Wiseguys chime in.

So what do the wiseguys know that the rest of us don’t? (more…)

“Jason, nothing is going to chase me into retirement quicker than if you stick me with Gardner Minshew as a starter.”

It seems the Bucs are at a fork in the road if you heed to words of Albert Breer of SI.com. (more…)

O.J. Howard

Was O.J. Howard ever a good fit in Bucco Bruce Arians’ offense?

A couple of former tight ends went there last week. (more…)

The NFL is marching down its list of Pro Bowl alternates to fill the NFC and AFC rosters for Sunday’s game in Las Vegas. (more…)

TAMPA TWO is back for a look back at a wild Sunday in the AFC. Buccaneers legend Derrick Brooks and Sage of Tampa Bay Sports Ira Kaufman are all over it.

“Answers are everything, Tommy.”

The quality free agents demand to have three questions answered.

In no particular order: (more…)

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Ryan Succop ranked 23rd in field goal conversion percentage this season among full-time kickers.

Joe wouldn’t blame any Bucs fan for singing the blues about the Tampa Bay kicking game. (more…)

Keeping Chris Godwin.

Tomorrow is Feb. 1. Maybe it is just Joe but January seemed very long.

Maybe it was the un-Florida-like gloomy cold the past couple of weeks? Maybe it was no Bucs football for a week? (more…)

“Look, Glazer, you know and I know this growing media spin is about as dumb as trading for Sam Bradford or paying Taysom Hill.”

The stink is rising fast when it comes to how some big voices are trying to explain the expected Tom Brady retirement.

(more…)

“I took care of it, Dad.”

So Joe brought word over the weekend about what one respected NFL reporter thinks will be an “exodus” with the Bucs coaching staff in the wake of Tom Brady retiring.

Provided he retires. (more…)

Pitt QB Kenny Pickett

Joe has seen a lot of comments about what the Bucs should do at quarterback for 2022, provided Tom Brady retires.

(more…)

A guy who Bucs quarterback Tom Brady personally employs to keep his business dealings straight apparently has been calling around the NFL looking for a new job. (more…)

“Hey, Billy O’Brien, how’s life in Alabama? Look, you wouldn’t still have Deshaun Watson’s cell still, would you?”

The final sentence of Ian Rapoport’s report this morning sure had a strong degree of finality. (more…)

Is Tom Brady possibly quitting because he has run out of patience with the Bucco Bruce Arians regime?

This line of thinking is being peddled by two prominent sources. (more…)

Flash poll posted at 4:44 a.m. Poll closed at 9:58 a.m.

Fresh report on Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

This doesn’t seem unlikely at all. (more…)

Fans matter.

Once upon a time, Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht released a written statement via team media relations channels after a friend of DeSean Jackson — not the then-Bucs wide receiver — crashed a truck near International Plaza and two bullets and about $100.00 worth of marijuana were found in the abandoned vehicle. (more…)

Gamblers like.

Joe is not trying to urinate in your eggs this morning, depressed as you may be from the news yesterday that Bucs quarterback Tom Brady plans to call it a career very shortly.

But you may want to grab whatever Bloody Mary mix and vodka you have leftover from Gasparilla to wade through this news. It may be a long day. (more…)

Adam Schefter.

The national media types are in lockstep: Tom Brady is retiring. Adam Schefter, Ian Rapoport, Jason La Canfora, they are all reporting the same: Multiple sources from Brady’s inside circle say he’s done. (more…)

What’s going on?

Either this is the greatest smokescreen since Operation Overlord or this is sports journalism’s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. (more…)