Speaker 1: Welcome into Bucks Insider.
Speaker 2: Come into you from the Bucks Studio, presented by ticketmaster
Speaker 2: Casey Phillips, here with Senior writer and editor Scott Smith,
Speaker 2: staff writer Breed Dix, and we were here to cover
Speaker 2: another week of Bucks news, and man, it's a fun
Speaker 2: one after that win. What a way to start the season.
Speaker 2: I just can't get over how perfect that felt. Outside
Speaker 2: of some injuries, which we will get into because that
Speaker 2: has definitely turned into a big storyline up for now,
Speaker 2: let's focus on the positives of that win.
Speaker 1: It was so much fun.
Speaker 2: First, I mean, Liam Cohen, like he was one of
Speaker 2: the big storylines coming in.
Speaker 1: We wanted to see what was this offense going to
Speaker 1: look like.
Speaker 2: We'd heard a lot about it, but preseason you don't
Speaker 2: unveil everything, right, and I have to imagine when you
Speaker 2: get a new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: This was just about as good as you could hope
Speaker 1: for in so many ways.
Speaker 2: I mean, you have the second most points in Week one,
Speaker 2: scored on seven of eight non meal down drives, and
Speaker 2: I mean that many points. They didn't tour over thirty
Speaker 2: until Week nine last season, so that's already just an
Speaker 2: incredible amount.
Speaker 1: Of points and stats.
Speaker 2: And that is if you're able to put up those
Speaker 2: kind of points, you're gonna win a lot. That's a
Speaker 2: pretty decent amount of points to go. And I love
Speaker 2: seeing some stuff we'd wanted to learn about his offense.
Speaker 2: Right of yes, there was a lot of eleven personnel. Right,
Speaker 2: we've heard he loves to play mainly that one tight
Speaker 2: end run game huge, another storyline we've focused a ton on.
Speaker 2: There were still aspects I know they're trying to work
Speaker 2: on in some kings in terms of especially yards per run,
Speaker 2: you know, in rashads and buckets a little higher because
Speaker 2: he gets a thirty one yard run. But she saw
Speaker 2: a lot of variety in it, which I think was
Speaker 2: really great to see. And third down, I mean Chris Godwin,
Speaker 2: the god of third down. Yeah, man, I think I'm
Speaker 2: imagining that's what Liam Cohen's playbook says for third down
Speaker 2: is find Chris Godwiwin because he was and they were
Speaker 2: great on third down, which was incredible. But you know,
Speaker 2: I mean there were so many different people producing things.
Speaker 2: Week one, they were the only team to have four
Speaker 2: different skill players get sixty plus yards from scrimmage.
Speaker 3: I didn't even know us.
Speaker 2: I'm trying, man, the years and my tenth season, You've
Speaker 2: rapped off on me, one of just two teams to
Speaker 2: have three different players all in a receiving touchdown.
Speaker 1: So I wow. It was just such an.
Speaker 2: Incredible way to see this kickoff of so many people
Speaker 2: getting involved. You saw some variety in the run game,
Speaker 2: you saw the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Creating some holes. To me, just checked it checked all
Speaker 1: the boxes of what you wanted to see.
Speaker 3: You mentioned third downs. They were nine to thirteen, which
Speaker 3: is about sixty two fourth best game we've ever had
Speaker 3: in that category. And to me what it said was
Speaker 3: how many times do we hear during the off season
Speaker 3: when Leam Cohan Cohen was at the podium, we want
Speaker 3: to have answers. We want to have answers for whatever
Speaker 3: we see. We want Baker to have answers if he
Speaker 3: if he thinks it's going to be his own and
Speaker 3: then he sees its, Man, we have an answer for that.
Speaker 3: That showed up to me on third downs, Yeah, because
Speaker 3: you don't know what you're gonna get. But to convert
Speaker 3: that many third downs means they had answers for what
Speaker 3: they saw.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and Chris Godwin being back in the slot more
Speaker 2: we see that Just that brings out kind of the
Speaker 2: best Chris Godwin, you know. But that's where he's got
Speaker 2: his ability to do everything that he wants.
Speaker 3: I might be talking about that a little bit later
Speaker 3: in the fantasy segment.
Speaker 1: Ooh interesting, look at a teaser. Look at you know,
Speaker 1: how to be doing a teaser.
Speaker 2: Of course, part of all that success on the offense
Speaker 2: was not just Leam Cohen, but Baker Mayfield having himself
Speaker 2: yes a game.
