July 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the NFC North being ranked as the toughest division. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, and Manti Te'o name their Top 5 most important people in the NFC North. Does College Football need a salary cap? Plus, Marlon and Bobby Humphrey drop by to discuss their Father-Son project.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Yeah, that's right. What's happening to good people? Good Morning Football?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a Friday Who Friday, July eleventh, We've been working
all week for this segment, which is top five most
interesting people of what we're about to tell you on GMFB.
We're live in New York and La Jamie ardl Mantey
Tao and Kyle Brant wearing the generic GMFB branded T
shirts casual Friday. For Kyle, Kyle, it's how proud do
you feel.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Wearing that out of the closet.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I feel great. You know. It's kind of like when
someone in the band wears the band's T shirt on stage.
I always had full respect for that. There's no problem.
Jason Newstaid from Metallic used to do it all the time,
and I do it today on a Friday. Manti Jamie me,
let's start the show.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's going to be a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Football.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's GMFB. Panic is the name of the game on
the Friday. Mant I like to say Aloha Friday. I'm
saying Panic Friday because we're doing a top five list
and once again, I find myself ill prepared, and it feels.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like it's because Kyle.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You would think he changed the rules of the game again,
just mere minutes before the segment. We've known about this
since last night, and I just cannot Kyle come up
with my top five lists are? Do you already have
yours written?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah? I'm working on it right here. I got three
of the five. We're about to do a list that's
like it's it's an interesting one literally, because we're talking
about a certain division that Jamie is going to tee up,
and we have to list the five most interesting people
in that division. It could be a celebrity fan, it
could be an athletic trainer, it could be the start court,
it could be anybody. But I got my list cooking.
I know you guys do too.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I don't know first cooking because it's like PTSD so
lists this week?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did it worked for me? This week?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Hard time?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And this name right here, Dad, I got it on
my list, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, it's like the smelling Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, he got it correct. It's Yean And we just
don't know the rest of yours. So here we go.
Since Kyle is being ever so studious in the Princeton
grad that he is. His list is always almost complete,
so he's going to have to go first on this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Our guy Eric at Home over on.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
NFL dot com quote an awesome article.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That you got to check out. It's ranking all eight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Divisions entering the twenty twenty five season according to Power Rankings. Okay,
so Kyle always talks about, well, we know who's going
to be first for the teams and who's going to
be thirty one to thirty two. You're just looking at
eight numbers here, and.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
This is by division.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The final four teams buying for last season Super Bowl
came from the NFC East, which still only sits at four.
AFC East and the AFC West you can see are
hanging there right at three and four. So NFC North, though,
if you ask Eric at home, has the branging rights.
So let's hang in this division. We oftentimes call it
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the toughest. You know, they're going to get after each other,
they're going to on the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But interesting is the name of the game.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Here, Kyle, your top five most interesting people in the
NFC North Who you got?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I like this? I'm ready all right. So I'll start.
We'll go from five to one. Number five, I'm going
to start with the Chicago Bear. The Bears have had
so many draft picks over the last couple of years
just due to trades and kayleb Ma They're always drafting
these really high drafted players. And number five for me,
I have Coaston Loveland. He is the tight end out
of Michigan that the Bears took in the first round
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of the draft. Raised a lot of eyebrows on Draft
night as they drafted in the shadows of lambeau Field
One because it just felt like a little bit like
Ben Johnson was bringing sand to the beach with another
weapon for Caleb. And then also there was so many
draft prognosticators who thought that Tyler Warren from Penn State
was the guy they should have taken. He felt differently.
They took Coaston Loveland and now it's the cupboard is stocked, restocked,
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and double stocked for Kayleb Williams. Was this guy worth
that high of a pick when they already have Cole Comet.
We will find out. Number four I love this one.
I have John Morton. John Morton is the offensive coordinator
for the Detroit Lions. Not Johnny Morton. That's the old
wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. John Morton has the
simple task of stepping into this incredible offense that throws
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the offensive lineman, does double passes where the quarterback stumbles
on purpose. John Morton is taking over the reins for
the Jared Goff offense, an offense in which one saw
Jared Goff go eighteen for eighteen last year because of
his chemistry with Ben Johnson. John Morton is going to
step up and take over that offense. Hugely pivotal figure
in the NFC North. Do the Lions fall off a
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little bit? There he is again. Guys, they longtime had
a receiver named Johnny Morton. This is just John and
he has a really important job. John Morton doesn't just
affect the NFC North. He affects the NFC if the
Lions are in the playoffs. This is the guy pushing
the buttons to get the ball to all those great
Lions players. He's my number four, number three. I'm the
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most interesting people to me in the NFC North. Matthew Golden.
Matthew Golden of the Green Bay Packers interesting. You know why?
We know why because the Packers decided to go up
there with a wink and a smile and draft a
wide receiver in the first round, this time from the
University of Texas and hand him to Jordan Love as
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Aaron Rodgers probably was on a beach in Malibuth throwing
up somewhere. They haven't done it for years and years
and years and years, you know, as much talked about
at the draft, and now we get to the point
where Matthew Golden, Okay, can you play, Bud, Can you
get in there and be a number one wide receiver
because it feels like the Packers have been messing around
for a while now and not truly had that guy
Who's I'm going to go out and get one hundred catches.
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I'm going to score twelve touchdowns this year. I'm going
to do the likes of Jamar Chase and Ceedee Lamb.
I'm going to be a superstar in this league. And
if you're drafted in the first round as a wide
out for that city, you better be Matthew Golden. Great suit,
great personality, great story, great player. We don't know, we'll
find out. Number two guys, these are the headliners. JJ McCarthy.
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I mean, JJ McCarthy is one of the most interesting
people in the entire NFL right now, because I don't know, Oh,
JJ McCarthy, I might be great, might be Drew Brees,
might not work out. It might be Christian Ponder Vikings fans.
I don't know. I know this massive sliding doors that
he affected. He is in basically the reason why Kirk
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Cousins isn't there. In so many ways, he's certainly the
reason that Sam Darnold's not there. He comes off a
big injury, didn't throw a lot in college. I'm just
rehashing all the draft stuff. He's a likable figure who
was incredible in any of the football we've seen him play.
We've never really seen him play NFL football, and he
walks into the league with the responsibility of throwing to
the league's most explosive receiver, at least the Nfcason Jefferson.
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You gotta feed Jefferson. Also, I said this yesterday. JJ
McCarthy's first two games of his career are both in
prime time and both against quarterbacks drafted in his same
year in Caleb and Pennix. That is an auspicious debut.
He better hope it is. But number one, guys, you
know where I'm going. The number one most interesting person
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the entire NFC. I've already mentioned him five times just
in describing the other people on this list. It's Ben Johnson.
It is the head coach of the Chicago Bears. And
as we look back to the last year in Caleb
Williams entry into the NFL being the number one overall
pick in the draft, it is almost bizarre to remember
that Caleb comes into the league and Caleb's offensive coordinator,
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Shane Waldron, was fired after nine games. Caleb's head coach,
Matt Eberflus, was fired after twelve games. I have to
tell you last summer, before Caleb's first season began, I
was at Wrigley Field seeing Pearl Jam. I ran into
Shane Waldron. I said hi to him, right out by
the Wrigley Field sign. Hey, what's up man? Wishing you
all kinds of luck this year, go get it. Three
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months later he was fired, fired Matt Ebraflus right after him.
It was a terrible, terrible bit of nesting by the
Bears to welcome in Caleb, and then they do what
no one thought they would do, including me. Hire that guy,
the big name, the big dollars, the big pedigree, and
comes right in against his former team, the Lions calls
out at natt Lafleur Ben Johnson. I mentioned him during Loveland,
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I mentioned during Morton. I could have mentioned him during
all these guys, I think not only the most interesting
hire in the NFC North, the most interesting hire in
the NFL this year. That is my list. I got
a tight end, a coordinator, a wide receiver, quarterback, and
a head coach. And guys, we have plenty of time,
and you've certainly had plenty of time to do your homework.
So Mantai, would you like to go next? Talking about homework?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Excellent?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You remember where we had those group projects in school
and you went up there with their partner and you
could tell which partner did their homework and which partner
did it. You could tell that KB did his homework.
He came with that and do the work. But you know, Jamie,
you you're a basketball coach for your daughter's team. And
what's one of the things that we do right when
we warm up is we do some layups.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Make them jump, I make them jump on one foot
to make sure we don't have any ankle springs.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
In the youth sports coaches.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We did a lot of layups when we started basketball.
And I'm going to take this slay up right here
because there's somebody that I thought was going to be
on kb's list that Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell is number five.
Why because he's the layup. I think if there's anybody
that is interesting or the most interesting in this division
is Dan Campbell. And if you want to know what
type of impact somebody like Dan Campbell can have on
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his team, watch the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But if you want to see the.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Type of impact that Dan Campbell can have on a player,
just watch the QB documentary Part two on Netflix and
watch Jared Goff get kind of emotional at talking about
his head coach and how it feels to be wanted
and how he made him feel to feel wanted on
that team. So I got Dan Campbell's number five. Now
I'm staying with the same team. For number four, I
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got Pine Seoul. Now, you got to be very interesting
when you're that large and can move that quick and
be that athletic and then be utilized not only in
trick plays to catch the ball, but to also block
the ball to do hooking ladders. You want to say,
that's Pine School. He also is the leader of the
pack when it comes to leading them in the pregame routines.
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Just listen to him and you want to run through
a brick wall. So number four for me is Pine School.
