Speaker 1: Welcome to Bucks Insider Live.
Speaker 2: Casey Phillips here a senior writer and editor Scott Smith,
Speaker 2: and we are here to talk about everything Buccaneers related,
Speaker 2: even though right now there's very little Buccaneers related that
Speaker 2: will be happening for about I don't know, month, month
Speaker 2: and a half. We will talk about that in a
Speaker 2: little bit in terms of the schedule, what came out
Speaker 2: of mini camp, what we're looking forward to, But for now,
Speaker 2: we are going to start with our trivia question. And
Speaker 2: I thought this was a very creative one on your
Speaker 2: part that I liked, and I definitely did not know
Speaker 2: the answer.
Speaker 1: I have still not looked for the answer.
Speaker 2: Because I wanted to find out with everybody else here
Speaker 2: on our show, But I thought this was fun, so
Speaker 2: share the question with.
Speaker 1: It right here.
Speaker 3: It is Mike Evans is one of fifty two players
Speaker 3: in NFL history with ten thousand or more regular season
Speaker 3: receiving yards. How many of those fifty two players played
Speaker 3: for the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: So when you come up with a trivia question, do
Speaker 1: you always know the answer? No? I had to look
Speaker 1: at that. Okay, all right, I was going to be
Speaker 1: like man, I could have thought.
Speaker 3: Of most of them, but I wouldn't have been sure
Speaker 3: that I got all of all of them right. So
Speaker 3: you can answer this question, you know, you can try
Speaker 3: somethingness or you could even just answer some.
Speaker 1: Of them that the people are involved.
Speaker 2: So you can either say the number this number of people,
Speaker 2: or you can just try to be like, all right,
Speaker 2: I think this guy did it this.
Speaker 1: We can maybe tag team the effort.
Speaker 2: So whatever way you're trying to answer it, put it
Speaker 2: underneath our Facebook live video in the comments, and we
Speaker 2: will get to the answer later on in the show,
Speaker 2: and we'll try to shout out anybody that seems like
Speaker 2: they've gotten any of it part of it correct. For now,
Speaker 2: like I mentioned, we're kind of in this dead time
Speaker 2: around the Buccaneers facility for the most part, So tell
Speaker 2: us a little bit about the schedule right now, what's
Speaker 2: going on, what's not going on, what kind of is
Speaker 2: the previous and then the next thing we have coming up,
Speaker 2: it's there's.
Speaker 1: Still a little activity.
Speaker 3: It'll be less next week because you get to keep
Speaker 3: the rookies around for an extra week for what is
Speaker 3: it called rookie engagement, but it's a week of doing things.
Speaker 3: And yesterday there was a bunch of commotion out in
Speaker 3: the outside my office. I came out and there's like
Speaker 3: twenty five guys walking through the hall and what they
Speaker 3: were doing was they were introducing all the rookies to
Speaker 3: everybody in the building, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that they do that.
Speaker 2: I think it's great and it's it's twofold that it
Speaker 2: is part of their rek engagement. They do a lot
Speaker 2: of different classes and things that are really cool, you know,
Speaker 2: from finance to learning about Tampa. And then this is
Speaker 2: part of their etiquette training, which I always love. They
Speaker 2: learned about the forks and the spoons.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's great. It's one of my favorite things
Speaker 1: every year.
Speaker 2: And part of the etique training is also about some
Speaker 2: of the idea of networking meeting people.
Speaker 1: So it's the twofold where it's.
Speaker 2: One they want everybody to see, you know what all
Speaker 2: it takes to make the Buccaneers run that sometimes the
Speaker 2: football side and the business side don't always know each
Speaker 2: other very well, so they want them to meet them.
Speaker 2: And then also it is the day after their etiquette
Speaker 2: training to put into practice what they learned about proper
Speaker 2: meeting people and networking how.
Speaker 3: They do if the part of the training is are
Speaker 3: supposed to be friendly. Yeah, and shake your hand and
Speaker 3: introduce themselves. Then I guess it works. They're all doing that.
Speaker 1: That's great. I love that.
