{"id":744720,"date":"2026-06-18T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744720\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T15:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T15:24:30","slug":"bucs-lost-ota-after-nfl-made-random-request-for-practice-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744720\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucs lost OTA after NFL made random request for practice film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Buccaneers lost an OTA day due to excessive contact during practice, coach Todd Bowles <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/the-buccaneers-lost-an-offseason-practice-for-having-too-many-guys-on-the-ground\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">didn\u2019t say much about it<\/a>. More recently, Buccaneers assistant G.M. Mike Greenberg elaborated, a bit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had a great offseason, a lot of energy, a lot of good stuff between the offense and defensive line,\u201d Greenberg said on The Ronde Barber Show, via JoeBucsFan.com. \u201cIt\u2019s been fun being out there, but with that <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.joebucsfan.com\/2026\/06\/buccaneers-assistant-gm-explains-nfl-practice-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">comes sometimes a little bit too much contact<\/a>. And Todd\u2019s got to regulate it a lot after each play, which he does a great job of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although every practice is recorded, not every practice is scrutinized by the league. As Greenberg explains it, the league randomly selected a practice that entailed too much contact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe league, really, they\u2019ll just ask for [practice] tape randomly from teams from time to time,\u201d Greenberg said. \u201cThey\u2019ll get through everyone; sometimes they\u2019ll go through teams twice. And they picked a day, if we\u2019re being honest, we did have contact and we did deserve to lose an OTA day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, if the league (and the NFL Players Association) were intent on fully protecting players and enforcing the rules, both parties would assign one or more employees to watch every OTA practice. If teams know it\u2019s random, they may be willing to roll the dice on certain days. <\/p>\n<p>If it\u2019s comprehensive, they know there\u2019s no way to get lucky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When the Buccaneers lost an OTA day due to excessive contact during practice, coach Todd Bowles didn\u2019t say&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-744720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}