Not seeing eye-to-eye?

Joe is starting to think the Bucs offense has changed a whole lot more than just how it throws the ball. [read more]

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Bucs players better step it up, especially the big-name leaders on the roster, says Todd Bowles.

Joe found that slightly ironic considering Bowles didn’t give Vita Vea and Akiem Hicks that chance in the biggest play of Sunday’s debacle in Cleveland. [read more]

A division rival. A team that owned the Bucs for years in the regular season. And a fiery Bucs linebacker playing the team from his home state where all his family and friends will be watching on Monday Night Football. [read more]

Larry Foote says New Orleans still physical.

When the slimy Saints come marching into The Licht House on Monday night, it will be with a different signal-caller. [read more]

Misused?

Joe really, really doesn’t understand this Byron Leftwich. [read more]

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Playing old?

Tom Brady threw 43 touchdown passes last season and has just 12 this year, so to say he’s “deteriorating” seems ridiculously obvious.

But this take runs deeper. [read more]

Lavonte David, Devin White and Carlton Davis have combined for zero interceptions through 11 games. That’s hard to swallow, even for head coach/defensive playcaller Todd Bowles. [read more]

“Byron, you can come work for me in Houston any time.”

When hearing and verifying this, Joe wanted to punch a hole in his home office drywall. [read more]

Chris Godwin

Sobering but understandable chatter from Chris Godwin. [read more]

Playoffs, baby! [read more]

Called out by former colleague.

Joe has heard and read a lot of advocates and friends in NFL media who are big Todd Bowles fans but still scolded him for how the Bucs lost to the Browns on Sunday. [read more]

FanDuel’s Kay Adams.

Kay Adams seems to be like Joe and a lot of Bucs fans. [read more]

One of Todd Bowles’ biggest boosters couldn’t even give the Bucs coach a pass after watching his coaching staff absolutely give away a vital, needed win in Cleveland on Sunday. [read more]

Excellent hustle.

This site should be 100 percent, 24 posts a day through the weekend about one of the biggest NFL coaching crimes Joe has ever witnessed when Bucs coaches fully gave away a key win in Cleveland (one of a few giveaways this year). [read more]

Joe Tryon-Shoyinka

Bucs edge rusher Joe Tryon-Shoyinka was 6-5, 262 pounds at the 2021 NFL Scouting Combine and he clearly added man weight entering this season, his sophomore campaign. [read more]

When last seen double-covered, Julio Jones hauled in a 26-yard Tom Brady pass with about 9 seconds left in regulation time Sunday in a tie game against the Browns. … Too bad there wasn’t more time on the clock. [read more]