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Scott Reynolds of Pewter Report answers your questions from the @PewterReport Twitter account every week in the Bucs Mailbag. Submit your question to the Bucs Mailbag via Twitter each week using the hashtag #PRMailbag. These are the Bucs questions we’ve chosen to answer for this week’s edition.
ASK: Where does the new offensive regime see Chris Godwin? One of the reasons it sounds like he played a lot in the slots under Bruce Arians was because they required their slot to be a great blocker. Does the broad zone/general schedule change bring him more to the border?
Bucs WRs Chris Godwin and Mike Evans – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
ANSWER: You’re right. Chris Godwin was primarily used as a slot receiver in Bruce Arians’ schedule due to his down the middle physicality and for his toughness and effectiveness as a blocker in the run game. But in Dave Canales’ schedule, the Bucs will use Godwin more as an outside receiver – and not just for predictable wide receiver screens like he ran under Byron Leftwich last year.
Canales will be using Godwin as the team’s Z receiver (flank) while Mike Evans will be used primarily as the X receiver (split end) as always. However, Canales will move Godwin through the formation to play Z and in the slot. He plans to do the same with Evans, putting him in the slot in addition to playing flanker. Both Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf were used that way in Seattle – playing multiple receiver spots to create favorable matchups in the passing game.
Evans and Godwin are both good blockers in the run game and will focus on blocking the perimeter when not being used in the slot. The hope that Godwin doesn’t camp in the slot in a down-in and down-out fashion is that he can stay healthier and avoid injuries and injuries. Godwin has not played a full season since 2018 and has missed 11 games over the past four seasons. Last year, he missed two games due to a hamstring injury.
QUESTION: Which Bucs UDFA do you think has the best chance of being selected? Any predictions?
Bucs S Kaevon Merriweather – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
ANSWER: I actually think there will be several non-drafted free agents this year making the Bucs 53-man roster. But if I had to make serious predictions, I’d start with safety Kaevon Merriweather. The Bucs are very high on him and were thrilled with his off-season, despite the fact that he is best known for his physicality, and the pads don’t arrive until after the first three days of training camp. The fact that the Bucs are thin on safety certainly helps Merriweather’s case.
Other non-drafted free agents who I think have a shot at making the team include running back Sean Tucker, if he is soon cleared to practice due to a heart condition diagnosed at the NFL Scouting Combine, wide receiver Rakim Jarrett and cornerback Keenan Isaac – a trio of my training camp sleepers. The Bucs have just four receivers on their depth chart with Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Russell Gage and Trey Palmer, a sixth-round draft pick who impressed in the offseason. Jarrett has a good chance of staying as WR5.
Tampa Bay is also lean at cornerback, with Carlton Davis III, Jamel Dean, Zyon McCollum, Dee Delaney and Josh Hayes on the depth chart. That gives Isaac a chance to make it if he shines on special teams. Overall, I would predict between four and six untrafted free agents who will make Tampa Bay’s 53-man roster this season.
QUESTION: Do you think the Bucs will add any more free agents ahead of the regular season? Hoping they leave the RB room alone and give Rachaad White a chance to shine.
Former Bucs DL Will Gholston – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR
ANSWER: It is possible. The Bucs are very young and superficial in terms of experience in various positions including running back, defensive equipment and safety. I don’t blame the team for wanting to see what they have in their rookies and youngsters first, developing players first during training camp before signing a veteran to add experience and depth. That has been common practice for the Bucs under general manager Jason Licht.
Last year, the Bucs added veteran Carl Nassib in mid-August to help the team gain depth when Cam Gill went down to reserve in the first game of the preseason with a season-ending foot injury. A few years earlier, the Bucs signed running back Leonard Fournette in the first week of September prior to the start of the 2020 regular season. So adding another veteran or two seems logical at some point, given Licht’s track record. But first, the Bucs must extend Mike Evans’ contract to create room for a salary cap.
I could see the Bucs add another veteran who will only return to the mix if Sean Tucker doesn’t get medical clearance to join camp or one of the other backs gets injured. If the young Bucs security falters, or if there is an injury at the position, Tampa Bay veteran Logan Ryan could re-sign. If the Bucs need another veteran defensive tackle, Will Gholston is unsigned, lives in Tampa and is on speed dial.
QUESTION: I forgot, SR, are the media allowed to share information about the practices of the entire Bucs camp?
Pewter Reporters Matt Matera, Adam Slivon, Bailey Adams, JC Allen, Scott Reynolds and Josh Queipo (kneeling)
ANSWER: During the practices of the entire Bucs training camp, the media is only allowed to live tweet if the fans are present. The reason is that Bucs fans in the stands can shoot videos and photos during practice, so the team really can’t tell the media not to film if a fan five feet away from us can do it and post it on the internet.
However, when the fans are not there, like the first three days of training camp this year, the media can only film and take pictures and live tweet for about the first 20-30 minutes of training during individual practice periods. But the media is allowed to cover the practice and we can report on what we see – aside from trick plays and specific formations – we just can’t live tweet it. (Or is it now live X it with the rebrand?)
As always, Pewter Report will provide wall-to-wall coverage of Bucs camps on PewterReport.com. In addition, we will have additional video content on our Twitter and Facebook social media channels, as well as our PewterReportTV YouTube channel featuring interview clips, YouTube Shorts, and Pewter Report Podcasts.
ASK: Scott, I’m planning on getting a Bucs tattoo before pre-season starts. I’m still designing it. If you ever had a Bucs tattoo what would it be? Unless you already have one.
ANSWER: To maintain my objectivity, I wouldn’t get a Bucs tattoo. I love covering the team and have thoroughly enjoyed it as I enter my 28th year on the Bucs beat. I’ll leave the tattoos to the diehard Bucs fans like you. Covering the Bucs is a labor of love, but if I were getting a work-related tattoo, I’d probably get a Pewter Report PR logo tattoo instead. (Although my wife, Ashley, would probably kill me if I did!)
I do have one tattoo, which is a shark on my right ankle. I was surrounded by a shark when I was about 10 years old off the coast of Cape Hatteras, NC. I am both fascinated and terrified of sharks. You won’t find me in any ocean deeper than my waist — and yes, I know sharks can swim and attack in knee-deep water. Trust me, I’ve seen thousands of Instagram Reels on sharks. I actually want to go cage diving with great white sharks one day, although that will require me to find a roomy wetsuit big enough for me and my Depend undergarments.
If I were to get another tattoo it would probably be a Kansas State Wildcats tattoo somewhere as I am a proud alum. Plus, the KSU Powercat logo is cool. Part of the reason I love watching K-State football on Saturdays is because I don’t have to work! That’s my day off and I don’t have to cover Wildcats football when they play. I can just have a beer, a margarita, or an old fashioned and be a fan.
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