Speaker 4: League best performance led the NFL in passerating and passing touchdowns,
Speaker 4: was named the FedEx Air Player of the Week. Completed
Speaker 4: twenty four of thirty passes, had four touchdowns, and had
Speaker 4: a passer rating of one forty six point four. And
Speaker 4: there were two drives back to back where he completed
Speaker 4: all eight attempts. But I think you just saw the poise,
Speaker 4: the command, and just the him having fun. And he
Speaker 4: said that over and over and I love they said
Speaker 4: on the broadcast, but they said, this is just a
Speaker 4: special unit and it's tangible. And I think you saw
Speaker 4: that with Baker Mayfield, whether it was him scrambling the
Speaker 4: first down celebration, but also just some of the sidear
Speaker 4: throws he had, but he had full command and got
Speaker 4: the ball where he needed to go, was smart, was accurate.
Speaker 4: And then Chris Godwin, as you said, god a third down,
Speaker 4: had himself a day. Seven of his eight catches resulted
Speaker 4: in a first down and four were third down conversions.
Speaker 1: Physical at the top routes, click out of breaks and
Speaker 1: just kind of.
Speaker 4: Had that ability over the middle of the field on
Speaker 4: the outbreakers, but kind of became the catalyst. And then
Speaker 4: Mike Evans two touchdown day. And it's funny because I
Speaker 4: think we get to the point where you're so accustomed
Speaker 4: to him making these big plays that it's almost, oh,
Speaker 4: you know it's a play. But his first touchdown, my god,
Speaker 4: jaw dropped. The Commander's dB was all over him, held
Speaker 4: him physical with the line, and he still manages to
Speaker 4: work over the top haul in the catch on the
Speaker 4: go route. But I think too, it's the feel and
Speaker 4: the timing in the chemistry between Baker Mayfield and Mike
Speaker 4: Evans in his second year of knowing where to put
Speaker 4: the ball when Evans is in the one on one,
Speaker 4: whether it's the back shoulder, inside, outside, and you're seeing
Speaker 4: the fruition of that and like you mentioned them being
Speaker 4: in eleven personnel, Mike Evans Chris Godwin. They're going to
Speaker 4: have to do more in the run game, and I
Speaker 4: think you saw that, especially with Godwin, and so we
Speaker 4: talked about spurring Becky every thirty one yard run. He
Speaker 4: kind of had the block on the safety to kind
Speaker 4: of extend that run lane for him. So, just overall,
Speaker 4: I think those three came up really really big.
Speaker 1: Ag instant Landers.
Speaker 3: Twenty passes thrown to Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Rashad White,
Speaker 3: who are obviously the top three pass catchers on this team,
Speaker 3: nineteen completed. Wow, the thought that came into my mind
Speaker 3: regarding Baker during that game. You've heard the phrase before
Speaker 3: he can make every throw. That just popped into my
Speaker 3: mind towards the end of that game because Baker can.
Speaker 1: Make every throw and was making everything.
Speaker 3: I mean, those deep outs are hard. That's a long
Speaker 3: pass considering how wide the field is, the corner routes.
Speaker 3: How many times do you throw that corner of the
Speaker 3: flag route, the shallow outs where the receiver only has
Speaker 3: like a step of separation, you have to put it
Speaker 3: right here. He can make every throw.
Speaker 1: It's incredible.
Speaker 2: Now, we talked a lot about the offense for good reason,
Speaker 2: but the defense was, of course, a very big story
Speaker 2: coming out of that game.
Speaker 1: For many reasons.
Speaker 2: I felt like the three of us were maybe gonna
Speaker 2: have to suit up at one point. There were injuries
Speaker 2: going into the game that we already knew about that
Speaker 2: guys were going to have to step up, and then
Speaker 2: of course ended up being another guy stepping up and
Speaker 2: another guy stepping up. But what's to out to you,
Speaker 2: Scott about a lot of these defensive guys and the
Speaker 2: way they had to change some of these rotations and
Speaker 2: play some guys in places they hadn't before.
