Speaker 1: Um, good morning, Bucks fans, It's Wednesday. It's time for
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Speaker 1: we give people a chance to do that, I mean,
Speaker 1: there are polenty of things for us to talk about
Speaker 1: with that game that was. That was a ride that
Speaker 1: that was a heck of a ride. So uh and
Speaker 1: we also, of course had an award this morning. Seems
Speaker 1: like that's just gonna be our pattern here, So why
Speaker 1: don't you take us through who won an award and
Speaker 1: some of some of the reasons why from that game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's rare for a player to win one of the
Speaker 1: UH Players the Week awards in a game that they lost.
Speaker 1: So as long as we keep having these news hits
Speaker 1: of news every Wednesday, were in good shape. Mike Edwards
Speaker 1: is the NFC Defensive Player of the Week, the first
Speaker 1: time he's won that award, and when you do something
Speaker 1: that nobody's done in almost thirty years, that being two
Speaker 1: pick sixes and one quarter one fourth quarter, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna win an award. So, um, you know, it was
Speaker 1: more of an offensive day as was Week one, but
Speaker 1: there at the end the Buccaneers turned it up a
Speaker 1: notch and Mike Edwards was playing a pretty interesting role
Speaker 1: in that. With Sean Murphy bunting out, Buccaneers needed different
Speaker 1: answer in the in the slot and it was Ross
Speaker 1: Cockroll for a good person in the game, and then
Speaker 1: they turned to Mike Edwards. So he's a safety by trade,
Speaker 1: but he was playing nickel corner for much of that game,
Speaker 1: or much of the second half, and he that was
Speaker 1: where he was on his first pick when, according to
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians, he sort of bated um Uh the quarterback
Speaker 1: into throwing Matt Ryan of course into throwing that pass
Speaker 1: and then jumped it. And then the second one was
Speaker 1: was a double corner blitz where Carlton Davis came off
Speaker 1: one side the left of the um and then um
Speaker 1: Mike Edwards came off the other side and Carlton tipped
Speaker 1: it up and Mike, of course, the football just lines Mike.
Speaker 1: It's apparently it's magnetic and it's attracted to him because
Speaker 1: the amount of times that he touches the ball, uh,
Speaker 1: in the amount of snaps that he gets, it's pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: So then of course a lot of people are asking
Speaker 1: should he get more snaps? Right that we've talked about
Speaker 1: how every time he gets snaps he seems to find
Speaker 1: the ball. So looking at now, of course with the
Speaker 1: fact that Sean Murphy Bunting is out and uh, we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit last week about how there's there's
Speaker 1: sort of this musical chairs idea of what they're having
Speaker 1: to do with the dvs to fill in for everybody.
Speaker 1: What is that going to mean for Mike Edwards and
Speaker 1: what he's asked to do? Um and then overall, now
Speaker 1: we've seen Jordan Whitehead came back for the first time,
Speaker 1: what you think about our secondary situation, who's going to
Speaker 1: be in what role and what that could mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I think he will get more snaps because Sean Murphy
Speaker 1: Bunting is out, and because they like to bring Mike
Speaker 1: Edwards in to place Jordan Whitehead sometimes in obvious passing
Speaker 1: downs because you know, Jordan, whyde is such a physical player,
Speaker 1: really brings a nice presence up around the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage a lot of the time. Um, and Mike Edwards
Speaker 1: is more of a ball hawking safety type, you know,
Speaker 1: free safety type. So um, they were already going to
Speaker 1: do that anyway. Now if he proves to be our
Speaker 1: best option, or at least one of the best options
Speaker 1: in the nickel, then he'll be getting on field that
Speaker 1: that way too. And Bruce Arian said the other day
Speaker 1: that he's earned more playing time, So I think it's
Speaker 1: pretty clear they're gonna be using him. And if if
Speaker 1: he can prove to be a good option in the nickel,
Speaker 1: that will really help to ease the you know, the
Speaker 1: problems with Sean Murphy punting being out okay, and uh,
Speaker 1: speaking of all the dB situation, of course, Bruce has
Speaker 1: asked about this either yesterday the day before, I believe,
Speaker 1: and uh, Dusty asked, what are the chances of Richard
Speaker 1: Sherman joining the team? Well, there's chances it is a chance,
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, And I say that because he confirmed
Speaker 1: that Jason Light has reached out to Richard Sherman and
Speaker 1: they've discussed the possibility. So um. He also said that
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman has some other options so that it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily just if the Bucks won him, they got him.
