October 1, 2021 • 42 mins
Ben and T.J. talk about the SoFi Stadium experience, Ben saving Gene Deckerhoff from missing the start of Bucs broadcast and how Tom Brady is doing in Tampa. When will the TB12 run end and what happens when he returns to Foxboro?
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Boom. If you thought four hours a day, minutes a
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We are back at it on a Friday. It's the
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are excited. I'm excited to talk to this guy. Just
met him for the first time. I've known this gentleman
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for many, many years, over a decade I have known
of this person. He is a broadcaster for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. He works the sidelines, he does the pregame.
He is the host of the official Nothing But Bucks
podcast on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website and also there
their app as well. He's also a college football broadcast
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or at Compass Media Networks. He is part of the
Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Who is he? That would
be none there? Then t J Reeves joining us on
the horn from his home in Tampa. And before we
look at TJ, welcome in. Let us let us start
with the Buck game against the Rams, a game we
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were both at. What is your initial impression of SOFI Stadium?
First of all, it is fantastic to be with v
Ben Mallor. We should let we should pull the curtain
back just a little bit. We should let the audience
in on a couple of things. You and I have
done a bunch of projects together, a bunch of co
hosting on Fox Sports Radio, a bunch of times that
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we have talked off the year. We had never met
in person. However, reunited and it feels so good. At
SOFI Stadium, you and I finally hooked up in person.
It was great to see you. I feel like I've
known you for like fifteen years, but it was great
to see you. Uh. And the only thing that I
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can say about Sophi and that comp what is wow.
It is so expansive, so massive, so spread out. I mean,
then we started after we finally got parked Sunday morning,
we finally started walking and I thought we were gonna
have to have a short put guide that help us
get to the complex to the Boot, but we did
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get there. It's an amazing five billion dollar property. The
stadium is unreal. They'll have the Super Bowl later in
the year. And big kudos to Big Ben because on
Buccaneers Radio, with what we do broadcasting the Tampa Bay
Buccaneer games, we were trying to get the Hall of Famer,
mean Jene dekker Hoff from the complex, the expansive parking lot,
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into the stadium and into the boot. Who saved the day?
Who was Superman? But Big Ben, because you found Jean
Decker Hall before we did that helped him get to
Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio. So you were a hero before
the game ever began. Well, DJ, listen, thank you, and
it was it was great meeting you. It is odd,
you know this radio thing and we've done stuff together
over the years and I've never actually met you in person.
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Through the magic of broadcasting, we've always had this this
back and forth. But yeah, so I I were trying
to connect and you have a lot of responsibilities. You
are a broadcaster for the team, and you do a
lot of the pregame stuff, and you have different times
you have to be on and I, you know, I
was there as a media guy, but I was mostly
just checking out the stadium, trying to get the vibeh place.
But I didn't want to meet you. And I remember
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last time the Bucks were in town at the Coliseum,
I tried to go to the game at the last
minute to see you there when Jameis Winston was still
the quarterback and I got denied, and so I the
RAMS would not allow me possible. Do the legend that
you are of the Fox Sports radio overnight airways based
in Los Angeles, How did the Rams say no to
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Ben Mallard. I can't foundom that. I'm glad they said
yes to you though for Sunday and we could see
each other. Well yeah, and it was one of the
life's great great mysteries. They have a massive press box
too at the new stadium in so Far So and look,
I've never been there, so there's a lot of room
and I was able to go. And we were trying
to work out the schedule logistically because I didn't want
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to interfere. You're you're they're doing the broadcast back to Tampa,
and I didn't want a message so any but I
wanted to check out the stadium and I had seen
the RAM sent out a message saying, you know, before
the game, you have pregame field access, and I'm like, well,
I gotta check it out. I mean, I gotta take
advantage of that. So I went down on the sidelines
and kind of was soaking everything in trying to get
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the vibe. And it was there's a buzz in the
in the stadium with the Bucks that after glow of
the Super Bowl and with Tom Brady and all that
playing the Rams. It was a big deal. So anyway, um,
we had agreed on a time. So I'm I'm making
my way up back through the bowels of Sofi Stadium.
I have no idea where I'm going. I've never been
there before. And so I finally find the right elevator.
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I'm going up and next to me there's this this
older gentleman and a couple other people in the elevator.
And I don't think anything of it, and I usually
donna pay an attendin So I'm in the elevator and
then the gentleman, the older gentleman asked where the Bucks
radio booth is and and so so t J. At
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that moment, you know, I have here's another example, like,
I've never met Jean Deckerhoff in my life. I've heard
him call, you know, back when Florida State had the
Great Teams, Uh, Jean Decker have a legend with the
Seminoles and obviously with the Buccaneers over the years. And
so I had this Eureka moment where I recognized his
voice and I was like, wait a minute. And then
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I put two of you together. I'm like, well, I'm
walking to where I think the Buck's booth is because
that's where t J is and so I I did
something which is very tough for me. T G. I'm
an introvert, and I introduced myself to jean He was
very nice and I told him I was gonna I
dropped your name, of course, and he's, oh, yeah, yeah,
he knew you and obviously worked on the broadcast and
so and then and then I immediately called you t
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J and say, hey, I guess who I found and
uh and on our errand just for the audience here
on the podcast, we've been trying to find Jeane for
ten minutes, fifteen minutes. We can't find him. But Big Ben,
the biggest of Shopper Guides, has found Jeanne to get
him to the radio booth. Again. You get the save
of the day for that to get him where he
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needed to be. So you're calling me and you're saying, hey,
I'm coming to you, and I've got Jane Decker off
with and I'm looking at our radio boss going okay,
Gene is good. He's on the way, he's coming, he's
got an escort. So it was fantastic that you were
able to do that. The other thing that I will
share there was a slight disappointment for me as the
game went on and the l A RAMS video production
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crew continue to show all of the celebrities, all of
the A listers from Lebron to Mike Tyson to the
crew of Ted Lasso to Larry David uh dr Dre
who's back to back to help and was at the
RAMS game? Where was the celebrity sighting shot of Ben
Mallor in that game? It's so fast, toy? How how
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did they neglect to publicize that one of the A listeners,
the man that that Jane to our radio booth, the
man with the velbo Ropes card. They didn't show you once.
I was disappointed that you weren't hopknopping with Magic Johnson
and and some of those other actresses. They were showing
as they panned around the crowd and kept showing that
during the commercials. Big then yeah, clearly in oversight, a
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bad job by the people at the at Sofi Stadium.
Did you notice t J now he let me ask
you this. Now you're you're walking down You had to
walk through the same tunnels I had to walk through
to get to the field at Sofi Stadium. Did you
see all the v I P parking underneath the stadium. Yes,
that that was I I've not been around you've you've
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traveled the NFL circuit. Is that normal? Now? Do they
have that in most of these new stadium Not common,
but at a lot of these bigger ones like Jerry's
World at a T and T stadium, And I'm trying
to think there's one or one or two others at
the new ones where yes, Like for example, at the
new Soldier Field in chicag though, the player parking is
under the stadium for the Bears players, So in other words,
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you're outside of a visiting locker room, you're in the
tunnels trying to get to the media press conference room,
and you might get run over by a Chicago Bear
who's trying to leave in their vehicle because the party
under the stadium. And kind of similarly in Dallas, Uh,
they have a fleet of vehicles under there. So yes,
I did see what you were talking about and that
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and there's so much room underneath and around here for
the audience that yes, that is something that some teams
take advantage of. But it's still impressive because you've got
all these high end SUVs, limousines, different things that are
that are sitting there and you're thinking, am I at
a party? And that's one thing that are people on
the trip, not just from a broadcasting standpoint, but buccaneer
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fans have related to me they can't get over all
of the nightclub asque atmosphere, different different little venues they
had in and around that property. Beside it's the football
game within the battle of the stadium or within the
upper bowl of the stadium. You had a real nightclub
type field in l A. Glitz Field. I mean, they
have definitely gone all out with the design of that stadium. Gun. Yeah, no,
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it was crazy. And you know, t J, I'm I'm
a bit of a cynic and I even for me,
I was like, I didn't expect much. I'd seen it
on television and I was like, I could not believe
every every turn I took at so Fi Cinema and
I can't believe this. This is this is especially after
being at the Colisseum in l A, which you've been
at a few times doing Guys, and what it dumped
that place is uh in in comparison, I know this
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history at the Colisseum because the first Super Bowl was
there and all that, but it's it's my goodness, It's unbelievable.
What's what's going on there? All the traffic. I you're
fortunately because you had to do the post game stuff,
but you did have to make the flight, you know.
Oh no, oh no oh, Probably you left. You left
later the game after the Buccaneers probably wiped out. Yeah,
with with sun leading, we noticed people had begun to
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leave late in the fourth quarter of the game. Was
to I did to bou up the traffic. We left,
being probably about an hour and fifteen minutes after the game.
We're off the aar um and we had a long
time before our nighttime red eye flight back to Tampa
in the middle of the night in the Eastern time zone,
flying commercially there out of l a X. It still
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took us close to an hour, my friend to get
to the car, get out of the parking lot, get
around the complex, and get towards l a X. We
we were two hours after the game, still sitting in
the traffic, and I said to my colleagues, I said, hey,
welcome to big city Los Angeles. Huge crowd. You know
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a lot of people left that game and probably went
entail get it a little bit outside after it's over.
