Speaker 1: Good morning, Bucks fans. It's Wednesday, which means it's time
Speaker 1: for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller. Like Casey Phillips,
Speaker 1: you were a senior writer and editor, Scott Smith. This
Speaker 1: is where, as always we take all of your questions
Speaker 1: about your Buccaneers. So if you have a question for us,
Speaker 1: head on over to the Buccaneers Facebook page. That is
Speaker 1: where we will find them in the comments section underneath
Speaker 1: our live video. Um, yep, this is incredible. I opened
Speaker 1: it and literally we're talking, like seconds into the show,
Speaker 1: we have people messaging us about Stephon Gilmar. So well, anyways,
Speaker 1: just go ahead and start with our whole DV injury
Speaker 1: situation and is signing another person? Like? I mean, I
Speaker 1: just think about how last Wednesday we just found out
Speaker 1: we'd signed Richard Sherman and now he's already played like
Speaker 1: a full game made. I mean we saw first tackle
Speaker 1: the game like, oh, well, yep, he's gonna be doing
Speaker 1: some things. So now looking at the Richard Sherman contributions,
Speaker 1: is their chance they sign another person? What do you
Speaker 1: think the dB situation is? Overall? The floor is yours, sir, Well,
Speaker 1: if the floors mind, the first thing I like to say,
Speaker 1: is I really like your pumpkin? Thank you? I'm manifesting
Speaker 1: fall and no joke, I'm also drinking coffee out of
Speaker 1: this there you go. I just like, yeah it is,
Speaker 1: and it has pumpkin spice creamer in it, because full full,
Speaker 1: basic white girl this morning. Obviously, I hope I'm not
Speaker 1: intruding on your on your coffee with Carmen and Casey. Yes,
Speaker 1: we just did that. Yeah, We're good. We just did that.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm just pretending it's not ninety degrees outside
Speaker 1: and that it's fall. So yes, carry on. So Stephan Gilmour,
Speaker 1: I mean yes, of course. The moment he's cut, surprisingly,
Speaker 1: I should say by the Patriots, the first thing everybody's
Speaker 1: gonna say is is he going to Tampa? And I
Speaker 1: can't blame anybody for thinking or asking that, you know,
Speaker 1: it seems crazy, but after the last eighteen months, with
Speaker 1: the way that Jason Light has handled this roster and
Speaker 1: taken advantage of opportunities like that, you absolutely cannot count
Speaker 1: it out. You can't. Yeah, I think at this point,
Speaker 1: anytime anyone gets cut, I think people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: are they going to the Buccaneers, And it's just so
Speaker 1: funny that how that has happened in this last you know,
Speaker 1: eighteen months, that that is now the storyline of any
Speaker 1: individual gets cut or any individual becomes available or unretires
Speaker 1: or what are even retires and everybody's like, oh, this
Speaker 1: is it, and you can joke about it. But the
Speaker 1: guys that Jason has signed in their thirties, virtually every
Speaker 1: one of them has worked out. I mean Gronkowski and
Speaker 1: well for nets nine his sthorties, but uh, Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: I mean, we could go on and on and they've
Speaker 1: worked out. So, like I said, it's not crazy, and
Speaker 1: I kind of like the idea, to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: You know, I think we have about two million two
Speaker 1: mini left and cap space right now, but I guess
Speaker 1: there's always ways to make more. And Jason light has
Speaker 1: treated this last two seasons like this is an open
Speaker 1: window to win championships and I'm gonna leave no stone
Speaker 1: unturned if it can help this team. And obviously the
Speaker 1: Bucks have a need at corner back right now. And
Speaker 1: and to get to Richard Sherman. He played in the
Speaker 1: game four days after signing with the Buccaneers after about
Speaker 1: three practices, you know, and two of those are learning
Speaker 1: and one of those his review on Friday, so he
Speaker 1: had about two days to learn the defense. And this
Speaker 1: is not necessarily a defense he was familiar with, which
Speaker 1: would be probably a little bit different when Stephon Gilmore
