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Speaker 1: the comments section underneath. And as always, we love hearing
Speaker 1: where everybody is watching from. I know we've probably got
Speaker 1: a ton of questions now that we finally got to
Speaker 1: see the rookies in here. So first of all, I
Speaker 1: want to just hear your thoughts of after seeing rookie
Speaker 1: mini camp and and actually seeing some guys out there
Speaker 1: a little bit more football scenario than we had in
Speaker 1: Phase one and Phase two. What were some of your
Speaker 1: initial thoughts. Well, the rookie camp, it's really there's not
Speaker 1: a lot you can get out of that because you're
Speaker 1: basically you have about half the team that's out there
Speaker 1: was on tryout contracts. There's they're not really they're trying
Speaker 1: to absorb some of the playbook and they're trying to
Speaker 1: get a look at some of these guys that maybe
Speaker 1: would be slight upgrades to the roster. And indeed they
Speaker 1: did find forward to sign, so you know it was
Speaker 1: a success. Again, I think much more telling was the
Speaker 1: beginning of a t as yesterday. And now you're seeing
Speaker 1: the rookies and the veterans together, and you're seeing where
Speaker 1: guys play. You know, there's it's a new defense. So
Speaker 1: there's outside linebackers now instead of defensive ends, and all
Speaker 1: the defensive linemen you might call d t s or
Speaker 1: or bigger d s are called d l's and guys
Speaker 1: like Lavonte David are called inside linebackers now we've always
Speaker 1: thought of him as an outside linebacker. And just seeing
Speaker 1: where they're playing. And also even though the Buccaneers went
Speaker 1: inside to the indoor facility yesterday because they thought it
Speaker 1: was going to rain and in fact it did, um
Speaker 1: they still did the the only one field work with.
Speaker 1: They still did the plan of breaking practice into two.
Speaker 1: And you had like Jameis Winston and you know, Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin and Mike Evans and all the what should consider
Speaker 1: the veterans and the first line guys on one half
Speaker 1: and then a bunch of really young guys on the
Speaker 1: other half. And they got in a lot of work
Speaker 1: and it was a lot to watch, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, but you're kind of starting to get a
Speaker 1: feel for who fits where. Okay, cool um, And speaking
Speaker 1: of that, Alan wants to know what's going on with
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback situation. Have we been able to tell
Speaker 1: much about who's taking what reps there? Yeah? Well again,
Speaker 1: because they split them into two, everybody's getting a lot
Speaker 1: more reps um Blaine Gabbert. Okay, so there were four quarterbacks, right,
Speaker 1: Blaine Gabbert joined Jamis Winston on the side with the
Speaker 1: mostly veteran players, and on the other side you had
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin and Nick Fitzgerald. I don't know if that
Speaker 1: says anything. That was one practice. Perhaps today they'll flip fits.
Speaker 1: Uh Griffin, you lose Fitzpatrick, but you still have a
Speaker 1: Ryan and now even Fitzgerald. Yeah, I was gonna say
Speaker 1: I was super impressed you actually got it right that
Speaker 1: first time. I was like, if like, we're gonna mess
Speaker 1: that up all? Yeah, So you might switch Griffin. I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see today practices is actually pretty soon
Speaker 1: from now, maybe a switch Griffin and blame Gabbert. But
Speaker 1: that first one would seem to indicate that Blaine, and
Speaker 1: I think because of his experience actually playing in the
Speaker 1: regular season and playing in this offense. Before you know,
Speaker 1: you connect the dots. He seems like the obvious first
Speaker 1: choice to be the number two quarterbacks. One thing that
Speaker 1: was interesting is that Nick Fitzgerald when they first I
Speaker 1: walked into the building and they were doing um, the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks were doing drills with Clyde Christenson and there were
Speaker 1: only three of them, and like, who's missing all it's
Speaker 1: Nick Fitzerald, Like wonder why he can't be here. They
Speaker 1: used to have some some schools that were on quarter
Speaker 1: systems couldn't come back this early, but I didn't think
Speaker 1: Mississippi State was that, and in fact, they changed that
Speaker 1: role last year, so it's not even rule anymore. Uh.
