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Bucs flashback: Relive the 2020 Super Bowl season

Take a trip down memory lane and relive the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ incredible Super Bowl season of 2020

Right now, the current version of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers is about to add even more talent to their roster in the upcoming 2024 NFL draft.

But in the meantime, let’s take a look back at beginning of this current run in which the Bucs are currently riding a four-year playoff streak, including three consecutive NFC South titles.

This run began with the addition of Tom Brady heading into the 2020 season, and despite a somewhat rocky start, that campaign would end with an epic playoff run, one that would culminate with a dominant victory over Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs for Tampa Bay’s second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.

Take a look back at the epic 2020 season in Tampa Bay:

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Chiefs’ Charles Omenihu speaks about not being able to play against the 49ers in Super Bowl

The former 49ers defensive end wasn’t able to suit up for the Super Bowl due to an ACL injury.

In their Super Bowl matchup, the San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs had multiple connections on the field with different players who have suited up for both sides during their career.

Charvarious Ward, Jerick McKinnon and Richie James all have walked the sidelines of both the 49ers and the Chiefs. Yet, one former member of the 49ers who now plays for the Chiefs wasn’t able to play in the Super Bowl due to an injury.

Former 49ers defensive end turned Kansas City Chief, Charles Omenihu, missed the Super Bowl with an ACL injury. On Tuesday, Omenihu spoke about missing the Super Bowl against his former team in an interview with Kay Adams on the Up And Adams Show.

I think pregame was the worst — pregame and kickoff. Just seeing everybody warming up. I could feel the atmosphere of being at the Super Bowl. But then you’re on the sideline with nothing around. That was the worst of it all. I was just telling myself ‘hopefully you will be back here and playing.’

It wasn’t good. It wasn’t a good feeling at all. I wanted to play so bad. Especially being my former team last year. I felt like this was my opportunity to show y’all like ‘you didn’t want to pay me.’ Y’all let me go. This is kinda like my opportunity to show y’all that was a horrible decision. And the fact that I wasn’t able to do that against them. I have got over it now, but at that time it very much ate at me.

I saw our schedule came out though and we do have them on the schedule next year. I’m hoping it’s around the time I will be back. I really really want to be available for that game.

Via @UpAndAdamsShow on Twitter:

Omenihu played 11 games with the Chiefs lasts season, racking up 28 tackles and a career-best seven sacks. The former Texas Longhorn played the 2022 season with the 49ers before joining the Chiefs.

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Flashback Friday: Tom Brady unveils his Bucs Super Bowl ring

Relive the moment Tom Brady received his seventh Super Bowl ring, this one as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers

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He already had six, but we all know that Tom Brady’s favorite Super Bowl ring is always the next one.

The GOAT got lucky No. 7 as a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leading them all the way to the top of the football mountain back in 2020, helping the Bucs win the second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history.

Watch the video above to relive the moment Brady and the rest of the team received their Super Bowl rings.

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Titans CEO ‘very optimistic’ about Nashville hosting a Super Bowl

Titans president and CEO Burke Nihill is optimistic that the team’s new venue will eventually host a Super Bowl.

After already proving to be a fantastic host city for the NFL draft, Nashville has its sights set on hosting a Super Bowl down the line now that the Tennessee Titans are set to build a new stadium.

The New Nissan Stadium, which is scheduled to open in 2027, will almost certainly garner interest from the NFL as a future Super Bowl site, and that optimism is shared by Titans president and CEO Burke Nihill.

“I feel very optimistic about it,” Nihill said this week at the NFL league meetings in Orlando, Florida, per Jim Wyatt. “I think the NFL loves Nashville, and they love the design of the new stadium. That doesn’t mean there aren’t many, many details to work out to ultimately get awarded a Super Bowl.

“But I am absolutely optimistic that at some point the Super Bowl will (be) in Nashville.”

As far as when that might happen, Nihill said the league typically waits two years after a new stadium opens to consider it as a Super Bowl host.

“Traditionally, the league doesn’t award a new stadium until it has had two full seasons of operation, which means the earliest they would consider us, if they start with that same line of thinking, would be 2029,” Nihill said.

