Speaker 1: Hey there, good morning, Bucks fans. It's time for Buccaneers.
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Speaker 1: was senior writer and editor Scott Smith, and it is
Speaker 1: our final one of these before the super Bowl. I
Speaker 1: also never get tired of saying the super Bowl, that's
Speaker 1: the thing that's happening in just two days. So this
Speaker 1: is your last chance to get your questions in for us.
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Speaker 1: video as we give people a chance to start doing that. Um,
Speaker 1: we figured, of course injuries and all of that that's
Speaker 1: always where we start. That's always the big storyline for everybody.
Speaker 1: And we did get an injury report again yesterday. Um
Speaker 1: there was some good news, some bad news, some things
Speaker 1: about it, so we figured we'd just go ahead and
Speaker 1: start there with what we know at this point. Well,
Speaker 1: the one player that made an improvement on the report
Speaker 1: was Antonio Brown, who went to full participation despite his
Speaker 1: knee injury that he's been dealing with for a few
Speaker 1: weeks now. So that's obviously very a good sign. I
Speaker 1: think at this point you can feel pretty optimistic that
Speaker 1: he will be available for the Super Bowl. Um. The
Speaker 1: three other guys that were limited, UM, Jordan Whitehead, Antoine Wentfield,
Speaker 1: and Lavonte David all remained limited. Coach said they ran
Speaker 1: around and looked good. So again, I'm feeling fairly optimistic
Speaker 1: about all of it. Um. The bad news, or at
Speaker 1: least the new thing on the injury report was Cam
Speaker 1: Brait was added the title with a back injury. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it'll be interesting today. We'll probably be the
Speaker 1: key day to see what his status is in practice,
Speaker 1: because sometimes when you see a player who was not
Speaker 1: on the injury report to begin the week added to
Speaker 1: the report as limited on the next day, it means
Speaker 1: he got hurt in practice, and the reason he's limited
Speaker 1: is because he was fine and he got hurt and
Speaker 1: he didn't finish practice, therefore he was limited. That is
Speaker 1: the case sometimes when you see this. So we'll have
Speaker 1: to see what it looks like today. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: we obviously have our fingers crossed, not only because the
Speaker 1: team needs cam Brad, who's had a fantastic playoff run
Speaker 1: so far, but just because we sure don't want him
Speaker 1: to miss this Super Bowl. That you know, He's one
Speaker 1: of these guys like Lavante and Mike Evans that have
Speaker 1: been around for here for a long time and have
Speaker 1: waited a long time for this day. Yeah. And we
Speaker 1: will be getting the final injury report today, correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's correct. That will actually have the game designations, and
Speaker 1: unlike last week, it will actually be about this game.
Speaker 1: It will mean something. It's compared to the one last
Speaker 1: week that didn't mean a whole lot. So, uh, stay
Speaker 1: tuned everybody for the injury report today that will have
Speaker 1: the whole questionable out you know, all that kindably about
Speaker 1: mid afternoon two or three something like that. Yes, Um.
Speaker 1: And also I know we had been asked a question
Speaker 1: earlier this week that we didn't know the answer to
Speaker 1: at the time, so, UM, I know you did a
Speaker 1: little bit of research and figured it out. We've had
Speaker 1: a few different people ask us where injured players will
Speaker 1: watch the game from and meeting guys especially like O. J. Howard,
Speaker 1: Alex Kappa, guys that you know are have been out
Speaker 1: and we're out in that kind of thing. Um, what
Speaker 1: did you find out about that? Yeah, I've been over
Speaker 1: to the stadium a few times, Um, since the season ended.
