Speaker 1: Welcome in to Buccaneers Inside our Live presented by Miller,
Speaker 1: like Casey Phillips and Scott Smith here, And it's been
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks since our last show. Our office
Speaker 1: kind of shuts down for a little bit of a
Speaker 1: July for our holiday, which is very nice, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, normally this time of year there's not just
Speaker 1: a whole lot of news or a whole lot going on,
Speaker 1: but there has been a little bit more news since
Speaker 1: we lasted our show because the last time we were here,
Speaker 1: we didn't actually know what was going to happen with
Speaker 1: the Jamis Winston suspension. Now we do have some certainty
Speaker 1: on how many games he's going to be missing, and
Speaker 1: we I know that I'm sure we're gonna get a
Speaker 1: million questions about that. So at this point, what do
Speaker 1: we know and how you feel like you see that
Speaker 1: affecting those first three games. Last time we're on there
Speaker 1: was sort of there were reports out there that it
Speaker 1: was going to be a three game suspension, which proved
Speaker 1: to be true, but we said at the time that
Speaker 1: we really couldn't go very far with it because it
Speaker 1: was not official. But since then the league made its
Speaker 1: official ruling it will be a three game suspension to
Speaker 1: start the season. Jameis Winston can still come to training
Speaker 1: camp and playing all the preseason games. But then unless
Speaker 1: the first three games and uh, you know, Jamis made
Speaker 1: his statement afterwards, the team made their statement afterwards. So
Speaker 1: from that standpoint, we have clarity at least for the
Speaker 1: you know, for the short term. So that's what we know.
Speaker 1: Three games and so of course now you start discussing
Speaker 1: what what are the consequences of that who will be
Speaker 1: at quarterback in those three games? How well will that
Speaker 1: person do, what will be like when Jamis comes back,
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, So of course we can discuss
Speaker 1: those things. I'm sure fans want to do that. The obvious, uh,
Speaker 1: the answer for those first three games is Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: But we can't really count out Ryan Griffin because they
Speaker 1: he's been around for about three seasons now, and they
Speaker 1: went into two Ryan's went into last year's training camp
Speaker 1: in pretty much an equal battle. It became a move
Speaker 1: point because Ryan Griffin hurt his shoulder, but I would
Speaker 1: think that Bucks still failed just as good about him,
Speaker 1: so he'll get every chance to compete. But the obviously
Speaker 1: answer is Ryan Fitzpatrick, right, actually and yeah, and just
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Speaker 1: So you talked about Ryan Fitzpatrick and Ryan Griffin that
Speaker 1: um that it was a pretty interesting competition last year.
Speaker 1: What do you remember about Essentially, we we got to
Speaker 1: see Ryan Fitzpatrick in regular season games last year. What
Speaker 1: do you remember about what we saw from him in
Speaker 1: those games and then what we saw from Ryan Griffin
Speaker 1: before that injury. Well, Ryan Griffin was looking good before
Speaker 1: he got injured, and it was going to be and
Speaker 1: it was gonna be a difficult situation. I think a
Speaker 1: good problem to have because the reason you bring in
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick is you know what he can do. Uh,
Speaker 1: He's a very known comanity with over a hundred starts.
Speaker 1: He's he's had some really big numbers in some places.
Speaker 1: He's obviously a very smart guy. The team believed he
Speaker 1: could pick things up quickly, he could step in and
Speaker 1: keep the offense operating at the level was what jamis
Speaker 1: and that's what happened in those three games, and he started,
Speaker 1: we won two of them, and he was pretty good
Speaker 1: in those games are pretty productive. In addition, he also
Speaker 1: had a really nice second half in Arizona, making the
Speaker 1: Bucks pretty good comeback that didn't quite pan out after
Speaker 1: Jamis heard his shoulder the first time. So, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's easy too. It would be the easiest answer would
Speaker 1: be to say, well, we've seen that he can do it,
Speaker 1: so he's the obvious guy. But Ryan Griffin was looking
Speaker 1: pretty good beforehand. If if I have to be the
Speaker 1: one to make that decision, like if they had to
Speaker 1: decide at the end of training camp last year which
Speaker 1: Ryan to keep, if Ryan Griffin had done continue to
Speaker 1: do well throughout the preseason, I think that would have
Speaker 1: been tough and also would have been tough to decide, well,
Speaker 1: are we're gonna keep two or we're gonna keep three.
