Speaker 1: Welcome into Bucks Insider, coming to you from the Buck Studio,
Speaker 1: presented by ticket Master Casey Phillips.
Speaker 2: Here with Scott Smith.
Speaker 1: And Breed Dix, and we have even more to talk
Speaker 1: about coming out of that free agency frenzy, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure things.
Speaker 2: Might still be happening. You never really know, but we
Speaker 2: got a chance to.
Speaker 1: Of course, we talked about some of those moves last week,
Speaker 1: but now we got to have press conferences from a
Speaker 1: few of those guys, which is exciting. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: even more of that moving in the future days here.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to go ahead and start with Hassan
Speaker 1: Reddick because he's kind of our one big, splashier new
Speaker 1: free agent signing, new addition to the team, and we
Speaker 1: wanted to help fans get a chance to know him
Speaker 1: a little bit better. So let's take a listen to
Speaker 1: this clip of what made him want to join us
Speaker 1: here in Tampa Bay just.
Speaker 3: To fit after talking the footy at the talking to
Speaker 3: Coach Bulls, you know, their vision for Haddie plan to
Speaker 3: use me here. That was revery intrigued and something that
Speaker 3: I knew I needed. Outside of that, you know, I
Speaker 3: felt like this was a team that was a couple
Speaker 3: of short pieces away. I felt like that I could
Speaker 3: come bring my knowledge, my abilities blended with the guys
Speaker 3: that's already here. You've got great pieces. You know, you
Speaker 3: got feeded, you got a young guy Yaya. So just
Speaker 3: knowing that I can come here help out, I thought
Speaker 3: it'd be fun.
Speaker 2: I loved hearing from him and his presser.
Speaker 1: For one thing, the guy knows how to do a
Speaker 1: press conference and how to endear himself to fans. He
Speaker 1: even used the word crew already. This guy knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing already. So outside of his skills at a
Speaker 1: press conference, what are some of the things that we're
Speaker 1: excited about with him coming in? Maybe even learned from
Speaker 1: him at his press conference?
Speaker 4: I like said he in the draw to coming here,
Speaker 4: was talking about the vision that Todd Bowles and both
Speaker 4: Larry Foot have for him, but also just he said
Speaker 4: he felt like this was a team last year that
Speaker 4: were just a few pieces away, and he said, you know,
Speaker 4: he can bring his knowledge, which he feels like separates
Speaker 4: him as a pass rusher, staying one step ahead in
Speaker 4: the trenches. But also just wanting to join a guy
Speaker 4: like Vida Vea joining Yaya Dabi and what the capability
Speaker 4: and the potential of this team can be in twenty five.
Speaker 5: You know, it reminds me a little bit, and I'm
Speaker 5: not trying to make a straight comparison, but the Simeon
Speaker 5: Rice edition back in two thousand and one. At that time,
Speaker 5: Money Kiffen told him he would be the final piece
Speaker 5: to the puzzle and to what would be a great
Speaker 5: defense because they needed a really good outside edge presence
Speaker 5: to pair with Warren Sapp in the middle who was dominant.
Speaker 5: I'm not saying Hassan Redika Simeon right, so I'm not
Speaker 5: saying he's not. I don't want to paint it either way,
Speaker 5: but I feel like he mused the phrase piece of
Speaker 5: the puzzle, I think, and it made me think, yeah,
Speaker 5: we have dominant inside guys.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 5: Our two leading SAC guys last year were Vidave and
Speaker 5: College CANSI so not that were right, College was. I
Speaker 5: don't want to I know they were there, Bat you
Speaker 5: don't want to give them press. So you know, if
Speaker 5: if he could provide that, it's it's kind of a
Speaker 5: similar situation and he recognizes that. And I think also
Speaker 5: there was the connections that helped out I mean, first
Speaker 5: of all, I played a.
Speaker 2: Temple, so quite a temple staff.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you know he played at Arizona when
Speaker 5: Todd Bowles and others were there. Larry Foot was there.
