July 11, 2025 • 42 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with Aiden Hutchinson's return from injury. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, and Manti Te'o discuss the impact Hutchinson will have on the Lions. Kyle sides with Kirk Cousins on getting an affordable haircut. "This was a dude' shines the light on a shooting star of a player. Plus, LB Anfernee Orji talks about joining the Titans this season and working as a substitute teacher!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football on a Friday, July eleventh, we got
the church giggles around here. We're live in New York
and Los Angeles. I'm Jamie her at all. There's manteo,
Kyle Brandt. We're in did I already say that? We're
in New York? In LA. We got our White Bards back.
It's happening. It's not Top five anymore. We're going instead
of five four, three two one, one word, Kyle. That's
the first segment that we're doing today on the show. Kyle,
(00:33):
what else are we doing? That's a genuine question that
I have.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's all we're doings. We happen whatever, Nitris, Jamie's on
right now and that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Start the stove Friday Nightriss.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's right, gim be get in here. What's the word?
Is the name of the game on a fridayday? And
Aloha Friday? As manth I would say, Kyle Brandt, do
you have a label or a description or an adjective
for your Fridays that you like to use?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh my gosh, yeah, just get the hell out of
Here's birthday. I'm out of there, so it doesn't have
the ring as a loha or a free form Friday
on the radio, Get the hell out of Here Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's do it. We boiled it down to a single
word exercise on get the Hell out of Here Friday.
We're going to kick things off with what's the word.
I'm going to play some sound sound on tape if
you will, on television, and you got to come up
with one word that best describes this player or a
situation understood understood. Lion Star defensive player Aiden Hutchinson was
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on with CBA Sports and gave an update on his
recovery from last year's season ending leg injury. Here's the word.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I'm exactly where I need to be and every year
I've been able to improve on my own physical attribute
was the or along with the mental ones. So I
feel like every year I take a step, and despite
having that rehab this offseason, I feel like I'm in
the perfect spot and exactly where I need to be
going into year four.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Just behold Aiden Hudginson running. I'm one of those wicked
treadmills that has the curve like that. Guy's back and
his leg looks great and the Lions need that. Pick
one word to describe Aiden Hutchinson's impact this season in
Detroit Mantai.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, if I had some narraw down to one word,
it'd be this, and it's not the material felt. His
impact will be felt. And it's very very rare that
you find a player in the NFL or any team
in general where their presence on the field is felt,
or maybe the presence off the field is felt just
as much as their presence on the field. I remember
when watching him go down, it reminded me of the
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type of impact that Drake Greenlaw had when he went
down in the Super Bowl, of Nick Chubb when he
went down against the Steelers, or for me when I
watch Tool go down twice. Like, there are certain players
when you watch them on the field, you could feel
the energy, you can feel their impact on the game.
If you want to say that Aiden Hudginson is.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He's a type of player that you.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Can find you can feel his impact on and off
the football field, maybe more so off than on because
they really missed him last year. So when seeing him
this year is going to look good for Detroit Lions
fans and Stepne going to look good for all of
us who love football, and it's something that I'm going
to enjoy watching. So his impact this year will be felt. Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
All Right, one word to describe Aden Hutchinson. Here's mine. Grizzly.
Lot of different ways to take this, Okay, the grizzly
bear is the king of the forest. He's the one
that everybody fears. This is what this guy has to
be in the NFC North. He has to be a grizzled,
grizzly veteran. All Right. He's got to arrive and become
the guy on this defense. There's no wow, look at
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this amazing story out of Michigan. He's a Michigan kid. No,
this is a grown man now on this Lion's team
and he's got to represent when he plays for this team.
My husband has this phrase on a stayer at his
office that always makes me laugh, but in this moment,
it does apply. If you're going to be a bear,
be a grizzly Okay, And that's what he That's what
Eaton Hudgon has has to be in a man amongst men,
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and that's I just fell over my wife. That's my mantize, Kyle,
you do your word.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, I'm happy to because I'm picking up when Manti
is putting down.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Listen, all injuries suck.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We hate them in the game, but as a fan,
there are some that just hit you emotionally more than others.
And I was really upset by eight hutcheons an injury.
I felt like it was an injustice. I felt like
it was in fair and so in twenty twenty five,
justice Justin is going to be served in an incredible
season for him. Listen, I think a lot of there
were a lot of effects of that injury. I think
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he was the second most important player in the entire
Lions team behind Jared Goff. Would they have beaten the
Commanders in the playoffs day and a Hutchinson, I don't know.
I'll tell you this though, I think he was going
to do something special. I think he would have a
run at that Michael Strahan sack record last year.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He had seven and a half sacks in five games.
He had four and a half sacks in one game.
He looked like a first team All Pro player who
all of a sudden his leg is broken. And I
think it's going to be the comeback player of the year.
I think it's going to be justice served, bear, revenge, justice,
all of the above. One of the most likable young
players in the entire NFL. That was taken from us
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the fans last year, and I think this year it's
justice will be served.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's a really good one. Kyle and the guy the
video of him just carving through. He's going to be
an absolute terror for the Lions and he deserves to be,
so justice will be served. Next up on what's the word? Recently,
at chad Ocho Cinco's Wide Out Workshop, all of these
positions are having these conferences just like just call it
a position conference and like ste being so cute with
the names, it's getting pretty crazy out there. Wide Out
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Workshop presented by Chado Jasinco. Jamar Chase was there and
he said that wide receivers aren't divas. They're not according
to Jamar Chase, don't use that one word for wide
receivers mantai. If they're not divas, what is the one
word to describe wide receivers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, for Jamar Chase, he might not be a diva,
but because he was just caught on tape not wanting
to sign somebody's autograph and he was in the exit
row on the plane, so he's not a diva at all.
But I will say this, if they aren't divas, they're expensive.
They're very expensive. Matter of fact, this past year, they
spent three hundred and sixty six million dollars on the
receiver position alone, and thanks to rich Homi Kwan, our researcher,
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I got one point six billion dollars paid to receivers
over the past five years total. So if they are
not divas, boy are they expensive. But if you're somebody
like Jamar Chase and you're the Bengals and t Higgins,
you're going to pay that pretty price. So if they
are not divas, they're definitely the expensive.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Jamie, that's a very good one. I use this word
a lot to describe people, and when people hear it,
they oftentimes take offense. And I had to look up
the definition until I realized, like, oh, maybe it doesn't
sound great, but I'm still going to use it for
wide receivers. This is met with love. They're a loof.
They are in a loof group. Okay, you come across
any of them, and they oftentimes just like don't take
their sunglasses off. You're not really sure if they're looking
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right at you, like they're kind of distant. There they
back off. There they engaged in the conversation, are they not?
But dang it, when you need them to stand on
the line, point at that at that ref and be like,
am I in the right spot? Am I good? And
then they look down the other side of the line
at their quarterback, and then they are in the exact
same route and place that you need them for that touchdown.
However much money you paid them, they might be a loof,
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but they are Johnny on the spot when you need
them too. But they are kind of an odd personality trade.
And I'm going to apply a loof to it.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Kyle, I don't know what you mean, Jamie with aj
Brown over your shoulder. You think just because he's reading
a book on the sideline in the middle of the game, he.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Might be a little loof. I don't know. I don't
get it at all.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Actually I do.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm going to pull my word from everybody's tax returns.
Wide receivers are dependents. They're dependents. They count on other
people to carry them, to provide for them.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
It's really a crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If you take what we have here in the league
and let's compare it to the NBA. All right, Let's
say in an NBA team, in the very middle of
a very important possession or sequence, they can't get the
ball to Yannis or jok Itch or one of those.
You have to go through this crazy process of the
other player going through and throwing it to him amidst
crazy defense. Like what I'm saying is the wide receivers
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are the best athletes, certainly on the offense, if not
for the whole team, and it's very difficult to get
them the ball sometimes, so of course they develop in
securities and all kinds of neuro sees about I'm not
doing this, I'm not doing that running back.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You just hand it to him. It's easy.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Tight end is much easier. Wibers there is very difficult.
So their entire psyche, even their entire careers and livelihood
are based on being dependent on someone else. Very very difficult.
So I sympathized with a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Oh man, you just gave me the goosebumps, and not
the good company you said. Tax returns think stresses me
out more. It's a perfect word for it all right.
Quarterback Season two, in which Kyle is just cruising through
on Netflix is features Kirk Cousins once again the Falcons quarterback.
A great story about Cousins and just everything that he's
been going through in the last offseason. But you all
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know that he is about one business and one business alone,
and that's how he gets his haircut and where he
goes for it. Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I go to one place and that's great clips because
I can just go on the app.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm well, how are you amazing?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I can see what the weight is.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
If the waittime is under fifteen minutes, I just sign
up and then I can just drive there and walk
right in and get right in the chair. This is
what I'm looking for. Okay, So just like a one
one and then you faded up.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That sound good?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Sounds good?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Now I start just holding up a picture.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I took a picture from one of the headshots from
a Falcon's game program, and I just say, can you
do this? And that usually helps eliminate any gray area.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's a one, and then you fade up and then
look at this. Now he gets the endorsement photo. I
mean that is an incredible picture and he's got a
business card and everything for the clips all right, and
Kirk Cousins all about it commercial on Netflix for Great Clips.
One word to describe that picture of Kirk Cousins mantai,
what do you got?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I know that guy's not That guy's a character. Definitely
would have been in My Interesting People if you would
was still with the Vikings. But if I had one
word for them, that'd be questionable. Okay, this this, Kirk,
this is questional to me. You're going to go to Antigua, right, Jamie,
You're going to go to Antigua to get stem cell.
