August 22, 2025 • 43 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Giants preaseason win over the Patriots. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te'l and Lawrence Guy welcome Rams' President Kevin Demoff to the breakfast table. What is the outlook for Sean McVay and Matthew Stafford this season. Kyle delivers 'This was a Dude' on Natrone Means. Plus, a look at the remaining preseason games coming in Week 3!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, present of my best Buy.
It's Friday, August twenty second. Jamie Eard Old Mantaiteo here
in La as always an NFL defensive tackle. Friend of
the show. Lawrence Guy joining us as well to talk
all things that he loves about NFL preseason Week three.
Kyle Brandt in New York. Kyle, good little hour. We
have to end out our week on Good Morning Football.
We have a guest joining us in studio in LA
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to talk about one of our local teams.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And that local team is probably not the Chargers. A
lot of questions about that local team's quarterback. I think
that local team as the best coach in the NFL.
When they win the NFC West, we'll find out. But
we will talk that team and spells the entire NFC
right now. It's Good Morning Football on a Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
By best Buy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's right, Jamie Mansi, Lawrence and Kyle man I was
the big old school bus. Way bye. Have a nice
day at school. Now we get to crack down on Yeah,
the kids are going back to school. It's all happening.
Preseason Week three kicked off last night. You got a
couple of games tonight and more through the rest of
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the weekend before teams make decisions about their fifty three
man roster come early next week. We'll have it all
covered for you next week on GMFB. But to send
you off to the weekend, Kyle, shall we do a
couple of short highlights to make sure we are Palette
is properly prepared for our hour on GMFB.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think we should because there was a party in
North Jersey last night, right up the street from the
bottom being the Giants host of the Patriots the Helmet
Cats rematch up, really Jackson Dart Jackson start he hands
off to cam Scataboo with a glorious four yard run.
A lot more of that to come, Scott. I we're
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gonna run all the way to offensive MVP. I cannot
believe I'm saying it, but I love it. And watch
Dart never mind the flag. Who cares this preseason that's
Gunner o Bleepanshewsky wearing numbers zero, running all the way
through the heart of the New Jersey nights. Dart improvising,
pointing out, breaking the pocket, throwing to Olshevsky, looking the part.
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Russell Wilson is on the sideline. Jameis is coming later?
When is Jackson Dart starting for the Giants? Is it
in twenty twenty five? Is it in September? Is it
in October?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
When is it? I have it? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Look how high Mylakue neighbors can jump.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I gotta see that again. Does he have a fifty
ins vertical? That was unbelievable? All right?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
More more Dart? I hate this, but I love it.
I can't decide what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Jackson?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
This is not a game against Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
This is an August game.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In the preseason where the official, the head coach, probably
even some of the Patriots were like, dude, get down table.
He's like, are you mad? We're in the blue tent.
He's all right, thank gosh, all right. The People's champion
media darling Jamis Winston never thought I'd under those words,
but they're true.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He throws a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
If I'm showing you, Jamis, he's either doing a funny
online video.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Throwing a touchdown or throwing a pick six. It was
a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And here's the funny online video. Look at Darnubles puts
the w in his mouth and James would have fit
those fingers off. I guarantee it. He's crazy, he'll do it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The Giants put.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Up forty two points three touchdowns coming from Hey, Tommy DeVito.
They have two Giants quarterbacks now who are known for
funny hand gestures.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's amazing. That's where we're going at this point. Taylor's Panthers,
Jamie take us to it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Jameis Winson is such a radar for when the camera
is squarely directly and just looked it down every time
and he doesn't blink, kind of like the way we
feel about Aaron Rodgers. The camera always finds him, but
he just kind of gives a chesture cat grint and
doesn't look directly at it. Rogers hasn't played in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
First quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We take you to no score, Panthers first into and
Trevor atm my goodness, I almost just said Travis one
of those rare players that probably played in both the
Florida Georgia rivalry games. And that is an SEC crime
right there. Jalen Ramsey, as Kyle said, last hour. What
are you doing this the preseason? He's just making sure
he's amped up the three team All Pro, right exactly?
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It worked. This is Mason Rudolph lops it up trying
to find Kashan Williams, but intercepted and said by Lathan Ransom,
who turns it back for sixteen yards. Ransom is a
fourth round pick out of Ohio State. It gets his
first interception in an NFL uniform, which thrills him to
no end. In suie Panthers drive. This is Plumber scrambles
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Raheem black Shear in the end zone. Nope, intercepted by
James Pierre for the touchbacks.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
One of those odd looking sports.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But on the play, Derek Harmon, the rookie, is chasing
down Plumber, but he gets taken down. Harmon would end
up getting carted off to the locker room with a
knee brain. He's the twenty first overall pick. He was
a first round guy in Green Bay in April. But
he would return to the sideline with a smile on
his face. Hopefully that bodes well. Skyler Thompson, look at this.
This is just end zone party and a half twenty
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four yard touchdown. With Lance McCutchen connection Steelers with win
this one nineteen to ten. But all we care about
is whether or not Rogers was smiling with the headset on.
That's what's happening in a couple of the early preseason
Week three games. Important qualification there. But tonight on NFL Network,
you're going to see the Cowboys. And with that, we
turned to Mike Garrafolo, our NFL Network insider with us
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this morning, as we have heard a lot the next chapter,
perhaps if you will, has begun. As we are less
than two weeks from the opener Cowboys at Eagles, Will
they have MICHAEH. Parsons on the field, Mike, what's the
latest today?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, Micah seven eight says, And honestly, look, I was
pretty good Catholic school, like pretty good when it comes
to Bible verses and stuff like that. So when Micah
Parsons posted that Micah seven eight I believe was the
Bible verse. I thought he was doing like an Austin
three six Heen type thing. But no, no, it's an
actual Bible verse from the Book of Micah that he posted.
The with this one which which seems to indicate I'm
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out which he already did. He already did the trade
request a while ago. Now it's scrubbing there you go.
Even if I fall, I will rise. The Lord is
my light. I wish I had a book of the
Bible named after me. I could use the verses all
the time. But in this case, MICHAEH. Parsons Uh just
making it clear that he is further irked by the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Lack of communication.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's been the biggest thing on this one, the lack
of communication over the.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Last couple of months.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
When he has made it clear have negotiations with my agent,
not with me. We already did that, and I didn't
he I mean, I'm speaking for him. He hasn't really
fully explained all this, and I'd love to get to
the bottom of it.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
For what Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Thought those conversations were, where they just parameters or hey,
here's what we're thinking.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Great, all right, now send it to my agent.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Now the Cowboys and Jerry Jones are saying that the
agent told it, told us to stick that offer up
our bleep. I'm telling you, Michael Parsons camp is saying.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
We don't talk like that. We never said anything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I'm sure that they communicated their lack of appreciation for
the fact that they tried the Cowboys did to have
negotiations with the player without them, So the standoff continues.
We're inside two weeks here. I know everybody's saying, well,
Mike is gonna play. You know, in the end, these
guys all play, not all of them, and not when
they're this angry.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And Michael Parsons is really angry.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So if you're playing a.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Game of Chicken Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, you might
lose this one. That's how angry Michael Parsons is on
this one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
All right, Mike G. I fear what would come in
the Mike G Book in the Bible. I'm not sure
I want to know some of those chapters and verses,
but it's something that you should live by, Mike G.
And let us know what's in there. Manti and we
really have entered in the TVD the social media. The
owners are saying things, the agents saying he didn't say stuff.
It's all very complicated. Does it all translate though, to
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the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Being in trouble?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, they're in trouble. You know why because you talked
about TBD. There is something that is determined already and
that's you're going to start your season off with two
divisional opponents, one with the Eagles and one with the Giants.
And if you saw in that highlight that KB did,
it looked like a party over there in met life,
not only on the field but off of the field.
So if you are the Dallas Cowboys, if you are
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Jerry Jones and Michael Parsons, if you want any shot
at making it to the playoffs, you have to be
able to find some resolution with your star defensive player.
If you think about I watched I went back this
morning and watched her our interview with Charlotte Jones that
we had earlier this week, and she said this, at
the end of the day, you realize when the pie
is gone, there's nothing left.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And what does that mean to me?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
There's a lot of this pie that is the Dallas
Cowboys cap space that's going to a few players. And
when you understand that there's a big piece that's going
to your quarterback, that there's another big piece that's going
to your receiver, there's a piece that's going to your dB.
When number eleven comes to the table with his playout
and he's asking for a piece of this pie, and
you're Jerry Jones and you're standing behind the food line
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ready to serve them. I think there comes a time
where it's like Chipotle when they put that one scoop
of chicken in there, and you're looking at him like,
is this it?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Do I need this order a double?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Like?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
That's what the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Seems like to me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
It's there's only so many ways that you can split
this thing, and they've given so much away already that
now Michael Parsons is coming to it, who is a
big part of your team, and you don't have enough form.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So I think this is a.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Big deal Jamie that if you're looking at it from
a business standpoint, from a playing standpoint, from a playoff standpoint,
you got to get this thing done.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I just don't know when. Og.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I'm just saying, when I look at this, I'm looking
at what the guys in the locker room thinking, thinking like, Hey,
this is one of our best players on the team.
He's the leader on the team. He helps a lot
of the young guys out. If they're going to treat
him like that, how they're going to treat the rest
of us, And it's just a good example of that.
I'm looking at the whole situation hoping that this gets resolved,
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and if it doesn't, like I said before in the past,
let the player be and I understand what his feature is,
what the organization or in the Lama belt.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Let me just float a theory. Here, is this whole
thing a work?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
A work?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You know what a work is?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
A work is like a stage storyline in pro pro wrestling.
It's all this is this real, even like we have
all the Jerry quotes and the contracts going up, this button,
this here and here, and Mike is doing the tweet
and it's perfect that it's just all like it just
feels like predetermined theater, and a predetermined would be Almost
all the time when we get things like this, it
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usually ends up with the players out there and he's
got a new deal. I mean usually, not always. We've
seen it way back in the nineties with the Cowboys.
We've seen it with people like Chris Jones. But it's again,
it's just it's it's an incredible cross section of what
is football for Jerry and then what is clicks media content?
(10:59):
Are the Cowboys a football company who also do content?
