Speaker 1: Welcome in to Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller like
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips and Scott Smith here and this is where
Speaker 1: we ask all the questions from you guys. We get
Speaker 1: a chance to answer those. And if you're not already
Speaker 1: watching on Facebook, make sure your head over there. That's
Speaker 1: where we can find those questions that you guys have. Um,
Speaker 1: just make sure you leave them in a comment section
Speaker 1: underneath the actual live video on here. So as we've
Speaker 1: already got a lot of people that are chiming in here,
Speaker 1: um already, we actually can start with this. I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask you about this news to begin with anyways,
Speaker 1: And Austin already asked what are the Bucks going to
Speaker 1: do with the extra cap from JPP? Oh? Well, I
Speaker 1: don't think we can know right now, right, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's plenty of things. Yeah, you caught me by surprise
Speaker 1: on that one. I don't know at this moment. You Nope,
Speaker 1: I definitely don't know the plan. Um. But I mean
Speaker 1: it is always nice to know that you have, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden this time of year and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden end up with extra cap space super often. Well,
Speaker 1: what if you started talking to Shack Barrett about an extension.
Speaker 1: Would one deal right now? Yeah, that's a really great point.
Speaker 1: Seems like a guy I'd like to keep around a
Speaker 1: little bit longer. That's a really great point. We again,
Speaker 1: so as we give people a chance to submit some
Speaker 1: of their questions in that live video, figured we go
Speaker 1: and start talking a little bit about the game against
Speaker 1: l A that you know, playing against a team that
Speaker 1: was in the Super Bowl last year. How similar or
Speaker 1: different do they seem to be from that team and
Speaker 1: is it going to still be a team that is
Speaker 1: potentially a Super Bowl content. Well, statistically, it seems like
Speaker 1: they're getting things done in a different way. They're three
Speaker 1: and oh, so they're getting it done. Uh. Last year
Speaker 1: they scored i think thirty two points seven points per game.
Speaker 1: Only the Chiefs scored more. And while their defense was
Speaker 1: good and obviously revolves around Aaron Donald, Um, they were
Speaker 1: clearly an offensive led team. Um. It turned out differently
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl, as it turns out. But uh,
Speaker 1: this year, their offense is good, but it's about middle
Speaker 1: of the pack right now, and their defense has been
Speaker 1: very good. So uh, I would just say that's probably
Speaker 1: small sample size. They still have almost everybody back from
Speaker 1: last year. Really, the only two changes on their offense
Speaker 1: were two guys on the offensive line. Their left guard
Speaker 1: and their center are new and their young second year players,
Speaker 1: and I think the offensive line maybe has has struggled
Speaker 1: just a little bit for the RAM so far. But
Speaker 1: that's a lot of potential on that offense. One thing
Speaker 1: about it is they've got those three receivers, Robert Woods
Speaker 1: and Cooper Cup and Brandon Cooks, and they're on the
Speaker 1: field all the time. You know how teams use three
Speaker 1: receiver sets and you see two tight insets. All three
Speaker 1: of those guys are on the are on the field
Speaker 1: for more than their snaps. So that's what you're gonna
Speaker 1: see all the time, all three of those guys. And
Speaker 1: you've got Brandon Cooks who can take the top off.
Speaker 1: You've got Robert Woods who does everything, does jet sweeps,
Speaker 1: there's a good blockers, a good all around receiver. And
Speaker 1: the Cooper Cup is the one getting all the high volume.
Speaker 1: He's a more of a possession type receiver, you know,
Speaker 1: like eleven point five yards per catch, but he catches
Speaker 1: everything really well. He gets open and uh so you've
Speaker 1: got all those different types of receivers. They do their
Speaker 1: own things, They have their own niches in that offense,
Speaker 1: but all of that plus tied Gurley makes for a
Speaker 1: pretty hard offensive stop. So even though their offensive numbers
Speaker 1: haven't been through the roof this year, they've definitely been
Speaker 1: in decline from the year before. That's probably just a
Speaker 1: small sample size, so I think this is a really
Speaker 1: tough offense. Um, we have a couple of people asking
Speaker 1: about Devin white Jade, you know when he's going to
Speaker 1: potentially be back or what we know about him. David
Speaker 1: had also asked about him, So when when do we
Speaker 1: know if you know, he's going to be able to return.