Speaker 3: So you guys get to talk about the offense that
Speaker 3: was amazingly perfect, which was like the walking wounded. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: so they started. They went into the game without Logan
Speaker 3: Hall and Colijah Kansy and Ernest Brown who won an
Speaker 3: endur reserve. So three of the six that they originally
Speaker 3: kept for the fifty three men roster on the defensive
Speaker 3: line got hurt in practice between the cutdown to fifty
Speaker 3: three and the game, which is pretty ridiculous. So they
Speaker 3: had to rely on Ben Stilly, who they just signed
Speaker 3: from Arizona's practice squad, and C. J. Brewer and Mike Green,
Speaker 3: who they called up from the practice squad, and then
Speaker 3: of course Vita Vea and Greg Gaines and Will Golston
Speaker 3: played more than they normally would have, and a great
Speaker 3: games was playing out of position because he's your backup
Speaker 3: nose tackle and now he's playing like three techniques. So
Speaker 3: great job by those guys, because yes, Jade Daniels, who's
Speaker 3: electric in the open field, ran for eighty eight yards,
Speaker 3: but their running backs only ran for fifty yards, and
Speaker 3: so they did a pretty good job and run defense
Speaker 3: and that was the key, and there was a decent
Speaker 3: amount of pressure, so that was good. But then you
Speaker 3: got the problems on the front end. And then during
Speaker 3: the game. Everybody knows this by now, I'm not sharing
Speaker 3: any new news or anything, but Zion McCom gets a concussion,
Speaker 3: so Bryce Hall comes in. In the meantime, Josh Hayes,
Speaker 3: who's one of the other reserves, get hurts his ankle
Speaker 3: in a punt return. And then at halftime, because you're
Speaker 3: down to two corners now because Tyreek Funderbrick was a
Speaker 3: inactor because he was still overcoming his preseason injury. At halftime,
Speaker 3: coach Bowls and Coach rosso up to Christian Izzian who's
Speaker 3: a safety, has played slack corner but hasn't played outside
Speaker 3: corner since sophomore in high school, and say, hey, you're
Speaker 3: the next man in if somebody goes down, and then
Speaker 3: almost immediately in the same and a half, Bryce Holland. Now,
Speaker 3: I don't mean to be this levity about this because
Speaker 3: that was a bad injury and the poor guys out
Speaker 3: for the season now, But so now you're in, Christian,
Speaker 3: you're in. And he did a great job. Really, he
Speaker 3: had a really important third down breakup on the sideline,
Speaker 3: and otherwise you didn't hear about him, right, That's that's
Speaker 3: the thing, yea. So now going into the next game,
Speaker 3: that's gonna be an issue because Antoine Winfield also got hurt,
Speaker 3: like on the second to last play of the game.
Speaker 3: He's your all Pro safety and one of your most
Speaker 3: indispensable defenders and he's probably not going to be available.
Speaker 3: So now Christian Izzian is preparing to play safety.
Speaker 1: This guy's become just the Swiss Army Knight Adasty.
Speaker 3: It's really impressive.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.
Speaker 2: So speaking of all that, it's a good time to
Speaker 2: talk about the injury report, as sad as it may be.
Speaker 4: Yes, we ought names on this life.
Speaker 2: Yes, we are shooting this on a Thursday morning. So
Speaker 2: we only have one injury report so far. There will
Speaker 2: be two more to go. So based on this first one,
Speaker 2: what we've heard in press conferences.
Speaker 1: Tell us kind of the stage of things on that
Speaker 1: injury report.
Speaker 4: So Clijah Cansei and Antoine one Fiter didn't practice on Wednesday,
Speaker 4: they probably are not likely to play against the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 4: Zion McCollum will be interesting to watch to see how
Speaker 4: he progresses in the concussion protocol. He practiced in a
Speaker 4: limited fashion on Wednesday, as did act Yes, as did
Speaker 4: Logan Hall on the defensive line, so both of them
Speaker 4: potentially have a shot and then also not fun.
Speaker 1: Luke Gettikey showed up on.
Speaker 4: The report on Wednesday with a concussion as well, so
Speaker 4: now there will be a monitoring of him and see
Speaker 4: how he progresses in the concussion protocol to see if
Speaker 4: they're both eligible to go.
Speaker 3: That's worrisome. That is good, Yes, I mean Zion has
Speaker 3: more time to recover from it than I'm a little
Speaker 3: more worried about Luke.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be.
Speaker 3: Interesting, which would push justin school into right tackle if
Speaker 3: if necessary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll be interesting. All right, This is time for
Speaker 1: our weekly trivia questions. You take it away, okay.
Speaker 4: Last week against Washington, Baker Mayfield compiled a passer rating
Speaker 4: of one forty six point four, which is close to
Speaker 4: the perfect rating of one point fifty.
Speaker 1: Eight point three.
Speaker 4: Three quarterbacks have finished a game with a perfect passer
Speaker 4: rating and bucks history.
Speaker 1: How many of them can you name? I know I
Speaker 1: can name one. Outside of that, I don't know how
Speaker 1: confident I am. Yeah, and I could probably name two,
Speaker 1: but I don't know.
