Speaker 1: What do you call two guys that were there when
Speaker 1: this happened? Back to return at Spurlock Michael Spurlock at
Speaker 1: the chin. He's still the twenty He's the twenty five,
Speaker 1: thirty top mot yarline history, fifty forty, the thirty year.
Speaker 1: Michael Rout, Michael Ruck, Michael run stop Tampa, here you
Speaker 1: go in that sixty two yard for your goal attempts.
Speaker 1: It is God, God, God, God box Eagles, who can
Speaker 1: forget again? I'm looking again? They already de bocks diredy
Speaker 1: touchdown tamp a day. Derek Books, spariable player in the
Speaker 1: National Football like third is Tun Daggers in where are
Speaker 1: you gonna win the Super Bowl? We call them the
Speaker 1: salty Dogs? Jeff Jeff Scott super Bowl. You know what,
Speaker 1: it's almost it's fake. You don't think it's real. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I Monday morning, I got up and it's
Speaker 1: like we're going to the super Bowl. And it wasn't
Speaker 1: until today, today is Tuesday, that I feel like, yes,
Speaker 1: it's real. That's because you're having to do so much work.
Speaker 1: Well there's that, but gosh, I'm so happy to be
Speaker 1: doing this kind but that does make it feel more real.
Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, that's two more weeks of all
Speaker 1: this stuff to do again. Yeah, it's fun to do.
Speaker 1: It really is. And and quickly I I before we
Speaker 1: got started, I made a comment to you. I have
Speaker 1: to keep reminding myself the game's not this Sunday, because
Speaker 1: when we were lasted in the super Bowl eighteen years ago,
Speaker 1: there was no extra week. We just went right there,
Speaker 1: came home, and flew out. And I will say, I
Speaker 1: like this, it's obviously better. That was the last time
Speaker 1: it was done that way. It's not as good for
Speaker 1: the fan because the fan has to wait two weeks.
Speaker 1: But to deal all of this stuff, it really is.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a lot easier. If you knew, um,
Speaker 1: when this was all planned, that this was going to
Speaker 1: be a COVID season, it might have made sense to
Speaker 1: go one week. Because now you just have the Chiefs
Speaker 1: at home. They don't come here until the before the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, so they're not here for media days, that
Speaker 1: whole big week of a blitz. You don't have that.
Speaker 1: So what is actually the point of another week. Well,
Speaker 1: I think as you can see the construction workers right
Speaker 1: now working, they would like to have they would like
Speaker 1: considering it's not totally done, but I will say that.
Speaker 1: We can't show you pictures, but we can tell you
Speaker 1: that the field is in place and they've striped it
Speaker 1: and the NFL logos on the middle of it. It
Speaker 1: looks marvelous for putting the numbers in right now, it's beautiful,
Speaker 1: just just really beautiful. They're coming it's coming together nicely.
Speaker 1: I like this Super Bowl logo right here. That's just LV,
Speaker 1: so do I. I don't like that alternate one where
Speaker 1: the the the Lombardi trophies between the L the V.
Speaker 1: I was just set saying to somebody, why are they
Speaker 1: using last year's logo on this because I thought it
Speaker 1: was L. I thought that the trophy was the I
Speaker 1: in L I V. Oh, it totally looks like L
Speaker 1: I V. And I'm wondering why anybody's using I don't
Speaker 1: know why they didn't do that last year. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I see what you're saying. Apparently they don't use the
Speaker 1: trophy as an eye because last year they put it
Speaker 1: between the L and the IE L I V. Would
Speaker 1: not have remembered that you have a great man. No, no,
Speaker 1: somebody just showed me. Oh um. But enough about logos
Speaker 1: let's talk about the Buccaneers. You know what's nice, Jeff
Speaker 1: about working that you know we would It kind of
Speaker 1: sucks to not have been there in Green Bay for
Speaker 1: that what must have been awesome selling kind not kind
Speaker 1: of sucks, not not kind of sucked at all. It
Speaker 1: totally sucked it. I'm not I'm making no bones about it,
Speaker 1: and I haven't. Well, I did talk to somebody who
Speaker 1: came back, who was traveling, who came back, and I
Speaker 1: thought there would be a wild plane ride and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think it was because there's there's two planes
Speaker 1: and they're so spaced out. There just wasn't a lot
Speaker 1: of there was. There wasn't a lot of And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you an interesting point about that too, is that
Speaker 1: the mission is not accomplished, right, but it is um
Speaker 1: but here because we weren't there at least working here
Speaker 1: when um when that finally when they we got that
Speaker 1: past interference call and then to me, that was what
Speaker 1: did it. Now, I know we needed to get one
Speaker 1: more first down, but that was the play that did it.
Speaker 1: And we're like high five and in Super Bowl they
Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to do that if we're in the
Speaker 1: press box and pay. You know, it's against the rules.
Speaker 1: Plus I have some friends there and I wouldn't want
Speaker 1: to act like a fool and sure them as they
Speaker 1: were yearning. Yeah, how tough is that? You don't even
Speaker 1: go to be in those shoes. I haven't spoken with
Speaker 1: I was texting Jason beforehand, but I have not reached
Speaker 1: out yet. But I am going to. Yeah, well, good
Speaker 1: friend of ours, who's the no, he's VP of communications
Speaker 1: for the pack in any cases, Um, I feel bad
Speaker 1: for them. Yeah, well, you know, because you never know
Speaker 1: when you're gonna be that shot to have the one
Speaker 1: seed in the home game. And the other thing too
Speaker 1: is enjoy the two weeks because on uh, that Monday,
Speaker 1: it will be a whole group of people really really
Speaker 1: happy and a whole group of people not so happy.
Speaker 1: And I know, I'm not sure if just getting to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl is enough. Yeah, no, I mean you
Speaker 1: can't take that attitude. You have to say it's not enough.
Speaker 1: And Bruce Bruce Arian said before the playoffs started that
Speaker 1: it wouldn't be a successful season unless you won the championship,
Speaker 1: which which all that means is thirty one Teams don't
Speaker 1: consider a season of success. And that's true on one hand,
Speaker 1: and I know you you have to go for your
Speaker 1: ultimate goals. But if you've had a month to look
Speaker 1: back on it, and the Buccaneers get this far and
Speaker 1: lose the Super Bowl, hopefully not, but if that happens,
Speaker 1: you can you can say it's not I'm going to
Speaker 1: think it was a success season, not as good as
Speaker 1: it could have been. But come on, it reminds me
Speaker 1: of the ninety nine season, is that you were very
Speaker 1: disappointed and but you did have hope for the following seasons.
Speaker 1: And there's no guarantees. But yeah, there's a reason to
Speaker 1: have home. There's a reason. But it's a young team.
Speaker 1: I just can't get in town of it. If you
Speaker 1: like the Bills, the Bill. The Buffalo Bills lost four
Speaker 1: straight Super Bowls famously, right, the fact that they went
Speaker 1: four straight incredible. I mean, you can't lose them if
Speaker 1: you're not getting there. There were thirty other teams well
Speaker 1: back then, I guess there were probably twenty six other
Speaker 1: teams that um but never even got a shot to
Speaker 1: play for it. So obviously losing four rows bad, but
Speaker 1: it's still an accomplishment to get this far. Let's just
Speaker 1: put it that way. Yeah, and and and you know,
Speaker 1: say what you want. The naysayers were out there, and
Speaker 1: you get into November and it wasn't going well, and
Speaker 1: there wasn't like okay, now where you're gonna go, and
Speaker 1: you needed to win. You know, we talked about it
Speaker 1: would be great to win four games in December, but
Speaker 1: we'll take three out of the four just to get in.
Speaker 1: And then you gotta tip your hat and say, wow,
Speaker 1: you go in as a wild card and you've won
Speaker 1: three road games, and you have to say, at least
Speaker 1: two of those teams, they were the number one and
Speaker 1: number two, number three seat number okay, so yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Saints were too, so so you had to go
Speaker 1: beat the best of the best in the NFC at
Speaker 1: that time. Well, you beat three of the four division
Speaker 1: champions along the way. You know, it's pretty good. But
Speaker 1: the first time I couldn't believe this when I looked
Speaker 1: this stat, up to the point that I asked the
Speaker 1: PR guy to look it up independently using a different
Speaker 1: source to show that I was right. The Buccaneers won
Speaker 1: in Washington three, they won in New Orleans thirty to twenty,
Speaker 1: and they won in um Green Bay, which is since
Speaker 1: we scored thirty point eight points per game during the
Speaker 1: right season, that's pretty much right on the money. That's
Speaker 1: the first time that any team has scored thirty or
Speaker 1: more points in three straight road playoff games ever, not
Speaker 1: just in the same postseason, but three in a row
Speaker 1: like it could be spread out. And you have to
Speaker 1: admit the offense did play as well as you thought
Speaker 1: they should or could did or did not, did not.
Speaker 1: I don't think the offense played as well second half.
Speaker 1: First half, the conversions on third downs were insane, and
Speaker 1: that's pretty impressive, I'll rephrase it total game. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: had been avoiding, but as I said long ago, the
Speaker 1: most important thing is scored more points than they do
Speaker 1: when you win. So so that's fine. So I I
Speaker 1: fed you this note near the end of the game,
Speaker 1: not near the end of the game, after the second turnover.
Speaker 1: So after we got the Tehn Murphy bunting uh interception
Speaker 1: that led to the Scotty Miller touchdown, we'll be talking
Speaker 1: a lot more about that. And then early in the
Speaker 1: second half we got the Jordan Whitehead forced fumble, Devin
Speaker 1: white recovery down to the eight one yard touched on
Speaker 1: drive cam raight and um that was That was seven
Speaker 1: takeaways in the three games in the playoffs so far
Speaker 1: for the Bucks. We scored touchdowns after six of them.
