Speaker 1: Hey there, Bucks fans. Good morning everybody. It is time
Speaker 1: for Buccaneers and satur Live presented by Miller Like Casey
Speaker 1: Phillips and Scott Smith here with you again, just like
Speaker 1: we were here yesterday morning, and we will be here
Speaker 1: tomorrow mornings. While to get you guys all ready to
Speaker 1: go for the Super Bowl, which is just a few
Speaker 1: days away. It feels like we've been waiting for this forever.
Speaker 1: Two weeks is brutal. I'm dying over here. I'm ready
Speaker 1: for the game to be here. But at least we
Speaker 1: have this to be able to talk about all Bucks
Speaker 1: things until that time. UM, So if you guys have
Speaker 1: questions for us, make sure you put them in the
Speaker 1: comment section underneath the Facebook Live video. Now, I know,
Speaker 1: injuries is definitely where we're gonna start. Um, as of yesterday,
Speaker 1: we were still sort of operating off of the injury
Speaker 1: report from last week that had the designations as if
Speaker 1: it had been the game was last time, and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: they kind of had a walk through Tuesday, but those
Speaker 1: aren't as helpful. So now at least we do have
Speaker 1: more recent information. There was a practice, there was an
Speaker 1: injury report, so what can you tell us about some
Speaker 1: of those updates. Yeah, first off, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: disagree with you. I think it was a very good
Speaker 1: thing that we had these two weeks because some of
Speaker 1: these guys might not have been ready to go last Sunday.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I was just talking about my poor little heart.
Speaker 1: I wasn't talking about for the sake of the team.
Speaker 1: I was just talking about my anxiety over here. That
Speaker 1: is number one. So I understand. Um, yeah, it's I
Speaker 1: think it was good news. Uh, all four of the
Speaker 1: guys that were concerned about are did practice, Yes, but
Speaker 1: the only player who didn't practice was Jason Pierre Paul.
Speaker 1: And honestly, I'm not sure he's practiced in a month.
Speaker 1: He just they're really made I'm not kidding. I think
Speaker 1: I really don't think he's practicing in a month, and
Speaker 1: they're just trying to maintain that knee. He knows what
Speaker 1: he's doing. On game day, as we can tell, he's
Speaker 1: playing very well. So, um, if the guys we were
Speaker 1: concerned about obviously are Lavante David with the hamstring, Jordan
Speaker 1: whitehead shoulder, Antoine Winfield Junior with the ankle, and Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown at the knee. So a full gamut there. Um,
Speaker 1: they all practiced in a limited fashion yesterday, which is
Speaker 1: I think what you were hoping for heading into this week,
Speaker 1: that by the beginning they're at least running around. Um,
Speaker 1: Jordan wy ight Head had a black jersey on, which
Speaker 1: meant no contact, so make sure you don't hit him.
Speaker 1: But he's coaching. He's running around fine, which you know,
Speaker 1: of course it's a shoulder injury, so just don't hit
Speaker 1: him on the shoulder right now. Um, you know, it's
Speaker 1: a good start to the week. I think that's about
Speaker 1: all I can say about that. It's just it's it
Speaker 1: was the right It was the right first step in.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Super Bowl Pro practices are a
Speaker 1: little different than usual because they're actually not open to
Speaker 1: the media, and we included ourselves in that. So the
Speaker 1: only person going to practice is the pool report reporter,
Speaker 1: which in this case was Rick Stroud of the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay Times, so he shared all that information. Of course,
Speaker 1: coach talked about it, but he also pointed out that
Speaker 1: the Bucks broke off in the middle of practice, went
Speaker 1: into the indoor facility and stayed there for twenty six
Speaker 1: minutes because they were simulating. He wanted to get used
Speaker 1: to how long halftimes are the Super Bowl, Because they're
Speaker 1: usually like thirteen minutes. You basically have time to go in,
Speaker 1: sit down, take care of a few things, maybe talk
Speaker 1: to your coaches for a couple of mints, and go
Speaker 1: right back out. But this one is going to feel
Speaker 1: like an extended period for those guys. That's an interesting point.
Speaker 1: I like the idea of getting in used to that
Speaker 1: that that's a that is an interesting point. Um Jay
Speaker 1: asked what is the deal with Kansas City and their
Speaker 1: COVID scare What's the deal? I mean, the way I
Speaker 1: understand it, Uh, they have Uh they had a barber
Speaker 1: probably you know, we've seen this before. Back when we
Speaker 1: were allowed in the building. There'd be guys people in
Speaker 1: the service industry who would sometimes come by because it's
Speaker 1: hard for these guys to find time in their day,
Speaker 1: so maybe they're buying suits or something like this. That
Speaker 1: in this case, um, they were all a lot of
Speaker 1: Chiefs were gonna get their hair cut by the same guy. So,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if it's in a facility or
Speaker 1: somewhere else, but um, he the chiefs decided to arranged
Speaker 1: to have him tested for COVID and it came back
Speaker 1: positive and at that point he'd only cut two guys hair,
Speaker 1: so they had to put those guys into quarantine. Those
Speaker 1: guys in testing for five straight days. Assuming they're negative,
Speaker 1: they should be able to play. But he was supposed
Speaker 1: to to cut the hair of like twenty people, including
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. So depending upon the time of when he
Speaker 1: did that, you know, and if any of them are
Speaker 1: atually contracted the virus, I could have been a pretty
Speaker 1: crazy thing that happened right before the Super Bowl, but
Speaker 1: it seems like they have it in check. Yeah, absolutely, Um,
Speaker 1: all right, so this is an interesting question. Chris is
Speaker 1: talking about how he wanted to know how are we
Speaker 1: going to cover Hill while also containing Kelsey and Mahomes.
