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Speaker 1: roll in, just uh starting off, we know that now.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, we're already starting to get some which is awesome.
Speaker 1: But um, we're we heard the news that Jamis is
Speaker 1: going to be the starter for this week, so I
Speaker 1: just want to hear your thoughts on what about that
Speaker 1: game and his performance lead you to believe that this
Speaker 1: really could be a good decision and and and turning
Speaker 1: point for him. Well, the only interception that he threw
Speaker 1: was was I think completely defensible. You your twenty three
Speaker 1: seconds left, no time outs, back in your own twenty
Speaker 1: taking a shot down the field of sewn. It was
Speaker 1: worth the try and there there was a very low
Speaker 1: percentage situation period, so it was worth to try. And
Speaker 1: I don't think you may blames him for that one.
Speaker 1: And otherwise, um, he protected the ball fairly well. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess we got lucky when he was forced to
Speaker 1: fumble into the end zone that ended up being a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But that's what it's all about. No matter who we've
Speaker 1: had under under center, it's been everybody can move the
Speaker 1: ball on and I mean those two guys can both
Speaker 1: move the ball on this team, but somebody's got to
Speaker 1: stop turning the ball over. And because that's the story
Speaker 1: of the season, playing and simple, and everybody knows that,
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you anything you don't know. The Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are native twenty three in turn of a ratio, which
Speaker 1: is worse in the NFL. Um and when you aren't
Speaker 1: generating any on offense on defense, you just can't. You
Speaker 1: got to match that on offense because you can't put
Speaker 1: yourself in a hole. But that's what the Bucks have
Speaker 1: done repeatedly this season, put themselves in a hole with
Speaker 1: the turnover problems, in the lack of takeaways, and then
Speaker 1: you know, have to frantically try to climb out of it.
Speaker 1: But as for going forward, um, it makes sense to
Speaker 1: me three and seven is not You're not eliminated from
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But it would be disingenuous of us to
Speaker 1: suggest that it's like Lee. It's a really tough path
Speaker 1: from three and seven to the playoffs. First of all,
Speaker 1: you gotta win out, there's no way, and even nine
Speaker 1: wins may not do it. So that's true. Um, I
Speaker 1: already saw. We had a question from Toby about if
Speaker 1: O J has gotten a second opinion on his ankle yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think what he meant. I think when he
Speaker 1: when Coach used the word second opinion opinion and his
Speaker 1: answer yesterday, I think what he meant was further testing
Speaker 1: and further examinations of the test are been done. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, when you hear the word second opinion, it's
Speaker 1: usually from a guy who got some injury or health
Speaker 1: news he didn't like and wants to go to another
Speaker 1: doctor and maybe possibly get a better answer. Solnder has
Speaker 1: a negative connotation to it. What they meant, what he
Speaker 1: meant was more tests or more examination of him, And
Speaker 1: uh no, we don't have that answer yet as of
Speaker 1: today's Tuesday. At one coach said yesterday that we probably
Speaker 1: wouldn't have the answer until at least late today or
Speaker 1: maybe even Wednesday morning. Uh And then, of course, because
Speaker 1: of the way the new cycle works here and when
Speaker 1: he speaks to the press, the first time he would
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to address that would be after practice
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, So that's probably when we're going to get
Speaker 1: our answer. It's obviously a big concern because of all
Speaker 1: the players who have made a huge step forward this year.
Speaker 1: I think he's probably the number one guy in his
Speaker 1: second season, and it's just looking to see him lose
Speaker 1: some opportunities to continue that growth. I know that we
Speaker 1: were trying to think, just starting to think about how
Speaker 1: we can maybe get this guy some more attention for
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl learning and so to derail that or
Speaker 1: or put a little hold on it is unfortunate. But
Speaker 1: you know, the injuries have started to pile up for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. So that's that's story number two about this season,
Speaker 1: and the the turnovers are the main thing, but the
Speaker 1: sort of piling up of injuries in recent weeks is
Speaker 1: on top of that made things even more difficult, right
Speaker 1: which Our next question is from David asking about Lavonte
Speaker 1: and Kindle back with and what we know about them. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: we know Kendall's not coming back this season, um, and
Speaker 1: I think that shouldn't come to as a huge surprise
Speaker 1: to anybody that's listened to us, because we've talked about it.
