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Speaker 1: So for now, let's start with our news of the day.
Speaker 1: One Camarta got a got a heck of an award.
Speaker 1: Tell us what happened, I would say, it's expected news.
Speaker 1: I would have been pretty mad if he did not
Speaker 1: win NFC Special Teams Player of the Week. Of course,
Speaker 1: it's all about me and how it makes it. No,
Speaker 1: I mean he was and I was thinking about this yesterday.
Speaker 1: It's not often that you get to witness the best
Speaker 1: game for your franchise ever played by a person of
Speaker 1: specific position, like I think back to the day when
Speaker 1: when Doug Martin had two fifty one yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That was the best day ever for a Buccaneers running
Speaker 1: back Jimmy Giles had four touchdowns against Miami and the
Speaker 1: game that was the best day ever for a Buckaners Titan.
Speaker 1: It's not arguable this was the best game that a
Speaker 1: Buckaners punter has ever had. And it's not just statistical,
Speaker 1: because his ability to win the field position battle for
Speaker 1: a game that was just a grind the whole time
Speaker 1: and had fifteen punts and like fifteen combined three and outs,
Speaker 1: field position mattered, and he made it happen. And he
Speaker 1: had three of the eight longest punts in team history
Speaker 1: in one game, including the seventy four yard that tied
Speaker 1: to record by Seawan Landetta in the longest punt the
Speaker 1: Bucks I've ever had. And it wasn't just a number,
Speaker 1: because it was it was a critical juncture. The Buccaneers
Speaker 1: had come out in the in the in the second half,
Speaker 1: got the ball first, went three and out, disappointingly, did
Speaker 1: manage to force upoint, got the ball went three and
Speaker 1: out again, disappointing, and then while trying to get the
Speaker 1: punt off, committed to penalties and so you're on we're
Speaker 1: just backing up. Yeah, and but I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 1: He hit a fifty seven yard punt, but we committed
Speaker 1: a penalty on the punt. The Rams at that point
Speaker 1: could either tack on ten yards at the end of
Speaker 1: the return and take the ball and go, or back
Speaker 1: us up ten yards and make us punt again. That
Speaker 1: they regret that decision. They made the wrong decision. They did,
Speaker 1: you know. And I thought about how incredible his leg
Speaker 1: strength and power is, not just for the distance he's getting,
Speaker 1: but how many times he was asked to kick in
Speaker 1: general in that game, because technically it had six points,
Speaker 1: but if we think about it, he really had eight
Speaker 1: because he punted eight times in terms of those penalties
Speaker 1: having to redo at each time and they didn't count,
Speaker 1: but in terms of what his legs asked kicked off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So this guy had to kick so much and was
Speaker 1: still getting that kind of power behind his kicks with
Speaker 1: his leg getting a lot of usage. By the way,
Speaker 1: he made two of the four special teams tackles as well.
Speaker 1: I was incredible. I was a little concerned from on
Speaker 1: that first one. I was like, oh God, But then
Speaker 1: he's a heck of an athlete, so you know, um
Speaker 1: and also shameless plug. We had him and Bryant Suck
Speaker 1: on the radio show this week. They are great, So definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean, he had the one blocked, but that's not
Speaker 1: his fault. Bobby Wagner jumped over the line, but he
Speaker 1: made a fifty yard and those three or four, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty incredible, all right. So um. Also, I know that
Speaker 1: there were so many milestones we were talking about going
Speaker 1: into that game, but one we hadn't even addressed was
Speaker 1: this streak of consecutive passes without an interception for Brady.
Speaker 1: There's a little bit of a you know, superstitious factor exactly.
Speaker 1: And this is why I figured we'd tell everybody that, yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't talk about these before, but now that it's happened,
Speaker 1: we can talk about it and tell everybody this today.
Speaker 1: And it's also been It's been put in notes, has
Speaker 1: been put in stories. We're not the ones breaking the
Speaker 1: seal here. Okay. So Tom Brady hasn't thrown an interception
Speaker 1: since the fourth quarter of the Week one game against Dallas,
Speaker 1: and that is a streak of three seventy three passes. Now,
Speaker 1: think about Tom Brady's career. This is his longest streak
Speaker 1: of passes without an interception. Now, twenty three seasons into
Speaker 1: the best career ever four quarterback, and he's really he's
Speaker 1: getting close. Hopefully he'll make that mark. He's passed his
Speaker 1: own best and is what is at So he needs
Speaker 1: thirty more to uh to have the longest drink in
Speaker 1: NFL history. Wow, and we're not Jake said, if folks,
Speaker 1: it's already out there and we've already talked about it.
Speaker 1: We just thought we'd let you hafens. Don't blame us,
Speaker 1: not our fault. It really is incredible, and I think
Speaker 1: just overall that the turnover and lack of turnover thing
Speaker 1: has been so interesting. It's very bizarre. Now, what is it,
Speaker 1: five games the defense has not produced a turnover game minutes.
