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Speaker 1: is the time of year that we really love taking
Speaker 1: all these questions because it's all these big picture things
Speaker 1: that it's all the looking ahead of the season and
Speaker 1: looking at the different position groups and how it all
Speaker 1: could shake out. Of course we know everything. I'll take
Speaker 1: that next week. That's true. This week. It's a very
Speaker 1: good point. So yeah, don't wait because them is shutting
Speaker 1: down next week. That's it. And uh we are included.
Speaker 1: We're I'm I'm taking off a little vacation before the
Speaker 1: season starts. Yeah, I'm going up. I'm going on a cruise.
Speaker 1: It's gonna create. So yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. See,
Speaker 1: I get all those questions, and this is your chance
Speaker 1: breaks down. Yeah, I would like for that to not
Speaker 1: happen either, And now if it happens, it is your fault,
Speaker 1: So thank you for that. I appreciate that. So as
Speaker 1: we get started here, UM, a lot of we did
Speaker 1: release the training camp dates, and I just always love
Speaker 1: hearing what you are most excited to see during training camp.
Speaker 1: I know you and I've talked about how much we
Speaker 1: love one on ones where there's to be O line
Speaker 1: and D line one on ones, the wide receiver corner
Speaker 1: one on ones. Are those still the things that you
Speaker 1: most look forward to? Yeah, And I would say my
Speaker 1: favorite drill is the wide receiver defensive back one on ones, um,
Speaker 1: And you know it favors the offense. Obviously there's no
Speaker 1: pass rush or anything. The quarterback is completely unmolested, he
Speaker 1: is throwing. But still some when the defense does really well,
Speaker 1: that says a lot. Um. Did you want to talk
Speaker 1: about this training campra, Yeah, I wanted to hear this
Speaker 1: training camp for you, the big things you're going to
Speaker 1: be watching well to play off of that, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: we have three really good grass fields here. They're like
Speaker 1: rated the best and best practice fields in the league.
Speaker 1: And in previous camps here at one Buck we've been
Speaker 1: here since two thousand nine, and previous camps there was
Speaker 1: bleachers were kind of next to the field over here,
Speaker 1: there's bleachers around one long end on one field field one,
Speaker 1: and then at the back of it, and that was
Speaker 1: pretty much where you had to be if you're gonna
Speaker 1: watch it. So if there was a drill you light
Speaker 1: going on in the field two or even field three,
Speaker 1: you really can get a really up close to look
Speaker 1: at it. Sometimes we may not see much of it
Speaker 1: at all. Now there's not gonna be bleachers, and we'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a moment, but you're gonna be
Speaker 1: allowed to go around the entire perimeter of the three fields,
Speaker 1: so you should be able to get close to whatever
Speaker 1: drill you want to see. Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: If the wide receiver dbs are going on in field
Speaker 1: two and that you like that that as much as
Speaker 1: I do, just go run the back and get a
Speaker 1: better look at it. That's a great point because based
Speaker 1: on where some of the bleachers were, if they were
Speaker 1: doing things three fields away, it's it's very challenging to
Speaker 1: see and and you know, it's kind of a challenge
Speaker 1: for our for our grounds guys too, they're very very good.
