Sean Murphy-Bunting & Scotty Miller Designated to Return from IR, Bye Week Updates | Bucs Insider

underneath our live video. So as we give people chance to start submitting some of those figured we talked about some of the big news of the week. And you know, whenever it's a bye week, sometimes we don't expect there to be a lot of news, but then when your team has been the walking wounded, uh, the injury news can always happen at any point. So tell us some of the finally good news that we have to share

on some of these injuries. Yeah, and to your point, the timing of these moves really tells us something, and that is that both Scotty Miller and uh Sean Murphy Bunting were designated to return to practice. They're they're on injury reserve. Now, when you do that, you start a twenty one day window h during which at any point they you can activate them to the active roster, but during that time they can practice with the team without

counting against the fifty three man roster. So the reason I say the timing there is significant is because the books did this on their bye week. They could have easily just went until next Monday or Tuesday to do it and started that twenty one day window later. By doing it now they do get a chance to put Scottie and Sean. It's kind of it's kind of helpful that they play complimentary positions or competitive positions I guess receiver in quarterback, because they can go out there and

simulate some practice stuff for a couple of days. So that's the reason they do that, I suppose. But it also tells you that those guys are probably closer to returning than needing the full twenty one day windows. So it's it's pretty encouraging news. Yeah, that is a really great point and how interesting that timing is. And of course Rachel had asked, what's the situation with gronk Um?

So what did we see? I mean, with everybody of course was so excited to see that he was, you know, dressed, and then got in the game and then it was unfortunately only a few snaps and left again. So I know Bruce talked about it a little bit earlier this week. Yeah, I think he has said on a couple occasions since the game that they probably shouldn't have let Rob Gronkowski play,

that he really was pushing to play. Um. I think the ribs apparently are okay now, But an injury that sort of came up off of the other one is back spasms, and those flared up during the game, so he tried to go and after only a few snaps, you know, the back spasims and gaming problem, he was done. And so now he has two weeks to recover from that, which I don't know that I'm not a doctor, and it's it's always bad when we try to speculate on on injuries and how long a guy i'll be out.

But to me, back spasms and two weeks doesn't sound as bad as like cracked ribs in two weeks. So we'll see. Hopefully he'll be back and at full strength this time around. I'm sure at this point that Bruce isn't gonna put him on the field and until he's fully ready to go, Yeah, Yeah, I think that's a good point. I do think it seems like this bye

week was just so perfectly timed. But I also feel like we say that every year because there's always injuries in football, and so you always have as you're ready to get back. But this year, in particular, it feels like some pretty good timing. UM. Trevor had asked, um, how much better will the secondary be when we get the starters back? And when that happens, where will Richard

Sherman fit in? Well, that second part is definitely gonna be an interesting question, because at some point, if you get everybody back, you're you're a little deep there all of a sudden, and there may not be a lot of snaps for everybody. Uh, I don't know. We you know, Carlton Davis notably was not doesn't need to return for practice, so he must be a little farther away. So I think that's uh, you know, I think that's an issue

for down the road. I think that's a good problem to have, and we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Um, I don't really remember the first half of that question, how they'll be, just how much better the secondary will be? Once everybody's back, you know what, Honestly, you could take a bit of time for it all the jail again like it did last year. Really, the secondary and the quarterbacks in particular were much much better during that eight game winning streak than they were for

the first three months of the season. They were really not Carlton, he was pretty steady the whole way, but there were some ups and downs for both Shawan and Jamale Dean and Jamal Deane's playing really well right now, by the way, Um, So those guys are very talented, and they demonstrated they can play together and be a very strong secondary. So I think that's where you will get back to. But it wouldn't surprise me if there's a little bit of growing pains as they sort of

gel together again. Okay, Uh, and Frank had asked, um, what were your thoughts on the play of Devon White and his press conference and what what his performance looked like against the Saints. Well, I mean he played well, obviously, the yards worth the penalties as a negative, and uh, the taunting one obviously didn't have to happen. I you know, the rough of the pastor one if I if I have them right. I think that's one where he was trying to get through and his hand hit him on

the helmet, on the face mask. I tend to give guys a break on those because I don't think that's what they're trying to do. But on the other hand, Coach Areas doesn't seem to be giving those guys a break, saying, hey, we knew this referee was and this crew called the most roughing the pastor penalties in the league, and so you have to be extra careful and you have to keep that in mind all the time. So maybe you

know Coach wasn't happy with that. And then the other one, the horse collar horse there's a good reason for that horse collar ruling. We see why. With the end of that Jame has suffered again though he's running past and he tries to grab his jersey. I don't think it was malicious or anything. Um. He said in his press conference after the game that he's that's he's an emotional player. He plays with emotion. He talks all the time, and that he just needs to do a better job of

not talking right at the guy. I think the main thing that a lot of these guys need to keep in mind is just don't stand over the guy. If you're gonna talk some smack, do it while you're walking away, right right, absolutely, um. And so also, I know we had some people bringing up the trade deadline that was yesterday, um, and it came and went with the Buccaneers not participating. So I wanted to hear your thoughts on that of what that says about the team. And you know what

