WEBVTT - Richard Sherman Joins the Bucs, Tom Brady's Return to Foxboro | Bucs Insider

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<v Speaker 1>Hey there, Good morning Bucks fans. How's everybody doing, Casey Phillips,

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<v Speaker 1>youre a senior writer and editor, Scott Smith. It is

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<v Speaker 1>time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller Lighte and Man,

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<v Speaker 1>is it fun when we have breaking news right before

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<v Speaker 1>our show. It's like they did it for us. I

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<v Speaker 1>think they did. I think so that they were like,

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<v Speaker 1>you know what, Casey and Scott are really gonna want

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about this. Let's make sure we get this

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<v Speaker 1>deal done now. So let's begin with the breaking news.

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<v Speaker 1>Tell us what it is. Well, the Buccaneers have signed

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<v Speaker 1>veteran cornerback Richard Sherman, obviously five time Pro Bowl are,

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<v Speaker 1>most recently in two He only played five games last

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<v Speaker 1>year due to some injuries, but um, the last time

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<v Speaker 1>he played a full season, he was in the Pro Bowl.

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<v Speaker 1>I think this is still a player who can offer

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<v Speaker 1>quite a bit, and it's it's important right now because

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<v Speaker 1>the Bucks are having a little bit of trouble in

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<v Speaker 1>the secondary, both statistically and because of injuries. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>Sean Murphy Bunting, we don't know when he's gonna come back.

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<v Speaker 1>We don't know if Jamale Dean is going to be

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<v Speaker 1>able to play this week due to the knee injury

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<v Speaker 1>suffered against Los Angeles, And so I mean you go out,

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<v Speaker 1>it's it's reminiscent of last year, really and how that worked.

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<v Speaker 1>That worked out very well. Jason Knight was very aggressive

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<v Speaker 1>last year believing he had a championship roster. M Brady

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<v Speaker 1>is your quarterback, and you know he made every aggressive

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<v Speaker 1>move along the way. I know there are times when

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<v Speaker 1>we signed Rob Gronkowski and Learned four and Antonio Brown

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<v Speaker 1>where some people were just laughing, like are you gonna

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<v Speaker 1>sign everybody that's available that's a veteran that you know

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<v Speaker 1>has been good at some point in their career. And

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<v Speaker 1>it all became important in the end. I think you

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<v Speaker 1>remember every single point scored in the Super Bowl was

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<v Speaker 1>by a guy signed that year. So it's it's a

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<v Speaker 1>continuation of that. The Bucks championship window was open, and

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<v Speaker 1>Jason Knight is moving aggressively to make sure it does

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<v Speaker 1>everything he possibly can to make take advantage of that. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>And we had a question from Richard asking how soon

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<v Speaker 1>can Sherman suit up? A question from Richard, do you

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<v Speaker 1>think it's him he wants to know it is? Yes, Yeah, Richard,

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<v Speaker 1>Sherman is asking us, Yeah, I'm ready to put me

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<v Speaker 1>in coach. Well, he could suit up immediately, could be

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<v Speaker 1>if he's here, which I think he is because he

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<v Speaker 1>physically signed. He could practice this morning in about an hour,

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<v Speaker 1>and he could play against UM. I mean, is he

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<v Speaker 1>I wonder if it's a is that a procedural question?

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<v Speaker 1>Like so, I think there's probably there's probably a lot

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<v Speaker 1>to it of one. We all know that the COVID

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<v Speaker 1>rules have definitely changed sometimes people's availability of how long

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<v Speaker 1>it took with the intake. But that's a little bit

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<v Speaker 1>different now this year with vaccines. But also I'm sure

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<v Speaker 1>it might even just be would he be ready by Sunday? Yeah.

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<v Speaker 1>The fact that he's a savvy veteran UM probably wouldn't

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<v Speaker 1>have too much trouble picking up this defense leads me

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<v Speaker 1>to believe he'll be playing pretty quickly this Sunday. I

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<v Speaker 1>wouldn't count it out. I really wouldn't, especially if Jamal

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<v Speaker 1>Dean can't go. And at the very least you have

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<v Speaker 1>them active and you work him in, you know, to

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<v Speaker 1>some degree, and if it's going well, then you just

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<v Speaker 1>keep him in. Yeah, And then Daniel had asked, how

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<v Speaker 1>do you think his experience will help our younger players

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<v Speaker 1>as well. Yeah, if there's any position on this team

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<v Speaker 1>that they could use an infusion of of veteran know

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<v Speaker 1>how an experience, it is the secondary. And you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's funny the league puts out after the first week

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<v Speaker 1>of the season, the league puts out these notes about

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<v Speaker 1>the rosters. Who has the tallest average roster and the

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<v Speaker 1>the youngest and the oldest and so on, and the Buccaneers,

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<v Speaker 1>to nobody's surprise, after Week one, had the oldest roster

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<v Speaker 1>in the league on average and had the most thirty

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<v Speaker 1>plus year role players on their team. And that's sprinkled

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<v Speaker 1>all around most positions, but not the secondary. The secondary

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<v Speaker 1>was all very young and it was a good thing.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, as we saw last year at the end,

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<v Speaker 1>that secondary was really playing well and it's all young players.

