Speaker 1: Um, good morning, Bucks fans. How's everyone doing? It is Wednesday,
Speaker 1: which means it is time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented
Speaker 1: by Miller. Like Casey Phillips, here was senior writer and
Speaker 1: editor Scott Smith. And as always, this is where we
Speaker 1: take your questions. So if you have those for us,
Speaker 1: make sure you leave them in the comments section underneath
Speaker 1: our live video on the Buccaneers Facebook page. And as
Speaker 1: we give people a chance to do that, we fear
Speaker 1: there is plenty of news that we are now in
Speaker 1: regular season four, and plenty of news we can talk
Speaker 1: about here right off the top. Um, first, some some
Speaker 1: roster moves and an award for a player. So I
Speaker 1: wanted to tell us about some of those bits of
Speaker 1: news we've already had. Yeah, we got the good news
Speaker 1: that we were hoping for this morning when Bradley Pinion
Speaker 1: was named the NFC Special Teams Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: It's actually the second time he's won it. He won
Speaker 1: it once when he was with San Francisco. Um, it
Speaker 1: was just a brilliant game for him. You know, three
Speaker 1: punts down inside the tanny at that's sixty five. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you kick a sixty five yard yard
Speaker 1: er and angle it out of bounds at the two.
Speaker 1: That's just I don't know if I've seen that for
Speaker 1: So I'm a big award for him, really, as coach
Speaker 1: Arian said after that game and has said repeatedly since,
Speaker 1: Special Teams won that game and he was a big
Speaker 1: part of it. So congrats to him. Yeah, I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, when you kick a game winning field goal
Speaker 1: and that's not the Special Teams player that wins Special
Speaker 1: Teams Player of the Week, you know, opinion had a
Speaker 1: good game. That's that's pretty incredible. Um So, and then
Speaker 1: tell us about some of these roster moves that have
Speaker 1: happened this week, and not all of those were good news,
Speaker 1: of course, the worst being, of course, a Sean Murphy
Speaker 1: bunting and long snapper Zack Trinner went on in reserve. Um,
Speaker 1: we all know we saw Sean Murphy bunting hurt his elbow. Uh,
Speaker 1: most of us didn't even realize until the next day
Speaker 1: or so that Zack was hurt. He kind of messed
Speaker 1: up a finger on his snapping hand, I think, and
Speaker 1: uh continue to play and didn't they didn't tell the coaches,
Speaker 1: you know, they he played with it. He snapped the
Speaker 1: snap on the game winning field goal with his hand
Speaker 1: all messed up, which is pretty impressive. But um, it's
Speaker 1: an injury that's gonna require surgery and and so he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out, coach said, I believe he's he's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be out for the majority of the season. You
Speaker 1: might be able to make it back later, Sean Murphy bunting.
Speaker 1: We're still waiting on some news on that because they're
Speaker 1: they're still waiting for a second opinion and some more
Speaker 1: information on his injury. So it may come back that
Speaker 1: he's out three to six weeks, or may come back
Speaker 1: that is season is over. We're certainly hoping for the former.
Speaker 1: We might find that out today. Um, we had a
Speaker 1: question from Richard and this is one of those where
Speaker 1: it's asking you about some records and numbers to where
Speaker 1: it might be hard live to come up with this.
Speaker 1: So maybe this could be something in a mail bag
Speaker 1: or something else that you talk about. But he asked,
Speaker 1: is nine straight wins a Buck's record, because if we're
Speaker 1: going back to last season, and then is also he
Speaker 1: brought up scoring eight straight games of thirty points or
Speaker 1: more and wanted to know in terms of NFL records,
Speaker 1: Buck Buck records, So how much of that are you
Speaker 1: are you aware of? And what else can we maybe
Speaker 1: just hear from you later? The first part is easy, actually,
Speaker 1: the eight straight wins, even before this last one, was
Speaker 1: a Buck record. The pre this record was seven. Um
Speaker 1: now we're at nine. Now. It depends on how you
Speaker 1: want to define those, because sometimes we were talking about records,
Speaker 1: you're just you're just talking about regular season, in which
Speaker 1: case we're only at five right now and the record
Speaker 1: is seven from the season, but um uh, nine is
Speaker 1: our record. And if you include the playoffs and and
Speaker 1: then the rest of it, the thirty points in a row,
Speaker 1: that's something that if I was asked and I wasn't
Speaker 1: doing this video right now, I would take about twenty
Speaker 1: seconds to look up. I could do that very easily,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to interrupt what we're doing here,
Speaker 1: so I have to get back to maybe next week
Speaker 1: on that one. I doubt highly that thirty plus points
Speaker 1: in eight straight games is an NFL record or even close,
Speaker 1: but there's probably is a Buccaneers record I would be
Speaker 1: willing to bet. And so yeah, so when so if
Speaker 1: if the Bucks win ten in a row, knew a
Speaker 1: new Buccaneer record. Yeah, well if since nine is record,
Speaker 1: ten would be the record. Yes, yeah, this is gonna
Speaker 1: be great to watch. I enjoy this, and it's it's
Speaker 1: nice and and then now, heck, you got seven teen
Speaker 1: game season. We'll just have to keep you this going
Speaker 1: for a long time. UM. So for you, what were
Speaker 1: some of the major takeaways from the Cowboys game and
Speaker 1: the things that you felt like, what you know, what
Speaker 1: surprised you, what was exactly what you expected some of
