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Speaker 1: back from London. Do you feel adjusted yet? Jet lag over?
Speaker 1: I think by now indn'sday. Yeah, yesterday, I was still
Speaker 1: struggling a little bit. I'm not gonna lye on the
Speaker 1: plane that was nine. I was the same exact way.
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Speaker 1: we say on here because we're both still we're struggling London. Yes,
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Speaker 1: section on Facebook. As people start submitting some questions, want
Speaker 1: to go ahead and start with the roster moves that
Speaker 1: we're announced yesterday. Okay, the bye week is obviously an
Speaker 1: opportunity to reevaluate some things. And um, obviously we're gonna
Speaker 1: make some moves. We're not done because all we've done
Speaker 1: so far is take some players off. Bubba Wilson uh
Speaker 1: and linebacker Um DeVante Bond. We're both waived a couple
Speaker 1: of guys on the practice squad as well, um, so
Speaker 1: you know we're gonna sign some new guys. Sometimes what
Speaker 1: you'll see is players that get um waived right at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season with an injury settlement. They
Speaker 1: can't come back for a certain amount of time based
Speaker 1: on what the injury settlement was, but you'll see them.
Speaker 1: And DeVante Bond, in fact, was one of those guys
Speaker 1: last year. I believe you'll see them get you will
Speaker 1: get a chance to resign them. And I don't know
Speaker 1: who specifically, but there's always a handful of guys who
Speaker 1: weighed with injury settlements. So I wouldn't be surprised to
Speaker 1: see a familiar name or two added back to the roster,
Speaker 1: but just little tweaks here and there. Obviously, coach had
Speaker 1: already said that we were going to look for a
Speaker 1: new solution at punt returner, so it looked like that
Speaker 1: job wasn't bobos anymore. And I guess there just wasn't enough.
Speaker 1: I thought there was thought that just wasn't enough production
Speaker 1: on offense for that roster spot to be kept. If
Speaker 1: he's not giving you that production on special teams and
Speaker 1: then DeVante Bond. Really he switched from inside linebacker to
Speaker 1: outside linebacker during the middle of preseason, looked like a
Speaker 1: better fit for him. But when you look at how
Speaker 1: things have developed over the course of the season, he's
Speaker 1: played about twenty defensive snaps. Uh. You know, he plays
Speaker 1: on special teams obviously, but there's We've got plenty of
Speaker 1: guys that are fishing at that and that may be
Speaker 1: a good sign that Jason Pierre Paul is close to
Speaker 1: coming back, because that would be another number at outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: and that's a pretty good trade if you make it
Speaker 1: for Devonte Bond for JPP. JPP started practicing yesterday, which
Speaker 1: opened up a twenty one day window in which you
Speaker 1: can you can have him on the roster, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't count against the roster. He can practice with you.
Speaker 1: The team isn't practicing, but they took some practice squad
Speaker 1: offensive linemen out there and put him in pads and
Speaker 1: they did some practicing. That's a really, really good sign, obviously,
Speaker 1: and they didn't half. The first day they could have
Speaker 1: started this twenty one day window with Pierre Paul was Monday,
Speaker 1: and they could have done it weeks from now. So
Speaker 1: the fact that they're doing it is they're doing as
Speaker 1: quickly as they can. It's an indication that things are
Speaker 1: obviously still on track. The first, the last game that
Speaker 1: you could possibly come back for would be the Arizona game,
Speaker 1: when we finally come back to Raymond James State on
Speaker 1: November ten. And even if that's the that's the outside
Speaker 1: he could come back before that. But even if he
Speaker 1: comes back, then eight games still left, so a full
Speaker 1: half of the season. Now you had j PP two
Speaker 1: check Barrett and Carl Nassa and Anthony Nelson. That's a
Speaker 1: pretty good rotation. That's a great point. It was funny
Speaker 1: when I heard that he was coming back to practice.