And in the first series of Quarterback you had that
(10:31):
like Professor X. You have that picture. You got that
Professor Professor X, like tell me that you invested in
for your brain, and then you're going to go to
Great Clips. Great Clips is like going to Fantastic Stams.
It just I'm all about being frugal, I'm all about
saving money. I'm all about that stuff. But bro, when
there's when you're doing when you're doing all of these
extra curriculars like Antigua, you're going to basically Professor X yep.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But then you go to Great Clips doesn't line up, I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Might join them because I did read that caption that
if you go to the same Great Clips as him,
it's free.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So you're gonna fly to Atlanta and go to that grip.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, if it's we'll see. So yeah, I think it's
I think it's. My word for that is questionable.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Listen, I vacillate at times on my Kirk Cousins. You know,
I like him as a person, but you know, when
it's time with the Vikings, I was just as a fan.
I was having a hard time with him. But you
know what, I am a fan of efficiency, and that
right there is that is just an efficient haircut. The
entire experience I am all about. Sometimes I cut the
corners of my own life with some things, but my
argument is always, well it just didn't feel that efficient
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to do it that way, so I just stopped that
activity and I moved on to the next. Some people
call it adult add I call it efficiency. So that
is efficient. He checks the weight time, Maybe he re
routes to a different Great Clips and Buckhead, perhaps because
that one has a five to ten minute wait instead
of twenty five to thirty. I'm all about this and
it's the same streamline haircut. He probably even has that
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photo favorited in his photo app so he can get
to it efficiently. Kirk Cousins, I am all about this
way to be efficient.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Let me just let me let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
There is no bigger racket in the United States of
America than the men's haircut racket.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Kirk Cousins. Boundless wealth, whether you have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That, whether you don't, no matter what tax bracket you're in,
if you were to line up in front of you
a thirty dollars haircut and an eighty dollars haircut, let
alone one hundred and twenty dollars haircut, I guarantee you
cannot tell the difference. Certainly in men's haircuts, it's the
same exact thing. I can't stand it. I've gone to
fantastic SAMs, I've gone to super Cus, I've gone to
them all, and I love it. I have wandered in
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with my kids or myself into these fancy Schmanschy salons
and they walk in and you know why I'm paying
extra money there, because they say, oh, would you like
a send Pellegrino while you wait? No, I'm good on
the fancy bottle wall. That's not what I'm paying for.
I get a scout massage while I got my haircut.
It feels great. Of course, I don't need that from you.
I don't know you. I don't know who this person is.
This guy's massashonist cup don't need it. And then now
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you get these these these places come into the suburbs.
When you're sitting in the waiting room, they say.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Would you like a drink?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And I'm talking about like a whiskey or a beer,
And I'm like, sir, it's two o'clock on a Wednesday.
I'm not having a Johnny Walker while I wait for
my haircut. I got to get my kid to soccer practice.
Just cut this thing. I hate it. It's a total racket.
It's a total rip off. There's no difference in quality.
I'm not paying for it. And I'll tell you something else.
Kirk Cousins who brings the picture of himself and just
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shows it on his phone to the barber every single
I look at him and I say, here it is.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I want a four on the sides.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I want you to thin it out a little bit
on top, give it a little bit of trim, This
picture was taken three years ago. I have a different
barber every single time now, so I just show it
to him. It works like a charm. It's as if
they've been my barber for years. Then I get the
warm shaving cream on the back, I get the razor shave.
It's beautiful, it's old fashioned. The barber polls out front,
and it's cheap. It's cheap. I will say, Kirk, is
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it entirely necessary for you to bring up the headshot
the Falcons program of yourself? Do you not have a
million candids on your phone of you with your kids
that you can zoom in and show. Could it be
that you wanted that person to know that you were
in case you didn't know. I am Falcons quarterback Kirk
Cousins and that's why you showed it to him. Either way,
(14:22):
I love that no matter how much money you've made,
you still will not step in one of those high
end salons because they don't deserve your money or mine.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
M Kyle. It's super well done. Yeah, not to be
overlooked that the fact that if he walks in there
great clips I think has to be some form of
if not a Falcon sponsor and ANFL sponsor, and he
has he's holding the Hall of fade vip card. I
believe that's what it's called at Great Clips. That's the
Hall of Fade. And the fact that Kyle I actually
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think that socially appropriate for him to have a professionally
documented photograph from work that he shows. I mean, you're selfie,
can we see it again? It's I actually I'm a
little concerned about Kyle selfie. What's up with the had
the perfect forty five selfie influencer almost like head Tilt
and Kyle Dare I say those are puckered lips?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Puckered for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Listen, before there was something called Instagram, there was something
called soap operas, and I used to work on one
of them. I know how to hit my angle, my tilt,
and my jawline and my lips. I know that picture
is going to be around forever. I'm not messing around here, Guys.
I may look ridiculous on TV, but I still know
how to take a picture.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
KB hood on bro, you said you that doesn't look
like a Great Clips to me because those pictures in
the background. See when you go to Great Clips, they
have all these pictures of these different haircuts, and you
just I want number eight. Those are pictures of like
people's families. That is a barber shop.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I see Jordan in the corner. You're you're kind of bro.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You're not at No Great clips.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, that is I bounce around. That's Jack's barber shop.
Great great place. They got pictures of John Starks allegedly
dunking over Jordan, even though we know he didn't. Their
New York stuff like that is a legit place. But
I'll drop into the Strip mall any time and go
to a super cuts efficient done, show them the picture.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Stop going to these salons. I can't speak to you.
If you have long hair, fancy hair, you're really into
your hair, fine, pay whatever you want. But for someone
like me, Manti, frankly, you're not exactly foby over there.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But keep it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Got into one of these places, they just budge up.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
And you're done.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh my gosh. Okay, So just just to take us
out of here on gmt B, I just wanted to
make sure we all understood that Kyle takes this selfie
and then that in comparison to the perfectly photoshopped and
look at that. I mean If that is not a
walking advertisement for don't pay more than twenty five dollars
for your men's haircut, then I don't know what is Kyle.
I think you should have an honorary Hall of Faede
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card with those two side by sides.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Really embarrassing parties, Jamie. I I got more than one picture.
I have like different angles that I shuck. Look at
that even I didn't even send those to the production staff,
like like I got like the overhead, look I got,
I got all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Come on, showed me. Let's go.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm holding the thing up to the camera.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Did you get a free did you get a free
hair show?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I get this, Kyle. Look at what our staff has done.
Look at they put Kurt in the salon with you.
Can you see it?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Lookazy? You guys are hilarious today.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There is.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, KB wanted the Hall of fad KB, but he
learned how to photoshop over the first battle week photoshop
all right? That was what's the word on GMFP? I
get that guy off the screen. He number that lip
puckered selfie from Allah the soap opera Days the Steelers.
What kind of soap opera? Is Pittsburgh gonna have going
on with their quarterback? We don't know. We hope nothing.
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We hope it's all stars in Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He's got dk metcalf in town. Are they gonna make
it a brand new edition of Saving Face? Oh, trivia
game with clues about players on new teams?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kyle?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Are you ready for this one?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
As long as some of them have something to do
with movies from nineteen ninety five? Five, Jamie, let me
tell you about a former Steelers running back from the nineties,
that era that might be forgotten. I'm doing a new
series called this was a Dude.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You know the superstars?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Do you remember the shooting stars who got extinguished a
little bit quicker because of injuries? We always remember them,
and Barry Foster was awesome. We're going to get into
it shortly after this Steelers fan you know.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh my gosh, someone just tweeted at me that that's
me cutting Kirk's hair. It's not it's not okay, that
would that would that would take have taken a far
too fall.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Good football Saving Face time, all right, save your face.
Some things aren't going well and you want to try
to recoup.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Some of that aura for yourself. A save your face,
all right, and that's the game that we're going to play.
Today's team is players on new teams, all right. Think
about guys that made a move and free agency, but
where we have no rookies on the list. Okay, that
does not include rookies, So Manti, take the draft class
out of your mind. Think about free agents. You're up for, Smanta,
let's go. I won comeback Player of the Year award.
(19:15):
I've won this. Okay, I'm on a team, but I've
won comeback Player of the Year. I said, a career
high in completion percentage and passing yards last season, and
I was just reunited with my old head coach, but
on a new team. Manti, who am I old head coach?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And I want comeback Player of the Year award? Say
career do they do? Is it for a team that
I happened to miss locate earlier?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You did?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I said they were in Layah you did. They got
a new quarterback? Would it be who is Geno Smith?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, it would be. You've your face with Geno Smith?
Good job. Yeah, it was a couple of years back.
It was kind of dury. What does the Comeback Player
of the Year Award Define Itself as and Gino Smith
won it that year with his time. Yeah, he did
it right back exactly, all right, Save and face, Save
and face, Kyle, You're up. This player has been named
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first Team All Pro with multiple teams in his career
First Team All Pro. It's been featured in a Netflix
documentary series. Not telling you which one, but he was
in a Netflix documentary series. He was traded mid season
in twenty twenty four to pair up with his former quarterback.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Who am I? You're Davante Adams.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes you are, Yes, Kadi are Some days we give
you guys, real tough, curve knuckleballs that felt easy for
you too. Just to start. Okay, Kyle, what is your
state ofation right now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll tell you a personal story. Ran into Davante a
couple of weeks ago, and I'm going to try not
to exaggerate. I've been doing this for almost the decade.
I have had personal encounters with hundreds of NFL players.
I don't think I have ever encountered a cooler, realer, kinder,
warmer person in any walk of life, let alone NFL player.
(21:18):
Devanta Adams was so unbelievably cool. I've never met him
in person before, but it's like he was like the
coolest athlete that I have ever met, and so gracious
and so outgoing and so kind and like like avonce,
You're an amazing person. I see why people want to
work with you. I see why Rogers wants to throw
to you all the time. It's just an incredible thing.