Speaker 3: You've seen two of them. Yeah, the other one was
Speaker 3: well before your time.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 2: All right, Well you guys have a chance to figure
Speaker 2: that out during the course of the show.
Speaker 1: We'll be able the answer at the end. No cheating,
Speaker 1: no googling, just use them little brains. It's always our
Speaker 1: challenge here. We know you guys are.
Speaker 3: I'll give you a hint. The third quarterback went to
Speaker 3: the University of Miami.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I likes hints are good. Okay, So, Milestone Tracker.
Speaker 2: We always like to do that this time of year
Speaker 2: as well, to make sure we know what guys are
Speaker 2: aiming for what so people have something to watch during
Speaker 2: the rest of the games as well, not just for
Speaker 2: wins and losses, but guys trying to get certain stats
Speaker 2: and per usual.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy that we're tracking. Yeah, it's not surprising.
Speaker 1: It's milestone.
Speaker 3: Mic I promise I will not make this segment about
Speaker 3: Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone would hate that. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone out there is like a lot of them less.
Speaker 3: Did you guys see the Kyle Brandt Mike Evans. If
Speaker 3: you haven't seen Kyle Brant's take on look it up
Speaker 3: on YouTube or Twitter. It's a really interesting take and
Speaker 3: very positive. Anyway, Mike Evans scored two touchdowns in that game,
Speaker 3: like that, throwing his hands at the very last minutes
Speaker 3: and the dB doesn't know the balls coming. That's the
Speaker 3: key to that play right there. Ninety six touchdowns, he
Speaker 3: leap frog DeVante Adams, who did not score in Week one,
Speaker 3: into twelfth place all time in NFL history. And he's
Speaker 3: now four away from becoming the eleventh player in NFL
Speaker 3: history to get to one hundred touchdown receptions. But also
Speaker 3: he's now got five hundred ninety points in his career.
Speaker 3: That's second all time. I mean, he's got all the
Speaker 3: receiving the records. Now he's coming for the kickers, right,
Speaker 3: He's like, Okay, I'm coming for the kickers.
Speaker 1: He needs three more almost like the kickers are like,
Speaker 1: come on.
Speaker 3: So Martin Gramatica scored five ninety two points in his
Speaker 3: career with the Bucks. That's the all time franchise record,
Speaker 3: and Mike is now five ninety. So what we would
Speaker 3: really love to see is we get stoned at fourth
Speaker 3: and one at the goal and they decided to send
Speaker 3: Mike and it would be great if you want he
Speaker 3: got an a field goal. Yeah, let him kick a
Speaker 3: field goal and when and get.
Speaker 1: The record that way back, I feel like I would
Speaker 1: believe he could do.
Speaker 3: It much more likely he scores another touchdown and he's
Speaker 3: the all time leader. And the only other all time
Speaker 3: leaders on their teams in points scored that are not
Speaker 3: kickers are EMMITTT. Smith and Jerry Rice.
Speaker 1: Wow, not too shabby.
Speaker 2: Again, the company Smith Jerry Rice not yead company to
Speaker 2: be keeping. And also I love that if and when
Speaker 2: this happens, since Martin Gramatica, you know, I.
Speaker 1: Like to cover my basis when this happens.
Speaker 2: Martin Grammatica calls the Spanish Radio, and we'll get to
Speaker 2: call this getting broken, and I think that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk some fantasy you kind of teased
Speaker 2: it earlier. We're going to talk about Mike from Milestone's probablynna.
Speaker 1: Talk about chr.
Speaker 3: This is mostly a segment where we talk about like
Speaker 3: what's coming up and try to give advice. But the
Speaker 3: first thing I'm gonna do here is take a victory
Speaker 3: lap Ah. Yes, of course, Chris Godwin. Yes, if anybody A,
Speaker 3: I was adamant take Chris Godwin, take him around earlier
Speaker 3: than he's projected. Make sure you get him because he
Speaker 3: is going to be a great fantasy player and great
Speaker 3: value draft wise compared to where he's supposed to go.
Speaker 3: And the reasons why I said that all showed up
Speaker 3: in Week one. A. Everybody says he's healthiest he's been
Speaker 3: since he hurt his knee at the end of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one. So he can cut off either foot much
Speaker 3: better than before. B. He's moving back into the slot,
Speaker 3: and he's in a Cooper Cup type of role. And
Speaker 3: see they specifically said Liam Cohen and other specifically said
Speaker 3: they want to get him more looks in the red
Speaker 3: zone because he only scored like five touchdowns on like
Speaker 3: two hundred catches the last two years. That play where
Speaker 3: he scored was not like Baker going through his reads
Speaker 3: and then finding Chris. He was the main read. That
Speaker 3: play was designed for Chris Godwin in the red zone
Speaker 3: first and goal. This one right here that was designed
Speaker 3: for him and so and we saw it in training
Speaker 3: camp in the joint practices too, they are calling up
Speaker 3: plays for Chris in the red zone. So if he
Speaker 3: gets seven eight touchdowns and gets one hundred catches and
Speaker 3: you got him in the seventh round, that's.