Speaker 5: Larry Foot was his coach, his position coach when he
Speaker 5: was playing off ball linebacker there. And now because Larry
Speaker 5: just switched again here for us to outside linebackers, he's
Speaker 5: going to be his position coach again. And I think
Speaker 5: he has a real affection for him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought the timing of that was so interesting that
Speaker 1: Coach Foot did just shift and now here we get
Speaker 1: this guy that he gets to shift with him, And
Speaker 1: how cool to think that. Man, what if Coach Foot
Speaker 1: hadn't hadn't made that move, does Hassan Reddick still want
Speaker 1: to come here? Will never really know, but man, after
Speaker 1: the press conference, I got to talk to Hassan for
Speaker 1: a little bit and we were discussing how he just
Speaker 1: loves Coach Foot, like he just thinks so.
Speaker 2: Highly of him, as we all do here love him
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 1: I think, what a perfect pairing of this guy who
Speaker 1: brings a bit of that veteran presence, especially to a
Speaker 1: room that still has Yayad that's a little younger Chris Braswell,
Speaker 1: you're hoping to maybe take a step to have that
Speaker 1: veteran guy in the room to really kind of show
Speaker 1: them what to do.
Speaker 2: I think is really going to be great.
Speaker 1: We also had Levante David's pressler, So yeah, I heard of,
Speaker 1: never heard of this guy. He's not quite the new
Speaker 1: addition like Hassan Reddick is, but a boy are we
Speaker 1: excited we still have him? And of course his presser
Speaker 1: was just lovely and so many great sentiments shared about
Speaker 1: the organization about him.
Speaker 2: So take a lesson.
Speaker 6: I think it's incredible, man. I think that's I don't
Speaker 6: know if it's talked about enoughing. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 6: these guys being loaded to their guys. You know what
Speaker 6: I'm saying, uh knowledge organizations aren't like that. And uh
Speaker 6: for for those guys to be transparent us and uh
Speaker 6: half that you know, back and forth communication about how
Speaker 6: important they feel we are to them and how much
Speaker 6: we wanna be back and playing this sit and for
Speaker 6: the city. You know, I think that's incredible. You know,
Speaker 6: it's a test to you know, from the ownership all
Speaker 6: the way down. You know, they want their guys and
Speaker 6: they believe in they guys, and they gonna stick with us,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. So, and I think for
Speaker 6: the young guys to see that, that gives them, you know,
Speaker 6: even more motivation, you know what I'm saying. They could
Speaker 6: ask guys like me, Chris, Mike for advice and things
Speaker 6: like that. So you know, when when those guys see that,
Speaker 6: you know, I think they get even more motivated, they
Speaker 6: wanna play for this organization or organization like that, And uh,
Speaker 6: the thing is just it just becomes a mutual respect thing,
Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So, Well, of course, Levante's the guy that we build
Speaker 1: the draft after ascension, now that they've talked about that,
Speaker 1: of that, I am that man's strategy and that it's
Speaker 1: Levante that we just want more. Levante's in here, So
Speaker 1: thank goodness we still have that one in the room.
Speaker 1: But what did you take away from his press conference
Speaker 1: and some of the things that you noticed about his
Speaker 1: excitement to be back and what even made him make
Speaker 1: this decision.
Speaker 4: What really set out to me was him talking about
Speaker 4: the mutual respect that the team has, but in the
Speaker 4: front office and then the players, and how you have
Speaker 4: a guy like Lavonte that's going into his fourteenth season
Speaker 4: with the same team, which is nearly unheard of in
Speaker 4: the NFL. But then also you have a guy like
Speaker 4: Mike Evans that just finished up his eleventh season, and
Speaker 4: for young players to see those players this team stick
Speaker 4: with the guys and pay them, but also their respect
Speaker 4: and even he said that a lot of times you
Speaker 4: don't have that open line of communication with the general manager,
Speaker 4: but he said that's something that they have with Jason
Speaker 4: light and that goes from the cure that isn't seated
Speaker 4: here from ownership down and how a lot of young
Speaker 4: guys when you see a guy like Mike Evans and
Speaker 4: Chris Godwin and Lavante David that are still here, that
Speaker 4: makes them become more motivated and want to play for
Speaker 4: an organization that treats their players right and pays their
Speaker 4: own and sticks with the players that they have.
Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely established that kind of culture. Yeah, in over
Speaker 5: recent years.
Speaker 2: It's great.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's a great sign for recruiting
Speaker 1: new free agents or even just the culture you know
Speaker 1: you're building for these rookies that are coming in that
Speaker 1: when players are and we don't know exactly what all
Speaker 1: the options were for guys like Mike and Chris and
Speaker 1: Levante out there, but it seems safe to say that
Speaker 1: at least for a few of them, if not all
Speaker 1: of them, they might have been able to get more
Speaker 1: money elsewhere. And that choice to stay here says so
Speaker 1: much about the organization they're hopes for, how successful the
Speaker 1: team could be, the culture we built, and I think
Speaker 1: that's a really great thing.
Speaker 5: I liked hearing Levante talk about his process because think
Speaker 5: about this. This is the third straight year he's signed
Speaker 5: a one year contract, which is and before that it
Speaker 5: was just a two year deal, which is the sign
Speaker 5: of a guy who at the end of each season
Speaker 5: is reevaluating whether he wants to keep going or not.
Speaker 5: And what levintte they had to ask himself. Two things
Speaker 5: that were big were do I still love playing football?
Speaker 5: And do I trust myself to continue playing at the
Speaker 5: standard I have set? And he had to mould that
Speaker 5: over and I guess he came up with yes and both,
Speaker 5: and I believe he's probably correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that, And how exciting to know
Speaker 1: that the answer is still yes.
Speaker 2: For both of those things.
Speaker 1: All Right, So let's talk about a few more of
Speaker 1: the signings that have happened and these may not have
Speaker 1: been quite as splashy as some of those guys, but
Speaker 1: could be some really interesting additions to this team. First
Speaker 1: of all, in terms of the returning guys, we have
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, who is a guy that I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of Bucks fans kind of forgot about the fact
Speaker 1: that he was on the team musher because he unfortunately
Speaker 1: got hurt right out of the gate week one. But
Speaker 1: when we think about all season how there ended up
Speaker 1: being some pretty big issues with cornerback depth after some injuries,
Speaker 1: it's because this is the guy that you had thought
Speaker 1: was going to be your number three. I so very
Speaker 1: excited to see him get another chance here when last
Speaker 1: and didn't know.
Speaker 5: How he wanted, And in fact he did win that
Speaker 5: third outside corner job. And in the very first games
Speaker 5: I Mcallum got a concussion and Bryce Hall was in. Then,
Speaker 5: of course, as you mentioned, he suffered a dislocate an ankles,
Speaker 5: a similar injury to Chris Godwin's, and that was it
Speaker 5: for the year. But he had fulfilled what the Buccaneers
Speaker 5: expected when they signed him from the Jets and free agencies,
Speaker 5: so it's good to see him get another shot at
Speaker 5: doing the exact same thing, and just like we've.
Speaker 1: Talked about with Chris Godwin of seeing how he has
Speaker 1: gone through a hard injury before knew how to come
Speaker 1: back and rehab from it, so we therefore have confidence
Speaker 1: he knows how to do it again.
Speaker 2: I feel similarly about.
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall, where hey, he went through this in college,
Speaker 1: the same exact injury, but the other leg still went
Speaker 1: on to be able to have this career in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So you hate it for guys to have to go
Speaker 1: through multiple big injuries, but you also know they do
Speaker 1: have some experience with it and maybe know how to
Speaker 1: handle it. So all right, after Bryce Hall, we have
Speaker 1: linebacker Anthony Walker Scott.
