Speaker 1: Any of news going on. And one piece of news
Speaker 1: that came out today is Alan mar Pett resigning for
Speaker 1: several years. And I know that's very exciting, So we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with that. But I want to remind everyone
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Speaker 1: So Ali mar Pett resigning, I want what do we
Speaker 1: know about the deal and what you think why it
Speaker 1: happened now and just what does this mean for the
Speaker 1: team over Well, the deal is a six it's a
Speaker 1: five year extension. It's a six year deal because it
Speaker 1: starts now, it replaces what he had for two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: and it runs through two three. In terms of dollars,
Speaker 1: the team doesn't really hardly ever announced dollars. It'll be
Speaker 1: out there, so if you want to find it, you'll
Speaker 1: be able to find it. I'm sure it's good right now. Um,
Speaker 1: it's it's it you want. You want to draft a
Speaker 1: guy and then sign him to a second contract, and
Speaker 1: we've been able to do that with a good number
Speaker 1: of guys in recent years. You're Joe McCoy, is Lante, David,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, you know now him. I think I'm Cambray,
Speaker 1: Will Golston. Sure, I'm forgetting a couple of others. It's
Speaker 1: what you want. And there's probably a couple of others
Speaker 1: coming down the line at some point, maybe Donovan Smith,
Speaker 1: maybe Kawan Alexander, guys like that. Um, and you know,
Speaker 1: at some point you do have to give them a
Speaker 1: bigger contract if you want to keep them around. So
Speaker 1: good for Ali, that's fantastic. I think he's having a
Speaker 1: great year. Um, it's hard with offensive line metrics, the
Speaker 1: offensive line, our offensive line, his whole is not helping much.
Speaker 1: With the running game isn't very good, so everybody bears
Speaker 1: some of that burden. But the passing game has obviously
Speaker 1: been very good, and for the most part the past
Speaker 1: protection has been very good. And other than that, it's
Speaker 1: kind of hard. To give stats for an offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: There are services out there that that's claimed to be
Speaker 1: able to grade him, like Pro Football Focus, which I
Speaker 1: don't really use a lot because I feel like your
Speaker 1: cherry picking. Some of it you like and some of
Speaker 1: it you don't. But if it matters to anybody, they
Speaker 1: have been very highly rated this year, which is yeah,
Speaker 1: which is great. Um. And and it's interesting cause there's
Speaker 1: a group of guys we've talked about would all be
Speaker 1: coming up for contracts around the same time. If you
Speaker 1: had Ali and Donovan and Kawen and Jamis and all
Speaker 1: of them. Um, So we knew that it was already
Speaker 1: gonna be challenging of how many you can resign and
Speaker 1: how and win? And so what does this say about
Speaker 1: now again the timing of it, of why you would
Speaker 1: sign now, and what this can mean overall of trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how to put a place for all
Speaker 1: these guys that their contracts are going to be coming upset. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in terms of whether it was week what are we
Speaker 1: in week six of this year or week eight or whatever,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure the timing of that was all that important.
Speaker 1: I would I would imagine this means that both sides
Speaker 1: agreed that they wanted something some time ago, and I've
Speaker 1: been working on it since and they just figured it
Speaker 1: out at this point. I suppose you could say, I
Speaker 1: don't know this for sure, but it could tell you
Speaker 1: a little bit of the priorities of the order. You know,
Speaker 1: Ali was maybe the priority of the guys that weren't
Speaker 1: signed yet they wanted to get locked in. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: sure it was a very high priority. So other than that,
Speaker 1: it it's great to get them done early. It feels
Speaker 1: like we've done this a lot. So there's something about
Speaker 1: the process where it happens like this. I think General
Speaker 1: McCoy was about this time of the year when he
Speaker 1: got his I think Lavante David was like that too.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you have a player who will say, Okay,
Speaker 1: if it's not done by the start season, then I
Speaker 1: don't want to deal with it right, And that happens.
Speaker 1: But I think most of the time the players really
Speaker 1: aren't dealing with that much anyway. Their agents are dealing
Speaker 1: with it, and they're getting giving them their updates, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure they get feedback, but I don't think it's
Speaker 1: particularly in most cases all that hard. You know. I
Speaker 1: think when it's a situation like that where a guy says, NA,
Speaker 1: we're not doing it. It's more of a contentious thing.
Speaker 1: And I don't think this was a contentious matter. Probably. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: we have a question from friend, and this is going
Speaker 1: to get talking about timing of the year. He said,
Speaker 1: when are guys that are on I are able to
Speaker 1: come back? And are any of them ahead of schedule?
Speaker 1: And he specifically wants to know about back with Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: they back with his dad. Actually not on I R.