Speaker 1: because I think there's some overlap in the defensive schemes there. Um,
Speaker 1: and you know, he they wouldn't. You said he made
Speaker 1: the first tack on the game, because they went right
Speaker 1: at him immediately. I think the first two passes went
Speaker 1: right at him. They threw to his side a lot,
Speaker 1: as you would do to a guy no matter what
Speaker 1: his pedigree is, which is awesome for Richard Sherman. You
Speaker 1: would do that to a guy that just learned the
Speaker 1: defense and his starting four days after signing with the team.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean they completed some passes on
Speaker 1: his side, but overall, the Buccaneers only allowed seventeen points
Speaker 1: with a secondary that was completely beat up. I think
Speaker 1: it was a pretty good job I all involved. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I loved the Bruce Arians talked about that at his
Speaker 1: press conference. That, Um, I mean, what Richard Sherman was
Speaker 1: asked to do is insane. It's just flat out insane
Speaker 1: from both a physical and mental standpoint. Where he has
Speaker 1: not been in football shape for well, I don't care
Speaker 1: how hard you work out in the off season. Everybody
Speaker 1: talks about how there's just no way to replicate being
Speaker 1: in a game, and so to go from not playing
Speaker 1: for all this time and then be playing fifty plus
Speaker 1: snaps three days later, Yeah, it's it's nuts. And so
Speaker 1: just from a physical standpoint, that is incredible. And then
Speaker 1: the mental side of yeah, like three days here learn
Speaker 1: a whole defense and it's not like Todd Bowls is
Speaker 1: known for having the most simplistic defense in the world.
Speaker 1: I just I'm blown away by what he was able
Speaker 1: to do, and so I'm very optimistic about it. That
Speaker 1: was him after three days. Imagine this next week, Yeah exactly.
Speaker 1: But there's still more problems there because we were already
Speaker 1: thin going into that game, and then Carlton Davis got hurt,
Speaker 1: and I get the impression that that's not gonna be
Speaker 1: a couple of days kind of thing, you know that.
Speaker 1: I think there's a very good chance he's out to
Speaker 1: this next game. They're hoping Jim Ldean can come back,
Speaker 1: but by the end of last week he couldn't cut
Speaker 1: off of that knee. Hopefully it will be better this week.
Speaker 1: But there's a possibility that all three of the corners
Speaker 1: you started the season with, your three starters if you
Speaker 1: include the slot corner, are out for at least one
Speaker 1: more game, maybe more. And it's just that's why we're
Speaker 1: relying on guys like Richard Sherman and Pierre Days year.
Speaker 1: He really only got here on sept also and has
Speaker 1: been on the practice squad. Richard Robinson, he's on the
Speaker 1: practice squad but has been called up the last couple
Speaker 1: of games. Hasn't gotten in on defense yet, but coach
Speaker 1: Arians didn't mention him as a possibility. So I mean
Speaker 1: it's injury. Every team has to deal with injuries. Every
Speaker 1: team in the NFL, every season has to deal with injuries,
Speaker 1: and overall, the Buccaneers were pretty lucky with in that
Speaker 1: regard on the way of the Super Bowl last year.
Speaker 1: But what what the problem is, and we've discussed this
Speaker 1: before because it happened in the years before two, is
Speaker 1: when you have a rash of them at the same position,
Speaker 1: and that really can put you in a bind, not
Speaker 1: only in terms of trying to solve that position, but
Speaker 1: also you have to take away from other positions to
Speaker 1: add more guys to the roster, like we had to
Speaker 1: cut Khalil Davis as an example to bring Pierre Day
Speaker 1: zero up, and then Khalil Davis was claimed. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's an absolute tragedy. He's only played two games
Speaker 1: for US since we drafted him in the sixth round.
Speaker 1: But obviously there was something about Khalil Davis that we
Speaker 1: liked to keep him around all this time, even if
Speaker 1: he wasn't playing. So that's the kind of problems that
Speaker 1: injuries at a rash of injuries at a certain position cause.
