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What has you down on Bucs WR Mike Evans?
Bucs second-year man, wide receiver Mike Evans, is not off to the best start of his short football career.
Hampered by a nasty hamstring in preseason, Evans has been all but invisible — or dropping passes — thus far in the passing game. [read more]
An Xs and Os guru weighs in
The Bucs have done a strong job protecting America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, in recent weeks.
Who could forget J.J. Watt and the Texans, which dumped mobile Blake Bortles three times yesterday, being unable to take down Jameis? [read more]
The sight of Aqib Talib makes Shaun King angry
You want to know a guy who bleeds Buccaneers red? That’s former Bucs quarterback Shaun King, who grew up in St. Pete loving the Bucs, and then realized his dream when he led Tampa Bay to the NFC title game.
King can’t even watch football on a Bucs bye week without getting enraged. [read more]
No wonder Mike Jenkins is smirking
Are the numbers lying this morning?
After yesterday’s slate of NFL games, the Buccaneers own the league’s fifth-ranked defense. [read more]
There is true rage and rancor at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters this morning. [read more]
Is there a hidden agenda for Jameis to fail?
Joe understands just the mention of “America’s Quarterback,” Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, brings out the worst in the blowhard hater crowd.
Never has Joe seen a promising rookie so reviled by so many. [read more]
In these unsettled times of devastating Bucs losses, constant change and growing pains, Joe thought it would be wise to bring back THE OPTIMIST.
THE OPTIMIST is Nick Houllis, a Bucs fan and an accomplished writer whose steadfast allegiance to the Buccaneers goes back to the 1970s. Houllis is the founder, creator and guru of BucStop.com, a place Joe goes to get lost in time via Houllis’ stunning video collection.
THE OPTIMIST will shine that positive light in your eyes. Some will love it. Some won’t. … Of course, THE OPTIMIST’s opinions are his alone and are not influenced by Joe. [read more]
The oozing sore at the Bucs’ cornerback position, hand-picked veteran Tim Jennings, is not Sabby The Goat bad.
Jennings seems to know exactly where to be on the field, explains a great source familiar with the Bucs’ defense. [read more]
The Bucs entered the bye week victorious. Additionally, the Bucs entered the bye week with a home win, which has become about as rare in these parts as a snowplow. [read more]
Can TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins play in a smashmouth offense?
Soon, maybe as soon as Sunday against the Redskins, tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins will return from battling an injured shoulder he suffered in the win over New Orleans.
Joe is wondering how ASJ will fit in? [read more]
The right medicine for struggling defensive playcaller Lovie Smith.
There’s a reason Joe drank so much beer today. Suffering through four quarters of Redskins-Jets football will do that to a man. [read more]
Doug Martin gets loose against Jacksonville. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
It began in training camp, where Doug Martin ran like a wild man. So much so that Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht was scared by the defensive front and ran out to sign defensive tackle Tony McDaniel. [read more]
Given the bizarre illness of moldy Mike Koenen, the viral mess Lovie Smith cooked up in his Chicago basement during his year out of football, and the Bucs’ devastating pre-Lovie woes with the MRSA, is it any wonder Lovie just sold his suburban Chicago house to an infectious disease professor? [read more]
(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
It’s not a huge surprise that Lovie Smith ripped defensive end George Johnson from the starting lineup and replaced him with true manbeast Will Gholston, who has very little fat on him but still stands 6-6, 280 pounds.
Johnson and fellow defensive end Jacquies Smith were very skinny on the NFL scale for defensive ends. [read more]
Gerald McCoy dishes on “America’s Quarterback.”
Gerald McCoy, who enters the bye week with the most sacks of any defensive tackle in the NFL, hopped on “Movin’ the Chains” co-hosted by Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller last week. [read more]
Mike Jenkins and the Bucs’ secondary cannot continue to let receivers run free like coyotes in Pinellas County.
If Lovie Smith is watching gametape of his defense — and we know he is — then he must be galled.
That is the suggestion from the “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman, of The Tampa Tribune. [read more]
What better to do on a bye week Saturday than engage in deep thought about the Bucs’ logical and best next moves this offseason? [read more]
Bucs defensive end Jacquies Smith, the team’s reigning sack master, has more than the weight of the Bucs’ pass rush on his shoulders. [read more]
“America’s Quarterback” and other Bucs players are as passionate about college football as fans.
A neat thing about the Bucs’ locker room, and Joe is guessing it’s across the NFL, is that while players may be rock-solid teammates, when it comes to college football, their school passion pours out of their hearts. [read more]
The “Custodian of Canton” likes the play of Kevin Pamphile and the rest of the front five.
If you pressed Joe to identify the best element of a 2-3 team, that being your current 2015 Tampa Bay Bucs, Joe would say it is the development of the offensive line.
For Joe, that is a staggering admission. [read more]
An exceptionally broad range of rapid-fire Bucs topics were on the table this afternoon during Joe’s weekly visit to the Ron and Ian show on WDAE-AM 620. [read more]
