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Not only were the Bucs not ready for Joe Flacco’s three-step drops, they couldn’t adjust.
Joe spoke with several Bucs defensive linemen today about the baseball bat-to-the-nuts loss to the Crows, where the Bucs were outsmarted, out-hustled, and curb-stomped in the first half en-route to a 48-17 loss.
In short, the Bucs were not ready for Crows quarterback Joe Flacco’s three-step drops and had no answers for it. [read more]
Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Lovie Smith has found a silver lining, and it surrounds No. 8 and the Bucs’ offense. [read more]
Worry about your own team Lovie, instead of the damned weather to do your job for you.
Like Greg Schiano before him, and like Raheem Morris before Schiano, Lovie Smith talked all offseason about how he wanted to use the homefield heat in Florida as an advantage.
What a bunch of bunk that is. [read more]
Baltimore coach John Harbaugh completely and totally outcoached Lovie Smith
Joe has always believed — the genesis of this philosophy coming from Joe’s old high school coach who played for Tom Landry and John Madden — that a good coach always adjusts his offense/defense to best fit the talents of his players.
We all witnessed an example of this from Crows coach John Harbaugh today. [read more]
Joe’s going to blow a freaking gasket if he hears one more reference to this Bucs team under Lovie Smith being like the Buccaneers of 1996 under Father Dungy.
It’s an insult at this point, in addition to being a stupid take. [read more]
“Welcome to the club, Lovie!”
You want to know just how bad Lovie Smith’s defense is?
Consider the following: The Bucs worst four-game stretch defensively, per Greg Auman of the Tampa Bay Times, was the final four games of the 2011 season when Tampa Bay coughed up 165 points. [read more]
This one’s on you, Lovie Smith.
You emphatically told media last week that your current Buccaneers are a better team than the last time they were in town for a home game back in September.
You were so wrong. [read more]
OK friends, enemies, loyal readers and fellow Bucs fans, here Joe is at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway as the Bucs host their first 1 p.m. game of the season, today being the Baltimore Crows.
Joe noticed on Twitter yesterday the Crows were already whining about the heat. And it isn’t that hot! [read more]
It sure looks like cornerback Crezdon Butler will start for the Buccaneers.
Who? (Feel free to click here.) Butler would be in line for his first NFL start. [read more]
That alleged built-in home field advantage held by the Buccaneers hasn’t showed up in a long time.
But Gerald McCoy is convinced it will matter today. [read more]
The failing Tampa Bay running game was one of the topics Pro Bowl left guard Logan Mankins addressed on Friday with the Tampa Bay pen and mic club. [read more]
The Buccaneers’ rookie first-round pick didn’t fully participate in a practice all last week, but it seems his groin is good enough to test in live competition this afternoon against Baltimore. [read more]
The Bucs will feel the loss of Mike Evans, says a Super Bowl-winning coach.
Ray Lewis and Ed Reed are long gone from the Baltimore defense, but there’s still plenty of nasty/stingy play on the field.
The Playbook crew on NFL Network last night were happy to blubber about the NFL’s top red zone defense. [read more]
Michael Johnson should be drooling
It’s always bad when your left tackle apologizes four days after a loss.
It’s even worse when he’s an undrafted rookie coming off a steamrolling. [read more]
“The Road Warrior,” WTSP-TV traffic reporter Holley Sinn, has tips on how to get to the Bucs game quicker.
Driving to a Bucs game can be a major pain in the posterior. Just getting late to a tailgate is enough to ruin your day.
Leave it to WTSP-TV, Ch. 10 traffic reporter, “The Road Warrior,” Holley Sinn to help. She knows all the tricks to get you past the congestion and to your tailgate (or the game) quicker. Life is not made to be stuck in traffic. [read more]
What a helluva aafternoon huh?
TCU chokes away a 21-point fourth quarter lead and Baylor wins at the end. Mississippi State tries to give the game away early to Auburn but still wins. Texas dominates Oklahoma, except for special teams and defense and loses.
Not sure how we can top the afternoon games, but here come the Gators. Oh yeah, Penn State is up next in the Brady Hoke Goodbye Tour.
Bang it here for all your thoughts.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers haven’t played a lot of disciplined football this season.
Heck, Louis Murphy was even fined — not just flagged — for saying bad words, per NFL Network. [read more]
There is no more laid back, chill hour of radio than “Hawk Radio,” the nickname for the weekly Dashon Goldson show with Ronnie Lane on the Buccaneers Radio Network.
Hawk and Lane are like a couple of dudes smoking good cigars and sipping cognac. [read more]
Regular readers here know Joe isn’t a huge fan of the stat geeks, but some of their data is relevant and worth noting.
And considering the Bucs have grown their in-house team of football numbers crunchers this season, the spreadsheet data is more deserving of the spotlight. [read more]
A Bucs icon checks in on No. 8
Man, if Mike Glennon is getting average grades for his starts from esteemed football men, Joe can only imagine where Josh McCown’s GPA would be. [read more]
And the broadcasters are …
Bucs fans who don’t live on the west coast of Florida, or within a 60-mile or so radius of Baltimore, very likely will have to find a sports bar to watch the Sunday, unless you have NFL Sunday Ticket.
The CBS telecast, (WTSP-TV Channel 10, locally), is deemed so low down the totem pole by the Tiffany Network, that roughly 96 percent of the nation won’t have access via their local over-the-air CBS affiliate. [read more]
