The Bucs continued their third week of the workforce’s 2023 coaching camp on the AdventHealth Coaching Middle in Tampa on Tuesday beneath brutally sizzling circumstances. Temperatures had been within the low 90s beneath oppressively sunny skies with a warmth index over 100 levels by the top of apply at 11:00 a.m.

The Bucs wore shells on Tuesday after full pads on Monday.

Bucs Not Working towards At present

DT Calijah Kancey

Kancey, the workforce’s first-round choose, might be out for about 4 weeks with a proper calf pressure. He attended apply with a leg scooter and was carrying a boot on his injured foot and leg to immobilize it. On Tuesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter confirmed what Pewter Report reported on Monday evening – that Kancey would miss the preseason, however there’s an opportunity he might return for the season opener at Minnesota on September 10.

OLB Charles Snowden

Snowden continues to overlook apply with a groin harm. He’s day-to-day.

DT Greg Gaines

Gaines missed his third consecutive apply with a minor undisclosed harm. Todd Bowles mentioned there’s nothing to be involved about.

Bucs Protection Dominates With 5 INTs

It was a very good day to be John Wolford, the Bucs’ third-string quarterback. He was the one QB that didn’t flip the ball over on Tuesday. Kyle Trask, who got here into Tuesday’s apply with simply two picks by means of coaching camp and is listed on the workforce’s official depth chart as a co-starter, threw three interceptions. Baker Mayfield, who will begin Friday towards the Steelers in Tampa Bay’s preseason opener, threw two INTs.

Bucs HC Todd Bowles and CB Zyon McCollum – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR

Inside linebacker Devin White kicked issues off for the protection by selecting off a deflected Mayfield go meant for receiver Rakim Jarrett. The go was tipped by security Ryan Neal and White hauled it in across the center of the sphere. The INT occurred throughout 7-on-7 passing drills and the go was late throughout the center and ill-advised by Mayfield.

Mayfield’s different interception got here within the pink zone when he underthrew Mike Evans on a fade go from close to the 20-yard line. Evans had a step on cornerback Zyon McCollum, however the second-year DB tracked the ball completely and got here away along with his second choose of camp.

Trask’s interceptions got here close to the top of apply. Rookie cornerback Keenan Isaac made his second INT of camp on an identical play. Trask underthrew Chris Godwin in the identical again left nook of the top zone and Isaac was in nice place to come back away with the go.

With just some minutes left in apply, Trask’s good day would spiral on the finish. He both made a flawed learn or there was a miscommunication with a receiver or tight finish as Trask threw an out to the left sideline proper to cornerback Jamel Dean. There wasn’t actually a white jersey within the space and Dean made Trask pay, taking it down the sidelines and outracing the quarterback to the top zone for a pick-six.

The protection ended the apply in model with security Nolan Turner leaping in entrance of broad receiver David Moore in the midst of the top zone and selecting off Trask on the ultimate pink zone. The INT was Turner’s second of coaching camp.

“It was good for them creating the turnovers,” Bowles mentioned. “Clearly getting some – hadn’t gotten many in a few days, however they’re coming collectively as a bunch, speaking extra. Some conditions had been final play conditions the place they needed to throw it, so that you needed to put it within the air in some unspecified time in the future. I believed they did a very good job of getting their arms on the ball.”

The Bucs interception tally by means of 11 practices is as follows:

SirVocea Dennis – Kyle Trask – 7/27
Nolan Turner – Baker Mayfield – 7/27
Zyon McCollum – John Wolford – 7/28
SirVocea Dennis – Baker Mayfield – 7/30
Antoine Winfield Jr – Baker Mayfield – 7/31
YaYa Diaby – Baker Mayfield – 7/31
Keenan Isaac – Baker Mayfield – 8/1
Jamel Dean – Baker Mayfield – 8/5
Carlton Davis III – John Wolford – 8/5
Derrek Pitts Jr. – Baker Mayfield – 8/7
Kedrick Whitehead Jr. – Kyle Trask – 8/7
Devin White – Baker Mayfield – 8/8
Zyon McCollum – Baker Mayfield – 8/8
Keean Isaac – Kyle Trask – 8/8
Jamel Dean – Kyle Trask – 8/8
Nolan Turner – Kyle Trask – 8/8

Mayfield has thrown 9 interceptions, whereas Trask has thrown 5, and Wolford has thrown two in restricted reps. There’s a five-way tie for the interception lead in camp between Dennis, McCollum, Dean, Isaac and Turner.

