Speaker 1: What do you call two guys that were there when
Speaker 1: this happened? Back to return at Spurlock, Michael Spurlock at
Speaker 1: the chain and he's still the twenty. He still the
Speaker 1: twenty five thirty top forty yardline history, fifty forty, the
Speaker 1: thirty yards. I like Michael Rock, Michael Rock, Michael Rod
Speaker 1: stop tap, there you go and then sixty two yard
Speaker 1: for your goal attempts it God, God, God, God, box Eagles,
Speaker 1: who can forget again? I'm looking at the already Derek
Speaker 1: Bocks dilready touchdown tamp a day, Derek Books, spariable player.
Speaker 1: You're a national football like there it is Tuck Daggers
Speaker 1: in where you're gonna win the Super Bowl. We call
Speaker 1: them the Salty Dogs. Welcome everyone, thanks for joining us
Speaker 1: again for another edition of the Salty Dogs Podcast. Yes,
Speaker 1: we certainly appreciate you taking the time to basically waste,
Speaker 1: but it's great. I mean there's times you can waste,
Speaker 1: like driving home or something. Yeah, you can. You can
Speaker 1: multitask too. I'm Scott Smith and I'm Jeff Ryan. We
Speaker 1: are the Salty Dogs and this is a little mini
Speaker 1: episode for the short week and the reason right because
Speaker 1: we're playing Thursday night, which would be tomorrow night, because
Speaker 1: we're recording this on Wednesday morning. It's a minisode, yes,
Speaker 1: if you will, well, so it's our Minnesota. It's basically
Speaker 1: the same thing without the star, and that would be
Speaker 1: the player. I know. We always say that's our favorite
Speaker 1: part of them, and we're not doing that part because
Speaker 1: we made that decision on our own. We didn't even
Speaker 1: ask anybody because this week is so compressed that we
Speaker 1: thought it was just not a good ask to ask
Speaker 1: a player to do that in just a few days
Speaker 1: they have and looking at their schedule, the only thing
Speaker 1: they had was lunch, and even during lunch they had
Speaker 1: to do lifts and other things and treatment. So they're
Speaker 1: very minimal time, especially considering they are traveling on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Wednesday afternoon for the Thursday night game. So that would
Speaker 1: be today, very minimal. That would be today. Yes, we
Speaker 1: would be preparing for travel, do you and I? Jeff, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny you say that, because I was thinking about
Speaker 1: that um coming in this morning, Like dang Chicago. I
Speaker 1: grew up in the outside of the Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: great city, the beautiful time a year ago. Right now
Speaker 1: they have that cast role thing they call pizza. Yes,
Speaker 1: yes they do. That's worth trying. Yeah, deep, I'm not
Speaker 1: a big fan of dem What what I love is
Speaker 1: Italian beef. I can't talk though. Yeah, the Italian beefs
Speaker 1: where they dunk it. Oh my goodness. They used to
Speaker 1: do that in Soldier Field. Yes, remember the old prespect
Speaker 1: was a dump to complete dump. But but they had
Speaker 1: the little hallway in the back and every single game
Speaker 1: they had the people with the beef on wack I
Speaker 1: think they called it. No, no, that's in beef on
Speaker 1: wack is in Buffalo. This is called Italian beef. But
Speaker 1: they would if you wanted to, they would dunk it
Speaker 1: into which makes it extremely messy, but very excellent. It
Speaker 1: was worth all the dribbles on your shirt, it really was.
Speaker 1: And also a Vienna hot dog. I mean, I realized
Speaker 1: you can get those anywhere, but there's something about eating
Speaker 1: a hot dog in Chicago that's just awesome. There's a
Speaker 1: lot to like about especially so now that you've got
Speaker 1: me all cranked up realizing that I'm not traveling to
Speaker 1: this game. But there is a silver lining and I
Speaker 1: have um kind of walked myself through it is there's
Speaker 1: just so many changes with with the dealing with COVID
Speaker 1: and how it wouldn't be fun travel anyway. They've reduced
Speaker 1: the travel party again down a smaller number. How can
Speaker 1: they get much smaller? It's pretty small? And um, you
Speaker 1: know the hardest part about a night game And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you, Scott, I'm just telling people out there,
Speaker 1: the hardest part about a night game is sitting around
Speaker 1: all day waiting for the game to start. It's because
Speaker 1: they are going to have a walk through though at
Speaker 1: the hotel, so, um, they're gonna stay busy on it Thursday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because because of the short week, there was still stuff
Speaker 1: they needed to get done. As Bruce said, the Monday
Speaker 1: nine games in the worst because you've accomplished everything you
Speaker 1: need to do and then and then you're just sitting
Speaker 1: in your hotel room all day Monday with nothing to do. Well. Now,
Speaker 1: the NFL came out with even stricter guidelines on separation
Speaker 1: on meals, and I think they have t twelve feet.
Speaker 1: I mean it is. I mean we're probably our distance
Speaker 1: right now, I would say between you and mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably about eighteen feet at least. Yeah, it's a big,
Speaker 1: big table. Yeah, maybe maybe twenty one ft. It is
Speaker 1: a big table, but it is um yeah, it is
Speaker 1: kind of you forget sometimes because you get wrapped up
Speaker 1: into football. But the virus is still out there and
Speaker 1: the NFL is making sure that we can get a
Speaker 1: season in. Unfortunately, they did have to move a game,
Speaker 1: and they canceled a game. Didn't cancel it, they moved
Speaker 1: it two weeks. Well, yes, they canceled it for Sunday,
Speaker 1: but that they got over that, they got through that,
Speaker 1: they found a way to solve those But we're not
Speaker 1: out of the woods yet. And I say that because
Speaker 1: today brings the news that stuff on Gilmore of the
Speaker 1: Bills has tested positive and see that. And the problem
Speaker 1: for me with that one, and we have not heard
Speaker 1: all ramifications of this yet. The problem for me with
Speaker 1: that one is he just played in that game against
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Oh yeah, yeah, So if he was asymptomatic
Speaker 1: but already shedding, then that could be a problem. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna We're gonna find out if there's If we
Speaker 1: see cases from the Chiefs and the Patriots popping up
Speaker 1: this week, then you know we're starting to see the
Speaker 1: worst case scenario that everybody's worried about Yeah, it's crazy
Speaker 1: because you feel good and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know your your test. I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but I'm not kidding you. When I go get tested,
Speaker 1: until I get the result, I am like, please, don't please.
Speaker 1: It's um. At first, when we started this season, I thought,
Speaker 1: man getting tested every week, and then for the Tier
Speaker 1: one and two tier people it's every day. What a pain?
