1 00:00:16,767 --> 00:00:21,480 We make the decision to make a change at Head Coach. 2 00:00:21,564 --> 00:00:24,775 This was a difficult decision. We felt awful. 3 00:00:24,859 --> 00:00:26,402 You know, it's been great. It's been fun. 4 00:00:26,485 --> 00:00:29,280 The people of Tampa have been outstanding. 5 00:00:29,363 --> 00:00:31,031 We've had great fan support. 6 00:00:31,115 --> 00:00:33,826 We loved Tony. Tony was great to us, 7 00:00:33,909 --> 00:00:36,620 but we had to make a change. 8 00:00:36,704 --> 00:00:38,122 We talked to a number of people. 9 00:00:38,205 --> 00:00:41,625 We had a long search that went round and round. 10 00:00:41,709 --> 00:00:44,211 The big tuna at the time or the big fish, as you will, 11 00:00:44,295 --> 00:00:47,214 that you wanted to catch was Bill Parcells. 12 00:00:47,298 --> 00:00:50,509 All the speculation focuses on the Tuna. 13 00:00:50,593 --> 00:00:53,012 Bill Parcells has been rumored to be heading down to Tampa Bay 14 00:00:53,095 --> 00:00:54,597 for the past two years. 15 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:56,098 At the time, you know, 16 00:00:56,182 --> 00:00:57,433 Bill Parcells was larger than life. 17 00:00:57,516 --> 00:00:59,602 One of the best coaches of all time. 18 00:00:59,685 --> 00:01:01,979 It'd be getting like Bill Belichick in his prime. 19 00:01:02,062 --> 00:01:03,481 His success was undeniable. 20 00:01:03,564 --> 00:01:05,691 We pursued Bill Parcells. 21 00:01:05,775 --> 00:01:07,777 We had an agreement with Bill Parcells. 22 00:01:07,860 --> 00:01:10,738 Contract in hand signed on the desk. 23 00:01:10,821 --> 00:01:13,657 It was ready to go, but Bill changed his mind. 24 00:01:16,494 --> 00:01:18,746 Every time we'd meet with him after 25 00:01:18,829 --> 00:01:20,581 he had decided he's not going to do it, 26 00:01:20,664 --> 00:01:22,875 he would kind of give the impression 27 00:01:22,958 --> 00:01:24,502 you could see it in his face. He'd struggle. 28 00:01:24,585 --> 00:01:26,629 He'd say, okay, maybe let me call my guys. 29 00:01:26,712 --> 00:01:27,922 We weren't going to give up. 30 00:01:28,005 --> 00:01:29,882 And so we continued, even though he had said no, 31 00:01:29,965 --> 00:01:31,634 we thought maybe he's going to change his mind. 32 00:01:33,511 --> 00:01:35,513 We called Bill up and said, "Bill, we want to talk to you." 33 00:01:35,596 --> 00:01:37,765 He was driving, I think, down to Florida at the time. 34 00:01:37,848 --> 00:01:41,185 And he said, I'll meet you at exit 54 35 00:01:41,268 --> 00:01:42,895 or whatever it was at Denny's. 36 00:01:42,978 --> 00:01:45,231 You know, and that's how Bill was. 37 00:01:45,314 --> 00:01:47,149 This is the first time we've met him in person. 38 00:01:47,233 --> 00:01:49,860 It's exciting to meet Bill Parcells, a legendary coach. 39 00:01:49,944 --> 00:01:52,905 We walk in to Denny's, going to sit down. 40 00:01:52,988 --> 00:01:55,199 There's like a lamp hanging over the table. 41 00:01:55,282 --> 00:01:57,910 Bill knocks his head against the lamp. 42 00:01:57,993 --> 00:02:00,454 Slightly embarrassed, sits down. 43 00:02:00,538 --> 00:02:02,581 We have lunch with him. 44 00:02:02,665 --> 00:02:04,500 Tried to see whether he'd change his mind. 45 00:02:04,583 --> 00:02:06,669 We pushed and pushed and pushed. 46 00:02:06,752 --> 00:02:08,045 You know that point where someone says, 47 00:02:08,128 --> 00:02:09,463 I'm just not doing it. 48 00:02:11,340 --> 00:02:12,842 It's a little disheartening 49 00:02:12,925 --> 00:02:14,718 because you kind of knew on the inside, 50 00:02:14,802 --> 00:02:16,929 kind of felt this was our opportunity. 51 00:02:17,012 --> 00:02:19,139 And we felt as though we were running out of time. 52 00:02:20,516 --> 00:02:22,268 It was a big disappointment. 53 00:02:22,351 --> 00:02:24,895 But Parcells spurned this franchise twice. 54 00:02:24,979 --> 00:02:27,231 The first time around with Parcells was the year 55 00:02:27,314 --> 00:02:30,568 that Culverhouse said, I felt jilted at the altar. 56 00:02:32,236 --> 00:02:34,613 We're alive at Buccaneer Place. 57 00:02:34,697 --> 00:02:36,073 Hugh Culverhouse, the owner of the Buccaneers, 58 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:38,242 is in the process of announcing the new head coach, 59 00:02:38,325 --> 00:02:40,035 Bill Parcells. 60 00:02:40,119 --> 00:02:42,329 I called him at 10 o'clock last night, 61 00:02:42,413 --> 00:02:46,166 at his residence at his request. 62 00:02:46,250 --> 00:02:50,588 And he advised me that he had had a change of heart. 63 00:02:52,339 --> 00:02:54,341 So I say we've now feel 64 00:02:54,425 --> 00:02:56,594 as though we've been jilted at the altar. 65 00:02:56,677 --> 00:02:58,095 I've been jilted at the altar. 66 00:02:58,178 --> 00:02:59,930 For what it's worth... 67 00:03:00,014 --> 00:03:02,516 There's no honeymoon. 68 00:03:02,600 --> 00:03:04,685 And this is the first time that Parcells 69 00:03:04,768 --> 00:03:06,979 leaves the Bucs at the altar. 70 00:03:07,062 --> 00:03:09,899 So now we have to move on and start our search over, 71 00:03:09,982 --> 00:03:12,943 which is what we did back in the 2002 season. 72 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:15,738 We had an interest in Steve Spurrier. 73 00:03:15,821 --> 00:03:19,450 We thought we had a good chance and we're excited by him. 74 00:03:19,533 --> 00:03:21,243 He ended up going to Washington. 75 00:03:21,327 --> 00:03:24,079 I became intrigued by Marvin Lewis. 76 00:03:24,163 --> 00:03:25,247 Let's keep humming. 77 00:03:25,331 --> 00:03:26,749 I thought Marvin brought a lot to the table. 78 00:03:26,832 --> 00:03:28,208 I thought Marvin was going to be a really good 79 00:03:28,292 --> 00:03:29,960 head football coach in the league. 80 00:03:30,044 --> 00:03:33,839 Marvin Lewis was the defensive coordinator of the Ravens. 81 00:03:33,923 --> 00:03:35,674 We didn't fire Tony Dungy 82 00:03:35,758 --> 00:03:38,052 to hire the same defensive minded coach. 83 00:03:38,135 --> 00:03:39,970 We were looking for someone that had more of 84 00:03:40,054 --> 00:03:41,764 an offensive mind or had a track record 85 00:03:41,847 --> 00:03:43,182 from an offensive side of the football. 86 00:03:43,265 --> 00:03:46,143 Marvin Lewis is getting what many thought he long deserved. 87 00:03:46,226 --> 00:03:49,063 The Ravens defensive coordinator is to receive a contract offer 88 00:03:49,146 --> 00:03:51,398 from the Tampa Bay Bucs to be their new head coach. 89 00:03:51,482 --> 00:03:54,443 All of a sudden they're starting to be reporting 90 00:03:54,526 --> 00:03:56,779 that Marvin was going to be our next head coach. 91 00:03:56,862 --> 00:03:59,239 The Bucs are ready to commit to Marvin Lewis. 92 00:03:59,323 --> 00:04:01,825 ESPN.com's John Clayton reports that 93 00:04:01,909 --> 00:04:04,787 the Ravens defensive coordinator will get an offer by tonight. 94 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:08,040 Unfortunately, I think Rich at the time felt that we were 95 00:04:08,123 --> 00:04:12,211 going to hire Marvin Lewis. 96 00:04:12,294 --> 00:04:14,338 Early today, the Glazers informed McKay 97 00:04:14,421 --> 00:04:17,257 they would not authorize the hiring of Lewis. 98 00:04:17,341 --> 00:04:19,843 Lewis's agent says he feels badly that Marvin 99 00:04:19,927 --> 00:04:21,679 was the victim of what appears to be 100 00:04:21,762 --> 00:04:24,181 a power struggle between the Glazers and McKay. 101 00:04:24,264 --> 00:04:28,602 That was what led to the first crack in the relationship with Rich McKay. 102 00:04:34,483 --> 00:04:36,986 It's always an unusual time in this league 103 00:04:37,069 --> 00:04:39,113 when change happens and it certainly was 104 00:04:39,196 --> 00:04:40,531 in that off season. 105 00:04:40,614 --> 00:04:45,327 A little friction now between us and Rich. 106 00:04:45,411 --> 00:04:47,037 We decided to take the search on ourselves 107 00:04:47,121 --> 00:04:51,083 and Rich was not as much part of the process going forward. 108 00:04:51,166 --> 00:04:53,502 So we just kind of picked up the ball ourselves 109 00:04:53,585 --> 00:04:56,046 and just started setting up interviews. 110 00:04:56,130 --> 00:04:58,132 Which led us to Mariucci. 111 00:04:58,215 --> 00:04:59,425 We had good a meeting with him. 112 00:04:59,508 --> 00:05:02,928 We were also very interested in Nick Saban. 113 00:05:03,012 --> 00:05:05,931 Butch Davis had just come off a monster contract. 114 00:05:06,015 --> 00:05:07,766 And when we talked to Nick's agent, 115 00:05:07,850 --> 00:05:09,560 he says he wanted Butch Davis money. 116 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:11,020 We just, you know, listen, this guy hasn't done anything 117 00:05:11,103 --> 00:05:13,105 in the NFL up until this point. 118 00:05:13,188 --> 00:05:15,774 That point is like, if we're going to pay Butch Davis money, 119 00:05:15,858 --> 00:05:17,359 we're going to get the guy and that's... 120 00:05:17,443 --> 00:05:18,444 - John Gruden. - John Gruden. 121 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:32,416 Good evening everyone. 