WEBVTT - Bucs Go Back To Work, Niners On The Mind | Bucs Insider | Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0:00:01.120 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome into Bucks Insider. Casey Phillips here, Scott Smith Bredix, 0:00:04.680 --> 0:00:07.240 coming to you from the Buck Studio presented by Ticketmaster. 0:00:07.360 --> 0:00:09.520 We have a lot of storylines again to get to. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:09.959 Here this week. 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:12.280 Of course, we have our previous game, not the outcome 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.400 we wanted, but then a big one back at home 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:16.840 this next week to talk about as well. Let's dive 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:19.680 into that Chiefs game first of all, and Scott, let's 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:22.520 start with you, because I feel like sometimes the quarterback, 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.520 it's like it's so obvious that we don't always talk 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:27.160 about it as much. But we felt like Baker has 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.280 earned us really diving into his performance a little bit 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:32.080 more and what we've seen from him, even though again 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.280 the outcome wasn't what we wanted, his performance and especially 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:37.640 in recent weeks without his top couple weapons, has been 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:38.400 pretty incredible. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.680 Yeah, and you know, Mike Evans and Chris Godwin went 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:44.680 down and there was a lot of worry, understandably so, 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:47.160 about how this offense was going to continue moving the ball, 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.200 and Liam Cohen deservedly has received a lot of credit 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.760 for making that happen. Over the last two weeks, seven 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.000 hundred and seven yards offense and fifty points. I mean, 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.160 that's generally enough, good enough to win. The Bucks didn't 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.520 win those two games for a variety of reasons. But 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.480 the offense has continued to move and Liam Cohn deserves credit. 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.760 But you still have to have a quarterback that can 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.560 make that work, and for him to adapt the way 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.160 that he's adapted, and to make use of these new 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.320 weapons and run a lot of different types of plays 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:16.440 to figure out how to make kay Otten the number 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:20.320 one receiver with Mike and Chris out, I mean, Baker's 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.360 just moved right along like nothing happened, essentially, and we 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:25.119 really need to give him a lot of credit for that. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.520 I mean, he continues to lead the NFL in touchdown 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:30.120 passes with twenty three. He's had at least two in 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.280 six straight games, which only Tom Brady has done otherwise 0:01:34.319 --> 0:01:37.360 in team history. And it's the longest not only the 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.160 longest active streak in the NFL right now, but the 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:42.000 longestreak by any quarterback so far with six right games 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.720 of multiple touchdon passes. I mean, Josh Allen hasn't done it, 0:01:44.720 --> 0:01:47.720 and Patrick Mahomes hasn't done it, and Lamar Jackson hasn't 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.480 done it. I mean they might. They might, but they 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:51.720 haven't as to this point. And you know, he's also 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.480 second in league in passing yards. He's pretty much top 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.200 five in most passing categories, and he's doing it with 0:01:57.600 --> 0:02:01.120 a receiving core that you would not have expected to 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.880 see in Week nine at the beginning of the year. 0:02:03.880 --> 0:02:06.160 If you said that the Bucks five active receivers in 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.919 a game they took to overtime in Kansas City against 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.320 the undefeated Chiefs would be Ryan Miller or Kim Jarrett, 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.920 Trey Palmer, Starling Sharp, and Marquez Callaway. Those were the 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.760 five receivers. And obviously Kate Otton is still there and 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:21.320 doing a lot of good work, and the running backs 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:24.280 are are still being very much involved. I would say 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.120 the one thing, and Baker himself brought it up, that 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.880 probably needs to develop down the road. I mean, we're 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.079 gonna get Mike Evans back at some point, but then 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.080 that'll help. But the one thing that's been a little 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.120 bit missing is the explosive plays. There were no passes 0:02:36.160 --> 0:02:37.600 of twenty or more yards in last game, and the 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:40.959 two games before Mike and Chris got hurt or including 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.160 one where they got hurt, we had like twenty four 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.880 explosive plays if you call that twenty yard plus passing 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.040 and ten plus yards rushing, and in the last two 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.600 games we've had something like eight of them, and we 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.639 didn't have any explosive passing plays against the Chiefs. Still 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:56.840 moved the ball quite well though, and especially at crutch 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.280 time at the end. So just you said it, we're 0:03:00.280 --> 0:03:02.120 almost to the point where we're taking Baker for credit, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:03.760 and we just thought we got a really shun the 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.320 spotlight on how incredible he's been last year. 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:08.160 Right, and for him to do that without Mike and 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:10.320 Chris especially lately, it means there have been a bunch 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.160 of other guys that have stepped up. You mentioned that, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.240 you know, the five wide receivers that were in the 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:16.920 game are not who you would have anticipated necessarily at 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:18.720 the beginning of the season. So Breed, tell us a 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:21.119 little bit more about these guys, especially this last week, 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:23.160 that had to step up and who they were and 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:24.880 how much that has meant to the offense to have 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.040 that kind of depth at weapons right. 