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't know what to expect. Was a
Speaker 1: little bit scared. Now I'm glad. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: a it's an opportunity, it's an advantage that we're getting
Speaker 1: because every week we find out that we're fine. It's
Speaker 1: truly a privilege because it takes salt because of the
Speaker 1: difficulties in getting a test, having a test done, you know,
Speaker 1: in in the good old USA. So, in addition to COVID,
Speaker 1: I wanted to say near the top that UM, what
Speaker 1: has become clear to me about this season is that
Speaker 1: it's going to be a season of attrition. UM. And
Speaker 1: that's not just COVID, that's injuries. But although there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people who think the rash of injuries is
Speaker 1: a result of the lack of off season and preseason
Speaker 1: and the abbreviated training camp, which is of course because
Speaker 1: of COVID. So it's all related. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: we we will be talking about all our injuries here
Speaker 1: in a minute. Is severe and concentrated in several positions,
Speaker 1: and that's the problem. But nobody's gonna feel sorry for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. They have to figure out a way to
Speaker 1: get through it. We just played the Broncos, who are
Speaker 1: missing a whole bunch of their key players, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure that had something to do with the outcome of
Speaker 1: the game. And then we just played the Chargers who
Speaker 1: were also missing a a number of their key players,
Speaker 1: including like three offensive linemen, and I gotta believe that
Speaker 1: had an impact. Um So yeah, but I have to
Speaker 1: give props to them because the next man up really
Speaker 1: did play well. They played pretty well. They played very well,
Speaker 1: and of course I didn't mention that, um they were
Speaker 1: playing without their week one started a quarterback, Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: because it looks like Justin Herbert is probably better anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he certainly can get the ball downfield. I
Speaker 1: think when you're unfortunately, when when are they won in three? Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they look better to me than a one in
Speaker 1: three team. Oh, no question, no question that I was
Speaker 1: very impressed with with him Herbert Um during Hard Knocks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was pretty impressive. Just just a demeanor, you know
Speaker 1: how you know, you know when you start watching guys,
Speaker 1: just things he was saying, as when he made a mistake, Okay,
Speaker 1: what did I do? How do I fix this? That
Speaker 1: type of thing. So, you know, those are the teams
Speaker 1: we've faced. We've seen like San Francisco battle through a
Speaker 1: whole bunch of injuries and still do pretty well. Although
Speaker 1: they lost this week. There have been other teams and
Speaker 1: now it looks like it's our turn. And I think
Speaker 1: the team's two things. The teams that handled temporary rashes
Speaker 1: of injuries, which I think is what the Bucks have.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's other than O. J. Howard. It's
Speaker 1: not long term with any of these guys. But um, So,
Speaker 1: the teams that handled those stretches where they're missing a
Speaker 1: bunch of key players, well are going to be at
Speaker 1: the top at the end. And then the teams that
Speaker 1: where it is more temporary, that don't suffer the real
Speaker 1: big season altering or season killing injuries, you know, are losing. J.
Speaker 1: Howard is big to be honest with you, because he
Speaker 1: was playing great and I think are two tight endpactages
Speaker 1: were really producing very well. Stats show that to be true.
Speaker 1: And we don't have another tight end that's really analogous
Speaker 1: to O. J. Rob Gronkowski at his peak form is
Speaker 1: but we don't know if we have it. We certainly
Speaker 1: haven't really seen that yet, although he didn't make a
Speaker 1: real nice downfield play in the last game. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, when before the season started, you were looking
Speaker 1: at tight ends and you were looking at Nimes and
Speaker 1: how many running back So we got so many receivers
Speaker 1: and I think, I think, I think you have to
Speaker 1: give props to Jason light and to Bruce Arians Realizing
Speaker 1: that this was going to be a very different everybody
Speaker 1: wanted us to trade O. J. Howard as soon as
Speaker 1: we got Rob Gronkowski, and they didn't even think about it.
Speaker 1: They I mean, I'm sure they listen if somebody give
Speaker 1: me a big offer, but they knew what they wanted
Speaker 1: to do with these guys, and they knew you could
Speaker 1: lose anyone of them at the drop of a hat.
Speaker 1: And and so that seems to be all everything that
Speaker 1: everyone was talking about is, oh, we're really overloaded. We're
Speaker 1: really overloaded, and and here we are in week five
Speaker 1: and we're not overloaded at all. Let's go down the
Speaker 1: list please. It is Wednesday, before their walk through. They're
Speaker 1: just doing walk Do you want to do this first
Speaker 1: or do you just want to say what an awesome
Speaker 1: game Sunday was? No, I want to do this, okay,
Speaker 1: because that's all I think it's most We are one
Speaker 1: day away, we're closer to the next game than we
Speaker 1: are the last one. We can still talk about that.
Speaker 1: I got some stuff here all my time. Okay, go ahead,
Speaker 1: I think this is more important, very much. Uh, this
Speaker 1: is Wednesday when we're recording this around maybe to eleven. Um.
Speaker 1: We don't know yet. The the full injury report, where
Speaker 1: you would normally get on Friday, is going to come
Speaker 1: out today but probably later in the afternoon, in which
Speaker 1: it will show which guys are ruled out, which guys
Speaker 1: are questionable, which guys look good. So we don't know
Speaker 1: for sure. But what we do know is that all
Speaker 1: of these players have not practiced at all this week
Speaker 1: and these are just walk through, so they're not even
Speaker 1: walking through. Chris Godwin, who we didn't expect to play anyway,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Scotty Miller, Justin Watson, Leonard four Nette le
Speaker 1: Shan Lashawn McCoy, and Gronk's been limited. If it is
Speaker 1: entirely possible that all of those first six guys I
Speaker 1: listed will not play, in which case, here's what you
Speaker 1: would have defense. Here's what you would have. Yeah, we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to that. Here's what you would have on
Speaker 1: your available on your fifty three man roster heading into
Speaker 1: Thursday at receiver Cyril Mayson and Tyler Johnson. Okay, next,
Speaker 1: did you expect me to continue that list? Because that's
Speaker 1: that's that's it. Uh, you have two guys on the
Speaker 1: practice squad Josh Pearson, who they chose to protect this week,
Speaker 1: which I think is telling, and another guy, Um that
Speaker 1: we recently added, and uh, you could choose to promote
Speaker 1: elevate both those with that new practice squad elevation thing,
Speaker 1: in which case you have four guys, But you have
Speaker 1: four guys who essentially between them have one NFL catch,
Speaker 1: right Cyril Grayson atta three rd catch last year. The
Speaker 1: tough part is is that even if guys can, you know,
Speaker 1: start the game, it's just hard to keep going. You
Speaker 1: especially you're a razor thin, especially on a short week.
Speaker 1: So when Leonard four Nette couldn't play, and then Kenyan
Speaker 1: Barner and UM and Lashawn McCoy both got knocked out
Speaker 1: of that last game, you were down to Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: and the rookie Keyshaw Vaughn, who played very well. He
Speaker 1: made a very impressive play UM, So you were able
Speaker 1: to get through. But if you go in starting with
Speaker 1: those two and lose either one of them are both
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? And with at the COVID
Speaker 1: protocol I was just gonna say punt. With the COVID protocols,
Speaker 1: you there was really no opportunity to bring it everybody
Speaker 1: in off the street to help because it's a Thursday game,
Speaker 1: so they couldn't start trying to sign guys until Monday,
Speaker 1: and it would take until at least today. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: you have to test seventy two hours in a row
Speaker 1: for three days, so you really by the only time
Speaker 1: you would be able to come in really is Friday. Well,
Speaker 1: if you get tested on Monday, you got to Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Then you gotta get tested on Windy, which is the
Speaker 1: day of the game, So you wouldn't even have a
Speaker 1: chance to teach them anything. There's no way you would
Speaker 1: put that guy in a game, so they didn't even try.
Speaker 1: There was no point you could do a more long
Speaker 1: term signing. But I don't think they think, other than Howard,
Speaker 1: that these are long term injuries. So after after the
Speaker 1: Chicago game, have you got time for everybody to heal hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully at least some of them, so you have some
Speaker 1: representative offense. It's just it's going to be it's gonna
Speaker 1: be kind of crazy in a way. It's almost an
Speaker 1: interesting EXPERI him to see how the Bucks can get
Speaker 1: through this game. Well, that's I think that's kind of it.
