November 4, 2023 • 27 mins
MV and John Harris talk with the Texans RB. Plus legendary Bucs radio voice Gene Deckerhoff visits.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hello Texans, Welcome to the podcast. Let's get right to it.
Here we have Gene Deckerhoff, a legend. He does Tampa
Bay Buccaneers radio and used to do Florida State with
Bobby Bowden. He goes way back with the Seminoles, but
dropped them a couple of years ago. Steven at Agoke,
he is the safeties coach for Your Texans, was with
Tamiko Ryans in San Francisco. Interesting guy, interesting position with
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Jimmy Ward and Jalen Petree.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And let's start here.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Devin Singletary, John Harris and I have visited with him
right after the Carolina game in advance of what is
going to go down this weekend with Tampa Bay. Do
you have a big game coming up with Tampa Bay?
What about this week? The focus on getting the offense
really geared up for this one.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Man, excited to get back to doing you know what
we do, you know, making plays, you know, executing will
and finding a way to get a w you know,
especially coming off a loss.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
So were excited, Devin, I'm always worried and thought about
this for running backs at this point in the season,
about halfway through. I don't know We're come off of
bye week in a game that'stery. How'd your body feel?
I mean, especially playing your position? How does the body
feel when you wake up on Monday?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Some games some games better than others. Yeah, you know,
But for me, you know, after I get a good lifting,
that kind of gets all that soret and this out.
So you know that helps a lot. And midway through
the season, I feel good and you need that lift. Yeah, definitely,
I gotta get that lift in. I'm pretty sure a
lot of guys feel the same way. That lift brings
you back to life.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah all right, we saw some good runs.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You ran for one hundred and ten yards as a team,
but I know you want to do it even better.
So what's that going to take to get the running
game really in full gear to blossom fully as you
take on the rest of the schedule here.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, man, this just comes down to the smallest little details,
you know, if that's communication, you know, just pointing out
the right guy, whatever it may be for us as
running backs, Aiming points says, it could be the smallest
things that can go turn a four yard game into
a big game or no game. So just getting on
those small details, cleaning those up. I think that's the biggest.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Thing, Devin beating around CJ.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Now for the time that you have and you think
back to week one and you think, now we're going
into week nine, what's kind of the biggest change that
you've seen in him as a rookie quarterback. You know
when you were in you were in Buffalo, Josh was
only in his second year, so you kind of saw
his growth as well. But have you seen kind of
CJ's growth from week one and week eight and week
nine as we go into Tampa?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
What have you seen from him?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We just keep blossoming into a great leader, you know
from day one and now he's even more vocal and
leading by example, you know what I'm saying, just just
taking charge and you know guys are following them. You know,
for him to be so young, he's doing a great
job at that.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Is that something that that veterans throight way of saying
this encourage him? Like, hey, CJ, Like do you have
to kind of encourage younger guys to be able to
do that or is it just guys do it naturally
and that kind of comes naturally, CJ.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I think it just depends on the guy. But with CJ.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It comes natural, Like from day one you could tell
he embraced that role. And we just keep finding ways
to get better at like he's doing on the field,
you know, and gods are rallying behind.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That purely running the football.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Devin, How does this system differ from what you were
doing in Buffalo when you let the team in rushing
last year?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Uh, probably more outside zone here and then I did
in Buffalo. Man, just just the way we blocked things.
We blocked things a little differently here, and yeah, those
those like the biggest things, you know. And but it's
been fun, you know, and we still got so much
to go. Like I said, you know, it's midway through,
got ten weeks left, so it's a lot more room
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for growth.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It's Tampa this week, and I know you haven't gotten
too much in the Tampa. I'd imagine maybe you've seen him,
maybe not, but just watching on TV, et cetera. I
always wondered this about running backs and via Vel, this
big old boy.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We all know who he is.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
How conscious are you as a running back of him
and where he is? I mean, if it doesn't fall
into your read, you know, hey, he's not the guy
I'm reading, he's not my reading this particular player, don't
worry about it, or that guy can be a factor
in every run play.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I gotta be concerned about where he is as a
running back.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, guys like that, you definitely definitely always keeping the
eye out. Like I said, he might not be my read,
but even if I'm not, if I don't see him,
I'm feeling out what he's at, right, you know what
I'm saying, And gods of that nature, you just you know,
I don't say you slow him that that's the best thing.
You can slow him down, because it's not like you're
gonna stop him, right, you know what I'm saying. He's
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a beast, So you slow him down. And you know,
when you slow him down, you gotta make it count.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
When you're in a past protection situation, sometimes you don't
know who you have to block right when the play begins.
You're looking for somebody. But then it might be a surprise.
I got to pick up a blitzer or whatever. How
does all that work as a running back that dimension
of the game, Devin.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, you know, first you get the call. You know,
depending on the call, it could be a six man,
seven man, pass or whatever. It may be a slide
or man and so yeah, when you come out, you
want to locate the mic point. You get the mic
point that that does it all for you, you know,
or or it could be a five or whatever the
case may be. Once you get the call, you know,
that's when things start to settle down. You can locate Okay,
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I'm going from this guy to that guy. But it's
not hard at all, especially you know, once you get
a lot of reps at it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Devin, was that the one thing when you came into
the NFL that was maybe most of the eyebrow reson,
oh my gosh, he's protected or were your protections in
college pretty advanced? Obviously Lane had, you know, run some
things in the NFL, and then in college what was
kind of the past protection thing is.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
You came into the league.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Was that kind of eye opening like, oh my gosh,
this is so different from what I used to.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
No, So the passport that I ran in college, it
was very similar to what I ran for the Bills,
So that helped out a lot. Yeah, you know, it
was just the speed of the game. Things just happened quicker.
That was the biggest thing that I felt like I
had to adjust to But as far as like, you know,
the scheme and knowing what it was, I was pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Devin Singletary joining us. Okay, so when Monday morning hit,
you got the cooler weather and it's not quite Buffalo,
but it's a big departure from what we had. How
have you been adjusting to Houston, the climate and also
being in the city, Devin.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yeah, the climbent is being lovely.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know, I'm from South Florida, so it feels good
to be back in some warm weather. You know, the
weather today, I don't mind. I feel like it's the
perfect weather without the rain, you know. And the city
of Houston. Man, it's fun. You know, it's a lot
to do, great food, great people. I'm enjoying myself for sure.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Does the cold weather affect the right arm, it's the
right arm, Rod's gotta throw it one more time.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Yeah, I don't affect it at all. I don't matter
what weather.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We you know, that.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Game, that game we Mark and I were calling you
Motor because that's been your nickname. I think a lot
of people knew that, but Andre Ware was like, why
y'all call it motor?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
So we figured to ask you, where did the nickname
Motor come from?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Yeah, so it was passed down. You know, my father
had it first.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
You know, So when I I was born, I was
a little motor, and then I started playing ball and
I was fast and I never got tired, and the
name just stuck, you know, from then to now.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, you know, that's that's how I got the name.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
On the touchdown pass you had to Dalton Schultz. We
often say that if a running back is given permission
to throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're throwing the ball. No matter what.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You're gonna try to thread the needle. You're not gonna
throw it away. How hard is it to Hey, if
it's not there, what do they tell you to do
to throw it away or tuck it under run with it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What would you have done?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
So if it wasn't there, in my case, I probably
would have had to throw it away because the linebacker
had he shot the gap so he was on me
so quick. So it wasn't now to throw it away
in that case. But it justs depends on the situation.
