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Speaker 1: a heck of a game to talk about. I know
Speaker 1: you all have probably tons of thoughts, comments, questions, all
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Speaker 1: comments for us underneath that live video. We're gonna be
Speaker 1: taking those, but until victory Tuesday. I love that we're
Speaker 1: gonna have victory all week. Like sometimes it's only Monday.
Speaker 1: This we're just taking this all week when it's a
Speaker 1: division when on the road to start the season, We're
Speaker 1: just gonna gonna celebrate all week. Forget that twenty four
Speaker 1: hour rold I'll moving on. Maybe the team will do that.
Speaker 1: We're not doing that. So you have to practice on Wednesday, exactly,
Speaker 1: we don't have to move on until Sunday. We're just
Speaker 1: going to celebrate all weeks. So until we give you
Speaker 1: guys a chance to get some of those questions in.
Speaker 1: Just I want to hear your initial thoughts about that game,
Speaker 1: and it was exactly how you predicted it we go, right,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Well no, I mean, do I know that
Speaker 1: it was meant as a joke, but I don't remember
Speaker 1: if it was on this show or it was something
Speaker 1: we did last week where I said, if the if
Speaker 1: the Saints win, it'll probably be kind of a lopsided thing.
Speaker 1: If the Bucks win, I bet it's going to be
Speaker 1: a shootout. Yeah, and uh, that's obviously what happened. You know.
Speaker 1: I was there in two thousand when the Bucks played
Speaker 1: the Rams on in Week sixteen of that season, and
Speaker 1: Rams that was the Kurt Warner Greatest Show on Turf Rams,
Speaker 1: you know, and that was a shootout thirty five Bucks
Speaker 1: one at the end, and that was considered probably the
Speaker 1: greatest regular season game in Buck's history. This one on
Speaker 1: on Sunday is up there, at least in terms of
Speaker 1: the most incredible shootout the Breckneers have ever had, and
Speaker 1: I mean statistically it is. I mean, the Buckner's have
Speaker 1: never ever won a game before were they allowed forty
Speaker 1: points and they tied. They had to tie their own
Speaker 1: scoring record in a single game to do so. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's close to breaking that record. Chandler had made
Speaker 1: his third field. He made the first two. If he
Speaker 1: had made that last one, not only would that have
Speaker 1: broken the record, but it would have made us feel
Speaker 1: a lot easier there at the end. Right. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: that did get a little nerve wracking at the end,
Speaker 1: and it took an just I mean, the unbelievable out
Speaker 1: of his mind game that Ryan Fitzpatrick had throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: and then at the end it takes one big run
Speaker 1: from him to seal the victory. I love if you'd
Speaker 1: ever told me that we would be relying on Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: to run to save a game and it would work,
Speaker 1: I would have been like, he ran a lot in that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I couldn't. He looked like this youth fell I mean,
Speaker 1: running a guy over basically was sweet. And then the
Speaker 1: superman that was great and he was feeling it, that's
Speaker 1: for sure. Um and Mike Evans said after the game,
Speaker 1: he said, that's one of the most complete games I've
Speaker 1: ever seen from a quarterback. And that's some of what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. The just the absolutely on target downfield throws,
Speaker 1: which is something we've been begging to see for seasons now.
Speaker 1: The running, the avoiding, you know, some of it was running.
Speaker 1: Someone was scrambling and getting out and throwing on the run,
Speaker 1: but more often he was picking up a few yards
Speaker 1: and then just the way that he handled the procedural
Speaker 1: part of being quarterback, which is of course what you'd
Speaker 1: expect from a guy who just was making his hunt
Speaker 1: twentieth NFL start, But the Super Dome is a different animal.
Speaker 1: And apparently according to Coach Cutter, who heard this from
Speaker 1: Coach Monkin, there's an eight or nine times where with
Speaker 1: really loud crowd noise he was able to Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: was able to make an effective change at the line
Speaker 1: and get it communicated to everybody, largely using hand signals.