Speaker 1: So we always have the show on Wednesdays in the morning,
Speaker 1: and it's always a few hours before the first injury
Speaker 1: report comes out. And since we're playing the Rams and
Speaker 1: there are three hours behind, the injury report probably won't
Speaker 1: be out until late this afternoon, maybe early evening, but
Speaker 1: that'll be our first opportunity because during the portion of
Speaker 1: practice that was open to the media and there for
Speaker 1: us that we can talk about, they were just doing
Speaker 1: special teams, which Devon doesn't really do anyway. So we
Speaker 1: don't have a report yet or until coach says it
Speaker 1: in his post practice press conference, if he says these
Speaker 1: guys didn't practice, then we'll have a little bit better idea.
Speaker 1: I you know, he didn't practice at all last week
Speaker 1: and then was out for the game. It wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me if he was still sidelined for a little while longer.
Speaker 1: But the fact that coach continues to say I'm still
Speaker 1: calling it day to day tells me they think he's
Speaker 1: not that far away. Okay, um, Gary had asked about
Speaker 1: do you think Rojo is gonna be getting the starting spot?
Speaker 1: So I figured overall we can just talk about the
Speaker 1: two running backs and and the fact that they're they're
Speaker 1: both doing well. Yeah, and Rojo's looked really good, really
Speaker 1: really good, and I think he's going to continue to
Speaker 1: get you know, more and more higher percentage of the snaps.
Speaker 1: I guess we get this question every week, so I
Speaker 1: guess it's important to people, maybe because of fantasy football,
Speaker 1: who starts running back? The really the much more important
Speaker 1: question is who gets more snaps? And if Rojo continues
Speaker 1: to run the way he is. You know, Peyton has
Speaker 1: been good too, but I think if you look at
Speaker 1: their yards per carry, Rojo's definitely head and He's had
Speaker 1: some more dynamic runs. Peyton's had a couple as well,
Speaker 1: but I think Rojo seems to be consistently giving us
Speaker 1: those dynamic runs with the second cuts six or seven
Speaker 1: yards downfield for another three or four or five yards
Speaker 1: probably a better big play. We haven't really broken a
Speaker 1: real big one yet, probably a better option for that,
Speaker 1: and we've we've seen him in the in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Hasn't got a lot of throws, but when we've thrown
Speaker 1: to him it's worked really well. So UM, I don't
Speaker 1: think it matters a ton who starts. I guess at
Speaker 1: some point you have two running backs and one of
Speaker 1: them gets to such a higher percentage or the other
Speaker 1: that he's clearly the higher use guy, then you might
Speaker 1: just go ahead and make the change. But more importantly
Speaker 1: is how many snaps do they each get? And I
Speaker 1: think it's going to continue to sort of turn in
Speaker 1: Rojo's favor. Kevin had asked, how much more can the
Speaker 1: defense improve during this season? You think, well, they can
Speaker 1: improve quite a bit over last week, at least in
Speaker 1: the secondary. Um. I felt this way, and I think
Speaker 1: most people did, but coach arians said it, so we
Speaker 1: can you know, repeat what he said. The front, the
Speaker 1: defensive front, the front seven or eight or whatever you
Speaker 1: want to call it. Front six played very well and
Speaker 1: there was a lot of pressure on the quarterback. There
Speaker 1: was nowhere to run for the running backs. But the
Speaker 1: secondary had his worst game, and there was some blown assignments,
Speaker 1: particularly on the big catch by Sterling Shepherd in the
Speaker 1: game winning drive. Uh, And it just was not a
Speaker 1: really good game for those guys. You know, they had
Speaker 1: played pretty well in the first two weeks, but we're
Speaker 1: still talking about a lot of really young guys. And
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of room for improvement for
Speaker 1: those guys to you know, get more experience and and
Speaker 1: learn to communicate well and and you know, just become
Speaker 1: a better unit altogether. And it's it's probably hard to
Speaker 1: do when you're starting a rookie safety, a first year safety,
Speaker 1: a second year cornerback, a second year quarterback. At nicol
Speaker 1: and Vernon Hargraves is your you know, your elder statesman.
Speaker 1: That group, it's a young group. I think there's room
Speaker 1: for improvement there. I don't know if you can ask
Speaker 1: for a whole lot more from what your D line
Speaker 1: is doing, because they've been just absolutely phenomenal is the
Speaker 1: run and their pressure is helping Shack in particular, but
Speaker 1: also Carl gets quarterback. So it's on the back end
Speaker 1: that we have to get better. Um. Justin asked, why
Speaker 1: did we take the foot off the gas in the
Speaker 1: second half on something. I don't think they took the
Speaker 1: foot off the gas. I just think they didn't execute.
