WEBVTT - Special Mailbag Episode | Salty Dogs 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:03.080 What do you call two guys that were there when 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:06.120 this happened? Back to return at Spurlock Michael Spurlock at 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.119 the cham he still at twenty. He said that twenty 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.240 five p thirty come aboard to yearline we could see history. 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:15.400 Fifty forty come a thirty Michael run, Michael Line, Michael 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.160 run set stops half a day. The fare you go 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:21.720 in that shotgun sense, we receivers left. Here's the staff 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.440 of the glitzer has picked up Brady and he caught balls. 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.520 He has the record at the eleven yard line. Mike 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.320 Kevins becomes the first NFL player from Lea history to 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.160 record of thousand yards and board this pirst seventh season 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.879 to want to throw by branding. Congratulations Mike Kevins, who 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.519 can forget again? I'm looking against other side at the 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:45.839 already bucks thirty touchdowns, Tam a day, Derek Brooks too 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:50.120 spalliot player in the National Football League, darn As Dot 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.800 Daggers in where you gonna win the Super Bowl? Here's 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.600 the snap, My homes running to his right to look out. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.760 He may run my home director bat and a sun 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.880 picked up with the fox. I gotta be the chief. 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.000 We're the champions of the world and we still have 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.720 I'm at a Clarty three to go, Devin White, but 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.880 great second season. That's it. We're Casey Box all the 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.800 Super Bowl champs. They can't stop the clock. We call 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:17.560 them the Salty Dogs. Welcome everybody to another episode of 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.280 the Salty Dogs Podcast. I am Scott Smith jeffer High 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.080 and we're the Salty Dogs. We are and what we 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:28.360 do mostly is talk about Buccaneers football, although Jeff sometimes 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.119 leads us off on t I know, and I'm gonna 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:35.280 try really hard this episode. I like the day. Okay, focus, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.080 see if you can. First thing, I want you to 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.200 do Rathabad before we forget. Last week, we had a 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:44.400 question from a Stephen Larson in Texas. I thought it 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:49.440 was San Diego. It was Amario Amorio and he was 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.400 trying he wants to listen to the games on the radio, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:54.040 and we didn't really have a great solution for him. 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.520 But since then you have realized there's something you can 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.520 tell him. Yeah, I should have. I forgot about it 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.600 afterwards driving home, I was like, oh, game pass. If 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.760 you go to NFL dot com, you can find game 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:09.960 pass and I think it's a month and you can 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:14.959 get any broadcast you want, um in the NFL. So 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.400 if you have a favorite team and you don't live 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:19.000 in the area that you can pick it up off 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.880 the internet. You can get it on gam game Pass, 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.480 off of NFL Network or whether it's NFL dot com. 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:29.840 And it's obvious if you punch up there you'll see it. 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.720 It helps you out. Okay. So I'm actually gonna let 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.959 Mr Larson know an email here Casey doesn't catch it 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.520 to listen in, so we can get that. Sure. Um. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:47.079 So that's that's you know, that's a good thing. Okay. So, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.000 and that would explain why I can't just run mine, 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.080 so everybody could get it because of that, because it's 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:57.760 an NFL big deal, yes, um. And and starting off 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.920 with that is actually good thematically here because this week 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:05.239 we are not going to have a guest as a player, because, 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:07.519 as I noted, last week, we got a ton of 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:09.320 emails and we couldn't answer them all, but we promised 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:11.679 we would. And since I've gotten more, and I just 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.919 don't think there's any way we can hold on, you know, 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:17.919 uphold our promise unless we spend one episode just nailing 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:19.359 a lot of these. So this is going to be 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:21.919 the special mail back episode. This is all about you, 0:03:22.800 --> 0:03:25.400 not you them. I know you weren't pointing at me 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.480 when you said that. You and I, Jeff will still 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.639 do a little bit of talking here about the Bills game, 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:32.880 about the upcoming Saints scheme, and other things that have happened. 