What Records Could Be Broken During The 2021 Season? | Bucs Insider

questions in the comment section. And this is such a great time of year to do this because there's not really anything going on in terms of on the field, so this is the great time to just talk about whatever those burning questions you guys have are about the team, about the roster, training camp, stuff coming up, So any of that stuff, leave it in the comments section underneath our Facebook live video while we give people a chance

to do that. We did talk a little bit last week about the potential new helmet rule, and it had not officially been decided at that point, and now we know that it has, so tell everybody a little bit about that and what that's going to mean for the Bucks moving forward. Yeah, last week we were asked about it, and I think the answer was, well, we know they're talking about it, so that's a good thing. But we hadn't seen an answer yet. We have an answer now,

or at least part of an answer. And for anybody that doesn't quite know what we're talking about, the Buccaneers, uh did throwback games to the orange jersey starting in two thousand nine and did it for four years, one time a year, and it was very popular. Uh you know, it's not only just the the uniforms, but at the stadium they decked it out and all the orange and really made a whole throwback day out of it. That

was very popular. But the Buccaneers had stopped doing it in two thousand thirteen because the NFL started with this rule that every team could only have one set of helmets for an entire season. A player would get fitted with the specific helmet and he had to wear that helmet the entire year. And it was for safety reasons, of course. And I meant the Bucks really couldn't do their throwbacks anymore because our our helmets are pewter and you couldn't have another helmet. You needed a white helmet

to do the throwbacks, and you couldn't have that. And so the Buccaneers, uh, you know, there's franchise and it hasn't been happy about this for years now because it wants to go back and start doing throwback games again, and and the owners have repeatedly said straightforward, we would definitely want to do throwback games if we're working with

the NFL to try to change this rule. And finally, the NFL has said teams can now fit their players during trading camp with two helmets, so now we can have a white helmet and we can do throwback jerseys. I would say the answer isn't completely set yet though, because we know we couldn't do it until next year, and then there's some reports that you would have had to already decide by now if doing any alternate jerseys

for the two season. That deadline has already passed technically, I wonder though, given the change in the policy, if they might make an exception there. Uh, We're still waiting to hear the news. So I would be certain that throwback games are coming. I hope they're coming in two I don't know for sure that they are until Yeah,

that's gonna be interesting to see. And even if there were exceptions, if the team would even be able to get everything together, I mean, it would be such undertaking, not only to get the team part ready of their you know, helmets and jerseys and equipment, and then like you mentioned, trying you know what you do in stadium and um, you know, having to announce to all the other teams ahead of time what color you're gonna wear. And I think that also people don't understand sometimes how

much goes into planning game themes. You know that there's there's just so much to this that is normally planned

out very far in advance. So it may not have anything to do I'm sure it won't have anything to do with whether or not the team wants to do it, um, But I'm sure they also are gonna want to do it right and there may not be time to to do all of the the brewjaja that they will want to go with it, um, Yeah, and how quickly I can can put together jerseys you know, right, maybe they'll be like maybe it'll be like the last game in December.

Give us all the time that we can, Okay, are We had a question from Raphael asking are there any injuries that we should be worried about from the start of the season. Actually, no, that the Bucks are in pretty good shape in that regard, there were only six guys that weren't practicing UH during when the rookie and

the mandatory minicamp started. Another player, safety named Curtis Riley, did suffer an achilles injury, and at the time coach Arean said he wasn't sure if I was gonna require surgery. I I don't like to speculate about injuries, but I have not often heard of minor achilles injuries, So I mean I would think that Curtis Riley could be a question mark. That's the safety that we added who has some NFL experience. We added him in in May. Otherwise,

there were six guys. I don't know if I'll be able to come up with all of them off the top of my head. O. J Howard um Uh, Jordan Whitehead. They were all not practicing when during the O T A s but coach said at the end that all of them were looking good. Jordan white it was probably the farthest way, but that only been a few weeks.

He had shoulder surgery after the season, and coach said that he didn't think any of them were going to be an issue for the starter training camp, So you don't have that very often, to be quite honest with do you you, um, usually have one or two guys that you think might not be ready to go, might have to put somebody on pup, and of course things can change. And never take any answer about a player's injury with absolutes, because you know you never know what's gonna happen with

the human body. But um, it looks really good. The picture looks really good in terms of the team's health heading into training camp. Okay, and David asked, do you think that we will have a running back hit a thousand yards this year? Well, on one hand, I would say it seems less likely because it just seems more likely that Leonard Fournett will get a bigger share of the carries than he did last year, making it a

bit more even between him and Ronald Jones. Last year during the regular season, even with Ronald Jones missing a lot of time in December, the the carries. By the end of the year, we're almost two to one in

favor of Ronald Jones. Now, Ronald Jones I think ended up with nine hundred six yards something like that, and with about three games to go, you look like a dead lock to make it to a thousand, and then he had the uh, let's see, he had he had a hand injury, I believe, and then he he was on the COVID list and they had a quad injury, and so he didn't get a chance. He only really needed to play like one more game and he would

have got to a thousand. So you can you can look at this and go, well, Ronald Jones basically had it last year, so it seems obvious he could get it this year. But I wonder if the carriers are going to be a little more even making it hard for either of those guys is to get to a thousand, and then you still got a factory on what they want to do with Keyshawn Vaughan, how much Geo Bernard plays. Um, it just doesn't look like a situation where the Bucks have a lead back that goes for over a thousand.

