Speaker 1: What do you call two guys that were there when
Speaker 1: this happened? Back to return at Spurlock. Michael Spurlock of
Speaker 1: the cham Look, he's still the twenty. He's of the
Speaker 1: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Parlo thirty to the forty yard line.
Speaker 1: We could see history fifty forty.
Speaker 3: Come a thirty yard light.
Speaker 2: Now Michael run, Michael luck.
Speaker 1: Michael run, touchdown Tampa Bay. But there you go, and
Speaker 1: that shot gun sends wee receivers left. Here's the staff
Speaker 1: of the glitzer has picked up Brady Unity.
Speaker 2: Caught ball ups. He has the record at the eleven
Speaker 2: yard line.
Speaker 1: Mike Evins becomes the first NFL player in lead history
Speaker 1: to record them a thousand yards of more of this
Speaker 1: first seventh seasons that.
Speaker 2: Want to throw by Brady?
Speaker 1: Congratulations Mike Evens, who can forget.
Speaker 2: Gann looking gas holds up the half the other side.
Speaker 2: Terry Bucks thirty touchdown Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: Derek Books the most.
Speaker 1: Valuable player in the National Football League.
Speaker 3: There it is Dot Daggers, ind.
Speaker 1: Where are you gonna win the Super Bowl? Here's the snap.
Speaker 1: Mahomes running to his right. Lookout he may run Mahome
Speaker 1: director Now battle INTERCEPN picked over with the ins on Fox.
Speaker 3: I gotta beat the Chiefs.
Speaker 2: We're the chapters of the world that we still have.
Speaker 2: I'm minute thirty three ago.
Speaker 1: Damn it, White, what a great second season. That's it
Speaker 1: for Casey Box. All the Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 2: They can't stop the clock.
Speaker 1: We call them the Salty Dogs.
Speaker 3: Welcome to the Salty Dogs, a podcast mostly about the
Speaker 3: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, but sometimes about mysterious green cars you
Speaker 3: never know. I'm Scott Smith, I am Jeff Ryan, and
Speaker 3: we are the Salty Dogs.
Speaker 2: We are. But let's begin with the most important news
Speaker 2: of the day, the.
Speaker 3: Green car thing. Yes, okay, so last week I can
Speaker 3: see out of Jeff's windows the parking left for the players,
Speaker 3: and somebody came in with a cool looking charger. It's
Speaker 3: like lime green, yep, bright with broad black racing stripes
Speaker 3: down the middle. And we were waiting to see who
Speaker 3: had that car, and either they never got out or
Speaker 3: they snuck out or something. But we have since learned
Speaker 3: that it is cornerback Tavi.
Speaker 2: Or Thomas nice car. Yes, okay, did you tell him
Speaker 2: that we were.
Speaker 3: I've been meaning to run into him, but I didn't
Speaker 3: see him in open live from the.
Speaker 2: Show how did you find this out?
Speaker 3: I asked a couple of people are here with okay,
Speaker 3: and they both said the same thing, So okay, I
Speaker 3: felt since I got a second source, it was probably yes.
Speaker 2: Well you're a good journalist and that's what you do.
Speaker 2: Two sources and we needed to get that out of
Speaker 2: the way. Well, there's that was a cliffhang.
Speaker 3: It was we have an email about it. Three things
Speaker 3: that one also want to say at the top for
Speaker 3: the you know, I always forget this, we uh at
Speaker 3: the end of the show. We always answer questions from
Speaker 3: Bucks fans and we love doing that. So please send
Speaker 3: us your questions or commnswer questions. Come see this is
Speaker 3: this is the problem, Jeff. But you can't. You wouldn't
Speaker 3: believe how many of the emails made a joke about
Speaker 3: me not wanting to read emails. It's all because of you,
Speaker 3: and it's not true.
Speaker 2: They listened to the podcast, they heard what they heard.
Speaker 3: If you send us emails, we will read them. Theoretically,
Speaker 3: there could get a point where there'd be too many
Speaker 3: for one show and we wouldn't have time. But let's
Speaker 3: cross that bridge when we come to it.
Speaker 2: And if that happens, the whole show will be well, but.
Speaker 3: We've done that before. We did that after one season
Speaker 3: there think it was after the Super Bowl season. We
Speaker 3: had the whole show with just fans questions.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 3: And then the third thing, Okay, so what I want
Speaker 3: to say is to send us questions. Email them to
Speaker 3: Salty Dogs at Buccaneers dot NFL dot com.
Speaker 2: Very good.
Speaker 3: Don't forget the dot NFL part in the middle. It's
Speaker 3: a little weird, but it won't get to us if
Speaker 3: you don't include it. And then the third thing was
Speaker 3: we didn't give a and we said we'd come back
Speaker 3: to it. We really didn't give a satisfactory answer to
Speaker 3: what the NFL's concussion protocol is. Oh, so it's a
Speaker 3: five step process. I'm not talking about the protocol to
Speaker 3: how they're put in there, because there's a protocol for
Speaker 3: that too, but once they've begun the protocol to return,
Speaker 3: it's called return to participation protocol. Phase one is symptom
Speaker 3: limited activity, so you're basically resting or avoiding activities both
Speaker 3: physical and cognitive. Phase two is aerobic exercise, and this
Speaker 3: has to be done under the guy, under the view
Speaker 3: of the medical staff, and they begin to do you know, cardio,
Speaker 3: dynamic stretching, stuff like that. Neurocognitive and bounce testing can
Speaker 3: be administered after completion of phase two, and the results
Speaker 3: should be interpreted as a back to baseline. Remember I
Speaker 3: was talking about how they take a baseline cognitive reading
Speaker 3: before the season. Phase three is football specific exercise, so
Speaker 3: things that mimic you're not practicing with the team yet,
Speaker 3: but they mimic things you do in football, also supervised.
Speaker 3: Phase four is club based non contact training drills.
Speaker 2: All right, that would be out on the field, Yeah,
Speaker 2: going through conditions, Yeah, walk through type thing.
Speaker 3: And again all of these in with the the TED
Speaker 3: players being tested and the results going back to baseline.
Speaker 3: And then Phase four is full full activity slash clearance
Speaker 3: now and it is upon clearance by the club physician.
Speaker 3: That's what it says. It must be examined by the
Speaker 3: independent neurological consultant assigned to his club.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's both it's us.
Speaker 3: And an independent Okay.
Speaker 2: We have a doctor that we select and then they
Speaker 2: have a doctor that they select us. So that's good,
Speaker 2: that excellent look at us cleaning up.
Speaker 3: Well, that our doctors clear them for full full football
Speaker 3: activity involving contact, and when they do that, then they
Speaker 3: must be examined by the independent.
Speaker 2: Neural Okay, all right, we got all that out of
Speaker 2: the way.
Speaker 3: Now it's time to dive into this beautiful, wonderful, magical.
Speaker 2: It's a short week. It's not that magical Philadelphia, but
Speaker 2: it certainly makes it easy.
Speaker 3: Well, you know how much we like to beat the Eagles.
Speaker 2: First of all, warms my heart like nothing else.
Speaker 3: One of our emails is gonna talk about that, about
Speaker 3: the whole history of the Eagles. Eagles, something's been around
Speaker 3: for a while and remembers all the way back to
Speaker 3: seventy nine, because some of our listeners probably don't realize
Speaker 3: how long ago this.
Speaker 2: I remember that that was a rival, was a big,
Speaker 2: big NFL today was down here at that game, in
Speaker 2: that particular one. I did not go to that game, no, no,
Speaker 2: but it was It was probably one of the biggest
Speaker 2: things that happened in Tampa Bay in a very long time,
Speaker 2: and no one gave us a chance to win.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it was a great game. We'll discuss it later.
Speaker 3: Look at look at all these notes, Jeff. I mean,
Speaker 3: first of all, there's some on the back too. I
Speaker 3: was taking them during the game.
Speaker 2: Certainly don't look like Tom Brady's notes. He had eight pages.
Speaker 3: Little were they well organized, because this is not he.
Speaker 2: Said they were. But I tried, you know, I freeze,
Speaker 2: I froze the frame and tried to read it, and
Speaker 2: you know, all I could make out was that Chicago
Speaker 2: was only offering him ten million, and the Bucks said
Speaker 2: twenty seven million. So yeah, that was one of the two.
Speaker 3: He did admit that salary was part of it, apparently,
Speaker 3: so I didn't see this. I've just heard that he
Speaker 3: had eighteen reasons, eighteen pros, Yeah, and this is coming here.
Speaker 2: And then the sleeper was Chicago is one that wasn't
Speaker 2: discussed or talked about it. And he said that once
Speaker 2: he made a decision to come to Tampa Bay, he
Speaker 2: saw no reason to talk about it.
Speaker 3: I think that's that. I think that's true until after
Speaker 3: it's all settled, right, Yeah, And I actually think that
Speaker 3: speaks well of Chicago that they were trying to make
Speaker 3: a move like that.
Speaker 2: Apparently not hard enough, if not enough, offering ten million.
Speaker 3: But I mean there's a lot of teams that didn't
Speaker 3: get involved at all.
Speaker 2: But that's true, that's true, and and.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe they're like, he's a forty four year
Speaker 3: old quarterback. We don't want to sign him. There be
Speaker 3: the ones where he falls off the ledge, right, but
Speaker 3: that didn't happen to wrong, wrong, wrong, don't doubt Tom
Speaker 3: Brady is the lesson we've all learned. I have not
Speaker 3: yet got to hear any of his broadcasts.
Speaker 2: What do you think He starts out a little slow,
Speaker 2: but then he picks it up and gets into the groove.
Speaker 2: You can you can hear you You notice the difference
Speaker 2: in the beginning, and then later on he's more like himself.
Speaker 2: But you know, there's a lot, there's a lot going on,
Speaker 2: and you know it's not as easy as everyone believes
Speaker 2: it is. And each each time I've watched and listened
Speaker 2: he is certainly it's not easy. Though he certainly has
Speaker 2: moved in the right direction. The needle is going up
Speaker 2: and he's going to be very good at it. He
Speaker 2: he gets into a lot of stuff about quarterbacks and
Speaker 2: which which I, you know, felt that I thought was
Speaker 2: very interesting. Sometimes I was like, jeez, I wonder if
Speaker 2: the casual fan would But then I'm like, well, there's
Speaker 2: no reason that dummy it down. You know, ahead and
Speaker 2: do that and learned that's what he's there. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: learned something. Yeah, I actually got home and we watched
Speaker 2: that game immediately after you just rewatched it.
Speaker 3: Yeah that's a good idea.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it was still fresh and then it was
Speaker 2: it was kind of fun because you know, you knew
Speaker 2: when a big play was coming up. And interesting enough,
Speaker 2: the stadium looked really really cool, like you're there, but
Speaker 2: the way TV shoots that it even you know, I
Speaker 2: can see why people get excited about having the pirate
Speaker 2: ship and yeah, and here in the can it's.
Speaker 3: A very unique stadium.
Speaker 2: So it was good and it and you know, they
Speaker 2: did talk about you know, Tom talked about what Baker
Speaker 2: said about being a little tense and everything, and I
Speaker 2: personally felt that I was a little too rehearsed what
Speaker 2: he was going to say. His quote looks better in
Speaker 2: print than it did as he delivered it. And he
Speaker 2: did it, and then they went back to him, like,
Speaker 2: you know, it was like, oh, I think you have
Speaker 2: more to say about that. So I don't know if
Speaker 2: someone would say, hey, you need to finish.
Speaker 3: It between them, they did.
Speaker 2: And it was really very cool, and I I must say,
Speaker 2: I was very pleased. I was quite shocked. I was
Speaker 2: in the Spanish radio booth, which is right next to
Speaker 2: the CBS or I'm that Fox booth, and as I
Speaker 2: was coming out, guess who I ran into Tom Brady.
Speaker 2: I did, and he said, hello, how are you? I said, good?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: How about that A pity conversation, right right, you, I
Speaker 2: had no idea who I was. You probably justiced.
Speaker 3: He probably kind of knew who you were, but maybe
Speaker 3: didn't know.
Speaker 2: It's funny. It's funny you say that because I mentioned
Speaker 2: it to Jason Lytton. He goes, oh, he he, he
Speaker 2: remembered you. I thought that was nice.
Speaker 3: I mean you had to work with him at times, right, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: you may have heard me typing on my laptop idea
Speaker 3: you were talking. That's because we have a series of
Speaker 3: roster moves were about to put out again. Oh my, well,
Speaker 3: earlier today we waved defensive woman Ben Stilly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, guy who got a fumble recover.
Speaker 3: I know he was in the field for two defensive
Speaker 3: plays and got a fund more recover.
Speaker 2: And oh nice job, you're well.
Speaker 3: I mean he could come back to the practice squad.
Speaker 3: I think that he was on the Arizona practice squad
Speaker 3: before we signed him. So he's gotten four games in,
Speaker 3: you know, in a regular season paycheck.
Speaker 2: And don't you have to keep him on your if
Speaker 2: it's either.
Speaker 3: Three or four weeks. We can remember, if you sign
Speaker 3: a player off of somebody else's practice squad, you have
Speaker 3: to keep them on your active roster. It used to
Speaker 3: be three. We were trying to figure out if they
Speaker 3: changed it to four. They've changed a lot of the
Speaker 3: rules on duration of time and IR and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: It's no reflection in this particular instance, it's no reflection
Speaker 2: out as play. It's a numbers game. How they're trying
Speaker 2: to get someone else exactly right?
Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what are And then Servasity Dennis,
Speaker 3: who hurt his shoulder against the Eagles, is going to
Speaker 3: injury reserve. So well, I mean there's injured.
Speaker 2: Reserve to but he returns one.
Speaker 3: It's a shoulder. Interesting, he would have to miss a
Speaker 3: minimum before yet, okay, which is maybe about how long they're.