Speaker 1: I mean there was in the third quarter we just
Speaker 1: didn't convert on some third downs. Um. That happened also
Speaker 1: in the in the fourth quarter on the you know,
Speaker 1: the one where Cam got tripped up. If we'd have
Speaker 1: made that third down, we probably would have, uh you know,
Speaker 1: probably would have been able to run off the clock
Speaker 1: or get close to it. Um. The only thing I
Speaker 1: would say in agreement to that is the fourth and
Speaker 1: two play when we were up by three and fourth
Speaker 1: and two and their five on third and two, we
Speaker 1: ran a read option. Uh. Coach said that Jami has
Speaker 1: made the right read because of what the end did
Speaker 1: to give it to Peyton and he didn't have to
Speaker 1: get five yards for a touch and he just had
Speaker 1: to get two to get a first down, and we
Speaker 1: just didn't block it well on the front end. So, Um,
Speaker 1: you get to that point. Now it's fourth and two.
Speaker 1: At the five, you're up by three. If you kick
Speaker 1: a field goal, which we did, then you're up by six.
Speaker 1: But either way, a touchdown is gonna beat you, and
Speaker 1: that is in what ended up happening. So I might
Speaker 1: agree with the with the assessment of taking the foot
Speaker 1: off the guests and choosing to kick the field goal
Speaker 1: and so the touchdown there, But I don't think from
Speaker 1: a play calling standpoint, that's what we were doing. I
Speaker 1: think I think they they stumbled out of the halftime
Speaker 1: and didn't execute wall on offense. I don't think it
Speaker 1: was a matter of strategy, you know what I'm saying. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jim asked why hasn't o J been involved the more
Speaker 1: he was in the last game, And I think they
Speaker 1: made a particular effort to do so, and they hit
Speaker 1: him downfield several times. He drew in a big pass
Speaker 1: interference on another downfield pass. So after the first two games.
Speaker 1: In the first game, of course o J had you know,
Speaker 1: he had a couple of miss kews. He had a fumble,
Speaker 1: he had a ball that went through his hands and
Speaker 1: was intercepted. He actually got targeted. He had four catches
Speaker 1: in that game, was targeted several other times in the
Speaker 1: Carolina game, the ball didn't find him. The coaches said
Speaker 1: that was just a product of who they decided to cover.
Speaker 1: The best example being Chris Godwin's twenty touchdown, which was
Speaker 1: a pair of really well run uh posts, right to
Speaker 1: posts together and OJ was the other one. The defense
Speaker 1: went towards him, left no safety over the top for Chris,
Speaker 1: and so James made the right reading through to Chris.
Speaker 1: Had been the other way around, he probably would have
Speaker 1: thrown to o J. And in this last game, other
Speaker 1: than than Mike Evans, I think o J was the
Speaker 1: number two options in that game. So yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great point. Kevin said, what would you say is the
Speaker 1: over under on how many sacks Shack Barrett will end
Speaker 1: up with this year? That's a really good question because
Speaker 1: right because he's on you know, eight after three would
Speaker 1: be like two and two thirds times sixteen, close to forty,
Speaker 1: so probably forty. No, yeah, that's standard. Uh You obviously
Speaker 1: you can't expect him to continue to get uh three
Speaker 1: or four sex every week. But I don't think what
Speaker 1: he's done has been flukey. I think he's getting a
Speaker 1: lot of one on one opportunities because as we said,
Speaker 1: Vida Vea and and Sue and uh Will Golston are
Speaker 1: all doing well and commanding double team blocks because there's
Speaker 1: there they're just so hard. They're powerful men, and they're
Speaker 1: hard to stop. So they're they're letting they're who whether
Speaker 1: it's a tight end or the tackle on that end,
Speaker 1: they're letting him. You know, this is a guy's your responsibility,
Speaker 1: and Shacks just making all kinds of really good moves.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's had somewhere he's powered the guy back,
Speaker 1: but he seems to be particularly good at you know,
Speaker 1: as soon as he engages with that tackle on the outside,
Speaker 1: he gets that shoulder low and then is able to
Speaker 1: accelerate around him right and then and then again on
Speaker 1: another play. And you know where I know this from
Speaker 1: is because I watched Randy Barber's film session thing, which
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite videos on the website every week,
Speaker 1: and I would highly recommend watching that every week, and
Speaker 1: this week he'll give you a little bit more idea
Speaker 1: of why Shack was so successf game. And like one
Speaker 1: of the Shacks Sacks that's fun to say was actually
Speaker 1: Karl Nassa just completely had a straight arm on the
Speaker 1: tackle and just pushed him all the way back to
Speaker 1: Danil Jones and forced Daniel Jones over that way and
Speaker 1: then here comes Shack. So Karl Nassa really made that
Speaker 1: play happen, but Jack did what he had to do. Um. So,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about Shack for a while. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what how many sacks you think he's gonna So
Speaker 1: he's playing well, so I don't expect him to just
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, this was a fluke and it
Speaker 1: gets no more. So let's say, uh, you know, he
Speaker 1: has a couple other two seconds which agave him to
Speaker 1: twelve one. I'd say fourteen or fifteen, which would be
Speaker 1: close to the Buccaneer records. That'd be incredible, That'd be awesome.