Speaker 2: Pretty that's pretty decent. And then also a guy that
Speaker 2: I think that this is what I've been thinking about
Speaker 2: pre season of who's going to be interesting from a
Speaker 2: fantasy standpoint, is Bucky Irving? Because everyone has of course
Speaker 2: been probably drafting Rashad White for good reason, especially all
Speaker 2: the catches he makes. We didn't know what Bucky Rashad
Speaker 2: duo was going to look like, and I think we
Speaker 2: still are probably seeing what it'll evolved to over the
Speaker 2: course of the season. But man, Bucky made a case
Speaker 2: for being a fantasy guy.
Speaker 3: TOAM, So is Bucky fantasy relevant? That's the question. So
Speaker 3: he had seventy six yards from scrimmage and two catches,
Speaker 3: so that'd be about like in a PPR league, that's
Speaker 3: nine point six points, which isn't great. You know, he's
Speaker 3: probably not a guy you necessarily want to start next week,
Speaker 3: But the question is do you want to pick him up?
Speaker 3: And the answer, the short answer is yes. And part
Speaker 3: of the is that if most of the impact fantasy
Speaker 3: players that you get that weren't drafted are picked up
Speaker 3: in the first couple weeks, so maybe he's going to
Speaker 3: be Maybe he's going to get a bigger role as
Speaker 3: time goes by and be worth starting. So take the risk. Now,
Speaker 3: take the gamble, because if you don't pick him up now,
Speaker 3: you're probably not gonna get him because somebody else will. Yep,
Speaker 3: So you don't wait two three weeks to see if
Speaker 3: he's still going to do it. You pick him up
Speaker 3: now and hope it works out. So definitely Bucky iring
Speaker 3: his fantasy He should be on all rosters at this point.
Speaker 2: Okay, And then now we're going to move into our
Speaker 2: off the field segment, human interests.
Speaker 1: This is where we try to help you.
Speaker 2: Guys get to know the team a little bit better
Speaker 2: off of the field and I just have one giant
Speaker 2: shameless plug for this segment today. So we had Baker
Speaker 2: Mayfield on for our first episode of Bucks Total Access
Speaker 2: this week, which I am co hosting with Cambraid this year,
Speaker 2: which is so fun.
Speaker 1: Great to see him back like around the building getting
Speaker 1: to see the guys. No one doesn't like CAMBRAI I
Speaker 1: would like to.
Speaker 2: I would like to start with that. So Baker came
Speaker 2: on the show with us and it was phenomenal. If
Speaker 2: you haven't seen it, go to the Buccaneers YouTube watch
Speaker 2: the whole thing. So many interesting football parts, but even
Speaker 2: more funny personality things, which is what I wanted to
Speaker 2: tease here.
Speaker 1: So there's two different clips that we're going to show here.
Speaker 2: One that's a little bit about Baker and some of
Speaker 2: the guys in the way that they bond together, especially
Speaker 2: on road trips as we come up on our first one.
Speaker 2: The other is a bit of a funny Cambraight story
Speaker 2: that is going to be relevant for the Lions.
Speaker 1: So to take a lot a little birdie that was.
Speaker 2: Walking down the hallway this morning, maybe a big birdie
Speaker 2: for being honest about it, said, I should ask you
Speaker 2: who's better.
Speaker 1: At Mario Kart, Tristan said this.
Speaker 2: Birdie not so secret. Tristan wanted to know who was
Speaker 2: better at Mario Kart.
Speaker 1: You were him.
Speaker 5: It pains me to say this. He might be the
Speaker 5: best Mario Kart player ever seen. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 2: He will be shocked you said that. He was like,
Speaker 2: he won't say me, but he should say me. Did
Speaker 2: you ever even try to trash talk? Like even once?
Speaker 5: I did one time?
Speaker 3: And really I still.
Speaker 1: Think about it, still think about it. It haunts your
Speaker 1: dreams at night.
Speaker 5: So the guy ended up he lives in Tampa.
Speaker 1: Oh, well that was a bad move already.
