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Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Young quarterback of someone’s future, Jameis Winston, was at One Buc Palace today getting the royal tour and meeting with all kinds of Bucs officials. Here’s a picture above of Winston chatting with Vincent Jackson.
There’s more at Buccaneers.com. Enjoy.
Less than a year after proclaiming Mike Glennon “quarterback of the future,” Lovie Smith and the Bucs are about to hand-pick their new quarterback of the future with the No. 1 overall draft choice. [read more]
NFL Draft prospects can have private all-day visits with teams immediately after the NFL Scouting Combine. But it’s rare to have a prospect come to a team in early March, like Jameis Winston is today.
The reason could be as simple as Team Glazer having free time to get it done this week, but Joe suspects the reasons run deeper. [read more]
Don’t do it, Jason.
Joe knows that for a minority of Bucs fans, thoughts of drafting a quarterback in the first round make them want to whip out a crucifix as if a vampire just showed up in the room. [read more]
What do you mean you don’t remember Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht talking about scoring salary “cap casualties” from other teams? [read more]
Game on!
Team Glazer is a premier focus of Jameis Winston being in Tampa today. [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 and Josh McCown.
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]
It’s quite clear that bad guy superstar defensive end Greg Hardy will hit free agency.
The Panthers don’t want him after his public case of girlfriend terrorizing ended in a misdemeanor conviction, which was followed by North Carolina courts tossing his case. [read more]
The NFL world was set abuzz yesterday when it was learned the Lions and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh broke off contract talks and the All-Pro will test the free agent market.
Bucs fans well versed in fantasy football flipped out on Twitter thinking there is a real chance Suh could be playing alongside Gerald McCoy next year. [read more]
Yes, free agency is now seven days away. The dinner bell will ring loud for all NFL fans to hear.
What the Bucs do in free agency will provide an idea of where they are headed in the draft. [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 and Josh McCown.
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]
In many ways, Tampa Bay’s 2014 season was more bizarre than the MRSA-infected, quarterback-gone-mental, Fire-Schiano-billboards campaign of 2013.
There were plenty of real Bucs mysteries last year, and Joe’s revisiting the most interesting of the bunch. [read more]
Joe is flabbergasted by the drum pounding for Ndamukong Suh by some Bucs fans, and it’s mind-numbing that some local media types think Suh in Tampa might actually happen.
It’s about as likely as Team Glazer hosting a clothing optional Town Hall meeting on Clearwater Beach and insisting on questions about Manchester United. [read more]
The new regime appreciates the old regime
By now, most Bucs fans have realized their beloved Buccaneers are about $30 million under the 2015 salary cap, and the free agency dinner bell rings in eight days.
The Bucs can play the game, if they desire. [read more]
Important people on Team Mariota think he can play Day 1
It’s official, Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has been talking about Marcus Mariota to his old colleague and friend Mark Helfrich, the Oregon head coach.
It’s got draft gurus chatting about whether Mariota would be targeted — and ready — to play for Tampa Bay on Day 1. [read more]
Seems the Bucs are trying to unload LT Anthony Collins on an unsuspecting team.
Yes, the free agency dinner bell rings next week. Seriously, eight days away. Already, rumors are flying everywhere about this player and that. More on that later.
One guy the Bucs threw a lot of Team Glazer cash in a free agent spending spree last year was left tackle Anthony Collins. What to make of that move? Well, Collins was a healthy scratch down the stretch in the Chase for Jameis. [read more]
Just thinking of that sieve passed off as an offensive line last year makes Joe shudder. Joe has seen more solid bricks of Swiss cheese in a deli than what the Bucs trotted out as a front line.
No, Joe isn’t buying that barbecue pitmaster Logan Mankins was the second-coming John Hannah. His left-his-heart-in-New-England-inspired play didn’t sit well with Joe. [read more]
Who wants to play Let’s Make A Trade?
One might think Bucs general manager Jason Licht would raise his hand, considering he made a pile of trades last season — in a league that doesn’t see many trades. [read more]
No wonder people run around Denver smoking legal marijuana. They’re celebrating the Broncos’ outstanding 2011 NFL Draft.
The Bucs’ 2011 draft? Well, Joe thinks it’s a solid bet Luke Stocker will be re-signed for 2015, but that’s about it. [read more]
For many Bucs fans, the ghost of Bo Jackson lives.
While the story is a lot more complicated, the Bucs chose Bo Jackson first overall in the 1986 draft and he stiffed the Bucs, choosing instead to play baseball for the Kansas City Royals organization.
When Joe asked possible Bucs No. 1 pick Jameis Winston at the NFL Scouting Combine in frozen Indianapolis if his baseball career was over, Winston didn’t say, “No.” [read more]
The data crowd checks in
Hopefully, one thing the braintrust of the Bucs can solve is depth. The roster has no depth. Hell, there’s barely enough for a starting-22. [read more]