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:29.600 Well, Kate Awton has certainly stepped up as kind of 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.520 the most impactful weapon on offense for the Bucks. With 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.520 Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, being out and I typically don't 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:39.400 do stats, but for Kate Aughton, okay, he ranks top 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:43.640 two among titands and targets, receptions, receiving yards per game, 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:47.840 and receiving touchdowns. Since Week seven, he's kind of taken 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:52.080 advantage of the underneath intermediate area of the field and 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.280 really has shown his ability to put coverage on. 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.320 Notice at all three levels. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.839 But I think you're just starting to see and Todd 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.760 Bowles has talked about this, but his improvement as a 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.680 route runner. I mean he's running routes that Chris Godwin 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:07.680 traditionally runs. He scored on the wheel route against the Chiefs, 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:10.480 but has really shown his ability to not only get 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:14.640 open against man, but also to kind of his understanding 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:18.240 of those soft spots and zones and how to maximize that. 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.839 So I think we're seeing kind of the best that 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.120 we've seen of kiton which is really exciting. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:25.400 But then also Scott alluded to this, but. 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.680 Sterling Shepherd, I mean just the game he had his 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.520 best game as Buck and whether it was the Jet sweeps, 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:35.080 the outbreaker is kind of stepping in with Jalen McMillan out, 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:37.760 and then Ryan Miller I did not have that on 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.839 my bingo card as to tie it up late drive 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.120 scores that touchdown and I mean, this is a guy 0:04:44.240 --> 0:04:48.039 that transitioned from tight end to receiver at Furman, but 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.320 also just spent primarily last year on the practice squad 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:55.320 and really just absorbed information, took things from Mike Evans, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.279 from Chris Godwin, and you're starting to see the fruition 0:04:58.360 --> 0:05:00.360 of that. But, like Scott said, just can't say enough 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.400 about this office and staff how they've been able to 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:07.839 supplement that production of Mike Evans and Chris Godwin that 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.640 this offense has been primarily based on. 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:11.480 You know, it's funny that you say that Ryan Miller 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:13.880 was a tight end at first in college because that 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.880 touchdown play essentially is one that you run with a 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.480 tight end a lot. They had him at the end 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.280 of the line and the other team knows that he's 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:21.320 good at blocking, and they run play action and he 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 you know, starts to block them releases, which is usually 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:24.400 a tight end play. 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:25.360 Yeah, that's so interesting. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.040 And they've also said recently they've been having Kate out 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.160 and run with traditional a little bit more wide receiver role. 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.680 So I love that. Liam's just like, well, you're going 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:31.080 to do lead. 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:36.040 Yeah, Kate. You said Kate has improved as a route runner, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.120 and I think that's true. But I also think that 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:41.440 he actually had a lot of these latent capabilities that 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.440 we just didn't use them in the first couple of years. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.839 Now you have him running every route in the book, 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:47.480 you know, and some of them like you said that 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.080 Chris Godwin would normally run. So it's not just that 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.680 he's improving, it's that he had these abilities and now 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:54.400 we need them and he. 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.919 Is taking big hits, hanging out of the ball, yes, 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:00.640 without gloves. I just feel the need to every point 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.960 this out of like how amazing that combination of things is. 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:06.120 Where he is getting absolutely smoked at times, still comes 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:08.400 up with the grab, pops up like it's nothing. Scares 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.839 me half to death every time, and then it's just fine, 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.120 He's good. Yeah, And I'm like, I love that well, 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:15.000 you know, and rightfully so we have yet there's one 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.960 of them. I'm pretty sure at that point I made 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:18.880 a noise that was a little friend. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:21.880 Yep, and I love. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.240 We had him on the show recently and he talked 0:06:23.240 --> 0:06:25.080 about how not this game, but the one I think 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:27.159 before where he took multiple hit in a row. He 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:28.960 had a bunch of friends and family that he saw 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.479 after the game. He looked in the text like are 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:30.800 you okay? 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:31.200 Are you okay? 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:31.599 Okay? 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:33.120 He's like, I didn't realize that I'm going to look 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.160 that bad until everyone was like, are you alive? Are 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:36.359 you know? 