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Speaker 1: So while we give people a chance to start submitting
Speaker 1: some of those, um, I know that this time you're
Speaker 1: basically free agency and draft. That's it. That's what everyone's
Speaker 1: talking about, and one is going to affect the other,
Speaker 1: and there's just so many potential dominoes. And we've had
Speaker 1: to say so many times that we still don't know
Speaker 1: a lot, which is always very tough this time of year.
Speaker 1: But I figured we could at least talk about some
Speaker 1: of the mock drafts, because that's not about knowing. Nobody knows,
Speaker 1: yes exactly, which we can all do. We're all very
Speaker 1: good everybody. Yes. So I know that you and Carmen
Speaker 1: have both done your mock draft, you've done one together recently,
Speaker 1: and so I just want to hear your thoughts on
Speaker 1: what your mock draft said, and then some of the
Speaker 1: other ones that you've been looking at out there and
Speaker 1: what it maybe says about what the Bucks might do.
Speaker 1: So the way we did it and the way we'll
Speaker 1: do it every couple of weeks until we get close
Speaker 1: into our own mock draft, as we did one where
Speaker 1: we just alternated picks um, which does throw a little
Speaker 1: bit of a little bit of more guests work into it,
Speaker 1: because if you're doing your own mock draft one to
Speaker 1: thirty two and you can maybe fudge a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'd really like to see this guy get to seven,
Speaker 1: so I won't want to go to team six. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: that can't really happen when somebody else's picking. So we
Speaker 1: were going along. I think a lot of the picks
Speaker 1: are what you've seen, you know, obviously, starting with Jeff
Speaker 1: Burrow and Chase Young and the cornerback from Ohio State
Speaker 1: and all that. But around nine or ten, uh, some
Speaker 1: team took. We had some team taken offensive lineman and
Speaker 1: Carmen and her ride up said she thought this was
Speaker 1: gonna start a run, but it really didn't. And what
Speaker 1: ended up happening is at fourteen where the Bucks are
Speaker 1: Tristan Worths. The Ioway tackles was considered one of the
Speaker 1: top prospects at that position was sitting there and that's
Speaker 1: who Carmen took and and honestly, if I had had
Speaker 1: that pick, I would have taken him as well. And
Speaker 1: I think we've said several times on the show, as
Speaker 1: we've talked in weeks that I just think there's a
Speaker 1: really good combination of what the Bucks need and value
Speaker 1: in this particular draft for it to work out at
Speaker 1: number fourteen, and it did in that mock draft. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's an interesting point. Um. We also had somebody uh asked,
Speaker 1: I think it was Scott said, if the Bucks don't, yep,
Speaker 1: great name, you're a big fan, not bias at all.
Speaker 1: If the Bucks don't take a quarterback in the first round,
Speaker 1: can you see them taking one later? And if so, who, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean sure a second round pick. You know, I
Speaker 1: saw a mock draft I was reading yesterday that we
Speaker 1: took I think an offensive linement at fourteen, but they
Speaker 1: had us trade up to the bottom of the first
Speaker 1: round to get I believe Jordan's love the is that
Speaker 1: the Utah statum with a big arm um. A lot
Speaker 1: of guys, a lot of people connect that to Bruce
Speaker 1: arians because like he wants a big arm quarterback who
Speaker 1: can throw the ball down field. Um. Yeah, so you
Speaker 1: can see if you can get that guy at the
Speaker 1: very end of round one, then he maybe is also
Speaker 1: available in round two. We're about let's see thirteen picks
Speaker 1: in a round two I believe pick number forty five overall.
