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Grilling Logan Mankins discusses how refreshing a new season is for him.
You know how dogs hide behind couches and under beds from the Florida lightning storms? Well, dogs (and cats) trembled for their well-being on football Sundays last year, the way Bucs fans stomped around the neighborhood in outrage over a kick-in-the-nuts 2-14 season. [read more]
Joe sincerely hopes the following quiets the resurgent Mike Glennon Mob. [read more]
Chemistry is flowing between Jameis Winston and Bucs veterans.
Joe captured a telling moment today at One Buc Palace, a gesture from Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, that sparked a response from Vincent Jackson — and conjured memories of a beloved former Tampa Bay figure. [read more]
The Sporting News does not believe Lovie is trending forward. Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.
Once upon a time, Lovie Smith was the toast of the NFL.
Guiding the Chicago Bears to a Super Bowl with the ball-and-chain known as Rex Grossman was a feat that had the frostbitten souls of the Windy City toasting their disgusting Old Style swill. [read more]
The Bucs’ face of the franchise, Gerald McCoy, continues to share his theme of 2015. [read more]
Whoa! It’s yet another busy day in store for Joe and Bucs fans from Lakeland to Largo to Lake Keystone.
Tampa Bay is back on the practice field this afternoon for Day 1 of their three-day mandatory minicamp. It’s still underwear football, but Joe will get to watch all the two-hour sessions and mingle with players afterwards.
Come back for all kinds of goodies.
Lavonte David explains
Bo Pelini and Greg Schiano are high on the list of supreme football lunatics of this century.
They’ve broken their share of players, and common-decency rules in the process. [read more]
The Bucs’ mandatory, three-day minicamp starts this afternoon
Many folks out there believe the Buccaneers have open competitions for every starting job this season. Joe knows that’s naïve silly talk. [read more]
Robert Herron should be worried.
Right about now, the myth that speed equals football talent should be put to rest by Bucs fans.
Oh, Joe remembers how way too many jumped up and down on their beds when the Bucs got track star Jeff Demps. [read more]
John Clayton is not impressed.
Yesterday, Joe brought words that gave many a Bucs fan the shivers.
Woody Cummings of The Tampa Tribune said the quarterback of the past and quarterback of the future but not the quarterback of the present, Mike Glennon, has a slight upperhand in OTA practices over “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston. [read more]
NFL.com pillories Doug Martin and his fellow Bucs RBs.
Joe has typed and typed and typed how there is a reason the Bucs stunk up the NFL last year and finished 2-14. They had more holes than a beehive. [read more]
Adam Humphries?
Roughly this time last year, Lovie Smith was glowing about having the fastest man in football on his roster, former Gators star and Olympic sprinter Jeff Demps. [read more]
Bucs fans who have yet to release themselves from the gut-sucking humiliation of last season might find the following disturbing. [read more]
Could new/old Bucs TE Tim Wright be the best on the roster? Ten teams wanted him.
When the Bucs plucked former tight end Tim Wright after Bill Belicheat tossed him to the curb, it was a no-brainer. A nice move by Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht.
Look, the Bucs are 2-14. Any time a young guy with a ring is available, the Bucs ought to be all over him like a hungry dog on a steak. [read more]
Gerald McCoy rarely fumbles for words. The man can talk.
But McCoy bumbled and stumbled this weekend while trying to tell the world his body is not that of a loser. [read more]
Joe swears a day doesn’t go by that someone doesn’t Twitter him asking about the offensive line. Two weeks ago, Dan Connelly was the flavor of the week. Last week, it was Evan Mathis. [read more]
Jameis Winston euphoria aside, these are tough times for Bucs fans listening to knowledgeable national media talk about their team. [read more]
Right now on StubHub, you can score the worst seat in the Lightning house for Game 7 of the Stanley Cup (if necessary) for $648.09.
That’s the price of two full Buccaneers season tickets, and extra money to buy an America’s Quarterback t-shirt! [read more]
Yes, Joe was surprised when the Bucs claimed tight end Tim Wright off waivers after he was cut by Bill Belicheat. It is a pleasant surprise.
What Joe wonders is where Wright will play. Last year, Lovie Smith openly groused about Wright’s inability to block. [read more]
Does Mike Glennon have the edge?
Last week, a lot of news came out of One Buc Palace, including Demar Dotson’s holdout/non-holdout and the waiver claim of tight end Tim Wright, after Bill Belicheat waved him goodbye.
But potentially the biggest news came from Woody Cummings of The Tampa Tribune. [read more]
Recently, Senior Bowl stardom rarely translates to the NFL.
When the Bucs traded up into the second round to draft Ali Marpet, the pride of Division-III Hobart College, it wasn’t just Joe that raised a Derrick Brooks-like eyebrow.
A Division-III offensive lineman, really? Division-III is glorified high school football. Marpet was used to blocking tackling dummies with a pulse and now he is expected to handle the best defensive tackles on the planet? [read more]
The leaders of the Buccaneers defense like to point to how well their “D” played (allegedly) in its final 10 games.
But that same defense had many key pieces bounced. [read more]
Before Joe gets started here, Joe wants to say there are few nicer guys than Mike Freeman of Bleacher Report. Dude always has a smile on his face. Nobody digs for NFL info like Freeman and few have as many high-level NFL contacts. [read more]
