Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Hey there, Bucks fans. How's it going.
Speaker 1: It's time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller. Like
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips here with Scott Smith, and this is the
Speaker 1: insider we've all been waiting for. His football things have
Speaker 1: started happening. There's actual football happening on the field now
Speaker 1: again no pads, not yet. We've still gotta wait a
Speaker 1: little bit for that. But after this offseason, we will
Speaker 1: take whatever we can get out there. So uh, and
Speaker 1: we've had exciting news of signings and it just so
Speaker 1: much has been going on this last week. So let's
Speaker 1: go ahead and start for now with Lashawn McCoy that edition.
Speaker 1: And I wanted to hear your thoughts on that signing overall,
Speaker 1: and then now that we've also gotten to hear from him,
Speaker 1: he spoke to the media the day, which if you
Speaker 1: haven't gotten a chance to see that, it's up on
Speaker 1: buccaneers dot com. So based on the signing and then
Speaker 1: what you've heard from him saying in his media session,
Speaker 1: what are your initial thoughts. Yeah, I'll get to Lashan
Speaker 1: in the second. I wanted to start by saying something
Speaker 1: I forgot last week, which was the first time I
Speaker 1: was back in the office doing this that the only
Speaker 1: reason I can do this without wearing a mask is
Speaker 1: I'm in my own office with the door closed and
Speaker 1: nobody else in here. Otherwise I, like everybody else, has
Speaker 1: to wear a mask everywhere we go. I didn't want
Speaker 1: anybody watching this to think that I'm messing up with
Speaker 1: the rules and endanger in the team because player safety
Speaker 1: and getting the season going is the number one issue.
Speaker 1: So there's right there. There is also that that lanyard
Speaker 1: has a chip tracer in it. If I get within
Speaker 1: ten feet of a player, it starts beeping in a
Speaker 1: very annoying noise. It makes me feel like a criminal,
Speaker 1: so um, believe me, that won't happen. Yes, And it's
Speaker 1: funny because it makes me think that it's like a
Speaker 1: shock caller, Like I think about that with dogs where
Speaker 1: they get close to the fence and it's like beets
Speaker 1: to warn them that I'd love to see if you
Speaker 1: kept going if it also has a bit of a
Speaker 1: shock factor, And I thought, I'm not gonna find out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's not find out the noise that the noise has
Speaker 1: battened up. Believe me, believe me on that Lashawn McCoy. Yes,
Speaker 1: he he got signed early enough yesterday, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it had been reported for several days. But he still
Speaker 1: had to do the COVID test and had to do
Speaker 1: the normal physical but he got it all done in
Speaker 1: Thailand Tuesday morning to go out on the field with
Speaker 1: the team. So he's already had one and he's doing
Speaker 1: one now, I presume workout with the team. And then
Speaker 1: he did a one of these zoom interviews afterwards, and
Speaker 1: I really I really enjoyed his interview. And you know,
Speaker 1: you can tell a guy is is not phoning it in.
Speaker 1: He's he's actually really paying attention and looking Francis when
Speaker 1: he makes like good natured jokes. He's not just saying
Speaker 1: whatever cliche one day at a time. Give somebody asked
Speaker 1: him what Several times he was asked about what he
Speaker 1: thought his role would be in the offense, and um,
Speaker 1: he answered, well, I think I'll probably get somewhere between
Speaker 1: twenty and twenty five carries a game. And my brain
Speaker 1: went immediately before I realized it was a joke. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: that's like the feature back, Like very few guys get
Speaker 1: twenty five carries in the game, and if they do.
Speaker 1: They're like Ezekiel Elliott. You know, it's not a common
Speaker 1: thing in today's nfluh. And then then he cracked and
Speaker 1: started laughing. And he doesn't know, nobody knows yet what
Speaker 1: his role is going to be. But this is a
Speaker 1: guy um that average four point six yards per carry
Speaker 1: last year with the Chiefs. Now he his role was
Speaker 1: reduced and he didn't really get to play in the
Speaker 1: priests in the postseason, but he was pretty good when
Speaker 1: he was on the field. And he's started two years old.