Speaker 1: So sure it could happen, and that could be an
Speaker 1: interesting approach that the Buckaneers take. Basically, we know what
Speaker 1: the options are at quarterback, right either James Winson's back,
Speaker 1: or you signed a veteran free agent or your draft guy,
Speaker 1: or some combination of both. So maybe if you signed
Speaker 1: a veteran who is going to be a couple of
Speaker 1: year stop gap, then you also draft a guy that
Speaker 1: you're hoping you can develop. So sure I could see that. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: we had a few different questions about now that um,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers and the Charges have announced that he will
Speaker 1: enter free agency, which you were actually we were talking
Speaker 1: about this before the show. You were pointing out as
Speaker 1: a little bit different than if he had actually been released. Yeah,
Speaker 1: take like Greg Olson, greg Olson, the tight end has
Speaker 1: been so good for Carolina for so long. They actually
Speaker 1: released him on February second, and so he has actually
Speaker 1: visited a couple of teams. I think Seattle and Washington,
Speaker 1: and obviously Washington makes a lot of sense because reuniting
Speaker 1: with Ron rivera. UM, I don't know. I didn't check
Speaker 1: this morning. The Chargers and and Philip Rivers. Obviously they
Speaker 1: made a statement. They all made statements and made it
Speaker 1: clear that they wouldn't pursue him in free agency and
Speaker 1: that so their time together is over, right. But if
Speaker 1: they haven't released him yet, and I honestly I have
Speaker 1: to admit I don't know. I didn't check. I wish
Speaker 1: I hadn't. But if they haven't released him yet, he
Speaker 1: can't start going and negotiating with other teams yet. They'd
Speaker 1: have to wait until that seventy two hour period beforehand.
Speaker 1: But they might at some point make a move. I mean,
Speaker 1: it would make sense if there if they obviously have
Speaker 1: a lot of respect for him, as they said in
Speaker 1: their statements, if they want to give him the opportunity
Speaker 1: to go ahead and get started finding a new home
Speaker 1: legally under the system, then then they would release him.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. But I think that the
Speaker 1: way it was worded was they'll let him inter free
Speaker 1: agency which sounds like no roster moving right, That makes sense. Um,
Speaker 1: So we've had a few different questions of if you
Speaker 1: were to be looking at Tom Brady or Philip Rivers
Speaker 1: as potential options, as are the two names that everyone
Speaker 1: keeps loving to to throw out there, which would you prefer?
Speaker 1: Which would fit better here? And then this system? M
Speaker 1: I mean, who's gonna say no to either of those
Speaker 1: two guys? Right? I mean Tom Brady is probably the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time and Philip Rivers has Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame numbers. Uh, I guess neither of them necessarily has
Speaker 1: the huge arm anymore. I don't know if tom Brady
Speaker 1: ever did have the huge on downfield arm and Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers did, but um, probably not as much anymore. Let mean,
Speaker 1: come on, it's Tom Brady and Philip Rivers. I think
Speaker 1: they could do find in any SyncE. It's hard not
Speaker 1: to pick Tom Brady when you have the option picking
Speaker 1: one of, if not the greatest quarterback of all time.
Speaker 1: It's hard to say no right between those two sides. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. Um. Mike had said he's heard
Speaker 1: rumors that there's a possibility that the team wants to
Speaker 1: trade up to number one, So I feel like we
Speaker 1: can address that and then also just overall the likelihood
Speaker 1: of them trading up at all, maybe not just to
Speaker 1: number one, but in General's a lot to talk about
Speaker 1: there at first of all, beginning with the very beginning
Speaker 1: of that question rumors, um, I think what I would
Speaker 1: call that one is speculation, and you're going to see
Speaker 1: an awful lot of that. You'll see a report that
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are considering this, and as you followed back
Speaker 1: through the steps, like maybe you're reading it on Pro
Speaker 1: Football Talk and they they've got it from some blog,
Speaker 1: and you realize what it was was a radio guy
Speaker 1: making that speculation on his show. Does he really have
Speaker 1: a source that the Buccaneers want to trade up? One
Speaker 1: will never know. That's a really really aggressive move, not
Speaker 1: really in keeping with what Jason light has normally done
Speaker 1: in the first round of drafts, and it probably just
Speaker 1: sprang from a speculation, But we can't discuss the possibility.
Speaker 1: I mean, the thing about that trade is going from
Speaker 1: fourteen to one is super super super expensive. But we
Speaker 1: do have a pretty close analog from recent years when
Speaker 1: the Rams traded up to get Jared Goff that was
Speaker 1: sixteen I think sixteen, they went from fifteen to one,
Speaker 1: which I mean, that's really really rare, and I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: It costs them obviously their their first that year, but
Speaker 1: that's just the switch up a second, their first and
Speaker 1: second the next year at least, and there might have
Speaker 1: been more. So you're probably thinking, you're probably looking at um.
