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Welcome everybody to the Salty Dogs Podcast. I'm Scott Smith and I am Jeff Ryan, And really we should be saying welcome back. Really, it's a new season. Yes, our first broadcast broadcast. Does that makes sense?
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Fans want fans of the Bucks want us here us talk about the Bucks. Sure, so let's do that.
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Uh, you know where I want to start with. Okay, so we're on the verge of the seat. We can talk about the stuff that happened in the preseason, and we will. Yeah, we can talk about the roster moves this week, and we will. But we are here in week one and it's time for power rankings again. I know almost as much. Do you love fantasy? Yeah, the power rankings are starting to come out, man, and oh man, people are not people, but members of the national media do not believe in the Buck and I love it again again. Oh yeah, Jason Light loves it. Everybody loves it.
Listen. I totally understand why national media is saying what they're saying because they're national, which means they're not here every day, right, and they're and they have to also.
I'll get put their odds in their favor. I'll give Pete Prisco credit.
Well, Pete actually was here during training.
Good point. He ranked us thirteenth. We just did our first round up of power ranking on the buccaneers dot Com this week, and most of them are in the twenties, which is why I'm talking about this right now. Okay, but Pete Prisco has this thirteenth. Yeah, well, so go read his ranking.
Yeah well, in fairness CBS Sports, I should say, yeah, well he was actually here. He spent a good part of it of a training camp day. Are we in all day? And I think he came in thinking one thing from what I gathered, and left thinking another thing, which which was good because your eyes don't lie.
Well, he has the Falcons of twentieth, the Saints of twenty seventh, and the Panthers thirty.
Well, see, I think I think there is with the Falcons. I kind of understand it. But I think they have a good running game and they have a pretty good defense.
But they do that well. They've got some good was not good left you don't think so it was not good period numbers. Now they did add recently safety Justin Simmons, and they traded for Ed Drusher Matthew Judah okay, and they they now have a very nice safety combination with him.
And Jesse Bates, who was awesome last year.
But they did not have great results. They have not generally had a good I don't want to be sitting here talking smack about the falcon No, no, true, yeah, no, they did not have They've for years have been trying to find an edge rush. Obviously, they've had some great play in the middle from guys like Grady Jared and Kalaias Campbell, who's not there anymore.
He's with Miami.
Now they've got you know, their corners have been okay, Yeah, their linebacker's been okay. Their their defensive results simply haven't been that good in recent years. So did they do enough to change that?
Well, they have a new coaching staff with Raheem More. That's Jimmy Lake's there.
We obviously think that's an up that's an upgrade.
And then you know everybody's on the Kirk Cousin bandwagon. Well that's the whole that's what they're all banking on.
It's a continuation of the general theme of the how people feel about this division over the last couple of years. Everybody says it's the worst division of football. Atlanta's contender. I'm reading articles of saying the Panthers are the best bet to go from worse to first, because usually every season at least one team goes worse. The first the Panthers were the worst team in football last year, but they could go worse to first because the division is so bad. That's the storyline. I want to rewind to last year around this time, and what were we saying the same thing. The national media was down on the Buccaneers, and.
I got it. Do we have a quarterback?
That's I understood it, and almost everyone was. There's still a lot of talent on this roster. There's still a lot of players from the defense that won the Super Bowl. There's still Mike Evans and Chris Godwin. They've got talent, but they don't have a quarterback. And this was after we got Baker Mayfield and he won the starting job right right, But there was very little belief in Baker Mayfield because he'd had some kind of a journeyman year and a half or so and had been in some not great situations, had had some injury issues at the end of Cleveland year. What we said at the time, and you can go back and listen to this, because it's true. They said more than once. If that's your that's what you're saying about the Buccaneers. They still have talent. They still have a lot of good defensive players. They still have some good weapons, but they're going to be bad because they don't have a quarterback, which is true in the NFL you do need to have at least decent quarterback to have a shot, right, And we said, okay, fine, even if all what you're saying is correct, what if Baker's actually good? Yeah, because we've seen him be good. We saw him in his best year in Cleveland when he's healthy and things are going well. We saw him do essentially what he did last year with us. He did a little bit better last year, but and he took his team to the second round of the playoffs and had great numbers.
And no one gives him credit for having the perfect game at lambeau Field.
That was awesome.
No one talks about that. We talked about it at the time, Well we do, but I'm just saying I wrote about it in a story today. That's one of the bricks in his career. And so you're absolutely right, he did have a good year. But now everybody's saying, yeah, but it was year one. Can he repeat is good?
The Bucks got lucky, they were, which which I could on first down, which is true.
We you got to kind of have some luck in.
The especially when it comes to injuries. Correct, there are some stats that indicate that there the Bucks were fortune in some ways in terms of things like facing backup quarterbacks and you know, third down success that it's hard to sustain. But okay, so I said what I just said about what we were saying before last year, and then it came to pass. The Baker was good, and the Buccaneers made it to the division around the playoffs and took Detroit a tie into the fourth quarter in Detroit with a chance.
To get to the NFC Championship and get zero credit for beating the Philadelphia.
Oh, nobody thinks that matter at all because Philadelphia was cratering at the time. You still gotta win and it wasn't like it was close. They blew him out of the water. Yeah, so you still have to stop Jalen Hurts. He still exists.
He's there there, thank you.
So anyway, it's just last year didn't bother me because I understood where they were coming from. Tom Brady had retired. But this year, this year, it's bugging me a little bit, really because we have everybody back who did we lose from the team that won the division. Now here's part of the problem. The Bucks won the division at nine and eight, a crappy division, right barely over for five hundred. You can play the what if game as much as you want, sure, and the way that you employ that is to feel about it away about a certain team. The Bucks suck right and then and then using those numbers to say, see they were not. I can do the same thing. Though. We were beating Houston by four points to be a very good Houston team that everybody loves in Houston. We were beating him by four points with forty six seconds left to play and they had no timeouts. Then c J. Stroud did one an amazing drive. He deserves tons of credit for it. That you can't tell me that if you that, if you had ten times that happened, that's it's probably happening once.
But that was their turning point. That's when they realized they were becoming a good team.
I'm just picking one game there, and you could go on the other side and say, well, they barely got by this game. If we were ten and seven, nobody would be saying, ah, they were. They barely went ten and seven looks good.
Nine and eight's like you were you were one win away from you you were you were one game away from the super Bowl.
No, from the NC Championship game.
Well, correct, but you were there, so all you needed was too Bold won, right. But Detroit was great and they deserved to win, and they.
Were they're they're they're having the they quit talking about super Bowl, and Dan Campbell made a comment yesterday, team you need to quit talking about the super Bowl.
Nothing matter this year. So, I mean, you have, you have that that situation. But I understand when when you know, it's like when I look at a team. I mean I try to read up on as much as possible, but you know a lot of times it's just in a quick opinion of it of looking at and going, yeah, they're not so good. You know, it's not I understand, I get it, but I don't. I just don't think. In Baker Mayfield's case, you dog him because he bounced around from team to team. He gets into a situation that's good for him, and he excels in that situation, but you're not giving him any credit for.
We also completely took over leadership of this team. Everybody loves the guy will run for Brick Wallford but you not.
Nothing correct correct, and that is and I think it's just you know, show me. I guess that's what guy was the first.
Pick in the draft for a reason. I saw him. Well he's out here in trainingca That dude can rip off some throws. Man.
I really like him. I just you know, there are some players that you connect with right away, and he's just a really good, down to earth and I you know, sometimes you get you get knocked around in this league, and if you're a first round pick, so much is on you, or if you're you know, the number one pick goes to a situation where he has to elevate a poor franchise and it was and then but he's been gone what two years now, and and so who's their quarterback?
