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<\/a>So up in New Jersey on Wednesday, Joe spent time alongside former Pro Bowl running back Maurice Jones-Drew during Bucs-Jets practice. <\/p>\nJones-Drew was there for NFL Network and, following an 11-on-11 session and an extensive period of the Bucs\u2019 defensive front going through pass rush drills against the Jets offensive line, Jones-Drew hopped on the air and talked about how Bucs edge rusher Rueben Bain was simply \u201cunblockable\u201d in practice.<\/p>\n
Joe agreed and would add \u201cunflappable\u201d to the list of Bain superlatives.<\/p>\n
All those fights you heard about between the Bucs and Jets through two days of practice? Bain was not an instigator or a major participant.<\/p>\n
The man is focused, and Joe thought one moment really highlighted that.<\/p>\n
After dominating rushes on the left side of the Bucs\u2019 defensive line, the Bucs moved Bain to the right edge in drills and had him line up there with David Walker inside him. It was just them rushing in tandem against the Jets\u2019 left tackle and the Jets\u2019 left guard and center. However, the center only was there for show \u2014 to give the inside guard\/inside rusher a more realistic feel.<\/p>\n
The ball was snapped and Bain executed the pass rush game and flashed his speed; inside he came for a winning rush. As Bain beat the guard, the Jets\u2019 center gave Bain a shove. Not cool.<\/p>\n
Did Bain react? Not at all. Back to his teammates he went.<\/p>\n
Joe asked Todd Bowles later on Wednesday whether the head coach has been realizing how much more he can do with Bain over the past two weeks. Absolutely not, Bowles replied.<\/p>\n
Bowles said he\u2019s always viewed Bain as a do-in-all player, and the challenge if figuring out the best fits to play alongside Bain. After talking to Bowles, Joe would say Al-Quadin Muhammad is a leading candidate to rush inside next to Bain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another Rueben Bain Moment August 15th, 2026 So up in New Jersey on Wednesday, Joe spent time alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":974411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":["post-974410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-buccaneers","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-football","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","tag-tampabay","tag-tampabaybuccaneers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117103193639409002","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974410","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=974410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/974411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}