Can Rachaad White Top 1,000 Yards?

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Pewter Report’s Scott Reynolds solutions your questions from the @PewterReport Twitter account every week within the Bucs Mailbag. Submit your query to the Bucs Mailbag every week by way of Twitter utilizing the hashtag #PRMailbag.  Listed here are the Bucs draft questions we selected to reply for this week’s version.

QUESTION: Can Rachaad White be a 1,000-yard rusher and a 1,000-yard receiver this season?

ANSWER: No, there simply isn’t proof to recommend that’s within the playing cards for Rachaad White in his second season with the Bucs. The brand new offense put in by former Seattle quarterbacks coach Dave Canales doesn’t function the working again place within the passing sport to the diploma that White would even come near being a 1,000-yard receiver. The truth is, you would need to return a decade when Marshawn Lynch even topped 300 yards receiving (367 in 2014 and 316 in 2013) with the Seahawks. Chris Carson got here near 300 yards receiving in 2020 with 287 yards. Travis Homer led all Seahawks working backs with 161 yards in 2021 and rookie working again Kenneth Walker III solely had 165 yards to guide all Seattle backs final yr.

White had 50 catches for 290 yards receiving final yr and two touchdowns in his Bucs debut season. However that was the operate of enjoying with a quarterback who has a robust historical past of checking the ball all the way down to the working backs in Tom Brady. That’s to not say that White gained’t be featured in Canales’ Seahawks-based passing sport. It could possibly be potential for him to come back near 400 yards receiving this season, however it’s vital to do not forget that an 8-yard receiving common is sort of good for an NFL working again. And 50 catches with that common would solely produce 400 yards.

So it could take 100 catches at 8 yards per catch to even produce 800 yards receiving. And the one gamers who will come near 100 catches in Tampa Bay this yr are Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Bear in mind there are solely three working backs in NFL historical past who’ve produced 1,000-yard receiving seasons and 1,000-yard dashing seasons. San Francisco legend Roger Craig was the primary to do it in 1984, adopted by St. Louis’ Marshall Faulk in 1999. Christian McCaffrey was the latest, attaining that milestone in Carolina in 2019. White dashing for 1,000 yards can be far more attainable in Tampa Bay in 2023.

QUESTION: There are tons of questions relating to this staff, together with Tristan Wirfs to left deal with, O-line issues, the cross rush with Shaq Barrett’s well being, a brand new offensive coordinator and a brand new beginning quarterback. Give us some issues we are able to depend on.

ANSWER: In case you’re in search of optimism, look no additional than the Bucs protection. Todd Bowles will ensure that his aspect of the ball is alive and kicking. The Bucs haven’t had this a lot staff pace on protection because the Monte Kiffin days with Corridor of Famers like Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, John Lynch and Ronde Barber and the play of Simeon Rice. This would be the quickest protection that Todd Bowles has fielded in Tampa Bay since his arrival in 2019. The Bucs protection will area 5 gamers who’ve been to not less than one Professional Bowl, and eight projected starters have Tremendous Bowl expertise.

The Bucs’ new offense will function a brand new quarterback and a brand new play-caller, however the arrival of offensive coordinator Dave Canales has energized the complete constructing. His high-energy method to teaching has already gained over the gamers and assistants this offseason. There’s a nice sense of perception within the scheme he’s put in due to the success that Seattle has had with it over the past couple of seasons. It’s a enjoyable, new model of offense that options quite a lot of misdirection, movement and play-action.

And at last, it looks like no person believes within the Bucs outdoors of the staff itself. A lot of the nationwide media and pundits have the Bucs very low within the preseason energy rankings, and a lot of the mock drafts have Tampa Bay deciding on within the Prime 10 subsequent yr. The extent of disrespect has galvanized the staff this offseason, and there may be huge, collective chip on the shoulders of this Bucs staff proper now. That kind of mentality may have the Bucs successful 9 video games or extra this season as a shock staff in a really questionable NFC South division.

QUESTION: What do you anticipate from Matt Feiler? PFF isn’t good, however they appear to be superb at O-Line grades, and so they suppose he had his profession worst yr final yr. Was there any cause for that? Additionally, they consider he performed very properly at RT, any cause there seems to be n0 dialogue about him at RT?

ANSWER: Professional Soccer Focus grades are subjective and debatable, however I do suspect their grades for offensive linemen are fairly truthful. As for Matt Feiler, he did file a considerably decrease PFF grade final yr with the Chargers. PFF attributed 5 sacks and 6 penalties to Feiler, each of which had been within the doubtful Prime 10 for offensive linemen throughout the 2022 season. Feiler had a 53.3 grade final yr, however had a 74 grade the season prior. The Bucs hope a change of surroundings and enjoying in between two Professional Bowlers in Tristan Wirfs and Ryan Jensen will assist him rebound.

Feiler is a mountain of a person at 6-foot-6, 330 kilos and continues to be a fairly good athlete at age 30. He and the 6-foot-5, 345-pound Wirfs type an enormous wall on the left aspect of the Bucs offensive line. Dave Canales’ new offense requires the quarterback to do away with the ball shortly, so that ought to assist Feiler lower down on sacks and holding penalties this season in his first yr in Tampa Bay.

If Feiler ought to falter at left guard, the Bucs do have a few choices. Nick Leverett changed Luke Goedeke at left guard over the second half of the season and performed properly. He’s a scrappy fighter who brings method and tenacity to the place. Backup middle Robert Hainsey began all 17 video games throughout the common season instead of Jensen final yr and is a very good athlete. Backup guard Brandon Walton may be within the combine to exchange Feiler if want be.

QUESTION: What was essentially the most enlightening takeaway out of your Pewter Report Podcast with Dave Canales?

ANSWER: Nice query, and the one reply I can provide you with is “all of it.” Thursday’s Pewter Report Podcast featured Bucs offensive coordinator Dave Canales as our particular visitor and it was a unbelievable 40-minute interview that coated numerous floor from his philosophy on using analytics, his anticipated utilization of play-action and an replace on the QB competitors between Baker Mayfield and Kyle Trask, amongst different matters. Canales, who is a superb communicator, even went into element in regards to the offseason standouts on the offensive aspect of the ball this spring and summer time.

However what actually stood out was simply his candor when discussing his offensive scheme and philisophies. He’s not shy about explaining his methodology, and he even mentioned his objective was to coach media shops like Pewter Report and the Bucs fan base in regards to the new offense and what could be anticipated this season. It’s simply completely refreshing and an enormous departure from former offensive coordinator Byron Leftwich, who was truly downright smug and impolite at occasions with the media after we questioned a few of his play-calling and the offense’s poor efficiency typically.

Canales mentioned he welcomed truthful criticism, and as a first-time play-caller, admitted that he wants the assistance of the “name it” intervals throughout follow that head coach Todd Bowles deployed in OTAs and mini-camp, and can proceed into coaching camp. The “name it” intervals had been unscripted components of follow the place neither Bowles nor Canales knew what performs had been coming, and it helped Canales higher simulate real-life sport conditions to arrange him for the season. Other than his willingness to be open within the interview, Canales’ humility and detailed thought course of had been most likely the largest takeaways. If Canales can stroll the stroll as a play-caller like he talks the speak, the Bucs offense can be in superb palms this yr.

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