Speaker 1: Good morning everybody. It is time for Buccaneers Inside or Live.
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips here with Scott Smith, and this is as
Speaker 1: always where we take your questions, talk about everything you
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Speaker 1: now that we've gotten the voting party on the way,
Speaker 1: I want to hear from you. I know we had
Speaker 1: essentially sort of a bonus practice yesterday and a whole
Speaker 1: flurry of roster moves, So why don't we kind of
Speaker 1: start with the roster moves and then what you were
Speaker 1: able to see in the limited part of practice that
Speaker 1: was open yesterday to tell us kind of where we're
Speaker 1: at in terms of injuries. Well, it all began with
Speaker 1: the it's all it's all stemming from early v to
Speaker 1: Vea's injury, which is really a terrible happenstance for him
Speaker 1: first and foremost of course, but also a huge blow
Speaker 1: to the Bucks defense. Um and also Jack Cichy, who's
Speaker 1: as we know, has had some bad injury uh fortune
Speaker 1: throughout his NFL career. He's got a hamstring injury and
Speaker 1: hopefully this is short term. I are for him. But
Speaker 1: both those guys went on I R. And then the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers promoted a veteran corner, Ross Cockrell, from the from
Speaker 1: the practice squad, and also Chappelle Russell, the rookie, the
Speaker 1: seventh round linebacker. He should be a one for one
Speaker 1: replacement for Jack Cichy and probably play on special teams.
Speaker 1: A bunch of players added the practice squad. We brought
Speaker 1: back Cody McElroy, the tight end at Travis Johnson receiver
Speaker 1: Eccentric were running back, and then a linebacker that's new
Speaker 1: to the team named t Gray Scales. Don't really know
Speaker 1: a whole lot about him yet. He hasn't played any
Speaker 1: NFL games yet all so we've uh Parnell Motley, and
Speaker 1: I think he did get claimed by the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: That's the rookie corner. I wonder if the Buccaneers were
Speaker 1: hoping to make a switch between the practice squad and
Speaker 1: the active roster between him and Cockerell and just couldn't
Speaker 1: quite get him through waivers. So there's a few other moves,
Speaker 1: but that's the That's the meat of it right there, Okay,
Speaker 1: And then what you learned from watching practice in terms
Speaker 1: of I know that I'm sure the vast majority of
Speaker 1: our questions today are going to be about injury updates.
Speaker 1: Who's going to be available, who's not. We talked about
Speaker 1: we know that Vita's out for a while, but a
Speaker 1: lot of these offensive injuries that um, we're hoping maybe
Speaker 1: the extra days could help get some guys back. So, UM,
Speaker 1: I know we won't have an actual injury report until
Speaker 1: today because that was a bonus practice yesterday, But what
Speaker 1: could you tell based on who was out there? Well,
Speaker 1: Fortunately for us, even though we don't we didn't get
Speaker 1: an actually injury report yesterday. Bruce arians did make a
Speaker 1: few statements that you could, um, you know that we're
Speaker 1: actually pretty informational at the best, one being that he
Speaker 1: thought there was a good chance that all of those
Speaker 1: injured running backs and receivers who have been missing time
Speaker 1: could be back on the practice field by Thursday and
Speaker 1: some capacity. Some of them are already back, like Mike
Speaker 1: Evans and Scottie Miller and Justin Watson. And we're talking
Speaker 1: about in the case of Evans and Miller, two guys
Speaker 1: that have actually been playing through injuries, and I think
Speaker 1: it's pretty obvious it's it's not been easy for them
Speaker 1: and it's limited their production a little bit. But with
Speaker 1: that long weekend, hopefully those guys are closer to and
Speaker 1: then so we're waiting on guys like Chris Godwin, Leonard
Speaker 1: for Lett, and Lashawn McCoy and so we'll see on
Speaker 1: Thursday if it does work out as well. Um. On Tuesday,
Speaker 1: at the portion of practice that we were allowed to watch,
Speaker 1: all those guys were out on the field and running
Speaker 1: around a little bit, but it was it was you know,
Speaker 1: conditioning work and not not actual practice. Okay, we had
Speaker 1: a question from Tony who asked, what do you think
Speaker 1: we do on the defensive line now that Vita's out? Well,
Speaker 1: the number one guy that's gonna pick up more time
Speaker 1: is uh Nacho as we call him a Rakie Nunez roaches.
Speaker 1: He was really one of the main stars of training camp.
