Da’Quan Bowers has two games remaining on his Bucs contract.

Since the day Da’Quan Bowers was drafted in 2011, Bucs fans have been waiting for him to burst out with the talents he showcased as a premier college defensive end.

Now on his third coaching staff and second general manager, Bowers has only flashed a stray play here or there, nothing close to his potential when he came out of Clemson. [read more]

The last time the Bucs faced the Packers, Bucs CB Myron Lewis found out the hard way that Packers WR Jordy Nelson is among the NFL elite.

In the past month, the secondary of the Bucs has been rather decent. No, really.

In the past four games, the Bucs have given up an average of 215 passing yards a game. Now granted, the Bucs faced questionable quarterbacks in bratty Jay Cutler (who has since been benched) and puking Andy Dalton and backup Derek Anderson. [read more]

Leave it to a former Buccaneers quarterback to make a great point backing up his assertion that Tampa Bay is in for a painful “old fashioned woodshed” beating at the hands of the Packers on Sunday. [read more]

Nothing like a seven-round mock draft to get the juices of hope flowing on a Thursday afternoon — when your beloved team is 2-12 a week before Christmas. [read more]

Do signs point to the Bucs trying to win a shootout with Aaron Rodgers and the Packers?

Joe has already brought word how in games after Aaron Rodgers and the Packers lose, Rodgers plays simply lights out football.

What did the Packers do last week? They lost at Buffalo. Gulp. [read more]

Sane and sober Bucs fans realize Tampa Bay is more than a season away from a legitimate run at a Super Bowl.

A case could even be made that this year’s Bucs have taken a full step backwards. Last year, at least, the Bucs had more wins and were developing a young quarterback. [read more]

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Surprises of this Buccaneers season include Luke Stocker making the roster, Luke Stocker staying healthy, and Luke Stocker becoming one of the most versatile guys in the offense. [read more]

Last year, the Bucs (4-12) lost three close games to winning football teams, the Saints, Cardinals and Seahawks, by a combined eight points.

This season, Tampa Bay (2-12) has lost just one close game to a winning football team: the Cincinnati Bengals. [read more]

What’s Josh McCown worth to the Buccaneers?

Oh, stop. Be nice.

McCown is slated to earn $5.25 million next season, per Rotoworld.com, roughly nine times the salary of Mike Glennon. [read more]

Bucs QB Mike Glennon discusses his mystery status.

Yesterday seemed to be Mike Glennon Day at One Buc Palace.

The affable and polite Bucs quarterback of the past and quarterback of the future but not quarterback of the present was available to speak with the local pen and mic club. [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]

Gulp!

In the three games immediately following each of the Packers’ three losses this season, Aaron Rodgers combined to throw 13 touchdowns. [read more]

Lovie Smith’s defense (or the tendencies of his defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier) is not foreign to Packers coach Mike McCarthy.

Joe spoke with a fellow member of the Tampa Bay pen and mic club today at One Buc Palace and along came the topic of the Packers and the Bills.

Last week, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers dropped perhaps the biggest No. 2 of his career in an awful, un-Rodgers-like performance in western New York. [read more]

Lovie Smith said “true football fans” can see the Bucs are “on the verge.”

Lovie said he knows the exact steps needed to take next.

And now Lovie has endorsed his starting center as part of that future. [read more]

Bucs QB Josh McCown has an Andrew Luck-like stat. No, really.

Joe knows there is a sect of society that lives in the dark world of stats. Oh, stats can be enlightening alright. They can also be terribly misleading.

Joe learned back in high school folks can twist numbers any which way to reinforce any premise they are trying to float. That’s why Joe is suspicious of the numbers crowd. [read more]

Gerald McCoy hasn’t made the Bucs a good football team.

Warren Sapp didn’t make the Raiders a good football team. [read more]

Prepare for at least 30,000 cheese-infused, green-clad Packers fans to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway on Sunday.

Expect it to be as ugly as the Steelers-Bucs game in Tampa in 2010, or the last Bucs playoff game. [read more]

The spreadsheeters put McCown under the microscope

The plight of journeyman Josh McCown as the Bucs’ starting quarterback seems to personify the team’s struggles.

McCown each week proves why he has never been franchise starting quarterback the way he plays Santa Claus with opposing defenses. [read more]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers fans appear to have drawn a line in the sand.

Sunday’s second loss to Panthers’ backup quarterback Derek Anderson, the ninth Bucs defeat in the past 10 games, did little to alter public opinion of overlord of football operations Lovie Smith. [read more]

Bucs fans will want to absorb this breakdown of tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins — from his position coach. [read more]