Game status for Sunday.

In his Super Bowl LV media session Wednesday afternoon, it seems we got an answer on one player’s status for Sunday.

Bucs rookie safety Antoine Winfield said his ankle is OK and declared, “I’m going to play.” He did so with a monster smile on his face.

Winfield was limited in practice today. He missed the NFC title game due to the ankle injury.

The latest.

Bucco Bruce Arians had an update of the Bucs’ big three injuries. [read more]

Hall of Famer speaks.

Here’s the thing about these hollering shows on TV you see all day and night on sports networks: If everyone agrees, it’s boring TV. [read more]

No crying with Tom Brady!

Joe doesn’t think he’s ever seen Lavonte David this open. [read more]

Not fretting lack of hype.

Nothing can damper Bucs linebacker Lavonte David’s enthusiasm for making his first Super Bowl. [read more]

Passing the torch to Bruce Arians?

Jon Gruden is more relevant than usual this week because his Raiders beat Kansas City 40-32 this season and choked against them in a four-point loss in November, and he lost a tight game to the Bucs. [read more]

Super Bowl parallels with Bucs.

Joe has been typing for the past couple of weeks that this is a different Bucs team than earlier in the season. [read more]

The Bucs have added male cheerleaders in recent years, and there’s one more dude out there who could get the job done. [read more]

Ryan Fitzpatrick will bring his family to watch Sunday’s Super Bowl.

Ryan Fitzpatrick’s renowned Fitzmagic tricks were a brief bright spot in The Lost Decade of Buccaneers football, and he can’t wait to return to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway to watch the Super Bowl on Sunday with his kids and father. [read more]

Bounceback game?

The Bucs consider cornerback Carlton Davis a shutdown guy. And he had games where he very much lived up to that belief. [read more]

The Antonio Brown experiment/gamble/insurance premium worked out for Bucs officials. [read more]

Needs a dirty jersey at halftime.

The Bucs can win Super Bowl LV. That’s what one former suit believes. [read more]

Hustlers.

If any team in the NFL has four better linebackers than the Bucs, please point it out to Joe. [read more]

Too many passes?

Interesting numbers Joe found in reading a Super Bowl projection of what park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady may do Sunday in Super Bowl LV. [read more]

Playoff Lenny.

There is no question Pat Mahomes is lethal with the ball in his hands. So maybe the simplest way to resolve that issue is to make sure he doesn’t have the ball? [read more]

Interesting detail shared by Tampa Bay’s fearless leader, Bucco Bruce Arians. [read more]

Bucs fans already have learned that Tom Brady sent his family away (literally) after Tampa Bay clinched the NFC title.

And some of that clear-headed study time might be used for a Saturday night tradition. [read more]

Truthteller.

Many sports hollering shows got fed hours of subject matter earlier this season when to the horror of some, Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians pointed out mistakes made by park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking Bucs quarterback Tom Brady. [read more]

Jason Pierre-Paul may not be as colorful as former Bucs defensive end Simeon Rice. But as with most top-shelf pass rushers, they have to be, well different. [read more]

Five days from Super Bowl kickoff, Lavonte David didn’t offer an inspiring up date on his injury. [read more]

Todd Bowles

Let’s just call it like we see it here. When the Bucs last played the Chiefs in November, they got Michael Spinks’ed in the first quarter by Pat Mahomes and Cheetah Hill. [read more]