WEBVTT - Breaking Down the Offensive Strength in 2020 | Bucs Insider 0:00:11.360 --> 0:00:14.760 Welcome into Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller like Casey 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.000 Phillips and Scott Smith here, and this is where we 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:20.840 take all of your questions, thoughts, comments, anything you want 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:23.720 us to discuss about your Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:25.880 the chance. So if you're watching on Facebook, make sure 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.640 you headed that comment section underneath the live video. That's 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.400 where I will get your questions from. So as we 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:33.680 give people a chance to start submitting some of those questions. 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:36.320 I know we talked about the schedule and a special 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.960 Insider Live that happened right as it was released last week, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:41.920 but we haven't in this form gotten a chance to 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.760 talk about it yet. So now that you've had even 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.080 more time, because that was like immediately after it was released, 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:47.440 Now that you've had a little bit more time to 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.600 digest it, look at all the ins and out and 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.040 nuances of it. Are there any things that have stood 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:53.600 out to you that are a little bit different or 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.319 unique since then? First of all, it's good to see 0:00:56.360 --> 0:00:59.720 again Casey. Uh. It's nice to have some outside contact 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.959 at least once a week, right exactly, That's really all 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:07.280 we're doing the show At this point, he was saying yeah, 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.600 you know, um, I did a pros and cons article 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:14.280 this week on the schedule, and obviously you're nitpicking a 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:17.080 little bit when you try to bring up cons because 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.800 having five prime time, nationally televised games is just incredible. 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.280 It's just an indication of how interesting this team has 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.640 become through this offseason with additions like Tom Brady and 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:31.480 Rob Gronkowski and and you know, you've heard our players 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:37.240 talk about how the the all that attention obviously maybe 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.640 spurred by the addition of Tom Brady, but it's gonna 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.399 bring some much deserved recognition for some of our players 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.400 who probably have been undervalued for a long time. Vante 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:48.840 David's name has brought up a lot. I think Da 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:51.440 Vita by I probably had a much better last year 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:53.880 than a lot of fans realized guys like that. So 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:57.320 that's good. But you know, if we're nitpicking, Uh, something 0:01:57.320 --> 0:02:00.280 that I wrote about and that you about before came 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:04.400 on here the bucks because mostly because of those primetime games, 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.960 there is a little bit bit of imbalance in terms 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:10.639 of what you'd call um net days off I think 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.040 is probably the way to put it. So to make 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.960 one example, to make the obvious example if you play, 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.919 I guess a team who just came off a bye week. Obviously, 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.320 that team had seven more days to to prepare and 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:26.520 or rest up for that game. And that's a fact 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:28.800 of life in the NFL. It generally happens to you 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:30.840 from time to time. But the Buccaneers are really high 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:34.320 this year. Uh In in games like that, in net 0:02:34.360 --> 0:02:37.440 days off, we play at least two teams coming up buys. 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.639 Even when we have the Thursday night game in Chicago, 0:02:40.760 --> 0:02:43.280 which is what we usually call mini by because you 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:46.200 get that weekend off before the next game as a 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.560 reward for that short week leading up to the Thursday game, 0:02:49.240 --> 0:02:52.080 even that is an advantage, is not an advantage because 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:53.920 the next game is against Green Bay and they'll be 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:57.079 coming off a real buy, So even that mini buy 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:00.239 isn't an advantage that week. So yeah, we're nitpicking there, 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:05.120 but you know, there there are there's there's downsides. I 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.400 guess you would say to having all this attention and 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:10.399 all these uh national games and that's it. But it's 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:13.160 a good problem to have, obviously, Yeah, I would agree 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.040 with that, um And then I know this time of 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.560 years also when we would be finding out about a 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.720 lot of potential rule changes, things that are going to 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.480 be voted on. Um, I know because of COVID in 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:26.920 the situation that we might not have all the clarity 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.800 on that that we normally would because some of these 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.840 owners meetings being pushed back and you know, the times 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.400 that we would we find out. But what do we 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.080 know as of now about that and what are we 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.600 still kind of waiting to find out? Yeah, I think 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:40.560 the very first thing that you and I had canceled 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.880 that we were supposed to go to was the owners 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.080 meetings in late March, and uh, I think they call 