Speaker 1: Hey Bucks fans, Happy Wednesday at a time for Buccaneers
Speaker 1: Inside or Live, presented by Miller like Casey Phillips and
Speaker 1: Scott Smith here and again, this is where we take
Speaker 1: all of your questions, thoughts, comments, everything, And this is
Speaker 1: such an exciting week to be doing this because we
Speaker 1: actually are going to have football players back at advent
Speaker 1: Health Training Center. So this is an exciting day after
Speaker 1: months of doing this show from home and wondering what
Speaker 1: was going to happen in the days, and we finally
Speaker 1: are going to have some players in there. So Scott,
Speaker 1: I wanted to hear for you just what are what
Speaker 1: are your thoughts about how this is you know, gonna
Speaker 1: look and how excited are you to to know that
Speaker 1: we are just this this close, we're right here to
Speaker 1: having football happening. I guess i'd say I'm glad that
Speaker 1: we're progressing along. There's been a lot of dates get
Speaker 1: got pushed back or along the way during the months.
Speaker 1: You're hoping maybe you could come back at a certain time,
Speaker 1: maybe they could earlier in July, and um, so it
Speaker 1: seems like it's been a moving target the whole time.
Speaker 1: So the fact that this is actually apparently gonna happen.
Speaker 1: That's exciting in a way, but I do think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a bit of a slow burn to get
Speaker 1: going here. You know, the players are gonna come in,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some rounds of testing. Um, there's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be some strength and conditioning work. I don't know
Speaker 1: yet exactly when we're gonna be watching practice, but at
Speaker 1: least we are progressing in that direction and that's a
Speaker 1: good feeling. Yeah, that's true. And again, just a reminder,
Speaker 1: if you want to submit your question for us, go
Speaker 1: ahead and do it over on the Facebook page so
Speaker 1: you can check that out and uh and send your
Speaker 1: questions in there. Um, I want to hear for you,
Speaker 1: what are the biggest things that you feel like will
Speaker 1: be different about this training camp and maybe the approach
Speaker 1: to it. Knowing that they have already missed so much
Speaker 1: of the offseason, a lot of the things that would
Speaker 1: have maybe happened in an O t A in a
Speaker 1: mini Campum, how could that potentially alter the way training
Speaker 1: camp will look this year? Yeah? I think I might
Speaker 1: have alluded to that just a minute ago. Um. Usually
Speaker 1: when you get into camp, you do start practicing it
Speaker 1: right away. It's still a little bit of a ramp up.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have pads on for the first
Speaker 1: few days and you don't have contact for quite some time.
Speaker 1: But this time I really think there's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be some days or weeks devoted to strength and conditioning work,
Speaker 1: just because they missed all of that during the off season. Now,
Speaker 1: players obviously have worked out on their own, but there
Speaker 1: with any group of people, there's gonna be a spectrum
Speaker 1: of how well they did so, and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some they're gonna walk in here ready to go. Like
Speaker 1: as an example, I do want to bet that Chris
Speaker 1: guy Chris Guyman will walk right in and be ready
Speaker 1: to do a two hour practice the moment steps in
Speaker 1: the building, But maybe not everybody will be at that
Speaker 1: same level, And you gotta figure you gotta find out
Speaker 1: where they are, and then you gotta help them get
Speaker 1: to the point where the normal would be at the
Speaker 1: start of the camp. Also, it appears that we won't
Speaker 1: have preseason games. I don't know if we've officially announced
Speaker 1: that are not, but that's certainly the news that's been
Speaker 1: out there from the NFL and the NFL p A.
