Speaker 1: Welcome into Bucks Insider, coming to you from the Bucks Studio,
Speaker 1: presented by Ticketmaster Casey Phillips here with Scott Smith and
Speaker 1: Breed Dix. I don't know if I remember time that
Speaker 1: more has happened in the week leading up to this show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we've all been through it.
Speaker 1: And then we had one of the wildest games that
Speaker 1: I can remember watching, not just from a Bucks standpoint,
Speaker 1: but a football standpoint, that was insane, so much to
Speaker 1: talk about.
Speaker 3: We haven't done this in a couple of weeks, and
Speaker 3: we decided we weren't going to come back until the
Speaker 3: Bucks survived a hurricane and.
Speaker 4: A game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we wanted to make sure there was enough for
Speaker 1: us to talk about here, and we have it. So
Speaker 1: of course we got to start with the run game, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, this was just such a massive part of
Speaker 1: this game, and you know, a massive part of what
Speaker 1: they'd wanted to do this whole year, and such a
Speaker 1: point of emphasis the last couple of years. So tell
Speaker 1: me what stands out to you now about this absolute
Speaker 1: explosion of the ground game.
Speaker 5: Well, the Bucks finished with the third most rushing yards
Speaker 5: in a single game in team history with two seventy seven,
Speaker 5: So I think I think that's pretty telling. But with
Speaker 5: Rashaud White out dealing with foot injury, both Bucky Irving
Speaker 5: Sean Tucker really stepped up, and I think you could
Speaker 5: see they were disciplined in their footwork that's accelerated quickly
Speaker 5: through holes. Sean Tucker was named the NFC Offensive Player
Speaker 5: of the Week. I'm sure he probably sent out the
Speaker 5: little please tweet, but I think you just saw his
Speaker 5: ability that slash style, and then how they compliment each other,
Speaker 5: and then Bucky Irving with the lateral cuts, the lethal
Speaker 5: tiff arm, kind of all those things to get the
Speaker 5: crowd riled up. And then there was a lot of
Speaker 5: gap runs and I think one of the staples of
Speaker 5: that is the counter that's been really successful and one
Speaker 5: of my personal favorites, I think both of you can
Speaker 5: probably say the same is Bucky Irving's thirty one yard
Speaker 5: zig zag rowing that came off of a counter. Both
Speaker 5: Kate Atton Cody Map pulled across the formation and then
Speaker 5: Bucky was patient, letting Kid get the backside block, and
Speaker 5: then Chris Godwin also opened things up, getting the crack
Speaker 5: block on the edge, and then Bucky just made a
Speaker 5: move on the outside cut back inside and then flowed
Speaker 5: laterally across to move away from the congestion. And I
Speaker 5: think what you're seeing is just the cohesion everybody being
Speaker 5: on the same page between the rushers, the offensive line,
Speaker 5: and then even the receivers and the tight ends in
Speaker 5: the ball game.
Speaker 3: Right as you were saying gap run, the the replay
Speaker 3: that was showing was a Sean Tucker run, the thirty
Speaker 3: one yard run. I think it was to the right
Speaker 3: and it was exactly that great Tristan Wurf's pulling block.
Speaker 3: But I think the guy you didn't mention that's so
Speaker 3: important in the blocking scheme was Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right after he was there was literally the first play,
Speaker 2: first play he was offense fulls end.
Speaker 3: I was joking about that. But another important player in
Speaker 3: the blocking scheme is Chris Godwin. And Coach Bole said
Speaker 3: it just the other day that Chris is as important
Speaker 3: to the run game as he is the past games.
Speaker 3: Just kind of ridiculous considering he's like, I think, first
Speaker 3: in the league in receptions and tied for first and touched.
Speaker 3: So if he's just as important as the past game,
Speaker 3: that's saying a lot. And then also when you talk,
Speaker 3: I mean the run game. Also, when you talk about
Speaker 3: Chris Godwin, all of the little short passes in which
Speaker 3: he gains.
Speaker 4: More yards is almost like an extension of the run game.
Speaker 3: And last week in that game against New Orleans, he
Speaker 3: had one hundred and five yards after the catch of
Speaker 3: his one hundred and twenty five yards, so only.
Speaker 2: Twenty yards were through there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, I mean the touchdown was fifty five point five
Speaker 3: yards of yak because he caught it a half yard
Speaker 3: behind the line of scrimmage and we all, yeah, look
Speaker 3: at the route tree there. I mean those were short,
Speaker 3: mostly short passes, and that he was taken to the
Speaker 3: house that is on the one. So yeah, Chris is
Speaker 3: important in this office in so many ways.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember last year when he came on the show
Speaker 1: that I did with Ali Marpett last year and we
Speaker 1: found out that he grew up playing offensive line.
