You're listening to the Fully Loaded podcast with your hosts JC Cornell and Samer Ali. Welcome to Fully Loaded, this is your host JC Cornell with Samer Ali as always, Samer. We're getting close to the regular season. I got i was watching on um Buck social um they put Tristan Worf's mic'd up before we get into things, I want to bring this up get your reaction KJ Brit, i don't know if you saw him on on the field against uh that's the Jaguars in practice but he chested up uh Trevor Lawrence and Tristan Worf's quote was KJ just trusted up Trevor. KJ is a freak psycho dude, I love KJ Brit, I like everyone said oh if we lose Devin White, you're gonna lose, you know that that tenacious, you know, JPP-type of approach that he had even though it didn't always translate statistically.
But dude, you got KJ Brit, apparently he's talking shit to everybody that ain't like bark bigger than the bite maybe I'm all for it, chip on the shoulder didn't get a chance. He's like a a louder meaner Baker Mayfield on the other side of the board, the ball. I fucking love it, dude. The more fights he gets in, the more I become a fan. Like, I'm eventually gonna have a '52' in in in the man cave here well Sam, we're gonna jump into our first topic and you know this is something. i put on twitter quite a bit and i've been very vocal about it should the books trade for hassan reddick guys had four straight years of double digit sacks
he's he's been a solid player he's in a position where he just got traded to the jets the jets are not giving him an extension he's almost turning 30 and he's not giving him an extension he's not giving him an extension he's almost turning 30 and he's not giving him an extension he's not giving him an extension he's not god bringing him a franchise so he wants to make a huge piece for tampa so initially i'm not a fan only because he gets to a new team and he immediately starts You know, making an issue but as I read more and more about it, it ended up being one of those things where I guess there was some sort of miscommunication, whereas like, uh, they thought he was coming to play on the deal he already had, and I guess his side's like, 'No, we're not playing; that's all he's gonna have to do two so we're gonna have to do the last two why we wanted out of Philadelphia all these things.
Um, if there's a way to bring him in kind of like how we brought in JPP, and if the bucs really do think that this is a team that can like compete, compete, and like you're you know, one piece away; let's let's try to maximize this window and We can pay him, I mean, I'm not, I'm not gonna hate it. I don't know if it'll happen the off-season, but maybe something happens around trade deadline when like things have just like expired between him and the Jets, and there's just no end in sight that that's going to be amicable for both sides other than trading them, and I think you get a really good value at that point too.
Um, we've seen tons of teams do that, bringing a guy who they kind of help you know cement things as they kind of get into the playoffs and whatnot. You can't have, you can't have too many right? My take on it so the Eagles got rid of them because they're Loaded at outside linebacker, they have plenty of pass rushers; they don't need him on Reddick anymore and they don't need to pay him. They have the guys on rookie deals and whatnot. Nolan Smith from last year is going to be a stud so they trade him to the Jets and I think the miscommunication was the Jets had said, 'You know, they plan on re-signing him and signing him long term and giving him that money.' And when he got there, there's just no conversation whatsoever.
So you know, for me, I don't blame a guy for holding out. People are like, 'Well, he's going out of the country on vacation not showing up to OTAs.' Well, you know why? He if if he got traded to a team that I guess said that they were going to pay the guy um for me, it makes sense you know, and and they traded him to the Jets for a third-round pick that could turn into a second with certain production um if they're gonna if Hassan Reddick's not gonna play for the Jets and and hold out, I mean if Jason could make a move fourth round pick third, I mean you know he values his picks the third round pick is very valuable for Jason Lieght he gets studs in the draft the whole front office knows how to draft he hates giving up picks but if it's like a fourth or a fifth um it's something interesting to monitor you know.
Something I've also said, which you know people might disagree with, Joe Tryon's on his last year of his contract if there's some way you could do a little swap there where both guys are on expiring contracts and you can get like three solid years out of Hassan Reddick. I think it's a no-brainer, yeah that's the other thing too so I was going to ask what the competition would be to send up there, I think a fourth rounder and maybe JTS and then the Jets get an extra pass rusher obviously he's not Reddick but you get a pass rusher who's clearly cool playing on the last deal of his contract and seeing what happens right so it feels like That could be a move, will the Jets want to add a guy like that, who doesn't really have the productivity even close to that you know, Reddick?
I don't know but if it's a fourth round pick and you guys can strike a deal if you're the one if you're the Jason Light and the boys and the girls um you gotta pull it in my in my opinion i think because you bring in a piece like that um um um JTS is here or not he's obviously going to be playing and he would make this an impossible defensive line to block if Yaya continues his trajectory from last year, you've got Kalijah Cancey who's going to have an entire year of training camp for the first Time ever an entire off-season, an entire you know he understands what the NFL is like and now going into second year, and we talked to him at training camp, he's hungry as f**k.
You got Vita Vea who's going to play more than he played last year, you add Reddick to that dude, I don't even know how you're going to block it like you double team any of them, the other three are going to eat, so it's it makes sense, that's i mean that's what I'm saying, I mean you you can have Yaya starting opposite uh Hasan Reddick and then you can bring in Broswell, you can bring in Anthony Nelson if Jose Ramirez makes this roster after having that three sack game. I mean, that could be a crazy rotation where you don't have to keep these guys all on the field, you can keep switching them out, keeping them fresh. It would be a nasty attack.
I mean, you could argue Hasan has Hasan Reddick could be that missing final piece that could really make this team a Super Bowl contender. It depends how they're looking at it too, man. If they're looking at it like we're maybe a year away, I don't know if they're looking at it like let's just do it now. Uh, that's why I feel like it's more going to be like a trade deadline type of scenario because then you kind of understand what your team is like, you kind of know But at that point, if JTS is going to pan out or not, but they do it now, they would just have to basically be openly admitting that you know the JTS experiment is over and they have to give up on it, which is fine.
I'm going to do it now, I'm going to do it now, I'm going to do it now with that, you can pull a band-aid anytime you need to, I totally get that, I trust Jason on that, but and there's also there's also this aspect to Hasan Reddick, um, they got a guy in the building that's occasionally there in Bruce Arians, that drafted Hasan Reddick on the Cardinals in the first round, so clearly Bruce did his research on this guy, if you're saying there's Something wrong, you know, behind the scenes or off the field. I think Bruce would be able to tell Jason pretty clearly what what you're getting in this guy as a person and as a player. Yeah, I'm curious if there is anything other than just the contract issue. Like initially, I was thinking, man, this guy's already making waves like he just changed his mind.
And then you read into it, like I said earlier, and it's just like, I think it's some sort of miscommunication between his team and and I don't think it's a cancer in the locker room type of issue. But you gotta be sure also that you're not bringing in somebody that's going To be another Devin White in terms of the complaints, you know that fracturing that he could possibly cause, but again, you could also look at the other side of that - JC is like this: 'the locker room is so tight, you can insert a guy like Antonio Brown like we did and it's okay.' They will continue to hold him to the fire of how they've set the standards and what that bar is in that locker room and not allow him to fester and create you know a cancer-type environment.
