The man Chucky craved but didn’t score in the 2007 draft, Calvin Johnson, looked like a man among boys Sunday against the Bucs’ overmatched defense. Johnson’s been a stud since he entered the NFL, but his Sunday totals of 10 catches for 152 yards was one of the best games of his career. Ronde Barber seems to think the Bucs [...] Read More
Veteran sports columnist Gary Shelton explains in this St. Petersburg Times video that for all the Bucs memories of the 2010 season, the loss to the rebuilding since 1957 Detroit Lions “was the worst.” Read More
Sometimes a photo tells the story. Below, Kellen Winslow and the Lions safety are locked up in the end zone with Winslow about to exercise his right to the ball and catch what should have been a fourth-quarter touchdown. But he was called for pass interference. Yesterday, Joe wrote it was the call that killed the Bucs’ [...] Read More
Joe knew it. Josh Freeman knew it. Savvy fans knew it. There was Freeman, with a timeout in his pocket, standing at the line of scrimmage about to spike the ball with 12 seconds left in the first half on the Detroit 47 yard line. Freeman would have gotten off the spike at, say, 10 seconds, and the [...] Read More
Early in the season Raheem Morris used to openly fantasize to the media about his dream of pounding teams into submission in the fourth quarter with LeGarrette Blount. That was his ultimate scenario, Raheem said, culminating with the Bucs taking a knee, which Raheem calls his favorite play in football. You had your chance today, coach, and [...] Read More
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Joe gives away great prizes every month. In October it was an Earnest Graham jersey from Paradise Worldwide Transportation. In November, Joe’s friends at Brandon Auto Mall and Ed Morse Auto Plaza in Port Richey gave away Reebok replica Aqib Talib jerseys. And, of course, Ed Morse Cadillac Tampa dished out a Cadillac Williams jersey. And there’s more [...] Read More
Joe actually is developing writers block. He’s so sick from this awful loss he wants to throw up on his keyboard. But the more Joe thinks about doing that the better the chances Joe actually does yack on his keyboard. So in an effort to avoid cleaning up a nasty, smelling mess, Joe’s trying to think [...] Read More
Moments after the Bucs lost, Joe was trying to think of some of the excuses crazy Bucs fans might concoct to wave off the severity of the Bucs loss to the rebuilding since 1957 Detroit Lions, a loss has ended the Bucs playoff hopes for anyone based in reality. One of the excuses Joe imagined fans [...] Read More
The Bucs needed one stop. One! There were 92 seconds left in the game. A playoff berth hung in the balance. The Bucs defense, once so vaunted it forced third world countries to the negotiation table, suddenly turned meek at the most inopportune time. The rebuilding since 1957 Detroit Lions, led by grizzled signal-caller, the immortal Drew Stanton, [...] Read More
It was third down. The Bucs had the ball on the Lions-2 with just under nine minutes left in the game and the Bucs trailed 17-14. Bucs quarterback Josh Freeman goes back to pass. He sees tight end Kellen Winslow in the back of the end zone, locked in hand-to-hand combat with a defender. Winslow was clearly [...] Read More
