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 He still the twenty, he said the twenty
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Speaker 1: There you go in the shotgun sends three receivers left.
Speaker 1: Here's the staff of the glitzer has picked up Brady
Speaker 1: Unity caught balls. He has the record at the eleven
Speaker 1: yard line. Mike Havins becomes the first NFL player from
Speaker 1: Italy history to record a thousand yards and bore in
Speaker 1: this perst seventh season to want to throw VI brading.
Speaker 1: Congratulations Mike Kevins, who can forget again? Looking against the
Speaker 1: side a touchdowns tam a day. Derek Books, a long
Speaker 1: spallio player in the National Football League. There is Dot
Speaker 1: Daggers in where you gonna win the Super Bowl? There's
Speaker 1: the snap. My homes running to his right and look out,
Speaker 1: he may run my home director battle and something picked
Speaker 1: up the fox. We're got to be the chief. We're
Speaker 1: the champions of the world. When we still have I'm
Speaker 1: at a thirty three to go, Jevin White, what a
Speaker 1: great second season. That's it, Casey Box on the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl champs. They can't stop the clock. We call them
Speaker 1: the Salty Dogs and welcome into another edition of the
Speaker 1: Salty Dogs Podcast. I am Scott Smith and I am
Speaker 1: Jeff Ryan, and we are the Salty Dogs. We are
Speaker 1: which we haven't explained in a while in case we
Speaker 1: have new listeners. If you don't know the term, it's
Speaker 1: like it's it's kind of refers to older sailors who've
Speaker 1: been on the seas for many years. Yeah, crusty old guys.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we did get a little salty though last week,
Speaker 1: or I did over the three games in eleven or
Speaker 1: twelve days. Oh yes, but this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: nice We're gonna be nice to each other this time. Jeff,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can I bet you before this is
Speaker 1: over with, I'll irritate you someone. Well, you do have
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Speaker 1: So now let's talk about football. You wanna I you know,
Speaker 1: what I enjoyed. I totally enjoyed the Bears game. You
Speaker 1: enjoyed that it was it was fun. Um can be
Speaker 1: disgruntled for a change because you didn't score as many
Speaker 1: points as your thoughts. Been a long time since we've
Speaker 1: been able to complain that we should have scored so
Speaker 1: many ways. You like it because it was fun and
Speaker 1: we blew them out, but also because you get to
Speaker 1: complain about it. Well, that's it. It's a perfect world.
Speaker 1: I'm happy and I get a bitch about something, probably
Speaker 1: not as much as the Bears are bitching about right now. Um,
Speaker 1: you know they have a pretty good defense, though they do.
Speaker 1: You know what was good. But what was good about
Speaker 1: that game is because it looked on paper like we
Speaker 1: should win that game, no question. We were like twelve
Speaker 1: and a half point favorites. Um, we're averaging like thirty now,
Speaker 1: like thirty three points a game. They were only scoring
Speaker 1: about sixteen points a game. There. The rookie quarterback is
Speaker 1: having a tough time. He's getting terrible protection. They're often
Speaker 1: has been bad so and they had they were missing
Speaker 1: some guys even on defense. They were missing a Chem Hicks.
Speaker 1: They were missing Robert quinn Um so there were some reasons.
Speaker 1: And then they lost their their starting right tackle, Um,
Speaker 1: who was already the second string guy because Jermaine Effetti
Speaker 1: is on Andrew reserve went on a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and so I went to the second guy, Elijah Wilkinson,
Speaker 1: but he was put on the COVID list on Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: The fourth guy they put on the list that week
Speaker 1: like every day. So there right tackle was somebody named
Speaker 1: Lachevius Simmons. And I have to say, I've never heard
Speaker 1: of Lachevius Simmons, and it was his first career start.
Speaker 1: I looked bad up Now, Lachevia Simmons has probably never
Speaker 1: heard of me either, um, and he has a chance
Speaker 1: to make his name more well known. But it was
Speaker 1: a rough first game for him, a rough situation. He's
Speaker 1: a seventh round pick last year out of Tennessee State,
Speaker 1: making his first career start, and Shack. Shack had a
Speaker 1: good time. Shack was mostly rushing on that end offensive
Speaker 1: the you know, but I didn't finish my thought head.
Speaker 1: All of that looked like on paper like you should
Speaker 1: win handling, And I feel like those games they don't
Speaker 1: unfold that way we expect them to. And this one did.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just we just dominated from in the beginning.
Speaker 1: I think field position was just huge. I mean that.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at the numbers, you yes,
Speaker 1: Tom had four touchdown basses, but when you look at
Speaker 1: the numbers, you're gonna he had his season low in
Speaker 1: passing yard That's what I mean, right, and left a
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns out there in the second half on
Speaker 1: a couple of failed inside the tin drives, which is
Speaker 1: which is concerning because if you're in a tight game
Speaker 1: you have to deliver on I would say it's concerning
Speaker 1: if it's been a season long problem. But the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are something like, wait, I got it right here, I
Speaker 1: got papers. You always have papers, have more everything. We're
Speaker 1: still ninth in the league and red zone touchdown percentage strong.
Speaker 1: That's still pretty good. Sure, down a little bit from
Speaker 1: last year. It's at the nice part is the team
Speaker 1: is now elevated where you can look at things and
Speaker 1: become a little more critical even though you win, where
Speaker 1: there are times that both you and I know, if
Speaker 1: you got to win, you didn't care. You just got
Speaker 1: to win. I didn't want to look at anything else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we were happy. We were happy anyway, they and we
Speaker 1: still are. We've made that point before. But it also
Speaker 1: gives you something to talk about. Two, if you're the team,
Speaker 1: the players and coaches to dissect an analyze, figure out
Speaker 1: what needs to be always improvement. There's never a perfect game.
Speaker 1: That's what Tim was saying today. He says he could
Speaker 1: so he's played three regular season games and I don't
Speaker 1: know what another forty in the playoffs. Probably, he says
Speaker 1: he can count on one hand. He probably doesn't even
Speaker 1: need an entire one hand to count how many times
Speaker 1: the game has gone exactly the way he had hoped
Speaker 1: it would go. So the thing, though, is that, so far,
Speaker 1: with the exception of the Rams game, obviously, the Buckaneers
Speaker 1: have been able to win even without putting together what
Speaker 1: they think is a really great game. That it's not
Speaker 1: gonna that's not gonna last though, and that starts this
Speaker 1: week at New Orleans, no question, no question. And they
Speaker 1: know that. Oh yeah, I don't mean they're the ones
Speaker 1: saying that there is no love lost between the Bucks
Speaker 1: and the sentence And and how crazy is it It's
Speaker 1: on Halloween night or Halloween afternoon, so it is, that's
Speaker 1: just a crazy time. Anyways, but it at least will
Speaker 1: be entertaining. So, like Bruces said several times, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure you since here about it, and I've heard other
Speaker 1: people say how interesting it's gonna be in the Superdome
Speaker 1: with the fans back on Halloween Day. Personally, I could
Speaker 1: do without it. I know, I find those people annoying.
Speaker 1: I understand, and I could. I would prefer that we
Speaker 1: weren't going to play there on Halloween, right, But it
Speaker 1: will be fun people watching, no no matter what. So hopefully,
Speaker 1: hopefully it's a game. I think it's going to be
Speaker 1: a battle. There's no question. Um. Of course, the big
Speaker 1: story is always about you know who used to be here,
Speaker 1: and that's Jamis Winston and how well he's doing with
Speaker 1: the same send him. Happy for him because he is
Speaker 1: doing well with the Saints. It'll be fun to watch
Speaker 1: how this unfolds. Yeah, we'll get to the Saints here
Speaker 1: in a minute and Jamis, but we haven't done my
Speaker 1: my thing, which that you get to do your little
Speaker 1: beef braves read and I could do favorite thing what
Speaker 1: your stats? No, just your favorite thing from each last
Speaker 1: game every week we've been doing. If you would think
Speaker 1: you might remember that our favorite thing, your favorite thing
Speaker 1: from the last game, which was the Chicago game. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: my favorite thing. I thought, maybe you're saying your favorite
Speaker 1: thing is and you love doing stats and your favorite thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, that's true. You want to do this
Speaker 1: segment called my favorite thing from the game we do
Speaker 1: every week now, all right, Uh, you want me to
Speaker 1: go first? If you like a couple of things. I
Speaker 1: like that. There were two times when one by Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin and one by Mike Evans, they made a big
Speaker 1: play to get us near but didn't quite get in,
Speaker 1: and Brady immediately reward them by throwing them a touchdown pass.
Speaker 1: I did like that, so you know, Mike got the
Speaker 1: fort yard, was dragged down about the two and like
Speaker 1: they hurried to the line staff that just did the
Speaker 1: back shield of fade touchdown. You're getting your touchdown. He's like, exactly,
Speaker 1: just deserves that's one. And then I liked all the
Speaker 1: runs of ten or more yards. I believe we had
Speaker 1: eight of them in that game. Runs of ten or
Speaker 1: more yards we had seven coming into the game. We
Speaker 1: had more in that game than we had in our
Speaker 1: first six games combined. That's that's big strong. I loved
Speaker 1: how the offensive line played. I guess it's a good
Speaker 1: good against a good defense. Khalil Mack. I also loved that,
Speaker 1: um the kickoff return returned rather which was part of
Speaker 1: what you were talking about about the field position, field position,
Speaker 1: so and and almost broke it. Yeah, he was close.
