Fans love to circle games on the Buccaneers’ schedule that should be won.

Man, the Bucs sure looked better on paper than 1-7 a couple of months ago. [read more]

Are the Bucs pinning too much hope on rookie RB Charles Sims?

The Bucs offense hasn’t been so good. In fact, it’s horrible.

The Bucs currently rank No. 31 in the NFL in yards per game. Can’t run and too often can’t pass. When they can run; they can’t pass. When they can pass; they can’t run.

Not a good combination. [read more]

Sometimes, Joe gets a surprise in the wee hours of the morning while working on this here corner of the interwebs. No, it’s not Rachel Watson ringing Joe’s doorbell looking for warmth and consoling.

But Colleen Wolfe is a surprise. While doing research on the Bucs, Joe came across this lass grading Tampa Bay after their eighth game of the season along with someone named Eliot Harrison. [read more]

Tomorrow, Joe will compare results here to the last two Lovie confidence polls.

As Joe sits tapping on his keyboard wondering if Charlie Christ will next run for governor as a Libertarian or representing the Green Party (Charlie’s running out of parties), Joe also wonders what the hell is going on at One Buc Palace? [read more]

It was time for the “JoeBucsFan Hour” this evening with the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig, on WDAE-AM 620.

Oh boy, it got a little wild talking about Josh McCown vs. Mike Glennon. Keep in mind this was before the big announcement of Lovie naming McCown starter. [read more]

Mike Glennon says he’s a backup again

The insanity that is this Buccaneers season has hit a new level.

Per Mike Glennon speaking on the Buccaneers Radio Network on WDAE-AM 620 this evening, Josh McCown will be the starting quarterback Sunday.

Feel free to bang your head against the wall. [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 regular nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida.

How good do some think Florida State uber-quarterback Jameis Winston will be on the NFL level? One SEC honk believes Winston will be a big-time NFL quarterback. [read more]

It’s a shame rookie running back Charles Sims hasn’t seen the gameday field since his August ankle injury.

Sims practiced in pads last week and is, allegedly, almost ready. But where will he line up first? [read more]

Joe was alerted earlier to a Twitter message by Mike Glennon’s brother Sean, a Twittering that seemed to have disappeared along with brother Sean’s Twitter account, which later reappeared. [read more]

There are plenty of ways to evaluate Mike Glennon through his five starts this season. Hopefully, Lovie Smith will do the only smart thing and keep starting Glennon through December.

Using the most basic of measuring sticks, Glennon had two strong starts — Pittsburgh and New Orleans — followed by three bad ones against the Ravens, Vikings and Browns. [read more]

Greg Schiano now has a lab, sings and hangs out with Chucky, among other hobbies.

As we stand here on Election Day 2014, looking at the pathetic carcass knows as the 1-7, sometimes-totally-hapless Bucs, the days of Greg Schiano as head coach don’t look so bad, do they?

Schiano was ousted in December after a tumultuous season that saw MRSA poison his locker room and kill the career of his All-Pro left guard while his franchise quarterback went mental.

Oh, Schiano is still around. [read more]

Guess who Lovie Smith says is doing a “super job?”

Joe’s not trying to go overboard here. When the dust settled on the loss to the Browns on Sunday, the much improved Bucs rushing attack was simply OK.

Tampa Bay chunked 4.3 yards per carry, below the league average. [read more]

Joe has been riding the Johnthan Banks train ever since, with Darrelle Revis injured, Banks was re-assigned to cover Calvin Johnson and locked him up.

Now on his seventh different defensive coordinator in as many years (high school, four different coordinators in college and two in the NFL), Banks seems to have learned Lovie’s defense quicker than a veteran like Alterraun Verner. [read more]

Back in July, Da’Quan Bowers was the only current Buccaneer who landed on Joe’s “20 Worst Buccaneers of the Past 10 Years” list. [read more]

Who was trying to steer Gerald McCoy away from signing with Tampa Bay?

Despite scant help around him, a steady diet of double teams, and missing a game and a half with a broken hand, Gerald McCoy ranks second among NFC defensive tackles in sacks and is third in the league at the position. [read more]

Tom Krasniqi

As most of you know, “TKras,” Tom Krasniqi and smooth-talking Ronnie Lane of WDAE-AM 620, embarked on a new weekday morning radio show yesterday.

Krasniqi, who is also the Bucs reporter for WDAE-AM 620, also host an “Overtime” show after each Bucs games.

Often in these shows, “TKras” does not hold back. Sunday was one such day. [read more]

If Bucs rookie wide receiver Mike Evans hasn’t had a breakout party, yet, he sure had one Sunday. Evans showed why he was so coveted by Bucs brass when he hauled in seven passes for 124 yards and two touchdowns.

These were not ordinary catches, either. We are talking acrobatic, back-shoulder catches that made Joe’s head shake. [read more]