2022 NFL Draft Roundup | Bucs Insider

As we give people a chance to do that. We know we have all the draft stuff to get to. But first, the most recent news we found out about the game in Germany that the Buccaneers will play. We knew there would be a game in Germany, but now we have some more details, so share with everybody what we found out. Yeah, this has sort of come out in stages, and we got the the international home marketing area in Germany, and then that there would be a game in Germany, and then that we were going to

be the designated host team in Germany. Now we found out as of yesterday that our opponent will be the Seattle Seahawks and the date of the game is Sunday, novem it'll be three h there, but I'll be nine thirty here, So you get to wake up have Buccaneer football before you even if I have to have lunch, I mean, and then you can enjoy the rest of the day for so you get just the Buccaneers in

the morning. That'll be a lot of fun. But it's a groundbreaking game because it's the first game ever to be played, the first NFL even preseason, but the first regular season game ever to be played in Germany. It's it's a big step forward for the NFL and German Germany has a really solid NFL fan based already. I'm

certain that seventy seed Stadum is gonna be packed. Uh. That's there's a lot of rabid NFL fans there and it's it's fun to be the first team representing that, and it's a good game for for Germany, for the German fans to get. Um. It's in Munich, by the way, I don't know if I said that. Um, it's the Buccaneers. The last two years have won a Super Bowl. They tied for the best record in the league in the

regular season last year. Tom Brady is still there, so it's obviously a marquee team for for that game and the Seahawks. I know they didn't make the playoffs last year, but that was the first time in four years. They pretty much been in the playoffs almost every year for the last twelve years. They moved on from Russell Wilson. They have some things to figure out, but I still think it's a very talented roster. It's a team that's

going to be fighting for a playoff spot. So it's a great matchup for the German fans to get a chance to see. And it's really exciting for the Bucket, it really is. I can't wait. It's going to be so cool. And also it kind of helps us know a couple of things about the schedule, which we will find out the full schedule in a week, but we know now that game and most likely it means that the bye week would be the next week. That usually they give you the bye week after an international game.

So a couple of little insights there potentially to the schedule. But of course for everybody wanting to know the full schedule. One week from now we will know the entirety of the Buccaneer schedule, and of course there's gonna be very fun. Schedule release video to go with it. Teaser alert always is that will come out on a show at eight o'clock and that's when the Buccaneers will also post all

that information. But at six o'clock every team that night, that's next Thursday, every team is allowed to announce their first home game, so we'll get a little bit of information before in two. Okay, well, let's dive into some of the draft information. We know that's been on everybody's minds for the last week or so, and of course for months we were talking about what we thought the Books would do, and now we can officially talk about

these new additions to the roster. So first, let's go ahead and talk about their first pick that ended up happening a little later than anticipated. Yeah, to me, that that was my favorite part of the whole draft. That trade. We were all kind of hoping that would happen because I think it's pretty you know, they said so afterwards, but I think we felt pretty we feel pretty good about the accuracy of the information that at twenty seven

the Books had five players on their list. They felt pretty similarly about and so if you can trade back and get some more assets, out of that and still get one of those guys. It's the perfect outcome. And it was close. Apparently they said there were four of the five were gone, but I do think that um Logan Hall, who we ended up taking was one of the guys. It was very much in consideration number twenty seven.

Um so to move back, that's where Shod White to move back and get Logan Hall, Um the guy you might have taken at twenty seven. You pick up the first pick in rounds four in six, and they ended up using that sixth round pick to help the trade

up in the in the second round. We'll be talking about Luke Atkin a minute, but also the foreth round pick became Kate dot and a tied in from Washington that we wouldn't have gotten on the or if we would have gotten him, we might have had to trade up, or we got the next guy that we got it. So so it was uh, I love the player. Casey Rodgers, defensive line coach and run game coordinator on defense, said on Tuesday when some of the assistant coaches were speaking

that he talked about his measurables six three. I think we got a screenshot for a six six two and three pounds, his speed, four point eight eight in the forty yard dash, his length. He said, he's basically the prototype, exactly what you want in a four and a three four, basically what you can in it's it's just an interior alignment, but in three four you call the nose tackling two ends and um, you know, he's just exactly what the

Buccaneers would look for in that position. And he's productive six point five six and thirteen point five tackles for last last year that got him first team All Conference honors. Yeah, which I mean, that's gonna look really good, you know, playing next to Will Golston. And of course a lot of people have wondered, what does this mean for either or not the Bucks might resign in Dominican sue. So what have you heard about that? Well, I don't think

it means anything. I mean, if the Buccaneers would still bring back in Dominican sue, if both sides wanted that, and I don't know if we have evidence of that at this point. But it also does give you what you need in case you don't get in Dominicans back. Yeah, that's true. All right, Well, let's talk about the second pick. You kind of mentioned uh Luke Gett a key earlier, the guard. So what did you think of this pick

and where you uh? Was this what you expected in terms of the position where in the draft that position was taken. Well, it kind of speaks to the way a lot of mock drafters leading into the draft really actual draft, we're giving the Buccaneers a guard like Zion Johnson or somebody in the first round. As it turns out, both of the guards that everybody was mocked to twenty