You know, I'm gonna definitely try to throw the ball,
but you know, if the opportunity presents itself to take off.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I'm gonna definitely are.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You the emergency emergency quarterback?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So even if you go to case and then he
can't go, is it you after that?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I mean we haven't talked about it, but you know
I'm available.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You know, did you have to do paper rocks used
to see who's gonna throw that ball? Or you just
clearly have the best arm in the running back room.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
I got the best on.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You were going to say that, but I can see
some running backs like, no, man, I can throw it.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Then you watch him throw like, no, no man, you can't
throw You can't throw it off.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Now, we didn't have no competition or anything. You know,
they gave me first dips and I did good, but
about it did bad? Yeah, somebody else would have got
a shot at it.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So when you go play call, come into the huddle.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Because I was watching the sideline at that point and
it looked like Damien was coming in the game, and
then I saw I saw dB kind of bringing back,
and I thought, okay, this is different.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Just kind of looking when you hear that play call
on the huddle, what are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, I'm like, here we go. You know, Doug came in.
He was like, Yo, Molder, this the one. Let's do it, dog,
you know what I'm saying. So I'm just I'm just
staying calm, you know, and I'm ready to make something happen.
And I felt like they play went in slow motion
for me, it did at least, but it was fun.
I'm glad we executed that.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So you're from South Florida, Deerfield Beach, and how many
guys are you in touch with who you grew up
with down there? Because you grew up with and played
against them with so many different players who went to
college and some of the NFL, of course, and that
area of South Florida and Houston have the most pro
football players produced of any major metropolitan area in the country.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So how do you see it with the friends you
grew up with.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, man, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
We stay in touch, you know, we can phone calls
throughout the week, you know, every other week, whatever it is,
and you know, stay locked in seeing each other play.
You know, that's always fun. Were always rooting for each other,
you know, until we got to play against each other,
if you know, if that happens. But man, you know,
it's fun growing up down there and you make a
lot of friends, and you know, I'm rooting for all
my guys in the league for.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Sure, Devin.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
How many guys did you have on your high school
team that ended up playing at either a high level
D one or made it to the league, And how
many guys did you play against her? You're like, oh, yeah,
I played against that guy as you're watching NFL games now,
is a pretty good number.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Man, It's a lot a lot of us, especially that
went to D one. Yeah, and then it's still a
decent amount of us that you know that made it
to the league. You know that I played against, played
with I'm on the team, you know what I'm saying
through the years, whatever it may be, but yeah, it's
a good amount for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
When did you When did you know? Okay, the NFL
is a realistic shot for me?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
When did you know that did you have?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Did you just kind of all the way along like, yeah,
I'm gonna make it the NFL because he heard stories,
but yeah, you know, kids nine years old, he knows
he's going to the NFL and uh, tops out for
him in the IVY League somebody I know.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
But for you, when did you know I'm going to
the league for me.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Honestly, I'll say around sixth grade. That's when I knew.
I'm like, because that's when I really started like I
was training. Yeah, so I'm training for real, you know,
running with the sled, I'm you know, squat and everything.
And you know this is in sixth grade. So I'm
gonna say since sixth grade, that's when I knew, like
all right, and because you know we used to watch TV,
I'm like, you know, if this guy can do it,
I know I can do That was always the mindset.
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So yeah, sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I gotta get to my fifth grader right now lifting weights.
My goodness, Devin, what's the coach's message to the team
this week? I know you have the big game plan
install coming up and everything like that. We're ahead of
that right now. But what about the message this week
heading into week nine?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, you know, coming off of a tough loss, you know,
you know that we felt we left some things out there,
especially when it comes to those those details. You know,
starting one week at a time, starting this week with
Tampa Bay, you know, let's get back rolling in the
right direction. You know what I'm saying, that's locked back
in reset and you know, make sure we heading up
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what we gotta handed up. So no matter what, we
come out with a win this week. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're looking forward to it. Thanks so much, good luck.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Oh yeah, no problem, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
There's Devin Singletary aka Motor. Next up, Gene decker Hoff,
voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers formerly with Florida State.
We'll get into Bobby Bowden and a bunch of other
stuff in this conversation. It's the legendary voice of the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Gene decker Hoff. Old friend of mine, Geene,
It's so great to have have you on. How's it going, Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's going great, except the Bucks are three and four
and we don't have Tom Brady, you know. But it's
a brand new football game, Mark, and you know the
Bucks are playing decent football. You just can't get that.
You just can't get that win. You know, you beat
yourself with a penalty, you beat yourself with a not
converting on third down. In short, it's it's just one
of those those things, and you got to live with it.
You look around the league's Mark, there's a lot of
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a lot of weird stuff happening in the nation of
the football league this year. Crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It is weird.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, let's start there, because I feel like almost every
team is win one lose one, win one lose when
everybody feels like they're three and four, four and three,
everybody around five hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But that's how they want it, right.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Parody, I guess, is the keyword. I heard that so
many you know, even before I started broadcasting Bucket football
at eighty nine, I heard parody parody enough. It's beginning
to sink in. You know, who would have thought the
Buccaneers have lost, you know, three in a row, and
the San Francisco forty nine ers have lost three in
a row. You know, it's apples and oranges, I know,
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but who would have thought that? It's just phenomenal the
way the seasons playing out. It looks to me like
Detroit looked pretty good the other night on Thursday. They
beat us twenty to six. We're one of the few
teams that held them to twenty or less. But they
ran the ball right down our throat. And you know,
they got rid of their top two rushers from last year.
How do they do that? But Detroit looks good. Philadelphia
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beat is pretty bad. That's our worst loss of the season.
