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taking those, but until victory Tuesday. I love that we're gonna have victory all week. Like sometimes it's only Monday. This we're just taking this all week when it's a division when on the road to start the season, We're just gonna gonna celebrate all week. Forget that twenty four hour rold I'll moving on. Maybe the team will do that. We're not doing that. So you have to practice on Wednesday, exactly, we don't have to move on until Sunday. We're just

going to celebrate all weeks. So until we give you guys a chance to get some of those questions in. Just I want to hear your initial thoughts about that game, and it was exactly how you predicted it we go, right, I'm sure. Well no, I mean, do I know that it was meant as a joke, but I don't remember if it was on this show or it was something we did last week where I said, if the if the Saints win, it'll probably be kind of a lopsided thing. If the Bucks win, I bet it's going to be

a shootout. Yeah, and uh, that's obviously what happened. You know. I was there in two thousand when the Bucks played the Rams on in Week sixteen of that season, and Rams that was the Kurt Warner Greatest Show on Turf Rams, you know, and that was a shootout thirty five Bucks one at the end, and that was considered probably the greatest regular season game in Buck's history. This one on on Sunday is up there, at least in terms of the most incredible shootout the Breckneers have ever had, and

I mean statistically it is. I mean, the Buckner's have never ever won a game before were they allowed forty points and they tied. They had to tie their own scoring record in a single game to do so. Yeah, and that's close to breaking that record. Chandler had made his third field. He made the first two. If he had made that last one, not only would that have broken the record, but it would have made us feel

a lot easier there at the end. Right. Yeah, that that did get a little nerve wracking at the end, and it took an just I mean, the unbelievable out of his mind game that Ryan Fitzpatrick had throwing the ball, and then at the end it takes one big run from him to seal the victory. I love if you'd ever told me that we would be relying on Fitzpatrick to run to save a game and it would work, I would have been like, he ran a lot in that. Yeah, I couldn't. He looked like this youth fell I mean,

running a guy over basically was sweet. And then the superman that was great and he was feeling it, that's for sure. Um and Mike Evans said after the game, he said, that's one of the most complete games I've ever seen from a quarterback. And that's some of what we're talking about. The just the absolutely on target downfield throws, which is something we've been begging to see for seasons now. The running, the avoiding, you know, some of it was running.

Someone was scrambling and getting out and throwing on the run, but more often he was picking up a few yards and then just the way that he handled the procedural part of being quarterback, which is of course what you'd expect from a guy who just was making his hunt twentieth NFL start, But the Super Dome is a different animal.

And apparently according to Coach Cutter, who heard this from Coach Monkin, there's an eight or nine times where with really loud crowd noise he was able to Ryan Fitzpatrick was able to make an effective change at the line and get it communicated to everybody, largely using hand signals. And that's a lot harder than it sounds to get

that information to everybody. So, you know, Ryan Jensen is your center this year, and it's his first year with this team, and when he was joining the team, he had to basically prepare for two different starting quarterbacks to be the one he's snapping too and getting calls from. So I feel like the communication that it showed that Fitzpatrick had with with him in the line overall, that

you just didn't really see miscommunication. It felt like it all went really well, and I thought that was a great sign of I mean talk about a massive test to start with that new local line and with the Pastrick back there. I mean, I just that to me was one of more impressive party. Yeah, I'm really glad you brought that up. I actually wrote about that yesterday. I spent most of yesterday writing those data Crunch articles where you're breaking down, you know, some of the most

amazing stats, and we had so many of them. But then at the end of the day, after Coach Cutter talked occurred, you know, listening to him, I thought, you know, the offensive line needs some needs to get some credit, a lot of credit. They they were, like you just already said it. They were. They were fantastic and in a really tough challenge. Ryan Jensen, I think made a difference both with the way he played in the communication

and also his attitude. You saw it why we brought him in in case people thought after he signed a big contract that he maybe wasn't gonna be his old nasty self. Thank you put that to rest. Yes, Coach said he flipped a switch basically for the regular season. It was a different, whole different thing since the preseason, which is great. I love that. Um So we have a lot of questions, all in the similar vein, and I know, unfortunately probably not gonna even be able to

answer them. So this is the disclaimer. It is all

the questions about injury updates. We've got the questions about Deshaun and Vernon and Rett Grimes and Vita Via and all these people so big giant injury that I would say that's going to be the one, and we might as well just say now, it's going to be one disadvantage doing this every Tuesday, because every every Sunday, well hopefully not every Sunday, but on a lot of Sundays, somebody's gonna get a little injury, and every Monday, coach is gonna be asked about him, and every Monday he's

gonna say, we'll have an injury report, simply the way it's gonna gets it. So we're gonna tell you there will be an injury report tomorrow and the next day and the next day, and those will be the things that tell you the information. Unfortunately, not gonna be able to help with that. We just don't know. Ryan wanted to know, do you think we expect to see Rojoe

