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 cham he still at twenty. He said that twenty
Speaker 1: five p thirty come aboard to yearline we could see history.
Speaker 1: Fifty forty come a thirty Michael run, Michael Line, Michael
Speaker 1: run set stops half a day. The fare you go
Speaker 1: in that shotgun sense, we receivers left. Here's the staff
Speaker 1: of the glitzer has picked up Brady and he caught balls.
Speaker 1: He has the record at the eleven yard line. Mike
Speaker 1: Kevins becomes the first NFL player from Lea history to
Speaker 1: record of thousand yards and board this pirst seventh season
Speaker 1: to want to throw by branding. Congratulations Mike Kevins, who
Speaker 1: can forget again? I'm looking against other side at the
Speaker 1: already bucks thirty touchdowns, Tam a day, Derek Brooks too
Speaker 1: spalliot player in the National Football League, darn As Dot
Speaker 1: Daggers in where you gonna win the Super Bowl? Here's
Speaker 1: the snap, My homes running to his right to look out.
Speaker 1: He may run my home director bat and a sun
Speaker 1: picked up with the fox. I gotta be the chief.
Speaker 1: We're the champions of the world and we still have
Speaker 1: I'm at a Clarty three to go, Devin White, but
Speaker 1: great second season. That's it. We're Casey Box all the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs. They can't stop the clock. We call
Speaker 1: them the Salty Dogs. Welcome everybody to another episode of
Speaker 1: the Salty Dogs Podcast. I am Scott Smith jeffer High
Speaker 1: and we're the Salty Dogs. We are and what we
Speaker 1: do mostly is talk about Buccaneers football, although Jeff sometimes
Speaker 1: leads us off on t I know, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: try really hard this episode. I like the day. Okay, focus,
Speaker 1: see if you can. First thing, I want you to
Speaker 1: do Rathabad before we forget. Last week, we had a
Speaker 1: question from a Stephen Larson in Texas. I thought it
Speaker 1: was San Diego. It was Amario Amorio and he was
Speaker 1: trying he wants to listen to the games on the radio,
Speaker 1: and we didn't really have a great solution for him.
Speaker 1: But since then you have realized there's something you can
Speaker 1: tell him. Yeah, I should have. I forgot about it
Speaker 1: afterwards driving home, I was like, oh, game pass. If
Speaker 1: you go to NFL dot com, you can find game
Speaker 1: pass and I think it's a month and you can
Speaker 1: get any broadcast you want, um in the NFL. So
Speaker 1: if you have a favorite team and you don't live
Speaker 1: in the area that you can pick it up off
Speaker 1: the internet. You can get it on gam game Pass,
Speaker 1: off of NFL Network or whether it's NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: And it's obvious if you punch up there you'll see it.
Speaker 1: It helps you out. Okay. So I'm actually gonna let
Speaker 1: Mr Larson know an email here Casey doesn't catch it
Speaker 1: to listen in, so we can get that. Sure. Um.
Speaker 1: So that's that's you know, that's a good thing. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: and that would explain why I can't just run mine,
Speaker 1: so everybody could get it because of that, because it's
Speaker 1: an NFL big deal, yes, um. And and starting off
Speaker 1: with that is actually good thematically here because this week
Speaker 1: we are not going to have a guest as a player, because,
Speaker 1: as I noted, last week, we got a ton of
Speaker 1: emails and we couldn't answer them all, but we promised
Speaker 1: we would. And since I've gotten more, and I just
Speaker 1: don't think there's any way we can hold on, you know,
Speaker 1: uphold our promise unless we spend one episode just nailing
Speaker 1: a lot of these. So this is going to be
Speaker 1: the special mail back episode. This is all about you,
Speaker 1: not you them. I know you weren't pointing at me
Speaker 1: when you said that. You and I, Jeff will still
Speaker 1: do a little bit of talking here about the Bills game,
Speaker 1: about the upcoming Saints scheme, and other things that have happened.
Speaker 1: But then we'll get to we'll get just straight to
Speaker 1: your questions for a good portion of this show. Sounds
Speaker 1: like a plan. Also, the other thing I wanted to
Speaker 1: start with, Jeff is uh covid. Okay, before you go there.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're saying, let's do something positive here. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: go there beforehand. Yeah, true story, Jeff. Okay, last week,
Speaker 1: last Sunday, the Bills game. You know, we're by the
Speaker 1: time we're done with it, it's in the evening Star.
Speaker 1: So I'm actually sitting in a in a booth trying
Speaker 1: to write the postgame report and I get a text
Speaker 1: on my phone, which you know, I'm not thrilled about
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to concentrate, but it's from my wife,
Speaker 1: and true story. It was thinking about going to get
Speaker 1: some wings from Beefs. Do you want anything? You said?
Speaker 1: You said, I know. Actually it didn't feel like wings,
Speaker 1: so I got a primary sandwich. Was yeah, but still
Speaker 1: you got something from Beefs. I know. And I'm not
Speaker 1: making this up to pander tour sponsors. That actually happened.
Speaker 1: That's the true story. And the booth you were in
Speaker 1: where the visiting coaches booth, Yeah, because when they clear out,
Speaker 1: I go in there and take it over so I
Speaker 1: can have quiet. They year out quickly, and they probably
Speaker 1: cleared out even more quickly this time in frustration. I
Speaker 1: was going to say that a big story this week
Speaker 1: in the NFL is COVID. It certainly and probably because
Speaker 1: we had this you know, we've been having holidays, and um,
Speaker 1: two weeks after Thanksgiving, all of a sudden cases are rising.
Speaker 1: Washington has something like twenty one guys on their list.
Speaker 1: Now Cleveland I think maybe has eighteen. Can you imagine
Speaker 1: having to deal with that knocking on? Well, so far
Speaker 1: it's going well on here. And one thing Bruce arians
Speaker 1: said earlier this week is well, it's warm down here,
Speaker 1: so we're outside a lot more. We're not cooped up together.
Speaker 1: Well that makes sense, it does, and if you do,
Speaker 1: I mean even Thanksgiving it was nice. So if you
Speaker 1: we're going to get together, a lot of times you
Speaker 1: are outside, which makes a big, big difference. Um, but
Speaker 1: I liked what he said about that. That's true. Um, Unfortunately, Uh,
Speaker 1: the cases are going up, and um, it's scary because
Speaker 1: it's worse for the NFL this year or than it
Speaker 1: was last night. And that's simply because things are open
Speaker 1: where last year it wasn't. Because of the vaccine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but uh, and that's the problem because most of these
Speaker 1: guys who get these COVID cases don't really have bad symptoms.
Speaker 1: But that's because it's the game, and that's because of
Speaker 1: having the vaccine. They have to miss a game and
Speaker 1: so that they don't um pass it on to everybody else.
Speaker 1: But I just hope that this season doesn't come down
Speaker 1: to which team has the fewest. Nobody. Nobody wants that. No,
Speaker 1: nobody wants to see the competition drop down. Nobody. You know,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. I can't remember a season with so many
Speaker 1: exciting games on the prime time, whether it's a Sunday
Speaker 1: night game, a Monday night game, a Thursday night um,
Speaker 1: just ours was we weren't. Yeah, but we were a
Speaker 1: late game. We were a prime time game. And by
Speaker 1: the time when because we went to overtime, we were
Speaker 1: the only game on. So if you were over yeah,
Speaker 1: if you were going to sixty minutes, you weren't getting it.
Speaker 1: You were you were getting the bucks in the bills. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it into it in just dramatic fashion, which was awesome.
Speaker 1: It wasn't awesome how we got there blowing a twenty
Speaker 1: four to three halftime lead. But I see, I don't
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily know if you're I don't like the
Speaker 1: term you're blowing it. I think, well, I just think
Speaker 1: they got they started to get it together, yes, but
Speaker 1: we had many opportunities to put them away and we
Speaker 1: did just one or two plays here, and they're like
Speaker 1: a completion on third down over the middle to a
Speaker 1: wide receiver, a wide open wide receiver. There were all
Speaker 1: kinds of opportunities for us to put the way we
Speaker 1: blew our chances to put it. But I will say this,
Speaker 1: at halftime, we asked Bruce arians what do you need
Speaker 1: to do in the second half, and he said, we
Speaker 1: need to play. There's thirty minutes left in this game.
Speaker 1: It's far from over and yeah, And when he said it,
Speaker 1: I was saying, well, it's three isn't that. They're nice
Speaker 1: thing to say, But I don't think it was true.
Speaker 1: I don't think that Errands and his staff are guilty
Speaker 1: of not keeping the foote the gas pedal in those situations.
Speaker 1: I think they're more Bruce, for particulars, more than happy
Speaker 1: to be aggressive, yeah and try to get more points
Speaker 1: and not try to sit on the lead. It's just
Speaker 1: they didn't execute, and it was It got really scary
Speaker 1: to the point of man, I really feel like we
Speaker 1: should win this game. We have four and eight yards
Speaker 1: of offense by the end. Crazy huh and uh, And
Speaker 1: it just hast to come down to that one play well,
Speaker 1: but the thing too is is that as as mad
Speaker 1: as people were about the defense giving up so much
Speaker 1: in the second half, they made they made the key
Speaker 1: stop when they needed to make made two of them
Speaker 1: and the one at the goal line, and then to
Speaker 1: make sure that it was just a tie and we
Speaker 1: weren't three points down by four with twenty seconds left,
Speaker 1: and then the one because Buffalo won the coin flip
Speaker 1: and it had they scored a touchdown game Tom never
Speaker 1: gets a touch See, I still don't like that. I
Speaker 1: I know, I know in the playoffs, everyone gets the
Speaker 1: ball once they change during for the playoffs. Did you
Speaker 1: know that you're looking at me like I don't know what?
Speaker 1: I don't know that, and I also don't know that
Speaker 1: that's right? Okay, So while you try to prove yourself right,
Speaker 1: this is our Annuel, this is our weekly exercise, and
Speaker 1: you were about I think on these right. Um, so
Speaker 1: I will start talking about I'm gonna put the fifty
Speaker 1: eight yard game winner on hold for a second. Other
Speaker 1: than that, your favorite things from the game. Since you're
Speaker 1: looking up something, I'll go first. Um, Mike's touchdown catch.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans touchdown cat. That was pretty That was the
Speaker 1: thing of beauty because you could see what happened, you know,
Speaker 1: after the play, you could you could tell what happened.
Speaker 1: Um Brady saw where Mike was and where the defender
Speaker 1: was and purposely through it high and hard because like,
Speaker 1: I can't, I have to throw it high to get
Speaker 1: over the defender. But I know that there's a chance
Speaker 1: that Mike Evans will be able to go up and
Speaker 1: get this ball. And I mean he's up there with
Speaker 1: his fingertips snatch that ball with his fingertips, Jeff, it
Speaker 1: was pulling it down and like holding it in his hands,
Speaker 1: not tucking it, just holding his hands on his chest
Speaker 1: because he was going to land on his back, which
Speaker 1: he did, and he landed on his back, and the
Speaker 1: bald and wiggle at all he held on. So it
Speaker 1: was it was Mike's had an awful lot of touchdowns
Speaker 1: and that may not be the prettiest one ever that
Speaker 1: he's had, but it was. It was up there. Okay.
Speaker 1: Overtime rules for the NFL postseason games, unlike regular season games,
Speaker 1: what is the source operations dot NFL dot com. Unlike
Speaker 1: regular season games, postseason games cannot end in a tie.