Speaker 1: I don't consider it when you trade up from fifteen
Speaker 1: to one. I don't feel like if you trade it,
Speaker 1: if you gave him another two first round picks there,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's trading three first round picks because
Speaker 1: you're at the first. One is just a flip. That
Speaker 1: improvement of your first round pick. So it's technically just
Speaker 1: to the year in order to make the move from
Speaker 1: fourteen to one. What else is in there? Right? That's
Speaker 1: a good point, and I think it could cost as
Speaker 1: much as to first and a second. I mean, are
Speaker 1: you really willing to do that? It's a lot, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that can be a lot of Um. I also think
Speaker 1: Cincinnati would be well, I mean, I guess if they
Speaker 1: can get a king's ransom, you'd have to consider it,
Speaker 1: But otherwise I think Cincinnai should stay put and probably yeah,
Speaker 1: um John asked do you think the Bucks have an
Speaker 1: eye on a running back to bring in. I wonder
Speaker 1: if they mean freed InCor the draft. Um, I think,
Speaker 1: I mean probably just wrote about this before. Even it
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter how you feel about the running backs
Speaker 1: we had last year. I think we almost certainly will
Speaker 1: have at least one, if not two more running backs
Speaker 1: simply by the numbers. I mean, right now under contract,
Speaker 1: you have Ronald Jones, who had a nice step up
Speaker 1: here right Um, could be a thousand yard guy. I
Speaker 1: think it's more carries. But Peyton Barber is a schedule
Speaker 1: to become an unrestricted free agency there's no guarantee that
Speaker 1: he'll be back. And then otherwise basically you really have
Speaker 1: as Dario Goomba, Wally and a guy we had in
Speaker 1: our practice squad, Eco Cedric Ware. I mean, just surely
Speaker 1: by the numbers, they're gonna bring somebody in. Will they
Speaker 1: make a big investment, either in free agency or like
Speaker 1: a second day pick in the draft or even a
Speaker 1: first day pick as you see in some mos, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's possible. I wouldn't I wouldn't. You know, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams that will not break the bank for
Speaker 1: a running back and free agency because they've seen how
Speaker 1: poorly a lot of those things have gone. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know Todd Gurley situation for the Rams. Um. I
Speaker 1: guess Ezekiel Elliott is paying off, but those are the
Speaker 1: more rare ones. You know, how well is Levan Bell
Speaker 1: really working out for the Jets considering what he was paid?
Speaker 1: So are the Buccaneers one of those teams that wouldn't
Speaker 1: do that? I think there's a decent chance that's the case.
Speaker 1: So you know, maybe a mid tier free agent or
Speaker 1: running back in the second or third round. That seems
Speaker 1: very plausible. Okay. De Kwon asked when is the CB
Speaker 1: a deadline and is there any truth to the rumors
Speaker 1: that quarterbacks will have their own cap space to help
Speaker 1: with the ballooning contracts. Well, again, that's not really a
Speaker 1: rumor so much as an idea that somebody has thrown
Speaker 1: out there, which isn't a terrible idea because it is
Speaker 1: tough when the quarterbacks contracts keep getting so huge and
Speaker 1: they end up being such a big percentage of your roster.
Speaker 1: So that's what makes a guy like Russell Wilson when
Speaker 1: you draft him and he's immediately great and for the
Speaker 1: first five years you haven't cost controlled. You can spend
Speaker 1: so much more on other positions, but it's hard to
Speaker 1: fall into that situation. So taking those two those two
Speaker 1: questions one at a time, there isn't really any specific deadline, uh,
Speaker 1: because it does run through so this year is still
Speaker 1: under the c b A, so I guess would be
Speaker 1: sometime next year. But they tend to try to set
Speaker 1: artificial deadlines like I don't know if you people saw
Speaker 1: the news in the last week or so that the
Speaker 1: NFL supposedly had set a sort of a rough deadline
Speaker 1: of about March eighteen for them to accept the current
Speaker 1: deal that was on the table, but then that's been
Speaker 1: walked back a little bit that now we didn't really
Speaker 1: set in deadline, so you know, the only deadline is
Speaker 1: one that one side or the other is gonna set,
Speaker 1: and in the most recent one was just, hey, there's
Speaker 1: nothing on the table, this is when we would like
Speaker 1: you to decide on that. By I do think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of momentum of them wanting to get it
Speaker 1: done around the new league year, around March. I've heard
Speaker 1: a lot about that. And then the other half of
Speaker 1: that was the quarterback thing. It's an option but um,
Speaker 1: so far, I think that's just speculation. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's something that's actually considered a definite part of the agreement. Okay,
Speaker 1: Jay asked, what do you think Teddy Bridgewater would be
Speaker 1: worth on the open market in your opinion? It's a
Speaker 1: good question, mollion, something like that. I don't I don't
Speaker 1: know what the I mean, he would be a starter,
Speaker 1: and he played well last year, and he was a
Speaker 1: former first round pick. I like him a lot. I
Speaker 1: think I think he'd be a good starter. Um out
Speaker 1: of millions something like that. Yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: it's probably so much of that depends on all the
Speaker 1: other potential quarterback domino pieces this year, that there are
Speaker 1: so many of them that we don't know if they're
Speaker 1: staying where they are, if they're going somewhere else. And
Speaker 1: then I feel like one move happens and it could
Speaker 1: cause this whole big the domino effect, And if you
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of these top, big name guys
Speaker 1: all of a sudden in movement, it could push his
Speaker 1: value maybe down that some of these other guys, or
Speaker 1: if a lot of guys stay put and then you
Speaker 1: still have a team or two That thought they were
Speaker 1: going to have more options, feeling like go either way.
