team that can create havoc in the postseason and I believe
more in them right now frankly than the pack. So, definitely
I'm with you there a mic, right. All of a sudden, there's
a team. They were two years ago.
The defense is playing well, they're getting production in
the running game, Richard white, they're using just
enough for him to piss off. Leonard fournette. Just enough
to play better than he was Tom. Brady is still Tom Brady
but there was an interesting item yesterday on Joe Buck's
fan.com where Bruce Arians the senior advisor to the general
manager that we haven't heard or seen Much from since week
two, when he instigated the fight between Mike Evans and
Marshawn Lattimore,
he talked about the three-game losing streak, and he mentioned
that he conversed with Byron. Leftwich offensive coordinator
every day. When the,
when they were losing games, he doesn't read the papers.
Nothing bothers Byron. That's what I love about him. That's
why I'll be a damn good head. Coach one day. He was
everything Todd Bowles does too but I don't think it was fair
to Byron. Nobody's going to say that Tom, Brady was playing
bad, but he was playing bad. We also had growing pains on
the offensive line and we Running well, but
you know, that reminds me of 2020.
Yeah. Aryans was calling Brady outright every week and he's
gotta hit that. He's gotta hit that ball. He can't do that. If
they won the Super Bowl, right? He was blaming interceptions
on him. That weren't his fault. Yes. That went
off the hands of the receiver were Brady's fault. What
the hell was that? Hang in there? Throw the ball. Yeah, but it
worked. It worked. And, and, you know, I don't know how this
came to be
that apparently,
and
there's another item just posted this morning on Joe,
Buck fan.com. That Bruce Arians spent some time in
the hospital. He's having chest pains, he's fine, everything is
good. This was
back around the time they played Atlanta, maybe one of
the reasons he's kind of slipped out of focus. He didn't
go to Germany for the game against the Seahawks and he did
an interview with Ira Kaufman of Joe Buck's fan.com so he's
kind of
back in the mix now. Be a good. Hey, you know, I mean
look
you got this guy on your,
on your team. He's got a very vague and amorphous role. But
maybe there's times where he can do something to give
a little.
Aha, we care. I wish there. Yeah, get people little extra
focused and fired up.
I think that's what is missed in that team. A little bit to
a degree. You can say what you want, I mean he gave the Bucks
Edge, you know, an edge, the last two years. I think he was
that guy think he did make the buck stuff and edgy and
you know wake they said what about us? You know, screw them.
It's us against the world and Bruce's. I think great that
way.
You know, I think he is and then driving pyres kind of
the same way and no one had a needle. Mm. And yeah, I'm sure
there's some what Something tactical, let alone, he's
sticking up for his friends and Byron Leftwich.
And and of course, Todd Bowles and then also
just speaking the reality. I mean, I'm disappointed because
I want to go Bruce and apparently you're not watching
me very much because I was trying to point out some of
these problems. We were showing that on this show, right?
I mean, it's a little bit. What we talked about with Rogers
and reluctance to hang in there and throw the ball down the pot
and down the field, you know? And then
nothing there. I think that's the biggest thing
you know, watching
The Rog, maybe not as much as Aaron Rodgers, but like just
never giving any chance or apply to develop like all
the underneath throws open. Let me throw it, but yeah, you're
protected. And there's going to be a guy wide open. Like, why,
why are we doing that? There was a lot of that
and that's what Bruce Arians. I think bothered him in 2020 when
he was kind of needling. Tom, Brady a little. But yeah,
I mean he's not wrong, you know, that when the buck struggled
nobody ever blames Tom Brady never
it's never on on him
and I'm sure the team and everybody gets sick of that
a little bit further. I'm sure but you know, Bruce Arians is
there to kind of let people know and I don't know if it
really has any
tactical Advantage now but and I think he's just trying to
stick up for his guys as it is now as it stands right now
but was Brady getting a pass. I don't think we were giving him
a pedo. That's what I was just saying, we were 100. Now,
that's why I said Bruce was and watching us, we weren't giving
him a pass. Well, you know, I, hi Bruce.