Speaker 1: And then there's also opportunities for guys like Richard Sherman
Speaker 1: and Pierre Dasier and who knows, maybe Stephan Gilmore. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you know Antoine Winfield. We still don't know
Speaker 1: what his right and what I think is interesting, but
Speaker 1: that is, Yeah, all these other injuries have been corner
Speaker 1: But when you're having guys like Ross Cockerell who can
Speaker 1: play both those different positions, or Mike or that you
Speaker 1: do pull sometimes those those corners and safeties, that's how
Speaker 1: you try to fill some of those holes. As guys
Speaker 1: who are able to play multiple positions. Well, now you've
Speaker 1: also maybe lost to safety, and again we still dont him.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll be able to clear protocol before next week. Um,
Speaker 1: but now that injury throws a whole other mix into
Speaker 1: things with the options of moving guys around there. Do
Speaker 1: you do you agree? Yeah, that's true. And um, as
Speaker 1: an example, you throughout Ross Cockrell throughout training camp, he
Speaker 1: learned to play safety and did very well there, and
Speaker 1: so you went into the season thinking, hey, this is
Speaker 1: our guy that we can kind of speckle over any
Speaker 1: one little injury at either spot. But then Sean murfy
Speaker 1: Bunding goes down in week one, and now Ross Cockerell
Speaker 1: is basically your slack corner and so you don't have
Speaker 1: him as an option at safety. And when anton Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield goes down, now you basically have Andrew Adams as
Speaker 1: because Mike Edwards steps into the starting spot. And so
Speaker 1: Andrew Adams, who we all trust. He's been great for
Speaker 1: us the last couple of years whenever he's had to
Speaker 1: step in. But again, you're thin at that spot, and
Speaker 1: you can't use Mike Edwards in the slot as another example,
Speaker 1: if he's playing safety. So the whole thing, the whole
Speaker 1: secondary is so thin and hopefully This is a temporary
Speaker 1: thing for most those guys, but right now, that's it's
Speaker 1: tough to deal with. And you see the Buccaneers they protected.
Speaker 1: You get to protect four practice squad guys every every week,
Speaker 1: and they protected Richard Robins in the corner and Troy
Speaker 1: Warner a safety that we really don't know much about.
Speaker 1: But you've got to be prepared to turn to those
Speaker 1: guys who have necessary And then we of course had
Speaker 1: Bella asking about how Gronk is doing, and what is
Speaker 1: his injury situation, and how the team is, how we
Speaker 1: saw this last week, how they tried to plug his hole,
Speaker 1: that he feels that. I mean, that's a a trusted guy.
Speaker 1: You know that that Brady loves to use. It's not
Speaker 1: like we don't have a lot of weapons, but he
Speaker 1: is sort of a unique one in that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing that Grunt gave you that even I mean,
Speaker 1: Cam Braden and O. J. Howard are great athletes and
Speaker 1: guys that have been proven producers. Um, but Gronk is
Speaker 1: the guy that is He's an every down tied end,
Speaker 1: the kind of guy you don't find a lot in
Speaker 1: the league because he's such a good blocker and he
Speaker 1: was playing about eight percent of his or eight or
Speaker 1: nine percent of his snaps in line, by which I'm
Speaker 1: lined up right next to the line as a blocker,
Speaker 1: whereas a lot of times these big pass catching tight
Speaker 1: ends like Travis Kelsey or guys like that, they spent
Speaker 1: a lot other times split out basically as a big receiver.
Speaker 1: If you have the guy that can play in line
Speaker 1: but also be a guy that produces a lot in
Speaker 1: the passing game, that's a real good weapon because a
Speaker 1: it helps you in the running game and in past protection,
Speaker 1: but be it makes a lot less obvious what you're
Speaker 1: gonna do with that guy. You know, if Travis Kelsey's
Speaker 1: lined up in the slot, obviously he's running around. You know,
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski lined up in line, you don't what you
Speaker 1: don't know what he's gonna do. And then you have
Speaker 1: two tight endsets and you throw Cam or Ojing in
Speaker 1: and it's really confusing to the defense what you're gonna do.
