The pumped in crowd noise won’t be any sweat off the backs of the Bucs when they had to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans for Week 1.

Bruce Arians has gotten the Bucs equipped for a barrage of different sounds by pumping them through Raymond James Stadium during their two practices on their home field. It was noise that the players won’t miss if they never hear it again.

“I don’t really think it’ll affect us in New Orleans,” tight end Rob Gronkowski said. “Because I can tell you this, when we were in the stadium with our practices, coach put the most brutal, annoying, noise sounds he could possibly put on. I think I started going insane, it was very obnoxious the whole entire time. I can’t see it being any worse in New Orleans.”

Bucs QB Tom Brady – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

So what kind of noise was this? There were a couple of different descriptions.

“You know when your TV is on and it goes to a black and white screen?” Gronkowski said. “And there’s all these dots and it’s like fizzing all over the place? That’s the sound that he put up in the stadium when we were in there.”

“It sounded like when you first turn your car on and the radio is on full blast,” said Bucs’ nose tackle Vita Vea. “That’s what it sounded like for like three hours. It was really loud the first time we did it, and I think the next time we did it we were more used to it, we knew what to expect.”

The Mercedes-Benz Superdome is known for having one of the loudest crowds in the NFL. Coming into a large stadium without seeing anyone there will seem a bit odd. The Bucs in fact won’t see any fans in attendance until Week 3 at Denver, so empty stadiums will be the new normal for the time being.

“You got to adjust to it, for sure,” Vea said. “I think it’ll just be different. Away games, you won’t have that real noise. When you’re playing an away game the defense doesn’t really have noise. It’s a different environment and something to get used to practicing in the stadium a few times. I think it’s helped us get prepared.

The different atmosphere could make it feel like there isn’t even a game this week.

“I feel like it won’t have that game-type environment,” Vea said. “It will feel more like a practice. But it’ll be game day, so you got to come ready.”

Some players really like to feed off the energy of the crowd to get themselves going in game. For this season, the Bucs will have to rely on each other if they want to raise the adrenaline.

Bucs DT Vita Vea – Photo by: Getty Images

“That’s what we’re gonna have to do,” Gronkowski said. “We’re gonna have to create our own energy. We’ve been doing it the whole time throughout practices, throughout training camp and this week. We’re gonna have to feed off each other big time, we’re gonna have to rely off each other big time, we’re gonna have to take energy from each other, build each other up, that’s what it’s gonna take.

“Definitely there’s a huge aspect when there’s fans, you can pull energy from them, the cheers, the boos, whatever it is, that’s a whole different energy source I believe. But that’s not the case, they’re not gonna be there, we gotta help each other out, we gotta pick each other up and we gotta feed off each other and we gotta build momentum to gain energy and help each other out.”