Tampa Bay sports sage eye-RAH! Kaufman is a JoeBucsFan.com columnist after a long career at The Tampa Tribune. In less than four months, his shenanigans around JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters have become legendary — and the guy doesn’t even drink beer! 

Ira’s columns appear here every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (except for this unique Tuesday morning). Today, Ira looks at the big picture of Thursday night’s clash with the Falcons. 

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The Custodian of Canton, Tampa Bay’s only Hall of Fame voter, still can’t get over Sunday’s mind-numbing loss to the Raiders. Today, Ira dives into the game with Joe, points fingers and shares a Warren Sapp discussion. Grab an omelet and soak in the podcast.

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National voice takes notice.

You know it is bad when just the mention of a kicker unnerves Bucs fans to the point they flinch so badly and throw their coffee mug in the air or jerk the steering wheel into traffic, as if someone jabbed them with a cattle prod. [read more]

Brent Grimes, Vernon Hargreaves, you are forgiven, my sons. [read more]

From better days.

Johnthan Banks is gone. [read more]

Can’t blame Raiders. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

Joe already stated how America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, fell off the map in the second half yesterday. [read more]

Worse than Stewart McClown, per Lovie.

Since Joe isn’t beneath reaching for Halloween puns, so how about we look at potential ghosts of Halloween past? [read more]

Mike James returns to center stage?

It was a very unhappy day around One Buc Palace and at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters when well-liked running back Mike James was cut after getting hurt in August. [read more]

Trade winds blowing?

Once upon a time, former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik pulled off a legendary NFL heist, executing an October trade of frightful defensive end Gaines Adams to the Bears for a second-round pick. [read more]

Team Glazer knows how the Bucs responded to home losing 20 years ago

Dirk Koetter used the powerful adjective “demoralizing” on SiriusXM NFL Radio last week. [read more]

Only two full-time starting quarterbacks this season have a worse completion percentage than America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston. [read more]

Staying odds increased.

Joe’s biggest fear when Dirk Koetter hired Mike Smith was that Smith would be a one-and-done defensive coordinator. [read more]

Local sports anchor fed up.

Roberto Aguayo is driving Bucs fans mental. [read more]

This is not Josh Freeman

Joe has figured out why the Bucs can’t win at home.

The place is haunted. Seriously. [read more]

A whole lot to discuss in what may have been the ugliest game by the Bucs since they got slapped around by the Steelers at home in 2010. [read more]

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Thanks to both Derek Carr and zero pass rush by the Bucs in the second half, Bucs fans will forever have Norm Van Brocklin’s name singed into their memory banks.

You want to know how bad Derek Carr riddled the Bucs defense yesterday? Not only did he shatter a Raiders record, he came “this close” to setting a decades-long NFL mark. [read more]

Crazy output.

There are all kinds of ways Joe can describe how the Bucs allowed Raiders quarterback Derek Carr to play 7-on-7 football as he damned near broke a 65-year old NFL record for passing yards yesterday. [read more]