2012 in Miami (when Revis blew out his knee) to remind us that Revis is stout against the run. Revis, aka The Boy Wonder, is the pursuing cornerback at the bottom of the screen.

The Bucs like to promote their players to the community as “Buccaneer Men.” It’s something that has been a focus of Bucs coach Greg Schiano.

What is a “Buccaneer Man? One who gives his all on the field, and gives back to the community; a player who makes fans proud.

Well, Donald Penn, stepped forward. While he didn’t give back to the local Tampa Bay community in this particular instance (he has in the past), his kindness helped out his old high school football team, which has fallen on hard time. That’s surely what a Buccaneer Man is all about, writes Jason Lewis of the Los Angeles Sentinel.

Penn hosted a youth football camp at his old high school, even brought along Hall of Famer Eric Dickerson. The cost? Not one red cent, just dedication and work from the campers, that’s all.

“The camp was remarkable,” St. Bernard High School football coach John Bibb said. “It was an outstanding thing for the community and the boys. That pigskin brings together a lot of things that inner city kids need, outer city kids need, youth as a whole need. Discipline and teamwork.”

Many children do not have the opportunity to be coached by NFL players, especially because of the cost of many camps.

“This day and age the economy is rough,” Bibb said. “So I want to emphasize that this camp was free. There are camps from here to Alabama to Texas, and locally at UCLA and USC. Camps have to get the money to run the camps. They have to pay for the coaches, and to pay for the facilities. One thing Donald Penn did was give this to us for free.”

That’s just very cool for Penn to do that (and Dickerson and a few others) out of their own time, using their own checkbook.

If that’s not what a Buccaneer Man does, then Joe doesn’t know the definition.

Warren Sapp knows how to stir the stick. And Joe loves that about him, especially in the weeks leading to training camp where football news is scant.

Recently, Sapp (again) went after former Giants defensive end and TV personality Michael Strahan for being, in so many words, overrated. Sapp slammed Strahan all while propping up former teammate Simeon Rice.

Yesterday, intern-loving Tiki Barber lashed out at Sapp for his war of words with Strahan.

Now it is pile-on time, as sports sheriff Gregg Doyel of CBSSports.com took Sapp to task for being classless.

Winning wasn’t enough for Warren Sapp. He wanted to elevate the Hall of Fame candidacy of Simeon Rice, which is a fine and noble thing to do, but he chose the most dishonorable way to do it, by knocking down Michael Strahan.

Sapp and Strahan have a history, see. A history of Sapp’s creation. He didn’t like the way Strahan set the single-season record for sacks on that infamous play in 2001 when unprotected Packers quarterback Brett Favre took a dive. Sapp has ripped Strahan several times for Favre’s dive, as if that was Strahan’s fault.

Doyel has a point. Sapp could have easily trumped Rice’s chances at the Pro Football Hall of Fame without suggesting Strahan was a bust and unworthy of Canton consideration.

Sapp has a right to be rankled about the Brett Favre dive; so is Joe. Rather than rag on Strahan for it, Sapp should call his good buddy Favre (they are friends) and ask Favre why he would pull such a stunt.

No matter what Sapp says or doesn’t say, he has scoreboard over Strahan. Sapp will have a bust in Canton in a few weeks. Strahan, for the time being, will have to pay to look at it.

Vincent Jackson is confident the Bucs will improve their offense significantly this season. The Bucs were the NFL’s ninth-ranked offense in 2012.

There couldn’t be more pressure on Josh Freeman and the Bucs coaching staff entering this season. Joe loves it. This season is what being a fan is all about. — high expectations and, hopefully, excuses-free.

The Bucs are loaded with eight Pro Bowlers, all 30 and under, and they should be thoroughly settled in to their offense, which was ranked ninth in the NFL in just its first season.

Count on the offense being better out of the gate in 2013, so said Vincent Jackson yesterday on WDAE-AM  620. Jackson hit the popular talking points of why Year 2 under the New Schiano Order will mean better efficiency and execution, but Jackson really zeroed in on Josh Freeman taking a big leap.

“He’s going to be way, way, way ahead of the curve, as far as, you know, where we started last year going into this training camp,” Jackson said. “He spent a lot of time, you know, on his own outside of what we’re required to do. Just becoming more familiar, becoming more comfortable with this offense. And you can see that already. And once he really continues to excel at that, at that part of the game, then you can just already see his physical tools just start to shine. You know he’s not out there thinking so much. He’s just being, you know, that big, strong athletic quarterback that’s firing the ball around. It’s going to be a big year for Josh. We’re excited for him.”