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:35.600 But then we'll get to we'll get just straight to 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:37.960 your questions for a good portion of this show. Sounds 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:40.640 like a plan. Also, the other thing I wanted to 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.680 start with, Jeff is uh covid. Okay, before you go there. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.440 Oh yeah, you're saying, let's do something positive here. Yeah, 0:03:47.560 --> 0:03:49.920 you know what I'm saying. If you're thinking about wings 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:52.440 and you're thinking about beer, or you think about beer 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:55.520 first and then wings, nobody combines them like befo Brady's. 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.000 There are proud sponsors. Start with their award winning traditional 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.240 or of this Wings. They have a variety of sauces 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.960 and dry rubs, and next you get to pick your brew. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.680 They have a wide variety. All your fabes on tap 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.720 at Beef o' Brady's, where game time meets beard time 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:13.880 and wing time all the time, and this week with 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:17.320 a late game, Boy, you gotta go, you gotta should 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.159 go there beforehand. Yeah, true story, Jeff. Okay, last week, 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.320 last Sunday, the Bills game. You know, we're by the 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.280 time we're done with it, it's in the evening Star. 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.720 So I'm actually sitting in a in a booth trying 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.880 to write the postgame report and I get a text 0:04:30.920 --> 0:04:32.640 on my phone, which you know, I'm not thrilled about 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:35.480 because I'm trying to concentrate, but it's from my wife, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.720 and true story. It was thinking about going to get 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:41.440 some wings from Beefs. Do you want anything? You said? 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.839 You said, I know. Actually it didn't feel like wings, 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:46.560 so I got a primary sandwich. Was yeah, but still 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.560 you got something from Beefs. I know. And I'm not 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:51.599 making this up to pander tour sponsors. That actually happened. 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:53.840 That's the true story. And the booth you were in 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.200 where the visiting coaches booth, Yeah, because when they clear out, 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:58.960 I go in there and take it over so I 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.640 can have quiet. They year out quickly, and they probably 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:06.320 cleared out even more quickly this time in frustration. I 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.240 was going to say that a big story this week 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.640 in the NFL is COVID. It certainly and probably because 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.840 we had this you know, we've been having holidays, and um, 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:18.080 two weeks after Thanksgiving, all of a sudden cases are rising. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.840 Washington has something like twenty one guys on their list. 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:23.760 Now Cleveland I think maybe has eighteen. Can you imagine 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.360 having to deal with that knocking on? Well, so far 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:29.839 it's going well on here. And one thing Bruce arians 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.560 said earlier this week is well, it's warm down here, 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.040 so we're outside a lot more. We're not cooped up together. 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.000 Well that makes sense, it does, and if you do, 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.680 I mean even Thanksgiving it was nice. So if you 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:42.840 we're going to get together, a lot of times you 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.680 are outside, which makes a big, big difference. Um, but 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:50.440 I liked what he said about that. That's true. Um, Unfortunately, Uh, 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:56.400 the cases are going up, and um, it's scary because 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:00.280 it's worse for the NFL this year or than it 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.480 was last night. And that's simply because things are open 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.279 where last year it wasn't. Because of the vaccine. Yeah, 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.400 but uh, and that's the problem because most of these 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.680 guys who get these COVID cases don't really have bad symptoms. 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.880 But that's because it's the game, and that's because of 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.560 having the vaccine. They have to miss a game and 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.640 so that they don't um pass it on to everybody else. 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.560 But I just hope that this season doesn't come down 0:06:25.640 --> 0:06:30.520 to which team has the fewest. Nobody. Nobody wants that. No, 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.440 nobody wants to see the competition drop down. Nobody. You know, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:39.960 it's amazing. I can't remember a season with so many 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:46.840 exciting games on the prime time, whether it's a Sunday 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.680 night game, a Monday night game, a Thursday night um, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:54.760 just ours was we weren't. Yeah, but we were a 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:57.480 late game. We were a prime time game. And by 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.240 the time when because we went to overtime, we were 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:03.120 the only game on. So if you were over yeah, 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:05.200 if you were going to sixty minutes, you weren't getting it. 