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Speaker 1: The Season with Peter Schrager is a production of the

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Speaker 1: NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio. What's Up, Everybody, Welcome to

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Speaker 1: another episode of the Season with Peter Scheger. I am

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Speaker 1: Peter Schrager. I am joined by my producer and friend

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Speaker 1: Aaron wang Kaufman, and also Jason English from the iHeartMedia team.

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Speaker 2: What forty eight hours for New York Football? I got

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Speaker 2: to start in New York as we go to the

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night experience to the Monday night experience and do

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Speaker 2: a quick snippet on just the total polar opposites of

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Speaker 2: how you can feel after a loss Jets Sunday Night, Aaron,

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Speaker 2: They're down seventeen to nothing. They start with this ridiculous

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Speaker 2: safety and then they get a field goal of seventeen

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Speaker 2: clicking and Zach Wilson begins out playing Mahomes. I joked

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Speaker 2: on on Monday mornings Good Morning Football that I thought,

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Speaker 1: Go out the night before? Like, was Mahomes the one

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Speaker 1: zero bond? Because all of a sudden, Mahomes is throwing

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Speaker 1: And Zach Wilson starts looking like not only a competent quarterback,

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Speaker 1: then on the two point conversion, looks like Brett Favre

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Speaker 1: two point coversion games everything he can to get in there.

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Speaker 1: Yes there was the fumble, and yes they lost, but

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Speaker 1: after the game, Mahomes pulls in Zach Wilson is like,

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Speaker 1: if you're Zach Wilson, and if you put yourself in

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Speaker 1: Zach Wilson's use for just a second. For the last

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Speaker 1: two years, all you read about, all you see is

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Speaker 1: that you suck, You're awful, you're a bust, you don't

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Speaker 1: have it. The season's over, You're a punching bag, and

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Speaker 1: I'm as guilty of this as anyone in the media.

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Speaker 1: Like you just you take something that's it's almost like

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Speaker 1: what we do in the media, and that's what it is.

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Speaker 1: But it was based on the fact that he couldn't

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Speaker 1: play well and he couldn't do it well. Then suddenly

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Speaker 1: you have this performance on Sunday night and it's a loss,

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Speaker 1: we've had Hanka's area on the time on the show

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Speaker 1: feel like you just you don't deserve nice things. Well, yes,

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Speaker 1: they lost, but you gotta feel nice things. When Zach

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Speaker 1: I don't know where Darren Waller is in this offense.

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Speaker 1: And those two teams are both one and three. The

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Speaker 1: But I pushed back on that, and I know this

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Speaker 1: a little bit on what my Sunday was like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's why I do go up to him.

423
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Speaker 1: But you know, Daniel Jones is the character in this

424
00:21:06,706 --> 00:21:09,586
Speaker 1: like quiet great athlete, doesn't say much and a girl

425
00:21:09,666 --> 00:21:12,666
Speaker 1: breaks his heart. And I'm not giving any spoilers away,

426
00:21:12,666 --> 00:21:14,346
Speaker 1: but like the girl breaks his heart and breaks his

427
00:21:14,426 --> 00:21:17,706
Speaker 1: will to want to go play college basketball, and Ray

428
00:21:17,786 --> 00:21:20,786
Speaker 1: goes above maybe where he should go. His character does

429
00:21:21,666 --> 00:21:23,746
Speaker 1: to talk to the girl to convince her to maybe

430
00:21:23,786 --> 00:21:26,386
Speaker 1: give the son and a second chance. And oh, it's

431
00:21:26,426 --> 00:21:28,906
Speaker 1: a story. It is a beautiful movie. And I just

432
00:21:28,906 --> 00:21:30,466
Speaker 1: seen it and I cried on the flight, and now

433
00:21:30,506 --> 00:21:32,226
Speaker 1: I cried to every movie on the flat. I think

434
00:21:32,226 --> 00:21:34,866
Speaker 1: I've cried to like like movies like Taken with like

435
00:21:35,266 --> 00:21:37,226
Speaker 1: Lenisan and I cry at the end on Veneer on

436
00:21:37,226 --> 00:21:40,586
Speaker 1: a plane, you just cry. Yeah, So Aaron, I'm I'm there,

437
00:21:40,626 --> 00:21:42,506
Speaker 1: and I see Ray Romano and I know it's like

438
00:21:42,586 --> 00:21:44,266
Speaker 1: he was a director, And I know this movie did

439
00:21:44,266 --> 00:21:46,546
Speaker 1: not make you know, major waves. I know it's not

440
00:21:46,586 --> 00:21:48,386
Speaker 1: Oscar nominated as of yet or whatever it is. And

441
00:21:48,386 --> 00:21:49,986
Speaker 1: I know it wasn't like a critical darling. I haven't

442
00:21:49,986 --> 00:21:52,506
Speaker 1: heard anything about it, but I saw it and it

443
00:21:52,586 --> 00:21:53,826
Speaker 1: was great. So I went up to him, and of

444
00:21:53,906 --> 00:21:55,826
Speaker 1: course everyone goes up to him and talks about everybody

445
00:21:55,906 --> 00:21:58,946
Speaker 1: loves Raymond whatever. I just said. You know, I was

446
00:21:58,986 --> 00:22:01,746
Speaker 1: on a Jet Blue flight recently and I loved somewhere

447
00:22:01,786 --> 00:22:04,506
Speaker 1: in Queens and ray who probably was approached by one

448
00:22:04,586 --> 00:22:08,906
Speaker 1: hundred people. You know, his eyes lit up, he smiled

449
00:22:09,026 --> 00:22:11,466
Speaker 1: and he was like, dude, thank you so much. He's like,

450
00:22:11,466 --> 00:22:14,386
Speaker 1: I've gotten so many comments over the last week or

451
00:22:14,386 --> 00:22:16,946
Speaker 1: two about this movie that I put my heart and

452
00:22:16,986 --> 00:22:20,546
Speaker 1: soul in. But yes, because it's on the planes, people

453
00:22:20,546 --> 00:22:22,066
Speaker 1: are watching it on the planes, and so I'm like,

454
00:22:22,106 --> 00:22:25,666
Speaker 1: is it streaming. It's streaming on Hulu and next week,

455
00:22:25,706 --> 00:22:28,026
Speaker 1: he said, and it's coming out. And he's like, gosh,

456
00:22:28,066 --> 00:22:29,626
Speaker 1: it's crazy because that movie went out in the theater.

457
00:22:29,666 --> 00:22:31,826
Speaker 1: We put everything into it. It was like my heart

458
00:22:31,826 --> 00:22:34,706
Speaker 1: and the soul and like, and now people are kind

459
00:22:34,706 --> 00:22:36,666
Speaker 1: of seeing I go, dude, if that movie came out

460
00:22:36,666 --> 00:22:39,186
Speaker 1: ten years ago, it would have gotten a major you know,

461
00:22:39,306 --> 00:22:40,626
Speaker 1: a theater, and it would have been if it was

462
00:22:40,666 --> 00:22:43,586
Speaker 1: in a traditional situation ten years ago, where people saw

463
00:22:43,706 --> 00:22:46,266
Speaker 1: romantic comedies and people watch movies other than Star Wars

464
00:22:46,346 --> 00:22:48,826
Speaker 1: and superhero movies. It would have been great. Ray was

465
00:22:48,826 --> 00:22:51,466
Speaker 1: so appreciative. I had the greatest experience meeting Ray Romano.

466
00:22:51,506 --> 00:22:53,906
Speaker 1: He was so nice, he was so great. And then

467
00:22:53,906 --> 00:22:56,106
Speaker 1: it was like game time. He was locked in, Aaron.

468
00:22:56,186 --> 00:23:01,466
Speaker 1: The other people in this box sitting off to the side.

469
00:23:01,586 --> 00:23:03,346
Speaker 1: I had it took a double take. I was like,

470
00:23:03,346 --> 00:23:08,786
Speaker 1: what Kendall Roy himself, enemy Strong was sitting in this box.

471
00:23:08,866 --> 00:23:10,546
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, maybe he just didn't want

472
00:23:10,546 --> 00:23:15,586
Speaker 1: to talk to anybody, locked the f into the game,

473
00:23:15,786 --> 00:23:20,666
Speaker 1: like wearing a Jets hat every play, watching analyzing, no

474
00:23:20,746 --> 00:23:23,586
Speaker 1: bathroom breaks, no nothing like he was in. I had

475
00:23:23,586 --> 00:23:27,666
Speaker 1: no idea. Jeremy Strong love football. He loves Jets football.

476
00:23:27,786 --> 00:23:30,946
Speaker 1: What a great celebrity fan to have the eldest son,

477
00:23:31,066 --> 00:23:34,466
Speaker 1: if you will. Gosh, he was still locked in. So

478
00:23:34,506 --> 00:23:37,306
Speaker 1: there you go. Those are two like Titans. Next one,

479
00:23:40,346 --> 00:23:43,066
Speaker 1: What is your favorite comedy show? Maybe of the last

480
00:23:43,426 --> 00:23:46,666
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty years, like when you need like just a laugh,

481
00:23:46,706 --> 00:23:47,466
Speaker 1: what's yours? Aaron?

482
00:23:49,866 --> 00:23:51,946
Speaker 3: So that came out in the last fifteen to twenty,

483
00:23:52,066 --> 00:23:53,706
Speaker 3: Like what's your show probably The Office.

484
00:23:53,786 --> 00:23:57,186
Speaker 1: Okay, great, that's perfect answer. The Office is one of

485
00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,746
Speaker 1: mine too. If it's on, I'll watch it, yeah, if

486
00:24:00,786 --> 00:24:03,026
Speaker 1: I need a laugh or if I'm just I will

487
00:24:03,026 --> 00:24:08,986
Speaker 1: watch Kurby Your Enthusiasm, and I will specifically watch Leon. Yeah.

488
00:24:09,106 --> 00:24:10,426
Speaker 3: Yeah.

489
00:24:10,906 --> 00:24:15,186
Speaker 1: JB. Smooth was in this box. And I am telling you, Aaron,

490
00:24:15,826 --> 00:24:19,506
Speaker 1: the JB. Smooth you see on TV is one hundred

491
00:24:19,546 --> 00:24:22,426
Speaker 1: percent to JB Smooth. I saw it in this box.

492
00:24:22,986 --> 00:24:25,786
Speaker 1: He sees me and we he's been on the show before,

493
00:24:25,906 --> 00:24:31,066
Speaker 1: and immediately it's like, okay, okay, he's here, and here's

494
00:24:31,546 --> 00:24:34,506
Speaker 1: here's here's my favorite character in maybe TV history Leon.

495
00:24:34,706 --> 00:24:36,826
Speaker 5: And he starts doing that we are not worthy, like

496
00:24:36,866 --> 00:24:37,786
Speaker 5: Wayne's world thing to me.

497
00:24:38,146 --> 00:24:43,106
Speaker 1: Stop stop stop, comes over and immediately arm around me.

498
00:24:43,266 --> 00:24:46,146
Speaker 1: We start talking and you know, the Jets are his team,

499
00:24:46,666 --> 00:24:48,786
Speaker 1: and he was talking about Bruce Hopkins. He was talking

500
00:24:48,786 --> 00:24:51,586
Speaker 1: about altoon like we go into Jets deep and he

501
00:24:51,706 --> 00:24:54,346
Speaker 1: is so great, and then all of a sudden he

502
00:24:54,386 --> 00:24:59,306
Speaker 1: goes on this incredible rant if you will slash bit

503
00:25:00,066 --> 00:25:04,666
Speaker 1: slash monologue where the I could never imitate him, Like

504
00:25:04,746 --> 00:25:07,226
Speaker 1: if I was to imitate him, all I'd be canceled

505
00:25:07,306 --> 00:25:10,426
Speaker 1: for trying to limitate him be I just it wouldn't

506
00:25:10,426 --> 00:25:15,066
Speaker 1: do him justice. His bit is that sauce is on

507
00:25:15,226 --> 00:25:20,546
Speaker 1: the field, but the gravy's in the building. And he's

508
00:25:20,546 --> 00:25:25,346
Speaker 1: pointing to himself that he JB. Smooth is the gravy.

509
00:25:26,746 --> 00:25:30,866
Speaker 6: A whole bit about sauce on the steel. Gravy is

510
00:25:30,906 --> 00:25:34,666
Speaker 6: the building and he's gravy. We talked for a while.

511
00:25:35,066 --> 00:25:38,066
Speaker 6: He wants to come on the podcast amazing, will be

512
00:25:38,146 --> 00:25:42,106
Speaker 6: a guest. Here's the part that gets a little tricky.

513
00:25:43,066 --> 00:25:45,786
Speaker 6: He's with his longtime manager. I'll say his name. His

514
00:25:45,866 --> 00:25:47,306
Speaker 6: name is Rick Dorfman.

515
00:25:47,786 --> 00:25:50,386
Speaker 1: I don't know Rick. Rick is awesome. Rick comes over,

516
00:25:50,466 --> 00:25:53,866
Speaker 1: introduces himself to me, says, JB. Would love to come

517
00:25:53,866 --> 00:25:56,466
Speaker 1: on the podcast. Would love to come on the show. Says,

518
00:25:56,546 --> 00:26:02,066
Speaker 1: let's exchange numbers. Rick presents me with a q R code.

519
00:26:02,586 --> 00:26:05,586
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no no. This is very smart.

520
00:26:05,706 --> 00:26:06,986
Speaker 1: This is a great way to do it. He doesn't

521
00:26:06,986 --> 00:26:09,946
Speaker 1: have a business card. He says, scan this QR code.

522
00:26:10,426 --> 00:26:12,626
Speaker 1: And I scan the QR code and it's all his

523
00:26:12,746 --> 00:26:16,466
Speaker 1: contact information. I was like, that was the coolest thing ever.

524
00:26:16,906 --> 00:26:21,146
Speaker 1: Phone number, email, everything. There was an app for it.

525
00:26:21,186 --> 00:26:23,226
Speaker 1: The app, I believe was called Blink b L I

526
00:26:23,426 --> 00:26:25,626
Speaker 1: n Q. He's like, you have to get blink. It's

527
00:26:25,666 --> 00:26:27,506
Speaker 1: gonna be a game changer for you to not have

528
00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:30,426
Speaker 1: to type in numbers. It's it just QR code. You

529
00:26:30,546 --> 00:26:34,426
Speaker 1: scan it. It's great, that's what I do. JB and

530
00:26:34,506 --> 00:26:39,826
Speaker 1: I have this incredible experience together. I'm talking, laughing, hugging.

531
00:26:40,306 --> 00:26:42,586
Speaker 1: I filmed a video with him. He wanted to film

532
00:26:42,586 --> 00:26:44,986
Speaker 1: a video like we had a plat like talking about

533
00:26:45,226 --> 00:26:47,826
Speaker 1: if you want the ultimate Ying and Yang, it's probably

534
00:26:47,906 --> 00:26:50,666
Speaker 1: Larry David and jbswoth. Yeah, I think we can't talk that.

