WEBVTT - Free Agent Deep Dives | Bucs Insider | Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.960 Welcome into Books Insider, coming to you from the Bucks Studio, 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.200 presented by ticket Master at Casey Phillips here with Scott 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.400 Smith and Breed Dix. And you know what, we just 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.879 keep having coaching news. I love it. It keeps things interesting 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:12.680 in the off season. We got some promotions, we got 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.040 some new people. Never a dull moment, Never a dull moment. 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:18.439 The NFL has mastered the off season, never being really 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.960 an off season. So first tell us about the new 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:22.279 additions to the squad. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:25.080 Before we do that. Can we revisit our Super Bowl picks? 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:25.400 Nope? 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.639 No, remember when we did that before? 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:29.440 I don't recall that. 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:31.760 And some one of us said that they thought Philly 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:33.000 would win because of the defense. 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:34.120 We can cut this part out later. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:35.400 Yeah, yeah, yes. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:37.519 The coaches have made some The Buccaneers have made some 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:39.360 coaching moves in I think there's still some more to come. 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:41.200 But what we know for that's been reported. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.479 The Buccaneers haven't actually even you know, officially released this, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:48.000 but it's it was talked about it at Josh Garzzard's 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.680 press conference and it's out there. So one edition to 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:57.400 the staff is Convince Henson. Covince Henson Josh Grizzard interacted with, 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.840 intersected with when Josh was a player at Yale. Most recently, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:05.000 Henson's been the i think past game coordinator at Oregon 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:06.679 State for the last five or six years and was 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.560 even the interim head coach for a Bowl game in 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:11.840 twenty twenty three. And then we also have the addition 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.000 of Charlie Strong, who people in this area shurely know 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.440 well because he was the USF head coach for three years. 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.919 He's also been the head coach excuse me ed Texas 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.600 and Louisville. Was a two time Big East Coach of 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:25.800 the Year. And he's had only in his forty one 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.400 years of coaching only one of them has been on 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:29.080 the NFL level. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.720 That was with the Jaguars for twenty. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.440 Three so this is kind of a new era for him. So, 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.640 you know, those seems like some pretty quality additions to 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:38.199 the staff. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.760 I think that's great and I always love when someone 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:42.720 wants to bring it. You know, the way Grizzard wanted 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.319 to bring in Hinson that if he was a player 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:46.959 and he was a coach at the time. I love 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:50.280 that idea that a player liked the coach enough. Yeah, right, 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.560 I think that's a great sign of the kind of 0:01:51.640 --> 0:01:54.400 relationship a coach has with the players of Hey, this 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:56.720 was a guy who was my coach, right and I 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:58.440 really liked him to now want him to come here, 0:01:58.480 --> 0:01:59.880 So I think that's great. And then yeah, Charlie Strong 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.480 exciting to already have Tampa connections, which is great. And 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.960 then in addition, there were also some promotions. So those 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.200 were the new faces. Yes, who are the faces who 0:02:07.200 --> 0:02:08.320 were already here that got promoted. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.480 Kevin Carberry was promoted to run game coordinator and offensive 0:02:11.480 --> 0:02:16.040 line coach, and then Brian Pacucci was promoted to offensive 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:20.359 line coach as well, so well deserved after just the 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.639 significant strides that the run game took this previous season, 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:28.280 going from being ranked last in the NFL to being fourth. 0:02:28.040 --> 0:02:28.799 This past year. 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:34.040 Just the obviously Bucky Irving led so many statistical categories, 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.880 led the league in forst mestackical percentage, and just the 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.200 way that the offensive line, especially with several new faces 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.400 Tristan Wurf's on the left side, you had a rookie 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.720 center Ben Bredeson coming in New so just kind of 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.600 the cohesion that they were able to have, and just 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:52.720 really throughout the year being able to have a balanced approach. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.639 So exciting to have those spaces back. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.520 Yeah, you could hardly have much more of an improvement 0:02:57.639 --> 0:02:58.880 here every year than the Bucks did. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.520 It's unbelievable. I mean, I really, I don't know how 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.359 we would even try to find these stats. But how 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.000 many times in NFL history, in any major category has 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:09.480 a team gone from that big of a jump to 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:10.240 be in the top five. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.480 It's just fifty more yards per game. 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:13.519 It makes a big difference. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.000 It's a huge difference in the game overall. All right, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.079 So those were some of our coaching news. Now our 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.520 favorite segment, Can we stump Scott? Is the question? Actually, 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:24.920 we have not enjoyed this segment recently because you have 0:03:25.080 --> 0:03:30.200 not been able to stump him. I feel good about today. 