Gunslinger.

Years ago, Joe tried “Red Zone Channel” because so many folks hyped it up.

Joe didn’t get it.

Way, way, too ADD for Joe. It was (virtually) nothing but offensive highlights. Hated it! Dudes can get highlights anywhere free. Why pay?

Besides, when Joe wants to watch a game, Joe wants to watch a game! Be immersed in it.

The highs and lows, the ups and downs, ebbs and flows, the buildup of the drama, the witching hour, all of that and more is why Joe is addicted to football.

Each possession has its own story.

None of that happens on the Red Zone Channel. It’s just highlights, often fully out of context. More often than not Joe would be screaming at the TV because the powers that be would flip games just when something got interesting.

NNNNOOOO!!!

This is why “this Joe” is adamant if Chris “Mad Dog” Russo and screamin’ Stephen A. Smith co-hosted Red Zone Channel, it would be a riot! They’d unload on players, unload on coaches and tear apart fidgety, itchy-trigger fingered producers for having the gall to leave a Packers game for a Jags game.

When Joe did watch the Red Zone Channel, Joe wished one of those masochistic nuns Joe had in grade school would be around to whack producers in the hands with a wooden ruler to stop the game-hopping.

Russo and Smith would be awesome!

But you know, the perfect quarterback for Red Zone Channel had to be America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston. When he took the field, you had no idea what was going to happen but you were sure something would happen.

It would either be a pass so awesome you’d jump off your couch or a pick so awful you’d howl enough to scare the neighbor’s dog.

That seemed to be the mindset for recently-retired Bucs icon Lavonte David.

Last week, appearing on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast co-hosted by his former Nebraska teammate and Titans linebacker Will Compton, and former Titans left tackle Taylor Lewan, David was asked about Jameis’ 30-for-30 season when he had 33 touchdowns, 30 picks and 5,109-yards passing.

David busted out laughing.

“You knew what you were going to get,” David said. “Jameis was going to sling that ball and it was either going to be a touchdown or an interception.”

David described Jameis as a classic gunslinger and with gunslingers, you better be prepared for picks because gunslingers get shot. He said the Bucs defense knew when they left the locker room, Jameis was going to throw to the wrong team sooner or later.

“What stood out was us, defensively, it got to a point that season that when the offense got the ball, none of us [on defense] would sit down. We would stand up to wait to go on the field.”

Only after Jameis would throw a pick could the defense could take a breather on the sidelines.

“And when Jameis would throw that interception, ‘OK, he got that out of his system,’” David said. “We’d go out there and get him the ball back and he’d go out there and start slinging it again.”

David said the way the defense wanted to get Jameis the ball “as much as we can because we knew, sometimes, it was going to be good, but sometimes, it’d be on the other end.”

Despite all the picks, David said everyone in the locker room liked Jameis so much they couldn’t hold a grudge against him — players liked knew he was trying so hard to do right that they couldn’t get mad.

“Nobody was pissed off at him about it,” David said.

But along came Tom Brady. And we know no one on the Bucs was p!ssed about that!