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Game Preview: Week 1 Bucs vs. Lions

by Roland Johnson on September 10, 2011

The Buccaneers have won seven of the last ten meetings with the Lions, but Detroit leads the all-time regular season series 28-25. Tampa also prevailed 20-10 in a wildcard playoff win in Tampa during the 1997 season. The teams first met in 1977, a 16-7 Lions victory at the Silverdome. The Bucs’ first win over …

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Dominik: “The Governor is Off” Bowers

by Roland Johnson on August 29, 2011

Renowned national sports scribe Peter King, of SportsIllustrated.com in his Monday Morning Quarterback column has got an answer to what many Buccaneer fans have been pondering, about rookie defensive end Da’Quan Bowers. That $64 thousand dollar question is when will the governor be taken off Bowers? Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik, eluded to the fact …

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Bucs Front Four To Face Stiffer Challenge Thursday Night

by Roland Johnson on August 17, 2011

Lost amidst the drubbing of the Kansas City Chiefs  is the the tiny little fact that the Bucs managed to get pressure 77% of the time, the Chiefs quarterbacks dropped back to pass. In fact the Chiefs tried to pass a total of 22 times (counting sacks and pass attempts) and the young Buccaneers defense …

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Wyche: Bucs On The Rise Have Chance To Win The South

by Roland Johnson on August 11, 2011

Filed under a Buccaneers camp confidential report, NFL.com senior writer Steve Wyche who visited practice had some morsels of information that shed light on the thought process of how general manager Mark Dominik and head coach Raheem Morris are building a bigger more physical team that’s on the rise with a legitimate chance to win …

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McCoy Injures Right Shoulder

by Staff Report on August 5, 2011

Fans in attendance at practice this afternoon got somewhat of a scare as Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ 2010 first-round pick Gerald McCoy injured his right shoulder during the team’s full squad scrimmage. McCoy was hurt about halfway through the workout making a pass-rush move during an 1-on-1 drill. He immediately removed his shoulder pads and was …

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Briscoe Challenging For Serious Playing Time

by Staff Report on August 5, 2011

Second year Bucs wideout Dezmon Briscoe bounced a round a bit as a rookie, after being drafted in the sixth round by the Cincinnati Bengals – then getting cut during the final days of camp in 2010. He was added to the Bucs practice squad under the guarantee he would be paid like he was …

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Free Agency “Never” In The Bucs Plans

by Roland Johnson on August 3, 2011

Many fans will chide the owners of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, for being cheap. Some have even affectionately given them there very own nickname, as you can find fans commonly referring to the Glazer’s, as the Glazerhouses, a reference to the late, former Bucs owner Hugh Culverhouse, who was best known for his penny pinching …

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Clayborn’s Deal Has Other Front Offices Cursing Dominik

by Roland Johnson on August 3, 2011

When Mark Dominik signed Adrian Clayborn, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers first round pick. He was the first rookie to sign under the newly bargained CBA. Now, many front offices around the NFL are cursing Dominik and the Bucs for setting a precedent, that could last the length of the CBA reports Andrew Brandt, of the …

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Foster Wanted To Wear The Double Nickel

by Roland Johnson on August 2, 2011

Third round pick Mason Foster, a 6-foot-1, 241-pound tackling machine who idolized Derrick Brooks growing up asked general manager Mark Dominik if he could talk to the future Hall of Famer and the franchises all-time leading tackler about wearing the number 55, even though he knew it was a long shot, Foster held out hope, …

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Balog: “Rah Betrayed Ruud”

by Roland Johnson on August 1, 2011

Buried in a self loathing article about how Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Raheem Morris supposedly betrayed former middle linebacker Barrett Ruud, Tom Balog of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune pulls out all the stops in his attempt of character assassination as he calls Morris’ integrity into question.  There’s a cold hard lesson that every Buccaneer player …