Hey, they're Bucks fans. How's everybody doing. We are so excited for this edition of Buccaneers Inside Our Live, presented by Miller Lite. As you can already tell one thing is different, I don't know if you can tell. Scott is in the facility. He has made it into advent Health training Center. There are players in there, there are coaches,
and their most importantly, Scott is in there. So things have changed since the last time we've had one of these, and I just feel like, in general, this is the most information answers certainty we've had about a lot of things in quite some time. So I'm very excited abou this. I feel like we finally are going to have some answers for these people's questions that we've been having to
just say we don't know too. So again, if you have a question for us that we hopefully will have an answer to this time, please go ahead and put those in the comments section on Facebook if you're not already watched there, we're gonna get a chance to read some of those. So as we give people a chance to hop on there ask him a questions. I know there's a few different things that we can talk about.
First of all, there were a couple of roster moves um that came out of the press conference with Bruce Arians And we'll get into everything he said in the press conference, but for now, why don't you take us through those roster moves and what they mean. Yeah, it's like you said, this is a couple of topics that people have asked us about repeatedly, and we always had to say, we probably have to wait until the players get back in the building to really have an answer,
and that's what happened. So we've been asked a lot about Justin Evans, the safety, he's had foot problems since a season and a half ago. And then Kendall Beckwith, who hasn't actually played since his very good two seventeen rookie season because he heard his ankle in a car accident in the following off season. And now we know that the Buccaneers are placing Justin Evans on active pup too start camp, which, to be honest, isn't really a
great sign. You would kind of hope he'd be ready to go by now, and with camp being so short, any time he misses makes it harder to figure out how he's gonna work into the mix um. You know, usually if a guy starts on active pup, if he's gonna end up on reserve pup or he comes off it at some point, but it usually takes a week or two and that that compromises our comprises most of camp at this point, so he kind of it kind of puts a big question mark over the Justin Evans situation.
Hopefully he'll be able to make it back. Who it's been a long long haul for him. Uh, same thing really with Kendall Beckwith who was waived with an n f I non football injury that is designation. He's been for the last two years, been on reserve and if I trying to make it back from that ankle injury, but it just hasn't happened, so that actually reduces that actually reduces the roster eighty six, so it opens up a roster physician to be clear, Justin Evans on an
active pup list is still counts against the roster. The point of putting them on that is that it makes it possible for you to later do reserve pup if you have to. Right, Yeah, that's and it's so sad for both of them that they've they've had to go through this. They both have been such promising players, especially Kendall Now. I mean that that first year, he just looks so incredible. But yeah, I feel like asked our questions about Justin and Kendall have been some of the
most common that we've gotten on this show. So at least there is a little bit of clarity for now, especially with Kendall, But with Justin now, we're just gonna hope that he gets a chance. Um And yeah, you know that came out of the press conference with Bruce arians So what were some of the other things that you felt like you learned from him and that we're
talked about there. Well, he seems Bruce seems confident that there's gonna be a sixteen game season, but he also had had to point out that for that to happen, it's going to take a lot of discipline. For example, he said, for him, he's basically only going to be in two places for the entire camp in season, either at home or here in the office, and that's it.
He's not gonna go out to any restaurants anything. And really that's what's gonna take is is everybody buying in and doing everything to protect themselves when they're way from this building, because, as Bruce said, it's not gonna be a problem in the building, because you can't come in this building until you've been test and your negative Believe me, I know from experience three times already, so and and
other people have had to do it more. So there's not gonna be a problem with people contracting it here. It's gonna be a problem with somebody potentially getting the virus outside the building, and then if they had came in contact with other people, then then you start to have a problem, you see with the Miami Marlins. So it's gonna take a lot of discipline, but he does think it's very very possible any think it's going to happen,
So that's very encouraging. Obviously. The other side of this is you're going to be playing regular season football games after about two or three weeks of practice, which is just mind boggling to think the team can get ready that quickly. But everybody's in the same boat, is what coaches will always say, Right, That's that's very true, and I keep hearing that of how everybody's in the same boat.
