Bucs Insider Live, June 27

leave the comments under our live video. And again, this is the time of year that we really love taking all these questions because it's all these big picture things that it's all the looking ahead of the season and looking at the different position groups and how it all could shake out. Of course we know everything. I'll take that next week. That's true. This week. It's a very good point. So yeah, don't wait because them is shutting down next week. That's it. And uh we are included.

We're I'm I'm taking off a little vacation before the season starts. Yeah, I'm going up. I'm going on a cruise. It's gonna create. So yeah, I'm pretty excited about it. See, I get all those questions, and this is your chance breaks down. Yeah, I would like for that to not happen either, And now if it happens, it is your fault,

So thank you for that. I appreciate that. So as we get started here, UM, a lot of we did release the training camp dates, and I just always love hearing what you are most excited to see during training camp. I know you and I've talked about how much we love one on ones where there's to be O line and D line one on ones, the wide receiver corner one on ones. Are those still the things that you

most look forward to? Yeah, And I would say my favorite drill is the wide receiver defensive back one on ones, um, And you know it favors the offense. Obviously there's no pass rush or anything. The quarterback is completely unmolested, he is throwing. But still some when the defense does really well,

that says a lot. Um. Did you want to talk about this training campra, Yeah, I wanted to hear this training camp for you, the big things you're going to be watching well to play off of that, Um, you know, we have three really good grass fields here. They're like rated the best and best practice fields in the league.

And in previous camps here at one Buck we've been here since two thousand nine, and previous camps there was bleachers were kind of next to the field over here, there's bleachers around one long end on one field field one, and then at the back of it, and that was pretty much where you had to be if you're gonna watch it. So if there was a drill you light going on in the field two or even field three, you really can get a really up close to look at it. Sometimes we may not see much of it

at all. Now there's not gonna be bleachers, and we'll get to that in a moment, but you're gonna be allowed to go around the entire perimeter of the three fields, so you should be able to get close to whatever drill you want to see. Yeah, that's a great point. If the wide receiver dbs are going on in field two and that you like that that as much as I do, just go run the back and get a

better look at it. That's a great point because based on where some of the bleachers were, if they were doing things three fields away, it's it's very challenging to see and and you know, it's kind of a challenge for our for our grounds guys too, they're very very good. But because we wanted to give the fans as much of a close look as we could, we spent most of our time, especially in team drills on that one field, and so trying to keep that field in good shape

while the others weren't getting much use was tougher. But that should be easier now. But the reason there's not gonna be bleachers is because we already have bleachers in the indoor facility, which the Bucks are gonna be able to use for the first time in training camp that just started using it last fall in the middle of the season. In some parts of the open practices are going to be like the second half of them are going to be in the endoor facility and there's bleachers

and best of all, air conditioning and cover. So, you know, the toughest thing about training camp in the reason you know, cheerleaders are coming around with freezy pops because it's so hot, and one thing you do to avoid that is to have practice early in the morning. And then we are doing that again, so every effort is being made for when the fans do come out here that's as comfortable as possible. Right, Yeah, that's a really great point. I already know I'm going to butcher this name of the

person who asked this question, so I'm very sorry. Um, it looks like guiche friends Si French. Uh. So he wants to know who you think is going to start at defensive end this year. I think you'll probably see Jason Pierre Paul at left end, which is where he's most used to playing. And I think you'll probably see Vinny Curry starting at right end um and then there'll be a lot of rotation from there, and and maybe

Curry sometimes goes inside. Will Golston might be in in some first downs if it's you know, if it's we think it's a run stopping situation. He's he at least in two thousands sixteen he was our best run stopping defensive end, and he didn't have quite the same year last year, but it really seems he's trimmed down some and he really seems motivated to get back to his two thousand sixteen form, so he'd be in the rotation too.

And you got Noah Spence to be a designated pass rusher kind of guy, so there'll be a lot of rotation. But I think your starters were probably Curry and JPP. And speaking of the defensive line, Stephen wants to know what will Noah Spence's role look like with the new additions to the line and the fact that he seems to not only be healthy but added a little bit of bulk to him. Well, that is a great question, really well informed and thorough, really good question about Noah Spence.

And obviously Stephen has been reading up and knows that Noah Spence has put on weight, you know when he when we got him, and you get these numbers from their college numbers, so they're not necessarily a percent accurate, but he was listed as two or fifty one pounds, but last year in training camp he got all the way down to like two thirty two, and that's that was just too light for him to be able to hand up stand up to the rigors of again, especially

this bigger offensive tackles. He used those this whole offseason after getting healthy during the season because he was shut down pretty early with the shoulder. He had a special procedure with the shoulder, and it's kind of hard to explain, but it's supposed to it took one piece of bone from somewhere and put it somewhere else. I'm supposed to prevent those sublixations or dislocations. And so hopefully if he

can avoid that. Uh, he won't be missing time because of that, and he'll also be able to stand hold up a little bit better. And he also in the process of recovering from that, really took to sort of resculpting himself a little bit. And he's up to two or fifty seven pounds as of the last practice, and he is you know, you can look at him and see he's just jumped up right, and he didn't put it.

