Speaker 1: What do you call two guys were there when this happened?
Speaker 1: Back to return at Spurlock Michael Spurlock at the chin,
Speaker 1: and he's still the twenty he's the twenty five thirty
Speaker 1: to forty yardline history, fifty forty to the thirty years.
Speaker 1: Michael Rot, Michael Rock, Michael Rod Sa stop tap day,
Speaker 1: there you go, and then sixty two yard field goal attempts.
Speaker 1: It is God, God, God, God box the Eagles. Who
Speaker 1: can forget again? I'm looking at the already Derek Bocks
Speaker 1: diredy touchdown tamp a day, Derek Brooks, spariable player in
Speaker 1: the national football Like, there it is, tun Daggers, and
Speaker 1: where are you gonna win the Super Bowl? We call
Speaker 1: them the Salty Dogs. Hello, bucking your fans, welcome back,
Speaker 1: I should say to us. Back. Well, they've been listening
Speaker 1: to old podcast, so that's true. They just go back
Speaker 1: to the catalog. Yeah, they just wait to wait to
Speaker 1: see what new. Now it's season two. It is I
Speaker 1: am Scott Smith and I am Jeff Ryan, and we
Speaker 1: are the Salty Dogs. Yes and apparently we did. Okay,
Speaker 1: lest yes and I got that email and like, when's
Speaker 1: the next salty Dang we didn't who knew knew, But
Speaker 1: I have more time if we had done worse. Yes,
Speaker 1: but hey, one of the things we want to do
Speaker 1: this year and I'm just gonna go ahead and be
Speaker 1: transparent about it. Get more active players. Yes, Um, we're
Speaker 1: gonna start that today by talking to rookie cornerback Sean
Speaker 1: Murphy Bunting. But we hope to do We did. We
Speaker 1: had a lot of a lot of really great guests
Speaker 1: last year. We kind of started out by giving the
Speaker 1: fans access to some of the old great stars, the
Speaker 1: running Barbers and Mike all Sets and so on. And
Speaker 1: this year, I think we're gonna focus more on who's
Speaker 1: here and get get their thoughts because there's so many
Speaker 1: new moving pieces. So yeah, exactly, And there's coaches to
Speaker 1: talk to us. We have coaches and even you know
Speaker 1: on a plug for Buccaneers total access the radio shows.
Speaker 1: We're we're gonna be We're gonna also be reaching out
Speaker 1: to the to the coaches and getting different perspectives so
Speaker 1: you can catch and that's more locally. But but um,
Speaker 1: you know you can you never know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: You can talk to a guy three times and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get three different stories that you may not have
Speaker 1: heard before. So that's good unless unless you talk to
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles, because I don't think Todd really wants to
Speaker 1: give a lot away. What does that? Yeah, well, I'll
Speaker 1: say this that he listened. He was in New York
Speaker 1: and he never had an issue. I mean, they may
Speaker 1: not good, he was very good. He's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that talks and you walk away and go, dang,
Speaker 1: you really didn't give me anything. That's his job. Well,
Speaker 1: I summarize he spoke to the media today. I can
Speaker 1: summarize his answer to virtually every question. Well, it's only
Speaker 1: been four days of camp, two days, and he's absolutely
Speaker 1: right about that. We all want these we all ask
Speaker 1: him question when these grand proclamations of how great is
Speaker 1: the defense, how great is this player? And it's like, well,
Speaker 1: I'd like to tell you, but it's only been four days,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna say so the first edition of Salty Dogs,
Speaker 1: it's only been four days of practice, so it might
Speaker 1: be short this week. We've got a lot to talk.
Speaker 1: I know, we do. It is. It's been fun. It's good.
Speaker 1: It's good to be back sitting down. I have always
Speaker 1: I kind of missed it. I know it sounds weird,
Speaker 1: but it was fun to be standing the rest of
Speaker 1: the time for the last eight months or whatever what
Speaker 1: standing around. It's good to sit down and standing. Yes. Wow, well,
Speaker 1: I know you had the back issue and all that. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I'm back in good shape. Get it. See how I
Speaker 1: did that? See what I did. They're back in good shape.
Speaker 1: You're welcome, You're welcomes. I've always thought you had a
Speaker 1: good backbone. Uh huh um. So we're gonna have Sean
Speaker 1: Murphy bunting on. I'm excited about that. It seems like
Speaker 1: a great kid, and I think at this point we
Speaker 1: can I can call a guy a kid, right, I
Speaker 1: mean it's probably twenty one, well at your age. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and yours were the salty dogs. Um. You know they
Speaker 1: those young guys are infectious out there. They're making a
Speaker 1: lot of plays. Mike Edwards, Jamal Dean, you know, Vernon
Speaker 1: Hargraves is making a lot of plays. And he's kind
Speaker 1: of still a young guy too. Yeah. And I felt
Speaker 1: bad because I thought last year in the preseason he
Speaker 1: was playing well, and then's that first game and then
Speaker 1: when he got to hurt. It's like, are you kidding me.
Speaker 1: It's finally clicking for the kid and can't stay healthy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks really good this year and that's big for
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers because the cornerback position was troublesome last year
Speaker 1: and part of that is not having depth. So when
Speaker 1: guys get hurt, then your depth is exposed. I don't
Speaker 1: think we have any issues of talent on the depth
Speaker 1: chart now at cornerback with all that's been drafted in
Speaker 1: the last couple of years. You know, but those are
Speaker 1: young guys, so you're probably gonna experience some growing pains
Speaker 1: along the way. But I think that's a really talented group.
Speaker 1: And what I like is you said there are all
Speaker 1: young guys, so that means they can grow together if
Speaker 1: they stick. You know, now you're getting a core and
Speaker 1: in two years from now you've got You're not going
Speaker 1: there young guys. You're saying, hey, we got we got
Speaker 1: this core for the next five years. Right. Um, Sean
Speaker 1: has has looked good out there, made a lot of place.
Speaker 1: There was one though, um they were he was lining
Speaker 1: up against Mike Evans and this was actually the last
Speaker 1: day before Pat so even it was it was a
Speaker 1: press look. But he couldn't really press him, right because
Speaker 1: I'm not hitting you. So but I see this matchup
Speaker 1: and I said to the person stand next to him, like,
Speaker 1: I hope this ends up being a good matchup. I mean,
Speaker 1: we love seeing Mike Evans succeed, but we also love
Speaker 1: to see this young corner hold his own against such
Speaker 1: a great player. So this was the ball was snapped
Speaker 1: from the nine team, but the quarterback probably threw it
Speaker 1: from about the thirty and uh it was Blaine Gabert
Speaker 1: in this particular case, and he throws a back corner
Speaker 1: end zone fade perfect to Mike. Sean trailed him the
Speaker 1: entire way, was on his hip, the entire route. But
Speaker 1: what can you do, Sean. Mike's got his his back
Speaker 1: to between, He's got himself between Seawan and the ball.
