17+ hour, 40+ min ago   (794+ words) Rookie Bucs inside linebacker Josiah Trotter (45) stares down Joe Burrow (9) Sunday. Trotter had a record-setting afternoon. So how about the guy so many people whined and kvetched over who couldn’t defend the pass. The self-proclaimed sophists of the NFL draft…...

18+ hour, 17+ min ago   (1063+ words) Antione Winfield and the Bucs defense didn’t have an awful day today. But they needed to be perfect. Whether it was a young player or a veteran, each was in agreement: The defense needed to play better. Hey, let’s think…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (453+ words) Everyone at One Buc Palace, it seems, has been wowed by how rookie inside linebacker Josiah Trotter opened eyes in practice with physical play and a dawg mentality. Today, new Bucs inside linebacker and team captain Alex Anzalone, the March…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (403+ words) The Bucs’ go-to rookies on defense. More than 83 percent of Bucs fans look at their 2026 team and see a winner. The most popular vote was 10 wins for Tampa Bay in Joe’s poll yesterday. Expectations are sky high, as they should…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago   (515+ words) Bucs coach Todd Bowles. “When I first started coaching, one of the worst things that I think I heard was, ‘It will be OK.’ I would wonder, ‘How the hell is it going to be OK?’ The worst word in…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago   (552+ words) Last season was like a two-headed monster for the Bucs. The good head rose up and clobbered people before the bye. The Bucs were one of the best teams in the league — beating two playoff teams, including the eventual Super…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (496+ words) The creamsicles are fresh in Chris Godwin’s mind. Joe can sort of understand the pushback. More and more Joe sees hatred in the comments on this here website for those beautiful creamsicles the Bucs have been pulling out of mothballs…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (336+ words) No one really expects a third-round draft pick to have an impact with a team right away. Unless someone is crazy enough to draft a kicker in the third round. So when the Bucs landed Ted Hurst this spring from…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (834+ words) “You feel the vibes Todd?” The last time Joe heard a football big shot say very early in the season how he liked a team he assembled, it was Jimbo Fisher telling an ABC audience after a win, “I like…...