Rachaad White Joins to Talk Bright Future for Buccaneers

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00:00I think for you, you know, Tampa Bay, and I'm sure you guys hear kind of what the expectations are.

00:07Despite winning the division multiple times, they're like, ah, we don't know about the Bucs this year,

00:11and I know you guys wanted more in the postseason this year, I understand that,

00:14but do you feel that you guys can, like, you are a top contender.

00:19Again, maybe it didn't break right this year, but you guys are right there from breaking through

00:23and making a super deep postseason run.

00:25Yeah, I'll say yeah, for sure. I believe that we, you know, be a couple plays away every time.

00:31Sometimes we don't come out on that end, and that's life, that's football,

00:35but all we can kind of do is go back to the drawing board and everybody focus on what they got to do

00:41and their job, and then we come together, make sure we're on the same page collectively

00:45and make another crack at it.

00:47But yes, in the building, the locker room, and the guys, how we feel about it,

00:51yes, we believe we got enough talent.

00:53I don't know, yeah, how experts feel about Tampa.

00:55I don't know, I just feel like they ain't been liking Tampa until Brady got there,

00:58and then they didn't really like him after Brady got there,

01:01like it's after Brady left and retired.

01:03But yeah, I mean, you look at rooms or just, like, stats or whatever you want to look at,

01:09like positions, I think we match up with a lot of people very well.

01:12Yeah, I think that that's fair to say.

01:13I'm curious for you, the year-to-year change from Kanellis, who's your guys' offensive coordinator,

01:19to Cohen, how different was, did you feel the offense was?

01:24Because results-wise, I mean, I think you could make an argument it was even better

01:29because there was a lot of people wondering, well, how would you guys handle the adjustment?

01:32You know, all right, we lose that on some continuity.

01:34What were the differences that you noticed playing with Cohen as your O.C. this year?

01:38So, yeah, I mean, I always tip my hat off to Liam, man, and what he did.

01:42Came in, very creative, innovative offense.

01:46It was still a West Coast offense, but, you know, obviously he had his own little wrinkles that he threw to it.

01:51You got to give a lot of credit to the staff of, like, Jason, the guys up front, our GM and things like that,

01:58obviously driving the center like Graham and putting the linemen in place,

02:03the pieces in place in order to get what we got.

02:07I think we've always been good at passing, obviously, since I've been there.

02:10Well, I'm going on my fourth year now, but I think they did a great job of helping us, you know,

02:14establish a run game, something different.

02:16But I also give a lot of credit to, like, our line, our players, our wide receivers, guys that block down the field,

02:22and then you've got to give credit to, like, you know, our running back room.

02:24You know, I think we did a great job, me, Bucky, Sean, and just like that, like, you know, making plays, you know,

02:31when our number was called.

02:33I'm just curious if you're looking around the league now, and some players are taking some things into their own hands.

02:41Right?

02:42We saw Miles Garrett request a trade.

02:43Right?

02:44Sometimes, you know, people call it's a business.

02:46Right?

02:47Cooper Cupp the other day said it like, the Rams are going to trade me.

02:49Right.

02:50I don't want to go.

02:51It's what it's going to be.

02:52Is that something that you're taking notice of and thinking about, maybe,

02:57that you have more options than guys used to have around the league?

03:01So, yeah.

03:02I mean, you see you've got options.

03:03You've got things like that.

03:05Have I really?

03:06No.

03:07I think because everybody's situation is different.

03:09Everybody at a different point in a career, different time, you know, so you just kind of look at it.

03:14I like to look at things logically, understanding the business, but I like to obviously, too,

03:18understand kind of the person, you know, what they have accomplished, what they got going for themselves.

03:23So, like, you look at that and you respect, you know, that Miles Garrett trade.

03:28Obviously, you want to win.

03:29You want to play on a bigger stage.

03:30You know what I'm saying?

03:31You want to have that type of impact.

03:32I mean, you know, he already won defense player of the year, things like that.

03:34So, I look at, like, situations and things like that and for account.

03:37I also look at the running back position in the league anyway.

03:39Like, yeah, you got Saquon.

03:41Yeah, just like that.

03:42But Kenneth Gainwell still, you know, he spells Saquon.

03:45You know, he, you know, the running back position in the league is one-two punch, obviously,

03:50so they could cut down the numbers of paying guys, which is respect.

03:54Obviously, too, like, no disrespect, a lot of guys can't play all three downs.

03:58Like, and, yeah, bodies hold up.

04:00So, it's a great thing about it.

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