He hasn't played, Oh yeah, Deshaun Watson. Yeah, so he's played a little bit last year. Yeah.
But I think for for Baker, I think he kind of likes that, like, okay, fine, whatever, that's good. But I don't think people have I don't think people have looked at the upgrades we've done on our offensive side of the ball.
Here's another thing that people that that some analysts will say, you know, the Buccaneers. Their effort this offseason was obviously to bring back and not lose to free Tocy. Sure, their key players Baker Mayfield, Mike Evans, Levante, David Antoinfield, un you're the kicker, Chase McLaughlin and then he was still in one year leftos contract. But getting Christian wurfsixton was a big part of it too. And the analysts, there are analysts out there who will say that's the wrong approach because this team is not good and you you're not there, what are you trying to go nine and eight again? And I always hate that kind of analysis because that they're saying, instead, let everybody go and start over. You should always be trying to win. Sure. I mean there are there are times when you bought them out and it makes sense to trade away a couple of players and so on, but this isn't. If you think you have a shot at it, you should go for it.
Well, you know last year was a rebuilding year for the Buccaneers.
Well that they said that, That's what they said, and they're saying it again. Tom Brady should.
Tom Brady's gone and so now all of a sudden, this was a rebuilding year. Oh wait a minute, the bricks they put in the wall worked really well, so yeah, so yeah. I mean you don't know until the end, til the season's over with. Then there's ebbs and flows. And of course the team took a major hit because of that middle of the ground where they were losing games. But then they came back.
And they did what they the division round of the world.
You win them in the front, you win them in the back. You just got to win.
So just one way, I don't want this to becoming a bitch session. We're happy right now, we should be saying happy things.
But I know why eure upset. But I also understand, well irritates it bothers me more than it did last year, but I understood there's nothing you could do about it, right, But I also understand why there are media members outside this area who are just gleaming information and going there.
Like I said, I don't want it to be a bitch session. Let's talk happy things. But just to put a ball on it. We were talking about some of this stuff at lunch the other day and I was saying, Okay, I do admit that of the numbers, the critical numbers about last season that are out there. The one that does worry me is the fact that it's true the Buccaneers were not very efficient on first downs last year, but the offense still worked because they were way better on third downs. And that's hard to sustain. I said this a little while ago, sure, and I'm like, that does worry me a little bit. But then one of the people we were talking about said, yeah, but that means, what if we're better on first downs this year? The offense could be a lot better, right, And one of the best one of the ways you can get better on first downs is to be better at running the football. On running downs, you're reading my mind, and the Bucks were the worst team in the league in that last year, and what if we're better running the ball? What I saw in the preseason gave me a lot of confidence.
I believe we will be better running the ball and I and I believe it because I think we fortified the offensive line, the.
Interior part of it.
Yes, yes, I I think there is a new coaching staff offensively, but there's also offensive line coaches and what happens, there is some new blood, so there's some you know, after you're you know, if you have a boss, or you have someone telling you something, you know, run over and over again, it loses his effectiveness. It's just nature.
I think with the new we should fire all the busses every couple of years. I'm all in because I'm because you're not well.
My crew may not maybe yet, but no, what I'm I'm basically saying is that sometimes fresh blood coming in the door. Maybe saying the same thing, but saying it in a different manner help people buy into it better.
Well, Dave Canelis wanted to run the football. Yeah, and obviously Dave Canels did a lot of good things because his one year is our offensive shot, got him a head coaching job, and we love the guy. Yeah, good guy and he did a great job. But that's another thing that you'll see. Here's another reason why the Bucks are gonna be worse this year. They have to integrate a new offensive coordinator. Well, we had to do that last year, right, and it worked fine. Sure, what if Liam Cohen's offense, which is has its roots in the Sean McVay rams offense that has swept the league? Yeah, what if he what if he's got something better?
And maybe maybe he's got you know, maybe he got to upgrade the old line that they wanted to do last year, but they didn't have it last year.
True, I can't fix everything every year. Seas and Light I said, he figured maybe he's figured out because what I saw in the preseason. I know it's preseason, but what I saw in the preseason was our offensive lineman moving guys and creating lanes, especially cut back lanes.
And we all forget. You know, Ryan Jensen went down last year or two years ago, but he didn't play like we expected him to play, and he did right, so that was an effect.
Yeah, And Cody Mauch and his first year is the right guard. He's very good technically, but he just was a little bit. He needed to get a little bit bigger and stronger, which he has done this offseason because just handling some of these very strong interior linemen is difficult if you don't have the rings amount of strength, and he's apparently done a good job of improving that. I'm just saying, you know, Liam Cohen has said he's going to have a wide variety of runs instead of just being a duo team or a wide zone team or a mid zone team. We're gonna try to do it all because they don't want them to know where we're going with the ball and what we're gonna be doing on any given play. And I just saw a lot of running plays where our offensive linemen in concert were able to move multiple defenders in the direction they wanted to, creating cutback lanes and these backs that we got. Rareshad White has been instructed over and over again by his coaches since last season to be more aggressive and to hit the hole quickly. And he only played in the last game, but he did a good job of seeing it making one cut and going. Bucky Irving and even Sean Tucker looked awesome making that one cut and then going. And I just think I think Bucky Irving is going to take some of the load off for Shod Whitey. Bucky Irving, by the way, is a very natural pass catcher. That was one of my big takeaways from training camp practices, which can get tedious after a while. He just so smooth catching the ball and even if he has to twist his body a little bit or something, he just he makes every catch too.
Yeah, coaching staff very very excited about Bucky. Yeah, Yeah, they what you saw in college is what you're seeing now, which sometimes does not translate.
Same thing with Jayleen McMillan. Yeah, there's a chance that this here's a good segue.
For this, Okay, so after good segues are important.
After I think this This information came from a source called the thirty third team, but I saw it in a nanam Schefter tweet. They do this every year once the cuts are done and you g have your first fifty three man rosters. They they calculate the average age of every roster. The Buccaneers have the second youngest roster in the league behind Green Bay, with an average age of twenty five point five nine years old, and they have the third youngest starting lineup in the NFL, behind Green Bay and the Giants, with an average age of twenty five point seven years old. The reason that that happened, and because that happened quickly, Yeah, the Super Bowl team was not a young team. It was one of the oldest teams in the league. And the twenty twenty one team was not a young team. But over the last three years, Jason Lyight had drafted twenty three players, and twenty two of them are on the roster right now and add in also that over those three years, we've probably had combined about eight or nine undrafted free agents make the team, like a Christianizzi in last year. Actually there was about four or five of them last year, like Rock Kim Jarrett. Guys like that. That a roster has been completely overhauled in terms of age in like three years. And they won this. They won the division every year. So it wasn't a no, it's not a flu you can and Jason Lighten says this when he's asked these questions at the podium. He's like, yeah, it's great when all your draft picks make the team if they're good, If all your draft picks make the team, if all your draft picks make the team, and five undrafted free agents may the team because your your roster's terrible and even if they're not great, they're upgrades, that's not great.
Well, he's also he also has said, and I like this the best, Todd Bowles and his coaching staff is not afraid of putting young guys in. Now, you be not afraid to put young guys in. But the talent is there and they had the confidence that the younger guys can pick it up and get it done, and so that is huge.
Well, they look at the guys, even if they're undrafted free agents, they watch them on the practice field to go, well, I can see he can do it. So I'm not gonna be concerned about the fact that he's young and undrafted.
