“Byron, heck, you won’t be here in 2023. How bout I dump next year’s fourth for that running back you want now?”

Joe’s got loads of Big Storm beer ready for tonight’s NFL Draft and can’t wait for the trays of tasty Hooters deliciousness to arrive late-night.

Joe also is prepared for the Bucs to trade down. [read more]

Flash poll posted at 9:45 a.m. Flash poll closed at 12:34 p.m.

Singular focus.

There is a reason Joe — shockingly — doesn’t want an edge rusher in this weekend’s draft and instead wants guys with great chances of making huge impacts this year. The hell with development. Next year doesn’t matter. [read more]

Georgia safety Lewis Cine.

Joe cannot help wanting ballcarriers on other teams, the morning after a Bucs win, to feel the hits they absorbed from excellent tackling. [read more]

Bucs OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka.

Any year but this year, Joe would join many other Bucs fans hollering for an edge rusher in tonight’s draft. You can never have too many pass rushers. [read more]

(This is a repost of a published article Joe runs as an annual tradition for the morning of the first day of the NFL draft.)

Joe’s going to go slightly personal here, a rare, albeit tiny window into Joe’s background on this holiest of high football holidays. [read more]

CBS analyst says Clemson CB Andrew Booth an improvement for Bucs.

Joe will go over this one last time why he is so high on Clemson cornerback Andrew Booth, and why Joe believes Booth can help the Bucs win another Super Bowl. As in 2022. As in now, likely Tom Brady’s final rodeo in Tampa. [read more]

What’s more fun on the eve of draft night than remembering how Gerald McCoy put his foot down to label the best defensive tackle in this draft.

And now it’s feeling like the Bucs could trade down to get him. [read more]

Interesting advertising is popping on the Buccaneers’ official website tonight. [read more]

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There’s a changing of the guard going on at One Buc Place — and I’m not talking about Shaq Mason replacing Alex Cappa. [read more]

Jamel Dean, a 2019 third-round pick, and head coach Todd Bowles.

It’s hard for Joe to believe this is a total coincidence. [read more]

Cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting

The Bucs entered the 2020 season handing starting cornerback jobs to three very young players. It was perhaps the greatest gamble of the Jason Licht-Bucco Bruce Arians regime. [read more]

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Not a reach to select Penn State WR Jahan Dotson.

There are two very real and very scary questions that very few people on the planet Earth know the answer to that easily could shape the direction of the Bucs’ draft. [read more]

Hard-hitting Georgia safety Lewis Cine.

So last night on a special ESPN presentation, all the network’s NFL beat reporters took part in a mock draft. [read more]

Same ol’ same ol’?

The leader of the Bucs’ special teams and former NWA wrestling champion (sarcasm), defensive tackle Pat O’Connor, made an appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio on “The End Zone” co-hosted by Alex Marvez and Zig Fracassi. [read more]

Offers advice.

Anyone who follows prickly Pete Prisco of CBS Sports on social media or watches his videos knows he is very firm in his beliefs and is never afraid to share them or even tangle with coaches in person. [read more]

“Holy sh!t!”

Yesterday, BSPN+ launched the long-awaited chapter, Episode 10, of “The Man in the Arena” segment. It is a series produced by Bucs quarterback Tom Brady chronicling his career. [read more]