Speaker 1: He was he I think he was. I think he
Speaker 1: was hoping to get around the corner on the punter
Speaker 1: and he said, he said if he I think if
Speaker 1: he had a chance to do it over again after
Speaker 1: listening to him yesterday, would have tried to tried to
Speaker 1: put a move on him and maybe could have like
Speaker 1: cut back. Yeah, he thought he was going to beat
Speaker 1: the angle. Yeah, he didn't know, and he didn't want
Speaker 1: to cut back as there were other pursuers there. If
Speaker 1: he could have got around the puttery, he might have
Speaker 1: gone the distance, which is something that uh, you know
Speaker 1: they've been talking about Darden being able to do this
Speaker 1: and um, here we are weak. That would have been
Speaker 1: six seven and he gets to come in and immediately
Speaker 1: goes what he needed to do. So his comfort level
Speaker 1: in the NFL seems to be there. It certainly gives
Speaker 1: us opportunities in games down the road that perhaps he
Speaker 1: can break one. You probably know that I've been pretty
Speaker 1: excited about him since we drafted. Yeah, I really, you know,
Speaker 1: you like him. If we had gotten that touchdown, it
Speaker 1: would have been you know when the last time we
Speaker 1: had a punt return touchdown. Oh gosh, that would have gone. Um.
Speaker 1: It was actually against the Saints. Yeah, I can't remember
Speaker 1: his name, his first name. It was spelled not the
Speaker 1: way it's normally spelled. Does that help. Oh, I wasn't
Speaker 1: Michaels Spurlock. It was it was Michael Spurlock, who spells
Speaker 1: his name. Yeah, that was kind of a uh. It
Speaker 1: was that game. It was that game in two thousand
Speaker 1: nine when the Buccaneers were terrible thou nine. I think
Speaker 1: we had two wins maybe at that point, and it
Speaker 1: was like the second to last week. These Saints would
Speaker 1: go on to win the Super Bowl here and they
Speaker 1: did not rest their starters in that game, but the
Speaker 1: Bucks beat them. It was one of the biggest in
Speaker 1: terms of the two records of the teams. It was
Speaker 1: one of the biggest upsets in NFL history, and it
Speaker 1: was made possible by Spurlock tying the game with the
Speaker 1: part return touchdown late in the game and then we
Speaker 1: wanted an overtime, and I think that's um part of
Speaker 1: the game that's gone away because there's no kickoff return
Speaker 1: there's no kickoff returns really and and but it was
Speaker 1: fun to watch it. You know, you just with with
Speaker 1: him back there, you can't put your head down. You
Speaker 1: know a lot of times there is usually take a
Speaker 1: nap at certain times. Well sometimes you you'll look at something,
Speaker 1: You'll you'll glance down, you'll try to find a note,
Speaker 1: You'll you can't do that with him now. So that's
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. That was um. My other takeaways
Speaker 1: were the human interest stories of I did laugh when
Speaker 1: Mike gave away the six um touchdown ball. That was great.
Speaker 1: I loved it. Uh. I think that that was an
Speaker 1: interesting sideline. I also liked the fact there's a couple
Speaker 1: of things. Of course, everybody's talking about Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: which was a terrific terrific But Leonard four Nette gave
Speaker 1: his jersey away to um a young lady. Uh she
Speaker 1: I would say by looking at her probably between I
Speaker 1: don't know eight and eleven or eight and twelve, something
Speaker 1: like that. Um, he just she was cheering him and
Speaker 1: he took his game day jersey off after the game,
Speaker 1: right after the game and handed the tour and she
Speaker 1: just her tears and just and it made me think
Speaker 1: that's what sports should be, pure enjoyment. There shouldn't be
Speaker 1: a dollar value because it's a jersey or because it's
Speaker 1: a football. It's just a straight you know, you're you're
Speaker 1: touched by one of your heroes when you're that age,
Speaker 1: and so I like those. I like that aspect, but
Speaker 1: that one didn't get much much pluba when when you're
Speaker 1: compared to Tom Brady, a nine year old cancer survivor,
Speaker 1: that's going to get the headline that's it. Good story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a great story, and it's it's very interesting
Speaker 1: and he's a um you know, you kind of look
Speaker 1: at all all of that that goes on during a game,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of what happens when you're ahead, when
Speaker 1: you're I think you're being a sweet dog this week. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just well, I'm just saying is that I don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know if all that stuff happens if you lose
Speaker 1: that game. Uh you see it. That's what I'm looking
Speaker 1: at is that the game is a feel good game
Speaker 1: all the way across the board. How's that well? And
Speaker 1: I was saying, I've been excited about Jalen Darden since
Speaker 1: we drafted him, uh, in part because I really wish
Speaker 1: we could find a dynamic punt returner, and you're right
Speaker 1: that that is going away because somehow CBS had this
Speaker 1: and we just that was the longest point returning in
Speaker 1: the entire lage. I was surprised when I saw the
Speaker 1: forty three yards the longest one in the whole league
Speaker 1: this year, at least to that point. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that held up through the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: And first I thought what it was forty three of
Speaker 1: ours and I was like yeah, and then I was like,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, that's that's the league. So yeah, um,
Speaker 1: it's it's exciting. So Jalen technically beat out Jaden Mickens,
Speaker 1: the incumbent for the return jobs, got the spot on
Speaker 1: the actor roster, while Mickens went to the practice cractice
Speaker 1: squad to start the season. But coach Arians then decided
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm quite ready to throw the rookie
Speaker 1: into the fire. He hasn't seen a lot of situations
Speaker 1: yet big game, Thursday night shows, Cowboys, So Jaden mckins
Speaker 1: gets called up from the practice squad and then he
Speaker 1: in the next week they just signed him to the
Speaker 1: active roster room and he has held the return job
Speaker 1: except for the Rams game when he was out with
Speaker 1: an injury, so Jane Jalen only got to play one game.
Speaker 1: But before this last game, Jenen mckins put back on
Speaker 1: the practice squad. The job's yours, Jalen. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: exciting because he took it. And like you said, instant
Speaker 1: field position. I think that's the part of the coaching
Speaker 1: and the evaluation of talent that kind of gets overlooked
Speaker 1: because when you when you kind of just go, oh,
Speaker 1: he got I guess he just wasn't you know, it
Speaker 1: wasn't what they thought he was, but he is. Or
Speaker 1: they never changed their opinion on him. They just they
Speaker 1: he needed, he need playing situations. Yeah, and I and
Speaker 1: at great management of your roster. Yeah, we've had him
Speaker 1: on this year. Yeah, so that's exciting. You mentioned Mike
Speaker 1: Evans and the six hunter touched him and and then
Speaker 1: Mike Evans cut his sixth huner first touchdown and second
Speaker 1: and so why has six D so more important than
Speaker 1: six O two? Would It's just their nice round number.
Speaker 1: He's the first guy ever to get to six hundred.
Speaker 1: He's also the first person to get to six two.
Speaker 1: For that matter. People like the round numbers. It's a milestone.
Speaker 1: So and don't this is not a joke. He could
Speaker 1: conceivably we could be in a year or two talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: he's closing in on seven hundred. Because okay, right now,
Speaker 1: right now, he has twenty one touchdowns through seven games.
Speaker 1: If you just take the easiest possible route and say
Speaker 1: that's three touchdowns the game time seventeen is fifty one,
Speaker 1: it would not be at all surprising if he got
Speaker 1: the fifty one, which would be thirty more touchdowns this year,
Speaker 1: So he'd be at like seven thirty something, right, six
Speaker 1: thirty something. If he plays next year, which I think
Speaker 1: he's planning too, the contract goes through there, he throws
Speaker 1: another thirty to forty touchdowns, He's suddenly at six sixties
Speaker 1: six seventy, and if he decides to play with another year,
Speaker 1: you have a good shot at It's hard to even
Speaker 1: imagine that we can seriously talk about that, but it's
Speaker 1: not out of the question. See what I what I
Speaker 1: love is how focused players are on just playing the game. So,
Speaker 1: and this is what I love about it because if
Speaker 1: you ask a player, who are we playing? Not again
Speaker 1: to the Saints, but who are we playing after the
Speaker 1: bye week, They'll look at you with blank, blank stare
Speaker 1: they have no idea. And I love that because everybody's
Speaker 1: into stats and this and that, and players are focused
Speaker 1: on what they need to leave the stat gazing for
Speaker 1: guys like me. Yeah, but I did love the look
Speaker 1: on Mike space when he goes, I gave away the ball?
Speaker 1: But what did I do? And we have just kind
Speaker 1: of half smiling. Yeah. Yeah, So it is funny, but
Speaker 1: it's it's funny because it did work out really really
Speaker 1: well and it wasn't some craziness. So that speaking of
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and um crazy stats. Okay, so those three
Speaker 1: touchdowns got him in his career to a total of
Speaker 1: sixty nine, which is only two behind Mike all stop now, Michael. Okay,
Speaker 1: So originally before Mike also came out on the Bucks,
Speaker 1: all time leading touchdown guy was James Wilder with forty five.
Speaker 1: Mike destroyed that record. Um got it all the way
Speaker 1: up to seventy one. For certainly for a long time,
Speaker 1: You're like, well, who's gonna break that record. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's other franchises with better touchdown record career touchdown records,
Speaker 1: but for the Bucks, nobody's come close for a long time.