Speaker 1: You know, if you're on the roster, you're supposed to
Speaker 1: be a player, and if you know you're in the NFL. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just talking to sheer numbers. John. Yeah. You know,
Speaker 1: most teams, including the Buccaneers, run eleven personnel, which is
Speaker 1: three receivers about sixty percent at the time. It's hard
Speaker 1: to run through receivers when you only have two receivers.
Speaker 1: And yeah, wow, I actually, um, I forgot. I didn't
Speaker 1: mention Jaden Mickens today. All right, so you do have
Speaker 1: three guys. You got Cyril Grayson, Jaden Mackins, he'll probably
Speaker 1: be doing uh punt return. Yeah, but but he don't
Speaker 1: have to play on offense, and he has played a
Speaker 1: little bit on offense in Jacksonville. He he has some
Speaker 1: stats in his past, not a ton, but some. So
Speaker 1: you have Jaden Makins, Tyler Johnson and Cyril Johnson Cyril Grayson.
Speaker 1: So at least that's three, and then you could you
Speaker 1: could elevate Josh Pearson potentially from the practice squad to
Speaker 1: have four. Well, we certainly are learning the names of
Speaker 1: who's on the Buccaneers and say you have no choice,
Speaker 1: and on game day it's even gonna be more. That
Speaker 1: flip card is becoming more and more important right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a reason this offense was so good.
Speaker 1: And you you obviously say next man up. Every team
Speaker 1: says next man up. Every every players learns to say
Speaker 1: next man up in every interview. But there's a reason
Speaker 1: why Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are are the best.
Speaker 1: And hey, by the way, do you know who leads
Speaker 1: this team in receiving yards? Scotty Miller? Oh, you did know,
Speaker 1: or you just made a good just because I don't
Speaker 1: walk in with papers doesn't mean but you knew, are
Speaker 1: you guys? I I knew because because I am interesting.
Speaker 1: I think I think it is. But I'm rooting for him, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I is. I is. You gotta root for the little guy.
Speaker 1: That's all I'm saying. I went into a I was
Speaker 1: asked in a different podcast before the season two name
Speaker 1: who I thought could be the unsung hero, and I
Speaker 1: picked Scotty Miller. And my point was, I'm not just
Speaker 1: talking about Scotty Miller being a good third third receiver
Speaker 1: who stretches the field and makes an occasional big play.
Speaker 1: I'm saying this guy could get six or seven or
Speaker 1: yards this year. I may have been shooting low. If
Speaker 1: you want to see how fast Scotty Miller is, you
Speaker 1: need to go to the Buccaneers apper Buccaneers dot com
Speaker 1: and watch Randy Barber. You should do that every Yeah.
Speaker 1: But but the breakdown of that play and how he
Speaker 1: just flies through it is you really see how fast.
Speaker 1: You can really get a gauge on how fast he is.
Speaker 1: Smooth very much. I think it's funny when you were
Speaker 1: talking about next man up and and you try not
Speaker 1: to say that you're going to drop off. But my
Speaker 1: initial thought there was is there is a difference in
Speaker 1: the players, because if there weren't difference in players, the
Speaker 1: money would all be the same, and that's not how
Speaker 1: it works. And yes, so the next man up, Yes,
Speaker 1: you're you're up. You got your shot. And it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be much fun if everybody was equally good. No, get
Speaker 1: boring after a while. But but it also shows that
Speaker 1: sometimes guys become really good because they finally have a
Speaker 1: chance to show what they can do. One man's injury
Speaker 1: is another man's opportunity, which is what Bruce Arians likes
Speaker 1: to say. I like that where we are not currently injured,
Speaker 1: knock on wood is um offensive line, all five guys
Speaker 1: playing very well, very much. I think we're seeing finally, Jeff,
Speaker 1: think of the resources that this team has pumped into
Speaker 1: the offensive line recent years. Second round pick on Donovan
Speaker 1: Smith and then and that was a high second I
Speaker 1: was like the first pick of the second round, and
Speaker 1: then a second contract for him a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: a bigger one um third round pick on Ox Kappa.
Speaker 1: That's the least of all of them. The big big
Speaker 1: contract for Ryan Jensen, second round pick, and another contract
Speaker 1: for Alan mar Pett and then the first round pick
Speaker 1: thirteenth overall and Tristan Whorf's It's not like we haven't tried, boy,
Speaker 1: they but we have not gotten results like this yet.
Speaker 1: And now it feels like it's really coming together. You cannot.
Speaker 1: I am just totally amazed how well Tristan is playing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's great to be at the game and just
Speaker 1: put a pair of binoculars just on him and watch
Speaker 1: how well he played. Last Sunday talks about that a
Speaker 1: little bit too. Phenomenal, phenomenal. He's got good feet, Unreal, unreal,
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa said after the game. Yeah, really good. Well,
Speaker 1: when you get manhandled, you kind of have to say that,
Speaker 1: don't you. But but you know, Joey's you know, he
Speaker 1: just got a big contract and he's the first game
Speaker 1: he didn't have a sack this year, big time player.
Speaker 1: So that's a lot of he wasn't sacked in that game.
Speaker 1: He threw forty six passes and wasn't sacked. He's hit
Speaker 1: about five times. He wasn't sacked. Yeah, I thought I
Speaker 1: get the ball quick. Yeah, I I thought they played
Speaker 1: really really well. Tom Brady, here's here's a here's a
Speaker 1: very noticeable difference between our offense this year Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and our offense with Jamis Winston and Jamis Winston did
Speaker 1: lots of really good things and had Hughes stacks huge numbers.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady will throw the ball away a lot more
Speaker 1: than Jamie's ever did. Think about when we got down
Speaker 1: to the goal, which is a good throw most of
Speaker 1: the time. It's the right decision. And obviously to ring
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady to know right somethings like he threw
Speaker 1: that away quickly, but so we get down. I believe
Speaker 1: on the UM. I believe on the Mike Evans touchdown
Speaker 1: after the fumble. The first play clearly didn't work and
Speaker 1: he threw it high out of back of the end zone.
Speaker 1: Second play I think was supposed to be a swing
Speaker 1: pass out to the right to Keshan Vaughan and Um
Speaker 1: and he just threw it over his head. I mean
Speaker 1: he was covered. He just so first two plays to
Speaker 1: throw aways, and then on throw down he scrambles and
Speaker 1: and he can't throw it on third down, so he scrambles,
Speaker 1: finds Mike Evans touchdown. If he forces one of those
Speaker 1: first two passes, he might never get the third down
Speaker 1: here Yeah, that's he's patient. He's patient and what he's
Speaker 1: trying to do, what he's what he wants to accomplish it,
Speaker 1: and he knows what he wants to accomplish. He's doing
Speaker 1: the quick checkdowns and um, it is it is um
Speaker 1: fascinating to watch it, really is it. It's kind of,
Speaker 1: I don't know, surreal, just in just in watching him
Speaker 1: reached down the field and being down was seventeen points
Speaker 1: and then he he led four four straight possessions were
Speaker 1: touchdowns and then a field going the next one. That's
Speaker 1: we don't see that a lot. We didn't see that
Speaker 1: in the heyday. It's pretty great. It was. It was
Speaker 1: it's fun. You know what that third and six scramble
Speaker 1: did to the third and six scramble and then touchdown
Speaker 1: past to Mike Evans, which is really nice play in
Speaker 1: which Mike adjusted his route when he saw that the
Speaker 1: player was breaking down and slid behind the defender. He
Speaker 1: first was going in front of him and then he
Speaker 1: went behind him, uh and found an open spot and
Speaker 1: Brady found him. Um that kept us perfect. And then
Speaker 1: there were two more and later in the game or
Speaker 1: one before and one after on goal to go every
Speaker 1: single time this year, on eleven tries that we have
Speaker 1: reached first in goal, whether it be from the nine
Speaker 1: or the one or the ten, we've gotten into the
Speaker 1: end zone, which I find remarkable and I would love
Speaker 1: for that. You can't continue the whole year, but as
Speaker 1: long as it as long as it goes, keep going right,
Speaker 1: even if you slack off a little bit. And that
Speaker 1: was against number and we were four three for four
Speaker 1: in the red zone. That is three four red zone drives,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns for in receptions, I mean three touchdowns, one
Speaker 1: field goal. That would be a really weird stay um.
