Flash poll posted at 12:08 a.m. Poll closed at 8:34 a.m.

Bucs training camp opens this morning at 8:30 am. That means a majority of players reported for duty yesterday a had physicals and meetings.

And it also means Todd Bowles made a speech. [read more]

Big Mike Evans fan.

Joe is still seething because a high priest of an outfit that likes to gloss itself as some sort of superior football intellectual thinktank thinks so much of Mike Evans that he ranked Evans as just the 20th-best receiver in football. [read more]

Tight end Payne Durham.

With training camp kicking off today at One Buc Palace, Joe sure hopes the Bucs’ crop of tight ends realizes they’ll have a new friend in a month or so if they can’t step up. [read more]

Hard to believe Joe has grinded away on these pages for nearly 6,000 consecutive days.

Get a life, Joe! [read more]

Quit on the Bucs?

Enough! Cut the cord. [read more]

“Joel, is my housekeeper allowed to place a six-figure wager?”

So the NFL has somewhat embraced the sports gambling world and, apparently, is now producing fancy previews for win-total bettors. [read more]

Vita Vea explains.

Vita Vea feels he should have better stats. [read more]

The Buccaneers revived their throwback uniform day last season during an early-season loss to Detroit.

While the Bucs walked off the field defeated, the event was a huge hit with fans. Who doesn’t love a good Creamsicle uniform day?

It’s coming back this season, as previously announced.

(Joe finds it weird — if not telling — that media folks are making a big deal of this. Today. This past weekend Scott Smith of Buccaneers.com wrote about the 2024 Creamsicle Day and of course Joe noted it, too. People are getting punchy from the perceived July news desert that will vanish tomorrow morning at training camp.)

Today, the Bucs formally announced the glorious orange will return in Week 8 against Atlanta, a 1 p.m. kickoff against the Falcons on Oct. 27. Joe sure hopes Kirk Cousins (Michael Penix?) will be having orange nightmares for days after the game.

Cash in the bank.

Todd Bowles doesn’t come across as a gambler. But he sure is taking a couple of gambles on his defense this fall. [read more]

Rachaad White

Telling stuff from Buccaneers offensive coordinator Liam Coen. [read more]

Tribal warning.

This is so bad it’s good. [read more]

Heat is on.

Could Graham Barton be under too much pressure? [read more]

He can hang with NFC QBs.

Coaches determined to establish the run set their teams up to lose. The evidence is overwhelming, a spreadsheeter claims. [read more]

“Dave, I’m not going to tell you what to do, but I will need a lot of TUMS if we’re going to run that play another six times.”

Watching the Bucs’ run game last season often felt exhausting. They tried and tried and tried similar runs and the desired results were hard to find.

It reminded Joe of a basketball team running the same play repeatedly — with the same guard missing the same shot 80 percent of the time. [read more]

Solid signing.

It seems Jordan Whitehead is so invisible, many NFL stenographers can’t seem to recall his name. [read more]

In what feels like an effort to restore/revive faith in the annual NFL Network Top-100 Players series that kicked off today, the league released a couple of actual ballots to show fans how players voted for the honors.

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So this was fun. A noted analyst railed on national radio about how the Bucs are being improperly disrespected by the media … but he still picked the Falcons to win the division. [read more]

Receiver Trey Palmer with head coach Todd Bowles.

Not much of a competition for the No. 3 receiver slot at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Joe still thinks this is a helluva gamble. [read more]

Trend or outlier?

Very interesting data mined on Chris Godwin and his 2023 season. [read more]

Impressive rookie stats.

In football, a stuff isn’t a giant burrito you get from a neighborhood watering hole after a night of pounding beers. [read more]