Up for NFL award?

The feel-good crowd is pushing for a guy who is coming back from a life-changing event, not a football event. If we are awarding football awards, then Baker Mayfield needs to be in serious discussion. [read more]

Pass defense crashed.

Last year the Bucs’ pass defense ranked No. 9 in the NFL, allowing 203 yards a game through the air. That, despite a very limited edge rush and its star safety playing out of position at nickel corner. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht

Joe can already hear the AC/DC music thumping in the background when Bucs general manager Jason Licht walks into the NFL Scouting Combine in February. [read more]

Todd Bowles shows his passion.

For head coach Todd Bowles, this was animated. [read more]

Devin White is an emotional guy. [read more]

Todd Bowles

Joe has a problem with Todd Bowles’ recent statements about resting players.

They don’t add up. [read more]

Stability breeds success.

You have to admit, a guy some thought was the worst quarterback in the NFL last year playing strong football and leading his team to just one win from a division title is a helluva story. [read more]

Stat leader.

It appears the Bucs have a nice little foundation of good young players who will be the backbone of the defense for years. [read more]

Beast.

Bucs coach Todd Bowles is all about stopping the run. Like most defensive guys, he believes (and he’s right) that the best way to shut down offenses is to make them one-dimensional. [read more]

Baker Mayfield blending in.

Were the Bucs too buttoned up last year? Too stoic? Too detached from their international celebrity star quarterback? [read more]

Playmakers make plays.

What is the secret sauce of the Bucs’ win streak? Well, one popular NFL analyst believes it’s the Bucs letting their best player take over. [read more]

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Last night after the Bucs beatdown of the Jags, Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence admitted the Bucs had a nasty pass rush that got to him and Jacksonville had no answers. [read more]

Todd Bowles is feeling it. He’s gone from NFL head coaching’s death row just weeks ago to a private room at Bern’s Steak House after a pardon by the football gods. [read more]

Crazy numbers.

On this gloomy Christmas Day in the Tampa Bay area, Bucs fans are so giddy, you’d think the Florida sunshine is filling each and every room in their homes. [read more]

Three snaps after a load of hype.

There’s a giant whiff of trickery still in the air over The Licht House and One Buc Palace. [read more]

Sure, Baker Mayfield has a Christmas wish for the Buccaneers to finish 10-7 and thrive offensively as long as they can.

But he’s also wishing for something else. [read more]

Bucs playcaller Dave Canales.

The Tampa Bay offense came out smoking yesterday, scoring on its first six possessions. (Joe doesn’t count the quick kneeldown before halftime.) [read more]

Gamewrecker.

So why are the Bucs balling out the way they have been in December? Antoine Winfield has a hunch. [read more]