Speaker 1: What do you call two guys that were there when
Speaker 1: this happened? Back to return at Spurlock, Michael Spurlock at
Speaker 1: the cham he still the twenty, he said, the twenty
Speaker 1: five p thirty come aboard to yearline. We could see history.
Speaker 1: Fifty forty come a thirty. Michael run, Michael run, Michael run.
Speaker 1: Such stops half a day. The fare you go in
Speaker 1: that shotgun sense, we receivers left. Here's the staff of
Speaker 1: the glitzer has picked up Brady and he caught ball
Speaker 1: and he has the record at the eleven yard line.
Speaker 1: Mike Kevins becomes the first NFL player from lead history
Speaker 1: to record a thousand yards and board this pirst seventh
Speaker 1: season to want to throw by Brady. Congratulations Mike Kevins.
Speaker 1: Who can forget gain? I'm looking against the side and
Speaker 1: the already bucks thirty touchdowns. Tamlday Derek Brooks, he spalliot
Speaker 1: player in the National Football League. There is dot Daggers
Speaker 1: in where you gonna win the Super Bowl? Here's the snap.
Speaker 1: My homes running to his right. Look out he may
Speaker 1: run my home director and a sun picked up with
Speaker 1: the fox. I gotta be the chief. We're the champions.
Speaker 1: Of the world and we still have I'm at a
Speaker 1: thirty three go Devin White got a great second season.
Speaker 1: That's it. We're Casey Box are the Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: They can't stop the clock. We call them the Salty Dogs.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone, and welcome back to another fantastic episode of
Speaker 1: the Salty Dogs podcast. I'm not put a little pressure
Speaker 1: on us now. We're welcome. Just welcome. If this is
Speaker 1: your first time, not welcome back. Um, I'm Scott Smith,
Speaker 1: Jeff Ryan, and we are the Salty Dogs. And we
Speaker 1: mostly talked about the Buccaneers, which has been a lot
Speaker 1: of fun this year the last two years. Yeah, big win,
Speaker 1: big win on Sunday. Not only a big win, but
Speaker 1: I think it was the win that I was looking for.
Speaker 1: How it how it played out. I I really felt
Speaker 1: like the team should dominate, and they eventually did so.
Speaker 1: I'm very pleased about that. First four drives of that
Speaker 1: game all fairly lengthy drive scoring drives, trading back and forth.
Speaker 1: Each team got a touchdown in a field goal, and
Speaker 1: then the Buckner's defense finally got the first stop of
Speaker 1: the game, but the offense didn't stop, so before you
Speaker 1: knew it was ten and we did that great thing,
Speaker 1: or we don't have a chance to do that great
Speaker 1: thing that the New England Patriots and Bill Belichick supposedly
Speaker 1: invented were because we deferred. He scored at the end
Speaker 1: of the first half, scored at the beginning of second half.
Speaker 1: Usually win a game on that that didn't didn't come
Speaker 1: through because we didn't score it. The we kind of
Speaker 1: had the only lull of the real the whole game
Speaker 1: really was the first five or six minutes of the
Speaker 1: second half, and then after that the Bucks just dominated him.
Speaker 1: I thought he was gonna make the field goal opinion, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I was at the end. That was at the
Speaker 1: end of the half. Yeah, so I was still I
Speaker 1: was counting us as having scored because we scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown with like less than two minutes to go, and
Speaker 1: then they were driving, looked like they were gonna score,
Speaker 1: but um Shack had the strip sack and then yeah,
Speaker 1: we got a chance at a sixty yard field and
Speaker 1: he got pretty close. I like the call. It scared
Speaker 1: me because you know, you saw that with the Jaguars
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, where you have a chance
Speaker 1: of giving up a touchdown if they put a return
Speaker 1: guy back then, and it's not the only time that's happened,
Speaker 1: because your guys on your kickoff team are mostly big,
Speaker 1: nut fast guys. Guys know if they if you get
Speaker 1: buy him, it's over. So that that made me nervous.
Speaker 1: But he kicked it far enough that the guy trying
Speaker 1: to catch it couldn't couldn't catch it before it went
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Speaker 1: like the way you've really branded this because I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do this for eighteen
Speaker 1: straight weeks. Well, you were telling me how awesome it
Speaker 1: is I know. I mean, if I have like twenty
Speaker 1: pay different things, I'm gonna sounds like a glutton first
Speaker 1: of all. And I don't need something different every time
Speaker 1: I go there. Well you can just but anyway I
Speaker 1: can do it another one at least um. As I've
Speaker 1: said before, the reason I've been to be for Bradies
Speaker 1: a lot is some most families, friends, families who are
Speaker 1: all in travel baseball together for tournaments or things like that.
Speaker 1: We'd often and when we had a break go to
Speaker 1: nearby Befo Brady's for lunch and or dinner or whatever
Speaker 1: it was. So we always had kids with us. Right,
Speaker 1: I've been telling you things that I like mostly, although
Speaker 1: I did mention the thing Ria that my wife likes.
Speaker 1: One week, Uh, several of not my son, but several
Speaker 1: of the other kids there. If you wanted to make
Speaker 1: them happy, what you ordered for them was the sampler
Speaker 1: platter on the on the appetiser menu as I believe
Speaker 1: it has on your rings and Montreal sticks and wings.
Speaker 1: Well you can't go wrong with that. Yeah, So they
Speaker 1: got all of that and they liked it. So that's
Speaker 1: a at order for a kid. If you don't want
Speaker 1: to go to kids menu because you know, they said,
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about like five and six year old
Speaker 1: because you're still giving them the men using stuff at
Speaker 1: that time. But when they get to be like and
Speaker 1: they're eating more, you can't just do kids menu stuff anymore.
Speaker 1: And if the kids are happy, you're gonna have a
Speaker 1: happy MILLI yourself so happy. Yeah, that's something different, understand.
Speaker 1: So this this Miami game that I was trying to
Speaker 1: talk about, Um, that's how the offense is supposed to work, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, eight of eleven on third downs, thirty
Speaker 1: three first downs, which is the most we've ever had
Speaker 1: in a game that we didn't go into overtime, everybody
Speaker 1: getting involved, how Johnson had some big plays. The big
Speaker 1: three wide receivers all had big days. By the way,
Speaker 1: they're all on pace for a thousand yards thanks to
Speaker 1: the seventeenth game, But sure they might be otherwise. I think, Um,
Speaker 1: which I was asked about a couple of times earlier
Speaker 1: before the season started, I'm like, of course it's possible,
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't seem likely that all three of
Speaker 1: them will get to a thousand yards, right. I don't
Speaker 1: know at this point if we're putting up bring in
Speaker 1: fifty passing yards a game. It's totally possible. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I like the fact that the offense is starting to
Speaker 1: click like it was clicking at the end of last year.
Speaker 1: That's that's what I'm most happy about. And you know,
Speaker 1: you expect so much out of it, um because you
Speaker 1: look at the talent on this team, and so you
Speaker 1: expected all the time. And when it doesn't happen right away,
Speaker 1: because oh, it's kind of wrong. What's this that you know?
Speaker 1: The Rams game was an example New England. I just
Speaker 1: thought that was a tight game. Weather played a factor,
Speaker 1: but in a good defense. The Rams game, to my point,
Speaker 1: we just couldn't convert third downs and so you couldn't
Speaker 1: sustain drives, so we couldn't get off the field and
Speaker 1: third down. So this brings me to you get your
Speaker 1: branded thing with me and my braz I've made up
Speaker 1: this few things, a new thing a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: that we want to do each week called what was
Speaker 1: your favorite thing from the game? Okay, really just stole
Speaker 1: it from if you're not stealing, it's just way it works.
Speaker 1: So since it's on the topic here, I will say
Speaker 1: my favorite thing was that drive. I believe it was
Speaker 1: the one that put us up after they came to
Speaker 1: within seven points, and then we had to drive. Um
Speaker 1: that put us back up by fourteen and put the
Speaker 1: game away. As it turned out, that drive was remarkable
Speaker 1: to me because we tried three. First of all, the
Speaker 1: first two plays of the drive were incomplete, so you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they just scored, we're gonna give the ball right back
Speaker 1: to them. Um. But nope, Antonio Brown twelve yards. We
Speaker 1: tried three deep shots on that drive. And maybe it
Speaker 1: wasn't that drive. I gotta get to the right drive.
Speaker 1: Here was it your favorite? Whatever drive it was that
Speaker 1: where Tom Brady through, Yeah, that's this is it. So
Speaker 1: he tries to throw a deep ball to Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: Doesn't work in Thretnton converts the first down anyway. Then
Speaker 1: he tries to throw a deep ball. I can't that's
Speaker 1: the place by plane. I can't find the right place.
Speaker 1: But it was the drive. Word. He threw three incomplete
Speaker 1: deep balls. Um, and that should kill a drive. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's great to take the shot and if it works, great,
Speaker 1: but you can't keep converting long third downs. But we
Speaker 1: try the deep shot, didn't make it. But then the
Speaker 1: next two two players were easy, just bam bam, first down,
Speaker 1: bam bad. We got so many six yards to O J. Brown,
Speaker 1: ten yards to Antonio Brown whatever, OJ HOWR. I mean,
Speaker 1: I love that drive because if you can take repeated
Speaker 1: deep shots and even if you don't get them, and
Speaker 1: you could still just sustain a long drive, that's demoralizing
Speaker 1: for a defense. Demoralizing, and we felt that before. I think,
Speaker 1: like in the Rams game, where you're watching the other
Speaker 1: offense and you just can't get him off the field,
Speaker 1: it's demoralizing to watch that, and so that's what we'd
Speaker 1: we were We did to the Dolphins and their fans,
Speaker 1: and and I think we can do that to a
Speaker 1: lot of teams. My my favorite moment was just the
Speaker 1: ground game caught fire. Okay, that's not really a moment,
Speaker 1: that's like the entire game. Okay, well then I'll back
Speaker 1: it up. My favorite moment was the sixty two yard
Speaker 1: touchdown to Antonio Brown because I just loved how he
Speaker 1: put the afterburner on and just took off. I broke
Speaker 1: down that play from my weekly Next Gin Stats article yesterday.
