Speaker 1: Um ay there, Good morning, Bucks fans. How's everyone doing
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Speaker 1: start submitting some of those, I know, we have just
Speaker 1: like a little, a little tiny injury update. It may
Speaker 1: not be one of the injury updates people were expecting
Speaker 1: us to talk about right off the bat, but it
Speaker 1: is some news that we wanted to address to tell
Speaker 1: everybody what that is. Yeah, Well, long snapper Zach Trenner,
Speaker 1: who suffered a torn tendon in a finger on his
Speaker 1: left hand in the season opener, has been designated to
Speaker 1: return to practice. So it's the same thing that we
Speaker 1: began a few weeks ago with Scottie Miller and Sean
Speaker 1: Murphy bunting. He's on injured reserve still, but now there's
Speaker 1: a twenty one day window in which he can practice
Speaker 1: with the team and not count against the fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster, and you can choose to activate him at
Speaker 1: any time during that span. So UM, I would assume
Speaker 1: that Zach Trinner will get his job back. I think
Speaker 1: in most cases like this, guys don't lose their job
Speaker 1: due to injury if they come back good. And although
Speaker 1: we have to say Carson Tinker obviously has done a
Speaker 1: nice job, and I say that because I've never heard
Speaker 1: the words Carson Tinker in any of the game broadcasts,
Speaker 1: so that if that means a long snapper is doing
Speaker 1: his job well, isn't that so sad for the guys
Speaker 1: that the only reason you ever hear their name is
Speaker 1: if they're doing something wrong. It's basically him and offensive lineman,
Speaker 1: and that's that's how you know things are not going well.
Speaker 1: We sit in the in Washington. The press box is
Speaker 1: in the one of the end zones and pretty close
Speaker 1: to the stands, and I saw a man there in
Speaker 1: the stands with a jersey that was for Cameron Cheeseman,
Speaker 1: who is the Washington long snapper. I figured that was
Speaker 1: probably Cameron Cheeseman's dad, But I wonder what it's like
Speaker 1: to be the parent of a long snapper at a
Speaker 1: football game because your son's only involved in, you know,
Speaker 1: a few plays, but everyone he basically has to do
Speaker 1: his job perfectly. It would be kind of nerve wracking
Speaker 1: the whole time because that would be very stressful. That's
Speaker 1: pretty great, all right. So outside of that news, UM,
Speaker 1: what do we know injury wise for the litany of
Speaker 1: other players that I'm sure people are going to ask
Speaker 1: us about, um, and when might we know more things?
Speaker 1: Let's just kind of go down the line of of
Speaker 1: what we know and what we don't. I'm sure we
Speaker 1: don't know as much as the fans here would like
Speaker 1: us to know. Uh, And we'll know a little bit
Speaker 1: more in the next couple of days. Monday, I mean, yeah, wait,
Speaker 1: Monday was a bonus and I'm getting my days mixed up.
Speaker 1: Monday Day is a bonus practice. But UM, coach Arean's
Speaker 1: did talk on Monday and the two big questions injury
Speaker 1: wise coming out of that game, where Vita Villa and
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman, and it's a mixed bag of news. It's
Speaker 1: pretty good news on Vita Via considering how that didn't
Speaker 1: look good and how he had to be carted off,
Speaker 1: and it was just so unfortunate it happening on the
Speaker 1: last play defensive play of the game. You started worrying
Speaker 1: about what happened last year and missing out on Vito
Speaker 1: is one of the clearly one of the best nose
Speaker 1: tackles in the game. Uh. He has apparently a bone
Speaker 1: bruise and a slight as as coach put it, a
Speaker 1: little uh mc L injury. So it's not like a
Speaker 1: torn a c L, which would be season ending, he said.
