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Speaker 1: There's there's been some stuff happening this week. It's so exciting.
Speaker 1: There were coaches back in the building. It's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: what a big step that feels like after after the
Speaker 1: last few months here. So coaches went back into the
Speaker 1: building on Monday. And I know that offensive coordinator Byron Left,
Speaker 1: which spoke to the media yesterday via zoom. Uh so
Speaker 1: I want to hear what were some of your thoughts
Speaker 1: on anything that he said or what you might have
Speaker 1: gotten out of that. Yeah, I'm not even in town
Speaker 1: and I still get all this news. Uh of all
Speaker 1: this of the it's a it's a good feeling because
Speaker 1: it sort of feels like we're progressing back towards football. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Byron talking yesterday, I believe, was another example of that.
Speaker 1: And he did a good twenty five minutes on a
Speaker 1: bunch of questions about what's gonna happen with this offense
Speaker 1: because everybody by now would have normally, we normally had
Speaker 1: all those O T A s. And I think the
Speaker 1: rookie minicamp, I mean, and even the regular full mandatory
Speaker 1: mini camp would be over by now, and we'd have
Speaker 1: a lot of data so to speak, of what the
Speaker 1: Bucks offense looks like on the field. Um, we don't
Speaker 1: have that obviously. So and you saw a little bit
Speaker 1: or you heard a little bit of that in Byron's answers,
Speaker 1: you know, asked about, for instance, the running backs and
Speaker 1: if there's a pass catching running back in that group,
Speaker 1: there is there something who can really fill that role
Speaker 1: more so than last year. Because that's one thing Bruce
Speaker 1: arians has talked about several times during this offseason as
Speaker 1: he wants that in his offense, and certainly Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has made great use of that in former Patriots offenses
Speaker 1: like James White for example, And and he said he
Speaker 1: thinks we have a couple candidates, you know, keys on
Speaker 1: Von being one of them. Ray Calais being another one,
Speaker 1: and but he doesn't really know yet. We have to
Speaker 1: get him on the field and get our hands on him,
Speaker 1: as he said, and find out. Um. So it's just
Speaker 1: another example of the uncertainty and and all the ground
Speaker 1: that has to be caught up on when these guys
Speaker 1: get back on the field. You know, maybe training camp
Speaker 1: starts a little bit earlier this year, maybe it's a
Speaker 1: little bit longer. I don't think it's finalized yet or
Speaker 1: heading in that direction, and it's gonna be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a real jam packed, intense, uh period of weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, to get this team. But the thing is,
Speaker 1: and this is another thing that Byron said during that
Speaker 1: time during his talk, it's the same for everybody. So
Speaker 1: it's not a disadvantage for the Buccaneers. I guess you
Speaker 1: could say any team that's trying to incorporate a new
Speaker 1: quarterback in their offense has a little bit more of
Speaker 1: a hurdle to clear, but everybody's pretty much on a
Speaker 1: level field. Yeah, that's a good point, and I do
Speaker 1: think it's interesting. I've heard a few people talk about
Speaker 1: the potential advantage for teams who didn't change coaches, didn't
Speaker 1: change systems. That was something that Byron left which I
Speaker 1: thought mentioned that you know, everybody, for the most part
Speaker 1: on the team is gonna be in their second year.
Speaker 1: Of course, Brookies are all always new for everybody, so
Speaker 1: that's gonna be challenging across the board for all teams.
Speaker 1: But there is a bit of an advantage there. But then,
Speaker 1: of course Brady is sort of new to the system.
Speaker 1: So where do you feel like we stand compared to
Speaker 1: other teams on the challenge you have ahead of you
Speaker 1: of making sure that everybody's on the same page. Yeah,
Speaker 1: even before Byron talked about that defensive Cordne or Todd
Speaker 1: bowl Is a week or two ago said the same thing,
Speaker 1: but a little more emphatically. Definitely the continuity and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff, and definitely the continuity in the defense. Uh
Speaker 1: In that basically the entire starting defense is back and
Speaker 1: a lot of those guys are very young players who
Speaker 1: really hit the stride in the second half of last year.