But other than that, I mean, you know, a coach
fired what seven games in the season. I mean, good grief.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, give me the theme of this three game losing streak,
because you're within one play of beating Buffalo, you're very
close with Atlanta. What's been a theme, if any, to
losing three in a row?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Gene Well. Coach Todd Bowles continues to say, it is
press conference that we have to be better at communicating
and then then obviously executing. The communication thing is it's
not coach speak, but it's something that you and I
we think communicate. You pick up your phone, you call somebody,
but it's communication between linebackers, defensive backs, corners, and safeties.
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And the loss to the loss to Atlanta, coach Bowle
said in his press efforts after the game, and then
in his Monday press conference and also on Total Access
to the radio show he does a monthly, he said,
we had practiced defensively against that play fifteen times during
the week. We knew they had it in their arsenalone.
We had practiced it and we played it well. In practice,
and you know, Kyle Pitts gets so wide open, you
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and I could have thrown a pass to him. And
it's a forty one yard game. They had forty five
seconds left after we tied the game at thirteen thirteen
and one play, they're ready for a young Way coup
field goal and he doesn't miss many and that was it.
As the horn sounded, he kicked the field gold and
that's the story of that ballgame. But I'll say this Mark,
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the Bucks have had problems with third down and long
I remember last year with Tom Braders' quarterback, obviously less
than two seconds he was getting rid of the ball,
so you didn't really have many plays where you threw
deep with Tom. But now with Baker Mayfield, it's a
little different. But last year we did not convert a
single third down and the eleven plus, not a single.
I think we had about eighteen attempts, so we were
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over eighteen third down eleven plus. This year the Buccaneers
have converted eighteen percent four of them. Okay, a third
down and eleven plus with Baker, but unfortunately opposing teams
this is this is the wackiest thing that I can
put a figure I don't think Todd Bowles could put it.
But the craziest thing is that opponents are converting forty
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three percent of third down and eleven the Falcons converted
third down and seventeen they converted third down and fourteen.
So and then then on the other side, you know,
it's that's just the third time the Buccaneers have ever
played in Buffalo, and I'm don't get the fiddle out
play you know, play a sad song for me, because
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it's just the way football is. But at Buffalo, we
we we got a rookie offensive guard because it's you know,
two false starts. It's so loud, it's like you're playing
in a dome. I think we got preparation for the
Houston play in front of the Bills maafia this past
Thursday night. But yeah, Cody Mauk rookies started since day one.
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He's a much better guard. But he jumps the gun
twice and I think he got a holding penalty. Matt
Fyler was out in that ballgame. He had started the
first six games, signing a free agent signing of the Bucks.
The left guard and so Erin Stinney had to come
in his first action of the season, So it was
a little bit of a patchwork and a rookie playing
in a very loud atmosphere and making, you know, rookie mistakes.
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That's why they call him rookie mistakes. But to answer
your question, defense, we've got to do better on third week.
Were last of the league on third Opponents are converting
fifty percent on that's that's incredible, and we got to
figure that out. Then we're halfway through the season. Hopefully
we figured out in the second half mark. But yeah,
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that's those are the problems Offensively. Penalties are drive till
as you know that, and we commit a penalty here,
committee a penalty there, and you know, you only get
about twelve possessions a game. Maybe maybe it's a high
scoring game, maybe fourteen, but you get twelve and tenalies
cost your drives. So if you get two or three
tenalies on two or three different drives, then you don't
have that many opportunities to score points. And that's why, golly,
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this offense with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin should be
scoring more than eighteen points a ball game. That's just
it's just not really good offense. You got a new
offensive coordinator, you got a new quarterback. You can't run
the football. That's been a problem with the Bucks even
during the Brady are But those are the problems, and
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unless we figure out how to solve them, we're you know,
those oddsmakers said we're supposed to win six and a
half games this year, and we went three of our
first four. Those odsbakers said, wow, well we it is,
you know, but now we've lost way in a row.
And unlike most most teams, whole field advantage is huge.
But the Buccaneers seemed to play better on the road
then they do at home. I mean, we're a foot
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away from beating the Bills on a hail Mary pass
last week, but we played well enough to stay in
the ball game. And we did the same well. Obviously,
we beat Minnesota at Minnesota. Well, we beat New Orleans
at New Orleans. I mean, maybe we have to play
at dome stadiums to win football games. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Geene Deckerhoff joining us voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and former voice of the Florida State seven Oles. Gene,
and I know it hasn't been that long, but tell
me something about Bobby Bowden. That really stands out to
you know, to you, I know there has to be
a ton of stuff, but legendary coach obviously, and some
coaches that I've worked with in the past sometimes their
voice still rings in my head with certain things they
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used to say or do. What really stands out in
your memory about spending time with Bobby Bowden behind the.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Scenes, Well, let me just say this, Dad Gummt. Yeah,
Bobby's street though, and if everybody is just use one
word to describe Bobby Gummett. Bobby would been ninety four
years old next websday. In fact, he's ninety three and
fifty one weeks today as we speak. But I talked
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to his widow, Ann Bowden a couple of weeks ago
at the ACC Network ran a special on that nineteen
ninety nine championship team. Bobby's second championship at Florida State
his only undefeated team, believe it or not, in his
entire career, he had one undefeated team, and that was
at nineteen ninety nine team. Oh, by the way, they
must have been I think was there four or five
first round draft picks on that team, Corey Simon, and
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it was the defensive tackle and Chris Winky was the quarterback.
He was the twenty eight year old quarterback that won
the Heisman Trophy the following year. And we dearly missed Bobby.
And you know what Mike Novel is doing now? It
replicated what Bobby did. Now we're undefeated eight. No, I
follow the games. I listened to Jeff Colhayn and barn
and Tom Block do the games. I've got that apage
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or whoever I'm traveling. I even listened to the game
FSU Syracuse when I was in Munich last year.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Gee, I don't know if you know this off the
top of your head, and maybe you do, because I
if it were me. Are you the only person ever
to call a Super Bowl and a national championship for
your team as the voice of that team? And I
know guys might have done it, but not as the
voice of the team. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Kevin Harlan's probably done a few of those, but he's
a national voice. He does CBSTV at Westwood One Monday
night football.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That doesn't count in this category.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, no, no, you know you may be I know
this that when William Barno and Floyd and I were
broadcast partners in the booth. We were the only two
college football We're the only college football broadcast team that
had Super Bowl rings. I know that's a fact, but
as far as somebody else, Okay, Joe Starkey did the
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forty nine Ers back in the day. He still doing cow.
He may have stepped down this year because I think
Joe's a little older than me. I'm seventy eight going
on seventy nine. Let's see, he did San Francisco forty
nine Ers. He did all those great Super bowls for
the forty nine ers. Calver to my dollars, Cal's ever
won a National champions and they that before I was born,
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but I don't think they've ever want to watch. And
then Joe would have been done them anyway. But let's
see Bill Hillgrove does the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He's done super Bowls, but the pitt Panthers last national championship.