“He was after me, however I knew I used to be going to attain,” Dean mentioned of Trask making an attempt to trace down the Bucs’ quickest participant on his option to the top zone. “We’ve been placing on an emphasis for turnovers. Now we’ve bought to do it in apply. We’ve at all times been saying it, however we really haven’t made it an emphasis in apply. This 12 months we’re making it an emphasis and we’re beginning to see it really manifest in picks. They got here in bunches.”

Bucs Operating Recreation Revs Up

Bucs QB Baker Mayfield and RB Rachaad White – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR

Tampa Bay’s run protection received the day on Monday, however Tuesday was a unique story because the offensive line and tight ends reared up and had the perfect day of apply operating the ball in camp. Whereas the Bucs passing sport was suffering from 5 interceptions, the operating sport revved up. The O-line had a few massive surges towards the D-line, and the backs ripped off loads of four- and five-yard positive aspects along with a few larger runs.

Rachaad White had maybe his greatest apply, ripping off a giant cutback run down the best sidelines for over 20 yards with security Ryan Neal lastly pushing him out of bounds as a result of taking the best angle. White additionally confirmed good energy muscling in a couple of pink zone landing runs, together with an 18-yard sprint up the center for a rating.

Ke’Shawn Vaughn and Chase Edmonds continued to shine as runners, particularly on zone runs off sort out or on cutbacks. Rookie Sean Tucker had a few good dashes too, however his greatest play got here on a catch on a superbly thrown contact go from Kyle Trask. Beneath stress from Cam Gill, Trask was capable of get the ball off simply in time to drop into the outstretched arms of Tucker over nickel cornerback Dee Delaney, hitting the operating again in stride for a giant acquire down the left sidelines.

Bucs Follow Observations

• On Monday offensive tackles Luke Goedeke and Tristan Wirfs took turns shoving inside linebacker Devin White throughout apply. On Tuesday it was backup heart Nick Leverett’s flip to get right into a scuffle with backup inside linebacker Okay.J. Britt after a play. The recent temperatures convey out the new temperatures within the canine days of apply and the warmth over the past three practices in Tampa Bay has brutal and oppressive beneath the unforgiving sunny skies.

• Bucs nostril sort out Vita Vea has been completely dominant in camp this 12 months. In reality, the sixth-year D-lineman has had the perfect camp of his Bucs profession. Vea is nice for 2 or three knockdowns per apply. The sufferer is often heart Robert Hainsey, however rookie proper guard Cody Mauch hit the bottom on Tuesday on a Vea stampede.

• Rookie nickel cornerbacks Chris Izien and Josh Hayes proceed to make strides, and every has seen time with the starters, rotating with veteran Dee Delaney, who’s the present starter within the slot as a result of his expertise. Hayes and Izien each did an awesome job of setting the sting and blowing up perimeter runs on Tuesday. The rookies confirmed toughness in stopping the zone runs from reaching the skin and forcing the motion again into the center the place defensive assist was ready.

• Exterior linebackers YaYa Diaby and Joe Tryon-Shoyinka each had standout practices. Diaby continues to get most of his reps with the second-string on the left facet behind Tryon-Shoyinka and blasted proper sort out Brandon Walton on a bull rush. The highly effective Diaby jolted Walton again so exhausting that he knocked him to the bottom and likewise toppled proper guard Nick Leverett, who was sliding over to assist, on the identical play. It was an unimaginable show of energy by the rookie.

• Tryon-Shoyinka has maybe been just a little too finesse within the first two years of his Tampa Bay profession. However JTS introduced the facility and physicality on Tuesday as a go rusher and in run protection. Tryon-Shoyinka is likely to be feeling some warmth from the rookie exterior linebacker and is stepping up in consequence.

• Bucs heart Ryan Jensen practiced on Tuesday, and whereas he was as soon as once more held out of 11-on-11 workforce durations, he did interact in 1-on-1 go rush-pass safety reps for the primary time in camp. The Bucs have been very cautious with Jensen’s return to motion from his devastating knee harm. He fared nicely in two reps towards backup nostril sort out Deadrin Senat and put reserve defensive sort out Pat O’Connor on the bottom with a superbly executed push-pull transfer.

• Whereas Kyle Trask threw three interceptions on the finish of apply, he was having a greater apply than Baker Mayfield was earlier than these late turnovers. Trask zipped a pink zone landing go to Mike Evans over rookie cornerback Keenan Isaac. A number of performs later, Trask rifled a brief go in for one more rating over Isaac, this time to Deven Thompkins, who spiked the ball afterwards.

• Trask was additionally concerned within the play of the day, which was landing bomb to a wide-open Evans off play-action. The go coated greater than 50 yards and Isaac was once more the sufferer. The rookie was in search of security assist excessive, however there was no assist to be discovered as Evans hauled in his best landing of camp.