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.480 it the NFL Annual Meeting, but everybody calls it the 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:52.240 owners meetings, and that's often where the first round of 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.640 rule change discussions are made, and sometimes they do past 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:58.240 rules there. You remember a year ago we were at 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.320 those meetings and uh, they went a little extra long 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.960 to get that passe interferres replay rule installed, And like 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:10.160 most rules, it was a one year trial, and most 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.800 one year trials, say, for instance, the recent changes to 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:18.840 the kickoff are then the following year renewed as a 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:22.320 permanent rule. And uh, I'm sure that's probably what they 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.120 expected when they when they instituted that new rule for 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.160 pastor and French replay last year, and yet this is 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.839 the rare instance where it's already been stated by the 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.640 Competition Committee that that rule is not going to be renewed, 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.880 and we can talk about it here a little casey. 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.719 But I think I I'm pleased by that, and I 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.480 think it it follows what we've been saying all of 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.960 last year and in the off season. Don't you think, yeah, 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:47.920 I would agree with that. I think that, Um, there 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.080 were so many times it was so frustrating, even when 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.640 it wasn't your team, like even outside of Buckingeer's games, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:53.800 you know, of course that's when we would be the 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.160 most frustrated was when it affected the books. But it 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.719 really did seem lead wide like this just caused more 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:02.520 issue choose and more drama and more questioning than it 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.600 did solve things. And um, so I really do have 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:07.760 to commend them for being like, all right, well we 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.640 tried and it didn't seem like that worked out. Well yeah, 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.680 and that's not just you saying that. Now. You've told 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.680 me that before, and I think I've told you before 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.120 maybe we've e been talked about it on one of 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.840 these shows. To me, what it came down to, was 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.880 that rule made me sort of change my mind a 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:27.240 little bit on whether I thought replay overall was necessary 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:30.640 in the game. And when it comes down to for me, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:34.240 is it's frustrating when you're watching a game and your 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.479 team is hurt by what you think is a bad 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.480 call or non call on a past inference play. It sucks. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.839 You know, you hate it. It's frustrating. But I found 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.960 it at least doubly frustrating, if not many magnitudes more 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.720 last year. When you thought your team got messed with 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.520 by a bad call or non call, and then it 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.280 was challenged, and then you saw the replays and you thought, well, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.640 I'm right, this proves it right, and then they still 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.880 didn't overturn it, it was way more frustrating. So I, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.360 for one, I'm glad that this rule is gone. They're 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.560 talking about trying to come up with ways to combat 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.720 the problem, and basically the problem is that one play 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.880 in the Rams Saints game in the playoffs two years ago. 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:14.520 They're talking about ways to try to avoid that happening again. 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.720 I don't know how they're gonna be able to do that, though, 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:18.760 because it's a subjective thing, and I think you just 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.800 have to live with it. Yeah, I mean I think 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:22.359 that sounds like the true answer is that you and 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:24.000 I should be in charge of the replay and then 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:28.240 everything is fixed, and then everything will be five judge 0:06:28.240 --> 0:06:30.760 if you know, I'll be that sky judge. Yeah, where 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.640 the fans don't know who you are in case they're 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.400 mad at you. Yeah. I probably shouldn't do Bucks games though. 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:41.520 That's that's project quite unbiased. That's a good point, Okay. Um, 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:44.120 we had a question from Mike who asked, do you 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.160 think that there's a likely extension for Godwin or because 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:50.120 we're up against the cap that might not work. No. 