Buccaneers outside linebacker Yaya Diaby says the team\u2019s disappointing season was due in part to practices that weren\u2019t intense enough to prepare the team for the physicality of game day.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay head coach Todd Bowles used a lot of lower-intensity walk-through practices because so many players were injured, but Diaby says practices in the NFL can\u2019t always be easy, or else the players aren\u2019t ready for the rigors of a game.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had more walk-throughs this year than any other year,\u201d Diaby said, via PewterReport.com. \u201cI\u2019m not going to lie. I\u2019m a straightforward guy. That\u2019s one of the things I do want to talk to Coach Bowles about, especially with me possibly being a captain next year. Just letting him know that has to change. We need to prepare the right way<\/a>. We have to prepare to win. I know injuries are a big thing in this league, but being ready for a game is just as important as anything else. Me, I love practice. This whole year, the practices that we\u2019ve had that we\u2019ve actually run through, I take it super serious. His point is to have mental reps, and I understand the mental reps. But at the same time, football is a physical game. You have to be in it. You can\u2019t just walk through everything. I feel like that\u2019s the next step, especially with me being here three years and seeing what we\u2019ve done good and what we\u2019ve done bad. That\u2019s the next step.\u201d<\/p>\n After making the playoffs the last five years, the Bucs fell short this year. Something has to change, and Diaby thinks it\u2019s the way the team practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buccaneers outside linebacker Yaya Diaby says the team\u2019s disappointing season was due in part to practices that weren\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":496822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-496821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115848991579219741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}