Speaker 1: Um, hey, they're Bucks fans. Has everybody doing this? Fine morning,
Speaker 1: Casey Filter here with Scott Smith and it is time
Speaker 1: for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller Lyte. This is
Speaker 1: where we answer all of your questions. So if you're
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Speaker 1: page and you can leave your questions for us in
Speaker 1: the comments section underneath our live video while we give
Speaker 1: people a chance to do that. Of course, today is
Speaker 1: the franchise tag deadline, so of course that is applicable
Speaker 1: to Shack Barrett on our team, and I just want
Speaker 1: to hear what your thoughts are and what it seems
Speaker 1: like is going to happen and how this could affect
Speaker 1: the team, you know, not only this year, but just
Speaker 1: sort of moving forward with him. Yeah, this is the
Speaker 1: first time we've actually had to worry about this, not worry,
Speaker 1: but taking a account this particular date in a while.
Speaker 1: The last time we had anybody franchise tag was way
Speaker 1: back in two thousand twelve with Kick or Connor Barth
Speaker 1: and they had a new deal worked out by May.
Speaker 1: So this is kind of an unusual situation for the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, in terms of it being a deadline.
Speaker 1: What it is is it's a deadline for the team
Speaker 1: and the player to get a long term deal done. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's not actually a deadline for anybody signing their franchise tender.
Speaker 1: It just means that once four o'clock today passes, you
Speaker 1: can't do a long term deal. The only two choices
Speaker 1: for the player are to sign that tender and make
Speaker 1: it his one year contract for this year, or to
Speaker 1: hold out like Levian Bell did two years ago. I think,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm not sure it went so great
Speaker 1: for Levy on Bell. It's it's you're not gonna see
Speaker 1: that very often, and in fact, as recently as I
Speaker 1: think yesterday, Shaq Barrett said on NFL Network that he
Speaker 1: would be playing on the one year term if they
Speaker 1: couldn't work one out. He's he said he really wanted
Speaker 1: to get a long term deal done. He said the
Speaker 1: team really wanted to get a long term deal done.
Speaker 1: But in this current environment with you know, the nation
Speaker 1: and everybody in quarantine COVID, Uh, it's just it's tougher
Speaker 1: to get done. So let I'll play the one year
Speaker 1: if we don't get a deal done, and hopefully we
Speaker 1: can then get a long term deal done, especially if
Speaker 1: he has another great season, which I think everybody expects
Speaker 1: that he will. So um, it's a deadline in one respect,
Speaker 1: but it's not like he has to rush to one
Speaker 1: to the event held Trading Center and get it signed today.
Speaker 1: I would suspect he'll probably get it signed whenever he
Speaker 1: returns to to work with the rest of the players.
Speaker 1: That would be my guess. Great, and uh we have
Speaker 1: Daniel from Lakeland again. This is who his eleven year
Speaker 1: old daughter promised the cookies last time. So yeah, did
Speaker 1: I get Did I get it right? Uh? Yeah, he
Speaker 1: said to message them for the cookies on how to deliver.
Speaker 1: So this this it's like you're it looks like you're
Speaker 1: in your golden um. He said. This year's question is
Speaker 1: do you think Ronald Jones is going to have a
Speaker 1: breakout year? And he pointed out how in college his
Speaker 1: junior year was his breakout year, and so what does
Speaker 1: this mean about potentially how he could be doing at
Speaker 1: this point now that he's been in the system for
Speaker 1: a little bit. Well that that whole family really knows
Speaker 1: bucket or football very well, don't they to know? The
Speaker 1: the career trajectory in college of Ronald Jones. UM, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what a breakout year would what we quantify
Speaker 1: as a breakout year. Though he had a little bit
Speaker 1: over a thousand years from scrimmage last year. UH, and
Speaker 1: if he were to get you know, two or three
Speaker 1: hundred more than that, do we quantify that as a breakout.
Speaker 1: The reason I wouldn't necessarily percent say he's going to
Speaker 1: break out like have UH just a huge season is
Speaker 1: that Keishaw Vaughn is in the UH in the equation
Speaker 1: now too, and we don't know how much of a
Speaker 1: split there's gonna be between those two guys. It's a
Speaker 1: it's possible that Keishaw Vaughn is a more dynamic partner
Speaker 1: for Ronald Jones than Peyton Barber was last year, particularly
Speaker 1: when it comes to catching passes out of the backfield. So, UM,
Speaker 1: I expect Rond Jones to take another step forward. And
Speaker 1: I'm not the only one who would say that. UH
Speaker 1: coach Areans and has said that several times during this offseason,
Speaker 1: So I think it's a up for it. I don't
Speaker 1: know if we'll end up oneifying it as a breakout though, Okay,
Speaker 1: and UH East I I think UM, asked, who do
Speaker 1: you think will be our m v P on defense
Speaker 1: and offense? Is that e s ai? Yes? Um, I
Speaker 1: think you pronounced it right. I'm guessing m v P
Speaker 1: on defense. You know, I was just thinking about this
Speaker 1: because I have to answer a similar question in a
Speaker 1: mail bag for tomorrow. Uh. If a guy, if somebody
Speaker 1: has a huge sax season, again, it's probably gonna be him.
