TJ Rives | Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sideline Reporter

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So join us couple times a week to get all your information you need to bet the games that you watch it's cash the ticket on the Odyssey Apple River you get your podcasts right now. We are pleased to welcome TJ Reeves, longtime friend and guest of the show. He's from the Buccaneers sidelines and now that his work is done. We are anxious to pick his brain petite it before we talk about football. Football was returning to Tampa after the NFL consulted with local officials and authorities deciding to host the game there at Raymond James in the wake of hurricane Ian even though many parts of Florida are even now beginning the recovery process and there are still rescue efforts under way. It's been devastating. Obviously in Florida over the last few days. So what was it like for the box and for you personally. As part of the broadcast team to get back to the stadium after everything that happened. There are much more important than sports football, a harrowing devastating time. Obviously, about 100 miles south of Tampa properly litigating employee denied in the Fort Myers Cape Coral area and are talking about hundreds of thousands of people are to be effective for month-end it even longer loss of life, what you were talking about and look Orlando got it as well. With the storm getting but still got hit like a category one hurricane night so they still got people displaced without power and problem so we should not lose sight of that. It was a real attitude of good camaraderie and feeling for the other people in the state and that stadium tonight. They're calling it Florida strong and with good reason. Here, because then it is not something to be over with a couple weeks or even a couple months. What happened to the south of the table. Barry was very fortunate that this thing swung early to the Northeast and hit the bottom of the state instead of right through this. So, we realize that we understand that an attendant trivializes sports but now will go to the trivial talk about the game in whichever way you want to lose. I will follows. I appreciate that certainly is a community that can not only donate money but offer other support and resources to the communities that were harder hit me on the Buccaneers are doing that the NFL is donating a bunch of money so is Tom Brady on so a lot of assistance going to those people who desperately need it.

TJ just personally what was the last week like for you and your family living sober. You're watching everything last Sunday night last Monday and be ready to leave and your family are thick upset vehicle to figure out where you going, here's the crazy thing so many people evacuated to the middle of the state to Orlando because the track again with the cold north of Tampa and then swing into the Northeast. Maybe over our area, or just above our area. What turned out it was much lower, geographically rated files right through the middle the state diagonally right where thousands and thousands had evacuated to believe it and it is bad how what you plan for the things you try anything to plan ahead to have a supply of water supply battery supply of nonperishable food.

Things such as that of you to stay but when you get a category or the second most powerful storm the state of Florida ever hurricane Andrew, 1992, and admits what. So when we saw that last Monday or Tuesday.

You're on your toes on. We may have to get out of here and and be in Orlando or be somewhere on the important thing the southeastern part of an object that she went to Miami because that was never part of the hurricane track here to go to go practice this week and be safe with their family.

So it was, it was minimal for us in terms of effect, but by the same token, the entire state is always on alert relief from late June until about the time the beginning of October that the things crop up, spending a few minutes with TJ Rees who is the Buccaneers sideline reporter for their radio network and has a personal perspective on this week we think about the way the game started with a fumble on the opening kickoff. It was off to the races after that for the Kansas City Chiefs. Wow, no question about ready to get the ball off. The crowd fired up and shot wide of the bolt on the ground and got the ball near the end zone before you can spell the home during the end zone. The graphic tilted that with the plating but that was not the whole game.

I'm not really what happened for the next 59 minutes after that with the real story and I believe it was just that she that maybe a little bit of revenge mode.

They did lose the Super Bowl. Obviously everybody knew that in the storyline highly motivated motorhomes very much locked and they were phenomenal on third down Buccaneers could not get off the field again for the second straight week on third down and she did a fantastic job on open bullying the Buccaneers for a lot of that first three quarters. Let's say were they extended the lead and it ran the ball for nearly 200 yards all the big-time pros of homes made.

They were just leveling the buccaneer front seven and running the ball and that was his big as you point out 189 yards rushing Clyde Edwards.

Allaire was pretty much able to do whatever he wanted but he wasn't the only one in a long time since we seen the Buccaneers give up this kind of yardage as well as 12 or 17 on third down that she's go five of six in the red zone. What happens so good for three day window for Dallas and Oregon really after Aaron Rogers and Company got the 14 point really flip the script and shut them out of the second half as well. But tonight they didn't have answers upfront that that's a big part of it and other things, missed tackles and… Bolted out of the danger was on Buccaneers readily all the media were not you. The displacement of Miami that excuse. We didn't tackle at all tonight and make nearly enough plays on third down when she thought I believe it like nine of their first 10, third down and is not winning football.

Do not good to be able to beat a high-powered elite team. If you can't get off the field and go all the way to the final minute of the game and I have a component in and didn't throw the ball over to the home started over with about 3 o'clock the entire night because the Scoring so everything was the first three weeks.

A lot of it came unraveled in Kabul after the game we are going to go back to the basics.

We are going to go back to the beginning here and start over.

Fundamentally, on tackling because it was not good.

On Sunday nights so TJ there was one jaw-dropping moment for Patrick motorhomes accident there always is more than one but there's one that will see and highlight reels over and over, in which he scrambles right to the sideline in the red zone teaspoon out of the tackle toward the end zone and then there's this combination jump pass push path to Clyde in the end zone for the touchdown.

