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USA TODAY Sports The Buccaneers practiced outside on their grass field for 2 1/2 hours Wednesday, according to a pool report. That included a 26-minute break in the team’s indoor practice facility to simulate an extended Super Bowl halftime. ”We wanted to go over the exact timing of the...

Getty Images The Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year, but the week leading up to the Super Bowl this year is different. The team practiced at their home facility for 90 minutes Wednesday. The Chiefs will not fly to Tampa until after Saturday’s practice. “It’s familiarity,” Chiefs coach Andy...

Getty Images Compared to his first three seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Leonard Fournette‘s 2020 campaign with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers has been quite a different experience. After being a workhorse back with the Jaguars, Fournette has been just part of the Buccaneers running back...

Getty Images Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland knows the book on his team. Breeland said Tuesday that he’s aware that people credit the Chiefs with having “an electric, fire offense” while the defense draws less attention. Breeland said that he wants “our defense to get credit like that as...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers and Chiefs met in November, Tampa Bay cornerback Carlton Davis was front and center as Tyreek Hill recorded 203 yards receiving and two touchdowns in the first quarter. Hill finished that game with 269 yards and three TDs, showing the Buccaneers clamped down on...

Getty Images When Cameron Brate heard the Buccaneers were signing Rob Gronkowski, he had some concerns. Brate was entering his seventh season with the Buccaneers, and had caught 27 touchdowns for the team since 2015. And with O.J. Howard also on the roster, Brate feared he might be the odd man...

Getty Images It’s only natural to compare the two quarterbacks in Super Bowl LV: Tom Brady is generally recognized as the greatest in NFL history, and Patrick Mahomes is generally recognized as the greatest of the next generation. But in Mahomes’ mind, he just has the Buccaneers’ defense to...

Getty Images When the Buccaneers score a touchdown at Raymond James Stadium, cannons fire at Tampa’s pirate ship-themed home field. But not at the Super Bowl. NFL officials told Jenna Laine of ESPN that they will not permit the cannons to be fired after Buccaneers touchdowns at Super Bowl LV...

Getty Images Jason Pierre-Paul is one of only six players on the Bucs’ roster with Super Bowl experience. He won a Super Bowl ring in 2011 as the Giants beat Tom Brady‘s Patriots. Pierre-Paul, who was traded to Tampa before the 2018 season, now is on the same team with Brady and back on...

USA TODAY Sports Sammy Watkins is a pending free agent after signing a three-year deal with the Chiefs in 2018. He restructured his contract last spring to bring down his cap number, making a base salary of $9 million. But his production was once again lackluster. Watkins caught 37 passes for...

Getty Images Sammy Watkins missed six games with injuries in the regular season and then both playoff games. He is “very optimistic” that his calf injury is healthy enough to allow him to play in the Super Bowl. His injuries and the falling salary cap could help the Chiefs keep Watkins next...

Getty Images Le'Veon Bell made a unique decision to bet on himself and sit out the 2018 season rather than play on the franchise tag. Through various circumstances and reasons, Bell hasn’t seen the same level of success in 2019 and 2020 as he did the first five years of his career in...

Getty Images Some of the NFL’s oldest head coaches have also been among the most successful in recent years, and that includes 68-year-old Bruce Arians and 62-year-old Andy Reid, who will meet on Sunday at Super Bowl LV. Reid joked that he and the other 60-something coaches (a list that also...

Getty Images The Buccaneers won’t have to put out a practice report today, even though they held a walkthrough. “Today was a bonus day, so we had walkthrough,” Bucs coach Bruce Arians said. “We had about 40 or 50 plays of walkthrough.” Everyone participated, Arians said, but it sounds as if...

Getty Images Running back LeSean McCoy hasn’t played a lot for the Buccaneers this year, but he isn’t having any second thoughts about the decision to sign with the team. McCoy said Tuesday that he had spoken to the Eagles this summer about a return to Philadelphia and that he wanted it to...

USA TODAY Sports Kansas City’s offense is one of the most dynamic units in the league largely because of quarterback Patrick Mahomes. But it doesn’t hurt that he has two elite receiving options in Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce. Kelce set a record for receiving yards by a tight end in 2020...

Getty Images When the 2020 season began, Le'Veon Bell was playing running back for the Jets and Antonio Brown was a free agent with an eight-game suspension looming over his head. The 2020 season will end with the former Steelers teammates in very different surroundings. Bell is playing for...

Getty Images Kate Sowers became the first female coach in a Super Bowl a year ago with the 49ers. This year, Maral Javadifar and Lori Locust are coaching in the big game for the Bucs. Javadifar (pictured) is the team’s assistant strength and conditioning coach and Locust the assistant...

Getty Images It’s six days before Tom Brady will play in his tenth Super Bowl and first as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. It’s the first time in 10 appearances in the title game that Brady is still at home as he prepares for a Super Bowl. Usually, teams would be in the host city of the...

Getty Images The Chiefs placed receiver Demarcus Robinson and center Daniel Kilgore on the COVID-19 reserve list yesterday, and shortly after that was announced, coach Andy Reid expressed confidence that his team is not at risk of an outbreak. The two players tested negative but were placed on...