Speaker 1: The reason he wasn't there is because he was doing
Speaker 1: special teams. I was doing punt and you know, we're
Speaker 1: really not supposed to reveal a lot of details about
Speaker 1: where guys are playing, but so I won't say exactly
Speaker 1: what he was doing. But he was playing. He was
Speaker 1: practicing with specialty. That's pretty awesome. And he said he
Speaker 1: wanted to do Yeah, that's pretty cool. I like that.
Speaker 1: All right. Andrew said, what do you think will be
Speaker 1: the major change on the field coming this year. So
Speaker 1: of course we know that there's a new coaching staff.
Speaker 1: I don't think he just means what has changed, but
Speaker 1: just what what will be the biggest changes when you
Speaker 1: go to a game and watch with this project, Well,
Speaker 1: it's a new defense, and it's it's on one hand,
Speaker 1: it's very true and we said it many times and
Speaker 1: the coaches have said it that every team plays some
Speaker 1: three four and some four or three looks, and when
Speaker 1: you're in sub packages often you have four down linemen.
Speaker 1: So even though we're called a three four now, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see a lot of this. You know, you're still
Speaker 1: going to see a lot of four or three looks.
Speaker 1: You're still gonna see plays with four guys with their
Speaker 1: hands in the dirt and all that. But that being said,
Speaker 1: it is a new defense. I mean we have guys
Speaker 1: specifically playing what you'd call outside linebacker, so Karl Nasset
Speaker 1: standing up, rushing the past or maybe dropping into cover
Speaker 1: some Anthony Nelson the rookie um. And is this a
Speaker 1: better defense for Noah Spence? He looked good yesterday, fast
Speaker 1: off the edges um. And then it's supposedly it's going
Speaker 1: to be more aggressive. Apparently that you're gonna get more
Speaker 1: pressed from the corners, which I think our fans are
Speaker 1: gonna like, because there were times where when things were
Speaker 1: going badly, it was easy to point at what looked
Speaker 1: like a passive approach to defense, especially on the outside.
Speaker 1: Now it's an easy thing to get upset about and
Speaker 1: forget that. The Bucks have also used that sort of
Speaker 1: defense in a very successful way many times, and I
Speaker 1: think it can be done. Maybe it's not used. You know,
Speaker 1: the cover two as your base and as you're in
Speaker 1: all the time, as the great Buck defense was in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl era isn't really in vogue right now,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's you know, so you don't see a
Speaker 1: lot of teams playing like that a lot, so when
Speaker 1: things were going badly, that's certainly was something you could
Speaker 1: point on. Go man, our corners were playing ten yards
Speaker 1: off on on third and seven. Right now, it's whether
Speaker 1: or not that was good football knowledge or not. It certainly,
Speaker 1: as a casual fan, looked not great. So I think
Speaker 1: our fans are gonna enjoy seeing a more aggressive defense.
Speaker 1: And because it's this three four with outside linebackers and
Speaker 1: even inside linebackers like Devin White and La Monte David
Speaker 1: that they think can blitz. I think you're just going
Speaker 1: to see a lot more aggressiveness, a lot more variety,
Speaker 1: a lot of different types of blitz is, and I
Speaker 1: think that will be fun to watch. It's a more
Speaker 1: aggressive defense. Is a risk of your demons, You know that.
Speaker 1: That's the difference between the philosophy of hey, make them
Speaker 1: grind it all the way down the field and they'll
Speaker 1: mess up at some point against let's make a big
Speaker 1: play on defense and get the ball back quickly. Sometimes
Speaker 1: that means you give up big place. Right. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great point. I know we've only had a couple
Speaker 1: of days of rookie Minicamp, but Kevin said, does it
Speaker 1: seem like Devin White is starting to emerge as the
Speaker 1: leader that Bruce arians expects and hopes him. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think there's any doubt that that's gonna happen. He
Speaker 1: was vocal on the field yesterday and that was his
Speaker 1: first practice mixed in with the veterans. So it really
Speaker 1: didn't mean much if he was the most vocal guy
Speaker 1: in the in the rookie minicamp, because he's the star
Speaker 1: of that right, the first overall pick, and it's all rookies. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was apparently vocal on the field. Coach Arean so
Speaker 1: that afterwards, and I don't think that's going to go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, you've met him, right, I met him. He's
Speaker 1: very outgoing, yes, yeah, and he was a leader at
Speaker 1: an early age at L s U. He was a
Speaker 1: leader with guys that were a couple of years older
Speaker 1: than he was. And it's just some guys are just
Speaker 1: like that, you know, and you can be a talker,
Speaker 1: but people tune you out. I mean a it helps
Speaker 1: to be very very good and being what you're saying
Speaker 1: is important and how you deliver that message. Of course,
Speaker 1: he's also playing right next to Lavante David, who is
Speaker 1: a team captain for years and probably will be again,
Speaker 1: and so he's got a veteran leader right next to him.