Speaker 1: And the only one we didn't was when Mike Edwards
Speaker 1: intercepted the ball in New Orleans at the end and
Speaker 1: we ran out the club. So every time our our
Speaker 1: defense is coming up big with these takeaways and our
Speaker 1: offense is absolutely turning all of them into touchdowns. And
Speaker 1: that's incredible. That's how you win that. You were going
Speaker 1: to win games if you're doing that, you win almost
Speaker 1: all of them if you're doing that. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: a great stat that you did feed us. And and
Speaker 1: even when when I gave it to Gene, he was like, WHOA,
Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I couldn't. It was so funny to
Speaker 1: me because Um, I was sitting next to Jason Turner
Speaker 1: and they were driving, um they had the ball. They
Speaker 1: had the ball um in the second near the end
Speaker 1: of the second half, and they weren't really driving that far,
Speaker 1: but they had the ball and we were worried. He
Speaker 1: he grumbled or something. I said, are you thinking the
Speaker 1: same thing I'm thinking? And we were. It was that
Speaker 1: whole you know, New Orleans or Green Bay one to
Speaker 1: toss deferred. That means they get the ball first in
Speaker 1: the second half. So you're like, okay, at to think
Speaker 1: at the time we were winning thirteen to fourteen to
Speaker 1: ten or seven something like that, and you're thinking, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was fourteen to ten. You're like, and you felt
Speaker 1: like you dominated that first half, and then they're gonna
Speaker 1: do that thing where they scored right it before the
Speaker 1: half and right after the half, certainly Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 1: done many many times, and and you're gonna feel like
Speaker 1: you're dominating and all of a sudden you're down by
Speaker 1: ten points. What actually happened was the absolute opposite of that.
Speaker 1: Despite not winning the toss and not having the ball,
Speaker 1: the Bucketeers scored right before the half and right after
Speaker 1: the half, which is amazing. It The Scotty Miller touchdown
Speaker 1: is just well as funny as everybody said when they
Speaker 1: or not everybody but the offense said when they saw
Speaker 1: the defense situation, what they what they were setting up ads,
Speaker 1: they knew it was going to be a touchdown. I know,
Speaker 1: which is crazy? Wait, wait, which is you know which?
Speaker 1: Bruce arians said that from the sideline, he said, we
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be a touchdown right away because
Speaker 1: they lined up in man to man coverage on the
Speaker 1: outside instead of playing deep and letting the Bucks have
Speaker 1: the middle and just protecting the sidelines or the deep
Speaker 1: ball because all the Bucks could do there with eight
Speaker 1: seconds to go with the snap, try had to get
Speaker 1: a little closer four field goal, which is like an out.
Speaker 1: And we thought that's what they're gonna do. Is by
Speaker 1: the time, by the time they started this staff, I
Speaker 1: thought they were throwing a hell Mary, and I think
Speaker 1: that was the plan. But like you said, when they
Speaker 1: saw Scotty Miller line up, he's one of the one
Speaker 1: and Kevin King, they just ran vertical routes. They ran
Speaker 1: a bunch of goal routes, and and there was no
Speaker 1: safety help for because they were playing they were defending
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, which they did not need
Speaker 1: to do and uh and so Scotty just ran right
Speaker 1: past him, and he he got up to a top
Speaker 1: speed of something like twenty four miles problems. It's unfortunately,
Speaker 1: unfortunately for the Packers, Kevin King, who had a horrendous night,
Speaker 1: only got up to like nineteen point four. So that's
Speaker 1: just that speed differences. So at one point you're watching
Speaker 1: the heights and they're the balls in the air and
Speaker 1: they're even, and then Scotty just pulls away and Kevin
Speaker 1: King didn't have that extra gear and boom was there.
Speaker 1: Perfect touchdown. So I have to admit, as we discussed
Speaker 1: the situation after the Sean Murphy bunting interception, there wasn't
Speaker 1: much time left, like twenty eight seconds. We got to
Speaker 1: around midfield a little farther and face the fourth in
Speaker 1: like six fourth and five maybe, and we went out there,
Speaker 1: actually sent out the punting unit, and then they changed mind.
Speaker 1: I was dead set against going for that fourth. I was.
Speaker 1: I was excited. I mean because to me, if you
Speaker 1: don't get it, there's still like twenty seconds left. The
Speaker 1: balls close to midfield, Aaron Rodgers can easily get you
Speaker 1: twenty yards in the amount of time, and they kick
Speaker 1: a field goal with their kicker who hasn't missed all year,
Speaker 1: including four or four from beyond fifty. I'm like, if
Speaker 1: you don't make this, you're probably giving them three points,
Speaker 1: or they're giving them a decent shot at three points,
Speaker 1: or if you make it, you're controlling the goal. You
Speaker 1: know what, screw me? Do you need to play aggressively
Speaker 1: in this league. And we're gonna get to the call
Speaker 1: that the Packers should have been aggressive and they weren't,
Speaker 1: and pretty much every big agrees on that. And you can't.
Speaker 1: You can't you, you can't you, you can't play scared.
Speaker 1: It's like it's like going to Vegas. I was playing scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's true. Yeah, if you go to Vegas and
Speaker 1: you play with scared money, scared money is called that's
Speaker 1: why losing money. That's so you know why I to Vegas. No, no,
Speaker 1: go visit my money. But up bump um. So again
Speaker 1: I was wrong. We convert the third down pretty with
Speaker 1: a pretty easy little play to Leonard four. And then
Speaker 1: now there's speaking of did he have a game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had another one. He's having a postseason. He's already
Speaker 1: he already has the Bucks record for most yards from
Speaker 1: scrimmage in a single postseason. The touchdown run was he
Speaker 1: rolled over a guy, so he wasn't down. He basically
Speaker 1: jumped over a fallen player. I think it was one
Speaker 1: of our alignment. It looked like it was going to
Speaker 1: be It looked like it was going to go for
Speaker 1: a minimal game, like two yards maybe if that because
Speaker 1: he kind of had to jump or step over one
Speaker 1: of a falling down the field, which I think might
Speaker 1: have been one of our alignment. And then he cuts
Speaker 1: right and then he has to get around the edge,
Speaker 1: and then he pulls this amazing spin move on somebody
Speaker 1: and then basically does another spin move and just slides
Speaker 1: across on his back across the two Packers, one of
Speaker 1: which was Kevin King's Kevin King, Are you gonna say,
Speaker 1: Kevin King? The x V King was well, think about this.
Speaker 1: The heading into the game, the only two real question
Speaker 1: marks on the injury report were Antoine Winfield for us
Speaker 1: and Kevin King for them. And I had thought that
Speaker 1: that Winfield was gonna play, to the point I kept
Speaker 1: saying that on my pregame interview on Well, I thought
Speaker 1: he was gonna play too. I I thought that was
Speaker 1: really a good guess. And he didn't go. And then
Speaker 1: Kevin King, You're like, well he was questionable. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: the you know, we we don't get our guy, but
Speaker 1: the Packers guy comes back to play. As it turns out,
Speaker 1: that was a good thing because Kevin King was just
Speaker 1: abused mercilessly. He was the guy on the first touchdown
Speaker 1: to Mike Evans, and he was also the guy who
Speaker 1: got the penalty at the end, which I know there
Speaker 1: was some grumbling at the time, but if you look
Speaker 1: at the still shots, you can see that King has
Speaker 1: a hold of Tyler Johnson's under shirt to the point
Speaker 1: that it's stretching out like three feet. Let's just say
Speaker 1: they they swallowed. Well, in hockey, that's called swallowing the whistles. Here,
Speaker 1: they didn't have hankies. In fact, like Jean said, do
Speaker 1: they even have flags in their body? I thought maybe
Speaker 1: they left him at the Inn hotel. A lot of
Speaker 1: false startah of false stars that weren't being called salty
Speaker 1: dog listeners. I just need to let you know that
Speaker 1: Jeff Ryan was very hot about this issue on Sunday,
Speaker 1: which one the false start lack of penalty. Oh, I
Speaker 1: was there wasn't a flag from and it was and
Speaker 1: we're not being biased because the weren't flax from on
Speaker 1: either team and I there were there were, I mean,
Speaker 1: false starts. The easiest penalty to call, isn't it. It's
Speaker 1: so blatantly we all went, wait a minute, that's not
Speaker 1: a false start. Not only not, it was two in
Speaker 1: a row the same guy twice, and the second one
Speaker 1: was absolutely blatant, though the second one was he's already
Speaker 1: two steps back from the ball. Yeah, and I don't
Speaker 1: know how you missed that. And it's at crucial times
Speaker 1: and you and look, you gotta play, so so that's
Speaker 1: you know, those things shouldn't come into play because you're
Speaker 1: gonna outplay the other team. That being said, it's one
Speaker 1: or two plays that decide the difference. It certainly can.
Speaker 1: And then when they finally called a penalty, it did
Speaker 1: make it by and I was surprised because the head
Speaker 1: official did the Super Bowl last year. So it wasn't
Speaker 1: like it's a slack team. I mean no, I would
Speaker 1: think if it felt more like a philosophical thing, not
Speaker 1: a maybe, not a making a bunch of mistakes. Let's
Speaker 1: let him play today. Well they let ever know if
Speaker 1: they did that or not. But but what happens is
Speaker 1: you don't you don't call penalties. Don't call penalties. And
Speaker 1: even though it's a blatant penalty, which I thought the
Speaker 1: others were blatant too, where they call the past interference
Speaker 1: at a very crucial time in the game. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I was thinking as we were getting into the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. I even said it to Jason. I think,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how are they gonna start calling flags now
Speaker 1: when they haven't called them all game? But then they
Speaker 1: did well. That was there was a play that I thought, so,
Speaker 1: this is not criticizing the official. No, no, it's a
Speaker 1: conversation right before the third down there the Packers last
Speaker 1: offensive play of the season. Right before that one, there
Speaker 1: was another incompletion where it seemed like incredibly blatant holding,
Speaker 1: like the guy's arms around his neck and he's going like,
Speaker 1: you know, he's dragging, and so I'm like holding, it's
Speaker 1: clearly holding. But then it was incomplete and I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: third and ten, second and twenty whatever. So it made
Speaker 1: a made amount of a bunch of it. In fact,
Speaker 1: it didn't make a difference when it came down to it,
Speaker 1: but um, and and this was really frustrating to watch.