Speaker 1: I've tried to make a point of saying, even when
Speaker 1: they activated him and started that twenty one day window
Speaker 1: where he could practice with the team without counting against
Speaker 1: the roster, that was no guarantee that that meant at
Speaker 1: the end of that that window he would definitely be activated.
Speaker 1: They were hoping so, and actually I think they didn't
Speaker 1: start that that three week window with a really optimistic feeling.
Speaker 1: But as it went on, I saw a pretty good
Speaker 1: improvement from him, and by the end of it it
Speaker 1: was close. I think they were relatively close, but it
Speaker 1: just was determined that he's not going to be able
Speaker 1: to play just yet. So he's when you just when
Speaker 1: you make that decision, you either have to activate him
Speaker 1: and use a roster spot on him. What you're not
Speaker 1: gonna do if he's not gonna be playing or he
Speaker 1: stays on n f I for the rest of the year,
Speaker 1: and that's what's going to happen. So he uh, he
Speaker 1: will not play this season? Lavante is The answer is
Speaker 1: gonna be similar to O J and that our first
Speaker 1: real clue on that will be practice. What does he
Speaker 1: do in practice or not do on Wednesday? And then
Speaker 1: what's his status on the injury report after that? Okay,
Speaker 1: and Austin watching from Colorado love when people there we
Speaker 1: go that was we got one from Colorado wants to
Speaker 1: know what the team is going to do with Kwan
Speaker 1: and is a one year contract and option pay him
Speaker 1: his deal? Just how his injury affects what they might
Speaker 1: be able to do with his contract. Yeah, well that's
Speaker 1: the first thing that's gonna have to be determined. What's
Speaker 1: what's how what's the effect of this injury? Um, how
Speaker 1: long is the recovery and so on it. It certainly
Speaker 1: didn't come at a good time for him, regardless of
Speaker 1: what team he's going to be with us or another
Speaker 1: team in the future. But I would be surprised by
Speaker 1: a one year contract to be honest with you. I mean, um,
Speaker 1: you presume he is going to eventually recover from this
Speaker 1: injury and be the same player, And I don't think
Speaker 1: I don't think his side would want to do a
Speaker 1: one year deal. I guess the idea is it's it's
Speaker 1: a one year deal, I think while things are a
Speaker 1: little uncertain, and then you revisit it again later. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess the team wouldn't mind doing that, but I
Speaker 1: don't see why quand side would want to do that, right,
Speaker 1: Which is a very good point. And uh Nicholas was
Speaker 1: asking about the chances of our defense being able to
Speaker 1: give up fewer points, and I feel like this week
Speaker 1: in particular was interesting. I know we're gonna be talking
Speaker 1: to someone from the forty niners for our crossfire segment,
Speaker 1: and one of the things we're going to bring up
Speaker 1: to them as the idea of these two teams and
Speaker 1: the turnovers and lack of takeaways. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on this weekend in particular in terms of the Bucks
Speaker 1: ability to cut down on offensive turnovers and the ability
Speaker 1: to get a few more yes, so they have. It's
Speaker 1: a matchup of the two teams that are last in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Internover ratio. We're last there next, and then
Speaker 1: the two teams that have the fewest takeaways, we actually
Speaker 1: have one more than they two, if you can believe that. Um,
Speaker 1: it seems like it's impossible that we can only have
Speaker 1: six and yet they have one fewer. UM. So that
Speaker 1: still highlights the issue, though I agree, the chances of
Speaker 1: coming out on top and keeping from falling into a
Speaker 1: hole as the Bucks have done a lot, and and
Speaker 1: from hopefully as that listeners said, giving a fewer points
Speaker 1: is going to come down to not giving them easy
Speaker 1: scoring situations, not giving them a pick six. You know,
Speaker 1: one of the scores by the Giants was on defense
Speaker 1: and not giving them short fields, which was a problem
Speaker 1: against Washington. So it's still gonna be it's still gonna
Speaker 1: be turnovers. And that's that's what it is. You know.
Speaker 1: The fact of the matter is the Buccaneers are very
Speaker 1: banged up on defense, especially in the middle, which will
Speaker 1: be in particular problem in it's their leading receiver, uh,
Speaker 1: George Kittle, the tied end. But you know, Washington the
Speaker 1: fewest yards and points we've allowed, and that was with
Speaker 1: these guys injured, and then this last game. Um, obviously
Speaker 1: it wasn't good but points wise, but again one of
Speaker 1: those was a pick six, and the yardage total allowed
Speaker 1: three and fifty nine is one of the lower ones.
