Speaker 1: Hey there, Good morning Bucks fans. How's everybody doing, Casey Phillips,
Speaker 1: youre a senior writer and editor, Scott Smith. It is
Speaker 1: time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller Lighte and Man,
Speaker 1: is it fun when we have breaking news right before
Speaker 1: our show. It's like they did it for us. I
Speaker 1: think they did. I think so that they were like,
Speaker 1: you know what, Casey and Scott are really gonna want
Speaker 1: to talk about this. Let's make sure we get this
Speaker 1: deal done now. So let's begin with the breaking news.
Speaker 1: Tell us what it is. Well, the Buccaneers have signed
Speaker 1: veteran cornerback Richard Sherman, obviously five time Pro Bowl are,
Speaker 1: most recently in two He only played five games last
Speaker 1: year due to some injuries, but um, the last time
Speaker 1: he played a full season, he was in the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think this is still a player who can offer
Speaker 1: quite a bit, and it's it's important right now because
Speaker 1: the Bucks are having a little bit of trouble in
Speaker 1: the secondary, both statistically and because of injuries. You know,
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy Bunting, we don't know when he's gonna come back.
Speaker 1: We don't know if Jamale Dean is going to be
Speaker 1: able to play this week due to the knee injury
Speaker 1: suffered against Los Angeles, And so I mean you go out,
Speaker 1: it's it's reminiscent of last year, really and how that worked.
Speaker 1: That worked out very well. Jason Knight was very aggressive
Speaker 1: last year believing he had a championship roster. M Brady
Speaker 1: is your quarterback, and you know he made every aggressive
Speaker 1: move along the way. I know there are times when
Speaker 1: we signed Rob Gronkowski and Learned four and Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: where some people were just laughing, like are you gonna
Speaker 1: sign everybody that's available that's a veteran that you know
Speaker 1: has been good at some point in their career. And
Speaker 1: it all became important in the end. I think you
Speaker 1: remember every single point scored in the Super Bowl was
Speaker 1: by a guy signed that year. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: continuation of that. The Bucks championship window was open, and
Speaker 1: Jason Knight is moving aggressively to make sure it does
Speaker 1: everything he possibly can to make take advantage of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we had a question from Richard asking how soon
Speaker 1: can Sherman suit up? A question from Richard, do you
Speaker 1: think it's him he wants to know it is? Yes, Yeah, Richard,
Speaker 1: Sherman is asking us, Yeah, I'm ready to put me
Speaker 1: in coach. Well, he could suit up immediately, could be
Speaker 1: if he's here, which I think he is because he
Speaker 1: physically signed. He could practice this morning in about an hour,
Speaker 1: and he could play against UM. I mean, is he
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's a is that a procedural question?
Speaker 1: Like so, I think there's probably there's probably a lot
Speaker 1: to it of one. We all know that the COVID
Speaker 1: rules have definitely changed sometimes people's availability of how long
Speaker 1: it took with the intake. But that's a little bit
Speaker 1: different now this year with vaccines. But also I'm sure
Speaker 1: it might even just be would he be ready by Sunday? Yeah.
Speaker 1: The fact that he's a savvy veteran UM probably wouldn't
Speaker 1: have too much trouble picking up this defense leads me
Speaker 1: to believe he'll be playing pretty quickly this Sunday. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't count it out. I really wouldn't, especially if Jamal
Speaker 1: Dean can't go. And at the very least you have
Speaker 1: them active and you work him in, you know, to
Speaker 1: some degree, and if it's going well, then you just
Speaker 1: keep him in. Yeah, And then Daniel had asked, how
Speaker 1: do you think his experience will help our younger players
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, if there's any position on this team
Speaker 1: that they could use an infusion of of veteran know
Speaker 1: how an experience, it is the secondary. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's funny the league puts out after the first week
Speaker 1: of the season, the league puts out these notes about
Speaker 1: the rosters. Who has the tallest average roster and the
Speaker 1: the youngest and the oldest and so on, and the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: to nobody's surprise, after Week one, had the oldest roster
Speaker 1: in the league on average and had the most thirty
Speaker 1: plus year role players on their team. And that's sprinkled
Speaker 1: all around most positions, but not the secondary. The secondary
Speaker 1: was all very young and it was a good thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, as we saw last year at the end,
Speaker 1: that secondary was really playing well and it's all young players.
Speaker 1: You can project that these guys can stay together for
Speaker 1: a long time, and that's that's a good thing. But
Speaker 1: it's also good thing now to have this veteran experience
Speaker 1: in that room, which really didn't happen. And we've had
Speaker 1: some people bringing up the idea of the pressure, uh
Speaker 1: that that was I mean, the coach Areans brought up
Speaker 1: after the game, and so let's just talk through the
Speaker 1: ways that the secondary effects the pressure and the pressure
Speaker 1: effects the secondary, and now bringing in Richard Sure, and
Speaker 1: could that be something that helps with both areas? Sure?
