Salty Dogs Podcast with Sean Murphy-Bunting

can forget again? I'm looking at the already Derek Bocks diredy touchdown tamp a day, Derek Brooks, spariable player in the national football Like, there it is, tun Daggers, and where are you gonna win the Super Bowl? We call them the Salty Dogs. Hello, bucking your fans, welcome back, I should say to us. Back. Well, they've been listening to old podcast, so that's true. They just go back to the catalog. Yeah, they just wait to wait to

see what new. Now it's season two. It is I am Scott Smith and I am Jeff Ryan, and we are the Salty Dogs. Yes and apparently we did. Okay, lest yes and I got that email and like, when's the next salty Dang we didn't who knew knew, But I have more time if we had done worse. Yes, but hey, one of the things we want to do this year and I'm just gonna go ahead and be transparent about it. Get more active players. Yes, Um, we're gonna start that today by talking to rookie cornerback Sean

Murphy Bunting. But we hope to do We did. We had a lot of a lot of really great guests last year. We kind of started out by giving the fans access to some of the old great stars, the running Barbers and Mike all Sets and so on. And this year, I think we're gonna focus more on who's here and get get their thoughts because there's so many new moving pieces. So yeah, exactly, And there's coaches to talk to us. We have coaches and even you know on a plug for Buccaneers total access the radio shows.

We're we're gonna be We're gonna also be reaching out to the to the coaches and getting different perspectives so you can catch and that's more locally. But but um, you know you can you never know what you're gonna You can talk to a guy three times and you're gonna get three different stories that you may not have heard before. So that's good unless unless you talk to Todd Bowles, because I don't think Todd really wants to give a lot away. What does that? Yeah, well, I'll

say this that he listened. He was in New York and he never had an issue. I mean, they may not good, he was very good. He's one of those guys that talks and you walk away and go, dang, you really didn't give me anything. That's his job. Well, I summarize he spoke to the media today. I can summarize his answer to virtually every question. Well, it's only been four days of camp, two days, and he's absolutely

right about that. We all want these we all ask him question when these grand proclamations of how great is the defense, how great is this player? And it's like, well, I'd like to tell you, but it's only been four days, and I'm gonna say so the first edition of Salty Dogs, it's only been four days of practice, so it might be short this week. We've got a lot to talk. I know, we do. It is. It's been fun. It's good. It's good to be back sitting down. I have always

I kind of missed it. I know it sounds weird, but it was fun to be standing the rest of the time for the last eight months or whatever what standing around. It's good to sit down and standing. Yes. Wow, well, I know you had the back issue and all that. Yeah, No, I'm back in good shape. Get it. See how I did that? See what I did. They're back in good shape. You're welcome, You're welcomes. I've always thought you had a good backbone. Uh huh um. So we're gonna have Sean

Murphy bunting on. I'm excited about that. It seems like a great kid, and I think at this point we can I can call a guy a kid, right, I mean it's probably twenty one, well at your age. Yeah, and yours were the salty dogs. Um. You know they those young guys are infectious out there. They're making a lot of plays. Mike Edwards, Jamal Dean, you know, Vernon Hargraves is making a lot of plays. And he's kind

of still a young guy too. Yeah. And I felt bad because I thought last year in the preseason he was playing well, and then's that first game and then when he got to hurt. It's like, are you kidding me. It's finally clicking for the kid and can't stay healthy. Yeah, he looks really good this year and that's big for the Buccaneers because the cornerback position was troublesome last year and part of that is not having depth. So when

guys get hurt, then your depth is exposed. I don't think we have any issues of talent on the depth chart now at cornerback with all that's been drafted in the last couple of years. You know, but those are young guys, so you're probably gonna experience some growing pains along the way. But I think that's a really talented group. And what I like is you said there are all young guys, so that means they can grow together if

they stick. You know, now you're getting a core and in two years from now you've got You're not going there young guys. You're saying, hey, we got we got this core for the next five years. Right. Um, Sean has has looked good out there, made a lot of place. There was one though, um they were he was lining up against Mike Evans and this was actually the last day before Pat so even it was it was a press look. But he couldn't really press him, right because

I'm not hitting you. So but I see this matchup and I said to the person stand next to him, like, I hope this ends up being a good matchup. I mean, we love seeing Mike Evans succeed, but we also love to see this young corner hold his own against such a great player. So this was the ball was snapped from the nine team, but the quarterback probably threw it from about the thirty and uh it was Blaine Gabert in this particular case, and he throws a back corner

end zone fade perfect to Mike. Sean trailed him the entire way, was on his hip, the entire route. But what can you do, Sean. Mike's got his his back to between, He's got himself between Seawan and the ball. His feet are at the very silent He's probably reaching three yards into foul territory. Sean Murphy Bunting played phenomenal on that play, and Mike still caught a touch because that's how good he is. But it was it worked out because I thought, Okay, both those players were really

good on that. That doesn't happen, no, no, you we had a great you get a great receiver, and he had a quarter that stayed with him. So that's what you want to sis, what you want to see. A couple of days ago camp, two days ago, it was the first day of pads and the defense honestly, was way ahead. And then it happens a lot early in camp, defense had a phenomenal day. So you go, well, gosh, I don't want to think about that from the other side because that was a bad day for the offense.