But it all depends on how they look at things, man. And um, I'm curious if Todd Bowles was the defensive coordinator when Bruce Arians, he was not; he was already a Jets' man, yeah. Yeah, okay, so he's already a Jet, no I, I just, you know, I think it's something to monitor for fans and and and just to think about. Um, there's there's a lot of people that don't want that to happen and and that's fine. Um, I do want to move on to our next topic and that's basically preseason standouts um right now for me Elijah Klein's getting a lot of hype on social media from offensive line gurus, experts talking about how physical and how dominant he's been in these games and kudos once again to the free agent or the office and all them finding this guy in the sixth round.
You know, he might not start day one but he has the potential. To eventually start at left guard for this team and and this offensive line that Jason's built, even after Ali Marpet left, Jensen got the season-ending ending or the career-ending injury. I mean, we've already built this thing to be almost a powerhouse; it's going to be a top-five offensive line in the league. And on top of that, you know, you got Grant Barton as the first-round pick. I mean, what they've done with this line they're going to just absolutely maul people. They have the potential whether it's this year at some point or at the beginning of next year to have an entirely an entire offensive line that they built completely.
Through the draft which is like almost unheard of, and all of them other than Tristan would basically be on their rookie deals. I feel like they'll probably start talking to Luke because they don't know you know, they don't want that to get out of hand sooner, you know, later on if he continues his his uh trajectory. But dude, that's pretty fucking wild for a bucs fan to see that like we've always had the revolving door of left tackles and right tackles and the guys that are always guard we sometimes have a good center here or we'll have Davin Joseph for for a little bit, we'll have Donald Penn, and then everything else is Absolute garbage around him, but now all five of these dudes are studs and this kid's in the sixth round.
And we talked about him during the draft shows that we did. I didn't think he was even gonna flash in preseason. Dude, I mean we got Baldwin videos about the kid playing at a pro level. And obviously, grain of salt, preseason backups, this and that. But man, if he gets it, and he clicks, man... and that's no disrespect to Brennison by the way, who in my opinion, I haven't had to say his name so he's done his job which has been a surprise so that's really a good thing going into the season. But um, I love Klein dude, it's so ridiculous. We talked about him too on and off the loose, can't it's thinking I um, another guy who's standing out obviously we talked a lot about him but I don't think he's gonna be able to do it.
Buck Irvin dude, holy like he is so fun to watch play football! It's gonna be impossible to keep him off the field for Liam. I don't think he's gonna eat into a massive chunk of what Rashad's gonna do in terms of the the carries and whatnot, but if they sprinkle him in the right way and they utilize him like Sean McVeigh does in LA with the weapons he has, man that's gonna be hard to stop, man, especially if we run block the way we've been so far, you know, and it's it's. It's funny because it's exactly the same thing with Bucky Irving, dude. He's so fun to watch play football. Scouting report coming out of Oregon makes everyone miss, and everyone's missing on him. I wouldn't be surprised if you see him in the goal line quite a bit, um, getting those goal line touches because he can make that first guy make that first guy miss, you're in the end zone, so we'll see what happens with that.
I do think it could be like a 60-40 timeshare. But this is what I want to talk about, my other standout is Sean Tucker. Sean Tucker has looked unbelievable; this is the guy that we were all expecting last year to immediately contribute. We saw his tape, how powerful he is, and and he just kind of disappeared off the scene, and then he's come back. He had a he put in a lot of work in the offseason, he's crushing it in these preseason games. Um, we'll see if he gets some some reps on this offense as well. I mean, it it's fun to have a three-headed monster, having three legit guys that you're you're confident in uh carrying the ball, that's a huge advantage for us, and I don't think we've been able to say that as bucs fans for a long time, that we've had this kind of stable of horses in our backfield.
I mean, going back to work done Mike Allstott was the best, like yeah, that's What I said too, yeah, maybe Ernest Graham and Cadillac had that little bit of an overlap. Um, but the one thing I'll say about those two guys is I wonder how far along they are in Blitz Pickup and Pass Pro which is the biggest thing Rashad talks about it all the time. He said his first thing he ever worked on as an NFL player once he goes draft, he's like that's the one thing I gotta work on. And when we talked to him about you know Bucky and Sean, he said they gotta work on that. Like he was pretty, you know, not not to you know talk badly about his teammates but he was saying that's something that rookie running backs gotta work on, and you just Paid Baker, uh, a nice chunk of money.
I think you want to make sure that whoever's next to him and that in that shotgun stance is going to know how to pick up that blitz so, I, I would look at that as the ramp up, you know, to possibly having that 70-30 split between Bucky and Rashad or 60-40. I just don't anticipate having that start off that way just because I don't know how much they're going to be able to trust that guy Sean Tucker as well even a second-year guy because it takes actual real fire bullets and reps for that to really sink in properly, but I think if he gets his chance he picks up a couple like that and Baker starts to trust. Him and lean start to trust him, then yeah, man.
Then you can sprinkle them in and not have it be so predictable as to when he's in in the game; he's gonna be a screen pass isn't that what we talked about goal line too? And I didn't want to cut you off but dude, he's also not afraid of just running you over. He looks for contact that reminds me a lot of Dunn, but Dunn used to use it to bounce off of you. This kid's got a little bit more; he's Jones Drew in him, he just wants to run you over. He's not built that way, but he does it, man. And he's got a little joystick in there, man. It's fun to watch him play, and he reminds me so much of Dunn, it's just it's Crazy because he's also hiding all these all these guys we're talking about right now, this Dolphins game is going to be very important.
What I'd love to see is Elijah Klein get some reps against the Dolphin starters um just to see you know can he handle the starters in the NFL as a six-round pick and if he can, makes it very interesting to to see if he plugs in that left guard um last guy it's pretty obvious Jose Ramirez having three sacks against the Jaguars um that's you know that that might have just solidified him getting that roster spot at offensive uh or outside linebacker um impressive dude you can tell when he's in. Press conferences and he's speaking, he he he. He really values hard work and he he wants to make this team, and the ceilings he's not hit his ceiling yet. He wants to be a contributor in the NFL.
Yeah, it's fun to see him get his chance and capitalize take it from you know last year's camp going into you know joint practices this past week with the Jaguars, he shined there, and then to take it to the game and a couple of them are cheap sacks but he's putting pressure on man which is crazy. Chris Braswell's right next to him doing the same thing, but to see Ramirez come in there and he can contribute anything from one to three sacks in the season. As a rotational piece, Anthony Nelson-type guy, that's awesome, um, another guy that maybe is going to work him in is ThLord, I'd say a nice couple tricks, great, it's it's to be in a weapon, man.
And whether they use Izzy and Moore in terms of the slot and things of that nature or back in safety, he can do a lot of things. And if you can insert him in scenarios, you can put some packages together where you got three, possibly four safety-type guys on the field or guys who could also play linebacker at the same time between him, Jordan Whitehead, Antoine. I mean, dude, it's going to be hard to get mismatches with tight ends and running backs when you got these athletic dudes that he could just plug in for Todd Bowles like that. I mean, it's going to be fun. And Taiki has just been it's been refreshing to see, you know, transition from college to the NFL in the preseason, obviously, again, grain of salt, but he hasn't looked like a rookie, which is important to me.
