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Hurricane Ian forces Buccaneers to postpone Ring of Honor induction for Bruce Arians

The hurricane headed for Florida is forcing the Bucs to postpone the Ring of Honor induction for former coach Bruce Arians.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are postponing the Ring of Honor induction of former coach Bruce Arians to a later game on the team’s home schedule, although the new date for the ceremony hasn’t been determined.

On-going scheduling conflicts created by Hurricane Ian necessitated the postponement.

Arians, now a senior football consultant with the Bucs, coached the team for three seasons (2019-21). He led the team to the playoffs in two of the three seasons and won Super Bowl LV following the 2020 season. He remains the oldest coach to win a Super Bowl.

Overall, the Bucs went 36-19 in the regular season under Arians, including a 13-4 mark in 2021, and won five playoff games.

Once inducted, Arians will be the 14th member of the team’s Ring of Honor.

The Todd Bowles-led Buccaneers lost their home opener on Sunday against the Green Bay Packers. The team will operate out of South Florida this week while preparing to play the Kansas City Chiefs. The primetime game, scheduled for Sunday night, is still currently expected to be played in Tampa, although the location is subject to change based on Hurricane Ian.

Latest update on Chiefs-Buccaneers Hurricane Ian contingency plan

The #Chiefs and #Buccaneers could play in a neutral site in the midwest should damage from Hurricane Ian force the NFL to move the game.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers could have the location of their Week 4 game on “Sunday Night Football” impacted by Hurricane Ian.

The teams are currently scheduled to play in Raymond James Stadium in Tampa Bay, but that location could be changed. With Hurricane Ian on a collision course with the western coast of Florida, it’s possible that the damage from the storm could for the NFL to change the location of the game. The league is currently working through its contingency plans for the game.

On Tuesday, the Buccaneers are evacuating their home facility to travel to Miami for the practice week. Miami is far enough out of the way that it won’t be threatened by Hurricane Ian. Could that be the place the NFL opts to move the game should the storm have an impact? Probably not.

ESPN’s Jeff Darlington reports that the NFL is considering a neutral site in the midwest should the league have to move the game. Darlington says the league doesn’t want to use Florida state resources to host a game. One option mentioned by Darlington was the Minnesota Vikings’ U.S. Bank Stadium. The Vikings and Saints are playing a game in London (not New Orleans) in Week 4, making the stadium available for a game.

Why would the league opt for Minneapolis and not at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, which would be open and available this weekend? It likely has something to do with a competitive advantage gained by Kansas City.

We’ll see if anything comes of this situation in the coming days. Severe weather is still expected to begin late Tuesday night and persist through Friday. The Tampa Bay area is expected to have major flooding, storm surge and damaging winds.

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Brian Kelly said LSU is preparing for rough conditions against Auburn due to Hurricane Ian

Kelly said the team is preparing for windy and rainy conditions in Auburn, Alabama, on Saturday night.

As the west coast of Florida hunkers down in preparation for what could be devastating effects of Hurricane Ian, college football programs around the region are monitoring the situation.

That includes Tigers coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag], who discussed how the team is preparing for potential bad weather in Saturday’s contest on the road against Auburn.

“No doubt. We’ve talked about a gameplan in terms of what it might look like, hopefully that’s going to pass through,” Kelly said. “We’re going to get probably some rain of some kind and that’ll be our first time in that kind of element. It’s a grass situation, so you put those plans together relative to what that would look like if, in fact, we did get hit with some severe rain.”

The current track shows the hurricane staying well away from eastern Alabama, but that doesn’t mean the game couldn’t be impacted by the outer bands. Per the 10 p.m. CT rainfall potential update from the National Hurricane Center, Auburn could be set to receive up to four inches of rain.

Kelly may be new to coaching in the south, but he’s dealt with the impacts of hurricanes before, most notably against Clemson in 2015 and NC State the following year while he was at Notre Dame.

“I’ve been in two remnants of hurricanes, one at North Carolina State, which was abysmal and I think the other was at Clemson,” Kelly said. “They affect the game conditions, and so you have to plan accordingly in terms of your passing game, running game. Kicking game is affected dramatically. Field position, tactically how you call a game. You just have to wrap your head around it prior to and prepare for it. And then, quite frankly, you have to react accordingly during the game.

“I’m not making too much of it. I’m not going to put too much on our players. Our players just need to play, and as coaches we’ll adapt accordingly during the game.”

LSU’s Week 5 contest should go on as planned, but it will likely be in less pristine conditions than the team has faced to this point.

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Buccaneers moving practice from Tampa to avoid Hurricane Ian

The Bucs are heading to Miami to avoid Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian is heading toward Florida and Tampa is right in the path of the storm.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers decided on Monday they will evacuate and head South.

The Buccaneers are going to Miami and plan on practicing at the Dolphins’ facilities this week.

They actually catch a break because the Dolphins have a Thursday night game against the Cincinnati Bengals so that opens space on the schedule.

