Left tackle Donovan Smith

Remember that key 3rd-and-1 run against the Ravens on Sunday that was blown up through a gap between Caleb Benenoch and Ryan Jensen? [read more]

The Bucs offense has gone from slow starts and big finishes to crisp starts and horrible second halves. [read more]

Knowledge from experience.

There are two things Joe learned from Phil Simms. [read more]

“Jason, pay attention.”

The Bears went 5-11 last year and lost a lot of one-score games with their then top-10 defense, rookie quarterback and a veteran head coach. [read more]

Bucs rookie defensive tackle Vita Vea is about the polar opposite of an stereotypical NFL player behind the scenes as you may ever see. [read more]

When a team is barreling towards its eighth losing season in a decade, it’s 11th straight season without a playoff berth and is on the cusp of hiring its fifth head coach since January 2009, questions are all over the place. [read more]

Discusses players quitting.

These are sad days. [read more]

Sad decision.

It was difficult for Joe to watch last night’s game, a thriller in Charlotte between the Stinking Panthers and the Saints. [read more]

“We’ll both be on vacation soon, G.”

A seventh consecutive Pro Bowl appearance might not be in the cards for Gerald McCoy.

And it appears it wouldn’t be if Dirk Koetter had a vote. [read more]

The numbers are unsettling and you may consider them however you wish. [read more]

Step away from big decision?

Joe doesn’t know of a sober person that believes Bucs coach Dirk Koetter will return in 2019. So his successor is going to have a major decision to make before he even steps foot into his office at One Buc Palace. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Dirk Koetter will have a job in the NFL next season, if he so desires.

But it shouldn’t be at One Buc Place. [read more]

Ex-Bucs guard Ian Beckles fires sharp darts at Ronald Jones, among others, and the men who drafted him.

Former Bucs guard Ian Beckles (1990-1996) fires away on all things Bucs each Monday on his RadioInfluence.com podcast.

Joe’s got the entertaining highlights/lowlights: [read more]

NFL.com types odd angle.

Without hope, you are dead. [read more]

Joe saw Buccaneers co-chairmen Bryan and Joel Glazer dressed in business attire yesterday exiting the Tampa Bay locker room shortly after the loss to Baltimore with serious-business looks on their faces. [read more]

Saving the Bucs?

This is starting to look desperate if not lazy. [read more]

Taping TOMORROW! Enter your Bucs question IN THE FORM below for Derrick Brooks and Ira Kaufman, hosts of the new TAMPA TWO show right here twice a week and at The Identity Tampa Bay. (Yes, that Derrick Brooks!) Or send your Bucs question to The Identity on Twitter, @TheIdentityTB.

After a banged up Lavonte David talked to some reporters, showered, visited the training room, dressed and was the last Buccaneer standing in the locker room yesterday, Joe caught up with David for a private chat. [read more]

Now the waiting commences.

We know what’s coming after yesterday’s game. Now it’s just sort of killing time until Black Monday. [read more]

Bucs veteran right tackle Demar Dotson is as good of a man and a teammate as there is in the Bucs locker room. So when he said dudes are going to start looking out for No. 1, including himself, you know things are bad. [read more]