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.880 I would absolutely think that that's a priority. Um. When 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:57.080 they talked about this earlier in the offseason, Bruce arians 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.479 Jason made it clear that that's a priority, but also 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.320 made it clear or that it's not something that had 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:04.200 to get done right away, like tagging Shack Barry had 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:06.680 to get done right away, and resigning and Dominican SU 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:11.560 and JPP had to get done right away. Resigning Chris 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.200 Godwin didn't have to be done. It could be done 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.080 in August, it could be done in September. I think 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:19.680 if I recall wasn't your coin might have been September 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.120 October of the year leading up to his free agency 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.200 um and Lavante David might have been in August. I think, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:29.600 and you know, you priority you you identify guys that 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.600 are priorities to keep, and you make an effort to 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.960 keep him. And I think both sides here want that 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.240 to happen. So I think it'll get done. And I 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:38.480 know I sound like a broken record when it comes 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.040 to this up against the cap thing. If the Bucks 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.520 need to create some cap space, they will find a 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.680 way to make it happen. Yeah, if you look at 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.440 the raw numbers, they're in the lower level now because 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.000 of all the moves that we've made. But they'll find 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.120 a way to make the money there. And you also 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.080 have to consider that lots of times the cap hit 0:07:57.520 --> 0:08:00.520 isn't necessarily as terrible for that very year you're talking 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.400 about right then. In fact, sometimes an extension can relieve 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.240 your cap hit from that year, depending on how it's structured. 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:08.520 And we don't I don't have the numbers in front 0:08:08.560 --> 0:08:11.040 of me, but last year, I remember everybody talking about 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.600 how bad our cap situation was and how are we 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:15.600 going to be able to do stuff the following off season, 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.840 this offseason, and I said, just go look at the 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.200 cap numbers. For there's a lot of contracts potentially coming 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.560 off the books, so your cap space for one, I 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:25.840 don't know what. Off the top of my head, I 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:27.720 wish I was prepared with that, but I'm not. But 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:30.800 it doesn't it's not necessarily as tight as it as 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.800 it is right now. Yeah, that's a that's a great point. Um. 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.520 And Everett asked, are we still eyeing any other potential 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:39.480 free agents or do we think that we're done with that? 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.240 You know, I kind of don't think so. And I 0:08:42.240 --> 0:08:45.240 guess this will sound a little contradictory to my last answer, 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:47.319 but there isn't a lot of cap space at the moment. 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.679 You do have to sign all of your draft picks. 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.080 You might be worried about Chris Godwin extension, and there's 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.000 been so much done already, and there's not really huge 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.079 glaring holes on the roster, and there's not a lot 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.679 of great free agents left out there. So for all 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:03.760 those reasons, I just don't think so. I know we've 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.400 got in dominckin Sue at about this time last year, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.200 but I think that was kind of a special situation 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.360 because it was right after we had released Jeral McCoy. So, 0:09:12.400 --> 0:09:14.040 you know, I don't think there's a big sign There's 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.760 always some signings, but there's not a lot of big 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:19.240 signings between now and training camp, and I think this 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.640 is a year where there won't be one. Yeah, and 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.319 this is sort of related to that. But Jamir had asked, 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.120 are we set at running back or do you see 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.760 a signing of that? No. I think we're set um, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.520 you know, because they do like Ronald Jones and obviously 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:36.280 they drafted keyshaw On Vaughan with the UH with the 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:39.160 idea of making him pretty prominent in the in the offense. 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.040 I think you don't spend a third round pick on 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:43.440 running back if you don't think he's gonna play that year. 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.560 Some other positions you might wait a little bit, but 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.080 running backs generally step right in if they're you know, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.000 top day one or Day two picks. And they really 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.200 liked what Ronald Jones did last year. I think that's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:56.679 a good complimentary group. And you know, when you hear 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:58.920 Bruce arians talk about it, he always brings up Dario 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.480 Goombaali and Taj Logan too. So I don't see a 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:05.320 veteran addition there. And again, I think I've said it 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:10.240 before when you've got basically a position that you don't 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.200 necessarily a lot of teams don't want to put a 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.360 whole lot of their cap space into because it's a 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:16.920 fungible asset and there's a lot of turnover there, a 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:19.679 lot of shorter careers. You've got two guys that are 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.800 on rookie contracts. I don't think there's a there's necessarily 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.160 a good idea there to add a big contract for 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.800 a veteran. Okay, And this is an interesting question from Jack. 