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New Bucs co-defensive coordinator Larry Foote.
Yes, new Bucs head coach Todd Bowles will still be calling the defensive plays in 2022. (Joe strongly suspects his next defensive call will be much better than his last one!) [read more]
Thoughts on wild week.
What a crazy Bucs week this has been Joe doesn’t think it could ever be duplicated. [read more]
Joe wrote this story about six months ago but the subject is more relevant today after fresh comments from head coach Todd Bowles. [read more]
Waiting.
When Tom Brady announced he would return as the Bucs quarterback, an intimate of his, former NFL suit Michael Lombardi, had said upon Brady’s return that it was “Tampa or nobody.” [read more]
What’s the spread?
So the Bucs were a popular bet for some in Las Vegas to make a run at the Super Bowl. This was before Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians announced he was stepping aside. [read more]
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Only Bruce Arians would even try to pull this off.
Who else could stand in front of a podium at One Buc Place and make a compelling case for walking away from a team now favored to represent the NFC in the Super Bowl?
Skeptics remain, dangling the Tom Brady as instigator theory, but you don’t have to be naive to trust the collective narrative advanced by Arians, Joel Glazer and Jason Licht. [read more]
Talking intangibles!
Intangibles? Cynthia Frelund? Really? [read more]
Back in the saddle.
UPDATED 2:30 p.m. – Ira can rest easy tonight. [read more]
Todd Bowles talks defense
Joe is taking a breather from all the pomp and circumstance and drama of the last couple of weeks to think about real football.
That’s what Todd Bowles was talking about this morning. [read more]
“Jason, about this Jaelon Darden …”
Once upon a time a Bucs head coach firmly said he would steer clear of all things defense because he’d probably screw things up. [read more]
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Bucs DT Steve McLendon.
Why are so many people embracing the second gunman theory of the Bucs’ drama the past two months, that the only way Tom Brady would return is if former Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians stepped aside?
Because it is the only thing that remotely makes sense in a series of moves that makes no sense. [read more]
The oldest defensive player in the NFL last season played for the Bucs and it wasn’t Ndamukong Suh. [read more]
Head coach Todd Bowles
Joe always suspected that Bucco Bruce Arians valued the reams of analytic data delivered to his desk as little more than rough toilet paper.
But what about new head coach Todd Bowles and the rest of the staff? [read more]
“Sorry, Prickly Pete, I’m not trusting you with that kind of info.”
Bucco Bruce Arians made the call to break the news of him quitting the Bucs’ head coaching gig to two sportswriters simultaneously — and he asked them to hold the secret for days. [read more]
Bucs coach and Bill Parcells man Todd Bowles
The Jets organization is a joke. And it can drag down good men. Sort of like now the Bucs’ Lost Decade swallowed up and spit out good people because losing was so ingrained into One Buc Palace. [read more]
“Tommy, your man Jeff Darlington knows his sh!t”
There may be no reporter who consistently gets Tom Brady news correct more than BSPN’s Jeff Darlington. Sometimes, Joe thinks Darlington is the only reporter Brady communicates with away from football facilities. [read more]
Bucs fans have heard plenty of stories tied to Tom Brady’s retirement/unretirement.
Joe liked how Peyton Manning said he wants Brady to return the heartfelt letter and parting gift he sent him. [read more]
Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
Watching the passing-the-torch festivities at One Buc Palace from Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians to new head coach Todd Bowles yesterday, Joe wondered how much of a factor Bowles played in the Bucs waving goodbye to franchise icon Gerald McCoy? [read more]
GM Jason Licht
Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht was taking the big questions today on Peacock network, and his answers were smooth and easy. [read more]