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:38.760 The offense, of course, definitely has deserved its flowers. We 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.320 wanted to talk about all of that, but I did 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.640 want to point out one thing on the defense's last game, 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.799 there were definitely moments the defense would like to have back. 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.000 Not a perfect performance, however. 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.039 I think you have got to be so encouraged by 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.640 this interior of your defensive line that you see Vita 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.760 Vea Elijah Cansi each getting two sacks in a game. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.440 That was incredible to see. And on a team that man, 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:00.600 I mean, Patrick Mahomes is not an easy to sack, 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.680 and I felt like that was a really great thing 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.240 to see. And Vita now has double the sacks of 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.799 any other nose tackle in the league and is leading 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.880 the team with five on the season. I just felt 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.720 like we needed to highlight how insane that is from 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:18.040 his position to be This has happened multiple times in 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.280 recent years. Oh Vida's leading the team in sacks, leading 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:22.880 the team in sacks and from his position, that is 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:26.080 truly incredible. And I had defensive line coach Casey Rogers 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.440 on the radio show earlier this week, and I just 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.600 wanted to play a quick clip when I talked to 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.760 him about how I basically asked him tell people how 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.720 amazing it is that Vita does this from that position. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:37.559 So let's take a look. 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:40.880 Well, the thing is going into my twenty second year 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.920 in this league, and if you look back through the 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:47.440 history of the league, somebody Vita size, as usually in 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:51.240 the NFL is very down to pacific. You know, you 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.720 usually have guys that play first and second down run 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:55.920 off the field on third, and guys that don't play 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.400 first and second they run on the field. But Vita 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:01.800 is the unique talent that he has the ability to 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.040 play first, second, and third down. And if you go 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.280 back through the history of the league, how many players 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.480 over three hundred and forty pounds played third down? So 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.320 that's just in the history of the league. You know, 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:16.520 you have some three tens, but no three forty plus 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.520 guys over So that's a credit to him and conditioning 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.040 because rushing the passages, you know, is one of the 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:25.480 most tiring, excretiating things you can do, because you want 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:29.200 the physical exertion that you're putting out each now, it's 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.960 just tremendous. Then to be as heavy as he is, 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.040 it's just a credit to him. 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:36.640 Yeah, I mean, I feel like coach Casey and I 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.440 talked about we could have talked about Vita the whole show, 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.320 and he said that he felt like this game was 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.840 probably Vida's most complete game since Casey Rogers can remember. 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.559 And he also had ten tackles, three quarterback hits in 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:48.480 addition to those sacks. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:49.800 I mean, he was just everywhere. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:52.200 And in that clip, you know, he mentioned the conditioning 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.480 aspect and the fact that you know a lot of 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.360 defensive linemen they either play first and second down or 0:08:57.440 --> 0:08:59.400 third down for the most part, that there are just 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.480 so few guys, especially at his size, who you can 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.800 leave in there all the downs. And I mean, he's 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:07.640 just been playing an insane amount of the snaps. I 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:10.200 think he played with sixty sixty snaps in this game. 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:11.280 It's position. 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:13.000 This is what we talked about in the off season 0:09:13.040 --> 0:09:15.400 when he did lose some weight, did all that work 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.360 in the off season, with ndamakan Su and Coach Rogers 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.000 has said that that's what we've seen is that now 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.040 his conditioning is such that he can pass rush at 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.840 such an elite level and he can stay on the 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.120 field for so long. And think how helpful, even from 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.719 a defensive coordinator perspective, that is of not having to 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.480 worry so much about all this subbing and if another team, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.200 you know, goes into some hurry up like you're not 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:36.199 trying to run guys on and off. It's just the 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:40.360 flexibility that it gives you is really incredible. Klijah Cantsy 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:42.200 also wanted to highlight again him. I talked to him 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:43.760 yesterday and he just mentioned how much the game has 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:46.320 been slowing down for him from year one to year two, 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.959 which is really great. And then also I just wanted 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.560 to quickly highlight Logan Hall a little bit. Not a 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:54.920 guy that gets as much attention or praise as Calijah 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.960 and Vita, but I asked Coach Rogers about him and 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.160 he mentioned that, you know, a lot of that is 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.199 because when we go into nickel or specific pass rush situations, 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:03.760 he's just not on the field as often. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:05.040 He's not getting the number of snaps. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.880 But he said that he really stepped up earlier this 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.160 year when those guys were injured, played a lot bigger 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:12.360 role and even also Logan was a little bit banged up, 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.920 but he pushed through it and really was able to 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:16.440 play at a high level. Yeah, that it was one 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:18.480 of those injured verse hurt things like everybody is during 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.080 the NFL. That he was saying, he really pushed through, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.480 stepped up in a big way. And he said, this 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:25.280 is a quote I loved. He said, he's a catalyst 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:27.160 for a lot of what we do. Maybe you see 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.560 Calidja get a sack, but Logan forced the guy to 0:10:29.679 --> 0:10:31.679 him that gets lost in the shuffle. Because not a 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.480 lot of stories are written about the guy who forced 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.480 the guy. The stories are written about the guy that finished. 0:10:35.760 --> 0:10:37.319 And I thought that was great to hear that a 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:39.439 guy that we did draft pretty high. We don't always 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:41.280 hear his name, but Coach Rodgers was saying, hey, you know, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.000 he really has stepped up in some big moments, forced 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:47.280 some plays towards Vita and Kelija to help them out. 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:49.080 Maybe they were the ones that finished it, but Logan 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:49.440 played a. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:50.440 Big part in it. Yeah. 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.840 So with that interview with Coach Rodgers. How many times 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:53.520 was the word case? 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.960 He said, many times? Many times. Let me tell you, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:56.640 I can't tell you how. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.000 Often I'm at practice and I hear someone, usually a 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.120 very big person, and then it's never made. 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.640 You forgot to give them coaching. 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:05.560 I know you're right, I should have I should have 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:06.240 done better with that. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:09.920 I liked on that clip of the first Vita sack. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.680 How maybe in the past he might have fallen on 0:11:13.760 --> 0:11:16.040 Patrick in that and he kind of deposit him on 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.040 the ground but didn't follow him, and he knows he 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:19.160 can't get that penalty. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.240 And especially when you're as big as Vita, I imagine 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.360 that it's harder to not like you are roughing the passer, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:25.840 even if you're doing everything right. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.400 Then you're so big, powerful, like he had to just gently. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.520 And you know gravity's working extra hard on him. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.200 So that's true. It's also very true, all right, So 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.000 let's dive into the injuries at this point, what we 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.679 know and what we don't know on this short week 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:42.760 about who might be available next week. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.440 Yes, So the Bucks conducted a walkthrough on Wednesday, and 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.480 Baker Mayfield popped up on the injury report with a 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.960 toe injury and Jordan Whitehead with a quad, so those 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:56.320 will definitely be too that everyone will be monitoring this week. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.880 Mike Evans obviously didn't practice with the hamstring he's not 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.360 expected to be back into off by week, and then 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.280 Sterling Shepherd with the hamstring and hip, and then Jalen 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.240 McMillan with the hamstring also did not practice. 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:10.240 Yeah, and Baker did say after the walkthrough that he 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.360 would be fine. And it's worth noting that they had 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.600 already planned on doing a walkthrough on Wednesday, which is 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.520 normal after a Monday game, but this Thursday today was 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.760 going to be a practice and they changed it last 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.640 night to a walkthrough, And I think that's a reflection 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.600 of how banged up the right Yeah, yeah. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.280 It makes a lot of sense. Right. 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.440 This is also where we give our fans a trivia 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.160 question to be thinking about for the end of the show. 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:33.400 So what do we got this week? 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.440 When the Buccaneers demolished the forty nine Ers in the 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.079 Divisional round of the two thousand and two Playoffs thirty 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.560 one to six, Mike Alstots scored the home team's first and. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.280 Last touchdown of the game. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:47.680 The first one was a two yard run on third 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.120 and one who delivered a huge block to help set 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.640 the edge for all sime. 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.680 Interesting and it's not like the left tackle. 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:57.360 I was gonna say. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.280 That feels too easy, So it's got to be you're 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:02.360 doing trickeration and here. Uh so, now I gotta think 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:02.800 about this. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:04.559 This will be an interesting one. 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.520 So you didn't look it up, all right? 