Speaker 5: Yeah. It was to uh alex Anseloon, the linebacker who
Speaker 5: now plays the Lions. He said something to me.
Speaker 3: I said something back.
Speaker 1: Do we get to know what I want?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, But that's like I saw him later and
Speaker 5: like someone else, like he had told someone else that
Speaker 5: I had said something to him. The whole thing is
Speaker 5: just a nightmare for me. And yeah, I'm not gonna
Speaker 5: do it ever again to any capacity. I'll bring it
Speaker 5: up to him this week.
Speaker 1: No, you don't have to, Cambra number one tight end
Speaker 1: in your hearts. Last didn't we get trash talk? I
Speaker 1: think is the takeaway.
Speaker 2: And as we were about to face alex Anzeloni this week,
Speaker 2: I thought that was very appropriate and Baker was, you know,
Speaker 2: I love that about Baker being like do you want
Speaker 2: me to say how important? You want me to say anything?
Speaker 2: Ken's like, no, thank you, We're gonna let that die.
Speaker 3: And I love it.
Speaker 2: Literally, he tried it once, and Chris Godwin has told
Speaker 2: me the same thing before where he tried trash talking
Speaker 2: once and he was.
Speaker 1: Like, it's just exhausting.
Speaker 2: I made my oxygen for others things like.
Speaker 1: I'm tired, I don't want to talk, I don't want
Speaker 1: to deal with it. So he was like, never mind,
Speaker 1: and I love it.
Speaker 2: We're I just feel like our locker room is so
Speaker 2: full of these guys that are almost too nice to
Speaker 2: trash talk that there's like I don't it doesn't And
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit of Baker Mayfield, who is still
Speaker 2: a very nice guy, but that has a little bit
Speaker 2: more of that.
Speaker 3: That thing you just said about Chris Godwin made me
Speaker 3: think of something and you just had your shameless plug,
Speaker 3: So I'll shamelessly plug salty Dogs. Yeah, And we had
Speaker 3: that's the podcast, go look it up. We had Jalen
Speaker 3: McMillan on as our guest, and do you know when
Speaker 3: you asked that question, like, hey, you get to be
Speaker 3: in the same room with Chris Evans of Chris Godwin and.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans would also be cool.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chris, as you know, you learn so much from them,
Speaker 3: but it's always kind of amorphous, like what do you
Speaker 3: actually learn? And then Jeff, my co host Jeff Ryan
Speaker 3: on the show, asked him, can you give so specific,
Speaker 3: like something that Chris or Mike has taught you? And
Speaker 3: I saw Jalen kind of start thinking about I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: we didn't mean to put you on the spot because
Speaker 3: that can be a tough question. You have to come
Speaker 3: up with them. But then he's like, no, no, no, I
Speaker 3: got something. Chris Godwin has taught him a manner of
Speaker 3: breathing when he comes to silent because he says, early
Speaker 3: in camp or early in theough season, I was like
Speaker 3: really getting short winded, and I'd come to sideline was winded,
Speaker 3: and he taught me some breathing techniques that have really
Speaker 3: helped me a lot, so I don't get fatigued.
Speaker 1: That's fascinating.
Speaker 3: I mean, you don't normally get that kind of specifics
Speaker 3: and that Chris just taught and that makes sense that
Speaker 3: Chris would know that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Chris is also pretty into mindfulness and
Speaker 1: medit a lot of that stuff. So that's really I
Speaker 1: thought that was very cool. I like that. That's that's great.
Speaker 1: So now let's go ahead and get into this game
Speaker 1: this next week against the Lions.
Speaker 2: I've asked everyone I've talked to this week in my
Speaker 2: interviews about is this is this like a revenge game
Speaker 2: of only like one person is like yes, everyone loves
Speaker 2: to be like which I think they're lying, but that's
Speaker 2: just I.
Speaker 1: View it that way.
Speaker 2: I feel like this is going to be a really
Speaker 2: fun look at this game that was so fun last year.
Speaker 1: Though it didn't in the way we wanted, it was
Speaker 1: a great game as well. They're a great team, and
Speaker 1: I think that it's just a it's a fun matchup.
Speaker 3: US twice last year. Yeah, I would say more than
Speaker 3: a revenge game.
Speaker 2: It's a measuring stick game, yes, I think, And I mean,
Speaker 2: of course that's going to be tough with all the
Speaker 2: injuries that it may change a little bit of that measurement.
Speaker 2: No excuses, no excuses, You're right, what am I doing here.
Speaker 2: All right, So Scott, tell me what stands out to
Speaker 2: you about this matchup and maybe one of the Lions
Speaker 2: position groups that you're going to be focusing.
