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 chin, he's still the twenty he's the twenty five
Speaker 1: thirty to fourty yardline history, fifty forty the thirty yards.
Speaker 1: I don't like Michael Rout. Michael Rut, Michael run stop
Speaker 1: tap day, here you go, and that sixty two yard
Speaker 1: for your goal attempts. It is God, God, God, God
Speaker 1: box Eagles, who can forget again? I'm looking again those
Speaker 1: already Bucks, Diredy touchdown tamp a Day, Derek Books, most
Speaker 1: variable player, you're the national football like there it is
Speaker 1: tun Daggers and where are you gonna win the Super Bowl?
Speaker 1: We call them the salty Dogs. Hello, they're all you
Speaker 1: fucking your fans and welcome to my podcast, which I
Speaker 1: do all by myself. And you're really good, Eddie, because
Speaker 1: that you do double voices, even talked to both at
Speaker 1: the same time. That's how you have friends. You talked
Speaker 1: to yourself. But it's amazing to be able to do
Speaker 1: both posts voices at the same time. All right, I
Speaker 1: was lying to you, you would be on Ted mac
Speaker 1: Amateur Hour. I'm only one Dog. Our title gives us away,
Speaker 1: salty Dogs. I have no idea what you're talking about about.
Speaker 1: Don't you remember? Don't you remember the Ted mac amate
Speaker 1: grounds is from like the sixties. Yeah, I only lived
Speaker 1: through nine months of the sixties, the last nine and
Speaker 1: you don't watch Nickelodeon or anything like that. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: so we're the salty Dogs on Scott Smith and Jeff
Speaker 1: we are. Well. I I guess my. The way I
Speaker 1: would say it is, I am breathing a big side
Speaker 1: relief after that game. Oh yes, not to say, see,
Speaker 1: I'm in that twelve hour mode. I'm like a coach.
Speaker 1: I celebrate the victory. Yeah, but we have to talk
Speaker 1: about it, yes, and there's a lot to talk. So
Speaker 1: we didn't try to shy away from the importance of
Speaker 1: this game beforehand, nor did the coaches are players, you know,
Speaker 1: I think I even described why it was the most
Speaker 1: important of the remaining four games. You did mainly because
Speaker 1: we do not want them to have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: go head to head in a wild gad and they
Speaker 1: would have passed us. Actually right now, we would be
Speaker 1: out of the playoff picture. We would be we would
Speaker 1: be the eighth seed. If we'd lost. Crazy, isn't it
Speaker 1: one game changes so much at this time of year.
Speaker 1: It was, Um, I'm not saying I'm a side relief, like,
Speaker 1: oh I thought we were gonna lose them. We want
Speaker 1: just that I knew how important that game was and
Speaker 1: anybody anything could happen if Vikings could have won that game.
Speaker 1: And then I was just thinking about how it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be bleak, but it would be just every week would
Speaker 1: be so much more tense. Well, you're you're also coming
Speaker 1: off at two game losing streak. You had to buy week,
Speaker 1: and you feel like, this is a game if you
Speaker 1: should win this game, you have four left, this you have,
Speaker 1: this is the one you should go. Well, no, we
Speaker 1: needed this one specifically because it was Minnesota. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm just saying it's not what it wasn't the
Speaker 1: kill all, kill all if they didn't get it. But
Speaker 1: here's what it did do. Before that game, the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: knew that if they won all four their remaining games,
Speaker 1: they would definitely be in. And then we thought if
Speaker 1: we won three, we'd probably in. Now because of what
Speaker 1: has happened, the Bucks only have to win two of
Speaker 1: their final three, and they will definitely be in no
Speaker 1: matter what anybody else does. Did you know that I do? Now? Well,
Speaker 1: I got the standings printed out here just to make
Speaker 1: sure I didn't say something wrong. So here's the point, Jeff.
Speaker 1: We're eight and five Atlanta, Detroit. Atlanta, win two of
Speaker 1: those in your ten and six there are okay, So
Speaker 1: one of the playoff spots is going to go to
Speaker 1: a team without ten wins because it's gonna be the
Speaker 1: NFC East champion. And the best any of those could
Speaker 1: be is nine and seven. But then there are only
Speaker 1: six other teams, including the Buccaneers, that can get to
Speaker 1: ten wins. So that's the seven top teams. If you
Speaker 1: get to ten, uh, you should be there. Minnesota can't
Speaker 1: catch you, Chicago can't catch you, Detroit of course, or
Speaker 1: San Francisco. None of them can catch you. So two
Speaker 1: out of the last three, Jeff, I said, get three
Speaker 1: out of three? Oh I know, just just well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if you win all three of them and finish eleven
Speaker 1: and five first of all, eleven and five feels pretty good.
Speaker 1: That's the same record we had then. We thought that
Speaker 1: was a very very good team. It um, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: went all the way to within like two minutes of
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl Bird of Manual, but um eleven and
Speaker 1: five would feel great. It's just it may not. It
Speaker 1: may not change anything. Because they're in the Rams in Seattle.
Speaker 1: They're both playing well, I mean as interesting enough. The
Speaker 1: nine four. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I have to
Speaker 1: really look at this schedule real quick. But I think
Speaker 1: they play each other again, Yeah, they do. They play
Speaker 1: each other, and also Arizona is in there. Arizona plays
Speaker 1: the Ramps, so they're gonna be beating each other up. Well,
Speaker 1: they might, they might, But what if the Rams win
Speaker 1: both of those games? That's actually what we want, sure,
Speaker 1: because then they let them run away with the division.
Speaker 1: We don't care who wins the division. I mean, we
Speaker 1: don't care about we We'd rather than win the division,
Speaker 1: so we don't have to worry about them as a tiebreak, correct,
Speaker 1: since they beat us and we don't play Seattle. And
Speaker 1: the first thing it would come down to is I
Speaker 1: believe conference record, and right now Seattle has one better
Speaker 1: than us in the conference, so we're gonna need some
Speaker 1: help to even move up from six to five even
Speaker 1: if we sweep and there, Well, it's if it ended
Speaker 1: right now, we would be going to be into Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Uh no, they're they got to buy right now. We'd
Speaker 1: be going to the Rams because the two through seven
Speaker 1: scenes would match New Orleans with Arizona, the Rams with
Speaker 1: us in Washington with Seattle. You know, I say that,
Speaker 1: but then after I said, I hate that because where
Speaker 1: would have what would happen if it ended today? Well,
Speaker 1: it's not ending to so it's but this is a
Speaker 1: reasonable picture standings could be. And if you look at
Speaker 1: that polaroid snapshot you gave us, you would find out
Speaker 1: that we're in pretty good shape. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: I feel good and and we I mean, I know
Speaker 1: you want to claim every single team in the league
Speaker 1: is fantastic and every game is the hardest game ever.
Speaker 1: But we are playing two games against a four nine
Speaker 1: team and one game against a what is Detroit? They're
Speaker 1: five and eight, they've already fired their head coach, their
Speaker 1: quarterback is now dealing with Well, you're you're absolutely right
Speaker 1: when you say that, You're absolutely right. However, I am
Speaker 1: going to point out that the Philadelphia Eagles happened to
Speaker 1: beat the New Orleans Saints, who happened to take us
Speaker 1: out twice. Yes, they beat him, they beat him starting
Speaker 1: a guy making his first start a quarterback to Yes,
Speaker 1: And so you say to me, well, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: at this time of year, you you can play the spoiler,
Speaker 1: but in which Atlanta will really want to do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Philadelphia's case, though, they're still in the shot. They
Speaker 1: got a shot at winning the division. They got a
Speaker 1: shot there four eight and one, So they're they're a
Speaker 1: game and a half out, I think, But I think
Speaker 1: they play each other again. It's kind of like either way.
Speaker 1: You know, you have a division matchup in weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that was you know, that was that was a
Speaker 1: good game. I mean, that's but here's what you're performance.
Speaker 1: Here's what you're doing, Jeff. And it's called um confirmation bias.
Speaker 1: Confirmation bias. You have a theory and you are only
Speaker 1: recognizing the evidence that you see that supports your theory.
Speaker 1: Because yes, Philadelphia beat New Orleans. But most of the
Speaker 1: time this year, when a team that was clearly better
Speaker 1: than the other team, the better team in all the time,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh loss to what do you think we're a better
Speaker 1: team than Chicago? Yes? Yes, And that's still the game
Speaker 1: that bugs me because we should have won that even
Speaker 1: not playing particularly well. We should have. That's why I'm saying.
Speaker 1: This is all I'm saying is I totally understand you know,
Speaker 1: but you're only bringing it. Let's go through every week
Speaker 1: of the schedule and see which one's fit into. Oh,
Speaker 1: anybody can beat anybody, and which one's fit into. Usually
Speaker 1: the better team wins. Is Green Bay better than us? Probably?
Speaker 1: But that's all you're doing. I'm just asking the same
Speaker 1: thing you have said to me. Look at the schedule
Speaker 1: I have. You're not looking at the schedule. You're just
Speaker 1: remembering games that fit into your theory. I'm remembering games
Speaker 1: that we played. Okay, we're better than the Chargers. We
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers, better than Broncos. We beat the Broncos.
Speaker 1: We're better than the Panthers. We beat the Panthers twice.
Speaker 1: But that's why you played the game. I understand that,
Speaker 1: And yes, you're correct, we should. The Bucks will be
Speaker 1: favored in each of the last three games. Let's put
Speaker 1: it that way. And oh yeah, sure so, But if
Speaker 1: you don't show up, would you rather have two games
Speaker 1: left against Atlanta, one against Detroit, or two games left
Speaker 1: against New Orleans and one against Kansas City? Of course, well,
Speaker 1: then you're admitting my point. Okay, okay, moving on. However,
Speaker 1: that being said, you just don't know. So, um, I
Speaker 1: guess ro Joe got pins put in his pinky today.
Speaker 1: Do you think of a Sunday Ye? I think he will.
Speaker 1: I think he will too. I don't you know what
Speaker 1: I did not which hand was it? Do you know?
