Offensive Identity & Breaking Down the Win Over the Vikings | Salty Dogs

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you don't watch Nickelodeon or anything like that. Okay, all right, so we're the salty Dogs on Scott Smith and Jeff we are. Well. I I guess my. The way I would say it is, I am breathing a big side relief after that game. Oh yes, not to say, see, I'm in that twelve hour mode. I'm like a coach. I celebrate the victory. Yeah, but we have to talk

about it, yes, and there's a lot to talk. So we didn't try to shy away from the importance of this game beforehand, nor did the coaches are players, you know, I think I even described why it was the most important of the remaining four games. You did mainly because we do not want them to have an opportunity to go head to head in a wild gad and they would have passed us. Actually right now, we would be out of the playoff picture. We would be we would

be the eighth seed. If we'd lost. Crazy, isn't it one game changes so much at this time of year. It was, Um, I'm not saying I'm a side relief, like, oh I thought we were gonna lose them. We want just that I knew how important that game was and anybody anything could happen if Vikings could have won that game. And then I was just thinking about how it wouldn't be bleak, but it would be just every week would be so much more tense. Well, you're you're also coming

off at two game losing streak. You had to buy week, and you feel like, this is a game if you should win this game, you have four left, this you have, this is the one you should go. Well, no, we needed this one specifically because it was Minnesota. Yeah, yeah, but I'm just saying it's not what it wasn't the kill all, kill all if they didn't get it. But here's what it did do. Before that game, the Buccaneers knew that if they won all four their remaining games,

they would definitely be in. And then we thought if we won three, we'd probably in. Now because of what has happened, the Bucks only have to win two of their final three, and they will definitely be in no matter what anybody else does. Did you know that I do? Now? Well, I got the standings printed out here just to make sure I didn't say something wrong. So here's the point, Jeff.

We're eight and five Atlanta, Detroit. Atlanta, win two of those in your ten and six there are okay, So one of the playoff spots is going to go to a team without ten wins because it's gonna be the NFC East champion. And the best any of those could be is nine and seven. But then there are only six other teams, including the Buccaneers, that can get to ten wins. So that's the seven top teams. If you

get to ten, uh, you should be there. Minnesota can't catch you, Chicago can't catch you, Detroit of course, or San Francisco. None of them can catch you. So two out of the last three, Jeff, I said, get three out of three? Oh I know, just just well, I mean, if you win all three of them and finish eleven and five first of all, eleven and five feels pretty good. That's the same record we had then. We thought that

was a very very good team. It um, Yeah, they went all the way to within like two minutes of the Super Bowl Bird of Manual, but um eleven and five would feel great. It's just it may not. It may not change anything. Because they're in the Rams in Seattle. They're both playing well, I mean as interesting enough. The nine four. Yeah, if I'm not mistaken, I have to really look at this schedule real quick. But I think they play each other again, Yeah, they do. They play

each other, and also Arizona is in there. Arizona plays the Ramps, so they're gonna be beating each other up. Well, they might, they might, But what if the Rams win both of those games? That's actually what we want, sure, because then they let them run away with the division. We don't care who wins the division. I mean, we don't care about we We'd rather than win the division, so we don't have to worry about them as a tiebreak, correct,

since they beat us and we don't play Seattle. And the first thing it would come down to is I believe conference record, and right now Seattle has one better than us in the conference, so we're gonna need some help to even move up from six to five even if we sweep and there, Well, it's if it ended right now, we would be going to be into Green Bay.

Uh no, they're they got to buy right now. We'd be going to the Rams because the two through seven scenes would match New Orleans with Arizona, the Rams with us in Washington with Seattle. You know, I say that, but then after I said, I hate that because where would have what would happen if it ended today? Well, it's not ending to so it's but this is a reasonable picture standings could be. And if you look at that polaroid snapshot you gave us, you would find out

that we're in pretty good shape. Yeah, I like it. I feel good and and we I mean, I know you want to claim every single team in the league is fantastic and every game is the hardest game ever. But we are playing two games against a four nine team and one game against a what is Detroit? They're five and eight, they've already fired their head coach, their quarterback is now dealing with Well, you're you're absolutely right

when you say that, You're absolutely right. However, I am going to point out that the Philadelphia Eagles happened to beat the New Orleans Saints, who happened to take us out twice. Yes, they beat him, they beat him starting a guy making his first start a quarterback to Yes, And so you say to me, well, I'm just saying, at this time of year, you you can play the spoiler, but in which Atlanta will really want to do. Yeah. And Philadelphia's case, though, they're still in the shot. They

got a shot at winning the division. They got a shot there four eight and one, So they're they're a game and a half out, I think, But I think they play each other again. It's kind of like either way. You know, you have a division matchup in weeks. Yeah, but that was you know, that was that was a good game. I mean, that's but here's what you're performance. Here's what you're doing, Jeff. And it's called um confirmation bias.

Confirmation bias. You have a theory and you are only recognizing the evidence that you see that supports your theory. Because yes, Philadelphia beat New Orleans. But most of the time this year, when a team that was clearly better than the other team, the better team in all the time, Pittsburgh loss to what do you think we're a better team than Chicago? Yes? Yes, And that's still the game that bugs me because we should have won that even

not playing particularly well. We should have. That's why I'm saying. This is all I'm saying is I totally understand you know, but you're only bringing it. Let's go through every week of the schedule and see which one's fit into. Oh, anybody can beat anybody, and which one's fit into. Usually the better team wins. Is Green Bay better than us? Probably? But that's all you're doing. I'm just asking the same thing you have said to me. Look at the schedule

I have. You're not looking at the schedule. You're just remembering games that fit into your theory. I'm remembering games that we played. Okay, we're better than the Chargers. We beat the Chargers, better than Broncos. We beat the Broncos. We're better than the Panthers. We beat the Panthers twice. But that's why you played the game. I understand that, And yes, you're correct, we should. The Bucks will be favored in each of the last three games. Let's put

it that way. And oh yeah, sure so, But if you don't show up, would you rather have two games left against Atlanta, one against Detroit, or two games left against New Orleans and one against Kansas City? Of course, well, then you're admitting my point. Okay, okay, moving on. However, that being said, you just don't know. So, um, I guess ro Joe got pins put in his pinky today. Do you think of a Sunday Ye? I think he will. I think he will too. I don't you know what

I did not which hand was it? Do you know? I think it was his left is I can't picture if he commonly carries with one on the I believe. I believe Bruce arians made the comment that it was his left and it was kind of like the way Godwin did it when he went down. Oh yeah, that type of action. That makes sense. So it's apparently it happened pretty early and he played all through the end. His two best runs were right at the end of the game. Tough guy, all right, So did you know?