Right, he can do it, He can do can do it right, exactly exactly. We're not putting just because you're a veteran doesn't make you a great player.
Right. So this year, of course, we don't know yet, but this draft class I think has a chance to make a really big difference for this team because let's go down it.
Yeah, Graham Barton.
Has already won the starting center job and looked in his last game when he started after being named the star because he was starting the first two because all the starters were sure name the starter start last game. He didn't allow any pressures. Actually, I think that was in the second game because he only played one drive. Because that was a good drive drive. He was very good pass blocking and run blocking. The advanced metrics, the pffs of the world loved what he did. Okay, that's your first pick. Could make a huge difference in the run game. That's what he was known for in college. He says that your second pick is Chris Braswell, who we really need more off the edge, and you don't have Shack Bearrett anymore. And yah ya, Fortunately it appears there's a good chance he'll be able to play. But look all like camp with an ankle injury.
You need I just think they held him out because they wanted to be careful. They there's no reason to Yeah, we'll.
Got our first injury report on Wednesday. We're recording this on Tuesday. But yeah, I think the bonus practice on Monday. I think there's good optimism that he'll be able to go, but you need a deep rotation there. And Chris Braswell had a sack in the final game and just basically impressed the coaches throughout trading camp. So if he can give you something, that'll make a huge difference. Because to me, that's one of the big questions on this team. Can it produce a good edge rush, because really last year when rushing four when not blitzing, Bucks were pretty low on the rankings of pressure rate, like twenty eighth or something like that. And now Todd Bowles does a great job of disguising and bringing different blitz packages, and we got some nice contributions from the interior guys and yeah yeah had seven and a half sacks. So it all worked out to I think forty eight sacks, which was top ten in the league. So the end result was fine. But you really want to be able to when you need to get pressure without blitzing, like the Bucks did against Kansas City and the Super Bowl. Right, So if Braswell can really change upgrade how this team can rush the passer off the edge, that'll be huge. Okay, moving on, Jalen McMillan and Tykee Smith not in that order in the third round. Well, Tyke Smith is your slack corner and Jalen McMillan is your third receiver.
And we saw some film on Tikey today. Oh no, you weren't in that.
I wasn't in it. Oh yeah, no, we were raw spoke yeah Rob McCartney, uh to the staff director for pro scouting. Yeah, director of pro Scouting something like that.
He he was demonstrating our draft picks and pointed out on tape what they did and how well and the reason why they were looking at them, and very impressive, very impressive what you just said, and he said totally. Well, well, of course, you know, Bardon was the first one, but but he did bring that up. So because he's small, but he's very, very strong, and one of the plays, uh, he literally blew up a three hundred and fifty pound guy.
Oh, I think I know the one you're talking about. And then he chased the quarterback down from Yes, yes, that was a great play.
Yeah.
Uh you know where I saw that was in the micd up because there's a Mike Kaike Smith segment on buccaneers dot Com. Yeah, and he rushes around the left tackle, gets through him, and then chases him the corbet trips him up.
Yep. So yeah, you I think that guy and the guy he blew up, I think got picked in the second round or something like that.
So the guy you play in the slot, you wanted to be able to blitz like when Antoine was able to do when he was in there, and he needs to be a strong and willing tackler, and he needs to be able to operate in space, so I mean in tight spaces in the middle of the field. Then Jalen McMillan, who we were complaining at the top of the show about the lack of love from NASIA. On the flip side, I've seen several national media members that I respect quite a bit who loved the Jalen McMillan pitch.
I love it.
There's a really really good draft analyst named Ben Solak who has been at the Ringer for a couple of years, but he just moved over to ESPN to do that for them, and I think he's fantastic. And he he said Jalen McMillan was the biggest receiver steal of the draft, and uh, and he looked fantast all throughout training camp and he made that great catch on the first drive with the starting team to the four. He lined up on the outside because Chris Robin's gonna be in the slot. A lot got around his guy, ran a go and then had to make a leaping, twisting catch between two defenders right and get his feet down on the sideline or I guess he actually ended up getting like a foot in an elbow down or something.
But that's exciting plays from rookies.
Yeah, and see that. I mean, if you Trey Palmer did some nice things last year as your primary third receiver and he should still have an impact on the season. His overall numbers were about thirty six catches, three hundred and eighty yards something like that. He did affect other plays with his speed, so beyond the numbers, he did some other things that helped like Mike and Chris get more open spaces. So I'm glad we still have him. But if you have another guy like JAYL McMillan who's able to produce a lot as your third receiver, now your offense is going to another level again. Another reason to be optimistic about this offense right right. And then you have Bucky Earing, the fourth round pick, which we talked about. Yeah, he's looked awesome. Elijah Klein very quietly had a very nice camp camp and then he in that Jaguars game when we had multiple tackles, well we weren't playing our starters, and then justin School and I think Luke Haggard were both injured and couldn't play. So they started Elijah Kline at right tackle and didn't miss a beat and he did a good job. And then he played in the second half. He played a right guard and he quietly, he's quietly getting it done. So he makes the team. First of all, the next question is is he one of the eight active guys on game day, because you keep eight offensive linemen active, and it's almost certainly going to be just in school as a swing tackle and Robert Hainsey as one of the backups. So it's between him and the guy we claimed off waivers from the Packers, Royce Newman.
Which also helps the cause.
Yeah, but I'm saying, if this guy is a six round pick and you look at him and go, well right away, we can feel comfortable with him as an active reserve who might have to go into the game, and maybe this guy has starting potential down the line. I mean, that's that's a long way down.
The road, but I think I think you're on the right path. I do believe he'll eventually be a starter.
So that's a nice six round pick. And then Devin colp we kept four tight ends. If you had told me we earned it, if you'd have told me which position on offense we would go heavy on, that was not it. We only kept five receivers, ye, and we only kept three running backs. We kept four tight ends in an offense run by a guy who comes from the Rams, who virtually never played two tight end sets. I think we're going to play more than they did, but we kept four of them because we have stuff we want to do with all four of them. And Devin Colp clearly showed, I think more so in practice than in the games. He did have a couple of plays. That guy when he catches the ball and has the ball in his hands in the open field, he's a menace.
Yep. And I think Cole Keeth solidified a position mainly because.
Of his blocking, and he's a monstrong specialty.
Yes, and that is the other aspect of guys making the team. But I thought it was interesting that they were going to say that Coe was also going to be also looked at as a full back.
Yeah. I mean he's the guy. If you want to play where you use a full back of h back, he's your guy.
Yeah. But that's that's a beefy guy that can block.
So that's his thing. That's also somebody described him. Somebody here on the staff just said to me the other day. He said he's like a maniac on special teams. So, and we know how important special teams may be this year with the new kickoffs.
Sure, which I'm looking forward to seeing it in a real game because everybody was kind of like testing it out, So I think they have a little bit of a sample of what they think they can and can't do.
As I suspected, and as special teams coordinator Thomas mcgahey or t mac kind of alluded to in his press conference on Monday, nobody was showing their good stuff. No, why put it on table?
Well?
Yeah, why give Washington something to look at to prepare for if you have a play you think will work.
Right?
The bigger question to me is how many teams are going to be aggressive with this and how many are going to go all?
Right?
The average the average starting spot on when the ball was returned in the preseason was the twenty and a half yard line, and a touchback is the thirty. Yeah, why don't we just kick a bunch of touchbacks? Give him an extra yard and a half.
Because you may have a guy that you think they can hit that one little hole.
