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Speaker 1: those in big news of the week the change at
Speaker 1: quarterback or the announcement at quarterback for Carolina, So just
Speaker 1: your initial thoughts on what that's going to mean for
Speaker 1: this team going into a very important divisional game. It
Speaker 1: seems like we have one of these big announcements every
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, doesn't it. We have the defensives lively
Speaker 1: for us, you know. Yeah, So, as everybody obviously already knows,
Speaker 1: Um dark Cutter didn't decide to hold onto the mystery
Speaker 1: throughout the week and told everybody on Monday that he
Speaker 1: has decided that Ryan Fitzpatrick will go back to starting.
Speaker 1: This comes after Jamis Winston's for interception performance in UH
Speaker 1: Cincinnati that got him pulled late in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: and when Ryan Fitzpatrick came in, he did well. Now,
Speaker 1: if you look at the numbers of these two guys,
Speaker 1: and you look at our overall offensive numbers, you can
Speaker 1: see that both James Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick are fully
Speaker 1: capable of moving this team up and down the field,
Speaker 1: and if throwing touchdown passes. The difference rather obviously is turnovers.
Speaker 1: And Jamis has ten interceptions in about three and a
Speaker 1: half games, and you just can't win that way. Does
Speaker 1: that mean Jameis Winston won't ever rebound from this problem. No,
Speaker 1: but right now, when it happens week after week, it's
Speaker 1: it's kind of a pretty obvious decision, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you. You've got two guys that are fully capable
Speaker 1: of moving this offense and one of them is stuck
Speaker 1: in some some turnover problems, and you just you can't
Speaker 1: keep going on that way right now? At least that's
Speaker 1: a great point. Um. J already wanted to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the defense as well, so I know
Speaker 1: we'll come back to I'm sure there's gonna be plenty
Speaker 1: of questions about the quarterback situation, so I'll go ahead
Speaker 1: and get Jay's question in here. He says, what needs
Speaker 1: to happen for the defense to improve, Well, it already has.
Speaker 1: It already has, And um, you saw that obviously in
Speaker 1: the in the Cleveland game and in second half at
Speaker 1: Cincinnati it was actually really really good, you know, except
Speaker 1: for that final drive. And you know, great players like A. J.
Speaker 1: Green are going to occasionally make great plays. But other
Speaker 1: than that, they were practically they didn't procatically give up
Speaker 1: nothing the entire second half. Now you can't just wash
Speaker 1: away the first half. That happened and they had three
Speaker 1: seven yards in that half. But um, what's going to
Speaker 1: need to happen for the Bucks more consistently put up
Speaker 1: a good defensive results, and it's gonna right back to
Speaker 1: we're just talking about. Is turnomers just not getting any
Speaker 1: at all. I mean we are negative thirteen I believe
Speaker 1: in turnovers and we have one in the last four games. Uh,
Speaker 1: and that was on special teams. The defense has not
Speaker 1: created a turnover since the first quarter of Week three,
Speaker 1: which is almost Yeah, I'm not even necessarily commenting on
Speaker 1: how good or bad they are at that. It's just amazing.
Speaker 1: The luck just isn't even there. That so much about
Speaker 1: turnovers can be flukey of a tipped pass here there,
Speaker 1: and are there guys in the area where it gets
Speaker 1: tipto that it's just so frustrating. I had Carlton Davis
Speaker 1: on the radio show last night and I asked him
Speaker 1: about this idea of are they as fluky as as
Speaker 1: we kind of think they are? You know, how much
Speaker 1: can you guys be striving to improve on turnovers? And
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, interceptions are not something that you can
Speaker 1: typically be like, Okay, we're going to do this in
Speaker 1: this to get more interceptions, right, But he said that
Speaker 1: they could do a better job of trying to make
Speaker 1: plays on the ball to force fumbles. Yeah, And so
Speaker 1: he was saying that's something that he thinks that they've
Speaker 1: been working a lot on and that is going to
Speaker 1: be an even bigger point of inferences because you can't
Speaker 1: control the interceptions as much that they're going to be
Speaker 1: really trying very hard to make plays on the ball.