I think it was under Johnny Major's back. Yeah, it
was it Johnny Majors back in the eighties. I think
it was. Yeah, he wasn't doing them then, so no, no,
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huh no.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But anyway, it's it's rare and you're certainly the only
one who's done two each.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Geene, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
All right, Mark, We'll see you Sunday.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Always great to visit with Gene decker Hooff. I used
to visit with him when we were in side by
side booths when I was at the University of Miami
and he was with Florida State. So I've known the
man for a long time. He's a wonderful man in
this business and beyond. Now let's get to Steven Atigoke,
safety's coach for your Texans former safety and also worked
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with Demico Ryans in San Francisco as a quality control
coach coaching safeties. John Harris and I sat down with him.
Let's first of all, talk about how the adjustment has
been coaching with this team after everything you've been through
in your career so far.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Everything's been smooth and a great transition. We have a
great group of guys all over the defense and coaching
staffs made this a really smooth transition, and I've just
been blessed being his position.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You got some guys in the back end coach that
they got a little bit of attitude, I mean in
a good way.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
In a good way.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
In Jimmy and Jalen. Let's start with Jimmy. What is
Jimmy brought to the defense. Now, you were in San Francisco,
so you saw him a little bit there, but now
you've seen him here. What are your thoughts about Jimmy
what he's brought to this defense when he's brought to Houston. I,
Like I said, they all play with passion.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
There you go, that's a better work football passion.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, it got a good work.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Jimmy is a very intelligent football player, extremely instinctive. I
think his blood type is football, So that's good. I
mean it speaks volumes to the work he puts in
and just the way he recognized his place. His football
awareness is off the charts.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
What about Hea Tree for a young player, what he's
doing so far? And you weren't with him year one
of his career, but you're with him here too, and
what are you seeing in his development?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Jalen is a very as well passionate player. His energy
is contagious to say the least. I mean he always
has a smile and always a positive mindset, so that
in and of itself, I mean helps him just get
the day started. You come in a room, you're ready
to learn, you're ready to embrace your teammates Like that's
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just a great start to your day. So no matter
what we install, no matter what we're playing that week,
no technique, he's going to approach it with a positive mindset.
So that helps you just from the very start.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Coach, We've talked to a lot of players, Hey, what's
it like to play for Demika Ryans? So now we're
gonna ask coaches what's it like to coach alongside Demiko Rians.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Tmiko is a tremendous man first and foremost man of faith,
the guy that I look up to. I admire his work, ethic,
his passion not only for football, for his family as well.
So no matter what, it is, family first, right yep.
And so it makes it easy to come to work
and want to work for someone, work along alongside someone
like that. So it's been it's been tremendous.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
How much of playing safety, Steven and Steven out of
Okay safety's coach with us. How much of playing safety
is to stick to exactly what is designed for that
defense versus I got to go make a play and
there's a no, no, no, yes, good job. Kind of
element to what they do there on the field.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I'd like to say that safety you have to have
a lot of awareness. You have to have formation recognition,
and so you recognize the formation. You've seen the tendencies
from this formation. So now I'm not just making a guess.
I'm making a calculated estimation of what's going to happen.
And now I can do it with fundamentals and technique.
So it's not just going off the rails and doing
my own thing. Now I understand the coverage, whereas my strengths.
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Where are we liable to get, you know, attacked in
this coverage? And now how can I make a play
with the within playing the integrity of the call.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
You've been coaching a number off diferent spots. You're still
a young guy. Have you gotten a thirty eight? Now
you're not even thirty anything, So God dang it, man,
young dudes. But you started coaching career at Florida where
you run a staff, and you had a player by
the name of John Garnard. So John Gernard at Florida,
John Garnard is a Texan. You've kind of been able
to see him at both stops. Coach, what have you
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seen in kind of the growth of John Garnard in
both of those stops.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
John Garnard and Damian Pierce both, that's tremendous, tremendous workers. Yeah,
first and foremost, very hard working individuals. And being around
John on the defensive side, I mean, he's a passionate
player as well, plays with the physical mindset and whatever
you're telling to whatever you ask him to do, he's
going to go execute it to the best of his abilities.
And like, just to see this progression so far, you're
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still young in his career, it's been awesome to see.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
So you use the word passion a few times, which
I love.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm glad you used that.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
But you've used that and we've gotten to know those
guys over the year, so we understand that. So when
you're looking for players to add, whether it's through waivers,
whether it's through trade, et cetera, and you're looking at
that particular player, how much how important is it for
that player to have that passion to be able to
play for your defense, to be able to play for you.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
We preach effort, physicality, So having passion for the game
isn't just about just being a text and like why
do I play football?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Right?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Why why am I out here?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Right?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
It starts in you know, youth ball. Then you get
to high school, then you go to college. You got
to make a commitment this off season, workout this, and
then you go to the NFL where, hey, you know what,
at alarm clock, you know it's up to you whether
or not you said it. So you have organized team
activities and off season. Then you get the training camp
and then at least you're guarantee seventeen scheduled games. So
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now what's my commitment? Every week the off day? Right
that Tuesday and Wednesday, the Thursday, the Friday? Like why
am I doing this? To get better? You know, each
and every day to embrace the culture, to bring up
the level of play with the guys around me. So
having passion when you do something, it means you're operating
with intent. So each and every day, those are the
type of people I want to be around, so you know,
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when they wake up. My goal is to be the
best version of myself to assist the people around me.
So when you enter a football let's say a football facility,
you're with your guys, like I know whether or not
this guy makes a mistake, he means well, he means
his intent is to help the team, so you can
always work with people like that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Great stuff. Coach, Thanks a lot for being with us.
Good luck to you anytime.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
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Speaker 2 (27:36):
Have a great weekend, great day. Go Texans.
Hello Texans, Welcome to the podcast. Let's get right to it.
Here we have Gene Deckerhoff, a legend. He does Tampa
Bay Buccaneers radio and used to do Florida State with
Bobby Bowden. He goes way back with the Seminoles, but
dropped them a couple of years ago. Steven at Agoke,
he is the safeties coach for Your Texans, was with
Tamiko Ryans in San Francisco. Interesting guy, interesting position with
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Jimmy Ward and Jalen Petree.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And let's start here.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Devin Singletary, John Harris and I have visited with him
right after the Carolina game in advance of what is
going to go down this weekend with Tampa Bay. Do
you have a big game coming up with Tampa Bay?