But it's gonna happen from time to time. Yeah, and that's it's hard. I mean, like everybody I know, you get it. I get it. Hey, how is practice? How is practice? On one side? You get all excited because one side of the ball is doing well, but then you're going to crap. They're again. You remember the old

show coach Yeah, uh, Luther the assistant coach. Uh. He was talking about how good the team was playing and Greg T. Nelson was the coach, and he said, he said, the problem that you have is you have your team, your offense, your defense playing against each other, and after a while you started thinking you have a really good team, but you don't. So I didn't expect a coach throw coach sitcom references you got anything from Fraser or family for the family you meet head, come on, got you

you're really dating yourself, not at all. You've not watched Naked Knight. They have this really cool thing called Netflix. You can get anything you want that never heard of it. Yes, I know, uh you know. Byron Left, which was also talking today, and my favorite thing that he said. It

was a pretty long press conference. My favorite thing that he said was, um, somebody asked him, what have you seen from Jameis Winston in terms of like, what have you been your favorite money throws that he's made in training camp? And he goes, I'm not really I'm paraphrasing, but I'm not really interested in his money throws. What I want to see our money decisions. That's what he needs. Jamis. He says, I've seen him, We've all seen him. He's got talent. He can make every throw. We've seen what

he can do. It's the decision making that has to be right. When you go into a game you have sixty plays, you need his decision making be right on most of those. I kind of like that. So he said money decision and then he there was somebody brought up an example which he agreed was a good example. Uh, maybe two days ago, he um checked the ball down to I think Andre Ellington, and um it worked out really well because he had a lot of room to run, was able to make it to the end zone. It

was probably four yards in the air. So and and basically Byron felt like it was his best pass of camps so far. It was not his most difficult pass of camp by any stretch of the imagination. You and I probably could have thrown the ball four yards on Ray Ellington, although we would have been sacked like three seconds earlier. But if not, But it was his favorite player, or was one of his best players of camp because he made the perfect decision and that's what we need

out of him. And that was always the knock against Jamis Winston that doesn't always make and that's actually the knock against Moost quarterbacks. Any quarterback is not a great quarterback. Brett far the Atlanta Falcons thought Brett Fire was a true knuckle ahead and they traded him. So, you know, a favorite quarterback ever, Yeah, and that's why I I kind of just chuckle on. I think that was was that Jerry Glandville back then that was the head coach.

Brett Farve could get away with some questionable decisions though, because he was just a gun Yeah right, um, but you know, you know what bred Farve through a lot of interceptions, he really did. But he was just so good. He was great. I'm not making no disparaging him. He no, no, no, And he threw a lot of quarterback but I'm talking about in his younger and they traded him for like a third round pick. That's why he got traded, right, And then Atlanta has been looking for a quarterback till

they got Maddy Ice. So well, they had they had Vic for a little while. He was good for a while too. Yes, that's right, that's right. He did Christian very good against us, but he was good. Yeah. Well, we had Derek Brooks and Derek Brooks remember that. Oh that was Cordell Stewart. That's right, that's right, Cordell. Yeah. I liked him too, but I mean Michael Vick was better. But I will say, but anyway, back to the point, I think that's true of just about any quarterback who's

not like an elite quarterback. They're every guy that makes in the league. Is going to have great arm talent. The hardest thing for anybody to do is see the field and no and make the right decision. I mean I I can't. I think you just have to have it now. Obviously you can get better at it. And that's what they're doing, you know, that's what they're working with the most, and that's why they wanted to make money decisions. I will say, um, it's early. I got

a preference player you really like. No, no, no, I want to tell you about a couple of players that I'm excited about. And that's our kicking game. I know, I know. It's usually when you start talking about punters and you're starting about kickers, you're going, Wow, what kind of team you have? But in this particular situation, I must say, it's been a lot of fun to watch.

