Joe is still hung up on how former Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians put unreal expectations on his favorite partner in crime, new head coach Todd Bowles, during a visit to BSPN this week. [read more]
Pro Bowl center Ryan Jensen might not play this season, but he certainly won’t be on the field in September.
Jensen got the official “injured reserve” designation today, as expected because of his bad knee injured five weeks ago.
Jensen is now off the 53-man roster and is eligible to return in four weeks. It seems the Bucs would be lucky to get him back in 14 weeks. The team still has not released the specifics of Jensen’s injury.
Joe thought Super Bowl-winning Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians may have had a cocktail or two in him when he recently claimed Todd Bowles is now leading a roster better than the team Arians coached in the Super Bowl two years ago. [read more]
As Joe has written, it’s fascinating how Tom Brady taking an 11-day vacation and skipping the middle of training camp really has the football world turned upside down. [read more]
Rookie Bucs punter Jake Camarda was a star at the University of Georgia.
The nuances of punting are not Joe’s forté. So Joe had no clue that Tampa Bay’s rookie punter Jake Camarda is not kicking — in practice or in games — like some sort of punt god. [read more]
Bucs coach Todd Bowles harped he wasn’t getting good enough preseason special teams play from his receivers, specifically at gunner on the punt team. [read more]
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An important guy at One Buc Palace sure made it sound like Bucs Pro Bowl center Ryan Jensen will play this season. And Joe may have found some parallel history. [read more]
One of the many reasons Joe was shocked by the release of receiver Tyler Johnson is that it leaves the Bucs without a healthy receiver at a specific spot. And it makes Joe wonder if the offense is changing. [read more]
Back at the combine in February 2020, Bucs quarterback coach Clyde Christensen spilled that he was given the task to start studying and producing scouting reports on quarterbacks Drew Brees, Philip Rivers and Tom Brady. [read more]