Here are some of the best Bucs quotes following their team’s training camp practice on Wednesday, August 18 at the AdventHealth Training Center.

Bucs head coach Bruce Arians opening Statement:

“Really, really good practices. You can’t get anything better than going against another team, putting in all the situations, looking at young players, veteran players. No better team to do it against than Mike [Vrabel] and the Titans. I thought it was outstanding work. We’ll grade the tape as far as who did what and who didn’t, and I know one thing – we dropped way too many damn passes. We have to stop that.”

Bucs head coach Bruce Arians on what the team can get out of joint practices as compared to preseason games:

“You know you’re going to get all the situational work: red zone, third down, first down stuff, run-pass options. You put them in certain scenarios that sometimes never happen in a game. They ran out of offensive linemen, so we missed a couple scenarios where it was 10 seconds or 16 seconds left at the end of the half or the end of the game. So we didn’t get to go to those scenarios but that’s the stuff you teach on, you go against yourself. It’s normally a walk-through period.”

Bucs head coach Bruce Arians on if he thinks he’ll know who the starting running back will be within a couple weeks:

“It really won’t matter who starts. I’m very, very confident in both of them. ‘Ro’ (Ronald Jones) is catching the ball really well, Leonard [Fournette]’s running really well, so whoever’s out there we’ve got a premier back going. It’s not a matter of who comes out of the tunnel, we’ll come out as an offense. Whoever gets the first series, the other guy might get the second, so it doesn’t really matter.”

Bucs head coach Bruce Arians on joint practices making players keep their technique honest:

“Yeah, I mean if you don’t have good technique against another team’s really good players, you’re going to get exposed really quick. So yeah, that’s the part I love about joint practices. Our guys every now and then they’ll ‘brother-in-law’ each other. Ain’t no brother-in-law going on out there today, I promise you.”

Bucs quarterback Tom Brady on going against the Titans’ defense:

“They’re good. They’re challenging, obviously, very good fundamentals. They play to their help all the time. Very stout in the run game. They try to confuse you in the secondary, which they did a good job of that today a few times. Obviously one of the better defenses in the league. A lot of good players. It was good work for us. Obviously the last time I talked to you guys I don’t think it was a great day either – we’ll have to get better tomorrow.”

Bucs quarterback Tom Brady on how he envisioned this training camp going:

“I think we’re right in the middle of it. It’s one thing to make predictions about it, it’s another thing to go do it and I think our team has got to go do it. It’s a new team, it’s a new year, new challenges. This team at the end of the day has done nothing. We haven’t had a regular season practice yet, so we’ve still got quite a ways to go before we get to that first game and then we’ll see kind of how we’ve done. Definitely it’s not like we’re firing on all cylinders out there.”

Bucs quarterback Tom Brady on what’s the one thing he wants to feel comfortable with by the end of practice tomorrow:

“I think being on the same page. It’s one thing if we miss a pass, if we [drop] a pass. I’m just concerned with us doing the things that we talked about doing and executing them the right way. The throwing and catching, blocking and tackling – that’s for the game. If you catch every ball out here and then go in the game and you drop it, it doesn’t matter. You’ve got to work on the fundamentals out here, work on our communication, be on the same page and we can definitely do a much better job of that.”

Bucs quarterback Tom Brady on his connection with the receivers during Wednesday’s practice:

“We didn’t connect that much today so hopefully we can really learn from today. I always hate not competing and then saying, ‘Oh, we’re going to learn from it.’ The reality is we’ve got to learn from when things don’t go well – how do we respond early, how do we respond in the middle and how do we respond in the third quarter? I’ve been in games when we’ve been down a lot of points, and we came back and won. Just because it doesn’t go well early, you can’t just say, ‘Oh you know it will be there tomorrow’ or ‘Let’s figure it out tomorrow.’ We’ve got a lot of learning to do and we have to push it. We have a certain amount of time before Dallas. Every game is not going to be easy. Every play isn’t going to be easy, but we have to fight our way out of everything.”

Bucs guard Ali Marpet on what he gets out of simulated games compared to a preseason game:

“I mean this is nice because during preseason I feel like sometimes coaches kind of hang back with some of the pressures and some of the looks that you’re going to get. I feel like during these, coaches kind of throw anything at you, and that kind of makes it a little more fun.”

Bucs guard Ali Marpet on going against a physical Titans defense:

“The Titans defense is a good front, no question about it – however we’ve been going against our defense all training camp and they are very good, so that’s helped us out a lot.”