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Joe’s got his eye on a free agent with strong ties to Jason Licht and Dirk Koetter
Joe can’t play pretend when it comes to the Buccaneers’ offensive line.
Lovie Smith says Demar Dotson looks promising at left tackle, Logan Mankins did everything asked of him, and Evan Dietrich-Smith is a foundation player for the franchise going forward. [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]
Local TV ratings for the Bucs this past season proves Bucs fans crave drama.
Joe finds it amusing when Bucs fans rail that the team doesn’t need drama. Oh, how wrong they are.
NFL suits on Park Ave. know full well that drama draws eyeballs, that drama draws fans, and that drama — most important of all — sells. [read more]
Believe it or not, a hefty percentage of Bucs fans don’t want to draft a quarterback with Tampa Bay’s No. 1 overall draft pick.
Whether they’re members of the Mike Glennon Mob or just plain insane, Joe doesn’t get it.
Thankfully, Bucs general manager Jason Licht is of sound mind. [read more]
So what’s the latest on Rod Marinelli coming back to Tampa? [read more]
Former Bucs CB Rashaan Melvin, now with the Crows, had a bad day.
Joe noticed Twitter anger simmering in Bucs fans Saturday afternoon. On the field for the Crows in their AFC semifinal game at the Patriots was former Tampa Bay cornerback Rashaan Melvin.
The former undrafted free agent was the apple of former Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik’s eye. He truly thought he had an undrafted steal. When Melvin wasn’t hurt, he showed flashes in both of his Bucs training camps. [read more]
Bucs OC Dirk Koetter’s offense is based on the LaVell Edwards playbook, says Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune.
If recent history is any barometer, Bucs fans may very well like what they see in their offense this coming fall. That was the message from Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune last night, as he appeared on Sunday Sports Extra with local raconteur Dan Lucas of WFLA-TV, Channel 8.
The main topic discussed was, of course, the new hire of offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, who served in the same position recently with the Dixie Chicks. [read more]
Rumors are flying claiming Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli is expected to join the Bucs.
It has been scant hours since the Dallass Cowboys lost a controversial game (Ha-ha!) to the Packers in the NFC semifinals, and already folks are pushing the notion that Cowboys defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli is headed to the Bucs.
The creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, first got this rumormill into gear when he wrote Marinelli is “expected” to be the Bucs defensive coordinator.
The Bucs would need to make changes if they want Marcus Mariota to go the Aaron Rodgers/Carson Palmer route — and avoid a fan uprising.
Marcus Mariota lovers happily refer to their guy as the next Aaron Rodgers. They talk about how Mariota can be like Rodgers, sit on the bench for at least a season and come in and play savior.
But that reality can’t exist in Tampa. [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]
The biggest knock on University of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota is that he’s not running anything close to an NFL offense, therefore, the experts say, he’s got a lot to learn in order to become NFL-ready. [read more]
The Bucs improved their sack total this past season, despite a ghostly figure playing right defensive end.
Little gets Bucs fans aggravated more than talking about sacks. Or in the case of the Bucs, that would be lack of sacks.
(By the way, yesterday, the two teams that ran the ball better than their opponents lost. The Bucs have no quarterback and have the No. 1 pick overall for being the most miserable team in the NFL. Anyone else besides Joe see a pattern here? In other words, it was yet another rough day for the naive “defense wins championships” crowd.) [read more]
Wait a minute.
Lavonte David engaged in a quarterback discussion last night and didn’t reference Josh McCown or Mike Glennon? [read more]
Louis Murphy may have had the biggest catch of the 2014 season for the Bucs, but was one of the NFL’s top receivers in dropped passes.
Joe has labeled Bucs receiver Vincent Jackson as “V-Drops” for his way too many drops. Joe can’t refer to Jackson that way today.
The title of Butterfingers of the Bucs now belongs to Louis Murphy per SportingCharts.com, which monitors dropped passes, among other stats. [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]
Last week, Tampa Bay general manager Jason Licht hopped on the Buccaneers Radio Network and talked about how his staff already has a list of potential “cap casualties” on which the Bucs are ready to pounce. [read more]
Will Dirk Koetter run an up-tempo offense?
Among the many songs and dances Tampa Bay fans were promised by Lovie Smith a little over a year ago was that the Bucs were going to play an up-tempo offensive style.
Well, if what Lovie meant by up-tempo was Josh McCown running for his life and making some of the most ghastly turnovers Joe has ever seen, with little to no running game, then, yeah, he was right on the nose with his prediction. [read more]
Marcus Mariota got a quite a backhanded endorsement from a Super Bowl-winning quarterback this week. [read more]
Could defensive lineman Da’Quan Bowers return as a reserve lineman?
Sometimes, Joe thinks defensive lineman Da’Quan Bowers is a walking embodiment of a cat with nine lives.
How many guys who have produced as little as Bowers, who regularly refuses to get in proper shape, have been granted chance after chance after chance to redeem themselves? [read more]
“I hear what you’re saying, Mark. But I don’t see how Wallace Gilberry, George Selvie and Chris Jones could fit in around here.”
Joe’s not sure whether former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik has every performed in a circus — though he did have a front row seat for the Greg Schiano regime. [read more]
The Bucs offense was miserable last season. Joe knows that. You know that.
But believe it or not, despite being led (mostly) by turnover-prone Josh McCown and guided by ill-suited Marcus Arroyo (yes, he’s still with the Bucs), the Bucs improved in their red zone offense over 2013. [read more]