And I think he's extremely excited to be with the
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Rams and McVeigh and Stafford. That's still a first person experience.
He could not have been a more cool person. Just awesome,
Matt tight cee, Jamie, that's a tough fact to follow.
To DeVante was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I'm gonna make a running list of the guys that
Kyle runs into in the off season, because we're all
supposed to be like taking time this summer. It's a
lot of NFL guys like where are you.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
All right, Jamie?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Let's go all Rightie, Jamie r at all My school
be Alabama in the National Championship in my final college season,
I led the NFL in yards per receptions. In twenty
twenty three. Oh my god, my old team traded me
away after trading for a Pro Bowl wide receiver. Who
(22:23):
am I?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
George Pickens?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Who, Jamie, George Pickens?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I was not going to get that?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
How did you? How did you?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Was it going to get it?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
First of all, I was so distracted by the word
Alabama that I was too focused on Alabama guys. I
had to actively take myself out of that roster pool.
And then I'm just thinking of teams that beat Alabama.
I ignored that middle one. It's always too distracting for
me to go to a certain year of an NFL season.
But it wasn't until that last one. What team brought
in a guy at the same position, who's almost who's
more prolific than a guy that they gave up the Steelers?
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Did they let George Pickens?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Go right on? Jamie? That was That was great, Jami,
that was real quick.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Listen, we're going in a round two guys, and it's
not really a segment if we get them, all right,
So who's.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Going to drop the ball here? Maybe we're not going
to let's find out.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All right, man, you're up, We're going to We're going
to get all of these rights I was.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Born, I was I already know who this is by
the first clue. By the way, I was born in
California and played college football there. I was a first
round pick, but I was not the first quarterback selected
in my draft class.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I was the youngest ever quarterback to win fourteen plus
games in a season for an NFC norths team.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Jared Golf Nope, nope, wait wait, can I have a
second chance? Please?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I think in the NFC West, NFC.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
West or the north West. He got it wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No clue, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
He got it wrong, Damie.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Do you know what, Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, femme, you know what. I was so stuck on
the quarterback documentary Jared Goff quarterback went to freaking caw.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, that's sure. Once you lock Rom.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Kelly, he went to cowp Yep. I was stuck.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Everybody has the documentary? Now, who is Sam Donald doesn't
have one? Is that even possible? Everybody has one?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's actively producing it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, but here we go.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
All right, let's go all right.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I won a national championship in college and a Super
Bowl in the NFL. I've done both. I was recently
traded for the third time in my career. In an interview,
with GQ in twenty eighteen, I called a future MBB
quarterback trash. Who am I?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Jalen Ramsey?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
He won a Super Bowl with Rams.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yep, he won a national championship of Florida State. And
he has been traded a few times. And the GQ
article was huge. We talked about it so much. He's
referring to Josh Allen. He take tracks everybody. Jalen Ramsey
was one of the biggest voices in the league for
a while there. He drove a lot of media, even
coming out of small market Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
He was really a player that mattered.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Still does, but I think he's mellowed out a little bit.
Jalen Ramsey now with the Steelers, just a number of
Steelers who look kind of odd in that jersey. But
it's a hell of a team they got together.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
That was a good kid, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You gotta end up strong, Manti tier up.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Come on, now, I'm stressed, becau. Kyle's like, not a
segment until one of expects' is wrong, like one of.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The Yeah, he jinks me now, he james me on now.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I thought I definitely did all.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Right Jamie here at all?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I am a super Bowl champion for an NFC team.
I have a beard that narrows it down, don't it.
That's but not least. I was a fourth round pick
in twenty eighteen. Who am I I have?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You guys could have not have used less words across
three clues. Congratulations, you have facial hair. You were drafted
of one of two hundred and fifty seven picks nay
on the third day in twenty eighteen, and you're just
messing with me by calling him a super Bowl champion
for an NFC team. You have a beard, and I
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feel like if you're telling me that the beard has
to be some crazy memorable thing, I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Think think think of you know the NFC teams that
have won the Super Bowl since eighteen, it's not that many.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, that's true since twenty eighteen. Got its like only
the Eagle, the Eagles, Just the Eagles. What's his face?
That just went to the Steelers that got out?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Dan Skipper?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No, not Dan Skipper. He doesn't have ah, yeah, he
doesn't have a beard. I got nothing.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Russell Wilson is a gardner.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
John don't know, I don't know. Come on, come on, come.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
On, really Josh.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh my god, come on, I want to know Josh
web By his beard.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That was really hard had the beard?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
He has a beard?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
He a helmet.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Never mind, Josh Jamie was sweating.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
H was actively calculating last night as they wrote that
clue out, I have a beard.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Oh my gosh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I don't want any of the kids at home to
start being worried when I say back to school season
is coming. And you will understand that reference with our
next guest joining us now as an NFL linebacker during
the season, but in the off season he uses his
time teaching kids. It's Titans linebacker, anphony Orgy?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How you doing? How you doing? Can we call you?
Can we call you Anthony? Or should we say mister Orgy?
Mister A, okay, perfect, mister A. You spent your two
seasons in the league, with your first two with the
New Orleans Saints, and now you're a Tennessee Titan after
playing college ball at Vanderbilt. What's it been like returning
to your old stopping grounds in Nashville.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
It feels great. It feels like I'm back home at home.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
So obviously I was there for four years and now
I'm back in the city I'm familiar with, so I
just feels like a great opportunity.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
I'm blessed to be there.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Effonny.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Can we talk about the number one overall pick in
the twenty twenty five NFL Draft. He's your rookie quarterback
cam Ward And to look around the country, it's like
he doesn't exist because Shador Sanders this, and this player
that and Travis Hunter this. I've been pounding the table
for this guy. Looks incredible. He's the number one pick.
He should be talked about. Can you please tell the
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United States of America and in fact the world that
he does exist and then maybe share some things you've
noticed about him.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Yeah, I feel like it's kind of a good thing
he's not being talked about. You went overall one overall pick.
Someone knows he's that good, and he really is that good.
We've seen it through OTA's like he really just what
he SLINKs it back there is just like that shouldn't
be right. Kids younger than me, he shouldn't be slinging
like that. So but yeah, he's legit. Like I'm excited
to see what he does outcome training camp in the season,
But yeah, guys, he's a ball player for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah. For you started off with the Saints, now you're
with Tennessee. You had off season, you had mandatory mini camp.
Training camp is around the corner. What are you looking
forward to the most? This training camp with the new team?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Just showcasing who I am.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
Really, I feel like I've made it strides that season
and that's off seasons up showing who I am as
a player, and I feel like I can showcase it
better here in Tennessee. So I always thought of it
as a promotion, Like I was upset when I first
got the news, but then.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Now Mike's promotion, I can cirwcase my talents circus. But
God given abilities that I have well.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And the Titans are happy to have you. Anferny. As
we mentioned, we're gonna call you mister A because you
spend your off season very differently, not just a little
bit differently, very differently than most NFL players. For the
last two years, you've been substitute teaching in your hometown
of Rockwall, Texas. What's this experience like? Why have you
chosen your down time from one of the most ruling
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jobs in sports that you can play to spend your
time doing that.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Yeah, So I always say like I'm odd, like I'm
an odd person, but like I just for some reason,
I was like, I want to substitute teach because I
feel like if I just do a football camp, I
can only reach the kids who come to the camp,
which is mainly just like male athletes meket ball players.
But substitute teaching, like I can reach all kinds of kids.
I can have impact on more kids' lives, like all
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the girls, the non athletes, all that. So that's really
why I substitute our teaching. And obviously just I can
get back a little bit to the teachers, so they
need a day off and they could just call me.
Obviously I'm just one person, so it's hard to like
help everyone. But that was my top process in substituting.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Efrony, What grade do you usually substitute in? What grade
of school?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
I've done it all.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
I've done everything from elementary school to high schoolers, but
I feel like I did the most time in middle school.
But middle school kids they're a bit crazy, especially when
they figure out they figured out who I am. Man,
I couldn't I couldn't get a break I couldn't step
in the hallway without being bombarded.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
But yeah, I feel like middle school is what I
taught the most.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All right, well, I have to be completely candid here.
You go to high school, you have an exotic name,
all right, it means a lot of different things to
a lot of different people. Yeah, you walk into a
high school class and say I'm mister Orgy.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
What's the reaction?
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Exactly why I didn't walk into class sales mister or
I was always mister A, mister O. But then the
kids obviously know who I am, so they just want
to call him mister Orgie. And then the kids who
don't know who I am, it's like Orgy, Oh my gosh,
I'm like, whoa mister a too.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, but I mean everybody at home is thinking I
got to ask it right, Like you have a great answer.
Speaker 11 (31:40):
That was my thoughts. I was like the moment I
walked in the class, like, hey, I can't go by
mister Orgy, Like they're gonna they're gonna clown me. I
can't have that my first day. So I was like, either,
mister on the board, It's like we'll try that out.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
First of all, what about in the locker room.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
How does that go?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Everyone calls me orgin. I'm gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Really, it's been that since I was a kid, Like
little League, it's been an orgy. I have two other brothers,
so it's been like there's big orgy, there's me orgy,
and then there's little orgy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So it's like, yeah, let's just make sure Kyle's emptied
the bag. On the last same questions, are you good
Kyle anymore? Anymore?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I was going to make a touch push joke, but like,
let's get back to the teacher.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Let me right in there. Pushed the question to me, KB.