Speaker 1: My first thought was how happy I was we were
Speaker 1: going to have something to report about him on the show,
Speaker 1: because we get asked about him every week and we
Speaker 1: always have to say we don't know, we don't get
Speaker 1: any updates, yes, and so I was I was like,
Speaker 1: finally we're gonna have some and especially being good news
Speaker 1: to tell everybody, which was awesome news right now, Yes
Speaker 1: we could these questions aren't so James wanted to know,
Speaker 1: do you think that will make a trade in the secondary? Well,
Speaker 1: the biggest one that you would have probably had your
Speaker 1: eye on already got traded. I'm sure you saw Jalen
Speaker 1: Ramsey got traded to the hyper aggressive Rams. Um, so
Speaker 1: that's one that's out. Uh. The thing about it is,
Speaker 1: I know the secondaries underperforming, that's clear, but there's so
Speaker 1: many young, recently added assets in that secondary that it
Speaker 1: would seem weird to give up on that. It seems
Speaker 1: more like they will attempt to try to um make
Speaker 1: that work and develop some of these young players, and
Speaker 1: it may be going a little slower than some of
Speaker 1: us want. Uh. You know, it also took the Rams
Speaker 1: two first round picks to get Jalen Ramsey, So if
Speaker 1: you're looking for somebody like that, you're talking about a
Speaker 1: king's ransoms. You know, in the bucks cap situation this
Speaker 1: year isn't great, and they find a way to make
Speaker 1: it work if they wanted to make a trade, I
Speaker 1: don't know, it seems unlikely to me. Okay. Sean asked,
Speaker 1: why does it seem like we're blitzing less with White
Speaker 1: and Levante in the past few games. Well, I hadn't
Speaker 1: noticed that. Um. I suppose it's just the particular game
Speaker 1: plan what they thought would work against well. And of course,
Speaker 1: if he's mentioning with Devin White, he's only played in
Speaker 1: the last game. Say he said White and Levante White
Speaker 1: and Levante Ye. Well yeah, good point. So that's only
Speaker 1: one game with him. It's not that you say it.
Speaker 1: I can't think of a lot of blitz is from
Speaker 1: the inside linebackers. Um. I assume that was just the
Speaker 1: specifics of the game plan what they thought would work
Speaker 1: against a certain team. But it's a good question because
Speaker 1: I do like when we blitz Slavante in particular, Devin's
Speaker 1: supposed to be good at that. We just haven't had
Speaker 1: a chance to see it yet. But that's a good question.
Speaker 1: We'll see if that comes back around in the weeks
Speaker 1: to come. Okay, I think the name is Yas. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if I'm butchering that. I know I did too.
Speaker 1: What wants to know? What can we expect from the
Speaker 1: offensive line moving forward? Well, hopefully you can expect Amar
Speaker 1: to come back soon at right tackle, and I think
Speaker 1: that would help a lot. I think you saw. I
Speaker 1: think it. We tend to forget. I know I do
Speaker 1: that how solid he is, because the one game you
Speaker 1: have that you have to replace him with a younger
Speaker 1: guy and a less proven guy didn't go particularly well.
Speaker 1: Right um after the game. Immediately after the game and
Speaker 1: his press conference, coach Arians made it sound like that
Speaker 1: probably neither Kappa nor Dotson would be ready for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee game coming out of the bye. Dotson's got the hamstring.
Speaker 1: Cap has got the more significant injury with the fracturing
Speaker 1: his forearm. But um, hamstrings are tricky, you know, It's
Speaker 1: hard to say. He He said that after the game,
Speaker 1: But then on Monday, when he had the press conference
Speaker 1: day after game, press was back here, somebody asked him
Speaker 1: again about Dotson in particular, would he be back for
Speaker 1: the Tennessee game, and he said, we hope so, so
Speaker 1: maybe there's a little bit of a gray area. I
Speaker 1: think they feel pretty good that at least dots and
Speaker 1: maybe Kappa will be back for the Seattle game. So
Speaker 1: if you get those guys back, what can we expect
Speaker 1: from the offensive line. I think we can expect it
Speaker 1: to be pretty good. The last game was not good
Speaker 1: so in Sax obviously, but coach Arian said he thinks
Speaker 1: three or four of those sacks really were James Winston's
Speaker 1: fault for holding onto the ball. A little too long,
Speaker 1: or for breaking containment, not finding a play right away
Speaker 1: and holding on too long getting sacked on one of
Speaker 1: these long developing plays. So I think there were also
Speaker 1: some issues from the right side of line. I think
Speaker 1: it was a bit of both. Um. I think when
Speaker 1: you get those five back intact, the running game had
Speaker 1: been working pretty well. I got away from it in
Speaker 1: the last game. Uh, and the protection had been about
Speaker 1: middle of the road. So I think you can expect
Speaker 1: pretty good performance in the second half of the season. Okay,
Speaker 1: Adam wanted to know what's going on with o J? Well,
Speaker 1: what's going on? I think he means why is he
Speaker 1: maybe not performing as much as I drafted him in
Speaker 1: fantasy football? Yeah, which I can relate to. Um, so
Speaker 1: what And I guess a lot of people have just
Speaker 1: been asking what has changed with him? Why is it
Speaker 1: this offense? Is it o J himself? What's kind of
Speaker 1: led to the lesser production this year than a lot
Speaker 1: of people expected. Yeah, I think part of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, the ball finds the guy that's getting open,
Speaker 1: and you have Chris Godwin and Mike Evans. I mean,
Speaker 1: look what those guys did. They got nineteen catches for
Speaker 1: you know, practically three yards or more than three yards
Speaker 1: between them, two yards between them in the last game.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of mouths to feed with the football, right. Um.