We would not, believe me, with the history of the last eight years of our kicking game, we would not be talking about this right now if it was going poorly. The only reason we're talking about it is it's almost

been flawless, which is insane crazy. So the very first day, Cairo Santos went first because the veteran gets to go first, and made eight of nine and is only miss was from the next day Matt Gay went and I thought he went eight of nine also, but then I guess I miscounted by one, because afterwards Bruce Arians said that he was actually ten for ten and the reason he kind of the tenth one was because that particular goal post he was he was kicking to for some reason,

and they haven't corrected it yet. It's a little bit crooked, bent a little bit to the left, and so he just he hit that right upright. Had it been not crooked, it would have snuck through. Also, it looked to me like it was on the inside of it. And there's a net on that upright because um on between those uprights in order to uh in order to keep the ball from hitting the facility behind it very often, So that might have gone through without that. But in any case,

he nails and including one from fifty seven yards. The next day, Carol Santos made him all, including at yard. The next day, Matt Gay made him all in his field goal session. Now at the very end they were doing to move the ball drill, and he had like a fifties five yarder and he didn't make it. It was a little off to the left and you know you want to go, we'll shoot. The guy has made likes. Bruce was like, we really need a guy we can

that can make that kick. So that's the next thing for Matt is he's going to make that kick in that situation. And he had the distance just I mean, it wasn't like it's falling short, Jeff. The one he made from fifty seven cleared that net which is at the top of the goal post, goes all the way to the top of the post and hit the building like fifteen yards behind it. That thing would have been good from seventy something yards and it was right down

the middle. It was. It was beautiful. So from the looks of what we're seeing now, the Bucks should have a good kicker this season and that can make such a big difference. Yeah, and and you know it's not a shoein and it's gonna man. I will say, whoever doesn't get the job will probably have a job in the NFL simply simply because of Hey, the Chicago Bears. Apparently I'm needing a kicker. Yes, yes, but but it'll be you know, of course, in practice it's a little different. True,

So preseason games to see what's going up. But it's something that look at. But listen, let's also be clear about this. The Roberto the thing did not work out right. No, poor guy, I wish you had, but we saw the problems right away and training can remember that he struggled right from the get go in training camp and he just never got over it. So I agree with you that what we're seeing now isn't as important as what's going to happen in games, but it's still is a

good it's a good look. Yeah, you're not going oh right early, and now you're expecting things to go well. And it's funny because when you when you watch as many practices and you and I do, and even the media they're very good coming out every day and being here, you started looking at things and now you know it's it's a nice diversion because usually when the kickers kick,

you kind of go what's going on? But in this particular in yeah, you get you're hit, the hit the men's room and you know whatever, But here you're like, okay, let's see what this is very exciting. Um, it's a good start. And when you go back and you of anybody can tell us how many games if we would have made a kick, Well, let me just throw a

few knok. The average, I think in the last four years, the NFL average UH field goal percent is just across the league and that includes the Bucks numbers, is eighty four point four percent. The Bucks have not been above have been below sevent for four straight years. I think last year was seventy two points. Something that that I don't clearly that sounds bad to you, But I don't know if everybody would think seventy seventy four percent not

that big of a deal. That's a big deal. If you're kicking thirty times or thirty five times, that's five or six more made field goals every year. Well, if you're kicking four field goals a game, you're missing one a game and that's the game win. We lost three games by three or fewer points last year. Jeff, one more field goal here and there would have been nice. Also, remember them the opening game against New Orleans last year. We were just blowing them away. It was like the

happiest we were the entire year. We're like, oh my god, this is and then it almost slipped away because we missed the field we had a chance to ice it and make it a two, two possession game and missed a field goal, and then fits fits Magic had to make that third day. That was a run, third down scramble and he and he made it and and that ice the game and we all could breathe easy again because losing that game after you're up like have been bad. Yes, it would have been bad. Yes it would have been

one more field goal there would have been nice. So you feel And also I don't think he ever came out and said it, and he might not even this might not even be true, but I felt like our coaches stopped considering a long field goals an option last year, right, And so it changes your game plan and what you're doing. And if you've got a guy that you feel comfortable, there's a good chance we'll make that fifty three. You're

going we're going to go for it. And uh, and so it'll be nice if the Buccaneers have I think they will well. And as the preseason progresses and everybody, uh, you know, they keep moving players in and out. As you watch the game, you know, it's it's it's something to look at to say, hey, let's keep an eye on the kickers because I think it's gonna be a tough match and it's not going to be an easy cut,

which is what you want. Yeah, all right, I think we probably wrapped this up pretty soon because I'm here to get to Sean Murphy. Bunny. Let's do this. You give me in an all give just give me one guy you've really liked in training camp so far other than name, but we've already talked about. So don't say the kickers. You want me to go first, you can think about, well, the guy that coming in I've been very impressed with with Shawn, so I don't know if I can say that you can say that, Okay, that's

who it is, John Murphy Bunting. Yes, plays and he's making plays, but all my interaction with him, oh, you just like the way he carries himself. Bruce arians said that this is the most mature rookie class. And now how do you put a finger on that. I don't know, other than when you interact with them, you you certainly can you can tell the difference. And so yeah, he's he's a guy. You know, I kind of you know, you meet somebody and you got god, I hope he