Speaker 1: I think it was his left is I can't picture
Speaker 1: if he commonly carries with one on the I believe.
Speaker 1: I believe Bruce arians made the comment that it was
Speaker 1: his left and it was kind of like the way
Speaker 1: Godwin did it when he went down. Oh yeah, that
Speaker 1: type of action. That makes sense. So it's apparently it
Speaker 1: happened pretty early and he played all through the end.
Speaker 1: His two best runs were right at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. Tough guy, all right, So did you know?
Speaker 1: Probably not? Okay, So do you realize we only had
Speaker 1: the ball for twenty minutes and fifty seven second I
Speaker 1: did know that. Did you know that's the least amount
Speaker 1: the time of possession the Buckeers have ever had in
Speaker 1: and win. I did not know, because generally when you're
Speaker 1: out TP two to one, you're not winning. But we did,
Speaker 1: and it was a weird game, and often that if
Speaker 1: if you do, if you are winning with a low
Speaker 1: time in possession, it's because you're getting like pick sixes,
Speaker 1: so their offenses out there for a while, you get
Speaker 1: to pick six and then their offenses out there for
Speaker 1: a while again. But that didn't happen either. There was
Speaker 1: there was technically one turnover in that game. I always
Speaker 1: thought that was kind of dumb. If you force a
Speaker 1: fumble on fourth down, on a fourth down play that
Speaker 1: didn't get the first down, but you force a fumble
Speaker 1: and recover it, it's a turnover because even if they recover,
Speaker 1: you get the ball. I don't think that you count
Speaker 1: as a turnover. I'm glad where you're giving credit for one,
Speaker 1: but I say I agree with you on that one.
Speaker 1: You're right. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make anything.
Speaker 1: It didn't doesn't matter. You didn't do anything. I mean
Speaker 1: you did, but it doesn't. If they had gotten the
Speaker 1: first down and then fumble, that would be different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So in that game that what I'm getting to with
Speaker 1: that is early on, it was another one of these
Speaker 1: games we've had recently. Early on, it sure doesn't look good, right, Uh,
Speaker 1: they we had we couldn't tack We couldn't get uh
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook on the ground at first contact, the the
Speaker 1: yards after contact that that entire team manufacturing that game
Speaker 1: was incredible. I think we missed something. That's what Bruce says.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they missed tackles and sometimes they were got making
Speaker 1: a good move, right, But yeah, I get the point.
Speaker 1: We were not there. And and to be fair, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook is one of the best in the league, and
Speaker 1: the numbers supported at the Chector contact and so he
Speaker 1: was doing to us what he's been doing everybody else.
Speaker 1: And he was the first hundred yard rusher we've given
Speaker 1: up since Seattle last year. UM. But it didn't feel
Speaker 1: good because they had the long drive and then I
Speaker 1: think Shaq got the big third on sack and they
Speaker 1: punted UM. So they didn't get anything out of that one.
Speaker 1: And then we went three and out, and then they
Speaker 1: had another long drive that took up the rest of
Speaker 1: the first quarter, and they scored early in the second
Speaker 1: quarter to go up six nothing. At this point, we've
Speaker 1: had five plays, so I guess it wasn't No. Three
Speaker 1: and now we had the first down. We've had five
Speaker 1: plays in the game, right, and you're like these we
Speaker 1: can't we can't say, but here's what it's only. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know exactly because they kept missing field goals and
Speaker 1: because we kept making big third down place like another
Speaker 1: shack sack and Carlton Davis is uh. I'm pointing where
Speaker 1: it happened because we're in the stadium. His third down,
Speaker 1: that really acrobatic third down pass break up at the
Speaker 1: last second. Great play, it was an excellent play. All
Speaker 1: of a sudden, we get the lead. And now this
Speaker 1: grinded out offense that that as all Minnesota could do
Speaker 1: on that day, which was so advantageous when they were
Speaker 1: in control of the game, is working against him. We
Speaker 1: get up seventeen six and then twenty three six by
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown in to start the second half, and
Speaker 1: then they did score touchdown on the next drive, but
Speaker 1: took eight and a half minutes. They needed three scores
Speaker 1: and it took him eight and a half minutes to
Speaker 1: get one of them. It's funny you were saying that
Speaker 1: because I made the comment at this pace. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: believe in the third quarter, and I don't have a
Speaker 1: sheet on me today, but I believe in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: each team only had the ball once. Is that right
Speaker 1: close to six because of our first drive took at
Speaker 1: least five and six and a half minutes. Then, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was it was I remember things close, Yeah, very close.
Speaker 1: It was one of those if if Minnesota got the
Speaker 1: ball again. It was at the very tail end of
Speaker 1: the third. It's kind of like, what is going on
Speaker 1: If you're leading by eleven and you um after after
Speaker 1: half and each team gets one touched on drive in
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, that's to your favor obviously, because
Speaker 1: even although they ended up picking up two points because
Speaker 1: we missed our extra point and they went for two,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't quite even, but you get the point.
Speaker 1: And then another drive I think it was the one
Speaker 1: that got the first and goal to nine. I'm pointing
Speaker 1: again like this is helpful to the listeners, it's helpful
Speaker 1: than to me. And then the windfield sack and the
Speaker 1: shack sack and another missfield goal that was also like
Speaker 1: a seven and a half minute drive that scored nothing.
Speaker 1: So there they probably because of the style of defense
Speaker 1: that we were playing, because they do have some big
Speaker 1: play receivers, they couldn't not hit big plays. The tight
Speaker 1: ends got a few, but otherwise they could not hit
Speaker 1: big plays, and even though Dalvin Cook was getting extra yards,
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting twenty five yard carries. You know, he
Speaker 1: was getting nine where you should get three, and that sucked.
Speaker 1: But it wasn't. They couldn't score quickly at all. And
Speaker 1: I guess they give Todd Bowl's credit for that UM
Speaker 1: because they just simply could not hit big plays. They'll
Speaker 1: both those justin Jefferson Adam DeLand are big play receivers totally.
Speaker 1: And one of them had along a seventeen and one
Speaker 1: of him along a fifteen and they had like seven
Speaker 1: eight yards between them. That's great. And defense played really
Speaker 1: well well other than the tackle. Yeah, other than tackling.
Speaker 1: I I uh, six sacks you got rush was awesome.
Speaker 1: You gotta get excited about that. I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's interesting. In the last two games, Shack has
Speaker 1: been on the right side and has really done well,
Speaker 1: so Being made the comment that when you're hot, you
Speaker 1: stay with it, So I think he's on the right side.
Speaker 1: They've been basically letting Shack and JPP decide, and they
Speaker 1: moved Shack two games ago because they really liked the
Speaker 1: matchup against that particular left tackle UM and then I
Speaker 1: guess they stuck with it and it's work and those
Speaker 1: guys are great now. And not only do you get
Speaker 1: six sacks, but I'm going to go off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, but three of them we're on third down, well,
Speaker 1: both of shocks and then a fourth down. JPPS was
Speaker 1: on fourth, both the shocks were on third, and I
Speaker 1: think Patrick O'Connors was on how about the third his
Speaker 1: first second we had him, Yeah, yeah, and he was
Speaker 1: kind of a grinder, you know. After we had talked
Speaker 1: to him, we both looked at each other and said,
Speaker 1: he's kind of like that, you know, lunch pal kind
Speaker 1: of guys just keep pushing away. Originally a late run
Speaker 1: draft pick, though I think Detroit An. He mean to
Speaker 1: comment about what I asked him about being on the
Speaker 1: practice squad and what do you need to do, and
Speaker 1: he said, you gotta treat it like you're gonna go.
Speaker 1: You're gonna go, and he's taken opportunities. Well, what what
Speaker 1: he got? What did it for him? And he was
Speaker 1: smart and a lot of a lot of young players
Speaker 1: realize this. They don't need me to tell him, but
Speaker 1: you got to really put everything you got into special teams.
Speaker 1: If you get a shot. There was a there was
Speaker 1: a two games ago, and I think it was Gregman
Speaker 1: of the Athletic who pointed out, so I'm giving him
Speaker 1: credit as I didn't notice, but he played like every
Speaker 1: play on special teams. You don't normally do that because
Speaker 1: that means you're only you would notice, Yes, so you're on.
Speaker 1: That means you're even on field goal and extra point,
Speaker 1: which just not a lot of defensive guys on that.
Speaker 1: Usually just basically your offense, your offensive line with a
Speaker 1: couple of extra linemen and there may be a tight
Speaker 1: end or something and a snapper and a holder and
Speaker 1: a kicker, so to be on every so he's covering,
Speaker 1: he's blocking for kicks, he's on all of them. And
Speaker 1: and now in that game, it clearly looked like we
Speaker 1: were rotating in Nelson, Anthony Nelson, Patrick O'Connor and uh Uh.
Speaker 1: I guess those two guys a lot more than we
Speaker 1: normally do early and often we were. We were doing
Speaker 1: more of a rotation, I guess, to try to keep
Speaker 1: these guys fresh, and it worked. They were very fresh
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and you had guys
Speaker 1: that were coming in and we're delivering. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: like you're saying, well, okay, we gotta give a guy
Speaker 1: a blow. We're gonna go ahead and and and you
Speaker 1: know we're gonna chance it here. Yeah. I mean, he
Speaker 1: didn't change calling the defense at all, depending on who
Speaker 1: was in there. So the Bucks started slowing offense. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and there was a couple of misthrows. But look, what's
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't you don't you don't finish the games,
Speaker 1: you finished gaming. You don't think that wasn't one of
Speaker 1: our best efforts When you look back at it, however,
Speaker 1: the stats show some pretty telling things. And that's why
Speaker 1: I think Bruce arians was so clearly happy about his
Speaker 1: team's performance. He said, I thought we played great. Other
Speaker 1: than the tackling, I thought we played great and on offense.
Speaker 1: It was one of his best quotes of the year.
Speaker 1: You know, he's the people have been throwing that identity
Speaker 1: question out of me. But by the way, do you
Speaker 1: remember when they did that to Green Bay last year?