Speaker 1: It's not you know, it's not criticism, it's observation that
Speaker 1: you know, I just thought the game got called a
Speaker 1: little differently, but hey, you know what, we were looking
Speaker 1: at things differently than they were, so so so Bruce
Speaker 1: arians makes the correct aggressive calls at the end of
Speaker 1: the half, which is probably the difference in the game
Speaker 1: because those are points you don't expect to get. Okay,
Speaker 1: now there's two plays that I'm wondering about, but continued, well,
Speaker 1: I was going to contrast that with the play we
Speaker 1: have to talk about where Green Bay did not go
Speaker 1: for it and fourth and now, but do you want
Speaker 1: to do your thing first? Well, I was surprised. I
Speaker 1: mean I I was surprised that he went for two.
Speaker 1: You know, when they went for two when they were
Speaker 1: down five, Well that makes sense. Yeah, it was when
Speaker 1: it was the touchdown that got him down by five.
Speaker 1: But if it made sense because if they get it,
Speaker 1: they're only down by three. Yeah, but it was still
Speaker 1: early in the game. Yeah, you're right, And so to me,
Speaker 1: when you do that, if you don't make it, you
Speaker 1: put yourself behind easy. Well you need this anyways, But
Speaker 1: then it starts getting to be you know, you coach
Speaker 1: can probably go, hey, look the ball hit the guy
Speaker 1: right in the hands and he dropped it. Well, there
Speaker 1: was that, right, But I agree with you that you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be you don't necessarily need to be making those decisions.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you have an organizational philosophy to go
Speaker 1: for two more aggressively and more often. That's one thing,
Speaker 1: but not doing the math there. Don't do it on
Speaker 1: the math, because you're right, they didn't get that if
Speaker 1: they just kicked extra point, then at the end of
Speaker 1: the game when they were driving, they would have only
Speaker 1: been down seven and they wouldn't have they would have
Speaker 1: known they had a if they scored touch on they
Speaker 1: only had to kick to tie it. But even though
Speaker 1: they they had to get a touchdown and the two
Speaker 1: point conversion there at the end, which they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had to do if they just kicked the extra point earlier. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you have, um, the craziness of it all
Speaker 1: the grand I'm still I'm still puzzled with the thought
Speaker 1: process was is why why are you kicking? Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about that now. Yeah, well I thought
Speaker 1: you had to plays. But that's that one was then
Speaker 1: this one. So it's the first, The first one, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure he was he had nobody open hand to
Speaker 1: throw it away. Second one good defense and another incompletion.
Speaker 1: Think that was the one at the very back of
Speaker 1: the end zone, but he was clearly out of the
Speaker 1: back of the end zone. And then the last one
Speaker 1: he starts to scramble, and it looks for all the
Speaker 1: world like he could run maybe all the way in
Speaker 1: or at least down to the two or three, at
Speaker 1: which point I'm almost certainly would have gone four on
Speaker 1: fourth now. But he's he's scrambling to his right, and
Speaker 1: he suddenly fires off a pass kind of diagonally back
Speaker 1: to the left, and both Mike Edwards and Andrew Adams
Speaker 1: are in position and they knock it down, which is awesome.
Speaker 1: I'm a little surprised. But on the other hand, Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers can make all kinds of throws well on the run,
Speaker 1: so I can understand why he was confident that in there.
Speaker 1: So it's third and eight, it's fourth and night now,
Speaker 1: I was a certain they're gonna go for it. They
Speaker 1: send out the field goal. Union. We're all looking at you, like, wait,
Speaker 1: because there's two twelve maybe left in the game, in
Speaker 1: the game right there, down by eight, they kick a
Speaker 1: field goal. All that changes is that you still need
Speaker 1: a touchdown. It just means if you get a touchdown
Speaker 1: now you win the game, rather than if you don't
Speaker 1: get it. Either way, if you don't touchdown, if you
Speaker 1: don't get it, call me crazy. But you keep the
Speaker 1: ball out of Tom Brady's hands. And they got to
Speaker 1: march ninety yards or forty yards to get a score,
Speaker 1: probably sixty yards to get a score you need a
Speaker 1: touchdown for How are you sure you're gonna get down
Speaker 1: to the eight yard line again, Jeff? The Packers have
Speaker 1: the best red zone offense in the history of the
Speaker 1: NFL this year. Now here's an interesting site. The head
Speaker 1: coach of of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers happened to be
Speaker 1: on the Atlanta Falcons staff in the Super Bowl against
Speaker 1: the New orleand Patriots, was on the Falcon staff when
Speaker 1: they blew leads. But didn't everybody sort of lay that
Speaker 1: at the feet of Shanahan. They did, But you know
Speaker 1: that mindset, that philosophy, because everyone said, had he kicked
Speaker 1: field goals and just added points on? You see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Now, when things don't work out, you're all
Speaker 1: a second guest. But in this particular instance, in a
Speaker 1: championship game, thought the big deal in that game was
Speaker 1: that they kept throwing the ball. Well, there is that
Speaker 1: because yeah, so so and he's catching a lot of
Speaker 1: flak and and and I was gonna say in was
Speaker 1: in green Bay. But the backers, you're not just a
Speaker 1: green Bay team, You're You're the whole state of Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: They're they're pretty upset over that car, which I don't know,
Speaker 1: so I'm sure, I'm sure. Well, you start to bring
Speaker 1: it up to their Jeff, Okay, if you go for
Speaker 1: it and fourth and eight and you don't make it,
Speaker 1: or you kick if your goal either way you need
Speaker 1: to touch. Then if you don't make it, first down
Speaker 1: at the eight for the Buccaneers, they have to decide
Speaker 1: how aggressive they want to be offensively, because if you
Speaker 1: run three times or run twice and are incomplete on
Speaker 1: on third down, you're kicking the ball away. They're getting
Speaker 1: the ball probably close to midfield with not fewer you know,
Speaker 1: not much less than two minutes to go, they're right
Speaker 1: back in business. If they can get one stop. And
Speaker 1: I know they didn't get one stop. Would the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: have thrown on third down from their own ten yard line?
Speaker 1: They were playing risk getting no biscuits. You just don't know.
Speaker 1: You just don't know, and you know if you're well,
Speaker 1: you know what, I will say this, that's the difference
Speaker 1: with having Tom Brady as your quarterback. You do know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do, because he's going to take with
Speaker 1: the defense. I love the third dun call to Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin that that little flip end around because it worked
Speaker 1: so well that they were they assumed we would just
Speaker 1: run one more time, because even if we did and
Speaker 1: didn't get anything, we're probably punting away with you know,
Speaker 1: ten seconds laft or something. They're they're they're gonna be
Speaker 1: in a horrible situation with ten seconds to go or
Speaker 1: something like that. So it wouldn't have been a disaster
Speaker 1: if we didn't get that first down, So it wouldn't
Speaker 1: have even have been a bad call to just run
Speaker 1: for net did. But this was the same thing. It's
Speaker 1: a run, so you're still stopping, you're still keeping clock
Speaker 1: running and he might have a chance to get it,
Speaker 1: which as soon as you saw the flip in the corner,
Speaker 1: you're like, oh he's making that. Yeah it he made
Speaker 1: it so much for him to he had time to
Speaker 1: slide down. I will say it was a fun It
Speaker 1: was a fun game. It was a stressful game for
Speaker 1: for if you're a Buck fan, and if you're a
Speaker 1: Packer fan, that it was more stressful for them because
Speaker 1: we got up to ten, But they came rowing back,
Speaker 1: and at that time, you when you start come roaring back,
Speaker 1: you know, mos on your side. I never felt like
Speaker 1: they were roaring back there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So it's twenty to ten. They get a good I
Speaker 1: think they got a good field, a good touchdown drive. Um,
Speaker 1: so it's seventeen and then we had the interception, So
Speaker 1: it's we're getting close to scoring. If if Tom Brady's
Speaker 1: passed to Mike Evans um on basically a post over
Speaker 1: the middle where he touches the ball around the eight
Speaker 1: yard line, if it's a little lower, might catch is question.
Speaker 1: He might score, but otherwise his first and goal in
Speaker 1: our our bread zone office is probably gonna punch it in.
Speaker 1: So basically, they get the tip ball interception and they
Speaker 1: go down and score again. And so to me, I
Speaker 1: don't I never felt like they were roaring back. As
Speaker 1: my point, I thought our defense was still holding up
Speaker 1: pretty well, and they held. They they forced to three
Speaker 1: and not some punts after two of those three interceptions,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. The fact that you have three turnovers
Speaker 1: and you're only giving up six points, that's phenomenal considering
Speaker 1: we had what two turnovers and team points. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that is Uh, the defense was great. You know,
Speaker 1: it's funny. You know they always say offenses get you
Speaker 1: to the championship game. Defense wins your championships. And you
Speaker 1: know too, when the defense got us there and then
Speaker 1: the defense one, well yeah, but you know, but I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, once again, it's it became buckball,
Speaker 1: you know, defense standing up and making it happen. That
Speaker 1: was awesome. Yeah. But for fans, hey, I'm really happy
Speaker 1: for you and for us. You know, I'm happy for
Speaker 1: me too because it makes a difference in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for me once in a while. But it
Speaker 1: was I like, I'd just like to give a shout
Speaker 1: out to myself. Yeah, you know, hey, I do want
Speaker 1: to say I do want to say that. Um. After
Speaker 1: the broadcast, it was really it was really a fun time.
Speaker 1: You had to go work, you had to go work
Speaker 1: right away, but but we took care of you. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: we did celebrate and um it was a nice little
Speaker 1: celebration and it was good because all of us have
Speaker 1: been together watching these games, doing the broadcasts remotely, which
Speaker 1: is very different than how we normally do it. But
Speaker 1: we came together and a lot of people that for me,
Speaker 1: a lot of people that aren't on the broadcast team,
Speaker 1: but you know, you were at the games, which you're
Speaker 1: in the press box, but you became part of the
Speaker 1: broadcast feeding us information. UM. Jason Turner was there helping
Speaker 1: me grab interviews, things of that nature. UM. And then
Speaker 1: Dan Roy, who's our venue tech manager, made it all
Speaker 1: work because he was bringing all those feeds in for us.