But at the same time, it's not the case because not every team has a new quarterback, not every ting, you know, so it is interesting. But I mean, we do at least have the consistency of a coaching staff, so it's like we we sort of are in a better position than some other teams, especially maybe teams that have a new quarterback, but it's a rookie, you know. Least, if you're going to have a new quarterback, one that's been doing it pretty well for twenty years, feels like
a good option. But it is sort of interesting that, yes, everyone's under the same protocol, but I don't think it's gonna affect every team the same way. So it will be interesting to see if you can start to tell, you know, who was hardest hit by these short offseasons. Um. We had a question from Chris Washington asked, who do you think will be the feature back this year? Well, I think it's gonna be a committee thing. Um, you just look at what Bruce has said several times that
that's the way most teams do it now. Not too many teams have just that one bell weather back like Zigal Elliott that's going to carry every time, or Derrick Henry. Most teams are doing it with multiple backs, and I think that's what Bruce wants to do. And even if you look at last year, Ronald Jones emerged, took the starting job away from Peyton Barber. But I was just looking at their for answering a similar question for a
mail bag. I was just looking at their their carries game by game, and even after Ronald Jones took over the starting job from Peyton, there were still four or five games where they basically had the act the same number of carries. Now, if Keshawn Von again, the rookies are gonna have a harder time acclimating to the NFL in such a short period. But running back is a position at which you can you generally can acclimate to the NFL better than any other position. You see. Rookies
make instant effects every single year. Just look back at Doug Martin, Callick Williams work done, and it's happened multiple times in Bucks history. There is the complication that Keshan Von started camp on the COVID nineteen reserve list. Uh that, by the way, we can't say, and we don't know because we can't be told, whether that means he has contracted it or has been in close contact with someone who did. That list is for both types and you're not allowed to say what it is, so we don't
know beyond that. But he is on that list, which means there's a certain period of time. Hopefully by time practices beginning, he'll be ready to go. So my point being, I think I'm pretty confident that keishaw Von will be ready to contribute alongside Ronald Jones when the season begins. So I don't know if we're really gonna have a feature back if I have to choose with Ronald Jones, but I think it's gonna be more of a mix. Okay,
and I've love this. I've seen we have people watching from both Rio and Sal Paulo, Brazil and Pero Rico. We've got a very widespread audience this morning. Everybody is excited about the start of training camp and speaking of that, we had Sean asked, are we going to be able to see video footage from training camp since fans won't be able to attend um. Yes, and Scott and I will have a live show that we are planning to do from the padded practices because we know those are
the ones that fans did to enjoy watching. The most happens there most closely resembles football as some of the walkthroughs. And yes we will um have some people that are able to take footage that we will be able to be out there. Will just you know, everyone's kind of at different tier levels of how far away they're going to have to be. But yes, we will have video for you guys from training camp, which is going to
be really exciting. And uh, Scott, I wanted to hear you know what we've sort of found out about training camp overall now since the last UM time we've done one of these shows of a you know, what players have had to do maybe to be in the building, and then what we know about the schedule itself. You know, we've been one during how will this compared to normal training camps of how quickly they get into practice, how
much is strength and conditioning? So, um, what have we found out now about what the actual schedule is gonna look like for the next few weeks for the guys. Well, it's interesting because the dates of the beginning dates stayed the same. The quarterback, well, we did move the rookies from the twenty one to three, but the quarterbacks were supposed to report on the three, all the veterans were supposed supposed to report yesterday on those dates remained intact.
But it's not really where you would have been starting. You would have been coming in on the twenty eight and practicing by the twenty night, not in pads. You would have had a couple of days where you can't do pads or contact. But now that beginning part. First of all, they have to do the COVID testing and they have to do by Lead Protocol, two of them seventy two hours apart, both of them negative before they
can come into building. So some of the rookies should be able to be in the building at this point, and then the veterans are just starting to get their tests. So the first time you're gonna see veterans in the building is probably we're gonna be August first. After that there's gonna be some amount of strength and conditioning where they're not on the field except to run or whatever.
They're not doing practices, So I don't think you're gonna see any training camp practices that you're used to seeing until the middle of August, and I don't think that the Buccaneers have at least any specific dates yet, so I'm not gonna do that, but I would imagine middle of August is when they will start, and then a couple of days after that they'll be over. Pats and Paul asked, who do you think will have the best
rookie season of the guys we drafted? Well, you know, the the guy that that obviously you needed the most because it took him in the first round, was Tristan Works. Hopefully you'll step right in. But rookie, even really talented rookie offensive tackles um sometimes have a hard time getting completely up to being stud left tackles or right tackles right from the beginning. I would expect Tristan be a
very good right tackle right from the start. I think he'll probably in that job, even though Bruce arians said it's not certain, but it would be asking a lot for him to be you know, Joe Thomas level. I'll tackle right off of that. It just doesn't often happen without its planet. I hope I'm wrong. I hope he's an absolute star from the very beginning. But it's a tough thing to predict. Uh, you know, Keshan Vaughn, Tyler Johnson.
