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00:00Sean McVeigh, take one, marker.
00:11I'm Sean McVeigh.
00:12I was an offensive assistant, really like a glorified
00:15secretary, in 2008 for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
00:20And what a typical day was was just kind of being able to assist.
00:23It might have been picking up dry cleaning.
00:25It might have been helping Monty Kiffin
00:26with setting up his turkey sandwiches
00:28where he had seven turkey sandwiches
00:30and he'd eat one every single day like clockwork.
00:33It might be drawing cards, putting formations on there.
00:35No job was too small for me to do,
00:38and I was happy to help any way that I could.
00:41Kyle Shanahan, quality control, 2003 to 2005.
00:45Take one.
00:46They called us the Gruden Grinders,
00:47because that's really how he did it.
00:49Nobody is bigger than this football team, nobody.
00:52I had been out of college for literally eight months,
00:55and I wasn't used to getting up at 3.30 in the morning.
00:57I got in pretty early.
00:59I pissed Gruden off.
01:00I got in before him one time, and I said,
01:02eh, let's not do that anymore.
01:04My dad's Mike Shanahan, so he's been a coach for a long time.
01:06And he just said, hey, you're going to learn all this stuff from John,
01:09and that's important.
01:10But nothing's more important than understanding defense
01:12and learning defense.
01:13Across the hallway, there was a huge open room
01:15where all the defensive coaches were.
01:17That was the coolest thing to me about the building,
01:19because the staff that they had with Monty Kiffin,
01:21with Raheem, Mike Tomlin,
01:24and they just had this legendary staff,
01:25and they all kind of worked in the same room.
01:27And all I tried to do was soak in defensive football
01:30while I learned the offense from John,
01:32because I wanted one day to be a play caller,
01:34and those guys helped me out so much,
01:36and they still mess with me now,
01:37saying that they gave me too many secrets.
01:39Now they have to go against me,
01:40but I think that was probably the most important part of my career.
01:44When you look at the success that Tampa's had
01:47in terms of all these coaches going on to have success
01:50after they've been a part of that special organization
01:52and that family, it's about the people.
01:55We made the decision to part ways with John and Bruce,
02:17and we felt like we had some people in our organization
02:20that understood the way we had operated around here.
02:24We have this bright, rising star on our coaching staff
02:28in Raheem Morris.
02:29And I was told by the Glazers that I was their first choice.
02:33Knowing I had the blessings from the Glazer family,
02:36I wanted to go present my best self
02:38and give it my best efforts.
02:40I told Raheem, trust your instincts, man.
02:43You've been preparing yourself for this.
02:45Go for it, man.
02:47And I'm rooting for you.
02:50The new head coach of the Tampa Buccaneers, Randy Morris.
02:55He was a young coach, and he was about Rondé's age.
02:59He was 32 years old.
03:01But I can relate to these guys.
03:02They relate to me.
03:03We move well together,
03:05and I think that's what the Glazer family likes.
03:07Mark Dominick became the GM.
03:09He had been with his franchise for well over 15 years.
03:13He was someone that had a great football background
03:15and also someone that we could communicate and work well with.
03:18And that's half the battle.
03:20We took a chance, and we said,
03:21OK, let's put this team together.
03:22The team we had had had gotten old.
03:25Maybe the best thing to do at this point in time
03:27is to start over and give them the opportunity
03:29to build a team again.
03:31Let's build a team that can grow up together.
03:34Let's go with the youth movement.
03:36The Tampa Bay Buccaneers cleared house on Wednesday,
03:39releasing five players,
03:40including 11-time Pro Bowl linebacker Derrick Brooks.
03:44They're basically telling Derrick Brooks
03:45they don't think he can play at a high level anymore.
03:48I hope they know what they're doing.
03:50This was the veteran fabric of this football team.
03:53It was not a great place to start your new regime.
03:58Some say he's the best player to ever wear a Buccaneer uniform.
04:022,198 tackles,
04:05seven defensive touchdowns,
04:0711 Pro Bowl appearances,
04:09one Super Bowl win.
04:12Derrick Brooks officially retired today.
04:15Transitioning away from the game
04:18is something that I always tell players to be prepared to do,
04:21because you never know when that last snap is going to be.
04:25I understood the business of football.
04:27That's part of business.
04:30But that doesn't stop the emotional hurt
04:35that you go through.
04:37It took a great deal of pride with me knowing that I would go into the Hall of Fame all my years as a Buc.
04:45Didn't wear any other color but this one.
04:48As a servant leader, I just want to do the best I can to make something better than it is when I come in touch with it.
04:56At number 55, it represents the relationship that I have here with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
05:03and I try to represent them in the most positive light that I can.
05:07It was unfortunate for Brooks' career to end with us that way.
05:13Derrick was a true icon, and this organization still is.
05:17Beloved member of our community, and that was tough.
05:22When you got to let go just critical veterans and you got to start to rebuild, that was a tough duty as well.
05:28But the joy definitely kicked in when you start the draft.
05:32The Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Josh Freeman.
05:36Here's Freeman, goes to the flag, round to the end zone, it's caught, end zone, touchdown Tampa Bay!
05:42We only won a total of three games, but at least with Josh, there was some sense of hope.
05:47The goal was to build a team through youth.
05:49Maybe we have to take a step back to take a step forward.
05:52With the third pick in the 2010 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Gerald McCoy.
06:01You get drafted third overall.
06:05You were the third overall pick because the season prior, they were not very good.
06:10So they're bringing you in to revamp this defense, and you're supposed to be the piston that drives the engine.
06:16What you guys think Gerald McCoy is is what I'm going to bring to Tampa, and I don't plan to disappoint.
