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<\/a><\/p>\nNew Bucs ILB Alex Anzalone.<\/p>\n
Doubtful you will hear the Warchant cry at Alex Anzalone\u2019s home. Or hear someone scream, \u201cC-A-N-E-S CANES.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anzalone, the Bucs\u2019 new inside linebacker, may have grown up in Wyomissing, Pa., but Anzalone has lived in Tampa since college, where he was a Gators star linebacker.<\/p>\n
Anzalone met his wife at Florida, Lindsey. She played soccer for the Gators. They married and put down roots in Tampa.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s more: Anzalone\u2019s dad, Sal, went to medical school at Florida. He practices medicine in Naples.<\/p>\n
Still more: Lindsey is from Seminole and played soccer at Clearwater Central Catholic. Her brother was a star receiver at the school and he, too, dominated as a Gators receiver.<\/p>\n
You may have heard of him: Riley Cooper was also a receiver for six years with the Eagles. He helped the Gators win a national title with Urban Meyer.<\/p>\n
When Anzalone met with the local pen and mic club today, he professed his love for the area and seemed to suggest he feels a responsibility to the community to represent the Bucs in a strong way.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m passionate about this city,\u201d Anzalone said.<\/p>\n
Ah, passion. It is something Anzalone packs and it\u2019s also something this Bucs defense sorely needs, maybe as much as an edge rusher. Anzalone brings juice!<\/p>\n
And it is almost like he\u2019s a part of the Bucs family. He trains regularly with Vita Vea and Antoine Winfield. Anzalone said that he made sure to FaceTime with Vea just before he signed his Bucs contract.<\/p>\n
So there\u2019s really no more true blue (and orange) Florida family than the Anzalones. It\u2019s almost like Anzalone doesn\u2019t want to embarrass his adopted hometown and state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Anzalone Right At Home With Bucs March 13th, 2026 New Bucs ILB Alex Anzalone. Doubtful you will…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-809708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116221135780907703","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}