Rookie YaYa Diaby left a greater mark this season than his 7 1/2 sacks and 12 tackles for loss in limited action. [read more]

Gone.

Joe saw this one coming right down Central Avenue. [read more]

Won’t participate.

The Pro Bowl “practices” (ahem) will be without the services of a pretty good receiver. [read more]

“I told you this could happen, ‘Bake!'” (A Tampa Bay Buccaneers photo.)

Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield just joined an exclusive club this morning. [read more]

Bucs QB Kyle Trask.

So it’s a very safe bet the Bucs will either slap the franchise tag on Baker Mayfield or re-sign him to a multiyear conract. [read more]

Regretful.

Either Bucs fans are hounding this man mercilessly, or the guy’s conscious is bothering him. Or perhaps how he strives for accuracy is keeping him up at night all twisted up in a knot. [read more]

Could both return?

Six weeks from tomorrow, the free agency dinner bell rings. [read more]

Sad 2024 outlook.

The Bucs were one timeout and one play from playing this past Sunday in the NFC Championship. [read more]

Center Ryan Jensen.

Is 2021 Pro Bowl center Ryan Jensen’s Bucs career still in play?

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Todd Bowles

The legions of Todd Bowles haters aren’t going to like this. [read more]

Joe loves official NextGen Stats data derived from sensors in players’ equipment and cutting edge technology.

It’s far more interesting than report cards of interns trying to decipher route running for overpriced fantasy football guides. [read more]

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Most improved?

So, we’re 13 days from the Super Bowl. The Bucs season is over. Todd Bowles is interviewing candidates for offensive coordinator. Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht is in Mobile for the Senior Bowl. [read more]

It’s been 15 years since Derrick Brooks was a Hall of Fame linebacker for the Buccaneers, so Joe feels the need to remind young readers what a stud Brooks was.

Then he jumped into media and business and later into his role as an appeals officer hired by the NFL and the NFL Players Association about 10 years ago to determine on-field discipline. [read more]

Veteran QB coach Alex Van Pelt.

UPDATED: A former Bucs quarterbacks coach is interviewing with the team today. That’s the word from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. [read more]

By now, everyone who really cares about the Buccaneers knows that Todd Bowles passed on calling timeout last week when Detroit had a 4th-and-12 play upcoming with 36 seconds remaining on the Tampa Bay 32 yard line.

Game over. Bucs lose by one score, 31-23 in the divisional playoffs. [read more]

Bucs alumnus defends.

In recent weeks, former Bucs guard and current local radio personality Ian Beckles has had a bug up his backside with a certain sect of Bucs fans. [read more]

The future.

This is a tough one for Joe. [read more]

Already.

Joe is guessing when Bucs coach Todd Bowles coached the Jets, he really p!ssed off a lot of New York-based national sports stenographers. [read more]

Houston QB coach Jerrod Johnson.

So NFL Network insider Ian Rapoport has reported two additional names to the list of interviewees for the Bucs’ open offensive coordinator position. [read more]