Speaker 1: Welcome into Bucks Insider, coming to you from the Bucks Studio,
Speaker 1: presented by ticketmaster Casey Phillips, here with Senior writer and
Speaker 1: editor Scott Smith and staff writer Breed Dix. And we
Speaker 1: had a Bucks win to talk about. It's Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 1: We have plenty to be thankful for this week, for
Speaker 1: very handy and I'm sure just in general, going to
Speaker 1: do Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family. A lot more
Speaker 1: fun coming off of a win for everyone involved on
Speaker 1: this team. So excited to talk about so many things,
Speaker 1: And one is there were big plays in this game,
Speaker 1: something that I think we'd been lacking a little bit
Speaker 1: in the games before. So Scott tell us a little
Speaker 1: bit about especially this explosive plays that we saw really
Speaker 1: come to life.
Speaker 2: And I think we talked about it last week. You
Speaker 2: weren't here because you left us and you missed stranded,
Speaker 2: you miss paced so much. But I think we talked
Speaker 2: about the fact that in the previous two games before
Speaker 2: the bye, the Bucks had really lacked explosive plays. And
Speaker 2: we all rightfully credited both Liam Cohen and Baker Mayfield
Speaker 2: for keeping the offense moving pretty decently after the injuries
Speaker 2: to Mike Evans and Chris Gotwin, but what was missing
Speaker 2: was explosive plays, and Baker Mayfil himself talked about it.
Speaker 2: So it's hard to score like you want to score
Speaker 2: when every drive has to be methodical. You know. We
Speaker 2: saw in the first in at the opening of the
Speaker 2: Giants game, we saw a methodical fourteen play eight and
Speaker 2: a half minute drive. That was great, but you're not
Speaker 2: going to get a million of those games. You need
Speaker 2: some explosive plays to cut the field in half and
Speaker 2: get some shorter drives and score some more points. Because
Speaker 2: of those methodical drives, you can always make one mistake
Speaker 2: and kill it. Well. In the two games before the bye,
Speaker 2: the Buccaneers had zero plays of twenty or more yards
Speaker 2: zero and they've been averaging for a little more than
Speaker 2: four of them per game leading up to that, so
Speaker 2: that was clearly a problem yep, and the points were
Speaker 2: slowly going down well. In this game, Mike Evans being
Speaker 2: back definitely had something to do with it, but the
Speaker 2: Buccaneers had six plays of twenty or more yards and
Speaker 2: five of those were receptions by five different players. After
Speaker 2: the San Francisco game, we talked about how that was
Speaker 2: the difference. The Bucks couldn't get explosive plays, and the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers had I think five different players have
Speaker 2: an explosive play, and that's like the ideal, and that's
Speaker 2: what the Buckeer's got in that game. And so you know,
Speaker 2: they got five different guys catching passes. And then plus
Speaker 2: I think you saw in one of these clips here
Speaker 2: just a few seconds ago, obviously Bucky Everring had that
Speaker 2: fifty six yard run. So six explosive plays totally made
Speaker 2: the difference. That's why the Bucks got back to scoring
Speaker 2: thirty points in the game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's so true because not only is
Speaker 1: it I love it, it's not just explosive plays, but
Speaker 1: to so many different people. Right you talked about it
Speaker 1: was all those passes were to five different people. They
Speaker 1: also just threw passes to eleven different people. That is incredible.
Speaker 1: And on our show Monday with Chris Godwin on and
Speaker 1: he was like, I don't think I knew we had
Speaker 1: eleven eligible receivers.
Speaker 2: We had twelve. Yeah, ko Keift was the only said
Speaker 2: they were like, actually there were thirteen because Vitavea was
Speaker 2: eligible for two.
Speaker 1: Plays, which again I'm very upset both Co and Vita
Speaker 1: didn't get a pass I need.
Speaker 3: Now we're spoiled. We have gotten to witness that.
Speaker 1: Well, we'll try to make sure you get to waste
Speaker 1: one on your type because it's majestic and wonderful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: eleven different people caught a pass, and then of course
Speaker 1: that also leads into four different people scored a rushing touchdown,
Speaker 1: which has never happened, which has never happened in franchise history.
Speaker 1: And also we already have more rushing touchdowns than we
Speaker 1: had all of last Sea.
Speaker 3: Three more, yeah, a lot more.
Speaker 2: There's six games to go.
Speaker 1: It wasn't very long before we were going to surpass
Speaker 1: that total. But I just felt like, as much as
Speaker 1: you talked about the explosive plays, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about this run game a little bit, because,
Speaker 1: for one thing, the Giant strength was their defensive line
Speaker 1: and their defensive front, guys like Brian Burns, guys like
Speaker 1: Dexter Lawrence in there, that that was going to be
Speaker 1: the strength of their team. And for the first time,
Speaker 1: I mean in franchise history, I have all these different
Speaker 1: players rush for a touchdown. And then also the team
Speaker 1: overall rushed for one hundred and fifty six yards as
Speaker 1: a team, which is the third most in the game
Speaker 1: this season, and we have at least one hundred rushing
Speaker 1: yards in eight of our eleven games, only had six
Speaker 1: games over that last year. And then this is the
Speaker 1: stat that I think is the most exciting when you
Speaker 1: just look at the rushing game so far this year
Speaker 1: for us, we're sixth in the lead in yards per attempt.
