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Consistency is everything in the NFL.

Greg Schiano used to scream repeatedly, “Do your job!” Lovie Smith says it nicely and kindly. [read more]

Tomorrow, Joe will compare results here to those of previous weeks.

Dotson is re-wiring and re-programming

Outside of preseason action at left tackle during his first four seasons, and briefly filling in once for Donald Penn when he was banged up, Demar Dotson has been a right tackle for the Bucs.

For a variety of reasons, most guys are suited to a particular side. Dotson, it seemed, is a right-side kind of guy. [read more]

The Bucs’ leader says he has precise clarity

Your beloved Buccaneers are not only “on the verge,” as Lovie Smith said last night, Lovie and his ranking colleagues are supremely confident in their roster evaluation and what their next steps need to be.

Man, Lovie is one confident, calm leader. [read more]

A numbers update for the “Just lose, Baby!” crowd.

The Bucs own the No. 1 overall pick in the 2015 NFL Draft, if the season ended today.

Why? Because the Bucs would win the tiebreaker for the worst record in the NFL. But understanding that tiebreaker — and how it changes — is driving some fans nuts. [read more]

Dickie V is campaigning for the Bucs to draft QB Marcus Mariota. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

Dick Vitale is one of the Tampa Bay area’s jewels. The guy does so, so much charity work and is a rabid supporter of local sports teams, a long-time season ticket holder for both the Bucs and the Rays.

(From high above the Fruitdome, you can see the lights shine off Vitale’s bald dome. His seat is right next to the visitor’s dugout on the home plate side. Front row, bay-BEE!) [read more]

Question: What 45-year-old guy who professes to be totally in love with his career gets fired and then never returns to his job, despite countless opportunities?

Answer: Chucky. [read more]

If you are uncertain whether Anthony Collins’ days as a Buccaneer can be measured in a matter of hours, then Joe’s not sure what to say.

Collins wasn’t just benched from his starting left tackle spot Sunday. [read more]

Nick Kostos of BleacherReport.com believes Josh McCown is on the hottest of hot seats.

It’s been so bad this year that Joe is numb. It’s hard for Joe to get bent when stench is expected week in and week out; Sunday after agonizing Sunday.

The way Josh McCown plays Santa Claus with the ball — the last game he didn’t have a turnover was the win at Washington — is shameful and one can only wonder how he keeps his job. [read more]

Gerald McCoy said he has the mentality of a soldier and doesn’t want to come off the field when injured.

Uh, oh.

Yesterday, when the Bucs stud defensive tackle and unquestioned leader of the defense, Gerald McCoy, discussed his season-ending knee injury with the Tampa Bay pen and mic club, he pulled out the old “I’m a soldier” card.

Sort of.

We all know how well that went over the last time a football player did that. [read more]

Lovie Smith might be the most confident 2-12 head coach in NFL history, based on his comments on the Buccaneers Radio Network this evening. [read more]

It really is this simple: Josh McCown is not Lovie Smith’s kind of quarterback. He really isn’t.

Oh, Lovie sang hosannas over McCown — a guy he cut in Chicago — as if he was the second coming of Roger Staubach. Anyone with a sober mind and a sense of history thought this was a hard sell, you know, that car was only driven by an old lady who took it to church once a week. [read more]

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]

Tight end Brandon Myers (left) has been very quiet

Tight end is not a big part of the Tampa Bay offense this season. The days of Tim Wright making sick catches over the middle are long gone.

Heck, Dallas Clark catching 47 balls and four touchdowns a couple years ago almost feels like the glory days. [read more]

For the third time in five years, Gerald McCoy ends his season on injured reserve, Lovie Smith announced today. [read more]

Joe knows Bucs fans like to hug onto this notion that defense wins championships like a child cuddles a teddy bear.

That notion is about as outdated as Latin.

Joe is convinced way too many Bucs fans would be just fine if the Bucs ran a wishbone offense with Tim Tebow and to hell with the forward pass. Just go full blast Woody Hayes. [read more]