Speaker 1: And and what was funny is all year long he
Speaker 1: would leave at halftime, and during the playoffs he would
Speaker 1: leave at halftime and we were winning, and he asked
Speaker 1: me if he should leave at halftime, and I said, no,
Speaker 1: you should stay. Yeah, and and so he stays, Okay,
Speaker 1: things start to go south. There were people who asked
Speaker 1: him to leave the booth and go for a walk,
Speaker 1: and he was so nervous. Dan got up and he
Speaker 1: went for a walk around the stadium. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, it's you know, you do this
Speaker 1: for a living, and you know it's fun to be
Speaker 1: a fan. And I'm a fan of other teams, and
Speaker 1: so are you. Where you can yell and scream and
Speaker 1: say whatever you want. When you work for a team,
Speaker 1: it's your livelihood and it it does change a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff, how you do things and how it comes together.
Speaker 1: And I have to say that there's been a pretty
Speaker 1: solid month, not even we I'm just saying since December,
Speaker 1: and here we are, it's gonna be February and we're
Speaker 1: still We're still in it. Yeah, crazy, I'm not done
Speaker 1: talking about this this Packers game. Now, all right? What
Speaker 1: else you got? Well, I'm sorry, I I mean you
Speaker 1: kind of did your little philosophical sound the show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. We're trying to wrap this thing up. You
Speaker 1: have stuff to do. I got tons of my cramping
Speaker 1: her style here Joe out a little bit continued. What
Speaker 1: else she got? Ten days to the super Bowl? You know?
Speaker 1: All right? What else you got? Well, it's not what
Speaker 1: I got. Actually it's twelve days of the super Bowl. Um,
Speaker 1: actually eleven. Well when they're listening to what I mean, well, no,
Speaker 1: because today's almost over with, so count Wednesday. But I
Speaker 1: digress again. I'm sorry, your day might be almost over. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, it was fun watching shack Uh kind of
Speaker 1: do it with Warrn Sap, you know, because it was
Speaker 1: Warrn Sap and bred Farve. They had that superstar friendly
Speaker 1: rivalry for years, and then even in the game we
Speaker 1: lost in the playoffs in Green Bay and uh Sap
Speaker 1: had three sacks. Farve just kept coming back and making
Speaker 1: big play. But it was two superstars in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Famers, future Hall of famers going at it. Well.
Speaker 1: Shack ties the SAPs playoff single game record for that
Speaker 1: Buccaneers in Green Bay and Lambeau and it's another Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame bound quarterback Rodgers and him and jpp Um
Speaker 1: combined for five sacks, which is it ties the most
Speaker 1: that the Packers gave up in any game this year,
Speaker 1: which was one of them was also against us and Um.
Speaker 1: We we were talking on the radio before the game
Speaker 1: that you know, both offenses are really good. What what
Speaker 1: can be the difference? And I'm like, well, we need
Speaker 1: to get pressure. And I'm not saying something any average fans, right,
Speaker 1: but that's what we talked about in the radio. You
Speaker 1: need to get some pressure, just like we did in
Speaker 1: week six. You know, just because we did in week
Speaker 1: six doesn't mean necessarily was gonna happen again, but that,
Speaker 1: to me, that was the key. Get some pressure and
Speaker 1: make some bad plays happen and that'll be the difference.
Speaker 1: In the ball game and the bad plays that the
Speaker 1: backers made were the difference in the ball game. Well
Speaker 1: that and a lot of it had to do with pressure,
Speaker 1: and it didn't hurt that came back. Holy, he played
Speaker 1: thirty three snaps. I thought he was gonna play ten. Well, well,
Speaker 1: b A told us that he was going to let
Speaker 1: let him him being decide, how how how you doing,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling in the game, and wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: so he played thirty three snaps and it was his
Speaker 1: first action since he broke his ankle in week five.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he's better. And so I was thinking, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe this will be a nice you know, a little
Speaker 1: boost for the defense, give you, you know, ten snaps
Speaker 1: in each of hopefully the next two games, which now
Speaker 1: it is how we got two more weeks of Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You basically have prime Vita Vea back. Yeah. I can't
Speaker 1: believe this is happening. And Shack even said on one
Speaker 1: of his sacks, He's like Aaron Rodgers tried to scramble
Speaker 1: away from me and there was Vita and so he
Speaker 1: had to turn back. He's like Vita flushed from right
Speaker 1: to me. So he wasn't there for the Kansas City game. No,
Speaker 1: we did not have They didn't have I didn't have
Speaker 1: their guy. They didn't have a couple of people too,
Speaker 1: I'm him and I'm blanking on who was but even
Speaker 1: the Packers that Yeah, the Packers didn't have a lot
Speaker 1: of guys that played us. So I just I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm digressing again. Well, no, it's a it's a. It's
Speaker 1: we didn't have Vitavea and we barely had Antonio back
Speaker 1: at that point. Hopefully he'll be back. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: the the those two guys, and think about this, thinking
Speaker 1: about guys that are missing from the game. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't really part of the pregame storyline because it didn't
Speaker 1: just happen. But in Week sixteen, the Packers lost their
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl left tackle David Baktari to an a c
Speaker 1: l tere uh. They had their offensive line had been
Speaker 1: magnificent all season because back is one of the best
Speaker 1: left tackles in the game. Elton Jenkins, who was playing
Speaker 1: left guard but can't play anywhere on the line, was
Speaker 1: having a Pro had a Pro Bowl season, and their
Speaker 1: center Corey Lindsley didn't get picked for the Pro Bowl,
Speaker 1: but was a first team a p L Pro. That's
Speaker 1: three other five guys. BOTR goes down. Now they take
Speaker 1: Billy Turner, who was playing right tackle but had sort
Speaker 1: of been switching back forth through the season with Ricky
Speaker 1: Wagner who they had gotten just before the year. And
Speaker 1: those two names seem interchangeable to me. Ricky Wagner Billy Turner,
Speaker 1: I mean, could be Ricky Turner and Billy Wagner. NASCAR drivers,
Speaker 1: there was a Billy Wagner was. It was a relief pitcher.
Speaker 1: He was a very famous relief putry. Lefty braves mostly
Speaker 1: I think. Okay, so Ricky Turner and Billy wag No
Speaker 1: Billy Turner and Ricky Wagner. They they moved Billy Turner
Speaker 1: over the left tackle, put Ricky Wagner back in the
Speaker 1: right tackle. That's not as good. And you saw where
Speaker 1: all the pressure came from. And after the game, you
Speaker 1: hear the coaches and the players talking about we thought
Speaker 1: we had a matchup there that we could exploit. Nobody's
Speaker 1: really talking about that going into that game, right, I
Speaker 1: didn't know how we're gonna get pressure. Turns are are
Speaker 1: outside linebackers were better players than their two tackles and
Speaker 1: that's because David Bactier got hurt and and another um
Speaker 1: group of people that we really got to say, hey
Speaker 1: is the old line. I mean they for the most part,
Speaker 1: they did the job. There was one protection breakdown. I
Speaker 1: don't even know if it was an alignment on that
Speaker 1: intersections block. Yeah, and I saw um they didn't pick
Speaker 1: up the blitz Solar for not trying to get there
Speaker 1: because he had been going sort of more between the
Speaker 1: tackle and guard gap and then he saw that the
Speaker 1: guy was blitzing off the edge and he tried to
Speaker 1: get there, but the angle wasn't right. But I don't
Speaker 1: even know if it was his assignment or not. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but it um be A made a
Speaker 1: comment during his radio show that he was very happy
Speaker 1: with the offensive line and that the one breakdown was
Speaker 1: because it didn't pick up something pick up a blitz
Speaker 1: but hey, you know it happens. No, that was only
Speaker 1: wasn't it yeah? And or no, it wasn't even a
Speaker 1: it was. It led to the interception because Freddy basically
Speaker 1: had to heave it up there probably you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about early in the game, he was one up there
Speaker 1: and Chris Godwin somehow gets the ball should look like
Speaker 1: it was an easy pick. I thought he was gonna
Speaker 1: try to play defense. He put it, he stole it
Speaker 1: from he did. So this time he's throwing to Evans
Speaker 1: and maybe thinking the same thing. I mean, if I
Speaker 1: could just get it up there, it's two, there's only
Speaker 1: two guys there. It's Evans and the guy, and um,
Speaker 1: hopefully Mike can make a play. But I don't think
Speaker 1: Mike figured it out right away. And so he kept
Speaker 1: going a few more steps and couldn't get back in
Speaker 1: time to get to the ball. So it was an
Speaker 1: easy interception for y or Alexander. No. And and but
Speaker 1: you know, you start thinking about the game, you know,
Speaker 1: And and Devin White, he's still all over the place
Speaker 1: really fast. He's he's really really really well. He's got
Speaker 1: his confidence. That's I don't think he's ever been liking
Speaker 1: in Yeah, but now he knows he can do it,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And you couldn play that
Speaker 1: to a lot of guys. I think Devin walked in
Speaker 1: the building last year and knowing that he can do it,
Speaker 1: now he's doing it so well. I mean he's I
Speaker 1: should say, yeah, he's he's definitely very confident in himself.
Speaker 1: But that's the case with a lot of superstar athletes.
Speaker 1: You gotta love it, right, I love it. So so
Speaker 1: maybe we should move on to the Chiefs now, ben't.
Speaker 1: We don't want to be here for two hours. So
Speaker 1: those Chiefs over there, they're goody good. So that's our analysis.
Speaker 1: That's it. Their offense, you know, it's it's obviously it's
Speaker 1: probably the It didn't rank first in in um in
Speaker 1: points believe, they were only seventh in scoring believing, or
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers were third. We just beat the team that
Speaker 1: was first, and we beat New Orleans, which I think
Speaker 1: they were about four or fifth. So it's not that
Speaker 1: we can't beat a team with a great offense. But
Speaker 1: this one with Mahomes, Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill is
Speaker 1: a completely different A lot of speeds there, yeah, and
Speaker 1: they're just Hill and Kelsey are such playmakers and trying
Speaker 1: to double cover one makes it harder double cover than
Speaker 1: the other one. There's they're so creative and how they
Speaker 1: use that guy those guys try tyr. Did you see
Speaker 1: his I think it was like a seventy five yard
Speaker 1: run um um touchdown in the Bills the game against
Speaker 1: the Bills. It was just like a little it was
Speaker 1: a little past He's like and he's like, he's like
Speaker 1: a water bugs. He's like, it's somebody's controlling with the joystick.