Are they a content company who also does football?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And has that flipped?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Because, as I said earlier in the show, right now,
there is a huge, huge Netflix documentary which Jerry was
intimately involved, and he has a lot good riding on
and he's really put a lot of passion into it,
what we're talking about, and these images of Michael Parsons
are great publicity for that documentary, not to mention the
other show they have on Netflix. It's like, I'm sure
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Michah Parsons is not a willing participant in some sort
of pro wrestling storyline. And I'm just being crazy, but
I feel like Jerry is. I feel like Jerry really
likes this, and I feel like he's gonna drop every piece.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Of content out of it, out of that rock that
he can squeeze. I don't know. I get a little
exasperated because, you know, the Cowboys should.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Be a really good team this year and they should
just have their stuff in order, and you got to
go to Philadelphia to play the World champs and not
get embarrassed and you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Got to win that game.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's just like it's such chaos and there's so many
teams that are just locked down and buttoned up and
could play the opener now with their fifty three best
players twenty two best starters. They don't have a documentary,
they don't have the airtime, but they have a good
football team. And I don't know if the Cowboys have
the last one yet, I know they have the other two,
and that seems to be the priority more and more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Kyle, are we flirting with this becoming insulting though? To
the people who enjoy the product at some point, Like
to your point, if it is a work, do you
do the work too many times at some point and
people stop believing in what they're watching and what they're
engaging with.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Sure, I mean you talk to the most bitter, self
loathing Cowboys fan at this point and listen they say
the same thing. They say, we're never going to have
a real Super Bowl until we hire a real GM. Well, listen, guys,
there's not going to be a real GM until do
respect Jerry has gone, and even after that, I don't
think you're gonna have a real GM because they got
a whole family set up. So yeah, I think there's
(12:51):
annoyance and the Cowboys fans are the Cowboys fans, they
believe in the team. They probably hate this take that
I'm having. They want to win a super Bowl, But yeah,
I think it does become like great. So we can't
win the NFC, ever, but we can win Netflix.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And so that's what we hang our hat on. It
seemed to become that more and more.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right, speaking of winning the NFC, let's bring Mike
Yourrofolo back in. As we saw Matt Stafford yesterday participating
in practice. However, now the scale is turning back and
we can't quite land on where this quarterback and his
participation level is.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right now with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So what's the concern in preparation for Week one with
la Rams in their quarterback?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
We might be talking about the Rams entire season here
in Matthew Stafford's entire season. This is something that he
potentially may have to manage and may creep up on
him from time to time when you've got a back issue,
when you've got a disc issue. I remember talking to
a doctor years ago who said you can bend over
and pick up the laundry and all of a sudden
act aggravated and playing NFL quarterback is a lot worse
than bending over to pick up the laundry bin. So
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there's times where he may turn or he may get.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Hit and it may aggravate it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
So at this point, Matthew Stafford is improving and has
improved to the point where he can participate in practice.
But I do know this, Jimmy Garoppolo, you see him
right there. Jimmy Garoppolo, the backup quarterback who had other
options in the off season, by the way, but liked
his relationship with John McVay and certainly the feelings for
mutual went back to the Rams. Is a guy that
you know, you're always preparing your backup quarterback, but they're
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really preparing Jimmy Garoppolo because of the uncertainty with Matthew
Stafford in this case. And so we're gonna have to
continue to keep an eye on this one, and we
may be doing that for the entire season. But Matthew
Stafford saying he is quote doing everything under the sun,
including that immortal chamber that he's in. That Kelly Stafford,
his wife, referenced on social media saying I knew that
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there was something with that because she was sort of
playing into the hole. Matthew Stafford is dead and died
a few weeks ago and has been replaced with a
clone internet meme, which, Kyle, I don't understand how these
things get started, how they get life breathed into them.
This is hearkening back to the days of the Beatles
and Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, usually there's clues that are left.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Along the way.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Do we hold the depth chart up to a mirror
back and look at and you see like Stafford is
dead written out like where are the clues on this one?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, the way they get started, Mike is because they're true.
I mean, that's like any other conspiracy theories. The truth
is out there.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I've believed for years that brock Purty is artificial intelligence,
and so that would be the second quarterback in the
same division that has some sort of mystery behind them.
But I would only say, Mike, for the love of God,
if we're going to clone one of the Rams quarterbacks,
let's clone Garoppolo. Baby, Let's spread them all around so
we can all have a Jimmy to play with. That's
what to do. In the meantime, Mike, if you get
any more information on the cloning of Matthew Stafford, please
(15:39):
break into our content and tell us live all right, Yeah,
I just.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Heard my wife upstairs watching the show. Big Jimmy Garoppolo
fan yell, hell yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
When it comes to you now, she went your engines.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Wait, she went for Garoppolo and got Garafalo. You know,
sometimes the clones don't quite work out.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
How many times have you used that line, Mike Ge?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Just a few and probably a few more, Gamie before
we're all thin.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
When you get one of those purses that they're selling
on the sidewalk in New York City and it's like
a Vouie Laton, you know, it's kind of the knockoff.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Thank you, Mike G.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We'll check in with you on any scientific advancements that
we may have in the United States. Until then, let's
look back at Matthew Stafford and the relationship that these
two have. What they can put together on the field,
but the question becomes the health of this one and
what he can produce offensively.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is, as Mike G put at MANSI the RAM season,
what we're looking at right now, what we're considering, well, we're.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You considering this guys.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
It is a quarterback that has has he had a
history of playing through injuries, right, this this one just
seems a little different to me. And I know that
we have this scale that that KB has. I'm starting
to go up a little bit if if I'm being honest,
and so if I'm thinking about it, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'd be extremely concerned.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm starting to get extremely concerned because I really like
the la rams.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
All right, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Let's go to the scale. Matt Ti mentioned the scale.
So we've been tracking this over the last couple of weeks.
It is the staff Con scale, not the deaf Con
scale to measure nuclear holocaust, but staff Con. All right,
we're trying to measure our concern about Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Level five.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's still early by drawf and gets increasingly more concerned.
Where do we have it now? Is it down to
may day yet? Or is it still level four?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I still have it at the vibes are off because
we still have some time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But maybe I'm wrong. I mean, you, guys, if we're
at may day.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I just heard Mike Garafola report that sometimes people with
Matthew Stafford's condition can injure themselves picking up the laundry,
all right, so I don't love that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Should we be at may day or Jamie, what do
you think? Or should we stay on? The vibes are off? Listen.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Anytime that you could hurt yourself doing a household chore,
I think that is a may day. I mean oftentimes
as someone who old, like, that's what you say when
you pull your back picking up the load of laundry.
May day, may day, I'm down. One of your children
has to help you stand up. So I would personally
maybe put it at three.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I think I would, and compare that to what you
got to do on the football field. It's more strenuous
than trying to bend over and pick up something like
as a quarterback, you got a twist, you gotta get.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hit land all of that stuff. It's may day, may
day listen. Oh sorry, well, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
I'm just thinking Buddy's gonna take a tensu bean and
getting that gokuth hellingum pot in the hill up. But
we have to really understand that every player in the
league is gonna play through something and say what he's
able to play through. If it's back injuries, if it's
this that. But when you have Jimmy g as your
backup as the team. I'm feeling a little bit more
confident in this season because you understand Jimmy Wentz. But
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I don't know if people saying Jimmy wins games and
he does a good job. But we're looking at it.
We're like, Okay, we have our starting quarterback. We want
him to play, but are we really in panic? Moment
jim comes in, I don't panicking.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Listen, I think, Kyle, I'm gonna make a new category.
What are you making that face for?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I heard what panicking about Jimmy G.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I'm going to three point five, Kyle. I'm creating a
new category, which is I'm inspecting every single body movement
that that quarterback puts out. Those staffords are very public
with what they share on the internet, which really fun.
They have such a cute family. I think I think
Matt Matthew's wife posts a video of their kids running
at him during a training camp, and I'm like, Okay,
is he gonna pick one of them up? Or does
he get down on the ground to greet them? This
(19:42):
is how deep I was going.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He indeed, he indeed.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Did squat down to hug the gaggle of children. So
I was like, Okay, we're not picking up our children publicly,
but we are able to squat, so that looks me
right at three point five.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Here's the shot that I want. If you're gonna that's
a great route to go.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I want to see him either putting in or taking
out a child from a car seat, because that involves
a lot of torque, a lot of you gotta unbuckle,
you got ah, and then you're out. If we could
get a shot, if the Staffords are willing, of course
they published themselves. I want to see video or picture
of Stafford doing that because for me to go to
(20:20):
May Day to really escalate the staff con scale, and
I don't want this to happen, but I'm just saying
this is what would do it.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
He's out there, we see him throwing, we see him practicing.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If he then misses subsequent practices because there was some
he irritated the injury or aggravated it, then we go
to May Day because then he was out there throwing
and his back didn't respond. Well, I'm still sticking on
the vibes are off until I see a car seat picture,
and then I'll go down maybe to just level five
or I'll go up to still early.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But if I see him miss another.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Practice because they don't have a lot of practice left
for the opener, miss a practice, We're going to may day,
miss a game week practice, We're going to dry heaving
and Jimmy g is announced the starter by Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
That's love of one. It's great.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
We love the staff Con scale. However, as we mentioned
at the top of the show, there's someone who's stopping
by our studio here in LA who probably wants us
to stop using the staff Con scale just as a whole.
And I'll be honest, he just walked in the studio,
So let's just get the staff Con off the screen.
It's Rams President Kevin dem Off. He's here. We're talking
the upcoming season, some of the cool things the Rams
(21:29):
are doing in the community, but also what Sean McVay
always have a up his sleeve. It's always something.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Kyle, give me a heads up that the president of
the Rams is there so I can shut my piehole.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh my gosh, All.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Right, well, I will never stop talking about this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Real ones know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That in the mid nineties, one of the most fun,
most entertaining players.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Was that man right there? Natron means you know what
he means. This was the dude. I'm gonna get into
it shortly.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I can't wait for this episode of looking Back on
the Stars that we loved.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Good football.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Friend of the show.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
It hits different, if you will.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
When he gets to join the breakfast table in person,
it's the president of the team that we're just talking about,
and Kyle actually said, give me a heads up the
next time Kevin Demoff walks in the room. So we
have to stop talking about the health and well being
of your quarterback and start talking about some of the
thing the Rams are doing.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
We're not. Matthew Stafford is dead had on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I do enjoy that one the staff con Yeah, yeah,
it's been fun. Have you begun the dry heaving portion
of the off season yet, whether it comes to the
health at your quarterback or otherwise.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
I think when you go through the off season, you
go through the stages. It's a really long off season,
and then you get your training camp and you're excited and
obviously you know Matthew doesn't practice, but your nerves don't
kick in until you're like, okay, we've got eight weeks.