They're gonna be fighting for snaps and jobs. But I think the guy that's probably in position to really make an impact right away that you'll notice and be excited
about is probably hand Kwan Winfield. I think he's got a really good shot at winning one of those two starting jobs, even though it's a very crowded battle, and he's got Jordan Whitehead and Andrew Adams and Mike Edwards and Dakota Dixon a lot of really good candidates, but he's such a playmaker and they want that on the field as soon as possible, even if maybe he takes a few weeks. Maybe it's not right away from week one, but I do think Andrew Winfield is gonna be a
playmaker in this secondary relatively quickly. So that would be my pick. Okay, and I thought we also people watching from South Carolina and Canada. We love hearing that, so always make sure you get send that in when you're watching here. Jermaine asked who will have the most yards and most receiving touchdowns. I don't know if he means receiving on both or yards. You know, I'm assuming yeah, because I don't think we're gonna count quarterback here or
something like that. So most receiving yards and most receiving touchdowns. So the old pick between Mike Evans and Chris Godwin question, huh. If you remember last year it went back and forth. Chris Godwin was leading the team and then Mike had
a run, and then he was leading the team. And you remember we got to Atlanta and Mike was like eight yards away from getting his thousand yards, and uh, that would make him than Randy Moss, the second guy to do it for six straight season to start their career. So we're already with that note because he's like eight yards away, and and somehow Chris Godwin gets like a hundred fifty yards and beats Mike to a thousand. Mike did get there, and then Chris took over, and then
Mike even to back up. I think Mike actually got ahead a little bit, but by the time they got hurt, um, Chris was just a little bit ahead of Mike, just barely. There were both on paste get close to fifteen her yards and I think it ended up was it nine touchdowns for Chris and eight for Mike. So I mean, come on, it could go either way. Touchdowns in particular are fickle. You know, you saw Chris Gotland. There was been six times last year when he was tackled inside
the five yard line. He could have had fourteen touchdowns and he had nine. I think, so, UM, if I have to guess, I'll go with Chris just I'll go with the incumbent. He won the battle last year or so. But it's gonna be close. It's gonna be one of those two. I I don't foresee Gronkowski or anybody else taking that away from those two. Okay, and uh J asked who's going to be our slot wide receiver? Um?
And I also just overall wanted to talk about the slot position in general and where you use a slot wide receiver, where you might even want to use a tight end sort of split out a little bit wider. What is sort of the reasoning behind who you put there and win and who were some of those people on this team that could fulfill that role, whether or not it's a traditional slot role like you picture at
the speed this like small quick guy. Yeah, it's a very good question because they referred to that as the Z and the Z encompasses not only third receivers, but the second tied end when you have to tight end. Uh, you can even have a back that you put out in the slot. So whoever that extra receiver is, whether
it's whatever position they call the z um so. But I think probably the question is about which receiver is going to be the third receiver on the field when we go to three, which, by the way, we did about of the time last year, which I think is pretty in keeping with most of the league. There's a few teams that buck that trend last year, but most of the league is going fifty in eleven personnel, which
is three wide receivers. And uh, when we did that, However, the guy that came in as a third receiver wasn't always in fact wasn't primarily the slot receiver you'd usually put Chris Godwin in the slot. He played about I think his snaps in the slot, and so Chris Godwin
was essentially the answer to who's your slot receiver? But if you want to know who the third receiver is, it seems like a battle primarily between Scottie Miller, Justin Watson, and Tyler Johnson, maybe Bryant Mitchell, who was having a nice camp last year before he got hurt. Um, you know the intriguing guy to me there obviously Tyler Johnson, but we'll have to see he was not gonna have a lot of time to get ready for his first season.
The intriguing guy is Scotty Miller because if you put him on the field and you put him on the outside and with all that speed you saw him start to make some big plays last year before he got hurt again, with all that speed on the outside, that just open things things up for Chris and Mike. So even if Scotty's not getting a ton of catches, he can impact the game like Rashotte Perryman did as the
third receiver for a good portion of last year. So if I'm guessing, I'm going Scottie Miller, but I'm interested to see how quickly Tyler Johnson it may be my committee kind of thing. Great, Yeah, that's true. Uh, we'll close out with this one. Daniel asked how good could Raymond Calais be for Calais. I keep saying it wrong. We gotta go with the Frenchies at the French Calais. It sounds cooler, I think, he Um, I wouldn't expect
a gigantic role in the offense right away. To be honest with you, um I think that Coach will probably have a few things for him, presuming he makes a roster because it's certainly not a lock for in the seventh rounder. And that gets me at a point that my point that most six and seventh rounders, fifth rounders, they need to find some role on special teams to make the roster and to make the active game day list, and in Raymond's case, that could very very well be
either one of the return jobs. He was a good kick returner at Louisiana Labat and obviously that's been a position at which we haven't had a lot of impact in recent years. I don't think he's done a bund of a bunch of punt returns, but neither I t J Logan before they put him back there last year and that went well. So um I think that Raymond has a chance to make an impact right away as a kick returner, which is something the Buccaneers could really use.
And if that's the case, that will get him active and in the mix on game days and Coach will have a chance to fallop some special things for him, maybe some catches out of the slot, but again, we're talking about seventh round rookie who's only have a few weeks to you ready for the season, so I wouldn't
expect a ton for him at the beginning. Okay, well, that's good to do it for us on this edition of Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lyte, Thinks as always all of you who joined us and submitted questions, and we'll see you right back here next week. H