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Bucs’ Gerald McCoy hopes his hand injury doesn’t keep him out

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Now that the football is getting good, Tampa Bay Bucs’ defensive tackle  Gerald McCoy is hoping that a “small” surgical procedure on his left hand will not slow him down. McCoy, a three-time Pro Bowler who has been slowed much of the season with a bad shoulder, injured his hand during Sunday’s loss to Indianapolis. He hopes to play Sunday against Atlanta. “I had an injury the first half of the game, got it looked at, kept playing – it…

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As Bucs honor Doug Williams, the similarities to Jameis Winston are plentiful

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The start of their careers were 37 years apart. The colors they wore were different. They played in different stadiums. But, yes, there is some of Jameis Winston in the legacy of Doug Williams. Williams, who will be inducted into the Bucs’ Ring of Honor on Sunday, was also a tall, lanky quarterback who absorbed more punishment than he evaded. Like Winston, Williams was a clear leader in the clubhouse. Like Winston, there wasn’t a lot of winning in the…

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Former teammate Davonta Freeman praises Jameis Winston

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Tampa Bay is learning to like quarterback Jameis Winston. Former teammates Devonta Freeman knew it all the time. Freeman, Winston’s teammate at Florida State, was always of the Winston’s competitiveness, of his fight, of his stubbornness. Together, Freeman and Winston won one national title and made the playoffs the next year. “One of my main memories of him [is] how competitive he was,” Freeman said. “He’s a guy [who has] that killer mentality, like, ‘I won’t stop, I won’t stop,…

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Bucs trade stadium improvements to move preseason games

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Say you don’t like the NFL preseason? What do you think of it if the Tampa Bay Bucs are taking it away? As part of $100 million in improvements to Raymond James Stadium, the Bucs will play both preseason games of 2016 and 2017 elsewhere and possibly one preseason game per year afterward. The agreement is part of the concessions given up by the TSA for improvements to Raymond James Stadium. The deal has been agreed to in principal but…

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Even after loss, Bucs’ Lovie Smith thinks his team is relevant

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They have been away from the playoffs so long, it sounds odd to hear their name in connection with a possible visit. Are the Tampa Bay Bucs really alive in the race? Numerically, they’re still in at 5-6. But the next two weeks, when the Bucs play against division opponents they beat on the road earlier in the season, will be crucial. Tampa Bay hosts Atlanta this week and New Orleans the following week. “You want to be relevant, you…

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Bucs’ 2-game winning streak ends at hands of Matt Hasselbeck

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Tampa Bay Bucs coach Lovie Smith said that Sunday was not a step back for his football team. Still, it felt that way. A lot of the old problems plagued the Bucs in a 25-12 loss to the Indianapolis Colts, a defeat that kept the Bucs on the bad side of .500. Tampa Bay had won two in a row, and it was looking like a team on the rise. This time, however, it suffered a lot of the roadblocks…

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Colts’ quarterback Matt Hasselbeck still winning at age 40

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He was never supposed to be this good. He was never supposed to last this long. In the year of Peyton Manning and Ryan Leaf, he was an afterthought, just another flier in the sixth round. For goodness sakes, he was picked 101 spots after the immortal Jonathan Quinn. He was taken 15 picks after John Dutton. He spent a year on the practice squad. He backed up Trent Dilfer in Seattle. Yet, Matt Hasselbeck is still here. Even better,…

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