Speaker 1: And that was against the team that came into the
Speaker 1: to the week with the best red zone defense in
Speaker 1: the league. They were only averaging allowing touchdock versions. We
Speaker 1: knocked them out of that spot. And now the top
Speaker 1: red zone defense in the league is Chicago, which we
Speaker 1: get to face now, so we'll see again strength on
Speaker 1: strength what I like to I know Tom had A
Speaker 1: had a pick in this game, but a bad one.
Speaker 1: A bad one. Yeah, And I don't understand that play.
Speaker 1: I I mean I heard b A explain it and
Speaker 1: he said he needs to coach him up more on
Speaker 1: that play. So I don't know if they're most breakdowns
Speaker 1: like that are not just one little thing. Maybe just
Speaker 1: as justin Watson's route was something that was supposed to be, say,
Speaker 1: maybe Tom didn't see the guy. Maybe Bruce would have
Speaker 1: preferred to choose chose to throw up some more. But
Speaker 1: I will say that it didn't bother him, and he
Speaker 1: was he still wasn't just flinging, so to speak. You
Speaker 1: know that you were talking about how many completions he was. Yes,
Speaker 1: And that takes me another tangent um that I think
Speaker 1: is the most important point. Did I started with something here?
Speaker 1: It's good. It's a good thing. So yes, on the
Speaker 1: side of the players said after the game on the
Speaker 1: sideline that Tom Brady never got down. He was upbeat
Speaker 1: the entire time, even when were down seventeen, and especially
Speaker 1: after we got that sort of gift right before halftime
Speaker 1: and made it a ten point game, that they felt
Speaker 1: like they could win that game. Bruce arians said it,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowle said it, then Levante David said, they all
Speaker 1: said that's a game we would not have one last year.
Speaker 1: And it wasn't like they're like maybe all of them
Speaker 1: were pretty emphatic. The two thou nineteen Buccaneers would not
Speaker 1: have won that game, No, and we would have scored points,
Speaker 1: but we would have also given up a ton of
Speaker 1: points just because you got sci because you're because now
Speaker 1: you're chasing and your defense not being able to lead,
Speaker 1: and if you're gonna make a comeback from seventeen or
Speaker 1: twenty down or whatever, your both sides have to play
Speaker 1: well because you're you have to close that gap, but
Speaker 1: you have to keep them from rewidening it. Right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles was was on the b A Show and
Speaker 1: it's it's on the site on the app um talking
Speaker 1: about you know, they got all the acquilades of my
Speaker 1: bad accolades, accolades. I mean you would, they would be
Speaker 1: acqulades if they were the first stuff you did in water.
Speaker 1: I was, I was drowning here. That was pretty good,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much. You recovered nicely. Yes, I know
Speaker 1: what I was gonna say is that he was he
Speaker 1: likes the fact that his defensive players are getting recognition.
Speaker 1: But it's like a kiss of death. Yeah, he said,
Speaker 1: it's a kiss of death. That. Oh yeah, look how
Speaker 1: great we did. And then we came out and played
Speaker 1: like we played on Sunday. Not so good for the
Speaker 1: first half. For the first half, Yeah, that's true. Somebody
Speaker 1: asked me, um in them a bad question, if this
Speaker 1: defense should have a nickname, and their contention was that
Speaker 1: all great defenses have a nickname, and they're thinking, of course,
Speaker 1: like the Steel Curtain and Doomsday. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that's actually true, because I don't think the Bucks in
Speaker 1: two thousand two and around that time had a nickname.
Speaker 1: They called it to Tampa two, but that wasn't a nickname.
Speaker 1: That was just that was just what the system was,
Speaker 1: and it was an indication that we played it so
Speaker 1: well that they changed it to their name. The best
Speaker 1: defense in the NFL that was I don't think the
Speaker 1: Ravens in two thousand had a nickname, But anyway, I
Speaker 1: opened it up to the fans. They started answering in
Speaker 1: emails and on Twitter for team nick for nicknames for
Speaker 1: the defense, and um uh. There was plenty of responses like, hey,
Speaker 1: come on, we're four games into the season, you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's pump the brakes a little bit here. It's
Speaker 1: been a while, so people are really really excited, as
Speaker 1: they should be, and that's that's sports them. By the way,
Speaker 1: Lavante Lavante has been here since two thousand twelve, and
Speaker 1: he basically said none of the teams he's been on
Speaker 1: until now would have won that game. Cam Braits said
Speaker 1: the same thing he did. That's right, he did. He
Speaker 1: said that since he's been here, it's just that's encouraging. Well,
Speaker 1: they see it. And when players, you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about buy in or you talk about how how the
Speaker 1: locker rooms coming together, When you start hearing that stuff,
Speaker 1: then then what you and I and the fans are
Speaker 1: seeing is what players are seeing. And it's more important
Speaker 1: what they see than us. But it's the term buy in.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're on the team, of course you're
Speaker 1: you're hoping that that's what it's supposed to be. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: you're right now you're believing. Now you're believing. Yes, Well,
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of you know. The nice thing about
Speaker 1: this is it's not really scripted this podcast, so we
Speaker 1: can just jump around to whatever topics we want. I
Speaker 1: don't want us to stop and have me forget that
Speaker 1: we need to give some love to Bradley opinion. Yea really,
Speaker 1: and I said, you can't come back without both sides.
Speaker 1: But there's three phases to the game. And pinion played
Speaker 1: a part in that comeback. He had his three points
Speaker 1: for fifty fifty seven and fifty six yards for an
Speaker 1: average obviously a fifty seven, and his net was fifty
Speaker 1: three point seven. And both of those are the best,
Speaker 1: by the way, that any Bucketer punter has ever had
Speaker 1: in a single game with at least three points. That's
Speaker 1: pretty great. One of those was one of those was
Speaker 1: the one where the pent him inside the ten that
Speaker 1: led to dominic Ensu's force fumble. So he played a
Speaker 1: part in that in that win. Yeah, and usually you know,
Speaker 1: the punter usually is when when you're talking about the punter,
Speaker 1: it's usually when things are going south. When it didn't
Speaker 1: didn't go well. He got blocked. He made a great
Speaker 1: tackle too, that's right. He got a tack. He made
Speaker 1: a great tackle. It didn't really matter, right, but but
Speaker 1: still it's still kind of gave up. He gave up
Speaker 1: the body. He didn't arm tackle. He just did the
Speaker 1: old here I come, I'm rolling my shoulder back and
Speaker 1: but he took him out, took him out so strong.
