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  1. Captain Fear

    The Simms QB countdown, No. 28: Ryan Fitzpatrick

    Getty Images On Thursday, we paused the Chris Simms Top 40 quarterback countdown on PFT Live in order to devote the full show to the ongoing conversation regarding a moment of profound change in America. On Wednesday, we unveiled two more. Quarterback No. 28 is a quarterback who seemingly has...
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    Santana Dotson remembers meeting fellow high school alum George Floyd

    Getty Images Former Packers defensive tackle Santana Dotson went to Houston Yates High School, as did George Floyd. Dotson is four years older than Floyd, so the two met only once. That came in 1993 after Dotson’s rookie season with the Buccaneers and while Floyd was a tight end at Yates...
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    Rob Gronkowski loses the WWE 24/7 title

    Getty Images Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski has made his official exit from pro wrestling. In a video with acting that is nearly as bad as the production values, Gronk has lost the WWE 24/7 title to Ron Killings. Killings was masquerading as a gardener while Gronk was filming a TikTok...
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    Auden Tate, other NFL players help clean up Tampa after protests

    Getty Images NFL players aren’t just speaking out. They’re also helping out. Three NFL players who live in Tampa in the offseason but do not play for the Buccaneers helped cleanup efforts in the city Sunday, a day after looters damaged businesses in a strip mall. Grace Remington of WTSP...
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    Deion Sanders pushes for an Antonio Brown comeback

    Getty Images Hall of Fame cornerback Deion Sanders has a new mission: He’s helping a receiver who once was on track to join Deion in Canton get back into the NFL. “My son came to town to WORK!” Sanders said on social media. “On his game, on his life, on his thoughts, on his tomorrow and on...
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    The Simms QB top 40 countdown, No. 33: Jameis Winston

    Getty Images Five years after becoming the first overall pick in the draft, quarterback Jameis Winston no longer is a starter. And with 32 teams in the league, it’s no surprise he’s not among Chris Simms’ top 32 quarterbacks for 2020. Winston just missed the cut. The NFL’s first 30-30 man came...
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    Tom Brady is selling a customized Escalade . . . for $300,000

    Getty Images If you’re looking for a car previously owned by a celebrity, you can buy Jo(h)n Voight’s LeBaron. Or you can aim a little higher. Via Jenna Laine of ESPN.com, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady is selling a customized Cadillac Escalade ESV for $300,000, or best offer. “Parting ways...
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    The Simms top 40 QB countdown, No. 35: Jarrett Stidham

    Getty Images Tom Brady is out, Jarrett Stidham is in. And Stidham, despite very limited NFL experience has landed on the Chris Simms top 50 quarterback countdown. Stidham, the presumptive Patriots starter for 2020 (and potentially beyond), comes in at No. 35. During Thursday’s PFT Live, we...
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    “The Match” could become an annual event

    Getty Images With record cable ratings for a golf event, “The Match II” delivered. It may now be delivering on a more annual basis. Arash Markazi of the Los Angeles Times reports that talks have commenced regarding the possibility of making it an annual event featuring Tiger Woods and Phil...
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    Bryan Cox reflecting on his continued unemployment

    Getty Images Longtime NFL linebacker and assistant coach Bryan Cox has been unemployed for four years. He’s still not quite sure why, but he said he’s trying to focus on making himself better in case he gets another chance to coach. The 52-year-old Cox told D. Orlando Ledbetter of the Atlanta...
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    NFL-themed SNL episodes coming tonight on NBCSN

    Getty Images Live sports eventually will be back. Until live sports return on a given Saturday night, how about some Saturday Night Live featuring men who play sports? It’s SNL week on NBCSN, and it gets started at 7:00 p.m. ET on Monday with four classic episodes featuring NFL players. The...
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    Peyton Manning, Tom Brady golf match shows how audio can enhance sports on TV

    Getty Images Some of the best moments from “The Match II” came not from the golf shots but from the verbal jabs taken by the participants and commentators. And it demonstrated the potential value of making more audio available to people watching sports at home. For now, we’ll take any...
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    The Match becomes most-watched golf event in cable history

    Getty Images It took a former NFL star, a current NFL star, two of world’s best golfers and a pandemic for The Match: Champions for Charity to become the most-watched golf event in cable TV history. Turner Sports announced Monday that Sunday’s charity event featuring Peyton Manning and Tiger...
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    Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning hold on to win The Match

    Getty Images Tiger Woods, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson reminded us Sunday what we have missed the past two months. The Match: Champions for Charity provided an entertaining afternoon of live golf. Woods and Manning held off Mickelson and Brady, winning 1 up, in the rain at...
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    Tom Brady, Peyton Manning meet again today

    Getty Images Two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history will do something today that people throughout the country routinely do, to varying degrees of success and/or failure: They’re going golfing. Peyton Manning, teaming up with Tiger Woods, will face Tom Brady, whose partner will be...
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    Extra police protection purchased for outside Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay home

    Getty Images Maybe the town really should be known as Tompa Bay. Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has become the highest-profile resident on Tampa, and that profile has been elevated by his decision to rent Derek Jeter’s mega-mansion on the edge of the waters of Hillsborough Bay. The house has...
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    Ryan Jensen discovers Tom Brady sweats the small stuff

    Getty Images Ryan Jensen read a story Nick Underhill wrote last year about how particular Tom Brady is about what he asks of his center. So the Buccaneers center had at least an idea of what was coming from the team’s new quarterback. A week or so after Brady signed, he and Jensen talked. “Do...
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    Jason Licht: Tom Brady, Bruce Arians a “perfect marriage” for Buccaneers

    The Tampa Bay Buccaneers want to end their 12-year playoff drought and they want to do it now. With that in mind, the pairing of a soon-to-be 43-year old quarterback with a 67-year old head coach further indicates that the time is now for the Buccaneers to find their way into January...
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    Tom Brady texted Sean Payton about Week 1 game: “You’re the favorites”

    Getty Images Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady and Saints coach Sean Payton have exchanged texts about their teams’ Week One meeting. Payton said in an Instagram chat with Kay Adams that he and Brady have engaged in some friendly banter since Brady joined the NFC South. “Yeah, Tampa Week 1...
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    Devin White: Practicing against Tom Brady will bring our game to a new level

    Getty Images With Tom Brady and Rob Gronkowski joining the Buccaneers, there’s no question that attention has been focused on the offensive side of the ball in Tampa. Linebacker Devin White knows that the team isn’t going to win by being successful in just one phase of the game, however. White...
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