Seems safe.

With rookies beginning to sign contracts across the NFL, one NFL columnist believes teams could be shaving salaries of veterans as the rookies come into the fold. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

This is both funny and dead-on accurate. [read more]

“Tommy, let’s pull a Barry Switzer this year and try to hang half-a-hundred each week.”

Yesterday Joe was listening to the best damn football radio show in the land, “Movin’ the Chains,” heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio. [read more]

So many Bucs fans proudly think about their fearless leader as a vocal guy lifting teammates with the right words at all times.

But that’s not Tom Brady. [read more]

”I stand with our team,” says the Buccaneers’ No. 1 cornerback. [read more]

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Went under the knife.

The Antonio Brown saga deepens. [read more]

Latest intel.

Published reports this morning from various sources are that furniture-tossing, bicycle-throwing Antonio Brown has not yet passed a physical in order to sign with the Bucs.

A Bucs suit today seemed to throw cold water on this saga.
[read more]

Future team-building.

Very, very interesting data about first round draft picks and the value of trading for established stars. [read more]

First-year impact?

The Bucs had a rare predicament when preparing for the NFL Draft. [read more]

“Tom, we are going to roast people’s arses this year.”

You think now that his quarterback knows the playbook, Mr. No-Risk-It-No-Biscuit will turn loose park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-phobic, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller-coaster-scared, numbers-rules-peeved, Bucs-Super Bowl-winning Tom Brady on the NFC? [read more]

Less is more?

Joe has written about fearing the number of snaps some Bucs veterans logged last year and how that could catch up with them in 2021. [read more]

Super excited 

The Bucs are coming off a Super Bowl win. They throttled the unstoppable offense of the Chiefs. What is there for an encore? [read more]

It’s the almost-happened Buccaneers trade that painfully slipped away.

And perhaps it represented a lost Lombardi Trophy for Tampa Bay that, per a new revelation, could have been had for very little. [read more]

Big talk from a Bucs defensive back

Our beloved Buccaneers are riding an eight-game winning streak and can proudly say they annihilated the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. [read more]