Speaker 1: I think it went up today. Um. It was fun
Speaker 1: to watch because you can one next game, you can
Speaker 1: they have a video clip of it. They've got the
Speaker 1: little grid where it shows the field and everybody's a
Speaker 1: dot with their number on it, and then when you
Speaker 1: push go, it shows where everybody ran. It's really a
Speaker 1: neat way to watch how he develops and where everybody goes. Um.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Antonio Brown started out on the right with
Speaker 1: Davan Howard, who was an incredibly good cornerbackid in in
Speaker 1: man coverage and up close to the line. He didn't
Speaker 1: press him, he might have wanted to, but Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: off the uh snap, immediately cut inside him, got that
Speaker 1: inside leverage on him, and got ahead of him on
Speaker 1: on his crossing route. He was crossing over the top
Speaker 1: Mike Evan's crossing over the bottom. We ended up with
Speaker 1: three receivers going three pass catchers, including Jovon Bnard going
Speaker 1: to the right side, which brought their single high safety
Speaker 1: over to that side, whereas Antonio Brown was going the
Speaker 1: other way, which is one of the reasons why there
Speaker 1: was no help right. So Brown catches the ball. At
Speaker 1: the moment he catches it, Howard is only one point
Speaker 1: nine yards behind him, and they're both running left to right,
Speaker 1: and he's about to run into another defender Nick need Him,
Speaker 1: who was trying to cover Tyler Johnson but had fallen
Speaker 1: down so it was out of position. But Nick Needham
Speaker 1: didn't see him because he was trying to catch up
Speaker 1: to Johnson and had his back to Antonio. Antonio as
Speaker 1: almost almost immediately after catching that pass when he's running
Speaker 1: right to left, like you said, just turns on a
Speaker 1: dime up field and boom he's got and uh, Howard
Speaker 1: never even got close to him, need Him never got
Speaker 1: close to him. They have a really fast ricky safety
Speaker 1: named Javon Holland who managed to recover and take a
Speaker 1: good angle and got to within about the yard of him,
Speaker 1: but didn't have enough. Didn't have enough. Antonio Brown got
Speaker 1: up to a top speed of twenty five three and
Speaker 1: what's thirty two? That sounds right something like that. That
Speaker 1: was the fastest inning Buck ran that entire game. It
Speaker 1: was a very cool it. It's one of those plays
Speaker 1: that if you've been a Buck fan for a long
Speaker 1: long time, it's it's weird seeing a bucket ear offense
Speaker 1: do what it's doing, you know, I mean, defensively, you're
Speaker 1: just as bucking your teams go. You're just used to
Speaker 1: great defensive teams and the last top of your dad's
Speaker 1: and our grandpa's. This is the last two the last
Speaker 1: two seasons. You've really seen that. And and the defense
Speaker 1: is playing stellar too, I mean, you know better. Well,
Speaker 1: they just don't have everybody. So that's why I think
Speaker 1: defensively they've been playing well. Getting more to pressure, that's
Speaker 1: the main thing. Well, and I find that really interesting
Speaker 1: because Shack Barrett made that comment a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: that from here on out, three or more sacks a
Speaker 1: game we were gonna get. He said, we would never
Speaker 1: have another one second so and so so far he's
Speaker 1: been right two weeks in a row, and he's had
Speaker 1: handed it all times. His strip sack. He has more
Speaker 1: strip sacks and more turnovers caused by pressure, which includes
Speaker 1: like if you hit the quarterback and it turns the interception.
Speaker 1: He has more of those than anybody else in the
Speaker 1: NFL since he arrived here in two thousand nine. Yeah, So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's that was also on my list of
Speaker 1: favorite things because I had a couple of them because
Speaker 1: when that play was going on, he's trying to come
Speaker 1: around the the end on the blind side of the
Speaker 1: quarterback and it looks to me all the world like
Speaker 1: he's being held. I'm going holding, holding, I'm saying this.
Speaker 1: I'm trying not to say it loud because we're in
Speaker 1: the press. I was supposed to, but I'm going holding,
Speaker 1: and he still got through and got the strips. Act.
Speaker 1: That was an impressive play. Yeah, no, it was. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a fun Okay. The other thing I loved
Speaker 1: about that game is it was at one o'clock and
Speaker 1: it was over within like three hours. Absolutely phenomenon, the best.
Speaker 1: Don't get any of the minute. I forgot how awesome
Speaker 1: that is and important since we have to play on Thursday,
Speaker 1: it would have been bad to have a late afternoon game. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the I with the The um fun part about a
Speaker 1: one o'clock game when you're at home is you get
Speaker 1: to be a football fan for the late games. And
Speaker 1: that's that's what I did. I ended up watching, Uh jeez.
Speaker 1: I was flipping between the UM forty niners because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see how they were going to do without
Speaker 1: a quarterback against the Cardinals. I was flipping from that.
Speaker 1: Then I was flipping to the Bears game in the
Speaker 1: Raiders game, and then no, no, no, I was just
Speaker 1: flipping flipping, and then I flipped to the Chargers Browns
Speaker 1: game and locked in on that game one, and I
Speaker 1: kept I was, are you kidding over a thousand yards?
Speaker 1: And then they have the crazy part where Cleveland is
Speaker 1: pulling the running back into the end zone. Yes, because
Speaker 1: he tried to stop so they could just kicking easy
Speaker 1: and run out the time. All right. I have seen defenses.
Speaker 1: I've even seen the Bucks do it once. I've seen
Speaker 1: defenses purposely let the guy get into the end zone
Speaker 1: because they know their only chance is to have some
Speaker 1: time to score a touchdown. But if you let them
Speaker 1: run out the clock and kick a field all your day.
Speaker 1: So I've never seen them. Because he starts, I don't
Speaker 1: know why they handed off and didn't just kneel. He
Speaker 1: starts running to the goal, tries to stop. He tried
Speaker 1: to stop, He tried, he tried to take more time
Speaker 1: off the clock. And yeah, that was his thinking. And
Speaker 1: then he said the next thing he knew he was
Speaker 1: being picked up and putting. You heard an interview, huh, Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great play. I mean, the phenomenal game
Speaker 1: on both teams. I mean, holy, some funny thing is
Speaker 1: you're not allowed as an offensive player to pull a
Speaker 1: teammate into into the ze, you're not allowed to, but
Speaker 1: a defensive players shin, which is weird. Yeah, well, all
Speaker 1: of that when you get to the end zone, all
Speaker 1: of that's weird. Where a running back can drop the
Speaker 1: ball once he's in the end zone and it's a touchdown,
Speaker 1: a wide receiver catches it and falls to the ground
Speaker 1: and drops it. No, that's not it. But you know,
Speaker 1: why don't you because you suppose that you don't have
Speaker 1: position of the ball. Yeah, and if you run across
Speaker 1: the line, or if a receiver catches a ball the
Speaker 1: ten and runs across the line, is the same thing,
Speaker 1: because you've already established possession. So it doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you once across the end zone inline, you're done that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But if you catch a ball in the end zone
Speaker 1: and follow the ground, the NFL says for a catch
Speaker 1: to be complete and you have to hold onto it
Speaker 1: through contact with the ground. Yeah, you look, it doesn't
Speaker 1: even matter. That's in the end. It just happens to
Speaker 1: be in the end zone. Right. If you look across
Speaker 1: the league right now, defensive coordinators must be shaking their
Speaker 1: heads because if you start looking at scores, it's crazy
Speaker 1: now for the fans. They love it, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: fantasy football fans are just enjoying it immensely. Are of
Speaker 1: what's going on. Um so uh, but I do think
Speaker 1: it's like anything else. You know, the defensive coordinators will
Speaker 1: start figuring out how to shut things down. I think
Speaker 1: we've just reached an era of the NFL warre. This
Speaker 1: is what it is now because you can't hit anybody anymore. Well,
Speaker 1: and there's all kinds of rules that help. But also
Speaker 1: there's been you know, revolutions of how offenses are run.
Speaker 1: I mean, we even we're gonna get our first real
Speaker 1: look this week at like a quarterback who adds the
Speaker 1: offense with his legs and r P O s and
Speaker 1: zone reads. Um, you know, we don't even have any
Speaker 1: of that. But you know, it's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to do with the rules and and uh.
Speaker 1: But I just think in US they make some significant
Speaker 1: rule changes. I don't think we're going backwards from here.
Speaker 1: You know. Yeah, the difference recordiners will figure out some
Speaker 1: stuff and some are better than others. But I think
Speaker 1: it's what I said a couple of weeks ago in
Speaker 1: Today's NFL Basically you want to try to build a
Speaker 1: dominant offense because you have to to keep up with
Speaker 1: some of these teams and just kind of hope you can.
Speaker 1: Your defense comes along. That's kind of what's happened with
Speaker 1: us this season, and it has come along the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks, even with all the injuries, and that
Speaker 1: I think that's that's probably, Uh, I think that's what
Speaker 1: I'm most impressed with, because of all the injuries, the
Speaker 1: fact that you know they're shoring up, they're hanging in there.
Speaker 1: You know, if they're giving up place they don't necessarily
Speaker 1: want to, but then they come back, they bend, don't break. Um,
Speaker 1: giving up a field goal rather than a touchdown, get
Speaker 1: a couple of turnovers and key and key points batting
Speaker 1: the ball away. Unfortunately, Um, you know, in the New
Speaker 1: England game, Lavanti David did Dad Play of the game, UM,
Speaker 1: and Lavante with a high ankle sprain. So it's we
Speaker 1: had to talk about that. But I'm not talking about it, no, no, cheez.
Speaker 1: That's just that's just the guy. You don't want to
Speaker 1: see you go down. I'm not saying we can't replace
Speaker 1: him for however long he's out. Kevin Minner is a
Speaker 1: good player, and he played well for what he generally does.
Speaker 1: He generally does um. But that's what I'm that's that's
Speaker 1: kind of what I what I mean about when I
Speaker 1: was talking about are the defense not being the defense
Speaker 1: because you don't have all your which you would consider
Speaker 1: your top players, But in this defense, everybody's a top player.
Speaker 1: There's so much talent. Did you hear who was it
Speaker 1: shack Shack say about? What would Richard Sherman coming up
Speaker 1: to him? It was Leonard for that when he says
Speaker 1: Richard Sherman comes up to him during the game and goes, dude,
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, Yeah, I've never been on a team with
Speaker 1: all this talent on right, And I think he mostly
Speaker 1: was describing the offense. There's a lot of town to
Speaker 1: defensive players too. Yeah. Yeah, it's just like and he
Speaker 1: said this, s h I T is different, This crap different.
Speaker 1: I think we've said shot on this before. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll leave it. I've said it not you, but I
Speaker 1: find I did, but I got you to say it,
Speaker 1: so the kids think, the kids, oh, yeah, you know what, though,
Speaker 1: you have to overcome injuries in the NFL. The hardest
Speaker 1: part is when they concentrated a specific position like we've
Speaker 1: had in the secondary, but everybody's getting injuries. The Buckets
Speaker 1: were very fortunate to not have too many injuries last year.
Speaker 1: That's often part of this story of a very successful team.
Speaker 1: This year, they're having to prove that they can do
Speaker 1: it even with a more normal amount of injuries. And
Speaker 1: and I think that seventeenth game is really going to
Speaker 1: have an effect. It it's we'll see, Well, that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. We're going to have to wait and see.
Speaker 1: How when are you gonna know that it had an
Speaker 1: effect in the seventeenth game. Yeah, Well, it's the same
Speaker 1: length of the season until you get to the last game.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about. That's what I mean. So
Speaker 1: in the last week, everything's gonna crumble, like like the
Speaker 1: buildings and may not have it depends on how many
Speaker 1: is left, who's left, who's left standing? Well, no, week seventeen, Well,
Speaker 1: I think this is going to be a very interesting
Speaker 1: NFC race because it's very top heaven. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: you've got Arizona five and oh Bucks Packers and two
Speaker 1: other teams I believe, or at least one Dallas they're
Speaker 1: all four and one. Um, so that's five teams. If
Speaker 1: there's five teams that are four and one are better,
Speaker 1: I think I'm forgetting one of them. Um. That's and
Speaker 1: I think they're all very good. I don't think their flukes.
Speaker 1: The Rams are the other one. You got five oh
Speaker 1: team and four four and one teams at this point.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's unusual. I didn't check against
Speaker 1: other seasons, but I think they're all good teams. I
Speaker 1: think they're all um gonna be there at the end.
Speaker 1: You do wonder a little bit about the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Cardinals because that division is so good, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna start picking the they're off a little bit. That's
Speaker 1: the whole right, And I'm not saying that the NFC
Speaker 1: South isn't good, but Carolina has shown some cracks. Atlanta
Speaker 1: is not very good so far. New Orleans is good.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I'm cold. Yeah, they're hot and cold.
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're gonna get there. You know
Speaker 1: what I meant to say at the very beginning. So
Speaker 1: then now that just popped in my head. This is
Speaker 1: an unusual week because it's Thursday, So this is an
Speaker 1: unusual this is in our normal podcast structure because we're
Speaker 1: playing on Thursdays, which we're playing on Thirsdy, what did
Speaker 1: I say. You said it's Thursday. Oh well, that wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprising because today totally feels like Wednesday to me.
