No hesitation in the greatest Buccaneers receiver the world has ever known. [read more]

Rookie running back Bucky Irving works on blocking against Sean Tucker today — the first day of Bucs training camp 2024. Bucs RBs coach Skip Peete looks on.

Alright, the first day of Bucs Training Camp 2024 is in the books. Still underwear football and it will be until Monday — at least the pads are scheduled to come on Monday. So please keep in mind that in underwear football, there is no hitting of any sort. [read more]

New offensive coordinator Liam Coen talking to GM Jason Licht after practice today.

Joe remembers when Lovie Smith rolled out a new rallying slogan and t-shirts to his team about 10 years ago and players seemed to think he was clueless. [read more]

Baker Mayfield

So Baker Mayfield was handed a $100 million contract at 29 years old with a baby on the way and following a six-year roller coaster career. [read more]

Linebacker K.J. Britt

Day 1 of training camp today is still underwear football with hitting not permitted, but Todd Bowles seemed to see something this morning that makes him think a firestorm is coming very soon. [read more]

Fed up.

Is Bucs coach Todd Bowles “done” with absent Randy Gregory? Well, this much we know: Bowles is done talking about him. [read more]

The landscape has changed.

If you believe Tampa Bay officials, the team dreaded parting with now-retired Bucs sacks king Shaq Barrett after last season. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 12:08 a.m. Poll closed at 8:34 a.m.

Bucs training camp opens this morning at 8:30 am. That means a majority of players reported for duty yesterday a had physicals and meetings.

And it also means Todd Bowles made a speech. [read more]

Big Mike Evans fan.

Joe is still seething because a high priest of an outfit that likes to gloss itself as some sort of superior football intellectual thinktank thinks so much of Mike Evans that he ranked Evans as just the 20th-best receiver in football. [read more]

Tight end Payne Durham.

With training camp kicking off today at One Buc Palace, Joe sure hopes the Bucs’ crop of tight ends realizes they’ll have a new friend in a month or so if they can’t step up. [read more]

Hard to believe Joe has grinded away on these pages for nearly 6,000 consecutive days.

Get a life, Joe! [read more]

Quit on the Bucs?

Enough! Cut the cord. [read more]

“Joel, is my housekeeper allowed to place a six-figure wager?”

So the NFL has somewhat embraced the sports gambling world and, apparently, is now producing fancy previews for win-total bettors. [read more]

Vita Vea explains.

Vita Vea feels he should have better stats. [read more]

The Buccaneers revived their throwback uniform day last season during an early-season loss to Detroit.

While the Bucs walked off the field defeated, the event was a huge hit with fans. Who doesn’t love a good Creamsicle uniform day?

It’s coming back this season, as previously announced.

(Joe finds it weird — if not telling — that media folks are making a big deal of this. Today. This past weekend Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com wrote about the 2024 Creamsicle Day and of course Joe noted it, too. People are getting punchy from the perceived July news desert that will vanish tomorrow morning at training camp.)

Today, the Bucs formally announced the glorious orange will return in Week 8 against Atlanta, a 1 p.m. kickoff against the Falcons on Oct. 27. Joe sure hopes Kirk Cousins (Michael Penix?) will be having orange nightmares for days after the game.

Cash in the bank.

Todd Bowles doesn’t come across as a gambler. But he sure is taking a couple of gambles on his defense this fall. [read more]

Rachaad White

Telling stuff from Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen. [read more]

Tribal warning.

This is so bad it’s good. [read more]