Ira’s column is meaty … and scroll down the home page for his two additional columns yesterday on the firing of Dirk Koetter.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Another close loss. Another last-place finish. Another offseason of upheaval.

At this point, let’s just pull out that infamous Jim Mora video and imagine him in pewter. Playoffs? Playoffs? Playoffs?

A season that began in loud and spectacular fashion ended with the thud of Matt Bryant’s right cleat on a football that sailed through the uprights at the final gun.

Welcome to the offseason, Tampa Bay fans. Hope for the best, brace for the worst and count the bodies walking out of One Buc Place for the last time, led by the head coach. [read more]

Game-wrecker.

Joe experienced the full range of emotions last night. [read more]

Bruce Arians

It might be a good idea to place an ice pack on the part of your body that is hot for two-time NFL Coach of the Year Bruce Arians to become the Bucs’ next head coach. [read more]

Odd postgame remarks.

Strange if not depressing video of GMC. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht

The Bucs fired Greg Schiano after he secured the No. 7 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.

Lovie Smith got the boot after he locked down the No. 9 pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. [read more]

Consider these numbers. [read more]

“Look, Glazer. these guys have good insight, but they advised me not to wear this sport jacket during interviews. That ain’t right.”

Team Glazer has cut a check for a consulting firm, per NFL insider Adam Schefter of ESPN. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Every NFL coach makes mistakes, even you, Mr. Belichick. Remember how Gronk tried to make that game-saving tackle in Miami?

But the elite head coaches always seem to be ahead of the game. They excel at time management, they put their players in position to succeed and they adjust game plans from week to week.

Dirk Koetter didn’t distinguish himself in any of those key areas, so the Bucs are moving in yet another direction with yet another coaching staff.

Koetter becomes the fifth head coach fired by the Glazers in the past decade, so here’s a look back at the man’s 7 deadly sins in Tampa. [read more]

Poll posted at 9:53 p.m.

Key figure in Dirk Koetter’s failure.

Dirk Koetter is now the former-Bucs coach. Team Glazer ended all the speculation shortly after Koetter’s postgame press conference at the Den of Depression tonight. [read more]

It’s a firing-night TAMPA TWO address! As always, TAMPA TWO is presented by Caldeco Air Conditioning & Heating and is a production of The Identity Tampa Bay.

Could DL coach Brentson Buckner and other assistants be retained?

[UPDATE: 8:51 p.m.]

In the three-paragraph statement issued by the Buccaneers to announce the dismissal of now former-Bucs coach Dirk Koetter it was both revealing and it let something shrouded in mystery. [read more]

“Jason, please don’t call Mike Smith.”

This news will turn the stomach of many Bucs fans.

Fair or not, that’s the reality. [read more]

Job status revealed?

If anyone wants an idea of the job status of Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht, one only needs to read the last sentence from the statement by Bucs co-chairman Joel Glazer announcing the dismissal of former Bucs coach Dirk Koetter. [read more]

Ira looks at tonight’s Dirk Koetter firing

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The Dirk Koetter era began with a few tears. It ended with a few jeers. [read more]

Team Glazer is not wasting time. And Joe sure hopes they haven’t been wasting time over the past eight weeks as it became clear that Dirk Koetter was a second-rate NFL head coach. [read more]

Jameis speaks

“I guarantee that some of our coaches want it more than some of our players and that’s the bad part! That’s the bad part. Our coaches want it, I guarantee you!” Jameis Winston, Jan. 3, 2016. [read more]

“Mark, at least we didn’t tank again.”

The Bucs tanked the 2014 season finale by resting key players to help secure the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL Draft. [read more]

Still a depressing den.

No matter how accurate it is, there is still a sect of Bucs fans that grind their teeth whenever they read the following on this here site. [read more]