Speaker 1: So that's what you're losing with him. And just the
Speaker 1: fact that he was playing so well and seemed to
Speaker 1: be so spry and rejuvenated. It's a shame that he's
Speaker 1: dealing with this RIBS injury. From just a random hard
Speaker 1: hit that smashed him onto the ground. I would I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised if he was able to play this week
Speaker 1: when we're talking about fractured ribs. But we'll see he's
Speaker 1: a tough guy and speaking to people that never know
Speaker 1: what they'll be able to come back from JPP, what
Speaker 1: is what is the situation there? Do we know much
Speaker 1: about when he'd be available? When might we know something?
Speaker 1: And then also just how you have felt about the
Speaker 1: way they've been able to make up for his absence. Well,
Speaker 1: coach was a little noncommittal I would say on JPP
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the week. But it was a
Speaker 1: good sign obviously that he returned to practice at least
Speaker 1: in a limited fashion last Friday. That's obviously a step forward. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we'll know a little bit more in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. Although even even when he's not
Speaker 1: on the injury report, JPP usually doesn't practice the whole week. Anyways,
Speaker 1: they tried to just manage his, you know, his health overall. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously Joe tran Trienka stepped up really big
Speaker 1: in the last game. Uh. He had two sacks and
Speaker 1: I think three Quarterback hits and the overall the pressure
Speaker 1: was pretty good, especially compared to the first three games.
Speaker 1: We did blitz on about forty six percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps according to next Gen Stats, So um, you know,
Speaker 1: I guess we'd try different ways to get pressure on
Speaker 1: mac Jones, and it was it was a pretty good
Speaker 1: effort overall. I think we just missed him a number
Speaker 1: of other sacks and still got four, so it was
Speaker 1: a good sign. It was really great that Joe try
Speaker 1: and got his first couple of sacks because I think
Speaker 1: he's been playing really well overall, it just hasn't quite
Speaker 1: gotten home and this time he did. And then of
Speaker 1: course we had to pep weren't tuned in right at
Speaker 1: the beginning, where we had talked about stuff on Gilmore
Speaker 1: and just wanted to hear what is it a possibility,
Speaker 1: what it would take to make that happen. Is it
Speaker 1: something you think the team would want to do. Just
Speaker 1: because so many people are asking, I figured read since
Speaker 1: we we did already cover it, but there's some people
Speaker 1: who didn't get tuned in right away, so I figured
Speaker 1: I'd ask again. Okay, so it's okay just to repeat
Speaker 1: everything we said before. Yes, yeah, that's fine, including how
Speaker 1: much I like to pumpkin behind you. Yeah. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: can just pretend the whole beginning the show didn't happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I think the point I made before was h
Speaker 1: after the last eighteen months, with the way Jason Light
Speaker 1: has handled his roster, you can't count anything out. And
Speaker 1: it I mean, just on paper, it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: against the fact that it makes sense the Bucks have
Speaker 1: a need at the position. There's no necessary We don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know the timetable for Sean Murphy Bunting's return. We
Speaker 1: don't know yet how serious Carlton Davis. Davis's injury was.
Speaker 1: It certainly didn't look good on Sunday night. We'll probably
Speaker 1: get Jamel Bean back pretty soon. But um, this was
Speaker 1: the two thousand nineteen NFL Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 1: I know he's thirty two years old, but Jason Light
Speaker 1: has done a good job of picking uh the best
Speaker 1: thirties something your old free agents out there like Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown and and Rob Gronkowski. So I mean, it does.
Speaker 1: It's not It's not weird or unusual in any way
Speaker 1: to think that the Buckaneers might be interested. I think
Speaker 1: we have about two million dollars in cap space. You
Speaker 1: you usually can find a way to make more if
Speaker 1: you need to be if you need to, and um,
Speaker 1: obviously Jason Light has treated these last couple of years
Speaker 1: like there's an open championship window and I'm gonna do
Speaker 1: everything I can to make sure we take advantage of it.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that is going to do it for
Speaker 1: us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by
Speaker 1: Miller Light. Thanks for joining us, Thanks for those amazing questions,
Speaker 1: and we'll be back here next week. We'll see then, Uma,
Speaker 1: Thanks U.