Speaker 4: In like, that's so we love to bring that one.
Speaker 1: I love it because I feel like it just makes
Speaker 1: so much sense. Ye It's like yes, because I feel
Speaker 1: like everyone had described him as a guy that seemed
Speaker 1: to have the mentality of an offensive lineman of this like,
Speaker 1: I'm not super flashy, I'm just here to get the
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the al work. I'm here to get
Speaker 1: done whatever's asked of me. I'm involved in the block game.
Speaker 1: That it was like I felt like I saw, especially
Speaker 1: like Ali's reaction to that.
Speaker 2: Of like this all makes sense, yeah, which I thought
Speaker 2: was really great.
Speaker 1: All right, So now we talked about that part, but man,
Speaker 1: we got to give the defense some props as well,
Speaker 1: and we saw, you know, some important pieces come back,
Speaker 1: which was very exciting. So for you, Scott, what stands
Speaker 1: out about the defensive performance in this game?
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, this isn't really the topic I was
Speaker 3: going to start with, but he was just rewatching the
Speaker 3: game yesterday and it was clear in the second half
Speaker 3: against Spencer Ratler, who did some really nice things in
Speaker 3: the first half that Todd Bull said, nah, we're not
Speaker 3: going to have this anymore. And they set the edges
Speaker 3: and then just threw every kind of blitz and simulated
Speaker 3: pressure known to man as Spencer Ratler. They didn't score
Speaker 3: in the second half, and four of the five sacks
Speaker 3: that the Bucks got came in the second half, and
Speaker 3: that's five sacks in that game, fifteen over the last
Speaker 3: three games, which leads the NFL in that span. This
Speaker 3: is after it seemed like it was going to be
Speaker 3: a problem because the Bucks only had two sacks in
Speaker 3: the first three games combined and not a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure overall. But I think what has been key is
Speaker 3: Vitam missed some time, Van missed some time, came back,
Speaker 3: and now Klijah Cantsey just made his debut after missing
Speaker 3: the first five games. And those two guys in the
Speaker 3: middle are what we were talking about before the season started.
Speaker 3: Callija in his second season, Vita after sort of you know,
Speaker 3: getting into peak form peak Vita vea form back to
Speaker 3: that in the off season that this duo in the
Speaker 3: middle was going to really drive a good pass rush,
Speaker 3: and I think we saw that in New Orleans. I mean,
Speaker 3: ten different guys have been involved in getting our seventeen
Speaker 3: sacks and nobody has more than three. But a lot
Speaker 3: of people are involved, and I think a lot of
Speaker 3: that has to do with the fact that those two
Speaker 3: guys in the middle demand so much attention. And you know,
Speaker 3: you saw I Collidja made an instant impact. Everybody saw it.
Speaker 3: You could see it with you could see it just
Speaker 3: watching the game, but also coaches talked about it afterward.
Speaker 3: He got a sack in his first game, bag Vita
Speaker 3: gotta sacked for the third straight game, and his impact
Speaker 3: on everybody else was pretty clear.
Speaker 1: And there's such a ripple effect right of you get
Speaker 1: Vita back and that helps your secondary because he's bringing
Speaker 1: some stuff right in the guy's face, and the same
Speaker 1: thing Colijah back helps Vita, and then having Antoine and
Speaker 1: Georgie were back there helping this. It just was so
Speaker 1: cool to see all the ways that having these pieces
Speaker 1: back wasn't just about their play, but it was how
Speaker 1: it elevated everyone else around them. And I you know,
Speaker 1: Zion McCollum came on the show with us this week
Speaker 1: and he talked about how having Vida back, having Colijah back,
Speaker 1: that he could just sense how different it was even
Speaker 1: for them as corners of like, oh, like, it's so
Speaker 1: great to have all of these guys back because then
Speaker 1: that's even less that we're having to do. But there's
Speaker 1: less time I'm having to cover.
Speaker 2: There's the guy isn't as comfortable sitting back there.
Speaker 1: But I did want to highlight I mean, our corners, man,
Speaker 1: what a game. When you're asked, you see an undrafted
Speaker 1: rookie has not really had a chance to do much
Speaker 1: and then thrown into in terms of Tyreek Thunderberg, that
Speaker 1: like thrown into the fire. And yes, gave up that
Speaker 1: one touchdown and Coach bole said his eyes weren't where
Speaker 1: they needed to be, but he said, outside of that,
Speaker 1: had a great game. And I think that's a that's
Speaker 1: a great sign for us that it's hard to have
Speaker 1: a backup corner and you know they typically are targeting
Speaker 1: you like crazy, going after you and to come in
Speaker 1: for jaml like that and handle it great, which it
Speaker 1: was a great shoe. Yeah, this was his this was
Speaker 1: his debut and then of course Tike Smith, this guy
Speaker 1: has been such a rock, so solid, and you know,
Speaker 1: Coach Boules said on our show this week that he
Speaker 1: that he gets the least rookie treatment out of all
Speaker 1: of them, and he called the most the most veteran
Speaker 1: treatment because he makes the least mental errors that in
Speaker 1: terms of as a rookie, this guy has just had
Speaker 1: the i Q down to Pat and Tom Bowles. Defense
Speaker 1: is not easy to learn, it's correct not easy to learn,
Speaker 1: and especially at that position what you're being asked to do.
