WEBVTT - Jamel Dean & Aaron Stinnie Return, Free Agency Takeaways | Bucs Insider 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:08.559 Welcome too, Bucks Insider Live. Casey Phillips here with senior 0:00:08.560 --> 0:00:11.360 writer and editor Scott Smith. And I feel like, as always, 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:13.200 I have to start this time of year, this type 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.000 of show with this big old disclaimer. Because we work 0:00:16.040 --> 0:00:18.160 for the team, we don't get to announce things until 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.920 they're officially official by the officials. We are not those 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.320 officials as much as we've tried to be. So we're 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:26.240 going to talk about some reports that are out there, 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:28.720 and then we do have news that we can fully 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.800 report ourselves. So we're going to start. I just always 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.960 feel like I need to lay out we know about 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:35.040 the reports out there before people say, why aren't you 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.360 talking about That's why? That is why. So let's talk 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:40.120 about some of these reports you want to clearinghouse. Yes, 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:42.880 that's exactly it, officially exactly it. So the things that 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:44.840 are not official that are reports as well. I could 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.519 start with Anthony Nelson, the Bucks bringing him back on 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.080 a two year contract. The outside linebacker plays the last 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:52.800 four years really has been an upward trajectory to nantat 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.600 sacks the last two years. If we were doing this show, 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.880 maybe I don't know, even a half hour from now, 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:02.000 theoretically not to be given anything away, but theoretically, theoretically 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:03.880 we might be able to do that. One. The most 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.280 exciting one, probably the whole thing, is the reports the 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:09.560 Levante David will be back. From an emotional standpoint, that 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:11.479 was probably number one on the list. We'll talk about 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.840 what was probably from a significance and how well they're 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:16.479 playing right now and how young they are the number 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:18.640 one here in a minute on that list, but we 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.000 all love the fact that it appears, according to reports, 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.200 the Levante David will be back. Yeah. The heart and 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.440 soul that defense in so many ways in the organization, 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.640 I mean, just such an incredible really one of the 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.480 all time grades. Absolutely so. Yeah, I think that was 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:32.240 the one people were probably most kind of sitting there 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:34.920 twddlings waiting to hear when and if levant that comes back, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.720 and if he can, if he finished his career with 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:41.520 the Buccaneers, he'll basically join Derek Brooks, Randi Barber and 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:44.520 Paul Gruber as the four guys who played the longest 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:49.080 and only as Buccaneers. Wow. And then of course Kyle 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.800 Trust may have a little competition, but hopefully we'll be 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.080 getting into that maybe next time around. Yes, I think 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.640 next show we will have more things to say. Theoretically, yes, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.280 So let's talk about what we look into the Let's 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:01.680 do the part that's a little easier for us to 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:04.720 talk about here. So Jamel Dean, this is a guy 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:07.640 that we had all offseason. It was so interesting. He 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.200 was on all these lists as one of the top 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.760 free agents period in the league and then especially at 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.560 corner and some had him as the top free agent 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.480 most of them did. And so now to know that 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:18.919 the Bucks are bringing him back, just tell me a 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.359 little bit about what we know about the deal and 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.640 what this means to this defense. Yeah, it might have 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.720 seemed like a surprise in an upset that the Bucks, 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:27.639 with their cap situation, could bring Jamel Dean back after also, 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.640 they're already paying Carlton Davis, another great cornerback. But I 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.560 think part of the reason there is because Jamal is 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:35.560 very fond of Todd Bowles, and Todd Bowles is very 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:38.080 fond of Jamal, and I think both of them really 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.440 wanted that relationship to continue. And that's great for the 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.360 Buccaneers because not only did Jamel have his best season 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.839 last year, but he's kind of sneakily been good ever since. 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.320 He got here. And if you look at over the 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.440 last four years, which is the four years of Jamalsman 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.720 in the league, according to NFL next Gen Stats, he's 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.160 allowed the fewest yards per target of any cornerback in 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:58.800 the league over that an entire And look at some 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.399 of the names there, stuffind him one of defensive Player 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:03.400 of the Year words or Davis White is great. C J. 