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Roster architect
General manager Jason Licht has spoken often about winning in the NFL Draft. Licht likes to say winning in the draft is 90 percent about evaluating players from the neck up, aka picking guys with the right mentality because raw talent is everywhere.
Walked without aid.
Obviously today, fan favorite, left tackle Donovan Smith did not take the field in the second half of the Big Easy Blowout. [read more]
The belly of the Buccaneers defense today reminded Joe a lot of his gut when it’s not filled with beer or Abe’s Place wings. [read more]
Fingers Saints’ CB.
When Mike Evans got tossed from the game today for blasting Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore, there is no one to blame but Lattimore. [read more]
Joe really thought Donovan Smith would bounce back today from his rough game against the Panthers last Sunday.
He didn’t. [read more]
Ashamed.
A dejected winning Bucs coach Dirk Koetter did not deny his job could be in jeopardy the way the Bucs have fallen off a cliff, now losing five straight games. [read more]
Joe loves the Bucs and is in agony like the rest of the Tampa Bay faithful, but it troubled Joe deeply to see the Bucs’ two offensive captains fall apart with the season on the line today. [read more]
Scapegoat for season?
The problems with the offense? Joe could point to one area and the offense is fixed: running the ball. [read more]
There is one major factor here that is far more important than any win(s) now that the 2017 season is toast. [read more]
The early punt block sort of said it all.
Joe feels absolutely kicked in the gut, punched in the groin.
Again, the Bucs were non-competitive. That’s four crap shows in eight games. That’s the kind of stuff that rolls heads, Rightfully so.
Dirk Koetter has no answers. Jameis Winston’s pregame gobbling of Ws is meaningless. This team has no leadership and questionable talent and desire. [read more]
Time to move on.
Joe knows this won’t go over well with the Doug Martin fanboys, as they will react to this post like drug addicts during an intervention. [read more]
Comment throughout today’s Bucs-Saints game with intense, wild and often reasoned fans. Great fun!
Direct the personal attacks at New Orleans players and coaches, not each other (Joe’s filters are tuned up for the haters.)
Enjoy and prepare for Joe’s award-winning postgame coverage, including Ira Kaufman’s 10 Takeaways.
Go Bucs!
Hopes last week turning point for defense.
Last week the Bucs defense, which was truly horrid through much of the first six games, perhaps played its best game of the season against Carolina. [read more]
JOE will be pleased to buy you one beer BEFORE the game. Look for Joe in the bar area.
Please join Joe for a watch party event at Abe’s Place in Clearwater. Great place to watch the Bucs, and there’s NFL Sunday Ticket, too.
Amazing food, WiFi, giant craft beer selection on tap, indoor and outdoor seating, and more. Joe will have giveaways, too. Kickoff at 1 p.m.
Harsh words for Bucs QB.
It is getting ugly out there for the Bucs. [read more]
More prominent national hot-seat talk
As ecstatic as Bucs fans were last year as Tampa Bay rode a five-game winning streak to national respect and to what felt like a true team culture change, they’ll do a complete 180 and be at rock bottom today if the Bucs lose their fifth-straight in New Orleans. [read more]
“You ready, Ayers?”
Simeon Rice is holding out the carrot. Will Robert Ayers nibble? [read more]
Key to win Sunday?
On paper, there is just no way in hell the Bucs should beat the Saints tomorrow.
But games are not played on paper, as we all well know. [read more]
Who are the Bucs eyeballing?
This afternoon Clemson travels to North Carolina State in a huge ACC matchup. Playoff implications are on the line. [read more]
Where the Bucs game will be shown on free TV in the United States.
Find out where the Bucs-Saints telecast can be found in the continental United States without the need for NFL Sunday Ticket or a bar. [read more]
