49ers QB Trey Lance.

No, Joe doesn’t believe this will happen. Not when we don’t know if the Bucs will be drafting a quarterback next spring in the first round. [read more]

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“We’re going to run it.”

Perhaps the biggest concern Joe has with the 2023 Bucs is not at quarterback or everyone’s favorite punching bag, the offensive line. [read more]

Baker Mayfield.

Joe found a comment at One Buc Palace today about Baker Mayfield interesting as it relates to players coming off the Tom Brady experience. [read more]

YaYa Diaby (0) participates in barrel drills as Logan Hall (90) and Vita Vea (50) look on.

Underwear football today at Bucs training camp. So no hitting. Joe didn’t even notice more than one or two plays with incidental contact. Since No. 3 QB John Wolford did not participate, nursing his injury from the Jets game, starter Baker Mayfield and backup Kyle Trask got loads of reps. [read more]

Center Robert Hainsey.

Tampa Bay offensive coordinator Dave Canales was talking offensive line today. [read more]

Baker Mayfield didn’t just get named Tampa Bay’s starting quarterback, he won the job by beating out a real NFL starter. [read more]

Rookie receiver Trey Palmer.

All this guy is doing is making plays. [read more]

How to get paid.

It seems all is good between Bucs disgruntled linebacker Devin White and the Bucs. It’s August where everyone is happy and every team is going to make a deep playoff run. [read more]

“Play-action? I don’t know what you’re talking about. That’s fantasy football. We just do what we do.”

Come Week 1 when the Bucs are battling the Vikings in Minneapolis with the echos of “Skol!” loudly bouncing through the ship-shaped crib, Joe is confident Bucs fans at times will wonder if they turned on the wrong game. [read more]

Todd Bowles and numbers.

Yesterday, Joe asked Todd Bowles an analytics question about turnovers. That prompted a follow-up question later for Bowles dealing with analytics in general. [read more]

Byron Leftwich

Super Bowl offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich delivered a classy answer to a tough question about his Buccaneers demise. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

If Joe isn’t watching Bucs games or videos or researching the Bucs, Joe often is inhaling whatever Joe can find on college football. [read more]

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Todd lays out the mathematical difference between franchise quarterbacks and other worthy starters at that position.

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Former Bucs quarterback Chris Simms shared what he learned talking to people with the Jets about Kyle Trask and Baker Mayfield, as well as what he was told when hanging out with Bucs officials on Hall of Fame weekend, when his old teammate Rondé Barber was inducted. [read more]

Second-year defensive tackle Logan Hall.

The quarterback battle isn’t the only one that has been decided. [read more]

Bucs DT Vita Vea works on barrel drills Wednesday morning.

The morning after Baker Mayfield was knighted as the Bucs’ starting quarterback, both he and his backup, Kyle Trask, seemed off at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Backup QB Kyle Trask.

So before practice Tuesday morning at One Buc Palace, Bucs coach Todd Bowles made the decision to start the season with Baker Mayfield behind center. [read more]

A four-season losing streak and a sour career record are on Todd Bowles’ head coaching resume, but the man knows how to prepare a team for opening day. [read more]

Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, mentor to Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales.

Todd Bowles wants his players to stop thinking about Tom Brady, last year and anything that isn’t the here and now. [read more]

Expects doom with Baker Mayfield.

Former Jets, Lions and Belicheats guard Damien Woody isn’t feeling it. [read more]