Speaker 1: Every week green Bay's offense doesn't have an identity, Well,
Speaker 1: how about they score a ton of points and win
Speaker 1: almost every game? Is that a good enough? I didn't
Speaker 1: I tell you what I tell you last week? More
Speaker 1: than that. That's right. So now we're getting all those
Speaker 1: same questions a week after week do you have an identity?
Speaker 1: Do you have an identity? And Bruce is like, we
Speaker 1: can do a lot of things. And so after that
Speaker 1: game he goes, somebody's asking me about our identity. Look
Speaker 1: at this game. We could do anything we want. He
Speaker 1: had a damn in there. We can do we can
Speaker 1: we can do any damn thing. We can throw the ball,
Speaker 1: we can run the ball, we can throw it deep,
Speaker 1: we can throw it short. We did we can do
Speaker 1: twelve personnel, which we can do eleven personnel. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take a slight digression here before we get back
Speaker 1: to my point that there's a certain uh Sports NFL
Speaker 1: coverage website, Um that it just seems so intent on
Speaker 1: writing stories about how much Antonio Brown is playing every game,
Speaker 1: and so Antonio Brown's playing time skyrockets, and then after
Speaker 1: this one, the article was Antonio Brown's playing time plummets
Speaker 1: against the Vikings. But it didn't. It didn't. It mean,
Speaker 1: by the this is what's called looking at the numbers
Speaker 1: and not understanding the context. So against Kansas City, Brown
Speaker 1: played like se the offensive snaps and the reason for
Speaker 1: that is, first of all, if you look at the
Speaker 1: snap pattern since we got him, he is clearly our
Speaker 1: number three receiver. He's after Mike and Chris play almost
Speaker 1: every snap, and then the next guy by far is
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown. What that should tell you, if you understand football,
Speaker 1: is that he's the third receiver in the eleven personnel. Okay,
Speaker 1: eleven personnel is three receivers, one back, one tight end.
Speaker 1: Twelve personnel is one back, two receivers, two tight ends. Okay.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers have gone back and forth in games this year.
Speaker 1: Like Caroline, we ran a lot of twelve and ran
Speaker 1: the ball all really, well, Kid's City, you're losing by
Speaker 1: a bunch. We ran a lot of eleven in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas where we were just passing the ball. Great, we
Speaker 1: ran a lot of eleven. So if you're using a
Speaker 1: lot of eleven, your third receiver, which is Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: is gonna get a lot more snaps. Kid's City. He
Speaker 1: played snaps because we were or something like that, because
Speaker 1: we were in eleven like seven two percent at the time.
Speaker 1: Against Minnesota, we were only an eleven personnel about fifty
Speaker 1: five percent of the time, and we only had like
Speaker 1: forty eight play forty nine plays, and we ran like
Speaker 1: seven more times than we threw. We only threw twenty
Speaker 1: three times in the whole game. We used more twelve personnel.
Speaker 1: There were fewer eleven persons, so Antonio Brown had fewer
Speaker 1: snaps because we weren't using his pass. But it is
Speaker 1: playing time plummeted, which must have something to do with
Speaker 1: the incentives that are built into his contract for amount
Speaker 1: of playing time. Yeah, and that's that's definitely an answer,
Speaker 1: and not just the simple fact that he's the third
Speaker 1: receiver in ear eleven package. So is playing time is
Speaker 1: going to be dependent upon how much we use eleven?
Speaker 1: And I'll say this about playing time doesn't mean anything
Speaker 1: unless you do something. Scotty Miller did it. You were
Speaker 1: gonna say that I brought right to one touchdown. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You can count how many players you have.
Speaker 1: It's when you go in there you make it happen.
Speaker 1: And uh he did that wasn't That was one fantastic
Speaker 1: another point there, But I'm not gonna bring it up
Speaker 1: because because one of our questions from our fansks directly
Speaker 1: to it, So I'll save it for all right, So
Speaker 1: that was my digression. Okay, okay, coming back to what
Speaker 1: I was talking about, yards per past play allowed against
Speaker 1: that Minnesota offense, which came in with one of the
Speaker 1: best numbers in the league and yards. They didn't throw
Speaker 1: it a ton. They were one of the big most
Speaker 1: rush heavy teams in the league, but when they did
Speaker 1: throw it, they got a lot of yards per play
Speaker 1: and and Kirk cousins eight point five yards per pass
Speaker 1: attempt was second in the league. Only did DeShawn Watson
Speaker 1: throwing a lot of numbers at you today. But I'm
Speaker 1: just trying to make my point now, we're not trying
Speaker 1: to die too deep in. I'll say this. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're drinking a diet coke because if you were drinking
Speaker 1: a regular coke, you'd really be hyped, does it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't drink that stuff, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I should probably drink less diet coke. Um
Speaker 1: so good. And you know, and and and I don't
Speaker 1: drink diet stuff. I say should say I drink regular coke,
Speaker 1: but I don't drink it for the fact that it's
Speaker 1: diet coke. I just like the taste of it better
Speaker 1: than see it. I can't drink regular cocae. So we
Speaker 1: only allowed four point oh yards per past play to them,
Speaker 1: and only like ex point yards for past attempt past
Speaker 1: play factors in Sex, which is why because that's fifty
Speaker 1: two yards off of it. That's the second lowest we've
Speaker 1: allowed any team in the league this year. The other
Speaker 1: one was Green Bay, which was that crazy getting. So
Speaker 1: that's two very good passing attacks that the Buckners have
Speaker 1: essentially dominated. And you look back and go, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess we did kind of because once they had
Speaker 1: to throw the ball more, it was over. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: and you know, everybody's talking about that game about missing
Speaker 1: field goals and an extra point, and it's very very important.
Speaker 1: It's very very important. But I also look at the
Speaker 1: fact that when we started out, when the Buccaneers started out,
Speaker 1: they were open receivers and Tom Brady was throwing over
Speaker 1: them or high or he wasn't hitting. He missed it.
Speaker 1: The play was there to be made, the execution, and
Speaker 1: it's I'm not dogging tomboy. And yes, and even he
Speaker 1: said I need to start faster when a game starts.
Speaker 1: There there are plays that I need to make. That's
Speaker 1: that's on me. I need to make that. Uh. And
Speaker 1: so that's the game of football. It's it's the execution.
Speaker 1: I mean, we all go back and dissect it and say, well,
Speaker 1: if this didn't happen, that didn't happen. But the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is it there were opportunities to blow
Speaker 1: that game open and it didn't happen. Yeah. And there's
Speaker 1: also that also points out how luck is involved, because
Speaker 1: when you badly overthrow some throws is when you get
Speaker 1: those bad luck to boggles right to a safety. And
Speaker 1: I think Dave Dave Moore made an interesting comment and
Speaker 1: and that was in the beginning, and Dave, Dave thought
Speaker 1: Tom kind of hurried his throws and and sometimes you
Speaker 1: do that when you think your line is not gonna
Speaker 1: hold you'll you'll okay. But after a series, he he
Speaker 1: seemed to realize that his line was holding up gave
Speaker 1: him the protection and that was gave him the ability
Speaker 1: to hold the ball longer, which he did on Scotty
Speaker 1: Miller play and delivered a perfect throw. And that's well,
Speaker 1: I like when you bring up the stuff Dave says,
Speaker 1: because lots of times my analysis is just looking back
Speaker 1: at the numbers. But he gives you that football inside. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we were talking and we were talking, and we
Speaker 1: were talking about it during the breaks. Uh, what we
Speaker 1: think is missing and what we need the key on,
Speaker 1: and how we think something's going to change. But but
Speaker 1: in that aspect, you do understand that, you know, Uh,
Speaker 1: players sometimes just but and the thing is, for the
Speaker 1: last two games, Tom Brady hasn't been hit with a sack. No,
Speaker 1: he had one in the Kent City game. He had
Speaker 1: exactly one. It was two games now that they went well.
Speaker 1: That We've had a total of five games this year
Speaker 1: where he hasn't been sacked. But he got sacked once
Speaker 1: in each of the three previous games before this one.
Speaker 1: He didn't get sacked during the bye week. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what you're thinking. Maybe that's what it was. Go with that.
Speaker 1: I thought it was the last you're making because no,
Speaker 1: it's not. I look at these I look at these numbers.
Speaker 1: He's only been sick five times in the last four games.
Speaker 1: That's really good and not hit very often. He was
Speaker 1: only hit three times in this game. So they only
Speaker 1: average four point on yards per pass play, which which
Speaker 1: is way down for them. Meanwhile, even with those missed
Speaker 1: ones like the missed one to Gronk. We still averaged
Speaker 1: eight point five yards per past play, which is our
Speaker 1: highest of the year. Would you have looked at that
Speaker 1: game and thought that was the best in terms of efficiency.
Speaker 1: That are their passing game as ever, But they were
Speaker 1: because he hit He hit a number of pretty good
Speaker 1: downfield shots, and after missing a couple early, he was
Speaker 1: pretty consistent the rest of the game. Tom Brady was right,
Speaker 1: and you know, don't forget that, you know, you kind
Speaker 1: of go, oh, well, you know, Minnesota wasn't you know.
Speaker 1: Minnesota is on a hot streak. They've been winning games.
Speaker 1: They were coming together and they're they're raw defensive numbers,
Speaker 1: um didn't look as good as they normally do. They
Speaker 1: came in ranked maybe like twenty four best yards and
Speaker 1: coaches don't give a crap about yards, But where they
Speaker 1: were doing x silently and and I knew I had
Speaker 1: seen this in the numbers, and then Bruce also talked
Speaker 1: about it before the game and also after the game,
Speaker 1: is they were doing great and situational football they were
Speaker 1: doing they were like third best and third downs on
Speaker 1: defense and like third best in red zone on defense.
Speaker 1: So they give up the yards. But when he counted
Speaker 1: when the players really counted. They were doing a great job.