Speaker 1: You can't convince me it's not Wednesday. It's because you're
Speaker 1: living in the football life. It's Tuesday, but it's totally wins.
Speaker 1: I'm doing all the things that normally do on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: It's it's funny you say. It's funny. You say that
Speaker 1: because I've been in conversations with people and they go, no,
Speaker 1: it's Tuesday, and I am because tomorrow we go to Philadelphia. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: so you've gotta have everything done. So to me, this
Speaker 1: is this is not even a Wednesday combination Wednesday. To me,
Speaker 1: it's like a Friday. Okay, well, it's more like Wednesday
Speaker 1: for me. So it gets very very confused. But because
Speaker 1: of that, and because the schedule is very compressed. As
Speaker 1: an example, Tom Brady was saying, when asked about how
Speaker 1: to prepare for this, it's like you just it's like
Speaker 1: cram in for an exam. You just put everything else
Speaker 1: off to this side. They've got they had most of
Speaker 1: their offense installed by today at ten forty five, which
Speaker 1: is Tuesday, whereas they don't even usually start installing until
Speaker 1: a Wednesday on a normal week, so everything condensed. They
Speaker 1: have more hours here than they usually would on Monday, Tuesday,
Speaker 1: and Wednesday, so we did not think it was wise
Speaker 1: to ask for a player guest this week. We just
Speaker 1: didn't even ask. I mean, the PR guys have been
Speaker 1: great at helping us out, the players have been great
Speaker 1: at agreeing to do it, but we didn't even want
Speaker 1: to ask him, you know, and and you know, I
Speaker 1: needed to get someone to do the radio show, and
Speaker 1: I didn't want to make too many asks. Well, we
Speaker 1: didn't want to make too many asks. And actually it
Speaker 1: worked out quite nicely because we had Ryan suck Up
Speaker 1: and um uh Bradley Pinion do the show. And how
Speaker 1: that came about was a they were they were willing
Speaker 1: to do it, and we wanted to talk to them,
Speaker 1: and it was the perfect week to do that because
Speaker 1: the way the schedule laid out, they had a little
Speaker 1: more free time than everybody else. Well that and and
Speaker 1: that's but but it was it was. It's really good
Speaker 1: stuff though they both did really, really well, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: these short weeks create a lot of havoc and uh,
Speaker 1: you know for us to ask someone and and sometimes
Speaker 1: the guys will do it, but a lot of times
Speaker 1: you just rush. It's like the practice schedule. I just
Speaker 1: didn't feel right asking them to be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they're doing walkthroughs, which is which
Speaker 1: is good. Um, but it's still time consuming. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I know everybody is saying what it's the correct thing
Speaker 1: to say that, Well, the Eagles have to go through
Speaker 1: this too, because they played on something. But adding in
Speaker 1: the travel is does there's a higher level of difficulty
Speaker 1: for the travel team on a Thursday game. Not enormous,
Speaker 1: but it's there. So they have to actually do some
Speaker 1: preparations on Wednesday and travel, which is a lot. And
Speaker 1: then you're sitting around in your hotel room all day Thursday. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which players and coaches don't like. I don't mind too much. Well,
Speaker 1: it just depends on where we are and what's going on.
Speaker 1: And it was weird though on Sunday to get up
Speaker 1: to get it, not get up early. I always get
Speaker 1: up early, but to get up and go and be
Speaker 1: driving at eight thirty Sunday morning, head into the stadium.
Speaker 1: It was like old yeah time. But hey, I diverted
Speaker 1: us from our talks of injury, and I just want
Speaker 1: to say as I was, I was trying to get
Speaker 1: to the point of we're not unique. There were tons
Speaker 1: of injuries across the league. There have been in there
Speaker 1: war this week, Like, look at the Giants and they're
Speaker 1: not even having a good year. So this is just
Speaker 1: seems extra brutal that they lose Daniel Jones, Sequan Barkley,
Speaker 1: and Kenny Golladay all in warrants, and our our friend
Speaker 1: Mike Glennon is suddenly in the game. No offense to Mike,
Speaker 1: but Winds haven't really followed him around. Poor Mikey went
Speaker 1: in and the first thing he did through a pick. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually was looking at that game. That was the
Speaker 1: Dallas Giants game. That was the other game that that
Speaker 1: I was flipping through. Um yeah, yeah, Mike is um
Speaker 1: he's he's just been put in some tough sure, but
Speaker 1: I mean he's got a job in the NFL, and
Speaker 1: he keeps getting occasional starts. But I mean like, uh,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill got hurt, Joe Burrow got it. There were
Speaker 1: two guys taken to the hospital for throat can tusions.
Speaker 1: Yeah to Joe Burrow and that Browns or that Brown's
Speaker 1: rookie linebacker, Jeremiah Coram. You know you have to get
Speaker 1: hit really hard to get a throat a throat in Tusia,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be That sounds bad form. I'm not interested
Speaker 1: in having one of the Packers already without their great
Speaker 1: corner Jay or Alexander and now Kevin King got hurt
Speaker 1: in that game. I know we have memories of Kevin King.
Speaker 1: That wouldn't make you wonder if that's a good or
Speaker 1: a bad thing for the Packers. But it's hard to
Speaker 1: find competent corners which Cleveland Denzel Ward went down, Clyde
Speaker 1: Edward Slayer went on injured reserve today, Joe Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster isn't gonna be able to play this weech Hyreek
Speaker 1: Hill got hurt, Joe Tuney, I mean I didn't. I
Speaker 1: just wrote down a few. There's there's a lot more
Speaker 1: than this, you know it, And I think that's where
Speaker 1: you know, as we've talked previously, that's where the scouting
Speaker 1: department really comes into play. Yeah, Well, and how they
Speaker 1: go they have the board, they know who's who's available.
Speaker 1: It's going what's next? Who do you bring in? How
Speaker 1: do you bring him in? Um? I think, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: bringing people in. I think Richard Sherman uh has really
Speaker 1: done a remarkable job. And and we made a comment
Speaker 1: during the broadcast that he really didn't we didn't give
Speaker 1: him enough love for what he did in the New
Speaker 1: England game. Well you and I did, but in our
Speaker 1: broadcast we didn't. Um. And I think he's got about
Speaker 1: two more weeks and I think he'll be in his
Speaker 1: football shape. Yeah, that'll And then his veterans said, right now,
Speaker 1: he's winning enough on veteran experience. Yeah, he's he's he
Speaker 1: knows what he's supposed to do. His mind's telling him
Speaker 1: where to go, but the legs aren't getting him there.
Speaker 1: And I don't think it's because he doesn't have He
Speaker 1: just has to get him back. I got to get
Speaker 1: it back. Yeah, Like he may uh may be able
Speaker 1: to give that burst of speed one or two plays,
Speaker 1: but to have to do it all the time, play
Speaker 1: after playing, he didn't come back totally ready to do that,
Speaker 1: which is fair. Sure, no nobody would. No, Well, there's
Speaker 1: that thing called football. Shape, and players will tell you
Speaker 1: all the time. You can be in shape, but football shape,
Speaker 1: it's a whole other ball game together. That's good. We
Speaker 1: only punted one time in that game. That's usually a
Speaker 1: good sign. Yes, I think that therefore we should only
Speaker 1: punt once in every game and then we'll win. Well,
Speaker 1: you are giving up a chance to uh, to advance
Speaker 1: the ball. Are not advanced the ball, but you give
Speaker 1: up the ball. But you know, there's that conversation of
Speaker 1: you know, do you punt? Where do you punt? Uh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just making a joke. I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: get no, no, no, But I was thinking about Miami
Speaker 1: where they were going to go. There went on the field,
Speaker 1: but they go through the whole. Anywhere they go through
Speaker 1: the whole. I was surprised. I was surprised that they
Speaker 1: called the time out and then came back out and
Speaker 1: tried to do it again. And I'm like, come on, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know what you're punting you just yeah. Anytime you
Speaker 1: see that, and it's in that situation, if they don't
Speaker 1: snap it right away, it's almost always they're trying to
Speaker 1: get you, and then they start sending guys in motion.
Speaker 1: How many times did their center to the thing where
Speaker 1: he suddenly lifted his head, which I didn't know you
Speaker 1: could do. He would be crashed down looking and it
Speaker 1: suddenly lift his head up and then we're all supposed
Speaker 1: to jump. At that point. You watched the ball. You
Speaker 1: watched the ball. You know what was the What was
Speaker 1: the DT that we had for Baker for one year
Speaker 1: from Washington? Yeah, he jumped off. He jumped Carolina. Carolina
Speaker 1: not last game of the year. He did not make
Speaker 1: any friends on that day. That was his last game
Speaker 1: as a book. He was not that was not appreciated
Speaker 1: by his team. Was his nickname Shaggy? What was his
Speaker 1: first name? Well, that's from Washington. That was the That
Speaker 1: was the hard Knocks year. Yep, um, So believe it
Speaker 1: or not. Tom Brady and a lot of people have
Speaker 1: probably already heard this, but it's worth mentioning. Is it?
Speaker 1: The three something like three hundred well accounting playoffs, more
Speaker 1: like three and fifty games into his career, he did
Speaker 1: something this Sunday they ain't never done before. You probably heard, right,
Speaker 1: had four hundred yards and five touchdowns. He's done four
Speaker 1: hundred yards like twelve times and he's done five touch
Speaker 1: on passes like nine times, but this is the first
Speaker 1: time he's done them both at the same time. It
Speaker 1: was funny we were talking were they were talking about it,
Speaker 1: and they made a comment that he had five touchdowns
Speaker 1: and Genos, no, he only has four. And because there
Speaker 1: was a running touchdown, Um, yeah, for net scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown and we went oh, and then very quickly, yeah,
Speaker 1: gets one he has I wouldn't. I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: on that. You were saying, we don't, we haven't. We're
Speaker 1: not used to seeing this kind of offense. And we
Speaker 1: were talking about the Antonio brut first on first tocho Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the first one, and we described and
Speaker 1: that became that became the play of the game on
Speaker 1: our webcam and with Gene calling it's pretty good. I uh,
Speaker 1: I already described how that happened. And you that we're
Speaker 1: not used to seeing this kind of offense. I would say,
Speaker 1: in particular, we're not used to seeing that kind of play.
Speaker 1: This offense even last year with Tom Brady and even
Speaker 1: before that with um Winston and Fitzpatrick had plenty of
Speaker 1: exposure plays, plenty of big long place I can remember,
Speaker 1: like the Philly game last time I played Philly first
Speaker 1: play the game to Sean Jackson seventy five yards and
Speaker 1: then O. J. Howard has seventy yard. But most of
Speaker 1: those are on very deep passes. We we've hit Mike
Speaker 1: Evans countless times, like on this his first touchdown, and
Speaker 1: it was basically just to go and he beat the
Speaker 1: guy the outside and there was no safety quals enough
Speaker 1: and and Tom put the perfect through in there. I
Speaker 1: can't think of a ton of times where we've we've
Speaker 1: had fifty plus yard plays where it was a rulatively
Speaker 1: short pass that the pass catcher turned into in this case,
Speaker 1: a sixty two yard touchdown. We haven't had a ton
Speaker 1: of those. So usually bombs where it was a great
Speaker 1: route or something, or a great play design or a
Speaker 1: blown coverage and a great pass. But that's a little
Speaker 1: thing that we haven't had a lot of, and that's
Speaker 1: something that Antonio Brown can give you. And what I
Speaker 1: love about it is that could happen at any given moment.
