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Joe already wrote about how rookie Bucs running back Rachaad White could be the anti-Ronald Jones.
That was based on film and data, but White even sounds like he’s no RoJo. [read more]
Streaming debut.
If you’ve got a Smart TV, a working remote, and $9.00 to spend, you can breathe easy. [read more]
Effort questioned?
One of Bucco Bruce Arians’ final duties as head coach was filling the outside linebackers coaching gig held by Larry Foote, who is now co-defensive coordinator and inside linebackers coach. [read more]
Joe was intrigued when Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders, now head coach at Jackson State University, publicly named 16 HBCU players that he believed should be drafted last week. [read more]
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Bucs head coach Todd Bowles
It always makes Joe take pause when a Buccaneer is asked about losing Bucco Bruce Arians and doesn’t say anything about the guy. [read more]
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The Sage Of Tampa Bay Sports
Just when Jordan Whitehead was coming on strong as an enforcer in the Buc secondary, he hit the bricks.
Say hello to the new thumper, Keanu Neal. [read more]
Rookie third-round pick running back Rachaad White
An NFL grade of each team cannot be complete without the input of prickly Pete Prisco from CBS Sports. [read more]
Opponent in Munich set.
It’s official. The time, date and opponent for the Bucs when they play the first NFL game on German soil is locked in. [read more]
Bucs rookie defensive lineman Logan Hall played hard-to-get.
Call Logan Hall hard to get. And it is understandable if the Bucs would have passed on their second-round pick after he dodged team officials. [read more]
New goals from new coach?
Someone is either channeling Chucky or Bucs defensive coaches were briefed before speaking with the local Fourth Estate yesterday. [read more]
Bucs rookie guard Luke Goedeke.
So back in mid-April, Brandon Thorn, who has built a nice little career as being an offensive line analyst, had a sitdown with Bucs second-round draft pick Luke Goedeke. [read more]
Carlton Davis
Those who scrutinize Bucs games know how much better the team would be if cornerbacks Carlton Davis and Jamel Dean squeezed the balls that land in their hands. [read more]
Bucs Pro Bowl safety Antoine Winfield, Jr., is a hell of a player and, unfortunately, the face of the gut-punch loss to the Rams in the playoffs. [read more]
Rookie guard Luke Goedeke
Back in 2013, the Bucs drafted hungry dudes in the trenches and a fight broke out at the first OTA practice of the spring. [read more]
Bucs co-DC Larry Foote.
Back at the Pro Bowl in late-January in Las Vegas, Joe remembers Devin White saying he didn’t have a season that lived up to his normal high standards, in part because he was likely trying to do too much to compensate for so many injuries in the secondary. [read more]
Rookie Bucs TE Ko Kieft
After hearing his candid college head coach rant about Ko Kieft, it’s hard to imagine the rookie tight end won’t stick on the Bucs’ roster this season. [read more]
Bucs special teams coach Keith Armstrong.
Now Joe understands that when coaches speak at a podium — or if you are Bucs safeties coach Nick Rapone you wander away from the podium as if you are in a town hall setting — their answers are sometimes as much messages sent to players as they are answers to reporters. [read more]
This is an eyebrow-raiser.
Vita Vea’s position coach last season doesn’t seem to know how much Vea actually played. [read more]
Has timetable in mind.
So in-between foot-rubbing Bucs tight end Rob Gronkowski hosting kids TV shows, hopping on Jimmy Kimmel Live and hosting his “Gronk Beach” party at the trendy Encore Beach Club at the swanky Wynn Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, we see photos and video clips of Gronk working out. [read more]