And then that's crazy with Taiki. With Taiki, I look at him just like when Winfield was a rookie. They just they already look like there's their vets, man. They they pick things up so quick. They're just so well-coached in college and and obviously Winfield had his dad growing up watching his dad play. But Taiki coming from Georgia, he he looks like, you know, these Georgia Alabama guys there. It's almost like they're already playing in the NFL with with the rosters that they have on these teams and he's going to be polished. I don't think there's like any rookie growing up to do. I think he comes in just playing like a pro. If you're at Georgia or Alabama, JC, you don't have a choice to not work hard.
And if you don't work hard, you're probably transferring out because you're not getting to play or they're telling you to kick rocks. But like you go to those schools, you work hard. So when you come into the NFL, it's like all right, just business as usual. I guess I'm just learning a new playbook and he looks ready, dude. And he's going to have some growing pains. Don't get me wrong. Ronnie Barber had growing pains that every one of these guys has growing pains. Antoine maybe didn't, but he had a couple plays. Probably he missed, but Taiki getting sprinkled in and put in a situation where he's comfortable and taught understanding how to utilize his skills and talents and being able to use him as his jack-of-all-trades is Swiss Army knife.
It's going to be it's going to be fun, man. It's going to be really fun. I got this draft class. Could be, could go down at some point is one of the best in Buccaneers history, which is crazy considering we have two drafts so far under our belt that have been two Hall of Famers in the same class with Derek Brooks, Warren Sapp and I think Antoine Winfield and Tristan Wirfs. Yeah, take this with a grain of salt, but Taiki Smith reminds me a lot of Minka Fitzpatrick, the way Minka was used at Alabama. I think Taiki can do the same thing if he needs to be playing in the slot. He can play in the slot if you need to put him at safety. God forbid an injury back there.
He's plugging in right away. No problem. Officially official Graham Barton is our starting center. I think that was, you know, kind of obvious with his pedigree coming out of the draft out how physical he is and the reps he's had in the preseason just pushing people around. I know we talked about it on the prior show. Does he have that nasty in him? It sure seems like he he can get in the nitty gritty and and he's physical man. I'm excited to see him, and he's going to anchor this line for years and years and years. And it's fun to have a good offensive line. There are no more days of freaking out about Donovan Smith at left tackle, who by the way is still not on an NFL team.
So, you know, we got a really solid group of guys there and it's, it's just going to be fun to watch this running game really evolve and people are, you know, hyping up the Falcons. The Falcons making the moves for Justin Simmons and Matt Jude onto help that defense. But the reality is that Falcons defensive line is not good; it's weak. And our offensive line is going to open the biggest gaping holes for our running backs to run all over the place all over them. We will control Sean Sean McVay. I'm already saying Liam Cohen is going to have a field day calling plays against the Falcons. Well, I mean if you have one clear-cut pass rusher opposing you as opposed to an entire defensive line of talent, yeah, I mean, you should be able to figure that out and Tristan Wirfs was on the Sirius XM NFL's training camp tour yesterday and he spoke about how everyone else in the division had added all these pass rushers.
Daviyon and Yannick, I believe went to the Carolina Panthers. You got Jude on with the Falcons and I believe the Saints added Chase Young who again these names aren't crazy names, but Jude on being the best of them obviously, but Tristan responded with 'listen, I face great pass rushers.' I'm like, you know, these guys are good pass rushers, but he responded with like he was almost like giggling. He was like, 'I can't wait dude. It's going to be so much fun.' I get to play against these guys twice or twice a year. I was like this dude is so good at his job. It's like it's fun now. So he's not he's not worried about it. I don't think guys like Luke Gedeke are also worried about it.
Luke, like, proved last year that he can handle a premier pass rusher. And so now you got two tackles one on either end that can do that and take care like you can add as many pass rushers as you want until you got an entire defensive line of monsters, talent. Then you know what I'm going to bet on the bucs' offensive line even with Bredesen and even if Klein does play, but going back to Graham Barton. I think they didn't expect him to adjust because he played he played center at Duke so long ago. I don't think they expected him to adjust so quickly. So they didn't want to put the pressure on him from day one of you are the starter. They just kind of let him grow into it.
He proved himself. You're going to see Bobby Hennessy, Bob Hennessy be the the backup which is a great thing. You got a veteran who's done it. He's seen it. He knows what Baker likes doesn't like he's going to be behind him. He'll be able to guide him if things go wrong or you know when he sees things he doesn't recognize, but kids from Duke. He's smart. He's getting caught up on the playbook. He talked about that was kind of the one thing he really has to work on is just getting that playbook down. That's really it and he's just adjusted so quickly and now you get to see him get full team first team reps moving forward getting ready for the first week of the season.
The only thing I think is really funny about him, He put I think he has a potential to play like Jensen, but him and Jensen are so different personality wise off the field. He's like so clean-cut Captain America, right kind of goofy. Yeah, Midwestern, you know, really good kid, and then you got Jensen who's like grown up in the forest, you know, hunting deer, chopping wood, probably wrestled a bear or two in his day. It's just completely different, but they could play the same which is insane. So it's, it's, it's cool and seeing him against the Bengals. He got he got dirty. So that's what I wanted to see and that was awesome; something I saw on Twitter. I forget if it was Balding or like Brandon Thorn or one of these offensive line guys.
They said his tape so far in the preseason at center his tape was already so good at left tackle at Duke this this past year, but his tape at center already is such an improvement over his left tackle tape and we're talking about a guy that was graded supposed to be a top 10 pick somehow fell to us and already his tape is looking that much better at center. We're we're in a very good position right now with Grant Barton. Yeah, I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. He's going to now have the ability to just to focus and study and work with Baker and work with the guys next to him for the next two two and a half weeks or three weeks, whatever that that number is for the first game.
That's important, dude. That's the one thing that makes the offensive line work really well is that silent communication that they all have, and he's going to be a loud communicator because he's making the line calls himself, and Baker going to work hand in hand. And for them to now know who that guy is. It's going to be awesome. And he, like I said, he's from Duke. He's smart. He's going to pick it up. He'll have some growing pains too. He's a rookie, but man, he gets it, and he starts rolling like we saw Tristan, and we saw Luke had his lumps, but once we got him in the right spot, he got going. Cody mock eventually got going, like it is, it is I don't want to say business as usual for Jason light and the boys, but it is dude.
The offensive line is what he knows, dude. It's so good, it's so cool to see man because that's where you build winners, the trenches on both sides of the ball been saying this for years, I'm glad we have it finally, man. So we're moving on to the Dolphins game this Friday night at 7:30, starters are going to play. So this is going to be definitely the most watched preseason game for the bucs for fans and everything. It's going to be fun to see how they match up to a Miami team that's very talented offense has a good defense. They have good pieces that I mean they they're a very solid team and I want to see how Baker does against the Dolphins defense and how you know Barton's his first start against starters and see how these guys really perform against a good NFL team.
I want to see I think they're going to probably go in with the mindset. This is a regular season game, apply going to script, you know, the first drive or 12 plays, whatever they do. I want to see them execute that script. I want to see him go up and down the field and do what they're supposed to do, you know, convert third downs if they come up on third downs and move the ball be efficient not look like they're, you know, having communication issues or look confused. It's kind of a new offense, but it's also not so you know and again to see Liam Cohen also beyond that first drive make play calls and see how he schemes and adjusts to things that the defense might change after that first drive.