Speaker 1: That's what I love about offense. Construct you're you just
Speaker 1: you just don't feel like you're out of anything. For
Speaker 1: Tom Brady too, it has to be an unbelievable feat
Speaker 1: for it to be the first time that Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has done. Are you are you surprised how well he's playing? Um,
Speaker 1: it's just because it's Tom Brady. No, theoretically, am I
Speaker 1: surprise that at forty four year old quarterback is playing
Speaker 1: as good as any quarterback in the league and just
Speaker 1: bombing away and putting up ridiculous numbers. Yeah, theoretically that's weird.
Speaker 1: But at this point, why shouldn't we expect that of
Speaker 1: Tom Brady? Well, that's that's what I mean. You expect it.
Speaker 1: Now you're not. But but if you just step back
Speaker 1: for a second look at what he's doing. You know
Speaker 1: he's playing, but not only is he playing, he's playing
Speaker 1: at a very high level as he's ever playing. I
Speaker 1: felt like there are points last year that we would
Speaker 1: say that, but maybe it was stretch on the point
Speaker 1: a little bit, but not anymore since December last year
Speaker 1: when he got this and that was really all that
Speaker 1: was holding him back from being this type of producing
Speaker 1: quarterback is a firmer grass of the offense and he's
Speaker 1: got that, and you got you. I was on your
Speaker 1: pregame show with Ronnie and John and John asked me,
Speaker 1: He's like he's saying, how good Brady's playing, but he's
Speaker 1: like he's throwing forty three passes a game roughly. Is
Speaker 1: there at some point where you get concerned that you're
Speaker 1: forty four quarterback is going to throw too many passes
Speaker 1: this season? And I think we think about that because
Speaker 1: we remember pretty vividly the Peyton Manning here he went
Speaker 1: to he went from Indy de Denver, came back from
Speaker 1: his neck injury and had a couple of seasons where
Speaker 1: he was vintage Peyton Manning and they you know, through
Speaker 1: like fifty five touchdown passes. It was just amazing. And
Speaker 1: then he had the season where he basically his arm
Speaker 1: gave out. He still want this, still made Super Bowl, Right,
Speaker 1: He managed the game, he managed the team, but he clearly,
Speaker 1: like Drew Brees last year, their arms weren't there anymore.
Speaker 1: The Drew Brees in the Drew Brees lack of arm
Speaker 1: strength was an enormous factor in our win playoff win
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. Right, But don't see that yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I just don't think you can go, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: worried about a forty four year old pass or throwing
Speaker 1: too many passes this season, So we're gonna stop throwing forty.
Speaker 1: I mean it's working. He's in great shape. He obviously
Speaker 1: knows how to keep himself in shape better than most
Speaker 1: people in the entire world. And until it's not, until
Speaker 1: you see a sign of an issue, I don't, I
Speaker 1: think you just go with it. Yeah, I'm sure he
Speaker 1: doesn't want to pull back. No, no, no no. I
Speaker 1: think that's why it's still because it's still loose, it's
Speaker 1: still stretched. It's all correct, except for maybe it's thumb
Speaker 1: right now. Uh. I guess we would call him Tom Thumb.
Speaker 1: And I know you're going to do that. Um so
Speaker 1: Tom anytime. Tom. I I did like the fact that
Speaker 1: he's sitting on the bench with his hand in an
Speaker 1: ice chest. And now you're gonna like this with just chilling,
Speaker 1: you know, chill him out. You and your puns today,
Speaker 1: Um come on, you're loving it. I love puns, but
Speaker 1: yours aren't very good. Wow. Uh let the audience be
Speaker 1: the judge of that. Um go ahead. Well he made
Speaker 1: me lose my train thought with simple to throw you
Speaker 1: off track. Yeah, nowadays I just can't keep a train thought.
Speaker 1: So his thumb he hurt. He bangs it on the
Speaker 1: helmet of a Miami pass rusher. Uh. He said today
Speaker 1: it was about with two left in the first half.
Speaker 1: Obviously he played the rest of the game and had
Speaker 1: no issues being awesome and uh Byron left, which the
Speaker 1: play caller didn't even know about it till late in
Speaker 1: the game. But you're Tom Brady, you show up an
Speaker 1: injury report, you're any quarterback, you show up in an
Speaker 1: injury report with your something wrong with your throwing hand,
Speaker 1: that's big news. So there's been a news, but it's
Speaker 1: fortunately Tom has been a need to talk today pretty
Speaker 1: much making everybody feel calm by going it's fine, it's sore,
Speaker 1: I'll be fine, It's not a big deal. So that's
Speaker 1: the good news. Is um threshold for pain is pretty high.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe just because even if you're you know,
Speaker 1: if you if you bang it up and you gotta
Speaker 1: grips and you gotta squeeze. So for that period of
Speaker 1: time of squeeze, it's not Yeah, it's not like and
Speaker 1: and what I look at how many times under center
Speaker 1: taking a snap you know bought you know you do
Speaker 1: more shot and every time you every time you grab
Speaker 1: the ball, you have to squeeze it. You can't go, well,
Speaker 1: I'm only gonna squeeze it when I'm gonna throw. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And I know there's this thought that when players have
Speaker 1: injuries their arms and legs, sometimes they give him some
Speaker 1: kind of shot to numb it a little bit. You
Speaker 1: can't do that with you. You can't do that with
Speaker 1: your throwing. And I wouldn't think so, because you gotta
Speaker 1: be you gotta be able to feel it, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta have that feels to have the touch on
Speaker 1: your throws. I think, yeah, maybe you work a long
Speaker 1: and long ago. I had a player tell me that
Speaker 1: they had their their foot was bad and they had
Speaker 1: it numbed up, and they said they would never do
Speaker 1: it again because it was like a rubber foot, and
Speaker 1: then they didn't know it was there. It was it
Speaker 1: was more. It was, you know, more um cumbers, so
Speaker 1: to speak. Like if you fall asleep with your arm
Speaker 1: in a weird way and then you wake up and
Speaker 1: it's useless for a while. You try to lift it
Speaker 1: up and it hurts. I had the two shoulder dislocations
Speaker 1: years ago from softball, and in both cases, after they
Speaker 1: popped it back in, I then spent like three weeks
Speaker 1: with my arm and I was slinging a swath and
Speaker 1: then when it came out actually six weeks when alright,
Speaker 1: when it came out, it was like useless. It's just
Speaker 1: so weird. I tried to play a softball game because
Speaker 1: we were down. A guy I played was playing first,
Speaker 1: and the throw comes over to me and I couldn't
Speaker 1: even get my arm up and and I'm like and
Speaker 1: the ball goes whizzing by me and almost hits the
Speaker 1: base room. Like okay, guys, I can't play first. Somebody's
Speaker 1: gonna get hurt over here. So it was back to
Speaker 1: catch er. Yeah. Crazy, But if anybody can play with
Speaker 1: an injury like that, it's gonna be Tom Jpp, who
Speaker 1: can apparently played through anything. Just about missing one coming back.
Speaker 1: Missed one game, I guess he missed two. He missed two,
Speaker 1: he missed l a and he but still, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: got a hard hand to he's playing with a club
Speaker 1: on his hand, and I think that was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why he couldn't get Jacoby Brissette down on
Speaker 1: ridiculous play. He brist made some impressive plays. He played
Speaker 1: well I thought were I thought he was gonna get
Speaker 1: sacked like five times. He played tough too, because he's
Speaker 1: playing through a hamstring, and I was just gonna say
Speaker 1: he played, he played tough. They announced it's like the
Speaker 1: second quarter, they announced the sideline calls up to the
Speaker 1: announced that the you know TV, in the in the internet,
Speaker 1: in the press facts, they announced Jacoby Brissette hamstring questionable
Speaker 1: to return. And then like literally like a minute later,
Speaker 1: they get the ball and he's back in the game.
Speaker 1: But if they hadn't you know who their only other
Speaker 1: quarterback was read that he was with us. We signed
Speaker 1: him as an undrafted free agent last year. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember because the storyline was going into that draft,
Speaker 1: this would be the draft um that, uh he. We
Speaker 1: were interested in getting a developmental quarterback at some point
Speaker 1: in the draft if it fell right, didn't fall right,
Speaker 1: we didn't draft one. But they said there is a
Speaker 1: guy we like this before we signed anybody, there is
Speaker 1: a guy we like that we're gonna try to bring
Speaker 1: in as an undraft free agent. It was him. So
Speaker 1: they had some thought that maybe he could stick in
Speaker 1: the league, and and right now he is because he's
Speaker 1: on Miami's active roster. So with two down problem um so.
Speaker 1: But I still think they would have been in trouble
Speaker 1: if he'd had to see his first inteval action against US. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That I was trying to decide what kind of team
Speaker 1: Miami was going to be. And when they first started,
Speaker 1: I thought they were playing playing well. They certainly were
Speaker 1: on offense and uh, but that's why I was most
Speaker 1: pleased about this game. It's that I thought before the
Speaker 1: game started during the week, I thought you should really,
Speaker 1: you know, put them away, and it shouldn't be a
Speaker 1: close game. I didn't think it was going to be
Speaker 1: a close game, So he's happy that it wasn't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're they're off their defensive really had no answers for us,
Speaker 1: and I'm not even sure what to expect on Thursday
Speaker 1: night other than um, I don't know, because they really
Speaker 1: don't know a lot about Let's talk about that, and
Speaker 1: we should talk about the because they have a new coach.
Speaker 1: They made they made big decisions that the two most
Speaker 1: important positions or jobs head coach and quarterback. Doug Peterson
Speaker 1: had won a Super Bowl at the end of the
Speaker 1: seventeen season, got him back to the playoffs wild card
Speaker 1: in eighteen and nineteen, and then they were like four
Speaker 1: eleven and one and or last place in like the
Speaker 1: worst division of the UNFL scene and alone, and it
Speaker 1: did not end up well at the end of the
Speaker 1: well that but there's a lot of questions about who
Speaker 1: made that collision and almost as if Doug Peterson was
Speaker 1: thrown under the bus what we're talking about. In case
Speaker 1: you don't know, I think Carson Wentz was hurt at
Speaker 1: the time. Jalen Hurts was playing, played like the first half,
Speaker 1: and they pulled him for and I can't even remember
Speaker 1: the name of the other quarterback, saying they wanted to
Speaker 1: get him. Some want to get and it became it
Speaker 1: came an issue for the Giants because they needed Philly
Speaker 1: to beat Washington, I think, to have a shot, and
Speaker 1: no everybody knew what was going on. They were trying
Speaker 1: to lose the game to get a better because it
Speaker 1: didn't matter to them to get a better draft spot.
Speaker 1: And it's understandable they probably should just started the game
Speaker 1: with that guy though, but anyway, probably not a quarterback
Speaker 1: in the future for them, since I can't remember his
Speaker 1: name and he's not on the roster anymore. Because after
Speaker 1: they traded Carson Wentz and made Jalen Hurts the starter
Speaker 1: for this season, they signed Joe Flacco and traded for
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew, so they kind of redid that whole. Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts is off to a good start. I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of doubters that he can that he can
Speaker 1: stick as a productive starting quarterback in the NFL, But
Speaker 1: so far, I think the returns have been very good.
Speaker 1: He's got a ninety three point three passer rating. Um,
Speaker 1: he's completing like passes and he's giving them that other
Speaker 1: dement dimension with his ability to make plays either on
Speaker 1: a scramble or broken play or they design runs for him.