Speaker 1: So it's actually you wouldn't want it to happen this way,
Speaker 1: but it's actually pretty cool that he is getting an
Speaker 1: opportunity to see more playing time just to see what
Speaker 1: we saw in training camp can translate to a big
Speaker 1: role in games. Uh. He actually added upper body bulk
Speaker 1: and strength in the off season because he was told
Speaker 1: by a team they wanted him to be the primary
Speaker 1: nose tackle to share snaps with Vita Veas. So he's
Speaker 1: ready for this role. He's also done this before in
Speaker 1: Kansas City a few years back, so he's ready. But
Speaker 1: another guy that I think, um, you might just see
Speaker 1: more of his Will Golston. He's been a bit of
Speaker 1: the unsung hero on that line. I think you might
Speaker 1: be surprised to know that Will Galston actually leads this
Speaker 1: team with seven quarterback hits right now. He's always been
Speaker 1: a key to the rush defense. He's got a couple
Speaker 1: of sacks, so he would often come off the field
Speaker 1: in our sub packages when you only have two down linemen.
Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get to see some more time in those
Speaker 1: packages with in Domi Kun Sue and get a chance
Speaker 1: to rush the passer a little bit more. Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: heard from both Bruce and Todd Bowls recently on a
Speaker 1: couple of the shows that I've done with them about
Speaker 1: how this defense fits Will Golston so well, and that
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls even talked about how similar it is to
Speaker 1: what he played in college and so in sort of
Speaker 1: your your biggest formative years there. So it has been
Speaker 1: really cool to see that. I think he is a
Speaker 1: guy that, for whatever reason we just haven't always talked
Speaker 1: about as often, hasn't gotten all the accolades he deserves.
Speaker 1: But now it does feel like this defense and this
Speaker 1: year seemed to just be right up his alley and
Speaker 1: letting him really show off his skill set. I'm sure
Speaker 1: We'll himself would tell you that every one of his
Speaker 1: seasons since he arrived here hasn't been great. Some of
Speaker 1: them have been up and some have been down, but
Speaker 1: some of them have been really good. And to build
Speaker 1: on your point about playing in that system in college.
Speaker 1: That's exactly why the Buccaneers drafted him when they did,
Speaker 1: and it was a great Shiano year. And even though
Speaker 1: you would not realize this because one was a four
Speaker 1: three and one supposedly a three four, the two systems
Speaker 1: are actually very similar for the guys up front. And
Speaker 1: so this defense is very much what Will was drafted
Speaker 1: for and it's so it's not a huge surprise that
Speaker 1: he's succeeding in it. Yeah, that's an interesting point. Um, Okay,
Speaker 1: So Michael asked, what are some of the keys to
Speaker 1: the game plan against the Packers? Well, you know, how
Speaker 1: do you stop the highest scoring team in the league
Speaker 1: with the scoring thirty eight points a game and being
Speaker 1: led by Aaron Rodgers who seems to have a chip
Speaker 1: on his shoulder. To prove the doubters wrong and to
Speaker 1: prove the Packers wrong for drafting Jordan's Love. Jordan Love
Speaker 1: might be the rookie of the year if you consider
Speaker 1: his drafting pushing Rogers to doing what he's doing. As
Speaker 1: Bruce Arian said, you can't be be scared though when
Speaker 1: you play against Aaron Rodgers, you have to you have
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, and so I think the key is
Speaker 1: probably going to be getting some pressure on him. It
Speaker 1: would be best if that could occur with just your
Speaker 1: front guys, your pass rushers, four guys hopefully, so you
Speaker 1: don't have to blitz. Because obviously Aaron Rodgers has seen
Speaker 1: at all and can extend plays and can make big
Speaker 1: plays against the blitz. So blitz is a big risk reward,
Speaker 1: big risk, big reward um proposition against Daron Rodgers. So
Speaker 1: getting pressure up front with your main rush would be
Speaker 1: would be important. I think, yeah, And I've thought about
Speaker 1: how important playing penalty free or less gonna lie us
Speaker 1: will be because Aaron Rodgers has just always been so
Speaker 1: good at taking advantage of those free plays. That's exactly right.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. When he it's like you you can
Speaker 1: almost see the excitement he gets when he sees that
Speaker 1: flag and he knows that there's there's no you know,
Speaker 1: worries about what he does and he can just air
Speaker 1: it out that That seems like when he does some
Speaker 1: of his best work. So I feel like we're definitely
Speaker 1: on at least on that side of the ball for sure.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to make sure that we don't give
Speaker 1: him those free plays. Um, Aaron asked, will Tanner Hudson
Speaker 1: be more involved with the offense now that o J
Speaker 1: Is out? I think he already was. I think you
Speaker 1: saw him get a number of targets in that game
Speaker 1: in Chicago. Yes, And Tanner Hudson at the moment is
Speaker 1: more of a pass catching tight end, so uh, then
Speaker 1: he is a blocker. So I still think your primary
Speaker 1: to tighten sets are going to be uh, Gronkowski and
Speaker 1: Cam Break. But yeah, he's he's getting some action in there.