Speaker 1: While they were preparing the stadium for the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and they were building some thing in the south end
Speaker 1: zone opposite worthy Pirate ship is And at first I
Speaker 1: thought it was extra seats, but I guess I didn't
Speaker 1: really need extra seats this year. So it actually is
Speaker 1: two levels worth of improvised basically luxury suites or boxes
Speaker 1: booths I guess you'd call them. And one of those
Speaker 1: is going to be for the guys on injury Reserve,
Speaker 1: so they're gonna be there in that booth. So I
Speaker 1: think that's a pretty good deal that they're gonna be
Speaker 1: I was a little concerned that they might not be
Speaker 1: allowed to come to the stadium, So that's a good deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And uh, we had someone bring up the weather forecast.
Speaker 1: It had been saying rain was a chance. Now I
Speaker 1: feel like it looks like it's saying that's more earlier
Speaker 1: in the day and won't be an issue. But if
Speaker 1: rain became an issue, how do you feel like that
Speaker 1: would impact each team and who might either benefit from
Speaker 1: it or be harmed more by that. Who do you
Speaker 1: think that would favor. I'm not sure that would really
Speaker 1: favor anybody. Both these teams are are high powered passing teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there are the Chiefs and the Bucks are
Speaker 1: one two in passing yards this season. Um. They both
Speaker 1: have good kickers who have who are used to a
Speaker 1: lot of different conditions. Um, so it's it would be
Speaker 1: a negative effect on both teams, I would think, But
Speaker 1: I'm not sure it really favors one or the other.
Speaker 1: You know, normally you might think it's the Buccaneers because
Speaker 1: in a normal season, we play through a couple monsoons
Speaker 1: during the season here in Tampa. But it didn't really
Speaker 1: happen this time around. We've been pretty we've been pretty
Speaker 1: fortunate in terms of avoiding bad weather. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: mean I guess that Do you feel like that would
Speaker 1: be a situation where they would rely more on the
Speaker 1: run game if that were to happen, or do you
Speaker 1: think they would still just try to execute as well
Speaker 1: as they can in the rain but they're not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess it depends on the severity of
Speaker 1: the rain. If it's if it's not like an absolute
Speaker 1: torrential downpour, I don't think you really changed the game
Speaker 1: plan too much. If it is a game that forces
Speaker 1: you to put the ball on the ground. Um, maybe
Speaker 1: the Bucks have a bit of an advantage. Neither team
Speaker 1: was really among the leaders this year in rushing yards,
Speaker 1: but the Bucks running game has been pretty good during
Speaker 1: the playoffs, so um, you know, maybe they'd have a
Speaker 1: bit of an advantage. But I'm hoping we don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about this because I'd rather not have to
Speaker 1: deal with the rain in the Super Bowl. Yes, my
Speaker 1: press seat will be uncovered and outside, so I also
Speaker 1: would like to not do that as is mine. Yes,
Speaker 1: that will that will be not as fun. Jose asked
Speaker 1: what are some lessons learned from the game versus the
Speaker 1: Chiefs earlier this year. What do you think would be
Speaker 1: the one or two biggest things that they learned. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the I guess lessons is probably
Speaker 1: something that it will be hard for you or out
Speaker 1: of quantify. But I'm sure they have watched plenty of
Speaker 1: tape of the first half and um trying to devise
Speaker 1: the best ways to slow down Travis Hill, I mean
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Tyree Hill, which is a tough challenge
Speaker 1: for any team, but you know, tie bowls and those
Speaker 1: guys have been working at it and have a game
Speaker 1: plan they're confident in. Um, you know, other other than that.
Speaker 1: One of the lessons are basically, don't be bad on
Speaker 1: third down, on offense early on, and don't throw interceptions
Speaker 1: in the second half when you're when you're trying to
Speaker 1: make a comeback. I mean those are fairly obvious things
Speaker 1: that you can say but actually have to execute. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: this is an interesting question. Richard asked, who will you
Speaker 1: be happy for the most when the Bucks win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I like to win, and they're both wins wins. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably I don't know if there's one guy, but
Speaker 1: it's probably. It's all the guys. Lavonte David obviously comes
Speaker 1: to mind. Um, Mike Evans, those guys have been around
Speaker 1: for a long time. Will Golston. Probably Lavonte though, because
Speaker 1: you know he's the guy that Mike Evans is a
Speaker 1: phenomenal receiver that might end up in the Hall of Fame, right.