122 00:05:32,499 --> 00:05:34,501 Tonight, the Patriots against the Oakland Raiders 123 00:05:34,585 --> 00:05:36,211 in the AFC semi-finals 124 00:05:36,295 --> 00:05:38,881 and the snow is coming down and it's a winter wonderland 125 00:05:38,964 --> 00:05:40,507 in this Foxborough Stadium. 126 00:05:42,801 --> 00:05:46,472 I'm sitting there watching that snowy night, 127 00:05:46,555 --> 00:05:50,267 knowing that our only chance for John Gruden is 128 00:05:50,350 --> 00:05:52,561 if they didn't win that playoff game. 129 00:05:52,644 --> 00:05:54,772 I'm head coach of the Raiders 130 00:05:54,855 --> 00:05:56,648 and we're playing New England in a blizzard 131 00:05:56,732 --> 00:05:58,233 and we're going to beat the Patriots. 132 00:05:58,317 --> 00:05:59,777 The game is coming to the end, 133 00:05:59,860 --> 00:06:03,030 it's a close game, and I will never forget 134 00:06:03,113 --> 00:06:05,491 the puddles of sweat in my hands 135 00:06:05,574 --> 00:06:07,576 knowing what was potentially on the line 136 00:06:07,659 --> 00:06:08,994 the result of that game. 137 00:06:09,078 --> 00:06:12,456 Patriot first down at the Raider 41 yard line 138 00:06:12,539 --> 00:06:14,208 with a minute and 50 to play. 139 00:06:14,291 --> 00:06:16,126 They need a field goal. 140 00:06:16,210 --> 00:06:17,586 What's it showing, blitz? 141 00:06:17,669 --> 00:06:19,546 Here he is bearing down on Brady, 142 00:06:19,630 --> 00:06:20,798 goes the fumble! 143 00:06:20,881 --> 00:06:24,218 Beaker dives on the ball. 144 00:06:24,301 --> 00:06:26,637 It's hard for me to talk about that game. 145 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:29,139 The Raiders have the ball, 146 00:06:29,223 --> 00:06:31,850 Charles Woodson came on a corner blitz. 147 00:06:31,934 --> 00:06:35,145 But that was the end. 148 00:06:35,229 --> 00:06:36,939 There was no doubt that it was a fumble 149 00:06:37,022 --> 00:06:39,191 and according to even Walt Cullman, 150 00:06:39,274 --> 00:06:42,236 the referee in the game, it was a fumble. 151 00:06:42,319 --> 00:06:44,488 The play is going to be reviewed though, Blake. 152 00:06:44,571 --> 00:06:47,116 He does bring it forward, but that's not to pass the ball. 153 00:06:47,199 --> 00:06:49,118 He pumped it. 154 00:06:49,201 --> 00:06:52,287 And then obviously the league called in 155 00:06:52,371 --> 00:06:55,374 and said that was an incomplete pass. 156 00:06:55,457 --> 00:06:57,000 After reviewing the play, 157 00:06:57,084 --> 00:06:59,920 the quarterback's arm was going forward. 158 00:07:00,003 --> 00:07:01,171 It is an incomplete. 159 00:07:01,255 --> 00:07:04,091 All right, Patriots retain the ball. 160 00:07:04,174 --> 00:07:07,177 You talk about shooting a Goodyear blimp out of the sky. 161 00:07:07,261 --> 00:07:09,054 It's been demoralizing to the Raiders. 162 00:07:09,138 --> 00:07:11,265 That's what they did to the emotions of the Raiders 163 00:07:11,348 --> 00:07:13,183 and the franchise and the fans. 164 00:07:13,267 --> 00:07:16,103 Snap, wall down, kick is up. 165 00:07:16,186 --> 00:07:19,648 Patriots win! Patriots win! 166 00:07:24,820 --> 00:07:28,407 I was really upset how the season ended 167 00:07:28,490 --> 00:07:31,243 and you lose on a tuck rule game 168 00:07:31,326 --> 00:07:36,373 and then your contract gets all wormy and screwed up. 169 00:07:36,456 --> 00:07:40,043 I mean, you're worried about which direction 170 00:07:40,127 --> 00:07:43,714 your career is going and then all of a sudden 171 00:07:43,797 --> 00:07:45,215 like a light, man, 172 00:07:45,299 --> 00:07:47,009 everything changed and it happens 173 00:07:47,092 --> 00:07:49,052 so fast it's hard to believe. 174 00:07:49,136 --> 00:07:51,555 So much swirling speculation. 175 00:07:51,638 --> 00:07:54,349 The media speculation is there might be some friction 176 00:07:54,433 --> 00:07:55,893 between him and Al Davis. 177 00:07:55,976 --> 00:07:58,854 And there was a standoff on his contract. 178 00:07:58,937 --> 00:08:02,107 John was a young, dynamic, 179 00:08:02,191 --> 00:08:05,861 super successful coach, offensive minded. 180 00:08:05,944 --> 00:08:08,488 Me and my brothers were masterful in this negotiation. 181 00:08:08,572 --> 00:08:10,490 Everyone assumed we were hiring Mariucci. 182 00:08:10,574 --> 00:08:12,367 Unbeknownst to anybody else, 183 00:08:12,451 --> 00:08:14,870 we were not interested in hiring Steve Mariucci. 184 00:08:14,953 --> 00:08:18,832 At this moment, the outside world thinks the Buccaneers 185 00:08:18,916 --> 00:08:21,001 are going to hire Steve Mariucci 186 00:08:21,084 --> 00:08:24,421 and we felt that if that's what the world thought, 187 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:26,298 that's what Al Davis thought. 188 00:08:26,381 --> 00:08:28,467 When everyone woke up the next day, 189 00:08:28,550 --> 00:08:29,468 then it was going to get out there 190 00:08:29,551 --> 00:08:31,136 that Mariucci wasn't coming, 191 00:08:31,220 --> 00:08:32,846 it would loosen our leverage with John Gruden. 192 00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:36,558 We have one night here where Al Davis thinks 193 00:08:36,642 --> 00:08:38,518 we're signing Steve Mariucci 194 00:08:38,602 --> 00:08:41,396 and then he would have the fear that 195 00:08:41,480 --> 00:08:43,565 John would not do a new contract 196 00:08:43,649 --> 00:08:46,610 and the next year he would leave to go to San Francisco. 197 00:08:46,693 --> 00:08:48,987 John Gruden goes across the bay to your arch rivals, 198 00:08:49,071 --> 00:08:50,697 the 49ers, because that's probably 199 00:08:50,781 --> 00:08:52,950 what will end up happening if we hire Steve Mariucci. 200 00:08:53,033 --> 00:08:56,245 So I called him up. 201 00:08:56,328 --> 00:08:59,248 It was relatively late at night and I said to him, 202 00:08:59,331 --> 00:09:04,086 listen, before we go forward with what we're about to do, 203 00:09:04,169 --> 00:09:06,838 I just figured I should give you one more phone call 204 00:09:06,922 --> 00:09:09,925 and see if there's something we can do. 205 00:09:10,008 --> 00:09:11,885 He told me, "Yes, I will do something." 206 00:09:14,846 --> 00:09:17,933 Now, Al asked the price 207 00:09:18,016 --> 00:09:20,894 that he thought we'd probably hang up the phone. 208 00:09:20,978 --> 00:09:22,729 Ton of draft picks. 209 00:09:22,813 --> 00:09:23,897 They wanted Warren Sapp. 210 00:09:23,981 --> 00:09:26,692 Not happening, wanted a lot of money. 211 00:09:26,775 --> 00:09:28,777 We negotiated back and forth and we said, 212 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:30,404 but we got sign this tonight. 213 00:09:30,487 --> 00:09:32,239 And it's now or never. 214 00:09:32,322 --> 00:09:34,950 Al was stuck in what he wanted for compensation, 215 00:09:35,033 --> 00:09:37,160 two ones, two twos, eight million dollars. 216 00:09:37,244 --> 00:09:39,121 Giving up two first round draft picks, 217 00:09:39,204 --> 00:09:41,623 two second round draft picks and eight million dollars, 218 00:09:41,707 --> 00:09:43,250 which was unheard of at that point. 219 00:09:43,333 --> 00:09:45,711 That had never been done before. 220 00:09:46,962 --> 00:09:48,463 I got traded. 221 00:09:48,547 --> 00:09:50,716 John, we didn't talk to John. 222 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:52,426 He hadn't talked to John. 223 00:09:52,509 --> 00:09:54,845 The only person I'd ever called after 11 o'clock 224 00:09:54,928 --> 00:09:58,056 at night was my friend, Mr. Davis, 225 00:09:58,140 --> 00:09:59,891 and he says, do you want to talk to the Glazers 226 00:09:59,975 --> 00:10:01,977 about the Tampa Bay job? 227 00:10:02,060 --> 00:10:04,479 I'm just thinking I better talk to the Buccaneers 228 00:10:04,563 --> 00:10:06,982 because I may not have any place to go. 229 00:10:07,065 --> 00:10:08,734 So I called John up, 230 00:10:08,817 --> 00:10:12,070 it's the middle of the night now on the East Coast. 231 00:10:12,154 --> 00:10:15,574 John, love you to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 232 00:10:15,657 --> 00:10:16,867 Interested in doing it? 233 00:10:16,950 --> 00:10:19,036 In John Gruden fashion, 234 00:10:19,119 --> 00:10:21,955 "Damn right, I want to coach the Tampa Bay Buccaneers." 235 00:10:22,039 --> 00:10:24,333 We said, but we got to sign this tonight. 236 00:10:24,416 --> 00:10:26,877 We sent him over a document that we wrote up ourselves. 237 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:30,922 And I have to sign this contract somehow. 238 00:10:31,006 --> 00:10:33,550 Our agent had got us a fax machine 239 00:10:33,633 --> 00:10:35,344 as a gift like the year before. 240 00:10:35,427 --> 00:10:37,346 We had never used it. 241 00:10:37,429 --> 00:10:39,097 I didn't even know where the paper goes, 242 00:10:39,181 --> 00:10:41,099 thank God for my wife at two o'clock in the morning. 243 00:10:41,183 --> 00:10:42,476 And my brothers were somewhere where they didn't have 244 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,354 a fax machine, so the contract had to go to me 245 00:10:45,437 --> 00:10:46,730 and then I had to get it to my brothers. 