Speaker 1: He's actually their leading rusher he has he has He
Speaker 1: has only five carries, less than they're leading ball carrier
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders, but he has the most yards, like two
Speaker 1: or fifty six yards. The only quarterback and league running
Speaker 1: more is Lamar Jackson. And maybeat Carolina next week. Yes,
Speaker 1: they they look bad for a game and Hurts had
Speaker 1: to rushing touches and they I think, uh, they had
Speaker 1: a pick at the end. They did, Um, Carolina had
Speaker 1: a pick. They don't. They don't really commit to like
Speaker 1: running between the tackles very much, but they do like
Speaker 1: to throw to their running backs. And we saw how
Speaker 1: that was effective. Miles Gaskin was the best weapon for
Speaker 1: Miami by far, um, so that's a concern. Then throwing
Speaker 1: the ball to Miles Sanders and Kenneth Gainwell. DeVante Smith
Speaker 1: has looked pretty good, the guy they drafted tenth um.
Speaker 1: They still have those tight ends. I mean everybody said
Speaker 1: that Urtz was gonna get traded and he never did.
Speaker 1: So you still have hurts and got heard. If that's
Speaker 1: how that's pronounced, that's a good tight end um duo.
Speaker 1: Their main problem this year has been, just like Miami
Speaker 1: that we just faced, they can't get a set five
Speaker 1: offensive line due to injuries. Seriously, they have someone on COVID.
Speaker 1: I believe you know. They have right guard Brandon Brooks
Speaker 1: starting the season, right guard Brandon books On. I r
Speaker 1: he tore a peck, left guard Isaac Simaoulululo. I think,
Speaker 1: um he he's out too for a while. Um, I
Speaker 1: don't remember his injury. And the right tackle Lane Johnson
Speaker 1: is away from a team on undisclosed for undisclosed personal reasons,
Speaker 1: and their head coach recently said he doesn't know if
Speaker 1: he'll be back this season. So they're they're working in
Speaker 1: a second round rookie Landon Dickerson. But otherwise they're mixing
Speaker 1: things up a lot, and they've had a bunch of
Speaker 1: different by necessity, a bunch of different online combinations. It
Speaker 1: hasn't been a disaster. They've they've given him decent protection.
Speaker 1: But that's hard and it's a big, big contrast with
Speaker 1: the Bucks, who all their five have been intact all
Speaker 1: this year, and we're for most of last year's We've
Speaker 1: had very good fortune on our offensive line, which builds chemistry, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I think I thought the offensive line
Speaker 1: played really really well. Um sunday, Okay, our offensive line
Speaker 1: did well. I mean I think they generally have been Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's the run blocking is getting better. That's
Speaker 1: that's important. We were we were about that if you
Speaker 1: can run the ball like that, and you can eat
Speaker 1: running the ball. You were talking before about how demoralizing
Speaker 1: it is a defense that's not only not only are
Speaker 1: you running the ball on them, but now you're throwing
Speaker 1: the ball on them too. Yeah. No matter what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you can't stop it. And it's just like, really, there's
Speaker 1: certainly two schools of thought on whether you need to
Speaker 1: be successful running the ball for play action to work.
Speaker 1: But I think our coaches believe that the better running
Speaker 1: game is the more bite there isn't our play action,
Speaker 1: and they know more about football than I do. So
Speaker 1: and back to the Eagles, Uh, they have a potentially
Speaker 1: very good defense. They're always good up front because they
Speaker 1: poured tons of resources into him. A couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: I guess they signed defensive tackle Javon Hargrave from the
Speaker 1: Steelers after his fourth four years with the Steelers. At
Speaker 1: the time, not all Philly fans were thrilled about it
Speaker 1: because they didn't have a ton of cap space and
Speaker 1: they really had big needs at like corner and receiver
Speaker 1: and offensive line. So why are we putting even more
Speaker 1: money into this when we already have Fletcher Cox and
Speaker 1: the number of other good frontline players. Well, Javon Hargrave
Speaker 1: is the best interior defensive linemen in the league. So
Speaker 1: far this year, He's got six sacks, which is the
Speaker 1: most by anybody, and his pressure percentage of pass rushes
Speaker 1: is the best in the entire league. And that includes
Speaker 1: edge rushers, not just interior guys. You know, Jeff, that
Speaker 1: sort of pressure like Warren Sap used to give us
Speaker 1: directly up the middle is what quarterbacks hate the most.
Speaker 1: Can blow up your offense the quickest, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to find. It is hard to wind. So now the
Speaker 1: Eagles are thrilled, their fans are thrilled that they have
Speaker 1: Javon Hargrave because Fletcher Cox is getting up there. He's
Speaker 1: still a great player, been to last six Pro Bowls.
Speaker 1: But it's hard Graves. Now, that's that's kicking butt and
Speaker 1: and it's and that's a hard place to play. And Philly, yeah,
Speaker 1: and Cox, Fletcher Cox is I think he had his
Speaker 1: first sack of the year last week, but he's had
Speaker 1: a number of plays like Vita Vea where he's he's
Speaker 1: attracting double and triple teams and that's helping out Hargrave
Speaker 1: and Josh Watt and Derek Barnett. So there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of for you on the you know, that's one
Speaker 1: of the advantages. They take a while, some of these
Speaker 1: stories that I read in week, but the scouting report
Speaker 1: is an example. It forces me to go through all
Speaker 1: their team and find the strengths of weaknesses and and
Speaker 1: so now I can just yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, see
Speaker 1: down tomorrow when I'm flying, I'll be reading the press
Speaker 1: stuff from from the Eagles. I read all their game
Speaker 1: releases things of that nature on the downtime. Yeah. Interesting though,
Speaker 1: something um really cool happened to me on Twitter last week.
Speaker 1: What so pray tell um? I Okay, I was answering
Speaker 1: a question in my on my mail bag last week,
Speaker 1: the written one, and it was just a kind of
Speaker 1: a cheeky question by some guy from Canada, um about
Speaker 1: why are Super Bowl champions referred to as world champions
Speaker 1: when you don't you're really not play in the whole world.
Speaker 1: And it's a it's a joker that's been made many
Speaker 1: many times, and he was just basically joking, like the
Speaker 1: World Series in baseball, you're not playing, and it's worth
Speaker 1: it's more greaches in baseball because there is a lot
Speaker 1: of good baseball around the world, whereas there's no real
Speaker 1: competition anywhere else in American football. So UM, I remind me,
Speaker 1: I also want to talk about and now that I
Speaker 1: start talking about that, the Germany games that they're talking Okay,
Speaker 1: So but on this story, inside his question, he made
Speaker 1: some joke about the Fuccaneers or Galactic Football Champions or
Speaker 1: something like that. Well, I happen to have read a
Speaker 1: series of science fiction books by an author named Scott
Speaker 1: Sigler that's called The Galactic Football League, and it really
Speaker 1: literally is about centers around American football being played on
Speaker 1: planets all across the galaxy in the distant future and
Speaker 1: with aliens, you know, and it's I know you're laughing
Speaker 1: because it sounds a little silly, but there's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of substance to these books, so I like him
Speaker 1: quite a sure. They they delve into they explore some
Speaker 1: topics like racism and sexism and crime and gambling stuff
Speaker 1: that that's relevant, right, And and they're writing about football
Speaker 1: is actually quite good. I mean, you know, sometimes you
Speaker 1: read or watch something about sports and they just don't
Speaker 1: get the sport right. You know. Any case, the author
Speaker 1: somehow found this and tweeted about it because he appreciated it.
Speaker 1: Ended up later one of the things he said to
Speaker 1: me was, I just don't we don't get a lot
Speaker 1: of attention from sports reporters, which he because that was
Speaker 1: back up, you make a comment about I wrote about
Speaker 1: the book and about the art author about the books,
Speaker 1: about the I mentioned the author, and then he reached
Speaker 1: out to you. Well, first he just tweeted out, um
Speaker 1: a link to it, you know, probably basically for his fans.
Speaker 1: And then he later yeah, tweeted at me and said
Speaker 1: thank you and some of his fans and then started
Speaker 1: following me. I started to tweeting to me about other
Speaker 1: books of his that are very good. That is so cool,
Speaker 1: it's better. So I went on to I when we
Speaker 1: followed each other, I went on direct message and told
Speaker 1: him some story that I'm not going to share here,
Speaker 1: but in the story, um, I lent somebody the first
Speaker 1: two of the five books of his that I had,
Speaker 1: and I never got him back, And um, there was
Speaker 1: a reason for telling the story that you told me
Speaker 1: about that that you had lent the books and never
Speaker 1: got it back. You talked about that we talked about
Speaker 1: because it was Jameis Winston. Yeah, I thought he might
Speaker 1: appreciate them. He told me he wanted to read more.
Speaker 1: I never got him back from and you didn't want
Speaker 1: to ask him for him back because you felt like, well,
Speaker 1: like a year later, I said, hey, did you ever
Speaker 1: get around reading those books I gave you? And his
Speaker 1: answer mad clear that he had not. So I was
Speaker 1: hoping at that point he would volunteer. Hey, do you
Speaker 1: want him back, but you want to ask. So I
Speaker 1: never got him back. So I told Scott this story,
Speaker 1: Scott Sigler, and he said, oh, well, we'll send you
Speaker 1: replacements for those two. And now I didn't even know
Speaker 1: there's a sixth book in the series, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: send me that too, which was way more than he
Speaker 1: should do. But now that is one of the few
Speaker 1: positive stories to come from Twitter. Yes, yes, from social media.
Speaker 1: That is very cool. You know, Jeff, I used to
Speaker 1: I don't read as much as I used to. I
Speaker 1: just don't have time. I go, I get books from
Speaker 1: a library now and then, but I can't say I
Speaker 1: read more than you know, five or six books a year.
Speaker 1: At this point, I used to read a lot, and
Speaker 1: I used to read a lot of science fiction. And
Speaker 1: he was very appreciative and kind about the fact that
Speaker 1: I brought some attention to his books. But on my end,
Speaker 1: how many times am I ever going to end up
Speaker 1: in a conversation with an author of a series of
Speaker 1: books that I appreciate someone something. It's just not a
Speaker 1: random person. Be Like, if somehow, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm talking to Neil Stevenson, who you won't know who
Speaker 1: that is? But he's one of my favorite sci fi writers.
Speaker 1: And um, I mean it's just it's not something ever
Speaker 1: expect to happen. So it was neat. No. I that's
Speaker 1: I'm glad you shared it with us, because that is um.
Speaker 1: You know anyway, if you like science fiction and football,
Speaker 1: check these books. You know you talk about reading. I
Speaker 1: like to read a lot. I read, but you probably
Speaker 1: don't read science fiction, right, Um, it does it just
Speaker 1: it depends. But um, I'm reading right now, I'm reading
Speaker 1: Stephen King's lad He's still putting up books all the
Speaker 1: time now. But here's what's what's different. What is it called.
Speaker 1: It's called Billy Summers and um, it is not. It
Speaker 1: is not Stephen king Ish If that makes any sense. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think I know what you mean that
Speaker 1: because when in the eighties I read all his books
Speaker 1: stopped after that. Yeah, it's not The stand is the
Speaker 1: best book? Yeah? Do you think it's not? Okay? Um,
Speaker 1: so yeah, but I go to library too, good for
Speaker 1: you public library? Yeah, because better to get the books free.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get on get get on the list early,
Speaker 1: get them when they're new. It's awesome, totally. I've been
Speaker 1: trying to get this one book that I read about
Speaker 1: this really good by a Chinese author, and it's like
Speaker 1: they have two copies in the whole freaking library system,
Speaker 1: and so you have to put it on hold, and
Speaker 1: then it goes there are two copies and sixteen holds
Speaker 1: ahead of you. I'm like, okay, it's gonna be months
Speaker 1: before I ever get So I did get the book once,
Speaker 1: and I didn't get a very good start into reading it,
Speaker 1: so it was overdue several times. So I brought it
Speaker 1: back hoping that I could renew it. And when I
Speaker 1: tried to, like, know, you have to give that up
Speaker 1: to the next person in line, and I haven't come
Speaker 1: close to sniff and if you and and they don't
Speaker 1: do late charges anymore, they don't do the library does
Speaker 1: not do late charges. That happened a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Take your card away, but they won't do they won't
Speaker 1: let you in it. Yeah, they freeze it. Yeah to you,
Speaker 1: did you know how many items you can have checked
Speaker 1: out from a library at once, at least around here?