Speaker 3: It's that offensive line, that dominant offensive line led by
Speaker 3: Penney Sewel. But they're good across the board, and they
Speaker 3: took over that game at the end against San Francisco.
Speaker 3: That was wait, it was the Rams, right, Yeah, that
Speaker 3: was the most entertaining Other Nard game, the most entertaining
Speaker 3: game that I saw this weekend. And it went into overtime.
Speaker 3: They already were doing a great job running the ball
Speaker 3: and David Montgomery just runs so hard and behind that
Speaker 3: line they give him just a little bit and he
Speaker 3: you know, and he just powerful runner. They took over
Speaker 3: in an overtime period and just ran the ball down
Speaker 3: the Rams throat. They really didn't It wasn't all running.
Speaker 3: There were a few passes, but they really didn't need
Speaker 3: to pass the ball. And by the time they got
Speaker 3: to first and goal or whatever down it was, it
Speaker 3: was like, well, this is a given. There's no way
Speaker 3: they're stopping, and so is the most expected thing. When
Speaker 3: David Montgomery ran in throw the touchdown and now that
Speaker 3: line is going against the Bucks defensive line, which would
Speaker 3: normally say, Okay, this is a great Marquee matchup because
Speaker 3: vite Vea, Klijah, Cancy, Logan Hall, all high draft picks,
Speaker 3: Will Golston just a nice defensive front to hold up
Speaker 3: against them. But you're playing probably almost certainly without Kalijah,
Speaker 3: right didn you say that in an injury segment, and
Speaker 3: Logan Hall has a chance, but not necessarily so to me,
Speaker 3: that's a key thing. And one of the defenders was,
Speaker 3: oh is Joe Tryan Schenka in the locker room yesterday,
Speaker 3: was asked how important is it to get pressure on him?
Speaker 3: And he goes, well, first of all, we got to stop
Speaker 3: the run. That's the number one thing that we have
Speaker 3: to do, and that's not going to be easy, and
Speaker 3: that could be where this game turns. How well the
Speaker 3: Bucks can hold up against that incredible offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and as good as they are in the run game,
Speaker 2: they have some pretty decent wide receivers. Yes, I mean,
Speaker 2: that's quite a duo out there, and knowing how beat
Speaker 2: up the Bucks secondary is, I imagine that that's going to
Speaker 2: be a huge part of it.
Speaker 4: Well, just some of their positionless players, and I think
Speaker 4: That's one of the things that's so hard about the
Speaker 4: lines is they have so many weapons on offense that
Speaker 4: if you game plan for one, well, then somebody else
Speaker 4: can be to you. They have on Ross Saint Brown,
Speaker 4: who was a first team All Pro last year. He's
Speaker 4: a guy that has a variety of releases out of
Speaker 4: the slot. He kind of does the reverses the screens,
Speaker 4: but he's a sudden rat runner. He's good on like
Speaker 4: the two way go the option routes, kind of that
Speaker 4: that slot weapon. And then you have a guy like
Speaker 4: Sam Laporta, who basically took the NFL by storm as
Speaker 4: a rookie tight end. This is just preposterous to me,
Speaker 4: but he had eighty six receptions and ten touchdowns. Eighty
Speaker 4: six receptions is a rookie tight end, so that is
Speaker 4: the most by that position for rookie in NFL history.
Speaker 1: And he's a guy that again can do it all.
Speaker 1: Todd Boss talked about this a little bit on Bucks
Speaker 1: Total Access.
Speaker 4: But he can stretch the field vertically. He has the
Speaker 4: strength in line for walking, and then he also has
Speaker 4: a good feel on routes. He can he's physical, he
Speaker 4: has the power to power through the jams, and it's
Speaker 4: kind of that guy that's sort of built with that prerequisite,
Speaker 4: Dan Campbell Detroit. And then they also have Jamison Williams
Speaker 4: who can is the deep threat, can beat you over
Speaker 4: the top, that game changing long speed that's good on
Speaker 4: the post routes the corner. So I think, how well
Speaker 4: the Bucks are able to contain those guys is going
Speaker 4: to be a key for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jamison Williams is the new one there.
Speaker 2: I mean, man, he showed out in that game as well.
Speaker 2: He showed his speed. He needs big deep ball threats.
Speaker 2: I mean that.
Speaker 3: Guy and he's good like on an end round too.
