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 chain, He's still the twenty, He's still the twenty
Speaker 1: five to moret yarline history fifty forty, the thirty yards
Speaker 1: Michael Rout, Michael Rut, Michael Run stop Tapper day, there
Speaker 1: you go, and then sixty two yard for your goal attempts.
Speaker 1: It is God, God, God, God, box be Eagles. Who
Speaker 1: can forget again? I'm looking again? They already Derek Bucks,
Speaker 1: direty touchdown tamp a day, Derek Books, Bubo spariable player.
Speaker 1: You're the national football like third is the Daggers in
Speaker 1: where are you gonna wear? The Super Bowl? We call
Speaker 1: them the salty Dogs. Hey there everyone, you found us again.
Speaker 1: You are the salty Dogs coming at you all more time. Specifically,
Speaker 1: oh no, no, not one more time again again the
Speaker 1: final time? Correct? Well, my just don't know it. Continue.
Speaker 1: My key cards still work this morning, So I feel
Speaker 1: pretty good, by the way. Specifically, I'm Scott Smith and
Speaker 1: I am Jeff and we are the Salty Dogs, and
Speaker 1: we thank for joining us. And we have an exciting
Speaker 1: guest today, And I mean that because I just feel
Speaker 1: like he's a really high energy guy. Yes, Jack said you.
Speaker 1: You know that if you clicked on this and that's
Speaker 1: and you're saying his name correctly. It's how you say
Speaker 1: his last name, Cichy City, Yeah, Itchy Yeah. Okay, this
Speaker 1: is new information to you. Well know, there have been
Speaker 1: I have heard in different ways, but it's not the
Speaker 1: right you know, since since there's no end, all right,
Speaker 1: throwing it out there, okay, but don't but I want
Speaker 1: to make sure I throw it away so you don't
Speaker 1: make a mistake. So we're gonna have Jack with us,
Speaker 1: and he's really honestly, you know, he's one of the
Speaker 1: easiest guys on this team. Root. But anytime a person
Speaker 1: has to come overcome multiple and I guess at this
Speaker 1: point it's three going back to college knee injuries and
Speaker 1: he's still going. You know, you got to be impressed
Speaker 1: by that. At some point somebody, I'm not saying him,
Speaker 1: but at some point somebody might just say that, all right,
Speaker 1: this is that's enough enough. And not only that, but
Speaker 1: his attitude is very good. He's just a real upbeat guy.
Speaker 1: So I like forward to talking to him. He looked
Speaker 1: great in the preseason two. Yeah. Well, um, during Bucks
Speaker 1: Radio after the Cleveland Brown game, Bruce Arians was talking
Speaker 1: to us in the locker room after the game, like
Speaker 1: we do every week or after every game, and uh,
Speaker 1: he brought Jack up and said that his play right there,
Speaker 1: he made the teams and we were all like, dang,
Speaker 1: well they know, because they don't usually say that they don't,
Speaker 1: but and the coaches have said, they said several times
Speaker 1: in the week before the Cleveland and in Dallas games
Speaker 1: that there are guys that will make the team in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks because we haven't made a
Speaker 1: decisions on five to ten spots and it could be
Speaker 1: personal against person B. And one of the guys is
Speaker 1: gonna make the team by his playing the next couple weeks.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, maybe city already Jack was already
Speaker 1: in a good spot before those games, but he was
Speaker 1: phenomenal last two games. Well, you talk about making making
Speaker 1: the team team and uh, when we were in Dallas
Speaker 1: Thursday was the game we met with Bruce Arians, had
Speaker 1: a production meeting, and Bruce pretty pretty good guy, was
Speaker 1: pretty open about what was going on and solidify what
Speaker 1: you were saying about open spots. He said, there are
Speaker 1: seven he said, there are seven spots tonight, there are
Speaker 1: that are going to get decided. Seven to ten gonna
Speaker 1: get decide. And so of course we were all, you know,
Speaker 1: looking around and and a lot of it is you
Speaker 1: know what you can do and if you could play
Speaker 1: special teams, that's amazing how much you can hang onto
Speaker 1: a team. Yeah, and I would imagine that a couple
Speaker 1: of those spots where an outside linebacker, because it was
Speaker 1: a little surprising to see Noah Spence play every snap
Speaker 1: in the Cleveland game and a good number in the
Speaker 1: UH in the final game when most of the quote
Speaker 1: unquote starters because he was listed as a starter, were
Speaker 1: not playing the game, He's really the only one. And
Speaker 1: that had to show you that there was a job
Speaker 1: in the balance there and so they didn't end up
Speaker 1: keeping the and and coach just said, nobody worked harder.
Speaker 1: He was great, he tried, He worked really hard all
Speaker 1: the way up to that point, and he just said
Speaker 1: that today. But it just came down to the amount
Speaker 1: of production when he was on the field. And they
Speaker 1: liked Damon Harris and they liked Patrick O'Connor, although Patrick
Speaker 1: was later waived, and I think he said in the
Speaker 1: press conference. We're trying to get him back. So that's
Speaker 1: a couple of guys that just produced more and also
Speaker 1: very much to your point, both Damon Harris and Patrick
Speaker 1: O'Connor played special teams and were productive in that regard
Speaker 1: as well. And you know, I think that that let's
Speaker 1: see today's Tuesday. They did cuts Saturday and made a
Speaker 1: move yesterday. I I you know, Bruce made a comment
Speaker 1: in the very beginning when he first came to the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers as the head coach, saying that they're always going
Speaker 1: to be looking there, always if there is a guy
Speaker 1: out there that they think they can help the team,
Speaker 1: and I'll bring him in. So I I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna not necessarily constant movement, but when you can put
Speaker 1: guys on the practice squad or you know, you think
Speaker 1: you can get them through, which is kind of scary.
Speaker 1: You know, if someone says, hey, I really want you,
Speaker 1: it's really good. I'm gonna cut you, but don't worry
Speaker 1: about it. I'm gonna bring it back, so don't go anywhere.
Speaker 1: I mean, how do you deal with that? Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: at least it must be somewhat comforting to be told, hey,
Speaker 1: we value you. We just can't make the numbers work,
Speaker 1: but we want to keep you around. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you get another opportunity, more power to you. But I'd
Speaker 1: rather hear that then. Hey, listen, it's not gonna work.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that in normal work life? You know,
Speaker 1: like you know, but stick around around. We may need
Speaker 1: another radio guy. Yeah, listen, we got someone a little
Speaker 1: stronger pipes than you have. But don't go too far.
Speaker 1: The voice is more molefulous than may work out, so
Speaker 1: don't don't go. I would not enjoy that aspect no
Speaker 1: of my employment. But the only reason why I bring
Speaker 1: it up is because it's you know, people, I don't
Speaker 1: you know, it's sports, so you don't think they're real people,
Speaker 1: and it's like, oh, he just got caught or whatever.
Speaker 1: I mean, some of those guys that that's it up
Speaker 1: at this end of their end of their dream. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the majority of them, we'll get another shot somewhere, and
Speaker 1: you know, if they end up on the practice squad,
Speaker 1: like a bunch of them did, like say Bruce Anderson,
Speaker 1: Nick Fitzgerald, Um, Terry Beckner, the one draft pick that
Speaker 1: was not kept on the fifty three. That's that's actually
Speaker 1: a really good result for a lot of those guys.
Speaker 1: And let me give you an example. And I started
Speaker 1: to look up on Sunday when I was writing a
Speaker 1: story about our practice squad guys, who was on the
Speaker 1: practice squad in the first week of last season. I
Speaker 1: was surprised. I knew there would be some. I was
Speaker 1: purrobably five of the ten guys that were on the
Speaker 1: first practice squad last year, we're on the fifty three
Speaker 1: man roster on Sunday to open the next season. That
Speaker 1: shows you how valuable that practice squad is for both
Speaker 1: team and player. So guys like dary On Goomba, Wally
Speaker 1: Damon Harris. Uh. I think actually Patrick O'Connor was one
Speaker 1: of them, and you know he was since released, but
Speaker 1: he could come back. He could come back to go
Speaker 1: in one year from practice squad to opening day roster.
