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Joe gets it a lot: folks asking why the Bucs don’t sign this guy or that guy.
Understandable. Fans, kicked in the nuts annually in recent years, desperately want the Bucs to improve so they can look forward to Sundays and good football for a refreshing change. [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]
You know the Bucs have a long, long, long road to travel and mountains to climb before we soberly can discuss the Bucs and the Super Bowl in the same sentence.
When a team is 2-14, that is about as far away from a Super Bowl as one can get.
Off the top of Joe’s head, the only position group the Bucs may have that’s better than the team that lost the Super Bowl, the Seahawks, would be wide receiver. [read more]
There’s a new draft guru in town, and he played years for the Buccaneers.
When pressed for a Tampa Bay second-round pick on the offensive line, this guy moved his chips all in for Ereck Flowers, the gargantuan out of Miami. [read more]
Since his Pro Bowl, rookie season of 2012, Doug Martin just hasn’t been the same. Injuries have something to do with that.
Martin lost a good chunk of 2013 with a shoulder injury and, after getting off to a terrible start, Martin admitted to Joe after the final game that he was injured early in the year, which affected his rushing prowess. [read more]
Is stud franchise quarterback Philip Rivers on the trading block for the right draft pick? [read more]
It doesn’t happen often, but there is dissent at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. [read more]
It was a bad year to have an ugly season and emerge with a pile of available salary cap money.
That was the word from one NFL executive. [read more]
How would UCLA DE Owamagbe Odighizuwa look in pewter and red?
OK, so free agency, unless the Bucs are looking for bargains at depth, is over. Given how the Bucs “won” free agency season last spring, Joe is happy the Bucs lost so terribly this spring.
Just a hunch, but Joe’s guessing Team Glazer is happy Nexium can be purchased over the counter now. [read more]
The spreadsheeters find an interesting nugget
There are only three things you need to know about the 2014 Bucs offense:
1. The starting quarterback was jettisoned well before the free agency dinner bell rang. Never made it to an OTA.
2. The Bucs will likely draft a quarterback first overall. [read more]
No, Joe can’t come to grips with the Woody Hayes crowd, the same crowd that cries “defense wins championships” in a quarterback-driven league, like a neighbor’s dog howling at the moon at 2 a.m. [read more]
How dare the Tennessee Titans invite the heir apparent to the Tampa Bay throne to their Nashville facility for a private workout!
And Jameis Winston accepted, per ProFootballTalk.com and 24/7 Sports. [read more]
Joe vividly remembers eating eggs, melon and toast with Lovie Smith at last year’s NFL Owners meetings and hearing Lovie say he signs free agents who plan to be starters. [read more]
According to NFL.com, Sterling Moore, the Cowboys’ part-time nickel cornerback last year, finished the season with 12 passes defensed.
In Tampa, starters Johnthan Banks and Alterraun Verner combined for 19. [read more]
Joe was torn about the Greg Hardy sweepstakes.
Joe thoroughly understood why folks didn’t want Hardy and his legal problems infesting the Bucs locker room. But on the other hand, it’s rare to have a team without a proven double-digit sack artist, like the Bucs have been for a decade. [read more]
Boston College center on Bucs’ radar.
Joe has been adamant that the Bucs should draft nothing but offensive linemen after they select Jameis Winston, followed their choice of an edge rusher.
Between the two milk cartons O-linemen the Bucs drafted last year, and whoever they draft this year, one would suspect a decent lineman or two would shake out from that group. [read more]
A prominent voice on the Buccaneers beat says Tampa Bay has a personality issue with one of this year’s elite quarterback prospects. [read more]
Yes, many Bucs fans were angered when the Bucs pulled out of the Greg Hardy sweepstakes yesterday, watching the proven double-digit sackmeister run off to Dallas without even slapping skin in Tampa.
Joe understands why the Bucs, eventually, passed. Most fans didn’t. [read more]
Now that the rage and hopelessness over the loss of Greg Hardy to the Cowboys has subsided a bit, it’s time for a dose of reality.
The contract Hardy signed with Dallas would have been worthless to Tampa Bay. [read more]
Yes, Bucs fans were angry their team passed on sackmeister defensive end Greg Hardy yesterday. The vast majority wanted Hardy, though there were some unnerved by Hardy’s legal hassles. [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]
