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we're gonna have the time to answer it. And so that's what we need you guys to do now is submit your questions to us over on that Facebook page in the comments section, so as we give everyone a chance to start doing that. Um, let's go ahead and start with. Of course, the major question I know we're gonna get asked a thousand times is Mike Evans. And I know that we did get to hear from Bruce yesterday.

He gave some updates not just on Mike, but all the different guys that are either on you know, COVID situations or injury situations, so kind of give us a bird's eye view of everything that he covered in that sense, Well, yeah, what everybody wants to know is Mike Evans, what's status for the game and it's not decided yet, but it certainly was really really good news on Monday. You know,

you were at stadium. We were all there when Mike got heart immediately after breaking that record and it didn't look good and just the air went out of the whole stadium, and you know you started thinking at that moment, Boyd, we're winning. But I'd trade this win for having Mike Kevins in the playoffs. It's possible we'll have both. The

goodness is no structural damage. You know those um the Buccaneers had those big pools, uh tubs, hot and cold tubs in their hydro room at the oven Held Trading Center and one of them has a treadmill for a floor so you can run in the water and you can run and loosen up your your legs without all the pounding. Right, he was already doing that on Monday. To me, that's a really good sign. He hardly has

any swelling. That's another really good sign. And Bruce arians said he hopes to having back in practice on Thursday, and if that happens, I would think you'd be looking at him playing on Saturday night. I mean, it's incredible. I think we we thought there was a chance that looked like the kind of injury that he might not even be ready for the start of next year. There was I mean, to go from thinking he could be out a full year two thinking he might not even

miss a game. He was insane. And it's it's so exciting for him. And again, I think even when we thought, not only is it the games even earlier, that we even have a day earlier game by playing on Saturday, and where the fact that he might be playing is incredible. Yeah, but that's actually not good in a couple of ways.

And Bruce arians said he wasn't exactly excited when he saw the schedule because that Devin White, you know when and Steve mcclindon when they when they started their quarantining, it does not look like they will be available Devin for sure on Saturday night, And had the game been on Sunday, there might have been a chance. So that's

a little bit. It's it's disappointing, it's not wrong. It's the league didn't do anything bad to us, and and certainly we've seen all year that uh competitive concerns like the Broncos not having a quarterback or the Browns. Not having receiver are not reasons for the the league to schedule in certain ways, So they weren't going to give us a break just because they wanted to be nice to us. So it just didn't work out in that regard. But coach did say that Shack Barrett is going to

be back, so that's great. That will help our pastors quite a bit. It really the Pastors really needed some help in that game against Atlanta, you could tell that. So I not so sure yet on Jeremiah lad Better. But also the good news looks like Carlton Davis should be able to come back. Coach said he would be up and running was the words he used for the game. So that's great. Yeah, that is. I mean, all of that is is almost the best news you could hope for.

The one with Devon is a little unfortunate timing wise, but nothing we can be doing about that. So um, all right. We had a question from Jermaine and he asked, is there any possibility that Vita would be back in the playoffs? No, I look through this, U. Yeah, it's pretty easy answer, right. I look back on this recently for I think maybe a mail bad question or something I wanted to see the last time, and I was

talked about. I think if I remember right, it was November six, and I can totally understand, Uh, you know the way you can come back from I are these days you start thinking, Okay, they said he was done for the season, but but now it's longer him and O. J. Howard and coach said, I think the words was something

like very very unlikely or he basically dismissed it. And really the injury, it was a pretty bad injury leg injury at the time, and it was clearly going to take more than uh, you know, four months or whatever. So adding a couple of weeks on the season doesn't make any difference to that or to O. J. Howard. So that would be great And can you imagine Vida

coming bad for the playoffs? But it's not gonna happen. Yeah, So sad Um Bridget had asked, who will we be playing first in the playoffs, So now that we know our matchup, to tell us, tell us who it is and what some things are about that matchup to keep an eye on, well, Bridget. The Buccaneers will be playing at Washington on Saturday night. It's their first playoff games since two thousand and seven. I think I misspoke the last time we were talking about this on Sunday night.