With and then get in their car and the and
the the traffic is everywhere, so uh that that is
something that but yes, I mean you'll take that because
it's better. It's better than having a team that's not
interesting in a half full stadium. And then the wild
and ironic card I kept it to our audience is
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they had no fans at any of the games last year.
There was never a problem obviously getting in or out
of broadcast the game last year, and no one was there,
and so you go from net extreme of no one there,
and that was a loud Rockets environment that clearly bothered
the Buccaneers. Last week's end would being able to see
you change the playing fall starts, the crowds all over you.
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It was definitely advantage for the ramp. So that was
that was some scene right down to the traffic trying
to get out of there. Then yeah, yeah, And that's
the one if I if I have one complaint, that
would be it. I I don't know who the civic
planners are in Inglewood, but it's gonna be even crazier
t J because the Clippers are building an arena right
across the street from there, and I imagine There'll be
some Sundays where the Clippers are playing in the Rams
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and the Charges are playing, And I can't imagine adding
another twenty thousand people to the seventy thousand that we're leaving.
Now now clarified for me, are they gonna leave the
Forum standing? And again for the audience that we're talking
at the Los Angeles But I was fascinated to be
around the Forum, having watched all of those Laker games
in the eighties, especially against the Celtics that never having
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been around that building, much less in that building. Are
they gonna leave that standing? Because I know they have
concerts there and that kind of stuff. Are they tearing
that down to build the Clipper building? We weren't sure
about that. Yeah, So as I understand it, the plan
is to keep the Forum as a concert venue. Uh.
And I don't know how much demand there's going to
be for that with the new arena right across the street.
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But Steve Bomber, the famous story, the owner of the
Clippers worth nine billion dollars with the bet t J
he was he wanted to build the arena in Inglewood,
and he had talked to the city of Englewood. But
as I heard the story. The people the Forum sued
that they were owned by the Knicks owner James Dolan,
and there was a lawsuit. So Steve Bomber just bought
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the Forum to end the lawsuit and to build the arena,
to get that underway. And I believe that the plan
is to keep the Forum all you know, how plans changed.
I would hate to see that place turned down. There's
a lot of history there. That's one of the problems
I have t J with a lot of like American sports,
Like you go to Europe, not that I've been, but
I've seen on the internet, and they have these old
soccer the pitches that are hundred two hundred years old
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in some cases, and they don't tear him down, they
just keep him around. But here, I mean stadium. You
know how it goes. The stadium gets five years old
and this time to take the wrecking ball o tear.
We have rare exceptions with what you're saying, like Finlay
Park or Wrigley Field that are still there seventy five
hundred years later. But they tore down the Yankee Stadium.
To your point, they they tore down old Dallas Cowboys
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Texas Stadium the same with Three Rivers Stadium for the Steelers.
You're mentioning the l A Colosseum, but it's been iconic
for like seventy five, what eight ninety years, going back
to the middle of last century in Los Angeles. So
maybe we'll just getting old. Maybe we're just being get
off my long guy. I'm not sure, but I I
kind of agree with you. But it was it was neat.
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We were trying to find one of the parking lots,
which again it took us about fifteen or twenty minutes
to find the parking lot that we were supposed to
be in, so far right there by the Forum, and
I said to the people in the car, I'm like,
that's where Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar are ruled
today in the eighties. That is. I'm not a Laker fan,
but I've never been I'd never been on that property.
I've never been inside of it. It was neat to
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see that Sunday morning, just for a second. Yeah, no, listen,
I had not been in that area and I not
hadn't any reason to be in Inglewood for for some time.
And so but when I first start I'm very lucky TJ.
Because when I first started in a station in San
Diego and I started covering the l A sports scene,
that was before Staples Center. So I'm I'm, I am old,
I guess and uh. And so that the Lakers are
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still playing at the Forum, the Kings were there, the
Clippers worth the l a Sports arena which has been
torn down, which is I have no problem with that.
There's a soccer stadium there now. But I do. And
I remember when I was when I started going to
the Forum. And I'm not, obviously I'm a Laker, hey,
t J. I take shots at the Lakers all the time,
but still walking through that arena, in the bowels of
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that arena, it was pretty crazy thinking about all the
legends of basketball that had played there, and both for
the Lakers and against the Lakers. So I think that's
gonna stick around. But you know, you know how these
things are. If they feel like that, you will, if
you have any input, if you have any influence, which
you obviously do, Yeah, you're gonna say the floor must stay,
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the four must stay. But I don't know what they're consulting,
Big band, No, No, I don't know, They're not I
have I have no I have no power. I have
no power. You know it's funny, I on on fs
are They ran a promo. I talked about this in
the year the other night, but they ran a promo
of Colin Coward, my colleague there, and and he was
talking about some story that he was a party with
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Stan Cronkey, the the Rams owner, and I'm thinking, like,
you know, we work at the same place I am.
I'm hanging out with the hot dog vendors, you know,
That's who I'm hanging out with. And he's hanging out
with the collas, hanging out with Clunky. Meanwhile, Benny is
trying to help Jane Decker Hall fight. What is wrong
with this picture? Yes, yes, a slight, slight dichotomy between
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the two of us. But but you've been doing these
Buck games for a while, t J. You mentioned that
this year is different because of the COVID stuff. You've
gotta travel on your own, and how big and how
big and inconvenience is that, and and how difficult is
it to line up the flight schedule with the Buccaneers schedule,
especially now because the Bucks are one of the glamour teams.
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So you guys are gonna be playing a lot of
prime time games with Brady and all that, and so
you're gonna have to really work to get out of
certain cities. I would think, yes, you are correct on
all of those fronts. And first let me say at
the outset, I appreciate the question. These are first world problems.
I mean, we get to broadcast these games and whatever
it takes to get there. I'm not gonna go so
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far on the model on the Mallar podcast here on
the fifth hour to say that I would walk to
do it. I would not walk to do these dames
one way to walk to Los Angeles or only wing
to walk to Foxboro, Massachusetts from Tampa. But being able
to travel and get there is a minor thing when
you're talking about the magnitude of playing the Rams in
l a or playing the Patriots in Foxboro, which we're
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talking more about in a second. So in our world,
we're now having to do that commercially like a lot
of the other media has always done. We're not on
the team plane for the COVID guidelines and the COVID
reasons they've restricted how many people can be on the
plane because of social distancing. So For example, we were
just like everybody else at L a X the other night,
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trying to get out of Los Angeles late night red
eye flights. There were a ton, a ton of buccaneer
fans that were in the Delta terminal at l a
X because they had come to the game. I mean
by a ton, I'm talking about easily a thousand of
them that we're walking around everywhere trying to get on
those flights because Delta had in this case free plug
for them on the Malar podcast. They had six or
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seven flights Sunday night that we're going either to Dallas
or Atlanta or even the NonStop we were on Tampa
in the middle of the night that could get you
out of Los Angeles, gets you back to Tampa and
get you back to work, for example, if you're going
back to work on Monday. So that's all world now,
and so to fast forward for later this weekend, I
am actually getting the privilege of working the national broadcasts
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of Oldness and Alabama on Compass Media, one of the
national outlets it does college football. I'm working down on
the radio uh Saturday with Steve Burline, the former Calgary,
the former in l A Raider, the former Carolina Panther,
the former Notre Dame and quarterback. So Burlie and I
are working on Miss Alabama on the radio Saturday afternoon.
Within Sunday morning, I've got to make my way to Foxboro, Massachusetts,
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flying commercially out of Alabama through Atlanta and up to Foxboro.
And it's a Sunday night game, so that would be
easier with the time to be able to get there.
But just like all the other business travelers and commuters,
you do the game Sunday night, it should be a
wild uh scene in situation, but we're right back on
a Monday morning flight trying to get back to Tampa
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to have the work name Monday and everybody get on
with their lives. So yes, it is definitely different and
a challenge, but they're an awful lot of people that
have resumed traveling, have to travel for their career, have
to travel for their broadcasting or their media career. So
chalk chalk us up as those that are right there
and mother, I'm trying to fight to get the good
airline seat, get the aisle seat. Ben Mallard and I
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like and be able to get to these gids. Yeah,
and then you had to come back right after the
red eye, and right you had to put the podcast.
I've read that nothing nothing but Bucks podcast. You did you?
Did you even go to bed or did you just
start working right? I actually slept for about an hour
on the plane an hour and then got here and
the first priority was get here and get my daughters.
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I've got thirteen year old twin daughters. Get them fully
out the door, get them in the car, line for
middle school, drop them off as we peeled the curtain
back more. I love this on the Mallard podcast. So
I get them dropped off, I get back home, I
put the podcast together, and the pot cast was literally
up and ready to go about probably eleven thirty am
eatern time, literally about four hours after I was off
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the plane. So I was impressed with myself being able
to get all of that done. Again, I appreciate you
complimenting me off the year that you enjoyed the podcast.
