Speaker 1: Welcoming to Buccaneers. Inside are live presented by Miller like
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips and Scott Smith here and this is our
Speaker 1: final one of these before training camp is officially underway.
Speaker 1: So ready, already, so ready. I don't think you can
Speaker 1: be ready for training camp. Oh well, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: ready in terms of like I'm excited to finally have
Speaker 1: some stuff to talk about. But yeah, no one's ever
Speaker 1: ready for the schedule. I mean you and I can't
Speaker 1: really complain. I mean more work, but whatever. But those
Speaker 1: players they're about to start working out in then, and yeah,
Speaker 1: when I complain about standing in the heat and they're
Speaker 1: running in it, it is a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think they can really be ready. I think
Speaker 1: you just have to. It just happens, and then it
Speaker 1: takes a couple days to get acclimated. And that's very
Speaker 1: true in camp. I don't think you can come ready,
Speaker 1: especially some of the guys that have never been down
Speaker 1: in Florida before that they've played for all these northern
Speaker 1: teams and some of them we're talking about that in
Speaker 1: the spring when we have some hot days, they're like,
Speaker 1: you haven't seen anything yet. Yeah, that's pretty great. So
Speaker 1: as always, we will be taking your questions and we
Speaker 1: get those from Facebook, So if you're not already watching their,
Speaker 1: head over to the Facebook page and comment underneath our
Speaker 1: live video if you have any thoughts, comments, questions about
Speaker 1: anything Bucks related or the season coming up. Uh And
Speaker 1: as we let some of those start rolling in, we
Speaker 1: wanted to start off with some of the roster moves
Speaker 1: that were made, so in case people haven't heard about that,
Speaker 1: let them know what's going on there. It was quiet
Speaker 1: for so long. The last roster move before this week
Speaker 1: was I believe the release of j R. Sweezy on
Speaker 1: June twenty nine, and that's that's that's what happens. Most
Speaker 1: of July is usually very quiet in terms of personnel moves,
Speaker 1: but then right before camp there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: massaging the roster that it has to happen. Every team
Speaker 1: does it um mostly names you haven't heard of before.
Speaker 1: In this case, the Bucks had two open spots because
Speaker 1: of the Maury's flaming release and then JR. Sweezy And
Speaker 1: you're never gonna go to camp without filling all the
Speaker 1: spots you have available to you. Every single one of
Speaker 1: them is very valuable, so it was no surprise. The
Speaker 1: two guys signed where Josh Ladell is safety from Arkansas.
Speaker 1: They're both undrafted rookies. We actually had him briefly signed
Speaker 1: him right after the draft, but then after the rookie
Speaker 1: minicamp there was a couple of guys that stood out
Speaker 1: that we wanted to sign, and he got released, but
Speaker 1: good for him, he's back. And then also, uh, the
Speaker 1: other one was Kiante Anderson, who had He's a rookie,
Speaker 1: you didn't get drafted and hadn't as of yet been
Speaker 1: signed anywhere out of East Carolina, So that's interesting. He
Speaker 1: was a linebacker in their defense in two thousand and sixteen.
Speaker 1: He had transferred from another college and then uh, he
Speaker 1: moved to defensive end last year and it it seemed
Speaker 1: to be a good fit for me. I'd like four
Speaker 1: and a half sacks, about six four to sixty probably,
Speaker 1: you know, in a fast edge, not hard to say.
Speaker 1: And then the other bit of news, actually, um, it's
Speaker 1: funny because I tweeted this out and it actually got
Speaker 1: some negative response, and I think it's actually good news.
Speaker 1: Kendell Beckwood was placed on active NFI non football injury
Speaker 1: list because of that that ankle injury suffered in the
Speaker 1: car accident in April, which was unfortunate. He was a
Speaker 1: passenger in the car. I mean, as the coaches said
Speaker 1: at the time, we're just happy that's that's the worst.
Speaker 1: That could have been a lot worse. So, um, so
Speaker 1: you knew it was pretty clear he wasn't gonna be
Speaker 1: ready for the start of training camp, so that's not news.
Speaker 1: Putting him on active NFI is probably good news because
Speaker 1: it means they think it's likely that he'll return at
Speaker 1: some point before the start of the season. The only
Speaker 1: reason you do it because if you're on active n
Speaker 1: if I, you still count against the ninety man rosters.
