Clinton McDonald represents hope that Jason Licht can win in March free agency.

It’s free agency week in the NFL! Joe has the refrigerator stocked with beer, and Hooters and Delco’s are on speed dial for essential nourishment.

Your beloved Bucs will have more than $50 million to work with, if they choose to frolic in the sandbox of hope. [read more]

Is the Bruce Carter era finished? (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

If the following comes true, then let speculation begin on who will play strongside linebacker for the Bucs this fall. [read more]

Another Johnson

Hollywood couldn’t concoct the script the Bucs have been writing the past five years. [read more]

“I squeezed three years out of the Bucs!”

Joe has heard chatter at NFL events recently that the Bucs job, in general, is not a good job. In other words, it’s an NFL coaching graveyard. [read more]

Aside from missing digits and recording only one sack in eight games last year, Joe’s knock against Jason Pierre-Paul was the Giants’ apparent disinterest in re-signing him.

The latter was a giant red flag. [read more]

Roddy White speaks

Why fool with a motivated, healthy and experienced free agent like Roddy White when Donteea Dye is available and Louis Murphy is only four months removed from ACL surgery?

This is one of the difficult questions facing Jason Licht and Dirk Koetter. [read more]

Heading back to the State of Illinois.

Yes, there were two shockers yesterday in the football world, three if you include the Miami Dolphins wooing free agent defensive end Mario Williams. [read more]

Ordered to remove his belongings from One Buc Palace two months ago, Lovie Smith seems eager to leave the NFL for the remainder of his coaching days. [read more]

For some reason, the NFL and its teams share all kinds of mind-numbing stats on a regular basis but shy away from official proclamations of teams’ available salary cap dollars. [read more]

Bucs new OC has name floated for a college gig.

Time for a hearty laugh for a slow March Saturday afternoon (Joe had been watching DVR recordings of “Hard Knocks.”) [read more]

The courting begins

Perhaps Joe’s prayers to the football gods got mixed up a little. [read more]

One of many reasons why Joe’s good friend “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, has been the 500-pound gorilla of local sports radio for decades, the undisputed king, the Dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, is he has some funny catchphrases. [read more]

America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, has traveled across much of the continent to join Kurt Warner and others in some deep spiritual time. [read more]

Eastern Kentucky edge rusher Noah Spence shined at the Senior Bowl but not since.

The Bucs were not like every other NFL team yesterday. [read more]

“It’s alright, Ali. I’ve got your back, bro.”

Joe is starting to think people write negatively about the offensive line of the Bucs because it is a knee-jerk reaction.

NFL offensive lines general wreak, but not the Bucs’. [read more]

(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Once upon a time, general manager Jason Licht and former Bucs overlord Lovie Smith told fans repeatedly that it was unfair to ask fans to be patient any longer.

No, no, no, they said, no more patience needed after three years of losing. [read more]

Longtime NFL writer Mike Garafolo of FOXSports.com, also a talking head on FS1, is convinced he knows what’s going to happen with Doug Martin. [read more]

Dirk Koetter is very clear. He wants a stronger commitment from America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, and Mike Evans when it comes to their bodies. [read more]

Things appear to be looking up for Alterraun Verner.

Joe can’t tell you how much his acid reflux acts up when thinking of last year’s Bucs defense.

The pass defense was such a sieve there were backup high school quarterbacks in Pasco County who dearly wanted snaps against it. [read more]

National columnist slams free agent DE Mario Williams.

One of the harshest things anyone can throw at an NFL player is calling the guy a “quitter.” It is considered a slur in the world of the NFL. [read more]