Speaker 1: Hey there, Good morning Bucks fans. How's everyone doing? Casey
Speaker 1: Phillips Here, Senior writer and editor Scott Smith. It is
Speaker 1: time for Buccaneers Insider Live, presented by Miller Lite. This
Speaker 1: is our final one of this week. We will be
Speaker 1: back next week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, but for now,
Speaker 1: these are the final questions for a little bit in
Speaker 1: terms of this week. So make sure you head on
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Speaker 1: You can leave your thoughts, comments, questions, all of that
Speaker 1: in the comment section underneath the live video. And as
Speaker 1: we give people a chance to start submitting some of
Speaker 1: those questions, I know a lot of them will be
Speaker 1: about injury updates, which is uh, sort of the pig
Speaker 1: stories leading up to the Super Bowl. Of course, we
Speaker 1: talked a little bit yesterday about why the injury reports
Speaker 1: are a little weird, and today is definitely a day
Speaker 1: we need to remind everybody of that. So tell us
Speaker 1: what we know about what the entry report means and
Speaker 1: what the one that we have as of now says. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll just repeat the explanation from yesterday because it is
Speaker 1: in case you weren't watching, Uh, it is a weird procedure. Really,
Speaker 1: you're basically the two teams are producing injury reports this
Speaker 1: week as if there was a game this Sunday, January
Speaker 1: thirty one, even though there isn't one in the next
Speaker 1: time these two teams are gonna play is February seven.
Speaker 1: So you go through the motions of acting as if
Speaker 1: there was a game on Sunday, and you you give
Speaker 1: the designations on the injury report that you would normally give,
Speaker 1: which means tomorrow, when the injury report comes out, there
Speaker 1: will be game status designations like out and doubtful and questionable.
Speaker 1: And like I said yesterday, I hope fans realize this
Speaker 1: because I don't want anybody to panic if, like say,
Speaker 1: and I'm just pulling out an example, this is not
Speaker 1: something I know. Jordan Whitehead has lifted it out because
Speaker 1: if there was a game on Sunday, he wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to play. So just keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: Take all this with a grain assault realize that if
Speaker 1: you've got an injured player who you think you can
Speaker 1: get back within two weeks, you're probably taking it easy
Speaker 1: on him right now. So yesterday's injury report was the
Speaker 1: exact same as the day before, which isn't surprising because
Speaker 1: the injury report on Wednesday was just an estimation because
Speaker 1: there was no actual practice. So the same guys Jordan's
Speaker 1: White had, Antoine Winfield, Davante David, Antonio Brown and JPP
Speaker 1: they all didn't practice yesterday. Yeah, and I think that
Speaker 1: it is so so good to remind everybody no panic necessary,
Speaker 1: There's not a reason to freak out. Um. We did
Speaker 1: have a question from Scott asking do you think Lavonte, David,
Speaker 1: and Antoine Winfield will be healthy healthy for the Super Bowl? Um,
Speaker 1: it is still very early, I know, but just overall,
Speaker 1: what are some of the injuries that are you are
Speaker 1: either more or less concerned about at this point. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not really overly concerned about any of them. But
Speaker 1: like I said last week, I really really don't like
Speaker 1: speculating about injuries and when a guy is going to
Speaker 1: come back, partially because I don't think I have a
Speaker 1: good track record on it. But um, I mean I
Speaker 1: just go with the evidence that I have. That being
Speaker 1: they took Antoine Winfield with them to Green Bay, they
Speaker 1: actually worked him out on the field before the game.