Speaker 1: So you might say, well, then why by other? What's
Speaker 1: the point because you can be activated from any at
Speaker 1: any time and you still kind of gets the roster,
Speaker 1: so why bother? Well, the reason you bother is putting
Speaker 1: a guy on active n f I or PUP. What
Speaker 1: that does if you do it before start of training camp.
Speaker 1: You have to do it before training camp starts, and
Speaker 1: if you do it leaves open the option of putting
Speaker 1: them on reserve PUP or reserve n f I when
Speaker 1: the season starts, and then they would miss up to
Speaker 1: six game or six at least six games. Um, so
Speaker 1: that's probably good news, but it is leaving open the
Speaker 1: possibly that he won't be ready at the start or
Speaker 1: near the start of the season. But the other part
Speaker 1: of that that's good news is that's the only guy
Speaker 1: that was on the list at least so far. Right,
Speaker 1: Like I was, I wasn't sure what was gonna happen
Speaker 1: with DeMar Dotson. I would say that's pretty good news
Speaker 1: that at least as of today on Tuesday, with the
Speaker 1: first practice a couple of days away, he hasn't been
Speaker 1: put on any sort of list. You know, he's returning
Speaker 1: from that that knee procedure he had in the spring,
Speaker 1: and he had a really good year last year, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I know they want him anchoring that right
Speaker 1: side of the line. So hopefully that's good news. No
Speaker 1: news is good news as all right. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great point, all right, get get us started here at
Speaker 1: these questions. David said he wants to know what the
Speaker 1: running back situation is looking like this early and if
Speaker 1: we can tell anything so far, well, camp hasn't started yet,
Speaker 1: so we just have to rewind to what we saw
Speaker 1: in uh in the spring and in that June minicamp,
Speaker 1: and as we said at the time, there's only so
Speaker 1: much you can tell because they're not hitting each other.
Speaker 1: They don't have pads on, so every run looks like
Speaker 1: a forty yard touchdown, right, But Ronald Jones looked quick
Speaker 1: as you would expect. Um, you know, Peyton Barber he's
Speaker 1: more of a bruising style runner anyway, so maybe you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily see him at his best until the pads
Speaker 1: go on. He's a guy that seemed to me very
Speaker 1: good at not losing yards and gaining a couple extra
Speaker 1: yards after contact. I think those are two skills of his.
Speaker 1: So that's hard to see when you're not hitting each
Speaker 1: other when the pads are on. So we'll probably have
Speaker 1: a better answer for that in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: I tend to believe you're gonna end up with some mix,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's gonna be sixty forty
Speaker 1: or seventy thirty or something on that of snaps, most
Speaker 1: of the carries between Ronald Jones and Peyton Barber, and
Speaker 1: then you've got Jack Quiz who can do anything for you,
Speaker 1: and then Charles Simms hopefully can continue when he's been
Speaker 1: at his best in his career. He's been a real
Speaker 1: good past catcher out of the black fields. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Uh. West has an interesting question.
Speaker 1: Uh he said, uh do you He says, do you
Speaker 1: think the Bucks let Kuan see the open market or
Speaker 1: lock him up a few weeks into the season like
Speaker 1: they did with McCoy and David? Yeah? Um, I I
Speaker 1: would you know that the difference between those guys, well,
Speaker 1: at least with McCoy is that he was a first
Speaker 1: round draft pick um And yeah, you know, I just
Speaker 1: be guessing at this point, I would think they'd be
Speaker 1: motivated to get him locked up. I think that they
Speaker 1: consider him a core player they want to keep around
Speaker 1: for a long time. I also think you look at
Speaker 1: Kwan Alexander and think, as good as he's been and
Speaker 1: he made the Pro Bowl last year, I don't think
Speaker 1: he's really reached his full potentially yet. And so you know,
Speaker 1: you kind of knew exactly what you had with Gerald
Speaker 1: McCoy and Lavante David, which was awesome. With with Kwan,
Speaker 1: there's probably some more untapped potential there. I would think
Speaker 1: the team would be motivated to try to lock him
Speaker 1: up before it became an issue, assuming he's motivated to
Speaker 1: stay here, of course I guess he is. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think that's fair to say. Um, Jeff said, do you
Speaker 1: think Vitave will start right away? I might have to
Speaker 1: fall back on my, uh my cop out answer on
Speaker 1: on these some of these things that it may not
Speaker 1: necessarily be that important if you consider him a starter.
