Prepare to get shafted.

This was way too predictable. [read more]

Lots of Buccaneers pride is flowing.

Rightfully so. [read more]

Joe can’t sit back and take it when fans are being conned by the Buccaneers. It’s not ok. It’s never ok.

The Bucs claiming they couldn’t let fans without season tickets into 90 percent of training camp practices comes to mind — while nearly every NFL team had a majority of their practices “open” to the public.

Well, fans were disrespected again yesterday, this time by head coach Todd Bowles, and it’s unacceptable.

He should apologize. [read more]

Can’t bear the thought.

Yesterday was a sad day at One Buc Palace. It always is. [read more]

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Discusses job security.

Shaq Barrett is one of Joe’s favorite players. That doesn’t mean Joe is going to go full-blown ostrich about his production this season.

Or, to be exact, non-production. [read more]

Free agent musings.

Yeah, Joe gets it. Many Bucs fans are not yet sold on Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales as a play-caller. [read more]

The watch is on.

The news that Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales got a second interview with Stinking Panthers meddling owner David Tepper for his team’s head coaching gig has Joe worried. [read more]

Joe is proud of how the Bucs finally went toe-to-toe with a big bad bully of the NFC yesterday.

Heck, tough guy Lions head coach Dan Campbell referred to the Bucs as a “mirror image” of his club after the game. [read more]

Tampa Bay doesn’t have to worry about losing Baker Mayfield because he can be slapped with the franchise tag, a one-year deal for 2024.

One insider says Mayfield would be damn glad to get it. [read more]

NFL super insider Peter King.

NBC Sports super insider Peter King loudly and proudly said the Bucs would suck this season. [read more]

Could the Bucs be fishing for a new offensive coordinator later this week? [read more]

Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales.

Buccaneers offensive coordinator Dave Canales dropped an interesting comment last week that Joe was going to dive deep into if the Bucs had won yesterday. [read more]

Todd Bowles held a somewhat somber season-ending news conference today and shared a bit of news. [read more]

Chris Godwin speaks.

Joe often hears how players and coaches ignore the media, and Joe also hears how players and coaches are glued to the media with crazed obsession. [read more]

Interesting name on list.

Only two Bucs quarterbacks are listed in the pewter pirates’ top-five passing performances in postseason history.

And neither name is “Doug Williams.” [read more]

Owned Lions CB.

Next year when the Bucs travel to Detroit, provided Mike Evans returns to the Bucs, Joe will bet that Cameron Sutton won’t be covering Evans. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Helluva fun season. Lots of ups and downs and drama and frustrating moments and exhilarating highs. The winning, however, came with a cost. [read more]

Mike Evans hauls in a crazy catch in front of Detroit CB Cameron Sutton. (A JoeBucsFan.com photo.)

No Victory Monday today. And none for about another nine months. Rotten fourth quarter yesterday. Sad ending. Let’s get this over with. [read more]

Joe would not have wagered on Cade Otton hauling in 13 postseason catches for 154 yards and a touchdown.

Consider that Otton only caught 19 balls and 1 TD through the final eight games of the Bucs’ regular season. [read more]

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BY IRA KAUFMAN

Lots to be proud of, along with a few regrets.

The 2023 Buc season ended at 6:10 p.m. Sunday, but not before Tampa Bay scared the heck out of Lions fans who expected the visitors to roll over. As we’ve seen time and again, there’s no quit from a proud team many forecast to win six or seven games this season. [read more]