We've got seven weeks. Yeah, it's kind of like when
you're a kid you have summer reading and it's like, oh,
I have plenty of time to do this. You jam
it all into like one week and that's you know,
That's kind of how this felt. But you know, the
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goal was always really for him to have a month
of camp. He's going to have three weeks, so it's
really not that far off from where we thought it
would be in July. But I know, the ups and
downs and the travails of the day to day stafford watch,
and then we brought in the trailer, you know, for restoration,
which I think set staff con level up about four levels,
you know. But you know, it's been great to see
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him practice this week and look good and feel good,
and so you know we'll build off that.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It must be go ahead, Jamie, No, no, no, you go ahead, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I was just going to say, I was just gonna say,
it just speaks highly of the relationship that you guys have,
Like what is it like for you to deal with
an injury to such an important part of your team
and the fact that that conversation has to happen daily.
But the trust that you must have in him to
be honest with what's going to benefit the team.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Well, I think we're so fortunate we have Reggie Scott,
who's one of the premiere, you know, experts in this field,
a trainer, and his conversation with Matthew daily, how he's feeling,
how he's doing, whether it's doctor Elatrosh, doctor Waltkins. We're
so fortunate here in LA to have an amazing group
of team doctors. Then for Sean, it's understanding, Hey, what
do you really need to do? I mean, we're fortunately
he's thirty seven years old. He does not need a
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full training camp to take every rep to go through it.
That was always the plan, whether he showed up with
a back injury or not. And so I think that
conversation of what do you need to be ready? And
then for us, what do we actually need for you
to be ready to open the season against the Texans?
How many weeks of work is that? And he got
a great offseason with all of our players, so he
has those reps in and look so much of our offense,
probably minus Davante, is coming back from last year. So
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I think for them there's a comfort level on what
it is and.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
How it works.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, Kevin, when you said earlier that you get
a laugh at about the Matthew Stafford is no longer
living a room or that's not a denial. I just
have to call you, that's not a denial. Can you
give proof of life to the internet? They demand it.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
I don't think I could give proof of life, and
I don't know that I want to stop it either, right, Like,
because if Matthew Stafford comes out and throws for four
hundred yards against the Texans and is the player of
the week, I want people to wonder whether that's actually
Matthew Stakes or whether it's truly some clone that we
have found that's going to go on and win MVP. Right,
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that's an amazing storyline I think for the NFL this year.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Like, is that actually.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Matthew staff Yes, play into that's a great response.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Listen another perfection is all right, So there was a
moment between you and Jerry Jones and we're talking about
again talking about Matthew Stafford. It got caught on camera
trade this trade that can you tell us the story
and you know, clean it up?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a morning show. What was going on.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
You know, it's fascinating because I woke up the other
day and I had about one hundred texts, and normally
that means something bad has happened at your team if
you wake up in success and it's all people with
this clip, And I was like, I was fascinated because
I remember going to Cowboys camp when they were filming
this show and there were mics everywhere and booms everyone.
So you very much like, I don't want to say
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anything silly, and you wind up in this conversation and
the Jones family has been good friends for a long time.
We're having this natural conversation and we always talk about,
you know, what's going on with them, so whether it's
been their holdouts or our trades or what's going on.
And you know, I think the thought process was, you know,
we were talking a little bit about the Herschel Walker
trade to some degree, and you know how that went,
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and you know what that does. You know, when you
take big swings for your team, you know, how does
that ultimately change fortunes for good and bad? And I
think you know, Jerry's perspective was, you know, we were talking,
you know, hey, like you have a great quarterback, What
would you do? You know, is there a quarterback you
would upgrade from? And I think his perspective was, hey,
I wouldn't try to do that to move on from
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from Dak, right, So I think the clip in the
thirteen seconds is a little bit taken out of context.
It was meant more as a positive for Dak than
it was like, you guys are crazy. Now, look, we
were crazy to do what we did with Matthew and Jared.
And I think, you know, one of my other favorite
debates on the internet is who won the trade between
the Rams and the Lions? And I think it's so
nice to see a trade that both teams walk away
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from it feel great. We're fortunate enough to have a
Super Bowl ring and Matthew's been fantastic for us, Jared
as we expect, it has helped lift that franchise back,
you know, into being a championship contender. But that clip
was Jerry deserves his due credit. It was how much
he loves Dak and hey, there's not a quarterback I
would do that for, you know, more so than it
was you know, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Yeah, with this being the tenth season in LA and
this season opener right across the streeting and so far,
what's most exciting about this season?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Look, I think this is the most talented team we've
had since we've been in Los Angeles. I think that's
what's exciting from a true perspective as a Rams fan.
We have, you know, the addition to DeVante Adams. It's
sad to lose someone like Cooper Cup who brought us
so many memories across the street and across the board.
But you add someone like a DeVante Adams. You have
the reigning defensive rookie of the year who's been unstoppable
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in training camp, Matthew coming back, you know, Kyrien like
this is and it's an interesting team because it's a
very young team. I think we're one of the three
four youngest teams, but actually we're returning almost all of
our starters, so it's a youngest sending team. You see
that every day. They have a great camaraderie in chemistry.
We had an amazing mini camp in Maui to watch
the team kind of bond and come together. And so
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this is the most connected team and probably the most
talented team we've had in Los Angeles. But here on
August twentieth. That doesn't mean anything, right, you still got
to go do it. But I also will say, you know,
even when we talk about ten years, just even driving
in the studio today looking at what Hollywood Park and
Sofi Stadium has become over those ten years. I remember
coming to the groundbreaking nine and a half ten years
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ago and thinking what will this look like? And now
you pull in and you have the memories at Sofi
Stadium in the Super Bowl and this network and the
amazing district that's popped up, and you're like, it has
been an incredible ten years. But I wonder what the
next ten years will bring.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
It's been incredible.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I also love that you guys when you mentioned to
Maui to raise awareness for the fires and all that,
and I really appreciate at that as somebody was born
and raised in Hawaii. But we love Sean McVay on
this show. He's see somebody we talk a lot about often.
But your players were asked what he would do if
he wasn't in sports. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I got two, all right, One a pilates instructor or
two a CrossFit coach.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I mean, he'd be a hell of a motivational speaker.
I think it'd be really good, as like if he
worked like the drive through window have McDonald's and told
you had a great day and really could pump you up.
You know, I wouldn't mind getting a mcflurry from coach,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I think he'd he'd do a good jump.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
keV do you have more trust in Sean McVay as
a pilates instructor or somebody working the drive.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Through, you know?
Speaker 10 (29:52):
And I noticed Kyle has not challenged him to a
push up contest recently because he's looking pretty fit, right,
I mean, there were the pictures of him, you know,
vacationing in the south of France where you know a
number of people on the internet commenting on how he looks.
So I would be intimidated with him as a plate's instructor.
And I think it's probably I haven't done plotates in
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a long time, but I think he's probably a little
bit too intense for plates. McDonald's would be awesome because
I think you just get that vibe and that energy
coming from him. Although I want to give a quick
shout out that clip my daughter Claire, who's here in studio,
that was her getting those interviews during training camp. She
works with those.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, but she.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
Came back to me that night and she's like, you're
not going to believe. We asked all the players what
coach McVeagh would be if he was not a football coach,
and she's like, Matthew kind of roasted in pretty hard,
calling him McDonald's drive through. But I mean, if you've
got Sean McVay on your headset. Yeah, and there's the
great clip, you know, Matthew getting to play from Sean
and saying like, just stop going, stop talking, Like that
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would be him as the McDonald's guys, like you ordered
a coffee and fries and just be quiet.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
No, I feel like he would emotionally support you through
like not winning pickles. Like hell yeah, it's a great
idea we got that. Listen to your daughter, Claire, and
we applaud all people that provide us the content that
we often need on this show when it's like the
twenty seventh month of the off season. Thank you for
asking questions like that, Claire, because when you say, like
what you know, do you turn the air conditioning up
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or down? Or what would your coach do?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Is said, we just eat.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
That like it is a chicken nugget on this show.
So thank you so much to your daughter for providing that.
Speaking to coach, you're busy today. You're going to leave
the studio here and you're going to go to an
event called Kickoff for Charity. What's this about with the Rams?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
So every year before we go away for our final
preseason game, we do the Kickoff for Charity luncheon where
basically we invite members of the community to come be
part of our luncheon. They get to sit at the
table with a player. It's nine, it's about nine people
playerity team get a chance to meet the player's helmet off,
really have a conversation and then kind of give a
preview of the year. And in the last few years
we've allowed the closing act is Sean giving basically a
(31:59):
team speech to the room. It's the best Ted talk
you'll ever hear, and usually it's one his themes of
the offseason. And it's truly a great chance for us
to go raise money to go out into the community
to go help. But it's also for our fans. It's
chance for them to meet these players really walk away.
You know, we have all ninety players on the roster.
Sure you have your stars, but you meet someone who's
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the backup guard and you now have a new player
to kind of root for all year, to hear their story.
And I mean, I think, man Ty Lawrence, you guys
know everybody knows the stars, but the NFL is truly
fifty three guys pulling each year. And when you invest
in those stories, you invest in those people. I think
that makes people have a tighter connection in the rams.
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And then there's so much good we can do in
the community with or without the luncheon. But it's a
great way to highlight what these players do year round.
And we talk about, you know, Matthew Stafford obviously the
great working and Kelly have done after the fires this year,
whether it's donating equipment to the passing and football team
that lost it or leading Walk United to raise money
for funds with United Way this year. I think it's
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to highlight those great charitable efforts of our players, but
also for people to get a chance to meet our
team up close.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Yeah yeah, so you just mentioned that charitable work that
matt Stafford has done. I know you guys have done
work of your own for families that have been affected
by the LA fires.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Sure?
Speaker 10 (33:17):
I mean, look, it's been it's hard to think of.