Speaker 2: Anticipating it's not yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: And then so those two open spots were used to
Speaker 3: promote sign off of not elevate for the game, but
Speaker 3: actually signed to the fifty three min roster. Wide receiver
Speaker 3: Serling Shepherd and rookie linebacker Antonio Greer because we needed
Speaker 3: numbers there because it's probably not likely that Trey Palmer
Speaker 3: concussion or Jalen McMillan hamstring will play Thursday. I would
Speaker 3: have hard time seeing a guy clear concussion protocol from
Speaker 3: Sunday to Thursday, so especially when all you're doing is
Speaker 3: walk throughs, so you wouldn't never have that like full
Speaker 3: full football activity. And then we re signed rookie lamback
Speaker 3: or Kaylin Deloache to the practice squad, and there's still
Speaker 3: one more spot that will probably be filled tomorrow on
Speaker 3: the precic squad, so you know we needed to be
Speaker 3: It could be stilly. I don't know. I don't have
Speaker 3: any inside information on that, but lots of times when
Speaker 3: you release a guy from your practice squad but you
Speaker 3: still like him if you have a spot. I mean,
Speaker 3: he could sign with anybody at this point. He could
Speaker 3: be claimed to favers, doesn't matter. Oh yeah, we didn't.
Speaker 3: We didn't release him. We waved him because he's only
Speaker 3: a second year player. All right. So anyway, this game,
Speaker 3: we got to talk about.
Speaker 2: This game something special.
Speaker 3: This is fun. We're not going to be very salty today.
Speaker 3: I think what I really liked about it was and
Speaker 3: I noticed right away that the first we get the
Speaker 3: ball first, right the first five plays.
Speaker 2: And that was the Eagles fault because they won the toss.
Speaker 3: I know, but you noticed that we have changed our
Speaker 3: we want to start on offense this.
Speaker 2: Year, Baker said, so.
Speaker 3: So we were going to have the ball first no
Speaker 3: matter who won that. So in that case, you probably
Speaker 3: want to lose it because then you get to choose
Speaker 3: the direction and you still get the ball. So, first
Speaker 3: five plays of that drive, which was a seven yard
Speaker 3: touchdown drive. By the way, the first time since the
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two season finale.
Speaker 2: Since Tom Brady was around, that.
Speaker 3: We scored a touchdown on the opening drive.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 3: We actually scored touchdowns under two opening drives and three
Speaker 3: of the first four. But yeah, on that one, the
Speaker 3: first five plays, the ball went to five different players.
Speaker 3: It was like Mike, Trey, Rashad, Bucky and I think
Speaker 3: maybe Kate, everybody was and Trey Palmer. Yeah, it was
Speaker 3: five different guys, and it was a lot of We
Speaker 3: started off with a lot of stuff out to the perimeter,
Speaker 3: both passes and runs, and because we knew that's what
Speaker 3: they're going to be giving us. They played a lot
Speaker 3: of off coverage and and not a lot of man
Speaker 3: to man and two shell to safety high trying to
Speaker 3: take away big plays. So we're like, okay, we'll take
Speaker 3: this until you change and then we'll do other things.
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what happened, right Yeah, And in the
Speaker 3: end he had completed it to passes to eight different
Speaker 3: players for three hundred and forty seven yards. He got
Speaker 3: the ball repeatedly to Mike Evans, he got the ball
Speaker 3: repeatedly to Chris Godwin, He got Kate Otton involved. Trey
Speaker 3: Palmer was having a real nice game before he got
Speaker 3: hurt on what I thought should have been a penalty
Speaker 3: a hit on the punt return. He got a concussion.
Speaker 3: Rashad White got involved in the passing game. Bucky had a.
Speaker 2: Nice catch, Shepherd had a nice catch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sterling chef. That was a big play because they
Speaker 3: had scored to make yeah, well it was a thirty
Speaker 3: year play and they had scored in the.
Speaker 2: Quarter to get the first hame.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, to pull within, to pull within ten points,
Speaker 3: and you're starting to get a little nervous. I have
Speaker 3: to admit I looked up the biggest blown lead franchise history.
Speaker 2: Twenty six to three La Rams.
Speaker 3: No, that was twenty eight to three, by the way.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, maybe it was twenty eight to three, just
Speaker 2: like Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 3: It wasn't that game, though, may I may be misremembering.
Speaker 2: I thought I thought it was the Rams even in three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, when ty jear'msure long touchdown pass yep where
Speaker 3: the two defenders hit him from each side and they
Speaker 3: both fell off and he just kept running. Let me
Speaker 3: look it up. I had looked it up already. I
Speaker 3: was ready. I didn't want to use it obviously. The
Speaker 3: answer is twenty five wow. And we were. We had
Speaker 3: a twenty four zero lead, so it would have been
Speaker 3: tied for the second worst. But it didn't happen. So
Speaker 3: it turns out when you get a twenty four point lead,
Speaker 3: you usually don't blow it the odds up, even if
Speaker 3: you get scared a little bit along the way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't think there's enough possessions. That's usually
Speaker 2: what happens. You know, time runs out, so yeah, but
Speaker 2: if the team another team is scoring.
Speaker 3: On November eighth, nineteen eighty seven, and this that was
Speaker 3: the strike season, but this was not a strike game.
Speaker 3: Buccaneers were up in Saint Louis, my hometown. They were
Speaker 3: up on the old Bush Old Saint Louis Cardinals. They
Speaker 3: were up twenty eight to three on the Saint Louis
Speaker 3: Cardinals going into the fourth quarter and lost thirty one
Speaker 3: to twenty eight. They have four touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Well,
Speaker 3: one of them was a defensive What year was that,
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty seven that would have been under Ray Perkins.
Speaker 2: I think, yes, correct, Okay, his first season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was probably not his favorite game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably not good.
Speaker 3: So anyway, you know, just the spreading the ball around,
Speaker 3: it was big to me. And and they were getting
Speaker 3: rewarded or Baker was getting rewarded because these guys were
Speaker 3: fighting for yards. Man like Kate Otton on the sideline
Speaker 3: shot White a couple of times. Yep, they were fighting
Speaker 3: for every yard. Those guys, I don't know, they were
Speaker 3: locked in for that game.
Speaker 2: There was something for everyone in that game. If you
Speaker 2: were a Buccaneer fan, you know you got to you
Speaker 2: got definitely got your money's worth, no question on that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you're a Mike Evans fan, if you're a
Speaker 3: Levante David fan, you're addavea fan.
Speaker 2: Well, it was interesting with the Mike Evans thing is
Speaker 2: you know, Mike was on Buccaneers Total Access last Monday,
Speaker 2: two Mondays ago, and he made a comment that he
Speaker 2: likes to get in the mix right away. He likes
Speaker 2: to just get an easy ball, get me get my
Speaker 2: juices going blah blah blah. First play of the game, just.
Speaker 3: A bok right there because they were playing way off
Speaker 3: them and then just get fed on the ball real
Speaker 3: quick and got six or seven yards.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: In the lost to Denver, which is the bucks only
Speaker 3: stumbles so far, and it really was a bad one.
Speaker 3: It was a bad game, especially offensively. Our longest play
Speaker 3: from scrimmage was thirteen yards in that entire game in
Speaker 3: one completion in one run. They were thirteen yards in
Speaker 3: this game against Philadelphia. I was counting. We had six
Speaker 3: plays of more guards than thirteen in the first two
Speaker 3: drives alone.
Speaker 2: I just would I find and it'll be interesting on
Speaker 2: Thursday night if they can continue the way they were playing.
Speaker 2: I just like the fact that you lay an egg
Speaker 2: against Denver. Now, as it turns out, Denver's got a
Speaker 2: pretty good defense. They held the Jets. Aaron Rodgers even
Speaker 2: though it was kind of bad weather. That being said,
Speaker 2: when you lay an egg like that and be able
Speaker 2: to come back and play as well as they did,
Speaker 2: that speaks a lot for coaching staff, and it speaks
Speaker 2: a lot of the leaders of this team, because if you,
Speaker 2: I mean, those guys were not happy about that game,
Speaker 2: right yeah, And and you and I both been around
Speaker 2: where teams aren't always that way, you know, they they
Speaker 2: do it, and especially if it's later in the season,
Speaker 2: it's like the season's over with whatever, you know, but pride.
Speaker 3: As Baker's pointed out several times, we were three and
Speaker 3: one to start last year too, and we all know
Speaker 3: that went west six of our first seven. And I
Speaker 3: know they're very much aware of this.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, And it's a long road right now with
Speaker 2: who we play.
Speaker 3: In Michael panic around. The injury report will be a
Speaker 3: little while untill we announce it. But since this won't
Speaker 3: be up until tomorrow, right right, I guess the best
Speaker 3: things Mike Evans didn't practic. It was estimated because they
Speaker 3: didn't really practice yesterday and it's estimating in today. But
Speaker 3: Mike Evans improved to a limited as did Will Golston,
Speaker 3: but still no Collija Kancy still no Antoine Winfield. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I was hoping this was the week for those guys.
Speaker 2: I'm this, This is just me talking my philosophy behind this.
Speaker 2: You're going to have after the Thursday game, you got
Speaker 2: ten days another t That's probably what they're thinking, so
Speaker 2: let's make extra doubly triple sure that everything's going to
Speaker 2: be okay. So I would be very surprised if they
Speaker 2: were around for this Thursday's game.
Speaker 3: And in fact, Trey Palmer and Jeale McMillan did not
Speaker 3: practice okay as expected. All Right, So okay, that was
Speaker 3: a little bit of a sidetrack there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I do. Well, I did that, that's true. Well,
Speaker 2: we were talking, so anyways.
Speaker 3: I loved the this. These are just I guess these
Speaker 3: are somewhat in order chronologically because I was writing him down.
Speaker 3: As the game went along. Came the touchdown run by
Speaker 3: Baker that was just absolutely perfectly run read zone. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know what I'm talking about. He has to decide
Speaker 3: whether to I think it was Bucky, but it was.
Speaker 3: He has to decide whether give it to him or
Speaker 3: keep it himself. And you're reading the defensive end, and
Speaker 3: if the defensive end crashes down on the back. You
Speaker 3: keep it, you pull it out. Yep, And he did,
Speaker 3: and he did, and he read it right, and sure
Speaker 3: enough that guy just if he had handed it to Bucky,
Speaker 3: it would have been like a two yard loss. But
Speaker 3: by going after Bucky and he left lane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Baker just zipped up and all they had
Speaker 2: was his ankle after he was already in.
Speaker 3: And then he pulled his foot away from the defender
Speaker 3: and then looked down him and said something. I'd love
Speaker 3: to know what he said.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe get your weight up, I don't know,
Speaker 2: get your hands off me. He wasn't Mike, Mike, Mike
Speaker 2: Evans is miked up. And from my from what I'm hearing,
Speaker 2: there's some pretty funny story.
Speaker 3: Oh good, Yeah good. So then did not long after
Speaker 3: that stroling Shepherd got his first catch.
Speaker 2: You know what, if he can stay healthy, he's gonna
Speaker 2: be I mean, what are you gonna do? Yeah?
Speaker 3: What do you?
Speaker 2: What are you doing? I mean, you got him, you
Speaker 2: got Chris, you got Mike. If you're a defensive coordinator,
Speaker 2: who you got.
Speaker 3: It's tough.
Speaker 2: It's tough.
Speaker 3: We do need that third option.
Speaker 1: Though.
Speaker 3: It's good that he's around sensible Jalen and then Trey.
Speaker 3: Trey was doing a nice job if that.
Speaker 2: Touchdown catch.
Speaker 3: Baker said today he was asked about his tight window
Speaker 3: throws and if when they watched tape ever later, if
Speaker 3: he's ever liked just amazed, He says, well, I'm really
Speaker 3: more impressed by the guys making the catches because like
Speaker 3: it's like they're running one of those drills on the
Speaker 3: practice field where people are waving arms and other things
Speaker 3: in their face and they have to focus and catch
Speaker 3: that ball.
Speaker 2: The one the one thing, Yeah, the one thing I
Speaker 2: just really like about Baker Mayfield is he's always even
Speaker 2: if he makes a great throw, he always talks about
Speaker 2: the receiver, talks about his fellow teammates, which I think
Speaker 2: is just great leader leader ship. And we we've been
Speaker 2: we've all seen that where that's not always the case
Speaker 2: with with players.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean that was a great throw because he
Speaker 3: is a dark tom er.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Liam Cohen said, it was a really simple play that's
Speaker 3: been run a million times. It was like a combination.
Speaker 3: He had the slant or flag no what do you
Speaker 3: call it. There was a there was a hit. That
Speaker 3: route was like a deep slant and then there was
Speaker 3: a route into the flat, so if that's not open,
Speaker 3: then one of the flat probably is. And Baker chose
Speaker 3: the more difficult option because there was a linebacker coming
Speaker 3: from the other way that he had to get the
Speaker 3: ball over, and he did and a great catch. Chris
Speaker 3: Godwin also had a great catch on arm You just
Speaker 3: how you know, really tight window and I don't know
Speaker 3: how you catch that ball?
Speaker 2: He is, Yeah, you need a third down? Hello, Chris.
Speaker 3: Yeah. He leads the NFL in reception first downs's on
Speaker 3: third down catches.
Speaker 2: This sew Yeah, I can see that he's going to
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 3: He's got nine of them. That's and that on ten
Speaker 3: third down catches.
Speaker 2: And again a very humble individual. He spoke on Monday
Speaker 2: and just you know, like I'm doing my job. You know,
Speaker 2: we're all in this together. Good fALS.
Speaker 3: So I don't know if you heard all I said there.
Speaker 3: He's caught ten passes on third down and nine of
Speaker 3: them have gone for first downs. Do you remember the
Speaker 3: one that didn't? It was that third and twenty two
Speaker 3: screen in Detroit where he got nineteen yards. So he's
Speaker 3: almost ten for ten.
Speaker 2: How dare him not kidding?