Now number three, I got like three lions. I just
noticed that I have three lions. Number three is a
man of Saint Brown. Now, when you can memorize and
recite all sixteen receivers that were drafted before you, you're
very very interesting. I can barely memorize or learn some
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of my takes on this show, let alone the sixteen
guys that could have been drafted before me. Matter of fact,
I was thirty eight. I don't even remember the other
thirty seven, let alone two of them that were drafted
before me. So a MANA, you're very interesting. Now this
is where I take a little turn. Number two Tucker Craft. Now,
Tucker Craft is very interesting to me because when you
come from Timberlake.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
South Dakota, which has.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
A population of around five hundred people, yet you lead
all tight ends in the NFL and yards after catch,
you're very interesting. But this is what resonates with me
with Tucker Craft. He is an honorable family member, you
could say of the Cheyenne Rivershoe tribe, and Chairman Lebau
of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said this, when we
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want to honor someone, we make them our relative. I
resonate with that. Why because in our culture, the Polynesian culture,
we do the same thing. That's why Jamie, you're my sister,
and kV you're my brother.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So Scraft you're number two. Now number one.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
As a father of two, I have a son, and
when I look around, I try to find out who
can I tell my son, Hey, when you grow up,
I want you to be like that person.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And number one is Justin Jefferson. Now you may be asking, well.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You probably want him to be like that because he
makes a lot of money, he has a lot of
highlight catches. Well, the reason why I like Justin Jefferson
is this, It's very very rare that you find somebody
like Justin Jefferson that is as talented as he is.
It has accomplished as much as he's accomplished in this
league in such a short amount of time, and it's
being paid a bookoo amount of money.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yet, when asked if he was going to buy a.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Million dollar house after signing, he said this, I'm one person.
I ain't got no big f I don't need to
be in a ten million dollar mansion. That's not something
I came from. I grew up with parents that was
grateful for what they have.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I was grateful for what I grew up with.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
That is somebody that I want my son to look
up to and say, man Son, you could be great
and still be a great person. This is my list
of the five most interesting people Jamie in the NFC
North and I like it pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It's a good list with Kyle what you got?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I gotta chime in, and I'm on Rod Saint
Brown Man Tay, You're gonna love this. So I've been
really aggressive in watching the Netflix show all right, So
I'm watching all these guys about quarterbacks with Jared Goff
and all that. So arman Ra tells this great story
about his jersey number. So he wanted his jersey to
be the amount of wide receivers drafted in front of him.
That was his thing. Okay, because he got drafted late.
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He asks his girlfriend Brooklyn to help him and count
the number of wide receivers drafted in front of him.
She goes, it's fourteen. He drafts number fourteen. It's not
it's sixteen. She messed up, She says, I miscounted it wrong.
She messed up by two and by the time she
realized that he had already picked fourteen. So he's really
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supposed to be sixteen, which is actually Jared Goff's number.
So he's like, you know what, oh well, fourteen sixteen.
Jared looks better in sixteen than me. But there's this
whole convoluted backstory that I guess as a happy ending
to it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's awesome and somehow Manti be so eloquent about his list,
having quotes from chiefs of towns in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And Kyle, I know, do it on Jim Baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Exactly, you did great.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Still, I am still panicking and actively like writing my
list because I just I always like to have a theme.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, and I finally came up with my theme. Non
head coaches, non players.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Okay, We're going to start with the Packer secondary Okay,
specifically the Packer secondary head coach Ryan Downard. Do you
know the names of the quarterbacks? That are in your division.
I'm sure you do, my friend, but are they creating
nightmares for you? The Packers ranked in the top five
and a ton wow, that was a cool glare a
ton of defense categories last year, specifically when it came
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to passing yards.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Can you maintain that? Are you going to have a
guy jump out after.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You let go one of your stars on defense for
the Packers this offseason? And who's going to step up
in that absence? Are you going to become a unit
that we are so impressed by because the quarterbacks and
the wide receivers and the offensive masterminds that lie waiting
in your divisional like crocodiles, And how are you gonna
hunt them?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And make sure so?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Ryan Downard, I am looking at you, Packer secondary coach,
Bears special teams coach Richard high Tower. I hope you
don't have a lot of work to do this season.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay. The Bears in total.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Were the second most punts last year, which means they
got into trouble and they had to give that ball away.
And I don't wish that upon you this year, Richard
high Tower. I also think that they don't need to
be kicking a lot of field goals. I think the
Bears need to be a red zone threat, and I
hope Kyle, what was it last year? The Commander's punter
had no work to do. It was like the best
Halloween costume you messed up with, right trust.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We called them the tag Man because that's what I
He dressed up as the maytag Man for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Because of our segment, you're the best and because you
came up with that creative pull. I hope that for
Richard high Tower that he's this year's maytag Man because
I want the Bears offense to do something to the
special team so doesn't have to do anything Minnesota quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Coach Josh McCown.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Okay, so I was very impressed with Kevin O'Connell's willingness
to go out and hire Josh McCown two years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But the impact that this.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Guy had on Sam Darnold and his arrival to Minnesota
cannot be overlooked to the point where if this thing
goes well for JJ McCarthy this year. Of course, a
lot of it has to do with the man on
the headset, Kevin O'Connell patiently telling his quarterback what the
players are within the offense. But that cannot be overlooked
by what Josh McCown did for JJ McCarthy all of
last year. I was at a handful of Vikings games.
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If you saw JJ McCarthy, you saw Josh McCown not
two feet from this guy. During the games, he was
constantly in his ear. It's like the sixth player coming
off the bench in a basketball game. Sometimes those are
the most impactful players because they can watch how the
game starts, and then they come in and they help
reinforce a tone that is so successful for a team
that it helps them be the boost. That's why six
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man is a reward the NBA. All Right, So Josh mcown,
I'm looking at you. Plus, if it goes well, he's
probably gonna get a head coaching job.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Now I'm looking at the two coordinators in Detroit because Kyle,
I'm right there with you. Once again, it's like the
Eagles effect. You have this impact of two new coordinators.
A couple of years back, the Eagles had to deal
with this and it didn't go well.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
They had to settle into business.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Nick Sirianni had to come back in and find Vic
Fangio and find things that work for him and Kellen Moore.
Are the Lions going to be able to skip over
that speed bump and have these two men be the
leader of really excellent groups to maintain their position in
the division or are we going to have an.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Eagles issue or the Lion like what happened to the Lions?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, they did have two new coordinators, So I went
non player, non head coach, top five most interesting people
in my division.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wow, guys, look at that. You went straight coaches.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Specific I went straight players, and then KB just came
in and mixed that thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
What a great way to start off at Friday on
JIMFB guys, Hot.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Friday, hotly, Oh hat Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
All right, let's get out of here, this dealer speaking
of the NFC North, not Let's go to the AFC North.
The Steelers reports a training camp on July twenty third.
Of course, Aaron Rodgers is going to get a ton
of attention. That's the obvious statement of the century right now.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
What is going to happen though, when.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Two of their best at other positions matchup. You're looking
at that guy the candy man, DK Metcalf and Jalen
Ramsey new to town.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Time for another round of buying or keep trying?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Is DK still on the candy? Where are we with that?
Has he changed? Is he cut back? I hope I
already tightened it up a little bit, but I don't
know if I believe it. We're going to have Ravens
star cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who is pound from pound, one
of the biggest personalities the entire NFL. I mean, he
has so many things to say. He is so vibrant,
he's so interesting. We're also going to have his dad,
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former Broncos running back Bobby Humphrey, is going to be
with Marlon all that, so much more talking Ravens, talking,
Lamar talking everything. Jim met be on a Friday, can't
beat it, Good morning. This was a matchup to what
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how do they get away from any kind of man
a man matchup like they had today with Jalen Ramsey
and DK Metcalf. Dalen Ramsey plays it perfectly.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Russ had a shot for DK deep and he just
overthrew him.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Man one, Lord Kake touchdown. They can take the Sharks
the Cabo Gino's gonna throw off first down. Jalen Ramsey
intercepts Gino Smith's first rows.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Gino rolls left rows back to the middle of the
field and it's intercepted by Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ramsey strikes back against Seattle.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Look at those two.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Buying or keep Trying, that's the name of the segment.
I'm gonna take ten seconds here and say that our
crew at least in Los Angeles on GMTB shows up
in this building one two, three o'clock in the morning,
and that means that we have meals together and we've
just got hand delivered breakfasts by Norma and our NFL cafeteria.
We love Norma, we love breakfast. And who's going to
eat on the show today? I probably am in a
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commercial break, but who's going to eat on this Steelers roster?
That's the question in Buying or Keep Trying? All right, Kyle,
don't be jealous of the bacon. We will see you
here in September and you two can have a breakfast delivery.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Newly acquired Steelers cornerback Jalen Ramsey will be wearing the
number five formerly worn by the team's punter Cameron Johnston,
which makes both Steelers punters having to change their numbers
due to new arrivals on the team. Corlis Weightman gave
up his number eight to Aaron Rodgers and now punter
Cameron Johnson's number five to Jalen Ramsey. That's the ultimate
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sacrifice by the special teams. Let's just say that, buying
or keep trying this Now it's DK Metcalf against Jalen
Ramsey looks to be one of the most intriguing matchups
to watch Usteler camps.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Manta, you buy in.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Or you keep trying that this is the most intriguing
matchup to watch US Steelers camp.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, you're talking about Steelers camp.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I think I keep trying buying on this reason being
is they're not like rivals. Okay, like Jalen Ramsey isn't
going against Golden Tate in there, and DK Metcalf isn't
going against the forty Niners dB now who he's teammates with.
We're talking about two guys that are fierce competitors, and
so I'm keep trying. But what I am buying is
these two guys are individuals that you're going to want
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to watch during the season Because about two decades ago,
two of the greatest players who ever played the positions
in Jerry Rice and Deon Sanders came together on the
San Francisco forty Niners and they happened to win the
Super Bowl that year. Now I'm not saying that the
Pittsburgh Steelers, because they have Jalen Ramsey and DK Metcalf
now are going to win the super Bowl. But what
I am saying is when you're a teammate of these
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two and you see them go at it and iron
Sharpuren's iron, great things happen. Younger guys look into like, man,
that's how it's supposed to be done. If the two
best guys on our team are going at it the
way that they're going at it, we're going to be better.