Speaker 2: So yeah, now we have the break until training camp,
Speaker 2: and so tell us kind of a little bit about
Speaker 2: what we're looking forward to with training camp and of
Speaker 2: course also shameless plug training camp or port Live. We
Speaker 2: will be doing the show all the times that there
Speaker 2: are practices will be coming to you live, so make
Speaker 2: sure you are around for that. We will cover it
Speaker 2: every which way possible. By the end of training camp,
Speaker 2: we will have talked about all the things. So what
Speaker 2: are some of the things that you are looking forward
Speaker 2: to and some things to keep in mind about camp.
Speaker 3: Well, so now it's the big break. It's the biggest
Speaker 3: lull really in the entire NFL year long schedule, because
Speaker 3: you know, most of the offseason that's tenpole events like
Speaker 3: free agency and the draft and so on. But this
Speaker 3: is the break. Mini camp is over, the off season
Speaker 3: program is over, and the players don't have to report
Speaker 3: until late June July. The date hasn't been announced yet,
Speaker 3: but it's somewhere in late July. And they get this
Speaker 3: time off and I guess what you do is you
Speaker 3: crosh your fingers, hope that nobody gets in any trouble
Speaker 3: in that span, and that everybody continues to work out
Speaker 3: enough so that when they hit training camp they are
Speaker 3: in shape to hit the ground running. But right now
Speaker 3: it's just a big break. But then we will have
Speaker 3: training camp. It will once again be at the Admin
Speaker 3: Held Training Center, which is the fourth place the Buccaneers
Speaker 3: have ever excuse me held training camp. As you can
Speaker 3: see here. Started out and at the beginning the first
Speaker 3: eleven years in franchise history, they just practiced at their
Speaker 3: own facility, and they stayed at a part of that time,
Speaker 3: they stayed at a little hotel right next door that
Speaker 3: was called the Hall of Fame Hotel because it was
Speaker 3: by the Hall of Fame golf course.
Speaker 1: That's them all now, but whatever.
Speaker 3: And then they moved for quite some time in the
Speaker 3: University of Tampa where the players would stay in dorms.
Speaker 3: And then when John Gruden arrived during that tenure, we
Speaker 3: went off to Orlando to practice at Dizzey's Wild Old
Speaker 3: Sports and stayed at the Celebration Hotel. And then in
Speaker 3: two thousand and nine, it just became obvious that hey,
Speaker 3: we have this perfect facility with all this great stuff.
Speaker 3: We don't have to move everything. Let's just do training
Speaker 3: camp here. And really that's become the trend all around
Speaker 3: the league. When I first came into the league with
Speaker 3: the Chiefs, we were practiced, we were doing training camp
Speaker 3: up in Wisconsin and they had the Cheese League. Now
Speaker 3: almost every team just practices at their own facility or
Speaker 3: some more close.
Speaker 1: Those when you guys took a horse and buggy. Yeah nice.
Speaker 1: I love what it's live.
Speaker 2: So they can't stop me from making shows like that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that's I think that it's going to be really fun
Speaker 2: this year for training camp. They have so many fun
Speaker 2: things planned for the fans, and I kind of like
Speaker 2: that we get to do it at our own facility.
Speaker 2: It's very convenient and it's cool for the fans. And
Speaker 2: I love that our facility is even right by the stadium.
Speaker 2: It just kind of feels like, you know, it's right
Speaker 2: there and buy football. And you know, back when I
Speaker 2: was with the Rams, your facility in your stadium, we're
Speaker 2: thirty something minutes apart.
Speaker 1: You better hope you did not forget anything, because that
Speaker 1: was not fun.
Speaker 2: All right, So we already have a one potential answer
Speaker 2: for the trivia question.
Speaker 1: It was just one name. It was Joey Galloway. That
Speaker 1: is one of them. Way to go.
Speaker 2: Richard nailed it and he's loved that he sent it
Speaker 2: with a bunch.
Speaker 1: Of question marks like Joey Galloway.
Speaker 3: Maybe Joey Galloway is definitely one of them. Also one
Speaker 3: of my all time favorite players.
Speaker 2: All right, So again we're looking for the rest of
Speaker 2: that trivia question because IM going to guess the answer
Speaker 2: is more than one, more than more than one. So
Speaker 2: keep on a truck and in the comment section underneath
Speaker 2: our live video with your answers to it. Something I'm
Speaker 2: looking forward to in training camp is looking at this
Speaker 2: new defensive line that this is one of the areas
Speaker 2: of the team that had a lot of change and
Speaker 2: a lot of turnover. And I know that we've gotten
Speaker 2: to They're a hard group in the off season to
Speaker 2: see much learn.
