Michael Irvin Talks To Joe
July 15th, 2019
“The Playmaker” is pumped!
Joe is cleaning out his voice recorder of interviews conducted earlier this year as we inch toward training camp. One such interview Joe enjoyed while fighting with other NFL reporters to squeeze a question in was with Hall of Fame receiver Michael Irvin.
Irvin, currently an NFL Network analyst, is totally psyched to see the magic that Irvin predicts between Bucco Bruce Arians and Mike Evans. When Joe asked Irvin about Evans, Irvin got so excited he began slapping the table in front of him the way Joe envisions some Bucs suit slapping a conference table selling others on the deranged concept the team was better off without Michael Bennett and how the team should walk away from him (for no good reason).
Let’s just say when this Hall of Fame wide receiver is stoked about a guy who is putting up Hall of Fame numbers, it is real recognizing real.
JoeBucsFan: What do you like about Mike Evans?
Michael Irvin: Aw, everything! I love the big fella. I love the big fella, ya know? He is a phenomenal wide receiver. And I thought about that coming out [in the draft]. Remember when he came out with Sammy Watkins and all of those guys? When he came out it was all about Sammy Watkins. And I like Sammy. I like Sammy. But I kept saying, ‘Man, I’m taking Mike Evans first.’ I said it then.
They were trying to make you think that Johnny Manziel was making Mike Evans. I was telling them, ‘No! Mike Evans was making Johnny Manziel.’ Because he was just throwing that thing up and he would come down with it. I was like, “Listen — listen! You guys got this wrong. That dude is making this dude. This dude isn’t making that dude.’
That was a bad dude and he is still a bad dude. I can’t wait. You know what? Of all the things I want to say I am looking forward to [this] year, I will say I am looking forward to that the most: To see what Bruce Arians will do with him. Now you have a master with master talent. Boy! I can’t wait to see that. To see the style he did with Larry [Fitzgerald] and emotional like he did with Larry to push him, to make him do some blocking. He will push him.
I cannot wait to see what Bruce Arians does with that kind of talent.
For Joe this is a forgotten aspect of what Arians will do with the Bucs. Folks constantly connect Arians to America’s Quarterback, Pro Bowler Jameis Winston. And there’s a big reason why.
But lost in all the chatter about what Arians can or will do for Jameis is the notion of what Arians will do with Evans.
This should be fun!
July 15th, 2019 at 12:05 am
Remember when his nickname on this site was K-Y Hands…? He earned it! –Joe
July 15th, 2019 at 2:10 am
Mike Evans is hands down getting a gold jacket and a bust in canton from what I’m seeing so far.
July 15th, 2019 at 4:45 am
No question Evans is on his way to greatness. His numbers are there, and for HoF credentials he need only continue on his recent path of keeping his cool on the field and being in the news for reasons that make football people glad, and not sad. It would be great if he can point to a title or two, or a ring in there somewhere. It’s the whole person thing. Endearment to all football walks of line from fans to players to owners to media to community. Keep the trajectory, and it will be a cinch for Ira to make the pitch for Mike if he can keep all that up.
July 15th, 2019 at 5:51 am
Magadude—
Maybe I’m showing my age…but has another entity possessed your body? From my recollection, you were always one of the biggest trollers with JBF. But recently, your posts have been really substantive and I enjoy reading them.
If I initially had you pegged as another contributor, or if I just got you wrong, I apologize. I now understand you have some rich history as a long-suffering Bucs fan. Indeed, like with JA and Defense Rules, I seek your posts.
July 15th, 2019 at 5:53 am
Bucs suit slapping a conference table selling others on the deranged concept the team was better off without Michael Bennett and how the team should walk away from him (for no good reason).
Some Bucs suit?……it was Mark Dominick…….
July 15th, 2019 at 5:54 am
If Evans gets a 1000 yards this season, he makes NFL history as the first receiver to to achieve those numbers in his first 6 seasons as a pro! Mike Evans chasing history! Amazing! Go Bucs!
July 15th, 2019 at 6:11 am
What Arians will do with EVERYONE!!!
July 15th, 2019 at 7:06 am
Irvin: “…catch it in your body.”
Everyone: “But everyone teaches to catch it out front with their hands.”
Irvin: “But I’m the one who is in the HOF!”
-My favorite opinion of Irvin’s
I like his opinion of ME here, too!
July 15th, 2019 at 7:08 am
Dirks great grandpappy
Yah . If joe doesn’t like a player to the degree of a certain other player on the team which he obsesses over , then you can get a negative moniker. “ KY hands”
Yet the player that he always obsesses about …can play bad …and bad again and he will always be viewed as the ONE…literally Jesus Christ walking the earth.