Speaker 1: You know, uh, you have Boe Allen, who would be
Speaker 1: the obvious other choice to start next to Jeral McCoy,
Speaker 1: which one is going to actually be starting right at
Speaker 1: the beginning? You know, coaches tend to default at the
Speaker 1: beginning to the veterans. So if there's no depth chart
Speaker 1: at this time of the year, But I bet if
Speaker 1: the Bucks put out a depth chart, you don't have
Speaker 1: to do that until the week of the first game.
Speaker 1: They would probably put bo Allen as the veteran and
Speaker 1: a very good player in his own right already proven
Speaker 1: as the starter next to McCoy, and put put Vita
Speaker 1: behind them. But is it how much is that really
Speaker 1: gonna matter? Is The point is who's going to get
Speaker 1: the most snaps and in what situations? And that's something
Speaker 1: they still have to figure out. It's a good problem
Speaker 1: to have to have that three man There's other defensive
Speaker 1: tackles too, but the main three man rotation of Jeral
Speaker 1: McCoy and Vita Vay and bow Allen looks really good
Speaker 1: to me. Yeah, that's a really great point. We had.
Speaker 1: Someone asked, uh, if we can get the Alien Donovan
Speaker 1: podcast back, which I don't know if we're ready to
Speaker 1: quite announce exactly what's happening, but well, I'll just say
Speaker 1: I'll just say stay tuned for that possibility. That's a
Speaker 1: nice little tease right there. I'm like, it's going to
Speaker 1: be good. You're gonna like it. Yes, there is an
Speaker 1: Alley and Donovan. The The answer to that question is
Speaker 1: something I think that if you're asking that question, you're
Speaker 1: gonna like that. You're gonna like, can I plug something more?
Speaker 1: We're here, sure, Yes, just just a little teas as well,
Speaker 1: because it hasn't been announced yet, but there is gonna
Speaker 1: be a new podcast on Buccaneers dot Com. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be involved with it. Um. I've already lined up
Speaker 1: a really cool guest for the first one, which will
Speaker 1: be not this week but next week. We don't know.
Speaker 1: We haven't decided on the exact day yet, but sometime
Speaker 1: next week, middle next week, look for a new podcast.
Speaker 1: I hope you're gonna like it. We're hoping it becomes
Speaker 1: a big thing. That's going to be a really fun one.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited. You can't wait till we can officially
Speaker 1: announce that one as well next week. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um,
Speaker 1: one of your favorite questions we get. Actually it's it's
Speaker 1: not it's I guess second, you're the second most likely.
Speaker 1: I think I'm getting this right. But favorite question with
Speaker 1: the sarcasm dripping, I think I think this is t
Speaker 1: On is maybe the name here? I'm sorry if I'm
Speaker 1: butchering that. He wants to know who's going to start
Speaker 1: at corner this year. We do that a lot too. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: Brent Crimes. He just said corner. Okay, then I will
Speaker 1: elaborate on the question and ask who else. Oh boy? Alright,
Speaker 1: So let's run down the candidates. Ryan Smith is essentially
Speaker 1: the incumbent, having started the most games there last year. Uh.
Speaker 1: Vernon Hargraves is, in a sense somewhat of an incumbent himself.
Speaker 1: He started last season and played almost every defensive snap
Speaker 1: as a rookie two thousand and sixteen. Uh. He you know,
Speaker 1: he had the injury, the hamstring issues, and he had
Speaker 1: actually been moved into the slot role right before he
Speaker 1: got hurt and never came back from the hamstring injury.