Speaker 1: those those storylines. Well, I think the biggest takeaway from me,
Speaker 1: and it really took a little while after the game,
Speaker 1: maybe the next day to kind of come to this feeling,
Speaker 1: is that the Buccaneers turned the ball over four times, um,
Speaker 1: several of them just game changing almost backbreaking plays, gave
Speaker 1: up four fifty one yards thirty first downs, and won
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, it was not a clean game
Speaker 1: for the Buccaneers. The special teams, thank goodness, was a
Speaker 1: winning edge this time. But for the Buccaneers to to
Speaker 1: have a naked three turn of a ratio and go
Speaker 1: up four in or fifty yards, they've never done that
Speaker 1: before and won a game because they've never had Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: you know, to save them before either. So, um, I
Speaker 1: think it's just it makes me feel kind of good
Speaker 1: about how good this team is because they didn't play
Speaker 1: anywhere close to their best game against an opponent that
Speaker 1: I know. They were six and ten last year, but
Speaker 1: they look pretty strong this year with Dak Prescott back,
Speaker 1: I got a feeling the Cowboys are going to be
Speaker 1: in contention. So I think it was a quality opponent
Speaker 1: that played well and the Bucketors did not play their
Speaker 1: best game and they still weren't so that's encouraging. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I saw the stats saying that that the
Speaker 1: Bucks were the first NFL team ever to win a
Speaker 1: game where they gave up four and fifty yards, lost
Speaker 1: the turnover different difference by three, and had over a
Speaker 1: hundred penalty yards. And I'm like, again, not how you
Speaker 1: want to win a game, but it does seem like that.
Speaker 1: It's kind of encouraging that even if you're playing a
Speaker 1: game like that where you would think you'd lose, you're
Speaker 1: not playing up to what you know is your potential,
Speaker 1: and you still come out with a win against a
Speaker 1: Cowboy team that you know how has a lot of weapons.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're there anything just needs at So
Speaker 1: I think that's got to be at least a little encouraging.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna have some of those stats, you don't
Speaker 1: want to still come out with a win. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: the penalty thing is, as coach said yesterday, a big problem.
Speaker 1: It's a big problem. Uh. But last year, as we
Speaker 1: were called all the through the first five games, the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers had problems with their penalties, and after the chicag game,
Speaker 1: where penalties were a big factor and us barely losing
Speaker 1: the game, we thought we should have won. Um, they
Speaker 1: just decided on the plane flight back, we have to
Speaker 1: clean this up. And then from then on the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: were the least penalized team in the entire NFL. So
Speaker 1: it'd be cool if they just decided to do that
Speaker 1: now and not wait for five Right. Yeah, I agree that,
Speaker 1: And maybe they already had that formula and he's like, hey,
Speaker 1: remember we did last year, Just do that again, Just
Speaker 1: do that again. Um okay. So Jack wanted to know
Speaker 1: will Darden suit up for the Falcons game? Um? I
Speaker 1: would bet not. We didn't. As I was talking about
Speaker 1: the roster moves earlier, I didn't actually get to all
Speaker 1: of them. We also have promoted both in the last
Speaker 1: few days, both Andrew Adams and Jadon Nickens from the
Speaker 1: practice squad. They were both elevated from the practice squad.
Speaker 1: But you only get to do that a couple of
Speaker 1: times with any given player unless it's for to replace
Speaker 1: a COVID player. So, um, they just put those guys
Speaker 1: in the active roster so they would be available to
Speaker 1: them all the time. And since jadn got the call
Speaker 1: last week even when he was on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: and now he's on the active roster, I suspect that
Speaker 1: at least for now, he's gonna he's gonna continue to
Speaker 1: hold onto the kick and punt off, kickoff and punt
Speaker 1: return jobs. And that would really be the only reason
Speaker 1: you would keep another receiver active. If we kept both
Speaker 1: him and Jaydon Mickens active, then we'd be going with
Speaker 1: seven receivers or potentially, you know, putting down something like
Speaker 1: Tyler Johnson, which I don't think they want to do.
Speaker 1: So I would suspect that, at least for this week,
Speaker 1: that Jalen probably won't get a shot yet. And what
Speaker 1: did you think of the return game? I know Mickens, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, he had some had some good moments there. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean and also, as he was saying yesterday, the
Speaker 1: guys up front did a good job blocking for him,
Speaker 1: and that hasn't always been the case in recent years.
Speaker 1: You know, our return game hasn't been awesome and that's
Speaker 1: not always just on the returner. So um, he was
Speaker 1: saying they were really doing a good job for him
Speaker 1: up front, and and you know, it's nice of him
Speaker 1: to share the credit, but I think he was being
Speaker 1: sincere when he said that. And yeah he was. He
Speaker 1: was returning decisively, which is what you want. You want
Speaker 1: the guy to catch the ball first. And he even
Speaker 1: said that yesterday as well. First of all, because he
Speaker 1: asked him about how the big plays coming, said, first
Speaker 1: of all, you gotta catch the ball, which first thing.