It reminds me a lot when I played for the
Saints and we dropped the Shawn Latimore and we had
Michael Thomas on the team, former teammates, but on the
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field at practice, those two guys were just going at
each other, and just imagine how it is for all
of us to kind of see this competition on the
practice field. So then when we got to the game field,
it's like it's not going to be harder than practice,
because we know what we went up again. So for me,
I'm keep trying Jamie because I don't think it's gonna
be musty TV during training camp. The Steelers fans are
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going to like it, but I think it is going
to be mussy TV when the season actually starts.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna buy on this. I'm thinking of what
Manti is putting down in that ox Snard, California is
where the Cowboys have training camp, and back in the day,
I talk about this every year. I used to drive
out there just as a fan. When I was living
in LA I was a football fan. I wasn't working
in the NFL or anything like that. I would drive
out there and watch practice, just hang over the barricades
with everybody else. And I remember I went in two
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thousand and eight and they would line up and it
was Tary Loans versus pac Man, and these are two
super famous dudes, and they would go at it one
on one. Is this whole surrounding area where people would
just watch the one on ones, and the linemen are there,
and the linebackers are there, and even the quarterbacks weren't
the center of attention at that point. It was watching
those wide receiver ones go up against those cornerbacks, and
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when one of them gets beat, there's all these oohs,
and there's this whole are about it. I think this
is a huge matchup. Let's not forget Jalen Ramsey, a
long time ram He played against DK a lot in
the NFC West and it was not always pleasant. Go
ahead and pull it up. I mean there it is
right there. This is lockstep coverage. There was after the
whistle stuff. This is two I think two good dudes
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is just really really competitive. These are two alphas. There
are two sharks, whatever you want to call them. And also,
like there's the thing with Jalen now where I see
he change the number five, and that's cool, but the
number for me is four. He's on his fourth team
in the last six years. Like Jalen Ramsey used to
have the belt. I don't know if he still does
as the best corner in the league. Maybe he does,
but when you're the best corner the league, you don't
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bounce around that much. There we go. We actually found
a picture. I'm I'm surprised I'm not in the background.
I remember I stopped that Denny's on the way there
and got a moons over Miami and my niece on Pathfinder.
But I used to go back in the day, so yes, Jamie,
outside of the best matchup, look at that people, if
you look back there, I might be me with like
my Nokia camera, my digital camera that I had gotten
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for Christmas. Yep, those two went at it and to
was a monster and he could not be contained. I
think this was Bill Parcell's Tony Romeo era. But the
memories are starting to fade. I'll wrap up just the
number one matchup in Steelers' training camp right now. It
hasn't opened yet, will be TJ. Watt versus Ownership, But
until then, I still do like watching these two guys
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DK and Jalen.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It is an unfortunate time I've just hit in my
career where in that moment I said, he's about to
say TJ. Watt against whatever negotiating tactic he's coming, because
like that is the perfect parallel or spin if you will,
for the matchup.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It is true. If you look up, you just google.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
DK metcalf Comma, Jalen Ramsey, which is why I was
like in my surface for a second, there there are
highlights of and I'm getting physical just at the line
of scrimmage fully off the ball from like a Sunday
night football broadcast, and I was absolutely enthralled. Let's hope
that doesn't happen. I can, but if it does, we're
here to talk about it. Okay, moving on buying or
keep trying the ultimate topic for coach Prime Colorado. Buffalo's
head coach Dan Sanders had some strong comments about nil
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money and how colleges should handle it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Let's take a lesson.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I wish it was.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
A cap, you know, like the top of the line
player makes this, and if you're not that type of guy,
you know you're not gonna make that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's what the NFL does.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So the problem is you got a guy that's not
that darn good, but he could go to another school
and they give him a half a million dollars and
you can. You can't compete with that. It don't make sense.
And you're talking about equality, not equality like equal I
thinks to equality. And all you have to do is
look at the playoffs and see what those teams spent.
And you understand during your white in the playoffs, it's
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kind of hard to compete with somebody who's giving twenty
five thirty million dollars of Durn freshman class.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
We're not complaining because all these coaches up here co
coach it butts off and given the right opportunity with
the right players and play here and.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
There, you be there.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
But what's going on right now don't make sense, and
we want to say stuff, but we're trying to be professional.
But you're going to see the same teams during at
the end and with somebody who sneaks up in there.
But the team that pays the more, pays the most,
is going to be then it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But that's what makes it so wild when like the
Yankees aren't there at the end and they are the ones.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That have to spend the most money.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So the salary cap exists in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It does not elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It does not in college football right now, Dean Sanders
thinks that it should. Colleges should start having salary caps
to have an equitable finish to the season. If we will, Kyle,
are you buying this or keep trying on Prime's proposition
for college football?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, salary cap is one of my favorite things that
the NFL does. I absolutely adore it. I love it. It's
it's It is the word equality. It is why you
have teams. I've seen the Carolina Panthers in the Super
Bowl before, I've seen any name, any team. It's not
just every single year Cowboys and Giants and like you know,
women baseball. Look last year's the Yankees versus Dodgers. I
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think it sucks. I don't like it. I love that
we have the salary cap, and I do think it
makes it fair. I don't think it's a terrible idea
from Dion. But at the roots of it, there was
not too long ago. It was about five years ago.
We were in this ridiculous world that we all sort
of just stomached, where Johnny Manzel could not accept one
thousand dollars to sign some autographs, and Terrelle Pryor would
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be suspended for getting some tattoos, and the Livy Dunns
of the world could not sell yoga pants. They could
not they or they would be suspended. And everyone said,
we should fix that. It's ridiculous, and it was, and
they did fix it. And there's a lot of me
that wishes it could have just stopped there where name
image like is great, do whatever you want, make millions
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of dollars and all that stuff you should, but the
straight I'm gonna go here for half a million, but
now I'm gonna go here for six hundred thousand. And
to Dion's point, I'm not even that good of a player.
I'm just a wash in this tidal wave of money
and one upmanship. I think it is a full Pandora's
That is a huge turnoff, and I think is intimidating
for fans and off putting maybe for parents. And I
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just I wish it could have stopped at yoga pants
and free tattoos. And now I don't know when it
ever will.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
You just brought me down the memory path because I
once stood with like four CBS executives figuring out how
to ask Todd Gurley a question about returning from his
four game suspension for whatever he got for signing jerseys
when he was at Georgia. It was such a huge
deal and it was so like, don't.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Talk about it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
But when you do have to address it, how are
we going to navigate this? It is insane how far
we've come. That was just about ten years ago that
that happened, Kyle. So it's a good point, but you
also feel like you're at the end of the diving
board looking down like, how is this going to work
for college?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well, I'm buying exactly what Deanna is saying, but I'm
also buying what KB is saying. I really, I really
think there needs to be a level of ownership here.
I do think if you look like at a team
like Oklahoma or Ohio State, they definitely have way more
money than like UMass or you tell me like, there
has to be some sort of regulation when it comes
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to the amount of money that you could pay.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Now, what I am not buying is this. I remember
when I was.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I was coming up and I was getting I was
going through my college career that everybody would come up
to me and tell me about, oh, hey you heard
did you hear that this guy went broke or that
guy went broke. What I am not buying is you
pay these young kids and not giving them the financial
literacy to know how to spend this money, how not
to spend it. What's good credit, what's bad credit, what's
good debt bad debt, what's a good.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Investment bad investment.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
All you're doing is taking those guys that went broke
in the NFL, in the first three years and making
them younger.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's all we're doing here.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So if we're the NCUBA and we're going to pay
these kids, which I agree they should, why you should,
Johnny manziel I should have got some too. However, I
want you to be able to pair these holes in
this bucket of illiteracy financial literacy so that you can
pay these kids and they don't lose it. I'm tired
of this narrative of these ass a fleets that get
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all of this money and they lose it all because
they don't know how to spend it. Ladies and gentlemen,
keep in mind, these are athletes that went to school
and they didn't play school.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They played football.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And what I mean by that is this, when you
go to a college, you can only take classes from
certain time from eight am to two pm. Why because
you have six am workouts and you have meetings at
two thirty, finish at six with practice, and you have
study hall. So we have a certain amount of time
where we can take some classes. Financial literacy classes aren't
in that timeframe. So please, I don't know what to do.
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I don't know who to talk to, but I'm talking
to whoever it is that will listen right now. Teach
these young kids what it means to budget. Teach these
young kids what it means to make smart financial decisions,
because I want them to be successful not only when
they're ringer jersey and a helmet, but when they're done.
So I am definitely buying what Deanna is saying and
what KB is saying, and what I'm definitely buying is
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some sort of education to educate these young men and
women about what it means to be financial.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Litterc very well, said Mantai. That was excellent.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh truly, Hell, yes, exactly is right. That you're just
making them younger. That was profound awesome buying or keep
trying on GMTB. I'm buying the fact that we still
have twenty seven minutes left in the show.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
We got to get to Marlin and Bobby Humphrey all.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Right to activate in the UAE and broader Middle East,
launching youth flag football programming with GEMS World Academy, Dubai's
largest international school system with more than one hundred and
twenty five thousand students. Kids took part in a skills
clinic and scrimmage and immerse themselves in local culture by
exploring Dubai's landmark. The forty nine ers aim to expand
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flag football programming across Dubai schools this fall and build
toward a future trip to Abu Dhabi to introduce similar
grass roots initiatives.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's actually the first time I've heard of that, and
well done by the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Brooklyn Hill,
that's a name you're going to want to remember. The
twenty twenty four NFL Flag Championships was full of outstanding plays,
but there was a toe tap by Apex Predators owned
Brooklyn Hill.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It was next level. Take a listen look at this
catch from.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
My proudest moment in the game was the toe tap
I had in the back of the end zone in
the championship game.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Rob Ohio, this is the twenty twenty four NFL Flag Championship,
Not to the boys, the back.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Of the end zone touchdown for fun Hill.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
She made an amazing throw. I just knew I had
to set the tone and make a play.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Couch.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Seeing it on replay.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Is actually insane because I'm a centimeter off the line.
Looking back at that game, that catch solely makes me proud.