Speaker 1: Bobbo Wilson was another one. So uh that that really
Speaker 1: those guys, you know, I can't tell them how to feel,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure every single guy who doesn't make fifty
Speaker 1: three is disappointed in that, but I would hope that
Speaker 1: they still feel pretty good about where they are. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I also think it shows that the coaching staff,
Speaker 1: the scouting staff. They see something in someone and right
Speaker 1: now you're just not at that point. But we're not
Speaker 1: gonna lose you. We're gonna figure out a way to
Speaker 1: keep you. And they do. And uh, you talk about continuity,
Speaker 1: you talk about all a lot of new guys, but
Speaker 1: you just name five that have been around even though
Speaker 1: they're new for the fifty three. Anything about the cuts
Speaker 1: or the guys that made it that surprised you, I
Speaker 1: would say the running back position was the only one
Speaker 1: that made me kind of go that we went on
Speaker 1: with only three. Yeah, but now it's four. Now it's
Speaker 1: for today, yes, but yesterday it was that, Um no,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't. I wasn't. There was nothing that
Speaker 1: made me go really. Um. That fourth running back, by
Speaker 1: the way, is t J. Logan out of Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and coach was with the team when they drafted him
Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen, and they were very disappointed that
Speaker 1: year because he, uh, I think he hurts something. I
Speaker 1: can't think now what it was, shoulder maybe, and had
Speaker 1: to end up on injury reserve. So Bruston, that was
Speaker 1: Bruce's last year in years. So he came and played
Speaker 1: last year and was very good on kickoff returns, and
Speaker 1: he had a really good preseason average like six point
Speaker 1: two yards for Carrie. According to coach, he has like
Speaker 1: four point three speed and he's he's immediately he steps
Speaker 1: in here and immediately becomes the they first string kickoff return.
Speaker 1: Coach said that today and the Bucks had success back
Speaker 1: in oh two out of a running back from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. Yes, I just when you were saying that,
Speaker 1: look at I'm looking for something to get together. I
Speaker 1: can do you one up from there. Okay. So in
Speaker 1: the two thousand and two draft, we didn't have a
Speaker 1: first or second round pick because we had traded that
Speaker 1: and other things for John Gruten and are the rights
Speaker 1: to sign to hire John Gruden. And so our first
Speaker 1: pick of that entire draft was a receiver out of
Speaker 1: Michigan named Marquis Walker. Remember him, I do, well. I'm
Speaker 1: surprised because he never really played. He don't believe he
Speaker 1: got into a single game with us. He ended up
Speaker 1: on injury reserve. He was he looked, he came in here,
Speaker 1: he saw this guy. He's a rookie. He looks like
Speaker 1: he's thirty five years old, and he um so it
Speaker 1: was not It didn't end up being a very good pick.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the year or sometime in
Speaker 1: the next offseason, the Buccaneers basically was one of those
Speaker 1: challenge trades where you trade your guy who's not working
Speaker 1: out for their guys. Now we're gonna We traded Marquis
Speaker 1: Hills trade up for Thomas Jones. Remember that running back
Speaker 1: Thomas Jones had been a first round pick. I think
Speaker 1: I won like seventh overall or something didn't really work
Speaker 1: out in Arizona, had a couple of years or it
Speaker 1: didn't really work out, so that trade happened. Jones comes
Speaker 1: in here in oh three, and um, we had some
Speaker 1: running back issues that guys got hurt, and he got
Speaker 1: a shot second half of the season and did really,
Speaker 1: really well, and the next thing you know, he gets
Speaker 1: this huge contract in Chicago and he went on to
Speaker 1: have a pretty nice career with the Jets. He was
Speaker 1: a nice guy too, Yeah, and so was I mean,
Speaker 1: so was Michael Pittman us. Um, so yeah, there's there's
Speaker 1: a little bit area. So we should feel good about
Speaker 1: getting air. It's just not just Bruce's connection to Arizona.
Speaker 1: There's you know, maybe maybe it's the mojo. Well, I
Speaker 1: think it's exciting because we've needed a um kickoff returns
Speaker 1: spark and uh, this guy was really good in college
Speaker 1: on kickoff returns and he did well last year. Shot,
Speaker 1: were you surprised on the kicker who survived? No, of
Speaker 1: course not no funny because that was still up in
Speaker 1: the air from what from what they were telling us
Speaker 1: on Thursday. But I think you say that to players, Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: what what could Matt Gay have done in that last
Speaker 1: game to lose the job? I mean, if he went
Speaker 1: over three? Are you gonna ignore everything he did before that? No?
Speaker 1: But I think there is. There was some concern on
Speaker 1: the short ones, and so I think that was he
Speaker 1: missed one thirty seven yards and it hit up right
Speaker 1: because he was trying to play the win and it
Speaker 1: didn't happen. I continue to think that's a silly argument
Speaker 1: that he can't make short ones unless it's just all
Speaker 1: a matter of concentration, because if you make a chase
Speaker 1: all that's what it was. He kicks, stalked about it.
Speaker 1: He kicks the he kicks, His field goes pretty straight,
Speaker 1: So if he can make it forty eight, it should
Speaker 1: go in from and where do you think Carlos sends him.
Speaker 1: I always thought it was gonna be the Bears, but
Speaker 1: maybe it still will be. Because the guy missed the
Speaker 1: extra point by like it's about his guys, We should
Speaker 1: not laugh. I've seen We've seen our share of kicking issues.
Speaker 1: It's not it just at that level. He kept his job.
Speaker 1: So that's why I'm saying it's amazing. Maybe Minnesota because
Speaker 1: they have um they just got a new putner because
Speaker 1: the Browns cut their putterer. Well, Minnesota had had veteran
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, I think, but I don't think they were
Speaker 1: thrilled with him because they traded I believe a fifth
Speaker 1: round pick to Baltimore in August to get and I
Speaker 1: can't pronounce his name, but the last name looks like
Speaker 1: ved Vick to get their guy who is not going
Speaker 1: to make their team because they have justin freaking Tucker,
Speaker 1: who's the best kicker in the game. So it's amazing
Speaker 1: that Baltimore got somebody to try him pick for a
Speaker 1: guy they definitely were not going to keep. But he
Speaker 1: goes to Minnesota and mrs I believe he missed every
Speaker 1: kick in games that he tried, and they cut him
Speaker 1: so if they weren't, if they could go, well we
Speaker 1: got Damn Bailey, no problem. If they were happy with
Speaker 1: Dan Bailey, wouldn't trade a fifth on pay for this guy.
Speaker 1: So maybe that's another opportunity for Cairo. If they don't
Speaker 1: like Babe, Well, I hope, you know, I think, I
Speaker 1: think he gets picked up. UM. I hope that UM
Speaker 1: somebody will need a kicker before the season. Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you and I and I hope that um are kicking
Speaker 1: problems are solved. Yeah, it's too early for us to believe,
Speaker 1: that's absolutely true, but it sure looks like it's head
Speaker 1: in that direction. And that's good. Plus, we got two
Speaker 1: guys that can kick off now because opinion, Duhn Mackay
Speaker 1: can get it into the end zone pretty much whenever
Speaker 1: they want to so and they and a lot of
Speaker 1: that too when they in the preseason. We asked Bruce
Speaker 1: why he wasn't kicking into the end zone and he said,
Speaker 1: because we want to see him bring the ball out.
