June 5, 2025 • 14 mins
Senior Writer & Editor Scott Smith and Senior Writer & Staff Writer/Reporter Bri Dix talk about all the latest news in this week's edition of Bucs Insider. The team discusses LB SirVocea Dennis’ development, highlights potential bounce-back candidates for the 2025 season, and recaps the 11th annual Bucs’ Cut & Color Funds the Cure event at AdventHealth Training Center.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Bucks Insider, coming to from the
Bucks Studio, presented by Ticketmaster. I'm Scott Smith, senior writer
an editor, and with me is staff writer reporter Breonna Dix.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You'll see also that Casey Phillips is not with us today,
and that's because she had the audacity to disagree with
me last week about onside kicks.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I banished off you agreed with me? Fortunately I did.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now Unfortunately I don't have that kind of power, and
Casey just enjoying some well deserved time off and she'll
be back with us next week after.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
She said sometimes think about her wrong opinion.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
In the meantime, we got plenty to talk about it,
because we got the second week of OTS. You've been
walking the sidelines, watching every play, You've heard the guy's
talk after. Just give me some idea of what you've
seen and heard. I know that Servas Dennis is continued
to flatter Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So throughout the first week of OTAs, Todd Bowles was
asked kind of the player that's impressed him the most,
and emphatically he said, it's been Servasi Dennis. He's gotten
his hands on the most balls. But also he said,
he's in the best shape that he's been in since
he's been in Tampa Bay coming off that shoulder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Injury and surgery.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But he's also kind of taken on the ownership of
that mike linebacker role, making the cause, getting guys lined up,
which is the position that he played predominantly at Pittsburgh
for Patnardoozy kind of dropping and coverage more. We saw
his ability on blitzes during his small sample size last
season before the injuries, So I'm excited to see what
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he's able to do kind of throughout especially mandatory mini camp,
how he looks with Levonte David, and kind of how
that checks out.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That blitzing thing is an interesting topic because he was
good at that at pitt right, and you've seen through
the years with Levante there's been some seasons where we've
used him a lot to go into the backfield, and
then Devin White came and he was really good at that.
So Levante really wasn't used much in that role. But
then last year they were blitzing him again and he
was really good at it. But maybe he won't have
to do it as much with Serbasi has an option.
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The other thing you were talking about, is his coverage ability, Yeah,
which is something that I think the Bucks middle of
the Bucks defense last year was lacking a little bit,
an area that I think they want to improve and
uh Anthony Walker coming in can help there too. But
that's something that Servasier appears to be very good and
we'll see if with a full sample size. But he
talked a little bit about how he's developed that coverageability.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So let's listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Growing up, I played a lot of different positions. Uh,
so I think that definitely helped. But no, it's just
the fill of the game. Really. You have to understand
where guys want to attack you. You have to understand,
you know, certain coverages, but also certain times and certain
plays that the offense likes to attack you on the
certain plays of the field. So I think once you
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understand that pretty well, it's it's pretty much easy to
know where they want the ball to go. And then
if you not know how to under how to manipulate
the quarterback in front of you, it's just that much better.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So we saw that last week. Uh Voss had a
interception or just one or maybe two, I don't know.
He I think one, okay, but they they're not really
all that common in practice, But Dean Jones had one
on Tuesday that coach uh Bulls pointed out started to
say some nice things about Dean Jones, and he's like,
I don't want to give him too big of a head.