Speaker 1: And now here comes Mike and he's gonna get it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get it this year. He's got seven through
Speaker 1: seven games, he's gonna get two more. So good this week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that would be great. Uh he I just think it's
Speaker 1: a it's we have notes every week, and especially with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, he's some milestone every freaking week, and that's
Speaker 1: it's nice we have things to talk about. The PR
Speaker 1: department has can put out these big liners every week,
Speaker 1: but this one, to me is big, passing Mike Alstot
Speaker 1: to be the all time leading touchdown score. To me,
Speaker 1: that might be Mike Coms has a ton of records,
Speaker 1: but that would be my favorite one when he gets it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think the reason for it is because it's
Speaker 1: Mike allt and Mike is a guy that you know,
Speaker 1: it's not that far removed from the game and a
Speaker 1: lot of people grew up with if you if it
Speaker 1: was going to score, give it to Mike. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's what you're gonna get So that's Mike and it's Mike,
Speaker 1: and they're about Mike, two of the most beloved players
Speaker 1: in franchise history. Questions, Um, I would I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: saying this to the point, and I don't know if
Speaker 1: anybody in our team has reached out. If it's a
Speaker 1: home game, I hope Mike's there. Oh, Mike comes to
Speaker 1: the games. He comes to every game. Yeah, he's there
Speaker 1: all if you have a suite or something. I believe
Speaker 1: he does. I bring him down to the sideline, you know,
Speaker 1: like when um Sap was there when Shaq broke his
Speaker 1: sack record, And that's how it should be. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I'm sure Mike would totally enjoy the experience. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: Mike would be the biggest one routine that you surpassed
Speaker 1: the record, No question. Records are made to be broken.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure tobbyous. Mike loves the Buccaneers, identifies as
Speaker 1: a Buccaneer for life. So you want to see Buccaneers
Speaker 1: other Buccaneers players, Well, I'm sure he'll be really happy
Speaker 1: about that. So, um, that was the highest scoring first
Speaker 1: half we've ever had, and how much good they add more?
Speaker 1: And I was wrong with my notes earlier we had Yeah,
Speaker 1: like we have. We had eight runs of ten or
Speaker 1: more yards in that game by four different guys, and
Speaker 1: we had nine not seven coming in. It was still
Speaker 1: almost doubled it, sure, And so you you you brought
Speaker 1: up the offensive line, and that's yeah, they're they're doing
Speaker 1: they're doing better. They're they're open holes better in their
Speaker 1: backs are the backs are picking the holes better? Even
Speaker 1: coach said that. And and what I love is when
Speaker 1: an offensive lineman has to run downfield and blocked, they
Speaker 1: are well, yeah, a couple of guys are really more,
Speaker 1: they're really they're mallers. And I did Ryan Jensen ran
Speaker 1: his butt off and through a couple of good blocks.
Speaker 1: And Ryan Jensen did, uh what he does best. He
Speaker 1: got underneath someone's skin and they got kicked out of
Speaker 1: the game. That's their problems. Was that two weeks ago though?
Speaker 1: Wasn't it the Philadelphia I thought it was the Bears game. Well,
Speaker 1: there was the there was the key play where Lionard
Speaker 1: Fournette on the sideline Caldafi game in the final drive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about the guy throwing the punch does
Speaker 1: that this game? I believe it was the Bears game. Okay,
Speaker 1: and they really couldn't afford to lose guys at that point.
Speaker 1: Correct that defense was already thin that but but yeah,
Speaker 1: so you think that now after Tom Brady came here,
Speaker 1: Buck's get a much bigger spotlight. For the last two
Speaker 1: years they win the Super Bowl, so all their players
Speaker 1: are a little better known. Can somebody like Allie mar
Speaker 1: Pett finally make it into the Pro Bowl? You would think?
Speaker 1: And I and I think Ellie mar Pett talked to
Speaker 1: the media today and they were talking about Donovan Smith
Speaker 1: and like he said, Donny's played good for seven years.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys are finally picking up Well, he didn't,
Speaker 1: I am paraphrasing he that brings up a thing that
Speaker 1: has been true almost pretty much Donovan Smith's entire career
Speaker 1: here in that how he is assessed internally by this
Speaker 1: team difference quite a bit by how he's been viewed
Speaker 1: externally by you could not be more fans and NFL analysts.
Speaker 1: And I don't know why there's always been such a
Speaker 1: gulf because the offensive line results have been pretty good.
Speaker 1: Um he's had I mean, he started virtually every game
Speaker 1: for seven years at left tackle. If he was a
Speaker 1: bad left tackle. He would not have started for seven
Speaker 1: straight years. So you don't you can't live with you
Speaker 1: what a replaced that you can't live with it. He's
Speaker 1: had two new contracts along the way. I think there's
Speaker 1: I don't think they're I don't think that so many
Speaker 1: people that are Donovan Smith attractors are ever going to
Speaker 1: change their mind. They not. There are some players for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, just but Almar Pett. It's like it was
Speaker 1: almost like like you could hear this sort of just
Speaker 1: not discussed, but just kind of the fact that he
Speaker 1: didn't distaste in his voice was like, Donny has been
Speaker 1: great for seven years? Why why don't you guys see this? Whatever?
Speaker 1: But so who I mean, whoever it is? Donovan, Alimar,
Speaker 1: pat Ryan Jenson. Can somebody well Tristan Worse maybe almost buried? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you're buried the lead. You know. I could
Speaker 1: see two of those guys making the problem and finally
Speaker 1: and it will be so well deserved. But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna get too deep in that one because one of
Speaker 1: my questions this week from is about the problem. Then
Speaker 1: I got anything else, I got some other stuff? Go ahead, continue? Well, um,
Speaker 1: well we can start talking about wait, what what are
Speaker 1: you looking at? What does that mean? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You have to share with us. I don't know. Some
Speaker 1: of these are just random stats I wrote down. Well,
Speaker 1: here's something that's completely different from everything else we're talking about. UM,
Speaker 1: but I got a question, and you'll remember her, the
Speaker 1: Rusty the nurse Central Florida, questions to me now from
Speaker 1: the mail bag, and in this UM interesting because she
Speaker 1: asked if if I don't remember the exact way, but
Speaker 1: you know how like when Josh Wells coming into play
Speaker 1: a six tackle and he asked to declare himself eligible.
Speaker 1: Because in that case, you're basically replacing a tight end
Speaker 1: and you're one of the six including quarterback, quarterback and
Speaker 1: five eligible players. You're one of those five we had
Speaker 1: to get so they have to say it in the
Speaker 1: in the refs announced it to the stadium. And the
Speaker 1: point is he's wearing a number that you would think
Speaker 1: would make him ineligible. Then the defense is to know that, yeah,
Speaker 1: that guy could catch a pass if he goes out
Speaker 1: et with all the number changes, what difference, But still
Speaker 1: those numbers are still ineligible. You can't wear seventy two
Speaker 1: catch a pass unless you are so UM. She asked me,
Speaker 1: do people have to declare eligible on field goals and
Speaker 1: extra points? And I have to admit I never thought
Speaker 1: about this before. Now you know that there are there
Speaker 1: are people that can catch passes on field goals, because
Speaker 1: we've all seen fake field goals or aborted field goals
Speaker 1: or passles were thrown. That is they thought provoking questions. Well,
Speaker 1: I have the answer now, and that's why I thought
Speaker 1: this was interesting and I'd bring it up here as well.
Speaker 1: Do you I would assume you have you would have to,
Speaker 1: And then I asked brandley opinion and what they say? So,
Speaker 1: the the holder and the kicker are eligible, and then um,
Speaker 1: four guys, the two guys on the end of one's
Speaker 1: called a wing and one's called an end. The two
Speaker 1: guys on each end of that line are eligible. And
Speaker 1: then the five guys in the middle of the you know,
Speaker 1: the long snapper and the two guys on each side
Speaker 1: are ineligible. So they're like the old line, and everybody
Speaker 1: else is eligible. And that means, depending upon your number,
Speaker 1: you do have to report. They just still the rest
Speaker 1: don't make a point of announcing it to the stadium.
Speaker 1: So we've never known this. I've never known this, So
Speaker 1: why why don't they have to If they have to report,
Speaker 1: then why don't they have to let everybody? Now? I
Speaker 1: think it's probably because the other team, the other team
Speaker 1: knows on every field goal who the eligibles are. They
Speaker 1: can look right and see who who the two on
Speaker 1: the end, by the way they're set out, by where
Speaker 1: where there. Okay, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: number you wear. If you're on the end, you're eligible.
Speaker 1: But you but no, it does matter because if you
Speaker 1: have a number that's not eligible, like our our guys.
Speaker 1: Here's most of the guys that do that. Vida Vella. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's fifty, Nacho, he's fifty six. Patrick O'Connor is seventy nine.
Speaker 1: Will Golston's nine two. I think maybe Joe try and
Speaker 1: might get in there sometimes. All those numbers try on
Speaker 1: are still even with the new number of things, you
Speaker 1: can't catch a pass if you were you can't be
Speaker 1: eligible player be from fifty to seventy nine or ninety.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones that still can't be eligible without declaring.
Speaker 1: So those guys actually do have to come in each
Speaker 1: time and tell the ref I'm eligible. Wow, And and
Speaker 1: but like if Joe Tryan played that position. He wouldn't
Speaker 1: have to because nine is an eligible number. But there's more.
Speaker 1: You also have to before you order go ahead. How
Speaker 1: would you like to get two of these from? If
Speaker 1: you are in that those five in the middle, the
Speaker 1: longs up from the two next to him on each side.
Speaker 1: If you are wearing a number that is normally eligible,
Speaker 1: you have to go and tell the reps to declare
Speaker 1: you ineligible. So our long snapper now, which is um
Speaker 1: uh Tinker? Yes, Carson Tinker. The only reason that I
Speaker 1: took a moment there is because he's not our long
Speaker 1: snapper when the season began. To remember, his number is
Speaker 1: forty six, which is a number like a tight end
Speaker 1: could wear forties. So he has to declare himself ineligible
Speaker 1: before ever before kick. But our previous the who's on
Speaker 1: an injury reserve, it was number ninety seven. I had
Speaker 1: never thought of, so he didn't have to. I had neither.
