Joe’s inbox has been peppered lately with inquiries as to why Joe offers up different quotes for Raheem The Dream than those read in the mainstream media and on the Web-only, formerly environmentally unfriendly Pewter site.

Some readers are confused. 

First, Joe must explain that the tenets of journalism allow for quotes to be “cleaned up” in order to help convey a clear message and/or to not to be used to make someone look bad through quoting misspoken words. So it’s considered perfectly acceptable to fix grammar and chop up quotes.

It happens all the time in news, sports and more.

Joe, however, uses a very gentle hand on Raheem The Dream’s quotes when transcribing them. Little is cleaned up when compared to others’ heavy touch.

Joe believes that as a leader of the organization, how Raheem The Dream delivers his message is nearly as important — and nearly as interesting — as the message itself. For example, historically the President of the United States is quoted without any editing beyond uhs and ums.

Frankly, some local publications use wide latitude to clean up Raheemspeak, far more than Joe thinks is acceptable. Joe gets that the head coach goes on some incredible rambles that need to be condensed for public consumption, especially inside a newspaper where space is an issue. But for the Internet, where space is a non-issue?

But Joe repeatedly has seen situations where Raheem’s words are sliced and diced to the point of creating a false impression of him and his message. And Joe has seen the same done for other Bucs coaches.

The next time Joe comes across a great example, he’s going to publish some side-by-side comparisons right here.

In the latest TBO.com Bucs video blog, Bucs beat writer Anwar Richardson makes a run to unseat dapper Rick Brown, aka Backwards Hat of the Lakeland Ledger, as the sharpest dressed scribe on the Bucs beat.

As for the pressing Bucs concerns discussed on this vlog, Richardson and eye-RAH! Kaufman talk about “The Plan” in place at One Buc Palace.

Kaufman doesn’t seem on board with the whole “patience” mantra being sold by Team Glazer. Check out the video. This one is a bit more entertaining than informative.

Joe still scratches his head, wondering why hateful Bucs fans wanted to jettison quarterback Byron Leftwich, yet a team that has clearly shown how to build not just winning teams, but Super Bowl winning teams, finds Leftwich valuable.

Joe also has other questions about the Bucs after reading a Leftwich interview on Steelers.com. The former Bucs starting quarterback sure seems to insinuate that the Bucs are an unprofessional organization.

Luke Collins asks:  What is the Steelers locker room like compared to other teams you played for?

Byron Leftwich:  It’s very different. It’s a professional football team and they act that way. We have veteran guys who understand how to win football games. That’s what you want. We are all on the football team to win football games. One thing I know about this locker room is everybody in there has one goal in common and that is to win football games.

This opens the door to so many questions Joe isn”t sure where to begin. Is Leftwich saying the Bucs had a divided locker room last year, or that they had no focus, or that in damning terms the team was unprofessional?

The Bucs want a strong showing from Brian Price, who has participated in few practices to date.

St. Pete Times uber columnist Gary Shelton felt a bit sadistic today and went to great lengths to explain to Bucs fans what most already know: that barring an incredible showing by several rookies and second-year players, the Bucs are destined for a poor season in 2010.

Among other areas, Shelton zeroed in on the defensive line, making a case that league history would advise Bucs fans not to expect much from that position of weakness.

Shelton even talked to defensive line coach Todd Wash, who didn’t sugarcoat much.

“We understand what rookies are,” said Todd Wash, the Bucs defensive line coach. “If they’re out there, it will be because they’ve earned it.

“It’s a hard transition. Once you get to week 10 or 11, these guys are getting ready for their bowl games. It gets to be a long season. We need to control that a little. We don’t want them to get burned out.

“If a player isn’t physically ready to go, you can put a damper on his career by playing him too soon. As coaches, we’ve got to be smart about that.”

Joe’s not sure what Wash is talking about when he says the rookies have to earn it. It’s already glaringly clear that Gerald McCoy will start — ready or not. And Brian Price is going to be playing on third down unless Roy Miller somehow plays out of his mind in the preseason. And even then, Price was the No. 35 overall pick in the deepest draft in years. He’s playing.

News flash for Wash. The youngsters don’t have to earn anything. Ryan Sims will warm the bench.

The other top rookies won’t have to earn much time, either. Raheem The Dream just has to hope they earn him another year.