Speaker 1: His feet are at the very silent He's probably reaching
Speaker 1: three yards into foul territory. Sean Murphy Bunting played phenomenal
Speaker 1: on that play, and Mike still caught a touch because
Speaker 1: that's how good he is. But it was it worked
Speaker 1: out because I thought, Okay, both those players were really
Speaker 1: good on that. That doesn't happen, no, no, you we
Speaker 1: had a great you get a great receiver, and he
Speaker 1: had a quarter that stayed with him. So that's what
Speaker 1: you want to sis, what you want to see. A
Speaker 1: couple of days ago camp, two days ago, it was
Speaker 1: the first day of pads and the defense honestly, was
Speaker 1: way ahead. And then it happens a lot early in camp,
Speaker 1: defense had a phenomenal day. So you go, well, gosh,
Speaker 1: I don't want to think about that from the other
Speaker 1: side because that was a bad day for the offense.
Speaker 1: But it's gonna happen from time to time. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's it's hard. I mean, like everybody I know, you
Speaker 1: get it. I get it. Hey, how is practice? How
Speaker 1: is practice? On one side? You get all excited because
Speaker 1: one side of the ball is doing well, but then
Speaker 1: you're going to crap. They're again. You remember the old
Speaker 1: show coach Yeah, uh, Luther the assistant coach. Uh. He
Speaker 1: was talking about how good the team was playing and
Speaker 1: Greg T. Nelson was the coach, and he said, he said,
Speaker 1: the problem that you have is you have your team,
Speaker 1: your offense, your defense playing against each other, and after
Speaker 1: a while you started thinking you have a really good team,
Speaker 1: but you don't. So I didn't expect a coach throw
Speaker 1: coach sitcom references you got anything from Fraser or family
Speaker 1: for the family you meet head, come on, got you
Speaker 1: you're really dating yourself, not at all. You've not watched
Speaker 1: Naked Knight. They have this really cool thing called Netflix.
Speaker 1: You can get anything you want that never heard of it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know, uh you know. Byron Left, which was also
Speaker 1: talking today, and my favorite thing that he said. It
Speaker 1: was a pretty long press conference. My favorite thing that
Speaker 1: he said was, um, somebody asked him, what have you
Speaker 1: seen from Jameis Winston in terms of like, what have
Speaker 1: you been your favorite money throws that he's made in
Speaker 1: training camp? And he goes, I'm not really I'm paraphrasing,
Speaker 1: but I'm not really interested in his money throws. What
Speaker 1: I want to see our money decisions. That's what he needs. Jamis.
Speaker 1: He says, I've seen him, We've all seen him. He's
Speaker 1: got talent. He can make every throw. We've seen what
Speaker 1: he can do. It's the decision making that has to
Speaker 1: be right. When you go into a game you have
Speaker 1: sixty plays, you need his decision making be right on
Speaker 1: most of those. I kind of like that. So he
Speaker 1: said money decision and then he there was somebody brought
Speaker 1: up an example which he agreed was a good example. Uh,
Speaker 1: maybe two days ago, he um checked the ball down
Speaker 1: to I think Andre Ellington, and um it worked out
Speaker 1: really well because he had a lot of room to run,
Speaker 1: was able to make it to the end zone. It
Speaker 1: was probably four yards in the air. So and and
Speaker 1: basically Byron felt like it was his best pass of
Speaker 1: camps so far. It was not his most difficult pass
Speaker 1: of camp by any stretch of the imagination. You and
Speaker 1: I probably could have thrown the ball four yards on
Speaker 1: Ray Ellington, although we would have been sacked like three
Speaker 1: seconds earlier. But if not, But it was his favorite player,
Speaker 1: or was one of his best players of camp because
Speaker 1: he made the perfect decision and that's what we need
Speaker 1: out of him. And that was always the knock against
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston that doesn't always make and that's actually the
Speaker 1: knock against Moost quarterbacks. Any quarterback is not a great quarterback.
Speaker 1: Brett far the Atlanta Falcons thought Brett Fire was a
Speaker 1: true knuckle ahead and they traded him. So, you know,
Speaker 1: a favorite quarterback ever, Yeah, and that's why I I
Speaker 1: kind of just chuckle on. I think that was was
Speaker 1: that Jerry Glandville back then that was the head coach.
Speaker 1: Brett Farve could get away with some questionable decisions though,
Speaker 1: because he was just a gun Yeah right, um, but
Speaker 1: you know, you know what bred Farve through a lot
Speaker 1: of interceptions, he really did. But he was just so good.
Speaker 1: He was great. I'm not making no disparaging him. He no, no, no,
Speaker 1: And he threw a lot of quarterback but I'm talking
Speaker 1: about in his younger and they traded him for like
Speaker 1: a third round pick. That's why he got traded, right,
Speaker 1: And then Atlanta has been looking for a quarterback till
Speaker 1: they got Maddy Ice. So well, they had they had
Speaker 1: Vic for a little while. He was good for a
Speaker 1: while too. Yes, that's right, that's right. He did Christian
Speaker 1: very good against us, but he was good. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: we had Derek Brooks and Derek Brooks remember that. Oh
Speaker 1: that was Cordell Stewart. That's right, that's right, Cordell. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I liked him too, but I mean Michael Vick was better.
Speaker 1: But I will say, but anyway, back to the point,
Speaker 1: I think that's true of just about any quarterback who's
Speaker 1: not like an elite quarterback. They're every guy that makes
Speaker 1: in the league. Is going to have great arm talent.
Speaker 1: The hardest thing for anybody to do is see the
Speaker 1: field and no and make the right decision. I mean
Speaker 1: I I can't. I think you just have to have
Speaker 1: it now. Obviously you can get better at it. And
Speaker 1: that's what they're doing, you know, that's what they're working
Speaker 1: with the most, and that's why they wanted to make
Speaker 1: money decisions. I will say, um, it's early. I got
Speaker 1: a preference player you really like. No, no, no, I
Speaker 1: want to tell you about a couple of players that
Speaker 1: I'm excited about. And that's our kicking game. I know,
Speaker 1: I know. It's usually when you start talking about punters
Speaker 1: and you're starting about kickers, you're going, Wow, what kind
Speaker 1: of team you have? But in this particular situation, I
Speaker 1: must say, it's been a lot of fun to watch.
Speaker 1: We would not, believe me, with the history of the
Speaker 1: last eight years of our kicking game, we would not
Speaker 1: be talking about this right now if it was going poorly.
