Here comes the blitch. Take flows that is Lamb and lands as they feel, just looks at it. A Touchdowndy steps up the boys, the Lusty Park touched out too, Brown Park a kicker, and two Bryan suck ups. Thirty six yard field goal of just two seconds to play was the difference as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers opened up their Super Bowl title defense with a win over the Dallas Cowboys in Tampa. I am Dan Hansas. I am in the backyard west manor with a whole group of people.
Wait a round of applause or like cheers, a full night audience out. Okay, I'm here with of course Mark Sessler, who's gonna have some real fighting inside on the game. I could feel it unlikely, of course, Gregg Rosenthal, Connie Fox, Tiny Box, Colleen Wolf also here, uh Lakisha's here, Keisha's mom, Rhoda, John Gonzalez, Emily Meeta from the NFL media Social team, and uh Ricky Hollywood, who was on bits overdrive. I don't want to have the ball with two minutes left.
Let me a lot of Erica this evening anyway. So yes, one of the better openers that we can recall I'm a little annoyed. Greg, I'm a little bit annoyed. It's like a lot of cowboys fans are annoyed about that push off by Chris Godwin. I believe it was uh for the big gainer that what are you laughing? I'm mad about it, says a look of terror, like don't come to me. And I wasn't. I wasn't thinking that, but for some reason you were just like, don't come
to me. It was invited over to watch the game, not to do a podcast, and here I am on a show. It does feel like feeling recently every time we have Colleen involved with the show, we're putting her and what she feels is a bad situation. Just to talk about Greg, the push off, let's start here. That's what a lot of people are gonna be talking about tomorrow.
That should have been a penalty, right the old zeus are called it in real time, saw it on replay and still furious about it because sometimes even though I don't root against Tom Brad anymore, sometimes you just don't want him to get every single break, and yet it seems like who they might they might get a first down after that. Anyways, there. There's a lot of calls in that game that they kept the flags in their
pocket like that. The that was a theme of the game, and the other main theme was just Mark repeating over and over how he wasn't going to speak on this podcast. So I already just feel like I'm talking too much because I just want to hear Mark give us as analogy, Now you're not talking too much. I would invite you to speak further. Continue on with your please, because Colleen
and I are at lock step. We're in lockstep. That like, while we enjoyed the game, we had a tremendous time here as fans, um our ability to analyze what occurred is of a lower status. It felt it felt like the Cowboys. You know, they lost the game, but they won the night. You know, they were they were the
bigger story. And if you come out of this game with anything positive for the losers, it's yes that you know, the NFC East being what it is, if they could go down to Tampa and hang with the champs, yeah, that's good news. You're also feeling good if you're Cowboys fan because Dak Prescott through fifty eight passes through four three yards three touchdowns, hanging in the pocket, moving well when he had to scramble. That was great though all the hype about Ceedee Lamb, Yeah that was legit. Two
seven for one oh four. MARII Cooper always underrated. Greg forced me to take him out of the Superstar Club earlier this summer, and he goes for one thirty nine and two touchdowns in this game. You made the decision. If you're a leader, you have to just accept that. That's all you talked about. You asked for our opinions. We gave you something. You gave me a bad one. You take your copy really bad. DK Metcalf will be great. Was that who came in? I don't I believe it was.