Speaker 3: That was not the stat the last couple of years.
Speaker 2: Last yes, last, dead last.
Speaker 1: Dead last the last few years. To go from that
Speaker 1: to sixth is incredible. And I think that, of course
Speaker 1: we have to give credit to guys like Bucky. We
Speaker 1: saw his big, you know run that he had, and
Speaker 1: of course maybe even credit to Baker for his blood
Speaker 1: game than that. But really, of course we have to
Speaker 1: give the offensive line so much credit, and I know
Speaker 1: we've done that a few times recently, but especially this week,
Speaker 1: and I love that Coach Bowles mentioned it both in
Speaker 1: his press conference and my show of just what a
Speaker 1: great job those guys are doing, and he specifically shouted
Speaker 1: out Graham Barton and Cody Mauch that he said, you
Speaker 1: forget their first and second year players. They've helped us
Speaker 1: from a strength, attitude and intelligence standpoint and then he said,
Speaker 1: Cody goes more unnoticed.
Speaker 3: You know, he talked about how everybody loves to talk about.
Speaker 1: Tristan and Luke and even Graham is a rookie, he's
Speaker 1: like Cody kind of we don't talk about him as much.
Speaker 1: But he was come out he's done an incredible job
Speaker 1: and that he's put on some weight, improved his technique
Speaker 1: and isn't getting pushed back like he was some last year.
Speaker 1: And then he said Graham is playing like a two
Speaker 1: or three year guy in terms of making the calls
Speaker 1: at the line. I think that's definitely something that fans
Speaker 1: don't always know to appreciate, is how much weight are
Speaker 1: you taking off of Baker? How much are you also
Speaker 1: then communicating to the rest of the line, And that
Speaker 1: for rookie centers sometimes you don't even ask them to
Speaker 1: do that very much if you don't trust them to
Speaker 1: do it or believe in it. And I remember even hearing,
Speaker 1: you know, when Jason Kelsey retired from the Eagles that all
Speaker 1: of sudden, Jalen Hurts was having to do all of that,
Speaker 1: and it was like he was talking about, like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: this is a load on me that I hadn't been
Speaker 1: having to do. So the more your rookie center can
Speaker 1: already be doing in that area, that's a great sign
Speaker 1: for moving forward and what that's going to mean. And then,
Speaker 1: of course, also Justin School a great job in Tristan's
Speaker 1: wake that I know that you know, we had wondered
Speaker 1: how that was going to go, because especially when he
Speaker 1: had to come in in the Lion's game and go
Speaker 1: against Aiden Hutchinson.
Speaker 3: That's rough for anybody. So I think this was a
Speaker 3: great sign.
Speaker 1: Have seen that again against a good defensive front that
Speaker 1: the Giants have, that School hung in there really tough.
Speaker 1: You didn't notice, and that's the goal of an offensive
Speaker 1: lineman is to kind of not notice them.
Speaker 2: Remember when Tristan Wurz was switching from right tackle to
Speaker 2: left tackle and everybody, including him, talked about how that
Speaker 2: could be a really hard transition. Think about the fact
Speaker 2: that a swing tackle in the NFL, like justin School,
Speaker 2: has to know how to play Bowl week at any point,
Speaker 2: and he has and he's played. The Detroit game was tough,
Speaker 2: as you said, but since then he's really filled in nicely.
Speaker 2: In four other starts on both sides. That can't be easy.
Speaker 2: And also we didn't plan this, but I ran across
Speaker 2: Jason Light this morning as I was coming into the building,
Speaker 2: and I talked about the fact that i'd heard that
Speaker 2: before the game on Sunday, he predicted that our offensive
Speaker 2: line was going to have a great game and specifically
Speaker 2: mentioned Ben Brettison going back to play the Giants. And
Speaker 2: I thought, that's a really bold prediction to make in
Speaker 2: this game, because, as we talked about last week, the
Speaker 2: Giant's main strength is their pass rush. That's their best thing.
Speaker 2: They were leading the league in sacks for pass play,
Speaker 2: and they got no sacks and two quarterback hits and
Speaker 2: Dexter Lawrence was mostly a non factor. And he was
Speaker 2: just raving about the fact that Ben Brettison was like
Speaker 2: a Shack Bearratt type of signing and that you got
Speaker 2: him at a very reasonable cost and then he's made
Speaker 2: a huge impact.
