Speaker 1: What do you call two guys were there when this happened?
Speaker 1: Back to return at Spurlock Michael Spurlock at the chain,
Speaker 1: He's still the twenty He's the twenty five thirty top
Speaker 1: Mourty yardline history fifty to thirty yards. Michael Rut, Michael Rut,
Speaker 1: Michael run stop tap a day. There you go in
Speaker 1: that sixty two yard for your goal attempts. It is God, God, God, God,
Speaker 1: box be Eagles, who can forget again? I'm looking at
Speaker 1: the already Bucks direty touchdown tamp a day. Derek Books
Speaker 1: the most pariable player in the national football Like there
Speaker 1: it is Tun Daggers in where are you gonna win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl? We call them the salty dogs, salty champions.
Speaker 1: That is world under should like to call super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I like to say super Bowl. You know, it's funny
Speaker 1: you say that, because I was thinking the same thing
Speaker 1: when whenever they say that. However, the title of the
Speaker 1: book that I wrote for the last Super Bowl victory
Speaker 1: is World Champions. So that is what people say, Well,
Speaker 1: how about this Super Bowl fifty five chap Well yeah,
Speaker 1: and also I would say I doubt that there's a
Speaker 1: better football team out there in the entire world than
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers. Right now, there isn't so I don't know
Speaker 1: what that would look like. That means world champions right here,
Speaker 1: right now. Gosh, I never thought this would happen again.
Speaker 1: You didn't think it would ever have I thought it would,
Speaker 1: but gosh, you know, eighteen years is long till. I
Speaker 1: never go into a season thinking it's gonna happen that season.
Speaker 1: But I really did think at some point we would
Speaker 1: get back here. I thought this season we were going
Speaker 1: to make a run until until we got hot. And
Speaker 1: right back to what I said, many many salty dogs
Speaker 1: ago play well in December. I think you you you
Speaker 1: moved that bar. You're you're always talking about a different month.
Speaker 1: The team gets Tober. How do you used to say?
Speaker 1: Tony Jon said you get to know yourself on October. No, no,
Speaker 1: he would say that November December is when you have
Speaker 1: to play good football. Well, I would argue it helps
Speaker 1: to play good football, well he he. But this was
Speaker 1: a predictable path for these Buccaneers because of Tom Brady
Speaker 1: and all the additions and no offseason or no preseason,
Speaker 1: and it was clear it was obviously while it was
Speaker 1: happening so it's not revisionist history in any way. We
Speaker 1: were talking to everybody's talking about it. At the time,
Speaker 1: things were a little on offense things that there was
Speaker 1: a bit of a struggle early on. Um because you know,
Speaker 1: Bruce when one of these I think it was yesterday's
Speaker 1: press conference after the Super Bowl. Uh, he was saying
Speaker 1: he remembers flying to New Orleans and talking to Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and they were like, Okay, now what does this
Speaker 1: play do I I saw, you know they who's that guy?
Speaker 1: And so you think way back to the interception that
Speaker 1: Brady through in his very first game as a Buccaneer
Speaker 1: pretty early on, and it appears at the time and
Speaker 1: it seemed to be a miscommunication with Mike Evans and
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what it was. But by the time
Speaker 1: they get out of the break, it's all coming together. Well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And the last game they lost was against Kansas City,
Speaker 1: and boy that looked like a beat down in the
Speaker 1: first court or yes, very good point. Did they score
Speaker 1: three touchdowns in the first quarter? Was one? Nothing? I
Speaker 1: can't look at I know, I know im Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: here's a question for you. You know, you hear sometimes
Speaker 1: that was the last lost the Bucks took right, and
Speaker 1: you'll hear sometimes the coach say, that's the best thing
Speaker 1: that ever happened to us. I think I've heard uh
Speaker 1: coach talk about that about the Chicago game. Or maybe
Speaker 1: it was Bruce. Yeah, Jason I was saying he he
Speaker 1: was talking to Bruce. He was saying how much that
Speaker 1: Chicago game still bothered him, And Bruce Herean said, that's
Speaker 1: the best thing that ever happened to us. I guess
Speaker 1: because it made them. On the flight back, They're like,
Speaker 1: we can't keep beating ourselves this way. We have to
Speaker 1: fix these problems. I will take you to the Kansas
Speaker 1: City game and say that the fact that we played
Speaker 1: Kansas City in what was it, late November, that could
Speaker 1: be the reason why we won the Super Bowl. So convincingly.
Speaker 1: Does it happen the same way if we don't play
Speaker 1: that game, Because think about that, Jeff, that was like
Speaker 1: a that was a dry run. Essentially, it was a rehearsal,
Speaker 1: and it was a chance to see what did and
Speaker 1: didn't work against Patrick Mahomes in that offense, right, no question.
Speaker 1: So what if you didn't have that dry run and
Speaker 1: you go into the Super Bowl and your ideas. The
Speaker 1: way you started the first game against Kancy, which clearly
Speaker 1: didn't work, you could have been in a big hole. So, um,
Speaker 1: let's see here. Point well taken. It was this canc
Speaker 1: game in week twelve. It was seventeen to nothing after
Speaker 1: the first quarter for the next seven quarters, and and
Speaker 1: and Todd Bowls adjusted after that, and we almost came
Speaker 1: back in one, right was the final score for the
Speaker 1: next seven quarters against Kansas City's incredible offense. They scored
Speaker 1: one touchdown, one crazy one touchdowver seven quarters against Kansas
Speaker 1: City after they saw what wasn't wasn't working on. So
Speaker 1: you can never say definitively, but I think it's fair
Speaker 1: to to to say that it's a dang good thing.
Speaker 1: The Buckaneers got to play the Chiefs in week twelve. Well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like the last Super Bowl they got
Speaker 1: to play the Raiders. They got to be the Raiders essentially. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So you know, having an idea of what your opponent
Speaker 1: is gonna do. Your opponent, no, your enemy. So you
Speaker 1: got you got on one hand, you got Todd Bowls
Speaker 1: playing a lot more. I think, like, um, almost the
Speaker 1: entire game with two high safeties sometimes making it look
Speaker 1: like it wasn't too high safeties than one dropping back
Speaker 1: before the snap, playing man underneath, and only blitzing like
Speaker 1: five times the entire game. I was surprised by that,
Speaker 1: not at all. Well, I know, but the thing was
Speaker 1: is that I didn't realize that until after the game
Speaker 1: was over with, because how much pressure was well, the
Speaker 1: two things, because the four man rush did so incredibly
Speaker 1: great um, but also because there were times when a
Speaker 1: corner like Sean Murphy Bunting was was going after the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't a blitz because it was still only
Speaker 1: four people, see my point, So you still had seven
Speaker 1: people in coverage. It might be Shack Barrett or JPP
Speaker 1: or something, but you still had more of a blanket
Speaker 1: coverage back there. And Devin White and Levante David was
Speaker 1: David were marvelous covering the middle of the field right,
Speaker 1: just fantastic, and that allowed the safeties to be deeper.
Speaker 1: And they didn't hit a deep ball the entire game.
Speaker 1: They didn't hit one. They hit they had a couple
Speaker 1: of good shots to you know, slicing shots to Kelsey
Speaker 1: down the middle, and that was their best thing they
Speaker 1: could do. And that was about it. So, uh you
Speaker 1: got Todd Bowls not blitzing. I think he bliss maybe
Speaker 1: five times the entire game according to the next gen stats.
Speaker 1: Yet the Buccaneers got four man pressure something like twenty
Speaker 1: six pressures on. It was the highest rate of pressure
Speaker 1: of any of any Super Bowl since they have these
Speaker 1: statistics available. Did um and if Patrick Mahomes could have
Speaker 1: run north and south round then east and west? Did
Speaker 1: you see that staff for and I seventy yards and
Speaker 1: ran before throwing the ball, saw go ahead. I'm just
Speaker 1: thinking about how tired everybody looked from running around all.
Speaker 1: I mean, defensively, we did well not getting warn I
Speaker 1: think part of it was we were rotating a lot.
Speaker 1: I remember you'd be watching one one rush and it's
Speaker 1: like Steve mc clinton that's chasing him, and the next
Speaker 1: one it's Vita, and the next one it's Goldston. So
Speaker 1: they were they were rotating a lot, and they were
Speaker 1: getting in there. And uh uh, so I said, my
Speaker 1: one of my favorite little graphics I saw it had
Speaker 1: like lines drawn on the field for all of the
Speaker 1: um the I guess you'd almost say routes though that
Speaker 1: uh Mahomes ran before he threw the wall. I was sacked,
Speaker 1: and they were like all over the place was like
Speaker 1: this giant flower. You thought you were looking at a
Speaker 1: hurricane spaghetti. That's what it looked like. And then but
Speaker 1: they had super imposed on the bottom of the same
Speaker 1: chart all the moves that Tom Brady ran, all the
Speaker 1: steps he ran before throwing, and it was just like this,
Speaker 1: almost this time. It was almost a dot. He basically
Speaker 1: never had to move, and if it was a move,
Speaker 1: it was just maybe a couple of steps upper back.
Speaker 1: I can't enough about the old line, cannot say enough
Speaker 1: about the online, the amazing, amazing, how much time he
Speaker 1: one sack And I don't think he was hurried hardly ever.
Speaker 1: Other than that and and the um, I don't know.
Speaker 1: There was so much going on that day, as you
Speaker 1: well know, and you know where we were. We were
Speaker 1: out in the Yeah, I did end up in the
Speaker 1: press box, did you You know? You weren't You know
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I just thought loaning and groaning about how
Speaker 1: hot it was good it was. I was going to
Speaker 1: rain on my laptop though, And then and then yeah,
Speaker 1: well you got to come to our our our. I
Speaker 1: liked your booth. It was it was breezy. Yeah, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was a wooden shed. Yes, there's a wooden shed
Speaker 1: built in front of the half wall that a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago I had been a whole wall. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of stuff they were doing to the Stadum.
Speaker 1: They were actually taking out walls in certain places to
Speaker 1: create sightlines for radio boosts and things like that. We
Speaker 1: we got the big deal. Yeah, it's pretty crazy. We
Speaker 1: we were moved. Well, we finally three times. We got moved. Uh.
Speaker 1: Our radio booth was not operating totally until seven thirty
Speaker 1: Friday night I was here. You were probably a little
Speaker 1: bit nervous. I have to tell you. I enjoyed this
Speaker 1: one no matter how No. I did as cranky as
Speaker 1: I was salty, Yeah, very salty. Wow. Yes. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: going through the first super Bowl, I didn't enjoy it
Speaker 1: as much because they had too much going on. I
Speaker 1: remember you saying that, And this particular one, I did
Speaker 1: enjoy having the two weeks off, got to soak it
Speaker 1: all in. That was better, much better. I will say that. Um,
Speaker 1: I enjoyed this one a little bit less because I
Speaker 1: didn't have is I basically got to go to the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, got to enjoy most of it, did you know,
Speaker 1: did stories, did story after the game, but still you
Speaker 1: could go to the locker room. We were on the
Speaker 1: buses afterwards with player. I still remember talking to you know,
Speaker 1: getting up on the bus that Rich McKay was on
Speaker 1: and and tell him that everybody in the bus this
Speaker 1: this interesting you know stat about the Super Bowl win
Speaker 1: and everybody's high five and in sharing didn't get to
Speaker 1: do that. I'm it doesn't matter, believe me. I know,
Speaker 1: the people that won the Super Bowl got the high
Speaker 1: five and hug everybody and have an incredibly awesome locker room.
Speaker 1: And I'm so glad for those guys. And it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter how it affected me at all. But I'm just
Speaker 1: telling you it was. It's it felt a little more
Speaker 1: sterile because of that that remove and which had to
Speaker 1: be done. Sure, no question and that and that is true.
Speaker 1: It's a great experience, but it was a different experience.
Speaker 1: And and even for the fans, I mean you have to, yeah,
Speaker 1: you look in in Tampa Bay how crazy the sports
Speaker 1: teams were this year. It is just it's too bad
Speaker 1: the raised didn't go all the way. But they still
Speaker 1: they made you Yeah, they made it to the they
Speaker 1: didn't just didn't win it. They made it a world
Speaker 1: six games in the game six. Yeah. So if you
Speaker 1: think about that, when was I mean, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to look at that. When was the last time all
Speaker 1: the sports teams in the town. Now, uh the Raptors.
Speaker 1: Raptors are here from Toronto, so now they got to
Speaker 1: live up. Did win too? And they did? Yes, this
Speaker 1: is the city of champions, the Bay Area of champions.
Speaker 1: I all in all, I'll tell you when it was scary, though,
Speaker 1: it was scary about five o'clock in the morning when
Speaker 1: that storm rolled through on Sunday morning. Did you sleep
Speaker 1: through that storm? Are you kidding me? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: maybe it was worse where you were it was. This
Speaker 1: is this is a pretty solid blanket through major lightning, uh,
Speaker 1: major rainfall. Um. And And in fact that like six
Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning, I got attack saying do not enter,
Speaker 1: do not come to the state, do not enter this,
Speaker 1: do not come to the stadium, do not enter the stadium.
Speaker 1: If you are there, stay in your car. Because it's
Speaker 1: funny to think about that. There were actually people trying
Speaker 1: to get in the stadium at six am, which I
Speaker 1: believe completely. There were people here at three o'clock in
Speaker 1: the morning. Yes, yes, lots were there where people were working. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just and then the scope of this game has
Speaker 1: become I got here around eleven thirty. Yeah, I got
Speaker 1: here at two thirty and that was too early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was here at but anyway, but hey, I'm just
Speaker 1: saying this one is for me, is sinking in kind
Speaker 1: of slowly. Oh, no question, no question, Like every now
Speaker 1: and I happened. I'm we are actually at the stadium
Speaker 1: right now, and I'm looking out and I'm seeing Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty five and there's there. The stadium is now
Speaker 1: half between what Raymond James Stadium normally is and half
Speaker 1: between with the Super Bowl. Yeah, we certainly only have
Speaker 1: one in. That's correct. Yeah, it's kind of it's kind
Speaker 1: of funky, but it is. Um when you get up,
Speaker 1: when you when you get when you got up yesterday morning, Um,
Speaker 1: did you kind of have to pinch yourself. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It's just kind of been h Well, first,
Speaker 1: first of all, I've been working a little bit most
Speaker 1: of the time, you know, I wasn't I went home
Speaker 1: when I finally was done yesterday and tried to watch
Speaker 1: highlights as long as I could then get up in
Speaker 1: the morning and you got the right away. In the morning,
Speaker 1: there was the press conferences with Bruce and Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: so I was working a lot and not complaining about
Speaker 1: that either. So there it was just when there was
Speaker 1: these lulls that and I'm at home, I'm not around
Speaker 1: any of my fellow co workers, and it was cool
Speaker 1: to see some of them when I got here because
Speaker 1: in that chance to even just like fist bumpers, yeah
Speaker 1: and just go can you believe it? I was talking about, um,
Speaker 1: the Todd Bowls awesome game plan, and he's all of
Speaker 1: the praise that he's getting is worth it, and you
Speaker 1: wonder if um, I mean, I know it's just one game.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be some teams. I wish they would have talked.
