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So phillis in a little bit on what was the difference in it and what we could learn from it. Yeah, the whole thing is a little bit strange because you do an injury report this week as if you have a game on Sunday, uh, even though we don't. Uh. I mean, it's nice to get the information, to be honest with you, it even on Friday, when we get the Friday the bole teams are gonna put out a report as if there really was a game on Sunday,

complete with game status designation. So if you had a guy this Friday that you didn't think could play this Sunday, you'll rule him as out or maybe doubtful or questionable, and there probably will be a few of those on our injury reports. So it's important for fans to realize not to panic with what they see on Friday, because that that refers to this Sunday. Next week we'll get a whole new injury report and that Friday will get

the real designations for the Super Bowl. So I would expect you might see a couple outs are doubtful as there were five guys that we're not practicing or actually the Bucks didn't even practice Wednesday, but neither did the Chiefs, but they had to put out an injury report based on estimations of what they would have done in practice. So five guys the Bucks would have held out, including both safeties Antoine Winfield and Jordan Whitehead and Antonio Brown.

Jasa Pierre Paul has pretty much been held out practice for weeks now, but it's still getting it done on game days. And then the one that popped up that was a little bit of something to keep an eye on is Lavante David, who apparently has a hamstring ailment, and he would not have practiced yesterday if the Bucks had practiced. So I'm glad we have this extra week. Yes, I think that is a very safe statement. I'm like, Nope, that's not allowed. We're not okay, not acceptable. We're gonna

have to fix that. Um. And speaking of the injuries, I guess, Quamaine, I think it's how you say it. Wanted to know, would you guess that A B will be able to play in the next game. I'm really I'm really always leary of making these guesses on in guys, partly because I feel like I have a really bad track record on it, and so, um, I would think so on all those guys, on on Jordan white Down, on anto Winfield, and on Antonio Brown. We talked about

this a little bit yesterday. I think the fact that they were calling Antonio Brown game day decision all last week before deciding not to take him on the trip because they didn't think he was close enough and his his knee might swell on the plane flights. So if if they if they were thinking it was a possibility last week, it's certainly logically seems to me like it would be a much better possibility two weeks later. So

we'll have to wait and see. But I would be cautiously I domistic, Yes, I think that's a good way of hedge in your bets on that. That's a that's a good answer for sure. Um, And we had a few questions about the uniforms will be wearing, of what they are and why that choice got made or how that choice got made. So the Bucks did announce that yesterday. Yeah, white jerseys and Peter pants and and maybe I know

we went red in the Super Bowl last time. And because the Bucks are technically the home team, it's the NFC's year, they get to choose first, and then the other team has to basically where the opposite. Um, I think they're just doing it because it's been going well in that in that combination. I think I don't think we've lost in that combination this year. So it's a little bit of a superstitious thing, it seems like, but

you know, I like it. It's a good look. Yeah, it seems like a lot of people were being superstitious based on what they wore in the other Super Bowl. I could see that, but that is a different team and maybe winning in these jerseys. I think that that maybe Brady likes throwing a white jerseys. I don't know, Yes, that is that is also true. Um. We also had a question about if the practices are going to be different than normal right now of are they going harder

because you have two weeks out? Are you going less because it's already you want to just keep everybody healthy. What what do practices look like these weeks compared to normal. Well, we'll start finding out today. The first one starts in about an hour. UM. I would guess though that they would be a little bit light this week. There's just no reason to push these guys real hard. And honestly,

that's not even necessarily a Super Bowl thing. That's a late in the season kind of thing as you you see every year, and it really doesn't matter for teams in contention or not. Later in the season, you see a lot more walkthroughs, um, just because the guys are beat up and there you know their their bodies are tired, fatigued, you know, so it makes sense not to run them too hard. I would suspect it won't be real strenuous

practices this week, okay. Um, and we had Daniel ask is Rojoe's injury still lingering at all or is he completely healthy? I would have to say it's not lingering because he is not on the injury report. Um. Yes, I would agree with that. And I think some people were asked because the fact his carries have not been quite as high recently. But um, you know, and I

think maybe the injury could have been something. They're still but it seems like also it's just the way foreign Net's been playing well and he's still got ten carries in that Green Bay game, which really was I don't remember Leonard's exact total, but it wasn't that much lower than Leonard's. Um, it just happened to be in the Leonard was a little more effective, I think. But there in the second there was a couple of drives in a row in the second half of it was all