Speaker 3: The next thing, I had written down was was just
Speaker 3: Bucky has just great vision. When he's he makes just
Speaker 3: he's you can tell he's just got natural vision because
Speaker 3: he just makes those cuts that you and routinely, and
Speaker 3: he sees where the lanes are, and even when he
Speaker 3: gets into the like the second level, he's just so decisive.
Speaker 3: You know. I don't think that's something that backs can
Speaker 3: be taught. I think, like just like I don't. I
Speaker 3: don't think you can probably improve it. But a quarterback
Speaker 3: is either going to be able to read the field
Speaker 3: well not or not right. You can probably improve that
Speaker 3: based on what they have, but you're always gonna have
Speaker 3: a guy like Tom Brady who just knows just he
Speaker 3: he can look and see the whole picture. Whereas if
Speaker 3: I were trying to play quarterback, I would be like,
Speaker 3: oh is that guy? Wait? Is that guy? You know?
Speaker 3: Like I wouldn't be able to see the whole field
Speaker 3: and I would probably throw eight interceptions.
Speaker 2: I really, I really like the combination of both White
Speaker 2: and and herving it's working. It is. I mean, they're
Speaker 2: two different, two different styles, and that's that's that's good.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing, and and uh.
Speaker 3: That's what they wanted.
Speaker 2: I mean, how about the one handed catch which I
Speaker 2: at first thought I was a forward pass, but no,
Speaker 2: after further review was I said that.
Speaker 3: Immediately as it was happening, I'm like, oh, that's backwards,
Speaker 3: and yeah, it makes the one. If that ball hit
Speaker 3: the ground, not only would tumble, but there's a defender
Speaker 3: the probably would have picked it up and gone the distance. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like they did on that crazy blocked extra point. That's
Speaker 3: the thing. I was bummed by that because that's the
Speaker 3: first extra point that Chase McLachlan has missed. And sometimes
Speaker 3: when you have a kick blocked, it's because you probably
Speaker 3: hit it two lva trajectory and the big guys give.
Speaker 3: This is one of those weird, rare ones that used
Speaker 3: to have more often where the guy ran off the
Speaker 3: edge and dived.
Speaker 2: Well, this last black the last block, backup job.
Speaker 3: You might want to last out. Huh, you might want
Speaker 3: to edit this out later.
Speaker 2: Nah. Well, wow, the last blocked extra point was against
Speaker 2: Carolina and we won that game.
Speaker 3: Did you know that before I tweeted that out?
Speaker 2: I looked it up.
Speaker 3: Oh, tweeted that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, Well you didn't have it out as fast as
Speaker 2: I needed it.
Speaker 3: For Gene, So how did you how did you look
Speaker 3: that up.
Speaker 2: In the Jean made a cup. Yeah, that's my no, no, no.
Speaker 2: Jeane made a comment that when was the last He asked,
Speaker 2: when was the last time that happened? And I got
Speaker 2: the media guide out and I went through and looked
Speaker 2: at games because he thought it was Carolina and I
Speaker 2: looked at the game and went, okay, this is where
Speaker 2: it was.
Speaker 3: So do you know that I have a file and
Speaker 3: it's in the weekly game release called the last Time?
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I didn't, And well we did see that, Yes,
Speaker 2: we saw that, but we wanted to know.
Speaker 3: Oh what happened? Yeah, okay, because I spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time on those stat sheets, would be nice.
Speaker 2: No, no, I you know that what you're talking about
Speaker 2: the last We use that all the time.
Speaker 3: And if you don't understand out they're listening to what
Speaker 3: I'm talking about. The file is called last time and
Speaker 3: it's just like fifty different categories and when's the last
Speaker 3: time it happened? For the Buccaneers, like last time they
Speaker 3: had a hundred yard rushing game, last time they had
Speaker 3: two hundred yard rushers in the same game, last time
Speaker 3: they had an interception for return for a touch and
Speaker 3: the last time they went by twenty points. Stuff like that.
Speaker 2: Stuff that's great to have, and it's very the whole point.
Speaker 3: The whole point is to save you time during gaming
Speaker 3: when something happens and you go, wow, when's the last
Speaker 3: time that happened.
Speaker 2: Sometimes sometimes the last time gets lost in the shuffle
Speaker 2: of all my papers. I do know how to work
Speaker 2: the laptop to get to the media.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Geno, this is probably when we should say that.
Speaker 3: He said Katie bar the door during the broadcast, so
Speaker 3: we're having influence on the broadcast.
Speaker 2: That was That was great because when he said it,
Speaker 2: I text Scott right away and said, Jeane just said
Speaker 2: Katie bar the door and he and Scott replies back, yeah,
Speaker 2: he told me who was going to do that?
Speaker 3: He just waited for the right moment. It was great.
Speaker 2: But I will say this, Uh, so many people have
Speaker 2: never heard that before. So I feel good that we've
Speaker 2: enlightened people.
Speaker 3: I enlightened some people at the plunch table yesterday and
Speaker 3: none of them have ever heard of.
Speaker 2: No, it's it's one of im not I don't know.
Speaker 2: But luckily we didn't have to because well that was
Speaker 2: a play he did.
Speaker 3: Didn't need we were talking about how Baker was just
Speaker 3: and Bakers himself said, you know, we were just in
Speaker 3: really them. I was getting the ball into the hands
Speaker 3: of our playmakers right and letting them make plays. Two
Speaker 3: d and four of our four hundred and forty five
Speaker 3: yards of offense were was yak yards after the catch.
Speaker 3: That's great. That means you're really scheming up good plays
Speaker 3: where your guys can run with the ball in their hands,
Speaker 3: they are not just immediately getting hit.
Speaker 2: Yep, that's pretty cool. It was very very cool.
Speaker 3: Did you know who helps Liam in the headset with
Speaker 3: various things.
Speaker 2: Well, he mentioned it during the the press conference today.
Speaker 2: I didn't write down who it is, but there's like
Speaker 2: three different people, one for third downs, one for defensive players.
Speaker 3: And all these prosperous are going on. I'm going to
Speaker 3: tweet the game. I've got a ready to go.
Speaker 2: I just have to push them, k you just have
Speaker 2: to push a button.
Speaker 3: Tweet scent that it's just that sence. If you if
Speaker 3: you follow me on Twitter and get notifications, you'll know
Speaker 3: exactly when we were recording this because you just got
Speaker 3: this tweet about our rosters. So it's Josh Grizzard pass
Speaker 3: game coordinator gives them just kind of general information because
Speaker 3: they work together designing the passing game. Jeff Castle gives
Speaker 3: him down in distance and field position, and Brian Pacucci
Speaker 3: gives him the defensive personnel. And he said that was
Speaker 3: really important in this game because they were switching back
Speaker 3: forth a lot because of the heat. No, it's because
Speaker 3: they were he I didn't. I don't know what this is.
Speaker 3: But they were running six to one.
Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. I don't.
Speaker 3: But then they would when we went to twelve, they
Speaker 3: would switch to base twelve means two tight ends and
Speaker 3: then just the different personal groupings they were switching back
Speaker 3: and forth between, and we had different plans for whatever
Speaker 3: they were using, right, So that's why they needed to know.
Speaker 2: That worked out well. But that's that's interesting that And
Speaker 2: and I guess if you're if you're there, you can't
Speaker 2: keep track of everything. Plus those guys are up in
Speaker 2: the box, so that helps.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they can, they.
Speaker 2: Can see, they can see, and they're focused on that
Speaker 2: main event. And that's that's.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: I sometimes I'll get into just watching the old line
Speaker 2: or watching something just and it does change how you,
Speaker 2: you know, view the game.
Speaker 3: That's true. I had Brie Breed Dicks, Briandon Dick's. She
Speaker 3: sits next to me in the press box and this
Speaker 3: this note kept going up and she just kept like
Speaker 3: just being amazed by it. We started off really well
Speaker 3: on both sides of the ball, and so at some
Speaker 3: point we had like one hundred and something yards to
Speaker 3: their zero net yards, and then it got all the
Speaker 3: way up by the middle of the Before they finally
Speaker 3: went on their first touchdown drive in the middle of
Speaker 3: the second quarter, with seventy eighteen left in the half,
Speaker 3: the yardage differential was two hundred and fifty four to zero.
Speaker 2: I know that's a bad day.
Speaker 3: We've been on the other side of those couple of
Speaker 3: times and they feel so bad.
Speaker 2: Alam. Yeah, let's take I don't okay on a Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Who knew? You know what?
Speaker 3: We haven't brought up somehow in quite some time. We
Speaker 3: used to accidentally do it, like every podcast is that
Speaker 3: Indie game in two thousand and three? Yeah, well why
Speaker 3: it always came up? But it did. Yeah, so why
Speaker 3: did I bring up? You know? And you gotta admit also,
Speaker 3: we had sixteen first downs at that point to zero
Speaker 3: for them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you have time of possession.
Speaker 3: We had some key injuries, but they also were missing
Speaker 3: both aj Brown and Devonte Smith, and one has to
Speaker 3: believe that that makes a big difference to your office.
Speaker 2: Right, But you have to play who you have on the.
Speaker 3: Field and.
Speaker 2: Thoughts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, at least you can get a
Speaker 3: little You can give our defense all the credit in
Speaker 3: the world, particularly Levante David, but you should acknowledge that
Speaker 3: they didn't have those two or they're great, right tackle.
Speaker 2: Johnson and the Eagles can't take a moral victory, not
Speaker 2: that there ever is one, but fans like to go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but you know, we played close and we didn't have anybody,
Speaker 2: and you know, on this particular game, you didn't have
Speaker 2: anybody and you got totally dominated as you should have
Speaker 2: because you didn't have anybody. And their head coach said
Speaker 2: that they didn't coach up the backups good enough. You
Speaker 2: know that they didn't have their horses basically, which I
Speaker 2: thought was like, I don't know how long he'll be there. No,
Speaker 2: I'm serious, he's been in a look at last, look
Speaker 2: at I know.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if we should be talking about
Speaker 3: other coaches.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I'm not. I'm just saying go ahead.
Speaker 3: Uh. There was a stoppage in the in the I
Speaker 3: played for a while at one point when a guy
Speaker 3: on the chain game got hurt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we actually did an injury update on him, and
Speaker 2: we did. He was okay, and that's why we did it.
Speaker 2: And I can't remember his name. No, no, I can't
Speaker 2: remember Rick, No it was I can't remember Steve. Wasn't
Speaker 2: something that clicked. But we had the update. And you know,
Speaker 2: we were a service, We're a full service broadcast and
Speaker 2: that's why we have TJ on the sidelines. And he
Speaker 2: said to me, he goes, hey, if you want an
Speaker 2: update on the first down, guy, I got it. I said,
Speaker 2: you know what I do want day, let's go with it.
Speaker 2: We will do anything to get on the Uh. But
Speaker 2: you know what, that is good stuff because you don't
Speaker 2: think about it, but people do wonder about stuff like that.
Speaker 2: And that was that was a hard hit too. You
Speaker 2: just gotta run over. Yeah it is bleeding, was he?
Speaker 3: Yes, it was a Jordan.
Speaker 2: And I mean Bobby was there. Sam got over there
Speaker 2: over the hell. Yeah, they were immediate.
Speaker 3: That's good. Yeah, I mean that guy matters too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you just I've never been on the sideline during
Speaker 2: a game because I'm always up in the box. But
Speaker 2: like when we're at UH practice, when we practice against
Speaker 2: another team, it's a little faster. I am always shocked
Speaker 2: how fast it is when you're standing there, how much
Speaker 2: how fast they come up on you. And I've also
Speaker 2: learned that when they're coming at you, sometimes you just
Speaker 2: stand still because they see you and they'll go around
Speaker 2: rather than you stepping.
Speaker 3: But you have to keep your head on a swivel.
Speaker 3: You can't be staring at your phone when the place.
Speaker 3: Unless you're behind the play, then you're okay. But if
Speaker 3: you're in front of the line of scrimmage on the side,
Speaker 3: otherwise you could get hurt. You could also just become
Speaker 3: like the subject of a video that has stored around
Speaker 3: here forever and then routinely brought people laugh. I think
Speaker 3: that happened to Alan Barratt, didn't it.
Speaker 2: Probably remember when they used to do the Sniper.
Speaker 4: Yeah in the in the Yeah in the in the
Speaker 4: hype video where someone would fall where someone would fall down,
Speaker 4: and then they would run the clip of the Sniper
Speaker 4: and the movie The Sniper.
Speaker 3: Where he gets his rifle American.
Speaker 2: No, it was another move. I think it was just
Speaker 2: called The Sniper.
Speaker 3: The Sniper, Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: And he would uh you know, that would show him
Speaker 2: just patiently waiting, aligning, doing and all of that. But
Speaker 2: I want to say it was neam. I want to
Speaker 2: say I can't remember. I don't see a lot of movies,
Speaker 2: but I do. I did enjoy that.
Speaker 3: There's something called the Sniper from twenty twenty two. Yeah, no, Sniper,
Speaker 3: the White Raven.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 3: There is something from nineteen fifty No, no.
Speaker 2: No, this is like in the.
Speaker 3: Mid there's something just called Sniper with Tom Berenger and
Speaker 3: Billy Zane.
Speaker 2: That might be it.
Speaker 3: What year nineteen ninety three? There's something called the Sniper
Speaker 3: with from twenty fifteen with Stephen Manzino.
Speaker 2: Maybe that's the one I've never heard.
Speaker 3: Of Stephen Manzino.
Speaker 2: No, no, either way, I got us off on a
Speaker 2: side trick. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: That's okay. It's good to give him a movie rout.
Speaker 3: Last week, I think I recommended The Fall Guy, right.
Speaker 2: You did, and I.
Speaker 3: Am.
Speaker 2: I think I'm going to watch that going to Atlanta.
Speaker 3: You got okay, then you got to get there early
Speaker 3: and started before the because you will have time to
Speaker 3: finish it on a one hour.
Speaker 2: Right, But I figure I get it on the backside
Speaker 2: because I just watch it half and a half. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because going Home always seems to take longer to take
Speaker 2: off from.
