General manager Jason Licht has no interest in interviewing Todd Monken for the Buccaneers’ open head coaching vacancy. [read more]

Reacts

Can’t you just see Gerald McCoy kicking butt and tasting the playoffs with the Browns next season? [read more]

Priority.

It seems Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht has two goals already in mind for the 2019 offseason. [read more]

Second-year receiver Chris Godwin got a little candid with Joe after the season finale against the Falcons. [read more]

Is he the one?

Some are grumpy the Bucs dismissed Bit-O-Honey-snacking, Ozark-watching, yams-eating coach Dirk Koetter despite him posting a 10-22 record the past two seasons and, by many accounts, underachieving.

Chase Stuart is not among them. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Fans get confused if not frustrated and Joe understands why. [read more]

Man, general manager Jason Licht sure has one extraordinary perception of his offense.

Sans a running game and with historic turnover numbers, Licht sees one of the greatest offenses in NFL history. [read more]

Happy New Year, everyone! [read more]

Reuniting?

One great misconception about Dirk Koetter is that he was fired along with Mike Smith in Atlanta after the 2014 season.

He wasn’t. [read more]

One of Joe’s missions in the Bucs’ locker room today was to get an answer that Dirk Koetter would not provide to media. [read more]

With all the drama surrounding the firing of Dirk Koetter, it’s important to remember that it’s all about winning football games.

And these games will be played in the 2019 regular season: [read more]

He’ll be back!

Common sense and reason won the day at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Finished?
(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Even early in the season, unless Brent Grimes balled out like he had the previous two years, it just had the feel that this season was Grimes’ last with the Bucs. [read more]

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General manager Jason Licht

Before a media throng at One Buc Palace today, general manager Jason Licht tossed around love for the “fantastic” coaching job Dirk Koetter did, and Licht was gushing about his QB returning in 2019. [read more]

Former Bucs offensive coordinator/receivers coach Todd Monken is in demand near the bright lights of Broadway, which is really the suburbs of Jersey. [read more]

Targeted?

[UPDATE: 11:06 a.m.]

One of these names is sure to excite Bucs fans. [read more]

Joe got 1-on-1 time with Donovan Smith today and the big fourth-year tackle cleaned out his locker at One Buc Palace. [read more]

The postseason is here and the Bucs will not participate. That’s nothing new.

But as Bucs fans watch the playoffs, many will study the quarterback play and wonder if Jameis Winston has what it takes to be a January QB. [read more]