Speaker 1: Much when you're shorts and T shirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's not any contact all the guys in the trenches.
Speaker 2: That's the hardest thing to get any kind of feel for.
Speaker 2: But I know we've gotten to at least hear from
Speaker 2: you know, new draft pick Klijah can see about how
Speaker 2: it's going for him and what he sees so far,
Speaker 2: So what was something that maybe you learned from him
Speaker 2: or just even watching what they're trying to use him.
Speaker 3: You can see his quickness, you know, even though they're
Speaker 3: not hitting each other, you can sell you can see
Speaker 3: the guys quick and well, I guess we'll jump right
Speaker 3: to this. He's actually got elite quickness for the interior
Speaker 3: defensive line position since three, which I guess as far
Speaker 3: back as we have data, he had the fastest forty
Speaker 3: yard dash by defensive tackle since two thousand and three,
Speaker 3: and just a little bit better than fellow pit alum
Speaker 3: Aaron Donald. And of course there's constantly Aaron Donald comparisons
Speaker 3: because of their size and where they came from quickness,
Speaker 3: and nobody's going to saddle anybody with Hayes.
Speaker 2: I think they what a heavy yoke to put it
Speaker 2: on and starting your career.
Speaker 3: But which can say is that he's playing next to
Speaker 3: another really, really good, a Pro Bowl defensive interior defensive
Speaker 3: lineman in Vitavea, And he was talking the other day
Speaker 3: about how much Vita has helped him along, but also
Speaker 3: how much help he expects it to be to be
Speaker 3: playing next to Vita, because as we all know, he
Speaker 3: gets double teamed a lot, and that obviously has always
Speaker 3: helped the edge rushers to some extent, but it should
Speaker 3: really help out Collija playing next to Vitavea, and he
Speaker 3: knows that already, he's counting on it, so he could
Speaker 3: look really good.
Speaker 2: And that is just going to be so cool to watch,
Speaker 2: because I'm sure a lot of times, yes, they want
Speaker 2: a double team, but they'd love for an offensive lineman
Speaker 2: to only have to maybe give a little attention to
Speaker 2: one and be able to go to the other.
Speaker 1: But if they try to go to Vita.
Speaker 2: First, Colija's quickness I so fast that there's no way
Speaker 2: they can try to get anything on Vita and still
Speaker 2: get on Callija. So if they try to go to
Speaker 2: Callijra first, Vita's got one on one for business.
Speaker 3: For his size, he's got good quickness too, but he's
Speaker 3: also got a power game.
Speaker 2: So especially for Vita's size, good quickness would be a
Speaker 2: ten second forty yard dash. The guy is so big
Speaker 2: and yeah, somehow still so quick. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of fun to watch. And
Speaker 2: then the other one is going to be just watching
Speaker 2: a guy like Levonte David again that I know everyone's
Speaker 2: excited that he is back again for another year. Just
Speaker 2: one of the most beloved figures in this franchise. And
Speaker 2: it's so funny to hear him realize that this offseason.
Speaker 1: He's the old guy on the team.
Speaker 2: He talked about that a little bit. So what do
Speaker 2: we feel like our expectations are out of him and
Speaker 2: bring why the team wanted him back for sure, and
Speaker 2: just what the linebacker group could look like.
Speaker 3: You know, if you think about it, it was a nice
Speaker 3: having tom Brady around because if you were like thirty two,
Speaker 3: thirty three through four years, he's.
Speaker 1: Like twelve years older than I am. I'm not the
Speaker 1: old guy.
Speaker 3: Well, now Levante is the longest tenured guy, which was.
Speaker 2: A bummer for me because Levante's younger than me, and
Speaker 2: so I was like, oh man, well tom.
Speaker 1: Brady's younger than me. So there you go.
Speaker 2: We were all really clinging to the Tom Brady all
Speaker 2: feel closer to football.
Speaker 3: So you know, he I lost my trade of thought.
