Speaker 1: Um, hey there, good morning Bucks fans. Happy Wednesday, It
Speaker 1: is time for Buccaneers Inside our Live presented by Miller.
Speaker 1: Like Casey Phillips, here was senior writer and editor Scott Smith.
Speaker 1: And as always, this is where we take all of
Speaker 1: your questions, and I'm sure there are a lot of
Speaker 1: them because we've been gone for a few weeks. This
Speaker 1: is always the time of year when the office kind
Speaker 1: of shuts down a little bit, people take their vacations,
Speaker 1: and then now we are ready to hit the ground.
Speaker 1: Riding training camp is starting this week, So if you
Speaker 1: have questions for us, head on over to the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: Facebook page and you can ask them there. And before
Speaker 1: we start getting to some of those, give people chance
Speaker 1: to submit some of them. Of course, there was the
Speaker 1: White House visit yesterday and I know you got to
Speaker 1: be one of the lucky people to go, so tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about what that was like and
Speaker 1: what happened and just getting to witness such a big
Speaker 1: event in buccaneer history. Yeah, I definitely feel felt privileged
Speaker 1: to be along for that ride because it is it
Speaker 1: is a big moment. As most people know, the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: didn't get to go to the White House when they
Speaker 1: won Super Bowl thirty seven due to basically world events
Speaker 1: and um. And then recently, you know, teams haven't been
Speaker 1: going for for a variety of reasons, you know, including
Speaker 1: the virus. So this is the first team to go
Speaker 1: since two first NFL team to go since two thousand
Speaker 1: and seventeen. UM. So it was. Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: big moment, and I think everybody treated it as such.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you one thing. It was very,
Speaker 1: very hot. I'm sure that fans saw all those players
Speaker 1: and the coaches sweating behind President Biden. But that was
Speaker 1: it was well worth it. And I'll tell you one
Speaker 1: big takeaway from me is I'm really People in Foxboro
Speaker 1: will probably already know this, have known for years, but
Speaker 1: it's becoming increasingly obvious that Tom Brady make sure he
Speaker 1: is well prepared for any big moment, whether it be
Speaker 1: a football game or in this case, a speech on
Speaker 1: the South Bone at the White House. Because he he
Speaker 1: was nailing it. I mean, he had the jokes and
Speaker 1: they were well timed, and they hit the mark, and uh,
Speaker 1: he did a really nice job and a very brief
Speaker 1: little he packed a lot into a pretty brief little speech,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, you could tell he was prepared
Speaker 1: and he enjoyed himself. Yeah, That's what I love about
Speaker 1: him is it's not even just ball, it's anything like
Speaker 1: you see that same preparation and work ethics. So I
Speaker 1: think if he was that well prepared for that speech,
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody has to worry about his preparation
Speaker 1: for the season as well. He's gonna be doing just
Speaker 1: as well with that. Um okay. Our first question is
Speaker 1: from Daniel who asked, how good on paper is our
Speaker 1: special teams compared to last year and what is its potential? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say in some cases it's the same on paper.
Speaker 1: You know that you would expect Ryan stuck Up to
Speaker 1: be good again after he basically solved that problem that
Speaker 1: the Bucks had at the kicker spot for about a decade.
Speaker 1: It was very much the reliable kicker, especially from four
Speaker 1: yards in that that coach wanted the team has been
Speaker 1: trying to get for a long time. Bradley, opinion, is
Speaker 1: still a very good directional and and uh in situational punter,
Speaker 1: and he also is great on touchbacks. I don't think
Speaker 1: any of that will change the questions therefore, are will
Speaker 1: the Bucks be better in coverage and will be better
Speaker 1: in return. The return game was okay last year. We're
Speaker 1: not really a lot of big plays until the very end.
Speaker 1: And uh, the coverage by rankings at least wasn't very good.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't get a lot of kickoff returns,
Speaker 1: So don't read too much in the fact that the
Speaker 1: Bucks were last in coverage, because one big return can
Speaker 1: pretty much kill your average when you only have maybe
Speaker 1: twelve or thirteen of them, then the cover all year.