seven more long gone by then. But I think the Buckneers were able to do that anyway, They're able to hit that perceived need by getting a guy they can immediately put in a competition with Aaron Stinney for the left guard spot. And that's exactly what the Buccaneers said. As soon as the draft, I mean, I got the UH, I got the privilege to talk to John spy Tach. He came out of the draft room and gave me a little bit up. They told me about this guy, and he said right away he's gonna be uh in

competition with Aaron Stinny for the left card spot. So that's good that you have that in no matter who wins that spot, that obviously greatly improves the depth depth. But the Buccaneers are pretty aptly I think filled the difficult need that was created when Alex Cappell left and Ali Marpett retired and you lost both of your starting guards from what had been a very good offensive line. Now you know, you have Shack Mason locked in on one side, and he got really good competition from a

couple of players you like on the other side. So it's it's making me feel good about the offensive line going forward. He had a very good year at Central Michigan where we got Sewn Murphy punting from so he enjoyed going back to that. Well, first team a conference as well. PFF Pro Football Focus really liked his run blocking last year, so that's good. And then, uh, you know he played mostly tackle but definitely projecting his guard

in the in the NFL. Yeah, He's got such an interesting story of you know, in a tight end originally in high school, not recruited at all, walks on somewhere plays tight end. You know, maybe I want to try this goes ends up at Central, is going to eventually to transition over the offensive line, and how much weight he had to gain. He talked about he was eating like seven thousand calories a day, which I'm like, I

don't know how you even know. I mean, I take that back, if you give me a gallon of ice cream, I could probably it probably wasn't so how I don't think that's what he was doing. I don't think that would have been the best way to do it. Be it's gonna be interesting to watch that whole battle in the interior of the line and how that shakes out. And then our third pick were shot White running back out of a s U. What did you think of

this pick and what he could mean to this offense? Well, I mean you he pretty much slots right into where Ronald Jones was. Um, you've lost Ronald Jones to free agency. Learn Fournett resigned and for several years he's probably still your lead back. But this guy really is. I think we all were sort of hoping that would find somebody that is a nice pass catching back, so it could really be complimentary to learn Fournett. And when I saw when we first drafted him, I saw six to two ten.

I'm thinking, Wow, that's thing exactly what expecting. You know, you're thinking more of a the backfield guy to be like a smaller, quicker guy, but in fact he's just a big running back like Alvin Kamara type who also is a very good pass catcher. So and he can run between the tackles. He's probably little bit better on outside zone runs and stuff like that, but he's got what Don spy Tych called a smooth slashing style. So h, I think he's a really nice compliment. I think he'll

probably get a lot of play in our offense. You see there he was very efficiently. I don't think he got as much action as some of the all you know lead backs around the league, around the college ranks, but per per touch, I mean six point three years per carry, ten point six years per catches, fantastic for running back. And I think he played only fifteen games that Arizona State, but he averaged nearly a hundred yards per game out of the backfield. So um, you're really

an exciting another piece for a team. And what I like about all three of these picks and a couple of the others two is that even on a loaded roster that the Buccaneers obviously have a roster that everybody thinks is going to compete for a Super Bowl again. With Tom Brady back and a bunch of the other guys that we were able to resign and some guys that we added. I still think that the Buccaneers drafted players who can make an immediate impact if things go right.

Logan Hall should definitely be playing a lot right from the get go. Uh Luke Getticky could win the starting left guard left guard spot, and Rashad White they should be able to work him in the offense right away. That's that's pretty incredibly because I think we've talked about that of position of need, best player available, but and

that's kind of what you typically here. But then the what about the who can help us now because of which is where we know we are with Tom Brady and the Bucks overall, that that was definitely a big factor as well. So those are the top three picks. So after that, what are some of the things that stand out to you about potentially the other picks and what they did in some of those later rounds that sometimes don't get as much attention. But we've seen that

you can find some pretty big impact players. And I like the fact that so after the trade down in the first round. The Buccaneers ended up with the first pick in the second round and the first pick in the fourth round, which means they had the first pick on those two days of the draft. And when you're picking first on the second or third day, you and the other teams around the league have had a whole day practically to look at where they are, look at who they really want. Do we need to make a

trade up. And the Buccaneers, I'm certain got phone calls on both of those days, especially in the second round when you know none of the quarterbacks have been taken, and as it turned out, they all slipped to the third round. But um, I know they got calls for the second round pick. But in both cases, the Bucks stayed put because they really wanted the player that they had there, and they started the fourth round with Kay

dot And. And I just wanted to point out here, I'm not bragging or anything, but in the mock draft I did in March, I think where I picked all the Bucks rounds picks, I predicted Kay dot And in the fourth Wow. Although usually if you start a sentence with I'm not bragging, but it why I'm not bragging because I don't want you to ask me any other questions about any of my other predictions. Let's just focus

on the fact that everything else is irrelevant. And it wasn't the hundred six pick because we didn't have that pick yet. It was one thirty three, but but still count it. That's incredible to predict anything after like the four picks, and even that we saw a lot of people got the first pick on it shows like that's

