This new Bucs schedule sure is an interesting one.

In many ways, so much will be all about those first six games. [read more]

UPDATED, April 18 – It’s a sad day at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. [read more]

It’s here!

The long wait is over!

Time to plan your life around what matters. Bucs football. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Let’s not get too cute here.

Batting fifth in the NFL draft order, the Bucs shouldn’t be pressured into swinging for the fences and risking a big whiff. There have been too many big-time draft busts in Tampa, too many painful memories for Buc fans to stomach. [read more]

UPDATED 7:10 p.m. – The first legitimate reports/rumors on the Bucs’ 2019 regular-season schedule have emerged. [read more]

“The Professor” offers sad guess.

This depresses Joe a great deal. [read more]

Answers talent question

The Tampa Bay talent pool was thinned by the losses of big names in Adam Humphries, Brent Grimes, DeSean Jackson and Kwon Alexander this offseason. (Can’t put Gerald McCoy in that category yet.)

But the Bucs did add lesser names in Brashad Perriman, Deone Buchanon, Shaq Barrett and super-valuable punter Bradley Pinion. [read more]

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UPDATED: 10:32 a.m. – Well, here is 1/16th — or perhaps 2/17ths — of the NFL scheduling puzzle for the Bucs. [read more]

Could Georgia edge rusher D’Andre Walker point the Bucs to the quarterback?

Well, guess this is good for drama. [read more]

Mental mistakes kill teams.

Joe has decided to document highlights of Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians captured when he coached Arizona during the inaugural season of “All or Nothing,” a “Hard Knocks”-like miniseries by NFL Films that follows a pro or college team throughout a season and is exclusive to Amazon Prime. Joe hopes these highlights will help Bucs fans learn what to expect from the 12th coach in franchise history. This series of posts will appear periodically until the days leading up to the draft later this month.

As Bruce Arians and the Cardinals (7-2) prepare for the Bengals (8-1), both Arians’ relationship with his quarterbacks and how badly mental errors can destroy a team are highlighted.

As well as Arians’ range of emotions. [read more]

Harrowing flashback via the 2019 Bucs schedule

It was an afternoon that told Joe inept Lovie Smith was not the answer. [read more]

Speaks out.

Bucs left tackle Donovan Smith cannot stand it any longer. [read more]

If you’re like Joe and believe the NFL’s annual game schedule announcement is the equivalent of Christmas morning or an invitation to join a Bucs cheerleaders’ beach party, then you’ll appreciate this rumor buzzing around Twitter today. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

If people are trying to figure out the battle plans of Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht for next week’s draft, feel free to read into this what you wish. [read more]

There’s a lot of positive head-nodding and warm hearts around One Buc Palace when it comes to the guy who had Bucs employees and fans pulling their hair out last year. [read more]

Interesting twist this morning at One Buc Palace. [read more]