Bucs Practicing At Giants Facility
August 17th, 2023
Logan Hall and Vita Vea on the practice field this morning at Giants headquarters.
Weird morning.
As diehard Bucs fans know, the Jets canceled their joint practice with the Bucs today after the teams worked together yesterday at the Jets’ home base. Joe can say with authority that the team is very disappointed the Jets pulled the rug out like that, even though that’s not the public stance.
Regardless, Tampa Bay found a temporary home today at the Giants’ official practice facility. The Bucs are outdoors, not indoors, and they do not have access to locker rooms. And it’s underwear football, no pads, which was not the original plan for today.
Joe watched players arrive under a slight drizzle and saw a bunch of them worked on by trainers on folding tables.
Tomorrow, the Bucs have a walk-through at MetLife Stadium across the street and, of course, there’s Preseason Game 2 on Saturday night.
Joe will up date practice happenings around noon.
August 17th, 2023 at 10:10 am
Will the Bucs try to hide Markees Watts? Wirfs raved about his pass rush skills. UDFA.
August 17th, 2023 at 10:14 am
@ Joe had Logan Hall showed anything in training camp?
August 17th, 2023 at 10:17 am
Logan who?
August 17th, 2023 at 10:18 am
Joe, how do you grade the Oline’s performance yesterday?
August 17th, 2023 at 10:23 am
I saw Hall get a little penetration at least twice Friday Night. He has his name mentioned once or twice in the practice notes.
August 17th, 2023 at 10:28 am
I think he is just going to be a run sport guy and not a high sack guy
August 17th, 2023 at 11:00 am
I think Aaron Rodgers doesn’t like playing our D lol
August 17th, 2023 at 11:13 am
‘Joe can say with authority that the team are very disappointed the Jets pulled the rug out like that, even though that’s not the public stance.’
That’s classic bulletin board material, and it surely didn’t help the Bucs in terms of getting ready for Saturday’s game nor for the season. Hope that the Bucs use that as prime motivation for this Saturday’s game. Would love to see the starters in there for at least 1 or 2 series.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:14 am
The Jets have an “us against the world” mentality…not surprising they would do this.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:20 am
Classless move !
Karma is a bittch !
I don’t really know the details of the fighting yesterday but it’s on the Bucs and Jets HC’s to get it addressed after practice yesterday
Huge inconvenience for the Bucs
Not looking good for the Saturday game, hope nobody from either team gets hurt or into trouble in that game.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:27 am
Love the helmets. Why do they not use them in the real games?
August 17th, 2023 at 11:29 am
For those asking… Hall had a sack yesterday… instead of asking questions that are easy finding the answers to, how about reading the articles. Not too hard to ask, do your own research. It isn’t that hard.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:31 am
The Jets cancelled before the Bucs even traveled to Jersey. Saleh was quoted saying it was for “safety” reasons because the first day the team that gets beat up comes out the second day looking for a fight…. Guess they made up for it the first day with six fights on the first day instead.
I wonder how it will be portrayed on hard knocks.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:39 am
A Bucs Fan Says “The Jets cancelled before the Bucs even traveled to Jersey”
I think that may have been for previous days? I’m not 100% sure though.
Still…I suspect the bucs will win this one on spite.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:40 am
I hope the Bucs kick the Jet’s arse Saturday night. They think they’re all that now that Aaron Rodgers is on the squad. Even though it’s a meaningless preseason game, I hope the Jets get knocked down a peg or two. LFG!!!
August 17th, 2023 at 11:40 am
I will say…this is the most excitement I’ve had for a preseason game in over a decade…
August 17th, 2023 at 11:42 am
I could be that the lack of discipline is getting to Jets coaches, and they don’t trust their players to practice nice.
Or…with the fighting…they probably are afraid of the injury bug, since they know their time with Aaron is limited.
August 17th, 2023 at 11:54 am
Did anyone see Gage ruptured his patellar tendon in his right knee? Man, that’s a rough injury and his 8th injury to his right leg. I hope it’s not career ending for him.
August 17th, 2023 at 12:11 pm
Grammar alert. The team “is”, the players “are”.
August 17th, 2023 at 12:15 pm
JUST SAW THE BUCS GAME BY GAME VEGAS LINES FOR THE YEAR
Bucs are not favored to win 1 game. They have an EVEN in one game.
Vegas has the Bucs at wins at 6.5 but 0-16-1 based on spread
I must be taking crazy pills because I think this team will be good.
August 17th, 2023 at 12:27 pm
SlyPirate Says:
August 17th, 2023 at 12:15 pm
JUST SAW THE BUCS GAME BY GAME VEGAS LINES FOR THE YEAR
Bucs are not favored to win 1 game. They have an EVEN in one game.
Vegas has the Bucs at wins at 6.5 but 0-16-1 based on spread
I must be taking crazy pills because I think this team will be good.
^^^^^^^^^
I think they COULD be good. Not sure if they WILL be.
August 17th, 2023 at 12:39 pm
I’ve seen many conflicting reports that range from the Jets and Bucs knew this practice would be cancelled since March to they didn’t know about it until this morning. I guess we’ll know if either of their staff decide to address it.
August 17th, 2023 at 12:46 pm
LW420BUCS:
Let just do some casual snooping.
If the Bucs knew well in advance the second practice was not going to be held, why:
* Did the teams not announce it (but did send out info to media of practice dates and times for planning/travel purposes just before training camp began).
* Did the Bucs spend likely hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend an extra day in New Jersey when they could have been in Tampa.
* Why did the Bucs have to find a second site to practice?
Just based on these factors alone, it strongly suggests the practice was canceled late. Too late for the Bucs to make other arrangements (flight change, hotel change, shipping equipment, etc.)
August 17th, 2023 at 12:51 pm
LW420BUCS:
Bowles also just this morning referred to the “sudden change” of plans. That’s a pretty good tell as well.
August 17th, 2023 at 1:19 pm
Very classless move, the jets did that on purpose to mess the Bucs schedule up now they are practicing in underwear when they should have been in pads. They don’t have showers and they probably are coaches and players all frustrated. They have to smell each other on the bus ride back to the hotel also soaking wet with sweat and getting into an air-conditioned bus on the ride home could catch pneumonia.
August 17th, 2023 at 1:36 pm
Would like to the accurate facts out about this because if the Jets did indeed cancel late leaving the Bucs in no man’s land then that’s truely a s***bird move….
Luckily the Giants had a day off or else they’d be at a local high school gymnasium.
August 17th, 2023 at 1:48 pm
Vegas is in the business of making money. They aren’t wrong very often about teams or how the season will go. If you were to look at the Vegas lines for the Bucs over the past 20 years you wouldn’t see significant departures from the win total. The Bucs are at 6.5 and their win total is going to be close to that number. They’re probably not going to defy the odds.
August 17th, 2023 at 2:28 pm
D-Rome Says:
“Vegas is in the business of making money. They aren’t wrong very often about teams or how the season will go”
In 2022 The official Vegas over/under lines to start the season were off by:
– 2 games or more for 20 teams
– 3 games or more for 11 teams
– 4 games or more for 6 teams
– 5 games or more for 3 teams
August 17th, 2023 at 2:41 pm
So basically – in 2022 Vegas was only 37% “correct”(less than 2 games off) at somewhat accurately predicting all the NFL team’s yearly win totals … which means they were 63% “wrong” (2 or more games off)…. and 35% VERY wrong (3 or more games off).
August 17th, 2023 at 5:48 pm
D-Rome, Vegas had the Bucs winning 11.5 last year. They had the Rams at 10.5. Off quite a bit on BUCS, but not even close for Rams. They are far from infallible.