Speaker 1: He says, that's gonna help an awful lot now. He
Speaker 1: also caution that you're still back starting at square one
Speaker 1: every year. You can't assume any of your gains from
Speaker 1: the past year are automatically, automatically gonna roll over, but
Speaker 1: he did acknowledge that that continuity will be helpful and
Speaker 1: because the guys are starting where they are now, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be able to do a lot more, you know,
Speaker 1: the the thing that he can do to make defense
Speaker 1: even more complicated, and it's a comple It's a complicated
Speaker 1: defense for opponent opponents, and it always has been because
Speaker 1: he does a lot these multiple as they say, and
Speaker 1: he's one of the more aggressive coordinators in the league.
Speaker 1: But what they can do more and more and more
Speaker 1: of is disguising. So you know, there's only so many
Speaker 1: different ways you're gonna come at the opponent on defense,
Speaker 1: but you can make it look like a lot of
Speaker 1: different things. So Sean Murphy Bunny was talking about that too.
Speaker 1: How the more they know not just what their job is,
Speaker 1: but what the offense is trying to do to them,
Speaker 1: and they get that through more and more film study,
Speaker 1: which they can still do during this strange offseason. H
Speaker 1: the more they can anticipate but also disguise what they're
Speaker 1: doing and give the defensive look that they think is
Speaker 1: what's going to happen. But they're really planning on doing
Speaker 1: something else. So I think that is a big advantage
Speaker 1: in terms of the continuity. And then, as we said,
Speaker 1: the flip side of that is integrating a new quarterback
Speaker 1: makes it diff more difficult than some other teams. We
Speaker 1: had a question from Michael, and I thought, this is interesting.
Speaker 1: This is someone we haven't talked about a ton as
Speaker 1: far as the effect of them leaving that. Michael lasked,
Speaker 1: I'm curious if the loss of Karl Nassi will have
Speaker 1: a major impact on the defense. Well, it could. I
Speaker 1: would say the impact is that there isn't a lot
Speaker 1: of depth there and we're so so happy to be
Speaker 1: able to get Shack Barrett and Jpp back, and uh
Speaker 1: that's a real dynamic duo at the outside linebacker position.
Speaker 1: But after that, you don't really have a single experienced player.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think they hope that Anthony Nelson, the
Speaker 1: fourth round pick from last year, steps up, but all
Speaker 1: the other guys are basically late drawn round draft picks
Speaker 1: or undrafted free agents from a year ago and this
Speaker 1: year who haven't really played any NFL regular season games yet.
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of guys there that have
Speaker 1: intriguing talent and somebody or several somebody's could emerge from that.
Speaker 1: But you look at the depth chart right now, and
Speaker 1: it's that really stands out as one of the positions
Speaker 1: where after the front line. Uh, you don't have much experience,
Speaker 1: You don't have much that you know for sure is
Speaker 1: gonna work out, which is why uh, you know, Bruce
Speaker 1: arians was talking about how there are still three or
Speaker 1: four spots open on the roster right now. Usually you
Speaker 1: run at your full ninety max during the off season
Speaker 1: and training camp without practice, it wasn't that big of
Speaker 1: a deal. And they have purpose left some positions, some
Speaker 1: spots on the roster open for what they consider possible
Speaker 1: veteran additions, and uh, the guys would kind of be
Speaker 1: able to come in and hit the ground running and
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. And he mentioned some positions that
Speaker 1: they might do that at and that included, uh, linebacker,
Speaker 1: but also defensive line, and that includes really in our situation,
Speaker 1: the outside linebackers. So wouldn't be surprised to see a
Speaker 1: veteran addition there if it was a value signing. But
Speaker 1: I would say the loss and Carl massive means you
Speaker 1: don't you're a little scary at depth at the moment
Speaker 1: and hard. I mean getting all the guys back that
Speaker 1: we got on defense. Losing just Carl Nassa is not
Speaker 1: too hard to smile considering everybody else be able to
