Fun. (Courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)

Fun stuff listening to what’s left of the four-letter hype up the Bucs. [read more]

Remember last month with America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, was talking about playing professional baseball?

Well, today, general manager Jason Licht responded. [read more]

Hard hits = penalties. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Yes, Joe has documented how second-round pick safety Justin Evans is known for both being a bone-rattler and a shaky tackler. [read more]

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Working all the angles at rookie minicamp, including chats with Mike Smith and Dirk Koetter, has Ira firing away in today’s podcast with Joe. Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter goes in head first on many Buccaneers subjects. Listen now by clicking or downloading above, or listen (and subscribe) at iTunes and Podbean.com. It’s free and easy. Enjoy! Remember, Ira’s podcasts pop every Tuesday & Thursday.

Indirectly outs the PFF tribe.

The well-trained orangutans over at the PFF tribe have been out to get Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith since the day Tampa Bay drafted him. [read more]

Playoffs?

You know the pressure is on when national scribes are already tagging a team to win a division. [read more]

Handicapping Riley Bullough

The three guys seemingly fighting it out to play strongside linebacker for the Bucs have combined for two NFL starts — and two of them have never taken a snap in the NFL.

No wonder a Bucs undrafted free agent linebacker likes his odds. [read more]

As regular readers here know, Joe doesn’t snooze on Tampa Bay fans. There are no off hours while Joe scours the globe for interesting Bucs news, notes and nuggets to share. [read more]

HBO emailed this to Joe. So here you go.

The guy doing the vertical leap training is speedster receiver DeSean Jackson.

It’s Monday, so that means another episode of Lunch With Real Rock Riley, exclusively here at JoeBucsFan.com. Yes!

Rock’s video reports and exclusives pop every Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Enjoy.

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Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira Kaufman, and the regions most beloved and esteemed columnist, has hung his hat at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters since July 2016. His columns pop here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and his award winning podcasts fire every Tuesday and Thursday.

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It’s nice to be wanted. [read more]

Piñata for statheads.

It seems the stat nerds have developed a pattern with the Bucs. [read more]

GM revisits transaction.

It was a little over a year ago when Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht shocked the football world by trading back into the second round of the draft to select kicker Roberto Aguayo. [read more]

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SI.com weighs in.

So did the Bucs have a good draft? Did they snooker the rest of the NFL with any picks? [read more]

Finished?

It seems Riley Cooper’s days with the Bucs lasted about as long as a cold beer on a hot summer day. [read more]

Angry worker

It’s only May, but Buccaneers right guard J.R. Sweezy is a man carrying a nasty edge to him.  [read more]

Rookie Bucs RB chats with Dirk Koetter. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Rookie Bucs running back Jeremy McNichols is friends with Doug Martin. But please, he’s not Doug Martin. [read more]

Dirk Koetter talks safety play

Seven safeties were drafted in the first 50 picks of the 2017 NFL Draft, nine total in the first two rounds.

General managers across the league loved this year’s safeties. [read more]

Sheds light on receivers.

Some interesting nuggets winning Bucs coach Dirk Koetter dropped Saturday afternoon after the second day of rookie minicamp. [read more]

Talks return game.

Winning Bucs coach Dirk Koetter had a simple message for any of the underdrafted rookie free agents or perhaps one of the tryout players participating in this weekend’s rookie minicamp at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Running backs coach Tim Spencer monitors a rookie during footwork drills Saturday.

Slow day for the Bucs rookies, undrafted free agents and tryout players at Day 2 of the Bucs rookie minicamp. Much of the work was special teams, and when the Bucs did go offense vs. defense, it was on the far sides of the field with players lined up to shield anyone from seeing. [read more]

New Bucs tryout player Riley Cooper, the veteran NFL receiver.

Riley Cooper has a clean slate and a fresh opportunity with the Buccaneers — for now.

And he talked all about it yesterday. [read more]