WEBVTT - Reaction to Tom Brady's Retirement | Bucs Insider 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:08.000 M HM. Welcome into a surprise Bucks and Side or 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.400 live casey Gulp service. Senior writer and editor Scott Smith. 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:12.160 Normally we'd be coming to you tomorrow, but do you 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.280 know a certain individual decided one day early would be 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.079 a good idea for us to come on here. And 0:00:17.120 --> 0:00:19.280 that is because unless you've been living under a rock 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.200 these last few hours, Tom Brady has decided to retire. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:24.120 Let's go ahead and roll the video that he posted 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:28.600 letting the world know this morning. Good morning, guys. I'll 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:33.560 get to the point right away. I'm retiring for good. 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.880 I know the process was a pretty big deal last time, 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.159 so when I woke up this morning, I figured I 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.440 just pressed record. Let you guys know first, so I 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.920 won't be long winded. I think you only get one 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.279 super emotional retirement essay, and I used my nut last year. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:55.320 So really, thank you guys so much to every single 0:00:55.360 --> 0:01:01.080 one of you for supporting me. My family, my friends, 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:06.720 my teammates, my competitors. I could go on forever. There's 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.280 too many. Um thank you guys for allowing me to 0:01:10.280 --> 0:01:16.440 live my absolute dream. I wouldn't change the thing. I 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:20.880 love you all well it is you can tell a 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.280 very emotional announcement for him, as I'm sure it is 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:25.800 for all Bucks fans off there in so many ways 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.360 right now. I mean, obviously so happy for him and 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:30.160 the career that he's had in the time that he 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.080 had here and bringing a Super Bowl back to to 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.280 Tampa Bay that everyone here is I mean, this is 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.960 this says it all. Just thank you to what he did, 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.200 what he did for this organization, for this city. It's 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.720 it's been an incredible thing to be a part of. Yeah, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.520 I think any Bucks faan will just signed up for 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.960 exactly what happened three years ago if they were told 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:48.840 this was what would happen. And you know, he just 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.680 concluded an age season. He basically defied the rest of 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:54.760 NFL history what he's done in the last three years 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:57.960 at the age that he's done it. And um, you know, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.720 I think the key the important word there were four 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:03.280 good you know. I mean, it was exactly one year 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:04.960 ago when he announced he was going to retire, and 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:07.640 then he changed his mind forty days later, and I 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.960 think it's pretty clear that's not happening this time. So, um, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.400 the Buccaneers, at least at this point, they know what 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:16.120 the landscape is going forward. There's no more question about that, right, 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.119 So yeah, we're gonna definitely talk about what this will 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.359 mean to the Bucks moving forward. First, let's just kind 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.600 of go back over some of the numbers his career. 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:23.960 Take a look. I mean, god, there could have been 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.880 a million things that we put up here to summarize this. 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:28.280 So I know, we have a couple of graphics here. 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.360 You know, this seems like an appropriate gapic. There's so 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.720 many reasons, greatest of all time. And I was writing 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.920 a story about his retirement and got to the accomplishments section, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.359 wrote about four paragraphs and like, that's enough. I could 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:41.720 probably do another ten. I think we've made the point, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:43.520 and I think this makes the point. This is just 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.760 in the regular season, he's first all time in NFL 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:48.920 history and all of these things. And uh, I mean 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.760 look at the bottom one there, two and fifty one 0:02:50.760 --> 0:02:54.560 wins in the regular season alone. The player in the 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.080 Buccaneers history who played the most regular season games played 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:02.919 the most regular season games Randi Harbor played. He won 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.280 that many games. Plus if you look at the next 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.960 graphic of the regular season given me the postseason, he's 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:10.919 first again in all these categories as well, and it's 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:13.440 not even close. I mean, he just blows away the competition. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.120 Um and there's thirty five more wins, So two eight 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:21.200 six total wins outrageous. I don't think that's record is 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:22.960 going to be beaten unless some kicker placed for like 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.560 forty years and is on a team. It really Adam 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:27.800 Tontarry's second on the list. He's like twenty behind Brady, 0:03:27.960 --> 0:03:30.480 which again says something about the longevity of Brady that 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:32.400 typically the only people that can last long enough to 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:34.240 compete with him on any of these stats or kickers 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:36.400 who aren't allowed to get touched. And you have to 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.720 you have to be durable. I mean, he basically, except 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:40.320 for the two thousand eight season where he tore up 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.080 his knee in in game one, he basically played every 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.360 game for like twenty three seasons, so except for the 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:49.160 four that he's very bitter about about being suspended, but 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.240 otherwise he played. And also other than that oh eight season, 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.600 he uh he started for twenty one season and the 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.840 seasons and his teams made the playoffs in twenty of 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:01.400 them and the one time didn't they were like eleven 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.560 and five and lost a tiebreaker, so they didn't get in. 