"Hey, Dexter Jackson, long time no see. Don't worry, I haven't forgotten about you, brother!"

As Joe is wont to do when he’s not watching the NFL Network, Joe listens to Sirius NFL Radio (in-between bursts of times when Joe’s listening to the King of All Media, Howard Stern).

This morning co-hosting “The Opening Drive” with Bob Papa was Gil Brandt, one of the greatest front office executives and personnel men the NFL has ever had. Somehow, talk wandered upon the NFC South and Brandt, in detailing why the Bucs are struggling of late, pinpointed Chucky’s drafts.

“Tampa Bay over the past three years had eight players who are no longer in the National Football League. I think that tells you something right there.”

Now Joe thinks the world of Brandt, but Joe’s not sure if he was having a senior moment or not. That written, Joe believes he gets the gist of what Brandt was trying to say: Chucky couldn’t draft for s[p]it, which is why he is torturing us currently on BSPN’s Monday Night Football broadcasts.

Joe decided to revisit Chucky’s last three drafts. Here they are:

2006
Players still with Bucs:
Davin Joseph OG, Jeremy Trueblood, OT, Maurice Stovall WR. Notre Dame

Players somewhere else:
Alan Zemaitis CB, Julian Jenkins DE, Bruce Gradkowski QB, T.J. Williams TE, Justin Phinisee CB, Charles Bennett OT, Tim Massaquoi TE

2007
Players still with Bucs:
Sabby Piscitelli S, Quincy Black OLB, Tanard Jackson CB, Adam Hayward LB.

Players somewhere else:
Gaines Adams DE, Arron Sears T, Chris Denman T, Marcus Hamilton CB, Kenneth Darby RB.

2008
Players still with Bucs:
Aqib Talib CB,  Jeremy Zuttah G, Josh Johnson QB, Dre Moore DT, Geno Hayes OLB

Players somewhere else:
Dexter Jackson WR, Cory Boyd RB

This doesn’t exactly remind Joe of the drafts the Steelers had in the early 1970s, but it’s a pretty clear example of why Chucky is no longer cursing out Bucs players (to their faces).

When Bucs general manager Mark Dominik drafted two wide receivers high in April’s draft and traded for Eagles wide receiver Reggie Brown, it was as clear a message to embattled blocking icon Michael Clayton as a billboard on Dale Mabry Highway:

“Produce or be gone.”

Former Bucs defensive lineman Steve White, who Joe is humbled to have write a weekly “Bull Rush” column, writes on his own blog that the addition of  Brown very likely will mean the subtraction of Clayton, a former first round pick.

White points out that there are three receivers already with roster spots locked up: rookies Mike Williams, Arrelious Benn and second-year receiver Sammie Stroughter. Mo Stovall, a special teams warrior, appears to be safe.

Joe will let White pick up the roster math from there.

Add into the mix Reggie Brown whom evidently had a good offseason as well at receiver. But you know what Brown was doing the last two years when his numbers fell off and the Eagles replaced him?

Busting his ass on special teams.

So that’s five receivers right there. Out of whom is left you have Clayton along with two guys who should get at last a shot as our primary return men in the kicking game, Michael Spurlock and Preston Parker.

If you’re a GM and your choices for the last wide receiver spot are two young cheap guys who can possibly be return men for you or a guy who hasn’t played special teams for you in the past, hasn’t produced in years and is scheduled to make millions of dollars who would you choose?

Joe strongly encourages all of his readers to click on the link above and read White’s entire column. It is very, very good. White’s look at the Bucs receivers depth chart is as well thought out as anything you will read from any MSM outlet.

One of the interesting things to watch when training camp begins in just over a month will be what happens with Bucs seventh round draft pick Cody Grimm.

Ostensibly drafted as a special teams player, he may just surprise some people by playing safety, though he was a linebacker at Virginia Tech. The son of Hall of Fame offensive lineman Russ Grimm, the younger Grimm has always been overlooked. He had but one scholarship offer, that from a Division-II school.

In this way cool video from the good people of the NFL Network, Grimm and his struggles to overcome obstacles on all levels of football are featured. Joe is impressed.