Speaker 3: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: And then of course we talked about the Giants the
Speaker 1: defensive front being their strength. Our defensive front was one
Speaker 1: of our strengths in this game. One hundred percent. I
Speaker 1: think we did what they wished they could have done.
Speaker 1: Vita and Calija just this little one two punch out there,
Speaker 1: tell us I mean, we all saw they were doing
Speaker 1: amazing things. But tell us what you noticed about their production,
Speaker 1: what they ended up meeting to this defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, big day overall war the Bucks past rush.
Speaker 3: Four players got sacks.
Speaker 4: She mentioned Clydia Kanty Vitavea, and then Anchwine, Winfo Junior
Speaker 4: and Anthony Nelson. But Clydeija Kancy vidave and they have
Speaker 4: a combined eleven sacks, and they've laughed that they're both
Speaker 4: trying to one up each other.
Speaker 3: They're both battling to get double digit sacks.
Speaker 4: But I think you just see how they compliment on
Speaker 4: each other each other.
Speaker 3: They're playing at an elite level.
Speaker 4: You have Vitavea that has that raw power, is able
Speaker 4: to drive blockers back, and then you have Callijah.
Speaker 3: That coming out of Pitt.
Speaker 4: The big thing with him was that explosive first step,
Speaker 4: the quickness, the change of direction, and you're seeing the
Speaker 4: fruition of that. But then you have guys like Anthony
Speaker 4: Nelson that it seems like every single time he's put
Speaker 4: in there, he's making an impact whatever seb package it is.
Speaker 4: And then even just on I mean, Todd Bowles was
Speaker 4: relentless and bringing pressure on Tommy DeVito, who only had
Speaker 4: three completions in the entire first half. They totaled forty
Speaker 4: five yards, which was the least amount of the Bucks
Speaker 4: have given up in his single half this season. So
Speaker 4: you're just starting to see all of those elements I
Speaker 4: think come into play, and that starts with their ability
Speaker 4: to get push in the interior.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I just think it was such a
Speaker 1: big game for the defense overall. Hold them to forty
Speaker 1: five yards in the first half, that's unbelievable, and I
Speaker 1: just feel like we saw kind of all the levels
Speaker 1: working well together. And of course, like you said, it
Speaker 1: helps that they're getting that push. They're not let them
Speaker 1: have all day to sit back there and throw. It
Speaker 1: helps everybody.
Speaker 2: Producer Cody, can can we do requests? I don't know
Speaker 2: if you can do requests.
Speaker 3: Like are calling in a phrom you play?
Speaker 2: Can you play that Beata Veasak again? I don't know
Speaker 2: how easy that is to just call up on the spot.
Speaker 2: I would love to see that again and comment on it.
Speaker 3: That's true. It was one of the most incredible things
Speaker 3: for me.
Speaker 2: It's it's not nice what he did to that person.
Speaker 1: He makes it look like he's playing you know, with
Speaker 1: like kids sports, they have like the age and weight divisions.
Speaker 3: He looks that.
Speaker 1: He looks like he's the kid playing down in age
Speaker 1: or weight class.
Speaker 3: Ye, that's like, hey, let's check his birth certificate out
Speaker 3: here with these guys.
Speaker 2: Like thanks, Cody Bullet. It was funny because that's that's
Speaker 2: the play. Obviously the collide was talking about when he
Speaker 2: spoke to the media on Monday, and he said, it's like,
Speaker 2: he's not mean, He's he's in the huddle before the play,
Speaker 2: laughing and making jokes. He's like, he's not pissed off,
Speaker 2: like and then he goes out and he does that
Speaker 2: to a grown man, What would he look like?
Speaker 3: Not angry?
Speaker 2: Yeah, that highlights that.
Speaker 3: Was pretty incredible. Well, we uh, I know that.
Speaker 1: We talked about how the bye week was very well
Speaker 1: timed for it seems like a reset some injury recoveries.
Speaker 1: It was great to have Mike Evans back out there
Speaker 1: and Jamel Dean back out there. But of course now
Speaker 1: we have some other new injuries things to look back
Speaker 1: at and to see who might be coming back win.
Speaker 3: So we don't because we're shooting this.
Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, we don't have an injury report yet, but
Speaker 1: what are you going to be keeping an eye on
Speaker 1: going into this game.
Speaker 4: Well, so it's expected that Jordan Whitehead's gonna miss extended
Speaker 4: time with that pectoral injury. We still don't know kind
Speaker 4: of the full diagnosis of that yet. Todd Bowles is
Speaker 4: going to give us more on that today, but he
Speaker 4: did confirm that Joe Tryon Shoyinka has his brained ankle.
Speaker 4: We're not sure if the severity of that or how
Speaker 4: much time he's going to miss. And then Baker Mayfield
Speaker 4: exited the game briefly with that next stinger, but of
Speaker 4: course Baker immediately.
