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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 feel the primary 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 yr’s second-round choose. 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 is going to be crucial for all of those edge rushers to remain wholesome or danger falling behind within the competitors. Diaby will most probably 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 needs to be essentially the most aggressive battle in coaching camp.
Proper behind it is going to be the inside offensive line. Graham Barton and Robert Hainsey are battling for the beginning heart job, but the loser will 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 workforce’s sixth-round choose, are additionally battling for that beginning job.
Three different positions that must be watched intently are nickelback, cornerback and WR3. Incumbent starter Christian Izien will try to carry off veteran free agent addition Tavierre Thomas and third-round choose 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 stated 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 workforce’s third-round picks.
QUESTION: Now that free company and the draft are over, are there any areas of the workforce 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 feel the Bucs will subject an excellent beginning 22 this yr. The roster appears deeper and extra proficient than a yr in the past, however lots will rely upon the gamers from the final two draft lessons 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 may very well be at left guard if rookie Elijah Klein isn’t prepared to start out and Sua Opeta and Ben Bredeson don’t provide a lot of an improve over Matt Feiler and Aaron Stinnie final yr.
However common supervisor Jason Licht and his personnel workers are too good at evaluating offensive linemen to make me consider that the workforce hasn’t discovered an answer at left guard this offseason. The actual Achilles heel of this workforce – and each workforce within the NFL – is lack of depth at sure positions. We’ll need to see how wholesome this workforce is and what positions really lack sufficient proficient depth if accidents do happen.
Final yr, 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 rely on that once more.
It’s arduous to determine the place the true weak point is on this workforce earlier than coaching camp and the preseason. So we’ll have a greater thought come September about which positions might 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 a number of analysts and movie evaluations that suppose that’s his finest place. If there’s a likelihood, they’ll clearly wish to give Barton as a lot time at his closing place as attainable. When will they make the ultimate determination?
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 might transfer Graham Barton, the workforce’s first-round choose, to left guard. The truth is, until Sua Opeta, Ben Bredeson or rookie Elijah Klein wows the workforce and simply dominates at left guard in coaching camp, I may see one of the 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 heart. Hainsey will likely be extremely motivated to return in and ball out throughout his contract yr.
The truth is, the second the Bucs drafted Barton on the night time of April 26 I declared, “The Bucs simply drafted their beginning left guard.” So I’m slightly stunned that the workforce is beginning him off at heart to start with. A extra logical transfer by Tampa Bay can be to have Barton compete with Opeta and Klein at left guard this yr whereas Hainsey battles Bredeson at heart. Then, the Bucs may transfer on from Hainsey after 2024 and transition Barton to heart until Bredeson received the job and proved to be a big improve this season.
I perceive why the workforce desires to maneuver Barton to heart as a result of it’s a extra invaluable 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 excellent soccer I.Q., can deal with the pains of the place, evidenced by him enjoying heart for 5 video games as a freshman.
But if Tampa Bay is seeking to begin the 5 finest O-linemen in 2024, it’s arduous to see Hainsey not being No. 5 on the record 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 determination 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 aspect of the ball that may affect the Bucs essentially the most this season, who would you wish to see – each being financially life like 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 life like as attainable. I feel there’s a potential weak point at cornerback on this workforce by way of depth if one thing occurs to both starter – Jamel Dean or Zyon McCollum. Sure, Bryce Corridor may fill in the best way that McCollum did final yr on a weekly foundation for both Dean or Carlton Davis III – each of whom have been oft-injured.
However after Corridor, there’s a important drop-off by way of expertise and expertise. Josh Hayes, an elite gunner as a rookie final yr, is the following man up as CB4 because it stands proper now. And cornerback is an extremely vital place in right this moment’s NFL the place the passing recreation takes heart stage every week.
So the participant I’d contemplate including to this workforce 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 yr in Pittsburgh the place he earned a 60.5 grade, together with a 61.4 protection grade. His 2022 season with the Vikings looks like an outlier at this level in his profession.
Peterson, who beforehand performed for Todd Bowles in Arizona, performed 1,096 snaps final yr, which is just too a lot for an growing older cornerback. And he was handsomely paid by the Steelers, making $7.15 million in 2023. Except another workforce indicators him to be a starter, which is unlikely at this stage of his profession, I feel he may come to Tampa Bay less expensive as a depth piece.
There may be 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 may be taught from a legendary cowl cornerback like Peterson, who has 36 profession interceptions.
