Flash poll posted at 2:12 p.m. Flash Poll closed after 14 hours.

Out.

When the Bucs host the slimy Saints Sunday night, a fixture on the slimy Saints’ sidelines won’t be there.

And that missing (former?) fixture will be New Orleans coach Sean Payton. Per Adam Schefter of BSPN, Payton, the pride of Eastern Illinois University, has tested positive for The Sickness (as he did in 2020) and will miss the game with the Bucs.

New Orleans defensive coordinator Dennis Allen, once a Raiders head coach, will assume head coaching duties.

Cornerback Jamel Dean

Bucs Super Bowl-winning coach Bucco Bruce Arians said only one player will not play Sunday night against the slimy Saints. [read more]

Todd Bowles explains value.

It’s clear that veteran corner Richard Sherman is not what he once was, which was a Hall of Fame corner. [read more]

Podcast (free-stretch-bobby-fenton): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

All things Bucs and more with forever Tampa Bay fan, Tampa native and accomplished media guy Bobby Fenton. Follow Bobby on Twitter, @bobbygameday. The Free Stretch is presented by Bill Currie Ford. Remember Bill Currie Ford’s nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles!!

Listen or download above. Or listen and/or subscribe free at Podbean, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts.

PRESENTED BY BILL CURRIE FORD

For 4+ years, The Free Stretch has been here for Bucs fans after being heard on several radio stations dating back to ancient times 2006. Bobby also hosted a national show on Sporting News Radio. [read more]

Proving doubters wrong.

Bucs running back Playoff Lenny, in his many interviews since getting cut by the Jags last year, and especially in his interviews this year, holds back little of his disdain for the Jacksonville organization that jerked him around. [read more]

Bucs DC Todd Bowles

It’s hard for Joe not to think the Bucs will be playing in Los Angeles in February. Why? [read more]

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich

The drumbeat is getting louder and louder. And Joe wonders if it will become near-deafening by the time the Bucs play their final game in the playoffs, no matter how far they get? [read more]

Podcast (toddcast-todd-wright-podcast): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

In this episode of The Todd Wright TODDcast, Todd takes great joy in discussing the embarrassing NFL era of Urban Meyer. The Todd Wright TODDcast is presented by Brandon Legal Group and Bill Currie Ford. Click above to listen or to download. Or listen on Stitcher here, Google Podcasts here, and on other platforms.

PRESENTED BY

Thursday injury report.

It’s not like the Bucs defense played stout football in the second half last week. A big reason is the defense collapsed after cornerback Jamel Dean went out with some sort of illness/wooziness. [read more]

Bucs OC Byron Leftwich

Joe can fully understand the dot-connecting many people are busy with, linking Bucs offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich to the newly-opened head coaching job with Jacksonville in the wake of Urban Meyer getting tossed out of the First Coast area. [read more]

Interesting take from Richard Sherman after Tampa Bay sports media icon and Bucs Kickoff podcast host Rock Riley asked him about letting Buffalo come back in the second half Sunday. [read more]

Richard Sherman (left) whiffed on this open field tackle of a Bills tight end with time running out. He talked about it this week.

Safety is a new role for Richard Sherman, and it showed on Sunday. [read more]

Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

Sean Sullivan, the JoeBucsFan draft guru, keeps track of rookies and young players leaguewide — how they are fitting in and how they are not. Listen to Sullivan do that (with a healthy side of Bucs talk) weekly on the Best In Class podcast. 

Listen or download above, or subscribe at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and other platforms. All the fun is presented by Bill Currie Ford, home of the nationwide lifetime warranty on new and used vehicles. Find Sean there eager to help you personally with all of your automotive needs. Fire off questions on football and more to Sean at BestInClass@BillCurrie.com.

Podcast (todd-wright-fantasy-football-podcast): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Subscribe: RSS

In this Bucs Bulletin edition of The Todd Wright Fantasy Football Podcast, Todd discusses the continued fantasy potential of Tampa Bay’s “Fab Five” and focuses solely on two relevant starters for New Orleans. The Bucs Bulletin is presented by Brandon Legal Group.

Click above to listen or to download, or at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and via Podbean and more platforms!

Drinks to the offense.

One former Bucs quarterback is absolutely in love with the current Bucs offense. And Joe can only guess he’s including a sidelined lethal weapon in his analysis. [read more]

Somewhere in there is Bills quarterback Josh Allen.

The chest-bumping optimists are still all jacked up because the Bucs played a near perfect half of football to plant a 24-3 lead on the Bills at halftime Sunday. [read more]

Left tackle Donovan Smith

Joe guesses you could call the Bucs’ offensive line is a bunch of nitpickers. [read more]