06:21You want to talk about a presence, a smile, a face of the franchise.
06:26A guy that can come in and potentially be the heir apparent to what you had seen in Warren Sapp,
06:31and to bring that type of presence to your D-line.
06:34Okay, this is the building block of hopefully what Tampa can rebuild upon.
06:38And then things really started turning around in 2010, where we really felt like the team was going in the right direction.
06:43Find a way to win more games, find a way to get in the playoffs. That's the only thing we play for.
06:46That was the year of the race to 10.
06:48They are out in full force here at Raymond James Stadium.
06:5114 straight points for Tampa, and they've won it here on opening day.
06:57Buck 17 and Cleveland 14.
07:00That was his theme for the year, a race to 10 to try to get 10 wins.
07:04That would get us hopefully in the playoffs.
07:06And the Buccaneers go to 2-0, winning 20-7.
07:12And they were succeeding against the odds.
07:16Attack, attack, attack, attack!
07:18Here's the snap, here comes pressure.
07:20Freeman rolling right, rolls it toward the end zone.
07:22God, Buccaneers win!
07:23Yeah!
07:24As the Bucs become the best team in the NFC.
07:28That's what we do!
07:29Are we the best team in the NFC when we're playing like otherwise?
07:33These Buccaneers come to play every Sunday.
07:39I give Raheem Moore so much credit because I did not think he was ready to lead this team.
07:47Big game for the Buccaneers at home, hosting the Lions.
07:52They're trying to stay in the playoff race.
07:55It's campus defense unable to get off the field as we start overtime.
08:00Dave Rayner to try to win it for the Lions.
08:03And the kick is up, and it's good!
08:05And the Detroit Lions put a dagger into Tampa Bay's playoff hopes.
08:11He taught me then, getting in the playoffs is extremely difficult.
08:15Man, we don't control anything about anything else but what we do next week.
08:19Next week, we've got to go to New Orleans.
08:21That's our playoff game.
08:22We've got a chance to get 10 wins.
08:23Let's just go out and get it!
08:25Freeman drops back to throw on fourth out, throws a fade route toward the end zone.
08:29It is good!
08:30Touchdown, Tampa Bay!
08:32The Buccaneers reach 10 wins.
08:35And unfortunately, it was not in the playoffs because of how well the rest of our division did.
08:41But we built that franchise and got those guys as the youngest team in football to go out there and win 10 football games.
08:48And I thought it was absolutely outstanding.
08:51At that point, you're thinking, OK, the future's going to be very bright.
08:54We're heading in the right direction.
08:56We're building a young team.
08:57Fans were excited.
08:58They had an exciting team.
09:00Things looked up and up.
09:02You're being the youngest coach in the NFL.
09:07You're a team being the youngest team in the NFL.
09:09How does that translate on a day-in, day-out message to your ball club?
09:13We got a Youngry ball club.
09:15Some of the best things that could have happened to us might have been last year not making it with 10 wins.
09:19Did you just create a word on me and say Youngry?
09:21Young and Hungry.
09:22Young and Hungry.
09:23I'm telling you.
09:24Trying to say Young and Hungry.
09:26And it came out all together with my Jersey accent.
09:29And I said Youngry.
09:31We just stuck with it.
09:32It's the home opener for the Vikings.
09:36And off LeGarret running right.
09:38LeGarret one.
09:39Touchdown, Tampa Bay!
09:40Josh Freeman has just engineered his eighth career fourth quarter comeback.
09:46How about them Tampa Bay Buccaneers?
09:48So that season starts like the last season ended.
09:51It's exciting.
09:52The future is here.
09:53It's going to be fantastic.
09:54Here's a quick snap.
09:55Ryan dropping back.
09:56He's hit!
09:57He's hit!
09:58And a rumble recovery recovered by the Buccaneers.
10:01Here's a quarterback's beat by Josh Freeman.
10:04He's got a touchdown Tampa Bay!
10:06Good show for the hometown crowd.
10:09We're able to start fast.
10:11We're able to get these guys going.
10:12We start off 4-2.
10:13The Bucs are tied with New Orleans first place in the NFC South.
10:20Sometimes athletes don't deal well with success.
10:30A lot of these cats were acting like they were good.
10:33It's not about acting like you're good.
10:35It's about putting in the time and being prepared.
10:38Being prepared is not being out all damn night.
10:40And being out every night of the week and acting a fool
10:43and coming into the complex hungover and stuff like that.
10:46Young guys go out and party, have a good time,
10:49and whatever goes along with that.
10:51That had a major effect on that group of players.
10:55Freeman throws, and it is intercepted.
10:58Buccaneers drop to 4-3.
11:01Raheem Morris, he was so close in age to some of our players
11:05that it was like, he's just one of the guys.
11:07I don't got to be different.
11:08I just get in line with my team.
11:10And we got away with a lot of things,
11:12with how meetings were being ran,
11:14how freelance it was around the building,
11:17and it caught up to us.
11:19I think it really came down to discipline today.
11:22You can't afford to self-destruct.
11:25You talk about a fall from grace?
11:27We fell off the side of a mountain.
11:29Young football team making mistakes on the road.
11:32Bucs fall to 4-6.
11:33Week in, week out, we just weren't performing on the field.
11:37The discipline wasn't there.
11:40And then we just kept losing, and kept losing.
11:43And our loss skid will extend to nine in a row.
11:47And it was just such a difference from one year,
11:50like where everything feels like it's going right,
11:52to nothing goes right for the rest of the season.
11:56The 2011 season will end on a 10-game losing note.