Speaker 1: Is like, yeah, and that's what he can do to you.
Speaker 1: Now against us, he basically got deep. But they can
Speaker 1: also hit him shut. So you can't just go, well,
Speaker 1: we'll lay off and make sure he doesn't run past us,
Speaker 1: because then they'll just beach with short stuff and they'll
Speaker 1: run the ball. And they were very well coached team.
Speaker 1: That team has been together. You know, you know, getting
Speaker 1: back to the Super Bowl back to back years is
Speaker 1: it's not easy, folks. It's first time since oh three
Speaker 1: or four? Right, No, not back to back, but back.
Speaker 1: They could be the first back to back champions. The
Speaker 1: Patriots did it like three times recently. Um, but okay,
Speaker 1: so the offense, you can't say enough about their offense.
Speaker 1: People out there don't need us to tell how good
Speaker 1: their defense. I mean, you can't win. They've won twenty
Speaker 1: five their last twenty seven games and are in two
Speaker 1: Super Bowl in a row. That can't happen without a
Speaker 1: good defense. So we're you're not gonna hear any words
Speaker 1: here on this podcast that the Chiefs don't have a
Speaker 1: good offense because they do. They do, but it's not
Speaker 1: at the same level as their offense. And I think
Speaker 1: there are some areas where the Buccaneers match up nicely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there there is opportunities to exploit. For one thing, they're
Speaker 1: very aggressive. They are one of the ad They're one
Speaker 1: of the highest blitzing teams in the league. They blitz
Speaker 1: max splitz that's six or more guys. Five or more
Speaker 1: is a blitz. Six or more is what you would
Speaker 1: call max splits. They do that on seventeen percent plays.
Speaker 1: The league averages eight percent. They are one of the
Speaker 1: most aggressive blitzing teams in the league. And what's the
Speaker 1: what's the one way to get Tom Brady well pressure
Speaker 1: like any other In recent weeks, he's actually done quite
Speaker 1: well against pressure. There's some next gen stants. I could
Speaker 1: read you, but just take my worst. Sure, he's actually
Speaker 1: in the last three or four weeks performed quite well
Speaker 1: in pressure situations. But also the Buccaneers have done a
Speaker 1: good job for the most part of picking up blitz
Speaker 1: is I I personally think it's a great matchup. I
Speaker 1: think I think a lot of people are excited, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, like sometimes teams go and you go, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the Super Bowl, I'm gonna watch it is would
Speaker 1: be great, you know, but not that that that hype.
Speaker 1: If if you want to if you want to feel
Speaker 1: optimistic as a Bucks fan about this matchup, because on
Speaker 1: one hand, you say, well, the Chiefs have clearly been
Speaker 1: the best team in the league for two years. They're
Speaker 1: they're the defending champs. They really have only lost one
Speaker 1: game in the last year and a half because of
Speaker 1: the last game of the season they rested their starters.
Speaker 1: They are considered the favorites all of three and half points.
Speaker 1: But if you want to look at it one an
Speaker 1: optimistic way to think about this, what do you think
Speaker 1: is more likely that the Buccaneers defense, which is ranked
Speaker 1: seven and just had a really good game against Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers in a really good game against Drew Brees, is
Speaker 1: it a better chance that they will find a way
Speaker 1: to limit I'm not gonna say stop to to limit
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and Kelsey and Hill to less than what
Speaker 1: they normally get. Or do you think it's more likely
Speaker 1: that the Chiefs defense, which by most statistics is not
Speaker 1: as good as the Bucks defense will slow down the
Speaker 1: red hot Tom Brady in that offense, which is more
Speaker 1: likely to happen. Well, I always figure the defense. I
Speaker 1: think it's more likely the Bucks defense will have the
Speaker 1: bigger game and make the turnovers and you make the
Speaker 1: plays that make But that's one optimistic way to look
Speaker 1: at it. But as we look at last year's Super
Speaker 1: Bowl real quick, don't count them out if they're behind
Speaker 1: the look at their whole playoffs last year and that
Speaker 1: even double digits behind. Yeah, And so that's the thing
Speaker 1: about them. They can strike quickly and and so defensively
Speaker 1: it's gonna be it. Do you think I'm trying to
Speaker 1: decide because the stadium is being so transformed into another
Speaker 1: looking stadium, But do you think there's any advantage playing
Speaker 1: here for the Buccaneers during the game? Yeah? No, And
Speaker 1: why would there be, because no matter where we were
Speaker 1: playing the Bucks in the opposing team would each get
Speaker 1: the same number a lot of tickets, right, And maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I don't know how you're gonna, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you get tickets to the Super Bowl this year.
Speaker 1: If you don't, do you think there's an advantage because
Speaker 1: they understand the swirling wins at Raymond James Stadium if
Speaker 1: it's windy, do you think. I mean the Chiefs beat
Speaker 1: us here and in November. I don't know. The one
Speaker 1: advantage that Bruce Arian said that made sense to me
Speaker 1: was you don't have to go anywhere. Every other Super
Speaker 1: Bowl team ever, well, I guess the Rams when they
Speaker 1: played in the Rose Bowl, it wasn't their home field,
Speaker 1: and the Four Nighters when they played, they probably were
Speaker 1: able to stay at home, but they weren't in their
Speaker 1: home stadium. No, but I'm saying in the two weeks
Speaker 1: leading up to it, we don't have to go anywhere.
Speaker 1: You can do That's that's what Bruce said. You can
Speaker 1: stay in the exact same routine. You can still hold
Speaker 1: up you know, in your house and not have not
Speaker 1: go out and um and can and expose yourself. Just
Speaker 1: really stay home and focus. You don't have to travel
Speaker 1: at any point during the week. Um, that's an advantage.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it's a little bit it's
Speaker 1: a little bit um muted because Kansas City actually, because
Speaker 1: of the way this is set up, has some of
Speaker 1: the same advantages because they don't have to come till Friday,
Speaker 1: so they will be in their own beds, doing their
Speaker 1: own routines for from what I heard, they're not coming
Speaker 1: until Saturday. They had to come on Friday. Well was
Speaker 1: the earlier. That was, That was the earliest year were
Speaker 1: allowed to come. And I think you need to be
Speaker 1: in town by two pm. So you don't think I
Speaker 1: don't believe they are so basically trip. Yeah, I thought
Speaker 1: I saw it somewhere and it is. It's a it's
Speaker 1: about a two. And this would have been a much
Speaker 1: bigger This would have been a much bigger advantage in
Speaker 1: a normal year because the Chiefs would have had to
Speaker 1: come and stay in a hotel for a week, um
Speaker 1: right around in busses. I think the fans would have
Speaker 1: been leaning more towards Tampa because the Tampa fans would
Speaker 1: have been Yeah, and if you have six, if you
Speaker 1: have sixty thousand tickets, you can probably more. Tampa fans
Speaker 1: can probably find a way to get their hands on them.
Speaker 1: At this point, it's basically we're talking about fifteen right
Speaker 1: because of twenty two but uh, vaccinated healthcare workers. Correct.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the fact that the game is
Speaker 1: here makes it that much easier for a bucketeer fan
Speaker 1: to get a ticket. Is my point. No, no, it's
Speaker 1: not so and and and and even if it was
Speaker 1: a heavily buckaneer crowd, it's still so small that they
Speaker 1: can't get that loud. Yeah, the secondary market for the
Speaker 1: game is crazy. But dollar wise, well, the ope, oh
Speaker 1: it is you know you're looking at I was seeing
Speaker 1: something like eighteen thousand a ticket there. There is an
Speaker 1: article in the in the Tampa Bay Times about it.
Speaker 1: The secondary market is going crazy. That um a suite
Speaker 1: if it passes through and through the secondary market three
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, but hey, it included alcohol and food,
Speaker 1: so you're good to go. I mean, even if you're
Speaker 1: in a sixteen point a sixteen point sixteen person sweet
Speaker 1: right at three hundred thousand dollars, there's still a lot
Speaker 1: of money per person. Have martini so so um and
Speaker 1: it's I will say this, the Tampa Bay area, all
Speaker 1: all areas embrace and um the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You know,
Speaker 1: Tampa is a city, all right, but Tampa Bay is
Speaker 1: a lot of communities around. And you have Tampa, St. Petersburg,
Speaker 1: clear Water, Newport, Ritchie, Tarpans, bring, Someone's gonna get Max again.
Speaker 1: Name them all. But there's over two and a half
Speaker 1: million people in this area, plus you if you roll
Speaker 1: out the Lakeland and whatever. The Tampa Bay area really
Speaker 1: is going nuts over the Bucks. And because of the
Speaker 1: sports in Tampa Bay. The Lightning win the Stanley Cup,
Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays go to this go to the
Speaker 1: World Series and lose unfortunately. And then the Bucks, which
Speaker 1: everyone was saying, well now it's the Bucks turn, and
Speaker 1: well the Bucks have stepped up and at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: How crazy is that all three sports team in the
Speaker 1: final game. I have not looked it up yet, but
Speaker 1: I'm sure people have already written stories about cities that
Speaker 1: have had years link this. Do you have any else?
Speaker 1: I think there was a filly year, Yeah, Boston may have.
Speaker 1: The Cells are either winning or in championships. Well, in
Speaker 1: two thousand two, Lightning and Bucks that uh well yeah
Speaker 1: they both won the We won the world when we
Speaker 1: won the World Station, we won the Super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: they won the Stanley Cup. Because their season rolls into
Speaker 1: the OH three season, so yeah, both of them, and
Speaker 1: then they went on strike, which is which unfortunate. The
Speaker 1: next year. Crazy, right, I just feel like you're off
Speaker 1: by a year, But I'm not sure enough about it
Speaker 1: with the lightning. I know you gave me that look. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I just know. I remember where I was when they won,
Speaker 1: because I was visiting my dad in Phoenix, Arizona, and
Speaker 1: we were at a restaurant, and um, their TVs were
Speaker 1: on the Stanley Cup and we saw them win the
Speaker 1: last game to win the Stanley Cup. And later that night,
Speaker 1: my son Alex took his first steps in the hotel
Speaker 1: room in Sedona, Arizona, and um, I have to believe
Speaker 1: he was. He was born in July of oh three,
Speaker 1: so he wouldn't have been if you if you think
Speaker 1: they wanted in the O two oh three season, he
Speaker 1: would only been like, take it back, I'll take it back.
