Hours away from being rich.

First, the good news. Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith, a rock of stability, will still be blocking the blind side of America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston. [read more]

Disturbing news.

All the talk of signing guys with knee problems to big contracts got Joe around to typing this update on former Bucs tight end and alleged serial rapist Kellen Winslow. [read more]

The Bucs seem to think Kwon Alexander has another Pro Bowl in him.

Kwon Alexander’s trashed knee?

The Bucs aren’t scared of it, according to a new report this morning. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

The free agent dinner bell will be ringing a week from tomorrow. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

The way Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians raved about Bucs running back Peyton Barber (the same man who averaged 54 yards a game last year) in Indianapolis last week, you would have thought Arians was talking about Gale Sayers. [read more]

Will hit open market.

The Bucs have upgrading to do at a lot of positions on their football team. [read more]

Let Joe get this started by saying Bucco Bruce Arians saying publicly he’d prefer to have America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, not looking over his shoulder and distracted by the presence of Ryan Fitzpatrick is one big corporate misdirection. [read more]

Not every whiff in the NFL Draft is explainable. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Draft and develop. Draft and develop.

There’s no way around it, as any long-suffering Buc fan can tell you. [read more]

“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.” That’s the old saying that could be relevant to the 2019 Buccaneers. [read more]

Free agent. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Joe remembers last year then-Bucs coach Dirk Koetter fell into the old inept Lovie Smith trap/excuse/rut of blaming just about everything wrong with his team on a lack of takeaways. [read more]

Jason Licht made it very clear last week on SiriusXM NFL Radio that he’d be slapping the franchise tag on left tackle Donovan Smith by tomorrow’s deadline unless a contract-extension agreement was reached during talks between the two camps scheduled for last week in Indianapolis. [read more]

On the heels of drafting Jeremy McNichols and Ronald Jones in the last two drafts, the Bucs still need help at running back whether or not Bucco Bruce Arians 2018 team architect Jason Licht want to believe it. [read more]

Bruce Arians talks draft

New head coach Bucco Bruce Arians had plenty to say in Indianapolis at the NFL Scouting Combine last week and one nugget he dropped is his approach to the greatest gift Dirk Koetter and Jason Licht gave him. [read more]

Being shopped?

Joe is on a crusade for the Bucs to upgrade their defensive end position opposite thirtysomething icon Jason Pierre-Paul. It’s the way the NFL has evolved. [read more]

Update.

Joe is of the belief that either by hook or crook, by free agency or draft, the Bucs should acquire a starting defensive end. [read more]

Mississippi State DE Montez Sweat.

Look, the Bucs have a shot to fill the most important position on defense that can be a gamewrecker for the next decade. [read more]

Jason Licht prototype?

Are the Bucs in the market for a cornerback in the draft? [read more]

Breakdown of Michigan DE.

There is something about this Rashan Gary of Michigan that smells to Joe. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht

All the movers and shakers in the NFL have been at the NFL Scouting Combine over the past five days. [read more]

Head coach Bucco Bruce Arians learned a valuable lesson when he was off the sidelines last year — one that might apply to the Buccaneers. [read more]