It’s been 20 days since Doug Martin was on the field, struggling for 27 yards on 10 carries against the Vikings.

Martin walked off with an ankle injury. His last 100-yard game was against New Orleans in September 2013. [read more]

“A giant yawn,” explains The Custodian Of Canton.

Joe has often stated the absolute worst thing for any team, much less an NFL team, much less the Bucs is apathy.

Once apathy sets in among the fanbase, fans have checked out. And if things don’t turnaround quickly, many of those fans may be gone for good. [read more]

Before the season began, Joe thought the Bucs would be 7-9 largely because Joe was not sold on the offense, particularly the offensive line.

Joe was scolded by many for being so pessimistic about the new, overhauled frontline.

Joe never, ever dreamed the Bucs defense would be so rotten. Not with Lovie Smith as the head coach. [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 regular nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

You want to know why the Bucs offense has been, as Charles Barkley would say, “turrible” this year? Well, Mark Bullock of the Washington Post sums it up in two factors: inconsistent quarterback play and a struggling offensive line.

Bullock, an X’s and O’s guy who writes for the paper of record in our nation’s capital, goes into great detail (with photos) as to why the Tampa Bay offense is a mess, and why he expects the Redskins to expose the offensive line for what it is: subpar. [read more]

Joe’s got the full injury report

When you’re listed as “probable” on an official NFL Friday injury report, then that means you’re playing Sunday unless you get mixed up with dangerous women or have an accident.

Big money Bucs left tackle Anthony Collins, who missed the last two games, got that label today. [read more]

In four losses the season, the Bucs held leads in the fourth quarter. Problem was, the defense couldn’t make critical stops hacked up leads.

Few were more gut-wrenching than the losses against the Lambs and Vikings, both at home, when a never-been quarterback who was pulled off the street and a green rookie, respectively, led their teams on last-minute scoring drives. [read more]

There are Bucs fans frustrated enough to berate Gerald McCoy for his on-field play.

These angry types don’t like McCoy’s off-field chatter and let that cloud their judgment. [read more]

Whoa!

Harsh words were typed this morning about Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, who left the team in September following heart problems in August. [read more]

A former Buccaneer takes a hard line with underperforming free agents Anthony Collins and Michael Johnson

A prominent former Buccaneer says Lovie Smith and Jason Licht need to “honest with themselves” when it comes to big-money free agents, especially left tackle Anthony Collins and defensive end Michael Johnson. [read more]

Joe’s been polling readers weekly asking to rate their confidence in Lovie Smith.

A funny thing happened after the loss to the Falcons on Sunday. [read more]

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Each draft, folks wearing suits in Manhattan try to give each draft class a label of some sort. You know, “Year of the Quarterback” or “Draft Class of Linebackers.”

This past spring could have been the draft of the wide receiver. Many went early, more so than Joe can remember in recent history. Of course, the Bucs joined the fun by selecting Mike Evans. [read more]

From the time training camp started, if not before, Bucs coach Lovie Smith was like a preacher with a one-track sermon. He preached the word of takeaways.

It’s hard to argue. Teams with the most takeaways often are the better teams. It is simple math. [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 regular nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]

The Bucs are healthy and wealthy.

“Everyone was able to practice,” Lovie Smith said after today’s session under the Tampa sunshine. [read more]

When Joe last checked in with sleepy, leaky former Bucs franchise quarterback Josh Freeman, the 26-year-old was dealing with an October foreclosure filing on his South Tampa house.

But now there’s some good Freeman news. [read more]

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After the loss to Cleveland two weeks ago, Gerald McCoy suggested that not enough of his teammates hate losing enough. That can’t be said about Josh McCown.

As has been well-chronicled, the Bucs quarterback was so overcome with rage, anger and disgust after Tampa Bay lost Sunday to the Dixie Chicks, he broke down crying and could barely keep himself together at the podium for his postgame press conference. [read more]

Hearing Gerald McCoy talk about patience today and reference how the Glory Days Buccaneers defense didn’t mesh right away and took a while to get it right is driving Joe mad.

Stop rewriting history! Just stop it! [read more]

Shaun King says the Bucs’ offensive line isn’t good enough to continue the current approach

Stop trying to pound the rock and establish the run early every game and let the passing game set it up for you.

That was the strong message this afternoon from former Bucs quarterback Shaun King, a devout Bucs fans and national analyst for Yahoo! Sports and NBC Sports Network. [read more]

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One of the very few bright spots of the dismal 2014 campaign has been the development of rookie wide receiver Mike Evans. The Texas A&M product, once he got his feet wet after a few weeks of NFL play, has become the go-to guy for Bucs quarterbacks, not Vincent Jackson.

The play of Evans has not been lost on national NFL analysts, such as Andy Benoit of theMMQB.com, who recently raved on Twitter about Evans while breaking down Bucs tape. [read more]

Yes, Joe’s a Josh McCown denier.

Joe can’t accept that a McCown return as the 2015 starter is in the best interest of Joe’s beloved Buccaneers. [read more]