Our most previous playoff game was against the Giants in two thousand and seven. I think I said was Washington. We played Washington in two thousand and five, and actually that was here, and uh, Washington won that game. The only other playoffs game with Washington was Annox made a big comeback and one four thirteen to get to the n C Championship game. So it's one one. So this is the tiebreaker, and uh, it's at FedEx Field in Landover, Maryland.

It's gonna be a little cold, the field will probably be a little slick, Coach Areen said. Uh. And really the big thing to look at the big match up here is the Buckeers offense and Tom Brady obviously just absolutely red hot right now. Just the last month. Tom Brady's pass rating is something like a hundred twenty six point nine. But Tom Brady did not didn't and the Bucks offense did not face this Washington defense in and during that stretch, and it is a legitimate playoff caliber defense,

one of the best in the league. I know that for the football team was only seven and nine and you don't make the playoffs with the sub five very often. But forget that, because this defense is legit and the Bucks offense against that defense is one of the best matchups of the whole wild card weekend. Yeah, that's gonna be so much fun. I mean, Chase Young has had a heck of a rookie season. I think, yeah, he's

he's he's a little good of football. So and of course he issued his little challenge of how he's coming for Tom Brady, which I loved bruce Arians response to that. His His response to that was essentially, I'd be careful issuing challenges to the goat because it's it's like what we saw in the last dance when Michael Jordan was

challenged and how poorly that went for people. I get the feeling that that may be something that that Tom Brady says he doesn't pay attention to, but may put a little extra chip on the shoulder, which seems like a dangerous move. Yeah, but do Let's also point out that Bruce said be careful what you wish for at the end of a long answer which also said how good Chase Young and Montes sweat and all those first

round picks. Queshton has a front r So uh, there's a good line at the end, but he does acknowledge that that those guys, yes, completely agree. Um. Josh asked without Devon, how will the Bucks defensive blitz package be utilized? And who would be the coverage guy on Logan Thomas. So overall, I think let's add to this question just how you felt like we looked without Devon in there? Who stepped up and and and what a Devin Lists

defense seems to look like. Kevin Minter obviously is the replacement, and he did a really nice job replacing Devin White. Listen, there's only one guy in the league who had hundred forty tackles in nine sacks, so it's hard to replace Devin White with the exact same caliber player. But Kevin Miner did a really nice job and the Bucks certainly

trust him. He was in the right place, he moved around, He had a good range and moved around the field, made a lot of plays, made some He can cover downfield a little bit like he did towards the end of that game. Uh and uh. He also has shown on several occasions that he can. He can blitz up the middle just like Devin White can. Now, Devin White

is pretty special in that regard. But we can still blitz up the middle with both Kevin and Lavante, and Coach actually mentioned that as a possibility when he was talking yesterday. So the blitz packages shouldn't be impacted. You can still do the same things. You just don't have Devin White. UM. As far as covering Logan Thomas, of course, when you answer these questions, you have to realize it's not the same guy every time. We don't have one

guy following Logan Thomas around and covering him every time. Obviously, whatever defense you call sometimes it's a zone, of course, and whatever defense you call is going to dictate that. But we do have a very good coverage linebacker and Lavante David He he really is an extremely good coverage linebacker. So when Lavante is matched up on Logan Thomas, it's a good matchup for us. And we had a couple

of questions that kind of go together. Kevin and Greg both essentially asked about the way that we will try to slow down their D line and Chase Young in particular, and UM Greg brought up. Do you think that Auclaire or Joe Haig will be used as an extra pass protector often? So what do you see as the game plan there in terms of trying to stop their D line. I understand that, and I'm sure there will be times when you use an extra tech or tight end in

