How Will Training Camp Look Different This Season? | Bucs Insider

Health Training Center. So this is an exciting day after months of doing this show from home and wondering what was going to happen in the days, and we finally are going to have some players in there. So Scott, I wanted to hear for you just what are what are your thoughts about how this is you know, gonna look and how excited are you to to know that we are just this this close, we're right here to having football happening. I guess i'd say I'm glad that

we're progressing along. There's been a lot of dates get got pushed back or along the way during the months. You're hoping maybe you could come back at a certain time, maybe they could earlier in July, and um, so it seems like it's been a moving target the whole time. So the fact that this is actually apparently gonna happen. That's exciting in a way, but I do think it's gonna be a bit of a slow burn to get going here. You know, the players are gonna come in,

there's gonna be some rounds of testing. Um, there's probably gonna be some strength and conditioning work. I don't know yet exactly when we're gonna be watching practice, but at least we are progressing in that direction and that's a good feeling. Yeah, that's true. And again, just a reminder, if you want to submit your question for us, go ahead and do it over on the Facebook page so you can check that out and uh and send your

questions in there. Um, I want to hear for you, what are the biggest things that you feel like will be different about this training camp and maybe the approach to it. Knowing that they have already missed so much of the offseason, a lot of the things that would have maybe happened in an O t A in a mini Campum, how could that potentially alter the way training camp will look this year? Yeah? I think I might

have alluded to that just a minute ago. Um. Usually when you get into camp, you do start practicing it right away. It's still a little bit of a ramp up. You know, you don't have pads on for the first few days and you don't have contact for quite some time. But this time I really think there's gonna have to be some days or weeks devoted to strength and conditioning work,

just because they missed all of that during the off season. Now, players obviously have worked out on their own, but there with any group of people, there's gonna be a spectrum of how well they did so, and there's gonna be

some they're gonna walk in here ready to go. Like as an example, I do want to bet that Chris guy Chris Guyman will walk right in and be ready to do a two hour practice the moment steps in the building, But maybe not everybody will be at that same level, And you gotta figure you gotta find out where they are, and then you gotta help them get to the point where the normal would be at the start of the camp. Also, it appears that we won't

have preseason games. I don't know if we've officially announced that are not, but that's certainly the news that's been out there from the NFL and the NFL p A. So if there's no preseason games. That certainly makes camp look a lot different because those would really break things up and give you a little bit of a little bit of idea of how things are going. I mean, you know, many times will be a week or two in the camp and we'll be saying, man, that undrafted

Ricky receiver looks really good, right. It happens every year, and then you get into games that you either find out that he shows up or disappears. So we won't have that and there won't be any joint practices, so it's gonna be a little bit harder to tell. I think that probably leads to a lot more staying with

the status quo. I think that makes it a lot harder for undrafted rookies and for guys trying to battle their way up the depth chart, and that's unfortunate, but I guess that just makes it a bigger challenge for those guys. And Mitchell asked how long will it be

before contact starts? That's always a big question every year is you know, when are the padded practices that those are Again, especially if you're not gonna have preseason games, you're not gonna have joint practices that man, those contact practices are going to be even more important to to start trying to learn some things. So how could that potentially be different than the years past. That's a great question, Mitchell, and I don't think we have the answer to that yet.

I think there are some aspects of how camp is going to go, and how the entire preseason period, not games, is going to go. How many practices you can have, how many times in a row, how much testing there has to be before every practice or day of practice, and and when they're gonna put on the pads and when they're gonna start hitting each other. I don't think

anybody has that answer yet. That's like you said, Casey, there's a lot different about this one, and I think we're going to find out a lot of it as we go along. And I think the name is ad Him. I think it's weird. It's I'm hoping it's like Adam, but there's an age thone in there. So I don't know how much I should have you know, weird, you know,

I mean weird. I was thinking to myself, I couldn't help but think of queat fins and like how much I'm supposed to pronounce quick cream with Yeah, it's it's a silent age. It's a silent age. So Adam or add him either way? Uh, he said he mus Casey and Mr Scott just was wondering what's up with Justin Evans. We haven't heard any words on him. Yeah, I get

this question for the mail bag pretty much every week. UM. I sort of answered it last week, although it really wasn't much of an answer because I think, as we've discussed here before, this is this is one of those questions is that we would have had a lot better field for had there been an offseason program at the

end of last year. UM. They coach arians, I believe was hopeful that Justin would be able to make it back onto the field at some point during the o t A S or for that final mini camp, which would have been a couple of weeks into June, and at that point you would have got a good feeling for if he was gonna be ready for the start of training camp. And you know, sometimes guys that have been out for that long, you get him on the field and what you're really hoping for is that there