does well. You know, he's one of those guys for me, for him, and who's yours. I just really liked, you know, there was a very specific thing they were doing. The they put the pads on, so they finally were doing the old line D line one on you know, where they're just basically sometimes it's two on one, but whatever, they're just pass rushing reps against each other. Vida Vella is a very big man and he's a very strong man. That hasn't changed. Uh, he was just pushing guys around

in that trill. I mean, he's just hard to handle. And so I'm excited about that because now he's gonna be playing next to him Dominan Sue in this different defense. I think there's gonna be opportunities for him to blow things up, and it may not always end up being a sack for him, but I think he's going to really help blow up plays and maybe he won't won't get the credit for tackles or sacks, but somebody will

well he's blown it up. He started to play well near the end of the year and so now all clicks. I think he looks really good shape wise, he looks like he's in great shape, but he's a very big man. He's a he's a humongous me. So that's my guy. I'm really excited about it. We'll mark those down and see how it plays out ahead and get ready to get my guys. I'm gonna go get him, all right, we'll we'll be back for segment two in just a minute, the Salty Dogs. And we're back here on the Salty Dogs.

I'm still Scott Smith, and I am still Jeff Ryan, and you know, Jeff, to me, we started this in training camp last year, right, So to me, this is season two of Salty Dogs. It is so and that means we have an inaugural, very first guest of season two. We're thrilled to have Sean Murphy bunting with us. Shan, thanks man, hey, thank you for letting be one number one. Yeah,

he's all smiles to something. Yes, exact. Probably a bigger honor than being drafted in this absolutely absolutely, it's it's gonna be uh one of those pinnacles as you look back on your football career, you're gonna go Salty Dogs. If only I could have done more. Showing your mom is a fun follow on Twitter I'm not I'm not calling you a mom's boy. That's not what I mean by this. But you clearly love your mom alive. I do so much. I love my mom so much. I mean,

she's done everything for me. You know, I'm not just school my dad from anything, but my mom has always just been in my corner, you know, without a doubt, with every situation I've been in my life. She's like my best friend. UM. I mean I can just look to her anything and for anything, and so I'm very grateful. Could you be here right now if she hadn't done a lot of stuff for you along the way, Absolutely not, um.

I mean, like the countless hours that she's driven me across the country, you know, going to camps and going to football practice and baseball practice and basketball practice is just endless. Didn't she drive you? Just didn't she tell you to get in the car and drive you to Central? And so how did that come about? I mean, were you like applying or waiting? And she says enough of this, Um, So I was actually giving an offer. Um. And then the head coach at the time, Danny Knows, had resigned.

Once he resigned, my offer basically was avoided. And I had to wait until either new head coaches in place or it was kind of a feel out thing. I didn't know if I was going to have anything or not. And so I waited about a month a month and a half um, and then they hired coach Bono, and coach Bono was kind of in position for about two weeks, and then I was reaching out to him, you know, send him email, sending the phone call. I wasn't really

getting any responses from him. And then I mean, like you said, one day, my mom just said, you know what, let's go up there trying to figure out what's going on. And so she told me to get in the car. We drove two and a half hours and then scot on you know, face to face and at the spotty offer me. But but but as you're driving up, are you thinking, oh, gosh, Mom, maybe this is not a good idea. I mean, I'm just like, you know what it's I mean, she knows what she's doing, because she

knows what she's doing. So mom knows best, and she's always put me in good situation. She's always showed me the way to do things, and so I mean I just trusted her trust in God and let things fall into place. Right. So a guy who UM had to go through that just to get on a college team. At what that doesn't sound like the beginning of an NFL career. So at what point did you start to realize, Hey, this could go on to the NFL. UM, I want to say it was. It's it's always been a dream

of mine, you know, to go to the NFL. And I, honestly, I just want to be a professional athlete. So whether it was gonna be in baseball, whether it's gonna be in football, whether it's gonna be a basketball you know, I was gonna try my best. And then once I got you know, to Central Michigan, I tried to switch over to wide receiver because that's what I was playing,

you know, more heavy in high school. UM. And then coach Bono basically told me, like, you can be an average you know, college receiver, you can be an NFL caliber corner and UM, he ended up switching me over a corner. And then kind of the rest of kind of history. You know, I had a coach, the name was Coach Collins. Uh, he's my freshman year coach, sophomore year. UM, and he kind of maybe he kind of moded me to who I am now type of press guy I am,

and so I can't thank him enough. Speaking of being able to play corner at a high level, I want to ask you if I'm gonna guess the answer, the most important thing that a guy has to be able to has to have in order to be a really good cornerback. And I'm guessing it's really good footwork. Oh, definitely you have the real technique sound um, and a lot of guys are better like quick feet, quick feet, quick hands, you know, um, just being a ball hall.