Speaker 1: So Shack Barrett has another fifteen sacks or something, it's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be him. But let's say that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: and we maybe have Shack and JPP and they're all
Speaker 1: flirting around ten to twelve sacks. Um. I think it'd
Speaker 1: probably one of the two of Lavonte David and Devin White,
Speaker 1: And I'd go with Lavonte David as a safer choice
Speaker 1: right now. But there's a possibility that Devil White has
Speaker 1: a huge breakout season this year. And if he does,
Speaker 1: if he's a guy that offers you a lot of
Speaker 1: big play, you know, interceptions, sacks, because we know he
Speaker 1: has the capability of getting sacks. I think he had
Speaker 1: two and a half last year, but I think he
Speaker 1: could do more. Um, I think it's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of those two guys would be my guests and was
Speaker 1: I also asked who would be on offense. Well, the
Speaker 1: safe bet is always the quarterback. So if you take
Speaker 1: this team from last year where the offense was very
Speaker 1: prolific in a couple of respects, but also obviously turned
Speaker 1: the ball over too often, if it's similarly prolific, maybe
Speaker 1: not passing yards again, and now you're taking care of
Speaker 1: the football, it's probably gonna be your quarterback. So Tom
Speaker 1: Brady is the safe bet unless somebody like Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: Mike Emens or Gronkowski has like goes craziness twelve to
Speaker 1: fifteen touchdowns, but it's it's a little hard to project
Speaker 1: that when there's so many guys that can catch passes
Speaker 1: for you. So Tom Brady is the obvious answer. Yeah, Tom,
Speaker 1: tom Brady might benefit for that award just from the
Speaker 1: fact that you're either there are so many weapons that
Speaker 1: maybe no one guy is going to have a massive year,
Speaker 1: which could end up being better for your team, not
Speaker 1: as good for him on an MVP award, but better
Speaker 1: for the team over. I think you always want your
Speaker 1: m VP to be your quarterback. Your season probably is
Speaker 1: going well. If that's the case, it's a great point.
Speaker 1: John asked, who is supposed to have a better year
Speaker 1: out of the tight ends that we have. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Rob Gronkowski is gonna get the most playing time.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be on the field the most. Um,
Speaker 1: But it's probably gonna be close between him and o J.
Speaker 1: Howard because you know, surprisingly o J actually played the
Speaker 1: highest percentage of snaps he's ever played last year, and
Speaker 1: I know it was seen and it was probably true
Speaker 1: that it was a bit of it wasn't the year
Speaker 1: that everybody's expecting from o J. Howard. Um, it did
Speaker 1: get better as the season went along. It was definitely
Speaker 1: better in the second half, but he was on the
Speaker 1: field all the time. And you know, coach Areans has
Speaker 1: said that he probably that we were totally set to
Speaker 1: work in twelve personnel, which is two tight ends, So
Speaker 1: we were in that about twenty two percent of the time.
Speaker 1: I think last year, I think that number is gonna
Speaker 1: go up a little bit. Um. So both those guys
Speaker 1: have a shot. But Rob Gronkowski is likely to get
Speaker 1: the touched. I would think he'd get more targets than
Speaker 1: the red zone. And he's also a guy that can
Speaker 1: take that past. You know, you're at the fifty yard line.
Speaker 1: You throw that past to him over the middle of
Speaker 1: he catches the twenty five and he's bouncing and off
Speaker 1: guys and running over guys. So he's more like to
Speaker 1: get the more touched on everything. And Delvin asked an
Speaker 1: interesting question. He said, how do you see COVID affecting
Speaker 1: our scouting in the upcoming draft if there is no
Speaker 1: college football? Well, infects everybody the same way. I think
Speaker 1: there's a possibility, uh that even if there is football,
Speaker 1: that some of the top prospects or guys that considered
Speaker 1: or considered top prospects, uh might opt out and might
Speaker 1: not play because it might not be worth it to them. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it makes it makes the scouts jobs a lot harder.
Speaker 1: And I guess what they have to do is just
Speaker 1: pour overtape from previous years and go back to the
Speaker 1: notes they took on those guys. But that's that's tough
Speaker 1: because every year there's a new group of guys that
Speaker 1: are on your watch list that you maybe didn't scout
Speaker 1: or sit down and talk to when you campus. Uh.