Speaker 1: The only reason we're talking about it is it's almost
Speaker 1: been flawless, which is insane crazy. So the very first day,
Speaker 1: Cairo Santos went first because the veteran gets to go first,
Speaker 1: and made eight of nine and is only miss was
Speaker 1: from the next day Matt Gay went and I thought
Speaker 1: he went eight of nine also, but then I guess
Speaker 1: I miscounted by one, because afterwards Bruce Arians said that
Speaker 1: he was actually ten for ten and the reason he
Speaker 1: kind of the tenth one was because that particular goal
Speaker 1: post he was he was kicking to for some reason,
Speaker 1: and they haven't corrected it yet. It's a little bit crooked,
Speaker 1: bent a little bit to the left, and so he
Speaker 1: just he hit that right upright. Had it been not crooked,
Speaker 1: it would have snuck through. Also, it looked to me
Speaker 1: like it was on the inside of it. And there's
Speaker 1: a net on that upright because um on between those
Speaker 1: uprights in order to uh in order to keep the
Speaker 1: ball from hitting the facility behind it very often, So
Speaker 1: that might have gone through without that. But in any case,
Speaker 1: he nails and including one from fifty seven yards. The
Speaker 1: next day, Carol Santos made him all, including at yard.
Speaker 1: The next day, Matt Gay made him all in his
Speaker 1: field goal session. Now at the very end they were
Speaker 1: doing to move the ball drill, and he had like
Speaker 1: a fifties five yarder and he didn't make it. It
Speaker 1: was a little off to the left and you know
Speaker 1: you want to go, we'll shoot. The guy has made likes.
Speaker 1: Bruce was like, we really need a guy we can
Speaker 1: that can make that kick. So that's the next thing
Speaker 1: for Matt is he's going to make that kick in
Speaker 1: that situation. And he had the distance just I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like it's falling short, Jeff. The one he
Speaker 1: made from fifty seven cleared that net which is at
Speaker 1: the top of the goal post, goes all the way
Speaker 1: to the top of the post and hit the building
Speaker 1: like fifteen yards behind it. That thing would have been
Speaker 1: good from seventy something yards and it was right down
Speaker 1: the middle. It was. It was beautiful. So from the
Speaker 1: looks of what we're seeing now, the Bucks should have
Speaker 1: a good kicker this season and that can make such
Speaker 1: a big difference. Yeah, and and you know it's not
Speaker 1: a shoein and it's gonna man. I will say, whoever
Speaker 1: doesn't get the job will probably have a job in
Speaker 1: the NFL simply simply because of Hey, the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 1: Apparently I'm needing a kicker. Yes, yes, but but it'll
Speaker 1: be you know, of course, in practice it's a little different. True,
Speaker 1: So preseason games to see what's going up. But it's
Speaker 1: something that look at. But listen, let's also be clear
Speaker 1: about this. The Roberto the thing did not work out right. No,
Speaker 1: poor guy, I wish you had, but we saw the
Speaker 1: problems right away and training can remember that he struggled
Speaker 1: right from the get go in training camp and he
Speaker 1: just never got over it. So I agree with you
Speaker 1: that what we're seeing now isn't as important as what's
Speaker 1: going to happen in games, but it's still is a
Speaker 1: good it's a good look. Yeah, you're not going oh
Speaker 1: right early, and now you're expecting things to go well.
Speaker 1: And it's funny because when you when you watch as
Speaker 1: many practices and you and I do, and even the
Speaker 1: media they're very good coming out every day and being here,
Speaker 1: you started looking at things and now you know it's
Speaker 1: it's a nice diversion because usually when the kickers kick,
Speaker 1: you kind of go what's going on? But in this
Speaker 1: particular in yeah, you get you're hit, the hit the
Speaker 1: men's room and you know whatever, But here you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's see what this is very exciting. Um, it's a
Speaker 1: good start. And when you go back and you of
Speaker 1: anybody can tell us how many games if we would
Speaker 1: have made a kick, Well, let me just throw a
Speaker 1: few knok. The average, I think in the last four years,
Speaker 1: the NFL average UH field goal percent is just across
Speaker 1: the league and that includes the Bucks numbers, is eighty
Speaker 1: four point four percent. The Bucks have not been above
Speaker 1: have been below sevent for four straight years. I think
Speaker 1: last year was seventy two points. Something that that I
Speaker 1: don't clearly that sounds bad to you, But I don't
Speaker 1: know if everybody would think seventy seventy four percent not
Speaker 1: that big of a deal. That's a big deal. If
Speaker 1: you're kicking thirty times or thirty five times, that's five
Speaker 1: or six more made field goals every year. Well, if
Speaker 1: you're kicking four field goals a game, you're missing one
Speaker 1: a game and that's the game win. We lost three
Speaker 1: games by three or fewer points last year. Jeff, one
Speaker 1: more field goal here and there would have been nice. Also,
Speaker 1: remember them the opening game against New Orleans last year.
Speaker 1: We were just blowing them away. It was like the
Speaker 1: happiest we were the entire year. We're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: this is and then it almost slipped away because we
Speaker 1: missed the field we had a chance to ice it
Speaker 1: and make it a two, two possession game and missed
Speaker 1: a field goal, and then fits fits Magic had to
Speaker 1: make that third day. That was a run, third down
Speaker 1: scramble and he and he made it and and that
Speaker 1: ice the game and we all could breathe easy again
Speaker 1: because losing that game after you're up like have been bad. Yes,
Speaker 1: it would have been bad. Yes it would have been
Speaker 1: one more field goal there would have been nice. So
Speaker 1: you feel And also I don't think he ever came
Speaker 1: out and said it, and he might not even this
Speaker 1: might not even be true, but I felt like our
Speaker 1: coaches stopped considering a long field goals an option last year, right,
Speaker 1: And so it changes your game plan and what you're doing.
Speaker 1: And if you've got a guy that you feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: there's a good chance we'll make that fifty three. You're
Speaker 1: going we're going to go for it. And uh, and
Speaker 1: so it'll be nice if the Buccaneers have I think
Speaker 1: they will well. And as the preseason progresses and everybody, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they keep moving players in and out. As
Speaker 1: you watch the game, you know, it's it's it's something
Speaker 1: to look at to say, hey, let's keep an eye
Speaker 1: on the kickers because I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough match and it's not going to be an easy cut,
Speaker 1: which is what you want. Yeah, all right, I think
Speaker 1: we probably wrapped this up pretty soon because I'm here
Speaker 1: to get to Sean Murphy. Bunny. Let's do this. You
Speaker 1: give me in an all give just give me one
Speaker 1: guy you've really liked in training camp so far other
Speaker 1: than name, but we've already talked about. So don't say
Speaker 1: the kickers. You want me to go first, you can
Speaker 1: think about, well, the guy that coming in I've been
Speaker 1: very impressed with with Shawn, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: I can say that you can say that, Okay, that's
Speaker 1: who it is, John Murphy Bunting. Yes, plays and he's
Speaker 1: making plays, but all my interaction with him, oh, you
Speaker 1: just like the way he carries himself. Bruce arians said
Speaker 1: that this is the most mature rookie class. And now
Speaker 1: how do you put a finger on that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: other than when you interact with them, you you certainly
Speaker 1: can you can tell the difference. And so yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's a guy. You know, I kind of you know,
Speaker 1: you meet somebody and you got god, I hope he
Speaker 1: does well. You know, he's one of those guys for me,
Speaker 1: for him, and who's yours. I just really liked, you know,
Speaker 1: there was a very specific thing they were doing. The
Speaker 1: they put the pads on, so they finally were doing
Speaker 1: the old line D line one on you know, where
Speaker 1: they're just basically sometimes it's two on one, but whatever,
Speaker 1: they're just pass rushing reps against each other. Vida Vella
Speaker 1: is a very big man and he's a very strong man.