Speaker 3: Came back in.
Speaker 4: And then Tristan Wurf's last week with that foot knee injury,
Speaker 4: did a little bit practice in a limited fashion, a
Speaker 4: little bit with the second team, So we'll see kind
Speaker 4: of how he's able to progress what he does this week,
Speaker 4: along with Tykee Smith with the knee injury.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see what Tristan does in practice.
Speaker 2: It was good news they was on in the practice
Speaker 2: student all last week, but he wasn't taking a lot
Speaker 2: of team drill snips and a lot of first team snaps,
Speaker 2: and so that was a good indication that they didn't
Speaker 2: expect him to be able to play, but I bet
Speaker 2: you he's close.
Speaker 1: I also feel like of the injuries that have happened,
Speaker 1: we have to be really reassured by the fact that, Okay,
Speaker 1: so Tristan depends on when he comes back and what
Speaker 1: level he's at.
Speaker 3: I mean, just in school did really well.
Speaker 1: And then the timing of Jordan Whitehead missing time and
Speaker 1: us having signed Mike Edwards pretty incredible on that front.
Speaker 1: And then Tykee Smith, who's been incredible but man coach
Speaker 1: has just praised Christianizian so highly. In this league, it
Speaker 1: is not that common, I think, for a starter and
Speaker 1: star player to get hurt and it not be an
Speaker 1: incredibly noticeable.
Speaker 2: Because you don't normally have a backup that's anywhere close.
Speaker 1: And that, to me is what is so interesting about
Speaker 1: these specific injuries of like, if this is what you're
Speaker 1: gonna have injury wise at this point, this crucial time
Speaker 1: in the season, I feel like it's great to know that, like, hey,
Speaker 1: we have people at each of these spots that we
Speaker 1: feel really good about. So now let's get into some
Speaker 1: Bucks trivia. Brie, give us our question for everyone to answer.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, last week I read one that
Speaker 2: you would have known you did that on purpose.
Speaker 1: He didn't believe, which means I'm not going to know
Speaker 1: the day I've already I've already accepted it.
Speaker 4: Okay, So Mike Evans had two hundred and seven receiving
Speaker 4: yards against the Panthers on January first, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 4: But he's not the only Buccaneer with a two hundred
Speaker 4: yard receiving game against Carolina.
Speaker 3: Who is the other one? Not?
Speaker 1: If I'm not gonna now, I'm like, well, it's obviously
Speaker 1: nobody obvious.
Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe like Carrier or someone.
Speaker 2: That's like uh Mark Carrier last played for the Buccaneers
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought, I don't know, maybe pans did exist.
Speaker 2: The weapons.
Speaker 3: When I try to guess, I just picked an obscure person.
Speaker 2: The thing about Mike is we would love him to
Speaker 2: have another two hundred yard game against them, Yeah, because
Speaker 2: he's got that whole I don't think it's foremost on
Speaker 2: anyone's mind. It would be great if it happened. If
Speaker 2: he got to a thousand yards for the eleventh straight season.
Speaker 2: Once he came back, he needed to get ninety five
Speaker 2: per game, and he got sixty eight against the Panthers
Speaker 2: because we didn't throw a pass in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 2: so it was situationally he probably would have gotten there.
Speaker 2: But now he has to almost exactly get one hundred
Speaker 2: yards per game down the stretch, which he's capable of,
Speaker 2: but you don't normally get a hundred, one hundred, one hundred,
Speaker 2: a hundred. He's going to need one big one or
Speaker 2: two big games. It'd be nice if it happened.
Speaker 1: Against that would be very handy. I have another guest,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to say it out loud.
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I don't know.
Speaker 3: Maybe Vincent Jackson.
Speaker 2: That's a good guess.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: That's not correct, but that is absolutely good guess.
Speaker 3: This is a good effort. I tried.
Speaker 1: I had to redeem myself after it, but he didn't
Speaker 1: exist then, so I had to do something else, all right,
Speaker 1: So milestones were tracking, Oh, I forgot what it was,
Speaker 1: What is.
Speaker 3: It, Baker? And then uh, yeah, you have your.
Speaker 2: So Baker had finished that game against the Giants with
Speaker 2: a one oh seven point five passer rating, which is
Speaker 2: good but not off the charts, right, but think about
Speaker 2: the fact that he didn't throw a touchdown pass because
Speaker 2: we kept getting stopped at the one yard land and
Speaker 2: running in, which is fine, which is fine anyway you
Speaker 2: get the ball in. They don't care. But he didn't
Speaker 2: have a touchdown pass and he had a one hundred and
Speaker 2: some point five passering, So I looked it up. That's
Speaker 2: the best single game passer rating in Buccaneer's history when
Speaker 2: you didn't throw a touchdowns, which all that does is
Speaker 2: show you how unbelievably efficient he was.