Speaker 1: Take a guess fifty what you can have up to
Speaker 1: fifty items checked out from these libraries or anything time?
Speaker 1: May I ask why you would know that. I can't
Speaker 1: remember how I found that up, but it's absolutely hundred
Speaker 1: percent true. And I would never ever do that because
Speaker 1: I'd be terrified I would never be able to find
Speaker 1: all fifties and end up having to buy them. Now,
Speaker 1: I mean, you could have, like I guess you could
Speaker 1: have like ten movies, but what would how could you
Speaker 1: see to me? That is a that would be unless
Speaker 1: you have well what if you were had what if
Speaker 1: you were like an orphanage or so well, no, no,
Speaker 1: if you were a family and you have kids, kids
Speaker 1: could do like five kids, I could see that where
Speaker 1: it doesn't take long to read them or whatever, and
Speaker 1: so you don't want to go to the library a
Speaker 1: lot during the you know, back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 1: so you use, okay, kids, we're all gonna go, and
Speaker 1: it's like a yeah, monthly thing or twice, you know,
Speaker 1: twice whatever. Okay, I could probably the same people that
Speaker 1: go to Sam's once a month and do all their shopping,
Speaker 1: grocery shopping. Once I go to a grocery store like
Speaker 1: every two out of every three days. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: very efficient, and it's I'm the same with the library.
Speaker 1: I just go whenever I want. Well, that's but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the wild and crazy guys you are. You
Speaker 1: do see I mean I see people doing a lot
Speaker 1: of movies at once. Yeah, they just like to do that.
Speaker 1: Or they have music CDs and stuff. Sure who uses
Speaker 1: those anymore? I don't know. Yeah, but that's that that
Speaker 1: you like. That is a great story. The Galactic Football
Speaker 1: League series. The first book is called The Rookie. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's cool. There's so in the now that you're in
Speaker 1: a future where the human race is spread across the
Speaker 1: galaxy and also diverged a little bit, like I think
Speaker 1: the protagonists I can't remember this skin might have been
Speaker 1: blue or something. But um, then you have aliens that
Speaker 1: are playing in the league, and so there are certain
Speaker 1: positions where the only people that the only beings that
Speaker 1: play them are certain alien group because nobody else can
Speaker 1: hang with them, like the all the receivers and dbs
Speaker 1: are I can't remember the name's not doing this very
Speaker 1: good favor because it's been a while since I read them.
Speaker 1: You can't remember the names and details very well. But
Speaker 1: it's a race that is somewhat insect like, and they
Speaker 1: can run extremely fast and jump really really high. So
Speaker 1: you like a human wouldn't be able to cover. So
Speaker 1: they're all the receivers and all the dbs that things
Speaker 1: like that. Sure, there's others that are all the linemen
Speaker 1: because they're so big. Things like that. Interesting. It sounds
Speaker 1: I'm making it sound like youth youth, adult youth, uh fiction,
Speaker 1: but it really isn't. It's it's you would enjoy. Well,
Speaker 1: it's it is addressing societies issues in a different manner. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. Alright, enough of that. Um, I think
Speaker 1: I've done everything on my list, Jeff, and we don't
Speaker 1: have a guest this week, as we mentioned, so we
Speaker 1: can just go right to the questions. You know, we
Speaker 1: were going to talk about the Germany games they announced
Speaker 1: yesterday I think today today. Yeah, well last night they
Speaker 1: kind of dumped it after the other news. They are
Speaker 1: basically I don't know what the order is auditing or
Speaker 1: whether they're they're looking at bids from Usseldorf, Frankfurt and
Speaker 1: Munich to possibly hold some games maybe in five years
Speaker 1: from now years start holding games like we have in London,
Speaker 1: which makes a ton of sense, and I'm surprised it
Speaker 1: has taken this long because I think football is American
Speaker 1: football is bigger in Germany. It's just about anywhere else there.
Speaker 1: I was reading a thing where, um, we get questions
Speaker 1: from the kid have like three million uh fans that
Speaker 1: are registered to some NFL and that. Um oh, I
Speaker 1: wish I had that. I think games will do great
Speaker 1: over it was it was like they they had games
Speaker 1: being watched. Uh. So you're correct in in that that
Speaker 1: it's very I've been to Munich, yes, okay, because I
Speaker 1: was trying to I don't have any idea to know
Speaker 1: which one I'd most like to go to. Um well, Munich. Uh,
Speaker 1: Munich is the most modern city in Germany because it
Speaker 1: was pretty much bombed out during World War two, so
Speaker 1: you don't have but it's a really it's it's a
Speaker 1: very Uh. Well, they got the Glockenstein there, which is
Speaker 1: in in the plaza where it's like a gigantic clock
Speaker 1: where it rotates out. It's so cool. Block ins. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so cool. I believe that's out said um but
Speaker 1: uh that, I'll tell you that. The best part, and
Speaker 1: I know this is going to South Wake. No, the
Speaker 1: best part is having beer in Germany. I've heard that's
Speaker 1: a different experience. It's it is, you know in America,
Speaker 1: we uh advertise the packaging. You know, Oh look at
Speaker 1: the can. Oh it turns blue. Look at this, Oh
Speaker 1: look at it? An easy twist off top. No. In Germany,
Speaker 1: it's about the taste. And um. Went to a beer
Speaker 1: garden that had um, I think it was able to
Speaker 1: hold like seven thousand people hello and um at once.
Speaker 1: And when that sounds more like a beer forest, it's
Speaker 1: it's a beer. It's it is. It is kind of
Speaker 1: it is in the woods type thing. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: so I mean this one who I want to It
Speaker 1: was so cool and so it's just seven thou people
Speaker 1: wandering around drink. Well, here's the problem. I I don't
Speaker 1: do well with crowds. I've never been. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's hither. Yeah, it kind of dumb. I
Speaker 1: know I go to football games seventy thousand people, but
Speaker 1: I just give it up in your little box, yeah
Speaker 1: I I yeah. So anyways, going, UM, I thought, oh Jesus,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be here forever. How am I going to
Speaker 1: get a beer? You know this that they have it
Speaker 1: down like you just in boom boom boom boom done
Speaker 1: and you just go sit at any table, which is
Speaker 1: very very cool because it's un American, like you're saying,
Speaker 1: they have these revolutionary ideas of lines and tables. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, but moves quickly, moves quickly. They have
Speaker 1: good people working the day, know what they're doing. And
Speaker 1: then the cool part is it is like most in Europe,
Speaker 1: you just sit with other people. You just sit out.
Speaker 1: There's the places it you sit you you know, you
Speaker 1: know here you got to stay with you yeah, you
Speaker 1: stay with your own little group. And so that was
Speaker 1: very very cool. Um. I have heard that even some
Speaker 1: German beer brands have a different I don't know what
Speaker 1: you'd call it, formula for what they are they sell
Speaker 1: in the United States, Like if you had a drum,
Speaker 1: what's a good what's a German beer brand is is
Speaker 1: Becks Germany. If you had a bex here, it doesn't
Speaker 1: taste the same as what the becks they make. And
Speaker 1: I don't think anything, uh, like they're trying to cater
Speaker 1: to American taste. Maybe well, it's a it's a different,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a it's a beer beer taste. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's not even becks. In a long time, I used
Speaker 1: to really like that. The um. The interesting part about
Speaker 1: it is that but don't drink of your own age. No,
Speaker 1: but see that's just I don't talk about drinking a beer. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's I don't think there's an age limb.
Speaker 1: I was making a disclaimer after I mentioned drinking. Oh oh,
Speaker 1: I see I don't drink kids. Yeah, but Munique is
Speaker 1: a really cool city. Um. But but I have not
Speaker 1: um been to the others, but I would like to.
Speaker 1: I I enjoyed um being in Germany. It was nice.
Speaker 1: I would very much like to go to one of
Speaker 1: I mean, I hope we're I hope were one of
Speaker 1: the teams really pushing for it. The London trips have
Speaker 1: been cool, and the last one my wife and son
Speaker 1: came over and we went to Paris, so that was
Speaker 1: the best. But Germany, I would I would much rather
Speaker 1: go to Germany than back to London. Again, no offense
Speaker 1: to London because it was great, but I'd like to.
Speaker 1: You know what else is in Munich? The Enigma what's that?
Speaker 1: That was um device to break code in World War Two?
Speaker 1: But you know, I want to go see it because
Speaker 1: I wanted to see it. And I walked around this
Speaker 1: museum for like over an hour and a half, could
Speaker 1: not looking looking, could not enma it was. And the
Speaker 1: thing was, I was expecting something really really big. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like a little mixing board. Um. But yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you would like it over there. I want to go.
Speaker 1: I want to go, hopefully. I want to Well remember
Speaker 1: when they had the European League. Yeah, and like half
Speaker 1: of it was in Germany. Yeah, should come. Yeah, some
Speaker 1: PR guys got to go over I think Chris King
Speaker 1: let have done. Um, Jason Walls did I think? And
Speaker 1: so did um. Uh. Mike chasin Off who's now with
Speaker 1: the forty niners. Yeah, he's been there a little while. Now.
Speaker 1: This is the content people came for us talking about
Speaker 1: former Buccaneers. I'm just saying, you know, it's it's something
Speaker 1: to think about. Listen. Our listeners in Germany are very
Speaker 1: very exciting. We do have them. I mean that one
Speaker 1: Dylan guy has emailed us like three times. So there.
Speaker 1: We're just returning to love R and I've covered everything
Speaker 1: on my list. Jeff, I'm good. You don't ever bring
Speaker 1: a list that's not I don't have to. I have you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just you're my foil. I throw it to throw
Speaker 1: it up to you and you knock it out the park.
Speaker 1: That's not what the foil is, but those two different things. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we don't have a guest. We explained why earlier,
Speaker 1: so rewind if you didn't hear that part. Um, so
Speaker 1: we'll go right. We don't just have a break, We'll
Speaker 1: just go right into the questions. Um. This first one,
Speaker 1: fittingly enough, is from a fan in the UK name
Speaker 1: Lee Tires. He's from Bournemouth, UK. I bet I'm pronounced
Speaker 1: that the same month when the spelled mouth. Good morning
Speaker 1: from the UK salty ones. I'm back into work today
Speaker 1: and feeling tired after traveling to Tottenham yesterday to watch
Speaker 1: the Falcons, and jest, we have been there, We have
Speaker 1: been there. That stadium and that locker room were way cool,
Speaker 1: way there, and the fact that that stadium looked like
Speaker 1: it was just wedged into a neighborhood was weird but cool.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was trying to figure out at
Speaker 1: the time, like where's everybody park? Yeah they don't, Well
Speaker 1: there was parking garage. It's like a three decker. Whilst
Speaker 1: it was amazing to see the NFL live again after
Speaker 1: two years, it brought back a lot of bad memories
Speaker 1: from the Bucks game the Panthers at Tottenham. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: I think we turned the ball over like seven we
Speaker 1: did and still had a chance to Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: it felt like we were coming back, and then I
Speaker 1: think it was um Bobo Bobo what's his name, the
Speaker 1: receiver from Florida State. Oh, he muffed a punt and
Speaker 1: then like that kind of killed the comeback. It was
Speaker 1: Bobo bubb Um. I think real first name was Jesus
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. Uh, since seeing the Bucks play
Speaker 1: live in person for the first time was an amazing experience,
Speaker 1: but the depression of walking back to the car amongst
Speaker 1: rejoicing Panthers fans was an agonizing experience. He's really feeling
Speaker 1: the emotions it. Maybe want to ask the question, what
Speaker 1: have been some of your lowest points during your Bucks fandom?