Speaker 1: So if there's no preseason games. That certainly makes camp
Speaker 1: look a lot different because those would really break things
Speaker 1: up and give you a little bit of a little
Speaker 1: bit of idea of how things are going. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, many times will be a week or two
Speaker 1: in the camp and we'll be saying, man, that undrafted
Speaker 1: Ricky receiver looks really good, right. It happens every year,
Speaker 1: and then you get into games that you either find
Speaker 1: out that he shows up or disappears. So we won't
Speaker 1: have that and there won't be any joint practices, so
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit harder to tell. I
Speaker 1: think that probably leads to a lot more staying with
Speaker 1: the status quo. I think that makes it a lot
Speaker 1: harder for undrafted rookies and for guys trying to battle
Speaker 1: their way up the depth chart, and that's unfortunate, but
Speaker 1: I guess that just makes it a bigger challenge for
Speaker 1: those guys. And Mitchell asked how long will it be
Speaker 1: before contact starts? That's always a big question every year
Speaker 1: is you know, when are the padded practices that those
Speaker 1: are Again, especially if you're not gonna have preseason games,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna have joint practices that man, those contact
Speaker 1: practices are going to be even more important to to
Speaker 1: start trying to learn some things. So how could that
Speaker 1: potentially be different than the years past. That's a great question, Mitchell,
Speaker 1: and I don't think we have the answer to that yet.
Speaker 1: I think there are some aspects of how camp is
Speaker 1: going to go, and how the entire preseason period, not games,
Speaker 1: is going to go. How many practices you can have,
Speaker 1: how many times in a row, how much testing there
Speaker 1: has to be before every practice or day of practice,
Speaker 1: and and when they're gonna put on the pads and
Speaker 1: when they're gonna start hitting each other. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody has that answer yet. That's like you said, Casey,
Speaker 1: there's a lot different about this one, and I think
Speaker 1: we're going to find out a lot of it as
Speaker 1: we go along. And I think the name is ad Him.
Speaker 1: I think it's weird. It's I'm hoping it's like Adam,
Speaker 1: but there's an age thone in there. So I don't
Speaker 1: know how much I should have you know, weird, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean weird. I was thinking to myself, I couldn't
Speaker 1: help but think of queat fins and like how much
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to pronounce quick cream with Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a silent age. It's a silent age. So Adam or
Speaker 1: add him either way? Uh, he said he mus Casey
Speaker 1: and Mr Scott just was wondering what's up with Justin Evans.
Speaker 1: We haven't heard any words on him. Yeah, I get
Speaker 1: this question for the mail bag pretty much every week. UM.
Speaker 1: I sort of answered it last week, although it really
Speaker 1: wasn't much of an answer because I think, as we've
Speaker 1: discussed here before, this is this is one of those
Speaker 1: questions is that we would have had a lot better
Speaker 1: field for had there been an offseason program at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. UM. They coach arians, I believe
Speaker 1: was hopeful that Justin would be able to make it
Speaker 1: back onto the field at some point during the o
Speaker 1: t A S or for that final mini camp, which
Speaker 1: would have been a couple of weeks into June, and
Speaker 1: at that point you would have got a good feeling
Speaker 1: for if he was gonna be ready for the start
Speaker 1: of training camp. And you know, sometimes guys that have
Speaker 1: been out for that long, you get him on the
Speaker 1: field and what you're really hoping for is that there
Speaker 1: is no setback. I mean, you get to the point
Speaker 1: where you feel they can practice, and sometimes that goes great,
Speaker 1: and sometimes there's a little bit of you know, the
Speaker 1: timetable gets slowed down because it didn't go as great. Uh,
Speaker 1: we don't have any of that evidence now. Um, I
Speaker 1: can tell you that when coach has talked about the
Speaker 1: safety position, because he gets asked about that a lot
Speaker 1: because um, it's it's really the only spot on the
Speaker 1: depth chart that is a little difficult to figure out
Speaker 1: how it's gonna shake out in terms of the starters. Um.
Speaker 1: And so when he talks about it, he does not
Speaker 1: fail to mention just was obviously talks about Antoine Whitfield
Speaker 1: and in Jordan Whitehead. I think I said Whitfield, I
Speaker 1: mean Windfield, Uh, Jordan Whitehead, Mike Edwards, Dakota Dixon. But
Speaker 1: he always does mention Justin Evans. But you can tell
Speaker 1: it's still just a big question mark. So, uh, that's
Speaker 1: something we're just gonna have to wait and see on.