That's me going on to the next level as a player.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
To find a flag league near you, visit NFL flag
dot com and as the best flag football players from
across the country compete this summer in Kenton, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You can watch it live.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Black Covers of the NFL Flag Championships presented by Toyota,
begins July eighteenth on ESPN, EBC, and the Disney Networks.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Money football.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I feel really proud to be introducing our next guest.
The legends of the Alabama Crimson Tide is not lost
on any football fan, and today we are pleased to
be joined by a father son duo who are bringing
that legacy.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
To the big screen. Take a look.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Touchdown.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Alabama without bragging, is greatest college football program in the
history of college football.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And Alabama is not just football, it's it's just a
way of life.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Hey, we don't win, that's a championship. That's a bad
Alabama season.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Your chard.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Once you do ship, you're the chocolate in college football legend.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
You know, we always talked about climbing the mountain, but
what they don't realize is when you successfully climb the
mount and you become the mountain and everybody's shooting at you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And finally beating Alabama.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
From once you go to Alabama and everything else goes down, he'll.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Just walking out here in the national chan Coach bronc
is the greatest coach of all time.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Well, he didn't just coach football, he coached your life.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
It's well, I expect nothing unless he's not coming down
to pat you on the bank.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
He coming down to.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Kick your play.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The trailer in and of itself is incredible. I can
imagine the product that you are going to watch when
you see that will be even more legendary. Please join
us in welcome edting legendary Bama running back Bobby Humphrey
and it's equally decorated son grating quarterback Marlon Humphrey.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Good morning, gentlemen, Roll time.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I got PTSC premiering that guys.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Come on, I wore my.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Faux Alabama look at sweater today just for you two gentlemen.
It's awesome to see you this morning. That sneak peak
of nothing but a Winner looks excellent. Marlon, I will
start with you. You are an executive producer, and Bobby
appears alongside with so many legends who talk about their
time playing at Alabama. Marlon, what sparked this idea for
this film and why did you want to be at
the helm of it?
Speaker 9 (34:14):
I got to approach I actually forget who I got
approached by, but a good friend of mine, Caleb Kessio, was.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
One of the people that ran it as well. That
approached me in.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
With an opportunity to be a part of something pretty special.
My sister lives in la and she is always talking
about Hollywood discs and movies and all the different things
she does. And I saw a great opportunity to not
only kind of do something from album Modern, create this
great story. I played it underneath Coach Saban and I
just saw a great opportunity to be a part of
something special.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And it's come together just great. Doesn't surprise me at all. Marlon,
You're one of the most colorful, creative people in the league,
and I know you're gonna do great things when you're
finally done playing Bobby. Meanwhile, you're one of the players
featured in the film speaking about your time in Tuscaloosa
as an Alabama native. How did your journey to the
school differ from others and what was the biggest lesson
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that you left with.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Well, my journey different because you know, I kind of
grew up right there in shadows the Leegian Field, in
the housing projects, and I sold coach in the upper deck,
and I parked cars during my time there as a
young young boy and always wanted to attend nine Bound.
I can remember sitting in the up deck and telling
the other guys that, you know, one day I'm gonna
be playing down there. Obviously none of them believe me,
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but it came true one day when Ray Perkins showed
up my house and started recruiting me when I was
in our high school at Glenn High School. So my
time there was was very We didn't win a national
championship like Marlon did, but we won several games, and
I had a good time there and was able to
lead there with the all time leading Russia at one
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time until a lot of other backs came along.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Yeah, Bobby, that did come true, and Marlon, it came
true for you as well. But you, Marlon, are part
of the Nick Saban era of Bama players.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Now.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I ran into a bunch of y'all in my career
as well. Unfortunately, in the National champion Ship and you
guys are used to being in front of the camera,
but for this project, you chose to be behind the camera.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What went into that decision for you?
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Just you know, it's I feel like to create some
special It's kind of it's not really all about you.
It's all about you know, what to put into it,
who you put around you to help out. And it
was it was just different going through all the process
and different things. I am a when I think, a
pretty good actor myself, but my honesty was was cool.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It was. It was definitely different. Something I'd always wanted
to do.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
It's just the opportunity to present itself sooner, sooner than
than later, and it's something I definitely love to do again.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I'm telling you, if you guys go and watch the
trailer or the film when it comes out, it's gonna
touch on a lot of things. Bobby, I'll go to
you with this. The film does not shy away from
some of the tougher history spots at Alabama, when black
players dealt with issues of racism, segregation, things that were
impacting the country. But of course it had to boil
down to your locker room as well. How is history
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addressed in this matter in the film and how did
it influence the program in the future of.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
It influenced the program in a very positive matter. That's
one of the reasons I consider Coach Bryant one of
the greatest coach of all time because he was the
one who pushed the issue, orchestrated the USC game, brought
you know, black players to compete in front of a
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national audience and in front of Legions field there right
there in my backyard, and you know, and I think
there's a scene in the film where a lot of
the old players who played during that era had the
confidence and the you know, they had the confidence as
well as the respect for Coach Bryant, and they went
to Alabama because he asked him to come down. He
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told them that he would protect them and the trusting him,
and those players trusted him, believed in him, and it
was a hard time back there. In the film addressed
just had that's a good thing about it. I mean, history, history,
it is what it is. And Coach Brown was able
to do that, plus you know, win a national championship
and go on to be you know, a successful and
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one of the greatest coach of all time in college football.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Marlin. You know what's tough is that you play with
these incredible guys in college at Obama, but then they
get dispersed all around the league and you got to
play against them and you got to play them against
them in your division. What is it like to to
go up against the Bama brotherhood in the NFL? And
are there certain guys that you look forward to and
that are really heated when you go against them that
used to maybe play.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
With Yet it's definitely different. You know, you practice against
a lot of guys. We used to during the beginning
of the week of every week you kind of go
through the personnel and our DC, our old DC used
asked who played with this guy in college, and you would.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, basically there were some schools.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
I hate to talk about this man, tab but when
it's Norther Damn guy, we're.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Like, ah, he ain't he ain't really that tough. That's
usually kind of how things.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
So guys would actually just speak honest on how the
guys went and use it whatever to Obama goy. It
was never that, but there was a couple times I
will say but you know, I think what Saban built,
it's definitely tough. I know if anyone went to that program.
There was a fourth quarter program sab and chewing you out.
Saban usually didn't walk up on anybody unless you were
getting shooed out in practice, and that was something you
had to take. Your ego had to be left at
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the door. And we play against some on Sundays. Whatever
you knew about them in practice, they showed a little
something different when they get to the next level.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
No, you're definitely right, Marlin.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
And I'd play with mark Ingram with the Saints and
he would tell me about the early days of Nick
Saban and how you was like a father figure to him.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Bobby, you have a lot of.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Kids, and I'm sure in that house there's a lot
of competition.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
We're all parents here on this show. I have two kids,
a daughter and a son, and.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I'm constantly trying to drive competitive greatness in them. First
of all, who was the most competitive out of all
your kids? And two, was there one activity, a family
activity that you got that got all your kids riled
up and ready to go?
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Well, the most talented of my children is not on
this This.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
School called oh, come on, who is it?
Speaker 8 (40:13):
Hey? I remember I can remember when we were when
they were younger and Marlon was just getting started. He
was in middle school, and they were saying people at
the school, the kids, you know, children, just so honestly
prove them. They say, well, Marlon was not really a
humpher because all the other kids were fast.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Marlin, Oh no, true, true, guys. I know you are
both reflected in this project. We watch you all the time, Marlin.
We love you as a player, but the entire family,
this is a really cool moment for you. We celebrated
nothing but a Winner in theaters for one day only
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on July thirty. First, everybody watch it. We were going
to ask what would happen if if Prime Bobby ran
outside against Prime Marlin and the two collided on the field,
But we'll have to save that for the next time
because I know it's going to get heated. We love you, guys,
Thank you for coming on. Thank you guys, Thank you,
thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
By thirty first, check it out look at all. Shout
out to our production staff.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Because when Kyle Brandt extends a challenge, they accept and
normally they succeed.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Kyle admitted earlier that.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
In his time, he would drive up to Oxnard, California
to get to training camp for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
We found you, Kyle.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's a stupid Hey. I'm right there in the front.
I'm with no friends. I'm just sitting there smiling, and
I look like I'm forty, even though it's two thousand
and eight. It's incredible, guys, you found it there.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I am.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I have this very discerning look like I'm not that
impressed by the Bill Parcells Cowboys, but I'm there with
the people of the people. Great job. That's a real picture.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I mean, I don't know what your skin skincare routine is,
but you have not aged one bit in that picture.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
KD. You look exactly.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Only the same giveaway is that he doesn't have frosted
tips in the photo. We couldn't have photoshopped those in
the other thanks that we were doing.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Come on now, all right, Paul Rudd, your run is over.
I'm the new ageless wonder. I look just like I
did in eight. Great job, everybody,
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, that's right. What's happening to good people? Good Morning Football?
Speaker 3 (00:13):
It's a Friday Who Friday, July eleventh, We've been working
all week for this segment, which is top five most
interesting people of what we're about to tell you on GMFB.
We're live in New York and La Jamie ardl Mantey
Tao and Kyle Brant wearing the generic GMFB branded T
shirts casual Friday. For Kyle, Kyle, it's how proud do
you feel.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Wearing that out of the closet.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I feel great. You know. It's kind of like when
someone in the band wears the band's T shirt on stage.
I always had full respect for that. There's no problem.
Jason Newstaid from Metallic used to do it all the time,
and I do it today on a Friday. Manti Jamie me,
let's start the show.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's going to be a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Football.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
It's GMFB. Panic is the name of the game on
the Friday. Mant I like to say Aloha Friday. I'm
saying Panic Friday because we're doing a top five list
and once again, I find myself ill prepared, and it feels.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Like it's because Kyle.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
You would think he changed the rules of the game again,
just mere minutes before the segment. We've known about this
since last night, and I just cannot Kyle come up
with my top five lists are? Do you already have
yours written?
