WEBVTT - Top Takeaways From Week One Win Over Dallas, Standout Players | Bucs Insider 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:07.920 Um, good morning, Bucks fans. How's everyone doing? It is Wednesday, 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:11.000 which means it is time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:13.560 by Miller. Like Casey Phillips, here was senior writer and 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:15.840 editor Scott Smith. And as always, this is where we 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.840 take your questions. So if you have those for us, 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:21.480 make sure you leave them in the comments section underneath 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:24.720 our live video on the Buccaneers Facebook page. And as 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.240 we give people a chance to do that, we fear 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:28.600 there is plenty of news that we are now in 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:30.600 regular season four, and plenty of news we can talk 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.440 about here right off the top. Um, first, some some 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.120 roster moves and an award for a player. So I 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:38.120 wanted to tell us about some of those bits of 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:40.640 news we've already had. Yeah, we got the good news 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:42.640 that we were hoping for this morning when Bradley Pinion 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.280 was named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.960 It's actually the second time he's won it. He won 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.360 it once when he was with San Francisco. Um, it 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:51.720 was just a brilliant game for him. You know, three 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.080 punts down inside the tanny at that's sixty five. I 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:56.600 don't know how you kick a sixty five yard yard 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:58.160 er and angle it out of bounds at the two. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.080 That's just I don't know if I've seen that for 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.720 So I'm a big award for him, really, as coach 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.800 Arian said after that game and has said repeatedly since, 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:08.520 Special Teams won that game and he was a big 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:10.680 part of it. So congrats to him. Yeah, I was 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.080 gonna say, when you kick a game winning field goal 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.919 and that's not the Special Teams player that wins Special 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.039 Teams Player of the Week, you know, opinion had a 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.920 good game. That's that's pretty incredible. Um So, and then 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.000 tell us about some of these roster moves that have 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.360 happened this week, and not all of those were good news, 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:30.440 of course, the worst being, of course, a Sean Murphy 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:35.040 bunting and long snapper Zack Trinner went on in reserve. Um, 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:38.560 we all know we saw Sean Murphy bunting hurt his elbow. Uh, 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:40.880 most of us didn't even realize until the next day 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:44.119 or so that Zack was hurt. He kind of messed 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.200 up a finger on his snapping hand, I think, and 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.680 uh continue to play and didn't they didn't tell the coaches, 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.480 you know, they he played with it. He snapped the 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.400 snap on the game winning field goal with his hand 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.120 all messed up, which is pretty impressive. But um, it's 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.680 an injury that's gonna require surgery and and so he's 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.600 gonna be out, coach said, I believe he's he's probably 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.080 gonna be out for the majority of the season. You 0:02:06.160 --> 0:02:09.320 might be able to make it back later, Sean Murphy bunting. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.959 We're still waiting on some news on that because they're 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.520 they're still waiting for a second opinion and some more 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.280 information on his injury. So it may come back that 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.280 he's out three to six weeks, or may come back 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.200 that is season is over. We're certainly hoping for the former. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.799 We might find that out today. Um, we had a 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:27.560 question from Richard and this is one of those where 0:02:27.560 --> 0:02:29.560 it's asking you about some records and numbers to where 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:31.239 it might be hard live to come up with this. 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:33.200 So maybe this could be something in a mail bag 0:02:33.320 --> 0:02:36.000 or something else that you talk about. But he asked, 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.760 is nine straight wins a Buck's record, because if we're 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:42.880 going back to last season, and then is also he 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:46.600 brought up scoring eight straight games of thirty points or 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:49.960 more and wanted to know in terms of NFL records, 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.120 Buck Buck records, So how much of that are you 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.720 are you aware of? And what else can we maybe 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.680 just hear from you later? The first part is easy, actually, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.079 the eight straight wins, even before this last one, was 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.480 a Buck record. The pre this record was seven. Um 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.600 now we're at nine. Now. It depends on how you 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:06.239 want to define those, because sometimes we were talking about records, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:08.640 you're just you're just talking about regular season, in which 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:10.600 case we're only at five right now and the record 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:16.480 is seven from the season, but um uh, nine is 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.000 our record. And if you include the playoffs and and 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:21.720 then the rest of it, the thirty points in a row, 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.560 that's something that if I was asked and I wasn't 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.320 doing this video right now, I would take about twenty 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.400 seconds to look up. I could do that very easily, 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:29.919 but I don't want to interrupt what we're doing here, 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.480 so I have to get back to maybe next week 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:35.520 on that one. I doubt highly that thirty plus points 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:38.480 in eight straight games is an NFL record or even close, 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.760 but there's probably is a Buccaneers record I would be 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.560 willing to bet. And so yeah, so when so if 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.440 if the Bucks win ten in a row, knew a 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.000 new Buccaneer record. Yeah, well if since nine is record, 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:54.720 ten would be the record. Yes, yeah, this is gonna 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.600 be great to watch. I enjoy this, and it's it's 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.880 nice and and then now, heck, you got seven teen 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:00.920 game season. We'll just have to keep you this going 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.040 