Speaker 1: Hey there, everybody. Good morning. It is time for Buccaneers
Speaker 1: inside our Live presented by Miller Lite, Casey Phillips and
Speaker 1: senior writer Scott Smith here, and it is just a
Speaker 1: day away from the NFL Draft. We have been talking
Speaker 1: about it for months and we will finally know who
Speaker 1: some of those new Buccaneers players are. So I know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be tons going on. I know you guys
Speaker 1: probably have lots of questions for us, So if you
Speaker 1: have a question for us, make sure you find us
Speaker 1: on the Facebook page. You can leave your question in
Speaker 1: the comments section under that. So for now, while we
Speaker 1: give people a chance to start doing that, we figured
Speaker 1: we'd start with some of the news that I know.
Speaker 1: Vita Vea signed his fifth year extension, so I wanted
Speaker 1: to hear your thoughts on that choice and what that
Speaker 1: means bringing him back for that extra year. Yeah, to
Speaker 1: be clear, that's a team choice. So all first round
Speaker 1: picks since the two thousand c B A and then
Speaker 1: repeat it again in its most recentcy B A. The
Speaker 1: structure of all first round picks is a four four
Speaker 1: year contract with a team fifth year option. Uh, and
Speaker 1: that doesn't involve a large salary increase. Certainly probably not
Speaker 1: what a good player will get in his second contract,
Speaker 1: but still a nice pump compared to the rest of
Speaker 1: the rookie years. And um, it's also guaranteed since the
Speaker 1: c b A it wasn't previously except for injury. And
Speaker 1: you have to do it between You have to make
Speaker 1: the decision between the third and fourth season of the
Speaker 1: player's career. So the deadline this year was made three.
Speaker 1: There was never any doubt that the Bucks were going
Speaker 1: to do this because Vitavea is a really, really good
Speaker 1: player and even at the advanced salary from in his
Speaker 1: fifth year in two still will be a bargain. So um,
Speaker 1: it was. It was well known it was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: It just basically was getting some business done. And we
Speaker 1: also got a press conference from Jason Light his pre
Speaker 1: draft press conference. Now you know it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: in his best interest to be giving secrets away and
Speaker 1: divulging a whole lot. So by listening and maybe reading
Speaker 1: between the lines and trying to gather some in for there,
Speaker 1: what do you think some things were that we got
Speaker 1: out of that. Yeah, gms are not trying to give
Speaker 1: away any strategy. Uh, in those every every one of
Speaker 1: them probably does one of those the week before the draft. Um,
Speaker 1: Jason does it every year, and he's you know, he's good.
Speaker 1: He gives good answers, but he as he should. He's
Speaker 1: not giving away specifics of Bucks strategy. We all know
Speaker 1: that the Bucks, with so many of their needs taken
Speaker 1: care of already in freedency bringing all those players back,
Speaker 1: that they can go in any direction they want. I
Speaker 1: think a couple of interesting notes from what he said,
Speaker 1: and it confirms what some other analysts have said, is
Speaker 1: that this isn't the deepest draft ever. That's true both
Speaker 1: in terms of real blue chip prospects in the first
Speaker 1: round and then just basically the depth of prospects for
Speaker 1: the entire draft that you think can be real NFL players. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know it might be a draft where you get
Speaker 1: a little aggressive and use some of your draft capital
Speaker 1: to improve some of the other draft capital, because you
Speaker 1: know how many good players can you get and how
Speaker 1: many good players can make it to thirty two. So
Speaker 1: Jason says that he's always had be or whenever the
Speaker 1: Bucks have picked high like fift or seventh, whenever the
Speaker 1: draft first round is ending, he's wishing he had another
Speaker 1: pick around thirty two, because there's always a guy that
Speaker 1: he wants there. So in this case, it's happy that
Speaker 1: the Bucks are picking thirty two because it means we
Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl, and if it's like any other year,
Speaker 1: there should be some players there that he really likes
Speaker 1: that the team really likes. UM. Daniel Heads said, linebacker
Speaker 1: depth maybe an area to look at. Do you think
Speaker 1: this draft will be more of a defensive draft for
Speaker 1: the Bucks? Yeah, yeah, especially I think in the early going. UM,
Speaker 1: And I think that works in the Buck's favorite because
Speaker 1: this is probably gonna be an historically tilted to offense
Speaker 1: first round, the most first round picks on the offense
Speaker 1: side of the ball they've ever gone in nineteen in
Speaker 1: one year. And just from all the mock drafts that
Speaker 1: you look at, you can see the league shooting by
Speaker 1: nine team pretty easily, which means a lot of the
Speaker 1: better defensive prospects are going to be falling a little
Speaker 1: bit to the second half of the draft. And since
Speaker 1: the Bucks are, you know, picking for wants rather than
Speaker 1: needs for or hitting some spots that they could help
Speaker 1: a couple of couple of years down the road, or
Speaker 1: finding some depth right now. I think that does make
Speaker 1: most sense. On the defense, you know, edge rusher, UH,
Speaker 1: interior defensive lineman, off ball linebacker, all those spots have
Speaker 1: very very good players on the front line, and you know,
Speaker 1: not a ton of depth, so it makes sense for
Speaker 1: all those spots. And I don't know if you take
Speaker 1: an off ball linebacker with that thirty second pick. I
Speaker 1: mean you could, of course, but you're probably not could
Speaker 1: play him very much because you're really not gonna take
Speaker 1: Devin White and Levante David off the field, Whereas if
Speaker 1: you take an edge rusher or a down lineman, they
Speaker 1: can work them into the rotation even though we already
Speaker 1: have good players there. And then on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of things, we had had Dave asked, you think there's
Speaker 1: a chance we could get justin fields and um Kurd
Speaker 1: had brought up the need for a quarterback depth. So
Speaker 1: the idea of what what are the odds that a
Speaker 1: quarterback could be joining the team via the draft, and
Speaker 1: if so, where in the draft might that be most
Speaker 1: likely happen? Yeah, this justin fields one is a funny question.
