Speaker 1: Um, we've had a few roster moves over the last
Speaker 1: few days, so figured we would start with that and
Speaker 1: just explained to everybody what all the different moves were
Speaker 1: and why we think they were made. Okay, well, yesterday
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers signed punter Sterling hoff Richter to the practice squad.
Speaker 1: That's not really any indication of any issues with Bradley Pinion.
Speaker 1: I think it's kind of like what the Bucks were
Speaker 1: doing late last season, getting some redundancy at the UH
Speaker 1: the specialist positions in case there's some kind of issue
Speaker 1: like that, you know, could happen with COVID. It's there
Speaker 1: seems there's a spike in cases around the league, so
Speaker 1: there's probably insurance in that regard. Hof Richter was the
Speaker 1: Falcons punter last year after they drafted him in the
Speaker 1: seventh round, but he lost out a battle for that
Speaker 1: job this year, so he was available. Um. The Buccaneers
Speaker 1: also put Jeovanni Bernard on injury reserve because of the
Speaker 1: hip injury that he suffered in Atlanta, so he'll have
Speaker 1: to miss at least three games and to help with
Speaker 1: the running back depth. We haven't announced it yet, but
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are out to announce that they've signed Kenyan Barner,
Speaker 1: who we've had before, to the practice squad. He's also
Speaker 1: a potential option in the return game, although Jalen Darden
Speaker 1: is back, so you know that's obviously his job, but
Speaker 1: it's some redundancy there. And we let go of John
Speaker 1: Hurst on the practice squad. So I think that's all
Speaker 1: of it right there, okay uh. And then Rachel had asked,
Speaker 1: why do you think Scotty Miller thing Rashard Robinson, the cornerback,
Speaker 1: is returning to practice this week. That means you're starting
Speaker 1: a three day win, a three week window where he
Speaker 1: could be activated to the active roster. Which is an
Speaker 1: interesting situation because and and coach Arians alluded to this
Speaker 1: about a week or so ago. You know, the Bucks
Speaker 1: have had so many problems with the cornerback situation that
Speaker 1: they've had to use so many players, and they're going
Speaker 1: on and off i R. But when they all start
Speaker 1: to come back now you almost have an embarrassment of
Speaker 1: riches and if you have to figure out who to
Speaker 1: keep and and what rosters you can make. So if
Speaker 1: Robinson were to return to the active roster, the Bucks
Speaker 1: would have eight cornerbacks on the roster and that's an
Speaker 1: awful lot. Yeah, that's gonna be interesting. It's funny how
Speaker 1: you go from that of having a shortage to an
Speaker 1: abundance just like that. Um okay, So Rachel had asked,
Speaker 1: why do you think Scotty Miller was inactive and hasn't
Speaker 1: been used as much recently? I just think it's because
Speaker 1: they really like what Brichard Perriman brings to the to
Speaker 1: the to the offense. You know, he's big and explosive
Speaker 1: and obviously we saw all of that on the game
Speaker 1: when he touchdown. Uh, they really like the way he's playing,
Speaker 1: and you have to make a tough decision that you know,
Speaker 1: you have I think six receivers on the active roster
Speaker 1: right now, and they can roll with five of them
Speaker 1: during a game, and it's kind of a game between
Speaker 1: do we keep up this extra quarterback, we keep up
Speaker 1: this extra running back who's helping us on special teams,
Speaker 1: And they decide that one of the receivers needs to
Speaker 1: be inactive to make the numbers work. And you have
Speaker 1: Jalen Darden returning kicks, and Jalen Darden is a bit
Speaker 1: like Scotty Miller and that they're both small fast guys,
Speaker 1: and so I think just think that in this particular case,
Speaker 1: they felt like they could get the things that they
Speaker 1: get from Scotty Miller from some of the other players.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean in any way that Scotty has fallen
Speaker 1: out of favor. I'm sure the coach would say the
Speaker 1: exact same thing if he's asked about it today. And
Speaker 1: probably Scotty Miller's time will come again. But sometimes you
Speaker 1: just have to make some tough decisions based on your
Speaker 1: opponent and what else you have at various positions. Right
Speaker 1: and and along those same lines, Daniel had asked, do
Speaker 1: you think we will see Brashon Perriman get used a
Speaker 1: lot more? And he said, especially if people are keen
Speaker 1: and on guys like Mike and Chris and Gronk. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be doing defense is much good.
