Return imminent?

As beat up as the Bucs are, any positive injury news is sorely welcome. Well, here is some: [read more]

Discusses loss of Calijah Kancey.

NFL locker rooms love to throw around the cold phrase “next man up” when discussing the loss of a fallen comrade. It actually means more to them than a reserve teammate now starting. [read more]

Clutch.

Here’s a stat on Baker Mayfield that Joe guesses is new to many Bucs fans. [read more]

Star teammate defends.

Joe noticed a stray summer comment on this here corner of the interwebs that named Greg Gaines as a guy who should have been a victim of “The Turk.” [read more]

Should be ready to play today.

Bucs fans need good news with all of the Bucs injuries. So here we go. [read more]

Game 3

Jets (0-2) at Bucs (2-0)

Kickoff: 1 p.m.

TV: FOX (WTVT-TV Channel 13, locally) with Kenny Albert, Jonathan Vilma and Megan Olivi. For a national TV map of where the game will be broadcast, click here.

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Interim Bucs starting tackle Charlie Heck.

Sorry, Charlie. [read more]

Now this was unthinkable in 2023. [read more]

Baker Mayfield

So the Jets are a trainwreck team arriving in Tampa this weekend, one that hasn’t seen a winning record in 10 years and a playoff game since they lost the AFC Championship game of the 2010 season. [read more]

Every couple of years or so the Bucs find a home-field advantage at The Licht House courtesy of extreme heat.

That showed up last year against the Eagles in a big way. [read more]

Fun times.

Last week Jets quarterback Justin Fields suffered a concussion. He won’t play tomorrow againt the Bucs and in his place steps three plays, 75 yards Tyrod Taylor.

Uh, oh. [read more]

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Desmond Watson (No. 56) alongside Vita Vea.

The whole Desmond Watson story with the Bucs is bizarre.

But, Todd Bowles seems to have kept his word and Lavonte David recently weighed in on the biggest defensive tackle Joe’s ever seen. [read more]

Nearly the entire state of Florida will get to watch the Bucs’ game tomorrow in the home opener against the J-E-T-S … Jets, Jets, Jets.

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Run defense good, but what about SirVocea Dennis’ pass defense?

Joe has nothing against Bucs linebacker SirVocea Dennis. If Joe has to quibble, it has been Dennis’ inability to stay on the field in his first two NFL seasons. [read more]

Leadership.

Earlier this week, Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians, on his weekly in-studio appearance on “The Pat McAfee Show,” made the case that Bucco Baker Mayfield should be in consideration for league MVP this season. [read more]

Scolds his punter.

One thing Joe has learned in recent weeks is that Bucs coach Todd Bowles has little patience for special teams players making mistakes. [read more]

Dial up The JoeBucsFan Show Saturday at 1 p.m. on WDAE radio, 95.3 FM and AM 620. Listen online, too, or via the iHeart Radio app, or below.

Joe’s been back on the WDAE airwaves every Saturday since February. Varying times. Today’s show is after Rock Riley from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Next week, Joe is on at 8 a.m.

How much rope will Todd Bowles give struggling kicker Chase McLauglin on Sunday? And will the Bucs treat McLaughlin as if he’s the stud kicker they re-signed in March?

Yeah, it’s come to that. [read more]

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You won’t find his name on Tampa Bay’s expansive injury list, but Thomas McGaughey is nursing a bruised ego. [read more]