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.680 You were you were getting the bucks in the bills. Yes, 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:11.400 and it into it in just dramatic fashion, which was awesome. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.119 It wasn't awesome how we got there blowing a twenty 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.920 four to three halftime lead. But I see, I don't 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.280 I don't necessarily know if you're I don't like the 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.840 term you're blowing it. I think, well, I just think 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.160 they got they started to get it together, yes, but 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.600 we had many opportunities to put them away and we 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.640 did just one or two plays here, and they're like 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.480 a completion on third down over the middle to a 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:36.000 wide receiver, a wide open wide receiver. There were all 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.640 kinds of opportunities for us to put the way we 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.960 blew our chances to put it. But I will say this, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:44.800 at halftime, we asked Bruce arians what do you need 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:47.560 to do in the second half, and he said, we 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.560 need to play. There's thirty minutes left in this game. 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:54.680 It's far from over and yeah, And when he said it, 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.160 I was saying, well, it's three isn't that. They're nice 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.360 thing to say, But I don't think it was true. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.360 I don't think that Errands and his staff are guilty 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.160 of not keeping the foote the gas pedal in those situations. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:10.640 I think they're more Bruce, for particulars, more than happy 0:08:10.720 --> 0:08:13.760 to be aggressive, yeah and try to get more points 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.040 and not try to sit on the lead. It's just 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.640 they didn't execute, and it was It got really scary 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.880 to the point of man, I really feel like we 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.280 should win this game. We have four and eight yards 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.680 of offense by the end. Crazy huh and uh, And 0:08:25.760 --> 0:08:28.360 it just hast to come down to that one play well, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:30.880 but the thing too is is that as as mad 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.480 as people were about the defense giving up so much 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.760 in the second half, they made they made the key 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.800 stop when they needed to make made two of them 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.240 and the one at the goal line, and then to 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:42.360 make sure that it was just a tie and we 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.560 weren't three points down by four with twenty seconds left, 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:49.840 and then the one because Buffalo won the coin flip 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:52.560 and it had they scored a touchdown game Tom never 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.400 gets a touch See, I still don't like that. I 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.679 I know, I know in the playoffs, everyone gets the 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:01.679 ball once they change during for the playoffs. Did you 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.480 know that you're looking at me like I don't know what? 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.160 I don't know that, and I also don't know that 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:11.240 that's right? Okay, So while you try to prove yourself right, 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.679 this is our Annuel, this is our weekly exercise, and 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:18.400 you were about I think on these right. Um, so 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.959 I will start talking about I'm gonna put the fifty 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:22.880 eight yard game winner on hold for a second. Other 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.559 than that, your favorite things from the game. Since you're 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.880 looking up something, I'll go first. Um, Mike's touchdown catch. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:32.079 Mike Evans touchdown cat. That was pretty That was the 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:37.040 thing of beauty because you could see what happened, you know, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:39.880 after the play, you could you could tell what happened. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.920 Um Brady saw where Mike was and where the defender 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.360 was and purposely through it high and hard because like, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.000 I can't, I have to throw it high to get 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.120 over the defender. But I know that there's a chance 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:53.760 that Mike Evans will be able to go up and 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:56.120 get this ball. And I mean he's up there with 0:09:56.360 --> 0:10:00.079 his fingertips snatch that ball with his fingertips, Jeff, it 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.400 was pulling it down and like holding it in his hands, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:07.160 not tucking it, just holding his hands on his chest 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.520 because he was going to land on his back, which 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.280 he did, and he landed on his back, and the 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.040 bald and wiggle at all he held on. So it 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.200 was it was Mike's had an awful lot of touchdowns 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.439 and that may not be the prettiest one ever that 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.400 he's had, but it was. It was up there. Okay. 0:10:20.720 --> 0:10:24.640 Overtime rules for the NFL postseason games, unlike regular season games, 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:30.760 what is the source operations dot NFL dot com. Unlike 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.000 regular season games, postseason games cannot end in a tie. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:38.000 So the overtime knew that changed slightly. For the playoffs, 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.800 they changed slightly. If the score is tied at the 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:44.959 end of what we know that Okay, let's see what 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:48.079 is it say to each team gets three times out 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:52.240 If there's nothing you said that each team Like, yeah, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:54.800 I'm not that's not the sentence I want. He thought 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.599 I was gonna say, each team gets the ball no 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.960 matter why. Yeah they I don't think so, Joe, i'd 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:03.199 the difference is that you have to keep playing over 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:06.600 times because you can't end it a tie. Right. Maybe 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.800 that's maybe that, but it's still the same thing. If 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:14.720 you they's unfair. I still that that they did. They 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.480 made it fairer than it used to be, right because 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.920 it used to be first score no matter what. It 0:11:22.000 --> 0:11:24.000 was sudden deaths as they like to call it. Now 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.080 you can't just go down there and get to get 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:27.920 a thirty yard drive and kick a field goal. The 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.520 only way you can win on the first drive is 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.080 if you score touchdown, but still the first The team 0:11:34.120 --> 0:11:36.560 that wins the coin toss obviously has a much better 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:38.559 chance of being the first one to score a touchdown. 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:40.280 So I agree with you, it's not fair. I'm not 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:42.719 sure what the perfect solution is I personally kind of 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.240 like the the college method, but I know a lot 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:47.920 of people who do not and don't don't think it's good. 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.199 With the NFL. You can probably stop looking because the 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.760 answer you're looking for it's not in there. For whatever reason, 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.679 I thought that was that that was maybe it was 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:57.040 a lot of things that maybe maybe it was them, 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.400 Maybe it was a competition committee they were talking about. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:01.280 Maybe that could be too. That could be true, but 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:02.679 I don't know why. If you if you found a 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.079 way that you felt was more equitable, why wouldn't you 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:07.120 just use it in the postseason and not in the 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.520 regular season as well? There's that to see. This is 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.880 the kind of tangents that I was talking about. It's 0:12:12.920 --> 0:12:15.160 just funded, it's just fun stuff, all right. But I 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.160 was trying to do favorite things from the game. I 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.640 gave you one Mike's catch, and I also Carlton Davis 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:21.400 was the guy on the spot on both of those 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:24.240 two stops that we talked about. He didn't technically have 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.160 a past defense on either one, but where he was 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:31.040 his presence made it difficult for the quarterback to get 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.040 the ball to receiver because the coverage was so good 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:35.559 it was awesome. It was us. My favorite thing was 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.040 was zach Or running to get the ball, not he's 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.439 not a ball boy. Everyone kept calling him a ball 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:46.400 boy in the video and if he's not a ball boy. 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.120 Watched the film session videos by Ronde every week. They're 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:52.719 very good. Team operations coordinator of Team Operations works with 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:56.319 Tim's Rock who is director of Team Operations. They do 0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.520 a lot of travel stuff. They handle a lot of stuff. Um, 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:03.160 what I liked about the play was that was his 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:06.280 job to get the seven hundred ball, and he did 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:08.720 the one job he was supposed to have. He didn't 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:10.959 get caught up in the moment, didn't get it caught 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:12.480 up in the excite to make a little bit of 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.559 a move around Joe I think Joey Yeah, and then 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:20.079 and uh right right past BP didn't didn't you know, 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:22.720 didn't touch him nothing, and the ball was still spin 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.120 and he picked it up on the spin. If you 0:13:25.520 --> 0:13:28.440 if you don't know what we're talking about. Tom Brady 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.719 has been breaking a lot of records this year, and 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.920 uh that means that every time he breaks a record, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.520 somebody wants They wanted to get him the ball for 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.439 that moment, and this was the touchdown that won the 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.360 game was the seven hundred of his career if you 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.959 count the playoffs, obviously the only guy ever to do that. