Speaker 1: Welcome too, Bucks Insider Live. Casey Phillips here with senior
Speaker 1: writer and editor Scott Smith. And I feel like, as always,
Speaker 1: I have to start this time of year, this type
Speaker 1: of show with this big old disclaimer. Because we work
Speaker 1: for the team, we don't get to announce things until
Speaker 1: they're officially official by the officials. We are not those
Speaker 1: officials as much as we've tried to be. So we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about some reports that are out there,
Speaker 1: and then we do have news that we can fully
Speaker 1: report ourselves. So we're going to start. I just always
Speaker 1: feel like I need to lay out we know about
Speaker 1: the reports out there before people say, why aren't you
Speaker 1: talking about That's why? That is why. So let's talk
Speaker 1: about some of these reports you want to clearinghouse. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's exactly it, officially exactly it. So the things that
Speaker 1: are not official that are reports as well. I could
Speaker 1: start with Anthony Nelson, the Bucks bringing him back on
Speaker 1: a two year contract. The outside linebacker plays the last
Speaker 1: four years really has been an upward trajectory to nantat
Speaker 1: sacks the last two years. If we were doing this show,
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know, even a half hour from now,
Speaker 1: theoretically not to be given anything away, but theoretically, theoretically
Speaker 1: we might be able to do that. One. The most
Speaker 1: exciting one, probably the whole thing, is the reports the
Speaker 1: Levante David will be back. From an emotional standpoint, that
Speaker 1: was probably number one on the list. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: what was probably from a significance and how well they're
Speaker 1: playing right now and how young they are the number
Speaker 1: one here in a minute on that list, but we
Speaker 1: all love the fact that it appears, according to reports,
Speaker 1: the Levante David will be back. Yeah. The heart and
Speaker 1: soul that defense in so many ways in the organization,
Speaker 1: I mean, just such an incredible really one of the
Speaker 1: all time grades. Absolutely so. Yeah, I think that was
Speaker 1: the one people were probably most kind of sitting there
Speaker 1: twddlings waiting to hear when and if levant that comes back,
Speaker 1: and if he can, if he finished his career with
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, he'll basically join Derek Brooks, Randi Barber and
Speaker 1: Paul Gruber as the four guys who played the longest
Speaker 1: and only as Buccaneers. Wow. And then of course Kyle
Speaker 1: Trust may have a little competition, but hopefully we'll be
Speaker 1: getting into that maybe next time around. Yes, I think
Speaker 1: next show we will have more things to say. Theoretically, yes,
Speaker 1: So let's talk about what we look into the Let's
Speaker 1: do the part that's a little easier for us to
Speaker 1: talk about here. So Jamel Dean, this is a guy
Speaker 1: that we had all offseason. It was so interesting. He
Speaker 1: was on all these lists as one of the top
Speaker 1: free agents period in the league and then especially at
Speaker 1: corner and some had him as the top free agent
Speaker 1: most of them did. And so now to know that
Speaker 1: the Bucks are bringing him back, just tell me a
Speaker 1: little bit about what we know about the deal and
Speaker 1: what this means to this defense. Yeah, it might have
Speaker 1: seemed like a surprise in an upset that the Bucks,
Speaker 1: with their cap situation, could bring Jamel Dean back after also,
Speaker 1: they're already paying Carlton Davis, another great cornerback. But I
Speaker 1: think part of the reason there is because Jamal is
Speaker 1: very fond of Todd Bowles, and Todd Bowles is very
Speaker 1: fond of Jamal, and I think both of them really
Speaker 1: wanted that relationship to continue. And that's great for the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers because not only did Jamel have his best season
Speaker 1: last year, but he's kind of sneakily been good ever since.
Speaker 1: He got here. And if you look at over the
Speaker 1: last four years, which is the four years of Jamalsman
Speaker 1: in the league, according to NFL next Gen Stats, he's
Speaker 1: allowed the fewest yards per target of any cornerback in
Speaker 1: the league over that an entire And look at some
Speaker 1: of the names there, stuffind him one of defensive Player
Speaker 1: of the Year words or Davis White is great. C J.