535
00:26:50,786 --> 00:26:53,066
Speaker 1: But like he and I do not look like we

536
00:26:53,106 --> 00:26:55,546
Speaker 1: would be uh, you know, regular bedfellows. We got along great.

537
00:26:55,626 --> 00:26:59,706
Speaker 1: It was incredible. I get in the car after the game,

538
00:26:59,706 --> 00:27:02,346
Speaker 1: which was fantastic. Obviously, I go back to the press box.

539
00:27:02,386 --> 00:27:04,346
Speaker 1: I watch from there that I try to beat the

540
00:27:04,386 --> 00:27:05,906
Speaker 1: traffic just a little bit, which I did so I

541
00:27:05,946 --> 00:27:08,866
Speaker 1: could do Good Morning Football. I had done two games.

542
00:27:09,306 --> 00:27:11,346
Speaker 1: I get in the car. I have been up since

543
00:27:11,946 --> 00:27:13,626
Speaker 1: four am because I got a full way to go

544
00:27:13,666 --> 00:27:15,706
Speaker 1: to Philly and then I was ending the game. I

545
00:27:15,706 --> 00:27:18,146
Speaker 1: got in the car around midnight. So that's a long day,

546
00:27:18,146 --> 00:27:21,146
Speaker 1: but like two amazing football games. I was on cloud nine.

547
00:27:21,186 --> 00:27:24,106
Speaker 1: It like reinvigorated me, like just being in two buildings,

548
00:27:24,186 --> 00:27:25,946
Speaker 1: Like I love this sport, I love all of this.

549
00:27:26,586 --> 00:27:28,786
Speaker 1: I get back in the car and I'm like, I'm

550
00:27:28,786 --> 00:27:31,386
Speaker 1: immediately gonna say great to meet you to this, Rick Drfman.

551
00:27:32,626 --> 00:27:36,826
Speaker 1: I go into my phone. It's gone. I can't find anything.

552
00:27:37,346 --> 00:27:40,586
Speaker 1: I didn't save whatever that QR code thing was. And

553
00:27:40,626 --> 00:27:43,146
Speaker 1: there is no silver lining as we record this on Tuesday,

554
00:27:43,866 --> 00:27:46,026
Speaker 1: and this is a call to action. If anyone has

555
00:27:46,146 --> 00:27:48,706
Speaker 1: Rick Dorfman's number or email, send it along to me.

556
00:27:48,866 --> 00:27:51,986
Speaker 1: I want to have JB. Smooth on the podcast next week.

557
00:27:52,466 --> 00:27:55,146
Speaker 1: He was incredible. My day was incredible. I woke up

558
00:27:55,186 --> 00:27:58,106
Speaker 1: the next morning, I'm like, I feel like I completely

559
00:27:58,506 --> 00:28:02,106
Speaker 1: ready to go and roaring to go, and I'm excited

560
00:28:02,866 --> 00:28:04,426
Speaker 1: by a lot of stuff around the NFL.

561
00:28:04,506 --> 00:28:04,746
Speaker 4: CJ.

562
00:28:04,866 --> 00:28:08,746
Speaker 1: Stroud looks amazing, Anthony Richard Loss looks amazing. Mcvay's team

563
00:28:08,786 --> 00:28:12,666
Speaker 1: is fighting despite players that you know named Aaron Donald, Pukinakua,

564
00:28:12,746 --> 00:28:15,786
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford. And maybe that's it on the roster. There's

565
00:28:15,866 --> 00:28:19,666
Speaker 1: so much good around the league right now. Maybe there's

566
00:28:19,706 --> 00:28:23,906
Speaker 1: no better story than the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Which leads

567
00:28:23,906 --> 00:28:29,506
Speaker 1: to our guests for the week, Buccaneers GM Jason Light.

568
00:28:36,666 --> 00:28:38,986
Speaker 1: The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have had the third most win

569
00:28:39,146 --> 00:28:42,866
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. They have had the fourth most regular

570
00:28:42,906 --> 00:28:45,906
Speaker 1: season win since twenty twenty and if you look at

571
00:28:45,946 --> 00:28:50,266
Speaker 1: their roster, they are number three on highest percentage of

572
00:28:50,506 --> 00:28:53,946
Speaker 1: home grown talent, which means they have drafted or signed

573
00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:58,626
Speaker 1: undrafted guys themselves who are now playing. The general manager

574
00:28:58,666 --> 00:29:01,426
Speaker 1: of the tam Bay Buccaneers is the architect of this

575
00:29:01,546 --> 00:29:04,066
Speaker 1: team and he is joining us on the season with

576
00:29:04,146 --> 00:29:06,746
Speaker 1: Peter Scheger. Mister Jason Light the Bucks.

577
00:29:06,746 --> 00:29:10,466
Speaker 4: How are we doing doing great? Man? Appreciate you having

578
00:29:10,506 --> 00:29:10,826
Speaker 4: me on.

579
00:29:11,746 --> 00:29:13,986
Speaker 1: I figured the only time I can get you is

580
00:29:14,066 --> 00:29:17,706
Speaker 1: during the bye week, and it certainly helps when the

581
00:29:17,746 --> 00:29:20,586
Speaker 1: team is three and one as opposed to a different record.

582
00:29:20,626 --> 00:29:22,786
Speaker 1: But you and I have known each other for many years,

583
00:29:22,826 --> 00:29:25,066
Speaker 1: and I have to say the Tom Brady stuff was great,

584
00:29:25,186 --> 00:29:27,506
Speaker 1: and of course last year again they were great. To

585
00:29:27,546 --> 00:29:29,866
Speaker 1: see this team at the top of the NFC sound

586
00:29:29,906 --> 00:29:32,266
Speaker 1: standings as we head towards the bye I don't think

587
00:29:32,306 --> 00:29:34,866
Speaker 1: a lot of people saw that, me included. How proud

588
00:29:34,866 --> 00:29:36,626
Speaker 1: are you of this team? First mouth of football?

589
00:29:36,906 --> 00:29:40,106
Speaker 4: Well well, first of all, we've got a long season

590
00:29:40,146 --> 00:29:42,226
Speaker 4: ahead of us, so I know we're not putting the

591
00:29:42,266 --> 00:29:46,426
Speaker 4: cart before the horse here. But you know, I'm very

592
00:29:46,466 --> 00:29:50,066
Speaker 4: proud of the coaching staff, the football staff, everybody here

593
00:29:50,066 --> 00:29:52,226
Speaker 4: in the building, but then the players too. But I

594
00:29:52,226 --> 00:29:54,986
Speaker 4: will say that I went on record several times in

595
00:29:55,026 --> 00:29:57,786
Speaker 4: training camp people kind of were writing us off, and

596
00:29:57,826 --> 00:30:00,146
Speaker 4: I said, I just liked the DNA of this team.

597
00:30:00,266 --> 00:30:03,066
Speaker 4: I just liked the way that it was all coming

598
00:30:03,066 --> 00:30:07,906
Speaker 4: together and the players to prove to the world that

599
00:30:08,346 --> 00:30:10,586
Speaker 4: you know that there we still have good players. We're

600
00:30:10,626 --> 00:30:13,426
Speaker 4: still a good team. And and so I'm not surprised

601
00:30:13,466 --> 00:30:15,906
Speaker 4: that you know that we started off the way we did.

602
00:30:16,146 --> 00:30:17,466
Speaker 4: You know, we have great coaches too.

603
00:30:18,386 --> 00:30:20,346
Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think it's sneaky with what the Bucks

604
00:30:20,466 --> 00:30:22,426
Speaker 1: roster is. And I think a lot of people, if

605
00:30:22,466 --> 00:30:24,506
Speaker 1: you looked at it from thirty thousand feet, said, okay,

606
00:30:24,906 --> 00:30:27,866
Speaker 1: Tom Brady was dropped in, they won, they win the

607
00:30:27,906 --> 00:30:30,866
Speaker 1: next year, all right, tom Brady's moved out of the thing,

608
00:30:30,906 --> 00:30:32,346
Speaker 1: and it's like, all right, they're going to fall apart.

609
00:30:32,386 --> 00:30:36,386
Speaker 1: But I'm looking at some numbers that my research team

610
00:30:36,386 --> 00:30:40,186
Speaker 1: has helped put together. Most total snaps by a team's

611
00:30:40,306 --> 00:30:44,586
Speaker 1: own first through fifth round pick since twenty fourteen, and

612
00:30:44,626 --> 00:30:47,466
Speaker 1: it's the Bucks by a mile. And it's most total

613
00:30:47,466 --> 00:30:50,866
Speaker 1: games started by a team's own first through fifth round

614
00:30:50,866 --> 00:30:53,426
Speaker 1: pick since twenty fourteen, and it's the Bucks by a mile.

615
00:30:53,666 --> 00:30:56,266
Speaker 1: You go through these guys, whether it be Mike Evans

616
00:30:56,346 --> 00:30:59,546
Speaker 1: or Godwin or vite Veya or Devin White or Jamel Dee,

617
00:30:59,666 --> 00:31:02,666
Speaker 1: all over the guys over the years. This is homegrown talent.

618
00:31:02,706 --> 00:31:05,626
Speaker 1: There's something to that when you look at this team,

619
00:31:05,826 --> 00:31:07,906
Speaker 1: do you see this is like there's a sense of

620
00:31:07,946 --> 00:31:10,506
Speaker 1: pride that, hey, we drafted these guys and for the

621
00:31:10,506 --> 00:31:12,106
Speaker 1: most part, a lot of them are performing at a

622
00:31:12,146 --> 00:31:13,346
Speaker 1: high level and key spots.

623
00:31:13,986 --> 00:31:17,706
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, I mean that's that's what we in personnel.

624
00:31:17,986 --> 00:31:21,866
Speaker 4: I mean we want to we all aspire to as

625
00:31:21,906 --> 00:31:25,066
Speaker 4: a GM, as a scout, as a personnel director or

626
00:31:25,106 --> 00:31:28,306
Speaker 4: what have you. You want to you want to grow your own.

627
00:31:28,626 --> 00:31:31,066
Speaker 4: You want to you want to bring them in, you

628
00:31:31,106 --> 00:31:33,626
Speaker 4: want to develop them, You want them to understand the

629
00:31:33,626 --> 00:31:37,466
Speaker 4: way that we do things as an organization. You you

630
00:31:37,506 --> 00:31:39,266
Speaker 4: want to give them, you want to reward them with

631
00:31:39,386 --> 00:31:43,226
Speaker 4: contracts and keep your own and you know that's what

632
00:31:43,266 --> 00:31:45,946
Speaker 4: we're doing. And you know we've got we've got a

633
00:31:45,986 --> 00:31:49,386
Speaker 4: great First of all, I the only thing I will

634
00:31:49,946 --> 00:31:53,386
Speaker 4: pat myself on the back for is I've hired extremely

635
00:31:53,426 --> 00:31:55,946
Speaker 4: well that's the only thing I'm going to say that

636
00:31:56,146 --> 00:31:59,546
Speaker 4: about me. That our staff has done an outstanding job.

637
00:31:59,866 --> 00:32:03,706
Speaker 4: Whether it's the scouts, the personnel directors, spy, Tech, Greenburn, Jackie,

638
00:32:03,786 --> 00:32:05,546
Speaker 4: I mean the whole I could name everybody. I'm going

639
00:32:05,586 --> 00:32:08,186
Speaker 4: to leave somebody out, but the coaching staff.

640
00:32:08,226 --> 00:32:10,586
Speaker 1: Don't forget my boy Byron down there are the best

641
00:32:10,586 --> 00:32:11,226
Speaker 1: scouts in the game.

642
00:32:11,306 --> 00:32:11,866
Speaker 4: There's no doubt.

643
00:32:11,906 --> 00:32:13,386
Speaker 1: Give Byron love Byron.

644
00:32:13,586 --> 00:32:16,706
Speaker 4: He has been here for a long time and he

645
00:32:16,866 --> 00:32:20,226
Speaker 4: is incredible, incredible, So I could go on and on.

646
00:32:20,866 --> 00:32:23,946
Speaker 4: So but anyway, and our coaching staff just having the

647
00:32:23,946 --> 00:32:27,386
Speaker 4: patience with these players. So it's it's been awesome bringing

648
00:32:28,106 --> 00:32:30,346
Speaker 4: everyone to be on the same page.

649
00:32:30,546 --> 00:32:33,226
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's cool. And even look at this

650
00:32:33,306 --> 00:32:37,546
Speaker 1: team now, and Baker's the new story, and Baker people

651
00:32:37,586 --> 00:32:40,066
Speaker 1: doubted and Bakers spent time in Carolina and then was

652
00:32:40,106 --> 00:32:43,026
Speaker 1: of course with the Rams left over, and Baker looks

653
00:32:43,066 --> 00:32:45,106
Speaker 1: great and competent, and you guys go into New Orleans

654
00:32:45,146 --> 00:32:47,866
Speaker 1: and win the signing of Baker Mayfield is one story.

655
00:32:48,666 --> 00:32:50,706
Speaker 1: The other story is how well he has taken to

656
00:32:50,786 --> 00:32:52,226
Speaker 1: this team and they've taken to him. Can you go

657
00:32:52,266 --> 00:32:54,826
Speaker 1: through the Baker Mayfield experience for you guys when you

658
00:32:54,826 --> 00:32:57,506
Speaker 1: were looking after Brady hung him up, like, what's the

659
00:32:57,546 --> 00:32:58,106
Speaker 1: next step?

660
00:32:58,666 --> 00:33:03,026
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, you know Baker. Now, as it turns out, Baker,

661
00:33:03,506 --> 00:33:07,546
Speaker 4: he's a very very smart person. I knew he was smart,

662
00:33:07,546 --> 00:33:10,186
Speaker 4: you know, we did our due diligence on him coming out.

663
00:33:10,226 --> 00:33:13,826
Speaker 4: We weren't looking for a quarterback that year. But knew

664
00:33:13,826 --> 00:33:16,146
Speaker 4: that he was smart. I didn't realize just how incredibly

665
00:33:16,346 --> 00:33:20,306
Speaker 4: smart he is. And he was targeting us, I mean

666
00:33:20,346 --> 00:33:22,186
Speaker 4: maybe more than we were targeting him.

667
00:33:22,226 --> 00:33:23,346
Speaker 1: And he saw a little flirt.

668
00:33:24,266 --> 00:33:27,986
Speaker 4: He saw this as an awesome opportunity for him, you know,

669
00:33:28,106 --> 00:33:29,746
Speaker 4: And we told him from the beginning that this is

670
00:33:29,786 --> 00:33:31,106
Speaker 4: going to be a you're going to be in a

671
00:33:31,106 --> 00:33:34,506
Speaker 4: competition here because we really like Kyle Trask. And he

672
00:33:34,546 --> 00:33:37,306
Speaker 4: didn't you know, as you know, Baker, he didn't flinch.

673
00:33:37,506 --> 00:33:40,586
Speaker 4: He accepted that and you know, he just ran with it.

