 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
The recruiting landscape has changed
The news that rocked the NFL last night came out of Buffalo, where head coach Doug Marrone quit with a 9-7 record to take a $4 million buyout clause. [read more]
Brandon Myers got some guaranteed cash for 2015
One nugget to come out of Tampa Bay’s ugly Sunday against the Saints was the revelation that tight end Brandon Myers and Louis Murphy approached the organization last week seeking new contracts. [read more]
Bucs fans love to conveniently forget Tampa Bay put the NFL’s ninth-ranked offense on the field in 2012.
Former offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan had such stunning and fast success, he got the first interview for the Bears’ head coaching opening after that season. [read more]
Happy New Year!
Joe sincerely appreciates his readers, Bucs fans, all. Sure, we may disagree, argue and throw things at each other (digitally) but we all want the Bucs to win. That’s our common bond. [read more]
The Dixie Chicks have granted the Bucs permission to talk to offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
Yesterday, word broke that Tampa Bay was sniffing the scent of Dixie Chicks offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
Now, it seems Koetter, who is under contract, has been granted permission to talk to the Bucs. [read more]
Joe realizes many Bucs fans are hot it the pants hearing reports of Tampa Bay giving Duron Carter, Cris Carter’s son, a tryout this week.
Yawn. [read more]
Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion James 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 to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]
Jason Licht lamented not signing Lawrence Sidbury sooner
Some think the Buccaneers threw the Saints game on Sunday. That’s just one perspective.
Another way to look at playing a bunch of no-names is getting a deeper look at emerging, legitimate prospects. [read more]
Depending on who they hire as an offensive coordinator, the Bucs could have another Bo Jackson situation on their hands, suggests Peter King.
It is an issue Bucs fans remember well, a chapter in the franchise’s storied history of bumbling. The story makes Bucs fans ill just thinking about it.
It was 1986, following the Leeman Bennett-led 2-14 season, which Bucs coach Lovie Smith just matched for futility. Like 28 years ago, the Bucs won the first overall pick in the draft.
Tampa Bay had its sights set on the best player available. That would have been Bo Jackson, the exhilarating running back from Auburn.
But to hear Jackson later tell it, it was a set up by then miserly Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, who purposely hatched a scheme to wreck Jackson’s baseball aspirations. [read more]
Friday, Joe will compare results here to those of previous weeks.
A Jets beat writer says the Bucs are about to entertain an offensive coordinator candidate that’s spent the last two years stinking up New Jersey (more than it already stinks.) [read more]
No defense yacked up fourth quarter leads this season like the Bucs.
Someone over the weekend tried to start a Twitter fight with Joe. The guy claimed the Bucs had a good defense this year. Joe just couldn’t go there.
Yes, no question the defense improved since the bye week. How could it not after getting chain-whipped like it did by the Dixie Chicks and the Crows? That defense had nowhere to go but up. [read more]
The Jaguars firing their offensive coordinator yesterday was the last thing the Bucs needed: a hungry fish in the sea of teams searching for a new signal caller — a team with a young, talented quarterback and a defensive-minded head coach. [read more]
Joe has a hunch the gnawing feeling in the pit of Joe’s gut won’t go away until April. But there is a chance that pit could grow to full-blown depression.
It is the feeling that, after acquiring this rare, rare, rare opportunity to fill the biggest hole on their roster with a quarterback, the Bucs will screw the pooch and draft a nondescript offensive lineman. [read more]
49ers OC Greg Roman has been on Joe’s radar for over a year.
So on the day before New Year’s Eve we learned from the creator, curator and overall guru of Pro Football Talk, the great Mike Florio, that the Bucs have been sniffing the scent of Dixie Chicks offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter.
Joe thinks that is a helluva choice. Problem is, Koetter is still under contract with the Dixie Chicks and whoever is the new coach, likely a defensive guy, he may want to keep Koetter. [read more]
Football folks believe one silver lining to being the worst team in the NFL is that said coaching staff that led said team to the worst record in football gets to coach the Senior Bowl and scout prospective draft picks hands-on. [read more]
Joe wanted to bring happiness and good cheer to Lovie Smith’s farewell-to-2014 news conference yesterday.
So Joe decided to ask Lovie to name his under-the-radar special teams stars of the season. [read more]
Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, national champion James 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 to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]
Lovie Smith said the Jeff Tedford debacle has not scared him from hiring another college guy as his offensive coordinator.
If one could put a finger on just one element why the Bucs were the worst team in the NFL this season. Joe thinks it is clear: the mess that was the offense.
Lovie Smith initially went bold — always a good trait — and hired college quarterbacks guru Jeff Tedford as his offensive coordinator. We all know how that turned out. [read more]
A former Buccaneer has assessed the rotten 2014 season and picked his hero, the supreme leader of the Tampa Bay roster. [read more]