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson is a really coveted guy on the market
Speaker 1: right now. So Jamal has been good for a long
Speaker 1: time and he's only getting better and he's still young.
Speaker 1: It's a really big and important Probably if you listed
Speaker 1: all the free agents that the Buccaneers were facing, as
Speaker 1: I said emotionally, probably went Levante at the top of
Speaker 1: the list. But in terms of the player that is
Speaker 1: probably most important to get back, that was Jamal Dean.
Speaker 1: So really quite a coup for the Bucks to be
Speaker 1: able to keep him. Yeah, and I just love his story.
Speaker 1: It's just so amazing being told I think he said,
Speaker 1: was given a three percent chance that he could play
Speaker 1: football again. Yeah, that he you know, all these knee
Speaker 1: surgeries early on, and then not only that, to have
Speaker 1: all those knee surgeries to be told you're not going
Speaker 1: to play and then to put a just blazing forty
Speaker 1: time that it's like three yeah, like absolutely insane. That
Speaker 1: to say that he was able to overcome that is
Speaker 1: putting it mildly. And to get to a second contract
Speaker 1: after being told three percent chance. I mean, there's so
Speaker 1: few people in general that make it to a second
Speaker 1: contract in this league. And I just think it's a guy,
Speaker 1: a great story, So very excited about that. And then
Speaker 1: there's been a trade as well. I know that that
Speaker 1: was part of the news that we know we can
Speaker 1: report to tell us a little bit about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers knew they were going to be moving on
Speaker 1: from Shack Mason, who they got in a trade with
Speaker 1: New England last year to replace Alex Kapp, and he
Speaker 1: started all eighteen games last year. It was very solid.
Speaker 1: But there were some hard cap decisions to be made,
Speaker 1: so he probably would have been released, but the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: were able to scare up a trade with the Texans.
Speaker 1: It's a common thing now with a trade like this.
Speaker 1: If the guy's gonna get released, you're not going to
Speaker 1: get a time. What you got was a pick swap.
Speaker 1: You pick up a six, you give a seventh. The
Speaker 1: Bucks did a pretty good job within that though, because
Speaker 1: the Texans had three different sixth round picks, and we
Speaker 1: got their first one which is their own, which is
Speaker 1: the second, and around number one seventy nine. Overall, the
Speaker 1: Bucks had two late seventh round picks and gave up
Speaker 1: number two thirty. So that's a move up of fifty
Speaker 1: one spots, which you know, not bad. Yeah, not bad
Speaker 1: for a player you probably would have released anyway. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's if you look at it this way. The Buccaneers
Speaker 1: traded a couple seventh round picks last year in order
Speaker 1: to move up in the sixth round to get co keifed,
Speaker 1: and co Keefe turned up quite nice. So now you
Speaker 1: don't even have to make that movie you already have, yeah,
Speaker 1: which is big. And it is amazing to think about how,
Speaker 1: even though the Bucks were in such a tough salary
Speaker 1: cap situation, if we kept talking about that all the
Speaker 1: way up until now the offseason, that they were able
Speaker 1: to become cap compliant when they needed to be and
Speaker 1: still be bringing back some different people and to have
Speaker 1: gotten some draft capital a little bit along the way too.
Speaker 1: I mean a Greeny exactly our front office, who we
Speaker 1: love so much so tell me a little bit about
Speaker 1: in your mind what this means for the offensive line
Speaker 1: and maybe for the draft. I will probably get into
Speaker 1: this little bit in our Road to the Draft show.
Speaker 1: We'll shoot later. So just a little bit, maybe even
Speaker 1: less on the draft side, but overall, looking at what
Speaker 1: the Bucks have on the offensive line right now, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Stinney, you know, that's another piece of news that
Speaker 1: we hadn't gotten to as well, so that to kind
Speaker 1: of discuss what we know we have on the O
Speaker 1: line right now. Well, the Buccaneers have Tristan Works of course, Nave,
Speaker 1: Ryan Jents and Pro bowlers, and Ryan Jens is back
Speaker 1: from his injury, which was great. We saw that he
Speaker 1: came back amazingly for the playoff game. Tristan Works could
Speaker 1: be your Pro Bowl caliber, all pro calibl right tackle
Speaker 1: next year, and that would be fine. There is a possibility,
Speaker 1: and the Buccaneers have not discounted it. They really don't
Speaker 1: know yet because they haven't got a chance to get
Speaker 1: in there and see what it looks like. But you
Speaker 1: could move him to left tackle and have this premier
Speaker 1: athlete playing the premier one of the premier positions in
Speaker 1: all of football. In that case, then the Buccaneers will
Speaker 1: be looking for a new right tackle. Could that be
Speaker 1: Luke Getticky who started the Week seventeen game or Week
Speaker 1: eighteen game against Atalanta and played that position in college.
