“Don’t screw it up, Bruce.”

A popular national sports TV host pushed the notion this week that if the Redskins somehow upset the Bucs, Team Glazer just may launch Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians. (more…)

Throw, throw, throw again.

Of course, a lot of folks will say the Bucs “have to establish the run” and pound the ball to have any shot to beat the Redskins. (more…)

Tom Brady’s good buddy and former teammate Aqib Talib, the helmet-wielding, cabbie-slugging, Adderrall-popping, coach-cussing, referee-charging, pistol-friendly, granny-hassling former Buccaneer, is confident the Bucs and Brady will have a challenging rumble with Washington on Saturday night. (more…)

Joe was especially intrigued and pleased to hear this because the guy delivering the message is a former star quarterback who literally has spent 20-plus years studying Tom Brady. (more…)

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

It’s not going to happen again for the Washington Football Team.

They were known as the Redskins on Jan. 7, 2006 when Joe Gibbs led a 10-6 wild-card club into Raymond James Stadium for an opening-round playoff matchup.

The NFC South champion Bucs were 11-5 and favored by 2 1-2 points to advance into the divisional round. (more…)

“Would you believe… “

Imagine Maxwell Smart, Agent 86, cornered by one of the representatives of KAOS, the international organization of evil, trying to squeeze Smart for Bucs intel for an underhanded gambling scheme, hearing the following from Smart: (more…)

Hidden key.

So, who are you gambling on this weekend? (more…)

Out

Veteran linebacker/DB Deone “The Moneybacker” Bucannon was quietly signed to the Bucs’ practice squad this week and was promoted to the main roster today along with guard Ted Larsen, cornerback Herb Miller and defensive lineman Benning Potoa’e.

Miller and Potoa’e saw quality minutes in December.

News also comes that LeSean “Shady” McCoy has been ruled out of Saturday night’s playoff game with an illness (not The Sickness.)

Bucco Bruce Arians flashed a little light — and an intriguing one-liner — on the darkness that plagued the Bucs offense earlier this season. (more…)

This won’t have anyone high-fiving at One Buc Palace, but it’s still nice. (more…)

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Tampa Bay legend Derrick Brooks and iconic Hall of Fame voter and JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman get after it in Episode II of TAMPA TWO this week. All the fun and wisdom is presented by The Identity Tampa Bay and Joe.

Break down.

For much of the season, Bucs fans were grumbling about the Bucs offense because with the high-level star power up and down the lineup, there was no way the Bucs should have had a ho-hum offense. (more…)

Sizzling.

Joe had to look at the stats below two or three times before they sunk in. (more…)

Three months after the fact, three-time Pro Bowl receiver and NBC Sports analyst Cris Collinsworth can’t shake the vision of how the Buccaneers blitzed Aaron Rodgers “into submission” and mauled one of the NFL’s great offenses. (more…)

A guy who is a friend of Washington quarterback Alex Smith and also a former Patriots coach thinks the Bucs will have a real game on their hands Saturday night — against a 7-9 football team. (more…)

Great time ahead with Bucs fans — outdoors and indoors — at the Big Storm Brewing Co. taproom in Clearwater.

Always enjoy Florida’s best craft beer, and find it near you at BigStormBrewery.com.

A shade over 50 hours from kickoff!!
Nothing quite like watching the Bucs in the fully covered, open-air taproom @BigStormBrewing Clearwater. Gorgeous inside, too. Florida's best craft beer and kick ass food.
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Alex Smith.

This has to be the funniest, craziest comparison of an NFL player to a character in a comedy that Joe has ever read. And it’s damn accurate. (more…)

Enough talent to get by?

The consensus big key in the Bucs-Redskins playoff game is matchup between Washington’s defensive line and park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady. (more…)

Cameron Brate

A few interesting nuggets from a veteran Buccaneer were delivered today on a national platform. (more…)

Got most work today for WFT.

If the Redskins are down to their third-string quarterback (now second-string backup with the booting last week of horrible quarterback Dwayne Haskins), that can’t be good news for anyone but the Bucs. (more…)