Speaker 1: M HM. Welcome into a surprise Bucks and Side or
Speaker 1: live casey Gulp service. Senior writer and editor Scott Smith.
Speaker 1: Normally we'd be coming to you tomorrow, but do you
Speaker 1: know a certain individual decided one day early would be
Speaker 1: a good idea for us to come on here. And
Speaker 1: that is because unless you've been living under a rock
Speaker 1: these last few hours, Tom Brady has decided to retire.
Speaker 1: Let's go ahead and roll the video that he posted
Speaker 1: letting the world know this morning. Good morning, guys. I'll
Speaker 1: get to the point right away. I'm retiring for good.
Speaker 1: I know the process was a pretty big deal last time,
Speaker 1: so when I woke up this morning, I figured I
Speaker 1: just pressed record. Let you guys know first, so I
Speaker 1: won't be long winded. I think you only get one
Speaker 1: super emotional retirement essay, and I used my nut last year.
Speaker 1: So really, thank you guys so much to every single
Speaker 1: one of you for supporting me. My family, my friends,
Speaker 1: my teammates, my competitors. I could go on forever. There's
Speaker 1: too many. Um thank you guys for allowing me to
Speaker 1: live my absolute dream. I wouldn't change the thing. I
Speaker 1: love you all well it is you can tell a
Speaker 1: very emotional announcement for him, as I'm sure it is
Speaker 1: for all Bucks fans off there in so many ways
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, obviously so happy for him and
Speaker 1: the career that he's had in the time that he
Speaker 1: had here and bringing a Super Bowl back to to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay that everyone here is I mean, this is
Speaker 1: this says it all. Just thank you to what he did,
Speaker 1: what he did for this organization, for this city. It's
Speaker 1: it's been an incredible thing to be a part of. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think any Bucks faan will just signed up for
Speaker 1: exactly what happened three years ago if they were told
Speaker 1: this was what would happen. And you know, he just
Speaker 1: concluded an age season. He basically defied the rest of
Speaker 1: NFL history what he's done in the last three years
Speaker 1: at the age that he's done it. And um, you know,
Speaker 1: I think the key the important word there were four
Speaker 1: good you know. I mean, it was exactly one year
Speaker 1: ago when he announced he was going to retire, and
Speaker 1: then he changed his mind forty days later, and I
Speaker 1: think it's pretty clear that's not happening this time. So, um,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, at least at this point, they know what
Speaker 1: the landscape is going forward. There's no more question about that, right,
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're gonna definitely talk about what this will
Speaker 1: mean to the Bucks moving forward. First, let's just kind
Speaker 1: of go back over some of the numbers his career.
Speaker 1: Take a look. I mean, god, there could have been
Speaker 1: a million things that we put up here to summarize this.
Speaker 1: So I know, we have a couple of graphics here.
Speaker 1: You know, this seems like an appropriate gapic. There's so
Speaker 1: many reasons, greatest of all time. And I was writing
Speaker 1: a story about his retirement and got to the accomplishments section,
Speaker 1: wrote about four paragraphs and like, that's enough. I could
Speaker 1: probably do another ten. I think we've made the point,
Speaker 1: and I think this makes the point. This is just
Speaker 1: in the regular season, he's first all time in NFL
Speaker 1: history and all of these things. And uh, I mean
Speaker 1: look at the bottom one there, two and fifty one
Speaker 1: wins in the regular season alone. The player in the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers history who played the most regular season games played
Speaker 1: the most regular season games Randi Harbor played. He won
Speaker 1: that many games. Plus if you look at the next
Speaker 1: graphic of the regular season given me the postseason, he's
Speaker 1: first again in all these categories as well, and it's
Speaker 1: not even close. I mean, he just blows away the competition.
Speaker 1: Um and there's thirty five more wins, So two eight
Speaker 1: six total wins outrageous. I don't think that's record is
Speaker 1: going to be beaten unless some kicker placed for like
Speaker 1: forty years and is on a team. It really Adam
Speaker 1: Tontarry's second on the list. He's like twenty behind Brady,
Speaker 1: which again says something about the longevity of Brady that
Speaker 1: typically the only people that can last long enough to
Speaker 1: compete with him on any of these stats or kickers
Speaker 1: who aren't allowed to get touched. And you have to
Speaker 1: you have to be durable. I mean, he basically, except
Speaker 1: for the two thousand eight season where he tore up
Speaker 1: his knee in in game one, he basically played every
Speaker 1: game for like twenty three seasons, so except for the
Speaker 1: four that he's very bitter about about being suspended, but
Speaker 1: otherwise he played. And also other than that oh eight season,
Speaker 1: he uh he started for twenty one season and the
Speaker 1: seasons and his teams made the playoffs in twenty of
Speaker 1: them and the one time didn't they were like eleven
Speaker 1: and five and lost a tiebreaker, so they didn't get in.
