What’s more important? The starters revving up and getting hyped for a preseason game where they’re expected to play through three quarters? Or making sure they’re healthy and ready to destroy the Dolphins come September 10? For the Buccaneers – and their fans – the latter will take precedent.
We’ve seen Brent Grimes miss both preseason games thus far and now we have Mike Evans missing the last two practices, Kwon Alexander missing time this week, Demar Dotson nursing an injury suffered against the Jacksonville game, and Gerald McCoy being very limited in Thursday’s practice.