Big bucks defensive end Michael Johnson delivered four sacks and about five quarters of good football last year.

His play was ghastly, ghostly and soft.  [read more]

Of course, Joe, like many, thought Lovie Smith was settled on using Josh McCown as a bridge quarterback of sorts for Jameis Winston — that McCown would start until Winston was deemed ready to rock and roll. [read more]

Just because you have money, fame and live in a gated community doesn’t mean you are safe.

Just ask Donald Penn.

The former Bucs Pro Bowl left tackle (boy, the Bucs sure could have used a guy like him last year. Oh, wait…) spent a quiet day at his Los Angeles home recently. [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 to wear No. 5 ever 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]

Ask Bucs general manager Jason Licht about the NFL Scouting Combine, which kicks off in Indianapolis next week, and Licht will tell you it’s “underwear Olympics” and he won’t adjust his draft board much based on combine stats.

Lovie Smith is the opposite. [read more]

Joe never dreamed Josh McCown would have been cut like he was — when he was. That’s not to say he shouldn’t have been cut.

When you are the worst starting quarterback in the NFL on the worst team in the NFL, you shouldn’t have job security. [read more]

Sporting News isn’t enamored with Mike Glennon.

Hey, did you watch your Bucs play last year, two years ago, hell, three-quarters of the seasons since Brad Johnson won the Super Bowl? Gruesome, right?

Joe thinks Bucs fans have become so accustomed to godawful quarterback play, they don’t know any better. [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 to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

Popular radio and TV personality Adam Schein mopped the floor with the Bucs for their 2014 season, recent moves and the team’s perceived flirtation with Jameis Winston, among other things.

Adam Schein has had it. The popular radio and TV personality finally reached his boiling point with the Bucs. So Thursday, upon news the Bucs cut bait with turnover-prone quarterback Josh McCown, a favorite of Schein’s, he took to the airwaves of “Mad Dog Radio,” part of the family of sports channels heard exclusively on SiriusXM Radio, dedicating half of his “Schein on Sports” monologue to tearing apart the Bucs. [read more]

Just recounting the miserable 2014 season makes Joe want to reach for a bottle of Pepto-Bismol and chug. It was nauseating, which one should expect from a 2-14 team. [read more]

Brandon Marshall?

The report of the Bucs preparing a pay cut proposal for Vincent Jackson may be a pile of poop, but that doesn’t mean Tampa Bay won’t be sniffing an impressive crop of wide receivers. [read more]

“The Pope,” Mike Francesa, claims short of Jameis Winston holding up a store, the Bucs will be forced to move Mike Glennon.

How much did the Bucs releasing turnover-prone quarterback Josh McCown blow up NFL news cycles?

In an unprecedented move, the subject was a focus with “The Pope” of sports radio, Mike Francesa of WFAN-AM 660 in New York.

Francesa, manning his wildly popular show, also simulcast weekdays on Fox Sports 1, took a chunk out of his busy time otherwise discussing Tom Coughlin, the hapless Jets and Alex Rodriguez, and authoritatively stated the Bucs already have decided who their next quarterback is in the wake of McCown’s release. [read more]

Vincent Jackson is set to earn about $10 million in 2015.

That’s a lot of cheese for a team’s No. 2 wide receiver. [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]

Before the Mike Glennon Mob prepares to egg Joe’s house and curse Joe’s existence, let it be clear that the following take comes from a Bucs beat writer and a former glory days Buccaneer. [read more]

Former Bucs great Derrick Brooks said he would look forward to being a big brother for Jameis Winston outside his home.

Much has been speculated in recent weeks about former Bucs great Derrick Brooks agreeing to be a “mentor” to potential first round draft pick Jameis Winston.

What exactly that means, Joe really has no idea. [read more]

Soon-to-be Hall of Fame GM Bill Polian believes Mike Glennon will start when the 2015 season begins.

Yesterday, the NFL world was still abuzz with the news of the Bucs washing their hands of turnover-prone Josh McCown.

The subject dominated talk on SiriusXM NFL Radio, ate up a good bit of chatter for popular radio and TV personalty Adam Schein’s “Schein on Sports,” and was hot on BSPN, Joe was told. [read more]

Lovie Smith tried several times to reach Josh McCown to inform him of his release.

The NFL is such a popular business, pastime and sport, that every tiny move, if someone talks to the right person, is instantly all over Twitter and then breaking news on national television and radio shows in seconds.

Unlike what happens to many players, former Tampa Bay quarterback Josh McCown did not learn of his release from anyone outside the Bucs organization. [read more]

“Man, if I had Freeman, I’d still be the damn Bucs head coach. Did you see the way that guy ran my freakin’ playbook in 2010?”

Josh Freeman continues to climb out of the NFL shadows.

Now he’s hanging out with Chucky on a Wednesday afternoon. [read more]

Josh McCown is a proud member of the Mike Glennon Mob

Josh McCown hasn’t been crying today, less than 24 hours since the Bucs and his ol’ pal Lovie Smith cut him.

McCown even took an upbeat lap around various national radio shows. [read more]