Hey Bruce. I showed a few plays on the football night in
America, you know, early in the year going like, hey, here's
people open. We we showed it in Pittsburgh and Carolina.
You know, there was a number of plays in those two games where
they were upset and beat, you know, of course, the game where
he went to see mr. Kraft and the wedding on a Friday night
and he played like crap in that game.
You know, it was a parent. Anybody that in really in kind
of new football and oh you know the Reeds and against that
defense like Big Ben was talking about, he didn't even
look like he wanted to be there,
you know. So but nobody ever really, you know, puts it on
him and and I'm sure that frustrates guys down there.
Well, people were tiptoeing on eggshells to because he was
dealing with Uh yeah, the personal stuff nificant.
National no question. Another thing. That
Aryan said, that caught my attention. Yeah,
last week in practice was the first time he saw Brady smile,
right? Right. This is sheer. Yeah. So bright, you know,
it's a lot. I feel for Brady, the Ravens where things kind of
bottomed out. Yep, that's when the divorce was announced and
you know, at some point you turn the corner at some point,
things
boomerang in a Have Direction. It can't get any worse. It can
only get better. And so
it's getting better for the bucks.
It is they're going to win that division, right? I mean I'd be
shocked. What shocked, what if the Falcons overtake? The
Buccaneers know what? He's going to leave Atlanta in the
dust Atlanta. I don't know how Atlanta is even in shouting
distance, but I know frankly after that s*** show we saw
last Thursday night in Charlotte, but
the Buccaneers are going to run away with that division agree.
They'll be, they'll be the four seed, maybe. Hey. Hey they got
the tiebreaker with the Seahawks now. Maybe they'll be
the three seed who knows? Right? Who knows man.
Kirk Cousins.
He's gonna go from Aaron Rodgers one week to Tom. Brady
the next week boy. Well the that one that I saw on Sunday
though. I ain't right. I'm not. I'm
Kirk I'm I'm not I'm not gonna
I'm not going to just assume
that he's going to
crumple. That's right. That's right. Stick up. That's your
quarterback as stick up for him. That's that's that's
right. But yeah, we'll see. I mean,
Tampa Bay, still got some
some games on their schedule, we know New Orleans gives them
an issue. They gotta play them again, they got the 49ers in
the Bangles
but, you know, other than that it is favorable Cardinals
Panthers Falcons Browns. I'm in. Yeah, it's hard not to
think that they're easily and when the division and Mike
I agree with you too.
They're dangerous to me, they're the team,
you know, Moe
that defense with it healthy. Now again, that's the, that was
the story of the game, more than anything to me. The He's
dominating the Seahawks big play offense, what they've done
to teams,
you know, make an explosive plays, Run game, pass game on
just about everybody and they couldn't do Jack diddly squat
against Tampa Bay. So they play D like that. Run the ball
a little like you were talking about. We know Brady that'll
make
him feel comfortable off a play-action pass.
It's not a complicated formula there. That's what they did at
the end of the season to win the Super Bowl, that's kind of
how they played. It was kind of conservative on offense,
play action, Pass Run the All play D.
That's all it was. We'll see if they can get back into that
and remember how they were coming out of there by two
years ago seven and five. On the way in right on beating on
the way out, blows your five and five on the way in and it
sure helps to have Hakeem. Hicks
Vida VA. No question. Have one run stopper. You got to have to
their their killer stay healthy. Yeah but you know
seven more games I know chances are one of those two guys going
to get banged up at some point. I hope not teams have to deal
with but, you know, that's kind of a common
Threat the Packers off the mat. The Buccaneers off the mat and
one of the keys is they're healthy. They're key guys are
healthy. Yep. The more your key guys are health of the easier.
It is to win football games in the NFL. It's cliche. But it's
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