By that time, the main focus shall be firmly on preparations for the upcoming season, with the three-game preseason slate additionally serving as a giant a part of that. And the top coaches of two of these preseason opponents have confirmed that their groups shall be holding joint coaching camp practices with the Bucs forward of their scheduled exhibition matchups.
Jets head coach Aaron Glenn instructed reporters at New York’s OTAs that his staff will come along with Todd Bowles’ squad for 2 practices earlier than the Bucs and Jets open up their respective exhibition slates.
Aaron Glenn says the #Jets could have two joint practices with the Buccaneers throughout coaching camp. These would be the staff’s solely joint periods this summer season. (So, none with the Giants this time)
The Bucs and Jets are scheduled to play one another in Week 1 of the preseason, with the sport kicking off Friday, Aug. 14 at 7:00 p.m. at MetLife Stadium. With the sport going down on a Friday, maybe that units up for joint practices on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The Bucs and Jets beforehand held joint practices collectively in 2023, although the vibe shall be a lot completely different this time round for each groups. Again then, Tampa Bay was working via a quarterback battle between Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask and was going through some uncertainty in its first yr with out Tom Brady. In the meantime, New York was driving excessive, having simply landed Aaron Rodgers in hopes of fixing its long-term quarterback drawback.
Former Jets HC Robert Salah and Bucs HC Todd Bowles – Picture by: USA Immediately
This time round, there’s no Rodgers. He’s heading into the ultimate yr of his NFL profession, which can be his second with the Steelers. As an alternative, it’s former Jet Geno Smith who’s again in inexperienced and white after a short-lived stint with the Raiders.
To not point out, Robert Saleh can be not round from these 2023 joint practices. He was fired in 2024, hung out again in San Francisco because the 49ers’ defensive coordinator and now enters this season as the brand new head coach of the Titans. In his place in New York is Glenn, who has already matched up with Bowles and the Bucs in his one yr as New York’s high man. The 2 groups confronted off in Tampa throughout Week 3 of the 2025 season in a recreation that noticed the Jets almost pull off the upset just for Chase McLaughlin to hit a game-winning 36-yard area aim as time expired.
For the Bucs, there are quite a lot of the core items nonetheless in place from that 2023 preseason. Nonetheless, there are two large names who won’t be there from again then. In fact, that might be Mike Evans (now with the 49ers) and Lavonte David (now retired). This can be a little bit of a new-look Tampa Bay staff in 2026, even when quite a lot of the primary veterans are nonetheless suiting up in purple, white and pewter.
Whereas Glenn’s Jets and Bowles’ Bucs are set for 2 practices collectively forward of the preseason opener, it’ll be fascinating to see if each come to fruition. Again in 2023, the second joint observe between the 2 groups was canceled.
Saleh mentioned yesterday the #Jets are having only one joint observe with the Bucs partly due to security and too many fights are likely to occur on Day 2.
There have been about 5 minor scuffles already on Day 1.
Bucs Will Additionally Have A Joint Follow With Jaguars In Jacksonville
Pewter Report beforehand reported that the Bucs have been engaged on these joint practices with the Jets, in addition to one other joint observe with the Jaguars two weeks later within the leadup to their preseason finale in Jacksonville.
Bucs engaged on scheduling 2 joint practices with the Jets this preseason and 1 with the Jaguars.
The Jaguars’ joint observe has been within the works for some time now, as Coen instructed Pewter Report on the NFL Annual Assembly in March that the 2 groups have been lobbying the NFL for each a preseason recreation and a joint observe.
Jaguars head coach Liam Coen – Picture by: IMAGN Photographs – Mark J. Reblias
The exhibition recreation clearly labored out, as the 2 sides will do battle on Friday, Aug. 28 with kickoff set for 7:30 p.m. With that in thoughts, the joint observe would seemingly happen on that Wednesday, Aug. 26.
There was fairly the uproar in Tampa when Coen left to develop into Jacksonville’s head coach, particularly with the best way it went down. Finally, a monetary provide that was too giant to refuse in addition to the flexibility to rent his personal common supervisor led to him taking the job and leaving the Bucs after one wildly profitable season with Baker Mayfield and the offense.
There is perhaps a notion that there’s dangerous blood between Coen and Tampa Bay with the best way every part unfolded, however that isn’t the case. Coen is definitely finest mates with new Bucs offensive coordinator Zac Robinson, and now the 2 could have an opportunity to catch up in Jacksonville this August.
With the sport on Aug. 28 being the preseason finale for each groups, it’s unlikely that the starters will function a lot, if in any respect, that evening. However with a observe collectively two days earlier, the regulars could have an opportunity to compete in opposition to one another, which needs to be a deal with.