Speaker 1: I know they'd love to have to get him back
Speaker 1: in the mix. You know, early on he looked like
Speaker 1: one of those safeties that you're looking for that can
Speaker 1: play up in the box, that hits hard but also
Speaker 1: can rome. He's got He's very acrobatic. You remember some
Speaker 1: of his interceptions were of the very acrobatic variety, so
Speaker 1: he can make the big play. So it's a guy
Speaker 1: you'd like to see if you can get back to
Speaker 1: where he was at the beginning. Um, you could have
Speaker 1: a real asset there. But I'm afraid we're just have
Speaker 1: to wait and see. I'm sorry, I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be saying wait and see a lot to a lot
Speaker 1: of these questions. But at least, like you said at
Speaker 1: the top, we're getting to that point where we'll have
Speaker 1: some answers. Yeah, I hope nobody's playing the drinking game
Speaker 1: of a drink every time he says wait and see
Speaker 1: in the morning, right with Justin Evans, Um, wasn't his
Speaker 1: first career interception against Tom Brady? I don't. I don't recall.
Speaker 1: I think I know he had one against him, and
Speaker 1: I want to say it was his first of his career,
Speaker 1: but I know he actually intercepted him whenever we played
Speaker 1: the Patriots at Raymond James. So I feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's already he would probably be pretty excited and ready
Speaker 1: to get out there and try that again. At practice.
Speaker 1: You're pulling out the fun facts that's supposed to be
Speaker 1: my job, you know. I mean after five years of
Speaker 1: here and you you know you've been teaching me. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to live up to your status. Um,
Speaker 1: all right, Rodney said, With limited media in camp, do
Speaker 1: you and Scott foresee a heavier workload on reporting to
Speaker 1: the fans. Well, and it's a good question, and um,
Speaker 1: but the thing is, we're gonna have the same restrictions, um,
Speaker 1: in terms of uh, talking to the players or you know,
Speaker 1: being with him or around them, as as the rest
Speaker 1: of the media. So I think what you're gonna have
Speaker 1: is it's gonna be a level playing field and we
Speaker 1: certainly are going to be there. Um, We're gonna be
Speaker 1: there every day there's practice. We're gonna do the best
Speaker 1: we can to bring you everything we can. We have
Speaker 1: to figure out what that means. So I hope that's
Speaker 1: the case. I hope that there's more for us to
Speaker 1: do and that we can deliver more that that maybe
Speaker 1: is harder to get out in traditional means. That's certainly
Speaker 1: what we're gonna try to do. Um, but we are
Speaker 1: going to be living by some of the same restrictions
Speaker 1: as the rest of media. Yeah, being being a team
Speaker 1: reporter doesn't necessarily come with any more perks this this
Speaker 1: year than outside media, because we we could have you know,
Speaker 1: COVID just as easy as than another reporters. So they
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you know, anyone that doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who you work for, what you're doing, that this
Speaker 1: is UH something where you know, you've got to make
Speaker 1: sure that the people that are coming into contact with players,
Speaker 1: it's it's the right kind of protocols. Um, there are
Speaker 1: a lot there are a lot of new UH regulations
Speaker 1: and things in place that's designed for safety, and so
Speaker 1: you and I are can be able to walk up
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady as he's coming off the practice field
Speaker 1: and ask him a question. Nope, we will continue to
Speaker 1: be doing interviews from zoom and things from from really
Speaker 1: far away. UM Frank asked who will be the number
Speaker 1: three wide receiver on paper to start the season, and
Speaker 1: he asked if it would be Watson Miller or the
Speaker 1: rookie from Minnesota. Yeah, I think those are the top
Speaker 1: three candidates pretty obviously. UM, I think the best case
Speaker 1: scenario was that would be that Tyler Johnson sucks up
Speaker 1: a lot of those those snaps, because that would mean
Speaker 1: that he is on this level what he was of Minnesota,
Speaker 1: which is a guy who's a fantastic route runner, just
Speaker 1: has an innate ability to get open, to create separation
Speaker 1: not just underneath but even deep. Um, and you'd like
Speaker 1: that your third receiver to be that guy, more of
Speaker 1: an all around guy that can also play in the slot. Um.
