Speaker 1: That's when the video goes first. Then it gets posted
Speaker 1: over to the Buck's main Facebook page. So I think
Speaker 1: there's been questions on both of the videos. So if
Speaker 1: we haven't gotten tears, that is probably why. So now
Speaker 1: we're definitely getting some here, which is great. So they're
Speaker 1: going to be all happiness and yes, we're not going
Speaker 1: to pretend like that was how things were supposed to
Speaker 1: go in Chicago. Uh so before as we let people
Speaker 1: start getting some of their questions in here on Facebook. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess I will just begin with I mean the defense,
Speaker 1: we have to talk about that, and um, after evaluating
Speaker 1: the game, hearing coaches talk about it, what is your
Speaker 1: sense of what went wrong and how the team can
Speaker 1: move forward from here? They tend to evaluate things in quarters,
Speaker 1: So now the first quarter of the season is done,
Speaker 1: how can they make this defense? But they know it
Speaker 1: can be. Yeah, it seemed to be the big The
Speaker 1: defense has not had good returns for the season as
Speaker 1: a whole, but this particular game snowball and got out
Speaker 1: of hand. It seemed to be the main new bad
Speaker 1: thing was a lot of mr aignements or messed up
Speaker 1: communication or breakdowns in you know, it was everybody on
Speaker 1: the same page, because that's how in the NFL you
Speaker 1: get multiple times of guys wide open. I mean, whenever
Speaker 1: you see a playlight in the NFL that it kind
Speaker 1: of makes go whoa when there's a guy wide open,
Speaker 1: And when it happens five or six times in the
Speaker 1: same half, that is a stunning outcome. And nobody saw
Speaker 1: that coming, and that's obviously the main problem. From that,
Speaker 1: there is a way to look at that somewhat optimistically,
Speaker 1: and that is if the main problem in that big
Speaker 1: defensive breakdown was mental errors, presumably that's something that could
Speaker 1: be fixed, especially when you have a bye week for
Speaker 1: the for the coaches, as they're going to do to
Speaker 1: thoroughly self scout the team, not just this game, but
Speaker 1: all four games, and come back with the players next
Speaker 1: week as they're preparing for Atlanta and a little bit
Speaker 1: this week with some very concrete things of this is
Speaker 1: why this has happened, this is what you did wrong,
Speaker 1: this is what maybe we did wrong. I'm sort at
Speaker 1: some points of the coaches will we'll say that as well,
Speaker 1: But if they're trying to help a player avoid that
Speaker 1: same result, potentially that could be resolved. And we've seen
Speaker 1: it before. I'm not saying it will. We'll have to
Speaker 1: wait and see if this defense is going to improve.
Speaker 1: But there there is a bit of track record with
Speaker 1: these same people. In two thousand and sixteen, the first
Speaker 1: eight games, we're not good at all defensively, maybe the
Speaker 1: worst in the league or one of them. And then
Speaker 1: the last eight they really turned it around, started getting
Speaker 1: lots of lots of in lots of turnovers. UH, did
Speaker 1: much better job on third down, and so it's conceivable
Speaker 1: that that could happen again. They've got pretty far to
Speaker 1: go because I think I believe the Buccaneers ranked lass
Speaker 1: in the league in defense. Um, but you know, we'll
Speaker 1: have to wait and see if it happens. I think
Speaker 1: there's reason to believe that it can be fixed. Are
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers going to turn into the best defensive league?