No, I'm saying as the kicker. As the kicking team, Oh yeah, I gotta believe some teams are gonna opt to go nah, because most teams have a kicker who can get a lot of touchbacks. Yeah, and we certainly do in Jake Kmarta, although I also thought Jake was doing a good job of kicking the ball right down to around the five to one yard line, you know, in the landing zone, the new landing zone.
Yeah.
I don't know. I personally I think it was I was a head coach making the decisions, I'd be like, let's not risk we don't know what this play is going to look like, even after three preseason games. Let's not risk giving up a game changing ninety nine touchdown return just for the hope that we.
Can say, yeah, right, yeah, well yeah, you just make a decision of well you just make them go seventy yards. So yeah, I mean obviously basically the field just shrinks to seventy yards. Obviously, if you're not kicking it trying to get a touch back, then your hope is that your coverage team can get stopped at the twenty or something like that.
Yeah, which is great. Yeah, But is it worth the risk. I don't personally think so. But it'll be interesting to see how it all inform.
Yeah, it's going to be. It'll be. I think I think it is also going to change too. I think you're right. I think it's gonna start out. But then as the season goes on, will people.
Start Yeah, if playing it too many book plays, they get a little more conservative or.
Or maybe get a little more aggressive.
Yeah. If you look around the league and nobody's breaking them, then yeah, as Temac described it, it's like a running play. So it's just like a running play with a really long line of scrimmage.
Yes, and.
And if you but if you're a return team and you can get a seam, your guy might be going. We talked and it's gonna be the next segment of the show. We talked to rookie Cam Johnson, one of the great stories to make the roster, and you're going to hear that interview here in a little bit. But that's what he was like. He's like, if if you can just get one gap, one like, if I have the state, I can take it.
That his and his words. You'll hear how excited he is about it. So that'll be fun.
That's that was a fun interview. By the way, Cam Johnson one of the great stories of this summer.
I think it's one of the great stories period, considering where he came from. Yeah, Barton got Yeah.
We'll talk about that when we do his interview. But he's he's gonna be the first and full player ever out of a university that just started its program up again like five years ago after seventy years of.
Not having seventy years, So he's making his mark. But yeah, so I was gonna I I did blow it because I did want to ask my if he thought they were going to build a statue of him that's a good one, or whether he was going to go to homecoming, because what a great homecoming that way they have.
It fell on the bye week, they probably have a Cam Johnson Day with Cam Johnson parade. He I asked him, as you'll hear, and I won't spoil all of it. But the funny thing about Cam is lots. He was starting to get buzzed really early. There was a Chase Edmonds tweet in like May that's like this kid's gonna make the team, flat out, and you're like, okay, sure, fine, whatever, slow your role and around in shorts. Yeah. Oftentimes guys, especially at the receiver position, who flashed like that and you get excited about him, and then as the weeks go on, they fade away. Uh, that's not what happened. Cam. He's gotten better and I'll just stop talking about that because.
He explains a lot to it.
So it's pretty good.
So you want to sticks.
So Cam Johnson and Tyreek Thunderburkey were they two undrafted rookies who made it this year. And the thing about Tyreek is he obviously also impressed very much early on because he couldn't even play the last couple weeks because he had a minor like ankle or foot injury. So you're an undrafted free agent and you're not playing in the last game, you're not normally making that team. No, he had already made the team. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty impressive. They like him a lot.
Yeah, by the way, but they liked him early. So but you know what, you got to see what happens when the regular season starts, and that comes up on Sunday, which is hard to believe how fast it's coming. And unfortunately it's a four to twenty five game and.
It's gonna get rid. There's gonna be rain because there always is at that time, and it's gonna be really really, really really not happy with the NFL for that scheduling. Why why do they have to do that? Well, is there a reason that five.
Something we like? We like late games in September, Now, I don't know it's great. Well, no, but we do like Lake games. And who's we the organization?
Okay, I mean you are in a big you do have a bigger audience playing in four twenty five.
Well, unfortunately at four twenty five this week it's the Dallas Cowboys playing, and that's Tom Brady's first TV broadcast.
So do you think there'll be a little bit of attention.
Well, I just say that Buccaneer fans will be glued to us, and so will the Commander fans and rest of the country. I think you're getting the Cowboys. But that's just that's just my opinion for what it's worth. But I'm with you, though I'm not a fan. Well, I know why they do the four to twenty five. It's because they want all the other games totally done before that game begins.
I know, I know. I'm just saying yes, in Tampa in September, it's probably on the rain.
I am under I am always I feel that I'd rather have a one o'clock game in September, because by the time you're roasted forever, the game's over with and you're going home, everything gets to bake all afternoon when you just go sit there and start. So that three hour is it's not like when the temperature drops around five o'clock or six o'clock. You know, it doesn't drop in Tampa until like nine, and then it's still a Well the.
I looked at the weather forecast today. The expected low for that twenty four hour period. It is seventy seven degrees.
Oh, well that's that'll be.
That's still low.
Yeah, but that's still nice.
I just said that that's better. You should be trying to avoid that daily rainstorm, which is like four to six.
Well, it's not bad. It's only fifty seven percent chance of rain and high.
Of eighty eight I saw eighty nine earlier.
Yeah, well it'll change again.
The rain is an inconvenience and nobody wants that because the poor players soaked and steamy. But lightning is you said that word, I just because we don't want to delay. No, that's the worst, absolutely the worst.
So but yeah, but then again on Monday, it's even worse. It's seventy four percent chance. Oh, I'm playing on Monday, so yeah, all right, Jeffson's weak.
Let me ask you this, who are you most excited, slashed, interested, intrigued on the Bucks team to see this season?
Bucky? Yeah, yeah, well you're quick with that answer. I am very Do you think.
It's gonna be like a fifty to fifty kind of thing with Rashad?
I think it'll start that way, and then I think whoever's I think? Oh, I thought, I think they're gonna go with the hot hand. I mean, I think it'll just see who gets into the grooves.
Do you think it's possible to end up being basically co starters?
Yeah, I would not be surprised if that.
I kind of thought they'd lean on her shot early and then kind of work Bucky in. But I don't know.
I don't know, I think it. I think I don't think they have. Well, if it was me, if I was in charge, I would go, let's see who's doing what, because you're you know you're gonna spell.
Well, but what if fres shot comes up blazing right from the game, you.
Stay with that hot hand, no question.
I think it'll be interesting to see her shot behind what is hopefully he's somewhat better, Like that's that a run scheme, that's just working better one of them.
And this was just my observation, and this isn't a knock. I just thought Bucky seemed to see holes faster. That was my impression.
Well, Rashot only played one drum, right, and he was fine.
And he did well. Yeah, so.
You're saying better better than sometimes happened with Rashad, right, but you brought.
Up a great point that with the new O line, he did hit the hole immediately. So yes, yes, that's good observation.
Yeah, hopefully, hopefully this is a real big boost to Rashot's career. But I I can't see them not giving Bucky a pretty substantial role. Oh yeah, you seem to think early on it's almost fifty to fifty. I think that'll develop well.
I think I think too, is that if if you've got two guys that can run, then you're gonna have fresh legs down end of the year. Well, you're not beating guys up, so if you're not, if you know, if they're you know, there's no drop off or it's not like.
But the weird thing about it last year was Rashot was actually better at the end of the year than the beginning. Yeah, and he played the most snaps of any running back in the NFL. Crazy right, But he's because we hardly we just didn't want to use anybody else. H Chase Edmonds would play eight snaps a game and that was it.
Yeah. Yeah, so I think that'll be That's what I'm really curious about, is the running game, very much so.