Speaker 1: That is a great Do you remember the two thousand
Speaker 1: and wait, I might have written it down two. It
Speaker 1: was the year we won the Super Bowl Playoffs wild
Speaker 1: card game. The Giants were enjoying a bye. The Giants
Speaker 1: are playing in San Francisco, crazy game, and they lose
Speaker 1: at the very end because of Giants. Yeah, San fran
Speaker 1: came back at the end, they went up, and then
Speaker 1: the Giants had a chance to kick a field goal.
Speaker 1: They had just signed out of retirement a forty one
Speaker 1: year old long snapper named Trey Junkin had been a
Speaker 1: long snapper for a long long time. He messes up
Speaker 1: the snap, So now the I guess the holder, who's
Speaker 1: probably the punter, is running around with the ball trying
Speaker 1: to find somebody throw it to. They throw it down
Speaker 1: the field to a big lineman who's around the five
Speaker 1: yard line. He's clearly interfered with. There's past interference should
Speaker 1: be called. It's there's no question that the rest say
Speaker 1: no and don't throw a flag because they say he
Speaker 1: was an ineligible player, so you can't interfere with him.
Speaker 1: But they were wrong, and they had apologized the next
Speaker 1: day because that guy had declared to eligible. Isn't that crazy? Wow?
Speaker 1: But that's a good example of a of a play
Speaker 1: to look at it for that. But that is an
Speaker 1: awesome question. Yeah, sends good questions. Yeah that is now
Speaker 1: I'm going to put binoculars on and see who how
Speaker 1: they if they actually go up to the right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they rubbed their chest. Remember we're doing we're podcasting. They
Speaker 1: can't see you doing it. We can't see you rubbing
Speaker 1: yourself over there. So okay, that's good UF prob shirt. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was kind of funny. Okay. Uh. Another thing we
Speaker 1: were talking about, Um, we were talking about Pro Bowls
Speaker 1: in the offensive women and probably they've been underserved in
Speaker 1: that regard. Hopefully will change. Here's another thing. Why is
Speaker 1: there not more Tom Brady m v P talk. If
Speaker 1: you go, they do it some some sites do it
Speaker 1: at least once a week. They list Okay, here's the
Speaker 1: leading candidates update. I mean, Pete Kyler Murray probably deserves
Speaker 1: to be at the top of the list right now.
Speaker 1: I think it's because we're loaded with so much talent
Speaker 1: and he's not getting the credit. Well. Tom Brady, for remember,
Speaker 1: did not make the Pro Bowl last year there was
Speaker 1: no Pro Bowl. No, but he's selected. He was not selected.
Speaker 1: Now if you look at those lists, he's usually done
Speaker 1: like at five or seven. H us Okay, Jeff first
Speaker 1: of a lot of it. You know, the fans have
Speaker 1: a have a say. It's not just that though, because
Speaker 1: it's thirds players and coaches. Yeah, the that's for the
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, not for the MVP. The m VP is
Speaker 1: his writers socially suppress because it's Tom Brady and what
Speaker 1: he does is doesn't anymore. It's like they could have
Speaker 1: named Michael Jordan's MVP like eight years ago. But if
Speaker 1: somebody like Karl Malone had a big season, like we're
Speaker 1: tired of giving it. Yeah, No, that's it. That's the
Speaker 1: reason the MVP. Almost every year and I heard this
Speaker 1: another podcast on The Ringer, so I'm not taking credit
Speaker 1: for it. Almost every year the U the m v
Speaker 1: P goes to the quarterback on one of the teams
Speaker 1: that gets a first round by almost every single year. Um.
Speaker 1: I think the last time according to their podcast, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers last year, so one of now it changed a
Speaker 1: little bit, probably because there's only one by now, but
Speaker 1: you get my point. Yeah, no, I do. I don't
Speaker 1: know if they had a buy or not. There's only
Speaker 1: one by I did they have it? Green Bay had
Speaker 1: to buy green Bay? Did it? They were the number
Speaker 1: one seed over the Okay, well there you go. Um.
Speaker 1: I think Adrian Peterson the year he had two thousand
Speaker 1: rushing yards is the last guy that that doesn't fit
Speaker 1: into that category. So the Bucks are six and one,
Speaker 1: they certainly have a chance to get the number one
Speaker 1: seed or be one of the you know, let's just
Speaker 1: say if there were still to be one of the
Speaker 1: top two seats. He's leading the league in passing yards
Speaker 1: and touchdowns. He's a quarterback of a very successful team.
Speaker 1: His pass rings like a hunter eight. It's not the
Speaker 1: best in the league, but it's up there. Why is
Speaker 1: he why why is it? Why we have to get
Speaker 1: to Kyler? It's it's there. They're picking guys that are
Speaker 1: on teams that really haven't, that are coming out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: so to speak. And so this person is lifting this
Speaker 1: team and making it better than anyone thought they would.
Speaker 1: They want the narrative, but I wouldn't Tom Brady winning
Speaker 1: his fourth m VP at the age of forty four
Speaker 1: be a pretty good narrative. Well, at this stage of
Speaker 1: the game, anything he does is pretty good. Um um snow. Seriously, Well,
Speaker 1: he's in a completely untarted to tear. You may not
Speaker 1: see this. I mean, if you go back into the seventies. Yes,
Speaker 1: George Blanda played until he was I think six, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but a lot of that was as a kick, but
Speaker 1: he would just so you know, he would come in
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter of a game. The only reason
Speaker 1: I noticed is because I understand that. But you can't.
Speaker 1: You cannot, you cannot diminish that he was not playing
Speaker 1: quarterback at the same time. If you look at a
Speaker 1: number of passes he threw, it's extremely small, like Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's right as a forty three year old, plus are
Speaker 1: more than all the other forty three year old quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: But that's what makes it even more special, and people
Speaker 1: aren't appreciating it. To your point, you're making the same
Speaker 1: point and then, which is good. Yeah. Well, what I
Speaker 1: was saying is if you go back, you can only
Speaker 1: find one guy that was doing something. Yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: great George Blander. Yeah, and so so I I stopped
Speaker 1: you earlier. But we should talk about the Saints and
Speaker 1: Jameis Winston. Yeah we can. He's got a thirteen to
Speaker 1: three touchdown to interception ratio, which is great, especially for
Speaker 1: Jami's um. And but they're only throwing for a hundred
Speaker 1: seventy six yards a game. I think Bruce Arian said
Speaker 1: it best. He's thrown about fifteen times less a game.
Speaker 1: So he's got obviously, less opportunities for big plays, less
Speaker 1: opportunities for bad place. I'm sure that's part of the place.
Speaker 1: And when you have Alvin Kamara and you can show
Speaker 1: throw short passes to him fifteen times a game and
Speaker 1: it works, then go ahead. Now. One of the things too,
Speaker 1: is that they haven't really been playing far behind they
Speaker 1: and that that is where if you go back into
Speaker 1: when Jamis would was with the Bucks, when we had
Speaker 1: to throw and got far behind, that's when things got crazy.
Speaker 1: So you also probably remember the Jeff that remember how
Speaker 1: in his last year here he seemed there was that
Speaker 1: string where he would throw an interception on the first
Speaker 1: offensive series of the game. Well he got it out
Speaker 1: of the way. Yeah, that's what people would say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel better now everybody. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: us here are happy to see James succeed. Absolutely, it
Speaker 1: would be nice for it wasn't in our division though,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, it'd be easier to root for.
Speaker 1: But they are. They're winning with Alvin Kamara, they're winning
Speaker 1: with with Jamie's not making big mistakes, and they're winning
Speaker 1: with an incredibly good defense. Well did you watch the
Speaker 1: Monday night game when they did Seattle. I mean a
Speaker 1: thirteen to ten game. It wasn't like they're lighting up
Speaker 1: the scoreboard now, it was raining, and it was that
Speaker 1: was Geno Smith, not Russell Wilson. Thank you. Now, I
Speaker 1: think people realize that Seattle had a better defense, and
Speaker 1: everyone was thinking that they did because they played really
Speaker 1: tough but very wet. Yeah. I think I think Sunday
Speaker 1: is gonna be a great matchup period. They have a
Speaker 1: lot of strengths that match up well against the stuff
Speaker 1: we do that usually has problems for other teams. I mean,
Speaker 1: Marsha and Latimore has historically done a very good job
Speaker 1: shadowing Mike Evans, no question, which is a bigger problem
Speaker 1: this time because there's no Antonio Brown and we don't
Speaker 1: know if Crocs coming back either. There's no guarantee of that.
Speaker 1: I know he practiced a little bit yesterday, no guarantee
Speaker 1: he's coming back this week, especially with the by fouling.
Speaker 1: So the Buckets are not going to cry about a
Speaker 1: lack of weapons, obviously, but you don't have the same
Speaker 1: and there was getting before Antonio Brown got hurt. The
Speaker 1: correct storyline that people are starting to really jump on
Speaker 1: was how can you how can you cover all this.
Speaker 1: You know, if you decide to double Mike Evans, then
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown's gonna run well or Chris Godwin. And and
Speaker 1: if you decide to flood the secondary in the middle
Speaker 1: of field the coverage and only rush three or four
Speaker 1: and dare us to run, not put a safety in
Speaker 1: the box, then we're gonna run as we've done like
Speaker 1: the last and the game against Chicago was a great
Speaker 1: They dare to come and we did too, great effect,
Speaker 1: and that helped set up short touchdown passes. Anyway, Um,
Speaker 1: this the Saints defense, though, it makes everything, as Tom
Speaker 1: Brady said today, everything is a challenge. They make everything challenging.