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.839 I'm a rule follower, and as evidenced by the fact 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.520 that I get it wrong, everybody that I do read 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:14.840 the answer, but I still would not have guessed. Yeah, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.120 I love that, all right, So how about some milestones 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.080 we're looking at this week, Scott. I know that we 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.760 talked a lot about Caydtton and the fact that he 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:23.600 has just been absolutely crushing it recently, and it looks 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:25.520 like maybe there's some stats and milestones to be. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:26.040 Looking at for him. 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:28.079 Yeah, kid's got at least eight catches in each of 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.439 the last three games, which if that sounds unusual, it 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:33.800 is because he's the first tight end in Buck's history 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:37.800 to do that. Jimmy Giles or or Kellen Winslow or 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:44.640 Alex Smith, Ken Dilger, Cambrad uh Rob, you almost forgot 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.360 that one. So he's that's already tied for the second longest. Oh, 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.680 he's got He has a streak of three games with 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.120 eight plus catches and seventy five plus yards and that's 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.320 already tied for the second longest by a tight end 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:57.280 in NFL history. 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.680 That's incredible. I can't. It just doesn't. 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.680 I'm like, really, yeah, But then I'm like, how incredible 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.640 for Kad Like we've known he's been playing well, But yeah, 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.959 that that puts it into perspective. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.640 But not even just in franchise history, but league history. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.040 Is not terribly surprising that the person with that longest 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.240 streak up six is Travis Kelcey, right, who just had 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.200 fourteen kids. 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:17.920 That is outrageous either. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:22.480 Fourteen targets is a lot, right, all right, So now 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.280 let's get into the fantasy watch a little bit. Tell 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:27.880 me what stands out to you about some of these 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.680 guys on office. As we've mentioned, I imagine that people trying 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.680 to figure out who from the bucks to start and 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:36.600 use has been a bit of a conundrum, as it's 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.760 like this week it's you, this week it's you, and 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:39.680 how this offense is working. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.840 I don't think anybody really can start any of the 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.800 receivers because you just don't know who's going to get 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.800 get the ball right. You can't start Ryan Miller right, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:51.440 and then he's the one with the touchdown. Excuse me. 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.640 I think the big question fantasy a lot of the 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:55.760 things are obviously, if you have Baker Mayfield, you're starting 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.320 him because he throws at least two touchdown passes every week. 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:01.360 I think the big question for the bucks of Rashod White. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.760 You know, last year, Rashad White was one of the 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.600 best running backs in fantasy and it was mainly because 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.400 of volume, because he was the only guy running the 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.280 ball and catching the ball out of that backfield. And 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.200 now with Becky Irving and a little bit of Sean Tucker, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.080 that's not the case anymore. And you saw in this 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.520 last game, I thought Rashad White played well, and you 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:19.320 look at the stats at the end and he has 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.200 a total of thirty five yards and that's not going 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.520 to get it done in fantasy football. Now, he scored 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:26.240 a touchdown, so if you started him, you've came out okay. 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:30.200 But his fantasy stats have become really dependent on touchdowns 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:32.640 and catches, and it's just it's a little bit of 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:34.640 a roller coaster. You may have a team where you 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:36.600 have to start Rashod White, but if you have some 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:38.800 other options, it's a little bit tricky there, yeah, I think. 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.040 And then Baker Mayfield just want to point out that 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:46.280 obviously he's still second in fantasy scoring among quarterbacks to 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:48.760 Lamar Jackson, and he's pretty far ahead of Joe Burrow 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.640 and third. So but then you're playing Sam Franz, and 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.640 you think of Sam frantis this great defensive team. But 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.520 I think you can feel safe starting him. They are 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.280 sixteenth in the NFL and scoring defense, fourteenth and passing 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.480 and twenty fifth on third downs, and that's where the 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:03.680 Bucks have really shined on offense, so you can see 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:06.360 them getting extended drives and scoring opportunities. So I think 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.160 you're safe to start Baker against that defense. 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:08.600 All right. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:10.720 So now this is also where we like to highlight 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:12.520 the off the deal human interest side of some of 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.720 the guys on the team. And we felt like, especially 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.240 because recently we talked about Chris Godwin's gala and donating 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.400 to his foundation as ages, wishing him well, thanking him 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.080 all of that, we had to do the same for 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:26.720 Mike Evans of course, right, So his gala is this Friday, 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.080 and we just felt like we wanted Bucks fans to 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.080 really show up big for him in a lot of ways. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:32.840 And so even though I don't believe that there are 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.160