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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Buc fans woke up Friday morning on what would have been John Lennon’s 80th birthday, lamenting a hard day’s night.

Bucs beating Bucs.

Again.

CBS analyst Scott Pioli called out Tampa Bay as a dumb football team after the sloppy setback in Chicago — and he has a point. If you viewed the mug on Bruce Arians following the 20-19 loss, you saw a face of disgust.

He surely wasn’t happy with the officials, but most of all, Arians is frustrated with yet another defeat sowed by mistakes and penalties. Officials marked off 11 flags thrown at Tampa Bay, and there were others that weren’t accepted.

At least Arians didn’t make excuses at the end of a 3-game winning streak. He didn’t want to hear about the absence of Chris Godwin or O.J. Howard. That’s because he knew the Bucs were still the better team — a better team that deserved to lose. [read more]

Brutal news coming?

The initial report made Joe want to throw up. [read more]

A couple of first-quarter seconds before Carlton Davis picked off Nick Foles following an Allen Robinson bobble, the scene in the photo here played out.

Davis had his hands all over Robinson down field. [read more]

Just an ugly night in Chicago. Let’s get this over with so we can focus on happier things today, like buying beers at Big Storm Brewing. [read more]

Nothing drives Joe to scream at the TV quite like when announcers in the last two Bucs games talked about how the Bucs have really just completed ___ preseason games, so they’ve not yet jelled because the starters haven’t — or have barely — completed the equivalent of their August snaps. [read more]

League leader.

Yeah, the team with the most points when the clock runs out is the most important stat and perhaps the only stat that counts. [read more]

First time looking like a rookie.

Four days after the Bucs’ offensive line played so good, they played Thursday night at Soldier Field as if they partied in Wrigleyville on Wednesday night in Chicago. [read more]

Confession.

Yes, when the Bucs took a 13-0 lead last night with seven minutes left in the first half, there were national NFL writers wondering on Twitter if Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians was going to run up the score on the Bears in payback for not hiring him last decade. [read more]

Before last night, it had been five freakin’ years since the Bucs had a running back deliver back-to-back games of 100 yards rushing or more. [read more]

Serious injury

Joe’s not sure the Bucs can fully recover from what happened last night in Chicago. [read more]

Remember when Josh Freeman was flagged for back-to-back delay of game penalties coming out of a timeout? It was a classic 2013 Schiano moment.

Joe thinks Tom Brady topped it last night with a senior moment on what could have been the game-winning drive. [read more]

Donovan Smith has more penalties in five games than he did all last season.

In fact, he leads the NFL — with a teammate right behind him. [read more]

WWE stunt backfires.

You can sum last night’s loss up in two words: terrible discipline. [read more]

The picture tells the story.

The Bucs had the ball and 36 seconds remaining in the first half, and two timeouts, with Mike Evans, Scotty Miller and Rob Gronkowski on the field and Tom Brady at quarterback. [read more]

The way this is going, Team Glazer may want to add a fourth uniform design to the Bucs’ ensemble: Flourescent yellow to acknowledge their penalty ways. [read more]

All offseason, Bucs fans were told that Tom Brady would raise the games of those playing around him. He would fix what ailed the Bucs. He’d make coaches better, even people working in the office. [read more]

“I was rolling, Coach.”

Don’t give Joe injuries. [read more]