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Speaker 1: So it's a nice little Bucks community over there. Head
Speaker 1: over to the Facebook live page. And as people start
Speaker 1: sending some of those in, I know you've got a
Speaker 1: new piece up that you're working on today about the
Speaker 1: second year players of what they're going to need to do,
Speaker 1: the jumps that could happen. So I want to hear
Speaker 1: some of those things that you know, you don't have
Speaker 1: to give the whole article people to read it. So
Speaker 1: we're a week away from the Rookies reporting. The Rookies
Speaker 1: report a couple of days before the veterans, and that
Speaker 1: got me thinking about last year's Rookies and it was
Speaker 1: a really good rookie class. I mean, the first four
Speaker 1: draftees all produced a lot. Three of the forward starters.
Speaker 1: And the one that wasn't really was Chris Godwin, who
Speaker 1: everybody thinks is going to be starting the long run,
Speaker 1: he's just kind of a little bit blocked from playing time. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, there was there was only a six man
Speaker 1: class and Jeremy McNichols didn't make it and Stevie Twoe
Speaker 1: Colavado got hurt. So we're talking about those four guys,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're gonna be really focusing on our
Speaker 1: new rookies here pretty soon. But I wanted to go
Speaker 1: back and look at those guys, including Stevie Twoe Colavato,
Speaker 1: and just set some reasonable goals for them in their
Speaker 1: second season because a lot of times people talk about
Speaker 1: players making the big leap in their second year because
Speaker 1: they've had a full offseason in the NFL. They've also
Speaker 1: had a season where they've kind of become acclimated and
Speaker 1: got used to speed the game. And so a lot
Speaker 1: of guys are good players, uh that end up being
Speaker 1: good players make a big leap from year one year two.
Speaker 1: A good example for the Buccaneers was Lavonte David. We
Speaker 1: know how good he was right his very first year.
Speaker 1: He was very promising. He looked like he was gonna
Speaker 1: be really good player, Like maybe this was the second
Speaker 1: round steal. But you know, the numbers were kind of pedestrian.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe eight hund tackles but not a lot
Speaker 1: of big plays. His second year was that you we
Speaker 1: had like five interceptions and seven sacks and made a
Speaker 1: first team All Pro. That's the year to leap. Now,
Speaker 1: we don't necessarily need any of our guys from last
Speaker 1: year to make as big of a jump as that
Speaker 1: to help the team a lot, but it would be
Speaker 1: good if all four of those guys took a step forward.
Speaker 1: So so if let's if I said to you, O J. Howard,
Speaker 1: what would you guess is maybe what I might think
Speaker 1: is would be a good goal for him, a good
Speaker 1: goal for him something I would guess, something around the
Speaker 1: lines of maybe some of the red zone stuff, because
Speaker 1: that's I always I know that you always love talking
Speaker 1: about that with the offense, and that's something they're focusing on.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, I mean, just maybe some more that
Speaker 1: would be a good one. But he did have six touchdowns, um,
Speaker 1: although they were a lot of more. Yeah, what I
Speaker 1: talked about was his run blocking. Oh yeah, you know
Speaker 1: he came in with the reputation, and he did a
Speaker 1: good job at at Alabama run blocking, so sort of
Speaker 1: a fully formed, complete y type tight end. And I
Speaker 1: don't think anybody was completely satisfied with the run blocking
Speaker 1: from the Titans in general unless you're but they all
Speaker 1: every our coaches all believe he's very much capable of it.
Speaker 1: So with an off season at work on that, if
Speaker 1: his run blocking is a lot better, that will mean
Speaker 1: a lot for our defense. Yeah, did you want to
Speaker 1: do another one? Where do you get questions coming? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So I think we're having a bit of an issue
Speaker 1: with our link on Facebook, uh not popping up live.
Speaker 1: So I'm giving i'm tough fans to go over there.
Speaker 1: We're we're unfortunately at the moment, I don't think live
Speaker 1: on face Book. So if you do have some questions,
Speaker 1: maybe head over to Twitter. If there our way that
Speaker 1: we used to rock and roll on Twitter, if you
Speaker 1: want to use that hashtag bucks live on Twitter. I'll
Speaker 1: also search there and kind of bounce back and forth
Speaker 1: on Facebook see if we are able to get the
Speaker 1: live stream. So we're just doing this on the fly
Speaker 1: right now, professionals, I know, right, you never know live television.