Probably not? Okay, So do you realize we only had the ball for twenty minutes and fifty seven second I did know that. Did you know that's the least amount the time of possession the Buckeers have ever had in and win. I did not know, because generally when you're

out TP two to one, you're not winning. But we did, and it was a weird game, and often that if if you do, if you are winning with a low time in possession, it's because you're getting like pick sixes, so their offenses out there for a while, you get to pick six and then their offenses out there for a while again. But that didn't happen either. There was there was technically one turnover in that game. I always

thought that was kind of dumb. If you force a fumble on fourth down, on a fourth down play that didn't get the first down, but you force a fumble and recover it, it's a turnover because even if they recover, you get the ball. I don't think that you count as a turnover. I'm glad where you're giving credit for one, but I say I agree with you on that one. You're right. It doesn't make any sense. It doesn't make anything. It didn't doesn't matter. You didn't do anything. I mean

you did, but it doesn't. If they had gotten the first down and then fumble, that would be different. Yeah, So in that game that what I'm getting to with that is early on, it was another one of these games we've had recently. Early on, it sure doesn't look good, right, Uh, they we had we couldn't tack We couldn't get uh Dalvin Cook on the ground at first contact, the the yards after contact that that entire team manufacturing that game

was incredible. I think we missed something. That's what Bruce says. Sometimes they missed tackles and sometimes they were got making a good move, right, But yeah, I get the point. We were not there. And and to be fair, Dalvin Cook is one of the best in the league, and the numbers supported at the Chector contact and so he was doing to us what he's been doing everybody else. And he was the first hundred yard rusher we've given

up since Seattle last year. UM. But it didn't feel good because they had the long drive and then I think Shaq got the big third on sack and they punted UM. So they didn't get anything out of that one. And then we went three and out, and then they had another long drive that took up the rest of the first quarter, and they scored early in the second quarter to go up six nothing. At this point, we've had five plays, so I guess it wasn't No. Three

and now we had the first down. We've had five plays in the game, right, and you're like these we can't we can't say, but here's what it's only. Yeah, I know exactly because they kept missing field goals and because we kept making big third down place like another shack sack and Carlton Davis is uh. I'm pointing where it happened because we're in the stadium. His third down, that really acrobatic third down pass break up at the last second. Great play, it was an excellent play. All

of a sudden, we get the lead. And now this grinded out offense that that as all Minnesota could do on that day, which was so advantageous when they were in control of the game, is working against him. We get up seventeen six and then twenty three six by scoring a touchdown in to start the second half, and then they did score touchdown on the next drive, but took eight and a half minutes. They needed three scores and it took him eight and a half minutes to

get one of them. It's funny you were saying that because I made the comment at this pace. Yeah, I believe in the third quarter, and I don't have a sheet on me today, but I believe in the third quarter, each team only had the ball once. Is that right close to six because of our first drive took at least five and six and a half minutes. Then, yeah, it was it was I remember things close, Yeah, very close. It was one of those if if Minnesota got the ball again. It was at the very tail end of

the third. It's kind of like, what is going on If you're leading by eleven and you um after after half and each team gets one touched on drive in in the third quarter, that's to your favor obviously, because even although they ended up picking up two points because we missed our extra point and they went for two, so it wasn't quite even, but you get the point. And then another drive I think it was the one

that got the first and goal to nine. I'm pointing again like this is helpful to the listeners, it's helpful than to me. And then the windfield sack and the shack sack and another missfield goal that was also like a seven and a half minute drive that scored nothing. So there they probably because of the style of defense that we were playing, because they do have some big

play receivers, they couldn't not hit big plays. The tight ends got a few, but otherwise they could not hit big plays, and even though Dalvin Cook was getting extra yards, he wasn't getting twenty five yard carries. You know, he was getting nine where you should get three, and that sucked. But it wasn't. They couldn't score quickly at all. And I guess they give Todd Bowl's credit for that UM

because they just simply could not hit big plays. They'll both those justin Jefferson Adam DeLand are big play receivers totally. And one of them had along a seventeen and one of him along a fifteen and they had like seven eight yards between them. That's great. And defense played really well well other than the tackle. Yeah, other than tackling. I I uh, six sacks you got rush was awesome. You gotta get excited about that. I think it's I

think it's interesting. In the last two games, Shack has been on the right side and has really done well, so Being made the comment that when you're hot, you stay with it, So I think he's on the right side. They've been basically letting Shack and JPP decide, and they moved Shack two games ago because they really liked the matchup against that particular left tackle UM and then I guess they stuck with it and it's work and those

guys are great now. And not only do you get six sacks, but I'm going to go off the top of my head, but three of them we're on third down, well, both of shocks and then a fourth down. JPPS was on fourth, both the shocks were on third, and I think Patrick O'Connors was on how about the third his first second we had him, Yeah, yeah, and he was kind of a grinder, you know. After we had talked to him, we both looked at each other and said, he's kind of like that, you know, lunch pal kind

of guys just keep pushing away. Originally a late run draft pick, though I think Detroit An. He mean to comment about what I asked him about being on the practice squad and what do you need to do, and he said, you gotta treat it like you're gonna go. You're gonna go, and he's taken opportunities. Well, what what he got? What did it for him? And he was smart and a lot of a lot of young players

realize this. They don't need me to tell him, but you got to really put everything you got into special teams. If you get a shot. There was a there was a two games ago, and I think it was Gregman of the Athletic who pointed out, so I'm giving him credit as I didn't notice, but he played like every play on special teams. You don't normally do that because that means you're only you would notice, Yes, so you're on.

That means you're even on field goal and extra point, which just not a lot of defensive guys on that. Usually just basically your offense, your offensive line with a couple of extra linemen and there may be a tight end or something and a snapper and a holder and a kicker, so to be on every so he's covering, he's blocking for kicks, he's on all of them. And and now in that game, it clearly looked like we were rotating in Nelson, Anthony Nelson, Patrick O'Connor and uh Uh.

I guess those two guys a lot more than we normally do early and often we were. We were doing more of a rotation, I guess, to try to keep these guys fresh, and it worked. They were very fresh at the end of the game, and you had guys that were coming in and we're delivering. So it wasn't like you're saying, well, okay, we gotta give a guy a blow. We're gonna go ahead and and and you know we're gonna chance it here. Yeah. I mean, he didn't change calling the defense at all, depending on who

was in there. So the Bucks started slowing offense. Um. Yeah, and there was a couple of misthrows. But look, what's sometimes you don't you don't you don't finish the games, you finished gaming. You don't think that wasn't one of our best efforts When you look back at it, however, the stats show some pretty telling things. And that's why I think Bruce arians was so clearly happy about his

team's performance. He said, I thought we played great. Other than the tackling, I thought we played great and on offense. It was one of his best quotes of the year. You know, he's the people have been throwing that identity question out of me. But by the way, do you remember when they did that to Green Bay last year? Every week green Bay's offense doesn't have an identity, Well, how about they score a ton of points and win almost every game? Is that a good enough? I didn't