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.560 He said, how different will the Saints games be from 0:10:32.600 --> 0:10:35.920 Week one to Week nine? Mm? Hm, Well, I mean 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.679 the thing we can't know there is which players might 0:10:38.720 --> 0:10:42.440 be injured. Um between those two games just a couple 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:45.440 of years ago, there's a big difference when we played 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.480 New Orleans a Week one and later in the season 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:50.080 because Jameis Winston was on the suspension. So you had 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.320 Ryan Fitzpatrick in that first game, that forty forty shootout, 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.120 and then Jameis Winston in the second one. Uh So 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:57.960 you can't know for sure if you don't know for 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.839 one reason or another, if a player is not available. 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.480 But I think in this particular case, the chances are 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.240 higher that the Buccaneers will be look different between weeks 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.560 one and nine than the Saints. The Saints come back 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.719 mostly intact. I think they're gonna have one change on 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.959 their offensive line. They added Emmanuel Standards, but that should 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.040 phase in their pretty easily. Whereas the Buccaneers are introducing 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:24.400 a new quarterback. So you know, you, you know, we 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.440 all think Tom Brady will step right in and be awesome, 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:29.120 but it makes sense that he'll be more comfortable in 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.680 the offense in week nine than week one. Yeah, that's 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:33.400 very true. Um, And we talked a little bit about 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.560 running back already, but Jericho had asked how likely or 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.080 possible is it that Vaughan could end up getting the 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.640 starting nod over Rojoe. I. I really don't think that's 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:45.559 gonna happen, at least at the beginning of the season. Um. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.679 Like I said, they liked what Rojo did. Um, there 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.880 were a number of plays last year, as long as 0:11:51.960 --> 0:11:53.880 plays that were called back, that would have made the 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:56.360 stats look even better. Um. I'm sure a lot of 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.040 players can say that, but still that's the way they 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:02.920 feel about him. Uh. I think there there really is 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.200 no reason why you would take the rookie third rounder 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.520 and making the starter right away over your your incoming 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.160 third year back unless you didn't like that guy. And 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.280 I think they do like that guy, So you know, 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 I again, this is the second time I'm gonna say it. 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.719 I sound like a broken record here, but I think 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:22.240 it's all that critical which guy's name the starter. Ronald 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:24.600 Jones wasn't the starter for the first seven games last year, 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.200 but you're certainly playing at least as much as right. Yeah, 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.240 that's true. This is an interesting question, Mike said, with 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:33.960 teams not really paying running backs, are most teams just 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.640 planning a draft one every year in the second or 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.280 third round and not planned to pay a second contract? 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:42.000 And do you see other positions that teams might use 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.280 this philosophy. Well, that is a really good question. And 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.440 I don't know about every year, but maybe every couple 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.800 of years. That's certainly what the Buccaneers have just done. Um. 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.160 And you sometimes find guys that help you out even 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.960 in undrafted free agency, like Peyton barber Um. And really 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.280 the history of the last maybe five six years of 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:04.880 running backs getting second big contracts like for instance, Carolina 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:08.079 just gave Christian McCaffrey a huge contract. I think that's 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:11.280 pretty understandable given how important he is to their offense, 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.560 and he's sort of like the new face to the 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:18.480 franchise now that um Cam Newton and Luke Keikley are gone. 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:22.000 It's kind of understandable there. But Todd Gurley, Derek McKinnon, 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:26.160 Davante Freeman, Uh, these guys getting these second contracts, it 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.240 just seems to more often than not not really pay 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:31.199 off in the long run. So I don't think that 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.440 the Buccaneers draft a key shan Von thinking he's gonna 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.679 be gone in five years. Certainly not. They hope he's 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:38.960 awesome and they have a reason to pay him again 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:42.120 in five years. Uh. But I think there probably is 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:46.160 a realization that that is more commonly a position that 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.719 doesn't get a big second contract. So that concept makes 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:51.560 a lot of sense to me. Doesn't apply to any 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:55.160 other positions, not off the top of my head now, 0:13:55.200 --> 0:13:57.959 I don't think so. It's just that running back in particular, 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:00.920 their their careers are generally so short and they're replaced 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.560 a lot. And you know, I don't want to say 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.640 that in in you know, to make any anyone feel 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.040 bad about Ronald Jones Rakisha on vain again, we hope 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.319 those guys around for a long time. Just history suggest 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.040 that if you're talking about the league as a whole, 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:17.000 there is so much turnover there. Yeah. Yeah, it's such 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.760 a unique position in that way. Um, yes it was. 