Speaker 1: And that's a lot harder than it sounds to get
Speaker 1: that information to everybody. So, you know, Ryan Jensen is
Speaker 1: your center this year, and it's his first year with
Speaker 1: this team, and when he was joining the team, he
Speaker 1: had to basically prepare for two different starting quarterbacks to
Speaker 1: be the one he's snapping too and getting calls from.
Speaker 1: So I feel like the communication that it showed that
Speaker 1: Fitzpatrick had with with him in the line overall, that
Speaker 1: you just didn't really see miscommunication. It felt like it
Speaker 1: all went really well, and I thought that was a
Speaker 1: great sign of I mean talk about a massive test
Speaker 1: to start with that new local line and with the
Speaker 1: Pastrick back there. I mean, I just that to me
Speaker 1: was one of more impressive party. Yeah, I'm really glad
Speaker 1: you brought that up. I actually wrote about that yesterday.
Speaker 1: I spent most of yesterday writing those data Crunch articles
Speaker 1: where you're breaking down, you know, some of the most
Speaker 1: amazing stats, and we had so many of them. But
Speaker 1: then at the end of the day, after Coach Cutter
Speaker 1: talked occurred, you know, listening to him, I thought, you know,
Speaker 1: the offensive line needs some needs to get some credit,
Speaker 1: a lot of credit. They they were, like you just
Speaker 1: already said it. They were. They were fantastic and in
Speaker 1: a really tough challenge. Ryan Jensen, I think made a
Speaker 1: difference both with the way he played in the communication
Speaker 1: and also his attitude. You saw it why we brought
Speaker 1: him in in case people thought after he signed a
Speaker 1: big contract that he maybe wasn't gonna be his old
Speaker 1: nasty self. Thank you put that to rest. Yes, Coach
Speaker 1: said he flipped a switch basically for the regular season.
Speaker 1: It was a different, whole different thing since the preseason,
Speaker 1: which is great. I love that. Um So we have
Speaker 1: a lot of questions, all in the similar vein, and
Speaker 1: I know, unfortunately probably not gonna even be able to
Speaker 1: answer them. So this is the disclaimer. It is all
Speaker 1: the questions about injury updates. We've got the questions about
Speaker 1: Deshaun and Vernon and Rett Grimes and Vita Via and
Speaker 1: all these people so big giant injury that I would
Speaker 1: say that's going to be the one, and we might
Speaker 1: as well just say now, it's going to be one
Speaker 1: disadvantage doing this every Tuesday, because every every Sunday, well
Speaker 1: hopefully not every Sunday, but on a lot of Sundays,
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna get a little injury, and every Monday, coach
Speaker 1: is gonna be asked about him, and every Monday he's
Speaker 1: gonna say, we'll have an injury report, simply the way
Speaker 1: it's gonna gets it. So we're gonna tell you there
Speaker 1: will be an injury report tomorrow and the next day
Speaker 1: and the next day, and those will be the things
Speaker 1: that tell you the information. Unfortunately, not gonna be able
Speaker 1: to help with that. We just don't know. Ryan wanted
Speaker 1: to know, do you think we expect to see Rojoe
Speaker 1: dress this weekend? If I was betting, yes, I would say,
Speaker 1: so here's here's the thing about that, and that that
Speaker 1: was one of the main things that I got Twitter
Speaker 1: responses on on Sunday. UM was, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny. By the end of the game, you
Speaker 1: think you'd be celebrating all the guys that did awesome
Speaker 1: and we're talking about one guy that didn't play. But
Speaker 1: I understand. Second round pick, high second round pick. The
Speaker 1: thought was when he was drafted, he was going to
Speaker 1: be the compliment to Peyton Marrow. He was going to
Speaker 1: provide big plays. And I still think that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: We talked about this before the game. Um, he was
Speaker 1: inactive for one game, not the season. He was not
Speaker 1: deactivated for the season. I believe that that was the
Speaker 1: product of some injuries at other positions and decisions that
Speaker 1: had to be made to get down to four six. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Brent Grimes is out and m J. Stewart
Speaker 1: had been banged up a lot. They definitely wanted to
Speaker 1: make sure they had at least five cornerbacks because if
Speaker 1: one goes down, you only have four, and one goes down,
Speaker 1: then you're you're playing with three guys and you usually
Speaker 1: have three on the field against Drew Brees. You've got
Speaker 1: no backup. So j V. Nelly didn't end up playing
Speaker 1: a whole lot, but he was active just in case.