Speaker 1: I know we love to put Chris god Went in
Speaker 1: the slot and we're in trips when we're in eleven personnel,
Speaker 1: but he's not the only guy that ever takes snaps
Speaker 1: from the slot. So if you could mix it up
Speaker 1: a little bit and have a guy that you feel
Speaker 1: good about in there, um, that would be good. Now
Speaker 1: saying that, I think also both those other guys are
Speaker 1: really good candidates. I think I would put a spotlight
Speaker 1: on Scottie Miller just because, um, you know I would.
Speaker 1: I would put it this way. Last year, Brishade Perryman
Speaker 1: was clearly the number of three receiver pretty much all
Speaker 1: the time when he was healthy. He had missed a
Speaker 1: couple of games in the middle. But um, if you
Speaker 1: recall early on, UM, there was a lot of talk
Speaker 1: about how come Brushad Perriman hardly had any stats. He
Speaker 1: had didn't have a lot of catches, and and the
Speaker 1: the coaches would always say, Breshad is doing great. He's
Speaker 1: doing everything we wanted to do. The ball is just
Speaker 1: not going his way. You know, those other two guys
Speaker 1: get so many targets. It's just hard for him to
Speaker 1: get a lot of targets. And then he's kept doing
Speaker 1: what he was doing. He started to get more targets
Speaker 1: in the second half, and then of course Mike and
Speaker 1: and Chris got hurt, and he showed what he could
Speaker 1: have been doing when he's the targeted guy. So my
Speaker 1: point being, it could be a very similar situation where
Speaker 1: the third receiver doesn't get a ton of targets, but
Speaker 1: he is still on the field fifty six the snaps.
Speaker 1: So you want that guy to actually be somebody that
Speaker 1: stresses the opposing deffense, even if the quarterback isn't looking
Speaker 1: at him a ton. So that's the guy that I
Speaker 1: think Scotty could be just because of his speed. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Brandon asked Minus Gronk, which of the new offensive
Speaker 1: players are you looking forward to seeing Tom connect with? Well,
Speaker 1: this might not. I don't know if he's looking for
Speaker 1: between receivers and tight ends but I'm actually looking forward
Speaker 1: to seeing what happens with Keyshawn Vaughn because, as everybody knows,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has had a lot of success, had a
Speaker 1: lot of success in New England throwing the running backs
Speaker 1: Um James White year after year. There are guys before that, Um,
Speaker 1: and I would like to see that be a bigger
Speaker 1: part of our passing attack. And I wonder if the
Speaker 1: number one pass catching back is going to be Keyshwan
Speaker 1: or Ronald Jones, and I have a feeling it might
Speaker 1: be Keishawan Uh and he could even maybe take all
Speaker 1: our part of that third down role from Daring. So Um,
Speaker 1: I'd like to see our number one pass catching running
Speaker 1: back has somewhere in the in the range of forty
Speaker 1: to fifty catches. So I guess that's what I'm most
Speaker 1: interested to see, if if Keshan can be that guy,
Speaker 1: and if Brady finds trust in him. And Edward asked
Speaker 1: how many Pro bowlers do you think the Bucks will
Speaker 1: have this year? He suggested he sees five definitely, and
Speaker 1: or more possibilities. Well, my first reaction to the number
Speaker 1: five is to say, con that's that's awfully aggressive. It's
Speaker 1: been a long time since the Bucks have put five
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl at one time, and maybe maybe, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we had four or five in
Speaker 1: in Jamis Winston's rookie year, but there are a couple
Speaker 1: of really late additions there. Um. But then the other
Speaker 1: side of that coin is it's not really that crazy
Speaker 1: because the years that the Buccaneers have had five or
Speaker 1: more Pro bowlers were always the years where the team
Speaker 1: was really good and got a lot of attention. Uh.