246 00:10:46,813 --> 00:10:48,440 I mean, this was out of a TV show, 247 00:10:48,523 --> 00:10:51,401 what was happening at three in the morning. 248 00:10:51,485 --> 00:10:53,070 We figured this fax machine out 249 00:10:53,153 --> 00:10:56,198 and we signed a contract in the middle of the night 250 00:10:56,281 --> 00:10:57,949 on a fax machine. 251 00:10:59,951 --> 00:11:02,913 We're very, very happy and we want to introduce John Gruden, 252 00:11:02,996 --> 00:11:04,998 our new head coach. 253 00:11:10,754 --> 00:11:15,550 It's like to say thank you very much. 254 00:11:15,634 --> 00:11:17,427 I woke up this morning, 255 00:11:17,511 --> 00:11:20,055 I had no idea how I got here, 256 00:11:20,138 --> 00:11:23,642 but I would like to thank Mr. Glazer 257 00:11:23,725 --> 00:11:26,061 and obviously Bryan and Joel Glazer 258 00:11:26,144 --> 00:11:30,440 for finding a way to get me here in Tampa Florida. 259 00:11:30,524 --> 00:11:33,610 I couldn't believe that I was a coach of the Raiders 260 00:11:33,693 --> 00:11:36,071 the night before, here I am in Tampa. 261 00:11:36,154 --> 00:11:38,990 And I just met Malcolm Glazer for 15 minutes. 262 00:11:39,074 --> 00:11:43,120 I really don't have an exact feel for his vision. 263 00:11:43,203 --> 00:11:46,123 It was just a lot happening, man, in a short period of time. 264 00:11:46,206 --> 00:11:49,334 Our coaches are a little bit in doubt 265 00:11:49,418 --> 00:11:50,961 as to what's going to happen to them. 266 00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:52,629 This happened so sudden, 267 00:11:52,712 --> 00:11:54,589 but nothing's going to happen to them. 268 00:11:54,673 --> 00:11:57,467 I wasn't allowed to bring one assistant coach with me. 269 00:11:57,551 --> 00:11:59,386 Who am I going to hire as a line coach? 270 00:11:59,469 --> 00:12:01,471 Who am I going to get as a running back? 271 00:12:01,555 --> 00:12:03,682 Who am I going to get to help me with the quarterbacks? 272 00:12:03,765 --> 00:12:07,227 So I was a little bit 273 00:12:07,310 --> 00:12:10,313 afraid to say the least, 274 00:12:10,397 --> 00:12:11,815 but I watched the tapes. 275 00:12:11,898 --> 00:12:13,066 Are you kidding me? 276 00:12:13,150 --> 00:12:14,192 I knew how good they were. 277 00:12:14,276 --> 00:12:16,361 I knew how good Sapp was. 278 00:12:16,445 --> 00:12:19,448 Barber, Lynch, Rice, Brooks, 279 00:12:19,531 --> 00:12:23,160 I knew we had the makings of something great. 280 00:12:23,243 --> 00:12:26,079 And all I can guarantee is a lot of hard work 281 00:12:26,163 --> 00:12:29,583 and effort in trying to put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 282 00:12:29,666 --> 00:12:32,752 into championship form. Thank you very much. 283 00:12:37,841 --> 00:12:41,970 Must have been the summer of 1983 season. 284 00:12:42,053 --> 00:12:44,723 My dad came here coaching running backs, 285 00:12:44,806 --> 00:12:46,725 and that was still the greatest year of my life. 286 00:12:46,808 --> 00:12:48,977 I was a backup quarterback at Dayton. 287 00:12:49,060 --> 00:12:50,562 I got to go to training camp. 288 00:12:50,645 --> 00:12:52,522 I got to get in some of the drills 289 00:12:52,606 --> 00:12:56,985 and throw passes to James Wilder, Jerry Eckwood. 290 00:12:57,068 --> 00:12:58,987 John Gruden, I've been knowing all my life 291 00:12:59,070 --> 00:13:02,157 ever since he was about 16, 17 years old 292 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,576 because his daddy was one of my assistant coaches. 293 00:13:04,659 --> 00:13:07,204 And I remember Doug Williams coming up to me one day saying, 294 00:13:07,287 --> 00:13:09,039 "You better put some pepper on that ball. 295 00:13:09,122 --> 00:13:10,373 You're going to get somebody killed." 296 00:13:10,457 --> 00:13:11,666 It was awesome. 297 00:13:11,750 --> 00:13:13,585 That was the greatest time of my life. 298 00:13:13,668 --> 00:13:14,961 That's what really, I think, 299 00:13:15,045 --> 00:13:18,590 fueled me to want to be a coach and really pour it on 300 00:13:18,673 --> 00:13:20,509 and try to be as good as I could be someday. 301 00:13:22,469 --> 00:13:26,223 The Bucs give up two number one and two number two draft choices 302 00:13:26,306 --> 00:13:30,101 plus $8 million in order to sign Gruden, a Tampa native. 303 00:13:30,185 --> 00:13:32,020 I remember when Gruden first got the job. 304 00:13:32,103 --> 00:13:34,231 He called me into his office and he said, 305 00:13:34,314 --> 00:13:35,732 "We're going to win a Super Bowl this year. 306 00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:38,568 But first of all, we're going to declare war on our defense." 307 00:13:38,652 --> 00:13:40,987 How's Monte Kiffen and Ronde Barber and Warren Sapp 308 00:13:41,071 --> 00:13:42,656 and John Lynch and Simeon Rice, 309 00:13:42,739 --> 00:13:44,574 how are they going to stop blast off to Joker Wright, 310 00:13:44,658 --> 00:13:46,785 X-Short, 22X, drive, half-back burst? 311 00:13:54,042 --> 00:13:55,794 So we finally put the pads on 312 00:13:55,877 --> 00:13:58,922 and we go to a period where we run the ball every single play. 313 00:13:59,005 --> 00:14:00,257 Just a run drill. 314 00:14:00,340 --> 00:14:01,341 We're going to hand the ball off. 315 00:14:01,424 --> 00:14:02,926 No matter what. 316 00:14:03,009 --> 00:14:05,804 It's a physical run period only 317 00:14:05,887 --> 00:14:07,222 and on the first play... 318 00:14:07,305 --> 00:14:09,683 Gruden said, "Brad, we're going to get them right here. 319 00:14:09,766 --> 00:14:11,810 We're declaring war and here we go." 320 00:14:13,478 --> 00:14:16,064 I was underneath center. I drew a reverse fake. 321 00:14:16,147 --> 00:14:17,732 I roll out to my left. 322 00:14:17,816 --> 00:14:20,610 I throw a little pass in a flat and he scores a touchdown. 323 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:24,489 Boy, it pissed those guys off on defense 324 00:14:24,573 --> 00:14:26,241 and I'm running down there, "Oh yeah!" 325 00:14:26,324 --> 00:14:27,742 Ooh, I like that. 326 00:14:27,826 --> 00:14:29,703 God damn. 327 00:14:29,786 --> 00:14:31,871 Oh, love that. 328 00:14:31,955 --> 00:14:33,206 John Lynch. 329 00:14:33,290 --> 00:14:34,749 What the hell is this? 330 00:14:34,833 --> 00:14:37,877 Who in the hell he think he is? 331 00:14:37,961 --> 00:14:39,629 So I turn the group and I say, yo man, 332 00:14:39,713 --> 00:14:40,880 if you scared, say you scared. 333 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:42,424 He say scared. 334 00:14:42,507 --> 00:14:44,217 They've been running boot up your ass 335 00:14:44,301 --> 00:14:46,136 for the last three years. 336 00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:48,096 Turned to two heads, Greg Spires and Simeon, 337 00:14:48,179 --> 00:14:50,056 and said, I said, you got boot and you got boot. 338 00:14:50,140 --> 00:14:51,766 The rest of us, let's go. 339 00:14:51,850 --> 00:14:53,685 Nah, I might just go crazy. 340 00:14:53,768 --> 00:14:54,978 Lose my mind. 341 00:14:55,061 --> 00:14:56,730 It was like a mutiny. 342 00:14:56,813 --> 00:14:57,856 Defense was fierce. 343 00:14:57,939 --> 00:14:59,482 I loved it. 344 00:14:59,566 --> 00:15:02,861 I think Sapp was pissed, but then I think he appreciated it. 345 00:15:02,944 --> 00:15:05,447 Hey, I'm not going to be a real patient guy now. 346 00:15:05,530 --> 00:15:06,698 Dance the red right. 347 00:15:06,781 --> 00:15:09,367 The X always goes away from the call, man. 348 00:15:09,451 --> 00:15:10,785 - He gave everybody... - Brash. 349 00:15:10,869 --> 00:15:12,537 - Shit talking. - A kick in the ass. 350 00:15:12,621 --> 00:15:15,707 I need a Z. God dang it, Daryl. 351 00:15:15,790 --> 00:15:18,251 He was wilding at that point. 352 00:15:18,335 --> 00:15:20,629 We got the Tasmanian Devil with us now. 353 00:15:22,297 --> 00:15:23,548 Crazy bastard. 354 00:15:23,632 --> 00:15:26,051 We knew the arrogance with which he operated. 355 00:15:26,134 --> 00:15:27,844 We didn't really want him in our room. 356 00:15:27,927 --> 00:15:29,971 You go coach the offense, you go fix those guys. 357 00:15:30,055 --> 00:15:32,057 Why shift the green right open? 358 00:15:32,140 --> 00:15:34,726 It was about everybody being accountable, 359 00:15:34,809 --> 00:15:36,019 especially offensively. 360 00:15:36,102 --> 00:15:37,937 You always run the what? 361 00:15:38,021 --> 00:15:40,148 The what? The over? 362 00:15:40,231 --> 00:15:42,484 I knew that our offense had a long, long way to go 363 00:15:42,567 --> 00:15:44,069 on the tapes that I had seen. 364 00:15:44,152 --> 00:15:45,904 There were a lot of things that had to go on 365 00:15:45,987 --> 00:15:47,906 in order for us to have success. 366 00:15:47,989 --> 00:15:50,158 So John was always trying to stoke that fire. 367 00:15:50,241 --> 00:15:51,910 We're working all three levels. 368 00:15:51,993 --> 00:15:54,454 Fullback, you're in the flat. You got me, Mike? 369 00:15:54,537 --> 00:15:56,456 You guys remember that, fullbacks? All right. 370 00:15:56,539 --> 00:15:57,874 My agent he calls me up and says, 371 00:15:57,957 --> 00:16:00,919 "Hey, do your thing this weekend." 