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So if you're not already watching on Facebook, head on over there, leave your questions in the comment section of our live video. Where you're from? Yeah, tells where you're from. We always love hearing that and where people are watching from. Um, so as we get people chance to start submitting some of those questions. Uh. Two things sort of developments since
our last show. Uh One is that we know Drew Brees is gonna return with the Saints and the others that we actually got to hear from Bruce arians this last week after you know, once the season ends usually there's a kind of prolonged period of no access to to those guys. So let's start with Bruce. What were some of the things you guys talked to him about in any insights or things that came from fact. I'm not sure i'd label that as a development because it
was basically the oposite of a development. You know, it's funny in this period when something like this happens and the general public probably thinks, oh, he did Drewce decided to come out and say something about these topics for the first time in like six weeks. Well, it wasn't
really that. What happens is your coach, your GM just happens to be available at some event, and the media is aware of it, and they're doing their jobs, and they go there and if they get a chance to talk to him, they asked the questions they haven't got to ask in six weeks, so they did. But as it turns out, most of what Bruce said was the
exact same thing he said six weeks ago. And he said, nothing's really changed, and he repeated one of the lines he said back then, which gets a lot of play, And that's basically too paraphrase, what's behind door number two? And that's in reference to what are the Buccaneers going to do? What do they want to do with quarterback Jamis Winston? And what's behind door number two means what other options are out there, and it is important to
know that. I don't think anybody would think a team was doing their due diligence on deciding what direction to go with their potential franchise quarterback or some other if they don't have a good comparison. It's not necessary really a slight to Jamis or a vote for Jamis. It's the thing that a team should do. And until you know for sure who's going to be available, and until you get to talk to some of them, you know,
you can't really put all the pieces together. Yeah we know now, like you said that Drew Brees is not going to be available, not think but he thought he was coming here. But does the fact that Drew Brees is definitely coming back mean Teddy Bridgewater is more likely to leave? As an example, so I would think so, yeah, And I think that seems to be the assumption the way everyone's talking about it is just that he isn't definitely not coming back, that Bridgewater will move on that
he would think. I mean, he made seven and a half million, I think to be a backup last year. But you look at projections, what if some team wants to pay million to be at a starter, right, he tells me he's going to take that. Yeah, especially when the Saints still have Taysom Hill. It's not like they're all of a sudden like, oh man, we don't have
a backup that they view him as a very viable backup. So, um, and he's a restricted free agents so they have a pretty good chance of keeping him right, which is a great point. Um, We've got a lot of people chiming in with where they're listening and watching and from, which is cool. We got Kansas City, We've got Puerto Rico. So a Bucks fan in Kansas City right now, I guess yeah, it's probably gonna be pretty miserable having to
watch all of that Puerto Rico. We've got Georgia, Kentucky, um, North Carolina, Texas, a whole bunch of really fun places, which is awesome. You could just make it up, that's also true. Well, we've definitely had people do that the past, considering somebody I think at one point hit Antarctica and really sure that wasn't t yes, Nathan asked do you
think we could get Bridgewater? So as we were discussing that, I mean, well, I mean seriously, though, when you start and that's if you can answer that question making the presumption that the Bucks are not going to resign Jamus Right, So, how many teams are going to be looking for a quarterback and are going to be in the in the business of paying in the position to pay somebody a veteran moving teams twenty million dollars. There's not a ton
of them really when you look at it. So if Teddy Bridgewater is looking for a place to start, and if it becomes clear that the Buccaneers are not going to continue forward, jamis and I would think this would become one of the top destinations that these quarterbacks would be looking at, especially when you consider who you're going to get to throw the ball to. Right, I mean, I would think any quarterback would want to come here and throw it to Mike and Chris and O Jane. Yeah.
I can't imagine any quarterback being like, no, that does sound fun. Um Austin asked, is it possible to afford Shack and trade for Jamal Adams. I think that would really put the defense over the top. What are your thoughts? He said? Also, I'm from Martinsburg, West Virginia, only fan around, so we get to resign check, but we also get to trade for one of the best safeties in the league.
That'd be great. Yeah, it's possible to afford it. Um, you know, you're probably making a priority decision there though, because it's probably not possible to do that and get Jamal Items and bring back all of your all the other potential defensive free agents like in Diamond Ensue and Jason Pierre Paul and I know we Bruce Arians would definitely like to have all those players back as if he could. And in any case, are the Jets really gonna trade Jamal Items? I mean, are we just gonna
start picking guys out that. Yeah, we forget that. There has to be the other half of where they have to be willing to get rid of this person, and that's probably not something they want to do well. I mean there obviously there was some talk about that during the season, which is why somebody would bring it up.
