WEBVTT - Franchise Tag Options & Most Important Free Agents | Bucs Insider 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:07.720 Good morning, Bucks fans. How's everyone doing that, Casey Phillips. 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:10.600 Here was senior writer and editor Scott Smith, And as always, 0:00:10.640 --> 0:00:13.800 this is Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller Lte, where 0:00:13.800 --> 0:00:16.560 we take your questions, thoughts, comments, all of that. I 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:18.279 always love the show in the off season because there's 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.480 so much for us to talk about in terms of 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:23.880 free agency and draft and a lot of potentials. You 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.880 know that instead of breaking down individual games or plays 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:28.440 or things like that, we get to kind of be 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.320 a little bit more hypothetical and look at the big 0:00:30.360 --> 0:00:33.000 picture here. So as we get people chance to start 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.440 asking some of those questions and tell us what's on 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.720 their mind. I know that we sort of wrote an 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:39.720 interesting point in the calendar when it comes especially to 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:42.360 the franchise tag. So tell everybody a little bit about 0:00:42.360 --> 0:00:44.320 the timing of what all is going on at this 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.800 point in the year and when we might know some things. Yeah, 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.599 when you win the Super Bowl, these things come up 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.680 on you fast. Uh, usually you're writing about in a 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.160 few weeks. This is gonna happen. It's already upon us. 0:00:55.440 --> 0:00:59.160 Yesterday was the beginning of the two week window in 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:03.440 which teams can use franchise or transition tags. It ends 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.479 on March nine. That always is supposed to end eight 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.720 days before the start of free agency. Obviously, UM free 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:11.679 agents need some time to plan for free agency based 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.720 upon whether or not they have that tag or not. UM. 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.480 You know, the Buccaneers last year used it on Shack Buried. 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.760 Everybody knows that, and just as a reminder, they waited 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:23.360 until the very last day of that window to actually 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.119 put that tag on officially, which makes sense. You might 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.959 as well just continue negotiating on a possible long term 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.399 deal until the last minute and then that franchise tag 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.120 off and serves as basically a way to extend that 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.479 exclusive window. It didn't work out in terms of getting 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:39.920 shocked to a long term deal last year. Both sides 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:41.880 think that had a lot to do with the pandemic 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:45.000 that just made everything difficult. Uh So now we're back 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.960 needing another contract for Shack, so he's an option, although 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.840 his um his salary would be very high on the 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:53.440 tag because it would be of what he got last year. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:56.880 You got Chris Godwin, Levante, David, a bunch of a 0:01:56.880 --> 0:01:59.320 bunch of guys that could be candidates. And I know 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.320 that Chris God was definitely one a lot of people 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.480 have talked about. And he was on the Pat McAfee 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.200 show yesterday and was asked, of course about free agency 0:02:06.240 --> 0:02:08.640 and all of his decisions and what did it sound 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.160 like in terms of, um, what could happen with him? 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.320 And overall if you just look at this team, you know, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:14.960 how many of these free agents do you think it's 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.160 feasible we could keep? And who would the franchise tag 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:20.880 maybe makes the most sense for well, I think in 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.239 terms of how many we keep, you know, there's twenty 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.160 four free agents. Obviously there's there's a subset that's a 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:28.720 higher priority, and uh, I think it was maybe on 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:32.640 a serious show recently coach Arean said that there's six 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.480 guys he didn't say which that are the biggest priority, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.079 and that they hope they can keep at least five 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.680 of them. Obviously six would be the best, But um, 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.959 I think I probably named most of them there. You 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.480 could probably also throw into that group, Ryan suck Up, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.440 Leonard for Nett, Rob Gronkowski, Antonio Brown. Um, I hope 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.239 I didn't forget anybody, and Dominican sue if I didn't 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:53.440 already say that one. Um, you know the most likely 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.080 guy probably for the tag is Chris Godwin. And yeah, 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.520 he said a number of things that, frankly, is what 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:01.160 you would expect him to say. Um, he's a he's 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:04.000 a great player about to get his first big payday, 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.760 which is a big moment in a great player's career. 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.400 And he's also a very smart guy. And he's a 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.600 guy coming off of a world championship that believes this 0:03:13.639 --> 0:03:15.519 is a team that could chase more of them. And 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.200 he said a number of things including, you know, this 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:18.600 is his chance to get paid and that's what you 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.640 play for, and of course he said that, and he 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.680 also said he likes it here, and he said he 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.200 wouldn't take a little bit more to go to a 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:27.480 place where he'd be miserable, So you know, he's not 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.760 gonna it doesn't sound like he would just chase the 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.919 absolute highest contract, regardless of where it was. And those 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.960 kind of things I think should give you optimism as 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:37.840 a Buccaneers fan. And just a reminder everybody, if you 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:40.080 have questions for us, you can put them any comments 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:44.360 