Here you go!

Start planning. Start plotting. Start thinking what the Bucs need to do before the bye week.

Start figuring out if the Bucs have a cold weather kicker. [read more]

For the lunatic Bucs freaks like Joe, it’s been a wild afternoon of rumors on this high holy day of the NFL calendar, best known as Schedule Release Day. [read more]

What would the Schedule Day holiday be without a leak prior to the official announcement?

[Updated 5:54 p.m.: Click “read more” for fresh schedule rumors/reports!]?

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“Coach, I love playing in your stadium. The crowd makes me feel at home.”

Here is a cool throwback Thursday item. [read more]

Five weeks ago, Joe wrote about the other Oklahoma running back, you know, the one who is the Sooners’ all-time leading rusher and the ball carrier who didn’t disfigure a girl by punching her in the face. [read more]

Ira agrees.

When Bucs stud defensive tackle Gerald McCoy bore his soul to the local pen and mic club Monday, like he was in a confessional at a chapel on the Saint Leo University campus, he told all who listened he must improve late in games. [read more]

This absolutely is not a Joe’s-a-Florida-State-fan post. [read more]

Miko Grimes could make “Hard Knocks” must-see TV.

Some folks, like the creator, curator and overall guru of ProFootballTalk.com, the great Mike Florio, are bored with “Hard Knocks.” [read more]

The football gods speak at 8 p.m.

Yes, it’s a holy day at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters.

It’s known as Schedule Day, when the NFL announces its regular season schedule for the coming season. [read more]

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Sage wisdom on all things Bucs, as usual, from Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira “Don’t Call Me Irv” Kaufman. Listen now by clicking or downloading above, or listen (and subscribe) at iTunes and Podbean.com. It’s free and easy. Enjoy! Remember, Ira’s podcasts pop every Tuesday & Thursday.

Dangerous pattern.

Sometimes crazy thoughts, in retrospect, maybe aren’t that crazy. [read more]

Epic blast by Dirk Koetter & video

Man, candid Dirk Koetter never fails to deliver on the keeping-it-real front.

And it’s why Koetter will be a star of Hard Knocks — even if he’s unafraid to say he wants no part of the show. [read more]

Shares his intel

A faction of Bucs fans believes the team needs a tight end and would give a standing ovation if O.J. Howard or David Njoku were drafted by Tampa Bay in the first round. [read more]

All about Jameis.

For long-time readers of this here website, the following may come across as heresy. [read more]

Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira Kaufman, has hung his hat at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters since July 2015. His columns pop here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and his award winning podcasts fire every Tuesday and Thursday. 

Today, Ira takes a very different look at the Bucs’ pending appearance this summer on HBO’s Hard Knocks. [read more]

Gerald McCoy has pain — in April.

There are typical red flags, and then there is the giant kind, like the enormous Buccaneers banner flapping in the wind near the entrance to One Buc Palace. [read more]

What to expect.

So unless the Bucs want to shock the world this afternoon when they hold what the team has trumpeted as a “major” news conference, it is expected Tampa Bay will be unveiled as the team featured on this summer’s edition of “Hard Knocks.” [read more]

How bout fun, quality video added to your JoeBucsFan diet three times a week!

That’s what’s coming from Rock Riley.

Lunch With Real Rock Riley kicks off here Monday, April 24.

Rock is a Tampa Bay sports television icon. His old nightly show on BayNews 9 was great fun back in the day when Rock took live phone calls. And Rock was a fixture on weekend sports radio for so many years, in addition to his TV duties that ended late last year.

Rock has just four orders from Joe: Keep it fun. Keep it real. Do just about whatever you want. And remember you’re no longer shackled by the corporate world that insists people like boring. (Follow Rock @RealRockRiley)

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Quality mocking

Only a few mock drafts are must-reads for Joe. [read more]