372 00:16:01,002 --> 00:16:04,673 I'm like, "Why are you telling me this?" 373 00:16:04,756 --> 00:16:06,841 "Coach Gruden doesn't know how to use you." 374 00:16:06,925 --> 00:16:10,011 So basically this is a tryout. 375 00:16:10,095 --> 00:16:11,971 Six years in the league already. 376 00:16:12,055 --> 00:16:14,391 Holy Toledo. There you go, A-Train. 377 00:16:14,474 --> 00:16:15,600 Full stop. Airborn! 378 00:16:15,684 --> 00:16:17,519 That is a Pro-Bowl stop. 379 00:16:17,602 --> 00:16:18,645 He's going to the Pro-Bowl. 380 00:16:18,728 --> 00:16:20,146 That is no fullback. 381 00:16:20,230 --> 00:16:22,273 He's more than a powerback. 382 00:16:22,357 --> 00:16:24,484 I think he was a six-time Pro-Bowl 383 00:16:24,567 --> 00:16:26,444 but I think he was selected as a fullback. 384 00:16:26,528 --> 00:16:30,281 People need to wrap their mind around that a little bit. 385 00:16:34,369 --> 00:16:35,704 I don't know. 386 00:16:35,787 --> 00:16:38,206 I think Mike wanted to be the featureback deep down. 387 00:16:38,289 --> 00:16:41,418 He probably wanted to be the guy. 388 00:16:41,501 --> 00:16:43,712 Mike Alstott is a man. He's a champion. 389 00:16:43,795 --> 00:16:45,922 And once he starts feeling like the A-Train, 390 00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:48,133 that's what gets this team fired up. 391 00:16:48,216 --> 00:16:51,052 The most popular Buccaneer maybe of all time. 392 00:16:51,136 --> 00:16:53,847 I don't think he was really a John Gruden fan, 393 00:16:53,930 --> 00:16:55,223 but I can't really speak for him. 394 00:16:55,306 --> 00:16:57,058 Like that, you would have to ask him, 395 00:16:57,142 --> 00:17:01,271 but don't believe he was that... jumping in for that. 396 00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:02,897 There was no connection. 397 00:17:02,981 --> 00:17:04,357 Oh. Oh, really? 398 00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:06,025 There was really no connection. 399 00:17:07,026 --> 00:17:09,487 From my playing days with him, I could assume. 400 00:17:11,322 --> 00:17:13,116 One of the best offensive threats 401 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,994 that I've ever played with and against. 402 00:17:16,077 --> 00:17:18,288 The A-Train was unstoppable then. 403 00:17:18,371 --> 00:17:20,039 If you don't know who he is, kids, 404 00:17:20,123 --> 00:17:21,750 now go watch his highlights. 405 00:17:22,751 --> 00:17:25,336 I think Mike felt pigeonholed a little bit at times, 406 00:17:25,420 --> 00:17:29,966 not being the go-to guy. 407 00:17:30,049 --> 00:17:32,844 He's not the first player that felt that way, I promise you. 408 00:17:32,927 --> 00:17:37,348 You just have a little bit of a built-up aggression because, 409 00:17:37,432 --> 00:17:39,684 you know, just got to prove somebody else wrong. 410 00:17:40,685 --> 00:17:41,895 I got a lot of friends out there. 411 00:17:41,978 --> 00:17:43,646 Okay. I don't need any friends here. 412 00:17:43,730 --> 00:17:46,357 I remember telling the defense, you guys are really good. 413 00:17:46,441 --> 00:17:48,151 You guys have done a hell of a job here, 414 00:17:48,234 --> 00:17:51,154 but if you're so good, why don't you start scoring points? 415 00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:52,572 "Great defenses score. 416 00:17:52,655 --> 00:17:54,491 I want nine touchdowns out of you guys." 417 00:17:54,574 --> 00:17:56,743 And then he looks at me. 418 00:17:56,826 --> 00:17:59,078 "You've never won Defensive Player of the Year," 419 00:17:59,162 --> 00:18:01,331 so I go in his office and I say, 420 00:18:01,414 --> 00:18:03,208 "Coach, I'm not a selfish player." 421 00:18:03,291 --> 00:18:05,043 You got to love your teammate. 422 00:18:05,126 --> 00:18:07,796 I'm going to play the game to get my teammates better 423 00:18:07,879 --> 00:18:10,924 and whatever success I have, I have, but it's about the team. 424 00:18:11,007 --> 00:18:15,512 And he said, "Man, shut up with all that blah, blah, blah." 425 00:18:15,595 --> 00:18:17,388 I said, "What?" 426 00:18:17,472 --> 00:18:20,099 And he said, "If you're elevating your play 427 00:18:20,183 --> 00:18:22,727 "to be the best defensive player in this league, 428 00:18:22,811 --> 00:18:25,355 "by who you are naturally, you're going to elevate 429 00:18:25,438 --> 00:18:27,899 everybody else's play to come along with you." 430 00:18:27,982 --> 00:18:30,944 Patience! 431 00:18:31,027 --> 00:18:33,822 I think the great players, the gold jacket type players 432 00:18:33,905 --> 00:18:38,701 that I've been around, they respond to constructive criticism. 433 00:18:38,785 --> 00:18:41,079 This wasn't something that I pulled out of my ass. 434 00:18:41,162 --> 00:18:43,373 I wasn't just trying to speak off the hook. 435 00:18:43,456 --> 00:18:44,958 I watched the tapes. 436 00:18:45,041 --> 00:18:47,877 He's Tony Dungy, reincarnated as a sailor 437 00:18:47,961 --> 00:18:50,630 that wants to go 150 miles an hour on offense. 438 00:18:50,713 --> 00:18:52,841 If Tony's here, Gruden's here. 439 00:18:52,924 --> 00:18:55,218 And Coach Gruden was able to push buttons of mine 440 00:18:55,301 --> 00:18:58,471 that Coach Dungy probably would have never been able to do. 441 00:18:58,555 --> 00:19:00,557 You know, John took something that Tony built, 442 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:02,517 but he challenged us to take it up a notch. 443 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:05,812 And I got up and I said, "I appreciate your coach." 444 00:19:05,895 --> 00:19:08,982 He said, "Now go score nine touchdowns as a defense." 445 00:19:09,065 --> 00:19:10,859 Which is crazy. 446 00:19:10,942 --> 00:19:12,610 Nobody gets nine touchdowns on defense. 447 00:19:12,694 --> 00:19:14,195 We got to score, he challenged us, 448 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:15,613 he challenged us, we got to score. 449 00:19:15,697 --> 00:19:18,199 It didn't happen week one. We lost week one at the house. 450 00:19:18,283 --> 00:19:21,077 Hey, we don't know what the fuck we're doing. 451 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:23,246 There's a touchdown on the interception. 452 00:19:23,329 --> 00:19:25,290 I remember walking off with Gruden looking at him, 453 00:19:25,373 --> 00:19:27,292 I'm like, ah. 454 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:29,377 But the next week we went to Baltimore. 455 00:19:34,465 --> 00:19:37,427 That was kind of our way to jump start our season as a defense. 456 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:39,012 We had never had a challenge that we didn't meet. 457 00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:42,015 All day, Brooks, he could go, he might go. 458 00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:43,600 He will go all the way! 459 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:45,977 So now we're cooking with fish grease. 460 00:19:46,060 --> 00:19:48,438 Our defense got some turnovers 461 00:19:48,521 --> 00:19:51,733 and shut down the Rams on Monday Night Football. 462 00:19:51,816 --> 00:19:55,445 Warner throws, intercepted Brooks! 463 00:19:55,528 --> 00:19:57,614 Two weeks in a row. 464 00:19:57,697 --> 00:19:59,407 The defense was rolling. 465 00:19:59,490 --> 00:20:01,492 It was clicking on a different level 466 00:20:01,576 --> 00:20:04,746 than it ever had because of John Gruden. 467 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:06,664 I remember that ball up in the air 468 00:20:06,748 --> 00:20:08,249 and I grabbed it and you got to understand. 469 00:20:08,333 --> 00:20:12,670 Brooks, his voice is almost like my wife's. 470 00:20:12,754 --> 00:20:16,299 He a doon-doon, I just flick the ball. 471 00:20:16,382 --> 00:20:18,301 I mean, I know he's going to catch it. 472 00:20:18,384 --> 00:20:20,637 Intercepted! 473 00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,305 And when I'm getting stuck to the ground, 474 00:20:22,388 --> 00:20:23,973 I see he got it, like, oh, this is going to be fun. 475 00:20:24,057 --> 00:20:25,934 Touchdown Derrick Brooks! 476 00:20:26,017 --> 00:20:28,645 Four games in a row, the Bucs have scored a defensive touchdown. 477 00:20:28,728 --> 00:20:30,271 He just ringboarded us. 478 00:20:30,355 --> 00:20:32,148 It just gave us a whole new life and a whole new challenge 479 00:20:32,231 --> 00:20:35,360 that John put to us that we had never had before. 480 00:20:41,115 --> 00:20:42,909 And this crowd is primed, 481 00:20:42,992 --> 00:20:46,579 a late afternoon comfortable day in Philadelphia. 482 00:20:46,663 --> 00:20:50,291 One of the most pivotal moments in John Gruden's first year 483 00:20:50,375 --> 00:20:53,044 was going back up to the House of Horrors, 484 00:20:53,127 --> 00:20:55,755 Veteran stadium against the Philadelphia Eagles. 485 00:20:55,838 --> 00:20:59,008 The Philadelphia Eagles had been the hurdle we couldn't get over. 486 00:20:59,092 --> 00:21:01,052 That's the measuring stick game, you know, 487 00:21:01,135 --> 00:21:03,137 how good is this Gruden guy? 488 00:21:03,221 --> 00:21:04,931 What difference is this guy going to make? 489 00:21:05,014 --> 00:21:06,265 Under pressure, McNabb under. 