Speaker 1: That would seem like a long way to go, But
Speaker 1: with the offense that we have, merely being a decent
Speaker 1: defense would probably be enough. And that's certainly what we
Speaker 1: can hope for. And we did get to see Vidave
Speaker 1: out there for the first time, and we already had
Speaker 1: a question from Seawan. He says he's watching from Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. And he wondered how Vita graded out from
Speaker 1: this last year. Coach said. Coach said that he was
Speaker 1: about what you would expect from a guy that hadn't
Speaker 1: played live football since. Um. I guess maybe like last
Speaker 1: December in a game, uh I did. He did get
Speaker 1: to play more snaps than they originally intended. I think
Speaker 1: he ended up playing roughly snaps, which was good because
Speaker 1: it's helping him knock off the rust. They probably we're
Speaker 1: going to give him a smaller uh set if the
Speaker 1: game hadn't been so out of hand. Um, coach said,
Speaker 1: You know, there was good and bad. Uh. He was
Speaker 1: you could see his power, but there were times when
Speaker 1: he was handled by professional offensive lineman who have been
Speaker 1: playing in the league for for quite some time. So
Speaker 1: I probably say it was a middle of the road
Speaker 1: kind of grade for him. They don't share the exact
Speaker 1: grades that they give him. I did personally notice a
Speaker 1: couple of things. Uh. There are a couple of plays
Speaker 1: where you could definitely see Viya's power where he got
Speaker 1: a one of them. A couple of times he was
Speaker 1: battling two guys at once, which is something that he's
Speaker 1: good for. You know. Coach Mike Smith says, someone else isn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have to put four hands on him, not too
Speaker 1: and I saw a couple of times when he pushed
Speaker 1: his guy back pretty pretty quickly and into the backfield.
Speaker 1: In neither case did it end up affecting the play
Speaker 1: very much, but at least he did well in that regard.
Speaker 1: I also noticed that when he was in there, we
Speaker 1: were more likely to really put our ends farther out,
Speaker 1: and sometimes even JPP was standing up as a pass
Speaker 1: rusher on right in and uh, it was more like
Speaker 1: a three or four look in his coach will tell
Speaker 1: you every team does some three four and four three
Speaker 1: looks them over and under packages and so on, and
Speaker 1: so it's not unusual for us to do that. It
Speaker 1: looked more like a three four, which app standing up
Speaker 1: and and that's you know, you can just see when
Speaker 1: you're looking down from the press box. He's such a
Speaker 1: big guy, and that's after losing fifteen pounds and during
Speaker 1: this time with injury. Well, he can occupy so much
Speaker 1: space in the middle that it kind of gives you
Speaker 1: some other options with how to arrange your defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: So in the long run, I think he's going to
Speaker 1: be the big impact player that they expected to be
Speaker 1: when they took him in the first round, like overall,
Speaker 1: but it's a little incomplete so far. Yeah, one game
Speaker 1: is is not enough to say for sure. M. Dennis said,
Speaker 1: in your opinion, what kind of leash does Winston have?
Speaker 1: In other words, might he get benched for Fitzpatrick if
Speaker 1: he and he said something like three picks happens um
Speaker 1: or does he say he also has Is there no
Speaker 1: leash at all? Of basically, Winston's it now and you
Speaker 1: don't go back to fits unless there's an injury in
Speaker 1: any particular game. I think that it is possible that
Speaker 1: he could be relieved if it was just going horrendously bad.
Speaker 1: I don't think I think it would take quite a
Speaker 1: bit for them to make the switch back on who's
Speaker 1: the starter if there's not an injury involved in any
Speaker 1: particular In any particular game, you could see it, though.
Speaker 1: I mean, things were going horribly badly and he's responsible
Speaker 1: for four or five turnovers, and you obviously know you
Speaker 1: have a guy who's proven he can play well sitting
Speaker 1: there on the bench. It certainly makes some sense that
Speaker 1: he could be called upon. Bryan, that is, I think
Speaker 1: it would be a fairly long leash, and I think
Speaker 1: would be an extremely long leash, like one of those
Speaker 1: you can put in the middle of your yard to
Speaker 1: your dog and run the yard for the point of
Speaker 1: this season as a whole. Right, Okay, the second way
Speaker 1: of putting it, um Ethan said, after a great game
Speaker 1: for Philadelphia in week to what has Ryan Smith's role
Speaker 1: been and in the large picture, where does he fit
Speaker 1: in that secondary He's He did have a game. In fact,
Speaker 1: the coaches said that was his best game as a pro,
Speaker 1: which is great because you and I both know you
Speaker 1: need as much cornerback depth as you can possibly get. Um.
