Listed below are a few of the finest Bucs quotes following their the group’s coaching camp follow on Tuesday, August 8.
Bucs Head Coach Todd Bowles
On the Bucs protection forcing turnovers in follow at present:
“It was good for them, creating the turnovers, clearly getting some – we hadn’t gotten many in a pair days. They’re coming collectively as a bunch. They’re speaking extra. Some conditions had been like last-play conditions the place they needed to throw it so it wasn’t completely protection – you needed to put it within the air sooner or later. However I believed they did an excellent job getting their fingers on the balls.”
On signing S Avery Younger yesterday:
Bucs head coach Todd Bowles – Photograph By: Cliff Welch P/R
“We had been sort of brief on legs within the secondary. Avery performed at Rutgers with Izien – I’ve seen him loads. I do know him fairly [well]. His dad was my faculty roommate, so I sort of know him very properly. He went to high school with my son. I do know loads about him. He’s a really clever participant, he’s a really certain tackler. He’s simply obtained to get caught up on the system, getting in so late. I do know it’s going to take a few days to get down a few of the fundamentals so we are able to see him play.”
On probably having 4 new beginning offensive linemen:
“It’s not a priority in any respect. So long as they’ve chemistry collectively, I’m actually extra involved with that. That’s the largest factor. Now we have a brand new system, so 4 new offensive linemen isn’t a giant deal in any respect. We knew we needed to churn the roster some to get some guys in right here. They’ve been enjoying collectively very properly, so I’m excited to see what they do as soon as preseason begins.”
On how cohesive the Bucs offensive line is at this level:
“I feel it’s ongoing. It’s laborious to place a degree on it till you actually get some sport motion beneath you. I feel they’re previous the midway level, for certain. I feel they’re working properly collectively, and the chemistry simply has to maintain constructing. I’ll know when it clicks.”
On if having extra stay intervals in follow at present was to organize for Friday’s sport:
“Yeah. We’re nonetheless persevering with with camp, ? That’s the largest factor. Now we have loads of conditions and issues we have to get accomplished – short-yardage, goal-line, two-minute, final performs and all these varieties of issues. It simply continues up till Friday. We’re simply enjoying towards anyone else, however we’ll proceed that development.”
Bucs Linebacker Lavonte David
On if this 12 months’s coaching camp feels the identical:
“It feels the identical – it feels about the identical. Simply understanding I’m getting my stuff in, too. Clearly, with the new climate and the competitors and simply getting my physique collectively for a protracted season. It’s all the time enjoyable to be again and competing along with your teammates. Every day, we’ve been getting higher and higher and that’s one thing that I look ahead to each time I come to coaching camp: simply wanting on the progress of the group – myself, individually progressing, and the progress of the fellows I play with.”
Bucs ILB Lavonte David – Photograph By: Cliff Welch P/R
On Bucs LB Devin White saying his final objective is to be like him and spend his total profession with the Bucs and what White must do for that to occur:
“Proceed to play nice. Proceed to play nice. Proceed to be a terrific chief. Don’t concentrate on the skin noise, simply proceed to be himself. All of us love Devin the best way he’s. I inform him that on a regular basis: simply be you. For those who’re out right here and also you’re not being your self, one thing is off. It’ll mess up of the cheer of all people round you.
So, simply be your self, be that energetic man, be that playmaking man that we like to see. That’s what he’s been attempting to do. We talked loads all through the offseason, so he’s undoubtedly placing his finest foot ahead and specializing in soccer and being the perfect participant he will be and being the perfect participant for this Bucs group.”
On if he has any objectives for the protection this season:
“As a group, all of us speak about that: 30-plus interceptions as a bunch, all of the sacks – I do know we had 48 sacks final 12 months, we’re attempting to get extra – the factors per sport factor. For me, I would like us to get again to our run-stopping protection. I really feel like that takes care of all the pieces else. Final 12 months, we dropped off considerably and that’s not like us. We undoubtedly made an emphasis on that – getting again to having that mentality of stopping the run and simply having all people flying to the soccer and being the aggressive protection that we all know find out how to be.”
Bucs Linebacker SirVocea Dennis
On getting acclimated to Head Coach Todd Bowles protection:
“It’s been wonderful. It’s a grind, but it surely’s been enjoyable. [Patt] Narduzzi (College Pittsburgh Head Soccer Coach) is a man who likes to blitz, so coming over right here to Todd Bowles’ (protection) is one thing that I clearly I’ve to get used to as a result of it’s a unique surroundings, totally different coach, however very related.”
On the largest adjustment for him thus far:
Bucs ILB SirVocea Dennis – Photograph by: Cliff Welch/PR
“I’ll say, verbiage and simply terminology. We used a unique terminology at ‘Pitt’, which is regular. So, simply arising right here and studying new phrases and methods. That’s simply one thing you must hone in on and focus, so once you go on the market you may play like your self.”
On issues he has realized from LBs Lavonte David and Devin White
“Actually simply trusting your self, they are saying it daily. Be affected person, [and] belief your self, so once you go on the market you may play like your self. You’re right here for a motive, belief your self, be a playmaker, and simply go play ball. They are saying, ‘That’s why [we have] you right here, simply go play ball’.”
On enjoying with faculty teammate DT Calijah Kancey:
“The factor is, Coach [Todd] Bowles runs some issues much like [Patt] Narduzzi. So, once we see a play that’s much like Narduzzi, we simply look and one another within the room and go (head nod). It’s been nice with him. He was my roommate for the resort and had been simply bouncing concepts off one another, working performs with one another, [and] doing all the pieces we are able to. With him being a well-recognized face, it’s like some weight is lifted off my shoulders.”
