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Fantasy football players know Mike Evans and Chris Godwin were not the tandem you wanted on your team last season.
They combined for only nine touchdowns. Seven NFL receivers had that many or more on their own. [read more]
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BY IRA KAUFMAN
@ikaufman76
Antoine Winfield Jr. is returning to the land of immortals.
It’s exalted territory, otherwise known as center field. It’s the place Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Trout called home. It’s where Ed Reed and Brian Dawkins launched their Pro Football Hall of Fame careers.
You should have seen the grin on Winfield’s face this week when he talked about returning to the land of giants after a brief experiment engineered by Todd Bowles. [read more]
Joe is glued to the radio listening to The Rich Eisen Show interview of Tom Brady that’s happening right now on SiriusXM Channel 992. [read more]
Joe knew rookie Bucs guard Cody Mauch, Tampa Bay’s second-round pick, played tight end in high school.
But Joe learned a little more about Mauch this week and caught video of Mauch’s teenage receiving work. [read more]
Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.
Joe has written repeatedly the following about the near future of Bucs quarterbacks. [read more]
High praise.
Now here is something you don’t see very often. [read more]
Looking forward to 2023.
Joe has to give Bucs running back Rachaad White props. He could have taken the easy way out. [read more]
He’s safe.
Today is June 1 when savvy teams begin discarding or picking up key players to help squeeze under the salary cap given the way contracts work in the NFL. [read more]
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Bucs QB Kyle Trask.
Joe almost feels badly for competing Kyle Trask. [read more]
Cade Otton has big shoes to fill.
Buccaneers tight ends combined were targeted 22 times in the red zone during the 2022 regular season.
That’s four more times than team red-zone target leader Russell Gage. [read more]
Questions.
Joe can’t recall reading any observation of the Bucs as having a bad team.
Most analysts like the talent, especially at receiver, especially at linebacker and the secondary. [read more]
Unfair freakout.
Joe noticed last week people going mental on social media after Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield overthrew a tight end. [read more]
Red zone scoring.
Last year you knew there was something off-kilter about the Bucs offense when the greatest receiver in franchise history, Mike Evans, only had a half-dozen touchdowns. [read more]
Silence on mysterious injury.
It didn’t take much for Todd Bowles’ chipper mood to turn dour. [read more]
“Nice line, Kyle.”
Today it was competing Kyle Trask’s turn to take a question about the Bucs being routinely roasted across the nation as a team cruising toward a top-5 draft pick next April. [read more]
Solid practice.
Yes, Joe was at OTA practice today at One Buc Palace. A bunch of vets decided to take the day after Memorial Day off from the voluntary workout. But the young guns appeared to all be there for underwear football practice. [read more]
The high priest of the PFF Tribe, aka Pro Football Focus, weighed in today with an expanded statement on Baker Mayfield. [read more]
Competing QB Kyle Trask.
The inevitable questions were directed at Todd Bowles today about the Buccaneers’ quarterback competition between Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask. [read more]
