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In retrospect, rookie MLB Kwon Alexander played at a level expected from a first round pick.
Joe has marveled at the drafting acumen of Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht for weeks. Just look at last spring. [read more]
The spirited music and clinking schnapps glasses you hear are coming from One Buc Palace. [read more]
Simple as that.
Lovie Smith has a new job, and Team Glazer looks like it fired another coach whose heart wasn’t in NFL coaching. [read more]
The Bucs need clear vision
Joe’s written previously that there are loads of teenagers running around the Tampa Bay area who either weren’t alive when the Bucs won a Super Bowl, or have absolutely zero recollection of those glory days teams.
To them, John Lynch is a dude their moms had a crush on 18 years ago. Simeon Rice is something they order at a Thai restaurant. [read more]
Is Louisville’s Sheldon Rankins ranked too high?
Ol’ helmethair himself, Mel Kiper, Jr., watched the NFL Scouting Combine intensely (Joe assumes), and after bouncing ideas off the heads of his NFL contacts, Kiper has post-combine rankings of all positions in next month’s NFL draft. [read more]
Embattled Giants GM Jerry Reese seems hellbent of taking a free agent defensive end off the market before the Bucs get a shot.
It is NFL recruiting season and teams, coaches and staffs are wining and dining prospective new players.
Those targets include defensive end free agents, unemployed Mario Williams and Charles Johnson. [read more]
Clinton McDonald represents hope that Jason Licht can win in March free agency.
It’s free agency week in the NFL! Joe has the refrigerator stocked with beer, and Hooters and Delco’s are on speed dial for essential nourishment.
Your beloved Bucs will have more than $50 million to work with, if they choose to frolic in the sandbox of hope. [read more]
Is the Bruce Carter era finished? (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
If the following comes true, then let speculation begin on who will play strongside linebacker for the Bucs this fall. [read more]
Another Johnson
Hollywood couldn’t concoct the script the Bucs have been writing the past five years. [read more]
“I squeezed three years out of the Bucs!”
Joe has heard chatter at NFL events recently that the Bucs job, in general, is not a good job. In other words, it’s an NFL coaching graveyard. [read more]
Aside from missing digits and recording only one sack in eight games last year, Joe’s knock against Jason Pierre-Paul was the Giants’ apparent disinterest in re-signing him.
The latter was a giant red flag. [read more]
Roddy White speaks
Why fool with a motivated, healthy and experienced free agent like Roddy White when Donteea Dye is available and Louis Murphy is only four months removed from ACL surgery?
This is one of the difficult questions facing Jason Licht and Dirk Koetter. [read more]
Heading back to the State of Illinois.
Yes, there were two shockers yesterday in the football world, three if you include the Miami Dolphins wooing free agent defensive end Mario Williams. [read more]
Ordered to remove his belongings from One Buc Palace two months ago, Lovie Smith seems eager to leave the NFL for the remainder of his coaching days. [read more]
For some reason, the NFL and its teams share all kinds of mind-numbing stats on a regular basis but shy away from official proclamations of teams’ available salary cap dollars. [read more]
Bucs new OC has name floated for a college gig.
Time for a hearty laugh for a slow March Saturday afternoon (Joe had been watching DVR recordings of “Hard Knocks.”) [read more]
The courting begins
Perhaps Joe’s prayers to the football gods got mixed up a little. [read more]
One of many reasons why Joe’s good friend “The Big Dog,” Steve Duemig of WDAE-AM 620, has been the 500-pound gorilla of local sports radio for decades, the undisputed king, the Dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, is he has some funny catchphrases. [read more]
