He’s back!

The way the Bucs have been playing, maybe as awful as Joe can remember, Joe has been having flashbacks to the notorious Sabby the Goat, the former Bucs safety who made Mark Barron look like Ronnie Lott.

If there was a bad angle to take, Sabby knew it. If there was a way to make a bad tackle attempt, Sabby knew it. If there was a way to make a penalty, Sabby knew it. Often, all in one play. [read more]

Bucs D-line coach Joe Cullen weighs in. Is Michael Johnson in danger?

So who was that guy not named “Johnson” getting pressure off the right edge Sunday?

It was not overlooked by coaches that little known defensive end Jacqueis Smith had a significant impact. [read more]

Sunday was painful. Joe honestly cannot remember at any time he went to an NFL game and wished he wasn’t there. Except last year when Joe got roped by friends to go to a Jags-Lambs game. Sober no less! Joe even had to drive.

One point in the first half Sunday was like watching a couple of old ladies hitting themselves with handbags in an argument over stitching or some such thing. [read more]

Yes, the rumors were out there; teams have contacted the Bucs to see if wide receiver Vincent Jackson is available. There are also reports running back Doug Martin might be trade bait, which makes Joe laugh out loud.

Just what general manager is going to pick up Martin’s contract when the same GM could sign a guy off the street for considerably less cash and get the same production. Joe would be shocked if Martin got traded. [read more]

Avoiding what might have been never-before-seen outrage from Joe, Lovie Smith told media today that changing starting quarterbacks on Sunday is not in his plans. [read more]

Joe would hope the good folks at One Buc Palace would, through seven games, have an idea who is dog meat and who is prime rib. The eye in the sky doesn’t lie.

Since the Bucs are fighting for the top pick in the draft, and the team seems to get worse by the week (holding the Vikings to 13 points in regulation is nice, but this is the Vikings). Joe would hope the Bucs have determined by now who can play and who can’t; who they can develop and who they can’t. [read more]

TE Austin Seferian-Jenkins “manned up” to his costly overtime error after the touchdown shown above. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)

The last couple of games, rookie tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins showed why he was a second-round pick. Likely still bothered by a foot surgically-repaired foot before the draft, and a sprained ankle on opening day, ASJ was beginning to separate himself from the chafe.

Yesterday, it looked like he had the game-winning touchdown when he hauled in a Mike Glennon offering in the corner of the end zone in double-coverage. [read more]

It’s Day 2 of Joe’s new daily feature: Jameis Watch.

Responsibly looking to the future, thanks to a trainwreck start to the 2014 Bucs season, Joe has his eyes on the prize. [read more]

Joe nearly plunged his skull into the nearest toilet yesterday upon hearing Lovie Smith talk about how, following an ugly home loss to the Vikings, the Bucs are in the same boat they were in before the loss.

Lovie’s wacky logic led him to proclaim the following: [read more]

It’s safe to say Bucs beat reporter Tom Krasniqi is no fan of Anthony Collins.

Krasniqi, who will debut a new weekday show with Ronnie Lane one week from today on WDAE-AM 620, gave readers a taste of his passion during a Bucs postgame show last night.

Joe heard this screaming, intense take and had to share. [read more]

Greg Schiano’s goofy, ineffective, blitz-happy pass rush last season generated 35 sacks and Tampa Bay finished with the NFL’s 17th-ranked defense.

But that’s old news, the new Bucs have just 10 sacks through seven games — in a defense that revolves around the pass rush. [read more]

The Bucs’ inability (again) to pressure a quarterback set up the team to fail says a Bradenton Herald columnist.

There is an axiom of football that bad teams find ways to lose. Boy oh boy, don’t they ever. One only has to look at the Bucs (if you can).

And, damn, the Bucs are a bad football team. Yesterday, the Bucs did just that, find a way to lose, when Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr scooped and scored on an Austin Seferian-Jenkins fumble for a game-winning touchdown in overtime. [read more]

Yes, Doug Martin and friends need to make more defenders miss.

But the trained eyes of former Buccaneers tight ends have singled out the Bucs’ offensive line for Tampa Bay’s horrid rushing attack, not the running backs. [read more]

Did the Tampa Bay Buccaneers embark on a new era within an era yesterday?

Was that a rested, ready and hungry team eager to serve its head coach and faithful fans?

Consider what the Bucs’ general manager had to say: [read more]

The NFL trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon, and Joe sincerely hopes the Tampa Bay braintrust is eager to wheel and deal.

The Bucs are bad. An offseason roster overhaul is inevitable for a team that needs a pulse. Get the party started now. [read more]

Vikings LB Anthony Barr picks up a fumble by Austin Seferian-Jenkins for the game-winning play Sunday.

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

So we stand (sit?) here on a Monday morning trying to figure out what in the world we saw yesterday. For the first time in a long time, that Bucs defense we expected from Lovie Smith showed up.

Hey, anytime you hold an NFL team (even the Vikings) to 13 points in regulation, you should win. Period. But that is how bad the offense was. [read more]

It is hard for an offense to get on track when a quarterback forces a gruesome pick.

It is hard for an offense to get on track when it cannot run the ball.

It is hard for an offense to get on track when its quarterback drops back and gets swarmed. [read more]

The Mike Glennon Mob is disbanding faster than the Doug Martin bandwagon.

Glennon led a terrible, 32nd-ranked Bucs offense last year and, after a couple of strong starts this season, is again leading a woeful offense reaching devastating levels of impotence. [read more]

After visiting the sad Bucs locker room, Joe took to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway field to talk about today’s devastating to the Vikings with Chris Fischer of WTSP-TV, Ch. 10.

Don’t forget to catch Fischer tonight on Sports Extra at 11:25 p.m.

Enjoy.

Welcome to “Jameis Watch.”

Welcome to “Jameis Watch,” a new daily feature on JoeBucsFan.com. Much like last year when Joe pimped Johnny Football to be the next Bucs quarterback, Joe will bring “Jameis Watch” to you through the NFL Draft.

Yes, Joe expects the off-field troubled yet uber-talented quarterback to declare for the draft after the bowl season. No, Joe doesn’t expect Bucs overlord of football operations Lovie Smith to draft the crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion Winston, but that doesn’t mean Joe cannot dream. [read more]

Mark Barron has had ample opportunities to prove his NFL worth. If anything, he has regressed and is fortunate not to be benched.

Joe hoped upon hope safety Mark Barron would turn things around. But seven games through his third season, it is pretty clear: Barron was a swing-and-a-miss in the draft.

Barron, the seventh-pick overall in the 2012 draft out of Alabama, isn’t getting the job done. He can play the run OK but he simply cannot cover in passing situations and frankly looks lost on the field. [read more]