Speaker 1: The key in on those guys. I mean, Chris said
Speaker 1: ten catches for a hundred five yards, and Mike had six,
Speaker 1: and Gronk had five for sixty two and just missed
Speaker 1: about two or three more downfield ones. So I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that just keing on the means you're taking them
Speaker 1: all away. That's the whole issue with the Bucks said
Speaker 1: of passing weapons is that you can't double everybody, So uh,
Speaker 1: teams have to make decisions lots of times that involves
Speaker 1: doubling Mike. But I think Breshard Perreman will just play
Speaker 1: more simply because they like what he's doing as the
Speaker 1: third receiver. And so you know, right now, at least
Speaker 1: and possibly longer, the team was that Antonio Brown who's
Speaker 1: their obvious third receiver, So they like what he's doing
Speaker 1: in that role. They like what Tyler Johnson is doing
Speaker 1: in that role. In Tyler actually played more Stamps than
Speaker 1: Brashade last year. So as I keep talking about this,
Speaker 1: it's clear it's just an embarrassment Riches. So yes, I
Speaker 1: think Breshad will continue to play a significant amount. But
Speaker 1: there's just so many miles defeed that you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to predict from one week to the next. Uh. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we had a couple of different questions about the
Speaker 1: Saints matchup. One was just about what the game plan
Speaker 1: is to beat them, and one is, uh, do you
Speaker 1: think we have a um better chance against them now
Speaker 1: due to health things than we've had in certain games previously.
Speaker 1: Just where we stand with our roster now um and
Speaker 1: especially compared to Theirs and their injury situations. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: the Saints have really gone through a bad patch with injuries.
Speaker 1: I would say that there's probably an overall worse than
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. The Buccaneers issue has basically been that they've
Speaker 1: been concentrated in the secondary and that's been you know,
Speaker 1: led to all the shuffling. But at some of the
Speaker 1: other positions, like offensive line as an example, the Bucks
Speaker 1: have been very fortunate while the Saints, who always have
Speaker 1: a great offensive line, have had to deal with the
Speaker 1: loss of one of their guards, Andrew's Pete. He's out
Speaker 1: for the year, and they spent several games without both
Speaker 1: of their tackles to Ron Armstead and Ryan Ramsack, both
Speaker 1: of who have been Pro Bowlers or All pros. So
Speaker 1: they've had to go through a lot. But they are
Speaker 1: starting to get healthy. And they got a bunch of
Speaker 1: guys back last week, including uh I can't remember all
Speaker 1: of them, but they got a bunch of well, Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara was the main one. They got a bunch of
Speaker 1: them back last week, and they played last week without
Speaker 1: three guys who are on the COVID list, including mark
Speaker 1: Ingram and Cameron Jordan's and those are big, big, important
Speaker 1: parts of what they're doing. But they should be off
Speaker 1: the off that list in time to play the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: So they've been through a lot, but they're actually starting
Speaker 1: to get pretty healthy right now. So you asked me
Speaker 1: about the Keys, I think to stop to doing better
Speaker 1: against them. It's different than the last time we played
Speaker 1: them because we started out with James Winston as a
Speaker 1: quarterback and then played mostly game against Trevor Simeon. But
Speaker 1: now it's now it's a Taysom Hill. And the problem
Speaker 1: with Taysom Hill is he's just really a difficult guy
Speaker 1: to tackle. He's doing amazing things on the ground. We
Speaker 1: saw what how much that could hurt with Josh Allen
Speaker 1: trying to play against the quarterback who will take off
Speaker 1: and rip off twin yard runs here and there, and
Speaker 1: so I think the key is figuring out how to
Speaker 1: keep Taysom Hill from hurting us with his legs. On offense,
Speaker 1: even though the Saints have one of the best defenses
Speaker 1: we face all year, h we just put up four
Speaker 1: and eighty eight yards against the number one ranked defense
Speaker 1: in the league. So I'm confident in our offense being
Speaker 1: able to move the ball and score against any defense.