What about this week? The focus on getting the offense
really geared up for this one.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Man, excited to get back to doing you know what
we do, you know, making plays, you know, executing will
and finding a way to get a w you know,
especially coming off a loss.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
So were excited, Devin, I'm always worried and thought about
this for running backs at this point in the season,
about halfway through. I don't know We're come off of
bye week in a game that'stery. How'd your body feel?
I mean, especially playing your position? How does the body
feel when you wake up on Monday?
Speaker 4 (01:16):
Some games some games better than others. Yeah, you know,
But for me, you know, after I get a good lifting,
that kind of gets all that soret and this out.
So you know that helps a lot. And midway through
the season, I feel good and you need that lift. Yeah, definitely,
I gotta get that lift in. I'm pretty sure a
lot of guys feel the same way. That lift brings
you back to life.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah all right, we saw some good runs.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
You ran for one hundred and ten yards as a team,
but I know you want to do it even better.
So what's that going to take to get the running
game really in full gear to blossom fully as you
take on the rest of the schedule here.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Yeah, man, this just comes down to the smallest little details,
you know, if that's communication, you know, just pointing out
the right guy, whatever it may be for us as
running backs, Aiming points says, it could be the smallest
things that can go turn a four yard game into
a big game or no game. So just getting on
those small details, cleaning those up. I think that's the biggest.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
Thing, Devin beating around CJ.
Speaker 5 (02:12):
Now for the time that you have and you think
back to week one and you think, now we're going
into week nine, what's kind of the biggest change that
you've seen in him as a rookie quarterback. You know
when you were in you were in Buffalo, Josh was
only in his second year, so you kind of saw
his growth as well. But have you seen kind of
CJ's growth from week one and week eight and week
nine as we go into Tampa?
Speaker 6 (02:32):
What have you seen from him?
Speaker 4 (02:33):
We just keep blossoming into a great leader, you know
from day one and now he's even more vocal and
leading by example, you know what I'm saying, just just
taking charge and you know guys are following them. You know,
for him to be so young, he's doing a great
job at that.
Speaker 5 (02:49):
Is that something that that veterans throight way of saying
this encourage him? Like, hey, CJ, Like do you have
to kind of encourage younger guys to be able to
do that or is it just guys do it naturally
and that kind of comes naturally, CJ.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I think it just depends on the guy. But with CJ.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
It comes natural, Like from day one you could tell
he embraced that role. And we just keep finding ways
to get better at like he's doing on the field,
you know, and gods are rallying behind.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
That purely running the football.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Devin, How does this system differ from what you were
doing in Buffalo when you let the team in rushing
last year?
Speaker 7 (03:23):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Uh, probably more outside zone here and then I did
in Buffalo. Man, just just the way we blocked things.
We blocked things a little differently here, and yeah, those
those like the biggest things, you know. And but it's
been fun, you know, and we still got so much
to go. Like I said, you know, it's midway through,
got ten weeks left, so it's a lot more room
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for growth.
Speaker 5 (03:49):
It's Tampa this week, and I know you haven't gotten
too much in the Tampa. I'd imagine maybe you've seen him,
maybe not, but just watching on TV, et cetera. I
always wondered this about running backs and via Vel, this
big old boy.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
We all know who he is.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
How conscious are you as a running back of him
and where he is? I mean, if it doesn't fall
into your read, you know, hey, he's not the guy
I'm reading, he's not my reading this particular player, don't
worry about it, or that guy can be a factor
in every run play.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
I gotta be concerned about where he is as a
running back.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Yeah, guys like that, you definitely definitely always keeping the
eye out. Like I said, he might not be my read,
but even if I'm not, if I don't see him,
I'm feeling out what he's at, right, you know what
I'm saying, And gods of that nature, you just you know,
I don't say you slow him that that's the best thing.
You can slow him down, because it's not like you're
gonna stop him, right, you know what I'm saying. He's
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a beast, So you slow him down. And you know,
when you slow him down, you gotta make it count.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
When you're in a past protection situation, sometimes you don't
know who you have to block right when the play begins.
You're looking for somebody. But then it might be a surprise.
I got to pick up a blitzer or whatever. How
does all that work as a running back that dimension
of the game, Devin.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, you know, first you get the call. You know,
depending on the call, it could be a six man,
seven man, pass or whatever. It may be a slide
or man and so yeah, when you come out, you
want to locate the mic point. You get the mic
point that that does it all for you, you know,
or or it could be a five or whatever the
case may be. Once you get the call, you know,
that's when things start to settle down. You can locate Okay,
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I'm going from this guy to that guy. But it's
not hard at all, especially you know, once you get
a lot of reps at it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Devin, was that the one thing when you came into
the NFL that was maybe most of the eyebrow reson,
oh my gosh, he's protected or were your protections in
college pretty advanced? Obviously Lane had, you know, run some
things in the NFL, and then in college what was
kind of the past protection thing is.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
You came into the league.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Was that kind of eye opening like, oh my gosh,
this is so different from what I used to.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
No, So the passport that I ran in college, it
was very similar to what I ran for the Bills,
So that helped out a lot. Yeah, you know, it
was just the speed of the game. Things just happened quicker.
That was the biggest thing that I felt like I
had to adjust to But as far as like, you know,
the scheme and knowing what it was, I was pretty solid.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Devin Singletary joining us. Okay, so when Monday morning hit,
you got the cooler weather and it's not quite Buffalo,
but it's a big departure from what we had. How
have you been adjusting to Houston, the climate and also
being in the city, Devin.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Yeah, the climbent is being lovely.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
You know, I'm from South Florida, so it feels good
to be back in some warm weather. You know, the
weather today, I don't mind. I feel like it's the
perfect weather without the rain, you know. And the city
of Houston. Man, it's fun. You know, it's a lot
to do, great food, great people. I'm enjoying myself for sure.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Does the cold weather affect the right arm, it's the
right arm, Rod's gotta throw it one more time.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Yeah, I don't affect it at all. I don't matter
what weather.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
We you know, that.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
Game, that game we Mark and I were calling you
Motor because that's been your nickname. I think a lot
of people knew that, but Andre Ware was like, why
y'all call it motor?
Speaker 7 (06:53):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:53):
So we figured to ask you, where did the nickname
Motor come from?
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Yeah, so it was passed down. You know, my father
had it first.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
You know, So when I I was born, I was
a little motor, and then I started playing ball and
I was fast and I never got tired, and the
name just stuck, you know, from then to now.
Speaker 7 (07:08):
Yeah, you know, that's that's how I got the name.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
On the touchdown pass you had to Dalton Schultz. We
often say that if a running back is given permission
to throw the ball.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're throwing the ball. No matter what.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
You're gonna try to thread the needle. You're not gonna
throw it away. How hard is it to Hey, if
it's not there, what do they tell you to do
to throw it away or tuck it under run with it?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
What would you have done?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
So if it wasn't there, in my case, I probably
would have had to throw it away because the linebacker
had he shot the gap so he was on me
so quick. So it wasn't now to throw it away
in that case. But it justs depends on the situation.
