Speaker 1: Welcome to Buccaneers Inside a live presented by Miller like
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips and Scott Smith here and this is where
Speaker 1: we answer all of your questions this time of year.
Speaker 1: I know there are a lot of them, especially thanks
Speaker 1: to the draft, which I always love hearing what everybody
Speaker 1: is interested in and wanting to know about the draft.
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Speaker 1: questions underneath our live video on the Buccaneers Facebook page.
Speaker 1: And as always love hearing where you're watching from, so
Speaker 1: include that with your question. And as we give people
Speaker 1: a chance to get in there and start asking some
Speaker 1: of their questions in general this time of year, what
Speaker 1: are some of the things going on that people might
Speaker 1: not know about in relation to the draft? And you know,
Speaker 1: we hear so much about some of these top round prospects,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of you know, things for the
Speaker 1: later rounds and some of these other prospects going on.
Speaker 1: I'll answer that question. But look, I think that they're
Speaker 1: trying to do a Tampa Bay chant there sy that.
Speaker 1: Oh I like that. That's that's a great idea. I'm
Speaker 1: a fan of that. Uh And I saw some gold
Speaker 1: buckshop getting fired up for the season, I think. So
Speaker 1: I've seen that people seem really excited, especially about the
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. I think that everybody is really pumped out.
Speaker 1: And I'll enter your question first, but we can talk
Speaker 1: about like the stuff that Chris Godwin and Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: said on Tuesday as well. It was kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: stuff that can get some fans pumped up, I think.
Speaker 1: But yeah, one of the things that you do every
Speaker 1: year before the draft is each team gets to hold
Speaker 1: a workout at their place of thirty players draft prospects
Speaker 1: that are considered local. That means either played high school
Speaker 1: ball here or they went to a school somewhat nearby.
Speaker 1: We also get some Florida, some Miami. I don't know
Speaker 1: how they split that up, because you would think Florida
Speaker 1: would be Jacksonville, right, But maybe they figured that's just
Speaker 1: too unfair to give them all the Florida guys. But
Speaker 1: we will. We don't put the list out of who's
Speaker 1: coming until the morning because it tends to be fluid
Speaker 1: and some guys will drop off and come back on
Speaker 1: et cetera. So I don't have the names to give
Speaker 1: you yet. Or I can't give them out yet. But
Speaker 1: if you're interested in who's gonna be here, um, just
Speaker 1: come to the site. I'll be posting it on Friday
Speaker 1: morning and you'll get a look at some of those names.
Speaker 1: And and that's like what you just said, a lot
Speaker 1: of these names are not going to be terribly familiar
Speaker 1: to Bucks fans unless they also having to be a
Speaker 1: fan of Central Florida or whatever. You know, but are
Speaker 1: guys that you might end up drafting in the seventh
Speaker 1: round or you might be forming relationship with. So when
Speaker 1: you call them after the draft and you're trying to
Speaker 1: get them to come as an undrafted free agent, uh,
Speaker 1: you know you have sort of already started a base
Speaker 1: their lationship and you have a better better field for
Speaker 1: how they play. And and that's important because I mean,
Speaker 1: I know you've seen it. After the draft, all the
Speaker 1: scouts and the coaches like wandering the halls on their
Speaker 1: cell phones, trying to get a distance from each other
Speaker 1: because they're all having the same sort of conversation trying
Speaker 1: to get these priority free ages to come here because
Speaker 1: they generally have a couple options, right, and we know
Speaker 1: from experience how important that is now is this the
Speaker 1: guy that this got on going to make the team.
Speaker 1: I mean, chances are no, but somebody's going to make
Speaker 1: the team group and somebody ends up being Adam Humphries. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a great point. Happens all the time.
Speaker 1: Somebody ends up being DeMar Dotson has been our starting
Speaker 1: right tackle for like eight years. Yeah, something interesting about
Speaker 1: him is I Actually we've been in the in the
Speaker 1: weight room and watching the guys, you know, working out
Speaker 1: right now Phase one. They're all just doing some you know,
Speaker 1: conditioninging and string stuff. Yeah, I know, right, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: doing the I'm working on my next case. He's vlog
Speaker 1: which shameless plugs stay tuned for that. In So, I've
Speaker 1: been in there getting some footage while they're working out,
Speaker 1: and I just decided to ask. You know, Evan Smith
Speaker 1: throws up ridiculous weight and so I asked him, Hey,
Speaker 1: are you the strongest guy on the team? And he's like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm definitely top five. Like, I don't know
Speaker 1: exactly how you'd compare everything, he said, but you know who,
Speaker 1: like if someone who really just decided they wanted to
Speaker 1: see how much they could lift and worked at it,
Speaker 1: he said, the strongest guy on the team would be
Speaker 1: DeMar Dotson, and I said six nine blanky long art, Like,
Speaker 1: usually it's the short guys that are good at lifting
Speaker 1: because it's not a real long breath you have to do.
