Gerald McCoy talks about what will make the Bucs relevant in December

Remember how Buccaneers officials talked a lot this offseason about all those close games the team played in 2014, all those tight losses?

Gerald McCoy talked about them today. [read more]

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Stat geeks will point to numbers that show America’s Quarterback is having a better year than a future Hall of Famer.

Now Joe has made no bones over the fact he thinks quarterback ratings are the biggest pile of feces this side of a southern Illinois Heifer pasture.

Any hatched stat that claims David Garrard was a better quarterback than Roger Staubach should be banned from public discourse as a simple matter of national security. [read more]

Saints wide receiver Willie Snead didn’t know what hit him

There were a lot of standout plays by the Bucs yesterday, but if Joe were forced to pick just one, it would go to the guy with the iron fist, the Larry Holmes uppercut. [read more]

Rookie guard Ali Marpet continues to move bodies on defensive lines

Tampa Bay ran the football well in preseason, was successful against the Titans before the game got out of hand, and yesterday, the Bucs pounded the rock in New Orleans.

NFL.com ranks the Bucs as the 13th-best rushing attack after two games. [read more]

Those trying to figure out what kind of Buccaneers team was on the field yesterday are asking the question this morning as the euphoria of victory wears off? [read more]

Hall of Fame quarterback?

Well this didn’t take long. Just hours after winning his first NFL game, America’s Quarterback, Bucs signal-caller Jameis Winston, is being measured for a bust in Canton.

That’s the word from Bucs wide receiver Louis Murphy. [read more]

Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Last week, Bucs fans witnessed Jameis Winston throw an aggressive block on a defensive tackle in the running game.

Yesterday, it was a Warrick-Dunn-like spin move for a gutsy first down, and a precision Jameis bomb hurled 52 yards in the air. [read more]

America’s Quarterback lauds the professionalism of Vincent Jackson.

People believe America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, has a bond with one of his best friends, Bucs tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins, and the two do have a bond.

But Joe is getting the sense that no tandem has a greater bond than Jameis and Vincent Jackson. [read more]

The Bucs celebrate Jameis Winston’s one-yard touchdown run yesterday in the win over the Saints. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Good morning, Bucs fans. It’s Victory Monday!

So how does today feel? Easier to get to work, right? Didn’t so much mind the traffic, did you? The sun is brighter, the air cooler, the hangover from Sunday football a little less onerous. [read more]

Video proof of Lovie Smith getting fired up.

Joe gets a kick out of the meatheads who argue Lovie Smith, Bucs coach, is unemotional.

First off, when hiring a guy, Joe doesn’t give a damn if the guy is a statue or picks his nose or does shots of Jack on the sidelines. [read more]

Fact: After Tampa Bay’s historically dreadful performance on opening day, Lovie Smith earned the calls for his head by some fans and media.

Fact: Only one thing was going stop it in its tracks. [read more]

Natural, honest leader.

There stood Jameis Winston, America’s Quarterback, at the podium in the bowels of the SuperDome after today’s thrilling win.

Mistakes were made around him in the form of a fumble and drops and dumb penalties, but Jameis comfortably and excitedly directed all negative attention to himself. [read more]

Bucs coach Lovie Smtih said he wanted more points today. So why take the ball out of the hands of your No. 1 overall pick of a quarterback?

Joe has already written about Bucs coach Lovie Smith going full-blown turtle in the fourth quarter.

The Bucs had many chances for a kill shot and instead, looked so scared offensively that they were crapping in their boots. [read more]

Bucs DE Jacquies Smith and his defensive teammates may have found the secret to shutting down Drew Brees. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Joe had a chance to talk to Bucs defensive line coach Joe Cullen after the game.

His defensive line jostled, mocked and robbed future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees all day, especially late in the fourth quarter when it sure looked like the Saints would steal victory from the mouths of the Bucs. [read more]

Jacquies should be a household name.

Joe’s going to keep this simple. Bucs left defensive end Jacquies “Jack” Smith now has 10 1/2 sacks in his last 11 games.

Team Glazer might want to commission an esteemed French sculptor to start working on a statue. [read more]

It was impressive how Henry Melton and the Bucs defense shut down Saints QB Drew Brees. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

How many times today did the Bucs have a chance for a kill shot and then the offense went so turtle it is said that Greg Schiano began nursing a bottle of Ketel One?

You are playing future Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees, a surgeon like that, in his own house, and you go full-blown play-not-to-lose and continue running the ball off left tackle to no avail, time after time? [read more]

Bucs WR Mike Evans was limited by coaches today.

While Joe interviewed Doug Martin, over Martin’s shoulder, Mike Evans was getting dressed. At one point, Evans stood up and grimaced worse than if he saw Rosie O’Donnell walking out of the shower nude. [read more]

The Bucs are going to play Lovieball or die trying, and that’s why the head coach was all smiles this afternoon in New Orleans, following the Bucs’ silencing of the Saints.

Lovie got his treasured takeaways. His pass rush was alive and executing. [read more]

Bucs DT Clinton McDonald talks about shutting down Drew Brees in crunch time.

Joe couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

The Saints and future Hall of Fame surgeon Drew Brees trailed the Bucs by but two scores with around 16 minutes to play. How many times have we seen Brees, one of the top quarterbacks to ever throw a football, rally his team from two scores behind? [read more]

Vincent Jackson talks to Joe after today’s thrilling win in New Orleans. (Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)

Vincent Jackson strangely was invisible until about one minute left in the first half. Sixty seconds later, V-Jax had two catches for 32 yards and a thrilling touchdown (shown above). [read more]