Ah, the joys of constant speculation. Right now, as we watch the playoffs and play golf, other teams are actually playing in the playoffs. The local media is having a field day with the cavalcade of old coaches coming through the doors at 1 Buc Place. Reality is that most of these guys have forgotten more football [...]

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Our good friends at The Sports Mob invited yours truly, OldSchool, to take part in a legitimate journalist’s round table tonight. Now normally I would be worried about that but when you add together the people on the round table (Rick Brown, Lakeland Ledger of Dub-C via PC @RickBRown91 on Twitter and Stephen Holder  - [...]

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I wish I could sugar coat this. I wish I could talk about a silver lining. I wish I could tell you that I see the path to a turn around for the team that we all love so much. I cannot do any of that. I also will not simply beat up the same [...]

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Good lord, this kind of counseling normally costs $350.00 per hour (Take that where you will). The Bucs went out and seemed to have things running right but as fast as we started to think the team had rebounded to a certain extent, they proceeded to give up 41 unanswered points. Another game that generated [...]

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Dammit. This week sucked. Losing is bad enough but what we are seeing transcends losing. You KNOW that I am a die hard, ardent, arguably too positive fan but this shit is ridiculous. the big problem is that there is no ‘one throat to choke.’ We will be talking about what happened on the field, [...]

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(If you cannot attend, we are still taking online donations. Click here http://mobro.co/OldSchool76 and donate to either me or the tem, I don’t really care. Just give us your money! ) You guys know we are raising money again this November for Prostate Cancer awareness. We are WAY short of our goals but still plugging away as every [...]

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Well folks, the pain is real. Another loss has triggered the normal deluge of “Fire <insert name here!” chants. The loss to the Titans pretty much ended any prayer of the playoffs this year, but more upsetting than that is the continued inability of our beloved Bucs to play 60 minutes. Missed tackles (29 according [...]

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Due to some dumb college sport, the 2 Hand Touch that normally would have aired Tuesday was preempted. After the colonoscopy our Bucs received at the hands of the Texans and in an effort to allow a truly cathartic session, we have spun up a special Full Contact What the Buc? Former Bucs (and Jets) [...]

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Well, it wasn’t pretty, but there is no column for style points. Despite the best attempt to recreate the 2003 Colts game by an officiating crew whose heads were so far up their asses it was amazing that they could blow their whistles, the Bucs cam back to win another game and close out the first [...]

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Good morning Tampa! I know many of your are licking your (stop it!) wounds after the Rays lost a heart breaker to the Rangers last night, but today we switch gears back to NFL. Our beloved Bucs play on Monday Night Football versus teh suddenly less scary Colts. The guy that we would have been [...]

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