by: Martin Fennelly TAMPA, Fla. – Can we start the playoffs Monday? “We played a pretty good first half today,” Tom Brady said. Saturday in Detroit, the Bucs left no doubt that they were a playoff team. After 15 minutes, we knew. By halftime, it…
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by: Martin Fennelly The College Football Playoff has to go. Or at least get bigger. There has to be more to life than Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, and Notre Dame. I’m sick of the usual suspects. I’m even taking into account that this is a…
Read More To Cap the Strangest of Seasons, CFP Delivers its Usual Rank(ed) Obscenity
TAMPA, Fla. – The Bucs edged closer to the playoffs Sunday with what turned out to be a rousing win at Atlanta. Now it’s just a matter of which team shows up in early January. Will it be the world-beaters who overcame a 17-0 halftime…
Read More Which Buccaneers Will Make the Playoffs?
This is what’s called waiting for the other shoe to drop. Florida is back in the SEC title game, and waiting for the Gators, as usual, is Alabama, 10-0 and ranked No. 1, well atop the College Football Playoff standings. This doesn’t seem like the…
Read More Alabama ‘Roll Tide’ is Waiting For The Florida Gators, As Usual
TAMPA, Fla. – You can resume breathing, Bucs fans. Your team certainly has. Forgotten on Sunday were those three losses in the previous four games. Forgotten were those piles of yards racked up by the Saints, Rams, and Chiefs in beating Tampa Bay. Armed with…
Read More “We Can Do Any Damn Thing We Want To Do” Resume Breathing Buccaneers Fans
Only the Bucs, right? Only the Bucs could take a perfectly suitable dream season, with a very good coach and the very greatest quarterback in perfect harmony, all the right pieces in place, poised for a postseason run, a run at a Super Bowl in…
Read More Only the Bucs Could Turn Tom Brady into an Accomplice
As if things could not get worse for Florida State and first-year coach Mike Norvell, who is 2-5 as it is. Norvell has beaten COVID but not much more than if his first shot out of the box in Tallahassee. But here comes Clemson to…
Read More FSU Finds Itself in a Deep, Dark Place
Re-entry is the worst, isn’t it? One second, the Bucs and Tom Brady were kings of the world, 6-2 and poised for a runaway NFC South title and a top seed in the NFL playoff jamboree. Crash. Burn. They are reeling after the Saints disemboweled…
Read More Tampa Bay Buccaneers Have a Way Back Sunday, Don’t Crash and Burn
TAMPA, Fla. – We don’t need to tabulate the mail-in ballots. We don’t need a recount. We are ready to declare Tom Brady and the Buccaneers a Super Bowl contender. They’re 6-2 at the midway point of the season and are going into a bona…
Read More The Brady Bunch Gets Bigger, But Better?
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. – It’s a few days after. Not even By now, Rays fans, you’ve stopped having nightmares. Or maybe you haven’t. The Rays’ wonderful season, storybook in so many ways, came up two chapters short in Texas. But let’s be gracious. We’d like…
Read More Not Even Cash Can Wipe Out the Rays’ Money Season