Speaker 1: The last couple of weeks there have been some signs
Speaker 1: of good defense. Don't think you can quite say good
Speaker 1: defense just yet, but it's possible. And then the same friend,
Speaker 1: not the most dynamic office. They do run the ball
Speaker 1: very very well. There. They have a young quarterback who's
Speaker 1: looked promising and Nick Mullins buddy is a guy who
Speaker 1: started two games. So it stacks up as a game
Speaker 1: that if you can stop the run, you might have
Speaker 1: a chance to have one of your better defensive efforts. Okay,
Speaker 1: And I saw someone brought up the idea of purposefully
Speaker 1: playing the quarterbacks part of the game, of that being
Speaker 1: your game plan. That was my idea, and yeah, and
Speaker 1: so I wanted to hear the thoughts of somebody actually
Speaker 1: had this name. Yes, pro pros and cons of this
Speaker 1: idea of you know, and I think a lot of
Speaker 1: Sampa they raised fans especially, have been making them Harrison's
Speaker 1: to this idea. The raids, the way they kept doing
Speaker 1: what did they call them and called them openers, I
Speaker 1: think instead of starters. Yeah, you know, the revolution in baseball,
Speaker 1: and some teams really um embraced it with uh you know,
Speaker 1: less traditional starter roles. And the game that came to
Speaker 1: mind to me was Game five of the Dodgers Brewers
Speaker 1: series in the playoffs when the Dodge when the Brewers
Speaker 1: started a guy I think it was Wade Miley and
Speaker 1: let him pitch to one batter and then as plan
Speaker 1: pulled him and put in a picture, who threw the
Speaker 1: opposite So is either going from right here or lefty
Speaker 1: or vice versa in order to get them in order
Speaker 1: to get the Brewers, the Dodgers to um uh start
Speaker 1: with a certain lineup right and then not want to
Speaker 1: have tom at least about it's not the same thing
Speaker 1: in football. But I was really just joking. But I thought,
Speaker 1: since the second guy that comes in has generally done
Speaker 1: very well after the first guy had turnover problems. We're
Speaker 1: talking about Fitzpatrick and Winston, Um, why don't we just
Speaker 1: start one of them and then before we have to
Speaker 1: deal with the turnover problems, go to the second guy,
Speaker 1: like after one series, and just start Adam Humphreys. Let
Speaker 1: throw one pass, he's our emergency quarterback. And then put
Speaker 1: in Winston or Fitzpatrick. Let's see if that works. That's
Speaker 1: pretty funny. I'm just never going to do that. Probably not.
Speaker 1: There's a reason teams have not typically done this in
Speaker 1: the past. I guess Paul said the offensive line has
Speaker 1: had some struggles this year. Is there any chance they
Speaker 1: take a look at Alex Kappa to actually get in there.
Speaker 1: I mean there's a chance, but um, I don't think so. Probably. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the guy that's been active since Evan Smith
Speaker 1: went on interro Reserve, the guy that's been active as
Speaker 1: your extra interior guy is Mike Lidkey, So I would
Speaker 1: think he'd be the next one that would get a look. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know that coach has talked about that on the
Speaker 1: radio show several times, that it is so much about
Speaker 1: the fact that you can only have seven active on
Speaker 1: game day and basically one has to be able to
Speaker 1: play all three interior positions, and that Alex is still
Speaker 1: learning the center position. More so, it's not just about
Speaker 1: at guard, it's who can really do the most in
Speaker 1: terms of being able to move to all the different positions.
Speaker 1: Somebody asked him, I think it was last week, early
Speaker 1: last week, what the contingency plan is because you have
Speaker 1: one at center, and he listed three. This is coach
Speaker 1: caut and the third one was Kappa. But he said
Speaker 1: that's like the distant third, that's the one that has
Speaker 1: to come the farthest. So I think that's the answer there.
Speaker 1: Let me know if we have any Adam Humphreys questions,
Speaker 1: because I got a nice little note to throw out there.