Ronald Jones, and uh, I don't think that. I don't think that Leonard has playoff. Lenny has played really well, but I don't think he has minimized Ronald Jones. I think you'll see plenty of Ronald in the Super Bowl. I agree with that. Um Richard asked, do you think the Bucks would add another safety just in case Winfield and or Whitehead would not be ready? And is there still depth behind Mike Edwards and Andrew Adams. Well, there there is when you bring up Javon Hagen from the

practice squad. That's where we were in the last game. Once with with Mike and I mean with Antoine Winfield out, they promoted Javon or elevated Javon Hagen from the practice squad, and then when they decided not to play Winfield, they kept Hagen active. And then when Edward or not Edwards, but when white had got hurt and ad Andrew Adams came in, and Adams and Edwards you're one backup safety. There was Javon Hagan, the rookie that's been with us

all year. Honestly, we don't know much about him me. He has played on special teams a few times, but has not played on defense as of yet. But you know, we've seen how they've made that work with her Miller a couple of times when the cornerbacks got a little bit thin. So I don't think you'd add somebody at this late of a date. Maybe put somebody on the practice squad to add a second one if you're feeling concerned about both of those guys. It's possible, but but no,

I would guess not. Okay, And Frank said, what do you think that we do in this game to get a winning result? Based on the last time playing Casey, well, the problems we had and with Casey the first time, we're really really slow starts on both sides of the ball. Obviously, one thing that has to be different is we have to figure out a way to contain ty Rekill a

lot better. I think he had a record number of yards in the first quarter, if I remember correctly, ended up with something like two d sixty yards in that game. You can't do that. I mean, I'm not saying that's easy. I'm not saying just because you say you're gonna do it, you can do it. But it's kind of like in green Bay. We when we went to Green Bay and they had been doing very very well. I know we beat him the first time, but that was a lot a long time ago, and we said what we needed

to do was get pressure on on aon Rodgers. Now you don't know for sure you're gonna be able to do it, but they were able to do it, and that made the difference in my estimation this time. You know what, I'm not saying it's easy, but you gotta contain tyreek Hill a little bit better. Otherwise, the offense after that Solow start wasn't wasn't too bad. And I do think there are opportunities for the Bucks offense against

that Chief's defense. So mainly I think it's starting faster and keeping Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey in a little bit better check than last time. And speaking of that, the next question was do you from Bruce, do you think we need to double Hill or Kelsey or how do you how do you see them trying to contain

them more? Yeah, I mean safety hellp for for Hill when make a lot of sense because you can't just have your corners play ten yards off a hill because they're worried about the deep ball because he catches a lot of underneath stuff and then it's just like a water bug all over the field. He's he's essentially the fastest player in the NFL. So, um yeah, safety help

for him does make a lot of sense. It does also help to double Travis Kelsey, but it's hard to do that with both of them, and I know, um, we just we don't want to play double high safety the whole game. So what I would say is trust and Todd Bowls to come up with a good plan and to mix it up as the game goes along, so they won't be doubled all the time, but sometimes they will. And we had several people asking about if they will be able to fire the cannons in the

game or not. Um, it'll be interesting to see if they use them at all or how because I mean, again, they cannot make it seem like an actual home Bucks game that we are not the ones doing the in game production. It is a league thing. It is a neutral, uh situation. So but it's like that's such an iconic thing of the stadium and I've I have often wondered if the Bucks weren't in the game at all, would they have maybe fired them some more just because it

is such a um iconic part of the stadium. So I'll be interesting to see if they decide to use it maybe in pregames somehow, or if they're just gonna be like nope, can once the game's over, you know, you fire off the cannons for whoever won. Yeah, yeah, it's gonna be uh yeah, it's gonna be very interesting to see what they decided to do there. Um. We also had a question about our offensive line and how confident you feel and them, especially with what we've seen

with Aaron Stanny the last couple of games. Yeah, I don't know how you cannot be confident in our line right now, since since the bye week, really they've been playing at a very very high level. Um. I know that Aaron Stinny we lost Alice Kappa and had to have a replacement in there. But he, you know, from what all his teammates and coaches are saying, he's playing very very well there. So you've been able to make that change without a drop off. And you know, the

protection for Tom Brady has been outstanding. There was one missed blitz pick up in the last game, otherwise he had time to sit back there and do pretty much whatever he wanted. Um, and that's been the case for most of the games recently. So the running game is doing better right now than it has for most of the season. So those are basically the two things you usually judge an offensive line on. I think they've been doing fantastic. Uh. Scott had asked, do we know if

Mahomes is still struggling with turf toe? Well, he was a or They didn't practice yesterday, but he was listed on the injury report as a full participant, so they weren't. They weren't going to limit him, and I assume they won't limit him when they do practice today. So no, I don't think that's a problem on I mean, I'm not gonna say unfortunately, because we don't want anybody to get hurt. But um, it's good news for the Chiefs. That's a good way to put. Yes, I think that

is very fair. Al Right, Well, that's gonna do it for us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lyte. Thanks for all this awesome questions as always, and we will be back here tomorrow morning at ten am for any of the ones that didn't get too so we'll see you then.