You gotta have the mentality to be a defender, and definitely mentality be a cornerback because there's gonna be players where you get beat. You know, there's gonna be players where you know, you can't roam with a guy necessarily, so you have to find out the way to beat him. And that's where the technique comes into play, um and just taking the right angles and stuff like that. So so when you when you get beat on a play, you have to Everyone says, one play, you gotta move on.

When do you move on? Why when do you actually go back and look at it? Wink went on the bus going back, flying home, you're like running each play through your head again, right, So I mean, if if it's like a mental error, um, that's something that you correct right on the sideline. You know, after after the series is over, you get on the sideline, you figure out what you did wrong, you figure out, you know, a way that you can improve on that situation. Then

you move forward from there. But you can't drag them that same play because that's only going to result in, you know, countless and countless more errors and stuff like that. After quarterback, I've always felt like cornerback is the toughest

position to play in the most detail oriented. I mean through the years, I've always watched your position coach with whoever he had, and the detail if you guys have to do on your footwork and you're cutting and your change of direction, it's there's like so much detail goes

into that position. Is that accurate? Yes, sir. I mean everyone's gonna have their different opinion on kind of which positions are the most important of the hardest learning stuff like that, because I know it's not easy just being in the box every single play and going through guys like that and doing things like that. So, UM, I know,

just being a corner Like I said, it's just mental toughness. Um. You know, playing defense, playing wide receiver, playing cornerback, it's kind of all the same type of instincts you can have. So making the transition over the cornerback for me was a lot easier than other guys. Um. And so I

kind of took all the coaching points in that I could. Um, I kind of still had that mentality of being a receiver, being able to attack the ball, being able to judge routes and route rex reading the quarterbacks and stuff like that, and so it just all transitioned together just kind of benefited me a lot in the long run. You've got best of both worlds, sir. You get to see the cornerback and knock it away, and then if you get one, your god taking to the picking of taking it to

the house. Yesterday there was a pick went to the house for a pick six. Yeah, it was a pick six. Now y'all ran down, which is pretty cool. Now, my question is it looked like first all of you got in a row and it looked like you're own a boat. But then to me, it looked like you're on a roller coaster. So did I. Yeah, we were on a roller coast. We were enjoying the thrill of it. I got, we're at amusing the park having fun. Do I see that's what they're talking about. They said, rolling the boat.

I said, no, that they're going like this, you know, hands up in the air, like look mom, no hands. Todd Bowles were just talking about that, he said. You could get the feeling that he he wasn't necessarily hoping his guys would be celebrating in practice, But it's like it's a lot of young pups back there. They're gonna having fun. I couldn't row the boat though, you know, I'm a fire up chip type of guy. Row the boat. That was it? Getting on that boat? Fleck yeah, j J J J p j J. He was here. He

was here for a while. Um yeah, but you guys, it seems like you guys are having fun. We are. We are having a lot of fun. Uh. You make, the more players you make, the more fun you have. And so we're trying to make every play possible and just enjoyed the game. From from must watching practice, what are we five days is in? It just looks like, you know, you're having fun, but I understand let me finish. You know, I can turn him off. You want to just do a one on one? Um, what what it's

gonna say? Y'all come together. You really don't know each other, but it seems and am I reading too much in this that you guys are all really meshing, which is really hard to do, and that that that thing called culture, that thing called chemistry. Do you feel like you're on that right path? Yes, sir, absolutely. I mean we're all young. Like you said, we have a veteran guy in the room, and you know he's still young as well, and so, um, each one of us have something to prove, and that's

kind of the same mentality that we all have. And when you all have like a group like that, you know, and you're striving for one goal, then you're automatically gonna mesh well, you know, want me in Jamale Dean came in, and once Mike came in. We kind of us three Joel together because you all had that same mentality of

just coming in, you know, playing contribute and winning championships. Um. And so we fit very well in that secondary and especially with the coaches in the secondary and the defensive staff and um, everyone just most together. Well, you said you played baseball center field, yes, center field, middle and fields. It's because he moved, he's got wheels. How was your stick? Oh? I was leadoff? That makes sense? Did you you're asking

me sick? That's great? Yeah? Yeah. First and third, if you if you'd have been able to play baseball, would you would you still have preferred football to that? And either answers fine? Yeah, Um, I mean I would say based off of what how I was growing up. I was a baseball guy. You know. Baseball was my main sport. That was what I wanted to do. And yes, sir, so I started playing travel all rom seven eight years old. It's just like Scott has a son that's been doing

that because I played like all my sports overlapped. So I played AU basketball, I played travel baseball football, and so I would be leaving baseball games going to basketball tournaments and stuff like that. You know that's interesting because it was fun. Yeah. Well, there's there's a lot of families now and we'll get you out here in just

a minute. Where um that uh, they get their their kids pretty good at one sport baseball in particular, and they just do that year round and they focus on that. And I tend to think that kids get a better experience and get better at everything if they play a lot of different sports. Yeah, I definitely agree to what you're saying, because like, when you specialize in one sport, I mean not you not necessarily won't be you know,

