Cool nugget dropped by Buccaneers wide receivers coach Brad Idzik. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 9:05 a.m. Poll closed at 11:27 a.m. See last week’s results linked here.

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The art of unnerving quarterbacks used to be a Todd Bowles staple. Now, it’s a lost art.

A solid defense that had been propping up the Buccaneers was just shredded by a rookie quarterback Sunday as C.J. Stroud had enough time to order a slab of ribs and some Texas toast from DoorDash. [read more]

Admits improvement needed.

Bucs fans are still cursing into their bowls of breakfast cereal about how the defense let a rookie Texans quarterback march 75 yards in 40 seconds to beat the Bucs. [read more]

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Good game; not good enough.

Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield didn’t seem to have much interest in putting lipstick on a hog. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Since the Bucs got basted, broiled and roasted by rookie quarterback C.J. Stroud and the Texans on Sunday, Bucs fans are beyond irate. [read more]

Ugly streak vs. rookie QBs.

Yeah, there is a problem with the Bucs defense. And Joe thinks it’s much deeper than zone defense or man-to-man defense. [read more]

Long list.

Several Bucs players either didn’t practice yesterday nursing bumps and bruises or they were limited in practice. [read more]

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More targets coming?

Joe already wrote that Bucs misplaced slot receiver Rachaad White is on a hot streak. [read more]

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Three weeks ago, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles had a finite assessment of the team’s performance when they were drubbed at home by the Lions. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Prior to the galling loss at Houston, the Bucs had one of the best defenses in the league as far as keeping opponents off the scoreboard. [read more]

Bucs cornerbacks after playing zone.

This is just mind-boggling to Joe on a couple of levels and it’s a bad look for the man running the Bucs defense. [read more]

Praised internally.

The Buccaneers have the worst rushing attack since the 2013 Ravens, but it is getting slightly better.

A man who is perhaps the greatest Bucs insider has some of the in-house details. [read more]

No sacks, no playoffs?

Joe has been harping about this, kvetching about this, hollering about this, stomping feet about this for years and years. [read more]

“Mike, I got a different definition of ‘involved,’ too.”

A couple of thoughts on the Bucs offense from Todd Bowles yesterday had Joe nodding in approval — and completely perplexed. [read more]