Speaker 1: That hasn't changed. Uh, he was just pushing guys around
Speaker 1: in that trill. I mean, he's just hard to handle.
Speaker 1: And so I'm excited about that because now he's gonna
Speaker 1: be playing next to him Dominan Sue in this different defense.
Speaker 1: I think there's gonna be opportunities for him to blow
Speaker 1: things up, and it may not always end up being
Speaker 1: a sack for him, but I think he's going to
Speaker 1: really help blow up plays and maybe he won't won't
Speaker 1: get the credit for tackles or sacks, but somebody will
Speaker 1: well he's blown it up. He started to play well
Speaker 1: near the end of the year and so now all clicks.
Speaker 1: I think he looks really good shape wise, he looks
Speaker 1: like he's in great shape, but he's a very big man.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a humongous me. So that's my guy.
Speaker 1: I'm really excited about it. We'll mark those down and
Speaker 1: see how it plays out ahead and get ready to
Speaker 1: get my guys. I'm gonna go get him, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll we'll be back for segment two in just a minute,
Speaker 1: the Salty Dogs. And we're back here on the Salty Dogs.
Speaker 1: I'm still Scott Smith, and I am still Jeff Ryan,
Speaker 1: and you know, Jeff, to me, we started this in
Speaker 1: training camp last year, right, So to me, this is
Speaker 1: season two of Salty Dogs. It is so and that
Speaker 1: means we have an inaugural, very first guest of season two.
Speaker 1: We're thrilled to have Sean Murphy bunting with us. Shan,
Speaker 1: thanks man, hey, thank you for letting be one number one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's all smiles to something. Yes, exact. Probably a bigger
Speaker 1: honor than being drafted in this absolutely absolutely, it's it's
Speaker 1: gonna be uh one of those pinnacles as you look
Speaker 1: back on your football career, you're gonna go Salty Dogs.
Speaker 1: If only I could have done more. Showing your mom
Speaker 1: is a fun follow on Twitter I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: calling you a mom's boy. That's not what I mean
Speaker 1: by this. But you clearly love your mom alive. I
Speaker 1: do so much. I love my mom so much. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's done everything for me. You know, I'm not just
Speaker 1: school my dad from anything, but my mom has always
Speaker 1: just been in my corner, you know, without a doubt,
Speaker 1: with every situation I've been in my life. She's like
Speaker 1: my best friend. UM. I mean I can just look
Speaker 1: to her anything and for anything, and so I'm very grateful.
Speaker 1: Could you be here right now if she hadn't done
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff for you along the way, Absolutely not, um.
Speaker 1: I mean, like the countless hours that she's driven me
Speaker 1: across the country, you know, going to camps and going
Speaker 1: to football practice and baseball practice and basketball practice is
Speaker 1: just endless. Didn't she drive you? Just didn't she tell
Speaker 1: you to get in the car and drive you to Central?
Speaker 1: And so how did that come about? I mean, were
Speaker 1: you like applying or waiting? And she says enough of this, Um,
Speaker 1: So I was actually giving an offer. Um. And then
Speaker 1: the head coach at the time, Danny Knows, had resigned.
Speaker 1: Once he resigned, my offer basically was avoided. And I
Speaker 1: had to wait until either new head coaches in place
Speaker 1: or it was kind of a feel out thing. I
Speaker 1: didn't know if I was going to have anything or not.
Speaker 1: And so I waited about a month a month and
Speaker 1: a half um, and then they hired coach Bono, and
Speaker 1: coach Bono was kind of in position for about two weeks,
Speaker 1: and then I was reaching out to him, you know,
Speaker 1: send him email, sending the phone call. I wasn't really
Speaker 1: getting any responses from him. And then I mean, like
Speaker 1: you said, one day, my mom just said, you know what,
Speaker 1: let's go up there trying to figure out what's going on.
Speaker 1: And so she told me to get in the car.
Speaker 1: We drove two and a half hours and then scot
Speaker 1: on you know, face to face and at the spotty
Speaker 1: offer me. But but but as you're driving up, are
Speaker 1: you thinking, oh, gosh, Mom, maybe this is not a
Speaker 1: good idea. I mean, I'm just like, you know what
Speaker 1: it's I mean, she knows what she's doing, because she
Speaker 1: knows what she's doing. So mom knows best, and she's
Speaker 1: always put me in good situation. She's always showed me
Speaker 1: the way to do things, and so I mean I
Speaker 1: just trusted her trust in God and let things fall
Speaker 1: into place. Right. So a guy who UM had to
Speaker 1: go through that just to get on a college team.
Speaker 1: At what that doesn't sound like the beginning of an
Speaker 1: NFL career. So at what point did you start to realize, Hey,
Speaker 1: this could go on to the NFL. UM, I want
Speaker 1: to say it was. It's it's always been a dream
Speaker 1: of mine, you know, to go to the NFL. And I, honestly,
Speaker 1: I just want to be a professional athlete. So whether
Speaker 1: it was gonna be in baseball, whether it's gonna be
Speaker 1: in football, whether it's gonna be a basketball you know,
Speaker 1: I was gonna try my best. And then once I
Speaker 1: got you know, to Central Michigan, I tried to switch
Speaker 1: over to wide receiver because that's what I was playing,
Speaker 1: you know, more heavy in high school. UM. And then
Speaker 1: coach Bono basically told me, like, you can be an
Speaker 1: average you know, college receiver, you can be an NFL
Speaker 1: caliber corner and UM, he ended up switching me over
Speaker 1: a corner. And then kind of the rest of kind
Speaker 1: of history. You know, I had a coach, the name
Speaker 1: was Coach Collins. Uh, he's my freshman year coach, sophomore year. UM,
Speaker 1: and he kind of maybe he kind of moded me
Speaker 1: to who I am now type of press guy I am,
Speaker 1: and so I can't thank him enough. Speaking of being
Speaker 1: able to play corner at a high level, I want
Speaker 1: to ask you if I'm gonna guess the answer, the
Speaker 1: most important thing that a guy has to be able
Speaker 1: to has to have in order to be a really
Speaker 1: good cornerback. And I'm guessing it's really good footwork. Oh,
Speaker 1: definitely you have the real technique sound um, and a
Speaker 1: lot of guys are better like quick feet, quick feet,
Speaker 1: quick hands, you know, um, just being a ball hall.