But Greg spent like most of August Freddie over Amari Cooper's health. It's like we're just NonStop. We don't need anything. We don't need any August now. So you got four hundred yards from deck Well, you got a no show game from Zeke on eleven carries. But you got a hundred thirty nine yards from Cooper, You got a hundred and four from Ceedee Lamb. You got four turnovers and
you lose the game. That stings and what it comes down to when you finally do get a field goal to go through the uprights by Greg the leg who had a pitiful game before he made the kick to put him ahead late. You left too much time with the clock and then Brady did the Brady thing. Mark he did, he did, and I can if I can't see they know if I am willing to speak on I think I think that you know the one thing
I feel about Tom Brady. I was driving over here to Westmanner and thinking that if when I pass and that could happen at any moment, that of the ten people I would remember, Tom Brady might be one of those people. He is somehow, I I don't know why. He stands out to me as like a super individual. No, well, I'm saying, like so, it's like it is incredible what he's doing. He is merely like two and a half years younger their immediate family makes the list than at
most it's only let's start, there's not much room. If Tom takes up ten percent of the space, what who is missing the list? I think Gag and I are way off. Dan might might be there. You guys, make the most of the people here, make the list. But I can't an that's fired at Rhoda. I mean, come on, no, Rhoda is on She's number three on the list. No. I it sounded like a really one of those corny things that it's like Dallas when the night. I know
that's the one. Takeaways, Like, Dak Prescott was amazing. Dak Prescott is like he was last year. But Dak Prescott is like Tom Brady, except you know, not slow so good before the snap, Todd Bowls throws everything possible at him in the entire game. Uh with Blitz is everything that you could possibly do, and he knew everything that was gonna happen before it happened. He looked like the
better quarterback tonight. Tom Brady was great too, But like that just makes me not worried about the Cowboys at all. I feel so much better after watching them tonight. I have a very specific question for Greg. Please tell me what your reaction was to Tom Brady's shoulder flip. At one point in the game. You were appalled, and I just want to dig in a little bit that was on the Hail Mary interception return. I was I was offended because after the play was over and at that point,
Tom Brady knew the play was over. He decided to kind of like look like a fake tough guy and throw his shoulder into one of the Cowboys defensive players, like hey, look at me. When you know, if the play was really going on, he was just running out of the way. So it's like, we see you, Greg, give me a small break here on that. I mean, I wasn't going to bring it up as a podcast boy, it was important. First of all, thank you very much to Lakeisha, great hosting, great food spread. We have the
outdoor set up with the TV. Now we have to stream the TV and we had a little buffer issue. Right, Why are we having this buffering issue? Turns out Greg's streaming the US Open and we didn't working a little iPad the US Open streaming problematic part of the game. Buffering issue. Not a team player. This is all you got. That's all I know. Because Greig, it feeds into your other one of your other eight podcasts that you're you know. In this game, Brady was brilliant. He had he did
throw four touchdowns. He had two interceptions. Two interceptions one was on the hell Mary the other was on a blatant drop by Lenny Fournette that turned into a pick as well. So he was pretty much perfect. And he's forty four and this is his twenty second season. Also, Robert Gronkowski, I mean even last year when Gronk was putting up solid numbers and was a a plus player for a championship team, it's still was like, oh, yeah, that's old Gronk. They don't look like gold Gronk today.
Eight for ninety two touchdowns on eight targets. And by the way, and this is a my goodness, my own stat that was the second touchdown was the Brady to Gronk TD one hundred from one quarterback to another tight end. Uh. You gotta give it up for Gronk and moving as well as you did Connie. Yeah, he can move around really well still, um, which it's pretty crazy that him and Brady can still do what they're doing at at this level. Not to mention Antonio Brown, like what years
is Antonio Brown had two touchdowns to tonight. He's looked amazing. It is more surprising that Gronk is good at this stage, this good at this stage of his career than it is Brady. It isn't surprising, are you kind of the Gronk of our group. Colleen, she just does not How would that be because well, like we thought she was done, but she's still showing up and she can. I will never stop showing up and I will keep playing as
long as my body allows. I think also, like Colleen and I, we we talked a lot about, you know, during the game, that how do we avoid um making any impact on this podcast, Like during like you know, taking a year off from work is um. I've I've been harping on this for years. I think more football players should do it. Gronk did it. He did a wonderful job tonight because of that body is fresh, he's looking tight. Um. But I I feel that would be the case with me if I were to take a
year off from work. So clouds tonight like you were still there were a lot of other things happening in other interests, other occurrences. This is like a little bit of the future of the NFL. Everyone wants just to throw all the time, neither team bothered to run whatsoever. Let's become where you get like a three hour or for even a game that you get like a Mets Cardinals game that goes on for five hours and eight minutes.
