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Jameis Winston: 'Listen,
Me And Coach Koetter
Have A Great Relationship'
Riley Bullough
Promoted To
Active Roster
Falcons Vs. Buccaneers On Monday Night Football
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers host the Atlanta Falcons on "Mon- day Night Football" to close out Week 15 in the NFL. The Falcons are six-point favorites, up two from the opener. The game will air Mon- day, December 18th on ESPN at 8:30 p. m.
Former NFL Running Back Larry Johnson Believes He Is Living With CTE
Tampa Bay Buccaneers quar- terback Jameis Winston de- nied the NFL Network’s report about his relationship with coach Dirk Koetter “being in a bad place” following Sunday’s 24-21 loss to the Detroit Lions.
“Listen, me and Coach Koet- ter have a great relationship first and foremost,” Winston said. “We have the same goal when we go out there on that football field and that’s to win the football game. It doesn’t matter what anyone else can possibly say, ob- viously a lot of stuff can come out when we are not doing as ex- pected, but that’s false.
Coach Koetter coaches his tail off and he definitely supports me, so whatever anybody else has to say outside of that – that’s water under the bridge.”
Winston said it’s the fur- thest thing from the truth, which is why he wanted to clarify things.
“It’s a distraction,” Winston emphasized. “And a lot of dis-
Riley Bul- lough made a name for him- self during the Tampa Bay Buc- caneers' sum- mer run on Hard Knocks. Now the Bucca- neers have made a place of Bul- lough on their active roster.
RILEY BULLOUGH
JAMEIS WINSTON AND DIRK KOETTER
tractions come up when we don’t perform like we need to perform. I’m the type of player – first and foremost, I’m a strong believer that coaches coach and players play. If you look at today’s game, the players – I didn’t play [well]. I had three turnovers and a pre- dictable call or any call you can’t predict that,. When you have three turnovers, you can’t make that up.”
Coach Koetter also denied there was any tension between them following the game.
Tampa Bay promoted the rookie linebacker from its own practice squad on Tuesday, mak- ing room on the 53-man roster by waiving cornerback Deji Ola- toye. Bullough had been on the Buccaneers' practice squad since the beginning of the regular sea- son.
The Buccaneers signed Bul- lough as an undrafted free agent out of Michigan State in May. He played in all four preseason games, recording 11 stops and one tackle for loss. In addition to his exposure on game day, Bullough also became a favorite of theHard Knocks cameras after Head Coach Dirk Koetter was shown prais- ing the rookie in a team meeting.
Former NFL running back Larry Johnson told the Wash- ington Post that he believes he suffers from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
At this time, CTE can be con- firmed only after death. John- son said that his anxiety, paranoia and self-destructive impulses match the symptoms of CTE victims. He describes brief, intense headaches, the jit- ters, mood swings, violence and forgetfulness.
He describes "demons" that push him toward rooftop decks, urging him to "jump."
Johnson last played in the NFL in 2011. He says that he has no memory of two full NFL sea- sons, and that many of his most
LARRY JOHNSON
memorable plays are hazy mem- ories.
"Blank spots," Johnson calls those lapses.
Because of that, Johnson says he is creating a "time cap- sule" of his football career for his daughter, Jaylen.
Tyrod Taylor Expected To Start In Week 15
The Buffalo Bills were able to grind out a win in blizzard condi- tions against the Indianapolis Colts last weekend, and as a re- sult they remain squarely in the playoff hunt.
It sounds like it will be up to Tyrod Taylor to keep them there.
Taylor missed last Sunday’s game because of a knee injury, but veteran is expected to start
against the Miami Dol- phins on Sun- day.
Bills head coach Sean McDermott reiterated on Wednesday that Taylor remains the
TYROD TAYLOR
team’s starter when healthy.
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