I tell you what I tell you last week? More than that. That's right. So now we're getting all those same questions a week after week do you have an identity? Do you have an identity? And Bruce is like, we can do a lot of things. And so after that game he goes, somebody's asking me about our identity. Look at this game. We could do anything we want. He had a damn in there. We can do we can we can do any damn thing. We can throw the ball, we can run the ball, we can throw it deep,

we can throw it short. We did we can do twelve personnel, which we can do eleven personnel. Um. I'm gonna take a slight digression here before we get back to my point that there's a certain uh Sports NFL coverage website, Um that it just seems so intent on writing stories about how much Antonio Brown is playing every game, and so Antonio Brown's playing time skyrockets, and then after this one, the article was Antonio Brown's playing time plummets

against the Vikings. But it didn't. It didn't. It mean, by the this is what's called looking at the numbers and not understanding the context. So against Kansas City, Brown played like se the offensive snaps and the reason for that is, first of all, if you look at the snap pattern since we got him, he is clearly our number three receiver. He's after Mike and Chris play almost every snap, and then the next guy by far is Antonio Brown. What that should tell you, if you understand football,

is that he's the third receiver in the eleven personnel. Okay, eleven personnel is three receivers, one back, one tight end. Twelve personnel is one back, two receivers, two tight ends. Okay. The Buccaneers have gone back and forth in games this year. Like Caroline, we ran a lot of twelve and ran the ball all really, well, Kid's City, you're losing by a bunch. We ran a lot of eleven in Las Vegas where we were just passing the ball. Great, we

ran a lot of eleven. So if you're using a lot of eleven, your third receiver, which is Antonio Brown, is gonna get a lot more snaps. Kid's City. He played snaps because we were or something like that, because we were in eleven like seven two percent at the time. Against Minnesota, we were only an eleven personnel about fifty five percent of the time, and we only had like forty eight play forty nine plays, and we ran like seven more times than we threw. We only threw twenty

three times in the whole game. We used more twelve personnel. There were fewer eleven persons, so Antonio Brown had fewer snaps because we weren't using his pass. But it is playing time plummeted, which must have something to do with the incentives that are built into his contract for amount of playing time. Yeah, and that's that's definitely an answer, and not just the simple fact that he's the third

receiver in ear eleven package. So is playing time is going to be dependent upon how much we use eleven? And I'll say this about playing time doesn't mean anything unless you do something. Scotty Miller did it. You were gonna say that I brought right to one touchdown. It doesn't matter. You can count how many players you have. It's when you go in there you make it happen.

And uh he did that wasn't That was one fantastic another point there, But I'm not gonna bring it up because because one of our questions from our fansks directly to it, So I'll save it for all right, So that was my digression. Okay, okay, coming back to what I was talking about, yards per past play allowed against that Minnesota offense, which came in with one of the best numbers in the league and yards. They didn't throw

it a ton. They were one of the big most rush heavy teams in the league, but when they did throw it, they got a lot of yards per play and and Kirk cousins eight point five yards per pass attempt was second in the league. Only did DeShawn Watson throwing a lot of numbers at you today. But I'm just trying to make my point now, we're not trying to die too deep in. I'll say this. I'm glad you're drinking a diet coke because if you were drinking a regular coke, you'd really be hyped, does it? Yeah,

I don't know. I don't drink that stuff, so I don't know. I should probably drink less diet coke. Um so good. And you know, and and and I don't drink diet stuff. I say should say I drink regular coke, but I don't drink it for the fact that it's diet coke. I just like the taste of it better than see it. I can't drink regular cocae. So we only allowed four point oh yards per past play to them, and only like ex point yards for past attempt past play factors in Sex, which is why because that's fifty

two yards off of it. That's the second lowest we've allowed any team in the league this year. The other one was Green Bay, which was that crazy getting. So that's two very good passing attacks that the Buckners have essentially dominated. And you look back and go, well, yeah, I guess we did kind of because once they had to throw the ball more, it was over. Yeah. And and you know, everybody's talking about that game about missing field goals and an extra point, and it's very very important.

It's very very important. But I also look at the fact that when we started out, when the Buccaneers started out, they were open receivers and Tom Brady was throwing over them or high or he wasn't hitting. He missed it. The play was there to be made, the execution, and it's I'm not dogging tomboy. And yes, and even he said I need to start faster when a game starts. There there are plays that I need to make. That's that's on me. I need to make that. Uh. And

so that's the game of football. It's it's the execution. I mean, we all go back and dissect it and say, well, if this didn't happen, that didn't happen. But the fact of the matter is it there were opportunities to blow that game open and it didn't happen. Yeah. And there's also that also points out how luck is involved, because when you badly overthrow some throws is when you get

those bad luck to boggles right to a safety. And I think Dave Dave Moore made an interesting comment and and that was in the beginning, and Dave, Dave thought Tom kind of hurried his throws and and sometimes you do that when you think your line is not gonna hold you'll you'll okay. But after a series, he he seemed to realize that his line was holding up gave him the protection and that was gave him the ability to hold the ball longer, which he did on Scotty

Miller play and delivered a perfect throw. And that's well, I like when you bring up the stuff Dave says, because lots of times my analysis is just looking back at the numbers. But he gives you that football inside. Yeah, and we were talking and we were talking, and we were talking about it during the breaks. Uh, what we think is missing and what we need the key on,

and how we think something's going to change. But but in that aspect, you do understand that, you know, Uh, players sometimes just but and the thing is, for the last two games, Tom Brady hasn't been hit with a sack. No, he had one in the Kent City game. He had exactly one. It was two games now that they went well. That We've had a total of five games this year where he hasn't been sacked. But he got sacked once in each of the three previous games before this one.

He didn't get sacked during the bye week. Maybe that's what you're thinking. Maybe that's what it was. Go with that. I thought it was the last you're making because no, it's not. I look at these I look at these numbers. He's only been sick five times in the last four games. That's really good and not hit very often. He was only hit three times in this game. So they only average four point on yards per pass play, which which is way down for them. Meanwhile, even with those missed

ones like the missed one to Gronk. We still averaged eight point five yards per past play, which is our highest of the year. Would you have looked at that game and thought that was the best in terms of efficiency. That are their passing game as ever, But they were because he hit He hit a number of pretty good downfield shots, and after missing a couple early, he was

pretty consistent the rest of the game. Tom Brady was right, and you know, don't forget that, you know, you kind of go, oh, well, you know, Minnesota wasn't you know. Minnesota is on a hot streak. They've been winning games. They were coming together and they're they're raw defensive numbers,

um didn't look as good as they normally do. They came in ranked maybe like twenty four best yards and coaches don't give a crap about yards, But where they were doing x silently and and I knew I had seen this in the numbers, and then Bruce also talked about it before the game and also after the game, is they were doing great and situational football they were doing they were like third best and third downs on defense and like third best in red zone on defense.