Speaker 1: And that's why our guys thought Minnesota had a really
Speaker 1: good defense coming in here. You know, they're missing a
Speaker 1: lot of the names you'd expect. They don't have Daniel Hunter,
Speaker 1: they don't have um Everson Griffin, they don't have Linval Joseph,
Speaker 1: they don't have McKenzie, Alexander and Xavier Rhodes and all
Speaker 1: those corners. They don't have a lot of the names
Speaker 1: you used to seeing uh in Minnesota. And they got
Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys plan and they were without
Speaker 1: Eric Hendricks there and they're already out without Anthony Barr.
Speaker 1: So I'm kind of making opposite or even for the
Speaker 1: opposite that they but their defense was doing pretty good.
Speaker 1: But they did have have cooking there, so and we
Speaker 1: were we but we as coach pointed out to the game,
Speaker 1: I think he even said, we kicked their butts in
Speaker 1: the red zone, and we did. I mean, they got
Speaker 1: six points, they didn't make it to the red zone.
Speaker 1: All of those they were playing, they were playing a
Speaker 1: great game between the twenties. They played a great game
Speaker 1: between the twenties. If you if you, if you watched
Speaker 1: that game up until the twenty yard line and then
Speaker 1: turned around you were saying, Wow, that's a really strong team,
Speaker 1: because they would get there and they were gotten, had
Speaker 1: were taken out a field goal range once had to
Speaker 1: end up having a long field goal which was missed. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they didn't want to try that last field goal.
Speaker 1: I mean they went for they scored and went for two.
Speaker 1: They went from fourth down repeatedly instead of trying to
Speaker 1: field goal and it worked. And then and then they
Speaker 1: went for two after they scored, and uh, some of
Speaker 1: the people like, I'm not sure they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: kick again the game. But then they got down here
Speaker 1: to first and goal at the eight or nine, and
Speaker 1: the winfield sack and force fumble and the shack sack
Speaker 1: pushed them all the way back to twenty eight. So
Speaker 1: do you do you want to go fourth and or
Speaker 1: do you want to try You want to say, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll try field goal, which most NFL kickers would make,
Speaker 1: and which kicker would normally make. But no, he just
Speaker 1: was he couldn't do anything that day, but you know
Speaker 1: they didn't really want to do I wonder if he
Speaker 1: missed the bus. He was wide right at the door. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that. You know what, the only reason why
Speaker 1: we can chuckle about that stuff is because we've lived it,
Speaker 1: so I I'm you know, it's a facet of the game.
Speaker 1: You don't think much of it until it's not happening.
Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure Dan Bailey isn't going to hear this podcast,
Speaker 1: because I would feel bad about it if he was.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to let me tell you what. If
Speaker 1: Nan Bailey is listening to this podcast, then he's probably
Speaker 1: hearing some of the nicest things said about him because
Speaker 1: in Minnesota right now, they're not real Well, it wasn't
Speaker 1: too long ago that Dan Bailey was in the top
Speaker 1: five or tenants. They just signed him to an extension.
Speaker 1: They signed him to an extension. Had one day and
Speaker 1: it was good for us that he did. And what
Speaker 1: what's what sucks for him is he had one bad
Speaker 1: day and and probably the most beautiful seventy eight degrees
Speaker 1: and he wasn't missing He missed them. He missed on
Speaker 1: that's supposedly the bad goal post. It wasn't even windy
Speaker 1: missed like three times down here. But interesting. But I
Speaker 1: will say this, um, there's some about this stadium. Uh,
Speaker 1: the special teams guys came over on Friday when I
Speaker 1: was here and they were kicking. Yeah, they were kicking
Speaker 1: field goals. Uh, right to the one and always everywhere
Speaker 1: the south. That's the South Plaza, so uh to the
Speaker 1: South Plaza. Um, South plazas where we have our little
Speaker 1: treasure chest. And I was doing the halftime show and um,
Speaker 1: you know, we we scored a bunch of points at
Speaker 1: the end of Go Up seventeen six, and I was
Speaker 1: talking about on the JumboTron. I was talking about how, um,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers had made big third down plays and blah
Speaker 1: blah blah, and two Vikings fans were standing fairly close
Speaker 1: flight and they started yelling at me, it's our kicker.
Speaker 1: That's what you were winning third kicker. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: totally right, but you're not totally wrong. Hey, you have
Speaker 1: to love that. You have to love that. When they
Speaker 1: were laughing, they're having a good time. Sure, sure they weren't.
Speaker 1: They weren't freezing, they were all sunburned, having a great Yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably loving it. Yeah, it was a all in all,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a It's what we needed as
Speaker 1: a as an organization, and I think as a team,
Speaker 1: I think it should be very confident. Yeah. Interesting fact though,
Speaker 1: is Tom Brady has not lost three games in a
Speaker 1: row since like his first year. Yeah, which, holy image, Hell,
Speaker 1: I've I've lived through ten straight losses. We have, So
Speaker 1: you have done that two thousand eleven. Right, Just think
Speaker 1: about that. You know, John McCain and a bunch of
Speaker 1: people lived through a row. Wow. Can you imagine that? Wow,
Speaker 1: that's it's hard to get and that took two years
Speaker 1: to do almost two years? Yeah, crazy? Um. But so
Speaker 1: another we didn't have in that game was any turnovers.
Speaker 1: We we no turners and we are now seven and
Speaker 1: so we technically had won the turnover ratio because of
Speaker 1: the fourth down JPP play. Yeah, so technically we wanted
Speaker 1: we were seven to Oh, when we win the tournament
Speaker 1: ratio this year, I have to win it, not tie
Speaker 1: it like Kansas City. We tied the tournament ratio in
Speaker 1: that game, seven and oh, when we win the turnover ratio,
Speaker 1: that's what we need down the stretch. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like we've been getting a lot of them lately. Defense
Speaker 1: is playing good for the most part, did against Minnesota
Speaker 1: and in the second halves against Kansas City. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you know what I liked was after the game, Um,
Speaker 1: guys were happy that they won, but they weren't. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like that over the top that we won. Yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: it wasn't over the top. But I think fans would
Speaker 1: be surprised that, no matter the situation or the opponent,
Speaker 1: how hyped up guys are running in the locker room
Speaker 1: or went. I mean, they're screaming and holler. And remember
Speaker 1: when we hadn't won a game yet. I think it's
Speaker 1: two thousand fourteen, Jason Light's first year here and we
Speaker 1: won in Pittsburgh, so we're like one four or something,
Speaker 1: but yet they were nuts. Well you get the monkey
Speaker 1: off your back, so to speak. But every game, every game,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like in baseball, every time somebody hits
Speaker 1: a walk off hit, they act like they just won
Speaker 1: the World Series. But that is an exciting how much
Speaker 1: they pour into every single one of these games. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you work, you work all week, and you know, and
Speaker 1: you know there's is an opportunity and they all know it.
Speaker 1: They you know, the Lavonte David's of the world nine years,
Speaker 1: never been to the playoffs. They're they're they're seeing that
Speaker 1: this is what happens this, This is you're playing meaningful
Speaker 1: football in December, and we've had opportunities, And I say
Speaker 1: we as an organization, the Buccaneers have had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to play meaningful games in December and then and then
Speaker 1: and then did not play well in the same I mean,
Speaker 1: even are in the end of our season last year
Speaker 1: kind of meant a little bit. And then we lost
Speaker 1: our last two games to Houston Atlanta. I mean they
Speaker 1: were they were both very close. We didn't play terrible.
Speaker 1: No turnovers killed us. Yes, yeah, right back to it.
Speaker 1: But um yeah, I like you know, in the beginning
Speaker 1: of the podcast, we were talking about the the um schedule,
Speaker 1: and I do like to get you cranked up, so
Speaker 1: I will say, yes, I am very excited about the
Speaker 1: next three games. Look at so Tom Brady now has
Speaker 1: thirty touchdown passes. He only needs two more. Three James
Speaker 1: from last year. Four touchdown passes and three games doesn't
Speaker 1: sound too hard to me. So he'll probably break that record.
Speaker 1: So okay, that could happen. Uh so last year. So
Speaker 1: he's got three and his eleven interceptions are higher probably
Speaker 1: than what we thought we would have. I mean, I
Speaker 1: would get higher than his norm. Right, Yeah, it's a
Speaker 1: little higher than his norm. There's just been a couple
Speaker 1: a couple of games where those a little bit of
Speaker 1: flurry of him, right. But but still look at the difference.
Speaker 1: And Bruce arians said after the last year that the
Speaker 1: difference in that season between seven and nine and being
Speaker 1: in playoff contention is the turnovers. You thought we had
Speaker 1: a good enough team. Now we have a quarterback who's
Speaker 1: throwing the same amount of touchdowns as our previous quarterback.
Speaker 1: And even though eleven interceptions is probably more than you
Speaker 1: would have expected, it's a heck of a lot less
Speaker 1: than last year. And there's the difference between seven and
Speaker 1: nine and probably ten and six. What what I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to this Sunday's game is I'm looking to see
Speaker 1: if if it builds on on this pass game, you
Speaker 1: know it does the defense keep playing as well as
Speaker 1: yeah it is, keep stack them up, but but but
Speaker 1: not only getting the win, but how you get to win?
Speaker 1: Is it? Is it improving each week? Is it? Are
Speaker 1: you feeling more confident in the way things are going? Um, personally,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a game that we're out of,
Speaker 1: you know, I think there whether it was the one
Speaker 1: that was the New Orleans game. But but I think
Speaker 1: we can change. We can run with with most teams,
Speaker 1: and when you start getting into the playoff, then it's
Speaker 1: who's the best team on that day. And uh, I
Speaker 1: like to see the team you know go up and
Speaker 1: into Atlanta. Um, you're playing guys that you know. Uh.
Speaker 1: Be A made a comment that Raheem Morris as we
Speaker 1: all know as the head coach here, but he was
Speaker 1: been with Atlanta for a long time. He's been on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. He's been with players that
Speaker 1: really like him. You and I both know Raheem and
Speaker 1: he is very infectious with his uh um, don't use
Speaker 1: the word this year. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, with his enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: with positivity, with his uh let's go get it done. Um.