Speaker 1: He's coming off his lowest production season because he didn't
Speaker 1: get to play that much of his career. But I
Speaker 1: still think it's a guy that might have something offer.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out, and it kind of makes that
Speaker 1: running back room catch up to the tight ends and
Speaker 1: the receivers in terms of there's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: there and it's hard to tell who's gonna get fed
Speaker 1: the football the most. But we'll find out. Is something
Speaker 1: I have to figure out pretty quickly, of course, with
Speaker 1: the you know, with a short training camp. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1: And just a reminder to everyone, we always love answering
Speaker 1: your questions, so go ahead and put those in the comments.
Speaker 1: Section underneath the Facebook live video. UM, and I know that.
Speaker 1: You know, we just talked about the fact that we
Speaker 1: don't exactly know what Lashawn McCoy's role is going to be,
Speaker 1: but we did see that. Clifton asked, what kind of
Speaker 1: impact can you see him having at his age? So
Speaker 1: knowing the Lashawn McCoy that we've seen in his six
Speaker 1: Pro bowls in those years, UM, how similar different do
Speaker 1: you feel like he could be? Or just even looking
Speaker 1: at this Buck's offense and what they might need looking
Speaker 1: at maybe why they signed him, what would your guests
Speaker 1: be about what they want him to be doing. I
Speaker 1: think he's something of an insurance policy. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: we did have three running backs go on the COVID list.
Speaker 1: Now that's probably temporary, and it doesn't even mean that
Speaker 1: any of them or all of them contracted the virus.
Speaker 1: They could have just been in contact with someone who did. UM.
Speaker 1: So you know, at the moment you're down a few bodies.
Speaker 1: But also in the regular season, you're counting on either
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones becoming more of a receiver or Keyshawn von
Speaker 1: the rookie coming in and they think he can be
Speaker 1: a pass catcher. And I want to differentiate. And Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones actually sort of alluded to this, and I'm sorry
Speaker 1: not Ronald Jones, uh. Lashawn McCoy actually alluded to this
Speaker 1: when he was talking yesterday that there's a difference between
Speaker 1: being the checkdown guy the quarterback looks around, can't find
Speaker 1: me open, checks it down to the running back who's
Speaker 1: out in the flat um. Most running backs can do
Speaker 1: that just fine, but but they often offenses will ask
Speaker 1: running backs to go split out into the slot and
Speaker 1: run an actual receiver routes, not necessarily deep ones, but
Speaker 1: a number of difference he routes. And he mentioned that
Speaker 1: he can do that, and I think we believe the
Speaker 1: team believes that that Keishawn Von can probably do that too.
Speaker 1: But you don't really know. You don't know for sure,
Speaker 1: and because there's such an abbreviated time before the season starts,
Speaker 1: it's probably a little, I don't know, you feel a
Speaker 1: little unsure about expecting a rookie to do exactly what
Speaker 1: you're hoping he will do. Now, running back is a
Speaker 1: position that a lot of rookies can assimilate into the
Speaker 1: NFL very quickly. There's rookies who make big impacts at
Speaker 1: running back every year, more so than most positions. But
Speaker 1: still they don't have a lot of time, so you're
Speaker 1: not sure. So you know, and and Bruce and and
Speaker 1: Jason I had both talked about how in today's NFL
Speaker 1: most teams have a running back by committee. I think
Speaker 1: that's what Bruce arians wants. It also allows you, it
Speaker 1: gives you depth. So if guys aren't available by for
Speaker 1: injury or illness, for other reason, you have other guys available.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what happened with the Chiefs last year.