Speaker 1: So the overtime knew that changed slightly. For the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they changed slightly. If the score is tied at the
Speaker 1: end of what we know that Okay, let's see what
Speaker 1: is it say to each team gets three times out
Speaker 1: If there's nothing you said that each team Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not that's not the sentence I want. He thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, each team gets the ball no
Speaker 1: matter why. Yeah they I don't think so, Joe, i'd
Speaker 1: the difference is that you have to keep playing over
Speaker 1: times because you can't end it a tie. Right. Maybe
Speaker 1: that's maybe that, but it's still the same thing. If
Speaker 1: you they's unfair. I still that that they did. They
Speaker 1: made it fairer than it used to be, right because
Speaker 1: it used to be first score no matter what. It
Speaker 1: was sudden deaths as they like to call it. Now
Speaker 1: you can't just go down there and get to get
Speaker 1: a thirty yard drive and kick a field goal. The
Speaker 1: only way you can win on the first drive is
Speaker 1: if you score touchdown, but still the first The team
Speaker 1: that wins the coin toss obviously has a much better
Speaker 1: chance of being the first one to score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I agree with you, it's not fair. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what the perfect solution is I personally kind of
Speaker 1: like the the college method, but I know a lot
Speaker 1: of people who do not and don't don't think it's good.
Speaker 1: With the NFL. You can probably stop looking because the
Speaker 1: answer you're looking for it's not in there. For whatever reason,
Speaker 1: I thought that was that that was maybe it was
Speaker 1: a lot of things that maybe maybe it was them,
Speaker 1: Maybe it was a competition committee they were talking about.
Speaker 1: Maybe that could be too. That could be true, but
Speaker 1: I don't know why. If you if you found a
Speaker 1: way that you felt was more equitable, why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: just use it in the postseason and not in the
Speaker 1: regular season as well? There's that to see. This is
Speaker 1: the kind of tangents that I was talking about. It's
Speaker 1: just funded, it's just fun stuff, all right. But I
Speaker 1: was trying to do favorite things from the game. I
Speaker 1: gave you one Mike's catch, and I also Carlton Davis
Speaker 1: was the guy on the spot on both of those
Speaker 1: two stops that we talked about. He didn't technically have
Speaker 1: a past defense on either one, but where he was
Speaker 1: his presence made it difficult for the quarterback to get
Speaker 1: the ball to receiver because the coverage was so good
Speaker 1: it was awesome. It was us. My favorite thing was
Speaker 1: was zach Or running to get the ball, not he's
Speaker 1: not a ball boy. Everyone kept calling him a ball
Speaker 1: boy in the video and if he's not a ball boy.
Speaker 1: Watched the film session videos by Ronde every week. They're
Speaker 1: very good. Team operations coordinator of Team Operations works with
Speaker 1: Tim's Rock who is director of Team Operations. They do
Speaker 1: a lot of travel stuff. They handle a lot of stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: what I liked about the play was that was his
Speaker 1: job to get the seven hundred ball, and he did
Speaker 1: the one job he was supposed to have. He didn't
Speaker 1: get caught up in the moment, didn't get it caught
Speaker 1: up in the excite to make a little bit of
Speaker 1: a move around Joe I think Joey Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: and uh right right past BP didn't didn't you know,
Speaker 1: didn't touch him nothing, and the ball was still spin
Speaker 1: and he picked it up on the spin. If you
Speaker 1: if you don't know what we're talking about. Tom Brady
Speaker 1: has been breaking a lot of records this year, and
Speaker 1: uh that means that every time he breaks a record,
Speaker 1: somebody wants They wanted to get him the ball for
Speaker 1: that moment, and this was the touchdown that won the
Speaker 1: game was the seven hundred of his career if you
Speaker 1: count the playoffs, obviously the only guy ever to do that.
Speaker 1: People like those big round numbers, and so the seven
Speaker 1: hundred ball was important, and we went in the game
Speaker 1: knowing how many he needed to get there, and since
Speaker 1: he already I believe had one earlier in the game, Um,
Speaker 1: everybody knew on the sideline that the next one was
Speaker 1: of an hundred, and so I don't know who all
Speaker 1: four people were, but but Zack and Tim Gerocki were
Speaker 1: two of the four that posted themselves up in the
Speaker 1: in the two end zones so that they were ready
Speaker 1: to come running in and grab the ball. And the
Speaker 1: reason and the reason for that is that they didn't
Speaker 1: want to go through what happened before, where Tim Gerocki
Speaker 1: had to go to a fan talk to him negotiate
Speaker 1: to get the ball back. So after Mike and gave
Speaker 1: away his record touchdown, so no, no, it was a
Speaker 1: Tom Brady ball. He gave away a ton Tom Brady hit,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's when Tom Brady got his six
Speaker 1: hundred regular season touchdown earlier this year. Are you still
Speaker 1: trying to prove yourself fright on. Don't know you were
Speaker 1: talking about COVID before. There's new rules for the NFL
Speaker 1: just came just came out just now, just right now. Well,
Speaker 1: let's we can talk about that. Tell me right now
Speaker 1: as we begin immediately, effective at the conclusion of week
Speaker 1: fifteen games daily testing. Uh, people in Tier one and
Speaker 1: Tier two are prohibited to be held outdoors or in
Speaker 1: the practice buzz bubble. Let's see all meetings. All meetings
Speaker 1: must be conducted virtually indoor masking all players even if
Speaker 1: you can be outside. Um, unless they are outdoors or
Speaker 1: in a practice bubble, which we're lucky. We we we
Speaker 1: have a great indoor practice facility. Indoor masking. All players
Speaker 1: and staff must wear masks when indoors, including in the
Speaker 1: weight room, regardless of vaccination status. I think that's right.
Speaker 1: I'm glad they're doing that, but it's a bummer because
Speaker 1: I've gotten used to nutwaring masks round. Yeah, mass are
Speaker 1: not required outdoors or during practice, UM weight room. No
Speaker 1: more than fifteen players meal rooms, so this will start
Speaker 1: on Tuesday. Yeah, staff and players will not be permitted
Speaker 1: to eat together, regardless of arius. But we don't do
Speaker 1: that anymore. Team travel Um. All tier players will be
Speaker 1: prohibited from visiting, receiving visitors at the team hotel, or
Speaker 1: going out to dinner. We were already doing the going out.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Uh. Tier one, Tier two, and Tier three
Speaker 1: staff members are going to be subject. Um let's see,
Speaker 1: what do we see it? We are not allowed to
Speaker 1: gather outside with other tier with other tiers because that
Speaker 1: would be a big loophole. Um. Let's see, I'm just
Speaker 1: looking through some of this real quick. Uh. Tier one
Speaker 1: and tier staff. You can't attend indoor nightclubs into our
Speaker 1: indoor bars with more than ten people. Yeah, um, no
Speaker 1: attending indoor. So pretty much everything that was going on
Speaker 1: last year, it's dropped back then. Um, and then how
Speaker 1: much more you can I don't want to talk about
Speaker 1: COVID um. Uh, let's see, all right. I think that's enough,
Speaker 1: mat chef. I think we have to get tested every day. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it later. A right, Can we move
Speaker 1: on to football. You're irritating me at this point because
Speaker 1: you're just kind of droning on about these new COVID
Speaker 1: rules and and uh, you know, we get the gist.
Speaker 1: It's becoming more restrictive. Said, can we talk about football
Speaker 1: goes back to last year. Cool football football it is.
Speaker 1: Did you realize that the Bills did not hand the
Speaker 1: ball off to a running back in the entire first half?
Speaker 1: And yes, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that
Speaker 1: at the time. And yet somehow they finished the game
Speaker 1: with a hundred seventy three rushing yards of nine point
Speaker 1: one yours precry well. They started to run in the
Speaker 1: second half. End. They also have a quarterback that has
Speaker 1: pretty light on his feet, yeah, well and strong and
Speaker 1: powerful yeah he um. That was something else. And it's
Speaker 1: it's a bit of a concern considering that the next
Speaker 1: quarterback we have to face is another guy who likes
Speaker 1: to run and it is good at it and it's
Speaker 1: hard to tackle. Say some hill, right, it is? It is?
Speaker 1: I don't know. You know, last last week I made
Speaker 1: a comment about Josh Allen and I was saying how
Speaker 1: people were on him and everything we got the guy.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you, he's a gamer. If if
Speaker 1: I were to if I were to pick up on
Speaker 1: that thread. There. The way I remember this conversation, Jeff,
Speaker 1: was that you said that everybody was on Josh Allen
Speaker 1: and for having a subpar year, and I said, I
Speaker 1: thought he was still having a pretty darn good year.
Speaker 1: You were right, And then he goes and run throws
Speaker 1: for over three hundred yards, runs for over one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He's only the fourth quarterback ever to do that in
Speaker 1: the game, and the others were Cam Newton and Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson and Russell Wilson. So um, but I just thought that,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that I said it on your radio
Speaker 1: broadcast when I got interviewed before the game, I thought,
Speaker 1: and I had heard the guy they had on from
Speaker 1: the Bills, um, you know, because they always interview a
Speaker 1: guy from that covers the other team right before they
Speaker 1: interview me. And I caught the end of it and
Speaker 1: he just as I was saying, to UM, to your guys,
Speaker 1: he knows what he's talking about. I can't remember the
Speaker 1: guy's name, j I think it was he obviously, as
Speaker 1: a guy covering the Bills every day, knows what he's
Speaker 1: talking about and knows way more about the Bills and
Speaker 1: I do. And it was a lot of very like
Speaker 1: not positive stuff. And of course they were seven and
Speaker 1: five and now they're seven and six, and they went
Speaker 1: thirteen and three last year, so they had really high
Speaker 1: hopes for this year. But I'm telling I'm like, take along,
Speaker 1: take a you know, zoom out and take a bigger picture.
Speaker 1: Look here, guys, because this team came into that game
Speaker 1: leading the NFL not only in points differential, but in
Speaker 1: yard is differential. And they still had an awesome quarterback
Speaker 1: that even if he wasn't playing as well as he
Speaker 1: did last year, uh, I was still playing very well.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't you know that their guy was
Speaker 1: didn't think that that they would finish within ten points
Speaker 1: of us, And and I'm telling these guys, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a much tougher game
Speaker 1: than you than people are thinking. And then at halftime,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, I got that one wrong because it
Speaker 1: was three and we were just almost text you, I
Speaker 1: almost said told you. But to my great disappointment, I
Speaker 1: was proven correct. That was that was a very good game.
Speaker 1: It was an entertaining games, very entertaining game at a
Speaker 1: packed house. It was just jam all over the place.
Speaker 1: But it we haven't had to feel this very much.
Speaker 1: I don't think in in the Tom Brady era, but
Speaker 1: remember how we'd have games were just stuff. I almost
Speaker 1: said a word that was not as stuff. Uh that
Speaker 1: there's stuff seemed inevitable, like we've got a ten point leave,
Speaker 1: but all of a sudden, we can't stop. You can't
Speaker 1: get a stop on there. That's the way it felt
Speaker 1: during the majority of that fourth quarter after with like
Speaker 1: nine mints left, after we failed to First of all,
Speaker 1: we failed to capitalize on the interception by Sherman before halftime,
Speaker 1: and then we failed to capitalize on I think something,
Speaker 1: did they go for it on fourth down or something
Speaker 1: early in the third quarter, and so we had great
Speaker 1: field position and once again failed to capitalize. And I'm
Speaker 1: starting to think and that was where you had talked
Speaker 1: about where they could have put the game away a
Speaker 1: couple of times really, but yeah, they could have put
Speaker 1: the game away and they just couldn't do it. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm not really complaining because of the bucks are ten
Speaker 1: and three and they did win the game. But I
Speaker 1: don't know, So let's get in It mean, when you
Speaker 1: win games now, it's now, it's how you were here.