674
00:33:40,666 --> 00:33:43,106
Speaker 4: And it was a good competition. But we saw a

675
00:33:43,106 --> 00:33:45,906
Speaker 4: lot out of Kyle that we loved to see too.

676
00:33:45,946 --> 00:33:47,506
Speaker 4: He was doing a did a hell of a job

677
00:33:47,546 --> 00:33:53,066
Speaker 4: for us, but he is such a you know, even

678
00:33:53,106 --> 00:33:55,386
Speaker 4: as I go around town, people know what's Baker like?

679
00:33:55,506 --> 00:33:58,586
Speaker 4: Is he a good guy? It's like, I don't know

680
00:33:58,666 --> 00:34:02,226
Speaker 4: where this started that he wasn't a good guy. And

681
00:34:02,746 --> 00:34:04,386
Speaker 4: I mean, I think you can point to a few

682
00:34:04,426 --> 00:34:07,226
Speaker 4: things that maybe people got the wrong pression of him.

683
00:34:07,266 --> 00:34:10,626
Speaker 4: But he's a freaking awesome dude. He is a dude

684
00:34:11,066 --> 00:34:14,106
Speaker 4: and the players saw it right away. I mean, he's

685
00:34:14,186 --> 00:34:18,466
Speaker 4: whether he's taken the lineman to the Bahamas, you know,

686
00:34:18,786 --> 00:34:21,986
Speaker 4: during on our break, during camp, before the first you know,

687
00:34:22,026 --> 00:34:26,386
Speaker 4: after final cuts to go golf, or he's he's spotted

688
00:34:26,426 --> 00:34:28,826
Speaker 4: around town at dive bars with a different group of

689
00:34:28,946 --> 00:34:32,386
Speaker 4: position group with receivers, with Mike Evans, you know, with

690
00:34:32,426 --> 00:34:35,226
Speaker 4: a godwin with these guys. He really knows he's not

691
00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:37,826
Speaker 4: doing it's not fake. He really knows how to how

692
00:34:37,866 --> 00:34:40,586
Speaker 4: to be a dude with the team and they love.

693
00:34:40,506 --> 00:34:43,506
Speaker 1: Him and and he and he lays it out there.

694
00:34:43,506 --> 00:34:45,106
Speaker 1: You see him throwing blocks, you see the hit he

695
00:34:45,146 --> 00:34:48,146
Speaker 1: took against the Saints on Sunday, and it's like he's

696
00:34:48,186 --> 00:34:49,706
Speaker 1: gonna leave it all out in the field. What's your

697
00:34:49,706 --> 00:34:52,426
Speaker 1: favorite Baker's story between you and him interacting, because I

698
00:34:52,466 --> 00:34:55,346
Speaker 1: know coaches who've had him and are like, you know, Nick,

699
00:34:55,386 --> 00:34:57,026
Speaker 1: they had him last year for a small window and

700
00:34:57,026 --> 00:35:00,746
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, Big Baker's hilarious too. He's funny as hell. Like,

701
00:35:00,786 --> 00:35:02,346
Speaker 1: have you had a moment where he's had a snide

702
00:35:02,346 --> 00:35:04,666
Speaker 1: commenters or cast a comment where you're like, this is

703
00:35:04,706 --> 00:35:05,666
Speaker 1: one of us. This guy's a.

704
00:35:05,586 --> 00:35:09,026
Speaker 4: Fun Yeah, a few. I probably shouldn't tell them on this,

705
00:35:12,306 --> 00:35:15,026
Speaker 4: you know what. You know, what's really interesting is so

706
00:35:15,266 --> 00:35:19,026
Speaker 4: I was born in this very small town in Nebraska, Freemont, Nebraska.

707
00:35:19,066 --> 00:35:22,146
Speaker 4: It's about twenty thousand people. It's kind of halfway between

708
00:35:22,146 --> 00:35:25,426
Speaker 4: Omahon and Lincoln. And when I was young, we moved

709
00:35:25,426 --> 00:35:27,226
Speaker 4: to Colorado. So I grew up in Colorado. But that's

710
00:35:27,266 --> 00:35:31,866
Speaker 4: where my parents both were from that area, and that's

711
00:35:31,906 --> 00:35:35,786
Speaker 4: where my grandparents, you know, that's where they settled and

712
00:35:35,866 --> 00:35:38,906
Speaker 4: all that stuff. So anyway that when we finally agreed

713
00:35:38,906 --> 00:35:42,386
Speaker 4: to terms with Baker, I texted him, Hey, congrats, we're

714
00:35:42,426 --> 00:35:45,546
Speaker 4: celebrating here. We're excited to have you. He said, yeah,

715
00:35:45,786 --> 00:35:47,946
Speaker 4: you know, my wife is from your hometown.

716
00:35:48,666 --> 00:35:50,866
Speaker 1: Get out of here's some Freemont, Nebraska.

717
00:35:50,986 --> 00:35:54,066
Speaker 4: Freemont, Nebraska. So I texted my mom and my sister.

718
00:35:54,146 --> 00:35:57,866
Speaker 4: They are like, oh yeah, the May family. Oh my god.

719
00:35:57,906 --> 00:36:00,706
Speaker 4: They founded Fremont. You know, the library is named after him.

720
00:36:00,986 --> 00:36:03,746
Speaker 4: You know, there's a you know, their names on buildings.

721
00:36:03,746 --> 00:36:07,706
Speaker 4: I mean, but she's kind of a big deal in Fremont, Nebraska.

722
00:36:07,386 --> 00:36:10,666
Speaker 4: But anyway, she turns out she's a wonderful person. She

723
00:36:11,026 --> 00:36:13,386
Speaker 4: has a suite right next to my wife's at the stadium,

724
00:36:14,106 --> 00:36:17,026
Speaker 4: and which could be an issue I guess with my

725
00:36:18,986 --> 00:36:20,946
Speaker 4: when my father in law sits in there, you know,

726
00:36:21,026 --> 00:36:24,466
Speaker 4: when things aren't going well, he tends to you. But anyway,

727
00:36:24,826 --> 00:36:26,026
Speaker 4: we already warned her about that.

728
00:36:26,146 --> 00:36:29,386
Speaker 1: But you hear him banging on the wall, don't don't know,

729
00:36:29,466 --> 00:36:32,866
Speaker 1: that's not that's not. Everything's okay, that's just my father

730
00:36:32,866 --> 00:36:33,186
Speaker 1: in law.

731
00:36:33,386 --> 00:36:35,626
Speaker 4: But it just kind of tells you the researching, the

732
00:36:35,666 --> 00:36:37,826
Speaker 4: detail he went into to know that I was born

733
00:36:37,826 --> 00:36:40,586
Speaker 4: in his wife's hometown. So that's pretty cool.

734
00:36:41,386 --> 00:36:44,506
Speaker 1: That's wild. Love this team right now, and love the

735
00:36:44,626 --> 00:36:47,266
Speaker 1: juice that you guys have as you look at the

736
00:36:47,346 --> 00:36:49,586
Speaker 1: roster up and down and you got all these guys

737
00:36:49,586 --> 00:36:53,626
Speaker 1: that you guys drafted. Todd Bowles is the head coach,

738
00:36:53,906 --> 00:36:56,586
Speaker 1: and a lot of people after last year said oh,

739
00:36:56,666 --> 00:36:58,186
Speaker 1: I don't know if he could be the coach and

740
00:36:58,266 --> 00:37:00,786
Speaker 1: after a post Brady world and yet this team for

741
00:37:00,866 --> 00:37:02,786
Speaker 1: spinning to Todd, He's never gonna have the SoundBite that

742
00:37:02,826 --> 00:37:05,386
Speaker 1: goes viral. What do you see from Todd Bowles on

743
00:37:05,426 --> 00:37:07,426
Speaker 1: a day to day basis that you guys know, he's

744
00:37:07,426 --> 00:37:08,386
Speaker 1: the man for this squad.

745
00:37:09,546 --> 00:37:15,666
Speaker 4: He's he's got incredible patience, very focused, but he's a

746
00:37:15,706 --> 00:37:20,426
Speaker 4: he's a great teacher. So it'll be once or twice

747
00:37:20,426 --> 00:37:22,466
Speaker 4: a week you go down. You know, I'll pop into

748
00:37:22,506 --> 00:37:25,146
Speaker 4: his office, you know, several times a day just to

749
00:37:25,306 --> 00:37:28,026
Speaker 4: talk about little things with sometimes just a book, but

750
00:37:29,826 --> 00:37:32,266
Speaker 4: he'll have It's not uncommon for him to have the

751
00:37:32,466 --> 00:37:36,226
Speaker 4: entire secondary sitting in his office, sprawled out couches and

752
00:37:36,826 --> 00:37:40,106
Speaker 4: having food delivered up there and him just having a

753
00:37:40,226 --> 00:37:43,866
Speaker 4: session with them, just going over tape and just talking

754
00:37:44,026 --> 00:37:44,546
Speaker 4: through things.

755
00:37:44,626 --> 00:37:46,946
Speaker 1: Saw picture this, you got, you got Windfield, you got,

756
00:37:47,066 --> 00:37:48,906
Speaker 1: you got all these guys and they come in and

757
00:37:48,906 --> 00:37:51,026
Speaker 1: they're just hanging with the coach. It's not an instructional

758
00:37:51,066 --> 00:37:53,546
Speaker 1: period where it's you're in a lecture situation.

759
00:37:53,586 --> 00:37:56,706
Speaker 4: Well it turns into that casual, It turns casual, but

760
00:37:56,786 --> 00:37:59,346
Speaker 4: it's become like a weekly routine where he just wants

761
00:37:59,386 --> 00:38:00,706
Speaker 4: to get them all on the same page.

762
00:38:00,746 --> 00:38:02,866
Speaker 1: And it's, uh, this is the head coach talking to

763
00:38:02,906 --> 00:38:03,586
Speaker 1: a position group.

764
00:38:03,826 --> 00:38:06,386
Speaker 4: I love this in his office, not in a meeting rooms.

765
00:38:06,546 --> 00:38:09,226
Speaker 4: So it's I mean, he just that's just been common

766
00:38:09,266 --> 00:38:11,986
Speaker 4: of him since for him, since he's been our been

767
00:38:12,026 --> 00:38:15,266
Speaker 4: here as the defensive coordinators as well for all positions.

768
00:38:15,346 --> 00:38:18,146
Speaker 4: You can see offensive players pop in and just he's

769
00:38:18,226 --> 00:38:21,066
Speaker 4: just a very h He's got a very soothing way

770
00:38:21,106 --> 00:38:25,146
Speaker 4: about him that that makes you been very fiery behind

771
00:38:25,186 --> 00:38:26,226
Speaker 4: the scenes as well.

772
00:38:26,426 --> 00:38:29,906
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that Rende went into the Hall of

773
00:38:29,986 --> 00:38:32,186
Speaker 1: Fame this year, and I love that this organization with

774
00:38:32,306 --> 00:38:33,906
Speaker 1: so much a part of it. It wasn't just oh, here's

775
00:38:33,906 --> 00:38:36,386
Speaker 1: a former player, like I know from knowing Ronde and

776
00:38:36,426 --> 00:38:38,626
Speaker 1: I know you very well, like he is a frequent

777
00:38:38,706 --> 00:38:41,786
Speaker 1: visitor to the building. How much has Rende Barber played

778
00:38:41,786 --> 00:38:44,986
Speaker 1: a role and not only this team's young players and success,

779
00:38:45,066 --> 00:38:47,466
Speaker 1: but also for you and the guys in the organization

780
00:38:47,506 --> 00:38:50,106
Speaker 1: to see a former buccaneer so active and vibrant in

781
00:38:50,146 --> 00:38:51,386
Speaker 1: the team's day to day.

782
00:38:52,066 --> 00:38:55,186
Speaker 4: Yeah, first of all, Rende quickly became one of my

783
00:38:55,426 --> 00:38:58,106
Speaker 4: closer friends when I got the job here, it's going

784
00:38:58,146 --> 00:39:01,866
Speaker 4: on year ten. I just love Ronde. He's our families

785
00:39:01,866 --> 00:39:05,746
Speaker 4: are close, and jeez, you know you talk about this

786
00:39:05,786 --> 00:39:08,146
Speaker 4: summer of joy, George, this is the year of Ronde.

787
00:39:08,186 --> 00:39:11,506
Speaker 4: I mean, go on. He feels like I've been to

788
00:39:11,506 --> 00:39:14,666
Speaker 4: about a million parties for Ronde's Hall of Fame already.

789
00:39:16,026 --> 00:39:18,986
Speaker 4: But and then that's it and well deserved, well deserved.

790
00:39:18,986 --> 00:39:20,666
Speaker 4: But I was actually just texting with him a few

791
00:39:20,666 --> 00:39:22,906
Speaker 4: minutes ago before I came on here, Pat he was

792
00:39:22,946 --> 00:39:25,666
Speaker 4: talking about the what he was excited about to play

793
00:39:25,786 --> 00:39:28,746
Speaker 4: some of our players in the secondary. So he's you know,

794
00:39:28,786 --> 00:39:33,786
Speaker 4: he's always welcome. Here's such a like he never missed

795
00:39:33,826 --> 00:39:35,946
Speaker 4: a game, he never missed a practice.

796
00:39:36,146 --> 00:39:36,866
Speaker 1: It's insane.

797
00:39:37,066 --> 00:39:40,146
Speaker 4: I never missed a practice. I mean, it's it's crazy.

798
00:39:40,186 --> 00:39:43,386
Speaker 4: You never see that. He should be an inspiration to

799
00:39:43,626 --> 00:39:44,586
Speaker 4: a lot of our players.

800
00:39:45,666 --> 00:39:48,186
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure they come in they see him

801
00:39:48,266 --> 00:39:50,786
Speaker 1: and he's president, and it does go a long way.

802
00:39:52,026 --> 00:39:54,106
Speaker 1: I go back to last like ten years with you.

803
00:39:54,186 --> 00:39:56,906
Speaker 1: Obviously we talk about the Jamis era, and then there

804
00:39:57,066 --> 00:39:59,426
Speaker 1: was these you know seasons where there is like hope

805
00:39:59,466 --> 00:40:01,626
Speaker 1: and then it just fell short. And then Brady comes

806
00:40:01,626 --> 00:40:04,586
Speaker 1: and you guys have this incredible ride. Have you had

807
00:40:04,586 --> 00:40:06,906
Speaker 1: a chance to do the thirty thousand foot you yet

808
00:40:06,946 --> 00:40:09,066
Speaker 1: and be able to look back with proper perspective on

809
00:40:09,186 --> 00:40:11,146
Speaker 1: what the Brady era was like in Tampa or is

810
00:40:11,186 --> 00:40:13,106
Speaker 1: it still too new or it's you're still in the

811
00:40:13,106 --> 00:40:15,066
Speaker 1: whirlwind of Okay, on to the next or do you

812
00:40:15,066 --> 00:40:18,586
Speaker 1: have a moment to like appreciate just how insane those

813
00:40:18,946 --> 00:40:21,426
Speaker 1: I guess what twenty four months, maybe even longer it

814
00:40:21,506 --> 00:40:22,706
Speaker 1: was with Tom Brady.

