Speaker 1: Welcome to Books Insider Live. Casey Phillips here a senior
Speaker 1: writer and editor Scott Smith here to get you guys
Speaker 1: caught up on all the Buccaneers news that you need
Speaker 1: because we are midway through OTAs. It is so wonderful.
Speaker 1: It is the beginning of what feels like real football,
Speaker 1: even though there's no pads. OTAs to me always feel
Speaker 1: like the beginning of like, all right, there's some football
Speaker 1: happening here. There's coaches out there with them, and I
Speaker 1: always love getting to hear those first impressions, especially when
Speaker 1: you have something like a new offensive coordinator, where you're
Speaker 1: getting to hear these guys' first impressions as they start
Speaker 1: to install this work on the playbook. And we got
Speaker 1: to hear from someone who is important in this offseason
Speaker 1: in terms of what this role is going to look like.
Speaker 1: In the quarterback battle, Kyle Trask was asked about his
Speaker 1: thoughts on Canalis's offense. So, what were some of the
Speaker 1: takeaways that you got from that?
Speaker 2: Well, he says, it's a very creative offense. I think
Speaker 2: that most of the players are really enjoying it so far.
Speaker 2: Chris Godwin had a lot of nice things to say
Speaker 2: last week as well. I think, you know, it's probably
Speaker 2: nice to do something new. Yeah, And for the quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in particular, they are excited about the fact that Dave's
Speaker 2: offense will involve a little bit more movement from the quarterbacks,
Speaker 2: you know, designed rollouts, bootlegs, things like that, and throwing
Speaker 2: on the run, and that will be a big, big
Speaker 2: change for the Buccaneers should that come to be. As
Speaker 2: you can see here, you know, Dave Canals comes to
Speaker 2: us from Seattle and where he worked under Shane Waldron,
Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator, and it's expected that the Bucks his
Speaker 2: new offense will be similar to that one. And as
Speaker 2: you can see from this chart here on things like
Speaker 2: designed rollouts, percentage, percentage of plays where you did design rollout,
Speaker 2: percentage of plays where you threw on the run, percentage
Speaker 2: of plays where you got outside the pocket, and percentage
Speaker 2: on the outer side of a percentage of time that
Speaker 2: the quarterbacks spent in the tackle box. And if you
Speaker 2: look at this, look at the difference one point two
Speaker 2: percent rollouts for Tom Brady versus eleven point eight for
Speaker 2: Gino Smith, which was well above the NFL average, And
Speaker 2: that little asterisk there shows you that in all those
Speaker 2: first three categories, tom Brady was absolutely last. And this
Speaker 2: isn't a bad thing. I'm not saying tom Brady's last,
Speaker 2: because he's not pretty much last thing anything, right, but
Speaker 2: the type of plays that were called for him, he
Speaker 2: was last in all these types of movement plays and
Speaker 2: except for the last one there, which is when you
Speaker 2: stayed put, he was very near the top of the
Speaker 2: list on that one. So that will be probably a
Speaker 2: very big difference in the Bugs offense this year. And
Speaker 2: I think we already know Baker Mayfield can move around
Speaker 2: pretty well, and Kyle Trask Todd Bowle said, Kyle Trask
Speaker 2: is people are he's a little underrated in terms of
Speaker 2: how well he moves. And he's also leaned up, as
Speaker 2: he said, lost about five or ten pounds that he's
Speaker 2: trying to just be as mobile as possible.
Speaker 3: So he can run a little bit as well.
Speaker 2: So it'll be interesting to see that element of the
Speaker 2: Bucks offense, and I think the quarterbacks are.
Speaker 3: Excited about it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great, and I know that we also want
Speaker 1: to make sure we get our trivia question out there,
Speaker 1: not only giving people a few minutes to join the show,
Speaker 1: We're going to read out the trivia question, and we'd
Speaker 1: love to hear your answers for it. No cheating, no googling.
Speaker 1: Honors system here people, So underneath our Facebook live video
Speaker 1: leave your answers to the trivia question. Scott hit us
Speaker 1: with it.
Speaker 2: Well, I should point out that Casey has been complaining
Speaker 2: on and on about how all my trivia questions go
Speaker 2: too far back in history, and she wanted something.
Speaker 3: From a little more chance.
Speaker 1: I wanted a chance.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'll also point out that when I read it this
Speaker 2: question before the show, she got it right. So you
Speaker 2: have to match Casey Phillips to get this right. And
Speaker 2: the question is who has the most regular season interceptions
Speaker 2: for the Buccaneers over the past ten years? And then
Speaker 2: bonus question, who's second on that list?
Speaker 1: Yeah? To be honest, I got the who was first?
Speaker 1: And then he threw the who was second at me
Speaker 1: and I did not get that one.
Speaker 3: It was still it was still a good job.
