For the 15 months or so that America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston, has been in the NFL, he hasn’t been fond of the four-letter network.

Joe can understand. When Jameis was in college, that network reveled in the white noise that surrounded him. But from what Joe heard through the grapevine, the manufactured and patently false story concocted by the four-letter that Jameis was selling his autographs in college (a major NCAA violation) sealed the deal with Jameis. And not in a good way for the Disney outfit.

Famously, Jameis would not grant special access to the four-letter at his family’s draft party a year ago but did so with NFL Network (way to go, Jameis!). He also did his best not to talk to BSPN that night. At the Pro Bowl in Hawaii in January, Joe’s team there reported to JoeBucsFan.com world headquarters that even though the game was broadcast on BSPN, Jameis would not talk to BSPN reporters (but he did talk to Joe!).

Jameis doesn’t totally stiff BSPN. If they send a crew out to One Buc Palace he will speak to them. For example, he’s had lengthy interviews with Josina Anderson and Britt McHenry, and Jameis is polite as always to the local four-letter correspondents covering the Bucs. But Joe can understand why Jameis often avoids the four-letter. Can’t blame him.

So it raised Joe’s antennae when Joe learned BSPN radio was over-the-top praising Jameis last week. Well, now.

So Joe went back to the podcast archives of the notorious “Mike and Mike Show” Joe hasn’t listened to that show in years. Why? Joe pays $12 a month for SiriusXM. Why would listen to that tripe when SiriusXM NFL Radio is available (Booger McFarland co-hosting many mornings) with Howard Stern?

Sure enough, just as Joe was told, co-host Mike Greenberg was simply gushing over America’s Quarterback.

“Everything I am hearing, just people around the league talking, Jameis Winston is going to be a star! He is going to have a huge year and Tampa is going to make a leap forward. … I am hearing enormously good things about Jameis Winston,” Greenberg said.

Pardon Joe for being too much of a cynic, but Joe wonders, giving its past history with Jameis and some really shady reporting, might BSPN be putting on the ChapStick in order to get back in Jameis’ good graces?

Look, Jameis is too much of a class act to outwardly mock the four-letter for its past deeds. That’s just not Jameis. That’s not who he is. And it’s not like he totally stiff-arms BSPN.

Knowing how BSPN rarely allows its personalities to show their personalities and speak from the heart — virtually everything seen or heard or read on a four-letter property comes with a corporate stamp of approval — it struck Joe how over-the-top Greenberg was in his praise.

Greenberg’s words may have been quite sincere. But Joe suspects there was an ulterior motive behind the sincerity.