“Beats me why Lovie’s team is so unprepared. I’m still trying to figure out how the Bucs hired me five years ago.”

Yes, the chain-whipping the Bucs received at the hands of the Dixie Chicks really has driven Joe to a dark, dark place. That is the Raheem Morris era.

To this day, Bucs fans still continue to scratch their heads — if not their privates — as to how someone with so little coaching experience got a head coaching job in the NFL — not even 24 hours after Chucky was jettisoned from One Buc Palace. It was as if Team Glazer didn’t want to launch a coaching search and just decided to pull a name out of a hat of assistants already under contract. [read more]

Bad news from FOX Sports. [read more]

Lovie Smith friend and former mentor Tony Dungy shared an interesting philosophy last night during the Sunday Night Football broadcast on NBC. [read more]

Peter King confesses the error of his ways with the Bucs.

Time flies. It is amazing how quickly things change. A blink of the eye in this Internet-driven, smartphone-monitoring, news-by-Twitter-reading life we live.

What we think is sound one moment is folly seconds later. It is almost as if nations can rise and crumble in a matter of days. [read more]

Who outside One Buc Palace will endorse the Josh McCown Experience?

So how did the new leader of the Tampa Bay offense perform against the Falcons on Thursday night?

That sort of got lost in the aftermath of the beating of the century. [read more]

See, there was good Bucs news over the past few days. You just were too busy crying to see it.

CBS Sports dove into the details of the Bucs working to re-sign Gerald McCoy and positive messages emerged. [read more]

It’s all about No. 8, the lean, mean, pocket-passing machine out of North Carolina State.

The Bucs’ new starting quarterback (hopefully) is good enough to get the Bucs winning football games again. [read more]

Mike Glennon’s older brother Sean is not a happy camper

Yes, Joe is now a general in the Mike Glennon Mob. There’s absolutely no more use for Josh McCown as a Tampa Bay starter on these pages. If you missed Joe’s detailed explanation yesterday, you can read it here.

Another high-ranking leader of the Mob is Glennon’s brother, Sean Glennon, the former Virginia Tech starting quarterback. [read more]

A long look at the Bucs yesterday, today, and what to expect tomorrow and beyond.

So we begin today with changes. Oh, yes, there will be changes with the Bucs. Exactly what and how many will soon be determined, maybe as early as this afternoon.

We know one likely change: Unless turnover-prone quarterback Josh McCown has a miraculous recovery, it is Mike Glennon’s job to get the Bucs their first win of the season Sunday in Pittsburgh. No matter who the quarterback is, good luck with that. [read more]

Former Lovie Smith Bucs coaching colleague Herm Edwards said watching the Bucs-Dixie Chicks game was like watching a traveling basketball circus.

As much football as Joe watched over the weekend (and beers guzzled), Joe just cannot get out of his head what a complete and utter debacle it was Thursday when the Bucs began the weekend by giving fans not just acid reflux but pause to wonder about the future.

Neither the loathed defensive mind of former Bucs commander Greg Schiano nor the widely mocked defensive background of Raheem Morris had teams that coughed up 50 points. [read more]

Has the NFL gone soft?

Aside from all the wacky new flag football rules, teams frown on any kind of rookie hazing and have hired vegan nutritionists, and players practice about 20 percent of what they used to 10 years ago. [read more]

Yes, Da’Quan Bowers was in Atlanta for the beating of the century Thursday night.

Bowers played more than half the Bucs’ defensive snaps by Joe’s count, but the fourth-year defensive end didn’t show up on the stat sheet.  [read more]

Joe is now a sanctioned General in the Mike Glennon Mob

Joe repeatedly cautioned fans all offseason that it is virtually impossible to win the NFC South title, let alone a Super Bowl, with the worst quarterback in the division.

Therefore, Joe painfully and loudly ached and trumpeted for the Bucs to draft a quarterback with “franchise” potential because every other viable QB option was a waste of time.

In the spring, Josh McCown and Mike Glennon represented hoping for a football miracle at the position. So the smart move was to recognize the need at quarterback and attack it in the draft. That didn’t happen.

Now, in McCown, the Bucs have the fifth best quarterback in the NFC South. Yes, Joe would take Panthers backup and Bucs killer Derek Anderson over McCown.

Joe is finished hoping for the McCown miracle that Lovie Smith banked on. Once again, it’s time for the Bucs to make a decisive, smart move at quarterback. It’s time to relegate McCown to the bench permanently. [read more]

Bucs fans often will hear Lovie Smith talk about his desire to simply improve each week.

As a new regime with an overturned roster and new schemes on both sides of the ball, Lovie has been clear that all he can ask for is getting better every game, and the wins will come. [read more]

Stay tuned.

Joe’s pulling for offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford to get healthy. Seeing him coach again soon would be nice, too.

Lovie Smith, in a new video on Buccaneers.com. offered hope for Tedford’s speedy return. [read more]

A former glory days Buccaneer joins a longtime NFL personnel man in being completely stunned by the ineptitude and poor technical play of the Buccaneers defense. [read more]