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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 daily nugget on the Jameis Watch, celebrating the best quarterback to wear No. 5 ever in the state of Florida. [read more]
Lovie Smith was asked today whether he is angry.
Lovie didn’t deny his inner rage. [read more]
Joe thought it was honorable of Bucs head coach Lovie Smith to fall on his sword yesterday and say it was his responsibility to make sure there are not 12 men on the field (much less on consecutive plays).
He is right; at the end of the day, foul ups fall in the lap of the man in charge.
Joe has written you can decide for yourself who the guilty party was, per Josh McCown’s explanation. It frankly wasn’t Lovie. To hear from the man who hired Lovie to coach the Bears, as many as four assistant coaches were asleep at the switch. [read more]
Joe’s noticed a trend. [read more]
Per theMMQB.com editor Peter King, the Bucs had 12 men on the field in consecutive plays on the final drive.
Joe simply cannot fathom how the following took place. On the potential game-winning drive, the Bucs had 12 men on the field. Geez.
Look, we are all human. We all make mistakes. But most NFL teams — hell, high school teams — have safeguards to prevent penalties that push a team out of field goal range. [read more]
Twice during Tampa Bay’s nut-kick loss to the Bengals yesterday, Joe Twittered out in ecstasy because much maligned Da’Quan Bowers made a play.
Clinton McDonald’s hamstring injury set up Bowers to avoid the inactive list and get a chance at some snaps. [read more]
A Bucs running back issued a telling quote
Joe has said, since the loss to Minnesota, that the Bucs defense turned the corner from the woeful seal-clubbings by the likes of the Dixie Chicks and the Crows. Totally chain-whipped.
Joe pointed to holding the Vikings to 13 points in regulation. If a defense holds an NFL team to a mere 13 points, it should celebrate a victory. [read more]
Regular readers might recall that Joe took a massive beating on these here pages when Joe had the nerve compel readers to click a “read more” button on stories beginning last November.
The gall of Joe to operate his site like the rest of the Internet! Readers would leave Joe in droves, so many predicted. [read more]
Caution: The following may induce vomiting. [read more]
Damn that former rockstar general manager Mark Dominik.
How dare he even live in Tampa any longer after drafting guys like Johnthan Banks and Lavonte David in the second round, plucking a practice squad slug like Danny Lansanah, and signing a safety off the street like Bradley McDougald. [read more]
A Cincinnati newspaper story is especially interesting considering Michael Johnson’s poor play.
The search for defensive end Michael Johnson’s A-game continues. Some might say his B-game hasn’t arrived in Tampa, either.
Joe’s called Johnson an apparition. Others prefer the term “bust.” [read more]
Mike Evans hauls in a Josh McCown pass Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com)
A long look at the Bucs yesterday, today, and what to expect tomorrow and beyond.
When the Bucs lost to the Vikings in overtime, Joe deemed the defense had turned the corner. Holding an NFL team to 13 points in regulation is damned good.
However, Bucs defenders all told Joe, no, they had not turned the corner. You won’t hear them saying that now. [read more]
Dalton’s condition was revealed
The way Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton played in the first half, with the Bucs picking him off three times, it was enough to make NFL fans vomit.
On Twitter, Dalton’s woes were widely discussed. It made some sick watching Dalton try to throw. [read more]
It was a crazy sequence. The Bucs had just gotten into field goal range in the waning seconds with 12 players on the field. All kinds of people had their head up their rear end including the 12th man — you can decide who to blame — as well as the refs.
Yes, there are multiple referees who are supposed to count the players on each team. They also blew it. Marvin Lewis didn’t. [read more]
In the past few weeks, when Bucs coach Lovie Smith stood behind a microphone and said with quiet confidence the Bucs were only two wins from a division lead, Joe knew what Lovie was trying to do.
Still, it made Joe want to ram his head into a wall. [read more]
Do the right thing, Roger.
This fantastic Mike Evans video is making the rounds nationally tonight. It should make Bucs fans proud.
Young Evans is caught blocking like a monster downfield for Charles Sims. But the CBS video also reveals two disgusting cheap shots Evans had to endure. [read more]
Lovie Smith will have to sing a new tune
Joe’s got the fresh, hot math.
You can stop the wacky Bucs-in-the-hunt talk. [read more]