815
00:40:22,986 --> 00:40:28,466
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he was nuts. Really No, I haven't yet.

816
00:40:28,466 --> 00:40:33,626
Speaker 4: I mean there's been little moments, but you know, it was.

817
00:40:33,706 --> 00:40:36,786
Speaker 4: It was awesome for the entire fan base, for the city.

818
00:40:37,746 --> 00:40:39,746
Speaker 4: You know, we signed him. I kind of joked around

819
00:40:39,746 --> 00:40:42,306
Speaker 4: with a few of the people here at one time

820
00:40:42,346 --> 00:40:45,946
Speaker 4: that you know, real estate went up in Tampa and

821
00:40:46,266 --> 00:40:48,266
Speaker 4: the Brady effect, and I was wondering why we didn't

822
00:40:48,266 --> 00:40:52,066
Speaker 4: get a cut from that, you know, I mean, right, yeah,

823
00:40:52,306 --> 00:40:56,186
Speaker 4: so Ronnie got Ronnie Barber Dave the mayor here in Tampa.

824
00:40:56,426 --> 00:40:59,346
Speaker 4: Well we get some kind of day front. No, I'm kidding,

825
00:40:59,466 --> 00:41:01,626
Speaker 4: it's it was. It was phenomenal. But I will say

826
00:41:01,666 --> 00:41:05,706
Speaker 4: this was a big turning point obviously in the last

827
00:41:05,706 --> 00:41:08,506
Speaker 4: few decades of the Buccaneers is Brady. But I would

828
00:41:08,546 --> 00:41:12,346
Speaker 4: say it's gonna sound a little crazy. No offense to Brady.

829
00:41:12,386 --> 00:41:14,506
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't want to minimize the effect that

830
00:41:14,546 --> 00:41:17,666
Speaker 4: he had, but I think the total turning point, at

831
00:41:17,746 --> 00:41:19,906
Speaker 4: least in my tenure here was the day that I

832
00:41:19,986 --> 00:41:20,586
Speaker 4: hired Bruce.

833
00:41:21,466 --> 00:41:24,586
Speaker 1: So brusarians interesting. You know, that's a kind of a

834
00:41:24,626 --> 00:41:26,986
Speaker 1: take right now, and it's obviously not dismissing what Brady did,

835
00:41:26,986 --> 00:41:28,146
Speaker 1: but like Bruce changed the culture.

836
00:41:28,186 --> 00:41:30,986
Speaker 4: Also, he came in along with Todd and you know,

837
00:41:31,146 --> 00:41:32,466
Speaker 4: most of the staff, A lot of the stuff that

838
00:41:32,466 --> 00:41:35,706
Speaker 4: we still have here on coaching staff changed the culture.

839
00:41:37,186 --> 00:41:41,146
Speaker 4: And it was you know, I, you know all the

840
00:41:41,386 --> 00:41:44,426
Speaker 4: Although I did know Tom from my time in New England,

841
00:41:44,426 --> 00:41:46,786
Speaker 4: I was there when we drafted him. I wish I

842
00:41:46,786 --> 00:41:48,586
Speaker 4: could say I was the one that told Belichick to

843
00:41:48,666 --> 00:41:51,866
Speaker 4: draft him, but I didn't. But I knew him from

844
00:41:51,946 --> 00:41:54,106
Speaker 4: seven years that I spent with the Patriots organization. But

845
00:41:54,186 --> 00:41:56,266
Speaker 4: I don't still don't know if we would have gotten

846
00:41:56,306 --> 00:41:57,346
Speaker 4: him without Bruce.

847
00:41:57,586 --> 00:42:00,266
Speaker 1: So I think Bruce, what was the pitch? I mean,

848
00:42:00,306 --> 00:42:02,066
Speaker 1: I know we've probably told this story to others, but

849
00:42:02,106 --> 00:42:03,586
Speaker 1: I don't recall it ever being on I'm like, what

850
00:42:03,666 --> 00:42:05,386
Speaker 1: was the pitch from you and Bruce to Tom Brady,

851
00:42:05,386 --> 00:42:07,506
Speaker 1: who at the time we knew was leaving New England.

852
00:42:07,506 --> 00:42:09,826
Speaker 1: But I remember like an ESPN graphic of like fourteen

853
00:42:09,906 --> 00:42:12,066
Speaker 1: available suitors for time, and I don't think the Buccaneers

854
00:42:12,106 --> 00:42:13,066
Speaker 1: were number one on that list.

855
00:42:14,106 --> 00:42:19,826
Speaker 4: You know, it was Bruce such a way about him.

856
00:42:20,746 --> 00:42:23,666
Speaker 4: He's you know, he's just a Bruce is just such

857
00:42:23,706 --> 00:42:28,146
Speaker 4: a phenomenal leader. And we had a great team, We

858
00:42:28,226 --> 00:42:31,826
Speaker 4: had a great you know, Bass foundation, and it was

859
00:42:31,866 --> 00:42:35,946
Speaker 4: basically a half once you come down here. What better

860
00:42:35,946 --> 00:42:38,546
Speaker 4: place would her be to to win some games and

861
00:42:38,586 --> 00:42:41,026
Speaker 4: win the Super Bowl than Tampa. You know, I don't

862
00:42:41,066 --> 00:42:43,546
Speaker 4: know if that did it, but you know, probably would

863
00:42:43,546 --> 00:42:43,906
Speaker 4: have sold me.

864
00:42:44,146 --> 00:42:47,226
Speaker 1: It's and Bruce's you know, he's known as the quarterback Whisper.

865
00:42:47,266 --> 00:42:49,066
Speaker 1: Even long before he was in Tampa. He had a

866
00:42:49,106 --> 00:42:51,706
Speaker 1: book I think called Quarterback Whisper. And if you want

867
00:42:51,706 --> 00:42:54,186
Speaker 1: to go through the Bruce Arians lineage, it's from Peyton

868
00:42:54,186 --> 00:42:57,386
Speaker 1: Manning to Carson Palmer. Uh, you know, you name a

869
00:42:57,386 --> 00:43:01,466
Speaker 1: famous quarterback. They've had some experienced Roethlisberger with Bruce Arians,

870
00:43:02,586 --> 00:43:04,946
Speaker 1: what was what was his pitch? To Brady more, Hey,

871
00:43:05,306 --> 00:43:06,826
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you more ownership for this thing

872
00:43:06,866 --> 00:43:08,506
Speaker 1: where you're gonna have a chance to fly, or I'm

873
00:43:08,506 --> 00:43:10,026
Speaker 1: gonna take you even higher and bring you back to

874
00:43:10,026 --> 00:43:11,626
Speaker 1: where you were when you were winning those super Bowls

875
00:43:11,626 --> 00:43:12,626
Speaker 1: with the Patriots.

876
00:43:12,666 --> 00:43:15,746
Speaker 4: Well, no, I think he was always willing to give

877
00:43:15,826 --> 00:43:19,266
Speaker 4: him some some leeway to do some things the way

878
00:43:19,306 --> 00:43:22,946
Speaker 4: he wanted to do them now. But within within Bruce's

879
00:43:23,026 --> 00:43:25,746
Speaker 4: you know, realm of things that he likes to do things,

880
00:43:25,946 --> 00:43:28,346
Speaker 4: I think it was the perfect match matchup, to be

881
00:43:28,386 --> 00:43:32,666
Speaker 4: honest with you, where Tom was like very analytical in

882
00:43:32,786 --> 00:43:35,266
Speaker 4: terms of, you know, these are the passes that have

883
00:43:35,386 --> 00:43:38,026
Speaker 4: the best chance of having success, and you know we're

884
00:43:38,066 --> 00:43:41,386
Speaker 4: gonna keep it dialed in on these things, and Bruce's more, Okay,

885
00:43:41,466 --> 00:43:42,226
Speaker 4: let's go for it.

886
00:43:42,306 --> 00:43:44,626
Speaker 1: Let's go. We've got Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. Throw

887
00:43:44,626 --> 00:43:45,026
Speaker 1: the ball, no.

888
00:43:45,186 --> 00:43:47,786
Speaker 4: Risk it, no biscuit the you know the play right

889
00:43:47,786 --> 00:43:49,906
Speaker 4: before half in the NFC Championship game.

890
00:43:49,946 --> 00:43:51,666
Speaker 1: You know, yes, Scottie Miller, let's go.

891
00:43:51,946 --> 00:43:54,746
Speaker 4: You know, without those kind of things, we wouldn't have

892
00:43:54,826 --> 00:43:56,826
Speaker 4: made it to the Super Bowl. But without Tom as well,

893
00:43:56,866 --> 00:43:59,266
Speaker 4: I think that was the perfect marriage. It was it

894
00:43:59,306 --> 00:44:00,026
Speaker 4: worked out? Well?

895
00:44:01,346 --> 00:44:03,186
Speaker 1: You go through that run enough. Sorry, I'm lingering on

896
00:44:03,226 --> 00:44:05,266
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. It's just such a such an amazing year.

897
00:44:05,266 --> 00:44:08,666
Speaker 1: And we'll move on after this. But there was the

898
00:44:08,666 --> 00:44:13,106
Speaker 1: wild card win, which was you know, big fine, and

899
00:44:13,106 --> 00:44:15,386
Speaker 1: then we go through the next few when you go

900
00:44:15,466 --> 00:44:18,986
Speaker 1: into New Orleans and then into Lambeau and then beat Mahomes.

901
00:44:19,426 --> 00:44:21,146
Speaker 1: When you look at those three games, you probably look

902
00:44:21,186 --> 00:44:24,586
Speaker 1: at them as one amazing experience, but which one was

903
00:44:24,626 --> 00:44:26,466
Speaker 1: the most rewarding? Because to go in New Orleans and

904
00:44:26,466 --> 00:44:28,346
Speaker 1: beat Shewan Peyton and Drew Brees had to feel pretty

905
00:44:28,346 --> 00:44:29,906
Speaker 1: good after they beat the crap at you in the

906
00:44:29,946 --> 00:44:32,706
Speaker 1: regular season, and then to go into Lambeau with Aaron

907
00:44:32,786 --> 00:44:34,586
Speaker 1: Rodgers and all the hype that he was getting as

908
00:44:34,626 --> 00:44:36,306
Speaker 1: an MVP. And then there's a Super Bowl, which is

909
00:44:36,346 --> 00:44:37,746
Speaker 1: like we freaking on the Super Bowl and we be

910
00:44:37,786 --> 00:44:40,786
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes. Which one to you do you smile the most?

911
00:44:40,866 --> 00:44:42,706
Speaker 1: Or maybe like at night when you're lying in bed,

912
00:44:42,706 --> 00:44:44,746
Speaker 1: you're like, you know what, that was pretty damn good.

913
00:44:45,426 --> 00:44:46,866
Speaker 4: Well, first of all, I do want to let you

914
00:44:46,906 --> 00:44:49,626
Speaker 4: know we're not living in the past here. We've got

915
00:44:49,706 --> 00:44:52,826
Speaker 4: I know. But if you were to ask me, you

916
00:44:53,146 --> 00:44:57,946
Speaker 4: did ask me, I say, just because, and I mean,

917
00:44:57,986 --> 00:45:01,106
Speaker 4: this will all due respect to the Saints, I hate them, yeah,

918
00:45:01,306 --> 00:45:05,666
Speaker 4: you know, and they're just they're just they're just always

919
00:45:05,746 --> 00:45:09,426
Speaker 4: just such a off team and so good it's and

920
00:45:09,786 --> 00:45:12,546
Speaker 4: especially going there, it's such a tough place to win,

921
00:45:13,386 --> 00:45:17,146
Speaker 4: and they beat us twice that year, and we went

922
00:45:17,186 --> 00:45:19,346
Speaker 4: in and beat him, and I just kind of got

923
00:45:19,346 --> 00:45:22,186
Speaker 4: the sits that, you know that they I don't think

924
00:45:22,426 --> 00:45:25,826
Speaker 4: they were guaranteeing everybody that they were going to win,

925
00:45:25,906 --> 00:45:28,546
Speaker 4: but they just had a kind of a cockiness to me,

926
00:45:28,666 --> 00:45:30,826
Speaker 4: and then when they should they were a great team.

927
00:45:31,266 --> 00:45:33,586
Speaker 4: So when we beat them, and I remember walking off

928
00:45:33,626 --> 00:45:35,506
Speaker 4: the field and I pulled out my phone and I

929
00:45:35,666 --> 00:45:42,346
Speaker 4: just tweeted we that and I was like, maybe I

930
00:45:42,386 --> 00:45:44,706
Speaker 4: shouldn't have done that. But then all of a sudden,

931
00:45:44,786 --> 00:45:46,906
Speaker 4: I started getting all the alerts and I was like,

932
00:45:47,026 --> 00:45:48,546
Speaker 4: you know, this might come back to bite me.

933
00:45:48,586 --> 00:45:50,666
Speaker 1: But you didn't delete the tree.

934
00:45:50,786 --> 00:45:51,546
Speaker 4: I didn't delete it.

935
00:45:52,426 --> 00:45:55,266
Speaker 1: Sometimes you gotta be that way. All right, let's let's

936
00:45:55,266 --> 00:45:56,586
Speaker 1: talk about this team and the way you guys have

937
00:45:56,586 --> 00:45:58,746
Speaker 1: built this. Obviously I mentioned all the homegrown guys, but

938
00:45:59,146 --> 00:46:00,746
Speaker 1: one of the little things that you might not notice,

939
00:46:00,746 --> 00:46:03,426
Speaker 1: as if you were watching it, you guys have two

940
00:46:03,546 --> 00:46:05,786
Speaker 1: young draft picks in the last couple of years playing

941
00:46:05,786 --> 00:46:08,666
Speaker 1: at tackle, which is the hardest position to find. And

942
00:46:08,706 --> 00:46:11,746
Speaker 1: as Baker is doing this from an efficiency standpoint, you

943
00:46:11,786 --> 00:46:14,706
Speaker 1: notice he's not under dress at all moments. It seems

944
00:46:14,706 --> 00:46:17,506
Speaker 1: like this offensive line, even with the loss of Jensen

945
00:46:17,546 --> 00:46:20,306
Speaker 1: and the loss of Ally Marpett, they're anchored by those

946
00:46:20,346 --> 00:46:22,306
Speaker 1: two tackles, and you guys drafted both of them. Is

947
00:46:22,306 --> 00:46:23,706
Speaker 1: that a sense of pride for a guy like you

948
00:46:23,746 --> 00:46:25,306
Speaker 1: who builds the roster from the ground up.

949
00:46:25,786 --> 00:46:27,666
Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is a sense of pride for all

950
00:46:27,666 --> 00:46:30,426
Speaker 4: of us that were involved in in you know, the

951
00:46:30,466 --> 00:46:33,746
Speaker 4: selection of those guys of Tristan and Luke and you know,

952
00:46:34,266 --> 00:46:36,946
Speaker 4: are we're very happy with our offensive line right now,

953
00:46:37,106 --> 00:46:40,546
Speaker 4: Cody Mack and Haines, he's doing a good job for us.