But I would suspect he stays. But it's it's like with anything with trades, it's always easy to talk about like our end of it of what we want to do, and the same thing even with the draft of you know, well, can we trade down, It's like Yeah, you gotta have someone that's willing to do the other part. I mean, yeah, let's go ahead and resign Shack and trade for Jamal and maybe you get J J. Wattmaole. We're at it like I like I was coming together. Yeah. Sean asked
what we drafted running back this year. I'd say there's a good shot. I would be surprised if it's in the first round. Um. I think we've talked about this a lot with some with some exceptions in recent years, like just the guys that are expected to be really elite workhorses like Ezekiel Elliott and Leonard Fournette. Um, the running backs aren't going as high as they used to write UM because they're considered assets you can get like
Alvin Kamar in the third round. Guys like that, right, And so teams go into it thinking we can use our first round pick on something else, because we do think there's a good chance of getting one in the second or the third round. But yeah, that seems like something the Bucks could definitely do with one of their Day two or three picks. Um Scott said he's watching from New Mexico and yep, and he's uh, he asked,
isn't Philip Rivers just an older Jamis? So as a lot of people have asked about Philip Rivers and how he would fit here and whether you'd want him over. I can get it. I get it. Everybody saying the same thing because um he I guess Philip Rivers had the third most interceptions in the league with twenty um. But they're not the same player. I mean that everybody since we got Jamis wanted to say that Jamis was just a younger Ben Roethlisberger. But they're not really the
same player. I get the point, though. I think the point is, do you if you're moving on from Jameis Winston, it's not because he threw yards and thirty touchdowns, it's because of all the turnovers, right, And if you're moving on, do you then want to sign a new quarterback but over an older one, uh, who's probably beyond his peak, who also last year turned the ball over a lot. So I understand, but they're not the same guy. Yeah, um Seawan asked, what is taking so long to sign Shock,
Sue or JPP? So let's talk about it all, just the timeline of some of that stuff. It was, we've talked about this a couple of times. Just to be sure I was right about this, I went back and looked at our transaction logs from like the last ten years, and there's always a couple of guys you're trying to
resign before the start of free agency. Free agency, right, Almost every one of those happened in March, and most of them were really close to the start of free agency, and some of them were even on the day of or a couple of days after. And in the case of say Shack, you potentially could use the franchise tag and extend those negotiations for weeks after the start of
free agency. And so you've got two sides here that are trying to meet in a middle in a middle ground that works for both And as he absolutely should, Shaq is going to try to get as much in his contract as you can, and the Bucks, as they absolutely should, are going to try to make it as affordable for them as they can. And so it takes a while. You know, you're not gonna Shacks just not gonna take the first deal of Bucks went on the table or the first number they throw out there, and
probably vice versus. So these things tend to be driven by deadlines, is the way I would put it. So that's why we're not hearing anything. You if you look back at all these types of transactions, you're not going to find a single one on what's today, December eighteen, You're not gonna find one. I was like, you're definitely not going to find him December exactly. Umaun Christmas, Yes, better get out there in hurry. Chauncey said, Um, are we going to address offensive line in the draft early?
I think it's a good idea. And I've said that a couple of times. Uh. And if by early, I hope that means first round. Um, there is a good offensive tackle in particular depth in this draft, to the point where there's probably gonna be one or two guys that would normally be a top ten pick who are available at fourteen, which is where the Bucks are just start the first round. And if you look at a lot of mock drafts, you see a lot of that
trust and worse from Iowa being one of them. You know, there's there's just McKay Beckton Will's um Anthony Thomas I think is from Georgia. Uh. Yeah, there's a lot of there's a lot of them. Austin Jackson from usc UH probably'll they'll start to um shake out a little bit in terms of the expected order that they'll go after the combine. But no, I think it's a really good idea.
And I feel like that's reassuring when there are that many names all at the same position that especially even have been mocked to us, that it shows that it's not like there's one guy that's right, that's the only viable one. Like if you're gonna want and you know an offensive lineman, you better hope you get him or that's it. If they're that many guys, I feel like that's a great sign. Yeah. I would contrast that with another player that the Bucks are getting a lot in
mock drafts is South Carolina defensive tackle. I guess we'd call him a defensive lineman in our defense, Javon kind Law. And in that case, I think Auburn's Derrick Brown is expected to go really high. But after that, he's clearly the next guy on everybody's board and there's not a lot of other ones, so um, that one makes it.
