“Jason, can this Spytek fellow of yours learn any other song than ‘Hail to the Victors?’ It’s getting tiresome. Bad enough hearing Brooks’ Warchant when he’s around.”

In a podcast hosted by former Steelers and Jets offensive lineman Willie Colon and Barstool Sports radio producer and Bucs super fan Steven Cheah, who has sort of a cult following on social media, a Bucs suit sure showed his maize and blue colors.

John Spytek, the Bucs’ director of player personnel, sat down for an interview on “Going Deep” back at the Senior Bowl in January, but the conversation was just published last week.

Spytek played linebacker at Michigan and was a teammate of new Bucs quarterback Tom Brady.

Spytek arrived at Ann Arbor after legendary Wolverines coach Bo Schembechler retired. Joe never understood why Schembechler was so legendary. For over a decade, the B1G was so horrible, the only team he had to worry about was Ohio State.

Schembechler never won a national title, ran a one-trick offense, and annually it seemed was embarrassed in the Rose Bowl. He almost always blamed losses on his opponent (accusations of cheating or getting jobbed by officials), bullied anyone that tried to stand in his way and was generally an ogre to those not somehow connected to the Michigan football program.

Schembechler ran a clean program. Joe doffs his cap in appreciation of that.

Schembechler famously had a saying that lasts to this day. He told his players that Michigan and its sustained winning ways came because Michigan is and always will be about, “The team, the team, the team.”

That saying is still drilled into the heads of Michigan players.

Spytek paraphrased Schembechler when asked by Colon how much analytics influence his player evaluations in the draft.

“I think if you rely on the numbers too much, you are kidding yourself,” Spytek said. “To me, it’s about the film, the film, the film.”

Other nuggets of interest from Spytek:

* The most valuable element of spending a week in Mobile, Ala. in January at the Senior Bowl is getting to know the players and conducting interviews. Scouts, he said, rarely get a chance to talk to players during the college football season.

* Spytek noted some players have no clue how much NFL teams know about their backgrounds. Players that lie are red flags, right off the bat. The players that own up to their mistakes and have demonstrated an ability and desire to overcome them makes a big impression on NFL types. When a player tries to con him, Spytek writes “NOPE” next to the player’s name in his notes.

* Brady was a fifth-year senior when Spytek was a freshman. Spytek said there was no way he would have guessed Brady would turn out the way he did in the NFL. Spytek did say Brady was passionate about the game, tough and very smart. Spytek played on the scout team defense and said Brady was “the same every day” in his consistency and was always prepared.

* Spytek said the most “lasting impression” he had of Brady is when Michigan went to the Orange Bowl to play Alabama. It was Spytek’s first Christmas away from his family and he was homesick. On Christmas, the team had a big dinner where Santa made an appearance giving gifts, which didn’t lift Spytek’s gloomy mood. Rather than sit with coaches or fellow seniors, Brady chose to sit with the redshirt freshmen during the hour-long dinner. Spytek never forgot that gesture.

* The Bucs swapped out of the No. 7 pick in the 2018 draft with Buffalo and selected Vita Vea at No. 12. Spytek said if the Bucs didn’t make that trade they still would have drafted Vea at No. 7.

* Spytek said one highlight of his scout days was, while at Cleveland, he rated former Bucs safety T.J. Ward highly coming out of college. The Browns drafted him in the second round. Later while working for the Broncos, he put in a good word for Ward who the Broncos signed as a free agent and won a Super Bowl with him. Though unspoken in the interview, Joe thinks readers can do the rest of the math for this story.

* What matters most for an offensive lineman, Spytek said, is consistency. An offensive lineman could play well all game but if he has two bad pass sets, “It can derail your whole game.” (Rondé Barber appears to have similar thoughts.)

* Wonderlic Test scores are BS. He cited Frank Gore as having one of the worst Wonderlic scores in the history of the test, but he could play. A poor Wonderlic score is much more a function of going to bad schools than lack of football aptitude, Spytek believes.