Speaker 1: I am complaining. We're not too long ago. We were
Speaker 1: just happy to win a game. Yes, that was a
Speaker 1: valid criticism, even if it's not mintace criticism. Criticism is valid.
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty about sports. There's always improvement. And
Speaker 1: I'm the one. I'm the guy who's said on this
Speaker 1: podcast several times that I don't think fans realize the
Speaker 1: extent to which players and coaches do not care one
Speaker 1: bit how the wind happened. They don't care if you
Speaker 1: think it was an ugly win or if you almost
Speaker 1: blew it. They won. That's all they care about. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you no style points. They don't. They don't care
Speaker 1: that you think your opponent, the opponent you played that week,
Speaker 1: was terrible, or they had injuries. None of that matters.
Speaker 1: None of it. So I shouldn't be complaining about how
Speaker 1: this one came about. And I'm not really meaning to complain.
Speaker 1: I'm just explaining the feelings that I was having as
Speaker 1: the lead was evaporating and it just seemed inevitable. Uh.
Speaker 1: But all's well, that ends well, So let's talk about overtime. Okay,
Speaker 1: obviously we get the three and that's all. But then
Speaker 1: their punter blast, like a sixty five yard punt that
Speaker 1: was an incredible went out of bounds at the six. Uh.
Speaker 1: It was like, and you're thinking, there's not a lot
Speaker 1: of ninety plus yard drives in the NFL, because to
Speaker 1: go that far unless you have some really big play involved.
Speaker 1: The good news is you didn't have to go that far,
Speaker 1: because that's a good point and that's what the books
Speaker 1: were going for it. Yeah. Um, but it's hard to
Speaker 1: go that far. And you start thinking in in regulation like, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll try, um, but at least if we can make
Speaker 1: some field position difference before we pointed away, Um, then
Speaker 1: at least we've made a difference. But in a ten
Speaker 1: minute overtime and you're the second drive, there's already probably
Speaker 1: down to like eight minutes. At this point, you're probably
Speaker 1: if you're punting, you're probably not getting the ball back. No,
Speaker 1: And so you got one shot at this And I
Speaker 1: was thinking, I don't want to tie. No, I just
Speaker 1: don't want to tie. Yeah. I don't either, because because
Speaker 1: it doesn't help you, it helps you more than the loss. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you don't want I don't want to tie. And
Speaker 1: so we didn't. The Bucks did not have to end
Speaker 1: up in a tie. Um. We got a very helpful,
Speaker 1: uh defensive pastor of ference penalty that was drawn by
Speaker 1: Mike Evans. Right now a lot of people are arguing
Speaker 1: about all the a lot of people who happened to
Speaker 1: have a lot of Buffalo beer, who happened who happened
Speaker 1: to live in Western New York I might have some
Speaker 1: red blue in the have a feeling that well there,
Speaker 1: I will say I will say this there. They are
Speaker 1: called the Buffalo Mafia, and um they did do um
Speaker 1: a fund raiser. They've done this before, by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they still raise forty dollars for the insight impaired
Speaker 1: um as as sort of a joke on like the
Speaker 1: rec but I but but at least they're doing something
Speaker 1: like the organization that got the money's like, wow, we
Speaker 1: recognize that referees do not have vision problems. We appreciate
Speaker 1: the money. Yeah, we'll cash that check. I'm not really
Speaker 1: even gonna get I gonna slack on bills because we're
Speaker 1: not in their position and now, and it's hard to
Speaker 1: be objective. They're having a hard go because they thought
Speaker 1: that the New England Patriots, they finally got their nemesis
Speaker 1: taken care of. They're gonna they're back, and they're back.
Speaker 1: He just and they have to go play them again.
Speaker 1: Not only are they back, but it's possible that they
Speaker 1: also have quickly found their next quarterback for the next
Speaker 1: long period of time. And that's gotta that's gotta stick
Speaker 1: in the cross if any fan and teams in that division,
Speaker 1: it's like the PA does that happen. It's like the
Speaker 1: Packers moving directly from Brett Farvedon Rogers. I've been in
Speaker 1: the NFL Jeff for thirty seasons now, and the Packers
Speaker 1: have had one of the best quarterbacks in the league
Speaker 1: for every single one of them. That's ridiculous, isn't it.
Speaker 1: So we get to over time, we get close to midfield,
Speaker 1: still not in field goal range, that's for sure, and
Speaker 1: you're facing a third and three and that's when the
Speaker 1: faithful play happened. Yeah. Uh, it's a fifty eight yard
Speaker 1: touchdown catch and run by Brashad Perryman, who was targeted
Speaker 1: for the very first time on that play in the
Speaker 1: whole game. And he wasn't on the team a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago. Yeah, but like a month ago, like we
Speaker 1: signed into the practice squad, immediately elevated him for a
Speaker 1: couple of games because we were short arm receivers, and
Speaker 1: then we just signed him to the regular season roster.
Speaker 1: And this you know, we're familiar with Brashod Permis two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. We didn't have Tom Bray back then, but
Speaker 1: he was was with and he made an interesting comment
Speaker 1: coming into the locker room. He said he could feel
Speaker 1: the difference of guys that were here in two thousand nine.
Speaker 1: How they I don't necessarily know if it's carried themselves
Speaker 1: or how they felt, but he said he could feel
Speaker 1: the different energy in the locker room, which I would
Speaker 1: the break in between, and so he had a clean break,
Speaker 1: so we could sort of compare the two. So here's
Speaker 1: the play. The Bucks have um Breshad Perryman and Uh Brashad.
Speaker 1: Perryman is one of the receivers over to the left,
Speaker 1: as is Chris Godwin, and Rob Gronkowski is on the
Speaker 1: end of the line on that side, and Mike Evans
Speaker 1: is alone. So it's it's kind of like what you'd
Speaker 1: call three by one him UH with Mike Evans alone
Speaker 1: at the top, and then Leonard Fournette stays in the
Speaker 1: backfield blocks. I won't get into all the route, but
Speaker 1: but the point is that they were in manned man
Speaker 1: at the snap and Godwin went in slight motion to
Speaker 1: go just inside Perryman, who had been in the slot,
Speaker 1: and you see the two corners switch who they're covering,
Speaker 1: and the corner that's now covering Perriman is like eight
Speaker 1: yards off, and so when Perriman's route is an immediate,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of shallow a cross, that guy can't
Speaker 1: make up the difference. And not only does he not
Speaker 1: close the ground, but when Mike Evans, they called it
Speaker 1: a metrod. I guess when Mike Evans comes running across
Speaker 1: the field in the opposite direction, the corner that was
Speaker 1: supposed to be covering Breshad Perryman, for some reason decides
Speaker 1: to join another guy who's already covering, and now they
Speaker 1: got double coverage on Mike, who was the intended receiver
Speaker 1: on the first bread on the play. Brashad Perryman suddenly
Speaker 1: doesn't have a corner with him, and so he's running
Speaker 1: across the face of a linebacker Tremaine Edmonds, who is
Speaker 1: the only guy in the middle. And Edmonds, who actually
Speaker 1: was taking a step towards Perryman when he realizes that
Speaker 1: he has to cover him, now has to turn and
Speaker 1: try to run with Perriman. And Edmunds is a very
Speaker 1: very fast for a big linebacker, but He's not as
Speaker 1: fast as super so the plate totally worked, although that
Speaker 1: was not really its original intention. Pairman gets a couple
Speaker 1: of steps on him. Brady, who has been looking over
Speaker 1: the right because he's got three receivers on that side
Speaker 1: of the field. He says he saw it out of
Speaker 1: the corner of his eyes. So he catches Pairman moving
Speaker 1: across the middle and really kind of last second switches,
Speaker 1: gets off a wobbly pass. To be honest with you,
Speaker 1: but I was right on target. Just a last minute
Speaker 1: switching decision when he saw that, and then obviously Pairman
Speaker 1: catches it and there's nobody there and he runs for
Speaker 1: the touchdown. It was awesome because Pairman was the last
Speaker 1: read on that play. According to Byron Leftwich, Yeah, he
Speaker 1: mentioned that today. Yeah, and we talked about that outside.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy that as like I said, how do
Speaker 1: you how do you get to that well? And what
Speaker 1: does well, what does that mean happened first to make
Speaker 1: that possible? What does that mean that you could get
Speaker 1: to your last read that you have awesome protection? Yes,
Speaker 1: the protection was fantastic on that play. Nobody using next
Speaker 1: gen stats. I looked at it on Tuesday and four
Speaker 1: of the five people rushing the quarterback never got within
Speaker 1: like five yards of him. Ed Oliver kind of stunted
Speaker 1: around the back and was kind of closing in but
Speaker 1: not really still a couple of yards away from Brady
Speaker 1: when you got to throw off, So Brady had time
Speaker 1: to go through all those reads. Sure a good job
Speaker 1: up front, guys, what what? Um? Well, they had a
Speaker 1: good game. Anyways, they really did all the way throughout.
Speaker 1: Donovand Smith had a great block. We have to talk
Speaker 1: about that one. Yeah, that was an awesome So this
Speaker 1: was the other huge play the game, the first touchdown,
Speaker 1: the first seven yard But learn from that. Do you
Speaker 1: want to explain that you can't go ahead? Well, first
Speaker 1: that first of all, there were two guys pulling. I
Speaker 1: believe it was Ali Marpetton, Rang Jenson, and um they're
Speaker 1: pulling from left to right. And I'm getting some of
Speaker 1: this from watching Randal's Randay's video today, but um, which
Speaker 1: which fans can go to and look at watching There's
Speaker 1: a funny part about Randey's video to bring this around
Speaker 1: a little a bit is that he talks about Zack
Speaker 1: picking up that ball and he calls him a ball
Speaker 1: boy like but he also I love when guys do this.
Speaker 1: He's pointing out reactions of people on the sideline while
Speaker 1: Pereman is running down and I love that. You see
Speaker 1: one shot where you can looking directly at our sideline,
Speaker 1: and the moment Pereman catches the ball and starts to
Speaker 1: turn up field, there's like five guys on the sideline
Speaker 1: who put their arm up and point towards the end zone. Like, hey,
Speaker 1: Brett Brashade, I said, I said, Brett Perriman again, Hey Brashade,
Speaker 1: run that way. Like at the moment he was confused,
Speaker 1: which way do we go? But real quick when he
Speaker 1: first caught the ball, were you thinking, yes, we got
Speaker 1: That's what I thought I was. I was like, all right,
Speaker 1: we got a first and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, And and then the second thing
Speaker 1: on that too good. Jean nailed it. The second thing
Speaker 1: I thought was, oh, please, no flags. So as he's
Speaker 1: running in the end zone, I'm looking back sure or
Speaker 1: the play originated, I'm not seen any yellow? No what what?
