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    Breshad Perriman sitting out with shoulder injury for Buccaneers

    Getty Images Breshad Perriman has been reduced to being a spectator during OTAs for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers due to a shoulder injury. According to Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com, Perriman injured his shoulder two weeks ago and has been held out of workouts ever since. The Buccaneers signed...
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    Browns fine with Gerald McCoy visiting others

    Getty Images The Browns were Gerald McCoy‘s first visit. They were not his last. The Browns are fine with that, however, as they hold out hope the free agent defensive tackle will choose them. “He knows the direction we are heading,” Browns coach Freddie Kitchens said, via Zac Jackson of...
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    Bucs get no compensation from BP oil spill

    Getty Images As payment for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Buccaneers will get nothing and like it. Although they probably don’t like it. Via the Associated Press, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled on Friday that the Bucs are entitled to no compensation from BP...
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    Ndamukong Suh “very excited” to play for Bowles, Arians

    Getty Images Buccaneers defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh signed in Tampa Bay without visiting, as he’s been in France celebrating his recent engagement. Still in France, Suh has now spoken about his new team. In attendance at the French Open, Suh talked to Tennis Channel, and he said he thinks...
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    Court finds that Buccaneers used creative accounting to support claim for Deepwater Horizon compensation

    Getty Images The biggest NFL bad-news dump of Memorial Day weekend relates to one team’s failed effort to profit from a distant environmental catastrophe. The ruling denying the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ request for $19.5 million in compensation for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill never comes...
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    Bucs have no comment on failed effort to get Deepwater Horizon compensation

    Getty Images The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ official effort to secure compensation from BP as part of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resulted in a finding by the federal court system that the team engaged in creative accounting in an effort to get paid. Given the perception that the courts believe...
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    Roberto Aguayo: I know I can get back

    Getty Images Roberto Aguayo’s NFL career got off on the wrong foot and it never recovered. The Buccaneers traded up to pick Aguayo in the second round of the 2016 draft, but he missed his first kick of the preseason. That planted seeds of doubt in many minds, including Aguayo’s. He told Mirin...
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    Gerald McCoy: “I want to win”

    Getty Images Free agent defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, who took his first visit to Cleveland, said he has one priority in his search for a new team after nine years in Tampa Bay. “I want to win,” McCoy said, via Josina Anderson of ESPN. “I’m not worried about where I’m living. Wherever I got...
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    Which fan base most deserves a playoff win?

    Getty Images In honor (there’s no honor in it, I suppose) of the Lions going 10,000 days (now 10,001) without winning a playoff game, Friday’s PFT Live had a draft in honor (again, no honor in it) of the NFL’s fan bases that most deserve a playoff win. Simms and I picked three teams each. He...
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    Chris Simms and George W. Bush bonded in the Texas weight room

    Getty Images It’s not quite Stepbrothers, but it’s close. During Friday’s PFT Live, Chris Simms told the tale of his friendship with George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States. Simms said that Bush used to work out in the Texas weight room when Simms played college football...
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    Ndamukong Suh still in France but signs contract

    Getty Images Ndamukong Suh remains on vacation in France, but he signed his one-year, $9.25 million contract with the Buccaneers on Friday, Jeanna Laine of ESPN reports. Tampa Bay waived cornerback David Rivers to get Suh on the 90-player roster. Suh will fly to Tampa next week for a...
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    Jason Pierre-Paul posts first photos since car accident

    Getty Images Buccaneers defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul is wearing a neck brace and smiling in the first photos he’s posted since suffering a neck injury in a car accident earlier this month. Pierre-Paul was injured in a one-car accident in South Florida and is now reportedly following a...
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    Bucs add Ndamukong Suh without visit or workout

    Getty Images The Buccaneers accomplished an intriguing swap this week, trading in defensive tackle Gerald McCoy and his $13 million salary for defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh and a $9.25 million salary with another $750,000 in potential incentives. They did it even though they know McCoy...
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    Bucs claim Jordan Leggett off waivers

    Getty Images The Buccaneers made two big-news moves earlier in the day. Now, they have made another one, albeit without a screaming headline. Tampa Bay claimed tight end Jordan Leggett off waivers from the Jets on Tuesday. Other teams obviously thought more of Leggett than the Jets, with five...
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    Report: Gerald McCoy intrigued by Browns, could make visit

    Getty Images Free agent defensive tackle Gerald McCoy is “intrigued” by the Browns and could make a visit to Cleveland, Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports. The Browns have expressed interest in McCoy, making contact with his representation, according to Cabot. Browns offensive coordinator...
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    No word yet on a final deal between Buccaneers, Ndamukong Suh

    Getty Images On Tuesday, multiple reports emerged indicating that the Buccaneers and defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh are “finalizing” a one-year deal. A day later, no deal has been done. The official NFL transactions report for Wednesday does not reveal that Suh has joined the Buccaneers. And...
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    Report: Bengals have interest in Gerald McCoy

    Getty Images Gerald McCoy said good-bye to the Buccaneers in an Instagram video Wednesday. He vowed to “retire as a Buc.” But retirement isn’t on the horizon for the 31-year-old defensive tackle. McCoy now finds himself a free agent with a chance to choose his next destination. The Patriots...
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    What’s next for Gerald McCoy?

    Getty Images The Buccaneers didn’t want to pay veteran defensive tackle Gerald McCoy $13 million in 2019. More importantly, no one else wanted to trade for McCoy’s contract. And that’s often the impetus for a trade. Yes, the new team wants the player. But the new team also prefers to surrender...
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    Bruce Arians has nothing to say about Gerald McCoy, and a little to say about Ndamukong Suh

    Getty Images Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians met with reporters on Tuesday, a year after the “mutual parting” with defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. Arians had nothing to add beyond the written statement issued in connection with McCoy’s release. “As I said yesterday in the statement about Gerald...
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    Vernon Hargreaves: I missed practice with injury, not because mind wasn’t right

    Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians said last week that cornerback Vernon Hargreaves didn’t take part in the team’s first organized team activity of the year because he needed to “get his mind right” in order to practice. Arians added that reporters should ask Hargreaves why his...
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