So I think two drives is all I want to see but I want to see them, you know, be efficient with those. I want to see the run game with the entire starting unit and I want to see Rashad in that starting unit because I'm sure Rashad's been watching what's going on and thinking me. I cannot wait. This looks ridiculously fun in the these guys are doing it behind the backups. I can't even, I cannot wait. So that's going to be the fun thing to watch. So running game and execution is the two things I'm looking for. I think the biggest concern I've seen from fans and analysts on Twitter and social media is the secondary. So what better test than Tyreek Hill and Cheetah, and Jalen Waddle?
I don't know if Waddle's hurt or not. He's always hurt, but see, see how our guys match up to them big year for Jamel Dean, huge year for Zion McCollum, to prove that he can replace Carlton Davis. And you know, we'll see what happens. That clearly the box Jason, light Todd Bowles feel comfortable with their secondary right now because you know, they could have made a move and had the guy there's some Gilmore was out there and there's different guys that they could have added but it seems like they have trust in Zion, signs extremely athletic guy. I think this is, you know, he was a project pick when we got him and and you know, he was a project and he's learning and he's getting better. He's very fast.
So it's going to be a test to see how they play against two really good wide receivers before we face the commanders week one. Yeah, I'm curious if Jordan White has going to play. I don't think he will, just so they have him ready for Week One, but I definitely want to see the communication amongst that entire secondary, that group of guys see how they talk, see how they communicate and be interesting to see who they put back there next to Antoine at safety, whether that'll be easy in whether that'll be maybe a little bit of Tyke he sprinkled in there. I don't think they're going to marry, whether I don't know if he's how he's doing with with his injury.
So I don't think they're going to tip their hand in terms of the exotic stuff with Tyke he and things of that nature. So I don't think he'd be the guy back there. But I just want to see that that communication doesn't look like there's busted coverages left and right because that's always been the thing that Todd's talked about, and it felt like last year one specific person in that secondary, the safety was always the one that kind of broke down whether it was communication or understanding or hearing things properly or understanding what that communication was. So we'll see obviously Jordan White had Antoine to play together. So that's going to be more solid. But again, I don't anticipate those two playing together this this week, but let's see man.
I want to see Zion out there. People talked a lot of shit about the kid; He seems pretty damn confident himself. The bucs are confident in him like you talked about and I think they're really confident too. It talks about how confident they are in Bryce Hall, the guy that they got from the Jets who has played well so far in the preseason. Honestly, pick took back. Yeah, and it feels like he's not in the wrong place. I don't like what I've seen so far from Thomas, the guy they picked up from the Texans, so you know one for two. It's fine, but you have Hall back there. You can slide in, you have Izzy, in you have Tykee Smith. These guys are all multiple back there. So against the Dolphins.
I just want to see that in the passers kind of paired together and see if they work well, you know, it'd be fun to see it'll be fun to see all these guys playing together. Obviously Yaya is not going to be out there too. So, it'll be fun. Yeah, I mean that's what my next point was going to be. We started out the show talking about his son Redick. Well, this is a huge, huge game for Broswell. This is a huge game for Nelson. All these guys need to prove that you know, they can be affected and they don't need a guy like his son Redick to get taken away their reps. You know what I mean?
Let's prove to that to Jason and prove to Todd that we're okay at outside linebacker and you know, if it's not a good performance, maybe this is when you start thinking about making a move for his son Redick. Yeah, the thing is to think about it got collegiate inside you got Vita you're going to have Yaya but even just the two guys in the middle. Those guys are going to make everybody else better. They're just going to take up so much attention and now that Vita is going to be a little bit slimmer. I think a little bit more, you know, he's not going to have a fatigue issue. You're going to see him on the field a lot more and him next to is just going to be ridiculously how difficult to block for most offensive lines, if not all offensive lines; and then at that point the guys on the outside just got to finish the job.
Man, that's what that's been JTS's biggest issue. It's not even about him getting there and causing pressures; it's finishing a job. Dude finished a tackle. Chris Braswell is going to have a chance to take that kid's job. If he's able to do that if he's able to adjust and get up to speed, to a certain point, obviously Anthony Nelson. I'm a fan of his; he's he's done. He's made plays ever since he's been here. It's just he doesn't he doesn't look flashy; he doesn't look great; he doesn't dance too. Well, probably after a sack, whatever it is; but he finishes when he has a chance. So I think if those guys can all work as a group, I think that's really the the approach they would take, but if it all looks like a complete failure, I'm with you then we're back to that Reddit conversation.
It's also interesting to see that Anthony Nelson said he's learning things from Chris Braswell. We just talked about guys from Alabama guys from Georgia. Braswell comes from Alabama very well coached, you know, he's a Saban guy. He's he's one of those guys that kind of plugs into an NFL roster. They're not nervous about anything. They're not scared. They're just solid players and the moment's not too big for them. So it's going to be exciting to see this Dolphins game. How was he learning from a rookie? Did he give any explanation to that? No, I don't have the full details on what exactly Chris Braswell is teaching Anthony Nelson now. Anthony and him are kind of built differently. They seem to approach it differently. The Anthony's been solid dude.
He reminds me a lot of Greg Spires. I've said that a couple times. He just does his job. I've also said KJ Britt is one of those guys here. He just does his job. He's not trying to be Derrick Brooks. He just has to do his job. He's next to, you know, Derrick Brooks 2.0 for the most part. So with Levante. So that's another thing too. We get to see Levante, which I don't think he should play in preseason games, but you got to shake some of that rust off and the Chiefs, you know, they've been doing it forever with their starters. So I don't know if it even matters all that much, but you know, it is what it is. It's fine.
But that again, the defense, all of them communicating, talking, and then the I think the offense for me man as a whole is going to be the one thing I cannot wait to see because I'm really excited about what this is going to be with a more competent play caller, a more I guess football understanding schematically play caller at the helm and a guy who's going to be able to put us in situations where we aren't as predictable as what we were with Dave. So for you know, our listeners out there. We have a live show on Friday at 6:30 p.m. At the Hooters located in Sarasota, Florida off of Clark Road. We will be doing a live show. It's going to be fun. We have some special guests, special people coming, special giveaways as well.
We're going to have a fun interactive time with all the people that show up at Hooters and I will give away the the grand the biggest prize we're giving away is three wings for a year. I mean, that's that's pretty cool. Yeah, a gift card is going to go out to somebody in that restaurant that will give them wings for free for an entire year as long as you don't use ranch. Obviously, this can be a blue cheese that goes with it. Yeah, why I would show up daily just to get the blue cheese. Honestly, just like let me get a shot of blue cheese. I got, I got a meat and down the street from here. But yeah, that's pretty dope. Yeah, Hooters going to be fun.
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You're listening to the Fully Loaded podcast with your hosts JC Cornell and Samer Ali. Welcome to Fully Loaded, this is your host JC Cornell with Samer Ali as always, Samer. We're getting close to the regular season. I got i was watching on um Buck social um they put Tristan Worf's mic'd up before we get into things, I want to bring this up get your reaction KJ Brit, i don't know if you saw him on on the field against uh that's the Jaguars in practice but he chested up uh Trevor Lawrence and Tristan Worf's quote was KJ just trusted up Trevor. KJ is a freak psycho dude, I love KJ Brit, I like everyone said oh if we lose Devin White, you're gonna lose, you know that that tenacious, you know, JPP-type of approach that he had even though it didn't always translate statistically.