Speaker 1: You gotta have the mentality to be a defender, and
Speaker 1: definitely mentality be a cornerback because there's gonna be players
Speaker 1: where you get beat. You know, there's gonna be players
Speaker 1: where you know, you can't roam with a guy necessarily,
Speaker 1: so you have to find out the way to beat him.
Speaker 1: And that's where the technique comes into play, um and
Speaker 1: just taking the right angles and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: so when you when you get beat on a play,
Speaker 1: you have to Everyone says, one play, you gotta move on.
Speaker 1: When do you move on? Why when do you actually
Speaker 1: go back and look at it? Wink went on the
Speaker 1: bus going back, flying home, you're like running each play
Speaker 1: through your head again, right, So I mean, if if
Speaker 1: it's like a mental error, um, that's something that you
Speaker 1: correct right on the sideline. You know, after after the
Speaker 1: series is over, you get on the sideline, you figure
Speaker 1: out what you did wrong, you figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: a way that you can improve on that situation. Then
Speaker 1: you move forward from there. But you can't drag them
Speaker 1: that same play because that's only going to result in,
Speaker 1: you know, countless and countless more errors and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: After quarterback, I've always felt like cornerback is the toughest
Speaker 1: position to play in the most detail oriented. I mean
Speaker 1: through the years, I've always watched your position coach with
Speaker 1: whoever he had, and the detail if you guys have
Speaker 1: to do on your footwork and you're cutting and your
Speaker 1: change of direction, it's there's like so much detail goes
Speaker 1: into that position. Is that accurate? Yes, sir. I mean
Speaker 1: everyone's gonna have their different opinion on kind of which
Speaker 1: positions are the most important of the hardest learning stuff
Speaker 1: like that, because I know it's not easy just being
Speaker 1: in the box every single play and going through guys
Speaker 1: like that and doing things like that. So, UM, I know,
Speaker 1: just being a corner Like I said, it's just mental toughness. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, playing defense, playing wide receiver, playing cornerback, it's
Speaker 1: kind of all the same type of instincts you can have.
Speaker 1: So making the transition over the cornerback for me was
Speaker 1: a lot easier than other guys. Um. And so I
Speaker 1: kind of took all the coaching points in that I could. Um,
Speaker 1: I kind of still had that mentality of being a receiver,
Speaker 1: being able to attack the ball, being able to judge
Speaker 1: routes and route rex reading the quarterbacks and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: and so it just all transitioned together just kind of
Speaker 1: benefited me a lot in the long run. You've got
Speaker 1: best of both worlds, sir. You get to see the
Speaker 1: cornerback and knock it away, and then if you get one,
Speaker 1: your god taking to the picking of taking it to
Speaker 1: the house. Yesterday there was a pick went to the
Speaker 1: house for a pick six. Yeah, it was a pick six.
Speaker 1: Now y'all ran down, which is pretty cool. Now, my
Speaker 1: question is it looked like first all of you got
Speaker 1: in a row and it looked like you're own a boat.
Speaker 1: But then to me, it looked like you're on a
Speaker 1: roller coaster. So did I. Yeah, we were on a
Speaker 1: roller coast. We were enjoying the thrill of it. I got,
Speaker 1: we're at amusing the park having fun. Do I see
Speaker 1: that's what they're talking about. They said, rolling the boat.
Speaker 1: I said, no, that they're going like this, you know,
Speaker 1: hands up in the air, like look mom, no hands.
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles were just talking about that, he said. You
Speaker 1: could get the feeling that he he wasn't necessarily hoping
Speaker 1: his guys would be celebrating in practice, But it's like
Speaker 1: it's a lot of young pups back there. They're gonna
Speaker 1: having fun. I couldn't row the boat though, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm a fire up chip type of guy. Row the boat.
Speaker 1: That was it? Getting on that boat? Fleck yeah, j
Speaker 1: J J J p j J. He was here. He
Speaker 1: was here for a while. Um yeah, but you guys,
Speaker 1: it seems like you guys are having fun. We are.
Speaker 1: We are having a lot of fun. Uh. You make,
Speaker 1: the more players you make, the more fun you have.
Speaker 1: And so we're trying to make every play possible and
Speaker 1: just enjoyed the game. From from must watching practice, what
Speaker 1: are we five days is in? It just looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, you're having fun, but I understand let me finish.
Speaker 1: You know, I can turn him off. You want to
Speaker 1: just do a one on one? Um, what what it's
Speaker 1: gonna say? Y'all come together. You really don't know each other,
Speaker 1: but it seems and am I reading too much in
Speaker 1: this that you guys are all really meshing, which is
Speaker 1: really hard to do, and that that that thing called culture,
Speaker 1: that thing called chemistry. Do you feel like you're on
Speaker 1: that right path? Yes, sir, absolutely. I mean we're all young.
Speaker 1: Like you said, we have a veteran guy in the room,
Speaker 1: and you know he's still young as well, and so, um,
Speaker 1: each one of us have something to prove, and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the same mentality that we all have. And
Speaker 1: when you all have like a group like that, you know,
Speaker 1: and you're striving for one goal, then you're automatically gonna
Speaker 1: mesh well, you know, want me in Jamale Dean came in,
Speaker 1: and once Mike came in. We kind of us three
Speaker 1: Joel together because you all had that same mentality of
Speaker 1: just coming in, you know, playing contribute and winning championships. Um.
Speaker 1: And so we fit very well in that secondary and
Speaker 1: especially with the coaches in the secondary and the defensive
Speaker 1: staff and um, everyone just most together. Well, you said
Speaker 1: you played baseball center field, yes, center field, middle and fields.
Speaker 1: It's because he moved, he's got wheels. How was your stick? Oh?
Speaker 1: I was leadoff? That makes sense? Did you you're asking
Speaker 1: me sick? That's great? Yeah? Yeah. First and third, if
Speaker 1: you if you'd have been able to play baseball, would
Speaker 1: you would you still have preferred football to that? And
Speaker 1: either answers fine? Yeah, Um, I mean I would say
Speaker 1: based off of what how I was growing up. I
Speaker 1: was a baseball guy. You know. Baseball was my main sport.
Speaker 1: That was what I wanted to do. And yes, sir,
Speaker 1: so I started playing travel all rom seven eight years old.
