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]

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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]

Has his QB’s back.

Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith protects his quarterback’s blind side on the field and off. [read more]

Pass-catching free agent RB.

The Bucs roster will look different in a few weeks. That’s because the salary cap is going to force the Super Bowl champs to make moves or non-moves. [read more]

Jalen Rose knows all about the Fab Five, and in the Bucs’ case, their Fab Five of pass catchers are more impressive that whatever that old school Michigan hoops team delivered.

Pro Bowl stud receiver Chris Godwin talked to Rose about greatness recently on BSPN TV. [read more]

This is sort of the other side to the reputable late-November report that Tom Brady was demanding better Bucs coaching. [read more]

A Bucs coach speaks out

Joe is smiling while thinking of the historic swagger the rock star Bucs will bring next season — hopefully in a normalized world — with a head coach who lets players be themselves and embraces media fun. [read more]