Bad news from NFL Network reporter Ian Rapoport. [read more]

Sage wisdom flowing from Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

There’s no way to put a pretty bow around Sunday’s debacle, but it surely can’t be considered a death blow.

The Bucs are 1-1 with the next two games at Raymond James Stadium — where Tampa Bay has won five in a row. The Giants showed signs of life while remaining winless and the Patriots continue to be plagued by a leaky defense that is keeping Bill Belichick up at night.

Unlike last season, I don’t think this was a case of the Bucs coming in overconfident. They were short-handed and manhandled, and it’s difficult to gauge the connection between the two. [read more]

“So how many calls did you make, Jason?“

Bucs fans may soon forget what happened today on the field in Minnesota, but they might long remember what they heard on the FOX broadcast from a thoroughly reliable source. [read more]

Struggling offense.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. [read more]

Mike Evans speaks out

Is it just Joe, or does all this national-anthem sitting remind anyone else of the Seinfeld episode when Kramer walks as a supporter and volunteer in AIDS-awareness march but he’s accosted by fellow marchers because he won’t wear the AIDS ribbon? [read more]

Not yet great.

When the Bucs needed him the most, America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, couldn’t answer the bell. [read more]

Get him.

Joe is waving the white flag. And so too should the Bucs. [read more]

Dirk Koetter warned about this long before the season started. [read more]

Bucs LB Lavonte David on a cart headed towards Bucs locker room following the loss to Minnesota Sunday.

This is like some kind of hospital emergency room. [read more]

More injury news.

It gets worse. [read more]

Jameis was sloppy with the football from the Buccaneers’ very first drive

After an offseason of being drilled to protect the football, America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, may not have absorbed the message fully. [read more]

Noah Spence has shoulder troubles again.

Oh, boy.

UPDATED: 4:47 p.m. [read more]

You saw the brutal way Lavonte David’s leg got rolled up late in today’s game.

He needed a cart to get off the field and then Joe saw David in the tunnel.  [read more]

Brutal

First Ryan Smith was a cornerback the Bucs insisted was a safety. That didn’t work.

Then he was a kick returner. That didn’t work. He was historically bad.

Now he’s a cornerback — with glaring weaknesses since training camp — who got torched today in Minnesota. [read more]

Bad day for respected GM.

This was just inexcusable garbage this afternoon at U.S. Bank Stadium. [read more]

Plenty of cushion for Vikings receivers today

Football is a team game and boy, did the Buccaneers lose as a team today.

They hit all the marks. Bad quarterback play complemented by just nine rushes. Throw in no pass rush and brutal cornerback play and Vikings fans had a quite a blowout party. [read more]

Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Fire away all game long in the comments section below with fellow Bucs fans and the occasional troll.

Keep it clean and lose the personal attacks. Joe’s filters are tuned up for the regular season.

Most important, have fun and prepare for Joe’s award-winning postgame coverage. Joe is live in Minnesota.

Go Bucs!

Out.

Ugh. [read more]

T.J. Ward gets up after leveling Bears running back Tarik Cohen. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

Outside of a beautiful splash play where he served up a bone-rattling tackle on Bears running back Tarik Cohen, Bucs safety T.J. Ward hasn’t done a whole lot for the Bucs on the field. Yet. [read more]