Manbeast rookie tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was a major letdown last Sunday.

Joe can’t sugarcoat it. The young “Dunkaneer” had Michael Clayton hands but was no blocking icon. [read more]

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be without their leader today. Lovie Smith is not with the team and will be attending his father-in-law’s funeral.

Joe wishes for strength for the Smith family during this difficult time.

The spreadsheeters at Pro Football Focus don’t rank the Bucs to have the worst offensive line

It has become fashionable to lay all the blame on the rushing attack on the still-new Bucs’ offensive line. You know, God forbid Doug Martin should take a shred of blame for not yet even running for 50 yards in a game this season.

Offensive linemen, if not coaches, will say a new offensive line needs time to play to its peak. It takes many practices. It takes games. Everyone on the Bucs’ offensive line is new to each other. Shoot, Logan Mankins didn’t play a preseason game for Tampa Bay. [read more]

An experienced former NFL quarterback studied film of Mike Glennon and has weighed in with an assessment of Sunday’s effort in New Orleans. [read more]

The Bucs’ miserable, 30-plus-points-a-game defense still has its pair of standouts in Gerald McCoy and Lavonte David.

Man, Joe feels for those two. [read more]

The Bucs’ starting quarterback discusses his sneaky feet

A lot of the Mike Glennon haters claim Glennon is not a mobile quarterback, not even by the most liberal sense of the term. Therefore, he cannot be good.

(Joe finds some Bucs fans funny. When you discuss Glennon, these types howl how he is immobile. Yet when you bring up Johnny Football, they cringe as if they have to pass gas in church and bellyache how Johnny Football ran too much. Make up your minds!) [read more]

Bizarre contradiction alert!

Lovie Smith turned out-of-character terse on Monday right after Tampa Tribune Bucs beat writer Roy Cummings asked the head coach to detail problems in the running game. Keep in mind Cummings’ question came moments after Lovie said the rushing attack wasn’t up to speed. But Lovie sang a very different tune on Wednesday. [read more]

The whispers are everywhere. Hushed in tone yet laced with concern if not fear. “What has happened to Doug Martin?”

Martin was one of the prized jewels of the 2012 draft. He was so good as a rookie, he made the Pro Bowl. It appeared the Bucs may have a dominant franchise running back. [read more]

Mason Foster hopes his play in practice today signals a return to duty Sunday

UPDATED 3:37 p.m.: Mason Foster loves Wednesdays. That’s because the injured Bucs starting middle linebacker gets to test out his shoulder.

Foster dislocated his shoulder against the Lambs and hasn’t played since. [read more]

It’s happy times and high-fives at One Buc Palace when it comes to the Buccaneers’ pass blocking.

Just don’t spoil the mood and talk about the running game. [read more]

The comparisons are getting out of hand

Wait a minute. Lovie Smith just compared Mike Glennon to Michael Vick.

Now the Bucs’ de facto offensive coordinator is making Johnny Football-Glennon comparisons. [read more]

Thus far, the Bucs are No. 30 in the NFL in yards allowed per game. They’re keeping pace with the 2012 Bucs nightmare on pass defense.

Things are not all well. [read more]

Doug Martin’s struggles this season have added to the paltry Bucs first-down production

When the Cowboys were in they heydays, Tom Landry often had Roger Staubach throw on first down. Landry would explain that (given the nature of the run-oriented NFL back then) defenses were often keyed to stop the run with rush-stopping personnel. So that invited the pass.

Landry, as usual, was correct. Maybe the Bucs might want to channel Landry’s first-down philosophy beginning, oh, how about Sunday? [read more]

Bucs left tackle Anthony Collins lives the emotional rollercoaster when it comes to football.

The man will cry in the locker room, curse in anger and disappointment coming off the field, scream with excitement after a victory. [read more]

Is there anything more exciting in Tampa Bay Buccaneers world than Mike Glennon right now?

Sadly, nothing compares on the defensive side of the ball, or on special teams. [read more]

The stat geeks would say rookie Solomon Patton’s nine punt returns are a “small sample size.” But Patton has done pretty well with them, averaging 11.7 yards per return, tied for seventh best among full-time NFL punt returners. [read more]

When Joe looked at the Bucs landscape, he figured it would be the offense that would struggle early, learning the ropes as so many people on that side of the ball were new, along with the new, untested NFL coaches on that side of the ball.

Joe never dreamed it would be the defense that needs the most work. [read more]

Joe’s proud to continue his partnership with LandryFootball.com, run by former NFL personnel man Chris Landry, who has worked as an assistant coach and scout for Bill Belichick, coordinator of the Titans scouting department, among other positions in pro and college football.

Landry provides an exclusive podcast for JoeBucsFan.com readers, which you can enjoy here every Tuesday evening, as in right now. [read more]

Joe stepped into the den of the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig, for the weekly “JoeBucsFan Hour” on WDAE-AM 620.

All kinds of topics drew heated debate. [read more]

Mike Glennon doesn’t have many offensive teammates who played with him last year, but one of them can identify a difference in Glennon 2.0 versus the rookie version. [read more]

It was a focused bunch of men in the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ locker room today, and left tackle Anthony Collins was among the team leaders eager to chat.

In what surely should soothe frustrated Lovie Smith, Collins assured Joe and other media that the Bucs’ struggling rushing attack is almost ready to revive. [read more]