Speaker 1: But because we wanted to give the fans as much
Speaker 1: of a close look as we could, we spent most
Speaker 1: of our time, especially in team drills on that one field,
Speaker 1: and so trying to keep that field in good shape
Speaker 1: while the others weren't getting much use was tougher. But
Speaker 1: that should be easier now. But the reason there's not
Speaker 1: gonna be bleachers is because we already have bleachers in
Speaker 1: the indoor facility, which the Bucks are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to use for the first time in training camp that
Speaker 1: just started using it last fall in the middle of
Speaker 1: the season. In some parts of the open practices are
Speaker 1: going to be like the second half of them are
Speaker 1: going to be in the endoor facility and there's bleachers
Speaker 1: and best of all, air conditioning and cover. So, you know,
Speaker 1: the toughest thing about training camp in the reason you know,
Speaker 1: cheerleaders are coming around with freezy pops because it's so hot,
Speaker 1: and one thing you do to avoid that is to
Speaker 1: have practice early in the morning. And then we are
Speaker 1: doing that again, so every effort is being made for
Speaker 1: when the fans do come out here that's as comfortable
Speaker 1: as possible. Right, Yeah, that's a really great point. I
Speaker 1: already know I'm going to butcher this name of the
Speaker 1: person who asked this question, so I'm very sorry. Um,
Speaker 1: it looks like guiche friends Si French. Uh. So he
Speaker 1: wants to know who you think is going to start
Speaker 1: at defensive end this year. I think you'll probably see
Speaker 1: Jason Pierre Paul at left end, which is where he's
Speaker 1: most used to playing. And I think you'll probably see
Speaker 1: Vinny Curry starting at right end um and then there'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of rotation from there, and and maybe
Speaker 1: Curry sometimes goes inside. Will Golston might be in in
Speaker 1: some first downs if it's you know, if it's we
Speaker 1: think it's a run stopping situation. He's he at least
Speaker 1: in two thousands sixteen he was our best run stopping
Speaker 1: defensive end, and he didn't have quite the same year
Speaker 1: last year, but it really seems he's trimmed down some
Speaker 1: and he really seems motivated to get back to his
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen form, so he'd be in the rotation too.
Speaker 1: And you got Noah Spence to be a designated pass
Speaker 1: rusher kind of guy, so there'll be a lot of rotation.
Speaker 1: But I think your starters were probably Curry and JPP.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the defensive line, Stephen wants to know
Speaker 1: what will Noah Spence's role look like with the new
Speaker 1: additions to the line and the fact that he seems
Speaker 1: to not only be healthy but added a little bit
Speaker 1: of bulk to him. Well, that is a great question,
Speaker 1: really well informed and thorough, really good question about Noah Spence.
Speaker 1: And obviously Stephen has been reading up and knows that
Speaker 1: Noah Spence has put on weight, you know when he
Speaker 1: when we got him, and you get these numbers from
Speaker 1: their college numbers, so they're not necessarily a percent accurate,
Speaker 1: but he was listed as two or fifty one pounds,
Speaker 1: but last year in training camp he got all the
Speaker 1: way down to like two thirty two, and that's that
Speaker 1: was just too light for him to be able to
Speaker 1: hand up stand up to the rigors of again, especially
Speaker 1: this bigger offensive tackles. He used those this whole offseason
Speaker 1: after getting healthy during the season because he was shut
Speaker 1: down pretty early with the shoulder. He had a special
Speaker 1: procedure with the shoulder, and it's kind of hard to explain,
Speaker 1: but it's supposed to it took one piece of bone
Speaker 1: from somewhere and put it somewhere else. I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: prevent those sublixations or dislocations. And so hopefully if he
Speaker 1: can avoid that. Uh, he won't be missing time because
Speaker 1: of that, and he'll also be able to stand hold
Speaker 1: up a little bit better. And he also in the
Speaker 1: process of recovering from that, really took to sort of
Speaker 1: resculpting himself a little bit. And he's up to two
Speaker 1: or fifty seven pounds as of the last practice, and
Speaker 1: he is you know, you can look at him and
Speaker 1: see he's just jumped up right, and he didn't put it.
