WEBVTT - Free Agency Signings & Breaking Down Cap Space | Bucs Insider 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.240 Welcome to Buccaneers inside of Live presented by Miller like 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.719 Casey Phillips and Scott Smith here. And we are a 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:12.680 little bit later than normal doing this because we wanted 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.000 to make sure we've got a chance to check out 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:18.840 the press conference with Shack Barrett. Uh if you guys 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:20.239 didn't get a chance to see that, it will be 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.759 up on the Buccaneers Facebook page and website. But it 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:26.279 was announcing the good news Shack Barrett is back. Uh 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.360 So at first, I just wanted to get your reaction 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:31.040 that while we give people chance to submit their questions 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:33.839 underneath the Facebook Live video they have for us, we 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.720 now know that that Shack is back, which is so exciting. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.360 And tell me your thoughts on how they were able 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.640 to get this done well. It helped to have both 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.960 sides being very very motivated. Um, Shack actually made that 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.600 clear all along. He made the clear as recently as 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.960 far back as last year before we got the franchise tag. 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.120 He was very motivated to be here. So they just 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.479 had to get the numbers right and they found a 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:55.800 way to do that, which hasn't been easy this year. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:57.639 You know, the all the efforts to bring all these 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:00.480 guys back, which are still ongoing and involve a lot 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:04.160 of working around a tough salary cap situation because the 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.960 salary cap went down this year, which nobody anticipated a 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.080 year ago. So um, it helps. I think that he 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.160 really really wanted to come back here, and he stressed 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:14.520 that again. He said there's nowhere else he really wanted 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:16.640 to be. He was really focused on coming back here. 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.560 And uh. He also said one thing that I liked 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:21.560 is he says he feels like he can play a 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:23.039 lot better than he did last year, and he was 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.319 really good last year. He says his issue is he 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:28.320 needs to be a dominant player game to game. He 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.039 needs more consistency and and you know, I mean, I 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.200 know as Sax went down from nineteen point five, which 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.080 is incredible to eight, but he was still third in 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.319 the league in quarterback pressures and you know you saw 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.200 him in the Super Bowl. He was all over the place. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:42.279 So um, if you can get more of that almost 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:43.920 every game from Shack Barrett, and this is going to 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:47.040 be a contract that is well well worth it. Absolutely. 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.880 And also since our last show, we had last show 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:53.120 been able to talk about some rumors about Lavonte David, 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.280 but he had not officially signed, so we hadn't gotten 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.560 to really dive into that last week. Uh take us 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.200 through similar things of his resigning, what they really to 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:02.320 do there with his contract and what him coming back 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:04.920 beats well. I love it. I mean, you could argue 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.960 and argue and it'd be a fun argument about which 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.000 was the most important player for the Buccaneers to get back. 0:02:09.040 --> 0:02:11.520 Was that Chris Godden was a check bet was Levante 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.040 David And reasonable minds can disagree, But I can tell 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.600 you from the from the satisfaction standpoint of us being 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:19.200 able to bring one of those guys back, I don't 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.280 think it was gonna get any higher than Levante David, 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:23.680 just because he has now established himself as one of 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.040 the greatest players and also one of the most well 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.040 respected players in the history of this franchise. I noted 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.680 when we signed him that now, since he's played nine seasons, 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:33.880 he's gonna go. He's gonna finish at least a decade 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.880 with the Buccaneers, and he'll on maybe the fourteenth guy 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:37.639 to do that. I mean, that makes him one of 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:39.400 the pillars of this team up there with the likes 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.080 of the Derek Brooks's and John Lynch's and the Warren 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.280 SAPs and Rodney Barber's and all that. He's sort of 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.040 the new generation of that. You know, ten fifteen years 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.640 from now, we'll be looking at him the way we 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.400 look at say, Randee Barber, Derek Brooks, and um, I 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:52.720 think he's got a lot of good years left in 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.040 him and I'm just I'm absolutely thrilled that he's coming back. Yeah. Absolutely, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.360 And uh, Mitchell had asked where are we at on 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.200 cap space? That is the big question of this whole 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.519 time of year, and it has been fascinating this year. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:07.799 We mentioned earlier about how the cap shrunk and that's 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.320 not something that typically happens, and how when you're planning 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.320 all these contracts you don't originally think that's going to happen. 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.640 So take us through some of things that the front 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:18.400 office has done to make sure you're able to bring 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.880 back as many of these guys as possible under the 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.359 cap and where we stand at this point. Yeah, As 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:27.480 you know, the Bucks don't really ever publicly talk about 0:03:27.480 --> 0:03:29.840 the dollars in a contract or where they are in 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.880 the cap, but there are plenty of sources online like 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.240 over the cap dot com or spot track where you 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.640 can get a good idea of where every team stands 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:39.280 in cap space, and I happen to be looking at 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.920 one of those earlier today and they're probably, if not accurate, 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.840 pretty close to it. And they had us right now 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:48.120 at nine point six million remaining under the cap. But 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:50.840 it's really not You shouldn't key in too much on 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:52.800 that number, because if the Bucks need to create more 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:54.480 cap space, they will find a way to do it 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.280 if they have, you know, a good deal in place 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.400 for one of the players that they want to bring back, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:01.080 and so you know, there are ways to do that, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:02.600 and we've seen that, and really that's sort of been 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.640 the story of this free agency period and lead up 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.120 to it for the Buccaneers this year. Uh you know, 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.200 I think most Pew fans know by now that for 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:12.280 about a decade now, the Bucks have been really focusing 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.680 on what you might call pay as you go contracts, 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.640 where it's almost all salary and so the cap hit 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:21.760 is very uniform across the contract, and if you have 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:24.279 gotten past guaranteed money, it's easy to get out of 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.920 it without hurting yourself on the cap. So it retains 0:04:26.920 --> 0:04:29.560 a lot of flexibility. But Jason light set in February 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:31.719 that you do that so that when you get to 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.919 a point where you think you can win multiple championships, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.480 you can then get more creative with your contracts to 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.720 try to keep the gang together. And Shack was saying 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:41.919 today that after he won his Super Bowl in Denver 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.400 that they weren't able to do that. They couldn't bring 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.159 back some free agents. They had to cut some guys. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.159 The Buccaneers are now employing some of these other strategies 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:53.120 like backloading contracts in avoidable years and signing bonuses that 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.560 spread out the cap hit over the course of the 0:04:55.560 --> 0:04:58.239 contract in order to make these contracts have a lower 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:01.159 cap hit right now, so that keep all of these guys, 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.880 and that means you'll have to deal with it in 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:04.960 the future, but teams do that all the time, and 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.200 everybody expects the salary cap to go up in the 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:09.720 years to come, especially when the new broadcast deals are signed, 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:11.280 it could go up a lot. So it really is 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.120 a good strategy for the Bucks to do right now, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.800 and they're doing it in order to try to keep 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:18.560 this core intact. Okay, and uh Francisco asked, do you 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:20.640 think we will get a quarterback in the draft, and 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.400 If so, who would you go for. Well, here's what 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.839 I would say about the Bucks and a quarterback, and 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.120 it's kind of similar to what they said last year. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.000 I don't think the Buckners are going to go into 0:05:31.040 --> 0:05:33.320 this draft with the notion that we have to come 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:35.159 out of this with a quarterback. And I certainly don't 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.880 think they're going to use their first round pick, which is, 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.320 you know, so late it probably wouldn't work anyway to 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.359 take what they think as the quarterback in the future 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:45.840 after Tom Brady. I think it's a matter of the opportunity. 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.960 If the pick and the player uh line up well, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.800 you know, third round, fourth round, fifth round, whatever, then 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.719 they do it. And and there's probably the fact that 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.920 this team is so loaded and then we're getting a 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.679 lot of these guys back actually helps with that because, 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.200 as Jason light said, if you go into that draft 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.520 without really glaring needs anywhere on the depth chart, you 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:09.080 can make some luxury picks, and maybe a luxury pick 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.720 is a quarterback that you could you could try to 0:06:10.800 --> 0:06:12.440 develop over the next couple of years. But with Tom 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:16.599 Brady signed at least through UM, this guy, anybody that 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:18.280 we bring in isn't going to start for a couple 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:21.400 of years, yeah, which could always be nice that developmental guide. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.960 And related to that, Charles had asked what you think 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:27.159 about the QB situation overall, including guys like Gabert and Griffin, 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.479 if there was a quarterback in the draft of potential 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:32.839 free agent any of those options of what you think 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.640 this room could look like next year and how similar 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.719 will look to how the room looked last year. I 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:40.360 think that um, Bruce Arians would prefer at this point 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:42.320 where the Bucks are right now with Tom Brady and 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.320 committed to him for at least two more seasons, what 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:46.560 they would probably like to have right behind him is 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:50.280 an experience veteran like they've had with Blaine Gabbert. Blame 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.080 was hurt two years ago, but last year he was 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.960 your your main backup the entire season. Didn't end up 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:56.600 needing him really that he played the second half in 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.760 Detroit because we were blowing them away. But um, I 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:02.240 think that Bruce Arians has trusted him. He's played in 0:07:02.240 --> 0:07:07.040 his system, and he's won games as a starter for him, 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:09.320 So to me, that would seem like plan A. Of course, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.360 he's an unrestricted free agent right now, so we'll see. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.240 But I tend to think even if you bring on 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:15.760 a rookie, they're gonna want to veteran behind Tom Brady 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:17.280 and then they're one gonna want to hope they never 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.080 have to use them. Okay, And Richard said, what do 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.720 you think is the higher draft priority running back, d 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.400 line or edge rush rotation. Well, it became less of 0:07:26.400 --> 0:07:29.000 a priority at edge rush now that we resigned Shack Barrett. 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.920 But I think you always can add guys at that position, um, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.960 just to get depth into to plan for the future. 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:37.800 So I could still see us taking an edge guy 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.160 at thirty two if there's one we really like there. Um. 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.040 I don't think running back is necessarily a huge need, 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.680 but again that could be a luxury pick. If you 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.480 love say Travis et n and he's there at thirty two, um, 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.080 and you don't really have a glaring need you have 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:52.960 to dress, you could do that. But of those three 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.400 he mentioned, I would think defensive line has to be 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.880 the answer at the moment because you have three players 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:00.200 right now who are still unrestricted for agents. Hope we 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:01.840 can get some are all of them back, But that's 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.280 in Dominican Sue and Nacho and Steve McClendon. So just 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:07.240 simply by the numbers, that seems like the biggest need 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.720 um we have, of course, a few different questions about 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:14.800 the upcoming um potential free agencies are still unsigned, of 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:16.640 how many guys those are left, you know, kind of 0:08:16.640 --> 0:08:19.080 give us an update on who is is still left 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:22.200 to either be signed or to be losing in free agency, 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.760 and what you think some of those next moves could be. Yeah, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:26.600 we've seen some rumors that that give us a little 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:28.040 bit of confidence we're gonna get some more of those 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:29.840 guys back. But I think the key ones right now 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:34.120 are in Dominican Sue. Obviously Rob Gronkowski, the kicker. I 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:35.839 think we tend to forget that Ryan suck Up had 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:37.880 such an amazing year, and when you're talking about your 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.400 Chris Godwin's and your Lavante David, you you don't immediately 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.640 think of the kicker. But Ryan Suckup was great last 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.160 year and he's a free agent. Um Antonio Brown, uh, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.120 the the defensive lignement that I mentioned in addition to 0:08:48.200 --> 0:08:50.720 in Dominan Sue. Those and then of course, like we 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.200 were just talking about both of our backup quarterbacks playing 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:55.199 Gabbett and Ryan Griffin. So there's still could be a 0:08:55.240 --> 0:08:57.160 lot of work to do, and there still could be 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.839 some significant losses, but I think we're off to a 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:01.760 start and I've got some confidence we'll get a couple 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.640 more guys back. All right, Well, that is going to 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.640 do it for us on Buccaneers Inside our Live presented 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.000 by Miller Lite. Thinks there's always for those amazing questions 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:14.120 and we'll see you next week. M h.