That being said, I do think that coach arians will go with the hot hand idea. So if either Leonard Fournette round Jones is just killing early on, they might take over the lead role. And in that case, my answer changed, but at the moment I would bet no. Okay, Lawrence asked, what do you think the dynamics are gonna look like in terms of long passing game, shorter passing game, and just what what the offense might look like in

terms of that area is compared to last year. We do have so many of the same guys back, but you know, you you do add a Jalen Darden and um, you know, are are there any differences in terms of now and having O. J. Howard in the mix more often? You know, how how does that change maybe some of the long verse short passes and what the offense could look like. Well, I don't think that Bruce Arian's philosophy, an approach to offense and and buy with which by extension,

is going to change a lot. So this is still a team that's going to try to push the ball downfield. And uh, you know, think about the fact that you have Antonio Brown now for seventeen games instead of just half the season. And it took a little while last year before Brown really started getting downfield targets. We used them a lot early on with short passes, but later in the year and in the place he got some downfield targets. I think he could be more of a

weapon downfield than he was last year. And uh, you know, the offensive line is intact, so tom Brady and did pretty well last year and could be even better this year. So tom Brady should have time to throw downfield. I understand you have the addition of Jalen Darden, so you think maybe more underneath throws, But I don't know how much the rookie is going to get right off the

bat um. You know, the offense. If you remember how the Downfiel passing went last year, it was it was pretty good early on, and then for a good stretch in the middle of the field, they sort of lost it and the downfield shots were not working at all for a good I don't know, three or four or five weeks. But then at the end they got it back and the offense was really clicking and just about every way. So you know, you can hope that with that year under the belt and Tom Brady now fully

in charge of this offense. It took him a while, as we're now finding to really have full command of the offense last year. Wasn't still well into the second half, should be from the start now, and uh, you know, everybody back all the same pieces, the same philosophy on offense. I think they're still going to try to push the ball downfield more than the average NFL team does. And um Jarvis asked, do you think that Mike Evans hits his thousand yards this year? Yeah? I would bet on it.

Every time we're gonna talk about a statistical milestone, we're gonna have people are gonna get tired of here and to say this. But they're seventeen games now, so uh that makes it a lot more. Uh. I mean, think

about Mike Evans last year, for various reasons. He went into the last game needing about I think fifty yards forty six yards something like that, and he got it on the you know, on those first three catches and he was there, and then he got to throw to him in the end zone and took a weird step on the slide and looked like he suffered really bad. We were all very worried that he started a really bad knee injury. And that was game sixteen. As it turned out, he was able to play the next week

in Washington. Had there been a seventeenth regular season game, presumably he would have been ready to play for that. And if he had not made it two a thousand, he would have one more shot. So given that Mike Evans numbers tend to come in large, you know, like there were at least three or four or five games

last year we had two yards or ten yards. But then they're always every year he has four or five games where he has like hund a hundred fifty yards, so he tends to get a lot of them in bunches. So give him one more chance, you know, that makes it much more likely. I know we have Antonio Brown for the whole year, but Mike Evans numbers actually were quite a bit better in the eight games that Antonio Brown played, so I don't think that takes anything away

from him. You know, we have so many targets, and I would call Mike and Chris when he's healthy at problem staying healthy last year one A and one B. But still Mike Evins is probably one A. And if you're on an offense with Tom Brady getting passing yards, I think it's a very good chance that your one

A is going to get a house. Yeah. I'm so glad that Mike broke the record last year, so that he has the record without that asterisk, and now no one will be able to break that record in the same amount of games that he did, and I love like he will forever have the record in terms of

when they were sixteen game seasons. So I think that's kind of cool, um, you know, and it's a hard record to break anyway, just because most of the guys that you would think at a shot at, like Randy Moss, aj Green, Um, Julio Jones, guys like that, either they didn't have a huge rookie season or they just had one season where they missed too many games due to injury. So one of the things about Mike is he hit

the ground running, was awesome as a rookie. And even though he's battled through some injuries, if you look at his career numbers, he usually plays fifteen or sixteen games. He just had battle some through some injuries. He's never had that season where he misses like nine games. So availability is one of the big abilities in the NFL. It's very true, Um, Richard asked, and I love this. Uh, if you had a choice, which team would you like