Speaker 1: I know it's just one game. And you could say
Speaker 1: that and that's logical. But on the other hand, you
Speaker 1: could just say, well, maybe this was just uh a
Speaker 1: great uh stage for people to be able to see
Speaker 1: how great Todd Bowls is and it's it's kind of
Speaker 1: it's kind of surprising. He's got a head coach. If
Speaker 1: you it's great for us for now, it won't last
Speaker 1: well Unfortunately when he was a head coach, he was
Speaker 1: a head coach for the New York Jets, and he
Speaker 1: was there and people didn't think he did very very
Speaker 1: good job. But now that he's been gone and you
Speaker 1: look back at it, he did an awesome job with
Speaker 1: what he had to work. But sometimes it takes a
Speaker 1: while to come together. But what's so amazing and everybody
Speaker 1: kind of forgets about it, but underdogs. We were favorites
Speaker 1: against Washington underdogs, against New Orleans underdogs, against Green Bay underdogs,
Speaker 1: against Kansas City. You had to win three playoff games
Speaker 1: on the road, two of them against what I believe
Speaker 1: are going to be Hall of Fame quarterbacks, and then
Speaker 1: the third he's he'll be He'll be in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. He's the only one you can't stay healthy,
Speaker 1: and he can stay healthy, he'll be in the Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame. So so it was. It was an incredible
Speaker 1: run and magical season. As Tom Brady put it, Uh,
Speaker 1: you know that that run you just talked about. There's
Speaker 1: a number of things there um only the fourth team
Speaker 1: to win three three road games, because they were first
Speaker 1: wild card team to win a Super Bowl since the
Speaker 1: Packers in two thousand ten, who also won three road games.
Speaker 1: It's just hard to believe two was the last time
Speaker 1: a wild card team. That was the year that we
Speaker 1: were tending six and they were ten and six. Then
Speaker 1: Giants were tending six and they won the tie break, right,
Speaker 1: and they went all the way. He got hot at
Speaker 1: the right time. Sound familiar. So in addition to joining
Speaker 1: the Old five Steelers, the Oh seven Giants who beat
Speaker 1: Tom Brady and kept him from having the perfect season,
Speaker 1: and the two thousand and ten Packers, the Bucks around
Speaker 1: the fourth team to win three road playoff games and
Speaker 1: then win the Super Bowl. You're as you're a stat guy.
Speaker 1: These are the great thing. We've been talking about these
Speaker 1: for for the last couple of weeks. You write about
Speaker 1: it for two weeks saying this could happen, and then
Speaker 1: you write about it upwards. This did happen. So Buccaneers, Um,
Speaker 1: they beat three straight former Super Bowl MVPs. That's never
Speaker 1: been done before. You beat the m v P of
Speaker 1: the National Football We beat here, We beat the two
Speaker 1: thousand eighteen m v P, which was Mahomes. We beat
Speaker 1: who who was it last year? Always Lamar Jackson. We
Speaker 1: beat the two thousand twenty MVP. Aaron Rodgers UH and
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, Mahomes and Drew Brees had all been former
Speaker 1: Super Bowl um m vps uh. The Buccaneers were the
Speaker 1: first team to ever score thirty plus points in four
Speaker 1: games in a single playoff because he scored one. Is
Speaker 1: that incredible eye that order. What I love is everybody
Speaker 1: was saying that the Bucks had to score at least
Speaker 1: thirty points, that we did it, but we didn't have to.
Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think, um, I believe it was
Speaker 1: some kind of craziness that if for Kansas City not
Speaker 1: to score a touchdown, it was something like, well, it's
Speaker 1: the first time that crazy odds four hundred and one
Speaker 1: or something that is crazy. What's the first time they
Speaker 1: hadn't scored a touchdown in the game that Patrick Mahomes started. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was the first time the Petrick Homes didn't throw
Speaker 1: a touchdown past since like the third week of two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen, did you know? And he was incredible in
Speaker 1: this game. He was It was his fault some of
Speaker 1: the throws he made. I will say this and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get salty about this, and that is um the officiating.
Speaker 1: We need to talk about that. Yeah, which is it's
Speaker 1: the time or you want you want to go? I
Speaker 1: want to get back to where we were though, We'll
Speaker 1: go where we are now. Okay, where were we? You
Speaker 1: were talking about Patrick Mahomes. Okay, so great, not scoring
Speaker 1: a touchdown, but Sugarlad, I'm listening. But some of those
Speaker 1: throws that he made, That's what I was talking about.
Speaker 1: Some of the throws he made, like the one where
Speaker 1: Shack was spinning around on the sideline like four yards
Speaker 1: from the endzone and he somehow spins and throws. You know,
Speaker 1: the guy had to dive out of bounds to catch up,
Speaker 1: but he got it to a guy I didn't even know,
Speaker 1: you know how he could see that guy he was playing.
Speaker 1: He had to Yeah, run past the buick can handle
Speaker 1: and I'll hit that throw that he made while horizontal
Speaker 1: to the ground, It hit the target he was trying
Speaker 1: to throw it too, in the face mask. That's incredible. Now.
Speaker 1: I do have a complaint though, about the people that
Speaker 1: are rightfully giving Mahomes credit for all these incredible throws,
Speaker 1: but saying the Buccaneers got lucky because so many of
Speaker 1: them were dropped, and they called that want to drop
Speaker 1: They call one that Tyreek Hill didn't catch drop. There
Speaker 1: was a flat out drop by Travis Kelsey at one
Speaker 1: point on the ball right in his hands that no
Speaker 1: hand was in his face. But all these other ones
Speaker 1: that they're talking about drops on these crazy throws. And
Speaker 1: there's like a the one that Tyree Hill didn't catch.
Speaker 1: I think it was Antoine Winfield had his hand right
Speaker 1: up between Tyree Hill's hands. He might have touched it.
Speaker 1: But if not having a hand your face makes it
Speaker 1: a lot harder to catch the ball. To me, that
Speaker 1: was a forced drop, not just oh Patrick Mahomes be
Speaker 1: a great playing his guy let him down. Apparently they
Speaker 1: weren't lucky that they didn't catch it. It appears that
Speaker 1: Kansas City didn't execute the play. That. Yeah, I just
Speaker 1: think that a lot of I actually think that our
Speaker 1: our head coach, Bruce arians Um sometimes does the same thing,
Speaker 1: calling plays drops. And I know he's he's hard on
Speaker 1: his player in a good way and he wants to
Speaker 1: make every play. But sometimes a drop is the result
Speaker 1: of a real good defensive play, or the pass is
Speaker 1: really hard to catch, and I wouldn't call it a drop.
Speaker 1: And there was two or three plays that people and
Speaker 1: analysts now are as they write their stories about this
Speaker 1: game are calling drops, which I would say was good defense.
Speaker 1: But it does highlight what an incredible throw was, what
Speaker 1: incredible throws that Patrick Holmes Mahomes is able to make. So,
Speaker 1: on one hand, Patrick Mahomes did not accomplish the passing
Speaker 1: of the torch from Tom Brady and get himself one
Speaker 1: step closer to being the goat. Instead, Tom Brady solidified
Speaker 1: his status. He's the greatest of all times, and he
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes could knock him off. And when he's twenty
Speaker 1: five and Brady's forty three, if Patrick Mahomes ever gets
Speaker 1: to Brady's level of accomplishments, it'll be stunning and amazing.
Speaker 1: But he didn't get it by going through Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: So I like that story all right. Back to the refs, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: we can go, or the officiating, well in general, I
Speaker 1: got I got some really cool things to think about. Though.
Speaker 1: Did you know that the team winning the coin tossed
Speaker 1: has it has lost the last now seven Super Bowls? Way? Yes,
Speaker 1: yes and amazingly, Uh, the NFC has won thirty seven
Speaker 1: of fifty four coin tosses. Okay, Well that that that drives,
Speaker 1: because I think the FC has one like sixteen of
Speaker 1: last Now here's the other crazy, the crazy one. The
Speaker 1: team scoring first. The team that scores for Kansas City,
Speaker 1: did it is now thirty six eight or thirty six
Speaker 1: nineteen nineteen, so they were thirty six and it was
Speaker 1: thirty six and eight, so usually scoring first. Yes, correct.
Speaker 1: You know what other teams scored first and lost? The
Speaker 1: Oakland Raiders and what with them? The also the team
Speaker 1: leading after the first quarter twenty nine and eleven? Are
Speaker 1: you doing my jobs? Fourteen and fourteen game ties? So
Speaker 1: right now it's now thirty and eleven with four times. Well,
Speaker 1: were we leading in the first quarter? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we were. We were because we went up, they went
Speaker 1: up three and they went up seven three. Yeah. Because
Speaker 1: Tom Brady famously that's right through his first ever first
Speaker 1: quarter touchdown passing the Super Bowl, which was one of
Speaker 1: the most crazy stats I heard. And I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you one other craziness. All right, you seem to be
Speaker 1: doing my job? Is this because allowed me to pack
Speaker 1: up the equipment? Well this was this was because during
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, we're we're Yeah, Well I was doing
Speaker 1: a lot. I was following you I had a had uh,
Speaker 1: actually had a guy in Atlanta who was shooting me
Speaker 1: stuff because we think I know what you're talking about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dr Weiner. And the problem is that because of COVID,
Speaker 1: we weren't allowed to have as many people in our
Speaker 1: broadcast booth. But he was doing stuff sending it to me. Um.
Speaker 1: Interesting enough, ten point deficit. Only in the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: one team has able to come back. It was probably
Speaker 1: the Chiefs last year. Right, No, it was well at
Speaker 1: that point, yes, them, and also but and and it
Speaker 1: was also Brady and the Patriots, which is which said
Speaker 1: the two people that the only two people that have
Speaker 1: ever done it, the Holmes did do it last year,
Speaker 1: didn't he? I thought that or was that two years ago?
Speaker 1: So now so those are kind of interesting little stats
Speaker 1: that you kind of see. Now we were going to
Speaker 1: talk about the officials. At one point, the Chiefs had
Speaker 1: eight penalties five yards in the first half. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was go ahead, no, you go. Both are Super Bowl records.
Speaker 1: The old record was seven penalties and that was right
Speaker 1: after that exchange near the end. Um. First of all,
Speaker 1: since we're getting in this, uh, the Buccaneers score touchdown
Speaker 1: to go up fourteen to three. Uh. Then the Chiefs
Speaker 1: scored their hell do a field goal. So it's fourteen
Speaker 1: to six and UM and there's a minute left. It's
Speaker 1: like fifty five seconds left, and they kick it off
Speaker 1: to us, and I'm hoping we can just run it out,
Speaker 1: you know, because I noticed they have three touch the
Speaker 1: time outs left, and we run the ball in first
Speaker 1: down and they call it time out and I go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was going to Dave and Jean uh talk about
Speaker 1: green Bay first half, what what we did, what what
Speaker 1: the Bucks did well? So the Chiefs didn't learn any
Speaker 1: lesson there, because for one thing, you gotta understand how
Speaker 1: the other team, and it's head coach approaches these strategies.
Speaker 1: Because remember the last time we were talking about the
Speaker 1: the NFC Championship game, and at the time when we
Speaker 1: were in here covering it in the radio booth are
Speaker 1: the control booth, I was saying they I don't want
Speaker 1: them to go for this fourth and four or whatever
Speaker 1: it was fourth and six around midfield with thirty seconds left,
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to give the Chiefs or the
Speaker 1: Packers the ball here midfield with and but Bruce was
Speaker 1: aggressive and went for it. And once they got that
Speaker 1: first down. Then he dialed up that shot to to
Speaker 1: Scottie Miller, which was aggressive. The other team needs to
Speaker 1: know that you're that their opponent is coaching that way.
Speaker 1: So when they call a time out after a run,
Speaker 1: this is I'm pulling Tony Romo here by making up
Speaker 1: a conversation on the sideline, but I'm thinking, Bruce arians
Speaker 1: the same. Oh really, oh really, you're gonna call that
Speaker 1: time out. We were gonna let you, We're gonna let
Speaker 1: We're gonna run on the clock. Let you come in
Speaker 1: fourteen you'd only down fourteen six. That's one touchdown that
Speaker 1: but you called the time out. So here we go
Speaker 1: game and he calls two passes and they weren't like certainties. Well,
Speaker 1: the first one was a real quick hit or to
Speaker 1: Chris Guy when that was you're probably you're gonna complete that,
Speaker 1: so it's like a run. And then you had the
Speaker 1: next one to Rob Gronkowski to get the first down, right,
Speaker 1: and they used one more. They used the time out
Speaker 1: on third and four, so you're like, okay, man, we're
Speaker 1: going for it then. So they get the first down
Speaker 1: and then he dials at the deep shot to Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: which was one of the penalties. You were just talking
Speaker 1: about something like thirty four yards on Bot because he
Speaker 1: tripped him. Another one of the people complain about because
Speaker 1: Brilan trips and maybe intentionally or not, he trips Evans,
Speaker 1: which is a penalty. And then it looks like the
Speaker 1: ball sails over his head by ten feet, but you
Speaker 1: don't know if he's allowed to take his last couple
Speaker 1: of steps, he might be running right underneath it. And oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, it's Mike Evans. I will say, um
Speaker 1: that the next pastor for exp penalty on Tyranne Matthew Um.
Speaker 1: I would be very upset if I were a chief
Speaker 1: stand because it was it was clearly something you shouldn't
Speaker 1: have done it. You can't just stop the guy on
Speaker 1: his route hit him ten yards down field. But the
Speaker 1: ball was Tom was clearly thrown that away. It was
Speaker 1: thirteen seconds left, um, and no time out, so you
Speaker 1: can't get sacked. So you you know exactly what you're
Speaker 1: the office is gonna do. They're gonna call one quick thing,
Speaker 1: maybe take two reads, that's it, and then throw the
Speaker 1: ball away. And that's what he did. He cleared to
Speaker 1: me Brady was clearly throwing that ball away. Mike wasn't
Speaker 1: open because he was being held up by Tyranne Matthew.
Speaker 1: And that ball looked like it was very much uncatchable.
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it was appenalty. You're not
Speaker 1: supposed to do what Tyranne Matthew did. But if I
Speaker 1: were Chiefs fan, I'd be on, that's uncatchable, that's uncatchable. Well,
Speaker 1: you can disagree, you can disagree. I'm just saying that,
Speaker 1: you know, and we've been there before. When you lose,
Speaker 1: you're looking at all the reasons. Plus we won by
Speaker 1: twenty two points. And and in fairness, if you're a
Speaker 1: Chiefs fan, you would be kind of cranked up because, um,
Speaker 1: six first down by penalty is a Super Bowl record.