Speaker 1: I was like, at six nine, that's a and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's like he is just ridiculously strong naturally. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was really interesting that, you know, just kind
Speaker 1: of a cool fact about him that like they all
Speaker 1: in the weight room were looking at tomorrow like, dang,
Speaker 1: that's impressive. Another cool fact he had to go to
Speaker 1: a tryout first before he even got a shot. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so as did Adam Humphries because as most people know, UM,
Speaker 1: DeMar didn't even play football until his senior year at
Speaker 1: Southern Miths and then he was I think he played
Speaker 1: six games and they were as a defensive lineman. So
Speaker 1: UM brought him in here because people, you know, all
Speaker 1: the size, he's got quick feet. Maybe he could be
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman, but you know that most of the
Speaker 1: time those things don't work out, but there's a chance
Speaker 1: that they can you can turn into that that's really true.
Speaker 1: Um Brandon was asking if there's any update on back
Speaker 1: with He said he's watching from Greenville, Alabama. And I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of questions about Alabama. Greenville its green Boa,
Speaker 1: Alabama actually exists. Oh that's funny. Um, so yeah, he
Speaker 1: wants to know back with and I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of people asking about this and and not just if
Speaker 1: there is an update, but when we would even know
Speaker 1: an update. We should know soon. And the reason I
Speaker 1: say that is that at the combine of Jason Light
Speaker 1: was asked about that and he said, I don't really
Speaker 1: have an update for you now, but um, we hope
Speaker 1: in about a month. And then at the NFL's league meetings,
Speaker 1: which was not a month later, but close to him
Speaker 1: month later, Um, I think it was I'm not sure
Speaker 1: if it was Jason or coach Arians, but one of
Speaker 1: them was asked about it and said, we still don't
Speaker 1: have any update for you, but it should be pretty soon.
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry. I know that's kind of the answer
Speaker 1: we've given every time we've been asked about it. But
Speaker 1: we can't just make it up out of thin air.
Speaker 1: We have to wait until the tea is ready to
Speaker 1: say something, and we've been told it'll be soon. It
Speaker 1: would be, I think it would be. It would certainly
Speaker 1: behoove the team to know his status and what you
Speaker 1: expect he can do this year before the draft. That
Speaker 1: could affect the draft decision. That doesn't mean that the
Speaker 1: team has to let everybody know, so potentially they could
Speaker 1: wait until after the draft. But I don't know that
Speaker 1: he just you know, the terms haven't been too specific.
Speaker 1: We should be able to tell you more soon soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and who knows, And maybe that's something to do. I mean,
Speaker 1: they just started going on on the field and so
Speaker 1: far it's just been conditioning work, right right, so maybe
Speaker 1: when they actually start doing some position drills, still have
Speaker 1: a better idea. And that's phase two, right, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: phase two and that should start next next week. Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm gonna butcher this name. I think it's
Speaker 1: he on uh asked? Is there any chance we draft Haskins?
Speaker 1: And I think I'm gonna add to this what I've
Speaker 1: seen some a few other questions ask of just in
Speaker 1: general drafting a quarterback and how high or how low
Speaker 1: if we were to draft one, where do you think
Speaker 1: you know? Is that is that a thing that could happen?
