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Tampa Bay Storm Defeats
Jameis Winston Focused On Putting Bucs In 'Chill Mode' When Pressure Rises
Opponent By 30 Points On
Fan Appreciation Night
Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Dirk Koetter attempted to throw quarter- back Jameis Winston off- kilter Wednesday when he began practice in a two- minute offense.
The Bucs have reached the point in training camp where they're practicing for specific game situations. It was a lesson in patience for the young quarterback, something Koetter has em- phasized to him throughout camp.
"Patience as a form of controlling everything," Winston said. "I always have to be calm, cool and col-
down no matter what hap- pened the last play, no matter if we scored a touchdown, no matter if we had a turnover. I have to be the person that brings everybody together, be patient, calm and just put us [in] chill mode."
By all accounts, he passed the test.
"I thought he did a really good job of that today," Koetter said. "It was kind of funky, we start off in two- minute. So in essence, we start off like we're in the fourth quarter and we need a field goal to win and we got to seven-on-seven. That was the first quarter."
The Tampa Bay Storm defeated its op- posing team by 30 points on Saturday, July 22, 2017. It was Fan Appreciation Night at Amalie Arena.
The Storm (10-3) defeated the Cleveland Gladiators (4-9), 57-27, after losing to them earlier in the month by 2 points. The next home game for the Storm is August 14th.
Behind some outstanding blocking, Tampa Bay Storm QB Randy Hippeard gets the easy un- touched touchdown.
JAMEIS WINSTON
lected. Everything can be going fast for others, but everything has to be slowed down for me.
"When I step in the hud- dle, I have to slow everything
(Photographs Toby Scott)
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Dolphins, Jay
Bucs' DeSean Jackson: Excels In Red-Zone Work Saturday
Cutler Agree
The defense falls asleep and LaMark Brown makes them pay. The Storm gets 6 more points.
Antron Dillon (r) used a mix of speed and power to get past the Gladiators’ blockers.
The Tampa Bay Storm Cheerleaders kept the crowd ‘pumped up.’
JAY CUTLER
The Miami Dolphins and former Chicago Bears quarter- back Jay Cutler have agreed to a one-year deal, ESPN.com's Adam Schefter reports.
The deal will be worth $10 million, plus incentives, ac- cording to the report.
Cutler, 34, retired in May and immediately signed with Fox Sports to become an NFL game analyst.
Miami and Cutler had en- gaged in talks since an injury to starter Ryan Tannehill.
Tannehill injured his left knee in practice last week, and the team is bracing for the possibility that he will have season-ending surgery.
Last season for the Bears, Cutler only played in five games, completing 59 percent of his passes for 1,059 yards, with four touchdowns and five interceptions.
In 11 NFL seasons with the Denver Broncos and Bears, Cutler has a 68–71 record as a starting quarterback.
DESEAN JACKSON
success rate (4-for-11) on red- zone targets last season in Washington, whereas, by comparison, the towering Mike Evans hauled in 47.1 percent of the 17 looks he saw inside the 20 with the Bucs. Therefore, it appears the team might be intent on narrowing the gap in proficiency near the goal line between their two starting receivers in ad- vance of the coming season.
To 1-Year, $10
DeSean Jackson was particularly impressive dur- ing the Bucs' first extended red-zone work of camp Satur- day.
Jackson wowed the crowd with a diving catch for his first touchdown and then made a leaping grab over the middle to grab another score. He also caught a long pass down the sideline from Jameis Winston during the session -- beating safety Keith Tandy by a full body length on the play -- and fre- quently got the best of 2016 first-round pick Vernon Hargreaves on one-on-one drills. The red-zone success was particularly encouraging, given that slight frames such as Jackson's don't usually encounter overwhelming suc- cess in that area of the field.
Accordingly, Jackson only tallied a 36.4 percent
Million Deal
Linval Joseph And Vikings Agree To 4-Year, $50M Extension
Defensive tackle Linval Joseph has agreed to a 4- year, $50 million extension with the Minnesota Vikings. SportsTrust Advisors an- nounced the agreement first, and NFL Network's Ian Rapoport tweeted out the details of the contract shortly thereafter. The team later made the news official. $31 million is guaranteed.
Joseph, 28, is coming off a career year in which he had 77 tackles, four sacks and was named to his first Pro Bowl. Joseph plays the nose tackle
LINVAL JOSEPH
position and anchors a Vikings defense that allowed the third-fewest yards per game last season.
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