Speaker 1: You got all the bucks. The bucks got that. The
Speaker 1: old record was only four, So you know, I can
Speaker 1: see where not only was it a penalty, but it
Speaker 1: was a penalty life. Well, the one on the field
Speaker 1: goal took three points off the board and scored a
Speaker 1: touchdown on the next play, yep, and that one would
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't understand how a guy lines up
Speaker 1: that far off sides and doesn't realize that he's looking
Speaker 1: down the line at the ball. But you have to
Speaker 1: call that, And I get that, you're you know, you
Speaker 1: have to let him play, you have to let him play,
Speaker 1: but but you know you have to call when those
Speaker 1: are the easy ones that I can understand. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know that there actually were some holding calls
Speaker 1: in this game, which shows you how egregious the holding
Speaker 1: must have been to get I think that three of them.
Speaker 1: Um it was. It was so funny to go from
Speaker 1: the Green Bay game where you couldn't get a only
Speaker 1: at all for anything until like the last two minutes
Speaker 1: of the game and this one the flags were flying,
Speaker 1: and um, most of them, if you look back at them,
Speaker 1: they're legitimate. So sure, now the penalties made a big difference,
Speaker 1: but that's goes back to way back to what week five,
Speaker 1: and penalties killed us in Chicago, and Bruce Arians and
Speaker 1: the team are like, that's enough, we cannot do that
Speaker 1: to ourselves. And since then, in fact, it was the
Speaker 1: very next game that they committed zero penalties and turn
Speaker 1: the balls zero times in the win over Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and I think maybe maybe it was Tom not sacked
Speaker 1: in that game either in Bay. So since then, sacks,
Speaker 1: turnovers and penalties have went down immensely some stretches. The
Speaker 1: tom was never getting sacked. Yeah, it was a I
Speaker 1: I can understand. As a fan, I would I would
Speaker 1: be bemoaning that too, but I would also you have
Speaker 1: the cheese. But but I do have to say is
Speaker 1: they were dominated. They were dominated. They were dominated. I
Speaker 1: mean there's I mean it just and you know, I
Speaker 1: understand about well, the old line wasn't what their old
Speaker 1: line was, but you know what it is true, But
Speaker 1: you gotta play with what you got. By the way,
Speaker 1: our old line didn't have our starters in we had
Speaker 1: we were missing one a good one though. Well, I
Speaker 1: mean they're all good. Well, I know, but I mean
Speaker 1: you would when it started, were you a little concerned?
Speaker 1: I mean when Aaron Steady started starting, Yeah, yeah, of
Speaker 1: course because he was a complete unknown. But after two games,
Speaker 1: were he done pretty well? Why did he did? He was? Yeah?
Speaker 1: How about that? I'm in phenomenal made a big step
Speaker 1: up in his career. You know now he can Teams
Speaker 1: can look and go, okay, that's legitimate. You know that
Speaker 1: fifty two yarder field goal as longest history. What only
Speaker 1: six fifty yard field goals in this have been Well
Speaker 1: there were two because each kicker had one of his game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's probably never happened before, and it was mostly irrelevant.
Speaker 1: I mean it was cool. I'll take it back. It
Speaker 1: was the third longest field goal. Sometimes the things you
Speaker 1: throw out there just don't sound right, right. Ryan Suckop
Speaker 1: hasn't missed a field goal in this postseason. Oh no,
Speaker 1: we can say that now without any free of jinxing.
Speaker 1: And I will say this because I have inside information.
Speaker 1: The specialties, the special team guys came here on Friday,
Speaker 1: but I can you do it for a Super Bowl? Correct?
Speaker 1: And that was well, the reason why I was back
Speaker 1: and forth, and the only reason why it wasn't an
Speaker 1: unfair advantage is Kansas City could have come in on Friday,
Speaker 1: and they did, and they came in on Saturday, so
Speaker 1: they did so. But that has been their routine to
Speaker 1: come over absolutely end of the week. It would it
Speaker 1: would have not seem been unfair. Everybody was talking about
Speaker 1: how the game, Uh, the audience wasn't as large because
Speaker 1: the game started to get blown out um at the half.
Speaker 1: At half. Okay, the leading team has won thirty nine
Speaker 1: games now forty. Jeff, You've done more research for this
Speaker 1: podcast than every other one. Combined. Just went. These numbers
Speaker 1: are fun, I know, but the only reason why I'm
Speaker 1: using them is because you love numbers, and I just
Speaker 1: want I just want the salty Dog fans to know
Speaker 1: that I'm here for pure humor purposes. But damn it,
Speaker 1: I can step up to the play too. Uh Is
Speaker 1: that all right? Well? I mean I can come right
Speaker 1: back at it with well, But before I did that,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk because I was I was talking
Speaker 1: about the Todd Bowl strategy, which clearly worked to absolute perfection. Um,
Speaker 1: but there was a pretty clear strategy on offense too,
Speaker 1: and Bruce arians said all of his coordinators, including Keith Armstrong,
Speaker 1: had awesome game plans, and the players executed them. On offense,
Speaker 1: it was pretty clear that we were going to I mean,
Speaker 1: how many times did you hear number seventy three is eligible?
Speaker 1: We used that jump I would have thought it was more,
Speaker 1: but we used that jumble package with six offensive lineman
Speaker 1: on twenty place. That's got to be the most all year.
Speaker 1: It got to a point where where it was interfering
Speaker 1: our broadcast to it. Now they have to do it
Speaker 1: every time, has to do it every time, and if
Speaker 1: I forgets he between plays you would think if you
Speaker 1: just put him in there once until he comes out,
Speaker 1: he's clear. But they actual they have to tell ref
Speaker 1: every time every time, and has to say it every
Speaker 1: three has reported as owner. UM, so we clearly wanted
Speaker 1: to um run this jumbo line max protect to some extent.
Speaker 1: I don't know if max is the right per word,
Speaker 1: but protect, give Tom Brady a lot of blocking and
Speaker 1: let him pick up part a secondary that plays very aggressively.
Speaker 1: And um it worked. He was as we said, he
Speaker 1: was rarely pressured right and and just as a tangent
Speaker 1: on on the flip side, I believe that the Chiefs
Speaker 1: used a five man line so didn't keep it tight in,
Speaker 1: which because Kelsey usually goes out, didn't keep it tight
Speaker 1: in or have an extra linement on the field. For
Speaker 1: all but five plays, you have two replacement tackles, one
Speaker 1: of whom has already been exposed in a previous Super
Speaker 1: Bowl when Von Miller ay his lunch and uh, that'd
Speaker 1: be Mike Remmers, who actually started his career here and
Speaker 1: has a pretty good career. But Mike Remmers is not
Speaker 1: Eric Fisher and Andrew Wiley. The right tackle was the
Speaker 1: right guard and wasn't even the right guard to start
Speaker 1: the season. So, um, I think that was I don't
Speaker 1: know how his press his name, but that French guy
Speaker 1: who was the Canadian who's a doctor, who was an
Speaker 1: incredible guy, an interesting story. So I don't want to
Speaker 1: get off on that tangent. So they have these protection problems.
Speaker 1: We have a furious offensive front with guys like Shack Barrett,
Speaker 1: JPP and dominn Sue. Barrett's playing the best football of
Speaker 1: his entire season right now. He's he was dominant in
Speaker 1: that day to being in the Vita's back, Vita's back
Speaker 1: knocking people around again. Two games that Vitave has played,
Speaker 1: he has a total of one tackle. But we can
Speaker 1: watch the game and know how much of a difference
Speaker 1: he may just go back and see. So um, yeah
Speaker 1: it was him actually that that flushed Mahomes on that
Speaker 1: crazy play that end up on the left sideline where
Speaker 1: he spun around and throw the ball to the back
Speaker 1: cord of were you Were you ever concerned that, uh
Speaker 1: that the Bucks aren't gonna win after the game started, Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course of course it was. It's it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: that we all would be concerned. I would think it'd
Speaker 1: be kind of of I know, but set your head
Speaker 1: in the stand if you didn't think they Bucks could
Speaker 1: lose the game until it got to be like, yeah,
Speaker 1: five minutes last, but after it was over with, the
Speaker 1: Bucks only trailed for four minutes and thirty three seconds.
Speaker 1: So I need to believe that when I set you
Speaker 1: up pretty good. I don't know how many minutes we're
Speaker 1: into this one, and I'm just now figuring out that
Speaker 1: every time you you pause and then asked me a question,
Speaker 1: you're just setting up one of these numbers for me.
Speaker 1: They they led for forty five minutes and thirty seven seconds.
Speaker 1: How about that? But in Super Bowl thirty seven the
Speaker 1: Bucks led for forty one minutes in sixteen seconds and
Speaker 1: only trailed that in that Super Bowl for two minutes
Speaker 1: and forty nine because they got a field goal and
Speaker 1: we gotta field goal and we got another figgle. So
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers in that game, they gave up a todd
Speaker 1: um Brad Johnson's arm got hit and like his second
Speaker 1: or third past the game was intercepted, and then Simeon
Speaker 1: Rice had a huge third down sacking from like the
Speaker 1: tin yard line and that forced him to kick a
Speaker 1: field goal. And then I believe the Bucks scored the
Speaker 1: next thirty eight points. Okay, so that was twenty two
Speaker 1: three at halftime. I swear I had two different people
Speaker 1: who used to work for the Bucks who don't work
Speaker 1: for them anymore, who were texting me and saying, did
Speaker 1: you notice that it's six at halftime? And it was
Speaker 1: twenty two three at halftime in the other in the
Speaker 1: in the other Super Bowl, And that's eerily similar, and
Speaker 1: both games were the same thing. They got an early
Speaker 1: field goal, then we dominated the rest of the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when Kansas City kicked the first field goal, Gene was like, well,
Speaker 1: we're in good shape because three, that's that's pretty so. Um,
Speaker 1: back to Byron Leftwich, So you're you're running all these
Speaker 1: plays out of this jumbo package. To to put a
Speaker 1: kind of a cliche term on it, I'm sure they
Speaker 1: have a better term for what they're doing, but um,
Speaker 1: this jumbo package is the great thing about it was
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers were that's more of a running alignment. The
Speaker 1: Bucks were able to run and pass out of that.
Speaker 1: So it didn't the Chiefs couldn't just stack the box, right,
Speaker 1: They had to still respect the pass. And it was
Speaker 1: a lot of play action, so we'd have the stretch
Speaker 1: where there was a stretch where Tom Brady made three
Speaker 1: straight very big completions on play action out of that
Speaker 1: jumbo line, and then we ran four straight times I
Speaker 1: think it was Ronald Jones for like twenty yards. So
Speaker 1: this we could keep this what looks like a very
Speaker 1: predictable offensive package on the field and still do everything
Speaker 1: we wanted to do and still run the ball really well.
Speaker 1: Against the Chiefs run defense that was okay, not great. Okay,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones is very good. They've got a couple of
Speaker 1: guys in the middle, but they're not a great run
Speaker 1: defense like our defenses, and so we're able to keep
Speaker 1: a balanced offense. We're able to run the ball. I
Speaker 1: think we had a hundred forty five rushing yards, which
Speaker 1: is I mean, the whole postseason, our running game has
Speaker 1: been way better than it was, or at least used
Speaker 1: a lot more than it was during the regular season.
Speaker 1: So great game plan by Byron Leftwitch. What I will
Speaker 1: say though, is you look at we just described Todd
Speaker 1: Bowls game plan, and we described Byron Leftwich game plan.
Speaker 1: But if you're the Cancie Chiefs, you probably could have
Speaker 1: predicted these things. It was too far away. Thro I'm
Speaker 1: getting this all wrong. I'm gonna push the button and
Speaker 1: now I'm gonna talk. But I was too far away.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that that long. You you have
Speaker 1: thee which was not the case for us. And that's
Speaker 1: actually a great point because that's where I was going
Speaker 1: with that job. Thank you. You didn't even need a
Speaker 1: face stat for this one. You get the assist after
Speaker 1: what the Bucks. The Chiefs did to the Bucks first
Speaker 1: defensive approach in week twelve and the Bucks um adjusted.
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many stories I read,
Speaker 1: and I've even written about it and leading up to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl or talked about it on one of
Speaker 1: these shows or with Casey shows when asked a question
Speaker 1: by a Bucks fan, it seemed likely that the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: would play a lot more too deep safety and man
Speaker 1: coverage underneath. And that's exactly what they did. Surely the
Speaker 1: Chiefs should have and probably did know this, that the
Speaker 1: Bucks would do that, And they shouldn't have been surprised
Speaker 1: by our approach on offense either the way we've been
Speaker 1: running the ball with Leonard four Nett, you know, uh,
Speaker 1: and certainly not surprising when we take a deep shot
Speaker 1: or two because that's what we've been doing. Certainly, it
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been surprised when we took a deep shot
Speaker 1: at the end of the at the end of the
Speaker 1: first half. So and they're smart and he reads a
Speaker 1: great coach. I think they have a great coaching staff
Speaker 1: and a great team. And then they were football, they
Speaker 1: were the defending champions. So I'm not what I'm pointing
Speaker 1: out the lost three games in the last I um,
Speaker 1: well that was the first thing that lost the game
Speaker 1: by more than eight points in like a long long time. Well,
Speaker 1: what I'm pointing out is that the game plan, the
Speaker 1: game plans on both sides were excellent, but not exactly
Speaker 1: anything unexpected. So it really did come down, as you
Speaker 1: just said, to execution. Not only was the game plan awesome,
Speaker 1: but it was executed to perfection. Yeah, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: every coach would say, I'm not out there on the field,
Speaker 1: we can help, but these are the guys getting done.
Speaker 1: This coaching staff really um came together and what I
Speaker 1: what I find. And you've been around this before. You've
Speaker 1: been in locker rooms where it was been a me
Speaker 1: locker room. Oh yeah, those were not usually winning teams.
Speaker 1: Those weren't winning teams, but in this particular case, and
Speaker 1: it was harder for us because we weren't in the
Speaker 1: locker room as much. But just by the play and
Speaker 1: by what people say, you could see where no one
Speaker 1: was worried about their own individual stats. Everybody was everybody
Speaker 1: was concerned about how are we gonna win? Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you do you think Mike Evans or Chris Godden? We're
Speaker 1: even aware that that that Mike Evans head Where my glasses, Jeff,
Speaker 1: I don't know, you don't have them right here? What's well?
Speaker 1: Mike Evans into the game with one catch forty yards,
Speaker 1: although he did draw two very big three three pass
Speaker 1: reference calls, so yes, he he was well. The one
Speaker 1: was defensive holding that erased the interception. So yardage wise
Speaker 1: that Mike Evans made happened. It was more like about eight.
