Tag: Sterling Shepard

Daniel Jones, Sterling Shepard among ex-Giants cheering on Saquon Barkley

Former New York Giants QB Daniel Jones and WR Sterling Shepard were in a booth on Sunday cheering for Saquon Barkley and the Eagles.

Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley went off for more than 230 yards from scrimmage on Sunday, including two touchdown runs of 62 yards or more.

The historical performance helped propel the Eagles to a 28-22 victory over the Los Angeles Rams and an NFC Championship showdown with the Washington Commanders.

It was a nightmarish image for New York Giants co-owner John Mara and the team’s fans, but a moment of celebration for several former Giants.

Quarterback Daniel Jones and wide receiver Sterling Shepard joined Barkley’s family in their booth and cheered on their good friend and long-time rivals.

The Giants didn’t attempt to re-sign Shepard during the offseason, so he ended up alongside quarterback Baker Mayfield in Tampa Bay. Like Barkley, he got a taste of the playoffs this year.

So did Jones, who was released mid-season and later signed by the Minnesota Vikings. While he didn’t take a snap for the team, he was on the roster for meaningful football.

But Jones and Shepard weren’t the only former Giants rooting for Barkley — wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. did the same, albeit from his couch.

Earlier in the playoffs, rookie wide receiver Malik Nabers was on hand rooting for his former LSU teammate, Jayden Daniels, and the Washington Commanders.

Those in East Rutherford must be envious of Barkley, Jones, Shepard, Nabers, and Beckham Jr.’s happiness and joy. They’re all having a blast rooting on the Eagles and Commanders while the Giants just want to bury their heads and pretend none of this is real.

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Sterling Shepard injury update: Latest news on the Bucs WR

WR Sterling Shepard left the Bucs’ Sunday Night Football matchup with the Dallas Cowboys with a hamstring injury.

Buccaneers wide receiver Sterling Shepard has been ruled out of Tampa Bay’s Sunday Night Football matchup against the Dallas Cowboys with a hamstring injury. Shepard left the game in the third quarter after a 14-yard reception, after which Shepard left the field, grabbing the back of his leg.

 

Shepard has been a godsend to a Bucs receiving corps beset by injuries this season. After Chris Godwin was lost for the season and Mike Evans went down with his own hamstring injury, Shepard became Tampa Bay’s de facto WR1 until Evans’ return. This season, Shepard has 30 catches for 303 yards and a touchdown, adding seven carries for 55 yards.

With Shepard out, the Bucs will continue to lean on Mike Evans and Jalen McMillan to lead the receiver group. Shepard’s experience is not easily replaced, though Ryan Miller has come up big on a few plays in his first season with the Bucs. Second-year WR Rakim Jarrett should also see more work on offense.

Bucs WR Sterling Shepard steals the show during player introductions

In the case of Bucs wide receiver Sterling Shepard, he is going to go down as having one of the best of all time.

There is nothing better than getting to hear players do their introductions during the opening of Sunday Night Football. You get to hear players proudly proclaim where they went to school, at any level, and sometimes they even have some fun with it.

In the case of Bucs wide receiver Sterling Shepard, he is going to go down as having one of the best of all time.

The funniest in history has to be when we heard Former Ravens linebacker Terrell Suggs proclaim he attended “Ball So Hard U.” That is just one example of the funny moments that can unfold but thanks to Sterling Shepard we now have a cute, family moment to hold onto forever.

 

Th moment shines a little brighter during the holidays, we suppose.

Sterling Shepard and his daughters teamed up for the most adorable SNF intro of all time

Shoutout to Sterling Shepard and his daughters for this precious moment.

With the holiday season in full swing, Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Sterling Shepard and his daughters just gave us one of the most precious Sunday Night Football player introductions we’ve ever seen. And because it took the Buccaneers until Week 16 to be featured on SNF, we had to wait months for it to be unveiled.

As is usually the case with Sunday night games on NBC, participating players often have their own creative twist with their individual introductions. In a hilarious twist, Jamaal Williams once worked in a Naruto reference. Last season, former New York Giants offensive lineman Justin Pugh said he came “straight off the couch” in a nod to New York recently elevating him off the practice squad.

Now, we have Shepard saying his full name while his daughters teamed up to say his college, Oklahoma. It’s so adorable:

Man, I don’t care what comes next in a long line of incredible SNF player introductions. This one from the Shepards will likely never be topped.