Speaker 1 (01:29):
Yeah? I'm working on it right here. I got three
of the five. We're about to do a list that's
like it's it's an interesting one literally, because we're talking
about a certain division that Jamie is going to tee up,
and we have to list the five most interesting people
in that division. It could be a celebrity fan, it
could be an athletic trainer, it could be the start court,
it could be anybody. But I got my list cooking.
I know you guys do too.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah that's true.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
I don't know first cooking because it's like PTSD so
lists this week?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
Did it worked for me? This week?
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Hard time?
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And this name right here, Dad, I got it on
my list, baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Yeah, it's like the smelling Bill.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
No, he got it correct. It's Yean And we just
don't know the rest of yours. So here we go.
Since Kyle is being ever so studious in the Princeton
grad that he is. His list is always almost complete,
so he's going to have to go first on this.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Our guy Eric at Home over on.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
NFL dot com quote an awesome article.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
That you got to check out. It's ranking all eight.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Divisions entering the twenty twenty five season according to Power Rankings. Okay,
so Kyle always talks about, well, we know who's going
to be first for the teams and who's going to
be thirty one to thirty two. You're just looking at
eight numbers here, and.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
This is by division.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
The final four teams buying for last season Super Bowl
came from the NFC East, which still only sits at four.
AFC East and the AFC West you can see are
hanging there right at three and four. So NFC North, though,
if you ask Eric at home, has the branging rights.
So let's hang in this division. We oftentimes call it
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the toughest. You know, they're going to get after each other,
they're going to on the way to the end.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
But interesting is the name of the game.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Here, Kyle, your top five most interesting people in the
NFC North Who you got?
Speaker 1 (03:07):
I like this? I'm ready all right. So I'll start.
We'll go from five to one. Number five, I'm going
to start with the Chicago Bear. The Bears have had
so many draft picks over the last couple of years
just due to trades and kayleb Ma They're always drafting
these really high drafted players. And number five for me,
I have Coaston Loveland. He is the tight end out
of Michigan that the Bears took in the first round
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of the draft. Raised a lot of eyebrows on Draft
night as they drafted in the shadows of lambeau Field
One because it just felt like a little bit like
Ben Johnson was bringing sand to the beach with another
weapon for Caleb. And then also there was so many
draft prognosticators who thought that Tyler Warren from Penn State
was the guy they should have taken. He felt differently.
They took Coaston Loveland and now it's the cupboard is stocked, restocked,
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and double stocked for Kayleb Williams. Was this guy worth
that high of a pick when they already have Cole Comet.
We will find out. Number four I love this one.
I have John Morton. John Morton is the offensive coordinator
for the Detroit Lions. Not Johnny Morton. That's the old
wide receiver for the Detroit Lions. John Morton has the
simple task of stepping into this incredible offense that throws
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the offensive lineman, does double passes where the quarterback stumbles
on purpose. John Morton is taking over the reins for
the Jared Goff offense, an offense in which one saw
Jared Goff go eighteen for eighteen last year because of
his chemistry with Ben Johnson. John Morton is going to
step up and take over that offense. Hugely pivotal figure
in the NFC North. Do the Lions fall off a
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little bit? There he is again. Guys, they longtime had
a receiver named Johnny Morton. This is just John and
he has a really important job. John Morton doesn't just
affect the NFC North. He affects the NFC if the
Lions are in the playoffs. This is the guy pushing
the buttons to get the ball to all those great
Lions players. He's my number four, number three. I'm the
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most interesting people to me in the NFC North. Matthew Golden.
Matthew Golden of the Green Bay Packers interesting. You know why?
We know why because the Packers decided to go up
there with a wink and a smile and draft a
wide receiver in the first round, this time from the
University of Texas and hand him to Jordan Love as
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Aaron Rodgers probably was on a beach in Malibuth throwing
up somewhere. They haven't done it for years and years
and years and years, you know, as much talked about
at the draft, and now we get to the point
where Matthew Golden, Okay, can you play, Bud, Can you
get in there and be a number one wide receiver
because it feels like the Packers have been messing around
for a while now and not truly had that guy
Who's I'm going to go out and get one hundred catches.
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I'm going to score twelve touchdowns this year. I'm going
to do the likes of Jamar Chase and Ceedee Lamb.
I'm going to be a superstar in this league. And
if you're drafted in the first round as a wide
out for that city, you better be Matthew Golden. Great suit,
great personality, great story, great player. We don't know, we'll
find out. Number two guys, these are the headliners. JJ McCarthy.
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I mean, JJ McCarthy is one of the most interesting
people in the entire NFL right now, because I don't know, Oh,
JJ McCarthy, I might be great, might be Drew Brees,
might not work out. It might be Christian Ponder Vikings fans.
I don't know. I know this massive sliding doors that
he affected. He is in basically the reason why Kirk
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Cousins isn't there. In so many ways, he's certainly the
reason that Sam Darnold's not there. He comes off a
big injury, didn't throw a lot in college. I'm just
rehashing all the draft stuff. He's a likable figure who
was incredible in any of the football we've seen him play.
We've never really seen him play NFL football, and he
walks into the league with the responsibility of throwing to
the league's most explosive receiver, at least the Nfcason Jefferson.
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You gotta feed Jefferson. Also, I said this yesterday. JJ
McCarthy's first two games of his career are both in
prime time and both against quarterbacks drafted in his same
year in Caleb and Pennix. That is an auspicious debut.
He better hope it is. But number one, guys, you
know where I'm going. The number one most interesting person
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the entire NFC. I've already mentioned him five times just
in describing the other people on this list. It's Ben Johnson.
It is the head coach of the Chicago Bears. And
as we look back to the last year in Caleb
Williams entry into the NFL being the number one overall
pick in the draft, it is almost bizarre to remember
that Caleb comes into the league and Caleb's offensive coordinator,
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Shane Waldron, was fired after nine games. Caleb's head coach,
Matt Eberflus, was fired after twelve games. I have to
tell you last summer, before Caleb's first season began, I
was at Wrigley Field seeing Pearl Jam. I ran into
Shane Waldron. I said hi to him, right out by
the Wrigley Field sign. Hey, what's up man? Wishing you
all kinds of luck this year, go get it. Three
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months later he was fired, fired Matt Ebraflus right after him.
It was a terrible, terrible bit of nesting by the
Bears to welcome in Caleb, and then they do what
no one thought they would do, including me. Hire that guy,
the big name, the big dollars, the big pedigree, and
comes right in against his former team, the Lions calls
out at natt Lafleur Ben Johnson. I mentioned him during Loveland,
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I mentioned during Morton. I could have mentioned him during
all these guys, I think not only the most interesting
hire in the NFC North, the most interesting hire in
the NFL this year. That is my list. I got
a tight end, a coordinator, a wide receiver, quarterback, and
a head coach. And guys, we have plenty of time,
and you've certainly had plenty of time to do your homework.
So Mantai, would you like to go next? Talking about homework?
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Excellent?
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You remember where we had those group projects in school
and you went up there with their partner and you
could tell which partner did their homework and which partner
did it. You could tell that KB did his homework.
He came with that and do the work. But you know, Jamie,
you you're a basketball coach for your daughter's team. And
what's one of the things that we do right when
we warm up is we do some layups.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Make them jump, I make them jump on one foot
to make sure we don't have any ankle springs.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
In the youth sports coaches.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
We did a lot of layups when we started basketball.
And I'm going to take this slay up right here
because there's somebody that I thought was going to be
on kb's list that Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell is number five.
Why because he's the layup. I think if there's anybody
that is interesting or the most interesting in this division
is Dan Campbell. And if you want to know what
type of impact somebody like Dan Campbell can have on
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his team, watch the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
But if you want to see the.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Type of impact that Dan Campbell can have on a player,
just watch the QB documentary Part two on Netflix and
watch Jared Goff get kind of emotional at talking about
his head coach and how it feels to be wanted
and how he made him feel to feel wanted on
that team. So I got Dan Campbell's number five. Now
I'm staying with the same team. For number four, I
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got Pine Seoul. Now, you got to be very interesting
when you're that large and can move that quick and
be that athletic and then be utilized not only in
trick plays to catch the ball, but to also block
the ball to do hooking ladders. You want to say,
that's Pine School. He also is the leader of the
pack when it comes to leading them in the pregame routines.
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Just listen to him and you want to run through
a brick wall. So number four for me is Pine School.
Now number three, I got like three lions. I just
noticed that I have three lions. Number three is a
man of Saint Brown. Now, when you can memorize and
recite all sixteen receivers that were drafted before you, you're
very very interesting. I can barely memorize or learn some
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of my takes on this show, let alone the sixteen
guys that could have been drafted before me. Matter of fact,
I was thirty eight. I don't even remember the other
thirty seven, let alone two of them that were drafted
before me. So a MANA, you're very interesting. Now this
is where I take a little turn. Number two Tucker Craft. Now,
Tucker Craft is very interesting to me because when you
come from Timberlake.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
South Dakota, which has.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
A population of around five hundred people, yet you lead
all tight ends in the NFL and yards after catch,
you're very interesting. But this is what resonates with me
with Tucker Craft. He is an honorable family member, you
could say of the Cheyenne Rivershoe tribe, and Chairman Lebau
of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe said this, when we
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want to honor someone, we make them our relative. I
resonate with that. Why because in our culture, the Polynesian culture,
we do the same thing. That's why Jamie, you're my sister,
and kV you're my brother.
Speaker 1 (11:20):
So Scraft you're number two. Now number one.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
As a father of two, I have a son, and
when I look around, I try to find out who
can I tell my son, Hey, when you grow up,
I want you to be like that person.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And number one is Justin Jefferson. Now you may be asking, well.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
You probably want him to be like that because he
makes a lot of money, he has a lot of
highlight catches. Well, the reason why I like Justin Jefferson
is this, It's very very rare that you find somebody
like Justin Jefferson that is as talented as he is.