Speaker 1: All the touch well, all the all the scoring draw
Speaker 1: all the touchdowns were from the new guys. Guy came in.
Speaker 1: But the reason why the new guys were able to
Speaker 1: do that is because you had to pay attention to
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin. You had to pay attention a Camon break,
Speaker 1: you had to pay attention to to Mike Evans. You know,
Speaker 1: you had Scotty Miller, who get who was in there,
Speaker 1: so you had to pay attention to these people. And
Speaker 1: Tom went with what was open and what he could do,
Speaker 1: and which was grounk a lot of the time. And
Speaker 1: he was there and he executed when he had I
Speaker 1: I thought for a second that, uh, cam Breake was
Speaker 1: going to break it. Have you seen the I loved
Speaker 1: there was something about the way he caught the ball,
Speaker 1: turn the field and then the way he tucked the
Speaker 1: ball in. I'm like, oh, he was about to get serious,
Speaker 1: That's what I was thinking. I mean he was. He's
Speaker 1: like a little cartoon character. His feet were going like
Speaker 1: this anywhere. You know. That was a good play. He
Speaker 1: was a great play. Um. I'm glad he You know,
Speaker 1: he has more yards in this postseason than any other
Speaker 1: Buckeers tied in and has in his career in the
Speaker 1: post He already had the record before that game, so
Speaker 1: he just added what um more yards to it? Um? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Chris Gotten only had two catches for nine yards. But
Speaker 1: do you think he's cares one bit? No? Well, and
Speaker 1: that's just it and that and that's the type of
Speaker 1: thing that um, and I guess this is the one
Speaker 1: sport that you have to be a team to win.
Speaker 1: That's what Tom Brady really you really have to And
Speaker 1: I mean the baseball team is a team more than
Speaker 1: like basketball, but they still they're all stuff. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: guy can really change the game, absolutely. Yeah. Well you
Speaker 1: made a good point that, um, you know, like this
Speaker 1: wasn't or didn't end up being one of those cases
Speaker 1: where somebody's trying to put together a super team from
Speaker 1: scratch using free agency, right that like that famous Philly
Speaker 1: team that was the dream team before they played a
Speaker 1: single game. But that's because they brought in a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of high price guys to be their main guys.
Speaker 1: Now we did that with Tom Brady obviously, but he
Speaker 1: wasn't high priced. Well okay, but he was the main guy.
Speaker 1: We brought him into be the main guy. But it
Speaker 1: was the main guy to a team that already had
Speaker 1: an offense in place and a great defense. But the
Speaker 1: one thing that Jason light ownership Bruce arians the coaching
Speaker 1: staff realized that they needed to make a change at
Speaker 1: quarterback and if they're gonna make it, he was the guy.
Speaker 1: If they couldn't get him, they may not have made
Speaker 1: that change. And and you know, honestly, when you look
Speaker 1: at last season's UH game and this isn't the pile
Speaker 1: on Jameis Winston, but when you looked at games thirty
Speaker 1: I N T s, that changed a lot of games.
Speaker 1: We just had. We just set the team record for
Speaker 1: the fewest turnovers in the season this year. And that's
Speaker 1: made all the difference in the world. Sure, and so
Speaker 1: you knew you didn't turn over in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: You knew this was a good team. And I think
Speaker 1: this is where free agency really really works. If if
Speaker 1: you're trying to build a team, as you just said,
Speaker 1: with just nothing but free agents, you're gonna have problems.
Speaker 1: But when you just have a couple of pieces, and
Speaker 1: it's very similar to what John Gruten did. When you
Speaker 1: know the first year he you know, you know, yes
Speaker 1: Tony Dungee had the defense, and yes Tony did really well,
Speaker 1: and um, I think Tony would eventually won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl here if he would if he would have aid,
Speaker 1: but that didn't happen. So that so the difference was
Speaker 1: John didn't make the changes because he thought that's what
Speaker 1: he needed to get over. He already had a quarterback though,
Speaker 1: so he's bringing in a third receiver like George derovisions
Speaker 1: the second receiver like Kavil mccartell. He already had Keshan Johnson.
Speaker 1: He did kind of rebuild the offensive line, Ken Dilger,
Speaker 1: you know. There it was a lot of guys that
Speaker 1: were kind of like, and that's what, and that's what.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you're if you're a team bringing
Speaker 1: in if you're the Eagles and you're bringing in a
Speaker 1: guy who you want to be your number one cornerback,
Speaker 1: and you signed a linebacker that you want to be
Speaker 1: the best player on your defense, and you signed two
Speaker 1: new receivers and and they're all supposed to be your
Speaker 1: best players, that's when winning the off season often doesn't work.
Speaker 1: And then and a lot of us said about the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers derisively that we won the offseason, which is kind
Speaker 1: of like, uh, it's an insult these days if if
Speaker 1: somebody says, oh, yeah, good job, you won the off season,
Speaker 1: you know what they mean by that. Didn't happen that
Speaker 1: way for the because, uh, Leonard Fournette, the Buccaneers already
Speaker 1: had Ronald Jones and Keyshawn Vaughan and Lashawn McCoy when
Speaker 1: they said, when we got Robagrounsky, we already had o J.
Speaker 1: Harden Camp, Brad got hurt, hurt. When we signed Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: we already had Mike Evans and Chris Cobbin and all
Speaker 1: those other guys that you mentioned. So none of those
Speaker 1: guys had to be your savior. They just filled all
Speaker 1: the cracks in the depth chart and everybody just had
Speaker 1: to play, and they did. Ross Cockrell coach loves to say,
Speaker 1: how great of a signing that was? Right, Yeah, we
Speaker 1: got Aaron Stinney off a waiver claim in the middle
Speaker 1: middle last season, and you drafted you, you drafted Matt
Speaker 1: Gay and then it didn't work out, and you didn't
Speaker 1: wait because you weren't gonna lose you. You you just
Speaker 1: didn't have faith, so you got sucked up to come
Speaker 1: in and Happily for Matt Gay, he's now with them,
Speaker 1: so he's he's a good player, but he just struggled
Speaker 1: when he was here. Well, he was being he was.
Speaker 1: The problem was he was having problems making it consistently
Speaker 1: in training camp and they're seeing this and it's not
Speaker 1: getting better. And you could have waited it out and
Speaker 1: hope that he got better but that to me and
Speaker 1: I about this this year was the number one signed
Speaker 1: to me along the way that this team was all
Speaker 1: in because basically what they were saying by bringing and
Speaker 1: suck Up in the last week and basically giving him
Speaker 1: the job over Gay after like two practices, just based
Speaker 1: on what they knew he'd done in the past, was saying,
Speaker 1: we can't take the chance that everything we're doing works
Speaker 1: out and we lose games because of the kicker. I
Speaker 1: can't take that chance. And they didn't feel good about it,
Speaker 1: and they still feel good about it. Suck Up comes
Speaker 1: in and um, counting the playoffs makes something like thirty
Speaker 1: six and thirty nine field goals. It's I almost feel
Speaker 1: like this is a Disney movie, you know. I mean, seriously,
Speaker 1: where where the older quarterback? The old team shrugs him
Speaker 1: off the sides? And I and I don't know what
Speaker 1: happened in New England because like the quarterback should should
Speaker 1: be played by Dennis Quake. Yeah, I mean it could
Speaker 1: have gone either way. I mean maybe it was just
Speaker 1: time to move on. Maybe maybe he wanted to move on.
Speaker 1: But either way, uh um, there is never anybody when
Speaker 1: you separate, it's never good, you know, there's never really
Speaker 1: good ending when players leave teams. It just does. It
Speaker 1: just never happens. It's never good. You mean when like
Speaker 1: an aging yea like johny Unitis with the Chargers. Sure
Speaker 1: it's yeah, Joe Namath going out to Rams, I believe. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when you have these great quarterbacks that you know have
Speaker 1: played so well and they want to last, they want
Speaker 1: to they want to prove one thing that they still
Speaker 1: can make it happen. And in this particular case, he
Speaker 1: did so. He all of which is to say, there's
Speaker 1: only one Tom Brady. The other people nobody does what
Speaker 1: Tom Brady just did. The man is forty three years old.
Speaker 1: And that's not old in life but as age, but
Speaker 1: as a um as a professional athlete in football, that's,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, it's ancient. He's not ancient, clearly, butte is
Speaker 1: not supposed to be. No. But I think I liked
Speaker 1: I like what Bruce Arian said when when he when
Speaker 1: he talked to Tom Brady. I liked that he said
Speaker 1: that if you come, we're gonna win a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Because they felt like they did have the right. But
Speaker 1: then they didn't just sit on just Tom Brady. They
Speaker 1: started going, Okay, if we got a chance to make
Speaker 1: ourselves this guy and and you have to you you know,
Speaker 1: we we always have Jason Light on during our broadcast
Speaker 1: and he's very insightful about some stuff. And he made
Speaker 1: a comment that he had grown into the job. You know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing when you're you're Jason. Yeah, Jason Light
Speaker 1: had grown in the job over the last few years.
Speaker 1: He learned a few things. He felt like, he learned
Speaker 1: to trust his staff to, you know, open up more ideas.
Speaker 1: You know, when your butts on the line, you want
Speaker 1: to be in control totally. You don't want to go
Speaker 1: out because of somebody else's mistake. But when you learn
Speaker 1: to lead, or when you learn to manage people, you
Speaker 1: learn to have that. You have to have that. You
Speaker 1: have to listen to all of that. And I think
Speaker 1: you see Bruce arians does that with his coaching staff.
Speaker 1: You know, it's very open coaching, open coaching staff. It's
Speaker 1: not just this is how we're gonna do it, this
Speaker 1: is the only way. Um. So I think that plays
Speaker 1: volumes Jason Light. Um, at this point, you cannot say
Speaker 1: anything other than a wildly successful higher because whoever could
Speaker 1: build a roster this freaking loaded. It's hard to believe
Speaker 1: that this roster is this loaded. I would personally be
Speaker 1: willing to bet you you rewind this before the game
Speaker 1: and ask ask some analysts, who do you think is
Speaker 1: gonna win this game? I think the Chiefs will probably
Speaker 1: win this game. Patrick Mahomes is really hard to stop.
Speaker 1: But if you ask them which roster is better overall,
Speaker 1: they're gonna say the Bucks. The defensive talent alone, the
Speaker 1: gap between us and the Chiefs was huge. And Mike
Speaker 1: Greenberg gets yeah, sure, he helped them make it happy.
Speaker 1: He's he's special, yes, and and um much more than that,
Speaker 1: and uh, coach likes to or yeah, coach likes to
Speaker 1: point out how Jason and and with help from guys
Speaker 1: like Mike, have not only built this incredible roster, but
Speaker 1: we didn't mortgage the future. Like we don't have a
Speaker 1: bad game situation. You do want a lot of guys
Speaker 1: we need to resign, sure, sure, but you also have
Speaker 1: guys that have been willing to restructure their contracts to
Speaker 1: make things friendly right now. I I think there's something
Speaker 1: to the factor of if you're a free agent on
Speaker 1: this team. Let's say you're Leonard four Nett, you're appending
Speaker 1: for you there is something to to say to the
Speaker 1: idea that there's a draw to want to stay on
Speaker 1: this team because this team certainly could win another championship.
Speaker 1: Um that could be in the running if But in addition,
Speaker 1: all these guys are going to get paid handsome a
Speaker 1: good amount somewhere. So any kind of thoughts of hometown
Speaker 1: discounts don't expect you to be very much, especially when
Speaker 1: it does tho is it gets these guys motivated to
Speaker 1: try to work it out. Well, well, you do have
Speaker 1: jack you do have God. You know Lenny leaving jackson
Speaker 1: he was the man in Jacksonville. Coming here, he wasn't
Speaker 1: the man. And then he ends up winning a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and well, he managed to hold his frustrations in. He
Speaker 1: listened to coaches telling him be patient. It's not easy.
Speaker 1: Were easily He's told us, is frustrated, but he handled it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then when it came time he became the man
Speaker 1: again and he did. He had four yards from scrimmage.
Speaker 1: That's the ninth most for any player in any postseason.
Speaker 1: And and you also have to realize too, is that
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are underneath their first like Chris Godwin. Okay,
Speaker 1: now you know Chris is a phenomenal player. Well, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I hope he stays, but you know, he's
Speaker 1: going to be courted, and he should be and he
Speaker 1: should look for a good deal and he needs to
Speaker 1: because that's his family. That's how it. But the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: are gonna be motivated, and there's franchise tags and things
Speaker 1: like that. But a good example is Shaq Barrett. Jack
Speaker 1: Barrett spent all his time in Denver and went to
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl at Denver. Wanted to say, wanted to
Speaker 1: stay in Denver. It doesn't work out. He does the
Speaker 1: free agency thing. He almost goes to Cincinnati. They they decide, no,
Speaker 1: you're you're not the guy. You have some issues. We
Speaker 1: don't we don't know. We're not gonna do that. He
Speaker 1: comes here on a one year deal, does a one
Speaker 1: year deal, ends up nineteen and a half sacks, and
Speaker 1: then gets a franchise tag. His family is secure, so
Speaker 1: he knew that he needed to do something different. And
Speaker 1: I think we're going to find some of some of
Speaker 1: the current Bucketeer players will have to do the same.
Speaker 1: But here's the best part for those players. They did
Speaker 1: get the hardware that everyone chases, so they can get
Speaker 1: another one. Well, I know, but sometimes you but you
Speaker 1: you it's hard to keep everybody together, Scott. But there
Speaker 1: will be other veterans out there. There's there's certainly a lot.
Speaker 1: There's certainly a lot of people predicting that with the
Speaker 1: cap probably about to be on, which is down, and
Speaker 1: teams pretty much always count on from year to year
Speaker 1: when they're planning it going up every year because it
Speaker 1: has so the fact that not only isn't going up
Speaker 1: but might come down a little bit is gonna squeeze
Speaker 1: some teams is gonna squeeze some veterans out of their
Speaker 1: current situations. And if you're this veteran just got squeezed
Speaker 1: out and you're looking at where can I go? And
Speaker 1: I probably because the situation can't make as much as
Speaker 1: I was hoping to. This is gonna be looked like
Speaker 1: an awfully attractive position, Yeah, because you can make a
Speaker 1: run at it. So if you lose and God forbid,
Speaker 1: knock on, would I hope it doesn't happen. If you lose, Chris, God,
Speaker 1: when there might be another guy out there it's ready
Speaker 1: to step in. And and but I, I and fans
Speaker 1: have to realize too, you know, you know, people go, oh,
Speaker 1: you gotta give a hometime discount. I'm just gonna say this.