Speaker 1: And by the time they had to make that decision,
Speaker 1: it was mid season because Ryan Griffin had been put
Speaker 1: on injury reserve and then we'd used one of our
Speaker 1: options to take him off, and we still had Jamis,
Speaker 1: but he was banged up and we had um Ryan
Speaker 1: Griffin starting, so it was an easy decision just to
Speaker 1: activate Ryan fitzpat Ryan Griffin and role with all three
Speaker 1: of them. You know, I know because he said it
Speaker 1: once early last year that if he had, if everything
Speaker 1: worked out the way he wanted, Dirk Utter would prefer
Speaker 1: to just keep two quarterbacks on the fifty three man roster,
Speaker 1: which a lot of teams do. Now that you don't
Speaker 1: have that third inactive game day option anymore. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's probably kind of cleared up in this
Speaker 1: case to start the season, because with Jamis unavailable for
Speaker 1: the first three would seem very likely you would keep
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick and Ryan Griffin for those three games. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only other option right now is the unrector Ricky
Speaker 1: Austin Allen Um, who off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: would seem like a good bet to make the practice
Speaker 1: squad but not necessarily active roster. And uh, and so
Speaker 1: you keep those two and then the question becomes again
Speaker 1: when Jamis comes back, you go down to two, which
Speaker 1: means something has to go, or do you keep three
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year. Okay, that'll be interesting
Speaker 1: to see for sure. Um, we had a question from Michael.
Speaker 1: He said, do you think this makes it more likely
Speaker 1: that the Bucks are going to go very run heavy
Speaker 1: to start the season without Janus? Now? I don't think so,
Speaker 1: And I do think the Buckners would like to run
Speaker 1: the ball more, which is going to be involved running
Speaker 1: the ball more effectively than they did last year or
Speaker 1: the last two years. I think the ideal is you
Speaker 1: would look at two thousand and fifteen, which was Dirk
Speaker 1: Cutter's first year. He was the offensive coordinator, but he
Speaker 1: so he was here calling plays the Bucks. Doug Martin
Speaker 1: had a really good year and the Bucks running game
Speaker 1: was very good that that year. Jamis was still young,
Speaker 1: he was rookie, and so he probably they probably wanted
Speaker 1: to give him as much support in the running game
Speaker 1: as possible. But I think what you saw was a
Speaker 1: pretty balanced attack, and and that's what coaches will say
Speaker 1: a lot of times, this is the hardest offense to
Speaker 1: defend is a balanced one because you don't know what's coming.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it would I would use the
Speaker 1: term run heavy because it's not like you really need
Speaker 1: to protect Ryan Fitzpatrick. I think um, But I do
Speaker 1: think just in general that will want to run the
Speaker 1: ball more and that's gonna involve doing it more effectively,
Speaker 1: which comes down to two things. How how big of
Speaker 1: a factor is Ronald Jones and I think they think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a big factor. And does the reshuffled
Speaker 1: offensive line performed better than they did last year? Amazing segue.
Speaker 1: You didn't even know that. That's where we were heading here.
Speaker 1: But Gerald wants to know how good does the offensive
Speaker 1: line look so far? Well, that's an unanswerable question at
Speaker 1: the moment, as we said, because the one thing you
Speaker 1: really can't judge in offseason workouts is how good the
Speaker 1: offensive and defensive lines are because everyone can't hit each other.
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't see a lot of these guys
Speaker 1: who brought in like Ryan Jensen and the rookie Alex Kappa.
Speaker 1: A big part of their scouting report and it still
Speaker 1: has to be proven on the field for us is
Speaker 1: how aggressive and you know, borderline nasty, that good nasty
Speaker 1: that people used to describe offensive lineman. And so that
Speaker 1: can't come out yet. Um so we'll see in training camp,
Speaker 1: but on paper I like it. I think there's some
Speaker 1: question marks, you know, the health of DeMar Dotson and
Speaker 1: who's gonna start it right guard. The team seems to
Speaker 1: be kind of high on Kleb Benenock. I think he's
Speaker 1: probably the favorite there and that's a good thing, but
Speaker 1: I think I still think there's a lot to prove there.
Speaker 1: But from center over to left tackle. I like it.
Speaker 1: And partially that's because I tend to believe our coaches
Speaker 1: who are a lot higher on Donovan Smith than a
Speaker 1: lot of the outside sources, and they see more of
Speaker 1: him in practice and know him a lot better than
Speaker 1: everybody else. For sure. Zach wants to know, is Justin
Speaker 1: Evans a starting safety this year? Well he was last year?
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think so. And that's a different way
Speaker 1: of getting the same question we get every week. It
Speaker 1: just he was gonna start. He seems like the surest
Speaker 1: bet of all the safeties to be starting, because he
Speaker 1: was the guy that from about week three or four
Speaker 1: on last year was the guy playing every snap, starting
Speaker 1: every game, playing every snap, So he seemed like the
Speaker 1: one safety of the Bucks support set on, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: need this guy on the field. Chris County, you know,
Speaker 1: he was out there a lot too and played well,
Speaker 1: but also had to split some time with t J.
