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Getty Images The family of Ray Perkins, who won a Super Bowl ring as a player and succeeded a legend as a head coach, announced, via AL.com, that he has died on Wednesday at 79. Perkins grew up in Mississippi and played wide receiver at the University of Alabama as a teammate of Hall of Fame...

USA Today Sports Vikings linebacker Eric Kendricks was set to play in Sunday’s game against the Jaguars until he wasn’t. He re-aggravated a calf injury pregame that had limited him during the practice week and was ruled out. Minnesota head coach Mike Zimmer said on Wednesday morning he was...

Getty Images Let Russ sink. The odds-on MVP favorite for much of the season, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson continues to slide in the betting odds for the league’s top individual award. Via PointsBet.com, Wilson has dropped from +700 last week to +2000 this week, putting him fourth on...

Getty Images Buccaneers head coach Bruce Arians said after the team’s last game that he thinks running back Ronald Jones should be getting 20 touches a game and he revisited the topic of Jones’ usage on Tuesday. Arians told reporters that Jones “is where we start” offensively and emphasized...

Getty Images At the risk of creating a “really rich people often get money they don’t deserve” vibe, well, really rich people often get money they don’t deserve. Via CNBC, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady‘s TB12 company received a Paycheck Protection Program loan in the amount of $960,855. The...

Getty Images With New Orleans’ magic number to win the NFC South at one and with four weeks left in the regular season, the Buccaneers most likely will play up to three playoff games on the road. Tampa Bay coach Bruce Arians shrugs at the road-warrior reality that his team may be facing. “Just...

Getty Images Buccaneers wide receiver Chris Godwin needed to have pins inserted in his finger after he broke it earlier this season, but things have healed to the point that Godwin can move forward without them. Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times reports that Godwin had a procedure on Tuesday...

Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has left Boston, but he has left behind a mansion worth more than $30 million. On Monday, there was an unscheduled tour of the premises. Via the Associated Press, a 34-year-old man broke into the home. He made himself comfortable on a couch in the basement. A...

USA Today Sports The Buccaneers are waiving wide receiver/returner Jaydon Mickens, per multiple Monday reports. Mickens was Tampa Bay’s primary returner before he went on the reserve/COVID-19 list on Nov. 14. The Buccaneers took him off the list last Monday as they began their bye week. In...

Getty Images The Buccaneers enter their bye week at a crossroads, possibly in more ways than one. With three losses in four games, a 6-2 start has melted to 7-5. An NFC South championship won’t happen, and it’s fair to wonder whether they even get to the playoffs. Based on their last four...

Getty Images Former NFL running back LeGarrette Blount has announced his retirement. Blount, who last played in 2018, wrote on Instagram that he’s ready to say it’s over. “I just want to inform y’all that I’m officially retiring,” Blount wrote. “I have thought long and hard about this...

USA TODAY Sports Overtaken in recent weeks by Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson has now been leapfrogged again in the MVP odds. Wilson, via PointsBet, now has +700 odds to win the top annual individual award. The bet-$100-win-$700 proposition puts him...

Getty Images Linebacker Jack Cichy is on his way to the Patriots. According to multiple reports, Cichy was claimed off of waivers on Thursday. He will have to go through COVID protocols before joining the team and won’t be in the lineup against the Chargers this weekend. Cichy was waived by...

USA Today Sports The Buccaneers are waiving linebacker Jack Cichy, NFL Media’s Mike Garafolo reported on Wednesday. A third-year linebacker out of Wisconsin, Cichy has mainly played special teams in his time with Tampa Bay. He was activated off injured reserve on Saturday, but did not play in...

Getty Images Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians recently said that, when it comes to constant barbs directed to quarterback Tom Brady, Arians isn’t criticizing Brady; the coach is simply being honest. On Tuesday, Arians had some honesty for defensive coordinator Todd Bowles. “We just got to get...

USA Today Sports The Buccaneers signed defensive tackle Jeremiah Ledbetter from their practice squad to the 53-man roster on Wednesday. Originally a Lions sixth-round pick in 2017, Ledbetter has been with Tampa Bay for most of the last three seasons. This year, he was activated from the...

Getty Images The wheels of justice move slowly, and that works to the advantage of Buccaneers receivers Antonio Brown. Via Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times, the civil lawsuit against Brown alleging sexual lawsuit and rape will go to trial on December 6, 2021. The case originally had been...

Getty Images The Buccaneers removed running back T.J. Logan and wide receiver Jaydon Mickens from the reserve/COVID-19 list, the team announced Monday. Logan remains on injured reserve, having undergone season-ending surgery in August to repair a patellar tendon injury. He went on the COVID-19...

Getty Images When the NFL unveiled its schedule for the 2020 season, they left five Week 16 games unscheduled because they would decide later about which of them would be played on Saturday, December 26. The league announced those decisions on Monday. Three games will be played that day with...

USA Today Sports Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians usually doesn’t mince words. In recent days, Arians has sprinkled some passive-aggression into his comments about quarterback Tom Brady. Speaking to Tracy Wolfson of CBS in advance of Sunday’s Chiefs-Bucs game, Arians did his best Marie Barone...