TAMPA, Fla. -- One foot in front of the other, one step at a time, just keep going – that’s how Tampa Bay Buccaneers vice president of player personnel John Spytek powered through his deepest pain and processed his debilitating grief -- by slipping on a pair of running shoes at 4:30 every morning and thinking of his little girl.
“I think about her a lot, when it gets hard,” said Spytek, now in his sixth season with the Buccaneers and 18th in the NFL. “I have a tattoo of her on my chest, and I just kind of touch it … I look up at the sky.