Speaker 1: He also got to play a little bit more um
Speaker 1: in this game because they in a number of positions
Speaker 1: like they took. They let him play for Brent Grimes
Speaker 1: for the second half, and you know, Vitavea played a
Speaker 1: lot more. Jameis Winston obviously came in, Ronald Jones got deployed,
Speaker 1: Justin Watson got to play a little bit. They took
Speaker 1: that opportunity to look at some other guys in a
Speaker 1: game that you probably weren't going to come back in,
Speaker 1: and so he got another look there, which is good.
Speaker 1: I still think he is currently serving as a reserve,
Speaker 1: and that your guys are Carlton Davis and Brent Grimes.
Speaker 1: With m J. Stewart in the slot. He's not really
Speaker 1: a slot guy. He's an outside guy. So he has
Speaker 1: to unseat either Brent Grimes or Carlton Davis, and he
Speaker 1: certainly could if he continues to play really well. UM.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I believe he's still a reserve, but
Speaker 1: as you know, all these quarterbacks get used at some
Speaker 1: point or another. UH. Jesse wanted to know what the
Speaker 1: issue has been with the run game so far. The
Speaker 1: issue has been it's not very good. UH. Going into
Speaker 1: that game, a lot of it was situational. You know.
Speaker 1: In the first two games, the passing game was so
Speaker 1: good right off the bat, Uh, and then when you
Speaker 1: were running in the second half, it was generally in
Speaker 1: those four minute drills and the other team knows you're
Speaker 1: running and trying to run out the clock, and it's hard,
Speaker 1: that's tough sledding to really put up good numbers in
Speaker 1: that situation. UH. In the last couple of games, there's
Speaker 1: been a little bit more of an effort, I think
Speaker 1: to establish the running game early and it hasn't gone
Speaker 1: particularly well. And that is a that is a good question.
Speaker 1: Is another thing that I'm sure is going to be
Speaker 1: a big part of their self scouting this week. I
Speaker 1: don't think that you're going to see the Buccaneers of
Speaker 1: two thou eighteen at any point become a particularly balanced offense.
Speaker 1: The running game needs to be better. But when you're
Speaker 1: passing game is this good and clearly that much better
Speaker 1: than your running game, You're going to continue to rely
Speaker 1: on it. That's that's the NFL nowadays. Every team doesn't
Speaker 1: have to say we have to APUs to run first. Right.
Speaker 1: Twenty years ago, every team would say that, no team
Speaker 1: would think about throwing it forty five times a game.
Speaker 1: But it's that's not the way the NFL is anymore.
Speaker 1: And when you can complete sevent of your passes, you know,
Speaker 1: and you can approximate the some bits of a running
Speaker 1: game with little screens and so on, you can make
Speaker 1: that work. Um, what's wrong is is it probably one
Speaker 1: of those questions where coach always says, if it was
Speaker 1: one thing, we would tell you when we would fix it,
Speaker 1: and it would be fine. It's probably a combination of
Speaker 1: a number of things. And as well as those guys
Speaker 1: have passed blocked up until this last game. Perhaps the
Speaker 1: blocking up front hasn't been very well, and I don't
Speaker 1: think either of the two main backs have done a
Speaker 1: lot of making something out of nothing. Um. Tim wanted
Speaker 1: to know if you saw Andrew Adams playing anytime soon
Speaker 1: our new safety. Yeah, you know, it wasn't a surprise
Speaker 1: that he really wasn't utilized in that game because he
Speaker 1: had just arrived that week, and so Isaiah. When Jordan
Speaker 1: Whitehead was suddenly unable to go, UM, it made more
Speaker 1: sense to have Isaiah Johnson, who has been here for
Speaker 1: two plus years and all through camp. UM. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I could see him once he's learned the uh, the
Speaker 1: defense because he has good NFL experience and he has
Speaker 1: more INFL experienced than the other safeties. So yeah, you
Speaker 1: could certainly see that. Okay, uh Cam Cameron, Yeah says
Speaker 1: he what's the status on the bow Alan injury? Do
Speaker 1: you think he'll return in Week six against Atlanta? I
Speaker 1: hope so. And I thought that maybe the fact that
Speaker 1: we released Darrell Worthy yesterday was a sign of that,
Speaker 1: you know, because that's defensive tackle depth, and you would
Speaker 1: think that would be you'd want to keep your depth around.