Panthers S Sam Franklin Jr. restrained from Buccaneers players in heated scene after Week 13 loss

Things got heated in the tunnel following the Panthers’ Week 13 loss to the Buccaneers.

It seemed as though the Carolina Panthers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed more than just overtime to settle their score.

Sunday evening saw the visiting Buccaneers pull off a walk-off 26-23 win over the host Panthers. But the Week 13 showdown extended well beyond the field, as Carolina safety Sam Franklin Jr. was captured in a heated exchange in the tunnel after the game . . .

No. 33 for the Bucs is outside linebacker Jose Ramirez. Sunday marked the third NFL game for Ramirez, a sixth round pick from the 2023 draft.

Then, this happened . . .

The reasoning behind the wild scene is not yet clear . . . at least to those who were not involved.

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Sterling Shepard: Giants’ culture needs ‘a little bit of work’

Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Sterling Shepard had some candid comments about his old team, the New York Giants, and how their culture needs work.

Former New York Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard is back in town. Not as a Giant, mind you, but as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who are here to face the Giants on Sunday afternoon at MetLife Stadium.

Shepard and the Giants parted ways this past March after eight seasons. The former 2016 second-round pick out of Oklahoma caught on with the Bucs on a one-year deal, which at the time was seen as a depth move.

But that ended quickly as the 31-year-old Shepard was thrust into a larger role after an injury to star wideout Chris Godwin and Mike Evans’ recurring hamstring issues.

Shepard is fully aware of what is happening with his former team, especially with quarterback Daniel Jones, who he played five seasons with. Jones was first benched on Monday and eventually released on Friday.

“I feel for him, man, because I know how hard the dude works. I’ve seen it firsthand and how great of a dude he is,” Shepard told the New York Post. “And he can play ball, man, he’s a good ballplayer. It’s just unfortunate this is the way this business goes sometimes. It’s good to you sometimes, but sometimes it goes the other way and you got to navigate through that.”

Shepard also said he felt the Giants were “a couple of pieces away from being a really good team” and then was asked about the culture now that he’s been in another team’s locker room.

“I think there could be maybe a little bit of work there,” he said. “It’s just different, in so many different ways and so many different levels. When it goes down to the small things, what you can do in the building as a player, the way you’re able to communicate and be hand-in-hand with the coaches, it’s just a lot of different things I kinda picked up on being there for so long.

“Even down to the training staff or the weight coaches and some of the different stuff that we do here, it’s a difference. . . I’m not saying the way that they do it is bad because it’s not. It’s just different and I’ve gotten to see the other side of it.”

Shepard was not re-signed by the Giants because they wanted to get younger and more dynamic at wide receiver, hence the additions of Malik Nabers, Wan’Dale Robinson, and Jalin Hyatt.

Shepard didn’t see the field much in his final season with Big Blue and commented on head coach Brian Daboll, who is 8-19 over the past two seasons.

“I don’t think you go from being the Coach of the Year two years ago to just being a guy that can’t get the job done,” Shepard said. “I don’t believe that. I wish him nothing but the best. I feel like he can be a coach that can produce wins. He’s done it before and he did it early on so I don’t think you just go away from that.”

Whether or not Daboll will have that opportunity beyond 2024 remains to be seen.

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Sterling Shepard warns Bucs not to underestimate Giants’ Tommy DeVito

Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Sterling Shepard has warned his teammates not to underestimate New York Giants QB Tommy DeVito.

The New York Giants will welcome back a familiar face on Sunday when they take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

Sterling Shepard, who spent the first eight years of his career with the Giants, will face off against his former team for the first time.

The biggest storyline of the week is, of course, the Giants benching of Daniel Jones and turning to Tommy DeVito at quarterback — a face Shepard is familiar with from last season.

Shepard has warned his teammates, that DeVito is not someone who should be taken lightly:

“I mean, I love Tommy, man. He’s definitely a very energetic guy, he’s very confident,” Shepard said. “That’s the reason I’ve been telling these guys, it’s not somebody that we can take lightly. He’s going to go out there with confidence and play his type of style ball. So, yeah, other than that, he’s a great dude and that was a time to be around, for sure.”

