On Wednesday, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers took a short trip on a quintet of buses from their current hotel to Gesling Stadium on the Carnegie Mellon campus. They had already taken care of the longest leg of the trip on Tuesday when they flew from Tampa to Pittsburgh for a week of remote work that is going to include a joint practice with the Steelers on Thursday afternoon and a preseason game between those two teams on Saturday night.

In all the Buccaneers were 875 miles away, as the crow flies, from their usual training site when they stepped onto the grass on Wednesday morning. A smattering of Carnegie Mellon students stopped to watch the accident from atop a small incline, but otherwise the Bucs were in their own little world, and that would be even more true when the team got back to its

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