More optimism is flowing for your Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Baker Mayfield is going to be shocked. [read more]

Two more big names have picked the Buccaneers to win the NFC South. [read more]

Inside LB Josiah Trotter.

The weekly Bucs game release included the expected depth chart for Week 1 at Cincinnati on Sunday. [read more]

Disrespected. Again.

Baker Mayfield got shat on again. And this time by a guy trying to look like the next Bill Walsh but instead comes across as a Michael Fabiano wannabe. [read more]

The Bucs’ go-to rookies on defense.

More than 83 percent of Bucs fans look at their 2026 team and see a winner. The most popular vote was 10 wins for Tampa Bay in Joe’s poll yesterday.

Expectations are sky high, as they should be. [read more]

The NFL will pay.

The way former Notre Dame offensive lineman and former fringe NFL player Mike Golic, Jr. looks at it, the Bucs will celebrate for years the stupidity of some NFL draft war rooms. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 5:03 a.m. Poll closed at 9:25 a.m. Final 2025 season poll results linked here.

Best scrambler in the league.

The Joe typing here has stated multiple times there isn’t a quarterback in the NFL who can match the intangibles of Baker Mayfield.

However, at some point those intangibles must result in playoff wins. [read more]

Not worried about past records.

So yesterday when the Bucs had what the team referred to as a “bonus” practice, all the ca-ca about training camp and who will or won’t make the 53-man roster and all that was out the window. [read more]

Rave reviews.

One reason Joe likes to see how players develop from their rookie seasons into their second year is to determine how they respond to a full offseason in an NFL weight room. [read more]

“Excited.”

Joe isn’t sure how many folks reading this here corner of the interwebs watched the Western Michigan-Michigan game on NBC on Saturday night. One important member of the Bucs got a pretty good view. [read more]

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles was willing to acknowledge that running back Sean Tucker is injured and missed all or some of practice today. But Bowles had no interest in sharing specifics. [read more]

The Miami Mauler edge rusher, Bucs rookie Rueben Bain, has an approach different from many others. [read more]

New blood.

The polls closed and there will be no recount. [read more]

Encouraging news from Todd Bowles today. [read more]

Fun debate here for the Labor Day barbecue. [read more]

Richard Sherman weighs in.

Amazon Prime NFL analyst and former Bucs, 49ers and Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman is never one to shy away from a strong opinion. [read more]

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Flash poll posted at 8:07 a.m. Poll closed at 9:25 a.m.