It has accomplished as much as he's accomplished in this
league in such a short amount of time, and it's
being paid a bookoo amount of money.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yet, when asked if he was going to buy a.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Million dollar house after signing, he said this, I'm one person.
I ain't got no big f I don't need to
be in a ten million dollar mansion. That's not something
I came from. I grew up with parents that was
grateful for what they have.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
I was grateful for what I grew up with.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
That is somebody that I want my son to look
up to and say, man Son, you could be great
and still be a great person. This is my list
of the five most interesting people Jamie in the NFC
North and I like it pretty good.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
It's a good list with Kyle what you got?
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, I gotta chime in, and I'm on Rod Saint
Brown Man Tay, You're gonna love this. So I've been
really aggressive in watching the Netflix show all right, So
I'm watching all these guys about quarterbacks with Jared Goff
and all that. So arman Ra tells this great story
about his jersey number. So he wanted his jersey to
be the amount of wide receivers drafted in front of him.
That was his thing. Okay, because he got drafted late.
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He asks his girlfriend Brooklyn to help him and count
the number of wide receivers drafted in front of him.
She goes, it's fourteen. He drafts number fourteen. It's not
it's sixteen. She messed up, She says, I miscounted it wrong.
She messed up by two and by the time she
realized that he had already picked fourteen. So he's really
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supposed to be sixteen, which is actually Jared Goff's number.
So he's like, you know what, oh well, fourteen sixteen.
Jared looks better in sixteen than me. But there's this
whole convoluted backstory that I guess as a happy ending
to it.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It's awesome and somehow Manti be so eloquent about his list,
having quotes from chiefs of towns in South Dakota.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
And Kyle, I know, do it on Jim Baby, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Exactly, you did great.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Still, I am still panicking and actively like writing my
list because I just I always like to have a theme.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
Okay, and I finally came up with my theme. Non
head coaches, non players.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Okay, We're going to start with the Packer secondary Okay,
specifically the Packer secondary head coach Ryan Downard. Do you
know the names of the quarterbacks? That are in your division.
I'm sure you do, my friend, but are they creating
nightmares for you? The Packers ranked in the top five
and a ton wow, that was a cool glare a
ton of defense categories last year, specifically when it came
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to passing yards.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Can you maintain that? Are you going to have a
guy jump out after.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
You let go one of your stars on defense for
the Packers this offseason? And who's going to step up
in that absence? Are you going to become a unit
that we are so impressed by because the quarterbacks and
the wide receivers and the offensive masterminds that lie waiting
in your divisional like crocodiles, And how are you gonna
hunt them?
Speaker 2 (14:26):
And make sure so?
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Ryan Downard, I am looking at you, Packer secondary coach,
Bears special teams coach Richard high Tower. I hope you
don't have a lot of work to do this season.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Okay. The Bears in total.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Were the second most punts last year, which means they
got into trouble and they had to give that ball away.
And I don't wish that upon you this year, Richard
high Tower. I also think that they don't need to
be kicking a lot of field goals. I think the
Bears need to be a red zone threat, and I
hope Kyle, what was it last year? The Commander's punter
had no work to do. It was like the best
Halloween costume you messed up with, right trust.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
We called them the tag Man because that's what I
He dressed up as the maytag Man for Halloween.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Because of our segment, you're the best and because you
came up with that creative pull. I hope that for
Richard high Tower that he's this year's maytag Man because
I want the Bears offense to do something to the
special team so doesn't have to do anything Minnesota quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Coach Josh McCown.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Okay, so I was very impressed with Kevin O'Connell's willingness
to go out and hire Josh McCown two years ago.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
But the impact that this.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Guy had on Sam Darnold and his arrival to Minnesota
cannot be overlooked to the point where if this thing
goes well for JJ McCarthy this year. Of course, a
lot of it has to do with the man on
the headset, Kevin O'Connell patiently telling his quarterback what the
players are within the offense. But that cannot be overlooked
by what Josh McCown did for JJ McCarthy all of
last year. I was at a handful of Vikings games.
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If you saw JJ McCarthy, you saw Josh McCown not
two feet from this guy. During the games, he was
constantly in his ear. It's like the sixth player coming
off the bench in a basketball game. Sometimes those are
the most impactful players because they can watch how the
game starts, and then they come in and they help
reinforce a tone that is so successful for a team
that it helps them be the boost. That's why six
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man is a reward the NBA. All Right, So Josh mcown,
I'm looking at you. Plus, if it goes well, he's
probably gonna get a head coaching job.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Now I'm looking at the two coordinators in Detroit because Kyle,
I'm right there with you. Once again, it's like the
Eagles effect. You have this impact of two new coordinators.
A couple of years back, the Eagles had to deal
with this and it didn't go well.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
They had to settle into business.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Nick Sirianni had to come back in and find Vic
Fangio and find things that work for him and Kellen Moore.
Are the Lions going to be able to skip over
that speed bump and have these two men be the
leader of really excellent groups to maintain their position in
the division or are we going to have an.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Eagles issue or the Lion like what happened to the Lions?
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Well, they did have two new coordinators, So I went
non player, non head coach, top five most interesting people
in my division.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wow, guys, look at that. You went straight coaches.
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Specific I went straight players, and then KB just came
in and mixed that thing.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
What a great way to start off at Friday on
JIMFB guys, Hot.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
Friday, hotly, Oh hat Friday.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
All right, let's get out of here, this dealer speaking
of the NFC North, not Let's go to the AFC North.
The Steelers reports a training camp on July twenty third.
Of course, Aaron Rodgers is going to get a ton
of attention. That's the obvious statement of the century right now.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
What is going to happen though, when.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Two of their best at other positions matchup. You're looking
at that guy the candy man, DK Metcalf and Jalen
Ramsey new to town.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Time for another round of buying or keep trying?
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Is DK still on the candy? Where are we with that?
Has he changed? Is he cut back? I hope I
already tightened it up a little bit, but I don't
know if I believe it. We're going to have Ravens
star cornerback Marlon Humphrey, who is pound from pound, one
of the biggest personalities the entire NFL. I mean, he
has so many things to say. He is so vibrant,
he's so interesting. We're also going to have his dad,
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former Broncos running back Bobby Humphrey, is going to be
with Marlon all that, so much more talking Ravens, talking,
Lamar talking everything. Jim met be on a Friday, can't
beat it, Good morning. This was a matchup to what
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how do they get away from any kind of man
a man matchup like they had today with Jalen Ramsey
and DK Metcalf. Dalen Ramsey plays it perfectly.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Russ had a shot for DK deep and he just
overthrew him.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Man one, Lord Kake touchdown. They can take the Sharks
the Cabo Gino's gonna throw off first down. Jalen Ramsey
intercepts Gino Smith's first rows.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
Gino rolls left rows back to the middle of the
field and it's intercepted by Ramsey.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Ramsey strikes back against Seattle.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Look at those two.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Buying or keep Trying, that's the name of the segment.
I'm gonna take ten seconds here and say that our
crew at least in Los Angeles on GMTB shows up
in this building one two, three o'clock in the morning,
and that means that we have meals together and we've
just got hand delivered breakfasts by Norma and our NFL cafeteria.
We love Norma, we love breakfast. And who's going to
eat on the show today? I probably am in a
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commercial break, but who's going to eat on this Steelers roster?
That's the question in Buying or Keep Trying? All right, Kyle,
don't be jealous of the bacon. We will see you
here in September and you two can have a breakfast delivery.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yes, all right.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Newly acquired Steelers cornerback Jalen Ramsey will be wearing the
number five formerly worn by the team's punter Cameron Johnston,
which makes both Steelers punters having to change their numbers
due to new arrivals on the team. Corlis Weightman gave
up his number eight to Aaron Rodgers and now punter
Cameron Johnson's number five to Jalen Ramsey. That's the ultimate
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sacrifice by the special teams. Let's just say that, buying
or keep trying this Now it's DK Metcalf against Jalen
Ramsey looks to be one of the most intriguing matchups
to watch Usteler camps.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Manta, you buy in.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
Or you keep trying that this is the most intriguing
matchup to watch US Steelers camp.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Well, you're talking about Steelers camp.
Speaker 5 (20:03):
I think I keep trying buying on this reason being
is they're not like rivals. Okay, like Jalen Ramsey isn't
going against Golden Tate in there, and DK Metcalf isn't
going against the forty Niners dB now who he's teammates with.
We're talking about two guys that are fierce competitors, and
so I'm keep trying. But what I am buying is
these two guys are individuals that you're going to want
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to watch during the season Because about two decades ago,
two of the greatest players who ever played the positions
in Jerry Rice and Deon Sanders came together on the
San Francisco forty Niners and they happened to win the
Super Bowl that year. Now I'm not saying that the
Pittsburgh Steelers, because they have Jalen Ramsey and DK Metcalf
now are going to win the super Bowl. But what
I am saying is when you're a teammate of these
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two and you see them go at it and iron
Sharpuren's iron, great things happen. Younger guys look into like, man,
that's how it's supposed to be done. If the two
best guys on our team are going at it the
way that they're going at it, we're going to be better.