Speaker 1: And where in the draft if did with that most
Speaker 1: likely No, I don't think that we would draft Wayne
Speaker 1: Haskins because I do not think we would use that
Speaker 1: for it would have to be that first pick because
Speaker 1: he's considered a top ten pick, and even if he
Speaker 1: does slide a bit, he's gonna be drafted in the
Speaker 1: first round. And you know, from everything that Bruce arians
Speaker 1: has said since the moment you got the job, that
Speaker 1: at least for two nine and that's not the way
Speaker 1: he put it, but that's the fact that Jameis is
Speaker 1: in his last year of his contract in nineteen, at
Speaker 1: least for two thousand nineteen. This team is very much
Speaker 1: committed to Jameis Winston and believes that he can be
Speaker 1: the guy to really take this offense to another level. Right,
Speaker 1: So it would really surprise me, and I mean this
Speaker 1: is fairly common sense. You'd probably say the exact same thing,
Speaker 1: that you would use your first round pick on another quarterback,
Speaker 1: a quarterback of the future, when you have potentially already
Speaker 1: a quarterback in the future here and you have a
Speaker 1: lot of needs. I mean, right now, I'm torn between
Speaker 1: the fact that everybody's a lot of mock drafters are
Speaker 1: projecting us to take the LC linebacker Devin White I
Speaker 1: would love to have Devin White on this team. I
Speaker 1: think that would be a great addition. But if you
Speaker 1: take him five, then you can't get one of these
Speaker 1: great pass rushers that are available. So I'm torn right
Speaker 1: now about which one of those two things to get,
Speaker 1: and to take a quarterback instead of either one of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure on that now. There just the
Speaker 1: rest of the question is would you take one later
Speaker 1: in the draft, And that's obviously just going to come
Speaker 1: down to what's available. I don't think you would take
Speaker 1: it on the first or second day, but if there's
Speaker 1: something they like in the fifth, six, or seventh round,
Speaker 1: it certainly possible. I don't think it's a priority, it's possible. Uh.
Speaker 1: Michael said, Um, do you think that we're going to
Speaker 1: draft Devin White or someone else at five or trade back? Yeah,
Speaker 1: We're definitely gonna do one one of those things, you think.
Speaker 1: I think that there actually is a relatively good chance that, um,
Speaker 1: you could trade back if you're talking about a trade
Speaker 1: of five to seven spots maybe, and you can get
Speaker 1: a pretty good return from moving from five down to
Speaker 1: ten or twelve. I mean you easily get a second
Speaker 1: round pick and you might even get like another pick
Speaker 1: next year. For that. I've looked at some similar deals
Speaker 1: and you could get like a second this year in
Speaker 1: the first next year. Because teams a five, the drop
Speaker 1: off from five to twelve is considered pretty big in
Speaker 1: terms of the draft value chart. And also a team
Speaker 1: trading up to five at least this year is clearly
Speaker 1: gonna be trading up to get a quarterback, and teams,
Speaker 1: as you saw with Buffalo and even Arizona last year,
Speaker 1: they give up a lot to get that quarterback, more
Speaker 1: so than they would just to get the next best
Speaker 1: pass rusher, and like Buffalo traded twice and traded a
Speaker 1: ton of picks plus a starting offensive tackle just to
Speaker 1: get in position to get Josh Allen year. So there'll
Speaker 1: be a premium paid if somebody's trading up to five
Speaker 1: to get a quarterback. And so here's what happened, you're
Speaker 1: at five. Let's I think what it is probably is
Speaker 1: they'll have a couple of players that they're absolutely in
Speaker 1: love with. Just like last year. I think if um
Speaker 1: Bradley Chub or Quentin Nelson had lasted the seven, I
Speaker 1: think we would have picked him, but when they didn't,
Speaker 1: we traded back. I think it's the exact same or
Speaker 1: very similar scenario. Probably have a couple of guys, and
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna throw a name out there because I
Speaker 1: like the guy Josh Allen was there. Josh Allen calls five,
Speaker 1: we're definitely taking and forget it, we're not taking any calls. However,
Speaker 1: if he's gone, we like these two linebackers like st.
Speaker 1: Devin White and Devon Bush, and these four or five
Speaker 1: defensive lineman and we think any one of them would
Speaker 1: be a great addition. If that's the case, it makes
Speaker 1: a ton of sense of trade back. You gotta find
Speaker 1: a trade partner something. He's gonna want a quarterback badley,
Speaker 1: But I think a trade is a very big possibility. Okay,
Speaker 1: um Rob said, if we're switching to a three four
Speaker 1: defense and we already have Vida veo, why is there
Speaker 1: so much talk about drafting a d tackle. Well, I
Speaker 1: know three four. You you hear the positions, and you
Speaker 1: hear there's one defensive tackle and two defensive ends. But
Speaker 1: those defensive ends are really kind of like defensive tackles
Speaker 1: because they play inside the tackles, right, they don't play uh,
Speaker 1: they don't play outside on the edge like five technique,
Speaker 1: they play inside. So players that you would call a
Speaker 1: defensive tackle like a Jeral McCoy in a four three
Speaker 1: are just called defensive ends in this so you you
Speaker 1: still need another stout guy at least one more for
Speaker 1: the interior there. So it just you gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: not worry so much about the names of these positions.