Speaker 1: And they liked the look of him there. And he's
Speaker 1: been playing that a lot in the in the off
Speaker 1: season and we'll see if they continue with that. He
Speaker 1: looked like he was looking good in the slot now,
Speaker 1: Coach Cutter said early in the off season, and he
Speaker 1: was gonna get an opportunity Hard Graves that is to
Speaker 1: to compete for both inside and outside work. And that
Speaker 1: means he could, if it goes perfectly for him, start
Speaker 1: on the outside and base packages and then move into
Speaker 1: the slot and then you bring in Ryan Smith or
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis or m J. Stewart. One guy that looked
Speaker 1: really good in camp was Carlton Davis. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think m J. Stewart was a little slowed by injuries,
Speaker 1: but Carlton Davis got a lot of first team snaps,
Speaker 1: sprint crimes, wasn't in every practice, and there were some
Speaker 1: other guys that are banged up. Bryan Smith, I think
Speaker 1: it was banged up for a little while. So, uh,
Speaker 1: he got a lot of look, a lot of snaps
Speaker 1: with the first team and look good, so he'd be
Speaker 1: a prime candidate. Um boy, I'd just be guessing at
Speaker 1: this point. Maybe I'd say Vernon Harger's in the slot
Speaker 1: and Carlton Davis on the outside opposite Brent Crimes. But
Speaker 1: I also think that they're going to find a way
Speaker 1: to use probably most of those guys m J. Stewart
Speaker 1: and Davis and all the guys I mentioned somewhere or another,
Speaker 1: and they'll all be needed by the end of the season.
Speaker 1: It happens that way every year. I'm certain of it. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: we have a question from Russell here that I think
Speaker 1: is gonna be interesting how many times we're gonna our
Speaker 1: evolve our answer to this as we get to watch
Speaker 1: people out at practice a little bit more. He wants
Speaker 1: to know how JPP is going to get utilized on
Speaker 1: the D line, and I think that's the top pick
Speaker 1: that uh will be fun not only for him but everybody,
Speaker 1: because we heard Brinson Buckner really emphasizing that they're not
Speaker 1: a d end or a d tackle like they're a
Speaker 1: defensive lineman. That he was really emphasizing this idea that
Speaker 1: like Hey, don't think you're just one spot. And we
Speaker 1: saw some guys doing some things we didn't maybe expect
Speaker 1: to see a little bit in mini camps. Yeah, like
Speaker 1: Vinny Curry and some guys like that. Moving inside, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, I think the base answer is
Speaker 1: he'll probably be your starting left end. They want to
Speaker 1: have eight or nine guys active and guys that they
Speaker 1: like that they'll be shuffling in and out a lot.
Speaker 1: They want a dep rotation to keep everybody fresh, like
Speaker 1: Philadelphia did very effectively last year, And so that means
Speaker 1: a guy like Jpp, who played more snaps than any
Speaker 1: defensive lineman in the league last year, may not get
Speaker 1: quite as many snaps as he did last year. But
Speaker 1: I still think he's going to be a guy that's
Speaker 1: on the field as much as anybody in terms of
Speaker 1: all those guys in rotation. So I think he's he's
Speaker 1: starting left end. I don't really know if they have
Speaker 1: plans from on the inside yet, but at the very least,
Speaker 1: he's like an every down type of left end. Was
Speaker 1: a good pass rusher but also stout against the run.
Speaker 1: So I would say starting left end and probably getting
Speaker 1: the most snaps of anybody set. Maybe jeral McCoy ken
Speaker 1: has a question that is, when we've talked about that,
Speaker 1: we're going to be interested to see. Um, we've talked
Speaker 1: about the idea of how UH coach is going to
Speaker 1: deploy the quarterbacks in pre season, knowing that you have
Speaker 1: to prepare two of them. Ken asked specifically about how
Speaker 1: you think that's going to go in practice in terms
Speaker 1: of who takes snaps with first, first, second team and
Speaker 1: how often. Well, again, if you were if you were
Speaker 1: writing down, you know, what are the big questions of
Speaker 1: training camp going into it that we're going to see
Speaker 1: the answers to that would be one of them. But
Speaker 1: I don't think we can give you the exact answer
Speaker 1: on that yet, and we will have a better feel
Speaker 1: for it a week from now. But I do think
Speaker 1: you're going to have to have more of a split
Speaker 1: between Jameis Winston and I suppose right now that the
Speaker 1: other obvious choices, Ryan Fitzpatrick, more so than you would
Speaker 1: normally have. They're going to have to share the first
Speaker 1: team snaps a little bit more because, as we said before,
Speaker 1: if say it's Ryan Fitzpatrick, I don't mean to discount
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin, but just say it's Ryan Fitzpatrick who was
Speaker 1: going to be in the first three games while Jamis
Speaker 1: is an unavailable. Um, you obviously have to prepare him.