You know, Jamie got to travel back from us from Arizona,
which seems like ages ago in a football perspective, a
wild card game that was played on the road, but
obviously for so many people here that's still daily life
after the fires and kind of where we're going. And
so I think for us, whether it's been you know,
rebuilding a school in Altadena, you know that experienced, you know,
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tremendous loss, or getting in the community and donating goods,
two football teams, two players, two rewarding families and helping
them get back on their feet through donations. There's been
so much work that's been done to celebrate. We had
first responders at our game last weekend against the Chargers,
honoring them on the field. So much work, and then
we had our you can see on the clips right
now in the b roll. We did our draft at
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LA for fire Ups, which was an amazing experience to
get to be with five hundred first responders kind of
in the draft room, being part of that, and you know,
listening to Sean McVay kind of pumped them up. It's
been really a year of trying to get back to
those who have helped us recover from these fires. But obviously,
anybody who lives in southern California, there's such a long
road to go, and we're going to be there every
(34:23):
step of the way.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Kevin, I'm glad you brought it up because it's one
of those things where it's like it was such a
privilege that day, and I just want to remind everyone
and tell it in a thirty second story, which is
the fires impacted California and Los Angeles in such a
massive way in January, but the Rams were also gifted
a home playoff game, and with the LA Rams pulled
off in such a short amount of time to not
only move their home playoff game to Arizona, but to
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treat it like a home playoff game. Every single person
in your organization did an incredible job. And indeed, you
included myself and two producers on the show to come
back with you on the team plane, and we made
it for the show Kyle to tell the incredible story,
so he said it, not me. I just wanted to
make sure, Kevin and the crew got their props.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
I love your viewpoint, though I was a Minnesota fan
that we were gifted the home playoff game. We earned
the home playoff game by winning the division. We beat
Minnesota in the regular season and in a neutral site.
I don't want to get into the discussion of whether
you know wild card team should host gifted. Those an
interesting choice of words.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It really is. It is.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, listen, we've we've busted chops here. But I just
want to make sure a couple of things that I
personally always say about the Rams, whether you're here or not.
I say, always pick the Rams to make the playoffs.
Never never skip them. They're always going to be there.
I say Sean McVay is the best coach in the NFL.
He is number one out of thirty two against all
the other ones who I respect, and yet I have
to say, as good of a coach as he is,
(35:48):
I think he would be a fantastic, fantastic McDonald's employee
if he is on that drive through when you pull up, Yeah,
welcome McDonald's. May I help you a big mac to
all beef special patties. Let us chease the diynasays we
see bond and drive through. He would be amazing, he'd
be so fired up to order for him. So I
love him, Love McVeigh, love the Rams. Let me think
everything you have going on, and thank you so much
for being here.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
Dude, our pleasure as you get excited for the season.
It's good to hear that we turn it on. You'll
be picking us in a hat, you know, in a
couple of weeks, and if not, we'll hold you to that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, I'm sure.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
I'm sure Sean will gladly have you represent him as
he goes and does his next deal.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, do it? Do it all right?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Go check out any highlights from the kickoff for charity
event at the Rams are participating in today. Good luck
for the rest of the season with your ramily if
you will. Kevin Demoff and company, his family in the
house is where again, Claire Demop, thank you for that
social media content.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
It is imperative for Good morning football, Good Morne football.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
This was a dude episode six.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
This is going to be a fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's definitely a host favorite because you know who we're
talking about today, you know who we're looking back on.
Natron means yes, we're talking Natron, fully beloved nineties figure.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Natron grew up in North Carolina, played peewee.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Football at age eight, and he was alignman because he
was so big.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
But then the coach said, you're fast.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Too, and he ended up leading his pee wee football
team and rushing wearing number seventy two playing running back.
Goes to North Carolina's prolific more than three thousand yards
and then he's drafted by the Chargers forty first overall
in the nineteen ninety three NFL draft, and he was
initially backing up Marion Butts, who was another guy I
love who.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Could have his own episode. But look at Natron go.
He's so fast and.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So powerfully in a breakout game in Miami, you're seeing
it here, one hundred and eighteen yards rushing in three
rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The Chargers would trade Marion.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Butts to the Patriots because they liked Natron so much,
and how could you not.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
He breaks out as a rookie and then here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
The nineteen ninety four Chargers were a very special team
during a very special season, seventy fifth anniversary season for
all the NFL.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
They wore those great patches.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Now the Charge just weren't on anybody's radar to be
a Super Bowl contender. They start the season six and
zher and Natron is awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Against the Saints.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
He has one hundred and twenty yards and three touchdowns.
Natron means would run for thirteen fifty on the year
and more importantly, begnighted by Chris Berman as so many
great players were. With his nickname Nay John names business,
he became a real celebrity and the Chargers were a sensation,
beating the Dolphins in the playoffs, beating the Steelers in
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the playoffs, and leading to.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
The Super Bowl. Natron goes on the Tonight Show. He
sits down with Jay Leno on the way to the.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Super Bowl to say hi to the haters who didn't
believe in him. Also on the show that night, Christian
Slater and Janine Turner shout out northern exposure.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Well, you want exposure. The Chargers suffered some in that
Super Bowl, one of the least.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Competitive I've seen in my lifetime. Jerry Rice had a
touchdown in the first five seconds. The forty nine Ers
with Steve Young we cruising, which was tough for the
Chargers because the Gold came plan is to pound Natron
and on this driver's senor, Natron Means carried the ball
six times on the drive. It was tough because they
didn't have the firepower through the air that San Francisco had,
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But Natron did this. And let's go to Lee Hacksaw
Hamilton on the call jumbo backfield, double tight ends h
BACKI formation, they're gonna run.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Up to Means touchdown San Diego. He went up and
over the top. I love Natron Means.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
We're midway through this same I just want to say
I love Natron Means.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Next year in nineteen ninety five season, he gets injured
and the team cuts them, so the Jaguars sign them,
and you think, well, he had his run with the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I guess it's over.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Nineteen ninety six, Natron Means was excellent with the Chargers,
or with it rather with the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
And we are seeing right here one of.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
The seminal upsets in playoff history, in which this Jaguars team,
not far removed from expansion, goes into Mile High against
a thirteen win Coast team with multiple Hall of Famers
and beats them in a game that still hurts Shannon
Sharp to talk about Natron. Means was excellent in this game,
one hundred and forty yards on only twenty one.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Carries and they win.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
An amazing, amazing day for Natron. They would go on
to get upset to lose the game after this, but
they beat Denver Natron. Following this the nineteen ninety seven season,
he plays nineteen ninety eight season, an incredible turn of events,
he joins.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
The Chargers again.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
They brought him back to Beyond the Dirt to play
with Ryan.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Leaf, and he was playing really well.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Was on his way to well over one thousand yards
on his return to the Chargers, but missed the last
six games with a foot injury. Finished with eight hundred
and eighty three yards, including a career long seventy two
yard touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
More injuries would follow.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
In the ninety nine season, they were cut by the
Chargers again, and then Natron is with the Carolina Panthers,
appeared in only one game to not record any stats.
Where is he now? Oh, I'm so glad you asked.
Natron has been into coaching. He's been successful. Was a
running backs coach and an offensive coordinator at several different colleges,
and guess what, folks, he has been hired as the
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running backs coach for Bill Belichick's University of North Carolina staff.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
That man is.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Working with Belichick. He will be in the spotlight. He
never left my spotlights. One of your favorite nineties players,
one of the great Chargers players, and one of the
reasons we do.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
This segment back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Natron means this was a dude all right.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Time to set the table for preseason week three action
on NFL Network. You can see the Falcons of the
Cowboys and a APM Eastern and then a litany of
games tomorrow for if you fancy that kind of preseason
action all on NFL Network or NFL bless And if
you were not one of the one hundred million people
that watched the New Heights podcast last week, here is
(42:00):
a taste of Travis Kelce to wet your whistle heading
into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I am Travis in my thirteenth year at camp today
than you're already here at camp.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Pretty fun once you get up here. We don't have
a lot of people today. I should probably buckle up.
It's not going anywhere, guys. The bag is not going
anywhere today.
Speaker 8 (42:22):
I know I'm miked up. Yea, oh you are.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I don't say anything crazy.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
You always say something and that's no great ladies and gentlemen,
our fearless warrior, our most proud warrior.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I need a little creed creed. I need a little
creed all right, And this is Travis Kelcey and I
approved that message.
Speaker 8 (42:39):
They even have our names on the back so the
guys at the morgue can identify our bodies.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Thanks for coming out today, ladies and gentlemen, until next time, don't.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Travis Kelcey is warning his teammates that he's miked up.
I feel like someone should tell Travis Kelcey and remind
him that he's miked up. Lawrence, were you that dude
when you were miked up at training camp?
Speaker 8 (43:04):
Said Hey, when this training camp is hot, you're tired.
I'm gonna say off the wall stuff, especially when you
hit that bag, Like, look, man, the bag is real
stiff today. Can put in WD four?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Can we call equipment over here?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Real quick?
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Brain? Last night put the W forty on it?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Like you know, I counted the cold Tallas hot, it's hot.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Can we do something like what's going on? Can we
do something.
Speaker 8 (43:29):
It's the best part about training camp. You gotta have fun,
especially when you're a year thirteen. Have a blast. Anybody
wants to see that.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
There are people that are made to be miked up,
there are people that weren't.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I'm not the one to mike up.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
I got miked up once in my career and all
they heard us.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Then after that, I never got miked up ever again.
I never gave any anybody and it takes nothing. All
you hear us, that's it.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
They can come like that.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
In English bull on
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Welcome to Good Morning Football, present of my best Buy.
It's Friday, August twenty second. Jamie Eard Old Mantaiteo here
in La as always an NFL defensive tackle. Friend of
the show. Lawrence Guy joining us as well to talk
all things that he loves about NFL preseason Week three.
Kyle Brandt in New York. Kyle, good little hour. We
have to end out our week on Good Morning Football.
We have a guest joining us in studio in LA
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to talk about one of our local teams.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
And that local team is probably not the Chargers. A
lot of questions about that local team's quarterback. I think
that local team as the best coach in the NFL.
When they win the NFC West, we'll find out. But
we will talk that team and spells the entire NFC
right now. It's Good Morning Football on a Friday.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
By best Buy.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
That's right, Jamie Mansi, Lawrence and Kyle man I was
the big old school bus. Way bye. Have a nice
day at school. Now we get to crack down on Yeah,
the kids are going back to school. It's all happening.