Speaker 1: Five of our six turnovers are fumble recoveries. And one
Speaker 1: guy who's really really good at that is Lavonte David.
Speaker 1: And he told me once that there is some I
Speaker 1: don't know, science or technique to it. One of the
Speaker 1: things in for instance, that he always tries to do,
Speaker 1: and I actually saw him try it in this last game.
Speaker 1: He just didn't quite get his hand in there in time.
Speaker 1: Is a running back is going to when he's about
Speaker 1: hit the ground, he's a foot or two off the ground,
Speaker 1: he instinctively he's going to take one hand off the
Speaker 1: ball and put his hand on the ground, and that's
Speaker 1: when Lavonte tries to punch it out at that moment.
Speaker 1: He obviously has done that many times in his career,
Speaker 1: and he's very good at that. And I'm sure he
Speaker 1: and the coaches have shared that with Carlton and all
Speaker 1: the young players. So it's good that they'll be trying that.
Speaker 1: But even then, you can't count on it right now.
Speaker 1: And plus, interceptions tend to I mean, if you get
Speaker 1: an interception, there's a much better chance you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a chance to return it. I mean sometimes you see
Speaker 1: fumble's return, but lots of times it's just a big
Speaker 1: scrum and you want to make sure you fall on
Speaker 1: it right. You catch a turn, you catch an interception
Speaker 1: on the run like the Beagles did to us on
Speaker 1: their last one, and you might score. So you I agree,
Speaker 1: And obviously he would know better than I there's no Hey,
Speaker 1: if we do A and we do B, we're gonna
Speaker 1: start getting more interceptions. But the coverage can be tighter,
Speaker 1: the pass rush can be more effective. It hasn't been bad,
Speaker 1: but it can be more effective and cause some um
Speaker 1: errant passes, some hurried passes, or some bad decisions, and
Speaker 1: all of that can create can increase your opportunities maybe
Speaker 1: for interceptions, you know what I'm saying. And then also
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right about the tip pass this thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was one in Cincinnati where it looked like three
Speaker 1: of our guys might have a shot at it, and it
Speaker 1: it just kind of falls right in between all of
Speaker 1: them and they're all diving for it. But we throw
Speaker 1: up an interception. We throw a pass off a guy's
Speaker 1: helmet and the end zone and it goes straight up
Speaker 1: in the air like a infield pop up with four
Speaker 1: defenders around. So it's that part is definitely flukey, and
Speaker 1: it would be nice to see luck change in our
Speaker 1: direction a little bit. That would be very handy. Chris
Speaker 1: wants to know if you think there are any chances
Speaker 1: of us trading Jamis. I feel like we had to that.
Speaker 1: I've seen so many different versions of a trade questions
Speaker 1: in general, which we always like to give the caveat
Speaker 1: that we can't really speculate about other teams individual players
Speaker 1: because we do work for the team. So I was
Speaker 1: like giving that caveat. But he asked about us trading Jamis,
Speaker 1: and I wanted to hear your thoughts. No, because the
Speaker 1: trade deadline is today at four o'clock and you just
Speaker 1: decided to make this move. And you didn't say, or
Speaker 1: Coach Cutter didn't say, didn't specifically say this is permanent.
Speaker 1: And by permanent, I mean the rest of this season, um,
Speaker 1: he said. And he didn't, you know, And and of
Speaker 1: course this doesn't necessarily mean it has to be with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, but he does believe Jamis will get another
Speaker 1: chance and he can't succeed in the NFL. And you
Speaker 1: also might be thinking long term, I mean, how long
Speaker 1: are you going to have Ryan Fitzpatrick? How long does
Speaker 1: he want to keep playing? That sort of thing. So
Speaker 1: I would find it hard to believe that be between
Speaker 1: the decision. I mean, you still started him on Sunday,
Speaker 1: that was two days ago. You started Jameis Winston. That
Speaker 1: was the guy you wanted in there now because of
Speaker 1: what happened as a Monday, you made the decision to
Speaker 1: switch at least for this week and probably more than that.
