March 4th, 2016

Doug Martin is watching
A morning report out of Miami claims the Dolphins are wrestling with the agents of running back Lamar Miller, who represents a potential Tampa Bay replacement of Doug Martin. [read more]
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March 4th, 2016

How many games did the Bucs lose due to injuries?
Warning: Joe is going to delve into the murky world of stat geekery here.
Some numberscrunchers can’t help themselves and try to turn football into baseball, which is both rich in statistics and a sport completely hijacked by nerds this century. [read more]
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March 4th, 2016

Popular sports radio and television personality Adam Schein suggests caution in signing Doug Martin.
Bucs fans want free agent running back Doug Martin back.
Joe wants Doug Martin back. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

Makeover coming?
Dirk Koetter had plenty to say to a lot of people, including Joe, at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

Future Bucs WR?
Interesting comments from Dixie Chicks coach Dan Quinn over the near future of recently cut wide receiver Roddy White. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

Don’t jerk him around.
Lost in all the talk of re-signing Doug Martin and drafting Joey Bosa or Noah Spence or DeForest Buckner or Shaq Lawson or Vernon Haergraves or Mackensie Alexander is that the Bucs have a fairly important player on defense dangling out there unsigned. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

Will options make Jason Licht smile. Former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik weighs in.
Joe loves this time of year. Hope for the Buccaneers grows with each passing day, and it has nothing to do with the looming onset of bikini season at Clearwater Beach.
Fans of losing teams love March, April and May. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016
As Joe mentioned last night on the air with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, the Bucs could have locked up Doug Martin with the franchise tag and still would have had more 2016 salary cap room than 20 other NFL teams. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016
Gerald McCoy is having severe mood swings lately. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

A former Bucs tight end thinks Mario Williams can point the pass rush to better results.
Joe’s been bellyaching for the Bucs to sign free agent defensive end Mario Williams for weeks. Now Joe is glad to see intelligent NFL folks agree. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

A chief spreadsheeter is called out.
Hey Hillary! Hey Don! Want Joe’s vote in November? Easy. Propose a constitutional amendment to abolish mock NFL drafts.
Why? Because they are abused more than cheap alcohol in this country. [read more]
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March 3rd, 2016

Jason Licht has plenty of market research to perform
Joe’s a big fan of The Peter Schrager Podcast, and the artist known as Peter Schrager, one of the top NFL insiders for FOXSports.com and a popular sideline reporter on TV. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Dirk Koetter expressed major love for Roddy White
Former star Falcons wide receiver Roddy White is a free man, cut by Atlanta today presumably because they didn’t want to pay the $4.25 million due him this year.
At 34 years old, White isn’t what he once was, but consider the following: [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Steve Duemig
Joe was back in the steel cage with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio this evening for a slightly abbreviated version of the JoeBucsFan.com hour on WDAE-AM 620.
Joe had all kinds of things to share. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Jameis gets a loud call to action. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
The football gods shined on America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, last year.
Just look at how Jameis, especially his ankles, got absolutely beaten up in preseason but didn’t miss any time. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Wanted
Yes, the Bucs have their own free agents not named Doug Martin that they want wearing pewter in 2016. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

No high horse for Dirk Koetter, who delivered very candid comments.
The new Buccaneers’ head coach says he is no power monger and is not about to step out of his comfort zone. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Greg Cosell of NFL Films.
One cool thing about the NFL Scouting Combine is it’s like a corporate family reunion. Aside from the coaches, general managers and scouts and college players who invade Indianapolis, so too do NFL insiders. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Be careful putting too much importance on the combine.
Yes, you know by now that Joe is a big fan of the NFL Scouting Combine few fans ever get to see. That’s the media workroom cocoon at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. [read more]
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March 2nd, 2016

Former Gators trouble maker Janoris Jenkins is an excellent cornerback in his prime. [read more]
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