Speaker 1: We want to see how the other guys can come
Speaker 1: and practice. Yeah, that's exactly what he said. He goes,
Speaker 1: we know he can put it in the end zone
Speaker 1: anytime he wants and we probably will, yes, but we
Speaker 1: want to see what our guys if they understand in
Speaker 1: the scheme on how to tackle. So you know, it's
Speaker 1: another thing that I find interesting that I hadn't thought
Speaker 1: about it until, like coach said it. I think a
Speaker 1: week or two ago, when you have a good kickoff
Speaker 1: return man that teams know is good, they're more likely
Speaker 1: to kick it for a touchback, which is fine, you
Speaker 1: get the ball to twenty five. I mean I would rather, honestly,
Speaker 1: the way our return game has been for the last
Speaker 1: five or six years, I'd rather every single kick off
Speaker 1: against US goes in the end zone for a touchback
Speaker 1: because twenty five yard line average, that's awesome. Twenty five
Speaker 1: yard line, no chance for a fumble. So if this
Speaker 1: guy proves to be good t J. Logan, we'll probably
Speaker 1: end up getting more touchbacks because that we want to
Speaker 1: avoid him. I never thought about that before. Every in
Speaker 1: my whole life, yard line it is we'll start mark
Speaker 1: marking it down and see what happens. So I don't
Speaker 1: think that there was a ton surprising, uh in the
Speaker 1: cuts or the keeps, if you will, because I think
Speaker 1: we discussed this and thought they were gonna keep six receivers,
Speaker 1: and they did the six. We thought, uh, we thought
Speaker 1: they were gonna keep Tanner Hudson as a four tight end,
Speaker 1: not everybody they would. I think it's great, um, And
Speaker 1: you know, we've had injuries at the tighten position in
Speaker 1: the last few years, so it's nice. Even if he
Speaker 1: isn't intricately involved in the offense to begin the season,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not even active on game day to begin
Speaker 1: the season, he'll get a shot. When we were talking,
Speaker 1: we'll need him at some point we were talking with
Speaker 1: Bruce's I've never heard it put this way, but I
Speaker 1: really liked how it was done. We we were talking
Speaker 1: to Bruce and he goes, yeah, he goes, we hired
Speaker 1: ninety guys to fire thirties. When he said, I was like,
Speaker 1: I never thought of it that way. But you're hiring
Speaker 1: ninety guys to fire thirties. Well you But he inherited
Speaker 1: a business that already had a certain number plays. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: like he already had Lavante Davi, but he didn't have
Speaker 1: to hire him, although I'm sure Lavonte would have done
Speaker 1: fine in an interview if necessary, you would think. And
Speaker 1: today is Tuesday at practice and he was practicing today
Speaker 1: and so was Dave. These are good things. Coach. Now
Speaker 1: we're will you'll hear this on Wednesday or later, but
Speaker 1: we're talking on Tuesday. Coach said he hoped there would
Speaker 1: be a couple more guy back tomorrow and that could
Speaker 1: be Mike Edwards. Um, that could be DeVante Bond. By
Speaker 1: the way, speaking of the roster, Devantey Bond made it.
Speaker 1: And I think he made it because well, he's very
Speaker 1: good on special teams. But I think because they switched
Speaker 1: him from inside outside linebacker and they're like, wow, this
Speaker 1: really works. Now they can still. That gives you a
Speaker 1: lot of flexibility in your numbers because if you feel
Speaker 1: like you're one shorted inside linebacker, he can still play that.
Speaker 1: So having guys like that is really good for putting
Speaker 1: a roster together. But um, he has actually been changed
Speaker 1: on the roster who designated himself as an outside linebacker,
Speaker 1: So that's a done deal. Yeah, I'm I'm getting excited.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, it is Tuesday, and did walk
Speaker 1: out and did see guys that you were wondering, Hey,
Speaker 1: are are they gonna go? Seems like the handling of
Speaker 1: the players, uh, physically with injuries or just the whole preseason.
Speaker 1: I thought it was handled really well. May not be
Speaker 1: best for the fans because you're not seeing everybody, but
Speaker 1: they certainly were making sure that when it mattered, and
Speaker 1: that will be this Sunday that they're gonna have almost everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's not gonna be much of an injury issue at all,
Speaker 1: and that feels really good. It. Yeah, it's a great
Speaker 1: place to be. And you also have to keep into
Speaker 1: consideration that you were playing two games in five days,
Speaker 1: and that's something that they had to think about even
Speaker 1: during the preseason at training camp, because once you hit Sunday,
Speaker 1: you're traveling Wednesday, you're playing Thursday. That's tough, Yes, tough schedule.
Speaker 1: So the bottom it's it's it's the beginning. But then, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's got got something in their schedule. They don't. Yeah,
Speaker 1: coaches generally like to say, hey, you've got sixteen games.
Speaker 1: Already knew who were gonna play. It doesn't really matter
Speaker 1: what order they come in. But there are some challenges
Speaker 1: on the schedule, as we well know, and we'll we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it because you and I will be living
Speaker 1: those challenges too. And so it's that old five days
Speaker 1: working three days yeah, well, you know everybody, but you
Speaker 1: remember when we uh when Raymond James steven seventh state
Speaker 1: road trips when you that was hard. That was a blast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: especially the oklahomat Yeah when Yeah, I was gonna say,
Speaker 1: when played Kansas City and Norman, Oklahoma, which is my birthplace, Norman, Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: Really yep, I did not know this. My dad was
Speaker 1: a grad student at OU at the time. Really wow,
Speaker 1: and he went to Northwestern and I was in St.
Speaker 1: Louis had by then and from like three years old.
Speaker 1: All right, it's something like a five year, five hour
Speaker 1: driving close. No, I know, No, I did not know that.
Speaker 1: My Wildcats took it on the chin against Stanford. Dophense
Speaker 1: did not look good. I did watch that game though,
Speaker 1: But the guy we're about to have on here, he's
Speaker 1: he was very happy with his team's performance. To the
Speaker 1: to the dismay of us F fans. Uh, that game
Speaker 1: was over before it started. Yeah, I mean seriously, when
Speaker 1: they had a lightning the lake and when they had
Speaker 1: to lightning to lay first thing, I thought of, dang,
Speaker 1: good thing we're not there, because that is horrible. We
Speaker 1: are wearing red. Jeff, I wanted to bring this up
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I love it, you do. Yes, everybody's excited
Speaker 1: about it. That's fine. I love it. Red pants, no
Speaker 1: red jersey, Peter pants. We're wearing it. We're wearing it.
Speaker 1: I love it, Jeff forty four decades of when I
Speaker 1: like it. I love it. I think we're going to
Speaker 1: get some more of it. Who is that country? Tim
Speaker 1: McGraw Sonday, Sorry my bad, And and they're gonna have
Speaker 1: a special encore performance at halftime. Tim mcgrass song, you
Speaker 1: got another one? You know I didn't? You know? Excuse me.
Speaker 1: Don't take the girl. That's a timergrals you you want
Speaker 1: to sure? My wife? My wife is so excited about this.
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something? You listen to? Don't take
Speaker 1: the girl, You'll tear up. I think I've heard that one.
Speaker 1: It's a I love that song, but it's a hard
Speaker 1: it's a hard one. It's a hard one. You know.
Speaker 1: I did country for a number that. Yeah, poor guy. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm obviously showing my musical taste. Yeah country. I have
Speaker 1: been to a Tim McGraw concert, though I went with
Speaker 1: my wife. Yeah, so I've been there. I've been with him.
Speaker 1: That the State Fairgrounds, No, is that the hockey stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh some years ago. It wasn't anytime recently. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are very very excited
Speaker 1: about it. Doesn't matter that that's not my musical taste.
Speaker 1: It is a lot of people's musical But but the
Speaker 1: thing is is that you say country and never he's
Speaker 1: just playing Well, he's just a superstar and he's just
Speaker 1: gonna play songs that you're just gonna like an all right,
Speaker 1: I got one for you a song. Ye, no, not
Speaker 1: another song, but just out of curious you say superstar.
Speaker 1: So if you're a superstar, if I said, Scott, for
Speaker 1: you to be a superstar, how many number one hits
Speaker 1: would you need? Um? Four or five? I guess how
Speaker 1: many number one hits? Tim McGraw country number one on
Speaker 1: the Country Arch number one Country chart, Yes, number one.
Speaker 1: Number one's number one, and any one of the formats. Nope,
Speaker 1: more more more, come on, just tell me the number.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. That's what I heard. That's incredible, that's what
Speaker 1: you heard. This is so this is on Santiented. Do
Speaker 1: you doubt me a little bit? I think everybody just
Speaker 1: google it. Number one. It's like four albums, Yes, of
Speaker 1: number one hits. There's no way you could play. Although
Speaker 1: I am, I am legitimately shocked. That's why we're saying suppressive.
Speaker 1: How many does like Michael Jackson have? It can't be
Speaker 1: more than fifteen, fifteen or twenty. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Prince my all time favorite. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's a pop star that has forty three number
Speaker 1: one hits. You're googling it right now, A well, do
Speaker 1: you wanna do you want to get back to that
Speaker 1: on our third segment? We could? We could end it
Speaker 1: right here and bring Jack in here, and then we
Speaker 1: could you could get the answer on that. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I keep scrolling and it keeps saying more and more
Speaker 1: and more, so, more and more and more. Who is that?
Speaker 1: How do you like it? How do you like it? Um?
