WEBVTT - Short Week Mini-Sode | Salty Dogs 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:03.000 What do you call two guys that were there when 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.040 this happened? Back to return at Spurlock, Michael Spurlock at 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:07.640 the chain and he's still the twenty. He still the 0:00:07.720 --> 0:00:12.640 twenty five thirty top forty yardline history, fifty forty, the 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.640 thirty yards. I like Michael Rock, Michael Rock, Michael Rod 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:20.520 stop tap, there you go and then sixty two yard 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:30.320 for your goal attempts it God, God, God, God, box Eagles, 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:35.080 who can forget again? I'm looking at the already Derek 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:39.640 Bocks dilready touchdown tamp a day, Derek Books, spariable player. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.320 You're a national football like there it is Tuck Daggers 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:45.920 in where you're gonna win the Super Bowl. We call 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:50.519 them the Salty Dogs. Welcome everyone, thanks for joining us 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:53.400 again for another edition of the Salty Dogs Podcast. Yes, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:57.280 we certainly appreciate you taking the time to basically waste, 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:59.760 but it's great. I mean there's times you can waste, 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.959 like driving home or something. Yeah, you can. You can 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.399 multitask too. I'm Scott Smith and I'm Jeff Ryan. We 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:09.160 are the Salty Dogs and this is a little mini 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.319 episode for the short week and the reason right because 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:15.280 we're playing Thursday night, which would be tomorrow night, because 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:18.280 we're recording this on Wednesday morning. It's a minisode, yes, 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.960 if you will, well, so it's our Minnesota. It's basically 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.760 the same thing without the star, and that would be 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:26.480 the player. I know. We always say that's our favorite 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.959 part of them, and we're not doing that part because 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.200 we made that decision on our own. We didn't even 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:33.800 ask anybody because this week is so compressed that we 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.320 thought it was just not a good ask to ask 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.280 a player to do that in just a few days 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.080 they have and looking at their schedule, the only thing 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.080 they had was lunch, and even during lunch they had 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.680 to do lifts and other things and treatment. So they're 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:52.960 very minimal time, especially considering they are traveling on Wednesday, 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.440 Wednesday afternoon for the Thursday night game. So that would 0:01:56.440 --> 0:01:59.640 be today, very minimal. That would be today. Yes, we 0:01:59.680 --> 0:02:02.280 would be preparing for travel, do you and I? Jeff, Yeah, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:04.440 it's funny you say that, because I was thinking about 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:08.960 that um coming in this morning, Like dang Chicago. I 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:12.360 grew up in the outside of the Yeah, it's a 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:16.000 great city, the beautiful time a year ago. Right now 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.800 they have that cast role thing they call pizza. Yes, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.519 yes they do. That's worth trying. Yeah, deep, I'm not 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.840 a big fan of dem What what I love is 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:26.840 Italian beef. I can't talk though. Yeah, the Italian beefs 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.519 where they dunk it. Oh my goodness. They used to 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:31.840 do that in Soldier Field. Yes, remember the old prespect 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.359 was a dump to complete dump. But but they had 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.880 the little hallway in the back and every single game 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:40.359 they had the people with the beef on wack I 0:02:40.360 --> 0:02:42.240 think they called it. No, no, that's in beef on 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.280 wack is in Buffalo. This is called Italian beef. But 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:47.160 they would if you wanted to, they would dunk it 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:50.520 into which makes it extremely messy, but very excellent. It 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.040 was worth all the dribbles on your shirt, it really was. 0:02:53.800 --> 0:02:56.200 And also a Vienna hot dog. I mean, I realized 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.880 you can get those anywhere, but there's something about eating 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.360 a hot dog in Chicago that's just awesome. There's a 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:05.240 lot to like about especially so now that you've got 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.760 me all cranked up realizing that I'm not traveling to 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.800 this game. But there is a silver lining and I 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:16.480 have um kind of walked myself through it is there's 0:03:16.520 --> 0:03:20.520 just so many changes with with the dealing with COVID 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.000 and how it wouldn't be fun travel anyway. They've reduced 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:29.440 the travel party again down a smaller number. How can 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.160 they get much smaller? It's pretty small? And um, you 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:35.480 know the hardest part about a night game And you know, 