Speaker 1: It has to be a two way street there, and
Speaker 1: I'd imagine that someone that has to do with what
Speaker 1: is the conversation going to be? You know, they have
Speaker 1: to come to a number that both sides like if
Speaker 1: they want to do that. So and then also does
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman If they lay out the role that they
Speaker 1: want for Richard Sherman, is he satisfied with that or
Speaker 1: does he find something better somewhere else. It doesn't seem
Speaker 1: likely to me that he'll be without a job for
Speaker 1: too much longer because injuries happened in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: this is obviously a quality cornerback. He's he's a proven guy. Um.
Speaker 1: Maybe not at the absolute height of his powers as
Speaker 1: he was earlier in his career, but still obviously a
Speaker 1: proven NFL cornerback. And as we've talked about many times,
Speaker 1: those aren't easy to find. So um, I guess all
Speaker 1: I could say is it's possible because they're they're talking
Speaker 1: about it. Okay. Our next one was from Rafael. He asked,
Speaker 1: does playoff liney take the majority of the snaps going
Speaker 1: forward do you think, Well, it really is gonna have
Speaker 1: to do with how Ronald Joe responds too. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's getting some some hard coaching this week
Speaker 1: because Bruce Arians clearly wasn't happy with a couple of
Speaker 1: his plays. He's running the ball well, there's no question
Speaker 1: about that. Um, it's just you can't miss block, you
Speaker 1: can't miss assignments in the blocking scheme and get your
Speaker 1: quarterback hit and uh, you know he's going to have
Speaker 1: to clean up that part of the game. That's basically
Speaker 1: what Bruce Arian says. He is he just has to
Speaker 1: play better, but he can. Um. If he doesn't, then yeah,
Speaker 1: obviously Leonard Fournett is going to get more of the
Speaker 1: carries and he's running pretty well too. It's just that
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to give up on ron
Speaker 1: Jones having a significant part in this stuff. It's just
Speaker 1: yet because when he has the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: he has looked good as a runner. Okay, And how
Speaker 1: overall have you seen the running back corps being used
Speaker 1: compared to maybe you know, we talked a lot about
Speaker 1: this before the season, that this was one of the
Speaker 1: most intriguing position groups when there was so much consistency
Speaker 1: of how much was it gonna be Rojo, how much
Speaker 1: was it gonna be for net then you added Geo
Speaker 1: Bernard into the mix. Um, how have you seen that
Speaker 1: effect um, the way they've used everybody and overall just
Speaker 1: the expectations maybe for that room and what it could
Speaker 1: look like. Well, I think it's been pretty obviously a
Speaker 1: time share up to now. We'll see if that stays
Speaker 1: the same going forward. I mean every game going back
Speaker 1: to the preseason, and they've been playing game two of
Speaker 1: the preseason, so we're talking about four games and they
Speaker 1: have gone. They alternated starts, and then in this last
Speaker 1: game they were essentially alternating drives throughout almost the entire game.
Speaker 1: It was Ronald Jones first and then learn Fournett was
Speaker 1: on the second drive, Jones the third drive, Learnt was
Speaker 1: on the fourth drive. It was clearly just a split
Speaker 1: right down the middle. And the only way that changes
Speaker 1: if is if somebody grabs the reins and you know,
Speaker 1: gets the hot hand and they stay with him. Right now,
Speaker 1: both guys were running with about the same amount of effectiveness.
Speaker 1: Of course, as we just said, Leonard Fournette has done
Speaker 1: a better job of blocking and probably a little bit
Speaker 1: better job in the passing game. And the GEO Vonnie
Speaker 1: Bernard thing. Bruce arians said again that he's their third
Speaker 1: down in two minute back, but I think we have
Speaker 1: seen there have been plenty of third downs when they've
Speaker 1: had Leonard Fournette on the field, So you know, I
Speaker 1: would say Geo Vannie Bernard's role has been a little
Speaker 1: smaller than I expected. That certainly could change as well,
Speaker 1: but otherwise they clearly wanted to do as split right
Speaker 1: down the middle. We'll see if that lasts though. Okay,
Speaker 1: And we also had a question from Jermaine asking do
Speaker 1: you think Scotty Miller gets more involved moving forward. It's
Speaker 1: just hard, basically, it's it's hard to figure out how, um,
Speaker 1: you just you don't offer, We don't. We did do
Speaker 1: a little bit of four wide in that game a
Speaker 1: little bit, and Scotty got on the field a little
Speaker 1: bit in those cases, um, and he got in the
Speaker 1: field a couple of snaps. I think for Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: I just you just don't want to take Mike Evans
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin and Antonio Brown off the field. You know,
Speaker 1: It's just unless one of them is hard or tired
Speaker 1: needs it needs a rest or something. Why do you
Speaker 1: want to take any of those guys off the field,
Speaker 1: And that's not necessarily a fun situation for Scotty. And
Speaker 1: then you have to Tyler Johnson, who if they want
Speaker 1: to give Chris god when a US like on running
Speaker 1: plays and not making block on every single running play,
Speaker 1: they bringing Tyler Johnson. So it's just hard to find
Speaker 1: snaps because we're talking about three and four wise, but
Speaker 1: we also have to utilize these tight ends and the
Speaker 1: two tight inset was very effective in the last game.