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutters their offensive coordinator. We've had Dirk as our
Speaker 1: head coach. We know that he can put points on
Speaker 1: the board and move the ball. Uh. And then you
Speaker 1: go way way back Rich McKay as the president. Now,
Speaker 1: the crazy part about all of that is they're looking
Speaker 1: for a new head coach and they're looking for a
Speaker 1: new GM. So you've got guys are gonna play hard
Speaker 1: because everything's got to go on tape. And with a
Speaker 1: new head coach and a new GM, players don't know
Speaker 1: where where they're gonna be. Yeah, you know those are
Speaker 1: those are you know when people go if you're not
Speaker 1: playing for anything, it doesn't matter, it does when it
Speaker 1: when a organization is influx well by that token, then
Speaker 1: all three of our remaining games are in that situation.
Speaker 1: It's exactly so I'm hoping that that effect doesn't have
Speaker 1: too big of an effect, you know. I mean, but
Speaker 1: you have to think about it if you're a player.
Speaker 1: It's it's just like anybody in any business when you
Speaker 1: get a new boss, what do you do? You have
Speaker 1: to rethink about everything because it's a new person and
Speaker 1: you don't know this person. Usually have more than normal
Speaker 1: to roster turnover after you get a new head coaching,
Speaker 1: don't especially well. Yeah, because the GM definitely, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: had been there since two thousand and eight. It's a
Speaker 1: pretty good run. Yes, Yeah. Makes you just go back
Speaker 1: and think about had they won the Super Bowl that year?
Speaker 1: It's been all down Hilsen's then, yeah, it's always been
Speaker 1: all down. Hilson's about the fourth quarter, and damn, I
Speaker 1: look at that. I always think, why didn't you go
Speaker 1: kick the field goals? We're not gonna talk about that, No,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you know, right back to field goals.
Speaker 1: Damn kickers. Well, and why weren't they running the ball?
Speaker 1: That was the big thing. If they just ran the
Speaker 1: ball every time, they probably would have won that game. Um,
Speaker 1: how about our how about our specialist man? Which one
Speaker 1: the kicker and the punter? So we know Ryan has
Speaker 1: made twenty in a row. I've been mentioning this for weeks,
Speaker 1: So forget the jinks. Well here's Casey. Casey phillips didn't
Speaker 1: miss the nextra. He missed NEXTRA point. But I'm talking
Speaker 1: about field goals. Casey Phillips um says she doesn't think
Speaker 1: it's a jink. Her her theory is it's not a
Speaker 1: jinx unless you say it during the game. You can
Speaker 1: say it during the week. So I'm like, okay, maybe
Speaker 1: I'll adopt that approach anyway, suckers me twenty in a row.
Speaker 1: He hasn't missed since week four. That's awesome. I'm marking
Speaker 1: this down thirty six oh five. Okay, he um somehow,
Speaker 1: and this is a weird thing. He did something that
Speaker 1: no Buckingers kicker has probably done for decades, and I
Speaker 1: wonder if you can guess it not any kind of
Speaker 1: like a bunch of one specific thing he did that
Speaker 1: no bucks kicker has done for since probably the nineties.
Speaker 1: Something that you're not gonna get it. We want to
Speaker 1: give up something that a kicker mm hmm has made
Speaker 1: all the field goals within thirty yards. No um he
Speaker 1: remember we had the hail Mary and the and them,
Speaker 1: and you have to really do you have to really
Speaker 1: mess up to get well, my goodness, it was a
Speaker 1: sandwich or gronk. He got smack. I don't even think
Speaker 1: that guy was trying to do it. You just just
Speaker 1: trying to get there and ended up like just rolling
Speaker 1: right through rock. And I will say I did love
Speaker 1: the fact that they called time out forty seconds left
Speaker 1: and they went in a half called the time out,
Speaker 1: made the stop and then went ahead and said, hey,
Speaker 1: let's go ahead and see what happened. Well, Bruce said
Speaker 1: yesterday that what he really he he didn't because they
Speaker 1: by the time we got the ball, it was only
Speaker 1: twenty one seconds left. So he thought, okay, we got
Speaker 1: a shot at maybe blocking the punt. We got a
Speaker 1: shot at maybe getting a good, good return. He didn't
Speaker 1: think there was probably enough time to score, especially because
Speaker 1: we only had one time out, but Brady hit Cambray
Speaker 1: called a time out and then got the good plate.
Speaker 1: I think Antonio Brown and was able to come up
Speaker 1: and spike it with one second left, which was awesome.
Speaker 1: And then then you know that gave you an opportunity
Speaker 1: on the hill, Mary, and then you know they chose
Speaker 1: to kick the field goal from the one on the
Speaker 1: untimed down instead of taking one shot at the end
Speaker 1: zone because he wanted to make sure they got some
Speaker 1: points out of that. So you gotta let me get
Speaker 1: finish this because I'm getting to the thing that Ryan
Speaker 1: Suckup did. So in the officially that field goal is
Speaker 1: listed as an eighteen yard field goal, I can guarantee
Speaker 1: you we haven't had an eighteen year field goal since
Speaker 1: the nineties because it was from the one, and since
Speaker 1: like the late nineties, teams have been snapping the ball
Speaker 1: eight yards back. So every you can figure out the
Speaker 1: the length of a field goal every time by adding
Speaker 1: eighteen yards because the inzons ten yards, eight yards snap
Speaker 1: ten yards, so that when they kicked from forty six
Speaker 1: yard field goal. So a kick from the one should
Speaker 1: be a nineteen yard field goal, and that should theoretically
Speaker 1: be the shortest possible field goal. But for some reason,
Speaker 1: either the stat's crew got it wrong or or um
Speaker 1: for some reason, we only staffed while seven yards back,
Speaker 1: which teams never do anymore. Do they put the ball
Speaker 1: almost to the goal line rather than on the one
Speaker 1: I think, I think past interference in the end zone,
Speaker 1: and they put the ball right on the one yard line,
Speaker 1: not at the goal line. It's right on the one.
Speaker 1: So either then it has to be a mistake or
Speaker 1: or for some reason we only lined up our our
Speaker 1: hold or seven yards back. But I wouldn't think we
Speaker 1: would do that. So that was just a weird little thing.
Speaker 1: If if this was normal times, I would pass um uh,
Speaker 1: I would pass Keith Armstrong in the hall at one
Speaker 1: buck and the asking and he have he have a
Speaker 1: good answer. I know he would. He always asked, when
Speaker 1: I've had these types of questions, that's that's inquiring. So
Speaker 1: I don't know what that was. That's when was the
Speaker 1: last time the Bucks succeeded on a Hell Mary, I
Speaker 1: don't even I I can't recall. I'm trying. I remember one.
Speaker 1: I mean I remember one in the nineties in Chicago.
Speaker 1: I think Trent Dilfer through it. That's the last one
Speaker 1: I think of. It was in Chicago. Okay, do you
Speaker 1: know what are that? What are the odds of hell
Speaker 1: Mary's working? I think it's great when you go for it, especially,
Speaker 1: they're very exciting, very much so. And that was a
Speaker 1: great play and I think it really and then come
Speaker 1: out and score right afterwards. So two quick scores. That
Speaker 1: was great. And I don't have a whole lot more.
Speaker 1: I just was pointing out bred. Okay, we didn't get
Speaker 1: the Bradley pinion on this. Now, Bradley Penny was having
Speaker 1: a fine year as a punter, you know, middle of
Speaker 1: the Pact numbers. Obviously, he gives you that great kickoff
Speaker 1: touchback addition and as well, and then we go to Carolina,
Speaker 1: remember that game, and we're scoring like on every drive
Speaker 1: and for the first time in like twenty years, we
Speaker 1: had a game in which the punter didn't point. So
Speaker 1: he got that week off. Ever since then, he's been
Speaker 1: on fire. His his his numbers in the last three
Speaker 1: games since that since getting that game off, essentially are
Speaker 1: gross averages of forty nine fifty and fifty point three
Speaker 1: and net averages of forty four point to forty seven
Speaker 1: point and forty five point three. Just take my word
Speaker 1: for it. Those are really good number. Those are great numbers.
Speaker 1: So talk about changing field position. Yeah, I mean, he's
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of cool. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: we got a great punter, got good specially he keeps
Speaker 1: it up right. Well, that's you know, you know when
Speaker 1: you notice the special teams is when you get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs because every Yeah, but I'm just saying, every
Speaker 1: point matters, and every situation is made, and everybody's watching everybody.
Speaker 1: You see that, Um, do you know what that is
Speaker 1: over there? Yes, those cars have been there for the
Speaker 1: last I've been here. You know what that is? The
Speaker 1: last four hours? Yes, that's the line for COVID testing.
Speaker 1: COVID testing. Um, and that's just an exam. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of cars over there, and just an example how
Speaker 1: this thing is far from under control. And Bruce says
Speaker 1: is very happy that his guys came back from the break.
Speaker 1: But I've got some bad news for you, Jeff. That
Speaker 1: just came through. I'm not kidding either, um, and this
Speaker 1: is breaking news. It's Actually, it'll be out by the
Speaker 1: time people listen to. Your phone has been binging and
Speaker 1: I don't like to look at I know what I
Speaker 1: noticed you were, so um, this will be out by
Speaker 1: the time everybody hears this podcast, So it's okay for
Speaker 1: us to talk about it right now. Those guys, and
Speaker 1: I was starting to talk about them before I knew
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. So this is a coincidence that
Speaker 1: we were talking about them. All three of her specials
Speaker 1: are going on the COVID list. I'm not I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: That must mean one someone tested and then contact tracing
Speaker 1: came to get that long pause in there was which
Speaker 1: we've I'm filtering this right now, so probably one of
Speaker 1: them tested positive and the other two. Yeah, yeah, your
Speaker 1: your contact tracing real quick. Uh. It's a it's an
Speaker 1: electronic indicator that anytime someone gets close to someone else,
Speaker 1: it beeps to tell you to get away, but it
Speaker 1: also registers who you have been in contact with, and
Speaker 1: so if someone is has tested positive, then what happens
Speaker 1: is they run through the series of where you've been
Speaker 1: in the building with what team, and then once they
Speaker 1: know who you were with, then it's a matter of okay,
Speaker 1: did you have masks? How close were you like? I'll
Speaker 1: give you for instance, where Scott and I are. We're
Speaker 1: in our broadcast booth. The windows are open right now,
Speaker 1: but Scott has on the lower deck and I'm on
Speaker 1: the upper deck and there is plexiglass between us, and
Speaker 1: we are more than six ft apart as we talk.
