Rick Stroud<br />
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#Bucs are designating DT Vita Vea for return from injured reserve. He will begin practicing Wednesday and could be activated for Sunday’s NFC title game. Vea fractured his ankle against the Bears in Oct.
This topic was modified 3 months ago by Pennywise.
Vea has bee having some intense workouts and the #GoBucs believe there is a very good chance he will be able to help against the Packers strong rushing attack. But a final decision won’t be made until later this week.
I can confirm Bucs are designating DT Vita Vea to return off injured reserve. He's missed three months since fracturing his ankle in Week 5 against the Bears. Can practice Wednesday, could play Sunday in NFC Championship Game at Packers. @NFLstroud had it first.
If we got Vea back and at a level he can make an impact. Would be huge!
For the Super Bowl, yes. He’ll be on obvious rushing downs, but I wouldn’t put him in at the end of the halves because GB can exposes his lack of endurance. That’s the difference between being in shape and being in football shape.
If we got Vea back and at a level he can make an impact. Would be huge!
For the Super Bowl, yes. He’ll be on obvious rushing downs, but I wouldn’t put him in at the end of the halves because GB can exposes his lack of endurance. That’s the difference between being in shape and being in football shape.
Yea would be good to ease him back in and I feel like we can do that since our d line has played well.
I hope they ease him back into the rotation on pass downs first. That’s where his impact this week could be huge. Keep him from having to hold ground as much as possible.
Stop with all the armchair Team Trainers. You don’t know what you’re talking about in regards to his health or conditioning or anything.
We can easily play him on first downs and pull him for obvious passing downs. This is a relatively easy plug in as defensive line is one of the more heavily rotated positions.
Vea has bee having some intense workouts and the #GoBucs believe there is a very good chance he will be able to help against the Packers strong rushing attack. But a final decision won’t be made until later this week.
Packers running game isn’t all that. They just looked good against LA. Tampa will shut them down.
I posted yesterday extremely joking that Vea was gonna make a Bobby Bouchay type of comeback entrance for the Bucs and give them the lift over the top to win a championship. Did I predict the future? LOL. If nothing else this would be a huge emotional lift for the entire team! Whatever he can contribute would be welcome.
Lets temper our enthusiasm for now. He’s been marked as “designated for return” which means he can come back to practice on Wednesday and the team has 21 days to decide what to do with him.
Obviously the coaches are going to make the decision based on how he does in practice this week. If they determine he’s a bit too rusty, they could keep him inactive for this game but bring him back for the Super Bowl.
Let’s not forget that when we played the packs Vea was already out for what was seemingly the entire year… so this could be a big boost as their running game is firing on all cylinders and we could use Vea to plug up the middle.. love the move of he’s able to go.
