Payne Durham: It Takes 11 To Make Screens Work Well
July 24th, 2025
Explains screen game success.
Last year if the Bucs had a bread-and-butter play on offense to get yards, it was the running back screen. [read more]
Explains screen game success.
Last year if the Bucs had a bread-and-butter play on offense to get yards, it was the running back screen. [read more]
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Asked many times this summer about his opinion of the Apple TV+ show “Stick,” Todd offers a formal review of the first (and hopefully only) season of the scripted golf show. The Todd Wright TODDcast is presented by Brandon Legal Group and Plantation Palms. Click above to listen or to download. Or listen via Podcast Addict, TuneIn and other platforms.
The beloved fantasy football community will be intrigued by this one. [read more]
Welcome to your Morning Cup of Joe, an eye-opener to help Joe’s readers ease into their busy workday with a few football links, wacky news and a pleasant distraction. [read more]
Mike Evans looks #AtlantaReady.
Need a bedtime story? How about training camp notes at midnight from Joe? Get your football fix in to stoke those Bucs’ Super Bowl-chasing dreams. [read more]
Edge rusher Haason Reddick looking lean at today’s opening of Bucs training camp.
Joe is ecstatic that free agent edge rusher Haason Reddick is on the field at One Buc Palace, working to impove the Bucs’ often feeble edge rush.
Don’t ask Joe if Reddick will be any good after a horrible 2024 season. But the face of the Bucs franchise seems impressed. [read more]
Rookie first-round pick receiver Emeka Egbuka.
Joe has talked for months about how rookie receiver Emeka Egbuka may be the better than healing Chris Godwin for the entire 2025 campaign. [read more]
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Episode 2 of this week after Todd Bowles in the house on Monday! Various nuggets from Day 1 of training camp on Wednesday. Enjoy!
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Left tackle Tristan Wirfs mingles with fans and teammates en route to the Bucs’ locker room Wednesday after Day 1 of training camp.
Bucs coach Todd Bowles has to know these questions were coming. Still, he didn’t like it. [read more]
Reactions to Antoine Winfield’s strong practice.
This is the way things possibly shook out in Joe’s eyes during 11-on-11 work this morning in practice to kick off Bucs Training Camp 2025. [read more]
SirVocea Dennis with undrafted free agent linebacker Joch Bullock at Bucs training camp today.
Mark the tape! [read more]
Talks calves.
The first day of 2025 Buccaneers training camp is in the books and stud defensive tackle Calijah Kancey emerged healthy. [read more]
Peek at new Bucs offense.
This stands to reason, but rest assured Bucs fans, it doesn’t appear new Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard plans to tinker with success all that much. [read more]
Took matters into own hands.
In the first half of Bucs 11-on-11 drills today on Day 1 of training camp, there was one man who clearly stood above his teammates. That was Mike Evans. [read more]
Guard Cody Mauch.
After weighing 302 pounds at the NFL Scouting Combine in 2023, Cody Mauch had a solid rookie season but left that campaign with a goal. [read more]
Can he save the Bucs’ defense?
Joe had a good laugh yesterday at the expense of former Bucs first-round draft pick outside linebacker Joe Tryon-Shoyinka. [read more]
What a glorious morning at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters!
The interns are buzzing, the Wendy’s biscuits are warm and the fresh fruit looks extra shinier.
Training camp kicks off today at 8:30 a.m. It’s a short session of underwear football, typical of Day 1. Duration of glorified flag football practice ramps up steadily on Thursday and Friday, and the pads come on next week.
Football season is here!
Of course, stick with Joe for all kinds of updates, and a new Ira Kaufman Podcast.
If you missed it Monday, Bowles sat down for an interesting discussion. Plenty on the docket to prime you for today’s start of training camp.
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“Baker, you can get it done.”
Remember the way Baker Mayfield reacted on the Monday Night Football game last year against the Chiefs when he and Pat Mahomes and other captains from both teams took to midfield for the overtime coin flip? [read more]
Interesting tell on Bucs offense.
This is why Joe likes reading tidbits on the Bucs from guys like NFL humorist/data analyst Mike Tanier. Sometimes, having someone else not from New Port Richey or Bartow look at the Bucs brings a fresh perspective. [read more]
Second ankle “procedure.”
Maybe this is another clue to heed for the folks who still can’t figure out why the Bucs drafted Emeka Egbuka? [read more]
GM Jason Licht has been busy.
UPDATED: 4:25 p.m. Joe posted this about 90 minutes ago but deleted a subsequent report that said Fant was signed.
It’s workout season around the NFL. Teams often scurry this time of year to work out potential signings just before training camp kicks off. [read more]
Rookie Desmond “Big Gator” Watson
Seven Bucs won’t be practicing tomorrow when 2025 training camp kicks off. [read more]