Don’t mess the enlightening fun this evening when Tampa Bay general manager Jason Licht — for an entire hour — joins the dean of Tampa Bay sports radio, Steve Duemig, for a Town Hall style sit down featuring questions from fans and Duemig. The action starts at 5 p.m.

Click below to listen live.

Jeff Tedford’s up-tempo offense may soon be the NFL norm

One of the great mysteries of the 2014 Bucs, aside from whether guard Carl Nicks can practice or suit up for games, is the Jeff Tedford offense. The Bucs are treating his offense as if it is the Manhattan Project.

Tedford, who has never stepped on an NFL field as an NFL employee of any sort, was a college football guru whose only experience in professional football was the CFL variety. What his offense may look like is akin to wondering about the whereabouts of D.B. Cooper. [read more]

A former Tampa Bay quarterback has worked as an analyst covering plenty of West Virginia football, and he’s all jacked up about Charles Sims joining the Buccaneers.

Weed-friendly Chris Simms is a broadcaster nowadays, and he’s absolutely convinced the Bucs have scored one of the most dangerous NFL prospects. [read more]

The popular NFL Top-Whatever craze got Joe thinking of the anemic Tampa Bay teams of the past 10 years. Not a Bucs playoff victory since their Super Bowl glory. Ugh!

That motivated Joe to gather with his senior and junior level staff and rank the 20 worst Buccaneers of those seasons. Serious deliberations went down at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. Beer bottles were thrown. Game film came out. Arguments ensued.

One sour young female employee cursed up a storm when told Kenyatta Walker wasn’t a finalist. [read more]

Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune wonders which Michael Johnson will show up this season?

There are Bucs fans who still can’t sleep at night. They were and are so excited about the hiring of Lovie Smith, they believe a Super Bowl parade will be held down Bayshore come February.

Joe can’t go there. Way, way, way too many question marks. One might say, well, uncertainty. Actually, Woody Cummings of the Tampa Tribune did just that. [read more]

Imagine what Bucs DL Will Gholston can do with real coaching?

Two days, folks. Two days! In a little more than 48 hours, you won’t have to remember much the god awful pass rush of the Bucs last year. It’s a nightmare Joe can’t quite clear from his head without some new football to purge it from Joe’s memory bank.

Yes, in two days training camp begins. Joe will be out at One Buc Palace sweating and twittering for your dining and dancing pleasure. [read more]

In a surprising announcement late this afternoon, and but two days before he was to report to training camp, Bucs nickel cornerback D.J. Moore was rudely awakened to the business side of football when he was cut to make room for a couple of ham and egg linebackers (if they were unemployed two days before they were supposed to report to camp, how exactly can they be anything more than camp meat?). [read more]

OK. Joe’s getting impatient.

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More than 20,000 visits are logged here daily, 3 million or more pages will be viewed every month on JoeBucsFan.com starting August 1.

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JoeBucsFan.com is about to enter its seventh season covering the Bucs and is by far the most popular Bucs-only site on the Internet. Joe can prove that easily. Wise and ad savvy business owners know this is an incredible deal.

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Yes, Joe was among the hardcore Tampa Bay faithful who read every last word of the Lovie Smith, First 100 Days, anthology on Buccaneers.com. If you haven’t, then grab a six-pack and block out a couple of hours.

One choice section focused on the Bucs’ approach to free agency, and it could prove to be an important point worth noting as training camp battles unfold. [read more]

So you probably know by now that the national media has its panties all twisted up over Tony Dungy’s comments claiming he wouldn’t draft openly gay defensive end Michael Sam because he wouldn’t want to deal with the distraction to his team.

Endless media types have been making all kinds of assumptions and have ascribed all kinds of motives to Dungy’s take, which was offered to veteran Tampa Tribune scribe eye-RAH! Kaufman months ago but only published this week. [read more]

FootballOutsiders.com predicts Bucs G Patrick Omameh to be a breakout player

Joe understands many Bucs fans have swilled untold pints of beer, thrown down countless shots of bourbon or ate several bottles of Tums worrying about the Tampa Bay offensive line. There is valid reason to be concerned.

If Carl Nicks cannot go — Joe has heard from reliable people both promising and troubling feedback about Nicks — then the Bucs are in a world of hurt with rookie Kadeem Edwards and Patrick Omameh as possible starting guards. [read more]

Prickly Pete Prisco has not hopped aboard the Josh McCown bandwagon.

To hear Lovie Smith talk, Josh McCown, 35, is the consummate quarterback, both on the field and off. Hearing McCown’s Bucs teammates rave about his leadership reinforces everything Lovie says about him.

Then you look at the numbers, and they are unforgiving. Aside from a five-game stretch last year, McCown has been, to be polite, a marginal NFL quarterback. [read more]

It’s been made very clear that the Bucs will be playing old school, Tampa-2 defense under Lovie Smith.

Most Tampa Bay fans pray the hire of offensive coordinator Jeff Tedford means the Bucs won’t be delivering old school Tony Dungy offense, but don’t count on it. [read more]

Former NFL quarterback turned BSPN film guru Ron Jaworski has emerged with a fresh ranking of starting NFL quarterbacks.

“Jaws” was not kind to Bucs starter Josh McCown. [read more]

“Excuse me, Luke, do you think you could help me with the playbook after practice?”

The popular NFL Top-Whatever craze got Joe thinking of the anemic Tampa Bay teams of the past 10 years. Not a Bucs playoff victory since their Super Bowl glory. Ugh!

That motivated Joe to gather with his senior and junior level staff and rank the 20 worst Buccaneers of those seasons. Serious deliberations went down at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. Beer bottles were thrown. Game film came out. Arguments ensued.

One poorly dressed intern even quit when he was told E.J. Biggers wasn’t a finalist. [read more]