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The Athlon Sports 2023 Fantasy Football Annual magazine reached out to team insiders at all 32 NFL clubs to ask them three key fantasy questions heading into the season. As we count down to training camp, Sports Illustrated will publish their answers here. Today’s team: Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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What does life after Tom Brady look like for the Bucs’ passing game? The GOAT may be gone, but so is the outdated, vertical-pass-happy scheme that departed with offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich.

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Welcome to 32 teams in 32 days. To get us through the offseason, we’ll be taking a closer look at every team in the league, in order of projected 2023 win totals. Up next: the Buccaneers.
Tom Brady isn’t walking through that door. And right now, that door may as well be a revolving one of the Buccaneers.
After three years of Brady and, in that span, two division titles and a Super Bowl victory, Tampa Bay is left to rebuild with some aging parts and no quarterback of the future. With Brady retired, the job is left to a competition between Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask.

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Tour de France organizers are taking a step back in time and well outside of reality as they are reportedly implementing strong COVID protocols for next month’s race. This year’s rules and restrictions are stricter than anything the race had in place a year ago, which that alone makes no sense whatsoever.
According to a source that spoke with Reuters, riders and team staff are banned from signing any autographs, taking selfies with fans, and must eat inside their hotels throughout the 23-day race.

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Jay Cutler’s journey to Vanderbilt was pretty unorthodox.
Most major high school recruits get noticed by going to camps around the country, dominating on the field during games and getting plenty of tape out there.
However, Cutler attended Heritage Hills High School in Lincoln City, Indiana in the late 1990s-early 2000s. The situation was a bit different.
Coaches and players didn’t have social media, YouTube or iPhones to shoot messages back and forth. The lack of quick research options apparently led to a very funny interaction between Cutler and Vandy coaches before he committed.

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Smoke continues to swirl that something is going down in Boulder with the Colorado Buffaloes.
There have been multiple reports and signs indicating Colorado might be getting ready to split from the PAC-12 and return to the Big 12. A report from over the weekend also claimed the Arizona Wildcats might come with them.
Nothing has officially happened, but the longer the PAC-12 goes without a media deal, the more likely it is the Buffaloes and other programs decide to look at other options.

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The 2023 Women’s College World Series will be a rematch of 2021: No. 3 Florida State will meet No. 1 Oklahoma to play for the title.
Florida State knocked off Tennessee on Monday to punch its ticket to the championship series. The No. 4 Lady Vols jumped out to an early lead with a solo home run by Zaida Puni in the first inning. But that would be all their scoring for the day. The Seminoles responded with a home run of their own to lead off the second, courtesy of Michaela Edenfield, and did not look back from there.

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Every year, the NFL draft serves as a showcase dedicated to the fulfillment of lifelong dreams of playing in the NFL. But, in the case of Cardinals rookie Paris Johnson Jr., the night almost became one for the books for a reason that nearly caused him to miss his big moment.
Arizona shared a tweet Monday night featuring a behind-the-scenes video of Johnson’s hilarious retelling of the moments leading up to his selection at pick No. 6.

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Indianapolis Colts cornerback Isaiah Rodgers apologized for his involvement in illegal gambling activity currently being investigated by the NFL.
On Monday, news of an investigation of Rodgers and over 100 bets placed in a sportsbook account under his associate’s name was revealed.
Rodgers’ extensive gambling put Indy under a negative spotlight and added to the NFL’s ongoing headache with sports betting among its players.

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