The Big 3 For Free Agents
January 31st, 2022
“Answers are everything, Tommy.”
The quality free agents demand to have three questions answered.
In no particular order: [read more]
Senior Bowl Preview – Quarterbacks & Running Backs
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Bruce Arians Evaluates Ryan Succop, Bradley Pinion
January 31st, 2022
Ryan Succop ranked 23rd in field goal conversion percentage this season among full-time kickers.
Joe wouldn’t blame any Bucs fan for singing the blues about the Tampa Bay kicking game. [read more]
Free Agency Approaching
January 31st, 2022
Keeping Chris Godwin.
Tomorrow is Feb. 1. Maybe it is just Joe but January seemed very long.
Maybe it was the un-Florida-like gloomy cold the past couple of weeks? Maybe it was no Bucs football for a week? [read more]
The Blame Game: Jason Licht & Bruce Arians Edition
January 31st, 2022
“Look, Glazer, you know and I know this growing media spin is about as dumb as trading for Sam Bradford or paying Taysom Hill.”
The stink is rising fast when it comes to how some big voices are trying to explain the expected Tom Brady retirement.
“False!!”
January 31st, 2022
“I took care of it, Dad.”
So Joe brought word over the weekend about what one respected NFL reporter thinks will be an “exodus” with the Bucs coaching staff in the wake of Tom Brady retiring.
Provided he retires. [read more]
If You Want The Bucs To Draft A Quarterback…
January 31st, 2022
Pitt QB Kenny Pickett
Joe has seen a lot of comments about what the Bucs should do at quarterback for 2022, provided Tom Brady retires.
Report: Tom Brady Business Assistant Has Been Looking For Work
January 30th, 2022
A guy who Bucs quarterback Tom Brady personally employs to keep his business dealings straight apparently has been calling around the NFL looking for a new job. [read more]
“The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Need A New Quarterback”
January 30th, 2022
“Hey, Billy O’Brien, how’s life in Alabama? Look, you wouldn’t still have Deshaun Watson’s cell still, would you?”
The final sentence of Ian Rapoport’s report this morning sure had a strong degree of finality. [read more]
“He Grew Increasingly Frustrated With The Culture”
January 30th, 2022
Is Tom Brady possibly quitting because he has run out of patience with the Bucco Bruce Arians regime?
This line of thinking is being peddled by two prominent sources. [read more]
Make The Call!
January 30th, 2022Flash poll posted at 4:44 a.m. Poll closed at 9:58 a.m.
“Major Exodus” Coming For Bucs?
January 30th, 2022
Fresh report on Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.
This doesn’t seem unlikely at all. [read more]
The Communication Gap
January 30th, 2022
Fans matter.
Once upon a time, Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht released a written statement via team media relations channels after a friend of DeSean Jackson — not the then-Bucs wide receiver — crashed a truck near International Plaza and two bullets and about $100.00 worth of marijuana were found in the abandoned vehicle. [read more]
Teddy Bridgewater The Favorite To Succeed Tom Brady As Bucs QB (With Handicappers)
January 30th, 2022
Gamblers like.
Joe is not trying to urinate in your eggs this morning, depressed as you may be from the news yesterday that Bucs quarterback Tom Brady plans to call it a career very shortly.
But you may want to grab whatever Bloody Mary mix and vodka you have leftover from Gasparilla to wade through this news. It may be a long day. [read more]
ESPN Doubling Down On Tom Brady Report
January 30th, 2022
Adam Schefter.
The national media types are in lockstep: Tom Brady is retiring. Adam Schefter, Ian Rapoport, Jason La Canfora, they are all reporting the same: Multiple sources from Brady’s inside circle say he’s done. [read more]
Precision Career; Clumsy Farewell?
January 29th, 2022
Rondé Barber talks Tom Brady legacy.
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Tom Brady’s exquisite sense of timing finally betrayed him.
Reports of Brady’s imminent retirement broke all over Twitter on Saturday afternoon, apparently catching the Bucs by surprise. In a subsequent statement released by Brady’s agent, Don Yee neither confirmed nor denied the reports.
In the news business, that’s considered a tacit confirmation. [read more]
NFL Network: Leaks Threw Off Tom Brady
January 29th, 2022
What’s going on?
Either this is the greatest smokescreen since Operation Overlord or this is sports journalism’s “Dewey Defeats Truman” moment. [read more]
False Alarm? Tom Brady Is Not Retiring?
January 29th, 2022
UPDATED 5:17 p.m. – It seems Tom Brady’s dad isn’t buying any of the reports that his son is retiring.
What a Saturday afternoon it has been! [read more]
Seems Tom Brady’s Plans Got Sidetracked
January 29th, 2022
“I told you to keep your trap shut!”
Joe knows Tom Brady is nearly as skilled as a businessman as he is at quarterback. And Joe doesn’t think Brady does a thing spontaneously, aside from a couple of shots of tequila and tossing the Vince Lombardi Trophy over water.
And maybe not even that. [read more]