Speaker 3: Okay, I highly recommend it. I can't recommend it enough. Right, Well,
Speaker 3: you know the toush push still works.
Speaker 2: Oh I hate that play, totally hate it.
Speaker 3: I mean, in the past we have stopped it a
Speaker 3: couple times. Yeah, so I was hoping, but we didn't
Speaker 3: stop it once and they used it over and over again.
Speaker 2: Now, well that was their best offensive place. I think
Speaker 2: they used it, not down on the Eagles at all,
Speaker 2: just so you know.
Speaker 3: I think they used it like on third and one
Speaker 3: from the two and then got the first down and
Speaker 3: then just used it again to get the end zone. Sure,
Speaker 3: it is annoying because you're looking at going really crap,
Speaker 3: we can't stop it. Yeah, there's nothing we can do.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, like I said, use what you got, and
Speaker 2: that's all they had.
Speaker 3: So I did think. You can't say it was a
Speaker 3: great performance against sick one Barkley because he ended up
Speaker 3: with like eighty.
Speaker 2: Five yards eighty four yards, had that one big run,
Speaker 2: he had the big.
Speaker 3: Breakout run, which was bad. But I thought we handled
Speaker 3: him movie very much. I think you only got twenty
Speaker 3: five yards on nine carries.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, if you don't have your wide receivers and you're thinking, well,
Speaker 2: you've got this guy that you know the week before
Speaker 2: was just a bruiser. It took over the game when
Speaker 2: they played the Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, so you're thinking, okay,
Speaker 2: if that's your guy, you know, run them and you
Speaker 2: got to stop them. And when he did have the ball,
Speaker 2: they did stop him all except.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to account that did happen, and
Speaker 3: it got a touchdown because of it and really gained
Speaker 3: some momentum and got back into the game briefly.
Speaker 2: It did. It did make you go h oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah made it made made.
Speaker 2: You a little bit tighter and makes you go oh.
Speaker 2: But then our guy Levante David takes care of business.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was great. We can talk about Levante for
Speaker 3: the next if you want to. There's nothing we're gonna
Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm gonna save this one because there's actually
Speaker 3: in one of the questions from the fans, uh there,
Speaker 3: he asked me something about Levante and I looked it
Speaker 3: up and it turns out it's a really good note
Speaker 3: so teaser alert there.
Speaker 2: So if you you know who you are, something we
Speaker 2: can use.
Speaker 3: I've already tweeted it out.
Speaker 2: Oh you did. Okay, Well, just because you tweeted it out,
Speaker 2: it doesn't mean it can't be reused.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying it's it's it's a good note. Okay,
Speaker 3: things we can't. I mean, he had the the thirtieth
Speaker 3: force fuel of his career, which is tied for the
Speaker 3: most among active players. And if you look at the
Speaker 3: top ten or whatever, he's gonna he's gonna be the
Speaker 3: only guy on that list that is not an edge
Speaker 3: rusher because they get all those strips, like Jack Barrett. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Chack Barrett had a ton of them. Levonte Levontas this
Speaker 3: time was on a strip sack, but the majority of
Speaker 3: his force formals have not been that. He's rushing the past. So,
Speaker 3: whatever you thought of Devin White's game, and certainly he
Speaker 3: was a monster in the Super Bowl run playoffs, right,
Speaker 3: he had some great year. I think his second year
Speaker 3: that was a really good year. It maybe didn't end
Speaker 3: as well as anybody would have liked, Right, Maybe he
Speaker 3: wasn't at the top of his game. And now he's
Speaker 3: playing for the Eagles and he's been playing for Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's been a healthy scratch, but he you can say
Speaker 3: without hesitation that he was a really good pass rusher,
Speaker 3: really good. That was probably the best part of his
Speaker 3: game here. And so you think, well, you're kind of
Speaker 3: losing that element because I don't think k J. Britt
Speaker 3: is gonna be use as a pass rusher servasier. Maybe
Speaker 3: I haven't seen that yet. No, I think he did
Speaker 3: do it a couple of times in that game. But
Speaker 3: so Levante just decided, oh, okay, well then I'll just
Speaker 3: be the great pass rusher. He leads all off ball
Speaker 3: linebackers in pressure percentage in terms of when he I
Speaker 3: think in total pressures too. I think he has nine
Speaker 3: of them already.
Speaker 2: It's becoming like Rende Barber's kurying me loose.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, it's just crazy Levante. It's not just
Speaker 3: that he's still playing at a high level in this
Speaker 3: thirteenth season. It's that like he's being ested to do
Speaker 3: new things and oh gosh, look at this. He's great
Speaker 3: at it too. Now he's always been good, yeah, but
Speaker 3: they haven't always used him as much. He did improve
Speaker 3: his career total to thirty five and a half sacks
Speaker 3: moved him past Chidi Ahanitu into I think seventh place
Speaker 3: in Team Mystery. Thirty five and a half sacks was
Speaker 3: pretty good for an off ball linebary.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so. And unfortunately, it's kind of
Speaker 2: like Mike Evans made this comment. He said, had Levante
Speaker 2: played in a larger market, yeah, perhaps he would get
Speaker 2: more attention.
Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, I felt like, as much
Speaker 3: as he probably deserves to be in the Hall of Fame,
Speaker 3: it probably wouldn't happen for him, unfortunately, just because the
Speaker 3: lack of Pro Bowls, and so when they're in there,
Speaker 3: right in that room deciding, somebody's gonna bring up, Hey,
Speaker 3: he only made one Pro Bowl in his career. I mean,
Speaker 3: come on, this guy can't be a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 3: But we all know the circumstances as to why. And
Speaker 3: then I think it was Greg Ahm and so many
Speaker 3: pointed made the argument that what we need to happen
Speaker 3: Now a couple of years later, I'm starting to think
Speaker 3: maybe could happen. I think people have come around on
Speaker 3: him a little bit. And Greig said pointed out what
Speaker 3: we need to happen have happened is Luke Keigley and
Speaker 3: Bobby Wagner get voted into the Hall of Fame, and
Speaker 3: then we go, okay, cool, those guys are Hall of Famers.
Speaker 3: And then you lay all their stats out next.
Speaker 2: To each other and guess who's right there.
Speaker 3: In many cases better, And you know, the only thing
Speaker 3: you won't have is the same Pro Bowls that they had.
Speaker 3: And then I think Luke Eagley had a Defensive Player
Speaker 3: of the Year award, he won't have all the same awards,
Speaker 3: but you'll look at the numbers and go, well, maybe
Speaker 3: he should have, you know, if that's the only hole
Speaker 3: in his resume. Maybe if those two guys are Hall
Speaker 3: of Famers, and you can point to this and go, yeah,
Speaker 3: he had more of those than him, he had more
Speaker 3: of these, He had more of these, He had more
Speaker 3: of these per season. He had more of these per season,
Speaker 3: And you think they're Hall of famers? Is in Levante
Speaker 3: all time? That's that's what That's what our approach is
Speaker 3: going to be if those guys get in, right, But.
Speaker 2: I agree, I agree wholeheartedly. And he's you know, he's
Speaker 2: a great person too. Well, yeah, so you got that.
Speaker 3: I told him this fan When we get to his
Speaker 3: question is gonna love it because, as I said, it
Speaker 3: prompted me to look it up, actually with the help
Speaker 3: of Andrew Holman in the communications department, and we looked
Speaker 3: it up, and I told Levante in the locker room.
Speaker 3: And it's always the same because through the years, especially
Speaker 3: in recent years, I've been telling him in Miles Stonesley Reach, like, hey,
Speaker 3: you just played in your one hundred and eighty third
Speaker 3: game and you rank fourth or whatever, or you just
Speaker 3: got this mania, and so he's never he never has
Speaker 3: known it. Like every time I've told him a note,
Speaker 3: he hasn't been like, yeah, I knew that. He's like,
Speaker 3: oh really, and he looks really delighted. But I was
Speaker 3: talking to Casey Filts about this. He he probably knows
Speaker 3: that his numbers are really good, and he probably has
Speaker 3: a general idea what they are, but he probably doesn't
Speaker 3: know that he specifically has thirty five and a half
Speaker 3: sacks and thirty fourth fumbles and he's not really paying
Speaker 3: attention to that. He probably won't until his career is over.
Speaker 3: But he does like to hear him as anybody would sure,
Speaker 3: and he's always very nice about it and very pleased
Speaker 3: to hear it. So this fan. You started a thing
Speaker 3: that made Levante's day today, So tell your friends. Yay.
Speaker 3: I mean, we could go on and on about Levonte.
Speaker 3: He also had a couple third down stops early on
Speaker 3: when they couldn't get anything going at all, and that
Speaker 3: you know, it's like third and ten and Jalen Hurts
Speaker 3: throws underneath and he comes up quickly to make the
Speaker 3: tackle and they have to punt. He had a couple
Speaker 3: third down stops. He had the two sacks fourth two
Speaker 3: second game of his career. Team I eight tackles obviously,
Speaker 3: the force fumble, and I believe he also had a
Speaker 3: pass defense. Oh yeah, because the one he almost intercepted,
Speaker 3: which Larry Foot was joking about today about having to
Speaker 3: get on him about his hands. He like their feet
Speaker 3: got tangled up and he tripped his fall into the
Speaker 3: If he had got that, it would have been remarkable, cause, yeah,
Speaker 3: it would have been cool. He probably would be NFC
Speaker 3: Defensive Player of the Week. Yeah, we've nominated it should
Speaker 3: be anyway. Well, the Communication department nominated him, but they're
Speaker 3: worried about Troy Anderson of the Falcons, who had sixteen
Speaker 3: tackles in a pick six.
Speaker 2: Well that's a pretty good day.
Speaker 3: I mean the pick six was was attempted screen pass
Speaker 3: to one side that got batted up and went to
Speaker 3: the other side and he just caught it like a
Speaker 3: simmer fielder.
Speaker 2: Considering I don't think their offense scored a touchdown. They didn't,
Speaker 2: you know, special teams and a defensive touchdown on I
Speaker 2: don't know, eighteen thousand field goals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wanted to talk about that. So since you're.
Speaker 2: There on the field goals or eighteen thousand.
Speaker 3: On the game winning field goals, So they go down,
Speaker 3: they being the Atlanta Atlanta Falcons. The Saints go up
Speaker 3: twenty four to twenty three two minutes to play.
Speaker 2: No, it's less than a minute, yeah, because well they
Speaker 2: went What I was gonna say is the Falcons rather
Speaker 2: the Saints went up with two minutes to play.
Speaker 3: No, I'm saying they went up with one minute to play.
Speaker 2: Oh they did. I'll look it up to be sure,
Speaker 2: make sure, because when I looked up, I thought it
Speaker 2: was like two minutes left in the game and Falcons
Speaker 2: had are the Saints had scored, And I was like, damn.
Speaker 3: There was exactly there was exactly one minute left in
Speaker 3: the game when they scored.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: So and when I don't know, lets see if there
Speaker 3: was a kickoff return or just a touch back. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: So kirk Cousins they start the ball, they have the
Speaker 3: ball on their thirty after a touchback with exactly one
Speaker 3: minute left and they're losing by one. Now we know
Speaker 3: by the end of this that they drove quote unquote
Speaker 3: for the game winning touchdown, I mean field goal. But
Speaker 3: here's what happened. They get they started the thirty because
Speaker 3: the new kickoff roles right. First play, they get five yards.
Speaker 3: Next play, they false start, so they're back to the thirty. Okay,
Speaker 3: next play is incomplete on third and ten. No second
Speaker 3: and ten, but they get a thirty yard pass or
Speaker 3: fearance call. Now I have to min I haven't watched
Speaker 3: the replay, so I don't know if it was a
Speaker 3: tiki tak call or.
Speaker 2: A good call.
Speaker 3: So that's all they've got so far is the thirty
Speaker 3: yard pass reference that takes the ball to the New
Speaker 3: Orleans forty. Then kirk Cousins throws incomplete down the field
Speaker 3: three straight times on the first three downs. So he
Speaker 3: goes from first and ten on the forty to fourth
Speaker 3: and ten on the forty they send out Young Wayku. Oh,
Speaker 3: they didn't have any time outs, by the way, they
Speaker 3: send out Young Wayku, who's a great, great kicker, yep,
Speaker 3: and he nails a fifty eight hour fieldal and that's that.
Speaker 3: So this entire game winning drive was one thirty yard
Speaker 3: passing reference penalty and a kicker who can kick it
Speaker 3: from a mile. And I was thinking about how the
Speaker 3: new kickoff rules, plus the proliferation of kickers like Jase
Speaker 3: McLaughlin and Young Wayku and Brandon Aubrey and all these
Speaker 3: guys who you can send out there. You sit him
Speaker 3: out there in fifty five and you're almost sure he's
Speaker 3: gonna make it. You send him out there in fifty
Speaker 3: eight and you.
Speaker 2: Still have a good feeling, and it's worth to try.
Speaker 3: If if I were the Falcons, if a new's going
Speaker 3: to happen, would I rather be the Falcons needing a
Speaker 3: fifty eight yard field goal or the Saints needing it
Speaker 3: to miss? I would rather be the Falcons. I would too,
Speaker 3: because I think he's gonna make that, especially.
Speaker 2: Especially at home in that stadium. It's at indoors. It
Speaker 2: helps turf or field turf, whatever it's called.
Speaker 3: But it's just It's just a way in which subtle
Speaker 3: changes to the game. It's crazy have made something like
Speaker 3: this possible. You can you imagine one minute.
Speaker 2: That it they are winning game. Well, they are figuring
Speaker 2: out a way to win. Now that that's.
Speaker 3: Great for the other team, seems to be helping them.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to sustain that throughout the year. You know,
Speaker 2: you know, you're you're your win against the Eagles at
Speaker 2: the very.
Speaker 3: End because of some questionable play calling.