But one of the funny things or one of the
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surprise things that coach bull said after practice on Tuesday,
he was asked which positions are deepest on each side
of the ball, and they won on an offense, He's
like wide receiver. It's obvious.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I was really supposed to hear him say inside linebacker
on defense because I felt like going into the off
season that was really a point a position where the
Buccaneers needed some infusion on talent. But I guess when
you think about it, you got Servasier back and fully
healthy for the first time, and you've got Anthony Walker
and then Dion Jones if he has something left to
the take. When he was at speak he was one
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of the better linebackers in the NFL and really good
in coverage. And then even all the way down to
a guy like Nick Jackson, an undrafted free agent who
impressed on a trial contract and had about a million
tackles in college, so maybe there is some depth there
and that'd be good to know. So that was good
to hear from him. And then also Antoine Winfield also spoke,
I think that Antoine went Fan is probably a really
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good bounce back candidate.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think so too, right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean, last year he was the All Pro in
twenty twenty three, made every play known to man, a
turnover machine, filled up the stat line with everything you
can think of. And then last year only got to
play and I think nine games missed some time of
foot and knee injuries. And if he's healthy now coach
both Tea and coach says that he can get back
to where he was in twenty twenty three, that can
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make a really big difference for the Buccaneers defense.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I think in terms of just and Todd Bull's
even emphasized like it, you know, injuries played such a major.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Part of that.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I think if you get peak form, you get
Antoine foot Junior at full health, he's arguably the best
safety in the league. Has is a guy that can
do it all, whether it's you know, kind of being
in the post or coming up to the line of scrummage,
and I think he really thrives in a system that
Todd Bowles haws where you're kind of asked to do
so many different things and kind of is a quarterback
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on the defense and kind of helping get everything squared away.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So I'm excited to see what he what he does
on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another guy who talked on Tuesday was Kate Att who
just is mister reliable right, just does everything right, is
on the field for every play.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What did you hear from him?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What is he How does he feel about his offense
now that it's under control of Josh Guazzart Well.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I loved all throughout the off season, a lot of
guys have really talked about just kind of that the continuity,
the familiarity with the system already, but I love that
he really emphasized so last year under Liam Cohen, Josh
Guzzard was in charge of third downs, the Bucks led
the NFL on third down conversion percentage. But Kate really
emphasized that on those third downs, they were really confident,
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they felt good in the looks that they were going
to get being ready, and then out on the field,
he said, you saw the production that you know we
were able to have. So I think now having that
that confidence, having that familiarity with him, this system, the verbiage,
now kind of what that's going to be able to
translate these they hone in on some of these details
and add in new wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Speaking of familiarity, every player in that room, within that
tight End room with Kate is back from the last year,
like no change soever in the position. And he was
pointed out that he thinks that's kind of rare to
have the exact same group back no changes, but no additions,
no subtractions. And you know, I think he said, they
want to take pride. They've got the same guys, right,
So they've developed this relationship in there and they talk
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about stuff. And in that tight room they've been talking
about how they want to be. They want to take
pride in being the best executors on offense. So, I mean,
you know you've got if you look at the positions,
tight End is kind of star studied, I mean, wide
receivers kind of star study, right, and Baker Mayfield's the
charismatic leader. But Caid predictably wants his group to be
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we do everything right, We execute exactly as we're supposed to.
And part of that is because it's the same guys
back for a couple and back for three or four.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Years in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right right, Well, I think I can't remember. Was it
in one of the pressers at the end of last season.
I think it was maybe Todd Bowle was one of
the position coaches this said that the tight end room
had the least amount of mental errors. Oh there you
go on the field last year, So just do.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It again, run it right back, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So this is the last second and last week of OTAs,
which is phase three of the off season program, which
ends as always with a mandatory in any camp next week, right,
three days, three practices, yes, I think, And it's gonna
be a little little doasty, yeah. And you know, the
Buccaneers have had good turnout for the voluntary party, as
they generally do. I think through the years, some of
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the veterans have realized that this is probably more important
the OTAs, and at this time of the year, it
is more important for the younger guys and they don't
necessarily need to be out there getting reps like the
other day. Levante, David and Vitavey were here, Yeah, but
they didn't practice. You know, Mike Evans doesn't need to
come to every OTA stuff like that. We haven't really
seen a lot of Hassan Reddick stuff like that. So
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the mandatory mini camp will be great because presumably.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's everybody ninety one guys over here, right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I was thinking that you and I could both
look at head to next week's mini camp, which is
gonna be the most like an nd season practice of
anything that we do in the outseason. Still really can't
have real contact, but you get what I mean. So
let's talk about a couple guys on each side of
the ball that you're really interested in seeing. So you
you go ahead and start with something on offense.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So on offense, I'm gonna go with a little bit
of an A three DAR guy. But I'm excited to
see seventh round pick Tes Johnson. I think just with
the competition in that room with first round pick Mechabuka,
but I think just really throughout Rocky Minni Caamp throughout OTAs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He's made a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Kind of those highlight rel catches, and he's a guy
that at Oregon was electric with the ball in his hands.