Speaker 1: It's just that Lavante maybe isn't quite as vocal of
Speaker 1: a guy, right, Yeah, that makes sense. Um Frank said,
Speaker 1: who has been the most impressive so far from the
Speaker 1: football we've gotten to watch? Mm hmmm, we've seen one practice. Well,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's most impressive, but I'll tell
Speaker 1: you two guys. One one that won't be surprising. I
Speaker 1: saw several really nice plays from O. J. Howard, And
Speaker 1: of course it's a big interesting thing to see how
Speaker 1: well and how much Bruce Arians, who has never had
Speaker 1: tight ends like O. J. Howarden Camber right before, how
Speaker 1: much he's going to use them, and how well and
Speaker 1: how much Downfield. And I think any coach, no matter
Speaker 1: what his system is, would find a way to get O. J.
Speaker 1: Howard downfield saw a couple of those plays. And on
Speaker 1: the other side, as when the young guys were practicing
Speaker 1: uh first year tied in, Donnie Ernsberger seemed like he
Speaker 1: was making a big catchdown field like every other play,
Speaker 1: So that's kind of off the you know, a little
Speaker 1: off the off center one for you like that. And
Speaker 1: then it was good to see Breshad Perriman getting deep
Speaker 1: and getting behind guys and getting a step on guys. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they completed a ton of them.
Speaker 1: They completed one big one for a touchdown in seven
Speaker 1: on seven and there was another one down the middle,
Speaker 1: but he was getting separation and getting behind the defense
Speaker 1: and Jamis was reading it and throwing to him and
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians on one there was a deep ball straight
Speaker 1: down the middle that ended up landing in the end
Speaker 1: zone a couple of feet in front of Brashade. But
Speaker 1: Bruce really praised Jamis for his read on that plane,
Speaker 1: his decision and said, actually it was a pretty good throw.
Speaker 1: He just things Bush looking back lost in the scene inside,
Speaker 1: and so, um, it was a good decision. That's a
Speaker 1: good thing because Jamie's thrown the deep. All betters couldn't
Speaker 1: make this often take a big step forward. And then
Speaker 1: another guy, Scotty Miller. Everybody, I think there are people
Speaker 1: and it's probably way he's available in the sixth round
Speaker 1: that are concerned about a guy of his size about
Speaker 1: five n um how he's going to hold up in
Speaker 1: the NFL. But he is definitely quick. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he is really quick. So that's gonna be awesome. Uh.
Speaker 1: Justin said he's watching from looks like no, not Justin Watson.
Speaker 1: Uh he said, what three games are you looking forward
Speaker 1: to the most this season? And why? Well, m hmm,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go back to the schedule in my brain.
Speaker 1: I know, of course the London game right off the
Speaker 1: bat is just that's gonna be cool, especially since it
Speaker 1: is a division game. Those are always exciting anyways, and
Speaker 1: then you throw it in London. How about the first
Speaker 1: game back at home after those? I know we'll be
Speaker 1: looking forward to that in the middle of those seven weeks.
Speaker 1: I hope I'm looking forward to. Our final game is
Speaker 1: at home against Land I think so. Yeah, I sure
Speaker 1: hope I'm looking forward to that one. That would mean
Speaker 1: it's very meaningful. What else we got, Oh, yeah, we have.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers have not played a game in l a sin.
Speaker 1: So that'll be neat. That's really cool. I like that one.
Speaker 1: That would have been that we get to go to
Speaker 1: Seattle too, don't we. Okay, well, that's always a fun trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that'll be cool. Uh. Lewis said he's watching from Guadalajara, Mexico.