the front off thinks. The fact that that we were not participants despite some of the injuries. Well, I mean, the first thing that says is that the NFL trade deadline isn't anything like It isn't like baseball or the NBA. It usually isn't a high impact uh time of the year because in the mid season trades and the NFL are a lot harder and make work than in some of the other sports, in part because guys come in and you know, there's a there's a learning curve for

them for some time. So it's just it's not often that you add an impact player at the deadline. And so a couple of teams did the rans for the biggest I think with Von Miller, and it looks like Stefan Gilmore might really be able to help out Um Carolina. That was a little bit before the trade deadline, but still, the Bucks, throughout their history haven't made a ton of deadline deals, so I don't go into any trade deadline expecting them to happen, so I was not surprised when

none happened. The relations you saw for the Buccaneers leading up to it was about various cornerbacks around the league, like Kyle Fuller in Denver. But I think the Buccaneers are taking a proach of hey, we've got guys coming back, we don't need to trade for another guy and have even more of a log jam and give up other assets, and then have Sean Bunting and Carlton Davis come back. And then you have those two in Dean and Richard Sherman, and even guys like d Delaney who have played well

in their absence. So I just don't think there was necessarily a need to trade for a quarterback. I know that's the first thing, and as a fan, I'm sure I would think the same thing. You want to look at where your team is hurting and say, hey, let's go fix that. And and Jason light has done such an aggressive job of signing guys like Antonio Brown last year to pride depth for injury a position that was suffering some injuries that you sort of begin to expect that.

But timing a guy that's out there in the street and trading for a guy are two different things. Okay, And I know that some people tuned in a little bit late. We talked about this right off the top, but Gerald had asked, again, what players do you think we have returning from injury? So tell us again about the news that came in uh this week and just what we might know when about everybody. Essentially at this point, we'll know a lot more about the status of everybody

when they returned to practice next Monday. It's really hard to get a whole lot of updates this week because all the players are completely gone from Tuesday through Sunday, and hopefully a lot of the ones that are injured are having are getting time to get closer to returning. The most concrete news we have was yesterday when Scottie Miller and Sean Murphy Bunting were designated to return from practice.

And as we said earlier in this show, the timing is interesting because the Buccaneers are on a buy and so they could have easily waited until next Monday to designate these two guys to return when the Buccaneers were actually practicing, and thus start their twenty one day window where they don't count against the active roster a week

later and they have longer to decide. So this tells me that those guys are probably it's going to be returned sooner rather than later, because you went ahead and started there twenty one day window yesterday, Okay, and then we had people asking about Antonio Brown and his injury, and I wanted to hear all of your thoughts on what the offense has looked like, um, minus him and Gronk and some of the guys that have been used and stepped up. I mean, we've even seen them throw

Jalen Darden in there on a couple of plays. Tyler Johnson definitely played a bigger role this last Sunday. So, um, maybe what you've learned about some of these other weapons besides the big name ones in their absence recently also and also Leonard for that, I think they've been trying to get the ball to Leonard in the past game in recent weeks, and that makes a lot of sense, and he's he generally makes a couple of good plays in the passing game per game. I don't think this

last game was really the best example of that. But this last game kind of went away. You would expect playing against the Saints because the Saints always try to use Marshawn Lattimore on Mike Evans and friends. Did win one of those matchups in a big way with his touchdown catch over Lattimore even drew Pilley at the same time, but he was only targeted four times because that's what the Saints wanted to do. They want to try to

take him out. And so you expected, or I expected a big game from Chris Godwin, and indeed he did, and then I thought, well, maybe a guy like Tyler Johnson is going to need to step up. And I think he had five catches for sixty five yards, so um, not even Gronk is probably uh was probably the bigger issue there because I think between Tyler Johnson and Cyril Grayson making the big catch, they gave us about what Antonio Brown probably would have given us in that game anyway.

But we're not getting a huge amount of production out of the tight ends. And we all know that Ground was really on a terror at the start of the season before he got hurt. So both of those guys coming back will be huge. But I'm really looking forward to Gronk giving us back that you know dimension in the past. Attack. Okay, and then we'll close with this one. Adam ask, do you think after the bye week we'll see more of Joe tryon Shoyenka. You know, it's it's

it's situational. There's just some games where the game plan is better for Jason Pierre Paul, which is the guy that Joe would normally take snaps away from. And we all know that JPP likes to stay on the field as much as possible. He's got incredible stamina, and he's been playing pretty well lately. Had a couple of passes defense in his last game, which is one of his specialties. And you know, Joe has had some nice moments, but he still is the rookie compared to the very experienced JPP.

And coach are and said a couple of weeks ago that there are just some things that Jason Pierre Paul does better than Joe at this point, and so it's not all about just rushing the passer around the edges. There's other parts of playing that position. So yes, in a nutshell, the answer is yes. I do think we'll see a little bit more of Joe, but I don't think it's going to be a gigantic amount more. Okay, well that's gonna do it for us on this edition

of Buccaneers in Sidur Live presented by Miller Lte. Thanks as always for those great questions, and I hope everybody enjoys some other football since the Bucks are on their bye week this weekend, and we'll be back next week to talk about the game that will be the next week against the Washington football team, So we'll see you then