Did Bucs no favors.

If the Bucs are make the playoffs this season, the hiring of Bucco Bruce Arians will prove to be likely the best hire Team Glazer has made since swinging a deal for Chucky prior to the 2002 season. [read more]

There are bad wins.

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.

A win is a win. NFL coaches like to say this. For Bruce Arians, this cliche isn’t an absolute. [read more]

Draft-selection insight is a lot easier to glean when your personnel chief has a very long and public history of explaining and detailing his preferences and selections. [read more]

Win there or prepare for draft.

If you aren’t playing for the playoffs, then you are playing for the draft (or you better be). [read more]

One BSPNer isn’t buying the hype. [read more]

Joe has noticed a theme pulsating through a chunk of Bucs fans and a big share of media. [read more]

Ira is not happy. But he will be Thursday night at Buffalo Wild Wings in South Tampa for the JoeBucsFan NFL Draft party.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The Bucs are victims in this Schedule-Gate fiasco, but the organization isn’t blameless.

The 2019 regular-season slate is out and the NFL did Tampa Bay no favors, even if the Bucs will feature a Week 1 game at home for the first time since 2015. [read more]

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Bucs GM Jason Licht.

In the words of former NFL general manager Michael Lombardi, Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht will go for splash over need in the draft because he is feeling the hot breath of Team Glazer on the back of his neck. [read more]

Now here is a truly great mock draft, 90-plus minutes of intensity featuring an ex-Buccaneer who is one of the great analysts in the game. [read more]

Joe banged on doors and has learned that yes, Vita Vea looking like he’s hit a new and impressive level of fitness is a real thing. [read more]

24-hour flash poll posted at 10:55 a.m.

“Mr. Glazer, we can get more snaps out of Vita Vea with that drone.”

Team Glazer should be making a couple of few phone calls this morning. [read more]

Yesterday Joe reviewed defensive players drafted in the past three drafts and how quickly they were moved to another position, or changed positions immediately after former Bucs coach Dirk Koetter was dismissed. [read more]

Linked to Tampa Bay.

There is so much buzz and chatter about the Bucs doing the unthinkable and drafting an inside linebacker at No. 5 that Joe is starting to think (hope?) this is nothing more than a smoke screen. [read more]

Gloomy forecast.

Talk to most NFL draft observers and they will suggest Josh Jacobs of Alabama is likely the lone running back to be drafted next week in the first round. [read more]

Daniel Jeremiah

This has opened Joe’s eyes — and warmed Joe’s heart just a bit. [read more]