Speaker 1: Not the most positive questions, I know, but we've all
Speaker 1: been there. Keep up the great work, Lee Tires from
Speaker 1: bournem with the UK. So I mean, well, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we we've been. Uh, we've been. We've been
Speaker 1: all sunshine and rainbows for most of this podcast. So
Speaker 1: we can bring it down Olympics, go ahead. My lowest
Speaker 1: point was the championship game, Okay, and that's St. Louis. Um,
Speaker 1: No one gave the Buccaneers a chance to win. We
Speaker 1: were playing that we were facing the greatest show on Turfy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was a combined score of eleven to six
Speaker 1: was the final school was the actual score, not a
Speaker 1: combined Scently, Ricky Pearl, I think I think we're required
Speaker 1: to call him Ricky freaking Pearl. I mean, but but
Speaker 1: not really that. But it starts with an F and
Speaker 1: has a K and in an a most perfect throw.
Speaker 1: But um where we ended up having the bird of
Speaker 1: manual rule got screwed on that one. Frankly, I would
Speaker 1: say that it was the hardest loss I had because
Speaker 1: so close to going to the super Bowl. Everything you
Speaker 1: say makes sense there. But I have to tell you
Speaker 1: I just don't have really negative feelings and associated with that,
Speaker 1: Like I don't feel bad when I think about that game.
Speaker 1: I guess it's because, like you said, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: get rolled. They were scoring like thirty two points a game.
Speaker 1: They only had what was five points, two of them
Speaker 1: on a safety when the ball was snapped over the
Speaker 1: quarterback's head. They only have five points for like three
Speaker 1: and two thirds quarters. Our defense completely dominated. That wasn't
Speaker 1: how this game was supposed to go. And if you
Speaker 1: remember the next year when we played him here on
Speaker 1: Monday Night Football in December, it was the shooting and
Speaker 1: we won that one. They won the low scoring defensive struggle.
Speaker 1: We won the shoot up anyway, So with cheers, well,
Speaker 1: I would say the worst season, the one that felt
Speaker 1: the worst was two thousand and eleven, which was Raheem's
Speaker 1: last year. Oh after we started out four and two
Speaker 1: and went so we've been ten and we've been ten
Speaker 1: and six a year before. The race to ten in
Speaker 1: two thousand ten didn't make them playoffs but close. So
Speaker 1: you you start out four and two in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eleven, you feel, okay, we've turned the corner. Playoff
Speaker 1: contenter won one game the rest of the way and
Speaker 1: down the stretch, I think we we lost ten in
Speaker 1: a row. Well, it couldn't be ten, because if we
Speaker 1: were four and four and we lost ten in a row, No,
Speaker 1: we won one more game because we finished five and eleven.
Speaker 1: I or maybe I'm wrong, yeah, because that'd be sixteen
Speaker 1: or four and two when we went to London and
Speaker 1: then lost ten in a row, and each one seemed
Speaker 1: to get worse than the last. It was the only time,
Speaker 1: I mean, we go into every game and you had
Speaker 1: no feeling whatsoever that you had a chance to win
Speaker 1: that game. I remember feeling that way, specifically going up
Speaker 1: to Jacksonville, and I think we we scored right away.
Speaker 1: They got up to fourteen the league and the Tennessee
Speaker 1: and the last week killed us. It was the only
Speaker 1: time I've ever felt like the team. And I'm fortunate
Speaker 1: in saying this because there's no players from the team left.
Speaker 1: It's the only time I've ever felt like the team,
Speaker 1: you know how the teams people say that team has
Speaker 1: just given up. The only time I ever felt well,
Speaker 1: you're saying it nicely. A lot of times people say
Speaker 1: the team quit on the head coach, and it did
Speaker 1: feel like they quit that season, like there just was
Speaker 1: no they didn't care. And I don't know that that's true,
Speaker 1: but that's what we right. And there were some good
Speaker 1: players on the team and I'm not trying to integrate them,
Speaker 1: but that was the feel. Yeah, yeah, no, I would
Speaker 1: say that that maybe that Okay, I'm switching your answer. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about what you're saying, and I'm going back
Speaker 1: to that. I guess maybe uh as bad as I
Speaker 1: felt about that. UM, I don't know. I just there's
Speaker 1: I have mixed emotions about that season. So but I
Speaker 1: just went with one game. So well, yeah, if I
Speaker 1: were going to do one game would be the Monday
Speaker 1: night Indian Apples game in two thousand three where I
Speaker 1: actually said to the PR person sitting next to me,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it, Tony, there's no way we can
Speaker 1: lose this game because we were up by three touchdowns
Speaker 1: with five minutes ago or something like, there's no way
Speaker 1: we can lose this games. And then they came back,
Speaker 1: Peyton manning the Simeon Rice leafing Fenerly and on and
Speaker 1: on and on. Well, we have experienced lots of losses,
Speaker 1: but but one that one still hurts. I think. Uh.
Speaker 1: If I had to go with another laws uh loss
Speaker 1: would would have been UM in Philadelphia, Uh, Tony's last year,
Speaker 1: last playoff game, that one was. It was a bad loss,
Speaker 1: and then he was released and then say which will
Speaker 1: about what happened the next year. But and whether you're
Speaker 1: a big Dungee fan or not, it did not feel
Speaker 1: good when done and I'm sure I'm saying it probably
Speaker 1: did not even feel good for the Glaziers who made
Speaker 1: the decision. Sure, no, there was a decision that worked out,
Speaker 1: and now both Tony now Tony Dungee's isn't our ring
Speaker 1: of honor and he's a Hall of Famer and he
Speaker 1: went on. So it's all great, it's all. But I
Speaker 1: will say that game, that game, because that was the
Speaker 1: game we played the Eagles the last game of the
Speaker 1: year here and it was meaningless and is meaningless, and
Speaker 1: then we went up there to play and yes, um,
Speaker 1: that game sucked. Um. You know, from a personal standpoint,
Speaker 1: I would say, uh, seven, about seven years into my
Speaker 1: career here, I was getting a little tired of it
Speaker 1: because I was in PR. And I've learned over that
Speaker 1: period that I liked working for an NFL team, but
Speaker 1: I didn't absolutely love my job as a PR guy.
Speaker 1: And the guys we have now they love their job
Speaker 1: and they're great at it. Um. I don't think I
Speaker 1: was great as a PR person. I was fine, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it was great. The part I liked
Speaker 1: about it I was writing. When I wrote programs. Here's
Speaker 1: how I became an NFL PR guy. It's all because
Speaker 1: when I went to college at Northwestern, and I had
Speaker 1: a single mom, and it wasn't a lot of we
Speaker 1: didn't have a lot of money, and I had every
Speaker 1: used form of financially known to match grants and scholarships,
Speaker 1: and so one of them was work study. I had
Speaker 1: to work, which a lot of kids do that doesn't
Speaker 1: saying this is one of the things I did some
Speaker 1: of the jobs, and and these are good sometimes because
Speaker 1: you can study. Some of the jobs would be just
Speaker 1: like you're the security guy in the lobby of this
Speaker 1: dorm or something. But the reason I'm yar now is
Speaker 1: because in the initial questionnaire for work for getting a
Speaker 1: work selly job, they ask you things like what are
Speaker 1: your interests? And I had sports on there and I
Speaker 1: had writing on there, and so they sent me to
Speaker 1: sports Information, which is like a PR department for our college.
Speaker 1: So I worked for four years of sports information. Even then,
Speaker 1: though that didn't make me think I'm gonna work in
Speaker 1: the NFL. It's just that one day at the office
Speaker 1: sports Information in Northwestern, there was a flyer on the
Speaker 1: bolton board that said people from the Kansasie Chiefs were
Speaker 1: looking to interview anybody was interested in being an intern,
Speaker 1: and they were going to be in Chicago. They usually
Speaker 1: got their interns from around their area. They were going
Speaker 1: to Notre Dame in Northwestern. So I ended up applying
Speaker 1: and got that job, and that's how I got in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and then I got the Bucks next year
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So it's not like I went to
Speaker 1: college thinking I want to be a sports PR guy.
Speaker 1: It was a fun job. It was fine. I don't
Speaker 1: think I was great at it. Like I said, I
Speaker 1: was competent. So when the website happened, I got the
Speaker 1: transition into that and that probably saved my career because
Speaker 1: I can tell you about seven years and I was
Speaker 1: just not enjoying NFL, probably wouldn't enjoy any well. You
Speaker 1: also you were in seven years of losing too, No,
Speaker 1: but that was had turned the corner a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so you had four years, four years, Yeah, I had
Speaker 1: five and ninety six was losing year but around Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that, yes, it's kind of a low point. And
Speaker 1: also the lockout eleven, Oh I forgot about. Those were
Speaker 1: kind of scary times. Yeah, the lockout was very, very
Speaker 1: scary because uh yeah, and owners had to adjust and
Speaker 1: one thing that happened here was they we were given
Speaker 1: one week of unpaid leave, if you remember, but they
Speaker 1: said at the time, if this gets resolved and the
Speaker 1: season starts on time, we're gonna make that whole. And
Speaker 1: that's what happened. And then they all paid us for
Speaker 1: that week, and so we ended up getting an ext
Speaker 1: week of vacation. We were we were very fortunate before
Speaker 1: we're a very fortunate team because they did not reduce staff,
Speaker 1: they didn't delay people off, and they didn't lay people off.
Speaker 1: They didn't. It was it was a matter of we
Speaker 1: got to a point where and I think it was
Speaker 1: like in June that they said, hey, yeah we need
Speaker 1: you need to get furloughed for a week. You know,
Speaker 1: don't come in, don't work. You weren't allowed you know,
Speaker 1: the computers, all of that, no emails, nothing, you weren't
Speaker 1: allowed to do anything. And they did, like you said,
Speaker 1: they made it whole. Yeah, So that was that offseason
Speaker 1: felt low because you just were really uncertain about what
Speaker 1: was gonna happen. Not like I thought that the NFL
Speaker 1: is gonna go away, but you could miss the season
Speaker 1: other sports have and that would have at some point
Speaker 1: lead to consequences on the staff. It just would have
Speaker 1: had to oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: need a writer for the website for if there's nothing
Speaker 1: to write about it? Well, I can't say I didn't
Speaker 1: wind a hard kind of hard to be director of
Speaker 1: broadcasting when you don't have any game broadcast. Growing it
Speaker 1: out there all right? Next question? Okay, hey Scott. The
Speaker 1: entry before I say this, I screwed up because I
Speaker 1: had a question I really wanted to read here, and
Speaker 1: it was it was basically a follow up to some
Speaker 1: question that we had answered. And I think it was
Speaker 1: the guy in Tennessee and he said they were going
Speaker 1: on he was going on a road trip with his wife,
Speaker 1: and he convinced her because he was a couple of
Speaker 1: podcasts behind, and he convinced her to listen to it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to bring this question the next time
Speaker 1: to do with justice. But he convinced her to listen
Speaker 1: to it in the car, and we kept talking about
Speaker 1: Sean Murphy bunting, so she kept hearing the word bunting,
Speaker 1: and she goes, well, I thought this was a football podcast.