Speaker 1: You know, they he did a lot early on, and
Speaker 1: then his role kind of diminished because they had other guys,
Speaker 1: and you know, getting through the season, it might take
Speaker 1: all of those guys. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um. Scotty
Speaker 1: Martinez asked, how is Gronk looking coming a year out
Speaker 1: of practice? Does he look like he never skipped a
Speaker 1: beat or look a little sluggish? He looks big. He
Speaker 1: looks very big. You know. I watched the practice the offenses,
Speaker 1: uh practices on Monday and Tuesday. They're running a lot
Speaker 1: of routes and uh, you know, as far as I
Speaker 1: could tell, he looks like he's moving just fine. I
Speaker 1: did highlight one play. At the very end on Monday,
Speaker 1: they were doing red zone throws and for the most
Speaker 1: of receivers those were back corner fades. You know, these
Speaker 1: are just this isn't giving anything away because these are
Speaker 1: regular routes that every team runs practices that weren slants
Speaker 1: and posts and so on, And there were running some
Speaker 1: routes for the tight ends end up in the back
Speaker 1: of the end zone and Tom Brady threw it like
Speaker 1: fifteen feet in the air because he knew that gron
Speaker 1: could go. Man. And Gronk is six ft six two
Speaker 1: whatever he is now sixty pounds, you know, that's why
Speaker 1: he's trying to get to He's already six ft six
Speaker 1: with long arms when he also jumps, and I mean
Speaker 1: he caught a ball so high, and I'm like, nobody
Speaker 1: could have gotten that. A quarterback can throw it there
Speaker 1: and know it won't be intercepted and maybe this guy
Speaker 1: can go get it. So that was the most eye
Speaker 1: opening thing I saw from Gronk on the first couple
Speaker 1: of plays. That sounds exciting. I can't wait to well.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I just think about that, you know,
Speaker 1: cambraid and you know they've just been the red zone
Speaker 1: options now and Mike Evans and how big and long
Speaker 1: he is, Like, it really does feel like the play
Speaker 1: can just be Brady covering his eyes and throwing it
Speaker 1: up and one of those guys is going to come
Speaker 1: down with it. Uh that that'll be my contribution to play.
Speaker 1: I'll tell Byron this is my idea. Tell him to
Speaker 1: turnin backwards, heave it over his head. One of one
Speaker 1: of those guys has it. Um Okay, Daniel said, I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about our depth in the defensive line and outside
Speaker 1: linebacker at the ass rusher. Have you heard that they
Speaker 1: have anyone in their sites? Well, I agree on half
Speaker 1: of that. I think the d line, the the down
Speaker 1: lineman depth is fine, especially within domin con Sue Nacho's back.
Speaker 1: I know we lost bow Allen, but he really didn't
Speaker 1: have a ton of snaps last year. Um Nacho can
Speaker 1: take more of those We drafted Khalil Davis, h we
Speaker 1: got Will Goldston, Vita Vella Vita Vea is probably gonna
Speaker 1: take more snaps this year. That's what Todd Bole said.
Speaker 1: So I don't think we have any issues with depth
Speaker 1: on the down lineman. I agree on the outside linebackers,
Speaker 1: at least in terms of there's not much proven behind
Speaker 1: Shack and jpp Um. Anthony Nelson is obviously the best hope,
Speaker 1: the best case scenario the drafting the fourth round pick
Speaker 1: that I know. They felt really good about getting him
Speaker 1: in the fourth round. Last year saw his rookie season
Speaker 1: kind of slowed down by hamstring injuries, but they liked
Speaker 1: what he did when he was in practice. Um, if
Speaker 1: he could step up and be the next Carl Massive,
Speaker 1: that third man in the rotation or a guy that
Speaker 1: starts when somebody's not available, I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 1: But it's it's definitely fair to be worried about that. Um,
Speaker 1: do they have anybody? There's a lot of guys still unsigned,
Speaker 1: claim Matthews types that are unsigned. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Bucks are looking at him or not. At the moment.