is no setback. I mean, you get to the point where you feel they can practice, and sometimes that goes great, and sometimes there's a little bit of you know, the timetable gets slowed down because it didn't go as great. Uh, we don't have any of that evidence now. Um, I can tell you that when coach has talked about the safety position, because he gets asked about that a lot because um, it's it's really the only spot on the depth chart that is a little difficult to figure out

how it's gonna shake out in terms of the starters. Um. And so when he talks about it, he does not fail to mention just was obviously talks about Antoine Whitfield and in Jordan Whitehead. I think I said Whitfield, I mean Windfield, Uh, Jordan Whitehead, Mike Edwards, Dakota Dixon. But he always does mention Justin Evans. But you can tell it's still just a big question mark. So, uh, that's something we're just gonna have to wait and see on. I know they'd love to have to get him back

in the mix. You know, early on he looked like one of those safeties that you're looking for that can play up in the box, that hits hard but also can rome. He's got He's very acrobatic. You remember some of his interceptions were of the very acrobatic variety, so he can make the big play. So it's a guy you'd like to see if you can get back to where he was at the beginning. Um, you could have a real asset there. But I'm afraid we're just have

to wait and see. I'm sorry, I think I'm gonna be saying wait and see a lot to a lot of these questions. But at least, like you said at the top, we're getting to that point where we'll have some answers. Yeah, I hope nobody's playing the drinking game of a drink every time he says wait and see in the morning, right with Justin Evans, Um, wasn't his first career interception against Tom Brady? I don't. I don't recall.

I think I know he had one against him, and I want to say it was his first of his career, but I know he actually intercepted him whenever we played the Patriots at Raymond James. So I feel like, you know, he's already he would probably be pretty excited and ready to get out there and try that again. At practice. You're pulling out the fun facts that's supposed to be my job, you know. I mean after five years of here and you you know you've been teaching me. Well,

I'm just trying to live up to your status. Um, all right, Rodney said, With limited media in camp, do you and Scott foresee a heavier workload on reporting to the fans. Well, and it's a good question, and um, but the thing is, we're gonna have the same restrictions, um, in terms of uh, talking to the players or you know, being with him or around them, as as the rest of the media. So I think what you're gonna have is it's gonna be a level playing field and we

certainly are going to be there. Um, We're gonna be there every day there's practice. We're gonna do the best we can to bring you everything we can. We have to figure out what that means. So I hope that's the case. I hope that there's more for us to do and that we can deliver more that that maybe is harder to get out in traditional means. That's certainly what we're gonna try to do. Um, but we are going to be living by some of the same restrictions

as the rest of media. Yeah, being being a team reporter doesn't necessarily come with any more perks this this year than outside media, because we we could have you know, COVID just as easy as than another reporters. So they have to make sure that you know, anyone that doesn't matter who you work for, what you're doing, that this is UH something where you know, you've got to make sure that the people that are coming into contact with players,

it's it's the right kind of protocols. Um, there are a lot there are a lot of new UH regulations and things in place that's designed for safety, and so you and I are can be able to walk up to Tom Brady as he's coming off the practice field and ask him a question. Nope, we will continue to be doing interviews from zoom and things from from really far away. UM Frank asked who will be the number three wide receiver on paper to start the season, and he asked if it would be Watson Miller or the

rookie from Minnesota. Yeah, I think those are the top three candidates pretty obviously. UM, I think the best case scenario was that would be that Tyler Johnson sucks up a lot of those those snaps, because that would mean that he is on this level what he was of Minnesota, which is a guy who's a fantastic route runner, just has an innate ability to get open, to create separation not just underneath but even deep. Um, and you'd like that your third receiver to be that guy, more of

an all around guy that can also play in the slot. Um. I know we love to put Chris god Went in the slot and we're in trips when we're in eleven personnel, but he's not the only guy that ever takes snaps from the slot. So if you could mix it up a little bit and have a guy that you feel good about in there, um, that would be good. Now saying that, I think also both those other guys are really good candidates. I think I would put a spotlight on Scottie Miller just because, um, you know I would.

I would put it this way. Last year, Brishade Perryman was clearly the number of three receiver pretty much all the time when he was healthy. He had missed a couple of games in the middle. But um, if you recall early on, UM, there was a lot of talk about how come Brushad Perriman hardly had any stats. He had didn't have a lot of catches, and and the the coaches would always say, Breshad is doing great. He's doing everything we wanted to do. The ball is just

not going his way. You know, those other two guys get so many targets. It's just hard for him to get a lot of targets. And then he's kept doing what he was doing. He started to get more targets in the second half, and then of course Mike and and Chris got hurt, and he showed what he could have been doing when he's the targeted guy. So my point being, it could be a very similar situation where the third receiver doesn't get a ton of targets, but he is still on the field fifty six the snaps.

