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Slow starts can no longer be ignored.
If long-time readers of this here website remember, Joe once called upon the Bucs to hire a consultant (at the time, Joe suggested Marty Schottenheimer) to help figure out a glaring problem. [read more]
Unfortunately, this five-point road loss feels like a heck of a lot more than just a rough day, one in which your franchise quarterback busted up his shoulder early in the game.
If feels like an indictment of the franchise from top to bottom. [read more]
He’s back!
Comment all game long with intense and sometimes ludicrous Bucs fans. Great fun! More than 1,300 comments last game.
Keep it clean. And reserve the personal attacks for Cardinals players, not each other (Joe’s filters are tuned up extreme haters.)
Enjoy yourself and prepare for Joe’s award-winning postgame coverage, including Ira Kaufman’s 10 Takeaways.
Go Bucs!
Once again, WTVT-TV Channel 13 sports director Scott Smith was kind enough to give prized JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman a platform to entertain and inform Bucs fans. [read more]
Takes veiled shots from former NFL QB.
If Phil Simms is correct, we will find out today just how miserable the edge rush of the Bucs is (what edge rush?). [read more]
Will suit up.
The inactives list was just released by the Bucs and it’s good news for fans. [read more]
Think pressure is more important than sacks. OK, the Bucs are last in the league at pressure.
Once upon a time, during the great 10-6 season of 2010, the Bucs won games with no significant pass rush. Defensive ends that year totaled — totaled! — just 10.5 sacks.
That’s why the Bucs ran out in 2011 and drafted Adrian Clayborn and Da’Quan Bowers. [read more]
Gamewrecker.
It seems the Cardinals are like a lot of other teams. [read more]
CBS NFL insider.
It seems the two major voices of NFL coverage for CBSSports.com are split about the chances of the Bucs this afternoon. [read more]
Newest Cardinal, Adrian Peterson
So what kind of running back will Adrian Peterson be bearing down on the Buccaneers’ run defense today?
Well, a guy studying Peterson for the past six months says Peterson was such a beast through training camp that it’s a complete unknown what will happen when/if the Cardinals actually give him a chance in an offense that suits his game. [read more]
Flash poll posted at 7:22 p.m.
Revealing words.
Browsing through Friday’s quotes from winning coach Dirk Koetter’s presser before the Bucs jetted to the desert, one particular statement caused an eyebrow to raise on Joe’s forehead. [read more]
Where the Bucs game will be shown on free TV in the United States.
Here is where the Bucs-Cardinals telecast can be found in the continental United States without the need for NFL Sunday Ticket or a bar. [read more]
Welcome to a new feature on JoeBucsFan.com. Joe has challenged Ira Kaufman, Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter, to pick against the spread this season for a $500 prize. Every Friday, Ira will type out his picks for each Friday-through-Monday game. If he hits at 53 percent or better for the regular season, then Ira gets $500 in gift cards to Abe’s Place in Clearwater, home of historically amazing food and 44 craft beers on tap. Feel free to send Ira your stone cold locks on Twitter, @ikaufman76. The sage of Tampa Bay sports could always use some help.
BY IRA KAUFMAN
This handicapping gig is getting out of hand. [read more]
Enhanced challenge Sunday, explains Dirk Koetter.
It’s high-alert time for Doug Martin. [read more]
Dirk Koetter weighs in with more good/bad injury news.
Updated 10:37 a.m. – There is a fresh update on several Buccaneers injuries, courtesy of the man who decides Tampa Bay participants tomorrow in Arizona. [read more]
Role model.
Pretty cool video here of how NFL players give back to the community. [read more]
Beginning of the nightmare.
The Bucs have been in a kicking funk for a few years now and it seems the source of the ugly rut has been found. [read more]