Speaker 1: And we all know he's got fantastic hands. Mike Kevan
Speaker 1: says he's got the second best hands on the team
Speaker 1: after him. Um, and you know he's an athletic guy
Speaker 1: who's got a lot of potential. We talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot during training camp, how we thought this guy
Speaker 1: would be on the rae Man roster for almost every
Speaker 1: team in the league, but it was gonna be tough
Speaker 1: for him with the tied end depth that we had.
Speaker 1: But as you can see, uh, we ended up needing him.
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, I think I think you'll see a
Speaker 1: little bit more Tanner Hudson. I don't I still don't
Speaker 1: think he's going to get the same amount of targets
Speaker 1: as gronkows game break, but I think he'll be involved well.
Speaker 1: And actually that works out because our next question was
Speaker 1: from Kevin asking about how Breake fits in with that
Speaker 1: with o J being out, So it's kind of funny
Speaker 1: to hear you can tell that each of them have
Speaker 1: sort of been given credit for filling in for the
Speaker 1: O J role to a degree. So I guess overall,
Speaker 1: how do we we We've only really had one game
Speaker 1: to look at, But how you think o J being
Speaker 1: out has affected the whole group? And and is it
Speaker 1: more of a replacement by committee or is it more
Speaker 1: of break specifically. Yeah, it's a little bit of a
Speaker 1: committee thing, because I think Tanner Hudson is if you're
Speaker 1: if you're trying to replicate those plays where you get
Speaker 1: down the field quickly like O J. Cannon, you can
Speaker 1: work the seams, maybe get some mismatches against the linebacker
Speaker 1: that you can beat. Uh, that's more like Tanner Hudson.
Speaker 1: He's more likely to get farther down the field and
Speaker 1: make plays like that. But we all know that can
Speaker 1: break and make. Is just such a sure handed receiver
Speaker 1: and a good route runner and a very trusted guy
Speaker 1: for his quarterbacks. So you see him catch a lot
Speaker 1: of passes, um, you know, of the more like eight
Speaker 1: to tin variety or the big ones in the red
Speaker 1: zone where he's he's fantastic from about the eighteen yard
Speaker 1: line in runs that like skinny post and makes the
Speaker 1: catch in traffic. He did, however, catch a twenty yard
Speaker 1: pass on third and fifteen in the last game, So
Speaker 1: I guess every now and then you can get him
Speaker 1: down the field a little bit. Okay. Mark asked, do
Speaker 1: you see Jamal Dean becoming the starter opposite of Carlton
Speaker 1: Davis in base defense? Uh? Well, I mean, what's the
Speaker 1: impetus for that. I mean, the past defensive were all.
Speaker 1: It seems like it's been pretty good. And also it's
Speaker 1: been in it's always in nickel more often than not.
Speaker 1: In some teams, that's up to like you know, that
Speaker 1: depends on what the offense does, and sometimes that's up
Speaker 1: to like, Um, I mean, it's possible. That's what they
Speaker 1: said at the beginning of the year that that was
Speaker 1: going to remain a competition, and so Dean is Dean
Speaker 1: is obviously, uh, putting up some numbers. He had four
Speaker 1: passes defense in the last game. He was encouraged on
Speaker 1: the tight end a lot in that game, so I'm
Speaker 1: not sure that was necessarily him being just the outside
Speaker 1: guy covering the outside receiver. So I think they like
Speaker 1: to set up the way they have it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy that's producing the most is going to be
Speaker 1: on the field. Okay. And we had Sean asked why
Speaker 1: we're wearing the white jerseys more than the red so
Speaker 1: far this season, and I always always love that question,
Speaker 1: and it's very fair. Um. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: times people don't know that you have to select it
Speaker 1: all before the season starts, and so it's not just
Speaker 1: a week by week thing, and so knowing how hot
Speaker 1: it can potentially be, they want to be in the
Speaker 1: lightest color possible early on. Is that Is that accurate?
Speaker 1: That's what I feel like I've always heard. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's a shame that you can't pick week the week.