Speaker 2: There you go, and and I have no idea about
Speaker 2: the thirty yard I didn't realize it was that. I
Speaker 2: just knew that they kicked a fifty.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. You probably just assume they got
Speaker 3: they got a couple of completions, got down there and right, no,
Speaker 3: they got one past ferencipientality. They had no offense on the.
Speaker 2: Get certainly make it interesting on Thursday, then for sure.
Speaker 3: Well, hopefully we're not in a close game. No, I
Speaker 3: mean unless yeah, I don't want.
Speaker 2: To be what I was more like saying, Kirk Cousins
Speaker 2: was going to be playing like, oh Cousins played, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, Kirk Cousins is well, let's see what he did
Speaker 3: in the game. Yeah, Well, he's twenty one thirty five
Speaker 3: for two and thirty eight yards, no touchdowns and one pick.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Bejahn Robinson seven carries for.
Speaker 2: Twenty eight yards and he's on the injury or.
Speaker 3: He's got a hamstring. Let's look at today's update.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that, which he's a very good runner
Speaker 2: and he's had some good games against us.
Speaker 3: He was limited again today.
Speaker 2: Okay, well they just rested him. Yeah, everybody's kind of limited.
Speaker 2: After you know you're gonna play a Thursday game, you're
Speaker 2: kind of limited.
Speaker 3: We had twenty players on an injury report by the
Speaker 3: time that game started. Yeah, and then then Trey Palmer and.
Speaker 2: Added to it, got hurt. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I'm surprised we didn't have more guys dropping out, and
Speaker 3: the Eagles actually did have a couple of guys. They
Speaker 3: even reported it like they report injuries who were out
Speaker 3: of the game because of cramping. Yeah, it felt I
Speaker 3: heard during the game, I think it was around three
Speaker 3: o'clock that the feels like temperature on the field was
Speaker 3: one and ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and there really wasn't much of a breeze.
Speaker 3: And it did feel like we handled it better. That's
Speaker 3: always been the theory.
Speaker 2: Right, And the other side of the coin is I
Speaker 2: think the humidity was even higher because of the hurricane
Speaker 2: rolling through and just still yeah, just that humidity, the
Speaker 2: humanity was very high and then all the moisture.
Speaker 3: It's just ugly, very much. So it's uh so, And
Speaker 3: that's always been the theory, right, We practice in this
Speaker 3: type of stuff, so we should be able to handle
Speaker 3: it better, especially in the third and fourth quarters. It
Speaker 3: hasn't always been the way it worked out, no, but
Speaker 3: it's kind of felt like that in this game.
Speaker 2: Well, it was kind of nice that, you know, the
Speaker 2: start to game, the first two drives, you know, the
Speaker 2: offense was on the field for a long time, you know,
Speaker 2: just marching down the field, tire them out, tire them out,
Speaker 2: and then a lot of three and outs.
Speaker 3: For their first three drives, and then and then even
Speaker 3: when they made us punt on the third one, they
Speaker 3: messed up the punt and we got the ball in
Speaker 3: the fall, which I think I'm really beginning to like this.
Speaker 3: What do they call it, the guy in the sky
Speaker 3: or the assistance, I don't remember the terminology they're using.
Speaker 3: But it's not a challenge situation.
Speaker 2: No, No, they're just looking at it and saying, hey,
Speaker 2: what we're seeing you didn't see.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're telling.
Speaker 2: We're correcting, we're correcting in.
Speaker 3: Real time, in real time like they see. In this case,
Speaker 3: the rest of the flag. The rest threw a flag
Speaker 3: for running into the kicker on Josh Hayes maybe and
Speaker 3: because he I mean running into the returnment, so fair
Speaker 3: catch interference.
Speaker 2: And it was a late arm to go first, really late, very.
Speaker 3: Late, but Josh probably would have had a chance because
Speaker 3: it happened on another play not quite as late, but
Speaker 3: still pretty late where he was coming out in full
Speaker 3: beat and then he had to kind of dance around
Speaker 3: him and he could have maybe done that. But what
Speaker 3: the what they saw in the sky was that, uh,
Speaker 3: the guy, the guy that Josh had beaten, the defender
Speaker 3: or the eagle pushed him yep, and pushed him into
Speaker 3: the returnment and therefore was not a penalty and therefore
Speaker 3: we recovered the fumble, which was a nice piece of officiating.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so there was a couple.
Speaker 3: Of moments like that in that game where they took
Speaker 3: information from that and and really got the right call.
Speaker 2: And I agree with you, whether it's for you or
Speaker 2: against you. I do like the fact that you want
Speaker 2: to see it again. I want to see it be
Speaker 2: right there, you know. And I think that comes stems
Speaker 2: from the playoff game where the Saints didn't get it
Speaker 2: pass rams but it was against the Saints.
Speaker 3: So did you did you notice that the safety that
Speaker 3: Mike Evans beat? Did you notice who that was? C? J.
Speaker 3: Gardner Johnson, the biggest trash talker in the NFL, longtime
Speaker 3: nemesis of the Buccaneers from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he said something he did you know.
Speaker 3: He said something inflammatory?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, what he basically said is we're going to
Speaker 2: take belt to ask and then walked out out on
Speaker 2: the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I don't think that happened.
Speaker 2: Doesn't It didn't wear well? What do they say when
Speaker 2: a tweet doesn't last very long or doesn't? I guess
Speaker 2: it's didn't well, didn't age.
Speaker 3: Well, there you go, freezing cold takes. Oh hey, look
Speaker 3: it's Tavi or Thomas Charger.
Speaker 2: I wonder if we can hear it if he the
Speaker 2: gate's open, so he may take off a little.
Speaker 3: Does he have like enhanced mufflers? I don't know. It's
Speaker 3: because I had a charger and hit me and it
Speaker 3: didn't make a lot of noise.
Speaker 2: And see what he does here? He comes around, he's
Speaker 2: I really do like that car? Yeah, Oh he's really good.
Speaker 2: He just kind of rolls out a couple of them,
Speaker 2: like I loved that car, man, all right, well you
Speaker 2: can get one.
Speaker 3: I already had one.
Speaker 2: Well you can get another one, all right. Didn't love
Speaker 2: it that much?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I you know, I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: drive as fast as I used to drive.
Speaker 2: Good.
Speaker 3: My wife is very happy about that.
Speaker 2: Yes, so the rest.
Speaker 3: So is everybody gonna get in the car with me
Speaker 3: or around you. I'm still and I'm not gonna make
Speaker 3: a lot of fans with this.
Speaker 2: No, you're not.
Speaker 3: I'm still. I'm still anti blinker though. Oh I hate
Speaker 3: all these people constantly telling me to use their People
Speaker 3: have bumper stickers that say use your blinker. I use
Speaker 3: my blinker if there is a need for me to use.
Speaker 2: My note, I use my blinker all the time.
Speaker 3: If I'm changing lanes and there's not a car in
Speaker 3: the other lane for a while, why do I need
Speaker 3: to put my blinker on? I'm not. I'm not giving
Speaker 3: any any information that they need. And then if you're
Speaker 3: on like I four going to Orlando and you you're
Speaker 3: in the second lane and you want to get in
Speaker 3: the fast lane. If you put your blinker on, you
Speaker 3: know what they're gonna do. They're gonna rush up to
Speaker 3: close the gap so you can't get in, So you
Speaker 3: just gotta go.
Speaker 2: You're you're figuring you're not gonna telegraph your move. Is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just gonna go before they know what's happening.
Speaker 2: I turned my blinker on going into my drive one.
Speaker 3: See that's what I'm saying. Like it Okay. So if
Speaker 3: I'm all habit, if I'm in the if I'm rolling
Speaker 3: up to my neighborhood, it's a right hand turn, and
Speaker 3: there's somebody coming the other way. It's just a two
Speaker 3: lane road. There somebody coming the other way approaching me.
Speaker 3: As I'm starting getting there to turn, I will turn
Speaker 3: my blinker on them because that's the information that they
Speaker 3: would need to know whether if they're going to turn right.
Speaker 3: They need to know whether I'm going straight or not.
Speaker 2: Where I come out. It irritates the crap out of me.
Speaker 2: Where where I come out or where we live. There's
Speaker 2: a traffic light and across the way is another housing
Speaker 2: development that comes out. Either you can go straight, or
Speaker 2: you can turn left or go right. I hate when
Speaker 2: people sit there and they're going to go left, but
Speaker 2: they don't put their blinker on, so I have to
Speaker 2: sit and wait because I don't know if you're going straight.
Speaker 3: That's the situation where you should put your blinker.
Speaker 2: If you're going straight or whatever. And there are more
Speaker 2: accidents there because people who are going straight. People are
Speaker 2: so used to people not turning.
Speaker 3: It that wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So use your blinker all the time and then
Speaker 2: you don't have to wonder what.
Speaker 3: The situation is not going to happen, you.
Speaker 2: Meaning the universal you, not you, Scott Smith.
Speaker 3: I'll use my blinker when it needs to be used.
Speaker 2: Do you know in the state of New York, if
Speaker 2: it was in the state of New York, if you
Speaker 2: don't use your blinker, you can get a ticket.
Speaker 3: Well that's one of the I said. I use it
Speaker 3: when it needs to be used. If I see a
Speaker 3: cop I use it. Why would I need to use
Speaker 3: a blank?
Speaker 2: I know that. Well it was back when.
Speaker 3: I happened to you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really really yeah, So that's why why do
Speaker 2: you need to use.
Speaker 3: Your blinker when you're in the turnline a designated turnline
Speaker 3: and I've always wanted for somebody to get mad at
Speaker 3: me it that way and say why did you use
Speaker 3: your blinker? And I would say because it was the
Speaker 3: fact that I was in the turnline of clue. Did
Speaker 3: that tip you off at all?
Speaker 2: The big white curved arrow saying.
Speaker 3: The lines on the road that say turn here?
Speaker 2: Yeah? All right? What else?
Speaker 3: You got a lot?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Keep going? You're studying it though.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just looking at like Baker didn't really have
Speaker 3: to run a lot or move around in the pocket
Speaker 3: nearly line nearly, not anything like the Denver game. And
Speaker 3: also he purposely did.
Speaker 2: Some props to the for the for the old line
Speaker 2: really coming together well.
Speaker 3: Also he had his lowest He threw an average of
Speaker 3: two point two two seconds yep after snap, which is
Speaker 3: as fast as he's had in a game with us,
Speaker 3: which was clearly a plan.
Speaker 2: Well maybe that's the new plan.
Speaker 3: Well, it can't be, for it depends on what the defense,
Speaker 3: the scheme is, and what their persons.
Speaker 2: But in this case, so that explains why you can't
Speaker 2: always do that.
Speaker 3: You can't always do that. I mean, you could always
Speaker 3: throw the ball really quickly, but it's not going to
Speaker 3: be effective against and some defenses will be inviting you
Speaker 3: to throw the ball down field.
Speaker 2: A little bit more.
Speaker 3: So he was throwing the ball quickly, but when he
Speaker 3: did move around, he did it well. He threw on
Speaker 3: the run very well, several times, right like those little
Speaker 3: side arm flicks that he does usually to Chris Godlin, Yeah,
Speaker 3: those are pretty sweet. And then there was a key
Speaker 3: defensive holding call. I think it maybe was on that
Speaker 3: answering drive after they scored in the third quarter. I'm
Speaker 3: not going to look it up, but there was a
Speaker 3: key defensive holding call and I think it was out
Speaker 3: in the left flat, and it probably wouldn't have happened
Speaker 3: if Baker had taken the sack because I believe he escaped.
Speaker 3: It was a pretty neat escape and he got out
Speaker 3: and he was scrambling to his left extended to play,
Speaker 3: and that's when the defensive holding call. So if he
Speaker 3: had not been able to get out of that pressure,
Speaker 3: that collapsing pocket, there probably would not have been a flag.
Speaker 3: And that flag kept the drive going because it was
Speaker 3: on third doun. So sometimes your mobility not only allows
Speaker 3: you to find I mean, it just keeps things going
Speaker 3: so something can happen. It might be a catch it
Speaker 3: might be you scramble for the first down, and it
Speaker 3: might be you get a flag that helps you out.
Speaker 3: And that's so that mobility that he shows when he's
Speaker 3: in his you know, which he's done well in like
Speaker 3: three of the four games of this season, can really
Speaker 3: help you in a lot of ways. Meanwhile, the defense
Speaker 3: gets Oh. Also, Baker's performance was really good. He had
Speaker 3: like one hundred point six passer raining or something that's
Speaker 3: with six passes being dropped. As good as our played,
Speaker 3: they did drop.
Speaker 2: I was going to bring that up is I was
Speaker 2: really shocked how many people were dropping balls and it
Speaker 2: wasn't just one individuals. It was weird.
Speaker 3: Because I think had one.
Speaker 2: I'm always surprised when and they weren't. It wasn't like
Speaker 2: they were uncatchable walls, so to speak.
Speaker 3: I wonder sometimes, though, who's compiling that information how well
Speaker 3: some drops? All drops are not created equal. Cam Johnson's
Speaker 3: drop was the bad kind of drop. That was a
Speaker 3: bad and I felt terrible for him.
Speaker 2: And Mike Evans had a drop and we thought maybe
Speaker 2: he was because of where how he was running was
Speaker 2: in the sun and the way it comes off that stadium.
Speaker 2: Because Dave Morris talked about the sun at Raymond James Stadium,
Speaker 2: how it does affect you lose the you do lose
Speaker 2: the ball, and then Mike talked about it also that
Speaker 2: you you know, you you got an idea where it is,
Speaker 2: but you don't know until it's like on top of you.
Speaker 3: It's just that we have set such an unreasonable stand
Speaker 3: that too, I mean, he had I don't know if
Speaker 3: these were among the ones that were called drops. He
Speaker 3: had the second fade that could have been a touchdown yep,
Speaker 3: that he didn't haul in. But that's a really difficult play.
Speaker 3: Should that be called a drop?
Speaker 2: No, But it's Mike Evans, It's it's a drop.