But dude, you got KJ Brit, apparently he's talking shit to everybody that ain't like bark bigger than the bite maybe I'm all for it, chip on the shoulder didn't get a chance. He's like a a louder meaner Baker Mayfield on the other side of the board, the ball. I fucking love it, dude. The more fights he gets in, the more I become a fan. Like, I'm eventually gonna have a '52' in in in the man cave here well Sam, we're gonna jump into our first topic and you know this is something. i put on twitter quite a bit and i've been very vocal about it should the books trade for hassan reddick guys had four straight years of double digit sacks
he's he's been a solid player he's in a position where he just got traded to the jets the jets are not giving him an extension he's almost turning 30 and he's not giving him an extension he's not giving him an extension he's almost turning 30 and he's not giving him an extension he's not giving him an extension he's not god bringing him a franchise so he wants to make a huge piece for tampa so initially i'm not a fan only because he gets to a new team and he immediately starts You know, making an issue but as I read more and more about it, it ended up being one of those things where I guess there was some sort of miscommunication, whereas like, uh, they thought he was coming to play on the deal he already had, and I guess his side's like, 'No, we're not playing; that's all he's gonna have to do two so we're gonna have to do the last two why we wanted out of Philadelphia all these things.
Um, if there's a way to bring him in kind of like how we brought in JPP, and if the bucs really do think that this is a team that can like compete, compete, and like you're you know, one piece away; let's let's try to maximize this window and We can pay him, I mean, I'm not, I'm not gonna hate it. I don't know if it'll happen the off-season, but maybe something happens around trade deadline when like things have just like expired between him and the Jets, and there's just no end in sight that that's going to be amicable for both sides other than trading them, and I think you get a really good value at that point too.
Um, we've seen tons of teams do that, bringing a guy who they kind of help you know cement things as they kind of get into the playoffs and whatnot. You can't have, you can't have too many right? My take on it so the Eagles got rid of them because they're Loaded at outside linebacker, they have plenty of pass rushers; they don't need him on Reddick anymore and they don't need to pay him. They have the guys on rookie deals and whatnot. Nolan Smith from last year is going to be a stud so they trade him to the Jets and I think the miscommunication was the Jets had said, 'You know, they plan on re-signing him and signing him long term and giving him that money.' And when he got there, there's just no conversation whatsoever.
So you know, for me, I don't blame a guy for holding out. People are like, 'Well, he's going out of the country on vacation not showing up to OTAs.' Well, you know why? He if if he got traded to a team that I guess said that they were going to pay the guy um for me, it makes sense you know, and and they traded him to the Jets for a third-round pick that could turn into a second with certain production um if they're gonna if Hassan Reddick's not gonna play for the Jets and and hold out, I mean if Jason could make a move fourth round pick third, I mean you know he values his picks the third round pick is very valuable for Jason Lieght he gets studs in the draft the whole front office knows how to draft he hates giving up picks but if it's like a fourth or a fifth um it's something interesting to monitor you know.
Something I've also said, which you know people might disagree with, Joe Tryon's on his last year of his contract if there's some way you could do a little swap there where both guys are on expiring contracts and you can get like three solid years out of Hassan Reddick. I think it's a no-brainer, yeah that's the other thing too so I was going to ask what the competition would be to send up there, I think a fourth rounder and maybe JTS and then the Jets get an extra pass rusher obviously he's not Reddick but you get a pass rusher who's clearly cool playing on the last deal of his contract and seeing what happens right so it feels like That could be a move, will the Jets want to add a guy like that, who doesn't really have the productivity even close to that you know, Reddick?
I don't know but if it's a fourth round pick and you guys can strike a deal if you're the one if you're the Jason Light and the boys and the girls um you gotta pull it in my in my opinion i think because you bring in a piece like that um um um JTS is here or not he's obviously going to be playing and he would make this an impossible defensive line to block if Yaya continues his trajectory from last year, you've got Kalijah Cancey who's going to have an entire year of training camp for the first Time ever an entire off-season, an entire you know he understands what the NFL is like and now going into second year, and we talked to him at training camp, he's hungry as f**k.
You got Vita Vea who's going to play more than he played last year, you add Reddick to that dude, I don't even know how you're going to block it like you double team any of them, the other three are going to eat, so it's it makes sense, that's i mean that's what I'm saying, I mean you you can have Yaya starting opposite uh Hasan Reddick and then you can bring in Broswell, you can bring in Anthony Nelson if Jose Ramirez makes this roster after having that three sack game. I mean, that could be a crazy rotation where you don't have to keep these guys all on the field, you can keep switching them out, keeping them fresh. It would be a nasty attack.
I mean, you could argue Hasan has Hasan Reddick could be that missing final piece that could really make this team a Super Bowl contender. It depends how they're looking at it too, man. If they're looking at it like we're maybe a year away, I don't know if they're looking at it like let's just do it now. Uh, that's why I feel like it's more going to be like a trade deadline type of scenario because then you kind of understand what your team is like, you kind of know But at that point, if JTS is going to pan out or not, but they do it now, they would just have to basically be openly admitting that you know the JTS experiment is over and they have to give up on it, which is fine.
I'm going to do it now, I'm going to do it now, I'm going to do it now with that, you can pull a band-aid anytime you need to, I totally get that, I trust Jason on that, but and there's also there's also this aspect to Hasan Reddick, um, they got a guy in the building that's occasionally there in Bruce Arians, that drafted Hasan Reddick on the Cardinals in the first round, so clearly Bruce did his research on this guy, if you're saying there's Something wrong, you know, behind the scenes or off the field. I think Bruce would be able to tell Jason pretty clearly what what you're getting in this guy as a person and as a player. Yeah, I'm curious if there is anything other than just the contract issue. Like initially, I was thinking, man, this guy's already making waves like he just changed his mind.
And then you read into it, like I said earlier, and it's just like, I think it's some sort of miscommunication between his team and and I don't think it's a cancer in the locker room type of issue. But you gotta be sure also that you're not bringing in somebody that's going To be another Devin White in terms of the complaints, you know that fracturing that he could possibly cause, but again, you could also look at the other side of that - JC is like this: 'the locker room is so tight, you can insert a guy like Antonio Brown like we did and it's okay.' They will continue to hold him to the fire of how they've set the standards and what that bar is in that locker room and not allow him to fester and create you know a cancer-type environment.
But it all depends on how they look at things, man. And um, I'm curious if Todd Bowles was the defensive coordinator when Bruce Arians, he was not; he was already a Jets' man, yeah. Yeah, okay, so he's already a Jet, no I, I just, you know, I think it's something to monitor for fans and and and just to think about. Um, there's there's a lot of people that don't want that to happen and and that's fine. Um, I do want to move on to our next topic and that's basically preseason standouts um right now for me Elijah Klein's getting a lot of hype on social media from offensive line gurus, experts talking about how physical and how dominant he's been in these games and kudos once again to the free agent or the office and all them finding this guy in the sixth round.