So you want that guy to actually be somebody that stresses the opposing deffense, even if the quarterback isn't looking at him a ton. So that's the guy that I think Scotty could be just because of his speed. Okay, and Brandon asked Minus Gronk, which of the new offensive players are you looking forward to seeing Tom connect with? Well,

this might not. I don't know if he's looking for between receivers and tight ends but I'm actually looking forward to seeing what happens with Keyshawn Vaughn because, as everybody knows, Tom Brady has had a lot of success, had a lot of success in New England throwing the running backs Um James White year after year. There are guys before that, Um, and I would like to see that be a bigger

part of our passing attack. And I wonder if the number one pass catching back is going to be Keyshwan or Ronald Jones, and I have a feeling it might be Keishawan Uh and he could even maybe take all our part of that third down role from Daring. So Um, I'd like to see our number one pass catching running back has somewhere in the in the range of forty to fifty catches. So I guess that's what I'm most interested to see, if if Keshan can be that guy,

and if Brady finds trust in him. And Edward asked how many Pro bowlers do you think the Bucks will have this year? He suggested he sees five definitely, and or more possibilities. Well, my first reaction to the number five is to say, con that's that's awfully aggressive. It's been a long time since the Bucks have put five in the Pro Bowl at one time, and maybe maybe, um, I don't know if we had four or five in in Jamis Winston's rookie year, but there are a couple

of really late additions there. Um. But then the other side of that coin is it's not really that crazy because the years that the Buccaneers have had five or more Pro bowlers were always the years where the team was really good and got a lot of attention. Uh. And of course that's what we think is going to happen this year. We certainly, no, we're gonna get a lot of attention because of Brady and Gronk and so on, and we think it's going to be a very good team.

And if those things happen, He's right, five is an only question. So who are the possibilities? Obviously, Mike and Chris and Shack they all went last year, so you could start there, um be um. You know, even maybe one of the alignment gets a little more attentional Eilan

mar pet Um, you know, Ryan Jensen. Uh. And then of course everybody's favorite answer to this question of the overlooked guy who finally could get some attention lete do But Yeah, if he doesn't make it, I think we should strike and revolt and pick it outside the Pro Bowl game. So so five doesn't As a matter of fact, it's not that hard to get to five. So my first reaction was, that's kind of crazy. But when I think about it makes some sense. It can happen. Yeah,

Christopher asked, do you think they should expand the rosters? Yeah, and I think that they probably will or have very um uh, what's the word very not loose, but for giving rules for promoting guys and from the practice squad, having a larger practice squad, being able to move them back and forth from there, easier, being able to move

guys back and forth from injured reserve. Uh, you know, make that that rule about having a couple of guys who can bring back from injury reserve, maybe making everybody.

And I don't know how much of this you know of the history of injured reserve, but the reason that it became a rule where a guy went on I R and had to stay on I R was because years ago there were teams that made a habit of stashing guys on i R. So you put a guy on our on I R for an injury that wasn't so bad, but you needed the roster spot and you just leave them there until you want to bring them back. And it was pretty obvious what teams were doing, so

they made that rules so teams couldn't get away with that. Well, this is a year that maybe teams should be allowed to do that, because you really need a pretty big pool of players at your disposal for the possibility of having to get by with absences of a couple of weeks. So, um, I don't know if it's not absolutely necessary to increase the roster ton from fifty three, but to be able to easily move guys back and forth from your entire pool of players is probably the way to go. That's

a great point, and we'll close with this one. Ed wanted to know, do you think Keyshawn Vaughn has a chance to start over Ronald Jones? Well, a chance, sure, absolutely can't. I would never come here and say God doesn't have a chance to beat out another guy for the job. But if I'm a batman, I think Ronald Jones remains the starter. And and as the season goes long, we see how the split goes, and they'll go They'll go with the hot hand, like Bruce Arian said last year.

I mean, at this same time last year, if you're asking me if Ronald Jones I would un see Peyton Barber for the starting job. I always said no, I don't think so, but I think they'll see how it goes, and somewhere along the way, if Ronald is more effective than Peyton, then he will replace them, which is what happened. Um, I think Ronald's gonna be effective this year, so I think you will start, and I think he will maintain a good number, a good percentage of the snaps. We'll

see how much Keyshan takes out of that. Okay, well that's gonna do it for us. On this edition of Buccaneers Inside a Live presented by Miller Lte. Thanks as always for being with us, Thanks for those questions, and soon hopefully we'll be doing some of these live shows from up at advent Health Training Center with actual football happening behind us, So stay tuned for that and we'll see you next week. Um yeah, yeah, mm hm