Speaker 1: But I I feel also like he's gotten a pretty
Speaker 1: good amount of attention and credit for how good he is,
Speaker 1: which is good. I'm glad that he has. We all
Speaker 1: know that Lavonte David has been perennially underrated and remains
Speaker 1: that way. So put those two things together. The fact
Speaker 1: that you want these guys have been around for a
Speaker 1: long time and been through the ups and downs and
Speaker 1: some hard seasons to have that. But then add in
Speaker 1: the fact that Lavonte David has been underappreciated and maybe
Speaker 1: this would help with that, I'd probably go with the linte.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you feel the same way. Yeah, that's literally
Speaker 1: almost word for word. But I was going to say
Speaker 1: I was gonna Vonte and Mike, and I would say,
Speaker 1: but Mike has definitely gotten more attention for other things. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that everyone on that team will be equally
Speaker 1: as excited. So this is not about who we think
Speaker 1: will value with the most. It's more just who we
Speaker 1: would be most excited for. And I agree that I
Speaker 1: want Lavonte to get more of that attention that he deserves.
Speaker 1: I kind of would like to be able to see, Um,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to do this though. That'd be pretty cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's insane, that's just that's ridiculous thing to think about.
Speaker 1: Curtis asked, do you think it will be better to
Speaker 1: jam wide receivers or play zone. I think it'd be
Speaker 1: better to mix it up. Um, And actually, this is
Speaker 1: gonna come as a surprise to probably most of the
Speaker 1: people out there. But I recently was reading some numbers,
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers coverage numbers. What they allowed was this
Speaker 1: entire season as a whole was actually better in zone
Speaker 1: than it was in man. And that's not what a
Speaker 1: lot of people are gonna want to hear, because I
Speaker 1: feel like everybody hates zone coverage because they hate to
Speaker 1: see a guy just run to a spot and make
Speaker 1: an easy catch, and like, why don't we just man
Speaker 1: these guys up? But you have to mix it up, right,
Speaker 1: You can't always play the same thing, And um, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna mix it up. Uh. I would suspect
Speaker 1: there's there'll be a pretty good dose of man. I
Speaker 1: think that they're going to probably do a lot of
Speaker 1: leaving the safeties over the top and and then letting
Speaker 1: these guys underneath play man just because it's they're gonna say,
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna were you got these great guys,
Speaker 1: we got these great defenders. We're gonna go man to
Speaker 1: man and see who wins. I would think that's part
Speaker 1: of the philosophy. And you sort of related to that.
Speaker 1: James asked, do you think we will blitz mahomes more
Speaker 1: than last game? Well, probably because we only blitz Mahomes
Speaker 1: of our snaps and if you know Todd Bowls, that
Speaker 1: is very uncharacteristic. Um. He that was the lowest blitz
Speaker 1: percentage we did against any team all season. But there's
Speaker 1: a reason for that, and I think I may have
Speaker 1: mentioned it a couple of times in these past few weeks. Um.
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes's numbers against the Blitz are sick. I mean,
Speaker 1: your base gale turning him into the best quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time if you blitz him, because his his pass
Speaker 1: rating career against the blitz is something like a hundred
Speaker 1: thirty five. It's just insane. Now, this is what you
Speaker 1: have to understand. There's a difference between Patrick Mahomes against
Speaker 1: the blitz and Patrick Mahomes against pressure. Against pressure, his
Speaker 1: numbers go down because he's an actual mortal human being,
Speaker 1: which is hard to believe. Um. So you if you
Speaker 1: can get pressure on him, that's a very good thing,
Speaker 1: just as it is against virtually every quarterback. The problem
Speaker 1: is not every blitz produces pressure, and not every pressure
Speaker 1: comes from blitz. So the best thing for the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: is if they would be able to consistently get pressure
Speaker 1: with the four man rush, which is what happened in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, and we saw how good those results were.