Speaker 1: If bow was still going to be out. But then
Speaker 1: today we signed another defensive tackle, Rakim Nunez roaches and um,
Speaker 1: so that we're back to the same number defensive tackles.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's not a hint on where he is.
Speaker 1: But coach said that it's possible he'll be back. He's
Speaker 1: not going to give you a lot of real, good, real,
Speaker 1: you know, detailed injury updates, of course, why help the
Speaker 1: other team. But it is certainly possible. And if you
Speaker 1: had finally had Bo, I mean Mitch on Ryan sometime
Speaker 1: in the future hopefully too. But if you finally had
Speaker 1: that threesome of Bo and Vita and Gerald, that would
Speaker 1: really be interesting to see how well it can work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a great point. Douglas wants to know. Has Father
Speaker 1: time finally caught up to Brent Grimes. You know, I
Speaker 1: know why that question would be asked. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody had a good game in Chicago, so you
Speaker 1: can't say that Brent had a good game and then
Speaker 1: you'd been play in the second half. So but but
Speaker 1: let's not get too overwhelmed over small sample size. Let's
Speaker 1: say we don't know the answer to that yet, and
Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't make that judgment based on one game. Uh,
Speaker 1: Nicholas wants to know how long we think O J.
Speaker 1: Howard is going to be out and how that might
Speaker 1: affect the offense. Yeah, that's one the coach did say,
Speaker 1: And it was funny because he actually gave them some
Speaker 1: information that OJ would be out for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: and the media was a bit surprising and says, well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't tell you if, but the report's already out there.
Speaker 1: So that response leads me to believe that that report
Speaker 1: is accurate. And that report said two to four weeks.
Speaker 1: Coach said at least a couple of weeks. It feels
Speaker 1: like to me, anytime we have one of these, this
Speaker 1: guy's gonna be at from X number to wide number
Speaker 1: of weeks. It usually ends up on why so Um,
Speaker 1: maybe it's the pessimist of me, but I'm worried that
Speaker 1: will be out for four weeks, which is three games,
Speaker 1: which isn't the end of the world, especially with Kim
Speaker 1: is pretty good for it seems like probably for Bow
Speaker 1: and o J. It was good time. There's always somebody
Speaker 1: that the bye week is a good well timed for
Speaker 1: and there's always someone you wish that the bye week
Speaker 1: was applying for it as well. Um uh. Nicholas also
Speaker 1: asked when the last time during the season the Bucks
Speaker 1: made any sort of coordinator change. The only ones I
Speaker 1: can think of, UM, and they were really kind of
Speaker 1: like right before the season was UM when Raheem Morris
Speaker 1: got the job in two thousand nine, is the head coach,
Speaker 1: and he brought in UM two well established guys coaches
Speaker 1: have been around a long time, and UM, the defensive
Speaker 1: coach was Jim Bates and I can't think of the
Speaker 1: name of the offensive coach, but they made a change
Speaker 1: on that right before the season, and uh so that
Speaker 1: was kind of jarring. And then I think at some
Speaker 1: point they made it change with Jim Bates. But it
Speaker 1: is extremely uncommon And as coach Cutter said, Okay, you
Speaker 1: want you want to make a change, you want somebody gone, well,
Speaker 1: what's the next steps, who's next, who's taking over, and
Speaker 1: who's changing this? And it's not a thing that you
Speaker 1: usually particularly common or helpful to do that in the
Speaker 1: middle of the season, right, And yeah, And I think
Speaker 1: that's something to remember that. It almost reminds me the
Speaker 1: way people talk about that. It reminds me when people
Speaker 1: are like, oh, just trade for so and so. That
