Super Bowl right guard Aaron Stinnie

Happy 27th birthday today to Bucs’ Super Bowl starting guard Aaron Stinnie. He went from “who?” to a Tampa Bay hero in one month’s time. [read more]

Bucs trade chatter.

Joe really doesn’t like this idea. In any way. [read more]

It’s that time of year again, when Tampa Bay’s big PGA Tour event returns. And there’s no better way to watch it than in the Hooters Owl’s Nest.

Vincent Jackson.

Yesterday Joe brought word that Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister claimed the autopsy of former Bucs receiver Vincent Jackson was completed. [read more]

Shady speaks

Before Lesean “Shady” McCoy joined the 2020 Bucs, he was a six-time Pro Bowler and a borderline Hall of Famer, one of only 22 running backs with 11,000 or more yards rushing.

So please know that his Wednesday comments were not those of a wide-eyed young player. [read more]

It appears Tom Brady already has found an internal drive that will boil within him for the 2021 season. [read more]

Before the delicious Super Bowl “W” was eaten across the land last week, Bucs defensive players were fed a steady diet of a well known Bill Belicheat mantra. [read more]

Every Bucs season that ends in a Super Bowl is perfect and glorious, but that doesn’t mean serious issues didn’t arise along the way. [read more]

Long memory.

NFL Network’s Cynthia Frelund is one of the few stat geeks Joe can tolerate, for obvious reasons. [read more]

The free agency dinner bell will ring in four weeks and this time of year has Joe remembering when Team Glazer stopped going the Aldi route when it came to buying/paying players and stepped up to Whole Foods with an Amex Black card. [read more]

Details begin to surface.

In an autopsy scheduled to be released today, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said it shows former Bucs receiver Vincent Jackson suffered from a disease he deemed “chronic.” [read more]

Talks pass rush.

This is actually kind of funny to Joe. [read more]

Repeat? Why not?

Repeating as Super Bowl champs has become so rare Joe has to believe it is because of the physical pounding teams take. [read more]

Award.

One stats site Joe actually respects a great deal, but they don’t get anywhere near the run of another outfit that has the general public hoodwinked over their GD “grades.” [read more]

Wants to sip the nectar of a second ring.

Ndamukong Suh intends to hold Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bruce Arians and Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht to their word.

Joe got the scoop from Suh 2 1/2 weeks ago, but he was talking more about it recently. [read more]

Bill Currie Ford is a Tampa tradition since 1959. They’re awesome Bucs fans and so charitable in the community. Shop now at BillCurrieFord.com. New year, new deals! And remember their nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles. Ira loves his 2020 Ford Escape, cherry red.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The grim news about Vincent Jackson hit Dirk Koetter hard. Very hard.

“I couldn’t really sleep last night,” Koetter told me on Tuesday. [read more]

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Where is Bucs’ weakness?

Joe thinks just about everyone knows the key reason the Bucs beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl: Pass rush. [read more]

In a sense, Hall of Fame general manager Bill Polian isn’t surprised the Bucs made a run to win the Super Bowl. [read more]

Defying human nature.

Maybe it is just Joe watching games through pewter and red glasses, but park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, trophy-throwing Bucs Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady didn’t look anything like a 43-year old quarterback.

He looked like he could easily play two more years. [read more]