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<v Speaker 1>You can project that these guys can stay together for

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<v Speaker 1>a long time, and that's that's a good thing. But

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<v Speaker 1>it's also good thing now to have this veteran experience

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<v Speaker 1>in that room, which really didn't happen. And we've had

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<v Speaker 1>some people bringing up the idea of the pressure, uh

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<v Speaker 1>that that was I mean, the coach Areans brought up

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<v Speaker 1>after the game, and so let's just talk through the

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<v Speaker 1>ways that the secondary effects the pressure and the pressure

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<v Speaker 1>effects the secondary, and now bringing in Richard Sure, and

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<v Speaker 1>could that be something that helps with both areas? Sure?

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<v Speaker 1>And it's everybody says it, including players, that the rush

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<v Speaker 1>and the and the coverage go together. They you know,

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<v Speaker 1>they have to work together, and that you know, the

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<v Speaker 1>guys in the secondary can help the rushers up front

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<v Speaker 1>by covering longer and giving giving them longer to get

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<v Speaker 1>to the quarterback because he has to hold onto the ball,

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<v Speaker 1>and the guys that are rushing getting help the secondary

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<v Speaker 1>by making him have to get rid of the ball

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<v Speaker 1>quicker or not get rid of the ball at all,

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<v Speaker 1>or affect their throws. And that's all true, But in

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<v Speaker 1>my mind this the rush is the thing that has

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<v Speaker 1>to come first, because there's only so long you can

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<v Speaker 1>cover in the NFL against any quarterback, but especially against

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<v Speaker 1>the caliber of quarterbacks that the Buccaneers have faced so

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<v Speaker 1>far this year. And it was plainly obvious in the

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<v Speaker 1>Rams game that after the first couple of series we

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<v Speaker 1>had a couple of nice pressures and got off the field,

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<v Speaker 1>but after that there was almost no pressure on Matthew Stafford,

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<v Speaker 1>and he was sitting back there for a long time

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<v Speaker 1>on a lot of plays, and you know, the secondary

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<v Speaker 1>was doing the best they could good in some cases,

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<v Speaker 1>Bruce Arians did have some criticism of some of some

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<v Speaker 1>of their technique and how they ran certain coverages. But

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<v Speaker 1>in the end, you're just not going to be able

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<v Speaker 1>to stop a good NFL quarterback from piling up the

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<v Speaker 1>yards if there's no pressure on him at all. And

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<v Speaker 1>then we gil Gilbert asked what I think is a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit more of a rhetorical question, but I thought

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<v Speaker 1>it brought up a good topic. He said, how did

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<v Speaker 1>Tom have the most rushing yards in the game? So

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<v Speaker 1>I figured that would be a good jumping off point

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<v Speaker 1>to talk about the run game and and why it

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<v Speaker 1>maybe isn't a great thing when Tom Brady is yours.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean there's good and bad here. I mean, he

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<v Speaker 1>had a nine yard run, which I think might be

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<v Speaker 1>as longest as a buckinger. Um, he had the one

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<v Speaker 1>yard touchdown run. Uh. He had a six yard run

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<v Speaker 1>I think in the game before. And the funny thing

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<v Speaker 1>is last year Tom Brady carried the ball for the

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<v Speaker 1>Buccaneers in the regular season thirty times for a total

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<v Speaker 1>of six yards. You just there was no mobility at all,

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<v Speaker 1>and of course a lot that is kneel down because

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<v Speaker 1>those all count as rushes. But the point is he

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<v Speaker 1>was never gonna run last year. He still doesn't want to.

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<v Speaker 1>After after the Falcons game when he had a key run,

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<v Speaker 1>he was joking at the podium after the game about

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<v Speaker 1>how he was like nervous when he started run. He

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<v Speaker 1>was looking at how him expecting to get ahead. It

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<v Speaker 1>was all very funny, but it was clear running is

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<v Speaker 1>not part of his plan. But the knee is better

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<v Speaker 1>this year, and if he has to, he can pick

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<v Speaker 1>up a crucial yard or two from time to time.