Speaker 3: Don't forget they took him twelfth overall in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: two and he was coming off an injury, so he
Speaker 3: didn't do much as a rookie and last year was
Speaker 3: kind of disappointing. It was a little bit I think
Speaker 3: a suspension was involved, But this guy could be I mean,
Speaker 3: you saw that's a that's a They have returned pretty
Speaker 3: much everything they had on offense last year and then
Speaker 3: maybe this guy is their breakout this year. And that's
Speaker 3: a little scary.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, I'm looking at their defense. It's funny.
Speaker 2: I felt like I was almost copypasting what I talked
Speaker 2: about last week with the Commanders of just this overhaul
Speaker 2: idea of For the Commanders, it was their whole starting defense.
Speaker 2: Almost this is a little bit more focused on their secondary.
Speaker 2: But for the second straight year they're overhauling it, which
Speaker 2: that's that's never great.
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to do that.
Speaker 2: That means they're like, never mind trying to do it again.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting to see what this group
Speaker 2: looks like this week. For one thing, they traded for
Speaker 2: our guy Carlton Davis, who everybody's very familiar with, signed
Speaker 2: I mean Robertson from the Raiders, drafted Terry and Arnold
Speaker 2: in the first round.
Speaker 1: All those guys are starting.
Speaker 2: And then by putting Robertson in the slot, that's gonna
Speaker 2: let them put Brian Branch back into safety, which is
Speaker 2: so reminiscent of this Antoine Winfield thing. You're so good,
Speaker 2: let's try you also here and also here, and then
Speaker 2: it's like no, but you're also you're at.
Speaker 1: This safety thing. So Brian Branch looks great.
Speaker 2: They've got a whole bunch of new guys back there
Speaker 2: in their secondary, so I think It's just gonna be
Speaker 2: interesting to see how that looks when that was one
Speaker 2: of their few areas of weakness last year in a
Speaker 2: very very good team and a really good roster, that
Speaker 2: was that was not their strong suit. So have they
Speaker 2: improved that this year? And therefore is that going to
Speaker 2: make them pretty formidable? All Right, So we're gonna close
Speaker 2: now with our answer to the trivia question.
Speaker 3: I read that, Yes, why don't you tell us the
Speaker 3: one and maybe two that you know?
Speaker 2: Well? I mean I knew Baker Mayfield did because I
Speaker 2: remembered that very distinctly in Green Bay, So that one
Speaker 2: was very easy. And then I'm like, well, it's probably
Speaker 2: tom Brady. Like that also feels like just even if
Speaker 2: I didn't remember the specific game, it's like how Mike
Speaker 2: Evans is always your person that you're like doubt. And
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm gonna guess tom Brady. But yeah,
Speaker 2: the third one you got me.
Speaker 3: Well, So tom Brady's was against Detroit. Remember the game
Speaker 3: he only played the first half, but he did so
Speaker 3: much that was like the forty seven to seven game. Well,
Speaker 3: he had enough passing stats that it looked like a
Speaker 3: full game, and it was a perfect game. And then
Speaker 3: Blaine Gabbert came in and immediately first pass was a
Speaker 3: touchdown to Amazing. They were really beat up and hurt
Speaker 3: by COVID in that game. But anyway, I didn't bring
Speaker 3: that up because we're playing Detroit. That's a very different team.
Speaker 3: I just realized that I didn't do that on purpose.
Speaker 3: That twenty twenty team. At the end of twenty twenty,
Speaker 3: they had coaches and players out by the dozens out
Speaker 3: due to injuries and COVID, So it really wasn't a
Speaker 3: fair fight, and the Buccaneers are going to win the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. The third one, I threw out that hint
Speaker 3: that it's a guy from Miami. I was kind of
Speaker 3: trying to be misleading because most you would give a hint.
Speaker 1: That's not the point of it.
Speaker 3: Most Buccaneer fans, when they think Miami quarterback would think
Speaker 3: Vinnie testa Verni because we've spent the first overall pick
Speaker 3: on him in nineteen eighty seven out of the University
Speaker 3: of Miami, that famous brash Miami team. But no, it's
Speaker 3: Craig Ericson. Craig Rickson in nineteen ninety four against Indianapolis. Wow,
Speaker 3: he was the first one ever doing it, and nobody
Speaker 3: did it again for twenty six years. Wow, but we've
Speaker 3: had two in the last three years.
Speaker 2: A little trick there on your tra question like that
Speaker 2: you want to make it easy, you can't make it
Speaker 2: too easy, all right, that's going to do it for
Speaker 2: us on this edition of Bucks Insider. Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for being with us. Enjoy that game against the
Speaker 2: Lions this weekend. We'll see you next week.