Speaker 1: You can't count on that, but I think that's what
Speaker 1: they'll try first, and if they have to go to
Speaker 1: a blitz them, I'll go to a blitz. But it's
Speaker 1: playing with fire to do that against Patrick Mahomes. Yes,
Speaker 1: for sure. UM Francisco asked if we get down early
Speaker 1: like we did last time, do you think we can
Speaker 1: rally back? Well, we have shown the ability to do
Speaker 1: so m a few times this year. The the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers game certainly comes to mind, the Atlanta game
Speaker 1: in particular in Atlanta. UM. The problem with doing that
Speaker 1: against Kansas City is you in order to make a
Speaker 1: comeback from what ten seventeen points down, you have to
Speaker 1: also stop them, and that's putting yourself behind the eight ball.
Speaker 1: If you're trying to come back, which the Bucks tried
Speaker 1: to do against the Chiefs last time. I think they're
Speaker 1: down seventeen nothing, maybe twenty three at one point, and
Speaker 1: they came back to within three points. But you just
Speaker 1: it's hard to keep them from continuing to add on
Speaker 1: to their score. So let's just not do that. You know,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers since that bye week, and other than the
Speaker 1: Atlanta game, I've done a much better job of starting
Speaker 1: off fast, you know, like last week in Green May
Speaker 1: went right down the field, scored on the opening drive,
Speaker 1: and headed I think lead at halftime. So, um, it's possible, obviously,
Speaker 1: but it's just really putting yourself in a hard spot
Speaker 1: if you're down double digits to this team. It is
Speaker 1: so interesting that Tom Brady has not scored touchdowns into
Speaker 1: for quarter of his Super Bowl weird flukey stat and
Speaker 1: it clearly has not kept him from winning the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: So we can at least have that as a sigh
Speaker 1: of relief if they do start a little slow, that
Speaker 1: he does seem to know how to win them without
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown in the first I probably should have
Speaker 1: factored in the fact that we have Tom Brady when
Speaker 1: I was talking about comebacks or not. Patrick Mahomes is
Speaker 1: proven to be the comeback king in recent playoffs, but
Speaker 1: Tom Brady certainly has plenty of yeah, a body of
Speaker 1: evidence and coming back in the bag that seems to
Speaker 1: know how to do that. Um. Trevor asked, I don't
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs have an answer for Vita Vea. What
Speaker 1: do you think and I want to just kind of
Speaker 1: add on in general, how you think they're going to
Speaker 1: handle our entire front seven, because that Chief's offensive line
Speaker 1: has gone through a lot of changes. Yeah, since the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. I think they're They just had
Speaker 1: maybe one of their original five starters left. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Davea is a tough It's tough for any team to handle.
Speaker 1: Uh not just you know, he can hold up two blockers.
Speaker 1: He can basically he can basically account for two gaps
Speaker 1: in the running game in most plays. Um And as
Speaker 1: we saw in the Green Bay game, he was actually
Speaker 1: getting some pressure that was forcing Aaron Rodgers to run
Speaker 1: towards Shack or towards JPP. I think mostly Shack. But
Speaker 1: um yeah, I think they may not. I don't know
Speaker 1: if they have an answer for him. It probably means
Speaker 1: more than one blocker. But that's good for us on
Speaker 1: the edges where they're trying to get by with Mike
Speaker 1: Rimmer's at left tackle and uh I think Andrew Wiley
Speaker 1: at right tackle. And those aren't the guys they started
Speaker 1: the season with. So and they had two very good
Speaker 1: tackles to start the season and through most of the
Speaker 1: season until Eric Fisher got hurt in the FC Championship games.
Speaker 1: So um, that certainly seems like an area that's an
Speaker 1: advantage for the Buccaneers. So let's see if it plays
Speaker 1: out that way. All right, well that is gonna do
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