Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Bucks fans. Hope everyone is doing well.
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips here with Scott Smith at his time for
Speaker 1: Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lite. First of all,
Speaker 1: of course, I want to honor Veterans Day, So Happy
Speaker 1: Veterans Day. Thank you so much to everybody who has served,
Speaker 1: is serving family members of people who have served. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, we want to honor all of
Speaker 1: you guys every day. Veterans Day is just a very
Speaker 1: specific special time, but the Buccaneers love honoring military families
Speaker 1: and everything you guys do. So first of all, thank
Speaker 1: you to all of you guys for the veterans. UM. Now,
Speaker 1: when we're gonna start out, I know that this game
Speaker 1: we're talking about before the show, like, oh boy, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be fun to discuss. So we need all
Speaker 1: of your questions. We want to hear what you guys
Speaker 1: want to know, what you want to talk to us about.
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Speaker 1: us in the comment section. As we get people a
Speaker 1: chance to do that. UM, we can start by just
Speaker 1: some of the takeaways of now that we've heard him
Speaker 1: a lot of the teams since the game in press conferences,
Speaker 1: what it feels like they have learned from that game,
Speaker 1: their mindset moving forward, some of the things that you've
Speaker 1: heard people say, Well, actually, the only people we've heard
Speaker 1: from so far Bruce, I mean, other than post game
Speaker 1: this week are Bruce and Lavante. And of course, because
Speaker 1: it wasn't a victory Monday, the players were in building
Speaker 1: and to approximate in a non COVID year, what would
Speaker 1: be open locker room on Monday, Uh, they got us
Speaker 1: a player for a zoom call, and of course it
Speaker 1: was Lavonte David. He's the stand up guy who has
Speaker 1: to stand in front of the the are sitting in
Speaker 1: front of the camera in this case and uh and
Speaker 1: and answer for that game. And he did a great
Speaker 1: job of it. And essentially the idea is, you can't
Speaker 1: say it didn't happen. Uh, you can't say it didn't matter.
Speaker 1: You have to own it. You have to break it
Speaker 1: down and learn from it and find out what you
Speaker 1: did wrong. Uh, do your best to correct whatever that was,
Speaker 1: and then you have to move on. And that's what
Speaker 1: they've done from now. And you know, big losses like this,
Speaker 1: they ing Um, you can't even necessarily say this one
Speaker 1: only counts as one of sixteen like all the rest,
Speaker 1: because it was a division game that that really carried
Speaker 1: a big tiebreaker issue with it that the Bucks are
Speaker 1: now behind the eight ball on. But it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to linger, and it generally doesn't. I just was looking
Speaker 1: through UM games where the Bucks lost. Every team has
Speaker 1: games where they've won or lost by a huge amount
Speaker 1: of points, and it doesn't have any future indicator even
Speaker 1: to the next week of what's going to happen. UM.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've seen the other side of it.
Speaker 1: We demolished Green Bay surprisingly thirty eight to ten and
Speaker 1: they won their next game. So, uh, it doesn't. It
Speaker 1: doesn't have to carry on. But I think in order
Speaker 1: to make sure that doesn't happen, you have to learn
Speaker 1: the right lessons from it, and that's certainly what they're
Speaker 1: trying to do. Absolutely, we did get a chance to
Speaker 1: see the first look at a Chris Godwin back and
Speaker 1: be Antonio Brown into the lineup and basically having all
Speaker 1: of your wide receivers at least available for the game.
Speaker 1: We know that maybe Chris is still a little bit
Speaker 1: limited potentially by the thing here and that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: But you know, there are still some some little nagging
Speaker 1: injury situations, but everybody was available. This is our first
Speaker 1: look at that whole group. What do you feel like
Speaker 1: we learned from seeing that, Well, Chris caught the ball. Well, uh,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good thing. And uh, he's a tough
Speaker 1: guy obviously, and he's I learned. We learned a couple
Speaker 1: of things. One, it's so obvious how important Chris is
Speaker 1: to this offense. Uh, there were, if you count places
Speaker 1: that were raised by penalty, there were fifty plays and
Speaker 1: he was on the field for forty seven of them,
Speaker 1: which is more than any of the other receivers. So
Speaker 1: they didn't take it easy on him in his return.
Speaker 1: And then also of all of the snaps, there are
Speaker 1: forty six plays accountant and the Buccaneers were in three
Speaker 1: or four receiver sets on forty of them. And this
Speaker 1: is what we were talking about the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: even before the arrival of Antonio Brown. Uh, that it
Speaker 1: just looked like the Buccaneers were going to try to
Speaker 1: attack with a lot of three and four receiver sets,
Speaker 1: just because there's so much talent at that position. Obviously,
Speaker 1: nothing worked in this game, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: can use it as a good barometer for whether or
Speaker 1: not that's the right way to go. I think we
Speaker 1: have to see a little bit more of it. I
Speaker 1: think we can definitely excel with three and four receiver sets. Um.