Speaker 1: But the coverage needs to be better, and the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: paid attention to that in the draft, and they drafted
Speaker 1: guys that maybe could you know, have defensive our offensive
Speaker 1: roles in the future, but really are expected to help
Speaker 1: out right away and on special teams, including the linebackers
Speaker 1: kJ Brett and Grant Steward, and they both know that
Speaker 1: they both are well aware that they're being counted on.
Speaker 1: And if those guys are core special teamers, then maybe
Speaker 1: it will get a little bit better. And maybe Jalen
Speaker 1: Darden will you know, win the return job and provide
Speaker 1: a spark there. So there's definitely a chance on paper
Speaker 1: that the Bucks will be better, uh in those in
Speaker 1: those two areas, of special teams, but obviously we have
Speaker 1: a long way to go to find out that out
Speaker 1: for sure. Yes, very true. Um Christopher asked who's going
Speaker 1: to back up Shack and JPP? So overall, I feel
Speaker 1: like it'd be good to just talk about that position
Speaker 1: and not only starter verse backup, but just kind of
Speaker 1: the number of reps you see certain guys getting, because
Speaker 1: that's definitely position where starter verse backup doesn't always um
Speaker 1: mean the same thing depending on who those guys are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you were asking who the who the backup was to, like, say,
Speaker 1: the inside linebackers, it would be a different question because
Speaker 1: barring injury, that guy is not going to play at
Speaker 1: all because Lavante and Devon never come off the field.
Speaker 1: But when you're talking about the outside linebackers and the
Speaker 1: edge rushers, you're talking about a rotation because those guys
Speaker 1: never play a hundred percent of the snaps. Now, Barrett
Speaker 1: and and JPP are very much up there in terms
Speaker 1: of how many snaps they do play. They both take,
Speaker 1: especially JPP. They both want to be on the field
Speaker 1: a lot, but you do want to have a rotation,
Speaker 1: and maybe even a little bit deeper of one this year,
Speaker 1: just to keep those two guys fresh for one thing, Um,
Speaker 1: you saw what can happen when that pass rushes at
Speaker 1: its best in the last two games of the postseason. Um. Obviously,
Speaker 1: last year, Anthony Nelson was your third guy and he
Speaker 1: played about the defensive snaps and really other than that,
Speaker 1: there wasn't much. I mean, Quentin Bell got here and
Speaker 1: there got a upple snaps, but it was basically just
Speaker 1: those two guys and then Anython Nelson in the rotation.
Speaker 1: And now you have those three guys plus Joe try On,
Speaker 1: and I know they want him to be in the
Speaker 1: rotation right away and think that he can make a
Speaker 1: mark right away. So I think you got a little
Speaker 1: bit deeper there than you have in the past. And
Speaker 1: you you're you're in a situation assuming that Joe Tryon,
Speaker 1: can you know, play well enough as the Bucks expect
Speaker 1: him to to be comfortable with him on the field,
Speaker 1: you you might be able to give Shack and JPP
Speaker 1: a little bit more of a breather this year. So
Speaker 1: I actually think, barring injury, the rotation there is pretty good.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to get you know, forget Quentin
Speaker 1: Bell either. Um his coach Um has already said, he's
Speaker 1: you know, Larry Foote, He's already, He's already. Um, what's
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for. He's lobbying to keep five guys
Speaker 1: at that position this year. So whether it be Quentin
Speaker 1: Bell or Cam cam Gill is actually what I meant
Speaker 1: to be talking about. Um, whether it be one of
Speaker 1: those two guys is the fifth guy, so you have
Speaker 1: a shot to have a deeper rotation there than in
Speaker 1: the past. I'm sor, are you telling me a position
Speaker 1: coach is lobbying for more guys at his position that
Speaker 1: that's brand new, that's never happened before. It just needs
Speaker 1: more work for him. I guess yeah. I always love that.