Speaker 1: It's a disco song? It is? It is? Wow, I'm
Speaker 1: really truy on my age. You are all right, let's
Speaker 1: let's get Jack in here. UM. I think I'm really excited.
Speaker 1: He I just asked him minutes ago and he said, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it. So that was I'm excited. We try
Speaker 1: to get these guys locked in days earlier, but we
Speaker 1: didn't really have a chance. I know, you find just
Speaker 1: hard to believe. I have not met him. I know
Speaker 1: who he is, but I have not met here. You're
Speaker 1: gonna like him. You like him. Let's get cool. Okay,
Speaker 1: the Salty Dogs and we're back here on the Salty Dogs,
Speaker 1: and as promised, we've got a special guest with us. Now,
Speaker 1: I think, first time on the show and last year
Speaker 1: that's Jack Cichy. You're hearing right there. First time the
Speaker 1: caller listener appreciate Jeff. He'd heard of us. I told
Speaker 1: him I started telling what the name was he So, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think when back when you guys had hunt on.
Speaker 1: All right, we're getting faced. Here's my question, Hud tell
Speaker 1: you to listen or did you catch it on? You know?
Speaker 1: He was like he was like, oh, I got this
Speaker 1: like little interview to do, and then I saw him
Speaker 1: retweet it, so I'm like check it out, you know,
Speaker 1: with the land Land. So before we get onto buccaneer stuff,
Speaker 1: you got to see a game you really enjoyed just
Speaker 1: the other day over Raymond j stanim right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Badger's Kamy ray j. And they came out firing
Speaker 1: all cylinders, which was a nice pick me up from
Speaker 1: the way they started off last season, so we'll hope
Speaker 1: they can continue that going forward. Yeah, that is a
Speaker 1: good start. Yeah, but it was good. They've been good.
Speaker 1: They've been good at times. Yeah. Were you surprised that
Speaker 1: they were able to put that many points up, No,
Speaker 1: because historically when they get rolling, they kind of have
Speaker 1: a tendency to do that. But it was it wasn't
Speaker 1: a pleasant surprise to see you that they kind of
Speaker 1: the offense really started clicking. Obviously with with JT back
Speaker 1: there that we have a lot of a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: But um, I mean with every new season, it's like
Speaker 1: kind of hard game planning for the first name every
Speaker 1: season because we could get we were thinking we're gonna
Speaker 1: get this, but at the end of the day, we
Speaker 1: could get something completely different. Is it weird being on
Speaker 1: the sideline watching your old team, Yes, definitely it was.
Speaker 1: It was weird being at ray J watching that that
Speaker 1: team I've been last year. I got to go back
Speaker 1: to Madison. I sit on sidelines for one of those
Speaker 1: games and that was fun and a little ass weird,
Speaker 1: But having my my college team here at a J
Speaker 1: that was pretty sweet. I think, you know, it's part
Speaker 1: of your story that you've had to overcome struffle knee
Speaker 1: injuries along the way, including one last year, and it's
Speaker 1: awesome to see you all the way back. Do you
Speaker 1: go through stages of how you feel and how you
Speaker 1: accept it when it happens? Yeah, Um, this this time
Speaker 1: I was a little more accepting, um, because right away
Speaker 1: I knew, I knew the pain and I knew exactly
Speaker 1: I felt it happened. I was like, oh, well, there
Speaker 1: she goes. But um, honestly, being able to attack rehab
Speaker 1: was a lot easier this time. And it was also
Speaker 1: nice because I only had to focus on getting back
Speaker 1: on the field. Last time, it was like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: I think I could probably do the three cone drill
Speaker 1: at Pro Day. So I'm kind of thinking about stuff
Speaker 1: that's not really football related, but it was important for
Speaker 1: my development at that point, trying to make sure it
Speaker 1: makes sure everyone knows that I was still back. But
Speaker 1: this time it was nice. I was just like, I
Speaker 1: just gotta go play football again. There's no real deadlines
Speaker 1: I have to hit. I just have to go as
Speaker 1: I as I feel good. So I was like, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna attack every day and as as the weeks
Speaker 1: go by, it kind of gets redundant and gets really monotonous.
Speaker 1: But it really started picking up steamed on the end
Speaker 1: and I've was feeling really good. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I think we can do this. I put in everything
Speaker 1: I could put in. So you always this jacked up
Speaker 1: on talking about something not good? Yeah, yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that's one thing these these injuries have taught me is
Speaker 1: I can I can make the best out of of
Speaker 1: something that's not really good. Um, So it's kind of
Speaker 1: look at those positives and you figure out your support
Speaker 1: system two times like this. My family has been huge,
Speaker 1: but um it's kind of just I try and have
Speaker 1: a no bad day mentality and um what I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get work done how how I can. If
Speaker 1: I was I was on crutches and I gotta do
Speaker 1: like a quad set to try and get my knee back,
Speaker 1: that was what I was gonna do. But now it's
Speaker 1: it's a lot better being able to run around out
Speaker 1: there and have energy out there too. Like that was
Speaker 1: kind of in a bad mood when I came in there.
Speaker 1: How would we know different? How would we know there's Scott?
Speaker 1: So you know, I don't know how you felt when
Speaker 1: camp started, but it's a new new coaching staff, new defense,
Speaker 1: you're coming back from an injury. I don't know how
Speaker 1: confident you were, but I mean it's obviously gone fantastically
Speaker 1: for you, and and Bruce arians basically let the cat
Speaker 1: of the bag after the third game, he basically said,
Speaker 1: you've made the team. How did you feel coming into it?
Speaker 1: What was there a certainty to you or well? It
Speaker 1: was I was really anxious because I really I really
Speaker 1: liked Bowls of scheme and I really wanted to get
Speaker 1: involved in it. It was similar to what I've done
Speaker 1: in college. And just the way coach Bowls attack stuff
Speaker 1: and the way he kind of brings stuff up. It's like,
Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. This is how we're
Speaker 1: gonna hit him. That really got me going. I was like,
Speaker 1: I really want to remember texting my parents in my age,
Speaker 1: and like, I think I can do good stuff in
Speaker 1: this defense. I like where these coaching staff is coming from. UM.
Speaker 1: So I was a little anxious to get out there
Speaker 1: um at the start of camp, but then once I
Speaker 1: got out there kind of got my sea legs. It
Speaker 1: just kind of kept coming as naturally as I think
Speaker 1: it could. So as far as that goes, I think
Speaker 1: I was just anxious to kind of get more and
Speaker 1: more reps and just kind of keep acclimating myself to
Speaker 1: the defense. And it was nice o t A s.
Speaker 1: I got to stand next to Coach Caldwell and Coach Bowls,
Speaker 1: and I got to pick their brain and kind of
Speaker 1: just taking mental reps all through that as much as
Speaker 1: I want to be out there physically. But then I
Speaker 1: think once at the time rolled around for me to
Speaker 1: start going back out there in camp, that those mental
Speaker 1: reps and really kind of sitting in their hip pocket
Speaker 1: and trying to learn as much as I could. Pay
Speaker 1: it off a lot because I felt like I could
Speaker 1: play fast. Yeah, I would say that there was I
Speaker 1: don't think it needed anything to prove in Game four,
Speaker 1: but there was a set. It was three consecutive plays.
Speaker 1: You got a sack straight up the middle. Next play,
Speaker 1: I don't think you were credited with the tackle, but
Speaker 1: you basically made the guy run out of bounds on
Speaker 1: the left side line, and the very next play you
Speaker 1: made a tackle right on the right side. I mean
Speaker 1: that's three plays. Jeff in the Field's fifty three yards wide,
Speaker 1: and he made plays all three segments that I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously you're feeling good. That's and that's one thing I
Speaker 1: really like what Coach Bowls defense is. I feel like
Speaker 1: as an inside linebacker, you're never out of the play.
Speaker 1: You have the range, and that's kind of one thing
Speaker 1: is scheme gives you is you have the range to
Speaker 1: really make a play on either side of the field.