Speaker 1: It was a great call. I was really happy because
Speaker 1: you know, when you have his doric plays like that,
Speaker 1: a lots going on and you don't know it's a
Speaker 1: historic player until it's over. And by the way, that's
Speaker 1: not hyperbole to say that, because that was only the
Speaker 1: second touched on the Bucks I've ever scored in an overtime. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it was his and it was Tom Brady seven. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So and it was a huge game in our playoff
Speaker 1: quest to try to repeat his champions right. So the
Speaker 1: cool part about it is that we nailed it. It's
Speaker 1: really cool, the call, all the way we had, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody did their job to make sure maybe we can
Speaker 1: put it at the intro of this show. Well, what's
Speaker 1: even funnier is Tom Brady tweeted it out the call. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, you nailed it. Oh, I'm like, yeah, So
Speaker 1: can you name the other player who's who escored an
Speaker 1: overtime touchdown for the Buccaneers? You it was? You've been
Speaker 1: you were there about seven or eight years ago. Oh gosh, Uh,
Speaker 1: don't take too much time if you don't know. It
Speaker 1: was it Dallas Clark? Yes, was it? Good job? Trivia
Speaker 1: is not usually your hype. Not Dallas Clark against the Panthers.
Speaker 1: Josh Freeman threw it. I think it was a big
Speaker 1: game for Antonio Bryant or maybe that was a different
Speaker 1: that's different. That was oh eight, that was the that
Speaker 1: was that Monday night. This was more like, um, I
Speaker 1: think Vincent Jackson Rest in Peace made an incredible game
Speaker 1: time touchdownk yeah, And speaking of that was very sad
Speaker 1: news today on Vincent jacks There was more news today.
Speaker 1: Well it came out on um. Yeah. They he donated
Speaker 1: his brain to science to find out and it was
Speaker 1: ct yeah, which is uh yeah. And and interesting part
Speaker 1: is he never claimed to have had a concussion, but
Speaker 1: he was also he also played in that in the
Speaker 1: time where um, unfortunately in the time when you got hit,
Speaker 1: if you got a hit, you just had your bell runging. Ye.
Speaker 1: And then where it became a medical thing where everyone
Speaker 1: was paying attention to. So he kind of in between there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's part of the transition. So you know all this
Speaker 1: talk um we got away from I was describing the
Speaker 1: Nett play and it was two guys pulled and they
Speaker 1: did a good job, and it was a stretch play
Speaker 1: and so Leonards taking the hand off, it's shotgun. He
Speaker 1: takes the handoff from in front of Brady and moves
Speaker 1: right and Ronde was was explaining that, um, they had
Speaker 1: eight men in the box. And so this is a
Speaker 1: situation where Brady would often check out of a run
Speaker 1: because it doesn't look good. But because of where the
Speaker 1: defenders were and because he knew that our guys are
Speaker 1: gonna be pulling, he knew we were still gonna have
Speaker 1: a man advantage on the right edge, so he let
Speaker 1: the play stand the four Nette ran to his right. Then,
Speaker 1: as you do on a stretch play, you're watching your blockers,
Speaker 1: the ones on the move, and you wait until you
Speaker 1: see a scene and you cut up through it. He
Speaker 1: did does that successfully and he should have to beat
Speaker 1: one more player, which I think was safety Jordan Ployer,
Speaker 1: but Donovan Smith, who at the staff because of what
Speaker 1: they did, actually had nobody to block, just starts. He's
Speaker 1: on the left side, the opposite side line runs down
Speaker 1: ahead of the play and is in perfect position to
Speaker 1: block the living daylights out of Jordan's Ployer. And now
Speaker 1: Leonard for that doesn't have to beat anybody and he
Speaker 1: just has to speed his way to the end zone.
Speaker 1: And great job. Yeah, and I think that's what you know.
Speaker 1: Everyone dogs the old line when things don't go right,
Speaker 1: but you have to give credit when credits do, and
Speaker 1: they are plain. You know, you can't. You can't do
Speaker 1: this because you would need to recognize other good players
Speaker 1: on other teams. But it would almost be cool if
Speaker 1: the the offensive line for the Pro Bowl was you
Speaker 1: voted in the team's offensive line because the Buccaneers by
Speaker 1: the numbers, uh probably have the best off by the
Speaker 1: statistics at least probably have the best offensive line in
Speaker 1: the league this year. They they lead the league and
Speaker 1: SAX allowed for pass by lowest number. And they also,
Speaker 1: I know our running game totals aren't great, but if
Speaker 1: you go go on Football Outsiders, they're adjusted line yard
Speaker 1: stats say we have the best run blocking group too.
Speaker 1: So but then you go, well, which guy or guys
Speaker 1: should make it troble and you can't get gredients, say well,
Speaker 1: Alex Cappa and Ryan Jenson and so'd be cool for
Speaker 1: it's just the whole the whole line got to go,
Speaker 1: except that if you're a really really good old alignment
Speaker 1: on it really big, that's why you can't do it
Speaker 1: that well, well, that's the that's the Paul Gruber story.
Speaker 1: Never made a Pro Bowl when our ring of honor
Speaker 1: and deserved, which is totally mind boggling, Yeah boggling, I know,
Speaker 1: but you know, I know, we know how good he wants.
Speaker 1: All right, Um, anything else on this game you want
Speaker 1: to talk about? It got It was a very long game.
Speaker 1: It was Um, it was a long game. Jack Barrett
Speaker 1: was heating up again, as he has often done at
Speaker 1: the end of seasons. I know that. You know. He
Speaker 1: had one point five sacks, but he also had five
Speaker 1: quarterback hits and seven quarterback pressures according to next Gen Stats,
Speaker 1: which I believe our single game highs for him this year.
Speaker 1: You remember how he was so dominant in the last
Speaker 1: couple of weeks of last year's playoffs that if we
Speaker 1: have that check bear running around, that's something seems to
Speaker 1: be coming along. I like it to be coming together. Yes,
Speaker 1: so we can get healthy. We got a good shot
Speaker 1: of things. So do you want to go ahead? And
Speaker 1: we can talk about the Saints. But let's not well,
Speaker 1: it's a tough game and um, for whatever reason, we
Speaker 1: always have issues with them, except when you're in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: then it's not a problem. Yeah. This The part about
Speaker 1: this game is that it's the Saints, so you should win.
Speaker 1: But the icing on the cake is it's a T
Speaker 1: shirt hat game if you win. So they clinch in
Speaker 1: the division, and that would be great. It would be
Speaker 1: great to do it against the Saints at home. There
Speaker 1: are the national TV. They're the hurdle that we've been
Speaker 1: trying to get over. When was the last time we
Speaker 1: won the division? Two? Seven? Okay, so haven't done that
Speaker 1: in a while. There you go, won the super Bowl
Speaker 1: without winning the division, which you would take every year.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but this year with the stands to be
Speaker 1: packed again, you definitely want to have as many home
Speaker 1: games as possible. As they say when they start out
Speaker 1: the season, there are goals. The first goal is when
Speaker 1: your division division, because then you get at least one
Speaker 1: home game, and that's what we will have a shot
Speaker 1: at it. Yeah, I mean to be honest, nothing is guaranteed, right,
Speaker 1: but we can. We can clinch the division by need
Speaker 1: the Saints uh this weekend. But honestly, all we need
Speaker 1: is either one win by us or one win lost
Speaker 1: by the Saints. That's really only that's not eight outcomes.
Speaker 1: It's only seven because one of those games is US
Speaker 1: against the Saints. But when you only need one of
Speaker 1: seven possible outcomes to occur, you can feel pretty good
Speaker 1: because probably it's gonna be closer to like six of
Speaker 1: those seven outcomes all the way you watch. But then
Speaker 1: you're talking about seeding, and this past week with Arizona
Speaker 1: losing to the Rams, the Buccaneers actually moved up to
Speaker 1: the two seeds because the Packers, Bucks and Rams are
Speaker 1: all ten and three. Packers get the tiebreaker right now
Speaker 1: because they have something like a seven and one record
Speaker 1: in NFC play or seven and three it's better than ours. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Bucks are and Cardinals loveally our six and three
Speaker 1: and uh, and then we get the second seed over
Speaker 1: the Cardinals at the moment based on strength of victory
Speaker 1: because there's no head to head. Uh, we have the
Speaker 1: same conference record. You can't do. The next one is
Speaker 1: common games you're recording is so teams you and the
Speaker 1: Cardinals both played. What record did you have against those teams?
Speaker 1: At the moment, we don't have enough to qualify, but
Speaker 1: by the end of the because you have to have
Speaker 1: at least four by the end of the year, we will.
Speaker 1: And because of that lost to the Rams, which is
Speaker 1: helpful because we also lost to the Rams, um and
Speaker 1: then somebody else that Arizona lost to the the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: If we win out, we know at worst be the
Speaker 1: number two. See, because Arizona can't catch us, We'll beat
Speaker 1: them on common games. Yeah, and and the thing is
Speaker 1: you just win out and then you hope the Green
Speaker 1: Day loses one game because if they don't, you you
Speaker 1: can't get the first and you can't worry. You can't
Speaker 1: control what they do, but you can control what you do.
Speaker 1: You try to win all four and hope they lose
Speaker 1: at least one. Unfortunately, I think they got Baltimore next,
Speaker 1: which is like they have like two healthy players right now,
Speaker 1: and then they have Cleveland, which has the COVID issue
Speaker 1: going on. So and I think they have a game
Speaker 1: left against the Bears, which is unfortunate for us. They
Speaker 1: have a game left against the Vikings, who did already
Speaker 1: beat them, so this one will be in Lambeau. That's one.
Speaker 1: And the Vikings are clawing and hanging on. I think
Speaker 1: they're a decent team. They are, they are they It
Speaker 1: just seems like what could go wrong goes wrong for
Speaker 1: Yeah they do. It's just like it's like, hey, how
Speaker 1: are we gonna lose this game this week? Yeah? They do?
Speaker 1: They do? Do weird we so um, all right? And
Speaker 1: then this you know, the Saints are they've beaten us
Speaker 1: six times, we're all in the regular season and it's
Speaker 1: time for that day, and yeah, it is. It's just
Speaker 1: those things are true until they're not. Yeah, and that's
Speaker 1: a game that you know, hey, you gotta you can't. Well,
Speaker 1: the thing with the Saints is they're still in the
Speaker 1: in the mix for a wild card. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of teams that are losing us this week would
Speaker 1: put the serious tint and but yeah, they still got
Speaker 1: a shot. Alright, Alright, so let's go ahead because we
Speaker 1: could talk more about this, but I've got some other
Speaker 1: notes about the Bills game, but I think I'll skip
Speaker 1: them so that we can get to all these fans questions.
Speaker 1: Let's do it. There are lots of them, all right.
Speaker 1: I gotta see the ones we did last week and
Speaker 1: not to them again. We did the radio one, we
Speaker 1: did the one about Antonio Brown and the xclination cards. Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the one. Um. This is from Kent Denny, who's
Speaker 1: in Tampa. Uh Salty Dogs. Been thinking about this question
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. The subject was talked about
Speaker 1: this past week on the Let's Go podcast That's Tom
Speaker 1: Brady with Jim Gray. And Larry fitz I did once.
