Likely due to clamoring head coaches, who think the NFL is some underground society like Skull and Bones and try to work under a shroud of secrecy worthy of a CIA conference room full of double-agents, the NFL limited the teams available to be featured in the summer reality series “Hard Knocks” on HBO. [read more]

Justified anger.

Joe has watched the video several times and, frankly, can’t watch it enough.

Jameis was peeved, angry, outraged. He sure looked like he wanted to punch someone. The losing ways of the Bucs, the losing culture, as Lovie Smith discussed yesterday, finally had Jameis at his boiling point. [read more]

Lavonte David and Joe had quiet time today at One Buc Palace, and David shared one thing that will be a focus of his offseason. [read more]

Yes, the Bucs achieved infamy yesterday when they became the first NFC team since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to finish in the basement of their division five straight years [read more]

Twice during the past couple two weeks, Logan Mankins mentioned that he is considering retirement. [read more]

(Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Joe asked Lovie Smith today whether he planned to get more involved in personnel matters this offseason, especially with the extra time he likely won’t spend on hiring new coaches this offseason. [read more]

Harsh reality

Take a look at this year’s 1,000-yard rushers in the NFL. Only one of them — one — is going to the playoffs.

You better believe Bucs general manager Jason Licht is paying attention. [read more]

GM Jason Licht reveals a locker room view

If you have yet to see America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, drop the hammer on his teammates, then you missed quite a postgame show last night.

You can catch up here. [read more]

Touching and telling Josh Freeman locker room video emerges

Joe confesses to trotting out to a local sports bar to watch Josh Freeman start for the Colts yesterday in the team’s must-win game.

You can imagine the “you’re-an-idiot” look Joe got when asking the manager what TV had the Colts-Titans game on. [read more]

Lovie inexplicably broke Sterling Moore’s streak of eight consecutive starts

A funny thing happened yesterday, Lovie Smith benched cornerback Sterling Moore, who had made eight consecutive starts, in favor of Mike Jenkins.

Yeah, that Mike Jenkins, Lovie’s inexplicable bromance partner for the past two seasons. [read more]

Only Leeman Bennett worse.

Bucs fans are irate, and Joe understands.

It’s partially from the pounding morning-after headache that won’t go away after eating Advil following the seal-clubbing the Stinking Panthers performed on the Bucs to end the 2015 season. [read more]

And so the 2016 season ended with a thud.

The most exciting element of the final game happened after the final whistle, when America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, called out teammates for just going through the motions and cashing Team Glazer checks. [read more]

Now a target of referees thanks to repeated juvenile behavior.

Yesterday, Mike Evans, the gifted Bucs wide receiver, was doing Mike Evans things: whining about being interfered with play after play after play. [read more]

Fix your defense.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Joe knows the NFL types will say —  no, demand! — that without takeaways you won’t be much of an NFL team. The numbers are hard to argue. [read more]

Stands with his rookie brother in arms.

Yesterday, like a cool breeze on a hot summer day, America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, had his fill of the losing after the Bucs dropped their fourth straight game to end the season. [read more]

Gerald McCoy led the Bucs in a pregame pump-up session last Sunday against the Bears. Video showed McCoy smiling and yelling and imploring his team to have fun.

“Fun” was the word McCoy used repeatedly. [read more]

Reached his frustration level.

Whoa! The losing culture of the Bucs’ locker room has finally gotten to Jameis. [read more]

How receivers look in Lovie Smith’s secondary

It was a typical deer-in-the-cornfield evening for the Bucs’ secondary.

The cover-nobody defense served up the usual. [read more]

Bucs set NFC milestone of futility.

Last week, it was pointed out by none other than the Custodian of Canton, eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, that the Bucs were on the cusp of NFL history with a loss to the Stinking Panthers. [read more]

The Buccaneers began the Lovie Smith regime with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.

In a few short months, the Bucs will have the No. 9 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. [read more]

Knock it off!

Gee, mouthy Stinking Panthers stud cornerback Josh Norman got into Mike Evans’ head today. And as a result, Evans got run out of the game. [read more]

Angry Jameis.

Joe isn’t sure who was listening to the Buccaneers Radio Network after the game but America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, made it perfectly clear to listeners: He is hot as a firecracker in July that the Bucs got curb-stomped today by the Stinking Panthers and wants the 2016 to start tomorrow. [read more]