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:38.520 I'm not telling you, Scott, I'm just telling people out there, 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:40.760 the hardest part about a night game is sitting around 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.160 all day waiting for the game to start. It's because 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.480 they are going to have a walk through though at 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:50.440 the hotel, so, um, they're gonna stay busy on it Thursday. Yeah, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.320 because because of the short week, there was still stuff 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.800 they needed to get done. As Bruce said, the Monday 0:03:54.920 --> 0:03:57.160 nine games in the worst because you've accomplished everything you 0:03:57.200 --> 0:03:59.200 need to do and then and then you're just sitting 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:02.080 in your hotel room all day Monday with nothing to do. Well. Now, 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:07.240 the NFL came out with even stricter guidelines on separation 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:10.240 on meals, and I think they have t twelve feet. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.160 I mean it is. I mean we're probably our distance 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.160 right now, I would say between you and mean, yeah, 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.120 it's probably about eighteen feet at least. Yeah, it's a big, 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.760 big table. Yeah, maybe maybe twenty one ft. It is 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:29.159 a big table, but it is um yeah, it is 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:33.960 kind of you forget sometimes because you get wrapped up 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.400 into football. But the virus is still out there and 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.720 the NFL is making sure that we can get a 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.640 season in. Unfortunately, they did have to move a game, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.599 and they canceled a game. Didn't cancel it, they moved 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.799 it two weeks. Well, yes, they canceled it for Sunday, 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.560 but that they got over that, they got through that, 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.240 they found a way to solve those But we're not 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.080 out of the woods yet. And I say that because 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:55.320 today brings the news that stuff on Gilmore of the 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.200 Bills has tested positive and see that. And the problem 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:59.800 for me with that one, and we have not heard 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:02.000 all ramifications of this yet. The problem for me with 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.839 that one is he just played in that game against 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:09.760 Kansas City. Oh yeah, yeah, So if he was asymptomatic 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:13.360 but already shedding, then that could be a problem. So 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.479 we're gonna We're gonna find out if there's If we 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.640 see cases from the Chiefs and the Patriots popping up 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:19.800 this week, then you know we're starting to see the 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:26.200 worst case scenario that everybody's worried about Yeah, it's crazy 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.919 because you feel good and then all of a sudden, 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.480 you know your your test. I don't know about you, 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:34.560 but I'm not kidding you. When I go get tested, 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.880 until I get the result, I am like, please, don't please. 0:05:39.600 --> 0:05:42.640 It's um. At first, when we started this season, I thought, 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:44.840 man getting tested every week, and then for the Tier 0:05:44.839 --> 0:05:46.960 one and two tier people it's every day. What a pain? 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.000 You know, I didn't know what to expect. Was a 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.240 little bit scared. Now I'm glad. I feel like it's 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.159 a it's an opportunity, it's an advantage that we're getting 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.120 because every week we find out that we're fine. It's 0:05:56.160 --> 0:06:01.840 truly a privilege because it takes salt because of the 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.919 difficulties in getting a test, having a test done, you know, 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:11.000 in in the good old USA. So, in addition to COVID, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.680 I wanted to say near the top that UM, what 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.960 has become clear to me about this season is that 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:21.159 it's going to be a season of attrition. UM. And 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.480 that's not just COVID, that's injuries. But although there's a 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.320 lot of people who think the rash of injuries is 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.280 a result of the lack of off season and preseason 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.839 and the abbreviated training camp, which is of course because 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.599 of COVID. So it's all related. But um, you know, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.919 we we will be talking about all our injuries here 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:44.680 in a minute. Is severe and concentrated in several positions, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 and that's the problem. But nobody's gonna feel sorry for 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.360 the Buccaneers. They have to figure out a way to 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.560 get through it. We just played the Broncos, who are 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.200 missing a whole bunch of their key players, and I'm 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.560 sure that had something to do with the outcome of 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.480 the game. And then we just played the Chargers who 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:02.040 