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.600 Gardner Johnson is a really coveted guy on the market 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:09.440 right now. So Jamal has been good for a long 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.639 time and he's only getting better and he's still young. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.560 It's a really big and important Probably if you listed 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:17.639 all the free agents that the Buccaneers were facing, as 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.600 I said emotionally, probably went Levante at the top of 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.640 the list. But in terms of the player that is 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:24.799 probably most important to get back, that was Jamal Dean. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.320 So really quite a coup for the Bucks to be 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:29.359 able to keep him. Yeah, and I just love his story. 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.600 It's just so amazing being told I think he said, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.679 was given a three percent chance that he could play 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.480 football again. Yeah, that he you know, all these knee 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.960 surgeries early on, and then not only that, to have 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.520 all those knee surgeries to be told you're not going 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.640 to play and then to put a just blazing forty 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:48.240 time that it's like three yeah, like absolutely insane. That 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:50.400 to say that he was able to overcome that is 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:52.840 putting it mildly. And to get to a second contract 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.240 after being told three percent chance. I mean, there's so 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:57.560 few people in general that make it to a second 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.360 contract in this league. And I just think it's a guy, 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.040 a great story, So very excited about that. And then 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.160 there's been a trade as well. I know that that 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.000 was part of the news that we know we can 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:09.680 report to tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.200 the Buccaneers knew they were going to be moving on 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:13.600 from Shack Mason, who they got in a trade with 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.080 New England last year to replace Alex Kapp, and he 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.280 started all eighteen games last year. It was very solid. 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:21.640 But there were some hard cap decisions to be made, 0:04:21.640 --> 0:04:23.880 so he probably would have been released, but the Buccaneers 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.359 were able to scare up a trade with the Texans. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:28.800 It's a common thing now with a trade like this. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:30.360 If the guy's gonna get released, you're not going to 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.040 get a time. What you got was a pick swap. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.280 You pick up a six, you give a seventh. The 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.359 Bucks did a pretty good job within that though, because 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.039 the Texans had three different sixth round picks, and we 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.000 got their first one which is their own, which is 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:43.839 the second, and around number one seventy nine. Overall, the 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:47.520 Bucks had two late seventh round picks and gave up 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.960 number two thirty. So that's a move up of fifty 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.400 one spots, which you know, not bad. Yeah, not bad 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.360 for a player you probably would have released anyway. So yeah, 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:56.479 that's if you look at it this way. The Buccaneers 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:59.400 traded a couple seventh round picks last year in order 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.320 to move up in the sixth round to get co keifed, 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:03.560 and co Keefe turned up quite nice. So now you 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.440 don't even have to make that movie you already have, yeah, 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.720 which is big. And it is amazing to think about how, 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:10.080 even though the Bucks were in such a tough salary 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:13.400 cap situation, if we kept talking about that all the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:16.200 way up until now the offseason, that they were able 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.160 to become cap compliant when they needed to be and 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.680 still be bringing back some different people and to have 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.039 gotten some draft capital a little bit along the way too. 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.080 I mean a Greeny exactly our front office, who we 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.920 love so much so tell me a little bit about 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:31.880 in your mind what this means for the offensive line 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.000 and maybe for the draft. I will probably get into 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:35.599 this little bit in our Road to the Draft show. 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.280 We'll shoot later. So just a little bit, maybe even 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:40.080 less on the draft side, but overall, looking at what 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.840 the Bucks have on the offensive line right now, and 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:46.479 Aaron Stinney, you know, that's another piece of news that 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:48.680 we hadn't gotten to as well, so that to kind 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.680 of discuss what we know we have on the O 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.320 line right now. Well, the Buccaneers have Tristan Works of course, Nave, 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:55.840 Ryan Jents and Pro bowlers, and Ryan Jens is back 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.520 from his injury, which was great. We saw that he 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:01.040 came back amazingly for the playoff game. Tristan Works could 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:05.600 be your Pro Bowl caliber, all pro calibl right tackle 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.240 next year, and that would be fine. There is a possibility, 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.839 and the Buccaneers have not discounted it. They really don't 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:12.320 know yet because they haven't got a chance to get 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:14.000 in there and see what it looks like. But you 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:16.920 could move him to left tackle and have this premier 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.960 athlete playing the premier one of the premier positions in 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:23.040 all of football. In that case, then the Buccaneers will 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:24.760 be looking for a new right tackle. Could that be 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:28.960 Luke Getticky who started the Week seventeen game or Week 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.760 eighteen game against Atalanta and played that position in college. 