Speaker 1: It's just like Scott has a son that's been doing
Speaker 1: that because I played like all my sports overlapped. So
Speaker 1: I played AU basketball, I played travel baseball football, and
Speaker 1: so I would be leaving baseball games going to basketball
Speaker 1: tournaments and stuff like that. You know that's interesting because
Speaker 1: it was fun. Yeah. Well, there's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: families now and we'll get you out here in just
Speaker 1: a minute. Where um that uh, they get their their
Speaker 1: kids pretty good at one sport baseball in particular, and
Speaker 1: they just do that year round and they focus on that.
Speaker 1: And I tend to think that kids get a better
Speaker 1: experience and get better at everything if they play a
Speaker 1: lot of different sports. Yeah, I definitely agree to what
Speaker 1: you're saying, because like, when you specialize in one sport,
Speaker 1: I mean not you not necessarily won't be you know,
Speaker 1: you still can't not be that good in that sport. Um.
Speaker 1: But when you kind of divide your talent in a
Speaker 1: different sports, you're learning kind of the way to move
Speaker 1: your muscles a lot differently, um and you know, different vision,
Speaker 1: different things like that, Like basketball helped me play football,
Speaker 1: Football help you played baseball, and just stuff like that. UM.
Speaker 1: So I feel like they all kind of jell together
Speaker 1: and messed together. I've done some coaching and I had
Speaker 1: a kid who was pretty good at baseball and not
Speaker 1: one of the team's best players, and um on the
Speaker 1: travel team and he would and played basketball just in
Speaker 1: a wide league the summer, and he came back and
Speaker 1: he was way better because for some reason he played
Speaker 1: well in the basketball thing and it just really built
Speaker 1: up as confidence, confidency, up, coordination, vision, stuff like that.
Speaker 1: It made him faster, he rans more smoothly. So there's
Speaker 1: definitely crossover. It sounds like let's kids be. Let let
Speaker 1: kids be kids, like, just go play, let them play,
Speaker 1: let him play. I have one last question, and then
Speaker 1: you may have one last question. I know that I
Speaker 1: I know that you want to start. Yes, everybody wants
Speaker 1: to start. My question is do you expect to start? Um,
Speaker 1: I'm expecting to just give him my all. I'm expecting
Speaker 1: to go out and compete at the highest level and
Speaker 1: I'm going to win a job. That's my goal, you know,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm I'm expecting to get the most out
Speaker 1: of myself and so Um, Ultimately the decision is going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, on the coach and staff and
Speaker 1: and on who they feel is best for that that position.
Speaker 1: But all I can do is control, you know, my effort,
Speaker 1: my attitude, and just how I go out there and
Speaker 1: handle myself in every situation. I do have one more question. Okay,
Speaker 1: I lied, which is we also lied about ten minutes. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get him out. Um, how sore
Speaker 1: are you? You had pads for two days? Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: not you know, I'm not too sore. I'm not too
Speaker 1: sore where I can't compete. You know, you can play
Speaker 1: through you know, just about everything doing this your entire life,
Speaker 1: and so your by it's gonna be banged up just
Speaker 1: because your first you know, putting the pads back on.
Speaker 1: But you just gotta keep fighting through it and just
Speaker 1: keep keep batting. I'm good, Jeffy, you done all the questions.
Speaker 1: It's cool, you know, do you have anything left? Now,
Speaker 1: let's let sun get out of here. You know we're
Speaker 1: right in the middle of another training camp. Yes, they
Speaker 1: have stuff in the morning, they have stuff in the afternoon.
Speaker 1: They do get some time to see my must have
Speaker 1: hit my time. I'm running at forty nine, we said
Speaker 1: to and you say almost twelve. But we appreciate your time.
Speaker 1: You're our first guest in the year, and then it
Speaker 1: was a great way to start. Yeah, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to see in the first preseason guest, the Salty Dogs. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're back here for our final segment of our first
Speaker 1: episode season two. Good. I always want to be able
Speaker 1: to see and involved in a season two and that's
Speaker 1: why I picked That's why you're right. He is a
Speaker 1: sharp kid, smooth, as you said, smooth on the field too. Um. Okay,
Speaker 1: so this is the samement where we usually answer fans questions.
Speaker 1: The problem with that is that we haven't been on
Speaker 1: for quite some time and I didn't ask for any
Speaker 1: questions on Twitter or anything, so I didn't I don't
Speaker 1: have any in the mailbox. So hopefully by next week
Speaker 1: or we can do this every week now, I guess yes, okay,
Speaker 1: absolutely starting now, So hopefully by next week we'll have
Speaker 1: some questions in the inbox. And that is just um,
Speaker 1: it's salty Dogs s A L T Y D O
Speaker 1: G S at Buccaneers U C C A N E
Speaker 1: R S dot NFL dot com. Don't forget that NFL
Speaker 1: part in the middle, or I won't get to us.
Speaker 1: So send us questions and next week will be answering those.
Speaker 1: I thought in the in place of that, I could
Speaker 1: just look through my Twitter mentions because I've been tweeting
Speaker 1: a lot during camp, and you know, people respond and
Speaker 1: ask questions and so on. Maybe we can just comment
Speaker 1: on those. Yeah, I'm game, I'm with you, all right.
Speaker 1: So here first one is, um. The first one is
Speaker 1: yesterday after we'd signed and he was on the practice field.
Speaker 1: Vincent Testaverdi, son of Vinnie Testaverdi. Yeah, you know, it's
Speaker 1: funny we're standing out there. So and today we signed
Speaker 1: Vinny Testaverdi, and I said, dang, how old you and
Speaker 1: I have both been around long enough that we did
Speaker 1: overlap with him just one season for me? Okay, I
Speaker 1: think let's see if you agree. Everybody that I know
Speaker 1: and I felt the same way, really liked Vinny. Very
Speaker 1: nice guy, always has been right, is that the way
Speaker 1: you do? You have good interactions with him as well?
Speaker 1: Great great guy? I think yes, considering considering that he
Speaker 1: took a lot of abuse from everybody. So I took
Speaker 1: a picture of Vincent his son, warming up and from
Speaker 1: the back, so it's an orange jersey with the words
Speaker 1: Testaverdy on him, like we haven't seen that. It was
Speaker 1: cool that it was an orange hurt like we have
Speaker 1: buck fans haven't seen this in a long time, right, Uh.
Speaker 1: And so there were some reactions that one guy it
Speaker 1: was kind of rude about it. He's like, what was
Speaker 1: it say here? I can't find it? Um, who cares?
Speaker 1: The only quarterback that matters is Jameis Winston. I can't
Speaker 1: find it, so it doesn't matter. But uh, the only
Speaker 1: quarterback we'd save this nostalgic stuff or somebody else like, Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: somebody's cranky. Yeah, I mean, jeez, if you don't like it,
Speaker 1: just ignore it. You're not salty, you're just meanly. I know.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that. I mean, I don't get it.