Speaker 1: It's like musical chairs. Either there's one too many quarterback
Speaker 1: which is bad for the quarterbacks, or one too many chairs,
Speaker 1: which would be good for the quarterbacks. Right, which is
Speaker 1: an interesting point. Um, What was your point? I just
Speaker 1: made an analogy for it, Um, which I appreciate, you know,
Speaker 1: just clarifying ever here, Um David asked, do you think
Speaker 1: that Jason Lite takes the best player available or more
Speaker 1: for need based on his history here? I don't think
Speaker 1: that any GM in the first round ever goes pure
Speaker 1: best player available. I think they take best player available
Speaker 1: that fits what you need. Otherwise, I mean, you could
Speaker 1: just rank the prospects and by the time we get
Speaker 1: to the draft there's a lot of areamon on who's best,
Speaker 1: and it would just go that way. But it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know, if you had there were there were I
Speaker 1: think Barry Sanders is the best running back of all time,
Speaker 1: and I think he went third or fourth in the
Speaker 1: to Detroit, So that means two or three teams passed
Speaker 1: on him. But you can understand that because they probably
Speaker 1: had in trench running backs. If you haven't in trench,
Speaker 1: if you have Zekiel Elliott and another Barry Sanders comes
Speaker 1: along in this year's draft, and you're picking first and
Speaker 1: he's the best player, Are you going to take him?
Speaker 1: You're not right now. As you get later on in
Speaker 1: the draft, especially on the third day, I do think
Speaker 1: they often take they will they do do more of
Speaker 1: a best player available strategy. If if you know the Bucks,
Speaker 1: what's the position we're we don't really need right now?
Speaker 1: Maybe inside linebacker. But if there's a guy just standing
Speaker 1: out as the best one and he's high above left
Speaker 1: of any other position you got left, then I think
Speaker 1: you started taking that guy, even though he's not your
Speaker 1: biggest need. Right we have another Scott with a lot
Speaker 1: of Scots, all right, your your team Scott fan club? Um,
Speaker 1: he asked. Um. He was saying, you know, we keep
Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks, but we still need secondary help. And
Speaker 1: then he asked, what are the chances we have to
Speaker 1: get the Honey Badger? But I figured overall we could
Speaker 1: just talk about do you agree that the needing secondary
Speaker 1: helper where we are in that? Yeah? I would love.
Speaker 1: I wish we had managed to land him last year,
Speaker 1: but I guess it was just too much. That would
Speaker 1: have been awesome. He's such a great player, But I
Speaker 1: don't know for spending that much, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And plus I don't believe he's a free agent now.
Speaker 1: He signed a multi year contract with Kansas City. So
Speaker 1: there are a ton, however, of names you would recognize
Speaker 1: of safeties that, unless her teams resigned them are going
Speaker 1: to be available on the market this year. And of
Speaker 1: the two parts of the secondary, I think safety is
Speaker 1: a bigger need. And Bruce arians essentially said that at
Speaker 1: the last press conference at the end of the year
Speaker 1: he started talking about his quarterbacks. I think we're set.
