January 26, 2024 • 37 mins
Part Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with coaching updates across the league. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Super Bowl Champion Jason McCourty deliver their NFC Championship game picks. What does the table think of the nominees for NFL Honors? Peter gives us a history lesson on the winning football tradition of Baltimore. We wrap up the week with AFC Championship game picks!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky,
live in New York City.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
It's Friday, January twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm Jamie r Ata, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason mccordy.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Kyle, Yeah, you have been on the grit train, if
you will.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But how pleased are you that it is like still rolling,
still steamrolling? Because you've been kind of annoyed to some
people who think Dank Campbell inauthentic at best, but like
this is who he is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I may get into that shortly. Oh I saw Dan Campbell.
It's something to say about. You know, hey, man, if
you're not on the wagon now, we don't want you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Don't launch it. Sit. It is way, way, way too late.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The time to get on the Campbell wagon was the
middle of the twenty twenty two season and we had
way past that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm gonna go middle the twenty time my two seasons
for my NFCI as well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All right, how do you feel about your picks? Jack?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I feel pretty good about my picks. I think I'll
let you know Monday morning how I felt about my pack.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's great, Peter, you're going to the game this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We know you were considering what you're supposed to wear
because you were picking the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Those are the guys you came to the dance with.
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I have a sick feeling in my stomach. Is it?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
This is mess This is really messy.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I really We'll get into the AFC picks in a
little bit, but I am I didn't sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, it's just tough going to dance with somebody.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
There's somebody better.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I have been on the Chiefs train the whole way,
and last week I looked in the camera and I
told the audience and I will not pick against the
Chiefs as long as they're still playing there. It is
the Bills, And it was just real.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So you think that would be it? Right? You have?
There's a lot of this in my in my in
my brain right now.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Don't like dancing like sugar plump fairries.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Press discreetly wear a hat?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ian Rappaport, please stave off this pain a little bit
longer of us making our NFC and AFC Championship wend
picks with news from around the league. What do we
absolutely need to know before we headed into this weekend?
Speaker 7 (02:10):
First of all, I was hoping the Trigger would pick
against the Ravens and then go to the Ravens game
with his son while not wearing a hat no sunglasses,
so everyone could just mention him that they didn't like
his pons fun theater.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
For me, it's practically breaking news.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Where Tony Gonzales, Chiefs Jersey, whoever you want, let's go, great.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Time Swift, Let's get.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Taylor Swift Chiefs Jersey would be absolutely poetic and you
should one hundred percent to that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm surprised we're not wearing one now.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Anyway, Let's get to the coaching news. Dave Canalis is
the new Carolina Panthers head coach, which is a phrase
I certainly did not expect to be saying if you
had asked me a couple of days ago, two weeks ago,
months ago.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
This is really under the radar.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Candidate, the offensive coordinator for the Buccaneers, after they interviewed
like eleven people and couldn't really find the right fit,
ended up on Canal so turned it to be a
fantastic move for Todd Bowles and the Bucks. He got
Baker Mayfield right, had this offense humming, and I think
it wasn't just that it was the leadership in the building.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was the juice that he had.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
This is what Carolina wants to bring to their organization
and to Bryce Young, who needs to get right after
a tough year last year. The Atlanta Falcons also found
their new head coach. It is one of their old assistants,
one of their old interim coaches, Raheem Morris, the Rams
defensive coordinator. If you last geting one in the Rams building,
this has been a guy who should have been a
head coach a while ago. They have been stumping from
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Morris because inside their building they have seen it. They
have understood why this guy should be a head coach
and back at the organization where you spend so much time.
Now he is in Raheem Moritz and herits a roster
that is ready to win. Justinaatei a quarterback, which is
probably the same Dame could have scept the Falcons last year,
but a really really solid higher for Atlanta. Meanwhile, on
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the field, one of the biggest questions going into this weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Will Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Play for the forty nine X rays were negative on
the shoulders, so no fracture, just a really bad bruise.
I know he's having trouble with stiffness, a lot of pain,
but he was able to practice on a limited basis yesterday.
At least that gives him a chance to play. We'll
see if he rams up participation today, but at least
Deebo Samuel has a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
All right, that'd be great news for the forty nine ers,
and it leads us right into our leadoff hitter for
GMFB in the final hour.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Before conference championship weekend. Ian, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So much time to make our picks for championship Sunday.