Speaker 1: So if something like that, we would say, well, this
Speaker 1: would not be close contact for contact tracing, but that
Speaker 1: is that is, so that would be how many days? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that the if it is if
Speaker 1: you're right, and we're just guessing here, if you're right,
Speaker 1: that's one guy positive and too contact. The positive guy
Speaker 1: would not be able to make it back in time
Speaker 1: for the game, I don't think. But the other two
Speaker 1: might be able to ford four or five days. But
Speaker 1: because we have we have a kicker stashed on the
Speaker 1: practice squad, but we don't have a putterer and we
Speaker 1: don't have a long snapper. It's actually happening right now.
Speaker 1: We're recording. Um, we're putting it out right now. But
Speaker 1: teams aren't allowed to say yeah, So you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to say that's specifically in the language. If they're if
Speaker 1: the test positive or have close contact with some of
Speaker 1: your test positive, you have to put them on the list,
Speaker 1: but you're not allowed to say which reason you're putting
Speaker 1: on there for. And they have been Let's see, they
Speaker 1: came back in. The players came back in last Tuesday
Speaker 1: from the bye so they've been testing for all this
Speaker 1: time for almost a week. So that's that's interesting that
Speaker 1: And when they were gone they had to they had
Speaker 1: to test during the bike too. So we've been doing
Speaker 1: really well, I know. And and that was one of
Speaker 1: the things that was b A was really really happy
Speaker 1: about it. We only had one guy the whole year
Speaker 1: that that was on the active roster who that was
Speaker 1: Jaden Mickens. That's the only guy that went on the
Speaker 1: reserve COVID list that was on the active roster at
Speaker 1: the time. That's it just it, you know, you do
Speaker 1: all the best you can and take all the precautions
Speaker 1: you can. Crazy, I mean, I guess I'd rather have
Speaker 1: this than not have any quarterbacks at all, like Denver there,
Speaker 1: but their thing happened on a Saturday. Ours is probably
Speaker 1: enough time if we need to get we have a
Speaker 1: kicker on the practice squad, Greg Joseph, so if if
Speaker 1: Ryan suck Up isn't available, he would get elevated probably
Speaker 1: and and take care of that. But we don't have
Speaker 1: a long snapper or a um punter. Was that there's
Speaker 1: somebody on the team that was playing practicing being alone? Well,
Speaker 1: you always have one guy. Yeah, you know, it's like
Speaker 1: a linebacker our time, and you always but they're usually
Speaker 1: not very good. It's only they're only they're infirm. It's
Speaker 1: a lot harder than everyone thinks that it's all fun
Speaker 1: and games until you're up. And the guy that we had,
Speaker 1: um that preceded, Uh, well I maybe yeah, it wasn't
Speaker 1: entered Apolo right before him? Or was that he's back
Speaker 1: in the league. Yeah, he just recently signed with Detroit
Speaker 1: and otherwise he'd probably be the first guy. Sure, sure, wow,
Speaker 1: that just um, Well, as as you're listening to this,
Speaker 1: you'll have more information than we do right now, because
Speaker 1: well as you, as Scott and I are talking, we're
Speaker 1: talking in real time. This is just breaking and we
Speaker 1: just need to finish this up. So so we'll we'll
Speaker 1: probably know by tomorrow or then you say, which if
Speaker 1: any of them well, yeah, which if any of them
Speaker 1: are actually positive? Well, I mean it is even also
Speaker 1: within the remo possibility that they all came in close
Speaker 1: contact with somebody. Well, and there's that too. That's what
Speaker 1: that's what we would hope, that's what the contact tracing all.
Speaker 1: But to bring somebody in, I believe they have to
Speaker 1: test for three days. They have to be corned. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they need to be quarantine and tested for three days
Speaker 1: before they can come into the Obviously somebody in the
Speaker 1: team knows and so they know which positions they have
Speaker 1: to try to commediately start working on getting somebody in
Speaker 1: here so that they can have them cleared in time
Speaker 1: to play. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah wow. All right, okay, Well,
Speaker 1: just when you think, uh, everything is easy, peasy and
Speaker 1: feeling good, something like that happens. But you know what,
Speaker 1: games have to be played. And you made a good point.
Speaker 1: Denver had to play without a quarterback, so Baltimore played
Speaker 1: with like out a half their team they had. Ye
Speaker 1: did that, I did. That was one of the most
Speaker 1: entertaining games I've seen in a lot. That that was.
Speaker 1: That was a shootout. I almost didn't want either team
Speaker 1: to lose. I thought they both deserve to win. That was.
Speaker 1: That was a shootout. There's no question gutsy play on
Speaker 1: on both teams parts and um, the only thing that
Speaker 1: I that, you know, you see a game like that,
Speaker 1: as great as it was on TV, you kind of
Speaker 1: feel bad for the Browns fans because that that was
Speaker 1: a game that was Yeah, that was a game that
Speaker 1: I think, if you know, Browns fans could have made
Speaker 1: a difference in what's going on. But it's it's gonna
Speaker 1: be ledge Oh yeah, I see what you see what
Speaker 1: I mean just because of of can you imagine we're
Speaker 1: talking about that during the Yeah, I mean, can you imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, the last drive of the game with a
Speaker 1: full stadium yelling at you, it's a little harder to
Speaker 1: communicate they had. Plus, it's gonna be a legendary game
Speaker 1: because it had the added drama of Lamar Jackson, who
Speaker 1: they couldn't stop all of a sudden, taking himself out
Speaker 1: of the game he was playing. Kurt Gibson runs in
Speaker 1: for what they say, we're cramps. He's in for a
Speaker 1: lot longer than I thought. I know, I'm like, he's
Speaker 1: not coming, like he's not And then he didn't come
Speaker 1: back up for the longest time. And then they take
Speaker 1: the lead and and then he comes running out like
Speaker 1: Willis Reid uh to the sideline just at the exact
Speaker 1: moment when the trace mcs are only the back of
Speaker 1: a quarterback look gets what looked like a pretty bad
Speaker 1: knee injury. You can't write that. And then he emilily
Speaker 1: goes out there and rips off a big run. And
Speaker 1: I saw an article on that. I can't remember. I
Speaker 1: don't know where it was, but they wrote it. Each
Speaker 1: thing was crazy. They listed everything that went wrong. Started
Speaker 1: out with crazy that this happened, crazy, that that happened.
Speaker 1: Crazy that their field goal kicker kicks what fifty five yarder?
Speaker 1: Although he be Yeah, he's pretty good. It might be
Speaker 1: the best kicker. He's pretty good. He missed. Okay, a
Speaker 1: lot of them. So let's go to questions. Hello, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is our first one. I don't know if we've
Speaker 1: had a question from this person before. It's it's a Michael,
Speaker 1: New Jersey, all right, might be a lot of Michael's
Speaker 1: in New Jersey. Hello, salty ones. I don't know that
Speaker 1: if this is kind of a salty email. By the way,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't have we don't have to agree
Speaker 1: with everything in here. Hey, listen, bring it on. Okay,
Speaker 1: I don't know the official rule about throwback helmets, but
Speaker 1: I always heard we couldn't have a cream sickled jerseys
Speaker 1: because of the helmet change. But yet I saw the
Speaker 1: Chicago Bears where their throwback helmet this week. Why can't
Speaker 1: we just take our old logo and put on our
Speaker 1: helmet we have now? I think it would look good?
Speaker 1: All right, let's stop there. All right. First of all,
Speaker 1: it's the wrong color. It would not look good. No,
Speaker 1: it would look horrible. That's the problem. That's the thing
Speaker 1: that Jersey guys a hard time dressing. Now, I wouldn't
Speaker 1: I do understand the confusion here, because it does seem confused.
Speaker 1: It is. It's very confused that and it might look
Speaker 1: on the outside like we are making excuses that we
Speaker 1: don't really want to do a throwback game. But the
Speaker 1: Glaziers have made it very clear that they want to
Speaker 1: do a throwback game. But they want it all and
Speaker 1: they want they're hoping the NFL changes the rules that
Speaker 1: are blocking them from doing so. Right now. They want
Speaker 1: to do it, so it must be true, even though
Speaker 1: it does seem weird when you see some other teams
Speaker 1: figure out way well, the only way I have to
Speaker 1: take your normal helmets and put well, you would have
Speaker 1: to order all new helmets, and then players aren't comfortable
Speaker 1: with all new helmets. But why can't you get players
Speaker 1: two sets and helmets at the beginning of the year
Speaker 1: that they're comfortable with and that are safe. That maybe
Speaker 1: how to do it. I don't think you can know,
Speaker 1: and I think that's the issue. I find the whole
Speaker 1: thing confusing. But I know that they do want throwback games,
Speaker 1: so clearly something's blocking. And to your answer, Michael, on
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, they wear a black helmet. They've always
Speaker 1: worn a black helmet. Yeah, so you can put a
Speaker 1: bear on it, you can put a c on it,
Speaker 1: you can put you can just put different, you can
Speaker 1: put whatever you want on it because it is the same.
Speaker 1: But there's a big difference between a white helmet and
Speaker 1: a pewter. Yeah, and I do. And if you did that,
Speaker 1: you would be getting you would be getting you ready
Speaker 1: for it, you'd be getting creamed for doing it, and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't look good at all. You thought that was good.
Speaker 1: I did, and so did everyone listening right now, Scott.
