May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016
Doug Mar
tin runs angry, but does he have deeper anger issues? [read more]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 4th, 2016

Joe Henderson.
This will be the last postmortem Joe will have for the now-defunct Tampa Tribune. [read more]
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May 4th, 2016

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]
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May 3rd, 2016

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]
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May 3rd, 2016

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.
[read more]
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May 3rd, 2016

Jason Licht explains.
Weeks ago, Joe talked to Bucs types and picked their brains about the draft. [read more]
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May 3rd, 2016
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]
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May 3rd, 2016

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]
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May 3rd, 2016
At least something was under the Christmas tree for America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, during the NFL Draft. [read more]
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May 3rd, 2016

Stats better than Bucs kickers of the past.
Joe notices the outrage is still brisk and raw over the Bucs trading up into the second round to grab kicker Roberto Aguayo, who was as close to a perfect college kicker as there has been. [read more]
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May 3rd, 2016
Joe hit the airwaves yesterday afternoon with Todd Wright, filling in for the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620. [read more]
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May 3rd, 2016

Former prominent sports voice defends.
Joe’s timeline on Twitter yesterday afternoon and last night reveals Bucs fans remain crazed by Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht trading back into the second round to draft a kicker, Roberto Aguayo. [read more]
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May 3rd, 2016

Thanks to “The Gipper,” the Bucs have a place kicker.
There are many, many, many things for which we as red-blooded Americans can thank the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. As Bucs fans, there is one specific reason.
That would be for Bucs place kicker Roberto Aguayo. [read more]
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