Speaker 1: Oh well, then just go ahead throw it out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I I don't know, I haven't got a
Speaker 1: scroll through all of them, or We're behind a little
Speaker 1: bit of questions as I'm reading some of them, but yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: go for it. Okay. So I just got this. One
Speaker 1: of the PR guys had looked this up. And this
Speaker 1: may surprise you that in the last six or since
Speaker 1: we came back in Week six from the bye, in
Speaker 1: that spanning games, and I'm Humphries is fifteenth in the
Speaker 1: NFL and receiving yards. Would you guess that receiver in
Speaker 1: the NFL in that span right there? I mean, I al,
Speaker 1: he's done well. I mean we've all been talking about
Speaker 1: how Adam is is. Really it's good for him because
Speaker 1: he's going to become a free agent. Yeah, which the
Speaker 1: timing is fantastic because he's playing fantastic. Fantastic for him,
Speaker 1: maybe not great for the Bucks all of a sudden
Speaker 1: now where they're gonna have to step their game up
Speaker 1: if they want to keep him exactly man good for him,
Speaker 1: he's like so sneaky good. I feel like, like you
Speaker 1: said that, you wouldn't think he's done the well. And
Speaker 1: I almost feel like that's why he's so successful, as
Speaker 1: he's sneaky good, even to the defense that they're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: this guy, we've got so much to worry about all
Speaker 1: these other wide reisa right well, and then he does
Speaker 1: a lot of little things well, like remember a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago when he made that amazing diving like leaping
Speaker 1: diving catch on a slant and traffic. I mean, everybody's like,
Speaker 1: was that Adam Humphries. My goodness, he's even better than
Speaker 1: we thought. And then in this last game he broke
Speaker 1: he came back and made a good effort to break
Speaker 1: up what could have been an interception. That's that's something
Speaker 1: you like to see from your receivers too. So he
Speaker 1: does a lot of the little things right as well.
Speaker 1: Alex from Punta Punta Gorda, Florida. I think um wonders
Speaker 1: why Ryan Griffin hasn't gotten a chance yet. Well, mainly
Speaker 1: because and I think they're still in this mode. The
Speaker 1: Buccaneers right up through last game, I've been trying to
Speaker 1: win their trying to get back in the playoff race.
Speaker 1: Now we already said that's unlikely at three and seven,
Speaker 1: but that's what they've been trying to do. And you
Speaker 1: have already had two guys that have demonstrated that they
Speaker 1: can really produce a lot on this offense. Obviously the
Speaker 1: turnovers have been the problem, and Ryan Griffin would be
Speaker 1: the unproven option there. So if you're trying to win games,
Speaker 1: you've got two guys that, if they could just clean
Speaker 1: up the turner issues, are a lot more proven and experience,
Speaker 1: why would you go to your third option? Now? I
Speaker 1: think that question is can be asked a lot more
Speaker 1: going forward, and maybe there's maybe there's a chance for that.
Speaker 1: But that's why it hasn't happened to this point. Um.
Speaker 1: I've seen some people bringing up Peyton Barber and how
Speaker 1: well he played, but there was this scen area that
Speaker 1: we didn't run him on, you know, some fourth and one.
Speaker 1: There were just some some things that fourth down, so
Speaker 1: thoughts on his performance last week and some of the
Speaker 1: ways that they did and did not use him. I'm
Speaker 1: glad that Payton got that hundred yard game, yeah, because
Speaker 1: I feel like in the previous three or four outings
Speaker 1: for him, he was running very well, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the game, the numbers would be like sixty
Speaker 1: one yards or seven yards, and he'd have a nice
Speaker 1: per carry like four point seven or something, but they
Speaker 1: weren't numbers that jumped out on you. But then it
Speaker 1: was really situational, Like in the Washington game, he basically
Speaker 1: didn't play in the fourth quarter and we were playing
Speaker 1: quiz as your third down back, good past protector, good
Speaker 1: pass catcher on the backfield, and so his numbers end
Speaker 1: up being like sixty one yards or so. This one,
Speaker 1: there was more opportunity for him throughout the game, and
Speaker 1: he really took advantage of it. And so he I
Speaker 1: think personally that he has progressed to a notable degree
Speaker 1: in terms of how dynamic is a run as a runner.
Speaker 1: You know, early on it was like he'll get you
Speaker 1: four yards, he'll fall forward, he'll make some arative to contact.
