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Bucs lose personnel director Jon Robinson to Tennessee

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The Tampa Bay Bucs, desperately in need of more personnel, will have to find it with a new personnel director. Jon Robinson, the Bucs’ personnel director the past two years, has taken the general manager’s job at Tennessee. Robinson replaces Ruston Webster, another former Bucs’ scout. With the Titans, Robinson will once again have the No. 1 pick in the draft (he helped guide the team toward Jameis Winston last year). A coaching search begins Thursday. Robinson joined Licht in…

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Marcus Mariota badly outplays Bucs’ Jameis Winston

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Did the Tampa Bay Bucs take the wrong quarterback? Jameis Winston of Florida State over Oregon’s Marcus Mariota? Given the chance, would they do it all over again? Such questions are fair considering how dominant Mariota’s performance was over Winston’s on Sunday afternoon. Actually, a lot of questions are in bounds as the Tennessee Titans won a 42-14 game over Tampa Bay Sunday. Mariota was superb, hitting 13 of 16 passes with four touchdowns, earning a rating of 158.3. By…

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Bucs expect defense to be better, but can it stop Marcus Mariota?

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The effort to have a top 10 defense and an improved football team, Tampa Bay Bucs’ defensive tackle Gerald McCoy says, starts Sunday. To McCoy, that will help to establish what kind of football team the Bucs will be. “We didn’t win a game at home last year,” McCoy said. “None. So if we want to get to where we want to get, which is in California, it starts Sunday. It really started in the spring, but, as far as…

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Will the Jameis Winston-Marcus Mariota rivalry last?

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This week, they are rivals. It is not likely to last. This week, the nation is taking sides in the duel between Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota. This week, Winston leads his bad team and Mariota leads his, and finally there is something interesting about the Bucs and the Titans. This week, you can pretend that this is a competition with legs, a fledgling Wilt Chamberlain-Bill Russell, Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier, Bjorn Borg-John McEnroe, Arnold Palmer-Jack Nicklaus type of battle between…

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Bucs need to be smart during draft week

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It’s genius week at One Buc Place. It’s the week when everyone admires your brain. Throughout the history of the Tampa Bay Bucs, of course, there have been a lot of mental lapses. But no one ever talks about them during draft week. The week the Bucs drafted Bo Jackson, why, they were the smartest kids in the room. No one knew he was going to play baseball instead. The week they picked Keith McCants, the Bucs were golden. They…

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All Bucs fans are not behind the team drafting Jameis Winston

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Here, he is not a savior. Here, he is not the next big thing. Here, he is not a glittering ball of potential on his way to town. Here, he is not the quarterback the Bucs have always desired. Here, Jameis Winston is simply a mistake who is waiting to happen. Just that. The conversation happens in a second-story office building, where four interested bystanders sit around a round table and talk of the upcoming draft. Perhaps, your office looks…

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