Speaker 1: In that game, right, that's amazing, And I love how
Speaker 1: he keeps doing interesting things with passer ratings of like he.
Speaker 3: Had the Green Bay game with the perfect one. First
Speaker 3: person to do.
Speaker 1: That in Lambell, Like he's just he keeps finding ways
Speaker 1: to have unique stats with passer ratings.
Speaker 3: He's like, you know what, whatever takes, I'm gonna get
Speaker 3: it done.
Speaker 2: The only guys with a pass rating of one oh
Speaker 2: five are better in a game when they didn't throw
Speaker 2: a touchdown pass or him, Kurt Warner in the early
Speaker 2: two thousands and Ben Roethlisberger in like twenty fourteen, and
Speaker 2: plus he give us all this entertainment.
Speaker 1: He was like, I felt like, especially with Gladiator coming
Speaker 1: out right now, like.
Speaker 2: He's diving into the end zone. He's blocking fifty yards
Speaker 2: downfield and love.
Speaker 1: We also talked about this on our show Monday with
Speaker 1: cameras that we were laughing that he's like, come on, Bucky, this.
Speaker 2: Way, I know where you should run. How about this one? Yeah,
Speaker 2: the only like ten yards to get that fumble.
Speaker 4: I was laughing because it's like he didn't play quarterback
Speaker 4: against he just played He did everything.
Speaker 3: It was just he was doing everything running back. You
Speaker 3: have to love it, and you know it inspires the
Speaker 3: whole team.
Speaker 1: You know, they're like, if this guy's making these kind
Speaker 1: of effort plays, if this guy's doing this, and also
Speaker 1: he's getting a little skirmish on the sideline at one point,
Speaker 1: Like I just love it.
Speaker 3: This was definitely like a Moxie Swag game.
Speaker 2: He blocked a guy named Flat. The guy's name was Flat.
Speaker 3: It's not great.
Speaker 1: It's not great, all right, So Fantasy watch, what are
Speaker 1: we looking at for you?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: So I think now I've said in the past that
Speaker 2: the Bucks backfield from fantasy purposes is a difficult thing
Speaker 2: because you just never know. And we ran three guys.
Speaker 2: I think now is the time that it's if you
Speaker 2: have buckets every but Bucky, everything's on somebody's team in
Speaker 2: your league. If you have him, you can start playing
Speaker 2: the week to week every week. Now, I think I
Speaker 2: think he's a safe play if you look at it.
Speaker 2: He has over eleven points in seven of the last
Speaker 2: nine games. And generally, if you if you if you
Speaker 2: could start a guy and know he's going to give
Speaker 2: you ten or eleven points, and you're fine with that,
Speaker 2: and maybe it'll be more, but you know you're gonna
Speaker 2: get ten or eleven, you're cool. He's had over eleven
Speaker 2: points in seven of the last nine nine games. In
Speaker 2: his last six are eighteen point five, sixteen point seven,
Speaker 2: fifteen point four, six point four, seventeen point seven, and
Speaker 2: twenty seven point one in this last game. So he's
Speaker 2: getting it done week after week after week. And now
Speaker 2: in this last game two things. For the first time
Speaker 2: all year when both Rashot and Bucky were playing, he
Speaker 2: had more snaps than Rashod, and he had six targets
Speaker 2: in the past game to one for Rashat. That's not
Speaker 2: to say anything negative about Rashot, It's just to say,
Speaker 2: if you're a fantasy owner of Bucky Irving, those were
Speaker 2: the hurdles, the hurdles were rashots still getting most of
Speaker 2: the playing time and Rashod's getting most of the targets.
Speaker 2: If that's not true anymore, and it's Bucky going forward.
Speaker 2: This is a high end number two running back in
Speaker 2: fantasy for.
Speaker 3: That's really interesting.
Speaker 2: That's where I'm planting my flag this week.
Speaker 3: Plant your flag and you can start Buckying. Feel good
Speaker 3: about it. Yes, I like it. I think all Bucks
Speaker 3: fans feel good about Bucky right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't even care about fans yea, even just
Speaker 2: like watching break tackles.
Speaker 3: And hearing Bucky chance all the way.
Speaker 1: Twelve guys, yeah, yeah, all right, So this is time
Speaker 1: for our human interest segment where we tell you something
Speaker 1: cool off the field about the team. And we couldn't
Speaker 1: decide between there were two things, so we're just giving.
Speaker 3: You both of them.
Speaker 1: It's our Thanksgiving gift, yes, thanksgiving that we have so
Speaker 1: much to be thankful for about the team right now. So,
Speaker 1: first of all, last night was Turkey Time with the
Speaker 1: O Line, everyone's favorite event, eighteenth Annual, which.
Speaker 3: Is that's pretty amazing. It has been going on for
Speaker 3: so long.
Speaker 1: Here's a photo from last night, And of course you
Speaker 1: have a few non Offensive Linemen out there and loose
Speaker 1: trademark turkey hat that every year.