Speaker 1: Possibly you could look for that position in the draft,
Speaker 1: and then to two guard spots. You know, Nick Leverett
Speaker 1: essentially is the returning the incumbent left guard, and he
Speaker 1: did get the tender offer to become an exclusive rights
Speaker 1: fore agent, so he'll eventually sign that and be back,
Speaker 1: So he could be the guy. But you've got Robert
Speaker 1: Haynesy who played center last year, You've got Luke Ke
Speaker 1: couldn't figure in there, And you just said, Aaron Stinney,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of options for the Buccaneers even if
Speaker 1: they don't address that in the draft. Okay, that's going
Speaker 1: to be interesting to see. And then now just in
Speaker 1: general free agency as it's become, you know, the official
Speaker 1: start of the new league year this week, we've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of movement around the NFC South, and so
Speaker 1: I know, right now it's always fun to especially look
Speaker 1: at what your own team is doing, but it's also
Speaker 1: smart to keep an eye on the teams you're going
Speaker 1: to face multiple times this next season, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: this division is going to look very different. Well. It's
Speaker 1: interesting because obviously this division was down last year since
Speaker 1: the Bucks won it with an eight and nine record,
Speaker 1: and so everybody in this league obviously sees this as
Speaker 1: an opportunity, even though they had bad records last year,
Speaker 1: to win it. And you see some teams really going
Speaker 1: for it. And there's been a ton of movement as
Speaker 1: we see here. And one of the things I find
Speaker 1: interesting about it is there's been a lot of movement
Speaker 1: between teams in this league. So I think I messed
Speaker 1: up when I submitted the information for this graphic because
Speaker 1: I think the Falcons should also have David an Yumada,
Speaker 1: the defensive tackle that the Falcons lost. But you see
Speaker 1: Shy Tuttle going to the Panthers. David an Yumada not
Speaker 1: shown they're going to the Falcons. You've got Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: going from the Saints to the Panthers. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of movement within the league. But you see the
Speaker 1: other thing I would note here is that the Saints,
Speaker 1: because of that cap situation, now they've signed a bunch
Speaker 1: of guys, so they were a replace or DTS they
Speaker 1: spent a lot of money, although it's backloaded on Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: They just got Jamal Williams last night, which I was
Speaker 1: upset to hear. Also, the Panthers got Miles Standers, so
Speaker 1: both of the kind of late in the in the process,
Speaker 1: they both picked up a pretty darn good running back.
Speaker 1: But look at all the guys that the Falcons, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Saints actually lost, which is something that comes to
Speaker 1: roost when you do it the way the Saints do
Speaker 1: it in every single year, keep pushing money down the road.
Speaker 1: So Marcus Davenport, David and Jamaa, Shy Tuttle Caden Ellis,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a little bit hard for them
Speaker 1: to replace all that talent upfront. Yeah, and this means nothing,
Speaker 1: but I just think Shy Tuttle is one of my
Speaker 1: favorite names in the NFL. Makes me think of the
Speaker 1: key and peels skin every time. It feels like one
Speaker 1: that they would have said in their as. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like think of the shy kid that says I
Speaker 1: like turtles writing bad video. That's amazing. Um. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're definitely gonna be recording a Road to the Draft
Speaker 1: after this to make sure you stay tuned to that
Speaker 1: because we're going to talk about all of this free
Speaker 1: agency news what it can mean for the Buccaneers Draft.
Speaker 1: So we'll see you next time here on Buccaneers Inside
Speaker 1: or Live, and stay tuned for our road to the Draft.