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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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]

Derrick Brooks analyzes the Bucs defense

Iconic Derrick Brooks gave a passionate public finger-wagging at the Bucs defense yesterday.

Some players and the collective effort clearly got under Brooks’ Hall of Fame skin. [read more]

Priorities right.

For some odd reason, people seem intrigued by who athletes and entertainment types vote for in elections. [read more]

Jameis makes a powerful speech.

Quite a speech made by America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, at One Buc Palace yesterday.

It made Joe want to stand up and salute the flag. [read more]

This post is not a joke.

And it casts an eerie cloud over the stadium on Dale Mabry Highway.  [read more]

Biggest addition.

Bucs fans could name all kinds of impact players added to the team this year. [read more]

Doesn’t follow America.

Quarterbacks belong to a fraternity of sorts, especially NFL quarterbacks. [read more]

New defense looks like old defense.

Be careful, Bucs fans. Joe has to pass along information that might just make you sidearm your mug of coffee against the kitchen wall. [read more]

Maybe not so great.

So America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, claimed his knee was fine last week after he got belted in the Thursday night nightmare against Atlanta, despite heavily limping off the field and laying on the trainer’s table behind the bench. [read more]

Bears struggle against young quarterbacks.

Joe believes Bears coach John Fox is one of the best defensive minds in the NFL.

Look, to win a playoff game with Tim Tebow and get to a Super Bowl with Jake Delhomme, you better know what you are doing defensively. [read more]

Committee member.

Bucs fans are getting impatient. [read more]

Changing usage at One Buc Palace.

Defensive coordinators across the NFL are figuring out how to defend Bucs starting receivers Mike Evans and Cecil Shorts. [read more]