Speaker 1: And so I feel like to see what he did
Speaker 1: with these force fumbles, which in my opinion, maybe they're great.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I don't know I'm allowed to get
Speaker 1: fined for saying these things.
Speaker 2: But if if we are, we don't mean it, don't
Speaker 2: We're just kidding. We're kidding around.
Speaker 1: But I mean, should have maybe had two force fumbles,
Speaker 1: got the interception. He's doing everything everywhere and again not
Speaker 1: making those mental errors that you would expect of a rookie,
Speaker 1: and I think that's in Zion. His confidence level just
Speaker 1: seems through the roof this season, and I love seeing that.
Speaker 1: Even though there were a couple things late in the
Speaker 1: Atlanta game that I'm sure he'd love to have back,
Speaker 1: it didn't affect his aggressiveness this week. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: leading the league and passes defense, had his first two
Speaker 1: career interceptions in recent weeks, and I think that he's
Speaker 1: only going to be better with Antoine and Jordan back
Speaker 1: there too, because Zion also this week on the show
Speaker 1: mentioned how with having Antoine back, they had this level
Speaker 1: of communication where was like, Hey, because you're back here,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to play under some of
Speaker 1: these routes that they have a very specific like you
Speaker 1: do this, I do this kind of a thing that
Speaker 1: he said wasn't the case when Antoine wasn't back there,
Speaker 1: that is affecting the way that and he was basically
Speaker 1: kind of almost crediting that for the interceptionals you know
Speaker 1: that I know I can do these things, and even
Speaker 1: just for him to have the confidence to now say,
Speaker 1: be playing those little games with this guy, like hey,
Speaker 1: you do this, I can do this. We talked about
Speaker 1: how as a rookie and when you're early on, you
Speaker 1: don't feel like you can do anything other than exactly
Speaker 1: the game plan. And Lavonte's mentioned this too, where when
Speaker 1: you're early on you can't do anything but the exact
Speaker 1: game plan. But now the longer you're in it, the
Speaker 1: more confident you get, you can be like, hey, actually
Speaker 1: in this, why don't you do this?
Speaker 2: And I do this? And Zion's at.
Speaker 1: A position to start making some of those calls now,
Speaker 1: which I thought was really exciting.
Speaker 3: Rindy Barber and Derek Brooks used to talk about that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: after a while, they were so insane great the defense
Speaker 3: that they would talk to you, to them go, okay,
Speaker 3: we always do this with you on this sight and
Speaker 3: you on this said let's switch this time. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: Derek and Ronde love to tell that story.
Speaker 2: I love that all right.
Speaker 1: So also, as we talked about the importance of how
Speaker 1: many guys we were able to get back this last week,
Speaker 1: it's a very big deal. So again, because of the
Speaker 1: weird you know, not having the Monday night schedule, we're
Speaker 1: a day late on everything. So normally in the show
Speaker 1: we have an injury report by now we do not,
Speaker 1: but so tell us what we're keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: once we do start seeing those injury reports come out
Speaker 1: of who's good.
Speaker 2: To go, who may not.
Speaker 5: Wait, Well, Jamaldine exited the Saints game early on with
Speaker 5: a hamstring injury.
Speaker 2: He will seemingly miss.
Speaker 5: Some time with the Bucks activating Keenan Isaac from the
Speaker 5: practice squad to the active roster, so his condition is
Speaker 5: certainly something that will monitor. And then Graham Barton, he's
Speaker 5: been dealing with the hamstring injury, didn't play against the Saints. Now,
Speaker 5: Robert Hainsey had an incredible game, boosted the run game,
Speaker 5: So if he's not able to go, then Robert Hainsey
Speaker 5: would obviously step in. And then like Evans was kind
Speaker 5: of in and out of the Saints game, So we'll
Speaker 5: get some clarity on that injury as well this week,
Speaker 5: and then also seeing how Trey Palmer progresses any confession protocol.
Speaker 1: All right, so then now let's get into our trivia
Speaker 1: for this for this week.
Speaker 2: For you, what do you have for of us here?
