WEBVTT - Bucs Looking to Punch Playoff Ticket vs. Panthers, Pro Bowl Preview | Bucs Insider 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome in two books. Insider presented by Verizon Casey Phillips 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:10.879 here a senior writer and editor Scott Smith. We had 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.160 a big show for you today. We got a tough 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:15.720 game to look back on. We got some interesting Pro 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:17.360 Bowl news, we got a heck of a game to 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.280 look forward to. Lots going on here. Let's start with 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:22.840 the Pro Bowl news, which we had some great Pro 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:25.000 Bowl news, and then we had some news that maybe 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.440 made you a little upset, which is fair and made 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:28.600 all of us a little upset. 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:31.240 Call me out there, you know. Let's start with the 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:32.159 good Pro. 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.040 Bowl name, and very deservedly, Mike Evans was voted into 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:37.360 the Pro Bowl. It's the fifth time he's made it, 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.760 obviously deserving. He leads the league in touchdown catches, has 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:43.880 over twelve hundred yards. You know, all season we've been 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:46.000 doing notes about him passing the all time greats in 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.559 terms of touchdown catches, and he's establishing himself well. He 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:52.760 already has as one of the greatest players in team history, 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.720 but in terms of a number of times in the 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.920 Pro Bowl, this is number five for him. That is 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.880 second in team history among offensive players, only to the 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:06.080 great Mike Alstadt. Those are probably the two most yeah, harolded, harolded, 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:10.880 good word of uh you look at that Derek Brooks 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.639 eleven but most crazy. Most of those are defensive players. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:18.320 But still Mike is tied for sixth most Pro Bowls 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:19.280 and team history. 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:19.960 Probably not done. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.000 And the way he played this year, you got to 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:23.880 think there's a couple of more Pro Bowl. 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.280 Seasons in his take. So that's the good news. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.400 Soap box time hit hit us. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.080 Okay, I was a little emotional. 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.320 Last night, so we covered you up here with his 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:36.360 alternate graphics. 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:38.679 We do have four alternates, and I'm happy these guys 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:43.360 are alternates. I'm Twine Winfield and uh Tristan wars are 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.479 both first alternates. They've been to the Pro Bowl before. 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:49.000 Baker Mayfield is a third alternate, which is a great story, 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:50.680 and Vidave is a fifth alternate. 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:52.480 So that's good. 0:01:53.920 --> 0:02:00.520 But I cannot understand how Antoine Winfield Junior is not 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.040 one considered one of the having one of the three 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.040 best seasons by safety in the NFC not the NFL 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:07.360 this year. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:10.000 Can I just throw some numbers out you please? By 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:10.399 all means? 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:10.760 Throw them? 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.600 Well here, first of all, here was your okay, Like 0:02:12.639 --> 0:02:13.360 I said, I. 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:15.320 Was in your fields last night. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.840 Yeah, I was in my fields. As you said, it 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.160 does not make any sense to me. The Levante David 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:24.079 season I'm referring to was his second year, when he 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.600 had something like seven sacks and five interceptions and was 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:29.480 a first team Associated Press All Pro, which is a 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:33.840 far more exclusive honor, only like one guy at every position, 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.560 so two linebackers. The Pro Bowl lets in a lot 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:39.440 more players. Levante was a first team All Pro but 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:41.360 did not make the Pro Bowl, which made no sense. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.880 Hopefully Antoine gets the same thing this year, because that's 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.160 voted on by various members of the medium. I'm hoping 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.480 he gets first team AP All Pro, and so that 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.040 will take away from what I considered the biggest snub 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:56.280 for the Bucks in a long time. And listen, Casey, 0:02:57.600 --> 0:02:59.760 we have counterparts that do the same jobs on other 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:02.480 team and they're probably all standing at their little podiums 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:05.320 right now saying this guy on our team got snubbed. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.040 This guy, I understand. And if you put somebody in, 0:03:08.080 --> 0:03:10.240 I mean somebody else is out, I get it. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:12.200 It's still not the same. I'm sorry. 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.240 We're right, right, We're more right than those other teams. 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.160 Anton Winfield has one game to go, one hundred and 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:24.120 seventeen tackles, five sacks as a safety, five forced fumbles, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:29.760 four funnel recoveries, three interceptions, a team leading twelve passes defensed, 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:36.920 two turtle doves, and nobody, literally nobody in the league has. 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:37.400 That stat line. 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.600 He's not at any position, at any position. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:44.240 It's I cannot explain how Anti Winfield was not voted 0:03:44.280 --> 0:03:46.200 in to the Pro Bowl and the initial vote. He'll 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.640 probably make it in the long run as an alternate, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:50.720 but right now I'm not feeling very good about it. 