Nihill revealed that the team and the league have had conversations about a Super Bowl coming to the new venue from the jump, and he also hopes to bring back the draft, as well as the NFL Combine and Pro Bowl down the road.

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Arik Armstead looking to help the Jaguars get ‘over the hump’ in 2024

Arik Armstead says he can provide his Jaguars teammates advice on how to handle the Super Bowl stage “when we get there.”

After nine seasons with the team that drafted him in the first round of the 2015 NFL draft, Arik Armstead hit free agency for the first time in his career last week when he was released by the San Francisco 49ers.

So what did the 30-year-old defensive lineman with two career Super Bowl appearances hope to find in his hunt for a new team?

“My goal was to find the next stage of my career in some place that I feel comfortable, that valued me as a player as well too, and a place I can take the next step and grow in,” Armstead said Monday. “A place that’s competitive and that I feel I can come in and help get them over the hump.

“The Jags were a good team before me and whenever I enter a situation, not just in football but in life in general when I’m meeting people and when I’m entering situations working with people, I want to make the place better than when I found it. I want to a positive impact in. I think this team was already a phenomenal team and I think I can help get them to the next level.”

Jacksonville finished each of the last two seasons with 9-8 records. That was enough for an AFC South title in the 2022 season, but it left the Jaguars on the outside this January.

The Jaguars hope that their new additions, headlined by the 6’7 defensive lineman, will be enough to turn the team into a legitimate Super Bowl contender. And Armstead is mincing no words: he envisions being on that stage with the Jaguars.

“This team has Super Bowl aspirations and when we get there, I’ve already been through that, and I know what it’s going to look like and what to expect,” Armstead said.

The Jaguars have been to the AFC Championship three times (1996, 1999, 2017) in the franchise’s three-decade history, but have never reached the Super Bowl.

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Don’t bet on the Saints signing Jauan Jennings after 49ers use RFA render

It looks like Jauan Jennings will not be headed to New Orleans. If the Saints signed him, they’d have to trade a second-round pick back to San Francisco:

The New Orleans Saints shouldn’t be expected to sign San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings after the team used a restricted free agent tender on him. San Francisco announced Monday that it had placed a second-round tender on the wideout, carrying a salary of $4.89 million. The 49ers reserve the right to match any offer Jennings receives from outside organizations.

If the team elects not to match the offer extended (from a team like the Saints), the acquiring team will have to send a second-round pick to San Francisco in return for Jennings. So if New Orleans made an offer the 49ers couldn’t match, the Saints would have to give up the No. 45 overall pick in this year’s draft.

It looks like Jennings will be staying in San Francisco, and it’s clear that it is going to come with a heavy price tag for the squad that picks him up if he is to depart. That’s fitting for the sheer amount of talent he brings to the table, as Jennings would have been named the MVP of the Super Bowl if the 49ers had managed to bring down the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime, where they came up just painfully short.

Jennings’ numbers don’t necessarily reflect the quality of the tape, as he has served as a quality blocker and highly versatile prospect all around. He closed out the 2023 season with 19 receptions for 265 yards with a touchdown. Over three seasons in San Francisco, he totaled 78 catches for 963 yards with 7 touchdowns to his name,

It will be interesting to see how things shake out as the 49ers are clearly making a strong effort to keep him on their roster moving into 2024. If things don’t work out long-term with Brandon Aiyuk then retaining Jennings becomes even more important.

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Caesars Superdome renovations on track to be completed before Super Bowl LIX

New Orleans officials announced that Caesars Superdome renovations are on schedule to be completed before Super Bowl LIX:

Ongoing renovations to the Caesars Superdome are progressing well and on track for completion before Super Bowl LIX, city officials shared this week. The home of the New Orleans Saints will celebrate its 50th anniversary next year after hosting the NFL’s championship game, and construction crews have been hard at work executing more than $500 million in upgrades to improve the visitor experience and the arena’s longevity.

Work on this extensive remodeling began back in 2019 and is expected to be completed in June. That will pave the way for the Saints to host their preseason and regular season home games at home leading up to Super Bowl LIX.

