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Good chance to have weekends off in January.
Leave it to numberscrunchers to crunch numbers to come up with a playoff formula. And for the Bucs, let’s just say they have a slightly better chance of making the playoffs than Myron Lewis does of playing in another NFL game. [read more]
The NFL had a microphone on Aqib Talib on Sunday.
Arguably the dumbest play in Buccaneers history made quite an impression on one of the most moronic players in Buccaneers history: helmet-wielding, cabbie-slugging, Adderrall-popping, coach-cussing, referee-charging, pistol-friendly, granny-hassling Aqib Talib. [read more]
Dirk Koetter would find a lot of opposition among glory-days Bucs
Oh, boy.
Joe wishes Warren Sapp was around to weigh in on this one. [read more]
Still shows youth.
If very recent history is a barometer, and to use a statgeeky term “small sample size,” getting immediate impact from a young quarterback means you better draft a guy in the middle or late rounds. [read more]
Object of desire
With the Bucs’ running game, the “next man up” adage has turned into the head coach seeking updates from the trainer. [read more]
One of the most interesting parings of this Buccaneers season is not on the field. [read more]
(Photo courtesy Buccaneers.com)
A former Bucs quarterback says don’t blame America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston. [read more]
It’s Joe’s weekly 24-hour Dirk Koetter Confidence Poll. Here are last week’s results. Polls close at 11 a.m. Wednesday.
The hallmark of the Greg Schiano years, not including regulation of movie titles and meal temperature and thermostats, was a ferocious run defense complemented by one of the worst pass defenses known to man. [read more]
Not practicing.
Add running back Charles Sims to the list of walking wounded for the Bucs. [read more]
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Ira’s takes run the gamut in the aftermath of the Bucs-Broncos debacle Sunday.
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Back to square-one.
Sunday night when Dirk Koetter said for all to hear he was “very concerned” with the turnovers created by America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, Joe had an immediate follow-up question. [read more]
Improving defense?
There is little positive to be gleaned from the beatdown the Broncos hit the Bucs with on Sunday. Joe senses one element, however. [read more]
Sometimes it is good for an NFL coach to decompress for a day after watching his team get seal-clubbed. [read more]
Want to know why the Bucs are 1-3 with playoff hopes grim if not blown up? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist. [read more]
Oh, boy. Joe’s late lunch is coming back up. [read more]
BY IRA KAUFMAN
When Jameis Winston walked off the field Sunday evening, bruised all over and caked in mud, he was standing straight up, head tall.
That’s a good start.
Tampa Bay’s 1-3 getaway has raised questions ranging from the culture of the locker room to the expertise of the executive suite, and that’s fair game. [read more]
Koetter throws logic out the window.
The head-scratching, illogical decision of Bucs coach Dirk Koetter to punt midway through the fourth quarter last night with the ball in Denver territory has Bucs fans from Sarasota to Sebring to Spring Hill snorting coffee grounds today. [read more]
Defends America.
A lot of folks, including Bucs coach Dirk Koetter, are angry this morning at America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, for throwing two early picks that turned into two Broncos touchdowns and may have cost the Bucs the game. [read more]
Kwon Alexander, aka the Jameis of the defense, is starting to become the Dirk Koetter of the defense because of his candid commentary. [read more]
Leading a feeble charge
Among the many things killing the Bucs’ season is the absence of a running game.
Tampa Bay has gone from the penthouse to the outhouse. [read more]
If Joe wasn’t working and covering the Bucs for a living, Joe would have checked out of that Bucs game yesterday long before the lightning delay.
Joe’s guessing many Bucs fans threw in the towel about the same time. [read more]
