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Taking a bullet for slackers?
Joe has used this line before but it bears repeating. There were times last year when Team Glazer, after watching the horrid Bucs defense (No. 32 in 2017), had to have a near-uncontrollable urge to pull a Bobby Knight and wing a suite chair onto the field. [read more]
Peter Schrager is on a rampage. [read more]
The juice was detailed today on the Ira Kaufman Podcast, via special guest Mark Duffner, the Bucs’ linebackers coach.
Duffner revealed that Mike Smith and the defensive staff didn’t take a status quo — aka status woe — approach to the defense and attacked change in an unique way this offseason. [read more]
Direct talk.
Football is a simple game. [read more]
Team over player.
A lot of folks believe the Bucs have the personnel to run a 34 defense. The Bucs certainly have the linebackers, even more so if you factor in Noah Spence as an outside linebacker, which he was in college. [read more]
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Forty-four years coaching college and NFL football makes Bucs linebackers coach Mark Duffner a man worth listening to. He is today’s special guest on the Ira Kaufman Podcast, and there’s plenty more from Ira on Wednesday’s media session with Mike Smith and more. Click play above or dial up the Ira Kaufman Podcast at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com. Ranked on the Google Play podcast “Top Charts” for SEVEN consecutive months (all genres nationwide), the podcast keeps you informed, thinking and smiling every single Tuesday & Thursday — and there is NO offseason. Click or download above. It’s fun — free and easy, too. Enjoy!
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Great news
Heartwarming news from One Buc Palace today. [read more]
If you asked Joe last year at this time to wager $10,000 on Lavonte David and Kwon Alexander combining for at least one sack in 2017, Joe would have found a way to come up with the cash and make the bet.
A no-brainer. [read more]
Defense rich in talent.
When Bucs fans read how Mike Smith thinks his defense is deep in talent this season, they may think of the word “deep” to mean something entirely different. [read more]
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Defensive coordinator Mike Smith was guarded in his chat session today with Joe and local media.
Smith often takes a CEO-style public approach, especially when compared to Dirk Koetter and some Bucs assistant coaches. [read more]
BY IRA KAUFMAN
Anonymity has its privileges.
On a broad perspective, nobody’s talking about the Buccaneers. They are an afterthought for the Vegas odds makers, a non-entity on NFL Live, a subject rarely discussed on national sports talk radio.
It’s understandable. [read more]
Bucs defensive coordinator Mike Smith was at the podium before Joe and the Tampa Bay media today and was peppered with a variety of questions. [read more]
Interesting take on America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, from a QB who knows a thing or two about feeling extreme pressure on a losing team. [read more]
Frustrating carousel of pass defense.
Joe doesn’t know whether to throw his hands up in the air or just throw up. [read more]
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Spring practices, aka OTAs, rolled on this week with a new twist.
Rookies meet and practice with veterans. [read more]
Given green light.
For Bucs fans who rest comfortably at night, confident in the belief Bucs defensive coaches have set the NFL standard for developing rookie corners, you may not want to click “read more.” [read more]
Sticky.
We live in an age where if you can’t slap a damned number on something, folks have no use for it. [read more]
