Photo Credit: Cliff Welch / Pewter ReportOkay guys and gals, Monday night sucked. For me, it started when it took me two hours to get from the Himes exit off of I-275 south to my parking lot on the south end of the stadium causing me to miss the entire first quarter of the game. It ended with a 3-point loss …Read More
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are 2-0…how sweet does that sound? It hasn’t happened since 2010 and they haven’t started 3-0 since the 2005 season. That’s what they’ll be looking to do on Monday night against the 0-1-1 Pittsburgh Steelers. I’ll get into my “Playaz 2 Watch” for this week in a minute, but first let’s review …Read More
Photo Credit: Buccaneers.comCan you feel the magic? What magic you ask? FITZMAGIC of course! The Buccaneers came into this game against the Eagles as the underdogs again. Well the underdog Buccaneers beat the top dog Eagles by a score of 27-21. This game had a little bit of everything, explosive plays, sacks, missed kicks, and for the …Read More
The Week 1 invasion of the port in New Orleans was a success. The Buccaneers were able to enter the Mercedes-Benz Superdome a ten point underdog and exit with a division road win after beating the Saints 48-40 in an offensive shootout. Last week’s “Playaz 2 Watch” were Saints wide receiver Michael Thomas and defensive …Read More
Respect is never given, respect is earned. Nobody knows that better than the 2018 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. A lesson they learned last season after going from potential playoff contenders at the beginning of the season to 5-11 pretenders at the end of it. After going 9-7 in 2016, the Bucs were crowned as “offseason champs” …Read More
This year, we here at WTB are trying to bring you more weekly content during the football season. One of my contributions to that effort is going to be my Deez Playaz 2 Watch segment. Each week, I’ll pick an offensive and defensive player from the Bucs opponent that could have a big impact on …Read More
Photo Credit: Cliff Welch / Pewter ReportBoy has this been a hot debate over the last few weeks. Dirk Koetter allowed offensive coordinator Todd Monken to assume playcalling duties during the preseason. The results? An aggressive, downfield attacking style passing offense that was putting points on the board against opposing defenses almost at will. A complete 180 from the vanilla offense …Read More
Photo Credit: Cliff Welch / Pewter ReportThe preseason is over, which means it’s time for teams to whittle their rosters down from 90 players to the final 53 players. The Bucs did just that on Saturday releasing their trimmed down team to the public. Most of the cut downs were as expected, but there were a few surprises and some other …Read More
Photo Credit: Cliff Welch / Pewter ReportThe fourth preseason game is like the NFL’s version of the Hunger Games. It’s a fight for survival for some guys. It’s typically the last chance for those “bubble guys” to show the coaching staff what they have to offer the team and give them a reason to keep them around. At this point in …Read More
Photo Credit: Cliff Welch / Pewter ReportThe offseason is brutal for football fans. Going more than 8 months without live Buccaneer football is torture. Fans get bored. They start to hallucinate and fantasize. They start breaking down, tearing apart and rebuilding the team’s roster. The boredom is bad enough, but then some start to criticize Jason Licht and question why he …Read More
