October 20th, 2022

Bottomed out?
If you are wondering where Bucs third-year running back Sneak Vaughn has been hiding, if a report from a solid NFL reporter is correct, Vaughn might be harder to find around these parts soon. [read more]
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October 20th, 2022

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
It was so dumb. [read more]
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October 20th, 2022

Pattern developing?
In January 2019, Byron Leftwich may have had his NFL coaching career saved by his old offensive coordinator, Bucco Bruce Arians. [read more]
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October 20th, 2022

Todd Bowles
Head coach Todd Bowles took a bit of a beat down by a couple of big guns in the national media this week.
And Joe finds it hard to argue against their takes. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Our beloved Bucs are determined to figure out why they’re not playing like champions.
That has Joe off the couch at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022
Yes, Tom Brady skipped Saturday’s walk-through practice and the Bucs proceeded to be dealt a stunning upset a day later while the offense sputtered. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Had to expect dropoff.
It appears one national reporter suggests the fall from the mountaintop may have happened quicker for the Bucs than they expected. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Bucco Bruce Arians
It seems Bucco Bruce Arians won’t be wearing a headset anytime soon. On game days, the millions of Team Glazer loot Arians is collecting won’t go toward helping the Bucs’ struggling offense. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Donovan Smith
Some Bucs fans were confused earlier today when Joe wrote about Todd Bowles saying offensive linemen graded reasonably well against the Steelers individually but collectively were subpar. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Called out by NFL broadcast partner.
This is interesting. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Steelers QB Kenny Pickett is seen finishing his follow-through on Pittsburgh’s opening drive Sunday. Devin White kept coming and hit Pickett and knocked him to the ground.
Some blame offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich for the Bucs’ miserable loss to the miserable Steelers. Others rail on the 89-yard special teams screwup and the horrible third-down defense. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Defends Tom Brady. Sort of.
A long-time NFL scribe who moonlights on national TV is sticking up for Tom Brady. Sort of. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Not much love for the Bucs.
Joe thought in the wake of the vomit-inducing offensive showing last Sunday in Pittsburgh, former Bucs offensive guard and current popular sports radio personality Ian Beckles would destroy the team. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Fan punching bag rookie left guard Luke Goedeke isn’t going anywhere and nobody’s pissed off at him at One Buc Palace.
Consider what Todd Bowles said about Goedeke on Tuesday. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022

Todd Bowles
Todd Bowles had a little pain in his voice last night, perhaps similar to the pain in the guts of Bucs fans on Sunday. [read more]
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October 19th, 2022
You know it. Joe knows it. Todd Bowles knows it. And certainly Mike Alstott knows it, if he’s not already checked into a mental facility after watching the Bucs fail repeatedly on short yardage the past two weeks. [read more]
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October 18th, 2022

“Clyde, Big Ben’s always been an asshat. You know that.”
Joe finds this exceptionally interesting considering Ben Roethlisberger is a Byron Leftwich guy and a close friend of Bucco Bruce Arians, and he knows what he’s looking at when it comes to old quarterbacks. [read more]
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October 18th, 2022

Surgery.
A key piece of the Bucs defense may be out for a while and the curse of the 2022 free agent class grows. [read more]
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October 18th, 2022

Yes, that’s typically sideline-stoic Todd Bowles in the upper left corner crouched down and holding his head in his hands after a fourth-quarter Steelers conversion on 3rd-and-long. They had three in the quarter.
Some on-field failures are more painful than others for coaches, who pride themselves in being teachers. [read more]
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October 18th, 2022

“Joel, can I get a field pass for the playoff game, too?”
Joe mentioned yesterday that the Bucs have a cake schedule the rest of the way, not one opponent currently with a winning record. [read more]
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