Figuring out a workaround.

If these were normal times, many if not all Bucs skill position players might be gathered together some 2,500 miles away. [read more]

Stoked about Tom Brady.

On one hand, they are similar players. On the other hand, they cannot be more opposite. [read more]

Man, Joe can’t figure out Team Glazer. [read more]

Farewell alarm clock fonts, and a salute to the Bucs for the new/old jerseys.

All Joe can say is, “Bravo, Bucs. Bravo!” [read more]

O-line chatter.

For those Bucs fans with fiendish long-term goals of drafting a tackle at No. 14 to play right tackle in 2020, and then for next year to throw Donovan Smith off the roster, they better start working a rosary that Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht doesn’t draft Alabama tackle Jedrick Wills. [read more]

With the No. 14 overall pick in the NFL Draft (what a shock to be outside the top-10!), the Bucs own the challenge that comes with a mid-round pick, where moves are less obvious and draft prowess gets an additional spotlight. [read more]

No. 12 no more.

You can hear the respect seeping through the video. [read more]

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“Mark, stop talking about us. And I’m not giving you back the Doug Martin bobblehead you left behind.”

Former Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik had a rough five-season run in Tampa that felt a lot more soothing after experiencing the five Bucs years following his exit. [read more]

Bucs best spot for Tom Brady.

The national hollering shows are still talking Bucs and Tom Brady. [read more]

Derrick Brooks and The Sage of Tampa Bay Sports are talking about the major playoff change coming to the NFL, it broader impact, and more!  TAMPA TWO is presented by Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating. Another great production from The Identity Tampa Bay and Joe.

Talks Tom Brady.

Pride of Eastern Illinois University and survivor of the [national advertisers don’t like that word], Saints coach Sean Payton apparently thinks Bucs fans should expect big things from Tom Brady. [read more]

Offers his two cents.

One former NFLer is thinking that too many NFL fans are overthinking how future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady will work with Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians. [read more]

“Mauler.”

Last week Hall of Fame general manager Bill Polian decided to break down who he feels are the top-five offensive linemen in the draft. [read more]

The ballots of important football scribes were counted and the heralded All-Decade team (of the 2010’s) was announced today by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

[read more]

New Bucs OT Joe Haeg.

Joe has said many times over the years that nobody writes a soap opera quite like the bumbling Buccaneers of the post Super Bowl era. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

When Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians talks about the team’s play-action passing arsenal, it makes one member of the local Fourth Estate run to a keyboard. [read more]

A columnist for BSPN New York who penned a critically-acclaimed biography of Bill Belicheat seems to think the move of six-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady to the Bucs is a Hail Mary pass by the two men running Tampa Bay’s football operation. [read more]