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Leslie Frazier’s defense may spark a turnaround for the Bucs this season.
Last year, for the first half of the season, the Bucs defense was revolting. Couldn’t stop the rush. Couldn’t stop the pass. Couldn’t stop their own shadow.
It was an abomination of the highest order and an insult to both sober and drunk football fans. [read more]
Joe’s live at the NFL Owners meetings and chatting with Lovie Smith today.
And there is plenty of quarterbacks chatter to share. [read more]
There are a lot of angry Bucs fans who believe their players should be altar boys, helping old ladies cross the street, selling lemonade and cookies on street corners and raking leaves of neighbors’ lawns.
Yes, Joe relaxed on the lavish grounds of the Arizona Biltmore hotel today and talked Buccaneers football with team co-chairman Joel Glazer. [read more]
Lost in all the Jameis Winston/Team Glazer news last night was the finality of what Joe knew weeks ago, and most Bucs fans finally came to grips with. One of the best guys to ever enter the Bucs locker room is officially gone. [read more]
Savvy drafting can mine a solid rookie offensive lineman. This was proven by the NFL’s best teams in 2014.
Bucs fans’ blood pressure is rising from the yet-to-be repaired Tampa Bay offensive line. Joe is sure Bucs general manager Jason Licht is tiring of hearing people whining about his offensive line. [read more]
Team Glazer talks to Joe about the question of the year
Joe got a chance to pepper Team Glazer with questions this evening at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix.
Of course, Joe asked about Jameis Winston. [read more]
The football men, not the analyst types, keep lining up to anoint Jameis Winston as the No. 1 quarterback in the NFL Draft.
It just so happens, the Bucs have the No. 1 overall pick and desperately need a quarterback. [read more]
Joe enjoyed private time with Bucs general manager Jason Licht today at the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix. It’s always great to catch up with the GM in a relaxed setting, and Joe will share various nuggets this week.
One area Joe wanted to explore was new offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, who could be the new savior of the franchise. [read more]
Be careful out there Mike Evans. The Bucs need you.
Joe knows the following will give Bucs fans such a scare and shivers up their spine, they are going to race for the nearest bottle and begin chugging, whether it is the end of the work day or not. [read more]
The owner of the No. 2 overall pick, Titans head coach Ken Whisenhunt, lit a giant metaphorical bong at the NFL Owners Meetings this morning in Phoenix. [read more]
Jags head coach Gus Bradley talks about sitting a rookie QB like Blake Bortles was last year
Both Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston will be 21 years old on opening day of the 2015 season.
Sane Bucs fans want to see Tampa Bay draft one of those quarterbacks on April 30 (may the heavens help us), and then sit the guy for a season and let him develop thoroughly and effectively in more of an old-school fashion, like Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers and Carson Palmer. [read more]
Mike Tomlin talks to Joe
Joe sure hopes Lovie Smith is like his old friend and colleague Mike Tomlin when it comes to quarterbacks.
Joe munched on scrambled eggs and fruit today with Tomlin at the NFL Owners meetings in Phoenix. [read more]
Jack Del Rio talked to Joe about his former offensive coordinator, new Bucs OC Dirk Koetter.
Joe shared some bran muffins this morning in Phoenix at the NFL Owners meetings with Raiders head coach Jack Del Rio. What a fun dude.
Anyway, Joe’s chatter turned to Del Rio’s experience with new Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter. [read more]
Joe is live in Phoenix at the NFL Owners Meetings dining with AFC coaches today.
Fun stuff, and it got intriguing when Titans head coach Ken Whisenhunt talked about Marcus Mariota. [read more]
For reasons Joe will never understand, load of Bucs fans worship Father Dungy more than the guy who won the lone Super Bowl in franchise history, Chucky.
Joe remembers these fans rejoiced in glee when the Bucs hired Father Dungy’s most famous disciple, Lovie Smith. [read more]
It seems to be such common knowledge from NFL insiders outside the inner-workings of One Buc Palace that the Bucs will take Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston with the No. 1 overall pick on April 30.
You never hear about teams trading up for Winston. It’s as if Winston is off-limits, untouchable. Almost like the Bucs have him locked into a secret pact. [read more]
Yesterday at the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix, Jason Licht held court and mentioned to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times he knew where “holes” were in the roster and wasn’t sweating a quick fix when Stroud asked him about the porous offensive line. [read more]
Not only did the Bucs lose many millions on Ghost Johnson, the Bengals re-signed him and were awarded a pick for losing him.
Joe doesn’t know what to make of former defensive end Ghost Johnson. Oh, he had heart, that is for sure. Johnson was injured and still made it back onto the football field for the Bucs. [read more]
Yesterday, when collared by the “Custodian of Canton,” eye-RAH! Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune while at the NFL Owners Meetings in Phoenix — Joe touched down in the Valley of the Sun last night! — general manager Jason Licht did the NFL equivalent of falling on his own sword, suggesting the Karlos Pena-like swings and misses in free agency were his doing. [read more]
Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon.
It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida. [read more]