I'm not really sure how coherent and what I actually said.
If it made sense, you tell me then that it
made sense, And I appreciate the beat, the professional critique,
but I'm not quite sure if I gave away, like
my bank account information. What I was actually saying on
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the podcast, no, I hear you know it was it
was good. I you you had you played the highlights
of the game he had Bruce arians you you replayed
the interview you had with Bruce. He gave a good
description of how many Bucks fans. There were a lot
of Bucks fans. I was surprised by that that number.
I didn't realize there were that many Bucks fans in
l A I know is the Bucks didn't do very
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much in the game, but there were two or three moments,
especially to the TV left the left of the Bucks bench,
when the Bucks scored in the first half on the
Godwin touchdown run. There were probably three or four thousand
buccaneer fans in the lower bowl and in that end
zone level that erupted. Not not loud enough to where
TV would maybe pick it up very much, but I
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looked around and went, wow, this is not twenty five
people or a hundred people. There's easily two or three
thousand or more Buccaneer fans here. But again credit to
the Rams. They didn't get the Bucks or their fans
much to cheer about for much of Sunday, for sure.
So take me behind the scenes here, t J. What's
it like dealing with Tom Brady? Are there special media
rules being around Tom? And he's a sports royalty in America.
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He's become bigger than life here over the years. So
what's it like since he showed up to town? This
is why you listen to the Mallard podcast. Are you
ready for this as we talk at the end of
the week number three and get ready to head to
this massive game with the New England Patriots. I have
not had the occasion and may not have the occasion
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to do a one on one interview with Tom Brady
as of yet. That may be stunning to the Ben
mallor into the audience. In my normal duties on Buccaneers Radio,
I would typically interview the quarterback before and after all
of the games. I've done this in the past with
the likes of Jamis Winston. You can go all the
way back to other quarterbacks like Josh Freeman recently, back
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to Jeff Garcina, you know that name in the data,
veteran quarterback that played with the forty niners and with others.
Go all the way back to Brad Johnson who helped
win the Buccaneers Super Bowl constantly interviewing the quarterback before
and after the game. But two things. The first thing
is Tom Brady does not do a lot of individual
media for anybody. Never get in New England. It's not
in Tampa Bay in terms of one on ones with anybody,
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doesn't do much of that. It's mainly on the podium
UH one time during the week UH and and something
after the game is usually on the podium. There's not
a side interview for TV outlets, radio outlets, et cetera.
So I have not And then you coupled that with
the COVID nineteen madness that it's still It's tapered some,
but it is still in place in terms of guidelines.
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I've not been around him to one on one interview.
Now I have been around him, but I could I
confess I don't think he really knows who I am,
and I'm then I am fine with that because for
the first twenty years of Tom Brady's NFL career, he
didn't know who ke J Reeves was. Then in New England.
This is no different then for Tom Brady a couple
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of years later. I don't really think he knows who
I am. But in terms of winning games and winning
a Super Bowl last year, I'll treate it that off
for not having the one on one conversations with Tom Brady.
All right, well, fair enough, that is I'm trying to
remember when the comp would be I guess Jordan's, but
I do remember Jordan's doing some media one on one.
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But maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe he didn't do
that at the comparison that's valid. And and for the
elite of the elite, it is rare that you're going
to get that chance to be around them one on
one because they just they don't have to. I mean, yes,
if ESPN is broadcasting the game or Fox, like with
Joe Buck and Troy Antman and Aaron Andrews, you've got
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a good possibility of talking to them, uh, you know,
as part of the duties to get ready for the game.
Television of different world. As I've often said, and you
can appreciate this, and you identified with me, television rules
the world. That's why we're in Radio Bay. We're down
at the lower level. So TV does rule the world,
and they get one on one interviews. I mean, you
didn't ask me about this, but just real quick, as
an aside, if you're watching the Manning Brothers on the
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Monday night broadcast, look at the guests that they are
able to get because of who they are and the
access they have with TV. I mean the roll call
of people from Brett Farve talking about a Packer game
or Nick Saban on the Monday night game with the
Eagles and the and the Cowboys. Those guys aren't gonna
do that stuff basically for almost anybody. But but you
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you have that cloud with TV, it's the Manning its ESPN.
It makes a difference. I will just say this is
one more aside. I've been around Tom body. He is
fantastic with all the Buccaneer personnel. He has been tremendously
cooperative with the business side of the Buccaneers where he
didn't have to be um again he is he is
bought fully in figuratively to being part of the buccaneer organization.
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That's great to see. And there was a moment in
the battles of so Far Stadium on Sunday when it
was all over, if he had done his media he
was trying to get to the plane, trying to get
to the buses to get to the plane fight, d
l A traffic et cetera. Where they had him on
a golf car. They have all these uh different ram
players on golf When they had Brady on the golf
car trying to get into the buses, and he literally
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had a driver and an armed guard with him as
he's riding riding by, he do get to the buses.
I saw that from a distance about thirty ft away
as he as he zoomed on. So there you go.
There's another aside. Do you have your own armed guard
when you were making your way out of Inglewood? Normally
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I do not have to have on personnel around me.
There's not an occasion for that. However, if I do
need it, I may instill the help of the Mallee
Militia that you have in the middle of the night,
and in whatever city I'm in, I contact you. The
Malone Militia has my back. If I need that, I
may come to you for that. Well, we will listen,
t G. We will form Voltron, the Mallet Musia, will
get hollering James in Minnesota. We'll get Lance, the bus driver.
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We'll get them all together and it'll be quite the
whack pack. But now what what do you what's your
vibe on Brady? How many more years do you think
he plays? And do you think this is the last uniform?
I think he stays in Tampa the rest of the
way or does he go somewhere else. So on all
those questions, the first one is do not doubt that
the man's gonna play in two. I believe he is
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going to play next year. I believe this is beyond Again,
all things are are predicated on how long then? And
you know this, does his shoulder hold up? Does his
elbow hold up? Because you can talk about the t
V twelve method with training and eating avocado toast and
you know whatever else you're gonna eat, and and and
but you're all your forty four, your arm, your shoulder.
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How long does it last? He he is playing still
a in a lead level. He can make the throws
and we believe that will sustain. So I believe he
will be back for a third season, depending I mean
if then if they roll on and win another Super Bowl.
There was a lot of thought, would he just would
he walk away after last year after winning the Super Bowl?
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If you do it again, if you are somehow able
to repeat, what else do you have to prove to
put your body through this? Is you've proven to your point? Uh,
he's He's obviously got tons and tons and tons of
money and accolades. I don't know, but I believe he
believes he can still play for two and maybe even beyond.
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The Bucketeer contract is four more years, um, three more
years after this one. He signed up for a four
year extend, and when they rework the salary cap, I
don't know if you can play that long. So we'll
we'll see a physically at this position, if he can
still make the throws and play that way. Speaking of
Payton Manning, you watch Peyton Manning breakdown physically at the
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end of his career. You watch his final year in Denver.
He couldn't throw the ball fifty yards down the field
anymore at the end of that Super Bowl winning season
when they beat the Pampers. Well, yeah, not the case
right now with Tom Buddy. Will see how long it lasted. No,
I don't believe he'll go anywhere else. I believe this
will be it, that he will ride it out with
the Buccaneers this season, probably next season, and then that
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will that will be the end of his career wherever
he's done in Tampa back. Yeah, and Drew Brees also
at the end with the Saints had some issues and
he seemed like his arm wore down as the season
went on. By the playoffs, he would have have some
issues with that. Yeah, I'm not. I mean everyone said
Brady until fifty. He wants to play until his fifty
Uh hey, I I said he was done a couple
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of years ago the t J when I was doing
filling stuff at e I and Boston and and Brady's
numbers were not particularly good in the offense wasn't really
clicking for the page. It's even though they ended up
in the Super Bowl one of those years, but Brady
was kind of in the middle of the pack. And
then he goes to Tampa and you live in Florida, TJ.
The fountain of youth, right is is there pots de
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leon in in Florida? And yeah, yeah, I think for
he and for Grog too. And I know Grog took
a big shot on the chest and the ribs in
that game. But Grog has been rejuvenated, revived out of
youth PP twelve method, whatever you want to call it,
that they have found it and let's see if it
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can sustain and it's a long season. Can they sustain it?
Can they continue it? UHG had so many injuries with
his back, with his hip at the end of his
New England career, yet he played every game, all twenty
of them a year ago in the regular season, in
the playoffs and the best that we understand that they're
not broken ribs here for him coming out of a
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Rams game, so you know he would have the like
that line from Days the Funder with Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman where the actor Michael Rooker is playing Routy
the dayload of hard white character. He says, I I've
riched with my legs, broke, with my eyeballs on frings,
I've raised all kinds of that's broadcasting. He's gonna play
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in that game Sunday night with the Patriots even if
his eyeballs are on the frings. Here, well, let's get
to the main event this weekend. You will be in
the eye of the storm, the belly of the beast
t J on the sidelines there in Foxborough. It's being
billed as the greatest regular season game in NFL history.
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So what are your expectations t J from the buck
side of things being there. How great is that? I'm
so I'll look for you when I'm watching the game
on TV. But what are your expectations here? I believe
that this is going to be one of the most
hyped regular season games that they have had in NFL history.
