Pressure expected.

Joe is pretty sure new Bucs rookie starting quarterback Jalon Daniels dreamed of someday playing the Packers or the Cowboys or the Steelers when he was a kid. [read more]

Stay the course. [read more]

The winless Bucs’ next three game are against the Packers at home, the Cowboys on the road, and home for Pittsburgh. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht

As the clock ticks toward the eulogy for this Tampa Bay season, Joe wonders when Buccaneers Ring of Honor general manager Jason Licht and Team Glazer will turn toward stocking 2027 draft capital and freeing salary cap room for a new coaching regime.

Yes, the Bucs can still make the playoffs. [read more]

“This Bucs offense looks like mine did.”

So the Bucs allowed only 9 first downs to the Vikings yesterday.

Since the start of the 2009 season, that was only the second time a Bucs defense held a team to under 10 first downs in a game. [read more]

Baker Mayfield.

Something happened with the Bucs after or during last season’s bye. [read more]

Todd Bowles walks across the field to greet Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell after the Bucs lost yesterday.

Joe used to have a driven and motivated tax accountant. [read more]

Baker Mayfield walks off field after dislocating his thumb.

Like what KitKat-eating Bucs coach Todd Bowles said after the game last night, there is no way of knowing the ramifications of Baker Mayfield’s dislocated thumb until MRI tests come back. [read more]

Defensive tackle A’Shawn Robinson tries to house his pick after a Vita Vea tip against the Vikings.

It is 3 a.m. and Joe is exhausted and fighting to stay awake, so let’s get this thing rolling to recap such a sad day of Bucs football. You’re going to need coffee. [read more]

Team leader.

Yesterday between heaves, Joe was waiting, almost begging for some Bucs player to light up a teammate. [read more]

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When your biggest strength turns into a weakness, trouble ensues. [read more]

Was that a home game the Bucs lost today? It sure didn’t sound like it. [read more]

Blame to pass around.

Good luck winning games in high school, much less the NFL, if you cannot convert third downs. [read more]

Poor play as well.

Team Glazer and Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht have to be beside themselves after watching today’s loss to the Vikings. [read more]

How safe is Bucs OC Zac Robinson?

It’s getting to the point where Joe wonders if Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson may be a sacrificial lamb in the near future. [read more]

It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

The Bucs’ heralded offensive line was supposed to be healthy and enforcing its will with a playcaller who knew how to scheme things up. [read more]

“Hahahaha! I wasn’t even that bad!”

How bad are things at One Buc Palace? Well, with the loss to the Vikings at The Licht House, the Bucs have now sunk to a level that not even lousy Lovie Smith reached.

That’s really, really bad. [read more]

The Bucs are now on a collective 12-game run with Baker Mayfield playing like a below average quarterback.

That’s no small sample size. [read more]

As Bucs fans watching on TV saw, Baker Mayfield scrambled and scrambled and scrambled late on a fourth-quarter fourth down play and it ended with Mayfield getting hit and dislocating his thumb. [read more]

“Look at history, Mr. Glazer.”

Bucs fandom has a percentage of optimists even in the darkest of dark times like today. [read more]

The Todd Bowles Buccaneers have won two of their last 12 games.

Back in 2018, Bowles won three of his final 12 games with the New York Jets and got fired. In fact, Bowles never had a 2-10 stretch in his four-year stint as New York head coach.

It’s that bad in Tampa. [read more]

Welcome to the dark side. It’s also known as last place in the NFC South landfill.

Yeah, it’s that bad. The Bucs are winless after another uninspired effort at The Licht House.

Even Marcus Mariota and Jameis Winston were winning starters today.

This time for Tampa Bay, not even special teams played well. They had been strong in Weeks 1 and 2. [read more]