The Tampa Bay Buccaneers added some valuable experience to their outside linebacker group earlier this offseason when they signed veteran free agent Randy Gregory to a one-year deal.
Or did they?
Gregory has been absent from the team’s mandatory minicamp this week, and it doesn’t sound like Bucs head coach Todd Bowles is terribly thrilled about it.
“I’m just going to coach the guys that are here, like I said, as it goes on,” Bowles said when asked about Gregory’s absence following Wednesday’s practice. “We’re fine with the guys we have here.”
Bowles was asked a follow-up question about whether or not he’s spoken with Gregory, and he reiterated a similar response.
“I’m going to coach the guys that we have here and deal with that when we have to deal with it,” Bowles said.
Since being reinstated from a suspension in 2020, Gregory has avoided any of the off-field issues that he dealt with earlier in his career. Gregory did recently file a discrimination lawsuit against the NFL, according to the Denver Post, but there’s no indication that his absence from minicamp is related.
Jay Recher and Zac Blobner of Tampa’s WDAE opined this week that Gregory’s time in Tampa Bay might be over before it even begins:
We’ll see where this goes from here.
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