Yes, Kwon Alexander is injured. The severity has not been made public by the Bucs, though Jenna Laine of ESPN says it’s a hamstring.
When Kwon got hurt in practice over the weekend, multimedia guru Rock Riley (@realrockriley) was filming for JoeBucsFan.com and caught the injury on tape. It’s all below.
You’ll see Kwon running over the middle covering a crossing route and then go down without contact. He later appears to talk to trainers about his left hammy and is then consoled by Jason Licht. Scary times right now for Bucs fans with opening day in 19 short days.
With Mike Evans missing a couple of practices this week with what allegedly is an insignificant injury, rookie third-round pick Chris Godwin, aka reincarnated Roddy White, has gotten plenty of practice time with the first team. [read more]
If Doug Martin was not scheduled to serve the three-game balance of his four-game suspension to open the season, it is very likely he would be the No. 1 running back. [read more]
More often than not, winning head coach Dirk Koetter has walked off the practice field recently and said his team didn’t practice well at all. [read more]
Dive in to another Real Rock Riley report. Yes, that Rock Riley, the multimedia guru (@realrockriley). Rock’s been prowling around practice for all kinds of goodies that he shares here every Monday, Wednesday & Friday. Enjoy!
Cam Brate works on catching passes from the JUGS gun some 20 minutes after practice Wednesday.
Joe was out there sweating to watch the second-to-last training camp practice. Not many fans this morning. Even the fans are pining for a (real) game.[read more]
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Buc fans pining for the next Simeon Rice can stop chasing the impossible dream. [read more]
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Great scene in Hard Knocks last night when America’s Quarterback, Jameis Winston, doesn’t like what he sees from the Buccaneers’ second-team offense. [read more]
If seems the folks who weren’t familiar with “Hard Knocks” clamored, demanded or fully expected Kwon Alexander to be a big star of the NFL Films-produced HBO reality series. [read more]
Doug Martin found some face time on Hard Knocks last night.
Legions of Bucs fans were probably at the edge of their seats waiting to hear behind-the-scenes confirmation that the Bucs can’t wait to hand Martin the rock in Week 4 when his drug suspension ends. [read more]
More creative editing by Hard Knocks, or more of a hardass than is known?
There was some debate this weekend about why Dirk Koetter had his team running “gassers” at training camp practice, aka “suicides” or a series of sprints. [read more]
