Season appears over. A major loss.

Updated 7:59 p.m. – Bad news today at One Buc Palace. [read more]

A 16-year NFL veteran weighs in

It seems Austin Seferian-Jenkins still has work to do in the image department. [read more]

Class looking better.

For a while there it seemed aside from Mike Evans, the 2014 draft class, the first for AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht, was pretty much a wash. [read more]

Akeem Spence talks about what he felt was the offense’s most important drive Sunday.

A lot of folks, including Mark Dominik, point to the last drive of the first half that ended in a Charles Sims 23-yard touchdown reception as the most important drive of yesterday’s game.

Understandable. [read more]

Why not start a game with a no-huddle? 

In preseason — yes, preseason — America’s Quarterback Jameis Winston had his ups and downs. [read more]

Happy for his old team.

You know who was happy for the Bucs win over the Dixie Chicks yesterday to open the season? That would be former Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik. [read more]

(Photo by the JoeBucsFan.com photo team)

A changing of the guard in the NFC South? [read more]

A great and simple Xs and Os nuance was verbalized this morning by former Bucs tight end Anthony Becht. [read more]

D-line coach Jay Hayes had clear plans

Much was made about how the Bucs under new defensive line coach Jay Hayes would be running an eight-man rotation of linemen firing away. [read more]

From the JoeBucsFan.com photo team

Joe’s greatest fear entering yesterday’s game was the oversized, overweight baggage the Bucs traveled with to Atlanta. [read more]

The tribe now eating their own words.

The PFF tribe got caught with their pants around their ankles yesterday. [read more]

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Will Gholston and Robert Ayers listen intently during a chalktalk Sunday. )

Welcome to Victory Monday. [read more]

Exposing illogical premises.

Well, it seems as if the national NFL typists are starting to come around. [read more]

Updated 10:10 p.m. – How bout that big goose egg the Buccaneers hung on the scoreboard this afternoon in Atlanta! [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The last time the Bucs opened a season with a divisional road win, Ray Perkins was stalking the Pontiac Silverdome sidelines in 1990, berating officials.

Tampa Bay has fired seven head coaches since that point, so Sunday’s victory was especially notable.

Here’s 10 more tasty takeaways from the shootout at the Georgia Dome: [read more]

Going to the no-huddle paid off for Dirk Koetter and the Bucs.

Your first-place Buccaneers, baby, had a helluva game in Atlanta today. And the first-year head coach of the Bucs, Dirk Koetter, got his first win in his first game. [read more]

Jameis trusted him.

Yes, Joe has had issues with the play and the behavior of talented yet high maintenance tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins. But no one can deny he works his rear end off in practice. [read more]

There was just enough good from a porous Bucs defense today.

And defensive end Robert Ayers summed it up very well. [read more]

Dimwit Atlanta offensive coordinator.

What the hell was he thinking?

Joe doesn’t give a damn, but Joe would like to personally thank Dixie Chicks offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan for going all Lovie Smith late in the first half. [read more]

Bucs chances for a win point up when MLB Kwon Alexander plays at the Georgia Dome. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

The Bucs played their final game in the Georgia Dome today, a memorable 31-24 win. [read more]