Speaker 3: I can't let the found one big enough to fit him.
Speaker 3: But man, it was incredible to be out there.
Speaker 1: We fed over one thousand meals to people. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was wild and these are amazing meals. And you see
Speaker 1: the turkey there that they're holding, and then I mean
Speaker 1: they're getting stuffy and cranberry and this and like this.
Speaker 3: Pies, like they get the ten to bacon. Like here's
Speaker 3: a shot of all the stuff.
Speaker 1: And it's of course thanks to Public's and Tiko as
Speaker 1: well for all of their things, and then the Offensive
Speaker 1: Lineman help fund it as well and then are there
Speaker 1: to help actually deliver the meals to everyone, which was
Speaker 1: really It.
Speaker 2: Was started by Devin Joseph and Jeremy True Blood in
Speaker 2: like two thousand and seven, and they must be very.
Speaker 3: Proud that they're this legacy future generations.
Speaker 2: I've kept it going.
Speaker 3: It pretty incredible.
Speaker 1: So since it started, we've fed Thanksgiving meals to more
Speaker 1: than fourteen thousand, five hundred underserved family YEP, so love that.
Speaker 1: Wanted to showcase that, but then also wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about the fact that we did have Chris Godwin on
Speaker 1: our show that I do with Cambery on Monday. And
Speaker 1: I know Bucks fans I could tell when I tweeted
Speaker 1: out he was coming on. The response was like, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, we're so excited to get to hear from
Speaker 1: him and see how he's doing. And so we just
Speaker 1: knew we wanted to also throw something about that on here.
Speaker 1: And first of all, we were so thankful to Chris
Speaker 1: for being willing to come on. He doesn't have to
Speaker 1: do that right now. He's got a lot going on
Speaker 1: trying to rehab. We were so appreciative of him, and
Speaker 1: it was great we got to hear his insight on
Speaker 1: the game.
Speaker 3: The team.
Speaker 1: We talked a lot of football things, and then of
Speaker 1: course we also talked to him about life, his injury,
Speaker 1: what all that has been like. And I specifically asked
Speaker 1: him what it was like to see the fan outpouring
Speaker 1: of support out there, because I told him, you know,
Speaker 1: I was like, man, most people don't get to really
Speaker 1: hear what people think of them in this way until
Speaker 1: you're done that. It's like until you're retired and then
Speaker 1: you get that moment. But I said you basically, it
Speaker 1: felt like got to have this moment while you're still
Speaker 1: doing it that people just felt this need to say
Speaker 1: what they thought of Chris and talk about him and
Speaker 1: his family, And I just asked what that was like
Speaker 1: for him to experience, so take a listen.
Speaker 5: It was like it was really damn cool to see,
Speaker 5: like you said, people don't you don't typically get like
Speaker 5: your flowers until like you know, you're done whatever you're doing.
Speaker 5: But to just see the outpour of support like from
Speaker 5: Bucks fans, like and also just like fans from across
Speaker 5: the league, the support was really like I really touched
Speaker 5: my heart and it really like inspired me a lot,
Speaker 5: like it had helped me get through those first couple
Speaker 5: of days, Like, you know, I'm very excited to get
Speaker 5: back to doing like what I love and like there's
Speaker 5: no doubt in my mind that I'll be, you know,
Speaker 5: back at the level that I was at.
Speaker 1: Just very cool to hear him do that, and thanks
Speaker 1: to all the Bucks fans who showed their support, and
Speaker 1: we just talked about how he's He said, he's so
Speaker 1: excited to get back to doing what he loves. And
Speaker 1: I'd ask him if he learned anything through the ACL
Speaker 1: injury that could apply to this and He's like, I
Speaker 1: really learned patience. I learned that you cannot rush this,
Speaker 1: and I learned you just have to do what you
Speaker 1: gotta do. It's not a direct linear upward thing. That
Speaker 1: there's ups and downs and you just have to learn
Speaker 1: to deal with that. And so I feel like he
Speaker 1: just seemed like he's in a really good place now.
Speaker 1: He talked about the first couple of weeks was rough,
Speaker 1: but now he said, he's in a much better place.
Speaker 1: And he's got a little scooter he's scooting around on.
Speaker 1: He's got a basket in the front.
Speaker 3: It's so funny.
Speaker 1: He had like his water and he had like thera gun.
Speaker 1: It's like, at any point I might need a therapy.
Speaker 3: Well. I was loving that.
Speaker 4: He was talking about his previous scutter was a hand
Speaker 4: me down from Videvea, and as you would probably imagine,
Speaker 4: the wheels were not working up and not working yep.
Speaker 1: But I was like, of all things, of all people
Speaker 1: to accept hand me downs from, probably not, that's not it.