It reminds me a lot when I played for the
Saints and we dropped the Shawn Latimore and we had
Michael Thomas on the team, former teammates, but on the
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field at practice, those two guys were just going at
each other, and just imagine how it is for all
of us to kind of see this competition on the
practice field. So then when we got to the game field,
it's like it's not going to be harder than practice,
because we know what we went up again. So for me,
I'm keep trying Jamie because I don't think it's gonna
be musty TV during training camp. The Steelers fans are
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going to like it, but I think it is going
to be mussy TV when the season actually starts.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, I'm gonna buy on this. I'm thinking of what
Manti is putting down in that ox Snard, California is
where the Cowboys have training camp, and back in the day,
I talk about this every year. I used to drive
out there just as a fan. When I was living
in LA I was a football fan. I wasn't working
in the NFL or anything like that. I would drive
out there and watch practice, just hang over the barricades
with everybody else. And I remember I went in two
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thousand and eight and they would line up and it
was Tary Loans versus pac Man, and these are two
super famous dudes, and they would go at it one
on one. Is this whole surrounding area where people would
just watch the one on ones, and the linemen are there,
and the linebackers are there, and even the quarterbacks weren't
the center of attention at that point. It was watching
those wide receiver ones go up against those cornerbacks, and
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when one of them gets beat, there's all these oohs,
and there's this whole are about it. I think this
is a huge matchup. Let's not forget Jalen Ramsey, a
long time ram He played against DK a lot in
the NFC West and it was not always pleasant. Go
ahead and pull it up. I mean there it is
right there. This is lockstep coverage. There was after the
whistle stuff. This is two I think two good dudes
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is just really really competitive. These are two alphas. There
are two sharks, whatever you want to call them. And also,
like there's the thing with Jalen now where I see
he change the number five, and that's cool, but the
number for me is four. He's on his fourth team
in the last six years. Like Jalen Ramsey used to
have the belt. I don't know if he still does
as the best corner in the league. Maybe he does,
but when you're the best corner the league, you don't
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bounce around that much. There we go. We actually found
a picture. I'm I'm surprised I'm not in the background.
I remember I stopped that Denny's on the way there
and got a moons over Miami and my niece on Pathfinder.
But I used to go back in the day, so yes, Jamie,
outside of the best matchup, look at that people, if
you look back there, I might be me with like
my Nokia camera, my digital camera that I had gotten
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for Christmas. Yep, those two went at it and to
was a monster and he could not be contained. I
think this was Bill Parcell's Tony Romeo era. But the
memories are starting to fade. I'll wrap up just the
number one matchup in Steelers' training camp right now. It
hasn't opened yet, will be TJ. Watt versus Ownership, But
until then, I still do like watching these two guys
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DK and Jalen.
Speaker 3 (23:44):
It is an unfortunate time I've just hit in my
career where in that moment I said, he's about to
say TJ. Watt against whatever negotiating tactic he's coming, because
like that is the perfect parallel or spin if you will,
for the matchup.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
It is true. If you look up, you just google.
Speaker 3 (23:58):
DK metcalf Comma, Jalen Ramsey, which is why I was
like in my surface for a second, there there are
highlights of and I'm getting physical just at the line
of scrimmage fully off the ball from like a Sunday
night football broadcast, and I was absolutely enthralled. Let's hope
that doesn't happen. I can, but if it does, we're
here to talk about it. Okay, moving on buying or
keep trying the ultimate topic for coach Prime Colorado. Buffalo's
head coach Dan Sanders had some strong comments about nil
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money and how colleges should handle it.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Let's take a lesson.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
I wish it was.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
A cap, you know, like the top of the line
player makes this, and if you're not that type of guy,
you know you're not gonna make that.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
That's what the NFL does.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
So the problem is you got a guy that's not
that darn good, but he could go to another school
and they give him a half a million dollars and
you can. You can't compete with that. It don't make sense.
And you're talking about equality, not equality like equal I
thinks to equality. And all you have to do is
look at the playoffs and see what those teams spent.
And you understand during your white in the playoffs, it's
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kind of hard to compete with somebody who's giving twenty
five thirty million dollars of Durn freshman class.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
It's crazy.
Speaker 6 (25:02):
We're not complaining because all these coaches up here co
coach it butts off and given the right opportunity with
the right players and play here and.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
There, you be there.
Speaker 6 (25:09):
But what's going on right now don't make sense, and
we want to say stuff, but we're trying to be professional.
But you're going to see the same teams during at
the end and with somebody who sneaks up in there.
But the team that pays the more, pays the most,
is going to be then it.
Speaker 3 (25:23):
But that's what makes it so wild when like the
Yankees aren't there at the end and they are the ones.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
That have to spend the most money.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
So the salary cap exists in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
It does not elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
It does not in college football right now, Dean Sanders
thinks that it should. Colleges should start having salary caps
to have an equitable finish to the season. If we will, Kyle,
are you buying this or keep trying on Prime's proposition
for college football?
Speaker 1 (25:46):
Well, salary cap is one of my favorite things that
the NFL does. I absolutely adore it. I love it. It's
it's It is the word equality. It is why you
have teams. I've seen the Carolina Panthers in the Super
Bowl before, I've seen any name, any team. It's not
just every single year Cowboys and Giants and like you know,
women baseball. Look last year's the Yankees versus Dodgers. I
(26:07):
think it sucks. I don't like it. I love that
we have the salary cap, and I do think it
makes it fair. I don't think it's a terrible idea
from Dion. But at the roots of it, there was
not too long ago. It was about five years ago.
We were in this ridiculous world that we all sort
of just stomached, where Johnny Manzel could not accept one
thousand dollars to sign some autographs, and Terrelle Pryor would
(26:28):
be suspended for getting some tattoos, and the Livy Dunns
of the world could not sell yoga pants. They could
not they or they would be suspended. And everyone said,
we should fix that. It's ridiculous, and it was, and
they did fix it. And there's a lot of me
that wishes it could have just stopped there where name
image like is great, do whatever you want, make millions
(26:49):
of dollars and all that stuff you should, but the
straight I'm gonna go here for half a million, but
now I'm gonna go here for six hundred thousand. And
to Dion's point, I'm not even that good of a player.
I'm just a wash in this tidal wave of money
and one upmanship. I think it is a full Pandora's
That is a huge turnoff, and I think is intimidating
for fans and off putting maybe for parents. And I
(27:11):
just I wish it could have stopped at yoga pants
and free tattoos. And now I don't know when it
ever will.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
You just brought me down the memory path because I
once stood with like four CBS executives figuring out how
to ask Todd Gurley a question about returning from his
four game suspension for whatever he got for signing jerseys
when he was at Georgia. It was such a huge
deal and it was so like, don't.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Talk about it.
Speaker 3 (27:36):
But when you do have to address it, how are
we going to navigate this? It is insane how far
we've come. That was just about ten years ago that
that happened, Kyle. So it's a good point, but you
also feel like you're at the end of the diving
board looking down like, how is this going to work
for college?
Speaker 5 (27:50):
Well, I'm buying exactly what Deanna is saying, but I'm
also buying what KB is saying. I really, I really
think there needs to be a level of ownership here.
I do think if you look like at a team
like Oklahoma or Ohio State, they definitely have way more
money than like UMass or you tell me like, there
has to be some sort of regulation when it comes
(28:11):
to the amount of money that you could pay.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Now, what I am not buying is this. I remember
when I was.
Speaker 5 (28:18):
I was coming up and I was getting I was
going through my college career that everybody would come up
to me and tell me about, oh, hey you heard
did you hear that this guy went broke or that
guy went broke. What I am not buying is you
pay these young kids and not giving them the financial
literacy to know how to spend this money, how not
to spend it. What's good credit, what's bad credit, what's
good debt bad debt, what's a good.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Investment bad investment.
Speaker 5 (28:39):
All you're doing is taking those guys that went broke
in the NFL, in the first three years and making
them younger.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
That's all we're doing here.
Speaker 5 (28:45):
So if we're the NCUBA and we're going to pay
these kids, which I agree they should, why you should,
Johnny manziel I should have got some too. However, I
want you to be able to pair these holes in
this bucket of illiteracy financial literacy so that you can
pay these kids and they don't lose it. I'm tired
of this narrative of these ass a fleets that get
(29:05):
all of this money and they lose it all because
they don't know how to spend it. Ladies and gentlemen,
keep in mind, these are athletes that went to school
and they didn't play school.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
They played football.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
And what I mean by that is this, when you
go to a college, you can only take classes from
certain time from eight am to two pm. Why because
you have six am workouts and you have meetings at
two thirty, finish at six with practice, and you have
study hall. So we have a certain amount of time
where we can take some classes. Financial literacy classes aren't
in that timeframe. So please, I don't know what to do.
(29:37):
I don't know who to talk to, but I'm talking
to whoever it is that will listen right now. Teach
these young kids what it means to budget. Teach these
young kids what it means to make smart financial decisions,
because I want them to be successful not only when
they're ringer jersey and a helmet, but when they're done.
So I am definitely buying what Deanna is saying and
what KB is saying, and what I'm definitely buying is
(29:59):
some sort of education to educate these young men and
women about what it means to be financial.
Speaker 2 (30:04):
Litterc very well, said Mantai. That was excellent.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
Oh truly, Hell, yes, exactly is right. That you're just
making them younger. That was profound awesome buying or keep
trying on GMTB. I'm buying the fact that we still
have twenty seven minutes left in the show.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
We got to get to Marlin and Bobby Humphrey all.
Speaker 3 (30:18):
Right to activate in the UAE and broader Middle East,
launching youth flag football programming with GEMS World Academy, Dubai's
largest international school system with more than one hundred and
twenty five thousand students. Kids took part in a skills
clinic and scrimmage and immerse themselves in local culture by
exploring Dubai's landmark. The forty nine ers aim to expand
(30:39):
flag football programming across Dubai schools this fall and build
toward a future trip to Abu Dhabi to introduce similar
grass roots initiatives.
Speaker 2 (30:49):
That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
That's actually the first time I've heard of that, and
well done by the San Francisco forty nine Ers. Brooklyn Hill,
that's a name you're going to want to remember. The
twenty twenty four NFL Flag Championships was full of outstanding plays,
but there was a toe tap by Apex Predators owned
Brooklyn Hill.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
It was next level. Take a listen look at this
catch from.
Speaker 7 (31:10):
My proudest moment in the game was the toe tap
I had in the back of the end zone in
the championship game.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Rob Ohio, this is the twenty twenty four NFL Flag Championship,
Not to the boys, the back.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Of the end zone touchdown for fun Hill.
Speaker 7 (31:25):
She made an amazing throw. I just knew I had
to set the tone and make a play.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Couch.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Seeing it on replay.
Speaker 7 (31:33):
Is actually insane because I'm a centimeter off the line.
Looking back at that game, that catch solely makes me proud.