Speaker 1: It's just it's it's never happened before the first time
Speaker 1: in team history it's ever happened. But then I will
Speaker 1: say that if you're going to have that statistic, at
Speaker 1: least you are not turning it over. On the other
Speaker 1: side of the we have one turnover as the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: do during that same span, and it was actually on
Speaker 1: special teams. So the offense has also not turned the
Speaker 1: ball over in five straight games. Yeah, it's incredible. And
Speaker 1: of course, as we've been talking about Brady and the
Speaker 1: things that he's very good at, uh, last last minute drives,
Speaker 1: the guy knows a thing or two about that. And
Speaker 1: just explain a little bit about how incredible this end
Speaker 1: of the game was, what they were able to do
Speaker 1: and produce. There are we're talking about the win probability. Yes,
Speaker 1: so if you don't have you seen win probably win
Speaker 1: probability charts. Yes. I love them, especially after the game
Speaker 1: ends where they show a team was like you had
Speaker 1: every Yeah, they're like these horizontal charts. Okay, I'll explain
Speaker 1: this first. Um, according to with the win probability chart,
Speaker 1: after the Bucks, you know that fourth down on our
Speaker 1: pen ultimate drive was incomplete. That gave us a They
Speaker 1: gave us a five percent chance to win. This is
Speaker 1: based on thousands of historical occurrences, and you know what
Speaker 1: has happened with them. Um, it went up to the
Speaker 1: Bucks had to get a stop on defense or they
Speaker 1: would have run out of the the clock. So you know,
Speaker 1: we get the ball back in the forty it's ten
Speaker 1: point two percent and then Tom Brady starts making plays
Speaker 1: and you can see it just go up. Kate Doton's
Speaker 1: even as big of a play as Kate Doton's twenty
Speaker 1: yard catch, it only put the win probably probability up
Speaker 1: by about five. But then Scotty Miller makes his two
Speaker 1: catches and now all of a sudden, we're at thirty
Speaker 1: two point two percent. And then the penalty on Darian
Speaker 1: Kendrick against Mike Evans and the end zone makes the
Speaker 1: first and goal at the one, and now it looks
Speaker 1: like we have a two thirds chance of winning. And
Speaker 1: after we score, it's not at a hundred because there
Speaker 1: was nine seconds left. But it was pretty amazing. Those
Speaker 1: charts are very interesting because they you know, they got
Speaker 1: the line down the middle and they have one team
Speaker 1: on top of one on the bottom, and the line
Speaker 1: goes up and down and you know something, Okay, they
Speaker 1: have a sixty chance. Okay, now they have a sixty.
Speaker 1: This whole thing was like this and then went whoop
Speaker 1: all the way up to the rams and then down
Speaker 1: in just seconds. That's so ridiculous. And so what were
Speaker 1: some of the big takeaways for you offensively for the
Speaker 1: team this last Sunday and the things that you knew
Speaker 1: that they've already been talking about and working on, and
Speaker 1: how many of those did we see improvement? Where do
Speaker 1: we feel like they're still working? Kind of as you
Speaker 1: take a look at that game, as all of course,
Speaker 1: winds feel like they cure everything, but it doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that everything necessary. No. One good thing that was better
Speaker 1: was third downs. The Buccaneers were something forty two ncent,
Speaker 1: which still isn't as good as they were last year,
Speaker 1: but it's a big improvement over been what's been happening. Um,
Speaker 1: So that was a big improvement. Otherwise than the overall
Speaker 1: numbers on offense weren't great. But what I take away
Speaker 1: from that, and especially at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: was when they were taking away Mike Evanson and Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller, Kay Doton, a couple of guys became reliable
Speaker 1: targets that Tom Brady could count on. And you have
Speaker 1: to have that and and think about the fact that
Speaker 1: through a lot of this the last two years of
Speaker 1: unbelievable offensive success, we've generally had a third guy and
Speaker 1: even a fourth guy that Tom Brady could count on
Speaker 1: and was comfortable going to Rob Gronkowski for a long time,
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. It's sort of been by committee this year,
Speaker 1: and there's been a shuffling of the of the lineup
Speaker 1: do some due to injuries, but you saw in this game,
Speaker 1: I would think that would make Tom Brady more comfortable
Speaker 1: and confident going to guys like Kay Doton and Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller when the defense is putting all their resources on
Speaker 1: stopping are two big guys, right, No, that makes complete sense.
Speaker 1: And how about defensively, I know that one thing we've
Speaker 1: really talked about is the need for a complete game
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. And um, I mean, as
Speaker 1: we we saw that win probably ability chart that they
Speaker 1: did not give us a lot of odds, even the
Speaker 1: idea of the defense having to get that stop that
Speaker 1: was so critical of Ucial to get the ball backs.