Speaker 1: But he's never had a problem with that, and uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get some opportunities. We may see
Speaker 1: a bit more on the return game than we're used to,
Speaker 1: which would be nice considering there weren't a lot of
Speaker 1: things that Buccaneers could approve upon that for last year,
Speaker 1: and that's worn on them. Yeah, that's true. Seth And
Speaker 1: asked was Mike Evans double teamed or just not the
Speaker 1: focus in the game plan. He said it was hard
Speaker 1: to see from the live game what was going on
Speaker 1: back there. I think it was a little bit of both.
Speaker 1: I think they they definitely made an effort to keep
Speaker 1: him covered, and as Tom Brady has said, he's going
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to the open man. He's not
Speaker 1: favoring anybody. Um. Antonio Brown and Chris Godwin and Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski were the ones that were getting the good looks. Um,
Speaker 1: there's certainly nothing wrong with Mike's play, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: big games, like his coach left, which pointed out yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he only had like two catches in this game, but
Speaker 1: I think last year in Week one he only had one.
Speaker 1: So you know, it's getting better. It's tringing upwards. And
Speaker 1: as we saw, there were plenty of big Mike Evans
Speaker 1: games after that. But that wasn't the guy's question. I
Speaker 1: know he was just wondering if his matter of double
Speaker 1: teams are not I think it was a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. Yeah, and I had Mike on my radio
Speaker 1: show on Monday, and I had asked him if he'd seen,
Speaker 1: you know, the addition of Gronk and maybe and the
Speaker 1: fact that now there are just so many weapons. If
Speaker 1: it had changed the way teams played him, kind of
Speaker 1: hoping he'd say like, yeah, I'm finally getting you know,
Speaker 1: a little bit less of than whatever, and he was like, honestly,
Speaker 1: not really. Yeah, that he was. He kind of talked
Speaker 1: about like maybe this and that, but you could tell
Speaker 1: for the most part the teams are still focusing on
Speaker 1: him a lot, which I told him. I was like,
Speaker 1: it's got to be a compliment. You know, you gotta
Speaker 1: weapons and they're still playing you that way. Um, David
Speaker 1: had asked about are they looking for another corner to
Speaker 1: replace Sean Murphy Bunting or is it going to be
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a musical chairs from within?
Speaker 1: Just how how you see them replacing him for however
Speaker 1: long he's out. Yeah, I think first up is Ross Cockrell,
Speaker 1: whom you know, as we know he crossed trained at
Speaker 1: safety and looked very good at that and training him
Speaker 1: and was probably going to be sort of a versatile
Speaker 1: fill in after that. But since Shawn's out and Ross
Speaker 1: is probably gonna play in the slot. Then, um, you
Speaker 1: know that's another reason to promote Andrew Adams, because you
Speaker 1: need some more depth at safety. If Ross isn't gonna
Speaker 1: play there. Uh, and then uh, you do. You do
Speaker 1: have um two guys on the practice squad in Herb Miller,
Speaker 1: and they just signed pair to sur who is a
Speaker 1: veteran who's played a lot. So I think those would
Speaker 1: be the first two options. I think they're always looking,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but it's not like there's a
Speaker 1: There's a lot of starting caliber quarterbacks just hanging around
Speaker 1: out there. So either one of those two guys could
Speaker 1: get elevated this week. At some point, one or both
Speaker 1: of them could be promoted to the act of roster.
Speaker 1: But for now, I think they have a couple options
Speaker 1: that they're gonna go with first. And then we'll close
Speaker 1: with this one because it's just one of my favorite
Speaker 1: things to get to talk about. Richard asked, do you
Speaker 1: think Vita will catch another touchdown on the Falcons? I
Speaker 1: would think that would be the last team that you've
Speaker 1: tried to they've seen it. I mean, at least it's
Speaker 1: a different coaching staff. But still I have to Uh,
Speaker 1: I have to imagine that you have all the people
Speaker 1: you're gonna try to sneak that in on the Falcons
Speaker 1: are gonna be like, wait, a minute. Yeah it's gonna
Speaker 1: happen again. Though it's gonna happen, I don't I would
Speaker 1: be surprised if it was this week. I just even
Speaker 1: when he's in just as a fullback and blocking, it
Speaker 1: just makes me so happy every time. I just love
Speaker 1: watching it. I would hate to be that the defense
Speaker 1: watching him get ahead of steam running downhill on you.
Speaker 1: But as a member of our team, I have a
Speaker 1: big thing by the way he was absolutely dominant in
Speaker 1: that game on Thursday night. I mean you can't you
Speaker 1: can't know it by looking at the game book, the
Speaker 1: box score. He's he's not anywhere in the stats, but
Speaker 1: he was blowing people up. I love that. Yeah, that's incredible.
Speaker 1: All right, Well that's gonna do for us on this
Speaker 1: edition of Buccaneers Inside a Live presented by Miller Like
Speaker 1: thanks as always for joining us and for those great questions,
Speaker 1: and we will see you next week.