Speaker 5: Okay, ready for this? I am when the Buccaneers beat
Speaker 5: the Ravens for the first win in the two thousand
Speaker 5: and two Super Bowl season. Who had the pick six
Speaker 5: that sealed the twenty five to zero shutout?
Speaker 2: I don't know, I know, I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I was wondering if I was gonna get a hint.
Speaker 1: I feel like sometimes you give me a hint and
Speaker 1: then well usually the hint.
Speaker 4: Two thousand and two team, thank you, he played defense.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 1: If that had changed my mind of who I was picking,
Speaker 1: that would have been if I was like, ah, dang it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was at the very end and they were
Speaker 3: Baltimore was close to scoring and it didn't matter. We
Speaker 3: were going to win the game, but the team really wanted.
Speaker 4: To shut out.
Speaker 2: I like it.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's gonna be mentioned a right, So Scott, tell
Speaker 1: me a milestone tracker for this week. What are we
Speaker 1: going to be watching it this Monday night game?
Speaker 3: Okay, we've been off the air for a few weeks now,
Speaker 3: so please forgive me for going back to the same well,
Speaker 3: but it's really important.
Speaker 4: It's Mike Evans.
Speaker 3: Since we last broadcast this show, he's got a couple
Speaker 3: more touchdowns and so he's at ninety nine now and
Speaker 3: that's tied for eleventh with a guy from the Packers
Speaker 3: from the thirties and forties named Don Hudson, and it's
Speaker 3: tied for eleventh. So one more, we'll give him one hundred,
Speaker 3: and that will make him the eleventh player in the
Speaker 3: history of the NFL with one hundred receiving touchdowns, and
Speaker 3: the other ten, eight of them are already in the
Speaker 3: Hall of Fame, and the two that aren't are Antonio Gates,
Speaker 3: who was just eligible for the first time last year
Speaker 3: and is going to get in yep, and Larry Fitzgerald
Speaker 3: is probably going to get in on the first ballot
Speaker 3: when he's all So we've kind of put to bed
Speaker 3: whether Mike Evans is a Hall of Famer or not,
Speaker 3: but that one hundred touchdown is going to be huge.
Speaker 3: He actually has one hundred total touchdowns because he had
Speaker 3: one on a fumble recovery and he's tied for twenty
Speaker 3: fourth in league history and that, but that's not as
Speaker 3: cool as sounding as like top ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and it's funny you're going to be tracking
Speaker 1: that milestone. I'm going to be tracking if he keeps
Speaker 1: the football because Mike Evans is he has a history
Speaker 1: famous for throwing the football into the stands and then
Speaker 1: later being like, dang it.
Speaker 2: Throw you know, his own whatever.
Speaker 1: And so it was funny last week, you know, you
Speaker 1: mentioned he got the one hundredth touchdown or two weeks
Speaker 1: ago and threw it and everybody's like, no, there's like,
Speaker 1: well it was ninety ninth receiving.
Speaker 2: It was his hundred.
Speaker 1: So everyone's like, okay, well, now this next one, he's
Speaker 1: going to keep it right, And so I think that's
Speaker 1: what I will be tracking is if he scores, does
Speaker 1: he throw the football and then does he regret?
Speaker 3: You know, teams have a getback coach yah sidelines, we
Speaker 3: need to we need don't throw.
Speaker 1: Coach on each put the put the net up behind
Speaker 1: the field thing wherever he is to keep it from
Speaker 1: going on the stands.
Speaker 2: Move the net in front of him.
Speaker 3: By the way, his next game will be his one
Speaker 3: hundred and sixty first, which will break a tie with
Speaker 3: a great former center named Tony Mayberry for eighth placed
Speaker 3: in team history. And it's weird to think that three
Speaker 3: of the top ten most games played are on the
Speaker 3: team right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's impold to David will Golston and Mike Evans.
Speaker 3: And yet the Buccaneers are something like the third youngest
Speaker 3: team in the league.
Speaker 4: It's kind of a weird mess.
Speaker 2: That's interesting, all right.
Speaker 1: So now let's flip into our fantasy watch, which that's
Speaker 1: my favorite, that is your favorite for.
Speaker 2: Sure, So tell me what are you going to be watching.
Speaker 2: What advice do you have for people?