You know, I'm gonna definitely try to throw the ball,
but you know, if the opportunity presents itself to take off.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
I'm gonna definitely are.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
You the emergency emergency quarterback?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
So even if you go to case and then he
can't go, is it you after that?
Speaker 7 (07:54):
I mean we haven't talked about it, but you know
I'm available.
Speaker 6 (07:57):
You know, did you have to do paper rocks used
to see who's gonna throw that ball? Or you just
clearly have the best arm in the running back room.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
I got the best on.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
You were going to say that, but I can see
some running backs like, no, man, I can throw it.
Speaker 6 (08:11):
Then you watch him throw like, no, no man, you can't
throw You can't throw it off.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Now, we didn't have no competition or anything. You know,
they gave me first dips and I did good, but
about it did bad? Yeah, somebody else would have got
a shot at it.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So when you go play call, come into the huddle.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
Because I was watching the sideline at that point and
it looked like Damien was coming in the game, and
then I saw I saw dB kind of bringing back,
and I thought, okay, this is different.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
Just kind of looking when you hear that play call
on the huddle, what are you thinking?
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Yeah, I'm like, here we go. You know, Doug came in.
He was like, Yo, Molder, this the one. Let's do it, dog,
you know what I'm saying. So I'm just I'm just
staying calm, you know, and I'm ready to make something happen.
And I felt like they play went in slow motion
for me, it did at least, but it was fun.
I'm glad we executed that.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
So you're from South Florida, Deerfield Beach, and how many
guys are you in touch with who you grew up
with down there? Because you grew up with and played
against them with so many different players who went to
college and some of the NFL, of course, and that
area of South Florida and Houston have the most pro
football players produced of any major metropolitan area in the country.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So how do you see it with the friends you
grew up with.
Speaker 7 (09:17):
Yeah, man, it's fun.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
We stay in touch, you know, we can phone calls
throughout the week, you know, every other week, whatever it is,
and you know, stay locked in seeing each other play.
You know, that's always fun. Were always rooting for each other,
you know, until we got to play against each other,
if you know, if that happens. But man, you know,
it's fun growing up down there and you make a
lot of friends, and you know, I'm rooting for all
my guys in the league for.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Sure, Devin.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
How many guys did you have on your high school
team that ended up playing at either a high level
D one or made it to the league, And how
many guys did you play against her? You're like, oh, yeah,
I played against that guy as you're watching NFL games now,
is a pretty good number.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
Man, It's a lot a lot of us, especially that
went to D one. Yeah, and then it's still a
decent amount of us that you know that made it
to the league. You know that I played against, played
with I'm on the team, you know what I'm saying
through the years, whatever it may be, but yeah, it's
a good amount for sure.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
When did you When did you know? Okay, the NFL
is a realistic shot for me?
Speaker 7 (10:13):
When did you know that did you have?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Did you just kind of all the way along like, yeah,
I'm gonna make it the NFL because he heard stories,
but yeah, you know, kids nine years old, he knows
he's going to the NFL and uh, tops out for
him in the IVY League somebody I know.
Speaker 6 (10:26):
But for you, when did you know I'm going to
the league for me.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Honestly, I'll say around sixth grade. That's when I knew.
I'm like, because that's when I really started like I
was training. Yeah, so I'm training for real, you know,
running with the sled, I'm you know, squat and everything.
And you know this is in sixth grade. So I'm
gonna say since sixth grade, that's when I knew, like
all right, and because you know we used to watch TV,
I'm like, you know, if this guy can do it,
I know I can do That was always the mindset.
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So yeah, sixth grade.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
I gotta get to my fifth grader right now lifting weights.
My goodness, Devin, what's the coach's message to the team
this week? I know you have the big game plan
install coming up and everything like that. We're ahead of
that right now. But what about the message this week
heading into week nine?
Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah, you know, coming off of a tough loss, you know,
you know that we felt we left some things out there,
especially when it comes to those those details. You know,
starting one week at a time, starting this week with
Tampa Bay, you know, let's get back rolling in the
right direction. You know what I'm saying, that's locked back
in reset and you know, make sure we heading up
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what we gotta handed up. So no matter what, we
come out with a win this week. That's the biggest thing.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
All right.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We're looking forward to it. Thanks so much, good luck.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Oh yeah, no problem, appreciate it all right.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
There's Devin Singletary aka Motor. Next up, Gene decker Hoff,
voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers formerly with Florida State.
We'll get into Bobby Bowden and a bunch of other
stuff in this conversation. It's the legendary voice of the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Gene decker Hoff. Old friend of mine, Geene,
It's so great to have have you on. How's it going, Mark.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
It's going great, except the Bucks are three and four
and we don't have Tom Brady, you know. But it's
a brand new football game, Mark, and you know the
Bucks are playing decent football. You just can't get that.
You just can't get that win. You know, you beat
yourself with a penalty, you beat yourself with a not
converting on third down. In short, it's it's just one
of those those things, and you got to live with it.
You look around the league's Mark, there's a lot of
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a lot of weird stuff happening in the nation of
the football league this year. Crazy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
It is weird.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Well, let's start there, because I feel like almost every
team is win one lose one, win one lose when
everybody feels like they're three and four, four and three,
everybody around five hundred.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
But that's how they want it, right.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Parody, I guess, is the keyword. I heard that so
many you know, even before I started broadcasting Bucket football
at eighty nine, I heard parody parody enough. It's beginning
to sink in. You know, who would have thought the
Buccaneers have lost, you know, three in a row, and
the San Francisco forty nine ers have lost three in
a row. You know, it's apples and oranges, I know,
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but who would have thought that? It's just phenomenal the
way the seasons playing out. It looks to me like
Detroit looked pretty good the other night on Thursday. They
beat us twenty to six. We're one of the few
teams that held them to twenty or less. But they
ran the ball right down our throat. And you know,
they got rid of their top two rushers from last year.
How do they do that? But Detroit looks good. Philadelphia
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beat is pretty bad. That's our worst loss of the season.
But other than that, I mean, you know, a coach
fired what seven games in the season. I mean, good grief.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Yeah, it's kind of crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, give me the theme of this three game losing streak,
because you're within one play of beating Buffalo, you're very
close with Atlanta. What's been a theme, if any, to
losing three in a row?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Gene Well. Coach Todd Bowles continues to say, it is
press conference that we have to be better at communicating
and then then obviously executing. The communication thing is it's
not coach speak, but it's something that you and I
we think communicate. You pick up your phone, you call somebody,
but it's communication between linebackers, defensive backs, corners, and safeties.