Speaker 1: But then this guy, David J. Pott says, Uh, pretty
Speaker 1: cool story. You wonder if they'll keep three quarterbacks this season. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a cool story that Vincent's here. But I thought
Speaker 1: we could answer that, well, they keep three quarterbacks this season,
Speaker 1: what do you think they have previously? They have? So,
Speaker 1: I think it depends on how the other positions play out.
Speaker 1: If you have the luxury of it being able to
Speaker 1: carry three, Um, I don't think you're gonna carry two
Speaker 1: veteran guys. Uh, you don't other than So's Jamis, then
Speaker 1: you've got you got Ryan Griffin. Yeah, you don't think
Speaker 1: we'll keep all three? I I I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think it all depends on what what this kid does too.
Speaker 1: But Vincent, Yeah, I would be shocked if either he
Speaker 1: or Nick Fitzgerald starts starts the regular season on the
Speaker 1: active rosters. That's not to say they don't have a
Speaker 1: career in front of him, now, could they but they
Speaker 1: could go on the practice squad. So to add some context,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right that in Arizona, for most of his
Speaker 1: five years there, Bruce's teams had three quarterbacks on the restaurant.
Speaker 1: But I think a lot of years that was just
Speaker 1: because they had injuries. They were going through a lot
Speaker 1: of guys because they had injury issues. Um. He was
Speaker 1: asked that question the offseason and he said he would
Speaker 1: prefer to carry too, And some teams do that now
Speaker 1: because you don't have that third inactive quarterback rule anymore.
Speaker 1: So your third quarterback is always going to be inactive
Speaker 1: and he's never gonna play. So what teams do is
Speaker 1: they'll carry a third quarterback on the practice squad. If
Speaker 1: a guy gets hurt and he's gonna miss some time,
Speaker 1: then they bring him up. So you still have three
Speaker 1: quarterbacks around for practice. You have three that are theoretically
Speaker 1: ready to play a game if need be, but you
Speaker 1: only you only use two of your fifty three roster
Speaker 1: spots on it. I think that's what they would like
Speaker 1: to do. I don't know if they'll get there or not.
Speaker 1: It probably depends on just how well all three of
Speaker 1: those guys are doing. Right. Um, but uh so, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it works out though, and either blamee Gabert
Speaker 1: or Ran Griffin is the backup and the other one
Speaker 1: has moved on, and then we keep a young guy
Speaker 1: on practice squad. That's my guess. Yeah, I would go
Speaker 1: with that, Okay, but we won't know until end of August. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: is Peyton Manning? Here's this is what a guy named
Speaker 1: Addaway said. Is Peyton Manning playing running back this year? Too?
Speaker 1: Do you do? You want to know the context of
Speaker 1: why somebody would ask me that. Um, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: to admit to your biggest Twitter mistake and there will
Speaker 1: be more. Okay, yeah, you heard about this. I'm getting
Speaker 1: heat from every personal on football side about this one.
Speaker 1: But you know why because you're so accurate so often.
Speaker 1: And I know this is going to come back and
Speaker 1: haunt me because I'm saying this, But you are pretty accurate.
Speaker 1: And when you and I have discussions, we you know,
Speaker 1: we were around together at the same time, and but
Speaker 1: I will I will say your memory is much better
Speaker 1: than Yeah, this wasn't a memory issue. This was a
Speaker 1: brain fart. But can you send me that that clip
Speaker 1: right there later? So I keep it and replay it.
Speaker 1: Don't you understand. Don't you understand I'm deleting that out
Speaker 1: because will not make something nice perfect. Shoot, he ain't
Speaker 1: got a chance, you can swear. Okay, I caught it.
Speaker 1: I caught it. Hey, I'm staying out with Bruce. Give
Speaker 1: me a break, yeah, said oh crap, um, So I'm
Speaker 1: going to after you said that I'm usually right about stuff,
Speaker 1: I'm going to prove you wrong or at least in
Speaker 1: this instance. So I'm standing there by a Bruce while
Speaker 1: he's having his post practice talk with the media, and
Speaker 1: he said they asked him why Donovan Smith in practice
Speaker 1: the day. He said he just had a little achilles
Speaker 1: thing that he would be fine, and sure enough, Donovan
Speaker 1: was back in practice the next day, which is great.
Speaker 1: But as I go to share that news with buck
Speaker 1: fans on Twitter, I, for some reason type left tackle
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb I saw all that and I was gonna
Speaker 1: there was I mean, it was like maybe twenty seconds
Speaker 1: later one of the other media guys like frantically trying
Speaker 1: to get my attention. I'm like, you probably should reread
Speaker 1: that tweet, and so I did, and I corrected it
Speaker 1: and I made fun of myself. But I'm still getting
Speaker 1: it on Twitter, which is fair. You're gonna get it,
Speaker 1: and most most people are just having fun with you,
Speaker 1: like this guy is, you know, asking his paint man
Speaker 1: and going to be the running back. Well, you know
Speaker 1: that's what happens when you have fat thumbs. So so
Speaker 1: you know, I can't even blame that on a type
Speaker 1: of because I doubt that was an autocorrect, which was
Speaker 1: just my brain heard the word Donovan and followed it
Speaker 1: up with mcnah Yeah, well, which is it or Smith.
Speaker 1: The only reason that I have had occasion to um
Speaker 1: write or tweet or anything about Dinovan McNab is usually
Speaker 1: when I'm talking about Randey Barber and all the times
Speaker 1: he victimized him. Greatest play ever. Well that and if
Speaker 1: you're voting, not that, by the way of your voting
Speaker 1: for the top play. Voting is still going on it,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but if you were, let's get back
Speaker 1: to that in a second. First, uh, In addition to
Speaker 1: that great play that everybody knows what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: the ninety two yard pick six that sent the Bucks
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl. Um, he also in his one
Speaker 1: game where he had two pick sixes in the same
Speaker 1: game that was also against Don in the Eagles in
Speaker 1: two thousand six. It was the same game where Matt
Speaker 1: Bryan hit the sixty two years right, Matt Brian gets
Speaker 1: the key to the city and Randy Barber gets to
Speaker 1: touch to two pigs like historic and and if you
Speaker 1: if you ever want to get Randy a little rolled out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned the fact that that he'd been here
Speaker 1: how many years, never got a key to the game,
Speaker 1: and he gets two pick six is on the same
Speaker 1: game and a guy kicks a sixty two yard er. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: hopefully Randie will end up in the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 1: And yes, and Matt Bryan's had a fantastic phenomenal and
Speaker 1: and good guys. So two good things. So we'll move on. Okay, So,
Speaker 1: but you brought up that there's been voting, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if the doing is still going on. We
Speaker 1: were as part of the NFL's hundred season celebration. Every
Speaker 1: team is giving their fans a chance to choose from
Speaker 1: some weird having my audience, that's just me walking back rocking.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Uh, giving fans a chance to choose from
Speaker 1: four plays that we chose that I chose to be
Speaker 1: honest with to vote for which one is the greatest
Speaker 1: moment in history, not necessarily play. So our four were
Speaker 1: the Rande Barber Bock six that shut down the Vet,
Speaker 1: Derek Brooks's uh pick six that the Dagger Daggers in
Speaker 1: it in the Super Bowl. The first round of NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: one of only three times that any team has ever
Speaker 1: taken two eventual Hall of famers in the same round,
Speaker 1: totally turned the franchise around. If you don't know, Warren
Speaker 1: Sapp and Derek Brooks. Yes, and then the in just
Speaker 1: their fourth season, the Buccaneers win the NFC Central and
Speaker 1: their very first exposure to the playoffs, and they beat Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: Rickey Bell ran like forty eight times or something that
Speaker 1: times that was a playoff record at the time. Um
Speaker 1: I chose that. I know when you heard them, you
Speaker 1: actually felt like the very first win in franchise history
Speaker 1: in New Orleans should have been the fourth one instead,
Speaker 1: which is fa which is you know, you lose twenty six.