You know, that has the speed is gonna be lethal
on screens, but has that ability to stop and start
on a dime and really kind of has a little
bit when you watch him. I mean, he was a
guy that watched Bucky Irving highlights and really became one
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of the I think like finished in top five in
Oregon history in terms of catches and receiving yards and
with two different quarterbacks that so I'm excited to see
kind of what he's able to do in the offense
and kind of his ability to juke people a little bit.
Kind of a little bit mirrors Bucky.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Irving a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, seventh round draft picks historically are no lock
to make the rest exactly. But I feel like the
Bucks and even some outside observers feel like he was
kind of a steal in the seventh round. And as
long as he can demonstrate that ability he showed in
college of just being able to get open and then
the big plays, the Bucks will probably find some kind.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Of way to keep them around. And you know, when
it comes.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Down to, hey, can we put them on the practice squad,
you know, you always have to worry will somebody get
you know, you have to wave them and submit them
to the waiver wire if you're going to try to
do that, so you have to worry about somebody picking
them up. So it'll be interesting to see if he
shows enough, kind of like Cam Johnson did last year.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's an un drafted Phrasian two.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When you get to the end of camp, you're like,
we have to keep this right. So another guy from
last year later on draft pick, Devin cult Yesh is
the one I would highlight, just because we're talking about
those tight ends.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
They're all back.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We saw at the end of last year when there
were some injuries that Devin cult got a chance to
play and he really did flash that big playability that
made the Bucks draft him. You know, at Washington he
didn't have gigantic numbers, but you could see in what
he did do that he had some downfield ability, contested catches,
run after the catch ability. So it'll be interesting, interesting
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to see just a little glimpse. We'll see more in camp,
but just a little glimpse of who's he running with.
Is Devin Clpt getting you know, the passes from Baker
Mayfield or is it all from you know, Michael Pratt.
I mean, it didn't mean that in a Negativeay, I'm
just saying, is he running with the first team at
some point? I know they mixed a match alight at
this point of the year, But you know, are the
Bucks looking at Devin Culp as somebody they can use
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a little bit more throughout the year than they did
last year?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Right? Okay, Now give me somebody you're looking for on defense.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
On defense, I'm gonna go with Tayke Smith, I am.
I mean, obviously you have kind of the vacancy up
for grabs opposite Antoninofo junior Nickel. Pohones said that Tayki
Smith has been cross training at both strong safety and Nickel.
We saw his ability at Nickel last year and kind
of some of the things that he was able to do.
But the guy that has, you know, the downhill trigger.
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Coaches have raved about his high football at que kind
of his awareness and zone but also that the route
recognition of man and I think just really is a
guy that could do it all on Todd Bowles can
weaponize in a variety of ways. So I think he
is a guy that's really going to make and impact
through outmedatory Mini camp is going to potentially earn one
of those.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Starting Yeah, he struck me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I know he had some injury issues last year as well,
played mostly in the slot, but he feels like a
guy the Buccaneers are going to want to have on
the field some way or another because he has that
sort of Antoine Windfield like, big play innate ability, and
the Bucks need more of that in their secondary right.
