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Game 14
49ers (9-4) at Bucs (4-9)
Kickoff: 1 p.m.
TV: WTVT-TV, Channel 13, locally. Outside the Tampa Bay area, DirecTV Channel 708.
Radio: Buccaneers Radio Network (in Tampa WFUS-FM 103.5, and WDAE-AM 620); SiriusXM Channel 93.
In this CSN Bay Area video, Matt Maiocco discusses the most critical match-up of today’s 49ers-Bucs game, and that would be All-World tight end Vernon Davis vs. Bucs safety Dashon Goldson.
The fate of Bucs commander Greg Schiano is viewed as up in the air for some. After posting a losing season in 2012, and starting this season 0-8, Joe has never before experienced this kind of local freakout over a coach.
Billboards shot up all over the Tampa Bay area calling for Schiano’s job. Phone lines to local sports radio shows were fried by fans demanding Schiano’s head on a silver platter.
It was ugly. [read more]
Many tens of thousands of JoeBucsFan.com readers only come here once a week or so. They’re people with meaningful lives, unlike Joe and many Bucs-obsessed lunatics that live on these pages 24/7. So with no Bucs football until 1 p.m., Joe thought he’d re-visit a handful of this week’s headlines — for non-regular readers who want to catch up. Enjoy!
Penn endorses Schiano “100 percent”
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102865
2013 Draft class shaping up
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102887
Bucs bubbly about Barth
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102902
Glennon ordered to leave One Buc
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102923
Bucs defy football logic
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102948
Schiano talks about “trashy magazines”
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102964
Scrutiny all over Mike Sullivan
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=102988
Dominating data on Gerald McCoy
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103008
Time to quit milking the clock
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103096
Q&A with Akeem Spence
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103114
Vernon Davis on Bucs’ minds
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103144
Jason La Canfora takes shot at Bucs fans
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103201
Schiano takes pride in player development
https://www.joebucsfan.com/?p=103125
Kate Wentzel of WTSP-TV Channel 10 has her forecast for today 49ers-Bucs game. May want to bring a light jacket. Joe will let Kate tell you why.
The map below shows where Bucs fans can watch the game free on their local over-the-air FOX affiliate. Areas shaded in yellow are for the Bucs-49ers game. As always, map courtesy of 506sports.com.
Joseph has no guarantee for 2014
Several cold hard facts put Davin Joseph’s Bucs future in jeopardy.
With 15 days, and three games, remaining in the 2013 regular season, Joseph is playing for his Tampa Bay career. It’s a tough reality of the NFL, and a big decision for rockstar general manager Mark Dominik.
Consider the following: [read more]
On paper, Sunday looks like a dreadful match-up. As Greg Schiano quipped earlier this week, there are Pro Bowlers and first round draft picks all over the roster of the 49ers.
San Francisco has a brute, physical defense with one of the greatest linebacker units Joe has ever seen. The front line and the secondary of the 49ers are nearly that good. [read more]
What would you rather do? Get stuck in a virtual parking lot on I-275 or drink beer at a tailgate? Joe thought so. To avoid ugly traffic, “The Road Warrior” is your source for a smooth ride to your tailgate tomorrow. Holley Sinn will navigate your way to the Stadium on Dale Mabry Highway. The award-winning traffic reporter for Joe’s friends at WTSP-TV, Channel 10, has vital information about shortcuts and construction zones both before and after the game. WARNING: Holley has a tale a certain area to avoid “at all costs.” Catch Holley and her traffic updates weekday mornings, and via her Twitter handle, @10NewsTraffic.
Former Super Bowl quarterback “Boomer” Esiason makes a strong case for Bucs commander Greg Schiano to return in 2014.
This is what happens when your NFL team is mired in (yet another) playoff-less season: Games are secondary. Fans want to know about the coach and the draft.
So it doesn’t shock Joe that a lot of the hollering on sports airwaves is mostly about Bucs commander Greg Schiano and will he or won’t he return for 2014. Clearly, we will know in a matter of days. [read more]
The greatest live greyhound racing in the nation, Tampa Bay’s finest poker room, simulcast wagering on horses and more from around the country, and superior dining at the famed Derby Club — they’re on the menu tonight at Derby Lane.
And there’s free cash! Yes, free!
It’s time for No. 93 to deliver his career best
Joe’s scoured various 49ers websites, news and analysis, and Joe can relay that nobody in the other Bay area is afraid of your Tampa Bay Buccaneers, despite national media gurus Mike Florio, Brian Baldinger and Bucs-fan basher Jason La Canfora predicting a victory for the pewter and red.
The only common worry in San Francisco is that the 49ers will have a letdown after their statement win against the mighty Seahawks. But there is at least a little concern in the land of legendary sourdough bread. [read more]
Veteran Ch. 10, WTSP-TV, sportscaster Dave Wirth dives into the Bucs-Niners game in this exclusive video for JoeBucsFan.com.
It’s Joe’s weekly podcast with Ronnie Lane of WDAE-AM 620 and the Buccaneers Radio Network. It’s all things Bucs-Niners today. Enjoy.
Joe’s not quite on the same page as Peter King
Joe has heard Bucs commander Greg Schiano called all sorts of things, bad, good and unprintable. Such is the life of a public figure. As Abraham Lincoln once said (allegedly), “You can’t please all the people all the time.”
Perhaps Bucs fans should add a new name to their lexicon in discussing Schiano? How about the word “gutsy?” Why? Because pedestrian-bumping, olive oil-lapping, popcorn-munching, coffee-slurping, fried-chicken-eating, oatmeal-loving, circle-jerking, beer-chugging, cricket-watching, scone-loathing, college football-naïve, baseball box score-reading Peter King of SI.com and theMMQB.com fame believes Schiano has guts. [read more]
There’s nothing quite like a good NFL Network “Playbook” Xs and Os preview look at a Bucs game.
Click here for the Bucs-Niners edition. There’s plenty of gushing about the 49ers from Sterling Sharpe and Shaun O’Hara, but Brian Baldinger is all about the Bucs defense. He’s jacked up about the Bucs’ 15 interceptions in the past six weeks.
Baldinger goes to film to show how, he believes, pure intimidation over the middle by Mark Barron led to one interception against Buffalo. “They’re looking to take you apart in the middle,” Baldinger said. He also dives into Bucs’ zone defenses and the reading ability of Dashon Goldson.
Sharpe and O’Hara call a Niners win, but Baldinger is all over the Bucs, believing Colin Kaepernick will have a troubling day.
Mason Foster is now in his third season at middle linebacker and Joe’s of the mind this has been his best season to date.
Foster was selected in the 2011 draft and, quite simply, Joe thought he was overwhelmed as he was an outside linebacker in college. That season, which saw then-coach Raheem Morris jettisoned, the Bucs arguably had the worst linebacking unit in the NFL. [read more]
A reporter asked Greg Schiano today how much slack” he might be willing to give his offensive staff, given all the injuries and changes, especially compared to having a healthy defense.
Schiano wouldn’t go there and explained there’s no free pass; offensive coaches are “bustin’ their guts.” He also cautioned that the Bucs have to be careful not to overthink their game planning. The full audio is below, via WDAE-AM 620. (That question comes last.)
Whatever the chatter, Joe’s confident Mike Sullivan needs a offensive resurrection in one of these last three games to get a shot at 2014.