Speaker 1: I wanted to listen every week, but I keep forgetting
Speaker 1: but really wasn't answered like you and Jeff Kin, I
Speaker 1: don't know about that is there. I'm not sure he's
Speaker 1: going to be satisfied though. Is there a governing body
Speaker 1: over NFL referees? The simple answer is probably yes, but
Speaker 1: please don't be salty and stop there. What is their responsibility?
Speaker 1: Could they overturn a call after the game that would
Speaker 1: change the outcome of a game? Can they oppose penalties
Speaker 1: discipline on referees? No, they would not overturn a call
Speaker 1: to change the outcome of a game. Let's just get
Speaker 1: that one out the way first. No, you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. And I don't think that they impose
Speaker 1: penalties or discipline on referees for missed calls. But they
Speaker 1: do review every single game and every single call, and
Speaker 1: officials do get graded, and as they get graded, they
Speaker 1: want to do well because that's how they end up
Speaker 1: being able to do playoffs and Super Bowls. So there
Speaker 1: is a criteria for being spot on. The ones that
Speaker 1: great up better get better assignments, um And so the
Speaker 1: governing body is really the NFL there's a there's a
Speaker 1: person who works for the NFL. That's the director of officiating. Like,
Speaker 1: I guess a tough time thinking who that is now.
Speaker 1: It was previously like Dean Blandino, Yeah he left, and
Speaker 1: then it was Ron Rivieria River. I think he Blandina
Speaker 1: was after him. Okay, but I don't know who it
Speaker 1: is right now. I guess we could google it. Do
Speaker 1: you want to google that NFL's director of UM ahead, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at some because I was making notes
Speaker 1: on this the other night. Oh oh it's it's Walter Anderson. Anderson.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was a long time official. Yeah you
Speaker 1: remember that. Um It's so basically okay, So here was
Speaker 1: a note from UM their page, uh, the NFL's page
Speaker 1: on this. There is nowhere to hide on the football field.
Speaker 1: Whether working at closely contested Super Bowl or the final
Speaker 1: minutes of a preseason game, officials are expected to exhibit
Speaker 1: the same high level of excellence on every play. They
Speaker 1: are carefully selected, extensively prepared, and rigorously evaluated to ensure
Speaker 1: that they call games correctly and consistently, so they are
Speaker 1: held to standards. It's just that all this happens away
Speaker 1: from the public eye always like teams actually can can
Speaker 1: send up plays to the league to have them reviewed,
Speaker 1: and the leg will tell them if if they got basically,
Speaker 1: if they got screwed, did did the rest get some changes?
Speaker 1: And sometimes they'll come back and say, yeah, they messed
Speaker 1: that one up, and um, it doesn't change anything. It doesn't.
Speaker 1: It may or may not even make you feel better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the one thing, and it's frustrating if if you feel
Speaker 1: like a call happened and it goes against your team.
Speaker 1: And but somewhere, I still think the human element needs
Speaker 1: to stay in the game and they do the best
Speaker 1: they can. There's there are fail safe systems so to speak,
Speaker 1: instant replay they go to. They now have where you
Speaker 1: don't even have to throw the red flag if if
Speaker 1: the official uh if New York, Yeah they do, yeah,
Speaker 1: New York notices, Hey, hey listen, that was not yeah,
Speaker 1: very quickly and move on. So they and and um
Speaker 1: and don't forget. Everything we're looking at is from every
Speaker 1: angle underneath the sun, and they have to make the
Speaker 1: original call in a split second. I do think there's
Speaker 1: there could be some room for some more technology. I've
Speaker 1: heard the idea, and I don't know why they don't
Speaker 1: do it of the chip in the football. I like
Speaker 1: that idea. So it's like hockey, when the puzzles across
Speaker 1: the line, it lights up, right, So why do we
Speaker 1: have to try to use these replaces to see if
Speaker 1: that dude who's tunneling in among twenty two players trying
Speaker 1: to cross the your goal and you can't see it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: your butt can get across the line, but if the
Speaker 1: ball is not, you're not in. So let's put a
Speaker 1: chip in the ball and and and have it the uh,
Speaker 1: the you know, the goal line light up or the
Speaker 1: pylons or something. When that's the pylon, shoot little rockets.
Speaker 1: That would be good. You just have to keep guys
Speaker 1: like Warren Sap away from them before the thing. Don't
Speaker 1: kick them over kicking them. So there is there are
Speaker 1: people in place at the NFL who governed the officiating,
Speaker 1: and they make the assignments and they grade them and
Speaker 1: so on. Um. The the the officials will also have
Speaker 1: a union, which doesn't really have much to do with
Speaker 1: you know, getting calls right in or anything. It's just
Speaker 1: to protect them. And and we remember I know this
Speaker 1: because I remember the strike. Remember the strike, some of
Speaker 1: you maybe like two or something like that where you
Speaker 1: have to fail Mary and Green Bay. I mean in
Speaker 1: Seattle against Green Bay. So um, I mean you saw
Speaker 1: then that there is a difference between the trained officials
Speaker 1: in the next level. And the other thing too is
Speaker 1: that the officials they they have to study, they have glasses.
Speaker 1: Then they also come down to the teams and talk
Speaker 1: to the teams before the season, before the season about
Speaker 1: what new rules or how we're going to enforce emphasize taunting.
Speaker 1: So it's they they're trying. Yeah, but again they As
Speaker 1: a fan, though, I don't take any of that. And
Speaker 1: if I'm watching a game and my team gets screwed,
Speaker 1: you you should, you know. And sometimes, just like anybody
Speaker 1: in a job, they make them they may kind of
Speaker 1: an egregious mistake. So okay, this one is from Craig
Speaker 1: Johnson and it's about Chris Godwin in the franchise. Adagh
Speaker 1: ohoi dogs. I hope you all are both doing well. Well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Craig, Craig Johnson, you as well. A little
Speaker 1: about myself. Oh good, we get a bio. I grew
Speaker 1: up in Fort Myers, went to school at USF enjoying
Speaker 1: college games at Raymon James Stadium and now live out
Speaker 1: in beautiful Colorado. It sounds like, you know, if you
Speaker 1: have to leave our area, that's a good place stand beautiful.
Speaker 1: Your podcast makes me feel like I'm back in sunny
Speaker 1: Florida on days like today where the temperature doesn't get
Speaker 1: over reasoning by the way it's been hot here lately.
Speaker 1: It's so Craig, you're I'd still rather have that than freezing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's too hot. It's too hot for December. It's
Speaker 1: way too hot. Now onto my question. Ever since Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin started showing his talent and character as a buccaneer,
Speaker 1: he has been my favorite player choice, and I think
Speaker 1: he's right about both shall and character. That is why
Speaker 1: I became disheartened at the beginning of the year when
Speaker 1: they put him on the franchise tag. He was outstanding
Speaker 1: versus the Falcons this week, this last week, and it
Speaker 1: hasn't been anything short of that in every other game.
Speaker 1: Completely agree. What percentage of players get signed the failing
Speaker 1: year after being put on the franchise tag? Am I
Speaker 1: right to be concerned about the future with the Bucks
Speaker 1: due to cap space? I know the team doesn't have
Speaker 1: to make the decision for a long time. It will
Speaker 1: come around before you know it, but it has been
Speaker 1: nagging at me for a while. Also, bonus question to
Speaker 1: include Jeff because I guess he doesn't think. What what
Speaker 1: would your NFL team be if it wasn't Tampa Bay?
Speaker 1: Thank you for both the enjoyable entertaining show every week. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you for that. So do you want to answer
Speaker 1: that real quick? Well, my if I wasn't the Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: it would be the leaders. You were your Raiders saying
Speaker 1: prior Tokay, Yes, I grew up in Chicago, but like
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Yeah, I know a lot of people like that.
Speaker 1: Is the uniforms or yeah, I like the attitude I
Speaker 1: as I just like the just I got some friends here.
Speaker 1: They have no connection whatsoever to Oakland or Los Angeles
Speaker 1: or Las Vegas and Raiders fans y been Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would know. I have I don't have many sports things,
Speaker 1: but I have a Raiders jacket. Don't bring that around here?
Speaker 1: Still have it? Raiders caps. Now, I grew up in St. Louis.
Speaker 1: Now during the Super Bowl, they weren't my team just
Speaker 1: so when we play, Yeah, they definitely they weren't. They
Speaker 1: weren't at all. So my team. I grew up in St. Louis,
Speaker 1: sure when the Cardinals were still there, but I can't
Speaker 1: tell you that things those really cared all that much.
Speaker 1: I was a Saint Cardinals baseball fan, and they weren't
Speaker 1: very good the football team anyway, and then they left
Speaker 1: when I was in college. H And I always actually
Speaker 1: like the Chargers, probably just because they have the best
Speaker 1: uniforms in the league. The Super Chargers I love, and
Speaker 1: even their new stuff. They've got like six different combinations
Speaker 1: that all of them are awesome, easily the best ume first.
Speaker 1: Plus I probably caught the tail into the air Coreol Era.
Speaker 1: That was that was before, back when the only thing
Speaker 1: I understood about football was throwing quarterbacks and receivers. He
Speaker 1: was so far ahead of his time. He was right
Speaker 1: you look at you look at that those teams He
Speaker 1: would fit in right now this year in today's with
Speaker 1: Don Coreel in the air Correol office. So to get
Speaker 1: questions Dan Fouts, Who's I liked a lot better as
Speaker 1: a quarterback than broadcast for personally, Okay, um, don't tell him,
Speaker 1: I said so that all right, then, ever, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pat you on the back and give you a little step,
Speaker 1: So I wanted, well, I don't think you'll ever hear that. Sorry,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have said it, so I wanted to um
Speaker 1: start with him. With Craig, you're saying he was disheartened
Speaker 1: by the franchise tag. That's so I think it's a
Speaker 1: little harsh now because it's it's a sizeable sum of money.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's a good, good one year yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's and it's it's actually good for both it's good
Speaker 1: for the play year. Well, players don't really feel that way. Well,
Speaker 1: of course they don't. Well, they're the ones that would
Speaker 1: know if it's good for them or not. Jeff, Well,
Speaker 1: let's just say it's good for the game. It's just
Speaker 1: defends on your perspective. A lot of players don't like
Speaker 1: it because even though it's a good one year salary,
Speaker 1: it is still just one guaranteed year and you never
Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. But what but in that
Speaker 1: year they want to get their market value when they
Speaker 1: can get it. As speak, most salaries aren't guaranteed, so
Speaker 1: you're you you're hoping for the big signing bonus is
Speaker 1: what you want? Right? I'm not saying that when they
Speaker 1: announced a five year, seventy five million dollar contract that
Speaker 1: you're getting seventy five million, but you might be getting
Speaker 1: forty five millions. He's just like Shack last year. And
Speaker 1: get to that in a minute. You know, the he
Speaker 1: played one year in attack, but it was the next
Speaker 1: deal that made him feel like he had, you know,
Speaker 1: secured his future. And when he came here, he bet
Speaker 1: on himself because he only took a one year deal. Yes,
Speaker 1: so well that's all that he was being offered, to
Speaker 1: be honest with you, but um, so I don't. My
Speaker 1: recollection of it is that Chris Godwin was not particularly
Speaker 1: upset about it. He knew the situation and again he
Speaker 1: he felt that he would be able to have another
Speaker 1: outstanding here and be set up for one year later
Speaker 1: for a nice hit at free agen. But think back
Speaker 1: to that was the time when it was the whole
Speaker 1: can we keep the band together? After winning the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl and having tons of pinning free agents, including guys
Speaker 1: like Lavante David and Shack, donmackin Sue and plenty of others,
Speaker 1: can we keep them all together? And somehow, um, Jason
Speaker 1: Light and Mike Greenberg and everybody else did it, and
Speaker 1: we know now that a lot of it was the
Speaker 1: kind of contracts we don't normally like to do, pushing
Speaker 1: things into the future a little bit, but we were
Speaker 1: trying to strike while Aaron's hut. Well. The other thing
Speaker 1: too is I think Chris wanted to be part of
Speaker 1: something special, and so it if if it's a bitter
Speaker 1: pill to be franchised, at least coming off a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl year, you're still on the Super Bowl team and
Speaker 1: you're trying to make another run, right. But my point
Speaker 1: was that Jason and Mike and everybody used every they
Speaker 1: could think of to get all those in since you
Speaker 1: had to put out big contracts with multi year deals
Speaker 1: for some of those other guys. If you can keep
Speaker 1: Chris on the franchise tag, that's a great solution. It
Speaker 1: was just part of the overall picture. And now as
Speaker 1: we see Chris as playing so well that there's no
Speaker 1: way he's not getting a huge contract from us or
Speaker 1: somebody else. Right, So it works on five franchise twice.