Speaker 1: This is what happened, so, um, yeah, you know, live things. Um,
Speaker 1: So I know I already know before we even got
Speaker 1: any of the questions today or anything, um, that we
Speaker 1: always get the stuff about two different things, the safety.
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna go and ask the questions because
Speaker 1: I can tell that this is the stuff that people
Speaker 1: every time. And you know, it's not like everyone gets
Speaker 1: to tune in every week when we do this, So
Speaker 1: I already know every week we get the questions about
Speaker 1: the safeties, who's gonna start a safety? And we get
Speaker 1: the questions about the wide receivers. And I think, to me,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver one in particular is going to be
Speaker 1: really interesting because it's less about starters and who's not
Speaker 1: starting and more about just all the different ways these
Speaker 1: guys could get used and the different weapons there. So
Speaker 1: I know you get tired of that one too, So
Speaker 1: you talk about receivers. Okay. So there's a funny little
Speaker 1: thing that happens every year around this time of year,
Speaker 1: you know, in the off season and then especially when
Speaker 1: training camp starts, where every day in training camp there's
Speaker 1: another receiver, maybe a young guy who makes who makes
Speaker 1: a big impact, and everybody's talking about them and you
Speaker 1: get you get about a week into training camp and like,
Speaker 1: we've got eight or nine receivers. How are we going
Speaker 1: to possibly pair this down to five or six? That's
Speaker 1: what we all think while we're watching it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the coaches don't think that way, because they're breaking down
Speaker 1: every single play, not just the ones that flashed to
Speaker 1: you and I, but uh, and then by the end
Speaker 1: of training camp, by the end of the preseason, you
Speaker 1: know you you're struggling to keep five or six that
Speaker 1: you think make up your best core. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's what we're gonna have this year. Think we're gonna love.
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna be legitimate. I think we're gonna
Speaker 1: be legitimately looking at least eight guys and thinking, man,
Speaker 1: I want to keep all of these guys. That's all right,
Speaker 1: because when you started right off the bat, can you
Speaker 1: imagine barring injury? And we should just say that for
Speaker 1: any questions, So let's just get that all the way,
Speaker 1: So forget the injury thing. Can you imagine not keeping
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, DeShawn Jackson, Chris Godwin, and Adam Humphreys. That's
Speaker 1: like a baseline four, no doubt, right, right, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 1: and then you just spend a fifth round pick on
Speaker 1: a receiver that seems promising, big fast, Justin Watson out
Speaker 1: of pin Yeah, yeah, he seems like a really interesting
Speaker 1: and yeah, we we are at least live on Facebook now,
Speaker 1: so people can't go there now that they know if
Speaker 1: you don't have a Twitter or something. So that's five guys.
Speaker 1: Fifth round draft picks aren't a lock. You know. We
Speaker 1: actually had one that didn't make it last year and
Speaker 1: Jeraman McNichols, but they make it more often than not.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to say I think Justin Watson has
Speaker 1: a nine percent chance he's he's a fifth guy there,
Speaker 1: He's got five without a hardly even thinking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but then everybody's been raving about Bobo Wilson. Coaches do
Speaker 1: seem to really enjoy him. One of my favorite things
Speaker 1: is listening to the wide receiver coach Skylar yell Bobo's
Speaker 1: name all the time, like he I think he just
Speaker 1: genuinely loves yelling Bobo. And so I have no idea
Speaker 1: if this has anything to do with how he's doing
Speaker 1: as a player, but I know, yeah, I'm like, you
Speaker 1: can just tell that he's out there like that's right, Bobo,
Speaker 1: Like over and over. I feel like it's one of
Speaker 1: those games where we shouldtart counting how many times we
Speaker 1: can to hear. But that's probably a good thing. That
Speaker 1: is probably they want to be you want to coach,
Speaker 1: You want your your name in your coach's mouth, right,
Speaker 1: and you weren't going to be talking about you. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know Freddie Martine. I liked what Freddie did last year.
Speaker 1: I thought he was a real asset to the team.