Like the Giants, Shepard and the Buccaneers, are trying to snap a losing streak of their own on Sunday. Shepard has 16 catches for 166 yards and a touchdown so far this season. It will be interesting to see his workload on Sunday with Mike Evans trending toward a return.

Both Shepard and the Giants knew that his time in New York was reaching its end during the final weeks of last season. Still, he will get a warm welcome from Giants fans Sunday.

The Giants are hoping to get a spark by starting DeVito on Sunday, just as he provided last season and Shepard is certainly making sure his team is aware of what DeVito brings to the table.

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Bucs HC provides update on Mike Evans injury status and recovery

On Monday, Bucs head coach Todd Bowles gave everyone an update on Evans and his hamstring injury. 

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers offense has remained efficient despite the absence of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. We have been expecting to get Mike Evans back at some point while Chris Godwin has been on record saying that the only chance he has of coming back is in the playoffs.

On Monday, Bucs head coach Todd Bowles gave everyone an update on Evans and his hamstring injury.

“I’ll have to see where he is next week. He’s getting better and better. With the week off, hopefully he’ll be able to do something next week.”

For what it is worth, Bowles gave that same answer when discussing Josh Hayes’ and Tristan Wirfs’ injury status. He has stated this position previously after the injury occurred, so it may also indicate that not much has changed for him.

Soft tissue injuries, such as hamstrings, are always a touch-base sort of injury. It isn’t fun to deal with or monitor but that is the cards we are currently dealing with.

Todd Bowles rules out several players for Week 5 matchup against Falcons

The Bucs head to Atlanta to play against the Falcons, head coach Todd Bowles has officially ruled out five starters on the short week.

Unfortunately, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers injury report has been in midseason form in the early stages of the 2024 season. As the Bucs head to Atlanta for a Thursday night matchup against the Falcons, head coach Todd Bowles has officially ruled out five starters on the short week, as reported by Greg Auman.

  • DL Calijah Kancey
  • S Antoine Winfield
  • T Luke Goedeke
  • WR Jalen McMillan
  • WR Trey Palmer

Calijah Kancey will miss his fifth straight game with a calf injury. Bowles did note to reporters that Kancey might have been able to see his first action this season had the game been on Sunday, as the DT had no setbacks this week at practice.

Justin Skule, who has allowed seven pressures, will get the start against an Atlanta Falcons defense that has struggled in generating pressures on opposing QBs as the 28th ranked pass rushing defense per PFF, with Luke Goedeke unable to clear concussion protocol, being forced to miss his fourth-straight game.

The Bucs signed WR Sterling Shepard to their active roster again this week as both Jalen McMillan and Trey Palmer will be out on Thursday. Shepard is coming off a 50 offensive snap outing against the Philadelphia Eagles, the most since 2022.

Sterling Shepard gives Bucs another veteran presence in wide receiver room

Due to injuries at the wide receiver position, Sterling Shepard provided the Buccaneers offense with a spark they needed against the Eagles.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have had a plethora of injuries so far this season. Despite this, they’ve still managed to do well, jumping out to a 3-1 start and good for first place in the NFC South.

The Bucs have accepted the “next man up” mentality just four games into the 2024 season. One of the players called upon was veteran wide receiver Sterling Shepard, amidst injuries to Trey McMillan and Trey Palmer. Shepard, a former second-round pick of the New York Giants in 2016, has plenty of experience and was able to step in seamlessly during the Bucs’ 33-16 win over the Eagles on Sunday.

“He’s very smart,” said head coach Todd Bowles. “He brings a lot of experience, and he can still play – he can play all three spots – he’s very fast and sure-handed. If he’s healthy, he’s a heck of a football player. He gives us an added dimension, just like the other two [wide receivers].”

Shepard caught three passes for 51 yards against the Eagles, including catches of 18 and 30 yards. The veteran played over 50 offensive snaps, unusual for a practice squad elevation. Fellow wide receiver Chris Godwin alluded to Shepard’s energy to the huddle.

“For ‘Shep’ to be able to step in when his number is called and to go and make plays – that’s pretty damn sick. And it was cool being in the huddle with him, too, because he was so filled with energy. He was amped up, man. You could tell he loves this game, so it was cool to see him play.”

If the Bucs’ injuries continue at the wide receiver position, they have to feel good about having Shepard ready to go at all times.