Speaker 1: bring back, right, Yeah, um Jay asked, is there too
Speaker 1: much hype on the bus and if so, do you
Speaker 1: think the experience of Tom Brady could help quell that hype? So,
Speaker 1: in other words, how is there too much hype in
Speaker 1: the way that it might affect the way the team
Speaker 1: handles themselves goes forward. What's kind of the pressure. I'd
Speaker 1: probably say qualified yes to the first and the yes
Speaker 1: to the second one. I mean, yeah, there's there's probably
Speaker 1: too much hype, just because it's impossible not for it
Speaker 1: not to build when you add the greatest quarterback of
Speaker 1: all time and then you also get his favorite target
Speaker 1: of all time, Rob Gronkowski, and the way the defense finished,
Speaker 1: and it's easy for an analyst, not just us, but
Speaker 1: you see it from national analysts to look on paper
Speaker 1: and say, there's really not a lot of weaknesses on
Speaker 1: this team. This team by adding Tom Brady and and
Speaker 1: you know, maybe hopefully probably fixing the turnover problem that
Speaker 1: was the main cause of us, uh, you know, not
Speaker 1: being able to go be over five last year. It's
Speaker 1: easy to connect the dots, but every single coach in
Speaker 1: this situation will tell you hype is fine, and we
Speaker 1: we welcome all the uh, we welcome all the expectations,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean much until we get on the field.
Speaker 1: So that's what I would say, probably qualified yes to
Speaker 1: that first one, and yes absolutely to the second part
Speaker 1: of that question. With Tom Brady being the one that
Speaker 1: can guide a team through that, I think that's absolutely
Speaker 1: something's gonna be doing. And when all the way back
Speaker 1: when we first signed Tom Brady, Jason Light said, yes,
Speaker 1: we were signing him because not because of what he's
Speaker 1: done before, but what we think he can still do
Speaker 1: the next two years. But also he fast emphasized over
Speaker 1: and over again the value of his leadership in the
Speaker 1: locker room and on the field. And I don't think
Speaker 1: there's any doubt that's gonna happen. Yeah, that's a good point, um, Revn.
Speaker 1: I think is how you say the name. I feel
Speaker 1: like I might have butchered that. He's watching from Denmark
Speaker 1: and he you would appreciate this, he said, I love
Speaker 1: Scott's offseason. Beard Oh great. I didn't know if anybody
Speaker 1: had noticed. It's kind of the off season scruff coming in.
Speaker 1: And he also said, Casey, I loved your show with
Speaker 1: Alian Donovan. Are we gonna get something similar this season?
Speaker 1: And no, the Alan Donna show was just kind of
Speaker 1: a one year fun thing. Um, but then last year
Speaker 1: and then again this year, we're gonna have the Bruce
Speaker 1: arians show, which is which was great and I think
Speaker 1: everybody loves getting to hear from coach and um, so yes,
Speaker 1: I appreciate, appreciate the fandom, appreciate you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: grow in off season Beard, Casey. You know I'm working
Speaker 1: on It's just not really coming in the way that
Speaker 1: I wanted. I was hoping we threw up. Now not
Speaker 1: so much. I think that we're gonna leave to the
Speaker 1: year year territka Um sorry, uh, Dennis asked, And I
Speaker 1: feel like we get this question a lot, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you still don't have too much of an answer
Speaker 1: for it. But Dennis asked, what's going on with Justin Evans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's yet another thing that we would have a lot
Speaker 1: more information on if this team was on the field.
Speaker 1: I think they had been targeting him coming back somewhere
Speaker 1: in the O t A sh so we know by
Speaker 1: now whether that had happened or not. And honestly, we've
Speaker 1: got nothing. I mean, um, he's still very much an
Speaker 1: unknown quantity going into training camp, and uh the good
Speaker 1: The flip side of that is, I don't know how
Speaker 1: much we're we're necessarily counting on. I mean, you draft
Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield in the second round, you're probably hoping he
Speaker 1: can step in right away, and you've got a number
Speaker 1: of other candidates at safety, so it would be a bonus.