Speaker 1: You see a lot of them power rankings. Everybody does
Speaker 1: power ranking. I'm not either, but then there are some
Speaker 1: other sources like one I sort of like called Football Outsiders,
Speaker 1: which is more of an analytical type thing, and UM
Speaker 1: by their UM what what I call their proprietary stat
Speaker 1: their main stat that they put together, which is called
Speaker 1: d v o A, which stands for defense adjusted value
Speaker 1: over average. It's kind of like war in baseball. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like a catch all type of stat, and
Speaker 1: it's based on comparing what the team does on any
Speaker 1: given play compared to what the average is based on
Speaker 1: down and didn't here let me read it. I knew
Speaker 1: I wouldn't remember it right. D v o A breaks
Speaker 1: down the entire season, play by play, comparing success on
Speaker 1: each play to the league average, based on a number
Speaker 1: of variables including down distance, location on field, current score, gap, quarter,
Speaker 1: and opponent quality. While it can be used as a
Speaker 1: measure of total team performance, it differs from other power
Speaker 1: ratings found throughout the web because it can be broken
Speaker 1: down to analyze team effectiveness in any number of ways, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: So my point here is this is not some people
Speaker 1: sort of turn a skeptical eye to some of these
Speaker 1: UM websites that do analytics and rank players and say
Speaker 1: this is the best card in the league or whatever,
Speaker 1: because it's it's subjective. They're looking at the film and saying,
Speaker 1: did that guy do a good job on that play?
Speaker 1: And they don't. They may not know what he was
Speaker 1: supposed to do on the play. Always, this isn't really
Speaker 1: the same thing they're just it's just it's just a
Speaker 1: stat dump. It's taking they they're not analyzing. They're not
Speaker 1: the one saying whether this team did good. They're just
Speaker 1: comparing what they did do what the average is in
Speaker 1: that specific situation. So I don't mind Devo. It's an
Speaker 1: interesting little thing to look at. And according to their rankings,
Speaker 1: over all, the Buccaneers are number one in the league,
Speaker 1: the best team in the league. Like it overall number one,
Speaker 1: seventh and offense second and defense to Indianapolis. That sounds
Speaker 1: pretty good at me. That's how come and that's where
Speaker 1: and that's where you are three and one. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a big deal. First quarter, there's so many undefeated teams.
Speaker 1: Is a really top heavy league, crazy, isn't it? So
Speaker 1: it's hard to even get to the top five in
Speaker 1: the rankings. When Kansas City, Buffalo, Buffalo, the Titans who
Speaker 1: may never play again, h Green Bay, who I think
Speaker 1: is really good. They You know what I did watch
Speaker 1: that Green Bay they got through a game with with
Speaker 1: when they were down on receivers and running backs and
Speaker 1: tight ends. Well, what I have a tendency to do
Speaker 1: is I watch games that truly watch games that we're
Speaker 1: gonna teams that we're gonna play like you truly do that.
Speaker 1: I do that. Um, Kansas City, that was a good game.
Speaker 1: I just like watching Kansas City trying to figure that out. Um,
Speaker 1: do you do you know which team The Buccaneers have
Speaker 1: their longest active winning streak against Kansas City. I kind
Speaker 1: of made that easy for Yeah, it's gonna be hard
Speaker 1: to get to six. They have won five straight games
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. Really, it's gonna be hard to get
Speaker 1: to six. I'm saying we can't do it. But that's
Speaker 1: the biggest challenge of Well, you know what if you eventually,
Speaker 1: if you make it to the super Bowl and they're there,
Speaker 1: you gotta play them anyway. So this many times you
Speaker 1: gotta play the good teams game point get them. Now,
Speaker 1: that's kind of one of your things. You think we've
Speaker 1: done enough, Yeah, we've done almost twenty nine minutes. Okay,
Speaker 1: like we said, this is a minisode. Um, we're not
Speaker 1: having a player guest. That was by choice. I'm sure
Speaker 1: if we had asked someone, someone would have done it,
Speaker 1: but we didn't like that ask and it and it
Speaker 1: makes it really hard because sometimes you know they will
Speaker 1: do it, but they're a little rushed and uh and
Speaker 1: so I haven't to us with um ante well a
Speaker 1: couple of times. Yeah, he was right in the middle
Speaker 1: of it was fault. It wasn't his fault. And all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, especially on a short week too. You know,
Speaker 1: there there are media requirements that they have to do
Speaker 1: and we are not one of those requirements to say so, um,
Speaker 1: we we don't even need to take a break. Nope,
Speaker 1: let's just roll straight into normally my life easy. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna put the open and music underneath when we're done. Okay,
Speaker 1: get this, we'll get this on the site before you
Speaker 1: know it. All right, So we're gonna go to our
Speaker 1: questions now from fans you guys, Yes, send them to
Speaker 1: us at Salty Dogs at Buccaneers dot NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: We love them. We'll do more, we'll do We've we've
Speaker 1: been known to go minutes on these questions. So last
Speaker 1: week we we read a question from a fan, a
Speaker 1: Buccaneers fan in Australia, and which led us into a
Speaker 1: lot of talking about Australia, which probably will happen again.
Speaker 1: His name was Elliott love Joy Um. We ran into
Speaker 1: a couple of points of confusion and asked him to
Speaker 1: email us the answers. One of them was yes. One
Speaker 1: of them he was he he has a radio show
Speaker 1: in It's spelled c a I c a I r
Speaker 1: n s, which just reading it normally I would pronounce
Speaker 1: that Carnes or cairns karens. You thought it would be
Speaker 1: more like cons And I think you're right, because he said,
Speaker 1: the easiest way to pronounce this word is just and
Speaker 1: it's it's spelled cans se A n s. But given
Speaker 1: the accent, it's probably cons. Right. I should have asked
Speaker 1: him to do it phonetically. Sure, it might be cans.
Speaker 1: You've been there. Would they pass the a like cans
Speaker 1: or only they think about it? Yeah, he said, we
Speaker 1: take a Yeah. I can't remember because in your head
Speaker 1: you're reading it like you think it is. And then
Speaker 1: when you get there and then someone then you hear
Speaker 1: the locals say, and then you gravitate towards that, as
Speaker 1: I said, like Melbourne Melbourne here is Melbourne. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: says along those lines, he says, we take a lot
Speaker 1: of shortcuts over here and don't like to pronounce letters
Speaker 1: when we don't need to, which begs the question why
Speaker 1: are you about it? Putting him in the word they
Speaker 1: were probably I guess that's down from English. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know they were English words. And and then that's funny, uh,
Speaker 1: he says. And and we'd also asked because he used
Speaker 1: the phrase radio presenter, so I didn't know if that
Speaker 1: man he was a DJ or news read interviewer. And
Speaker 1: as far as my job, I do a break a
Speaker 1: breakfast show here with a network called Triple. Isn't that interesting?
Speaker 1: He calls it a breakfast show where we call it
Speaker 1: the morning show. Interesting, okay yea pointing out all these
Speaker 1: differences basically sport and greatest hits. That's pretty cool. That
Speaker 1: have been here about two years now, But prior to that,
Speaker 1: I've been looking in that radio has taking me to
Speaker 1: Abu Dhabi Niagara Falls. I've never been there either Niagara Falls.