490 00:21:06,349 --> 00:21:07,809 Oh, ball knocked out! Loose ball! 491 00:21:07,892 --> 00:21:10,228 Picked up by Brooks! 492 00:21:10,311 --> 00:21:12,897 Touchdown, Tampa Bay! 493 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:16,818 The Bucs are better on both sides of the football 494 00:21:16,901 --> 00:21:18,987 than the team that the Eagles have knocked out 495 00:21:19,070 --> 00:21:21,114 of the playoffs the last couple years. 496 00:21:31,416 --> 00:21:34,043 You run into teams that just seemingly have your number 497 00:21:34,127 --> 00:21:35,628 and it doesn't matter what you're doing 498 00:21:35,712 --> 00:21:37,046 against everyone else. 499 00:21:39,966 --> 00:21:41,467 I got sacked five times. 500 00:21:43,428 --> 00:21:44,470 Had my ribs cracked. 501 00:21:45,972 --> 00:21:47,056 It was living hell. 502 00:21:48,850 --> 00:21:52,186 That was an eye-opening, bone-crushing loss. 503 00:21:52,270 --> 00:21:53,688 It was humiliating. 504 00:21:53,771 --> 00:21:56,357 The Bucs had every reason to think they were going 505 00:21:56,441 --> 00:21:58,776 to end this hex, but it doesn't happen. 506 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:02,363 He's in, touchdown! 507 00:22:02,447 --> 00:22:04,824 I was so confident that we'll see them again 508 00:22:04,907 --> 00:22:06,617 that I'm going on the field 509 00:22:06,701 --> 00:22:08,411 and I'm telling them we'll be back. 510 00:22:08,494 --> 00:22:10,288 We'll be back. 511 00:22:10,371 --> 00:22:11,914 Trust me, we'll be back. 512 00:22:11,998 --> 00:22:14,000 And so we knew if we're going to win a Super Bowl, 513 00:22:14,083 --> 00:22:15,585 we knew it was going to have to go through Philadelphia. 514 00:22:15,668 --> 00:22:17,253 They had been our nemesis. 515 00:22:18,546 --> 00:22:21,382 We get on the bus and I want to explode at this point 516 00:22:21,466 --> 00:22:24,010 because how do we keep losing this game to them? 517 00:22:24,093 --> 00:22:25,928 John Gruden gets on this bus. 518 00:22:26,012 --> 00:22:27,096 He said "Captain"... 519 00:22:27,180 --> 00:22:28,431 "I got 'em." 520 00:22:30,266 --> 00:22:31,309 We ain't got shit. 521 00:22:31,392 --> 00:22:33,311 I remember telling Sapp though, 522 00:22:33,394 --> 00:22:36,314 we're going to come back here one more time this year. 523 00:22:36,397 --> 00:22:38,608 And I promise you, we're going to get after their ass. 524 00:22:38,691 --> 00:22:40,401 We're going to get after these guys. 525 00:22:40,485 --> 00:22:42,779 I started working on Philadelphia on the plane ride 526 00:22:42,862 --> 00:22:43,946 on the way home that night. 527 00:22:48,201 --> 00:22:51,621 I had this thing where every four games I would assign 528 00:22:51,704 --> 00:22:55,166 a different coach, kind of like he was the head coach. 529 00:22:55,249 --> 00:22:57,877 And I remember when Marinelli did his presentation, 530 00:22:57,960 --> 00:22:58,961 our D-line coach, 531 00:22:59,045 --> 00:23:01,130 one of the best coaches I've ever been around. 532 00:23:01,214 --> 00:23:02,882 He had this thing about "pound the rock" 533 00:23:02,965 --> 00:23:04,884 and the rock is the opponent. 534 00:23:04,967 --> 00:23:07,470 It may never, ever break, 535 00:23:07,553 --> 00:23:09,639 but you got to believe that it's going to break. 536 00:23:09,722 --> 00:23:11,516 If I toss a hammer to Lynch. 537 00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:12,642 Stay in the moment. 538 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:13,643 Pound the rock. 539 00:23:13,726 --> 00:23:15,686 If I toss a hammer over there to Sapp. 540 00:23:15,770 --> 00:23:17,271 It's hot. We're going to pound the rock. 541 00:23:17,355 --> 00:23:18,731 Simeon. 542 00:23:18,815 --> 00:23:20,566 It's cold. We're going to pound the rock. 543 00:23:20,650 --> 00:23:23,111 We freaking pound it every day in practice. 544 00:23:23,194 --> 00:23:24,987 If we all start pounding that rock, 545 00:23:25,071 --> 00:23:27,949 that opponent together, we will pound the rock 546 00:23:28,032 --> 00:23:29,450 and we will crush that opponent. 547 00:23:29,534 --> 00:23:32,203 Just think about the rock and pound it. 548 00:23:32,286 --> 00:23:33,663 So we had a rock. 549 00:23:33,746 --> 00:23:36,082 Pound the rock! Pound the rock! 550 00:23:36,165 --> 00:23:37,500 It was brought everywhere. 551 00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:38,876 I mean, it was brought on away trips, 552 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:40,419 spend its time in our locker room 553 00:23:40,503 --> 00:23:43,131 and kind of hard to walk by it without noticing it. 554 00:23:43,214 --> 00:23:46,843 So that entire season, that rock spent a lot of time with us. 555 00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:48,678 We kept pounding the rock. 556 00:23:48,761 --> 00:23:49,929 We kept running the ball. 557 00:23:50,012 --> 00:23:51,055 We kept throwing the ball. 558 00:23:51,139 --> 00:23:52,056 Defense played great. 559 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:53,516 Get that train going. 560 00:23:53,599 --> 00:23:54,851 Get that A-train going. 561 00:23:54,934 --> 00:23:57,436 260 pounds playing running back. 562 00:23:57,520 --> 00:23:59,856 I've never seen people bounce off him like that. 563 00:23:59,939 --> 00:24:03,109 He went from right to left to right to left. 564 00:24:03,192 --> 00:24:06,154 And it was one anvil smash after another. 565 00:24:06,237 --> 00:24:07,822 Mike was a great competitor. 566 00:24:07,905 --> 00:24:09,157 Phenomenal. 567 00:24:09,240 --> 00:24:11,117 Pound the rock! Pound the rock! 568 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:12,160 You got to believe in each other. 569 00:24:12,243 --> 00:24:13,161 You got to believe in the system. 570 00:24:13,244 --> 00:24:14,162 And then you got to get it done. 571 00:24:14,245 --> 00:24:16,497 But you got to keep pounding. You cannot quit. 572 00:24:16,581 --> 00:24:20,251 Brad ended up leading the NFC in passing efficiency. 573 00:24:20,334 --> 00:24:23,129 We're in the shark tank now. We all sharks. 574 00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:25,590 One thing that was different 575 00:24:25,673 --> 00:24:28,759 was you could see the way John put that offense together. 576 00:24:28,843 --> 00:24:30,595 And, you know, he needed a quarterback 577 00:24:30,678 --> 00:24:31,721 to pull the triggers. 578 00:24:31,804 --> 00:24:34,265 Brad Johnson was definitely that. 579 00:24:34,348 --> 00:24:35,850 Throw is out... Caught! 580 00:24:35,933 --> 00:24:37,351 Brad Johnson. 581 00:24:37,435 --> 00:24:40,313 Touchdown. 582 00:24:40,396 --> 00:24:42,106 He was everything that huddle. 583 00:24:42,190 --> 00:24:43,566 Perfect guy for that team. 584 00:24:43,649 --> 00:24:44,859 Brad Johnson throws the pass. 585 00:24:44,942 --> 00:24:47,236 Caught! Touchdown! Tampa Bay! 586 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:50,740 Brad Johnson has thrown five touchdown passes. 587 00:24:52,116 --> 00:24:53,784 Great call. Great call! 588 00:24:53,868 --> 00:24:56,162 Keyshawn had no fear, none, zero. 589 00:24:56,245 --> 00:24:58,289 I loved his swagger. 590 00:24:58,372 --> 00:25:01,626 But the combination of Rice and Sapp, 591 00:25:01,709 --> 00:25:03,836 that pocket would collapse quickly. 592 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:05,671 That quarterback would have to move. 593 00:25:05,755 --> 00:25:07,298 He'd run right into Simeon. 594 00:25:07,381 --> 00:25:09,217 They were awesome together. 595 00:25:09,300 --> 00:25:10,551 Let's go to what we do. Dominate on three. 596 00:25:10,635 --> 00:25:12,595 - One, two, three. - Dominate. 597 00:25:14,305 --> 00:25:16,140 I came from a team that didn't love ball. 598 00:25:16,224 --> 00:25:17,683 We had some great players, 599 00:25:17,767 --> 00:25:20,853 but as a collective, we didn't love ball. 600 00:25:20,937 --> 00:25:25,524 I'm around guys now, legitimately love ball. 601 00:25:25,608 --> 00:25:28,986 Michael Vick was on fire, and we completely shut him down. 602 00:25:29,070 --> 00:25:31,489 John had complete command of this team. 603 00:25:33,241 --> 00:25:35,534 I can't even start to throw it. 604 00:25:35,618 --> 00:25:37,161 Vick lets it go 605 00:25:37,245 --> 00:25:40,790 and it's tipped and picked off by Jackson. 606 00:25:40,873 --> 00:25:42,833 Let's go! Let's operate. 607 00:25:42,917 --> 00:25:44,627 The defense may have been similar, 608 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:45,711 but on the offensive side of the ball, 609 00:25:45,795 --> 00:25:47,046 this was a completely new team. 610 00:25:47,129 --> 00:25:49,423 Touchdown, Tampa Bay! 611 00:25:49,507 --> 00:25:50,758 John went out and got this talent 612 00:25:50,841 --> 00:25:52,760 with Rich McKay and built something special. 613 00:25:56,681 --> 00:25:59,475 I thought our defense all week. You kept your cool. 614 00:25:59,558 --> 00:26:00,977 They talked about the great Michael Vick. 615 00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:02,520 He's a great talent. 