were also missing a a number of their key players, 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.520 including like three offensive linemen, and I gotta believe that 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.159 had an impact. Um So yeah, but I have to 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.960 give props to them because the next man up really 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.880 did play well. They played pretty well. They played very well, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.000 and of course I didn't mention that, um they were 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.559 playing without their week one started a quarterback, Tyrod Taylor, 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.440 because it looks like Justin Herbert is probably better anyway. Yeah, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.960 I think he certainly can get the ball downfield. I 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:28.640 think when you're unfortunately, when when are they won in three? Yeah, 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:30.160 but they look better to me than a one in 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:34.720 three team. Oh, no question, no question that I was 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:40.320 very impressed with with him Herbert Um during Hard Knocks, Yeah, 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.240 he was pretty impressive. Just just a demeanor, you know 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.240 how you know, you know when you start watching guys, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.400 just things he was saying, as when he made a mistake, Okay, 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.480 what did I do? How do I fix this? That 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.520 type of thing. So, you know, those are the teams 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.040 we've faced. We've seen like San Francisco battle through a 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.280 whole bunch of injuries and still do pretty well. Although 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.520 they lost this week. There have been other teams and 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:01.080 now it looks like it's our turn. And I think 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:05.480 the team's two things. The teams that handled temporary rashes 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.360 of injuries, which I think is what the Bucks have. 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.600 I don't think it's other than O. J. Howard. It's 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:14.080 not long term with any of these guys. But um, So, 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:17.480 the teams that handled those stretches where they're missing a 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.840 bunch of key players, well are going to be at 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:21.680 the top at the end. And then the teams that 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.640 where it is more temporary, that don't suffer the real 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:30.560 big season altering or season killing injuries, you know, are losing. J. 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.160 Howard is big to be honest with you, because he 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.719 was playing great and I think are two tight endpactages 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.720 were really producing very well. Stats show that to be true. 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:42.920 And we don't have another tight end that's really analogous 0:08:42.960 --> 0:08:46.360 to O. J. Rob Gronkowski at his peak form is 0:08:46.720 --> 0:08:48.840 but we don't know if we have it. We certainly 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:50.880 haven't really seen that yet, although he didn't make a 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:52.800 real nice downfield play in the last game. I think, 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.079 you know, when before the season started, you were looking 0:08:57.160 --> 0:09:00.360 at tight ends and you were looking at Nimes and 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.960 how many running back So we got so many receivers 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.880 and I think, I think, I think you have to 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.679 give props to Jason light and to Bruce Arians Realizing 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.200 that this was going to be a very different everybody 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.800 wanted us to trade O. J. Howard as soon as 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:15.840 we got Rob Gronkowski, and they didn't even think about it. 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.679 They I mean, I'm sure they listen if somebody give 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.560 me a big offer, but they knew what they wanted 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.880 to do with these guys, and they knew you could 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:23.280 lose anyone of them at the drop of a hat. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.880 And and so that seems to be all everything that 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.559 everyone was talking about is, oh, we're really overloaded. We're 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:32.480 really overloaded, and and here we are in week five 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.480 and we're not overloaded at all. Let's go down the 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:39.640 list please. It is Wednesday, before their walk through. They're 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.520 just doing walk Do you want to do this first 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.240 or do you just want to say what an awesome 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:45.920 game Sunday was? No, I want to do this, okay, 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.439 because that's all I think it's most We are one 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:49.319 day away, we're closer to the next game than we 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.240 are the last one. We can still talk about that. 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.439 I got some stuff here all my time. Okay, go ahead, 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.800 I think this is more important, very much. Uh, this 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:01.240 is Wednesday when we're recording this around maybe to eleven. Um. 