dress this weekend? If I was betting, yes, I would say, so here's here's the thing about that, and that that was one of the main things that I got Twitter responses on on Sunday. UM was, you know, and it's kind of funny. By the end of the game, you think you'd be celebrating all the guys that did awesome and we're talking about one guy that didn't play. But I understand. Second round pick, high second round pick. The thought was when he was drafted, he was going to

be the compliment to Peyton Marrow. He was going to provide big plays. And I still think that's going to happen. We talked about this before the game. Um, he was inactive for one game, not the season. He was not deactivated for the season. I believe that that was the product of some injuries at other positions and decisions that had to be made to get down to four six. Um, you know, Brent Grimes is out and m J. Stewart

had been banged up a lot. They definitely wanted to make sure they had at least five cornerbacks because if one goes down, you only have four, and one goes down, then you're you're playing with three guys and you usually have three on the field against Drew Brees. You've got no backup. So j V. Nelly didn't end up playing a whole lot, but he was active just in case. And we kept our full eight man rotation of defensive lineman with vave out uh up. And so that's going

pretty deep at those two positions. And if you're gonna go deep somewhere, you gotta lose it somewhere else. I suppose you could have gone with just four receivers. You know, your fifth receiver, Freddie Martinea, only played about thirteen snaps, but Freddie plays a lot on special teams. You want to do you want to play without ANTHONYO Claire or Alan Cross where you could see in that game that even though they didn't play a ton, they have some

very specific roles in the offense. Uh, And so where are you gonna go. You're already down to seven offensive lineman. You go with Ronald Jones because Sean Wilson is your kickoff returner and the game plan in this game, you think you can you have a game plan and obviously it works, and uh, you can do this game plan without Ronald Jones next week, hopefully with with some injuries cleared up, or maybe just the injury situation isn't exactly

the same. You probably will keep four tailbacks up because for most of the three years that coach Cutter has been calling the plays, we've kept four tailbacks up in every game. It's just something that he generally does. So I think that's the goal in most games. And it just didn't work out from a number standpoint. So if I'm betting, I would say Ronald Jones is active for the next game. Don't know that for sure, but I

think so. Okay, Uh, I think, well, it's funny it says Gerard, but then I think he says his name is actually Chris. Maybe it's a that's a first of all name situation. Chris Uh said he loved that they distributed the ball to more than just Evans and Braid and thought that was such a huge factor that more guys were involved, and he said, can we expect more of this? And it seems like this is going to be the key to the season. Yeah, absolutely, they're gonna

spread it around. Uh. Ryan Fitzpatrick was saying after the game that we have six guys we really like to throw the ball too, and there's more than that. But they're that's your four core receivers and your two tight ends, and uh, I think they're all going to get the ball. And the one guy who didn't get the ball actually was Cam Braid in that game, and he played the fewest snaps he's played in the last two years in

any game. But I don't think again, just like the Ron Jones things, I don't think this was a slight It's just the game plan. The game plan was to really utilize those outside receivers, and DeShawn and Um and Mike Evans were targeted twelve times and every single play, every single one of those targets worked. I mean it was working, and they produced two hundred and ninety three yards. That's nearly twenty yards per target, which is practically unheard of.

So that was definitely the plan going in and it worked. So you know, we we did spread it around a little bit, but we did still focus on those guys. I think in another game, cam Brad will be more involved. Here's another thing about that topic that I'd like to bring up is that people have been asking us how DeShawn Jackson and Chris Godwin, how are they going to coordinate that? Right? Because it seems like Chris Godden is

gonna get more playing time, but at whose expense. I think you saw a little bit of a blueprint, although I'm sure was specifically game plan of how it's gonna work. Deshan Jackson had an enormous game, right, but he only played twenty plays. Yeah, he missed a little bit of time at the end with the injury, but he only played twenty plays. And Chris Godwan played like thirty four plays and and made some really big place So you can get a lot out of DeShawn Jackson Deshan Jackson

without having them on the field all the time. Yeah, that's a good point. So, and there was even one play I believe on the big touchdown Deshaun was in the slot. Yeah, there's a lot of ways you can work this, and we're we're just we're just scratching the surface. And the more diversity they're the harder is for defensive to figure it out. I love this next question. Doug wants to know when and where is the Alley and Donovan show gonna air? And we filmed our first episode yesterday.

There was a lot of laughter, apparently we heard We were very loud, even that there are people in the nearby hallways saying that we were being a little noisy unctious if you will, sorry, not sorry. So it is gonna air on w f L A Saturday at seven thirty. There's actually back to back Bucks shows, Get Bucks All Access and then the Alien Donovan Show at seven and seven thirty. We're also gonna put it on the Buccaneers website. We don't know exactly when that's going to go up now,

um so there will be plenty ways. Even if you're not on in the Tampa market, you will still be able to see it. Um it just as a little teaser. There was discussion of who would win in an arm wrestling contest. Yeah, I was unfortunately, was actually really bitter that someone asked between Alian Donovan and I'm like, why was I not even chance at this? I mean, I feel like I could hold my own for I don't know, point one seconds potentially definitely there And the answer practically

made Donovan cry. He was laughing so hard, like full belly laugh like when we were Yes. So I'm not gonna actually tell you the answer, but it was not a traditional either Ali or Donovan. There was a there was a third weird option here. So I'm just going to tease that it was a great Okay Saturday Saturday at seven and unbucks dot com. Yes, Um, Kevin wanted to know. We only got one sack versus the Saints.