Speaker 1: So all his entire career was about winning, and that's
Speaker 1: also what the Buccaneers got to experience when he came here,
Speaker 1: the single greatest three year stretching team history. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be so interesting to see what this is going to
Speaker 1: mean now. So let's let's get into that a little bit.
Speaker 1: For this idea of we've said the last few weeks,
Speaker 1: we were like man until he makes some announcement one
Speaker 1: way or the other. The first domino. It was the
Speaker 1: first domino, and it was going to affect so many
Speaker 1: other things, from draft and free agency to even the
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator position. So many things we're waiting on this.
Speaker 1: So now at least we've had a domino fall. What
Speaker 1: are the first things that come to your mind about
Speaker 1: now that we know that Brady is not coming back.
Speaker 1: First things that come to your mind about what that effects, Well,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of them, but I think the first
Speaker 1: thing I think up as a salary cap because um,
Speaker 1: he is because of the way the structured It's not
Speaker 1: his fault, but because of the way the the last
Speaker 1: renegotiated contract with Structure in order to give the bucks
Speaker 1: cap relief in these last couple of years, some of
Speaker 1: that was pushed forward in the future, and he has
Speaker 1: what is called a dead cap hit of thirty five million.
Speaker 1: If he had signed with another team, or even resigned
Speaker 1: with the Buccaneers, you would have that thirty five minute
Speaker 1: this year against the cap. But because he retired, there
Speaker 1: is a way that the Bucks can process this um
Speaker 1: movement so that it's split and only eleven million count
Speaker 1: against the cap this year and two million next year. Deal. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's big, and you next year the Bucks don't have
Speaker 1: as many contracts on the book and the salary capital
Speaker 1: have risen again, so um, it's it's basically saving you
Speaker 1: four million dollars with the cap space that you can
Speaker 1: now spend on resigning your own free agents and possibly
Speaker 1: getting a new form. So that's the first really big hit. Also,
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers have spent the last week and a half
Speaker 1: interviewing offensive coordinator candidates, So now these guys and the
Speaker 1: Bucks know what they're going forward with and how they
Speaker 1: can plan and maybe that factors into which person is
Speaker 1: the best choice. And you know, there's all these other
Speaker 1: free agents we saw last year, how Ryan Jensen and
Speaker 1: Carlton Davis, they they admitted that Brady's return was a
Speaker 1: factor in their return, and so that could have an
Speaker 1: impact on which free agents want to come and which one,
Speaker 1: which one, which ones want to stay, which one want
Speaker 1: to go. And then of course the final domino is
Speaker 1: who's the Bucks quarterback next year? And that's going to
Speaker 1: be the single biggest topic of conversation for the next
Speaker 1: over many months until we find that out. Yeah, which
Speaker 1: is going to be engine again. You could find it
Speaker 1: out in free agency, You could find it out in
Speaker 1: the draft. You could find it out because they don't
Speaker 1: do anything in either of those. So well, they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to sign a couple guys because Kyle Trask is
Speaker 1: the only quarterback we have in our contract right now.
Speaker 1: And as we've seen with the forty niners, you can
Speaker 1: never have too many good Yeah, and we need to
Speaker 1: sign about eight. I feel like at this point, after
Speaker 1: I wanted to sign Josh Johnson, there you go. Um,
Speaker 1: So now you mentioned the offensive coordinator and stuff that
Speaker 1: they have been interviewing some people, and of course you
Speaker 1: know working for the team that we don't ever announce
Speaker 1: anything until the Bucks have announced that they have been completed.
Speaker 1: So we're not going to be the people that ever
Speaker 1: talked about pending ones or upcoming ones or anything like that.
Speaker 1: So based on what the Bucks have announced to this point,
Speaker 1: who are some of the offensive coordinator candidates that they've
Speaker 1: looked at, and what could that maybe say about what
Speaker 1: they're looking for? Even I would put it as they're
Speaker 1: casting a wide net. I mean, I believe it's six
Speaker 1: so are and I don't think that they're done. They
Speaker 1: looked at Clint Kubiak of the Broncos. Yeah, the Broncos.