Speaker 1: You were off by year. I was they wanted in
Speaker 1: OH four And okay, I thought it was that one. Yes,
Speaker 1: they want an O four. At least I looked it up.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have ever known that if it hadn't been
Speaker 1: for that personal you know what I like. I like
Speaker 1: that you had the personal connection that Alex took his
Speaker 1: first steps in Sedona was a hotel room in Sedona, Arizona. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's it all started in a hotel room. We weren't
Speaker 1: even expecting. I don't know if that's the that's the
Speaker 1: way it works with most parents and their kids, because
Speaker 1: this is the only one we've ever had, but we
Speaker 1: weren't even expecting. It was just kind of he had
Speaker 1: kind of he was kind of holding up himself, standing
Speaker 1: and holding onto a counter, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden he let go and walked like two steps over
Speaker 1: to the bed and we're all flipping out later he
Speaker 1: just walked. That was better than the Stanley, because that's
Speaker 1: that's how we can always know the date. Listen, my
Speaker 1: wife and I can always look up the date that
Speaker 1: Alex took his first steps because we can just find
Speaker 1: the Stanley cups. Can I tell you this. I am
Speaker 1: glad I was wrong because I I love that story. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'll take I'll take the lashes for being wrong again. Um,
Speaker 1: I was not done, because I mean, our ability to
Speaker 1: go from one tangent to another of us gets so
Speaker 1: far afield from where we're going. But we were talking
Speaker 1: about the chiefs No A, D. D here and I
Speaker 1: was talking about their defense, which is good and has
Speaker 1: some stars like Tyranne Matthew and Chris Jones. Um one
Speaker 1: of their corners, Um Lugarius Snead in the slot is
Speaker 1: playing very well. Um Anthony Hitchens is a good rangy
Speaker 1: linebacker in the middle. Frank Clark seems to have lost
Speaker 1: a little bit of step, but he had two sacks
Speaker 1: in the playoffs so far. UM. Daniel Sorenson is as
Speaker 1: a safety. W kind of does it all. Blitz is
Speaker 1: all the time. They got plenty of good players that said.
Speaker 1: I was telling you how they're aggressive on the blitz, right,
Speaker 1: that's an opportunity if you pick up the blitz to
Speaker 1: get big plays. In addition, they are extremely aggressive in
Speaker 1: press coverage. Chart Various Ward, who was a revelation for
Speaker 1: them as a corner last year. I think he's an
Speaker 1: undrafted guy had a great season. They're expecting the same
Speaker 1: from this year. He has not been as good in
Speaker 1: coverage this year, but he is the number one guy
Speaker 1: in terms of the percentage of plays that he presses
Speaker 1: the receiver on the outside. The second guy in that
Speaker 1: category in the league is Bosha Breland, who's the corner
Speaker 1: on the other side. Uh the Ward plays left, Brelan
Speaker 1: plays right. So we're talking about lots of press man coverage. Well,
Speaker 1: don't you think that we have a few guys are
Speaker 1: pretty good at beating press man coverage, especially Mike Evans. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say so. They've been the Chiefs Pastevens has
Speaker 1: been giving up more explosive plays downfield in the second
Speaker 1: half of the season and on the playoffs. I think
Speaker 1: there are opportunities there. They also their offensive line. You
Speaker 1: ever heard of tackle splits? How far apart the two
Speaker 1: tackles line up. They have the widest splits between their tackles,
Speaker 1: which says to me there they would be hard to
Speaker 1: get around the edge on because you've got a long
Speaker 1: way to go. But there should be some bigger gaps
Speaker 1: in the middle for guys like Vitavella, Scott Smith. You're
Speaker 1: cranking me up right now, you're cranking up. I'm just
Speaker 1: saying there are opportunities. Will they seize the moment is
Speaker 1: going to be the question if they get Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we've got a very very smart defensive coordinator and a
Speaker 1: great staff. Wow, he's been calling some great stuff, so
Speaker 1: they should be able to figure it out, you know.
Speaker 1: And and and it doesn't look like he's going to
Speaker 1: get an eight C job this year, But I have
Speaker 1: to tell you, Wow, which is good for us. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to emphasize because we want him to
Speaker 1: get what he wants. Well, both go on both sides.
Speaker 1: Eric Bimeny h B enemy sleeping Yeah, and I remember
Speaker 1: that that was hit when he was a player. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the opportunities hopefully they'll come for both those
Speaker 1: guys next year, not you know, maybe after the two yes,
Speaker 1: because I don't believe how many jobs in the filled
Speaker 1: seven maybe. Yeah, I don't believe that any of them
Speaker 1: been been filled by black No. Um, San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niner defensive coordinator. Yeah he's he's a minority. Yes, he
Speaker 1: is a minority. Um, but look at it. You know
Speaker 1: what's an interesting Arabic? I believe Arabic, I believe. I
Speaker 1: can't Um, I can't claim. I read this earlier today.
Speaker 1: I think it was on the ring Er. Um. I
Speaker 1: was reading a story and um, there were two black
Speaker 1: offensive coordinators in the NFL this year. They're both in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yeah. How crazy is that? Right? So
Speaker 1: this is the kind of thing that you think, Okay,
Speaker 1: you're starting to get that pipeline established. You're starting to
Speaker 1: get these coaches get a chance, these black coaches get
Speaker 1: a chance to be coordinators. Because that's usually not everybody
Speaker 1: hires a coordinator, but usually right rost head coaches get
Speaker 1: to be a coordinator. That's where they you know, they
Speaker 1: hold their skills, they and they get the higher profile
Speaker 1: and they get they get a year. Nick Sirianni, I
Speaker 1: think almost all of them that have been hired, except
Speaker 1: for obviously urban Meyer, were coordinators. But the pipeline. You
Speaker 1: would think this pipeline is happening, but it's really not.
Speaker 1: And it's the this is the system is not working yet.
Speaker 1: And you consider the talent there is in coaching, and
Speaker 1: and there are black coaches that are very talented, but
Speaker 1: they're not getting a lot of coordinator opportunities, which means
Speaker 1: they're not getting a lot of head coaching. And you
Speaker 1: want to see a diversified coaching staff. He'sa go look
Speaker 1: in the Buck Media guide and all three of our
Speaker 1: coordinators are black and that female. Yes, so no, Bruce
Speaker 1: arians is committed to that. But he wouldn't be hiring
Speaker 1: these people if they also weren't very when that's just
Speaker 1: it too, it's that you have to be good. So
Speaker 1: but we're lucky to have have both of them, and
Speaker 1: so this and this will put them even in a
Speaker 1: bigger spotlight if they can pull it off and get
Speaker 1: themselves another ring for the Buccaneers, it's it's a positive
Speaker 1: that you know, presumably Todd Bulls will be around him.
Speaker 1: I don't think um Iron left which got any head
Speaker 1: coaching interviews. Listen. He might have been a little too early, right,
Speaker 1: he's been a Cordiner for three years. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think you know, if he if he um, if
Speaker 1: he pulls this one out, then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: that elevates you too their status. I said, only three years,
Speaker 1: but you keep seeing guys with these meteoric rises lately,
Speaker 1: like Brandon Staley. I think he was a defensive quarter
Speaker 1: for one year. All right, league's got a relok. I
Speaker 1: like Brandon Staley. I don't think he'll be a good coach, Listen,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't begrudge anybody getting a position at all.
Speaker 1: I am not saying that. I just like to see that.
Speaker 1: I think there's some really good people out there that
Speaker 1: haven't been given that opportunity. It's hard to have. It's
Speaker 1: hard to except for maybe Urban Meyer, I really don't
Speaker 1: like that. It's hard to quibble with any giving that
Speaker 1: you know you're that's good. That's a good that's a
Speaker 1: good point. You don't quibble with any given one of them.
Speaker 1: But the system clearly isn't working when a college coach
Speaker 1: all of a sudden college coach. But otherwise there haven't
Speaker 1: been any retread head coaches, right like, um, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't see like Mike mclarkey or somebody buying another shot.
Speaker 1: Have many of those have their No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: Atlanta hired. You can't you remember at this point, we've
Speaker 1: been so focused on the I'm worried about the Bucks
Speaker 1: next next year, We'll go through the head coaching stuff.
Speaker 1: Right now, it's all Bucks. That's all I care about.
Speaker 1: That's that's it. Well okay, so yeah, easy, that's enough. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So were you happy at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: You went right to work me. I know, you got
Speaker 1: my high fives in. I know, we got the past
Speaker 1: reference call. I pretty much thought that was the ind
Speaker 1: of it. I started moving my stuff out to where
Speaker 1: I was. I know, I turned around to to you know, congratulate, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're gone. I was like, all right when it
Speaker 1: came down, and yeah, gave me some stuff. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: took care of you there. So um, what a good
Speaker 1: what a good good, good good time. And so I
Speaker 1: know it really was. I'm just sitting here looking at
Speaker 1: seeing Super Bowl and I'm thinking, dang, well, we've done
Speaker 1: We've done this for real, We've done this here up
Speaker 1: in the press bucks for what four years. We'll actually
Speaker 1: we're in a luxury suite right now. But for the
Speaker 1: last four weeks, have we And usually there's been a
Speaker 1: little bit going on. There was a one day those
Speaker 1: snipers were stalking. Yeah, yeah, when they first started. Now
Speaker 1: there are tons of people out there. There are people
Speaker 1: all over the field and in the stands doing various
Speaker 1: things like stincling in lines on the field, and they're
Speaker 1: working on constructing this what is that that's for the
Speaker 1: halftime show. That's the PEPs, the halftime show with weekend weekend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like there's a lot of room for
Speaker 1: him to move around. They know how to do things.
Speaker 1: I guess he should just do it from the ship.
Speaker 1: That would have been cool. Yeah, maybe he will. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they will have something to do. And then in
Speaker 1: the other ends on there you get them building those
Speaker 1: radio booths. I'm hoping that's where the radio booth is
Speaker 1: going to be yet. You see those lights up there
Speaker 1: that they're going to hoist up. Yeah, those are for
Speaker 1: the halftime show. All the bunting's going up. Bunting looks.