Speaker 1: I think they were thinking it was more likely than
Speaker 1: not that he would play but it was just decided
Speaker 1: that he couldn't move around well enough. Uh so they didn't,
Speaker 1: you know, make up active for that game. But if
Speaker 1: he was that close, you certainly would think that two
Speaker 1: weeks later he'd be ready to go, barring any kind
Speaker 1: of setback. Who's the other one, Lavante? Lavante is the
Speaker 1: more unusual of the of them, and that we didn't
Speaker 1: know he had an injury until Wednesday's injury report, and
Speaker 1: his is a hamstring. And if there's any injury that
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable about predicting it's a hamstring because
Speaker 1: those are very unpredictable. But my guess, I guess I
Speaker 1: would The way I would put it is that they're
Speaker 1: just taking it very carefully with Lavante and that when
Speaker 1: it's all said and done, he'll be playing in the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. And we certainly all want that because that
Speaker 1: man has waited a long time for this moment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's such a huge point. I really am
Speaker 1: hoping that of all people you do not want to miss,
Speaker 1: both from an impact on the field and from just
Speaker 1: a personal standpoint, it would be him. Um. And speaking
Speaker 1: of just the injury reports and practice, UM, we had
Speaker 1: some interesting, you know, comments and news from coach yesterday
Speaker 1: about how practices are gonna go. We've seen some different
Speaker 1: questions of you know, are they act to seeing harder
Speaker 1: or less hard or how does that work when you
Speaker 1: do have two weeks leading up to the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and it is at the end of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I did find it a little bit interesting, um
Speaker 1: what the approach is going to be. I think we
Speaker 1: maybe were asked about this yesterday, and I thought that
Speaker 1: they might take it a little bit easy, and they
Speaker 1: certainly did on Thursday. But that's that's less of a
Speaker 1: super Bowl thing and more of a late in the
Speaker 1: season thing. Most of the week's leading up to the
Speaker 1: end of the season. In the beginning of the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they were doing a walkthrough on Wednesday, just because it's
Speaker 1: been a long, grueling season and these guys don't need
Speaker 1: to be worked too hard. However, coach said they were
Speaker 1: going to ramp it up and go full speed today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow. Um, which so today's Friday, I remember that correctly. Uh,
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday's practices are the equivalent of what it
Speaker 1: would usually be Thursday and Friday. Because they pushed the
Speaker 1: schedule by one day, and he said they are going
Speaker 1: to go full speed in those practices. And the reason
Speaker 1: is they want to get all of the games plan
Speaker 1: installed this week. And they want to do that coaches
Speaker 1: because next week there are so many media obligations that
Speaker 1: he's just a little bit worried about the time and
Speaker 1: and all the you know, being attention being torn in
Speaker 1: a bunch of different directions. So they want to have
Speaker 1: the game plan installed this week and they're gonna go
Speaker 1: full speed. And I can tell you when you go
Speaker 1: to practice now and you drive up towards the indoor
Speaker 1: facility and then walk out on the practice field the
Speaker 1: parking lot, there is now a sea of tents and
Speaker 1: those tents are like various networks and so on that
Speaker 1: are going to be getting um interviews with players over
Speaker 1: the next I don't know however many days that you know,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of obligations. Guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be going from one to the next. So you know
Speaker 1: they would be doing that anyway in a super Bowl
Speaker 1: city next week. Uh So it's it's what you have
Speaker 1: to do it for a super Bowl. But it is
Speaker 1: kind of remarkable to see all the obligations they have
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, that's a very good point. Um. We
Speaker 1: had a question from Richard. He said, the scores in
Speaker 1: the playoffs have been remarkably similar. If we score thirty
Speaker 1: points again, it will be enough to win the game.
Speaker 1: You know, not only are they similar, thirty one thirty
Speaker 1: and thirty one thirty and thirty one we scored. Um,
Speaker 1: we scored thirty point eight points per game during the
Speaker 1: regular season, so to basically match that is kind of
Speaker 1: kind of interesting, I think. And uh, just a little
Speaker 1: note if I haven't mentioned it before, that's the first
Speaker 1: time that a team has ever scored thirty plus points
Speaker 1: in three straight playoff games, which I found surprising when
Speaker 1: I looked it up. But it's true. Uh do we do?
