Speaker 1: Welcome in two books. Insider Live Casey Phillips. Here was
Speaker 1: senior writer and editor Scott Smith here to get you
Speaker 1: ready with everything you need to know leaning up to
Speaker 1: that game against the Rams. Of course, before we get
Speaker 1: into that one, we're going to talk a little bit
Speaker 1: about this last week against the Ravens and some of
Speaker 1: the roster moves that have happened since. And if you
Speaker 1: have any questions for us, you can leave those in
Speaker 1: the comment section underneath the live video. We'll try to
Speaker 1: get to some of those later as well. So let's
Speaker 1: just kind of start a big picture some of the
Speaker 1: takeaways from that Thursday night game. Well, I think the
Speaker 1: takeaway is pretty similar to what it's been for the
Speaker 1: whole season, and it's that the Buckners are having a
Speaker 1: difficult time playing a sixty minute game. Um that's particularly
Speaker 1: true on defense, where in a lot of these games
Speaker 1: they've been pretty good. They held Baltimore to three points
Speaker 1: in the first half, and then in the second half
Speaker 1: things broke down. Todd Bull said, there were, you know, glitches,
Speaker 1: missed assignments and and Baltimore three straight long touchdown drives
Speaker 1: and that completely changed the game. And they often scored
Speaker 1: on his first to dry. It's in fact, it got
Speaker 1: a touchdown its first stride for the first time all season.
Speaker 1: Of course that happened after a muff punt. And that's
Speaker 1: another takeaway that for the four straight game the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: did not get a takeaway. They did have one turnover
Speaker 1: wasn't on offense, So four straight games they also have
Speaker 1: not turned the ball of our offense, which is commendable.
Speaker 1: But for somehow or some way, this defense needs to
Speaker 1: generate turnovers. That's been a hallmark of Todd Bull's defense.
Speaker 1: And just the thoughts that got turned off four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and you need to get turned back on. And then
Speaker 1: finally third downs and Todd Bull's pointed that out yesterday.
Speaker 1: If you look at the differential between how the Bucks
Speaker 1: are converting throw downs on offense and how they're allowing
Speaker 1: them on defense, which used to be a strength for
Speaker 1: this team, it's about the fifth worst differential in the league.
Speaker 1: And if you look at that list the teams, if
Speaker 1: you if you start reading from the top, you see
Speaker 1: like Buffalo, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and you start reading for
Speaker 1: the bottom, you see Houston, You see the big Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's interesting. It is true on both sides of the ball,
Speaker 1: and they affect each other because as we saw, the
Speaker 1: time of possession was incredibly uneven. And sometimes that stat
Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything because it's you got turnovers and pick
Speaker 1: sixes and you scored score, right, So sometimes that that
Speaker 1: stat doesn't mean anything. But in this game, it felt
Speaker 1: like it mental long drive and your defense being exhausted
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, which was very hard,
Speaker 1: and then that makes it even harder to get off
Speaker 1: the field, and it's sort of just this cycle that
Speaker 1: ends up this this self fulfilling thing here. UM. I
Speaker 1: know that one of the big things that came out
Speaker 1: of the game, of course, with Shaq Barrett's injury. He's
Speaker 1: been placed on injured reserve and just such a big
Speaker 1: loss for this defense and and for this team that
Speaker 1: UM guys talk so much about how much he means
Speaker 1: even just an off the field and a leader and
Speaker 1: UM that kind of thing. But let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about what that's going to mean, UM, from an
Speaker 1: next is an O standpoint, and who's going to fill
Speaker 1: his shoes and how much that could even be a
Speaker 1: ripple effect across the whole defense, and not just about
Speaker 1: who's gonna replace him, specifically, it's a big loss. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he only only had three sacks at this point,
Speaker 1: but he was making an impact on Coaches were saying
Speaker 1: he really was winning a lot of his one on
Speaker 1: in battles they just didn't necessarily turn into sacks. Uh.
Speaker 1: Anthony Nelson is now going to step up into a
Speaker 1: starting role, and he did a good job last year
Speaker 1: in the last three game. He started two of the
Speaker 1: last three games last year, but basically was a starter
Speaker 1: for those three games, played the snaps, which is probably
Speaker 1: what he's going to step into now. And he had
Speaker 1: a sack in each of those three games, and he
Speaker 1: had four tackles for loss and a past defense and
Speaker 1: a fumbre recovery. So he actually produced quite a bit
Speaker 1: there there. It is right there in is in the
Speaker 1: last three games the last season, he actually produced quite well.