Speaker 1: He put on a muscle. So he's he's a bigger guy,
Speaker 1: but but not so much bigger that he's gonna lose
Speaker 1: his speed and his quickness, and so he thinks that
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a better chance and standing up against
Speaker 1: the bigger offensive tackles. And you know, I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be a situational pass rusher. I think that's
Speaker 1: his main goal. I mean, his main role. But you
Speaker 1: can put a guy in there thinking it's a pass
Speaker 1: rush down and then not throw. They may run. So
Speaker 1: he's still going to have to stop the run. Even
Speaker 1: if he's considered more of a pass rusher, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to stop the run at times and being able
Speaker 1: to hold up, which he thinks he's gonna be able
Speaker 1: to do. Is gonna be really good for him. So
Speaker 1: hopefully that will give him just more opportunity to be
Speaker 1: on the field, because if he is one of your
Speaker 1: better pass rushers, you're gonna want him out there as
Speaker 1: much as possible in passing situation. Right, Yeah, that's very true. Question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a great question, And you know, we've had a
Speaker 1: lot of questions um about Jamis on here and some
Speaker 1: of the rumors that have been out there, but we
Speaker 1: really just I'll just go and sum it all up
Speaker 1: before I ask that. You know, the league has not
Speaker 1: released anything and so we don't really have any information
Speaker 1: on that at this time, so I'll just kind of
Speaker 1: save everybody a little bit of time that I've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of different questions and thoughts about it, but
Speaker 1: we unfortunately can't answer anything about that that thing has
Speaker 1: been released by the league yet. Uh So, now going
Speaker 1: on to our next question, Randy wants to know are
Speaker 1: we going to incorporate more plays utilizing our number one
Speaker 1: tight end tandem in the league, Which, first of all,
Speaker 1: we can already have you assessed whether or not this
Speaker 1: is you would agree the whole number one tight end
Speaker 1: tandem in this league. You know, if you break down
Speaker 1: the numbers and you and you look at what the
Speaker 1: tight end position as a whole, uh accomplished for the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers last year. They're up there in the top three
Speaker 1: or four tight end positions in terms of catches, yards, touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And the fact that both those I think it's the
Speaker 1: only duo of tight ends in the league on any
Speaker 1: team where they both got at least six touchdowns. So
Speaker 1: if you want to massage the numbers the right way,
Speaker 1: you can probably make that claim. And I also think
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of room for improvement for both guys.
Speaker 1: They can get, they can do a lot more, So
Speaker 1: I wouldn't argue with it. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: a hundred percent true the best one in the league. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I've talked about that so much that I forgot
Speaker 1: what the actual question is. Oh, just if they're going
Speaker 1: to be more plays geared towards them? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you're part of the offense. I think so. And I
Speaker 1: think that's because I think their cutter likes using that
Speaker 1: too tight information, which is called eleven eleven. I believe
Speaker 1: that's eleven because you count the receivers and running backs,
Speaker 1: and so that'd be one running back, one receiver. I
Speaker 1: mean two receivers. I've lost it. It's either eleven I
Speaker 1: think it's eleven personnel, or maybe it's twenty one whatever.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to look that up. But the point
Speaker 1: is you've got two tight ends and ideally they're both
Speaker 1: threats to catch passes, which both those guys are, and
Speaker 1: ideally they both can block. So as defense, when you're
Speaker 1: faced with that, it's not an easy read on. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that guy's in and he always blocks, so I
Speaker 1: don't have to worry about covering him going out on
Speaker 1: or route. Uh you wanna you want to offer them
Speaker 1: a lot of uncertainty, right. The problem was last year
Speaker 1: the Bucks didn't run the ball well at all out
Speaker 1: of the two tight ends set. I did a big
Speaker 1: study of that. There's an article on buccaneers dot com
Speaker 1: about it's some months ago, um and just the numbers
Speaker 1: weren't there. The passing numbers out of that set were good.
Speaker 1: They were better than our our numbers on other sets,
Speaker 1: So above average results in the passing game with two
Speaker 1: tight ends, which isn't always Cameron Brake and and O. J. Howard,
Speaker 1: but usually right, and our passing numbers out of that
Speaker 1: were good. Are rushing totals yards per carry out of
Speaker 1: that were far below other sets. So those guys and that.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean it's all on those two guys obviously,
Speaker 1: but uh, we're gonna have to get better results in
Speaker 1: the running game in order to put that formation on
Speaker 1: the field more often. But I think we would like to.
Speaker 1: We did it trying to remember the exact number. It
Speaker 1: was a while going whenever wrote the article, but maybe
Speaker 1: of the plays we were in that and that's right
Speaker 1: around LEA average, and I think they would probably prefer
Speaker 1: to be a lovely le average, especially because you also
Speaker 1: have Antonio Claire who's a player with a lat of promise,
Speaker 1: and you have Alan Cross and we've got a couple
Speaker 1: of rookie Titans that we kind of like, at least
Speaker 1: in the early going. So you may have three or
Speaker 1: four Titans that you like and a number of different
Speaker 1: two tightening combinations. So I know that person was talking
Speaker 1: about O J and CAM, but um, it could be
Speaker 1: other groups and I think they would like to use
Speaker 1: it more. So my my answer to the question, we yes,
Speaker 1: I think we will see more of that, but that's
Speaker 1: gonna be contingent on running better out of that formation.
