Super Bowl Bucs offensive line coach Bill Muir discusses matching Xs and Os with new Bucs DC Mike Smith.

When Chucky ran the show at One Buc Palace, he had grizzled old offensive line coach Bill Muir at his side. It was the best era of Bucs’ offensive lines. [read more]

Is Doug Martin “elusive” or just hard to tackle?

Yes, it is that time of year, when the final days of the NFL season are upon us (and the annual weeks-long depression that envelops Joe shortly thereafter).

And with the coming end of football comes awards. [read more]

Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers

So who is responsible for the dramatic rise of America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston? [read more]

Donovan Smith

Don’t call Donovan Smith a rookie left tackle. The guy played every Bucs offensive snap last season, and he played pretty darn well.

Smith was at East-West Shrine practice this morning in St. Petersburg, and talked to Joe about the current state of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. [read more]

Being aggressive.

Some Bucs fans believed former coach Lovie Smith was less than aggressive with the football.

Who can forget when Lovie, after getting beaten by two points at home by the Rams two years ago, stated openly he didn’t want to score late in the first half? [read more]

Joe wrote about the silence of the Bucs icons in the immediate aftermath of Lovie Smith getting canned, but there was a huge-name voice that came out quickly to express disgust. [read more]

Anthony Zettel

NFL hopefuls on the field at East-West Shrine Game practices rarely are exciting. Basically, they’re a group of eventual later-round draft picks, undrafted free agents and imported training camp meat in the CFL.

But there was one guy Joe had to talk to yesterday. [read more]

Packers yoda Ted Thompson talks to Joe about defensive ends.

The Bucs have been trying to replace Simeon Rice at defensive end for so long now that Rebecca Romijn has grown old. [read more]

NFL Network’s Mike Mayock dishes on Bucs DC Mike Smith.

When Joe wants to talk football, who better to pick the brain of than NFL Network’s Mike Mayock. [read more]

Mind-blowing stat by America’s Quarterback.
(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

Joe isn’t much of a stats guy. The term “analytics” generally causes Joe’s private places to break out into a rash. Still, Joe tries to keep an open mind.

A stat seen yesterday was so mind blowing, you could have knocked Joe over with a Bucs cheerleader calendar. [read more]

Joe caught up with the A-Train, Mike Alstott, in St. Petersburg this afternoon, where Alstott is serving as running backs coach for the “East” team for Saturday’s East-West Shrine game. [read more]

Football gods deliver a make-up call

Despite playing at a Pro Bowl level, Lavonte David has never played in a Pro Bowl.

That’s about to change. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht

So what were Lovie Smith’s power plays during the NFL Draft? Well, a former Lovie colleague already weighed in on that.

But what about new head coach Dirk Koetter and the Bucs’ draft? [read more]

Talking hiring practices.

Joe knows NFL general managers, like college athletic directors, have a dossier for potential replacement coaches, highlighted by who to call first in the event of a coaching change. [read more]

Popular radio voice weighs in on Lovie’s influence with America’s Quarterback.

Joe stated Lovie Smith would get a third season for his perfect handling of America’s Quaterback, Jameis Winston, through his transition from college stud to budding NFL star signal-caller. [read more]

If Gerald McCoy complains of voices in his head at Pro Bowl practices next week, then Joe will understand. [read more]

Beware of double standards.

When the Bucs introduced new coach Dirk Koetter, Joe noticed something rare and, at least, telling. [read more]

His apologists are hurt.

The whining from BSPN continues.

Joe is stunned by how the national fourth estate has covered (ignored?) the coaching change with the Bucs, and by the ill-informed narratives they possess. [read more]

Team Glazer left the spotlight to their new head coach, after attentively smiling in the front row during Dirk Koetter’s introductory news conference at One Buc Palace on Friday.

Corporate-style photos of Koetter and Team Glazer together came next, and then the owners gracefully but quickly exited behind the main stage. [read more]

General manager Jason Licht opened up on the process of hiring Dirk Koetter to be the Buccaneers’ 11th head coach. [read more]