there to help with the protection scheme. But remember that on many occasions, Bruce arians has stated his preference to not go max protect because he wants as many guys available at cash passes. He knows that it's a bit of a risk reward, but he likes he prefers to have more guys available for targets, you know what I'm saying, and less max protect. So you're you're probably gonna see

a ton of that even against this team. Uh. For one thing, Tom Brady is very good at getting rid of the ball quickly, one of the reasons why the Buccaneers ranked second in the whole league and sacks allowed for pass play. The offensive line has been great, of course, but Tom Brady knows how and when to get rid of the ball, and UH, that helps you in that regard. And then we trust a lot of our our defensive alignment. I mean It's not just Chase Young, it's Montes Sweat.

But whichever one is coming off h the right end of the Bucks line is facing Tristan Worse. And as great as Chase Young has been, Tristan Worse has been just as good on the other side of the ball. By um, he has only been credited with allowing one sack all year. That's that's incredible. I mean I saw a recent All protein by ESPNS Bill Barton while and he picked Tristan Works is one of his tackles as rookie,

the only rookie on the team. So just remember this Washington front is is an incredible challenge, but the Buccaneers have a pretty good line to hold up there into that challenge. Yeah, that's a great point. Um. Stephen asked how big of a factor do you think Ronald Jones will be about against Washington. I wanted to hear how you felt like he looked coming act from being on the COVID list and with that broken finger. Yeah. I

don't know about you, but I thought he looked great. Now, obviously we didn't throw him the I'll pass a single time, and I don't know if they thought that if that just was circumstantial or they just didn't want to risk it when he was wearing that brace on his hand that makes him curling these two fingers like that, so he's playing with eight fingers and it's you know, it's catching ability has obviously been a bit up and down this year as it is, but running the ball, he

was he was explosive, sharp cuts. I thought he looked really good. It seems pretty clear at this point that the Bucks aren't gonna rush for a hundred fifty yards in a game very often, or even a hundred a lot of times. But what coach talks about is having effective running game when they run the ball. Are they getting four yards on first down or half of the distance too on second down? Or are they getting the

first down on a third and short? Are they getting the ball on the gold line as Leonard Ford has done very well on you know, into the end zone. So Bruce thinks the Bucks running game has been effective, even if it's not putting a huge numbers. And I think you saw a lot of play action in this last game, and that's that helps when you're running game is effective. I'm glad someone asked this question you and I before the show, we're telling how we wanted to

bring this up. Delvin asked, is there a chance we hold a night practice sometime this week to be better prepared for primetime football. There's a chance right now. I've looked at the schedule. He was just looking at it right before we came on, and it's look, it's a pretty normal schedule, uh, you know, except accelerate. So today is a Wednesday, and so on, and they're actually practicing in the afternoon, which is a little bit of a change because it usually practice in the morning on Wednesday.

But that's just a couple of hours difference. The rest of the schedule looks like a normal week schedule and uh, and so at the moment, there isn't a night practice scheduled. Um. Bruce arians did say that he could. This whole thing is subject to change and he could decide to do that, and if he does, it would probably be the Thursday practice. But as of now, that's not the case. And I'm not sure it really made that much of a difference

the last time we did it. Yeah, that's true. Um. And also just in general, Um, what do you feel like the biggest key will be in that game? On Saturday of if you were going to pick one thing that has to go a certain way, uh, to make sure that the Bucks get the win, what would be the thing that you say would be the most important. Okay I lost a little bit of audio there in the middle of that, But the question is what's the

most important thing to happen for the Bucks. Yeah, if you were to pick one key to the game, yeah, you know, I could always go the easy answer and say turnovers. Um, but what I'll I mean, I'll just go back to what we were just talking about. If Tom Brady has given time to throw, I think that the Buccaneers will have a very good chance of winning

this game because he is locked in right now. We probably will have Mike Evans, so we have the full complement of incredible weapons, and I just I know how good Washington's defense is. But if we can keep the pressure off Tom Brady, I think he can beat it. All Right, Well, that's gonna do it for us. On

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