Three Banged Up Bucs Receivers
August 12th, 2024
Rookie blues.
So Todd Bowles noted the shaky health status of three receivers today.
They are veteran Sterling Shepard, second-year man Rakim Jarrett and rookie Jalen McMillan.
Shepard and Jarrett didn’t practice will McMillan wore the can’t-hit-me jersey during today’s underwear football session. The Bucs have Tuesday off and will travel to Jacksonville. They’ll have a full-throttle practice/scrimmage in pads against the Jaguars on Wednesday.
Joe’s not worried about the receivers, but Joe did pay extra attention to McMillan getting banged up in his NFL debut. He’s a not a very big guy and Joe has long wondered whether he can withstand a full season.
“He’s a little sore. I ain’t want nobody touching him today,” Bowles said of McMillan.
The good news is the Bucs big-gun receivers, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin, are feeling great. Neither played on Satuarday night.
August 12th, 2024 at 5:05 pm
Here comes the grammar police!
August 12th, 2024 at 5:18 pm
I ain’t be got no reason to be complain bout that there grammar…. He didn’t seem to survive college either. So here is hope we can toughen him up. Go BUCS!
August 12th, 2024 at 5:23 pm
Cincy one of the few teams in the league that decided to use Astroturf on their new field (again). Laying out for catches at full speed and then impacting padded concrete, takes a toll. I’m actually surprised we escaped with so few injuries.
Also agree that McMillan may be a big addition, but not sure his durability will be at NFL level until next year, but it’s not like he’s going to play a lot on those concrete/astroturf stadiums this season.
August 12th, 2024 at 5:30 pm
J-Mac has sore ribs he’ll be fine. I’m more concerned with Calijah Kancey missing practice again.
August 12th, 2024 at 5:37 pm
Anyhony—
Which one?
“Shepard and Jarrett didn’t practice will McMillan wore the can’t-hit-me jersey during today’s underwear football session.”
Or
“He’s a little sore. I ain’t want nobody touching him today,”
How dare we expect proper grammar from a media member and head coach? Yet I’m guessing Joe was responsible in both instances.
Gotta cut Joe some slack, however, as he’s probably contracted an intracranial migraine or two from the incessant reading of these posts.
August 12th, 2024 at 5:48 pm
Rick Stroud says “you know” almost as much as Graham. Todd just graduated college and Graham just graduated AN UPSCALE UNIVERSITY AND NONE OF THEM CAN (sorry caps) can speak in public sounding the least bit educated. It takes about an hour to begin to stop saying “you know” but even Stroud doesn’t seem to care. Now bad grammar is rubbing off on Bowles who didn’t use to be so awful.
August 12th, 2024 at 5:54 pm
The good thing is that they have time to rest and take care of their bodies.
August 12th, 2024 at 6:02 pm
He is not dk metcalf, but 6’1″ 197lbs is not small.
August 12th, 2024 at 6:04 pm
@JA: The first one is a typo (honest mistake).
August 12th, 2024 at 6:24 pm
Thank you JA & Crickett. People fail to realize that when an individual speaks poorly it is a distraction and it says something about him/her and rarely is it something good. Bowles’ sentence is beneath him. It belies the intelligence and formal education that he posseses. We are not “Police”, we are simply folks with standards.
August 12th, 2024 at 6:24 pm
Get to opening day healthy!
August 12th, 2024 at 6:49 pm
Losers with no life would have time to sure on a website and talk about the grammar of successful people. Think about it before you come to this post to insult someone more accomplished than you.
August 12th, 2024 at 6:51 pm
It doesn’t say anything about a person, just you putting your standard on someone else with how they choose to say something. As you grow older you put less energy into what people think of you because at the end of the day opinions are like aceholes everyone has them and they all stink.
August 12th, 2024 at 6:57 pm
“BUCSbeBACK”: Irony-impaired!!!🤣🤣🤣
^^^^^^^^^
August 12th, 2024 at 7:26 pm
Todd is an excellent communicator. That’s not even a question.
August 12th, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Back in the ’80s some linguists wanted to call it a separate dialect of English complete with its own rules of grammar and spellings. At the time they tried to dub it “Eboniks” but I’m not sure how they spelled the freshly minted name. I don’t think that name is still accepted today. It’s all Greek to me.
August 12th, 2024 at 9:26 pm
We need to get DW45 back, make him team spokesman
August 12th, 2024 at 9:30 pm
Todd’s grammar is head over heels better than Byron’s.
My thought is… you can never have enough WRs……comforting to know that if all three hit IR, we’d be ok.
August 12th, 2024 at 10:58 pm
So Andy Reid makes around $20 million per season and Todd Bowles makes $3 million. The average is around $7 million. I can’t even begin to criticize a Coach’s grammar when his employers basically broke it off him with salary. I’d like to see the spreadsheet where they came up with the offer that pays Bowles so little compared to other Head Coaches. All I’m saying is this stinks. I’m not some racism theorist but I would love hear the local media ask the Glazers directly why they have one of the lowest paid head coaches in the league. They’d fumble over their lips and not give a straight answer. Hey Joel, pay thee man, you cheap bas___d. 😂
August 12th, 2024 at 11:05 pm
That was Bowles’ salary as a defensive coordinator.
August 12th, 2024 at 11:41 pm
BigMac,
Oops
August 13th, 2024 at 2:11 am
Man some of you are really effin old and out of touch
August 13th, 2024 at 2:25 am
These are the people who come to this site to complain and wear Eagles jerseys to Bucs games.
August 13th, 2024 at 7:56 am
Fred McNeil, the correct term for that dialect is ‘Eubonics.” Look it up. I sure don’t have problems understanding what these dudes are communicating. I have multiple degrees in English Literary and Linguistical Analysis. So what?! I look at how well my team plays.
August 13th, 2024 at 8:01 am
I don’t care if they can read and write as long as they can play. Longest yard type ball, hell with that, Varsity Blues. Billy Bob.
August 13th, 2024 at 10:15 am
“Ebonics.” Ebony + phonics. I am not sure it is a politically correct term. “Black dialect” seems to be in use more nowadays.
I am surprised Bowles would phrase it that way, in any case. Maybe for emphasis or being funny.
Shepard should get back on the field. He’s really not needed, considering how well Miller played, along with the other youngsters.
August 13th, 2024 at 10:17 am
Of course white folks talk like that, too. Bowles may be reading “Hillbilly Elegy,” lol.
August 13th, 2024 at 10:48 am
Don’t no nuttin bout the grammar police, but grampa police is definitely urinated off!
August 13th, 2024 at 5:12 pm
I’m too old to apply for a grammar police job, but if I could I would arrest Barton, and Stroud for saying “you know” so many times that they deserve incarceration. Bowles would get a severe warning. I just hate it when public speakers murder the English language.
August 14th, 2024 at 11:25 am
Todd’s last season
Bucs finish second place in the division. signar MF