0:03:31.160 --> 0:03:33.400 I feel good about it, and it's still fair. It's again, 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.920 it's not like a weirdly obscure thing. It's a fair question. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:42.480 But I'm hopeful third time is the charm here average. Yeah, 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:44.600 good luck with that. Even if you get it wrong, 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:49.000 You're still a Hall of Fame baseball player. Can you 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:50.440 read us the questions that had. 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.120 Sent in by a with pleasure? Okay, are you ready? Scott? 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:58.200 I guess how many Heisman Trophy winners have played for 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.560 the Buccaneers and. 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:00.600 Who are they? 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:02.960 Oh? Boy, I think you got me. 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:05.960 You think this is it? Who? 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:06.400 Okay? 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:09.600 So I know I know the quarterbacks because when we 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.800 got Baker there was a note about this, and so 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.800 I know four quarterbacks, but I feel like there's got 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:18.000 to be several more, like there's probably six or seven. 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:20.599 Maybe like a running back here, yeah, you know, like 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:23.279 some other positions that maybe weren't cubing. 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:28.280 Okay, the quarterbacks are Steve Spurrier, Vinny Testaverdi, James Winston, 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.479 and Baker Mayfield. But I can't believe that's it because 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:32.320 that's too easy. 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.520 Uh. I know. 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.720 I assume bo Jackson doesn't count. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:36.960 Because that was the key part of the question. 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.800 Played played for yeah, but famously drafted him first. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:42.320 I bet they were also that was part of them 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.280 thinking they could like maybe. 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:44.800 I'd say Bojo. 0:04:45.400 --> 0:04:47.240 I assume the way the question is worded that bo 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.320 Jackson doesn't count. So I've only got four. If it's 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:51.880 any more than four, then I lost. 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.280 Okay, so they were actually five and you did you 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:55.880 miss one? 0:04:56.200 --> 0:04:57.159 Congratulations? 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:58.400 So only five? 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:02.719 Yes, only five? To be only so you missed wide 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:03.719 receiver Tim Brown. 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.200 It was here for like ten games, seriously for one 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:13.080 season last season in two thousand. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.760 And four, and we wanted to shout out the fans. 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:16.400 I didn't even remember that Tim Brown. 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:17.560 Look at that. 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.800 I would not have given me five names. I'm not 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:23.679 sure I would have picked this one. I didn't remember 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.320 the Tim Brown, or if I ever knew that Tim 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:26.000 Brown will the. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:27.400 Fan who sent in it. This is our rule is 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.400 that if you stump Scott, then we give you a 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.800 shout on on the show. And I love that this 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:34.400 fan their Instagram handle they just go by Casey like 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.440 the letters. But I get to just say that Casey 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:37.000 can stump. 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:38.040 You can not be me. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:42.320 But I will still take for the name it. 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.480 I got eighty percent of it you did, which is 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:44.840 not bad. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:47.080 Again, the batting average, the shooting percentage, you're still doing 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:49.560 really well. So yeah, thank you again for sending that in. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.279 And we still want more stump Scott questions. Look how 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.279 fun that was when we got to stump there. Please, 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:56.360 it was great for all of us. But Scott, so 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.280 continue to send those in. We really appreciate it. Send 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.200 them either to myself or Bree on. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.520 Social media, okay, and sometimes we'll still have the trivia 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:05.280 questions with the fans. 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:07.440 We will well still, yeah, we've just continued to have 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:09.120 good ones from fans. If we don't get one, then 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:11.440 we'll go back to also our our normal trivia and 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.800 then you can continue to embarrass us with that trivia 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.240 as well. We got to go back and forth. Make 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.960 sure you're still asking about that. Okay. So now another 0:06:18.040 --> 0:06:20.000 thing we want to do this offseason is we just 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:22.559 want to do some player spotlights, looking back at certain 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.800 things that guys did in the season and recapping their stats, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.480 their contributions, and things that stood out to us. So 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:31.000 we're going to pick one player on offense, one player 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.559 on defense, and do a little bit of a recap 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:34.640 of what stood out to us. So I know that 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:38.640 we're starting off offense, Tristan worse. Not a bad place 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.239 to start on the seame. So tell me what stood 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:42.400 out to you about this season. 