Speaker 1: And we kept our full eight man rotation of defensive
Speaker 1: lineman with vave out uh up. And so that's going
Speaker 1: pretty deep at those two positions. And if you're gonna
Speaker 1: go deep somewhere, you gotta lose it somewhere else. I
Speaker 1: suppose you could have gone with just four receivers. You know,
Speaker 1: your fifth receiver, Freddie Martinea, only played about thirteen snaps,
Speaker 1: but Freddie plays a lot on special teams. You want
Speaker 1: to do you want to play without ANTHONYO Claire or
Speaker 1: Alan Cross where you could see in that game that
Speaker 1: even though they didn't play a ton, they have some
Speaker 1: very specific roles in the offense. Uh, And so where
Speaker 1: are you gonna go. You're already down to seven offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: You go with Ronald Jones because Sean Wilson is your
Speaker 1: kickoff returner and the game plan in this game, you
Speaker 1: think you can you have a game plan and obviously
Speaker 1: it works, and uh, you can do this game plan
Speaker 1: without Ronald Jones next week, hopefully with with some injuries
Speaker 1: cleared up, or maybe just the injury situation isn't exactly
Speaker 1: the same. You probably will keep four tailbacks up because
Speaker 1: for most of the three years that coach Cutter has
Speaker 1: been calling the plays, we've kept four tailbacks up in
Speaker 1: every game. It's just something that he generally does. So
Speaker 1: I think that's the goal in most games. And it
Speaker 1: just didn't work out from a number standpoint. So if
Speaker 1: I'm betting, I would say Ronald Jones is active for
Speaker 1: the next game. Don't know that for sure, but I
Speaker 1: think so. Okay, Uh, I think, well, it's funny it
Speaker 1: says Gerard, but then I think he says his name
Speaker 1: is actually Chris. Maybe it's a that's a first of
Speaker 1: all name situation. Chris Uh said he loved that they
Speaker 1: distributed the ball to more than just Evans and Braid
Speaker 1: and thought that was such a huge factor that more
Speaker 1: guys were involved, and he said, can we expect more
Speaker 1: of this? And it seems like this is going to
Speaker 1: be the key to the season. Yeah, absolutely, they're gonna
Speaker 1: spread it around. Uh. Ryan Fitzpatrick was saying after the
Speaker 1: game that we have six guys we really like to
Speaker 1: throw the ball too, and there's more than that. But
Speaker 1: they're that's your four core receivers and your two tight ends,
Speaker 1: and uh, I think they're all going to get the ball.
Speaker 1: And the one guy who didn't get the ball actually
Speaker 1: was Cam Braid in that game, and he played the
Speaker 1: fewest snaps he's played in the last two years in
Speaker 1: any game. But I don't think again, just like the
Speaker 1: Ron Jones things, I don't think this was a slight
Speaker 1: It's just the game plan. The game plan was to
Speaker 1: really utilize those outside receivers, and DeShawn and Um and
Speaker 1: Mike Evans were targeted twelve times and every single play,
Speaker 1: every single one of those targets worked. I mean it
Speaker 1: was working, and they produced two hundred and ninety three yards.
Speaker 1: That's nearly twenty yards per target, which is practically unheard of.
Speaker 1: So that was definitely the plan going in and it worked.
Speaker 1: So you know, we we did spread it around a
Speaker 1: little bit, but we did still focus on those guys.
Speaker 1: I think in another game, cam Brad will be more involved.