How many do you predict versus the Eagles? That was such a quick and specific We normally don't like want to give like a specific number. You're like, well, you know, and that call me wish you washing here exactly. Listen, I agree there was only one sack. This is the number one new constructed unit that we've been wanting to see an action right this defensive line the first time where they could actually rotate eight guys in the whole game,

which you don't do in the preseason. And you wanted more, but look at the team we were playing. This is maybe the most difficult environment for us to start this season with a huge sack game. I mean, Drew Brees just doesn't get sacked very often. He has a great offensive line and he gets rid of the ball quickly. I mean the one sack in itself was quite encouraging because it was a simple one on one win by

Benny Curry. There was nothing fancy about it. Snapped the ball, he beat his man, got right around the right tackle, and he was in Drew Brees face before Breeze could even really get set up. It was a great one on one win, which we want, right That was the whole point. We have Joe McCoy making the prowler every year and being dominant but being double teamed all the time, and nobody's taking advantage of the resulting one on once.

Vinny Curry did right there, and that's very encouraging. We also saw one really good rush by Um JPP and one by Carl Nassab, but in both cases Drew Brees is able to get away, which is incredible. On the JPP one, I couldn't believe he got away from that one. Well, and that's very because Benji actually asked, uh, has JPP had a lot of success against the Eagles in the past. You know, he spent his career with New York they

were in the same division. He's faced them a whole lot, So does that give him a pretty good chance this week? It's fine that Jessa, because I actually went through his game logs to see and it gets Philly. It was last week, so I don't have an absolutely fresh memory of which was which, but it was kind of a give and take. There were some games where he had been games a couple of secks, and there were several

games where he didn't. And you gotta understand, the Eagles have had some pretty good offensive tackle play, especially Jason Peters, for most of the time that he's been in New York. So, um, it's a tough challenge and he's had some he's had some wins against them, so yeah, he can definitely do it again. And Kevin asked how much work does Carlton Davis need to be a productive cornerback? And I guess just overall, the question is what do you make of

his performance on Sunday. Yeah, he's you know, again very first game Drew Brees and the super Dome. Yeah, that's at rough. That's a tough test right there. Um, that's like walking into your chemistry class for the first time and you get a get a pop quiz. I don't think you're you're mixing the chemicals really well that first. That's probably an explosion. UM. Coach Cutter did say that both him and m J. Stewart, who also came in for Carlton for a little while and played about nineteen snaps.

Both got better as the game went on, and he said, both of them learned some lessons that's going to help them in the long run. So no, of course, that was not the perfect start for either one of them. Carlton Davis like any ricky cornerback needs some work. How much? Um, well, let's hope it's not much. I mean, because we're gonna rely on him, and he did look good in the preseason.

I mean, yeah, yeah, I did this. This seems like maybe this was one game of just knocking off that rookie rust and learning curve a little bit, and maybe now this is the really tough challenge. Yeah, of course we got some tough ones coming up to I mean, Nick Foles has a good history against us, and then it's big Ben Roethlisberger. Yeah, welcome to here's the fire jump in. Jared asked, uh, he said, I'm excited to see Justin watt Sen. Um, do you think that he'll

get some targets on Sunday? And especially he asked, if we are without DeShawn Jackson, has that change things? Um, that would be the probably the only reason that Justin would have a helmet on on Sunday. He was one of our inactives, as we predicted in the first game, because you have six receivers and you generally only keep five of them up. And Freddie Martino is a guy that we have a lot of trust in and we know he's really good on special teams, and in fact,

he made a tackle in that game. Justin Watson is anticipated's anticipated he's gonna be a good on special teams as well. But Freddie's we already know he is UM, So I would suspect you'd keep the same five receivers

up if DeShawn is ready to go. If DeShawn is not ready to go, then Justin probably does get a helmet on UM again, though Chris Godwin is probably gonna soak up most of those extra snaps UM, and it would get it would probably get Justin on the field for a handful of snaps, Like Freddie was your fifth guy in this last game, and he played thirteen snaps, so he'd probably get on the field for a handful

of snaps. But that's not enough to get a ton of targets, so I wouldn't expect a ton all right, Well, that's gonna do it for us here on Buccaneers Insider Live presented by Miller Lite. Thanks so much for joining us. We'll be back here every week, same time, and you can also catch us live forty five minutes before kickoff on Sunday as they faced the defending Super Bowl champs, The Eagles. Will see you next time.