I don't know if we can look back on at
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years from now as as one of the great moments. Maybe.
I mean, this is going to be likely. You can't
never say never rightly. The only time Tom Brady plays
there in a regular season game as the visiting quarterback
because the rotation of the schedule, the Buccaneers would not
be back there for another eight seasons. I mean Tom
Brady would be fifty two years the quarterback eight years
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from now. So yes, the hype is going to just
build and build for It's gonna be some scene. I mean,
the tickets were five and six thousand dollars apiece in
the off season. I can only imagine on the secondary market.
It will build and it will grow Friday to Saturday,
Saturday to Sunday to try to get in to see this. Uh,
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and you just you hope that the game will live
up to all that's gonna be said and written and
shown about it leading up to it, and New England
is struggling. I mean I watched some of that game
in the in the press box. I probably saw about it.
With the Saints, they played poorly again, And as you
play this thing out, as it builds up, of course,
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the storyline is gonna be Brady is a Super Bowl
winner last year with the Bucks without Belichick, and now
if he comes in and plays well or plays outstanding
and the Buccaneers get back on the winning track and
dropped the Patriots to one in three and dropped the
Patriots to oh and three at home on a narrative
that will set into motion for the rest of this
year about who misses whom here? So what's the build up?
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I am anxious to be there and to be around it,
and I will report back, uh to bed an hour
and everybody else that wants the update, that wants the
intel on what that scene is like at Gillette Stadium
something night. Yeah, and it's not. I mean, you're gonna
be there on the field, but it's gonna be Also
the pregame, right, does Brady and do Belichick and Brady
cross paths before the game, and then after the game,
depending on you know this, do they shake hands, is
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there any kind of embrace there? Does Brady run to
the locker room? Does Belichick run to the locker rooms?
So there's all these subplots to the game, and isis
and just the football part of it the other part
of it, and then what happens after the game when
they address the media and they talk about it. So
it's gonna be it's gonna feed our you know, doing
the radio show t J and you do the podcast
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stuff and all that. It's gonna feed our content for
the next week at least after that and probably a
lot longer. Yeah, they're gonna talk about this day and night.
I don't know that Rachel Ray is gonna be talking
about it on the Food Channel, but maybe they're gonna
talk about it everywhere coming up for this for this game,
and rightfully so, because the man won six championships with
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Gil Belichick in New England and now here you have
him coming back as the conquering hero from Tampa Bay.
And I believe this is just me and my speculation.
I believe you'll see like a pregame handshake or something.
I mean, they they had such a long relationship with
so much success, and at some point, you know, you
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put all the bitterness of whatever happened with they don't
want me anymore, that'll appreciate me anymore aside, you go
shake hands before it's like black saying, touch gloves, touch
them up, and now here we go, and let's see
what New England has, because again, uh, they have not
looked good at it. And you can disregard being the
dysfunctionate New York Jets in the middle of those two
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losses to the Dolphins and then this past Sunday to
Jamis Winston and the Saints were Matt Jones through three
interceptions in that game. If New England is a is
a stinky poo in this game? You use stinky poo sometimes,
don't you? Stinky poo in this game? And Brady is
fantastic U Boston Sports Radio, the Boston media will be
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relentless and immediate on how how in the world did
it did it come to this that New England is
finally again while Brady is living it up and succeeding
with the Buccaneers. Yeah, and I have you know, friends
in Boston to do the radio and this is they're
treating this like a super Bowl. They're gonna have their
their afternoon guys doing the pregame show, and they're they're
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they're wasting. It's the one topic that will be discussed,
and you know it has been discussed ad nauseum. But
there it's Tom Brady and Belichick. It's it's that's it.
That's all they've talked about on the radio in Boston
leading up to this. And I predict t J if
the Bucks do, if this goes the way it's looking
with the way the Patriots are playing that as good
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as the Bucks are offensively, and this turns out to
be a blowout, then they'll be calling for Belichick to
be fired right after the game. I mean, you know
how this works, right, That's how this is going to go.
My Belichick's lost it. They gotta get a new coach,
they gotta start over. Uh. And so that's that's how
that's gonna go. But you are part of the Fox
Sports Radio Alumni Association TV are you dudes? Are your
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dues paid up in full? Have you paid your dues?
I have really up for another year and just let
us know whatever we get the free T shirt or
whatever it is. If we've got from Fox Sports Radio
as part of the alumni association, I would I still
I have not done Battling Night on Fix Sports Radio,
uh since twenty fIF I was there for five years,
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not five free years during Saturday nights from eleven through
and I got that freelance opportunity and then I kind
of got installed as the Saturday night guy doing a
lot of College football Er in the college football season.
I still have people the power of FS are and
what Big Ben brings to the table, and obviously Colin
Calherd and uh Dan Patrick and all the different shows,
(37:31):
the Odd Couple that's now on and Jason Smith it's
on at night and we can't believe got my man
Jonas Knox, theos did two pros and a couple of
Joe right now are and with with Brady Quinn in
the mornings and Big Band overnights. Much love from my
Fix Sports Radio brethren. I still have a lot of
different friends and acquaintances that I've worked with on the
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year and off the year that are there. So you
guys keep knocking on the other people still talk to
me about doing Saturday nights on five Sports Radio. Yeah,
I for what I'm hed on. I haven't done that
since Donald Thore Donald Trump became the president, and a
little while people think that I just stopped doing it,
like last year or two years ago. So it was
a neat time. I'm thrilled. One of the relationships I
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got was getting to be around Ben Mallow and do
things on the air and be on the Malar Show,
and you and I co hosted some different times on
some different projects, and we finally got to me. It
was not quite the macho man and whole hogan at
the Superpowers with the big handshake and the nineties remember
that form with the Superpower. Oh yeah, with the handshake.
(38:37):
It was not quite to that level, but it was
still need to be around Big Ben and be around
you at the Rams game. And it's neat to reflect
back on being on Fox Sports. Yeah, listen was fun.
I remember those those Saturday nights and you know I
had I got let go. I was let go by
the company brought me back, and then I remember I
was on when I came back, I was doing the
weekend overnight show and I was your post game show.
(38:59):
You were on and I was my lead in and
then I would come on after you and rant and
rave like a lunatic. And usually I didn't kill all
of your audiences. No, no, no, no you did. You
did a great job. And so just to kind of
wrap this up, t J, how can people follow you?
I know you're on Twitter, You're on all the social media,
You've got your your Bucks podcast, you working. You mentioned
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Compass Media Networks, right, you do. The Bucks sidelines are
all over the place, t J. I am all over
the place. I have met myself two or three different times,
coming and going. Thank you for the ploug follow me
at buck buc Buck sideline guy. I appreciate you sharing
out the photo. You even tagged me on that. So
if you want to see what I'm up to on
Twitter at releasing you when you find me there, find
(39:43):
me through buccaneers dot com and their mobile app. The podcast,
as you mentioned, is nothing but plots. It's a postgame
recap podcast with interviews with highlights. We'll have one up
on the Monday. God willing after this Patriots game this week,
and after you did a Buccaneer games all the way
through and I but wong it lasts love that and yeah,
Compass Media Networks again, as a national outwork. The games
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will be on over the year on Compass Media Network,
dot com and other outlets as well the different college
football games they have every week. I'm doing a selects
I believe six total game package. One of those games
is this week old Miss Alabama at the time that
we're taping. Later in the year, I'm getting the chance
to do in Oklahoma Texas Tech game. I'm also doing
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an Ohio State game later in the year. So Compass
Media Networks is good and I full around with various
other podcast projects and internet and web and web stuff.
You can find me there and still do a bunch
of where your appearances here in Tampa Bay, etcetera. So
I appreciate the invite to be on the fifth hour.
If you'd be on the Mallow Pod. Yeah, I love
listening to you. I hear you a lot in the
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middle of the night when I'm traveling or coming back.
I love the video clips. I was rooting you on
as you were ranting about Matt Stafford when I saw
that video clip from the Mallow Show overnights, So yeah,
it was. It was great to hook up with you.
I wish have been a better outcome for the Buccaneers,
but credit the Rams. They looked really good on Sunday.
And we'll see now if the Bucks can regroup in
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New England and if they can look out. Yeah, and
we need the Bucks to play the Chargers next year
in l A or something so we can can hang
out again. So we'll have to make that happen. We played,
So here's the schedule on that. We played the Chargers
at home last year, so the next Charger game in
Los Angeles would be about three years from now. Are
we checking our social calendars? We're both married men. You
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have to check with the wise. We gotta check on
three years from now if we have a reunited at
that so far, but who knows, the Bucks could end
up playing the Rams again at so Far again next year.
We played the Rams now three years in a row,
we could end up playing them again in Los Angeles,
so maybe we hook up. Then we'll see perfect all right,
tak you t J. Good luck with the travels and
the broadcast, and I'll be watching on TV and then
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we'll see what happens. Thanks for coming on. Much love
for the Ben Mallard. I love giving the chance to
catch up. We did with meeting with you and this
was a lot of fun. Thank you for the inn
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met him for the first time. I've known this gentleman
(01:30):
for many, many years, over a decade I have known
of this person. He is a broadcaster for the Tampa
Bay Buccaneers. He works the sidelines, he does the pregame.