Speaker 1: And it's everybody says it, including players, that the rush
Speaker 1: and the and the coverage go together. They you know,
Speaker 1: they have to work together, and that you know, the
Speaker 1: guys in the secondary can help the rushers up front
Speaker 1: by covering longer and giving giving them longer to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback because he has to hold onto the ball,
Speaker 1: and the guys that are rushing getting help the secondary
Speaker 1: by making him have to get rid of the ball
Speaker 1: quicker or not get rid of the ball at all,
Speaker 1: or affect their throws. And that's all true, But in
Speaker 1: my mind this the rush is the thing that has
Speaker 1: to come first, because there's only so long you can
Speaker 1: cover in the NFL against any quarterback, but especially against
Speaker 1: the caliber of quarterbacks that the Buccaneers have faced so
Speaker 1: far this year. And it was plainly obvious in the
Speaker 1: Rams game that after the first couple of series we
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice pressures and got off the field,
Speaker 1: but after that there was almost no pressure on Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: and he was sitting back there for a long time
Speaker 1: on a lot of plays, and you know, the secondary
Speaker 1: was doing the best they could good in some cases,
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians did have some criticism of some of some
Speaker 1: of their technique and how they ran certain coverages. But
Speaker 1: in the end, you're just not going to be able
Speaker 1: to stop a good NFL quarterback from piling up the
Speaker 1: yards if there's no pressure on him at all. And
Speaker 1: then we gil Gilbert asked what I think is a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a rhetorical question, but I thought
Speaker 1: it brought up a good topic. He said, how did
Speaker 1: Tom have the most rushing yards in the game? So
Speaker 1: I figured that would be a good jumping off point
Speaker 1: to talk about the run game and and why it
Speaker 1: maybe isn't a great thing when Tom Brady is yours.
Speaker 1: I mean there's good and bad here. I mean, he
Speaker 1: had a nine yard run, which I think might be
Speaker 1: as longest as a buckinger. Um, he had the one
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. Uh. He had a six yard run
Speaker 1: I think in the game before. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is last year Tom Brady carried the ball for the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers in the regular season thirty times for a total
Speaker 1: of six yards. You just there was no mobility at all,
Speaker 1: and of course a lot that is kneel down because
Speaker 1: those all count as rushes. But the point is he
Speaker 1: was never gonna run last year. He still doesn't want to.
Speaker 1: After after the Falcons game when he had a key run,
Speaker 1: he was joking at the podium after the game about
Speaker 1: how he was like nervous when he started run. He
Speaker 1: was looking at how him expecting to get ahead. It
Speaker 1: was all very funny, but it was clear running is
Speaker 1: not part of his plan. But the knee is better
Speaker 1: this year, and if he has to, he can pick
Speaker 1: up a crucial yard or two from time to time.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. Obviously, it's not a good thing
Speaker 1: when he leads a team rushing because he's not Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: And his team leading total was fourteen yards, so none
Speaker 1: of our running backs had more than fourteen yards, and
Speaker 1: that's a bad thing. Some of that has to do,
Speaker 1: as is always the case when you're losing by a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns, for the fact that you change your
Speaker 1: game plan and you throw the ball on almost every play.
Speaker 1: But the running game. We can't cover up the fact
Speaker 1: that the running game has not been effective yet and
Speaker 1: Bruce Arian says it enough that I believe him that
Speaker 1: he wants a more bounced attack. We just have not
Speaker 1: gotten there yet and you know he wants that so
Speaker 1: the play action has more bite to it. And then
Speaker 1: we are to marry us asked, are there any updates
Speaker 1: on A B S and jpps health status? Um, And
Speaker 1: then I figured we could also just talk about if
Speaker 1: you know, if they are and if they aren't available,
Speaker 1: what that will mean for the team and stepping up
Speaker 1: for them after what we saw about how the team
Speaker 1: handled it this last week. I'm not optimistic about JPP
Speaker 1: just because the way that coach at answered the question
Speaker 1: about whether he'd be available this week. He said the
Speaker 1: kind of thing like, well, with JPP, you never know,
Speaker 1: but made me made me think that he doesn't really
Speaker 1: expect JPP to to make it back by this game
Speaker 1: due to his shoulder injury, you know, And that's a shame.
Speaker 1: As we were just talking, the Bucks need more pass
Speaker 1: rush and he's a good pass rusher, so you miss
Speaker 1: him while he's out. UM. Antonio Brown went on the
Speaker 1: COVID list last Wednesday. If it's anything like Kevin Mintor's timetable,
Speaker 1: we should feel pretty confident he'll be back. Kevin Minter
Speaker 1: went on the COVID list the previous Monday and just
Speaker 1: came off at this Monday, so it was one week
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, every guy isn't the same. You
Speaker 1: have to be asymptomatic and return to negative tests within
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four hours apart to come back before ten days,
Speaker 1: but that seems to be the case with vaccinated players.
Speaker 1: So I'm pretty optimistic he'll be back. And that's a
Speaker 1: good thing because I think Scotty Miller's injury is severe
Speaker 1: enough that it may force him to injury reserve. UM.
Speaker 1: Coach called it pretty severe and a turf toe is
Speaker 1: a tough injury to overcome, so I know it doesn't
Speaker 1: sound like much, but it's a pretty bad injury. It's
Speaker 1: one that often knocks guys out for a pretty significant
Speaker 1: amount of time. So his return would really be timely
Speaker 1: because I think we will be without Scotty Miller for
Speaker 1: a little bit, right And we also had a question
Speaker 1: from Bella asking how is Gronk and what kind of
Speaker 1: percent will he be on Sunday. Well, we'll find out
Speaker 1: in the next few days. I think Coach was cautiously
Speaker 1: optimistic about it on Monday. You know, he did return
Speaker 1: to the game so after the injury, so at least
Speaker 1: you know he can play with it. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: there was the he coaches talking about after the game
Speaker 1: how the long flight back from Los Angeles was a
Speaker 1: bit of a bummer for players who are injured like
Speaker 1: Jamal because you know, injuries to like knees and other
Speaker 1: joints tend to swell up on long flights. So but
Speaker 1: that was three days ago, so hopefully there's been time
Speaker 1: for those guys to recover. We'll see in the next
Speaker 1: couple of days. But I'm not too worried about Frankowski.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that's gonna do it for us on
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