Todd Bowles Not Concerned Over Injuries (Yet)
August 2nd, 2025
Joe is not trying to jinx Mike Evans. But we all know a training camp tradition hasn’t happened yet.
It really isn’t a Bucs training camp until Mike Evans has some sort of hamstring issue. Since being drafted in 2014, Joe can barely remember one training camp where Evans escaped with healthy 100 percent hamstrings.
That has not happened this year but that doesn’t mean Bucs receivers aren’t getting dinged up. Trey Palmer and Tez Johnson sat out Friday’s practice with injuries. Palmer has been out for days. And, if you want to stretch it to tight end, Cade Otton has been out most of camp, too.
Bowles doesn’t see anything major related to Palmer and Johnson being out.
“That’s every training camp,” Bowles said. “That’s why we bring a lot of [receivers] in – they run more than everybody, along with the [defensive backs].
“The tweaks will happen, but they’ll be fine.”
Have practice times/days made makes a difference. Bowles made tweaks to the practice schedule last year to allow more rest time, and Joe remembers a Bucs source telling him the current format was with the blessing of the Bucs’ trainers.
Joe wonders if spreading training camp practices out has been a reason Evans is so far healthy?
Though there have been injuries, major (David Walker) and minor, with Baker Mayfield missing his second consecutive practice this morning with a throwing hand bruise.
August 2nd, 2025 at 10:52 am
All is just normal camp stuff with the exception of Calijah Kancey Calf Watch
August 2nd, 2025 at 11:05 am
With Bake out for a while, it’s a perfect time to give Mike some rest days and light workouts.
August 2nd, 2025 at 11:27 am
I would not be adverse to seeing Bowles put Evans on floppy hat patrol for nothing till season begins. He is ready now, playing him in any preseason or any further training camp is irresponsible.
August 2nd, 2025 at 11:30 am
If you compare training camps now to training camps back in the 60’s and seventies,( watch the Movie Paper Lion for reference) , where they were restricted to camp, doing two a days , in the heat, and they seemed to have fewer injuries , especially lower body injuries, maybe a study needs to be done to find out why. Of course those were the days players played with broken arms that the trainers just wrapped the cast in foam and they just continued playing, those days are gone .
August 2nd, 2025 at 10:11 pm
Did anyone listen to Simeon Rice about practice? It is mandatory to hone your craft, you can’t be so afraid of getting injured because if you do that then you defeat the whole purpose of practice. You don’t get to be the best by “contemplating” it.