Speaker 3: Well, everybody's going to be deciding whether or not they
Speaker 3: should ad Sean Tucker and you know because really, honestly,
Speaker 3: he had fifty three yards from scrimmage in his career
Speaker 3: before this last game when he had one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety two and Rashad Whit's gonna come back at some point,
Speaker 3: and there's been talk of the three headed monster. And
Speaker 3: that's what every fantasy player dreads is a backfield where
Speaker 3: you don't know what's going to happen and which guy's
Speaker 3: going to have the yards and the touchdowns this week
Speaker 3: next week, the week after. But in fantasy football, you
Speaker 3: got to take the shot at a running back because
Speaker 3: they're so hard to find, especially in season, and you've
Speaker 3: got injuries and you've got bye weeks and you need
Speaker 3: some depth. Take the shot. Put them on your bench,
Speaker 3: see what happens. See what happens. So I would say,
Speaker 3: if you're deciding whether or not pick up Sean Tucker,
Speaker 3: definitely do so.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then secondly, if you're a person like I do
Speaker 3: a lot, you stream defenses, like you pick one a
Speaker 3: different one each week, just based on matchups, stay well
Speaker 3: clear of this ballgame on Monday night, because these are
Speaker 3: two of four highest scoring teams in the league. Bucks
Speaker 3: just had five hundred ninety four yards. I think the
Speaker 3: Ravens had about four hundred and sixty yards against the Commanders,
Speaker 3: and they average more than two hundred yards a game,
Speaker 3: so rushing yards a game.
Speaker 4: So just don't bother with this game.
Speaker 2: That's a good call. I like that very much, all right.
Speaker 1: So now this is where typically we talk about sort
Speaker 1: of the human interest side off the field. Typically it's
Speaker 1: about all player that we find some fun fact about
Speaker 1: them or interesting storyline. But of course, with this last
Speaker 1: week with the hurricane coming through and the herculean efforts
Speaker 1: of our travel staff and everything they did for this organization,
Speaker 1: we just felt like that was what we.
Speaker 2: Needed to focus on, talk about just what it took
Speaker 2: to have this happened. So, Bree, you were part of
Speaker 2: the travel party.
Speaker 1: To New Orleans, tell us what stood out to you
Speaker 1: about it and just what it was like to watch
Speaker 1: what all it it took for the that department to
Speaker 1: get this done well.
Speaker 5: And it's funny because I think a lot of times
Speaker 5: we in this industry, we get so you have your
Speaker 5: regimented schedule and unless you have a Mina night football game,
Speaker 5: a Thursday night football game, every week essentially mirrors the
Speaker 5: week before, like you know, exactly what you're doing every
Speaker 5: single day. So this took flexibility adjustments by everybody, and
Speaker 5: just obviously gratitude for the Glazier family for prioritizing the
Speaker 5: safety of the team, the staff, getting everybody out, and
Speaker 5: I just think, you know, you just got to see
Speaker 5: the behind the scenes look of every single aspect. People
Speaker 5: making makeshift desk, people working in the mill room, people
Speaker 5: working on the floor, working in hotel rooms. Because practicing
Speaker 5: at Tulane university, and then we're shifting multiple hotels, we're
Speaker 5: doing meetings in one hotel, we're staying in one. Then
Speaker 5: we're all getting on the buses again, shifting hotels on Friday,
Speaker 5: but just to see, you know, and I think throughout
Speaker 5: the week. Initially you're worried about loved ones. Obviously you're
Speaker 5: worried about the city of Tampa because a lot of
Speaker 5: people had their their pets, their spouse, you know, grow
Speaker 5: or whatever on the trip. If you had a lot
Speaker 5: of people that all of their family wasn't on the
Speaker 5: team planes, wasn't able to evacuate, so you had them
Speaker 5: back at home. And then just absolute props to Tim Jarrocky,
Speaker 5: the senior director of Team Operations, that I don't think
Speaker 5: probably slept at all. I think every single time I
Speaker 5: saw him he was on the phone, coffee in hand,
Speaker 5: but just not only booking multiple options going into the
Speaker 5: trip and kind of having that contingency plan, uh is
Speaker 5: it New Orleans, is.
Speaker 2: It somewhere else? But then also after the fact.
Speaker 5: Of booking places for people that still had flooding, that
Speaker 5: still had issues in their homes that they couldn't go
Speaker 5: back to if we couldn't get back to Tampa. So
Speaker 5: all of that throughout the week and just the ability
Speaker 5: of the team and the staff to just block out
Speaker 5: those distractions but use it as fuel against the Saints.
Speaker 5: And then also kind of the same with Duke Preston
Speaker 5: and Tyler Thompson with player engagement and just working with
Speaker 5: the players individually to see, okay, what what is the
Speaker 5: home situation, like do you have flooding? Do you need
Speaker 5: somewhere to go? And then booking, you know, getting the
Speaker 5: hotel rooms ready. So it was definitely a team effort,
Speaker 5: a very very interesting week, but happy to say that
Speaker 5: we got the win, and I think it was fun
Speaker 5: just to see the video.
Speaker 4: Of the game. Balls yeah, yeah, yeah, Tim Drackey, that
Speaker 4: one didn't, didn't.
Speaker 3: Duke uh and his people also set up like excursions
Speaker 3: for the families.