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:52.600 That's fair. I think we would all agree with you, 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.160 and unfortunately I would love to let you now have 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.440 an emotional break after that. But now we have to 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.880 talk about this. Last week's game, which I know was challenging, 0:04:00.240 --> 0:04:02.560 did not go how the team thought it would wanted 0:04:02.600 --> 0:04:05.800 it to tough one to recover from a little bit 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:07.680 going into this very important game this next week. So 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.200 what stands out to you now looking back about the Saints. 0:04:09.880 --> 0:04:13.880 Game, Well, everybody in the locker room, coaches and players, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:19.640 they seemed very irritated and frustrated and not sure why. 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:21.840 And this is their words. They came out so flat 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.919 in such an important game and they felt like they 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:25.080 had a good week of preparation. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:26.359 They came out flat. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.080 The Saints, who had so much to play for and 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.240 have been this team's main rival for so many years now, 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.640 they obviously came out strong if you think about the 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.279 Buckaners were on that four game winning streak excuse me, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.400 that culminated in the Jaguars blowout of the Jaguars, they 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:44.560 scored on six of their first seven possessions in that 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.760 game and the only one they didn't score was a 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:48.719 one play kneel down at the end of the first half. 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.040 Then the next week, after all this positive momentum, the 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.000 Bucks didn't score until their tenth possession against the Saints. 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.400 And obviously, turnovers were a big part of the story. 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:00.560 The Bucks had never committed more than two in any 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.600 game the season that they committed four the only two 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.000 times they made it into Saints territory in the first 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.680 three quarters that drives ended in turnovers. And then in 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.120 the fourth quarter against the defense that was playing the 0:05:13.160 --> 0:05:16.800 style of defense that's supposed to drain the clock and 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:19.400 not give up big plays, Baker throws for two hundred 0:05:19.400 --> 0:05:23.880 and twenty yards, two long touchdown passes, that's not supposed 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.160 to happen against that style defense they were playing, and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:28.480 it just gives you a little indication of what this 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.640 offense is capable of and what it had been showing 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.080 in the previous week. So what we're hoping, of course, 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.360 is that this is just one very bad day and 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:39.760 the previous four games are more of an indication of 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.080 where this team is for sure. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.120 And of course we know this next upcoming game, the 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.440 major thing everybody's watching for is just the outcome in 0:05:45.520 --> 0:05:47.800 terms of the implications for playoffs, but there are also 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.240 some other major milestones and things to keep track of 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.080 while you're watching the game as well, So tell people 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:52.560 what those are. 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:52.839 Yeah. 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:56.479 So obviously it's not as individual milestones aren't nearly as 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.240 important as getting the win. But when you think about it, 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.440 you're talking some of your team's best players. They have 0:06:00.600 --> 0:06:03.320 good games, you're more likely to win. Yeah, so we 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:05.600 can still roof for these things. Now, you see, guys here, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.240 Chris Godwin needs twenty seven yards to get his fourth 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.120 thousand yard receiving seasons, which would be second most in 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.200 team history to Mike of course, Rashad White needs eighty 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:18.360 five yards for his first thousand yard rushing season and 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.400 the first five Bucks and Doug martin twenty fifteen, and 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.360 Baker Mayfield is really close to a couple of nice 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.440 round numbers four thousand passing yards and thirty touchdown passes. 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:29.040 He's already got a career high in both of those categories. 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.479 And then Mike, who scored a million touchdowns this year, 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:34.560 one more would tie his own record for both touchdown 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.760 catches and overall touchdowns in a season for the Buccaneers. 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:40.599 But if you put this stuff together, one really interesting 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.840 note is that if Chris and Rashad both hit those milestones, 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.039 it'll mark the first time in Buccaneers history that the 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.200 team has had two thousand yard receivers and a thousand 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:52.800 yard rusher in the same season. Wow, which would say 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:54.760 a lot about this offense, which I'm not sure people 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:55.640 expected a lot out of it. 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.400 Yeah, I think that's a really great point. And then 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.559 I know we showed some of those numbers that Baker 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.280 Mayfield put together a really great season statistically in a 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:03.919 lot of ways, and we've seen him gut out plays. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:05.920 There's been a lot of leadership emotion, There's been a 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.560 lot of things to showcase Baker is having a really 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.720 great season. But of course this last game, unfortunately, it 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:13.960 was a bit of a turnover situation for the offense 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.840 as a whole. Baker through a couple interceptions, and that 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.160 had not been the case. He had really been protecting 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:20.920 the ball for quite a while. So what have you 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.000 noticed about some of the statistics when it comes to 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.680 the ratio that came in with the plus ten differential, 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:29.600 best in the league. So what kind of happened this 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.640 last week and just overall, how has this team been protected? 