Speaker 1: When you're at your job and someone else is going
Speaker 1: to offer you, you know, and it's pretty much you
Speaker 1: don't just say no. Now. Sometimes you look for lifestyle
Speaker 1: and things of that nature, and that that means a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean, I personally went for lifestyle rather than traveling
Speaker 1: all over the country for jobs. But um, that that
Speaker 1: being said, everybody has to make their own call. But
Speaker 1: it's nice for them because they did. They just want
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. It's a balance. It's a balance. But
Speaker 1: certainly I think you have two sides that I think
Speaker 1: you have the Bucks who are very motivated, just like
Speaker 1: they were last year with JPP and Shock and Dominican
Speaker 1: Sue In a number of guys very motivated to try
Speaker 1: to keep them around. You're gonna have a motivated Jason
Speaker 1: light and and everybody on his staff to make it happen.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna have players who like it here because
Speaker 1: this is a very close team as ACE, and it's
Speaker 1: a great and staff. It's a good environment. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's hard to and it's Florida too, with no state
Speaker 1: income tax. It's hard to. It's hard to pick a
Speaker 1: better destination right now. Now. If you were Shack Barrett
Speaker 1: in Denver and you're the fifth wheel and you want
Speaker 1: you need to go somewhere else in order to have
Speaker 1: a chance to play regularly and show what you can do.
Speaker 1: But that's not what we're talking about. With Maybe Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett, maybe Antonio Brown, maybe they'd say I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a number one. I'm going to a team where
Speaker 1: I'm the unquestioned one. I can understand that, But for
Speaker 1: most of these guys, that's not the case. Lavante David
Speaker 1: doesn't need to go somewhere else to be the number one.
Speaker 1: He's the alpha around here, which doesn't really act like it,
Speaker 1: which I have to say, I'm so happy for him
Speaker 1: and number one God, he was very gracious to uh
Speaker 1: go on the air with us, um and after the
Speaker 1: super busy Yeah he actually it's um there's another podcast
Speaker 1: that we do the t J does, which is Nothing
Speaker 1: but Bucks and that came out Monday morning. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: came out Monday more whning. TJ stayed up all night
Speaker 1: to put it out there because he knew people wanted
Speaker 1: to hear it. And um that that interview is in there,
Speaker 1: and you should listen to the interview because in that podcast,
Speaker 1: in the interview, yeah, and it's a great interview about
Speaker 1: he talks about Tom Brady uh doing the speech before
Speaker 1: the game and what that speech meant to Lavante. Everybody's
Speaker 1: talking about it. I saw Devin White ask if we
Speaker 1: had it and couldn't put it out there for you
Speaker 1: but to see I'm not sure we don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody was allowed in there to see. There's
Speaker 1: so many reasons for the players only meeting. It was
Speaker 1: a player's only meeting. That could very well have been somebody.
Speaker 1: Somebody in that group should have pulled out their cell
Speaker 1: phone and recorded it. Maybe Tom didn't want anybody to
Speaker 1: have it, So there's that. So yeah, I've heard that
Speaker 1: speech was pretty and and he apparently also texted everybody
Speaker 1: on the team and say night before we will win
Speaker 1: pretty solid things. Yeah, he knows how to do without
Speaker 1: being corny. Well not only that, but he then he
Speaker 1: proves you're right, so you kind of have to go.
Speaker 1: Maybe I should follow the Scott. Yeah, and then wouldn't
Speaker 1: that make you want to stay here? Yeah? Well there's
Speaker 1: that makes me want to stay, So I've decided I'm
Speaker 1: staying in another year if they'll have me. We gotta if.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're probably probably pretty deep into this, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: fifty two minutes. But I mean we haven't been salty
Speaker 1: ton time. Well, it's hard to be salty when you're
Speaker 1: we're a little salty about well. No, we weren't salty
Speaker 1: about officiating because I was a little salty that people
Speaker 1: were calling those plays drops. That was about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you want to talk about somebody who was salty?
Speaker 1: One of the best moments of the entire Super Bowl. Okay,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna they won't see this, but you'll know
Speaker 1: what I mean when you do it, all right? Yes,
Speaker 1: I just did the the Antoine Winfield crouch in front
Speaker 1: of Tyreek Hill and flashing the peace sign right in
Speaker 1: his face. You know what I would. I thought that
Speaker 1: was the best. It was. They could have thrown fifty flags.
Speaker 1: I don't care. That was the best. So great, and
Speaker 1: it didn't even hurt the team because it was its
Speaker 1: appenally and not just back a little bit after the
Speaker 1: turning round downs. But you talk, Aime was over at them.
Speaker 1: And what I loved about it is not only not
Speaker 1: only is it payback? But if you do a backflip
Speaker 1: in someone's end zone, you better and you come back,
Speaker 1: you better play really hard. I'm not he was. He
Speaker 1: was a non factor in this game. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Took him out of the game. He only had until
Speaker 1: the end when they were the defense was playing very deep.
Speaker 1: He only had like three catchers with two yards ended up.
Speaker 1: I think seven for seven. You know, payback, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say it payback. So I'm not a big fan
Speaker 1: of of those of the um the memes on Twitter
Speaker 1: that gets started and then get really old pretty quickly.
Speaker 1: One of the ones in the last couple, say the
Speaker 1: airplane with the only touchdown. It's a it's a general
Speaker 1: meme idea being um, how it started, how it is
Speaker 1: it is now, and you get the two different pictures.
Speaker 1: I'm like, so played out. That's the problem with these
Speaker 1: Twitter memes is it might be cute and funny a
Speaker 1: couple of times, but then everybody uses it and then
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, God, are really doing another how it
Speaker 1: started out? That being said, I did see one I liked,
Speaker 1: and that was it was Tyreek Hill and and wind Fields.
Speaker 1: In the shot you can see Tyree kill looking back,
Speaker 1: and I'm giving the pea sign on one of his
Speaker 1: unlike I think is seven five year touchdown in week twelve,
Speaker 1: and then next to it is the Antoine Winfield crouching
Speaker 1: over and getting it right back. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I doubt that. I doubt that tyreek Hill would even complain,
Speaker 1: because if you're gonna dish it out, you gotta understand
Speaker 1: when it doesn't. He does that peace out thing, which
Speaker 1: could be considered taunting, and he called for it also
Speaker 1: on the sidelines, picking up the phone. Help is coming
Speaker 1: your way, you know, I mean, come on, come on.
Speaker 1: You know you were feeling you were feeling pretty good.
Speaker 1: So if you were, if you were Antoine, if Antoine,
Speaker 1: if the game was a three point game and Antoine
Speaker 1: Winfield cost us critical feel position with that penalty, then
Speaker 1: he would be getting rightfully criticized. But screw that, man.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even close. The game was in hand. It
Speaker 1: was the perfect opportunity. I'm glad he thought of it.
Speaker 1: I don't think if I don't know if I would
Speaker 1: have thought of it. And the thing is is he
Speaker 1: is such a well reserved you know. That was his
Speaker 1: only penalty all years. I believe so yes, that was
Speaker 1: his penalty all year and it was a forced penalty.
Speaker 1: He did it like yeah right here, I knew he
Speaker 1: was taking that one. But it is. It is when
Speaker 1: you look back that the Bucks were beaten um solidly
Speaker 1: by two teams, uh, the Saints and Kansas City, but
Speaker 1: then when it mattered, they won the bigger game. So
Speaker 1: crazy football, crazy steams. I remember, I forgot, you know what.
Speaker 1: It got to a point where I think, I think
Speaker 1: part of it is just because you were just hoping
Speaker 1: to get in, you know what, with seven and five,
Speaker 1: you were hoping to get into the playoffs. Remember how
Speaker 1: we were talking really really need to win three out
Speaker 1: of four. You could probably sneak in, but it would
Speaker 1: be you know, best if you won all four, because
Speaker 1: you're going and we're talking about this, we're seeing what
Speaker 1: are we gonna need? Yeah, you know, it'd be great
Speaker 1: if we can win out four, Pard it's hard to
Speaker 1: predict winning four in a row. Yeah, if we would
Speaker 1: have said, oh I just went eight straight out, they
Speaker 1: would have been given us a cup to you know
Speaker 1: what end for a drug test. So they Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then we didn't lose again, I mean, just just nuts man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And as I'm gonna get a little salty here because well,
Speaker 1: I'm just it's on a personal sault. So it's it's
Speaker 1: just this has been a wonderful journey. This has been
Speaker 1: you know, both you and I have waited a long time.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is my thirtieth season doing this, this
Speaker 1: is your twenty ninth season doing it. Eighteen years ago
Speaker 1: we got to do a Super Bowl. It was awesome.
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to go back. We didn't
Speaker 1: right away. That was my eleventh year in the league,
Speaker 1: and I already felt like I'd been there forever. Yes,
Speaker 1: I I agree, and I wasn't at that time. I
Speaker 1: was not working for the organization. It was kind of yeah,
Speaker 1: I was part of yeah, and an ownership had treated
Speaker 1: me like I worked for the organization. But it was
Speaker 1: it's been eighteen years to where where we are right now.
Speaker 1: That's a long time. You're coming. Well, here it comes.
Speaker 1: The salty part is I'm really really pissed at at COVID.
Speaker 1: I am at it, and it just sucks so much
Speaker 1: out of everybody. And when you look back at the
Speaker 1: two different Super bowls, as exciting as this is and
Speaker 1: as wonderful as it is, it's just so different from
Speaker 1: the other way we did it. Yeah, that's what I
Speaker 1: was talking at the top and and with and Jeff.
Speaker 1: Let's make sure we acknowledge that has done a lot
Speaker 1: worse things unbelievable. Yes, specific it's it saddens me that
Speaker 1: people have a hard time to wear a mask. That
Speaker 1: saddens me. Okay, you've said yeah, and I'm a big
Speaker 1: mask wear but the um and what's really crazy about
Speaker 1: all of this. What COVID did do is forced the
Speaker 1: super Bowl. Well I'll take it back. What happened was
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles couldn't get their stadium together, so the
Speaker 1: super Bowl got forced into Tampa. And so when you
Speaker 1: think super Bowl fifty five, fifty five is gonna is
Speaker 1: gonna you know who wears fifty five, it's Derrick Brooks number.
Speaker 1: If you don't know, John Lynch goes into the Hall
Speaker 1: of he didn't even talk about that. And and all
Speaker 1: I can say is when when? And you knew about
Speaker 1: it and you didn't tell me, So you're good with
Speaker 1: a secret. I was, hey, yeah, that's good. So you
Speaker 1: can you know if I'm told you can you if
Speaker 1: you tell me something and say a little salty about
Speaker 1: that did you didn't think I can hold a secret.
Speaker 1: But that's a whole other saltiest But but because of everything,
Speaker 1: this is so so wonderful about what I'm really salty
Speaker 1: about and I had talked about about me, but what
Speaker 1: I'm really really salty about is I'm salty that the
Speaker 1: Buck fans that are listening to this and those who
Speaker 1: could have come to the game all games, all season long,
Speaker 1: that hardcore fan, no matter what the record was, no
Speaker 1: matter who the head coach was, they showed up every
Speaker 1: Sunday and cheered as much as they could. And that sucks.
Speaker 1: But you look around this commun any and the excitement.
Speaker 1: I hope that wasn't too well. I mean, it's just
Speaker 1: another reason to hate this COVID thing. Yeah, there are
Speaker 1: bigger reasons, of course, we're just talking personally about one
Speaker 1: that is currently Yeah, and and and everybody has their
Speaker 1: own their their their own journey through this. But you know,
Speaker 1: if everybody just kinda um helps out um and which
Speaker 1: swear man, well, at least at least the country's now
Speaker 1: taking it seriously from the top. Yes, and that's why
Speaker 1: it should change that it should have been some big,
Speaker 1: big from the beginning. Yeah, Anyway, this isn't a COVID podcast,
Speaker 1: So I have a few things on my notes that
Speaker 1: we never got to slight and get to them now.
Speaker 1: So the Bucks won by twenty two points, and that's
Speaker 1: not our most lopsided Super Bowl win because we won
Speaker 1: the last one by twenty seven points. So we've been
Speaker 1: in We've been in two Super Bowls. In both cases
Speaker 1: we faced the number one offense in the league. Uh
Speaker 1: in terms of yards um. The Raiders might have also
Speaker 1: been the highest scoring team. The Chiefs actually were not
Speaker 1: the highest scoring team. In fact, the Bucks scored more
Speaker 1: points than the Chiefs this year. But um blah, blah blah.
Speaker 1: So two Super Bowl wins. The Buccaneers and the Ravens
Speaker 1: are are the only teams that have won multiple Super
Speaker 1: Bowls and never lost one. Right, And the Buccaneers have
Speaker 1: two Super Bowl wins of twenty or more points. That's
Speaker 1: only one fewer than San Francisco has three, and the
Speaker 1: Bucks and Dallas have two, and that's it. Nobody else
Speaker 1: has more than one. So when the Bucks get to
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl, they dominate, which doesn't make for the best.
Speaker 1: There's not very many teams that This is only the
Speaker 1: third Super Bowl with when a defense didn't allow a touchdown.
Speaker 1: One was just two years ago when the Brady's Patriots
Speaker 1: the rams um or was it three years ago? Two
Speaker 1: years ago? It was he left and then they didn't
Speaker 1: go next year, and then he's back this year, so okay, right,
Speaker 1: and Gronkowski caught the pass right here retired last for
Speaker 1: the Patriots was a twenty nine yarder that set up
Speaker 1: the only touchdown of that game. And then he retired
Speaker 1: which would have been two thousand nineteen, and came back.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was to two seasons. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: I really I diverse here for a second, but you
Speaker 1: brought it up, diverse. Did you did you see did
Speaker 1: you see them the commercial where if you have bad
Speaker 1: bad phone reception? What the one withsation? It's funny and
Speaker 1: the best line is Gronk, mom, where's my football pad? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really cool to see Brady and Gronk cooking
Speaker 1: up in the Super Bowl again. You know, Brady and
Speaker 1: Gronk and a lot of people have already seen this
Speaker 1: stat but you might not have if you're listening. They
Speaker 1: have fourteen touchdown passes between them. That's more than anybody ever.
Speaker 1: They passed Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. That's pretty that's
Speaker 1: that's how about Jerry Rice saying Tom Brady can have
Speaker 1: the game time? It is pretty great, right because we
Speaker 1: say that because if you don't know, Jerry Rice was
Speaker 1: probably the first guy people ever called the goat, and
Speaker 1: he's he has been I think by now the mantel
Speaker 1: has been passed. But there was a time when I
Speaker 1: think he was considered the greatest player at any position
Speaker 1: in NFL history, right, just because his accomplishments at his
Speaker 1: position were so much better than anybody else at his position.
Speaker 1: You know what, Tom Brady probably is higher than that.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's got more Super Bowl rings than most than
Speaker 1: all franchises not put together. But yet, no, He's got
Speaker 1: seven and no other franchise. The Patriots obviously have six,
Speaker 1: and some of those Steelers. How crazy is that? You
Speaker 1: know Bill Belichick actually has eight rings check because he
Speaker 1: was with the Giants, so he's still got more. High. Well,
Speaker 1: then tell Tom. We're going to tell Tom that. But
Speaker 1: as a player, nobody's close, No, no, no, But I
Speaker 1: think what's I think what's um as a fan? And
Speaker 1: which you know, how harder it is to get to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. What fifty years between Kansas City's Super Bowls?