Speaker 1: O J and cam were on the field, have been
Speaker 1: on the field plenty and two tight insets Cambra and Um.
Speaker 1: You know o J has had a handful of big plays,
Speaker 1: but the ball isn't finding him a lot yet. Coach said,
Speaker 1: that's a little bit of just what the defense is
Speaker 1: giving you and it's a little bit of o J
Speaker 1: getting open. So yeah, I think it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of both. I wouldn't worry about it. He's an extremely
Speaker 1: talented player and I think he's an important part of
Speaker 1: this offense. And Dion had asked, do you think we're
Speaker 1: going to trade o J? Howard? No, No, there you go.
Speaker 1: That was an easy question. Uh. The school dominic actually
Speaker 1: asked me, it's the casey. Did you enjoy meeting the
Speaker 1: Bucks UK fans at the Admiralty And yeah, ad Morality
Speaker 1: was the pub that we had the Q and A
Speaker 1: and event with and it was the official Bucks pub
Speaker 1: of the weekend, which is such a cool concept. It
Speaker 1: was incredible. I just I loved seeing that there is
Speaker 1: such a huge and passionate fan base all the way
Speaker 1: over in the UK, and I was talking to some
Speaker 1: of the people about how yeah they they watched the
Speaker 1: games at one am sometimes and you know, like the
Speaker 1: things that they do to make sure they get a
Speaker 1: chance to see the games. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: some passionate bucks K Club has been in existence since
Speaker 1: the early eighties. That's incredible, incredible fans. Yeah, that is
Speaker 1: really awesome of him. Come over here and watch some
Speaker 1: games every year too. Yeah, yeah, that's true. Um, Joel
Speaker 1: brought up the idea that to think we ended up
Speaker 1: making the game closer by the end and had six turnovers.
Speaker 1: Uh he started say from your quarterback that seven total
Speaker 1: um is crazy and so I think, so, how do
Speaker 1: you evaluate a game like that overall in terms of Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you want to say, listen, like when he said, um,
Speaker 1: seven turnovers and you're still in the game near the
Speaker 1: in that you take those out and you probably have
Speaker 1: a pretty good shot of winning. But you can't take
Speaker 1: those out obviously, right, And six of them, as he said,
Speaker 1: we're from your quarterback. So what you have there is
Speaker 1: a really rough game from your quarterback and it's hard
Speaker 1: to overcome that. But then you can also if you
Speaker 1: want to. Most people won't want to look at silver
Speaker 1: linings in a game like that. The defense was constantly
Speaker 1: put into difficult situations from the very first play of
Speaker 1: the game on. And in those sudden chain situations where
Speaker 1: you're thrown onto the field with your back against the
Speaker 1: goal line and you're trying to at least hold them
Speaker 1: to three, they did a great job. I mean Carolina
Speaker 1: could have scored a lot more points, yea, and the
Speaker 1: Bucks and then you see the reason. The other reason
Speaker 1: they could say is you could see the Bucks could
Speaker 1: move the ball. I mean James through for four hundred yards.
Speaker 1: The Bucks could move the ball all day. But they
Speaker 1: just kept killing themselves with those turnovers. They seemed to
Speaker 1: be just the worst timed spots in the game. There
Speaker 1: were so many of them that they were very good.
Speaker 1: Point Um, all right, We've had a few different questions
Speaker 1: about Jamis. Felix asked, do you think we bench Winston
Speaker 1: like Tennessee bench Mariota and Jay had asked you think
Speaker 1: arians Is committed to Winston for the long haul or
Speaker 1: are we looking to draft a new quarterback for Arians
Speaker 1: to whisper to everybody always refers to him as very
Speaker 1: diplomatically worded questions. Um No, I don't think they that
Speaker 1: Bruce intends to bench Jamis at all. Um, there's ten
Speaker 1: games left in this season, and to the second question there,
Speaker 1: we're going to learn a lot in these next ten weeks.
