Wasted Time

During this offseason, the Buccaneers have severly limited media access to their OTAs at the practice facility. Whether it was to keep secrets about their formations and plays or just to limit the number of jackasses asking inane questions, the team has reduced the information coming out of their camp to a trickle. But yesterday, the Bucs practiced at Raymond James Stadium and it was wide open to the media. Two and a half hours of practice, 7 on 7s, 11 on 11s, first looks at new guys like Kevin Carter and Cato June. You'd think the Tampa media would be all over it. So, what's the major storyline from this first glimpse into full team offseason practice?

Urban Meyer and his staff visited.

The St. Pete Times has nothing on how the practice went. Neither does the Orlando Sentinel. Only the Tribune takes a little time to briefly touch on a couple things in practice. Everything else was how Urban Meyer showed up and how he's going to share ideas with Jon Gruden and vice versa and they're mutual admiration and... ugh. All these web sites have Gator-specific sections that you can go to if you want to keep up with Meyer and his crew (I hear they win a lot of games.) Report that stuff there. But if Alan Zemaitis is dropping easy picks and Cadillac Williams is fielding kickoffs, I want to know about it when I read the Buc-specific section (both those bits are true, by the way.)

The morsels TBO gives us are that Jeff Garcia took most of the snaps, they toyed with the shotgun but had some trouble with the snaps, and Gruden specifically praised David Boston and Arron Sears. That's what two and a half hours of open practice nets between three major publications. I realize these are all free web sites, but if you're going to take the time to put something up, maybe it could be relevant in some small way?