Three-time All-Pro Gerald McCoy and two-time Super Bowl champ Kyle Van Noy discuss the Buccaneers wide receiver’s devastating injury in the final minute of Monday night’s loss to the Ravens and whether Tampa Bay’s starters should’ve been in the game. Hear the full conversation on “McCoy & Van Noy” - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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Let's go to Chris Godwin real quick.

Teams have come back on us a couple of times.

So you feel like you can win, but should he have been in, should he have been out?

What, what are your thoughts?

My thoughts are, I've been in this situation and I could easily have come out of the game.

But being the competitor, I am, I stayed in anything can happen.

But nah, you know, and this is me personally, I wouldn't have Baker in either.

This ain't, this is, this is not even about just Chris Godwin.

I wouldn't have Baker in the game either because it's, the game is out of reach.

And a lot of people say, well, you know, they got their own side and this and this and then Baltimore.

No, no, no, we wasn't coming back if you understand the sport and how momentum works and you see how the game is going.

There was no instance in that game where we were going to come back.

Chris could have easily been taken out of the game.

Baker could have easily been taken out of the game, but here's what I don't want people to do and the fans are gonna kill me for this, but I don't care, I know how the operation works.

The head coach has final say, but he has final say on everything that happens with this football team, special teams, defense offense, what coach is doing, what, uh time management, all of this watching everything.

So for people to sit here and blame Todd Bowles for having Chris G in the game, do you know how much other stuff he has to worry about my position, coach controlled, whether I was in the game or not.

The head coach ain't walking down to every position group saying take him out, take him out, take him, you know what, you know how much, how much time that would take to have to worry about every position group.

So for fans to just be blaming Todd Bowles and this and that man, I'm not gonna let y'all put this on, on Todd Bowles, man.

It's a lot of variables that went into Chris Godwin being in the game.

Chris is a competitor and he's one of the best receivers in the league.

If he don't want to come out, he ain't coming out the game.

That's just my thoughts on it and it, it sucks to see.

I think they said he has a dislocated ankle.

We can have all the back and forth.

We want the, the thing that's most important is the player's health.

We can argue this and this and that man, it don't matter.

The player's health is what matters.

We all need to be wishing well to the players.

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