After watching the video, just think that this is the kind of quality television broadcast daily that is denied to the many law-abiding citizens in the Tampa Bay area by the criminal element known as the Out House Networks syndicate. The absolute arrogant gall of these people to refuse to give football fans in a football-starved area the NFL Network, yet continually shake down unwary consumers monthly to bankroll an insipid yenta channel that believes a story about a new park that serves only to offer another plot of otherwise valuable real estate for neighborhood mongrels to shat on is news.

Only in this case, the grass isn’t the only thing being shat upon.

It seems eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune thinks the Bucs will continue to struggle this season.

Just yesterday Joe wrote how he thought if Raheem the Dream could squeeze six wins out of the Bucs, thus doubling his win total from last year, he would almost assuredly be brought back for the next season, whether that is in 2011 or 2012.

But eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune appears to be a bit more cautious in his expectations for the Bucs this fall. Responding to a query in the TBO Bucs question-and-answer feature, Kaufman is of the belief six wins would be a significant feat.

Q: Will the Bucs win 6 games in 2010-2011?

RJ Kerker, Brandon

A: Six wins would be a major step up for the Bucs, setting the stage for a competitive team in 2011 (if there’s football). Five or six wins appears reasonable at this stage, assuming Donald Penn returns to play LT.

— eye-RAH! Kaufman

Notice how Kaufman is qualifying his answer with the Donald Penn issue? Seems as though Kaufman isn’t buying what the Bucs are selling on Demar Dotson, who likely will fill Penn’s void if he sits out any games.

Former Bucs secondary coach Herm Edwards (left) believes former Bucs secondary coach Raheem the Dream (right) just needs some time to develop the Bucs.

Bucs fans have largely beat up on Raheem The Dream for the past year or so. At times it’s very sad to Joe because he can’t help but sometimes think the vitriol is somehow racially motivated, which truly disturbs Joe.

This year will be interesting for Raheem The Dream. If the Bucs, now void of the heinous Jim Bates Experience and loaded with highly-regarded rookies, can make progress, it will go a long way for Raheem the Dream’s job security.

Like Raheem the Dream, Herm Edwards is a former Bucs secondary coach. He believes Raheem The Dream has promise, he just needs a chance. That’s the clear message Edwards sent this morning during his daily early a.m. Twitter session.

@DatDudeEasy: What’s your assessment of Raheem Morris?

@HermEdwardsESPN: Young coach needs time, had a good draft.

Given the fact the Bucs are depending on so many rookies to contribute, never a safe move, Joe believes if Raheem the Dream can double his wins from last year, Raheem the Dream is safe.

Joe has written many times over — and it’s still June — that the Bucs are counting on way too many rookies to shine in order to have a decent record this season.

Though Joe hates being repetitive, one of the rookies Joe hasn’t included in previous missives is defensive back Myron Lewis, who is not expected to start.

It seems eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune is bullish on Lewis. So much so Kaufman, via the TBO Bucs Twitter feed, suggests Lewis could propel the Bucs secondary into elite status.

If Vanderbilt rookie Myron Lewis can handle the nickel back role, the Buccaneers could have one of the better secondaries in the league.

On face value, Joe believes Kaufman has a point. But just as soon as Joe was about to be warmed over by Kaufman, Joe realized it’s possible that eye-RAH! has been watching too much of that kickball tournament the Stalinists at BSPN are trying to brainwash right-thinking, red-blooded Americans with. And it’s possible that those shrill horns those third world denizens incessantly blow that make the St. Petersburg Grand Prix sound like Chopin may have gotten to Kaufman.

He forgot about Sabby the Goat!

Now Joe understands that Sean Jones is pushing Sabby the Goat for the starting role, which doesn’t make Joe rest all that well at night. Unless Sabby the Goat has made dramatic improvement in his play, so long as he is the starter, there’s just no way the Bucs secondary can be among the NFL’s best.

Raheem The Dream loves what he sees in his receivers room. Photo by Kyra Hallett, JoeBucsFan.com.

There was a twinkle in Raheem The Dream’s eye last week when he talked about new wide receivers coach Eric Yarber, the 46-year-old veteran coach the Bucs brought in to replace Richard Mann.

Raheem The Dream explained he likes the spirited teaching and cameraderie Yarber fosters among his charges. The head coach even went so far as to explain that Yarber is the polar opposite of Mann.