Speaker 1: Jacob asked, what have you seen as Brichard Perriman's role
Speaker 1: so far? Well, I mean he is the third guy.
Speaker 1: He's on the field a lot as your third receiver,
Speaker 1: and so far we've been throwing him the ball kind
Speaker 1: of underneath a lot. You know, he's he's kind of
Speaker 1: a speedster. He's had a lot of big plays last
Speaker 1: year in the second half for Cleveland. But we've been
Speaker 1: sending as you saw him last game. Mike Evans deep constantly,
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin gets some kind of more like winning
Speaker 1: in twenty yard targets, and when the ball does find Brushott,
Speaker 1: it seems to be finding him underneath a little bit more.
Speaker 1: These catches are all like five and six yards so far.
Speaker 1: He had the opportunity to catch that one in the
Speaker 1: end zone in Carolina. It was a tough play. Didn't
Speaker 1: make that play. That would have been a bigger play.
Speaker 1: But he's out there on the field as your number,
Speaker 1: as your three receiver, your third receiver, and the Bucks,
Speaker 1: like every NFL team does a lot of three receiver sets.
Speaker 1: He probably should get some bigger numbers going forward, but
Speaker 1: I would think it would be, you know, one game,
Speaker 1: maybe it's three or four catches in one game. He
Speaker 1: doesn't it Just again, who's the ball going to find?
Speaker 1: Ken asked, what's the game plan for stopping Todd Gurley? Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you could feel a little bit
Speaker 1: confident in this regard after what they did against Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey and sick when Barkley back to back, and I
Speaker 1: know Barkley got hurt and was out the second half,
Speaker 1: but even before that they were phenomenal in stopping him
Speaker 1: and Todd Gurley like, I mean again, this is like
Speaker 1: a murder's row of the hardest running backs in league
Speaker 1: to stop. But after you do so well against McCaffrey
Speaker 1: and Um and Barkley, you gotta believe we have shot.
Speaker 1: And it's the same thing we talked about last week.
Speaker 1: It's gap integrity and it's swarming to the ball and
Speaker 1: we've been doing that. All you gotta do is keep
Speaker 1: doing what you've been doing. Yeah, Travis asked Um, how
Speaker 1: many wins you feel like it is feasible over the
Speaker 1: six week road game stretch of what would be considered successful.
Speaker 1: And it's five games. It's six weeks, but five games,
Speaker 1: two road trips, London bye week, two more road trips,
Speaker 1: So it's five games in six weeks, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: feasible for in the NFL, it's any anything from zero
Speaker 1: to five is feasible. And so if you want me
Speaker 1: to say a number in between, like two or three,
Speaker 1: then you're asking me to say, well, which ones we're
Speaker 1: gonna lose? And I don't think you go in any
Speaker 1: game with that, you know, with that mindset. But that
Speaker 1: being said, if you're looking at this from the outside,
Speaker 1: I'm sure I know the Buccaneers are nine and a
Speaker 1: half point underdogs this week. I'm sure that what will
Speaker 1: be underdogs when we go to Seattle, and then the
Speaker 1: other trips are New Orleans without Drew Brees and Tennessee,
Speaker 1: and I would think those would be ones where we
Speaker 1: would can be considered more like, you know, more of
Speaker 1: an even thing. And then in Carolina, I mean in
Speaker 1: London where we're the home team, we're playing Carolina without
Speaker 1: Cam Newton. I don't know if that's better or worse
Speaker 1: at this point, considering the way Cam was limited, but
Speaker 1: I think most of the time you prefer not to
Speaker 1: play candid breeze, so feasible the answer that is five?
Speaker 1: Would what would you be happy with at the end
Speaker 1: of this Three? Right, and then you'd be at five
Speaker 1: and then you're heading into an easier part of your
Speaker 1: schedule where you have a lot of home games. Right
Speaker 1: thre't we three and two? Yeah? We'd be Yeah. Three
Speaker 1: would be something that would make them happy they want five.
Speaker 1: I would be pretty pleased if at the end of
Speaker 1: this we had three wins. Okay, um, and we'll close
Speaker 1: out with this. When Steve asked why didn't we try
Speaker 1: to get a touchdown at the end of the game
Speaker 1: when we had time to try. So overall, now you've
Speaker 1: got to hear from coach few different times about all
Speaker 1: this was that that was the first time we got
Speaker 1: the point blank question about what about this about the
Speaker 1: very end, not the fourth and two I was talking about.