Speaker 1: So where are we finding these snaps? I think what
Speaker 1: it is? It's it's not how can we change what
Speaker 1: we're doing now, it's these guys will have to wait
Speaker 1: their term maybe a little bit, and you hardly ever
Speaker 1: make it through a season without getting some injuries that
Speaker 1: cost a guy a week er two. And it will
Speaker 1: be very valuable to have Scotty Miller and Tyler Johnson
Speaker 1: to possibly fill in bigger roles when they're needed. And
Speaker 1: looking at this Rams team got some new editions since
Speaker 1: the last time we played them, even know it feels
Speaker 1: like we've played them so many times over the last
Speaker 1: however many years. To be a team that isn't in
Speaker 1: our division. It just feels like we have played them
Speaker 1: over and over and over. But some aspects of the
Speaker 1: same Aaron Donald, that is forever the thing that we
Speaker 1: will start talking about. Now you've got Matthew Stafford, you
Speaker 1: got Jalen Ramsey, I mean you have Raheem Morris is
Speaker 1: very familiar with the Buccaneers and what they like to
Speaker 1: do on the coaching side. So what are the aspects
Speaker 1: of who the Rams are now that maybe worry you
Speaker 1: the most or you think the Bucks want to focus
Speaker 1: on the most. Well, the Rams are sort of like
Speaker 1: a supergroup. You know, they had they got all of
Speaker 1: the members of the band, but they wanted a new
Speaker 1: front man and so they got rid of Jared Goff
Speaker 1: and they put Matthew Stafford up there at the mic.
Speaker 1: And that's obviously the biggest difference and the the scariest
Speaker 1: part of it all. On paper, it looked like a
Speaker 1: fantastic idea. He drops right into an offense that has
Speaker 1: a great group of past catchers that you saw what
Speaker 1: they did was last year with with Robert Woods and
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup having about twenty five catches and I'm not
Speaker 1: exaggerating between them for close to three yards and uh
Speaker 1: and now they have Tyler Higbee is a great tight end.
Speaker 1: They got de Sean Jackson, they drafted Van Jefferson, and
Speaker 1: you have Stafford backed up by a fantastic defense. On paper,
Speaker 1: looks like a great idea, and then in action over
Speaker 1: the first two weeks, it looks like a great idea.
Speaker 1: I mean, they looked really good. I personally, I think
Speaker 1: we answered some questions in the offseason about what I
Speaker 1: thought was the most challenging team game on our schedule
Speaker 1: when the schedule came out and I said, I thought
Speaker 1: it was this one. Now that they got Matthew Stafford
Speaker 1: and I haven't changed my mind, and they look really
Speaker 1: really good. If you look at the power I don't
Speaker 1: know if you're into power rankings or not. They're fun reads.
Speaker 1: They will mean a lot, but the power rankings this week,
Speaker 1: most of the places that I look have the Bucks
Speaker 1: one in the rams too, So it's a it's an
Speaker 1: incredible challenge on the road. First time we've been in
Speaker 1: so Fi Stadium. Um, I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. But that Matthew just Stafford really changes
Speaker 1: everything for them. And then we'll close up this one
Speaker 1: Nick had asked, do you think we'll play more pressed
Speaker 1: man this week against the Rams? Cooper Cup has been
Speaker 1: killing teams with the short passing game. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: I always think they answer this question is Todd Bowl,
Speaker 1: will mix it up? Will we play more pressed man?
Speaker 1: It does seem like a good idea, especially because you've
Speaker 1: got a couple of guys that are good at that,
Speaker 1: particularly Carlton davis Um. But yeah, last year the Rams
Speaker 1: beat us with a lot of you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: good at scheming guys open in the short and intermediate
Speaker 1: range and letting them run with the ball, and they
Speaker 1: could still do that. But the difference this year is
Speaker 1: they're throwing the ball downfield. I mean really, they're they're
Speaker 1: throws on passes. Their their success on passes that travel
Speaker 1: more than twenty yards in the air downfield has been
Speaker 1: really good for the first two games. Bathing Stafford is
Speaker 1: something like a one forty nine passer writing on those
Speaker 1: types of throws. That wasn't something they had in their
Speaker 1: game last year and two years ago when we faced them,
Speaker 1: and they still racked up tons of yards and points
Speaker 1: on us. So it's a huge challenge. Will we play
Speaker 1: more pressed man, that seems like im possibly a good idea.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll have to wait to see though,
Speaker 1: But overall, I think Todd Bowls will mix it up
Speaker 1: and try to keep him guessing. All right, well, that's
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