Speaker 3: We expect him to think it. And then he had
Speaker 3: another one down the right sideline that was like over
Speaker 3: the shoulder, you know, leaking towards the sideline, really tough
Speaker 3: play and he didn't catch it. And I didn't sit
Speaker 3: there thinking, well he dropped that. I did think he
Speaker 3: catches that a lot of the time. But I don't
Speaker 3: know if we should be calling that a drop, And
Speaker 3: I don't know if that is included in these six drops, right,
Speaker 3: But yeah, there were drops.
Speaker 2: Well, whether they are or not, you just felt like
Speaker 2: they were dropping a lot of balls.
Speaker 3: They did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that is something that definitely needs to be
Speaker 2: cleaned up because you may need those drops.
Speaker 3: To be not dropped.
Speaker 2: Yes.
Speaker 3: Uh, the defense obviously had a great day. You could
Speaker 3: tell the v Tove was back.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, what a difference.
Speaker 3: Not just because of that sack, which was the best
Speaker 3: of well ever, that was great.
Speaker 2: What I just love when he goes through there.
Speaker 3: That one where he got that sack on third down
Speaker 3: early in the game was like he comes up and
Speaker 3: he's moving to his left and he runs into the
Speaker 3: blocker and it's just like he's so strong and the
Speaker 3: guy didn't have any.
Speaker 2: Leverage, little raged dology.
Speaker 3: He just kind of tossed him that way and then
Speaker 3: redirected and got to the quarterback and like two steps.
Speaker 3: It was so you could tell the difference. And I'm
Speaker 3: not going to go deep into that because that's also
Speaker 3: a topic of one of the questions today and I'll
Speaker 3: get into it a little bit more.
Speaker 2: You know, kind of guy I don't I guess I'm
Speaker 2: not really talking out of school. Had to think for
Speaker 2: a second with Vita Baya yesterday, I was had to
Speaker 2: go to the guard check and I was coming back
Speaker 2: and there was a car sitting there and it was
Speaker 2: actually uh Uber Eats or something like that delivering and.
Speaker 3: Like how you did jazz hands for the breath?
Speaker 2: Yeah, whatever, I wouldn't use that, but anyways, they so
Speaker 2: Vita came out the front and so we let the
Speaker 2: guy drive into the gate. I told the guard, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's okay, I'll walk over there.
Speaker 3: And I thought you were saying, Vita got out of
Speaker 3: the Uber Eats. No, no, no, which you wouldn't think
Speaker 3: he would need a side.
Speaker 2: No. No. He was standing there and there were I
Speaker 2: want to say, eight bags full grocery bags, eight of them.
Speaker 2: And I said, you need any help, and he goes, no,
Speaker 2: and he takes four in this hand, four in this hand.
Speaker 2: And I said, well, at least I'll get the door
Speaker 2: for you. And I said, wow, hungry, huh, and he goes,
Speaker 2: I got to feed the d line, I got to
Speaker 2: take care of the boys. So it was really very
Speaker 2: very cool. I said, wow, you're not even a rookie.
Speaker 2: He goes, got to take care of what it was,
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it smelled really really good. It
Speaker 2: really did. I don't know, but it was.
Speaker 3: I was listening to another podcast and they were having
Speaker 3: an argument about in and Out versus Waterburger. Have you
Speaker 3: had both?
Speaker 2: What? In and out? Love? In and out? I love
Speaker 2: how I love the whole process of in and out.
Speaker 3: You mean like waiting forty five minutes.
Speaker 2: For you don't have to wait that long.
Speaker 3: It's always packed. They're very, very.
Speaker 2: Efficient, And I and I even kind of mix it
Speaker 2: up because I don't particularly care for the special sauce,
Speaker 2: but I like the way they do things. I like
Speaker 2: how the Hamburger sits on its side not flat.
Speaker 3: Does that too?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and their fries are really really good. Yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I like have you had? I really can't. I know
Speaker 2: there was one didn't last went out of Yeah, I
Speaker 2: went out of is Now.
Speaker 3: I never got anything from there. But I've had it
Speaker 3: in Texas before, and uh, I know there's a sacrilegi
Speaker 3: if anybody's listening from California. Uh, but I like Waterburger
Speaker 3: better than good, don't get me.
Speaker 2: Wrong, No, no, no, but there's always that argument, you know,
Speaker 2: what's better depending on what you know. But yeah, no,
Speaker 2: I was in California in August. It went to in
Speaker 2: and out Burger twice twice. Yeah, yeah, went once because
Speaker 2: you got it, you gotta go. And then it was like,
Speaker 2: and I don't eat a lot of red meat, so
Speaker 2: I was kind of like, yeah, I think I went
Speaker 2: another one. And what I love about it is you
Speaker 2: could do a single patty, double, patty, triple, you can
Speaker 2: add whatever how many patties you want. Could you have
Speaker 2: ten if you wanted them. And they're always very smiling there.
Speaker 2: They are the people there, and they're just it's very clean.
Speaker 3: Just well, I'm not ripping up in and Out. I'm
Speaker 3: just telling you, I like what a Burgerbut I lost it.
Speaker 2: Okay. We were talking about food, and they were talking
Speaker 2: about food, and they.
Speaker 3: Well, you said you went to In and Out twice? Yeah,
Speaker 3: and how many days were you there?
Speaker 2: Well? Was there a week? So yeah, but I went
Speaker 2: twice in like three four.
Speaker 3: Whenever my family goes to Saint Louis to visit family,
Speaker 3: uh huh, we always go to a place called Line's
Speaker 3: Choice at least twice. And it's only in Saint Louis
Speaker 3: in this round area. If they have one down here,
Speaker 3: I'd be there all the time. And my son loves
Speaker 3: it too, and he did not grow up in Saint.
Speaker 2: Louis, right, it's funny that that there are a little
Speaker 2: restaurants that you like anybody.
Speaker 3: Georgia Tech Club baseball team played Kennesas State this weekend.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Alex pitched two innings and struck off five nice. Nice.
Speaker 2: What happened to the other one?
Speaker 3: Play out the left?
Speaker 2: Okay? So he did? He did walk to Okay. So
Speaker 2: he faced eight bad.
Speaker 3: Eight batters, struck off five of them.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good. Yeah, that's good. Congrats. You're gonna get
Speaker 2: to see him maybe for ten minutes on Thursday.
Speaker 3: We're going to go to an Italian restaurant. He's probably Wednesday.
Speaker 2: He's probably Wednesday. He's probably gonna order in advance.
Speaker 3: The Smith's food's ready.
Speaker 2: Gotta go, Dad, your food's on table.
Speaker 3: Got a soccer game, gotta go. So we ended up
Speaker 3: with six sacks. I'm sorry to get back to football.
Speaker 2: That's all right.
Speaker 3: We ended up with six sacks mostly we had the
Speaker 3: season obviously, since we had zero the previous two games.
Speaker 3: We've had six sacks in a game ten times in
Speaker 3: the last ten seasons. How many of those games you
Speaker 3: think we won? All correct? Seems like that's a good thing.
Speaker 2: That would be a good Yeah, I would think you
Speaker 2: would win.
Speaker 3: Sex trumped six drops. We only allowed them three point
Speaker 3: two yards per pass play yep, which is really low.
Speaker 2: Then all in all, it was a very Now we
Speaker 2: had some issues on special teams.
Speaker 3: Well, the block pat what else. The punts weren't going
Speaker 3: very far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the funds weren't going very far. So that's
Speaker 2: gonna be you know which way are we're gonna go
Speaker 2: on that? Right, Well, they have to wait and see.
Speaker 3: If you don't know, we have a punter on the
Speaker 3: practice car named Trent and Gill was the Bears punter
Speaker 3: of the last two seasons and in this last game
Speaker 3: they elevated him and Ja Kamar's not hurt, but they
Speaker 3: he's been a bit inconsistent for a while now, and
Speaker 3: I guess letting them try to work some things out.
Speaker 3: So we don't know if that's gonna be a one
Speaker 3: time thing. You can only elevate him three times, so
Speaker 3: if you wanted to keep using the other punter, you
Speaker 3: have to make some other kind of provision. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: we don't know. We'll see on Thursday. You can wait
Speaker 3: until the day of the game when you're playing on
Speaker 3: Thursday or Monday to make your roster moves for Sunday games.
Speaker 3: You have to put your prices, got elevation games decisions
Speaker 3: out on Saturday, So you'll probably go into.
Speaker 2: Till you won't know until Thursday, then, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I mean we won't publicly know. Yeah, there's
Speaker 3: a chance that I will know that you will.
Speaker 2: Not, right, but I'm just saying that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Eagles only had one passing third down wow,
Speaker 3: which I mean first down on They only had one
Speaker 3: conversion of a third down on a passing play, which
Speaker 3: is not a sustainable way to do an offense unless
Speaker 3: you're like the Ravens who can run for two undre
Speaker 3: and fifty yards. You know that that worked out really well,
Speaker 3: the whole idea of put tearing Derrick Henry with Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3: You could see it worked a perfection.
Speaker 2: The other night. The other night, Yeah, I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I watched the first half of that game. I like
Speaker 2: to watch games that we're going to play when we're
Speaker 2: going to play a team.
Speaker 3: The Eagles allowed one hundred and five yards on mistackles.
Speaker 3: It's a difference when you're on the other side.
Speaker 2: Of the one miss tackle on Chris God.
Speaker 3: Yeah. See when when when it's our side, we say
Speaker 3: we made a great play, yeah, And when it's the
Speaker 3: other side, it's say miss tackle.
Speaker 2: Well, he he, you know he missed. That was I'm sure.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's taken heat and a lot of ribbon
Speaker 2: when they run that tape back and forth, back and forth,
Speaker 2: because it's like, how did you how did you miss him?
Speaker 2: Right there dead the rights?
Speaker 3: But nope, Zion McCollum.
Speaker 2: Playing against his twin brother who.
Speaker 3: Had he had a fall star. Zion now we got
Speaker 3: to call his name on plays he's been targeted on.
Speaker 3: So far this year, Zion now has allowed six receptions
Speaker 3: and has six passes defense.
Speaker 2: That's pretty good, very good.
Speaker 3: If you could finish the season with as many passes
Speaker 3: defense as uh receptions allowed, you'd probably be in the
Speaker 3: Pro Bowl.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and one of the receipts. He only allowed two
Speaker 3: receptions on five targets on Sunday, and one was that
Speaker 3: scrambling touchdown pass. And that's a rough call because they
Speaker 3: what they say is you're the nearest defender, we don't
Speaker 3: know for sure actually covering him because that became a
Speaker 3: scramble drill and you know, they just get open, you know,
Speaker 3: he might have been covering this guy and then Paris
Speaker 3: Scamble was over there and he ends up close to him.
Speaker 3: Zion wasn't even part of that coverage, but he was
Speaker 3: charged with that one. We had our highest pressure rate
Speaker 3: on defense since in a game since twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: forty point six percent. Wow, we blitzed only fifteen times.
Speaker 3: This is weird to me.
Speaker 2: I know the stats.
Speaker 3: Say we only blitzed fifteen times. It looks to me
Speaker 3: like we were blitzing on every dropack.
Speaker 2: They were showing. It looked like they were showing a blitz,
Speaker 2: but it didn't.
Speaker 3: There were similar pressures, right.
Speaker 2: And everybody was Todd Bulls disguise as has blitzed so well.
Speaker 2: Bo Allen remember when Bo played with us. He was
Speaker 2: talking about just watching that game and watching all of
Speaker 2: the the movie and all of the you just don't
Speaker 2: know who's coming.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 2: Everything is disguised so well, and even when you know
Speaker 2: his defense, you're still not really sure who's going.
Speaker 3: So we only had fifteen blitzes, but they produced eight pressures.
Speaker 2: And for SATs, I like to see that again on Saturday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So Thursday I was thinking myself, I'm looking at
Speaker 3: the stats going couldn't have been just fifteen blitz because
Speaker 3: I swear in the second half it looked at me
Speaker 3: like there were blitzing on every single play.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: So we played zone almost completely the whole game. I mean,
Speaker 3: we had a plan and it worked.
Speaker 2: It did and and it you know, you have this
Speaker 2: short week and how they prepare for for the it's
Speaker 2: a good thing that it's a team that you're used
Speaker 2: to playing now. Of course there's a whole new different
Speaker 2: regime and uh and with the Atlanta Falcons with Raheem
Speaker 2: Morris as the head coach regime. But but it is
Speaker 2: kind of that Rams type offense. So we should have
Speaker 2: some about that or a general feel. I feel good
Speaker 2: about that. Good what else you got?
Speaker 3: I'm pretty good. I think we could cover all the
Speaker 3: bases you want to get to the fans question, Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: let's just we have a lot of them.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, Well let's go and we don't have to
Speaker 2: stop because we so limited time wise for players, everything's
Speaker 2: been shifted all over the place. We we just don't
Speaker 2: have the opportunity.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not gonna have a player. I meant to
Speaker 3: say that upfront. Yeah, obviously the fans know that by now,
Speaker 3: because yeah, well we go this time short week. We
Speaker 3: didn't want to. They don't have a ton of time.
Speaker 2: They don't and and it's hard. It's been hard enough
Speaker 2: to try to get everything in that we need to
Speaker 2: get for all the different other things we're doing. So
Speaker 2: all right, fan questions, who's up first?
Speaker 3: Well, okay, okay, Robert Humphrey, we heard from him. He's
Speaker 3: from Virginia. Okay, Hello, salty Dog, Scott and Jeff. Great
Speaker 3: win for the team against the Eagles. Unfortunately in my region,
Speaker 3: this is a Washington Commanders area, and we did not
Speaker 3: get the game of the week. So hopefully I'll have
Speaker 3: a chance to see the replay on the NFL network untilt.
Speaker 3: They put up full game press broadcast on YouTube too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you might be able to find it there, he says.
Speaker 3: I remember the Bucks first playoff win, which was against
Speaker 3: the Eagles.
