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Preseason Game 2
Bucs at Steelers
Kickoff: 7 p.m.
TV: WFLA-TV Channel 8 with Chris Myers, Rondé Barber and Aileen Hnatiuk.
Rebroadcast: WTTA-TV Channel 38 will rebroadcast the game Sunday at 9;30 a.m. NFL Network will also rebroadcast the game Monday at 3 p.m., Sunday at 6 a.m., Tuesday at 3 p.m. and Thursday at 1 a.m.
Dial up a loaded JoeBucsFan Show at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday on WDAE radio, 95.3 FM and AM 620. Listen online, too, or via the iHeart Radio app. The local Saturday fun on WDAE starts this week with Rock Riley at 9 a.m.
Joe’s been back on the WDAE airwaves every Saturday since February. Varying times.
Prepares for battle.
You may have heard Mike Evans put on a show in Pittsburgh for the maybe 60 members of the Fourth Estate and about 100 VIP Steelers fans at the Crib That Antonio Brown Built. [read more]
Ranking Bucs positions.
It’s one thing to be a spreadsheeter. It’s quite another to pretend you’re some sort of football Nostradamus. [read more]
Prediction.
Joe thinks the Bucs, provided they win a bunch of games and go to the playoffs again, have several Pro Bowl candidates who could become first-timers getting the honor. [read more]
So receiver/returner Trey Palmer won’t play against the Steelers on Saturday night and hasn’t had a full practice this month, but he was back on the field yesterday in Pittsburgh. [read more]
No need to play.
If any Bucs fan traveled to Pittsburgh to see Baker Mayfield play in the Bucs’ second worthless preseason game, the following will come as bad news. [read more]
Rookie cornerback Jacob Parrish (right) and Jamel Dean.
So Joe had a moment at Bucs-Steelers practice yesterday in Pittsburgh that had nothing to do the cool-for-Florida weather and Mike Tomlin barking a bit of playful trash talk at Baker Mayfield. [read more]
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Bucs RB Sean Tucker.
Last week Bucs coach Todd Bowles mentioned he wanted to get No. 3 running back Sean Tucker more touches. [read more]
Big prediction.
Don’t worry, folks. The Bucs’ offensive line will be fine. Relax. [read more]
Todd Bowles likes Bucs facing a Hall of Fame QB in the summer.
So the Bucs faced drama queen and Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers today. Bucs coach Todd Bowles said that’s a good thing. [read more]
Mike Evans deserved a drink Thursday.
OK, Joe has mentioned this. These notes are going to be, well, very different. [read more]
New Bucs playcaller Josh Grizzard.
Everybody associated with the Buccaneers seems to love the team camaraderie.
Heck, Jamel Dean said the club is better than the one winning the Super Bowl four years ago. [read more]
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Impressing in Pittsburgh today.
The roughly one-third of Bucs fans that hoped/expected Jamel Dean to be out of the starting lineup this season — Sage Ira Kaufman included — probably will have to wait a year, or until Dean has his annual injury. [read more]
He’s #AtlantaReady.
So Steelers media relations made it abundantly clear with some not-so-clear directives about reporting on practice today between the Bucs and the Steelers from the Crib that Antonio Brown built. [read more]
Chris Godwin.
Maybe this says something. Maybe it doesn’t.
Injured All-World left tackle Tristan Wirfs and injured stud Bucs receiver Chris Godwin did not travel with the team to Pittsburgh on Tuesday and were not at practices on Wednesday and Thursday. Joe has no expectation they’ll be on the sidelines Saturday night against the Steelers in Week 2 of the preseason.
Joe suspects the players would say travel away from their full-time rehab is a bad idea, though the Bucs do have players in Pittsburgh nursing injuries and working with trainers here in the Steel City.
The Bucs’ new quarterback will take the field Saturday night in Pittsburgh, possibly right after Baker Mayfield is finished with his limited work under the lights. [read more]
D.K. Metcalf and Aaron Rodgers have a talk.
As Joe referenced earlier, today’s Bucs-Steelers practice came with rules for reporters. No reporting of specific plays in detail with a few exceptions.
So in this case, Joe will describe a cool moment. [read more]
Injured rookies.
A bright spot in training camp had a dark afternoon in Pittsburgh. [read more]
Still drinking Jalen Ramsey’s Gatorade.
So Joe is at the recently completed Steelers-Bucs practice in Pittsburgh and is bewildered. [read more]