So, Bucky Evering's your number one answer to me. I think the key guy on defense for us to keep our defense at the level it was or maybe even get it better is Zion McCallum. I think Zion McCollum is the X factor on defense. Wow, well you were, and Todd loves him, no, I know. And the Bucks were willing to trade Carlton Davis for the third round pick that go was Jaalen McMillan, by the way, which is pretty good. They were willing to trade and Carlton Davis. And Carlton was always a good player, sometimes a very good player when he was on the field. Obviously there were issues at times, injuries would keep him off the field. Hoping, hopefully going forward.
Hopefully understands the defense a little bit better also because sometimes I got yeah.
Yeah, well, I think he showed that he did last year. The year is rookie year. Se Zion ended up playing starting nine games and playing more snaps of cornerback than Carlton or Jamel, which is I still find hilarious. Right, So the Bucks are confident in him, and I mean they traded back into the draft in twenty twenty two because they couldn't believe he was still on the board in the fifth round, because he absolutely his athletic gifts are off the chart and he's huge. I mean he's big for a corner so he's got size length, incredible speed like four to three to three speed, and just unbelievable athleticism and coaches see that and go oh, I can make something out of that. And if they have, if they've developed Zion into a top notch, top level cornerback, I'm not saying necessarily.
Toe bowler or all, but just guy getting it done.
Guy getting it done like Carlton when he was healthy, then that makes all the difference in the world to this defense. If Zion struggles, I mean, that's a problem. You've got Bryce Hall as You're probably third outside corner and he had a nice preseason. Uh, and you got Josh Hayes and you got Tyreek Funderberg.
But they really like Tree.
I know they do, but you were still talking about him.
Yeah, yeah, no, I got you.
Just like Zion McCollum was a little shaky as rough.
You gotta throw him in, you gotta throw him in, but hopefully not.
I just think that. I just think Zion is the is the key. And then secondly I would go, what what can Kalija Kancy do? He started the season healthy last year, he was not healthy, immediately reinjured. His calf was rusty, as he said when he came back, still made a lot of very eye opening plays in the second half of the season.
I'm with you, totally with you.
Vida Vea's slim down.
Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
The Veya, the Vidavea. If you can get like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, well he was hurting twenty form of Vita Vea and a Kalijah Kancy that is on the verge of becoming a star. Watch out that could be dangerous in the middle of the front. There's a lot of there's a lot of Yeah, that's why, that's why I'm pointing these guys out. Yeah, I'm not saying there no, no.
No, but if but if, but if they click, then it's everything you're talking about. So the good news is they don't have to play above their potential. They just have to play. What do you got there?
I'm just looking at my notes.
Sometime.
I was watching a little college football this weekend and I saw Brad Johnson's son. Did you Max Johnson?
Max? As you?
I think that you and seen. I think he's been a couple of places.
Oh yeah, speaking of speaking of college, we don't really do a lot of college stuff. But what did you think of the makeshift Northwestern stadium?
I watched that game. I thought it was very very cool. I'll give credit to my wife. I didn't realize that they had done that, So if anybody doesn't know, I went to Northwestern and the football stadium is about a mile and a half off of campus, and that was significant to me because the athletic officers were there too, and I worked there, so I either have to bike it or walk forever if I didn't have a car. Sometimes I had car. Sometimes I didn't there. I guess they're remodeling that is that does that, that's what's happening. And so they recently a couple of years ago, built a brand new, awesome athletic facility right on the lake where we used to just have big open fields in the lake. And so that's cool. And I guess they built a little makeshift stadium right there, literally right on the lake.
Yeah, and everyone says they should just keep that little stadium as their permit.
I think there's a arm. I think they expect to be there for two years. But it doesn't seat enough people. No, that's obviously. But they did a nice job with that. And Northwestern one they beat Ohio. You gotta love that, right, and Georgia Tech one.
But I didn't I didn't watch any. I happened to see that, but I I was traveling, so I didn't see any.
Georgia Tech as too. We know I saw that. The reason I care is my son Georgia, he's a senior.
Yeah. Didn't they beat uh at Florida.
State in the friend game in Ireland?
Yeah?
And so my son he's like a week ago, he's like, hey, he was asking me for money to pay four season tickets, which he's never gone season tickets to the Georgia Technive. But him and his buddies are kind of jumping on the battle right now. Sure, And how much do you think for a student it costs for season tickets at Georgia Tech or one thousand dollars thousands of your guests. Yeah, sixty five dollars.
A game or for the season. So why is he asking you money for? Yeah, good question. Right, Wait a minute, it's sixty five dollars. I mean that's that's waiting two tables.
Come on, Hey, he's got he's on his last year.
I understand he's on his last year, so he's going to ride dad as long as I don't blame him.
I told him, I told him, while you're in undergraduate school, I.
Will pay for could you not go for sixty five dollars for this season?
And maybe he didn't even know that was only sixty five dollars? Well, and they went and it was it was a game, and they won, and they left a little early because his knee was killing him. Don't even need to get into details, but he got hit by a car a couple of weeks.
I don't need to get into details, but he got it.
But that's I'm not going to get into the details.
No, but shocking, it's very shocking, very very very very fortunate. He's fine considering the scariness of those two hockey players that just I thought of you, I thought of you.
That's what we have been. Yes, yes, what it could So that is we'll see if if there's any yeah, you know, lasting issues. But I'm hopefully.
Fingers what we're talking about this well, because we just got into it when we get into yourself. But anyway, that so he's going into us. So he's going to seniors.
That's great, that's great, you know, jumping on the band. I say, you got a little college football and what else you do?
You know?
After I saw Max Johnson and then Greg Gorman just saw the same thing.
Oh he went down that rabbit hole. He went.
He told me that he found twenty one sons of former Buccaneers who are playing in college football right now, which is more than I would.
Have guessed, more than I would have guessed.
Yeah, wow, we had one in camp this year, Judge Copepper. Yeah, I wonder if you landed anywhere after wet.
I haven't seen anything. I didn't see anything. I don't know, I didn't see him on a.
Practice squad because usually Greg's pretty good at picking up on that stuff, so I can look it up.
Yeah, but I did. I was. I was surprised at how many different Buccaneers, which makes you remember any of them? Honestly, No, I don't. I'm more like, I'm more like saying, wow, when did that all happen? They were just kids when they were here to.
Date, as if you had judge Colepepper is not signed with another king, But that doesn't mean it's over.
No, no, no, you get picked up on a practice squad, could.
Go back to another camp next year. I don't have a whole lot more, Jeff, I did, like the coach Bulls talking about so after we cut down to fifty three and we started from a practice squad. I think the original intention was to sign John Wolford as your third quarterback on the practice squad, but he got an offer. Well, no, I think it was the other other way around that the Buccaneers. The Packers cut Michael Pratt, the two lane quarterback that they took in the seventh round, and and Todd said, like stood up there and said we were considering taking him. He went two hundred and forty fifth to the packers and the Bucks were picking two forty six. Oh and I don't know. He did not go so far as to say we were going to take him, but they like but they were considering it, so they maybe would have taken him at two forty five. Instead they took Devin Colpe, who we talked about forty six. But now we got both of them, we got a cake, and to talk.
About the way it works out is pretty amazing.
And they liked this guy. I think that's what happened here, is like, Okay, they were gonna go with Wolfer. They're like, oh, the packers cut Pratt, Let's grab that guy because he's not just somebody like, yeah, he can be our emergency guy this year. They think, they think this is a guy they can.
Develop, and John ends up with the Carolina Panther.
Yeah that's good for him too, so because obviously you can als like some nails of the system.