Speaker 1: Even if the runs away from me, you can kind
Speaker 1: of chase it down from the backside. And I think
Speaker 1: you'll see a lot of that with with Vante and
Speaker 1: Devon that they're gonna be wide ranging guys and we're
Speaker 1: gonna be making plays on all of the field, which
Speaker 1: would be nice. Is it a complicated defense, Um? Yes,
Speaker 1: and no. I mean it's pretty simplified. When we boil
Speaker 1: it down. We might dial up some pressures that kind
Speaker 1: of give some guys some headaches, but I think at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's pretty simple. Usually it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a man pressure, um, or there might be
Speaker 1: a little his own. But the nice thing is is
Speaker 1: it's a lot of same ass So this pressure is
Speaker 1: it's really the same as this for everyone. Besides like
Speaker 1: two people, this responsibility to flip. So when when you
Speaker 1: can kind of um isolate stuff like that, it makes
Speaker 1: it easier to understand it. But it's well disguised, right,
Speaker 1: that's one of bowls big things smoking mirrors. But you
Speaker 1: know you're not the first player to come in here
Speaker 1: or a defensive player to come in here. Look at
Speaker 1: he knows how to use you noticed Scott coffee. The
Speaker 1: reason why we bring this up is because Scott Laways
Speaker 1: likes to tell everybody, now, this is your cough button,
Speaker 1: but he never uses it. But but why change now?
Speaker 1: Can't I can't teach an old dog new tricks. But uh,
Speaker 1: a lot a number of the guys that we've talked
Speaker 1: to on the defensive side, they just really love this.
Speaker 1: Is it Is it because of how it's presented? Did
Speaker 1: or is it actually the scheme? Because a lot of times,
Speaker 1: you know, coaching makes the difference. Honestly a bit of both.
Speaker 1: But I think that they've made it clear that they
Speaker 1: want us to be playmakers. So when you're telling your
Speaker 1: guys you want them to be playmakers, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: set you up to be in positions and make plays
Speaker 1: as a defender, that's really all you can ask for. Like,
Speaker 1: all right, now, they trust me, they know what I'm
Speaker 1: capable of, and I just have to take advantage of
Speaker 1: my opportunities when I get them. You saw a lot
Speaker 1: of guys do that. You saw j White with that
Speaker 1: pick right before halftime um in the Browns game, and
Speaker 1: you saw a lot of guys kind of take the advantage.
Speaker 1: Shack Um in that Dallas game. He he really kind
Speaker 1: of cemented himself out there, and it's all good to see.
Speaker 1: It's good to see when when guys really take advantage
Speaker 1: of those opportunities. One because it's what the coaches want
Speaker 1: for us. But you can see your teammates kind of
Speaker 1: kind of flourishing around you, which is awesome. So this
Speaker 1: is your second here in Tampa, Now, what do you
Speaker 1: think of this area? And the heat took a little
Speaker 1: bit to acclimate too, But I've been down here for
Speaker 1: for about a month and a half or a year
Speaker 1: and a half now, and I love it. I love it.
Speaker 1: I live pretty near the facility, so I'm never really
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm twenty minutes from downtown if I ever
Speaker 1: go downtown, but about ten fifteen minutes from anywhere else.
Speaker 1: So if you if you ever had a desire to. Yeah,
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, I can't. I really like the Tampa area. Um,
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people kind of my age.
Speaker 1: So me and the guys when we have free time,
Speaker 1: we have some fun with it. But I enjoyed Tample
Speaker 1: a lot. For a Midwestern kid, I think I fit
Speaker 1: in pretty well. What do you do with your free time?
Speaker 1: What's your what's your thing? Um? I really wanted to golf,
Speaker 1: but with the injury being having some rehab, I don't
Speaker 1: really I don't really get to do that, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I don't know if I want to be singing the
Speaker 1: sticks when it's ninety and human. There's a better way. Actually,
Speaker 1: it's not bad. Yeah, no, no, I it's not. You
Speaker 1: get used to it. Yeah, I'm sure it's no worse
Speaker 1: than playing outside when it's twenty degrees. Just golf because
Speaker 1: it's boring. Yes, Scott hates golf, not golfer, just totally.
Speaker 1: That's what. I'm surprised he didn't fall asleep as soon
Speaker 1: as we bring up golf. Yeah, did you? Well? You
Speaker 1: know what I do like his baseball? Were you a
Speaker 1: multi sports? I was so. I played um, football, basketball,
Speaker 1: hockey and baseball all up until probably fifth grade, and
Speaker 1: then I ditched. Baseball just wasn't really my speed. It
Speaker 1: wasn't it wasn't a great thing. It wasn't a great hitter,
Speaker 1: so kind of tough to get in new And then, um,
Speaker 1: after seventh grade, I had to choose between basketball or hockey,
Speaker 1: and uh, I went with just hockey football, I mean
Speaker 1: basketball football from there on. Yeah, I know, and being
Speaker 1: where I'm from, I probably should have stuck with it.
Speaker 1: But if I had, who knows if i'd be here, Uhey,
Speaker 1: defensive guy. Yeah I was. I was the goon exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: Dang you basketball have tooler sisters and they're very good
Speaker 1: at basketball. My middle sister she played basketball Wisconsin. So um,
Speaker 1: not to say that forced my hand, but I think
Speaker 1: I was more comfortable with the basketball probably and I
Speaker 1: probably had a little more grasp on it. My dad played,
Speaker 1: so he was our coach. Whereas hockey. Um, it was
Speaker 1: nice time. My dad's coach. He cuachure in football and
Speaker 1: he coach me in basketball. Um, and just he would
Speaker 1: he would never be a hockey coach. He won't. He
Speaker 1: won't hate me for saying that either. He definitely would
Speaker 1: would never be a coach did you play pick up
Speaker 1: with your sisters in the driveway? Yeah? Yeah, they for
Speaker 1: for the first twelve thirteen years of my life, they
Speaker 1: took it to him. I mean, let me tell you,
Speaker 1: they were they let me have it. But there was Luckily,
Speaker 1: once I started kind of growing and maturing, I was
Speaker 1: able to the script and UM kind of at first,
Speaker 1: and then he gets he's reversed dunking on him. And
Speaker 1: when was the last time you put a pair of
Speaker 1: skates on? Um? I think probably junior senior of college
Speaker 1: in the winter. We'd go out skate on ponds and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. No, absolutely, yeah I can. Once you skate,
Speaker 1: you can. You can skate. You can't necessarily go from
Speaker 1: roller blades or uh, roller skates from ice skates. There
Speaker 1: was a different way. Yeah, But once you've had ice
Speaker 1: skates on and you get comfortable with them, I think
Speaker 1: you'll always be able to kind of step back out
Speaker 1: there back all right. Nothing's better than when people when
Speaker 1: you tell people you can skate and they don't believe it,
Speaker 1: then you do it and then they go, wow, I
Speaker 1: can skate too, as long as there's that board right there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: blood hockey too. I grew up in Chicago. What you
Speaker 1: do You're learning stuff about us? Jack? Well, Jack, thank you,
Speaker 1: and also thank you because you're very nice to come
Speaker 1: here on short notice, especially with this week. This week
Speaker 1: is this kind of crazy. And you guys had but
Speaker 1: four days off, so today you actually came in. We're
Speaker 1: recording this on Tuesday. Usually tuesday's your day off. They
Speaker 1: call this a bonus day. But you did practice so
Speaker 1: excited about I always like this question. You know this
Speaker 1: is gonna end it? Yeah, okay, be excited about Sunday's game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty stuff. All right. Look forward to seeing you
Speaker 1: this season. Great, appreciate it. Awesome. The Salty Dogs. We're
Speaker 1: back again for the third and final segment of this
Speaker 1: week's Salt the Dogs. After having just had a very
Speaker 1: nice conversation there with Mr Jack Cichy. I like a
Speaker 1: great kid, too bad like kids. I think he is.
Speaker 1: I think he needs a little cathy. He answers every
Speaker 1: question very energetically and enthusiastically, and it was not fake. No, No,
Speaker 1: you could see he had a good time, very very
Speaker 1: very real. But good guy, very good guy. Easy got
Speaker 1: to root for for sure. So Jeff, when at the
Speaker 1: end of the first thing before he talked to Jack,
Speaker 1: you were making some claim about forty three. So what
Speaker 1: did you find? Uh, Now I'm seeing different numbers. I'm
Speaker 1: seeing higher lower. He saw something like yes for all.
Speaker 1: Whatever that means. It must be different charts. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would think this this, um, this list I found a
Speaker 1: Wikipedia Okay, you gotta remember now, now, the billboard charts
Speaker 1: are different than than there the way records are rated.
