WEBVTT - Bucs Leading the NFC South, Playmakers Arise | Bucs Insider 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:08.719 Welcome to Books Insider, presented by ticketmaster Casey Phillips here 0:00:08.760 --> 0:00:10.280 with senior writer and editor Scott Smith. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.600 And it is a great day, a great week. We 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:13.640 are very happy here. 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:15.760 We're three and one, we're going to the bye week, 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:18.640 we're leading the NFC South, and most importantly, we beat 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:20.160 the Saints. What a day? 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:20.680 What a week? 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:24.480 Does anything, seriously during any given season feel better than 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.800 driving away from this that Super Dome with a win, 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:28.680 no anything, nothing. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:29.880 I think that's the high. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.480 It's up there with the Super Bowl. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.680 I was okay, I was assuming a non Super yeah, 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.400 non super Bowl season, but yes, you're right. It is 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:39.479 one of the highs of this team's organization. 0:00:39.520 --> 0:00:42.400 The rivalry is not beating the Saints, but leaving that 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.080 place and knowing you don't have to go there for 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:45.959 probably another year. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:48.519 I do think that's one of your hottest takes, is 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.080 how much you dislike that stadium. 0:00:50.120 --> 0:00:51.400 And I understand it. I understand it. 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.400 I don't need to beat a dead horse. I've I've 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:54.280 said it many times. 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:54.880 I think people know. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.440 I don't think anyone's ever upset with hearing more about that. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.360 But yes, again, three and one, going in the bye 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.120 week leading in a South beating the Saints. What does 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.040 this mean to this team at this point? And especially 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:05.960 when you know, we know from outside there were all 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:08.880 these voices naysay are saying that there were people predicting 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:10.800 that the books that only have two wins the entire year, 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:13.360 and they've already got three. So what does you think 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.280 this means to this organization and team at this point 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:16.000 quarter the way through? 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:17.679 You know, what I think it is is a little 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:21.720 bit of establishing an and identity on both sides of 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:22.000 the ball. 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:22.679 And that was. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.000 Something that coaches were openly talking about going into the season, 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:27.679 that it might take a little while to figure out 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.040 who we are as a team. And Todd Bowles said 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.400 to that very question after the game, we're still figuring out. 0:01:33.440 --> 0:01:35.240 It might be a couple more weeks and a couple 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.360 more games until we really know what this team is. 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.840 But he did say, I feel like we're morphing into 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:43.960 used the word morphing, morphing into a tough, physical team 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.600 that does the things it needs to do to win. 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:51.360 And on offense, you know, okay, the play calling in 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:53.440 that game by Dave Coulis was pretty interesting, right. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.440 Chris Godwin threw a pass. Yeah, we had an end 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:58.520 a round, we had a shovel pass. 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:00.560 We had a lot of variety of plays even on 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:03.360 one specific drive, just a really wide variety of plays. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:04.760 But then you get to the end of the game 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.200 and you look at the stat sheet and you see 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:10.440 thirty three runs, thirty four dropbacks, and they've hit that 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:13.880 basic balance in all three of the wins. And I 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:17.280 know that runs, the number of runs is not necessarily 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.400 correlating to wins. It doesn't predict wins. It sometimes is 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:23.800 because you're winning that you run more often. But this team, 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.560 even though the average per carry hasn't been great, is 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:27.639 sticking to that run. 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:29.000 It's a physical team. 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:31.560 The offensive line is playing very physical upfront, doing a 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:35.080 great job of protecting the passer, and the defense is 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.480 creating a lot of turnovers, which is what Todd Bowles 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.280 always wants to do. It's very aggressive, a lot of blitzing, 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:45.079 and it has a couple emerging playmakers that you can 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.520 count on to make big plays when you need them to. 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.800 And I think you're starting to see the identity of 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:52.239 this team. And you walk away from that game three 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:54.840 and one, you just beat the Saints, your bitter division rivals. 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.359 Do the Saints know who they are right now? I mean, 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:00.000 I'm questioning which team is in a better position right now. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.040 Yeah, that's a really great point. And when you talk 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.639 about big time playmakers, of course, typically that's going to 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.840 immediately take you to Mike Evans. And a lot of times, 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:09.000 if you think you're losing Mike Evans in the first half, 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:11.520 h oh, how many games are you predicting that the 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.600 Bucks win? Knowing how early you're losing him? 