Speaker 1: Here's another thing about that topic that I'd like to
Speaker 1: bring up is that people have been asking us how
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson and Chris Godwin, how are they going to
Speaker 1: coordinate that? Right? Because it seems like Chris Godden is
Speaker 1: gonna get more playing time, but at whose expense. I
Speaker 1: think you saw a little bit of a blueprint, although
Speaker 1: I'm sure was specifically game plan of how it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: Deshan Jackson had an enormous game, right, but he only
Speaker 1: played twenty plays. Yeah, he missed a little bit of
Speaker 1: time at the end with the injury, but he only
Speaker 1: played twenty plays. And Chris Godwan played like thirty four
Speaker 1: plays and and made some really big place So you
Speaker 1: can get a lot out of DeShawn Jackson Deshan Jackson
Speaker 1: without having them on the field all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good point. So, and there was even one
Speaker 1: play I believe on the big touchdown Deshaun was in
Speaker 1: the slot. Yeah, there's a lot of ways you can
Speaker 1: work this, and we're we're just we're just scratching the surface.
Speaker 1: And the more diversity they're the harder is for defensive
Speaker 1: to figure it out. I love this next question. Doug
Speaker 1: wants to know when and where is the Alley and
Speaker 1: Donovan show gonna air? And we filmed our first episode yesterday.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of laughter, apparently we heard We
Speaker 1: were very loud, even that there are people in the
Speaker 1: nearby hallways saying that we were being a little noisy
Speaker 1: unctious if you will, sorry, not sorry. So it is
Speaker 1: gonna air on w f L A Saturday at seven thirty.
Speaker 1: There's actually back to back Bucks shows, Get Bucks All
Speaker 1: Access and then the Alien Donovan Show at seven and
Speaker 1: seven thirty. We're also gonna put it on the Buccaneers website.
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly when that's going to go up now,
Speaker 1: um so there will be plenty ways. Even if you're
Speaker 1: not on in the Tampa market, you will still be
Speaker 1: able to see it. Um it just as a little teaser.
Speaker 1: There was discussion of who would win in an arm
Speaker 1: wrestling contest. Yeah, I was unfortunately, was actually really bitter
Speaker 1: that someone asked between Alian Donovan and I'm like, why
Speaker 1: was I not even chance at this? I mean, I
Speaker 1: feel like I could hold my own for I don't know,
Speaker 1: point one seconds potentially definitely there And the answer practically
Speaker 1: made Donovan cry. He was laughing so hard, like full
Speaker 1: belly laugh like when we were Yes. So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna actually tell you the answer, but it was not
Speaker 1: a traditional either Ali or Donovan. There was a there
Speaker 1: was a third weird option here. So I'm just going
Speaker 1: to tease that it was a great Okay Saturday Saturday
Speaker 1: at seven and unbucks dot com. Yes, Um, Kevin wanted
Speaker 1: to know. We only got one sack versus the Saints.
Speaker 1: How many do you predict versus the Eagles? That was
Speaker 1: such a quick and specific We normally don't like want
Speaker 1: to give like a specific number. You're like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: and that call me wish you washing here exactly. Listen,
Speaker 1: I agree there was only one sack. This is the
Speaker 1: number one new constructed unit that we've been wanting to
Speaker 1: see an action right this defensive line the first time
Speaker 1: where they could actually rotate eight guys in the whole game,
Speaker 1: which you don't do in the preseason. And you wanted more,
Speaker 1: but look at the team we were playing. This is
Speaker 1: maybe the most difficult environment for us to start this
Speaker 1: season with a huge sack game. I mean, Drew Brees
Speaker 1: just doesn't get sacked very often. He has a great
Speaker 1: offensive line and he gets rid of the ball quickly.
Speaker 1: I mean the one sack in itself was quite encouraging
Speaker 1: because it was a simple one on one win by
Speaker 1: Benny Curry. There was nothing fancy about it. Snapped the ball,
Speaker 1: he beat his man, got right around the right tackle,
Speaker 1: and he was in Drew Brees face before Breeze could
Speaker 1: even really get set up. It was a great one
Speaker 1: on one win, which we want, right That was the
Speaker 1: whole point. We have Joe McCoy making the prowler every
Speaker 1: year and being dominant but being double teamed all the time,
Speaker 1: and nobody's taking advantage of the resulting one on once.
Speaker 1: Vinny Curry did right there, and that's very encouraging. We
Speaker 1: also saw one really good rush by Um JPP and
Speaker 1: one by Carl Nassab, but in both cases Drew Brees
Speaker 1: is able to get away, which is incredible. On the
Speaker 1: JPP one, I couldn't believe he got away from that one. Well,
Speaker 1: and that's very because Benji actually asked, uh, has JPP
Speaker 1: had a lot of success against the Eagles in the past.
