Proud of defensive effort.

Lavonte David was ready for physicality. [read more]

Explains change in strategy.

As Joe noted, Chargers coach Jim Harbaugh likes to build a team the way his old Michigan coach Bo Schembechler built them: Tough, physical, scary defense and pounding the football on the ground.

The Bucs today showed Harbaugh how it’s done with the big boys in the NFL. [read more]

So future Hall of Fame receiver Mike Evans walked into today’s blowout of the Chargers with 43 catches for 590 yards and 7 touchdowns.

He walked out with 52 catches, 749 yards, 9 TDs and a big fat smile. [read more]

Makes game-changing play.

The streak is over! [read more]

Dynamite game.

The thing Joe loved so much about this win by the Bucs today was how the Chargers wanted to play smashmouth football and Todd Bowles and his gang flew into town and showed the Chargers how to win with their own formula.

And that, Mike Evans told Joe, was what won the game for the Bucs. [read more]

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles had a message after today’s chain-whipping of the Chargers in Los Angeles. [read more]

Super effort.

So Jim Harbaugh and the Chargers, wearing their Powerpuff blue uniforms (Joe loves them), want to play big boy football with the NFL. Old school Big Ten. Smashmouth.

Well, the Chargers just met the new bully on the block. [read more]

Dynamic duo nearing history.

So the Bucs set out last offseason to fix their statistically NFL-worst running game.

Man, Joe’s never seen a fix quite like this, and it’s reached historic levels. [read more]

The Bucs’ fearless leaders.

Perhaps everyone now knows why Joe was thoroughly disgusted after the Bucs beat the Panthers two weeks ago. [read more]

It feels so great to have a franchise quarterback on the Bucs.

It’s been five consecutive seasons. Joe’s getting very spoiled. [read more]

How bout that message the Bucs just sent the entire NFL!

What a beatdown of a quality Chargers team — on the road.

That’s four Bucs wins in a row and there’s not a damn reason in the NFL world that Tampa Bay can’t win its final three games against Dallas, Carolina and New Orleans. [read more]

Comment all game long below with fans and a few Bucs haters.

Huge game if the Bucs want to be taken seriously as a Super Bowl contender.

Go Bucs!

In-game injuries kicked Joe in the groin last Sunday. A valuable lesson. [read more]

Joe was hopeful manbeast Bucs defensive tackle Vita Vea was going to shake off his invisible game against the Panthers and come back last week and rattle the Raiders. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 7:44 a.m. Poll closed at 9:20 a.m.

Good news. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

It is not quite midnight in the City of Angels but it is almost 3 a.m. on the west coast of the east coast back in Tampa.

Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and Adam Schefter of BSPN — only one minute apart — each just Twittered that Bucs rookie running back Bucky Irving is expected to play today against the Chargers.

Zyon McCollum has learned to expect the unexpected with Todd Bowles.

So what kind of defense will Bucs coach Todd Bowles hatch for today’s game in the City of Angels, where the Bucs play the Chargers?

Based on last week, it could be a doozy. [read more]