11:59The Buccaneers got to regroup, get ready for 2020.
12:02For 2012.
12:04At the end of that season,
12:05we didn't want to be put in a position
12:08to have to fire Raheem.
12:10At that point, we had no choice.
12:12Raheem Morris fired Monday,
12:14after the Buccaneers ended their season
12:16on a 10-game losing streak,
12:18this after a 10-win season last year.
12:21Continuity in the NFL is very important.
12:23You've got to get the right guys.
12:24The Glazers, they wanted a championship,
12:26and they were going to find their next head coach,
12:29whoever it was that was going to get them
12:30another Super Bowl ring.
12:31We are going to spend whatever it takes to win,
12:35to put the best team on the field.
12:39You know, from the start,
12:40someone that Mark Dominick was very intrigued by
12:43and focused on was Greg Sciano.
12:46He had Bennett Rutgers, turned that program around.
12:49We kind of looked at our situation and felt
12:51that he'd be the right person for the job.
12:53Our team will be built around a humble, unselfish attitude of sacrifice.
12:59As a coaching staff and a team and an organization,
13:02we have to hold each other accountable.
13:04Tampa, win it out of the huddle! Let's go!
13:07When I accepted the job, I didn't know a lot about what the state of the locker room was.
13:16It became apparent pretty quickly that some of the discipline that was needed to have a successful team maybe was lacking.
13:25Take the field with attitude, attitude, attitude! Get there, break foot, drive foot, break foot, drive foot!
13:30Our very first practice, Coach Sciano loses his mind.
13:35Stop it! I said toes on the line, start over! We not doing that! Start the whole thing over!
13:43Yeah, we all looking around like, man, who the Glazers didn't hire it?
13:48And he walked up and down the line to point at everybody's toes to make sure we were on the line.
13:54Look at this! Instead of landing on the line, his foot landed back here.
13:59How many plays you missed by this?
14:02Greg was very demanding that way, and it rubbed some of the players wrong.
14:06These were high-class, top-level professional athletes.
14:11Spence and Jackson, Rondae Barber, Davin Joseph.
14:15These are all pro players that he's doing this to.
14:18So, it's not going over well at all.
14:23Everybody flying around, a little bit anxious, figuring it out.
14:26What are these guys about? What is practice going to be like?
14:28All right, now you know what practice is going to be like.
14:30To this day, I don't know why I played another year.
14:33Transitioned to safety that year, so I had to learn a lot of new things about football.
14:38The easy thing maybe for him would have been able to go to another team or to just retire.
14:42Yet, Rondae came back for another season.
14:44I was pleased, not only with the way he played, but having him on our team.
14:48He served kind of as the elder statesman.
14:51He continues to add to his Hall of Fame resume.
14:54Rondae Barber, the old one, the veteran, 186 consecutive starts.
15:00The team needed some age.
15:04At that point, I'm 36 years old, and they're all looking at me like I'm their uncle.
15:08But probably the best thing for me was the transition of power.
15:13We drafted Levante David.
15:15A terrific play by Levante David, who is just having a spectacular night.
15:21It's hard to put into words when you see a young guy that has talent that actually wants to be really good at what he does.
15:29And that was him.
15:32His attitude was right.
15:34I noticed it right away.
15:36For me, you know, personally, you know, I just love the game of football.
15:41So I'm very passionate about it, you know, no matter what.
15:44Being a linebacker, you always want to play in an aggressive defense, a defense that's always attacking.
15:50Levante David, another tackle for loss by the Buccaneer defense.
15:54One thing I remember about Levante David, I sat there and go,
15:57gosh, this guy, he just feels like Derrick Brooks.
16:02He's not Derrick Brooks. Nobody's Derrick Brooks.
16:05But he was damn close.
16:07Look at that closing speed by Levante David.
16:11Our very first OTA, it was the very first play.
16:16He ran past every single person at a speed I had never seen a linebacker run.
16:22And I said, what the heck was that and who is that?
16:26And Coach said, oh, that's, you know, our rookie, Levante David.
16:30And it was that day that I coined him the Flash.
16:33Hey, Levante, you real fast, dog.
16:36You fast as heck.
16:41The Carolina Panthers found a quarterback a year ago, rookie Phenom Cam Newton.
16:47They'll run the option and hit the backfield. Cam Newton's clobbered.
16:512012, we got a really good roster.
16:55We got Vincent Jackson.
16:56What a grab by Vincent Jackson.
16:58Doug Martin.
16:59Runs up against, breaks a tackle to the 40.
17:01Is there anything number 22 can't do?
17:03That's the play of the day.
17:05That year we went seven and nine.
17:07But there was the infamous game against the Giants.
17:10What I do with our football team is we fight until they tell us game over.
17:14Freeman, over the middle, intercepted.
17:18And the Giants have their first win of the year.
17:21Across the league, it's league-wide known that when the game is over,
17:25the offense comes up, hey, fellas, we taking a knee.
17:28All right, cool, take the knee, game over.
17:31But Greg had this philosophy that the game's never over until he says it's over.
17:36The Giants are in victory formation and he ordered his defense
17:39to come off the ball hard and low and try to get a fumble.
17:43in a kneel-down situation.
17:46We had practiced this in practice.
17:48Well, now it's time to show the world.
17:51So Eli Manning comes up, like every offense does,
17:55and says, hey, fellas, we gonna take a knee.
17:58And we all look at each other like, we doing this?
18:01It's like, hey, here we go.
18:03Going up against a team that was pretty motivated here this afternoon.
18:07Eli, none of them were having it.
18:09The Giants were pushing and shoving.