Speaker 1: I don't think anything has decided yet. I look at
Speaker 1: something that Bruce said in his press conference on Monday,
Speaker 1: when talking about Jamis and obviously coming into the season
Speaker 1: and it's his first chance to work with him. He said, look,
Speaker 1: I've had five games with him. I know the history,
Speaker 1: but actually it's six, isn't it six games? I think
Speaker 1: he said five, But whatever, Um, he knows the history,
Speaker 1: but that's what he's had to work with him. He
Speaker 1: does know that Jameis Winston we all know. Look at
Speaker 1: the numbers piling up yards and touchdowns. He has proven
Speaker 1: he can be a productive passer, but that has always
Speaker 1: come with too many turnowners. We know that, right, everybody
Speaker 1: knows that that's what has to be fixed. And for
Speaker 1: a good portion of the season, up until that game,
Speaker 1: it was going pretty well. I mean, I think in
Speaker 1: the previous four games he had eight touchdowns at two interceptions,
Speaker 1: something like that. The decision making was good, it was
Speaker 1: not in that game. So in that five game stretch,
Speaker 1: he had one bad game. But that's too many, And
Speaker 1: coach Aaron said, he believes in him, in his talent,
Speaker 1: and we just have to get to the point where
Speaker 1: a game like that is one in a million, not
Speaker 1: one in five. Well, there's ten games left. You could
Speaker 1: do the math pretty easily there. If he has a
Speaker 1: couple more situations like that, then we're still right where
Speaker 1: we are right now. So the next ten games are
Speaker 1: really going to tell us a lot. I don't have
Speaker 1: a crystal ball. I don't know how it's going to go.
Speaker 1: I do believe that the talent is there, and the
Speaker 1: ability to make the good decision making within a game
Speaker 1: is there, but he has to prove it, not just
Speaker 1: once and twice, not just against Tennessee who's struggling a
Speaker 1: little bit next week, but then following week in Seattle
Speaker 1: in the tough situations. Uh so we're gonna find out.
Speaker 1: I can understand any way that their fans feel about
Speaker 1: our quarterback right now, good, bad, whatever, But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be about two and a half month untill we really
Speaker 1: know the answers to those course. Yeah, that's a great point.
Speaker 1: J asked. Our team is making an extra effort to
Speaker 1: stop Shack or is he just not playing like he
Speaker 1: was at the start of the season the first part
Speaker 1: of it. Um, it took him a while. It took
Speaker 1: him five games to finally start doing it. But you
Speaker 1: can see if you look at if you if you
Speaker 1: pay attention to just to him during a game, you
Speaker 1: can see often lots of times now where he's either
Speaker 1: straight up getting double teamed, or they're chipping him with
Speaker 1: the running back going out or something. There's there. He's
Speaker 1: the guy they're making a point of slowing down. And
Speaker 1: you saw Karl Nasson had a sack and Don mckinsue
Speaker 1: and vidave I got together to have a sack. Guys
Speaker 1: that hadn't been getting the production before UM are to
Speaker 1: some extent now and Shack is is taking the brunt
Speaker 1: of it. Now. This will cycle through right after he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a sack for a couple of games, maybe
Speaker 1: teams will go back to not taking him as the
Speaker 1: number one priority. Right so, UM, you know in anyway, listen,
Speaker 1: six nine sacks through four games and then two straight
Speaker 1: two straight games without a sack, isn't that unusual at all?
Speaker 1: I mean remember JPP last year a streak of a
Speaker 1: six or seven games in a row where he had
Speaker 1: a sack and there was and there was a lull. No,
Speaker 1: no guy, even the best pass rushers don't get a
Speaker 1: sack every single game. There's they're even J. J. Watt
Speaker 1: or or von Miller whoever, are gonna have a couple
Speaker 1: games in a roll where they don't have sacks? Right? Um,
Speaker 1: We've had several different people asking, and we'll close with
Speaker 1: this about Ryan Griffin and if he has earned um
Speaker 1: the right a couple of poles all phrase did as
Speaker 1: he's put in his time and some you know, someone
Speaker 1: calling him Mr August and everything that has he done
Speaker 1: enough to make the team even just want to see
Speaker 1: even you know, when when Jamis is struggling, not just
Speaker 1: the idea of should you bench Jamis, but should you
Speaker 1: take a look at Ryan Griffin? Well that's unfortunately, that's
Speaker 1: not the way this game works. You know, really earned
Speaker 1: the right as the backup to play? You know, what
Speaker 1: you do is you earn the trust and confidence that
Speaker 1: if you need to be put in there, the team
Speaker 1: feels good about you. And that's why he is the
Speaker 1: only backup quarterback on the roster. Blaine Gaber got hurt,
Speaker 1: and Ryan Griffin is the guy we were counting on
Speaker 1: to be there if we need him. But you don't
Speaker 1: really earn your way into playing time over the starter.
Speaker 1: The starter mate, you know, at some point lose his
Speaker 1: job and real confident in you. But um, I hope
Speaker 1: Rangerfin gets his chance at some point, because it's true,
Speaker 1: it's kind of amazing to be around for five years
Speaker 1: and never get to take a snap. But on the
Speaker 1: other hand, I really know Finch to Ryan, but I
Speaker 1: really don't want that to happen because that would indicate
Speaker 1: either an injury or some more poor performances from Jamison,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to see either of those two things, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's a great point. All right, Well, thanks
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