Speaker 1: Our next question says, who is going to start at safety?
Speaker 1: I mean, are we gonna answer this every single week? Probably? Okay,
Speaker 1: I should just write down an answering prepared. Uh. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you're your surest bed is Justin Evans because
Speaker 1: last year we started in basically a four man competition
Speaker 1: for two spots right, and it was kind of a
Speaker 1: lot of rotation the first few games, but then Justin
Speaker 1: Evans clearly became an every down player and a starter
Speaker 1: for what the last twelve or thirteen games of the season.
Speaker 1: And he's only in the second year. He had a
Speaker 1: good first year type for the team leading interceptions. You
Speaker 1: were talking one time about how acrobatic he is with
Speaker 1: his interception. He's got very good hands and body control
Speaker 1: when when making a play on the ball. I would
Speaker 1: think he's the favorite to have at least one of them,
Speaker 1: and then until he's unseated. I think he got stick
Speaker 1: with Chris Conti, you know, I think he's I think
Speaker 1: he's a pretty good player and he's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be beaten, you know, for further to be a change.
Speaker 1: But they like that Jordan white had a lot, Uh,
Speaker 1: he was limited a little bit by injuries in the
Speaker 1: off seasons and program, so we're gonna have to wait
Speaker 1: to camp to see how quickly he comes along. And
Speaker 1: then you've always got Keith Tandy, who we feel so
Speaker 1: confident in, and he was a little bit limited by
Speaker 1: injuries last year, which is why didn't play as much
Speaker 1: on defense, but still helped out a lot on special teams. Um,
Speaker 1: they I know, they feel very very confident him if
Speaker 1: he has to be on the field, but I would
Speaker 1: say the default for the start of the season is
Speaker 1: probably the incumbents, Justin Emmons and Chris County. Okay, we
Speaker 1: also had um I think his name is Mirror wants
Speaker 1: to know how are the rookie secondary players coming along. So,
Speaker 1: you know, we just heard about m. J. Stewart a
Speaker 1: little bit, but now throwing just talked about Jordan Whitehead
Speaker 1: and then also m m J. Stewart missed some time
Speaker 1: too with a minor injury, although he's back I think
Speaker 1: by the end of the mini camps, so he should
Speaker 1: be fine for training camp. The one guy that really
Speaker 1: has stood out the most out of those is Carlton Davis,
Speaker 1: the second of the two corners that we've picked in
Speaker 1: the second round, and he uh, he you know, we
Speaker 1: like him. We liked him in the draft for one thing,
Speaker 1: because he was a bigger corner and there aren't a
Speaker 1: lot of those, and there certainly aren't a lot of
Speaker 1: those in our rostery. When when the corners are out
Speaker 1: there doing their individual drills, is very very obvious which
Speaker 1: guy Carlton Davis is without seeing his number, even because
Speaker 1: he's just he's clearly the biggest guy, and they want
Speaker 1: they want to have that option to match up against
Speaker 1: bigger receivers, especially if we play some more press than
Speaker 1: we have in the past. So, um, he's looked really
Speaker 1: really good at the other two. I think we really
Speaker 1: just haven't hand enough of a look at him yet. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like this question. Jason wants to know how many
Speaker 1: wide receivers do you think will make the fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster. And that's a good question, and it really
Speaker 1: it really comes down to a given take between other positions.