Speaker 1: I know, but that's why it's kind of like I'd
Speaker 1: rather write about they made the playoffs rather than hey, well,
Speaker 1: I understand the only reason that game was incredible is
Speaker 1: because they lost the last twenty, right, but it was
Speaker 1: a moment and and you know there are there are
Speaker 1: um little kids that were like, you know, three or
Speaker 1: four years old, hanging out at one Buck when I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it came back to a huge, huge crowd, and I
Speaker 1: will say Tampa Bay, you know, was railing around the bucks.
Speaker 1: They were owing twenty six, but people were still excited
Speaker 1: about it, and they were still hoping and and and
Speaker 1: then and then you know it's finally like it's over
Speaker 1: and yeah, and then they won the next game to
Speaker 1: their first winning home over St. Louis, one of the
Speaker 1: two St teams to Avantage. And you know who lost,
Speaker 1: you know who lost their job over over? Yeah, Hankstram, Yes,
Speaker 1: the Saints coach. Yeah, it was apparently losing to the
Speaker 1: to the Buccaneers was a fireball offense back then. Well,
Speaker 1: it gets to that point you don't want to be
Speaker 1: that team, you know. So that's why to me, that's
Speaker 1: that's added context. The fact that winning your first playoff
Speaker 1: game ever in just your fourth season is huge because
Speaker 1: that was just two years after they had lost their
Speaker 1: twenty six straight game, Right, that's pretty incredible. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: you gotta give it credit. You know, two years of losing,
Speaker 1: it was not fun. So whether you picked my pick
Speaker 1: or your pick for the fourth option there, it still
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to me because to me clearly and I
Speaker 1: had some arguments on Twitter, although I think more people
Speaker 1: agreed with me than not. The most the greatest moment
Speaker 1: in the greatest achievement for this team ever is winning
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. The single greatest moment to me, and
Speaker 1: I will never waiver from this, is Randee Barber pick
Speaker 1: six shutting on the back. We're gonna have to stop
Speaker 1: this show because this is twice I'm agreeing with you.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna need to save this. No,
Speaker 1: I I could not. Uh, I'll take on whoever you
Speaker 1: want to take on that says that, ain't it because
Speaker 1: there of all the aims that I've I've done and
Speaker 1: I've been to, I can still tell you I am
Speaker 1: standing in a really crappy broadcast booth, not even a
Speaker 1: broadcast booth. It's a big row. He shut down the broadcast,
Speaker 1: we shut down the VET and then we won the
Speaker 1: first game in the Lincoln seventeen to nothing. And there
Speaker 1: was I mean, you talk about and the best part
Speaker 1: about it when the fact that the equipment there there
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles thought they were gonna win. The video
Speaker 1: people were already sending stuff to San Diego that when
Speaker 1: our guys got there, they had to move their stuff
Speaker 1: out of the way. They were planning ahead because that
Speaker 1: was the last Super Bowl when there wasn't two weeks
Speaker 1: between those, right, And and remember how long it took
Speaker 1: us to get out of Philadelphia because they lost. They
Speaker 1: were they wouldn't let the truck go down. I don't
Speaker 1: remember that. And also traffic control was real slow of
Speaker 1: getting us out, so we get back late and less
Speaker 1: than twelve hours later, less than twelve hours. But but
Speaker 1: I can still thinking, damn it, we're gonna lose a
Speaker 1: championship game again, because was was was a crusher. And
Speaker 1: you know, I can only fathom with we had. We
Speaker 1: had into two playoff runs and they weren't runs. But
Speaker 1: we lost in Philly that year in the season, and
Speaker 1: I I can close my eyes right now and see
Speaker 1: Ronde running down. I can hear in Jean call and
Speaker 1: I'm like this, he said dagger in that one too,
Speaker 1: because I just heard it the other day. Um, but yes,
Speaker 1: I think that was a defining moment that was that
Speaker 1: was a defining moment of we belong here. Yeah, this
Speaker 1: is and and our players said that after that happened,
Speaker 1: they knew they were going to win the super Bowl
Speaker 1: and that's easy to say afterwards, but they did go
Speaker 1: into the game just demolish them. You know. It's funny
Speaker 1: that week, uh, I did interviews with with um Brad
Speaker 1: Johnson and John lynch Um at the team hotel for
Speaker 1: for pregame stuff, and both of them were like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna win this game. And I'm like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta be really and they're going, no, you don't understand,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win this. The defense was in in particular,
Speaker 1: was confident because they felt like they knew everything the
Speaker 1: radio has to do. Yeah. So remember when John Gruden
Speaker 1: on the Thursday Super Bowl practice like ran the scout
Speaker 1: team he was the quarterback because he and he was
Speaker 1: like they and then they're in the Super Bowl and
Speaker 1: they know exactly what Yeah, they're going to calling the
Speaker 1: same thing. So well, when does when do the results
Speaker 1: come out on that? I'm I don't know, Okay, next
Speaker 1: week back about how knowledgeable you are? Right in one
Speaker 1: ronge All right, Um, so yeah, you're based on next week.
Speaker 1: If you're in baseball, you're three, so you're a star.
Speaker 1: Two out of three is well, okay, six hundred. So
Speaker 1: you just worry about the little knobs over their jobs.
Speaker 1: I'll handle them. I don't do math very well as
Speaker 1: you can tell. Alright, alright that it was a good one.
Speaker 1: It's a good start. That Sehn Murphy Bunny was great.
Speaker 1: But fans really get excited about that kid. You right,
Speaker 1: you're him, And we'll do it next week before we
Speaker 1: head to Pittsburgh. It sounds good, all right, very good. Hey,
Speaker 1: since you did, Thanks for listening. M