I got a question. First of all, if you're teaching
a second or third grade class and they start laughing,
like parent teacher conferdence is going to get awkward because
your third grader should not know what that is.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Nice man, I.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Would say this, I do. I do. I do some
public speaking in my spare time. Now one of the
age groups that is so hard for me to talk
to our little kids because like three minutes into the
speech is like, squirrel, how do you, as a teacher
keep these guys, these little kids engaged? Because it is
a challenge for me.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
Man, It is hard.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
I remember, like when I talked my first school class,
sixth grade class, it was it was tough. Like I
would tell them like, all right, guys, here's the assignment
I'm trying to through the sidement today listening they start
doing it.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
They just start, They just get up and.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
Start walking around doing so I got to like, literally,
there's some kids who are obviously gonna listen to some kids.
I gotta go over to them and I'm like, all right,
do this and I'll let you do. I'm trying to
be the cool teacher. I let you do blah blah blah.
You just get this done. Yeah yeah, yeah, get it
done real quick. And then they show us me like
a little bit more. I always try to like get
them to do a little bit more. But then yeah, that's
how they usually got to do their work, and it
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worked that most of time.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I feel like, dude, you got you got such great vibes,
like you are a great interview, a really good player.
But I feel like I'm gonna put that to the test,
and we have like a little game we like to do.
Sometimes you can look at a person, an adult, and
you can just tell if they were a teacher what
subject would they teach? So we're going to bring up
a few pictures of NFL players, and I want you
to tell us, Oh, that's this teacher, this subject, this subject.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
First up, what subject does this teacher teach?
Speaker 11 (33:55):
I feel like it might be like one of those
cool history teachers. I think I think he no teacher? Yeah, yeah,
the cool he's a history teacher by day, a coach
by afternoon night. You know what I'm saying. Like he
probably were those.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No doubt, mister Mahomes, just laid back, just teaching you
about the Louisiana purchase.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
No big deal. All right, let's go with a.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Former teammate of yours and basically a teammate of ours.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
What subject does this teacher teach?
Speaker 10 (34:20):
See? I'm kno gonna lie.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
He actually told me he wants to be a PE
teacher when I told him I was going to be
a substitute.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
But I can't go with pe teacher.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
He probably probably marketing, because that dude is in more commercials,
probably marketing.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
For intro to.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
All right, let's conclude our tour of the faculty lounge.
What subject does this man teach?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (34:47):
See, she is easy because He reminds me so much
of my eighth grade science teacher, So I have to
go with science, middle school science, social.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Let's let's shout out your middle school science teacher. Tell
us about that guy and how we create how he
parallels to a Kelsey brother.
Speaker 11 (35:02):
Man, he just like you're the little greatness, just funny,
like I feel like they're just the same people same.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I feel like I could also see mister Kelsey like
cackling as like the bubbles come out of the test
tube or something.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
It's like, look at what we're making.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
True?
Speaker 10 (35:18):
Yeah, yeah, that man.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Give them a Bunsen burner and a graduated cylinder and
a mortar and pestle. That's perfect. And Anthony Orgy Saw
are you really really good young player on an exciting
Titans team that we talk about on this show more
than any of their show.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
But mister A, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You're a new friend of ours, and thank you so
much for doing this.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
I appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Hey plus on our show, bro, Yeah, hey plus for
you pass.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
The test by mister A.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Good morn.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
This was a dude.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
We're doing a new series here in Good Morning Football
because you might know the superstars of yesteryear. But you
may not know the shooting stars whose careers were brilliant
but brief.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
We remember them and we like to share them.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And today's dude, it was Barry Foster, Pittsburgh Steelers running
back Barry Foster, the man who to this day still
holds the single season rushing record for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He was a five ten, two hundred and twenty three pound,
perfectly built running back who was so good in the
nineties they called them the Other Barry for a time period.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Grew up outside of Dallas. In the nineteen ninety draft,
he fell.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
To the fifth round and left his dorm room out
of frustration. He found out he was a Steeler from
a message left on his answering Machine's what we used
to have back then in the nineteen ninety But he
gets on the Steelers and he plays mostly special teams,
including return kicks. But it started very inauspiciously for Barry
Foster because he had a huge blunder in a big
game against the Niners in which he mistook a kickoff
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for a punt.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And this happened Cooper's kick is short up to get
it as Foster.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's a free ballore ball, and the forty nine ers
get a touchdown and.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You can't advance that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Oh I can't, that's right, but they've got it at
the five yard line.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Rookie Barry Foster, drum up now, Arkansas just letting them
ball go when I haven't.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Ever seen that before in thirty years of football.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What a mistake.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
And we talked about the youth.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Then with the lack of experience comes big mistakes.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That could have been the end for Barry Foster right there,
but he hung on. And when Bill Cower became the
head coach, he went to Foster in ninety two and
Foster went off. This is week one against the Oilers
where he had over one hundred yard one.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Actually went nuts.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Next week against the Jets at home, one hundred and
ninety yards against the New York Jets, and Bill Kauer
had something. The rest of the season went exactly the
same way. Barry Foster had twelve games of one hundred
plus yards, which tied the immortal Eric Dickerson's all time record.
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Barry Sanders the only guy who's ever had more with fourteen.
But I mean this Barry Foster was a superstar this year.
I was growing up in suburban Chicago. The Bears were
not very good in this era. I asked for a
Verry Foster jersey for Christmas. I got it and I
wore it to school the next day, proud as hell
to wear that Steelers number twenty nine. Because week after
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week he had high carries, high yardage. He could not
be stopped. And in fact, Barry Foster damn near won
the rushing title. In fact, he was only twenty three
yards short of EMMITTT. Smith. Here's why we do this,
was a dude, because there's Barry Foster in ninety two,
sixteen ninety just misses Emmett Smith Hall of Famer, Thurman
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Hall of Famer, Barry Sanders, Hall of Famer. And there's
Barry Foster great ninety two year and it wasn't just
a one trick pony or a one year wonder.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Ninety three.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
He comes out and he's balling again for Bill Kauer.
Eight touchdowns in nine games, over seven hundred yards. He's
doing the goal line thing like Bettis would eventually do.
And then it happened, and that often happens, and this
segment injuries creep in, specifically ankle injuries, a lot of them.
He missed a whole bunch of games and yet still
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made the Pro Bowl despite missing so many games. He's
the only player since the merger to make the Pro
Bowl at running back despite playing fewer than ten games.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was guys like him and Bo Jackson who would
get hurt and still devoted into the Pro Bole.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That's how good he was.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Ninety four comes around, very special season once again, Barry
Foster is playing ball in those crazy uniforms. Injuries creep
in once again, allowing for Bam Morris to take over.
Who all remember from that ninety four season. In fact,
Barry Foster's last game as a Steeler was the AFC
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Championship game against the Jim Harbaugh led San Diego Chargers.
There's Neil O'Donnell and here's Foster in the title game,
trying to get the Steelers to the Super Bowl. This
is the final play of the game. He's going to
try to get it to Foster. It's batted down. That
was Barry Foster's last play as a Steeler. That was
Barry Foster's last play in the NFL because after they
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lose that game. Then he's traded to the Carolina Panthers,
the expansion Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
There he is getting a handoff from.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Neil O'Donnell, but he was cut in training camp after
failing at physical and retired.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
But wait, the Bengals Pickyjon A Carter, number one overall.
He blows out his knee in the preseason and the
Bengals bring in Barry Foster sign him to a one
million dollar contract.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
Two days later.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
After he comes in, Foster complained saying that he felt
like quote a sixty year old running back after his
first workout in pads. He retires again and returns three
hundred thousand dollars to the Bengals, walking away and never
playing again. Barry Foster would reflect and say, I had
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my moments, but the life of a running back in
the NFL is usually pretty short. Running Backs don't last
that long because we get shoot up.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
We all want more.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
We want the EMITTT.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Smith career, the Barry Sanders career, but those are reserved for.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
The Hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Everybody can't do what they did. You're absolutely right, Barry Foster.
They can't. But what you did was still incredible, albeit
for a short period of time. You got your Player
of the Year Miller light shirt there.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
It's incredible.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
He retires, he walks away.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
He is now a family man and a workingman, and
someone who can look back on his early nineties years
with the Steelers with pride.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I get it's in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
If you were going up against the Steelers, number twenty
nine was getting that ball. He was getting it over
and over and over, and once upon a time, Barry Foster,
this was a.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Dude, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
As you started the show, it's get the bleep out
of here Friday, Sayanara, my friend, having a wonderful weekend.
I'll see you on Monday. By MHM
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football on a Friday, July eleventh, we got
the church giggles around here. We're live in New York
and Los Angeles. I'm Jamie her at all. There's manteo,
Kyle Brandt. We're in did I already say that? We're
in New York? In LA. We got our White Bards back.
It's happening. It's not Top five anymore. We're going instead
of five four, three two one, one word, Kyle. That's
the first segment that we're doing today on the show. Kyle,
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what else are we doing? That's a genuine question that
I have.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That's all we're doings. We happen whatever, Nitris, Jamie's on
right now and that's it.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Start the stove Friday Nightriss.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
That's right, gim be get in here. What's the word?
Is the name of the game on a fridayday? And
Aloha Friday? As manth I would say, Kyle Brandt, do
you have a label or a description or an adjective
for your Fridays that you like to use?
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Oh my gosh, yeah, just get the hell out of
Here's birthday. I'm out of there, so it doesn't have
the ring as a loha or a free form Friday
on the radio, Get the hell out of Here Fridays.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's do it. We boiled it down to a single
word exercise on get the Hell out of Here Friday.
We're going to kick things off with what's the word.