954
00:46:40,586 --> 00:46:43,266
Speaker 4: And then Filer, Matt who signed this year.

955
00:46:43,306 --> 00:46:46,906
Speaker 1: So but the anchor, Matt Filer, let's go for.

956
00:46:47,266 --> 00:46:51,466
Speaker 4: You know, Ryan unfortunately had the injury. He's not playing,

957
00:46:51,866 --> 00:46:54,026
Speaker 4: but he still is here every day. He's in all

958
00:46:54,026 --> 00:46:57,786
Speaker 4: the meetings. And if that, if that old line room

959
00:46:58,026 --> 00:47:02,386
Speaker 4: is good and cohesive and and loose and having a

960
00:47:02,386 --> 00:47:05,186
Speaker 4: good time, then the whole organization seems to be running well.

961
00:47:05,746 --> 00:47:09,226
Speaker 4: So it's awesome to have Ryan in there because he's

962
00:47:09,346 --> 00:47:13,306
Speaker 4: rubbing off. He understands what's that. You have to have

963
00:47:13,346 --> 00:47:15,786
Speaker 4: a tone setter, and you know, he and I had

964
00:47:15,786 --> 00:47:19,386
Speaker 4: this conversation a couple weeks ago practice, like, you don't

965
00:47:19,426 --> 00:47:21,546
Speaker 4: want the tone setter to be the quarterback, you know

966
00:47:21,666 --> 00:47:24,346
Speaker 4: when I'm talking about in terms of setting the tone

967
00:47:25,026 --> 00:47:27,106
Speaker 4: bashing people on the field because you don't want him

968
00:47:27,106 --> 00:47:29,746
Speaker 4: to get hurt, although Baker has been doing that, so

969
00:47:31,066 --> 00:47:32,746
Speaker 4: but you want it to be a running back. You

970
00:47:32,746 --> 00:47:35,226
Speaker 4: want to be receiver, of tight end or an offensive lineman.

971
00:47:35,346 --> 00:47:38,626
Speaker 4: And we're starting to see that. You've saw Luke Gadecki

972
00:47:38,666 --> 00:47:41,386
Speaker 4: this weekend. You know, oh my god, pinning up player,

973
00:47:41,506 --> 00:47:45,106
Speaker 4: laying on him and just that intensity, and Cody Mauk

974
00:47:45,186 --> 00:47:47,906
Speaker 4: has that in him and it's it's it makes it.

975
00:47:48,106 --> 00:47:49,306
Speaker 4: Everybody thrives off of that.

976
00:47:49,826 --> 00:47:50,866
Speaker 1: So we still defend.

977
00:47:50,986 --> 00:47:55,786
Speaker 4: Ryan Jensen is still infusing his his his prickness into

978
00:47:55,826 --> 00:47:56,586
Speaker 4: the offensive line.

979
00:47:56,626 --> 00:47:59,426
Speaker 1: Prickness. I like that, and you feel his presence at

980
00:47:59,426 --> 00:48:00,826
Speaker 1: the way they're playing. And then if you look at

981
00:48:00,826 --> 00:48:04,226
Speaker 1: the defensive line, and this is very inside Buccaneers. I

982
00:48:04,226 --> 00:48:05,986
Speaker 1: know if you're listening and you're like, okay, I mean

983
00:48:06,746 --> 00:48:08,906
Speaker 1: that defensive line is playing as well as anybody ELSEO.

984
00:48:09,946 --> 00:48:13,986
Speaker 4: Yeah, there they've been. We we have a great group

985
00:48:14,026 --> 00:48:16,466
Speaker 4: there too, and a great rotation and get some new

986
00:48:16,466 --> 00:48:18,426
Speaker 4: players since you're great Gains being one of them, and

987
00:48:18,466 --> 00:48:21,386
Speaker 4: he's done a great job. And uh so we've got

988
00:48:21,546 --> 00:48:24,786
Speaker 4: we're pretty deep there, especially at outside linebacker, and we've

989
00:48:24,826 --> 00:48:27,706
Speaker 4: got a nice little rotation going there and Vita's playing well.

990
00:48:27,746 --> 00:48:30,266
Speaker 4: And so we'll get our first round pick coming back

991
00:48:30,306 --> 00:48:31,746
Speaker 4: here soon, so that'll be exciting.

992
00:48:32,626 --> 00:48:34,946
Speaker 1: You know. The the NFL network has our show Good

993
00:48:34,946 --> 00:48:37,466
Speaker 1: Morning Football in the morning, and Jason mccordy does a

994
00:48:37,546 --> 00:48:41,066
Speaker 1: list every week of the best defensive backs in football,

995
00:48:41,106 --> 00:48:43,306
Speaker 1: and I think now twice a in Week one when

996
00:48:43,346 --> 00:48:45,426
Speaker 1: you guys went into Minnesota and he made the big play,

997
00:48:45,746 --> 00:48:48,986
Speaker 1: and then second was this week in New Orleans making

998
00:48:48,986 --> 00:48:51,586
Speaker 1: the huge fumble, you know, claus fumble. In this one.

999
00:48:51,746 --> 00:48:54,426
Speaker 1: Antoine Winfield's playing out of his mind. You drafted him

1000
00:48:54,426 --> 00:48:55,986
Speaker 1: in the second round and he has often said he

1001
00:48:56,026 --> 00:48:57,866
Speaker 1: believed he was a first round pick and he slipped.

1002
00:48:58,106 --> 00:49:00,266
Speaker 1: What did you see from him coming out of college

1003
00:49:00,426 --> 00:49:03,106
Speaker 1: and what do you see from him now playing in

1004
00:49:03,106 --> 00:49:04,266
Speaker 1: this pivotal year for him.

1005
00:49:05,066 --> 00:49:10,826
Speaker 4: Well, we saw a really intense, athletic, smart player in

1006
00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:14,706
Speaker 4: college Nicolauld play safety, do a lot of different things,

1007
00:49:14,826 --> 00:49:16,746
Speaker 4: and then you saw a lot of his dad and him,

1008
00:49:16,786 --> 00:49:19,266
Speaker 4: you know, very intense player, great tackle. I think he's

1009
00:49:19,266 --> 00:49:22,386
Speaker 4: one of the better tacklers maybe in the you know,

1010
00:49:23,386 --> 00:49:25,386
Speaker 4: I don't want to throw out the history of the

1011
00:49:25,466 --> 00:49:29,866
Speaker 4: NFL at from that position, from that position, just just

1012
00:49:30,026 --> 00:49:35,266
Speaker 4: so reliable, just super super super reliable, great guy too,

1013
00:49:35,386 --> 00:49:37,826
Speaker 4: So very fortunate we have him.

1014
00:49:38,626 --> 00:49:41,466
Speaker 1: Okay, so we've done the football. Now we have to

1015
00:49:41,466 --> 00:49:44,546
Speaker 1: go off the field a little bit. Everyone's talking about

1016
00:49:44,626 --> 00:49:48,666
Speaker 1: Taylor Swift. I know you are a father of three. Correct,

1017
00:49:50,146 --> 00:49:53,466
Speaker 1: did did Taylor swift sensation hit your home before there

1018
00:49:53,506 --> 00:49:56,306
Speaker 1: was a crossover with Travis Kelsey or were you already

1019
00:49:56,866 --> 00:49:59,506
Speaker 1: affected by Taylor Swift this summer when she took over

1020
00:49:59,586 --> 00:50:03,586
Speaker 1: America for every person ages ten to twenty and maybe

1021
00:50:03,666 --> 00:50:06,066
Speaker 1: now beyond that, I think it's stretchedway beyond that. Have

1022
00:50:06,146 --> 00:50:08,306
Speaker 1: you been swifty? Were you a swifty? Did you know

1023
00:50:08,306 --> 00:50:11,386
Speaker 1: of Swift before she took the league by storm?

1024
00:50:11,706 --> 00:50:17,786
Speaker 4: So she played here in Tampa and I have a uh,

1025
00:50:17,826 --> 00:50:20,986
Speaker 4: you know, my wife has a suite to the games, now,

1026
00:50:21,106 --> 00:50:24,586
Speaker 4: I guess. And so with that suite, you're going to

1027
00:50:24,706 --> 00:50:26,946
Speaker 4: use it for anything that's at Raymond James.

1028
00:50:27,026 --> 00:50:29,026
Speaker 1: And is it year round? I don't. I don't know

1029
00:50:29,026 --> 00:50:30,186
Speaker 1: this stuff. This is stuff that we do.

1030
00:50:30,826 --> 00:50:31,186
Speaker 4: We do.

1031
00:50:31,426 --> 00:50:32,546
Speaker 1: It's your owner.

1032
00:50:32,746 --> 00:50:36,586
Speaker 4: Owners are very very very good to us. So and

1033
00:50:37,306 --> 00:50:40,946
Speaker 4: so she had three nights and I didn't. I didn't

1034
00:50:40,946 --> 00:50:44,626
Speaker 4: get to go to one. And it was packed twenty

1035
00:50:44,666 --> 00:50:47,626
Speaker 4: people in it every night. I joke around, I could

1036
00:50:47,626 --> 00:50:50,426
Speaker 4: have made millions of dollars selling that sweet. I would

1037
00:50:50,426 --> 00:50:54,426
Speaker 4: have gotten fired for doing that. But but so we

1038
00:50:54,466 --> 00:50:56,586
Speaker 4: had people from all over the country coming.

1039
00:50:56,826 --> 00:50:59,626
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, friends, family are like just people knew

1040
00:50:59,626 --> 00:51:01,106
Speaker 1: that the Lights have a sweet and.

1041
00:51:01,146 --> 00:51:04,746
Speaker 4: Their family all Blair's friends and you know our my friends,

1042
00:51:04,746 --> 00:51:09,226
Speaker 4: my family and and my daughter and Blair went all

1043
00:51:09,226 --> 00:51:12,986
Speaker 4: three nights I think. And anyway, so yes, it's Taylor

1044
00:51:13,026 --> 00:51:15,586
Speaker 4: Swift has been talked about in our family for quite

1045
00:51:15,586 --> 00:51:21,186
Speaker 4: a while. So but recently when before the you know,

1046
00:51:21,266 --> 00:51:24,186
Speaker 4: it came out that Kelsey, there was the rumors.

1047
00:51:23,906 --> 00:51:25,586
Speaker 1: We don't know what they are, whatever it is, Well,

1048
00:51:25,626 --> 00:51:26,946
Speaker 1: there was rumors.

1049
00:51:26,506 --> 00:51:28,146
Speaker 4: For a little while before she showed up at the

1050
00:51:28,306 --> 00:51:31,986
Speaker 4: at the first game there last week. I asked my daughter,

1051
00:51:32,026 --> 00:51:34,466
Speaker 4: I said, hey, did you hear that you know, Taylor

1052
00:51:34,506 --> 00:51:37,346
Speaker 4: Swift and Travis Kelsey might be a thing. And she said, Dad,

1053
00:51:37,466 --> 00:51:42,186
Speaker 4: stay out of her private life. Would you want someone

1054
00:51:42,226 --> 00:51:43,826
Speaker 4: talking about your private life?

1055
00:51:44,346 --> 00:51:47,106
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, how old is your daughter?

1056
00:51:47,186 --> 00:51:47,786
Speaker 1: What's her name?

1057
00:51:47,826 --> 00:51:52,386
Speaker 4: And how old is she? Zoe? She's Twelve's just defending

1058
00:51:52,426 --> 00:51:55,146
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift to the end of the day. So I said, well,

1059
00:51:55,186 --> 00:51:56,986
Speaker 4: I think you and your friends would talk about you

1060
00:51:57,026 --> 00:51:58,786
Speaker 4: because that's different. That's different.

1061
00:51:59,106 --> 00:52:04,146
Speaker 1: That's dad. That is so good. Twelve years old, number

1062
00:52:04,146 --> 00:52:07,346
Speaker 1: one story everywhere. NBC shot to it ten times. That's

1063
00:52:07,346 --> 00:52:10,906
Speaker 1: not an exaggeration. But Zoe is defending the private life

1064
00:52:10,906 --> 00:52:12,706
Speaker 1: of Taylor Swift and Dad, why don't you back off?

1065
00:52:13,186 --> 00:52:16,106
Speaker 4: So hey, I know better now we're not talking about

1066
00:52:16,106 --> 00:52:17,386
Speaker 4: our private life.

1067
00:52:17,666 --> 00:52:22,026
Speaker 1: I love that. So good your career. We've done the

1068
00:52:22,306 --> 00:52:24,786
Speaker 1: story time with you on Good Morning Football. But for

1069
00:52:24,786 --> 00:52:27,546
Speaker 1: the listeners of this podcast, you said you mentioned seven

1070
00:52:27,666 --> 00:52:30,906
Speaker 1: years with the Patriots. Who are some of the colleagues

1071
00:52:30,946 --> 00:52:32,546
Speaker 1: you had. If you were to look around the league

1072
00:52:32,626 --> 00:52:34,786
Speaker 1: now and say, well, this guy's there, this guy's there,

1073
00:52:34,826 --> 00:52:38,346
Speaker 1: obviously Belichick is at the top of that that family tree.

1074
00:52:38,346 --> 00:52:40,666
Speaker 1: But when you look around and it doesn't have to

1075
00:52:40,706 --> 00:52:42,586
Speaker 1: be current guys, could be former guys too. Who are

1076
00:52:42,586 --> 00:52:45,106
Speaker 1: some of the people that you were rubbing elbows with

1077
00:52:45,146 --> 00:52:47,066
Speaker 1: and you know, grunting it out as a as a

1078
00:52:47,146 --> 00:52:49,146
Speaker 1: scout at the lowest level than moving your way up

1079
00:52:49,186 --> 00:52:52,746
Speaker 1: at that Patriots Franchise's.

1080
00:52:51,746 --> 00:52:55,706
Speaker 4: There's a lot, you know, at the Patriots, we had

1081
00:52:56,786 --> 00:53:00,746
Speaker 4: the scouting assistant was could have been anything.

1082
00:53:00,586 --> 00:53:04,426
Speaker 1: That that track Coot did the job in tail just.

1083
00:53:04,706 --> 00:53:08,386
Speaker 4: Getting coffee and making copies, you know, the whole thing.

1084
00:53:08,906 --> 00:53:11,826
Speaker 4: And I wasn't a scouting assistant there. I started off

1085
00:53:12,226 --> 00:53:14,066
Speaker 4: with the Dolphins as a scout assistant. By the time

1086
00:53:14,106 --> 00:53:15,906
Speaker 4: I got to the Patriots, I was an area of scout.

1087
00:53:15,946 --> 00:53:19,866
Speaker 4: But we would still work together closely with the scouting assistants.

1088
00:53:19,866 --> 00:53:22,066
Speaker 4: You had Josh McDaniels who went on to become you know,

1089
00:53:22,186 --> 00:53:24,226
Speaker 4: obviously he's the head coach of the Raiders right now,

1090
00:53:24,666 --> 00:53:27,746
Speaker 4: Nick Cassario, who is now you know, GM of the Texans.

