Only two days until training camp starts at One Buc Palace!! 

So we’re up to No. 2 on the mighty countdown of the 10 X-factors for your 2018 Buccaneers season.

Enjoy! [read more]

Mark it down — so you don’t freak out later.

Bucs opening-day starting quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is not an a August kind of guy. [read more]

Close your eyes and imagine that freakish 6-4, 347-pound rookie defensive tackle Vita Vea actually is the brutal-to-block force the Bucs hope he is. [read more]

“The Sage,” Ira Kaufman, gets more juice at the Hall

Joe is pleased to break this news befitting the Sage of Tampa Bay sports, JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman. [read more]

Return a question mark.

First it was J.R. Sweezy and then it was Demar Dotson. Now it is promising second-year linebacker Kendell Beckwith. [read more]

Pro or con on America?

So this is what we do know: [read more]

“Hey Dirk, the MRSA does in a whole lot more people than just a kicker’s toe. Trust me, I learned the hard way. Now I’m stuck in Columbus!”

Is the MRSA still lingering in the Bucs locker room? [read more]

Predicts Bucs’ season.

Kudos to prickly Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com who has decided to predict each and every game of the NFL season just as training camps are opening. [read more]

Team Glazer speaks softly and carries a big stick

They say actions speak louder than words, and Team Glazer just sent quite a message to Buccaneers fans, sponsors and Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback.

They gave him the Doug Martin treatment. [read more]

Big Mike Evans fan.

Interesting discussion that got Joe thinking even more. [read more]

Gerald McCoy and his new position coach, Brentson Buckner.

It’s the time of year when football media likes to reference “position battles” at training camp. It’s usually a boring exercise, but this year Joe believes a very unique position battle could be brewing in a hurry. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

In two days, veteran players are slated to report to One Buc Place.

They’ll hit the weight room, hit the field, hit the hydrotherapy pools and hit the chow line.

Soon, they will be competing for playing time and a spot on the final roster.

Just up the stairs, a couple of other veterans will be plotting a battle plan designed to keep their jobs beyond the 2018 season. [read more]

Only three days until training camp starts at One Buc Palace!! 

That means we’re up to No. 3 on the mighty countdown of the 10 X-factors for your 2018 Buccaneers season.

Enjoy! [read more]

Joe is sick and tired of the Buccaneers’ organizational failures when it comes to “branding” and connecting with fans.

And the latest public words from the teams’ marketing chief executive have Joe highly agitated. [read more]

Expects nightmare season.

The shrill voice of Colin Cowherd of FS1 could be heard throughout the Tampa Bay area last week when he boasted the Bucs would be downright brutal this season. [read more]

“Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat.“

The following gets Bucs fans irked but it is real. [read more]

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Training camp and launching a winning era of Bucs football has got Justin Pawlowski fired up. And you’ll hear all about it as the fearless leader of the Stick Carriers dives into many Buccaneers subjects of the day. Justin is loaded with his usual passion and Bucs-fan perspective, and real fan audio takes. Enjoy! And don’t forget the Training Camp Takeover is a week from Saturday, August 4, at One Buc Palace! … Be a part of the podcast. Just email a 90-second-or-less audio blast to BucsUncensored@gmail.com. Listen above or subscribe on iTunes right here, or at Podbean.com. Justin’s work is not influenced by JoeBucsFan.com. Joe just thinks it’s very, very special. **CAUTION: some R-RATED language!** 

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Controls Bucs’ future.

Roughly two years ago, during Joe’s weekly, hour-long local radio appearance with his good friend “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig, Joe predicted the Bucs had a short window to make a Super Bowl run. [read more]

Perhaps the biggest hurdle the Bucs must overcome is their collective mental weakness.

It’s been a trademark of the Lovie Smith/Dirk Koetter eras. [read more]

Jason Licht revived a 2015 plan

Only four days until training camp!! 

That means we’re up to No. 4 on the mighty countdown of the 10 X-factors for your 2018 Buccaneers season.

Enjoy! [read more]

Smooth-talking Ronnie Lane

Last year, the Buccaneers moved their football games off Tampa Bay’s major sports radio station. [read more]