Speaker 1: Have you been to Niagara Falls in New York or
Speaker 1: in Canada or where? What do you think there's another Niagara.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, there's Niagara Falls New York and
Speaker 1: there's ny It's the same thing. It's just two sides
Speaker 1: of the same thing. But it's not once in Canada
Speaker 1: ones in New York. It's not the same thing. Try
Speaker 1: across the border. It ain't happening. But it's still just
Speaker 1: one falls. Well, this is true, there's not like a
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls. Was kind of interesting that he was there.
Speaker 1: I would like to go there. I've been there. Yes,
Speaker 1: I've been there in the wintertime and I have been
Speaker 1: there in the summertime, so he said. He also send
Speaker 1: some photos, one of which had him one of which
Speaker 1: showed how beautiful it was there in cons Cans and
Speaker 1: one of which showed him in a judge jameis Winston, Jersey.
Speaker 1: So where else was he he was? He said, Abu Dhabi,
Speaker 1: Niagara Falls in over a few spots in Australia. Uh
Speaker 1: in the sport Okay, So he does have a question,
Speaker 1: which is fair in a sport that is dominated by egos.
Speaker 1: You guys, most must be impressed by the together otherness
Speaker 1: of this team so far, that's not really question. But
Speaker 1: we can talk about it all those times in running back,
Speaker 1: sharing carries, and the defense spelled. Let's see, seemed just
Speaker 1: as happy for their mates to get sacks when they
Speaker 1: get their own. I think all that's true. This does
Speaker 1: seem like a particularly tightened team, and they're becoming tighter.
Speaker 1: That's what happens when you start winning, especially when we're
Speaker 1: talking about young guys getting their first stage and now
Speaker 1: is the next thing. I was gonna say, you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys coming together, improving together, and
Speaker 1: then you have some veteran guys that have been around
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to lead the whole thing, got Lavante David
Speaker 1: to lead the whole thing, but you got the enthusiasm
Speaker 1: of your Kevin Whites and Sean Murphy pat you are
Speaker 1: doing it. So it's a nice formula when it when
Speaker 1: it hits when you're winning, and then if you're not winning,
Speaker 1: then there's a whole other things break down and the
Speaker 1: old guy got the guys team's fractured. We're hopefully we're
Speaker 1: not having that discussion anytime this year. I don't feel
Speaker 1: like that's what happened with that. Winning solves everything. Why
Speaker 1: saw healthy ones a happy victory Monday Slash Tuesday Wednesday yeah,
Speaker 1: well he doesn't know. And to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: this this email actually came last week. I just didn't
Speaker 1: use it. From our palace in Brazil. Alexander not Cemento,
Speaker 1: and I said, he says, Mr Smith, I was reading
Speaker 1: one of your articles about Lavante David, and I learned
Speaker 1: that a sack is also considered a tackle for loss.
Speaker 1: That's true. It's also considered, well, that's true, acceptive. If
Speaker 1: you tackle the quarterback at the land scrimmage and it's
Speaker 1: gain of zero, that does count as a sack, but
Speaker 1: it doesn't kind as a tackle for loss. So most
Speaker 1: sacks are tackle for loss, but not all of them.
Speaker 1: Is that? Like I before, E excepted after seeing and
Speaker 1: then most sacks also count as a quarterback hit, unless
Speaker 1: like it's one of those sacks where you swiped the
Speaker 1: ball out of their arm, you know, like JPP comes
Speaker 1: around the EDGEWI that counts to a strack, but it
Speaker 1: didn't hit the guy. But it's a strip. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a force pulm. So most sacks are a sack, a
Speaker 1: quarterback hit, and a forced fumble in your stat sheet. Um,
Speaker 1: we tend to when we're writing about them and talking
Speaker 1: about them we don't emphasize that because it sounds more
Speaker 1: impressive to say he had a sack and a quarterback.
Speaker 1: He also had a quarterback hit in a tackle for lost.
Speaker 1: So if you if you see a line where a
Speaker 1: guy has a sack and a quarterback hit, it's probably
Speaker 1: the same play. If you see a line where guy
Speaker 1: has a sack and three or four quarterback hits, then
Speaker 1: he was really getting to the quarterback a lot. You
Speaker 1: got to know that when you're reading these stats. I'm
Speaker 1: going to continue to use it the other way because
Speaker 1: it's it makes it more power if you know what
Speaker 1: you know. If you know this and you're reading it,
Speaker 1: you can read between the lines. So his question is
Speaker 1: and it's it's kind of a fun one. The question
Speaker 1: came to when I saw Antoine Winfield making a sack
Speaker 1: and force fumble in just one play. So with that
Speaker 1: in mind, what is the most possible statistic points a
Speaker 1: player can have in one single play? And what I
Speaker 1: thought of was you sacked the quarterback and force a
Speaker 1: fumble and recover the fumble touchdown, which happens. It has
Speaker 1: so if you did that drip sack, sack, scrip sack fumble,
Speaker 1: you know well, you gotta make sure you hit him,
Speaker 1: because if it's just a hit it out of his arm,
Speaker 1: then you're not gonna get the quarterback hit. So if
Speaker 1: you do a real sack, you force a fumble, you
Speaker 1: pick it up, you run into the end zone, you
Speaker 1: would get a sack, a quarterback hit, a tackle for loss,
Speaker 1: a force fumble, a fumble recovery, and a touchdown. That
Speaker 1: seems like the most you could probably get in one place.
Speaker 1: I would think, what else would it be? I mean,
Speaker 1: the one we've joked about before on offense is if
Speaker 1: you throw the ball and something bats in the end
Speaker 1: and you catch Brad Johnson did in Minnesota, you would
Speaker 1: get a pass, you get the yards in the pass,
Speaker 1: you get a completion, you would get a touchdown, and
Speaker 1: you get a reception and the yards in the play
Speaker 1: and a touchdown. So that would be that'd be pretty big.
Speaker 1: But that's more of a fantasy football type. I think,
Speaker 1: which is your favorite time? I love, love it, love it.
Speaker 1: So I think that's it. The sack, force, fumble, pick
Speaker 1: it up, scooping quick. Yeah. I can't think of one
Speaker 1: that would be more. There isn't what else would it be?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Just not. Yeah, well, someone will prove
Speaker 1: us wrong. I'd like to see him try. Come on,
Speaker 1: come on, come at me, Come at me. Bro, you're
Speaker 1: feeling good. Three in one, Yeah, we gotta be careful
Speaker 1: with that. We've been down that road. Oh yeah, five
Speaker 1: dash to go, So you went way back. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: it's been a while, Sam White, Ye five dash too. Um.
Speaker 1: Well last time, well, the last time we were in
Speaker 1: this situation, we well, let's see we were. Last time
Speaker 1: we were three and one was two thousand and eleven,
Speaker 1: and that didn't And that's when we came four and two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, and then and then then we did it.
Speaker 1: We did That's not gonna happen with this team. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying this is gonna be a tough one
Speaker 1: this week. We've got some tough ones down the road.
Speaker 1: But this team is not going to go in the tank.