“Juice. Energy. Enthusiasm. He’s a fired up guy,” Raheem The Dream told the media when asked to give his impressions of working with Yarber. “I hate to call him a young guy. He’s old. He played with Doug Williams [in Washington]. So I like to give him crap about that. He’s running around like he’s 22. And he’s excited to coach his guys.

“He’s got a nice bounce about him on the practice field. He’s got a nice bounce about him in the meeting rooms. His meeting rooms are very entertaining. He brings back, for me being a head coach, when you walk in that room it kind of gets you back into that feel when you’re a [defensive backs] coach. You get to that room and the guys are there and they’re joking around and they’re working. You’re able to talk to the guys and they’re able to communicate back with you. You’re able to communicate with those guys. You’re able to learn from some of the older guys in that room. He’s able to comment. He’s talking about his experience from his playing days. It’s real nice. It’s a breath fresh air, you know, from what we had. Richard Mann was kind of the opposite. He was a set old back, laid back teacher, a fundamentalist core. You know, and he had a lot of great attributes, as well. But it’s a nice vibe when you go into that room and you see the guys really vibing, and really having that kind of energy chasing them down.”

Raheem The Dream was then asked if Yarber reminds him of himself. (Superior follow up question, actually).

“I don’t want to say that because he’s older than me. You know that’s kind of a smack at where he is [in his career] or whatever. I don’t want to take a shot at my guy.” Raheem The Dream said grinning. “I just see a lot of similar coaching styles that we have together that I would have loved to be a DB coach against him. Because I would have tortured him every day.”

Joe’s glad Raheem The Dream’s receivers are “vibing.” Hopefully, that will help the blocking icon Michael Clayton catch the ball, or perhaps request a trade because he isn’t feelin’ the “vibe.”

That said, Raheem The Dream is in a such a feel-good position compared to last year. Now he has a clue direction.

And he’s got his receivers coach, his defensive coordinator, his quarterback, his quarterback coach, and seemingly his stockpile of defensive draft picks and an offensive coordinator to vibe with.

All the excuses are gone. How refreshing.

Joe stumbled across a FoxSports.com video in which Earnest Graham, Ronde Barber and Barrett Ruud talk about what they like to do in their free time.

Ruud confesses to having been a big fan of “Saved by the Bell.”

Joe found this item to fall under the category of “too much information.” It’s unsettling news bordering on disturbing.

For those unaware, “Saved by the Bell” was some TV series centered around the lives of four high school kids, played by, you know, high school kids. One of the stars blossomed into a beautiful woman, Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, pictured above, played the character of Kelly Kapowski, who Ruud cited as his favorite.

The photo above is one of the very few Joe could find of Ms. Thiessen that borders on non-porn. The vast majority of other photos of Ms. Thiessen will surely get many of Joe’s readers fired. NSFW indeed!

Now Joe never watched the show, basically because it really creeps him out to think of ogling over 15-year old girls which is dangerously close to dirty old man syndrome.

Ruud is not alone in his liking of this show. Joe knows way too many guys who also are enamored by it. Joe is not among them. Just go to TheBigLead.com sometime and type “Kelly Kapowski” into a comment and watch what happens.

And what is it with TBS and these vapid teen angst shows? This “Dawson’s Creek,” how can anyone take a show seriously when Katie Holmes is known to regularly crawl though a guy’s window in the middle of the night? That’s about as absurd as the scene in “Animal House” with a flying woman.

Now Joe has to admit the thought of Katie Holmes entering Joe’s lair unannounced in the wee hours of the evening through a window piques his interest, but really?

At least Joe’s fantasies are somewhat plausible.

To see more of what gets Ruud excited and what Graham and Barber like to do on their days off, check out the video below.

"If I go to Hooters, I won't get any work done."

Perhaps finding inspiration over an overpriced steak and a $10 dessert, Raheem the Dream, in an effort to turn around the Bucs and maybe save his career, has turned to eating out with players, so writes Tom Balog of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.

Raheem The Dream has even gone to dinner several times in the offseason with linebacker Barrett Ruud to bounce football ideas off of each other’s heads.

Head coach Raheem Morris, who doubles as his own defensive coordinator, said Tuesday he has been out to dinner with Ruud on three occasions this offseason, to set the course for the defense.