Speaker 1: There was billboard, there was radio and records. Then there's
Speaker 1: also some other ways to do it, you know. So
Speaker 1: it said he'd released sixty four singles, seven hit number
Speaker 1: one on the billboards. The billboard charts are different than
Speaker 1: like what radio stations played and then how it gets sold.
Speaker 1: So I think that, um, it's whatever the number really is,
Speaker 1: it's really really it's I think it's pretty clear to
Speaker 1: say that he's the top country star of this generation
Speaker 1: because I'm looking at a list from Wikipedia, which, as
Speaker 1: you pointed out, is an awesome source all time that
Speaker 1: you can always believe right, most number one country hits ever,
Speaker 1: And the list he's not number one, but it's like
Speaker 1: George Strait, Conway, Twitty, Merle Haggard, Ronnie millsap Alabama, Charlie Pride,
Speaker 1: Eddie Arnold. These are all guys, are it's probably fewer acts. Yes, well,
Speaker 1: different way the way you he's ahead of Freeba McIntyre
Speaker 1: and Dolly Parton. That tells you, yes, yes, well there's
Speaker 1: different ways. At one time, the only way you rated
Speaker 1: music was on jukeboxes and radios, and then it was radio.
Speaker 1: Now it's podcast now, I mean, now there's all these
Speaker 1: different We're gonna have to rename this the cud of
Speaker 1: Music podcast. We don't stop with us. Hey, well, but
Speaker 1: I'm excited about Sunday. You know mcgrawl. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: think you know who his dad was, Mr McGraw. You're
Speaker 1: gonna be shocked by this. The baseball player Tug. I
Speaker 1: was right, you were. I've heard that before, Yes, Tug McGraw, Yes, okay,
Speaker 1: I want to get to the questions. We got some questions. Um, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I got a question from from Twitter. For the first time,
Speaker 1: they tugged, they tagged it, they added me that how
Speaker 1: you say it, and they gave the hashtag salty dogs.
Speaker 1: So this is so, this is the question from a
Speaker 1: Richard Disola from Twitter. Scott, you remind me of the
Speaker 1: Alton Brown of the Buccaneers football knowledgeable, educational education, let
Speaker 1: me finish, stop laughing. Knowledgeable, educational and detail oriented. So
Speaker 1: for my salty dog's question, what is your favorite food
Speaker 1: and how do you like to prepare payed on game day?
Speaker 1: Do you know who Alton Brown is? So? Why is
Speaker 1: that funny? Then? Just the way he's described you as
Speaker 1: pretty Alton Brown is this? Um he's one of those
Speaker 1: um TV food stars you know, like h on on
Speaker 1: the You see him as guests on the shows like
Speaker 1: you know Iron Chef for UM. Yeah, he's He's a
Speaker 1: guy that knows everything about cooking, absolutely everything, and he's
Speaker 1: really he's an entertaining guy. He should be on more shows.
Speaker 1: To be honest with you. Yes, for some reason, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I don't cook much, but I like cooking competition shows.
Speaker 1: It's a real weird thing. So what is your favor?
Speaker 1: So here's the thing he's asking us, what do we
Speaker 1: what's our favorite food and how do you like to
Speaker 1: prepare it on game date? Well, my favorite food on
Speaker 1: almost every single game day is whatever happens to be
Speaker 1: in the press box because we're always working, right, So
Speaker 1: I would say my least favorite food on game day
Speaker 1: is Cincinnati Skyline chili. When you're at a Bengals game,
Speaker 1: that's that's disgusting. Did you have the food at Dallas? Yeah?
Speaker 1: It was good. It was very Did you try the
Speaker 1: mac and cheese? No, we're gonna get dead. But you
Speaker 1: know what they have they had. They had that the
Speaker 1: table where they had um like bins of candy, and
Speaker 1: they had some gumming beers are and I need to
Speaker 1: find out what brand they were because they were the
Speaker 1: most flavorful, juiciest gumming bears. We were all cooked. They
Speaker 1: also had malted milk balls there. Yeah, stuff whole candy bars.
Speaker 1: It doesn't take much to please. So I guess if
Speaker 1: you're if those rare days, maybe like a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: when we're not in it, which has been all but
Speaker 1: one of them so far. I don't remember what I
Speaker 1: ate it when we were in the super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: I you know, if I'm watching that game, um or
Speaker 1: it's our bye week, if I am gonna make something
Speaker 1: like a game day food, I like this thing called
Speaker 1: rotel cheese. Did you ever heard of rotel? You can
Speaker 1: find it in the in the um vegetable aisles. Can
Speaker 1: vegetables in your grocery store. It's a mixture of peppers
Speaker 1: and tomatoes and spicy and you just melt a certain
Speaker 1: amount of Elvita, pour the canna rotel you lost, you
Speaker 1: lost me when never mind, it's it's you just melted
Speaker 1: cheese with Do you know it's not real cheese? Right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay, So I cheese food. Okay, So it's easy
Speaker 1: to melt. That's the point. Yes, I'll bring you some
Speaker 1: and you'll realize, Oh, this is fantastic. That's really really easy.
Speaker 1: If I'm really really being ambitious, I do have a
Speaker 1: chili recipe like most people do, and I like that
Speaker 1: a lot. And it gets better the next day, it
Speaker 1: gets hotter when you get it up. I love it.
Speaker 1: If I could go with that. If I'm going to
Speaker 1: a super Bowl party, I'm hoping that they have chili.
Speaker 1: If not, bring your own there. Why would you go
Speaker 1: to a party and not bring some. Yeah, we'd probably
Speaker 1: not bring chili out because I wouldn't want to give
Speaker 1: mine away? What about you? Sorry? Sticks? No, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty open when it comes to you know, I don't
Speaker 1: really have necessarily favorite favorite. Um, you know, because there
Speaker 1: I don't really have anything that you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm I really love chicken wings, but I only like
Speaker 1: them one way, and that's naked and double fried with
Speaker 1: hot sauce on them. Yeah you mean naked, isn't not
Speaker 1: breaded like like yeah, yeah, just and you can get
Speaker 1: him at Hooters not you gotta say, you gotta yeah,
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm real big into yeah you know, I'll
Speaker 1: tell you. Um, I was in I was in Hawaii
Speaker 1: and yeah, well there's this restaurant and they had they
Speaker 1: had Asian chicken wings. Oh yeah, those were great. Unbelieving,
Speaker 1: I mean, but that was a huge. If you can't
Speaker 1: see this, but he's holding his hands, likely if they
Speaker 1: were huge, they were huge. It's I think the place
Speaker 1: was called the Lady in the Pig. Um. It was
Speaker 1: really really good. It was very good. In fact, it
Speaker 1: was so good one one twice but um yeah but
Speaker 1: Hawaii that ten days and you went to the same
Speaker 1: place twice. Yeah, that has to be good. If you're
Speaker 1: on a vacation in Hawaiian you go the same place twice.
Speaker 1: You know what they you know what they have there
Speaker 1: are the shrimp trucks. They ever going to one of those,
Speaker 1: and they're really spicy. Shrimps. But see, I think I
Speaker 1: think basically anything spicy I'm in want. Yeah, I agree
Speaker 1: with you, you would like my chili. Then, all right, well,
Speaker 1: thanks for the question on Twitter and fans. Remember you
Speaker 1: can send us questions and we love it if you do.
Speaker 1: You can email them to us at Salty Dogs, which
Speaker 1: I think everybody can spell at Buccaneers. Remember that has
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Speaker 1: hashtag salty Dogs, it makes it easier for me to find.
Speaker 1: So thank you for blazing the Twitter trail there. Richard
Speaker 1: de Sola, all right, this came via email, and I
Speaker 1: think we were talking about Casey, like if if somebody
Speaker 1: was gonna be the next man up, who's gonna take
Speaker 1: my job? And we mentioned Casey Phillips. So this isn't
Speaker 1: really well, it is a question if Casey fills in
Speaker 1: for you guys, for one of you guys with the
Speaker 1: podcast be called Salty Dogs Comma Beauty and the Beast edition. Yes, probably,
Speaker 1: so who's the beauty and who's miss Well. The good
Speaker 1: thing about this is it's a audio show. Yes, so
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I thought that was pretty close. And
Speaker 1: his name is Anthony Rosani and he says love the show,
Speaker 1: so thank you. I like that. You know, we will
Speaker 1: get Casey on. We've had her on before, We'll get
Speaker 1: her on again. She's a great guest, and it will
Speaker 1: be Beauty and the Beasts, Beauty and the Beasts, all right.