Speaker 1: They are very good in coverage. They looked at next
Speaker 1: gen numbers. They forced they forced quarterbacks to throw into
Speaker 1: tight windows a lot more than other teams because their
Speaker 1: coverage is so good. It's not just Marshall and a Latimore,
Speaker 1: but he is the best of them. Um, Damario Davis
Speaker 1: is awesome. He's one of the most underrated players in
Speaker 1: the league. He's all over the place in the middle
Speaker 1: of the field. He can rush the passer, he can
Speaker 1: cover very well. He's a great tackler. He hits the gaps.
Speaker 1: He hits the right gaps short times. He had a
Speaker 1: fantastic and he was the best player on the fields.
Speaker 1: So and then you know, they got veteran, experienced guys
Speaker 1: who all know each other all over that defense. Cameron
Speaker 1: Jordan's Um, Damario Davis, Marshall and Latimore, Marcus Williams, Malcolm Jenkins,
Speaker 1: c J. Gardner, Johnson, the pest. It gets everybody piste off.
Speaker 1: They've all been together for a long time. They had
Speaker 1: an interesting offseason. We you know, are the story of
Speaker 1: our off season was how how can we do it?
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, Jason like kept the band together. We
Speaker 1: should't lose anybody. Meanwhile, the Saints are navigating a different
Speaker 1: problem because their cap situation was terrible. They also had
Speaker 1: the retirement of Drew Brees. But they had to let
Speaker 1: go a number of players like Emmanuel Sanders and traded
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown and Sheldon Rankins and Jared Cook and Josh Hill.
Speaker 1: They had to let a lot of guys go. They
Speaker 1: even let Quango, but then they brought it back Probate
Speaker 1: a smaller salary. I went to manage. But somehow you
Speaker 1: look at the defense and it looks the same as always.
Speaker 1: They lost Trey Hendrickson, who had thirteen and a half
Speaker 1: sacks last year led the team. It's not a fluke
Speaker 1: because he's killing it in Cincinnati. But they brought in
Speaker 1: this guy who I don't even want to know how
Speaker 1: to try to pronounce his name. It's Tanno capacity On
Speaker 1: or something. Well the name starts with the K and
Speaker 1: then a P, and you don't see that very often.
Speaker 1: And then Marcus Davenport just came back from injury and
Speaker 1: looked really well in the Seattle good in the Seattle game.
Speaker 1: They're just they don't You don't see that pressure point
Speaker 1: that you can break. This defense are good everywhere. This
Speaker 1: is a big challenge. This is going to be a
Speaker 1: game that he who makes the least mistakes turnovers will
Speaker 1: decide this game, no question. It might be a field
Speaker 1: goal before it's over with. Now, they are only giving
Speaker 1: up around sixteen point nine points a game. I think
Speaker 1: it is something like that, less than seventeen sixteen point eight.
Speaker 1: That's okay. So so you see that and we are
Speaker 1: averaging what there's a third best scoring defense. We're the
Speaker 1: third best scoring okay, So if if we just you know,
Speaker 1: only do twenty four points or twenty points you're they
Speaker 1: are meanwhile there, So it's it's three against three when
Speaker 1: we're on offense, when we're when they're on offense, they're
Speaker 1: the seventeenth rank scoring attack and we're the tenth ranks
Speaker 1: scoring defense, which is pretty good considering season started. You know,
Speaker 1: we were pretty far down the list at the beginning.
Speaker 1: Made made some games. It's help. It helps when you
Speaker 1: play the worst offense in the league the Bears have statistically, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably the eyes tell us the same. Even with
Speaker 1: Khalil Herbert having a pretty good game, but you know,
Speaker 1: if you live and play him on my fantasy team
Speaker 1: against them, Wow, jeez, I'm so happy. I'm relieved. A
Speaker 1: sweat and bullet over here. Um yeah, I think it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a game of UH in this particular instance,
Speaker 1: this is going to be the turnover. Now if that's
Speaker 1: what decided of the three games last year, I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a fun game to watch. I'm curious
Speaker 1: to see how our defense decides to attack. UH. Camera
Speaker 1: and and Jamis, I mean he's always Cameras always played
Speaker 1: well against us. Well, yes, he lights out against like
Speaker 1: other teams, but he's played well We've done a pretty
Speaker 1: good job in the a couple of years. Yardage wise.
Speaker 1: He still scores touchdowns, but the two regular season games
Speaker 1: last year he had a total of like fifty six yards.
Speaker 1: But do you think he's get catching more passes now
Speaker 1: than he did previously? I mean, depends, it's probably the answer.
Speaker 1: It was kind of a weird thing in their stats
Speaker 1: for the first six their first they played six six
Speaker 1: teams their first five games. He was getting a lot
Speaker 1: fewer passes than his norm in previous seasons. They were
Speaker 1: running in between the tackles he was he was putting
Speaker 1: up almost all this yardage on run. It was still
Speaker 1: working because he was doing great, but it was kind
Speaker 1: of surprising, like, why aren't they throwing it to him more?
Speaker 1: This last game James figured it out, I guess, because
Speaker 1: he threw him eleven passes, ten of which were complete
Speaker 1: for like a hundred twenty yards in a touchdown. And
Speaker 1: that's the bigger problem. Because even after the Cleveland Herber
Speaker 1: game and and so some problems at the end of
Speaker 1: the Philly game, I still am pretty confident in our
Speaker 1: defense being able to stop the runs up the middle right,
Speaker 1: and and so I think we can handle him running
Speaker 1: the ball. Wise, it's the receiving that's the problem, and
Speaker 1: he just it's gonna take one thing that um. I
Speaker 1: asked a scout about it, and then there were some
Speaker 1: people talking about it this week. I think Todd Bowls.
Speaker 1: You gotta run to the ball. Everybody's got to run
Speaker 1: to the ball. If he's out on the edges, corners
Speaker 1: are gonna have a hard time tackle him. They're just
Speaker 1: he's too strong. You need to get your linebackers out there.
Speaker 1: You need to get your good We have good tackling
Speaker 1: safeties that are strong, Winfield, Winfield and White. You need
Speaker 1: to get them involved. Your linebackers. Devin White has done
Speaker 1: a good job against Tomorrow for the most part. Needs
Speaker 1: to know where that guy is going and all the time.
Speaker 1: And some in our outside linebackers are probably gonna have
Speaker 1: to get involved to not just rushing the pastor. And
Speaker 1: if we have some luck, Lavonte will be back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope. So we haven't seen it. We're doing this
Speaker 1: on Thursday. He was limited in practice on Wednesday. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen today's report yet. Trying to come back from
Speaker 1: an ankle injury is tough, and that's a you know,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a it would be. But here's in
Speaker 1: this I I've thought about this two ways. All Right,
Speaker 1: you're coming up, it's a week before the bye, so
Speaker 1: you're gonna play this game. You've got someone who might
Speaker 1: be able to go. So if you play him and
Speaker 1: they tweak something again, now they got two weeks to
Speaker 1: get well again. Or do you hold the guy out
Speaker 1: so that when you come back in two weeks. That's
Speaker 1: why he's been out for a while, and then he's
Speaker 1: really really helped. That's why I said earlier, don't assume
Speaker 1: that k is coming back. I mean, I don't have
Speaker 1: any inside information, so I don't know. We're going by
Speaker 1: what we just see. It's obviously it's obvious. Beviously good
Speaker 1: to see him back on the practice field, and I
Speaker 1: hope that means he's coming back this week, but it's
Speaker 1: not a guarantee. Yeah, I think that and Richard Truman,
Speaker 1: but yeah, when you look back at the Saints, and
Speaker 1: the Saints kind of bone the Bucks in a number
Speaker 1: of games, if other than the play when if you're
Speaker 1: gonna win, if you're gonna, yeah, put your force your
Speaker 1: will on somebody. That was a good game to do that. Um,
Speaker 1: but I think this game, this game is is important
Speaker 1: no matter what. But I look at it with New
Speaker 1: Orleans is what two games behind right now? Um? One
Speaker 1: and a half? One and a half, So go ahead.
Speaker 1: So if you if you can beat them head on head,
Speaker 1: how it's two and a half going into your by.
Speaker 1: They have to play a game whatever which way they go.
Speaker 1: But that is huge for it to win the division
Speaker 1: because if you win the division, now you're not fighting
Speaker 1: for And I don't know who they're playing in week three.
Speaker 1: I mean in week nine when we're off. But if
Speaker 1: they were to lose that game, because they were loose
Speaker 1: to us in that game, they would then be three
Speaker 1: games back. That would be great. However, the flip side
Speaker 1: of that is if the Saints win this Sunday, they'll
Speaker 1: be a half game back, and then the Bucks will
Speaker 1: be idle and watching the Saints play. And if the
Speaker 1: Saints win that one, all of a sudden, it's a
Speaker 1: tie first. Just like that. They play the Titans on
Speaker 1: the four. It's in Tennessee. Titans look good. Speaking of which,
Speaker 1: all right, Jeff, the kan City, I'll take it back,
Speaker 1: I'll take it well, but they still have to play them.
Speaker 1: They played them on the fourteenth. Oh, that's right, we
Speaker 1: play the Colts, they play the Titans. Yeah, they play
Speaker 1: that's the extra game. They played the Falcons at home,
Speaker 1: and so we're gonna win naked, all right. But the
Speaker 1: Falcons have been on a roll, on a rolls a
Speaker 1: bit strong. Well, they've won. They're three and four, I
Speaker 1: think the three and three. Yeah, but I think they're
Speaker 1: on a three game win street. But if they played,
Speaker 1: they just beat You gotta you play your schedule. You
Speaker 1: play your Scheduleeah, But I mean it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: Carolina won the first two or three games, but they
Speaker 1: weren't against any quality opponents. Well, actually that's the true.
