Georgia safety Lewis Cine.

Joe cannot help wanting ballcarriers on other teams, the morning after a Bucs win, to feel the hits they absorbed from excellent tackling. (more…)

Bucs OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka.

Any year but this year, Joe would join many other Bucs fans hollering for an edge rusher in tonight’s draft. You can never have too many pass rushers. (more…)

(This is a repost of a published article Joe runs as an annual tradition for the morning of the first day of the NFL draft.)

Joe’s going to go slightly personal here, a rare, albeit tiny window into Joe’s background on this holiest of high football holidays. (more…)

CBS analyst says Clemson CB Andrew Booth an improvement for Bucs.

Joe will go over this one last time why he is so high on Clemson cornerback Andrew Booth, and why Joe believes Booth can help the Bucs win another Super Bowl. As in 2022. As in now, likely Tom Brady’s final rodeo in Tampa. (more…)

What’s more fun on the eve of draft night than remembering how Gerald McCoy put his foot down to label the best defensive tackle in this draft.

And now it’s feeling like the Bucs could trade down to get him. (more…)

Interesting advertising is popping on the Buccaneers’ official website tonight. (more…)

Jamel Dean, a 2019 third-round pick, and head coach Todd Bowles.

It’s hard for Joe to believe this is a total coincidence. (more…)

Cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting

The Bucs entered the 2020 season handing starting cornerback jobs to three very young players. It was perhaps the greatest gamble of the Jason Licht-Bucco Bruce Arians regime. (more…)

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Not a reach to select Penn State WR Jahan Dotson.

There are two very real and very scary questions that very few people on the planet Earth know the answer to that easily could shape the direction of the Bucs’ draft. (more…)

Hard-hitting Georgia safety Lewis Cine.

So last night on a special ESPN presentation, all the network’s NFL beat reporters took part in a mock draft. (more…)

Same ol’ same ol’?

The leader of the Bucs’ special teams and former NWA wrestling champion (sarcasm), defensive tackle Pat O’Connor, made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio on “The End Zone” co-hosted by Alex Marvez and Zig Fracassi. (more…)

Offers advice.

Anyone who follows prickly Pete Prisco of CBS Sports on social media or watches his videos knows he is very firm in his beliefs and is never afraid to share them or even tangle with coaches in person. (more…)

“Holy sh!t!”

Yesterday, BSPN+ launched the long-awaited chapter, Episode 10, of “The Man in the Arena” segment. It is a series produced by Bucs quarterback Tom Brady chronicling his career. (more…)

Last summer, the Bucs’ young veteran tight ends kicked off training camp wearing shorts and visors. (more…)

Bucco Bruce Arians peels back the curtain.

An April fire is burning at One Buc Palace. (more…)

Gerald McCoy talks Bucs draft.

One of the great Buccaneers of all-time is also one of the biggest Bucs fans out there. (more…)

Flash poll posted at 11:33 a.m. Flash Poll closed at 2:05 p.m.

Monster Georgia DT Jordan Davis.

Joe confesses to being mocked out. It sure would help if folks only did one mock draft. What kind of confidence do you have in your mock if you have to change it almost as often as you change your underwear? (more…)

Graybeard.

Former Bucs defensive tackle Booger McFarland recently held court on local sports radio and had several interesting things to say. (more…)

Michigan safety Dax Hill.

Yeah, the late-January loss to the Rams is seared in Joe’s hard drive. Aside from seeing the defense gouged by Matthew Stafford and Cooper Kupp, one element of the cornerback play was galling. (more…)