Recognized by peers

America is taking notice. [read more]

Bucs LB coach talks defense.

In the past couple of months, Joe started sniffing the Bucs would try a little more 34 defense than what Mike Smith’s crew did last year. [read more]

Renowned former St. Pete Times sports columnist Gary Shelton walked up to Joe at One Buc Palace last week and delivered a quality one-liner after talking to offensive line coach George Warhop. [read more]

Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Lunch With Rock Riley is right here with his diverse video reports on the Buccaneers. Fun stuff!

Today, Rock catches up with America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, Team Glazer, assistant coaches, and more. Enjoy!

Winston getting better on and off the field from Rock Riley on Vimeo.

Running backs coach Tim Spencer speaks

Joe is sensing a trend at One Buc Palace, and Joe’s not sure whether it’s encouraging, alarming, exciting or all three. [read more]

Tampa Bay’s only Pro Football Hall of Fame voter, Ira Kaufman, the most beloved and esteemed columnist in town, has hung his hat at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters since July 2016. His columns pop here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and his award winning podcasts fire Tuesdays and Thursdays.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

While other teams try to address major holes, the Bucs continue to tie up loose ends.

That’s the best news of all for Buc fans parched after a nine-year playoff drought. And if the front office takes a breather this week while players gather for OTA sessions, who can blame a busy brain trust that ignores Vegas oddsmakers but hears the pleas of their stick carriers. [read more]

Forecasting end of playoff drought.

It’s been nearly 10-too-long years since the Bucs played a meaningful game in January, a playoff game.

Since, Tampa Bay is now on its fourth coach. [read more]

Be wary.

As Joe wrote Friday, Joe’s happy the Bucs landed NFL vagabond quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick to back up America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston. [read more]

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Are you a Stick Carrier? Well, you should be if you love the Bucs. A great start is listening to Bucs Uncensored and host Justin Pawlowski, “The Commish.” He’s the former voice on the Buccaneers Radio Network, an ex-college football player and a lifelong Bucs fan. Justin’s new podcasts post here Mondays, Wednesdays & Saturdays. Hear your Bucs take (if it makes the cut). Just email a 90-second-or-less audio blast to BucsUncensored@gmail.com. Listen above or subscribe on iTunes right here, or at Podbean.com. **CAUTION: R-RATED language!** Justin’s work is NOT influenced by JoeBucsFan.com. Joe just thinks it’s great, great fun and very special.

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Still unemployed.

Cornerback Alterraun Verner will go down as one of the great Bucs mysteries. [read more]

Potential Savior

UPDATED 1:29 p.m. – In part, Joe believes Ryan Fitzpatrick signing a one-year, $3-million-plus-incentives contract with Tampa Bay on Friday was about saving a treasured roster spot. [read more]

Skies for a catch.

Hey, if winning Bucs coach Dirk Koetter wants to get funky with a play or two, perhaps he could bring in Ryan Fitzpatrick for a red zone snap and have America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, as a slot receiver? [read more]

Bucs OC not satisfied.

For two seasons, Bucs wide receiver Mike Evans was good but showed flaws. [read more]

It was kind of like “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha” at One Buc Palace last week. [read more]

Cryptic social media post.

Last week Bucs offensive coordinator Todd Monken made some headlines when he needled DeSean Jackson’s big new contract with the Bucs and said now Jackson has to earn it. [read more]

Jameis watches his football camp just before he speaks to the youngsters this morning.

Nothing like entertainment and football rolled into one on an otherwise quiet Saturday morning. [read more]

Bryan Cox, Jr., flew away from Tampa Bay

Interesting nugget out of the Charlotte Observer. (For the growing masses who have ignored newspapers for years, that’s the top paper covering the Carolina Panthers.) [read more]

Pro Bowler Mike Evans speaks

Forget the four weapons the Bucs added recently for America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston. [read more]

He’ll be OK.

Look, Joe’s happy the Bucs found a competent quarterback to back up America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston. [read more]

Gil fires away every Saturday with his thought-provoking Bucs columns.

By GIL ARCIA

Sitting on the balcony of my beach resort room as I type this, I can’t help but think outside the box on something: how the Ryan Fitzpatrick signing ties in to a potential false belief in running back Doug Martin. [read more]