18:11Giants didn't like that hit that was aggressive and put Eli Manning on his backside.
18:16They're like, what the F was that? What was that?
18:19They start stomping on us and punching on us, and we at the bottom of the pile.
18:23We're like, our coach made us do it. Our coach made us do it.
18:26And it rubbed Eli Manning wrong, and it certainly rubbed Tom Coughlin wrong,
18:30and it rubbed the football world wrong.
18:35You're trying to hurt the corner?
18:36You don't do that in this league.
18:40I mean, you jeopardize the offensive line, you jeopardize the quarterback.
18:43I totally disagree with the way they handled it.
18:45I totally disagree with his opinion.
18:47What I did was right, and if you don't like it, too bad.
18:50And I think at that moment, the world kind of turned on Greg.
18:53It's unfortunate because I think Greg was trying everything he could to get this ship turned around.
18:58When you think of some of the most iconic Buccaneers, number 20 Ronde Barber comes to mind.
19:05Today, after 16 years in the NFL all with the Buccaneers, Ronde announced he was retiring.
19:11When I got drafted in 97, to say I had talent is a gross overstatement.
19:17Where my struggle came from is I didn't know what it meant to be a pro.
19:20It's not that I didn't want to be. I just didn't know what it meant.
19:23And I think I spent that whole year with Herm Edwards learning how to be a pro.
19:27How to prepare. How to be curious.
19:31And so I would say it was about 99.
19:33Guys like Sap would start mentioning my name.
19:36And they weren't talking about me messing up.
19:39The proof was in the plays that I was making on the field.
19:42And then from then on, it was a chase for greatness.
19:46I had the wins in my sails. I had my teammates' support.
19:50It was just a race for the next 13 years.
19:54You know, I came up here not really knowing what to say.
19:58But I think the best way to end it is saying, I had fun.
20:07I love coming to work every day.
20:09I love football. I'll always love football.
20:12And I'm ready to move on.
20:13That's intercepted.
20:14And the 10 to the 20.
20:15He's going.
20:16Going coast to coast.
20:17Rodney Barber.
20:18To the 50. To the 40.
20:20Barber to the 30.
20:22Nobody's going to touch him.
20:23Rodney Barber.
20:2410, 5.
20:25Touchdown Tampa Bay.
20:27Rodney Barber.
20:37Rodney Barber.
20:38Yeah.
20:39My good friend.
20:40Welcome to the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2023.
20:44Oh, my God, Derrick.
20:45We're teammates forever.
20:46Never again.
20:51My football journey that I've been on for 40 years has reached its end.
20:55And with that realization comes a pretty good reflection.
20:59Sap Brooks Lynch.
21:02Let's go lose ourselves in another moment, boys.
21:05God bless you all.
21:06And God bless America.
21:14Out of all the years I've covered the Bucs, and it's been a lot,
21:182013 stands alone, I think, as the most bizarre season,
21:23I think, in Bucs history in a lot of ways.
21:2719 different signs saying fire Shiano, having lost 11 of their last 12 games.
21:33They had MRSA in the building.
21:35Three players with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers diagnosed with an infection known as MRSA.
21:40What many people are calling, you know, the superbug.
21:42The season was just awful.
21:44The Glazers had no choice.
21:46Shiano's lost control of the whole team, and I think he should be terminated.
21:50Team owners fired head coach Greg Shiano Monday morning.
21:54It was a perfect storm for it not to work.
21:58I thought we had the makings of something that first year and then it kind of fell apart.
22:02But I do think that some of the things we did when we first got here were the foundation of future success.
22:08When you look at Levante, he was constantly about the team first, and that's why he's still playing this many years later.
22:16Didn't work out for me here at Tampa, but I walk away with a lot of lessons learned and a lot of relationships made still to this day that I value.
22:26The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are looking not only for a new head coach, but a general manager as well.
22:31We had a very, very, very short list of coaches, and Lovie Smith was the person we thought would be best suited.
22:37Lovie had been a coach on Tony Dungy's coaching staff. He had tremendous success with the Bears.
22:43Lovie leads the Chicago Bears to the Super Bowl against Coach Dungy with the Colts.
22:48Two black head coaches, first time in history, and they both coached for the Bucs.
22:54People kept asking me, who do you think will win? I said, the game of football wins.
23:00We realize what you've gone through the last couple of years, and it's time for a new day here at Tampa Bay.
23:07It's very important to have a good working relationship between the coach and general manager.
23:12The one person that came out of that process was Jason Light.
23:15The better teams in the NFL that we keep in the playoffs year after year are the teams that draft the best.
23:21We're going to build a championship team and bring winning back to this community.
23:25So Jason Light comes to town in 2014, and he's a self-described meathead scout.
23:32And that's exactly what this organization needed.
23:35They needed a general manager who would roll up his sleeves, do the dirty work, and build this team through the draft.
23:42So my first draft, we needed a quarterback that year.
23:46And I spent the first, I don't know how many hundreds of hours watching all the quarterbacks in that year's draft.
23:53And the one that piqued the most interest for me was Johnny Manziel of Texas A&M.
23:58Manziel takes off again.
24:00Everybody's talking about Johnny Manziel, Texas A&M, Johnny Football, Johnny Football.
24:05Wait, hold up. Who's that big light-skinned kid he keep throwing the ball to?
24:12As we watched more and more of Johnny Manziel, I became more and more in love with the receiver of most of his throws than it was Mike Evans.
24:23Who made who here? The quarterback or the receiver?
24:27I just always knew early on, life is extremely difficult.
24:35You know, things happen. It's about how you respond.
24:38My mother had me at 14 years old.