Speaker 1: He's gotta be ready to go for day one. But
Speaker 1: Jamis can practice and playing the preseason games and you
Speaker 1: can practice in training camp, but he can't be with
Speaker 1: the team during those three weeks. So if you're going
Speaker 1: to get him prepared for to come back shortly after
Speaker 1: his suspension is over, then you have to prepare him
Speaker 1: in camp in the preseason. You can't wait. So the
Speaker 1: and the other interesting half of that question is exactly
Speaker 1: how the transition will go when Jamis does come back.
Speaker 1: You know that there's three weeks and then there's a
Speaker 1: game in Chicago which he would be eligible to return four,
Speaker 1: and then there's a bye week. So how do you
Speaker 1: work that you know who starts game four? Um? And
Speaker 1: that's a question is gonna be asked of Core repeatedly. Yes, UM,
Speaker 1: we partially answered this, but I figured if if he's asking,
Speaker 1: there's probably some other people wondering as well. That Greg
Speaker 1: wanted to know if Jamis is able to practice even
Speaker 1: though he's suspended for three games, and what about preseason
Speaker 1: can you play? And so what are the rules with
Speaker 1: suspension in terms of preseason? And then once the suspension,
Speaker 1: that's what just can he can practice and playing the
Speaker 1: preseason games without limitation once you get to the first
Speaker 1: regular season week leading up to it, So it would
Speaker 1: be like Monday of that week, not you know, he
Speaker 1: can't practice all the week leading up to game one
Speaker 1: and he's he can't. Guys that are suspended can't be
Speaker 1: at the facility working with the team, so he won't
Speaker 1: be able to practice then. And that's why we were
Speaker 1: saying it makes for a more difficult task and preparing
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks for the start of the season. Uh Sebastian said,
Speaker 1: is there a chance the Bucks get in the safety
Speaker 1: market there are still a few left? Is that really necessary?
Speaker 1: I mean we've we've been talking, We've keeping asked who's
Speaker 1: going to start, because there seemed to be a good
Speaker 1: at least four candidates to start, just like last year.
Speaker 1: Um So I'm not sure that's particularly necessary. I would
Speaker 1: be surprised. I mean, we spent a draft pick on
Speaker 1: one and we spent a second round draft pick on
Speaker 1: another one. It would seem to me you're trying to
Speaker 1: form your starting safety duel in the long run. I'm
Speaker 1: not discounting guys like Chris Conti and Keith Handy, but
Speaker 1: you know, Jordan Whitehead and and Justin Evans would seem
Speaker 1: like your long term answer there. And you've got good
Speaker 1: depth as well. Uh so you know, we did just
Speaker 1: sign a rookie safety to sort of round out the
Speaker 1: depth chart, so I would be surprised if that happened.
Speaker 1: All right, well, that's gonna do it for us here
Speaker 1: in Buccaneers. Inside all, I wanted to let everyone know
Speaker 1: we will be doing live shows during several of the
Speaker 1: training camp practices. They're going to be doing the ones
Speaker 1: that they have pads on so that there's definitely some action,
Speaker 1: and they're gonna be longer shows than this. We're kind
Speaker 1: of alternating. Some of them are going to be around
Speaker 1: twenty to thirty minutes, some of them more like forty five.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and occasionally have a guest on with us,
Speaker 1: and also we're continuing what we do here where we
Speaker 1: take your questions, so you're gonna be able to see
Speaker 1: a little bit of the training camp action behind us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna try and pan over a few times there
Speaker 1: are some restrictions about what we can and can't show,
Speaker 1: but for some the times that you can't make it
Speaker 1: out to practice, you'll at least get to see a
Speaker 1: little bit of the action going on with us, and
Speaker 1: so they can ask us what's going on, any general
Speaker 1: questions of what's happening. So, yeah, this is gonna be
Speaker 1: We're doing a little bit differently this year. If you
Speaker 1: watching years past, it was always kind of before practice started,
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit at the beginning, but now it's
Speaker 1: some of the some of them are gonna be inside
Speaker 1: and outside. You'll get a little bit of an idea
Speaker 1: of what the indoor looks like. Yes, we will, definitely,
Speaker 1: you'll you'll get to watch us just suffering out there
Speaker 1: as much as we talked about we're not allowed to
Speaker 1: complain compared to the players. Yeah, that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for us this week. Make sure you tune back in
Speaker 1: for all of the live shows we're doing during training
Speaker 1: camp and have a great rest of your week.