Speaker 1: So you have you have Chicago, you have not that
Speaker 1: this team is looking ahead you and I are looking
Speaker 1: at that the way. If Chicago have Green Bay in
Speaker 1: the city, those are the big ones or no no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: In a row is is Chicago Green Bay Raiders Giants,
Speaker 1: And three of those are night games three out of
Speaker 1: the next four night games, the next seven or night games. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot about that, that's right, and then a game
Speaker 1: with Green Bay, So yeah, this team isn't going to
Speaker 1: see a one o'clock game again until like, no, it's
Speaker 1: it's so great. On Sunday, it was awesome. Get up
Speaker 1: on drink some coffee, get dressed, roll out the door, home,
Speaker 1: was home by six, got to watch the Raider game
Speaker 1: the end of the game, then start watching the Sunday
Speaker 1: night game. It was awesome to pull back the curtain
Speaker 1: for you out there from a team standpoint in terms
Speaker 1: of exposure for the team and what the fans probably like.
Speaker 1: Four games and night games are awesome. They're awesome. We
Speaker 1: know that it's great for the team that we have
Speaker 1: five time Yeah, that's awesome. If you work for the team,
Speaker 1: you love one o'clock games on Sunday, And as you
Speaker 1: look at the schedule, you get excited that everybody is
Speaker 1: excited about the Buccaneers and we get five prime time
Speaker 1: games and four twenty games all over the place, and
Speaker 1: then you go, oh man, and then we only get
Speaker 1: like four one o'clock games. But if you're traveling, it's
Speaker 1: if if it's a normal year and and you you
Speaker 1: have night games, it's kind of fun because it gives
Speaker 1: you a little more time in the city and you
Speaker 1: can get up and it doesn't apply this. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: That's why I was saying. But yeah, but you're gonna
Speaker 1: know what the team's made up. You're gonna know where
Speaker 1: we're at. Where you know. I feel good, I'm excited
Speaker 1: about it. I need this injury situation to clear up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think we can run with any team
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, that's fair. I think, especially after what
Speaker 1: I told you about those d v O ranking t
Speaker 1: v O A rankings. We're good on both sides of
Speaker 1: the ball. Ye, special teams have improved, we've been They've
Speaker 1: improved since the start of the season. I don't think
Speaker 1: we're one of the best teams in the league. Do
Speaker 1: you have an any other couple? Not that I'm in
Speaker 1: a hurry, I just didn't know I made these. This
Speaker 1: is from my person, Nam Corey in Tallahassee. I heard
Speaker 1: Bruce arians say the other day that he thought Ali
Speaker 1: Marpett was a top five guard in the NFL, which
Speaker 1: he did. That's true. I remember when he called Carlton
Speaker 1: Davis a top ten quarterback in training camp, and then
Speaker 1: Davis went right out and shut down Michael Thomas in
Speaker 1: Week one. That also is true. He did say that,
Speaker 1: and that did happen to for two. This arians guy
Speaker 1: may know what he's talking about. Say thanks, that's a
Speaker 1: good way to put it. I'm going to isolate that
Speaker 1: clip and send it to Bruce. He'll sleep better it well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think the point in a funny way,
Speaker 1: and I like it. I think the point is coaches
Speaker 1: can sometimes say stuff about our players that's a little
Speaker 1: bit of hyperbole. Love you man, This guy is gonna
Speaker 1: do just as good as the guy he's replacing. But wait,
Speaker 1: looks like he was right about Carlton and um, there's
Speaker 1: been a lot of talk about Ali mar Pet is
Speaker 1: finally getting some buzz, which is good. He's apparently playing
Speaker 1: very well. Yes, so if we believe him and Mark
Speaker 1: pet really is that good? Do you think he has
Speaker 1: a shot at the Pro Bowl this year? I feel
Speaker 1: like we haven't had a lot of offensive linemen in
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl through the years, though I'm sure Scott
Speaker 1: will correct me if I'm wrong on that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think anyway, Thanks for your time and go Bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you're back to we're playing prime time games. People
Speaker 1: are seeing him, seeing him or the team that they haven't.
Speaker 1: It's the Brady factor, no question, um. And even not
Speaker 1: prime time, they're just getting a lot of attention. And
Speaker 1: when you start talking about how well Tom Brady's doing
Speaker 1: with the offense, then you start talking about the other
Speaker 1: parts of that offense, and then people start noticing how
Speaker 1: well the offensive line is played, and then they start
Speaker 1: taking a closer look at the guys on that line, Domino,
Speaker 1: and suddenly people are looking at Ali mar Peco. Man,
Speaker 1: this guy is really good, which we've been saying for years.
Speaker 1: When you bring your a game, you just make me
Speaker 1: look better. So I'll start at the end here. Um,
Speaker 1: I would say, you're not that wrong, Corey. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: not a real highly decorated position for us in terms
Speaker 1: of Pro Bowls through the years. We didn't have a
Speaker 1: single one, as a matter of fact, until Tony Maybray
Speaker 1: broke through and n and then had three of them.
Speaker 1: And you know why that happened. The Bucks got good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not a coincidence that the first time we get
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman is the first time in you know,
Speaker 1: a decade and a half that we were actually good.
Speaker 1: We sent like eight people of a Pro Bowl. That
Speaker 1: was crazy. I was actually at that Pro Bowl. That
Speaker 1: was a good Tony Maybrayer was good, but then he
Speaker 1: got recognition. Yeah, that's a cool picture of all of
Speaker 1: them too in Hawaiian shirts. And yeah, I remember when
Speaker 1: you're talking about Otherwise, we've had Logan Mankins won one
Speaker 1: most recently, and even though that might have been a
Speaker 1: bitten name related, he appably did have a pretty good season.
Speaker 1: That was his second season here in his final NFL season,
Speaker 1: Davin Joseph deservedly got to underrated. He was so Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was a great player and a great guy, still
Speaker 1: is a great guy. Randall McDaniel Jeff Christie bow got one,
Speaker 1: uh and I think like two thousand and two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, and that was after they joined us from
Speaker 1: the Vikings. Both those guys were big names at the
Speaker 1: end of their careers, and I think their names had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that. Not to downplay because
Speaker 1: they both I think rand McDaniels in the whole of
Speaker 1: fame he is um. I believe Jeff Christy was a
Speaker 1: very good player too, But I think that year they
Speaker 1: probably got it well, a lot of so much love
Speaker 1: for the A lot of times you get it from
Speaker 1: not the you get it from a previous year, you know,
Speaker 1: because you have this really good year, like like like
Speaker 1: Lavanti David. He he has been good his whole career.
Speaker 1: But I think now it's going to catch up where
Speaker 1: where people are recognizing. I mean, it's a tough position
Speaker 1: he's in. Well he's still playing well this year too though,
Speaker 1: so it will still be deserving. So that's good. He
Speaker 1: was the defensive player of the month. So speaking of
Speaker 1: speaking of offensive player of the week, which I didn't
Speaker 1: I spoke of, you didn't spoken defense. Yeah, Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, you know he's won that a word thirty
Speaker 1: one time. He hasn't won the end of see or
Speaker 1: one that one one time. Like do they get a
Speaker 1: plaque or something. Is he just like throwing it in
Speaker 1: the garage They're like used them to hold open doors
Speaker 1: and yeah, you know, just I was like one of
Speaker 1: these that or he doesn't even go collect it, you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't even open the box anymore, just but it
Speaker 1: goes on the list and he's one to thirty one.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. He wins he's basically half time a year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's not easy to do either. Well obviously, well
Speaker 1: I do not understand that, but I'm just saying. So
Speaker 1: the question is, could Ali Marpett end up in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? Sure? The what where you need to start
Speaker 1: here is who does he have to beat? So let's
Speaker 1: look at who made the NFC Pro Bowl for guards
Speaker 1: last year. The two players voted in but they didn't play.