Speaker 1: It didn't really work out in this game, but I
Speaker 1: still think we're gonna see a lot of that. So uh,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown played about thirty seven snaps, which or maybe
Speaker 1: thirty nine, which coach said afterwards that wasn't really the plan,
Speaker 1: but that game spiraled out of control and you were
Speaker 1: trying your best to pass your way back into it.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how that happened. Okay, And we
Speaker 1: had a question from Anthony about the ways that are
Speaker 1: different cornerbacks are being used. Um. He mentioned the idea
Speaker 1: of Sean Murphy Bunty and seeming to be in the
Speaker 1: slot position more Jamal on the outside and just where
Speaker 1: you see is we I mean, we know Carlton is
Speaker 1: our our number one, you know guy, but where you've
Speaker 1: seen some of the other corners being used, well, Sean
Speaker 1: is working in the slot more. He was already taking
Speaker 1: all of the uh snaps in the slot in the
Speaker 1: nickel package. It's just he was starting along with Carlton
Speaker 1: as the two outside guy is and then moving into
Speaker 1: the slot with Jamal Dean coming in to play the
Speaker 1: outside in those snaps, and those are the majority of
Speaker 1: your snaps, usually from six of your snaps in a
Speaker 1: game are in the nickel um. The difference now is
Speaker 1: that Jamal Dean is starting, so Sean the last couple
Speaker 1: of games has only been playing the nickel and again
Speaker 1: I say only, but it's a ton of snaps, so
Speaker 1: more more often than not they're all on the field.
Speaker 1: But the difference is Jamale Dean playing a hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the snaps now on the outside. And I think
Speaker 1: that's just you know, it's funny because we were getting
Speaker 1: a lot of questions in the first couple like six weeks, Uh,
Speaker 1: do you think that maybe Jamal Dean will get a
Speaker 1: chance to start on side and now? And we always said, sure,
Speaker 1: it could happen. I mean, if you make enough plays,
Speaker 1: it's kind of undeniable that you need to be on
Speaker 1: the field. And I think that's just what has happened
Speaker 1: with Jamal. So that's really the biggest change. Otherwise there's
Speaker 1: not a big difference, Okay, and Russ asked, is there
Speaker 1: any chance we will get Ali back on the line
Speaker 1: this Sunday? And then I wanted to just kind of
Speaker 1: add to that how you felt like Joe Haig did
Speaker 1: stepping in for him. Well, this is we've talked about
Speaker 1: this before. The timing of this show makes some of
Speaker 1: these questions hard to answer. And with concussion, Uh, it
Speaker 1: really these first couple of days are probably gonna tell
Speaker 1: us on the injury report what the chances of that are,
Speaker 1: because it was pretty obvious from the beginning of the
Speaker 1: week last week that he wasn't going to come off
Speaker 1: the concussion protocol in time. Uh. Coach Arians didn't and
Speaker 1: I think just probably for strategic reasons on Monday, didn't
Speaker 1: elaborate very much on that, only to say that he
Speaker 1: was still in the concussion protocol, which you have to
Speaker 1: be because part of that is returning to practice. That's
Speaker 1: one of the steps and getting off of concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: And since he hadn't practiced at all last week, he
Speaker 1: by necessity has to start this week in a concussion protocol. Now,
Speaker 1: what we don't know from Bruce's answer, since there wasn't
Speaker 1: much to it, is is that the reason why he's
Speaker 1: still in the concussion protocol and he's gonna start practicing
Speaker 1: this week, or he's not that close to returning, and
Speaker 1: there's no telling with the concussion really, they can vary
Speaker 1: quite a bit. In severity, Chris Godwin only had to
Speaker 1: miss one game earlier this year and was pretty much
Speaker 1: ready to go in the second week. So all you
Speaker 1: can do is hope that that's the same thing with Ali.
Speaker 1: But if we were answering this question on Thursday and Friday,
Speaker 1: we probably have some more concrete information. Uh. It's just
Speaker 1: so just stay tuned to what you see on buccaneers
Speaker 1: dot Com and on our Twitter feeds. UM asked for
Speaker 1: Joe Hag, Joe Hagan and Donovan Smith on the left
Speaker 1: side there. Bruce arians didn't shy away from the fact
Speaker 1: that it wasn't the best possible performance from Donovan, and
Speaker 1: part of that was because him and Joe hadn't had
Speaker 1: a lot of time to work together, and Donovan and
Speaker 1: Ali Marpett just worked together so well, So I think
Speaker 1: that was part of the breakdowns there. So actually, Bruce said,
Speaker 1: Joe Haig played fine, uh, and I think the bigger
Speaker 1: deal was more them to working in concert. And if
Speaker 1: they have to do it again this week, you would
Speaker 1: hope that they've made some progress in that regard. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Brandon asked, why do you feel like Brady isn't
Speaker 1: targeting Mike Evans as much? I don't know, man, I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not in his head. Um, it's clear from
Speaker 1: what the coaches say that they do want to get
Speaker 1: the ball to Mike, and more often they've done some
Speaker 1: things like put him in the slot in three and
Speaker 1: four receiver sets. UM coach Arean said on one play
Speaker 1: that I think it was a failed third down that
Speaker 1: Um the ball went to. I think Gronkowski rob Gronkowski
Speaker 1: and and Mike was open. UM. I certainly don't think
Speaker 1: there's any specific purpose to it. It just hasn't happened.