Speaker 1: But I thought he had some nice cuts in that
Speaker 1: last game open field moves. Uh So I thought it
Speaker 1: was a nice thing for him. And the fourth and
Speaker 1: one that I'm thinking of was the one on our
Speaker 1: very first drive of the game, which first of all,
Speaker 1: I totally believe was the right decision. Um and it
Speaker 1: did end up being a shootout game, Um, I thought
Speaker 1: it was, and I thought the call was right. I
Speaker 1: always think if you're inches away, the quarterback sneak works
Speaker 1: of the time. I still think that's true. I think
Speaker 1: if we ran that play ten times, we'd make it
Speaker 1: eight or nine times. They got us on that one.
Speaker 1: They they beat us on that play. But I think
Speaker 1: the call was right. And I don't personally like on
Speaker 1: fourth and inches taking the ball back a few ards
Speaker 1: and handing off to the running back because making it
Speaker 1: four and three just making it harder. I mean, he
Speaker 1: can get a running start, but there's all you see
Speaker 1: a lot of those fourth and shorts where your hand
Speaker 1: off and because there's time for a defender to make
Speaker 1: a great play, he sometimes gets him in the backfield
Speaker 1: and there's no shot. When you do a quarterback sneak,
Speaker 1: you've always got a shot and you generally make it.
Speaker 1: And also now the rules are the running back if
Speaker 1: you're in a single back set and your quarterback sneaks,
Speaker 1: the running back can't run up and push and that
Speaker 1: often helps too. So if your hand off, you got
Speaker 1: nobody to run up behind the running back and push
Speaker 1: if it's a mess. So I think the quarterback sneak
Speaker 1: is the perfect call. If there was another fourth and one, um,
Speaker 1: I don't really recall it. I mean, I guess the
Speaker 1: touchdown that fits ran in. It was a fourth down,
Speaker 1: But that was an interesting call that was I wouldn't
Speaker 1: want to see. I thought we're gonna throw on fourth
Speaker 1: and one, and it looked like it was a designed
Speaker 1: run for Fitzpatrick to pause for a second and run
Speaker 1: up the middle, and then when that didn't develop, he
Speaker 1: kind of had to make it up and he ran
Speaker 1: around the end and I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: run around there and throw. We had one guy in
Speaker 1: the end zone that was a potential targ there, but
Speaker 1: he thought he could get in and he did. Uh
Speaker 1: And Michael, there's two parts of his question. One I
Speaker 1: know we're not going to be able to answer because
Speaker 1: he talks about any potential big name free agents we
Speaker 1: can sign in the off seasons. This is where we
Speaker 1: give our disclaimer that because we worked with the team,
Speaker 1: we're not really allowed talk to individual people. All there
Speaker 1: still under contract. So I've seen a few different questions
Speaker 1: about potential free agents. And that's why if you're one
Speaker 1: of the people asked talking about that in November, I
Speaker 1: know that's that's also very true. But he said, what
Speaker 1: is the cap space going to look like next year?
Speaker 1: Then I wish that I had had a little time
Speaker 1: to uh prepare between next week I've come back to
Speaker 1: watch we can. My understanding is we have a decent
Speaker 1: amount of cap space, but there are a couple of
Speaker 1: potential moves that that if we made them, could put
Speaker 1: us in a whole lot of cap space. But I
Speaker 1: also I was reading that in an article. I also
Speaker 1: read that there are a lot of teams with a
Speaker 1: lot of cap space, and because you have to spend
Speaker 1: and I remember the exact number of of the cap
Speaker 1: in a I think three or four year window. You
Speaker 1: don't have to do it every year, but by the
Speaker 1: end of that window, you have to have spent that.
Speaker 1: And there are a number of teams that are in
Speaker 1: position going into this offseason where they pretty much have
Speaker 1: to sign, they have to spend somebody they can resign
Speaker 1: their own people. They don't have to bring somebody else in.
Speaker 1: But there are some teams that are gonna have a
Speaker 1: lot of cast space and a motivation to spend it.
Speaker 1: So I think there will be a lot of competition
Speaker 1: for the really good UM free agent. So I'll answer
Speaker 1: that question by saying, Hey, let's resign Adam huntreason Court.
Speaker 1: There you go. I like that. All right, that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us. In this edition of Buccaneers Inside
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