I'm going to play some sound sound on tape if
you will, on television, and you got to come up
with one word that best describes this player or a
situation understood understood. Lion Star defensive player Aiden Hutchinson was
(01:49):
on with CBA Sports and gave an update on his
recovery from last year's season ending leg injury. Here's the word.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
I'm exactly where I need to be and every year
I've been able to improve on my own physical attribute
was the or along with the mental ones. So I
feel like every year I take a step, and despite
having that rehab this offseason, I feel like I'm in
the perfect spot and exactly where I need to be
going into year four.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Just behold Aiden Hudginson running. I'm one of those wicked
treadmills that has the curve like that. Guy's back and
his leg looks great and the Lions need that. Pick
one word to describe Aiden Hutchinson's impact this season in
Detroit Mantai.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Well, if I had some narraw down to one word,
it'd be this, and it's not the material felt. His
impact will be felt. And it's very very rare that
you find a player in the NFL or any team
in general where their presence on the field is felt,
or maybe the presence off the field is felt just
as much as their presence on the field. I remember
when watching him go down, it reminded me of the
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type of impact that Drake Greenlaw had when he went
down in the Super Bowl, of Nick Chubb when he
went down against the Steelers, or for me when I
watch Tool go down twice. Like, there are certain players
when you watch them on the field, you could feel
the energy, you can feel their impact on the game.
If you want to say that Aiden Hudginson is.
Speaker 6 (03:10):
He's a type of player that you.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Can find you can feel his impact on and off
the football field, maybe more so off than on because
they really missed him last year. So when seeing him
this year is going to look good for Detroit Lions
fans and Stepne going to look good for all of
us who love football, and it's something that I'm going
to enjoy watching. So his impact this year will be felt. Jamie.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
All Right, one word to describe Aden Hutchinson. Here's mine. Grizzly.
Lot of different ways to take this, Okay, the grizzly
bear is the king of the forest. He's the one
that everybody fears. This is what this guy has to
be in the NFC North. He has to be a grizzled,
grizzly veteran. All Right. He's got to arrive and become
the guy on this defense. There's no wow, look at
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this amazing story out of Michigan. He's a Michigan kid. No,
this is a grown man now on this Lion's team
and he's got to represent when he plays for this team.
My husband has this phrase on a stayer at his
office that always makes me laugh, but in this moment,
it does apply. If you're going to be a bear,
be a grizzly Okay, And that's what he That's what
Eaton Hudgon has has to be in a man amongst men,
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and that's I just fell over my wife. That's my mantize, Kyle,
you do your word.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Okay, I'm happy to because I'm picking up when Manti
is putting down.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Listen, all injuries suck.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
We hate them in the game, but as a fan,
there are some that just hit you emotionally more than others.
And I was really upset by eight hutcheons an injury.
I felt like it was an injustice. I felt like
it was in fair and so in twenty twenty five,
justice Justin is going to be served in an incredible
season for him. Listen, I think a lot of there
were a lot of effects of that injury. I think
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he was the second most important player in the entire
Lions team behind Jared Goff. Would they have beaten the
Commanders in the playoffs day and a Hutchinson, I don't know.
I'll tell you this though, I think he was going
to do something special. I think he would have a
run at that Michael Strahan sack record last year.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I really do.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He had seven and a half sacks in five games.
He had four and a half sacks in one game.
He looked like a first team All Pro player who
all of a sudden his leg is broken. And I
think it's going to be the comeback player of the year.
I think it's going to be justice served, bear, revenge, justice,
all of the above. One of the most likable young
players in the entire NFL. That was taken from us
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the fans last year, and I think this year it's
justice will be served.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
That's a really good one. Kyle and the guy the
video of him just carving through. He's going to be
an absolute terror for the Lions and he deserves to be,
so justice will be served. Next up on what's the word? Recently,
at chad Ocho Cinco's Wide Out Workshop, all of these
positions are having these conferences just like just call it
a position conference and like ste being so cute with
the names, it's getting pretty crazy out there. Wide Out
(05:47):
Workshop presented by Chado Jasinco. Jamar Chase was there and
he said that wide receivers aren't divas. They're not according
to Jamar Chase, don't use that one word for wide
receivers mantai. If they're not divas, what is the one
word to describe wide receivers.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Well, for Jamar Chase, he might not be a diva,
but because he was just caught on tape not wanting
to sign somebody's autograph and he was in the exit
row on the plane, so he's not a diva at all.
But I will say this, if they aren't divas, they're expensive.
They're very expensive. Matter of fact, this past year, they
spent three hundred and sixty six million dollars on the
receiver position alone, and thanks to rich Homi Kwan, our researcher,
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I got one point six billion dollars paid to receivers
over the past five years total. So if they are
not divas, boy are they expensive. But if you're somebody
like Jamar Chase and you're the Bengals and t Higgins,
you're going to pay that pretty price. So if they
are not divas, they're definitely the expensive.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Jamie, that's a very good one. I use this word
a lot to describe people, and when people hear it,
they oftentimes take offense. And I had to look up
the definition until I realized, like, oh, maybe it doesn't
sound great, but I'm still going to use it for
wide receivers. This is met with love. They're a loof.
They are in a loof group. Okay, you come across
any of them, and they oftentimes just like don't take
their sunglasses off. You're not really sure if they're looking
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right at you, like they're kind of distant. There they
back off. There they engaged in the conversation, are they not?
But dang it, when you need them to stand on
the line, point at that at that ref and be like,
am I in the right spot? Am I good? And
then they look down the other side of the line
at their quarterback, and then they are in the exact
same route and place that you need them for that touchdown.
However much money you paid them, they might be a loof,
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but they are Johnny on the spot when you need
them too. But they are kind of an odd personality trade.
And I'm going to apply a loof to it.
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Kyle, I don't know what you mean, Jamie with aj
Brown over your shoulder. You think just because he's reading
a book on the sideline in the middle of the game, he.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Might be a little loof. I don't know. I don't
get it at all.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Actually I do.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
I'm going to pull my word from everybody's tax returns.
Wide receivers are dependents. They're dependents. They count on other
people to carry them, to provide for them.
Speaker 6 (07:54):
It's really a crazy thing.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
If you take what we have here in the league
and let's compare it to the NBA. All right, Let's
say in an NBA team, in the very middle of
a very important possession or sequence, they can't get the
ball to Yannis or jok Itch or one of those.
You have to go through this crazy process of the
other player going through and throwing it to him amidst
crazy defense. Like what I'm saying is the wide receivers
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are the best athletes, certainly on the offense, if not
for the whole team, and it's very difficult to get
them the ball sometimes, so of course they develop in
securities and all kinds of neuro sees about I'm not
doing this, I'm not doing that running back.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
You just hand it to him. It's easy.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Tight end is much easier. Wibers there is very difficult.
So their entire psyche, even their entire careers and livelihood
are based on being dependent on someone else. Very very difficult.
So I sympathized with a lot of them.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Oh man, you just gave me the goosebumps, and not
the good company you said. Tax returns think stresses me
out more. It's a perfect word for it all right.
Quarterback Season two, in which Kyle is just cruising through
on Netflix is features Kirk Cousins once again the Falcons quarterback.
A great story about Cousins and just everything that he's
been going through in the last offseason. But you all
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know that he is about one business and one business alone,
and that's how he gets his haircut and where he
goes for it. Take a listen.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
I go to one place and that's great clips because
I can just go on the app.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
How are you going to do?
Speaker 4 (09:17):
I'm well, how are you amazing?
Speaker 3 (09:19):
I can see what the weight is.
Speaker 7 (09:21):
If the waittime is under fifteen minutes, I just sign
up and then I can just drive there and walk
right in and get right in the chair. This is
what I'm looking for. Okay, So just like a one
one and then you faded up.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
That sound good?
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Sounds good?
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Now I start just holding up a picture.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
I took a picture from one of the headshots from
a Falcon's game program, and I just say, can you
do this? And that usually helps eliminate any gray area.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
It's a one, and then you fade up and then
look at this. Now he gets the endorsement photo. I
mean that is an incredible picture and he's got a
business card and everything for the clips all right, and
Kirk Cousins all about it commercial on Netflix for Great Clips.
One word to describe that picture of Kirk Cousins mantai,
what do you got?
Speaker 8 (10:10):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (10:11):
I know that guy's not That guy's a character. Definitely
would have been in My Interesting People if you would
was still with the Vikings. But if I had one
word for them, that'd be questionable. Okay, this this, Kirk,
this is questional to me. You're going to go to Antigua, right, Jamie,
You're going to go to Antigua to get stem cell.
And in the first series of Quarterback you had that
(10:31):
like Professor X. You have that picture. You got that
Professor Professor X, like tell me that you invested in
for your brain, and then you're going to go to
Great Clips. Great Clips is like going to Fantastic Stams.
It just I'm all about being frugal, I'm all about
saving money. I'm all about that stuff. But bro, when
there's when you're doing when you're doing all of these
extra curriculars like Antigua, you're going to basically Professor X yep.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
But then you go to Great Clips doesn't line up, I.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Might join them because I did read that caption that
if you go to the same Great Clips as him,
it's free.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
So you're gonna fly to Atlanta and go to that grip.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
No, if it's we'll see. So yeah, I think it's
I think it's. My word for that is questionable.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Listen, I vacillate at times on my Kirk Cousins. You know,
I like him as a person, but you know, when
it's time with the Vikings, I was just as a fan.