Speaker 1: They actually have to get the roster down by a
Speaker 1: few spots before August six, so it's a possibility. Um,
Speaker 1: it wouldn't shock me. I mean, I was saying all along,
Speaker 1: I didn't think we're gonna sign another running back, and
Speaker 1: then we signed with Shawn McCoy, So so what do
Speaker 1: we know? Like, I just think that I had a
Speaker 1: lot to do with it feeling like a good fit
Speaker 1: and maybe maybe worried about the depth there, so it
Speaker 1: could be the same issue, yeah, Sean said. Tristan mentioned
Speaker 1: last week and his interview with the media he was
Speaker 1: looking forward to going against the best pass rushers in
Speaker 1: the league, including Shock. How fun is that matchup going
Speaker 1: to be in practice? Um, and then I'll add my
Speaker 1: little part out of the question of how important is
Speaker 1: that for him to have guys like that in practice
Speaker 1: with such a reduced offseason, no preseason games. I mean,
Speaker 1: you kind of forget the impact that having good players
Speaker 1: on your team has on your team in practice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a very good point. He's gonna need He's
Speaker 1: gonna need those guys too, Sharpen and iron On ironed, Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get any preseason games, and the first
Speaker 1: time he takes a live snap will count and he'll
Speaker 1: be protecting Tom Brady presuming he wins the right tackle job.
Speaker 1: And of course, Bruce Arian said, no, no, rookie is
Speaker 1: guaranteed a jobs, so he still has to win it.
Speaker 1: But he's obviously the guy that they're expecting to be
Speaker 1: the one step in there. You know, it's a tough
Speaker 1: transition for even the best offensive tackle prospects to transition
Speaker 1: from the college into the NFL. And that's even from
Speaker 1: a from a like an old line factory like Iowa.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys. You can hardly find a guy
Speaker 1: that you could expect to be more ready for the
Speaker 1: NFL to make that instant transition than Tristan Worth. So
Speaker 1: that's good news, but it's still a tough position to
Speaker 1: make a transition at and that's particularly true in pass blocking.
Speaker 1: And and you know he's gonna right off the bat,
Speaker 1: He's gonna have Cameron Amaron Jordans, like you said, and
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of let up on the schedule.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of good pass rushers there. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if Shaq, can you know, give him a little welcome
Speaker 1: to the NFL this is what it's like here and
Speaker 1: JPP as well, Um, that will help a lot. But
Speaker 1: you know what I liked about Tristan works because that
Speaker 1: question was mentioning his interview the other day. He he
Speaker 1: didn't he wasn't really willing to go with you know
Speaker 1: that common Hey, you're such a nice it's clearly like
Speaker 1: he seems like a gentle, nice guy when you're when
Speaker 1: you're watching them on these in interviews, He's like, do
Speaker 1: you have a switch that flips and then you're a
Speaker 1: mean nasty dude on the field. He's like, no, not really.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't think you have to flip a switch.
Speaker 1: You just have to beat your guy and then beat
Speaker 1: him again on the next snap, and then beat him
Speaker 1: again on the next snap, and then that's just as
Speaker 1: good as like, you know, talk of trash and spitting
Speaker 1: and yelling at him. If you just beat him constantly,
Speaker 1: that's as intimidating as being a mean, nasty guy and
Speaker 1: flipping the switch. I just really like that answer. I
Speaker 1: thought it was it was very genuine. Yes, I agree
Speaker 1: with that, and it's true. I mean, we think so
Speaker 1: much about whatever kind of attitude you have to have
Speaker 1: all your do your job. Who if you're doing your job,
Speaker 1: who cares? I much rather have a guy that's nice
Speaker 1: and gets his job done, and a guy that's trash
Speaker 1: talking and me and all the time, and then you know,
Speaker 1: gets beat like yeah, I mean, I know before we
Speaker 1: started this, a couple of minutes before we started, I
Speaker 1: started just yelling and screaming obscenities at you, just just
Speaker 1: to flip that switch to get ready exactly. That's how
Speaker 1: I got everybody's like that. That's why I was like,
Speaker 1: I know Scott's ready. Now that's ready. Um. Byron and
Speaker 1: we kind of talked about this in terms of the
Speaker 1: Lashawn McCoy signing and then also with uh defensive ends
Speaker 1: and you know, different other the positions, but he has
Speaker 1: Do you think we'll have another big signing before the
Speaker 1: season starts. If so, I think it would be an
Speaker 1: outside landbacker. Um. You know, I think Lashawn McCoy is
Speaker 1: probably the big shot you took right before camp. It's
Speaker 1: not a time when teams in the Bucks in particular
Speaker 1: have generally added big names. It happens from time to time.