“We’ve had a couple dinners together,” Morris said. “We talked about what we wanted to be and how we wanted to do it and a lot of things we want to do on defense. That’s my ‘quarterback.’ … As you know, you’re going to go as far as your leader takes you.”

Now Joe heard Raheem The Dream talk about this and the head coach claimed he and Ruud dined at swanky Tampa joints Grill One Sixteen, Iavarone’s and Donatello. 

Joe finds it interesting Bucs coaches think they can get more accomplished by chowing down. Chucky was famous for bringing players to Hooters, ostensibly to talk football.

Reams of words have been typed and spoken about the Donald Penn mess. But so much attention has been focused on Penn that another area has all but been ignored.

Two years ago as a rookie, Jeremy Zuttah filled in early in the 2008 season for an injured Davin Joseph at right guard. Zuttah’s name was rarely mentioned during Joseph’s absence, which is the highest honor an offensive lineman can have.

But playing on the left side for Arron Sears, Zuttah’s name was called more than a few times. In short, he struggled. Apparently, per eye-RAH! Kaufman of the Tampa Tribune, via the TBO.com Bucs Twitter feed, the Bucs are much more worried about Zuttah then they may be letting on publicly.

The Bucs are concerned about third-year pro Jeremy Zuttah, who struggled while filling in for Arron Sears at left guard last season.

This makes the contract issue of Penn all the more alarming. If Zuttah continues to struggle on the left side of the line, and the Bucs have to rely on a basketball player with limited football experience at left tackle, the Bucs better hope Freeman continues to be fleet of feet.

Or has a good healthcare plan.

Photo by Kyra Hallett, JoeBucsFan.com.

Following yesterday’s final minicamp session, Raheem The Dream stood before the media to take offseason wrap-up questions. The Bucs reconvene for training camp’s opening day on July 31.

As part of answers to various questions, Raheem The Dream made it clear that he puts little stock in evaluating players during OTAs and minicamps when they’re not wearing pads.

“Training camp for me, as you know, is going to be about physical. It’s going to be about about violence. It’s going to be about playing hard. It’s going to be about putting your face on people. Training camp is a little bit different. To me, that’s when you establish the men. You take off your underwear, put on your big boy pads and put your face on people. And that’s what training camp is about. You know, then once you get toward the game, you start to prepare like you kind of done today. And that’s when your development shows up from the offseason.”

Joe’s glad to see the Raheem The Dream keep talking about “violence.” That gets Joe all fired up, and it’s good to see Raheem The Dream isn’t being censored by the word police again.

The Bucs are filled with young guys battling for minutes, especially on the defensive line, where Brian Price and Roy Miller will slug it out at nosetackle and defensive end Kyle Moore has an awful lot to prove.

Joe’s just hoping that all that training camp violence in the trenches doesn’t result in an injury. The Bucs are pretty darn thin on those lines.

Last year heralded first round pick Josh Freeman signed early, never coming close to a holdout.

This year the Bucs went heavy with defensive tackles early in their draft, and then dumped veteran tackle Chris Hovan. In short, the Bucs painted themselves into a corner as far as needing to avoid holdouts to have any prayer of a winning season.

Mike Florio, the creator, curator and overall guru of ProFootballTalk.com discusses in this video the innerworkings of how contract negotiations work out.

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In his strongest admission to date that he was overmatched in 2009, Raheem The Dream got in front of the microphone yesterday and explained why he’s ready to be a successful head coach this year. 

Raheem The Dream likened himself to his bride, Josh Freeman, who last year as a rookie was green and unprepared for success but has since grabbed a leadership role like Joe wishes he could one day clutch Carmella Garcia.

“I just think in Year 2 you get a better direction and sense of where you should be. You know, before this, before you become a head coach, you just think what you should do and hope it’s right,” Raheem The Dream said. “Now, I’m at a different stage. I’m at a different point. I’m like Josh Freeman, as a head coach. I’m at a different point where I got direction. I know exactly what we want to do, and now it’s up to me to demand that we execute, demand that we be accountable of it. From a players’ standpoint, a coaches’ standpoint and also a management standpoint.”

Now Joe loves the head coach’s candor. But it’s pretty ugly stuff for a fan to hear after a 3-13 season.

Like Raheem The Dream had “hope” he was doing what was best for the Bucs in 2009, Joe hopes that Raheem The Dream was one helluva student who learned from all those mistakes and the handful of successes.

