Pressure builds.

When Tom Brady was with the Belicheats, there were years when the New England offense was a bunch of nobodies outside of foot-rubbing Rob Gronkowski. [read more]

More time to drink Big Storm beer before the Bucs’ huge Week 18 game on Sunday!

These are beautiful times.

The first 17th-game schedule in NFL history comes with unique twists. The league long ago reserved the opportunity to change many start times for its closing weekend, which will feature two Saturday games and a Sunday night contest.

Among the fresh schedule tweaks are the Bucs playing the Panthers at The Licht House at 4:25 p.m. versus the previously-scheduled 1 o’clock kickoff.

Wow, what a crazy day yesterday. When is the last time the Bucs had such a dramatic, come-from-behind, important win fully overshadowed by a player going completely bananas and getting thrown off the team? Grab your mug of coffee and let’s roll. It’s another Victory Monday! [read more]

Plenty still on the line.

Things have cleared up in the NFC race. [read more]

Those who were nervous about Rob Gronkowski last week had good reasons. [read more]

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I wonder what the late John Madden would have thought about Sunday’s game.

The Hall of Fame coach surely would have been thrilled by another Tom Brady miracle finish. The Hall of Fame coach would have been equally appalled at the lack of respect for the game shown by Antonio Brown. [read more]

Let’s go Vikings!

Tonight Minnesota (7-8) faces the Packers (12-3) in a game with huge NFC Playoff implications.

The Bucs (12-4) are tied with the Rams, but the Rams own the head-to-head tiebreaker. Dallas (11-5) fell to Arizona (11-5) this afternoon and now holds the No. 4 seed as NFC East champs.

It blows Joe’s mind to see Le’Veon Bell contributing in a big January game for the Buccaneers’ title quest.

What a strange season it has been. [read more]

Addresses Antonio Brown fit.

The man who recruited furniture-tossing, bicycle-winging, tantrum-throwing, quitting Antonio Brown to the Bucs struggled for words after the game to make sense of what had happened with his close friend in the third quarter. [read more]

Joe suspects Antonio Brown is going to deny this. [read more]

Winner, not a quitter.

With 15 seconds left and the Bucs trailing 24-20, the immortal Cyril Grayson caught a 33-yard touchdown pass from Tom Brady to give the Bucs a come-from-behind win when they outscored the Jets 18-0 in the final 21 minutes. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 5:04 p.m. Poll closed at 7:33 p.m.

The Bucs’ run of truly legendary run defense is over.

In 2019 and 2020, the Bucs led the NFL in many run defense categories, including yards per attempt. [read more]

The best.

This is why the Jets are the Jets. [read more]

A lot of fans wanted Mike Evans to sit out today’s game and rest his healing hamstring. [read more]

Team Glazer

The Bucs found a little more salary cap room this afternoon — in addition to squeaking by the bumbling Jets. [read more]

There’s one game to play but Joe is calling it now after Tom Brady threw for 410 yards today and three touchdowns after completing 34-of-50 passes including a game-winning strike with seconds remaining. [read more]

History.

The virtue-signalers finally got their way. It only took them two weeks for their wishes to come true. [read more]

Joe guesses every Bucs fan knows who the immortal Cyril Grayson is. [read more]

Well, nobody can call these Buccaneers boring.

Joe wishes they had been today. [read more]

Antonio Brown

Perhaps Antonio Brown’s chef threw an updated invoice on the field? [read more]