Speaker 5: Yes, so they had a big zoo day one of
Speaker 5: the days for the kids.
Speaker 4: Yes, And I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: The point being giving them something to do and so
Speaker 3: the players the the The whole idea was to be
Speaker 3: so structured and organized that the players could really focus
Speaker 3: on football like they normally do and they're worried, right,
Speaker 3: and bringing the families along allowed them not to worry
Speaker 3: about their families back home. So it's not that it's
Speaker 3: not a heartless thing like focus on football. It's like,
Speaker 3: let's take care of everything.
Speaker 4: So these guys feel comfortable focusing.
Speaker 5: On football well. And I love what Zion McCollum said too,
Speaker 5: is that if you had a question or going through
Speaker 5: film studying, you're doing different things.
Speaker 2: He's like, we didn't have to send a text, you
Speaker 2: didn't have to call somebody.
Speaker 5: I could literally just walk down to someone's room and
Speaker 5: go in there and talk about things. You were in
Speaker 5: this own little world, locked in in a hotel space,
Speaker 5: and even though it's different and it's out of your
Speaker 5: realm of what you're normally doing. I think the guys
Speaker 5: were really really good about being focused and being locked
Speaker 5: in despite everything else throughout the week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I really think that you can't overstate the idea
Speaker 1: that part of why we won is because of the
Speaker 1: efforts of the Travel department and the Glazer family, because
Speaker 1: the mental side is such a huge part of it.
Speaker 1: And if you are frantic and worried and running around
Speaker 1: and all that, the odds of you really, like you said,
Speaker 1: being able to focus on the game. So there's the
Speaker 1: side of the empathetic human side, where this organization in
Speaker 1: the Glazer family took care of everybody that it wasn't
Speaker 1: just about football, it was your safety is first, your
Speaker 1: family is first, like they don't have to do that.
Speaker 1: That was above and beyond for how the travel department
Speaker 1: handled it, how the Glazier family handled it, all of
Speaker 1: it was above and beyond. And then also to see
Speaker 1: how well they did it that it affected the way
Speaker 1: that the team was able to focus and be ready
Speaker 1: for a game. To see that they hit both sides
Speaker 1: of that of the human side and the football side
Speaker 1: so well was amazing to see. And I just think
Speaker 1: that that was truly a heartwarming thing of you know,
Speaker 1: football as family that they always say that, and it
Speaker 1: was very cool to see that. And it wasn't just
Speaker 1: the football side either, that they were taking care of
Speaker 1: the business side. That they were telling everyone on the
Speaker 1: business side, hey, like if you need hotels, the Glazer
Speaker 1: family has paid for them these different places. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was so incredibly again above and beyond an
Speaker 1: amazing and to feel cared for by your organization during
Speaker 1: such a stressful, chaotic time, I thought was really amazing.
Speaker 1: It may be proud to work here for the way
Speaker 1: that they handled it, and I just I thought that
Speaker 1: was really amazing and continued on, Yeah, there are still
Speaker 1: people that they have in hotels because they don't have power,
Speaker 1: or they're flooded, or you know, whatever the case may be.
Speaker 1: It was not a thing that, like to your point,
Speaker 1: that ended with the New Orleans game.
Speaker 2: It is still ongoing.
Speaker 3: So the Glazier family provided the resources. But you mentioned
Speaker 3: Tim Jiroki and Zach Worth give made it happen, Yes,
Speaker 3: and they didn't. They started this on Friday before the
Speaker 3: Tuesday trip. Tim was coaching, helping coach his son play
Speaker 3: football when he got the call. So on a Friday,
Speaker 3: just a normal friday, Yeah, a high school football night, right,
Speaker 3: And so I don't think he slept a whole lot,
Speaker 3: as you mentioned after that, but they also they had
Speaker 3: contingency plans. They also found rooms in Houston in case,
Speaker 3: in case there.
Speaker 1: Wasn't going to be Yeah, if planning one of these
Speaker 1: wasn't crazy enough, let's do too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And there wasn't enough rooms at the jaw where
Speaker 3: we were going to stay over the weekend, and did
Speaker 3: stay over the weekend, right, So they had to this
Speaker 3: hotel and then this hotel had had the meeting space,
Speaker 3: and so just to put it all together, it's pretty.
Speaker 2: Amazing, incredible, good job guys.
Speaker 1: All right, well, now let's turn the page as much
Speaker 1: as this was an incredible week, and let's look ahead
Speaker 1: to this next game against the Baltimore Ravens. There is
Speaker 1: a lot to look at with this team. They are
Speaker 1: pretty dang good. They are lighting the league on fire,
Speaker 1: especially on the offense. So tell me what stands out
Speaker 1: to you. Of course, to start the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they lost their first two games kind of flukey,
Speaker 3: especially the Raiders game, but they have won four in row,
Speaker 3: coming in and pretty handily and against some good competition.