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And the loss to the loss to Atlanta, coach Bowle
said in his press efforts after the game, and then
in his Monday press conference and also on Total Access
to the radio show he does a monthly, he said,
we had practiced defensively against that play fifteen times during
the week. We knew they had it in their arsenalone.
We had practiced it and we played it well. In practice,
and you know, Kyle Pitts gets so wide open, you
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and I could have thrown a pass to him. And
it's a forty one yard game. They had forty five
seconds left after we tied the game at thirteen thirteen
and one play, they're ready for a young Way coup
field goal and he doesn't miss many and that was it.
As the horn sounded, he kicked the field gold and
that's the story of that ballgame. But I'll say this Mark,
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the Bucks have had problems with third down and long
I remember last year with Tom Braders' quarterback, obviously less
than two seconds he was getting rid of the ball,
so you didn't really have many plays where you threw
deep with Tom. But now with Baker Mayfield, it's a
little different. But last year we did not convert a
single third down and the eleven plus, not a single.
I think we had about eighteen attempts, so we were
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over eighteen third down eleven plus. This year the Buccaneers
have converted eighteen percent four of them. Okay, a third
down and eleven plus with Baker, but unfortunately opposing teams
this is this is the wackiest thing that I can
put a figure I don't think Todd Bowles could put it.
But the craziest thing is that opponents are converting forty
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three percent of third down and eleven the Falcons converted
third down and seventeen they converted third down and fourteen.
So and then then on the other side, you know,
it's that's just the third time the Buccaneers have ever
played in Buffalo, and I'm don't get the fiddle out
play you know, play a sad song for me, because
(15:52):
it's just the way football is. But at Buffalo, we
we we got a rookie offensive guard because it's you know,
two false starts. It's so loud, it's like you're playing
in a dome. I think we got preparation for the
Houston play in front of the Bills maafia this past
Thursday night. But yeah, Cody Mauk rookies started since day one.
(16:13):
He's a much better guard. But he jumps the gun
twice and I think he got a holding penalty. Matt
Fyler was out in that ballgame. He had started the
first six games, signing a free agent signing of the Bucks.
The left guard and so Erin Stinney had to come
in his first action of the season, So it was
a little bit of a patchwork and a rookie playing
in a very loud atmosphere and making, you know, rookie mistakes.
(16:36):
That's why they call him rookie mistakes. But to answer
your question, defense, we've got to do better on third week.
Were last of the league on third Opponents are converting
fifty percent on that's that's incredible, and we got to
figure that out. Then we're halfway through the season. Hopefully
we figured out in the second half mark. But yeah,
(16:56):
that's those are the problems Offensively. Penalties are drive till
as you know that, and we commit a penalty here,
committee a penalty there, and you know, you only get
about twelve possessions a game. Maybe maybe it's a high
scoring game, maybe fourteen, but you get twelve and tenalies
cost your drives. So if you get two or three
tenalies on two or three different drives, then you don't
have that many opportunities to score points. And that's why, golly,
(17:20):
this offense with Mike Evans and Chris Godwin should be
scoring more than eighteen points a ball game. That's just
it's just not really good offense. You got a new
offensive coordinator, you got a new quarterback. You can't run
the football. That's been a problem with the Bucks even
during the Brady are But those are the problems, and
(17:40):
unless we figure out how to solve them, we're you know,
those oddsmakers said we're supposed to win six and a
half games this year, and we went three of our
first four. Those odsbakers said, wow, well we it is,
you know, but now we've lost way in a row.
And unlike most most teams, whole field advantage is huge.
But the Buccaneers seemed to play better on the road
then they do at home. I mean, we're a foot
(18:02):
away from beating the Bills on a hail Mary pass
last week, but we played well enough to stay in
the ball game. And we did the same well. Obviously,
we beat Minnesota at Minnesota. Well, we beat New Orleans
at New Orleans. I mean, maybe we have to play
at dome stadiums to win football games. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Geene Deckerhoff joining us voice of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
and former voice of the Florida State seven Oles. Gene,
and I know it hasn't been that long, but tell
me something about Bobby Bowden. That really stands out to
you know, to you, I know there has to be
a ton of stuff, but legendary coach obviously, and some
coaches that I've worked with in the past sometimes their
voice still rings in my head with certain things they
(18:39):
used to say or do. What really stands out in
your memory about spending time with Bobby Bowden behind the.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
Scenes, Well, let me just say this, Dad Gummt. Yeah,
Bobby's street though, and if everybody is just use one
word to describe Bobby Gummett. Bobby would been ninety four
years old next websday. In fact, he's ninety three and
fifty one weeks today as we speak. But I talked
(19:07):
to his widow, Ann Bowden a couple of weeks ago
at the ACC Network ran a special on that nineteen
ninety nine championship team. Bobby's second championship at Florida State
his only undefeated team, believe it or not, in his
entire career, he had one undefeated team, and that was
at nineteen ninety nine team. Oh, by the way, they
must have been I think was there four or five
first round draft picks on that team, Corey Simon, and
(19:29):
it was the defensive tackle and Chris Winky was the quarterback.
He was the twenty eight year old quarterback that won
the Heisman Trophy the following year. And we dearly missed Bobby.
And you know what Mike Novel is doing now? It
replicated what Bobby did. Now we're undefeated eight. No, I
follow the games. I listened to Jeff Colhayn and barn
and Tom Block do the games. I've got that apage
(19:51):
or whoever I'm traveling. I even listened to the game
FSU Syracuse when I was in Munich last year.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Gee, I don't know if you know this off the
top of your head, and maybe you do, because I
if it were me. Are you the only person ever
to call a Super Bowl and a national championship for
your team as the voice of that team? And I
know guys might have done it, but not as the
voice of the team. What are your thoughts on that?
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Kevin Harlan's probably done a few of those, but he's
a national voice. He does CBSTV at Westwood One Monday
night football.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
That doesn't count in this category.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
No, no, no, you know you may be I know
this that when William Barno and Floyd and I were
broadcast partners in the booth. We were the only two
college football We're the only college football broadcast team that
had Super Bowl rings. I know that's a fact, but
as far as somebody else, Okay, Joe Starkey did the
(20:44):
forty nine Ers back in the day. He still doing cow.
He may have stepped down this year because I think
Joe's a little older than me. I'm seventy eight going
on seventy nine. Let's see, he did San Francisco forty
nine Ers. He did all those great Super bowls for
the forty nine ers. Calver to my dollars, Cal's ever
won a National champions and they that before I was born,
(21:04):
but I don't think they've ever want to watch. And
then Joe would have been done them anyway. But let's
see Bill Hillgrove does the Pittsburgh Panthers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He's done super Bowls, but the pitt Panthers last national championship.