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.920 People like those big round numbers, and so the seven 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:51.559 hundred ball was important, and we went in the game 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.800 knowing how many he needed to get there, and since 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.560 he already I believe had one earlier in the game, Um, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.880 everybody knew on the sideline that the next one was 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.440 of an hundred, and so I don't know who all 0:14:02.480 --> 0:14:05.040 four people were, but but Zack and Tim Gerocki were 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.439 two of the four that posted themselves up in the 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.120 in the two end zones so that they were ready 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.599 to come running in and grab the ball. And the 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:16.319 reason and the reason for that is that they didn't 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:20.680 want to go through what happened before, where Tim Gerocki 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.920 had to go to a fan talk to him negotiate 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:27.480 to get the ball back. So after Mike and gave 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:31.640 away his record touchdown, so no, no, it was a 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:34.360 Tom Brady ball. He gave away a ton Tom Brady hit, 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:36.040 Like I think it's when Tom Brady got his six 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:40.120 hundred regular season touchdown earlier this year. Are you still 0:14:40.120 --> 0:14:42.520 trying to prove yourself fright on. Don't know you were 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.200 talking about COVID before. There's new rules for the NFL 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:48.760 just came just came out just now, just right now. Well, 0:14:49.160 --> 0:14:52.320 let's we can talk about that. Tell me right now 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:58.240 as we begin immediately, effective at the conclusion of week 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.760 fifteen games daily testing. Uh, people in Tier one and 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.720 Tier two are prohibited to be held outdoors or in 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:09.280 the practice buzz bubble. Let's see all meetings. All meetings 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:15.280 must be conducted virtually indoor masking all players even if 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:20.320 you can be outside. Um, unless they are outdoors or 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.360 in a practice bubble, which we're lucky. We we we 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.800 have a great indoor practice facility. Indoor masking. All players 0:15:28.040 --> 0:15:32.120 and staff must wear masks when indoors, including in the 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.680 weight room, regardless of vaccination status. I think that's right. 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:38.920 I'm glad they're doing that, but it's a bummer because 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.280 I've gotten used to nutwaring masks round. Yeah, mass are 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:45.240 not required outdoors or during practice, UM weight room. No 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.280 more than fifteen players meal rooms, so this will start 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.880 on Tuesday. Yeah, staff and players will not be permitted 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:55.000 to eat together, regardless of arius. But we don't do 0:15:55.120 --> 0:16:01.320 that anymore. Team travel Um. All tier players will be 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.960 prohibited from visiting, receiving visitors at the team hotel, or 0:16:05.000 --> 0:16:07.720 going out to dinner. We were already doing the going out. 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:12.160 Yeah yeah. Uh. Tier one, Tier two, and Tier three 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.160 staff members are going to be subject. Um let's see, 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.600 what do we see it? We are not allowed to 0:16:21.400 --> 0:16:25.480 gather outside with other tier with other tiers because that 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.400 would be a big loophole. Um. Let's see, I'm just 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.080 looking through some of this real quick. Uh. Tier one 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.960 and tier staff. You can't attend indoor nightclubs into our 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:41.840 indoor bars with more than ten people. Yeah, um, no 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.960 attending indoor. So pretty much everything that was going on 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:49.360 last year, it's dropped back then. Um, and then how 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:50.960 much more you can I don't want to talk about 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:56.440 COVID um. Uh, let's see, all right. I think that's enough, 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.240 mat chef. I think we have to get tested every day. Okay, 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:00.960 let's talk about it later. A right, Can we move 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.520 on to football. You're irritating me at this point because 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.560 you're just kind of droning on about these new COVID 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.120 rules and and uh, you know, we get the gist. 0:17:09.840 --> 0:17:12.560 It's becoming more restrictive. Said, can we talk about football 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:17.280 goes back to last year. Cool football football it is. 