Speaker 1: I think we need to score thirty to win? It
Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean, Kansas City scored about twenty nine
Speaker 1: point six points per game, and they have a quarterback
Speaker 1: who proved last year that even if they're down by
Speaker 1: two scores, he could lead them back. So I think, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think thirty points is probably what it's going to take,
Speaker 1: if not a little bit more. Right, Yeah, we made
Speaker 1: for a pretty exciting super Bowl, you have to admit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that is a really good point. And I
Speaker 1: love that. You know, I heard, um Romo did his
Speaker 1: media availability yes day, and you know, he and Jim Nanson,
Speaker 1: the ones calling the games, and Romo talked about how
Speaker 1: this is a game that he feels like people will
Speaker 1: be talking to their kids and grandkids about that it's
Speaker 1: that kind of an iconic quarterback matchup and offenses that
Speaker 1: you know, this is not going to be a boring
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Um. So yeah, I thought that was kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting way to put it. Yeah, the quarterback
Speaker 1: matchup is incredible, maybe the most intriguing one in Super
Speaker 1: Bowl history. And that sounds like hyperbole, but it's definitely
Speaker 1: up there. Um. You know, either Patrick Mahomes is going
Speaker 1: to be the first quarterback ever to win two Super
Speaker 1: Bowls by the age of right now, the earliest was
Speaker 1: Tom Brady by the age of or Tom Brady is
Speaker 1: going to become the first player in any of the
Speaker 1: four major North American sports to win two titles, to
Speaker 1: win tiles with two different teams after the age of
Speaker 1: forty and both of those would be remarkable achievements and
Speaker 1: one of them is definitely gonna happen. Yeah, that's very true. Um,
Speaker 1: And we know that in the media as well. What
Speaker 1: was talked about yesterday was this idea of when the
Speaker 1: turning point was for the Bucks. That's something that Brady
Speaker 1: has been asked about a lot, all all sorts of
Speaker 1: people on the team have been asked, when was the
Speaker 1: point that you felt like everything started to click? And
Speaker 1: it's been sort of interesting to hear that the different
Speaker 1: answers uh that that you've heard from people recently. What
Speaker 1: have you learned about that and what it says about
Speaker 1: why this team is it is now. Yeah, before everybody
Speaker 1: started talking about this, UM, I would have obviously pointed
Speaker 1: to the bye week and coming out of the bye
Speaker 1: week because every they've won every game since then, and
Speaker 1: a lot of things like the deep passing game have
Speaker 1: been so much better since then. But I have and
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting to note that UM hearing Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: and Jason Light in particular talk about it, they really
Speaker 1: feel like the Chicago game was, if not the turning point,
Speaker 1: a turning point. And for anybody who needs a reminder,
Speaker 1: that was Week five, first primetime game at Chicago, UM
Speaker 1: and the Bucks lost twenty to nineteen, and I think
Speaker 1: they committed something like eleven penalties for a hundred nine yards. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, had some turnovers, just hurt themselves, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, was it was very close. I think it
Speaker 1: was twenty nineteen and an extremely close game. They hurt
Speaker 1: themselves a lot and and left that one feeling like
Speaker 1: they should have won it. And there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people who want to tribute that turn to Tom Brady
Speaker 1: being seen on the sidelines sort of being very um
Speaker 1: demonstrative and just one of those moments that you could
Speaker 1: see of the leadership that all his teams teammates talk about.
Speaker 1: But Bruce Arian says it had nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: It had to do with them coming back and looking
Speaker 1: at the film and realizing that they let one get
Speaker 1: away because they beat themselves. And ever since then, the
Speaker 1: Bucks have beat themselves a lot less, a lot fewer turnovers,
Speaker 1: a lot fewer penalties, and so that was a turning point.
Speaker 1: I guess you could say, yeah, that's an interesting point. Um,
Speaker 1: And Dave asked, is Mike Evans going to be the
Speaker 1: main target in the game? Well, you can never you
Speaker 1: can never really predict that in the Bucks offense. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: I guess Chris Godden was the main target in the
Speaker 1: last game, right. The only thing I would I would
Speaker 1: say is I don't think Kansas City necessarily has a
Speaker 1: guy that they will use as a shutdown corner like
Speaker 1: UM New Orleans does with Mike on marsh with Marshall Lattimore,
Speaker 1: and which Green Bay did a little bit with JayR
Speaker 1: Alexander when he was on that side. Um they keep
Speaker 1: Kansas City tends to keep their cornerbacks on the same side,
Speaker 1: and their cornerbacks are good. Obviously they're in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: but maybe not at the Jaire Alexander level, so it
Speaker 1: might be a little bit less of might getting shut
Speaker 1: down because the other team is determined to shut him
Speaker 1: down this week, so it could be sure. Richard asked,
Speaker 1: who do you think would win the two thousand two
Speaker 1: Bucks or well, you know, I'm gonna have to go
Speaker 1: with the O two Bucks, just because the Buccaneers probably
Speaker 1: are a more balanced team this this year with uh,
Speaker 1: you know, one of the best offenses in the league,
Speaker 1: probably the best offense we've ever had, and a good defense.
Speaker 1: But that defense UH in two thousand two was legendary.
