“You Can’t Find A Player On Our Team That Doesn’t Respect The Heck Out Of Him”
July 26th, 2016
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]

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.
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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]

In his first column for JoeBucsFan.com, eye-RAH! weighs in strong on the Bucs’ most polarizing figure, with quotes from Buccaneers co-chairman Joel Glazer. [read more]
Consider this a public service announcement. [read more]

New JoeBucsFan.com columnist eye-RAH! Kaufman, Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter, disagrees with Joe on a very hot Bucs topic — on national radio.
Newcomer to the JoeBucsFan.com family, Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter eye-RAH! Kaufman has been liberated from the shackles of mainstream media.
And just hours into his new gig, Kaufman was loudly and boldly disagreeing with Joe on national radio this morning. [read more]

Fans are worried?
Whoa!
Joe is in disbelief over what was uttered by veteran Bucs beat writer Rick Stroud this morning on WDAE-AM 620. [read more]

Welcome to the national narrative on Dirk Koetter and the 2016 Buccaneers, courtesy of Lovie Smith’s friends who like to ignore the utter defensive collapse by Tampa Bay last season. [read more]

Please be careful.
No one will ever mistake America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, for another Fran Tarkenton. [read more]

Talks Bucs win total.
Some NFL pundits believe the Bucs can finish with eight wins this season, a .500 record. [read more]

Input is good.
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,” available on Google Play and iTunes. [read more]