Speaker 2: Well, you can get it also on the NFL replay
Speaker 2: for free. No, I don't think it's for free. But
Speaker 2: then there's also if he has like the NFL Network,
Speaker 2: if he looks at they do a lot of replays
Speaker 2: during the day of all the.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's what he was talking about. He says,
Speaker 3: I remember the Bucks first playoff win, which was against
Speaker 3: the Eagles, it seems, which is true. It was nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy nine, first trip to the playoffs. We had won
Speaker 3: the division, so our first game was in the NFC
Speaker 3: Divisional round and it was against the Eagles. Was score
Speaker 3: twenty four to seventeen. I think Ricky Bell ran for
Speaker 3: a million mile yards. I remember the book. Okay, I
Speaker 3: already said that it seems we've built a small, small
Speaker 3: rivalry against the Eagles. My question is what is our
Speaker 3: win loss record against the Eagles regular and playoffs? And
Speaker 3: have we played against the Eagles the most in the playoffs?
Speaker 3: Thank you for both, for all you do. Great job.
Speaker 3: You both seem to enjoy and like what you are doing,
Speaker 3: not just as a job, but as true fans. It's
Speaker 3: fun to work for an NFL team on that line.
Speaker 2: No question, no question.
Speaker 3: Okay. We are nine and nine now after that win
Speaker 3: all time against the Eagles in the regular season, nine
Speaker 3: and nine, and we are four and two against them
Speaker 3: in the playoffs. And yes, that's the most games against
Speaker 3: the most playoff games we have against any team. So
Speaker 3: there's your answers. I like it all right, next to
Speaker 3: is our friend from Brazil, Alexander the White Salty Ones.
Speaker 3: Hope this finds you both well. Another sample of how
Speaker 3: football is a tot team game and that time we
Speaker 3: were on the winning end. Again, fire them cannons. Vita
Speaker 3: Bay is not is just not from this planet. How
Speaker 3: can he be fully recovered from his knee injury or
Speaker 3: I guess not fully recovered and play all those snaps
Speaker 3: like he did on Sunday? Right, that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Mike freaking Evans, what a player. I love the intro
Speaker 3: to your article, mister Smith that said he now is
Speaker 3: coming for the Kickers records. So I had an article
Speaker 3: prepared because when he caught that touchdown, it made him
Speaker 3: the all time scorer in team history, Yes, surpassing Martin Gramatica,
Speaker 3: a kicker.
Speaker 2: And Martine was up on the board and saying congratulations.
Speaker 3: We had a little video.
Speaker 2: Very cool and that's not easy. That is not easy
Speaker 2: to do to beat a kicker.
Speaker 3: Well, you know that, you know the net you want
Speaker 3: to give it the note about how many teams have
Speaker 3: that no go ahead? Mike is just the third player
Speaker 3: currently in the NFL to be the all time leading
Speaker 3: scorer for his team. Is not a kicker, and the
Speaker 3: other two our Hall of famers, Jerry Rice for the
Speaker 3: forty nine ers and Emmitt Smith for the Cowboy.
Speaker 2: I would say that's pretty good company. That's a good
Speaker 2: company's kind of throwing it out there.
Speaker 3: And the way kickers change teams a little more often
Speaker 3: these years, I'm not sure that anybody's going to catch
Speaker 3: Mike right. I mean, he's probably gonna always be our
Speaker 3: all time leading score because he's going to add to it.
Speaker 3: For one thing, he's only three away from one hundred
Speaker 3: touchdown catches, two away from one hundred total touchdowns because
Speaker 3: he had one on a funnel recovery a few years back. Anyway,
Speaker 3: I wrote I had a story prepared for that, and
Speaker 3: that was the line that now he's coming for the
Speaker 3: kickers records because he already holds all the receiver records
Speaker 3: from what you know and can share, obviously, is there
Speaker 3: a chance any of the injured players from weeks past,
Speaker 3: not including Trey Palmer for example, can be available for
Speaker 3: Thursday Night Football? And I wish you guys a great
Speaker 3: short week. It must really be difficult to put up
Speaker 3: all those articles in three to four days. Since you did.
Speaker 3: Thanks reading Alexander. Now, have you had a hard time
Speaker 3: putting up a bunch of articles in the last couple
Speaker 3: of days.
Speaker 2: Yeh no, but I'm having a hard time getting all
Speaker 2: the broadcast pieces together because we're traveling tomorrow and I
Speaker 2: have to get it done twelve. Yeah, because it's you
Speaker 2: can work remotely, but depending on the internet you have
Speaker 2: somewhere trying to get moving files round is just did
Speaker 2: you ever.
Speaker 3: Get the Wi Fi on the plane? I do? I
Speaker 3: never do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do, well, a lot of times. I do
Speaker 2: it because you use it for texting, so that you
Speaker 2: know it goes in and out. But you do the
Speaker 2: best you can with it. Depends on what plane, It
Speaker 2: depends on how many people are on it.
Speaker 3: But yeah, if you have extra seats, it's helpful.
Speaker 2: Not happening in this trip.
Speaker 3: You know, we talked earlier about the injury report. If
Speaker 3: we had inside information, we could not share it and
Speaker 3: they would be in trouble with the NFL if we
Speaker 3: did correct. But all you can do is read the
Speaker 3: injury report and the fact that Antoine and Callija, those
Speaker 3: are the in Luke have not practiced Lucas Luke has
Speaker 3: been limited. Yeah, he's the one in the concussion protocol,
Speaker 3: but he's still limited. And it's the same thing you
Speaker 3: said about the other guys. It could be just, hey,
Speaker 3: let's get through one more game and then we'll have ten.
Speaker 2: Get ten ten days off and you're ready to be
Speaker 2: in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: So I'm not personally, I don't have any inside information
Speaker 3: and I wouldn't share it if I did, correct, but
Speaker 3: I'm personally not very optimistic.
Speaker 2: About any of those at this stage.
Speaker 3: Now, all right, this one's from cold and Phipps.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 3: I mean we had our first email from him last week.
Speaker 2: I don't remember because I liked the name Colton.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's surprised by that. The cliffhanger is killing me.
Speaker 3: Who was in the Green Charger? I should remember. I
Speaker 3: meant to save that till now. Yeah, so you've been informed.
Speaker 3: It's tavi Ere time. Wow.
Speaker 2: We didn't want him to wait any longer.
Speaker 3: It's Colton again. And this is and that is what
Speaker 3: I prefer to go by because we were trying to
Speaker 3: think of He goes by Colton.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I did, isaid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for all the name love. Haha, first time
Speaker 3: I've ever heard that. I'm surprised by that because we
Speaker 3: both thought it was a cool sounding name. Where is
Speaker 3: he from Idaho? As he's our self proclaimed official Idaho
Speaker 3: Buccaneers ambassador.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a cowboy name, so maybe that would
Speaker 2: fit out there West go.
Speaker 3: Ahead because it has the word cult.
Speaker 2: Well, it just has that cowboyish name, right.
Speaker 3: I have noticed a couple of other teams.
Speaker 2: You know, Colt as in a gun, Colt as in Horsey,
Speaker 2: you know, right, But.
Speaker 3: His name's cold Ton, Okay, Colton. I have noticed a
Speaker 3: couple of other teams and get the coldt on without Colt.
Speaker 3: I've noticed a couple of other teams where the guardian
Speaker 3: caps on their helmets to avoid concussions even during games.
Speaker 3: When do you think Tampa will have the guardian caps
Speaker 3: that look like the helmet design. I would much rather
Speaker 3: the squad looks silly with those caps in the helmets
Speaker 3: than to keep getting head injuries. If I remember correctly,
Speaker 3: Trey Palmer got a concussion in the Philly game. Thanks
Speaker 3: up with the good work and stay salty. Colton Phipps,
Speaker 3: Official Idaho Buccaneers Ambassador, and he says go ahead. In quotes,
Speaker 3: that's Jeff Ryan My new favorite quote. The way you're
Speaker 3: always telling me to go ahead, go ahead, go ahead,
Speaker 3: we can use it. Does he use it? Yeah, well,
Speaker 3: I mean he says it's his new favorite quote. I
Speaker 3: don't know.
Speaker 2: I give these in a conversation. Someone says, yeah, you're
Speaker 2: acting like my wife. Now what I'm asking?
Speaker 3: We give her a piece of information, and then you
Speaker 3: have a whole bunch of more questions than I can't
Speaker 3: possibly know the answer.
Speaker 2: Inquiry minds want to know, like, hey, you know.
Speaker 3: Hey, my friend at work is getting married. Oh really,
Speaker 3: where are they getting married? I don't know. I didn't
Speaker 3: ask when is the wedding? I didn't ask. I don't know.
Speaker 3: All I know is they're getting married. Well are they
Speaker 3: going artgument? I don't know. I know they're getting married.
Speaker 3: I know nothing.
Speaker 2: Else.
Speaker 3: Can't tell you how many times of conversations like that, right,
Speaker 3: So I'm acting like I'm the aggrieved party here, But
Speaker 3: I think she would say, well, why wouldn't you ask
Speaker 3: those questions? This is this is the men and women
Speaker 3: kind of different type of things.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I got the same I got the same issue.
Speaker 2: I don't normally ask all those questions like you were
Speaker 2: just saying.
Speaker 3: I was just curious, like you've been with you were
Speaker 3: with that person work all day.
Speaker 2: How could you not ask that? It didn't cross my mind.
Speaker 3: So it's not a matter of when we get those
Speaker 3: because they they do have Guardian caps that have the
Speaker 3: helmet design, so you know, you see the league doesn't
Speaker 3: want to cover up the logos.
Speaker 2: No, but what they did. I did see this last
Speaker 2: night on the Alliance game, which, by the way, the
Speaker 2: Lion's helmet was very cool.
Speaker 3: Those uniforms were sweet.
Speaker 2: Those were bad. But did you see they had the
Speaker 2: help They had it and then they put the sticker
Speaker 2: on h But it did look kind of funky.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean, I think it's what Colton saying here,
Speaker 3: it's a trade off. Okay, it may look a little funny, but.
Speaker 2: But it only makes funny because we're not used to
Speaker 2: seeing it. It's kind of like all the bright colors
Speaker 2: of uniforms at first you saw them one, what are
Speaker 2: they doing? You know? Why is all that so?
Speaker 3: Well? It's it's just none of our players have chosen
Speaker 3: to well wear one yet, right. The players decide whether
Speaker 3: or not they want to do so, Yeah, and so
Speaker 3: far none of ours have not yet. I wonder if
Speaker 3: Luke Gettekey might consider it. Maybe comes back.
Speaker 2: See.
Speaker 3: Uh so, yeah. Somebody a few weeks back asked us
Speaker 3: a few weeks back, acts ask us, God, now I'm
Speaker 3: having trouble talking like you, Jeff.
Speaker 2: That's because you're a writer.
Speaker 3: If there were other I go on camera two, if
Speaker 3: the excuse I talked for a little years ago. On
Speaker 3: camera two, somebody asked us what our favorite alternate uniforms
Speaker 3: around the league where And we were having a hard
Speaker 3: time thinking ones. But those Detroit ones go right to
Speaker 3: the top. I think those new Yeah, I know those
Speaker 3: were fantastic. Yeah, I'm sure they have some funky name
Speaker 3: from like night Sky.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I disliked the blue in on that helmet.
Speaker 2: That was strong.
Speaker 3: That helmet was great, well done. All right. This was
Speaker 3: from Philip Squadron, who may be an in and out
Speaker 3: fan because he's from Woodland Hills, California. Hey s doggs.
Speaker 3: That was a perfect Sunday morning. Eagles at home Sunday
Speaker 3: morning because he's in California. Eagles at home, kick their butts.
Speaker 3: Tom Brady into house, Baker on fire Vita with the
Speaker 3: most satisfying sack of the year, Lavonte playing lights out,
Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Good points, it's good
Speaker 3: quick history for the young fans. Yes, we beat the
Speaker 3: Eagles in the playoffs last year, and we beat them
Speaker 3: in the NFC Championship in two thousand and two. But
Speaker 3: who remembers the bucks very first playoff win in team
Speaker 3: history was against the Eagles in nineteen seventy five nine nine. Well,
Speaker 3: that other fan remembered it. Selman destroyed Jaworski, Doug Williams
Speaker 3: through a TD to Jimmy Giles, and Ricky Bell ran
Speaker 3: wild twenty four to seventeen wins. So I did remember
Speaker 3: the score, right, Yeah. Our success success being the Eagles,
Speaker 3: goes back forty five years. Question. Living in California, I
Speaker 3: have never made it out to Tampa to see a
Speaker 3: game or the stadium. Are there any tributes to that
Speaker 3: seventy nine team around, any pictures of plaque or anything
Speaker 3: remembering their turnaround from fourteen to nineteen seventy nine. I
Speaker 3: don't think so.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 3: I mean there's some players from the team in the
Speaker 3: ring I honor, yeah, but I don't think there's a
Speaker 3: plaque or anything anywhere.
Speaker 2: No. No, But I do think they're gonna Well I don't.
Speaker 2: I have to wait and.
Speaker 3: See there's some stuff along the top of around the
Speaker 3: top of the walls in the locker room that celebrates various.
Speaker 2: Eras, right John McKay, Yeah that yeah.
Speaker 3: Okay, thanks Phil. All Right, this is from Anthony. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna guess it's pronounced nab k n abba or probably
Speaker 3: Anthony abb. You can write us back and let us
Speaker 3: know how if I butcher your name or not. Hey,
Speaker 3: salty dogs, hope you're having a great morning. My name
Speaker 3: is Anthony and this this is my second time riding
Speaker 3: in and what a perfect time to write in again
Speaker 3: being a Pennsylvania native. Nothing better than to see the
Speaker 3: Bucks having the number of the team I was always
Speaker 3: forced to hear about since I wrote in last year.