Speaker 1: Coacharian said he's not sure about this week, but it's
Speaker 1: not apparently long term, so I would be surprised. And
Speaker 1: I don't like to speculate too much on injuries, but
Speaker 1: even an m c L injury usually keeps a guy
Speaker 1: out for a week or two. Um. And then Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman apparently doesn't look real good because coach said he
Speaker 1: would not be back anytime soon. He suffered a calf
Speaker 1: injury in warmups before the game, but after the enactors
Speaker 1: had been submitted, so the Buccaneers had to play a
Speaker 1: man short. Essentially, Yeah, just the worst possible time to
Speaker 1: suffer an injury at that point. UM, So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it's the injury stuff is interesting. What do you think,
Speaker 1: in terms of the different injuries we've had, of which
Speaker 1: one seemed to be impacting the team most and which
Speaker 1: ones do you think will be the most important to
Speaker 1: come back as quickly as possible. Well, when we talk
Speaker 1: about these injuries, we have to acknowledge that every team
Speaker 1: has them. We probably don't have more than the average
Speaker 1: team that and you know, in some places, like the
Speaker 1: say the offensive line, it seems like every time we
Speaker 1: play another team, they have one or two guys that
Speaker 1: are out or just coming back. Our offensive line, knock
Speaker 1: On Wood, has enjoyed a lot of good health this
Speaker 1: year and last year as well, but we have a
Speaker 1: concentration of injuries this year at cornerback and now Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman gets hurt. D Delaney suffers a concussion. It's it's
Speaker 1: been difficult. It's been sort of impressive the way they've
Speaker 1: been able to use different guys and you know, and
Speaker 1: keep the defense relatively solid. But it hasn't been easy
Speaker 1: to deal with. And now they'll be more shuffling. But
Speaker 1: maybe Sean Murphy Bunting will be back this week. He's
Speaker 1: been practicing. He practiced with the team all last week
Speaker 1: he might have been close to being activated. I think
Speaker 1: Coach arians is just concerned that he is back to
Speaker 1: completely utilizing his arm where he had the dislocated elbow,
Speaker 1: because Coach said at the beginning of last week he
Speaker 1: was not using that arm during just and obviously that's
Speaker 1: not gonna work for a cornerback. But by the end
Speaker 1: of the week he was using his arm a lot more.
Speaker 1: So I would say that if he looks like he's
Speaker 1: back to normal with that arm, he's probably close to
Speaker 1: being activated. Okay, and Alec had asked how different has
Speaker 1: the offense looked without specifically Gronk and A B. It
Speaker 1: seems like the offensive efficiency is down when they are
Speaker 1: not playing. Yeah, I think to some extent. I mean
Speaker 1: it depends. I mean we're still pretty good against Chicago.
Speaker 1: I can't remember. I know Gronk wasn't in that game,
Speaker 1: but I can't remember if A B was, I don't think.
Speaker 1: So it takes away two weapons that obviously Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is very comfortable with. Obviously he has a comfort level
Speaker 1: with Grounk because the Buccaneers have pretty good tight ends
Speaker 1: in Cambrad and O. J. Howard. But we're really not
Speaker 1: getting a lot of production out of those positions. Cambrady
Speaker 1: did catch a touchdown in this last game, which was
Speaker 1: great to see, but um, and then with Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: he does have that. I mean, he just runs good routes.
Speaker 1: He has a lot of run after the catchability, He
Speaker 1: can play on the outside and go deep, he can
Speaker 1: take short passes and do a lot with them. And
Speaker 1: I just you know, guys like Jalen Darton and Tyler
Speaker 1: Johnson are just at the beginning of their career figuring
Speaker 1: things out like that. And Tom Brady knows if he
Speaker 1: put the ball in in Antonio bronze hands, there's a
Speaker 1: good chance something good is going to happen. So I
Speaker 1: do think it has hurt the Bucks offense, But I mean,
Speaker 1: let's not get too greedy here. We did come off
Speaker 1: kind of a unfortunate performance in Washington, but the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are still third in the league and scoring and I
Speaker 1: think first in passing, first or second in passing, so
Speaker 1: the offense is still working. But I do think it
Speaker 1: will be a lot better with those two back. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Market asked, how is the spirit or mindset of
Speaker 1: the team. Do you see the snowballing into something bad
Speaker 1: or at just being this one little stretch. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I don't see its snowballing. I think the guys are
Speaker 1: a little irritated right now. I think they're mad at themselves,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure there's some, you know, some guys veterans
Speaker 1: maybe trying to get everybody on the same page and
Speaker 1: get them to start playing more disciplined football. I think
Speaker 1: they're probably irritated because they thought that this problem would
Speaker 1: be fixed coming out of the bye and then it wasn't.