pretty incredible. All the drafts were just blown up. Yeah, nobody got much right, So now you just need to throw that just tweet that out every now and then I can't because then you'd have to again look at what what what else did you get? Pretty much it's like, um uh, I think Jason Lighte said about luke k he said his his hobbies are weightlifting. End. Yeah that's about it, and so I got the right and yeah,

that's about it. But yeah, that's pretty great. So what are some of the guys in particular that you think could potentially have an impact on this team after the first three picks? Then we always talk about that of are are there chances for these late round guys to make the roster and maybe even make an impact. Yeah, well, obviously if you take a punter in the fourth round, you expect him to battle for those drive You're probably gonna keep one punter, so um, you're expecting him probably

to win the punting job. And uh, obviously your punter is gonna make a big impact. So they really liked him. He They really liked him because he can do a lot. He has a big leg Jake Camarda we're talking about from j He has a big leg, but he also can. He also has a lot of hanging time, so he and he can. He's good at like the pooch punts. He's good at angling punts, so they can do a lot of different things with him. And he's also like Bradley Pinion, he's done a great job as a part

for years now. He's also a really good kickoff guy and he can pretty much give you touchbacks at will. I think he had touchbacks on like seventy one six kickoffs or something like that at Georgia. But he also is good at kind of mortar kicking. That's when you kind of kick it high but have it come down shy of the goal line and hope that you have you're given your cover team and tough time to actually get the tacklings twenty so I think they feel really good about what he can do in a lot of

different ways. Yeah, and then Keith Armstarn talked about the fact that he also is incredibly fast and played baseball and can throw, which was like, look at that that, all of a sudden, Keith was thrown in the whole. Maybe he'll do more than for us, which, of course I want to be like Keith, stop saying that. Need people to know this, Well, they ran a four or five s. Yeah, I'm prettyure people would have probably figured that out all on their own. Like the fact that

they can throw. Now, yeah, we don't do the fake punts very often. Yeah, I would enjoy that. I think that that would be a fun little part to throw in there on that. All right, well we're going to get some of your questions now. Um okay, So Richard said, which pick do you think is the person we got with the best value? And he said, I like Zion McCollum, which I realized we didn't even talk about. Yeah, that

was the next pick. And the Buccaneers actually when they when they drafted Jake Kamartha, the punter in the late fourth round. At that point, it looked like there weren't gonna have anything to do for about five hours because the next pick was late in the seventh round. But

the Buccaneers a Zion mc callum falling. Basically, they look at their board and he's standing all alone, like he's the last guy in the tier that they're in on cornerbacks, like this is worth the value of next year's fourth to jump back in here and get this guy in the fifth round. And honestly, from what I've read, most analysts thought he would have been drafted earlier. And it's basically because of his size speed combination. It's kind of

he's kind of a unicorn. You just don't see a lot of guys with the speed that he has, like a like a four three forty, but also his size, his length, which is the type of cornerback that Todd Bowles loves in his defense. And uh, and you actually you had a lot of production at Sam Houston State. Obviously, if you have production and these incredible measurables, you would expect him to go a lot higher. You know, this

is maybe a first or second round corner. But it's the competition level that probably makes them fall a little bit. But yeah, really exciting prospect there. Probably has some work to do, you know, in order to to refine technique and things like that, but you're not asking to step in. They want to be a starter. Your your best bed going in season, your best case scenarios, that he's your fourth corner, and that that guy is probably gonna be as we've talked about before, that guy is probably gonna

be needed at some point. But that that's good. I think you answered the question there on the value. Okay, Um, yeah, that's what he Uh, that's what Richard had said is who he picked for it. So it sounds like we're all in agreement to agree with him. Um, all right. So Brenda asked what's going on with Gronks? I think meaning also the fact that we drafted two tight ends, So a similar question of what we talked about with what does Logan Hall mean for resigning Sue, I'm sure

two tight ends drafted? What does this mean with Gronk? Again? I think even more strongly with Gronkowski, it doesn't really change anything. I think the Bucks want Gronkowski back. I think at some point Tom Brady is going to convince him to come back. He may already be convinced to come back. He's just working on his own timetable. I don't know anybody who looks at this situation and thinks he's not coming back, But you know, he's he's his

own guy. Maybe he's sitting there and has no intention to come back, but most I'm in the camp that believes he will return, which is great. Right away, you can see that two tight end sets with Gronkowski and and earned kay Dot and you'd probably get utilized quite a bit. Kaid's a very good and willing blocker, and that's that's why he's a guy that they call a y tight end that can line up in line and not just a guy that you know that's a receiver in a tight ends body. And he's a reliable set

of hands. He's not as down the field talented in athletic as rock Groundkowski, but he would make a very nice, complicated yeah, he'd he'd make a very nice compliment to him. And then co Keef, the Titan taken in the seventh round, is essentially a really good blocker and he loves it. He is very very exciting about it. He likes blocking, which is fine with blocking. Yes, I'm good with that. All right. Well, that's going to do it for us

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