Speaker 3: And what stands up first of all is the running game.
Speaker 3: They're averaging two hundred and five rushing yards per game,
Speaker 3: which after in the offseason they thought, hey, let's sign
Speaker 3: Derrick Henry, the enormous running back for the Tennessee Titans,
Speaker 3: and put him in the backfield with Lamar jack Look
Speaker 3: at the two of them next to each other, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: who is such a rushing threat on his own, and
Speaker 3: let's see what this pair of running threats can do
Speaker 3: to defenses. And you got to say it's proof of concept.
Speaker 3: It's been exactly what they were hoping for because I mean,
Speaker 3: especially think about a ready.
Speaker 1: Now he's out running DB's with the football in his hand,
Speaker 1: and he's like twice their size, which.
Speaker 4: He's done throughout his career. But he's thirty years old.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's already reached over twenty one miles per hour
Speaker 3: several times this season. He's running his fasts and when
Speaker 3: he gets it into the open field, he runs as
Speaker 3: fast as in the league. And he's huge, and he's
Speaker 3: thirty years old. So it's really not fair. But you saw,
Speaker 3: I think I think you saw in one of those
Speaker 3: plays there was what you call his own read. So
Speaker 3: Lamar Jackson's either going to give it to Derek or
Speaker 3: keep it.
Speaker 5: How do you do?
Speaker 4: How do you defend that?
Speaker 5: Is?
Speaker 4: That is rough?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Defense.
Speaker 1: I remember the first time we saw Derek Henry, like,
Speaker 1: we went to the joint practices in Tennessee and he
Speaker 1: walked past us, and I remember you and I just
Speaker 1: been like.
Speaker 3: She's not exaggerating, it's true. And we talked about this
Speaker 3: a lot, but we both were like we knew he
Speaker 3: was huge. He walked by on the end.
Speaker 4: That's a running back.
Speaker 1: He said, Really, that's a defensive end. That's not a
Speaker 1: running back. That's a defensive end.
Speaker 3: I get the most amazing stat, and you're going to
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about their defense, but the most
Speaker 3: amazing stat to me right now through six weeks, the
Speaker 3: Ravens are out rushing their opponents by an average of
Speaker 3: one hundred and forty eight yards hundred forty six yards
Speaker 3: a game. They are averaging one hundred and forty six
Speaker 3: more rushing yards per game.
Speaker 1: If you were just averaging that many rushing yards, that's great,
Speaker 1: and then more than the yeah, that's whow.
Speaker 4: So hopefully the Bucks running game can change that a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, so Bree, what are you taking a
Speaker 2: look at for this game?
Speaker 5: Yes, well, on the defensive side, Zach Orr was promoted
Speaker 5: promoted to defensive coordinator. I think it's interesting, little bit lopsided.
Speaker 5: They are first in the NFL in run defense and
Speaker 5: thirty first in past defense.
Speaker 1: So maybe we should I'm gonna go to Cohen's offense
Speaker 1: after this and be like, I got.
Speaker 4: It, I got an idea. This came to me just
Speaker 4: wideboard thought.
Speaker 5: Yes. So, as much as they've struggled against the past
Speaker 5: or four C teams, to be one dimensional. I think
Speaker 5: that all starts with Travis Jones, their nose tackle, who
Speaker 5: plays with good leverage at the point of attack, has
Speaker 5: kind of been their anchor inside, and then their defensive tackle,
Speaker 5: and I really hope I do not butcher this nond
Speaker 5: to Bak again, who just has the short area of quickness,
Speaker 5: the athleticism to stop rushers. And then linebacker Roquan Smith,
Speaker 5: who leads their demon tackles and it's just kind of
Speaker 5: a speed demon can out outpace rushers to the boundary
Speaker 5: explosive in space.
Speaker 2: So I think those.
Speaker 5: Guys are going to be kind of the key of
Speaker 5: that defense and have kind of been their game wreckers
Speaker 5: each week.
Speaker 3: By the way, thirteen sacks last year outrageous, which is
Speaker 3: why he got his bag.
Speaker 1: I figured I would talk about the fact that, like
Speaker 1: we went into the whole run part of their offense
Speaker 1: and that that alone would probably be anything else. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they put all their resources into just that. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that was what I wanted to focus on, is the
Speaker 1: fact that that's not it that that's not all that
Speaker 1: would be enough, but it's not. So they also have
Speaker 1: of course, they their offense as a hole.
Speaker 2: It's insane.
Speaker 1: Their stats first in the league and yards per game,
Speaker 1: yards per play, running yards per game, running yards per play,
Speaker 1: and sack rate and third down conversion, all of those
Speaker 1: categories first.