Speaker 1: So there's reason to suspect that he can do the
Speaker 1: same in a larger role. I think I've pointed us
Speaker 1: out a couple times when I like what he says,
Speaker 1: and a couple of other guys have said, it's not
Speaker 1: it's not about counting your reps. It's about making your
Speaker 1: reps count. So with a larger role. He's gonna try
Speaker 1: to make more of an impact. But you're right, it's
Speaker 1: a ripple effect. You you had him as one of
Speaker 1: your four man rotation, and now the fourth man is
Speaker 1: Genard Avery, which you know, we don't really have a
Speaker 1: long history with Gernard Avery. He's only played a handful
Speaker 1: of snaps this season and hopefully he can be a
Speaker 1: productive fourth guy. But you know, we see and then
Speaker 1: they brought Jojo Ozo go back to the practice squad.
Speaker 1: He's another outside linebacker that if you needed some more depths,
Speaker 1: you can bring him up. But it's not a lot
Speaker 1: of experienced depths and and it hurts. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think I think Anthony AlSi will step up pretty well,
Speaker 1: and maybe you know, Joe try try and Shank I
Speaker 1: can step up his game a little bit as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the thing that worries me is the fact that even
Speaker 1: when Shack Barrett wasn't getting the stats maybe that he
Speaker 1: wanted or that we've come to expect, part of that
Speaker 1: is a lot of the attention that they were giving him.
Speaker 1: And now if the opposing offense doesn't feel like they
Speaker 1: have to give as much attention to that position, is
Speaker 1: it all of a sudden, Vida is getting more attention
Speaker 1: or even Joe try and shake, where where does the
Speaker 1: cascade of who else gets that attention to? Where they
Speaker 1: talked about Shack was helping other guys get opportunities, and
Speaker 1: can Anthony Nelson command that kind of attention or is
Speaker 1: it going to make it harder? Kind of across that
Speaker 1: whole front seven and ripples effect, ripple effects to the secondary.
Speaker 1: Like you said, if if they're not getting as much pressure,
Speaker 1: then it's they're in coverage longer. In the NFL, if
Speaker 1: you have to be in coverage for four seconds, you're
Speaker 1: probably giving up a completion, right. So this is incredible
Speaker 1: because our next thing we were going to talk about,
Speaker 1: somebody asked the exact question of one of our next topics,
Speaker 1: So this works out great. Richard asked, are there any
Speaker 1: upcoming Bucks records that Mike Evans can be adding to
Speaker 1: his resume? Which I love um And our next topic
Speaker 1: we had was Brady, Mike Evans, and Chris Godwin all
Speaker 1: being close to impressive records. This isn't new record for Mike,
Speaker 1: but yeah, this is this is kind of incredible. This
Speaker 1: could all happen this Sunday Tom Brady probably will get
Speaker 1: a hundred six or four passing yards, I would think,
Speaker 1: and that will give him a hundred thousand counting the
Speaker 1: playoffs in ridiculous obviously, Yeah, he obviously already owned the record,
Speaker 1: but we love those big round numbers, and a hundred
Speaker 1: thousand is almost mind boggling. Mike Evans with a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He had a hundred twenty three past week, so this
Speaker 1: is not out of reach. Will reach ten thousand receiving yards,
Speaker 1: will be the fifty first player in league history and
Speaker 1: obviously obviously the first in Buck's history to get there.
Speaker 1: And then Chris Gotten with eight more eight more yards.
Speaker 1: I think he might get that on the first play
Speaker 1: the game. Seems reasonable. Um, he will move past Mark Carrier,
Speaker 1: one of the Bucks greats, into second place behind Mike
Speaker 1: Evans in most receiving yards and team history. And it's
Speaker 1: not common, because I've looked this up, for a team
Speaker 1: to have their first and second leading receivers or people
Speaker 1: in any category at the same time and both of
Speaker 1: them still. It's not like my Chemis is just hanging
Speaker 1: on in his fifteen season. He's still our best of
Speaker 1: offensive player at the moment. I think Chris Godwin is
Speaker 1: your second leading receiving you both of them at the
Speaker 1: same time. It's kind of cool. It's a good time.