Speaker 1: You can you can franchisee them three times, but it
Speaker 1: goes up dramatically. The price tag goes up dramatically each
Speaker 1: time you franchise him again, which is why. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what will happen here with Chris, but it's
Speaker 1: it's definitely on the table. So UM, I made some
Speaker 1: notes about this, uh, because he wanted to know, like
Speaker 1: what percentage of guys UM get resigned and I want
Speaker 1: to try to find that. Where is it? Oh? Here
Speaker 1: it is. So I didn't do forever because franchise tags
Speaker 1: have been around for a long time, but I went
Speaker 1: back through the last UM two years before this one
Speaker 1: and looked at all the franchise tags in nineteen UM.
Speaker 1: Robbie Gold got a two year deal, DeMarcus Lawrence his
Speaker 1: franchise tag, got a long term deal. Grady Jarrett with
Speaker 1: the Falcons got the franchise tag got a long term deal.
Speaker 1: That's three guys right there. Okay, there were four. There
Speaker 1: were three others Jadeveon Clowney, d Ford and Frank Clark,
Speaker 1: and none of them got that the franchise a long
Speaker 1: term deal. And in fact, I believe both Frank Clark
Speaker 1: and Dford were both traded one to the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: went away from the Chiefs UM. And so in that
Speaker 1: year there weren't that many, There was only six, but
Speaker 1: fifty of them substantly got it longer than one year deal.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty good. It's not bad. Last year Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: he got a long term deal, got the franchise tag.
Speaker 1: All these guys got the franchise tag. And then I'm
Speaker 1: telling you what happened after Shack long term deal. Chris
Speaker 1: Jones with the Chiefs long term deal, Derrick Henry with
Speaker 1: the Titans long term deal, Justin Simmons with the Broncos
Speaker 1: long term deal, Leonard Williams with the Giants long term deal.
Speaker 1: So there is well, I'm not over because there was
Speaker 1: a ton of them. Um A J. Green in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: had an injury plague season and then he went and
Speaker 1: left for Arizona. So that's really not a comparable situation.
Speaker 1: But Dupree did not get a long term deal in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: Inside and Tennessee. Anthony Harris, the safety for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: no long term deal, signed with Philly the next year,
Speaker 1: Matthew Judean with the Ravens, no deal, signed with the Patriots,
Speaker 1: and got Way has been everywhere, and part of that
Speaker 1: could be because of their cap situations, but that's what
Speaker 1: he's This guy's worried about. Hunter Henry did not get
Speaker 1: in with San Diego, ended up in New England. Brandon
Speaker 1: Schurff in Washington. We don't know yet. He's gotten the
Speaker 1: tag a couple of times, so we'll see. And Joe Tuney,
Speaker 1: I think it's pronounced New England, didn't get the deal,
Speaker 1: went to Kansas City. So it's about fifty fifty again.
Speaker 1: So I mean, basically it's been about fifty fifty. And
Speaker 1: I think you just have to look at each one
Speaker 1: of these situations distinctly. Yeah, And to me, I think
Speaker 1: I've talked to a lot of people around here, not
Speaker 1: necessarily employees, but some that are a little pessimistic about
Speaker 1: being will keep Chris because you already have a you
Speaker 1: have cap issues obviously, you've already pushed some other contracts
Speaker 1: ahead in the future, and you have Mike Evans under
Speaker 1: a big deal already. So do you pay two receivers
Speaker 1: a lot of money? But those two receivers are a
Speaker 1: big part of why this team is so Yeah, And
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin. Everybody says that every single time. We heard it,
Speaker 1: like four more times today because everybody's asking about Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: He does so much for this offense. He does so
Speaker 1: much and he's another great blocker. He's got to play.
Speaker 1: He blocked. Uh, he might be two guys in one
Speaker 1: play off. He might be the best blocking receiver in
Speaker 1: the game. Right And and he is literally used in
Speaker 1: blocking schemes around the line, not just hey, make sure
Speaker 1: you get that block out on the perimeter. But Tom
Speaker 1: Brady said today that, oh no, it was Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is the other Tom Brady knows Byron Leftwich that Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin is as complete of a player as you can
Speaker 1: be at any given position. Wow, that's a huge compliment.
Speaker 1: That's big. What else are you looking for if you
Speaker 1: don't keep Chris Godwin? How are you replacing where you
Speaker 1: find that guy. I'm still kind of optimistic, especially with
Speaker 1: Brady sticking around for another year, and he's certainly gonna
Speaker 1: be telling management we got pounded on the table. We
Speaker 1: gotta keep this guy one way or another. I still
Speaker 1: feeling good that we find a way to keep him around.
Speaker 1: And I think Chris likes it here. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna speak for him, and that's the impression that
Speaker 1: I get, right, Yeah you would, I mean, what's not
Speaker 1: to like? Yeah? True? All right? So next one, good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. Next one, Yeah, we gotta start pounding,
Speaker 1: but don't don't worry about next year, stay focused on
Speaker 1: this ship. Well, there's nothing long with planning the head.
Speaker 1: So we already did this one from Phil Squadron about
Speaker 1: Bucks Mount Rushmore. Okay, did did I do the one?
Speaker 1: We're um I got a correction from Sam Nino about
Speaker 1: the whole Monty Kiffin leaving thing too. To podcasts ago.
Speaker 1: We were talking about how the Bucks in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight went from nine and three year bringing out yeah,
Speaker 1: and I said, and also, I don't think our our
Speaker 1: defensive corner of Todd Bowles is going to accept the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator position at USC with four games to play
Speaker 1: and kind of throw everything into disarray. And Sam points
Speaker 1: out and probably knows because he's from Nashville. He's like,
Speaker 1: just one slight correction from last week. One reason you
Speaker 1: said you weren't that worried was you did not think
Speaker 1: it very likely Todd Bowles would announce he was taking
Speaker 1: the USC defensive coordinator position in the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: To be fair, Monty didn't do that either, because he
Speaker 1: went to the University of Tennessee. That's right, because Lane
Speaker 1: had the one year there for one glorious season before
Speaker 1: going to and I thought of that and then I
Speaker 1: just let it go. I should have said something. I
Speaker 1: would have finally got you on something. Oh, I don't
Speaker 1: believe you. Sam. As a U T fan, Sam says
Speaker 1: as a UT fan, it truly was a Dickens best
Speaker 1: of times, worst of times moment when Money announced he
Speaker 1: was coming to UT and it just became the worst
Speaker 1: of times when his son decided to leave you to
Speaker 1: in the larch after one Anyways, what is one Christmas
Speaker 1: skipped you would like the Bucks to get as we
Speaker 1: head down the final stretch of the regular season, or
Speaker 1: to put in another way, what is one thing you
Speaker 1: think we need to set ourselves up for a long well,
Speaker 1: well for a long postseason run. Do you have an answer? First? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want health. Yeah, that was gonna be mine. I
Speaker 1: want I want. I wanted guys to be healthy because
Speaker 1: I want I want to see what this team is
Speaker 1: like with all the players healthy, because we have not
Speaker 1: seen it from haven't had it the three minutes or
Speaker 1: four minutes into the game went went win? Did it
Speaker 1: was in the first quarter? When so? So that's what
Speaker 1: I we have not yet played a game where the
Speaker 1: five you count the nickelback where the five supposed starters
Speaker 1: have started because Jordan Whitehead wasn't there for Game one.
Speaker 1: Jordan's sideline again. He could possibly come back this week,
Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield. He's dealing with a foot injury that's kept
Speaker 1: him out of practice the last two games. And now
Speaker 1: you got another safe issue with safety. Richard Sherman has
Speaker 1: an achilles issue. He was kind of a safety valve
Speaker 1: for you at safety. I'm going off on a tangent here,
Speaker 1: but um, I agree with you. I want the same
Speaker 1: thing and I both have that in and I also
Speaker 1: want you know, I want the health with COVID for
Speaker 1: that part of everything for football. But this question but
Speaker 1: for the Bucks, same and the same thing, health in general.
Speaker 1: And the subset of that is we don't have one
Speaker 1: of these outbreaks like Cleveland in Washington. And so that
Speaker 1: was an easy one, alright, Next one, Mark Rice, did
Speaker 1: we do this one? Unfinished business? Mark Rice from Mace, Arizona.
Speaker 1: You gotta give me the question. I'll preface this by
Speaker 1: staying that I know this current period of unprecedented success
Speaker 1: cannot last forever, and I count myself fortunate for being
Speaker 1: along for the ride as long as it lasts. No,
Speaker 1: I don't remember what that said. Is there any unfinished business? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we didn't do this. You hope the team
Speaker 1: will take care of during this current period. By this,
Speaker 1: I'm referring to exercising demons, and just to be clear,
Speaker 1: that should be exorcizing, because I think Mark is suggesting
Speaker 1: that we should take some demons out back, and well,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't get them some exercise like running wind sprints,
Speaker 1: whereas exorcizing means getting rid of demons. Just just refering
Speaker 1: to just here, here's a hint. Don't insult the listeners.
Speaker 1: So I'm not insulting anybody. I think nine percent of
Speaker 1: people would have written exercising the same way Mark that,
Speaker 1: and he knows exactly what he means. I just should
Speaker 1: have had an oh, right here, I'll shutting down veterans state,
Speaker 1: which is an example i'd expected in the O two
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, and he really kind of gives the
Speaker 1: answer that I'm sure both. I'd really like to see
Speaker 1: us win against the Saints the next time we play,
Speaker 1: and not just to win, but a statement victory that
Speaker 1: usher's in an air of dominance. Against him for the
Speaker 1: next several months. Go you go. Sure, beating him in
Speaker 1: the dividual round last year was sweet, but didn't scratch
Speaker 1: the itch did for me? No, no, no, I'll lose
Speaker 1: every regular season game against the Saints if I get
Speaker 1: to beat him. And I felt quite scratched. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that was that was the only redeeming thing when
Speaker 1: we were in New Orleans, because they were puffing their
Speaker 1: chests out a lot of people, a lot of fans,
Speaker 1: and all I said was playoffs and then the guy
Speaker 1: okay yea. So he ends in YadA YadA, one week
Speaker 1: at a time. But December nineteenth is the date circle
Speaker 1: on my counter back home in primetime, I'm asking Santa
Speaker 1: for a fifty seven. And you know what, there's nothing
Speaker 1: better than going into the holidays with a win when
Speaker 1: you're it's just it's just so makes it sweeter. So
Speaker 1: so this is all good. We have to travel on Christmas, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I know that's fine. It's in the afternoon. Um so yeah,
Speaker 1: that that was obviously going to be my answer too.