Speaker 1: And he's one of those guys that can play all
Speaker 1: the positions and that's a great thing to have as
Speaker 1: a backup. You know. He can play the slot, he
Speaker 1: can play on the outside. Where is a guy like
Speaker 1: Bernard Ready, another guy we can talk about who might
Speaker 1: have a shot at winning the kick return job like
Speaker 1: he did last year. Uh, he's more of a slot
Speaker 1: guy period, you know, so he could he still could
Speaker 1: bring a lot of value. But then Freddie is a
Speaker 1: little bit more versaile. Plus Freddie Martino is a fantastic
Speaker 1: special teams player. So there's now where when we got
Speaker 1: seven there and I'm sure I'm forgetting somebody, uh you know,
Speaker 1: so there's just oh, well, I eight if you can
Speaker 1: Bernard Reading. So I would not be shocked by any
Speaker 1: of those guys making a team, except for the fact
Speaker 1: that you're not going to keep eight receivers. So if
Speaker 1: you if let's say Bobbo Wilson makes it again like
Speaker 1: he did eventually last year, who's that at the expensive
Speaker 1: and does does that depth there mean they're more he
Speaker 1: keeps six when five is probably the easiest number because
Speaker 1: it gives you another spot, maybe another tight end or
Speaker 1: another running back. But if you're forced to keep six,
Speaker 1: maybe because one of them is a great special teamer
Speaker 1: like Freddie or or a kick return or like Bernard Reading,
Speaker 1: you're losing out on another spot. But if they're that good,
Speaker 1: you don't want to let him go. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: really great point. All right. Wait a question here from
Speaker 1: Philip who said, what is the most intriguing new rule
Speaker 1: in the league. That's a good question. Well, it has
Speaker 1: to be the helmet thing, right, because nobody knows what's
Speaker 1: going to come of it. I will say that maybe
Speaker 1: the maybe intriguing isn't the right word for that one,
Speaker 1: because it's just so much uncertainty, and I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people are very worried about it. So if
Speaker 1: I can answer that question again, get the mulligan here. Um,
Speaker 1: the new kickoff stuff is going to be entertaining to me.
Speaker 1: And I actually interviewed our special team's coach, Nate cats Er,
Speaker 1: and you know that's obviously the number one authority in
Speaker 1: this building on right, Uh, and he obviously knows everything
Speaker 1: there is to know about that and what effect it
Speaker 1: could possibly be. And even he says, we don't really
Speaker 1: know for sure yet. We might be five or six
Speaker 1: weeks in the season until we know which way this
Speaker 1: is going. Is this favoring the coverage teams and making
Speaker 1: returns less likely, or is this favoring the return teams
Speaker 1: and we're gonna have a you know a lot more
Speaker 1: big returns, more touchdowns. Uh, we don't know yet. So
Speaker 1: that's I guess that's why. Was the word intriguing, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I think that makes it intriguing, whereas the helmet thing
Speaker 1: is more like worrisome. Yeah, that's really sure what the
Speaker 1: impact of that one is going to be. And we've
Speaker 1: seen how things like the catch rule that when there's
Speaker 1: a little bit of ambiguity, it can result in I mean,
Speaker 1: it will be interesting to see. Um, I think the
Speaker 1: catch rule would have a lot more impact on a
Speaker 1: game with the ambiguity because of how often catches are
Speaker 1: a thing. But now they cleared that up. But now
Speaker 1: clear that up, and so hopefully this can be one
Speaker 1: of those where they learned from that and it can
Speaker 1: be cleared up quickly and it doesn't end up causing
Speaker 1: too much question. It doesn't end up costing anybody a game.
Speaker 1: It's not a big defining character. Thing I don't like
Speaker 1: about the new catch rule is that I have a
Speaker 1: friend who's a Dallas Cowboys fan, and we've always argued
Speaker 1: about the doz Brian playing Green Bay and always felt
Speaker 1: like crying Alice of death. I just I just like
Speaker 1: to torture him, and so I always took the side
Speaker 1: of they got it right. But I could always fall
Speaker 1: back on well, I know it's it's maybe a silly
Speaker 1: rule and it looked like a catch but by the rules,
Speaker 1: which I can't do that anymore. So I'll just probably
Speaker 1: have to stop being friends with that guy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that seems like the only answer. She's a Dallas
Speaker 1: Covers fan, so it'll be easy, so not that challenging. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: those people from Dallas are the worst. Darien says, do
Speaker 1: you see us adding depth at running back in the
Speaker 1: future in is a D A R A and and
Speaker 1: it's not former Buccaneers running back Darian Barnes, because I'd
Speaker 1: be pretty cool that would be she was asking. That
Speaker 1: would be quite some insight there. So are we gonna
Speaker 1: add running back death? Yes, I don't see the need um,
Speaker 1: you know, because Ronald Jones and Peyton Barber seemed like
Speaker 1: a lock as your primary ball carriers. We don't know
Speaker 1: yet how how they're going to share the carriers, but
Speaker 1: I would suspect between the two of them they get,
Speaker 1: you know, of the carries. Jack Was Rodgers is already there.