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.680 Well, he became the first player ever to get All 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.400 Pro honors at both left tackle and right tackle, had 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.080 the second lowest pressure rate allowed among left tackles with 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.880 at least two hundred past block snaps, down from his 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.839 eight percent pressure rate. He recorded in twenty twenty three, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.039 but he didn't allow a single pressure in four games 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.440 in twenty twenty four, and he was the only player 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.600 at his position to do that with a minimum of 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.760 twenty five past block snaps. Can't say enough about the 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.960 job he did. I mean, just a technician and not 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.120 only protecting Baker Mayfield, but also just kind of elevating 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:21.960 the run game, just with his lateral quickness for kind 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.320 of those those gap duties that kind of became the 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.760 Bucks bread and butter in twenty twenty four. Just explosive 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:30.960 drive blocker, and man, there's not He's as good as 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.280 it gets at his position. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:32.760 In the NFL. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.800 I think the thing that stood up the most to 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.520 me of all that you said there was how his 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:41.080 pressure rate allowed dropped significantly from his first year left 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.560 tackle yeah to his second year. I mean, he was 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:44.840 already pretty good right when he made that move that 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.320 first year at left tackle, but he's obviously settled in 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.760 even more now. He's clearly one of the best, not 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:52.520 even close one of the best left tackles in the game, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:53.280 if not the best. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:55.520 It's crazy to think that he went through a period 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.560 of anxiety about this switch and now yeah, we're like, again, 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.160 all pro, I'm still elite just at this position to 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.600 continue to be improving at it. And again to your 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.360 point of that improvement of year one to year two, 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:08.840 thinking of it like you would a new player at 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.160 a new position that you know he's only going to 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.360 get more comfortable there, and so to see how well 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.440 he did his first year then there was improvement again, 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.640 just how exciting that is moving forward to this team. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.000 So defensively on the flip side, we wanted to highlight 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:23.480 ya YadA Yabi tell me about this year for him 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:24.600 and what we thought, well. 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.880 This is a player like you just described going from 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.200 his first to his second season, and everybody remembers that 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.800 ya ya was really a great breakout story as a 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.400 rookie of the third round edge rusher that they drafted 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.679 mostly because they thought he'd be really good setting the 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.760 edge against the line and anything they got as a 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.120 pass rusher out of was a bonus. As it turns out, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.040 he's a pretty darn good pass rusher and so to 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.719 get that in the third round was great and you 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.520 look at that and he had seven point five sacks 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:49.400 as a rookie, and then this past year that dropped 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.240 a four point five, so you might be tempted to 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.439 think he regressed, he went the wrong way in Week two, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.280 but you have to look past the stats, and I 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.920 mean the sack stats, and when you do, it's very 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:02.440 very clear that ya Ya took a big step forward 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.880 and was probably or no surely our most effective edge 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.400 rusher in that rotation because as a rookie and also 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.800 against the run. As a rookie, he had twenty six 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.160 pressures and nine run stuffs, which is when you stop 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.920 running back for zero or negative yards, and he had 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:22.760 a pressure rate on pass rushes of nine point one percent. 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:25.760 This year he went from twenty six to fifty seven 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:29.480 quarterback pressures more than double, and from nine run stuffs 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.880 to thirteen, and his pressure rate jumped a big jump 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:34.240 from nine point one to thirteen point three. So it 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:36.520 was a very good step forward for ya Ya. Yeah, 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.559 he only had four point five sacks, but two and 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.280 a half of those came in the last three games 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.040 when it was crunched on, you know, and we really 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:44.360 needed those plays. And of course he was the NFC 0:09:44.559 --> 0:09:46.959 defensive Player in the week for his big impact against 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:50.280 the Saints in the last game and It's funny because 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.480 I remember writing about it towards the end of the season, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.719 and essentially, ya Ya just decided, like in December to 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:59.280 stop worrying about the sack stats because they weren't coming. 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.560 He had like two he had too maybe at that point, 0:10:01.880 --> 0:10:03.840 he said, and he just decided, I'm not gonna worry 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.679 about the sacks. I'm just gonna keep playing, and sacks come. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.560 They come, But you know, I'm doing what the coaches 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.640 want and I'm it's working, and I'm just like and 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.199 then the sacks started coming, right. 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.400 I guess that's a philosophy that maybe we can adopt. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:18.000 Just don't worry about worry about the numbers, worry about it, 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:18.280 you know. 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.520 And he's someone that I think I always love meeting 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:24.200 players who are just ferocious on the field and then 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:29.199 just the kindest, gentlest people off that he looks like 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.480 this action figure, looks like he should just be bursting 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.600 through walls here the facility and is just the nicest, 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:36.640 kind of sweetest person. And also shout out to him 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.160 that this last week Metropolitan Ministry has had a huge fundraiser. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.480 He came to it to support see a lot of 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:43.320 people and he's so good at that if he's shown 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:46.720 up at the girls preseason's Clive Football Tournament, that he's 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.280 a guy who does a lot of the asks for 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:53.360 community things and just does everything the right way. So 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.640 not only has he been just a great addition on 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.760 the field, but also off the field. And he's just 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.000 as we talk about that who they want a Buccaneer 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.280 draft pick to be of the both on and off 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.280 the field and their mentality. I feel like, yeah, Yah's 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:06.560 definitely one of those people. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:07.079 Is that man? 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:09.040 All Right? So now we are going to do a 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:10.520 stat of the week, and I think this is a 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.079 really cool thing of looking at these NGS stats of 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:15.040 the week and what they can reveal. So tell me 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.720 Scott what we have this week. Yeah. 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.599 I was looking through Baker's stats and one thing that 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.200 stood out at me, according to the Next Gen Stats, 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.320 is that he threw for nine hundred and sixty seven 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.599 yards on passes that were thrown behind the line of 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:29.120 scrimmage so caught behind the line of scrimmage in twenty 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.079 twenty four, which was not only the most of any 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.520 quarterback in the NFL this season, but it is the 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.760 second most for any quarterback in any season since NGS 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:42.280 started tracking these things in twenty sixteen. So that's you know, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:44.000 that's an indication of what a major part of the 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.040 book's passing game was. 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:48.160 And despite a lot of those low A dot. 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.560 Throws average steps to target throws, the Bucks still had 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:52.880 I think the third most. 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.720 Productive passing game in the NFL. 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:58.079 Right, And I think it speaks to the number of 0:11:58.160 --> 0:11:59.839 players that the Bucks had who are so good after 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:01.840 the catch, right, Yeah, I. 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:04.599 Mean, looking at we've talked so much about Bucky. We 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.280 know that Chris Godwin's been great at it. We know 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.640 that there's just so many people who and how nice 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.400 for quarterback to know that of when I throw this ball, 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:13.560 that's probably not the end of the play, that they're 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.439 going to keep getting more. That makes such a difference 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.280 to everybody. So now, also we wanted to talk about 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.360 free agent deep dives. So this is the time of 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.079 year that the next big thing on the calendar. Of 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.280 course we have the Combine, but then it's free agency 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.079 before you actually get to the draft. And in recent 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.600 years we've talked about this and just talked about how 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:36.120 we had this eternally long list or just playing key 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:39.079 key players on this list. This year, it is not 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.839 nearly as many quantity wise, or as many of what 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.920 you think of as your key players. Doesn't mean there 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.439 aren't some very important names still on this list. And 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.920 so we wanted to talk about the inside linebacker group. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:51.800 We were going to just pick one, but then we 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.520 realized kind of the whole idea is almost that whole 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.839 room could potentially be free agents this year, and so 0:12:58.000 --> 0:12:59.600 to decide what the team is going to do at 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.520 that pass position is going to be so interesting, both 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.559 from a free agency standpoint and then therefore a draft standpoint. 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:06.680 So tell me a little bit for you guys about 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.640 what stood out about the different guys who are the 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.679 free agents in the room. What are the different things 0:13:10.720 --> 0:13:12.880 that stood about stood out about the way they performed 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.240 this last year, and what you think the team. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:14.640 Might do well. 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.040 Levante David third year in a row. You know, he's 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:20.200 played the last four seasons on a two year contract 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.400 and then a one year and a one year. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.080 So I think they do that just so we get 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:24.880 to keep talking about this. They give us again that 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.800 content every year to talk about everybody panicking about not 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:29.040 having a Levante. 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.480 David in the Yeah, well, I think when it comes 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.120 to Levante. It's probably up to Levante, right, I mean, 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:39.560 I can't imagine the Bucks not wanting Levonte back if 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.679 he can wants to keep playing and maybe just one more. 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.080 I think if he was ninety years old, it'd still be. 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.240 Like, yes, yeah, And they've found a way in the 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.599 last few years to get the contract numbers right, so 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.920 it's you know, it's respectful and worthwhile for Levante, So 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:56.240 hopefully he's motivated to play again and they get that done. 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.960 Because also kJ Britson unrestricted free agent, and JJ Russ 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.199 is a pending restricted free agent as long as he 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:03.240 gets the tender offer. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.199 So potentially facing mass exodus at that position group. But 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.240 I think also you're going to see probably a big 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.640 year for Servassier Dennis, who the Bucks had drafted and 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:15.280 he only ended up playing four games and kind of 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:17.800 split time with kJ britt and kind of some of 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:22.240 those clear passing situations alongside Lavonte David on third down, 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:24.960 and then he had the shoulder injury that he kind 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.200 of aggravated and then was put on IR and ended 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.160 up having surgery, so he missed the vast majority of 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.000 the season. But I think he could potentially have a 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.200 big year depending on what ends up happening, or who 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.360 we retain or who the Bucks end up going after 0:14:37.560 --> 0:14:38.720 in the draft or free agency. 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:39.200 Yeah. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.840 And you know, just to circle back to Levante, he's 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:45.480 one of only four players since the tackles started being 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:50.440 tracked well in nineteen ninety four who have compiled fifteen 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.600 hundred plus tackles, thirty five plus sacks, and ten plus interceptions. 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.680 And the others are Ray Lewis, who's in the Hall 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.040 of Fame, Bobby Wagner, who probably won't be in London. 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.000 Fletcher was a very very good player for a long time. 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.600 So just think about the season that Atlante just put 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:07.760 together in his thirteenth season. Yep, Yeah, he tackles, yeah, 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.720 and led the team. He was a Pro Bowl alternate, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:12.760 so obviously still playing a very high level. And he 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:14.920 also had five point five sex, which is most in. 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:15.480 A long time. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:18.080 Yeah, And a lot of that was because while Devin 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.840 White was here and he was such a good pass 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.080 rusher up the middle, that's who they were sending. And 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.240 then Devin White departs and like, well, we need we 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.520 need somebody to take that up and to go, okay, 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:27.880 I'll do it. 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:28.640 And he was great at it. 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.520 He talked about a little bit on our show about 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.360 that idea of how he was very content to send 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:34.920 the young buck to go do that earlier on if 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.760 he was like, by all means, Devin, you go do that. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.120 But then he started doing it again and was like, oh, yeah, 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.640 this is fun. I do enjoy this. So yeah, I 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.160 think he enjoyed getting to do that aspect of the 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:48.160 game a little bit more this last season and again 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:49.720 proved that he is really good at it. And that's 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.840 where I think you also saw his mental part of 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:55.280 the game that is so strong and that's so important 0:15:55.320 --> 0:15:58.720 at that position that you know he depending on how 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:02.240 he is at physically after playing thirteen years, probably whatever 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:04.880 deficit he has physically he's making up for in just 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.760 that intuition he's talked about that, Yeah, you can tell 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.120 as he goes to shoot, those gaps are predicting where 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.200 the quarterback is going to go. Where it's like he 0:16:12.320 --> 0:16:14.080 knows where he needs to go. All right. So we're 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:16.200 going to close our show this week with our off 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.520 the field human interest side, and we wanted to promote 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.360 what is going on right here right now actually at 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:23.880 the Advent Health Training Center that is the seventh annual 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.280 Girls Flag Football Preseason Classic presented by Advent Health. Okay, 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.400 this is one of the coolest events we do. We 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.640 love everything about this. There are games going on both 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.040 in the outdoor fields and in the indoor practice facility 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.920 right now. It is the largest girls flag football tournament 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.000