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Bucs committed to playing Sunday in Tampa

Coach Dirk Koetter went to his office at One Buc Place to work on Sunday, with televisions tuned to both NFL games and the Weather Channel.

When he will be reunited with his football team remains to be seen.

The Bucs will assess the damage to their facility Monday, but plans are to practice there beginning Wednesday and play Sunday's home opener against the Chicago Bears at Raymond James Stadium.

A lot will obviously depend on the infrastructure damage done to the Tampa Bay by Hurricane Irma. But it appears much of the area avoided what could have been a worse wallop.