Speaker 1: I'm sure yours right. That's really the only what other
Speaker 1: unfinished business is there? We've kind of dominated the rest
Speaker 1: of the division we beat everybody that you would think
Speaker 1: of beating in the playoffs last year. And what's what's
Speaker 1: so great about this one? Maybe beat the Rams? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but what's great about this one is you beat the
Speaker 1: team that you don't like and you clinch the division.
Speaker 1: So it's it's it's probably make it extremely hard for
Speaker 1: them to make the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, you pretty much.
Speaker 1: I described it like it's a traveling trophy. So the Saints,
Speaker 1: the Saints need to take the NFC South Trophy out
Speaker 1: of their trophy case and bring it with me on
Speaker 1: this trip because you might have to end it. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, So good answer. More good question. We also
Speaker 1: give us the best answers. Um, what else you got? Okay?
Speaker 1: That that one we did? Alex c Alex from Kansas, Hey,
Speaker 1: Salty Dogs, coming down to Tampa for my first Bucks game.
Speaker 1: It's a good one. Anything cool you'd recommend to do
Speaker 1: the day of the game prior to going to the stadium.
Speaker 1: Oh goodness, Well there's a lot going on at the
Speaker 1: stadium itself. You have, uh, he hope, probably enjoy um
Speaker 1: buck speech, you know, um, you know, allow a little
Speaker 1: bit of time to go to that is that that's
Speaker 1: pretty cool. I've never I've never been. Oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: is is very very cool. He wants to get his
Speaker 1: picture taken in the big beach chairs. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: be something that he should check out. Allow enough time
Speaker 1: but before he comes to the game, and since it's
Speaker 1: a night game. Wow, do people still I have a
Speaker 1: long time ago in my twenties went down to John's
Speaker 1: Pass you know where that is? Yeah? Um, if that's
Speaker 1: across the bay and uh, I guess it's in the St. Pete. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's in St. Pete. John's passed and I and my
Speaker 1: buddy and I rented um and you got to you know,
Speaker 1: sure that was fun. But do they do that at
Speaker 1: this time of the year is a too cold? I
Speaker 1: think they would do it because when the snowbirds come down,
Speaker 1: they think it's really hot. You know what my wife
Speaker 1: really enjoyed one time was we went on one of
Speaker 1: those dolphin cruises. They take you out on a boat
Speaker 1: out in the out in the ocean in the bay
Speaker 1: and the golf Yeah, and was it dolphins or was
Speaker 1: it managed? It was dolphins because what they do is
Speaker 1: they find them and then the dolphins start following the
Speaker 1: boat plane and jumping out and showing off and it's
Speaker 1: really really cool. Yeah. So um um those kinds of things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well you see the problem is it depends on you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what you like. Yeah, well you know
Speaker 1: that's that's not much of a tour guy, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. Well, it just another thing is it
Speaker 1: depends on where you're staying. It depends on give okay,
Speaker 1: give m a restaurant recommendation. Ah, you want to get it.
Speaker 1: See the famous place here is Burns. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: do Burns. You can do Bradies, yeah, yeah, throw you
Speaker 1: could do. You could do the Colombian, Oh, Columbia. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a very famous place here. Spanish on down any
Speaker 1: boor or go to Ebor, or go to Ebor. Just
Speaker 1: go to Ebor, go to a bunch of places you
Speaker 1: can go to. Um, well, there's a lot going on.
Speaker 1: It's what's it called now? Oh gosh, it used to
Speaker 1: be Channel Side, but now it's called something else. It's
Speaker 1: it's downtown, near near the hockey stadium. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what's down there anymore. A lot of stuff is
Speaker 1: down there. Okay, check out Channel Side. Yeah, and even
Speaker 1: if it's not called Channel Side, anymore, people are going
Speaker 1: to know what they know where you're all right, that's enough. Sure,
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong. I mean, seriously, you just I
Speaker 1: like the Columbia idea, to Columbia for lunch or something.
Speaker 1: It'd be a nice lunch. Yeah, all right. The pay
Speaker 1: is very good. Oh if you want to go to
Speaker 1: a great uh well there's uh well, never mind, keep going. Okay,
Speaker 1: next one, and we've spoken with this guy before. I
Speaker 1: think you remember from Germany named Dylan, who once sent
Speaker 1: us a really long question I know. Right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about that real quick. So um, because this was sent
Speaker 1: before this news because that came out yesterday and he
Speaker 1: sent us. On December tent the Buccaneers were granted access
Speaker 1: to an international home marketing area h h m A.
Speaker 1: And we chose, we we requested and we're granted Germany,
Speaker 1: which means we're not the only one. There's four teams,
Speaker 1: the Panthers, the Patriots, and one other Kansas City. Okay,
Speaker 1: all four of those teams are now the only teams
Speaker 1: that can start marketing and in fan engagement all kinds
Speaker 1: of things, um in that area or in that country.
Speaker 1: There there's also other teams that got some in Brazil
Speaker 1: for our guy Alexander UM. He probably wishes the Bucks
Speaker 1: at Spain, China, Australia, UM, the United Kingdom, Canada, Seattle,
Speaker 1: got Canada, Canada, Mexic and you saw all the ones.
Speaker 1: There was like eight that eight or nine did in
Speaker 1: Mexican it was like Texas. Of course that's where they
Speaker 1: should be. More so, we're very excited because there apparently
Speaker 1: are going to be um international initial games like they
Speaker 1: are on lunch regular season in Germany starting as soon
Speaker 1: as next year. And the release from the league says
Speaker 1: every team in the league now will be will play
Speaker 1: a regular season game in an international market within the
Speaker 1: next eight years, and they will make every effort they
Speaker 1: can to put the team if a team has an
Speaker 1: i m A to put their game in that country.
Speaker 1: So there's there's nothing announced or even probably sure set yet,
Speaker 1: but there's every reason to conjecture that the Buccaneers could
Speaker 1: end up with a game in Germany, possibly as soon
Speaker 1: as next year. Yeah. And the cool thing is is
Speaker 1: that you can could be against New England, it could
Speaker 1: be against Carolina because they're in the market, could be
Speaker 1: So you take those teams already have to be on
Speaker 1: your schedule. You have to be on your schedule. But
Speaker 1: there's a way we are. There's a very good chance
Speaker 1: Kansas City will be on our schedule next year, many
Speaker 1: on where you finished right well there the next week
Speaker 1: next year that I believe they're the seventeenth game. You know,
Speaker 1: the seventeenth game is now you're matched up not the
Speaker 1: not the division. You're matched up for all four teams,
Speaker 1: but one of the other ones. And I think it's
Speaker 1: the West. So if we finish in the same position
Speaker 1: in the NFC South as they do in the NFC West,
Speaker 1: that be in Kansas City. We will play them next year,
Speaker 1: and that would be here. And that would be here
Speaker 1: because last year all the seventeenth games were there. We're
Speaker 1: in the a f C teams and so that would
Speaker 1: be a perfect one to put over, although that would
Speaker 1: also be one the Bucks are probably like to have
Speaker 1: at home. Yeah I I I said, well, maybe it'll
Speaker 1: be the Bucks in New England, and everyone was going,
Speaker 1: there's no way the NFL and I let Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and be out of the country and do that. The
Speaker 1: fans would go nuts. That'll have to be But I
Speaker 1: think that would be a great way to begin. Oh well,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure they love I think they will
Speaker 1: enjoy any game that we sit over there. I'm really,
Speaker 1: what do you think will play well? You think it
Speaker 1: would be? Uh? There were three possible cities, right, Dusseldorf,
Speaker 1: Berlin and Frankfort. Frankfort In. Frankfort in Berlin were both
Speaker 1: cities that had old Um in a full Europeans. Okay,
Speaker 1: this is his question. This is Dylan from Germany. A
Speaker 1: little help for you, Scott, just in case of another
Speaker 1: senior moment. I think this little storyline needs to be
Speaker 1: nipped in the bud. But the question is actually from
Speaker 1: my co worker Peter. The twelfth and final tie breaker
Speaker 1: for the seating of the postseason participants is a coin toss.
Speaker 1: So is there ever a case when this tie breaker
Speaker 1: had to come into play? And if not, which is
Speaker 1: the highest tie breaker that was ever used to determine
Speaker 1: a playoff seating? Keep up your awesome work, love your podcast,
Speaker 1: Go Bucks. So that's your question, It is my question,
Speaker 1: and I did look it up a little bit. I
Speaker 1: was pretty sure um that there was never going to
Speaker 1: be uh one. I'm trying to find it right now
Speaker 1: where they where they're they're going to win flip, and
Speaker 1: there was you fight all year long, dude, to battle
Speaker 1: it out with all the different teams, and it comes
Speaker 1: down to a flip of a coin. So the way
Speaker 1: the list of tiebreakers right now, and it's a little
Speaker 1: bit different depending on if you're talking about two teams
Speaker 1: in the same division, or two teams trying for a
Speaker 1: wild card, or three teams or three two or three
Speaker 1: teams um going for divisional seating, but UM basically it's
Speaker 1: head to head comes first, and then UM conference record,
Speaker 1: and then common games, and then strength believe strength of victory,
Speaker 1: and then strength of opponents, and then you get into
Speaker 1: things like net points in certain games. And I believe
Speaker 1: number twelve is a coin flip. If it gets us
Speaker 1: all the way down to twelve, then it's a coin flip.
Speaker 1: It's never happened. It hasn't even come close to happen.
Speaker 1: The closest thing that to that in the NFL is
Speaker 1: that there have been but they've changed this in recent years.
Speaker 1: But for a while, if two teams were tied in
Speaker 1: the draft order and then there was only one tiebreaker,
Speaker 1: which the strength of schedule, So if they were tied
Speaker 1: in that too, they flipped the coin sure did it
Speaker 1: once in the combine? Remember that? Um? I think Bruce
Speaker 1: Allen got to call it. Um, I think we lost it.
Speaker 1: We did so? Um? Why do I always remember the
Speaker 1: negative stuff? So the the the way it's set up now, UM,
Speaker 1: wasn't introduced when everybody realigned in two thousand and two,
Speaker 1: and that introduced the strength of victory and strength of
Speaker 1: schedule tiebreakers, And it's really not getting it's not getting
Speaker 1: any farther than that anymore. You're not going to get
Speaker 1: past all those tie breakers and not haven't work out.
Speaker 1: The best one I could find was in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six when four teams were tied for the last
Speaker 1: wild card spots. So the first thing you do, well,
Speaker 1: I guess the must have all been from different Um
Speaker 1: didn't we get did we getting? We lost in a tiebreaker? Yeah? Okay,
Speaker 1: we had ten wins. That was the ten It was
Speaker 1: the year we actually lost to green Bay and maybe
Speaker 1: also the Lines, but green Bay was also ten and
Speaker 1: six and they went on to win the Super Bowl. Yeah. UM,
Speaker 1: I think the Giants might have been involved in that typebreakers.