Speaker 1: I know things haven't gone great so far this year,
Speaker 1: but it's a good time to be a Buck. Still
Speaker 1: still a fun thing to watch for sure. Um And
Speaker 1: you know another thing, I know we wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of call out and they don't always get the attention
Speaker 1: that they deserve, but the special teams unit, and as
Speaker 1: much as it is a bit unfortunate because of the
Speaker 1: fact that you don't really necessarily want your kicker and
Speaker 1: to be some of your best players in the moment,
Speaker 1: but if you are going to be needing to rely
Speaker 1: on them more than maybe you'd like, it is great
Speaker 1: when they are producing the way they are. And I
Speaker 1: just think that between Jake Marta and Ryan suck Up,
Speaker 1: it has been such an impressive season and what we've
Speaker 1: seen where those positions can very much negatively affect the team,
Speaker 1: and to see the way that they are producing in
Speaker 1: such a positive way, what have you seen from the
Speaker 1: two of them? Well, from Jake, he's a rookie, so
Speaker 1: through his first eight games there's been a few ups
Speaker 1: and downs, as you would have from any rookie at
Speaker 1: any position, but he has repeatedly showed off what a
Speaker 1: big leg he has. He's got six points already of
Speaker 1: sixty or more yards and I looked it up and
Speaker 1: it took a long time. Believe me. That's already tied
Speaker 1: for the most sixty plus yard punts that a Bucketer's
Speaker 1: punt has ever had, so he's probably gonna break that record.
Speaker 1: And he has good hang time. He's about he's I think,
Speaker 1: averaging about four point five seconds of hang time. Ryan
Speaker 1: suck Up has only missed once and we hate to
Speaker 1: talk about these things, don't want to jink him, but
Speaker 1: he's just been so money. Nineteen of twenty if he
Speaker 1: maintains that, it would be a single season record for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Point nine is the record for Connor Barth
Speaker 1: from two thou Weavens, something like that. And then you
Speaker 1: have your two rookie tight ends who are doing some
Speaker 1: nice things on offense. But man, those guys are really
Speaker 1: producing a lot of special teams eleven special teams tackles
Speaker 1: between the two of them. I think Co may have
Speaker 1: six and k has five. They're they're making their mark
Speaker 1: in two phases of the game. And in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways, the Buccaneers special teams have been improved from
Speaker 1: last year when they weren't great. Obviously, if you have
Speaker 1: field goal percentage, if your punter's averaging over forty net,
Speaker 1: which he is, and even Jalen Darton quietly is about
Speaker 1: ninth in the league, and punt return average, he's getting
Speaker 1: over ten yeards per punt return. So we haven't seen
Speaker 1: any huge plays, but he's getting you that ten yards
Speaker 1: you want on an average punt return. It's so funny.
Speaker 1: We did the knock on wood. I had Keith Armstrong
Speaker 1: on my radio show a few weeks ago, and it's
Speaker 1: very hard to talk about what they do without it
Speaker 1: sounded like you're Then he knocked on the table ten
Speaker 1: times during our show, and he was getting so mad
Speaker 1: at me that I'd say I would read the status
Speaker 1: of what Ryan was doing and he was like yeah,
Speaker 1: and I was like, I don't know how to talk
Speaker 1: about this, but I love it that that is such
Speaker 1: a superstitious position group and it makes me laugh any streak. Relatedly,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has gone three and fifteen consecutive passes down interception,
Speaker 1: and I knew that he was approaching the Bucks record
Speaker 1: like two games before he got there, But I didn't
Speaker 1: put it in any notes or any stories. You're like,
Speaker 1: I do not want this to be and I didn't
Speaker 1: put it in. You know, we do our pregame show,
Speaker 1: and before the steam I never used that one. But
Speaker 1: now that he's like almost Hunter passes past the record,
Speaker 1: I feel comfortable talking about. In fact, he's got the
Speaker 1: fifth longest streaking team in NFL history. That's incredible, that's amazing.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that is going to do it for
Speaker 1: us on this edition of Bucks Insider Live. Thanks so
Speaker 1: much for being with us, and we'll be back here
Speaker 1: next week before the team heads to Germany, so we'll
Speaker 1: see you then. Getting so thought