He is the host of the official Nothing But Bucks
podcast on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers website and also there
their app as well. He's also a college football broadcast
(01:53):
or at Compass Media Networks. He is part of the
Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. Who is he? That would
be none there? Then t J Reeves joining us on
the horn from his home in Tampa. And before we
look at TJ, welcome in. Let us let us start
with the Buck game against the Rams, a game we
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were both at. What is your initial impression of SOFI Stadium?
First of all, it is fantastic to be with v
Ben Mallor. We should let we should pull the curtain
back just a little bit. We should let the audience
in on a couple of things. You and I have
done a bunch of projects together, a bunch of co
hosting on Fox Sports Radio, a bunch of times that
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we have talked off the year. We had never met
in person. However, reunited and it feels so good. At
SOFI Stadium, you and I finally hooked up in person.
It was great to see you. I feel like I've
known you for like fifteen years, but it was great
to see you. Uh. And the only thing that I
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can say about Sophi and that comp what is wow.
It is so expansive, so massive, so spread out. I mean,
then we started after we finally got parked Sunday morning,
we finally started walking and I thought we were gonna
have to have a short put guide that help us
get to the complex to the Boot, but we did
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get there. It's an amazing five billion dollar property. The
stadium is unreal. They'll have the Super Bowl later in
the year. And big kudos to Big Ben because on
Buccaneers Radio, with what we do broadcasting the Tampa Bay
Buccaneer games, we were trying to get the Hall of Famer,
mean Jene dekker Hoff from the complex, the expansive parking lot,
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into the stadium and into the boot. Who saved the day?
Who was Superman? But Big Ben, because you found Jean
Decker Hall before we did that helped him get to
Tampa Bay Buccaneers radio. So you were a hero before
the game ever began. Well, DJ, listen, thank you, and
it was it was great meeting you. It is odd,
you know this radio thing and we've done stuff together
over the years and I've never actually met you in person.
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Through the magic of broadcasting, we've always had this this
back and forth. But yeah, so I I were trying
to connect and you have a lot of responsibilities. You
are a broadcaster for the team, and you do a
lot of the pregame stuff, and you have different times
you have to be on and I, you know, I
was there as a media guy, but I was mostly
just checking out the stadium, trying to get the vibeh place.
But I didn't want to meet you. And I remember
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last time the Bucks were in town at the Coliseum,
I tried to go to the game at the last
minute to see you there when Jameis Winston was still
the quarterback and I got denied, and so I the
RAMS would not allow me possible. Do the legend that
you are of the Fox Sports radio overnight airways based
in Los Angeles, How did the Rams say no to
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Ben Mallard. I can't foundom that. I'm glad they said
yes to you though for Sunday and we could see
each other. Well yeah, and it was one of the
life's great great mysteries. They have a massive press box
too at the new stadium in so Far So and look,
I've never been there, so there's a lot of room
and I was able to go. And we were trying
to work out the schedule logistically because I didn't want
(05:07):
to interfere. You're you're they're doing the broadcast back to Tampa,
and I didn't want a message so any but I
wanted to check out the stadium and I had seen
the RAM sent out a message saying, you know, before
the game, you have pregame field access, and I'm like, well,
I gotta check it out. I mean, I gotta take
advantage of that. So I went down on the sidelines
and kind of was soaking everything in trying to get
(05:28):
the vibe. And it was there's a buzz in the
in the stadium with the Bucks that after glow of
the Super Bowl and with Tom Brady and all that
playing the Rams. It was a big deal. So anyway, um,
we had agreed on a time. So I'm I'm making
my way up back through the bowels of Sofi Stadium.
I have no idea where I'm going. I've never been
there before. And so I finally find the right elevator.
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I'm going up and next to me there's this this
older gentleman and a couple other people in the elevator.
And I don't think anything of it, and I usually
donna pay an attendin So I'm in the elevator and
then the gentleman, the older gentleman asked where the Bucks
radio booth is and and so so t J. At
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that moment, you know, I have here's another example, like,
I've never met Jean Deckerhoff in my life. I've heard
him call, you know, back when Florida State had the
Great Teams, Uh, Jean Decker have a legend with the
Seminoles and obviously with the Buccaneers over the years. And
so I had this Eureka moment where I recognized his
voice and I was like, wait a minute. And then
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I put two of you together. I'm like, well, I'm
walking to where I think the Buck's booth is because
that's where t J is and so I I did
something which is very tough for me. T G. I'm
an introvert, and I introduced myself to jean He was
very nice and I told him I was gonna I
dropped your name, of course, and he's, oh, yeah, yeah,
he knew you and obviously worked on the broadcast and
so and then and then I immediately called you t
(06:56):
J and say, hey, I guess who I found and
uh and on our errand just for the audience here
on the podcast, we've been trying to find Jeane for
ten minutes, fifteen minutes. We can't find him. But Big Ben,
the biggest of Shopper Guides, has found Jeanne to get
him to the radio booth. Again. You get the save
of the day for that to get him where he
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needed to be. So you're calling me and you're saying, hey,
I'm coming to you, and I've got Jane Decker off
with and I'm looking at our radio boss going okay,
Gene is good. He's on the way, he's coming, he's
got an escort. So it was fantastic that you were
able to do that. The other thing that I will
share there was a slight disappointment for me as the
game went on and the l A RAMS video production
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crew continue to show all of the celebrities, all of
the A listers from Lebron to Mike Tyson to the
crew of Ted Lasso to Larry David uh dr Dre
who's back to back to help and was at the
RAMS game? Where was the celebrity sighting shot of Ben
Mallor in that game? It's so fast, toy? How how
(08:00):
did they neglect to publicize that one of the A listeners,
the man that that Jane to our radio booth, the
man with the velbo Ropes card. They didn't show you once.
I was disappointed that you weren't hopknopping with Magic Johnson
and and some of those other actresses. They were showing
as they panned around the crowd and kept showing that
during the commercials. Big then yeah, clearly in oversight, a
(08:21):
bad job by the people at the at Sofi Stadium.
Did you notice t J now he let me ask
you this. Now you're you're walking down You had to
walk through the same tunnels I had to walk through
to get to the field at Sofi Stadium. Did you
see all the v I P parking underneath the stadium. Yes,
that that was I I've not been around you've you've
(08:42):
traveled the NFL circuit. Is that normal? Now? Do they
have that in most of these new stadium Not common,
but at a lot of these bigger ones like Jerry's
World at a T and T stadium, And I'm trying
to think there's one or one or two others at
the new ones where yes, Like for example, at the
new Soldier Field in chicag though, the player parking is
under the stadium for the Bears players, So in other words,
(09:06):
you're outside of a visiting locker room, you're in the
tunnels trying to get to the media press conference room,
and you might get run over by a Chicago Bear
who's trying to leave in their vehicle because the party
under the stadium. And kind of similarly in Dallas, Uh,
they have a fleet of vehicles under there. So yes,
I did see what you were talking about and that
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and there's so much room underneath and around here for
the audience that yes, that is something that some teams
take advantage of. But it's still impressive because you've got
all these high end SUVs, limousines, different things that are
that are sitting there and you're thinking, am I at
a party? And that's one thing that are people on
the trip, not just from a broadcasting standpoint, but buccaneer
(09:50):
fans have related to me they can't get over all
of the nightclub asque atmosphere, different different little venues they
had in and around that property. Beside it's the football
game within the battle of the stadium or within the
upper bowl of the stadium. You had a real nightclub
type field in l A. Glitz Field. I mean, they
have definitely gone all out with the design of that stadium. Gun. Yeah, no,
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it was crazy. And you know, t J, I'm I'm
a bit of a cynic and I even for me,
I was like, I didn't expect much. I'd seen it
on television and I was like, I could not believe
every every turn I took at so Fi Cinema and
I can't believe this. This is this is especially after
being at the Colisseum in l A, which you've been
at a few times doing Guys, and what it dumped
that place is uh in in comparison, I know this
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history at the Colisseum because the first Super Bowl was
there and all that, but it's it's my goodness, It's unbelievable.
What's what's going on there? All the traffic. I you're
fortunately because you had to do the post game stuff,
but you did have to make the flight, you know.
Oh no, oh no oh, Probably you left. You left
later the game after the Buccaneers probably wiped out. Yeah,
with with sun leading, we noticed people had begun to
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leave late in the fourth quarter of the game. Was
to I did to bou up the traffic. We left,
being probably about an hour and fifteen minutes after the game.
We're off the aar um and we had a long
time before our nighttime red eye flight back to Tampa
in the middle of the night in the Eastern time zone,
flying commercially there out of l a X. It still
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took us close to an hour, my friend to get
to the car, get out of the parking lot, get
around the complex, and get towards l a X. We
we were two hours after the game, still sitting in
the traffic, and I said to my colleagues, I said, hey,
welcome to big city Los Angeles. Huge crowd. You know
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a lot of people left that game and probably went
entail get it a little bit outside after it's over.
