Jason Licht Talks Draft “Intel”
May 5th, 2016
So you think who’s not attending a pro day is meaningless? Think again. [read more]
So you think who’s not attending a pro day is meaningless? Think again. [read more]

Jason Licht says DE Noah Spence has but one task with the Bucs.
Since the Bucs drafted pass rusher Noah Spence, there has been talk about Spence playing outside linebacker. On face value, this is outrageous. [read more]

Tips off Mike Smith’s defense?
Joe thought more than anything else the pick of cornerback Vernon Hargreaves was a proactive move rather than one filling a need. [read more]

Three!
Yesterday Joe brought word that AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht said the top two players targeted in the draft were both on the board when the Bucs selected at No. 11. [read more]

Steve Duemig wrestles with Joe
It was that time again, time for the popular JoeBucsFan.com Hour on WDAE-AM 620 with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig.
All kinds of Bucs topics were on the table. [read more]

Ex-Bucs star weighs in
A former Tampa Bay Buccaneers captain, Pro Bowler and first-round draft pick isn’t smiling about the second-round selection of kicker Roberto “El Asesino” Aguayo. [read more]

The Bucs’ fifth-round pick, rookie offensive lineman Caleb Benenoch
Joe is getting more and more intrigued by the offensive tackle/guard the Bucs snagged in the fifth-round of the 2016 NFL Draft. [read more]

Bucs DE Robert Ayers
Perspective on a team’s offseason moves is highly subjective.
So Joe always is eager to get national takes on the Bucs, as well as those from NFC South markets. [read more]
Doug Mar
tin runs angry, but does he have deeper anger issues? [read more]

Digging the Bucs’ draft.
That second second-round pick by Jason Licht really has folks worked up, positive or negative. That’s what is great about sports: debate! [read more]

Defensive tackle, too.
In what would have been his final story for the now defunct Tampa Tribune, Woody Cummings typed a piece on why the Bucs may not have drafted a defensive tackle. [read more]

Licht talks playing poker on national radio.
A hardcore-Bucs-fan friend fired off a text to Joe minutes after AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht pulled the trigger on the trade up to draft kicker Roberto Aguayo in the second round. [read more]

Joe Henderson.
This will be the last postmortem Joe will have for the now-defunct Tampa Tribune. [read more]

Just don’t be Talib.
If rookie cornerback Vernon Hargreaves turns out to be more Ronde Barber than Aqib Talib, the Bucs will have hit a home run.
All Hargreaves must do is play solid football and not throw down with a rookie teammate at a seminar, not blast a defensive teammate in the grill with a helmet, not speedbag a cabbie flying down the interstate, not hassle Tampa grannies, not go all OK Corral in a Dallas suburb, not cuss out referees and coaches, and not eat Adderall (allegedly), then he should be fine. [read more]

Roy Cummings, longtime Bucs beat writer of the now-defunct Tampa Tribune.
Whoa!
Joe doesn’t cover media business, but this bears a few words, and there are a few Bucs ties. [read more]

DE Channing Ward of Ole Miss
Yes, there’s a fresh crop of rookies invading Tampa en route to Bucs rookie minicamp, which starts Friday.
Most of them you’ve never heard of.
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Jason Licht explains.
Weeks ago, Joe talked to Bucs types and picked their brains about the draft. [read more]
Yes, there’s a place in Bucs history books for former Rays skipper Merlot Joe Maddon, and that was long before last week’s NFL Draft. [read more]

Damn, it has been so long since the Bucs have been in the playoffs — coming up on nine years — Joe barely remembers it.
Shoot, JoeBucsFan.com didn’t exist yet when the Bucs were clobbered by the Giants in January 2008. [read more]