Speaker 5: I'll take this one great, go for it. I don't
Speaker 5: know if you are aware of this, but think Walker
Speaker 5: played his college football at Northwestern. Oh you know there's
Speaker 5: he has a lot of starting experience. I think that's
Speaker 5: the number one thing. He started eighty three games in
Speaker 5: different stops including Cleveland, Miami, I think Indy was the
Speaker 5: other one. And he's a good coverage linebacker, which I think,
Speaker 5: apart from Levante, was something we were missing last year
Speaker 5: because Sara s Didnis went down and you know he
Speaker 5: was he was being very emphatic in his press for conference.
Speaker 5: He's like, I've seen different grades out there PFF, and
Speaker 5: it's funny to think about these guys actually looking at
Speaker 5: their PFF grades and going, come on, no way. But
Speaker 5: he says, watch the film. Passes are not completed deep
Speaker 5: down the middle over me, and passes are not completed
Speaker 5: deep down the middle in front of me, And I
Speaker 5: think he's throwing it. He says, go watch the film.
Speaker 5: So I don't think he's making this up. Anytime you're
Speaker 5: playing cover to Tampa two and we don't do that exclusively.
Speaker 5: Of course, Todd Bowles probably doesn't do that as much
Speaker 5: as a lot of teams. But when you do do that,
Speaker 5: you're middle linebacker has to be able to drop down
Speaker 5: the middle.
Speaker 1: So I also got an unsolicited text from someone who
Speaker 1: knows him from a previous stop of his in the NFL, who,
Speaker 1: again unsolicited, just messaged me and was like, you just
Speaker 1: got a great one. Good that this is a great
Speaker 1: guy on and off the field, good community work.
Speaker 6: All that.
Speaker 5: What else would you explain it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And of course all of us Northwestern people are
Speaker 2: just stellar.
Speaker 1: Uh So I thought that was really exciting to hear
Speaker 1: that in addition to feeling good about his experience, and
Speaker 1: of course also I think about last year, every time
Speaker 1: there were injuries, it felt like you're not just going
Speaker 1: to a backup, which is always challenging. It felt like
Speaker 1: you were going to someone who was green as to be.
Speaker 1: You were going to someone who hasn't played a lot,
Speaker 1: doesn't have.
Speaker 2: A lot of experience.
Speaker 5: Doesn't mean they won't be good.
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean it won't be good. You just it's a
Speaker 2: very unknown quantity.
Speaker 1: And so I feel like now with someone like Anthony Walker,
Speaker 1: whether or not whoever are starting, insidelnebackers end up being
Speaker 1: if he is not your starter. To know that if
Speaker 1: something happens, you're going to someone with experience has to
Speaker 1: make Todd Bowles pretty happy on that front. And then
Speaker 1: of course another returning player, we got Sterling Shepherd. And
Speaker 1: you know, at first we weren't sure if we could
Speaker 1: trust the source that broke us. Yeah, we weren't sure,
Speaker 1: but none other than Jason Light broke the news.
Speaker 2: I love when he does this. I feel like every year.
Speaker 1: He picks one random signing yeah to break himself, which
Speaker 1: I think is really great. And Sterling Sheppard, I mean,
Speaker 1: just a great person to have back. I think the
Speaker 1: trust that in relationship he has with Baker going all
Speaker 1: the way back to their college days is really exciting.
Speaker 1: And he was a guy who made some big plays
Speaker 1: on some third and fourth downs when accounted throughout the year.
Speaker 1: And of course this hopefully also means we'll get back
Speaker 1: his Sunday night football intro with his daughters.
Speaker 2: That's the most important part.
Speaker 1: So that's another addition coming back to this team for
Speaker 1: some wide receiver depth.