You know, he might not start day one but he has the potential. To eventually start at left guard for this team and and this offensive line that Jason's built, even after Ali Marpet left, Jensen got the season-ending ending or the career-ending injury. I mean, we've already built this thing to be almost a powerhouse; it's going to be a top-five offensive line in the league. And on top of that, you know, you got Grant Barton as the first-round pick. I mean, what they've done with this line they're going to just absolutely maul people. They have the potential whether it's this year at some point or at the beginning of next year to have an entirely an entire offensive line that they built completely.
Through the draft which is like almost unheard of, and all of them other than Tristan would basically be on their rookie deals. I feel like they'll probably start talking to Luke because they don't know you know, they don't want that to get out of hand sooner, you know, later on if he continues his his uh trajectory. But dude, that's pretty fucking wild for a bucs fan to see that like we've always had the revolving door of left tackles and right tackles and the guys that are always guard we sometimes have a good center here or we'll have Davin Joseph for for a little bit, we'll have Donald Penn, and then everything else is Absolute garbage around him, but now all five of these dudes are studs and this kid's in the sixth round.
And we talked about him during the draft shows that we did. I didn't think he was even gonna flash in preseason. Dude, I mean we got Baldwin videos about the kid playing at a pro level. And obviously, grain of salt, preseason backups, this and that. But man, if he gets it, and he clicks, man... and that's no disrespect to Brennison by the way, who in my opinion, I haven't had to say his name so he's done his job which has been a surprise so that's really a good thing going into the season. But um, I love Klein dude, it's so ridiculous. We talked about him too on and off the loose, can't it's thinking I um, another guy who's standing out obviously we talked a lot about him but I don't think he's gonna be able to do it.
Buck Irvin dude, holy like he is so fun to watch play football! It's gonna be impossible to keep him off the field for Liam. I don't think he's gonna eat into a massive chunk of what Rashad's gonna do in terms of the the carries and whatnot, but if they sprinkle him in the right way and they utilize him like Sean McVeigh does in LA with the weapons he has, man that's gonna be hard to stop, man, especially if we run block the way we've been so far, you know, and it's it's. It's funny because it's exactly the same thing with Bucky Irving, dude. He's so fun to watch play football. Scouting report coming out of Oregon makes everyone miss, and everyone's missing on him. I wouldn't be surprised if you see him in the goal line quite a bit, um, getting those goal line touches because he can make that first guy make that first guy miss, you're in the end zone, so we'll see what happens with that.
I do think it could be like a 60-40 timeshare. But this is what I want to talk about, my other standout is Sean Tucker. Sean Tucker has looked unbelievable; this is the guy that we were all expecting last year to immediately contribute. We saw his tape, how powerful he is, and and he just kind of disappeared off the scene, and then he's come back. He had a he put in a lot of work in the offseason, he's crushing it in these preseason games. Um, we'll see if he gets some some reps on this offense as well. I mean, it it's fun to have a three-headed monster, having three legit guys that you're you're confident in uh carrying the ball, that's a huge advantage for us, and I don't think we've been able to say that as bucs fans for a long time, that we've had this kind of stable of horses in our backfield.
I mean, going back to work done Mike Allstott was the best, like yeah, that's What I said too, yeah, maybe Ernest Graham and Cadillac had that little bit of an overlap. Um, but the one thing I'll say about those two guys is I wonder how far along they are in Blitz Pickup and Pass Pro which is the biggest thing Rashad talks about it all the time. He said his first thing he ever worked on as an NFL player once he goes draft, he's like that's the one thing I gotta work on. And when we talked to him about you know Bucky and Sean, he said they gotta work on that. Like he was pretty, you know, not not to you know talk badly about his teammates but he was saying that's something that rookie running backs gotta work on, and you just Paid Baker, uh, a nice chunk of money.
I think you want to make sure that whoever's next to him and that in that shotgun stance is going to know how to pick up that blitz so, I, I would look at that as the ramp up, you know, to possibly having that 70-30 split between Bucky and Rashad or 60-40. I just don't anticipate having that start off that way just because I don't know how much they're going to be able to trust that guy Sean Tucker as well even a second-year guy because it takes actual real fire bullets and reps for that to really sink in properly, but I think if he gets his chance he picks up a couple like that and Baker starts to trust. Him and lean start to trust him, then yeah, man.
Then you can sprinkle them in and not have it be so predictable as to when he's in in the game; he's gonna be a screen pass isn't that what we talked about goal line too? And I didn't want to cut you off but dude, he's also not afraid of just running you over. He looks for contact that reminds me a lot of Dunn, but Dunn used to use it to bounce off of you. This kid's got a little bit more; he's Jones Drew in him, he just wants to run you over. He's not built that way, but he does it, man. And he's got a little joystick in there, man. It's fun to watch him play, and he reminds me so much of Dunn, it's just it's Crazy because he's also hiding all these all these guys we're talking about right now, this Dolphins game is going to be very important.
What I'd love to see is Elijah Klein get some reps against the Dolphin starters um just to see you know can he handle the starters in the NFL as a six-round pick and if he can, makes it very interesting to to see if he plugs in that left guard um last guy it's pretty obvious Jose Ramirez having three sacks against the Jaguars um that's you know that that might have just solidified him getting that roster spot at offensive uh or outside linebacker um impressive dude you can tell when he's in. Press conferences and he's speaking, he he he. He really values hard work and he he wants to make this team, and the ceilings he's not hit his ceiling yet. He wants to be a contributor in the NFL.
Yeah, it's fun to see him get his chance and capitalize take it from you know last year's camp going into you know joint practices this past week with the Jaguars, he shined there, and then to take it to the game and a couple of them are cheap sacks but he's putting pressure on man which is crazy. Chris Braswell's right next to him doing the same thing, but to see Ramirez come in there and he can contribute anything from one to three sacks in the season. As a rotational piece, Anthony Nelson-type guy, that's awesome, um, another guy that maybe is going to work him in is ThLord, I'd say a nice couple tricks, great, it's it's to be in a weapon, man.
And whether they use Izzy and Moore in terms of the slot and things of that nature or back in safety, he can do a lot of things. And if you can insert him in scenarios, you can put some packages together where you got three, possibly four safety-type guys on the field or guys who could also play linebacker at the same time between him, Jordan Whitehead, Antoine. I mean, dude, it's going to be hard to get mismatches with tight ends and running backs when you got these athletic dudes that he could just plug in for Todd Bowles like that. I mean, it's going to be fun. And Taiki has just been it's been refreshing to see, you know, transition from college to the NFL in the preseason, obviously, again, grain of salt, but he hasn't looked like a rookie, which is important to me.
And then that's crazy with Taiki. With Taiki, I look at him just like when Winfield was a rookie. They just they already look like there's their vets, man. They they pick things up so quick. They're just so well-coached in college and and obviously Winfield had his dad growing up watching his dad play. But Taiki coming from Georgia, he he looks like, you know, these Georgia Alabama guys there. It's almost like they're already playing in the NFL with with the rosters that they have on these teams and he's going to be polished. I don't think there's like any rookie growing up to do. I think he comes in just playing like a pro. If you're at Georgia or Alabama, JC, you don't have a choice to not work hard.