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.560 So all his entire career was about winning, and that's 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:09.600 also what the Buccaneers got to experience when he came here, 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:13.320 the single greatest three year stretching team history. It's gonna 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.360 be so interesting to see what this is going to 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.160 mean now. So let's let's get into that a little bit. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:20.760 For this idea of we've said the last few weeks, 0:04:20.800 --> 0:04:23.000 we were like man until he makes some announcement one 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.600 way or the other. The first domino. It was the 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.440 first domino, and it was going to affect so many 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:29.120 other things, from draft and free agency to even the 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:32.960 offensive coordinator position. So many things we're waiting on this. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.560 So now at least we've had a domino fall. What 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.280 are the first things that come to your mind about 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:39.320 now that we know that Brady is not coming back. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:41.400 First things that come to your mind about what that effects, Well, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:42.599 there's a lot of them, but I think the first 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.080 thing I think up as a salary cap because um, 0:04:45.120 --> 0:04:47.120 he is because of the way the structured It's not 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.680 his fault, but because of the way the the last 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.520 renegotiated contract with Structure in order to give the bucks 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.760 cap relief in these last couple of years, some of 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.640 that was pushed forward in the future, and he has 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.039 what is called a dead cap hit of thirty five million. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.680 If he had signed with another team, or even resigned 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:05.000 with the Buccaneers, you would have that thirty five minute 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.720 this year against the cap. But because he retired, there 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.240 is a way that the Bucks can process this um 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.880 movement so that it's split and only eleven million count 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.599 against the cap this year and two million next year. Deal. Yeah, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.760 it's big, and you next year the Bucks don't have 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.080 as many contracts on the book and the salary capital 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.600 have risen again, so um, it's it's basically saving you 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:26.600 four million dollars with the cap space that you can 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.039 now spend on resigning your own free agents and possibly 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:33.400 getting a new form. So that's the first really big hit. Also, 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.200 the Buccaneers have spent the last week and a half 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.479 interviewing offensive coordinator candidates, So now these guys and the 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.520 Bucks know what they're going forward with and how they 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.920 can plan and maybe that factors into which person is 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:48.240 the best choice. And you know, there's all these other 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.240 free agents we saw last year, how Ryan Jensen and 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.200 Carlton Davis, they they admitted that Brady's return was a 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.560 factor in their return, and so that could have an 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.560 impact on which free agents want to come and which one, 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:01.480 which one, which ones want to stay, which one want 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.160 to go. And then of course the final domino is 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:06.240 who's the Bucks quarterback next year? And that's going to 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:08.560 be the single biggest topic of conversation for the next 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:10.920 over many months until we find that out. Yeah, which 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.320 is going to be engine again. You could find it 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:13.760 out in free agency, You could find it out in 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:15.320 the draft. You could find it out because they don't 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.360 do anything in either of those. So well, they're gonna 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.440 have to sign a couple guys because Kyle Trask is 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.240 the only quarterback we have in our contract right now. 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:22.880 And as we've seen with the forty niners, you can 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:26.800 never have too many good Yeah, and we need to 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:28.920 sign about eight. I feel like at this point, after 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.360 I wanted to sign Josh Johnson, there you go. Um, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.840 So now you mentioned the offensive coordinator and stuff that 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.240 they have been interviewing some people, and of course you 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.120 know working for the team that we don't ever announce 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.520 anything until the Bucks have announced that they have been completed. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:43.960 So we're not going to be the people that ever 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.719 talked about pending ones or upcoming ones or anything like that. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.080 So based on what the Bucks have announced to this point, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.640 who are some of the offensive coordinator candidates that they've 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.400 looked at, and what could that maybe say about what 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:55.960 they're looking for? Even I would put it as they're 0:06:56.000 --> 0:06:59.559 casting a wide net. I mean, I believe it's six 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:01.760 so are and I don't think that they're done. They 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.800 looked at Clint Kubiak of the Broncos. Yeah, the Broncos. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.919 It's hard to keep all these traight. Keena mccarneal the 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.040 Bucks Super Bowl champion from O two with the Vikings, 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.800 Jim Bob Cooter with Jacksonville that was. And then um 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.280 Dan Pitcher, the quarterbacks coach for the Bengals. That one 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.360 was a little bit move point now since after his 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.200 interview with US, he signed a contract extension with the Bengals, 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:23.560 so he's probably off the board. But then this week 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.360 they started off with Todd Monkin, who we know well 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.680 spend three seasons as the Bucks offensive coordinator under Dirk Cutter. 