Speaker 1: They go fifty years, they win one, they come back,
Speaker 1: and then they don't win, which I hope I never
Speaker 1: have to experience that fifty years. No. Oh, losing a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, yes, because I I have a hard time
Speaker 1: with the championship game. That is pretty cool that we've
Speaker 1: never had to watch our team loses super Bowl two.
Speaker 1: And oh, I mean that is I still want to
Speaker 1: May I may after you say that, I may just quit. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to risk it for one more if we
Speaker 1: get back there, and well, damn it out ride dead
Speaker 1: horse with you? Oh man, speaking of riding horses, eyes
Speaker 1: waiting for Devin White come through the stadium ding his horse.
Speaker 1: I don't think he can do that. No, No, I'm
Speaker 1: looking at all these other notes. Just see if there's
Speaker 1: anything worth bringing up here. Um. Well, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: Shack was basically our simion. He tied Simeon record for
Speaker 1: single postseason for the Bucks with four sacks. He was
Speaker 1: just dominant. Yeah, you know, we had a really good
Speaker 1: strategy to get past the last two games of having
Speaker 1: the other team have their pro bow left tackle get
Speaker 1: injured and knocked out strategy on our party. But that's
Speaker 1: what that's that's this crazy part about what it takes
Speaker 1: to get You can have the best players in the world,
Speaker 1: but you gotta stay healthy. You've got to you know,
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's hard to stay healthy throughout
Speaker 1: the whole year. Yes, everybody loses players, but that square,
Speaker 1: I think Jason light did an phenomenal job and the
Speaker 1: coaching staff did a phenomenal job of backups. Right, So
Speaker 1: when Ronald Jones had a COVID and the and the quad,
Speaker 1: you had Leonard four Nette when um when we were
Speaker 1: beating up on the receiving. But really, you can look
Speaker 1: at most teams that are there at the end every
Speaker 1: season and they are among the teams that also had
Speaker 1: very good injury fortune. I mean, there have been some
Speaker 1: Packers teams in recent years where Aaron Rodgers went down
Speaker 1: and they really didn't have a chance after that, and
Speaker 1: we would have been in trouble without Tom Lady. Let's
Speaker 1: be fair. If you look at overall the overall picture,
Speaker 1: it was a great year for us injury wise, with
Speaker 1: Vitave coming back at the end, Anto Winfield coming back
Speaker 1: from missing one game, dont White coming back from the
Speaker 1: COVID list. When we hit the Super Bowl, we had
Speaker 1: all eleven guys that started for UCE on defense at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year. We had them all right
Speaker 1: now because Vita just come back. Um, Nacho was actually
Speaker 1: starting at nose tackle in the game. But Vita was
Speaker 1: back and he was out there on asking situation from
Speaker 1: nearly so you had everybody on defense. You still had
Speaker 1: him at the end. That's that You can't underestimate how
Speaker 1: big of a deal that is. You didn't lose one
Speaker 1: of your corners along the way. I mean maybe for
Speaker 1: a game or two, but and then on offense, yeah,
Speaker 1: and then on offense you had you lost Oj Howard,
Speaker 1: but you had Robert Grandkowski. We're sitting there, you know,
Speaker 1: he was already starting. But Krakowsky and Ogi Howard would
Speaker 1: have been pretty nice pairing. Um. And then that's really it.
Speaker 1: You lost Alex cap at the end, we were that
Speaker 1: you were without almar Pet for like three games. UM.
Speaker 1: Otherwise until you lost Kappa your offensive line and was
Speaker 1: everybody was starting. Um, you know what did you lose?
Speaker 1: You You had a bunch of injury problems at receiver
Speaker 1: in the middle season, but everybody recovered and by the
Speaker 1: time we had the Super Bowl, we didn't have a
Speaker 1: single player out of the Super Bowl because other than
Speaker 1: if they were on injury reserve. But of the players
Speaker 1: on the active roster, nobody had to miss it due
Speaker 1: to injury. Usually have one or two guys out there
Speaker 1: to injury, maybe they're not even the starter or COVID.
Speaker 1: We we waited for the injury, the the inactives. We
Speaker 1: got the inactives nine minute minutes before the game and
Speaker 1: not a go one of them was inactive because of injury.
Speaker 1: That's a that's a really remarkable thing to be able
Speaker 1: to say when you're about to play the biggest game
Speaker 1: of the year. So we we had we should not.
Speaker 1: I mean, give give people credit. Give our training staff
Speaker 1: and our strength christ staff and our medical staff credit
Speaker 1: for helping make that happen. Give the players credit for
Speaker 1: working really hard. But there's some luck involved there too, right, No,
Speaker 1: you have to have a little bit of luck. That's
Speaker 1: why it's so hard to repeat. That's why it's you
Speaker 1: can't take it for granted. That's why everybody just enjoy
Speaker 1: it because you know, you don't know when it's gonna
Speaker 1: come around again. And in Kansas, City right now. They
Speaker 1: felt like, you know, they have a really good team,
Speaker 1: and they still have a really good team. Have you
Speaker 1: seen the Super Bowl ats for next year? You see
Speaker 1: who's number one? No, I haven't seen the city. Well
Speaker 1: I wouldn't like the four. Yeah, well that's because they
Speaker 1: figure we're a fluke. Respect Well, Tom Brady's gonna be
Speaker 1: forty four years old next season, so sure you can't
Speaker 1: expect him to keep playing. Yeah. Wait, we did ask
Speaker 1: b a if you know, are you ending up on
Speaker 1: a high note? And hell no, Hell no, I'm coming
Speaker 1: back to what another? What was what was the slogan
Speaker 1: um that Kansas City had um going for? Was it
Speaker 1: going for two or whatever? Whatever? Can I'm sorry, but
Speaker 1: whatever Kansas City had a slogan about I don't know
Speaker 1: what going to the Super Bowl a second time. But
Speaker 1: Bruce said that he was going to use that. Someone
Speaker 1: brought it up to him and he said, I'm not
Speaker 1: using that slogan. It did work for him, so I
Speaker 1: wish I could remember it, but I still got you
Speaker 1: to laugh. Yeah. No, He's took me a while land
Speaker 1: the plane, but we got He's had some pretty pretty
Speaker 1: good quotes along the partially because He's just honest. Do
Speaker 1: you know, do you know out of all the media requirements,
Speaker 1: he has everything he has to do. It was about gosh,
Speaker 1: it was almost twelve thirty. We were still on the air.
Speaker 1: He did call and do his interview with us. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and our and our PR department did a super job
Speaker 1: of It. Was funny because we opened up our phone
Speaker 1: lines for the fans and so many people were calling.
Speaker 1: All the lines were jam and b A was getting
Speaker 1: a busy city, so I had to get the station
Speaker 1: to re route a phone into the studio. Crazy, the
Speaker 1: brs calling me, going, we can't get in, we can't
Speaker 1: get in. I go to the producer, what's going on
Speaker 1: because the phones are blowing up. I can't we need
Speaker 1: to hear from Larry from LUTs. Yeah, well that's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm going, how are we going to do this?
Speaker 1: But we did. We we figured it out. But all
Speaker 1: in all, it's it's an exciting time and and you know,
Speaker 1: you go ahead, you know if you had something well, no,
Speaker 1: I was just thinking, I'm sitting here thinking, Okay, I
Speaker 1: gotta put together the Salty Dogs, and I'm thinking, I
Speaker 1: don't you know, now, I gotta add another piece to
Speaker 1: it because we were there when the Bucks win Super
Speaker 1: Bowl fifty five. So oh, you mean you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta change the intro. Yeah, but I think it's been
Speaker 1: needed for I think it's been needed for a while now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I don't know what I'm gonna do, Probably not this.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I'll probably do it next year, make it fresh,
Speaker 1: something new, because I don't have time to do it today.
Speaker 1: I didn't think you're gonna do it today. Okay, Well
Speaker 1: I felt like you were a pressure Okay, Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like we could talk about the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl two hours ago to weret you want because
Speaker 1: we we could just wrap it up and get to
Speaker 1: the fans we've been or you got some more statues, Well,
Speaker 1: I I really don't. I mean, I don't think I
Speaker 1: got through them all. I think I got through the
Speaker 1: ones that people went to school. Really good. You're really good.
Speaker 1: Now you're being making conversations of our listeners. We're the
Speaker 1: only did we mentioned third team only to hold a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl opponent without a touchdown? I just did that, okay,
Speaker 1: just checking. Uh you don't know who they were, Uh,
Speaker 1: probably the Packers. Okay, we just talked about It was
Speaker 1: the Rams like two years ago. The other one was
Speaker 1: a long time ago, Dallas. Yeah. Um, this uh, this
Speaker 1: was the thirty first time a quarterback has been named
Speaker 1: Super Bowl m VP? Did you know that? All? Right? Um?
Speaker 1: Did you know that Tom Brady's been named Super Bowl
Speaker 1: MVP five times? I would hope you know that one
Speaker 1: us he's the first in three different decades. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know that part's cool? How about Crowlex? Crazy? Is that
Speaker 1: for salty dogs? We love that? He? Uh? I forgot
Speaker 1: I was gonna say. And then, um, do you know
Speaker 1: what Brady's passing rating was? And that's his best ever
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl? Crazy? Isn't that hard to believe?
Speaker 1: That is crazy? And that was and that's with only
Speaker 1: two one yards so everything, that's that's the only reason
Speaker 1: why it wasn't how good? That was his fifth time
Speaker 1: he was over a hundred, but this was the biggest one.
Speaker 1: That's crazy. If you if you know how passer rating
Speaker 1: is calculated, it it uses formulas for four different percentages,
Speaker 1: completion percentage, percentage yards per attempt, interceptions pert tempt, and
Speaker 1: touchdowns per tempt and probably the three touchdowns zero interceptions
Speaker 1: and one nine we're pretty close to perfect, as high
Speaker 1: as you can score, because at a certain point, if
Speaker 1: you're throwing eighty or eighty five or ninety, it doesn't
Speaker 1: change your rating. There's a certain point where it's his
Speaker 1: high as you can get. But it's just that the
Speaker 1: yards told it was only yeah, but that's all it
Speaker 1: needed to be. That's not a complaint. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: that's the only reason why his pass rating wasn't something
Speaker 1: like one or something. Yeah, we ran the ball very well,
Speaker 1: did played fantastic good specialty the dude they were Did
Speaker 1: you know that the Chiefs were converting like fifty percent
Speaker 1: of their third downs from seven to ten yards like,
Speaker 1: which is insane by the way, Yeah, we we were
Speaker 1: killing them on third down. There was. I was actually
Speaker 1: watching the broadcast parts of it earlier, I think yesterday,
Speaker 1: and um, it's on tonight at nine o'clock. Is it
Speaker 1: in network? Okay? But is it? Is it the CBS broadcast?
Speaker 1: Because my wife had somehow taped she said, you want
Speaker 1: to watch it because I taped it, and we're watching it.
Speaker 1: I'm like, these commercials are kind of just boring in lane.
Speaker 1: They're not. They're not. There's no special commercials and then
Speaker 1: I realized we were watching it on NFL and that
Speaker 1: she taped it on NFL network. I want to watch
Speaker 1: this CBS version with all the crazy commercials. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know who has that, but I'm sure the NFL
Speaker 1: network is selling it, reselling it, packet repackaging it. So
Speaker 1: so I don't even know if there were good commercials
Speaker 1: or not. I heard their were, but I didn't see any.
Speaker 1: I mean, I heard there was a new progressive don't
Speaker 1: turn into your parents commercial are Yeah, I heard that. Um,
Speaker 1: there are people in the organization that have the official
Speaker 1: TV copies. I but I but I do want to
Speaker 1: probably watch tonight. Today is Tuesday, so I'll probably watch
Speaker 1: it tonight. It's on at nine, just because when you're
Speaker 1: doing a game, it's funny how you watch it differently,
Speaker 1: you know, when you're working rather than just sitting in
Speaker 1: there cheering and then feeling good all over again. So
Speaker 1: you didn't let me finish. The Chiefs only converted three
Speaker 1: downs one percent. Yeah, that's a hard go. There was,
Speaker 1: And I was saying I was seeing a bit of
Speaker 1: the broadcast, and the money was saying he has not
Speaker 1: completed the third down pass yet. And this was in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. That's incredible. They you know you did.
Speaker 1: I think so much was going on you didn't realize that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't dominating them is the right term.
Speaker 1: We dominated, But I think we did. You know. But
Speaker 1: but because of Patrick Mahomes, you kind of were in
Speaker 1: the back of your head saying he could bring a
Speaker 1: comeback on you. He did in every game in the
Speaker 1: last postseason. I think I tweeted about that at halftime,
Speaker 1: like I was, I was doing the similarities between lead
Speaker 1: and three. Leader said, but this is where we need
Speaker 1: to remember that Patrick Mahomes has shown the ability ability
Speaker 1: to lead his team back from double digit deficits. So
Speaker 1: there is a lot of work still to be done. Well,
Speaker 1: they got that work done, right, They got that work done.
Speaker 1: They scored three points in the first, second, and third quarter,
Speaker 1: none in the fourth, nine nine points. Seriously, you couldn't you.
