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It’s safe to say Bucs beat reporter Tom Krasniqi is no fan of Anthony Collins.
Krasniqi, who will debut a new weekday show with Ronnie Lane one week from today on WDAE-AM 620, gave readers a taste of his passion during a Bucs postgame show last night.
Joe heard this screaming, intense take and had to share. [read more]
Greg Schiano’s goofy, ineffective, blitz-happy pass rush last season generated 35 sacks and Tampa Bay finished with the NFL’s 17th-ranked defense.
But that’s old news, the new Bucs have just 10 sacks through seven games — in a defense that revolves around the pass rush. [read more]
The Bucs’ inability (again) to pressure a quarterback set up the team to fail says a Bradenton Herald columnist.
There is an axiom of football that bad teams find ways to lose. Boy oh boy, don’t they ever. One only has to look at the Bucs (if you can).
And, damn, the Bucs are a bad football team. Yesterday, the Bucs did just that, find a way to lose, when Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr scooped and scored on an Austin Seferian-Jenkins fumble for a game-winning touchdown in overtime. [read more]
Yes, Doug Martin and friends need to make more defenders miss.
But the trained eyes of former Buccaneers tight ends have singled out the Bucs’ offensive line for Tampa Bay’s horrid rushing attack, not the running backs. [read more]
Did the Tampa Bay Buccaneers embark on a new era within an era yesterday?
Was that a rested, ready and hungry team eager to serve its head coach and faithful fans?
Consider what the Bucs’ general manager had to say: [read more]
The NFL trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon, and Joe sincerely hopes the Tampa Bay braintrust is eager to wheel and deal.
The Bucs are bad. An offseason roster overhaul is inevitable for a team that needs a pulse. Get the party started now. [read more]
Vikings LB Anthony Barr picks up a fumble by Austin Seferian-Jenkins for the game-winning play Sunday.
A long look at the Bucs yesterday, today, and what to expect tomorrow and beyond.
So we stand (sit?) here on a Monday morning trying to figure out what in the world we saw yesterday. For the first time in a long time, that Bucs defense we expected from Lovie Smith showed up.
Hey, anytime you hold an NFL team (even the Vikings) to 13 points in regulation, you should win. Period. But that is how bad the offense was. [read more]
It is hard for an offense to get on track when a quarterback forces a gruesome pick.
It is hard for an offense to get on track when it cannot run the ball.
It is hard for an offense to get on track when its quarterback drops back and gets swarmed. [read more]
The Mike Glennon Mob is disbanding faster than the Doug Martin bandwagon.
Glennon led a terrible, 32nd-ranked Bucs offense last year and, after a couple of strong starts this season, is again leading a woeful offense reaching devastating levels of impotence. [read more]
After visiting the sad Bucs locker room, Joe took to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway field to talk about today’s devastating to the Vikings with Chris Fischer of WTSP-TV, Ch. 10.
Don’t forget to catch Fischer tonight on Sports Extra at 11:25 p.m.
Enjoy.
Welcome to “Jameis Watch.”
Welcome to “Jameis Watch,” a new daily feature on JoeBucsFan.com. Much like last year when Joe pimped Johnny Football to be the next Bucs quarterback, Joe will bring “Jameis Watch” to you through the NFL Draft.
Yes, Joe expects the off-field troubled yet uber-talented quarterback to declare for the draft after the bowl season. No, Joe doesn’t expect Bucs overlord of football operations Lovie Smith to draft the crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion Winston, but that doesn’t mean Joe cannot dream. [read more]
Mark Barron has had ample opportunities to prove his NFL worth. If anything, he has regressed and is fortunate not to be benched.
Joe hoped upon hope safety Mark Barron would turn things around. But seven games through his third season, it is pretty clear: Barron was a swing-and-a-miss in the draft.
Barron, the seventh-pick overall in the 2012 draft out of Alabama, isn’t getting the job done. He can play the run OK but he simply cannot cover in passing situations and frankly looks lost on the field. [read more]
A divide is starting in the Bucs’ locker room. Joe can sense it being there. He can hear it in the words of players. He can see it on faces.
Two weeks ago, after Joe Flacco and the Crows alley-stomped the Bucs, the defensive line as a whole threw their hands up in the air and all but asked, “What do you want us to do? Flacco had unloaded the ball before we were in our third step.” [read more]
A day after signing the richest contract in the NFL for a defensive tackle, Gerald McCoy recorded two tackles and a half-sack. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
Yesterday, Joe wrote about how Gerald McCoy hit the lottery by signing the richest contract for a defensive tackle in the NFL. Joe is truly, genuinely happy for GMC, one of the best dudes Joe has ever dealt with. A true professional and stalwart of the locker room.
But as Joe also warned, signing such a contract comes with high expectations. If one is to be paid like the best, then it is not outrageous to expect results commensurate with the salary. [read more]
Michael Johnson was among the unhappy Buccaneers in a frustrated Tampa Bay locker room this afternoon.
But it seemed Johnson was irked by more than just the final score. [read more]
You think you were frustrated with the ugly Bucs loss? You think you are sick of the Bucs always talking about dominating and correcting mistakes and being the best they can be?
Well, so is Bucs safety “Hawk” Goldson. A visibly upset Goldson sat in his locker seething, trying his best to keep his emotions in. But he let some slip out. [read more]
Mike Glennon is mystified
The Buccaneers average less than four points in the first halves of games this season.
That’s damn hard to do at the professional level, and Mike Glennon was willing to talk about it after the game. [read more]
Huh?
Joe almost lost his lunch when Lovie Smith said the Bucs “ran the ball ok” during his postgame news conference this afternoon.
Whaaaatttt? [read more]
The Bucs’ choke job today cost them a shot at second place in the division following tonight’s Saints-Packers game
Yes, the Bucs entered todays’ game just two games back of first place in the putrid NFC South, a spot they still occupy after losses by Carolina and Atlanta.
Your Buccaneers are in the hunt. But the reality is any 2014 optimism among the diehard Bucs faithful died today at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway. [read more]
It’s not supposed to be this bad. It’s really not.
Your Buccaneers are 1-6 and looking terrible. Frankly, the coaching is dreadful right now. The Bucs offense came out uninspired today and not ready to play at the NFL level.
That’s simply inexcusable off a bye week — at home. [read more]
Yes, Joe is at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway for the Vikings-Bucs game. As Joe wrote earlier, this has the smell of two teams going in opposite directions, and that smell reminds Joe of a Midwestern cow pasture.
Yes, the Bucs had the bye week off. Color Joe suspicious that all that has befallen the Bucs can be solved in a handful of days.
That doesn’t mean Joe isn’t rooting for the Bucs. So have at it, bang it here for your thoughts on the game. As always, you are encouraged to e-mail among yourselves URLs of illegally streamed video but posting that here can and will get you banned.
Go Bucs!