Speaker 5: You know, he had some injuries in training camp and
Speaker 5: then he started the season on the practice squad, But
Speaker 5: the notable thing to me is that he then finished
Speaker 5: the season. It wasn't long before he was up on
Speaker 5: the active rostern and it wasn't too long after that
Speaker 5: Chris Cavan got hurt and he was essentially became the
Speaker 5: number three receiver. And as he put it, I played
Speaker 5: a lot of football last year. I played more football
Speaker 5: last year than I have a long time, because his
Speaker 5: last three years I think with the Giants were all
Speaker 5: injury mark and so I think it was big for
Speaker 5: him to get through an entire season healthy and see
Speaker 5: that he could still do it, you know, because he
Speaker 5: could have just retired before signing with US last June.
Speaker 1: I agree, and I think it was the fact that
Speaker 1: he knew he wanted to come back and play with Baker,
Speaker 1: and so it shows yet again for him to want
Speaker 1: to do that again is a great sign. And then
Speaker 1: now as far as another new edition, we have an
Speaker 1: outside we have an offensive tackle in Charlie Hack who
Speaker 1: just looks so the part he's a gigantic human.
Speaker 2: With a success is a great mustash.
Speaker 1: I'm like, already, just the look, I have faith in
Speaker 1: this person as an offensive lineman. So yeah, it seems
Speaker 1: like potentially a swing tackle replacement for and we're going
Speaker 1: to get into it after this of who we've lost
Speaker 1: in free agency, but it's looking like that might be
Speaker 1: his role here.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's sure sounded like that's when he was prepared
Speaker 5: for and he was talking about how you just really
Speaker 5: have to be ready to lamb bull sides. And he's
Speaker 5: another guy like you're talking about Anthony Walker. You've got
Speaker 5: a guy with experience. He started twenty three games in
Speaker 5: this league last year. I think it was he got
Speaker 5: signed off of a practice squad to San Francisco's Active
Speaker 5: Rosterer and five days later started and he started the
Speaker 5: last two games. So I think what that says is
Speaker 5: teams see him and go, we can trust the floor
Speaker 5: of what we're getting here. Yeah, and so he's not
Speaker 5: going to put us in a terrible situation and to
Speaker 5: know how to handle it. So and you know, his
Speaker 5: dad was in the league for like twelve years, mostly
Speaker 5: with Chicago and Seattle, Andy Hick. So he's got the
Speaker 5: jeans and.
Speaker 2: Got the category y. Yeah, very true.
Speaker 1: So related to that, let's discuss a little bit. We
Speaker 1: wanted to start with all the fun stuff of who
Speaker 1: we added, but of course we need to also address
Speaker 1: who we have lost in free agency as well. And
Speaker 1: so of course, based on that one, we figure we
Speaker 1: should talk about Justin's school that sort of the looks
Speaker 1: like the one to one replacement there potentially, So Justin's
Speaker 1: school has left to go to the Vikings, and because
Speaker 1: of some injury stuff there, I think he might get
Speaker 1: a chance to start at least at the very beginning
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: So very sad to lose him.
Speaker 1: Great guy, did a great job, especially when he's able
Speaker 1: to step in for Tristan Worfs later in the year.
Speaker 2: So we did lose him, but now.
Speaker 1: We already you know, were able to say, all right,
Speaker 1: Charlie Peck is our replacement for him, it's looking like
Speaker 1: and then another seems like one to one replacement in
Speaker 1: some ways. kJ Britt went to the Dolphins and Anthony
Speaker 1: from the Dolphins. Ear we just feel like just swap
Speaker 1: these two guys out over here. And of course we
Speaker 1: did also lose Tavi or Thomas also to the Vikings,
Speaker 1: who was a very big person on our special team team.
Speaker 1: He really was, and I think that was he made.
Speaker 1: It just felt like every time there was a big splash.
