Looks for ballers.

Back in March, the Titans announced when the Bucs travel to Nashville for a preseason game, the Titans will host the Bucs for a series of joint practices.

Last year the joint practices with the Titans were fun because on the second day after getting pushed around the previous session, the Bucs got into all sorts of fights with Titans players.

Outside of Devin White leveling a Titans player, the most memorable scrap came when Antonio Brown clocked a Titans defensive back with a left hook on the sidelines just after the DB was screaming at Brown and a back judge for not calling holding or offensive pass interference.

That won’t be the only joint practice the Bucs will have. When the Dolphins come to Tampa Bay for a preseason game, the Bucs will host the Dolphins in joint practices at One Buc Palace, noted Daniel Oyefusi of the Miami Herald.

With the NFL reducing the preseason from four games to three and teams opting to play their starters less in the exhibition matches, the joint session, which was first reported by The Athletic, will offer players an opportunity to get productive reps against another opponent before the regular season.

Joe thinks this is a good idea for several reasons. The first obviously is after the NFL got rid of one of those worthless preseason games (one down, three to go), teams feeling left out can schedule a joint practice session to replace it.

Talk to NFL coaches and they almost unanimously claim they get more out of joint practices than they do games.

Remember the days when lousy Lovie Smith arrogantly scoffed at joint practices? Yeah, Joe sure does. Pppfffttt!

The Bucs finalized and released their preseason schedule yesterday. Here are the dates/times.

2022 Bucs Preseason schedule

Aug. 13 Miami, 7:30 p.m.
Aug. 20 at Tennessee, 7 p.m.
Aug. 27 at Indianapolis, 7:30 p.m.

(All games will be broadcast locally by WFLA-TV Channel 8.)