Speaker 1: like the ideas of things being a lot easier than
Speaker 1: they seem in a league of where oh, we'll just
Speaker 1: trade for so and so, and you're like, but how
Speaker 1: does that work? I would just sign so and so
Speaker 1: and like, there's just so much more to any change
Speaker 1: on a team. The ramifications of things are right. It's
Speaker 1: not like you just call your buddy up, like give
Speaker 1: me this guy, cam Brayton Ronald Jones for Levan Bell right,
Speaker 1: Gary wanted to know, do you think Rojoe is going
Speaker 1: to end up getting this starting job. I think it's
Speaker 1: still possible. I don't think right away. No, Um, Peyton
Speaker 1: has probably well, I mean, Ronald Jones only has one
Speaker 1: game other than the preseason to to you know, compare
Speaker 1: the two. Um Peyton pretty solidly has that had that
Speaker 1: job to start the season, And um, I don't think
Speaker 1: that anything has happened to make that change yet. Now,
Speaker 1: if ron Join starts giving you explicit plays in the
Speaker 1: running game, which was the hope when you drafted him,
Speaker 1: and something that we absolutely have not had, if that
Speaker 1: starts happening, then yeah, of course they would make that change.
Speaker 1: But it hasn't happened yet, so we'll end on this one.
Speaker 1: And I think, uh, this is an interesting way of
Speaker 1: looking at things that Ken brought up the idea that
Speaker 1: when you're relying so much on a passing game and
Speaker 1: aren't running as much, it doesn't eat up enough clock
Speaker 1: and your defense ends up having to be out there.
Speaker 1: So even when you're doing really well your offensive scoring, scoring, scoring,
Speaker 1: but it's these big chunk plays, your defense can end
Speaker 1: up being out there for a really long time. We've
Speaker 1: seen where even though those couple of games at the
Speaker 1: Bucks one they lost the time of possession idea, which
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, oh, that's fine, it worked out
Speaker 1: with big plays, But that that does affect your defense
Speaker 1: to a degree, is that's something that you see being
Speaker 1: a factor. There is definitely a factor, and they discussed
Speaker 1: it is like after a Philly game, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: when you have to seventy five yard one play drives,
Speaker 1: your defense is right back out there in the field
Speaker 1: and you want that obviously, when you'll take every seventy
Speaker 1: figure touchdown you can get, but there is that factor
Speaker 1: of them wearing down. But I would argue against the
Speaker 1: distinction being made here that that's because of the lack
Speaker 1: of a running game. Because like I said, you're you're
Speaker 1: completing seventy of your passes, you're still keeping the clock running.
Speaker 1: And when we were when it was going very well
Speaker 1: in two and most of a third game, you're passing
Speaker 1: attack is still it's still in addition to those big
Speaker 1: seventy five yard plays, it's still putting together some decently
Speaker 1: long drives and and whether you get the yards by
Speaker 1: running the ball or by throwing, it doesn't make any differences.
Speaker 1: If you're if you I understand, if you're throwing a
Speaker 1: lot of incompletions, you're stopping the clock a little bit
Speaker 1: more often. Um, But if you're completing most of your passes,
Speaker 1: it's just as effective in terms of keeping time of
Speaker 1: possession is running the ball. Okay, well, thank you all
Speaker 1: for joining us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live,
Speaker 1: presented by Miller Light. We'll be back here next week
Speaker 1: and we are gonna need plenty of your questions. It's
Speaker 1: going to be the coming off the bye week. We
Speaker 1: want of the game to talk about it. We can
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, going up to Atlanta, any other
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