Buccaneers Assistant GM Explains NFL Practice Penalty
June 18th, 2026
So the Bucs lost a spring practice because of too much contact in a spring practice, where contact is against NFL rules.
Tampa Bay assistant general manager Mike Greenberg dove into how it happened.
Greenberg joined The Rondé Barber Show,a WFLA-TV streaming property, and explained the process of how the Bucs got caught last month — and he agreed with the penalty. Head coach Todd Bowles is constantly monitoring practice for contact, per Greenberg.
“We’ve had a great offseason, a lot of energy, a lot of good stuff between the offense and defensive line,” he said. “It’s been fun being out there, but with that comes sometimes a little bit too much contact. And Todd’s got to regulate it a lot after each play, which he does a great job of.
“The league, really, they’ll just ask for [practice] tape randomly from teams from time to time. They’ll get through everyone; sometimes they’ll go through teams twice. And they picked a day, if we’re being honest, we did have contact and we did deserve to lose an OTA day. But with that, you know, we did get in a lot of good work, as well. … It’s more of just the guys were excited to be out there and working.”
Interesting to hear Greenberg says the NFL randomly picks a practice or two to review. Most teams have nine spring OTA days. So that’s strong odds that a team will get away with forbidden activities at a shorts, t-shirts and helmets practice.
As Greenberg said, “we did get in a lot of good work.”