Good morning, everybody. Today is the afternoon of August 30th as a batch of podcast come out here on a Tuesday, mid-afternoon, a long weekend in Las Vegas, to put it lightly, had me in no shape to record a podcast when I got home Sunday evening. And I went to do it yesterday to catch up, and the brain just

wasn't there yet, to put it lightly. For those of you who watched, follow the money,

you got the full story of the Saturday evening, which was correlated with a flight that got

bumped back a couple of hours, which was ultimately delayed a couple of hours.

It was a messy Sunday altogether, especially with an hour drive home at the end of it to Western Alberta.

So an ugly couple of days recovering, but we are back at it here on a Tuesday afternoon looking at the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This is a very conflicting team for me to preview,

and I think it's going to be one that gets a lot of different betters over the course of the

season, especially coming into it until we really learn a lot more about what's going on.

We'll get to Tom Brady's lack of interest in just a second, but everything about this team really to me

starts up front, as well as with some of the question marks around this entire offense.

In the offseason, left guard, Ali Marpet retires. Right guard, Alex Kappa, signs with the

Cincinnati Bengals. Ryan Jensen left over at center he's now

hurt and out for a while as is Tristan Wharfs and we saw a situation where the backup for Jensen

at center Robert Hainsley is also hurt as well So there's now an entire middle of the offensive line

that is gone for the Buccaneers.

And it's a question mark on what it's going to look like

from a replacement perspective,

but also how Tom Brady is going to be able to handle this in the pocket.

Throughout his entire career, as is the case with many other quarterbacks in the league,

not just specific to Brady, but with his play, the one time where his numbers have dropped off

is when there's pressure up the middle.

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