October 24th, 2023
The Bucs’ loss to the Falcons on Sunday sure brought out the negativity groupies for the 3-3 Buccaneers. Many are the same people that would have embraced a 3-3 start for this team back in late-August. [read more]
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October 24th, 2023

All-Pro season?
From the depths of the somber moments immediately following the Bucs throwing a game away for control of the NFC South, a bright spot came from Todd Bowles. [read more]
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October 24th, 2023

Bucs fans after watching another brutal rushing effort Sunday.
If a team really does have a goal of playing in meaningful January games, then having the worst position group in the league is a call to action. Will the Bucs heed that call?
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October 24th, 2023

Answering the bell.
For those who growl so much about the Bucs’ offensive line they wake up in the morning with their faces in a pool of their own drool, look away. This isn’t for you. Joe’s trying to save you aggravation. [read more]
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October 24th, 2023

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
After watching that terribly undisciplined, impotent Bucs offense on Sunday, if Joe were grading the Bucs there would be no way they would have gotten anything more than a “D.” [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Called out.
A former Bucs right guard doesn’t like what he’s seeing from the current Bucs right guard. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Opening up offense?
It almost seems like Todd Bowles is ready to adjust his long-held belief that the Bucs must run the ball. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Bucs run game coordintor and co-offensive line coach Harold Goodwin.
Head coach Todd Bowles loves to say his team “has to play it better and we have to coach it better.” [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
Yesterday, Bucs coach Todd Bowles was asked after the shameful performance of his Bucs if he planned on making personnel changes to wake up his team. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Joe wrote last week how there were many thousands of tickets available for yesterday’s Bucs-Falcons game and some tickets were going for half price on the secondary market.
So how many fans showed up on that beautiful Sunday? [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023
Yes, it’s ok to feel warm and fuzzy for a brief moment on this dark Monday following yesteday’s crap show on Tampa Bay’s home turf. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Russell Gage
The moment receiver Russell Gage was lost for this season with an ugly knee injury practicing against the Jets in mid-August, rookie Trey Palmer and second-year receiver Deven Thompkins were thrust into the limelight.
If you’re a bottom-of-the-roster fan, throw undrafted rookie Rakim Jarrett into the mix, too. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Loud Bucs fan fed up.
This is an absolutely beautiful, deserved takedown on the NFC South as a whole, and the Dixie Chicks and Bucs offenses in particular for the shameful, embarrassing display of professional offensive football exhibited at The Licht House yesterday. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

The 2014 Bucs offensive coordinator, Marcus Arroyo.
Remember the halcyon days of The Lost Decade? How could you forget? [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Jamel Dean scoops up a Desmond Ridder fumble yesterday after the Atlanta quarterback was splashed by Shaq Barrett. (Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)
What a dreadful day it was at The Licht House yesterday. Grab your coffee mug and let’s go. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Bucs on Bucs crime.
It seems Bucs coach Todd Bowles was a little more direct yesterday than at any other time Joe can recall recently. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Not funny for Bucs fans.
It’s no longer a laughing matter. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Bucs OC Dave Canales.
In only the first eight games of the miserable 2013 Bucs season, Tampa Bay changed quarterbacks (veteran with mental issues to a rookie third-round pick), lost its top running back to injury, and had only had one legitimate receiver to complement an undrafted rookie tight end.
No wonder the Bucs went 0-8! But they averaged in those eight games only 1 1/2 points less per game than the current Bucs. [read more]
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October 23rd, 2023

Changes coming?
After one of the worst losses in recent Bucs history given the magnitude of the game for control of the NFC South, Bucs coach Todd Bowles left open a very interesting door. [read more]
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October 22nd, 2023

Carlton Davis
There’s a divide at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters.
One Joe thinks the Bucs defense is keeping up its end of the bargain. The other Joe sees serious issues among a very talented unit. [read more]
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October 22nd, 2023
Trailing by three points with 6 1/2 minutes to play in the fourth quarter of a critical division game is when one might think defensive players would play with all-out effort. [read more]
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