Rewriting LeGarrette Blount history.

Joe knows Bucs fans were outraged Saturday night when they saw former Bucs castoff and leading rusher LeGarrette Blount abuse the Colts in an AFC playoff game, running for four touchdowns and 176 yards. Joe couldn’t believe the revisionist history he was reading.

For a moment on Twitter and on this here corner of the Interwebs, Joe would have thought the Bucs traded Jim Brown in his prime for a third-day draft pick. [read more]

Joe finds it somewhat comical when he hears Bucs fans talk about how Lovie Smith is going to revive players w, x, y and z. Insert whatever names you want (outside of a select handful), but there is no assurance those players will be in Tampa next September.

The only sure thing is that Lovie is going to clean house. [read more]

One who believed Bucs commander Greg Schiano should have had his keycard deactivated from One Buc Palace was Tampa Tribune scribe Martin Fennelly. He was not alone, claiming the drama and the circus (along with the accompanying dung of a dreadful two-season record) needed to be swept away.

One problem fixed, Fennelly believes, but a second and nearly as big an open sore still exists. Who the hell is going to quarterback the Bucs to a playoff run? [read more]

Those unpredictable writers over at PewterReport.com have been busy preparing end-of the-year Bucs awards and things of that nature that don’t interest Joe.

However, their preliminary call on the 2014 season got Joe’s attention. [read more]

One of the greatest Bucs to ever wear a uniform, linebacker Derrick Brooks, talks to Toni Collins about being a finalist for the 2014 class into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in this BSPN video.

Always a fun sight in the Bucs locker room over the past two seasons was Bryan Cox walking around in a fancy lid and sporting a cigar thicker and larger than Joe had ever encountered. (No oval-office jokes, please) Yes, Cox confirmed to Joe that they were special, authentic Cubans.

Cox would say a quick, postgame farewell to Bucs defensive linemen before media would get the green light to hound the players. [read more]

Joe rarely weighs in on non-Bucs things, but this is an exception.

Joe can’t believe the Bucs’ hated rival, the stinkin’, Clifton-Smith-abusing Panthers, aren’t getting much love to beat the 49ers this afternoon in Charlotte. [read more]

This nagging little issue won’t go away until the Bucs have a quarterback. Fans want one. Joe is sure Team Glazer wants one. Joe wants one. Joe is not sure what new coach Lovie Smith thinks.

This quarterback question was lobbed at Pat Yasinskas of ESPN, and he too understands where Bucs fans not in the Mike Glennon Mob are coming from. [read more]

An NFL insider reveals a division

A lot has been made about how much power new Bucs coach Lovie Smith wields within the organization. Joe believes Lovie was granted great power by Team Glazer, otherwise, he would have interviewed with other teams, if for no other reason than to hear what others would offer. [read more]

Joe is not about to blast the LeGarrette Blount trade to New England last spring; it was a sound deal for a variety of reasons, and the Bucs’ stable of running backs is in great shape, in part, because of it.

But a clear oversight/misevaluation of the Greg Schiano regime led to that move, and it’s a good example of the difference between a subpar head coach and a great one. [read more]

Joe is a little late on this interesting tidbit. Joe apologizes.

Prior to losing to the Saints to end the season, former Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik knew the end was near. It was just a mere formality when Team Glazer asked him to clean out his desk, per the Custodian of Canton, eye-RAH! Kaufman of The Tampa Tribune. [read more]

The Bucs appear to be widening their search for the right 1b to Lovie Smith’s 1a.

Longtime Eagles beat writer Les Bowen, of the Philadelphia Daily News, reports this morning that the Bucs will reach out to Eagles VP of player personnel Tom Gamble about their vacant general manager gig. [read more]

Offensive linemen are taught to maximize their leverage all the time — “low man wins” — and it seems the man the San Francisco Chronicle reported to be the Bucs’ new offensive line coach followed those teachings.

Tony Sparano is not coming to Tampa Bay. [read more]

In a sense, the Bucs are a rudderless ship.

Sure the Bucs have a head coach and his staff, but the office that former Bucs rock star general manager Mark Dominik previously occupied is empty. And free agency is not that far away. Neither is the combine, or the East-West Shrine and Senior bowl practices, all key ingredients to forming a draft plan. [read more]

For the Johnny Football haters of the world who also masquerade as Bucs fans, your day has been made. Go out and celebrate.

Johnny Football has signed the notorious Erik Burkhardt as his agent, reports Liz Mullen of Sports Business Journal. [read more]

Click below for your nearest Original Hooters location. There’s no better place to watch the games.

The man coaching Darrelle Revis this season will bring some serious street cred.

This evening the Bucs announced the hiring of Gill Byrd, who will coach Bucs cornerbacks.

He was a two-time Pro Bowler for the Chargers. [read more]

All kinds of chatter surrounded former Bucs commander Greg Schiano sending a lot of players from Rutgers to the NFL. For a head coach of a recruiting challenged Big East school, Schiano did quite well in his 11 years there.

But what about new Bucs offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford, the former 11-year head coach of the University of California? [read more]