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Arians made on-field contact with Buccaneers safety Andrew Adams

Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians was fined $50,000 after making contact with Tampa Bay safety Andrew Adams during the team's wild card win over the Eagles, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport. Arians slapped Adams' helmet during Tampa Bay's 31-15 win on Sunday.

Arians defended his actions on Monday, saying that was trying to prevent Adams from committing a penalty. Arians apparently thought that Adams was going to try to pull Eagles players off the pile following a muffed punt by Philadelphia wideout Jalen Reagor.

"I've seen enough dumb," Arians said, via the Tampa Bay Times. "You can't pull guys out of out of pile. We just got a big play, great field position and he's trying to pull a guy out of the pile and I was trying to knock him off that guy so he didn't get a penalty."



Arians recently made headlines for his decision to release Antonio Brown during the Buccaneers' late-season win over the New York Jets. Brown, stating his ankle injury, said that he was too injured to enter the game, which led to his release. Arians said Brown alluded to his lack of involvement in the offense as his reasoning for not going back into the game, which led to Arians asking Brown to leave the sideline.

Distractions aside, Arians and the Buccaneers are three wins away from becoming the ninth team in NFL history to win back-to-back Super Bowls and the first since the 2003-04 Patriots. The Bucs will host the Rams this weekend in the NFL divisional round.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...ng-wild-card-win-over-eagles-per-report/

A Coach with real fire in the Belly , how scarry ! What a wimp society ..

I know times have changed.

2 of our high school coaches used to yell and scream, and on game nights it was nothing to get hit. In the shoulder pads.

Parents complained. My parents asked me what I thought. I simply said "I'm not at risk of anything. They're hitting us in the shoulder, where we have pads." (keep in mind, these 'hits' were NOT punches, by any means, and they came after mess ups, missed plays, etc.)

And we’re elonly getting weaker, man. I saw that replay during the game and thought nothing of it. What a society of social justice warriors, pablum-puking weak-knees and hashtag heroes we are becoming.