Speaker 1: Where Zack Martin of the Cowboys and Brandon Brooks of
Speaker 1: the Eagles. Well, Brandon Brooks is out for the year
Speaker 1: with an injury, so you don't have to worry about him.
Speaker 1: Zach Martin has the name recognition and is a fantastic player,
Speaker 1: and we'll have a very good shot to make it again.
Speaker 1: But let's also keep in mind that the Cowboys don't
Speaker 1: look like they're very good. They're supposed to be good,
Speaker 1: but they're one in three. As we've said, you know,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are always going to get attention. So Zack
Speaker 1: Martin still is a good shot, but maybe a little
Speaker 1: less than some other years. Yeah, that is a struggling team.
Speaker 1: He was the Now, you know, guys get hurt or
Speaker 1: they go to the playoffs. They don't play in the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, so they were replaced, okay, and then the
Speaker 1: third guy was uh just chosen was Brandon Schurf of Washington.
Speaker 1: He's hurt. He's on injury reserve right now. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the season is over, but he's hurt, so
Speaker 1: at the very least he's not going to have as
Speaker 1: much time to prove it. Sure, once you know it,
Speaker 1: all the Buccaneers will make it to the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: and there won't be one. I just want to I
Speaker 1: just want the recognition about the game. Well, so I
Speaker 1: I will say this, it's great thinking about that, but
Speaker 1: I think you just gotta keep winning. You gotta keep
Speaker 1: playing because if they can play well and if the
Speaker 1: team does and keep winning, oh yeah, for sure, it's
Speaker 1: not but we think they will. And I don't think
Speaker 1: we're being delusional with that. This looks like a pretty
Speaker 1: darn good team. Now. I'm not putting a number of
Speaker 1: injuries are injuries could be an issue. You never know,
Speaker 1: And we also don't know if COVID will interrupt this
Speaker 1: thing at some point. You know, we started at the
Speaker 1: top about Gilmore thing, and I bet you by the
Speaker 1: time we get back to our computers. There will be
Speaker 1: something else, some other piece of news, like they're considering
Speaker 1: not playing that game or something like that. Um, you
Speaker 1: know you say that and you're checking your phone. I
Speaker 1: just right now, eleven minutes ago NFL n f L
Speaker 1: P A looking at whether Titan players worked out together
Speaker 1: last week. Wow, they're gonna get They're gonna get gobsmacked.
Speaker 1: If if that's the case, they're going to get disciplined heavily,
Speaker 1: they might as well just go to the White House.
Speaker 1: Jeff getting political. No, not at all. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: where it's it's a hotbed. I'm not that's not being political.
Speaker 1: It is a hotbed, both the type in the White House. Yes, man,
Speaker 1: So I wasn't done here because those three none of
Speaker 1: those three guys actually played in the game, and they
Speaker 1: were replaced by these three guys. Trey Turner, Uh, he
Speaker 1: is in the a f C. Now he's a charger
Speaker 1: going for me by him. Andrew's Pete for the Saints,
Speaker 1: who is currently hurt. And Larry Warford, also of the
Speaker 1: Saints last year, who's not in the lake. Mm hmm,
Speaker 1: so he's got a good shot. Yeah. My point is
Speaker 1: they're kind of clear in the runway for him. Somebody's
Speaker 1: got to land there. Somebody's gotta land the plane there,
Speaker 1: and why not, why not Elie mare Pitt And Ali
Speaker 1: just needs to do his part, which he does, which
Speaker 1: he's doing. Just keep playing, just keep playing. We just
Speaker 1: need it's just the same with all this. We need
Speaker 1: good fortune. I need fortune to shine on us in
Speaker 1: terms of injuries everything, and otherwise I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a continue to be a very fun season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it and it is as with all the difficulties
Speaker 1: that we're having, uh with COVID, etcetera, Um, they're still there.
Speaker 1: Is still fun. It's still fun. There is a glimmer
Speaker 1: of of you know, excitement, and even though I think
Speaker 1: it's I don't want to go down the road. But
Speaker 1: I thought sometimes think, gosh, if we weren't dealing with
Speaker 1: all this COVID, how much fun would this? And it
Speaker 1: was nice to see some fans in there, and it
Speaker 1: did make a difference. I thought. I thought Bruce was funny.
Speaker 1: He said you could hear the fans and even when
Speaker 1: they were bitching, you could hear him. And he's like,
Speaker 1: they I had a friend, Um, you guys suck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave me a call and said, hey, I really
Speaker 1: enjoyed the game. Um, he said, I said, how was
Speaker 1: it in the stands? He goes, it was so weird.
Speaker 1: He said. It was funny because you would you would
Speaker 1: yell and you actually would hear yourself, where before you'd
Speaker 1: be yelling and just be there. Yeah, and he said,
Speaker 1: he said he realized he was yelling and he's, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, that's me. Usually when you're like you're mad
Speaker 1: and you're yelling at a player, you suck you blue
Speaker 1: that that you don't think they're actually gonna hear you.
Speaker 1: This time he yelled and they go They turned around
Speaker 1: looking yeah, better what he said? He said where he
Speaker 1: was sitting and he goes, yeah, he goes, it was.
Speaker 1: He goes, there weren't very many people around us, but
Speaker 1: he goes, but the one guy that was, oh he
Speaker 1: was he just talked the whole game and he you
Speaker 1: thought he was doing all the game planning there was
Speaker 1: and he was doing it broadcast. Yeah, he said, yeah
Speaker 1: it was. But hopefully that you know, we'll be able
Speaker 1: to increase fans come. Yeah. Yeah, it was the soft
Speaker 1: opening and um, do you see where green Speaking of
Speaker 1: Green Bay? Green Bay is not allowing fans. That's because
Speaker 1: that area is one of the nation's biggest hot spot.
Speaker 1: At one point, even the city of Green Bay is
Speaker 1: the hot spot, not just not only Wisconsin. I think
Speaker 1: at one point last week they had like a infected right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's enormous. And that's a little town too. I mean
Speaker 1: it's about that in that city. Yeah, but I don't
Speaker 1: know how many. But um uh, Buffalo is allowing some
Speaker 1: fans in. Interesting is the Titans are talking about letting
Speaker 1: fans in that they did got approval to let fans in.
Speaker 1: Now if now, if only the team could enter the stadium,
Speaker 1: you guys can come. We're not gonna be there. You're
Speaker 1: welcome to come in the stadium, we chuckle, but please
Speaker 1: wear a mask. Yeah, no kidding. All right, that's good.
Speaker 1: You know, we called this a mini episode and we've
Speaker 1: gone about an hour. I know, but that's because you
Speaker 1: and I are just busing with each other, and it's
Speaker 1: I know, I think I had a lot to do.
Speaker 1: I really do. What the broadcast of tomorrow, which was funny,
Speaker 1: is because we were trying to do this yesterday and
Speaker 1: I kept pushing it back, and finally you brilliantly said
Speaker 1: why don't we just do it tomorrow and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the best thing ever be So I got slam yesterday.
Speaker 1: So so, like you said, wear a mask, wear a mask,
Speaker 1: and since you did, thanks for listening.