I’ve made no secret of the fact that in my personal and professional lives, teamwork is everything to me. It’s what helps win games on the field, and what helps keep me strong mentally outside of sports. That’s why, as we head to Tampa Bay this weekend to play the Bucs, I was excited to learn about a mental health initiative there called Tampa Bay Thrives. The whole idea behind TBT is teamwork; literally, the back of their volunteer t-shirts say: TOGETHER FOR A BETTER TOMORROW.

Coach Sirianni’s motto this year: “Contributions over credit.”

TBT is a nonprofit that started in 2019. The gist of it, as Carrie Zeisse, President and CEO of TBT explained it to my reporter friends at The Citizen, is that all the “stakeholders” — jargon that just means people who are affected — aroun

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