Preseason Week three kicked off last night. You got a
couple of games tonight and more through the rest of
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the weekend before teams make decisions about their fifty three
man roster come early next week. We'll have it all
covered for you next week on GMFB. But to send
you off to the weekend, Kyle, shall we do a
couple of short highlights to make sure we are Palette
is properly prepared for our hour on GMFB.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I think we should because there was a party in
North Jersey last night, right up the street from the
bottom being the Giants host of the Patriots the Helmet
Cats rematch up, really Jackson Dart Jackson start he hands
off to cam Scataboo with a glorious four yard run.
A lot more of that to come, Scott. I we're
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gonna run all the way to offensive MVP. I cannot
believe I'm saying it, but I love it. And watch
Dart never mind the flag. Who cares this preseason that's
Gunner o Bleepanshewsky wearing numbers zero, running all the way
through the heart of the New Jersey nights. Dart improvising,
pointing out, breaking the pocket, throwing to Olshevsky, looking the part.
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Russell Wilson is on the sideline. Jameis is coming later?
When is Jackson Dart starting for the Giants? Is it
in twenty twenty five? Is it in September? Is it
in October?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
When is it? I have it? Wow?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Look how high Mylakue neighbors can jump.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I gotta see that again. Does he have a fifty
ins vertical? That was unbelievable? All right?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
More more Dart? I hate this, but I love it.
I can't decide what are you doing?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Jackson?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
This is not a game against Mississippi State.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
This is an August game.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
In the preseason where the official, the head coach, probably
even some of the Patriots were like, dude, get down table.
He's like, are you mad? We're in the blue tent.
He's all right, thank gosh, all right. The People's champion
media darling Jamis Winston never thought I'd under those words,
but they're true.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
He throws a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
If I'm showing you, Jamis, he's either doing a funny
online video.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Throwing a touchdown or throwing a pick six. It was
a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
And here's the funny online video. Look at Darnubles puts
the w in his mouth and James would have fit
those fingers off. I guarantee it. He's crazy, he'll do it.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
The Giants put.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Up forty two points three touchdowns coming from Hey, Tommy DeVito.
They have two Giants quarterbacks now who are known for
funny hand gestures.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
That's amazing. That's where we're going at this point. Taylor's Panthers,
Jamie take us to it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Jameis Winson is such a radar for when the camera
is squarely directly and just looked it down every time
and he doesn't blink, kind of like the way we
feel about Aaron Rodgers. The camera always finds him, but
he just kind of gives a chesture cat grint and
doesn't look directly at it. Rogers hasn't played in the preseason.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
First quarter.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We take you to no score, Panthers first into and
Trevor atm my goodness, I almost just said Travis one
of those rare players that probably played in both the
Florida Georgia rivalry games. And that is an SEC crime
right there. Jalen Ramsey, as Kyle said, last hour. What
are you doing this the preseason? He's just making sure
he's amped up the three team All Pro, right exactly?
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It worked. This is Mason Rudolph lops it up trying
to find Kashan Williams, but intercepted and said by Lathan Ransom,
who turns it back for sixteen yards. Ransom is a
fourth round pick out of Ohio State. It gets his
first interception in an NFL uniform, which thrills him to
no end. In suie Panthers drive. This is Plumber scrambles
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Raheem black Shear in the end zone. Nope, intercepted by
James Pierre for the touchbacks.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
One of those odd looking sports.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
But on the play, Derek Harmon, the rookie, is chasing
down Plumber, but he gets taken down. Harmon would end
up getting carted off to the locker room with a
knee brain. He's the twenty first overall pick. He was
a first round guy in Green Bay in April. But
he would return to the sideline with a smile on
his face. Hopefully that bodes well. Skyler Thompson, look at this.
This is just end zone party and a half twenty
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four yard touchdown. With Lance McCutchen connection Steelers with win
this one nineteen to ten. But all we care about
is whether or not Rogers was smiling with the headset on.
That's what's happening in a couple of the early preseason
Week three games. Important qualification there. But tonight on NFL Network,
you're going to see the Cowboys. And with that, we
turned to Mike Garrafolo, our NFL Network insider with us
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this morning, as we have heard a lot the next chapter,
perhaps if you will, has begun. As we are less
than two weeks from the opener Cowboys at Eagles, Will
they have MICHAEH. Parsons on the field, Mike, what's the
latest today?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Well, Micah seven eight says, And honestly, look, I was
pretty good Catholic school, like pretty good when it comes
to Bible verses and stuff like that. So when Micah
Parsons posted that Micah seven eight I believe was the
Bible verse. I thought he was doing like an Austin
three six Heen type thing. But no, no, it's an
actual Bible verse from the Book of Micah that he posted.
The with this one which which seems to indicate I'm
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out which he already did. He already did the trade
request a while ago. Now it's scrubbing there you go.
Even if I fall, I will rise. The Lord is
my light. I wish I had a book of the
Bible named after me. I could use the verses all
the time. But in this case, MICHAEH. Parsons Uh just
making it clear that he is further irked by the Cowboys.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
Lack of communication.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's been the biggest thing on this one, the lack
of communication over the.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Last couple of months.
Speaker 4 (06:37):
When he has made it clear have negotiations with my agent,
not with me. We already did that, and I didn't
he I mean, I'm speaking for him. He hasn't really
fully explained all this, and I'd love to get to
the bottom of it.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
For what Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Thought those conversations were, where they just parameters or hey,
here's what we're thinking.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Great, all right, now send it to my agent.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Now the Cowboys and Jerry Jones are saying that the
agent told it, told us to stick that offer up
our bleep. I'm telling you, Michael Parsons camp is saying.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
We don't talk like that. We never said anything like that.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
I'm sure that they communicated their lack of appreciation for
the fact that they tried the Cowboys did to have
negotiations with the player without them, So the standoff continues.
We're inside two weeks here. I know everybody's saying, well,
Mike is gonna play. You know, in the end, these
guys all play, not all of them, and not when
they're this angry.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
And Michael Parsons is really angry.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So if you're playing a.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Game of Chicken Jerry Jones and the Cowboys, you might
lose this one. That's how angry Michael Parsons is on
this one.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
All right, Mike G. I fear what would come in
the Mike G Book in the Bible. I'm not sure
I want to know some of those chapters and verses,
but it's something that you should live by, Mike G.
And let us know what's in there. Manti and we
really have entered in the TVD the social media. The
owners are saying things, the agents saying he didn't say stuff.
It's all very complicated. Does it all translate though, to
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the Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
Being in trouble?
Speaker 6 (07:58):
Yeah, they're in trouble. You know why because you talked
about TBD. There is something that is determined already and
that's you're going to start your season off with two
divisional opponents, one with the Eagles and one with the Giants.
And if you saw in that highlight that KB did,
it looked like a party over there in met life,
not only on the field but off of the field.
So if you are the Dallas Cowboys, if you are
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Jerry Jones and Michael Parsons, if you want any shot
at making it to the playoffs, you have to be
able to find some resolution with your star defensive player.
If you think about I watched I went back this
morning and watched her our interview with Charlotte Jones that
we had earlier this week, and she said this, at
the end of the day, you realize when the pie
is gone, there's nothing left.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
And what does that mean to me?
Speaker 6 (08:42):
There's a lot of this pie that is the Dallas
Cowboys cap space that's going to a few players. And
when you understand that there's a big piece that's going
to your quarterback, that there's another big piece that's going
to your receiver, there's a piece that's going to your dB.
When number eleven comes to the table with his playout
and he's asking for a piece of this pie, and
you're Jerry Jones and you're standing behind the food line
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ready to serve them. I think there comes a time
where it's like Chipotle when they put that one scoop
of chicken in there, and you're looking at him like,
is this it?
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Do I need this order a double?
Speaker 7 (09:13):
Like?
Speaker 6 (09:13):
That's what the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Seems like to me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
It's there's only so many ways that you can split
this thing, and they've given so much away already that
now Michael Parsons is coming to it, who is a
big part of your team, and you don't have enough form.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
So I think this is a.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Big deal Jamie that if you're looking at it from
a business standpoint, from a playing standpoint, from a playoff standpoint,
you got to get this thing done.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I just don't know when. Og.
Speaker 8 (09:39):
I'm just saying, when I look at this, I'm looking
at what the guys in the locker room thinking, thinking like, Hey,
this is one of our best players on the team.
He's the leader on the team. He helps a lot
of the young guys out. If they're going to treat
him like that, how they're going to treat the rest
of us, And it's just a good example of that.
I'm looking at the whole situation hoping that this gets resolved,
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and if it doesn't, like I said before in the past,
let the player be and I understand what his feature is,
what the organization or in the Lama belt.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Let me just float a theory. Here, is this whole
thing a work?
Speaker 5 (10:15):
A work?
Speaker 3 (10:16):
You know what a work is?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
A work is like a stage storyline in pro pro wrestling.
It's all this is this real, even like we have
all the Jerry quotes and the contracts going up, this button,
this here and here, and Mike is doing the tweet
and it's perfect that it's just all like it just
feels like predetermined theater, and a predetermined would be Almost
all the time when we get things like this, it
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usually ends up with the players out there and he's
got a new deal. I mean usually, not always. We've
seen it way back in the nineties with the Cowboys.
We've seen it with people like Chris Jones. But it's again,
it's just it's it's an incredible cross section of what
is football for Jerry and then what is clicks media content?
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Are the Cowboys a football company who also do content?
Are they a content company who also does football?
Speaker 3 (11:05):
And has that flipped?
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Because, as I said earlier in the show, right now,
there is a huge, huge Netflix documentary which Jerry was
intimately involved, and he has a lot good riding on
and he's really put a lot of passion into it,
what we're talking about, and these images of Michael Parsons
are great publicity for that documentary, not to mention the
other show they have on Netflix. It's like, I'm sure
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Michah Parsons is not a willing participant in some sort
of pro wrestling storyline. And I'm just being crazy, but
I feel like Jerry is. I feel like Jerry really
likes this, and I feel like he's gonna drop every piece.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
Of content out of it, out of that rock that
he can squeeze. I don't know. I get a little
exasperated because, you know, the Cowboys should.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Be a really good team this year and they should
just have their stuff in order, and you got to
go to Philadelphia to play the World champs and not
get embarrassed and you.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Got to win that game.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
It's just like it's such chaos and there's so many
teams that are just locked down and buttoned up and
could play the opener now with their fifty three best
players twenty two best starters. They don't have a documentary,
they don't have the airtime, but they have a good
football team. And I don't know if the Cowboys have
the last one yet, I know they have the other two,
and that seems to be the priority more and more.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Kyle, are we flirting with this becoming insulting though? To
the people who enjoy the product at some point, Like
to your point, if it is a work, do you
do the work too many times at some point and
people stop believing in what they're watching and what they're
engaging with.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Sure, I mean you talk to the most bitter, self
loathing Cowboys fan at this point and listen they say
the same thing. They say, we're never going to have
a real Super Bowl until we hire a real GM. Well, listen, guys,
there's not going to be a real GM until do
respect Jerry has gone, and even after that, I don't
think you're gonna have a real GM because they got
a whole family set up. So yeah, I think there's
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annoyance and the Cowboys fans are the Cowboys fans, they
believe in the team. They probably hate this take that
I'm having. They want to win a super Bowl, But yeah,
I think it does become like great. So we can't
win the NFC, ever, but we can win Netflix.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
And so that's what we hang our hat on. It
seemed to become that more and more.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
All right, speaking of winning the NFC, let's bring Mike
Yourrofolo back in. As we saw Matt Stafford yesterday participating
in practice. However, now the scale is turning back and
we can't quite land on where this quarterback and his
participation level is.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Right now with the Rams.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
So what's the concern in preparation for Week one with
la Rams in their quarterback?