Speaker 1: He's on n F I. But it's so that one
Speaker 1: is a little better because I believe that six weeks
Speaker 1: and then you have a couple of weeks window where
Speaker 1: he can practice with the team and not count against it.
Speaker 1: Do have all this information upstairs? I can't of each guy.
Speaker 1: I can't claim that I can recall every single one
Speaker 1: of the exact details the I R ones. They have
Speaker 1: to be out for eight weeks from the point that
Speaker 1: they go on I are and then again there's a
Speaker 1: window for them to come back and a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to practice with the team before they actually are activated.
Speaker 1: So there's you know, it's like a sliding scale. If
Speaker 1: a guy that went on last week. He won't be
Speaker 1: available till a little bit later in the season. But
Speaker 1: I guess a couple of guys that would be relevant.
Speaker 1: There would be mitch on Ryan, who went on at
Speaker 1: the very beginning of the year, so he would be
Speaker 1: the first one to be available. Maybe Chris Conty. You
Speaker 1: haven't heard much about the severity of that. UM, I
Speaker 1: gotta be forgetting And how does that change the idea
Speaker 1: of the designated return and all that that that used
Speaker 1: to the way that used to work as compared this
Speaker 1: rule has evolved very well. It's taken some time for
Speaker 1: the NFL to get to this point, but I think
Speaker 1: they're at a really good point. And just just for
Speaker 1: a little history, UM, a couple decades ago, you could
Speaker 1: put a guy on I R and then bring him
Speaker 1: back off. And the problem with that was it sounds good,
Speaker 1: and they do that in baseball. But and you can
Speaker 1: do that with everybody. The problem is team's sort of
Speaker 1: abused it, and you know you're in order to keep
Speaker 1: their fifty three guys. In a few more they'd have
Speaker 1: guys and I are that probably necessarily shouldn't go on
Speaker 1: I R. Now to go on are you actually have
Speaker 1: to demonstrate that they have an injury that that is
Speaker 1: going to be keep him out of a certain length. Okay. Um,
Speaker 1: So then it went the other way. They said, Okay, no,
Speaker 1: once a guy goes on ire and he's done, so
Speaker 1: you can't stash him there because he's gonna be lost
Speaker 1: for a season. Okay, but that gets a little bit
Speaker 1: tough because that puts you in the in the scenario
Speaker 1: of of each week deciding do I keep this guy
Speaker 1: active on the active roster, how many weeks I'm gonna
Speaker 1: have to make him one of our in active guys
Speaker 1: and carry a guy that's hurt. I'm sure they I'm
Speaker 1: sure they had this exact conversation with kend about kindle
Speaker 1: back with if we think he's gonna be back in
Speaker 1: three weeks, maybe we keep on the active roster and
Speaker 1: then just make him an active for three weeks. If
Speaker 1: you think it's gonna be more like six or seven,
Speaker 1: and you do n F I same thing here. So
Speaker 1: it kind of put teams in a hard situation. And
Speaker 1: so some years back, maybe two thousand ten or so,
Speaker 1: they started this new thing where you could bring one
Speaker 1: guy off are one guy a season, and you had
Speaker 1: to designate him as that guy when you put him
Speaker 1: on our So if we put mitch on right on
Speaker 1: in week one, we would have said, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the guy that we want to bring back, and and
Speaker 1: then he you know, he would come back. Problem with
Speaker 1: that is, okay, mitch On ran is an important player,
Speaker 1: But what if in week two, you're starting quarterback gets
Speaker 1: hurt and he's gonna be out for eight weeks? And
Speaker 1: now you're like, man, I wish we had saved that
Speaker 1: so we could change it and make it that guy instead.
Speaker 1: And so that's what they did. Now you do not
Speaker 1: have to say ahead of time which one it is.
Speaker 1: Everybody that you put on there is a potential guy
Speaker 1: that you could bring back. You just don't have to
Speaker 1: say it up front. Um, And then they did. They
Speaker 1: gave everybody two of those choices. So that's where we
Speaker 1: are at. Okay, all right, And then I know we
Speaker 1: had several of the position coaches talk yesterday, which is
Speaker 1: a little bit of a rarity that normally it's only
Speaker 1: your head coach and coordinators. Yeah, it's a pretty rare situation.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's always great insight because these are
Speaker 1: the guys that really spend the most time with their
Speaker 1: individual position groups. Um, so I wanted to hear anything
Speaker 1: kind of high level that stood out to you from
Speaker 1: from talking to those guys, and and some themes or
Speaker 1: things that came out that you felt like was a
Speaker 1: little unique or different as compared to hearing from the coordinators. Well, you,
Speaker 1: as you'd expect everybody wanted to talk to John Hook
Speaker 1: who's one of the defensive backs coaches, because that was
Speaker 1: the position that struggled the most in the most recent game. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and he said some of the things he
Speaker 1: said is what you would expect. He obviously thinks highly
Speaker 1: of all those guys and those young guys and what
Speaker 1: they're going to become. But he does say, look, every
Speaker 1: time I go out there, it's a new experience for them.