I think it was under Johnny Major's back. Yeah, it
was it Johnny Majors back in the eighties. I think
it was. Yeah, he wasn't doing them then, so no, no,
(21:25):
huh no.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
But anyway, it's it's rare and you're certainly the only
one who's done two each.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Geene, thanks so much.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
All right, Mark, We'll see you Sunday.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Always great to visit with Gene decker Hooff. I used
to visit with him when we were in side by
side booths when I was at the University of Miami
and he was with Florida State. So I've known the
man for a long time. He's a wonderful man in
this business and beyond. Now let's get to Steven Atigoke,
safety's coach for your Texans former safety and also worked
(21:55):
with Demico Ryans in San Francisco as a quality control
coach coaching safeties. John Harris and I sat down with him.
Let's first of all, talk about how the adjustment has
been coaching with this team after everything you've been through
in your career so far.
Speaker 8 (22:10):
Everything's been smooth and a great transition. We have a
great group of guys all over the defense and coaching
staffs made this a really smooth transition, and I've just
been blessed being his position.
Speaker 5 (22:20):
You got some guys in the back end coach that
they got a little bit of attitude, I mean in
a good way.
Speaker 6 (22:26):
In a good way.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
In Jimmy and Jalen. Let's start with Jimmy. What is
Jimmy brought to the defense. Now, you were in San Francisco,
so you saw him a little bit there, but now
you've seen him here. What are your thoughts about Jimmy
what he's brought to this defense when he's brought to Houston. I,
Like I said, they all play with passion.
Speaker 7 (22:40):
There you go, that's a better work football passion.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
Yeah, it got a good work.
Speaker 8 (22:44):
Jimmy is a very intelligent football player, extremely instinctive. I
think his blood type is football, So that's good. I
mean it speaks volumes to the work he puts in
and just the way he recognized his place. His football
awareness is off the charts.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
What about Hea Tree for a young player, what he's
doing so far? And you weren't with him year one
of his career, but you're with him here too, and
what are you seeing in his development?
Speaker 8 (23:10):
Jalen is a very as well passionate player. His energy
is contagious to say the least. I mean he always
has a smile and always a positive mindset, so that
in and of itself, I mean helps him just get
the day started. You come in a room, you're ready
to learn, you're ready to embrace your teammates Like that's
(23:30):
just a great start to your day. So no matter
what we install, no matter what we're playing that week,
no technique, he's going to approach it with a positive mindset.
So that helps you just from the very start.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Coach, We've talked to a lot of players, Hey, what's
it like to play for Demika Ryans? So now we're
gonna ask coaches what's it like to coach alongside Demiko Rians.
Speaker 8 (23:47):
Tmiko is a tremendous man first and foremost man of faith,
the guy that I look up to. I admire his work, ethic,
his passion not only for football, for his family as well.
So no matter what, it is, family first, right yep.
And so it makes it easy to come to work
and want to work for someone, work along alongside someone
like that. So it's been it's been tremendous.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
How much of playing safety, Steven and Steven out of
Okay safety's coach with us. How much of playing safety
is to stick to exactly what is designed for that
defense versus I got to go make a play and
there's a no, no, no, yes, good job. Kind of
element to what they do there on the field.
Speaker 8 (24:27):
I'd like to say that safety you have to have
a lot of awareness. You have to have formation recognition,
and so you recognize the formation. You've seen the tendencies
from this formation. So now I'm not just making a guess.
I'm making a calculated estimation of what's going to happen.
And now I can do it with fundamentals and technique.
So it's not just going off the rails and doing
my own thing. Now I understand the coverage, whereas my strengths.
(24:51):
Where are we liable to get, you know, attacked in
this coverage? And now how can I make a play
with the within playing the integrity of the call.
Speaker 5 (24:58):
You've been coaching a number off diferent spots. You're still
a young guy. Have you gotten a thirty eight? Now
you're not even thirty anything, So God dang it, man,
young dudes. But you started coaching career at Florida where
you run a staff, and you had a player by
the name of John Garnard. So John Gernard at Florida,
John Garnard is a Texan. You've kind of been able
to see him at both stops. Coach, what have you
(25:19):
seen in kind of the growth of John Garnard in
both of those stops.
Speaker 8 (25:22):
John Garnard and Damian Pierce both, that's tremendous, tremendous workers. Yeah,
first and foremost, very hard working individuals. And being around
John on the defensive side, I mean, he's a passionate
player as well, plays with the physical mindset and whatever
you're telling to whatever you ask him to do, he's
going to go execute it to the best of his abilities.
And like, just to see this progression so far, you're
(25:43):
still young in his career, it's been awesome to see.
Speaker 6 (25:46):
So you use the word passion a few times, which
I love.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
I'm glad you used that.
Speaker 5 (25:49):
But you've used that and we've gotten to know those
guys over the year, so we understand that. So when
you're looking for players to add, whether it's through waivers,
whether it's through trade, et cetera, and you're looking at
that particular player, how much how important is it for
that player to have that passion to be able to
play for your defense, to be able to play for you.
Speaker 8 (26:09):
We preach effort, physicality, So having passion for the game
isn't just about just being a text and like why
do I play football?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Right?
Speaker 7 (26:20):
Why why am I out here?
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Right?
Speaker 8 (26:22):
It starts in you know, youth ball. Then you get
to high school, then you go to college. You got
to make a commitment this off season, workout this, and
then you go to the NFL where, hey, you know what,
at alarm clock, you know it's up to you whether
or not you said it. So you have organized team
activities and off season. Then you get the training camp
and then at least you're guarantee seventeen scheduled games. So
(26:42):
now what's my commitment? Every week the off day? Right
that Tuesday and Wednesday, the Thursday, the Friday? Like why
am I doing this? To get better? You know, each
and every day to embrace the culture, to bring up
the level of play with the guys around me. So
having passion when you do something, it means you're operating
with intent. So each and every day, those are the
type of people I want to be around, so you know,
(27:05):
when they wake up. My goal is to be the
best version of myself to assist the people around me.
So when you enter a football let's say a football facility,
you're with your guys, like I know whether or not
this guy makes a mistake, he means well, he means
his intent is to help the team, so you can
always work with people like that.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
Great stuff. Coach, Thanks a lot for being with us.
Good luck to you anytime.
Speaker 8 (27:27):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
There's Steven Adagoke and that's the pod. Go to all
the other pods. Wherever you got this one. Be sure
to subscribe to whatever you can possibly subscribe to.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Have a great weekend, great day. Go Texans.
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