It's quiet at the AdventHealth Training Center as players and coaches for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers enjoy the team's bye week in whatever ways recharges them both physically and mentally. As evidenced by the nine players on the team's injured reserve list and the 18 others who were on the weekly injury report leading up to the last game in New Orleans, it's been a rugged first half to the season, and there's still a long way to go.

It's obviously important that Tampa Bay's banged-up players – which is most of them – get an extended chance to recover before returning to the field for the second half of 2025, but it does mean that those of us who are Buccaneers fans don't have a home-team game to entertain us this coming weekend. But don't worry, there's still plenty of good football to keep

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