Thursday, 27 October 2016

Bucs' defensive line gets healthy in time for Raiders

DE Robert Ayers rehearsed Wednesday without precedent for three weeks, testing his lower leg with restricted interest, an initial move toward playing interestingly since Week 2 at Arizona. DT Clinton McDonald, who has missed the previous two diversions with a hamstring damage, additionally working on, offering trust that the guarded line could have returned to full quality Sunday at home against the Raiders.

RB Doug Martin remains sidelined with his own particular hamstring harm and could miss a fifth straight diversion, however his nonattendance has been relieved by reinforcement Jacquizz Rodgers scrambling for more than 100 yards in consecutive recreations.

Mentor Dirk Koetter confirmed that WR Louis Murphy, attempting to come back from ACL surgery in November, had a "mishap" a week ago with a disconnected damage and can't rehearse.

"That is a tad bit of a juggling demonstration consistently," Koetter said of his group surviving a rash of wounds to win its previous two diversions.

Optional SHOWDOWN: Sunday's diversion will have Bucs cornerbacks Brent Grimes and new kid on the block Vernon Hargreaves attempting to point of confinement Oakland's solid accepting twosome of Amari Cooper and Michael Crabtree. Crabtree is tied with the Bucs' Mike Evans for the class lead with six touchdowns, however Koetter is positive about his corners.

"I've been thumping their drum all season," Koetter said. "I think we have two great corners, and I'm almost certain Oakland has two great wide collectors. … That'll be a fun one to look for each one of those Bucs fans that are going to top off Ray Jay on Sunday."

Various things: Bryan Anger positions seventh in the group in net punting at 43.0 yards for each punt, poised to break the Bucs' single-season record of 40.3 yards. He credits his scope unit, which has Tampa Bay poised to set group records for both reasonable gets and punts brought down inside the 20-yard line. … The Bucs had CB Josh Robinson broadly educating with the group's securities Wednesday. He has worked there practically speaking before, with more noteworthy group profundity at corner, however he hasn't played a snap on resistance this season, functioning admirably on scope units on extraordinary groups. … The Raiders lead the class in punishments and are second in punishment yards. Oakland has twice the same number of hostile holding and false begin punishments as the Bucs this season.

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