Speaker 1: I guess if Justin Evans comes back and plays like
Speaker 1: he did as a rookie and at the beginning of
Speaker 1: his second season, Um, you know, there was a lot
Speaker 1: of promise there. There were some ups and downs before
Speaker 1: he got hurt, and obviously he's been unfortunate in that
Speaker 1: regard ever since for about a year and a half.
Speaker 1: But I guess I would look at that, is the answer.
Speaker 1: The question is, no, we don't really have any new information,
Speaker 1: but it could just be a bonus when we had. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I have to imagine that outside of rookies, he might
Speaker 1: be someone at this time is the least ideal for
Speaker 1: you know that the way this offseason is going because
Speaker 1: he hadn't hurt so much and that he needed a
Speaker 1: chance to prove that he was healthy and hadn't lost
Speaker 1: his stuff. That he probably more than anyone other than rookies,
Speaker 1: is bummed about the way that this offseason has gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he hasn't even got to do that with this
Speaker 1: coaching staff at all because he didn't get on the
Speaker 1: field last year, So the Bruce Arians coaching staff doesn't
Speaker 1: know much about him really beyond what they've been able
Speaker 1: to watch on tape. Yeah, that's a good point. Um
Speaker 1: Jarvis asked what undrafted free agent do you like to
Speaker 1: make the team, and he said he likes the L
Speaker 1: s U linebacker. And I'm sure that normally you'd have
Speaker 1: a bit more of an opinion on this because again
Speaker 1: we would have gotten to watch them do things on
Speaker 1: a football field. But this might be a tough question
Speaker 1: for you right now. Well, Michael Vivinity would be a
Speaker 1: good call. I thought he was a guy that could
Speaker 1: possibly get drafted. Um, he finished his college career is
Speaker 1: pretty strong there when he got to play in the
Speaker 1: last game. Um, I think the quarterback um uh as
Speaker 1: read stint it has a shot just simply because the
Speaker 1: team definitely wants a developmental quarterback. And you know, Bruce
Speaker 1: arians did mention the other day that the idea of
Speaker 1: a quarantine quarterback, you know, keeping a quarterback that can
Speaker 1: nose the system um away from the rest of them. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe you even keep forward, you know that that would
Speaker 1: be kind of extreme. Uh. You could also possibly keep
Speaker 1: read stand it on the practice squad, so that'd be
Speaker 1: another way of making it so to speak. Um. I
Speaker 1: like also, uh, some of these some of these young receivers,
Speaker 1: they're all from small schools, like Travis Johnson. Uh, but
Speaker 1: they all did. They all put up really big numbers
Speaker 1: and small programs, and I think there's room for competition
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the receiver depth chart, especially if
Speaker 1: you end up keeping six of them instead of five.
Speaker 1: So those are all decent choices, but it's a much
Speaker 1: harder question to answer. I know by this point every
Speaker 1: year I always have a favorite or two among those
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents, just from seeing what they've done on
Speaker 1: the field. So this is basically just you know, pulling
Speaker 1: a rabbit out of a hat. At this point, it's
Speaker 1: hard to see. Yeah, it's it's gonna make us definitely
Speaker 1: have to pay a lot more attention to a lot
Speaker 1: more things than people at training camp to learn. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: the good news is we'll have a lot more to
Speaker 1: talk about that will be fresh when a training camp
Speaker 1: this time. Right there, Um Tracy asked how can we
Speaker 1: improve our running game to help Brady out to have
Speaker 1: a record setting year? So, Um, basically I would love
Speaker 1: to hear from you, especially is it going to be
Speaker 1: more about the running backs? Are more about the old
Speaker 1: line in your mind? Well, it's all together, and uh,
Speaker 1: we already hopefully have helped by um by drafting Tristan Worfs,
Speaker 1: who is a powerful runback blocker, and by adding Rob Gronkowski,
Speaker 1: who's one of the best blocking tight ends in the league.
