Tristan Wirfs explains.

So yesterday Joe was at the Raiders’ oversized Roomba in Las Vegas for Pro Bowl media availability. Most of the Fourth Estate there was penned up like chickens in a coop hoping a player or players would feel sorry enough to walk by and answer a couple of questions. (more…)

Tennessee QB Hendon Hooker.

So unless the Bucs decide to ride (and die) with Kyle Trask next season, or put their playoff hopes in the hands of a veteran quarterback, the Bucs will have to draft a quarterback. (more…)

Saints DE Cameron Jordan.

In the mind of a hated Bucs rival, Bucs fans best be prepared to embrace the suck. Because a new chapter of the Lost Decade is upon us. (more…)

Why exactly would Bucs free agents like Lavonte David and Jamel Dean, along with established veterans like Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Ryan Jensen and Leonard Fournette, be hungry to play for the Bucs next season if management decides to gut the roster, clear its huge salary cap debt and rebuild with a young quarterback? (more…)

“Bruce, I’m not sure this job is as great as you said it was 10 months ago.”

A seasoned and reasoned three-time Super Bowl winner says there’s a definite wrestling match happening behind the scenes at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Drink to being aggressive!

Joe remembers covering the training camp of the old St. Louis Cardinals, Joe’s first big college gig. Joe learned a lot there still in use to this day. (more…)

Defense wasn’t good enough.

The Bucs defense wasn’t bad this season. Problem was, the way the offense stunk, the defense needed to be like the Bucs defense of the glory years. (more…)

Challenges.

The worst place for a team that needs a quarterback is to pick in the middle of the draft. That’s sort of where the Bucs find themselves. (more…)

Very tough decision.

Joe’s favorite Bucs player for the past decade is easily Lavonte David. Maybe one reason is the guy is probably the most underrated linebacker since he came into the league in 2012. (more…)

Man, one hell of a feature was penned by national NFL writer Dan Pompei on nearly everything you might have wanted to know about Ryan Jensen’s return to the field last month after a horrific knee injury in late July. (more…)

Spending has its price.

General manager Jason Licht is sort of operating like the average Joe who has to pay rent in six days but won’t have the money for another two weeks. (more…)

Center Robert Hainsey and guard/center Nick Leverett.

Former general manager Mike Tannenbaum and CBS game analyst Charles Davis, a former defensive back who was on the scene at One Buc Palace when Ryan Jensen blew his knee out in July, were taking their shots at the Bucs yesterday on SiriusXM NFL Radio. (more…)

“Come to Tampa Bay, Derek! We’ll go get liquored up at Hooters. Boy, do I have stories about the Bucs!”

Yesterday, there was a skills competition for quarterbacks in Sin City as part of the Pro Bowl Games, one in a series of events leading up to Sunday’s flag football game. (more…)

Someone always finds a problem.

Probably one of the least offensive men in America somehow found a way, albeit indirectly, to get the easily-offended crowd to suck their thumbs, curl up in fetal position and whine. And that man is none other than Tom Brady. (more…)

Lesson to learn from young QBs?

Yeah, a common belief in the NFL is that if you don’t draft a top-shelf quarterback and develop him, you are banking on tying your team’s future to another team’s unwanted quarterback and maybe that gets you in the playoffs and run right away. (more…)

Can’t see Tom Brady returning.

If anyone knows Tom Brady, it’s his old pal, former Bucs teammate and favorite Brady target dating back to their Belicheat days, foot-rubbing tight end Rob Gronkowski. (more…)

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For 5+ years, The Free Stretch has been here for Bucs fans after being heard on several radio stations dating back to ancient times 2006. Bobby also hosted a national show on Sporting News Radio. (more…)

Cool insight here into Tom Brady’s quick release. (more…)