616 00:26:02,603 --> 00:26:03,771 How are you going to stop Michael Vick? 617 00:26:03,854 --> 00:26:05,189 How are you going to stop him? 618 00:26:05,273 --> 00:26:07,024 Not one word was said about 619 00:26:07,108 --> 00:26:09,110 how somebody's going to stop this defense. 620 00:26:09,193 --> 00:26:10,820 Remember that. 621 00:26:10,903 --> 00:26:13,447 The greatness of this defense is ahead. 622 00:26:13,531 --> 00:26:14,532 We're going to finish strong. 623 00:26:17,368 --> 00:26:20,288 John Gruden with a franchise record 12 victories, 624 00:26:20,371 --> 00:26:22,081 and he has the Bucs winners of the south 625 00:26:22,164 --> 00:26:23,624 with a first round bye, 626 00:26:23,708 --> 00:26:27,586 all rested and ready to go against the 49ers. 627 00:26:27,670 --> 00:26:29,046 To you Jurevicius! 628 00:26:29,130 --> 00:26:31,173 You, Joe Jurevicius! 629 00:26:31,257 --> 00:26:34,302 As an offense, we've been in Gruden's system for a while, 630 00:26:34,385 --> 00:26:36,095 but it took us that while to understand 631 00:26:36,178 --> 00:26:37,680 exactly what Gruden wanted from us. 632 00:26:39,140 --> 00:26:40,641 And we struck lightning in a bottle. 633 00:26:42,518 --> 00:26:44,270 Mike Alstott gets the ball, runs left. 634 00:26:44,353 --> 00:26:46,605 Touchdown, Tampa Bay. 635 00:26:46,689 --> 00:26:48,607 And Brad Johnson and Jurevicius 636 00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:50,026 had a great connection. 637 00:26:50,109 --> 00:26:52,820 Caught! Touchdown, Tampa Bay. 638 00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:55,031 Touchdown, Joe Jurevicius. 639 00:26:55,114 --> 00:26:57,408 We had a couple of interceptions. 640 00:26:57,491 --> 00:26:58,576 We were cooking, man. 641 00:26:59,910 --> 00:27:01,370 We beat San Francisco up, man. 642 00:27:01,454 --> 00:27:02,747 We beat them good. 643 00:27:02,830 --> 00:27:04,832 Now we've got to have our best week of football. 644 00:27:04,915 --> 00:27:07,626 And again, it's about us, nobody else. 645 00:27:07,710 --> 00:27:10,004 This is what we've all been waiting for. 646 00:27:10,087 --> 00:27:12,840 Philadelphia Eagles at the Vet. 647 00:27:15,426 --> 00:27:16,886 This is our time now. 648 00:27:20,139 --> 00:27:21,432 It's playoff football. 649 00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:23,726 Things are going really well for us. 650 00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:26,604 And then life kind of hits the pause button on us. 651 00:27:29,607 --> 00:27:31,150 My wife Meagan was pregnant. 652 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:33,569 And the morning after we played the San Francisco 49ers 653 00:27:33,652 --> 00:27:35,988 and the playoffs woke up to, 654 00:27:36,072 --> 00:27:39,158 oh my God, my water broke and it was a little bit early 655 00:27:39,241 --> 00:27:42,995 and got over to the hospital and Michael was born. 656 00:27:43,079 --> 00:27:46,332 And, you know, typically when you hear a baby cry, 657 00:27:46,415 --> 00:27:48,542 gets wiped off, you get to hold your baby. 658 00:27:48,626 --> 00:27:51,462 Michael was just kind of whisked off right away. 659 00:27:51,545 --> 00:27:53,339 So just kind of already knew at that point 660 00:27:53,422 --> 00:27:56,008 that this wasn't the traditional birth. 661 00:27:58,719 --> 00:28:00,930 Born three weeks premature as Tampa prepared 662 00:28:01,013 --> 00:28:02,139 for the NFC championship game, 663 00:28:02,223 --> 00:28:05,101 Michael Jurevicius is still in the hospital. 664 00:28:05,184 --> 00:28:08,145 His father stayed at his side. 665 00:28:08,229 --> 00:28:10,648 Michael was given 72 hours to live. 666 00:28:12,108 --> 00:28:13,818 Going from a playoff high 667 00:28:13,901 --> 00:28:16,195 to here's my first kid with my wife. 668 00:28:16,278 --> 00:28:18,697 And now you're going to have a kid 669 00:28:18,781 --> 00:28:21,283 that might not make it 72 hours. 670 00:28:22,493 --> 00:28:28,207 Just kind of hoping that he would have a shot. 671 00:28:30,126 --> 00:28:32,086 You just wanted to wrap your arms around him 672 00:28:32,169 --> 00:28:34,422 and try to comfort him as much as you can as a player. 673 00:28:34,505 --> 00:28:36,507 Your heart sank for the guy. 674 00:28:36,590 --> 00:28:41,637 It was a dire situation. 675 00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:44,807 I went in to John Gruden's office 676 00:28:44,890 --> 00:28:46,684 just to kind of talk it out with them. 677 00:28:46,767 --> 00:28:48,769 I didn't know whether I was coming or going. 678 00:28:48,853 --> 00:28:50,104 I didn't know what I was doing. 679 00:28:50,187 --> 00:28:52,731 He just told me go be with your wife. 680 00:28:52,815 --> 00:28:54,692 During the week it was terrible. 681 00:28:55,860 --> 00:28:58,863 Nobody expected Joe to be there. 682 00:28:58,946 --> 00:29:00,906 Couldn't even imagine. 683 00:29:00,990 --> 00:29:03,367 I asked myself if I would have played. 684 00:29:03,451 --> 00:29:06,245 I honestly don't know. 685 00:29:06,328 --> 00:29:07,872 And I don't know if he knew. 686 00:29:07,955 --> 00:29:10,916 We just wanted Joe to know that whether he come 687 00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,669 play with us in Philly or decided to stay back here 688 00:29:13,752 --> 00:29:17,256 with his wife, we were going to support him. 689 00:29:17,339 --> 00:29:20,009 Michael had a disease called sialidosis. 690 00:29:20,092 --> 00:29:22,386 The easiest way to describe what sialidosis 691 00:29:22,470 --> 00:29:25,264 is, it wasn't properly functioning cells. 692 00:29:25,347 --> 00:29:27,183 At the end of the week, doctor came in 693 00:29:27,266 --> 00:29:31,020 and said that you should think about going. 694 00:29:31,103 --> 00:29:32,605 That it wasn't until my mother-in-law, 695 00:29:32,688 --> 00:29:34,857 my wife said you need to go. 696 00:29:34,940 --> 00:29:36,901 If he beat those 72-hour odds, 697 00:29:36,984 --> 00:29:39,278 I figured the least that I could do is 698 00:29:39,361 --> 00:29:42,114 toughen my ass up and do something. 699 00:29:42,198 --> 00:29:44,325 I just kind of looked at him and prayed and hoped 700 00:29:44,408 --> 00:29:47,369 for the best that it was going to be the right decision. 701 00:29:52,458 --> 00:29:54,835 I remember landing in Philly, 702 00:29:54,919 --> 00:29:59,131 the first person I saw was Warren Sapp. 703 00:30:00,758 --> 00:30:04,136 And he came up to me 704 00:30:04,220 --> 00:30:05,221 and he asked how... 705 00:30:10,100 --> 00:30:11,644 How things were going. 706 00:30:12,686 --> 00:30:14,063 I don't know. 707 00:30:14,146 --> 00:30:16,106 I said, "Warren, I don't know." 708 00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:18,776 That big son of a bitch grabbed me and kissed me on my forehead 709 00:30:18,859 --> 00:30:22,071 and said, "I got you, you're going to be okay." 710 00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:24,365 He was one of the guys that when I needed 711 00:30:24,448 --> 00:30:25,950 a kind of a pat on the ass 712 00:30:26,033 --> 00:30:29,328 and let's get going, he told me he got me 713 00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:31,247 and it started to build a little bit of confidence. 714 00:30:31,330 --> 00:30:34,416 I grabbed my playbook and for the first time all week 715 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,377 started to kind of study the game plan 716 00:30:36,460 --> 00:30:40,005 and I remember John asking me if I wanted to play. 717 00:30:40,089 --> 00:30:43,425 Joe and I talked a lot of trash on the field. 718 00:30:43,509 --> 00:30:44,593 He would give me a hard time. 719 00:30:44,677 --> 00:30:47,012 He wouldn't say, "Hey coach, he'd say, hey..." 720 00:30:47,096 --> 00:30:48,639 He had a cuss word. He'd call me, he'd call me names. 721 00:30:50,849 --> 00:30:54,353 He call me, hey dickhead, try not to fuck up the game today, moron. 722 00:30:54,436 --> 00:30:56,313 He would say stuff like that. 723 00:30:56,397 --> 00:30:58,148 And he said, "Hey dickhead, I'm ready to go." 724 00:30:58,232 --> 00:30:59,650 Just like he normally does. 725 00:30:59,733 --> 00:31:01,944 I couldn't believe it. 726 00:31:02,027 --> 00:31:04,405 We were underdogs, Coach Gruden had told the team 727 00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:06,156 that Philadelphia had already packed their bags 728 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:09,076 and had their equipment trucks ready to go to San Diego. 729 00:31:09,159 --> 00:31:11,036 I remember some of the announcers of the game, 730 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,664 they say, you know, in the unlikely event you win, 731 00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:16,083 here's where you're going to be interviewed. 732 00:31:16,166 --> 00:31:18,502 Philadelphia Eagles were so sure they were going to win. 733 00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:31,640 I never really thought that we would get over Philadelphia 734 00:31:31,724 --> 00:31:35,686 because there was this myth in the air about the cold 735 00:31:35,769 --> 00:31:38,731 and we could only play in certain temperatures 736 00:31:38,814 --> 00:31:41,150 because if it dips below a certain degrees 737 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:42,443 we was going to falter. 