There was a long phone call Wednesday between new Bucs head coach Todd Bowles and Tom Brady. (more…)

By Sean Sullivan – JoeBucsFan.com draft guru

Reaching for the Skyy (not a typo)?

The depth at wide receiver position in this month’s draft is sensational. It has stars and Day 1 starters well into the later rounds. (more…)

Making sense of the senseless.

As Joe has mentioned, unless there is an exposé in five or 10 years detailing what transpired behind the scenes as the Bucs went from Tom Brady retiring to unretiring to Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians retiring within a span of 60 days, the Arians-Brady dynamic will be forever known as the Bucs’ version of the Grassy Knoll Theory. (more…)

Options for 2022.

So the question on every Bucs’ fans mind these days is, “When the hell is foot-rubbing tight end Rob Gronkowski going to sack up and get back to the Bucs?” (more…)

Jason Licht and Team Glazer fell one move short.

Nearly every move the Bucs have made since Tom Brady arrived appears to reflect the organization’s win-now mentality.

But there are two glaring exceptions. (more…)

New Bucs co-defensive coordinator Larry Foote.

Yes, new Bucs head coach Todd Bowles will still be calling the defensive plays in 2022. (Joe strongly suspects his next defensive call will be much better than his last one!) (more…)

Thoughts on wild week.

What a crazy Bucs week this has been Joe doesn’t think it could ever be duplicated. (more…)

Joe wrote this story about six months ago but the subject is more relevant today after fresh comments from head coach Todd Bowles. (more…)

Waiting.

When Tom Brady announced he would return as the Bucs quarterback, an intimate of his, former NFL suit Michael Lombardi, had said upon Brady’s return that it was “Tampa or nobody.” (more…)

What’s the spread?

So the Bucs were a popular bet for some in Las Vegas to make a run at the Super Bowl. This was before Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians announced he was stepping aside. (more…)

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Only Bruce Arians would even try to pull this off.

Who else could stand in front of a podium at One Buc Place and make a compelling case for walking away from a team now favored to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl?

Skeptics remain, dangling the Tom Brady as instigator theory, but you don’t have to be naive to trust the collective narrative advanced by Arians, Joel Glazer and Jason Licht. (more…)

Talking intangibles!

Intangibles? Cynthia Frelund? Really? (more…)

Back in the saddle.

UPDATED 2:30 p.m. – Ira can rest easy tonight. (more…)

Todd Bowles talks defense

Joe is taking a breather from all the pomp and circumstance and drama of the last couple of weeks to think about real football.

That’s what Todd Bowles was talking about this morning. (more…)

“Jason, about this Jaelon Darden …”

Once upon a time a Bucs head coach firmly said he would steer clear of all things defense because he’d probably screw things up. (more…)

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Bucs DT Steve McLendon.

Why are so many people embracing the second gunman theory of the Bucs’ drama the past two months, that the only way Tom Brady would return is if former Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians stepped aside?

Because it is the only thing that remotely makes sense in a series of moves that makes no sense. (more…)

The oldest defensive player in the NFL last season played for the Bucs and it wasn’t Ndamukong Suh. (more…)

Head coach Todd Bowles

Joe always suspected that Bucco Bruce Arians valued the reams of analytic data delivered to his desk as little more than rough toilet paper.

But what about new head coach Todd Bowles and the rest of the staff? (more…)

“Sorry, Prickly Pete, I’m not trusting you with that kind of info.”

Bucco Bruce Arians made the call to break the news of him quitting the Bucs’ head coaching gig to two sportswriters simultaneously — and he asked them to hold the secret for days. (more…)

Bucs coach and Bill Parcells man Todd Bowles

The Jets organization is a joke. And it can drag down good men. Sort of like now the Bucs’ Lost Decade swallowed up and spit out good people because losing was so ingrained into One Buc Palace. (more…)