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Steelers coach Mike Tomlin.
It’s official. The Bucs will have one joint practice with the Steelers on Thursday, Aug. 14, at what used to be called Heinz Field.
The 2 p.m. session won’t be open the public, and it won’t be the traditional joint practice.
Joe says it won’t be traditional because typically these sessions are on multiple practice fields (hey, there’s two, 90-man rosters.) with simultaneous action and plenty of room for teams to do their drills and then join in work against each other.
That can’t happen on one stadium field.
Regardless, good job Bucs getting this done. It’s valuable work against an unknown commodity. No Bucs cornerbacks cheating on receivers whose tendencies they know. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin is known as a guy who does not like joint practices.
The Bucs play the Steelers two days later on the same field, the preseason Week 2 matchup.