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Former Bucs QB Shaun King offers a take on the where the Bucs stand at the quarterback position and under what scenario Mike Glennon could start
What stands out most in underwear football, aka spring NFL practices without pads, is body type, mechanics, technique and execution.
It looks especially good when you’re a 6-7, smooth-footed quarterback. [read more]
Joe had some rapid-fire fun this morning with Bucs beat reporter Tom Krasniqi of WDAE-AM 620 and former Bucs guard Ian Beckles.
All kinds of topics were on the table. [read more]
Blade-in-the-back rookie Chaz Sutton
It’s getting extra sweaty and claustrophobic for Da’Quan Bowers and Adrian Clayborn these days.
With height, length, speed and explosion, defensive end Steven Means earned the “prototype” label from Lovie Smith. Now there’s another young guy in the mix with nearly the exact same measurables as Means. [read more]
Bucs C Evan Dietrich-Smith loves the big gun that backup QB Mike Glennon possesses.
Earlier this week, Bucs center Evan Dietrich-Smith dropped in to discuss all things Bucs with Vic Carucci during a segment of “Movin’ the Chains,” heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio.
EDS is excited about the upcoming season and thinks the Bucs have a good shot of winning the division. But he got very excited when the subject of backup quarterback Mike Glennon came up. EDS could barely contain himself. [read more]
Joe gets a lot of emails, Twitter messages and just plain ol’ comments on this here corner of the Interwebs asking about “How is [insert name] doing?” It is really hard to tell.
The Bucs, and all NFL teams, are in the underwear football season. Outside of seeing quarterbacks throwing to receivers, there is not much you can glean from underwear football.
There is no hitting, only a modicum of blocking, and zero tackling. [read more]
For reasons unlclear, some Bucs fans just have never warmed to Mason Foster as an inside linebacker.
Now as a rookie, Foster, who was an outside linebacker in college, was part of the worst linebacker unit in the NFL, flanked by then under-performing Quincy Black and erratic Geno Hayes. Starting as a rookie and getting zero help on either side of him, not to mention the big guys up front, Brian Price and Gerald McCoy, were hurt, Foster was simply lost. Overwhelmed.
“Don’t you dare talk to me about hope.”
One of Joe’s all-time favorite sports personalities is none other than “The General,” Robert Montgomery Knight. Bob Knight, the greatest basketball coach Joe has seen.
When he was coaching at Indiana, when Joe was growing up in the Midwest, Joe never, ever missed a game. Appointment television. At his height, Knight’s teams were what Joe called perfect basketball, not this schlap pro ball that BSPN assaults people with and uses to brainwash and indoctrinate innocent viewers’ senses. It was beautiful basketball.
Shaun King was a teammate of Josh McCown
The man who led the Bucs to the NFC Championship game after the 1999 season, former Tampa Bay QB Shaun King, also spent a season alongside Josh McCown in Arizona.
McCown was “the guy” for the Cardinals back in 2004, and it didn’t go too well for him. [read more]
Gerald McCoy is the unquestioned vocal leader of the Bucs defense, but it seems his likely 2014 backup won’t take after No. 93.
Joe talked to McCoy this week about undrafted rookie Euclid Cummings, the likely Bucs undertackle of the future. [read more]
The late Malcolm Glazer made plenty of relentless power plays as the Buccaneers’ owner.
Joe surely remembers all the drama of the sealed bids to purchase Tampa Bay from the Culverhouse estate. [read more]
Bucs coach Lovie Smith still won’t give many hints about his offense.
While a prominent member of the Tampa Bay pen and mic club, Chapter 813, is on record saying the current weight of the Bucs franchise is on the shoulders of offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, no one short of someone already on the payroll of the Bucs knows what exactly will the Bucs offense be like?
Could it be a punishing run game? Could it be the “Dunkaneers?” Could it be a combination of the three? Bucs fans want to know. [read more]
The Custodian of Canton is suspicious of the knighting of Mike Glennon “quarterback of the future.”
Though many Bucs fans don’t want to read it, the words from Bucs coach Lovie Smith over some two weeks ago that backup Mike Glennon is the “quarterback of the future” still has the walls One Buc Palace rattling.
What does all of this mean? It is a thick smokescreen? Did Lovie really mean Glennon is the starting quarterback in the future? Did it mean the competition for starting quarterback this fall is open? When is “the future?” [read more]
Some great memories here of Malcolm Glazer, whose death was announced by the Buccaneers today.
Via this link, NFL and NFL Films remember Glazer, including classic footage.
Also, Derrick Brooks shared his thoughts on NFL Network, starting off by saying how “extremely sad” he is today.
Malcolm Glazer, the man who saved the Bucs from bolting Tampa Bay, who fought to have a state-of-the-art stadium for fans to enjoy, and who guided the team to its only Super Bowl championship, passed away today.
Mr. Glazer, who had been in bad health for some years, was 85.
More on Mr. Glazer’s life can be found at Buccaneers.com.
Mike James says he understands the writing on the wall
The Bucs are loaded at running back, and second-year RB Mike James knows he’s gone from shining Schiano Man to a guy fighting hard for a job.
James is battling for a role complementing Doug Martin, and Charles Sims, Bobby Rainey and Jeff Demps want the same thing. [read more]
Josh McCown explains why he must be at one with his offensive coordinator — in a hurry.
Lord X-factor of the Bucs 2014 season, offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, has a tall order.
He’s new to the NFL and he sort of has to become the next Marc Trestman in a hurry. [read more]
Bucs defensive line coach Joe Cullen has a new fan
The biggest prerequisite for a Lovie Smith assistant coach is to be an astute, effective teacher of the game.
Teaching is No. 1 on Lovie’s list. But Lovie does not seek quiet clones of himself. [read more]
Joe’s pulling for former Bucs captain Davin Joseph to revive his once strong career, but not during Week 2 of this season.
That’s when the Rams come to Tampa. [read more]
The heat is already on Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, says a local columnist.
Joe gets a chuckle from the neanderthal Bucs fans — the type who have this twisted notion that the Bucs would be just as well off with hobbled Carl Nicks at quarterback than a highly drafted or highly successful signal-caller.
These knuckledraggers jump up and down with glee claiming the Seahawks won the Super Bowl with defense-only, as if talented quarterback Russell Wilson is some second-coming of Deiter Brock. Defense wins championships, they claim. [read more]
