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What a Week 1 it was! Savor another can’t-miss episode of The Sage’s podcast with Joe!
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To suggest professional NFL observers who don’t have a zip code located in Florida are skeptical of Baker Mayfield would be like saying it gets breezy near the eye of a hurricane. [read more]
Joe likes to joke around on this here website and refer to Bucs nickel corner Christian Izien as “Schiano Man” — because he was a Schiano man. [read more]
Joe really enjoys former NFL offensive lineman Brian Baldinger’s video breakdowns of players and teams he posts on X. Usually, he gives out props within those videos..
Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians was a big “character” guy. For him, the word meant a player had heart and a will to win and refused to lose. [read more]
Baker Mayfield takes home the coveted Angry Runs award in Week 1.
Minutes after Baker Mayfield stiff-armed a Vikings cornerback and threw him out of the club yesterday, Joe was taking a screenshot and hitting up NFL Network host Kyle Brandt. [read more]
“Hey Schefter, tell your pal Mike Greenberg I’m hunting $40 million next season.”
And here is possibly Exhibit 6.7 why Todd Bowles chose Baker Mayfield as his quarterback well before the Bucs officially ended the August competition between Mayfield and Kyle Trask. [read more]
Joe watched this great video released by the Buccaneers and wondered what would happen if Rachaad White ran with this kind of fire when he took handoffs. [read more]
Bucs coach Todd Bowles knows all about how everyone outside of Tampa Bay seems to think the Bucs are chasing college quarterback Caleb Williams next spring (#CollapseForCaleb). Why else would the team replace Tom Brady with Baker Mayfield, the naysayers say. [read more]
Joe mentioned the following many, many times over the offseason. Without Tom Brady and with Baker Mayfield, just about the entire universe outside of Tampa Bay believed the Bucs were low-key tanking and among the favorites in the Caleb Williams sweepstakes (#CollapseForCaleb). [read more]
