Last week, Tampa Bay general manager Jason Licht hopped on the Buccaneers Radio Network and talked about how his staff already has a list of potential “cap casualties” on which the Bucs are ready to pounce. [read more]

Will Dirk Koetter run an up-tempo offense?

Among the many songs and dances Tampa Bay fans were promised by Lovie Smith a little over a year ago was that the Bucs were going to play an up-tempo offensive style.

Well, if what Lovie meant by up-tempo was Josh McCown running for his life and making some of the most ghastly turnovers Joe has ever seen, with little to no running game, then, yeah, he was right on the nose with his prediction. [read more]

Marcus Mariota got a quite a backhanded endorsement from a Super Bowl-winning quarterback this week. [read more]

Could defensive lineman Da’Quan Bowers return as a reserve lineman?

Sometimes, Joe thinks defensive lineman Da’Quan Bowers is a walking embodiment of a cat with nine lives.

How many guys who have produced as little as Bowers, who regularly refuses to get in proper shape, have been granted chance after chance after chance to redeem themselves? [read more]

“I hear what you’re saying, Mark. But I don’t see how Wallace Gilberry, George Selvie and Chris Jones could fit in around here.”

Joe’s not sure whether former Bucs rockstar general manager Mark Dominik has every performed in a circus — though he did have a front row seat for the Greg Schiano regime. [read more]

The Bucs offense was miserable last season. Joe knows that. You know that.

But believe it or not, despite being led (mostly) by turnover-prone Josh McCown and guided by ill-suited Marcus Arroyo (yes, he’s still with the Bucs), the Bucs improved in their red zone offense over 2013. [read more]

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter’s resumé is impressive.

He’s been a winning head coach at two college programs: Boise State and Arizona State, and he’s had top-10 offenses with two NFL teams: Jacksonville and Atlanta. [read more]

Crab-legs-stealing, BB-gun-shooting, obscenity-hollering, Heisman-Trophy-winning, former 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]

How critical is finding another John Lynch type to the current Bucs? Derrick Brooks weighs in.

Father Dungy and John Lynch are back among the Hall of Fame finalists for the second consecutive year.

They’re longshots to get in on the final vote on the 2015 class later this month, but it could happen for the Bucs icons. [read more]

Roddy White talked about the last hours of the Falcons’ 2014 offense under Dirk Koetter

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter sure left the Falcons with a sour taste in his mouth.

His last game was an epic nightmare. [read more]

Folks from Atlanta are not in a good mood seeing Dirk Koetter taking over the Bucs offense.

Researching new Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter, Joe wanted to get a sense of precisely what Koetter meant to the Dixie Chicks.

Joe had heard Matt Ryan — he of the 19 picks his senior year at Boston College — was none too happy at Koetter leaving Flowery Branch, the site of the Dixie Chicks compound some 45 minutes northeast of Atlanta. [read more]

Size matters, says one of the shortest quarterbacks of all time. [read more]

Can Charles Sims have a breakout season this fall?

If there was one player that played a lot of minutes in the second half of the season who maybe didn’t deserve it, it was rookie running back Charles Sims.

His play made Joe scratch his head as to why he got so many carries, and not Bobby Rainey. [read more]

Iconic, electric Falcons return man Devin Hester and Lovie Smith might have the closest relationship around, when it comes to a coach and a former player.

It’s still mind-boggling to Joe how Hester landed in Atlanta last season — while the Bucs struggled all year to find a returner and tapped their shaky receiver depth. [read more]

Josh McCown got scant help from his leaky offensive line.

Offense isn’t rocket science, though the Bucs acted as if simple offensive football was calculus. What a team does on first and second down often tells the tale on how good the third down offense converts.

Well, the Bucs offense was downright turrible, mainly because the Bucs painted themselves into a corner possession after possession after sorry possession. [read more]

Warren Moon doesn’t see Russell Wilson in Marcus Mariota.

Hall of Fame quarterback Warren Moon, the nine-time Pro Bowler who also is a CFL legend, would not draft University of Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota with the No. 1 overall pick, if he were in the shoes of Lovie Smith and Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht. [read more]

The Bucs’ new offensive coordinator has a diverse background

Man, Joe wishes he could have been a fly on the wall when Lovie Smith interviewed new offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter on Saturday.

Joe can only imagine the giant grin on Lovie’s face when Koetter talked about handing the ball off to Maurice Jones-Drew a whopping 956 times in just three seasons (2009-2011), when Koetter was the Jaguars’ offensive coordinator. [read more]

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has indirect ties to Oregon quarterback Marcus Mariota.

Joe knows there are all sorts of conspiracy theorists and dot-connectors out there, so consider this raw beef for the wolves. Feel free to dispute or condemn if you wish.

New Bucs offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter has ties, indirectly, to current Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota of Oregon. First, when Mariota was not quite fully potty-trained, Koetter was Oregon’s offensive coordinator. But there is more. [read more]