That's that's not the way we want to go. If this game is any indication we are in for a hell of a season. Tom Brady and Dak Prescott combined to throw for one and eight past attempts, right Like, If this game is any indication, that's going to be an amazing season. If this podcast is uh any indication, like we are not this is our final season of the pod. This is it. We just lost thirty one to six. Um any other thoughts? Does anybody want to get anything? And it wasn't heavens in front of a
full house in Tampa. Uh, that was cool. That was nice, and yes, we are felt good. The Cowboys fans were very loud. It did feel good to have like a real NFL. I do feel like too, Like I was really high on Washington winning the version, and I think now after watching the Cowboys tonight, I thought that that defense wouldn't look as good as maybe they did tonight because of watching them last year. And now I'm starting to switch a little bit here and thinking that Dallas
could could actually win this. I thought dan Quinn up in that booth, he's looking fit. Um he I think. No, No, it's some problem with it's a simpler defense, it's more aggressive. And I think you're right the basic that you were saying about the ref You just seemed disappointed. I think the refs are. They seem to be very um sort of overly patriotic, very basic um men in general. Like they're very rule oriented, basic shape. I'm not they're overly fit,
like they did very like they just know. It's just like you know, their days are all the same. Uh No, I think your your dad couldn't point it is good because all the Cowboys need is their defense to like get two turnovers while they're giving up thirty points, which
is what they did. Like if they have this defense where you make a couple of plays where Demonte Casey who came from Atlanta with Dan Quinn and just kind of runs around, uh makes like a handful of plays, then you win Arena Football League type games and you win, uh time, two yards of total offense in this game. Next week Cowboys get the Chargers on the road, so they gotta get w before they come home to face
the Eagles. What if we go back to the studio and we realize we can't do it in person anymore. We have to be separate and in our homes like we're just we're just bad at it. All right, there you go, the defending champs off to a one and
oh start. The Cowboys put up a great fight, and we have more to come, uh for the You'round the NFL podcast, maybe on Sunday night, the leg Ship podcast, when we'll cover every other game uh from come on and add some of my analysis if she'll, can you come on, you know, or give her the mike because she was a big Cowboys fan tonight. Do you do you feel like your support made a difference in this game because you you were all about it. Oh, now
you're quiet. She's upset. She knew it was a push off. Upset. I think they've done an awful job. They were just thirty two points behind. That means a lot. But someone that um Tom Brady is the leader of the pack. They would trail on Namba two and that's awesome, So I'll keep going calm right. They entertained us to me. I gotta be honest. They ruined the game a little bit. It was a really nice back and forth game. For
that to happen in that spot that's a bummer. Guy was standing right there, so that part of it was weird. But like pause that bad pretty much almost like every fourth play or something. But good for Tom Brady. Another w for him, and uh it is what it is? Dan's calves By the way, can we just take a quick look, Not that the listener cannot see this, but Dan's calves are looking They're looking meaty. Um, they're looking like you've I know you're doing peloton on a regular basis.
I'm just saying to start the season, you're doing a nice job, very fresh. Thank you, Mark Sesler. Oh there it is. Oh the wind chimes, Yes, this is We're all together because of Chris westling Um and uh this is a nice way to honor the man we spent so many season openers with. And those wind chimes that tells you something. All right, that's it. We'll be back on Sunday. Thank you for listening. Please come back to us. I just was thinking though we were in west Manner.
This was is um first game he ever watched as a father, and then with his son right there, first game, first game for Link. How you feeling so great? He is in his little football outfit. Thanks to our friends here. Yet who sent him sent him that personalized with west Lane on the back. So nice to have him there in his football uniform. It was. It was a great time. I thought. The most explosive play of the night was the poop that he unleashed late in the second quarter.
Had changed his diaper. He came. He's snuckling in. There was not off the couch.