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  1. Captain Fear

    Devin McCourty: Virtual meetings have been good for getting used to life without Tom Brady

    Getty Images Safety Devin McCourty is heading into his 11th season with the Patriots, so he spent a lot of time in the same locker room as Tom Brady since entering the NFL. Brady won’t be in the locker room whenever McCourty and the rest of the Patriots are back at the team’s facility...
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    Buccaneers re-sign Josh Wells

    Getty Images Tackle Josh Wells is set to remain with the Buccaneers. Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports that Wells is signing a one-year deal with the team. Wells is set to make $910,000 under the terms of the deal. Wells started once in place of left tackle Donovan Smith and once in place...
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    Tom Brady’s passing yardage over/under set at 4,099.5

    Tom Brady will throw for right around the same passing yards this year in Tampa Bay as he threw for last year in New England, at least if the betting odds are in the right range. The odds at Caesars Sportsbook have Brady’s passing yards over/under at 4,099.5, and he’s at equal -110 odds to go...
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    Jameis Winston not looking at future beyond this season

    Getty Images Jameis Winston signed a one-year deal with the Saints, who appear to have committed to Taysom Hill as the heir apparent whenever Drew Brees is ready to enter the TV booth. Signing with the Saints to backup Brees worked out for Teddy Bridgewater, though it took two years. Winston...
  5. Captain Fear

    NFL has no comment on Gronk playbook remark

    Getty Images Officially, the NFL isn’t saying whether it will be investigating whether the Buccaneers violated the tampering rules in connection with tight end Rob Gronkowski’s claim that he had the team’s playbook weeks before being traded to Tampa Bay by New England. Unofficially, the league...
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    Buccaneers claim kicker off waivers

    Getty Images The Buccaneers found their competition for Matt Gay, and they found it from a division rival. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, the Bucs claimed kicker Elliott Fry off waivers from the Panthers. Fry has spent offseason time with the Bears, Ravens, and Panthers, but...
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    Tom Brady auction item draws $800,000 for COVID-19 relief efforts

    Getty Images Tom Brady made a generous offer for a charity auction, resulting in a very large donation to feeding people who lost their livelihoods in the coronavirus pandemic. Brady offered up four tickets to his first home game with the Buccaneers, his jersey and shoes from the game, and an...
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    Report: Buccaneers to pick up O.J. Howard’s 2021 option

    Getty Images There was speculation that the Buccaneers might trade tight end O.J. Howard before or during the draft, but General Manager Jason Licht said the team is excited about pairing him with Rob Gronkowski and the draft ended without any trade being made. Licht has also reportedly laid...
  9. Captain Fear

    Gronkowski boasts that he had Buccaneers playbook while still under contract with Patriots

    Getty Images Some within the league think that the Buccaneers took a swashbuckler’s approach to landing quarterback Tom Brady, ignoring rarely-applied tampering rules in order to ensure that they got their man. And it worked; no one has seriously questioned whether the Bucs had premature...
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    Bucs have Chris Godwin in long-term plans but haven’t started negotiations

    Getty Images The Buccaneers have one of the top receiving corps in the NFL. They have Mike Evans locked up for the next four seasons, and they have plans to keep Chris Godwin long term, too. Bucs General Manager Jason Licht told season pass holders Wednesday that the team wants Godwin to...
  11. Captain Fear

    Stephen Gostkowski remains available as Bucs seek competition for Matt Gay

    Getty Images The Buccaneers, bless their hearts, cannot get the kicker position right no matter how hard they try. They drafted Matt Gay in the fifth round in 2019 after drafting Roberto Aguayo in the second round in 2016. They also have tried Chandler Catanzaro and Cairo Santos in 2018 and...
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    Gronkowski: I was “joking around” about Buccaneers’ playbook

    Getty Images Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski’s ongoing media career and resurrected football career won’t always mesh. On Saturday night, Gronk said during a media event that he’s had the Buccaneers’ playbook for four weeks, predating the trade that sent him from New England last week. On...
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    Jameis Winston put his “ego aside” to get “Harvard education” in QB play

    Getty Images Jameis Winston once played with a Harvard-educated quarterback in Ryan Fitzpatrick. He now expects to get a Harvard-football education from Sean Payton and Drew Brees in New Orleans. That was a reason the quarterback decided to sign with the Saints. “Being a part of the New...
  14. Captain Fear

    Jameis Winston to make just $1.1 million, plus incentives

    Getty Images Not only is Jameis Winston not going to get paid like a starting quarterback this year in New Orleans, he’s not even going to make as much as most second-string quarterbacks. Winston’s contract carries a base value of just $1.1 million, according to Field Yates of ESPN. That comes...
  15. Captain Fear

    NFL: Tom Brady’s meeting with Byron Leftwich wasn’t a violation

    Getty Images The NFL has spoken. Even if plenty of teams won’t be buying it. After repeated requests for comment from PFT regarding last week’s news that Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady wandered into the wrong house while trying to meet with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, the league...
  16. Captain Fear

    Ryan Tannehill was unfazed by Tom Brady talk early in offseason

    Getty Images Ryan Tannehill heard the Tom Brady-to-Nashville rumors. How could he not? But the Titans quarterback kept a let-the-chips-fall-where-they-may attitude that has served him well in his seven-year career. It helped him handle his many injuries in Miami. It helped him last season when...
  17. Captain Fear

    It’s official: Saints announce one-year deal with Jameis Winston

    Getty Images It was close. It was closer. Now, it’s official. The Saints announced agreement on a one-year deal with Jameis Winston. He will backup Drew Brees and Taysom Hill. Saints coach Sean Payton has said the team will have all three quarterbacks active on game day, with Hill playing a...
  18. Captain Fear

    Saints assistant G.M. Jeff Ireland confirms interest in Jameis Winston

    Getty Images The Saints and free-agent quarterback Jameis Winston are working toward a contract. On Monday, Saints assistant G.M. Jeff Ireland essentially confirmed it. “It’s a compliment to Jameis Winston to understand where he’s at in this world and sign a one-year deal here, and learn...
  19. Captain Fear

    Fifth-year option tracker

    Getty Images NFL teams have until May 4 at 11:59:59 p.m. ET to exercise fifth-year options on 2017 first-round draft choices. The window to sign those players to contract extensions opened Dec. 30, with Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey becoming the first to get a new deal. Some of...
  20. Captain Fear

    Sean Payton is taking the 2020 Buccaneers seriously

    Getty Imagea Contained within the NFL’s annual effort to sell hope to 32 fan bases was an observation from one coach who believes that two thirds of those fan bases are wasting their time. Saints coach Sean Payton, appearing on the NFL’s Draft-A-Thon, said something publicly that plenty of NFL...
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