And he needed yep, and you just never know when you're going to need him to get in. And I think he also a good influence on Bryce Young.
He's a very smart guy. That's what everybody says. Yeah, those are the offense.
Very well, there you go. What else you got?
I don't have much left. You want to just do? You want to move on and run our Cam Johnson and we can do that, and then we'll come back to questions from fans and again email us at Buccaneers at Salty Dogs at Buccaneers dot NFL dot com. We love doing the fans section at the end, so the more questions the better.
Okay, Well, in your program, it's Cameron Johnson. But we've found out what he really prefers to be.
Called, and you can hear it now.
The Salty Dogs.
And we're back here on the Salty Dogs Podcast. I'm Scott Smith and I am Jeff Ryan. This is our favorite part of every show because we have a special guests guest with us, and that is rookie wide receiver Cameron Johnson. Cameron, thank you for being here, and first of all, congrats some the team man.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Now, it's not very often that you have a situation when we've been here a long time where a guy gets some maybe an undrafted guy gets some buzz in the early going, right, and then it continues and you know you had people yet teammates tweeting out in May, this guy's gonna make the team. Sometimes that's that talk is early and in the face, but you just never faded.
Man.
I mean, what was the key to that?
Honestly just coming in with the right mindset, with the right approach every day knowing that it could possibly be my last. I'm just gonna get all out for every day, every single play, just sewn that I belong at this level. So that's really was my manse every day coming in.
Did did you know you were gonna make the team? I mean everybody else was talking about you making the team, but you yourself inside without saying it out loud, did you go, yeah, I can do this?
Oh definitely. I mean you gotta come in with the confidence like of course you at this level, but you also gotta believe in yourself that you can, like for with your abilities that God blessed you with, that you can actually could be at this level. So definitely that was my mindset coming in that I was gonna make the team. But you know, I'm trying to stay humble, try and not let it get to me. But I know I was gonna make the team.
Now, you were part of the original program at Barton College, right, so had they ever had football before?
And seventy years prior? But they went up seventy years after seventy years seven years?
So how did that?
How'd you end up there at that point? Why did you go there?
I mean I went there because I saw the vision at Coachester and the whole football staff was my building there. I saw the facilities I likeding, plus was close to home. I knew my my family would be able to attend everything, so I thought that was the best fit for me.
I think our scout that went there was Brian McLaughlin.
Did you that I had?
Actually I didn't talk to him at all. I didn't talk to the Buck scout at all. But they scouted me on Pro Day, But other than that, I have no contact with them.
Did you do something spectacular on your first play? Am I remembering that correctly? And in college? Yeah?
It was a reverse pass and I had the diverse pass throw back to the quarterback. I was one throwing it.
Oh shit, are you our emergency third quarterback?
Yeah?
That's what they say. I'm always ready for everything, though it was don't mess it up, don't mess it up, don't mess it up. Hart was pound as a like a seventeen eighteen year old freshman, So I is not messed up, just that it's a cute.
So yeah, we're from You're from Rocky Mountain, North Carolina, which is the eastern part of North Carolina. Small town, yep. With with going to the school there and everything. Was the NFL anywhere in your mindset?
No, it wasn't. I mean they always tell me if you can play the or find you, but I didn't really believe that. I just came up with the manset to be my best self every day, just give them all out for his team so that team can win no matter what, at what costs. But I never thought the NFL.
Never of all the things that you've done and you could still do. How where does the rank being the first player in the NFL from a football program.
I mean he speaks, I mean he just speaks volume Dad on, if you stay consistent in your work, God would come and bless you at the end of the day. That's really what I did. I leaned on this verse and colautions saying work for your not don't work for your earthly masters, but work for your mass up and upstairs. So that's based on the mindset I came in with every day, and then I just got blessed with it. Signed the first contract on Froone Bard and so that's really what it was.
Did you think you got good coaching their pardon?
Oh yeah, definitely I got some good coach. I learned a lot about football there, but also I took some time away. I mean I took some time for myself actually learned about the game. I was a football junkie and al plarting of everything about it, ins and out, it's defensive side, especially teams, everything.
So, yeah, did you play youth ball? Like when did you start playing?
I played started playing the seventh grade. Yeah, that's when I started. I sided. My dad wanted to sign me up for it, see what it was. I was like, sure, why not?
When did you play any other sports?
Oh? Yeah?
I was mainly a hoop. I had hoo. I thought it was gonna be a collegiate hooper.
Listen, I'll say it for it. He says he can dunk.
You've seen him jump for high passes.
I mean one hand or two.
Hand dunk two hands, two hands, one hand, one mills all that. I just can't east page just yet. But other than that, everything's in bad.
You've been told that you play larger than your size, sir? How does that happen?
I mean much? The ball in the air you big and everybody else when you jump up in the air for it. So that's really what my masset is. The ball's in there is my ball and noball, So that's my mamset. I'm just always playing big than what I am always.
I see you on the depth chart as well. Kickoff returns, yes, sir, and maybe pump returns. Are you hoping to get one of those jobs?
Yeah?
I do.
I was.
I was easy to get one of the last preseason game, but they didn't kick it too. Yeah.
You think they did that because they wanted to hide what you can do.
I'm not sure, but I mean I was just definitely frustrated. But I'm not sure.
But what do you think of this new kickoff process? Do you think they're gonna get some big play though?
It's gonna be fun to watch, fun to be a part of. Why because it just happened so quiet, so fast, and the guys will speed like me. I think it's just gonna be lovely for now.
If you just get that one gap.
That's what it is, just run play. I do see that one gap and you going and.
Here was han't had a kickoff returning for a touchdown like eleven or twelve.
Years that's been to change.
Well, good, we'll mark this one then we'll bring it up. That's exactly right.
So you are you when you're back there on those places?
Is it?
Do they tell you just find the first gap you see in hit it right over?
Yeah, I mean we were scheming up things. Of course it's gonna be like a like a weekly thing like game playing stuff like that. But were scheming up some things. But it should be interesting, especially special teams coordinated t mac. I think it should be really good, special for him leading the way.
We didn't show any of the good stuff in the preseason, right, Nah, yeah, nothing. I think most teams probably did it that way.
So you went ahead and you're grabbing number nineteen.
Yes, sir, why, I mean, it was just a thought process. I mean, it's plus it was still in the teams, every other receiver in the teams, but I was thinking about my college number. Plus the number they gave me here, So team plus now.
Why not just get today?
Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well I'm pretty you found out who Kes.
I heard it about. Yeah, I've been watching his highlights. He was a stud.
Yeah it was good.
Well when you do really well, he'll be talking about your national TV. Yeah. Hopefully great playing on your part. Yeah, what are your rookie goals?
Rookie goals? I mean, come in, just put be productive, do what I do, what I can with the ball, be special. Hopefully I could just be leading the team in returns in all purpose yards, but other than that, just fired them. Cannis.
Has it set in yet that you that you're part of the Champa Bay Buccaneers.
I mean it's always just one I mean every time we have practice, I'm just it's always just one time to catch myself looking around, looking at the big flag out there, the indoor facility and all that. I'm just like, man, this is a dream come true. So yeah, just times like that realized, Man, this is I'm really a part of the team.
You kind of got here in the Golden era too. I mean it's Super Bowl a few years ago, then three straight Division champs championships for the first time in franchise history. Right, you get here and you can you can see the quality on this team definitely.
Just the culture that got here is amazing. The guys that leading away, like Mike Lavonte and other people. I mean, you definitely see why they been the division titles. I mean three years straight.
And you get to start in a receiver a room with Mike Evans and Chris got that's gotta be.