So they give up the yards. But when he counted when the players really counted. They were doing a great job. And that's why our guys thought Minnesota had a really good defense coming in here. You know, they're missing a lot of the names you'd expect. They don't have Daniel Hunter, they don't have um Everson Griffin, they don't have Linval Joseph, they don't have McKenzie, Alexander and Xavier Rhodes and all those corners. They don't have a lot of the names

you used to seeing uh in Minnesota. And they got a bunch of young guys plan and they were without Eric Hendricks there and they're already out without Anthony Barr. So I'm kind of making opposite or even for the opposite that they but their defense was doing pretty good. But they did have have cooking there, so and we were we but we as coach pointed out to the game, I think he even said, we kicked their butts in

the red zone, and we did. I mean, they got six points, they didn't make it to the red zone. All of those they were playing, they were playing a great game between the twenties. They played a great game between the twenties. If you if you, if you watched that game up until the twenty yard line and then turned around you were saying, Wow, that's a really strong team, because they would get there and they were gotten, had were taken out a field goal range once had to

end up having a long field goal which was missed. Um, you know they didn't want to try that last field goal. I mean they went for they scored and went for two. They went from fourth down repeatedly instead of trying to field goal and it worked. And then and then they went for two after they scored, and uh, some of the people like, I'm not sure they're gonna try to

kick again the game. But then they got down here to first and goal at the eight or nine, and the winfield sack and force fumble and the shack sack pushed them all the way back to twenty eight. So do you do you want to go fourth and or do you want to try You want to say, okay, we'll try field goal, which most NFL kickers would make, and which kicker would normally make. But no, he just was he couldn't do anything that day, but you know they didn't really want to do I wonder if he

missed the bus. He was wide right at the door. Yeah, that was that. You know what, the only reason why we can chuckle about that stuff is because we've lived it, so I I'm you know, it's a facet of the game. You don't think much of it until it's not happening. I'm pretty sure Dan Bailey isn't going to hear this podcast, because I would feel bad about it if he was.

I'm not trying to let me tell you what. If Nan Bailey is listening to this podcast, then he's probably hearing some of the nicest things said about him because in Minnesota right now, they're not real Well, it wasn't too long ago that Dan Bailey was in the top five or tenants. They just signed him to an extension. They signed him to an extension. Had one day and

it was good for us that he did. And what what's what sucks for him is he had one bad day and and probably the most beautiful seventy eight degrees and he wasn't missing He missed them. He missed on that's supposedly the bad goal post. It wasn't even windy missed like three times down here. But interesting. But I will say this, um, there's some about this stadium. Uh, the special teams guys came over on Friday when I was here and they were kicking. Yeah, they were kicking

field goals. Uh, right to the one and always everywhere the south. That's the South Plaza, so uh to the South Plaza. Um, South plazas where we have our little treasure chest. And I was doing the halftime show and um, you know, we we scored a bunch of points at the end of Go Up seventeen six, and I was

talking about on the JumboTron. I was talking about how, um, the Buccaneers had made big third down plays and blah blah blah, and two Vikings fans were standing fairly close flight and they started yelling at me, it's our kicker. That's what you were winning third kicker. And I'm like, totally right, but you're not totally wrong. Hey, you have to love that. You have to love that. When they were laughing, they're having a good time. Sure, sure they weren't.

They weren't freezing, they were all sunburned, having a great Yeah, they probably loving it. Yeah, it was a all in all, I thought it was a It's what we needed as a as an organization, and I think as a team, I think it should be very confident. Yeah. Interesting fact though, is Tom Brady has not lost three games in a row since like his first year. Yeah, which, holy image, Hell, I've I've lived through ten straight losses. We have, So you have done that two thousand eleven. Right, Just think

about that. You know, John McCain and a bunch of people lived through a row. Wow. Can you imagine that? Wow, that's it's hard to get and that took two years to do almost two years? Yeah, crazy? Um. But so another we didn't have in that game was any turnovers. We we no turners and we are now seven and so we technically had won the turnover ratio because of

the fourth down JPP play. Yeah, so technically we wanted we were seven to Oh, when we win the tournament ratio this year, I have to win it, not tie it like Kansas City. We tied the tournament ratio in that game, seven and oh, when we win the turnover ratio, that's what we need down the stretch. It doesn't feel like we've been getting a lot of them lately. Defense is playing good for the most part, did against Minnesota

and in the second halves against Kansas City. Well, I think you know what I liked was after the game, Um, guys were happy that they won, but they weren't. It wasn't like that over the top that we won. Yeah yeah, okay, it wasn't over the top. But I think fans would be surprised that, no matter the situation or the opponent, how hyped up guys are running in the locker room or went. I mean, they're screaming and holler. And remember

when we hadn't won a game yet. I think it's two thousand fourteen, Jason Light's first year here and we won in Pittsburgh, so we're like one four or something, but yet they were nuts. Well you get the monkey off your back, so to speak. But every game, every game, it's like it's like in baseball, every time somebody hits a walk off hit, they act like they just won the World Series. But that is an exciting how much

they pour into every single one of these games. Well, yeah, you work, you work all week, and you know, and you know there's is an opportunity and they all know it. They you know, the Lavonte David's of the world nine years,

never been to the playoffs. They're they're they're seeing that this is what happens this, This is you're playing meaningful football in December, and we've had opportunities, And I say we as an organization, the Buccaneers have had the opportunity to play meaningful games in December and then and then and then did not play well in the same I mean, even are in the end of our season last year kind of meant a little bit. And then we lost our last two games to Houston Atlanta. I mean they

were they were both very close. We didn't play terrible. No turnovers killed us. Yes, yeah, right back to it. But um yeah, I like you know, in the beginning of the podcast, we were talking about the the um schedule, and I do like to get you cranked up, so I will say, yes, I am very excited about the next three games. Look at so Tom Brady now has thirty touchdown passes. He only needs two more. Three James from last year. Four touchdown passes and three games doesn't

sound too hard to me. So he'll probably break that record. So okay, that could happen. Uh so last year. So he's got three and his eleven interceptions are higher probably than what we thought we would have. I mean, I would get higher than his norm. Right, Yeah, it's a little higher than his norm. There's just been a couple a couple of games where those a little bit of flurry of him, right. But but still look at the difference.

And Bruce arians said after the last year that the difference in that season between seven and nine and being in playoff contention is the turnovers. You thought we had a good enough team. Now we have a quarterback who's throwing the same amount of touchdowns as our previous quarterback. And even though eleven interceptions is probably more than you would have expected, it's a heck of a lot less than last year. And there's the difference between seven and

nine and probably ten and six. What what I'm looking forward to this Sunday's game is I'm looking to see if if it builds on on this pass game, you know it does the defense keep playing as well as yeah it is, keep stack them up, but but but not only getting the win, but how you get to win? Is it? Is it improving each week? Is it? Are

you feeling more confident in the way things are going? Um, personally, I don't think there's a game that we're out of, you know, I think there whether it was the one that was the New Orleans game. But but I think we can change. We can run with with most teams, and when you start getting into the playoff, then it's who's the best team on that day. And uh, I like to see the team you know go up and

into Atlanta. Um, you're playing guys that you know. Uh. Be A made a comment that Raheem Morris as we all know as the head coach here, but he was been with Atlanta for a long time. He's been on both sides of the ball. He's been with players that really like him. You and I both know Raheem and he is very infectious with his uh um, don't use the word this year. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, with his enthusiasm, with positivity, with his uh let's go get it done. Um.

