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Bucs London Game Against
Mike Tomlin Addresses
Panthers Has Big NFC South
Rumors Linking Him
Implications; Sunday At 9:30 A.M.
To Redskins Head
Leave it up to a football coach to simplify things. Ahead of their second-con- secutive divisional matchup, this time in London, Bucs Head Coach Bruce Arians called it really nothing more than a business trip like any other.
"It’s a football field – it’s measured the same,” Arians said. “Just go play. We aren’t going over there to sight see.”
Though technically it’s considered a home game, the environment surrounding the field will be very different from Tampa. The stadium, home to the Tottenham Hot- spur soccer, excuse me, foot- ball team, is brand new for this year. It was completed just recently after being under construction since 2016. It houses over 62,000 fans, making it one of the largest Premier League stadi- ums and the largest club sta- dium in London.
But the Bucs will have to
Coaching Job
block out the noise and the flashiness of another country, because as far as the record is concerned, it’s still a division game and a chance to return to .500. The matchup has a lot of important implications back on American soil and it would put the Bucs in second place in the NFC South, not to mention give the Bucs the season sweep of the Carolina Panthers. The Bucs would be 3-3 and therefore tied in record with the Panthers,
who are currently 3-2. The sweep would give the Bucs the tiebreaker, putting them one or two games behind the Saints for the division lead depending how New Orleans does on Sunday themselves.
"Yeah, I talked to our guys about it,” said Arians. “If we truly have leadership, we don’t lose two in a row. That’s when your leaders show up, so this is a big game.” The game will be televised Sun- day morning at 9:30 a.m.
Bucs TE OJ Howard Makes Great Barehanded Catch At Rays Playoff Game
O. J. HOWARD
O. J. Howard made his best catch of the season, and it didn’t even come during a foot- ball game.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end attended Game 4 of the ALDS between the Tampa Bay Rays and Houston Astros in St. Petersburg on Tuesday night. He was down by the right field line and made a barehanded grab on an Austin Meadows foul ball in the bot- tom of the eighth.
Jerry Jones: Dak Prescott
JAMEIS WINSTON
The Washington Redskins are supposedly planning to make a run at Mike Tomlin now that they have fired head coach Jay Gruden, but Tomlin insists any specula- tion about him leaving the Pittsburgh Steelers is the fur- thest thing from his mind at the moment.
While speaking with re- porters on Tuesday, Tomlin noted that his team is 1-4 and trying to prepare a third-string quarterback for a primetime
MIKE TOMLIN
game against the Los Angeles Chargers. In other words, he has enough on his mind al- ready.
Price Tag Not Changing
Based On Performance
Dallas Cowboys quarter- back Dak Prescott has yet to reach an agreement on a con- tract extension, and there has been some thought that his performance this season may impact what he’s able to get.
According to owner Jerry Jones, however, that’s not the case. Jones said on Tuesday that such a narrative is “laugh- able.”
“Well, first of all, the narra- tive about his financial as op- posed to how he’s playing is laughable. It’s just not that way,” Jones said, via the
DAK PRESCOTT
team’s official website. “It’s too much on both ends of that for both ends of the team and for Dak to equate his perform- ance, stats, or won-loss these first two or three games.
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