NFL Stripped Bucs Of A Spring Practice
June 11th, 2026
NFL commisioner Roger Goodell
Uplifting stuff from Todd Bowles this afternoon after practice.
The Bucs didn’t practice yesterday. Why? The NFL canceled it, Bowles said, because the league reviewed the Bucs’ first spring practice and decided “we had too many guys on the ground.”
Remember, all practice video is reviewed by the NFL and hitting his not allowed. It’s supposed to be glorified flag football with helmets.
Joe applauds this reality. The Bucs tried to get a little tougher through offseason personnel additions. They also brought it in a bunch of new assistant coaches and, Joe has been told, Bowles is all in favor of edgier practices.
It seems the Bucs went a little overboard. Bravo!
June 11th, 2026 at 1:08 pm
The ghost of Ray Perkins Three-A-Days will haunt Goodell for this – wait and see…
June 11th, 2026 at 1:14 pm
Would rather have to reign in it, than motivate to even be an element of practice.
Work hard, play harder
June 11th, 2026 at 1:32 pm
encouraging news!!!
GO BUCS!!!!
June 11th, 2026 at 1:39 pm
They’ve proven they don’t learn anything in practice, so might as well avoid the inevitable injuries.
June 11th, 2026 at 1:40 pm
Best team update I’ve heard all off-season. Although I have a funny feeling the Bucs might wanna sign Baker before the season starts. Gonna be a fun year to be a fan of the team stays healthy.
June 11th, 2026 at 1:41 pm
Well, follow the damn rules.
June 11th, 2026 at 2:27 pm
ModHairKen Says:
June 11th, 2026 at 1:41 pm
Well, follow the damn rules.
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Are you one of those people that drives 45MPH and backs up traffic for a mile because that’s what the sign says?
We really should bring back the chair for those people.
June 11th, 2026 at 2:28 pm
I like what I hear. Week one I want to see the bucs bully the bengals in the trenches.
June 11th, 2026 at 2:32 pm
So teams pay players more to practice less. Ok. Seems the NFL doesn’t want a better product. Plus ive heard many former players say the extra hitting prepared their bodies for the season. Oh well.
June 11th, 2026 at 3:15 pm
I’m not happy about it at all. Get a day off, come back and get injuries.
June 11th, 2026 at 3:16 pm
Screw Roger Goodell. Generate some nice AI flag football clips to send him, and go bump some heads.
June 11th, 2026 at 3:21 pm
This commisioner is garbage it’s why we have soft bored players and everyone is hurt all the time Pete Roseland and Paul tagliabu were so so much better! This idiot wants to turn the nfl into a world flag football team. I pray for a new commisioner soon maybe then we can get back to real football and excited players and fans! Not to mention the crap halftime shows at the superbowl every year another topic for another post lol
June 11th, 2026 at 3:38 pm
Sounds like crap to me Joe. ESPN, NFL Network, and the NFL always hating on the Bucs. This looks like we might be feeding them the old crow, with some luck wouldn’t it be nice to do it again? Maybe 3 rings could shut their mouths for a while. Let’s Go Bucs!!!! Goodell wasn’t the greatest pick for the role ?
June 11th, 2026 at 3:45 pm
It’s practice folks. Not a game, and not the regular season.
We’re talking about practice??? Practice???
It’s like watching the out takes of a sitcom in pre production.
Absolutely meaningless and a waste of our time.
September 13th is just three months away. Then we can talk turkey.
June 11th, 2026 at 3:45 pm
This league is so soft almost unwatchable, what a joke football has become
June 11th, 2026 at 4:12 pm
Rules are Rules as long as all teams are required to follow the same rules
Go Bucs !!
June 11th, 2026 at 4:41 pm
I definitely consider this more encouraging than not.
June 11th, 2026 at 5:34 pm
Just when I couldnt imagine hearing about another really dumb rule
June 11th, 2026 at 6:11 pm
The issue, besides Bowles’ scheme, with the defense last year was their listlessness in the second half of the season. So, any kind of heartbeat from them is welcome. Let’s just hope we get a big enough head start on the season before they realize they are in a no win situation and lay down like last years defense, including LVD, did.