Speaker 1: Yes, but I will take the first one. So again, yes,
Speaker 1: who's first? And then if you want a bonus one,
Speaker 1: who is second on that list?
Speaker 3: Again? Both interceptions combined over the last ten.
Speaker 1: Season, Yes, combined our last ten years. Leave that underneath
Speaker 1: our Facebook live video and we might read out someone's
Speaker 1: answer if they get it right. So now also we
Speaker 1: talked about the offensive side of things, defensive side of
Speaker 1: things in terms of OTAs. It's you know, it's always
Speaker 1: cool to see who's kind of playing where and who's
Speaker 1: getting reps where and with what group. And we'd talked
Speaker 1: about the fact that we were under the impression of Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield Junior was going to be back at his main
Speaker 1: position of safety. Now we've gotten to hear from him
Speaker 1: about that and his role this year.
Speaker 3: What did you hear from him?
Speaker 2: Even more clarification because he specifically says free safety, that's
Speaker 2: what he's going to be playing.
Speaker 3: He says he's very excited about being in the middle
Speaker 3: of the field a lot more now.
Speaker 2: As we've said on some of our other shows, you know,
Speaker 2: they're still going to use Antoine a round line of
Speaker 2: scrimmage at time, just because he's such a good tackler
Speaker 2: and such a good blitzer.
Speaker 3: But playing more of that.
Speaker 2: Center field role will probably give him an opportunity to
Speaker 2: make more big plays. But also, you know, it would
Speaker 2: kind of need a bit safety because the safety position
Speaker 2: with Logan Ryan not coming back, can O'Neil signing somewhere else,
Speaker 2: Mike Edwards signing with the Chiefs. It's really beyond Antoine.
Speaker 2: There's not a lot of experience there were I think
Speaker 2: quite fortunate that the Seahawks took back their tender offer
Speaker 2: on what could have been restricted for age of Ryan
Speaker 2: Neil and now was a really nice pickup. And Ryan
Speaker 2: Neil was actually in Tampa when that happened, and he
Speaker 2: was very interested in playing for the Buccaneer, so that
Speaker 2: just worked out really nicely. But still nineteen careers starts
Speaker 2: for him. That everybody else in the list is either
Speaker 2: an undrafted creator from last year or this year. They
Speaker 2: obviously don't have any starts, and that's an opportunity for
Speaker 2: these guys. There's a real good opportunity for a couple
Speaker 2: of these guys to actually make the roster despite being undrafted.
Speaker 2: But again, Antoin Winfield is kind of the you know,
Speaker 2: the he's not old by any stretch. I think he's
Speaker 2: going to turn twenty five before the start of the season,
Speaker 2: but he's the elder statesman in this group.
Speaker 1: Now, as we look at that graphic, I will already
Speaker 1: say how many times I am going to get names
Speaker 1: wrong because we had a Logan Ryan, a Kean O'Neil.
Speaker 1: Now we have a Ryan Neil, and we had a
Speaker 1: Jordan Whitehead, and now there's another Wise. Yeah, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is I'm just already put it out there. I'm
Speaker 1: going to get it wrong. I already know, and I
Speaker 1: know in terms of the schedule, we've talked about this
Speaker 1: idea of the NFC South and what that's going to
Speaker 1: look like this year. What are some of the big
Speaker 1: things that you feel like you took away from that
Speaker 1: and what it can mean for this team.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did a big long show on the schedule
Speaker 2: and it first dropped and there were lots of notes
Speaker 2: in there.
Speaker 3: You can go back and watch it if you want.
Speaker 2: But one that I didn't include them because they didn't
Speaker 2: have the numbers for it yet was this idea of
Speaker 2: net days of rest, which people have only really been
Speaker 2: looking at for the last couple of years. But I
Speaker 2: think Warren Sharp of Sharp Football announceis always does this
Speaker 2: every year. The idea of net days of rest is
Speaker 2: if like say you're playing a team that's coming off
Speaker 2: of bye and you're not, they have seven more days
Speaker 2: of rest before that game than you do, but it
Speaker 2: probably evens out because one week you're going to be
Speaker 2: coming off of buye right. Well, sometimes it doesn't even
Speaker 2: out overall because you play more teams coming off of
Speaker 2: buye or coming off Thursday night games, which is kind
Speaker 2: of like a mini buy. And so if you look
Speaker 2: at this, the Buccaneers actually have a negative six net
Speaker 2: days of rest and that's all because they play three
Speaker 2: games against teams coming off Thursday night game, so they
Speaker 2: get that mini buy, so they get like three more
Speaker 2: days of rest.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: And then that there's one for the Bucks in that situation.
Speaker 2: So it accumulates out to negative six, which isn't great.
Speaker 3: It's not at the end of the world. But you
Speaker 3: can see hear the Falcons have it even tougher.
