Baker Mayfield Has Confidence In Kyle Trask
January 3rd, 2024
Bucs QB Kyle Trask.
The pressure may be on. [read more]
Baker Mayfield Uncertain For Sunday
January 3rd, 2024
Status in question.
Sunday will be the season’s most important game. The Bucs at Carolina will decide if the Bucs are a playoff team or if it’s time to bolt to the Dominican Republic. The Bucs may have to turn to a man who has never started an NFL game: Kyle Trask. [read more]
NFL Network Insiders: Dave Canales Will Get Interviews For Head Coach Openings
January 3rd, 2024
Coaching carousel chatter.
People mocked Joe for suggesting last week Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales might get a head coaching job next season. [read more]
“Too Hyped Up And Overhyped”
January 3rd, 2024
Odd take from Todd Bowles yesterday. [read more]
The Fading Art/Focus Of Rushing
January 3rd, 2024
“Dave, how about running behind Mauch here.”
Every team will hand off, so teams have every incentive to be good at rushing the football.
However, running is losing its importance. Consider the following eye-opening stat that hasn’t been soiled yet by the stat nerds. [read more]
Hall Of Fame GM Thinks Bucs Have Major Advantage Over Stinking Panthers
January 3rd, 2024
Breaks down Bucs-Panthers.
Looking at the Bucs-Stinking Panthers game on Sunday, Hall of Fame general manager Bill Polian seems to think this game is a major mismatch in the Bucs’ favor. [read more]
Oh Bucs, Tom Brady Is Watching
January 3rd, 2024
“I’m watching you, Baker!”
Recently, Joe heard former Bucs quarterback Tom Brady said he doesn’t have a favorite team, though he watches a lot of NFL (and his Wolverines, too). [read more]
Dalvin Cook Is Cooked
January 3rd, 2024
Toast.
Joe knows a bunch of Bucs fans still pine for somehow, someway, Dalvin Cook coming to the Bucs. He is, you may have heard, looking for work after the Jets washed their hands of him. [read more]
Can’t Blame This On Dave Canales
January 3rd, 2024
He was open.
An apology to Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales may be in order. [read more]
“He’ll Be Fine”
January 2nd, 2024
Will be “ready” for Carolina.
Joe understands the following won’t be comforting news to all Bucs (?) fans. [read more]
The Need For Speed
January 2nd, 2024
Bucs GM Jason Licht.
By any objective, rational accounts, the Bucs knocked it out of the park with their 2023 draft class and undrafted free agents signings. [read more]
Fifteen Teams Are 7-9, 8-8 or 9-7
January 2nd, 2024
“Look, Mr. Glazer, there are many reasons I see a glass half-full.”
It’s easy to want to launch furniture at the state of the Buccaneers following that groin-stomp of a loss Sunday to the slimy Saints. The Bucs looked lifeless for too much of that huge game. [read more]
Was The Bucs’ Loss More About Turnovers?
January 2nd, 2024
“Kyle, we endured this twice together. I don’t think it’ll happen again.”
Not since Tom Brady crapped the bed last season against the Bengals at The Licht House — 2 interceptions and 2 lost fumbles in a span of 10 offensive plays — have the Bucs had four turnovers in a game like they did on Sunday.
[read more]
Todd Bowles: Bucs Will Bounce Back
January 2nd, 2024
Was Bucs coach Todd Bowles happy with how his team played on Sunday?
He wasn’t happy with anything about it. [read more]
A Truth Comes Out
January 2nd, 2024
Former Bucs guard/center Ali Marpet.
Joe always enjoys when a former NFL player, coach or executive decides enough time has past that a truth about his or her former team can be revealed safely. [read more]
CBS: Bucs Will Beat The Eagles (If They Meet Wild Card Weekend)
January 2nd, 2024
Doomed?
Yes, Joe is confident the Bucs will win Sunday at Charlotte (if the Bucs lose to the worst team in the NFL on the final weekend of the regular season, well, then it’s a very different discussion on Monday morning.) [read more]
Todd Bowles: Bucs Didn’t Get Bullied
January 2nd, 2024
Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
It sure looked to Joe like the slimy Saints owned the line of scrimmage on Sunday. The only way to do that is to be more physical. [read more]
Bucs Don’t Need A Win Over Carolina To Make Playoffs (But It Would Sure Help)
January 2nd, 2024
What the Bucs need to do.
Because of the way the Bucs shat the bed Sunday with terrible play and a grotesque, ill-prepared, p!ss-poor, irresponsible coaching effort against the slimy Saints, Tampa Bay has painted itself into a corner. [read more]
Not Quite Charles Sims
January 1st, 2024
When Rachaad White started flashing his strong skills in the passing game this season as a second-year running back, Joe was eager to track whether White could exceed the production of another third-round draft pick of a Bucs running back in 2015. [read more]
“You’ve Got To Give Up Something”
January 1st, 2024
Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
In speaking about his defense, Bucs coach Todd Bowles inadvertently said something profound about his offense.
The Bucs head coach held his day-after presser today and it was somber, given what transpired in the past 24 hours. Bowles began by deadpanning “Happy New Year” to the gaggle of the local pen and mic club. [read more]
Todd Bowles: “We Were Just In A Daze”
January 1st, 2024
Taking the next step.
Todd Bowles had a clear message this afternoon at his somber day-after chat with local media. [read more]
Gerald McCoy: Baker Mayfield Has Earned Two More Years
January 1st, 2024
Gerald McCoy
The media’s biggest Bucs fan outside of Joe may be six-time Pro Bowl Bucs defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, a first-year personality on NFL Network. [read more]