Speaker 1: Why do they keep talking about baseball? And then there
Speaker 1: was something else at the end. That sounded like baseball too,
Speaker 1: so I think we were talking about pitching. We said
Speaker 1: something about pitching or something on the pitch. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it was, but I'm just thinking, this poor woman,
Speaker 1: this guy's his wife listened to our Podkast talk about
Speaker 1: talk about my wife doesn't even listen to talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, being a team player. Wow, Well she's trapped
Speaker 1: in the cars. Maybe she's a fan. Now, well, maybe
Speaker 1: he was driving her someplace. I'll bring the actual email
Speaker 1: next time so we can get the scoop deets the
Speaker 1: deets if you will very good. You know, it's a
Speaker 1: dumb abbreviation that everybody's using these days, no fits to
Speaker 1: describe outfits, because every day every team now puts the
Speaker 1: pictures of their players, like Leaven getting on the plane
Speaker 1: and walking to the stadium, and some of them have
Speaker 1: neat outfits on. But everybody, everybody on Twitter calls him fits.
Speaker 1: Now it's it's it's annoying anyway. The injury bug seems
Speaker 1: to be firmly read to the grumpy old man Tom
Speaker 1: Brady wearing his hat backwords today, by the way, I know,
Speaker 1: is he allowed? Is he can you at age? He did?
Speaker 1: I mean, who was gonna. I will say this, he
Speaker 1: pulled it off. Not mostly most forty four year olds cannot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think he had the hoodie, but with
Speaker 1: the sleeves cut off. He The only time I used
Speaker 1: to wear a hat backwards, well I don't really wear hats,
Speaker 1: but when I did when I wore a hat backwards
Speaker 1: is when I was a catcher. That's the only time
Speaker 1: I wore a hat backwards. All right. In the off season,
Speaker 1: we all packed injuries as the biggest obstacle obstacle to
Speaker 1: the Bucks, repeating that's true. I was asked that question
Speaker 1: several times, and that's what I said. Although the IR
Speaker 1: rules are more favorable now, the seventeen game slate still
Speaker 1: makes it a war of attrition. True. Following David's injury,
Speaker 1: Lavante David, it got me thinking which Super Bowl champ
Speaker 1: most suffered in the repeat chances due to injuries. For
Speaker 1: what it's worth, I think the two thousand fifteen Patriots
Speaker 1: have to be up there, with a whopping nineteen players
Speaker 1: on ire, plenty of whom were key players. So he's
Speaker 1: already got kind of a sure. They were still only
Speaker 1: two point conversion away from tying Denver in the a
Speaker 1: f C Championship games. So there's always hope. Well, I don't.
Speaker 1: I haven't lost any hope about our season. Which other
Speaker 1: teams do you think also deserves some special mentioned? Did
Speaker 1: any of them overcome the bug to repeat? I The
Speaker 1: only thing I could come up with when I first
Speaker 1: heard this question off the top of my head is
Speaker 1: the teams that have won with a backup quarterback when
Speaker 1: their QB got hurt, like late in the season or
Speaker 1: earlier in the playoffs, like Jeff Hostetler for Christian the
Speaker 1: Giants goes down for the Rana at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year. But yeah, Kurt Warner out of the former
Speaker 1: League stocking and out of the European League. It was
Speaker 1: with the Packers for a while. Um, you know there
Speaker 1: was the Doug Lims. Doug Limps started because who was hurt?
Speaker 1: Who Wilson Tisman? Was it? Their quarterback was hurt? That's
Speaker 1: why Doug started in the Super Bowl. Um, I think
Speaker 1: that didn't the Dolphins way back in the seventies, Earl
Speaker 1: Morrel he did, or Brian for not Brian Greasy, Bob Greacey.
Speaker 1: But I had to look it up because I couldn't
Speaker 1: think off the top of my head, and he's talking
Speaker 1: about teams that repeated. I don't know. I didn't really
Speaker 1: get that answer, but I did find out that the
Speaker 1: two thousand three New England Patriots set a record at
Speaker 1: the time with forty two different players to start for
Speaker 1: them that season because of all the injuries. And then
Speaker 1: the next year they even if you may recall, remember
Speaker 1: Troy Brown, the receiver, they had so many injuries that
Speaker 1: they converted him, well, they didn't convert him, and he
Speaker 1: still played receiver too. They may to a cornerback, he
Speaker 1: played corner. He played nickel corner too. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you remember that. It was I remember just being
Speaker 1: amazed by that back at the time. And then there's
Speaker 1: several articles about how the two thousand Tin Packers the
Speaker 1: last Packer team to win the Super Bowl, UM had,
Speaker 1: so I did. I read up about that, and they
Speaker 1: did have a ton of injuries, like they had. They
Speaker 1: lost ninety one games by starters due to injuries, and
Speaker 1: they had eleven people on no I think they had
Speaker 1: sixteen people on injury reserve, eleven and more defensive players
Speaker 1: and a lot of them key guys, and they just
Speaker 1: overcame it all like Mike Neil and Morgan Burnett and
Speaker 1: Nick Barnett. They just had a lot of guys out.
Speaker 1: So there's your answer to that question. I hope that
Speaker 1: helps Nick. Did we have one question about our low
Speaker 1: moments and one about people getting hurt? Happy people over there?
Speaker 1: Greetings and salutations, salty dogs. I sometimes watched the weekly
Speaker 1: press conferences on the site, and it seems like guys,
Speaker 1: it seems like guys like Byron leftwich In, Tom and
Speaker 1: Mike Evans are often asked if they think the offense
Speaker 1: can even get better. That's funny because that actually happened today. Um,
Speaker 1: it's to go to question and he as he says,
Speaker 1: I remember this struck me as right when I first
Speaker 1: read this. These questions usually come after a good game
Speaker 1: by the offense, not a bad game, which is it's
Speaker 1: almost like, like I said before, we're greedy. That's what
Speaker 1: he says. Well, that's why I'm saying it. It's like,
Speaker 1: it's not it's no longer we are now at a point.
Speaker 1: It's no longer that yea, the team won, it's now
Speaker 1: how many points did you win by? We scored had
Speaker 1: five fifty eight yards of can you get any better?
Speaker 1: Had over four hundred passing, over a hundred rushing, eight
Speaker 1: eleven third dunk versions, thirty three first downs. Like I mentioned,
Speaker 1: that was a record for for us for a non
Speaker 1: overtime game. So, I mean, I think that's his point.
Speaker 1: And I've always thought they seemed a little greedy. That's
Speaker 1: why I said that, Hey, let's enjoy what we have
Speaker 1: right now, because I've been a Bucks fan for a
Speaker 1: long time and this is the best offense I've ever
Speaker 1: got to root for. Spoke undeniably true, not even an argument.
Speaker 1: I'm with you anyway, Guys, do you think there are ways?
Speaker 1: Do they think there are ways in which the offense
Speaker 1: can get better? If we are going to be greedy here?
Speaker 1: Thanks for your timing Inside Greg Hill, he says he's
Speaker 1: formerly of clear Water. I guess, I mean he didn't
Speaker 1: say where he's from. That. Well, the only way you
Speaker 1: could get better was how many possessions do you have
Speaker 1: in a game? Usually about usually between ten and twelve? Okay,
Speaker 1: So and unless you score a touchdown every single possession,
Speaker 1: then there's there's always room to get better. It's not
Speaker 1: really very realistic though, I understand that. But because I
Speaker 1: doubt a team has ever scored him. Well, it's it's
Speaker 1: like it's like that Chargers Cleveland game, Brown's game. I mean,
Speaker 1: you score over forty points and you lose. They scored
Speaker 1: over forty points and didn't commit a turnover. Yes, I
Speaker 1: think I heard. That's like one of the few times
Speaker 1: it's ever happened. Crazy they score for forty, don't so?
Speaker 1: So do you look at that team and go there
Speaker 1: three and two right now? I believe the Browns are
Speaker 1: You're going to go, oh yeah, though I don't. I
Speaker 1: mean they have a good defense, sure, I'm just yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there, but there are spots, there are little spots.
Speaker 1: I mean it is greedy to use for this, but
Speaker 1: you're there's never a perfect game. Well, we've always Bruce
Speaker 1: has said consistently since he's got here that he wants
Speaker 1: to run the ball and more and have a more
Speaker 1: balanced office, and we've rarely gotten to that. Some of
Speaker 1: that is just because it is what it is. This
Speaker 1: team is so good at passing, you're not gonna stop
Speaker 1: throwing fourty times a game. But in these last couple
Speaker 1: of games, we've thrown the ball forty plus times but
Speaker 1: also gotten over a hundred yards rushing, which leads to
Speaker 1: these incredible stats and and point tolls, which is what matters.
Speaker 1: Of course, it's been better, it could be better. We're
Speaker 1: still only getting three point ninety yards for carry, which
Speaker 1: is twenty two in the league, so you can see
Speaker 1: how that can be better. It's been better the last
Speaker 1: two weeks, but it needs to stay that way. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we could get more out of our tight ends,
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, and and obviously we got
Speaker 1: a lot at the beginning to hear from Gronk, but
Speaker 1: Gron's been out. O J and Kama played fine, but
Speaker 1: we really haven't targeted them a ton. I feel like
Speaker 1: we could get more out of that. I feel like
Speaker 1: we could hit more deep shots, and we tried a
Speaker 1: ton in that game and we didn't hit him a
Speaker 1: set for the one to Mike. But still we're able
Speaker 1: to move the ball in other shirts right, and our
Speaker 1: third downs we're actually up to like fifth in the
Speaker 1: league and third down conversion which is obviously very good.
Speaker 1: But it's been a bit up and down, and we
Speaker 1: saw what can happen when it's really up against Miami,
Speaker 1: we're basically unstoppable because they couldn't get us off the field.
Speaker 1: And they're done. If we if we're converting sixty plus
Speaker 1: percent of our third downs, I don't think anybody is
Speaker 1: beating us, honestly, and we have done that a couple
Speaker 1: of times. But there have also been games where we've
Speaker 1: had trouble on third downs inexplicably really just execution. So
Speaker 1: you could see little areas where it could get better.
Speaker 1: But I think we would happen though. Is would just
Speaker 1: be a little bit of a give and take, because
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we're gonna have We've only had more
Speaker 1: than five fifty yards in game three times a team history. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you're not gonna get five and fifty units. Even
Speaker 1: you can get better with the stats, maybe getting worse.
Speaker 1: That was a good tweet you put out. I used that.
Speaker 1: Which one was the one about uh we had five
Speaker 1: hundred eighty eight yards or something that was the most
Speaker 1: ever and we were at four or we were at
Speaker 1: five anything like that. Yeah, we didn't get much because
Speaker 1: of the time right now we got the five, but
Speaker 1: it was a great It was a great piece of information. Yeah, so, um,
Speaker 1: there are ways that can get better, but I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think it'd probably just be more efficient. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're gonna score forty five points game, but we
Speaker 1: might come out of a game feeling like we did
Speaker 1: even better on offense because we didn't miss opportunities. Every
Speaker 1: game we've had good game Byron and and and Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians have said things like, you know we left stuff
Speaker 1: out there? Sure so yeah, all right, all right, Wow,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna believe how long we went today. Right now,
Speaker 1: you're at an hour and twenty count without a guess.
Speaker 1: That's not efficient right there. That is a lack of efficient.
Speaker 1: Not all of our drives you were on a roll
Speaker 1: to just say that on but not all of our
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