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Rick Stroud
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Bucs/NFL beat writer for Tampa Bay Times. Co-author of the Players’ Coach with Tom Moore. Host Sports Day Tampa Bay, a podcast on Apple Podcasts (ITunes)
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    Rick Stroud
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    May 22, 2024
    I’m very proud to announce Tom Moore’s book, The Players’ Coach: From Bradshaw to Manning, Brady and beyond, which I co-wrote with him, is available on Amazon for pre-order. He talked, I typed. Honored to help tell coach Moore’s story. In stores Labor Day
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    Jan 29, 2022
    Confirming Tom Brady has called #Bucs GM Jason Licht to inform him he has NOT made up his mind about retiring or playing in 2022. @MikeSilver reported it first.
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    Oct 25, 2021
    Bucs are giving Byron Kennedy the following for the No. 600 TD football: Two signed jerseys and a helmet from Tom Brady, a signed Mike Evans jersey & his game cleats, a $1K credit at our team store, and two season passes for the remainder of this season as well as next season.
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    Rick Stroud
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    Jan 25, 2022
    Tom Brady on his Let’s Go podcast about his wife and family and football. “It pains her to see me get hit out there.  And she deserves what she needs from me as a husband and my kids deserve what they need from me as a dad.
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    Rick Stroud
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    Dec 30, 2019
    #GoBucs coach Bruce Arians, when asked if this team could win with another quarterback: “With another quarterback? Oh yeah. If we can win with this one, we can definitely win with another one, too.’’
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    Sep 29, 2024
    Tom Brady doesn't hold back when responding to Baker Mayfield's claim that it was "stressful," for players when Brady was in Tampa Bay. “I thought stressful was not having Super Bowl rings,'' Brady said. "This wasn’t daycare...If I was going to have fun, I was going to
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    Sep 25, 2025
    T Tristan Wirfs says he was relieved when doctors finally discovered there was something wrong with his knee because it wasn’t getting better. “I wasn’t crazy,” he said, noting he had been in pain before the surgery. Now he is pain free and could play Sunday.
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    Jan 9, 2021
    #GoBucs QB Tom Brady in one of the Friday passing competitions organized by QBs coach Clyde Christensen. He hits all three targets in three tries.
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    Dec 19, 2024
    Bucky Irving is asked by Baker Mayfield if he’s become closer to Baker Mayfield than Bo Nix.
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    Apr 11, 2022
    Governor Ron DeSantis signs legislation to provide $70 million to promote fatherhood at the Bucs indoor facility as Tony Dungy looks on.
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    Sep 11, 2025
    #Bucs WR Mike Evans on what could be his last trip to Houston or his home state of Texas as an NFL player.
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    Feb 1, 2025
    #Bucs Pro Bowl QB Baker Mayfield on Liam Coen FaceTiming him and the OLine in the Bahamas to tell him he was taking the Jaguars HC job. “I left him on red a little bit,” he said. But Mayfield understood it was an opportunity Coen couldn’t pass.
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    Rick Stroud
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    Jan 18, 2021
    #Bucs are designating DT Vita Vea for return from injured reserve. He will begin practicing Wednesday and could be activated for Sunday's NFC title game. Vea fractured his ankle against the Bears in Oct.
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    Rick Stroud
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    Mar 1, 2022
    Arians was asked if Tom Brady wanted to come back with another team, would he accommodate him. “Nope. Bad business.”