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:33.920 Well, it was the first time that the Bucks had 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.960 committed more than two turnovers in any game this year, 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.160 which is a great note by the way, that it 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.000 hadn't happened before that. First time Baker threw two interceptions 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:42.920 in one game. One of them was on a tip ball, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.000 but I guess that's still on him. First time the 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.240 Bucks lost two fumbles in a game and they were 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.760 zer over four? Are they excuse me? They were negative 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.480 four in turnover ratio worst of the year. Obviously, didn't 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.800 get any takeaways, and especially against the Saints, it seems 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.560 like in recent years that's the story, and so that's 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.080 going to be a big part of the story in 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.120 Week eighteen in a do or die game, can the 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.240 Buccaneers win the turnover battle? Because when they do, as 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:09.200 you see here, they usually win, and when they don't, 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:10.200 it doesn't go well. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.600 Yep, yeah, that's really interesting. So now let's look ahead 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:16.080 to this Panthers matchup. Tell me what you think are 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.280 some of the keys to this game? Knowing that we 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.320 may not have gotten as good of an indicator in 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.040 what the matchup could look like with the first one 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.440 being just a torrential downpour that greatly affected both offenses 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.320 and a lot about the game. So what do you 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.600 feel like in a little bit more normal weather conditions 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:30.440 this matchup could look like? 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.960 Well, I mean, I think that game is informing the 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.720 Buccaneers this week as they're considering the Panthers because they 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.360 only won by three. And I know you're right it 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.200 was a torential reign and that affected things, but it 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:42.720 was the same for both teams, and it was a 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.079 close game right to the end until non pro bowler 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.839 into one winfielder intercepted a pass right at the end. 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:50.360 Is that how you're going to refer to him the 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.839 rest of the season? No, just right now, just right now, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:54.959 while you're still angry. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:58.319 Okay, So the Panthers obviously they made the big move 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.480 at quarterback this year and they train it up and 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.280 to the first pick and took Bryce Young, the Alabama star, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.600 and he's had the sort of ups and downs you'd 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:07.840 expect from a rookie quarterback. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:10.520 They don't all just drop in and be awesome, like CJ. Stroud. 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.960 He had a really good game two weeks ago and 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.520 they almost beat the Packers back and forth through for 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.719 like three hundred yards and a couple of touchdowns. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:18.680 No picks. 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.440 But overall he's had some struggles. He's been sacked fifty 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:27.360 nine times, which is a lot, and he's actually ranked last. Yeah, 0:09:27.480 --> 0:09:31.160 he's actually ranked last amongst a qualified passers and passer rating, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.000 And like you said, poor guy. He's not a big guy, 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.360 so taking a lot of hits, you worry, right, But 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.880 he's gutted it through. I think he's a very very 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:42.000 talented player. The Buccaneers are hoping they can contain him 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.800 in the pocket. They in the last game he got 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.120 out a little bit and made some plays. So that's 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:49.240 a big deal, you know, Yeah, I think that's what 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:49.600 that means. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.880 Yes, a pressuring him is going to be the big part. 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.880 What about their defense and what stands out to you. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.760 They've kind of had a quietly good season on defense. 0:09:56.800 --> 0:10:00.000 They ranked third in yards allowed, third and passing yards allowed. 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.200 Derek Brown is a really big force in the middle. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.040 Frankie Luvu's a nice linebacker, makes a ton of plays. 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.560 It's curious if j. C Orno will play. 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.080 He was active but did not play last week with 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:14.080 a toe injury, but he's a really good corner when 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.280 he does play. The weird thing about their defense though, is, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:19.840 like I said, they're third in yards allowed, third fewest, 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.640 but they're thirtieth in points allowed, which is kind of 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.920 weird combination. I'm not sure exactly sure how that happened, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.760 maybe red zone issues or turnovers, but obviously the Bucks 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:29.760 care more about points than the yards. So if they 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.839 can keep you know, they can continue that trend for 0:10:32.880 --> 0:10:34.000 the Panthers, that'll be a good thing. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.440 All right, Well, that's gonna do it for us on 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:38.240 this edition of Buccaneers Insider Against Day. Tuned to the 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.079 Buccaneers website and social media all week for the preview 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.079 of this matchup against the Panthers, and we'll see you 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:43.520 next time.