24:43There was domestic violence or issues in the household, which ultimately led to my father being killed by my mom's brother and my uncle.
24:56Me and my uncle, we were tight, but we didn't spend much time together.
25:00Neither did I spend as much time with my father.
25:03They both were locked up for a long time.
25:08They got out of prison around the same time.
25:12And we all are living under the same household.
25:15But as a nine-year-old kid, I don't understand the magnitude of what was about to happen.
25:20Someone's just been shot and he's laying out in the street.
25:24And there's blood all over the street.
25:26Please have an ambulance if somebody comes in.
25:28My uncle hears all the stories about the toxic relationship my mom and my father had with the domestic violence and abuse.
25:35I was sleeping. He came home and he saw my dad. My mom wasn't there.
25:39And he just started stabbing.
25:41My pops tried to get away.
25:43And he shot him, you know, from a distance.
25:45And then he walked up on him and he killed him.
25:48Okay, did you see what happened?
25:50Ma'am.
25:52Oh, my God.
25:53I mean, as a nine-year-old kid, I was heartbroken.
25:56Because no kid wants their dad gone from this earth forever.
26:00I always loved sports so much.
26:04And I think that was a reason how I was able to push through.
26:07Push, push, push, push.
26:09I was able to channel my anger and rage with sports.
26:17Touchdown!
26:19Mike Evans, this is Jason Light, the general manager of Tampa Bay Buccaneers. How you doing?
26:24With the seventh pick in the 2014 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Mike Evans, wide receiver, Texas A&M.
26:37It didn't even feel, like, real in the moment.
26:39It's something I can't even explain. Like, something took over my body.
26:42You know, I just started crying. I couldn't control it.
26:44And I'm holding my two-year-old daughter just knowing that I'm going to have the opportunity to take care of her and live all my dreams.
26:52He's what today's NFL wide receiver is all about.
26:58It just felt right. If you know who you got, you know, you feel 100% that this guy's going to be a superstar, which we did. You have to take the guy.
27:08This is why they drafted him in the first round for this playmaking ability.
27:12Mike was unique. He wants to be the best. He wants to be the best teammate. He's authentic as a player, authentic as a person.
27:20He's become a very important part of our life, my life, my family's life. Mike is as close to family as it gets for me.
27:27Breaking news right now at 5, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers just announcing team owner Malcolm Glazer has died.
27:39Malcolm Glazer's passing, it was a sad day because of what he had meant to Tampa Bay and certainly what he had meant to the Bucs.
27:47They're the Buccaneers. If you haven't heard about them, you heard about them today.
27:53So my father Malcolm was born in 1928 and he was poor his whole young life.
28:01Malcolm was born working. He was an amazing businessman. He had a paper route when he was 10 years old.
28:07And when his father died, he was 15, he would be up there running the business. He was supporting the family.
28:14He was selling watches when he was growing up, one at a time.
28:17But he gave me these stories about how he worked himself into the owner of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
28:26I would say his secrets to success were unbelievable determination.
28:33Nothing could stand his way. He believed you could do anything.
28:38I first give Malcolm a lot of credit. They came into this venture doing it as a family.
28:45And I think because they shared it as a family, it gave the kids a great deal of experience.
28:52Putting their value system to work to make the Buccaneers what they hoped it would be.
28:58He would push us as his children always to give it a shot. Everybody will tell you what you can't do.
29:03Let's see what we can do. And we'd give it a try.
29:05We started the Glazer Family Foundation in 1999 because we really wanted to give back to this community.
29:12One, two, three. Go!
29:16We later started a Glazer Vision Foundation.
29:19My father felt that when he got a pair of glasses when he was little, it really changed the trajectory of his life.
29:25And so we really wanted to honor that and give away glasses to all the underserved kids that would need them.
29:34Malcolm, I could never, ever, ever repay him of everything that he did.
29:40He explained to me how to run this business, how to treat people.
29:47And I knew I am working for a person that for the rest of my life, I don't have to doubt that they're gonna take care of me because I know they would.
29:57Malcolm Glazer was quiet, but what a warm, really caring person he was.
30:03I mean, he talked to me about thinking big. Think outside the box.
30:08And he gave me some really good pieces of advice, and I wanted to win for him.
30:15How about that, Mr. Glazer?
30:17We did it, man. Best of the world, man.
30:21I love you, man.
30:24If it wasn't for Malcolm Glazer, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers would not be what it is today.
30:29It would not have been successful like it was. It would not have the culture it does.
30:33And it stands to this day.
30:37We honor the memory of our late owner, Mr. Malcolm Glazer.
30:42As we unveil the newest member of the Buccaneers' Ring of Honor.
30:51If he were here right now, he would simply say thank you, put his thumbs in the air, and go, go Bucs!
30:58Go Bucs! Go Bucs! Go Bucs!
31:02Go Bucs!
31:13And the offense fails again for Tampa Bay.
31:16It's hard to watch this week in and week out.
31:19The first year with Lovie Smith, it just doesn't go well. We're 2-14.
31:23It really is hard to lose 14 games.
31:26Last game of the season, we're playing the Saints.
31:29If we lose, we secure the first-round pick.
31:32The biggest decision on the overhaul of this offense has got to be the quarterback.
31:38In the 2015 NFL Draft, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers select Jameis Winston, quarterback.
31:46What's it like for you now going to a city that's expecting you to really turn their fortunes around?
31:57My dream was always to be an NFL quarterback.
32:00Like, man, I'm trying to show this city, this organization, let's win a Super Bowl.
32:06It is finally here, opening day in the National Football League, and it's time to siege the day.