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:15.880 So what did you. 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.040 See in terms of what it meant to have him out? 0:03:19.120 --> 0:03:21.600 And then how many people were able to step in 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:23.720 and what that said about the depth of this offense 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.239 where you know, injuries happened throughout the course of the season, 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.640 And to me, I walked away from that game feeling 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:30.640 really good about you know what, if anyone does go 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:33.919 down for a quarter, a game, a few games, you 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:35.760 have so many people there to step in. 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:36.200 Yeah. 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:39.040 Well, first of all, before I answer that question exactly, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.320 Mike Evans against Marshall and Lattimore three catches for forty 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:47.640 yards plus a really big passer inference flag he got 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.360 called when he beat him on a double move. That 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:53.520 was a good day for Mike I feel like if 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:55.400 he had been able to play the second half, we'd 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:56.880 be looking at this going this is one of the 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.160 better outings for Mike in that bitter right rivalry with 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.520 Marshawn Lattimore. But to your point, he didn't play the 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.400 second half, and considering how he was the focal point 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.280 of the passing attack through the first three games, you 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.640 could be worried about that. But Chris Godwin had eight 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.600 catches for one hundred and fourteen yards and some just 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.600 gigantic plays like the forty two yarder that set up 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:21.120 the last touchdown, And then you know, Devin Tompkins had 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.479 his best day as a pro, at least in terms 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:24.320 of catching the ball. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.440 And Trey Palmer. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.839 I feel like Trey Palmer, if you if you go 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.200 all the way back through the preseason, it seems like 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.240 he just makes one dazzling catch every game. I mean, 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.800 he's never had really a gigantic stat line. There's that 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:44.080 amazing catch by Devon. He's never had an amazing stat line, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:48.039 but he you know, you remember his plays because that play, 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:50.720 according to Next Gen Stats, had a twenty two point 0:04:50.760 --> 0:04:53.080 eight percent chance of being completed. Well, of all the 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.080 completions that Baker Mayfield had in that game, and there 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:58.159 were twenty five of them, that one was the least 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.919 likely to be caught, but he made the play happen. 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:01.640 That's incredible. 0:05:01.680 --> 0:05:05.080 They underestimated Baker and Trey in that situation where understanding 0:05:05.120 --> 0:05:07.919 that they were going to make that happen. Also, shameless plug. 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:10.680 We had Devin Tompkins on our radio show Monday that 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:13.279 Ali Marpett and I are co hosting this year. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:14.040 And it was phenomenal. 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.120 Devon has such a great story and it was very funny. 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.680 He mentioned that he may not have run exactly the 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.479 route he was supposed to do on that play on 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 the touchdown, yep, on the touchdown that he said, there 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.600 was a chance that wasn't quite how it was. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:26.200 Supposed to go. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.000 But then but then it became a scrambled it became 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:29.680 a scramble drill, and he said, I just I saw 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.279 the open spot. I saw where he needed to be, 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.520 and so never mind, we ran a little bit of 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:34.839 the wrong route. We got to where we ended up 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:36.120 needing to be to make the play, which I thought 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:36.640 was really great. 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:37.839 Oh go ahead. 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:39.320 Well, I don't know if I'm doing this out of order, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.760 but we're going to talk about Baker Mayfield. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.000 Yeah, yes, yeah, and his third down passing. 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.880 Yeah, he's that play was on third down. 0:05:45.000 --> 0:05:47.919 He is really I have loved watching his ability to 0:05:47.920 --> 0:05:50.719 make things happen, extend plays, particularly on third down, of 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.400 evading sacks, scrambling. I mean, I think he could have 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.919 had yeah, thirty one yards rushing when nothing is really 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.240 a designed rushing play for him. That he was able to, 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:01.400 you know, extend a lot of plays, mega up plays 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:03.280 and definitely showed a lot of awareness, especially stretching the 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:04.760 ball for a couple first downs. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.159 I've been really impressed with them. 0:06:06.360 --> 0:06:08.520 Well, you make a great point on his running, and 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.719 that included the thirty one rushing yards included three negative 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.159 one kneel downs at the end of the game, so 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.760 he actually was more like five for thirty four and 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.560 they were big runs all of them. And he's been 0:06:18.600 --> 0:06:21.120 doing that kind of sneakily in the first four games. 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:22.280 But in addition to. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:25.239 That, he's the best third down passer in the NFL, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:28.040 right now, Wow, he was actually he actually had that 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.120 going into this game. He had something like one hundred 0:06:31.120 --> 0:06:34.080 and nineteen passer rating, led the league in third down passing, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.359 and then in this game he was six of seven 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:41.200 for eighty yards two touchdowns, and well, okay, we're talking 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.560 about third downs overall, two touchdowns and no interceptions and 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.680 pass rating like one hundred and fifty three. 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.880 He's just making it happen on third down. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.280 And that's why the Buccaneers if we talk about some 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.960 of the things the Bucks offense has done well and 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:56.480 not done well, and the things are going to be 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.320 talking about during the bye week, things are going to 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.000 be you know, Dave Canlison and his staff are going 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.039 to be going through the tape and seeing what the 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.000 Bucks have done well. They're going to like what they 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:09.080 see on third down. And it's not just short, medium 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.400 or lung it's a lot of them. And that said, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.960 the last two categories are kind of overlapping because ten 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:15.960 plus yards is part of the seven plus yards. But 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:20.600 either way, the Buccaneers are top twelve in every form 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:22.520 of third down passing. They had been a little bit 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:24.600 shaky in that four to six range, but they went 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.960 four for four in New Orleans to get that up 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.800 a little bit. So that's one thing you got to like. 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.240 And I think that goes back to the structure of 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.160 the offense and how they're calling the plays and getting 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.840 a lot of third and manageables. 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:38.040 Yeah, that's incredible. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.080 So I know that if we want to stay here 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.960 on the kind of the offensive side of things, Tristan wurfs. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:48.120 I just feel like we've talked so much about that transition, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.840 and we knew what a good right tackle he was 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.960 going to be, and is he going to be as 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:52.920 good at left tackle? 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.040 You're kind of afraid to mess with a good thing. 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.440 Even though all of us, I'm sure had complete confidence, 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.360 I'm sure interest and now everyone has seen we were 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:01.960 right to have that kind of confidence in him. 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.520 I'm not sure if we can come up with something 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.280 that Tristan doesn't do well, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.560 you know he could probably play tight end, Yeah, needed 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:16.520 to according to PFF. According PFF, he's pretty much the 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.600 best pass blocking left tackle. 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:23.160 Or is that this period? He's allowed what to pressures 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:26.760 all year and he's faced some pretty good pass rushers. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:30.440 So yeah, I think a lot of us were very 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.760 confident that Tristan would handle it fine. And it goes 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.880 back to the thing we learned in training camp that 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.920 even a player as unbelievably great as a player who's 0:08:41.960 --> 0:08:44.720 been great since day one that he walked into the NFL, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.480 he had some concerns and he was a little am 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.280 I going to be able to do this? And you 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:55.400 don't think about those guys actually having doubts self doubts superheroes, 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:56.400 and so. 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:57.240 He had a little bit of that. 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:58.880 When he was switching the left tackle, he told us, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:00.400 He's like, this is very import and am I going 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:01.160 to be able to handle it? 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.320 And well, yep, answer is yes. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:04.840 The rest of us had no doubts. 0:09:04.840 --> 0:09:08.400 Tryst and he's you know, yeah, I'm hopeful that after 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:10.839 four games he's feeling pretty good about it as well. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.040 And then another kind of weapon of the offense Chase McLoughlin. 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:17.560 This guy, man, I have to imagine that it's so 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.160 nice for coach Bulls to have so many more options 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.720 perfect at this point of like, man, I know that 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:25.199 even if we only get to hear we got a 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.440 guy now that we've extended our part of the field 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:28.920 that we can get points from. 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:30.720 It's the exact perfect point. 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.520 That's exactly what Chase McLoughlin has meant to this team 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.720 because if you look at he's two for two this 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.920 year and kicks of over fifty yards, and if you 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:43.600 look at both situations they were there were one score 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:45.880 games in the fourth quarter where if he doesn't make it, 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:49.200 you're giving them the ball near midfield and making them 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.040 a short field to potentially tie or go ahead. And 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:54.480 so you have to be confident going into that kick 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.520 that he's going to make it, or you don't risk 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.760 that you find it away. We would have punted Ryant 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.960 suck Up was a Super Bowl ch champion, was a great, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.120 great kicker for us, But we would have punted in 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.480 those situations with a kicker of his distance distance at 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:09.480 the time, at that time in his career. And as 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.800 that graphic was just showing, since Chase came into the 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.079 league in twenty nineteen, he's the second best kicker in 0:10:16.120 --> 0:10:18.520 the league in terms of his percentage of making kicks 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.600 from fifty and beyond nineteen of twenty three. 