Pissed off, we can have, you know, it's the same old song
but Spears's bucks. You know, we play a good first half and
the second half we come out and we shoot ourselves in the foot
either by turnovers or penalties or field position on
special teams and
you know, the tale of two halves and half. We played in
the second half with box versus box.
I was amazed when I saw it was 17, nothing Tampa Bay over,
the Cincinnati Bengals. And we have seen from time to time this
year, the Buccaneers figure it out, they've got the talent,
they just haven't been able to consistently,
put it together to win football games. And now the Bengals
come back. They win the game 34 223. There were four turnovers
from Tom Brady. And I had been feeling
for a while Mi that.
I can forget how they got there, as long as they get
there and they still may get there, but once they get to
the playoffs, it could be different Tom, Brady slips into
postseason mode. It will be his 48, playoff game,
if and when the Buccaneers host, the Cowboys who will
likely be the 5 seed in the NFC. But I'm getting the point
now where I just, I don't I don't want to see it. I'd
rather see the Panthers. I'd rather see
the Falcons. I'd rather see the Saints.
I'd rather see somebody that that
I don't know. I think the Buccaneers you're just too
disappointing their to infuriating.
They're too complacent.
I don't know who to blame here.
So I'll just blame everybody
but it's just a mess,
it's a mess and I don't I don't want to see them on my TV
screen in the playoffs at this point. Well Mike you know of my
favorite Canadian jazz fusion. Band is Right, bad bad, not
good.
That's what the Buccaneers are man.
They're not a good football team. They are very bad, they
are bad. Bad, they are not good. Okay. And I just, I don't
know if it's starts with Todd Bowles and goes on down,
I don't
know if it's just that Brady is
finally washed. I don't know what it is, but I think what
simple Matic of it is Gio Bernard and we showed that
botched fake punt there and frankly I don't understand why
when you're up 2:43 you are fake. Punting it at
the beginning got to be
aggressive second half got to be aggressive,
gotta be aggressive. That's why
it's good to be aggressive. Always be aggressive.
Okay? But you a your Bernard. Your Bernardi mind, registery
didn't even write it even know. It was coming like Shirley
Shirley didn't
surely, you're not doing this.
I've been around the block a few times. Surely knock on
a fake punt in this spot? Well, they did call a fake Punt and
don't call him surely. And you know, Todd Bowles addressed it
after the game he said that. Yeah that's what we were trying
to do. We felt like we could get four or five yards there
and I guess you
know fine. But also then Gio Bernard didn't want to address
it in the locker room and I saw a video of this song Twitter
there. Porter's had to basically flag him down and he
had said some comment. Like, you guys didn't want to talk to
me
throughout the whole year.
Basically not remembering the fact that guess that he's been
hurt yet for most of the year and also you had a critical
play in the game. And so if Jacoby Myers can stand there
and talk about how he bleeped up, then certainly, Gio Bernard
can stand there
and ask her answer a couple of questions about that particular
critical play in the game. So it's just it is all bad right
now for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and they may win that division. They met
Not. But there are doing anything in the playoffs,
I don't think even Tom, Brady has enough magic for that. Going to
be very interesting to see what Tom Brady has to say, to Jim
Gray on the new edition of the let's go podcast which will
debut
at some point today
into tonight. They send around some of the clips sometimes.
You have to listen to the whole thing because they don't always
transcribe. The best stuff, the most interesting stuff that
makes it into the. Let's go podcast. But
Tom's got a linderhof
defense. That was one of them from last week that that was
bulletin board material for the bank. Owls. I just can't help
but wonder
whether he
really will consider his options for 2023
or whether he'll just say I'm out, I'm done, that's it.
Because as of last week, I think the Sunday Splash report
from NFL media was all options are on the table. I just can't
imagine that he would want to risk going somewhere and being
further exposed as part of the problem. Although,
as of last week, he was on Pace for the single-season record
for completions and attempts and he had
30 completion yesterday, and 44 attempts, which probably Puts
him even
more on Pace to set the record.
So I don't know that that matters, but it shows the guy
can still play Steve Young said this a few weeks ago when they
played the Saints on Monday night and won the game late
guys retire because they can't do it anymore.
Tom, Brady can still do it. That's going to be the great
dilemma for him. And he may want to kind of like with Aaron
Rodgers, like another play, the Packers still make the
make the playoffs, but at one point a few weeks back, it was
like we're in Rogers. Has to come back because this can't be
your last season. And maybe Tom Brady's going to have to come
back because this Camp not making the playoffs, maybe for
him
like winning a Super Bowl in walking away is the best
possible outcome, but maybe just making the playoffs and
walking away is better than
a year that you failed to make the playoffs in the worst
division in football,
where the champion has a losing record. I still think they're
going to make it and I still think he may have a few tricks
up his sleeve when we get to single-elimination.
But but we'll see
the Bengals, meanwhile.
They take advantage of their opportunity to seize control of
the AFC North and they still continue to be in
the conversation for that number once. He miles two weeks from
tonight, January 2nd, hmm,
Bengals hosting the bills. I think that game is going to
decide the one seed, the Bills win it. They're the ones. See
the Bengals win? It's going to be the Chiefs or Cincinnati.
Controlling the path to the Super Bowl. Yeah,
that is massive. And there are right now. Three really, really
good teams in the AFC that I can see making it out of. That
conference, in making it to the Super Bowl, which means that
while rooms is going to eliminate the other
in the divisional, round, probably right. Unless
something weird happens and they get eliminated before
then. So it is going to be, well, it was drag-out fights,
I believe, you know, in a couple weeks in Cincinnati between
the bills and the chin and The Bangles.
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