32:18And there is something special in the air.
32:21Opening day, we're at home.
32:23Jameis is comfortable.
32:26We're like, J, we got your back.
32:28We're going to show everybody we made the right pick.
32:31First pass.
32:32First pass!
32:34Intercepted!
32:36Touchdown, Titans!
32:38It was like, oh, my God!
32:40What have we done?
32:42You know, the first game was a game that, like, it didn't go as I planned.
32:47Jameis Winston has taken a beating today.
32:50And NFL game number one means loss number one.
32:54But as the season got going, like, we kept building.
32:56We kept building.
32:57We kept fighting.
32:58Great throw to Vincent Jackson from Jameis Winston.
33:03Any of y'all doubters on Jameis Winston?
33:06He is a gunslinger.
33:09Throws a pass toward the end zone.
33:10Caught ball!
33:11Touchdown, Buccaneers!
33:13He has no fear.
33:16He is a very excitable player.
33:19We gotta protect our pride!
33:21We gotta protect our babies!
33:22We are in our house, and it's a beautiful day in Tampa Bay!
33:26And he had a knack for creating plays.
33:29He's still alive.
33:30Throws the ball downfield.
33:31He's got Mike Evans!
33:32It's a catch!
33:33What a play by Jameis Winston!
33:37His games were exciting.
33:38They were never dull.
33:39A lot of highs.
33:40A lot of lows.
33:41A lot of turnovers.
33:42The second interception thrown in today's ballgame by rookie Jameis Winston.
33:47And this is just a bad decision by Jameis Winston.
33:50You know, we end up going 6-10.
33:53Even though we only won six games, Jameis had done very well on offense.
33:58He was playing good football.
34:00And at that point, you have to make a tough decision because you have a first-year quarterback, and you want to make sure that he's given the best shot he had to succeed in the NFL.
34:10Dirk Cutter was his offensive coordinator.
34:13So we make the decision to promote Dirk to the head coach, and we move on from Lovie Smith.
34:20The Buccaneers just announcing that the head coach, Lovie Smith, has been fired.
34:246-10 was the record 2-14 the previous season.
34:29It was really tough for me to tell Lovie that we were going in a different direction, especially since, you know, he was the one that recommended me for this job.
34:42It is a new era for the Buccaneers.
34:45A lot of fans are absolutely hopeful that this will be a good thing for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
34:50This franchise is headed in the right direction, ready for the responsibility, ready for the challenge.
34:56It's going to be a heck of a journey.
34:59Winston with time, throwing deep for the end zone!
35:02Safarian Jenkins holds on for a touchdown!
35:06Definitely looked like the Bucs were going to be okay because they were having fun, and they were winning.
35:13You see how we play as a family?
35:15You see what we can do as a family?
35:17One team, one Harvey, it's all about us!
35:19His energy, his aura, the excitement that he brings to everybody at all times.
35:25He just gave you confidence that everything's going to be okay.
35:30We'll win our third consecutive game in a row, and we'll improve to 6-5.
35:36The natural-born leader, he took command of the team from the jump.
35:41Do your job! We're together! We're not going out there alone! It's not a single man's fight!
35:46Winston gets a block, throws it to the edge of the break! Touchdown!
35:50They can't say we're not a good team anymore! That's five in a row!
35:55Jameis Winston had gotten them to a 9-7 record.
35:58They just missed the playoffs.
36:00There's almost this feeling of, like, they've arrived.
36:03And Jameis is now going to deliver us to the promised land.
36:07Three, one, two, three!
36:09Minnesota is where 27 teams just starts to trickle down.
36:18I'm rolling to the right, and I throw a pass, and Anthony Barr tackles me, and I fall right on my right shoulder.
36:27That was the beginning of a right grade 3 AC sprain that I dealt with for the remainder of the season.
36:35The thing is, with an AC sprain, the only thing that can help it is, is rest.
36:40And when you play a football game, any time you fall on that shoulder, you re-injure it.
36:44And if you're not resting, there's no way that you can heal an AC sprain.
36:50The next week, I'm at practice.
36:52Mike Evans did a double move route on the outside, and I just checked the ball down.
36:56Dirk gets mad at me, saying,
36:58We got Mike Evans running full speed round, and you want to check the ball down?
37:01Because I was like, man, coach, like, I can't really throw.
37:04I want to be able to play on game day.
37:06And he was like, hey, like, if you gon' freakin' throw on game day, you can throw and practice.
37:11I was like, you the head coach of the team, and you gon' call me out?
37:14It was just like an alpha male conquest between Dirk and I.
37:18This is a must-win game for Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
37:24They've lost four in a row.
37:26In my rookie year, Saints-Bucks rivalry, like, it's always rocking whenever we go into New Orleans.
37:32We on a four-game loser streak, like, this is gonna be the game, and we about to get a win.
37:36So I'm just putting all our thought energy to, let's eat a W.
37:40Like, let's dominate this game.
37:45Let's go!
37:46That's a W! Let's eat one!
37:49That's kind of odd.
37:54You know, nobody's never seen nothing like that before.
37:56And you're trying your hardest to get into it, but you just couldn't, because it was just, it was just odd.
38:01Let's eat one! That's a W!
38:03How many people want to eat a W tonight?
38:05I start eating the W, and I'm walking around, I'm getting guys hype.
38:09You look in the background, you see Deshaun Jackson, he got, like, his look on his face, like, man, what the heck is he doing?
38:15There were a lot of collective eye rolls during that.
38:19I'm gonna eat a W tonight, boy!
38:22There's absolutely no way that I'm about to dap this guy up after he just was, like, eating his fingers.
