Buccaneers’ Jamel Dean speaks OTAs, Carlton Davis trade, staying healthy

thought on cier Dennis's sequence of plays there where he Dr the interception in the very next play manag to come down with it oh yeah you got to always come down with it cuz you may never know when your the next opportunity going come forun fortun enough for him he came back like two or three plays later so rare how's your offseason been for you specifically what have you been working on uh you know it's been pretty good you know I just been working on just different techniques to break into my tool box for season and then just working on my weaknesses just press Bell that's it Jamal obviously this offseason Carlton got trained to the Lions has it been odd kind of working out here without him yeah it's kind it's kind of a different feeling knowing that I've been playing football with this man for ex am am of years and you see him not here is like ah kind of different now that I'm my buddy a here you think feel more pressure to Ian shine right on that side of thei uh really not much more pressure I know I still have to do my job and just continue playing like how I've been playing there's been a few new uh cornerbacks have come to the room you know saw Thomas how are you feeling about the new room um you know with the energy the vibe going on going into I enjoy you know for the most part everybody's willing to learn and most people are calm guys and then they they they're not afraid to ask questions to they they know they want to be with his defense and they know it comes with a lot so like I appreciate them like being Det one my actually work hard theas what are your impressions of Smith oh man he just you know I enjoy watching him out there he kind of he got he kind of very instinctive too like when a rookie come out there and just be like firing the all cylinders you can't you can't ask for more but just to start off he pretty good injuries are never anything a player wants but you got to deal with them in this league you dealt with your share I mean that's really kind of been the story a little bit with Carlon too so what have you done try to do the best you can window or work uh mainly just working on working on the muscles that I probably been neglected you know once when you start compensating for other muscles then that's when the interest start happening so whole obious I just been working on just building on like different parts of my different parts of my body so I be like well balanced what like like quad hamstring imbalances quad hamstring shoulders Kevin Ross has been adamant about you getting your hands on the football getting more interceptions he said you'd be an all pro player um if you can do that is has he been harping that to you every single day and besides The Jug machine is there anything you can do to kind of you know work on that for muscle memory I for the most part just jug machine and then well you know even even at like probably a month or two when the season's over with you know I'm not even thinking about football still get a test from him need to start catching balls like okay I know I dropped five interception last year I'm sorry working to improve on that so catch 50 balls a day in there I get a chance to like catch with the quarterbacks I try even though they be treat like the got that shows up to the party and then everybody just leaves a that's not very nice I know right I just want to I just want to get better too right I mean seriously well I mean anon's out there doing the JS at the end of practice you know alongside some of the receivers I know but I'm talking about I want I just want to catch the ball coming from a quarterback you know got to see how they throw it how good you think this secretary can be lose which is a big loss right but you still have Zion and now bring back you know Jordan and and of course you know what Winfield has meant to this league your how I mean we'd be great man we' be great you know I feel like we BR we brought that Mo that we had for the first couple years year and then you know Zion he stepped up last year and then you can see like com to his OTA that that he like matured you can see like he started getting like a vet mentality now right right so like I guess you know he's the ne next man up yeah but standard still the same what's it like for you now being the Elder Statesman in that room is it weird for you uh I mean for the most part I was always the oldest guy just C he was he left College earlier than me oh that's but I was always the oldest so I get the big the big brother treatment so when one one player mess up Dean fix this you're the Big Brother apparently I like okay all right guys you got to do better aside from not being with the guy you've been with since college and froze how shocking was that is that like you live in a Le that can happen to anybody any time but is it just a reality kind of check yeah it caught me all guard cuz I didn't I wasn't even like aware of like all like all the stuff that was going on until I got a phone call and I'm going and I looked on like the news said car car got traded I was like what I like oh okay that's random but I mean they they always say it's a business so okay you practice four of OTAs when you're going through these OTA practices what what is kind of the focus of these these couple weeks uh basic just you know Define tune your Technique and then get a refresher like of the defense so when you get in training camp it's not like you just starting like starting completely over at least you got you started like build a foundation during OTA so when you start rolling the training camp you start to like pick up on your Technique a little little faster than you put normally like summer homework pretty much Sumer Camp what are your thoughts on wearing the guardian caps and training camp and then players now having the option to wear those in season uh I mean for the most part it'll be kind of different to see that I mean the H the hitting probably is still gonna be the same I mean the P only about what this thick and then for DBS of course we not going to wear it like down so you you yourself wouldn't no thing I need is extra weight on my health extra weight on me so no could you feel that extra weight even something that that is seemingly as light as one of those yeah you still you us still be a to for you guys I mean everything you can probably feel just the slightest difference in weight of a pretty much all I'm saying like you feel the difference J you work with Chris Godwin early on in practices what is y'all's relationship like and is there anything specific for doing those drills uh you know he just we just just good on good just again like actual like actual five minute like releases just to see like so when we get like get into the season like all right I've been going against you you one of the best receivers you've been going against me probably one of the best best press press Corners in the Le so you know just good it's just good work okay thank you