738 00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:47,823 The last game being played in Veteran stadium 739 00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:52,161 so the Philly fans had this big tribute that they wanted to do. 740 00:31:54,163 --> 00:31:56,206 I remember stepping out onto the Vet field 741 00:31:56,290 --> 00:31:58,667 in typical Philly fashion. 742 00:31:58,751 --> 00:32:00,461 A lot of chirping going on. 743 00:32:01,754 --> 00:32:04,882 We're just confident that this was our time 744 00:32:04,965 --> 00:32:06,800 to overcome Philadelphia. 745 00:32:10,429 --> 00:32:13,223 I told the players, we got a great team here. 746 00:32:13,307 --> 00:32:16,435 We got a great game plan, we've had a great week of practice. 747 00:32:16,518 --> 00:32:18,145 We're going to kick their ass. 748 00:32:20,481 --> 00:32:22,024 John's got him. 749 00:32:22,107 --> 00:32:24,193 If John can score us some points, 750 00:32:24,276 --> 00:32:27,905 the Philadelphia Eagles ain't got a snowball's chance in hell. 751 00:32:27,988 --> 00:32:30,199 What an opportunity to silence these fools. 752 00:32:30,282 --> 00:32:31,950 Let's go. We've been waiting for this. 753 00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:33,827 We've been preparing for this for all this year. 754 00:32:33,911 --> 00:32:34,912 We're ready. 755 00:32:42,753 --> 00:32:44,338 Mitchell... 756 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,467 Down to the 25. 757 00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:53,263 Second play of the game. 758 00:32:56,850 --> 00:32:58,185 Touchdown, 11 yards. 759 00:32:59,937 --> 00:33:01,855 We're down 7-0. 760 00:33:03,691 --> 00:33:04,983 Oh, no. Here we go again. 761 00:33:05,067 --> 00:33:06,318 Walked off the field. I said, huh? 762 00:33:06,402 --> 00:33:07,736 That one won't beat us, fellas. 763 00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:10,322 That 7 won't beat us today. Huh? You hear me? 764 00:33:10,406 --> 00:33:12,032 And they all looked at me like, "We good, we good." 765 00:33:12,116 --> 00:33:13,534 All right, we good then. 766 00:33:13,617 --> 00:33:16,245 He told us, don't panic, because I got 'em. 767 00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,247 And defense, do your part. 768 00:33:18,330 --> 00:33:19,707 Don't panic. 769 00:33:19,790 --> 00:33:21,166 We're going to win this game. 770 00:33:23,293 --> 00:33:24,586 Coming up here to Philadelphia, 771 00:33:24,670 --> 00:33:26,755 playing against this Philadelphia Eagles team, 772 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:29,466 which has dominated them the last four times 773 00:33:29,550 --> 00:33:30,718 they've played 'em. 774 00:33:30,801 --> 00:33:34,012 We were struggling to get yards, to get a first down. 775 00:33:35,055 --> 00:33:36,724 And there's a particular play. 776 00:33:36,807 --> 00:33:40,018 359 ex sluggo... 777 00:33:40,102 --> 00:33:42,020 Slowly over the course of the season, 778 00:33:42,104 --> 00:33:44,898 this offense has been getting better and better. 779 00:33:57,786 --> 00:33:59,830 I remember when I caught that ball 780 00:33:59,913 --> 00:34:02,166 and I got to the 50-yard line, 781 00:34:02,249 --> 00:34:06,211 I can actually feel my lungs fill up with lactic acid, 782 00:34:06,295 --> 00:34:08,797 almost like they caught on fire. I felt them burning. 783 00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:15,179 And at that point, he's off to the races. 784 00:34:15,262 --> 00:34:16,764 It's caught, Jurevicius! 785 00:34:16,847 --> 00:34:19,349 35, to the 40, to the 45, to the 50! 786 00:34:19,433 --> 00:34:20,350 Go! 787 00:34:20,434 --> 00:34:21,351 The other sideline, go! 788 00:34:21,435 --> 00:34:22,352 35, 30! 789 00:34:22,436 --> 00:34:23,812 Jurevicius to the 20! 15, 10! 790 00:34:23,896 --> 00:34:25,147 I couldn't believe it, man. 791 00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:27,274 He ran like I've never seen Joe run. 792 00:34:27,357 --> 00:34:28,734 And it was kind of like, 793 00:34:28,817 --> 00:34:30,903 "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can." 794 00:34:30,986 --> 00:34:32,654 He out there looking like Calvin Johnson, 795 00:34:32,738 --> 00:34:33,822 he looking like Megatron. 796 00:34:33,906 --> 00:34:35,824 Ran for 70 yards. 797 00:34:35,908 --> 00:34:37,409 I can still hear Gene Deckerhoff. 798 00:34:37,493 --> 00:34:39,870 I have not seen Joe Jurevicius run that fast. 799 00:34:39,953 --> 00:34:41,830 Joe Jurevicius run that fast ever. 800 00:34:41,914 --> 00:34:44,833 You go, Joe, you go, Joe! You go, Joe, you go, Joe! 801 00:34:53,383 --> 00:34:55,594 I remember kind of taking a sigh of relief. 802 00:34:59,348 --> 00:35:02,559 And it was cool. 803 00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:08,440 Weird time, but cool. 804 00:35:11,318 --> 00:35:13,654 That's the play that sparked our team. 805 00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:16,782 Alstott again. 806 00:35:16,865 --> 00:35:19,284 Touchdown, Tampa Bay! 807 00:35:19,368 --> 00:35:20,869 I have to go back to Joe Jurevicius. 808 00:35:20,953 --> 00:35:24,206 For that young man to have that kind of a play... 809 00:35:24,289 --> 00:35:28,418 I just can't imagine what his emotions are right now. 810 00:35:28,502 --> 00:35:30,337 Asked John Gruden if he was worried about 811 00:35:30,420 --> 00:35:32,464 Jurevicius missing practice. 812 00:35:32,548 --> 00:35:34,842 And John said, "I'm not worried about Joe." 813 00:35:35,926 --> 00:35:37,135 This crowd is stunned right now. 814 00:35:41,223 --> 00:35:43,934 You either feel pressure or you apply pressure. 815 00:35:44,017 --> 00:35:45,936 The next thing you know, we caught fire. 816 00:35:46,937 --> 00:35:48,438 Quick throw, Johnson! 817 00:35:48,522 --> 00:35:49,940 Touchdown, Tampa Bay! 818 00:35:50,023 --> 00:35:52,818 Brad Johnson, to Keyshawn Johnson, 819 00:35:52,901 --> 00:35:54,194 and the Bucs are back on top. 820 00:35:54,278 --> 00:35:55,571 It's the fourth quarter. 821 00:35:55,654 --> 00:35:57,531 We have a 20-10 lead. 822 00:35:58,657 --> 00:36:01,869 And Donovan's got the ball and the Eagles are moving. 823 00:36:01,952 --> 00:36:05,664 And Donovan found a way to be superhuman. 824 00:36:05,747 --> 00:36:07,374 Sapp had him dead to rights. 825 00:36:07,457 --> 00:36:09,459 Greg Spires had him dead to rights. 826 00:36:09,543 --> 00:36:10,961 Simeon had him dead to rights. 827 00:36:11,044 --> 00:36:13,297 Escape, set up, make a play. 828 00:36:13,380 --> 00:36:16,341 Like, dramatically, big plays moved them down the field. 829 00:36:16,425 --> 00:36:18,927 He had great pocket awareness, McNabb. 830 00:36:19,011 --> 00:36:21,388 And he was driving the Bucs crazy. 831 00:36:21,471 --> 00:36:22,973 And so it was happening. 832 00:36:23,056 --> 00:36:25,893 And we had a lead that would have been cut 833 00:36:25,976 --> 00:36:28,937 to an uncomfortable position. 834 00:36:31,189 --> 00:36:35,319 I have a thing called BTSD, Bucs Traumatic Stress Disorder. 835 00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:37,112 And if you've been a Bucs fan long enough, 836 00:36:37,195 --> 00:36:38,864 you know what I'm talking about. 837 00:36:38,947 --> 00:36:40,991 And you know if we let them in the end zone, 838 00:36:41,074 --> 00:36:42,451 it's not going to end well. 839 00:36:44,036 --> 00:36:46,538 It was that time in the game where the rubber meets the road. 840 00:36:46,622 --> 00:36:48,415 You know, I was getting a little tight 841 00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:50,250 because they were marching. 842 00:36:50,334 --> 00:36:51,501 And certainly they were a good team 843 00:36:51,585 --> 00:36:53,754 and we were in a hostile environment. 844 00:36:53,837 --> 00:36:56,840 Ronde's just all over the field throughout that game. 845 00:36:56,924 --> 00:36:59,843 Ronde Barber, who's been making plays all day long. 846 00:36:59,927 --> 00:37:01,803 But I haven't seen anybody play better 847 00:37:01,887 --> 00:37:03,639 than Ronde Barber has today. 848 00:37:03,722 --> 00:37:05,724 It was the entire game. 849 00:37:05,807 --> 00:37:08,393 It was every screen fit. It was every tackle. 850 00:37:08,477 --> 00:37:10,312 It was every time he hit the quarterback. 851 00:37:10,395 --> 00:37:12,898 It was sack fumbles. He was all over the place. 852 00:37:12,981 --> 00:37:14,274 It was probably one of the better games 853 00:37:14,358 --> 00:37:15,901 I've ever seen from a corner 854 00:37:15,984 --> 00:37:19,029 in the National Football League, arguably the best. 855 00:37:19,112 --> 00:37:20,697 One of the most spectacular 856 00:37:20,781 --> 00:37:23,784 individual performances I've been a part of. 857 00:37:23,867 --> 00:37:27,245 Those moments are dominated by men that are ready to seize it. 858 00:37:31,792 --> 00:37:33,543 I think Ronde always had a little chip on his shoulder. 