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.079 We don't know yet. The the full injury report, where 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:05.679 you would normally get on Friday, is going to come 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.120 out today but probably later in the afternoon, in which 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.280 it will show which guys are ruled out, which guys 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.160 are questionable, which guys look good. So we don't know 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.120 for sure. But what we do know is that all 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.880 of these players have not practiced at all this week 0:10:18.920 --> 0:10:20.680 and these are just walk through, so they're not even 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:25.360 walking through. Chris Godwin, who we didn't expect to play anyway, 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:31.800 Mike Evans, Scotty Miller, Justin Watson, Leonard four Nette le 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:40.200 Shan Lashawn McCoy, and Gronk's been limited. If it is 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:44.240 entirely possible that all of those first six guys I 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:47.480 listed will not play, in which case, here's what you 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.760 would have defense. Here's what you would have. Yeah, we're 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.720 gonna get to that. Here's what you would have on 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.280 your available on your fifty three man roster heading into 0:10:56.320 --> 0:11:03.839 Thursday at receiver Cyril Mayson and Tyler Johnson. Okay, next, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.199 did you expect me to continue that list? Because that's 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.079 that's that's it. Uh, you have two guys on the 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.800 practice squad Josh Pearson, who they chose to protect this week, 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:14.320 which I think is telling, and another guy, Um that 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:18.680 we recently added, and uh, you could choose to promote 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:21.320 elevate both those with that new practice squad elevation thing, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.719 in which case you have four guys, But you have 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.640 four guys who essentially between them have one NFL catch, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.360 right Cyril Grayson atta three rd catch last year. The 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.080 tough part is is that even if guys can, you know, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:35.360 start the game, it's just hard to keep going. You 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.400 especially you're a razor thin, especially on a short week. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.200 So when Leonard four Nette couldn't play, and then Kenyan 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.320 Barner and UM and Lashawn McCoy both got knocked out 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.800 of that last game, you were down to Ronald Jones 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.559 and the rookie Keyshaw Vaughn, who played very well. He 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.920 made a very impressive play UM, So you were able 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:55.720 to get through. But if you go in starting with 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.560 those two and lose either one of them are both 0:11:57.559 --> 0:12:00.520 what are you gonna do? And with at the COVID 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.920 protocol I was just gonna say punt. With the COVID protocols, 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:08.960 you there was really no opportunity to bring it everybody 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:12.199 in off the street to help because it's a Thursday game, 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.280 so they couldn't start trying to sign guys until Monday, 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.320 and it would take until at least today. Right, Well, 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.839 you have to test seventy two hours in a row 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.280 for three days, so you really by the only time 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.840 you would be able to come in really is Friday. Well, 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.559 if you get tested on Monday, you got to Tuesday. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.439 Then you gotta get tested on Windy, which is the 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.199 day of the game, So you wouldn't even have a 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:35.320 chance to teach them anything. There's no way you would 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:36.880 put that guy in a game, so they didn't even try. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:38.840 There was no point you could do a more long 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.319 term signing. But I don't think they think, other than Howard, 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:44.120 that these are long term injuries. So after after the 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:48.360 Chicago game, have you got time for everybody to heal hopefully, 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.080 hopefully at least some of them, so you have some 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:56.720 representative offense. It's just it's going to be it's gonna 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.320 be kind of crazy in a way. It's almost an 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.240 interesting EXPERI him to see how the Bucks can get 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:03.920 through this game. Well, that's I think that's kind of it. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.719 You know, if you're on the roster, you're supposed to 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:10.240 be a player, and if you know you're in the NFL. Yeah, 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.560 but I'm just talking to sheer numbers. John. Yeah. You know, 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.160 most teams, including the Buccaneers, run eleven personnel, which is 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:19.559 three receivers about sixty percent at the time. It's hard 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.319 to run through receivers when you only have two receivers. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:27.760 And yeah, wow, I actually, um, I forgot. I didn't 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.200 mention Jaden Mickens today. All right, so you do have 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.840 three guys. You got Cyril Grayson, Jaden Mackins, he'll probably 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.240 be doing uh punt return. Yeah, but but he don't 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:39.760 have to play on offense, and he has played a 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:41.959 little bit on offense in Jacksonville. He he has some 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.360 stats in his past, not a ton, but some. So 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.120 you have Jaden Makins, Tyler Johnson and Cyril Johnson Cyril Grayson. 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:51.880 So at least that's three, and then you could you 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.840 could elevate Josh Pearson potentially from the practice squad to 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.240 have four. Well, we certainly are learning the names of 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:01.320 who's on the Buccaneers and say you have no choice, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.320 and on game day it's even gonna be more. That 0:14:03.360 --> 0:14:06.280 flip card is becoming more and more important right now. 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.559 I mean, there's a reason this offense was so good. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.080 And you you obviously say next man up. Every team 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.960 says next man up. Every every players learns to say 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.000 next man up in every interview. But there's a reason 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.160 why Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are are the best. 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.600 And hey, by the way, do you know who leads 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:25.480 this team in receiving yards? Scotty Miller? Oh, you did know, 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.800 or you just made a good just because I don't 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:30.920 walk in with papers doesn't mean but you knew, are 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.040 you guys? I I knew because because I am interesting. 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.320 I think I think it is. But I'm rooting for him, Yeah, 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.720 I is. I is. You gotta root for the little guy. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.720 That's all I'm saying. I went into a I was 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:46.880 asked in a different podcast before the season two name 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:48.400 who I thought could be the unsung hero, and I 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:52.880 picked Scotty Miller. And my point was, I'm not just 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.200 talking about Scotty Miller being a good third third receiver 0:14:56.280 --> 0:14:58.400 who stretches the field and makes an occasional big play. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.080 I'm saying this guy could get six or seven or 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:02.840 yards this year. I may have been shooting low. If 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:04.960 you want to see how fast Scotty Miller is, you 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.440 need to go to the Buccaneers apper Buccaneers dot com 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:10.600 and watch Randy Barber. You should do that every Yeah. 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.200 But but the breakdown of that play and how he 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.040 just flies through it is you really see how fast. 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:20.640 You can really get a gauge on how fast he is. 0:15:21.160 --> 0:15:24.200 Smooth very much. I think it's funny when you were 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:26.840 talking about next man up and and you try not 0:15:26.880 --> 0:15:29.080 to say that you're going to drop off. But my 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:32.200 initial thought there was is there is a difference in 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.120 the players, because if there weren't difference in players, the 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.160 money would all be the same, and that's not how 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:40.360 it works. And yes, so the next man up, Yes, 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.280 you're you're up. You got your shot. And it wouldn't 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.080 be much fun if everybody was equally good. No, get 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.680 boring after a while. But but it also shows that 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.640 sometimes guys become really good because they finally have a 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.160 chance to show what they can do. One man's injury 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.560 is another man's opportunity, which is what Bruce Arians likes 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.120 to say. I like that where we are not currently injured, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:09.320 knock on wood is um offensive line, all five guys 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:13.640 playing very well, very much. I think we're seeing finally, Jeff, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.480 think of the resources that this team has pumped into 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:19.960 the offensive line recent years. Second round pick on Donovan 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:22.040 Smith and then and that was a high second I 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:24.200 was like the first pick of the second round, and 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:26.520 then a second contract for him a couple of years ago, 0:16:27.240 --> 0:16:30.560 a bigger one um third round pick on Ox Kappa. 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.240 That's the least of all of them. The big big 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.320 contract for Ryan Jensen, second round pick, and another contract 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:40.200 for Alan mar Pett and then the first round pick 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.760 thirteenth overall and Tristan Whorf's It's not like we haven't tried, boy, 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:46.080 they but we have not gotten results like this yet. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.440 And now it feels like it's really coming together. You cannot. 