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Pewter Report’s Scott Reynolds solutions your questions from the @PewterReport Twitter account this week within the Bucs Mailbag. Submit your query to the Bucs Mailbag every week through Twitter utilizing the hashtag #PRMailbag. Listed below are the Bucs questions we selected to reply for this week’s version.
QUESTION: What’s going to be essentially the most aggressive place battles in coaching camp for beginning jobs?
Bucs OLB Joe Tryon-Shoyinka and Anthony Nelson and Bengals QB Joe Burrow – Picture by: USA At the moment
ANSWER: I believe the principle two positions that would be the best will likely be exterior linebacker and inside offensive line. The Bucs have a ton of promising younger expertise at exterior linebacker with YaYa Diaby, Markees Watts, Jose Ramirez and Chris Braswell, this 12 months’s second-round decide. Additionally within the combine are veteran holdovers Joe Tryon-Shoyinka and Anthony Nelson and newcomer Randy Gregory. That’s seven legit rivals for 5 or maybe six roster spots.
Coaching camp will likely be an absolute battle royale for spots on the roster and the depth chart, and it will likely be crucial for all of those edge rushers to remain wholesome or danger falling behind within the competitors. Diaby will almost certainly be one starter, however the different beginning spot is up for grabs. Throw in the truth that Tryon-Shoyinka and Nelson are each in contract years, and Gregory signed a one-year, prove-it deal and the skin linebacker spot must be essentially the most aggressive battle in coaching camp.
Proper behind it will likely be the inside offensive line. Graham Barton and Robert Hainsey are battling for the beginning middle job, but the loser can even be within the combine for the beginning left guard spot reverse Cody Mauch. Veteran newcomers Sua Opeta and Ben Bredeson and rookie Elijah Klein, the crew’s sixth-round decide, are additionally battling for that beginning job.
Three different positions that must be watched carefully are nickelback, cornerback and WR3. Incumbent starter Christian Izien will try to carry off veteran free agent addition Tavierre Thomas and third-round decide Tykee Smith for the nickel cornerback function. Bucs head coach and defensive play-caller Todd Bowles is searching for a playmaker within the slot.
Zyon McCollum is penciled in as a beginning exterior cornerback reverse Jamel Dean and it’s his job to lose. However cornerbacks coach Kevin Ross mentioned that Bryce Corridor is a starting-caliber cornerback, and he’ll duke it out with McCollum in camp. And naturally the No. 3 broad receiver battle will likely be hotly contested between Trey Palmer, who has made strides since his rookie season, and Jalen McMillan, one of many crew’s third-round picks.
QUESTION: Now that free company and the draft are over, are there any areas of the crew you are feeling weren’t adequately addressed and have the potential to be an Achilles heel?
Bucs G/C Ben Bredeson – Picture by: USA At the moment
ANSWER: I believe the Bucs will area an excellent beginning 22 this 12 months. The roster appears deeper and extra proficient than a 12 months in the past, however rather a lot will rely upon the gamers from the final two draft courses ascending with the expertise they’ve gained, along with what number of rookies are able to contribute within the first season in Tampa Bay and play at a excessive degree. The weakest hyperlink nonetheless might be at left guard if rookie Elijah Klein isn’t prepared to begin and Sua Opeta and Ben Bredeson don’t supply a lot of an improve over Matt Feiler and Aaron Stinnie final 12 months.
However normal supervisor Jason Licht and his personnel employees are too good at evaluating offensive linemen to make me imagine that the crew hasn’t discovered an answer at left guard this offseason. The true Achilles heel of this crew – and each crew within the NFL – is lack of depth at sure positions. We’ll must see how wholesome this crew is and what positions really lack sufficient proficient depth if accidents do happen.
Final 12 months, the Bucs have been insanely wholesome for essentially the most half. Take into account that Baker Mayfield, Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Trey Palmer, Cade Otton, Tristan Wirfs, Luke Goedeke, Robert Hainsey and Cody Mauch suited up for all 19 video games – together with the playoffs. That’s all however one beginning place (left guard), and fairly a exceptional feat doused in luck. Tampa Bay can’t depend on that once more.
It’s onerous to establish the place the true weak point is on this crew earlier than coaching camp and the preseason. So we’ll have a greater concept come September about which positions may have additional bolstering by Licht and the entrance workplace.
