TAMPA, Fla. -- It was an intense stare-down mimicking two prizefighters vying for a heavyweight title. Their eyes fixated on one another, sizing each other up, carefully calculating the next move and counter-move.
But this was not a duel in the dessert. This was a student and his teacher, present meeting the past. And their arena was a grassy practice field at One Buccaneer Place.
On one side -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers second-year defensive end Noah Spence. On the other -- Simeon Rice, whose 10 sacks in 2005 were the last time a Buccaneer reached double-digits.