And if you don't work hard, you're probably transferring out because you're not getting to play or they're telling you to kick rocks. But like you go to those schools, you work hard. So when you come into the NFL, it's like all right, just business as usual. I guess I'm just learning a new playbook and he looks ready, dude. And he's going to have some growing pains. Don't get me wrong. Ronnie Barber had growing pains that every one of these guys has growing pains. Antoine maybe didn't, but he had a couple plays. Probably he missed, but Taiki getting sprinkled in and put in a situation where he's comfortable and taught understanding how to utilize his skills and talents and being able to use him as his jack-of-all-trades is Swiss Army knife.
It's going to be it's going to be fun, man. It's going to be really fun. I got this draft class. Could be, could go down at some point is one of the best in Buccaneers history, which is crazy considering we have two drafts so far under our belt that have been two Hall of Famers in the same class with Derek Brooks, Warren Sapp and I think Antoine Winfield and Tristan Wirfs. Yeah, take this with a grain of salt, but Taiki Smith reminds me a lot of Minka Fitzpatrick, the way Minka was used at Alabama. I think Taiki can do the same thing if he needs to be playing in the slot. He can play in the slot if you need to put him at safety. God forbid an injury back there.
He's plugging in right away. No problem. Officially official Graham Barton is our starting center. I think that was, you know, kind of obvious with his pedigree coming out of the draft out how physical he is and the reps he's had in the preseason just pushing people around. I know we talked about it on the prior show. Does he have that nasty in him? It sure seems like he he can get in the nitty gritty and and he's physical man. I'm excited to see him, and he's going to anchor this line for years and years and years. And it's fun to have a good offensive line. There are no more days of freaking out about Donovan Smith at left tackle, who by the way is still not on an NFL team.
So, you know, we got a really solid group of guys there and it's, it's just going to be fun to watch this running game really evolve and people are, you know, hyping up the Falcons. The Falcons making the moves for Justin Simmons and Matt Jude onto help that defense. But the reality is that Falcons defensive line is not good; it's weak. And our offensive line is going to open the biggest gaping holes for our running backs to run all over the place all over them. We will control Sean Sean McVay. I'm already saying Liam Cohen is going to have a field day calling plays against the Falcons. Well, I mean if you have one clear-cut pass rusher opposing you as opposed to an entire defensive line of talent, yeah, I mean, you should be able to figure that out and Tristan Wirfs was on the Sirius XM NFL's training camp tour yesterday and he spoke about how everyone else in the division had added all these pass rushers.
Daviyon and Yannick, I believe went to the Carolina Panthers. You got Jude on with the Falcons and I believe the Saints added Chase Young who again these names aren't crazy names, but Jude on being the best of them obviously, but Tristan responded with 'listen, I face great pass rushers.' I'm like, you know, these guys are good pass rushers, but he responded with like he was almost like giggling. He was like, 'I can't wait dude. It's going to be so much fun.' I get to play against these guys twice or twice a year. I was like this dude is so good at his job. It's like it's fun now. So he's not he's not worried about it. I don't think guys like Luke Gedeke are also worried about it.
Luke, like, proved last year that he can handle a premier pass rusher. And so now you got two tackles one on either end that can do that and take care like you can add as many pass rushers as you want until you got an entire defensive line of monsters, talent. Then you know what I'm going to bet on the bucs' offensive line even with Bredesen and even if Klein does play, but going back to Graham Barton. I think they didn't expect him to adjust because he played he played center at Duke so long ago. I don't think they expected him to adjust so quickly. So they didn't want to put the pressure on him from day one of you are the starter. They just kind of let him grow into it.
He proved himself. You're going to see Bobby Hennessy, Bob Hennessy be the the backup which is a great thing. You got a veteran who's done it. He's seen it. He knows what Baker likes doesn't like he's going to be behind him. He'll be able to guide him if things go wrong or you know when he sees things he doesn't recognize, but kids from Duke. He's smart. He's getting caught up on the playbook. He talked about that was kind of the one thing he really has to work on is just getting that playbook down. That's really it and he's just adjusted so quickly and now you get to see him get full team first team reps moving forward getting ready for the first week of the season.
The only thing I think is really funny about him, He put I think he has a potential to play like Jensen, but him and Jensen are so different personality wise off the field. He's like so clean-cut Captain America, right kind of goofy. Yeah, Midwestern, you know, really good kid, and then you got Jensen who's like grown up in the forest, you know, hunting deer, chopping wood, probably wrestled a bear or two in his day. It's just completely different, but they could play the same which is insane. So it's, it's, it's cool and seeing him against the Bengals. He got he got dirty. So that's what I wanted to see and that was awesome; something I saw on Twitter. I forget if it was Balding or like Brandon Thorn or one of these offensive line guys.
They said his tape so far in the preseason at center his tape was already so good at left tackle at Duke this this past year, but his tape at center already is such an improvement over his left tackle tape and we're talking about a guy that was graded supposed to be a top 10 pick somehow fell to us and already his tape is looking that much better at center. We're we're in a very good position right now with Grant Barton. Yeah, I can't wait. It's going to be so much fun. He's going to now have the ability to just to focus and study and work with Baker and work with the guys next to him for the next two two and a half weeks or three weeks, whatever that that number is for the first game.
That's important, dude. That's the one thing that makes the offensive line work really well is that silent communication that they all have, and he's going to be a loud communicator because he's making the line calls himself, and Baker going to work hand in hand. And for them to now know who that guy is. It's going to be awesome. And he, like I said, he's from Duke. He's smart. He's going to pick it up. He'll have some growing pains too. He's a rookie, but man, he gets it, and he starts rolling like we saw Tristan, and we saw Luke had his lumps, but once we got him in the right spot, he got going. Cody mock eventually got going, like it is, it is I don't want to say business as usual for Jason light and the boys, but it is dude.
The offensive line is what he knows, dude. It's so good, it's so cool to see man because that's where you build winners, the trenches on both sides of the ball been saying this for years, I'm glad we have it finally, man. So we're moving on to the Dolphins game this Friday night at 7:30, starters are going to play. So this is going to be definitely the most watched preseason game for the bucs for fans and everything. It's going to be fun to see how they match up to a Miami team that's very talented offense has a good defense. They have good pieces that I mean they they're a very solid team and I want to see how Baker does against the Dolphins defense and how you know Barton's his first start against starters and see how these guys really perform against a good NFL team.
I want to see I think they're going to probably go in with the mindset. This is a regular season game, apply going to script, you know, the first drive or 12 plays, whatever they do. I want to see them execute that script. I want to see him go up and down the field and do what they're supposed to do, you know, convert third downs if they come up on third downs and move the ball be efficient not look like they're, you know, having communication issues or look confused. It's kind of a new offense, but it's also not so you know and again to see Liam Cohen also beyond that first drive make play calls and see how he schemes and adjusts to things that the defense might change after that first drive.
So I think two drives is all I want to see but I want to see them, you know, be efficient with those. I want to see the run game with the entire starting unit and I want to see Rashad in that starting unit because I'm sure Rashad's been watching what's going on and thinking me. I cannot wait. This looks ridiculously fun in the these guys are doing it behind the backups. I can't even, I cannot wait. So that's going to be the fun thing to watch. So running game and execution is the two things I'm looking for. I think the biggest concern I've seen from fans and analysts on Twitter and social media is the secondary. So what better test than Tyreek Hill and Cheetah, and Jalen Waddle?