With and then get in their car and the and
the the traffic is everywhere, so uh that that is
something that but yes, I mean you'll take that because
it's better. It's better than having a team that's not
interesting in a half full stadium. And then the wild
and ironic card I kept it to our audience is
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they had no fans at any of the games last year.
There was never a problem obviously getting in or out
of broadcast the game last year, and no one was there,
and so you go from net extreme of no one there,
and that was a loud Rockets environment that clearly bothered
the Buccaneers. Last week's end would being able to see
you change the playing fall starts, the crowds all over you.
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It was definitely advantage for the ramp. So that was
that was some scene right down to the traffic trying
to get out of there. Then yeah, yeah, And that's
the one if I if I have one complaint, that
would be it. I I don't know who the civic
planners are in Inglewood, but it's gonna be even crazier
t J because the Clippers are building an arena right
across the street from there, and I imagine There'll be
some Sundays where the Clippers are playing in the Rams
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and the Charges are playing, And I can't imagine adding
another twenty thousand people to the seventy thousand that we're leaving.
Now now clarified for me, are they gonna leave the
Forum standing? And again for the audience that we're talking
at the Los Angeles But I was fascinated to be
around the Forum, having watched all of those Laker games
in the eighties, especially against the Celtics that never having
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been around that building, much less in that building. Are
they gonna leave that standing? Because I know they have
concerts there and that kind of stuff. Are they tearing
that down to build the Clipper building? We weren't sure
about that. Yeah, So as I understand it, the plan
is to keep the Forum as a concert venue. Uh.
And I don't know how much demand there's going to
be for that with the new arena right across the street.
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But Steve Bomber, the famous story, the owner of the
Clippers worth nine billion dollars with the bet t J
he was he wanted to build the arena in Inglewood,
and he had talked to the city of Englewood. But
as I heard the story. The people the Forum sued
that they were owned by the Knicks owner James Dolan,
and there was a lawsuit. So Steve Bomber just bought
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the Forum to end the lawsuit and to build the arena,
to get that underway. And I believe that the plan
is to keep the Forum all you know, how plans changed.
I would hate to see that place turned down. There's
a lot of history there. That's one of the problems
I have t J with a lot of like American sports,
Like you go to Europe, not that I've been, but
I've seen on the internet, and they have these old
soccer the pitches that are hundred two hundred years old
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in some cases, and they don't tear him down, they
just keep him around. But here, I mean stadium. You
know how it goes. The stadium gets five years old
and this time to take the wrecking ball o tear.
We have rare exceptions with what you're saying, like Finlay
Park or Wrigley Field that are still there seventy five
hundred years later. But they tore down the Yankee Stadium.
To your point, they they tore down old Dallas Cowboys
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Texas Stadium the same with Three Rivers Stadium for the Steelers.
You're mentioning the l A Colosseum, but it's been iconic
for like seventy five, what eight ninety years, going back
to the middle of last century in Los Angeles. So
maybe we'll just getting old. Maybe we're just being get
off my long guy. I'm not sure, but I I
kind of agree with you. But it was it was neat.
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We were trying to find one of the parking lots,
which again it took us about fifteen or twenty minutes
to find the parking lot that we were supposed to
be in, so far right there by the Forum, and
I said to the people in the car, I'm like,
that's where Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul Jabbar are ruled
today in the eighties. That is. I'm not a Laker fan,
but I've never been I'd never been on that property.
I've never been inside of it. It was neat to
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see that Sunday morning, just for a second. Yeah, no, listen,
I had not been in that area and I not
hadn't any reason to be in Inglewood for for some time.
And so but when I first start I'm very lucky TJ.
Because when I first started in a station in San
Diego and I started covering the l A sports scene,
that was before Staples Center. So I'm I'm, I am old,
I guess and uh. And so that the Lakers are
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still playing at the Forum, the Kings were there, the
Clippers worth the l a Sports arena which has been
torn down, which is I have no problem with that.
There's a soccer stadium there now. But I do. And
I remember when I was when I started going to
the Forum. And I'm not, obviously I'm a Laker, hey,
t J. I take shots at the Lakers all the time,
but still walking through that arena, in the bowels of
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that arena, it was pretty crazy thinking about all the
legends of basketball that had played there, and both for
the Lakers and against the Lakers. So I think that's
gonna stick around. But you know, you know how these
things are. If they feel like that, you will, if
you have any input, if you have any influence, which
you obviously do, Yeah, you're gonna say the floor must stay,
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the four must stay. But I don't know what they're consulting,
Big band, No, No, I don't know, They're not I
have I have no I have no power. I have
no power. You know it's funny, I on on fs
are They ran a promo. I talked about this in
the year the other night, but they ran a promo
of Colin Coward, my colleague there, and and he was
talking about some story that he was a party with
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Stan Cronkey, the the Rams owner, and I'm thinking, like,
you know, we work at the same place I am.
I'm hanging out with the hot dog vendors, you know,
That's who I'm hanging out with. And he's hanging out
with the collas, hanging out with Clunky. Meanwhile, Benny is
trying to help Jane Decker Hall fight. What is wrong
with this picture? Yes, yes, a slight, slight dichotomy between
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the two of us. But but you've been doing these
Buck games for a while, t J. You mentioned that
this year is different because of the COVID stuff. You've
gotta travel on your own, and how big and how
big and inconvenience is that, and and how difficult is
it to line up the flight schedule with the Buccaneers schedule,
especially now because the Bucks are one of the glamour teams.
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So you guys are gonna be playing a lot of
prime time games with Brady and all that, and so
you're gonna have to really work to get out of
certain cities. I would think, yes, you are correct on
all of those fronts. And first let me say at
the outset, I appreciate the question. These are first world problems.
I mean, we get to broadcast these games and whatever
it takes to get there. I'm not gonna go so
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far on the model on the Mallar podcast here on
the fifth hour to say that I would walk to
do it. I would not walk to do these dames
one way to walk to Los Angeles or only wing
to walk to Foxboro, Massachusetts from Tampa. But being able
to travel and get there is a minor thing when
you're talking about the magnitude of playing the Rams in
l a or playing the Patriots in Foxboro, which we're
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talking more about in a second. So in our world,
we're now having to do that commercially like a lot
of the other media has always done. We're not on
the team plane for the COVID guidelines and the COVID
reasons they've restricted how many people can be on the
plane because of social distancing. So For example, we were
just like everybody else at L a X the other night,
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trying to get out of Los Angeles late night red
eye flights. There were a ton, a ton of buccaneer
fans that were in the Delta terminal at l a
X because they had come to the game. I mean
by a ton, I'm talking about easily a thousand of
them that we're walking around everywhere trying to get on
those flights because Delta had in this case free plug
for them on the Malar podcast. They had six or
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seven flights Sunday night that we're going either to Dallas
or Atlanta or even the NonStop we were on Tampa
in the middle of the night that could get you
out of Los Angeles, gets you back to Tampa and
get you back to work, for example, if you're going
back to work on Monday. So that's all world now,
and so to fast forward for later this weekend, I
am actually getting the privilege of working the national broadcasts
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of Oldness and Alabama on Compass Media, one of the
national outlets it does college football. I'm working down on
the radio uh Saturday with Steve Burline, the former Calgary,
the former in l A Raider, the former Carolina Panther,
the former Notre Dame and quarterback. So Burlie and I
are working on Miss Alabama on the radio Saturday afternoon.
Within Sunday morning, I've got to make my way to Foxboro, Massachusetts,
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flying commercially out of Alabama through Atlanta and up to Foxboro.
And it's a Sunday night game, so that would be
easier with the time to be able to get there.
But just like all the other business travelers and commuters,
you do the game Sunday night, it should be a
wild uh scene in situation, but we're right back on
a Monday morning flight trying to get back to Tampa
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to have the work name Monday and everybody get on
with their lives. So yes, it is definitely different and
a challenge, but they're an awful lot of people that
have resumed traveling, have to travel for their career, have
to travel for their broadcasting or their media career. So
chalk chalk us up as those that are right there
and mother, I'm trying to fight to get the good
airline seat, get the aisle seat. Ben Mallard and I
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like and be able to get to these gids. Yeah,
and then you had to come back right after the
red eye, and right you had to put the podcast.
I've read that nothing nothing but Bucks podcast. You did you?
Did you even go to bed or did you just
start working right? I actually slept for about an hour
on the plane an hour and then got here and
the first priority was get here and get my daughters.
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I've got thirteen year old twin daughters. Get them fully
out the door, get them in the car, line for
middle school, drop them off as we peeled the curtain
back more. I love this on the Mallard podcast. So
I get them dropped off, I get back home, I
put the podcast together, and the pot cast was literally
up and ready to go about probably eleven thirty am
eatern time, literally about four hours after I was off
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the plane. So I was impressed with myself being able
to get all of that done. Again, I appreciate you
complimenting me off the year that you enjoyed the podcast.
I'm not really sure how coherent and what I actually said.
