America’s Jockey!

Jason Pierre-Paul is a shell of himself, as is Devin White. Ndamukong Suh turns 35 next week and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka isn’t the rookie version of Noah Spence or Adrian Clayborn.

The Bucs have gotten little from their nickel blitzes and still the Bucs are tied for fourth in the NFL in sacks. [read more]

Joe gets the shivers reading this because after the Lost Decade, it’s still hard to believe. [read more]

Report card.

Joe thought the Bucs had a solid game Sunday. One guy typing for CBS seemed to think so as well but was not as impressed. [read more]

Joe loves hearing grades, as in the official ones from coaches at One Buc Palace. [read more]

False national narrative.

Since furniture-tossing, bicycle-throwing, fake-V-card-flashing Bucs receiver Antonio Brown got sentenced by NFL warden Roger Goodell with a three-game suspension for his phony V-card, Joe is seeing a lot of national media folks claiming the Bucs don’t need Brown. [read more]

Remember Sports Illustrated? Joe is pretty sure some readers actually do not. [read more]

The hard truth is that Devin White and Lavonte David looked nothing like the NFL’s top inside-linebacker duo on Sunday. [read more]

Giovani Bernard

Not even a week ago Bucco Bruce Arians was talking about how Scotty Miller would return punts against Atlanta because Jaelon Darden would miss the game with a concussion and Miller had been working on the role all season. [read more]

Drooling

Joe thinks it’s a safe bet to predict what Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier is going to do Sunday at The Licht House. [read more]

“AB, you got the jab, so we’re good. Now let’s win another Super Bowl!”

Notice how the Antonio Brown hoo-hah is starting to die down, just like Joe predicted? The NFL world stops turning for no one.

Give the NFL a week, and NFL media will focus on something else. [read more]

Defensive coordinator Todd Bowles

Sometimes players are surprised by what teammates reveal. [read more]

Master.

Tom Brady is even outdoing himself this year. That’s amazing when you think of his accomplishments. [read more]

The film review is in. [read more]

Vita Vea speaks

There are sort of two different Buccaneers teams. [read more]

Bucs WR Chris Godwin

Chris Godwin has regained the trust of the farm animal. If he ever lost it. [read more]

Steaming with confidence

Bucco Bruce Arians took fans into the his mind during the Hooters radio postgame show Sunday. [read more]

Bucs made Atlanta cry for mom.

In the words of one national analyst, the Bucs’ win over the Dixie Chicks was nothing more than a cruel tease. [read more]

Important?

Surf social media and monitor NFL writers and analysts for major media outfits and you will find quite a bit of chatter claiming the league MVP will be or ought to be 17-game-loathing, salad-bar-hating, park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting, handshake-stiffing, jet-ski-losing, biscuit-baking, tequila-shooting, smartphone-phobic, waffle-grilling, trophy-throwing, roller coaster-scared, numbers-rules-peeved, helmet-tossing, football-punting, Bucs-Super-Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady. [read more]

Typical pocket for Tom Brady.

Maybe you heard this and maybe you haven’t but it’s a wild pair of stats that may make your head jerk back and forth like a “Looney Tunes” cartoon. [read more]