I don't know if Waddle's hurt or not. He's always hurt, but see, see how our guys match up to them big year for Jamel Dean, huge year for Zion McCollum, to prove that he can replace Carlton Davis. And you know, we'll see what happens. That clearly the box Jason, light Todd Bowles feel comfortable with their secondary right now because you know, they could have made a move and had the guy there's some Gilmore was out there and there's different guys that they could have added but it seems like they have trust in Zion, signs extremely athletic guy. I think this is, you know, he was a project pick when we got him and and you know, he was a project and he's learning and he's getting better. He's very fast.
So it's going to be a test to see how they play against two really good wide receivers before we face the commanders week one. Yeah, I'm curious if Jordan White has going to play. I don't think he will, just so they have him ready for Week One, but I definitely want to see the communication amongst that entire secondary, that group of guys see how they talk, see how they communicate and be interesting to see who they put back there next to Antoine at safety, whether that'll be easy in whether that'll be maybe a little bit of Tyke he sprinkled in there. I don't think they're going to marry, whether I don't know if he's how he's doing with with his injury.
So I don't think they're going to tip their hand in terms of the exotic stuff with Tyke he and things of that nature. So I don't think he'd be the guy back there. But I just want to see that that communication doesn't look like there's busted coverages left and right because that's always been the thing that Todd's talked about, and it felt like last year one specific person in that secondary, the safety was always the one that kind of broke down whether it was communication or understanding or hearing things properly or understanding what that communication was. So we'll see obviously Jordan White had Antoine to play together. So that's going to be more solid. But again, I don't anticipate those two playing together this this week, but let's see man.
I want to see Zion out there. People talked a lot of shit about the kid; He seems pretty damn confident himself. The bucs are confident in him like you talked about and I think they're really confident too. It talks about how confident they are in Bryce Hall, the guy that they got from the Jets who has played well so far in the preseason. Honestly, pick took back. Yeah, and it feels like he's not in the wrong place. I don't like what I've seen so far from Thomas, the guy they picked up from the Texans, so you know one for two. It's fine, but you have Hall back there. You can slide in, you have Izzy, in you have Tykee Smith. These guys are all multiple back there. So against the Dolphins.
I just want to see that in the passers kind of paired together and see if they work well, you know, it'd be fun to see it'll be fun to see all these guys playing together. Obviously Yaya is not going to be out there too. So, it'll be fun. Yeah, I mean that's what my next point was going to be. We started out the show talking about his son Redick. Well, this is a huge, huge game for Broswell. This is a huge game for Nelson. All these guys need to prove that you know, they can be affected and they don't need a guy like his son Redick to get taken away their reps. You know what I mean?
Let's prove to that to Jason and prove to Todd that we're okay at outside linebacker and you know, if it's not a good performance, maybe this is when you start thinking about making a move for his son Redick. Yeah, the thing is to think about it got collegiate inside you got Vita you're going to have Yaya but even just the two guys in the middle. Those guys are going to make everybody else better. They're just going to take up so much attention and now that Vita is going to be a little bit slimmer. I think a little bit more, you know, he's not going to have a fatigue issue. You're going to see him on the field a lot more and him next to is just going to be ridiculously how difficult to block for most offensive lines, if not all offensive lines; and then at that point the guys on the outside just got to finish the job.
Man, that's what that's been JTS's biggest issue. It's not even about him getting there and causing pressures; it's finishing a job. Dude finished a tackle. Chris Braswell is going to have a chance to take that kid's job. If he's able to do that if he's able to adjust and get up to speed, to a certain point, obviously Anthony Nelson. I'm a fan of his; he's he's done. He's made plays ever since he's been here. It's just he doesn't he doesn't look flashy; he doesn't look great; he doesn't dance too. Well, probably after a sack, whatever it is; but he finishes when he has a chance. So I think if those guys can all work as a group, I think that's really the the approach they would take, but if it all looks like a complete failure, I'm with you then we're back to that Reddit conversation.
It's also interesting to see that Anthony Nelson said he's learning things from Chris Braswell. We just talked about guys from Alabama guys from Georgia. Braswell comes from Alabama very well coached, you know, he's a Saban guy. He's he's one of those guys that kind of plugs into an NFL roster. They're not nervous about anything. They're not scared. They're just solid players and the moment's not too big for them. So it's going to be exciting to see this Dolphins game. How was he learning from a rookie? Did he give any explanation to that? No, I don't have the full details on what exactly Chris Braswell is teaching Anthony Nelson now. Anthony and him are kind of built differently. They seem to approach it differently. The Anthony's been solid dude.
He reminds me a lot of Greg Spires. I've said that a couple times. He just does his job. I've also said KJ Britt is one of those guys here. He just does his job. He's not trying to be Derrick Brooks. He just has to do his job. He's next to, you know, Derrick Brooks 2.0 for the most part. So with Levante. So that's another thing too. We get to see Levante, which I don't think he should play in preseason games, but you got to shake some of that rust off and the Chiefs, you know, they've been doing it forever with their starters. So I don't know if it even matters all that much, but you know, it is what it is. It's fine.
But that again, the defense, all of them communicating, talking, and then the I think the offense for me man as a whole is going to be the one thing I cannot wait to see because I'm really excited about what this is going to be with a more competent play caller, a more I guess football understanding schematically play caller at the helm and a guy who's going to be able to put us in situations where we aren't as predictable as what we were with Dave. So for you know, our listeners out there. We have a live show on Friday at 6:30 p.m. At the Hooters located in Sarasota, Florida off of Clark Road. We will be doing a live show. It's going to be fun. We have some special guests, special people coming, special giveaways as well.
We're going to have a fun interactive time with all the people that show up at Hooters and I will give away the the grand the biggest prize we're giving away is three wings for a year. I mean, that's that's pretty cool. Yeah, a gift card is going to go out to somebody in that restaurant that will give them wings for free for an entire year as long as you don't use ranch. Obviously, this can be a blue cheese that goes with it. Yeah, why I would show up daily just to get the blue cheese. Honestly, just like let me get a shot of blue cheese. I got, I got a meat and down the street from here. But yeah, that's pretty dope. Yeah, Hooters going to be fun.
Have some like JC said, some special guests will have some reverse brand merch in the house that we're being given away. We'll do some some giveaways. We'll do some trivia. We'll have Stank walking around. Oh wait, let's not forget Omni Energy is going to be there giving out energy drinks with the Omni girls. We've given out. We don't know if we can say whether they've mixed shots with the energy drinks. We're still working on that. But regardless, Omni is going to be there full presence and it's going to be a fun time. You guys should come check us out, and this could be something that we do hopefully in Tampa at a Hooters location in Tampa as well. But right now, our first one.
So if you're local to Sarasota or if you want to make the drive down to Hooters and check us out, it's going to be a great time and we're going to have a lot of fun with it. Absolutely, a man cannot wait to be a solid way to watch a football game. Yeah, we're going to we're going to sign off. You can follow us on Twitter at Fully Loaded Books and I'm so bad. Why am I so bad at this? Can we talk about this for a second? I'm the worst sign-off guy. It's it's kind of embarrassing on Loose Cannons. I just I just say 'go books' and I just hang up. You know where to follow us. We'll talk to you soon. Go books. There it is.
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