Speaker 1: But is that enough time for you've decided completely on
Speaker 1: how you feel about his future with the team. It
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it to me, so I would be
Speaker 1: very surprised, very surprised. Um, we had a question about
Speaker 1: the rumors that came out before the game about DeShawn
Speaker 1: Jackson wanting a trade, and now we have some questions
Speaker 1: asking if fits starting would seemingly change that. And now, granted,
Speaker 1: of course, we don't know the rumors of that, of
Speaker 1: the truth to the idea of him wanting to trade,
Speaker 1: So we want to preface it with that that we
Speaker 1: do not have information on that. But I think the
Speaker 1: larger ideas are there certain guys that now we can
Speaker 1: expect to see more from or less from with the
Speaker 1: quarterback switch of who are the guys that really we
Speaker 1: could see a big game from in Carolina as that
Speaker 1: maybe because of the different guys that they seem to
Speaker 1: have chemistry with. You know, I'm sure a lot of
Speaker 1: the people, especially playing fantasy out there, would love some
Speaker 1: some thoughts on who we can expect to have some
Speaker 1: some big and smaller games. Yeah, to start with the
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson trade rumors, which I don't believe he confirmed,
Speaker 1: and on the day of the game, both Dirk and
Speaker 1: Jason light said they had no knowledge of that. So,
Speaker 1: but the point is moot because Jason had subsequently said
Speaker 1: that Deshaun is gonna be here for the rest of
Speaker 1: the year, right, So it's really a mood point. If
Speaker 1: we ever find out if he really did ask for
Speaker 1: that or not, it's it doesn't matter because it's not
Speaker 1: gonna happen, at least to take um Jason's one statement
Speaker 1: at face value on that. Uh, yeah, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: DeShawn has had more success when Fitzpatrick's been in there
Speaker 1: on the deep ball, although as you saw, James did
Speaker 1: hit him on that sixty yarder. I mean, if I
Speaker 1: were DeShawn, I'd be I would have been feeling good
Speaker 1: about that. I'm like, maybe we got this figured out.
Speaker 1: But I bet you he's happy. I know he. I
Speaker 1: think he came out and said towards the end of
Speaker 1: that first run for Fits that Fits should remain the starter.
Speaker 1: So I imagine that he's happy. And and whether or
Speaker 1: not that one sixty yarder from Jamis was a sign
Speaker 1: that was going to start working out between them. We
Speaker 1: already know that it's working out between Fits and Sean,
Speaker 1: so I you know, we're putting ourselves in his shoes here.
Speaker 1: I don't want to speak for him, but theoretically it
Speaker 1: would make sense that he would feel good about this move. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know the guy on the flip side that seems
Speaker 1: to get more when Jamis is in there than than
Speaker 1: Ryan is camp. Right, that's just kind of the way
Speaker 1: it's gone. I don't know. I don't in any way
Speaker 1: believe that Ryan Fitzpatrick is trying not to share the
Speaker 1: Harvard glory with his former or with his fellow Harvard guy. Uh,
Speaker 1: but it just has worked out that way otherwise. You know,
Speaker 1: I think everybody, Mike Evans and O J and Chris Gotwan,
Speaker 1: they've all been producing, and Adam Humphreys, no matter who's
Speaker 1: in there. Right. Yeah, that's a great point. Um, we
Speaker 1: do you think Ryan Fitzpatrick would be a good pick
Speaker 1: up in fantasy right now? It's very true. Uh. Matt
Speaker 1: asked this question. I've seen several other people ask it
Speaker 1: just in general. We talked about specific somebody asked about
Speaker 1: Jami's potentially being it a bit. Matt just said, do
Speaker 1: you expect us to make any moves today? Have seen
Speaker 1: several people asking the generic do we make moves today?