I was having a hard time with him. But you
know what, I am a fan of efficiency, and that
right there is that is just an efficient haircut. The
entire experience I am all about. Sometimes I cut the
corners of my own life with some things, but my
argument is always, well it just didn't feel that efficient
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to do it that way, so I just stopped that
activity and I moved on to the next. Some people
call it adult add I call it efficiency. So that
is efficient. He checks the weight time, Maybe he re
routes to a different Great Clips and Buckhead, perhaps because
that one has a five to ten minute wait instead
of twenty five to thirty. I'm all about this and
it's the same streamline haircut. He probably even has that
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photo favorited in his photo app so he can get
to it efficiently. Kirk Cousins, I am all about this
way to be efficient.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
Let me just let me let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
There is no bigger racket in the United States of
America than the men's haircut racket.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Kirk Cousins. Boundless wealth, whether you have.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
That, whether you don't, no matter what tax bracket you're in,
if you were to line up in front of you
a thirty dollars haircut and an eighty dollars haircut, let
alone one hundred and twenty dollars haircut, I guarantee you
cannot tell the difference. Certainly in men's haircuts, it's the
same exact thing. I can't stand it. I've gone to
fantastic SAMs, I've gone to super Cus, I've gone to
them all, and I love it. I have wandered in
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with my kids or myself into these fancy Schmanschy salons
and they walk in and you know why I'm paying
extra money there, because they say, oh, would you like
a send Pellegrino while you wait? No, I'm good on
the fancy bottle wall. That's not what I'm paying for.
I get a scout massage while I got my haircut.
It feels great. Of course, I don't need that from you.
I don't know you. I don't know who this person is.
This guy's massashonist cup don't need it. And then now
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you get these these these places come into the suburbs.
When you're sitting in the waiting room, they say.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Would you like a drink?
Speaker 1 (13:07):
And I'm talking about like a whiskey or a beer,
And I'm like, sir, it's two o'clock on a Wednesday.
I'm not having a Johnny Walker while I wait for
my haircut. I got to get my kid to soccer practice.
Just cut this thing. I hate it. It's a total racket.
It's a total rip off. There's no difference in quality.
I'm not paying for it. And I'll tell you something else.
Kirk Cousins who brings the picture of himself and just
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shows it on his phone to the barber every single
I look at him and I say, here it is.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
I want a four on the sides.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
I want you to thin it out a little bit
on top, give it a little bit of trim, This
picture was taken three years ago. I have a different
barber every single time now, so I just show it
to him. It works like a charm. It's as if
they've been my barber for years. Then I get the
warm shaving cream on the back, I get the razor shave.
It's beautiful, it's old fashioned. The barber polls out front,
and it's cheap. It's cheap. I will say, Kirk, is
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it entirely necessary for you to bring up the headshot
the Falcons program of yourself? Do you not have a
million candids on your phone of you with your kids
that you can zoom in and show. Could it be
that you wanted that person to know that you were
in case you didn't know. I am Falcons quarterback Kirk
Cousins and that's why you showed it to him. Either way,
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I love that no matter how much money you've made,
you still will not step in one of those high
end salons because they don't deserve your money or mine.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
M Kyle. It's super well done. Yeah, not to be
overlooked that the fact that if he walks in there
great clips I think has to be some form of
if not a Falcon sponsor and ANFL sponsor, and he
has he's holding the Hall of fade vip card. I
believe that's what it's called at Great Clips. That's the
Hall of Fade. And the fact that Kyle I actually
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think that socially appropriate for him to have a professionally
documented photograph from work that he shows. I mean, you're selfie,
can we see it again? It's I actually I'm a
little concerned about Kyle selfie. What's up with the had
the perfect forty five selfie influencer almost like head Tilt
and Kyle Dare I say those are puckered lips?
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Puckered for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Listen, before there was something called Instagram, there was something
called soap operas, and I used to work on one
of them. I know how to hit my angle, my tilt,
and my jawline and my lips. I know that picture
is going to be around forever. I'm not messing around here, Guys.
I may look ridiculous on TV, but I still know
how to take a picture.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
KB hood on bro, you said you that doesn't look
like a Great Clips to me because those pictures in
the background. See when you go to Great Clips, they
have all these pictures of these different haircuts, and you
just I want number eight. Those are pictures of like
people's families. That is a barber shop.
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I see Jordan in the corner. You're you're kind of bro.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
You're not at No Great clips.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
No, that is I bounce around. That's Jack's barber shop.
Great great place. They got pictures of John Starks allegedly
dunking over Jordan, even though we know he didn't. Their
New York stuff like that is a legit place. But
I'll drop into the Strip mall any time and go
to a super cuts efficient done, show them the picture.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
It's over.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Stop going to these salons. I can't speak to you.
If you have long hair, fancy hair, you're really into
your hair, fine, pay whatever you want. But for someone
like me, Manti, frankly, you're not exactly foby over there.
Speaker 6 (16:16):
But keep it.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Got into one of these places, they just budge up.
Speaker 6 (16:19):
And you're done.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
Oh my gosh. Okay, So just just to take us
out of here on gmt B, I just wanted to
make sure we all understood that Kyle takes this selfie
and then that in comparison to the perfectly photoshopped and
look at that. I mean If that is not a
walking advertisement for don't pay more than twenty five dollars
for your men's haircut, then I don't know what is Kyle.
I think you should have an honorary Hall of Faede
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card with those two side by sides.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Really embarrassing parties, Jamie. I I got more than one picture.
I have like different angles that I shuck. Look at
that even I didn't even send those to the production staff,
like like I got like the overhead, look I got,
I got all of this stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
Come on, showed me. Let's go.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
I'm holding the thing up to the camera.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Did you get a free did you get a free
hair show?
Speaker 2 (17:08):
I get this, Kyle. Look at what our staff has done.
Look at they put Kurt in the salon with you.
Can you see it?
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Lookazy? You guys are hilarious today.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
That's incredible.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
There is.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Yeah, KB wanted the Hall of fad KB, but he
learned how to photoshop over the first battle week photoshop
all right? That was what's the word on GMFP? I
get that guy off the screen. He number that lip
puckered selfie from Allah the soap opera Days the Steelers.
What kind of soap opera? Is Pittsburgh gonna have going
on with their quarterback? We don't know. We hope nothing.
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We hope it's all stars in Hollywood Walk of Fame.
He's got dk metcalf in town. Are they gonna make
it a brand new edition of Saving Face? Oh, trivia
game with clues about players on new teams?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Kyle?
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Are you ready for this one?
Speaker 1 (17:54):
As long as some of them have something to do
with movies from nineteen ninety five? Five, Jamie, let me
tell you about a former Steelers running back from the nineties,
that era that might be forgotten. I'm doing a new
series called this was a Dude.
Speaker 6 (18:09):
You know the superstars?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Do you remember the shooting stars who got extinguished a
little bit quicker because of injuries? We always remember them,
and Barry Foster was awesome. We're going to get into
it shortly after this Steelers fan you know.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Oh my gosh, someone just tweeted at me that that's
me cutting Kirk's hair. It's not it's not okay, that
would that would that would take have taken a far
too fall.
Speaker 9 (18:41):
Good football Saving Face time, all right, save your face.
Some things aren't going well and you want to try
to recoup.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
Some of that aura for yourself. A save your face,
all right, and that's the game that we're going to play.
Today's team is players on new teams, all right. Think
about guys that made a move and free agency, but
where we have no rookies on the list. Okay, that
does not include rookies, So Manti, take the draft class
out of your mind. Think about free agents. You're up for, Smanta,
let's go. I won comeback Player of the Year award.
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I've won this. Okay, I'm on a team, but I've
won comeback Player of the Year. I said, a career
high in completion percentage and passing yards last season, and
I was just reunited with my old head coach, but
on a new team. Manti, who am I old head coach?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
And I want comeback Player of the Year award? Say
career do they do? Is it for a team that
I happened to miss locate earlier?
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:49):
You did?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I said they were in Layah you did. They got
a new quarterback? Would it be who is Geno Smith?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Yes, it would be. You've your face with Geno Smith?
Good job. Yeah, it was a couple of years back.
It was kind of dury. What does the Comeback Player
of the Year Award Define Itself as and Gino Smith
won it that year with his time. Yeah, he did
it right back exactly, all right, Save and face, Save
and face, Kyle, You're up. This player has been named
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first Team All Pro with multiple teams in his career
First Team All Pro. It's been featured in a Netflix
documentary series. Not telling you which one, but he was
in a Netflix documentary series. He was traded mid season
in twenty twenty four to pair up with his former quarterback.
Speaker 6 (20:37):
Who am I? You're Davante Adams.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Yes you are, Yes, Kadi are Some days we give
you guys, real tough, curve knuckleballs that felt easy for
you too. Just to start. Okay, Kyle, what is your
state ofation right now?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I'll tell you a personal story. Ran into Davante a
couple of weeks ago, and I'm going to try not
to exaggerate. I've been doing this for almost the decade.
I have had personal encounters with hundreds of NFL players.
I don't think I have ever encountered a cooler, realer, kinder,
warmer person in any walk of life, let alone NFL player.
(21:18):
Devanta Adams was so unbelievably cool. I've never met him
in person before, but it's like he was like the
coolest athlete that I have ever met, and so gracious
and so outgoing and so kind and like like avonce,
You're an amazing person. I see why people want to
work with you. I see why Rogers wants to throw
to you all the time. It's just an incredible thing.
And I think he's extremely excited to be with the
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Rams and McVeigh and Stafford. That's still a first person experience.
He could not have been a more cool person. Just awesome,
Matt tight cee, Jamie, that's a tough fact to follow.
To DeVante was unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
I'm gonna make a running list of the guys that
Kyle runs into in the off season, because we're all
supposed to be like taking time this summer. It's a
lot of NFL guys like where are you.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
All right, Jamie?
Speaker 3 (21:59):
Let's go all Rightie, Jamie r at all My school
be Alabama in the National Championship in my final college season,
I led the NFL in yards per receptions. In twenty
twenty three. Oh my god, my old team traded me
away after trading for a Pro Bowl wide receiver. Who
(22:23):
am I?
Speaker 2 (22:24):
George Pickens?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
Who, Jamie, George Pickens?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
I was not going to get that?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
How did you? How did you?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Was it going to get it?