Speaker 1: They're always like, no, my position needs to be one
Speaker 1: the one with the extra players. Like, but you're not
Speaker 1: biased at all. I think receivers coaches are usually like that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they're like, actually, if we could have fifty three,
Speaker 1: that'd be great. Um, okay, our next one, Richard asked
Speaker 1: how big is the ring ceremony ceremony going to be
Speaker 1: and will it be live? It will not be broadcast live,
Speaker 1: but we will have tons of coverage from it going
Speaker 1: on to our website or social media. All of that stuff,
Speaker 1: So make sure you stay tuned tomorrow night for all
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be showing the rings, showing guys getting
Speaker 1: the rings, and yeah, believe me, there's there's gonna be
Speaker 1: plenty of stuff up there. It's just not something that
Speaker 1: will be broadcast live per se um. I think part
Speaker 1: of that is even just the abilities to and they've
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of the planning of events in
Speaker 1: COVID times has been a little less minute and having
Speaker 1: to move things around. So yeah, it's it's not going
Speaker 1: to be live, but you will get to see plenty
Speaker 1: from it. And in terms of how big, I don't
Speaker 1: know if he means how many people or how much
Speaker 1: production is going into it, but I think the answer
Speaker 1: is both. It means basically the whole bucks. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: employees and and players, coaches, staff, all of that, and um,
Speaker 1: I get to which I'm very excited about. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll get a chance to introduce you know, the players
Speaker 1: that are all going to speak, ownership is gonna speak.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some videos about the ring in the season.
Speaker 1: So yes, it's gonna be a very fun event. I
Speaker 1: think I spoke over you, so just to make sure
Speaker 1: everybody heard you're going to be in seeing the event. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I am so. Yeah, I get to introduce all the people.
Speaker 1: So it's heard your voice when I was coming back
Speaker 1: in the airport the other day, right on the tune. Yes,
Speaker 1: the voice of the tram on at Tampa Airport. Just
Speaker 1: for another little bit. It was just for the month
Speaker 1: of July. Um, Yes, but it was very cool. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a fundraiser for a United Way and it
Speaker 1: was a very cool opportunity to receive videos from all
Speaker 1: of my friends listening to me on the drom. Um.
Speaker 1: So are We also wanted to bring up, um, the
Speaker 1: way training camp is gonna work at. This will be
Speaker 1: our last insider for a bit like this because we
Speaker 1: are going to be having training camp lives. It made
Speaker 1: me think of it when somebody was asking about if
Speaker 1: the ring ceremonies live that training camp. We will be
Speaker 1: doing these live shows from every open practice for the
Speaker 1: first thirty minutes of practice. Um, and we know that,
Speaker 1: you know, there's gonna be a lot of people who
Speaker 1: want to come to training camp that aren't going to
Speaker 1: get a chance to just because of all the stuff
Speaker 1: of COVID and having to restrict how many people come
Speaker 1: and even you know, some days in the indoor. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to give you guys as much as
Speaker 1: we possibly can as a way to watch practice and
Speaker 1: be in there. Um. So I would definitely, um if
Speaker 1: you if you want to see what's going on in advice,
Speaker 1: tune and into that for every practice, because my understanding
Speaker 1: is we're gonna have more cameras on the field and
Speaker 1: we're gonna be able to show more of the work
Speaker 1: than just you know, sometimes in the past it's been
Speaker 1: whatever happens to be right behind us, But I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna do more to bring the action from camps
Speaker 1: fans during that show. So definitely see that stuff. Yes,
Speaker 1: Thankfully because of of COVID rules, now we can have
Speaker 1: camera people right there on the sideline, whereas last year
Speaker 1: we had to kind of rely on a robo cam
Speaker 1: that we were that our producer was trying to operate