you still can't not be that good in that sport. Um. But when you kind of divide your talent in a different sports, you're learning kind of the way to move your muscles a lot differently, um and you know, different vision, different things like that, Like basketball helped me play football, Football help you played baseball, and just stuff like that. UM. So I feel like they all kind of jell together

and messed together. I've done some coaching and I had a kid who was pretty good at baseball and not one of the team's best players, and um on the travel team and he would and played basketball just in a wide league the summer, and he came back and he was way better because for some reason he played well in the basketball thing and it just really built up as confidence, confidency, up, coordination, vision, stuff like that. It made him faster, he rans more smoothly. So there's

definitely crossover. It sounds like let's kids be. Let let kids be kids, like, just go play, let them play, let him play. I have one last question, and then you may have one last question. I know that I I know that you want to start. Yes, everybody wants to start. My question is do you expect to start? Um, I'm expecting to just give him my all. I'm expecting to go out and compete at the highest level and

I'm going to win a job. That's my goal, you know, That's what I'm I'm expecting to get the most out of myself and so Um, Ultimately the decision is going to be, you know, on the coach and staff and and on who they feel is best for that that position. But all I can do is control, you know, my effort, my attitude, and just how I go out there and handle myself in every situation. I do have one more question. Okay, I lied, which is we also lied about ten minutes. Yeah, well,

I know we're gonna get him out. Um, how sore are you? You had pads for two days? Uh, I'm not you know, I'm not too sore. I'm not too sore where I can't compete. You know, you can play through you know, just about everything doing this your entire life, and so your by it's gonna be banged up just because your first you know, putting the pads back on. But you just gotta keep fighting through it and just keep keep batting. I'm good, Jeffy, you done all the questions.

It's cool, you know, do you have anything left? Now, let's let sun get out of here. You know we're right in the middle of another training camp. Yes, they have stuff in the morning, they have stuff in the afternoon. They do get some time to see my must have hit my time. I'm running at forty nine, we said to and you say almost twelve. But we appreciate your time. You're our first guest in the year, and then it was a great way to start. Yeah, I can't wait

to see in the first preseason guest, the Salty Dogs. Okay, we're back here for our final segment of our first episode season two. Good. I always want to be able to see and involved in a season two and that's why I picked That's why you're right. He is a sharp kid, smooth, as you said, smooth on the field too. Um. Okay, so this is the samement where we usually answer fans questions.

The problem with that is that we haven't been on for quite some time and I didn't ask for any questions on Twitter or anything, so I didn't I don't have any in the mailbox. So hopefully by next week or we can do this every week now, I guess yes, okay, absolutely starting now, So hopefully by next week we'll have some questions in the inbox. And that is just um, it's salty Dogs s A L T Y D O G S at Buccaneers U C C A N E

R S dot NFL dot com. Don't forget that NFL part in the middle, or I won't get to us. So send us questions and next week will be answering those. I thought in the in place of that, I could just look through my Twitter mentions because I've been tweeting a lot during camp, and you know, people respond and ask questions and so on. Maybe we can just comment on those. Yeah, I'm game, I'm with you, all right.

So here first one is, um. The first one is yesterday after we'd signed and he was on the practice field. Vincent Testaverdi, son of Vinnie Testaverdi. Yeah, you know, it's funny we're standing out there. So and today we signed Vinny Testaverdi, and I said, dang, how old you and I have both been around long enough that we did overlap with him just one season for me? Okay, I think let's see if you agree. Everybody that I know

and I felt the same way, really liked Vinny. Very nice guy, always has been right, is that the way you do? You have good interactions with him as well? Great great guy? I think yes, considering considering that he took a lot of abuse from everybody. So I took a picture of Vincent his son, warming up and from the back, so it's an orange jersey with the words

Testaverdy on him, like we haven't seen that. It was cool that it was an orange hurt like we have buck fans haven't seen this in a long time, right, Uh. And so there were some reactions that one guy it was kind of rude about it. He's like, what was it say here? I can't find it? Um, who cares? The only quarterback that matters is Jameis Winston. I can't find it, so it doesn't matter. But uh, the only quarterback we'd save this nostalgic stuff or somebody else like, Okay, fine,

somebody's cranky. Yeah, I mean, jeez, if you don't like it, just ignore it. You're not salty, you're just meanly. I know. I don't understand that. I mean, I don't get it. But then this guy, David J. Pott says, Uh, pretty cool story. You wonder if they'll keep three quarterbacks this season. So, yeah, it's a cool story that Vincent's here. But I thought we could answer that, well, they keep three quarterbacks this season,

what do you think they have previously? They have? So, I think it depends on how the other positions play out. If you have the luxury of it being able to carry three, Um, I don't think you're gonna carry two veteran guys. Uh, you don't other than So's Jamis, then you've got you got Ryan Griffin. Yeah, you don't think we'll keep all three? I I I don't know. I think it all depends on what what this kid does too.