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Well?
Speaker 2 (22:33):
First of all, I was so distracted by the word
Alabama that I was too focused on Alabama guys. I
had to actively take myself out of that roster pool.
And then I'm just thinking of teams that beat Alabama.
I ignored that middle one. It's always too distracting for
me to go to a certain year of an NFL season.
But it wasn't until that last one. What team brought
in a guy at the same position, who's almost who's
more prolific than a guy that they gave up the Steelers?
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Did they let George Pickens?
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Go right on? Jamie? That was That was great, Jami,
that was real quick.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Listen, we're going in a round two guys, and it's
not really a segment if we get them, all right,
So who's.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Going to drop the ball here? Maybe we're not going
to let's find out.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
All right, man, you're up, We're going to We're going
to get all of these rights I was.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Born, I was I already know who this is by
the first clue. By the way, I was born in
California and played college football there. I was a first
round pick, but I was not the first quarterback selected
in my draft class.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
I was the youngest ever quarterback to win fourteen plus
games in a season for an NFC norths team.
Speaker 3 (23:36):
Jared Golf Nope, nope, wait wait, can I have a
second chance? Please?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
I think in the NFC West, NFC.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
West or the north West. He got it wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
No clue, you're wrong.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
I got it wrong.
Speaker 6 (23:51):
He got it wrong, Damie.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Do you know what, Sam Darnold?
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Yeah, femme, you know what. I was so stuck on
the quarterback documentary Jared Goff quarterback went to freaking caw.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Oh, that's sure. Once you lock Rom.
Speaker 3 (24:07):
Kelly, he went to cowp Yep. I was stuck.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Everybody has the documentary? Now, who is Sam Donald doesn't
have one? Is that even possible? Everybody has one?
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He's actively producing it.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Yeah, but here we go.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
All right, let's go all right.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I won a national championship in college and a Super
Bowl in the NFL. I've done both. I was recently
traded for the third time in my career. In an interview,
with GQ in twenty eighteen, I called a future MBB
quarterback trash. Who am I?
Speaker 6 (24:43):
Jalen Ramsey?
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah it is.
Speaker 6 (24:46):
He won a Super Bowl with Rams.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
Yep, he won a national championship of Florida State. And
he has been traded a few times. And the GQ
article was huge. We talked about it so much. He's
referring to Josh Allen. He take tracks everybody. Jalen Ramsey
was one of the biggest voices in the league for
a while there. He drove a lot of media, even
coming out of small market Jacksonville.
Speaker 6 (25:07):
He was really a player that mattered.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Still does, but I think he's mellowed out a little bit.
Jalen Ramsey now with the Steelers, just a number of
Steelers who look kind of odd in that jersey. But
it's a hell of a team they got together.
Speaker 6 (25:20):
That was a good kid, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
You gotta end up strong, Manti tier up.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Come on, now, I'm stressed, becau. Kyle's like, not a
segment until one of expects' is wrong, like one of.
Speaker 3 (25:27):
The Yeah, he jinks me now, he james me on now.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I thought I definitely did all.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
Right Jamie here at all?
Speaker 3 (25:33):
Yeah, I am a super Bowl champion for an NFC team.
I have a beard that narrows it down, don't it.
That's but not least. I was a fourth round pick
in twenty eighteen. Who am I I have?
Speaker 2 (25:53):
You guys could have not have used less words across
three clues. Congratulations, you have facial hair. You were drafted
of one of two hundred and fifty seven picks nay
on the third day in twenty eighteen, and you're just
messing with me by calling him a super Bowl champion
for an NFC team. You have a beard, and I
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feel like if you're telling me that the beard has
to be some crazy memorable thing, I got nothing.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Think think think of you know the NFC teams that
have won the Super Bowl since eighteen, it's not that many.
Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, that's true since twenty eighteen. Got its like only
the Eagle, the Eagles, Just the Eagles. What's his face?
That just went to the Steelers that got out?
Speaker 3 (26:39):
Dan Skipper?
Speaker 2 (26:41):
No, not Dan Skipper. He doesn't have ah, yeah, he
doesn't have a beard. I got nothing.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Russell Wilson is a gardner.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
John don't know, I don't know. Come on, come on, come.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
On, really Josh.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
Oh my god, come on, I want to know Josh
web By his beard.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
That was really hard had the beard?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
He has a beard?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
He a helmet.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Never mind, Josh Jamie was sweating.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
H was actively calculating last night as they wrote that
clue out, I have a beard.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
Oh my gosh, thank you.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
I don't want any of the kids at home to
start being worried when I say back to school season
is coming. And you will understand that reference with our
next guest joining us now as an NFL linebacker during
the season, but in the off season he uses his
time teaching kids. It's Titans linebacker, anphony Orgy?
Speaker 4 (27:36):
What's going on?
Speaker 2 (27:40):
How you doing? How you doing? Can we call you?
Can we call you Anthony? Or should we say mister Orgy?
Mister A, okay, perfect, mister A. You spent your two
seasons in the league, with your first two with the
New Orleans Saints, and now you're a Tennessee Titan after
playing college ball at Vanderbilt. What's it been like returning
to your old stopping grounds in Nashville.
Speaker 10 (28:02):
It feels great. It feels like I'm back home at home.
Speaker 11 (28:04):
So obviously I was there for four years and now
I'm back in the city I'm familiar with, so I
just feels like a great opportunity.
Speaker 10 (28:11):
I'm blessed to be there.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Effonny.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
Can we talk about the number one overall pick in
the twenty twenty five NFL Draft. He's your rookie quarterback
cam Ward And to look around the country, it's like
he doesn't exist because Shador Sanders this, and this player
that and Travis Hunter this. I've been pounding the table
for this guy. Looks incredible. He's the number one pick.
He should be talked about. Can you please tell the
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United States of America and in fact the world that
he does exist and then maybe share some things you've
noticed about him.
Speaker 11 (28:41):
Yeah, I feel like it's kind of a good thing
he's not being talked about. You went overall one overall pick.
Someone knows he's that good, and he really is that good.
We've seen it through OTA's like he really just what
he SLINKs it back there is just like that shouldn't
be right. Kids younger than me, he shouldn't be slinging
like that. So but yeah, he's legit. Like I'm excited
to see what he does outcome training camp in the season,
But yeah, guys, he's a ball player for sure.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
Yeah. For you started off with the Saints, now you're
with Tennessee. You had off season, you had mandatory mini camp.
Training camp is around the corner. What are you looking
forward to the most? This training camp with the new team?
Speaker 10 (29:16):
Just showcasing who I am.
Speaker 11 (29:17):
Really, I feel like I've made it strides that season
and that's off seasons up showing who I am as
a player, and I feel like I can showcase it
better here in Tennessee. So I always thought of it
as a promotion, Like I was upset when I first
got the news, but then.
Speaker 10 (29:30):
Now Mike's promotion, I can cirwcase my talents circus. But
God given abilities that I have well.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
And the Titans are happy to have you. Anferny. As
we mentioned, we're gonna call you mister A because you
spend your off season very differently, not just a little
bit differently, very differently than most NFL players. For the
last two years, you've been substitute teaching in your hometown
of Rockwall, Texas. What's this experience like? Why have you
chosen your down time from one of the most ruling
(29:56):
jobs in sports that you can play to spend your
time doing that.
Speaker 11 (29:59):
Yeah, So I always say like I'm odd, like I'm
an odd person, but like I just for some reason,
I was like, I want to substitute teach because I
feel like if I just do a football camp, I
can only reach the kids who come to the camp,
which is mainly just like male athletes meket ball players.
But substitute teaching, like I can reach all kinds of kids.
I can have impact on more kids' lives, like all
(30:20):
the girls, the non athletes, all that. So that's really
why I substitute our teaching. And obviously just I can
get back a little bit to the teachers, so they
need a day off and they could just call me.
Obviously I'm just one person, so it's hard to like
help everyone. But that was my top process in substituting.
Speaker 1 (30:38):
Efrony, What grade do you usually substitute in? What grade
of school?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
I've done it all.
Speaker 11 (30:43):
I've done everything from elementary school to high schoolers, but
I feel like I did the most time in middle school.
But middle school kids they're a bit crazy, especially when
they figure out they figured out who I am. Man,
I couldn't I couldn't get a break I couldn't step
in the hallway without being bombarded.
Speaker 10 (31:01):
But yeah, I feel like middle school is what I
taught the most.
Speaker 1 (31:04):
All right, well, I have to be completely candid here.
You go to high school, you have an exotic name,
all right, it means a lot of different things to
a lot of different people. Yeah, you walk into a
high school class and say I'm mister Orgy.
Speaker 6 (31:16):
What's the reaction?
Speaker 11 (31:17):
Exactly why I didn't walk into class sales mister or
I was always mister A, mister O. But then the
kids obviously know who I am, so they just want
to call him mister Orgie. And then the kids who
don't know who I am, it's like Orgy, Oh my gosh,
I'm like, whoa mister a too.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Yeah, but I mean everybody at home is thinking I
got to ask it right, Like you have a great answer.
Speaker 11 (31:40):
That was my thoughts. I was like the moment I
walked in the class, like, hey, I can't go by
mister Orgy, Like they're gonna they're gonna clown me. I
can't have that my first day. So I was like, either,
mister on the board, It's like we'll try that out.
Speaker 6 (31:51):
First of all, what about in the locker room.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
How does that go?
Speaker 10 (31:53):
Everyone calls me orgin. I'm gonna lie.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Really, it's been that since I was a kid, Like
little League, it's been an orgy. I have two other brothers,
so it's been like there's big orgy, there's me orgy,
and then there's little orgy.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
So it's like, yeah, let's just make sure Kyle's emptied
the bag. On the last same questions, are you good
Kyle anymore? Anymore?