Speaker 1: You basically have to pick way back in like May,
Speaker 1: uh not long after the schedule comes out, and then
Speaker 1: all your choices are communicated to your opponents, so that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying you choose what you're wearing at home,
Speaker 1: I should put that out there first, which is communicated
Speaker 1: to your opponents, so they know they have to wear
Speaker 1: the opposite. If you're wearing white, they have to wear
Speaker 1: the color jersey, and vice versa. Uh. And then of
Speaker 1: course worked a bit at the whim of the opponent. Uh,
Speaker 1: unless we decided to wear our alternates, which I believe
Speaker 1: we're doing three times, which is great because they're awesome,
Speaker 1: the Pewter ones. But if they decide to go color
Speaker 1: at home, you know, like if you're in Denver and
Speaker 1: they want to wear their color jerseys in their nice
Speaker 1: sixty degree weather, then we're going to be in white. Um. So,
Speaker 1: like you said, the Bucks do this every year because
Speaker 1: we all know it's still hot here, very very hot
Speaker 1: now most years, all the way through October. So we
Speaker 1: usually don't even try to wear anything but white at
Speaker 1: home until November to give our um, to give us
Speaker 1: an advantage, whatever advantage you can get, put your opponents
Speaker 1: in the dark color. And so the combination of having
Speaker 1: to wear white on the road a lot because other
Speaker 1: teams choose their color, plus us wearing white early in
Speaker 1: the year is why you end up with that. It's
Speaker 1: it's always been that way through the history of ye Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And thankfully our white jerseys are great. We're a big fan,
Speaker 1: so I have it stay back here. Um. Gilbert had asked, Uh,
Speaker 1: does Tyler Johnson looked promising now that he's gotten some reps. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought he had a nice game. Um. You could
Speaker 1: see his run after the catchability, which is something that
Speaker 1: I was talked about. You also could see that he
Speaker 1: could get open short and intermediate. I didn't really throw
Speaker 1: him a bomb yet, but he had that one down
Speaker 1: field where he turned it into a thirty five yard play. Um.
Speaker 1: That was another part of the scouting report on him.
Speaker 1: He's just naturally good at getting open at several levels
Speaker 1: on the field. So I think he's very promising. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: And Dan had asked, how do you see the running
Speaker 1: back carries be split? Win for net and Shady possibly
Speaker 1: come back, but now Rojo's coming off a couple straight
Speaker 1: hundred yard games. Probably about the same, though. I mean,
Speaker 1: I still think that coach wants to run to at
Speaker 1: least two guys to carry the ball during the game. Uh. Shady,
Speaker 1: if he's back, would probably go back into a third
Speaker 1: down role, although I wonder if Keyshawn Vaughan might start
Speaker 1: to eat into that a little bit because he looks
Speaker 1: like a pretty good pass catcher out of the backfield. Um.
Speaker 1: In the last game, I think Ronald Jones had all
Speaker 1: of the carries, uh, and you know, with those guys out,
Speaker 1: but there were only seventeen of them, and we only
Speaker 1: had twenty carries overall, because I think Tom Brady had
Speaker 1: like three kneel downs or he had that one sneak um,
Speaker 1: but really just seventeen handoffs in the game and they
Speaker 1: all went to Ronald Jones. But that's because he only
Speaker 1: had seventeen. We probably want to be somewhere in the
Speaker 1: thirty range. And in that case, there's definitely room for
Speaker 1: both him and four net or Vaughan, but probably four
Speaker 1: net when he's back to get some carries. Okay. And
Speaker 1: related to that, James h or Sorry Alex had asked,
Speaker 1: do you think Keyshaw Vaughn will be more involved after
Speaker 1: his production in recent weeks. It seems like it's gonna be.
Speaker 1: It's a little hard to answer that question right now,
Speaker 1: when when we don't know what the picture has looked like,
Speaker 1: when all those guys are healthy. So the very first
Speaker 1: time that we have Leonard Fournette back and then Keyshaw
Speaker 1: Vaughn is active, we'll get a better feel for it,
Speaker 1: which could be this Sunday of course. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I still think it's gonna be hard for Keshan to
Speaker 1: get a bunch of carries in the foreseeable future as
Speaker 1: long as Leonard Fournett is active, but he could factor
Speaker 1: into the passing game a bit more, as I said before. Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll close at this. Anthony asked Carlton Davis is tied
Speaker 1: for um the league and interceptions. What do you think
Speaker 1: he has done to improve his game from last season
Speaker 1: to this season. Yeah, I think he must have just
Speaker 1: been working on getting his head around to to see
Speaker 1: the ball. Um, you know, sooner. Uh, he has been
Speaker 1: since last year. For most of the last year, he's
Speaker 1: been very, very good in coverage and he ends up
Speaker 1: with a lot of passes defense. But he didn't get
Speaker 1: he didn't translate into interceptions because he wasn't seeing the
Speaker 1: ball in front of him. I mean, I mean, some
Speaker 1: of it is just just making an incredible play like
Speaker 1: the one in Chicago. He just threw his hand in
Speaker 1: there and then caught the deflection. So maybe it's just
Speaker 1: a matter of because his coverage has been so tight
Speaker 1: and remains that way, that the opportunities are coming and
Speaker 1: now he's just starting to take advantage of them a
Speaker 1: little bit. Okay, well that's gonna do it for us.
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