38:27I'm like, nah, dawg, I got you with an elbow.
38:30We was walking in the locker room and said, man, I ain't never seen this a day in my life.
38:35But I'm gonna say it now, we ain't winning today.
38:38That is not what we needed to go out here and win this game.
38:45So, on top of that, second half, I get benched.
38:49The first game that I ever got benched, uh, my whole life.
38:54The Buccaneers lose their fifth in a row, and what will the future hold for Jameis Winston?
39:00Quarterback Jameis Winston will be suspended by the NFL for the first three games of the season.
39:14How are the Bucs reacting to today's news and what it potentially means for their season?
39:19You probably realistically were not starting out 3-0 even with Winston.
39:22So, if you can win a game, maybe two, with a little bit of Fitz magic,
39:26you then can get that bump when Winston comes back in week four.
39:33We have Ryan Fitzpatrick, great energy guy, great character guy, and highly intelligent.
39:40And he could play the game.
39:42That's gonna be a Buccaneers touchdown!
39:46Fitz is dealing. Like, he's throwing a back shoulder touchdown to me.
39:50Touchdown, Chris Godwin!
39:53He's throwing deep balls to Mike.
39:55Mike Evans, Buccaneer touchdown!
39:57Deep balls to D-Jack.
39:59And we go in and we send him in New Orleans.
40:02I'm happy to announce Fitz magic is alive and well.
40:07Oh, oh, oh, it's magic!
40:10We're a defensive team historically. We don't have a lot of offense.
40:13And it was so exciting to see just us airing the ball out and just in a way we never had before.
40:20Going deep to DeSean Jackson on the first play from scrimmage and takes it all the way!
40:2675 yards for a Buccaneers touchdown!
40:30The Bucs gotta feel really good about this W.
40:38The chains, the tight jackets, the sunglasses.
40:41No, it's just game day. Game day wear.
40:43He truly became Fitz magic at that legendary press conference.
40:47I'd look up at the stands, I would see the sunglasses, the chains, the open collar, the chest hair, and the beard.
40:55It took off like wildfire.
40:57Social media's been lit up today because of Fitzpatrick and the outfit and everything else.
41:00...wearing silly clothes.
41:02A, hilarious.
41:03B, separated at birth from Conor McGregor.
41:05It's nothing. I mean, I think we just have to stay humble. You know what I mean?
41:10People are already saying, this is Fitzpatrick's team. He is rolling and you can't make a switch. What's your take?
41:16Honestly, man, he's playing on fire right now.
41:19If Ryan Fitzpatrick looks like that, Jameis Winston is your future, but you keep Ryan Fitzpatrick in there for the rest of this season.
41:26Oh, boy. We've got ourselves a quarterback controversy right about now.
41:32But here's the problem. Fitz magic has two different sides.
41:36He has the Fitz magic side and he has this doo-doo side that you see once every four games.
41:41Picked off ball as they try to hurry the play.
41:44I loved the way he competed. I liked him as a person. I liked his swag.
41:48But when you have an old quarterback in here, the organization's not really going anywhere.
41:53And then when Jameis came back, then it kind of created this yo-yo effect a little bit that the Buccaneers really didn't overcome towards the end of that season.
42:04It was just up and down, up and down, up and down. So we decided it's time to make a change again.
42:10No one seemed surprised that the Bucs head coach Derek Cutter is out of a job today.
42:14There needed to be change. It had to come from somebody. So, I mean, you start at the head and you work your way down, I guess.
42:19I met with the owners and they asked me to put a list together.
42:24And on that list, I had Bruce Arians with a question mark. And they said, do we know if B.A. would be interested?
42:33And I said, I really don't.
42:34And I didn't know much about Bruce. So I went online and I realized that there was a show that followed Bruce called All or Nothing.
42:41I got about ten seconds into the first episode and I started getting goosebumps. And he says,
42:49As far as goals go, we have one. Putting a fucking ring on our finger. Everybody cool?
42:57I paused it. And I said, this is our guy.
43:01At the time of the coaching search, Bruce Arians had been retired.
43:05And Jason had a relationship with Bruce from his days in Arizona.
43:11He was here earlier that year working for CBS.
43:14And he had told me how much he loved his job and how, you know, there was no stress.
43:18And so I didn't know if he would be interested.
43:21I literally walked out of that meeting with the owners and I get a text from B.A. and said,
43:26Hey, bro, keep me in mind.
43:28So I guess he was interested.
43:31The conversation started with my son Jake, who's my agent.
43:35And, you know, he said, Dad, what about Tampa Bay?
43:38We had Jameis in the 10th grade in our football camp in Birmingham.
43:42Loved him. Knew how talented he was, how hard a worker he was.
43:45Next thing I know, Todd Bowles is available. Byron Lefwich is available.
43:50Keith Armstrong's available. 18 of my coaches were available.
43:54I took that as a sign.
43:57So when you do these coaching interviews, they have their books.
44:00They have their binders.
44:02I went and picked B.A. up at the hotel we had him at.
44:06And I said, do you have any books or anything?
44:08He goes, everything's right here, baby.
44:10He could be himself. He could be this larger-than-life character.
44:13You know, there was swear words coming out.
44:15Motherfuckers ain't played good enough to get a goddamn gentleman!
44:19One of the questions that the owners asked, what is your main tent pole in your coaching style?
44:26And he, without wasting any time, says, fucking accountability.
44:31Guys don't have to like each other, but they have to be accountable to each other.
44:35The decisions they make on and off the field affect all of us.
44:39And if those decisions are being made to win the championship, then we got a problem.
44:45The Buccaneers will have a different face of the franchise in 2019.