859 00:37:33,627 --> 00:37:35,879 You know, his brother was this highly touted 860 00:37:35,963 --> 00:37:37,464 running back, Tiki, 861 00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:39,466 playing in a much bigger market of New York. 862 00:37:39,549 --> 00:37:42,970 And here is Ronde, a third round pick in Tampa, Florida. 863 00:37:43,053 --> 00:37:45,389 Ronde didn't have that personality 864 00:37:45,472 --> 00:37:47,224 per se like Warren Sapp. 865 00:37:47,307 --> 00:37:50,018 But he just went out there and every game 866 00:37:50,102 --> 00:37:52,854 you could count on Ronde Barber. 867 00:37:52,938 --> 00:37:55,565 He might have had the most football intelligence 868 00:37:55,649 --> 00:37:57,901 of anybody playing in the league at that time. 869 00:37:57,985 --> 00:37:59,528 He examines film like 870 00:37:59,611 --> 00:38:02,739 he's an archeologist looking at bones or something. 871 00:38:02,823 --> 00:38:05,450 Man, I just fell in love with his play style. 872 00:38:05,534 --> 00:38:08,495 When I first got to the Bucs, I was 28 years old. 873 00:38:08,578 --> 00:38:11,456 When I replaced Herm Edwards as the secondary coach, 874 00:38:11,540 --> 00:38:14,251 Ronde was about to become a free agent. 875 00:38:14,334 --> 00:38:15,752 And I probably got a little bit over aggressive 876 00:38:15,836 --> 00:38:18,922 expressing my view of how important it was to retain him. 877 00:38:19,006 --> 00:38:20,632 We went to dinner at a steakhouse. 878 00:38:20,716 --> 00:38:23,719 I wanted him to know that I would put my hand in the pile 879 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:25,554 and make sure that he was successful. 880 00:38:25,637 --> 00:38:27,889 He made the decision to come back. 881 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:31,309 We really delved into dominating the nickel position, 882 00:38:31,393 --> 00:38:32,519 redefining it. 883 00:38:32,602 --> 00:38:34,479 Really, that's how he made his mark. 884 00:38:34,563 --> 00:38:38,233 In 2001, I made a name for myself, finally. 885 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:40,986 Defensive Back of the Year, lead the league in interceptions. 886 00:38:41,069 --> 00:38:46,033 And by the end of 2002, I wasn't going to the Pro Bowl. 887 00:38:46,116 --> 00:38:47,325 I wasn't getting recognition. 888 00:38:47,409 --> 00:38:49,578 It's as if they had forgotten the player 889 00:38:49,661 --> 00:38:52,080 that I had just proven myself to be. 890 00:38:55,959 --> 00:38:58,086 It's first and goal. 891 00:38:58,170 --> 00:39:00,756 Ronde's acting like he's blitzing. 892 00:39:00,839 --> 00:39:04,468 Ronde had set that up a few plays before. 893 00:39:04,551 --> 00:39:05,886 The one and only Ronde Barber. 894 00:39:05,969 --> 00:39:07,679 He's unbelievable at setting the bait. 895 00:39:09,347 --> 00:39:12,642 Man, I stepped into this B-gap like I was gonna blitz. 896 00:39:12,726 --> 00:39:16,104 McNabb saw it out of the corner of his eye. 897 00:39:16,188 --> 00:39:17,731 And he thought I was gonna blitz. 898 00:39:17,814 --> 00:39:19,524 And so he set up his own play. 899 00:39:19,608 --> 00:39:20,901 - Who does that? - I wasn't blitzing. 900 00:39:20,984 --> 00:39:23,695 I was just playing cover two. 901 00:39:23,779 --> 00:39:26,615 It's intercepted at the 10 to the 20. 902 00:39:26,698 --> 00:39:27,741 He's gone. 903 00:39:30,494 --> 00:39:31,495 Picked off by Barber. 904 00:39:31,578 --> 00:39:33,038 Barber to the 25, to the 30. 905 00:39:33,121 --> 00:39:35,123 I looked in the gap, looked back at Antonio 906 00:39:35,207 --> 00:39:37,292 because I knew he was gonna be sitting there 907 00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:38,502 and the ball hit me in the hands. 908 00:39:38,585 --> 00:39:40,504 It's that simple. 909 00:39:40,587 --> 00:39:42,881 All I had to do was run on a bum-ass knee, 910 00:39:42,964 --> 00:39:44,674 but I had to run a long way. 911 00:39:44,758 --> 00:39:46,343 A lot of people don't know the story, 912 00:39:46,426 --> 00:39:48,386 but Ronde had torn his PCL. 913 00:39:48,470 --> 00:39:50,013 If you watch that film close, 914 00:39:50,097 --> 00:39:52,390 he's kind of galloping because his gait's not right. 915 00:39:52,474 --> 00:39:57,479 Right past Andy Reid and the rest of the Eagles 916 00:39:57,562 --> 00:40:00,440 who were in absolute disbelief. 917 00:40:00,524 --> 00:40:03,110 Barber to the 30. Nobody's gonna touch him. 918 00:40:03,193 --> 00:40:05,070 - Ronde Barber. - Going down that sideline. 919 00:40:05,153 --> 00:40:07,614 That is the quietest I've ever seen that stadium. 920 00:40:07,697 --> 00:40:09,074 It's the most beautiful sound ever. 921 00:40:09,157 --> 00:40:11,201 You just took all the air out of there. 922 00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:12,911 It was a wrap. Wasn't no coming back. 923 00:40:12,994 --> 00:40:13,954 Wasn't nothing. 924 00:40:14,037 --> 00:40:16,623 Like a funeral parlor. It's so quiet. 925 00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:21,670 Ten, five, touchdown Tampa Bay! 926 00:40:24,131 --> 00:40:25,715 My play has been validated. 927 00:40:25,799 --> 00:40:27,384 At that point, I was like, okay, 928 00:40:27,467 --> 00:40:29,886 I'm gonna let everybody know who I am, 929 00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:32,556 and so I started pointing my back. 930 00:40:33,765 --> 00:40:36,852 It was me telling everybody else to fuck off. 931 00:40:39,104 --> 00:40:41,731 But in a lot of ways, he's doing this 932 00:40:41,815 --> 00:40:44,234 because he had the Buccaneer fan base 933 00:40:44,317 --> 00:40:47,028 and the organization on his back all the way. 934 00:40:47,112 --> 00:40:50,657 From those 1976ers, the original Buccaneer fans. 935 00:40:50,740 --> 00:40:53,535 That's the greatest play in Buc history. 936 00:40:53,618 --> 00:40:55,495 Holy shit, we just did this. 937 00:40:55,579 --> 00:40:56,621 Just sealed it, right? 938 00:40:56,705 --> 00:40:58,331 It's done. 939 00:40:58,415 --> 00:41:01,209 We're going to San Diego. 940 00:41:01,293 --> 00:41:02,711 Other than my three kids coming out, 941 00:41:02,794 --> 00:41:05,297 that's still the greatest memory in my life. 942 00:41:05,380 --> 00:41:07,674 The Buccaneers are the champions of the NFC. 943 00:41:07,757 --> 00:41:09,217 How about that? 944 00:41:09,301 --> 00:41:11,219 We're going to the Super Bowl. 945 00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:14,723 All the emotions of Philly beating us all came out. 946 00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:15,849 We shut it down today! 947 00:41:15,932 --> 00:41:18,518 We shut the Vet down! No more Vet! 948 00:41:18,602 --> 00:41:20,145 Man! 949 00:41:21,688 --> 00:41:23,940 - Love you. - Love you back, baby. 950 00:41:24,024 --> 00:41:26,610 I've been there since 1993. 951 00:41:26,693 --> 00:41:29,779 Been called the Yucks, been booed and laughed at. 952 00:41:29,863 --> 00:41:33,366 And to come that far, knock on the door, 953 00:41:33,450 --> 00:41:34,910 but never go away. 954 00:41:34,993 --> 00:41:38,997 Get our coach fired who we loved and find a way to get there. 955 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:42,500 We've done it. We haven't finished it. 956 00:41:42,584 --> 00:41:44,377 We've gotten over one hump already 957 00:41:44,461 --> 00:41:46,254 and that's the NFC championship game. 958 00:41:46,338 --> 00:41:48,048 That was it. That was the moment you knew 959 00:41:48,131 --> 00:41:49,716 you were going to be in the Super Bowl. 960 00:41:49,799 --> 00:41:52,302 Everybody always trying to pack their bags, we out of here. 961 00:41:52,385 --> 00:41:54,679 California. Head west, my son! 962 00:41:54,763 --> 00:41:57,974 And that game, to me, is also the most satisfying game I ever saw. 963 00:41:59,517 --> 00:42:01,478 There was something so magical about that 964 00:42:01,561 --> 00:42:03,688 because it wasn't just one game against the Eagles. 965 00:42:03,772 --> 00:42:04,898 This was like going to see 966 00:42:04,981 --> 00:42:07,692 Rocky 1, Rocky 2, Rocky 3. 967 00:42:07,776 --> 00:42:09,611 We went up there, we got our ass kicked. 968 00:42:09,694 --> 00:42:11,696 We went up there, got our ass kicked. 969 00:42:11,780 --> 00:42:12,822 We went and beat the Eagles 970 00:42:12,906 --> 00:42:14,658 when it mattered the most. 971 00:42:14,741 --> 00:42:16,034 - Hip hip! - Hooray! 972 00:42:16,117 --> 00:42:17,577 - Hip hip! - Hooray! 973 00:42:17,661 --> 00:42:20,705 Super Bowl! Super Bowl! Super Bowl! 974 00:42:27,712 --> 00:42:29,798 John Gruden, take one. Mark. 975 00:42:39,766 --> 00:42:42,560 Greatest Buc of all time? 976 00:42:42,644 --> 00:42:45,438 I got to say it's, it's... 977 00:42:45,522 --> 00:42:47,274 I got to say it's Ronde Barber. 978 00:42:47,357 --> 00:42:49,818 The son of a bitch played for 25 years, man. 979 00:42:49,901 --> 00:42:52,195 He played with broken arms and broken knees 980 00:42:52,279 --> 00:42:54,948 and he played free safety. 981 00:42:55,031 --> 00:42:56,866 He played nickel. He played corner. 982 00:42:56,950 --> 00:43:00,203 He covered kicks. 983 00:43:00,287 --> 00:43:02,414 Barber. Give me Barber.