Speaker 1: I'm sure that anybody who has watched this before, we'll
Speaker 1: probably get tired of me saying the same thing. To
Speaker 1: start with, when it comes to trades, they're not that common.
Speaker 1: They do happen, but they're not. If you divide them
Speaker 1: by thirty two teams, how many teams actually make moves,
Speaker 1: and then how many of those moves are actually impactful?
Speaker 1: You know, I can't think of I don't think I
Speaker 1: can think of one that we've made an attempt to
Speaker 1: go for it training for somebody that really made a difference.
Speaker 1: I mean, one year we were having we were a
Speaker 1: playoff contender, and we're having all kinds of problems with
Speaker 1: running back injuries, and we've got Michael Bennett, not to
Speaker 1: Michael Bennett defenseman, but a running back, and it didn't
Speaker 1: really end up making much difference. So we have I
Speaker 1: do think one thing you can do impactfully at the
Speaker 1: trade deadlines if you're a seller and you can get
Speaker 1: something for a guy that maybe was going to leave
Speaker 1: at the end of free agency, anyway, So there are
Speaker 1: opportunities out there, particularly because there have been two teams
Speaker 1: that have clearly demonstrated, the Giants and the Raiders, that
Speaker 1: they are willing to trade guys and that they're in
Speaker 1: a rebooting mode. Whether they want to say it or not,
Speaker 1: they're clearly doing so, especially the Raiders. So, like you
Speaker 1: said before, because we're team employees and we're talking about
Speaker 1: speculating about guys coming here that are under COUNTRCYT elsewhere,
Speaker 1: is technically tampering. I'm not gonna say specific names, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I usually say and I don't think it's possible,
Speaker 1: but I think it's possible. I still think the chances
Speaker 1: are pretty low, but I don't think it's possible. You could, um,
Speaker 1: you could maybe make a move at corner or safety
Speaker 1: or linebacker, although um, we need to wait and see
Speaker 1: what happens with Kendall Beck with if he returns to
Speaker 1: practice and is possibly coming back to the roster. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you'd prefer to get a guy, a middle linebacker type,
Speaker 1: guy who already knows the system over bringing something different,
Speaker 1: so we could end up getting help from within there.
Speaker 1: I want to hear your answer on this. I think
Speaker 1: this is interesting. I've heard a few people debating it.
Speaker 1: Tim asked, what about a quarterback by committee approach that
Speaker 1: doesn't work in anyway? And why? In general? Why is that?
Speaker 1: I think it's an interesting You've heard the phrase before
Speaker 1: if you if you have three quarter you have no quarterbacks, right.
Speaker 1: I just think that's interesting. Well, you know you do
Speaker 1: quarter I could see, you know, in college. I think
Speaker 1: some of it has to do with a guy. Maybe
Speaker 1: I haven't seeniority, but the young guy is better and
Speaker 1: they're trying to figure out when to make that transition.
Speaker 1: Or you have two different styles and you know you
Speaker 1: could have I suppose like if you were Baltimore, maybe
Speaker 1: use Lamar Jackson when you wanted to use some packages
Speaker 1: that involved more running than Joe Flacco. But both of
Speaker 1: our guys tend to move around better than you expect.
Speaker 1: Jami's people don't think he's a good runner, but the
Speaker 1: numbers kind of show that he is pretty decent. And
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is what thirty five or something, so you think, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna slow down, but he's running the ball well too.
Speaker 1: They both seem to be able to make all the
Speaker 1: throws still, so I'm not sure stylistically, what would be
Speaker 1: the difference to make you want to platoon why? Why
Speaker 1: would you want to do that? And you want you
Speaker 1: guys to get in the flow of a game, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's a good point. Nick asked what is the
Speaker 1: severity of Vita's injury? That was sort of an interesting
Speaker 1: thing that came out of the press contract And we
Speaker 1: don't know the exact severity and we'll find out a
Speaker 1: Wednesday when we see what his practice status is, but
Speaker 1: we know it's good news. Um. It was funny the
Speaker 1: way Dirt Putters, Dirk Cutter put it in his press conference.