He put on a muscle. So he's he's a bigger guy, but but not so much bigger that he's gonna lose his speed and his quickness, and so he thinks that he's gonna have a better chance and standing up against the bigger offensive tackles. And you know, I think he's going to be a situational pass rusher. I think that's his main goal. I mean, his main role. But you can put a guy in there thinking it's a pass rush down and then not throw. They may run. So

he's still going to have to stop the run. Even if he's considered more of a pass rusher, he's gonna have to stop the run at times and being able to hold up, which he thinks he's gonna be able to do. Is gonna be really good for him. So hopefully that will give him just more opportunity to be on the field, because if he is one of your better pass rushers, you're gonna want him out there as

much as possible in passing situation. Right, Yeah, that's very true. Question. Yeah, it's a great question, And you know, we've had a lot of questions um about Jamis on here and some of the rumors that have been out there, but we really just I'll just go and sum it all up

before I ask that. You know, the league has not released anything and so we don't really have any information on that at this time, so I'll just kind of save everybody a little bit of time that I've seen a lot of different questions and thoughts about it, but we unfortunately can't answer anything about that that thing has

been released by the league yet. Uh So, now going on to our next question, Randy wants to know are we going to incorporate more plays utilizing our number one tight end tandem in the league, Which, first of all, we can already have you assessed whether or not this is you would agree the whole number one tight end tandem in this league. You know, if you break down the numbers and you and you look at what the tight end position as a whole, uh accomplished for the

Buccaneers last year. They're up there in the top three or four tight end positions in terms of catches, yards, touchdowns. And the fact that both those I think it's the only duo of tight ends in the league on any team where they both got at least six touchdowns. So if you want to massage the numbers the right way, you can probably make that claim. And I also think that there's a lot of room for improvement for both guys. They can get, they can do a lot more, So

I wouldn't argue with it. I don't know if it's a hundred percent true the best one in the league. Uh. And I've talked about that so much that I forgot what the actual question is. Oh, just if they're going to be more plays geared towards them? Yeah, you know, you're part of the offense. I think so. And I think that's because I think their cutter likes using that too tight information, which is called eleven eleven. I believe that's eleven because you count the receivers and running backs,

and so that'd be one running back, one receiver. I mean two receivers. I've lost it. It's either eleven I think it's eleven personnel, or maybe it's twenty one whatever. I'm gonna have to look that up. But the point is you've got two tight ends and ideally they're both threats to catch passes, which both those guys are, and ideally they both can block. So as defense, when you're

faced with that, it's not an easy read on. Okay, well that guy's in and he always blocks, so I don't have to worry about covering him going out on or route. Uh you wanna you want to offer them a lot of uncertainty, right. The problem was last year the Bucks didn't run the ball well at all out of the two tight ends set. I did a big study of that. There's an article on buccaneers dot com about it's some months ago, um and just the numbers

weren't there. The passing numbers out of that set were good. They were better than our our numbers on other sets, So above average results in the passing game with two tight ends, which isn't always Cameron Brake and and O. J. Howard, but usually right, and our passing numbers out of that were good. Are rushing totals yards per carry out of that were far below other sets. So those guys and that.

That doesn't mean it's all on those two guys obviously, but uh, we're gonna have to get better results in the running game in order to put that formation on the field more often. But I think we would like to.

We did it trying to remember the exact number. It was a while going whenever wrote the article, but maybe of the plays we were in that and that's right around LEA average, and I think they would probably prefer to be a lovely le average, especially because you also have Antonio Claire who's a player with a lat of promise, and you have Alan Cross and we've got a couple of rookie Titans that we kind of like, at least

in the early going. So you may have three or four Titans that you like and a number of different two tightening combinations. So I know that person was talking about O J and CAM, but um, it could be other groups and I think they would like to use it more. So my my answer to the question, we yes, I think we will see more of that, but that's gonna be contingent on running better out of that formation. Our next question says, who is going to start at safety?

I mean, are we gonna answer this every single week? Probably? Okay, I should just write down an answering prepared. Uh. Well, I think you're your surest bed is Justin Evans because last year we started in basically a four man competition for two spots right, and it was kind of a lot of rotation the first few games, but then Justin Evans clearly became an every down player and a starter for what the last twelve or thirteen games of the season. And he's only in the second year. He had a

good first year type for the team leading interceptions. You were talking one time about how acrobatic he is with his interception. He's got very good hands and body control when when making a play on the ball. I would think he's the favorite to have at least one of them, and then until he's unseated. I think he got stick with Chris Conti, you know, I think he's I think he's a pretty good player and he's gonna have to be beaten, you know, for further to be a change.