But Vincent, Yeah, I would be shocked if either he or Nick Fitzgerald starts starts the regular season on the active rosters. That's not to say they don't have a career in front of him, now, could they but they could go on the practice squad. So to add some context, you're absolutely right that in Arizona, for most of his five years there, Bruce's teams had three quarterbacks on the restaurant. But I think a lot of years that was just because they had injuries. They were going through a lot

of guys because they had injury issues. Um. He was asked that question the offseason and he said he would prefer to carry too, And some teams do that now because you don't have that third inactive quarterback rule anymore. So your third quarterback is always going to be inactive and he's never gonna play. So what teams do is they'll carry a third quarterback on the practice squad. If a guy gets hurt and he's gonna miss some time, then they bring him up. So you still have three

quarterbacks around for practice. You have three that are theoretically ready to play a game if need be, but you only you only use two of your fifty three roster spots on it. I think that's what they would like to do. I don't know if they'll get there or not. It probably depends on just how well all three of

those guys are doing. Right. Um, but uh so, I'm gonna say it works out though, and either blamee Gabert or Ran Griffin is the backup and the other one has moved on, and then we keep a young guy on practice squad. That's my guess. Yeah, I would go with that, Okay, but we won't know until end of August. Okay, Um, is Peyton Manning? Here's this is what a guy named Addaway said. Is Peyton Manning playing running back this year? Too? Do you do? You want to know the context of

why somebody would ask me that. Um, I'm gonna have to admit to your biggest Twitter mistake and there will be more. Okay, yeah, you heard about this. I'm getting heat from every personal on football side about this one. But you know why because you're so accurate so often. And I know this is going to come back and haunt me because I'm saying this, But you are pretty accurate.

And when you and I have discussions, we you know, we were around together at the same time, and but I will I will say your memory is much better than Yeah, this wasn't a memory issue. This was a brain fart. But can you send me that that clip right there later? So I keep it and replay it. Don't you understand. Don't you understand I'm deleting that out because will not make something nice perfect. Shoot, he ain't got a chance, you can swear. Okay, I caught it.

I caught it. Hey, I'm staying out with Bruce. Give me a break, yeah, said oh crap, um, So I'm going to after you said that I'm usually right about stuff, I'm going to prove you wrong or at least in this instance. So I'm standing there by a Bruce while he's having his post practice talk with the media, and he said they asked him why Donovan Smith in practice

the day. He said he just had a little achilles thing that he would be fine, and sure enough, Donovan was back in practice the next day, which is great. But as I go to share that news with buck fans on Twitter, I, for some reason type left tackle Donovan McNabb I saw all that and I was gonna there was I mean, it was like maybe twenty seconds later one of the other media guys like frantically trying

to get my attention. I'm like, you probably should reread that tweet, and so I did, and I corrected it and I made fun of myself. But I'm still getting it on Twitter, which is fair. You're gonna get it, and most most people are just having fun with you, like this guy is, you know, asking his paint man and going to be the running back. Well, you know

that's what happens when you have fat thumbs. So so you know, I can't even blame that on a type of because I doubt that was an autocorrect, which was just my brain heard the word Donovan and followed it up with mcnah Yeah, well, which is it or Smith. The only reason that I have had occasion to um write or tweet or anything about Dinovan McNab is usually when I'm talking about Randey Barber and all the times

he victimized him. Greatest play ever. Well that and if you're voting, not that, by the way of your voting for the top play. Voting is still going on it, I don't know, but if you were, let's get back to that in a second. First, uh, In addition to that great play that everybody knows what you're talking about, the ninety two yard pick six that sent the Bucks to the Super Bowl. Um, he also in his one game where he had two pick sixes in the same game that was also against Don in the Eagles in

two thousand six. It was the same game where Matt Bryan hit the sixty two years right, Matt Brian gets the key to the city and Randy Barber gets to touch to two pigs like historic and and if you if you ever want to get Randy a little rolled out, Yeah, you just mentioned the fact that that he'd been here how many years, never got a key to the game, and he gets two pick six is on the same game and a guy kicks a sixty two yard er. Well, yeah, hopefully Randie will end up in the Hall of Fame.

And yes, and Matt Bryan's had a fantastic phenomenal and and good guys. So two good things. So we'll move on. Okay, So, but you brought up that there's been voting, and I don't know if the doing is still going on. We were as part of the NFL's hundred season celebration. Every team is giving their fans a chance to choose from some weird having my audience, that's just me walking back rocking.