Speaker 1: You'd like to think so they have a sense of
Speaker 1: human Okay, and so now here he continues on with
Speaker 1: with still more complaining. Also, what really grinds? Wait? Wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: it's not complaining. He's expressing his opinion. Well, he's in
Speaker 1: this part saying it's grinding his gears people are using.
Speaker 1: He's complaining. Well, also, it really grinds my gears? Is
Speaker 1: sale is? I guess he means, Thus, sale on the
Speaker 1: pirate ship when we won the Super Bowl is horribly
Speaker 1: ugly brown? Why can't they change it and make it nicer?
Speaker 1: People can actually read it and see it and take
Speaker 1: pride in it. I mean, the other one is the logo,
Speaker 1: and the other one is a brown, ugly color, but
Speaker 1: this one is the Super Bowl one. Can't wait to
Speaker 1: hear your thoughts. So we're looking. We're at the stadium
Speaker 1: right now. We're looking at the ship, the main sail
Speaker 1: with the bucks, big the big skull and cross swords.
Speaker 1: Logo is red. That would be your logo. Go ahead
Speaker 1: and then off off to the right above them what
Speaker 1: they call that crow's nest right, Um, is the logo
Speaker 1: is the the sale he's talking about? That's brown with
Speaker 1: the red words. Two thousand and two World Champions and
Speaker 1: then the which is easy to read from here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's pretty I don't see what you're saying. That's not
Speaker 1: easy to read. Well maybe because if he's on TV, well,
Speaker 1: is it always furled up like that? It's not right.
Speaker 1: I don't you know what I'm gonna have to can't
Speaker 1: be at because that top one is Raymond jam Stadium,
Speaker 1: and there's no way that we get away with our
Speaker 1: putting our sponsors name there and then they can't be read.
Speaker 1: They fold them up so that when you're not here
Speaker 1: the winds blowing, normally those are down. Okay. So basically
Speaker 1: what this comes down to is this person thinks that
Speaker 1: brown is ugly and that he can't read those. I'm
Speaker 1: not have any trouble reading it. It is different on TV. Maybe,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I could see, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think the Raymond James logo wouldn't necessarily look
Speaker 1: good on red. No, and if you have too much
Speaker 1: red then then it loses his contrast. If you look
Speaker 1: at the ship, the ship is what brown white? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's basically it's in keeping with the color scheme of
Speaker 1: the ship. It's the big red sale that's different and
Speaker 1: that really stands out right, I don't know, it's about
Speaker 1: it's a matter of opinion. And another thing too is
Speaker 1: that you know, the sun's really really competed down. So
Speaker 1: maybe the red is a little fad at this point
Speaker 1: where it says the you know, the champs that he's
Speaker 1: talking about, But it's still I don't find it hard
Speaker 1: to read, but it's just yeah, but if he's reading
Speaker 1: it off, if he's seeing it on TV, you may
Speaker 1: have that effective. Huh why is that? Yeah? Maybe? And yeah,
Speaker 1: because we don't really ever watch buck in your games
Speaker 1: on TV, well that are here, Yeah, I mean if
Speaker 1: we've been watching on TV the road this year. Uh,
Speaker 1: but you know, I mean what it does come down
Speaker 1: here is he's trying to take pride in our Super
Speaker 1: Bowl viction and that right right that we just need
Speaker 1: another one, that's what we need. YEA note taken that
Speaker 1: sale at the what would the would that be? The
Speaker 1: stern of the ship doesn't have anything on it, nor
Speaker 1: does the one underneath the crow's nest over here, So
Speaker 1: those are quality places where we could put another world champion. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: we need to win another one. Yeah, fill out those sales,
Speaker 1: all right. Yeah, I'm not I'm I'm only assuming that
Speaker 1: he's talking about seeing it on TV, because I'm standing
Speaker 1: here right now and I can read it and it's
Speaker 1: folded up and I know what it says. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: already know what it says, though, but yeah, you just's
Speaker 1: folded up and you can read two world right now,
Speaker 1: most of the world. Okay, well, thanks Mike. Oh. Also,
Speaker 1: he says there's no time change in New Jersey, Scott
Speaker 1: ha ha. I guess we must have been talking about
Speaker 1: time changes earlier. Now. Probably he's probably talking about what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. What time is it in Australia. It's
Speaker 1: the same time there as it is here. He's basically
Speaker 1: that was a rib on you. Okay, that's never gonna
Speaker 1: die apparently, Okay, um uh, it's a classic. Okay, here's
Speaker 1: one from our or this isn't a question really, but
Speaker 1: it's it's our buddy from Brazil has an emailed in
Speaker 1: a little while, so I'll go ahead and read it,
Speaker 1: even though it's not a question because we apparently, you know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about when we've had questions from England how
Speaker 1: how they became Bucks fans in particular, so he's sharing
Speaker 1: his story. The Hoyt Salty ones. This is Alexander, not Simento,
Speaker 1: from South Paulo, Brazil. Since you were wondering how a
Speaker 1: foreign Bucks fan became a Bucks fan, I decided to
Speaker 1: share my history with you, guys appreciate. It was January
Speaker 1: and my aunt asked me if I was okay with
Speaker 1: getting my birthday present in advance that year. My birthday
Speaker 1: is in October three. I politely looked at my parents
Speaker 1: and did what any normal eight year old kid would do,
Speaker 1: embarrassed in my screaming yes, the president was a trip
Speaker 1: to the US with my cousins to meet not only Disney's,
Speaker 1: to meet Disney's theme parks, okay, which was all I
Speaker 1: knew about what to do in Florida, that's fair, but
Speaker 1: also Miami and Tampa. So they went to Disney and
Speaker 1: then they went to Marie and Tampa. That's a pretty
Speaker 1: cool trip, Trees. I'd like to take a trip to Brazil.
Speaker 1: I'd like to. I'd like to me. No, I have not.
Speaker 1: That is something that isn't That is a place I
Speaker 1: do want. That is the country I want to go.
Speaker 1: It's pretty cool. Um, to be fair, I haven't been
Speaker 1: to a lot of countries. Pay France England, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Mexico.
Speaker 1: I think that would be it. Okay, everybody needed to
Speaker 1: know that because it probably take a while. Right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just giving the the take a whole lot of
Speaker 1: trips phase of my life hasn't been done yet, alright,
Speaker 1: the president. Okay, as Mr Ryan, I can't watch a game.
Speaker 1: I can't watch a game without picking sides. And I've
Speaker 1: decided to root for the American teams that I had
Speaker 1: a relationship with the city. I was amazed with the
Speaker 1: city of Tampa. Roller Coasters had a big part in it.
Speaker 1: So they must have gone a push card. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: have great rollers, they do, so I chose the bucks ps.
Speaker 1: The colors had a part in it too. Once my
Speaker 1: school colors were red, black and white. Since you did,
Speaker 1: thanks for reading. See I I like that. You don't
Speaker 1: have to that's not you don't have to have a question.
Speaker 1: I like that story. How did they become a fan
Speaker 1: of that's that's yeah. And tell us let's see he
Speaker 1: he was eight years old in three You do the math,
Speaker 1: you're the So he's how old? That's twenty seven years ago? Okay,
Speaker 1: so he's thirty five, so he's thirty, So at thirty
Speaker 1: five years old, he still has his great, fond memory
Speaker 1: of how he became a Buck fan. I'm sure he
Speaker 1: has fund members of that trip. Yeah, but I'm just
Speaker 1: that's that's great. I like, well, being a Bucks fan
Speaker 1: helps him keep those trip. Yeah, what a great hand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no kid, Okay, alright, last question. Okay, guys, this is
Speaker 1: the one I I decided to wait on because it's
Speaker 1: gonna be something we can talk about. What's with all
Speaker 1: the deep throws on third downs? This gets back into
Speaker 1: the identity thing. I know, we hit that one to Scotty.
Speaker 1: Good to see him back in the mix, by the way,
Speaker 1: But if if it had missed, that would have been
Speaker 1: another part. Yeah, if that would have been another promising
Speaker 1: drive that died at midfield because we couldn't convert a
Speaker 1: third down. I think there was another one like that
Speaker 1: to Gronk, doesn't it make more sense to try an
Speaker 1: easier play on third down and then go for the
Speaker 1: kill shot? Interested to hear your thoughts on that, Go Bucks. Jerry,
Speaker 1: a displaced Bucks fan in Arizona. So listen, this is
Speaker 1: what it comes down to. This is what it comes
Speaker 1: down to. This is it period Okay, let's take let's
Speaker 1: take the Let's take the Scotty Miller touchdown. Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: first read on that was a short thrill. I can't
Speaker 1: remember what he said crossing round. It wasn't there. He
Speaker 1: looks there, it's covered. If I throw it there, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna be complete. Could be picked off. His second
Speaker 1: read on that play is intermediate, and a lot of
Speaker 1: Bruce's plays have short, intermediate, and long options. Right, the
Speaker 1: intermediate route which he wanted next was was covered, not available,
Speaker 1: but because the single high safety had creep crept downward,
Speaker 1: as Scotty put it to help out with that an
Speaker 1: intermediate route, Scotty Miller ended up running a post one
Speaker 1: on one with the corner with no safety help. So
Speaker 1: once he beat that corner, which he did pretty easily,
Speaker 1: he's the option. Now he's the guy that's open, and yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lower percentage throw, but it's better than throwing
Speaker 1: it to a guy that's not going to become b a.
Speaker 1: Bruce arians said on his radio show that Scotty Miller
Speaker 1: was the fifth option, the fifth option on that. Now,
Speaker 1: if you watch that game, you would have thought that's
Speaker 1: what the that's that was what was called go to
Speaker 1: Scotty Miller in the ends, but Dad wasn't. It was
Speaker 1: the fifth option. So a lot of times you what
Speaker 1: happens when you watch a game, and that's all of
Speaker 1: us we're looking at, Oh why didn't you do that?