Speaker 1: They did be New Orleans to The better example is Denver.
Speaker 1: Denver started three and oh but it was like against
Speaker 1: the Lion's Jets and Jaguars or something like that. And
Speaker 1: they then they have not won since unless they know
Speaker 1: they lost to Cleveland this list they did. Um, so
Speaker 1: you know, strength of schedule and new puncher face. I
Speaker 1: know it wins a win. I know it does kind of. Well,
Speaker 1: they won the game, they won the games that they
Speaker 1: probably should have won, and they're not doing so well
Speaker 1: against the teams that they didn't think they would do
Speaker 1: now the things the Yeah, so a lot of those
Speaker 1: results are not really surprising. What is surprising in the
Speaker 1: a f C is the Can's the Chiefs are falling apart.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what else is gonna be kind
Speaker 1: of weird. I just thought of this is watching the
Speaker 1: Saints in a game without Drew Brees, because we've done
Speaker 1: that for a long time, So that'll be that'll be interesting.
Speaker 1: I think we played a game against them las year
Speaker 1: when he was out though. Uh yeah, but I mean
Speaker 1: now that you know he's out out, you know he
Speaker 1: played the whole time two years ago because Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: was playing to them and then they and then that
Speaker 1: he went on to two more teams. We didn't have
Speaker 1: any of that tastom Hill starts. No, no, uh. The
Speaker 1: the Cancie Chiefs are all on the part. Uhh. That's
Speaker 1: a real concern at this point. They just got lacked
Speaker 1: by the Titans. I watched that game. Wow. Wow. I
Speaker 1: mean beforehand, you were thinking, Okay, the problem here is
Speaker 1: the Chiefs defense is really bad, so they're not even
Speaker 1: Patrick Holmes isn't able to make it up every week.
Speaker 1: But now then the offense gets held to three points. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know what they've in fairness to Patrick Mahomes a
Speaker 1: lot of drop passes, you know, but you know when
Speaker 1: you make circus throws, you know you're making great catches.
Speaker 1: Things are you know, everybody's excited, everybody's happy, but they are,
Speaker 1: which which goes to show that how good you can
Speaker 1: be and how fast you can drop. Yeah, yeah, for sure,
Speaker 1: because we thought the Chiefs were a budding dynasty and
Speaker 1: maybe they still but they're having some troubles on the
Speaker 1: flip side, since Bengals looked like they were for real.
Speaker 1: To me, there five two, which is tied for the
Speaker 1: best record in these You know, it's so crazy then, family,
Speaker 1: have you looked at the Ravens two weeks ago and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and all he did by himself on the field,
Speaker 1: everybody thought, this is it, this is the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: T do everything. And then Cincinnati comes in there and
Speaker 1: plays like you're going which is kind of exciting for
Speaker 1: them because you know, it's an interesting team, it is,
Speaker 1: and they've been struggling and they I think they found
Speaker 1: their quarterback. I like Joe Burrow. Jamar Chase is incredible, unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Their defense is legit, so that so and and so
Speaker 1: sometimes it's kind of like, I guess I'm I'm going
Speaker 1: from experience of being with a team that's not winning
Speaker 1: all the time and you start to win and it
Speaker 1: feels good. So that's good for them. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they've definitely been one of those. Gosh, I've been so
Speaker 1: nice this week. What has gotten into me? Yeah, I've
Speaker 1: hadn't about enough of it. I really like, should we
Speaker 1: should we get on and let's do it? He's Uh,
Speaker 1: we're gonna get a little interview here with kJ Britt,
Speaker 1: a rookie linebacker who got to actually play a little
Speaker 1: bit on defense this past week, not much, but a little.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it was fun for him. The Salty Dogs
Speaker 1: And we're back here on the Salty Dogs podcast and
Speaker 1: now we have our special guest of the week with us,
Speaker 1: and that's a linebacker, kJ Britta, rookie uh fifth front
Speaker 1: draft pick and uh, we're really excited to have you
Speaker 1: on the show this time. O. kJ, appreciate your time, man,
Speaker 1: thank you for having me on the show. Brother. Well,
Speaker 1: you got to play a little bit on defense in
Speaker 1: this last game because it was a blowout. I know
Speaker 1: it was probably only about eight phase, But I mean
Speaker 1: it was it nice to get your feet wet and
Speaker 1: kind of see how that goes. Yeah, man, it was,
Speaker 1: it was really good. It was a good time, man.
Speaker 1: And I just go out there and just fly around
Speaker 1: for the little place if I got man, just you know,
Speaker 1: just extremely grateful for this opportunity. And then I was
Speaker 1: just really excided, you know, just just to play defense.
Speaker 1: Did you get did you get enough time in there
Speaker 1: for the coaches to give you a grade? And how
Speaker 1: did you grade out? Um? What the schedule is different
Speaker 1: this week? I mean then they didn't they didn't give
Speaker 1: us no raises a week. To be honest, how do
Speaker 1: you feel like? I don't think I did all right
Speaker 1: in those eight plays? Earlier, earlier during training camp, you
Speaker 1: made a comment that one of the things that you
Speaker 1: realize that you needed to do was to have patients.
Speaker 1: Now that you've got into a game, were you able
Speaker 1: to apply that? And when you say patients, what do
Speaker 1: you mean by that? Yeah? I think I was able
Speaker 1: to apply to this crafting my game, Um, over this
Speaker 1: period of times that trying camps now but just being
Speaker 1: patient just developed. Um, see the see your present reason
Speaker 1: then where you're reacting um when you get your PRECENTA
Speaker 1: after your precent reads. So I think that was able
Speaker 1: to you know, diagnose it, but you know, it was
Speaker 1: just it was just really just trying to go down
Speaker 1: and field real quick. So it's those one like, you know,
Speaker 1: the same type of reps get you know, first quarter
Speaker 1: or something like that. Is that is that hard for
Speaker 1: someone as athletic as you are to have patients considering that,
Speaker 1: you know, you're you've been such an athletic individual to
Speaker 1: make it there from high school and the college out
Speaker 1: into the pros. Uh. Yeah, you could just apply what
Speaker 1: God believe that God gave gave gave you to the
Speaker 1: game and you know, just um, just a little tweets
Speaker 1: here and they're just just to help um you are
Speaker 1: mentally and then you know, everybody has the athletic ability
Speaker 1: here at this point, just being able to um to
Speaker 1: separate yourself mentally from you know, being average and being great.
Speaker 1: We had Kevin Mentor on with us last week and
Speaker 1: we asked him about because from my point of view,
Speaker 1: it seems like the Buccaneers special teams have improved this year.
Speaker 1: You weren't here last year, but it was a bit
Speaker 1: of a story that the Bucks really wanted to improve
Speaker 1: their special teams, and he said, yes, that you guys
Speaker 1: haven't proved quite a bit. And he totally gave almost
Speaker 1: all the credit to all you young guys who are
Speaker 1: are doing that. You and uh Grant Stewart and the
Speaker 1: other new players on the team. Um, have you been
Speaker 1: getting the same sort of feedback from the veterans that
Speaker 1: you guys are making a big difference. Yeah, yeah all
Speaker 1: the time. But you know it's just goes on the
Speaker 1: end one there and not the other because we're just
Speaker 1: trying to make sure we're just playing. Man. This team
Speaker 1: is loaded, um in and out, and just make sure
Speaker 1: that you know your value is here still. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a business at the base, so it just making
Speaker 1: sure that your value is still high. And the only
Speaker 1: way that we could produce right now just being a
Speaker 1: special team. So that's like I shoot bowl every time
Speaker 1: we go play special teams. You gotta keep somebody. But
Speaker 1: you know, it's like you know, and that's that's the
Speaker 1: way mentality has been. From week one. We didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't even notice teams uh Core, Like it wasn't the
Speaker 1: best slasher. I don't know that the special team was.
Speaker 1: It wasn't my ability. I just came into it to
Speaker 1: this thing, uh in the summer, and the training camp
Speaker 1: was saying, Hey, I'm gonna make this team on special teams,
Speaker 1: and I get the chap to play special teams, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give them, give them my all. So this was
Speaker 1: already into making before I even knew what. You know,
Speaker 1: what we were doing. Well, I mean it was kind
Speaker 1: of like in comparison, obviously the Bucks won the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl last year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, but yeah, I've heard
Speaker 1: it from I've heard it from the guys to say
Speaker 1: the special teams last year, wasn't you know of the
Speaker 1: par you know they gave to sound Yeah, and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't. I didn't even know that. I
Speaker 1: didn't know. So yeah, been good this year. Right after
Speaker 1: the Bucks drafted you, I talked to John Spytek, who's
Speaker 1: the director of pro personnel, and um, he used some
Speaker 1: phrases like called you like a throwback, an old school
Speaker 1: mic type and inside hammer. Are those you take pride
Speaker 1: in those type of descriptions of your game? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I guess I can. I mean just just describing the
Speaker 1: way I play, you know, fat passion and just phil
Speaker 1: school and just running hit bro running hit. Well, if
Speaker 1: you listen to Tom Brady the other night, he just said,
Speaker 1: defensive guys are like dogs chasing pars. Just go get
Speaker 1: go after it and get it done. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: like believe that, but wait, Jeff, that's a really good
Speaker 1: segue because I've written down here. Um, is it true
Speaker 1: that you have a bunch of beagles and you'd like
Speaker 1: to use them for rabbit hunting? Yeah? Man, I got
Speaker 1: a huge rabbit hood king back in Alabama, and know, um,
Speaker 1: rabbit hunting is always I've been rab hunting. I was
Speaker 1: like four year old, just like long ago, playing football
Speaker 1: and you know, just it's just something I've always been
Speaker 1: near and dear to me. Um, and that's something I
Speaker 1: take pride of. Rabbit dogs, the rabbit uh rabbit hunting world,
Speaker 1: and you know, just making sure that I love I
Speaker 1: love my rabbit hunt brook. My dad took me rabbit
Speaker 1: hunting one time when I was a kid, really early
Speaker 1: in the morning, and uh, we didn't see a single
Speaker 1: rabbit the entire time. But it was actually great. We
Speaker 1: didn't have dogs with us either. I was actually kind
Speaker 1: of happy about it because I didn't know if I
Speaker 1: was gonna be able to to actually pull the trigger
Speaker 1: or not. Right now, you've heard the stories down in
Speaker 1: Bell Glades, Florida, Scott, you know where um some guys, uh,
Speaker 1: the young kids, they rabbit hunt, but they chase them. Man,
Speaker 1: that's we don't know dogs. Yeah, okay. So so if
Speaker 1: like and those can fields and stuff like that down
Speaker 1: there in Florida where you could taste them, it's to
Speaker 1: kind of I guess it's kind of open where you know,
Speaker 1: they could take them. In Alabama, you can see the
Speaker 1: rabbits about fifteen maybe in five seconds at the most,
Speaker 1: and then you've never seen it again had the dogs
Speaker 1: to help help. So do you have a number of
Speaker 1: recipes for rabbit or I'm not you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: a rabbit cook. I just like you just like the
Speaker 1: hunt them. Okay, fair enough, Just just curious. Maybe you
Speaker 1: had this whole whole recipe book on other than rabbits.
