Hall call

With a Super Bowl ring, seven Pro Bowl honors and four first-team All-Pro awards, Joe comfortably will say Antonio Brown already is worthy of the Hall of Fame.

However, Hall voters may not agree. [read more]

Bucs QB Kyle Trask.

So a week ago there was little question who was the better of the two quarterbacks practicing at Bucs voluntary OTA practices. [read more]

Experience

Last week on “Good Morning Football,” seen weekday mornings on NFL Network, the gang debated what would be the pothole that derails the Bucs’ chances in their quest to “Go for Two.” [read more]

Ironic words from Scotty Miller. [read more]

(Photo courtesy of Buccaneers.com.)

The wait may end in a few days. [read more]

Workout video posted today.

OK, Joe has to be upfront here. There is no way to know, short of Tom Brady offering additional information on his Instagram account, when this video was shot or where. [read more]

Bucs players work out on a side field beneath the giant Buccaneers flag at One Buc Palace today.

Yes, Joe was among the group of about a dozen or so local pen and mic club members watching Bucs OTA practice today. Below are just a few observations not intended to make a guy a Hall of Fame player or the first man cut this summer. It’s June 1 and the players are not in pads and there is no hitting. Think flag football as you read these notes. If you think you may be triggered by reading this piece, you may want to try to read the many tens of thousands of other stories Joe has written for this site instead. [read more]

Jaylon Mickens (85) coaches up Jaelon Darden on the finer points of the return game at Bucs OTA practice Tuesday.

After Tuesday’s OTA practice, Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians said he isn’t sure how much work he would demand in next week’s mandatory minicamp from 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, Bucs-Super Bowl-winning quarterback Tom Brady. [read more]

Bucco Bruce Arians.

Last year Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians seemed to have discovered then-Minnesota wide receiver Tyler Johnson. [read more]

Anthony Nelson in 2020

Let the competition begin! [read more]

New Bucs safety Raven Greene talked to Joe and local media today after the sparsely attended spring practice session at One Buc Palace. [read more]

Bucs backup QB Ryan Griffin.

At least two quarterbacks at One Buc Palace knew of the Bucs’ draft plans before Roger Goodell stepped to the podium in Cleveland. [read more]

Joe is always fired up to learn a little more about the magic of Tom Brady from the guys who play ball with him. [read more]

Are the Bucs a one-hit-wonder? Or can the team show the league they are the dominant squad and Go For Two? [read more]

Joe loves the energy in Rob Gronkowski’s voice when he glows about how incredibly different life is at One Buc Palace versus at Two Belicheat Place. [read more]

“We can do it, O.J.”

Only one team in the Super Bowl era went undefeated, and that is the 1972 Miami Dolphins. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

It seems the Bucs may have kickstarted the NBA trend of superteams into the NFL when they signed a bunch of big-name free agents and then hoisted the Vince Lombardi Trophy with them. [read more]

Can he get 1,000 yards again?

So we have reached summer. Oh, summer technically doesn’t begin until June 21. [read more]

It’s so beautiful that one must nitpick in order to find reasons the Buccaneers might struggle in 2021. [read more]

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NFL Network’s Daniel Jeremiah.

Last week someone from Mike Tannenbaum’s “The 33rd Team” suggested Bucs rookie defensive end Joe Tryon was overdrafted. [read more]