Speaker 1: Another question also via email, Hey salty dogs, which he
Speaker 1: spelled with one word, which reminds me of my pet
Speaker 1: peeve when people write super Bowls one word and it's
Speaker 1: not it's too it's not, it's two. And if you
Speaker 1: ever put the words super Bowls one word, like on
Speaker 1: a resume, I'm just throwing it straight in the trash. Right.
Speaker 1: My name is Jose. I'm from Tampa Floria exclamation points.
Speaker 1: So he's very excited about living in Tampa floriad. I
Speaker 1: have a very good friend who lives in her named Jose,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is him. This is my
Speaker 1: first year listening and I've been missing out. You have, well,
Speaker 1: you can go back to him. I love you another exclamation. No, No,
Speaker 1: I love Y'allie just spelled it really weirdly. I love
Speaker 1: y'all work. But my question is what do y'all truly
Speaker 1: believe the Bucks overall record will be this year? And
Speaker 1: team MVP thanks looking forward to Wednesday? Yeah, you will,
Speaker 1: because you have a question in the mail back. It does. Um,
Speaker 1: I really don't like this question because you get asked
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, and and the thing is is that
Speaker 1: you don't know. Nobody knows and nobody yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: for a guess. You know you're hoping for the best.
Speaker 1: I mean you want to go to the playoffs. Well,
Speaker 1: here's what I say, Jeff. He wants to know team
Speaker 1: record and team MVP. So let me just say, if
Speaker 1: I'm having to pick a team MVP right now, I'd
Speaker 1: probably go with Jamis because if the quarterback has a
Speaker 1: good year, he's usually so I'm gonna pick Jamis. And
Speaker 1: if Jamis ends up the season as our m v P,
Speaker 1: then we probably had a very good year or at
Speaker 1: least a pretty good year. So I will put the
Speaker 1: over under a nine wins, and if you want to
Speaker 1: be optimistic, you can go ten. Hopefully that happens. I
Speaker 1: do think this team is improved from last year. I
Speaker 1: do think that Bruce has tried, Bracearians has tried and
Speaker 1: and so far he succeeded in establishing a winning cultural.
Speaker 1: I know that you can't put your hands on that.
Speaker 1: It's not proven. The attitude, certainly, I just feel like
Speaker 1: this team is very confident. It is it is young.
Speaker 1: And then you know this new defense. I thought it
Speaker 1: looked great in the preseason. But you know, we we
Speaker 1: don't know twee see, if you stay healthy, you're gonna
Speaker 1: win games. If you don't stay healthy, you're not gonna win.
Speaker 1: But you and I both said that with the offense
Speaker 1: we tried it out last year, if our defense had
Speaker 1: just been middle of the pack instead of like near
Speaker 1: the bottom in terms of points loud, we would have
Speaker 1: probably been at least a five on our team. And
Speaker 1: and the problem is is when you look at the league,
Speaker 1: you don't know who's gonna be good, who's gonna be bad.
Speaker 1: You can look at that and and I don't care
Speaker 1: who does the schedule and go, oh, this is what
Speaker 1: I think this It never plays out that way. Perfect example,
Speaker 1: last year, how many people when they got the schedule
Speaker 1: of last year, wrote W Buccaneers W Buccaneers the first
Speaker 1: two weeks in Yes, New Orleans is on the road,
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl champs coming to town. But New One's
Speaker 1: did end up being quite good. They did came within
Speaker 1: one non called Pilly of making a Super Bowl, and Philly,
Speaker 1: I don't think they're the year they wanted, but they're back.
Speaker 1: They're still good. But you beat both those teams. So
Speaker 1: if they're good teams and you beat them, then you
Speaker 1: must be considered a good team. But if you go
Speaker 1: by the record, we weren't that good of a team
Speaker 1: last we didn't. We didn't sustain it, and there were issues,
Speaker 1: there were injury issues, and the defense just didn't really
Speaker 1: pull it, you know, and that's all you know. I
Speaker 1: mean that New Orleans game was I'm not a fan
Speaker 1: of how many wins you think we're gonna have. I know, Jose,
Speaker 1: I appreciate you taking the time to write the letter,
Speaker 1: and I'm glad you're listening. And if you want to
Speaker 1: go to a Buccaneers dot com and hit Salty Dogs
Speaker 1: and you'll be able to go back to podcast. Right
Speaker 1: back to number one. We had Rondie Barber on for
Speaker 1: the first time more you can listen to about a month.
Speaker 1: Three weeks ago, we had Randie Barber on again on
Speaker 1: occasion of his the announcement of his Ring of Honor
Speaker 1: and compending Honor. I just you know what, in all
Speaker 1: fairness to everyone, we want we want to be around
Speaker 1: a winning team, just like you. It's so much more.
Speaker 1: It is fun. You take the losses, you take the wins.
Speaker 1: It's a business. Totally understand all of that, but you're
Speaker 1: still a sports fan or you couldn't do this job,
Speaker 1: and you want to see the people that are whose
Speaker 1: jobs are dependent upon winning in the long run. You know, coaches,
Speaker 1: after a certain number of years, if you're not winning,
Speaker 1: they know that they know this business, and you don't
Speaker 1: want to see those guys lose their jobs. So you
Speaker 1: want this team to succeed for their sake. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: a lot to go into it, but I'm hoping for
Speaker 1: the best and we'll see where it plays out. And
Speaker 1: then at the end of the season, we'll tell you
Speaker 1: how many wins and it'll be accurate and yes, very true,
Speaker 1: nailed it. Hopefully we're accounting wins in January. UM Salty
Speaker 1: Dog Playoff Version One more question. Okay, from a guy
Speaker 1: named Linden, because people still name their children Linden. Liked Johnson.
Speaker 1: I was Linden. I have a friend that's Landing. It's
Speaker 1: his name's congratulations. Doesn't question, well is is it? How's
Speaker 1: it spelled? Like Lyndon B. Johnson l y n d Oh?
Speaker 1: You do remember who Lyndon B. Johnson was? Yes, you do?
Speaker 1: I think you were in his cabinet? Was he? Uh?
Speaker 1: He was the one after Kennedy. Yes, Jeff, thank you.
Speaker 1: And then he decided in sixty eight he wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: run again. They only ran one time. He's president two
Speaker 1: terms but only elected. Yeah, but he was he did
Speaker 1: basically two terms. But he could have run for another
Speaker 1: one though, right, yeah, he could have. He could have
Speaker 1: run from he ran in sixty four, and he could
Speaker 1: have run in sixty eight, but he didn't run a
Speaker 1: sixty eight. Don't you read history books? Seriously? I what
Speaker 1: if I got wrong? I've been right. I'm just giving
Speaker 1: the hard time. So yes, who who who ran? Then?
Speaker 1: Because when Nixon would have won that one? Right? Six
Speaker 1: and sixty eight? Hubert Humphrey, Yeah, that's Hubert Humphrey Dome.
Speaker 1: Remember we used to go to Hubert Humphreydome was in
Speaker 1: Minnesota and he was the senator, then he was vice president,
Speaker 1: and then he wanted to run for presidency. See how
Speaker 1: you type football into it's a history lesson for everybody
Speaker 1: out there. Really exciting. Welcome. Um alright, one more question
Speaker 1: from Linden Fellas. I'll make this short and sweet. We
Speaker 1: were not going to that's not really one our first day.
Speaker 1: Who you got for breakout player of this season? Who
Speaker 1: you got and since you did, thanks for reading the
Speaker 1: first Well done, well played, We'll give it to you. Um.
Speaker 1: Breakout player for us? He didn't say that, but I
Speaker 1: assume he means for us. What do you consider a
Speaker 1: breakout player? Someone that you didn't expect to do really
Speaker 1: really know? I would say somebody who hasn't yet achieved
Speaker 1: like a certain level of Like, Okay, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a good one I think is a good choice. Vernon Hargrave.