0:16:48.600 --> 0:16:53.600 I am just totally amazed how well Tristan is playing. Yeah, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:57.400 it's it's great to be at the game and just 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.760 put a pair of binoculars just on him and watch 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:05.399 how well he played. Last Sunday talks about that a 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:11.240 little bit too. Phenomenal, phenomenal. He's got good feet, Unreal, unreal, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:15.800 Joey Bosa said after the game. Yeah, really good. Well, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:18.280 when you get manhandled, you kind of have to say that, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.520 don't you. But but you know, Joey's you know, he 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.400 just got a big contract and he's the first game 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.520 he didn't have a sack this year, big time player. 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.600 So that's a lot of he wasn't sacked in that game. 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:32.919 He threw forty six passes and wasn't sacked. He's hit 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.720 about five times. He wasn't sacked. Yeah, I thought I 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.440 get the ball quick. Yeah, I I thought they played 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.800 really really well. Tom Brady, here's here's a here's a 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:45.280 very noticeable difference between our offense this year Tom Brady 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.600 and our offense with Jamis Winston and Jamis Winston did 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.560 lots of really good things and had Hughes stacks huge numbers. 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.680 Tom Brady will throw the ball away a lot more 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:55.320 than Jamie's ever did. Think about when we got down 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.480 to the goal, which is a good throw most of 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.200 the time. It's the right decision. And obviously to ring 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.080 to Tom Brady to know right somethings like he threw 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.960 that away quickly, but so we get down. I believe 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:09.640 on the UM. I believe on the Mike Evans touchdown 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.800 after the fumble. The first play clearly didn't work and 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:15.359 he threw it high out of back of the end zone. 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:17.879 Second play I think was supposed to be a swing 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:22.200 pass out to the right to Keshan Vaughan and Um 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.680 and he just threw it over his head. I mean 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:27.159 he was covered. He just so first two plays to 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.240 throw aways, and then on throw down he scrambles and 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.400 and he can't throw it on third down, so he scrambles, 0:18:31.560 --> 0:18:34.600 finds Mike Evans touchdown. If he forces one of those 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:36.600 first two passes, he might never get the third down 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:41.320 here Yeah, that's he's patient. He's patient and what he's 0:18:41.320 --> 0:18:43.280 trying to do, what he's what he wants to accomplish it, 0:18:43.240 --> 0:18:45.680 and he knows what he wants to accomplish. He's doing 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:49.720 the quick checkdowns and um, it is it is um 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:53.919 fascinating to watch it, really is it. It's kind of, 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:59.760 I don't know, surreal, just in just in watching him 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.399 reached down the field and being down was seventeen points 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.280 and then he he led four four straight possessions were 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:08.520 touchdowns and then a field going the next one. That's 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.000 we don't see that a lot. We didn't see that 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.800 in the heyday. It's pretty great. It was. It was 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:16.240 it's fun. You know what that third and six scramble 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.080 did to the third and six scramble and then touchdown 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:20.840 past to Mike Evans, which is really nice play in 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:23.359 which Mike adjusted his route when he saw that the 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.879 player was breaking down and slid behind the defender. He 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:27.240 first was going in front of him and then he 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:31.119 went behind him, uh and found an open spot and 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.000 Brady found him. Um that kept us perfect. And then 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.879 there were two more and later in the game or 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.919 one before and one after on goal to go every 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.040 single time this year, on eleven tries that we have 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:47.200 reached first in goal, whether it be from the nine 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.240 or the one or the ten, we've gotten into the 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.479 end zone, which I find remarkable and I would love 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.879 for that. You can't continue the whole year, but as 0:19:54.920 --> 0:19:57.360 long as it as long as it goes, keep going right, 0:19:57.400 --> 0:19:59.159 even if you slack off a little bit. And that 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:04.480 was against number and we were four three for four 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:07.760 in the red zone. That is three four red zone drives, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:11.399 three touchdowns for in receptions, I mean three touchdowns, one 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.760 field goal. That would be a really weird stay um. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:15.520 And that was against the team that came into the 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.480 to the week with the best red zone defense in 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:23.080