It's amazing to help the game slow down so much. Just the way to be talking, to help you out with everything. So it's definitely been a blessing.
Have you been practicing both outside and the slide?
Yeah?
I know everything, all three positions now.
Yeah, they throw me in whatever they need meet.
You don't care.
As long as I want to feel I do anything.
I mean that slot job is kind of a special kind of thing. I mean you got to be quick, obviously, and you got to be willing to take hits.
It was completely fine. I mean, you want to be playing football, you can't take it.
But see that's the other thing. They say that you're fast, but you're also strong. Is that you saying that or is that real?
I mean I take it to proble. I mean of course, you just can't be a one trip pony. I feel like, if you're gonna play football, you gotta be Versta tell you gotta be a Swiss army knife. So that's why I mean, I'm not just fast on also built like you can.
Say, Yeah, he showed us his guns. He just kind of made me feel bad and I asked that question. So he got salty with the.
Cover starting.
Yeah, you know how that is? Who who did you call first when when you realize that you made the team.
I mean a lot of people are calling me first because they were keeping up with it on Twitter like they were trying to figure out they made the team. But I talked to my mom, talked.
To my parents. I mean they beside themselves.
Yeah, they was just excited for me.
Do you have brothers and sisters?
Yeah, some of the youngest are four.
Yeah.
I got a twin brother. Actually we do, Yeah, I do.
And no.
He used to in Little league, but he was at track Stude. He held records as university. He was really good university. That was our I mean it's funny because that was our rival school in D two. Yeah, really rival schools. Yeah, but he was a really good now he's about to join the Marines.
Now yeah wow, yeah, all right, Well.
We only got about a minute left. But I just want to ask you about Baker Mayfield. I mean, what's your impressions of him so far, both as kind of a leader and what type of quarterback?
Here a great leader and you can tell he's really got a hold of his team, but everybody's falling behind him. I mean, like the head man like said, like he just got different gleam in his eyes. You can definitely tell he got a fire. But he's definitely day and day. You can see why he's top five in the league. He can rip it too, Yeah, he can very accurate, very got some hot, got some have.
Some sauce in that ball, got to be ready.
Is it an easy ball to catch?
I mean from him? I mean the ball placement is always easy. Really yeah, ball place me? Yeah, of course? Good?
Yeah?
Well, oh one more? Do you like to be called Cameron or Cam Cam Cam Cam Cam?
Is it feels kind of weird when people call me Cam?
Okay, Cam John Sakes, Yeah, I figured we'd ended that way because we've been calling him Cameron the whole interview. Cam. Thanks a lot for your time. Totally appreciate my pleasure.
Thank you.
The Salty Dogs, and we're back here for our final segment on the Salty Dogs Podcast. As I said before, it's your turn.
Yeah, you know, I do want to say something though. With our interview with Cam I did like how he said he was the youngest of four and then he said he was.
A twin, which means he was born second right, Yeah, but but the.
Fact that he would still consider him you know, usually twins argue about that, So I thought that was pretty cool.
Well, I think it's on record, isn't it.
Well it is, but you know you could say we're a twin. You don't have to. You know, I'm the youngest of four, and and then he casually goes, we're twins.
Yeah, his twin brother is as like he's a Yeah, that's pretty cool. And it's also he was a track star. Yeah, So I mean, well, some families have it all, man.
Yeah. I think I think what we'll do this year during Salty Dogs, I think you'll be finding we'll be talking to a lot of the young guys and it'll be a lot of fun.
So like so, like I said, we don't have a lot of questions because we haven't done one of these in a while and have solicited questions. But we do have some people, uh, the people we know that have since his question is before, and we appreciate that this one is from Alexander in in Brazil, who we're guessing is probably gonna be at that Brazil game.
Yep, you think you will?
Okay, I should have looked it up geographically. The game's in Rio, right or is it?
Yeah?
Because Alexander here was from South Palo No, wait, is that where it is?
Don't you know what I have forgot? You know, you think it would be in Rio, but no, I'm I you think it's in South Yeah, I mean I guess. I guess you have to look at the NFL schedule.
They would one way to find out, you know, would do that good research. Are you looking it up right now?
Oh? I'm trying to hit it and see what we got, which is that's a Friday game, which is which is kind of crazy because there's a game on Thursday and then there's a game on Friday. Did you find it? Okay? Anyways, if he.
Does, people screaming at us right now.
Well, that's good because that's what you're supposed to do to the salty dogs. Well, that's why packers packer in Brazil. You know where does it say? I bet you he goes, Well, figure out how to get a ticket. That's the hard part because I guess they're they're crazy expensive from when they so.
Anyway, AnyWho, what's he saying? Okay, what does he say? How salty ones? Hope this finds you both well. With this new kickoff rule, I got myself thinking what happens if the kicker hits a teammates back on a kickoff? Is this a penalty for not landing on the correct place? Do they have to redo the kick? Since she did? Thanks for reading. Alexander Nessimento from South polom ber Zone. Okay, the answer is it is a penalty because the ball, if the ball hits presumably if it hits the player in the back, it's then going to hit the ground and they're around like the thirty five to forty yard line, and you have to get the ball in the air to the landing zone, which is which the goal line to the twenty yard line. Otherwise it's a penalty. That's the equivalent of the ball going out of bowser the ball will come out to the forty. So yes, you definitely do not want to hit your teammates in the back with the kick, because then the other team will start at the forty. They definitely would not redo it. So yeah, that was an easy.
Answer, very easy. So what else you got? All right?
This is from Sam Knee now, okay from Nashville, if you recall, sure I do?
Yeah, yeah.
Uh.
He was one of the ones who was kind enough to ride in and ask if we were coming back soon, and I totally were, and so he said, he said with that, I have a question I couldn't find the answer to. Is Shelton Corals the only player slash front office personnel member to have won both Super Bowl rings? Glad you're all coming back, Thanks Sam.
I would say, yes, yes, front office. Yeah, what do you consider front office?
I think he means he says front office. I don't think I said it right, front office personnel member. So he's talking about personnel department, not you or me.
No, no, yeah, these teams operate director of team operations.
And he won a Super Bowl ring as a player. None of the players from two thousand and two were obviously on the twenty twenty teams, so they would have to be somebody that then came to work for the team. And he's the only one right among the other people in the personal office, our former NFL players. I don't think college players, well, yeah, Jason Hie played college. I think probably, well, I take play college. I think right.
Oh, my mind's going brank blank.
Show me to name all the people back there.
No, No, that's horrible. That's horrible. I can see his face and I can't. He was.
Oh my god, is it somebody that's still here?
Yeah, he but he wasn't. I don't think he wanted. He might have won a super Bowl with Pittsburgh foot Larry Foot, Oh okay, so did he win a super Bowl with Pittsburgh and then a super Bowl with the Bucks? Is that the question, like to super Bowl?
That's probably that's a good point you're making. He won won a super Bowl as well, the player and a coach. But he says the question is to have won both super Bowl rings, So he clearly means.
For the Bucks. The net. Yeah, that's Shelton. Only when you were starting to go through the different people, I was thinking, okay, and I believe Larry Foot was with the Steelers when they won maybe the one super Bowl here against the Cardinals.
Was he in that one?
I don't know.
I was on the sideline for that one.
I was in a I was actually a bartender and a suite.
Oh yeah, yeah. I was a getback coach for the photographers. And the touchdown that Arizona scored late in the fourth quarter that looked like it could be the game winner. I was like five feet away from that when it happened. Yeah, but then Pittsburgh went down and scored the game winning time.