June 11th, 2026 at 6:16 pm
The whole team should have showed up at Berkeley Prep today…
June 11th, 2026 at 6:29 pm
Wow!! The NFL is such a candy a** league now! Blends in well with our WOKE… words hurt my feelings …safe space culture! I have better things to do with my time than support this garbage!
June 11th, 2026 at 7:59 pm
Rod Munch…The ghost of Ray Perkins Three-A-Days will haunt Goodell for this – wait and see…
From Leeman Bennet to Ray Perkins……out of the frying pan into the fire, it was a great time to be a fan of this team 😶 Thankfully this team now is nowhere near the walking pile of garbage we had to watch weekly back then.
Go Bucs!!
June 11th, 2026 at 8:07 pm
Yeah, Munchkin, I do drive the speed limit. I also pay my taxes. I don’t stab people in tents.
We have rules for a reason. If you don’t like them, work to change them. Don’t just violate them.
This is all BS propaganda from the Bucs because no one wanted Bowles back after last year. Ticket sales are down.
Now we are going to hear crap about how much new blood they have. How Bowles is serious this year. How the players are no longer bored. Bucky is back in the fall, oh wait he’s back today.
You can buy into it. I’m waiting to see. Because I bought in last year. And it was one lie after another.
So I’m not getting giddy over them working too hard in OTAs.
Now why don’t you cite me some more statistics on this great Defense! Some of my favorite posts. You’re the deluded homer living a delusional life if you want to blame last year ONLY on Baker.
June 11th, 2026 at 9:39 pm
So ridiculous!!
Maybe someday they will have an NFLPA that understands more practice and more hitting in the offseason actually benefits the players and makes it safer.
As it is now, they barely practice and when they do, they don’t hit.
So every year the season starts and players drop like flies because they’re not in “game shape.”
This is another reason why I can’t stand the focus on safety.
The NFL are hypocrites.
They want to go to 18 games. They want teams to travel all over the world playing games. They won games on possibly Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, etc. constantly giving the players more travel and less rest.
But then if you breathe on a quarterback wrong, they call it a penalty and say it’s about player safety.
June 11th, 2026 at 10:11 pm
All about $$$
Need to pretend big brother RG cares about players safety so they can get to 18 games and eventually play in Asia. And that will be some poor teams home game. 🙄
June 11th, 2026 at 10:25 pm
First the league gets the refs to shave Buc points during games . Now they restrict Buc practices. Guess they are trying to even the score for the Buc’s negotiating with TB12 before the legal date. Enough is enough. Come on man…
June 11th, 2026 at 10:41 pm
David Says:
June 11th, 2026 at 9:39 pm
So ridiculous!!
Maybe someday they will have an NFLPA that understands more practice and more hitting in the offseason actually benefits the players and makes it safer.
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It really is amazing in that every single former player I hear talk about this stuff says you need practices, you need hitting, you need tackling to stay healthy.
Additionally the studies done on injuries since they’ve gone to cupcake practices shows injuries went up, not down.
Also, a study on the 2020 season showed that early season injuries went up by like 60% (something close to that anyways) when they didn’t have a preseason because of the plague.
You need practices, you need hitting, the numbers show it. It’s almost like the NFLPA, who are the ones demanding these cupcake practices, gets paid more money if they have more members – and every time someone gets signed they get a cut of that salary – plus they still get their cut of salaries of guys who are injured – so they double dip, or triple dip, etc, so they have very little incentive to try to keep guys healthy. Also there’s a lot of women in a lot strip clubs counting on NFLPA’s to pay for their kids daycare.
June 11th, 2026 at 11:27 pm
In life if you put in more effort than the other guy it counts double
We need to at least get to even with every one else
Brady once brought effort with him
Unfortunately hassan et al was an energy drain
June 11th, 2026 at 11:57 pm
Well if the NFL checks the tape they will clearly see that we had “to many guys on the ground” during the entire second half of the regular season…..heyoooo
June 12th, 2026 at 7:53 am
I remember back to spring practices in high school when it was basically underwear football with helmets and you really couldn’t get the guys to stop throwing themselves at each other as if they were in full pads.
I like this out of the players. It shows they’re champing at the bit to get the season rolling.
June 12th, 2026 at 8:29 am
I’m sure the Bucs were the only one doing it.
June 13th, 2026 at 8:39 am
Typical from czar Roger. Fixing stuff that aint broke. Not fixing stuff that is.
Go Bucs!