Gameday Tampa Bay
October 3rd, 2021
Game 4
Bucs (2-1) at Belicheats (1-2)
Kickoff: 8:20 p.m.
TV: NBC (WFLA-TV Channel 8, locally).

Game 4
Bucs (2-1) at Belicheats (1-2)
Kickoff: 8:20 p.m.
TV: NBC (WFLA-TV Channel 8, locally).

Defense needs to get hungrier.
It doesn’t seem as though a former Bucs starting guard is ready to hit the panic button quite yet. [read more]

Khalil Davis
Ouch! [read more]

Bad news.
Bucs foot-rubbing, car-littering, film guru Rob Gronkowski may be out a while. [read more]

Ruled out.
Add Jason Pierre-Paul to the list.
The Bucs announced this afternoon that JPP will not play tomorrow night at New England. He joins Jamel Dean and Rob Gronkowski out for the game

Out
[UPDATE: 4:40 p.m.] Gronk is out with busted ribs. See home page story.

A Tom Brady screenshot from In The Current.
Tom Brady’s private throwing coach, a professional baseball pitcher who launched his career in the 1960s, is always a great and candid listen. [read more]
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Ke’Shawn Vaughn.
The official word that running back Giovani Bernard won’t play tomorrow had Joe thinking one thing. [read more]

Unique night ahead?
How do teams stop this Bucs offense without Hall of Fame-caliber defensive players and ferocious hitting, like the Rams delivered last Sunday? [read more]
Joe’s seen a lot of numbers swirling when it comes to the Bucs contract of cornerback Richard Sherman, who was signed off his couch this week. [read more]

Bounceback game Sunday.
The Bucs had an ugly trip to Los Angeles. But things will be better for them in their travels to New England. [read more]

“Can’t blame me.”
In 2018, Bucs fans were horrified when the defense posted the worst completion percentage in all the NFL, allowing opponents a revolting 72.47 success rate. [read more]

Coming up on his 27th birthday in his fifth NFL season, O.J. Howard’s NFL career is ready for a fair assessment. [read more]
So the Bucs are coming off a game in which the mighty Tampa Bay offense was strong but not operating at full tilt. [read more]
The official word is bad. Rob Gronkowski’s battered ribs may not be ready for real football on Sunday night when the Bucs face the Belicheats.
“Doubtful” is how Gronk is listed on the Friday injury report that popped just after 4 p.m.
As Joe wrote earlier, Giovani Bernard (knee) and Jamel Dean (knee) are out. Jason Pierre-Paul (shoulder) officially is “questionable.”
Damn, with Scotty Miller and Sean Murphy-Bunting on injured reserve, the Bucs’ mighty roster is awfully busted up for Week 4.

Ex-teammate talks.
Interesting look back here at how the Patriots fooled Peyton Manning in 2014, as he was leading one of the great offenses in NFL history. [read more]

Tom Brady friend and former coach talks Tampa Bay play.
Bill Belicheat’s iconic offensive line coach for 20 years, Dante Scarnecchia, was talking all things Tom Brady and Bill Belicheat this week.
Man, Joe’s really been enjoying all the football legends being interviewed this week as part of the Brady-Belicheat hype. [read more]
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Talkin’ JPP.
As Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians stated in his opening remarks of his final press conference before the Bucs travel to New England for Sunday’s game, the only injured players officiallhy out for Sunday’s game are Jamel Dean and Giovani Bernard. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.
It seems Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians is getting fed up with the Tom Brady-Bill Belicheat hype, too. [read more]