Speaker 1: I like these colors, these blue and yellow and red,
Speaker 1: and it's a nice color scheme. Definitely uh Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Floridian type look without being too teal. We don't need
Speaker 1: any teal. Ah that out there. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: do you want to go to the question. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: go to some questions. Let's let's do it. Let's make
Speaker 1: it so to summarize before we go to the questions.
Speaker 1: Great game in Green Bay, incredible. Um defense overcame the
Speaker 1: turnovers by the offense, which had previously not been happening
Speaker 1: for a while. Um shoot, I'm trying to get to
Speaker 1: these questions. Um. Now, the Buccaneers are facing a very
Speaker 1: good team, but we think there are opportunities there for
Speaker 1: some nice matchups. Okay, now we'll get to the questions. Okay,
Speaker 1: um waiting, All right, Now, I got a question since
Speaker 1: this started, because I had three when I pulled this up,
Speaker 1: and there was another one. It's from our guy in Brazil,
Speaker 1: So let's I have not looked at any of these yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's fine. Well, I like to look him ahead of time,
Speaker 1: so I don't know we're gonna get here, Robert Munster
Speaker 1: or Bobby Munster. Wow, so much goodness in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship game. Three Shacks and two for JPP. I think
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool, he said, Shacks surviving three Brady Picks,
Speaker 1: Packers going for three instead of seven and fourth down
Speaker 1: getting one more Salty Dogs podcast. Yeah, wow, he's paying attention. Well,
Speaker 1: we were going to do it this week. The the
Speaker 1: extra one will be well, we might do one next week,
Speaker 1: even though there won't have been a game. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we'll defly have at least one
Speaker 1: more after this. We're gonna do one after the super Bowl. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: win or lose? Yeah, talking about what do the old
Speaker 1: what do the almighty Salty Ones think is the toughest
Speaker 1: challenge the Bucks will face in the Super Bowl? Exciting times,
Speaker 1: go Bucks. I think you explained pretty much of it, Bobby.
Speaker 1: If you go back and well, no, I didn't talk
Speaker 1: too specifically about I just said Mahomes and Kelsey and
Speaker 1: Hill are good. But I would say, um, two things
Speaker 1: come to mind here one. Patrick Mahomes is so good
Speaker 1: on the run. Um, just so good on the run.
Speaker 1: He in fact through for nine or fifty one yards
Speaker 1: this year while on the run, which was the most
Speaker 1: in the NFL, probably by a lot, although I don't
Speaker 1: have that number. Um. We were a little bit worried
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers making plays out of the pocket, and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is fantastic at that, but I think Mahomes
Speaker 1: is more of a threat to actually pick up a
Speaker 1: lot of yards with his legs if he has to.
Speaker 1: But he can also just throw the ball. He can
Speaker 1: be running right and just flick it back to the
Speaker 1: other side of of what you're not supposed to do.
Speaker 1: But he can make it work well, and or you
Speaker 1: can do it without looking. Yeah, when you're throwing underhand
Speaker 1: passes for touchdowns, it's it's pretty remarkable. Well, that would
Speaker 1: be maybe one b here is that Andy Reid. Every
Speaker 1: time I got to watch the Chiefs this year they
Speaker 1: had some new play that I've ever seen before. They
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, that's brilliant, look at the design and
Speaker 1: that one. Of course it worked. You don't think that
Speaker 1: in two weeks Andy Reid is gonna come up with
Speaker 1: the one or two plays that we've never seen before.
Speaker 1: That's quite tough. That's tough. And then the other thing
Speaker 1: I would say is what I was talking about before,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelsey make it so hard for
Speaker 1: you because pressing them is a problem and not pressing
Speaker 1: them as a problem either one. They have ways to
Speaker 1: just kill you with that. Um. In fact, Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill absolutely killed this year against off coverage.
Speaker 1: They were probably more dangerous when you didn't press them.
Speaker 1: But you're afraid to press Tyree Hill, right, I would be.
Speaker 1: I mean maybe if you have some safety help over
Speaker 1: the top. So those are mine? What do you got anything? No,
Speaker 1: I'm just really concerned about Patrick Holmes. I saw, I
Speaker 1: mean what said, Um, it was showing Tom Brady holding
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes in his arms and said take your son
Speaker 1: to work day or take your kid to work day,
Speaker 1: which I kind of laugh. But it's it's a changing
Speaker 1: of the guard, so to speak. It's someone who's definitely
Speaker 1: gonna be a Hall of Famer and it certainly looks like,
Speaker 1: you know, what's he twenty three years old who looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to become if he if he keeps
Speaker 1: playing like he is. He's going to become a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer. It's the changing of the guard basically of
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the NFL. Well, it's the greatest of
Speaker 1: all time against against a guy who you think at
Speaker 1: least has a shot to something challenge for that time,
Speaker 1: no question. Yeah. So I think that'll be a great match.
Speaker 1: And I think what I like is there's a respect
Speaker 1: fact factor. You know. Two years ago, Um, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: went with New England. They beat Kansas City and a championship.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady took the time to go to the locker room,
Speaker 1: Kansas City locker room, tell Patrick Hay, keep doing what
Speaker 1: you're doing, keep working hard, It'll come. And then it
Speaker 1: came the next year and now here we are. It's
Speaker 1: I think this is kind of like, um the Karate Kid.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I don't know. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: because how the teacher become the pupil becomes the teacher?
Speaker 1: Are there? Yeah? Are you talking about the new Cobra
Speaker 1: Kai series? Are you watching that? No? It's pretty darn good,
Speaker 1: is it? And then bringing back everybody talk about going
Speaker 1: off track. Okay, they bring it back everybody. It's not
Speaker 1: just Ralph just about anybody. Unfortunately, um Pat Morita, Morita,
Speaker 1: the character, the actor who played Mr. Miyagi isn't longer
Speaker 1: with us, so he can't come back. Um So, yes,
Speaker 1: I I think. I think there's a lot of great storylines,
Speaker 1: and I think it is going to be what quarterback
Speaker 1: plays the best. Every Super Bowl has great storylines, but
Speaker 1: it's hard to top a matchup of Tom Brady and
Speaker 1: Petro right now, given it, given where they are in
Speaker 1: their careers, who they are, and what one of them
Speaker 1: could become, it is amazing. Okay, Kent Denny, great great ones.
Speaker 1: They he's calling us great. Another great day to be
Speaker 1: a Bucks fan. Well, every sports commentator in the world
Speaker 1: is giving their keys to the game. I thought it
Speaker 1: would be fitting and much more interesting to hear the
Speaker 1: Dogs keys to the game. I've actually written a few
Speaker 1: of these already for something that we're going to use
Speaker 1: next week, and I think you could do. First of all, listen,
Speaker 1: whenever somebody asks you a key to this game, you
Speaker 1: could say, every single week, turnovers, Yeah, turnovers contain here's
Speaker 1: the three that I wrote limit the Big Place from
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill. Not saying it's easy, but
Speaker 1: that would make a big difference. Continue to give Tom
Speaker 1: Brady the type of protection he's been getting in these
Speaker 1: last in this seven game winning streak, because I think
Speaker 1: if he gets protection, he will be able to move
Speaker 1: the ball against this defense. And three was a little
Speaker 1: more uh subjective, a little more you know, not as
Speaker 1: a concrete o the moment. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: don't let the moment to be too big, big for
Speaker 1: yourself the Bucks. I know that Bruce arians is going
Speaker 1: to try to keep his team in a normal schedule,
Speaker 1: looking like just just another game. We're gonna prepare the
Speaker 1: exact same way. There's no reason to get overly excited.
Speaker 1: There's no reason to have big ups and downs. Just
Speaker 1: we're gonna prepare like we always do. We're gonna have
Speaker 1: a specific game plan. We're gonna do that. It's just
Speaker 1: another game until it's over and then it's the greatest
Speaker 1: thing ever. Yeah. But um, I hope that they can
Speaker 1: do that. You know, it's here in Tampa. A lot
Speaker 1: of these guys are young guys, you know that are
Speaker 1: feeling the moment, right I like Lavante David is nine
Speaker 1: years paid his dues. He's here just just on the moment,
Speaker 1: and don't let it be too big for I only
Speaker 1: I have one key, and that is bad things are
Speaker 1: gonna happen during this game. Well you're doing with John Gruden,
Speaker 1: and I really believe it. Bad things are gonna happen
Speaker 1: during this game. Don't let the bad thing throw you
Speaker 1: off your course. And I think, I think if that happens,
Speaker 1: I think we'll be fine. It's it's how you because
Speaker 1: you know, they got some trick plays, and I don't
Speaker 1: want to call them trick plays. They have some well
Speaker 1: very creative because I don't think they're rick I think
Speaker 1: there you see it and you go, wow, that is
Speaker 1: it's not razzle madazzle of you know, I'm trying to
Speaker 1: hide the rabbit or pull a rabbit out of my hat. Um.
Speaker 1: But I think that if it happens defensively, you don't
Speaker 1: you don't overcompensate, you know how Sometimes the guys trying
Speaker 1: to make a play for someone else, just stay to
Speaker 1: your keys, stay what you're supposed to do. Stay and
Speaker 1: as you said, stay in the moment. I think that
Speaker 1: is it for me all right, for anybody that doesn't
Speaker 1: know the reference we made there, And I think we've
Speaker 1: talked about it before. But before the two thousand two
Speaker 1: NFC Championship game in Philadelphia, Jonger and told this team
Speaker 1: on Saturday night, there's a good chance something bad will
Speaker 1: happen early in the game. You can't let it. You
Speaker 1: have plenty of time to get over. You can't let
Speaker 1: that dictate how the rest of the game goes. Philadelphia
Speaker 1: takes the opening Brian Mitchell takes the opening kickoff for
Speaker 1: like eight yards, and on the first play on offense
Speaker 1: they run it in. It's like a fifteen yard touchdown.