Speaker 1: Do are you are you for beagles like the best
Speaker 1: rabbit hounding guns or something? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, they're the
Speaker 1: best because it's small and they can actually get in
Speaker 1: there with the with the dolls and actually help, um,
Speaker 1: actually help uh push the rabbits out the thick bribes
Speaker 1: and stuff. Are they fun to be around too? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're good dolls, man, They're awesome dolls. Man. They just
Speaker 1: they're friends and you know, just awesome. So how many
Speaker 1: do you have? I have fourteen right now? Can you
Speaker 1: remember all their names? I'm backing up quick. The last
Speaker 1: one on that I can take. I can tell you
Speaker 1: that bark everything about them. It's just like my dog.
Speaker 1: You can tell them. You can tell them separately. I mean, okay, see,
Speaker 1: I've learned something that I didn't think. I wouldn't think that,
Speaker 1: you know, big olds would be we're having honey. So
Speaker 1: you got you got drafted. Like I said, in the
Speaker 1: fifth round, when you got the call and he saw
Speaker 1: his eight one three area code, probably knew that was Tampa.
Speaker 1: Were you happy about that? Was that a team that
Speaker 1: was on your list? You're hoping I would pick you?
Speaker 1: And even though Temple I was on Tampa radar right
Speaker 1: Temple one time a Senior Bowl. But yeah, are you
Speaker 1: happy to be here? Yeah? Yeah? I was. I was stoked, man,
Speaker 1: go play with you know some new best players ever
Speaker 1: played the game, and you know, lamb, I was. I was.
Speaker 1: I couldn't even put it into worries. It was. He
Speaker 1: was surprised me, and it was something you know, I
Speaker 1: never really forget. I was a little about to Oh man,
Speaker 1: he's so cool. Man. Um, those guys they are really
Speaker 1: cool guys, you know, just to be around and um,
Speaker 1: really easy guys to look up to. They do everything right.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not you know, they just want to
Speaker 1: win and if you can help contribute to win, and
Speaker 1: you're on the good side. So yeah, man, I love
Speaker 1: those guys. Man, what is the one thing you noticed
Speaker 1: from coming from college back into the pros? What is
Speaker 1: the one thing that you learned that you didn't know
Speaker 1: but you know you have to do. You gotta take
Speaker 1: everybody serious. Um. You know, in the college, you know
Speaker 1: you got you have awful weeks and yeah, people on
Speaker 1: the other side of you might not be as gifted
Speaker 1: as you, but in the pros, everybody just as gifted
Speaker 1: as you, or even more gifted as you. So you
Speaker 1: got to take everybody serious. And you gotta play, um
Speaker 1: each snap like you do on the person on the field.
Speaker 1: I mean, my coach to him all the time, play
Speaker 1: you snap like you on first on the field to
Speaker 1: tackle because you know, just everybody around you can do
Speaker 1: what you could do or probably do it better, So
Speaker 1: just preparation. Okay, well great. We seriously appreciate you taking
Speaker 1: the time with us today a minute, so thanks a lot.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your insights and we'll talk to you soon
Speaker 1: see the Salty Dogs. And we're back here on the
Speaker 1: Salty Dogs podcast. We're gonna do our third and final segment,
Speaker 1: which is when we answer your questions. I'm ready. If
Speaker 1: you want to send us questions, do it to my
Speaker 1: email at Salty Dogs dot Buccaneers dot NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: We love the questions I do. This is one of
Speaker 1: the rare weeks that our friend in Brazil did not
Speaker 1: send a question taking a week off it, but we
Speaker 1: can't have this must be his bye week. Uh okay,
Speaker 1: So that was fun talking to kJ He's a interesting person. Yeah. Um, okay.
Speaker 1: Podcast questions. This one is from some name Jim K.
Speaker 1: Hill in Orlando. Um. This one I had to research,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna be probably taking a lead on this one. Hey,
Speaker 1: Jeff and Scott, how's it going good? Thank you? So
Speaker 1: I was listening to one of these podcasts recently and
Speaker 1: Scott seemed to be pissed that that, Oh, Jim, you
Speaker 1: nailed that one that, according to him, teams aren't taking
Speaker 1: deep shots on second and one anymore. I do remember talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I was pissed. No, you were
Speaker 1: saying why don't they do it more often? You were?
Speaker 1: You were, you were being happy, you were being forceful.
Speaker 1: I liked the second and one deep shot, especially, We've
Speaker 1: got a good offense, said, sure, this past game was
Speaker 1: a bad example, but um because they bucks failed on
Speaker 1: several third and ones. But until then we've been actually
Speaker 1: been quite good on third and one. Okay, So blah
Speaker 1: blah blah um. But I've also heard Scott talk about
Speaker 1: people only remembering the evidence that supports what they already believe.
Speaker 1: And he didn't have the term here, but I believe
Speaker 1: he's talking about when I mentioned confirmation by US. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you tend to you tend to notice and remember
Speaker 1: the evidence that sports which already think and not notice
Speaker 1: or forget the evidence that doesn't. So my question here
Speaker 1: is is there anything to this idea that no one
Speaker 1: is strowing on a second on short second nuns? Can
Speaker 1: we crunch some numbers here? Is it true or not?
Speaker 1: Because I haven't really noticed that, He says, thanks, and
Speaker 1: keep up the salty work. Uh, Jim, I looked it up,
Speaker 1: though I know you did. You got vindicated. No one
Speaker 1: loves a challenge more than you, especially if the information
Speaker 1: stats prove you correct. In this case, I think they
Speaker 1: am stepping out of the way. So I used NFL
Speaker 1: next Gin Stats and one of the things there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things you can do in there, but one
Speaker 1: of the things you can do is filter plays by
Speaker 1: a variety of different filters. And so I was able
Speaker 1: to get a list of every second and one play
Speaker 1: that's been done this year so far through seven weeks,
Speaker 1: not only from the Buccaneers but through the team. It was.
Speaker 1: It was a lot more than I expected. So it
Speaker 1: took me a while because there was let's see two tune,
Speaker 1: there was about three wow, Okay, so I counted them all.
Speaker 1: I went through them two seven times out of three
Speaker 1: hundred twenty three hundred sixteen three and seventeen if you
Speaker 1: count the one time when somebody kicked a field goal
Speaker 1: at the end of the game on second one, but
Speaker 1: two seven those were runs. No, that's what it's about.
Speaker 1: So I will admit that in that some of these
Speaker 1: don't really count because if it's second one at the
Speaker 1: goal line, you can't throw a deep pass. But eighty
Speaker 1: three passes. Eighty three of them more passes, and I
Speaker 1: passed place because I included if if they were scrambles
Speaker 1: or sacks, because they will describe the play as a
Speaker 1: scramble if the quarterback scrambled, or they will describe it
Speaker 1: as a run if it's a design thing like Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: so um, and they're also described they're all like Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts throws shorter, j Jalen Hurts throws medium, or general
Speaker 1: general Hurd throws deep. So there were only six plays
Speaker 1: that were described by nexting stats as thrown deep six
Speaker 1: six times out of like three twenty opportunities. Has somebody gone, oh,
Speaker 1: second one, let's take a shot downfield if you can
Speaker 1: believe the descriptions in the next two of them were
Speaker 1: by Mac Jones. So Bill Belichick, who's widely considered the
Speaker 1: greatest coach of all time, is the only one doing
Speaker 1: what I would like like yourself. So I'm just saying
Speaker 1: maybe the others where Mahomes has done it once and
Speaker 1: he was complete to Tyreeko for eight Drew Lock did
Speaker 1: it once to court and something for thirty two. Mac
Speaker 1: Jones is trying tried it twice, but they were both incomplete.
Speaker 1: UM Houston's Davis Mills has tried it once incomplete and
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill tried it once incomplete. So I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's only worked two out of six times. I guess
Speaker 1: that could be part of the reason. So you you
Speaker 1: were you you were actually correct in your observation. I've correct.
Speaker 1: I think this shows that I was correct and observing
Speaker 1: that the only part of this is Am I right?