Speaker 3: Oh you know, it's not like Levonta's not never been
Speaker 3: a leader, right, He's been a team captain for something
Speaker 3: like eight or nine years ago, he's clearly a team leader,
Speaker 3: but he even feels now like he needs to be
Speaker 3: even more so just because he's that guy. And there's
Speaker 3: a lot of younger guys on the team. Out over
Speaker 3: the last two drafts, we've added a lot of youth
Speaker 3: to that defense, and some of them are going to
Speaker 3: be in big roles and for this defense to continue
Speaker 3: to be good, which it has been for most of
Speaker 3: the last four years, some of these young guys are
Speaker 3: gonna have to know what they're doing, and Levonte is
Speaker 3: the guy that's going to help them along. So and
Speaker 3: he also is still a very good player. I mean
Speaker 3: last year he had a very good season, and you
Speaker 3: know that was his tenth season. I believe in twenty
Speaker 3: eleventh season he was a twenty twelve draft picks, so
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 1: That was his eletless season.
Speaker 3: And over the last Now, this is from NFL Next
Speaker 3: Gen Stats, which just started getting data in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 3: which is why it looks like cherry pickings. Since saying
Speaker 3: since twenty sixteen, but this is the average yards allowed
Speaker 3: per target when you're the nearest defender and coverage and
Speaker 3: of all off ball linebackers, probably all linebackers really these
Speaker 3: are the best. They have the best numbers in terms
Speaker 3: of not allowing yards per catch or per target. I
Speaker 3: should say and look at the aren't He's right there?
Speaker 3: He's number two in the league.
Speaker 1: Incredible.
Speaker 3: He's a great coverage linebacker and he still has speed
Speaker 3: and quickness, and so you know, that's it's awesome that
Speaker 3: we didn't lose that in the middle of our defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be incredibly important. And I just yeah, again,
Speaker 2: the leadership, you can't overstate that. And I've seen times
Speaker 2: over the years Lavante is not always the most vocal guy.
Speaker 1: He's kind of that lead by example guy.
Speaker 2: But then when things have maybe hit super rough patches,
Speaker 2: he is the guy that will say something. And then
Speaker 2: therefore when he does, everybody listens, everybody takes it incredibly.
Speaker 3: Serious, a ton Dungee effect.
Speaker 2: All right, we are going to hear the answer to
Speaker 2: the trivia question. So we had Richard had given us
Speaker 2: one of the names.
Speaker 3: So, uh, you know, there's at least too, because Mike
Speaker 3: Evans is included.
Speaker 1: Okay, so that's that's fair. So we know it's at
Speaker 1: least too. So how many I want to guess? So many?
Speaker 1: It is five? Eight? Wow? That's amazing.
Speaker 3: It's kind of funny. And you know there's there's a
Speaker 3: couple that barely played, like Tim Brown's on the list.
Speaker 3: He played for US like three games. Yeah, So here
Speaker 3: they are eight players, eight of the fifty two have
Speaker 3: played for the Buccaneers, and those numbers in parentheses are
Speaker 3: where they are on the all time list. So you
Speaker 3: have Tim Brown, who's.
Speaker 2: Seven, Jones and Antonio Brown I should have thought of
Speaker 2: at least, and DeShawn Jackson, oh my cash.
Speaker 3: Keenum Cardale who was on the Super Bowl team scored
Speaker 3: two touchdowns in the Super Bowl. You said DeShawn Jackson,
Speaker 3: Joey Gallery was guessed Keishawn Johnson, and then Mike Evans.
Speaker 2: And what's so funny about this list is when I
Speaker 2: first thought about it, Keishawn Johnson was the first name
Speaker 2: that popped into my head, which is very funny because
Speaker 2: I was not here when he was here. And yet
Speaker 2: Julio Antonio Brown, the ones I was here with, did
Speaker 2: not occur to me. And I feel like somehow I
Speaker 2: was thinking of people drafted by the Buccaneers, which is not.
Speaker 1: What you said.
Speaker 2: No, And like, are just people that were here like
Speaker 2: longer in their career something Kevin House.
Speaker 3: Yeah, some people would guess. Some people guessed rest in
Speaker 3: peace Vincent Jackson, but he didn't quite make it. But uh,
Speaker 3: there is for a bonus answer. Another person on that
Speaker 3: fifty two man list was a Buccaneers coach, Harold Jackson
Speaker 3: in nineteen ninety two and ninety one. So if you
Speaker 3: want to count coaches, nine to fifty two is a
Speaker 3: pretty high percentage.
Speaker 1: That is a high I love it. That was a
Speaker 1: fun one. All right.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much for joining us on this
Speaker 2: edition of Bucks Insider Live
Speaker 1: And we'll be back next time.