QUESTION: What are the possibilities that Graham Barton finally ends up at guard? I’ve seen numerous analysts and movie evaluations that suppose that’s his greatest place. If there’s a likelihood, they’ll clearly wish to give Barton as a lot time at his last place as potential. When will they make the ultimate choice?
Bucs C Graham Barton and G Elijah Klein – Picture by: Cliff Welch/PR
ANSWER: If Robert Hainsey rises to the competitors and winds up having an excellent camp and preseason, the Bucs could transfer Graham Barton, the crew’s first-round decide, to left guard. In actual fact, except Sua Opeta, Ben Bredeson or rookie Elijah Klein wows the crew and simply dominates at left guard in coaching camp, I might see the very best 5 offensive linemen this summer time being Tristan Wirfs and Luke Goedeke at deal with, Cody Mauch and Barton at guard and Hainsey at middle. Hainsey will likely be extremely motivated to return in and ball out throughout his contract 12 months.
In actual fact, the second the Bucs drafted Barton on the evening of April 26 I declared, “The Bucs simply drafted their beginning left guard.” So I’m slightly shocked that the crew is beginning him off at middle to start with. A extra logical transfer by Tampa Bay can be to have Barton compete with Opeta and Klein at left guard this 12 months whereas Hainsey battles Bredeson at middle. Then, the Bucs might transfer on from Hainsey after 2024 and transition Barton to middle except Bredeson received the job and proved to be a major improve this season.
I perceive why the crew needs to maneuver Barton to middle as a result of it’s a extra priceless place. Middle is the tip of the spear alongside the offensive line, and the middle units the safety for every play. Barton, who went to Duke and has an incredible soccer I.Q., can deal with the trials of the place, evidenced by him enjoying middle for 5 video games as a freshman.
But if Tampa Bay is trying to begin the 5 greatest O-linemen in 2024, it’s onerous to see Hainsey not being No. 5 on the checklist behind Wirfs, Goedeke, Barton and Mauch. We’ll see what occurs in coaching camp when the pads come on and the battle actually begins. The ultimate choice about which gamers will comprise the beginning lineup alongside the offensive line ought to come close to the tip of the preseason.
QUESTION: When you have been in a position so as to add one participant to both facet of the ball that may influence the Bucs essentially the most this season, who would you wish to see – each being financially practical and if cash didn’t matter?
Former Vikings CB Patrick Peterson Picture By: USA At the moment
ANSWER: I’m not massive on enjoying fantasy soccer, so I’ll maintain this train as practical as potential. I believe there’s a potential weak point at cornerback on this crew when it comes to depth if one thing occurs to both starter – Jamel Dean or Zyon McCollum. Sure, Bryce Corridor might fill in the best way that McCollum did final 12 months on a weekly foundation for both Dean or Carlton Davis III – each of whom have been oft-injured.
However after Corridor, there’s a vital drop-off when it comes to expertise and expertise. Josh Hayes, an elite gunner as a rookie final 12 months, is the subsequent man up as CB4 because it stands proper now. And cornerback is an extremely vital place in in the present day’s NFL the place the passing recreation takes middle stage every week.
So the participant I’d contemplate including to this crew as an emergency cornerback – and a veteran mentor within the room – is Patrick Peterson. I do know that at age 34, he’s definitely misplaced a step. After recording 5 picks and posting an 80.7 Professional Soccer Focus grade in 2022 with Minnesota, Peterson’s recreation fell off a cliff final 12 months in Pittsburgh the place he earned a 60.5 grade, together with a 61.4 protection grade. His 2022 season with the Vikings looks as if an outlier at this level in his profession.
Peterson, who beforehand performed for Todd Bowles in Arizona, performed 1,096 snaps final 12 months, which is just too a lot for an getting old cornerback. And he was handsomely paid by the Steelers, making $7.15 million in 2023. Except another crew indicators him to be a starter, which is unlikely at this stage of his profession, I believe he might come to Tampa Bay less expensive as a depth piece.
There’s nice worth in having a future Corridor of Famer in that room, very similar to the Bucs did in 2021 with Richard Sherman, who was signed as an emergency veteran that season. Think about how a lot McCollum, Dean, Corridor and Hayes might study from a legendary cowl cornerback like Peterson, who has 36 profession interceptions.