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.720 Did you realize that the Bills did not hand the 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.640 ball off to a running back in the entire first half? 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.080 And yes, I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.199 at the time. And yet somehow they finished the game 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.240 with a hundred seventy three rushing yards of nine point 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:31.000 one yours precry well. They started to run in the 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.400 second half. End. They also have a quarterback that has 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:37.240 pretty light on his feet, yeah, well and strong and 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:40.679 powerful yeah he um. That was something else. And it's 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:42.360 it's a bit of a concern considering that the next 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.400 quarterback we have to face is another guy who likes 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:45.919 to run and it is good at it and it's 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.119 hard to tackle. Say some hill, right, it is? It is? 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:51.879 I don't know. You know, last last week I made 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.159 a comment about Josh Allen and I was saying how 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.680 people were on him and everything we got the guy. 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.199 I have to tell you, he's a gamer. If if 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.240 I were to if I were to pick up on 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.960 that thread. There. The way I remember this conversation, Jeff, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.480 was that you said that everybody was on Josh Allen 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.879 and for having a subpar year, and I said, I 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.720 thought he was still having a pretty darn good year. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:18.920 You were right, And then he goes and run throws 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.840 for over three hundred yards, runs for over one hundred yards. 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.200 He's only the fourth quarterback ever to do that in 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.879 the game, and the others were Cam Newton and Lamar 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:32.240 Jackson and Russell Wilson. So um, but I just thought that, 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:34.120 I'll tell you that I said it on your radio 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.880 broadcast when I got interviewed before the game, I thought, 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.600 and I had heard the guy they had on from 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.960 the Bills, um, you know, because they always interview a 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.520 guy from that covers the other team right before they 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:48.240 interview me. And I caught the end of it and 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:51.440 he just as I was saying, to UM, to your guys, 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:54.920 he knows what he's talking about. I can't remember the 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:57.199 guy's name, j I think it was he obviously, as 0:18:57.240 --> 0:18:58.800 a guy covering the Bills every day, knows what he's 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:00.399 talking about and knows way more about the Bills and 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.040 I do. And it was a lot of very like 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.560 not positive stuff. And of course they were seven and 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.159 five and now they're seven and six, and they went 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.400 thirteen and three last year, so they had really high 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:12.240 hopes for this year. But I'm telling I'm like, take along, 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.639 take a you know, zoom out and take a bigger picture. 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.480 Look here, guys, because this team came into that game 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.399 leading the NFL not only in points differential, but in 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:24.040 yard is differential. And they still had an awesome quarterback 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:25.600 that even if he wasn't playing as well as he 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:29.360 did last year, uh, I was still playing very well. 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.080 I'm like, I don't you know that their guy was 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:35.040 didn't think that that they would finish within ten points 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.320 of us, And and I'm telling these guys, I'm like, 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:38.840 I think this is gonna be a much tougher game 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.520 than you than people are thinking. And then at halftime, 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.280 I'm like, wow, I got that one wrong because it 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.520 was three and we were just almost text you, I 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.520 almost said told you. But to my great disappointment, I 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:54.880 was proven correct. That was that was a very good game. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.480 It was an entertaining games, very entertaining game at a 0:19:57.560 --> 0:20:00.840 packed house. It was just jam all over the place. 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.400 But it we haven't had to feel this very much. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.760 I don't think in in the Tom Brady era, but 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:08.480 remember how we'd have games were just stuff. I almost 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:14.280 said a word that was not as stuff. Uh that 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:17.920 there's stuff seemed inevitable, like we've got a ten point leave, 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:19.840 but all of a sudden, we can't stop. You can't 0:20:19.840 --> 0:20:21.760 get a stop on there. That's the way it felt 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.280