Speaker 1: And you can understand that because by the end of
Speaker 1: the year it looked like those three young guys are
Speaker 1: your frontline guys, right, and so you don't really need
Speaker 1: to go spend on another freeging quarterback if you've spent
Speaker 1: another if you brought in another high priced free agent
Speaker 1: cornerback who gets bumped from the top three, you know
Speaker 1: you like all those guys, Sean, if you bunt Carlton
Speaker 1: Davis and Jamal Dean. So then you talk about safety
Speaker 1: and said, I think we're set at safety. But then
Speaker 1: Bekase said, well, maybe maybe notn you're talking about the
Speaker 1: injury situation with Justin Evans is still a big question mark.
Speaker 1: They did like um Dacota Dixon, but he got hurt
Speaker 1: and and really isn't proving yet. But I like him
Speaker 1: a lot. So there's a lot more question marks at safety,
Speaker 1: and UH, I do think safety is a position the
Speaker 1: Bucks could look at with a value signing and free agency.
Speaker 1: And there are a lot of them out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: the two big names that will get the biggest contracts
Speaker 1: are Justin Simmons and Anthony Harris. I don't think those
Speaker 1: two guys are probably our targets. But there's a ton
Speaker 1: of other guys out there, like Rodney McLeod and Trey Boston,
Speaker 1: and I can't even think of them all right now,
Speaker 1: but I did write about that. If you want to
Speaker 1: go look in the archive. Okay, Um, I'll try to close.
Speaker 1: We got a few more here, but I'll try to
Speaker 1: go fairly quickly. Aaron asked, how soon do you think
Speaker 1: we could get a deal done with Shaq Barrett. I
Speaker 1: tend to think, as I've said before, that these things
Speaker 1: UH kind of bump towards the deadline because both teams,
Speaker 1: both sides are probably trying to get a little bit
Speaker 1: more of what they want, right and so just there's
Speaker 1: no reason to settle until the deadline is looming. And
Speaker 1: I looked at all these all the players that we resigned.
Speaker 1: I went through our transactions for like the last ten years,
Speaker 1: and all the bigger name guys that we resigned before
Speaker 1: the start of free agency were always in March, you know,
Speaker 1: they're not in February. And this year the deadline the
Speaker 1: free agencies until March eighteenth, which is later. It's usually
Speaker 1: more around like the tenth, So there's a lot of
Speaker 1: time now. If the Buckaneers don't have them signed by
Speaker 1: March tenth and they're worried, you might get a franchise
Speaker 1: tag right then. As we've said before, though that doesn't
Speaker 1: stop negotiations. That just you could you could he could
Speaker 1: eventually play on that franchise tag, but also you can
Speaker 1: just use that as a way to extend your exclusive
Speaker 1: negotiating window and still get a long term deal done afterwards.
Speaker 1: So it could be quite some time at the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl um when Shack was being interviewed about this in
Speaker 1: the same vein he's done every time he's been interviewed
Speaker 1: about this subject since. Still, while the season was going on.
Speaker 1: He makes a very clear or than he wants to
Speaker 1: stay here and he thinks it's gonna work out here,
Speaker 1: and it's all always very very positive. But somebody asked him, well,
Speaker 1: does it feel good knowing that this will all be
Speaker 1: resolved by March? And he kind of laughed when, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure it's gonna be resolved, right, So just take
Speaker 1: that and then um, we'll close it this one. Jonathan said,
Speaker 1: do you think O J. Howard is actually on the
Speaker 1: trade block? And if so, what are the chances we
Speaker 1: actually trade him? I usually I'm skeptic skeptical about those things,
Speaker 1: but there's sometimes where there's a lot of smoke, there's fire,
Speaker 1: and you do keep hearing about that a lot. Um.
Speaker 1: I I honestly don't know if we've had trade discussions
Speaker 1: for O J with anyone, but it's certainly possible. What
Speaker 1: was the second half of that one, just what the
Speaker 1: chances would be that we actually trade him? Is he
Speaker 1: one of the people on the trade block? And what
Speaker 1: would be the chances, if so, that we would be
Speaker 1: able to trade him? Um? I still consider the chances low,
Speaker 1: and I think the more likely path forward is they're
Speaker 1: gonna try again and see if they can get the
Speaker 1: production out of him that they thought they would get
Speaker 1: last year. But it's possible, right all right, Well, thanks
Speaker 1: so much all of you guys who submitted questions. We're
Speaker 1: here every Wednesday at ten am, and of course we
Speaker 1: know there's a lot more free agency and draft questions
Speaker 1: that we didn't get a chance to get to, so
Speaker 1: make sure you're back here next week submitting even more
Speaker 1: of them, and we'll see you then. M