Speaker 1: And of course that's what we think is going to
Speaker 1: happen this year. We certainly, no, we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: lot of attention because of Brady and Gronk and so on,
Speaker 1: and we think it's going to be a very good team.
Speaker 1: And if those things happen, He's right, five is an
Speaker 1: only question. So who are the possibilities? Obviously, Mike and
Speaker 1: Chris and Shack they all went last year, so you
Speaker 1: could start there, um be um. You know, even maybe
Speaker 1: one of the alignment gets a little more attentional Eilan
Speaker 1: mar pet Um, you know, Ryan Jensen. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: of course everybody's favorite answer to this question of the
Speaker 1: overlooked guy who finally could get some attention lete do
Speaker 1: But Yeah, if he doesn't make it, I think we
Speaker 1: should strike and revolt and pick it outside the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl game. So so five doesn't As a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: it's not that hard to get to five. So my
Speaker 1: first reaction was, that's kind of crazy. But when I
Speaker 1: think about it makes some sense. It can happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Christopher asked, do you think they should expand the rosters? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that they probably will or have very
Speaker 1: um uh, what's the word very not loose, but for
Speaker 1: giving rules for promoting guys and from the practice squad,
Speaker 1: having a larger practice squad, being able to move them
Speaker 1: back and forth from there, easier, being able to move
Speaker 1: guys back and forth from injured reserve. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: make that that rule about having a couple of guys
Speaker 1: who can bring back from injury reserve, maybe making everybody.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how much of this you know
Speaker 1: of the history of injured reserve, but the reason that
Speaker 1: it became a rule where a guy went on I
Speaker 1: R and had to stay on I R was because
Speaker 1: years ago there were teams that made a habit of
Speaker 1: stashing guys on i R. So you put a guy
Speaker 1: on our on I R for an injury that wasn't
Speaker 1: so bad, but you needed the roster spot and you
Speaker 1: just leave them there until you want to bring them back.
Speaker 1: And it was pretty obvious what teams were doing, so
Speaker 1: they made that rules so teams couldn't get away with that. Well,
Speaker 1: this is a year that maybe teams should be allowed
Speaker 1: to do that, because you really need a pretty big
Speaker 1: pool of players at your disposal for the possibility of
Speaker 1: having to get by with absences of a couple of weeks. So, um,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's not absolutely necessary to increase
Speaker 1: the roster ton from fifty three, but to be able
Speaker 1: to easily move guys back and forth from your entire
Speaker 1: pool of players is probably the way to go. That's
Speaker 1: a great point, and we'll close with this one. Ed
Speaker 1: wanted to know, do you think Keyshawn Vaughn has a
Speaker 1: chance to start over Ronald Jones? Well, a chance, sure,
Speaker 1: absolutely can't. I would never come here and say God
Speaker 1: doesn't have a chance to beat out another guy for
Speaker 1: the job. But if I'm a batman, I think Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones remains the starter. And and as the season goes long,
Speaker 1: we see how the split goes, and they'll go They'll
Speaker 1: go with the hot hand, like Bruce Arian said last year.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this same time last year, if you're
Speaker 1: asking me if Ronald Jones I would un see Peyton
Speaker 1: Barber for the starting job. I always said no, I
Speaker 1: don't think so, but I think they'll see how it goes,
Speaker 1: and somewhere along the way, if Ronald is more effective
Speaker 1: than Peyton, then he will replace them, which is what happened. Um,
Speaker 1: I think Ronald's gonna be effective this year, so I
Speaker 1: think you will start, and I think he will maintain
Speaker 1: a good number, a good percentage of the snaps. We'll
Speaker 1: see how much Keyshan takes out of that. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us. On this edition of
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Inside a Live presented by Miller Lte. Thanks as
Speaker 1: always for being with us, Thanks for those questions, and
Speaker 1: soon hopefully we'll be doing some of these live shows
Speaker 1: from up at advent Health Training Center with actual football
Speaker 1: happening behind us, So stay tuned for that and we'll
Speaker 1: see you next week. Um yeah, yeah, mm hm