Speaker 1: The coaches love Jock Was Rodgers. Okay, they love him.
Speaker 1: They say he's so smart, he knows the game so well.
Speaker 1: He's like another coach on the field, and he can
Speaker 1: kind of fill in whatever role you need. He could
Speaker 1: be your third down back because he used to do
Speaker 1: that in Atlanta for Dirk Cutter. He can be here
Speaker 1: every down and back. We saw he got a chance.
Speaker 1: He had a couple hundred yard games in a row.
Speaker 1: He's a really nice depth piece to have there. And
Speaker 1: then Charles Sims you know, there's still that possibility there
Speaker 1: of another two thousand fifteen type season out of Charles Simms,
Speaker 1: where he was the perfect compliment to Doug Martin. He
Speaker 1: caught a lot of passes. He's very good at that.
Speaker 1: And if he's if he's allowed to focus on that
Speaker 1: specifically as his role and he gets some playing time,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's still a useful player there. And then
Speaker 1: I've said before on these that I kind of am
Speaker 1: intrigued by the undrafted rookie Shawn Wilson, how a duke.
Speaker 1: So I'm not exactly sure what more depth at running
Speaker 1: back would do for you, because you're talking you're not
Speaker 1: gonna find a guy right now that you're gonna bring
Speaker 1: in and decide he's Here's he's your main guy over
Speaker 1: Peyton and Ronald Jones. Right, So you're talking about a
Speaker 1: depth guy who's going to see limited snaps and we've
Speaker 1: already got that Jack's ri I don't really think it's necessary.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. West wants to know who's the
Speaker 1: favorite at right guard. I think I've asked to answered
Speaker 1: this before and I'll have to stick with the same answer.
Speaker 1: So it does, and I'm waffling Caleb Benenock, Jared's before
Speaker 1: we had to say if Jared Sweeze comes back then
Speaker 1: you know from his health issue, then he'd be in
Speaker 1: the mix. But he's been released since, so that's not
Speaker 1: a part of the picture anymore. And to me, the
Speaker 1: leader is Caleb ben Enock because the other options would
Speaker 1: be Um the rookie, Alex Kappa and Caleb's had a
Speaker 1: couple of years now and they kind of like the
Speaker 1: way he finished last season, and then probably Evan Smith.
Speaker 1: But he's a nice guy to have as a guy
Speaker 1: you can fill in every spot. He's kind of like
Speaker 1: the perfect you know in interior reserve that you keep
Speaker 1: active on game day. And maybe he'll he'll do more.
