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Getty Images Developing the 256-game regular season schedule in a fair and balanced fashion isn’t the easiest task to accomplish each spring. When trying to account for stadium availability, broadcast partners, international games and other variables, random quirks can surface in the different...

Getty Images The Buccaneers selected running back Ronald Jones in the second round of last year’s draft, but hopes that he’d play a big role in their offense went unrealized. Jones struggled throughout the preseason and was an afterthought in the regular season. He got 30 touches while...

Getty Images The full schedule will be released tonight. The league has given a sneak preview by announcing the games to be played in London. The Buccaneers will host the Panthers in Week Six. Tampa’s third trip to England (they played there in 2009 and 2011) will become the second game played...

Getty Images Buccaneers General Manager Jason Licht held his pre-draft press conference on Tuesday, but the questions weren’t limited to what the team might do next week. Licht also fielded about a player the team drafted in the first round of the 2010 draft. That would be defensive tackle...

Getty Images Buccaneers defensive tackle Gerald McCoy, a cornerstone of the team’s defense since becoming the third pick in the 2010 draft, has been the subject of rampant rumors regarding a potential trade out of Tampa. Bucs G.M. Jason Licht met with reporters on Tuesday for a pre-draft press...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians has lots and lots of assistants in his return to the sidelines. Arians, hired this year to take over in Tampa Bay, has hired a whopping 28 assistant coaches. Peter King writes in Football Morning in America that he believes the Buccaneers have...

Getty Images So if the deadline imposed by quarterback Russell Wilson on the Seahawks comes and goes without a new contract, what happens next? Here’s one thing that should happen: Other teams without short-list franchise quarterbacks should call the Seahawks to inquire regarding what it would...

Getty Images Buccaneers tight end O.J. Howard had 34 catches for 565 yards and five touchdowns in the first 10 games, putting him on pace for 54 catches, 904 yards and eight touchdowns. But foot and ankle injuries kept Howard sidelined the final six games, leaving the unknown of how he would...

Getty Images TV networks have officiating consultants, so why shouldn’t NFL teams? The Buccaneers announced Wednesday that they have hired Larry Rose as the team’s officiating consultant. Rose will assist Bucs’ coaches and players with knowledge and interpretations of the rules and in-game...

Getty Images Penn State running back Miles Sanders is a popular man. He has visits with five teams and workouts with eight others. He has traveled to or will travel to Philadelphia, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Buffalo, Aaron Wilson of the Houston Chronicle reports. Sanders also will...

Getty Images If you’re familiar with PFT Live, you’re aware that shows broadcast during the Stanley Cup playoffs include highlights from Stanley Cup playoffs games. Thursday’s show covered in less than three minutes the five games played on the opening night of the 2018-19 postseason. So from...

Getty Images Notre Dame defensive tackle Jerry Tillery had shoulder surgery last month, and he’s now healed and ready for the draft. Per a league source, Tillery’s recent return to Indianapolis for a medical recheck went well. He had played eight games last year with a torn labrum. His...

Getty Images Former Alabama defensive tackle Quinnen Williams may not make it to the fifth pick of the first round later this month, but the Buccaneers want to be prepared in the event he is on the board when it is their time to pick. Williams shared video on Instagram of a trip to the...

Getty Images As Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston embarks on a make-or-break season, he says he has someone more important than Bruce Arians on his side. Winston went deep into the importance of his young family and faith in a recent Sports Spectrum podcast interview with Jason Romano, and...

Getty Images There were previous reports that Ohio State defensive end Nick Bosa was visiting with the top six teams in the draft order, which makes sense because he’s one of the very best players available this year. But he’s actually only meeting with five of the top six. According to...

Getty Images The offseason is the season of unbridled enthusiasm, and every NFL team has one or more Billy Mumphreys. In Tampa, quarterback Jameis Winston sees the glass as half-or-more-full. The first press conference of his contract year consisted of plenty of big talk from a guy who has yet...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians set a high bar for wide receiver Chris Godwin when he said at the league meetings that Godwin “is going to be close to a 100-catch guy” during the 2019 season. The departures of Adam Humphries and DeSean Jackson certainly have Godwin set for a...

Getty Images Offensive lineman Leonard Wester spent the last three seasons in the Buccaneers organization and he’s spent some time with a couple of his former coaches from Tampa this week. Greg Auman of TheAthletic.com reports that Wester met with the Falcons on Wednesday and the Jaguars on...

Getty Images Montez Sweat was diagnosed with a “low-risk” heart condition by doctors at the Scouting Combine, but he went through drills in Indianapolis and word was that teams would not be put off from drafting him as a result of the diagnosis. Many expect the pass rusher to be one of the...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians was vague about defensive tackle Gerald McCoy‘s roster status at the league meetings last week and McCoy is not at this week’s workouts, but a couple of the top defensive line prospects for this year’s draft have been in town. Ian Rapoport of NFL...