We had we had a suite with sponsors and they were short a bartender, so I became the bartender.
That was the two thousand and eight eight Yeah, So because the Super Bowl was at oh nine, Let's see what Larry foot Yeah, I want to say he was, but yeah, he won two super Bowls.
Okay, there you go. He was on that team and then the one that when they beat Carolina?
Was that no, or is that Ben Carolina?
Was it Ben Roethlisberg first Super Bowl? Was he? Was he in on that one?
If there was two thousand and four or two thousand and five, yeah, because that would be the two that they won. I think they won a five.
Yeah, so they beat.
Yeah, they won, they wont to five. They beat Seattle. Okay, that's right. That was a game where Seattle fans are mad because they felt like the refs screwed him.
They did, No, they didn't whatever. Whatever. H fans will always say that, right.
Remember when Seattle was about to win the Super Bowl and then they threw an interception on the one yard line instead of letting Marshall Lynch run the ball in.
Yeah, well that you would Why would you have a guy like that run the ball? He could fumble? For gosh sake.
I hope there's a Seahawks fan listening. I don't know either would be yeah, why would you?
Uh?
Okay, one more thing before we go, since we don't have any more questions.
Okay, let's see.
It could be there now there is a feature debuting or maybe has already debut. Let me check, No, not quite yet, but very soon probably by the time this is up. A new feature, well, I think a special feature. Staff writer reporter Breanna Dix, who's joined us on this show from time to time. She went to Jordan Whitead's hometown and did a deep dive on what went into Jordan becoming the man and the player that he is now. Talked to a lot of family members and friends and went to his high school and saw where he spent his formative days in terms of becoming a football player. It's a long form piece with a lot of supporting photography and video, and it should be up. It could be up by the end of the day. It's probably gonna be up by the time fans are hearing this. Please go to Buccaneers dot com and check it out. A lot of hard work put into that, and it's a great story. It's a great story.
You edited it.
I read through it. I didn't need to do a lot. She did a fantastic job. She uh. And then we had a photographer and a videographer there as well and got a really great stuff. And I've read the story. I have not seen all the supporting media, but I've read the story and it's well worth your time. It's really good, cool, and I mean, everybody loves Jordan already. It's funny. You see pictures of him and his family and they're all like smiling because Jordan is always smiling.
It is just a family.
There's been there was a little there was a little family tragedy along the way too, just to give you some teasers that he had to overcome. But a lot of it is just how he you know, because he's not the biggest guy yet. He's a throwback type player who hits hard right and has made a great career for himself in the NFL. And we're hoping he has a great season now that he's back. Sure, So that's that's a piece we're really excited about. So please take a moment to check it out. I think you'll enjoy it.
We got a lot going on this year, and there we have new studios. We're not in the new studios right now. Yeah, we're just doing We're in new offices.
Yeah that's you and I.
We we both you and I.
Moved the Salty Dogs studio. Yeah, it has been relocate.
It has been relocated. We're down, so do I. We're closer to football where next door to me is actually football.
So I can see the players are leaving and somebody has a really loud truck. Yes, see who it is? Yep, And so have you seen that truck. There's a giant black I think it is, and it has like a dragon on the side on the size and blue. It's really neat looking. I don't know who it is.
We'll have to maybe we'll have to do salty dogs with that. All right, well, very good, this is a good start. We UH don't forget. The game is on Sunday, UH for twenty five It will be UH on buccaneers dot Com, also on the Buccaneer app Buccaneers dot com anywhere. If you're anywhere in the world, you can hear it on Buccaneers dot Com on the Buccaneers app. It's only in the Tampa one hundred mile radius. Yeah, we have to geo map it.
And if you're so the radio broadcast on Buccaneer's not go every week the full thing love Yeah, yeah, okay, if you do, what time will I be on the air? Two thirty you will be on?
Yes, Well, let's see the best time? No, No, three thirty, two thirty, two o'clock you'll be on a two and a half hours before the game? Yeah, two thirty. Ye are you on at two thirty? Well I have to think about it.
Yeah, that's the best time to go to the dentist, is it two thirty? Oh?
Jeez? And one other feature. One other feature we have since we're plugging features. If you're going to the game at Raymond James Stadium and you've been frustrated by the fact that there is a delay on the broadcast, on over the air radio or on your phone wherever you listen to all your different radio stations in the Tampa Bay air at ninety eight Rock, that delay is no longer in existence. We have come up with a new wow look at you. Yes, been working on this all for about a year. Nice and we did a test run on the Miami game and it is in real time and it's on the Buccaneer app. So you really don't have to do anything other than bring your phone headsets, go to the Buccaneers app, go to the game day well, you know they have a game day thing. You click it and you'll see where you just need to hit it and real time. Nice about that, good job, Jeff Well fingers crossed.
You know.
It worked. It worked against the Miami game. I was very very happy making some tweaks to it. So technology is a wonderful thing.
This reminded me that I also got another email from Alexander in Brazil and it's funny because he said, which player are you most excited about to see the season? And in parentheses, my guess is mister Smith will say Zion McCollum. Really does he he says, because he's a corner and you can never have enough corners, right, That's like, that's like my motto. Okay, And he uses twenty seven your favorite number. I don't remember saying tony times my favorite number, but it's it is a great It's probably the best number for a defensive back. I think.
Okay, fair enough.
And then he asked. He said, I don't think you would know this, but probably you know someone who can. Anyway, it's been a week or so since the Bucks app widget stopped working on my iPhone. Ah is this the thing only for me or only for foreign users? I don't know the answer. I'll try to figure that out. I read this briefly and didn't get a chance to look into it, but I'll try to figure that out for you. Alexander. Yeah, you know, I really don't know this morning. Really, I haven't had a chance. He's on his game. I hope maybe i'll have an answer for you next week. By Apple widget, I think I get he's talking about the same app that I have on my phone. I've never I didn't know the word widget.
Is an app widget.
I just think he means the Bucks app. Okay, app on your phone. I do, but you kind of have to because that's how we manage our tickets.
Right, but I kind of I'm a this this thing right here, right, Yeah, that's the bucket here app and it punches up.
And it stopped apparently stopped working for him.
Huh.
Did you know that all the people covering the game and on the teams there, they can't tweet when they're in Brazil because it's banned in Brazil.
Yeah. Yeah, Well, honestly, if you really go by the NFL thing, you're not allowed to tweet play by play during a game anyways, but no one really enforces that, which drives me absolutely nuts. It's like, seriously read the sign. Yeah, I mean, you know it's there.
I also got an email from Harley sam of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology, which is high salty Dogs. I'm following up if you're interested to get the registrants member list for the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Really it's spam. I'm joking. I'm not joking. This is true. No, okay, but definitely I've I have a deep and abiding interest in Canadian exercise physiology context. Well, I definitely need to know that.
But here's the thing. We've made it because if we're getting spam, we're all in.
Oh that's because I've gotten another one. But from L. E. Green of the Canadian Society for Exercise we.
Must be we must be very strong in Canada.
Also, I also got from Ayisha Patel of the Paralegal Support. She wants to give me a para legal support.
Probably gonna need it. Are you done? Yeah, you're reading.
We were reading space as we were out to reading spam.
Listen if the spam people know how to get a hold of us, as should you. It's all dough dogs at buccaneers dot EDFL dot com.
Is that what it is? It is?
Oh, wow, you gotta you gotta remember the dot NFL park in the middle.
Yeah, it's very very good.
If you forget that, we're done.
Well, it's an address. It's going to the wrong place. Since you did, Thanks for listening.
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