Speaker 1: But they so let's just go over that sequence because
Speaker 1: I can't believe we haven't talked about it till now.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans catches the ball at the nine yard line
Speaker 1: with and they run up and spike it with about
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds left. The point is to maintain your time
Speaker 1: out so then you can position the ball where you
Speaker 1: want it, because they specifically wanted to get it off
Speaker 1: the right hash because while Mackay has been very, very good,
Speaker 1: if he's had problems, they've noticed it's been on the
Speaker 1: right hash. So they wanted to get him off the
Speaker 1: right hash. So from the moment you catch the ball
Speaker 1: with at the nine yard line and the offenses run
Speaker 1: down the field, your goal is to spike the ball
Speaker 1: to save your time out and then use another play
Speaker 1: to position the ball and then kick a shot field goal.
Speaker 1: That is a completely reasonable strategy that many, many, many,
Speaker 1: if not all, coaches in the NFL would take. It
Speaker 1: might be the highest percent a chance of success of
Speaker 1: all the strategies, because anyone you throw out there, you say, okay,
Speaker 1: let's run down the respect the ball. We have a
Speaker 1: time out, so let's throw one into the end zone.
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that concept. But you
Speaker 1: gotta admit you could throw an interception, you could get sacked,
Speaker 1: and now you're in real big trouble. Things can happen
Speaker 1: if you choose to run the ball. Maybe they'll be
Speaker 1: think it passed. Hey, we might catch them on a run.
Speaker 1: You can fumble. I'm not saying you will, But I
Speaker 1: also don't think you expect him miss a thirty four
Speaker 1: yar field goal, right. I think any coach in the league,
Speaker 1: after Mike catches that ball, if the outcome is we're
Speaker 1: down by one point and we're about to kick a
Speaker 1: thirty four yard feel gonna win. They're gonna take that.
Speaker 1: It's the most basic and obvious strategy, and it might
Speaker 1: even be the highest percentage one afterwards, and it's part
Speaker 1: of watching the game, and I understand it. But afterwards,
Speaker 1: it's easy to say, well, we could have thrown in
Speaker 1: the end zone, or we could have run one more time.
Speaker 1: But the strategy that the coach took is completely reasonable
Speaker 1: and I think almost every coach in league would do
Speaker 1: it now. In between, there was the delayed game penalty
Speaker 1: that turned a and then the kneel down costs two
Speaker 1: more yards, but the delayed game costs you five yards,
Speaker 1: so it made the kick five yards further. There was
Speaker 1: some there's been some complaints about the two things that
Speaker 1: Bruce said on Sunday and Monday, And except for one
Speaker 1: little part of it, none of it's really contradictory. When
Speaker 1: he said he did it on purpose on Sunday, as
Speaker 1: he clarified on Monday, he means he saw that we
Speaker 1: were going to get the penalty. We couldn't get the
Speaker 1: snap off because of the substitutions and the ref standing
Speaker 1: over the ball, so he purposely made the decision to
Speaker 1: let the penalty happened rather than using the last time out,
Speaker 1: so then they could then position the ball. It's not
Speaker 1: like he ran out there saying, I want a penalty
Speaker 1: for the nine. We can't kick from the nine. We
Speaker 1: need to kick from from the fourteen or the sixteen.
Speaker 1: After the kneel down. I don't have a problem with
Speaker 1: that either. And actually, if you look at those win
Speaker 1: probability graphs that I sometimes bring up, which shows you
Speaker 1: know which team is expected to win in this particular situation,
Speaker 1: after the catch from Mike Evans, which would have put
Speaker 1: us in position for a twenty seven yard field goal,
Speaker 1: we were eighty two point to percent likelihood of winning.
Speaker 1: After the penalty, it dropped all the way to eight
Speaker 1: two point zero. The point being in the NFL, you
Speaker 1: expect your kicking to make a twenty seven or thirty
Speaker 1: two yard now, as it turned out, because of execution,
Speaker 1: we missed it. And not only did Matt Gay miss it,
Speaker 1: but he missed it just barely to the right. And
Speaker 1: you think, if we're a five years culture, maybe that's
Speaker 1: in And that's totally true. But it doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: the strategy the execution lacked. It doesn't mean the strategy
Speaker 1: was wrong. Okay, Yeah, that's a great point. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a great explanation. All right, Well, that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: for us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented
Speaker 1: by Miller I, thanks so much for joining us, and
Speaker 1: we'll see you next week.