You'll see that in a lot of mock drafts, and that it seems to me like that would be a good pick, But I also think it's less likely because you only need one Sam in front of us to really want an interior defensive lineman to make that not happen. Richard is watching from California, and he asked, who your favorite draft prospect is that would potentially be the best
fit for the Bucks. Well, I guess we're going to say that we could actually get right, because if you can, if I can say anybody, i'd want to Chase Young, or even if you're if you're deciding to make a change of quarterback Joe Burrow right, so we're talking realistic. I really like the idea of I gotta get this right. I keep saying it wrong. Calivan, Clive and Chase on the l s u uh edge Rusher. Um, this could depend upon what happens. I mean, even if you get
Shack back, you still could use another one. But if you resign Shack and JPP and maybe even Carl Nasson, then that's probably not a big need. But I really do like that prospect a lot. I think I think there's a lot of room for him to grow. He's got a lot of talent. Um I know he didn't have huge numbers last year, but he was really coming on at the end of the year, and I just think that's a guy that could really grow into even
better lier than news right now. I saw that, Um it was I think John and Cameron and a few different people brought up justin Herbert, if there's a possibility that that's someone we either could get and would want to probably have to trade up for that, I would think, Um, you know, I keep saying if you look at mock drafts, and yes, mock drafts are just mock drafts are just somebody's guesses, but uh, and if you look at them, you'll see him usually going in top ten, mayven, top five.
You know, if if if he goes before to uh or if even there's three quarterbacks in the top five and then and what makes me think that will happen or something like that will happen is and we've talked about this many times in recent years, the quarterbacks tend to rise to get closer, right because teams, that's if you're gonna make a big investment in a quarterback, you probably have to do it high in the draft, right. And so if you even if you're picking ten and
you're hoping a guy will fall to to you. You can't take that risk, so you trade up. So it and in the end it tends to be that the quarterbacks that are highly regarded rise. So when I see Justin Herbert going in the top five and most drafts, makes me think it's definitely gonna be at least that high. Right, Yeah, that's they rarely fall and it has happened, but it doesn't happen. It doesn't happen very often. Um Brandon is watching from d C and asked if there's any chance
we make a run at Melvin Gordon. Yeah, I guess. Um, Again, I would think Melvin Gordon would would command a pretty big salary, a pretty big contract for running back, and he's had some good years in San Diego. But I don't even even thinking it necessarily has the track record of say Todd Gurley when Ted Gurley got his big new deal, and obviously that one hasn't really worked out that well. Um, if we were to sign a clearly talented running back like Melvin Gordon, I would be excited
about it. I'm sure a lot of people would be too, But I just still continue to question the wisdom of big contracts for running backs because it doesn't seem like they work out as often as they should. Um Matt asked after Shack, who is the highest priority to resign on defense? Is it my decision or what the team actually thinks. Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think you know the answer necessary. I would think it comes
down to um In Dominan Sue versus j PP. And it might be hard if you're also getting shocked to keep all three. If you're asking me, since you're already going to be investing in the edge rusher in Shack and you could maybe even draft one in the draft in Dominican, Sue would be the one I'd go after next. Um it's just the way he solidified that front, how well he worked with Vida Va and Will Gooleston, how great our run defense was, how often he commanded double teams.
That's not just me saying that, there's stats out there of how often he was double teamed, which helps everybody else get favorable matchups and really helped the pass rush we we ended up with. Yeah, I know, he only had what two and a sacks something like that, I think, but the team ended up with forty seven sacks, which is the second most we've ever had in a season.
So I think he was a big part of that, even though it doesn't doesn't show up in the stat line, and he was obviously one of the main reasons we had the run defense in the league and the best run defense statistically that the Bucks have ever had. I would like to keep as much of that intact as possible. Yeah, that makes complete sense. Um and Daniel asked, what are your thoughts on Leonard Williams. What kind of salary would he command? Versus and Dominican sue, well, is he, uh,
free agent? I believe so? Yeah, Okay, oh yeah, that's right. I was reading that somebody projecting that the the Giants might franchise tag him because they made a pretty aggressive trade to get him, and even though he didn't necessarily light up the world for them. Um, if you're gonna trade those assets, you'd like to keep him around. Probably, Uh, Leonard Williams. I'm gonna have to be honest here and say I don't really know his top strength. I don't
is he a great run stopper? I mean, they know he's a big I know he's like the third guy drafted overall, and I'm sure he's supposed to be an all around stud in the middle there. I don't think his career has been as impactful as his two teams have been hoping it would be, right as like the third overall pick, I think, so I'd stick with in Dominicansu and I think he'll probably be cheaper because he's farther along in his career right, so he's probably gonna
get shorter deals as he's been. He played the last two years on one year deals. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. All right, Well, that's gonna do it for us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lite. Thanks as always for watching and for all of your questions and telling us where you're watching from. We'll be back here next week to answer all the ones that hopefully we didn't get to today, So we'll see then.