Speaker 1: I think it makes it a ton harder. Um, but
Speaker 1: it's at least it's a level playing field for everyone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's true. Um. Ryan asked, how comfortable do you
Speaker 1: think the team is with the backup quarterback position. Well,
Speaker 1: I I'd say pretty comfortable at least in terms of
Speaker 1: of of acknowledge of the system and the guys have
Speaker 1: been around for a while, um Blaye Gabber and and
Speaker 1: Ryan Griffin. I think it'd be a little bit tougher
Speaker 1: if you were completely starting over in that room. You
Speaker 1: obviously you're starting over at the starter with Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: but at least your backups have been here before. Because
Speaker 1: there's no off season as of yet, they haven't had
Speaker 1: any chance to practice or really learn the system on
Speaker 1: the field. So if you had brought in, like say
Speaker 1: you traded for Nick Foles or something to be your
Speaker 1: backup quarterback, which would be an expensive proposition, but I'm
Speaker 1: just throwing out hypotheticals, UM, it would be a lot harder.
Speaker 1: So I think they'd feel comfortable in that regard. You know,
Speaker 1: how how comfortable are you that these guys would step
Speaker 1: in and produce at the same level as Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: You can't really say that about Ryan Griffin, as much
Speaker 1: as we all like him, because he's he's I think
Speaker 1: he's thrown four passes in his career so in the
Speaker 1: regular season. And Blaine Gabart offers a little bit more.
Speaker 1: He's actually started games for Bruce Arians before, but that
Speaker 1: was a couple of years ago. So it's probably similar
Speaker 1: to a lot of teams. You feel reasonably good about
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback, but you really hope you don't have
Speaker 1: to go to that option. And Rob ask do you
Speaker 1: think all Claire will get some snaps this season? So
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about, you know, the Cam and
Speaker 1: o J and Gronk part, but then you do still
Speaker 1: have you know, Tanner, Hudson, Antonia Claire, Like, there's several
Speaker 1: guys in there, So what do you feel like their
Speaker 1: roles could potentially be. Yeah, that tighten room is just packed,
Speaker 1: and uh, that does make it a little tougher for
Speaker 1: some of those guys. Oh Claire obviously, Uh, the coaches
Speaker 1: love his blocking ability. Towards the end of last season
Speaker 1: or actually I guess around the middle when Anthony got
Speaker 1: hurt and went to I r UM, coach Arean said
Speaker 1: he thought he was one of the best blocking tight
Speaker 1: ends in the entire league. And and co just place
Speaker 1: a lot of value on that. You know, Coach Arean's
Speaker 1: always did in Arizona. His Titans didn't usually have huge
Speaker 1: pass catching numbers, but they were involved and some of
Speaker 1: them were really good blockers. And yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a tough one to figure out because it feels like
Speaker 1: if anybody is getting snaps taken away by Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: it might be him. Because Rob Gronkowski is a fantastic blocker.
Speaker 1: So if you're gonna do two tight end sets, last
Speaker 1: year when o' claire was healthy, he was usually on
Speaker 1: the field in two tight end sets, or at least,
Speaker 1: if not usually a lot of the time because he's
Speaker 1: such a great blocker. But if you have Rob Rob
Speaker 1: gron Gronkowski is a great blocker, it's obviously I would
Speaker 1: think tempting to put him with O. J. Howard or
Speaker 1: Cambraid or Tanner Hudson somebody that's a dynamic pass catcher
Speaker 1: as well. So, you know, presuming we keep if you
Speaker 1: keep four tight ends, and you probably do because that
Speaker 1: room is so stacked, then I don't know which one
Speaker 1: is the odd man out with the five guys we
Speaker 1: just talked about, including Tanner Hudson, but if let's say,
Speaker 1: oh Claire is on the roster, it probably is a
Speaker 1: matter of him being in on certain packages. But I
Speaker 1: would think it'd be tough for him to get the
Speaker 1: same number of snaps, but I'm not sure because they
Speaker 1: do love his blocking. So yeah, there's so much to
Speaker 1: factor in with that position. I feel like it's one
Speaker 1: of the ones where it can make such a huge
Speaker 1: difference between special teams blocking that there's so many different
Speaker 1: dynamics of that position that it's even harder to evaluate
Speaker 1: who and what will be used in what ways. It's
Speaker 1: you know, it's not so much like a Mike Evans
Speaker 1: where you just kind of know this is this is
Speaker 1: his role that the Titans really bring a lot to it.
Speaker 1: Um and apparently east I said thank you for spelling
Speaker 1: and saying his name correctly, which is great. And he
Speaker 1: also asked which second year player will have the biggest jump. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's let's see here. Well, I guess I have to
Speaker 1: go with Devon light I kind of already half predicted such, um, Devin,
Speaker 1: you know, fifth overall pick. They expect him to step
Speaker 1: right in and be a big playmaker right from the beginning,
Speaker 1: And then he had the knee injury in Week two
Speaker 1: and that basically cost him four or five weeks, and
Speaker 1: then it took a little while to knock the rust off.