Dirk Cutters their offensive coordinator. We've had Dirk as our head coach. We know that he can put points on the board and move the ball. Uh. And then you go way way back Rich McKay as the president. Now, the crazy part about all of that is they're looking for a new head coach and they're looking for a new GM. So you've got guys are gonna play hard because everything's got to go on tape. And with a new head coach and a new GM, players don't know

where where they're gonna be. Yeah, you know those are those are you know when people go if you're not playing for anything, it doesn't matter, it does when it when a organization is influx well by that token, then all three of our remaining games are in that situation. It's exactly so I'm hoping that that effect doesn't have too big of an effect, you know. I mean, but you have to think about it if you're a player. It's it's just like anybody in any business when you

get a new boss, what do you do? You have to rethink about everything because it's a new person and you don't know this person. Usually have more than normal to roster turnover after you get a new head coaching, don't especially well. Yeah, because the GM definitely, Yeah, they had been there since two thousand and eight. It's a pretty good run. Yes, Yeah. Makes you just go back and think about had they won the Super Bowl that year? It's been all down Hilsen's then, yeah, it's always been

all down. Hilson's about the fourth quarter, and damn, I look at that. I always think, why didn't you go kick the field goals? We're not gonna talk about that, No, I'm just saying, you know, right back to field goals. Damn kickers. Well, and why weren't they running the ball? That was the big thing. If they just ran the ball every time, they probably would have won that game. Um, how about our how about our specialist man? Which one the kicker and the punter? So we know Ryan has

made twenty in a row. I've been mentioning this for weeks, So forget the jinks. Well here's Casey. Casey phillips didn't miss the nextra. He missed NEXTRA point. But I'm talking about field goals. Casey Phillips um says she doesn't think it's a jink. Her her theory is it's not a jinx unless you say it during the game. You can say it during the week. So I'm like, okay, maybe I'll adopt that approach anyway, suckers me twenty in a row. He hasn't missed since week four. That's awesome. I'm marking

this down thirty six oh five. Okay, he um somehow, and this is a weird thing. He did something that no Buckingers kicker has probably done for decades, and I wonder if you can guess it not any kind of like a bunch of one specific thing he did that no bucks kicker has done for since probably the nineties. Something that you're not gonna get it. We want to give up something that a kicker mm hmm has made

all the field goals within thirty yards. No um he remember we had the hail Mary and the and them, and you have to really do you have to really mess up to get well, my goodness, it was a sandwich or gronk. He got smack. I don't even think that guy was trying to do it. You just just trying to get there and ended up like just rolling

right through rock. And I will say I did love the fact that they called time out forty seconds left and they went in a half called the time out, made the stop and then went ahead and said, hey, let's go ahead and see what happened. Well, Bruce said yesterday that what he really he he didn't because they by the time we got the ball, it was only twenty one seconds left. So he thought, okay, we got a shot at maybe blocking the punt. We got a

shot at maybe getting a good, good return. He didn't think there was probably enough time to score, especially because we only had one time out, but Brady hit Cambray called a time out and then got the good plate. I think Antonio Brown and was able to come up and spike it with one second left, which was awesome.

And then then you know that gave you an opportunity on the hill, Mary, and then you know they chose to kick the field goal from the one on the untimed down instead of taking one shot at the end zone because he wanted to make sure they got some points out of that. So you gotta let me get finish this because I'm getting to the thing that Ryan

Suckup did. So in the officially that field goal is listed as an eighteen yard field goal, I can guarantee you we haven't had an eighteen year field goal since the nineties because it was from the one, and since like the late nineties, teams have been snapping the ball eight yards back. So every you can figure out the the length of a field goal every time by adding eighteen yards because the inzons ten yards, eight yards snap ten yards, so that when they kicked from forty six

yard field goal. So a kick from the one should be a nineteen yard field goal, and that should theoretically be the shortest possible field goal. But for some reason, either the stat's crew got it wrong or or um for some reason, we only staffed while seven yards back, which teams never do anymore. Do they put the ball almost to the goal line rather than on the one I think, I think past interference in the end zone, and they put the ball right on the one yard line,

not at the goal line. It's right on the one. So either then it has to be a mistake or or for some reason we only lined up our our hold or seven yards back. But I wouldn't think we would do that. So that was just a weird little thing. If if this was normal times, I would pass um uh, I would pass Keith Armstrong in the hall at one buck and the asking and he have he have a good answer. I know he would. He always asked, when I've had these types of questions, that's that's inquiring. So

I don't know what that was. That's when was the last time the Bucks succeeded on a Hell Mary, I don't even I I can't recall. I'm trying. I remember one. I mean I remember one in the nineties in Chicago. I think Trent Dilfer through it. That's the last one I think of. It was in Chicago. Okay, do you know what are that? What are the odds of hell Mary's working? I think it's great when you go for it, especially,

they're very exciting, very much so. And that was a great play and I think it really and then come out and score right afterwards. So two quick scores. That was great. And I don't have a whole lot more. I just was pointing out bred. Okay, we didn't get the Bradley pinion on this. Now, Bradley Penny was having a fine year as a punter, you know, middle of

the Pact numbers. Obviously, he gives you that great kickoff touchback addition and as well, and then we go to Carolina, remember that game, and we're scoring like on every drive and for the first time in like twenty years, we had a game in which the punter didn't point. So he got that week off. Ever since then, he's been

on fire. His his his numbers in the last three games since that since getting that game off, essentially are gross averages of forty nine fifty and fifty point three and net averages of forty four point to forty seven point and forty five point three. Just take my word for it. Those are really good number. Those are great numbers. So talk about changing field position. Yeah, I mean, he's I mean it's kind of cool. All of a sudden, we got a great punter, got good specially he keeps

it up right. Well, that's you know, you know when you notice the special teams is when you get to the playoffs because every Yeah, but I'm just saying, every point matters, and every situation is made, and everybody's watching everybody. You see that, Um, do you know what that is over there? Yes, those cars have been there for the last I've been here. You know what that is? The last four hours? Yes, that's the line for COVID testing.

COVID testing. Um, and that's just an exam. There's a lot of cars over there, and just an example how this thing is far from under control. And Bruce says is very happy that his guys came back from the break. But I've got some bad news for you, Jeff. That just came through. I'm not kidding either, um, and this is breaking news. It's Actually, it'll be out by the

time people listen to. Your phone has been binging and I don't like to look at I know what I noticed you were, so um, this will be out by the time everybody hears this podcast, So it's okay for us to talk about it right now. Those guys, and I was starting to talk about them before I knew this is gonna happen. So this is a coincidence that we were talking about them. All three of her specials are going on the COVID list. I'm not I'm not kidding.

