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Not escaping scorn.

As Joe warned readers, the Bucs are getting mocked all across the land this morning. This is what happens when you choke away a win to Manhattan’s favorite team. [read more]

You’re reading that headband correctly (not headline, headband).

Shaq Barrett marched into the Den of Depression yesterday telling everyone he “CAN’T BE STOPPED.”

And he wasn’t lying. [read more]

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Joe sat there and watched in total disbelief. [read more]

Rolls snake eyes.

Joe remains astonished that a coach who largely built his legacy on being a craps shooter of a playcaller had all the aggressiveness of a rabbit hiding from a fox on the prowl in the final seconds of a winnable game yesterday. [read more]

Potty mouth.

So it seems all of the Big Apple, except for some Jets fans who scatter into the cracks when the lights are turned on, is abuzz about the Messiah, Daniel Jones. [read more]

It was quite a brutal almost historic second half for the Buccaneers secondary, one that was supposed to be repaired. [read more]

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There are losses, and then there are the humiliating kind before a massive television audience on your home turf against a very popular franchise that plays in the nation’s biggest-by-a-mile market. [read more]

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Come on back, Ronde.

On a day the Bucs honored a star from yesteryear, Tampa Bay’s current defense pushed the rerun button, looking like the sieve on display the previous two seasons at Raymond James Stadium.

There were plenty of culprits, with rookie kicker Matt Gay front and center, or rather, wide right, but the Giants won Sunday because rookie quarterback Daniel Jones shredded Tampa Bay’s defense — despite the absence of Saquon Barkley.

All four of New York’s TD drives covered at least 75 yards and monster games by Mike Evans and Shaq Barrett weren’t enough as the Bucs fell to 0-2 at home before beginning a treacherous road stretch.

It’s difficult to overestimate how demoralizing this setback was to Buc fans who were starting to believe in this team. A Todd Bowles scheme that had played so well for 10 quarters had no answers for Eli Manning’s replacement as Jones threw for 213 yards in the second half.

If this Buc season falls apart, supporters will point to the afternoon of Sept. 22 as the dispiriting turning point. Here’s how it all went down, literally and figuratively: [read more]

In the record books.

In the season-opening game against San Francisco, Bucs stud receiver Mike Evans was almost a no-show because he was sick. [read more]

Fun with kickers

Joe has to give props to Matt Gay. The Bucs rookie kicker sure channeled one of his predecessors, Roberto Aguayo, in missing two extra points and a game-winning field goal in a one-point loss to the Giants. [read more]

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Scared football.

What a stale biscuit! [read more]

Perhaps the saddest aspect to today’s shocking crumble at the Den of Depression is how the Bucs didn’t play with the same intensity in the second half that they displayed in the first.

Instead of stepping on the proverbial throat of the Giants, they went soft. [read more]

Bad day for Todd Bowles

Bucco Bruce Arians wasn’t all sunshine and daisies about his defensive coordinator after today’s game. [read more]

Welcome to the career of Jameis Winston.

America’s Quarterback is inconsistent within games and overall. And the team loses repeatedly. But how much is he to blame for today’s loss? [read more]