I would talk about Hassan Reddick simply because I think
that was one of the most important additions the Buccaneers
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made in the off season to address what was definitely
an area of concern. That's getting more consistent pressure of
the edges. And you know, they got David Walker in
the draft to help with that as well, and he's
looked good so far. But Hassan Reddick could be a
really important part of this defense kind of getting back
to where it was under Todd Bowls and allowing Todd
Bulls did not necessarily have to create extra pressure with
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blitzes or.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know, he's great. I get it with four.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Obviously, Todd Bowles is great at generating pressure in exotic ways,
and the Bucks were still like tied for seventh and
sacks last year, but they need more consistent four man
rush pressure off the edges, and so how Hassan Reddick produces,
if he's like he was in the five seasons before
last season, could really make a big change in what
the Bucks can do. And even so, getting our first
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real prolonged look at him is what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Also this week we had the it's called it used
to be Cut Cut for the Cure. It's Cut and
Color Funds the Cure. This is a great, great event
that the Buccaneers have been doing for eleven years now,
and we saw and what I loved about it was
so many guys participated. And then a little bit I
want to listen here a little bit to what Kate
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Otton had to say afterwards because this has touched his life.
And then he went there and you'll see in the
video he got his hair colored. So let's hear what
this event meant to Katoten.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's so cool, you know we I think most of
us know people who have gone through cancer, and it's
it's touched our lives and just to be able to
go in there and see the smiles on these kids'
faces and just you know, be able to brighten their
day a little bit and they brightened ourday. And so
you know, this is just a fun event and also
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just a way to connect with some people who are
going through hard things.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know, obviously that meant a lot to him. But
you you've kind of been paying attention to this event.
Give me a little bit of idea.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What happened home?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
This honestly is one of my favorite events every single year.
But it just there was twenty pediatric cancer patients that
came out colored dyed hair beards. My favorite was that you,
I mean, they get so into it right up. There
were some guys that the mouth was open, probably got
a little access in there, but just to see the
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smile on their faces. Todd Bowles, Jason like coming out
getting it colored every single year, guys laughing. It's definitely
definitely supportive and kind of helps fight against childhood cancer.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, I was really impressed about it with how many guys.
But I think it's.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's you know, it's fun, it's fun and it's an easy,
you know, way to get on board with and so
it's great that all the guys took part in that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So well, I'm sure we'll be back doing that again
next year for the twelve years. Yeah, and we'll also
be back. We'll also be back next week. Probably Casey
will be with us if I let her come back, and.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
We'll come to you again. We'll talk about mandatory many yes,
Hello, and welcome to Bucks Insider, coming to from the
Bucks Studio, presented by Ticketmaster. I'm Scott Smith, senior writer
an editor, and with me is staff writer reporter Breonna Dix.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hello. Hello.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
You'll see also that Casey Phillips is not with us today,
and that's because she had the audacity to disagree with
me last week about onside kicks.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
So I banished off you agreed with me? Fortunately I did.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Now Unfortunately I don't have that kind of power, and
Casey just enjoying some well deserved time off and she'll
be back with us next week after.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
She said sometimes think about her wrong opinion.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
In the meantime, we got plenty to talk about it,
because we got the second week of OTS. You've been
walking the sidelines, watching every play, You've heard the guy's
talk after. Just give me some idea of what you've
seen and heard. I know that Servas Dennis is continued
to flatter Yes.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
So throughout the first week of OTAs, Todd Bowles was
asked kind of the player that's impressed him the most,
and emphatically he said, it's been Servasi Dennis. He's gotten
his hands on the most balls. But also he said,
he's in the best shape that he's been in since
he's been in Tampa Bay coming off that shoulder.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Injury and surgery.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
But he's also kind of taken on the ownership of
that mike linebacker role, making the cause, getting guys lined up,
which is the position that he played predominantly at Pittsburgh
for Patnardoozy kind of dropping and coverage more. We saw
his ability on blitzes during his small sample size last
season before the injuries, So I'm excited to see what
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he's able to do kind of throughout especially mandatory mini camp,
how he looks with Levonte David, and kind of how
that checks out.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
That blitzing thing is an interesting topic because he was
good at that at pitt right, and you've seen through
the years with Levante there's been some seasons where we've
used him a lot to go into the backfield, and
then Devin White came and he was really good at that.
So Levante really wasn't used much in that role. But
then last year they were blitzing him again and he
was really good at it. But maybe he won't have
to do it as much with Serbasi has an option.