Speaker 1: Where you can only take what they give you, because
Speaker 1: if you try to force, then you get in. Because
Speaker 1: if you watch a game, if you're watching a football game,
Speaker 1: unless you're taking the tape and rewinding it and looking
Speaker 1: every play over and over, when you're watching game, your
Speaker 1: eyes are on the quarterback until he throws the ball,
Speaker 1: and then he followed the ball and you follow the ball,
Speaker 1: so you're not seeing where all the routes are going.
Speaker 1: And you really can't tell unless you're really good at it,
Speaker 1: what his reeds are, what his first reeds are. You
Speaker 1: really don't know. But it makes sense obviously if you
Speaker 1: have a play with varying levels that and it's third
Speaker 1: and four, the first thing you're gonna want to do
Speaker 1: is look for what you hope is the easiest throw underneath.
Speaker 1: And they, for instance, they tried that on a Scottie
Speaker 1: Miller play on a third down that we didn't get
Speaker 1: where um he ran he was in the slot and
Speaker 1: he ran a very short and quick route out into
Speaker 1: the flat and right off the bat, we thought that
Speaker 1: was gonna be open because their defenders had dropped back
Speaker 1: a little bit, but then they dropped back from the stap,
Speaker 1: but then they came forward really quickly, and so that
Speaker 1: play ended up being well covered when before the snap
Speaker 1: we thought it wasn't gonna be well covered. And that's
Speaker 1: exactly what we went for. Went for like the five
Speaker 1: yard pass on third or four, Yes, everyone, it makes
Speaker 1: sense to most of the time throw a higher percentage
Speaker 1: pass on third down, but just keep in mind that
Speaker 1: there are there or five eligible players. Sometimes one stays
Speaker 1: into block, but he could still catch a pass. There
Speaker 1: are five eligible pass catchers out there, and oh, you
Speaker 1: hope all of them are open, but they're probably not
Speaker 1: all gonna be open. And if the one you want
Speaker 1: first is not even remotely open, you there's no point
Speaker 1: throwing the ball there. And I will say that there
Speaker 1: there have been opportunities that to hit those deep balls
Speaker 1: that that didn't happen, and it wasn't because the guys
Speaker 1: weren't open. It's just it's just well, there's so many
Speaker 1: very yeah, well as you said, as you said earlier,
Speaker 1: and you were saying what Tom Brady himself said. He
Speaker 1: didn't start particularly fast in that game and missed a
Speaker 1: couple open guys and that was one of them. That play.
Speaker 1: When you saw him release that ball and you saw
Speaker 1: where rock was headed, you didn't go, oh, I can't
Speaker 1: believe they threw deep on third before You're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's exciting that but he just missed. Yea when you
Speaker 1: saw that, when when you saw the play developing, because
Speaker 1: it happened right here about like where the thirty is.
Speaker 1: It was like a quarter and coming through and and
Speaker 1: right there, I'm thinking that's a touchdown. The ball hasn't
Speaker 1: even gotten there yet, but I could see the sky
Speaker 1: no gronk one because if once, if he catches it
Speaker 1: there he there was nobody. There is nobody down here.
Speaker 1: There's nobody on this side, you know, crazy right, If
Speaker 1: he hits that, it's a big play. So and then
Speaker 1: he missed one. He missed one got over the middle here,
Speaker 1: the one that was between two guys, but this over
Speaker 1: god when and under Scott. But but the thing is
Speaker 1: a lot of times our third downs were usually long.
Speaker 1: They're not, but the last few games. We've missed some
Speaker 1: short ones and coach knows. So yeah, listen to this.
Speaker 1: What's the what's the big everybody asked going into and
Speaker 1: out of the bye, what's the biggest thing you guys
Speaker 1: got to figure out? What do you gotta fix? Fast starts?
Speaker 1: We're not getting fast starts. Why aren't you getting fast starts? Well?
Speaker 1: On offense? It's because we aren't making most of our
Speaker 1: manageable third downs as we should. We're missing them too
Speaker 1: many manageable third downs and that was the problem, a
Speaker 1: problem against Kansas City, and there's a problem early in
Speaker 1: this game. So do you do do you, as a
Speaker 1: football fan think that that a head coach in the
Speaker 1: NFL would go, Man, we're not making our manageable third downs.
Speaker 1: We got a week to think about it and then
Speaker 1: come out of that break thinking, Okay, we just gotta
Speaker 1: throw deep on every third down. That doesn't know, No,
Speaker 1: that clearly doesn't make But do you know what I
Speaker 1: love about sports or is just no matter what you're doing,
Speaker 1: you can always it's never perfect. There's always something that
Speaker 1: you can go Why you know, if a perfect example
Speaker 1: is the people in New England right now, they they've
Speaker 1: gone to so many Super Bowls and one Super Bowls
Speaker 1: and everything, and this year they're not going to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: not even gonna have a winning record, and so that
Speaker 1: you talk about jumping ship, no pun intended, but that's
Speaker 1: what sports is, you know. And then when you do
Speaker 1: win a lot, then it's how you win. That's the
Speaker 1: other side of the yeah, and they don't like how
Speaker 1: you yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I always like
Speaker 1: Bruce arians I'm not gonna apologize for any win, and
Speaker 1: I'm with you. So all I would say is I'm
Speaker 1: not here trying to tell anybody that every coach makes
Speaker 1: every perfect call. No. I would imagine after most geames,
Speaker 1: the play caller on both sides of the ball will
Speaker 1: will be going back through it. He's critiquing what his
Speaker 1: players did, but he's also probably once or twice going, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I had done something different happen. I listened
Speaker 1: to the podcast and I go, gosh, I wish we
Speaker 1: were good. These guys are um, but they are very good.
Speaker 1: Just about every coach in this league is very good
Speaker 1: at his job. So most of the time they're making
Speaker 1: calls that are fine. It comes down to execution, and
Speaker 1: that the fact that there's another team on this field.
Speaker 1: So the fact that on the Scotty Miller touchdown that
Speaker 1: the Vikings defense did a really good job of covering
Speaker 1: his first four reads, give him credit. Good job, Vikings,
Speaker 1: They did a great job of covering his first four reads. Fortunately,
Speaker 1: our offensive line, which had a great game, had an
Speaker 1: awesome stretch on that play, and Tom had tons of
Speaker 1: time eventually slid forward a little bit at all the
Speaker 1: space open in front of him in time to throw
Speaker 1: step into his throw. So that's how he got to
Speaker 1: get to his fifth progression. So just to understand, sometimes
Speaker 1: it's execution. Sometimes it's tip your hat to the other team.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I wouldn't like to make I shouldn't have called
Speaker 1: that play, And sometimes coaches will actually say that, and
Speaker 1: they'll say, yeah, if I could do that one over,
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't do a lot of times they look
Speaker 1: at and that was the right play. We didn't execute it.
Speaker 1: We had we had, we had it for the take.
Speaker 1: We have to we have to not fall into the
Speaker 1: trap of everything that doesn't work was a bad call.
Speaker 1: And and the thing is a lot of times too,
Speaker 1: it's a setup. If it doesn't work this time, and
Speaker 1: they see that they had it, they will go back
Speaker 1: to it and try it again. So there's that. All right,
Speaker 1: Well that's all we got. What a crazy I just
Speaker 1: can't wait. Probably by this time people are listening to
Speaker 1: this will know more on the the specialists in the
Speaker 1: COVID situation. But this could be a serious issue for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers most definitely. And as you listen to this
Speaker 1: and you want more up to date information, go to
Speaker 1: Buccaneers dot com because Scott's all over this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as soon as we're allowed to put out any information. Well,
Speaker 1: once you get information to we have bits and pieces.
Speaker 1: And that's the other thing too, is well it is medical. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it's medical, so not always you're not gonna always know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's and it's also in addition, there's a specific rule
Speaker 1: regarding this that the teams are not allowed to announce
Speaker 1: which reason they went on for now. Generally it comes
Speaker 1: out because the players will say or something. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it came out with the Broncos quarterback situation.
Speaker 1: I camember which one. It was off the top of
Speaker 1: my head right now. Is his mother no, no, no luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't know if he's the one who was
Speaker 1: one was positive in the rest of the proximity and
Speaker 1: it came out. I don't remember at this moment which
Speaker 1: guy it was. They might have been Bordles. Well, what
Speaker 1: happened is they were in there. They were in the
Speaker 1: room and they were looking at film and they didn't
Speaker 1: have masks on in the room and they were close.
Speaker 1: So my point though is that one of them had
Speaker 1: it and the rest were out because of proximity, and
Speaker 1: it came out which one it was. So we'll know
Speaker 1: even if there's a rule that I mean, like players
Speaker 1: have have said, you know, players have been gone and
Speaker 1: then they've done interviews when they come back, and it's
Speaker 1: going to get out which one it is and so
Speaker 1: and plus we'll also not based on what the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: do with roster moves. Yeah, and I will say this
Speaker 1: that you can be as safe as you can. It's
Speaker 1: you know, you just don't know. That's why we have
Speaker 1: our masks and we have Well that's why the Broncos
Speaker 1: and the Raiders got spanked by the league for the
Speaker 1: words doing it because they were found to have done things.
Speaker 1: But other teams, like I don't think that the Ravens
Speaker 1: have suffered any um consequences from league because it's not determined. Well,
Speaker 1: they did have the one strength coach appearingly messed up. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm saying is around league there
Speaker 1: have been COVID issues, but this, yeah, and this and this,
Speaker 1: as much as be A preaches about staying safe and
Speaker 1: also the organization itself of what they've done. Um, so
Speaker 1: it is disappointing. Disappointing because it probably was not somebody
Speaker 1: doing anything wrong. And that is and and and that is.
Speaker 1: I was like a dog, the salty Scots. Scott's closing
Speaker 1: the windows. He's closing the windows, he's got headsets on.
Speaker 1: And the cord was not that I forgot that jerking.
Speaker 1: I forgot. I was attached. It was like a dog
Speaker 1: on a leash. You're ready to go. You're closing the window.
Speaker 1: Is that a sign? It's a sign all right? You done?
Speaker 1: All right? Since you did, Thanks for this