The injuries have arrived.

And the Earl Watford era is here. [read more]

UPDATED 12:46 p.m. – Three targets for Buccaneers tight ends yesterday in a game that saw Mike Evans get completely shut down (3 targets, 0 catches).

Chew on that sour apple for a minute. [read more]

Former Bucs kicker Cairo Santos tied a modern NFL record yesterday. [read more]

This isn’t quite Joe Namath calling a Super Bowl victory for his heavily-underdog Jets 50 years ago.

And it’s not Greg Schiano publicly expecting double-digit sacks for Da’Quan Bowers. [read more]

Regroup.

Maybe this loss isn’t such an awful thing? [read more]

Imagine what would have happened if you walked into a Vegas or Indiana sportsbook (why can’t Florida have one?) and asked for odds on quarterbacks Jacoby Brissett, Teddy Bridgewater, Kyle Allen and Gardner Minshew combining for 11 wins by the first week in October. [read more]

24-hour flash poll posted at 9:32 a.m.

Remember the theory that Bucs blitzers were going to be flying at quarterbacks and wreaking all kinds of havoc and result in taking down quarterbacks?

The following might offer a pre-Halloween scare: [read more]

Joe’s weekly “Five Things” which takes a look at the previous day’s game, win or lose. [read more]

“I can see it plain as day on the replay.”

As a kid, Joe remembers watching live Roger Staubach’s now-famous “Hail Mary” pass to best the Vikings in the playoffs. [read more]

Coach calls out DBs.

Joe likes this here Bucco Bruce Arians. A man who tells it like it is even though it’s not pretty. [read more]

Miffed

Hall of Fame coach and Buccaneers Ring of Honor member Father Dungy is not a man prone to hyperbole. [read more]

“The Sage” delivers his famous postgame column.

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No excuses.

The Bucs shouldn’t attribute this setback to officials, lousy as they can be, the raucous Superdome crowd or a couple of injured players.

This was a beatdown, even if the final score appears respectable. The effort was not, so Tampa Bay’s roller-coaster season marches on across the pond, where the suddenly resurgent Panthers await, eager to atone for a Week 2 setback in Charlotte.

The Bucs have suffered two losses in a 3-week span to backup quarterbacks. Daniel Jones looked like a rookie at home against the Vikings on Sunday, but he shredded the Bucs on the road. Teddy Bridgewater just pulled off a very impressive impersonation of Drew Brees. [read more]

Unstoppable

It’s ok to crack half a smile for 25 seconds after a painful division loss. [read more]

Thankfully, Bucco Bruce Arians has a golf cart to carry all the oversized baggage the Bucs franchise lugs around. [read more]

Unclear over ejection.

With just over five minutes left in the second quarter, Bucs starting cornerback Carlton Davis got tossed from the game.

And it seemed the Bucs’ pass defense totally collapsed after that. [read more]

Hits piling up at a record pace

As a rookie, Jameis Winston led the NFL in quarterback hits absorbed with 109. [read more]

Bruce Arians explains Devin White decision

It looked as if this had the makings of a Hollywood epic this morning. [read more]

“He’s our best corner,” Bruce Arians said of ejected Bucs cornerback Carlton Davis.

Bucco Bruce Arians wasn’t a fan of the head-hunter ejection call on second-year cornerback Carlton Davis late in the second quarter. [read more]

Shocking box score

Joe has already touched on this but this is simply amazing. [read more]

Demar Dotson is not going to have a happy 34th birthday next week. [read more]

Byron Leftwich’s boss is not happy

Bucco Bruce Arians pointed a finger at his offense — and his playcaller — after today’s humbling loss to the Saints. [read more]