section of the live video on Facebook. Um, and I 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:46.800 just wanted to hear a little bit about the way 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.400 that this team was structured and we we think of 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:51.320 it as the individual guys, but are there may be 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:54.560 positions that would be more important to try to hang 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:57.280 onto that player based on trying to replace them. You 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.840 know that instead of looking at it as just that 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.880 guy individually, UM, looking at it a little bit in 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.000 that direction. Yeah. I think I might have said this 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:09.320 before when trying to determine which of these all these 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.600 free agents you most want to get back. You know, 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:14.240 you got to look at both Lavante and Shack because 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.280 I think they would be difficult to replace. Um, you know, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.560 Shack sack totals, he missed the last game of the year. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.480 I think he went down to maybe he went from 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.400 nineteen point five leading the NFL down to eight or 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:29.599 nine this year, but the peripheral stats like pressures show 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:31.680 it he was just as good. So you're talking about 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:33.200 one of the better pass rushers in the league, and 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:35.719 those are hard to find and we would be very 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.040 difficult to replace. You might feel a little bit better 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.599 about it if you were picking in the top ten, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.960 even although this isn't a great year for pass rushers, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:45.279 but it's gonna be hard to find a guy that 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:47.240 you would really expect to be as impactful as as 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.599 Shack at pick number thirty two, and then Lavante David, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.880 you know a player there. There are some good linebacker 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:57.560 prospects in the draft, but I I know you want 0:04:57.560 --> 0:04:59.120 to try to win the Super Bowl again this year, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:01.440 and I'd be hard pressed to expect you could find 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.240 a guy that's as good as Lavante to step in. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.000 I think by the end of the year it was 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.680 pretty clear that having Lavonte and Devin White together, they're 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:10.839 probably the best inside linebacker do in the NFL. Was 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:14.040 really what was driving how good that defense was. Yeah, 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.800 I completely agree with that. Um and Justin had asked, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.599 who do you think is open for restructuring? So let's 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.760 kind of pair that with a question just overall about 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:25.599 the salary cap situation. What we know because I think 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:27.880 since our last show is maybe when the league was 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.160 coming out saying a little bit more about what the 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:33.320 salary cap number would even be. So what do we 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:35.640 know about that situation now? Well, what they did was 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.320 they agreed, the union and the and the league agreed 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.919 to raise the floor the lowest possible thing that the 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.400 salary cap would be this year to one or an eighty, 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.479 which is down almost twenty million from last year, and 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.039 that that's an unprecedented situation, and we all know the 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:53.240 reason why. But when teams are planning, they look at 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:55.920 the last however many years, and every year the salary 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.000 cap has gone up by a pretty decent margin. So 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.400 when you're planning before this pandemic it's and everything changes, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.880 you're kind of expecting that again. So it would have 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.320 gone from maybe to ten or something, so it could 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:09.760 be as many as thirty million less than one a 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:13.039 team expected a little over a year ago, um, And 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:16.160 so that's obviously gonna make things more difficult. And that's 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.360 why I think you're gonna see a lot of teams 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.360 having to do some restructuring this year, and probably it's 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:24.279 a popular strategy, even more so than usual, because the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:28.159 basic concept of restructuring a guy's contract, which usually usually 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:31.400 involves taking a salary that he's gonna get paid during 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.279 that year and converting into into a bonus that he 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.040 gets right then, and bonuses are then pro raded over 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:38.000 the remaining length of the contract. So you can take 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.240 a guy given the same amount of money, but it 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.200 makes much less of a cap hit this year, But 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.560 you're kicking the can down the road and you're gonna 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:47.280 take that cap hit at some point. But in this situation, 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.920 with the cap going down this year and hopefully going 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:51.920 back up next year and then maybe going back up 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.560 by a lot in two, it kind of makes some 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.200 sense to kick the can down the road a little 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.920 bit and try to spread out those those impacts. So 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.599 I don't really have a good list of who the 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:03.920 Bucks might do that with and don't really want to speculate, 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:07.200 but in terms of you, you're looking for players who 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:11.240 have um a high base salary this year and a 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.680 structure that doesn't involve a lot of guaranteed money and 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:16.840 dead cap hits. That's a that's a great point. Um 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.600 Samuel asked, are we interested in J. J. Watt or 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.920 is that outside of the capability with the cap? Yeah. 