for a long time. UM. So for you, what were 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:06.240 some of the major takeaways from the Cowboys game and 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.720 the things that you felt like, what you know, what 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.840 surprised you, what was exactly what you expected some of 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:16.039 those those storylines. Well, I think the biggest takeaway from me, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.280 and it really took a little while after the game, 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.640 maybe the next day to kind of come to this feeling, 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:24.520 is that the Buccaneers turned the ball over four times, um, 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:28.840 several of them just game changing almost backbreaking plays, gave 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.800 up four fifty one yards thirty first downs, and won 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:35.920 the game. I mean, it was not a clean game 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.680 for the Buccaneers. The special teams, thank goodness, was a 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.320 winning edge this time. But for the Buccaneers to to 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.880 have a naked three turn of a ratio and go 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.000 up four in or fifty yards, they've never done that 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.240 before and won a game because they've never had Tom Brady, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:52.359 you know, to save them before either. So, um, I 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.160 think it's just it makes me feel kind of good 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.200 about how good this team is because they didn't play 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:59.159 anywhere close to their best game against an opponent that 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:01.080 I know. They were six and ten last year, but 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.520 they look pretty strong this year with Dak Prescott back, 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:05.080 I got a feeling the Cowboys are going to be 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:08.000 in contention. So I think it was a quality opponent 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.600 that played well and the Bucketors did not play their 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.400 best game and they still weren't so that's encouraging. Yeah. 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.520 I think I saw the stats saying that that the 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.440 Bucks were the first NFL team ever to win a 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.239 game where they gave up four and fifty yards, lost 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.880 the turnover different difference by three, and had over a 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:27.680 hundred penalty yards. And I'm like, again, not how you 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.919 want to win a game, but it does seem like that. 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.279 It's kind of encouraging that even if you're playing a 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.560 game like that where you would think you'd lose, you're 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.520 not playing up to what you know is your potential, 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:39.480 and you still come out with a win against a 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:41.880 Cowboy team that you know how has a lot of weapons. 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:44.640 It's not like they're there anything just needs at So 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:46.960 I think that's got to be at least a little encouraging. 0:05:46.960 --> 0:05:48.479 If you're gonna have some of those stats, you don't 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:50.479 want to still come out with a win. Yeah, and 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.560 the penalty thing is, as coach said yesterday, a big problem. 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.600 It's a big problem. Uh. But last year, as we 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.360 were called all the through the first five games, the 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.520 Buccaneers had problems with their penalties, and after the chicag game, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.800 where penalties were a big factor and us barely losing 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:10.120 the game, we thought we should have won. Um, they 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:11.880 just decided on the plane flight back, we have to 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.040 clean this up. And then from then on the Buccaneers 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:16.360 were the least penalized team in the entire NFL. So 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.120 it'd be cool if they just decided to do that 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.279 now and not wait for five Right. Yeah, I agree that, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.000 And maybe they already had that formula and he's like, hey, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:25.520 remember we did last year, Just do that again, Just 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.880 do that again. Um okay. So Jack wanted to know 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:32.039 will Darden suit up for the Falcons game? Um? I 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:35.359 would bet not. We didn't. As I was talking about 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:38.800 the roster moves earlier, I didn't actually get to all 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:42.000 of them. We also have promoted both in the last 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:45.000 few days, both Andrew Adams and Jadon Nickens from the 0:06:45.000 --> 0:06:47.440 practice squad. They were both elevated from the practice squad. 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:48.560 But you only get to do that a couple of 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.800 times with any given player unless it's for to replace 0:06:51.839 --> 0:06:55.400 a COVID player. So, um, they just put those guys 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.200 in the active roster so they would be available to 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.640 them all the time. And since jadn got the call 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.560 last week even when he was on the practice squad, 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.560 and now he's on the active roster, I suspect that 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:07.120 at least for now, he's gonna he's gonna continue to 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:09.680 hold onto the kick and punt off, kickoff and punt 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.000 return jobs. And that would really be the only reason 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.560 you would keep another receiver active. If we kept both 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.160 him and Jaydon Mickens active, then we'd be going with 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:22.000 seven receivers or potentially, you know, putting down something like 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.760 Tyler Johnson, which I don't think they want to do. 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:25.840 So I would suspect that, at least for this week, 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:28.960 that Jalen probably won't get a shot yet. And what 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.080 did you think of the return game? I know Mickens, uh, 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:34.200 you know, he had some had some good moments there. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:34.240 --> 0:07:37.240 I mean and also, as he was saying yesterday, the 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.160 guys up front did a good job blocking for him, 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:41.240 and that hasn't always been the case in recent years. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.480 You know, our return game hasn't been awesome and that's 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:46.160 not always just on the returner. So um, he was 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:47.880 saying they were really doing a good job for him 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.200 up front, and and you know, it's nice of him 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.800 to share the credit, but I think he was being 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.000 sincere when he said that. And yeah he was. He 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.520 was returning decisively, which is what you want. You want 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:59.200 the guy to catch the ball first. And he even 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.080 said that yesterday as well. First of all, because he 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:02.880 asked him about how the big plays coming, said, first 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.320 of all, you gotta catch the ball, which first thing. 