Speaker 1: So you've got you know, I think the default number
Speaker 1: they would normally like to go with is five. Like
Speaker 1: I bet you they write up on the board. I
Speaker 1: think they do. They write up on the board, you
Speaker 1: know each position and a number next to it, and
Speaker 1: have it add up to fifty three. And they'd like
Speaker 1: to keep five receivers and four backs and four tight
Speaker 1: ends something like that. But sometimes you just don't want
Speaker 1: to let you got six, You got six receivers that
Speaker 1: you don't want to let go, and you go, well, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll keep one fewer tight end or one fewer running back,
Speaker 1: something like that. I would say it's got to be
Speaker 1: at least five, and it would not surprise me as
Speaker 1: six because it seems pretty certain that you'd have Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, and I'm Humphries, Chris Godwin, and then you
Speaker 1: just drafted that Justin Watson, guy who who looks like
Speaker 1: he could be something pretty good right as he develops,
Speaker 1: and you're not gonna let him go. So that's five
Speaker 1: right there. And we haven't even talked about Freddy Martino,
Speaker 1: Bernard Ready. I'm sure there's a couple others I'm not
Speaker 1: even thinking of right out. So um, I think if
Speaker 1: you're if our bettman, I say, six guys make it,
Speaker 1: especially if one of those other receivers is either a
Speaker 1: special team stud on coverage and stuff, like that like
Speaker 1: Freddie Martin Wiz or a potential option in the return
Speaker 1: game like a Bernardo Right Um and and related to
Speaker 1: the discussion of how many of them are gonna on
Speaker 1: the team, Tim wanted to know how often you think
Speaker 1: we'll see a combination of Mike Evans, Chris Godwin into
Speaker 1: Seawan Jackson all on the field at the same time.
Speaker 1: I think they'll see more of it than you did
Speaker 1: last year. I think Godwin got a lot of his
Speaker 1: snaps when either de Shaun or Chris needed needed to
Speaker 1: arrest or was out injured, and so you didn't have
Speaker 1: as much of that right with all three of those
Speaker 1: guys together, because if you have to Shawn and and
Speaker 1: Mike on the field, are used the outside guys, your
Speaker 1: your ex and your Y and you're you know, your
Speaker 1: extra and your Z and your slack. Eye was usually
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys because he was very good in that role.
Speaker 1: It still is, so Um, that would mean Adam Humphries
Speaker 1: is probably I mean, there's some four receiver sets, but
Speaker 1: I think we're talking about the very common three receiver sets. Um,
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys would be off the field for that, and
Speaker 1: that means one of one of those other guys is
Speaker 1: in the slot, and I think there will be a
Speaker 1: little more variety this year, and who who plays in
Speaker 1: the slot like DeShawn might play some more in the slot.
Speaker 1: You might even put Mike Commins in the slot because
Speaker 1: your goal is always to find him some open space
Speaker 1: and less double teams and so on, so if you
Speaker 1: can sort of surprise teams with where those guys are,
Speaker 1: so I think and Chris Gowin could plain this slot,
Speaker 1: but I think he's probably best on the outside. So
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna depend on how um versatile the
Speaker 1: packages with who plays in the slot. But yes, I
Speaker 1: do think we'll see more of that. That That all right,
Speaker 1: And then we'll close out with this one. Who do
Speaker 1: you think is going to start at guard? And I
Speaker 1: think they mean that right guard, because I don't left guard.
Speaker 1: To me, the favorite is Caleb ben Enock, And I'm
Speaker 1: not discounting jarr Sweezy was essentially the incumbent, but he
Speaker 1: just he's not on the field yet, so until he is,
Speaker 1: he's really not part of the equation. We all wish
Speaker 1: he would get better and be able to play and
Speaker 1: be part of the competition, but uh, they seem to
Speaker 1: just take a lot of the coaches take a lot
Speaker 1: of opportunities to kind of slip nice things in about
Speaker 1: Caleb bin Knock on how much he's progressed. I think
Speaker 1: they feel pretty good about him. He's going into his
Speaker 1: third season, former fifth round pick, very virtual guy started
Speaker 1: at right tackle the end a lot next year. Um,
Speaker 1: but when you've seen him taking first team reps, that's
Speaker 1: usually cale about here for now. You you will probably
Speaker 1: would probably bring up Alex Kappa. And I know I've
Speaker 1: seen some stuff you've written about him, and I've heard
Speaker 1: you talk about him, and he does have a nice
Speaker 1: a lot of potential and good attitude, you know, that
Speaker 1: same sort of nasty attitude that they want Ryan Jensen.
Speaker 1: But I think the guy who's been here for two
Speaker 1: years probably as the leg up in the rookie I
Speaker 1: would agree with that. All right, Well, that's gonna do
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