44:49The Tampa Bay Buccaneers finalizing a deal with Bruce Ariage to become the next head coach of the Bucs.
44:56What's up, brother?
44:59There you go.
45:01I'm ready.
45:02Hopefully, they can flip the script in 2019.
45:05I think we have the core here to win quickly.
45:09I'm not about building. I'm about reloading.
45:17Drop, step, and run. Drop, step, and run.
45:19Good ball, good ball, good ball.
45:21When we did our homework on the roster, Jason had already built.
45:25We built the core to have a Mike Evans.
45:29Mike Evans snags another one.
45:31Have a Chris Godwin, Ali Marpet, Levante David.
45:35And what Vita brings is just fantastic.
45:38One of my favorite of all time is Jason Pierre-Paul.
45:42Adding Shaq Barrett from the Denver Broncos, one of the classiest guys I've ever coached.
45:47And the other guy that we added that year was Ndamukong Su.
45:51Really core, hard-nosed players.
45:54And that permeates throughout your locker room about toughness.
45:58You have a popular motto, no risk it, no biscuit.
46:01I don't, I just, it's just the way I've lived my life.
46:05Touchdown, Tampa Bay!
46:07We are gonna pressure people on defense.
46:09We're gonna take high risk, high reward chances.
46:15We started off hot.
46:16We showed, we showed the world that, that we can win some, some key football games.
46:21I threw a lot of touchdowns to Mike Evans.
46:23I remember they sent the cover zero blitz.
46:25I faked the trap and I let it go early because I'm about to get clobbered.
46:29And Mike Evans just finds a way to run up on that ball and scores like a 60-yard touchdown.
46:36The no risk it, no biscuit is something we never experienced before.
46:40There were times you'd say, gee, I don't know if I agree with this.
46:42And then you'd see such success.
46:44It's like, okay, you know what he's doing.
46:46Unfortunately, though, in his first year with Jameis, he also got a lot of turnovers.
46:52Jameis had the ability to put it in a pigeon hole.
46:55Sometimes that's a great thing for a quarterback.
46:57Sometimes it's not because you think you can get in that pigeon hole every single time.
47:04He probably should have took sacks more.
47:06Just take the sack, live to play another down.
47:09And he didn't have that in his, like, mindset.
47:12He just was wired different, like, I have to make this play.
47:16They're 7-7 going into the last two games.
47:19They had an outside chance for the playoffs.
47:23They lose to Houston at home.
47:29Last game of the year.
47:30First snap of overtime.
47:32It's picked off, intercepted, game is over.
47:37Bucs finish 7-9.
47:40After the game, Bruce Arians walking off the field
47:43was his longtime assistant, Tom Moore.
47:45And he looks at Tom Moore and he says,
47:47Well, that's it.
47:49What it meant was, that's it for Jameis Winston.
47:52He was no longer going to be the quarterback in Tampa Bay.
47:55Became the first quarterback in NFL history for his last pass and first pass for organization to be both pick sixes.
48:04Could we save Jameis?
48:08I don't think there's any doubt.
48:10We would have made him much better.
48:11And he'd have gotten better the second year.
48:14But as an organization, you owe it to the owners, you owe it to the rest of your teammates to see what's behind door number two.
48:22Joe McCoy interview, ABC Mark.
48:34Chris Sims, take one.
48:35Levante David, take three.
48:37Marker.
48:39Last question.
48:40We asked greatest buck of all time.
48:43Mm-hmm.
48:44Who is it?
48:45You can only pick one.
48:46Gosh.
48:47You're an asshole for asking this question.
48:49The greatest buck of all time has to be Derrick Brooks.
48:57It's down to two in Warren Sapp and Derrick Brooks, right?
49:02It's one of those two right there.
49:04Probably go Derrick Brooks.
49:06Uh, Derrick Brooks played his entire career as a Buccaneer.
49:10He went through the transition from wearing the creamsicles into the new generation of the uniforms and the turnaround that created what the Bucs ended up becoming.
49:23I'm gonna hear it from one of the other, no matter who I pick here.
49:29I guess, I guess I'll go with Derrick Brooks.
49:32It's very, very rare when D's the player of the year, get all the interceptions that he did, get all the tackles that he did, to make all the All-Pros, make all the Pro Bowls on a consistent basis.
49:43He was a little bit of like the quarterback of the defense.
49:47I felt like he embodied everything that the Buccaneers wanted their players to be, what the Glazer family wanted their players to be.
49:56Never got in trouble. Family, man. Everything about him is what the Bucs represented.
50:02If I have to pick one, I gotta go with Derrick Brooks.
50:07Save it.
50:08For myself and for my health life.
50:11Save it.
50:12I've been on my own doing for myself like.
50:14Save it.
50:15From the pain and all the glory.
50:18Save it.
50:19Don't want it to be the same old story.
50:21Save it.
50:22Highs and lows, I suppose.
50:25Save it.
50:26Save it.
50:27The higher you get, the lower it goes.
50:29Save it.
50:30Save me your time.
50:31Stay on your toes.
50:32Save it.
50:33I've been praying for mine and saving my soul.
50:36Save it.
50:37Lord knows I've been crazy.
50:39Lord knows I've been wasting time.
50:40Now I'm back on my grind to make peace.
50:42Take heat.
50:43Take the lead.
50:44No fairytales.
50:45No make-believe.
50:46This the time when you make do or take the reins to tame the beast.
50:50Save it.
50:51Save me your time.
50:52Stay on your toes.
50:53Save it.
50:54Prime for my, the my soul.
50:56Episode 50
51:19Copy it.
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