Longtime Bucs No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 quarterback Ryan Griffin.

The Bucs’ backup quarterback question looms. [read more]

Talk of the Buccaneers’ heralded second-year edge rusher was on the lips of general manager Jason Licht this evening at the NFL Owners Meetings, where Joe is patrolling the landscape. [read more]

GM Jason Licht

Will Tom Brady be the Buccaneers’ quarterback in 2023?

Yeah, Joe and the rest of Bucs nation are greedy. One more year of The Goat is great but it’s not enough. [read more]

Bucs GM Jason Licht.

Free agent defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh is still up for grabs as a free agent. Given how he is a mercenary and it seems annually he signs late, Joe wouldn’t be shocked if he doesn’t return to the Bucs until May. [read more]

NFL superagent Drew Rosenhaus

As the Bucs await Rob Gronkowski’s decision on whether he wants to play in 2022, his agent says there is no Tampa Bay contract waiting for him to sign. [read more]

Former Bucs safety Jordan Whitehead

Interesting take from Jets head coach and defensive guru Robert Saleh. [read more]

Andy Reid talks about his new running back, former Bucs RB Ronald Jones.

During Ronald Jones’ four seasons in Tampa, it became clear that he had confidence, mentality and maturity issues at times.

Joe was intrigued to hear Chiefs head coach Andy Reid sort of reference that today. [read more]

Getting tired of hearing ridiculous rumors? It seems new Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel is too. Bucs fans will likely agree. [read more]

Free agent DL Ndamukong Suh.

Joe thinks free agency has been excellent for the Bucs. When you make the indirect move of the free agency season, Tom Brady unretiring, just about everything after that is gravy.

So long as you don’t get punched by Will Smith on national television for telling a joke. [read more]

Joe is down here in Palm Beach at the NFL owners meetings and already there is Bucs news.

Joe was talking with Titans coach Mike Vrabel. He tells Joe the Bucs and Titans plan to have joint practices up in Nashville this summer prior to a Bucs at Titans preseason game, returning the favor from last year in Tampa.

Last year the joint practices between the two teams were highlighted by a solid boxing match between furniture-winging, bike-tossing, tantrum-throwing quitter Antonio Brown and a Titans defensive back.

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National writer talks Playoff Lenny.

Did Playoff Lenny squeeze the Bucs by flying to New England to have a sitdown with Bill Belicheat? [read more]

FS1 personality Nick Wright.

Nick Wright cannot believe what he is hearing. And he thinks the idea is beyond nuts. [read more]

Enjoying franchise rebirth.

So Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians said he’s been “drinking too much” since Tom Brady unretired. Hey, you’d be doing shots every night too if the team you coached had Brady fall in its lap out of the sky. [read more]

Former Bucs tight end O.J. Howard

Players’ injury realities are rarely revealed. Sometimes it takes them landing with a new team to get the truth. [read more]

It has been nearly two weeks since the Bucs acquired right guard Shaq Mason from the Belicheats and a guy who types at NFL.com for a living still is stunned. [read more]

Bucco Bruce Arians

Bucco Bruce Arians is still fist-pumping as he patrols the NFL annual spring meetings in Palm Beach. [read more]

Bucs QB Tom Brady.

So the PFF Tribe now does handicapping? How quaint. [read more]

You want answers?

So last week, the agent for Bucs foot-rubbing tight end Rob Gronkowski gave Bucs fans a scare. [read more]