Newspapers constantly make calls on whether to quote a subject verbatim or clean up grammar and pick and choose comments to make a story flow smoothly and keep a story from becoming about somebody’s communication skills. It happens every day, especially with professional athletes and coaches. Locally, the mainstream outlets did that routinely with Raheem Morris, the loquacious [...] Read More
It seems like every year Bucs fans grasp onto the hopes of a player that has at best limited odds of making the team. Just by listening to Bucs fans periodically pine for wide receiver Ed Gant, Joe’s pretty sure he is this year’s Kareem Huggins, an extreme bubble guy. Good guy Mark Cook of [...] Read More
Start your day with the Morning Cup of Joe from HootersCalendar.com. And don’t forget to visit HootersCalendar.com for amazing videos, pictures and cool gifts. It’s Joe’s second favorite website. Bucs news forthcoming. How rookies signing early could be a bad thing. [FoxSports] Titans = “explosive?” [Tennessean] Ahmad Green wants to play football. OK, Joe suggests some [...] Read More
When the Bucs had their OTAs this week, there were three absentees: Kellen Winslow, who normally is allergic to OTAs. Dezmon Briscoe, for reasons unknown, but he finds the time to retweet messages on Twitter from women who drool over his posterior. Brian Price, who was too sick to practice. Woody Cummings of the Tampa [...] Read More
Literally as Joe walked into his modest abode at 2:17 eastern daylight time, Joe’s Droid Razr Maxx went off with an alert from the Bucs that free agent kicker Connor Barth has been signed. Joe will let the release from the Bucs explain the details. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers announced today that they have signed [...] Read More
Joe knows the following isn’t exactly breaking news but Joe also knows how fans get totally geeked by it. The few practices Joe has been able to peek at under the New Schiano Order reveal a glaring difference from years past. Not only are simple fundamentals drilled into players’ heads — from the play of last year, [...] Read More
Joe and other Bucs fans heard over and over again in recent years how the Bucs didn’t really need veteran receivers around Mike Williams and Arrelious Benn because “vibing‘” former receivers coach Eric Yarber would fill the role of mentor. Maybe Yarber was a great coach. Maybe he wasn’t. But now the Bucs have hard-working [...] Read More
Joe might need a new laptop just to keep track of all the LeGarrette Blount bashing — subtle and not-so-subtle — in the media. The latest to take out the imaginary seal club was former Bucs guard Ian Beckles (1990-1996), while co-hosting The Ron and Ian Show on WDAE-AM 620 yesterday. Beckles was appauled by Blount’s [...] Read More
Start your day with the Morning Cup of Joe from HootersCalendar.com. And don’t forget to visit HootersCalendar.com for amazing videos, pictures and cool gifts. It’s Joe’s second favorite website. Bucs news forthcoming. Redskins join the very long list of teams which won’t do “Hard Knocks.” Guess it’s the Jets again. [PFT] Are the Seahawks for sale? [...] Read More
The Man Channel, aka NFL Network, zeroed in on the Bucs last night. For those who missed it, or are held hostage by a cable TV provider more concerned about new sandboxes in Safety Harbor than NFL fans, here’s the link to the segment. There’s some fun stuff in the video, including cuts from yesterday’s practice. Highlights [...] Read More