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.480 I mean the only way I could see that is 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.880 if the Bucks didn't pursue in order we're able to 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.840 keep guys like um Shack Barrett and Dom Kitsu. And 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:33.480 I do believe that our focus is going to be 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.200 on our guys first. And you know, Jason led and 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:39.520 Mike Greenberg and Jackie Davidson and all them, they're going 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:43.680 to get creative if they need to with contracts and 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.520 and the salary cap and find a way to make 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.200 it work. But that doesn't change the fact that there's 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:49.880 not a ton of wiggle room. The Bucks don't have 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.520 a ton of wiggle room to start uh free agency, 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.840 And if they're trying to get five of those guys back, 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:57.760 it's gonna it's not gonna be easy. So it kind 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.240 of makes it a very tight window to try to 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.120 bring in a guy like J. J. Watt, who may 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.320 not get exactly what he was supposed to get as 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:09.040 a salary for the the Texans before they agreed to 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:11.320 let him go, but he's probably still expecting a pretty 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.360 good payday. So and the other thing is you probably 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:17.680 want to find out if you can get check and 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:19.880 the dominicansuing those guys back before you would make a 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.560 decision on a J. J. Watt, And by then he 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.520 might have already signed with another team. And uh, Seth 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.560 brought up what do you think happens with O. J. Howard? 0:08:27.600 --> 0:08:29.480 So there's there's a lot we can talk about with O. J. 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:32.000 That in terms of when we think he'll be healthy 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:36.000 and what his contract situation is him Cam Gronk, you 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.880 know how how that could look moving forward, do we 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:39.640 do we have all of them, keep all of them 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.640 just kind of overall? What do you see is how 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:45.040 O J. Howard would affect whatever that position group is 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:47.040 going to look like. Well, the first thing to keep 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:50.200 in mind is the Buccaneers did pick up his defier option. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.160 They had to make that decision last year, before his 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.600 fourth season, and they did. Uh and to me, you know, 0:08:56.720 --> 0:09:00.560 in conscious to say contract contract, asked to say like 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.319 a Vernon Hargraves, where they didn't picking up O J's 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.360 contract for the fifth year, which doesn't mean they have 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:08.040 to keep him. It just guaranteed it for injury. You 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:10.839 can still release or wave of Oji hard if you 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:12.760 want to. I'm not suggedisting that would happened. But my 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.160 point being, they did pick up that option, and they 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.280 had at that point, I believe, already traded for Rob Gronkowski, 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.760 so they still saw the value in having both of 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.600 those guys. I thought in the early part of last 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.200 season it looked really good having Gronk and o J. Together. 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:30.319 It looked to me like OJ was gonna have a 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.560 big year until he had the Achilles injury. Now, the 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.720 fact that he had the injury in Week four. It 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.520 was devastating at the time, and we all felt terrible 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.320 for him, but at least it was early in the season, 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.960 which meant he could immediately have the surgery and start 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.720 his rehab and hopefully be ready for the start of 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.040 the season, because that's a pretty and achilles injury to kill. 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.520 His tendon injury is a tough one to come back 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:51.960 from takes a while, So I think he should be 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.160 ready to go, And I think that the Bucklers would 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:55.840 like to see what he and Gronk could do on 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:58.800 the field together over a longer term. And then do 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.240 you feel like with Cam rate and what we saw 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.160 this year with him, you know how that affects do 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:06.120 we do? Are all three of them? You know, people 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.480 we want to have back and against salary cap situations 0:10:08.480 --> 0:10:10.560 of just you know, keeping everybody is that is at 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:11.880 a group where you feel like a lot of people. 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.000 Of course, last year we're speculating about trading one of 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:18.040 them because it was such a just insane amount of 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.640 riches at that one position. But then of course we 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.960 saw that one guy gets hurt, and boy, you really 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.200 needed both Cam and Gronk for that Super Bowl run. Yeah, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.559 I think that's your final point. There is probably where 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.000 I would have started. It does, though you do have 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:31.839 to factor in the salaries. I mean, Cam is making 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:35.319 a pretty good salary. Um, Gronkowski would probably be making 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.360 a pretty good salary if he signs again for say 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:40.600 one year. O J's fifth year contract option does bump 0:10:40.679 --> 0:10:42.800 up his his rookie salary quite a bit, so you 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.440 would be devoting a lot of salary to that position. 