CHRIS MATHIS CHALLENGES TKras TO WOULD YOU RATHER! Bucs & Rays Edition

0:00The Drive with T-Cross podcast is powered by Farah and Farah. Tampa accident attorneys. Oh no, the game is yet to officially begin. What exactly is the game? Nanya. Well, it is not a quiz or a trivia contest, nor is it a test of brute strength or athleticism. It's cool, it's just a children's game, and I would wager that some of you here this evening have played. Would you rather that some point and welcome back at 531 on your ride home on this would you rather Wednesday? It is time to play. Would you rather with our guy executive producer Chris Minecraft Mathis? Tom, I'm so waiting for you to accept my friend request on Minecraft. Maybe you can get around to that here tonight. What? I've heard quite a lot of you. I got your friend request right here. Oh man. What is this about? I'll tell you what it's about.

1:01It's what you rather brought to you by a Howard team home loans. Your home team, howlmown MVP at howerteamhomelones.com. And we'll get into the raise here to begin these things. We'll get into the fucking years as well before we're done, Tom. I know you're amped up about. Oh yeah. Would you rather see, and I'm going to come back to this in case people are traveling once again. Maybe your mind changed after last night between the Red Sox and the Yankees. Would you rather see the Tampa Bay Rays face the New York Yankees or the Boston Red Sox this weekend? Oh, it's the Red Sox. The Red Sox can't score. They scored the fewest amount of runs in the month of September and they were shut out last night. So I don't think they're going to beat the Yankees now because of the lack of offense. I mean, I'm just hoping like they can just push the Yankees. I mean, would it be too much to ask for the Red Sox to score a couple of runs, give sunny gray some run support and beat the Yankees and force a do or die game

2:01three tomorrow night? That's all I'm asking for. Is that asking too much? Apparently it is. Ah, useless. I could be. It could be. All right, Saturday, first playoff game of the season for the Tampa Bay Rays. Would you rather see the raised pitching staff throw a shutout in game one or the offense score ten and were runs, Tom on Saturday. Throw a shutout throw a shutout or you have a game in which the offense produces ten or one runs and and game one of the playoffs. I I love the shutout part of it like I'm old school. I believe in pitching pitching and more pitching and and and rasmussen on the bump and rasmusons on the bump and I know Eric Neander feels the same way right. Oh, I don't know. Yeah, yes, you do. I'd rather pitch that shutout because that's demoralizing like say if it's the Yankees, like if it's a red socks, like no one's going to bat an eye because like they can't score. But if it's the Yankees, would all their behemoths like the gas house gorillas

3:05and you shut them out in game one and send that message, drew rasmussen in the race of the Yankees, like, yeah, we're not the red socks man. You know, we're for real. We won 98 games. We won this division. You're in our house. That would be the perfect message to send by shutting them out. So what are you expecting, Freddy, per altered to go? What game is it again? I'm going to say get all right. Freddy's going to go out there give it his all. He'll be the number one guy. What game are you expecting? I think if I'm the raise, I would pitch him game two because he's pitch pretty well to drop the American league pitcher of the month or September. I mean, right now he's on a heater. I think he would be number two. I kind of like Nick Martinez on the road at Yankee Stadium where he induces we contact. He's pitch well up there. So I kind of like Martinez on the road. That's the way I would set it up. I think I would go parolta to Martinez three. Would you rather see junior Caminero be guaranteed to hit at least two

4:06whole runs in this opening playoffs series? Two. Okay. Or Freddy, per altered throw seven shutout innings and game two. Oh my gosh. You're all pitching, but we know how important junior's baddest. It's very important. Two homers opening series or Freddy, per altered seven shutout innings. I think I'm going to go to seven shutout innings. If Freddy, per altered has given me seven shutout innings, then I'm in great shape to maybe go up two games to none because I'm I'm sure like I'm really confident and drew Rasmussen kicking things off going in game one. He's been your race. He's been one of the best pitchers in the American league. If you follow that up with parolta throwing seven shutout innings and game two, the raise would be in great shape to move on to the LCS. Great shape. Excited. I hope that happens. Who knows? We're going to find out we were the home of raised baseball throughout the entire postseason.

5:08The D-A-E. Andy Fried there. If you missed, no, that was that Neil Solon's. Get me out of here. Here's Andy. If you missed the interview earlier, it's on the I-Hart Radio App searchup. The drive with T-Craz. Would you rather see Jalen Daniels lead the Buccaneers to his first win and the Bucks first win of the season? Nanya. And him play a good game where you're like, hey, Jalen look really good or would you rather see the defense, Dan Tall, and be the reason for victory on Sunday? Both are wins, but Jalen playing well in the defense. The best storyline would be Jalen Daniels playing well in the Bucks win. That's the better storyline. From a media perspective, you look at for stories and you want to tell a compelling story to the public. A little half of you. I mean, you only hear what you want to hear. The messages and get through. But regardless, that's the best story. Is the Bucks win? They get their first win and here's an undrafted, rookie-free agent. You know, with Longads to make the team, he makes the team. Now he's the guy because of starting quarterback gets hurt and he goes out there and maybe makes