Speaker 1: That's why I was going to take as fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was going to, but I didn't want to step
Speaker 1: on you. Well, Vernon Hargraves, he would be the breakout player, yes,
Speaker 1: because uh, he started to play well last year, got
Speaker 1: hurt early in the preseason. Looks great and yes, very
Speaker 1: very confident. Obviously loves this defense. I think that's part
Speaker 1: of it. You know, that's a that's a reason for
Speaker 1: a guy to break out in his fourth season because
Speaker 1: he's in the best situation that he's been in and
Speaker 1: that's making him very very confident. I don't think ever
Speaker 1: really lacked for confidence. But so, okay, I'll let you
Speaker 1: have that one. I'll try to think of another one.
Speaker 1: Uh well, Donald Jones, Well yeah, I mean you gotta
Speaker 1: think about who's god one? Does he count yet? Here
Speaker 1: to established everybody is on the Ronald Jones HiPE train. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for good reason. I mean I meant to say, Chris Gowin.
Speaker 1: You know what, Donovan Smith, So how do you judge
Speaker 1: left tackle breaking out? Does he make the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: or something? It's tough, tough for those because the guys
Speaker 1: who make it. Of course, Trent Williams isn't playing right now.
Speaker 1: The guys who make it at tackle tend to make
Speaker 1: it over and Oregon, you're Joe Thomas is and I
Speaker 1: mean he's he's played well, he's been rewarded. Now like
Speaker 1: to see the next level, Jeff, We need him to
Speaker 1: be good because we don't have a lot of proven
Speaker 1: we are offensive tackle depth was clearly a concern because
Speaker 1: they went out and traded on in the day that
Speaker 1: all the customer made right before the cuts were made.
Speaker 1: They traded with Pittsburgh. Get Gerald Hawkins, who's a depth guy.
Speaker 1: He's started, He's played five games in his career with
Speaker 1: one start. Had some injury issues that he's overcome. Um.
Speaker 1: But they obviously even without having had that guy here,
Speaker 1: they like him better than what we had. So that
Speaker 1: was obviously an area of concern. So if Donovan Smith
Speaker 1: goes down, you're really unproven behind him what I'd like
Speaker 1: to see, but he won't because he plays every game.
Speaker 1: You know, what I want to see as a breakout year.
Speaker 1: I want to see the offense and the defense as
Speaker 1: units break out. What about the kickers? You want them
Speaker 1: to break out? Fine, let's throw him in there to
Speaker 1: get it done. Hey, just for once, just give me
Speaker 1: fifty three guests. Just give me a chance, you know,
Speaker 1: just give me a chance, keep me in the game.
Speaker 1: I don't think like say, Lavante David can break out
Speaker 1: because he's already broken out. Yes, I think that's fair.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans can't really break out now because all you're
Speaker 1: gonna do with Mike and with Lavante is whether they've
Speaker 1: had the same eight years that they had. So if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be talking about them, it usually will Usually
Speaker 1: you go, oh, yeah, he's having another great year. It
Speaker 1: might be hard for Mike to duplicate his eighty yards
Speaker 1: where he had last year, but you know where he
Speaker 1: can get back his touchdowns, and there's that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a you know, it's not all in your
Speaker 1: guy guy's control. Uh So it does touchdown. If you
Speaker 1: look like Calvin Johnson's career, he's obviously a superstar. Look
Speaker 1: at his touchdowns something yere. Some someday it'll be like
Speaker 1: twelve one year for the next twelve. That's what What
Speaker 1: was it? Keyshawn Johnson had over like fifty thousand million
Speaker 1: yards and had one touchdown. No, he had over a
Speaker 1: hundred catches there and then one touchdown. Do you remember
Speaker 1: you got one more salty about that? Something like question
Speaker 1: he had one more touchdown than I did. Okay, Keyshawn
Speaker 1: was very salty about that. Particular statistical note tis kind
Speaker 1: of you not like to be asked about. I don't
Speaker 1: know why that popped in my head, but it did. Well,
Speaker 1: you remember when he had a streak of at consecutive
Speaker 1: games he I think his whole career they had at
Speaker 1: least one catch and it was against the Jets we
Speaker 1: were playing, and he didn't have one, so we threw
Speaker 1: was that was at the flashlight in the Star game?
Speaker 1: What was his name? The tight end? Um Trebette? Wayne?
Speaker 1: What was? You haven't lost me completely? Keishan Johnson was
Speaker 1: the star and he said this, yeah, he Keishan Johnson
Speaker 1: was the star and the tight end was the flashlight.
Speaker 1: It was you know, and then and we lost that
Speaker 1: game because of a trick played to the tight end
Speaker 1: around it was a fake and yes, the Jets tight end. Yes,
Speaker 1: because the name you were kind of trying to get
Speaker 1: there was Wayne Krbett was that's who was? Okay, then
Speaker 1: that's who it was. Um I was trying to remember
Speaker 1: who tried and go, oh, that's right because they were
Speaker 1: teammates and the Jets. And he loved Wayne Krbett, Yes,
Speaker 1: who was a good player but kind of came out
Speaker 1: of nowhere and whereas Keishan was the first overall pick
Speaker 1: and he came here and it was the first game.
Speaker 1: That's what he's that about. Him. Yeah, um yeah. And
Speaker 1: in that game, Kishan didn't have a catch and so
Speaker 1: we threw him a past snapped the ball, throw it
Speaker 1: straight down the line and he got like one yard
Speaker 1: and that was the one one catcher one yard that was,
Speaker 1: but his streak was alive. That was a star. And
Speaker 1: then years ago that was. And I can't remember what
Speaker 1: we had for lunch today because one I think it
Speaker 1: was there was sushi, Jeff. I know it was very good.
Speaker 1: You would remember that you were a sushi guy. Yes, right,
Speaker 1: And it wasn't on the airplane, so it was even better.
Speaker 1: But there was sushi on the flight back. Was trip
Speaker 1: this last trip was there was one of the choices
Speaker 1: and nobody was eating anything because it was like two
Speaker 1: in the morning, but it was on the list and
Speaker 1: you missed it. You love sushi on the plane. You're like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I was really tired, and I remember them,
Speaker 1: uh asking do you went, and I was like, yeah, no, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I just didn't want I didn't even ask what was on.
Speaker 1: So I have to remember that. What you do remember
Speaker 1: from the flight back is watching that movie I recommended
Speaker 1: to you know you did you and I'll recommend it
Speaker 1: to all these listeners if you haven't seen it. Long
Speaker 1: Shot with Seth Rogan and Charlene's Throne. Yeah, and when
Speaker 1: we were we were movies to like. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how it came up. I think we were on
Speaker 1: the bus and you said something about pr because he
Speaker 1: sees every movie, and I knew he'd have an opinion
Speaker 1: on it. I remember you saying that, and I liked.
Speaker 1: I like to watch something that I don't have to
Speaker 1: really think real hard about, you know, especially after a game.
Speaker 1: I just want to relax. It was it was so
Speaker 1: funny and it was it was you hearted and nice
Speaker 1: like there weren't a lot of it was. It's a
Speaker 1: kind of movie that it was. It was funny enough
Speaker 1: that I was laughing out loud that Dave Moore, who
Speaker 1: has headsets on watching his own movie, here's me laughing
Speaker 1: so hard where he has to stop his movie and say,
Speaker 1: what are you watching that? Because I don't usually laugh
Speaker 1: out loud. So but yeah, if you want, if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a good movie and it's relatively new, but
Speaker 1: it should be out there. Long Shot. Seth Rogan used
Speaker 1: to run romantic comedy if you like that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: But Seth Rogan Stopper humor. That's good stuff. Thank you
Speaker 1: for the recommend. Maybe not a full family movie though
Speaker 1: it's an adult it's an adult movie, but it is
Speaker 1: a funny movie, it is, and it has some good
Speaker 1: good all right. So we've talked to country music and
Speaker 1: we've talked to me and we've recommended movies. Just so
Speaker 1: everybody knows. What if you're in the if you're in
Speaker 1: the sound of my voice, and you can come to
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Speaker 1: not a lot. Tug McGraw, Tim McGraw, I see that
Speaker 1: you'll be saying tug because of his dad. Uh Tim McGraw. Yes,
Speaker 1: And then the encore performance at halftime, which is pretty cool.
Speaker 1: It's a great halftime and it's all because of the fan.
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Speaker 1: but they do have I have to look at it
Speaker 1: to be able to say um. But but that's because
Speaker 1: we're celebrating one hundred years of NFL football and this
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Speaker 1: were their goals is obviously their goals to sellers came
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