Speaker 1: You know, he spent his career with New York they
Speaker 1: were in the same division. He's faced them a whole lot,
Speaker 1: So does that give him a pretty good chance this week?
Speaker 1: It's fine that Jessa, because I actually went through his
Speaker 1: game logs to see and it gets Philly. It was
Speaker 1: last week, so I don't have an absolutely fresh memory
Speaker 1: of which was which, but it was kind of a
Speaker 1: give and take. There were some games where he had
Speaker 1: been games a couple of secks, and there were several
Speaker 1: games where he didn't. And you gotta understand, the Eagles
Speaker 1: have had some pretty good offensive tackle play, especially Jason Peters,
Speaker 1: for most of the time that he's been in New York. So, um,
Speaker 1: it's a tough challenge and he's had some he's had
Speaker 1: some wins against them, so yeah, he can definitely do
Speaker 1: it again. And Kevin asked how much work does Carlton
Speaker 1: Davis need to be a productive cornerback? And I guess
Speaker 1: just overall, the question is what do you make of
Speaker 1: his performance on Sunday. Yeah, he's you know, again very
Speaker 1: first game Drew Brees and the super Dome. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: at rough. That's a tough test right there. Um, that's
Speaker 1: like walking into your chemistry class for the first time
Speaker 1: and you get a get a pop quiz. I don't
Speaker 1: think you're you're mixing the chemicals really well that first.
Speaker 1: That's probably an explosion. UM. Coach Cutter did say that
Speaker 1: both him and m J. Stewart, who also came in
Speaker 1: for Carlton for a little while and played about nineteen snaps.
Speaker 1: Both got better as the game went on, and he said,
Speaker 1: both of them learned some lessons that's going to help
Speaker 1: them in the long run. So no, of course, that
Speaker 1: was not the perfect start for either one of them.
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis like any ricky cornerback needs some work. How much? Um, well,
Speaker 1: let's hope it's not much. I mean, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: rely on him, and he did look good in the preseason.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, yeah, I did this. This seems like
Speaker 1: maybe this was one game of just knocking off that
Speaker 1: rookie rust and learning curve a little bit, and maybe
Speaker 1: now this is the really tough challenge. Yeah, of course
Speaker 1: we got some tough ones coming up to I mean,
Speaker 1: Nick Foles has a good history against us, and then
Speaker 1: it's big Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah, welcome to here's the fire
Speaker 1: jump in. Jared asked, uh, he said, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see Justin watt Sen. Um, do you think that he'll
Speaker 1: get some targets on Sunday? And especially he asked, if
Speaker 1: we are without DeShawn Jackson, has that change things? Um,
Speaker 1: that would be the probably the only reason that Justin
Speaker 1: would have a helmet on on Sunday. He was one
Speaker 1: of our inactives, as we predicted in the first game,
Speaker 1: because you have six receivers and you generally only keep
Speaker 1: five of them up. And Freddie Martino is a guy
Speaker 1: that we have a lot of trust in and we
Speaker 1: know he's really good on special teams, and in fact,
Speaker 1: he made a tackle in that game. Justin Watson is
Speaker 1: anticipated's anticipated he's gonna be a good on special teams
Speaker 1: as well. But Freddie's we already know he is UM,
Speaker 1: So I would suspect you'd keep the same five receivers
Speaker 1: up if DeShawn is ready to go. If DeShawn is
Speaker 1: not ready to go, then Justin probably does get a
Speaker 1: helmet on UM again, though Chris Godwin is probably gonna
Speaker 1: soak up most of those extra snaps UM, and it
Speaker 1: would get it would probably get Justin on the field
Speaker 1: for a handful of snaps, Like Freddie was your fifth
Speaker 1: guy in this last game, and he played thirteen snaps,
Speaker 1: so he'd probably get on the field for a handful
Speaker 1: of snaps. But that's not enough to get a ton
Speaker 1: of targets, so I wouldn't expect a ton all right, Well,
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