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:33.560 And um and uh one more, Shay Tierney, a quarterbacks 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.440 coach for the Giants, who I mean, I think the 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.920 big check mark for him would be. You know, he 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.680 came over with Brian Dable and in one year helped 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.360 Dan Daniel Jones make a huge jump forward in his career. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.440 So if you're talking about developing a quarterback, there's a 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.480 couple of guys here, including him, who you would look 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.280 at and say, well, we've seen them have a part 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.040 in that, right, So that's six candidates and they're not done. 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:55.600 And I'm sure that Brady's retirement now will make that 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:57.680 whole process a little bit easier in terms of to 0:07:57.760 --> 0:07:59.520 hone in on things that I'm sure they had talked about. 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:01.840 It he's back, if he's not, they've talked about all 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:03.840 these scenarios. But to now know that any of these 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.440 follow up interviews you do, or interviews that happen in 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:07.960 the future, it's going to make it a little bit 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.120 easier to have to talk about one less very large scenario, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.920 to boil down really what their vision could be for 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:15.840 this offense. And so now that we know it won't 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.000 be Brady, what comes to your mind about what this 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:22.120 could mean for this offense. Depending on all the potential options, 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.000 there could be a quarterback. Well, well, for one thing, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.600 you could end up with a totally different style of 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.000 quarterback depending on I mean, if it's if it's Kyle Trast, 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:33.120 maybe not. But you know, you could have a guy 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.000 with a little bit more mobility, because Tom would be 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:37.520 the first one to say he joked about all the 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.800 time mobility was not his game. And so when the 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.440 protection wasn't perfect this year, the passes were coming out 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:45.480 really quickly, right and instead of maybe some moving him 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.000 around a little bit. So, um, there could be a 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:50.080 difference there. You you could end up and we've seen 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:52.560 this sport before, obviously with the quarterback who's a little 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:54.800 more volatile. You know, Tom Brady only through i think 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:56.760 nine interceptions this year and for most of the season 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:00.839 the only tiny little right, So um, you know we've 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.559 seen it with Jamis Winston and obviously it's not a 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:04.960 good thing. But you might have a guy that's you know, 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:09.400 Morerius type, progressive downfield, but also more turnovers, kind of 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.080 like a Josh Allen. I'm not saying there's a lot 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:12.840 of Josh Allen's out there. Yeah, let's go find one 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.960 of those. But um, you know, there's a lot of 0:09:14.960 --> 0:09:17.319 different types of quarterbacks and I don't know what the 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.240 Buccaneers want, but going back to the offensive coordinator position. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.079 You know, there's a two way streets. So obviously most 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.080 of these guys that are interviewing probably want to advance 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.840 their careers. But you could look at the situation and decide, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:30.600 you know, the Bucks are telling you this is our 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:32.960 plan going forward in quarterback, and think this is either 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.920 more less attractive position. Yeah, that's gonna be so interesting. 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:38.520 All right, Well, we're going to wrap up here, but 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:40.960 we're going to close out by letting you guys watch 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.200 the ring ceremony speech that Tom Brady gave. We thought 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.160 that was a fitting way to endo this show that 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:49.040 is all about his retirement and moving forward with the Buccaneers. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:50.880 So thanks again for tuning in, and we'll see you 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.480 next time. You know, I think about one years, you know, 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.360 I've played in the NFL and twenty years going to 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.840 last year, I was a free agent and I didn't 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.800 know what my career is going to be. You know 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:04.319 a lot of you guys see me, and a lot 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.240 of you guys were young when uh, you know, I 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.480 got drafted. I was a six round pick, you know, 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:12.360 as a D nine nin pick. I never forgot that. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.560 I still haven't forgot that to this day. I have 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.280 a lot of perspective on where I was at at 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:20.200 one point in my life, you know, and that not 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:22.880 a lot of teams ever thought I could do anything 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:24.720 for him, you know, not a lot of teams ever 0:10:24.760 --> 0:10:28.280 believed in what I thought I could accomplish for that team, 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.320 you know. And I was at one organization and I 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.599 learned a lot. And when I had the opportunity to 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.960 choose another place, it was the first time I really 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.520 got to choose. You know, Devin, you didn't get to 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:41.760 choose Lavante, you didn't choose Mike, you didn't choose you know, 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:44.640 you got picked. I got a chance to choose. And 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:46.959 you know, everyone always says, why the bucks Man, Why 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:50.400 do you choose the bucks And it was a no brainer. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:53.600 It was a no brainer.