Last week, when Joe was trying to stay warm in frozen Indianapolis, and wasn’t killing two days waiting for Jameis Winston to talk, Joe discussed Bucs football with NFL movers and shakers at Lucas Oil Field, site of the NFL Scouting Combine.

In the final hours of the combine (for media types) Joe corralled soon-to-be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, former NFL general manager Bill Polian. Now a fantastic analyst for SiriusXM NFL Radio and BSPN, Polian talked to Joe about Marcus Mariota becoming an NFL quarterback, Lovie Smith’s blueprint and how much the Bucs could improve this fall. [read more]

Is Oneil Cousins love just hot air?

Don’t laugh, but Tampa Bay Buccaneers coaches have shared all kinds of love for the work ethic, effort and professionalism of versatile offensive lineman Oneil Cousins.

(No, “versatile” doesn’t mean dreadful at multiple positions). [read more]

So more than two months before the NFL Draft, which begins with Tampa Bay on the clock on the night of April 30, it seems we have a leader in the two-horse(?) race to be the Bucs’ pick.

And that is Jameis Winston. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida. [read more]

Joe can’t believe how much inhaling is going on around town and across America.

And nobody should be happier than the folks working and puffing at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Chris Landry went from Browns and Titans scout/personnel guy to media dude and draft consultant for various NFL teams. So Landry was at the NFL Scouting Combine studying prospects and joining team interviews of players last week. [read more]

There has been a whole lotta talk about quarterbacks in this neck of the woods we call Tampa Bay. That’s because quarterbacking here recently has been like a cheap Sharknado movie on the Syfy Network.

Only problem is, since leaky, sleepy Josh Freeman went mental, the quarterback play has eaten up this team so badly it has a chance to select Jameis Winston with the first pick in the draft. [read more]

Joe hasn’t lost sight of Marcus Mariota. What a fantastic prospect the kid is, outside of the charisma department. There’s a clear reason he will be a high first-round pick.

Mariota’s “buzz” didn’t match Jameis Winston’s at the NFL Scouting Combine, but there was still plenty for the Oregon quarterback. [read more]

The evidence is overwhelming

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida. [read more]

In many ways, Tampa Bay’s 2014 season was more bizarre than the MRSA-infected, quarterback-gone-mental, Fire-Schiano-billboards campaign of 2013.

There were plenty of real Bucs mysteries last year, and Joe’s revisiting the most interesting of the bunch. [read more]

Jameis Winston haters, minds bolted shut, always scream at Joe for not preferring the Bucs draft Marcus Mariota. ‘

Joe’s reasons are twofold:

1) Virtually every person Joe has spoken to that is either currently or formerly employed by an NFL personnel department, claims Winston is a better quarterback. No more complex than that. That has really reinforced what Joe has seen with his own eyes. [read more]

The Bucs have spoken with Penn State OT Donovan Smith “many times.”

Joe has been pushing for the Bucs to at least draft two offensive linemen this spring. Third and fourth rounds would be fine. Lord knows the Bucs need offensive linemen.

This draft is believed to be deep on offensive linemen, not so much top-heavy, but a lot of valuable talent to be had in the middle rounds. [read more]

Long-time readers of Joe know how Father Dungy got his moniker; he seemed better suited (and maybe more motivated) to be a priest than an NFL head coach.

Reading the typing of Woody Cummings of The Tampa Tribune, perhaps that moniker could apply Lovie Smith, for it was Smith who said he wouldn’t mind being a father figure to Jameis Winston when if the Bucs draft the Florida State quarterback first overall. [read more]

Updated: 6:39 p.m. Is Jameis Winston a football super genius?

During this afternoon’s NFL Network coverage of the NFL Scouting Combine, hosts Rich Eisen and draft guru Mike Mayock shared the words of their colleague, former head coach Steve Mariucci. [read more]

The Rams’ general manager opened up to Joe

Just at the trade deadline, Bucs general manager Jason Licht pulled off an addition-by-subtraction move when he sent under-performing safety Mark Barron to St. Louis for fourth- and sixth-round picks. [read more]

See how they compare to Mike Glennon

The initial 40-yard dash times are in for the popular quarterback prospects in the 2015 NFL Draft. [read more]

For those who weren’t near a TV yesterday afternoon, or couldn’t hear the audio at the bar, Joe has video of Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston’s press conference at the NFL Scouting Combine. [read more]

Joe’s here again at Lucas Oil Stadium in snowy Indianapolis for the final day for media at this winter’s NFL Scouting Combine.

Joe decided to come in a little later today, and it seems most others did to, or simply already bolted out of town. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former national champion Jameis Winston, the pride of Florida State University, continues to look like a much better quarterback prospect than Mike Glennon and Josh McCown.

It’s Joe’s daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback ever to wear No. 5 in the state of Florida..

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Bucs GM Jason Licht has found some peace

Emotion runs through Bucs general manager Jason Licht when he strolls through a certain area of One Buc Palace. [read more]