So many fans love numbers. Take the “19-and-9” crowd, aka the early members of the Mike Glennon Mob.

These people yelled all around town this offseason about how Glennon was the second coming of Peyton Manning. “With a touchdown-to-interception ratio like that in his rookie season, how could Glennon be anything less than an emerging superstar?” they bellowed. [read more]

You could sense the hunger and optimism in Lovie Smith’s voice on his radio show last night.

Lovie was talking takeaways, as in the four quality ones his defense generated in Atlanta. [read more]

Did the Bucs swing and miss in their evaluation of Jeremy Zuttah, who now starts and excels for the Baltimore Crows?

Look, Joe has zero problems with Evan Dietrich-Smith. He was fine with the Packers and Joe thinks he will be just fine with the Bucs.

That doesn’t mean the Bucs’ center is mistake-free. After watching that NFL version of the WWE, where the Bucs played the part of the heel last wee in Atlanta, not one person who stepped on that field is blameless. [read more]

Joe understands how outraged Bucs fans were at last week’s seal-clubbing at the hands of the Dixie Chicks. Offense, defense, special teams, not only were the Bucs dominated at every angle but players didn’t seem to get help from coaches.

One former Bucs player is so unnerved by what he saw, he took to his website and stopped just short of calling the players “quitters.” [read more]

A report claims the Bucs worked out former Raiders quarterback Terrelle Pryor

Joe isn’t sure what this exactly says about Josh McCown. Or Mike Glennon. Or for Mike Kafka for that matter. But it sure is an antennae-raiser.

Per BSPN’s Field Yates, who has strong sources, the Bucs worked out a quarterback today. Not just any quarterback, but no less of a quarterback than Tattoo Terrelle Pryor. [read more]

No Jeff Tedford at practice today at One Buc Palace. [read more]

The Bucs didn’t block well Thursday night. They sure as hell didn’t protect the ball very well. They certainly didn’t tackle very well. Other than that, the Bucs played OK in the seal-clubbing by the Dixie Chicks.

Even Lovie Smith said he began scrutiny with the coaching. Everything is on the table, he said, as far as what changes may come. [read more]

Bucs big money defensive end Michael Johnson (who?) opened up to media at One Buc Palace this afternoon. [read more]

“Beats me why Lovie’s team is so unprepared. I’m still trying to figure out how the Bucs hired me five years ago.”

Yes, the chain-whipping the Bucs received at the hands of the Dixie Chicks really has driven Joe to a dark, dark place. That is the Raheem Morris era.

To this day, Bucs fans still continue to scratch their heads — if not their privates — as to how someone with so little coaching experience got a head coaching job in the NFL — not even 24 hours after Chucky was jettisoned from One Buc Palace. It was as if Team Glazer didn’t want to launch a coaching search and just decided to pull a name out of a hat of assistants already under contract. [read more]

Bad news from FOX Sports. [read more]

Lovie Smith friend and former mentor Tony Dungy shared an interesting philosophy last night during the Sunday Night Football broadcast on NBC. [read more]

Peter King confesses the error of his ways with the Bucs.

Time flies. It is amazing how quickly things change. A blink of the eye in this Internet-driven, smartphone-monitoring, news-by-Twitter-reading life we live.

What we think is sound one moment is folly seconds later. It is almost as if nations can rise and crumble in a matter of days. [read more]

Who outside One Buc Palace will endorse the Josh McCown Experience?

So how did the new leader of the Tampa Bay offense perform against the Falcons on Thursday night?

That sort of got lost in the aftermath of the beating of the century. [read more]

See, there was good Bucs news over the past few days. You just were too busy crying to see it.

CBS Sports dove into the details of the Bucs working to re-sign Gerald McCoy and positive messages emerged. [read more]

It’s all about No. 8, the lean, mean, pocket-passing machine out of North Carolina State.

The Bucs’ new starting quarterback (hopefully) is good enough to get the Bucs winning football games again. [read more]

Mike Glennon’s older brother Sean is not a happy camper

Yes, Joe is now a general in the Mike Glennon Mob. There’s absolutely no more use for Josh McCown as a Tampa Bay starter on these pages. If you missed Joe’s detailed explanation yesterday, you can read it here.

Another high-ranking leader of the Mob is Glennon’s brother, Sean Glennon, the former Virginia Tech starting quarterback. [read more]

A long look at the Bucs yesterday, today, and what to expect tomorrow and beyond.

So we begin today with changes. Oh, yes, there will be changes with the Bucs. Exactly what and how many will soon be determined, maybe as early as this afternoon.

We know one likely change: Unless turnover-prone quarterback Josh McCown has a miraculous recovery, it is Mike Glennon’s job to get the Bucs their first win of the season Sunday in Pittsburgh. No matter who the quarterback is, good luck with that. [read more]

Former Lovie Smith Bucs coaching colleague Herm Edwards said watching the Bucs-Dixie Chicks game was like watching a traveling basketball circus.

As much football as Joe watched over the weekend (and beers guzzled), Joe just cannot get out of his head what a complete and utter debacle it was Thursday when the Bucs began the weekend by giving fans not just acid reflux but pause to wonder about the future.

Neither the loathed defensive mind of former Bucs commander Greg Schiano nor the widely mocked defensive background of Raheem Morris had teams that coughed up 50 points. [read more]

Has the NFL gone soft?

Aside from all the wacky new flag football rules, teams frown on any kind of rookie hazing and have hired vegan nutritionists, and players practice about 20 percent of what they used to 10 years ago. [read more]

Yes, Da’Quan Bowers was in Atlanta for the beating of the century Thursday night.

Bowers played more than half the Bucs’ defensive snaps by Joe’s count, but the fourth-year defensive end didn’t show up on the stat sheet.  [read more]