Speaker 1: There's no way you would have said that was going
Speaker 1: to be the gay I honestly thought. I I went
Speaker 1: into this game, I really did believe. I really did
Speaker 1: believe the Bucks are gonna win. I had a good
Speaker 1: feel which is not normal for me. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you never have those feelings. I either feel neutral or
Speaker 1: I have a bad feeling. I felt good. I just
Speaker 1: thought it was going to be one. I just thought
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a shootout. I just thought it was
Speaker 1: gonna be whoever has the ball last is gonna win. Well,
Speaker 1: I went on your pregame show and talked to Ronnie
Speaker 1: and John and they asked me at the end of
Speaker 1: for prediction, and I predicted that the quarterback who has
Speaker 1: by far the most game winning drives in the postseason,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, would have the ball in his hands and
Speaker 1: would lead us to a game winning driving. We'd win
Speaker 1: thirty three to twenty seven. So I felt that we
Speaker 1: needed to score. We did score thirty but as it
Speaker 1: turns out, we didn't need it. And John came back
Speaker 1: with he he didn't love the prediction because he's like,
Speaker 1: I really want a game. We're like, we're ahead by
Speaker 1: two touchdowns near the end and we can relax or
Speaker 1: something I'm phrasing, And he got it. He got it.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about him during the game. I'm like,
Speaker 1: John Gilmore got well, what's what we all wanted him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just couldn't dare to predict it. No, you kind
Speaker 1: of want a game where you're not sweating bullets. And
Speaker 1: it was kind of I never I didn't realize. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it was almost like you said, about four minute left
Speaker 1: in the game that I went, Holy crap, we're gonna
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen. This is real. I remember. Um,
Speaker 1: there was a former Buck employee, one of the ones
Speaker 1: that actually texted me about the similarities at halftime. Um,
Speaker 1: Charles Campez. So he was, he was, he was on
Speaker 1: the trip and he was He helped me a lot,
Speaker 1: even though he was in CR He helped me a
Speaker 1: lot on game days in that little span those seasons there,
Speaker 1: and so he was sitting next to me and actually
Speaker 1: helped me with a massive computer malfunction in the middle
Speaker 1: of that Super Bowl. But I remember the moment where
Speaker 1: I turned him in that game and I said, holy blank,
Speaker 1: we're gonna win the Super Bowl. Because there was a
Speaker 1: point that game where it was you knew that it
Speaker 1: was over. Maybe it was thirty eight to three, Maybe
Speaker 1: it was when we scored Derek Brooks interception third quarter
Speaker 1: where and then have been as early as so it
Speaker 1: was twenty two three at halftime, and then we got
Speaker 1: the Dwight, the first of Dwight Smith's I think we
Speaker 1: scored maybe Keenamcarlo right after halftime, and then Dwight Smith
Speaker 1: got the picks. The first was pick six, and I
Speaker 1: think that was the moment where I think we're win.
Speaker 1: At that point, in like thirty to three or something.
Speaker 1: I think that's when I said to him three. I
Speaker 1: said to him, We're gonna win the super Bowl. And
Speaker 1: it was like, you're staring at each other and just
Speaker 1: believe this this because you you've been living on the
Speaker 1: on the edge for so long. Are we gonna win?
Speaker 1: And are we gonna win? In Philadelphia? Are we really
Speaker 1: gonna win the Super Bowl? And you don't know. Now
Speaker 1: the team was confident, but as as a guy watched
Speaker 1: and you're like, is this actually gonna happen? And there's
Speaker 1: that moment where like, oh my god, it's it's over.
Speaker 1: We've won the Super Bowl. In San Diego, I did
Speaker 1: an interview with John Lynch and also Yeah Hall of
Speaker 1: Famer um before the game that we used during the
Speaker 1: pregame and in our conversation. He didn't say it on
Speaker 1: the on our on the air, but he said it
Speaker 1: to me off to the side. He I remember it,
Speaker 1: and it's just cranked me up. He said, we are
Speaker 1: going to win this game and we will dominate them.
Speaker 1: We are so ready you will not believe it. And
Speaker 1: I remember walking out and I just thinking, wow, I'm
Speaker 1: sure glad he feels confident about winning the game. But
Speaker 1: as it was going on, and then later on you
Speaker 1: hear him go to Money and say, Money, we we
Speaker 1: know the plays we know has like WHOA. And then
Speaker 1: that Super Bowl the Bucks win, and then um John
Speaker 1: leaves here, goes to Denver. Fast forward eighteen years, he's
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame in Tampa standing on the field. Yeah. Again,
Speaker 1: you cannot write this stuff. His first team to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl in their home field, and I could
Speaker 1: not be I well, I hope that things clear up
Speaker 1: in this country with cod because I would love to
Speaker 1: go to Canton for that one. Yeah. We we we were.
Speaker 1: We've been to Derek Brooks's. Yeah. And that's what I
Speaker 1: think people don't realize that um our ownership group, the
Speaker 1: Glazers have been very very kind in that aspect of
Speaker 1: something pretty big like that. They don't have to, but
Speaker 1: they charter a jet. We went, we went up there.
Speaker 1: No no, but those of us how they do it
Speaker 1: and I kind of like it the way it is
Speaker 1: those who have a connection with that person, which makes sense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty exciting stuff. So what else you got? I'm good?
Speaker 1: All right? Like I said, we can talk about the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl forever at some point. So you want to go,
Speaker 1: you want to hear what the fans had? Yeah, did
Speaker 1: you get did you get any after the Super Bowl? Oh,
Speaker 1: there's a few before and a few after, And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I looked through very briefly, and um uh,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of questions here. It's mostly it's
Speaker 1: mostly excitement. So don't worry. You're not gonna have to
Speaker 1: answer a lot of complicating So there's like five or
Speaker 1: six don't throw don't throw me off. So a person
Speaker 1: I think this is I don't remember this name, um,
Speaker 1: greeting Scott and Jeff, and his name is Justice William Mohammed.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if that's a title or her
Speaker 1: first name. Um, it's an honor and a pleasure to
Speaker 1: engage with two titans of sports. Alright, this after the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Now, this one came in on after the
Speaker 1: ANC Championship game, but we will have something from afterward.
Speaker 1: Get there. It's not her I've been a lifeline Buccaneers
Speaker 1: fan growing up in Newark, New Jersey. My uncle played
Speaker 1: football at the University of Oklahoma. Uncle Luther was very
Speaker 1: find of Lee Roy Salmon. I get the connection. That's
Speaker 1: that's you know your birthplace and yeah, Norman, that's right.
Speaker 1: I was born in by on the campus UM. He
Speaker 1: introduced me to Mr Summon when I was a young child.
Speaker 1: As we both know, if you if you met Lee
Speaker 1: Roy Salmon, you almost certainly came away and pressed one
Speaker 1: of the best men I've ever met in my life. Uh,
Speaker 1: rest in peace. Although I spend a majority of my
Speaker 1: adult life in Massachusetts, with the exception of my time
Speaker 1: at Florida State University, I maintained my fanhood as a
Speaker 1: diehard Bucks fan, never wavering. Well, good for you paying
Speaker 1: off anyhow, Sorry for the rambling. That's perfectly fine. My question,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure everyone has or will ask, we'll we'd
Speaker 1: be able to fire them canons during the Super Bowl game?
Speaker 1: Well we know the answer now. Well we knew going
Speaker 1: into it because they broke that. We talked about this, Jeff,
Speaker 1: and we both said, there's no way downs and you said,
Speaker 1: and I've been telling people this since then since they
Speaker 1: broke the news, you said, I want to touch somebody
Speaker 1: to leave because I think they should at least let
Speaker 1: us do it after the game if we win, and
Speaker 1: and every so. Then about midweek before the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: they announced Bucks can't use their cannons Bucks. A lot
Speaker 1: of Bucks fans on Twitter got very upset, and I
Speaker 1: was thinking, I didn't expect them to say And then
Speaker 1: I was thinking about how they also said, but if
Speaker 1: the Bucks win, they can fire them long and loud
Speaker 1: and um, and I was thinking about how you You
Speaker 1: You were the first one I heard who made that suggestion. Uh,
Speaker 1: And they did let us do that, and they did
Speaker 1: and it was awesome, So it was almost worth not
Speaker 1: getting to fire them during the game. But here's the
Speaker 1: funny part. You were in the press box, so you
Speaker 1: couldn't hear someone out in the parking lot in that
Speaker 1: where everything was closed to whatever. Every time we scored,
Speaker 1: they were firing firecrackers loud ene it was like it
Speaker 1: was a cannon. Hear it. I did hear somebody mentioned
Speaker 1: that it was all about yes, and I thought that's
Speaker 1: dedications getting around it. Yeah that's pretty cool. Yeah, very good. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: good question. Uh, Mr Mohammed Justice William Mohammed, thank you?
Speaker 1: Um this one now. Then we also had our guy
Speaker 1: from Brazil, but he's got another one comments let's skip
Speaker 1: this one. Um well never mind. Um. Michael Spala from
Speaker 1: Connecticut says Champs with four exclamation points. What a game dogs?
Speaker 1: Not much of a question, just some praise. Being from
Speaker 1: the Northeast, I've been watching Brady for most of my life.
Speaker 1: While he is definitely a huge piece, I can't say
Speaker 1: enough about the defense. They left it all on the field.
Speaker 1: How Devin White wasn't a pro bowler is a crime.
Speaker 1: And while I have little kids and I know I'm
Speaker 1: supposed to reinforce good sportsmanship, I couldn't help but love
Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield showing Tyreek Hill what time it was at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. Luckily my kids were in
Speaker 1: bed it was, and I was just able to smile.
Speaker 1: What a season. Go bucks, you know, if they're if
Speaker 1: they're small. He could have just told him, oh, he's
Speaker 1: just he just tell him peace. You know, he's just saying, hey,
Speaker 1: she's you know, peace on earth. Let's all uh, let's
Speaker 1: all fight for peace. Can't can't we all just get along?
Speaker 1: So again, no, questionnaire. But that's a good email from
Speaker 1: Mike all right, Um keith Man love um from the UK,
Speaker 1: from Chesterfield to be exact in England. AHOI they're salty dogs. Wow.
Speaker 1: Would have fantastic team performance last night, especially the domination
Speaker 1: from Todd Bowls of Defense. I have an emailed for
Speaker 1: a while as I get superstitious. Okay, I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I approve of that. I had an own two record
Speaker 1: when you read out my messages and didn't want to
Speaker 1: make an own three at a crucial stage. You know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. That's that's dedication. Okay, thank you, sir. Listen,
Speaker 1: same pair of socks, I mean, everything was clean. I
Speaker 1: wore the same pair of socks, same shoes, same slacks,
Speaker 1: same sweater. Even though its seventy degrees, I wore a
Speaker 1: sweater and I said, I'm gonna wear it. But they
Speaker 1: got cool at night, so I'm glad I did. And
Speaker 1: I had another red mask, like I said, And so
Speaker 1: you've been wearing the red mask. I was wearing the
Speaker 1: bread ask. And yes, I totally believe you know. I
Speaker 1: don't really think about it, but always in the back
Speaker 1: of my head, I go, well, what happened if I
Speaker 1: don't do distance, it does affect it. So yeah, Unfortunately
Speaker 1: I didn't fall into any like they usually have in
Speaker 1: my accident, right, Like you realize, Oh, I wore the
Speaker 1: same games and we won, so so I ended up wearying.
Speaker 1: I put on a suit for the first time in
Speaker 1: probably the first time in a year. I know. I
Speaker 1: couldn't believe you. I didn't enjoy it. No, that's if
Speaker 1: there's anything good about this, this COVID thing, which there
Speaker 1: really isn't. It's the dress code. The dress code is
Speaker 1: a lot nicer considering we're both in shorts right now,
Speaker 1: and I figured it was going to be cold in here,
Speaker 1: but it's not, and it's really hot today. It is.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's about seventy, which I hear is not
Speaker 1: the case over a good portion of this code. So
Speaker 1: if we could trade like ten degrees with Chicago, I
Speaker 1: had to laugh. My brother's been trying to get ahold
Speaker 1: of me to tell me congratulations, and I just we
Speaker 1: just haven't. No, No, he thinks that though we haven't,
Speaker 1: we haven't connected yet. And I did call him on
Speaker 1: the way in here, and I got his he didn't
Speaker 1: answer the phone, and then he called me again and
Speaker 1: I missed it again, but his message made me laugh.
Speaker 1: Sorry I missed your call. I was outside with the snowblower.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, so that's something I needed to do
Speaker 1: that I'm saying, let's let's trade ten degrees with like
Speaker 1: Chicago should get tindergrees cooler and they get tindergreose warm, right,
Speaker 1: think everybody would be happy? All right? All right, Um,
Speaker 1: I wasn't. I don't think it was done with that one.
Speaker 1: My question is about intentional grounding. Yeah, I thought this
Speaker 1: was called at the quarterback doesn't throw the ball back
Speaker 1: as far as the line scrimmage, which happened a couple
Speaker 1: of times when mahomes being chased down. Thank you for
Speaker 1: your entertaining podcast through through the season. It has helped
Speaker 1: with the lockdown, which we are still enduring here in
Speaker 1: the UK. Stay safe, Bucks and look forward to another
Speaker 1: great ride next season. I'm with you, Okay. So he's
Speaker 1: got the rule right to to throw the ball away
Speaker 1: and not get an intentional grounding. You have to be
Speaker 1: outside the tackle box and the ball has to get
Speaker 1: back to the original line of scrimmage, which I always
Speaker 1: mess up at first, and because I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: sticks for the first down, and I'm always like, didn't
Speaker 1: even get close and then alas, wait a minute, which
Speaker 1: just has to be the line of scramming. So it's
Speaker 1: possible that that the same thing has happened to Keith,
Speaker 1: but maybe not. Um. Yeah, but here's the thing. I
Speaker 1: think that the refs are very lenient and they air
Speaker 1: on the side of, yes, he was outside the tackle box,
Speaker 1: and yes, that go if the if he was close
Speaker 1: to being outside Basically, if you have if you make
Speaker 1: him run right or left, they're gonna say he's outside
Speaker 1: the tackle box, even if he's only run a few steps.
Speaker 1: Because you basically look at those dashes on them on
Speaker 1: the you see where the super Bowl logos in the field,
Speaker 1: So the tackles are basically on those two um lines
Speaker 1: and dashes down the middlefield. Okay, um, And so it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to see if he's crossed that line or
Speaker 1: not right, so, um, you can usually tell, and they
Speaker 1: give him the They give the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: on that. And I think they give him the benefit
Speaker 1: of the doubt if it came somewhere close to the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, they're gonna give it to him. It's
Speaker 1: just those ones where they clearly where they clearly are
Speaker 1: still in the pocket, or clearly didn't try to get
Speaker 1: it too. I find you. I find it interesting you
Speaker 1: saying that the officials were giving him the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt, and if you listen to Kansas the fans
Speaker 1: right now, the officials didn't give any better. Well, they
Speaker 1: did on a couple of those plays, which is what
Speaker 1: he's doing. I agree. I agree. My phone's bowling up
Speaker 1: very very important. Uh yeah, um, that's because big big
Speaker 1: doings tomorrow. Yeah, but we talking about sure because this
Speaker 1: won't run until tomorrow. Uh do you know, is it
Speaker 1: the done deal now? I believe there working, Why don't you? Well, well,
Speaker 1: in with the celebration and because of COVID and instrictions
Speaker 1: like that, it looks like we're gonna be having a
Speaker 1: boat parade with with the players on on on boats,
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool. And it looks like Casey
Speaker 1: and I will do are usually wins usual Wednesday show
Speaker 1: from on location somewhere to look for that very exciting.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm not exactly sure, and it'd be live streaming.
Speaker 1: I'm sure, Uh yeah, that's the point. Um, So we'll
Speaker 1: see how that goes all right. So that was that one.