That must mean one someone tested and then contact tracing came to get that long pause in there was which we've I'm filtering this right now, so probably one of them tested positive and the other two. Yeah, yeah, your

your contact tracing real quick. Uh. It's a it's an electronic indicator that anytime someone gets close to someone else, it beeps to tell you to get away, but it also registers who you have been in contact with, and so if someone is has tested positive, then what happens is they run through the series of where you've been in the building with what team, and then once they know who you were with, then it's a matter of okay, did you have masks? How close were you like? I'll

give you for instance, where Scott and I are. We're in our broadcast booth. The windows are open right now, but Scott has on the lower deck and I'm on the upper deck and there is plexiglass between us, and we are more than six ft apart as we talk. So if something like that, we would say, well, this would not be close contact for contact tracing, but that

is that is, so that would be how many days? Well, I mean I think that the if it is if you're right, and we're just guessing here, if you're right, that's one guy positive and too contact. The positive guy would not be able to make it back in time for the game, I don't think. But the other two might be able to ford four or five days. But because we have we have a kicker stashed on the practice squad, but we don't have a putterer and we don't have a long snapper. It's actually happening right now.

We're recording. Um, we're putting it out right now. But teams aren't allowed to say yeah, So you're not allowed to say that's specifically in the language. If they're if the test positive or have close contact with some of your test positive, you have to put them on the list, but you're not allowed to say which reason you're putting on there for. And they have been Let's see, they came back in. The players came back in last Tuesday from the bye so they've been testing for all this

time for almost a week. So that's that's interesting that And when they were gone they had to they had to test during the bike too. So we've been doing really well, I know. And and that was one of the things that was b A was really really happy about it. We only had one guy the whole year that that was on the active roster who that was Jaden Mickens. That's the only guy that went on the reserve COVID list that was on the active roster at

the time. That's it just it, you know, you do all the best you can and take all the precautions you can. Crazy, I mean, I guess I'd rather have this than not have any quarterbacks at all, like Denver there, but their thing happened on a Saturday. Ours is probably enough time if we need to get we have a kicker on the practice squad, Greg Joseph, so if if Ryan suck Up isn't available, he would get elevated probably and and take care of that. But we don't have

a long snapper or a um punter. Was that there's somebody on the team that was playing practicing being alone? Well, you always have one guy. Yeah, you know, it's like a linebacker our time, and you always but they're usually not very good. It's only they're only they're infirm. It's a lot harder than everyone thinks that it's all fun and games until you're up. And the guy that we had, um that preceded, Uh, well I maybe yeah, it wasn't entered Apolo right before him? Or was that he's back

in the league. Yeah, he just recently signed with Detroit and otherwise he'd probably be the first guy. Sure, sure, wow, that just um, Well, as as you're listening to this, you'll have more information than we do right now, because well as you, as Scott and I are talking, we're talking in real time. This is just breaking and we just need to finish this up. So so we'll we'll probably know by tomorrow or then you say, which if any of them well, yeah, which if any of them

are actually positive? Well, I mean it is even also within the remo possibility that they all came in close contact with somebody. Well, and there's that too. That's what that's what we would hope, that's what the contact tracing all. But to bring somebody in, I believe they have to

test for three days. They have to be corned. I'm sorry, they need to be quarantine and tested for three days before they can come into the Obviously somebody in the team knows and so they know which positions they have to try to commediately start working on getting somebody in here so that they can have them cleared in time to play. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah wow. All right, okay, Well, just when you think, uh, everything is easy, peasy and

feeling good, something like that happens. But you know what, games have to be played. And you made a good point. Denver had to play without a quarterback, so Baltimore played with like out a half their team they had. Ye did that, I did. That was one of the most entertaining games I've seen in a lot. That that was. That was a shootout. I almost didn't want either team to lose. I thought they both deserve to win. That was.

That was a shootout. There's no question gutsy play on on both teams parts and um, the only thing that I that, you know, you see a game like that, as great as it was on TV, you kind of feel bad for the Browns fans because that that was a game that was Yeah, that was a game that I think, if you know, Browns fans could have made

a difference in what's going on. But it's it's gonna be ledge Oh yeah, I see what you see what I mean just because of of can you imagine we're talking about that during the Yeah, I mean, can you imagine, you know, the last drive of the game with a full stadium yelling at you, it's a little harder to communicate they had. Plus, it's gonna be a legendary game because it had the added drama of Lamar Jackson, who they couldn't stop all of a sudden, taking himself out

of the game he was playing. Kurt Gibson runs in for what they say, we're cramps. He's in for a lot longer than I thought. I know, I'm like, he's not coming, like he's not And then he didn't come back up for the longest time. And then they take the lead and and then he comes running out like Willis Reid uh to the sideline just at the exact moment when the trace mcs are only the back of a quarterback look gets what looked like a pretty bad knee injury. You can't write that. And then he emilily

goes out there and rips off a big run. And I saw an article on that. I can't remember. I don't know where it was, but they wrote it. Each thing was crazy. They listed everything that went wrong. Started out with crazy that this happened, crazy, that that happened. Crazy that their field goal kicker kicks what fifty five yarder? Although he be Yeah, he's pretty good. It might be the best kicker. He's pretty good. He missed. Okay, a lot of them. So let's go to questions. Hello, Okay,

this is our first one. I don't know if we've had a question from this person before. It's it's a Michael, New Jersey, all right, might be a lot of Michael's in New Jersey. Hello, salty ones. I don't know that if this is kind of a salty email. By the way, you know, we don't have we don't have to agree with everything in here. Hey, listen, bring it on. Okay, I don't know the official rule about throwback helmets, but I always heard we couldn't have a cream sickled jerseys

because of the helmet change. But yet I saw the Chicago Bears where their throwback helmet this week. Why can't we just take our old logo and put on our helmet we have now? I think it would look good? All right, let's stop there. All right. First of all, it's the wrong color. It would not look good. No, it would look horrible. That's the problem. That's the thing that Jersey guys a hard time dressing. Now, I wouldn't I do understand the confusion here, because it does seem confused.

It is. It's very confused that and it might look on the outside like we are making excuses that we don't really want to do a throwback game. But the Glaziers have made it very clear that they want to do a throwback game. But they want it all and they want they're hoping the NFL changes the rules that

are blocking them from doing so. Right now. They want to do it, so it must be true, even though it does seem weird when you see some other teams figure out way well, the only way I have to take your normal helmets and put well, you would have to order all new helmets, and then players aren't comfortable with all new helmets. But why can't you get players two sets and helmets at the beginning of the year that they're comfortable with and that are safe. That maybe

how to do it. I don't think you can know, and I think that's the issue. I find the whole thing confusing. But I know that they do want throwback games, so clearly something's blocking. And to your answer, Michael, on the Chicago Bears, they wear a black helmet. They've always worn a black helmet. Yeah, so you can put a bear on it, you can put a c on it, you can put you can just put different, you can put whatever you want on it because it is the same.