Speaker 1: You said, I think it's the first time in history
Speaker 1: that an m R R result has come back with
Speaker 1: positive news. You know, so, uh, that's not totally true obviously,
Speaker 1: but you do when doctors are so good at an
Speaker 1: initial um evaluation of what the injury could be. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they can tell just do a little wiggle
Speaker 1: with a knee and go, I think you're a sal
Speaker 1: Strnet and then you go get the m R and
Speaker 1: your a sal Storn. This time, I think there was
Speaker 1: some fear that he had a significant injury, maybe an
Speaker 1: a c L and the m r A show that's
Speaker 1: not the case, and Dirk said he was moving around
Speaker 1: well on Monday, so all that is good news and
Speaker 1: we'll find out just how good on Wednesday. But everybody
Speaker 1: seemed pretty up a upbeat about it, right, which is
Speaker 1: a great point. Um, Matthew wanted to know, do you
Speaker 1: think we'll get to see Ryan Griffin get some action
Speaker 1: this season at all? I don't think so. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: only if the season went down the drain, you know,
Speaker 1: which we obviously don't want to happen. You know, Dirk
Speaker 1: has consistently said the only thing that Ryan's his experience,
Speaker 1: But that's kind of a catch twoint two, because how
Speaker 1: do you get that guy experience when he doesn't have
Speaker 1: it already and you don't want to go to the
Speaker 1: experienced guy. But um, you know this team believe me
Speaker 1: that nobody upstairs or in the coaches after the locker
Speaker 1: room has given up on this seasons. It's three and
Speaker 1: four with more than half the season to go and
Speaker 1: four division games to go, right, so there's no reason
Speaker 1: to give up on this season. And when Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: has shown that he can get the job done, what
Speaker 1: would actually be the point of going to ryand Griffin
Speaker 1: right now, maybe if we lose six games in Rome
Speaker 1: or three and ten, ask again, right yeah? Um Abel
Speaker 1: asked if are we going to see Joe Dirt play,
Speaker 1: meaning Riley Bulla. Do you feel like he's somebody we
Speaker 1: brought back after those linebacker injuries. Do you think he's
Speaker 1: gonna end up playing part here? It's a decent question
Speaker 1: because you you you started your response to losing Kwon
Speaker 1: by moving in Darius to the middle and DeVante Bond
Speaker 1: to the strong side. And I don't think that Devonte
Speaker 1: Bond played a whole lot in that game, and I
Speaker 1: have to look at the snap counts, but we were
Speaker 1: in Nickel for a very large part of that game.
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure there's been enough evaluation yet on
Speaker 1: those two guys decide that is or is not the answer.
Speaker 1: So um, you could conceivably see them try DeVante Bond
Speaker 1: for a couple of games, and if they don't like
Speaker 1: how it's going, try Riley Buller there again, though, that
Speaker 1: strong side linebacker role isn't a really huge role in
Speaker 1: the defense, so at the moment, I don't think so,
Speaker 1: but it's certainly within the Roman possibility. Now, as I mentioned,
Speaker 1: if Kendall Beckwood can come back, that kind of pushes
Speaker 1: everybody down the depth chart a little bit. Okay. Uh.
Speaker 1: We had another question asking if we noticed any difference
Speaker 1: in the defense, even if it's small, with Duffner as
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Well, he said that they have simplified it
Speaker 1: and they actually started that the week before Duffner took
Speaker 1: over for Mike Smith. But that appears to be helping.
Speaker 1: Some want the young cornerbacks with the simplified coverage options. Um,
Speaker 1: so there's that. I think in general, the coverage has
Speaker 1: been better. Otherwise, it's just the stuff you can't quantify.
Speaker 1: Like the guys are saying they're they're playing hard every play,
Speaker 1: that kind of thing. So does it look like it
Speaker 1: to you on TV? Does it look like it's me
Speaker 1: a little bit? Maybe, But it's impossible to quantify, right,
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