Speaker 3: That's not the person. So twelve years exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like this has already been worn worn hard here,
Speaker 1: all right, So now let's get into this next game
Speaker 1: against the Carolina Panthers. You know, I it's so interesting.
Speaker 1: I love how the NFL you just never know what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. You never know what teams are going to be.
Speaker 1: I think people really wrote the Panthers off, probably weak one,
Speaker 1: really tough loss to start the year, wrote them off,
Speaker 1: and of course they bench Bryce Young at some point,
Speaker 1: and you're like this, I mean, this is a disaster.
Speaker 3: This is terrible. They're imploding. Man.
Speaker 1: I feel like Bucks fans knew how great Dave Canalis is,
Speaker 1: and especially his attitude and approach to everything in the
Speaker 1: way that can be infectious to the people around him.
Speaker 3: And I think we're seeing that that.
Speaker 1: Now Bryce Young is back there after Andy Dalton got
Speaker 1: hurt in that car wreck, he has been playing at
Speaker 1: a much higher level than those first few weeks. The
Speaker 1: team is playing better, They've gotten a couple wins, took
Speaker 1: the Chiefs all the way down to the wire. And
Speaker 1: so now this game, this next Sunday, I mean, man,
Speaker 1: we're kind of catching the Panthers at a time that
Speaker 1: they seem to be feeling pretty.
Speaker 3: Good about themselves.
Speaker 1: And I think it's actually gonna therefore be a matchup
Speaker 1: where maybe at the start of the year. You think, oh,
Speaker 1: here we are in basically December, they're gonna have already
Speaker 1: laid down, They're.
Speaker 3: Gonna have quit. That would have been nice, That would
Speaker 3: have been handy. We would have appreciated that.
Speaker 1: But it is really cool to see the way that
Speaker 1: it seems like Dave Canalis's attitude has really gone into
Speaker 1: that team and they have belief, they still have fight.
Speaker 1: And then I know Xavier Legett, they just showed him
Speaker 1: that man, he's coming on. He's coming on strong for sure,
Speaker 1: and has the best accent in.
Speaker 3: The whole league.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, the Bryce Young thing, I read up
Speaker 2: a little bit about it from their local media in
Speaker 2: the last couple of days just preparing for this game,
Speaker 2: and what I read a lot of was that Bryce Young.
Speaker 2: You know, he came in the league as sort of
Speaker 2: a historic outlier in terms of his size five to ten,
Speaker 2: but not just five to ten but pretty slight, not
Speaker 2: like Russell Wilson or Klin Murray are kind of thick.
Speaker 2: So a lot of problems that quarterbacks of that size
Speaker 2: have is completing past his intermediate range down the middle,
Speaker 2: and indeed he absolutely did struggle in that regard as
Speaker 2: rookie in the first couple of days games this year.
Speaker 2: But from everything I'm reading, I don't know how Dave
Speaker 2: Canalis and him have done it, but they've unlocked it
Speaker 2: and he's actually succeeding over the middle now, which is
Speaker 2: really a huge step for him. And then also Dave
Speaker 2: Canalos was raving about his ability to extend plays and
Speaker 2: then make passes downfield, which was one of the big
Speaker 2: things in his scouting report coming out of Alabama, that
Speaker 2: he was a creative guyl like that and can do that.
Speaker 2: You didn't see it almost any of that as a rookie.
Speaker 2: I know that they benched him earlier in the year
Speaker 2: and he only got his job back because of Andy
Speaker 2: Dilton's injury, and at a time at the time, it
Speaker 2: kind of looked like this could be the end. I
Speaker 2: think maybe now the Panthers are looking at going he
Speaker 2: could still be our long term franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yep, and so bretell us about a couple of these
Speaker 1: other weapons he has at his disposal that we're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have to be keeping an eye on us. Well, it's
Speaker 3: mostly good.
Speaker 4: They've struggled, as you said, in their thirty first in
Speaker 4: the league in total offense. But Chuba Hubbard has had
Speaker 4: an incredible season. He's playing as one of the top
Speaker 4: five running backs in the league. His eight hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy six rushing yards ranks fifth in the NFL. And
Speaker 4: he's a guy that's just kind of tailor made for
Speaker 4: the outside zone system. He's effective at navigating through traffic,
Speaker 4: kind of has that downhill prowess. And then Adam Feelin
Speaker 4: back from the hamstring injury. He made an impact in
Speaker 4: his first game back. He had a thirty six yard
Speaker 4: catch and run, and then he had a first down
Speaker 4: on fourth down late in the game that led to
Speaker 4: their game tying touchdowns. So, and he's a guy that
Speaker 4: kind of is a crafty art runner. He's good at
Speaker 4: manipulating DB's by creating separations. So I think they're going
Speaker 4: to try and probably work up his workload each week.
Speaker 4: So those are certainly two guys that the Bucks defense
Speaker 4: is gonna have.