Speaker 1: it while also producing and directing us. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think this year we're gonna have a lot more action
Speaker 1: from right on the field. So we're excited about that. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Delvin asked us, since we returned all the starters,
Speaker 1: where do you see the best position battle being yeah,
Speaker 1: I like that question, and there are always battles and
Speaker 1: UM coach was basically asked something along those line if
Speaker 1: there would be competitions in camp of and the question
Speaker 1: I actually asked him for starting spots, and he said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: probably not starting spots. And every coach will tell you
Speaker 1: that you have to you have to battle, and you
Speaker 1: have to keep your job, you know you unless I
Speaker 1: mean Tom Brady is not gonna lose his job. But
Speaker 1: you can't just roll into camp as a veteran and
Speaker 1: assume you're gonna get your job if you don't perform
Speaker 1: better than the gap behind you. But practically speaking, the
Speaker 1: starting lineups are pretty much set, but he said there's
Speaker 1: definitely competition for other jobs and four spots on the
Speaker 1: depth chart, and and and sometimes not even whether or
Speaker 1: not they get a job, and whether or not they
Speaker 1: get at home on Sunday, but just how big their
Speaker 1: role is going to be. And the one that I
Speaker 1: find most intriguing is the running back situation. And I
Speaker 1: honestly get asked this a lot, and I honestly have
Speaker 1: to say I don't know the answer yet, and I
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that I don't think the
Speaker 1: coaches know for sure the entire answer in the backfield.
Speaker 1: Yet um, you know, Ronald Jones was the starter, the
Speaker 1: guy getting basically a two to one carry of margin
Speaker 1: over the Leonard Fournett during the regular season and was
Speaker 1: productive and was going to have a thousand yard season
Speaker 1: before he missed time at the end and lost that opportunity.
Speaker 1: And then when that happened, Leonard Fournete stepped in and
Speaker 1: we all know what happened in the playoffs. And so
Speaker 1: now he's got the momentum and you've seen him be
Speaker 1: the kind of producer that made him the I think
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick in the draft a few years ago. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so you got both of those guys that the
Speaker 1: coaches really like in coach arians called them basically thinks
Speaker 1: of both the starters. It's intriguing enough how the carries
Speaker 1: and touches are gonna be split between those two guys.
Speaker 1: But then also factor in that the Bucks now have
Speaker 1: Geo Barney Bernard, who was one of the best pass
Speaker 1: catching backs in the league and that's an area we
Speaker 1: could probably use more of. And Keyshawn Bonn, the guy
Speaker 1: they drafted in the third round just a year ago,
Speaker 1: and I know they like him. Coach arians and said
Speaker 1: they if they have all the trust in the world
Speaker 1: as a runner, it's just how has he's a past catcher?
Speaker 1: How has he as a block on the backfield? I think,
Speaker 1: especially considering the fact that of those four guys, the
Speaker 1: only one under contract pass this year is Shaan Vonn,
Speaker 1: you gotta believe they'd like to see what they have
Speaker 1: in him. So how did they figure out how to
Speaker 1: get the ball distributed amongst those four guys? And again,
Speaker 1: I don't think the answer is set yet. It's going
Speaker 1: to be set by how those guys doing camp in
Speaker 1: the early part of the season. So to me, that's
Speaker 1: the number one competition that that I find intriguing because
Speaker 1: I don't really know what the answer is. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's a great point sort of related to this.
Speaker 1: Alan had asked, do you think Tyler Johnson will have
Speaker 1: a bigger role this year? So for me, that's definitely
Speaker 1: one of the position battles that I will be intrigued by.
Speaker 1: Is you know, kind of like we talked about earlier,
Speaker 1: how many wide receivers do you keep? Is it because
Speaker 1: of special teams? Is it because of their wide receiver role?