Speaker 1: So we're like fifteen seconds in the game. We're losing
Speaker 1: seven nothing, and and we weren't exactly scoring a ton
Speaker 1: of points that year. So and from then on though,
Speaker 1: the Bucks, the Bucks kept their cool pretty much dominated
Speaker 1: the rest of the way because that's that's what we're
Speaker 1: referring to. And and John was right about that, and
Speaker 1: they listened to him. I hope that maybe I'll play
Speaker 1: the salty dogs for the team. Okay, I don't think
Speaker 1: we've had a question from this person before. The name
Speaker 1: is Mackai Polara. Okay, McKay, it make k a. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that's Mackay. I like it cool. Name from St. Augustine, Florida.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been there? I have? You know what,
Speaker 1: You've never been to St Augustine, as crazy as it is,
Speaker 1: as long as I've lived in Florida, I have never
Speaker 1: been there. They've been to Key West. Oh yeah, a
Speaker 1: number of times. I've been to St. Augustine. It's a
Speaker 1: nice place. Yeah, it's you know, it's it's the oldest
Speaker 1: city in the mountain. The youth is there. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of I think somewhere around there. They have
Speaker 1: a lot of um uh like tours you can take.
Speaker 1: I took we took one bus tour where they kind
Speaker 1: of explained a lot of history. Pretty cool. You know.
Speaker 1: Actually that was in Key West, Okay, But in any case,
Speaker 1: it's a cool place. Um any case, uh, same question
Speaker 1: from mackay is yo hoo salty ones? Today? I come
Speaker 1: with two questions about Super Bowl weeks. Obviously, we are
Speaker 1: the first to host a home super Bowl, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to know if we will be able to do
Speaker 1: any cannon fire or jumbo Trump promos since there's our turf,
Speaker 1: or does it just to fall to a neutral site.
Speaker 1: Let's go with that one. No, no, right, no, it
Speaker 1: is um it's completely run by the league. Correct, The
Speaker 1: NFL has taken over Raymond James Stadium, including the control booth.
Speaker 1: Control they have they I mean they will everything. Uh. Uh,
Speaker 1: you have a badge. I have a badge. It usually
Speaker 1: lets us in the stadium anytime we want. Not now
Speaker 1: you gotta have a special badge to get in. And
Speaker 1: then next and then on Friday it changes to another
Speaker 1: set of credentials to get in next week, and then
Speaker 1: you have another set of credentials per game day. So
Speaker 1: as far as entertainment, the NFL controls the entertainment and
Speaker 1: the boards, the music, that everything, right, Uh, they bring Um,
Speaker 1: they actually Bob Becker, who uh did who has he's
Speaker 1: still running the Yeah he well, you know he did
Speaker 1: buccaneer games for a while and he is doing NFL
Speaker 1: stuff and uh he's he's he's directing. He's been involved
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. Sure, yeah. Yeah. In case, the
Speaker 1: easy answer to your question, McKay is no son. Now, Now,
Speaker 1: I I am proposing this, and and we have a
Speaker 1: meeting tomorrow, a staff meeting, and I think I want
Speaker 1: to ask this question now that I think about it,
Speaker 1: is I want to know if the NFL, if we
Speaker 1: can demand them that if we win, if the Buccaneers win,
Speaker 1: can they fire the cannons at the end of the game.
Speaker 1: I mean it would. I don't see why not, but
Speaker 1: I still wouldn't be surprised that they said no. But
Speaker 1: it's this is considered a neutral Snyeah. This is although
Speaker 1: the books the NFC was going to be the home team,
Speaker 1: considered the home team, just like we actually were in
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. That's the other thing that Bucks are in
Speaker 1: their own locker room. Oh yeah, that's very good. So yeah,
Speaker 1: there won't be any There won't be any Bucks specific
Speaker 1: stuff to the way the game is running. In fact,
Speaker 1: the logo in the middle of the field right now
Speaker 1: is the NFL shield. All right, all right? Also just
Speaker 1: said no. My second question is, since we get two
Speaker 1: weeks off to prepare, will we get regular practices and
Speaker 1: injury reports reports during both weeks or just the week off.
Speaker 1: I wanted to get a field of the status of
Speaker 1: some of our bank up guys for the Big Dance.
Speaker 1: Love the podcast and the insight from you both. Can't
Speaker 1: wait to get guests back because I love this current
Speaker 1: roster so much. Injury of work weeks McKay Polara from
Speaker 1: Sam McKay says, I love you guys, but you need help.
Speaker 1: He wants interviews. Oh, I'm just kidding. Okay, So here's
Speaker 1: what we think. But there definitely be, definitely will be practices.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers are gonna do one. It's it's basically a
Speaker 1: bonus weeker practice. They're gonna do their normal week of practices, um,
Speaker 1: but not starting not going Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. They're gonna
Speaker 1: do it Thursday, Friday, Saturday. And then so the players
Speaker 1: got Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday off. Um. Then they'll get Sunday,
Speaker 1: Monday Tuesday off and start up a normal week. So
Speaker 1: it's to two weeks of normal practice, not exactly on
Speaker 1: the normal days in this first week. But and and
Speaker 1: those practices are not open we're in Super Bowl now
Speaker 1: in controlled by the NFL. Those practices are not open
Speaker 1: to the media. They have a pool reporter there who
Speaker 1: shares a report and and they'll say who they saw
Speaker 1: in practice and things like that. As for the official
Speaker 1: injury reports, I was trying to remember this earlier, but
Speaker 1: my guess is there's not injury reports this week because
Speaker 1: it's not the week of a game. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: a game way that you don't. You don't put out
Speaker 1: an injury report during a bye week, so I would
Speaker 1: think now, so I think what you're gonna get. I
Speaker 1: know you want updates on your Antonio Browns and your
Speaker 1: Antoine white Fields and your Jordan Whiteheads. You're gonna get
Speaker 1: a pool report that might help a little bit from
Speaker 1: each practice, and you're going to get zoom interviews with
Speaker 1: Brusarians and hopefully at times will be able to update
Speaker 1: us on the status like he was asked on Monday,
Speaker 1: but Jordan Whitehead is not. He didn't have any information
Speaker 1: by then on Jordan Whitehead. So and that's how we'll
Speaker 1: get updates. But no, um, it won't be like normal.
Speaker 1: Let's just say this. If you're on the injury report
Speaker 1: right now, you're getting treatment like crazy, and you're working
Speaker 1: really hard to get Jordan Whitehead talked after the game,
Speaker 1: and he sure sounded like he was gonna play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think it's pretty much. Um. Can you
Speaker 1: imagine if you if you're on the fence, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: when am I ever going to get a chance. I
Speaker 1: can't guarantee I'll be back here. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: too hurt to play. You're too hurt to play, is
Speaker 1: what it is. Well you can well, you can play,
Speaker 1: you can play hurt, you can't play injured. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: as Dave Moore was pointing out on Sunday, there are
Speaker 1: some injuries you just can't play with because your body
Speaker 1: won't allow you to, Like a hamstring poll. It's not
Speaker 1: a matter of handling the paper. Your body just won't
Speaker 1: won't let you do it. I always remember, always remember, um,
Speaker 1: David Logan saying to me, and this happened to him,
Speaker 1: that his hammy snapped on the field, and he said,
Speaker 1: you could put a million dollars on the sideline and
Speaker 1: say get there, and you can't get there easy. You
Speaker 1: can't get there. So you're right. It depends on the injury.
Speaker 1: But they can go. They're gonna go. Let's wrap it
Speaker 1: up here. This is from our friend in Brazilian named Alexander. Um.
Speaker 1: It's funny because he says, I lost track of time.
Speaker 1: Hoy salty ones, hope you guys were safe. Just lost
Speaker 1: track of time and failed to send you guys my
Speaker 1: question this week. You don't, you're not You're not obliged
Speaker 1: to send us a question. I like that he's paying attention.
Speaker 1: But what's Tony is this question came through while we're
Speaker 1: in the middle of the podcast. He's a pretty smart guy.
Speaker 1: I like this new method I'm using with my laptop
Speaker 1: actually open instead of printing out these questions, because then
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have known we got this. I like it too. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: I'd like to know how you guys react at the
Speaker 1: moment that Chris Godwin finished that slide. What came to
Speaker 1: your minds? I was kind of already, I see, I
Speaker 1: had high five Jason Turner and started moving my stuff.
Speaker 1: When we got the past interference call, I had already
Speaker 1: kind of felt like we we were so the slight
Speaker 1: there was a cool play, but I think we win
Speaker 1: the game even if we don't get that first time
Speaker 1: pretty pretty easily. It just took away the last little
Speaker 1: bit of anxiety. Yeah. I so I don't remember a
Speaker 1: specific reaction at that. I actually didn't react when we
Speaker 1: got the flag because okay, so it's third down, Brady
Speaker 1: throws that pass, it's incomplete, but it did look like
Speaker 1: and you know, Tyler Johnson went down, it did look
Speaker 1: like that there was but there was no flag right away,
Speaker 1: and we're like past reference, past reference, and then from
Speaker 1: the left of the screen because the guy throwing it
Speaker 1: is not on the screen, yellow flag flying and landing
Speaker 1: on the ground. And I stood up and said yes,
Speaker 1: super Bowl baby, and high five Jason, to which I
Speaker 1: couldn't have done in the Green Bay press box. I
Speaker 1: I think, so there was a different moment, but that's
Speaker 1: what I did. I think when that happened. I think
Speaker 1: I was I was just stopped and thought, this is
Speaker 1: really happening. This is really happening. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: both of us have experienced going to a championship game
Speaker 1: and not winning that game, and we both have been
Speaker 1: to a Super Bowl and have been on the winning side.
Speaker 1: And I will say that it was nice in a
Speaker 1: championship game and winning it. And I thought, we're going
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl again. And then I had to
Speaker 1: think about it, and it's been eighteen years and it
Speaker 1: seems like a blur, you know, I mean, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: You know. You try to put eighteen years together and
Speaker 1: you start thinking about the seasons and all the different
Speaker 1: players and all the different coaches that have been here.
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy. And I think that was my reflection.
Speaker 1: You went deeper into it. I just said to start working. Well,
Speaker 1: you were working too. I was working too, but I
Speaker 1: we were just wrapping it up. It was just you know,
Speaker 1: finish it out. Cool alright, speaking of wrapping it up,
Speaker 1: Sure you're ready, you've done. I think we've we've talked
Speaker 1: about very good one. Then, since you did, Thanks for listening.