Speaker 3: To key in them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hubbard does playing well enough. He got a big
Speaker 2: new contract he tried to bring. They thought Miles Sanders
Speaker 2: was their big signing and he was going to be
Speaker 2: their main guy, but Hubbard really has emerged their defense.
Speaker 3: Who are some of the people will have to keep
Speaker 3: an eye on for them.
Speaker 2: You know, you can't sugarcoat it. We're not here. We
Speaker 2: know that the Panthers are gonna be very much of
Speaker 2: a challenge, and we've experienced that year after year, especially
Speaker 2: in Charlotte. So nobody expects this to be an easy game.
Speaker 2: But you can't ignore the fact that their defensive numbers
Speaker 2: are pretty bad, and that's not terribly surprising. They traded
Speaker 2: away Brian Burns before the season, they lost their next
Speaker 2: best defensive player, Derek Brown, to injury. They lost their
Speaker 2: tackle machine, linebacker Shack Thompson to injury. Those guys are
Speaker 2: out for the year. So it's not a horribly huge
Speaker 2: surprise that their last in points allowed at thirty point
Speaker 2: nine last and rushing yards allowed at one sixty point
Speaker 2: five per game, last and third don rate allowed forty
Speaker 2: nine point three percent, and no one on that team
Speaker 2: has more than three sacks. But despite all of that
Speaker 2: doom and gloom about the Panthers, they do have some
Speaker 2: impact players on defense, and I would point out jac Horn,
Speaker 2: the cornerback who was a first round pick and has
Speaker 2: always been quite good when he's been on the field.
Speaker 2: He's just been an injured for a lot of career,
Speaker 2: but he's been healthy this year and he's playing well.
Speaker 2: A'shawn Robinson, a guy that we remember is Lion for
Speaker 2: a long time, also played for the Rams and the Giants.
Speaker 2: He's got three sacks and is doing a good job
Speaker 2: in the middle. And then Davian Clowney doesn't have the
Speaker 2: big stats like he had last year with the Ravens,
Speaker 2: but he's always been an impact player despite the numbers.
Speaker 2: He's he's very good against the run, and he's he's
Speaker 2: good at getting pressure, and he's a guy that the
Speaker 2: Buccaneers will have to worry about.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, before we go to on our mind everybody to
Speaker 1: vote on the Pro Bowl, send our guys there. We
Speaker 1: want to watch as many Buccaneers as possible. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of guys that are deserving of it. Let's
Speaker 1: be real, look a look at all these people.
Speaker 3: We got pictures.
Speaker 1: So we got Tristan, we got Levante, Baker, Antwine, Mike
Speaker 1: and and Vita.
Speaker 3: I think he's the one. Squinty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know he's not listed there because you should
Speaker 2: all shall get your support. His kicker, Chase Mcrats.
Speaker 3: He's just gonna say that that's so funny. Yeah, Chase
Speaker 3: I feel.
Speaker 2: Like has just been so He's missed one field goal.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, he missed the extra point this week,
Speaker 1: but man, the win was the wind was bad.
Speaker 3: No joke there for sure.
Speaker 1: But he has been so reliable, so consistent, and his
Speaker 1: big leg has helped a ton of like him fifty plus.
Speaker 2: I mean, you could just go into the problem and
Speaker 2: vote for all the blocks. I wanted to do it.
Speaker 2: But if you're going to try to big true and
Speaker 2: really say who should be, don't forget Chase.
Speaker 3: Don't forget him? All right?
Speaker 2: So answer to a question, so, uh, the question was
Speaker 2: who other than Mike Evans has had a two hundred
Speaker 2: yard receiving game against Caroline Panthers And answer answer is
Speaker 2: Antonio Bryant, not Antonio Brown. Antonio Bryant had nine catches
Speaker 2: for two hundred yards and two touchdowns on December eighth,
Speaker 2: two thousand and eight, although that was in the game
Speaker 2: of the Bucks lost thirty eight twenty three, But Antonio
Speaker 2: Bryant did his show. Antonio Brian that catch is one
Speaker 2: of my most memorable catches. The one, not that one,
Speaker 2: but the one in the end zone work catch multiple. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he he put on a show that whole season. He
Speaker 2: was sort of a reclamation project that had been with
Speaker 2: the Cowboys that catch right there, Wow, with the Cowboys
Speaker 2: in the in the Browns. Yeah, he was kind of
Speaker 2: a reclamation project when we got him, and he had
Speaker 2: a huge year, so huge that we gave him the
Speaker 2: franchise tag. And then he got hurt in two thousand
Speaker 2: and nine, hardly did anything and never played again.
Speaker 1: But but he had that two hundred yard game.
Speaker 3: Don't forget about that. All right, That's gonna do it
Speaker 3: for us on this edition of Bucks Insider. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: We hope you have a very safe and happy Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: with all of your friends and family.
Speaker 3: Will see you next week.