Bucs wide receiver Chris Owusu has turned into a bit of a practice phenom the past couple of years.

The guy runs crisp routes, catches everything, has plenty of speed, and he looks the part. [read more]

Lovie is not fond of controlled scrimmages.

Some coaches are big believers that practicing against another team or, at least, someone with a different color jersey, not only gives a team a chance to see how players fare against fresh opposition, but it mentally breaks up the monotony of training camp.

It is sort of like having a fifth preseason game. [read more]

Lovie Smith offered detail on his cornerbacks position today

Leonard Johnson might not sleep well tonight.

Lovie Smith, who doesn’t talk too much about players that impress him during “underwear football,” shed light on his cornerback thoughts today. [read more]

Your beloved Bucccaneers were back on the sunny practice fields of One Buc Palace today!

Spring workouts are in full swing. Joe, as always, brings you the sights and sounds, sans the sweat on Joe’s brow. [read more]

Big news over Memorial Day weekend claimed Bucs general manager Jason Licht reached out to Gerald McCoy’s agent to talk about a new contract. Tampa Bay Times beat writer Rick Stroud broke the news.

Well, today McCoy threw cold water on the notion. [read more]

Joe can’t really translate body language reliably, but Joe’s pretty confident Lovie Smith was frustrated by the absence of Carl Nicks today.

Joe asked Lovie about Nicks’ absence today — and at last Tuesday’s OTA session open to media. [read more]

The x-factor of the Bucs’ season is pretty clear for one Buccaneer.

Cornerback D.J. Moore has spent enough years around Lovie Smith in Chicago to know the key to the 2014 Tampa Bay season and beyond. [read more]

Rookie Bucs manbeast tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins

A prominent NFL voice is a Seattle local who watched plenty of new Bucs rookie tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins at the University of Washintgon.

And in this case, familiarity has bred extreme optimism for manbeast Seferian-Jenkins’ future. [read more]

Monday afternoon, Bucs center Evan Dietrich-Smith appeared with Vic Carucci and Brad Hopkins on “The Blitz,” heard exclusively on SiriusXM NFL Radio. EDS had a lot to say about the Bucs, Lovie Smith and quarterbacks, and Joe will bring you bits and pieces the next couple of days.

Excitement filled EDS when he was asked to explain Lovie’s defense. Few on the Bucs roster know Lovie’s defense better than EDS because the former Green Bay Packers center had to battle it twice a year in the NFC North. [read more]

The stat nerds at Pro Football Focus are winding down their Top 101 players in the NFL, based on stats of course. Three teams had two players in the top-10. One was the Super Bowl champs. The other was the NFC East champs.

The third team was the woeful Bucs. [read more]

The way things are going around One Buc Palace, Joe is starting to smell something, and no, it’s not just the sweat from some of the best football players in the world working hard. No, Joe is smelling quarterback competition.

Yes, Bucs coach Lovie Smith has called Josh McCown his starter. Last Joe checked, it’s May. Lovie detailed why All-World cornerback Darrelle Revis would play on his defense, and hours after mattress-in-the-front-yard receiver Mike Williams took a blade to the thigh, Lovie also said he wouldn’t move Williams for being a victim.

How did those proclamations work out? [read more]

An ESPN blogger believes banking on Josh McCown is the Bucs’ riskiest offseason move

The old saying goes, ‘if you don’t have a franchise quarterback, then you will always be looking for one.’

As much as many Bucs fans will have you believe a linebacker can play quarterback; that a quarterback is not necessary to win a Super Bowl in the 21st Century, that simply is bunk.

(Spare Joe the Russell Wilson lines. It’s not like this guy is Dieter Brock. Besides, Wilson is a damn fine quarterback). [read more]

Your beloved Bucs are back on the practice fields of One Buc Palace tomorrow! So that means Joe will be your eyes and ears, sharing all kinds of stuff through the day and through the week.

Training camp is just 60 days away!

One of the more cerebral ex-Buccaneer greats, a former Pro Bowl wide receiver himself, is very high on the Bucs’ chances for a revived passing game. [read more]

When Lovie Smith called second-year man Steven Means his “prototype” defensive end last week, that was just another big clue Adrian Clayborn’s Tampa Bay future is in doubt.

The size, speed and long arms Lovie was referencing in means are not among Clayborn’s attributes.

Consider the following: [read more]

The stat nerds over at Pro Football Focus continued (rather, finished) their countdown to the top 101 players in the NFL. It’s fun fodder to fill downtime in the NFL as training camp is roughly six weeks away.

(Joe is pretty sure, given the past history of the Bucs, and given what cornerback D.J. Moore said, that the Bucs’ first camp practice is July 25.) [read more]

Joe hopes it’s easy for all his readers to take at least a few minutes to remember what today’s holiday is all about — remembering those who died while serving in the United States armed forces.

It doesn’t take long. It doesn’t take much. Heck, it’s great if you can devote the day to it or attend a memorial event, but the spirit of the day is met with any meaningful observance.

Glennon to start? Glennon to be traded? Chris Burke of SI.com says there’s plenty of Lovie Smith smoke to peek behind.

What a rollercoaster it has been for Bucs fans, and Mike Glennon himself, the past few months.

No one sung the praises of Glennon more than former Bucs commander Greg Schiano. Why, Schiano had a crush on Glennon and pined for him since the lanky righty was a high school pup.

Then came the hiring of Lovie Smith, followed shortly thereafter by the signing of quarterback Josh McCown, presumably as the starting quarterback. [read more]

A prominent beat writer weighs in

Through five years under former rockstar general manager Mark Dominik, your Tampa Bay Buccaneers drafted just one offensive lineman, a fifth-round pick who was cut quickly.

Dominik didn’t believe in drafting O-linemen. He preferred to go the free agent route or to grab young guys after he could see them adapt to the pro game in preseason. [read more]