If it made sense, you tell me then that it
made sense, And I appreciate the beat, the professional critique,
but I'm not quite sure if I gave away, like
my bank account information. What I was actually saying on
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the podcast, no, I hear you know it was it
was good. I you you had you played the highlights
of the game he had Bruce arians you you replayed
the interview you had with Bruce. He gave a good
description of how many Bucks fans. There were a lot
of Bucks fans. I was surprised by that that number.
I didn't realize there were that many Bucks fans in
l A I know is the Bucks didn't do very
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much in the game, but there were two or three moments,
especially to the TV left the left of the Bucks bench,
when the Bucks scored in the first half on the
Godwin touchdown run. There were probably three or four thousand
buccaneer fans in the lower bowl and in that end
zone level that erupted. Not not loud enough to where
TV would maybe pick it up very much, but I
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looked around and went, wow, this is not twenty five
people or a hundred people. There's easily two or three
thousand or more Buccaneer fans here. But again credit to
the Rams. They didn't get the Bucks or their fans
much to cheer about for much of Sunday, for sure.
So take me behind the scenes here, t J. What's
it like dealing with Tom Brady? Are there special media
rules being around Tom? And he's a sports royalty in America.
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He's become bigger than life here over the years. So
what's it like since he showed up to town? This
is why you listen to the Mallard podcast. Are you
ready for this as we talk at the end of
the week number three and get ready to head to
this massive game with the New England Patriots. I have
not had the occasion and may not have the occasion
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to do a one on one interview with Tom Brady
as of yet. That may be stunning to the Ben
mallor into the audience. In my normal duties on Buccaneers Radio,
I would typically interview the quarterback before and after all
of the games. I've done this in the past with
the likes of Jamis Winston. You can go all the
way back to other quarterbacks like Josh Freeman recently, back
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to Jeff Garcina, you know that name in the data,
veteran quarterback that played with the forty niners and with others.
Go all the way back to Brad Johnson who helped
win the Buccaneers Super Bowl constantly interviewing the quarterback before
and after the game. But two things. The first thing
is Tom Brady does not do a lot of individual
media for anybody. Never get in New England. It's not
in Tampa Bay in terms of one on ones with anybody,
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doesn't do much of that. It's mainly on the podium
UH one time during the week UH and and something
after the game is usually on the podium. There's not
a side interview for TV outlets, radio outlets, et cetera.
So I have not And then you coupled that with
the COVID nineteen madness that it's still It's tapered some,
but it is still in place in terms of guidelines.
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I've not been around him to one on one interview.
Now I have been around him, but I could I
confess I don't think he really knows who I am,
and I'm then I am fine with that because for
the first twenty years of Tom Brady's NFL career, he
didn't know who ke J Reeves was. Then in New England.
This is no different then for Tom Brady a couple
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of years later. I don't really think he knows who
I am. But in terms of winning games and winning
a Super Bowl last year, I'll treate it that off
for not having the one on one conversations with Tom Brady.
All right, well, fair enough, that is I'm trying to
remember when the comp would be I guess Jordan's, but
I do remember Jordan's doing some media one on one.
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But maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe he didn't do
that at the comparison that's valid. And and for the
elite of the elite, it is rare that you're going
to get that chance to be around them one on
one because they just they don't have to. I mean, yes,
if ESPN is broadcasting the game or Fox, like with
Joe Buck and Troy Antman and Aaron Andrews, you've got
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a good possibility of talking to them, uh, you know,
as part of the duties to get ready for the game.
Television of different world. As I've often said, and you
can appreciate this, and you identified with me, television rules
the world. That's why we're in Radio Bay. We're down
at the lower level. So TV does rule the world,
and they get one on one interviews. I mean, you
didn't ask me about this, but just real quick, as
an aside, if you're watching the Manning Brothers on the
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Monday night broadcast, look at the guests that they are
able to get because of who they are and the
access they have with TV. I mean the roll call
of people from Brett Farve talking about a Packer game
or Nick Saban on the Monday night game with the
Eagles and the and the Cowboys. Those guys aren't gonna
do that stuff basically for almost anybody. But but you
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you have that cloud with TV, it's the Manning its ESPN.
It makes a difference. I will just say this is
one more aside. I've been around Tom body. He is
fantastic with all the Buccaneer personnel. He has been tremendously
cooperative with the business side of the Buccaneers where he
didn't have to be um again he is he is
bought fully in figuratively to being part of the buccaneer organization.
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That's great to see. And there was a moment in
the battles of so Far Stadium on Sunday when it
was all over, if he had done his media he
was trying to get to the plane, trying to get
to the buses to get to the plane fight, d
l A traffic et cetera. Where they had him on
a golf car. They have all these uh different ram
players on golf When they had Brady on the golf
car trying to get into the buses, and he literally
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had a driver and an armed guard with him as
he's riding riding by, he do get to the buses.
I saw that from a distance about thirty ft away
as he as he zoomed on. So there you go.
There's another aside. Do you have your own armed guard
when you were making your way out of Inglewood? Normally
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I do not have to have on personnel around me.
There's not an occasion for that. However, if I do
need it, I may instill the help of the Mallee
Militia that you have in the middle of the night,
and in whatever city I'm in, I contact you. The
Malone Militia has my back. If I need that, I
may come to you for that. Well, we will listen,
t G. We will form Voltron, the Mallet Musia, will
get hollering James in Minnesota. We'll get Lance, the bus driver.
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We'll get them all together and it'll be quite the
whack pack. But now what what do you what's your
vibe on Brady? How many more years do you think
he plays? And do you think this is the last uniform?
I think he stays in Tampa the rest of the
way or does he go somewhere else. So on all
those questions, the first one is do not doubt that
the man's gonna play in two. I believe he is
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going to play next year. I believe this is beyond Again,
all things are are predicated on how long then? And
you know this, does his shoulder hold up? Does his
elbow hold up? Because you can talk about the t
V twelve method with training and eating avocado toast and
you know whatever else you're gonna eat, and and and
but you're all your forty four, your arm, your shoulder.
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How long does it last? He he is playing still
a in a lead level. He can make the throws
and we believe that will sustain. So I believe he
will be back for a third season, depending I mean
if then if they roll on and win another Super Bowl.
There was a lot of thought, would he just would
he walk away after last year after winning the Super Bowl?
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If you do it again, if you are somehow able
to repeat, what else do you have to prove to
put your body through this? Is you've proven to your point? Uh,
he's He's obviously got tons and tons and tons of
money and accolades. I don't know, but I believe he
believes he can still play for two and maybe even beyond.
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The Bucketeer contract is four more years, um, three more
years after this one. He signed up for a four
year extend, and when they rework the salary cap, I
don't know if you can play that long. So we'll
we'll see a physically at this position, if he can
still make the throws and play that way. Speaking of
Payton Manning, you watch Peyton Manning breakdown physically at the
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end of his career. You watch his final year in Denver.
He couldn't throw the ball fifty yards down the field
anymore at the end of that Super Bowl winning season
when they beat the Pampers. Well, yeah, not the case
right now with Tom Buddy. Will see how long it lasted. No,
I don't believe he'll go anywhere else. I believe this
will be it, that he will ride it out with
the Buccaneers this season, probably next season, and then that
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will that will be the end of his career wherever
he's done in Tampa back. Yeah, and Drew Brees also
at the end with the Saints had some issues and
he seemed like his arm wore down as the season
went on. By the playoffs, he would have have some
issues with that. Yeah, I'm not. I mean everyone said
Brady until fifty. He wants to play until his fifty
Uh hey, I I said he was done a couple
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of years ago the t J when I was doing
filling stuff at e I and Boston and and Brady's
numbers were not particularly good in the offense wasn't really
clicking for the page. It's even though they ended up
in the Super Bowl one of those years, but Brady
was kind of in the middle of the pack. And
then he goes to Tampa and you live in Florida, TJ.
The fountain of youth, right is is there pots de
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leon in in Florida? And yeah, yeah, I think for
he and for Grog too. And I know Grog took
a big shot on the chest and the ribs in
that game. But Grog has been rejuvenated, revived out of
youth PP twelve method, whatever you want to call it,
that they have found it and let's see if it
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can sustain and it's a long season. Can they sustain it?
Can they continue it? UHG had so many injuries with
his back, with his hip at the end of his
New England career, yet he played every game, all twenty
of them a year ago in the regular season, in
the playoffs and the best that we understand that they're
not broken ribs here for him coming out of a
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Rams game, so you know he would have the like
that line from Days the Funder with Tom Cruise and
Nicole Kidman where the actor Michael Rooker is playing Routy
the dayload of hard white character. He says, I I've
riched with my legs, broke, with my eyeballs on frings,
I've raised all kinds of that's broadcasting. He's gonna play
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in that game Sunday night with the Patriots even if
his eyeballs are on the frings. Here, well, let's get
to the main event this weekend. You will be in
the eye of the storm, the belly of the beast
t J on the sidelines there in Foxborough. It's being
billed as the greatest regular season game in NFL history.
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So what are your expectations t J from the buck
side of things being there. How great is that? I'm
so I'll look for you when I'm watching the game
on TV. But what are your expectations here? I believe
that this is going to be one of the most
hyped regular season games that they have had in NFL history.
I don't know if we can look back on at
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years from now as as one of the great moments. Maybe.
