Solving opening-drive riddle.

Perhaps the Bucs could figure out a way to score a touchdown on an opening possession. Or maybe just score more points? [read more]

Yeah, yeah, the Bucs had an underwear football practice today known as mandatory minicamp Day 1.

Joe’s much more interested in what’s been going on behind the scenes during many weeks of spring sessions known as OTAs. [read more]

Joe predicts it will be this year or next when the NFL decides it no longer will lie to fans about players’ heights and weights.

What will spark the change? No, not a hunger to be truthful to young, impressionable fans, it will be the gambling forces the league embraces. [read more]

Missing person at Bucs mandatory mincamp today. (A Rock Riley photo)

Without a quarterback competition, perhaps the most interesting happening at a Day 1 minicamp is taking attendance.

Why? Because it’s mandatory under players union rules. [read more]

Haters gonna hate.

Don’t come at Joe with your hate. The numbers don’t lie. [read more]

Look at the scoreboard.

Yeah, points are important, the most important element in football. Score more  thanyour opponent and you win. Case closed. [read more]

Joe could pretend the Bucs getting disrespected by many national media outlets this offseason is bad luck or some form of looking down on all things Tampa.

But that would be lazy and far too easy. The answers lie inside and outside of One Buc Palace. [read more]

Stunning revelation.

There’s old school, and then there’s really old school.

A guy on the Bucs defense qualifies as the latter. [read more]

Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen.

A rare situation is brewing in the NFC South. [read more]

So Rob Gronkowski’s growing business interests and residency roots in the Tampa Bay area are serious. [read more]

Ugly stat.

If stat guys can see this and Joe can, then why couldn’t the Bucs? [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

The Bucs are pretty much bringing back the same team that came within a few plays of an NFC title game. For that, they have been demoted. [read more]

Impressive stats.

UPDATED: One reason — it wasn’t the main reason — that “this Joe” was not down with the Bucs flipping Tristan Wirfs from right tackle to left last season was Wirfs’ legacy. [read more]

Bucs special teams coach Thomas McGaughey.

Maybe this will improve with the new kick return rules. [read more]

So a question was posed to Bucs inside linebacker K.J. Britt on radio that led off with, ‘You probably don’t talk to him a lot, but what do you see when you see Baker Mayfield?’

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Heavy-hitter company.

If Mike Evans has a prolific year, not only should he crush any doubt he will be in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he may become a first-ballot Hall of Famer. [read more]

Those at One Buc Palace who keep score when it comes to lack of respect from big-name national analysts will be searching for their Sharpies and screenshots on this one. [read more]

BY IRA KAUFMAN

Say hello to a man of leisure.

Bruce Arians returned to town this week for his induction into the Tampa Bay Sports Club Hall of Fame. Accompanied by his wife, Christine, the coach who guided the 2020 Bucs to a Super Bowl victory looked healthy, relaxed and quite bullish about Tampa Bay’s fortunes this fall.

“If they stay healthy, this is going to be a really good football team,” Arians said. “Jason (Licht) and the guys did a great job adding the right pieces, putting more and more quality out there. I’m really excited. I stay away on purpose because the year I didn’t, I was around too damn much.” [read more]