1091
00:53:29,066 --> 00:53:32,346
Speaker 4: We had Matt Russell there. I mean I could go

1092
00:53:32,426 --> 00:53:35,466
Speaker 4: on and on. There's Mike Disner was a scouting assistant

1093
00:53:35,466 --> 00:53:38,306
Speaker 4: now the CEO running the Lions, running the Lions. So

1094
00:53:39,386 --> 00:53:41,386
Speaker 4: and then I was fortunate to work for the Eagles

1095
00:53:41,426 --> 00:53:44,586
Speaker 4: where we had you know, worked alongside Howie Roseman and

1096
00:53:44,666 --> 00:53:48,386
Speaker 4: Ryan Grigson, and I mean we had there's quite a

1097
00:53:48,386 --> 00:53:50,906
Speaker 4: few very talented young people at that time.

1098
00:53:52,266 --> 00:53:56,706
Speaker 1: And and the Belichick relationship obviously was was strong, and

1099
00:53:56,746 --> 00:53:58,986
Speaker 1: you went on did your thing in Arizona, then eventually

1100
00:53:59,026 --> 00:54:03,386
Speaker 1: got to the Buccaneers as the GM Belichick as you

1101
00:54:03,426 --> 00:54:05,226
Speaker 1: look at the history of the game, obviously as dude

1102
00:54:05,266 --> 00:54:08,266
Speaker 1: as one of the greatest head coaches of all time.

1103
00:54:08,426 --> 00:54:10,626
Speaker 1: In recent weeks, people are kind of knocked some of

1104
00:54:10,666 --> 00:54:13,546
Speaker 1: the player personnels, but when you were on the player

1105
00:54:13,586 --> 00:54:16,146
Speaker 1: personnel side, Belichick was pretty much a savant with that

1106
00:54:16,146 --> 00:54:16,826
Speaker 1: stuff too, right.

1107
00:54:16,906 --> 00:54:20,466
Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, I've learned so much from him. He's He's incredible.

1108
00:54:20,546 --> 00:54:23,666
Speaker 4: It's I wish people, I mean, they have an idea

1109
00:54:23,746 --> 00:54:27,066
Speaker 4: that he's pretty damn good. I mean, he is best

1110
00:54:27,106 --> 00:54:30,506
Speaker 4: of all time. But if they were inside the walls

1111
00:54:30,586 --> 00:54:32,666
Speaker 4: there on a for as long as a lot of

1112
00:54:32,786 --> 00:54:34,826
Speaker 4: us have worked with them, it would it would blow

1113
00:54:34,866 --> 00:54:38,066
Speaker 4: their mind just the detail that he has just with

1114
00:54:38,146 --> 00:54:39,066
Speaker 4: everything that he does.

1115
00:54:40,386 --> 00:54:42,666
Speaker 1: Was there a particular story or memory you have if

1116
00:54:42,666 --> 00:54:44,786
Speaker 1: you're at a family event or you're at a dinner

1117
00:54:44,786 --> 00:54:46,906
Speaker 1: and someone says, give me a good Belichick story, what's

1118
00:54:46,946 --> 00:54:47,506
Speaker 1: the one you go to?

1119
00:54:47,626 --> 00:54:50,626
Speaker 4: You know, I was just actually talking about this with

1120
00:54:50,626 --> 00:54:54,426
Speaker 4: with my wife. So one time. You have a lot

1121
00:54:54,426 --> 00:54:56,306
Speaker 4: of conversations with Bill when you work with him, but

1122
00:54:56,986 --> 00:55:01,466
Speaker 4: there's those one personal ones that you remember. And had

1123
00:55:01,506 --> 00:55:03,906
Speaker 4: me in his office. It was at the time I

1124
00:55:03,946 --> 00:55:07,386
Speaker 4: was interviewing with the Bears to be the general manager.

1125
00:55:07,426 --> 00:55:09,546
Speaker 4: This is twenty eleven. So I was going in to

1126
00:55:09,626 --> 00:55:12,546
Speaker 4: be for an interview and he was talking to me,

1127
00:55:12,626 --> 00:55:14,586
Speaker 4: kind of prepping me a little bit, and he said,

1128
00:55:14,826 --> 00:55:17,186
Speaker 4: you know, when you get a general manager's job at

1129
00:55:17,186 --> 00:55:20,066
Speaker 4: some point, which you will, you're gonna think you haven't

1130
00:55:20,106 --> 00:55:23,106
Speaker 4: made You think you're making a lot of money, and

1131
00:55:23,186 --> 00:55:25,746
Speaker 4: you're set, he could. But then all of a sudden,

1132
00:55:26,186 --> 00:55:28,426
Speaker 4: you're gonna get a call from your wife that she

1133
00:55:28,666 --> 00:55:32,186
Speaker 4: needs new window treatments, and you don't realize how much

1134
00:55:32,186 --> 00:55:36,506
Speaker 4: window treatments cost. Okay, and then so the money isn't

1135
00:55:36,586 --> 00:55:39,586
Speaker 4: it's not as big as you expect it to be

1136
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:43,186
Speaker 4: because everything that everything else goes up too. And then

1137
00:55:43,546 --> 00:55:46,706
Speaker 4: we get the job here in Tampa and we get

1138
00:55:46,706 --> 00:55:49,146
Speaker 4: our house and then I get a text from my wife, Hey,

1139
00:55:49,186 --> 00:55:52,666
Speaker 4: you're going to see something go through the American Express.

1140
00:55:52,706 --> 00:55:54,346
Speaker 4: I got window treatments.

1141
00:55:55,506 --> 00:56:00,266
Speaker 1: Work for the example is exactly exactly what happened. Yeah,

1142
00:56:00,626 --> 00:56:02,866
Speaker 1: that is so good. I love that. What about the

1143
00:56:02,866 --> 00:56:05,666
Speaker 1: same for Brady? Someone says, give me your best Brady story.

1144
00:56:05,906 --> 00:56:07,586
Speaker 1: Is it you was at the parade him throwing a

1145
00:56:07,586 --> 00:56:09,506
Speaker 1: Lombardi or is there a story that we might not know?

1146
00:56:10,586 --> 00:56:14,386
Speaker 4: Well, so the whole time. The day that we signed him,

1147
00:56:14,706 --> 00:56:17,746
Speaker 4: I called him and said, because we're not COVID so

1148
00:56:17,786 --> 00:56:19,626
Speaker 4: we couldn't have him here. But I said, hey, there's

1149
00:56:19,626 --> 00:56:21,346
Speaker 4: one thing I need you to that you don't know

1150
00:56:21,386 --> 00:56:23,706
Speaker 4: about me. Is I'm a better beer chugger than you are.

1151
00:56:25,066 --> 00:56:28,946
Speaker 4: I'm totally out. Ever since I was a young age,

1152
00:56:28,986 --> 00:56:31,626
Speaker 4: can chuck a beer. I can check a beer beer.

1153
00:56:32,266 --> 00:56:34,506
Speaker 4: Never met somebody that could chuck one faster? And he

1154
00:56:34,546 --> 00:56:37,266
Speaker 4: goes no, he said, no, I got you. I swear

1155
00:56:37,306 --> 00:56:39,186
Speaker 4: to God, I'm better than you. He said, all right,

1156
00:56:39,506 --> 00:56:41,626
Speaker 4: if we win the Super Bowl, let's have a chug off.

1157
00:56:41,666 --> 00:56:44,346
Speaker 4: So we were gonna have this whole thing. It was

1158
00:56:44,346 --> 00:56:47,906
Speaker 4: gonna be sponsored by a beer, certain sponsor and all

1159
00:56:47,906 --> 00:56:50,506
Speaker 4: that stuff. And he backed out. He backed out, and

1160
00:56:50,546 --> 00:56:52,506
Speaker 4: I said, he goes, well, I was afraid to lose it.

1161
00:56:53,826 --> 00:56:55,226
Speaker 1: Yes, he doesn't want to lose.

1162
00:56:55,266 --> 00:56:58,666
Speaker 4: He didn't want to lose Tom Brady.

1163
00:56:58,786 --> 00:57:00,826
Speaker 1: So we'll give you the win there with the technicality

1164
00:57:00,866 --> 00:57:04,746
Speaker 1: that it never happened. Okay, that's fine. I texted you

1165
00:57:04,786 --> 00:57:07,186
Speaker 1: a lot, and it's never really about the football stuff

1166
00:57:07,226 --> 00:57:09,706
Speaker 1: so much. It's more just about family and how everything's going.

1167
00:57:09,826 --> 00:57:12,146
Speaker 1: And I've known you for a long time. I also

1168
00:57:12,226 --> 00:57:17,386
Speaker 1: know you are very very particular on game day. Players

1169
00:57:17,466 --> 00:57:19,506
Speaker 1: of course, lay out their clothes, what they're gonna wear,

1170
00:57:19,586 --> 00:57:21,666
Speaker 1: they do a prayer, they do their own pre game retation.

1171
00:57:22,186 --> 00:57:25,506
Speaker 1: A general manager on game day, you have your superstitions.

1172
00:57:25,546 --> 00:57:28,546
Speaker 1: Can you share with the listeners and the viewers at

1173
00:57:28,546 --> 00:57:30,986
Speaker 1: home the Jason like game day experience?

1174
00:57:30,986 --> 00:57:34,026
Speaker 4: Now, they're stupid, they're stupid. First of all, I know superstitions.

1175
00:57:34,066 --> 00:57:38,146
Speaker 4: They're stupid. It's uh. But you know, I have a

1176
00:57:38,146 --> 00:57:40,666
Speaker 4: certain pair of shoes that kind of have to wear

1177
00:57:40,786 --> 00:57:43,426
Speaker 4: that like this. These parents had something to do with

1178
00:57:43,466 --> 00:57:52,306
Speaker 4: that last win. You know, it's just stupid, nort It's

1179
00:57:52,306 --> 00:57:54,906
Speaker 4: gotta be a new pair every year. You kind of

1180
00:57:54,906 --> 00:57:59,226
Speaker 4: retire the other ones. Yeah, and then so when we're

1181
00:57:59,426 --> 00:58:01,066
Speaker 4: when I pull so when I come to the game,

1182
00:58:01,106 --> 00:58:02,986
Speaker 4: they have a spot for the head coach, the general

1183
00:58:02,986 --> 00:58:05,706
Speaker 4: manager and all the owners under the stadium. And I

1184
00:58:05,746 --> 00:58:08,586
Speaker 4: can't have a dirty car under the stadium because people

1185
00:58:08,626 --> 00:58:09,986
Speaker 4: are walking by it. So I have to go to

1186
00:58:09,986 --> 00:58:13,266
Speaker 4: a certain car wash on the way. Then I have

1187
00:58:13,346 --> 00:58:15,626
Speaker 4: to stop at the wah wah and you know what

1188
00:58:15,666 --> 00:58:18,466
Speaker 4: a wa Tampa floor several wah wahs.

1189
00:58:18,466 --> 00:58:20,626
Speaker 1: Now, really, I thought that was just a Philly thing.

1190
00:58:20,746 --> 00:58:22,546
Speaker 4: No, there's there's one here. I have to get a

1191
00:58:22,546 --> 00:58:25,546
Speaker 4: certain I have to get a diet of half and

1192
00:58:25,626 --> 00:58:29,626
Speaker 4: half iced tea, lemonade, and I have to have this

1193
00:58:30,306 --> 00:58:34,866
Speaker 4: eggs this sizzley sandwich, I mean, and then it's like

1194
00:58:34,986 --> 00:58:36,946
Speaker 4: goes on and on. So it's I have a lot

1195
00:58:36,946 --> 00:58:37,986
Speaker 4: of go on.

1196
00:58:38,066 --> 00:58:40,306
Speaker 1: I thought, more. Okay, so you go from the shoes

1197
00:58:40,346 --> 00:58:42,906
Speaker 1: to the car. Then when you when you get to

1198
00:58:42,946 --> 00:58:45,146
Speaker 1: the stadium, what's the routine? Like, I do you do

1199
00:58:45,186 --> 00:58:47,266
Speaker 1: one lap? Do you listen to a certain song? Like

1200
00:58:47,306 --> 00:58:47,866
Speaker 1: where are we at?

1201
00:58:47,946 --> 00:58:48,266
Speaker 5: I do?

1202
00:58:48,346 --> 00:58:50,546
Speaker 4: I go through lap, through the locker room, Then I

1203
00:58:50,546 --> 00:58:52,186
Speaker 4: go sit in my wife's sweep for a little bit

1204
00:58:52,226 --> 00:58:54,586
Speaker 4: and watch the pregame show. And then I go back

1205
00:58:54,586 --> 00:58:55,986
Speaker 4: down to the field and do the whole thing. But

1206
00:58:56,346 --> 00:58:58,706
Speaker 4: the biggest one I've left out I've omitted here is

1207
00:58:59,666 --> 00:59:02,946
Speaker 4: the week of the game. I have to at least

1208
00:59:02,986 --> 00:59:05,666
Speaker 4: one night on the way home, stop at this dive

1209
00:59:05,746 --> 00:59:08,786
Speaker 4: bar it's called the press box, and I have to

1210
00:59:08,826 --> 00:59:13,346
Speaker 4: play one round of golden tea golf, just with let's

1211
00:59:13,386 --> 00:59:15,706
Speaker 4: go with with a few of my buddies that are

1212
00:59:15,706 --> 00:59:18,386
Speaker 4: always in there, and I have to play one round

1213
00:59:18,426 --> 00:59:20,666
Speaker 4: of golden tea golf. Otherwise the whole week goes to

1214
00:59:21,146 --> 00:59:21,986
Speaker 4: So that's.

1215
00:59:22,226 --> 00:59:23,906
Speaker 1: Do you have the high score you?

1216
00:59:24,266 --> 00:59:27,626
Speaker 4: Oh no, I'm constantly trying. I have won one week,

1217
00:59:27,706 --> 00:59:30,586
Speaker 4: that was it? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1218
00:59:30,306 --> 00:59:33,226
Speaker 1: So it's called the press box. And if you're a

1219
00:59:33,226 --> 00:59:35,826
Speaker 1: Buccaneers fan looking to kind of bend the ear of

1220
00:59:35,866 --> 00:59:37,986
Speaker 1: the general manager, your best bet is to just go

1221
00:59:38,066 --> 00:59:41,386
Speaker 1: to the press box Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. You're

1222
00:59:41,386 --> 00:59:43,346
Speaker 1: one in five chance you're going to see Jason Knight.

1223
00:59:44,186 --> 00:59:46,186
Speaker 4: It's not long either. It won't be long. It's just

1224
00:59:46,226 --> 00:59:49,106
Speaker 4: one round of golden tea.

1225
00:59:48,226 --> 00:59:51,466
Speaker 1: One round gold Are the wings good at the press phenomenal? Phenomenal,

1226
00:59:51,906 --> 00:59:53,026
Speaker 1: phenomen what a commercial?

