Late-season trends.

Now this is a really cool story that sure gives Joe a chance to exhale. (more…)

Needs 54 yards today.

The one thing Joe can tolerate from the PFF tribe is their stats. (more…)

Beat down coming today?

Both Bucs sack king Shaq Barrett and Jason Pierre-Paul are out tomorrow. That’s never good when your two best pass rushers on the corners are out. (more…)

TAMPA TWO talks Bucs-Panthers!

More fun from The Identity Tampa Bay and Joe.

Game 17

Stinking Panthers (5-11) at Bucs (12-4)

Kickoff: 4:25 p.m.

TV: WTSP-TV Channel 10, DirecTV Channel 714.

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Handicapper

Follow along as JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman makes three NFL picks each week against the spread. (more…)

Cashed in.

Updated 11:33 p.m. – Well this is a nice way to end the regular season of your fourth season. (more…)

Offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich

Cris Collinsworth has a hearty laugh for anyone who thinks the Bucs’ Super Bowl chances have evaporated without Chris Godwin and bicycle-throwing, furniture-hurling, topless-quitting, naughty-pregamer Antonio Brown. (more…)

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Rock gets the feel inside One Buc that the Antonio Brown saga will actually pull the team closer. Rock has gameplans for both teams, what he’s learned and 2 RockListers, Mike Pepper (National Reporter) and Kendra Douglas of WESH-TV. 

Local sports media icon Rock Riley hosts Bucs Kickoff right here at least 24 hours prior to each game. It’s a brand new podcast for the 2021 season.

Listen or download above, or at Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict and more. Follow Rock @RealRockRiley on Twitter.

Presented by Bill Currie Ford!

Activated.

When the Bucs promote a guy from the practice squad or activate a guy from one of the lists (PUP, COVID, KITTEN, CUBBY BEAR, etc.), it is often a tip-off and a look into the future. (more…)

Free football.

Will you see the Bucs host the Stinking Panthers in the final regular season game of the 2021 season? If you try to watch on your FOX affiliate, you won’t. This game is on CBS. Click below. Joe is here to help.
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Cameron Brate

Veteran tight end Cameron Brate, a Bucs postseason hero last year with 14 catches for 175 yards and a touchdown, has struggled to match that impact.

Consider how Brate has produced down the stretch in the last eight games. (more…)

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Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

If Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians lays on the couch in a fetal position every night because of this past week’s nonsense with furniture-tossing, bicycle-winging, tantrum-throwing quitter Antonio Brown wigging out and getting thrown off the team, Arians sure doesn’t show it. (more…)

Former Bucs G Ian Beckles.

The Bucs last week had a rough game, needing to rally from two touchdowns down to beat the lowlife Jets with 15 seconds left. (more…)

Big numbers.

Joe thinks Tom Brady is onto something special. (more…)

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Ke’Shawn Vaughn

Of all the Bucs that Joe will cheer for on Sunday, perhaps none will get more power screams than running back Ke’Shawn Vaughn.

He potentially is a critical piece for the present, and certainly for the future. (more…)

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

So a week from the playoffs, who had Ke’Shawn Vaughn, Le’Veon Bell and Kenjon Barner in the pool of Bucs running backs to play? (more…)

Bucs sacks king Shaq Barrett

The Sickness is still around at One Buc Palace. Now Bucs sacks king Shaq Barrett has it.

The good news is Shaq wasn’t going to play Sunday against Carolina because of his knee sprain (ACL & MCL).

At least Shaq won’t have a COVID issue in the playoffs, assuming he gets through it easily like most players do.

Winning ugly.

The Bucs have injuries all up and down the roster. They just lost their potential Hall of Fame-level wide receiver. (more…)