The Buccaneers entered training camp with a pair of contract impasses taking center stage. <\/p>\n
Quarterback Baker Mayfield is expected to play out the season<\/a> on the final year of his deal after failing to come to agreement on an extension this offseason and defensive tackle Vita Vea requested a trade<\/a> after trying to land a new contract of his own. At a press conference, Bowles was asked about keeping the focus on football as the negotiations play out publicly and said he isn\u2019t worried about players taking their eyes off the ball. <\/p>\n \u201cWell, there [are] players every year [that] you\u2019re going to have them [with]. These happen to be two of our biggest players,\u201d Bowles said, via a transcript from the team. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had two of our biggest in a while, but we\u2019ve had players every year. It just hasn\u2019t been of that magnitude. But, it\u2019s always about football. There [are] always going to be distractions just like there are on game day. There are going to be sudden changes and there are going to be sudden changes on the field. We have a very professional and mature group with a lot of leadership there, starting with Baker. So, he makes sure that\u2019s separate. He makes sure the team knows that\u2019s separate. Like I said, we\u2019re not going to make this training camp about what he signed or what he didn\u2019t sign or it being his contract year. We\u2019re just going to play ball.\u201d<\/p>\n Bowles said questions about whether there\u2019s a chance of continued contract talks with Mayfield should be addressed to General Manager Jason Licht. Mayfield may have an opportunity to address that first while Bowles keeps his attention on making sure the team is ready to go for Week 1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buccaneers entered training camp with a pair of contract impasses taking center stage. Quarterback Baker Mayfield is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":792364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-792363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/792364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}