1-hour flash poll posted at 6:14 p.m.

“Listen, Ed. If you wanted every last mofo jacked up in Tampa, you should dropped $10 million a year on me.”

Bay area locals are fired up for the rock star Buccaneers with Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and the high-profile injection of hope they have brought to the roster led by popular Bruce Arians.

However, Bucs fans weren’t among NFL top dogs last night. [read more]

NFL to bust Bucs?

It seems Bucs quarterback Tom Brady’s innocent goof of driving to a wrong address may cost the Bucs right in the Team Glazer wallet. [read more]

Bucco Bruce Arians was talking to NBC Sports today. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Fantastic inside information delivered by an exclusive NFL.com report. [read more]

Beast.

The Bucs already have a defensive lineman who is beastly strong in Vita Vea. [read more]

The new mock drafts are flowing everywhere for tonight’s Rounds 2 and 3 of the NFL Draft.

And yet another one thinks the Bucs will keep filling the gas tank with the high-octane stuff. [read more]

Bucs rookie talks Gronk

Sometimes college players behave one way with coaches and on job interviews, and a very different way when they are professionals enjoying their manhood and wallets. [read more]

Being aggressive paid off.

Joe can understand how some jaded Bucs fans may not have believed Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht when he said he needed to trade up to secure offensive lineman Tristan Wirfs. [read more]

Example for Bucs rookie.

Browsing through the interwebs this morning, Joe was trying to find out who is Tristan Wirfs. [read more]

Presented by Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating, legendary Buccaneer Derrick Brooks and some guy named Ira dive into the Bucs’ first-round pick and more on TAMPA TWO, a production from The Identity Tampa Bay and Joe.

The headline represents the first thing running through Joe’s brain the moment the Packers traded up to select quarterback Jordan Love in Round 1 of the NFL Draft last night. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

It was like Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht was listening to “The Who.” He wasn’t going to get fooled again. [read more]

DT Ross Blacklock

Day 2 of the NFL Draft is here and the Bucs are sitting with the 13th pick of Round 2 and some ammunition to trade up, though other teams have a lot more. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

Two summers ago then-retired NFL coach Bruce Arians did a sitdown with Barstool Sports where he made waves within the NFL world and got backlash from fans. [read more]

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Developing an offensive lineman is a process, and it will be especially challenging this season as players won’t wear cleats around coaches for months.

Bucco Bruce Arians touched on that late last night after picking beastly Iowa tackle Tristan Wirfs. [read more]

New Bucs RT Tristan Wirfs.

A couple of weeks ago Hall of Fame general manager Bill Polian did a breakdown of new Bucs offensive tackle Tristan Wirfs. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

OK, time to hand out the graded papers. [read more]