Prediction

This was a strange call. [read more]

His value?

Could the Bucs find a trade partner for defensive tackle Beau Allen over the next couple of months?

Joe doubts any team would cough up a late-round draft pick for his services and the $5 million due him in 2019. [read more]

A city getting to host a Super Bowl is a fun, fun thing. However, there is a price to pay. [read more]

Guns blazing.

In the eyes of a former Bucs guard and a popular local radio personality, Bucs free agent cornerback Brent Grimes cannot leave the Tampa Bay area soon enough. [read more]

Thomas Bassinger performed a deep dive into the great Buccaneers con job delivered by Dirk Koetter in late 2017 and through the first half of 2018.

Joe railed about it over and over at the time, and the Tampa Bay Times numberscruncher/reporter invested the time recently to expose it further. [read more]

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A team, with a little good luck, can go from worst to first in a short time. Just look at the Rams. [read more]

The Fixer?

Time for a fun fact!

Dirk Koetter’s offense this season, the one misguided souls consider to be among the greatest in NFL history, generated the exact same number of points as the 2012 Bucs during Greg Schiano’s inaugural season. [read more]

Most of you will watch the biggest games of the season, and a small handful of you like to talk about them during the action.

Feel to do it here in the comments section below. Great teams, great players, four ex-Bucs, ancient quarterbacks, young quarterbacks — there’s much to debate.

Have fun! Play Nice!

Bucs GM Jason Licht

After Dirk Koetter was launched for being bad at his job, general manager Jason Licht talked about a no-ego approach to hiring the next Buccaneers head coach. [read more]

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Abe’s has great WiFi. See you there!

A lot to prove.

The Bucs’ running game in the post-Chucky era has been pretty lousy. [read more]

And people wonder why Joe has chronic indigestion, sleep disorders and 24 broken TV remote control devices in 11 years. [read more]

Keeping DeSean Jackson.

In the mind of a former Bucs player, the Bucs are better off holding their noses and finding a way to keep malcontent wide receiver DeSean Jackson than to toss him away. [read more]

Fixing Jameis.

New Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians has been on a massive sell job since being named as the 12th Bucs coach telling anyone and everyone America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, is his horse to lead the Bucs. No ifs, ands or buts. [read more]

New Buccaneers offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich says being a quarterback guru is a lot about the QB-coach relationship and understanding, plus effective and sometimes unique communication.

Leftwich’s chatter on that subject was one of the more interesting aspects of his introductory news conference yesterday. [read more]

Harsh words for America.

It sure smells like Bucs malcontent wide receiver DeSean Jackson has his agent working overtime. [read more]

Everything about the Bruce Arians regime screams “win immediately” and “get the most out of Jameis Winston in a hurry.”

That will require a running back. [read more]

Bold words from new OC.

Man, the new Bucs coaching staff is really going out of its way to get their message across to anyone who will listen. [read more]