Speaker 1: And you know, we've talked about each of these guys individually,
Speaker 1: but I do think it is important to say that
Speaker 1: with all three of them together, that they really do
Speaker 1: affect your game point because there's one thing of how
Speaker 1: you might cover Hill if Kelsey didn't exist or vice versa,
Speaker 1: and if Mahomes wasn't the kind of quarterback he was.
Speaker 1: So let's kind of talk about all three of those
Speaker 1: guys together and the way they influence how you can
Speaker 1: try to attack each It's kind of like when you
Speaker 1: play one with one of these NBA teams with with
Speaker 1: the Big Three, which is all in vogue now. You know,
Speaker 1: you get three superstars and some of them just sort
Speaker 1: of have a gravity of their own, you know, like
Speaker 1: if you have Lebron James on your team, obviously he's
Speaker 1: pulling defenders towards him and that, you know, makes it easier.
Speaker 1: And all three of those guys do that for each other.
Speaker 1: And that's the case here with the Chiefs, because Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey has a incredible knack for getting open, for finding
Speaker 1: spots in his zone if it's his own, or he
Speaker 1: runs some amazing routes. Uh you know, he'll do like
Speaker 1: a out and then a pivot and up and um.
Speaker 1: You know, they're just really hard to cover man demand,
Speaker 1: So he's really good at getting open. Then you have
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, who you have to make a choice on
Speaker 1: how tightly you want to cover him and if you
Speaker 1: want to press him, and he beats the press and
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. There isn't quarterback in the league that's
Speaker 1: gonna catch up to him if you've give him too
Speaker 1: much space. However, because you're worried about getting run by.
Speaker 1: Then they do a lot of underneath stuff where he
Speaker 1: gets yards after the catch. Then you have Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: who led the league with nine and fifty one passing
Speaker 1: yards while running uh this season, and that's defined as
Speaker 1: as moving at least eight miles per hour, which is
Speaker 1: easily the most in the league. As you would imagine, Um,
Speaker 1: he also is just absolutely lethal against the blitz, like
Speaker 1: a thirty passer rating. So again you see Mahomes goes
Speaker 1: on the run that has a gravity of its own,
Speaker 1: and that creates more open spaces and obviously creates more
Speaker 1: time for and and usually when he's on the run,
Speaker 1: his favorite target is Travis Kelsey, but you also have
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill out there running around. So how you stop it? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, that's been a conundrigan for just about every
Speaker 1: defense in the last two years, and it's been hard
Speaker 1: to do. I think it's like sometimes when we used
Speaker 1: to play the Saints and Drew Brees and all his weapons.
Speaker 1: You would go into that saying, well, we're not going
Speaker 1: to stop him. He might get two in orn eighty yards. Um,
Speaker 1: this guy might get this many, Michael Thomas might get
Speaker 1: this money. But we have to contain them as much
Speaker 1: as we can and then keep up. And I think
Speaker 1: that's what you have to hope for here, Um, that
Speaker 1: you can contain them to the best of your ability,
Speaker 1: hopefully with some pressure on the homes, and then just
Speaker 1: outscore them right well. And that actually leads perfectly to
Speaker 1: the next question Richard had asked, do you think nerves
Speaker 1: might limit how much of a shootout we're expecting so
Speaker 1: kind of overall, maybe whether it's from nerves or anything
Speaker 1: else with the game, I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: are expecting is to be a shootout. Is there any
Speaker 1: situation where you don't see it panting out that way? No,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't think it would be nerves if if, if
Speaker 1: it doesn't end up being a shootout. And I guess
Speaker 1: you could compare this to UM Super Bowl a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, the last one that Tom Brady was in,
Speaker 1: when the Patriots beat the Rams, and those are two
Speaker 1: teams that had pretty good offenses, and the game ended
Speaker 1: up being ten three and it wasn't a touchdown until
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. UM, nobody expected that, And I guess
Speaker 1: in that case it was just two defenses that were
Speaker 1: very well coached. You know we Todd Bowles has had
Speaker 1: two weeks to work on this problem we're talking about
Speaker 1: and uh and Steve Spagnolo has had two weeks to
Speaker 1: work on Tom Brady and the Buccaneers. So you could
Speaker 1: possibly have a coordinator that comes in with just an
Speaker 1: incredible plan. That would be one way and the other
Speaker 1: way I guess would be turnovers. But again, sometimes turnovers
Speaker 1: lead to points, so that doesn't necessarily kill the uh
Speaker 1: the shootout, but um, if you saw like the last
Speaker 1: time we played the Chiefs, it was right. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody would call that a shootout, particularly with
Speaker 1: two teams that averaged more than that during the regular season.
Speaker 1: But the Buccaneers struggled early on third downs and in
Speaker 1: the second half the offense was great, but there were
Speaker 1: two interceptions and that took away two scoring opportunities. So
Speaker 1: there's ways that it can happen. But my money would
Speaker 1: still be on a game that you need to score
Speaker 1: thirty points to win. Okay, and Mike asked, do you
Speaker 1: think we have the kicker edge? Uh? He in terms
Speaker 1: of just our field goal kicker versus their's, and how
Speaker 1: that could potentially affect some of the game decisions. I
Speaker 1: know that our kicker has been very good thirty six
Speaker 1: and thirty nine including the playoffs. And also, you know
Speaker 1: he maybe there's a home field advantage there. He's been
Speaker 1: kicking there all all year and Harrison Butker has had
Speaker 1: just one game there. Maybe he understands the wins a
Speaker 1: little bit better. Um, but I think Harrison Bucker is
Speaker 1: a pretty good kicker. I'm not sure i'd say there's
Speaker 1: an advantage for either team there. Yeah, that's an interesting point. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for us on this edition of
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