Speaker 1: But then you saw towards the end how dynamic of
Speaker 1: a player he could be. UM, So I would probably
Speaker 1: put him. You know, I feel like Sean Murphy, Bunding
Speaker 1: and Jamal Dean kind of already made their leap towards
Speaker 1: the end of last year. They could still make another leap,
Speaker 1: but man, I think if they play as well as
Speaker 1: they were playing in the last month or so, you're
Speaker 1: already happy with what they're doing. Um. I guess it
Speaker 1: could be Scottie Miller that that's sort of a dark
Speaker 1: horse candidate there if he wins the third receiver job. Again,
Speaker 1: I think we've talked about this. I'm not sure how
Speaker 1: many targets the third receiver in this offense is gonna get.
Speaker 1: I tend to think the second tight end is probably
Speaker 1: gonna get more than the third receiver, but he's gonna
Speaker 1: be on the field a lot because the three receiver
Speaker 1: set is your most common offensive formation. So I would
Speaker 1: probably say Devin White, but Scotty Miller would be my
Speaker 1: would be my backup pick. I guess the only guy
Speaker 1: I didn't mention maybe it was Matt Gay. I don't
Speaker 1: know about kickers making leaps, you know, unless you're talking
Speaker 1: about Martin Gramatic and his famous leaps every time he
Speaker 1: made a field goal. But um, you probably don't remember
Speaker 1: that case. I don't remember it, but I know of it.
Speaker 1: He was very he was. He was famous for every
Speaker 1: field goal, was like the biggest celebration in the world.
Speaker 1: Didn't Didn't that end up being kind of a problem
Speaker 1: at one point? No, not for him, his brother Bill.
Speaker 1: His brother Bill did the same thing and pull and
Speaker 1: I think blew out his knee doing that. That's right.
Speaker 1: One of my favorite questions I've seen in a while,
Speaker 1: Chris wants to know kin Scott Smith jumped out of
Speaker 1: a pool and land on his feet, so obviously in
Speaker 1: reference and well, I mean, when my son was was
Speaker 1: really small, we had one of those little kiddie pools.
Speaker 1: I think I could do it out of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can. I can jump out of a puddle and
Speaker 1: land on my feet. I was trying to think of
Speaker 1: other things that Tristan Worths could jump out of, just
Speaker 1: if that became a thing. The best one that came
Speaker 1: to mind was the Salvation Army bucket on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Remember we're in Dallas and Zeke Elliott jumped into It's
Speaker 1: way more impressive to jump out of it. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: you go back and watch that video, Zeke has to
Speaker 1: climb out of it, but from probably just jump jump
Speaker 1: right out of it. That's incredible. I just can't believe
Speaker 1: his athleticism. It's it really is amazing overall. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like he's someone that as we talk about guys
Speaker 1: that are being asked to come in right as rookies.
Speaker 1: We were talking about Devin White being asked to do that,
Speaker 1: do you feel like Tristan works is in a position
Speaker 1: that he could do that. Yeah. I think it would
Speaker 1: be surprising if he's need did not win a starting job.
Speaker 1: And the Buccaneers need to take a step forward on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Now, the offensive line of the coaches
Speaker 1: were actually pretty pleased with most of those guys last year. Um,
Speaker 1: so I'm not saying we're starting from a bad spot
Speaker 1: that they do need to take a step forward, particularly
Speaker 1: in terms of run blocking. Uh, He's he's a powerful guy. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the stuff jumping out of the pool and so one
Speaker 1: shows how nimbly he is for a guy's size, so
Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about in terms of past protection.
Speaker 1: But generally a rookie lineman, very few rookie lineman, even
Speaker 1: the even the best ones, even ones that turned into
Speaker 1: All pros perennial all pros, aren't usually one of the
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman in the league the rookie year, especially tackles,
Speaker 1: So it would be a bold bet to say he
Speaker 1: steps right in and plays at an all pro level.
Speaker 1: But you want to you want to see powerful run
Speaker 1: blocking from him, and then you just want to see
Speaker 1: him at least a comptent level in terms of pass blocking.
Speaker 1: But you see, he has the tools to become a
Speaker 1: very good pass blocker, and and that's what I hope
Speaker 1: we see out of him. Obviously, I hope he steps
Speaker 1: right in is fantastic at both, but judging from what
Speaker 1: rookie lyman usually do, that would be asking a lot. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us. On this edition of
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lte, Thanks as always
Speaker 1: to all of you for all those amazing questions. Scott,
Speaker 1: thanks for the analysis, and we will see you guys
Speaker 1: again next week,