Speaker 1: Is Cosin Daniels in the O t A s Yes, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: And that's that's a great story. I imagine he knows
Speaker 1: the story if he's asking. But you know, Cousin is
Speaker 1: a guy that at the age of five got in
Speaker 1: an accident with a scooter and lost the site in
Speaker 1: his right eye, but never stopped him from playing sports
Speaker 1: and being really good at it. And he went to Charleston,
Speaker 1: I think, and in West Virginia, and he he basically
Speaker 1: didn't really let a lot of his teammates and coaches know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think some of the coaches knew there
Speaker 1: was an issue, but didn't really realize he was completely
Speaker 1: blind in that, all right, And it didn't it wasn't
Speaker 1: even really well known until there was a story it
Speaker 1: just a week or two before the draft, um by
Speaker 1: one of the sites, CBS Sports or something and um,
Speaker 1: and they kind of did the whole story, and then
Speaker 1: everybody knew. And then you know, Bruce Arian said he
Speaker 1: didn't know until a week before the draft. So the
Speaker 1: guy is, he's here, and it's a great story. And
Speaker 1: you know, with the uncertainty about Jason Pierre Paul, which
Speaker 1: I'm sure we would get asked about at some point anyway,
Speaker 1: it's an open question who how the those outside linebackers,
Speaker 1: how many are you gonna keep? Which one you're gonna keep?
Speaker 1: There some opportunities maybe for a guy like him or
Speaker 1: the guy we signed after he tried out, David Kinney. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: jacking for position. I think you're gonna want some depth
Speaker 1: there five or six guys, So there's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: some guys like that, right, Dion said, how is Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller coming along? And do we think he could be
Speaker 1: the next Adam Humphries. You know, it's a little too easy,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to do either of them a
Speaker 1: disservice by just making that direct comparison. In fact, when
Speaker 1: Scotty was talking the first day he met the media
Speaker 1: here during training, he said, I think I'm really more
Speaker 1: like DeShawn Jackson, you know, a little more like that size.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think people realize how yoked up
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys is. I mean, he's a really solid guy.
Speaker 1: And uh, I think just based on their forty times,
Speaker 1: Scotty is probably faster. Um, So they're not really the
Speaker 1: exact same sort of player, But you don't have to
Speaker 1: have the exact same sort of player to have some
Speaker 1: success both in the slot, which is what everybody expects
Speaker 1: Scotty to be because of his size and quickness. But
Speaker 1: I think the Bucks actually see him as a guy
Speaker 1: they can also play on the outside and really take
Speaker 1: the top off the defense. Right. That's a great point.
Speaker 1: Rob said, with all the new dbs, should anyone be concerned?
Speaker 1: I guess he means the guys that were on the
Speaker 1: roster last year at dB. So. Yeah, so I think competition,
Speaker 1: and they keep saying they want to foster as much
Speaker 1: competition as possible at every position, and that right now
Speaker 1: nobody is guaranteed a starting job, so everybody should be concerned.
Speaker 1: But that's good thing, you know. Uh, And I don't
Speaker 1: know if I've ever said this before, but I don't
Speaker 1: think you can get enough depth of cornerback. So that
Speaker 1: may be the first time I've ever mentioned that. Um
Speaker 1: So even if even I look at it the other
Speaker 1: way around, I don't look as like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: now we have too many corners, and I think it
Speaker 1: just means you've got you've got more talent to choose
Speaker 1: from there, and you're gonna end up with a with
Speaker 1: a deeper crew overall, because as our coaches, the new
Speaker 1: staff has pointed out several times, the problem, the main
Speaker 1: problem with the secondary last year was when guys got hurt,
Speaker 1: and we did get a lot of guys hurt. The
Speaker 1: the experienced and ready to play depth wasn't there, So
Speaker 1: you got to get more of them and coach them up. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Um, I'm going to combine like
Speaker 1: eight questions into one. Here we had a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of stuff about jpp Gerald, Karl Nessab, Noah Spence, all
Speaker 1: this stuff. So overall, let's just take a look at
Speaker 1: the defensive line, at what we know as of now,
Speaker 1: what we don't know, what that could end up looking like,
Speaker 1: and what this offseason will need to tell us about that. Well,
Speaker 1: there's two different questions really, because Joe McCoy is really
Speaker 1: separate from the other people that were mentioned there. He's
Speaker 1: more in this defense down lineman. He'd probably be a
Speaker 1: perfect three four defensive end um and it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a whole lot different than what he's used to doing.