Speaker 1: Right like, whether we're calling Carl Nassa a linebacker defense end,
Speaker 1: we know he's mostly gonna be rushing the pass or
Speaker 1: might drop into coverage JPP. We might call him a linebacker,
Speaker 1: but he's most gonna rush the passer, probably won't drop
Speaker 1: into coverage. A whole lot that kind of thing. So
Speaker 1: you know, Lavonte David is now going to be called
Speaker 1: an inside linebacker when we've called him an outside lineberger,
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty much the same job. Yes, we
Speaker 1: are switching to a three four. We've talked about that
Speaker 1: a lot, but every time you hear Todd Bowl's talk
Speaker 1: about it, he says, you know, teams do a lot
Speaker 1: of different fronts and things that are called the three four.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they look like a four three over under stuff
Speaker 1: like that. So, um, you still, let's take an example
Speaker 1: quinnin Williams. He said, why would we drift to know
Speaker 1: defensive tackle if you had a shot at Quinn and Williams,
Speaker 1: this is a disruptive, very disruptive interior player that's gonna
Speaker 1: work on a three four or four three front next
Speaker 1: to you to or not next to right. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: a great point. I love this next question. It's I
Speaker 1: don't know that anyone's ever asked us this before, and
Speaker 1: I think it's really smart. Kevin said, with the preseason
Speaker 1: schedule released, what is the best team to see how
Speaker 1: the new defensive scheme will work? Isn't that a good question? Yeah? Well,
Speaker 1: so we have Miami, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Cleveland, Cleveland. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I suppose when you're playing Pittsburgh you'll be
Speaker 1: able to compare ours to theirs because they're a very
Speaker 1: traditional three or four. That is a clever question, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to think of what the criteria would be.
Speaker 1: I guess you'd want a team with a good defensive
Speaker 1: line that has experienced playing against a three four, A
Speaker 1: good offensive line, right, Yeah, somebody that has a good
Speaker 1: offensive line and either has a really good run game
Speaker 1: or a really good pass game. Yeah. First of all,
Speaker 1: they're kind of a team on the rise. I know
Speaker 1: they have some good defensive or offensive lineman um. And
Speaker 1: they have to pay face Pittsburgh every year twice, so
Speaker 1: they should be familiar with trying to defend a three four. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's one and and the good thing about that
Speaker 1: is that's the third game and tier at home, which
Speaker 1: is always good to get the third preseason game at
Speaker 1: home because that's the one where the Stars play the most.
Speaker 1: It's the most interesting game. And so we got Cleveland
Speaker 1: at home for that one. And uh, there there's my answer.
Speaker 1: By the way, we've never played Dallas in the preseason
Speaker 1: before I was wondering about that. I knew, I knew
Speaker 1: it hadn't even since I've been here. But that's not
Speaker 1: very long compared to the whole the organization. You know,
Speaker 1: you used to you used to it was kind of
Speaker 1: like scheduling your nonconference college games. Teams used to schedule
Speaker 1: their own. You would just get with another team, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you do a multi year contract, like in two
Speaker 1: thousand two when Houston first came in the league, we
Speaker 1: set up an eight year run with him, or just
Speaker 1: alternated back and forth state eight straight preseasons, but the
Speaker 1: league is involved now and you can make requests, but
Speaker 1: they tell you who you get. So there's some different
Speaker 1: matchups that teams would normally have called before. Um Kevin
Speaker 1: had also asked, would Vita make a good defensive end
Speaker 1: in the three four defense scene? As how he showed
Speaker 1: off some decent speed last year. They're going to play anybody.
Speaker 1: Any of the down linemen in this defense are going
Speaker 1: to have times where they where they are playing what
Speaker 1: you would call a defensive end in a three four.
Speaker 1: It's going to happen, absolutely right, um Louise asked, is
Speaker 1: ed drusher or a linebacker the more urgent need right now?
Speaker 1: That's the question, right, And that's what I was alluding
Speaker 1: to earlier, And I would just it's too bad we
Speaker 1: don't have a fifth and the sixth picks right right.