Only here …you gotta love it.
Mike Evans is the best player we got . And mike Evans is great cause of mike Evans . People forget he got 12 TDs his rookie year catching balls from ? McClown (negative moniker) and glennon (forget his negative moniker). Two guys that clearly didn’t move joes needle
July 15th, 2019 at 7:37 am
Arians knows how to get the ball to his best player/ receiver – Larry Fitzgerald is good example
He will finds ways to get singled and exploit defense
Jameis connection with mike is probably even better then cam Brate connection
I am hoping for 15 Tds this year between the two.
Go Bucs. Just a little under 8 weeks to go.
July 15th, 2019 at 7:47 am
Magadude
I’m with Todd. While I never suspected you as a former poster I surely respected you as a troll.
But as Todd just pointed out…”But recently, your posts have been really substantive and I enjoy reading them.”
BTW I agree with your observations about ME13. As a young man…first two years perhaps…I thought he was his own worst enemy because of his lack of maturity and constant whining at the refs which of course had the opposite effect of what he wanted. He was targeted and not in a good way by the refs.
I never really worried that much about his hands…while not awesome they are very good and that’s not a major problem in my eyes.
July 15th, 2019 at 8:17 am
Todd, because of some past injuries with life in general, on some days I feel like I’m possessed with something. Anyway, some things folks agree on, some they don’t. On some folks get downright nasty. But none of that, and none of football means as much to me as just saying what I think, and seeing what others think, and hopefully somewhere in there Joe keeps givnig us good facts and info to chomp on. Take the gloves off. I do that for a living.
I love the enthusiasm and unending optimism of some, but that doesn’t mean I share it blindly having lived an learned. I have always been a Bucs fan, and always will be, but that doesn’t mean I’m always hoorah about things. Like my bride of 34 years, there are things she hates about me but there’s never any danger of a breakup (within reason, at least I hope).
I get pissed at the Bucs constantly, and if fans aren’t busting their chops on a daily basis about what those things are, we never do our best, do our part to get them better. Now, there is a time where you stop planning and strategizing and go out and fly the mission with what you have. That’s coming soon. What you will see is during that time I’m not a “burn it down” type of guy. Time and place for everything.
It takes all kinds. What I like most about this place is it’s designed for all, including the site owner, to say what’s on their mind (while remaining within the law). Try that anywhere else, where you must have a log-in, moderator, contact info for your first-born, in some places PAY, have 140 character limit. etc etc. Good thing going here.
Thanks for the post….
July 15th, 2019 at 8:20 am
@Todd….only been on here for few months…over the off season.
July 15th, 2019 at 8:26 am
Weird that Mike makes QBs better than they actually are…imagine Jameis without ME? Scary
July 15th, 2019 at 8:38 am
I’ve said it once I’ll say it again .. take away Evans and jameis ain’t s*%#!
July 15th, 2019 at 8:45 am
Gonna be fun to watch. The Mike Evans to HOF is way off base. He’s a very good WR. I love Mike but he’s not a game changer. He doesn’t take games over and win them like Moss. Irvin was a force in meaningful games. Putting Mike with the likes of Jerry Rice is just ridiculous at this point. Mike has no meaningful games under his belt yet. Hopefully BA changes that, but garbage time stats on perennial losing teams are meaningless to the HOF votes and they know how yards are produced. Most of them had a HOF QB throwing them the ball as well. Winston does not fit that bill, not even close. Hopefully once the bucs move on from Winston Mike gets a chance to really shine but I doubt Mike ends his career here.
July 15th, 2019 at 9:14 am
They were trying to make you think that Johnny Manziel was making Mike Evans. I was telling them, ‘No! Mike Evans was making Johnny Manziel.’ Because he was just throwing that thing up and he would come down with it. I was like, “Listen — listen! You guys got this wrong. That dude is making this dude. This dude isn’t making that dude.’
I guess Light got this one right…… others…… well
Hopefully the Manziel fans are listening to the HOF.
July 15th, 2019 at 11:25 am
If Mike Evans earned the nickname of K Y hands.
Then Jameis might just as well earned the nickname of butterfingers. That is if Joe was equally critical of all players.
July 15th, 2019 at 11:25 am
Give me a team with the will to win like he had with Dallas. He partied hard, no doubt about it. But he also put in the work and had the drive to win.
July 15th, 2019 at 5:30 pm
You should get one of the Zendahas brothers on here to discuss kicking!
July 15th, 2019 at 7:46 pm
Damn, this article has got me pumped up and the first game is still so far away…
July 15th, 2019 at 9:56 pm
I hate Dallas with a passion but it’s hard to not Like Michael Irving he’s got a gang of charisma and he knows recievers.