Speaker 1: Ward and then Keith Danny didn't really get a lot
Speaker 1: of playtime because he was a little banged up. But
Speaker 1: roll back to two OUs and sixteen and he had
Speaker 1: a really nice, like five games stretch as a starter.
Speaker 1: So always a good option there. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: just then is a pretty sure bet. Andre wanted to know.
Speaker 1: Have the Bucks ever made a pick in the supplemental Draft? Yes,
Speaker 1: but not for a long long time. In seven, we
Speaker 1: chose Dan Silio, a defensive tackle out of the University
Speaker 1: of Miami, and uh, it didn't really go very well.
Speaker 1: I think he played maybe like six games for sort
Speaker 1: of ten games something like that. I think he was
Speaker 1: only here for one year. Um, and he later became
Speaker 1: a member of the media around here, had radio shows
Speaker 1: and so on. But um, yeah, that that was I
Speaker 1: think that's the only time we've ever done that. And
Speaker 1: that was what thirty something years ago. It's not very
Speaker 1: common and uh, you know, you lose the draft pick
Speaker 1: that you use the next year, So there hasn't even
Speaker 1: been anybody picked in the last I think three supplemental drafts,
Speaker 1: but there was. Did it happen? It was supposed to happen.
Speaker 1: That's how little publicize this thing is right, Yeah, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not very highly publicized, which is interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you do you feel like? I just feel
Speaker 1: like it's interesting that the Bucks have found so many
Speaker 1: players from unlikely places in some ways of either unlikely
Speaker 1: schools or I mean even Anthony all Claire coming from Canada,
Speaker 1: that it's interesting that the supplemental Draft isn't. Well, it's
Speaker 1: just that there's often not a lot of players that
Speaker 1: are U that you deem worthy of putting a draft
Speaker 1: pick on. You know, to be in the supplemental Draft,
Speaker 1: you're you had to have been in a situation where
Speaker 1: you you didn't declare, weren't eligible for the regular draft,
Speaker 1: but something changed after that, like something at their school situation,
Speaker 1: maybe something happened and they lost their last year of
Speaker 1: eligibility or something. And so there's only three or four
Speaker 1: guys that fall into that category every year, and usually
Speaker 1: the guys that, even if you like him a little bit,
Speaker 1: you figure, well, we'll see if nobody gets from drafted,
Speaker 1: then they can sign with somebody, so you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: have to to use a draft pick on one of
Speaker 1: those guys. I think there was one cornerback in this
Speaker 1: one who was considered a guy that might get drafted
Speaker 1: be the first guy draft in the last few years.
Speaker 1: I know the Bucks didn't do it. I can't recall
Speaker 1: if that happened and he got drafted, but um, I
Speaker 1: think that's just that's the reason the supple Mill draft
Speaker 1: really isn't all that fruitful most of them. Michael wants
Speaker 1: to know who's the favorite to win kick return punt
Speaker 1: return duties. Boy, I like that question a lot, and
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that it's asked again a little later because
Speaker 1: it's hard to call. I guess right now, you just
Speaker 1: go with the incomments I know from talking to our
Speaker 1: special team's coach, Nate Caps, are that they like what
Speaker 1: Adam Humphreys does on punts and what Jack Quiz does
Speaker 1: on kickoffs. I don't think either of those guys has
Speaker 1: produced a ton of dynamic plays, but they're smart guys.
Speaker 1: They do the right thing. I know. Um Nate Cats
Speaker 1: are raves about Jack Wis Rogers and how he just
Speaker 1: he's really apparently, and so does so the offensive coaches.
Speaker 1: This is apparently like a really smart guy and really
Speaker 1: football smart as well. And he he always does he
Speaker 1: knows what he's doing. He does the right things. And
Speaker 1: so that's that's a baseline to start with at any position,
Speaker 1: you don't want to mess up place on returns, right,
Speaker 1: that's you want to start with, Basel. This guy's gonna
Speaker 1: handle a ball well and make the right decisions and
Speaker 1: hopefully at least get you back to or choose not
Speaker 1: to run it out when you shouldn't run it out.
Speaker 1: That said, I think in an ideal world, the Bucks
Speaker 1: would prefer to find some young player who has is
Speaker 1: a much more dynamic opportunity option back there. So I
Speaker 1: would go with the incumbents is the favorite, but I
Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked at all if a guy like and
Speaker 1: I don't know, you know, maybe m J. Stewart or
Speaker 1: um Jordan Whitehead who did some running back and he
Speaker 1: hasn't had a lot of returns, but he's played offense.
Speaker 1: Somebody like that, given you or um the running back
Speaker 1: from Duke Seawan Wilson, undrafted rookie, he could be a
Speaker 1: guy that could actually earn a spintaling roster specifically for that.