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The other thing you were talking about, is his coverage ability, Yeah,
which is something that I think the Bucks middle of
the Bucks defense last year was lacking a little bit,
an area that I think they want to improve and
uh Anthony Walker coming in can help there too. But
that's something that Servasier appears to be very good and
we'll see if with a full sample size. But he
talked a little bit about how he's developed that coverageability.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
So let's listen to what he had to say.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Growing up, I played a lot of different positions. Uh,
so I think that definitely helped. But no, it's just
the fill of the game. Really. You have to understand
where guys want to attack you. You have to understand,
you know, certain coverages, but also certain times and certain
plays that the offense likes to attack you on the
certain plays of the field. So I think once you
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understand that pretty well, it's it's pretty much easy to
know where they want the ball to go. And then
if you not know how to under how to manipulate
the quarterback in front of you, it's just that much better.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
So we saw that last week. Uh Voss had a
interception or just one or maybe two, I don't know.
He I think one, okay, but they they're not really
all that common in practice, But Dean Jones had one
on Tuesday that coach uh Bulls pointed out started to
say some nice things about Dean Jones, and he's like,
I don't want to give him too big of a head.
But one of the funny things or one of the
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surprise things that coach bull said after practice on Tuesday,
he was asked which positions are deepest on each side
of the ball, and they won on an offense, He's
like wide receiver. It's obvious.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
I was really supposed to hear him say inside linebacker
on defense because I felt like going into the off
season that was really a point a position where the
Buccaneers needed some infusion on talent. But I guess when
you think about it, you got Servasier back and fully
healthy for the first time, and you've got Anthony Walker
and then Dion Jones if he has something left to
the take. When he was at speak he was one
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of the better linebackers in the NFL and really good
in coverage. And then even all the way down to
a guy like Nick Jackson, an undrafted free agent who
impressed on a trial contract and had about a million
tackles in college, so maybe there is some depth there
and that'd be good to know. So that was good
to hear from him. And then also Antoine Winfield also spoke,
I think that Antoine went Fan is probably a really
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good bounce back candidate.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I think so too, right.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I mean, last year he was the All Pro in
twenty twenty three, made every play known to man, a
turnover machine, filled up the stat line with everything you
can think of. And then last year only got to
play and I think nine games missed some time of
foot and knee injuries. And if he's healthy now coach
both Tea and coach says that he can get back
to where he was in twenty twenty three, that can
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make a really big difference for the Buccaneers defense.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I think in terms of just and Todd Bull's
even emphasized like it, you know, injuries played such a major.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Part of that.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
But I think if you get peak form, you get
Antoine foot Junior at full health, he's arguably the best
safety in the league. Has is a guy that can
do it all, whether it's you know, kind of being
in the post or coming up to the line of scrummage,
and I think he really thrives in a system that
Todd Bowles haws where you're kind of asked to do
so many different things and kind of is a quarterback
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on the defense and kind of helping get everything squared away.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
So I'm excited to see what he what he does
on the other side of the ball.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Another guy who talked on Tuesday was Kate Att who
just is mister reliable right, just does everything right, is
on the field for every play.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
What did you hear from him?
Speaker 1 (05:11):
What is he How does he feel about his offense
now that it's under control of Josh Guazzart Well.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
I loved all throughout the off season, a lot of
guys have really talked about just kind of that the continuity,
the familiarity with the system already, but I love that
he really emphasized so last year under Liam Cohen, Josh
Guzzard was in charge of third downs, the Bucks led
the NFL on third down conversion percentage. But Kate really
emphasized that on those third downs, they were really confident,
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they felt good in the looks that they were going
to get being ready, and then out on the field,
he said, you saw the production that you know we
were able to have. So I think now having that
that confidence, having that familiarity with him, this system, the verbiage,
now kind of what that's going to be able to
translate these they hone in on some of these details
and add in new wrinkles.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Speaking of familiarity, every player in that room, within that
tight End room with Kate is back from the last year,
like no change soever in the position. And he was
pointed out that he thinks that's kind of rare to
have the exact same group back no changes, but no additions,
no subtractions. And you know, I think he said, they
want to take pride. They've got the same guys, right,
So they've developed this relationship in there and they talk
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about stuff. And in that tight room they've been talking
about how they want to be. They want to take
pride in being the best executors on offense. So, I mean,
you know you've got if you look at the positions,
tight End is kind of star studied, I mean, wide
receivers kind of star study, right, and Baker Mayfield's the
charismatic leader. But Caid predictably wants his group to be
(06:44):
we do everything right, We execute exactly as we're supposed to.