What was your perspective on that moment I saw the 5 yard line doing my job on the radio. He's coming right at the first thing you know preservation because I am coming and I think it will take the flight back up. I do what you're supposed to. I backup for five-step because I'm not to be standing there by the dotted line with about a thousand pounds of pleasure come plowing intimate so I backup like three steps and he literally is everybody bouncing on the on the live theater on the highlights are on twitter and Internet peak stopped in the first thing I'm thinking is okay. He's going to try to go out about know he stopped and suddenly he just did the flick like an option underhand flick perfect touch Edwards Allaire and my module is okay. I know my jaws open because there are not many players on the planet that make that play athletically make that when you're right we see things like that regularly from him and I had a ringside seat for that one. I can say this is my 18th year eight of them on the Buccaneers sideline.

I haven't seen a quarterback athletically stop on a dime like that and with three or four people bearing down around her to submit applicable effortlessly without receiving the request as he goes along. Practice these things right.

Something like that is God-given has the ability to see.

It reminds me of that part of it reminds me of Wayne Gretzky being a step ahead.

Jordan seem to be a step ahead, click, click, wanted to encrypt it with maybe two steps ahead when he played that way on a lot of what he does. Other quarterbacks ready to be considered a step ahead, maybe not athletically running around but the home seems to be a step or two ahead of everything and sometimes I get them in trouble get nonchalant like interception or the period of the game, but a lot of times it makes for spectacular plays in watching him do that and again you can't say enough for upstairs 602 day 602 days ball 50, and I think the Chiefs were keeping track of that ready for some revenge tonight, TJ Reeves, fresh off the Buccaneers sidelines as the cheese rolled into tee box and rack up more than 400 yards of offense against that box defense and winning on Sunday night football it's after hours with Amy Lawrence on CBS sports radio. I know that the Buccaneers word trailing most of the game in the first half. They were trailing by three scores for a stretch. There are you surprised by the disparity between passing and only three rushing yards on six attempts for the box in this game, not merely in the happened from time to time over the last three years with Byron Leftwich: play or first year the group. It is not there as well bore KU playcalling game planning streaming around thing.

They gotta get that part figured out and really the last truly not able to run the ball I nearly effectively enough, and there are some times when circumstances dictate that a me tonight when the game is 21 to 3%. How much are you going to run it to come out to start the second half and you pick up a first down. But then you can't do anything else with the ball or not you want to be runnable in that situation so that they have got to find a way to get some balance back later for net because you have the ability to kind of keep it at least on it feels at times and set up your play action saw him at times about her own admission, amazing, both that it pretty good at tonight after the game ended nearly good enough at the fading drive and getting the run game going. That has got to change as you move forward here, but you also credit Kansas City again. They fortify their defense by Gola was ready to make a lot of things away from the books tonight and got and got a revenge when for sure Mike returns to the lineup and had a big game course I connection with Tom Brady is amazing and with his second-quarter touchdown he broke the career franchise record for yards from scrimmage.

What are a few words that you can use to describe what Mike is meant to the Buccaneers special player.

There is no doubt that he is a special player with respect to catch radius go up and get the ball.

I there is a better receiver in the NFL. Certainly in his time over the last eight years at vertical go up and out fight defenders for the football with the long arms of the catch radius. He is such a great target. You will also go down the field and take a hit and he took some pops in the first Including on the touchdown and still kept going and it makes a tremendous difference to have. He have Chris Godwin Julio Jones without their Psalm. I did not get feedback after the game.

Whether Julio reactivated the knee injury.

He didn't play a lot of second-half Amy of the game.

So again, he's been bothered by the need think the Dallas game. It may have been bothering him again in the second half of the game tonight, but this is a different offense when you have those guys out there, it frees up some of the other like a camera brighter, like a little gauge and others to go make some plays because you have those weapons back there and haven't even wobbled being double teamed. A good portion of the time and he's out there on the field will still make plays and Brady still was able to put him in the right spot to make plays after the catch. Even so, that was fun to watch. That was one of the ways I got back in the day back in the game late in the first half.

The problem is that you could not stop the chief after halftime report on the board and keeping the arms length away credit and read and credit the cheese offense for keeping on the death TJ Reeves with SMT but it's after hours on CBS sports radio's ego were talking about the cheese offense in the box defense by a fairly anemic start to the season for Tom Brady's offense through one 11/4. They had three offense of touchdowns we saw a lot more points tonight. How far are they away from fighting that rhythm that we saw with them in the last couple seasons got popular first half and we were concerned with where he went down through the balsamic quickly went down the touchdown. After that he still had the vulnerable. In the second half checked in obviously 45 years of age are concerned about that shoulder anytime you get it like that but the offense has weapons to gotta find the balance running the football.

31 point up on the board. He threw for over 300 and I think I saw this was only the fifth time 530 times where he put it is often put all 31 points on the board and I didn't win the game. So, it's not. It's very unusual not common for them to have that kind of offense about either New England or Tampa Bay and not win the game. So I think the theme will be better moving forward for top game again on the road at Dallas on the road in New Orleans, then at Homewood Green Bay in the lead team at home with you to lead change, so did up to and through long way to go. Let's see if the book back to some normalcy displays last week for the hurricane. With practice, and what happens from there next three games are found in Pittsburgh and then Carolina acid to games they are in the NFC South. You can find TJ Reeves on twitter at Buck BU C sideline guy fresh off the Buccaneers radio network in Sunday night football, but mostly we appreciate his insight about what it's been like in the state of Florida for these last few days. TJ always good to catch up with you.

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