Speaker 2: Wow, because even the bottom of the list, which is
Speaker 2: not displayed, or San Francisco which has a negative twenty
Speaker 2: oh my, which is crazy. It just means they're playing
Speaker 2: lots of teams coming up bys or coming off mini
Speaker 2: buys of Thursday game, and that can make a little
Speaker 2: bit of a difference.
Speaker 3: So it's worth looking at.
Speaker 1: It's not the Saints up there, Yeah, they get everything.
Speaker 1: I'm sure every Bucks fan is shaking their fist at
Speaker 1: this graphic.
Speaker 3: One of those is the Saints.
Speaker 2: They're coming when we played them late in the season
Speaker 2: the week before. They're on a Thursday night, so that's
Speaker 2: that they'll have extra that's.
Speaker 1: Going to be interesting. What are the things that when
Speaker 1: you look at the schedule, what are some of the
Speaker 1: things that you're most excited about when you just kind
Speaker 1: of look at it from objectively as like a sort
Speaker 1: of fans point.
Speaker 3: The Lambeau Field in December. I just that saw I
Speaker 3: came and I was like, oh, that's so awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was kind of hoping we go to Buffalo
Speaker 2: late in year. It's selfish in me because the players
Speaker 2: probably don't really want to do that, But getting Lambeau to.
Speaker 1: Watch a snow game and in those places and.
Speaker 2: Then and then Monday night football against the defending NFC
Speaker 2: Champons is pretty exciting too.
Speaker 1: And maybe just kind of give people a reminder of
Speaker 1: where we're at in the off season schedule. We mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier that we're in the middle of OTAs, so maybe
Speaker 1: remind fans where we're at in the overall schedule. What's
Speaker 1: kind of coming up next to pay attention.
Speaker 2: Right now, the players are probably warming up or getting
Speaker 2: ready to warm up for the final OTA of this week.
Speaker 2: OTA means organized team Activity days, and we're in phase
Speaker 2: three of the off season program, and that's when you
Speaker 2: can do up to ten OTAs and they're very much like.
Speaker 3: Regular season practices, except.
Speaker 2: You can't put on pads or have contact, but you
Speaker 2: can run all the drills you normally would, full team
Speaker 2: seven and seven, nine on seven all that. So his
Speaker 2: offense going against defense, which didn't happen until OTA started
Speaker 2: last week. So now they've done, counting today six of them.
Speaker 2: They'll have four more of them next week, and then
Speaker 2: after that is the mini camp. And all the OTAs
Speaker 2: are voluntary, which is important, and it's become much more common,
Speaker 2: I think for people to for veteran players to maybe
Speaker 2: pursue their own regimens somewhere else, and for teams to
Speaker 2: understand that. So nobody's wringing their hands about a couple
Speaker 2: veterans that aren't there. But the Bucks have had a
Speaker 2: good eighty players, yeah something, and then you know, here
Speaker 2: and there you got a guy who's nicked up and
Speaker 2: can't be on the field. But for the most part,
Speaker 2: it's been a really good attendance. And then Finally, June
Speaker 2: thirteenth through fifteenth. I believe Tuesday through Thursday is the
Speaker 2: mini camp, which is mandatory, so I should see the whole.
Speaker 1: Team there, all right, And then we'll close with the
Speaker 1: answer to our trivia question that I got right.
Speaker 3: She did the most.
Speaker 2: You know, if you thought about this a little bit,
Speaker 2: and you've kind of answered it right away, but if
Speaker 2: you think about it.
Speaker 3: A little bit, you probably can figure out the answer.
Speaker 2: Your mind wants to go to a cornerback or a safety,
Speaker 2: but think about the guy that's been on that defense
Speaker 2: starting it all ten years. That's Levante David. He has
Speaker 2: eleven in that span. He had the one year where
Speaker 2: I think he had five or six in twenty thirteen
Speaker 2: his second year.
Speaker 3: But second on the list is a bit surprising. It's
Speaker 3: Keith Tandy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that was pretty cool. I like that,
Speaker 1: especially since he's still on the staff now as a coach.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll have to tell Keith that he was
Speaker 1: an answer to our.
Speaker 2: Trivia question because like the original Mike Edwards, Yeah, which
Speaker 2: he didn't always get a ton of playing time, but
Speaker 2: when he did, he always seem to make interceptions than
Speaker 2: they were usually at the end of games to close
Speaker 2: them out.
Speaker 1: And what I love Keith, Sandy Levante, David two of
Speaker 1: the top good guy awards in buccaneer history. So I
Speaker 1: love that for Mark, guys, Yes, Mark absolutely all right,
Speaker 1: Well that is going to do it for us on
Speaker 1: this edition of Bucks Insider Live. We'll see you next time.