Speaker 1: And as he said, which I think is accurate, he
Speaker 1: can play in any defense. Um. But still, as you
Speaker 1: can see on a roster if you go to the
Speaker 1: website now where finally the positions that correspond to what
Speaker 1: these guys would play in this defense have been have
Speaker 1: been added. So like if you saw a guy named
Speaker 1: Jeral McCoy next, his name in previous years has always
Speaker 1: ad DT for defensive tackle. Right now it says d
Speaker 1: l uh Will Golston, who has been known as a
Speaker 1: defensive end. It's just as d L. But that's because
Speaker 1: he's one of the bigger front seven guys who will
Speaker 1: be having his hand in the dirt. So when you're
Speaker 1: in your base three four you get you basically have
Speaker 1: a nose and to three four defensive ends, and those
Speaker 1: are bigger guys that might be called defensive tackles and
Speaker 1: a lot of defenses. So you got guys like I
Speaker 1: think you have decent depth there. Obviously, I can't ignore
Speaker 1: the fact that there's some uncertainty about the future of
Speaker 1: Gerald McCoy and he's not here now, and and all
Speaker 1: that coach is saying about that now, which is what
Speaker 1: every coach would do in this situation, is Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the guys that are here, ok so
Speaker 1: um if and when Gerald's here, then he becomes more
Speaker 1: of the conversation. But right now, who's here that plays
Speaker 1: those down linemen. It's primarily your first round pick from
Speaker 1: last year, Vita Vea, who coaches can play all over
Speaker 1: the interior line but also does seem to be an
Speaker 1: extremely perfect fit as a nose tackle in the three four.
Speaker 1: Then you've got guys like Will Ghoston bow Allen and
Speaker 1: some younger guys or guys that really haven't had a
Speaker 1: shot yet, Like don't forget we still have Stevie two
Speaker 1: Colavato on this team. Uh, there's a bunch of other guys,
Speaker 1: Rocky Nunez Roches who played last year, Nacho is what
Speaker 1: they call him. Um, So you've got those guys, and
Speaker 1: I think there's still a lot of depth, at least
Speaker 1: by numbers. We'll have to sort out which guys are
Speaker 1: really right to the top there. And then you got
Speaker 1: your outside linebackers, which is what Jason Peter Paul and
Speaker 1: Karl Massim and the others that you were saying there
Speaker 1: they comprise, and uh, those guys have to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more versatile, like and Anthony Nelson. The rookie
Speaker 1: can stand up and rush off the edge, or he
Speaker 1: can put his hand in the ground when you're in
Speaker 1: sub packages in a four man line, or maybe even
Speaker 1: get some snaps as a three four to and svent
Speaker 1: a little farther inside. So they think he can do
Speaker 1: a lot of different things that are just confronted out
Speaker 1: what he does best. So it's there's a lot to
Speaker 1: be sorted out there. Because it's a new defense with
Speaker 1: some new assignments and they're just getting their first looks
Speaker 1: at which guys are are really good at which responsibilities,
Speaker 1: Like maybe Noah Spence happens to be really really good
Speaker 1: at standing up and rushing off the edge in the
Speaker 1: three fore front, and so when you're in stamps like that,
Speaker 1: he gets still play more when you're in more of
Speaker 1: a four or three look than he doesn't. So we'll
Speaker 1: find out. But there's a lot of depth. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're lacking for depth, but it's fair to say
Speaker 1: that there's not a lot of proven depth yet because
Speaker 1: if you look at it and you go, who amongst
Speaker 1: all these guys is going to give you five to
Speaker 1: seven sacks? Who's gonna give you ten sacks? I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're Jason Pierre Paul is not in the picture
Speaker 1: for some amount of time because it was a neck injury,
Speaker 1: that was your tin sack guy? Uh? Is it Karl Massive?
Speaker 1: I mean he would seem like the main one. Maybe
Speaker 1: Noah Spence emerges. What does Anthony Nelson give you? Is
Speaker 1: vita vea pass rushing presence in the middle. A lot
Speaker 1: of questions still to be answered, and maybe it's just
Speaker 1: sends up being you get a decent pass rush out
Speaker 1: of a bunch of guys getting five or six sacks,
Speaker 1: plus some sacks from your linebackers when they're blitzing, your
Speaker 1: your safeties when they're blitzing, and things like that. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot to be sorted through there. That is
Speaker 1: very true. All right. Well, thanks so much for joining
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