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<v Speaker 1>That's a good thing. Obviously, it's not a good thing

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<v Speaker 1>when he leads a team rushing because he's not Lamar Jackson.

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<v Speaker 1>And his team leading total was fourteen yards, so none

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<v Speaker 1>of our running backs had more than fourteen yards, and

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<v Speaker 1>that's a bad thing. Some of that has to do,

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<v Speaker 1>as is always the case when you're losing by a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of touchdowns, for the fact that you change your

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<v Speaker 1>game plan and you throw the ball on almost every play.

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<v Speaker 1>But the running game. We can't cover up the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that the running game has not been effective yet and

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<v Speaker 1>Bruce Arian says it enough that I believe him that

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<v Speaker 1>he wants a more bounced attack. We just have not

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<v Speaker 1>gotten there yet and you know he wants that so

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<v Speaker 1>the play action has more bite to it. And then

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<v Speaker 1>we are to marry us asked, are there any updates

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<v Speaker 1>on A B S and jpps health status? Um, And

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<v Speaker 1>then I figured we could also just talk about if

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<v Speaker 1>you know, if they are and if they aren't available,

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<v Speaker 1>what that will mean for the team and stepping up

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<v Speaker 1>for them after what we saw about how the team

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<v Speaker 1>handled it this last week. I'm not optimistic about JPP

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<v Speaker 1>just because the way that coach at answered the question

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<v Speaker 1>about whether he'd be available this week. He said the

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<v Speaker 1>kind of thing like, well, with JPP, you never know,

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<v Speaker 1>but made me made me think that he doesn't really

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<v Speaker 1>expect JPP to to make it back by this game

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<v Speaker 1>due to his shoulder injury, you know, And that's a shame.

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<v Speaker 1>As we were just talking, the Bucks need more pass

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<v Speaker 1>rush and he's a good pass rusher, so you miss

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<v Speaker 1>him while he's out. UM. Antonio Brown went on the

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<v Speaker 1>COVID list last Wednesday. If it's anything like Kevin Mintor's timetable,

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<v Speaker 1>we should feel pretty confident he'll be back. Kevin Minter

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<v Speaker 1>went on the COVID list the previous Monday and just

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<v Speaker 1>came off at this Monday, so it was one week

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<v Speaker 1>for him. I mean, every guy isn't the same. You

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<v Speaker 1>have to be asymptomatic and return to negative tests within

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<v Speaker 1>twenty twenty four hours apart to come back before ten days,

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<v Speaker 1>but that seems to be the case with vaccinated players.

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<v Speaker 1>So I'm pretty optimistic he'll be back. And that's a

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<v Speaker 1>good thing because I think Scotty Miller's injury is severe

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<v Speaker 1>enough that it may force him to injury reserve. UM.

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<v Speaker 1>Coach called it pretty severe and a turf toe is

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<v Speaker 1>a tough injury to overcome, so I know it doesn't

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<v Speaker 1>sound like much, but it's a pretty bad injury. It's

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<v Speaker 1>one that often knocks guys out for a pretty significant

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<v Speaker 1>amount of time. So his return would really be timely

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<v Speaker 1>because I think we will be without Scotty Miller for

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit, right And we also had a question

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<v Speaker 1>from Bella asking how is Gronk and what kind of

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<v Speaker 1>percent will he be on Sunday. Well, we'll find out

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<v Speaker 1>in the next few days. I think Coach was cautiously

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<v Speaker 1>optimistic about it on Monday. You know, he did return

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<v Speaker 1>to the game so after the injury, so at least

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<v Speaker 1>you know he can play with it. Um. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>there was the he coaches talking about after the game

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<v Speaker 1>how the long flight back from Los Angeles was a

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<v Speaker 1>bit of a bummer for players who are injured like

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<v Speaker 1>Jamal because you know, injuries to like knees and other

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<v Speaker 1>joints tend to swell up on long flights. So but

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<v Speaker 1>that was three days ago, so hopefully there's been time

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<v Speaker 1>for those guys to recover. We'll see in the next

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<v Speaker 1>couple of days. But I'm not too worried about Frankowski.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, Well, that's gonna do it for us on

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<v Speaker 1>this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lte.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks as always for joining us and those great questions.

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<v Speaker 1>Enjoy the rest of the week and the game leading

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<v Speaker 1>up to the Patriots on Sunday night. See then,