Doug Martin was talking at One Buc Palace today.

Doug Martin was talking today at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Temporary lights like these are coming to One Buc Palace practice fields for training camp.

When Bucs coach Dirk Koetter said during underwear football season that he was striving to find a way to keep his players out of the suffocating Florida daytime heat during training camp, he wasn’t joking. [read more]

Jason Licht talks Kwon

How important is Kwon Alexander, the Buccaneers’ rookie playmaker on defense last year? [read more]

Guarded on the new big-money guard.

A bunch of unsourced reports surfaced yesterday offering clues as to the injury(ies) afflicting new Bucs guard J.R. Sweezy, the guy supposed to start at left guard and earn more than $9 million this year to replace Pro Bowler Logan Mankins. [read more]

Haters have to hate.

Joe’s breaking out his dogwhistle this morning. Calling all Gerald McCoy haters! Attention GMC haters! You know who you are. [read more]

Sign Dwight Freeney? Bucs GM Jason Licht dishes.

Just the thought that it has been over a decade since the Bucs had a guy (Simeon Rice) with double-digit sacks makes Joe want to toss his bowl of Cheerios across the kitchen. [read more]

Influencing lives.

Today, Joe ends his series of excerpts from Bucs defensive coordinator Mike Smith’s book, “You Win in the Locker Room First.” Tomorrow, Bucs training camp begins. Smith will then become an open book to all.

Joe began this series to offer readers a look inside the mind of the former Dixie Chicks head coach now in charge of turning around the defense of the Pewter Pirates. Smith’s book is available on Google Play and iTunes. [read more]

Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht will have his eyes especially locked on one player early in training camp, so he told the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, this evening. [read more]

The GM Speaks

Grab your Stars and Stripes.

Bucs general manager Jason Licht gave a State of the Union address today on WDAE-AM 620. [read more]

No Sweezy — for now.

It’s official! [read more]

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It’s time for another edition of The Ira Kaufman Podcast!

Today, eye-RAH! and Joe talk tight ends and the Custodian of Canton tells an Austin Seferian-Jenkins story sure to leave many Bucs fans shaking their heads.

Click below to listen now or download the podcast for later.

More Roddy White talk

“I tell friends of mine all the time that Roddy White is the single-most competitive football player I’ve ever met in my life. I’ve just never been around a guy that his desire to win and compete would let him overcome injuries. He would do whatever it takes — whether it be blocking, catching, running with the football — just whatever you needed to help you win a game, Roddy would try to do it.” Dirk Koetter, via ESPN. [read more]

UPDATE: 11:41 a.m. – With Adam Humphries as the No. 1 kick returner entering training camp, and the Kenny Bell Mob pumped up to have their catchless crusader claim the No. 3 receiving role, it’s no wonder Joe is stimulated by the Falcons’ release of Devin Hester this morning. [read more]

Michigan ready?

In his first major speaking engagement since he was introduced as the new football coach at the University of Illinois this spring, former Bucs coach Lovie Smith addressed the throng today at the Big Ten Football Media Days conference in Chicago. [read more]

If you need to get back in the mindset for football, Joe’s got just the tonic for you. [read more]

Work to do.

So when Dirk Koetter was named head coach, he reached down to the college ranks to pick an offensive coordinator, choosing highly successful Todd Monken to be his right-hand man. [read more]

Joe was embittered by a column in the Tampa Bay Times.

Man, Tampa Bay Times columnist Martin Fennelly really punched Joe in the gut this morning. [read more]

Worries Jenna Laine (and Joe, too).

Entering training camp, there is always one guy either coming off an injury or who is injury-prone — who the team needs desperately to stay healthy. [read more]

Good coaches never stop learning.

Until the Bucs kickoff training camp at One Buc Palace Thursday, Joe will try to get in the mind of defensive coordinator Mike Smith.

Joe will regularly deliver excerpts and/or highlights from Smith’s book, “You Win in the Locker Room First,” available on Google Play and iTunes. [read more]