"The players are going to be the ones who decide the game," the Tampa Bay head coach insisted Tuesday. "Hopefully, my situation is a sidebar here."

	"	It was an adjustment for me, coming from Jacksonville. These guys talk the talk and walk the walk. "
		— Keenan McCardell, Bucs WR

Keyshawn Johnson, the self-absorbed wide receiver, is listing his athletic accomplishments, going back to Little League baseball.

Defensive tackle Warren Sapp seems a little nervous, but even his B-material is choice stuff.

Simeon Rice, 20 minutes late to his personal podium, is mixing metaphors and analogies with reckless abandon.

"It's a crash of titans, it's a game of epic proportions, the best of the best," the defensive end says in a single breath. "This is hysteria."

And that's about when it hits you. This is probably the deepest roster ever to appear at a Super Bowl Media Day, in terms of elocutionists. The 1985 Bears, led by Jim McMahon, Steve McMichael and Dan Hampton, were pretty good. The 2000 Ravens, with Tony Siragusa, Ray Lewis and Rod Woodson, had style.

But after 16 Super Bowls -- I had to count them -- I can say it with authority: These Bucs can flat bring it. If the game came down to glibness, this one would be over by the second quarter.

Even an incredibly poorly timed helicopter hovering over Qualcomm Stadium could not succeed in drowning out the Bucs.

Take Keenan McCardell, for instance. On most teams, he's the No. 1 or No. 2 featured performer. He has a great vocabulary, a sense of humor and (for the television folks) terrific facial expressions.

On this team? He can't even get to the microphone. He might be No. 7, behind Sapp, Rice, Keyshawn, Gruden, Ronde Barber and John Lynch.

"It was an adjustment for me, coming from Jacksonville," McCardell said. "These guys talk the talk and walk the walk."

Said Rice: "Last year, with New England, nobody knew about those guys. Now, you're looking at the stars of the game."

Greg Garber is a senior writer for ESPN.com.