The Tampa Bay Buccaneers‘ 2018 training camp is under way and Linebacker Lavonte David was interviewed by the media on Wednesday. When asked about how he feels going into the new season, especially in regards to the shoulder problems he had last year, he seemed hyped and replied confidently,
“I’m ready to bang! … I really focused on shoulders during my workouts I tried to focus on shoulder… I’m just trying to make them withstand a whole season and I’m looking forward to it.”
Later on, the 28-year old was asked where he thinks the defense will take the biggest step forward this year. His immediate answer was “third down”.
“A year before last year we were good on third down, last year we were bad. So we’re trying to get back to an elite level on third down defense… There were a lot of situations where it was 3rd and long and we gave up big plays. Simple as that. That is one area we really need to improve on and that we have been focusing on… We want our defense to be at a top level and we’re going to work on that. Everything else is just some fine-tuning and we’re going to fix those areas.”
If you would like to check out David’s full interview, you can watch it here.