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
We might be talking about the Rams entire season here
in Matthew Stafford's entire season. This is something that he
potentially may have to manage and may creep up on
him from time to time when you've got a back issue,
when you've got a disc issue. I remember talking to
a doctor years ago who said you can bend over
and pick up the laundry and all of a sudden
act aggravated and playing NFL quarterback is a lot worse
than bending over to pick up the laundry bin. So
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there's times where he may turn or he may get.
Speaker 5 (13:57):
Hit and it may aggravate it.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
So at this point, Matthew Stafford is improving and has
improved to the point where he can participate in practice.
But I do know this, Jimmy Garoppolo, you see him
right there. Jimmy Garoppolo, the backup quarterback who had other
options in the off season, by the way, but liked
his relationship with John McVay and certainly the feelings for
mutual went back to the Rams. Is a guy that
you know, you're always preparing your backup quarterback, but they're
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really preparing Jimmy Garoppolo because of the uncertainty with Matthew
Stafford in this case. And so we're gonna have to
continue to keep an eye on this one, and we
may be doing that for the entire season. But Matthew
Stafford saying he is quote doing everything under the sun,
including that immortal chamber that he's in. That Kelly Stafford,
his wife, referenced on social media saying I knew that
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there was something with that because she was sort of
playing into the hole. Matthew Stafford is dead and died
a few weeks ago and has been replaced with a
clone internet meme, which, Kyle, I don't understand how these
things get started, how they get life breathed into them.
This is hearkening back to the days of the Beatles
and Paul McCartney.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I mean, usually there's clues that are left.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Along the way.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Do we hold the depth chart up to a mirror
back and look at and you see like Stafford is
dead written out like where are the clues on this one?
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Well, the way they get started, Mike is because they're true.
I mean, that's like any other conspiracy theories. The truth
is out there.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Listen.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
I've believed for years that brock Purty is artificial intelligence,
and so that would be the second quarterback in the
same division that has some sort of mystery behind them.
But I would only say, Mike, for the love of God,
if we're going to clone one of the Rams quarterbacks,
let's clone Garoppolo. Baby, Let's spread them all around so
we can all have a Jimmy to play with. That's
what to do. In the meantime, Mike, if you get
any more information on the cloning of Matthew Stafford, please
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break into our content and tell us live all right, Yeah,
I just.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Heard my wife upstairs watching the show. Big Jimmy Garoppolo
fan yell, hell yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
When it comes to you now, she went your engines.
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Wait, she went for Garoppolo and got Garafalo. You know,
sometimes the clones don't quite work out.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
How many times have you used that line, Mike Ge?
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Just a few and probably a few more, Gamie before
we're all thin.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
When you get one of those purses that they're selling
on the sidewalk in New York City and it's like
a Vouie Laton, you know, it's kind of the knockoff.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
Thank you, Mike G.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
We'll check in with you on any scientific advancements that
we may have in the United States. Until then, let's
look back at Matthew Stafford and the relationship that these
two have. What they can put together on the field,
but the question becomes the health of this one and
what he can produce offensively.
Speaker 7 (16:40):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
This is, as Mike G put at MANSI the RAM season,
what we're looking at right now, what we're considering, well, we're.
Speaker 3 (16:46):
You considering this guys.
Speaker 6 (16:47):
It is a quarterback that has has he had a
history of playing through injuries, right, this this one just
seems a little different to me. And I know that
we have this scale that that KB has. I'm starting
to go up a little bit if if I'm being honest,
and so if I'm thinking about it, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
I'd be extremely concerned.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm starting to get extremely concerned because I really like
the la rams.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
All right, Okay, let's go.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Let's go to the scale. Matt Ti mentioned the scale.
So we've been tracking this over the last couple of weeks.
It is the staff Con scale, not the deaf Con
scale to measure nuclear holocaust, but staff Con. All right,
we're trying to measure our concern about Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Level five.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
It's still early by drawf and gets increasingly more concerned.
Where do we have it now? Is it down to
may day yet? Or is it still level four?
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
I still have it at the vibes are off because
we still have some time.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
But maybe I'm wrong. I mean, you, guys, if we're
at may day.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I just heard Mike Garafola report that sometimes people with
Matthew Stafford's condition can injure themselves picking up the laundry,
all right, so I don't love that.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Should we be at may day or Jamie, what do
you think? Or should we stay on? The vibes are off? Listen.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Anytime that you could hurt yourself doing a household chore,
I think that is a may day. I mean oftentimes
as someone who old, like, that's what you say when
you pull your back picking up the load of laundry.
May day, may day, I'm down. One of your children
has to help you stand up. So I would personally
maybe put it at three.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
I think I would, and compare that to what you
got to do on the football field. It's more strenuous
than trying to bend over and pick up something like
as a quarterback, you got a twist, you gotta get.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Hit land all of that stuff. It's may day, may
day listen. Oh sorry, well, you know.
Speaker 8 (18:31):
I'm just thinking Buddy's gonna take a tensu bean and
getting that gokuth hellingum pot in the hill up. But
we have to really understand that every player in the
league is gonna play through something and say what he's
able to play through. If it's back injuries, if it's
this that. But when you have Jimmy g as your
backup as the team. I'm feeling a little bit more
confident in this season because you understand Jimmy Wentz. But
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I don't know if people saying Jimmy wins games and
he does a good job. But we're looking at it.
We're like, Okay, we have our starting quarterback. We want
him to play, but are we really in panic? Moment
jim comes in, I don't panicking.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Listen, I think, Kyle, I'm gonna make a new category.
What are you making that face for?
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I heard what panicking about Jimmy G.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
I'm going to three point five, Kyle. I'm creating a
new category, which is I'm inspecting every single body movement
that that quarterback puts out. Those staffords are very public
with what they share on the internet, which really fun.
They have such a cute family. I think I think
Matt Matthew's wife posts a video of their kids running
at him during a training camp, and I'm like, Okay,
is he gonna pick one of them up? Or does
he get down on the ground to greet them? This
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is how deep I was going.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
He indeed, he indeed.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Did squat down to hug the gaggle of children. So
I was like, Okay, we're not picking up our children publicly,
but we are able to squat, so that looks me
right at three point five.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
Here's the shot that I want. If you're gonna that's
a great route to go.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
I want to see him either putting in or taking
out a child from a car seat, because that involves
a lot of torque, a lot of you gotta unbuckle,
you got ah, and then you're out. If we could
get a shot, if the Staffords are willing, of course
they published themselves. I want to see video or picture
of Stafford doing that because for me to go to
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May Day to really escalate the staff con scale, and
I don't want this to happen, but I'm just saying
this is what would do it.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
He's out there, we see him throwing, we see him practicing.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
If he then misses subsequent practices because there was some
he irritated the injury or aggravated it, then we go
to May Day because then he was out there throwing
and his back didn't respond. Well, I'm still sticking on
the vibes are off until I see a car seat picture,
and then I'll go down maybe to just level five
or I'll go up to still early.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
But if I see him miss another.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Practice because they don't have a lot of practice left
for the opener, miss a practice, We're going to may day,
miss a game week practice, We're going to dry heaving
and Jimmy g is announced the starter by Sean McVay.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
That's love of one. It's great.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
We love the staff Con scale. However, as we mentioned
at the top of the show, there's someone who's stopping
by our studio here in LA who probably wants us
to stop using the staff Con scale just as a whole.
And I'll be honest, he just walked in the studio,
So let's just get the staff Con off the screen.
It's Rams President Kevin dem Off. He's here. We're talking
the upcoming season, some of the cool things the Rams
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are doing in the community, but also what Sean McVay
always have a up his sleeve. It's always something.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Kyle, give me a heads up that the president of
the Rams is there so I can shut my piehole.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Oh my gosh, All.
Speaker 1 (21:41):
Right, well, I will never stop talking about this guy.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
Real ones know.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
That in the mid nineties, one of the most fun,
most entertaining players.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
Was that man right there? Natron means you know what
he means. This was the dude. I'm gonna get into
it shortly.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I can't wait for this episode of looking Back on
the Stars that we loved.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Good football.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
Friend of the show.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
It hits different, if you will.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
When he gets to join the breakfast table in person,
it's the president of the team that we're just talking about,
and Kyle actually said, give me a heads up the
next time Kevin Demoff walks in the room. So we
have to stop talking about the health and well being
of your quarterback and start talking about some of the
thing the Rams are doing.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
We're not. Matthew Stafford is dead had on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
I do enjoy that one the staff con Yeah, yeah,
it's been fun. Have you begun the dry heaving portion
of the off season yet, whether it comes to the
health at your quarterback or otherwise.
Speaker 10 (22:48):
I think when you go through the off season, you
go through the stages. It's a really long off season,
and then you get your training camp and you're excited and
obviously you know Matthew doesn't practice, but your nerves don't
kick in until you're like, okay, we've got eight weeks.
We've got seven weeks. Yeah, it's kind of like when
you're a kid you have summer reading and it's like, oh,
I have plenty of time to do this. You jam
it all into like one week and that's you know,
That's kind of how this felt. But you know, the
(23:10):
goal was always really for him to have a month
of camp. He's going to have three weeks, so it's
really not that far off from where we thought it
would be in July. But I know, the ups and
downs and the travails of the day to day stafford watch,
and then we brought in the trailer, you know, for restoration,
which I think set staff con level up about four levels,
you know. But you know, it's been great to see
(23:30):
him practice this week and look good and feel good,
and so you know we'll build off that.