Speaker 1: So and then we shouldn't forget that Bernard readis back
Speaker 1: and he was our aunt return and they liked him.
Speaker 1: He just lost his roster spot when there was a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries and we had to make some moves. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true. Uh, Christopher, Well, I'll combine a couple of
Speaker 1: questions here. Christopher wants to know how the defense is
Speaker 1: looking and will we get more sacks? Brandon was asking
Speaker 1: of the new guys via free agency or draft, who
Speaker 1: is impressing you on the defensive side? Okay, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we'll get more sacks because it would be
Speaker 1: hard to get fewer. We were last in the league
Speaker 1: with twenty two, and I mean that's that's a bad number. Um.
Speaker 1: And we just I acknowledge the fact that every move
Speaker 1: that you make isn't gonna work, especially in freegency. And
Speaker 1: we can take just this one simple example like Michael
Speaker 1: Johnson that was supposed to be a guy who's really
Speaker 1: going to change our past rush and didn't really work out.
Speaker 1: So yes, those moves cannot work out. But there we
Speaker 1: made so many of them that even if most of
Speaker 1: them work out, it should be a big improvement. Vinny Curry,
Speaker 1: Jason Pierre, Paul, Mitch un Rhine, Vita Vella. Uh, Pierre Paul,
Speaker 1: I'm missing one of them, bow Allen, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of new pieces, all of them, except for vita Vea,
Speaker 1: relatively proven players and some of them proven pass rushers,
Speaker 1: and especially JPP and Curry. Uh some of those are
Speaker 1: gonna work out. Hopefully all of them work out. But
Speaker 1: even if they don't, we have to have more sacks
Speaker 1: this year just from that being able to run in
Speaker 1: a rotation like that. And you know, even if vita
Speaker 1: Vea doesn't proved to be a big sack guy in
Speaker 1: his first year, he's gonna make a difference just by
Speaker 1: clogging up blockers and giving guys one on one opportunities.
Speaker 1: And the same thing with bo Allen. So yeah, we'll
Speaker 1: get more sex who's been most impressive so far? It again,
Speaker 1: going back to what he said before, it's hard to
Speaker 1: say that about any of the lineman, although watching three
Speaker 1: and fifty pound vita Vea go through those drills and
Speaker 1: looking like he's a three hundred pound guy the way
Speaker 1: he moves, he's impressive. But let's see how that translates.
Speaker 1: So I'd probably go with um Carlton Davis. Uh. Gary said,
Speaker 1: how does our linebacker situation look this year? Well, it
Speaker 1: looks really obvious. In two of the starting spots, both
Speaker 1: Lavonta and Quander healthy and Pro Bowl caliber players, they
Speaker 1: should obviously be starting in those spots and producing big plays.
Speaker 1: Uh I think if he recovers in time from his
Speaker 1: ankle injury got in a car accident, kindle Beck with
Speaker 1: his is the very obvious third starter, and even the
Speaker 1: reserves are pretty well known commodities and Darius Taylor, cam Lynch,
Speaker 1: Davante Bond, So it looks like a pretty solid group
Speaker 1: right there. Um. The one big unknown is Jack Cichy,
Speaker 1: the draft pick, and I think he would have gone
Speaker 1: higher than the sixth round if he hadn't been hadn't
Speaker 1: hurt his knee and missed all of his season at Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: So he's healthy and running around. Uh So if he
Speaker 1: forces the way into the picture, that'd be interesting. But
Speaker 1: otherwise I would say linebacker is one of the most
Speaker 1: set positions on our on our roster. Interesting. I think
Speaker 1: we're gonna get this question a lot, probably over the
Speaker 1: next few weeks and through training camp. Tyrone wants to
Speaker 1: know how much we'll see Chris Godwin on the outside
Speaker 1: and and Jackson in the slot to take advantage of
Speaker 1: his speed there. It'll be interesting, you know, when that
Speaker 1: topic has come up. De Shaun and the coaches have
Speaker 1: been a little vague about it, but I wouldn't call
Speaker 1: it outright denials that that might happen, right, And I
Speaker 1: can understand that. You know, if if they were developing
Speaker 1: a bunch of plays for DeShawn Jackson in the slot,
Speaker 1: does it make a lot of sense to really give
Speaker 1: out all those details. But we'll see it on the
Speaker 1: practice field during training camps, so we'll get a little
Speaker 1: better feel for it then. But I think you're gonna
Speaker 1: see you're gonna see some of that because they've got
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to get Chris gott Went
Speaker 1: on the field, all right, and that seems like one
Speaker 1: good way to do it. Yeah, that's very true. All right,
Speaker 1: that's going to do it for us here on this
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