But there's a big difference between a white helmet and a pewter. Yeah, and I do. And if you did that, you would be getting you would be getting you ready for it, you'd be getting creamed for doing it, and it wouldn't look good at all. You thought that was good. I did, and so did everyone listening right now, Scott. You'd like to think so they have a sense of human Okay, and so now here he continues on with with still more complaining. Also, what really grinds? Wait? Wait, wait, wait,

it's not complaining. He's expressing his opinion. Well, he's in this part saying it's grinding his gears people are using. He's complaining. Well, also, it really grinds my gears? Is sale is? I guess he means, Thus, sale on the pirate ship when we won the Super Bowl is horribly ugly brown? Why can't they change it and make it nicer? People can actually read it and see it and take pride in it. I mean, the other one is the logo, and the other one is a brown, ugly color, but

this one is the Super Bowl one. Can't wait to hear your thoughts. So we're looking. We're at the stadium right now. We're looking at the ship, the main sail with the bucks, big the big skull and cross swords. Logo is red. That would be your logo. Go ahead and then off off to the right above them what they call that crow's nest right, Um, is the logo is the the sale he's talking about? That's brown with the red words. Two thousand and two World Champions and

then the which is easy to read from here. Yeah, that's pretty I don't see what you're saying. That's not easy to read. Well maybe because if he's on TV, well, is it always furled up like that? It's not right. I don't you know what I'm gonna have to can't be at because that top one is Raymond jam Stadium, and there's no way that we get away with our putting our sponsors name there and then they can't be read. They fold them up so that when you're not here

the winds blowing, normally those are down. Okay. So basically what this comes down to is this person thinks that brown is ugly and that he can't read those. I'm not have any trouble reading it. It is different on TV. Maybe, I don't know. I mean I could see, yeah, I mean I think the Raymond James logo wouldn't necessarily look good on red. No, and if you have too much red then then it loses his contrast. If you look

at the ship, the ship is what brown white? Yeah, it's basically it's in keeping with the color scheme of the ship. It's the big red sale that's different and that really stands out right, I don't know, it's about it's a matter of opinion. And another thing too is

that you know, the sun's really really competed down. So maybe the red is a little fad at this point where it says the you know, the champs that he's talking about, But it's still I don't find it hard to read, but it's just yeah, but if he's reading it off, if he's seeing it on TV, you may have that effective. Huh why is that? Yeah? Maybe? And yeah, because we don't really ever watch buck in your games on TV, well that are here, Yeah, I mean if

we've been watching on TV the road this year. Uh, but you know, I mean what it does come down here is he's trying to take pride in our Super Bowl viction and that right right that we just need another one, that's what we need. YEA note taken that sale at the what would the would that be? The stern of the ship doesn't have anything on it, nor does the one underneath the crow's nest over here, So those are quality places where we could put another world champion. Yeah, wow,

we need to win another one. Yeah, fill out those sales, all right. Yeah, I'm not I'm I'm only assuming that he's talking about seeing it on TV, because I'm standing here right now and I can read it and it's folded up and I know what it says. Yeah, you already know what it says, though, but yeah, you just's folded up and you can read two world right now, most of the world. Okay, well, thanks Mike. Oh. Also, he says there's no time change in New Jersey, Scott

ha ha. I guess we must have been talking about time changes earlier. Now. Probably he's probably talking about what we're talking about. What time is it in Australia. It's the same time there as it is here. He's basically that was a rib on you. Okay, that's never gonna

die apparently, Okay, um uh, it's a classic. Okay, here's one from our or this isn't a question really, but it's it's our buddy from Brazil has an emailed in a little while, so I'll go ahead and read it, even though it's not a question because we apparently, you know, we've talked about when we've had questions from England how how they became Bucks fans in particular, so he's sharing his story. The Hoyt Salty ones. This is Alexander, not Simento,

from South Paulo, Brazil. Since you were wondering how a foreign Bucks fan became a Bucks fan, I decided to share my history with you, guys appreciate. It was January and my aunt asked me if I was okay with getting my birthday present in advance that year. My birthday

is in October three. I politely looked at my parents and did what any normal eight year old kid would do, embarrassed in my screaming yes, the president was a trip to the US with my cousins to meet not only Disney's, to meet Disney's theme parks, okay, which was all I knew about what to do in Florida, that's fair, but also Miami and Tampa. So they went to Disney and then they went to Marie and Tampa. That's a pretty cool trip, Trees. I'd like to take a trip to Brazil.

I'd like to. I'd like to me. No, I have not. That is something that isn't That is a place I do want. That is the country I want to go. It's pretty cool. Um, to be fair, I haven't been to a lot of countries. Pay France England, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Mexico. I think that would be it. Okay, everybody needed to know that because it probably take a while. Right, Yeah, I'm just giving the the take a whole lot of trips phase of my life hasn't been done yet, alright,

the president. Okay, as Mr Ryan, I can't watch a game. I can't watch a game without picking sides. And I've decided to root for the American teams that I had a relationship with the city. I was amazed with the city of Tampa. Roller Coasters had a big part in it. So they must have gone a push card. Yeah, they have great rollers, they do, so I chose the bucks ps. The colors had a part in it too. Once my school colors were red, black and white. Since you did,

thanks for reading. See I I like that. You don't have to that's not you don't have to have a question. I like that story. How did they become a fan of that's that's yeah. And tell us let's see he he was eight years old in three You do the math, you're the So he's how old? That's twenty seven years ago? Okay, so he's thirty five, so he's thirty, So at thirty five years old, he still has his great, fond memory of how he became a Buck fan. I'm sure he

has fund members of that trip. Yeah, but I'm just that's that's great. I like, well, being a Bucks fan helps him keep those trip. Yeah, what a great hand. Yeah, no kid, Okay, alright, last question. Okay, guys, this is the one I I decided to wait on because it's gonna be something we can talk about. What's with all the deep throws on third downs? This gets back into the identity thing. I know, we hit that one to Scotty.

Good to see him back in the mix, by the way, But if if it had missed, that would have been another part. Yeah, if that would have been another promising drive that died at midfield because we couldn't convert a third down. I think there was another one like that to Gronk, doesn't it make more sense to try an easier play on third down and then go for the kill shot? Interested to hear your thoughts on that, Go Bucks. Jerry, a displaced Bucks fan in Arizona. So listen, this is

what it comes down to. This is what it comes down to. This is it period Okay, let's take let's take the Let's take the Scotty Miller touchdown. Tom Brady's first read on that was a short thrill. I can't remember what he said crossing round. It wasn't there. He looks there, it's covered. If I throw it there, it's not gonna be complete. Could be picked off. His second read on that play is intermediate, and a lot of

Bruce's plays have short, intermediate, and long options. Right, the intermediate route which he wanted next was was covered, not available, but because the single high safety had creep crept downward, as Scotty put it to help out with that an intermediate route, Scotty Miller ended up running a post one on one with the corner with no safety help. So once he beat that corner, which he did pretty easily,

he's the option. Now he's the guy that's open, and yeah, it's a lower percentage throw, but it's better than throwing it to a guy that's not going to become b a. Bruce arians said on his radio show that Scotty Miller was the fifth option, the fifth option on that. Now, if you watch that game, you would have thought that's what the that's that was what was called go to Scotty Miller in the ends, but Dad wasn't. It was

the fifth option. So a lot of times you what happens when you watch a game, and that's all of us we're looking at, Oh why didn't you do that? Where you can only take what they give you, because

if you try to force, then you get in. Because if you watch a game, if you're watching a football game, unless you're taking the tape and rewinding it and looking every play over and over, when you're watching game, your eyes are on the quarterback until he throws the ball, and then he followed the ball and you follow the ball, so you're not seeing where all the routes are going. And you really can't tell unless you're really good at it, what his reeds are, what his first reeds are. You

really don't know. But it makes sense obviously if you have a play with varying levels that and it's third and four, the first thing you're gonna want to do is look for what you hope is the easiest throw underneath.