Speaker 1: It's hard to keep all these traight. Keena mccarneal the
Speaker 1: Bucks Super Bowl champion from O two with the Vikings,
Speaker 1: Jim Bob Cooter with Jacksonville that was. And then um
Speaker 1: Dan Pitcher, the quarterbacks coach for the Bengals. That one
Speaker 1: was a little bit move point now since after his
Speaker 1: interview with US, he signed a contract extension with the Bengals,
Speaker 1: so he's probably off the board. But then this week
Speaker 1: they started off with Todd Monkin, who we know well
Speaker 1: spend three seasons as the Bucks offensive coordinator under Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 1: And um and uh one more, Shay Tierney, a quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach for the Giants, who I mean, I think the
Speaker 1: big check mark for him would be. You know, he
Speaker 1: came over with Brian Dable and in one year helped
Speaker 1: Dan Daniel Jones make a huge jump forward in his career.
Speaker 1: So if you're talking about developing a quarterback, there's a
Speaker 1: couple of guys here, including him, who you would look
Speaker 1: at and say, well, we've seen them have a part
Speaker 1: in that, right, So that's six candidates and they're not done.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that Brady's retirement now will make that
Speaker 1: whole process a little bit easier in terms of to
Speaker 1: hone in on things that I'm sure they had talked about.
Speaker 1: It he's back, if he's not, they've talked about all
Speaker 1: these scenarios. But to now know that any of these
Speaker 1: follow up interviews you do, or interviews that happen in
Speaker 1: the future, it's going to make it a little bit
Speaker 1: easier to have to talk about one less very large scenario,
Speaker 1: to boil down really what their vision could be for
Speaker 1: this offense. And so now that we know it won't
Speaker 1: be Brady, what comes to your mind about what this
Speaker 1: could mean for this offense. Depending on all the potential options,
Speaker 1: there could be a quarterback. Well, well, for one thing,
Speaker 1: you could end up with a totally different style of
Speaker 1: quarterback depending on I mean, if it's if it's Kyle Trast,
Speaker 1: maybe not. But you know, you could have a guy
Speaker 1: with a little bit more mobility, because Tom would be
Speaker 1: the first one to say he joked about all the
Speaker 1: time mobility was not his game. And so when the
Speaker 1: protection wasn't perfect this year, the passes were coming out
Speaker 1: really quickly, right and instead of maybe some moving him
Speaker 1: around a little bit. So, um, there could be a
Speaker 1: difference there. You you could end up and we've seen
Speaker 1: this sport before, obviously with the quarterback who's a little
Speaker 1: more volatile. You know, Tom Brady only through i think
Speaker 1: nine interceptions this year and for most of the season
Speaker 1: the only tiny little right, So um, you know we've
Speaker 1: seen it with Jamis Winston and obviously it's not a
Speaker 1: good thing. But you might have a guy that's you know,
Speaker 1: Morerius type, progressive downfield, but also more turnovers, kind of
Speaker 1: like a Josh Allen. I'm not saying there's a lot
Speaker 1: of Josh Allen's out there. Yeah, let's go find one
Speaker 1: of those. But um, you know, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: different types of quarterbacks and I don't know what the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers want, but going back to the offensive coordinator position.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a two way streets. So obviously most
Speaker 1: of these guys that are interviewing probably want to advance
Speaker 1: their careers. But you could look at the situation and decide,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bucks are telling you this is our
Speaker 1: plan going forward in quarterback, and think this is either
Speaker 1: more less attractive position. Yeah, that's gonna be so interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're going to wrap up here, but
Speaker 1: we're going to close out by letting you guys watch
Speaker 1: the ring ceremony speech that Tom Brady gave. We thought
Speaker 1: that was a fitting way to endo this show that
Speaker 1: is all about his retirement and moving forward with the Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: So thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you
Speaker 1: next time. You know, I think about one years, you know,
Speaker 1: I've played in the NFL and twenty years going to
Speaker 1: last year, I was a free agent and I didn't
Speaker 1: know what my career is going to be. You know
Speaker 1: a lot of you guys see me, and a lot
Speaker 1: of you guys were young when uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: got drafted. I was a six round pick, you know,
Speaker 1: as a D nine nin pick. I never forgot that.
Speaker 1: I still haven't forgot that to this day. I have
Speaker 1: a lot of perspective on where I was at at
Speaker 1: one point in my life, you know, and that not
Speaker 1: a lot of teams ever thought I could do anything
Speaker 1: for him, you know, not a lot of teams ever
Speaker 1: believed in what I thought I could accomplish for that team,
Speaker 1: you know. And I was at one organization and I
Speaker 1: learned a lot. And when I had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: choose another place, it was the first time I really
Speaker 1: got to choose. You know, Devin, you didn't get to
Speaker 1: choose Lavante, you didn't choose Mike, you didn't choose you know,
Speaker 1: you got picked. I got a chance to choose. And
Speaker 1: you know, everyone always says, why the bucks Man, Why
Speaker 1: do you choose the bucks And it was a no brainer.
Speaker 1: It was a no brainer.