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Rare company.

Here is something you don’t see often. [read more]

Strong pass blocking from line.

Joe knows a lot of folks like to point to the offensive and defensive lines and say if you win a game there, you are always in the game. [read more]

Frustration mounting in Cleveland.

Joe isn’t about to look past the bungling Browns. They play in the AFC North and that division plays largely solid, physical football. [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

Yes, Joe noted yesterday that the NFC South race is tightening. Some NFL observers aren’t putting much stock in that. [read more]

Hero.

The chase for the NFC South crown got significantly more interesting this afternoon. [read more]

“We didn’t get Gronk, Mr. Glazer, but I did get you a tight end.”

NFL Draft fans know this year’s draft saw the first 10 tight ends selected go off the board in a span of just 88 picks. [read more]

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich.

Joe did some digging last night. And it ain’t pretty. [read more]

Tom Brady

Tom Brady is not a man known for empty words to his teammates.

To media? Sure, but not the guys in the locker room. [read more]

Continued growth needed.

When the Bucs’ season was at its gloomiest, the loss to Baltimore, part of that overcast mood was Bucs sacks king Shaq Barret lost for the season with an Achilles injury. [read more]

Bucs need him back.

In a feature on choosing the best 2022 free agents, former Jets and Dolphins general manager Mike Tannenbaum, typing for BSPN, identified a Bucs corner as a guy who will draw a bunch of interest. [read more]

Joe is only writing this to illustrate how historically awful the Bucs’ running game was prior to Sunday’s game. [read more]

Those who watch Tom Brady highlighted in mic’d up segments often hear the following: [read more]

Bucs coach Todd Bowles.

It seems CBS bought a computer. And who knows if prickly Pete Prisco programmed it? [read more]

Reputation growing.

At Sunday’s game in Munich between the Bucs and Seahawks, Joe laughed out loud early in the game. [read more]

Intel on Tom Brady?

So the Custodian of Canton, the King of New Port Richey, the Baron of Big Storm Beer, the Count of Ten and internationally famed JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman had a sitdown recently with former Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians. Ira got all sorts of goodies. [read more]

So how good did the Bucs look on Sunday against a good Seattle team?

One Bucs legend has a firm opinion. [read more]