Enhanced food service options, a new entry system of escalators and widened concourses, field-level seating and standing room-only platforms, as well as modern interior lighting and more amenities are all aimed to ensuring the Caesars Superdome remains a first-class venue for decades ahead. Initially priced at $450 million, costs for these renovations have climbed to $535 million as the project moves into its final phase.

So what could be next? The next leg of Taylor Swift’s global “The Eras Tour” will make a stop in New Orleans during the middle of the Saints’ 2024 season, but it’s just one of many high-profile events planned for the Caesars Superdome.

Super Bowl host committee president and Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation CEO Jay Cicero shared a list of big-ticket targets: “We’re talking to the NCAA; we’re talking a WrestleMania, and we’re talking to other groups about bringing their big events back to New Orleans. This renovation is certainly going to be a feather in our cap.”

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Patrick Mahomes looked genuinely stunned when the 49ers chose to take the ball first in Super Bowl OT

Patrick Mahomes looked very stunned that the 49ers would take the ball first in Super Bowl 58 OT.

The San Francisco 49ers opting to take the ball first in overtime of Super Bowl 58 has already become one of the most controversial opinions in the history of the big game.

With the adjusted overtime rules in the NFL playoffs, both teams get a chance to possess the ball after regulation ends if the score is tied rather than the first team with possession winning the game with a touchdown.

San Francisco chose to take the ball first rather than second, which set the Chiefs up for a game-winning touchdown drive when the 49ers were only able to kick a field goal on the first OT possession.

NFL Films showed Mahomes’ shocked face when 49ers linebacker Fred Warner revealed what San Francisco wanted to do after it won the coin toss, and Mahomes expressed how everyone was feeling while watching the game at home.

Well, everyone who knew the new rules, anyway.

While it’s all water under the bridge now, it’s very much still a point of debate as to whether or not the 49ers cost themselves the game by taking the ball first in overtime.

We’ll never know what would’ve happened in the alternate scenario, as the Chiefs took hold of that second OT possession and never looked back.

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Chris Jones hilariously roped in Chiefs DE George Karlaftis for his usual crying session during the national anthem

Chris Jones just wanted a shoulder to cry on during the Super Bowl’s national anthem.

By now, Chris Jones is well-known as one of the key cogs during the Kansas City Chiefs’ new dynasty. He’s a defensive wrecking ball who somehow always finds a way to make timely plays and projects as a likely future Hall of Famer. He’s also known for getting very emotional while someone sings the national anthem before Chiefs games. It’s to the point that he sometimes gets memes created out of this routine.

His approach before Super Bowl 58 was no different. While anticipating the national anthem, Jones turned to defensive teammate George Karlaftis, professing that he was about to get “emotional.” Karlaftis thought nothing of it.

In fact, with Jones’ mere suggestion, Karlaftis noted that he was probably about to cry, too!

What a beautiful and, ironically, hilarious exchange between two teammates on the NFL’s best team.

A mic’d-up Patrick Mahomes was already talking about a Chiefs’ three-peat while celebrating on the field

Patrick Mahomes started talking about a Chiefs’ three-peat before he even left the field!

Patrick Mahomes’ Kansas City Chiefs are already one of the greatest dynasties in NFL history. They won’t, but they could theoretically stop playing winning football and still be remembered for their unprecedented dominance at the top of the NFL.

Based on a new video, Mahomes and the Chiefs aren’t content. At all.

In a new capture from Inside the NFL, a mic’d-up Mahomes is recorded already talking about the Chiefs completing a vaunted “three-peat” while still standing on the Super Bowl 58 celebration stage in Las Vegas. (Note: Our Christian D’Andrea explained what they have to do in the coming months to achieve that.) The man literally just won his third-ever championship and should, conceivably, be basking in the glow of his latest success.

Instead, Mahomes is talking about winning three straight before he even gets his shoulder pads. Maybe that’s why he’s so great:

No NFL team has ever won three straight Super Bowls. Not the Tom Brady-Bill Belichick New England Patriots. Not the Joe Montana-Bill Walsh San Francisco 49ers. And not the Chuck Noll Pittsburgh Steelers.

If Mahomes gets his wish, the Chiefs may genuinely stand alone with unprecedented pro football glory.