No surprise this afternoon when the Bucs formally placed Lavonte David and Leonard Fournette on injured reserve. They could return for the playoffs.

Joe already reported that David is expected to miss Week 1 of the playoffs because of his Lisfranc sprain late Sunday night.

Lombardi Lenny is saddled with a bad hamstring.

Those trumpets you hear are the buglers Ronald Jones hired to announce his presence with authority.

The #FreeJoeTryon movement has a lot of followers. [read more]

The Sickness is still with us.

The Bucs are going to start running out of players. [read more]

Bucs QB Tom Brady.

Tom Brady doesn’t want to hear any excuses. [read more]

Bucs CB Richard Sherman.

Now maybe this is a whole lot of nothing but it still makes you wonder. [read more]

UPDATED 4:52 p.m.: Now with two QBs on the COVID shelf and Jameis Winston rehabbing a blown out knee, the slimy Saints are starting a rookie quarterback on Sunday against a team that’s won six consecutive games. [read more]

Devin White weighs in

Joe is forecasting a big storm on Sunday. [read more]

Playoff Lenny.

Joe was surprised the Bucs got so many guys in the Pro Bowl when the rosters were announced last night. [read more]

Playmaker?

The man known as Sneak now has a golden opportunity — and he’s probably auditioning for a job in 2022. [read more]

“Bryan, I know what I’m doing.”

A break from the diet of Bucs panic and medical reports here with a little nugget of Bucs history that might capture the interest of fans during The Lost Decade. [read more]

Hamstring issues.

Watching the “Apocolypse Before Christmas,” when the slimy Saints beat up the Bucs, the fact that both Playoff Lenny and Mike Evans went down with hamstring injuries raised Joe’s eyebrow. [read more]

Decisions.

Interesting chatter about the Bucs and how they will attack the final three games of the season. [read more]

Yes, Bucs legend Rondé Barber is well aware of injuries to running backs Leonard Fournette and Giovani Bernard within Tampa Bay’s pass-first offense. [read more]

Joe is really surprised the Bucs got five players named to the Pro Bowl (and eight alternates who could make it to Vegas in February — provided the Bucs aren’t in the Super Bowl and provided the NFL even has the damn game because of The Sickness). [read more]

Lavonte David will not require surgery. [read more]

Shaq Barrett is headed to his second Pro Bowl!

Five Buccaneers have earned the respect of NFL fans, their peers and coaches around the league.

And Lavonte David and Devin White are not among the honored. [read more]

Player magnet.

For once, the Bucs signed a big-name free agent that wasn’t about Tom Brady serving as a proxy for Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht. [read more]

Bucs coach Bucco Bruce Arians.

The Bucs have played 14 games. Two games shy of what once was a full season and three games short of what is now a full season. [read more]