Speaker 1: You know, you got the Logan Makings trade a few
Speaker 1: years ago and stuff like that. Sure, and the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: clearly are all in. I mean, every move that has
Speaker 1: been made this offseason has proven that they're all in.
Speaker 1: So it wouldn't be shocking, but it's not something that
Speaker 1: normally happens. Okay, Jermaine asked, how many Pro Bowlers do
Speaker 1: you think we will produce this year? Jermaine Jermaine phillips, Nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1: You used to call him Flip. That was his nickname.
Speaker 1: I like that nickname. Um, how many Pro Bowlers we
Speaker 1: I think we talked about this, didn't we? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: think maybe that somebody suggested they thought five or so. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought that was crazy, and then I started counting it.
Speaker 1: I mean, we already had Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and
Speaker 1: Shack last year. So and and all those guys obviously
Speaker 1: are quite capable of repeating. And especially once you get
Speaker 1: your foot in the door in the Pro Bowl and
Speaker 1: you've been to a few of them, you get that
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl momentum. I'm not sure the Pro Bowl is
Speaker 1: actually gonna be played, by the way, but they will
Speaker 1: probably still pick it even if they don't play it.
Speaker 1: So you can start with those three. Is a pretty
Speaker 1: decent guest. And we're all hoping that, um, the greater
Speaker 1: attention that's gonna come to the Bucks because we have
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and Rock Brenkowski and we're considered, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: good postseason candidates will shine a spotlight on guys that
Speaker 1: maybe have been underappreciated. Obviously, the poster boy for that,
Speaker 1: for good reason is Lavante David. Um, you could see
Speaker 1: that a lot of people think this might be an
Speaker 1: opportunity for Alan mar Pett or Ryan Jensen, some of
Speaker 1: the good offensive lineman Donovan Smith that have been playing well.
Speaker 1: I don't think you get more than one of them,
Speaker 1: but you might get one of those guys. Maybe Alan
Speaker 1: mar Pett gets his first Pro Bowl and already you're
Speaker 1: at five at this point, right, So maybe Devin. If
Speaker 1: Devin White becomes the playmaker that everybody expects, he could
Speaker 1: be a top ten linebacker in the NFL and which
Speaker 1: might make hip top five in the NFC, and he
Speaker 1: could get in there. Um. You know, Bruce Arians said
Speaker 1: the other day that he thinks Carlton Davis is a
Speaker 1: top ten cornerback in the NFL. If that's the case
Speaker 1: and it's recognized, he's got a shot at the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: So you know, know, all those guys aren't gonna make it.
Speaker 1: But um, I could see if the Bucks win. And
Speaker 1: that's what happened in the nineties when they were winning,
Speaker 1: they were getting five, six, one time eight guys in
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. And you stop winning, you go for
Speaker 1: a few years and you're happy when you get one
Speaker 1: or two. So if the Bucks win, I would say five, Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's gonna do it for us on this edition
Speaker 1: of Buccaneers Inside Our Live presented by Miller Lite. Thanks
Speaker 1: as always for those awesome questions. We are so excited
Speaker 1: that football is happening again out there at Advent Health
Speaker 1: Training Center, and we're also getting even closer to Scott
Speaker 1: and I getting to do training camp live. So I
Speaker 1: know it's tough for people knowing they won't be able
Speaker 1: to come to training camp practices. We're gonna do our
Speaker 1: best to get you as much coverage and make you
Speaker 1: feel as much like you were there as possible. So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be starting in about a week and a
Speaker 1: half hopefully. Uh So, Yeah, thanks for tuning in, thanks
Speaker 1: for all those questions, and we'll see you next week.