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]

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Comment all through today’s key game with fellow Bucs fans and the ridiculous haters who find their way in.

Please play nice. It’s so easy.

Go Bucs!!!!

Stick with Joe all day for plenty out of this key game.

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More good news.

The good news started yesterday afternoon and continues this morning. [read more]

Game 16

Bucs (11-4) at Jets (4-11)

Kickoff: 1 p.m.

TV: WTVT-TV Channel 13, DirecTV Channel 713.

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Making the trip.

Boy, what could have been a nightmare is so much better.

Per NBC Sports Edge, Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians is off the dreaded COVID list and will make the trip to SopranosLand to coach the Bucs.

Tomorrow is supposed to be ugly weather (for Florida folks) against the Jets, with the highs in the mid-50s and rain on and off all day. Joe wonders if Arians, already with a messed-up Achilles, will stand outside for three hours or if he will try to sit up in a warm, dry coach’s box?

No more virus.

Finally good news about players’ health.

It seems the Bucs today, per NBC Sports Edge, activated starting corners Jamel Dean and Sean Murphy-Bunting from the dreaded COVID list. That means they are eligible to play tomorrow at the Jets in SopranosLand.

We all know how the Bucs defense usually crumbles without one of its starting corners. Getting two back is great news, even against the horrid Jets.

Handicapper

Follow along as JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman makes three NFL picks each week against the spread. [read more]

“Byron, we’re throwing the damn ball against the Jets.”

With six pass attempts against the miserable New York Jets tomorrow, Tom Brady will break yet another personal single-season record in a 16-game season.

Joe finds this one significant. [read more]

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Rock gets you pumped for Sunday. What Rock has learned and he dives into how the Jets and Bucs plan to attack. Today’s Rocklister is former Bucs guard and current talk show host/podcaster Ian Beckles. 

Local sports media icon Rock Riley hosts Bucs Kickoff right here at least 24 hours prior to each game. It’s a brand new podcast for the 2021 season.

Listen or download above, or at Google Podcasts, Podcast Addict and more. Follow Rock @RealRockRiley on Twitter.

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Free football.

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The NFL’s worst-ranked defense features a lot of young players — guys that will be seeing Tom Brady in person for the very first time on Sunday. [read more]

If the Bucs win 13 games, does general manager Jason Licht deserve the NFL Executive of the Year award?

It’s a good debate over an ice cold Big Storm beer. [read more]

Won’t “Sneak” up again.

With a team full of high-profile names, Pro Bowl players past and present, and future Hall of Famers, it sort of surprised Joe last week that dudes hanging onto the fringes of the Bucs roster (like Matt Rhule is hanging on to his job) rose up and made huge plays at Carolina. [read more]

What better way to start 2022 than with Ian Beckles? [read more]

Production.

If you think about it, there is a very good and obvious reason why Bucs quarterback Tom Brady is always in the corner of furniture-tossing, bicycle-throwing Antonio Brown. [read more]

Welcome to 2022! [read more]

Who is out?

Though this isn’t really a surprise, the Bucs’ pass rush will be down its two best men. [read more]