Speaker 1: It just can we keep Taysom Hill in check on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball? Okay? And then uh
Speaker 1: we had um I lost it. All the comments kept rolling.
Speaker 1: Somebody was asking I was trying to find the name
Speaker 1: of who was Um, Oh, there it is Daniel, had asked,
Speaker 1: do you think that um Keyshawn Vaughn will see more
Speaker 1: playing time now with GEO going on I R, or
Speaker 1: do you think that it means Rojo will get a
Speaker 1: few more snaps? Are just kind of where where you
Speaker 1: make up for the loss of of GEO in the
Speaker 1: running background before you found out, I was gonna guess
Speaker 1: that the name was Daniel based on the propontates of
Speaker 1: questions from Daniels uh in most weeks here. UM, I
Speaker 1: don't think that that Geo's move to I R is
Speaker 1: going to lead to a huge uptick in snaps for
Speaker 1: UM for Keyshaw Vaughan, because what we're talking about replacing
Speaker 1: is GEO snaps, and he wasn't getting a ton of
Speaker 1: snaps anyway. He was getting some in third down is
Speaker 1: probably like ten a game, and uh yeah, maybe Keyshan
Speaker 1: will pick up some of those, but it's not like
Speaker 1: we're trying to replace the role that Leonard Fournette has
Speaker 1: or that Ronald Jones has. So I don't see why
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers would get away from their their saying basic
Speaker 1: rotation with the backs, especially because of how well Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette is playing, and because Leonard quite frankly, has been
Speaker 1: awesome as a third down back. He actually leads NFL
Speaker 1: running backs and receptions right now. Um, so there's not
Speaker 1: a whole lot that you really have to replace there.
Speaker 1: But it does mean, of course that I don't think
Speaker 1: we have to worry Keyshawn has to worry about whether
Speaker 1: he's active this week or not. You know, he's kind
Speaker 1: of been up or down. So that's good because he'll
Speaker 1: he'll be available to potentially get in the game on offense.
Speaker 1: And he's also been a pretty decent special teamer. He's
Speaker 1: been a pretty good gunner for us, So you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think it makes a huge difference in his role,
Speaker 1: but hopefully he'll get some some chances. Okay, we'll close
Speaker 1: with this. Stephen asked how many Pro Bowlers do you
Speaker 1: think we will have this year? And who I hate
Speaker 1: this question? How many should we have? How many you
Speaker 1: do I think we'll have. I think we have a
Speaker 1: better chance. You know, famously, last year, the Buccaneers won
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl and only had one Pro Bowler, Jason
Speaker 1: Peter Paul. That tied for the fewest Pro Bowlers that
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl champion has ever had. But you hope
Speaker 1: that that Super Bowl exposure for the Buccaneers, and you know,
Speaker 1: all the all the primetime games the Bucks have had
Speaker 1: the last two years will lead to our players are
Speaker 1: really good players, being more in people's minds. Um. I
Speaker 1: think the most likely and obvious one is Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna miss the Pro Bowl again
Speaker 1: this year. He's in running for m v P at
Speaker 1: this point. Um, it's so hard with all the great
Speaker 1: receivers in the league to predict if Chris or Mike
Speaker 1: will get in. UM. I think that's gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping this is the year that one of our
Speaker 1: offensive lineman breaks through. Maybe Alain Marbett, maybe Tristan Worse.
Speaker 1: Donovan Smith has certainly had a Pro Bowl caliber season. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then on defense, Devin White was doing well in
Speaker 1: the fan voting. Shaq Barrett might get over Tin Sachs. Uh.
Speaker 1: We always hope for Lavonte David, but he's perennially underrated.
Speaker 1: I'll say four. Okay, that seems like a good That
Speaker 1: seems like a good. Numbers, probably not still, probably less
Speaker 1: than the bucks deserved. But yes, this is what we
Speaker 1: think might happen versus what we think should happen, which
Speaker 1: would be a team full of Buccaneers, because that's how
Speaker 1: we feel. All right. Well, thanks as always for those
Speaker 1: great questions. That's gonna do it for us here on
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Insider Live. But we'll be back here next week.
Speaker 1: We'll see you then. FI four