Speaker 1: So I just say they're literally irritated right now. But
Speaker 1: I don't think this is gonna snowball. I really don't.
Speaker 1: I think these are things that the Buccaneers can correct,
Speaker 1: and all the pieces are still there, especially some we're
Speaker 1: going to get back for the Bucks to be playing
Speaker 1: at a high level, and I truly do think that's
Speaker 1: what's going to happen down the stretch. And there were
Speaker 1: some good signs on defense. Obviously, the big problem on
Speaker 1: defense in Washington, and it's not something I think will
Speaker 1: be duplicated, is that they just couldn't get off the
Speaker 1: field on third downs. But they only allowed four point
Speaker 1: five yards per play. If if they had been able
Speaker 1: to get off the field on four or five of
Speaker 1: those third downs, the game would probably come out a
Speaker 1: lot different. But you also saw five sacks. We've been
Speaker 1: looking for more of that, especially against the mobile quarterback.
Speaker 1: You saw Lavante David make a big play, Devin White
Speaker 1: had several big plays, and we've been looking for more
Speaker 1: big plays out of those inside linebackers. I actually think
Speaker 1: the defense is poised to do a lot better down
Speaker 1: the stretch, especially if we get some of those corners back. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great point. It was so good
Speaker 1: to see Devon make some of those splash plays because
Speaker 1: I think even while there were games that he did
Speaker 1: everything right in terms of being where he was supposed
Speaker 1: to be or whatever, we we had gotten very spoiled
Speaker 1: by him making some some big plays and get some
Speaker 1: of those big stats. I think it was great to
Speaker 1: see him get those sacks in there. Uh. Samuel had asked,
Speaker 1: do you think Monday night's game against the Giants that
Speaker 1: the game plan will be based on running the ball
Speaker 1: to own the clock. Um, I'm not exactly sure why
Speaker 1: that would be the game plan. Uh. I think maybe
Speaker 1: he's asking because of the way that that last drive
Speaker 1: went up just seeing how often the Bucks weren't on
Speaker 1: the field offensively. Maybe maybe that's part of the question.
Speaker 1: You know, we we had it. Yeah, that was a big,
Speaker 1: long drive and we ended up with almost a two
Speaker 1: to one disparity and time of possession in that game.
Speaker 1: But that hasn't really been an issue for the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: this year. Before that game, they were averaging about thirty
Speaker 1: two minutes of time of possession. So, you know, I
Speaker 1: think the Buccaneers are gonna do what they always do
Speaker 1: when they're gonna They're gonna want to try to be balanced,
Speaker 1: run the ball efficiently enough that it you know, it
Speaker 1: makes your play action game have more bite to it,
Speaker 1: and uh and and run the ball more if you
Speaker 1: get a lead and and try to run down the clock.
Speaker 1: Then but this the team is not going to stop
Speaker 1: passing the ball all over the place. Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: gonna throw forty passes a game. It works, So I
Speaker 1: think they'll keep doing it. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: the game plan in Washington to chuck down as many
Speaker 1: times as we did. I think that just developed and
Speaker 1: it wasn't what they wanted to do. That's just what
Speaker 1: ended up happening. I don't think that's going to be
Speaker 1: a game plan for us going forward, and I think
Speaker 1: they will try to make more big place downfield. It's
Speaker 1: just when teams are attacking you constantly with two high shells,
Speaker 1: it's a little harder to do that, but you find
Speaker 1: your ways, like Tom did with Mike Evans towards the
Speaker 1: end of that game. All right, well that is going
Speaker 1: to do it for us. On this edition of Buccaneers
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