And part of that is because it's the same guys
back for a couple and back for three or four.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Years in a row.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Right right, Well, I think I can't remember. Was it
in one of the pressers at the end of last season.
I think it was maybe Todd Bowle was one of
the position coaches this said that the tight end room
had the least amount of mental errors. Oh there you
go on the field last year, So just do.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
It again, run it right back, all right.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
So this is the last second and last week of OTAs,
which is phase three of the off season program, which
ends as always with a mandatory in any camp next week, right,
three days, three practices, yes, I think, And it's gonna
be a little little doasty, yeah. And you know, the
Buccaneers have had good turnout for the voluntary party, as
they generally do. I think through the years, some of
(07:31):
the veterans have realized that this is probably more important
the OTAs, and at this time of the year, it
is more important for the younger guys and they don't
necessarily need to be out there getting reps like the
other day. Levante, David and Vitavey were here, Yeah, but
they didn't practice. You know, Mike Evans doesn't need to
come to every OTA stuff like that. We haven't really
seen a lot of Hassan Reddick stuff like that. So
(07:51):
the mandatory mini camp will be great because presumably.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's everybody ninety one guys over here, right.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
So I was thinking that you and I could both
look at head to next week's mini camp, which is
gonna be the most like an nd season practice of
anything that we do in the outseason. Still really can't
have real contact, but you get what I mean. So
let's talk about a couple guys on each side of
the ball that you're really interested in seeing. So you
you go ahead and start with something on offense.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So on offense, I'm gonna go with a little bit
of an A three DAR guy. But I'm excited to
see seventh round pick Tes Johnson. I think just with
the competition in that room with first round pick Mechabuka,
but I think just really throughout Rocky Minni Caamp throughout OTAs.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He's made a lot of.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Kind of those highlight rel catches, and he's a guy
that at Oregon was electric with the ball in his hands.
You know, that has the speed is gonna be lethal
on screens, but has that ability to stop and start
on a dime and really kind of has a little
bit when you watch him. I mean, he was a
guy that watched Bucky Irving highlights and really became one
(08:52):
of the I think like finished in top five in
Oregon history in terms of catches and receiving yards and
with two different quarterbacks that so I'm excited to see
kind of what he's able to do in the offense
and kind of his ability to juke people a little bit.
Kind of a little bit mirrors Bucky.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Irving a little bit.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You know, seventh round draft picks historically are no lock
to make the rest exactly. But I feel like the
Bucks and even some outside observers feel like he was
kind of a steal in the seventh round. And as
long as he can demonstrate that ability he showed in
college of just being able to get open and then
the big plays, the Bucks will probably find some kind.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Of way to keep them around. And you know, when
it comes.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Down to, hey, can we put them on the practice squad,
you know, you always have to worry will somebody get
you know, you have to wave them and submit them
to the waiver wire if you're going to try to
do that, so you have to worry about somebody picking
them up. So it'll be interesting to see if he
shows enough, kind of like Cam Johnson did last year.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
It's an un drafted Phrasian two.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
When you get to the end of camp, you're like,
we have to keep this right. So another guy from
last year later on draft pick, Devin cult Yesh is
the one I would highlight, just because we're talking about
those tight ends.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
They're all back.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
We saw at the end of last year when there
were some injuries that Devin cult got a chance to
play and he really did flash that big playability that
made the Bucks draft him. You know, at Washington he
didn't have gigantic numbers, but you could see in what
he did do that he had some downfield ability, contested catches,
run after the catch ability. So it'll be interesting, interesting
(10:21):
to see just a little glimpse. We'll see more in camp,
but just a little glimpse of who's he running with.
Is Devin Clpt getting you know, the passes from Baker
Mayfield or is it all from you know, Michael Pratt.