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:22.199 It's incredible. 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.199 That doesn't even seem logical. 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:26.640 That's a decent percentage from Shorter one hundred percent. 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:29.360 You take that from your entire body of work for 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:31.840 a season, and that's his career from beyond fifty. So 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:36.559 that's exactly why the Buccaneers signed this particular kicker in 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:38.600 the offseason and they're getting what they pay for. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:39.920 Yeah, that's incredible. 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:42.080 And then so let's talk a little bit about the defense, 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.240 because man, they also had an incredible performance against the Saints. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.520 I feel like there have been games times in this 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.920 history where the Saints have been able to rack up 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.400 some yards, some touchdowns, some different things. 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.360 And now they're holding the Saints without a touchdown this game. 0:10:56.880 --> 0:10:59.080 They're holding them to one hundred and ninety seven total 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.560 yards lower in sixty three. 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.400 Meetings, we played him sixty three times. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.000 Which is also crazy. That's a lot of times. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:07.360 It dates all the way back to nineteen seventy seven. 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:08.040 That's amazing. 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:09.920 Bucks first win ever was against the Saints. 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:12.600 Oh in fact, yes, say that fun fact. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.280 I mean, what does this say about this force when 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.120 you do have so many meetings and you do so 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:19.680 many times to have these kind of stats of the 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.200 lowest the fewest, I mean, that's just got to be music. 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:22.800 To the defense ears. 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:25.040 Yeah, and you know, there's been a lot of games 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:27.679 in this series that the Bucks have won or lost, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:29.439 and you I think you've made this point where you're 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.560 facing like Drew Brees and Alva Kamara and you're like, 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.400 we know they're going to get yards. Yep, we know 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.199 they're going to score some points. They're going to get 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:40.320 some touchdowns, but no touchdowns. I mean, you know, Derek 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.960 Carr may have potentially been a little bit limited because 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:44.680 of the shoulder injury, but he was getting the rid 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.200 of the ball extremely quickly, which meant a lot of 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:51.480 checkdowns to Alvin Kamara, who caught thirteen passes but had 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.200 thirty three yards on those thirteen receptions. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:55.079 That's amazing. 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:58.439 Until that game, no player in NFL history had ever 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.199 caught at least thirteen pass says that had less than 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:01.960 seventy yards. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:04.000 Seventy I'm not talking fifty or forty. 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:07.120 It was less than half of the lowest amount that 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.920 a player has ever had on thirteen catches. And that's 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:13.439 that is to me. It's it's kind of a gimmicky stat, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.600 I admit that. But what it does tell you is 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.559 that the underneath coverage, the guys were getting to the 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.520 ball extremely quickly and not letting Alvin Kamara do what 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:24.679 he does so well, get the ball out in space 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.160 on a and make moves. They were just getting to 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:31.319 amasing play immediately. Players like Antoine Winfield. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.760 Devin White, Levonte n Yeah, yeah, I remember dropped him 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:36.320 for a loss of seven on one player. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.439 So there's just a lot of swarming. 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:40.880 And I feel like if you've seen that a lot 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:42.720 from this defense through the first four games, a lot 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.120 of really swarming to the football. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.880 Yeah, and you brought up Antoine Winfield. I will always 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:48.559 bring up in Yeah, we will always want to we 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:52.160 are a stand account for Antoine Winfield Junior at this point. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.079 I don't know that in my time covering the box, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:58.600 I remember someone filling a stat sheet the way he. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:12:59.280 Did in this game. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:00.960 Like, there's been a lot of people that have had 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.160 a lot of great games to have such a diverse 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:07.560 way of impacting the game. Where you're forcing a fumble, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.800 recovering a fumble, you're getting a sack, you're getting QB hits, 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.760 your tackles for loss. I mean, it was just unbelievable 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.760 past defense. I knew there's that one, yep. I mean, 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:19.400 I just feel like this performance was incredible and also 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:20.760 definitely a reminder of why we were like. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.480 Yeah, let's let's put him back at safety. He's pretty 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:22.800 good at that. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:27.760 I would point to one series early in the third quarter, uh, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.200 where it showed what Antoine Winfield is capable of. And 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.000 you talked about filling up a stat line, I would 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.000 say the only other guy that I've seen do that 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.960 in recent years is Levante David. And I think Bucks 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.040 fans are going to end up loving Antoine Winfield the 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.079 same way they obviously love Levante David. But this series 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:49.200 in the third quarter, on first down around midfield, he 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.240 makes a play six yards in the backfield, drops Alvin 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.160 Kamara out for a loss of six. Two plays later 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:58.760 that pass breaking you just saw against chrys Olave three 0:13:58.840 --> 0:13:59.520 yards deep in. 0:13:59.480 --> 0:13:59.960 The end zone. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.760 Within the span of three plays, he made two amazing 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.640 plays like fifty six yards away from each other, and 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.200 so he was obviously close to the line scrimmage on 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:12.960 the first play, he was obviously playing deep free middle 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.280 of the middle of the field free safety on the 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:15.880 second play. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.160 That's what he can do. 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.120 You can move him all over the field and he's 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:22.800 making plays. And I've been predicting for several years that 0:14:22.840 --> 0:14:23.760 he's going to be an all Pro. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.680 I feel like he's off to a really good start. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:26.840 Yeah, sag goal this year. 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.280 I mean, he if he continues this, he's gold Jacket. 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.600 Headed him and Tristan Worfs. That's my claim. 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.960 That's my claim, that's my hot take. He and Tristan 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:37.960 Worfs to me are outside. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:38.760 I mean, we all know that. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.320 We feel like Mike Evans, Levante David are guys that 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:46.320 are worthy of that. To me, that after them, that's 0:14:46.320 --> 0:14:49.120 who you're watching, That's who I'm watching, is Tristan and Antoine. 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:51.000 That I just feel like that's the direction that they're heading. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.160 And I'm just and it's so cool that Antoine is 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:54.720 the guy that everyone has talked about the fact that 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.560 from day one he came in a pro, he knew 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:58.600 how to be a pro. And I'm sure a lot 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.000 of that is thanks to his dad coaching him up 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:01.120 all those years and telling them what. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:01.560 It takes better. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.920 We talk about the way he the way he tackled 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:06.200 practice and film study, and also how he takes care 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.680 of his body and his maturity. It was just like 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.000 I've heard a lot of people referred him as an 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.160 old rookie, where he came in and he didn't seem 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.280 like a rookie. He seemed like he already been. Yeah, 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.200 it's very similar vibes for sure, but. 0:15:17.320 --> 0:15:18.920 By the way good segue there did. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:22.000 If you watch the Chris Godwin micd Up segment, there 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 was a point where they were talking about Antoine on 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.000 the side and they're like, well. 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:28.360 He's short, but he's just a good player, yeah, just 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:29.360 and knows what he's doing. 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:31.480 And then we'll talk a little bit and we normally 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.720 would talk about an upcoming game, but it is the 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.560 bye week, so tell people a little bit about how 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.800 the team tries to use this bye week. 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:40.400 Well, they gave the players the full week off. They 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.520 didn't have to. They could have had a couple of 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.480 bonus practices early, but they had to give him four 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.640 consecutive days off, and they gave him the whole day off, 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.280 the whole week off, and they'll come back on Monday 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.680 for a bonus day. What the coaches do, and they're 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.680 not putting in the normal amount of hours. I mean, 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.640 they're getting out there early, which they deserve to get 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.160 a break as well, but they are coming in and 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.720 Dave Canel's talked about how they wanted to take that 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.760 week to kind of take a deep dive into the 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.280 first four games and just really go over what has 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.400 worked and you know what can we emphasize and what 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:16.440 can we hang our hat on and make this offense 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:18.880 sort of give it its identity. And so they've been 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.080 studying film quite a bit. 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:22.280 Yeah, and I think that's where we all talked about 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.080 how man we hated what an early bye week it is. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.040