That's me going on to the next level as a player.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
To find a flag league near you, visit NFL flag
dot com and as the best flag football players from
across the country compete this summer in Kenton, Ohio.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
You can watch it live.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Black Covers of the NFL Flag Championships presented by Toyota,
begins July eighteenth on ESPN, EBC, and the Disney Networks.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Money football.
Speaker 3 (32:18):
I feel really proud to be introducing our next guest.
The legends of the Alabama Crimson Tide is not lost
on any football fan, and today we are pleased to
be joined by a father son duo who are bringing
that legacy.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
To the big screen. Take a look.
Speaker 1 (32:33):
Touchdown.
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Alabama without bragging, is greatest college football program in the
history of college football.
Speaker 5 (32:43):
And Alabama is not just football, it's it's just a
way of life.
Speaker 8 (32:47):
Hey, we don't win, that's a championship. That's a bad
Alabama season.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Your chard.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
Once you do ship, you're the chocolate in college football legend.
Speaker 6 (32:58):
You know, we always talked about climbing the mountain, but
what they don't realize is when you successfully climb the
mount and you become the mountain and everybody's shooting at you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
And finally beating Alabama.
Speaker 6 (33:08):
From once you go to Alabama and everything else goes down, he'll.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Just walking out here in the national chan Coach bronc
is the greatest coach of all time.
Speaker 8 (33:18):
Well, he didn't just coach football, he coached your life.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
It's well, I expect nothing unless he's not coming down
to pat you on the bank.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
He coming down to.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
Kick your play.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
The trailer in and of itself is incredible. I can
imagine the product that you are going to watch when
you see that will be even more legendary. Please join
us in welcome edting legendary Bama running back Bobby Humphrey
and it's equally decorated son grating quarterback Marlon Humphrey.
Speaker 2 (33:46):
Good morning, gentlemen, Roll time.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
I got PTSC premiering that guys.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
Come on, I wore my.
Speaker 3 (33:53):
Faux Alabama look at sweater today just for you two gentlemen.
It's awesome to see you this morning. That sneak peak
of nothing but a Winner looks excellent. Marlon, I will
start with you. You are an executive producer, and Bobby
appears alongside with so many legends who talk about their
time playing at Alabama. Marlon, what sparked this idea for
this film and why did you want to be at
the helm of it?
Speaker 9 (34:14):
I got to approach I actually forget who I got
approached by, but a good friend of mine, Caleb Kessio, was.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
One of the people that ran it as well. That
approached me in.
Speaker 9 (34:23):
With an opportunity to be a part of something pretty special.
My sister lives in la and she is always talking
about Hollywood discs and movies and all the different things
she does. And I saw a great opportunity to not
only kind of do something from album Modern, create this
great story. I played it underneath Coach Saban and I
just saw a great opportunity to be a part of
something special.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
And it's come together just great. Doesn't surprise me at all. Marlon,
You're one of the most colorful, creative people in the league,
and I know you're gonna do great things when you're
finally done playing Bobby. Meanwhile, you're one of the players
featured in the film speaking about your time in Tuscaloosa
as an Alabama native. How did your journey to the
school differ from others and what was the biggest lesson
(35:03):
that you left with.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Well, my journey different because you know, I kind of
grew up right there in shadows the Leegian Field, in
the housing projects, and I sold coach in the upper deck,
and I parked cars during my time there as a
young young boy and always wanted to attend nine Bound.
I can remember sitting in the up deck and telling
the other guys that, you know, one day I'm gonna
be playing down there. Obviously none of them believe me,
(35:28):
but it came true one day when Ray Perkins showed
up my house and started recruiting me when I was
in our high school at Glenn High School. So my
time there was was very We didn't win a national
championship like Marlon did, but we won several games, and
I had a good time there and was able to
lead there with the all time leading Russia at one
(35:49):
time until a lot of other backs came along.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
Yeah, Bobby, that did come true, and Marlon, it came
true for you as well. But you, Marlon, are part
of the Nick Saban era of Bama players.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
Now.
Speaker 5 (35:59):
I ran into a bunch of y'all in my career
as well. Unfortunately, in the National champion Ship and you
guys are used to being in front of the camera,
but for this project, you chose to be behind the camera.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
What went into that decision for you?
Speaker 9 (36:13):
Just you know, it's I feel like to create some
special It's kind of it's not really all about you.
It's all about you know, what to put into it,
who you put around you to help out. And it
was it was just different going through all the process
and different things. I am a when I think, a
pretty good actor myself, but my honesty was was cool.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
It was. It was definitely different. Something I'd always wanted
to do.
Speaker 9 (36:36):
It's just the opportunity to present itself sooner, sooner than
than later, and it's something I definitely love to do again.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
But it was.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It was awesome.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
It was awesome.
Speaker 3 (36:44):
I'm telling you, if you guys go and watch the
trailer or the film when it comes out, it's gonna
touch on a lot of things. Bobby, I'll go to
you with this. The film does not shy away from
some of the tougher history spots at Alabama, when black
players dealt with issues of racism, segregation, things that were
impacting the country. But of course it had to boil
down to your locker room as well. How is history
(37:05):
addressed in this matter in the film and how did
it influence the program in the future of.
Speaker 8 (37:09):
It influenced the program in a very positive matter. That's
one of the reasons I consider Coach Bryant one of
the greatest coach of all time because he was the
one who pushed the issue, orchestrated the USC game, brought
you know, black players to compete in front of a
(37:32):
national audience and in front of Legions field there right
there in my backyard, and you know, and I think
there's a scene in the film where a lot of
the old players who played during that era had the
confidence and the you know, they had the confidence as
well as the respect for Coach Bryant, and they went
to Alabama because he asked him to come down. He
(37:54):
told them that he would protect them and the trusting him,
and those players trusted him, believed in him, and it
was a hard time back there. In the film addressed
just had that's a good thing about it. I mean, history, history,
it is what it is. And Coach Brown was able
to do that, plus you know, win a national championship
and go on to be you know, a successful and
(38:15):
one of the greatest coach of all time in college football.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
Marlin. You know what's tough is that you play with
these incredible guys in college at Obama, but then they
get dispersed all around the league and you got to
play against them and you got to play them against
them in your division. What is it like to to
go up against the Bama brotherhood in the NFL? And
are there certain guys that you look forward to and
that are really heated when you go against them that
used to maybe play.
Speaker 9 (38:37):
With Yet it's definitely different. You know, you practice against
a lot of guys. We used to during the beginning
of the week of every week you kind of go
through the personnel and our DC, our old DC used
asked who played with this guy in college, and you would.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
Yeah, basically there were some schools.
Speaker 9 (38:55):
I hate to talk about this man, tab but when
it's Norther Damn guy, we're.
Speaker 1 (38:58):
Like, ah, he ain't he ain't really that tough. That's
usually kind of how things.
Speaker 9 (39:03):
So guys would actually just speak honest on how the
guys went and use it whatever to Obama goy. It
was never that, but there was a couple times I
will say but you know, I think what Saban built,
it's definitely tough. I know if anyone went to that program.
There was a fourth quarter program sab and chewing you out.
Saban usually didn't walk up on anybody unless you were
getting shooed out in practice, and that was something you
had to take. Your ego had to be left at
(39:24):
the door. And we play against some on Sundays. Whatever
you knew about them in practice, they showed a little
something different when they get to the next level.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
No, you're definitely right, Marlin.
Speaker 5 (39:32):
And I'd play with mark Ingram with the Saints and
he would tell me about the early days of Nick
Saban and how you was like a father figure to him.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
Bobby, you have a lot of.
Speaker 5 (39:40):
Kids, and I'm sure in that house there's a lot
of competition.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
We're all parents here on this show. I have two kids,
a daughter and a son, and.
Speaker 5 (39:47):
I'm constantly trying to drive competitive greatness in them. First
of all, who was the most competitive out of all
your kids? And two, was there one activity, a family
activity that you got that got all your kids riled
up and ready to go?
Speaker 8 (40:02):
Well, the most talented of my children is not on
this This.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
School called oh, come on, who is it?
Speaker 8 (40:13):
Hey? I remember I can remember when we were when
they were younger and Marlon was just getting started. He
was in middle school, and they were saying people at
the school, the kids, you know, children, just so honestly
prove them. They say, well, Marlon was not really a
humpher because all the other kids were fast.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
Marlin, Oh no, true, true, guys. I know you are
both reflected in this project. We watch you all the time, Marlin.
We love you as a player, but the entire family,
this is a really cool moment for you. We celebrated
nothing but a Winner in theaters for one day only
(40:57):
on July thirty. First, everybody watch it. We were going
to ask what would happen if if Prime Bobby ran
outside against Prime Marlin and the two collided on the field,
But we'll have to save that for the next time
because I know it's going to get heated. We love you, guys,
Thank you for coming on. Thank you guys, Thank you,
thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (41:14):
By thirty first, check it out look at all. Shout
out to our production staff.
Speaker 3 (41:19):
Because when Kyle Brandt extends a challenge, they accept and
normally they succeed.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
Kyle admitted earlier that.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
In his time, he would drive up to Oxnard, California
to get to training camp for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
We found you, Kyle.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
That's a stupid Hey. I'm right there in the front.
I'm with no friends. I'm just sitting there smiling, and
I look like I'm forty, even though it's two thousand
and eight. It's incredible, guys, you found it there.
Speaker 4 (41:51):
I am.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
I have this very discerning look like I'm not that
impressed by the Bill Parcells Cowboys, but I'm there with
the people of the people. Great job. That's a real picture.
Speaker 5 (41:59):
I mean, I don't know what your skin skincare routine is,
but you have not aged one bit in that picture.
Speaker 1 (42:06):
KD. You look exactly.
Speaker 3 (42:07):
Only the same giveaway is that he doesn't have frosted
tips in the photo. We couldn't have photoshopped those in
the other thanks that we were doing.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Come on now, all right, Paul Rudd, your run is over.
I'm the new ageless wonder. I look just like I
did in eight. Great job, everybody,
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Jamie Erdahl
Jason McCourty
Kyle Brandt
Peter Schrager
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