Speaker 3: In the Yeah, but they're only like eighth in passing
Speaker 3: yards right.
Speaker 1: Right, So then there's that weakness they And then as
Speaker 1: we talked about, let's say, okay, we stopped the run,
Speaker 1: let's say we just oh, okay, I'm gonna just say that,
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna do that. They have zay flowers
Speaker 1: out there. And then he's sent new career highs and yards.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks in a row. He had nine
Speaker 1: catches for one hundred and thirty two yards in the
Speaker 1: first half versus the Commanders last week and the week
Speaker 1: before he had seven catches and one hundred and eleven yards.
Speaker 1: So he can go off, obviously if you don't pay
Speaker 1: attention to him, if you get too focused on Derek Henry.
Speaker 2: Of course, Mark.
Speaker 1: Andrews had been in a bit of a slump for
Speaker 1: him for a while, caught his first touchdown of the
Speaker 1: season last week, had a couple solid games now in
Speaker 1: a row, so you really don't want to let him
Speaker 1: get on that role that start letting him and you
Speaker 1: know them get back into that same rhythm that they've had.
Speaker 1: And then the interesting thing is the one potential weakness
Speaker 1: that seemed like their offense was going to have this
Speaker 1: year was their offensive line. That they made some moves,
Speaker 1: they did some different things, new guys. First couple games,
Speaker 1: it was looking a little rough. It was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: like you need that offensive line to do what you
Speaker 1: want to do with Derrick Henry and with.
Speaker 2: The passing game.
Speaker 1: And then they seem like they have figured it out
Speaker 1: and we know how to is with the offensive line
Speaker 1: of sometimes it takes that chemistry, that communication a little while,
Speaker 1: and it feels like they are because now they had
Speaker 1: three new starters coming into the season and then they
Speaker 1: had some moves due to injury, and it seems like
Speaker 1: it's actually gone really well. They've now allowed the least
Speaker 1: sacks in the league, so again number one in the league.
Speaker 1: They've allowed the least sacks across the whole season, so
Speaker 1: even factoring in those couple games that they weren't playing
Speaker 1: as well. So obviously this is going to be a
Speaker 1: tall task for our defense. But we've seen that like
Speaker 1: Tod Bowles can figure things out that man is back.
Speaker 1: They're dialing up different things, and I feel like we've
Speaker 1: seen what a nice time to have so many of
Speaker 1: our defensive guys back that I want to see, you know,
Speaker 1: and I read all this, I'm like, but we have Vita,
Speaker 1: but we have Antoine, but we have all these things,
Speaker 1: and I'm just so thankful that for the timing of
Speaker 1: all of it, that we have a lot of our
Speaker 1: guys back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be an interesting thing they have.
Speaker 3: They're starting a rookie at right tackle and Roger Rosengarten.
Speaker 3: He's a second round pick. But this last draft was
Speaker 3: so deep in tackles that you could find a guy
Speaker 3: in the second round. So and also you didn't even
Speaker 3: mention Isaiah Likely a second tight end who is a
Speaker 3: very dangerous threat as well.
Speaker 4: So there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: There, there is, all right, So now it's time for
Speaker 1: our answer to our trivia question.
Speaker 2: I thought, I go ahead, Well, I.
Speaker 4: Don't need to put on because I know who it is.
Speaker 4: It's uh, did you have a guess?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean I always guess Ronde, okay, which feels
Speaker 1: like it would have been a decent guess.
Speaker 4: Brian Kelly led that team in interceptions that year.
Speaker 5: I can't guess because because you know, the answer looked, I.
Speaker 2: Didn't have the yes.
Speaker 4: The answer is Derek Brooks look at that.
Speaker 3: And this was the beginning of his two thousand and
Speaker 3: two NFC Defensive Player of the Year campaign, in which
Speaker 3: he scored five touchdowns. This was the first one ninety
Speaker 3: seven yard touchdown. I can still picture him running because
Speaker 3: he had kind of an unusual running gait and you
Speaker 3: don't usually see your linebackers running ninety seven yards. It's
Speaker 3: the second longest interception return in team history after a
Speaker 3: shut in Quarrels ninety eight yard against the Packers, and
Speaker 3: tied for the third longest touchdown of any type in
Speaker 3: team history. And he would go on to do great
Speaker 3: things that year. But they wanted that shut out bad
Speaker 3: and Derek Brooks.
Speaker 4: Made it happen.
Speaker 2: All right, Well there's our answer. I hope some of
Speaker 2: you got it right.
Speaker 4: I bet something like we got it wrong.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: That one feels like a thing maybe people would have done.
Speaker 1: All right, that is going to do it for us
Speaker 1: on this edition of Bucks Insider. Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being here with us. We'll see you next week.