Speaker 1: Every new every game is new for them. Every time
Speaker 1: they're doing this, they're learning. So I guess, reading between
Speaker 1: the lines, would you say, is you say is some
Speaker 1: of this is growing pains? Right? And I don't think
Speaker 1: it was the intention of the Buccaneers to draft two
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in the second round and safety in the fourth
Speaker 1: round and all of them as starters by week. You know.
Speaker 1: M J. Stewart is essentially a starter because he's just
Speaker 1: like I by week four. I don't think that was
Speaker 1: the plan, but that's where we are now, so you've
Speaker 1: got to work with that. And there's there's definitely a
Speaker 1: lack of experience there with Chrisconti not there and even
Speaker 1: Vernon hard race. You know, you have Brent Crimes, but
Speaker 1: not much more in terms of experience. Yeah, that's tough
Speaker 1: and speak you know, experience in the timing of that.
Speaker 1: Facing the Falcons this year seems like in theory it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be as hard as normal, just based on their
Speaker 1: record and what they've been doing. But just somehow it
Speaker 1: seems like the Falcons offense tends to have our secondaries
Speaker 1: number in terms of putting up some massive yards. I
Speaker 1: mean Julio Jones, we remember the game he had against
Speaker 1: us last year. So uh, I think the bye weekend
Speaker 1: somebody's couldn't have come in a better time for that
Speaker 1: secondary to have more time to look ahead of the Falcons,
Speaker 1: to self reflect what what do you feel like are
Speaker 1: the things that knowing the Falcons are coming up, that
Speaker 1: this secondary and the defense overall is really going to
Speaker 1: have to focus on and make sure that there's not
Speaker 1: a repeat of Chicago. I kept watching. I got to
Speaker 1: watch football on as the bye week, and I kept
Speaker 1: for one front. For some reason or another, all these
Speaker 1: different analysts were kept using the phrase tough out. That's
Speaker 1: a tough out for them. I just kept hearing it,
Speaker 1: and that's what pops in my mind. Now. The Falcons
Speaker 1: are tough out for the Buccaneers. The Falcon's offense, don't
Speaker 1: get full about that wonderful record. Matt Ryan is just fine,
Speaker 1: Julio Jones is just fine. They have a new weapon
Speaker 1: in cow Ridley. Mohammed Sanu was still very good. They
Speaker 1: just got Davonte Freeman back from injury. That is a
Speaker 1: very very potent offense. I know they weren't great against Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: but they also their defense wasn't given him much help.
Speaker 1: The reason the main reason the Falcons are one and
Speaker 1: four is because they've lost like four starters to injury.
Speaker 1: Reserve on defense, I mean, their defense is struggling to
Speaker 1: the extent that our defense is struggling in some cases.
Speaker 1: And so what you look at this game, you think, man,
Speaker 1: this could be a shootout again. I mean, the people
Speaker 1: are expecting this one to be kind of wild, like
Speaker 1: the New Orleans game, and it wouldn't shock me at all. Um,
Speaker 1: I think we certainly have the weapons two um attack
Speaker 1: them and score a lot of points, specifically the challenge
Speaker 1: to our secondary. What worries me the most is Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and h Right. It's easy to say, but here's
Speaker 1: a specific reason why. UM one. Hulo Jones obviously something
Speaker 1: you have to worry about going deep on you. Right,
Speaker 1: he gets up to speed really really quickly. He eats
Speaker 1: up that cushion, and if you give him eight or
Speaker 1: ten yards, he eats up that quickly and he can
Speaker 1: run right by you. And so you know he's running
Speaker 1: like a fifteen yard route up field, just straight up field.
Speaker 1: The dB turns and at some point that dB thinks
Speaker 1: to himself, Okay, my biggest warrior here is the deep ball.
Speaker 1: I gotta make sure so he's that's what he's thinking first.
Speaker 1: And what Julio Jones does, probably better than any of
Speaker 1: the receiver in the NFL, is go from top speed
Speaker 1: two sudden stop. So they do a number of different
Speaker 1: stop which would call stop routs. Just a quick button
Speaker 1: hook or stops and flattens his route out on and out.
Speaker 1: And the cornerback who's so worried about this deep ball.
Speaker 1: It takes a yard or two to react and with
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan throwing the ball at the moment he cuts, Uh,
Speaker 1: that's incredibly hard to defend. Now, if you're one of
Speaker 1: our young quarterbacks, I think you compound that a little bit.