And they, for instance, they tried that on a Scottie Miller play on a third down that we didn't get where um he ran he was in the slot and he ran a very short and quick route out into the flat and right off the bat, we thought that was gonna be open because their defenders had dropped back a little bit, but then they dropped back from the stap, but then they came forward really quickly, and so that play ended up being well covered when before the snap

we thought it wasn't gonna be well covered. And that's exactly what we went for. Went for like the five yard pass on third or four, Yes, everyone, it makes sense to most of the time throw a higher percentage pass on third down, but just keep in mind that there are there or five eligible players. Sometimes one stays into block, but he could still catch a pass. There are five eligible pass catchers out there, and oh, you hope all of them are open, but they're probably not

all gonna be open. And if the one you want first is not even remotely open, you there's no point throwing the ball there. And I will say that there there have been opportunities that to hit those deep balls that that didn't happen, and it wasn't because the guys weren't open. It's just it's just well, there's so many very yeah, well as you said, as you said earlier, and you were saying what Tom Brady himself said. He didn't start particularly fast in that game and missed a

couple open guys and that was one of them. That play. When you saw him release that ball and you saw where rock was headed, you didn't go, oh, I can't believe they threw deep on third before You're like, oh, that's exciting that but he just missed. Yea when you saw that, when when you saw the play developing, because it happened right here about like where the thirty is. It was like a quarter and coming through and and

right there, I'm thinking that's a touchdown. The ball hasn't even gotten there yet, but I could see the sky no gronk one because if once, if he catches it there he there was nobody. There is nobody down here. There's nobody on this side, you know, crazy right, If he hits that, it's a big play. So and then he missed one. He missed one got over the middle here, the one that was between two guys, but this over

god when and under Scott. But but the thing is a lot of times our third downs were usually long. They're not, but the last few games. We've missed some short ones and coach knows. So yeah, listen to this. What's the what's the big everybody asked going into and out of the bye, what's the biggest thing you guys got to figure out? What do you gotta fix? Fast starts? We're not getting fast starts. Why aren't you getting fast starts? Well? On offense? It's because we aren't making most of our

manageable third downs as we should. We're missing them too many manageable third downs and that was the problem, a problem against Kansas City, and there's a problem early in this game. So do you do do you, as a football fan think that that a head coach in the NFL would go, Man, we're not making our manageable third downs. We got a week to think about it and then come out of that break thinking, Okay, we just gotta

throw deep on every third down. That doesn't know, No, that clearly doesn't make But do you know what I love about sports or is just no matter what you're doing,

you can always it's never perfect. There's always something that you can go Why you know, if a perfect example is the people in New England right now, they they've gone to so many Super Bowls and one Super Bowls and everything, and this year they're not going to the playoffs, not even gonna have a winning record, and so that you talk about jumping ship, no pun intended, but that's what sports is, you know. And then when you do

win a lot, then it's how you win. That's the other side of the yeah, and they don't like how you yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why I always like Bruce arians I'm not gonna apologize for any win, and I'm with you. So all I would say is I'm not here trying to tell anybody that every coach makes every perfect call. No. I would imagine after most geames, the play caller on both sides of the ball will

will be going back through it. He's critiquing what his players did, but he's also probably once or twice going, man, I wish I had done something different happen. I listened to the podcast and I go, gosh, I wish we were good. These guys are um, but they are very good. Just about every coach in this league is very good at his job. So most of the time they're making calls that are fine. It comes down to execution, and that the fact that there's another team on this field.

So the fact that on the Scotty Miller touchdown that the Vikings defense did a really good job of covering his first four reads, give him credit. Good job, Vikings, They did a great job of covering his first four reads. Fortunately, our offensive line, which had a great game, had an awesome stretch on that play, and Tom had tons of time eventually slid forward a little bit at all the space open in front of him in time to throw step into his throw. So that's how he got to

get to his fifth progression. So just to understand, sometimes it's execution. Sometimes it's tip your hat to the other team. Sometimes I wouldn't like to make I shouldn't have called that play, And sometimes coaches will actually say that, and they'll say, yeah, if I could do that one over, I probably wouldn't do a lot of times they look at and that was the right play. We didn't execute it. We had we had, we had it for the take.

We have to we have to not fall into the trap of everything that doesn't work was a bad call. And and the thing is a lot of times too, it's a setup. If it doesn't work this time, and they see that they had it, they will go back to it and try it again. So there's that. All right, Well that's all we got. What a crazy I just can't wait. Probably by this time people are listening to this will know more on the the specialists in the COVID situation. But this could be a serious issue for

the Buccaneers most definitely. And as you listen to this and you want more up to date information, go to Buccaneers dot com because Scott's all over this one. Yeah, as soon as we're allowed to put out any information. Well, once you get information to we have bits and pieces. And that's the other thing too, is well it is medical. Yeah,

but it's medical, so not always you're not gonna always know. Yeah, that's and it's also in addition, there's a specific rule regarding this that the teams are not allowed to announce which reason they went on for now. Generally it comes out because the players will say or something. So yeah, I mean it came out with the Broncos quarterback situation. I camember which one. It was off the top of

my head right now. Is his mother no, no, no luck. Yeah, but I don't know if he's the one who was one was positive in the rest of the proximity and it came out. I don't remember at this moment which guy it was. They might have been Bordles. Well, what happened is they were in there. They were in the room and they were looking at film and they didn't have masks on in the room and they were close. So my point though is that one of them had it and the rest were out because of proximity, and

it came out which one it was. So we'll know even if there's a rule that I mean, like players have have said, you know, players have been gone and then they've done interviews when they come back, and it's going to get out which one it is and so and plus we'll also not based on what the Buccaneers do with roster moves. Yeah, and I will say this that you can be as safe as you can. It's

you know, you just don't know. That's why we have our masks and we have Well that's why the Broncos and the Raiders got spanked by the league for the words doing it because they were found to have done things. But other teams, like I don't think that the Ravens have suffered any um consequences from league because it's not determined. Well,

they did have the one strength coach appearingly messed up. Um, I don't know what I'm saying is around league there have been COVID issues, but this, yeah, and this and this, as much as be A preaches about staying safe and also the organization itself of what they've done. Um, so it is disappointing. Disappointing because it probably was not somebody doing anything wrong. And that is and and and that is. I was like a dog, the salty Scots. Scott's closing

the windows. He's closing the windows, he's got headsets on. And the cord was not that I forgot that jerking. I forgot. I was attached. It was like a dog on a leash. You're ready to go. You're closing the window. Is that a sign? It's a sign all right? You done? All right? Since you did, Thanks for this