Everybody Will Play vs The Bengals

Normally, you do not see your starting players, let alone a 7-time Super Bowl Champion quarterback, play much in the preseason, but this year it seems that it may be a bit different. Bruce Arians was asked if the Buccaneers will treat this Saturday’s game as a typical first preseason game; he said yes, but everyone will suit up and see some time on the field.

“More like a first. Everybody will play; don’t know how much, but everybody will play. The Titans week; we’re going against them for two practices — that will determine how that is as far as who plays in that one. And the last one, we’ll play a bunch.”

QB Tom Brady, OLB Jason Pierre-Paul, and WR Antonio Brown had off-season knee surgery, so it is important to get them out there in some capacity against another team going full speed before the start of the NFL season. 

Other players are just returning, like TE O.J. Howard, who missed most of the season after rupturing his Achilles during the game against the Chargers early last October. TE Cameron Brate missed most of training camp while on the Active Physically Unable to Perform list [PUP] with an undisclosed injury. 

I would not expect the first three mentioned to play more than half of a series, they could play an entire series, which would surely test out their knees, but we will just have to wait and see how things go this Saturday night.

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