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.600 But he's never had a problem with that, and uh, yeah, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.720 I think he's gonna get some opportunities. We may see 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.560 a bit more on the return game than we're used to, 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.000 which would be nice considering there weren't a lot of 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.280 things that Buccaneers could approve upon that for last year, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.680 and that's worn on them. Yeah, that's true. Seth And 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.080 asked was Mike Evans double teamed or just not the 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:24.360 focus in the game plan. He said it was hard 0:08:24.400 --> 0:08:26.720 to see from the live game what was going on 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:28.600 back there. I think it was a little bit of both. 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.720 I think they they definitely made an effort to keep 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.920 him covered, and as Tom Brady has said, he's going 0:08:34.000 --> 0:08:35.720 to throw the ball to the open man. He's not 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:39.040 favoring anybody. Um. Antonio Brown and Chris Godwin and Rob 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.800 Gronkowski were the ones that were getting the good looks. Um, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.720 there's certainly nothing wrong with Mike's play, and he's gonna 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.120 big games, like his coach left, which pointed out yesterday. Yeah, 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:49.679 he only had like two catches in this game, but 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:51.760 I think last year in Week one he only had one. 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:54.000 So you know, it's getting better. It's tringing upwards. And 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:56.280 as we saw, there were plenty of big Mike Evans 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.440 games after that. But that wasn't the guy's question. I 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:00.560 know he was just wondering if his matter of double 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:01.720 teams are not I think it was a little bit 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:04.480 of both. Yeah, and I had Mike on my radio 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.480 show on Monday, and I had asked him if he'd seen, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.880 you know, the addition of Gronk and maybe and the 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.880 fact that now there are just so many weapons. If 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.480 it had changed the way teams played him, kind of 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.640 hoping he'd say like, yeah, I'm finally getting you know, 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.760 a little bit less of than whatever, and he was like, honestly, 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:24.360 not really. Yeah, that he was. He kind of talked 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:26.200 about like maybe this and that, but you could tell 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.559 for the most part the teams are still focusing on 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.240 him a lot, which I told him. I was like, 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.080 it's got to be a compliment. You know, you gotta 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.920 weapons and they're still playing you that way. Um, David 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.560 had asked about are they looking for another corner to 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.640 replace Sean Murphy Bunting or is it going to be 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.960 a little bit more of a musical chairs from within? 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.840 Just how how you see them replacing him for however 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.720 long he's out. Yeah, I think first up is Ross Cockrell, 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:53.920 whom you know, as we know he crossed trained at 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.360 safety and looked very good at that and training him 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:58.320 and was probably going to be sort of a versatile 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:01.640 fill in after that. But since Shawn's out and Ross 0:10:01.679 --> 0:10:04.240 is probably gonna play in the slot. Then, um, you 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.720 know that's another reason to promote Andrew Adams, because you 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:08.680 need some more depth at safety. If Ross isn't gonna 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:12.320 play there. Uh, and then uh, you do. You do 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:17.319 have um two guys on the practice squad in Herb Miller, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.400 and they just signed pair to sur who is a 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.960 veteran who's played a lot. So I think those would 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.800 be the first two options. I think they're always looking, 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:26.720 don't get me wrong, but it's not like there's a 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:29.839 There's a lot of starting caliber quarterbacks just hanging around 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.280 out there. So either one of those two guys could 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.079 get elevated this week. At some point, one or both 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.199 of them could be promoted to the act of roster. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.400 But for now, I think they have a couple options 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.760 that they're gonna go with first. And then we'll close 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.480 with this one because it's just one of my favorite 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.400 things to get to talk about. Richard asked, do you 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.800 think Vita will catch another touchdown on the Falcons? I 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:50.520 would think that would be the last team that you've 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.679 tried to they've seen it. I mean, at least it's 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.960 a different coaching staff. But still I have to Uh, 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:56.680 I have to imagine that you have all the people 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.400 you're gonna try to sneak that in on the Falcons 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.880 are gonna be like, wait, a minute. Yeah it's gonna 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:02.880 happen again. Though it's gonna happen, I don't I would 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.079 be surprised if it was this week. I just even 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.840 when he's in just as a fullback and blocking, it 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.839 just makes me so happy every time. I just love 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.360 watching it. I would hate to be that the defense 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:13.640 watching him get ahead of steam running downhill on you. 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:15.960 But as a member of our team, I have a 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:18.880 big thing by the way he was absolutely dominant in 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.319 that game on Thursday night. I mean you can't you 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:23.959 can't know it by looking at the game book, the 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:26.880 box score. He's he's not anywhere in the stats, but 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:30.800 he was blowing people up. I love that. Yeah, that's incredible. 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.120 All right, Well that's gonna do for us on this 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.880 edition of Buccaneers Inside a Live presented by Miller Like 0:11:35.000 --> 0:11:37.600 thanks as always for joining us and for those great questions, 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:38.840 and we will see you next week.