“No Ubers Tom, please. We’ll get you a driver.”

Joe believes this one is spot on. [read more]

Update.

It just wouldn’t be summer without stud Bucs receiver Mike Evans having hammy issues. [read more]

Bill Currie Ford general manager Sean Sullivan is ready to give you unprecedented personal service!!!! Call, email or stop in, and you’ll get a special Ira Kaufman discount and be treated right.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The National Football League loves to talk up the churn.

Every year, division champions are overthrown. Every year features an array of new playoff teams. There’s no reason to think the 2020 season, already unique in so many ways, won’t follow the pattern. [read more]

Injured

A few Bucs were limited in practice today as Mike Evans sat out his second consecutive session with the dreaded “H” word, hamstring. [read more]

Locked in.

The way this offseason has transpired because of The Sickness, it has been a damn shame in so many ways, on and off the football field. [read more]

“It’s a small world after all.”

Not only is Bucs tight end Rob Gronkowski a foot-rubber (“It’s a nightly tradition.”), it seems he also may be a mama’s boy. [read more]

Bucs RT Tristan Wirfs.

Obviously, the matchup generating the most buzz for Sunday’s game is the quarterbacks. [read more]

RoJo is having a good week

So what is swirling through the head of Ronald Jones after the Bucs drafted a running back at No. 76 overall and then signing LeSean McCoy and Leonard Fournette? [read more]

The Bucs have a new kicker (which is nothing new).

So how far can he kick? [read more]

UPDATED 1:38 p.m. – Ouch! [read more]

A Tampa Bay Buccaneers photo

Joe sincerely hopes the Bucs let Rob Gronkowski push himself hard early this season to see whether he’s the Gronk of old (like Bruce Arians says he is) or if he’s a Gronk 2.0 — useful in spots. [read more]

We all know that in many ways, Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians is old school. [read more]

Gene Deckerhoff weighs in

A wise comment this morning by Tom Brady’s good friend reminded Joe of how a wildly popular media outlet says it’s not mainstream media when it dominates TV ratings. [read more]

Yeah, Joe admits to a sleepless night thinking about all things Bucs. [read more]

Every NFL team factors “hope” into its personnel decisions. Unproven young players and rookies are all about hope.

Take the five projected starters in the Bucs’ secondary. The oldest turns 24 on New Year’s Eve. [read more]

Joe listened to the one and only Chris “Mad Dog” Russo of SiriusXM Radio fame yesterday when he had a great point. [read more]