Speaker 3 (23:35):
It must be go ahead, Jamie, No, no, no, you go ahead, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
I was just going to say, I was just gonna say,
it just speaks highly of the relationship that you guys have,
Like what is it like for you to deal with
an injury to such an important part of your team
and the fact that that conversation has to happen daily.
But the trust that you must have in him to
be honest with what's going to benefit the team.
Speaker 10 (23:56):
Well, I think we're so fortunate we have Reggie Scott,
who's one of the premiere, you know, experts in this field,
a trainer, and his conversation with Matthew daily, how he's feeling,
how he's doing, whether it's doctor Elatrosh, doctor Waltkins. We're
so fortunate here in LA to have an amazing group
of team doctors. Then for Sean, it's understanding, Hey, what
do you really need to do? I mean, we're fortunately
he's thirty seven years old. He does not need a
(24:17):
full training camp to take every rep to go through it.
That was always the plan, whether he showed up with
a back injury or not. And so I think that
conversation of what do you need to be ready? And
then for us, what do we actually need for you
to be ready to open the season against the Texans?
How many weeks of work is that? And he got
a great offseason with all of our players, so he
has those reps in and look so much of our offense,
probably minus Davante, is coming back from last year. So
(24:40):
I think for them there's a comfort level on what
it is and.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
How it works.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
You know, Kevin, when you said earlier that you get
a laugh at about the Matthew Stafford is no longer
living a room or that's not a denial. I just
have to call you, that's not a denial. Can you
give proof of life to the internet? They demand it.
Speaker 10 (24:56):
I don't think I could give proof of life, and
I don't know that I want to stop it either, right, Like,
because if Matthew Stafford comes out and throws for four
hundred yards against the Texans and is the player of
the week, I want people to wonder whether that's actually
Matthew Stakes or whether it's truly some clone that we
have found that's going to go on and win MVP. Right,
(25:17):
that's an amazing storyline I think for the NFL this year.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
Like, is that actually.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Matthew staff Yes, play into that's a great response.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
That's so perfect.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Listen another perfection is all right, So there was a
moment between you and Jerry Jones and we're talking about
again talking about Matthew Stafford. It got caught on camera
trade this trade that can you tell us the story
and you know, clean it up?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
It's a morning show. What was going on.
Speaker 10 (25:43):
You know, it's fascinating because I woke up the other
day and I had about one hundred texts, and normally
that means something bad has happened at your team if
you wake up in success and it's all people with
this clip, And I was like, I was fascinated because
I remember going to Cowboys camp when they were filming
this show and there were mics everywhere and booms everyone.
So you very much like, I don't want to say
(26:04):
anything silly, and you wind up in this conversation and
the Jones family has been good friends for a long time.
We're having this natural conversation and we always talk about,
you know, what's going on with them, so whether it's
been their holdouts or our trades or what's going on.
And you know, I think the thought process was, you know,
we were talking a little bit about the Herschel Walker
trade to some degree, and you know how that went,
(26:26):
and you know what that does. You know, when you
take big swings for your team, you know, how does
that ultimately change fortunes for good and bad? And I
think you know, Jerry's perspective was, you know, we were talking,
you know, hey, like you have a great quarterback, What
would you do? You know, is there a quarterback you
would upgrade from? And I think his perspective was, hey,
I wouldn't try to do that to move on from
(26:47):
from Dak, right, So I think the clip in the
thirteen seconds is a little bit taken out of context.
It was meant more as a positive for Dak than
it was like, you guys are crazy. Now, look, we
were crazy to do what we did with Matthew and Jared.
And I think, you know, one of my other favorite
debates on the internet is who won the trade between
the Rams and the Lions? And I think it's so
nice to see a trade that both teams walk away
(27:08):
from it feel great. We're fortunate enough to have a
Super Bowl ring and Matthew's been fantastic for us, Jared
as we expect, it has helped lift that franchise back,
you know, into being a championship contender. But that clip
was Jerry deserves his due credit. It was how much
he loves Dak and hey, there's not a quarterback I
would do that for, you know, more so than it
was you know, you guys are crazy.
Speaker 8 (27:30):
Yeah, with this being the tenth season in LA and
this season opener right across the streeting and so far,
what's most exciting about this season?
Speaker 10 (27:40):
Look, I think this is the most talented team we've
had since we've been in Los Angeles. I think that's
what's exciting from a true perspective as a Rams fan.
We have, you know, the addition to DeVante Adams. It's
sad to lose someone like Cooper Cup who brought us
so many memories across the street and across the board.
But you add someone like a DeVante Adams. You have
the reigning defensive rookie of the year who's been unstoppable
(28:02):
in training camp, Matthew coming back, you know, Kyrien like
this is and it's an interesting team because it's a
very young team. I think we're one of the three
four youngest teams, but actually we're returning almost all of
our starters, so it's a youngest sending team. You see
that every day. They have a great camaraderie in chemistry.
We had an amazing mini camp in Maui to watch
the team kind of bond and come together. And so
(28:24):
this is the most connected team and probably the most
talented team we've had in Los Angeles. But here on
August twentieth. That doesn't mean anything, right, you still got
to go do it. But I also will say, you know,
even when we talk about ten years, just even driving
in the studio today looking at what Hollywood Park and
Sofi Stadium has become over those ten years. I remember
coming to the groundbreaking nine and a half ten years
(28:45):
ago and thinking what will this look like? And now
you pull in and you have the memories at Sofi
Stadium in the Super Bowl and this network and the
amazing district that's popped up, and you're like, it has
been an incredible ten years. But I wonder what the
next ten years will bring.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
It's been incredible.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
I also love that you guys when you mentioned to
Maui to raise awareness for the fires and all that,
and I really appreciate at that as somebody was born
and raised in Hawaii. But we love Sean McVay on
this show. He's see somebody we talk a lot about often.
But your players were asked what he would do if
he wasn't in sports. Let's take a look.
Speaker 1 (29:19):
I got two, all right, One a pilates instructor or
two a CrossFit coach.
Speaker 7 (29:26):
I mean, he'd be a hell of a motivational speaker.
I think it'd be really good, as like if he
worked like the drive through window have McDonald's and told
you had a great day and really could pump you up.
You know, I wouldn't mind getting a mcflurry from coach,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:40):
I think he'd he'd do a good jump.
Speaker 6 (29:44):
keV do you have more trust in Sean McVay as
a pilates instructor or somebody working the drive.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Through, you know?
Speaker 10 (29:52):
And I noticed Kyle has not challenged him to a
push up contest recently because he's looking pretty fit, right,
I mean, there were the pictures of him, you know,
vacationing in the south of France where you know a
number of people on the internet commenting on how he looks.
So I would be intimidated with him as a plate's instructor.
And I think it's probably I haven't done plotates in
(30:13):
a long time, but I think he's probably a little
bit too intense for plates. McDonald's would be awesome because
I think you just get that vibe and that energy
coming from him. Although I want to give a quick
shout out that clip my daughter Claire, who's here in studio,
that was her getting those interviews during training camp. She
works with those.
Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yeah, but she.
Speaker 10 (30:34):
Came back to me that night and she's like, you're
not going to believe. We asked all the players what
coach McVeagh would be if he was not a football coach,
and she's like, Matthew kind of roasted in pretty hard,
calling him McDonald's drive through. But I mean, if you've
got Sean McVay on your headset. Yeah, and there's the
great clip, you know, Matthew getting to play from Sean
and saying like, just stop going, stop talking, Like that
(30:55):
would be him as the McDonald's guys, like you ordered
a coffee and fries and just be quiet.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
No, I feel like he would emotionally support you through
like not winning pickles. Like hell yeah, it's a great
idea we got that. Listen to your daughter, Claire, and
we applaud all people that provide us the content that
we often need on this show when it's like the
twenty seventh month of the off season. Thank you for
asking questions like that, Claire, because when you say, like
what you know, do you turn the air conditioning up
(31:21):
or down? Or what would your coach do?
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Is said, we just eat.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
That like it is a chicken nugget on this show.
So thank you so much to your daughter for providing that.
Speaking to coach, you're busy today. You're going to leave
the studio here and you're going to go to an
event called Kickoff for Charity. What's this about with the Rams?
Speaker 10 (31:35):
So every year before we go away for our final
preseason game, we do the Kickoff for Charity luncheon where
basically we invite members of the community to come be
part of our luncheon. They get to sit at the
table with a player. It's nine, it's about nine people
playerity team get a chance to meet the player's helmet off,
really have a conversation and then kind of give a
preview of the year. And in the last few years
we've allowed the closing act is Sean giving basically a
(31:59):
team speech to the room. It's the best Ted talk
you'll ever hear, and usually it's one his themes of
the offseason. And it's truly a great chance for us
to go raise money to go out into the community
to go help. But it's also for our fans. It's
chance for them to meet these players really walk away.
You know, we have all ninety players on the roster.
Sure you have your stars, but you meet someone who's
(32:20):
the backup guard and you now have a new player
to kind of root for all year, to hear their story.
And I mean, I think, man Ty Lawrence, you guys
know everybody knows the stars, but the NFL is truly
fifty three guys pulling each year. And when you invest
in those stories, you invest in those people. I think
that makes people have a tighter connection in the rams.
(32:41):
And then there's so much good we can do in
the community with or without the luncheon. But it's a
great way to highlight what these players do year round.
And we talk about, you know, Matthew Stafford obviously the
great working and Kelly have done after the fires this year,
whether it's donating equipment to the passing and football team
that lost it or leading Walk United to raise money
for funds with United Way this year. I think it's
(33:01):
to highlight those great charitable efforts of our players, but
also for people to get a chance to meet our
team up close.
Speaker 6 (33:07):
Yeah yeah, so you just mentioned that charitable work that
matt Stafford has done. I know you guys have done
work of your own for families that have been affected
by the LA fires.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
Can you elaborate on that a little bit? Sure?
Speaker 10 (33:17):
I mean, look, it's been it's hard to think of.
