Time to move on.

Joe knows this won’t go over well with the Doug Martin fanboys, as they will react to this post like drug addicts during an intervention. [read more]

Comment throughout today’s Bucs-Saints game with intense, wild and often reasoned fans. Great fun!

Direct the personal attacks at New Orleans players and coaches, not each other (Joe’s filters are tuned up for the haters.)

Enjoy and prepare for Joe’s award-winning postgame coverage, including Ira Kaufman’s 10 Takeaways.

Go Bucs!

Hopes last week turning point for defense.

Last week the Bucs defense, which was truly horrid through much of the first six games, perhaps played its best game of the season against Carolina. [read more]

JOE will be pleased to buy you one beer BEFORE the game. Look for Joe in the bar area.

Please join Joe for a watch party event at Abe’s Place in Clearwater. Great place to watch the Bucs, and there’s NFL Sunday Ticket, too.

Amazing food, WiFi, giant craft beer selection on tap, indoor and outdoor seating, and more. Joe will have giveaways, too. Kickoff at 1 p.m.

Harsh words for Bucs QB.

It is getting ugly out there for the Bucs. [read more]

More prominent national hot-seat talk

As ecstatic as Bucs fans were last year as Tampa Bay rode a five-game winning streak to national respect and to what felt like a true team culture change, they’ll do a complete 180 and be at rock bottom today if the Bucs lose their fifth-straight in New Orleans. [read more]

“You ready, Ayers?”

Simeon Rice is holding out the carrot. Will Robert Ayers nibble? [read more]

Game 8

Bucs (2-5) at Saints (5-2)

Kickoff: 1 p.m. [read more]

Key to win Sunday?

On paper, there is just no way in hell the Bucs should beat the Saints tomorrow.

But games are not played on paper, as we all well know. [read more]

Who are the Bucs eyeballing?

This afternoon Clemson travels to North Carolina State in a huge ACC matchup. Playoff implications are on the line. [read more]

Where the Bucs game will be shown on free TV in the United States.

Find out where the Bucs-Saints telecast can be found in the continental United States without the need for NFL Sunday Ticket or a bar. [read more]

Legions of Buccaneers fans are eager to launch third-year left tackle Donovan Smith from the roster.

Now they have company in a former Bucs offensive lineman. [read more]

Welcome to a weekly 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 types 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 always appreciates a tip.

BY IRA KAUFMAN

The common definition of stupidity is doing the same thing time aftertime and expecting a different result.

Because my picks against the spread have been stupid, I’m changing my routine. I’m sitting in a different room, in a different chair, sipping a different drink.

If that doesn’t work, I’m hitting up Madame Natalie next week for a psychic reading. [read more]

Performance discussed

Is Doug Martin running the way the Buccaneers want him to?

Formerly winning head coach Dirk Koetter addressed that last night. [read more]

Joe would love to see media news conferences with Dirk Koetter at One Buc Palace abolished in favor of lining up 10 hardcore fans to ask one question each every week. [read more]

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Todd apologizes for waiting a day to give you the usual Friday podcast, but he wanted to make sure he had ALL the analysis you needed that covered everything in a wild week. This includes the latest off-the-field victory in court for Ezekiel Elliott, which obviously came down Friday to make him eligible to play again Sunday. Todd has thoughts on Elliott’s status and the plan now for Elliott owners, the value of those affected by trade deadline deals and the expectations for big-scoring Texans with the unfortunate injury to Deshaun Watson.

It is obviously another big bye week, so you may be struggling to pick a streamer for your lineup or just finding room on your roster for them at the expense of cutting a player you don’t want to release. Again, Todd’s got plenty for you in this podcast and you can email him directly at ToddWrightFantasyFootball@gmail.com with any personal questions for your season-long or DFS teams.

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Remember Lovie Smith’s ridiculous phrase, “Real football starts in November?” Well, host Justin Pawlowski serves up a very different take on that and much, much more today on Bucs Uncensored.

A former voice on the Buccaneers Radio Network, an ex-college football player and a lifelong Bucs fan, Pawlowski drops loads of passion and knowledge, and works in plenty of rabid fan takes, too. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays, Bucs Uncensored unifies Tampa Bay fans (Stick Carriers!) in every corner of the universe. You can be a part of the show. Just email a 90-second-or-less audio blast to BucsUncensored@gmail.com. Listen above or subscribe on iTunes right here, or at Podbean.com. Justin’s work is not influenced by JoeBucsFan.com. Joe just thinks it’s very, very, very special. **CAUTION: some R-RATED language!* 

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“Now Jameis, I know you and DeSean cannot connect on bombs. But, what the hell? What do we have to lose?”

When Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht signed free agent DeSean Jackson, Bucs fans from China to the former Soviet Union (yes, Joe has received missives from fans in Russia) and all points in between had visions of Jackson hauling in 40-yard bombs from America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, two or three times a game. [read more]