So how does it end up that legendary Tom Brady has a “conversation” with Bucs backup outside linebacker Anthony Nelson about how discipline and structure was a bigger deal at their last stops? [read more]

Background.

It seems when Todd Bowles learned that his long-time coach, mentor and friend, Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians, was stepping down, his reaction was the same as Joe’s and probably many others. [read more]

Todd Bowles speaks

New Bucs head coach Todd Bowles has a ton of pressure on his shoulders.

Time is short. A Super Bowl is this year’s expectation. And the team set itself up with salary cap concerns for future seasons. [read more]

Ohio State WR Chris Olave.

Joe thought this was an unbelievable read. [read more]

Bucs returner Jaelon Darden.

Here are the brutal realities of the NFL: If there is a coaching change, the new coach has zero ties to players from the previous seasons. [read more]

Evidence, please.

Joe was on SiriusXM NFL Radio yesterday and told one of the co-hosts, Zig Fracassi, that maybe we will learn what the hell exactly is going on behind the scenes with this Tom Brady retirement/unretirement/Bruce Arians friction/retirement/Todd Bowles hiring on a future BSPN 30 for 30 documentary. [read more]

Former coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

Sometimes, one can learn from a sports TV hollering show. [read more]

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles

The following comes from a four-time Pro Bowler who played for Bill Belichick (aka Bill Belicheat) and who knows Bucco Bruce Arians and Todd Bowles extremely well. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

So Todd Bowles is a damn fine defensive coordinator. It’s why he’s now twice been a head coach. [read more]

There was a long phone call Wednesday between new Bucs head coach Todd Bowles and Tom Brady. [read more]

By Sean Sullivan – JoeBucsFan.com draft guru

Reaching for the Skyy (not a typo)?

The depth at wide receiver position in this month’s draft is sensational. It has stars and Day 1 starters well into the later rounds. [read more]

Making sense of the senseless.

As Joe has mentioned, unless there is an exposé in five or 10 years detailing what transpired behind the scenes as the Bucs went from Tom Brady retiring to unretiring to Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians retiring within a span of 60 days, the Arians-Brady dynamic will be forever known as the Bucs’ version of the Grassy Knoll Theory. [read more]

Options for 2022.

So the question on every Bucs’ fans mind these days is, “When the hell is foot-rubbing tight end Rob Gronkowski going to sack up and get back to the Bucs?” [read more]

Jason Licht and Team Glazer fell one move short.

Nearly every move the Bucs have made since Tom Brady arrived appears to reflect the organization’s win-now mentality.

But there are two glaring exceptions. [read more]

New Bucs co-defensive coordinator Larry Foote.

Yes, new Bucs head coach Todd Bowles will still be calling the defensive plays in 2022. (Joe strongly suspects his next defensive call will be much better than his last one!) [read more]

Thoughts on wild week.

What a crazy Bucs week this has been Joe doesn’t think it could ever be duplicated. [read more]

Joe wrote this story about six months ago but the subject is more relevant today after fresh comments from head coach Todd Bowles. [read more]

Waiting.

When Tom Brady announced he would return as the Bucs quarterback, an intimate of his, former NFL suit Michael Lombardi, had said upon Brady’s return that it was “Tampa or nobody.” [read more]

What’s the spread?

So the Bucs were a popular bet for some in Las Vegas to make a run at the Super Bowl. This was before Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians announced he was stepping aside. [read more]

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Only Bruce Arians would even try to pull this off.

Who else could stand in front of a podium at One Buc Place and make a compelling case for walking away from a team now favored to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl?

Skeptics remain, dangling the Tom Brady as instigator theory, but you don’t have to be naive to trust the collective narrative advanced by Arians, Joel Glazer and Jason Licht. [read more]

Talking intangibles!

Intangibles? Cynthia Frelund? Really? [read more]