But they like that Jordan white had a lot, Uh, he was limited a little bit by injuries in the off seasons and program, so we're gonna have to wait to camp to see how quickly he comes along. And then you've always got Keith Tandy, who we feel so confident in, and he was a little bit limited by injuries last year, which is why didn't play as much

on defense, but still helped out a lot on special teams. Um, they I know, they feel very very confident him if he has to be on the field, but I would say the default for the start of the season is probably the incumbents, Justin Emmons and Chris County. Okay, we also had um I think his name is Mirror wants

to know how are the rookie secondary players coming along. So, you know, we just heard about m. J. Stewart a little bit, but now throwing just talked about Jordan Whitehead and then also m m J. Stewart missed some time too with a minor injury, although he's back I think by the end of the mini camps, so he should

be fine for training camp. The one guy that really has stood out the most out of those is Carlton Davis, the second of the two corners that we've picked in the second round, and he uh, he you know, we like him. We liked him in the draft for one thing, because he was a bigger corner and there aren't a lot of those, and there certainly aren't a lot of

those in our rostery. When when the corners are out there doing their individual drills, is very very obvious which guy Carlton Davis is without seeing his number, even because he's just he's clearly the biggest guy, and they want they want to have that option to match up against bigger receivers, especially if we play some more press than we have in the past. So, um, he's looked really really good at the other two. I think we really just haven't hand enough of a look at him yet. Okay,

I like this question. Jason wants to know how many wide receivers do you think will make the fifty three man roster. And that's a good question, and it really it really comes down to a given take between other positions. So you've got you know, I think the default number they would normally like to go with is five. Like I bet you they write up on the board. I think they do. They write up on the board, you know each position and a number next to it, and

have it add up to fifty three. And they'd like to keep five receivers and four backs and four tight ends something like that. But sometimes you just don't want to let you got six, You got six receivers that you don't want to let go, and you go, well, okay, we'll keep one fewer tight end or one fewer running back,

something like that. I would say it's got to be at least five, and it would not surprise me as six because it seems pretty certain that you'd have Mike Evans, DeShawn Jackson, and I'm Humphries, Chris Godwin, and then you just drafted that Justin Watson, guy who who looks like he could be something pretty good right as he develops, and you're not gonna let him go. So that's five right there. And we haven't even talked about Freddy Martino, Bernard Ready. I'm sure there's a couple others I'm not

even thinking of right out. So um, I think if you're if our bettman, I say, six guys make it, especially if one of those other receivers is either a special team stud on coverage and stuff, like that like Freddie Martin Wiz or a potential option in the return game like a Bernardo Right Um and and related to the discussion of how many of them are gonna on the team, Tim wanted to know how often you think we'll see a combination of Mike Evans, Chris Godwin into

Seawan Jackson all on the field at the same time. I think they'll see more of it than you did last year. I think Godwin got a lot of his snaps when either de Shaun or Chris needed needed to arrest or was out injured, and so you didn't have as much of that right with all three of those guys together, because if you have to Shawn and and Mike on the field, are used the outside guys, your your ex and your Y and you're you know, your

extra and your Z and your slack. Eye was usually Adam Humphreys because he was very good in that role. It still is, so Um, that would mean Adam Humphries is probably I mean, there's some four receiver sets, but

I think we're talking about the very common three receiver sets. Um, Adam Humphreys would be off the field for that, and that means one of one of those other guys is in the slot, and I think there will be a little more variety this year, and who who plays in the slot like DeShawn might play some more in the slot.

You might even put Mike Commins in the slot because your goal is always to find him some open space and less double teams and so on, so if you can sort of surprise teams with where those guys are, so I think and Chris Gowin could plain this slot, but I think he's probably best on the outside. So I think that's gonna depend on how um versatile the packages with who plays in the slot. But yes, I do think we'll see more of that. That That all right, And then we'll close out with this one. Who do

you think is going to start at guard? And I think they mean that right guard, because I don't left guard. To me, the favorite is Caleb ben Enock, And I'm not discounting jarr Sweezy was essentially the incumbent, but he just he's not on the field yet, so until he is,

he's really not part of the equation. We all wish he would get better and be able to play and be part of the competition, but uh, they seem to just take a lot of the coaches take a lot of opportunities to kind of slip nice things in about Caleb bin Knock on how much he's progressed. I think they feel pretty good about him. He's going into his third season, former fifth round pick, very virtual guy started

at right tackle the end a lot next year. Um, but when you've seen him taking first team reps, that's usually cale about here for now. You you will probably would probably bring up Alex Kappa. And I know I've seen some stuff you've written about him, and I've heard you talk about him, and he does have a nice a lot of potential and good attitude, you know, that same sort of nasty attitude that they want Ryan Jensen.

But I think the guy who's been here for two years probably as the leg up in the rookie I would agree with that. All right, Well, that's gonna do it for us here on Buccaneers Inside a Live presented by Miller Lyte. Thanks so much for joining us and for all your questions. Have a fun and save July fourth, and we'll see you back here after the holiday. And oh, actually you know it, right before we close out here,

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