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“I took care of it, Dad.”
So Joe brought word over the weekend about what one respected NFL reporter thinks will be an “exodus” with the Bucs coaching staff in the wake of Tom Brady retiring.
Provided he retires. [read more]
Pitt QB Kenny Pickett
Joe has seen a lot of comments about what the Bucs should do at quarterback for 2022, provided Tom Brady retires.
A guy who Bucs quarterback Tom Brady personally employs to keep his business dealings straight apparently has been calling around the NFL looking for a new job. [read more]
“Hey, Billy O’Brien, how’s life in Alabama? Look, you wouldn’t still have Deshaun Watson’s cell still, would you?”
The final sentence of Ian Rapoport’s report this morning sure had a strong degree of finality. [read more]
Is Tom Brady possibly quitting because he has run out of patience with the Bucco Bruce Arians regime?
This line of thinking is being peddled by two prominent sources. [read more]
Flash poll posted at 4:44 a.m. Poll closed at 9:58 a.m.
Fresh report on Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.
This doesn’t seem unlikely at all. [read more]
Fans matter.
Once upon a time, Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht released a written statement via team media relations channels after a friend of DeSean Jackson — not the then-Bucs wide receiver — crashed a truck near International Plaza and two bullets and about $100.00 worth of marijuana were found in the abandoned vehicle. [read more]
Gamblers like.
Joe is not trying to urinate in your eggs this morning, depressed as you may be from the news yesterday that Bucs quarterback Tom Brady plans to call it a career very shortly.
But you may want to grab whatever Bloody Mary mix and vodka you have leftover from Gasparilla to wade through this news. It may be a long day. [read more]
Adam Schefter.
The national media types are in lockstep: Tom Brady is retiring. Adam Schefter, Ian Rapoport, Jason La Canfora, they are all reporting the same: Multiple sources from Brady’s inside circle say he’s done. [read more]
Rondé Barber talks Tom Brady legacy.
BY IRA KAUFMAN
JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman is The Sage of Tampa Bay Sports. All his work is presented by Bill Currie Ford, home of the nationwide lifetime warranty on new AND used vehicles. Ira is well known for his long list of sources and contacts, his iconic podcast, and the way he mauls a buffet.
Tom Brady’s exquisite sense of timing finally betrayed him.
Reports of Brady’s imminent retirement broke all over Twitter on Saturday afternoon, apparently catching the Bucs by surprise. In a subsequent statement released by Brady’s agent, Don Yee neither confirmed nor denied the reports.
In the news business, that’s considered a tacit confirmation. [read more]
What’s going on?
Either this is the greatest smokescreen since Operation Overlord or this is sports journalism’s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. [read more]
UPDATED 5:17 p.m. – It seems Tom Brady’s dad isn’t buying any of the reports that his son is retiring.
What a Saturday afternoon it has been! [read more]
“I told you to keep your trap shut!”
Joe knows Tom Brady is nearly as skilled as a businessman as he is at quarterback. And Joe doesn’t think Brady does a thing spontaneously, aside from a couple of shots of tequila and tossing the Vince Lombardi Trophy over water.
And maybe not even that. [read more]
The sadness is flowing at JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters, as is the appreciation. [read more]
Bucs GM Jason Licht.
Forget for a moment about the quarterback position, though it is easily the most important on a football team. [read more]
Still enamored?
With Tom Brady now retiring, it’s important to remember how fixated Bucco Bruce Arians appeared to be the last time he was looking behind the dreaded door No. 2 for a quarterback to replace the Buccaneers’ human turnover machine. [read more]
“Don’t worry Kyle, Antonio Brown is gone.”
It’s true. [read more]