6:12a big run or throws a big touchdown, a 10-Hers or something. And they end up winning this game. That is the better story by far. All right, we both know the importance of turnovers, whether it's your quarterback coughing up the ball or your defense forcing a turnovers. You're trying to start out. It wasn't a shot at Baker. It's just being general here. I don't know. That's why I thought you were going. No, no, no, come on, man. So would you rather see the Bucks defense force one turnover? You're guaranteed one force turnover from the Bucks defense on Sunday against Jordan Loves Green Bay Packers or your guaranteed. Jalen Daniels does not turn the ball over once. Pick one. What gives this team the best chance to win? Jalen Daniels not turning it over. If he doesn't turn it over, I think you're putting yourself ahead of the game. I mean, you're not asking him to win the game. Just don't lose it for us. I remember Dirk Cutter. Remember, remember hard knocks when we had hard knocks here. Dirk Cutter had James in his office and he told James that story.

7:16He said, listen, we don't need you to win it for us. We just can't have you lose it for us. And then he goes out of those 30 interceptions of 2019 when the Arian was here. I can't hold that one back. I love you, James. Gosh. So that is the prime directive and that has to be the game plan for Jalen Daniels. Look, he's a smart kid. He's very confident in himself. And I hope he does well. But he's going to see some things on Sunday and how he reacts is going to go a long way in determining whether or not the Bucks win this game. Because I think the Bucks are going to stone Green Bay's running game. You're not going to be able to run on the Bucks. A-Shod's playing really well. Vita Vaya finally showed up last week, which was great. If they get Josiah Trotter back this week, they didn't have them last week. That would be even great, even better because that guy's a thumper, man. Coming downhill in the run game. So to matter of the Bucks, defense and the past rush, getting after Jordan Love. But if Jalen Daniels has zero turnovers, then you're ahead of the game.

8:20All right. Let's talk numbers here. Not just turnovers. Let's talk about points points on the board when trying to construct this first victory of the year. Ford Todd bulls his Tampa Bay bucket ears. Would you rather see the offense led by Zach Robinson score 24 or more points? 24 plus against Green Bay. Against Green Bay. Or Todd bulls his defense. Hall the Packers to 24 points or fewer. Nanya. What gives him the better chance to win at Raymond James Stadium? If you score 24 points on Sunday, I think the Bucks beat the Packers. Come on, Jalen. 24. Come on, Jalen. If they put 24 points up, I'm pretty confident that that will be enough. Because the Packers will not be able to run. They're going to be one dimensional really. I mean, the Bucks could win this game. I mean, I know the Packers. I haven't seen the latest spread because it's been kind of up and down.

9:23I think it opened with the Packers of Sly favor. And then I think it won minus one. Now I think it's up to three to three and a half. But if you score 24 points, I'm just like the Packers. Or kind of a mess too to be quite honest with you. Yeah, Green Bay three and a half point favorites on the road. I think that opened at Green Bay minus one. A lot of money is coming in on Green Bay. A lot. Why? Couple of reasons. One, Bucks are 0 and 3, 2, an undrafted free agent quarterback is starting, making his NFL debut. And three, the Buccaneers have not covered the spread in 12 straight games. You don't think the gamblers are looking at that. That's why the spread is all the way up to three and a half. It might get the four by Sunday. Interesting, Ted Bitt there. Would you rather see David Walker play like he did last week against Minnesota or Alex Anzaloni? Play as he did last week against the Vikings.

10:25Nania. That's a bad recipe, Jason. Oh boy. A replication of David Walker. Alex Anzaloni from last week. Jimmy the replication of David Walker. Because right now, he's probably their best past Russia. And that includes what Bane is hurt. And now you got yaya hurt. Jimmy David Walker hopefully plays more than 32% of the snaps this week. He's got to be like close to 50 on Sunday. Let's be honest about it. He's one of the very few playmakers that they have, especially when it comes to getting heat on the quarterback. So I'm pretty confident that the bucks will shut down green base running game. It's about getting after Jordan love forcing him into some bad decisions, some bad throws. So give me David Walker getting that sack. That's how we do it here. Would you rather Wednesday on the drive? Thanks for playing, Tom. Nice job. Hey, appreciate that. Very much.

11:26You know, boy, oh boy. My tell us, my tell us what some of those changes are. No, that was great. Somebody's texting again. Where are you? The F&G day where you gluer fang is shut up. All right, we're trying to keep things on an even kill. I'm trying to inject some levity in here. So I don't drive myself absolutely nuts. It gets easy to sit through this. You think it's easy on the overtime show three straight weeks. What about you guys calling it with your pitch forks? I'm trying to like, you know, inject some humor. Because this is not fun losing sucks. I don't have to tell you that. You people lighten up, man. Come on. On this last day of September, we'll come back. Final thoughts. The final drive. A look ahead to a really big letter.

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