06/11/2026
The NFL docked the Buccaneers one OTA practice for being too physical and the league said they had “too many guys on the ground,” a violation of offseason rules 🚨
“Wednesday, by the league, looking at the first practice we had too many guys on the ground so they took a practice from us. So Wednesday was by their [the league’s] doing, Tuesday was already set in motion for our doing. We cleaned it up after that. We understand we’re not trying to get nobody hurt yet, you know, that was the basis of it,” Bowles said of the team’s practice schedule.
Bowles confirmed that the NFL reviewed their practice footage and flagged multiple plays where there was too much contact.
“Yeah, it’s about 3 or 4 plays that [the league] recorded us and you know we’re trying to practice safety as well. We got a lot of new guys trying to learn how to practice, but we cleaned that up and kind of took care of it.”