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.800 And like we said, it is tight, so I guess 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.600 it depends on how tight it becomes if the Buccaneers 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.800 can afford to keep all free. But personally, I think 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:55.720 the the first option when you're when you're trying. Basically, 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:57.960 the Buccaneers are gonna be in the same mode starting 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.559 this season as they were last year when it was 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.960 clear that they were all in. I think that they're 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:03.480 going to be all in as much as they can 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:05.840 to try to win it again this year because they've 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.319 got the team to do it if they can keep 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.320 it together. Absolutely, and Francisco had asked, do you see 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:14.280 us trading up for anyone in this draft class? Or 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.160 they're going to be people or positions that would be 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:20.559 worth moving up from thirty two? I would be much more. 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:22.760 I think it'd be much more likely that the Bucks 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:25.360 would trade down. And you know, I read an interesting 0:11:25.400 --> 0:11:27.240 piece and it's not my original thought. I think it 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.760 might have been Bill Barnwall of ESPN, but was pointing 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:34.160 out that, UM, in this uncertain year, when you don't 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.679 have a combine and you don't have as many games 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.480 during the season, you have a bunch of players that 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.680 are top prospects, so even opted out of the season, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.160 so the last tape you have of them is two 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.280 thousand nineteen. Um, it makes you feel like draft picks 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:51.320 are a lot more uncertain. So you know, probably the 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:53.400 best idea is to have as many of them as possible, 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.160 because the draft is always a crapshoot, but this year 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:58.720 it's even a little bit harder to be sure of 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.520 a guy. So the more chances you have at it, 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:03.839 the better chance you have of hitting on some of 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.200 those draft picks. So UM, you know, some teams will 0:12:06.240 --> 0:12:07.800 probably look at it the other way and say, because 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.800 it's more uncertain, I want to move up and get 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:13.120 one of the the top prospects. But I kind of 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.880 agree with the other idea that UM, with the even 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.840 greater uncertainty, the best approaches to have as many picks 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.400 as possible. Yeah, I think I would agree with that. 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:25.360 Um Austin said, I know Brady is returning this next year, 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.520 but at what point do we start thinking about QB 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.200 life after Brady. I think what you do is, if 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:35.000 you're Jason Light and Bruce Arians is you keep your 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:37.600 you keep your eyes open, and you're ready to make 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.440 a move anytime one makes sense. But I don't think 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:44.480 it becomes the top priority yet, particularly when um, when 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:49.439 uh Jason Light goes on the on the uh Rich 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.320 Eyes and Show and says, Tom Brady's you know there's 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.000 a potential interest and extension, so we may be talking 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.800 a couple of years down the road. So also picking 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.520 thirty second in every round, you know, it's not necessarily 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.920 conducive to getting UH top blue chip prospect. And you know, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.040 how long if you're going to get a guy nowadays 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.400 in the NFL, how long if you take a quarterback 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.080 that's you want to be your quarterback in the future, 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:12.800 how long do you really want him to sit on 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.000 the bench? Right It seems to me to make more 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.760 sense to continue to right now at least to have 0:13:17.840 --> 0:13:21.240 veteran backups to Tom Brady all right, And then we 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.360 had a question of from Jasper about what do you 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:26.959 think would be the best position to draft for this year? 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.320 And of course there's a few different ways you can 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:29.920 take that in terms of just the strength of the 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.680 draft or the highest need for the Bucks. So if 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:35.520 you can either pick one of those or both of 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.040 those would are they the same? Are different? In your mind? Well, 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:41.400 the need, the biggest need for the Buccaneers is probably 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.360 going to be determined by what happens in the next 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.640 few weeks and months in free agency. So if you 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.960 lose Jack Barrett, I think it's pretty clear that edge 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.280 rusher is probably your biggest need, because this is not 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.000 a roster with a lot of glaring needs. If you 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.480 can't if you could assume the return of all of 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.000 these guys, there isn't a position where the Buccaneers are 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:02.720 really really lacking him. Last year was very very clear 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.560 that they needed another offensive tackle. We all knew that, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.320 we mocked it in every single draft and they made 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.080 sure it happened. This year, not so much. And like 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.400 for instance, the entire offensive line is is signed for 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.400 next year, so starting line that is so uh that 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.600 Or if you were to losing Dominican sue. Um, you know, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.560 maybe some interior line depths would make a lot of sense, 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.800 you know, because also Nacho and Steve McClinton are free agents, 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.960 So depending on what happens with all those guys, I 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.920 think those two positions could end up being the biggest 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.560 needs just in terms of numbers. All right, well, that 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:34.800 is going to do it for us on this edition 0:14:34.800 --> 0:14:37.360 of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lite. Thanks as 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.720 always for joining us and for those amazing questions, and 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:40.960 we'll be back here next week.