Posted by Sabrina B. @gametimegirl & Tat WZA

Every year on every NFL team, the Turk nervously ambles next to players in the locker room, dorm room or cafeteria, his role a designated dream killer whose only job is to signal the death knell to somebody’s career.

He delivers two messages: The coach wants to see you, and bring your playbook.Well, never again in Tampa Bay. Instead, he’ll ask them to bring their iPad.

That’s because rather than producing thick periodicals the size of the Yellow Pages, the Bucs have downloaded their playbooks on iPad 2s and distributed them to each of their 90 players.

What’s more, players can use the tablet computer to reference video files of games, and practice and situational videos of any NFL team.

“It’s crazy how much technology has changed the game,” second-year safety Cody Grimm said. “Back in the day, I think probably the whole team had to sit down with a projector and a reel, and watch the film together. They’d have the whole offense in the same meeting room. Now we all have our own iPad. Stuff that we used to come in here to see, we can sit on our couch at home and have access to it 24-7. It’s awesome.

“It’s convenient. It’s fast. I was snacking out on the couch and watching some film, and realized I was, like, two quarters through (a) game already.”

The idea to download playbooks on an iPad was hatched by coach Raheem Morris, who used one to watch video of draft prospects with general manager Mark Dominik and player personnel director Dennis Hickey.

And because of the lockout, Morris watched a lot of video.

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WRITTEN By Rick Stroud, Times Staff Writer& FULL STORY HERE