Speaker 2: Special teams play delivering, it was him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then of course also Joe Tryan Schwenka has left
Speaker 1: for the Browns, and of course we brought in Hassan Raddick. Like,
Speaker 1: look at them, they were prepared for these losses and
Speaker 1: they brought in someone each time. And so it doesn't
Speaker 1: feel like any of the losses presented some glaring hole
Speaker 1: that we haven't filled yet or feel forced to fill
Speaker 1: in the draft, which we know that seems to always
Speaker 1: be Jason Light's m of making sure in free agency
Speaker 1: we at least fill some some holes. That way, when
Speaker 1: you come to the draft, you're not in any kind
Speaker 1: of desperate place.
Speaker 2: At any one position.
Speaker 1: So all right, let's go into the most important part
Speaker 1: of our show, everyone's favorite segment except yours.
Speaker 2: Maybe it depends how you do.
Speaker 5: So so far, so far, I got the first two
Speaker 5: right yep, and then the next two half right. Partial credit,
Speaker 5: partial credit. Yes, like the semeon one last week when
Speaker 5: I but.
Speaker 2: Are we doing this past fail? Are we like? Ab?
Speaker 5: No? Yeah? Well, at least you know, like last week,
Speaker 5: if I had just known what age Simeon was when
Speaker 5: he was drafted, I wouldn't be able to pick the
Speaker 5: wrong number, and in the math did net up.
Speaker 2: But you knew all the other fun facts.
Speaker 5: So what do we got?
Speaker 2: All right? So, Brie, would you like to read the
Speaker 2: question for us here? All right?
Speaker 1: The question is which Bucks pro bowler played at the
Speaker 1: University of Nebraska Omaha in twenty ten.
Speaker 5: I was about to say this is easy because he
Speaker 5: was just was Nebraska and we drafted Levante in twelve,
Speaker 5: so he would have been there in twenty ten, as
Speaker 5: was in Domikan, Sue, But it's the University of Nebraska's
Speaker 5: in Lincoln, so I don't know much about the University
Speaker 5: of Nebraska Omaha.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: When I saw this question, I did the same thing,
Speaker 1: and I was like, wait, why are they saying there's
Speaker 1: only one because it's.
Speaker 2: Levante and it's Sue.
Speaker 1: And then I went to Lincoln, which having gone to
Speaker 1: Miszoo at the time of this moment, with Nebraska in
Speaker 1: our Big twelve division, I should have immediately recognized. So
Speaker 1: I felt a little bad about that. So Casey was
Speaker 1: partially stumped because of the Lincoln. There's Omaha part I
Speaker 1: don't know nothing.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, the answer is Shaq Barrett who played at Colorado State.
Speaker 1: He did the whole bounce around, we go here, we
Speaker 1: go there, and that was one.
Speaker 2: Of his stops.
Speaker 5: This is very specific.
Speaker 2: It was, which is how stumps. That's what this has
Speaker 2: gotta be.
Speaker 5: Like a University of Nebraska OMA alumni sending in this.
Speaker 2: I think that same problem.
Speaker 1: See, because there were there were more than one question
Speaker 1: submitted specifically about Nebraska related football things specifically, yes, but
Speaker 1: also University Nebraska that I can tell.
Speaker 2: They're just they're the expert at that. So thank you
Speaker 2: very much for our question.
Speaker 1: We got to stump Scott with it's our favorite thing
Speaker 1: that happens, and again, please continue to send them und
Speaker 1: now Oh no.
Speaker 5: Hey, unless you give me partial credit.
Speaker 1: We'll think about it. But also, just you're a baseball fan,
Speaker 1: think of it that way. You're still batting a great average. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's true, that you're still a famer in baseball category.
Speaker 1: So please send us our our future stump Scott questions.
Speaker 1: We love it, we appreciate it. So yeah, send it
Speaker 1: to myself or Bree on social media.
Speaker 5: Nothing else. A thousand don't even have a football program anymore,
Speaker 5: do they.
Speaker 2: Oh, there you go.
Speaker 1: You stumped me with that question. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: got nothing. Well that is going to do it for
Speaker 1: us on this edition of Bucks Insider. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for being with us. We'll see you next time.