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:34.640 Possibly you could look for that position in the draft, 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:38.480 and then to two guard spots. You know, Nick Leverett 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:43.160 essentially is the returning the incumbent left guard, and he 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:45.920 did get the tender offer to become an exclusive rights 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.359 fore agent, so he'll eventually sign that and be back, 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.400 So he could be the guy. But you've got Robert 0:06:50.440 --> 0:06:53.520 Haynesy who played center last year, You've got Luke Ke 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.560 couldn't figure in there, And you just said, Aaron Stinney, 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.120 there's a lot of options for the Buccaneers even if 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.359 they don't address that in the draft. Okay, that's going 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.400 to be interesting to see. And then now just in 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.120 general free agency as it's become, you know, the official 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.160 start of the new league year this week, we've seen 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.240 a lot of movement around the NFC South, and so 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.320 I know, right now it's always fun to especially look 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:13.920 at what your own team is doing, but it's also 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.600 smart to keep an eye on the teams you're going 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.840 to face multiple times this next season, and they're gonna 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.280 this division is going to look very different. Well. It's 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.080 interesting because obviously this division was down last year since 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:24.760 the Bucks won it with an eight and nine record, 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.080 and so everybody in this league obviously sees this as 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.840 an opportunity, even though they had bad records last year, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:31.800 to win it. And you see some teams really going 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.080 for it. And there's been a ton of movement as 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:35.960 we see here. And one of the things I find 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.800 interesting about it is there's been a lot of movement 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.560 between teams in this league. So I think I messed 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.160 up when I submitted the information for this graphic because 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.840 I think the Falcons should also have David an Yumada, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:50.120 the defensive tackle that the Falcons lost. But you see 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:52.600 Shy Tuttle going to the Panthers. David an Yumada not 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.920 shown they're going to the Falcons. You've got Andy Dalton 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.480 going from the Saints to the Panthers. So there's a 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:01.880 lot of movement within the league. But you see the 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.400 other thing I would note here is that the Saints, 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.040 because of that cap situation, now they've signed a bunch 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:08.720 of guys, so they were a replace or DTS they 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.680 spent a lot of money, although it's backloaded on Derek Carr. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.640 They just got Jamal Williams last night, which I was 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.440 upset to hear. Also, the Panthers got Miles Standers, so 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.040 both of the kind of late in the in the process, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.040 they both picked up a pretty darn good running back. 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.800 But look at all the guys that the Falcons, I mean, 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:27.240 the Saints actually lost, which is something that comes to 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:28.920 roost when you do it the way the Saints do 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.680 it in every single year, keep pushing money down the road. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:35.600 So Marcus Davenport, David and Jamaa, Shy Tuttle Caden Ellis, 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.199 it's going to be a little bit hard for them 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.000 to replace all that talent upfront. Yeah, and this means nothing, 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.280 but I just think Shy Tuttle is one of my 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.040 favorite names in the NFL. Makes me think of the 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:44.560 key and peels skin every time. It feels like one 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.120 that they would have said in their as. Yeah, I 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:49.520 feel like think of the shy kid that says I 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:53.319 like turtles writing bad video. That's amazing. Um. Well, yeah, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.680 we're definitely gonna be recording a Road to the Draft 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:57.000 after this to make sure you stay tuned to that 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:58.720 because we're going to talk about all of this free 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.440 agency news what it can mean for the Buccaneers Draft. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.319 So we'll see you next time here on Buccaneers Inside 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:05.120 or Live, and stay tuned for our road to the Draft.