Report card.

Joe thought the Bucs had a solid game Sunday. One guy typing for CBS seemed to think so as well but was not as impressed. [read more]

Joe loves hearing grades, as in the official ones from coaches at One Buc Palace. [read more]

False national narrative.

Since furniture-tossing, bicycle-throwing, fake-V-card-flashing Bucs receiver Antonio Brown got sentenced by NFL warden Roger Goodell with a three-game suspension for his phony V-card, Joe is seeing a lot of national media folks claiming the Bucs don’t need Brown. [read more]

Remember Sports Illustrated? Joe is pretty sure some readers actually do not. [read more]

The hard truth is that Devin White and Lavonte David looked nothing like the NFL’s top inside-linebacker duo on Sunday. [read more]

Giovani Bernard

Not even a week ago Bucco Bruce Arians was talking about how Scotty Miller would return punts against Atlanta because Jaelon Darden would miss the game with a concussion and Miller had been working on the role all season. [read more]

Drooling

Joe thinks it’s a safe bet to predict what Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier is going to do Sunday at The Licht House. [read more]

“AB, you got the jab, so we’re good. Now let’s win another Super Bowl!”

Notice how the Antonio Brown hoo-hah is starting to die down, just like Joe predicted? The NFL world stops turning for no one.

Give the NFL a week, and NFL media will focus on something else. [read more]

Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles

Sometimes players are surprised by what teammates reveal. [read more]

Master.

Tom Brady is even outdoing himself this year. That’s amazing when you think of his accomplishments. [read more]

The film review is in. [read more]

Vita Vea speaks

There are sort of two different Buccaneers teams. [read more]

Bucs WR Chris Godwin

Chris Godwin has regained the trust of the farm animal. If he ever lost it. [read more]

Steaming with confidence

Bucco Bruce Arians took fans into the his mind during the Hooters radio postgame show Sunday. [read more]

Bucs made Atlanta cry for mom.

In the words of one national analyst, the Bucs’ win over the Dixie Chicks was nothing more than a cruel tease. [read more]

Important?

Surf social media and monitor NFL writers and analysts for major media outfits and you will find quite a bit of chatter claiming the league MVP will be or ought to be 17-game-loathing, salad-bar-hating, park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-phobic, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller coaster-scared, numbers-rules-peeved, helmet-tossing, football-punting, Bucs-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady. [read more]

Typical pocket for Tom Brady.

Maybe you heard this and maybe you haven’t but it’s a wild pair of stats that may make your head jerk back and forth like a “Looney Tunes” cartoon. [read more]

Backs close to wall.

So this isn’t going to make Joe sleep well. [read more]