Beyond a shortage of proven talent, Raheem The Dream has no excuses for 2010.

It’s been more than a week since Bucs general manager Mark Dominik stated he would begin fining Donald Penn if the embattled Bucs left tackle didn’t show up for mandatory minicamp because of his contract dispute.

Joe smelled something fishy immediately. Not knowing the intimate details of CBA nuances, Joe thought it was inaccurate that a team could fine a player who isn’t even under contract.

How is that possible? Joe argued with a reader in the comments section that the Bucs could lower their salary offer to Penn but couldn’t “fine” him. But when no other media outlet disputed the fine aspect of the story, Joe just shrugged his shoulders figuring he was wrong or misguided.

In fact, Joe was on to something. But Joe made the mistake of not following the scent of a story. Joe has a strong dialogue with super agent Ralph Cindrich, and Joe could have easily texted him to get the right answer.

But Joe didn’t, partly because he likely got distracted by a nasty four-letter word called “work.” Still, that is no legitimate excuse. Joe should have made time to follow up.

The rest of the local media surely had no such excuse for not following up on this story — because it is their job. This has Steve White outraged.

The former Bucs defensive lineman who writes a weekly “Bull Rush” column for Joe, sounded off about the issue on his blog. In short, White wonders why the local fourth estate: print, radio and TV, swallowed Dominik’s explanation whole without checking the ingredients first?

Well it turns out the story was bulls[p]it. Absolute unequivocal bulls[p]it. And not one member of the local media fact checked the assertion before the deadline passed. Obviously if Penn’s agent had fallen for the ploy and urged him to sign a tender based on false information it would have been on him for falling for the okie dokie. But how sickening would it have been for him personally to sign the contract because of that threat only to subsequently find out he had been played? Better yet what kind of apology would any of those members of the media been able to offer for their role in perpetrating what could have been a VERY costly lie?

Its crazy because all of a sudden today all of the same media outlets are simultaneously reporting that they “discovered” that the assertion wasn’t true. As if they all at the same time decided to do some fact checking. I will leave it up to you to decide how they all came to this revelation at once but the question remains, why in the hell didn’t they fact check it to begin with when the assertion was made and before they “reported” it?

And that in a nutshell is the problem I have with members of the media and in this case specifically the sports media when it comes to reporting on NFL players. Instead of reporting nowadays they are instead doing more repeating than anything else. Hell if I was Dominik and I knew nobody would call me out for spreading false information I might do it too. What exactly is the downside for him if the media is willing to be his happy accomplice? People this is why I keep telling you to make up your own mind about these situations. I’m not saying you should back the players on every issue, but at least be open to the fact that you may not be getting the whole or correct story.

Joe raises his hand acknowledging his sins. Just like it is refreshing to hear players speak humbly if not honestly, it would also be refreshing if the Bucs media brigade also acknowledged they were at fault.

Joe knows at least one member of the fourth estate whose ego won’t allow him to do the right thing.

Which Buccaneer could go down as a legend at his position?

Ronde Barber? Maybe Aqib Talib if he can continue to improve?

Joe could toss out plenty of speculation. However, Jeff Faine already has an answer. And it wreaks of bribery, corruption and media manipulation. Or maybe Faine just lost it for a moment.

In speaking about the Donald Penn situation to Rick Stroud, aka The Mad Twitter of The St. Pete Times, Faine said Demar Dotson could be one of the best left tackles to ever play in the NFL.

“I think a lot of us take it for granted. I think he’s a very, very bright star with a lot of potential and has a great attitude and a great work ethic. He wants to learn. He wants to keep improving and I think if he puts it all together, he could be one of the best to ever play the game. Now that’s a lot being said and it’s a pretty good ways away, but he has a chance.”

No doubt Faine is enamored with the sheer size of Dotson, who is 6-9, 315, and has no sign of a weight problem. But surely Faine has to know that it would take nothing short of a miracle for Dotson to emerge as a stud left tackle on any team, let alone turning into Jonathan Ogden.

The odds of Dotson even getting a shot at seeing a regular season start are slim.

One of the most intelligent Buccaneers hands down, Faine rarely wastes words and loses track of his message. Joe can only assume Faine went a little overboard in praising Dotson by request.