Lovie inexplicably broke Sterling Moore’s streak of eight consecutive starts

A funny thing happened yesterday, Lovie Smith benched cornerback Sterling Moore, who had made eight consecutive starts, in favor of Mike Jenkins.

Yeah, that Mike Jenkins, Lovie’s inexplicable bromance partner for the past two seasons. [read more]

Only Leeman Bennett worse.

Bucs fans are irate, and Joe understands.

It’s partially from the pounding morning-after headache that won’t go away after eating Advil following the seal-clubbing the Stinking Panthers performed on the Bucs to end the 2015 season. [read more]

And so the 2016 season ended with a thud.

The most exciting element of the final game happened after the final whistle, when America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, called out teammates for just going through the motions and cashing Team Glazer checks. [read more]

Now a target of referees thanks to repeated juvenile behavior.

Yesterday, Mike Evans, the gifted Bucs wide receiver, was doing Mike Evans things: whining about being interfered with play after play after play. [read more]

Fix your defense.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Joe knows the NFL types will say —  no, demand! — that without takeaways you won’t be much of an NFL team. The numbers are hard to argue. [read more]

Stands with his rookie brother in arms.

Yesterday, like a cool breeze on a hot summer day, America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, had his fill of the losing after the Bucs dropped their fourth straight game to end the season. [read more]

Gerald McCoy led the Bucs in a pregame pump-up session last Sunday against the Bears. Video showed McCoy smiling and yelling and imploring his team to have fun.

“Fun” was the word McCoy used repeatedly. [read more]

Reached his frustration level.

Whoa! The losing culture of the Bucs’ locker room has finally gotten to Jameis. [read more]

How receivers look in Lovie Smith’s secondary

It was a typical deer-in-the-cornfield evening for the Bucs’ secondary.

The cover-nobody defense served up the usual. [read more]

Bucs set NFC milestone of futility.

Last week, it was pointed out by none other than the Custodian of Canton, eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, that the Bucs were on the cusp of NFL history with a loss to the Stinking Panthers. [read more]

The Buccaneers began the Lovie Smith regime with the No. 7 overall pick in the 2014 NFL Draft.

In a few short months, the Bucs will have the No. 9 overall pick in the 2016 NFL Draft. [read more]

Knock it off!

Gee, mouthy Stinking Panthers stud cornerback Josh Norman got into Mike Evans’ head today. And as a result, Evans got run out of the game. [read more]

Angry Jameis.

Joe isn’t sure who was listening to the Buccaneers Radio Network after the game but America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, made it perfectly clear to listeners: He is hot as a firecracker in July that the Bucs got curb-stomped today by the Stinking Panthers and wants the 2016 to start tomorrow. [read more]

Team Glazer opened its checkbook for big-name players and a big-name head coach. And right now, all they have to show for it is a hot mess of a ball club and grumbling fans, despite the fantastic glow of a franchise quarterback with a legitimate offense around him.

That may sound harsh, but that’s the cold reality when your team gets humiliated during the final four weeks of a season, as the Bucs were. [read more]

Bucs corners, like Toast Jenkins, are confused by the slant.

The horror began in Week 1. Over four months later and into a new year, the horror show continues. [read more]

Can’t extend for catches when needed.

Joe has officially turned the page on Austin Seferian-Jenkins, the high-talent, high-skills, high-maintenance tight end of the Bucs. [read more]

Cam Newton slithered away from what would have been George Johnson’s first sack of the season. The Bucs were clobbered in all phases. (Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Lovie Smith called this game a “measuring stick” during a pregame interview.

Using that logic, the Bucs don’t measure up, and they limp into the offseason as a flaccid bunch, losers of four straight and in desperate need of Viagra in the form of defensive backs, pass rushers and receivers — and much improved coaching. [read more]

Will the Bucs lose four straight to end the season? Or will Tampa Bay rise up against the NFC’s best team and inject mass quantities of hope into the Bucs’ faithful?

Let’s go Bucs!

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Game 16

Bucs (6-9) at Stinking Panthers (14-1)

Kickoff: 4:25 p.m. [read more]

We all know the lone logical reason to have Lovie Smith return for the 2016 season is his handling of America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, and his brilliant transition to the NFL. [read more]

(Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

For most of this season, the standout Bucs’ offensive line has featured two guys off the street and two rookies drafted in the second round. [read more]