Joe actually had to do a double-take, the kind you might see Bugs Bunny or Yosemite Sam or Foghorn Leghorn do in the famous Looney Tunes cartoons. [read more]

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Play it however you want, the Bolts will win it. That’s just how life is in Hockey Bay right now — but it doesn’t mean Tampa had the better of a 1 v. 2 matchup with Toronto Thursday night. This week on the JoeBoltsFan Podcast, Tom gives out three stars of the week, talks Vasy’s return (an expected one for subscribers), breaks down Toronto’s successful gameplan in depth and more! All sponsored by our friends Bill Currie Ford!

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Moist balls were a big thing at One Buc Palace today. [read more]

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The Bucs may be covered in dirt, but there’s plenty buzzing in the air about the Bucs’ future, and their complicated present. The Sage of Tampa Bay sports goes in many directions today with Joe and a special guest. Enjoy the twice-weekly Ira Kaufman Podcast presented by Ed Morse Cadillac Tampa and Ed Morse Cadillac Brandon.

Click play above or tune in at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com. Stay informed, thinking and smiling every single Tuesday & Thursday — and there is NO offseason.

Listening to “The Sage” is fun, free and easy. Enjoy!

Near future.

It’s a gloomy day in the Tampa Bay area today. Dark, overcast, rain, chilly. [read more]

Break down

You like long balls? Well, Dirk Koetter’s offense is for you. [read more]

Encouraging, telling and heartfelt words about the Buccaneers’ locker room further illustrate just how disappointing this season has been. [read more]

Coach has his back.

The Bucs’ offensive line had a bad game Sunday against the Saints. And so too did right guard Caleb Benenoch.

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CBS senior NFL insider Prickly Pete Prisco was talking “complete housecleaning” of the Bucs coaching staff yesterday. [read more]

Frustrating delay may prove costly.

This is both encouraging and incredibly frustrating. [read more]

Good defense doesn’t need takeaways.

Most football coaches would go nuts reading the following, but Joe is adamant about it. [read more]

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It’s all about the big picture now for long-suffering Tampa Bay fans. Bobby Fenton dives into that and much more on The Free Stretch, presented by Bill Currie Ford. Find Bobby on Twitter @bobbygameday and definitely give the podcast a try. A Tampa Bay fan from his days in the womb, Bobby never let’s it get boring; it’s always entertaining on The Free Stretch! Dive in now above, or listen and/or subscribe free at Podbean, iTunes and Google Play. Listen or download above. 

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It was largely status quo (woe?) on the Bucs’ official injury report today.

Rookie cornerback Carlton Davis and Demar Dotson remained limited with knee injuries, so did Gerald McCoy (shoulder). Isiah “Run Into The Wall” Johnson (concussion) was upgraded to limited after not practicing yesterday.

Justin Evans (toe) and DeSean Jackson (thumb) didn’t practice, as was the case for Jason Pierre-Paul (knee/hip).

JPP practiced yesterday and was in very good spirits when Joe saw him in the halls of One Buc Palace today.

America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, waved a flag for Dirk Koetter this afternoon at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Center Ryan Jensen was talking about his penalties today and it led Joe to a plausible theory for the resulting 100-plus yards lost to the Bucs offense. [read more]

Derrick Brooks is talking all things Bucs on this week’s Q&A episode of TAMPA TWO with JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman, presented by Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating. It’s another great production by The Identity Tampa Bay. (Look for tomorrow’s game preview episode!)

“Dude, are you going to bust that thing out again in Dallas next week?”

Joe is always cautious of guessing the vision of Team Glazer. If anything, they have proven predictably unpredictable. [read more]

It was all “we,” “we,” “we,” yesterday when Dirk Koetter was talking about his current team.

And that changed when the head coach starting talking about 2019. [read more]

When your team is 11-21 in its last 32 games, the national heavyweight analysts start sniffing change in their travels. [read more]

Surging.

There is a trend in college football, if you haven’t noticed, that could (should?) be a factor for the Bucs in the final week of the season. [read more]

“Jason, were you listening to Mark Dominik this morning?”

Joe has seen the data crowd peg the Bucs with a 1-in-166 chance to make the playoffs. [read more]