the Bucks to wear the creamsicles against? Well, so you're looking for a good uh combination here, I guess right, So you wouldn't want to wear it against a team that had some orange and already, like the Browns or the Broncos. But we don't those teams. But we're talking about next year or beyond, right, Yeah uh uh, I mean, I'll tell you this in the asked. The very first game we did against was Green Bay and that was

pretty cool. That was a pretty cool combination of uniforms, um and teams that were a long time previous rivals. And then each of the next three games was against division opponents. So let's cut out the three division opponents because we've already done that. Um, something green Bay would be cool? Um, what about the Patriots tom Brady still our quarterback? That Yeah, that would be I mean, that game is already so epic if you add that on there,

I mean, that's that's just crazy. Um yeah, but it would be that it would be at least the second time that Tom Brady's played him, because he's going to get the first one this year. Yeah, that's true. That's true. Um. Yeah, there's a part of me that just that wants to say the Saints just because it's the Saints, that like, I want to do something that's going to get people even extra fired up. Whenever you play against them, like just that kind of a rivalry idea, Um, that would

be pretty incredible. Yeah, I kind of wonder how how good is Are we sure New Orleans is gonna be good in Oh, yeah, we're not sure at all, but just based on like who they have been and how and I'm sure that even if they aren't, we're still going to enjoy winning that that's that's not going to take away from how much you want to beat a division team and one that you have had some history with and all of that. So, yeah, it is gonna be very different, But I feel like that's one I

would pick. One that I think just aesthetically that would look cool is against the Rams because now that they have their colors that very much resemble their throwback stuff, that it would just overall kind of look like a fun, giant throwback game for everybody. True good idea. Vikings might be good. Orange and purple together could be pretty cool. That Yeah, that would be a lot there there would that be would be a lot happening. Um, all right.

So Richard also asked, are there any other records that can be broken by a Bucks player this upcoming season or any other records that we should be on the lookout for. Yeah, and to me, the big one is And I know Mike Evans already has virtually all the receiving records, so you wouldn't think there's much more that he can break. But there is a big one on the horizon. Mike all Stot is the Bucks all time touchdowner with seventy one, I believe, and that record for

a long time looked unassailable. I didn't think anybody's gonna get anywhere close to that UM But Mike Evans is up to I believe sixty two something like that UM so or sixty somewhere he's he's within striking distance. I think he's about nine back. And we know Mike can get nine in a I think he needs tend to break it. We know Mike can get nine or ten in a season. He just got thirteen. I believe he's had ten or more three or four times, and he's

also had eight on a couple of other occasions. Touchdowns are a little bit of a fickle stat for just about any position. But I didn't come up with this on my own, but I was just watching something yesterday and they were showing Mike Evans, and it was like something about last season and he had said he was the most targeted player in the end zone over the

last few years. So he even in those games like the New Orleans game, uh, last year, even he only caught one pass, but it was a one year touchdown pass, and I remember which game was recently he caught two passes.

They were both one year of touchdown passes. So even when the defense makes a point of taking Mike Evans out of the game by just doubling him the whole time, and it opens up opportunities for somebody else when you get down there near the goal line, there are still ways to get him involve no matter what the defenses trying to do. So, um, that's the big one to me,

that the touchdown record. There's a bunch of them that could fall, Like like Ryan Suckop broke our our season scoring record last year, and there's no reason why this offense won't be scoring a lot of points again. And he's a very accurate kicker, and we had one more games, so he could break it against year as an example. Okay, and we'll close it this. Michael wanted to know how is Kyle Trask looking well. I think we add certain the same question last week, and you know, we were

talking about a very small sample size so far. I think we're gonna learn a lot more in training camp when he should get a ton of reps, especially if coach continues to break the full full team sessions into two groups, so you've got two quarterbacks each getting eleven on eleven action on. You know, in each group, you know you'd have Blaine Gabbert and Tom Brady on one side and Ryan Griffin and Kyle Trask on the other.

So you're getting a lot of reps and I think we'll see a lot more than All I can say is the coaches are pleased with what he's done so far. They saved him, and the coaches are taking a very methodical approach because there's no expectation that Kyle Trast is gonna need to play during the regular season anytime soon, so they're taking a slow, methodical approach. And he's he's a good learner in that regard. Otherwise, I just think

that that he is what they thought he was. He's a big, strong guy, um, you know, who can make the throws that this offense requires. All Right, 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 and for those great questions. We are off next week. This is the week that everything just kind of goes dark in the in the buccaneer

world before the chaos of the season begins. So we're off then, but we will be back in a couple of weeks to get you guys ready for all things training camp, So we'll see you then. M