TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles mentioned Wednesday that the crew would deal with Randy Gregory’s absence “internally” after the surface linebacker didn’t report with the veterans on Tuesday and was positioned on the reserve/didn’t report record.
“We’ll discuss concerning the gamers which can be right here,” Bowles mentioned. “He is not right here. We’ll take care of that internally. And clearly he is on the don’t report record and we’ll go from there.”
Bowles declined to say whether or not he has had any communication with Gregory and declined to take a position on when Gregory may present up, if in any respect. Gregory already had unexcused absences for the three days of obligatory minicamp, leading to a $101,356 tremendous. Failure to report back to coaching camp additionally will lead to a $50,000 tremendous per day, per the NFL’s collective bargaining settlement. Ought to Gregory miss a preseason sport, that tremendous additionally will embody one week’s Paragraph 5 wage for every sport missed.
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In June, Gregory filed a lawsuit towards each the NFL and Denver Broncos for discrimination, claiming that he was denied use of the drug dronabinol, which is a prescription drug containing artificial hashish that Gregory takes for social anxiousness and put up traumatic stress dysfunction. The lawsuit claims that the league and crew each violated Gregory’s proper to incapacity lodging.
Bowles declined to reply whether or not the Bucs had gotten any sort of heads up that Gregory deliberate to file a lawsuit previous to his signing a one-year deal price $3 million with an extra $2 million that may very well be earned by way of incentives, however these incentives are associated to sport participation and never offseason exercises.
The Bucs didn’t have Gregory slated to start out, however fairly serve in a rotational function — one thing he indicated that he was on board with when he signed with the membership in April. The crew did choose outdoors linebacker Chris Braswell within the second spherical of the NFL draft later that month, and he’ll compete for the beginning job with Joe Tryon-Shoyinka and Anthony Nelson. Markees Watts and Jose Ramirez are additionally two gamers whom the Bucs are enthusiastic about persevering with to develop.
When requested how he felt concerning the depth on the place with out Gregory, Bowles mentioned, “Effectively we by no means had him to start with. He hasn’t been right here so we have been OK with the depth we have. We have some guys that may play and we will get ’em able to play.”
When Bowles was requested if there was any query about Gregory’s dedication once they signed him, he mentioned, “I haven’t got any extra hypothesis on Gregory.”