Speaker 1 (32:14):
I was going to make a touch push joke, but like,
let's get back to the teacher.
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Let me right in there. Pushed the question to me, KB.
I got a question. First of all, if you're teaching
a second or third grade class and they start laughing,
like parent teacher conferdence is going to get awkward because
your third grader should not know what that is.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Nice man, I.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Would say this, I do. I do. I do some
public speaking in my spare time. Now one of the
age groups that is so hard for me to talk
to our little kids because like three minutes into the
speech is like, squirrel, how do you, as a teacher
keep these guys, these little kids engaged? Because it is
a challenge for me.
Speaker 10 (32:52):
Man, It is hard.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
I remember, like when I talked my first school class,
sixth grade class, it was it was tough. Like I
would tell them like, all right, guys, here's the assignment
I'm trying to through the sidement today listening they start
doing it.
Speaker 10 (33:04):
They just start, They just get up and.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
Start walking around doing so I got to like, literally,
there's some kids who are obviously gonna listen to some kids.
I gotta go over to them and I'm like, all right,
do this and I'll let you do. I'm trying to
be the cool teacher. I let you do blah blah blah.
You just get this done. Yeah yeah, yeah, get it
done real quick. And then they show us me like
a little bit more. I always try to like get
them to do a little bit more. But then yeah, that's
how they usually got to do their work, and it
(33:26):
worked that most of time.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
I feel like, dude, you got you got such great vibes,
like you are a great interview, a really good player.
But I feel like I'm gonna put that to the test,
and we have like a little game we like to do.
Sometimes you can look at a person, an adult, and
you can just tell if they were a teacher what
subject would they teach? So we're going to bring up
a few pictures of NFL players, and I want you
to tell us, Oh, that's this teacher, this subject, this subject.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
First up, what subject does this teacher teach?
Speaker 11 (33:55):
I feel like it might be like one of those
cool history teachers. I think I think he no teacher? Yeah, yeah,
the cool he's a history teacher by day, a coach
by afternoon night. You know what I'm saying. Like he
probably were those.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
No doubt, mister Mahomes, just laid back, just teaching you
about the Louisiana purchase.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
No big deal. All right, let's go with a.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Former teammate of yours and basically a teammate of ours.
Speaker 6 (34:18):
What subject does this teacher teach?
Speaker 10 (34:20):
See? I'm kno gonna lie.
Speaker 11 (34:21):
He actually told me he wants to be a PE
teacher when I told him I was going to be
a substitute.
Speaker 10 (34:26):
But I can't go with pe teacher.
Speaker 11 (34:27):
He probably probably marketing, because that dude is in more commercials,
probably marketing.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
For intro to.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
All right, let's conclude our tour of the faculty lounge.
What subject does this man teach?
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (34:47):
See, she is easy because He reminds me so much
of my eighth grade science teacher, So I have to
go with science, middle school science, social.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Let's let's shout out your middle school science teacher. Tell
us about that guy and how we create how he
parallels to a Kelsey brother.
Speaker 11 (35:02):
Man, he just like you're the little greatness, just funny,
like I feel like they're just the same people same.
Speaker 2 (35:11):
I feel like I could also see mister Kelsey like
cackling as like the bubbles come out of the test
tube or something.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
It's like, look at what we're making.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
True?
Speaker 10 (35:18):
Yeah, yeah, that man.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Give them a Bunsen burner and a graduated cylinder and
a mortar and pestle. That's perfect. And Anthony Orgy Saw
are you really really good young player on an exciting
Titans team that we talk about on this show more
than any of their show.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
But mister A, you're the best.
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You're a new friend of ours, and thank you so
much for doing this.
Speaker 10 (35:40):
I appreciate it. Appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Hey plus on our show, bro, Yeah, hey plus for
you pass.
Speaker 8 (35:45):
The test by mister A.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
Good morn.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
This was a dude.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
We're doing a new series here in Good Morning Football
because you might know the superstars of yesteryear. But you
may not know the shooting stars whose careers were brilliant
but brief.
Speaker 6 (36:12):
We remember them and we like to share them.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
And today's dude, it was Barry Foster, Pittsburgh Steelers running
back Barry Foster, the man who to this day still
holds the single season rushing record for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
He was a five ten, two hundred and twenty three pound,
perfectly built running back who was so good in the
nineties they called them the Other Barry for a time period.
Speaker 6 (36:33):
Grew up outside of Dallas. In the nineteen ninety draft,
he fell.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
To the fifth round and left his dorm room out
of frustration. He found out he was a Steeler from
a message left on his answering Machine's what we used
to have back then in the nineteen ninety But he
gets on the Steelers and he plays mostly special teams,
including return kicks. But it started very inauspiciously for Barry
Foster because he had a huge blunder in a big
game against the Niners in which he mistook a kickoff
(36:59):
for a punt.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
And this happened Cooper's kick is short up to get
it as Foster.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
That's a free ballore ball, and the forty nine ers
get a touchdown and.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You can't advance that.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
Oh I can't, that's right, but they've got it at
the five yard line.
Speaker 3 (37:15):
Rookie Barry Foster, drum up now, Arkansas just letting them
ball go when I haven't.
Speaker 4 (37:23):
Ever seen that before in thirty years of football.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
What a mistake.
Speaker 4 (37:27):
And we talked about the youth.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Then with the lack of experience comes big mistakes.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
That could have been the end for Barry Foster right there,
but he hung on. And when Bill Cower became the
head coach, he went to Foster in ninety two and
Foster went off. This is week one against the Oilers
where he had over one hundred yard one.
Speaker 6 (37:48):
Hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 3 (37:49):
Actually went nuts.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Next week against the Jets at home, one hundred and
ninety yards against the New York Jets, and Bill Kauer
had something. The rest of the season went exactly the
same way. Barry Foster had twelve games of one hundred
plus yards, which tied the immortal Eric Dickerson's all time record.
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Barry Sanders the only guy who's ever had more with fourteen.
But I mean this Barry Foster was a superstar this year.
I was growing up in suburban Chicago. The Bears were
not very good in this era. I asked for a
Verry Foster jersey for Christmas. I got it and I
wore it to school the next day, proud as hell
to wear that Steelers number twenty nine. Because week after
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week he had high carries, high yardage. He could not
be stopped. And in fact, Barry Foster damn near won
the rushing title. In fact, he was only twenty three
yards short of EMMITTT. Smith. Here's why we do this,
was a dude, because there's Barry Foster in ninety two,
sixteen ninety just misses Emmett Smith Hall of Famer, Thurman
(38:52):
Hall of Famer, Barry Sanders, Hall of Famer. And there's
Barry Foster great ninety two year and it wasn't just
a one trick pony or a one year wonder.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Ninety three.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
He comes out and he's balling again for Bill Kauer.
Eight touchdowns in nine games, over seven hundred yards. He's
doing the goal line thing like Bettis would eventually do.
And then it happened, and that often happens, and this
segment injuries creep in, specifically ankle injuries, a lot of them.
He missed a whole bunch of games and yet still
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made the Pro Bowl despite missing so many games. He's
the only player since the merger to make the Pro
Bowl at running back despite playing fewer than ten games.
Speaker 3 (39:30):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
It was guys like him and Bo Jackson who would
get hurt and still devoted into the Pro Bole.
Speaker 3 (39:35):
That's how good he was.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Ninety four comes around, very special season once again, Barry
Foster is playing ball in those crazy uniforms. Injuries creep
in once again, allowing for Bam Morris to take over.
Who all remember from that ninety four season. In fact,
Barry Foster's last game as a Steeler was the AFC
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Championship game against the Jim Harbaugh led San Diego Chargers.
There's Neil O'Donnell and here's Foster in the title game,
trying to get the Steelers to the Super Bowl. This
is the final play of the game. He's going to
try to get it to Foster. It's batted down. That
was Barry Foster's last play as a Steeler. That was
Barry Foster's last play in the NFL because after they
(40:18):
lose that game. Then he's traded to the Carolina Panthers,
the expansion Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
There he is getting a handoff from.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
Neil O'Donnell, but he was cut in training camp after
failing at physical and retired.
Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (40:32):
But wait, the Bengals Pickyjon A Carter, number one overall.
He blows out his knee in the preseason and the
Bengals bring in Barry Foster sign him to a one
million dollar contract.
Speaker 6 (40:42):
Two days later.
Speaker 1 (40:43):
After he comes in, Foster complained saying that he felt
like quote a sixty year old running back after his
first workout in pads. He retires again and returns three
hundred thousand dollars to the Bengals, walking away and never
playing again. Barry Foster would reflect and say, I had
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my moments, but the life of a running back in
the NFL is usually pretty short. Running Backs don't last
that long because we get shoot up.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
We all want more.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
We want the EMITTT.
Speaker 1 (41:13):
Smith career, the Barry Sanders career, but those are reserved for.
Speaker 6 (41:16):
The Hall of famers.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
Everybody can't do what they did. You're absolutely right, Barry Foster.
They can't. But what you did was still incredible, albeit
for a short period of time. You got your Player
of the Year Miller light shirt there.
Speaker 3 (41:29):
It's incredible.
Speaker 6 (41:30):
He retires, he walks away.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
He is now a family man and a workingman, and
someone who can look back on his early nineties years
with the Steelers with pride.
Speaker 6 (41:40):
I get it's in the early nineties.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
If you were going up against the Steelers, number twenty
nine was getting that ball. He was getting it over
and over and over, and once upon a time, Barry Foster,
this was a.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
Dude, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
As you started the show, it's get the bleep out
of here Friday, Sayanara, my friend, having a wonderful weekend.
I'll see you on Monday. By MHM
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