1227
00:59:53,466 --> 00:59:57,186
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I won't get anything there though, by the way,

1228
00:59:57,226 --> 01:00:00,426
Speaker 4: I've mentioned this before, Walter the owner has never given

1229
01:00:00,426 --> 01:00:01,386
Speaker 4: me a free beer.

1230
01:00:02,146 --> 01:00:04,146
Speaker 1: And I assume you're keeping the press box open with

1231
01:00:04,186 --> 01:00:10,306
Speaker 1: that frequency before we close. It's so early, it's like

1232
01:00:10,346 --> 01:00:12,906
Speaker 1: it's early bye week. It kind of started off the

1233
01:00:12,946 --> 01:00:15,106
Speaker 1: podcast with it, but like it is one of the

1234
01:00:15,146 --> 01:00:17,386
Speaker 1: stories of the league that here the Bucks are this

1235
01:00:17,466 --> 01:00:19,386
Speaker 1: team that some people peg to be in a total

1236
01:00:19,426 --> 01:00:25,506
Speaker 1: rebuild and yet top of the division, feeling good, relatively healthy.

1237
01:00:26,186 --> 01:00:28,146
Speaker 1: What's the state of the nation here as we head

1238
01:00:28,146 --> 01:00:29,826
Speaker 1: towards the buy and you get one of these brief

1239
01:00:29,826 --> 01:00:31,306
Speaker 1: weekends off and then you hit the road and you

1240
01:00:31,386 --> 01:00:33,546
Speaker 1: guys have to get back in business. You're wearing the

1241
01:00:33,586 --> 01:00:35,946
Speaker 1: creamsicles obviously when you first play the Lions when you

1242
01:00:35,986 --> 01:00:37,986
Speaker 1: get back, which is so cool. But then it's a

1243
01:00:38,026 --> 01:00:40,386
Speaker 1: long stretch and it's a long season. But can you

1244
01:00:40,426 --> 01:00:42,026
Speaker 1: take a moment to just enjoy this thing?

1245
01:00:42,946 --> 01:00:45,506
Speaker 4: I mean, I'd be lying if I said no. Yeah,

1246
01:00:45,626 --> 01:00:47,826
Speaker 4: of course, and I mean there's nothing better and going

1247
01:00:47,866 --> 01:00:52,146
Speaker 4: into a buy after you won, so yeah, I got

1248
01:00:52,146 --> 01:00:53,866
Speaker 4: to be honest with you usually have the twenty four

1249
01:00:53,866 --> 01:00:55,466
Speaker 4: hour rule, but if you're going to the bye week,

1250
01:00:55,506 --> 01:00:57,546
Speaker 4: you can have a few extra days, so it's but

1251
01:00:57,626 --> 01:00:59,266
Speaker 4: it's one game at a time. After this, I mean,

1252
01:00:59,266 --> 01:01:02,506
Speaker 4: we haven't won anything yet, so it's but feeling good

1253
01:01:02,506 --> 01:01:04,026
Speaker 4: about where we're at. Feel like we're going to be

1254
01:01:04,066 --> 01:01:04,986
Speaker 4: pretty healthy coming out.

1255
01:01:05,986 --> 01:01:07,786
Speaker 1: Can I tell you something. When I was a kid,

1256
01:01:07,786 --> 01:01:10,586
Speaker 1: my dad and I used to do this cool tradition

1257
01:01:10,666 --> 01:01:13,586
Speaker 1: where like every football season, I was allowed to buy

1258
01:01:13,626 --> 01:01:16,146
Speaker 1: a new jersey. And this is back in the eighties

1259
01:01:16,186 --> 01:01:18,706
Speaker 1: and the nineties where it wasn't like you just go

1260
01:01:18,786 --> 01:01:21,306
Speaker 1: on fanatics dot Com and pick any player and you could.

1261
01:01:21,826 --> 01:01:23,106
Speaker 1: It would be a thing you'd have to go in

1262
01:01:23,186 --> 01:01:25,506
Speaker 1: our mall. It was a place called going to the Game,

1263
01:01:25,666 --> 01:01:27,426
Speaker 1: and it was like a you know, like a Champs

1264
01:01:27,506 --> 01:01:30,426
Speaker 1: or one of these stores. It was the Freehold Raceway Mall, Freehold,

1265
01:01:30,426 --> 01:01:34,026
Speaker 1: New Jersey, and it was the ninety seven season, I

1266
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Speaker 1: want to say, maybe ninety sixties, and it was the

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01:01:36,426 --> 01:01:39,586
Speaker 1: year where Warren Sap and Derek Brooks were both drafted,

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Speaker 1: so I might be even it might be man longer

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Speaker 1: for that. And in going to the game, they had

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Speaker 1: a creamsicle You're gonna love this player creamsicle Hardy Nickerson jersey.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, And I bought that jersey as my jersey

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01:01:51,306 --> 01:01:54,186
Speaker 1: that year, and I would wear that to school every Monday,

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Speaker 1: even though the Buccaneers were not great that season. And

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Speaker 1: this is before they went to the Pewter and you

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01:01:59,306 --> 01:02:02,306
Speaker 1: had this like slick cool jersey and the creamsicle was

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Speaker 1: the jersey and I would get mocked for it because

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01:02:04,746 --> 01:02:07,586
Speaker 1: the Bucks weren't great, But I love that gle you

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01:02:07,626 --> 01:02:09,946
Speaker 1: guys warm. When Josh Freeman was the quarterback for a

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01:02:09,946 --> 01:02:11,626
Speaker 1: couple of Coffee there, I remember they had the they

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01:02:11,666 --> 01:02:15,826
Speaker 1: would do the throwbacks, it's coming back. Does the creamsicle

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01:02:15,946 --> 01:02:18,826
Speaker 1: jersey mean anything to you as it predated your time?

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01:02:19,186 --> 01:02:22,266
Speaker 1: And do you realize like what nostalgia comes along with

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01:02:22,306 --> 01:02:26,866
Speaker 1: that creamsicle jersey and that logo of the pirate with

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01:02:26,906 --> 01:02:30,906
Speaker 1: the with the eye patch and the whole deal creamsicles?

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01:02:30,946 --> 01:02:32,266
Speaker 1: Am I making too big of a deal here going

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01:02:32,306 --> 01:02:32,706
Speaker 1: down memory?

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Speaker 4: L No, not at all? Are you kidding me? This

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01:02:34,986 --> 01:02:38,826
Speaker 4: is uh, we've been looking forward to this forever. I mean,

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Speaker 4: we've got creamsicle stuff coming out of our ears at

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Speaker 4: our house right now, and it's uh is that right? Oh? Yeah? Everybody?

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Speaker 1: What's the what's the play? Because like Doug Williams was

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01:02:47,106 --> 01:02:49,746
Speaker 1: wearing the Creamsicles in seventy nine and Leroy Salmon. But like,

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01:02:49,746 --> 01:02:51,706
Speaker 1: who's the player when you think of the Creamsicle Bucks,

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01:02:51,746 --> 01:02:52,626
Speaker 1: who's the player.

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Speaker 4: That you think? Yeah? So, I mean, yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 4: It's yeah, it's it's super exciting. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun. It's gonna be it's gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 1: Okay, too much for me. I think I want to

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01:03:04,506 --> 01:03:07,066
Speaker 1: go down like Eric Rhett and start talking about all

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01:03:07,066 --> 01:03:09,066
Speaker 1: these guys and Trent Dilferd. But you're not looking to

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01:03:09,306 --> 01:03:11,506
Speaker 1: We're living in the current, Peter, not in the past.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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01:03:12,986 --> 01:03:15,946
Speaker 1: That's it. I might want a Vita Vea throwback I got.

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01:03:16,146 --> 01:03:18,306
Speaker 1: I might need a Vitavea creamsicle and rocking on Good

1305
01:03:18,306 --> 01:03:20,066
Speaker 1: Morning Football. Who can I talk to at the Bucks

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01:03:20,066 --> 01:03:21,346
Speaker 1: to get one of those mates? Do you have any

1307
01:03:21,386 --> 01:03:23,706
Speaker 1: hookups or no? Is Walter at the bar able to

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01:03:23,746 --> 01:03:24,506
Speaker 1: hook me up? I don't.

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01:03:24,626 --> 01:03:25,706
Speaker 4: We'll see what we can do here.

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01:03:26,746 --> 01:03:28,586
Speaker 1: Walter at the press box and I are gonna be

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01:03:28,626 --> 01:03:31,826
Speaker 1: the only two Vita Vea Creamsicle jersey. Whereas, uh, Jason Light,

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01:03:31,866 --> 01:03:33,946
Speaker 1: I have taken way too much of your time during

1313
01:03:33,986 --> 01:03:36,706
Speaker 1: the season. A general manager, what you guys have built

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01:03:36,746 --> 01:03:39,826
Speaker 1: as a collective in that front office is nothing short

1315
01:03:39,866 --> 01:03:41,986
Speaker 1: of incredible. The Buccaneers are one of the most consistent

1316
01:03:42,026 --> 01:03:44,106
Speaker 1: teams in the NFL, and you guys just churn out

1317
01:03:44,426 --> 01:03:46,746
Speaker 1: draft picks that are playing on Sundays with very few

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01:03:46,786 --> 01:03:49,506
Speaker 1: bus and very few failures. I appreciate your time, dude.

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01:03:49,506 --> 01:03:50,506
Speaker 1: Good luck the rest of the way.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate it.

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01:03:52,186 --> 01:03:56,026
Speaker 1: Have fun as always, Now we will, Thanks dude. That's

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01:03:56,106 --> 01:03:58,466
Speaker 1: Jason Light. Tambay Buccaneers their bye week and they come

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01:03:58,506 --> 01:04:01,266
Speaker 1: back there we're in creamsicles playing the Lions. Thanks Jason.

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01:04:09,746 --> 01:04:12,546
Speaker 1: I love Jason Light. I mean, that's a great inview.

1325
01:04:12,546 --> 01:04:13,946
Speaker 1: That's what we want to do with this podcast. We

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01:04:13,986 --> 01:04:15,906
Speaker 1: want to get an opportunity to speak to the guys

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01:04:15,906 --> 01:04:18,026
Speaker 1: who make the decisions and when you could tell stories

1328
01:04:18,026 --> 01:04:20,666
Speaker 1: about Belichick, Brady right up to Baker Mayfield. But also

1329
01:04:20,746 --> 01:04:22,826
Speaker 1: ten years is the gm is. A lot of these

1330
01:04:22,866 --> 01:04:24,626
Speaker 1: guys have two years, three years to do it. They

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01:04:24,666 --> 01:04:27,866
Speaker 1: probably get two quarterbacks. This is a guy who you know,

1332
01:04:27,906 --> 01:04:32,986
Speaker 1: went from Jamis to the Brady to now Baker Mayfield

1333
01:04:33,026 --> 01:04:36,186
Speaker 1: and they're winning. So Aaron, I love that stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I also don't feel like I get a ton

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01:04:39,186 --> 01:04:42,546
Speaker 3: of You don't often hear a GM just flat out

1336
01:04:42,626 --> 01:04:45,546
Speaker 3: say God, I hate the Saints, and so that was

1337
01:04:45,586 --> 01:04:47,786
Speaker 3: the most important win to me, was beating the Saints.

1338
01:04:48,026 --> 01:04:50,706
Speaker 1: How candid it was great. There was something to that

1339
01:04:50,786 --> 01:04:52,706
Speaker 1: interview where I felt like, you know, Bye Week is

1340
01:04:52,706 --> 01:04:54,786
Speaker 1: a little different than if you start off. I mean,

1341
01:04:54,786 --> 01:04:56,626
Speaker 1: we got them at the perfect time. Yeah, yeah, three

1342
01:04:56,666 --> 01:04:59,226
Speaker 1: and one. Bye Week is like if you're in a circle,

1343
01:04:59,306 --> 01:05:01,786
Speaker 1: like an in season GM guest, that's it. I doubt

1344
01:05:01,826 --> 01:05:05,066
Speaker 1: we'll get many others because these guys are so tight

1345
01:05:05,106 --> 01:05:07,226
Speaker 1: lipped and such on eggshells for week to week. But

1346
01:05:07,226 --> 01:05:08,786
Speaker 1: I knew this was the sweet spot, so we got

1347
01:05:08,866 --> 01:05:12,866
Speaker 1: Jason Knight. I started the podcast talking about my amazing Sunday,

1348
01:05:13,666 --> 01:05:15,306
Speaker 1: but I have to close the loop on something we

1349
01:05:15,346 --> 01:05:19,826
Speaker 1: mentioned last week. I was invited as a special guest

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01:05:20,506 --> 01:05:25,026
Speaker 1: to a Broadway show last Thursday night, and Aaron, as

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01:05:25,106 --> 01:05:28,706
Speaker 1: my fellow fan of the Great White Way, my fellow

1352
01:05:28,786 --> 01:05:34,306
Speaker 1: Thespian supporter, I went. I brought my lovely wife, Erica,

1353
01:05:34,626 --> 01:05:38,506
Speaker 1: and we went to the Melissa Etheridge one woman show

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01:05:38,626 --> 01:05:43,546
Speaker 1: titled My Window. It premiered Thursday night. It is in

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01:05:43,626 --> 01:05:47,386
Speaker 1: the middle of Times Square and my review is thus

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01:05:48,066 --> 01:05:51,906
Speaker 1: it was awesome. I loved it. Basically Melissa, whose life

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01:05:51,906 --> 01:05:53,626
Speaker 1: I don't really know all the details too. She's a

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01:05:53,666 --> 01:05:56,146
Speaker 1: fan of the Chiefs. She's been on Good Morning Football

1359
01:05:56,146 --> 01:05:59,586
Speaker 1: about a dozen times. She sends me a direct message says,

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Speaker 1: I have a Broadway show coming out. I knew she

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01:06:01,826 --> 01:06:04,426
Speaker 1: was off Broadway for a little bit telling my life story.

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01:06:05,386 --> 01:06:08,026
Speaker 1: Do you and your wife want to come? I said yes,

1363
01:06:08,586 --> 01:06:11,186
Speaker 1: and I will be honest. Thursday night football, well, ninety

1364
01:06:11,266 --> 01:06:13,786
Speaker 1: nine percent of the country was watching the first half

1365
01:06:13,826 --> 01:06:19,826
Speaker 1: of Alliance Packers wand I was busy singing I'm the

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01:06:19,866 --> 01:06:23,266
Speaker 1: only one. Yeah, I mean it was amazing. So Etherge

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01:06:23,346 --> 01:06:25,866
Speaker 1: comes out and this is my recommendation to anybody coming

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01:06:25,866 --> 01:06:28,426
Speaker 1: through New York City or they have it. It's a

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01:06:28,546 --> 01:06:30,986
Speaker 1: rock concert, but it's also like her personal story, and

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01:06:30,986 --> 01:06:33,706
Speaker 1: it tells the story. She's a small town girl from

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Speaker 1: a small town in Kansas and her only dream ever

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Speaker 1: was to play guitar and be in a rock band.