Speaker 1: And you know what those guys behind your Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: Chris Goddens that were like, okay, yes, we know their
Speaker 1: their thing. What what do you see in terms of
Speaker 1: those last wide receiver spots and Tyler Johnson's role. That's
Speaker 1: it interesting because to start this week with camp coming
Speaker 1: at the end of the week, I put a story
Speaker 1: on buccaneers dot Com just saying six other than the
Speaker 1: obvious guys and people first time that fans have got
Speaker 1: to come to camp. You know, select groups have got
Speaker 1: to come to camp since we got Tom Brady. So yes,
Speaker 1: everybody's gonna be watching Tom Brady and everybody's gonna be
Speaker 1: watching Devin Wide Shack Bear. But how about some other
Speaker 1: guys to keep an eye on because they have interesting
Speaker 1: stories heading into camp. Tyler Johnson was one of my
Speaker 1: six choices for that list, and that's partly because of
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys going into camp. His role
Speaker 1: is it's not obvious how he his path to two
Speaker 1: more playing time, but there is room for him to
Speaker 1: grow quite a bit in his role depending on what
Speaker 1: happens with the rest of the receivers. Because the situation
Speaker 1: is basically the same as last year in terms of
Speaker 1: It's hard to picture how he gets the ball a
Speaker 1: lot when you are when you have Mike Evans and
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown and Scotty Miller and all
Speaker 1: those tight ends, and now you might be throwing more
Speaker 1: passes to the running backs. So where's the Where's the
Speaker 1: football for Tyler Johnson? But they found ways to get
Speaker 1: him in. I know we only had like twelve catches
Speaker 1: last year, but there were some big ones, like the
Speaker 1: big third down catch in New Orleans in the claoffs,
Speaker 1: had a couple of touchdowns where he was about Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's fourth or fifth read, but he made sure he
Speaker 1: stayed on his route and was there where he's supposed
Speaker 1: to be when Tom got to him. I think there's
Speaker 1: promising this guy, and at some point you're gonna be
Speaker 1: needing to think about replacing And how long is Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown gonna be here? Are the Bucks gonna be able
Speaker 1: to sign Chris Godwin long term? I hope so, but
Speaker 1: you never know. So Again, like he shan Van, they
Speaker 1: want to know what they have in this guy, and
Speaker 1: I think he's got a lot of talent and a
Speaker 1: lot of potential. I think he could blossom someone in
Speaker 1: the way that Chris Godwin did. It's it's you know,
Speaker 1: that's a lot to put on a guy, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about a Day two or Day three pick who
Speaker 1: was produced well more than that would suggest that. I know,
Speaker 1: the Bucks felt like they got a bit of the
Speaker 1: steel when they got Tyler Johnson in the fifth round.
Speaker 1: So it's a very intriguing story. It's hard to see
Speaker 1: the path a lot of playing time, but yet I
Speaker 1: still feel like there's a chance that does get more
Speaker 1: this year. And you brought up to Chris Goden thing
Speaker 1: will close with this. Antony had asked, are there any
Speaker 1: updates on the Chris Godwin resigning situation. Well, we're past
Speaker 1: the deadline where that can happen. He has to play
Speaker 1: this year on the the one year the tag one
Speaker 1: year contract. That doesn't mean that the Bucks and he
Speaker 1: has to stop talking. They can still start laying the
Speaker 1: groundwork for the potential of a new contract after the
Speaker 1: season over much as like what happened with Shaq Barrett.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it seems logical with the Bucks would like
Speaker 1: to keep Chris Godwin around, but you just never know.
Speaker 1: Um and then some players when they get to the season,
Speaker 1: like to say, hey, I'm not gonna let that be
Speaker 1: a distraction for the year. Let's take all those talks
Speaker 1: till we get to the end, so you never know,
Speaker 1: there could be stuff going on in the background. But
Speaker 1: this year he will play on a one year contract.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, that is going to do it for us.
Speaker 1: On this edition of Buccaneers Inside Our Live, presented by
Speaker 1: Miller Lyte and again, we will be going live the
Speaker 1: first thirty minutes of every open training camp practice to
Speaker 1: make sure you join us there. We'll still be taking
Speaker 1: some questions, we'll be talking about some big team topics
Speaker 1: and be trying to show you as much live footage
Speaker 1: of practice as possible. So we'll see you then, Bristo