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Bucs QB Josh McCown has an Andrew Luck-like stat. No, really.
Joe knows there is a sect of society that lives in the dark world of stats. Oh, stats can be enlightening alright. They can also be terribly misleading.
Joe learned back in high school folks can twist numbers any which way to reinforce any premise they are trying to float. That’s why Joe is suspicious of the numbers crowd. [read more]
Gerald McCoy hasn’t made the Bucs a good football team.
Warren Sapp didn’t make the Raiders a good football team. [read more]
Prepare for at least 30,000 cheese-infused, green-clad Packers fans to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway on Sunday.
Expect it to be as ugly as the Steelers-Bucs game in Tampa in 2010, or the last Bucs playoff game. [read more]
The spreadsheeters put McCown under the microscope
The plight of journeyman Josh McCown as the Bucs’ starting quarterback seems to personify the team’s struggles.
McCown each week proves why he has never been franchise starting quarterback the way he plays Santa Claus with opposing defenses. [read more]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans appear to have drawn a line in the sand.
Sunday’s second loss to Panthers’ backup quarterback Derek Anderson, the ninth Bucs defeat in the past 10 games, did little to alter public opinion of overlord of football operations Lovie Smith. [read more]
Bucs fans will want to absorb this breakdown of tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins — from his position coach. [read more]
Popular sports radio host Adam Schein is unimpressed
Boy, this holiday season is anything but fun for Bucs coach Lovie Smith. First, he is on the cusp of leading his football team to the worst record in the NFL.
Not bad enough of a season?
He’s even being dragged in to the mess that has become the Bears. [read more]
It’s somewhat ironic that Jeff Tedford is about to become head coach of the Candian Football Leagues’ B.C. Lions, per a report in The Province.
Is there a professional football team farther from Tampa on the North American mainland? [read more]
Regular JoeBucsFan.com readers know Joe intermittently polls the studio audience here. One poll really stood out back at the start of training camp.
Joe asked fans, “Do you think the Bucs will have a top-10-ranked defense in 2014?” [read more]
Might Packers QB Aaron Rodgers have to change his vow of gameday celibacy with his hottie girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn, after shatting the bed last week in Buffalo?
Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers might be in a slump. Oh, that is rare for an elite NFL quarterback and a guy who sure seems like his bust in Canton is already made.
Arguably the front-runner for offensive MVP this season, Rodgers had a rare bad game last week in Buffalo, his in recent memory, when he completed only 17 of 42 passes with two picks and no touchdowns in a bad loss for the Packers. [read more]
Marcus Arroyo’s offense has been so bad, it likely has cost the Bucs a playoff berth.
Earlier this week, Lovie Smith declared the Bucs are “on the verge” of turning things around. He cited all the close games the Bucs have lost as evidence.
Was he spinning?
You damned right Lovie was spinning. You think a coach who is on the cusp of the worst record in the NFL is going to throw himself under the bus and take responsibility for such a poorly coached team, a complete and total “F” grade? [read more]
It was time again for the “JoeBucsFan Hour” with Joe sitting down with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, to talk all things Bucs.
All kinds subjects were on the table. [read more]
Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion James 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]
There’s nothing quite like the Custodian of Canton, eye-RAH! Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune, weighing in on all things Bucs. He lets it fly in his unique Brooklyn style, and often he serves up a nugget on Team Glazer.
Kaufman didn’t disappoint today. [read more]
Lavonte David said today that he’s been pretty pleased with his play this season.
But David also illuminated some of what’s gone wrong with the Bucs defense. [read more]
Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Consistency is everything in the NFL.
Greg Schiano used to scream repeatedly, “Do your job!” Lovie Smith says it nicely and kindly. [read more]
Tomorrow, Joe will compare results here to those of previous weeks.
Dotson is re-wiring and re-programming
Outside of preseason action at left tackle during his first four seasons, and briefly filling in once for Donald Penn when he was banged up, Demar Dotson has been a right tackle for the Bucs.
For a variety of reasons, most guys are suited to a particular side. Dotson, it seemed, is a right-side kind of guy. [read more]
The Bucs’ leader says he has precise clarity
Your beloved Buccaneers are not only “on the verge,” as Lovie Smith said last night, Lovie and his ranking colleagues are supremely confident in their roster evaluation and what their next steps need to be.
Man, Lovie is one confident, calm leader. [read more]
A numbers update for the “Just lose, Baby!” crowd.
The Bucs own the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, if the season ended today.
Why? Because the Bucs would win the tiebreaker for the worst record in the NFL. But understanding that tiebreaker — and how it changes — is driving some fans nuts. [read more]
Dickie V is campaigning for the Bucs to draft QB Marcus Mariota. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
Dick Vitale is one of the Tampa Bay area’s jewels. The guy does so, so much charity work and is a rabid supporter of local sports teams, a long-time season ticket holder for both the Bucs and the Rays.
(From high above the Fruitdome, you can see the lights shine off Vitale’s bald dome. His seat is right next to the visitor’s dugout on the home plate side. Front row, bay-BEE!) [read more]
