“Telling Us How To Think”
January 8th, 2020
One fast way to change a bad football culture is to have a good coach get in players’ heads to overhaul loser mentalities. [read more]
One fast way to change a bad football culture is to have a good coach get in players’ heads to overhaul loser mentalities. [read more]

Funky video technology.
Remember that sick pass Mr. Entertainment, America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, threw to Breshad Perriman at the end of the first half in the season finale against the Dixie Chicks? [read more]

So long, Suh?
The Bucs have a lot of free agents to sign if they want to compete for a playoff berth this fall. [read more]

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BY IRA KAUFMAN
You never know who you’re going to run into at an airport terminal.
In this case, the dapper man sitting at the gate in Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson, waiting for his Tuesday morning flight to Canton, was the one and only Ron Wolf. [read more]
This flash poll is a 24-hour affair. Poll posted at 2:26 p.m.
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His game has changed.
When you think of receivers who take the top off a defense, a veteran Bucs receiver isn’t one that springs to mind for Joe. [read more]

New Bucs rival.
The Bucs will be facing a new face twice a year in the NFC South. [read more]

Standard home gear.
The Bucs have done it. And it is nothing to be proud of. [read more]

Geeks like him. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
It seems a football thinktank is high on Bucs rookie corners while overall down on the 2019 draft class of NFL corners. [read more]
An interesting stat out there involves the five-win, officially tanked Dolphins and the seven-win Bucs, a team that tried to win at all costs. [read more]
As the Buccaneers’ brass considers a quarterback change, or pretends to, one piece of the puzzle is the wide receivers corps. [read more]
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Bill Currie Ford presents the incomparable Ira Kaufman Podcast! The twice-weekly affair is a must-listen from The Sage of Tampa Bay Sports and Joe. The Bucs offseason is here and the podcast’s intensity ramps up. So much is on the Bucs buffet. Many thanks to Big Storm Brewing Co. local producers of the very best beers around. And our love to Pin Chasers, home to the best bowling, food and fun!
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Fans did a great job responding to grading Vita Vea, so Joe’s going to keep it rolling with fellow defensive lineman and linebacker Carl Nassib.
Nassib had a fascinating 2019 season for one main reason. [read more]

More than a week after the Bucs season ended, there appears to be no market for Bruce Arians’ top assistants. [read more]

What happened?
It has become a sad tradition: Bucs football and bad kickers. [read more]

Roster shuffling.
Former Bucs coach Dirk Koetter used to say that about a third of a team’s roster changes from season to season. It’s just natural attrition. [read more]

Disputes, per local report.
Joe has to confess; at Bucs games Joe rarely has binoculars on the sidelines monitoring interactions between coaches and Mr. Entertainment, America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston. [read more]
Many are calling for the end of the Tom Brady era in Boston. He turns 43 in August and just finished a strong season but a down year by Brady standards. [read more]