I mean, this is going to be likely. You can't
never say never rightly. The only time Tom Brady plays
there in a regular season game as the visiting quarterback
because the rotation of the schedule, the Buccaneers would not
be back there for another eight seasons. I mean Tom
Brady would be fifty two years the quarterback eight years
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from now. So yes, the hype is going to just
build and build for It's gonna be some scene. I mean,
the tickets were five and six thousand dollars apiece in
the off season. I can only imagine on the secondary market.
It will build and it will grow Friday to Saturday,
Saturday to Sunday to try to get in to see this. Uh,
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and you just you hope that the game will live
up to all that's gonna be said and written and
shown about it leading up to it, and New England
is struggling. I mean I watched some of that game
in the in the press box. I probably saw about it.
With the Saints, they played poorly again, And as you
play this thing out, as it builds up, of course,
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the storyline is gonna be Brady is a Super Bowl
winner last year with the Bucks without Belichick, and now
if he comes in and plays well or plays outstanding
and the Buccaneers get back on the winning track and
dropped the Patriots to one in three and dropped the
Patriots to oh and three at home on a narrative
that will set into motion for the rest of this
year about who misses whom here? So what's the build up?
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I am anxious to be there and to be around it,
and I will report back, uh to bed an hour
and everybody else that wants the update, that wants the
intel on what that scene is like at Gillette Stadium
something night. Yeah, and it's not. I mean, you're gonna
be there on the field, but it's gonna be Also
the pregame, right, does Brady and do Belichick and Brady
cross paths before the game, and then after the game,
depending on you know this, do they shake hands, is
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there any kind of embrace there? Does Brady run to
the locker room? Does Belichick run to the locker rooms?
So there's all these subplots to the game, and isis
and just the football part of it the other part
of it, and then what happens after the game when
they address the media and they talk about it. So
it's gonna be it's gonna feed our you know, doing
the radio show t J and you do the podcast
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stuff and all that. It's gonna feed our content for
the next week at least after that and probably a
lot longer. Yeah, they're gonna talk about this day and night.
I don't know that Rachel Ray is gonna be talking
about it on the Food Channel, but maybe they're gonna
talk about it everywhere coming up for this for this game,
and rightfully so, because the man won six championships with
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Gil Belichick in New England and now here you have
him coming back as the conquering hero from Tampa Bay.
And I believe this is just me and my speculation.
I believe you'll see like a pregame handshake or something.
I mean, they they had such a long relationship with
so much success, and at some point, you know, you
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put all the bitterness of whatever happened with they don't
want me anymore, that'll appreciate me anymore aside, you go
shake hands before it's like black saying, touch gloves, touch
them up, and now here we go, and let's see
what New England has, because again, uh, they have not
looked good at it. And you can disregard being the
dysfunctionate New York Jets in the middle of those two
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losses to the Dolphins and then this past Sunday to
Jamis Winston and the Saints were Matt Jones through three
interceptions in that game. If New England is a is
a stinky poo in this game? You use stinky poo sometimes,
don't you? Stinky poo in this game? And Brady is
fantastic U Boston Sports Radio, the Boston media will be
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relentless and immediate on how how in the world did
it did it come to this that New England is
finally again while Brady is living it up and succeeding
with the Buccaneers. Yeah, and I have you know, friends
in Boston to do the radio and this is they're
treating this like a super Bowl. They're gonna have their
their afternoon guys doing the pregame show, and they're they're
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they're wasting. It's the one topic that will be discussed,
and you know it has been discussed ad nauseum. But
there it's Tom Brady and Belichick. It's it's that's it.
That's all they've talked about on the radio in Boston
leading up to this. And I predict t J if
the Bucks do, if this goes the way it's looking
with the way the Patriots are playing that as good
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as the Bucks are offensively, and this turns out to
be a blowout, then they'll be calling for Belichick to
be fired right after the game. I mean, you know
how this works, right, That's how this is going to go.
My Belichick's lost it. They gotta get a new coach,
they gotta start over. Uh. And so that's that's how
that's gonna go. But you are part of the Fox
Sports Radio Alumni Association TV are you dudes? Are your
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dues paid up in full? Have you paid your dues?
I have really up for another year and just let
us know whatever we get the free T shirt or
whatever it is. If we've got from Fox Sports Radio
as part of the alumni association, I would I still
I have not done Battling Night on Fix Sports Radio,
uh since twenty fIF I was there for five years,
(37:07):
not five free years during Saturday nights from eleven through
and I got that freelance opportunity and then I kind
of got installed as the Saturday night guy doing a
lot of College football Er in the college football season.
I still have people the power of FS are and
what Big Ben brings to the table, and obviously Colin
Calherd and uh Dan Patrick and all the different shows,
(37:31):
the Odd Couple that's now on and Jason Smith it's
on at night and we can't believe got my man
Jonas Knox, theos did two pros and a couple of
Joe right now are and with with Brady Quinn in
the mornings and Big Band overnights. Much love from my
Fix Sports Radio brethren. I still have a lot of
different friends and acquaintances that I've worked with on the
(37:53):
year and off the year that are there. So you
guys keep knocking on the other people still talk to
me about doing Saturday nights on five Sports Radio. Yeah,
I for what I'm hed on. I haven't done that
since Donald Thore Donald Trump became the president, and a
little while people think that I just stopped doing it,
like last year or two years ago. So it was
a neat time. I'm thrilled. One of the relationships I
(38:14):
got was getting to be around Ben Mallow and do
things on the air and be on the Malar Show,
and you and I co hosted some different times on
some different projects, and we finally got to me. It
was not quite the macho man and whole hogan at
the Superpowers with the big handshake and the nineties remember
that form with the Superpower. Oh yeah, with the handshake.
(38:37):
It was not quite to that level, but it was
still need to be around Big Ben and be around
you at the Rams game. And it's neat to reflect
back on being on Fox Sports. Yeah, listen was fun.
I remember those those Saturday nights and you know I
had I got let go. I was let go by
the company brought me back, and then I remember I
was on when I came back, I was doing the
weekend overnight show and I was your post game show.
(38:59):
You were on and I was my lead in and
then I would come on after you and rant and
rave like a lunatic. And usually I didn't kill all
of your audiences. No, no, no, no you did. You
did a great job. And so just to kind of
wrap this up, t J, how can people follow you?
I know you're on Twitter, You're on all the social media,
You've got your your Bucks podcast, you working. You mentioned
(39:21):
Compass Media Networks, right, you do. The Bucks sidelines are
all over the place, t J. I am all over
the place. I have met myself two or three different times,
coming and going. Thank you for the ploug follow me
at buck buc Buck sideline guy. I appreciate you sharing
out the photo. You even tagged me on that. So
if you want to see what I'm up to on
Twitter at releasing you when you find me there, find
(39:43):
me through buccaneers dot com and their mobile app. The podcast,
as you mentioned, is nothing but plots. It's a postgame
recap podcast with interviews with highlights. We'll have one up
on the Monday. God willing after this Patriots game this week,
and after you did a Buccaneer games all the way
through and I but wong it lasts love that and yeah,
Compass Media Networks again, as a national outwork. The games
(40:03):
will be on over the year on Compass Media Network,
dot com and other outlets as well the different college
football games they have every week. I'm doing a selects
I believe six total game package. One of those games
is this week old Miss Alabama at the time that
we're taping. Later in the year, I'm getting the chance
to do in Oklahoma Texas Tech game. I'm also doing
(40:24):
an Ohio State game later in the year. So Compass
Media Networks is good and I full around with various
other podcast projects and internet and web and web stuff.
You can find me there and still do a bunch
of where your appearances here in Tampa Bay, etcetera. So
I appreciate the invite to be on the fifth hour.
If you'd be on the Mallow Pod. Yeah, I love
listening to you. I hear you a lot in the
(40:45):
middle of the night when I'm traveling or coming back.
I love the video clips. I was rooting you on
as you were ranting about Matt Stafford when I saw
that video clip from the Mallow Show overnights, So yeah,
it was. It was great to hook up with you.
I wish have been a better outcome for the Buccaneers,
but credit the Rams. They looked really good on Sunday.
And we'll see now if the Bucks can regroup in
(41:06):
New England and if they can look out. Yeah, and
we need the Bucks to play the Chargers next year
in l A or something so we can can hang
out again. So we'll have to make that happen. We played,
So here's the schedule on that. We played the Chargers
at home last year, so the next Charger game in
Los Angeles would be about three years from now. Are
we checking our social calendars? We're both married men. You
(41:26):
have to check with the wise. We gotta check on
three years from now if we have a reunited at
that so far, but who knows, the Bucks could end
up playing the Rams again at so Far again next year.
We played the Rams now three years in a row,
we could end up playing them again in Los Angeles,
so maybe we hook up. Then we'll see perfect all right,
tak you t J. Good luck with the travels and
the broadcast, and I'll be watching on TV and then
(41:50):
we'll see what happens. Thanks for coming on. Much love
for the Ben Mallard. I love giving the chance to
catch up. We did with meeting with you and this
was a lot of fun. Thank you for the inn
by Big then
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