Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning Bucks fans. Hope everyone's doing well.
Speaker 1: Casey Phillips here with Scott Smith here to talk all
Speaker 1: things Buccaneers bye week, everything we need to know, and
Speaker 1: of course we want to know what you guys want
Speaker 1: us to talk about, so make sure you submit your
Speaker 1: questions for us over on the Buccaneers Facebook page in
Speaker 1: the comments section as we give people a chance to
Speaker 1: do that. Scott, I just wanted to hear from you,
Speaker 1: um big takeaways from the game against Kansas City and
Speaker 1: then just looking at the bye week of you know,
Speaker 1: the importance of having it now, what you feel like
Speaker 1: their their goals are and things that they could want
Speaker 1: to accomplish during this next week. Well, I'd say those
Speaker 1: two questions are very related. Um. You know, it ended
Speaker 1: up being yet another loss, a close one that the
Speaker 1: Bucks couldn't get the ball back for one more shot
Speaker 1: at the end, and and that was mainly because the
Speaker 1: team has continued it's trend recently of slow starts on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. UH. The offense UH did
Speaker 1: not convert any of its first four third downs in
Speaker 1: the first quarter, all of which were six yards are
Speaker 1: fewer and you usually expect to convert those so they
Speaker 1: couldn't get any drives going, which is how they fell
Speaker 1: into that hole. But otherwise a seventeen point hole. But
Speaker 1: otherwise they kept pace with that explosive Kansas City offense
Speaker 1: and actually even held Kansas Cities offense to five points
Speaker 1: below it's usual per game average. So all in all,
Speaker 1: giving up twenty seven points wasn't disastrous. The problem was
Speaker 1: falling into that early hole, uh, and having to claw
Speaker 1: your way back and getting unbalanced on offense again, and
Speaker 1: and having some troubles getting off the field every now
Speaker 1: and then on defense, and you know, erasing a couple
Speaker 1: of turnovers with penalties. So that's what the team is.
Speaker 1: It's not the team, they're the players. Have that time off.
Speaker 1: That's what you do with the bye week. For the
Speaker 1: most part. You you will allow players to rest and recuperate,
Speaker 1: but the coaches don't take the time off. They use
Speaker 1: that time to self scout. And they had already compiled everything.
Speaker 1: Uh of course, you know, analyzed all the plays, and
Speaker 1: now they take that analysis of everything they've done to
Speaker 1: the first twelve games and look at what's working in
Speaker 1: what isn't, and what can be fixed and what needs
Speaker 1: to be fixed, and that's what you work on as
Speaker 1: coaches this week. And I think one of their big
Speaker 1: things is how can we get back to those fast
Speaker 1: starts we had in the first five or six weeks
Speaker 1: of the season when the Buccaneers were outscoring their opponents
Speaker 1: something like fourteen in the first quarter. That's completely flipped
Speaker 1: now and that's the main problem that the team is
Speaker 1: running into in recent losses. Yeah, and and that works
Speaker 1: perfectly because we had a question from Mitch asking why
Speaker 1: do you think we have given up so many points
Speaker 1: in the first half, But maybe we can even say
Speaker 1: specifically in the first quarter. Some of it has to
Speaker 1: do with You got to remember that every team, every
Speaker 1: single time that your offense or your defense doesn't succeed,
Speaker 1: the other team wins. So it's not necessarily a huge
Speaker 1: failure on your team's part. It's the other team is
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean, the Chiefs have good offense, and
Speaker 1: they're early going. Teams have like fifteen scripted plays, and
Speaker 1: just simply enough, in recent weeks, the opponents have done
Speaker 1: much better with their scripted plays than the Buccaneers half.
Speaker 1: And it's been execut You should in some parts, and
Speaker 1: sometimes you'd have to take a little time on defense
Speaker 1: to figure out what the team is doing to you
Speaker 1: did differently that you didn't expect and adjust to it.