Speaker 1: And I don't know how to do this research or
Speaker 1: maybe don't want to spend the time. Am I right?
Speaker 1: That there used to be a lot more of them?
Speaker 1: I could be wrong about that. I could have confirmation
Speaker 1: on that and only remembering what I remember and not
Speaker 1: the But I must say, Jim, great question. Another thought
Speaker 1: provoking question. I like these. That's too. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: well the first the first one, the first one was
Speaker 1: right job, Okay, this one was actually a I only
Speaker 1: had two questions today this week, which was disappointed, but whatever.
Speaker 1: So I took a question that was sent to me
Speaker 1: that was got off mail bag off Instagram for my
Speaker 1: written mail bag, but I didn't use. It's from Buck's
Speaker 1: UK as of this moment, which Bucks players do you
Speaker 1: see being chosen for the Pro Bowl? Oh? So we're
Speaker 1: back to that. That's why I didn't want to extend
Speaker 1: that coveration. I think Tom Brady makes it this year,
Speaker 1: you would think, right, Okay, I think Kyler Murray is
Speaker 1: gonna make it barring this season going off the rails
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers. All depends on how they finish Tom Bray.
Speaker 1: Who are the other teams at the top here? Stafford, Dad,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be well. Actually, Dad's gonna be come back
Speaker 1: Player of the year. If he stays healthy, he'll become back.
Speaker 1: He'll be come back player of the year. Um, I
Speaker 1: just don't see how you if he's the leading, if
Speaker 1: he's the leading as he is now the leader in
Speaker 1: yards and touch on or somewhere close about Stafford. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know I said that, said Stafford. It's crowded. That's true.
Speaker 1: So there's the five teams that are seven, No, are better? Uh, Kyler, Stafford, Rogers,
Speaker 1: Brady and blah blah, Zach Prescott, Dak Prescott. So all
Speaker 1: those are possibilities. And then yeah, so Saints are born too.
Speaker 1: If that's probably the field, those five that the NFC,
Speaker 1: and there's usually three of them, I believe, So he's
Speaker 1: got a good shot there. I think, um, Devin White's
Speaker 1: got a shot. The problem for Devon is the numbers
Speaker 1: aren't through this year because he's kind of filling a
Speaker 1: different role. He is and as coaches have to Bless
Speaker 1: made a point in Prouce too that what we're asked
Speaker 1: him to do is not put him in the same
Speaker 1: position as last year to make all these two pilot
Speaker 1: these ships. But he's doing what we're asking to do
Speaker 1: very well, and I think I think it's more coverage responsibilities.
Speaker 1: So unfortunately, after his great bump in the postseason last
Speaker 1: year when he was a big play machine, I thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: that's probably a good springboard to the Pro Bowl next year.
Speaker 1: But he could have a problem if the numbers aren't there.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, JPP only has two sacks so far,
Speaker 1: but he made it last year, so there's always that
Speaker 1: kind of momentum. I think Shack's playing at a Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl level. Yeah, we talked. We talked about Tristan and
Speaker 1: maybe Ali. Yeah, you have to include them in the mix,
Speaker 1: no question, And depending on how that I think for alignment,
Speaker 1: I think it it just depends on how the team,
Speaker 1: you know, ends their year. It'll be helpful for good,
Speaker 1: but I think they'll also get a bump from last year.
Speaker 1: Usually it was I mean years ago, it would be
Speaker 1: the you didn't make it exactly that year, if you
Speaker 1: had a really super year, you didn't get that year,
Speaker 1: but then the next year you would get it because
Speaker 1: people would say, Wow, I didn't realize Scott Smith was
Speaker 1: zachly So and uh, you know, Mike Evans maybe, Uh,
Speaker 1: he continues to score a lot of touch he's gotta
Speaker 1: he's gotta score a lot of touchdowns. Yeah, that's gonna
Speaker 1: be the and and Antonio Brown if he comes back
Speaker 1: and scores I mean, you've got to take that into
Speaker 1: the mix. Really unsure about Yeah, Yeah, he was asked
Speaker 1: would he be back after the bye. He's like, it
Speaker 1: could be that or it could be a lot longer.
Speaker 1: So that's a little worrisome. Yeah, And that wasn't exactly encouraging,
Speaker 1: as you know, it wasn't, So we'll have to wait
Speaker 1: and see. Yeah, did see Scotty Miller running around a
Speaker 1: little bit yesterday in the part of practice you know.
Speaker 1: I think you you said it during the I think
Speaker 1: it was the Buck Insider um where you guys were
Speaker 1: talking about you and Casey were talking about injuries, and
Speaker 1: I liked your your comment about turf toe. You say, yeah,
Speaker 1: you say turf toe, and everyone goes it sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you stubbed your toe, Come on, but actually it's the
Speaker 1: bone going well, it's attendant injury. Yeah, and it takes forever.
Speaker 1: It's a really painful injury that has ended careers. Not
Speaker 1: that we're crazy, no, no, no, but you're right. You're right.
Speaker 1: It makes it very painful on your big toe. And
Speaker 1: I don't think you realize until your big toe hurts
Speaker 1: how much you need your big toe to walk and run. Well,
Speaker 1: it is your balance, your big toe balance. Yea, So okay,
Speaker 1: so that's anyway. I'm not so hard. I was saying,
Speaker 1: we saw Scotti during the problem running with trainers, and
Speaker 1: and that's a good sign, right because if his foot
Speaker 1: really hurt, you wouldn't he wouldn't be out there, right,
Speaker 1: He's starting to get him back, starting to test its,
Speaker 1: starting to get back into a little bit of shape.
Speaker 1: All right, one more question, Okay, Greetings salty dogs, greetings.
Speaker 1: Just a real quick question here, quick answer. I noticed
Speaker 1: that the trade deadline this year just happens to be
Speaker 1: to fall in the Bucks. By way, it's true because
Speaker 1: it's next Tuesday. That yeah, I was gonna say this Tuesday,
Speaker 1: but it would be coming tuesday. Yes. Does that make
Speaker 1: it more or less likely the Bucks will do anything? Pickin?
Speaker 1: It means in terms of trades, will Jason might be
Speaker 1: taking a well earned vacation that week and turning a
Speaker 1: cell phone off. Would you guys even be around to
Speaker 1: cover it if a trade did happen, Yes, we will. Yes.
Speaker 1: I think he's being a little tongue. Yeah, unfortunately this
Speaker 1: damn thing called the internet, which I still think it
Speaker 1: is going to go away? Will you uh keep you
Speaker 1: in touch? We all uh we are on seven just
Speaker 1: f y. I I mean, I'm sure that everybody will
Speaker 1: be looking for a few hours here and there to
Speaker 1: get a little extra rest. But no, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: ignore the trade. I think he was mostly joking. I
Speaker 1: guess you. I think most of us are leaving on Wednesday,
Speaker 1: Are you good for you? Well, I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: coming in the building the last day. Um, I'm not
Speaker 1: going anywhere I will say it isn't at somewhat interesting
Speaker 1: point in that if you bring a guy midseason, trades
Speaker 1: in the NFL aren't all that common and don't usually
Speaker 1: have a lot of impact. Lots of times it's well,
Speaker 1: but you know, you see one the Saints did one
Speaker 1: they traded from marketing. Yeah, so it does happen. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: it'll be uh whether to Shawn Watson ends up, um
Speaker 1: gets traded. But like for us, who would you trade?
Speaker 1: And why? Well, mark Ingram can step right in New
Speaker 1: Orleans and they have an impact because he already knows
Speaker 1: the offense. H For us, what people speculate is we'll
Speaker 1: try to trade for a cornerback like I saw one
Speaker 1: suggesting cow Fuller. And it's a weird thing though, because,
Speaker 1: like I was gonna say, when you get a guy
Speaker 1: at mid season, he then has to learn whichever side
Speaker 1: he's on, He has to learn your system, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna take a couple of weeks for him to really, um,
Speaker 1: you know, make an impact. And at what point our
Speaker 1: Shawn and Carlton coming back? I mean, if you trade
Speaker 1: for a corner and it takes you a few weeks
Speaker 1: after the bye to get him in the in the flow,
Speaker 1: and then they're back, and now the guy you traded
Speaker 1: for is your like fifth corner or something, because we
Speaker 1: still also Richard Sherman coming back. Who could who could
Speaker 1: come back? This game could could um, this game being
Speaker 1: the Saints game if you're listing, he so. But the
Speaker 1: thing about the bye, if you did make a trade
Speaker 1: while you're on a bye, you do have a little
Speaker 1: more more time to bring that guy in and get him,
Speaker 1: get him. He spends the whole the whole bye week
Speaker 1: studying and studying. I think that was kind of a
Speaker 1: tongue creek chief. But his name is Marcus, by the way, Marcus.
Speaker 1: That's good. But um, we will be on. But there's
Speaker 1: still a little bit too that. Yeah, we're not gonna
Speaker 1: do with Saltidogs. No, not what next week? Probably not
Speaker 1: unless unless week, unless we get really really motivated and
Speaker 1: do it on Monday. We're not gonna have a guest, no,
Speaker 1: because the players will be depending on how the game goes,
Speaker 1: let's do. Let's go with that. I'm don't thinking it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Okay, it sounds like you don't want to. Oh,
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see see But if we talk
Speaker 1: about if we have a podcast and talk about the
Speaker 1: game that just happened, then when we come back to
Speaker 1: do the podcast the following week, we won't have anything
Speaker 1: to talk about, all right, Well the upcoming game, yeah,
Speaker 1: but usually spend a lot of time talking about one already.
Speaker 1: Well that's true, all right, all right, So I think
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