Speaker 1: That's why, because I'm torn because everything you read and
Speaker 1: everything you see on this Devin White kid, he looks
Speaker 1: like you could be a superstar, And why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: want that in the middle? Wouldn't want Leavonte David and
Speaker 1: that guy together? But then this is could be. Now,
Speaker 1: you never know, all these guys could bomb, but this
Speaker 1: could be a historically good line or draft for ed rushers,
Speaker 1: and you're picking five in that type of draft. It
Speaker 1: just almost seems like a lost opportunity to me if
Speaker 1: you don't grab a Josh Ellen or Montez sweater at
Speaker 1: Oliver or somebody like that. Right Um Jeffrey asked, we've
Speaker 1: thinned out at kick return punt return options. Are they
Speaker 1: high on our current talent on the roster or should
Speaker 1: we expect that to be a factor in some of
Speaker 1: the draft picks or guys brought on. Yeah, that could
Speaker 1: see that a later round draft pick, maybe on a
Speaker 1: receiver who also has some return skills. We've tried that
Speaker 1: a couple of times and then not too distent pass
Speaker 1: and nothing really panned out. Um. At the scouting combine,
Speaker 1: Bruce mentioned Dario goomble Wally as a potential guy to
Speaker 1: return kickoffs. As for punts, he said, really, it's we're
Speaker 1: gonna find out. We just we just don't know yet.
Speaker 1: It could be a matter of them getting out there
Speaker 1: on the field and seeing what they think of something
Speaker 1: like I'll just throw any like Bobo Wilson, Like, they
Speaker 1: may find out that Bobo Wilson I thought he was
Speaker 1: good on kick return. Yeah, I would agree with that. Michael,
Speaker 1: who's watching from Georgia, said, well, we draft running back.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not sold that it's an absolute definite thing. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't think we do it in the first round.
Speaker 1: I don't even think we do it in the second
Speaker 1: round unless, like let's say, Josh Jacobs is considered the
Speaker 1: best one falls all the way to there. That's possible. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance for that, sure, And I
Speaker 1: would think and again when we talk, when we say
Speaker 1: these things, remember this is just my opinion. I'm not
Speaker 1: parenting anything that necessarily Bruce or Jason light thinks or
Speaker 1: is their strategy what they're going for. But um, you
Speaker 1: might look for a guy a little later in the draft.
Speaker 1: Um who maybe he's a smaller, quicker, change a pace
Speaker 1: guy that could be a pass catcher out of backfield. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we signed Andre Ellington, but there's you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know yet if he's still the same player
Speaker 1: he was when he was pretty productive in that role
Speaker 1: for Bruce arians in Arizona, and so to have another
Speaker 1: option for that could be a good idea. Okay, we'll
Speaker 1: close it this one. Uh C J. Who's watching them
Speaker 1: from New York said, what do you think the biggest
Speaker 1: needs will be on day two? Um, And then he said,
Speaker 1: should all the national hype of the Bucks needing a
Speaker 1: running back actually be believed? So it's kind of with
Speaker 1: what we're discussing, but just in general the day too.
Speaker 1: We we've talked so much about that number five pick.
Speaker 1: But after that, I'll start with the second part of that.
Speaker 1: I don't think you should wear at all with the
Speaker 1: national hype about you know, I think I saw an
Speaker 1: article or somebody ranked the all thirty two teams running
Speaker 1: back situations and we were like thirty first or something
Speaker 1: that may or may not be true or close to true.
Speaker 1: But what's thought about them nationally isn't really all that
Speaker 1: important compared to what our guys think. And you know,
Speaker 1: there's there's always like Diamond Smith is a good example
Speaker 1: of guys that internally are valued higher than that maybe
Speaker 1: the national press believes. But to get back to the
Speaker 1: first part of it, let's just say hypothetically, because I
Speaker 1: need to know who we took in the first round.
Speaker 1: To answer, Let's say we took a defensive, an edge
Speaker 1: guy like Josh Allen Ramontes sweat second day, a couple
Speaker 1: of things. I think offensive line, it would be good
Speaker 1: to get another couple of pieces, or at least one
Speaker 1: new piece that could be a star for you down
Speaker 1: the road. You could also get a guy that can
Speaker 1: maybe compete right away with guys like Alex Kappa for
Speaker 1: the right guard spot. And then a cornerback. And I
Speaker 1: know you've heard me say a thousand times I say,
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe we had already talked even more about that.
Speaker 1: And I know we took two quarterbacks in the second
Speaker 1: round last year. See might think, well, if we've already
Speaker 1: invested a lot there, but one of them, m J.
Speaker 1: Stewart is apparently at least gonna start out this this
Speaker 1: offseason playing safety. So and you don't have brain crimes anymore,
Speaker 1: I think there's still need a cornerback. Those are the
Speaker 1: two spots that that I would highlight on the second
Speaker 1: day of the draft. All right, well that's gonna do
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