Huh?

Joe almost lost his lunch when Lovie Smith said the Bucs “ran the ball ok” during his postgame news conference this afternoon.

Whaaaatttt? [read more]

The Bucs’ choke job today cost them a shot at second place in the division following tonight’s Saints-Packers game

Yes, the Bucs entered todays’ game just two games back of first place in the putrid NFC South, a spot they still occupy after losses by Carolina and Atlanta.

Your Buccaneers are in the hunt. But the reality is any 2014 optimism among the diehard Bucs faithful died today at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway. [read more]

It’s not supposed to be this bad. It’s really not.

Your Buccaneers are 1-6 and looking terrible. Frankly, the coaching is dreadful right now. The Bucs offense came out uninspired today and not ready to play at the NFL level.

That’s simply inexcusable off a bye week — at home. [read more]

Yes, Joe is at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway for the Vikings-Bucs game. As Joe wrote earlier, this has the smell of two teams going in opposite directions, and that smell reminds Joe of a Midwestern cow pasture.

Yes, the Bucs had the bye week off. Color Joe suspicious that all that has befallen the Bucs can be solved in a handful of days.

That doesn’t mean Joe isn’t rooting for the Bucs. So have at it, bang it here for your thoughts on the game. As always, you are encouraged to e-mail among yourselves URLs of illegally streamed video but posting that here can and will get you banned.

Go Bucs!

In case you were wondering whether Josh McCown was truly healthy. Today’s inactive list answers the question. [read more]

After Vincent Jackson trade rumors from NFL Network insider reporter Ian Rapoport two weeks ago, the winds of a V-Drops V-Jax trade seemed to die down.

Now they’ve heated up. [read more]

Game 7

Vikings (2-5) at Bucs (1-5)

Kickoff: 1 p.m. [read more]

Entering the 2014 season, there were only two — just two — NFC teams with uncertain quarterback situations, Tampa Bay and Minnesota, who kick off at 1 o’clock today at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway.

The Vikings opted to draft rookie Teddy Bridgewater in the first round, a pick Joe believes was wise. The Bucs signed a career journeyman quarterback with a losing record to start because they didn’t like their 2013 rookie QB enough. [read more]

We need to get our new general manager in here, but just as a general rule, you know there’s a reason why there is a salary cap.  And we want to use all of our resources to get as many good football players in here. It’s kind of as simple as that. … We want to be right up; we don’t want to have a lot of money in reserves. No one does. I mean you want to use money to get as many good football players. And it takes money to get good football players in here. So that’s our approach. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Lovie Smith, January 2014 [read more]

“The Road Warrior,” WTSP-TV traffic reporter Holley Sinn, has tips on how to get to the Bucs game quicker.

Driving to a Bucs game can be a major pain in the posterior. Just getting late to a tailgate is enough to ruin your day.

Leave it to WTSP-TV, Ch. 10 traffic reporter, “The Road Warrior,” Holley Sinn to help. She knows all the tricks to get you past the congestion and to your tailgate (or the game) quicker. Life is not made to be stuck in traffic. [read more]

Joe was up early this morning, not nursing anything but some bug that zapped him of appetite the past few days. So Joe did a double-take when he learned of news the Bucs and good guy Gerald McCoy came to terms on the richest contract for a defensive tackle in NFL history.

Joe is happy for GMC. There isn’t a better dude in that Bucs locker room. And anytime an NFL player can hit the lottery like this, more power to him. [read more]

So the Bucs return to host the Vikings in Week Eight after a bye. Joe expects a lot of Vikings fans in the stands at the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway because that is just how things are.

One reason for not going to the game is why fight all the hassle for a dreadful 1-5 team? Until proven otherwise, the Bucs are dreadful, sorry. [read more]

If Doug Martin plans to remain a Bucs starter, then he might want to have a good game Sunday.

No one thinks more of Doug Martin than Joe. Good dude. What’s not to like about him? Well, that is, before this season.

Martin has been nothing like during his rookie season this year. He just isn’t getting the job done. This season isn’t Martin’s year, for whatever reason. [read more]

The Bucs and Gerald McCoy have agreed to a new contract.

In the cat-and-mouse game between Ndamukong Suh and Gerald McCoy to see who would sign first, it was the Bucs who blinked. Per various sources, McCoy and the Bucs agreed to terms on a new pact. [read more]

“Mobile” or not, a quarterback must know how to read a defense and use his legs once in a while to pick up a few yards, either to move the chains or to keep a defense honest by taking what’s given.

Mike Glennon isn’t doing that. [read more]

The one thing you cannot call Bucs starting quarterback Mike Glennon is mobile. Oh, he’s not a total totem pole. He can move a little bit in the pocket.

But moving the pocket for Glennon? That’s different. But that is just what Emory Hunt of “Football Gameplan” suggests the Bucs should do. [read more]

What’s more chill than Dashon “Hawk” Goldson sitting down with Ronnie Lane every Thursday evening on the Buccaneers Radio Network?

Joe knows of no more mellow vibe on the airwaves. It also can be revealing. [read more]

Here’s little known Bucs history for you. It was former Rays manager Joe Maddon who was the reason Raheem Morris went public with his famous “Race to 10” slogan back in 2010.

Frankly, that mentality-before-reality approach worked for Raheem that season. [read more]

A BSPN scribe believes the Bucs are just what Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater needs.

Joe knows this will wake up Bucs fans this morning, if they haven’t yet had their morning ration of caffeine. It sure got Joe’s attention and it isn’t even 7 a.m.

A BSPN scribe who covers the Vikings, a cat by the name of Ben Goessling, typed a piece in which he states the Vikings will win Sunday by two scores, mostly because the Vikings are used to close games against far superior opponents. [read more]

Lavonte David and Vikings QB Teddy Bridgewater were high school teammates.

Long before players come to the NFL, they were high school players (with rare exceptions). That includes Lavonte David and Teddy Bridgewater.

The outside linebacker and the rookie quarterback for the Vikings actually played high school football together down at Miami Northwestern. It was there, David said today, it was clear Bridgewater would play on football’s highest levels. [read more]