You didn't earn it,
you didn't earn the win. So
it's a game of earning it and it's a game of playing well and
Performing well and
we're just not doing a good job that I don't think we've done
it for six weeks and I think we're all playing less than
what we're capable of. And we've all got to look at
ourselves in the mirror for that, why?
I think guys that living off the Super Bowl are living in
a fantasy land. And you got to get your hands dirty and go to
work, like everybody else and we've been working hard, we got
to work harder, you know,
nobody's going to give us anything, okay?
Oh sorry. So we got to go back as coaches as players and
the time for talking is over you got to put up or shut up.
Tampa Bay, Buccaneers fall to 3 and 3 after losing on the road
in Pittsburgh, despite being nearly double digit favorites
against the Steelers team that limped into the game with
a variety of injuries and picked up more
during the game. Their new quarterback. Kenny pick it goes
out with concussion. Mitch true Biscay comes in and true
Biscay. Finding Chase Claypool early and often to pull out
the victory.
It was something
miles and
Let's before I start down this path,
the elephant in the room
is the Tom Brady.
Left the team Friday night
to go to New York City
for what ended up being the surprise wedding
of Patriots owner Robert, Kraft Brady's, former boss,
surprise wedding. It was a wedding, be a surprise.
I didn't, obviously, I didn't read enough about the story
from page six over the weekend. What happened was they had this
big party.
They invited all these people
and they didn't tell him what it was for.
I have a feeling Tom, Brady had an idea
because why else do you pry yourself? For we're
away from your team
and then stay over
and don't fly back. My first thought is well, you know,
I don't know how far the flight is from Tampa to New York, but
you got a private plane and can't be that long. You go up,
you come back,
your lock back into the team for Saturday. No, he didn't
come back, he
missed meetings on Saturday morning, mr. Walk through, on
Saturday morning, joined the team in Pittsburgh
and
Of course they're going to downplay it and say it's not
an issue. Of course they're going to they're never going to come
out in training camp. They're never going to come out and say
that it's an issue. So
let's hear Todd Bowles effort. Let's study him very carefully.
Watch the body language, the mannerisms, let's study what he
says and how he says it when he addresses whether or not Tom
Brady's disconnection from the team,
had any impact on the lost to the Steelers on Sunday.
I'm ready.
He missed. Is that factored? All in the play today? No, he
didn't miss anything. He had a full week of practice.
Videos. Do you think that in any way and how to engage
the team struggles and relational today? Absolutely not
guess that. He can't say anything else and he did miss
something. They had a walkthrough practice on
Saturday that he wasn't there for. They had meetings on
Saturday, he wasn't there for,
of course, it's going to make you better prepared for
the game. If you're that's not going to make any worse
prepared for the game. If you're there, he wasn't
there. Remember how they bent over backwards to say he's all
in after the 11?
Absence during training camp, he's all in he's all-in, he's
all-in. Except when he's not he's not all in because if this
was Tom Brady all in he wouldn't have left and Robert
Kraft would have understood it.
How could you how could your fault? Tom Brady for not
showing up when he's got a game that weekend Bill Belichick
wasn't there,
why not? Because he's got a game that weekend, so that's
how it works. And we've,
you know, Tom Brady recently. Lamented the fact that when
you're playing football,
you miss a lot of stuff
you miss weddings. You miss birthdays,
that goes with the territory
and
we I'm not giving him a pass for it because you can't tell
us in one breath that the guys all in and then in the next
breath,
he's clearly not all in.
And then you act like it's not a factor. Of course, it's
a factor. And I say all this miles As we saw him yelling and
heard him yelling,
some some words that cannot be repeated here but we're part of
the chant. We referred to earlier about what the Giants
fans wanted the Packers to do with that
cheese.
How do you have the same credibility?
That you would have had if you had been there on Saturday, if
I'm one of those guys, taking it from Tom. Brady. At some
point, it's crossing my mind that you, you,
you ditched us Friday night and you weren't around Saturday
morning, and being there is a big part of being part of
a sports team, being around for everything.
So those words and those gestures, I think ring a little
more Hollow even if it is Tom Brady. The great and powerful
wizard of goat. Even if it's him, it's still Rings Hollow.
If you're not doing
The basic thing that's expected of showing up
for Saturday walkthrough and Saturday meetings. Yes, he
missed those.
And and so I'm not buying the explanation Todd Bowles, can't
say anything, but what he said, but I'm not buying it. And
I think this is an issue for the Buccaneers
now,
if it doesn't matter, then why would you have them in
the first place? Exactly.
I mean, if it doesn't matter, then you shouldn't have them,
they matter, everything matters being there in the Dog Days.
As of training camp matters
and it makes me think of that statement that Brady put out
when he retired. Right? Where he said I can't make that
commitment anymore. To be that guy who's there for every
single thing.
And I don't can't make that commitment anymore to football.
He hasn't he has not when you leave training camp for 11
days.
You are not making the same commitment that you've made
throughout your entire career.
And he's 45 years old. I don't blame him for not making that
same commitment anymore, but that's the difference, right?
You know, when you go to a wedding in New York and what's
Robert Kraft, doing having a fall wedding in the first
place?
Mean, you're in football, but I don't have a fall wedding.
Yes, even if it was a Friday, I don't know.
It didn't make any sense to me,
but if you're having, if you're gonna do all this stuff,
that happens during football season,
then you really should have retired and you should not have
ostensibly. Ruined your family life for your career, what
a life?
Lesson. This looks like it is right now.
Don't choose your career
over your family,
don't do that because then you're going to be on
the sidelines screaming f-bombs that people who were in
training camp during the dog days of summer who were there
for the Saturday walk through into Saturday meetings
and you because you've won seven Super Bowls. Yeah you
have that credibility but at some point I think you're
right. Mike it might become a problem between all the guys
who have been
For every single thing. And Tom Brady
who said he was all in when he came back
but does not appear to be so
and it's just I think it's going to be an issue and that's
what's weird here. And look
I try to find the right balance between what's fair and what's
not fair, when it relates to the family issues that are
clearly and an issue for Tom, Brady this year.
But I almost feel bad for the guy that
he's had his, his Jimmy Stewart, It's a Wonderful Life
Epiphany and it's like it's too late for him to do anything
about it. And he's caught in
this weird thing now where
he understands that his life can't be controlled by the game
and he's trying to live differently
but it's too late in some respects. I really do feel bad for him
that he's too. He's getting his wake-up call and he's
responding to it but it's too late that-that-that's. And now
what does he do?
He goes through the
Oceans of something. He really doesn't want to do and he
musters enough will to do the bare minimum, but he's going
to.
And that's what,
what I said when he came back
from the 11-day Hiatus. Oh, he's back. Okay, until he
leaves again. When's he going to leave again? What's he going
to do? And they started talking about load Management on his.
Let's go podcast
and
I almost got the impression. It was a topic that Jim Gray
brought up, which means there was some sort of advanced
Coordination. They're going to talk about load management and
almost like, is he going to take a game off?
Are they going to pick a game where they think they have
a cupcake, that they think they're going to easily beat?
And he's just going to let Blaine Gabbert play that week?
I that thought crossed my mind. So I
I feel bad for him.
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