Speaker 3: I actually moved down to Macon, Georgia exclamation point. That's
Speaker 3: why I said it like that, which is great, Which
Speaker 3: is great because it makes me even closer to hopefully
Speaker 3: attending my first Buccaneers home game now that it's much
Speaker 3: more manageable distance. But now I have to deal with
Speaker 3: going from Eagles and Steelers fans to now divisional opponent fans. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we go through Macon when we drive up to Atlanta. Yep,
Speaker 3: up off it's probably like a six hour drive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because Macon's about an hour hour and a half
Speaker 2: from minute. Yeah, so yeah, it's not a bad drive though.
Speaker 3: No, I've I've become pretty good at that drive.
Speaker 2: You could be very, very ambitious and get up early
Speaker 2: in the morning and drive.
Speaker 3: That's a hard thing for Jazelle and I we been
Speaker 3: Oh he couldn't mean. Yeah, if you're driving from Tampa
Speaker 3: to Atlanta or vice versa, what you need to know
Speaker 3: is if you have a bit of a lead foot,
Speaker 3: you can speed in Florida. Don't speed in Georgia. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, you can go eight or nine miles per hour,
Speaker 3: but don't do more than that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, don't do twenty over.
Speaker 3: My son got a ticket on the way home or yeah,
Speaker 3: and you were eight hundred dollars was the ticket? What
Speaker 3: eight hundred dollars?
Speaker 2: And he enjoyed the rude So wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying you should speed anywhere, but I
Speaker 3: see a lot more people pull over in Georgia than
Speaker 3: in Florida. So I'm hopefully attending this Thursday night game
Speaker 3: to cheer in the box.
Speaker 2: Oh good quick drive doing Atlanta.
Speaker 3: I just wanted to write in asking a question with
Speaker 3: Levante once again. Oh this is great, by the way,
Speaker 3: this is what I was talking about earlier. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: with Levante once again having a vintage game showcasing that
Speaker 3: he's still got more than enough in the tank. I
Speaker 3: noticed his force fumble now makes it twelve straight seasons
Speaker 3: for him with at least one forced fumble. Is there
Speaker 3: a record out there of the most consecutive seasons from
Speaker 3: a linebacker with a forced fumble slash turnover? Thanks for
Speaker 3: keep Thanks for taking the time and keeping me occupied
Speaker 3: in my overnight shifts with your podcast, Go Bucks. Oh okay,
Speaker 3: any words, No, that's cool. I like that. So this
Speaker 3: is great because between me and the PR staff, we
Speaker 3: try to think a very possible way to come up
Speaker 3: with notes and stats about our players, and obviously we've
Speaker 3: got tons of them. For Lavante, we had not thought
Speaker 3: of this one, really, and I had not even realized
Speaker 3: he didn't have a force fumble in his rookie season,
Speaker 3: But he's got one in every season since for a
Speaker 3: streak of twelve straight. And yes I did look it
Speaker 3: up and it is the It is tied for the
Speaker 3: fourth longest streak in NFL history. Dang, I didn't bring
Speaker 3: that phone.
Speaker 2: I can't believe. I can't believe a fan out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean I looked up. Well, he gave
Speaker 3: me a really good idea. Okay, so the all time
Speaker 3: guy is Julius Peppers was seventeen, and then I think
Speaker 3: it was I forgot to bring my phone in where
Speaker 3: I have a picture of it, But I think it
Speaker 3: was I don't know that guy who played for the
Speaker 3: Jets and the Falcons, the guy that played for the
Speaker 3: Jets and the Cardinals. John Abraham fourteen, Robert Mathis thirteen,
Speaker 3: and then Levante's tie with somebody for fourth with twelve.
Speaker 3: But if you look at the top ten list, it's
Speaker 3: all ed rushers. Now, I can't say if he's number
Speaker 3: one among linebackers because sometimes they call those edd dressers
Speaker 3: linebackers outside linemakers, and then sometimes I get lumped in together,
Speaker 3: which is why Levante didn't make the Pro Bowl for
Speaker 3: many years in the early in his career. But I
Speaker 3: can say it because he's the only real off ball
Speaker 3: linemaker on the list on the list of top ten
Speaker 3: that I saw, So yes, he's he's got the longest
Speaker 3: streak for a real true linebacker. So that so great
Speaker 3: idea and then we looked it up. I tweeted it out.
Speaker 3: I didn't give it. I didn't give Andrew Anthony any credit,
Speaker 3: but now you are. I'm doing it here for any
Speaker 3: listeners and we're probably I mean, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 3: if they put that in the in the game release,
Speaker 3: going amongst all seats. So that was neat.
Speaker 2: So thank you Anthony.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job, good question and led to a good result.
Speaker 3: This one, by the way, David, this is from David
Speaker 3: Gold in England, and David, I hate to say it,
Speaker 3: but something about your email address. Our system does not
Speaker 3: like email a mime cast thing. I got a message saying,
Speaker 3: you know, it's saying this messages, but it says usually
Speaker 3: you usually just leave those there they're quarantined or whatever.
Speaker 3: But the subject says to Scott and Jeff questions. So
Speaker 3: I knew, okay, that's that's what she said. That's legit.
Speaker 3: So I had it released and it's from David Gold,
Speaker 3: as I said in Horsham, Sussex in England. H R
Speaker 3: S H A M.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it could be anything right the way they
Speaker 2: pronounce it.
Speaker 3: Yes, Hey, salty dogs. This is my third time writing
Speaker 3: into the show, but first time in a while. I
Speaker 3: eagerly look out for your show every Thursday, as even
Speaker 3: when we Bucks have a bad game, like against the Broncos,
Speaker 3: you still deliver entertaining material in great analysis on the
Speaker 3: Bucks postgame. Well, thank you.
Speaker 2: Thanks.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you have tolds by now, but just in
Speaker 3: case you haven't, I got to ask, did you find
Speaker 3: out who owns the bright green Liang re charger go
Speaker 3: with like with Go faster stripes. Yeah, that's cool. I've
Speaker 3: heard that before now I think about it, faster stripes.
Speaker 3: So to my question, what did you think of Tom
Speaker 3: Brady's performance on Fox against the Eagles? So I didn't
Speaker 3: hear it. So Jeff has alreadykind of wait in on that.
Speaker 2: He's going to be really good before it's over with,
Speaker 2: He's going to be that you know, he may he
Speaker 2: may get up to that mad status.
Speaker 3: Wow, you just went right to the top. Well, I
Speaker 3: mean you could have said Tony Romo.
Speaker 2: Or no, no, because it's a whole different style than
Speaker 2: Tony Romo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Madden was bang.
Speaker 2: Right, but he also is very good at breaking it down.
Speaker 2: I know he was understood, and I think that's where
Speaker 2: Tom's gonna get because he's seeing stuff. And I think
Speaker 2: you said to his level.
Speaker 3: That's like saying you think Baker Mayfield will get to Tom.
Speaker 2: Brady's if you have to strive for something, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not saying he shouldn't try, but you're saying
Speaker 3: he will.
Speaker 2: I think he will come on only because only because
Speaker 2: he's a student of everything he does.
Speaker 3: He's already the greatest in one field. Does he get
Speaker 3: to be the greatest in two fields? That seems that
Speaker 3: seems greedy.
Speaker 2: Well I understand that, but just my thought.
Speaker 3: We'll have to wait and see anyway, he says.
Speaker 2: And by the way, Madden was my favorite personally.
Speaker 3: I loved it in every way. It was great to
Speaker 3: hear him gush over Mike, Chris and Levante. His commentary
Speaker 3: was super enthusiastic and articulate, and I loved his story
Speaker 3: on why he chose the Buccaneers over, among others, the Bears.
Speaker 3: Sorry for making you read this message, Scott, as I
Speaker 3: know you don't like doing it. Only joking, he says,
Speaker 3: keep up the great work, David again, I like getting Look,
Speaker 3: we're reading them all, it's been like eight of them.
Speaker 2: David. I love I love that ending.
Speaker 3: This is. We heard from him from Mexico before, and
Speaker 3: it looks to me like he's saying because he has
Speaker 3: an accent mark over the A. Remember I was wondering
Speaker 3: if it was Angel or on Hell. With the accent
Speaker 3: mark over the A is probably on Hell. Right on Hell.
Speaker 2: You're asking the wrong person.
Speaker 3: I think this, But it sounds like he's okay being
Speaker 3: pronounced Angel as well, but it looks like it's on Hell.
Speaker 2: Very generous individual, however you.
Speaker 3: Want to pronounce it is fine. I couldn't write last week,
Speaker 3: but not because the loss to Denver, but I'm glad
Speaker 3: to write again on this weekend's victory and with a
Speaker 3: short week as we play on Thursday, really quick, since
Speaker 3: I imagine the show will be tight on schedule and Scott
Speaker 3: wants to read a few emails, just kidding. See what
Speaker 3: I'm saying, Jeff, see what you've done.
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything. They listen, They listened to the podcast.
Speaker 3: You did it, You did this. How important is Vita
Speaker 3: to coach Bowles defense? I mean I feel like every
Speaker 3: time he's out, we struggle one way or another. I
Speaker 3: know all NFL teams have a next man up policy,
Speaker 3: but this guy is just tremendous. Was Nunez roach as
Speaker 3: the closest to fill somewhat the gap. I don't think
Speaker 3: anybody we've had that could fill in gives you what
Speaker 3: Vita gives you. And yes, and coach Foote was saying
Speaker 3: that today he's like every team, every team wants a
Speaker 3: player like Vita. Yep, and you he has such an
Speaker 3: impact on the game. And he was saying, I wish
Speaker 3: that these good nose tackles because there's a couple others
Speaker 3: in the league sure got more credit because they do.
Speaker 3: How important there and he's just he says, he's often
Speaker 3: occupying both a gaps, which is pretty impressive, and that
Speaker 3: just frees up other guys, you know, to get one
Speaker 3: on one opportunities.
Speaker 2: He's a very large man. I'm just saying he's also.
Speaker 3: Extremely strong, very very strong, and he moves well for
Speaker 3: being that large, very well, as you saw on that sack.
Speaker 3: Oh and Hell also says saludos from.
Speaker 2: Mexico, So that's nice.
Speaker 3: So yes, you are correct. We all agree with you
Speaker 3: on Hell that he's very very important to this defense.
Speaker 3: He would be to any defense that he'd be on.
Speaker 3: Everybody would like to have a player like Vita vea
Speaker 3: in their defensive fall.
Speaker 2: Yeah, for what he does a couple of them.
Speaker 3: I mean, he has about twenty five sacks in his
Speaker 3: what six or seven years, which is not bad for
Speaker 3: our nose tackle.
Speaker 2: Hard to believe he's been there that long.
Speaker 3: But he's also impacting all the rest of the pass
Speaker 3: rushers up front. Yep. And I'm sure he was a
Speaker 3: big reason why our run defense is really good, save
Speaker 3: for that play at one play with you. All right, Jeff,
Speaker 3: that's it. That's it, that's all of it. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: that was a lot of questions.
Speaker 2: He did well and you didn't whine about it one time.
Speaker 2: I'm really stop it about it.
Speaker 3: Keeps them coming, guys. Buccaneer Salty Dogs at Buccaneers dot
Speaker 3: NFL dot com. It doesn't have to be a question.
Speaker 3: It could be a joke, a comment, uh something, how
Speaker 3: you became a Bucks fan, an observation, a trivia give
Speaker 3: us a trivia question. If you want to send me
Speaker 3: something you think would stump me, make sure you put
Speaker 3: in the subject line trivia. Yeah, don't open till the show, oh,
Speaker 3: because I don't want to look it up. I want
Speaker 3: to see if I can figure it out.
Speaker 2: No, that's good on the spot. I like that. I
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: So I'm throwing down the gauntlet for anybody that wants
Speaker 3: you to do that.
Speaker 2: Well, I know the Salty Dog fans will come up.
Speaker 3: I would not have been able to the guy who
Speaker 3: asked is Anthony who asked about the Levante question. I
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been able to answer that without research, so
Speaker 3: that one would have got me. Yeah, but it also
Speaker 3: peaked my interest, which you did, and I would have
Speaker 3: gone back and looked it.
Speaker 2: Up and get you to peak your interest. As busy
Speaker 2: as you were this week, that's solid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've still got it. It's five now, way, I
Speaker 3: still got a lot to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we were going to do this, you wanted
Speaker 2: to do it. We normally do it at three point thirty,
Speaker 2: and I was dealing with the Coaches Show and trying
Speaker 2: to get stuff done, and it's like and then I'm
Speaker 2: just looking at emails piloting up right now. So when
Speaker 2: I'm going to say you got anything else.
Speaker 3: I mean, our significant others have known for quite some
Speaker 3: time that there are weeks where this happens. Yeah, Like
Speaker 3: Gazelle knows, I'm not gonna I'm gonna be home late.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you always you know, it's funny, you know what
Speaker 2: it's like, But when you're in the middle of it,
Speaker 2: you still go, there's just.
Speaker 3: A lot, but this is well worth it for that
Speaker 3: many bye.
Speaker 2: You get afterwards, we get the weekend off.
Speaker 3: We get a mini buys. It's awesome and we don't
Speaker 3: have to work at all, I know, I mean I
Speaker 3: might work. Add a little bit to me next week, either.
Speaker 2: A little bit here and there, come in Friday and
Speaker 2: get everything, do the you know, press conferences, press conferences,
Speaker 2: all of that, and then out the door and get
Speaker 2: a weekend.
Speaker 3: In The parking lot is almost empty.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 3: The most of them have gotten out of here.
Speaker 2: Now because they got to come in and practice tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Before we get on a.
Speaker 3: Plot, we should like we should like judge all these cars, well,
Speaker 3: like on a one to ten scale.
Speaker 2: Well, there goes a ten right now?
Speaker 3: Yeah? That one that that one's kind of boring. I mean,
Speaker 3: I like audis I have an audience, and that that
Speaker 3: looks like a family car.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I won't follow you as a family guy. Yeah
Speaker 2: all right, since you did, Thanks for listening.