Where Is Tom Brady Ranked?
June 8th, 2021
Bucs QB Tom Brady.
So recently, prickly Pete Prisco of CBS Sports detailed his annual list that makes him a marked man. [read more]

Bucs QB Tom Brady.
So recently, prickly Pete Prisco of CBS Sports detailed his annual list that makes him a marked man. [read more]

Tom Brady gives a daddy hug to Ke’Shawn Vaughn
It’s extremely rare for Joe to type anything fantasy-football related on these pages because Joe fantasizes primarily about Bucs wins and cheerleaders.
But Joe has had lots of fantasy success (football) in recent years and frequently wagers on the over/under, single-game rushing totals for Bucs running backs. [read more]
His May knee surgery is in the books, and it seems Antonio Brown is already training without a knee brace leading up to Bucs mandatory minicamp kickoff tomorrow. [read more]

New deals. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
Regular readers know Joe has a simple philosophy: Don’t fix what’s not broken.
And when you win a Super Bowl, things aren’t broken. [read more]

Top 100 ranking.
Last year you could divide Devin White’s play as “BC” and “AC.”
“Before Covid” and “After Covid.” [read more]

CB Cameron Kinley.
[UPDATE: 1:51 p.m.] Joe mentioned this guy once during rookie minicamp because he made a nice pick and housed the ball. [read more]

Did workouts lead to title?
Watching the Bucs’ final three playoff wins yesterday on NFL Network revealed all kinds of “What ifs?” [read more]

Innovator.
So the Bucs having unsupervised veteran practices at One Buc Palace is the wave of the future? That’s what Albert Breer of SI.com thinks. [read more]

Bucs QB coach Clyde Christensen.
So what makes Tom Brady tick? If NFL owners and suits and coaches could figure that out, they’d be worth just about Jeff Bezos-cash. [read more]

Set up trip to Super Bowl.
This play is so popular, it was even discussed on a recent edition of “The Ira Kaufman Podcast,” though it happened back in January. [read more]

Thankfully, these days are over.
So yesterday one of the greatest Bucs killers of all time was (finally) shipped out of the NFC South after months of rumors that he was on the trade block. [read more]

Vita Vea is one of many Bucs infected by COVID-19 before 2020 training camp began
Joe remembers how much emphasis Bucco Bruce Arians placed on “beating the virus” when the Bucs convened for training camp last year — and how much his players were cautioned to be COVID-safe prior to camp. [read more]

Team Glazer armbars with Bucco Bruce Arians
Joe hates looking past these glorious glory days of Bucs football.
It’s best to live in the moment, but it’s just too hard to not think about the future once in a while. [read more]
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Killed lame narrative.
Joe remembers in the days leading up to the 2021 draft, Bucky Brooks of NFL Network had a strong opinion on dropback quarterbacks. [read more]

Minicamp could be valuable.
One more week of underwear football season remains for the Bucs, the three scheduled days for mandatory minicamp that begin Tuesday. [read more]