“What’s my 40?”

Ira recently mentioned it. So too have various NFL draftniks. If you monitor NFL and/or college football coverage the past month or so on social media, you likely saw the following there, too. [read more]

Old target, and new target?

Immediately following Rounds 4 through 7 of last year’s NFL Draft, Bucco Bruce Arians said there were quarterbacks the Bucs had on their Day-3 draft board but “they all got jumped on early.”

So which QBs were they considering? [read more]

Team Glazer member Joel Glazer

Believe it or not, Buccaneers co-owner and co-chairman Joel Glazer, a proud member of Team Glazer, will host a news conference via Zoom with reporters this afternoon. [read more]

General manager Jason Licht and his staff won an award recently, and Licht and two of his comrades went online to accept it. [read more]

The old saying, “the rich get richer,” sort of defines of the 2021 Bucs as they look to stomp the groin of the NFL en route to back-to-back Super Bowl wins. [read more]

Gotta earn it

As Joe has shared several times, the Bucs were a perfect 8-0 last season when Leonard Fournette got 10 carries or more.

It was no coincidence, and in those games Fournette had a whopping eight touchdowns to complement 34 catches. [read more]

Former Bucs CB Ryan Smith.

Fresh off getting a Super Bowl ring, Bucs backup cornerback and special teams ace Ryan Smith decided to cash in. [read more]

Let Joe just get this out of the way: Joe is not a tattoo guy. At. All.

So Joe initially thought at best this is a non-story and at worst, just gross. Seeing, however, the run it is getting on social media, it’s clear Joe is in the vast minority.

So, please welcome Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians to the world of tattoos.

I’m a man of my word- “when we win the Super Bowl, I will get a tattoo” well I got mine and I love it!! #SBLV #superbowlLVchamps pic.twitter.com/SCmpFXEJ1T

— Bruce Arians (@BruceArians) March 30, 2021

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

Bucco Bruce Arians is just about fed up like a lot of us who want a return to normalcy. For Arians, that includes a normal NFL offseason. [read more]

Status.

Of the Bucs’ Big 8 free agents, one guy is still out there walking the streets. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

Since Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians has been in charge, he has been adamant he had no interest in developing a young quarterback to potentially take over as a starter someday. [read more]

Says Bucs aren’t dominant.

Recently, Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians said he is going to “beat the sh!t” out of his team when they begin practices for the 2021 season, partly to make them forget about winning the Super Bowl and realize it is a new year. [read more]

Wanted.

Though this really shouldn’t surprise Bucs fans, still, Joe was very interested to hear Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht all but say he had to fight off free agents yearning to come to Tampa this fall. [read more]

New star of NFL Films.

Now this is a little bit of irony for Joe. [read more]

North Carolina RB Michael Carter.

Joe would jump with both feet into the deep end of the draft pool if Travis Etienne is sitting there at No. 32 for the Bucs next month. [read more]

Legendary linebacker Ray Lewis was all fired up talking Bucs on ESPN TV, and he named five Tampa Bay guys that have him especially pumped. [read more]

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BY IRA KAUFMAN
@IKaufman76 (also a regular at Big Storm Brewery taprooms)

The evolution of pro football has me thinking about pocket change. [read more]

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Frown on Bucs ILB beast.

For those who regularly listen to “The Ira Kaufman Podcast,” you have heard Joe say that Bucs linebacker Devin White had three playoff games that were better than Ray Lewis’ postseason debut. [read more]

“You like that, Glazer? You better like that.”

These days, Bucs general manager Jason Licht reminds Joe a lot of the 1986 edition of Mike Tyson — 14 fights, 14 wins, plenty of knockouts. [read more]

Through six NFL seasons, Donovan Smith has absorbed a dizzying flurry of darts from critics worldwide.

Heck, it started before he got to Tampa, when an ex-NFL player and a noted Penn State game analyst said Smith “played lazily” and was overweight in college. [read more]