Speaker 1: I don't think these guys want to give up the
Speaker 1: huge plays, right, so they have to work. But they
Speaker 1: also can't not concern themselves with that. So they're gonna
Speaker 1: be in a tough position trying to cover Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: I think, and and you know, he may not get
Speaker 1: the seventy yarder, might get a two or three, twenty
Speaker 1: five or three yarders on those stop routes. So that's
Speaker 1: a tough challenge. Yeah, that's that's very true. And it's
Speaker 1: not like the Bucks the only team that Julio That's
Speaker 1: my point. He does that to everybody, everybody. That's very true.
Speaker 1: Paul wants to know, what would you say this team's
Speaker 1: identity is after the first quarter of football? And do
Speaker 1: you think some of the veteran guys we have now
Speaker 1: and have added can help keep the locker room focused
Speaker 1: and from getting down on the on the second point, Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I think that they have. People probably don't necessarily
Speaker 1: believe us, but you can back me up on this.
Speaker 1: There hasn't really been a loss of confidence in that
Speaker 1: locker room. Yeah, that's true. It's fair for a fan
Speaker 1: to think the last well, the last game of the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh game was still pretty good except for the second quarter.
Speaker 1: It's fair for a fan to think that to be
Speaker 1: worried that the Bucks are actually what they saw in Chicago.
Speaker 1: That's not at all what these guys think. And I
Speaker 1: think they're closer to being right. Yeah, I remember that
Speaker 1: was what Vinny Curry said right after the Chicago game.
Speaker 1: Is his biggest thing he kept repeating was this is
Speaker 1: not who we are. And I think a team knows
Speaker 1: when they get beat bad if it's because that's just
Speaker 1: who they are. They not as good. Yeah, they're just
Speaker 1: not as good as the other team. And there was
Speaker 1: nothing else they could have really done versus the idea
Speaker 1: of the Bucks that said that when they've lost, they've
Speaker 1: beat themselves. And and everybody says that right, and they seemed,
Speaker 1: I mean, especially the look on Vinny Curry, they believe it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you could tell that that was that was a real thing.
Speaker 1: As coach Cutter said, there's been a lot of self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds and and every team would like to say
Speaker 1: that because it's easier to swallow that you could have
Speaker 1: beaten them, but you messed up. Then they're just better
Speaker 1: than we are. The first half of the question is
Speaker 1: the identity of this team is clearly in in the
Speaker 1: passing game. You know, it's a prolific team with a
Speaker 1: lot of weapons that can hurt you in a lot
Speaker 1: of ways. Uh, it's certainly. I don't think we have
Speaker 1: found an identity on defense, and that's not particularly surprising
Speaker 1: because the offense is a lot more intact from what
Speaker 1: it was. The defense is a lot of new parts.
Speaker 1: What you want that idea to be, especially in given
Speaker 1: Mike smith history, is um you rush for you don't
Speaker 1: blitz a lot, and you can middle you create a
Speaker 1: lot of turnovers and that's what That's what turned it
Speaker 1: around in in the second half of two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: Mike's first year here, and that's what needs to happen
Speaker 1: for it to turn around this year. We have to
Speaker 1: get more pressure on the quarterback and we have to
Speaker 1: we have to live off of turnovers. And then to you,
Speaker 1: the importance of this game. We talked about how um
Speaker 1: going into the bye week that two and two was
Speaker 1: was still it's fine, fine, and and even better than
Speaker 1: most people predicted the Bucks would be at that point.
Speaker 1: How important now is the difference in two and three
Speaker 1: and three and two in your mind? And especially the
Speaker 1: division road and we talked about one game is one game,
Speaker 1: but some of them do matter more in the sense
Speaker 1: of division games. To be honest and not this may
Speaker 1: sound like I got rose colored glasses on a win
Speaker 1: here does more for us than the loss does to
Speaker 1: hurt us in my opinion. Okay, I don't want us
Speaker 1: to go two and three, but two and three, at
Speaker 1: worst case, you'd probably be two games out with eleven
Speaker 1: to play and and four games left in your division,
Speaker 1: three of those four at home. Atlanta has been a
Speaker 1: historically tough place to play. There's some what looks like
Speaker 1: on paper, easier matches matchups coming for us, especially at home.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be a disaster if the Bucks
Speaker 1: are two and three. However, if they were three and
Speaker 1: two with two division road games in hand, already two
Speaker 1: and oh in the division in both road wins, that's
Speaker 1: that's a norm us. That's a fantastic place to be. Um,
Speaker 1: we would probably at that point be about one game
Speaker 1: out of first. We'd have two wins in the bank
Speaker 1: and three of our four maning games against the division
Speaker 1: at home, so lots to gain, somewhat to lose, but
Speaker 1: more to gain than to potentially lose in my opinion. Okay,
Speaker 1: I like that. All right, that's going to do it
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