Lovie Smith added more experience to his staff with today’s hiring of George Warhop as offensive line coach.

Warhop has been around the NFL since 1996, and was tabbed by Hall of Fame head coach Bill Parcells to coach his O-line in Dallas for two seasons. [read more]

Glennon wonders whether Johnny is the next Russell Wilson, his former teammate.

Mike Glennon has a cousin working in Delaware radio, so it’s no surprise that the Bucs’ gunslinger took to the airwaves of WDSD-FM this week to chat.

Glennon talked about how confident he is after proving he can perform against the best defenses in the world and, of course, Glennon shared his admiration of guys he might compete with this spring, Johnny Manziel and Teddy Bridgewater. [read more]

Joe realizes stud-edge-rusher-hungry Lovie Smith and Leslie Frazier could be satisfied going into 2014 with Adrian Clayborn as their lead dog at right defensive end. But Joe surely wouldn’t bet a nickel on that happening.

These guys want a beast who will command double-teams, strike fear into opponents, adeptly play off their star defensive tackle, and register double-digit sacks. [read more]

GM candidate Jason Licht is a Bill Belicheat guy, just like Greg Schiano.

The Bucs don’t have a general manager. No problem. Lovie Smith is in charge.

The Bucs are still interviewing candidates. Per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport, their search presses on with two favorites: Marc Ross and Jason Licht, executives with the Giants and Cardinals, respectively. Both were college players. Ross is a Princeton man, and Licht has twice worked for Bill Belicheat, last serving as Patriots director of pro personnel from 2009 to 2011.

Bucs director of player personnel Dennis Hickey, former rockstar general manager Mark Dominik’s right hand man, is still at One Buc Palace leading scouting efforts. But reports out of South Florida have him interviewing for the Dolphins’ vacant GM gig.

Without scoring off turnovers, forcing takeaways is just about pointless.

One of the great axioms of football is that forcing turnovers will equal wins.

Bucs commander Greg Schiano turned the Bucs into a turnover-forcing team last season, yet the Bucs stunk, forcing the jettisoning of Schiano. [read more]

“The Hawk,” Dashon Goldson, shaved his trademark dreads and joined FoxSports1 this week. In this sit-down with Jay Glazer, Goldson talks about how Greg Schiano’s approach just wasn’t working and its a new ballgame with Lovie Smith, “a guy with respect factor.”

This is getting better by the moment.

Yesterday, a report came out that a woman claimed DJ Toes on the Line, aka Sgt. Winslow, aka, former Bucs tight end Kellen Winslow, Jr., was seeking chicken and choking his chicken in the upscale privacy of a New Jersey Target parking lot. [read more]

The Bucs’ OC doesn’t hold back

Of course a seasoned offensive mind and renowned quarterbacks guru like Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford likes what he sees from America’s No. 1 college quarterback, Johnny Manziel.

Johnny Football has the goods. Just ask Nick Saban. [read more]

Spreadsheeters don’t like Akeem Spence.

Oh, those spreadsheeters at Pro Football Focus, with only a couple of games this week, they have too much time on their hands and, thus, are playing with numbers.

In a breakdown of the best defensive tackles to get heat on the quarterback, Khaled Elsayed documented all NFL defensive tackles and came to the conclusion that J.J. Watt is the greatest. Joe has no problem with that. Watt is incredible. [read more]

What the will the Bucs do at quarterback next season?

Surely Lovie Smith won’t go all-in with Mike Glennon when players return to One Buc Palace in 11 weeks. Somebody with as much or more promise than Glennon will join the roster this spring. [read more]

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Joe doesn’t know where to begin — or end — when it comes to this NJ.com story about former Bucs tight end Kellen Winslow, aka DJ Toes On The Line.

It has all the necessary elements of intrigue and drama: a Target parking lot, Vaseline, fast-food chicken, a woman allegedly seeing his erect penis, drugs, law enforcement and NFL policy, all at 5:30 p.m.

And this was the guy in Josh Freeman’s ear for years.

Joe’s always surprised when Bucs fans let loose rage and hate at Donald Penn.

These fans must be either taking Pro Football Focus stats as gospel and/or be prejudiced against fat people. Why? Because Penn absolutely was not the problem with the Bucs’ 32nd-ranked offense. [read more]

 

People think of coaches from the Tuna Parcells tree to be dour individuals with the personalities of angry gators, guys who are only concerned with how to win football games.

That’s not Romeo Crennel. The long-time NFL assistant, who worked with Parcells and Bill Belicheat in New England and had two unsuccessful stints as an NFL head coach, is good guy.

The affable Crennel genuinely wishes for his fellow NFL coaches to do well. One of those is Lovie Smith. [read more]

There’s a lot of swagger and experience in Lovie Smith’s staff. Joe wrote about that earlier.

And today, the Bucs named their tight ends coach, Jon Embree, a former NFL player who got his start coaching in the league with the Chiefs in 2006. [read more]

Joe’s confident no Buccaneers players will realize mild-mannered, even-keeled Leslie Frazier was a dancer and rapper in the world famous Super Bowl Shuffle video. It’s so hard to imagine Frazier willfully participating in one of most arrogant displays in professional sports history. [read more]

Might Stephon Tuitt replace him?

The Bucs need heat on quarterbacks in the worst way.

How badly? Well, Joe can only imagine it’s like being parched on a broiling July afternoon in dire need of a cold beer but finding himself trapped in a dry county.

When then-rockstar general manager Mark Dominik drafted Adrian Clayborn in the first round in 2011, the Bucs had high hopes for him at right defense. But the past two years have been pretty much a waste. [read more]

The last Bucs head coach swore that Mike Glennon was making receivers better because he was so darn accurate. Greg Schiano even took it a step further with a backhanded slap to Josh Freeman, saying Bucs receivers needed time to get used Glennon’s pinpoint throws.

But while Schiano was raving about Glennon’s accuracy, he strangely believed that quarterback mechanics were not something to be taught at the NFL level — even with a rookie, or even to sleepy, leaky, erratic Josh Freeman. [read more]