Per Tampabay.com:

For now, Sunday night’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs is still scheduled to be played at Raymond James Stadium. The NFL is monitoring the progress of the storm and likely won’t make a decision until Wednesday or Thursday at the earliest.

The Bucs will utilize the Dolphins’ practice field and weight room only, not their meeting rooms.

There is the possibility Sunday night’s game against Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs could move to another location or be pushed to Monday night.

 

Bucs move practices to Miami as Hurricane Ian threatens Tampa Bay

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are moving this week’s practices to Miami due to the incoming storm

As Hurricane Ian continues to trek closer to the Tampa Bay area, the Buccaneers are moving their practices to Miami for the week, per multiple reports.

Bucs head coach Todd Bowles told the media Monday that the team had already been in discussions with the NFL regarding possible contingency plans for the week, including the potential for having to move Sunday’s home game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

The team will travel to Miami on Tuesday, which is normally the players’ off day, per the Tampa Bay Times’ Rick Stroud.

Stroud later reported that the Bucs have also invited the families of players and coaches to come along:

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Bucs vs. Chiefs might have to move to another city due to Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian could have an impact on Sunday’s game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Kansas City Chiefs

As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers begin their preparations for Sunday’s game against the Kansas City Chiefs. they’re also making contingency plans as Hurricane Ian heads toward the Gulf of Mexico.

“Right now we’re still monitoring things, but we’re working things out with the league and we should have a decision hopefully later on today about what we’re going to do,” Bucs head coach Todd Bowles told the media Monday.

Bowles was asked if the NFL had discussed the possibility of having to move the game to another location.

“Possibly, if it gets to that,” Bowles responded.

The Bucs are no stranger to this kind of situation. Back in 2017, their season opener on the road against the Miami Dolphins was rescheduled due to Hurricane Irma, which moved the game from Week 1 to both teams’ bye week later in the season.

It’s still unclear just how much this storm will impact the Tampa Bay area, but the Bucs are already planning for every potential scenario.

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Despite Hurricane Ian, UF-EWU game still scheduled as planned, per Florida AD

The Gators are still expected to host Eastern Washington this weekend, but Hurricane Ian may create some issues as the week continues.

Florida’s Week 5 matchup with Eastern Washington is still planned to take place on Saturday in Gainesville, but the university will be closely monitoring Hurricane Ian, which is expected to impact the west coast of the state over the week.

The university’s athletic director Scott Stricklin took to Twitter on Monday to announce the update. The last time Florida dealt with inclement weather was in 2017 when Hurricane Irma hit. That game was moved up to a noon start time initially, but both programs agreed to cancel the game after mid-week projections showed Irma moving up the middle of the state.

The hope is that UF won’t have to cancel once again, but hurricanes can take sudden turns that force a change of plans. The good news is that the university should know how the storm affected the community by Thursday afternoon or evening.

There’s also the question of EWU’s travel arrangements. If the team is set to arrive on Friday, there’s a good chance they deal with some flight issues. Right now, the situation is one big what-if scenario.

The thing is that Florida needs to play this game badly. This is a team that the Gators should be able to dispatch easily, and they need to prove themselves after two early losses and a near loss to USF. This isn’t the kind of game that’s likely to be made up, but it’s a tricky problem to solve with the money involved in these kinds of visits.

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Will Hurricane Ian impact Chiefs-Buccaneers Week 4 game?

Will Hurricane Ian cause problems for the #Chiefs vs. #Buccaneers Week 4 game? The latest here:

The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers could see their Week 4 game on “Sunday Night Football” at Raymond James Stadium impacted by Hurricane Ian.

Ian recently was classified as a hurricane after intensifying from a tropical storm. The hurricane is strengthening rapidly and could become a deadly Category 4 storm by the time it reaches the United States.

Right now, the hurricane is currently located just south of Cuba. It’s still tracking toward Tampa Bay and the southern coast of Florida. Mandatory evacuations for coastal areas of the city are already in place and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency.

The current timeline from the National Weather Service has conditions worsening as early as Tuesday night and persisting through Friday.

So, how exactly will this impact the Chiefs’ Week 4 game?

Right now, the Buccaneers are making contingencies for the practice week.

“We’ve talked about it, we have a lot of ideas,” Bucs HC Todd Bowles said after their Week 3 game on Sunday. “We’ll talk about it more in detail tomorrow.”

As for whether the NFL would consider moving or delaying the game due to weather or damage from the storm, there have been no official comments from the league yet. Commissioner Goodell is within his rights to move or delay the game if necessary.

The unique situation here is that this is a primetime game, so it feels like they’ll make every effort to keep the game in its scheduled time slot. Would they consider making a location change, though? Traveling NFL teams are required to keep their home stadiums unoccupied in the event a road game needs to be moved. The Kansas City Royals won’t be playing at Kauffman Stadium on Sunday either, so there are no conflicts at Arrowhead Stadium.

We’ll hear from Chiefs HC Andy Reid later today and he’ll likely be asked about the situation.

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