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Asshats piling on.
So the Bucs lost their fifth game in a row yesterday. Their season is toast and perhaps suits and coaches may be rolled as the team barrells towards a top five pick in next spring’s NFL Draft. [read more]
Joe has been up damn near all night and it has nothing to do with the barbeque shrimp and jambalaya he had at Mulate’s last night. [read more]
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There’s no way Joe will sleep tonight.
So here’s some of the Bucs-related stuff buzzing through Joe’s head:
1 – So the Redskins let DeSean Jackson and Chris “Swaggy” Baker walk this past offseason, along with 1,000-yard receiver Pierre Garçon, and yet they’re a solid, competitive football team at 4-4 with Bruce Allen calling the shots.
Ira Kaufman is the most beloved, revered and esteemed Buccaneers columnist in town. He has hung his hat at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters since July 2016. Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira busts out columns here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and his award winning podcasts fire Tuesdays and Thursdays. You can also see Ira every football Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on FOX-13, Scott Smith’s Tailgate Sunday.
BY IRA KAUFMAN
A month ago, I declared the Bucs were ready to make a move.
I had no idea that journey would land them squarely in the NFC South basement, where they have dwelled for most of the past six seasons.
This five-game tailspin is testing the patience of even the most faithful of Tampa Bay supporters. Some Stick Carriers are hoisting pitchforks instead, hoping to rid One Buc Place of fakes and frauds.
There are enough of each to go around. [read more]
Mike Smith is delivering fans an unwanted Lovie flashback.
Halfway through the 2017 season, your Bucs pass defense has now regressed to where it was during the Lovie Smith era.
Consider that entering today’s slate of NFL games, only two starting QBs were completing passes at a 70 percent clip, Josh McCown and Tom Brady. [read more]
Flash poll posted at 6:09 p.m. Polls will close in two hours.
Curious words.
A lot of readers of this here website think Joe has some agenda against Doug Martin. The word “hate” is often abused by these people. [read more]
Roster architect
General manager Jason Licht has spoken often about winning in the NFL Draft. Licht likes to say winning in the draft is 90 percent about evaluating players from the neck up, aka picking guys with the right mentality because raw talent is everywhere.
Walked without aid.
Obviously today, fan favorite, left tackle Donovan Smith did not take the field in the second half of the Big Easy Blowout. [read more]
The belly of the Buccaneers defense today reminded Joe a lot of his gut when it’s not filled with beer or Abe’s Place wings. [read more]
Fingers Saints’ CB.
When Mike Evans got tossed from the game today for blasting Saints cornerback Marshon Lattimore, there is no one to blame but Lattimore. [read more]
Joe really thought Donovan Smith would bounce back today from his rough game against the Panthers last Sunday.
He didn’t. [read more]
Ashamed.
A dejected winning Bucs coach Dirk Koetter did not deny his job could be in jeopardy the way the Bucs have fallen off a cliff, now losing five straight games. [read more]
Joe loves the Bucs and is in agony like the rest of the Tampa Bay faithful, but it troubled Joe deeply to see the Bucs’ two offensive captains fall apart with the season on the line today. [read more]
Scapegoat for season?
The problems with the offense? Joe could point to one area and the offense is fixed: running the ball. [read more]
There is one major factor here that is far more important than any win(s) now that the 2017 season is toast. [read more]
The early punt block sort of said it all.
Joe feels absolutely kicked in the gut, punched in the groin.
Again, the Bucs were non-competitive. That’s four crap shows in eight games. That’s the kind of stuff that rolls heads, Rightfully so.
Dirk Koetter has no answers. Jameis Winston’s pregame gobbling of Ws is meaningless. This team has no leadership and questionable talent and desire. [read more]
Time to move on.
Joe knows this won’t go over well with the Doug Martin fanboys, as they will react to this post like drug addicts during an intervention. [read more]