Speaker 1: He started plenty of games in the NFL, so maybe
Speaker 1: he'll prove to be the best option when it's all
Speaker 1: said done. But I'm gonna go with Caleb right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's a player on the rise. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's a that's a good point. Colin said, what's
Speaker 1: the story on Jordan Whitehead? Is he going to be
Speaker 1: able to compete for a starting spot? Yeah? I think
Speaker 1: he will compete for it. I think it'd be early
Speaker 1: to call him a favorite just because you are returning
Speaker 1: your two incumbents from last year. I'd be surprised if
Speaker 1: Justin Evans is pushed off one of the starting spots,
Speaker 1: and then the other one was Chris Konto and and
Speaker 1: that's another player that the coaches like quite a bit,
Speaker 1: Chris Conti and uh So, I think he would have
Speaker 1: to have a pretty impressive preseason slash training camp to
Speaker 1: unseat one of those guys. But I do fully believe
Speaker 1: he'll get the opportunity to compete for a strange job. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I think you'll see him on the field a
Speaker 1: decent amount over the course of the season in one
Speaker 1: way or another. Um, this is something named Stephen King,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure he's heard a million jokes about that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm really hoping it's as a guy named
Speaker 1: Scott Smith. I know you know that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people Stephen Kings, and that's true. Um, he wants
Speaker 1: to know how the playing time could be split up
Speaker 1: in the preseason with Winston, Fitzpatrick and Griffin. Knowing that
Speaker 1: this is that that to me is one of the
Speaker 1: most intriguing things of how do you get everyone who
Speaker 1: needs to be prepared, prepared. Now. Yeah, I imagine that's
Speaker 1: going to be the number one question that coach Cutters
Speaker 1: asked when the when the games start to arrive, And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know that yet. We can make
Speaker 1: some educated guesses, I would think, you know, part of
Speaker 1: the part of the issues here is Jamis is allowed
Speaker 1: to be here and play in the preseason game and
Speaker 1: go through training camp, but he won't be around during
Speaker 1: the three game suspension. So if you are trying to
Speaker 1: get him ready to play, you kind of have to
Speaker 1: do it before the suspension, right. You can't just give
Speaker 1: Ryan's Fitzpatrick or whoever ends up being the starter all
Speaker 1: of it because you're preparing for those first three games.
Speaker 1: So it's going to be a bouncing act. I think
Speaker 1: a little bit. It'll probably be a bit more of
Speaker 1: a split than you're used to. And that third game,
Speaker 1: when your starter plays the farthest end of the game,
Speaker 1: probably Ryan Fitzpatrick, if he's the frontrunner, still gets that role,
Speaker 1: but maybe maybe Jami's gets a little bit more than
Speaker 1: the second guyme would normally get. I mean, it's it's
Speaker 1: tough because you basically have to get two guys ready
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, it's gonna be really interesting, be a
Speaker 1: juggling act. We'll see what happens. Collins said, what's going
Speaker 1: on with m J. Stewart? Is he working at outside
Speaker 1: corner or the slot? Well, the problem was MJ was
Speaker 1: a little banged up during the last part of the
Speaker 1: off season there, so we didn't see as much them
Speaker 1: on the field as we would like to to be
Speaker 1: able to answer that question. I know that they thought
Speaker 1: his best chance to make an impact early would be
Speaker 1: in the slot, So I would go with that. Not
Speaker 1: really a whole lot to back it up, right, Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: And we'll close with this. When we had a couple
Speaker 1: of questions back to back about the defensive personnel now
Speaker 1: that we have so many new guys. If you think
Speaker 1: that we had darre and ask if there might be
Speaker 1: more aggressive defensive schemes, And then we had someone asking
Speaker 1: about if we might do more man defense compared to
Speaker 1: some mail, so that we just had a few questions
Speaker 1: about if you think that we just got more personnel
Speaker 1: to fit the scheme we already have, or now with
Speaker 1: the new personnel, might we change the scheme. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a topic we tend to come up with every week too.
Speaker 1: Just like the safety's thing. And uh, you know, the coaches,
Speaker 1: as you would expect, have they been asked questions like
Speaker 1: that and haven't really been too specific with their answers.
Speaker 1: They've been a little bit vague. And of course, I mean,
Speaker 1: why are you going to give away your strategy? I
Speaker 1: would say the answer whether it was getting players to
Speaker 1: fit or vice versa, I kind of go down the
Speaker 1: middle here and say, I think they just got more
Speaker 1: versatile players in general. They got a lot of different
Speaker 1: types of players that will allow us to do a
Speaker 1: more versatile approach on off. On defense, you got a
Speaker 1: you got a Carlton Davis type who you can press
Speaker 1: more with, is a big guy against receiver against big receivers,
Speaker 1: and you've got m J. Stewart who could be good
Speaker 1: in the slot. And now you've got a lot of
Speaker 1: different types of defensive lineman because of the reconstruction on
Speaker 1: that right, So I think that you will have the
Speaker 1: option of being more aggressive and seeing and more versatile
Speaker 1: and more multiple, a word that coaches use a lot,
Speaker 1: And if I are betting man, I would say they
Speaker 1: will take advantage of that, and yes, you'll see a
Speaker 1: more aggressive and a more multiple defense this year. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, predicting things and I wonder if and we'll
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