Hard to grade.

Can someone please remind failing Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich that the NFL is full of good players? (more…)

Head coach Todd Bowles

The Buccaneers defense was handcrafted to stop the run with elite run stuffers and a philosophy that prioritizes it, but Tampa Bay only is an average run-stopping unit this season. (more…)

The Bucs entered the 2022 season on a 22-5 run, so four losses in their last five games truly feels like new territory for the coaching staff.

Perhaps that’s why Todd Bowles has been more emotional than Joe’s ever seen him, and why Bowles said today that he’s been jacking up the volume. (more…)

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich.

Football coaches like to say little things add up to big things. Failing Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich seems to think this applies to his offense. (more…)

Bucs fans, if their vision wasn’t blurry from too much crying, saw second-year linebacker K.J. Britt carted off against the Panthers on Sunday. (more…)

Defended.

Failing Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich dug his heels in and stuck up for Playoff Lenny. (more…)

Brady believers unite!

The Goat has spoken and he sounds like a man determined to go to any length to raise the Bucs from the rock-bottom-like mess they’ve fallen into. (more…)

Bucs RB Rachaad White.

In case some didn’t read this on Monday, Joe turned the page on Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. Joe has had it. Enough is enough. (more…)

Shot taken at GM Jason Licht’s roster.

One retired defensive wizard sees the Bucs offense as extremely plodding, and official NextGen Stats data backs him up. (more…)

Head coach Todd Bowles.

Regular listeners of the “Ira Kaufman Podcast” may have heard Joe reference how a couple of star players seem different in Joe’s interactions with them this season. (more…)

Bucs returner/receiver Jaelon Darden.

Jaelon Darden is one of the more frustrating Bucs of recent years. (more…)

An ESPN TV graphic that aired prior to last night’s Bears-Patriots game.

If you think the Bucs don’t have enough talent to be an average offense on 3rd-and-long or a halfway decent red zone defense, then please stop reading this post. (more…)

Where is the juice?

Adam Schein cannot believe what he is seeing. (more…)

Rookie tight end Cade Otton.

It seems that Bucs rookie tight end Cade Otton may be getting warmed up. (more…)

Unfair to rip defense?

Somebody at One Buc Palace must have hacked off NFL Network analyst Brian Baldinger. (more…)

Rotating left guard.

Joe has no idea if other teams rotate guards. In fact, Joe hasn’t seen something like this since the Bucs and Dirk Koetter rotated Alex Cappa and Caleb Benenoch and before that Evan Smith and Kevin Pamphile, or before there were headphones in quarterbacks’ helmets so teams would rotate players to communicate plays. (more…)

On a day when many Bucs fans have lost their minds and formally are burying the corpse of the greatest run in team history, the head coach let everyone know the team’s collective head is good. (more…)

“Not with this cast, Byron.”

Accomplished quarterbacks and playcallers usually have fantastic perspective when it comes to the performance of other quarterbacks. (more…)

Yeah, Joe realizes most Bucs fans are in full pessimist mode after witnessing arguably the worst two weeks of Bucs football this century.

However, all is not lost. (more…)

Thursday night may be nasty.

Joe is almost feeling sorry for failing Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich. Almost. (more…)

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Head Todd Bowles appeared before the local pen and mic club this morning as the team is full-go in preparation for Thursday night’s game against the Crows. (more…)