Speaker 1: And we know that they made some huge place to
Speaker 1: just keep the team in this game. UM. So yeah,
Speaker 1: just in your mind, what is the big takeaway defensively
Speaker 1: of especially after these last few games where there's been
Speaker 1: some critique, and in criticism, I'm gonna sound repetitive, but
Speaker 1: I'm i'm gonna say third downs and this is that
Speaker 1: was an issue last week, um when talking about the
Speaker 1: problems that the Buck Bucks for having sustaining success going
Speaker 1: into the second half, especially on defense, um uh, Todd
Speaker 1: Bull said third downs, and we really were doing poorly
Speaker 1: on both. But if you look at this game, they
Speaker 1: only gave up two in six yards. They only give
Speaker 1: up nine first downs. This is much better than the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers having. I remember the numbers were pretty good through
Speaker 1: three games. So the last five games there haven't been
Speaker 1: particularly before this one haven't been particularly good. But look
Speaker 1: at this, I mean, half as many first downs as
Speaker 1: they had allowed on average, the third down percentage way down,
Speaker 1: more than a hundred yards less. Overall, the rushing defense
Speaker 1: was much better. I know, I know the Rams have
Speaker 1: a terrible running attack. I get it yards per carry,
Speaker 1: completion percentage. I mean that's a big one because uh
Speaker 1: less than you don't see that a whole lot. You'll
Speaker 1: see that too many times. And average game for play
Speaker 1: three point seven is a really low number for a
Speaker 1: team to get on offense throughout an entire game. So
Speaker 1: just improvement across the board. But I think the most
Speaker 1: important thing there is third downs. And so for you
Speaker 1: looking at this next week, it's so interesting is we
Speaker 1: always talk about the schedule when it comes out at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, and we start picking what
Speaker 1: we think are wins and what we think our losses,
Speaker 1: and this has just been such a weird year across
Speaker 1: the league and even specifically the Buck schedule. I think
Speaker 1: if we'd said, you know what, they're going to beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, are going to beat the Saints, They're going
Speaker 1: to beat the Rams, and we just said that, you
Speaker 1: would think their record would be very different than it
Speaker 1: is now. And then you would have looked at the
Speaker 1: Seattle game before the season started, the ro They've got
Speaker 1: Wagner like, this is a team that's in rebuild and
Speaker 1: this is an easy, easy w going into this point,
Speaker 1: and that is absolutely not the case for this game.
Speaker 1: So what do you think we should know about the
Speaker 1: Seahawks and what this matchup could look like, particularly compared
Speaker 1: to what we would have thought earlier. Yeah, the thing
Speaker 1: we need to know is the Seahawks are good. They're good,
Speaker 1: and especially on offense. And Gino Smith is one of
Speaker 1: the biggest stories of the entire NFL this season. He
Speaker 1: has performed amazingly well. He's got a one or seven
Speaker 1: point two passer writing it's like third in the entire league,
Speaker 1: and it's deserved. This isn't flukey. He's doing it again
Speaker 1: and again. He also moves well, but he's been very,
Speaker 1: very accurate. He can still hit the deep ball, which
Speaker 1: was the big thing in the Russell Wilson era, but
Speaker 1: he he also works the intermediate area, probably better than Rusted.
Speaker 1: For most of his time there, that just wasn't his thing.
Speaker 1: So it's a tough offense to defend. You know, he's
Speaker 1: they still they used to have Russell Wilson throwing to
Speaker 1: d K Medcalf and Tyler Lockett. Well, they still have
Speaker 1: Metcalf and Lockett, and then those guys are fast. That
Speaker 1: kind is not only fast, but he's huge. It's a
Speaker 1: tough challenge. They have three tight ends. They use a lot.
Speaker 1: They drest. Not only did did they get rid of
Speaker 1: Wilson and Wagner, they let both of their starting offensive
Speaker 1: tackles walk in free agency and then just drafted two
Speaker 1: guys and stuck them in there, Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas,
Speaker 1: and they're doing great. So it's it's a challenge now. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they started out the season really really badly, probably gave
Speaker 1: up the most points for the first three or four weeks,
Speaker 1: But the last four weeks they've clamped down and they
Speaker 1: they have one of the best scoring defenses in the league.
Speaker 1: Rookie quarterback Treek Woolen has been awesome. So they're just
Speaker 1: getting a ton out of their young guys and it's
Speaker 1: really working out well for him. All right, Well, that
Speaker 1: is going to do it for us on this edition
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Speaker 1: the post game. We've got a lot of fun things
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Speaker 1: some fun videos, some fun events, and of course all
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Speaker 1: s stay tuned to Buccaneers to come and we'll see
Speaker 1: you next time. Mm hmmmm. Thanks