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Speaker 1: And back then when she was born in the sixties,

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01:06:41,946 --> 01:06:43,826
Speaker 1: that was not common for a female to do that.

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Speaker 1: By the age of twelve, Melissa was playing in dive

1376
01:06:47,426 --> 01:06:50,946
Speaker 1: bars and parts of bands with thirty and forty year olds,

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01:06:51,026 --> 01:06:55,466
Speaker 1: she was this phenom on the guitar. She comes out

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01:06:55,546 --> 01:06:59,026
Speaker 1: of the closet and her mother says she can't agree

1379
01:06:59,066 --> 01:07:02,306
Speaker 1: with that decision, and that severs or really hampers her

1380
01:07:02,306 --> 01:07:04,586
Speaker 1: relationship with her mother. But her father, who has a

1381
01:07:04,626 --> 01:07:07,306
Speaker 1: ton of grace, says, I've got your back no matter

1382
01:07:07,346 --> 01:07:09,906
Speaker 1: what you just as long as you're happy. She moves

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01:07:09,946 --> 01:07:14,386
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, where she chases this dream to be

1384
01:07:14,466 --> 01:07:17,986
Speaker 1: a rock star, which she says, it's the same dream

1385
01:07:18,026 --> 01:07:20,786
Speaker 1: that ten thousand other people who moved to Los Angeles has,

1386
01:07:20,826 --> 01:07:24,226
Speaker 1: And sure enough she ends up playing bars and gets

1387
01:07:24,266 --> 01:07:26,626
Speaker 1: one gig after another to finally be able to perform

1388
01:07:26,666 --> 01:07:30,506
Speaker 1: as an act. And she falls in love with a

1389
01:07:30,946 --> 01:07:33,826
Speaker 1: very famous Hollywood actor. You can google this. She doesn't

1390
01:07:33,866 --> 01:07:35,946
Speaker 1: mention it in the show. Of Course, I did a

1391
01:07:36,106 --> 01:07:41,706
Speaker 1: very famous Hollywood actor's wife, and they have this torrid romance.

1392
01:07:42,026 --> 01:07:45,506
Speaker 1: And this woman leaves a very famous Hollywood actor for

1393
01:07:45,546 --> 01:07:47,866
Speaker 1: Melissa Etheridge, and they live in the Hollywood Hills together

1394
01:07:47,906 --> 01:07:50,546
Speaker 1: and they start this life together, and then sure enough

1395
01:07:50,666 --> 01:07:54,426
Speaker 1: soon comes great stardom, and she has this really poignant

1396
01:07:54,426 --> 01:07:56,346
Speaker 1: moment where she's like, all I ever wanted to be

1397
01:07:57,426 --> 01:08:00,666
Speaker 1: was rich and famous, and then once I got to

1398
01:08:00,746 --> 01:08:05,506
Speaker 1: that point, I realized that meant nothing, and that fame

1399
01:08:05,626 --> 01:08:08,546
Speaker 1: and that wealth and all that stuff was pretty hollow

1400
01:08:08,586 --> 01:08:10,906
Speaker 1: and empty. And I'm on the road three hundred days

1401
01:08:10,906 --> 01:08:12,786
Speaker 1: out of the year, and I'm doing European tours and

1402
01:08:12,826 --> 01:08:16,706
Speaker 1: I'm away from my kids. Like she sings songs throughout Aaron,

1403
01:08:16,906 --> 01:08:20,546
Speaker 1: this is not Broadway dot Com, this is not theater mania,

1404
01:08:20,786 --> 01:08:26,066
Speaker 1: but my review is a very solid should go see

1405
01:08:26,186 --> 01:08:29,106
Speaker 1: on the Melissa Ethrid Show. I wouldn't say you need

1406
01:08:29,146 --> 01:08:30,986
Speaker 1: to fly in for it tomorrow. This isn't gonna be

1407
01:08:31,026 --> 01:08:33,506
Speaker 1: the craze that is Hamilton. I'm not gonna say that

1408
01:08:33,666 --> 01:08:36,066
Speaker 1: you must, you know, see it the first week. But

1409
01:08:37,066 --> 01:08:40,346
Speaker 1: if you want to laugh, cry, dance a little bit

1410
01:08:40,546 --> 01:08:42,746
Speaker 1: and you know, hear some great music and then just

1411
01:08:42,746 --> 01:08:46,586
Speaker 1: see it and just a wonderful performance from Melissa, I

1412
01:08:46,586 --> 01:08:50,786
Speaker 1: would advise going to see my Window on Broadway. Your

1413
01:08:50,786 --> 01:08:54,826
Speaker 1: thoughts on my you know, Hollywood slash Broadway.

1414
01:08:54,426 --> 01:08:58,706
Speaker 3: Review, I think you probably could have delivered it a

1415
01:08:58,746 --> 01:09:00,746
Speaker 3: little better. I think, you know, maybe a little better

1416
01:09:00,826 --> 01:09:03,946
Speaker 3: lighting next time you do it. Yeah, no, no, I

1417
01:09:03,946 --> 01:09:06,706
Speaker 3: think I love the theater as well. My parents both

1418
01:09:06,706 --> 01:09:10,706
Speaker 3: from the theater, and I also love that there has

1419
01:09:10,746 --> 01:09:13,426
Speaker 3: been this influx with Broadway with these kind of they're

1420
01:09:13,506 --> 01:09:16,946
Speaker 3: not just the jukebox musical. It's the artist doing the song.

1421
01:09:17,066 --> 01:09:21,066
Speaker 3: So it's not just come see us do a bunch

1422
01:09:21,106 --> 01:09:22,986
Speaker 3: of Michael Jackson songs, which I'm sure is in I

1423
01:09:23,026 --> 01:09:23,466
Speaker 3: haven't seen.

1424
01:09:23,626 --> 01:09:24,746
Speaker 1: Apparently that show is awesome.

1425
01:09:24,826 --> 01:09:25,826
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I haven't seen it.

1426
01:09:25,866 --> 01:09:27,426
Speaker 1: But you want to get the football link to this.

1427
01:09:27,546 --> 01:09:30,106
Speaker 1: The GM of the Seahawks, John Schneider, is a friend

1428
01:09:30,106 --> 01:09:33,106
Speaker 1: and he texted me on Thursday that his wife, Tracy's

1429
01:09:33,106 --> 01:09:35,346
Speaker 1: in town. He's like, what's a good restaurant in the

1430
01:09:35,346 --> 01:09:39,506
Speaker 1: theater district? She's seeing the MJ Show, And sure enough,

1431
01:09:39,546 --> 01:09:41,346
Speaker 1: we want to do two reviews. I want to she

1432
01:09:41,466 --> 01:09:43,386
Speaker 1: freaking loved it and the MJ Show, which is a

1433
01:09:43,426 --> 01:09:46,266
Speaker 1: story about Michael Jackson but obviously it's not him singing

1434
01:09:46,946 --> 01:09:49,626
Speaker 1: no Longer with Us, but it's the Michael Jackson story

1435
01:09:49,666 --> 01:09:53,146
Speaker 1: through that. But apparently that's awesome and worth seeing. But

1436
01:09:53,666 --> 01:09:57,466
Speaker 1: what's the other one? Merrily, and there's another one, Mellowy Roll,

1437
01:09:57,466 --> 01:10:00,506
Speaker 1: which is supposed to be great again Broadway reviews on

1438
01:10:00,586 --> 01:10:03,106
Speaker 1: a football podcast. But Melissa Etherich, are you a fan

1439
01:10:03,146 --> 01:10:04,866
Speaker 1: of the music, Like I only knew three or four songs,

1440
01:10:05,146 --> 01:10:07,586
Speaker 1: and that's one an insult to meliss I knew come

1441
01:10:07,586 --> 01:10:09,786
Speaker 1: to my window. I knew I'm the only one, and

1442
01:10:09,866 --> 01:10:11,826
Speaker 1: I knew what are the beginning songs were?

1443
01:10:12,026 --> 01:10:14,186
Speaker 3: I mean, those are the two I know. Like, for

1444
01:10:14,226 --> 01:10:17,466
Speaker 3: whatever reason, I think she was not something that my

1445
01:10:17,546 --> 01:10:19,906
Speaker 3: dad played as much. Like there he was a Bonnie

1446
01:10:19,986 --> 01:10:22,586
Speaker 3: Raid guy. So I have a lot of Bonnie Raid

1447
01:10:22,626 --> 01:10:23,466
Speaker 3: stuff in my child.

1448
01:10:23,546 --> 01:10:28,186
Speaker 1: Let's give them something to talk about. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1449
01:10:28,266 --> 01:10:33,546
Speaker 1: she was great. So here's this awkward moment for me again. Me, me, Me,

1450
01:10:33,746 --> 01:10:36,946
Speaker 1: this is becoming like a diary. I apologize. I got

1451
01:10:36,986 --> 01:10:39,506
Speaker 1: there on time with my wife. It's pouring rain out

1452
01:10:39,506 --> 01:10:42,226
Speaker 1: of the will call. It's Thursday night, I mean torrential rain.

1453
01:10:42,426 --> 01:10:43,826
Speaker 1: We go to the will call. The woman at the

1454
01:10:43,826 --> 01:10:45,306
Speaker 1: will calls like, I don't if your tickets. I'm like,

1455
01:10:46,146 --> 01:10:48,226
Speaker 1: my wife got all dressed up. We came to the theater.

1456
01:10:48,266 --> 01:10:51,786
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn, all right, let's leave. And then she's like, well,

1457
01:10:51,786 --> 01:10:53,586
Speaker 1: it's your name. I'm like it's Peter Shugger. She's like,

1458
01:10:53,746 --> 01:10:54,906
Speaker 1: we don't have you. I'm like, all right, great, I've

1459
01:10:54,906 --> 01:10:56,946
Speaker 1: gone like sheepishly gonna go back on the two train

1460
01:10:57,026 --> 01:10:59,986
Speaker 1: back to Brooklyn, like literally like just embarrassed, mortified that

1461
01:11:00,066 --> 01:11:03,346
Speaker 1: this happened. And then out of nowhere, someone's like, wait,

1462
01:11:03,386 --> 01:11:05,266
Speaker 1: are you with the press? I'm like, kind of, I'm

1463
01:11:05,266 --> 01:11:08,106
Speaker 1: not covering it, like I don't I don't work for Playbill,

1464
01:11:08,386 --> 01:11:10,466
Speaker 1: but like, yes I am, I'm with the press.

1465
01:11:10,666 --> 01:11:12,946
Speaker 3: Peter Schrager of Broadway World dot com.

1466
01:11:12,666 --> 01:11:16,826
Speaker 1: Broadway World dot com, here's my request to all the

1467
01:11:16,826 --> 01:11:19,546
Speaker 1: listeners and to you guys. Go to a site called

1468
01:11:19,746 --> 01:11:25,706
Speaker 1: theatermania dot com. Theatermania dot com click on the Melissa

1469
01:11:25,746 --> 01:11:29,666
Speaker 1: Ethridge Show. Are you doing it right now? Aaron? What

1470
01:11:29,746 --> 01:11:31,706
Speaker 1: I didn't realize was yes, I'm with the press, but

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Speaker 1: I was an invited guest. I don't know what was

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Speaker 1: going on in this situation, like I blacked out, but

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Speaker 1: I wasn't supposed to be all doing this, Aaron. They

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Speaker 1: asked me to walk the red carpet, and I said, yes,

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Speaker 1: Can you go through the list you have it up

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Speaker 1: yet the red carpet pictures. Can you go through the

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Speaker 1: lists of the names, some of the bigger ones for

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Speaker 1: and then the last picture and what this person is

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Speaker 1: wearing first? Give it the who hosted the Tonys this year.

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Speaker 3: Do you know the name of the person who hosted

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Speaker 3: the Tonys?

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Speaker 1: Guess who was the on that red carpet? From Melissa

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Speaker 1: Sophia Bush? Is there Bush? Gina Gershawn, who I grew

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Speaker 1: up obviously loving for her many roles. Who else? Wait?

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Speaker 3: Who is this in a white tea and a blue

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Speaker 3: button down? Peter Schrager right there?

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Speaker 1: You should have seen the confused looks of who the

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Speaker 1: fuck is this guy? From the theater Press. My wife

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Speaker 1: was like, I'm not walking Please, come on me, please,

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Speaker 1: I'm not walking that. We just got done. We got umbrella.

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Speaker 1: I got an umbrella in my hands. It's so ray.

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Speaker 1: I'm wearing Honestly, I'm wearing a pair of jeans called Goodfellow,

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Speaker 1: which is the jeans you get at Target, but for

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Speaker 1: my size, they're the most comfortable. So I've got Good

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Speaker 1: Fellow jeans, a white T shirt and it ain't a

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Speaker 1: James Person T shirt. We're talking like old navy white

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Speaker 1: T shirt and a blue button down from j Crew

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Speaker 1: that is open button down. And I walked the red carpet,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough, the next day I'm tagged in a

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Speaker 1: million Broadway articles that I walked the red carpet. But

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Speaker 1: like I always say, it's not about me, not about

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Speaker 1: me at all.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you look good. You got a really good smile,

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Speaker 3: and I would never have guessed that you had. Five

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Speaker 3: minutes before this been turned away at the ticket counter,

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Speaker 3: turned it away and told that you did not have

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Speaker 3: a ticket.

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Speaker 1: This is New York City in a nutshell. If you

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Speaker 1: can make it here, you can make it anywhere. I

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Speaker 1: walk off the subway, I'm getting drenched. I got splashed

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Speaker 1: by a taxi. I'm soaking wet. My wife is furious.

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Speaker 1: That she's not furious, but my wife is a little

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Speaker 1: confused that we don't have tickets. After we lugged out

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Speaker 1: in this rainy day and we left our son and

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Speaker 1: our six month old daughter to go see this show.

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Speaker 1: And then within a flash, I'm on the red carpet

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Speaker 1: with Ariannadbos, who was the star of West Side Story

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Speaker 1: and who hosted the Tony's Life Can Happen That fast?

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Speaker 3: Aaron, Yeah, a pair of good New York stories today.

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Speaker 3: I like that a lot.

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Speaker 1: We got it from Jeremy Strong to JB. Smooth to

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Speaker 1: Ariana Debos, and I barely even mentioned the name Taylor

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Speaker 1: Swift Aaron. Thank you to you, the viewers and the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. We're having fun doing this on behalf of

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Speaker 1: Jason English, who is here with iHeart Jason Kleinman, who

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Speaker 1: works on the amazing social clips and the digital stuff,

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Speaker 1: the folks out west, the people here. Thanks to everybody

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Speaker 1: for listening to the Season with Peter Schrager and of

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Speaker 1: course our guests Jason Light Till next week. Let's hope

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Speaker 1: it's jbsmooth, but I wouldn't bank on it these things.

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Speaker 1: If you don't press save on the screen grab of

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Speaker 1: the QR Code company business card from the manager, you

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Speaker 1: don't get a chance to have the guests on the

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Speaker 1: Season with Peter Scheger is a production of the NFL

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