I mean, it didn't mean that in a Negativeay, I'm
just saying, is he running with the first team at
some point? I know they mixed a match alight at
this point of the year, But you know, are the
Bucks looking at Devin Culp as somebody they can use
(10:44):
a little bit more throughout the year than they did
last year?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Right? Okay, Now give me somebody you're looking for on defense.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
On defense, I'm gonna go with Tayke Smith, I am.
I mean, obviously you have kind of the vacancy up
for grabs opposite Antoninofo junior Nickel. Pohones said that Tayki
Smith has been cross training at both strong safety and Nickel.
We saw his ability at Nickel last year and kind
of some of the things that he was able to do.
But the guy that has, you know, the downhill trigger.
(11:11):
Coaches have raved about his high football at que kind
of his awareness and zone but also that the route
recognition of man and I think just really is a
guy that could do it all on Todd Bowles can
weaponize in a variety of ways. So I think he
is a guy that's really going to make and impact
through outmedatory Mini camp is going to potentially earn one
of those.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Starting Yeah, he struck me.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
I know he had some injury issues last year as well,
played mostly in the slot, but he feels like a
guy the Buccaneers are going to want to have on
the field some way or another because he has that
sort of Antoine Windfield like, big play innate ability, and
the Bucks need more of that in their secondary right.
I would talk about Hassan Reddick simply because I think
that was one of the most important additions the Buccaneers
(11:53):
made in the off season to address what was definitely
an area of concern. That's getting more consistent pressure of
the edges. And you know, they got David Walker in
the draft to help with that as well, and he's
looked good so far. But Hassan Reddick could be a
really important part of this defense kind of getting back
to where it was under Todd Bowls and allowing Todd
Bulls did not necessarily have to create extra pressure with
(12:16):
blitzes or.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
You know, he's great. I get it with four.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Obviously, Todd Bowles is great at generating pressure in exotic ways,
and the Bucks were still like tied for seventh and
sacks last year, but they need more consistent four man
rush pressure off the edges, and so how Hassan Reddick produces,
if he's like he was in the five seasons before
last season, could really make a big change in what
the Bucks can do. And even so, getting our first
(12:41):
real prolonged look at him is what I'm looking forward to.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, all right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Also this week we had the it's called it used
to be Cut Cut for the Cure. It's Cut and
Color Funds the Cure. This is a great, great event
that the Buccaneers have been doing for eleven years now,
and we saw and what I loved about it was
so many guys participated. And then a little bit I
want to listen here a little bit to what Kate
(13:06):
Otton had to say afterwards because this has touched his life.
And then he went there and you'll see in the
video he got his hair colored. So let's hear what
this event meant to Katoten.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
It's so cool, you know we I think most of
us know people who have gone through cancer, and it's
it's touched our lives and just to be able to
go in there and see the smiles on these kids'
faces and just you know, be able to brighten their
day a little bit and they brightened ourday. And so
you know, this is just a fun event and also
(13:37):
just a way to connect with some people who are
going through hard things.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Right.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
You know, obviously that meant a lot to him. But
you you've kind of been paying attention to this event.
Give me a little bit of idea.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
What happened home?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
This honestly is one of my favorite events every single year.
But it just there was twenty pediatric cancer patients that
came out colored dyed hair beards. My favorite was that you,
I mean, they get so into it right up. There
were some guys that the mouth was open, probably got
a little access in there, but just to see the
(14:10):
smile on their faces. Todd Bowles, Jason like coming out
getting it colored every single year, guys laughing. It's definitely
definitely supportive and kind of helps fight against childhood cancer.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
Yeah, I was really impressed about it with how many guys.
But I think it's.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's you know, it's fun, it's fun and it's an easy,
you know, way to get on board with and so
it's great that all the guys took part in that.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
So well, I'm sure we'll be back doing that again
next year for the twelve years. Yeah, and we'll also
be back. We'll also be back next week. Probably Casey
will be with us if I let her come back, and.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
We'll come to you again. We'll talk about mandatory many yes,
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