Again, Joe loves all the big talk and no-excuses mentality. It’s not manufactured. The Bucs should be better on both sides of the ball, which should translate into an improved record. (You can catch Jackson’s entire WDAE interview below.)

Derrick Brooks already has said Lavonte David is a better linebacker than he was after his first season. “Far ahead” of me is how Brooks described it.

Ronde Barber also has compared David’s football mind and instincts to those of Brooks.

“I look at Lavonte David and I see a young Derrick Brooks, not necessarily how he plays, but just like his instincts and just his knack for football,” Barber said in November. “That was one thing Derrick really had, just kind of a knack for the game. Lavonte’s absolutely shown that in the first part of his career. ”

David’s football brain also pushes the Bucs’ offense intensely, Josh Freeman explained recently on WDAE-AM 620.

Freeman’s point was that David is constantly picking up things during practice plays that the Bucs offense is working to hide, and then David calls defensive adjustments to counter the tip-offs he gets from the offense. Freeman said David is so gifted in this area that Freeman will sometimes watch practice film and can’t pick up on what David is seeing.

Ronde Barber was a master at all that, Freeman said, but the quarterback’s implication was that David takes it a step further.

Joe wonders how much better David can get. Will he get better? The season David had in 2012 was astounding.

Bryan Cox told Joe becoming a superstar means raising the level of those around you, something to look for from David this season.

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Now this is starting to get good.

Intern-scoping Tiki Barber, former Giants disgruntled running back and fallen media mogul, who is also the twin brother of Bucs icon Ronde Barber, has had just about enough of Warren Sapp mocking Barber’s former teammate, Michael Strahan.

Last week, Sapp, just weeks away from being inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, resumed his war of words with Strahan, belittling the former Giants hero claiming Strahan couldn’t hold Simeon Rice’s jock.

Barber, in turn, isn’t going to take it anymore and came out swinging at Sapp, reports Paul Schwartz of the New York Post.

“Warren’s an idiot,” Barber said on Monday while attending the Big Daddy Celebrity Golf Classic at Oheka Castle in Huntington. “He just wants to say things to be idiotic. I played with Stray for my whole career. He is the greatest of the great. He is a great teammate, he kept things light, but on game day he was as serious as a heart attack and it showed in his play.

“Warren doesn’t know, never played with him,” Barber said. “I don’t put any credence in his opinion.”

No, Sapp never played with Strahan, but Tiki never played with Rice either. Rice may not be better than Strahan, but Joe doesn’t think Rice’s NFL work should be trivialized.

If anything, Rice’s body of work is rather underplayed.

Joe wonders what Chucky thinks of this?

Hopefully, with Dave Wannstedt on board, the Bucs’ special teams turn in the right direction.

Joe found it a bit curious in the offseason that Bucs coach Greg Schiano would reach out to his buddy and former boss, Dave Wannstedt, to become the Bucs’ new special teams coach.

It isn’t that the hiring of Wannstedt surprised Joe, but it was the position he was assigned.

When Joe spoke with Schiano at the NFL Combine in frigid Indianapolis this winter, Joe asked if Wannstedt would perform other duties other than special teams coach. It seemed a waste to let a guy with his significant experience be stuck with special teams.

No, Schiano told Joe, special teams is critical and Wannstedt would have his hands full.

While looking at the Bucs’ special teams from last season, Jeff Briscoe of Yahoo! Sports pulled back the onion skins and found a woefully underachieving lot, including from guys signed to fat contracts.

Despite expectations, Koenen and Barth disappointingly posted average numbers in 2012, as Tampa Bay finished in the middle of the pack in the categories of punting distance, kickoff return average, and field goal conversion rate. With hefty contracts enjoyed by its kickers, fans rightfully expect better in these measurements.

However, Tampa Bay fared even worse on its own returns. Averaging only 20.3 yards per kickoff, the Bucs posted the NFL’s third smallest kickoff return average in 2012. The club’s punt returns were only slightly better, with a 9.0 average that ranked 19th of 32 teams. Even more discouraging, no touchdowns were produced by the return game and only one attempt exceeded 40 yards.

Briscoe also points to two special teams holes Wannstedt must fill. The first is Ronde Barber, who was a warrior on special teams. The second is a return game of some sort. Since “Run Micheal run” Spurlock left the Bucs, the team has not had a consistently decent return man.

In fact, the revolving door of unreliable return men on both kickoffs and punts pretty much must end if the team hopes to turn around its special teams fortunes.