Speaker 1: And the Buccaneers have done a pretty good job in
Speaker 1: a number of games adjusting after slow starts on defense.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, sometimes they're just getting beat early
Speaker 1: on you know, that's all there's doing. Really. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: grag had asked, why don't the Bucks use a fullback
Speaker 1: to help with pass protection all Claire seems like he
Speaker 1: could be a good option. Well, I mean they do
Speaker 1: that occasionally in both Claire and some of their tight ends.
Speaker 1: They'll motion them into the backfield and they're basically like
Speaker 1: a fullback. But uh, Bruce is more of a get
Speaker 1: as many guys out into the field and find one
Speaker 1: of them guy than a max protect kind of guys.
Speaker 1: So the past protection really hasn't been that bad. I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why that's an issue. Really. Uh. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was only sacked once in this game, and actually only
Speaker 1: once in each of the last three games, and he's
Speaker 1: had a pretty good amount of time. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: there hasn't been times when he's been pressured, of course
Speaker 1: there have, But overall, the past protection has been pretty good,
Speaker 1: So I don't think taking away one of your eligibles
Speaker 1: and adding more blocking is probably the direction that we're
Speaker 1: gonna want to go there. Daniel had asked, what do
Speaker 1: you think has been going on with our corners and
Speaker 1: uh in coverage recently? Well, I mean, in this case
Speaker 1: with Tyree Hill, Carlton Davis got beat on out and
Speaker 1: up and that happens. I mean, Mike Evans beat one
Speaker 1: of their cornerbacks on and out and up and that happens. Uh.
Speaker 1: The second one to Tyree Hill way down field was
Speaker 1: one of those plays that we're afraid of going into
Speaker 1: the game where um, Patrick Mahomes moves around a little bit,
Speaker 1: backs up, backs up by his time, and it's just
Speaker 1: hard to plaster, especially on really fast guys for that
Speaker 1: much time. And the third one to Tyreek Hill, Carlson
Speaker 1: Davis actually had really good courage. The passages insanely good. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the cornerbacks, like most cornerbacks in the league,
Speaker 1: of that up and down play, but I think their
Speaker 1: body of work through the majority of the season has
Speaker 1: been pretty good. Of course, we were playing that game
Speaker 1: without Jamal Dean. Uh. He would have been helpful to
Speaker 1: have Meldan against this team in particular because he's our
Speaker 1: fastest corner and that team is just loaded with speed.
Speaker 1: But overall, I think our corners have played well. Okay,
Speaker 1: and Michael had asked, what do you think we need
Speaker 1: to do to get into the playoffs? Does three and
Speaker 1: one do it? Does two and to do it? What?
Speaker 1: What do you think the record is going to need
Speaker 1: to be? I think three and one does it too,
Speaker 1: and two gets me a little nervous. Um. If you
Speaker 1: look at the the picture right now, the Bucks are sixth,
Speaker 1: Arizona seventh at six and five, and then the teams
Speaker 1: there's three teams Minnesota, San Francisco, and Chicago that are
Speaker 1: all five and six. Now, if you look at any
Speaker 1: of those three teams, to get to ten wins, they'd
Speaker 1: have to run their table go five and oh, and
Speaker 1: you kind of don't really think that's gonna happen. I mean,
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if any any of those teams
Speaker 1: goes five and all the rest of the way. So
Speaker 1: if they don't go to five and oh, they can't
Speaker 1: get to tin wins. And if the Buccaneers go three
Speaker 1: and one, they're at ten wins by the same token four.
Speaker 1: Winning all four absolutely gets you in, but I feel
Speaker 1: about confident that three wins would get it done as
Speaker 1: well two wins. And now it's getting a little Harry.