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:23.360 I thought that was very unique. Um Todd asked, are 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.359 they talking to Barrett still about a long term contract 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:27.840 or do we think they're just going to do the 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:31.120 one year deal in the franchise TAG? Yeah, and that's 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:33.400 the kind of thing that both sides are obviously keeping quiet. 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:36.280 I would guess that they're talking about to them about 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:39.320 a long term contract. Um, doesn't mean it's gonna happen. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.800 I did a story like several months it's hard to 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.640 keep track of time these days, but weeks and weeks 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:47.120 ago about what has happened to all the people that 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:50.480 have been franchised TAG, and it's about fifty fifty whether 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.640 they end up remaining with the team or a past 0:14:53.760 --> 0:14:57.160 that first year. So there's certainly reason to question whether 0:14:57.240 --> 0:14:59.080 or not it will be more than a one term, 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.760 one year deal. But I think given the guy, I 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.800 love the guy, they think they got him at the 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.920 perfect time that you know, they put him in. They 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:09.280 took him from a spot whereas a rotational player, I 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:11.240 thought he could do more as a as a starter 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:12.920 and a you know a guy that gets like seventies 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:17.320 sevent That's exactly what happened. That's exactly what you're trying 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:20.920 to do in free agency. And uh and unfortunately it 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.640 was only a one year contract, so now you have 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:24.800 to pay up. But I think they liked the guy 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.240 and they believe that this was not, in any case 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:29.520 a flash in the pan. So I think it would 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.440 like to get a long term deal done. It doesn't 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.120 mean it will happen, but that would be my guess. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:38.440 John asked how many Titans do you think we'll keep? Well, 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:41.320 I think we'll probably have four on the roster. Um 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:44.800 a fifth one could force his way on there. It 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:48.640 just depends, obviously on positional needs and other spots. Uh. 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:52.320 You know, they we always we always talk about Rob 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.040 Gronkowski and O. J. Howard and Cam Brave for obvious reasons. 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:58.400 Those are the guys that between them are gonna put 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:01.040 up the pass catching numbers. But Anton Claire is a 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:03.640 great blocker. They love his blocking in and most teams 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.320 have at least one tight end that they consider a 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.440 guy that's there for his great blocking, so I don't 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:12.280 see him going anywhere. So that looks like at least 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.520 forward to me. And we haven't even talked about Tayner Hudson, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.040 who's a young guy with a lot of potential, So 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:18.640 it's gonna be tight. If I had to guess, I 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:22.360 would say four, and sort of relate to that, I 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.240 think it's Rebin maybe. I asked, do you believe that 0:16:25.320 --> 0:16:28.040 Evans and Godwin could hit a thousand plus yards again 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.360 each this year? Since we also have three great tight ends? 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:37.640 And he's watching from Denmark? So that's fun Denmark, all right? Um, yeah, 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.360 I'm actually funny. I'm answering a mail back question about 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:41.800 that right now. I had to stop to do this 0:16:41.840 --> 0:16:46.960 awesome show instead. But um, you wonder people wonder about 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:49.320 there's only one football to go around, and we talked 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:52.080 about how this offense is so loaded with pass catchers 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:54.960 can all of them be satisfied? And UM, I won't 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:57.800 spoil my answer completely in the mail bag you have 0:16:57.920 --> 0:16:59.800 to go read it, but I think there's room for 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.760 both Evans and Godwin to pass a hundred yards and 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.720 still have um, I mean a thousand yards and still 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.639 have good numbers for Rob Gronkowski and at least or O. J. 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.679 Howard and at least one other guy, whether it be 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.600 the other tight end or a third receiver or running back, 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:16.520 which is something obviously that's featured prominently in Tom Brady 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:20.720 offenses recently. So, uh, do you think both those guys 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.159 made it easily past the thousand yards last year? And 0:17:23.200 --> 0:17:26.040 that's with Mike Evans missing the last three games and 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.520 most of the fourth game and Chris Godwin missing the 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.880 last two games and a portion of a third game, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.200 So they may not both end up they were both 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:34.960 on pace to get close to fifteen hundred yards. I 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.239 wouldn't expect that to happen, but I do think they 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.600 can both top a thousand and still have two or 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.280 maybe three other guys with a significant pasket. Okay, well 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.240 for us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Life presented 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.640 by Miller Life, Thanks for all of those awesome questions, 0:17:50.680 --> 0:17:52.840 and we will be right back here next week, so 0:17:52.880 --> 0:18:04.639 we'll see it then, he prefer m. M.