Wash those No. 22 jerseys.

Put on that Muscle Hamster underwear. [read more]

Dirk Koetter and Robert Ayers weigh in

Excuses are evaporating for the Buccaneers defense. [read more]

Full broadcast map breakdown

Old school NFC Central brawl tomorrow at the Den of Depression or what some folks used to refer to as the old Chuck Norris Division.

Where can you watch it? [read more]

Vegas wiseguys and highly knowledge football men are picking against the Bucs on Sunday — in favor of a two-win Bears team.

Joe hopes the Bucs players are as pissed off as Joe is. [read more]

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Dirk Koetter shares Josh Huff observations.

When the Bucs picked up thrown-to-the-curb receiver Josh Huff this week, there was confusion why he wasn’t assigned to the active roster. [read more]

Status still unknown.

As Bucs coach Dirk Koetter said Friday, whether Doug Martin returns to play Sunday is a game-time decision. [read more]

The only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter in the Tampa Bay area, JoeBucsFan.com columnist eye-RAH Kaufman, fires away today at the Buccaneers’ big-money, big-name defensive cornerstones.

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With the NFC South basement starting them in the face yet again, the Buccaneers need their core defensive players to show up Sunday.

That means you, Lavonte David, and you, Gerald McCoy. [read more]

Bad melon

The Buccaneers’ offensive line depth seems poised for serious test Sunday. [read more]

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Status unknown

It’s a yellow light for Doug Martin. [read more]

Will attack linebackers.

The Bears found themselves a rookie running back. And Bucs fans will get to know him well Sunday. [read more]

Joe is trying to wake up Cecil Shorts with this picture

Unfortunately, the Buccaneers’ M.I.A. receiver is actually on the field of play taking lots of snaps. [read more]

Despite what you read from the Tampa Bay Times months ago, the Bucs-Bears game in Tampa on Sunday did not sell out at Ticketmaster.com. [read more]

Tough duty

There’s celebration in Chicago, as former Bucs guard/center Ted Larsen will not make his second start of the season for the Bears on Sunday. [read more]

YAC making him yack.

Joe had a defensive assistant football coach in high school with an absolute fetish for gangtackling. He was like Lovie Smith that way. [read more]

Sweeping roster changes may be needed.

Yes, the Bucs are 3-5. You play for the playoffs or the draft (sorry, Herm).

Could the Bucs make it to 8-8 and maybe have a prayer of sneaking in with a wild card? Sure. Hey, the Dixie Chicks still could implode somehow, too. [read more]

Joe understands there are a whole lot of guys (girls, too?) who served our country who read this here site daily. [read more]

Status for Sunday still unknown.

Joe is just getting hammered on Twitter with questions from Bucs fans willing, wishing, hoping, praying Joe tells them Doug Martin will play Sunday.

Joe can’t say that. [read more]

Robert Ayers explains.

The official Buccaneers microscope was rolled out recently and put to good use at One Buc Palace.

There was also group therapy that had a real impact. [read more]

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Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter, The Custodian of Canton, is talking in depth today about Doug Martin, player development, excuses, the Bears, second-half goals, effort issues and more. 

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Joe’s got video of Doug Martin at practice this afternoon at the sunny practice fields of One Buc Palace.

And Martin was talking in the locker room today. [read more]

Clashing philosophies.

In some ways, this reminds Joe of the wars Brett Favre and Mike Holmgren used to wage with each other. [read more]