Speaker 1: We got a few more. Here's our guy from Brazil,
Speaker 1: Alexander um Ahoy salty ones and he's got a little
Speaker 1: question mark after salty because he probably figures we're not
Speaker 1: too salty today. First and four most, I'd like to
Speaker 1: thank you guys for all the great work you've put
Speaker 1: on this season and especially this past week. Mr Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm impressed with how many pieces you have written between
Speaker 1: the Green Bay game and today. Wow, and all those
Speaker 1: many words you wrote. I do intend to write too long, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I like reading your stuff. Mr Ryan. What was
Speaker 1: what was with those but what was with the I
Speaker 1: think he thinks you're in charge of this? What was
Speaker 1: with those press conferences last week? There were way too
Speaker 1: many live links simultaneously aggrets to you and all the crew.
Speaker 1: I guess maybe handling that Okay, No, we had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it. I had nothing to do with it.
Speaker 1: That was the NFL. They handled all of that stuff. Um.
Speaker 1: They basically made it be like a virtual media day
Speaker 1: where the guys are at podiums and you kind of
Speaker 1: have to choose which ones you go to. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was very confusing for for for writers and stuff
Speaker 1: because people were jumping around and sometimes they forgot who
Speaker 1: they were talking to. So uh, no, I had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with that. And the Bucks as a whole,
Speaker 1: I had nothing to do with that. No, no, that
Speaker 1: I mean they helped out a little bit with some
Speaker 1: of the moderation, but it was all set up by
Speaker 1: the league super Bowl, even though super Bowl is run
Speaker 1: by the NFL, but by the league itself. People from
Speaker 1: New York and all over come into whatever city it
Speaker 1: is and they run the super Bowl. They take over
Speaker 1: the stadium. We we were we were in our own stadium,
Speaker 1: but we were a visitor in our own house. We
Speaker 1: had no control of anything that was going on, and
Speaker 1: everything was pretty neutral very much. So you know, if
Speaker 1: if the Bucks got something in Kansas City had to
Speaker 1: get something. And that's just the way it was throughout. Now.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I say this right in
Speaker 1: case of our PR guys end up listening here. Um.
Speaker 1: But they did have to do a lot of work
Speaker 1: on those media days getting our players to the which
Speaker 1: is not usually the case. Usually the case they get
Speaker 1: to enjoy the super Bowl, but they were facilitating players
Speaker 1: being in a certain place. I've heard from from some
Speaker 1: PR guys friends around the league that, um, the super Bowl,
Speaker 1: when they've been in the Super Bowl, it was like
Speaker 1: one of their easiest weeks of the year because everybody's
Speaker 1: doing everybody took control of the NFL took in this
Speaker 1: case because of all the COVID restrictions. I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: are PR guys were running around like crazy that week
Speaker 1: getting guys lined up. Okay, Um, all right, so there
Speaker 1: you have that. What a great football year. He says,
Speaker 1: was that the greatest defensive performance of Buck's history top
Speaker 1: three since he did Thanks for reading. It's probably out there.
Speaker 1: I mean, we think about it. I don't think this
Speaker 1: defense can yet say it was as good as the
Speaker 1: one that ended up winning the championship in O two.
Speaker 1: But they might get there. But um, but they had
Speaker 1: a more dominant performance because they only gave up nine points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think it's the best defense at such
Speaker 1: a young age. Well, and it's certainly the best defensive
Speaker 1: game we played in a crucial game. I mean that
Speaker 1: game we played. I mean, I guess it depends on
Speaker 1: how you define it. Because that two thousand two teams
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl had a Super Bowl record five
Speaker 1: picks and a Super Bowl record three in or three
Speaker 1: pick sixes, and they had five sacks and you know,
Speaker 1: so that you could say those numbers made it better.
Speaker 1: But another hand, um, this team only allowed not three
Speaker 1: field goals, so that is which one is more important?
Speaker 1: Which number do you like more? You know? But I
Speaker 1: think we could put them both comfortably in the top three.
Speaker 1: The Bucks record for you know, the the game they
Speaker 1: want to the beat Kansas City UM coincidentally in the
Speaker 1: final game of nineteen nine and only gave up eighty
Speaker 1: yards and won three to nothing. So you could say
Speaker 1: that might be the most impressive defensive game of all time.
Speaker 1: But when we have to remember about that game, it
Speaker 1: was played in old Tampa Stadium in a freaking monsoon.
Speaker 1: You've you've seen I'm sure the clips of the water coming. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've seen the clips of the water there. So you
Speaker 1: saw the water like a waterfall down the stairs. So
Speaker 1: you know that the conditions had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with that. Trying to figure out why they made me
Speaker 1: go to this game. So um, yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: top three just because the conversion of of the actual
Speaker 1: stats the game and the importance of the game and
Speaker 1: the UM explosiveness of the opponent, because like you know,
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl year, we went to Baltimore and
Speaker 1: one like twenty six nothing and the defense was fantastic,
Speaker 1: but they were in a backup quarterback, and you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't the same thing as trying to shut down
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. It's subjective, but I'm willing to put it
Speaker 1: in the top three. I'm not sure. I'd have to
Speaker 1: study more to see the number one. I like it.
Speaker 1: It's fresh in our minds though, so we can say yes,
Speaker 1: all right. From Kent Denny, thank you, no questions today,
Speaker 1: just a heartfelt thanks for taking the time each week
Speaker 1: to bring us insight and a little saltiness. What a year.
Speaker 1: Have a great victory Monday, go Bucks. A listener from
Speaker 1: the beginning Kent Denny from Riverview. Yeah, that's cool, that's
Speaker 1: very nice. That makes me feel good. I appreciate al Right, Well,
Speaker 1: they're not very salty there. Actually, everybody's just happy. We're happy.
Speaker 1: We we haven't hardly been salty. Oh my goodness. This
Speaker 1: one just came in today at one thirty. But it
Speaker 1: is really really long. If we can read this whole
Speaker 1: thing anyways. From Dylan everer halt eber heart. Hello super Dogs.
Speaker 1: My name is Dylan and I'm a long time Buccaneers
Speaker 1: fan from Dortmund, Germany. So you can brag about your
Speaker 1: ever growing international audience now, and I have an excuse
Speaker 1: for every grammatical or ortho graphical error I make when
Speaker 1: when I don't think those guys having any trouble with
Speaker 1: the English language right now? For you, I really enjoy
Speaker 1: your podcast and listen to it every week, okay, almost
Speaker 1: every week, because after a really bad loss, I can't
Speaker 1: stand any football read late and us at all. I'm
Speaker 1: like that, Yeah, when the Bucks lose, or if it's
Speaker 1: baseball season and the Cardinals lose, I can't watch highlight shows.
Speaker 1: I just can't do it. I really, Okay, what a
Speaker 1: joy it was to see the Bucks humbled and glamorized
Speaker 1: and often more than a little cocky Chiefs on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I don't know why Mr Everhart was at all concerned
Speaker 1: about his grammar, because I would not have known. This
Speaker 1: was a person who's English presumably was not their first
Speaker 1: Maybe it was to be To be precise, I was
Speaker 1: watching the game on Monday because kickoff was at zero
Speaker 1: thirty local time and after the confetti had settled, and
Speaker 1: I had seen every highlight and every I know. But
Speaker 1: maybe he's in the military and that's what he's in Germany.
Speaker 1: Maybe well, maybe he's actually American. Actually actually in Europe,
Speaker 1: they used military time almost all. Now he says he's
Speaker 1: from Dortmund, Germany. They that that makes sense. I believe that. Okay,
Speaker 1: to be precise. Blah blah blah blahlah blah blah. And
Speaker 1: after the confetti had settled, and I had seen every
Speaker 1: high that and every interview at least three times, I
Speaker 1: realized two things. First, the sun would be rising soon
Speaker 1: and I was still wide awake. And second, the bad
Speaker 1: things that happened to the Bucks this season actually were
Speaker 1: a blessing in disguise. Okay, maybe I should have read
Speaker 1: this at the top. The first game of the season
Speaker 1: in New Orleans, the Bears game, the game that shall
Speaker 1: not be spoken of, must be talking about the Saints
Speaker 1: the first quarter of the Chiefs regular season game. In
Speaker 1: my opinion, all these setbacks had to happen to mold
Speaker 1: the Bucks into a playoff caliber team, and then they
Speaker 1: had to go through the Super Dome in lambeau Field
Speaker 1: to get to the Super Field Super Bowl. The Chiefs
Speaker 1: on the other side were in calm waters the whole way.
Speaker 1: Some hiccups every now and then, but nothing Mahomes magic
Speaker 1: with Hill and Kelsey couldn't handle two playoff games at
Speaker 1: home while listening to that media hype about the new
Speaker 1: dynasty and the unstoppable offense. And when Mahomes would would
Speaker 1: be considered to be greater than Brady, not if when
Speaker 1: it was so fittingly Okay, there's the first he meant
Speaker 1: to say. Fitting that the NFL not allow the Bucks
Speaker 1: to fire the cannon during the game. Cannons. They even
Speaker 1: changed the sales and covered up the word bucket age
Speaker 1: on the ship's side. And like a pirate ship in disguise,
Speaker 1: the so called hunderdogs Bucks, And I wish I had thought,
Speaker 1: I wish I hadn't read this guy, I would steal
Speaker 1: this for the lead of the story right now, doesn't
Speaker 1: come after my job. That is a great lead, right there,
Speaker 1: oh man. And like a pirate ship in disguise, the
Speaker 1: so called underdog Bucks ambushed the mighty Chiefs and the
Speaker 1: biggest game of the season. And when the chief I'm
Speaker 1: glad I decided to read this whole thing and When
Speaker 1: the Chiefs finally realized that the Bucks were not who
Speaker 1: they thought they were, it was too late. Already the
Speaker 1: first broadside had disabled them and the boarding party was
Speaker 1: taking the deck by storm. This would have been a
Speaker 1: great lead for my frequent Super Bowl story. And I
Speaker 1: tell you, we need to put this on the site.
Speaker 1: You just need to copy paste, give him credit. Maybe
Speaker 1: I could put it into my mail bag and the
Speaker 1: whole thing. Don't edit it either. Oh that's so fantastic.
Speaker 1: It is awesome. Okay, let's keep going. The first the
Speaker 1: chief had no backup plan, and they had to have
Speaker 1: no experience to handle a situation like this. Just look
Speaker 1: at the Chief's defenders giving up on Super Bowl Lenny's
Speaker 1: touchdown run. Or look at Super Bowl Lenny not playoff Lenny.
Speaker 1: Or look at Kelsey's sitting on the field shaking his
Speaker 1: head after an incompletion. Did he I know he did
Speaker 1: after he dropped that, I think he was mad at himself.
Speaker 1: Look at Mahomes throwing one desperation pass after another on
Speaker 1: the run. I kind of had to, although that had
Speaker 1: not worked the whole game. And then look at the
Speaker 1: Bucks on the other side running one first at running
Speaker 1: for one first down after another late in the game,
Speaker 1: with the whole Kansas City defense stacking the box and
Speaker 1: the Bucks defenders playing like a touchdown would lose the game.
Speaker 1: When the score was thirty one nine late in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, they didn't want to give up a touchdown.
Speaker 1: This is back to him, best period, game, period ever.
Speaker 1: So thank you again. I look forward to next season
Speaker 1: with my beloved Buccaneers and You're great podcast. Until then,
Speaker 1: happy victory offseason. Not for Thomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr.
Speaker 1: Of course, he starts preparing for the next season by Tuesday.
Speaker 1: I think that's the spirit. Go Bucks. Dylan ps. I
Speaker 1: had to write this room and alternative mail account because
Speaker 1: an address that ends on dot d e is obviously
Speaker 1: spam for your filters. I didn't know that. That's pretty
Speaker 1: smart into it. Yeah, I think I think that's it's
Speaker 1: probably is one of our that's a great one. He
Speaker 1: was one of our smartest reader listeners. I'm gonna put
Speaker 1: it in the mail back. That's too good, honestly, that
Speaker 1: I could have seriously used something like that as a
Speaker 1: long story. I love the idea that they covered up
Speaker 1: the Bucks on the ship and so it was like
Speaker 1: a stealth thing. Ya know, I'm I'm not happy we
Speaker 1: should have thought of that during the broadcast line. My god,
Speaker 1: it's a great image. It totally makes it. Would it
Speaker 1: would have been a way we're in our own home,
Speaker 1: work a way to open it up. Our ship has
Speaker 1: been covered up. They don't know it's us. I mean,
Speaker 1: if the chiefs, if the chiefs, if the if the
Speaker 1: the chiefs ship had sailed into into a certain area
Speaker 1: where they knew there was a Buck's pirate ship and
Speaker 1: they saw it, they would have known they were in trouble.
Speaker 1: But since it was in disguise, they were able to
Speaker 1: ambush them. That's great, all right, all right, that was
Speaker 1: great that. I think that's a good place to Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: well you're gonna have to tell people when you write
Speaker 1: the summary that they're gonna have to spend it's like
Speaker 1: a part one part two. I mean, it'll be all
Speaker 1: on one thing. But I don't know. We've gone an
Speaker 1: hour and half. That's okay, it's a super Bowl. If
Speaker 1: you want to listen to it, you will. I like it,
Speaker 1: all right, So what else you got anything? That's it?
Speaker 1: All right? Scott? So when uh you will be uh
Speaker 1: you will be working tomorrow. Um, so when we're gonna
Speaker 1: do another podcast, because people are probably going, what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do another podcast? So? What what you I mean?
Speaker 1: We could do another one next week after there's been
Speaker 1: the parade and everything. You want to do one more? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we might be able to do one more. So if
Speaker 1: you're listening to some stuff. If you're listening, you want
Speaker 1: to get your question in or or give me another
Speaker 1: great story idea. Okay, here here's what. Here's what. Uh,
Speaker 1: Salty Dogs is going to turn it over to you dogs,
Speaker 1: So you send all your questions and stuff in and
Speaker 1: we'll answer whatever you So. We need as many as
Speaker 1: we can possibly get, So the best way to send
Speaker 1: it to us is email at Salty Dogs at Buccaneers
Speaker 1: dot NFL dot com. Don't forget that there's that dot NFL.
Speaker 1: It's not Buccaneers dot com. It's Buccaneers dot NFL dot com.
Speaker 1: Send us everything you can think of questions. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know you just want to say how happy you were, uh,
Speaker 1: some sort of celebration. Anybody out there that listens to
Speaker 1: this podcast, whether you're you're really a person who commonly
Speaker 1: sends things in or somebody like Brett they're doing or
Speaker 1: Dylan they're doing it for the first time. Uh, we
Speaker 1: want to hear from you. We'll do one more of these.
Speaker 1: We'll have the parade to talk about, probably a couple
Speaker 1: of other things, maybe some roster moves as the Bucks
Speaker 1: have to start getting ready for next year. And uh,
Speaker 1: and then we'll talk to anything you guys want to
Speaker 1: talk about. Yeah, and then if we don't get a
Speaker 1: lot of questions and stuff, and then we're gonna become really,
Speaker 1: really salty. So you definitely want to work or listening
Speaker 1: next to me. All right, Okay, very good, since you did,
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.