Speaker 1: You put Rob next to Tristan Worse, and you know
Speaker 1: you might have a lot more power over there. Even
Speaker 1: even in his best days, the bar Dotson was probably
Speaker 1: a better pass blocker than a run blocker, and he
Speaker 1: was good at both, and he was a great player
Speaker 1: for US for ten years. But now you got Tristan
Speaker 1: Worse and whenever Rob Gronkowski's line up were over there,
Speaker 1: And I also think, uh, we might see more twelve
Speaker 1: personnel this year with two tight ends, so you'd have
Speaker 1: a blocker on each side of the line, and we
Speaker 1: can throw out of that as well. That's why we
Speaker 1: can run a lot of that. There's a lot we
Speaker 1: can do out of twelve personnel. But whenever you have
Speaker 1: twelve personnel in the field, you should be able to
Speaker 1: run the ball well. And that's something we really were
Speaker 1: not good at at all last year. Surprisingly. I went
Speaker 1: through the stats a little bit before he went on
Speaker 1: vacation and for a story, and I think we average
Speaker 1: about two point eight guards per carry while in twelve personnel,
Speaker 1: and that that simply shouldn't be that that that group
Speaker 1: should be better at running the ball, and I think
Speaker 1: you can expect some regression to the means simply the
Speaker 1: results should be better regardless. But also that's another year
Speaker 1: in the system for all those guys too. You have
Speaker 1: four out of your five offensive lineman returning uh Ali
Speaker 1: marpet got better, Diamond Smith got Petter, Bryan Jensen has
Speaker 1: best year, Alex Kappa uh the coaches were saying they're
Speaker 1: really happy with what he did in his first year.
Speaker 1: You can probably expect him to get better, um and
Speaker 1: then we'll see what the addition to Keyshawn Vonda is
Speaker 1: in one more year for Ronald Jones. But it's kind
Speaker 1: of you can't really say it's just the offensive line
Speaker 1: or just the running backs that kind of all works together. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of a room for improvement, especially on
Speaker 1: a per Carrey basis. So I would suspect it will
Speaker 1: be better this year. If it if it's a lot better,
Speaker 1: that's gonna mean very good things for our offense. But
Speaker 1: we'll see. Yeah. And Sean Asia asked what are your
Speaker 1: expectations for Sean Murphy Bunteen. Well, I mean we all
Speaker 1: saw how Sean and Jamal Dean and Carlton Davis played
Speaker 1: down the stretch last year. Um, they all were really
Speaker 1: getting their hands on the football at which was a
Speaker 1: big change for us, you know, even the first half
Speaker 1: of that year, but also the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: We just haven't had that kind of playmaking in the secondary. Now.
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles was saying the other day that we need
Speaker 1: to start catching those balls past his defense are great,
Speaker 1: but we need more than to become interceptions. Uh So
Speaker 1: all those guys, But the question was about Seawn so Um,
Speaker 1: for one thing, he's very very confident after that, and
Speaker 1: he already was confident, but he was very confident after that,
Speaker 1: and you could tell when he did one of these
Speaker 1: interviews earlier in the spring that that was the case.
Speaker 1: And they all feel like that extensive film study has
Speaker 1: really helped the a lot. And as I was saying earlier,
Speaker 1: they feel like they're going to come into this just
Speaker 1: this season with a better idea of not just what
Speaker 1: they're supposed to do, but what the offense is trying
Speaker 1: to do to them, and that will help them a lot.
Speaker 1: You know, he's still just a second year player, so
Speaker 1: I don't want to shoot for the moon here, but
Speaker 1: he he had three interceptions last year and came on
Speaker 1: strong at the end, So he could be our first
Speaker 1: five or six in reception guy we've had in a while.
Speaker 1: I don't know, we haven't had a lot of that
Speaker 1: since I guess if you believe we've had, our leaders
Speaker 1: have usually been around three or four. So of the
Speaker 1: three guys that I just talked about, he was the
Speaker 1: one who was best at converting his chances at the
Speaker 1: football into interceptions. So I would say my expectations would
Speaker 1: be that he would leave the team in interceptions, particularly
Speaker 1: if he ends up playing that hybrid role where he
Speaker 1: starts on the outside and base and then goes into
Speaker 1: the nickel, which is where they're gonna start. There'll just
Speaker 1: be competition after that. Okay, well that's gonna do it
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