Speaker 1: I saw a couple different people brought up, um, why
Speaker 1: does the team not do more pre snap motion? Uh
Speaker 1: in some of the things on the offense, and just
Speaker 1: a few questions about the types of whether it's short,
Speaker 1: short throws or just there there are a few questions
Speaker 1: about the style of the offense and what you think
Speaker 1: of it. Well, I'm starting to get a little amused
Speaker 1: at all the um why don't we use why don't
Speaker 1: we put in more pre snap motion questions that the
Speaker 1: coaches are suddenly getting as if you know, adding more
Speaker 1: motion to our offense is suddenly gonna miraculously cure anything
Speaker 1: that's wrong. Some teams use a lot of motion, like
Speaker 1: the Rams, some teams don't. And has there been much
Speaker 1: reason to complain about our offense overall the production that
Speaker 1: they're getting through the majority of the season, the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are like seventh in the league and scoring maybe sixth
Speaker 1: and uh that you have one of the best passing
Speaker 1: attacks in the league. I mean, I think to worry
Speaker 1: you know, things don't work sometimes early on and in
Speaker 1: third downs, and you look for solutions. But Bruce arians
Speaker 1: Is offense has been pretty productive for the majority of
Speaker 1: the two years that he's been here. I think you're
Speaker 1: just gonna keep doing what you do, just do it better. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, having a lot of pre snap motion isn't
Speaker 1: some magical elixir to make plays that weren't working now
Speaker 1: suddenly work. You know, it's something. It's something you either
Speaker 1: do or don't emphasize in your offense. And some teams
Speaker 1: doing some teams don't. It's like some teams are four
Speaker 1: three defenses and some teams are three four and you
Speaker 1: do your best to make it work within that UM.
Speaker 1: I think sort of hinted at in that question is
Speaker 1: some of the calls on third down, Like do you
Speaker 1: know you throw a low percentage play on third down?
Speaker 1: And that can look frustrating. I think sometimes though those plays,
Speaker 1: it's a decision of where you go with the ball.
Speaker 1: You have some short options and you have some other options,
Speaker 1: and the quarterback sees something he thinks he can hit
Speaker 1: and he goes for it. I mean, nobody was complaining
Speaker 1: about the fourth and two past two down the field
Speaker 1: to Mike Evans that became a thirty one yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I think coaches here these questions over and over again,
Speaker 1: and and they think and they say it sometimes too.
Speaker 1: Is it's not always the decision making, it's the execution.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. A play looks like it
Speaker 1: was a bad call because it wasn't executed. Not to
Speaker 1: say every coach makes some bad calls from time to
Speaker 1: time and they regret it and they wish they would
Speaker 1: have done something different. But um, you know, I think
Speaker 1: it's you're gonna hear this from all the coaches and players.
Speaker 1: It's more about execution, okay. And uh. We also had
Speaker 1: a question about Antonio Brown versus Scotty Miller of why
Speaker 1: they're using the guys in the way they are and
Speaker 1: and just the overall the different ways that um, the
Speaker 1: wide receivers have been used since Antonio Brown got here,
Speaker 1: and if there's maybe a way to still get Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller a little bit more involved. When Antonio Brown first
Speaker 1: got here, Scotty Miller was still dealing with those hip
Speaker 1: and growing injuries and he was still as limited in
Speaker 1: practice almost every day, and and coach said very recently Uh,
Speaker 1: it might have been coach left, which that Scotty would
Speaker 1: be getting back to being more involved in the offense.
Speaker 1: But right off the bat Antonio Brown, Uh, they found
Speaker 1: things that they could do with him. And in this
Speaker 1: lab game you only had a couple of catches, but
Speaker 1: in the two previous games he was one of our
Speaker 1: most targeted guys, was really productive. We haven't hit him
Speaker 1: down the field yet, just missed on a couple of them,
Speaker 1: but otherwise has been a guy that's caught six or
Speaker 1: eight passes and moved the chains really well. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it's obvious that Antonio Brown's arrival has
Speaker 1: caused Scottie some snaps, but I think that they want
Speaker 1: to even that out a little bit more as the
Speaker 1: as the rest of the game's go on. All right,
Speaker 1: well that's gonna do it for us on this edition
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Speaker 1: so much for joining us, Thanks for all those questions,
Speaker 1: and we'll see you next week. M