Speaker 1: It was loaded with Hall of famers or perhaps soon
Speaker 1: to be Hall of Famers, and it's of the four
Speaker 1: sides offense, defense in those two games, that one defense
Speaker 1: is so far ahead and above shoulders everything else that
Speaker 1: I have to go with that one just because it
Speaker 1: was so special. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
Speaker 1: W'd be wonder if you could, if you could actually
Speaker 1: have that game, would be awesome. Yeah, that would be incredible.
Speaker 1: Um Jose asked if the Bucks win the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: who would be the m v P. Do you think
Speaker 1: of this season because you don't know who's gonna be
Speaker 1: the MVP of the Super Bowl. Well, I think he's
Speaker 1: probably asking about the game. But if you can do
Speaker 1: both if you want, Well, okay, So what we know
Speaker 1: about m vps in the Super Bowl is if the quarterback,
Speaker 1: if you win in the quarterback has at least a
Speaker 1: pretty good game, he's almost always gonna be the m
Speaker 1: v P. Tom Brady already has four of them in
Speaker 1: the six times that they won. If the quarterback is unremarkable,
Speaker 1: usually it goes to whoever was the best offensive player. Um,
Speaker 1: so it could be somebody like Mike Evans or Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett. If it's not either of those guys, um,
Speaker 1: and it's defense, it has to be something incredible like
Speaker 1: Dexter Jackson's too. Game changing interceptions won him that one
Speaker 1: in a game where it was hard to pick out
Speaker 1: who was the best offensive player. So if the if
Speaker 1: the kind of offenses kind of evened out and everybody contributes,
Speaker 1: maybe a defensive player could step in there. But the
Speaker 1: obvious answer is Brady, and I would also go with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady as the m v P of the regular season.
Speaker 1: Right Uh? And David asked uh, he said, the Chiefs
Speaker 1: have a bottom ten run defense. We were effective running
Speaker 1: on Green Bay, but seemed to bandon it a little
Speaker 1: bit more in the second half. Do you guys see
Speaker 1: us sticking to the run this game? I don't know
Speaker 1: if we really abandoned it. We just had three drives
Speaker 1: that ended early because of interceptions. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't think we really And there was some runs. Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones had a series of runs that weren't particularly effective,
Speaker 1: not necessarily his fault, maybe the blocking wasn't there. But
Speaker 1: I don't think we abandoned the run in that game.
Speaker 1: But I do think we tend to if we're gonna
Speaker 1: start running the ball earlier like we did in that game.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons is to set up the
Speaker 1: pass and so, um, I agree with him. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: have a bottom tin running game and the Buccaneers running
Speaker 1: attack has been averaging a hundred fifteen yards per game
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and the Chiefs are allowing six yards
Speaker 1: per carrying the playoffs, which is pretty bad. So you
Speaker 1: certainly look at that and think that's an opportunity for
Speaker 1: the Bucks and I would I would see us starting
Speaker 1: with that at the very least. But as I've said
Speaker 1: every time we talked about the running game, the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: have such a wealth of talent in the passing game
Speaker 1: that it's it's kind of ridiculous to think they're gonna
Speaker 1: go to any game thinking they're not gonna you know,
Speaker 1: air it out they are, right yeah, Um, And then
Speaker 1: we'll close with this one. We had a few different
Speaker 1: people asking about just the way to uh slow down
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill? Um, you know that? What what are the
Speaker 1: adjustments you think that they make from that first game?
Speaker 1: Who do you think will be covering him in you know,
Speaker 1: man verse zone? How all that's gonna look. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: obviously wasn't the game that looked the best for Carlton
Speaker 1: Davis in what was a very good season for Carlton Davis.
Speaker 1: I still think he's the man um to cover Tyreek
Speaker 1: as much as possible, but maybe there is a little
Speaker 1: more help this time. You know. Again, as we talked
Speaker 1: about this all the time, Todd Bowls is going to
Speaker 1: mix things up. I don't think he's gonna play all press.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna play all off. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna play all man or his own.
Speaker 1: I think he'll mix it up and try to confuse
Speaker 1: the quarterback and make him think it's one thing when
Speaker 1: it's actually the other thing. Um. But I do think
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis on Tyreek Hill will be an incredibly important
Speaker 1: matchup in this game. All right, Well that's gonna do
Speaker 1: it for us. On Buccaneers and Side Live presented by
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Speaker 1: guys ready for everything you need to know going into
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. We'll see you then. M H.