You know, Jamie got to travel back from us from Arizona,
which seems like ages ago in a football perspective, a
wild card game that was played on the road, but
obviously for so many people here that's still daily life
after the fires and kind of where we're going. And
so I think for us, whether it's been you know,
rebuilding a school in Altadena, you know that experienced, you know,
(33:40):
tremendous loss, or getting in the community and donating goods,
two football teams, two players, two rewarding families and helping
them get back on their feet through donations. There's been
so much work that's been done to celebrate. We had
first responders at our game last weekend against the Chargers,
honoring them on the field. So much work, and then
we had our you can see on the clips right
now in the b roll. We did our draft at
(34:02):
LA for fire Ups, which was an amazing experience to
get to be with five hundred first responders kind of
in the draft room, being part of that, and you know,
listening to Sean McVay kind of pumped them up. It's
been really a year of trying to get back to
those who have helped us recover from these fires. But obviously,
anybody who lives in southern California, there's such a long
road to go, and we're going to be there every
(34:23):
step of the way.
Speaker 2 (34:24):
Kevin, I'm glad you brought it up because it's one
of those things where it's like it was such a
privilege that day, and I just want to remind everyone
and tell it in a thirty second story, which is
the fires impacted California and Los Angeles in such a
massive way in January, but the Rams were also gifted
a home playoff game, and with the LA Rams pulled
off in such a short amount of time to not
only move their home playoff game to Arizona, but to
(34:47):
treat it like a home playoff game. Every single person
in your organization did an incredible job. And indeed, you
included myself and two producers on the show to come
back with you on the team plane, and we made
it for the show Kyle to tell the incredible story,
so he said it, not me. I just wanted to
make sure, Kevin and the crew got their props.
Speaker 10 (35:04):
I love your viewpoint, though I was a Minnesota fan
that we were gifted the home playoff game. We earned
the home playoff game by winning the division. We beat
Minnesota in the regular season and in a neutral site.
I don't want to get into the discussion of whether
you know wild card team should host gifted. Those an
interesting choice of words.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
It really is. It is.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Well, listen, we've we've busted chops here. But I just
want to make sure a couple of things that I
personally always say about the Rams, whether you're here or not.
I say, always pick the Rams to make the playoffs.
Never never skip them. They're always going to be there.
I say Sean McVay is the best coach in the NFL.
He is number one out of thirty two against all
the other ones who I respect, and yet I have
to say, as good of a coach as he is,
(35:48):
I think he would be a fantastic, fantastic McDonald's employee
if he is on that drive through when you pull up, Yeah,
welcome McDonald's. May I help you a big mac to
all beef special patties. Let us chease the diynasays we
see bond and drive through. He would be amazing, he'd
be so fired up to order for him. So I
love him, Love McVeigh, love the Rams. Let me think
everything you have going on, and thank you so much
for being here.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
Dude, our pleasure as you get excited for the season.
It's good to hear that we turn it on. You'll
be picking us in a hat, you know, in a
couple of weeks, and if not, we'll hold you to that.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
No, I'm sure.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
I'm sure Sean will gladly have you represent him as
he goes and does his next deal.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
Yeah, do it? Do it all right?
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Go check out any highlights from the kickoff for charity
event at the Rams are participating in today. Good luck
for the rest of the season with your ramily if
you will. Kevin Demoff and company, his family in the
house is where again, Claire Demop, thank you for that
social media content.
Speaker 9 (36:37):
It is imperative for Good morning football, Good Morne football.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
This was a dude episode six.
Speaker 3 (36:53):
This is going to be a fan favorite.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's definitely a host favorite because you know who we're
talking about today, you know who we're looking back on.
Natron means yes, we're talking Natron, fully beloved nineties figure.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
Natron grew up in North Carolina, played peewee.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
Football at age eight, and he was alignman because he
was so big.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
But then the coach said, you're fast.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Too, and he ended up leading his pee wee football
team and rushing wearing number seventy two playing running back.
Goes to North Carolina's prolific more than three thousand yards
and then he's drafted by the Chargers forty first overall
in the nineteen ninety three NFL draft, and he was
initially backing up Marion Butts, who was another guy I
love who.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Could have his own episode. But look at Natron go.
He's so fast and.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So powerfully in a breakout game in Miami, you're seeing
it here, one hundred and eighteen yards rushing in three
rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
The Chargers would trade Marion.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Butts to the Patriots because they liked Natron so much,
and how could you not.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
He breaks out as a rookie and then here we go.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
The nineteen ninety four Chargers were a very special team
during a very special season, seventy fifth anniversary season for
all the NFL.
Speaker 3 (38:01):
They wore those great patches.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Now the Charge just weren't on anybody's radar to be
a Super Bowl contender. They start the season six and
zher and Natron is awesome.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Against the Saints.
Speaker 1 (38:12):
He has one hundred and twenty yards and three touchdowns.
Natron means would run for thirteen fifty on the year
and more importantly, begnighted by Chris Berman as so many
great players were. With his nickname Nay John names business,
he became a real celebrity and the Chargers were a sensation,
beating the Dolphins in the playoffs, beating the Steelers in
(38:33):
the playoffs, and leading to.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
The Super Bowl. Natron goes on the Tonight Show. He
sits down with Jay Leno on the way to the.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Super Bowl to say hi to the haters who didn't
believe in him. Also on the show that night, Christian
Slater and Janine Turner shout out northern exposure.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
Well, you want exposure. The Chargers suffered some in that
Super Bowl, one of the least.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Competitive I've seen in my lifetime. Jerry Rice had a
touchdown in the first five seconds. The forty nine Ers
with Steve Young we cruising, which was tough for the
Chargers because the Gold came plan is to pound Natron
and on this driver's senor, Natron Means carried the ball
six times on the drive. It was tough because they
didn't have the firepower through the air that San Francisco had,
(39:15):
But Natron did this. And let's go to Lee Hacksaw
Hamilton on the call jumbo backfield, double tight ends h
BACKI formation, they're gonna run.
Speaker 3 (39:25):
Up to Means touchdown San Diego. He went up and
over the top. I love Natron Means.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
We're midway through this same I just want to say
I love Natron Means.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
All right.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Next year in nineteen ninety five season, he gets injured
and the team cuts them, so the Jaguars sign them,
and you think, well, he had his run with the Chargers.
Speaker 3 (39:45):
I guess it's over.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
No.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Nineteen ninety six, Natron Means was excellent with the Chargers,
or with it rather with the Jaguars.
Speaker 3 (39:51):
And we are seeing right here one of.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
The seminal upsets in playoff history, in which this Jaguars team,
not far removed from expansion, goes into Mile High against
a thirteen win Coast team with multiple Hall of Famers
and beats them in a game that still hurts Shannon
Sharp to talk about Natron. Means was excellent in this game,
one hundred and forty yards on only twenty one.
Speaker 3 (40:15):
Carries and they win.
Speaker 1 (40:17):
An amazing, amazing day for Natron. They would go on
to get upset to lose the game after this, but
they beat Denver Natron. Following this the nineteen ninety seven season,
he plays nineteen ninety eight season, an incredible turn of events,
he joins.
Speaker 3 (40:33):
The Chargers again.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
They brought him back to Beyond the Dirt to play
with Ryan.
Speaker 3 (40:37):
Leaf, and he was playing really well.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
Was on his way to well over one thousand yards
on his return to the Chargers, but missed the last
six games with a foot injury. Finished with eight hundred
and eighty three yards, including a career long seventy two
yard touchdown run.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
More injuries would follow.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
In the ninety nine season, they were cut by the
Chargers again, and then Natron is with the Carolina Panthers,
appeared in only one game to not record any stats.
Where is he now? Oh, I'm so glad you asked.
Natron has been into coaching. He's been successful. Was a
running backs coach and an offensive coordinator at several different colleges,
and guess what, folks, he has been hired as the
(41:15):
running backs coach for Bill Belichick's University of North Carolina staff.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
That man is.
Speaker 1 (41:22):
Working with Belichick. He will be in the spotlight. He
never left my spotlights. One of your favorite nineties players,
one of the great Chargers players, and one of the
reasons we do.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
This segment back in the nineties.
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Natron means this was a dude all right.
Speaker 2 (41:39):
Time to set the table for preseason week three action
on NFL Network. You can see the Falcons of the
Cowboys and a APM Eastern and then a litany of
games tomorrow for if you fancy that kind of preseason
action all on NFL Network or NFL bless And if
you were not one of the one hundred million people
that watched the New Heights podcast last week, here is
(42:00):
a taste of Travis Kelce to wet your whistle heading
into the weekend.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
I am Travis in my thirteenth year at camp today
than you're already here at camp.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Pretty fun once you get up here. We don't have
a lot of people today. I should probably buckle up.
It's not going anywhere, guys. The bag is not going
anywhere today.
Speaker 8 (42:22):
I know I'm miked up. Yea, oh you are.
Speaker 3 (42:24):
I don't say anything crazy.
Speaker 8 (42:25):
You always say something and that's no great ladies and gentlemen,
our fearless warrior, our most proud warrior.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
I need a little creed creed. I need a little
creed all right, And this is Travis Kelcey and I
approved that message.
Speaker 8 (42:39):
They even have our names on the back so the
guys at the morgue can identify our bodies.
Speaker 3 (42:45):
Thanks for coming out today, ladies and gentlemen, until next time, don't.
Speaker 2 (42:52):
Travis Kelcey is warning his teammates that he's miked up.
I feel like someone should tell Travis Kelcey and remind
him that he's miked up. Lawrence, were you that dude
when you were miked up at training camp?
Speaker 8 (43:04):
Said Hey, when this training camp is hot, you're tired.
I'm gonna say off the wall stuff, especially when you
hit that bag, Like, look, man, the bag is real
stiff today. Can put in WD four?
Speaker 3 (43:17):
Can we call equipment over here?
Speaker 5 (43:18):
Real quick?
Speaker 8 (43:20):
Brain? Last night put the W forty on it?
Speaker 5 (43:23):
Like you know, I counted the cold Tallas hot, it's hot.
Speaker 3 (43:26):
Can we do something like what's going on? Can we
do something.
Speaker 8 (43:29):
It's the best part about training camp. You gotta have fun,
especially when you're a year thirteen. Have a blast. Anybody
wants to see that.
Speaker 6 (43:36):
There are people that are made to be miked up,
there are people that weren't.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
I'm not the one to mike up.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
I got miked up once in my career and all
they heard us.
Speaker 8 (43:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (43:47):
Then after that, I never got miked up ever again.
I never gave any anybody and it takes nothing. All
you hear us, that's it.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
They can come like that.
Speaker 6 (43:56):
In English bull on
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