The Bucs’ trip to Pittsburgh this week has been anything but smooth sailing. On one hand, practices looked sharp. But on the other hand, they turned into a nightmare for the secondary. Todd Bowles , already under the microscope heading into the season, suddenly found his safeties falling one by one. First came the gut punch of Antoine Winfield Jr. battling what Bowles himself described as an NHL-style “lower leg injury.” Then, before the defense could catch its breath, the next setback arrived.

“For the second time this training camp, the Bucs have lost a promising rookie defensive player to a season-ending knee injury,” Pewter Report’s Scott Reynolds wrote on August 16. “Tampa Bay defensive back J.J. Roberts suffered a significant knee injury on special teams in the Bucs’ joi

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