Speaker 1: But it picked up a little bit. It didn't. You know,
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting targeted much in the first half of
Speaker 1: that game, but he got targeted a lot more in
Speaker 1: the second half. So I don't think there's any rhyme
Speaker 1: or reason to it. I don't think it's a trend.
Speaker 1: I think it's just something that has happened. Um. I
Speaker 1: keep expecting to see a couple more big breakout games
Speaker 1: from Mike. You know, he does have a couple of
Speaker 1: hundred yard games this season. There have been games where
Speaker 1: Tom Brady has targeted him a lot. Um. The overall
Speaker 1: answer is the ball has really been spread around a
Speaker 1: ton this This team has ten different guys with ten catches,
Speaker 1: which is kind of incredible. Uh So, I think it's
Speaker 1: a bit of that, there's a lot of weapons, and
Speaker 1: then it's a bit just flukey great. Um. We also
Speaker 1: had a question about if we're seeing the effects of
Speaker 1: Vita being out potentially if that's affected, you know, the
Speaker 1: push they've been able to get stopping the run, Like,
Speaker 1: have you seen overall what the results has been of
Speaker 1: him being out and how the guys have been able
Speaker 1: to try to step in for him a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean, right after Vita went out, the run defense
Speaker 1: stayed pretty strong. Uh the one two weeks ago, I mean,
Speaker 1: they broke our streak of not allowing a hundred yards,
Speaker 1: but it was a hundred one yards and a lot
Speaker 1: of that had to do with Daniel Jones running the ball.
Speaker 1: They don't get over a hundred without the quarterback scrambling
Speaker 1: for about thirty yards, So that one wasn't that big
Speaker 1: of deal. So we're basically talking about one game. It
Speaker 1: was this one against Alvin Kamara and then also a
Speaker 1: whole lot of um uh Taysom Hill, which is not
Speaker 1: something you normally have to face, and they did get
Speaker 1: a hundred thirty yards. They also didn't need to do
Speaker 1: anything but run the ball in the second half of
Speaker 1: by thirty one points. Uh and and from what we
Speaker 1: heard afterwards, some of that had to do with missed gaps,
Speaker 1: which really isn't you know, gap control issues, which really
Speaker 1: isn't uh tied directly to whether or not Vitave is
Speaker 1: in there. If the guy was supposed to be in
Speaker 1: the gap and he wasn't, that would have been the
Speaker 1: same whether or not Vita was in there. So it's
Speaker 1: it seems obvious that your run defense wouldn't be as
Speaker 1: good when you lose one of the best d line
Speaker 1: run nose tackle run stoppers in the league. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it's really a massive issue. I think we're
Speaker 1: still very good against the run. And then we'll close
Speaker 1: with this Christian McCaffrey. You're not sure if he'll be
Speaker 1: available on Sunday. Um just how important is that to
Speaker 1: the way this game could go? And what that could
Speaker 1: mean in terms of how the Bucks prepare for this team. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I don't think they have to prepare differently because what
Speaker 1: the Panthers have found out is that Mike Davis, well,
Speaker 1: it doesn't really look much like Christian McCaffrey, more of
Speaker 1: a shorter, more compact guy. Uh is able to run
Speaker 1: the same place. He's a very very good pass catcher.
Speaker 1: He's actually second in the NFL among two kamara among
Speaker 1: running backs and receptions. So they don't have to change
Speaker 1: their offense. They can do all the things they do
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey. With Mike Davis. Uh, nobody's Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: Mike Davis has been very very good it, but he's
Speaker 1: not Christian. And when you when McCaffrey came back this
Speaker 1: last week, he merely got a hundred fifty yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns hunts from scrimmage. That is so obviously the
Speaker 1: Panthers are better with McCaffrey in there. But the other
Speaker 1: side of that coin is in the last eighteen game
Speaker 1: or nineteen games that McCaffrey has played since the start
Speaker 1: of two thousand and nineteen, he's reached he's exceeded a
Speaker 1: hundred yards from scrimmage in fifteen of those, So the
Speaker 1: other four games that he hasn't one was a ninety
Speaker 1: eight yard game against New Orleans last year, and the
Speaker 1: other three year all against the Buccaneers. So the only
Speaker 1: defense that has really been able to slow down Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey in the entire NFL the last two years is
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. So at least you should go into a
Speaker 1: confident that even if cmc plays, you do have some
Speaker 1: someone of an answer for all Right, well that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us on Buccaneers Insider Live presented by
Speaker 1: Miller Lyte. Thanks as always for those questions. We will
Speaker 1: be back here next week. We'll see then, m