I'm sorry, Uh, giving fans a chance to choose from four plays that we chose that I chose to be honest with to vote for which one is the greatest moment in history, not necessarily play. So our four were the Rande Barber Bock six that shut down the Vet, Derek Brooks's uh pick six that the Dagger Daggers in it in the Super Bowl. The first round of NFL Draft, one of only three times that any team has ever taken two eventual Hall of famers in the same round,

totally turned the franchise around. If you don't know, Warren Sapp and Derek Brooks. Yes, and then the in just their fourth season, the Buccaneers win the NFC Central and their very first exposure to the playoffs, and they beat Philadelphia. Rickey Bell ran like forty eight times or something that times that was a playoff record at the time. Um

I chose that. I know when you heard them, you actually felt like the very first win in franchise history in New Orleans should have been the fourth one instead, which is fa which is you know, you lose twenty six.

I know, but that's why it's kind of like I'd rather write about they made the playoffs rather than hey, well, I understand the only reason that game was incredible is because they lost the last twenty, right, but it was a moment and and you know there are there are um little kids that were like, you know, three or four years old, hanging out at one Buck when I mean, yeah, it came back to a huge, huge crowd, and I will say Tampa Bay, you know, was railing around the bucks.

They were owing twenty six, but people were still excited about it, and they were still hoping and and and then and then you know it's finally like it's over and yeah, and then they won the next game to their first winning home over St. Louis, one of the two St teams to Avantage. And you know who lost, you know who lost their job over over? Yeah, Hankstram, Yes, the Saints coach. Yeah, it was apparently losing to the

to the Buccaneers was a fireball offense back then. Well, it gets to that point you don't want to be that team, you know. So that's why to me, that's that's added context. The fact that winning your first playoff game ever in just your fourth season is huge because that was just two years after they had lost their twenty six straight game, Right, that's pretty incredible. Yeah, but you gotta give it credit. You know, two years of losing,

it was not fun. So whether you picked my pick or your pick for the fourth option there, it still doesn't matter to me because to me clearly and I had some arguments on Twitter, although I think more people agreed with me than not. The most the greatest moment in the greatest achievement for this team ever is winning the Super Bowl. The single greatest moment to me, and I will never waiver from this, is Randee Barber pick

six shutting on the back. We're gonna have to stop this show because this is twice I'm agreeing with you. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I'm definitely gonna need to save this. No, I I could not. Uh, I'll take on whoever you want to take on that says that, ain't it because there of all the aims that I've I've done and I've been to, I can still tell you I am standing in a really crappy broadcast booth, not even a

broadcast booth. It's a big row. He shut down the broadcast, we shut down the VET and then we won the first game in the Lincoln seventeen to nothing. And there was I mean, you talk about and the best part about it when the fact that the equipment there there the Philadelphia Eagles thought they were gonna win. The video people were already sending stuff to San Diego that when our guys got there, they had to move their stuff

out of the way. They were planning ahead because that was the last Super Bowl when there wasn't two weeks between those, right, And and remember how long it took us to get out of Philadelphia because they lost. They were they wouldn't let the truck go down. I don't remember that. And also traffic control was real slow of getting us out, so we get back late and less than twelve hours later, less than twelve hours. But but I can still thinking, damn it, we're gonna lose a

championship game again, because was was was a crusher. And you know, I can only fathom with we had. We had into two playoff runs and they weren't runs. But we lost in Philly that year in the season, and I I can close my eyes right now and see Ronde running down. I can hear in Jean call and I'm like this, he said dagger in that one too, because I just heard it the other day. Um, but yes, I think that was a defining moment that was that

was a defining moment of we belong here. Yeah, this is and and our players said that after that happened, they knew they were going to win the super Bowl and that's easy to say afterwards, but they did go into the game just demolish them. You know. It's funny that week, uh, I did interviews with with um Brad Johnson and John lynch Um at the team hotel for for pregame stuff, and both of them were like, we're

gonna win this game. And I'm like, hey, you know, you gotta be really and they're going, no, you don't understand, we're gonna win this. The defense was in in particular, was confident because they felt like they knew everything the radio has to do. Yeah. So remember when John Gruden on the Thursday Super Bowl practice like ran the scout team he was the quarterback because he and he was like they and then they're in the Super Bowl and they know exactly what Yeah, they're going to calling the

same thing. So well, when does when do the results come out on that? I'm I don't know, Okay, next week back about how knowledgeable you are? Right in one ronge All right, Um, so yeah, you're based on next week. If you're in baseball, you're three, so you're a star. Two out of three is well, okay, six hundred. So you just worry about the little knobs over their jobs. I'll handle them. I don't do math very well as you can tell. Alright, alright that it was a good one.

It's a good start. That Sehn Murphy Bunny was great. But fans really get excited about that kid. You right, you're him, And we'll do it next week before we head to Pittsburgh. It sounds good, all right, very good. Hey, since you did, Thanks for listening. M