November 9th, 2020

Fingered Tom Brady?
Joe wrote earlier this morning there is something going on between star receiver Mike Evans and park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting Bucs quarterback Tom Brady. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

NBC Sports screen shot of the Bucs’ first-half woes
Before the Bucs faced the Giants last Monday, they were averaging a whopping 18-plus points in the first halves of games. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Vita Vea
The Bucs got bullied and seal-clubbed on their home turf last night and it started — and ended — in the trenches.
It was stunning against a Bucs front-7 many consider among the best in football. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Bucs were exposed.
Who knew that park-violating, home-invading, NFLPA-ignoring, down-forgetting Bucs quarterback Tom Brady gave a rose to furniture-tossing Bucs receiver Antonio Brown? [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

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BY IRA KAUFMAN
Let’s go to the highlights.
Ryan Succop didn’t suck. Blaine Gabbert took a knee without tripping.
The rain held off, for the most part.
What else ya got?
The most lopsided loss in the unparalleled career of Tom Brady left two announcers and a national TV audience wondering why the Bucs have been generating so much hype. After two weeks of slop, even Tampa Bay’s most passionate supporters are questioning the players and coaches operating out of One Buc Place. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020
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November 9th, 2020

Joe is using this photo to illustrate that the Bucs did, in fact, make a great play last night, a strip sack by Shaq Barrett.
Joe wrote about this a few times when Bucco Bruce Arians was hired 22 months ago by Team Glazer, and it’s worth revisiting today. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

“I still have it, Todd.”
This season, and for sure last week, Joe heard a lot about this and it was aggravating. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Jury still out.
A lot of Bucs fans were jacked for this. NBC sure was pimping it. And while Joe had reservations, Joe was stoked to see how it would work out. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Hall of Fame coach Bill Parcells
Joe gets the various stages of freakout this morning by Bucs fans, but Joe’s also going to pull out an old Bill Parcells line and a fresh reminder from this season to soothe the non-believers. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

“Hey Drew, I could have thrown three picks for the Bucs. And I wouldn’t have to put up with Antonio raiding my fridge every night, either.”
Welcome to nuts-kick Monday. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Talks carryover
With a chance to take full possession of the NFC South division lead and a half-game lead on a No. 1 seed in the NFC playoff picture, the Bucs instead were blasted with a baseball bat to the grille. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020
After the Bucs had a comeback win against the Chargers, Bucco Bruce Arians declared his team would have had its ass kicked in that game if it occurred one year ago. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020

Good, hardly great (yet).
Let’s just call it like we see it. [read more]
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November 9th, 2020
Like most Bucs fans, Joe is searching for reasons why the Bucs had what Bucco Bruce Arians called a “shocking” loss last night, 38-3 to the Saints at the Den of Depression before a national TV audience. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020

Bryon Lefwich
A wonderful Bucs streak was broken tonight, and how and why it happened is something Joe can’t figure out. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020

If you think what you saw from Tom Brady tonight was shockingly ugly, the history books say you’re right on the money. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020
Seeing Jameis Winston smiling and laughing and closing out the game for the Saints really made Joe ill.
It’s always bad news when your opponent’s third-string quarterback is doing that kind of thing.
Jameis even completed a pass. What a horrible exclamation point on one of the ugliest nights in team history.
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November 8th, 2020

Shamefully unprepared
Tonight’s debacle is fully on Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians. Plain as day. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020
Todd Bowles’ defense got exposed tonight. And a trend is emerging. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020
The greatest sports book Joe ever read was John Feinstein’s “Season on the Brink.” It was a year in the life of Bobby Knight and the Indiana Hoosiers. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020

Donovan Smith’s late Halloween costume Sunday.
Look, Joe has defended starting left tackle Donovan Smith for years. Joe cannot any longer. [read more]
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November 8th, 2020
They said it wouldn’t happen.
All that culture change talk at One Buc Palace had a clear message: Tom Brady would bring a consistently new day in Tampa Bay. [read more]
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