Speaker 1: I got the exact same question for a written in
Speaker 1: mail bag for tomorrow, and I mean, I know that
Speaker 1: justin Field seems to be slipping in the mock drafts.
Speaker 1: But I just I cannot see a scenario where he
Speaker 1: falls all the way out of the first round or
Speaker 1: two thirty two. I mean, it's not like there's some
Speaker 1: giant red flag. It's just people starting to assess maybe
Speaker 1: he's you know, maybe they don't like the specific way
Speaker 1: that he throws or things like that. Um, but this
Speaker 1: is still a really talented guy that, frankly is in
Speaker 1: the conversation for the third pick in the draft. We
Speaker 1: don't know for sure that San Francisco isn't gonna take him.
Speaker 1: I know recent reports have seemed to pay them choosing
Speaker 1: between mac Jones and Trey Lance, but I don't think
Speaker 1: that's a sure thing. Uh. I just even if he's
Speaker 1: a justin Field slide to me would be a dramatic one,
Speaker 1: would be like fifteen to New England to me. And
Speaker 1: I can't see him going to thirty two. As for
Speaker 1: the Bucks taking a developmental quarterback, um, I think they
Speaker 1: would like to. I don't think there's a ton of them,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. I mean, the only two
Speaker 1: guys that seem almost certain to go on Day two,
Speaker 1: which is rounds two and three are Davis Mills and
Speaker 1: Kyle Trusk, And even if you like those guys, there's
Speaker 1: no guarantee that you're the team that's gonna get them,
Speaker 1: So it probably might. You probably have to take him
Speaker 1: with the second last pick of the second round to
Speaker 1: be sure to get one of them, and even then
Speaker 1: it's not a sure thing. So I think the Bucks
Speaker 1: would like to get one, doesn't mean it's necessarily going
Speaker 1: to line up the way they wanted to. Richard had asked,
Speaker 1: can you see O. J. Howard or camp Brave being
Speaker 1: traded because of salary cap reasons? And he brought up
Speaker 1: He's like, I don't think any other team pays three
Speaker 1: tight ends so much. I think he's right about that,
Speaker 1: because I think uh Brad and Howard and Gronk all
Speaker 1: are making between six and nine million per year this
Speaker 1: year at least um That is unusual. But they are
Speaker 1: right now on the team under the cap. Now there's
Speaker 1: gonna have to be some moves made to create some
Speaker 1: cap space. We certainly believe there's a signing on her
Speaker 1: Eisen and then you have to pay for your draft picks,
Speaker 1: so they do have to be some moves I think
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers would like to continue to do what they
Speaker 1: have been doing to create cap stage space, which is
Speaker 1: restructure contracts. I don't think they want to get rid
Speaker 1: of anybody from the Super Bowl team, and they've certainly
Speaker 1: shown that through their free agency moves to get all
Speaker 1: those guys back. It's possible. It's possible, But we we
Speaker 1: face these same questions week after week after week last offseason,
Speaker 1: and they went into the season with all three of them,
Speaker 1: So that would be what I would suspect now. Of course,
Speaker 1: the difference this time is oj Howard in the fifth
Speaker 1: year of his Ricky contract, his salary goes up quite
Speaker 1: a bit. That's the main difference. But I think they're
Speaker 1: inclined to make it work. Okay, and Jack had asked,
Speaker 1: what is our kick or punt return specialist situation? So
Speaker 1: as we stand right now with the team, what are
Speaker 1: some of the options you think? And then is that
Speaker 1: something that will make a difference in a guy that
Speaker 1: the Bucks decided to draft or drafting certain positions over others. Well,
Speaker 1: making is still on the roster, so I guess he'd
Speaker 1: get the first crack at it. Um. I do think
Speaker 1: that if there were a player of the Bucks. Liked
Speaker 1: that also gave your return ability. That would be a
Speaker 1: good reason to take him, especially when you're in this
Speaker 1: position to take sort of luxury picks. So I know
Speaker 1: Florida Gator fans would love for that to be k
Speaker 1: Darius Tony wouldn't bother me either, pick number thirty two. Um,
Speaker 1: I gotta believe there's a good chance there'll be some
Speaker 1: competition brought in for Jaden makings there, but that's still
Speaker 1: a little bit unknown at the moment. Okay, well, that
Speaker 1: is going to do it for us on this edition
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Speaker 1: it's our final show before the draft, which is tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: But we are doing a live show right before the
Speaker 1: draft starts, so make sure you tune into that. Will
Speaker 1: be breaking down the Bucks season overall, some of the
Speaker 1: potential draft picks and needs. So if you are a
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