Speaker 1: And in any case, UM, this one in two thousand
Speaker 1: six NFC four teams, I guess from all four divisions. Uh,
Speaker 1: two of the first two were knocked out by their
Speaker 1: conference record, and then the Giants beat Green Bay. Do
Speaker 1: the strength of victory and getting down to strength of
Speaker 1: victory is what constitute is getting pretty far down these
Speaker 1: now and then be four thousand, two thousand two. I
Speaker 1: found one in the seventies. I didn't find this. I
Speaker 1: was reading this an article when Dallas got won the
Speaker 1: division and Washington had to get a wild cart spot
Speaker 1: because of point differential, and I don't think they used
Speaker 1: that one anymore. Um, and then that the Panthers needed
Speaker 1: a point differential in they had to blow out the Saints.
Speaker 1: That I was just gonna say, that's the best. That's
Speaker 1: the best one, because now now you have a reason
Speaker 1: why you're gonna blow somebody and stop on him. And
Speaker 1: it's not like, oh, you're running up the score. No,
Speaker 1: I'm looking for a point. Well, that's what the Panthers
Speaker 1: had to do in ninety nine and they kept them alive,
Speaker 1: but then a later game they were knocked out by
Speaker 1: a Dallas win. So I didn't do that research myself.
Speaker 1: I can't claim it. I found it somewhere, but right, yeah,
Speaker 1: and great question. It could come down to a coin flip,
Speaker 1: but it probably never I like these questions. We got
Speaker 1: through him, Jeff. We only have one more and it's
Speaker 1: and the reason that I'm going to do it as again.
Speaker 1: Yeah we won again. Our guy it's Alexander from Brazil,
Speaker 1: which is not our h M a M. And unfortunately, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was just gonna say he's probably bombed. Maybe you
Speaker 1: can come to Germany for for our game there. So, Um,
Speaker 1: we have been if you don't listen to us, every
Speaker 1: week we have been reading a question from Alexander from
Speaker 1: sal Paulo Brazil, Right, isn't it Raich from He doesn't
Speaker 1: put that in every email any but I believe you.
Speaker 1: Um and uh. As long as every week that he's
Speaker 1: asked sent us a question and it's been about football,
Speaker 1: we've won. So until that isn't true anymore, we kind
Speaker 1: of feel like we have to keep this up because
Speaker 1: we don't want to be the reason that the Buck's lose.
Speaker 1: HOI salty ones. Hope this finds you both well. It
Speaker 1: is not. Is it not amazing how this Bucks team
Speaker 1: finds ways to win games? So that's a much more
Speaker 1: optimistic way of looking at the games than the people
Speaker 1: who are like you say they're blowing it. He's we
Speaker 1: find we good job, good opportunities to Jeff likes your
Speaker 1: like ot second and seventeen, Gronk catches the past for
Speaker 1: two yards and gets twelve more using his at lesson
Speaker 1: of the power to make a more mangable third down.
Speaker 1: Good point. That was the one right touchdown. And because
Speaker 1: we had taken a sack I believe, or maybe it's
Speaker 1: a holding call. Maybe it was a holding call that
Speaker 1: we were and it's hard to do much on second
Speaker 1: you don't have a lot of second and twenty plays
Speaker 1: and second, second and seventeen. In the case, it was
Speaker 1: a great play by gronk Um and that really you
Speaker 1: forgot you forget all about it because the next play
Speaker 1: was Yeah. But what makes me feel really good was
Speaker 1: to see Lavante David making a stop on a Josh
Speaker 1: Allen run with less than thirty seconds on regulation clock
Speaker 1: and help us forcing Buffalo to kick a game tying
Speaker 1: field goal. Is there any player more unsung as fifth
Speaker 1: number fifty four, Well, we've talked about that many times.
Speaker 1: He he really to these games intent. He really has
Speaker 1: some good pick up. I think I've seen that from
Speaker 1: a number of these questions there. Yeah, uh no, I
Speaker 1: don't think in our history there's been any more underrated
Speaker 1: player than Lavante. I don't think Lavonte David. You'd put
Speaker 1: him above Derek Brooks right now. But Derek Brooks was
Speaker 1: widely sure. I mean, you think he made ten Pro Bowls.
Speaker 1: Everybody acknowledged how great he was, you forget, and and
Speaker 1: Lavante was great on teams that weren't great. And what's
Speaker 1: he in his tenth season now and he still plays
Speaker 1: his hard and he's still uh you know, he's one
Speaker 1: of the good guys. That's all I can say. You
Speaker 1: can ask us about Lavonte every week. We love the guy.
Speaker 1: I love him. Everybody loves Yeah. That's it's. Yeah. Probably
Speaker 1: one of the most universally beloved players in Night in
Speaker 1: your here right, Just a great guy. Okay, Anyway, I
Speaker 1: was thinking about Brashad Perryman. He started the year in
Speaker 1: New York. I mean, I guess his contract expired, went
Speaker 1: to Detroit or maybe he was released. He was released
Speaker 1: signed by Detroit and and then which was cool because
Speaker 1: that's where his dad played, But he didn't make the team,
Speaker 1: and so then he signed out with Chicago. That's not
Speaker 1: what he's writing. I'm filling it in Chicago, land in
Speaker 1: Tampa catch a game winning TV. I think he says
Speaker 1: it reminded me of Steve McClinton. Last season they played
Speaker 1: Sunday for the Jets and Monday morning was that edit
Speaker 1: Health Training Center. Do you guys remember any other story
Speaker 1: like this in Buck's history? Since she did, thanks for reading. PS.
Speaker 1: My mental image of Mr Ryan was something more like
Speaker 1: James Earl Jones, which is a compliment. I mean what
Speaker 1: he's say the voices, wow, because last week he sent
Speaker 1: in a picture yeah he saw Yeah, So, Jeff, do
Speaker 1: you remember a good one here? There really have been
Speaker 1: a lot of that. No, No, if someone just coming in,
Speaker 1: like the McClinton was a trade, but I mean someone
Speaker 1: to come in and then play right away and then
Speaker 1: make it and then do something big, I just nothing.
Speaker 1: I thought about this for a while and nothing comes
Speaker 1: to mind. I hate to give a kind of a
Speaker 1: blank concert like that because most of the most of
Speaker 1: the people who have come in, it's always been because
Speaker 1: if re agency it's it hasn't been. Really yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's done in the middle of the middle. I mean
Speaker 1: you could say Antonio Brown, I suppose well, yeah, that's true,
Speaker 1: that's very true last year. Yeah, that was I guess
Speaker 1: that's actually a pretty good example, a good great example.
Speaker 1: In fact, there's probably some people that were screaming at
Speaker 1: us right now while listen to this podcast. Probably you
Speaker 1: can't even remember Antonio Brown from last We had so
Speaker 1: many great players right now, it's very hard to difficult
Speaker 1: them out and we haven't seen Mr Brown for a
Speaker 1: few we know we have none and that's a whole
Speaker 1: other thing coming out. We'll be in that podcast next week.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking something about that. Is that, Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is the third game for the suspensions. That's what I thought,
Speaker 1: all right, before we go, Before we go, you know,
Speaker 1: you talk about all great plays and gamers and everything.
Speaker 1: You gotta give credit to a forty four year old
Speaker 1: quarterback running like like Tom Brady and then getting into
Speaker 1: it with the d lineman. I he does that a lot.
Speaker 1: I have to say, I totally respect that and um
Speaker 1: to pop up like he does, which which is awesome.
Speaker 1: But then it was like, Okay, that's enough of that.
Speaker 1: You don't need to do that anymore. And that's would
Speaker 1: be a said Bruce are Cameras on the sideline caught
Speaker 1: Bruce arians walking past. It was it was Tom talking
Speaker 1: sitting next to um Byron. He actually says it to Byron,
Speaker 1: though Tom I thought it was the way I heard
Speaker 1: it is he said it to Byron, but he says
Speaker 1: it's time. He's like, no more hits, okay, yeah, something
Speaker 1: like that or that's enough hits or something that's enough
Speaker 1: of that. That's what he said. He just didn't want
Speaker 1: to take it. Just after the quarterback sneak are we're
Speaker 1: cleaning up our podcast, that's enough of that poop? That
Speaker 1: wasn't after the run you're talking about, which was awesome
Speaker 1: because usually, and as well he should, he slides before
Speaker 1: he's in any danger. But in this case he couldn't,
Speaker 1: or he wouldn't have got the first down. I actually
Speaker 1: kind of a juked one guy. Yeah. I want to
Speaker 1: ask him, at what point does he decide he's running
Speaker 1: and then as he's running, is he thinking what am
Speaker 1: I doing? He has said that before, Actually, he said
Speaker 1: that sometimes he's running like whoa, whoa, I'm looking behind him,
Speaker 1: like what's happening? Why am I doing this? I think
Speaker 1: one of the things to partially answer that question is
Speaker 1: and I was I was actually writing about this in
Speaker 1: a mail bag where somebody asked to I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna start running more, And no, I do not think
Speaker 1: that tom Brady scrambles. To me, all the ones I
Speaker 1: can picture of my mind are pretty much the same
Speaker 1: in that the middle opens up and he darts up
Speaker 1: the middle. I don't think you're gonna see Tom Brady
Speaker 1: scrambling around the end uh and running like Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: might do, or Russell Wilson or something. I don't. I
Speaker 1: think tom Brady knows he's not gonna outrun guys trying
Speaker 1: to get to the corner. So when he the rare
Speaker 1: occasions when he's flushed out to either side, he's looking
Speaker 1: either pass or he's not looking to scramble for you.
Speaker 1: But if the middle opens up and you can see
Speaker 1: a direct path and I need like seven yards, then
Speaker 1: he's just he's a football player and he's talking about
Speaker 1: that today. All right, that's it. That's how you got
Speaker 1: what was our friend that's coming in town, that's looking
Speaker 1: for a place to suggesting something. Let me say either way,
Speaker 1: Alex Kansas, Okay, Alex from Kansas, Listen, I don't know
Speaker 1: how many days you're gonna be in. But what you
Speaker 1: do need to do is stop at a beefo Bradies
Speaker 1: whether you have a lunch or a dinner, because you're
Speaker 1: gonna be here for more than one day, so you
Speaker 1: need to try that because then you're gonna understand what
Speaker 1: we've been talking about. And they're all over the Bay area.
Speaker 1: So just google Beefs when you're in the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: and you'll see it pop up. Because when you get there,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find that they got wings, nachos, angus burgers, beer,
Speaker 1: and when you put them all together, you're gonna find
Speaker 1: out why. I say, you're gonna get it all at
Speaker 1: beefo Brady's. And if you're hungry for tellgating, if you
Speaker 1: decide to tell gate, if you go, hey, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the whole experience. Uh. Beefo Brady is good, has
Speaker 1: full on caterie beef a Bradies where game time needs
Speaker 1: tellgating time and time anything else. Mr Smith, just that
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers are six and o at home this year,
Speaker 1: with more than thirty seven point five points per game
Speaker 1: in those games all right, and have a active streak
Speaker 1: not counting the Super Bowl, of eight straight home victories
Speaker 1: haven't lost their in more than a calendar year, and
Speaker 1: all we need is one more home game home win
Speaker 1: to win this division, So primetime home game. Let's go
Speaker 1: on those interesting stats. Since you did, Thanks for listening.