Passes test.

It isn’t just Demar Dotson who got a green light to return to full football workouts by Bucs medical personnel. [read more]

Can’t just live on sacks.

Yeah, Joe is hung up on sacks. Guilty as charged.

And Joe makes no apologies for the dents on his fridge door from punching the damn thing after racing for a cold beer upon watching opposing quarterbacks clip their toenails before throwing a pass. [read more]

Shoots straight

Yes, you really need to listen to today’s Ira Kaufman Podcast. It’s on the home page or at iTunes, Podbean and Google Play.

Special guest, Bucs right tackle Demar Dotson, really opened up. Among the riveting subjects Dotson dove into were as follows: [read more]

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WHOA! Kudos to Bucs right tackle Demar Dotson for not holding back during today’s interview with the Ira Kaufman Podcast. This 20+ minute segment of Dotson with Ira and Joe is Part 1 of 3. Dive in right here or enjoy at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com. Ranked on the Google Play podcast “Top Charts” for four consecutive months (all genres nationwide), the Ira Kaufman Podcast keeps you informed and entertained every Tuesday & Thursday — and there is NO offseason. Click or download above. It’s fun — free and easy, too. Enjoy!

Good news.

A big piece of the offensive puzzle just got a thumbs-up. [read more]

“Call it whatever you want. Just do your damn job and stop making me look bad.”

Lots of chatter has been circulating about how the signing of new defensive line coach Brentson Buckner, introduced to local media today, might mean the Bucs are preparing to transition to a 3-4 defense. [read more]

New Bucs DL coach Brentson Buckner.

Newly minted Tampa Bay defensive line coach Brentson Buckner almost sounded like a Bucs fan the way he glowed about the Bucs, both in the past and the present. [read more]

Ira Kaufman is the most revered sports personality and writer in town. He has hung his hat at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters since July 2016. Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira busts out columns here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and his award winning podcasts fire Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can also hear Ira on SiriusXM Mad Dog Radio Wednesdays during football season, and see him now on Mondays and Fridays at 10:30 p.m. on Spectrum Sports 360. Ira also is part of the FOX-13 Tailgate Sunday and enjoys beet salads, Riesling, Chiefs victories and needling Joe.

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The Buccaneer book has closed on Doug Martin, with enough intriguing chapters to make for a decent TV movie.

He started off like a dynamo, excelling for first-year coach Greg Schiano. By the time he finished off that wondrous 2012 season with a 142-yard outburst at Atlanta, Martin had the potential to be the best running back in franchise history. [read more]

NFL suits giving up on Jameis?

Joe has a fear. [read more]

Sacks aside, Roberts Ayers played fine last year.

Yeah, Joe doesn’t think Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht is finished throwing out the dead weight on his roster, especially on the defensive line. [read more]

Details how he would draft for his former team.

The Bucs are in a pickle. [read more]

Should he be sleeping with one eye open?

Boy, yesterday was like the Night of the Long Knives. [read more]

Grateful.

In the wake of having his access card to One Buc Palace deactivated today, former Bucs defender Chris “Swaggy” Baker is not without gratitude. [read more]

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Gotta love the offseason when you can share it with the insight and humor of the Sage of Tampa Bay sports. Dive in here with Ira and Joe, or enjoy at iTunes, Google Play or Podbean.com. Ranked on the Google Play podcast “Top Charts” for 3 1/2 consecutive months (all genres nationwide), the Ira Kaufman Podcast keeps you informed and entertained every Tuesday & Thursday — and there is NO offseason. Click or download above. It’s fun — free and easy, too. Enjoy!

Officially fired!

It’s just under 11 months since JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman reported here that then-new Bucs defensive tackle Chris “Swaggy” Baker didn’t like to practice during his final days with the Redskins.

It was one giant red flag that never went away. [read more]

Letter to Bucs fans.

Because this apparently irritates some of Joe’s readers, if you don’t want to be irritated, click elsewhere. [read more]

“Jason, we have the cash to improve drastically.”

Yeah, yeah, we all heard Bucs head coach Dirk Koetter say last year that the Bucs didn’t have $17 million lying around.

Before that fake news gets out again. Let Joe set the record straight. [read more]

The Bucs enjoyed major addition by subtraction today.

Your Buccaneers have an analytics team, paid in-house folks charged with crunching the numbers and objectively sharing what works and what doesn’t on an NFL field.

For far too long, one man, Dirk Koetter, refused to believe the most obvious of data they served up. [read more]

Released.

The Muscle Hamster is no more. [read more]

The Bucs have a giant wad of cash to spend under the salary cap, a player-friendly head coach, a QB respected for his competitive fire, gorgeous indoor practice and training facilities, and a strong leadership core on defense.

It’s not enough. [read more]