“Shock” value?

Boy, talk about your small sample size. (more…)

So what do Bucs players think of Todd Bowles?

One weighed in on that this week during The Sports Web with Peter Blake. (more…)

Fair market value.

Unless he has a downright horrible 2025, Baker Mayfield isn’t going to be working on the cheap for much longer. (more…)

Dial up The JoeBucsFan Show at noon on Saturday on WDAE radio, 95.3 FM and AM 620. Listen online, too, or via the iHeart Radio app. Don’t forget the Saturday morning fun on WDAE starts this week with Rock Riley from 9 a.m. to noon.

That’s right. Joe’s been back on the WDAE airwaves every Saturday for the past four months. Varying times (for now).

Question mark.

Joe cannot sit in JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters looking at all the empty pizza boxes, dead soldiers (dried up beer bottles) and Ira’s check stubs and type with a good conscience that the Bucs had a “big year” last year. (more…)

UPDATED 8:10 a.m., Saturday — Joe (in the comments) corrected a misrepresentation of the Buccaneers’ ticket sales effort.

Joe is excited for fans!

The Bucs announced nine training camp dates open to fans today, and three of those will be available to the masses and will not require a connection to a special interest group. (more…)

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Plenty of new players to watch in the NFC East — and a couple of teams the Bucs may see in the playoffs — and draft guru Sean Sullivan is all over them in this division draft breakdown. Enjoy!

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Rookie Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard.

The great mystery at One Buc Palace has won over another soldier. (more…)

New Bucs inside linebacker Anthony Walker has been on playoff teams with Indianapolis and Cleveland. So he knows what good is. (more…)

Rookie cornerback Jacob Parrish has a reason to smile.

In only took one underwear football practice with a bunch of short-order cooks, cable TV salesmen and Domino’s managers to see the talent Bucs’ third-round pick Jacob Parrish brought to the table. (more…)

No learning curve this year.

Stats are nice but Bucs running back Bucky Irving believes the offense has something deeper to lean on. (more…)

The next time Joe will see the Bucs will be in about six weeks. That’s roughly when training camp kicks off and before you know it, the Bucs will be playing the Dixie Chicks to open the season. (more…)

Trask talk.

This week hasn’t been the best for Kyle Trask. He’s made some plays that he was supposed to. And some he wasn’t, only because he was trying to save his neck. (more…)

Few fans want to even whisper that Lavonte David is an X-factor, a huge one, for this coming season.

Keep in mind David will be older on opening day than fellow Bucs legend Derrick Brooks was when he played his final game in 2008. (more…)

Bucs safeties work with position coach Nick Rapone.

Joe gets a fair amount of questions about undrafted rookie safety Shilo Sanders. Will Deion’s kid make the Bucs’ roster?

Joe consistently gives the same answer: (more…)

Bucs ILB Anthony Walker.

Anthony Walker didn’t hold back. (more…)

So Mike Evans is entering a contract year like he was two years ago.

Back then, he wasn’t too happy about. (more…)

The greatest receiver in Bucs history is highly impressed. (more…)

UPDATED 2:29 p.m. – *Abbreviated underwear football session, per league rules, kicks off about 9:30 a.m. and runs short.

*11-on-11 starts after about 40 minutes of drills. (more…)