Not since Joel Buchsbaum put out his annual draft guide have #DraftMedia panted over a tome of a draft annual. [read more]

Team Glazer talks to Joe

Head coach Bucco Bruce Arians has lots of friends across the NFL. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Time waits for no one, unless you’re a fan of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [read more]

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Bargain shopping?

The fascination with the Bucs drafting an inside linebacker with the No. 5 pick is completely lost on Joe. [read more]

Sadly, one could make a case that the Bucs have a cornerbacks crisis. [read more]

Waiting game.

We have no idea what is going on with the Gerald McCoy drama. It doesn’t look good, however. [read more]

It’s not farfetched to consider the Bucs trading up in this draft, and one longtime draft analyst and NFL executive sees the Bucs doing just that. [read more]

Simeon Rice 2.0?

Sean Sullivan happens to be one of the biggest dratniks of any Bucs fan Joe has met. Sullivan is the general manager at Bill Currie Ford, just a couple of punts up the road from the Den of Depression north on Dale Mabry Highway. The draft is not a seasonal thing for Sullivan, it’s a 365-day-a-year passion. When Joe bought his Ford F-150 from Bill Currie Ford this past weekend, Sullivan told Joe he had watched his recordings of February’s NFL combine four times already. So Joe thought it would be cool if Sullivan typed a few stories about draft prospects. Here is his first pass attempt.

By SEAN SULLIVAN

It is simple: Brian Burns is the best edge rusher in the draft. Period. [read more]

Comparing picks with Matty Ice.

Here is something interesting to ponder. [read more]

Lofty comparison.

It sure seems like all the mockers believe the Bucs will ignore the pass rush in a top-heavy draft for pass rushers and defensive linemen and instead draft a middle linebacker. [read more]

The Bucs are poised to draft a defensive lineman with the No. 5 overall pick in the NFL Draft.

So how have highly-drafted NFL defensive linemen fared in the draft over the past 10 years? [read more]

A little to over-analyze here. Joe loves this stuff. [read more]

Joe spent time with a handful of “casual” Bucs fans last night, guys who watch about 90 percent of Bucs games and pay close attention to the team during the season and during key offseason times, but definitely not year-round.

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Well over 1,000 fans were at the two-night, Bucs Uncensored/JoeBucsFan NFL Draft party last year, and everyone loved all the nonstop Bucs passion that flowed at Buffalo Wild Wings in South Tampa — indoors and outside. Derrick Brooks, Ira Kaufman and Brent Grimes in the house made it even more specials.

We’re doing it better and bigger this year. It’s free. The buffet is not.

All kinds of beer specials flowing!!!!

Flash, 24-hour poll posted at 8:24 a.m.

Man of his word.

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.

Bruce Arians is very quick to let a player know he screwed up. And Arians isn’t afraid to confess when he let the team down. [read more]