Friday, 4 a.m. Julio Jones is coming. So, too, is Odell Beckham. Streaking downfield, there will be Julian Edelman and Jordy Nelson, Brandin Cooks and Larry Fitzgerald, Jarvis Landry and Kelvin Benjamin, Golden Tate and Greg Olson. Standing between all of them and the goal line? Vernon Hargreaves III. A year ago, Hargreaves wasn’t that […]

Thursday, 4 a.m. On every play, every eye watches every move. His fans. His teammates. His coaches. The media. The concession workers. All of them. Jameis Winston moves, and eyes go with him. He is a tennis ball. When the ball is in the hands of Winston, you cannot look elsewhere. You cannot talk about […]

Thursday, 3 a.m. Before the trophy, before the firing, before the clashing of swords, Jon Gruden was energy. If anything was going to define his stay in Tampa Bay, that should be it. Gruden entered by pushing, prodding and poking a pretty good Bucs’ team. He put a clock on his practices, and he tried […]

Wednesday, 4 a.m. You can measure a training camp by the drills. There are endless drills, endless groups of moving around the field in the name of a regular season more than a month off. You can measure a training camp by the beads of sweat, those relentless beads dripping down an athlete’s body. It […]