We start, as we mentioned in the NFC, with these
two powerhouses.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's a three seed Detroit Lions. For the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
They have hosted playoff games, they have dominated. They take
that emotional vandwagon and they took it on the road
out west to head to San Francisco to face the
number one seed, a forty nine Ers.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Jason ut offers such a tough matchup, so much fun
in this one. I've talked about it all week long
Brock party, and you just love this kid because he's
come in you know where he was drafted death story.
He's been told a million times he wins, and he's
continued to be doubted, and you just love that story
where you just overcome and you overcome and you overcome.
And now here he is on the doorstep of an
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opportunity to get to the Super Bowl. And all we're
talking about is what Brock Purdy can't do and the
odds Deebo Samuel may Or may not play, all the
things going into this game. And on the other side,
we have Jared gob the quarterback of the Detroit Lions,
who was in the Super Bowl years ago representing the
La Rams and didn't perform the way he wanted to,
and now here he has an opportunities. Are two franchises
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that have been completely different, Lion's hoping to make their
first Super Bowl appearance, while the forty nine ers have
won many of them and played in so many as well.
This game comes down to both running backs, electric Jamir
Gibbs Christian McCaffrey. I've racked my brain going back and
forth so much. Just something that tells me in my
mind is so hard to go against the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Kyle Shanahan when he's in the lab
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and he's drawn up plays. These guys have been there before.
A lot of these guys on this team, they have
the experience. They've been there and they've done it. They've
made the plays. Defense is incredible, from Fred Warner all
the way through, all the names that you see, But
there's something about when your heart just keeps on telling
Detroit Lions. I am rolling with the Lions to win
this one and make the first ever Super Bowl appearance.
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I don't care what people are saying the super Bowl
fifty eight. The logo has read in it that means
the forty nine ers have to represent right and all
these different things, the Ravens Purple, I don't care about
any of those colors.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm rolling with the Lions.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think they have enough. I think the weapons on
the outside, with Jameson Williams, with Amar Ross, Saint Brown,
with the two headed monster in the backfield.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think Jared Goff makes all the right decisions.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
He has the temperament, he has the savviness, he's a veteran.
I think he gets them there. I think Aaron Glenn's
led defense. They make enough plays, they keep everything in
front of them, and they win this game.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm all with the Lions on this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Fantastic that Lions on the road too, on the road
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Okay, earlier this offseason, I do the podcast The Season
with Peter had Brad Holmes, the general manager of the
Lions on He's on with me for two hours. And
that might be a lot of listening about front office
talk for you if you're not into that kind of stuff.
But if you want to listen to a guy who
believed in what he had on the field and the
roster that he had assembled, she go listen to him.
In July because I came at him pretty straight across
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and said, no one else is drafting or running back
and an inside linebacker with the two picks in the
top twenty. You know what are you doing? He said,
we are so excited to get players. I don't care
what positions they play. I want players. I want this
roster to be loaded with players. And you say, well,
everyone wants them to be a little of players. No. No,
he saw these guys as positionless players, and that's representative
of what this Lion's team has been all season, whether
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it's Jamier Gibbs lining up at wide receiver, running back,
or even throwing a block, whether it is Sam Laporta
being one of the best rookie tight ends we've ever
seen stepping up right away. Is it Brian Branch who
could fill in it and be an all world safety
out of the gates at a Clemson in his first year.
And of course Jack Campbell an unheard of thing, an
inside linebacker taken in the top twenty, making plays all
over the field. And that went along with a unit
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that has already been playing well in the last eight
weeks this season, last year, and then into this one.
I love what the Lions are doing, but this feels
like the forty nine Ers year. This feels like the
seas have parted. There's no more Rogers, there's no more Brady.
This feels like the forty nine Ers were on a
crash course with either the Eagles or the Cowboys. Neither
one of those teams could go the distance. And now
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you have this upstart Lions team that I quite frankly love.
I picked them to win the NFC North this year.
I said all summer that I thought they were gonna
beat the Chieps Week one. They did, yet I feel
like this is a forty nine Ers NFC and it's
a forty nine Ers season. It has been since day one,
the way this thing has gone. If you get Deebo
Samuel on the field, they don't lose. I think Debo's
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gonna go and I think the forty nine Ers take
care of business. And it's Brock Perdy getting to the
super Bowl, the last pick in the draft from a
year ago, but also one of the best quarterbacks in
all of football this year. I'm going Kyle Shanahan slays
a few Dragons, gets a big win in the forty
nine Ers advance and they play in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Kind of an unfulfilled destiny for Shanna.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Huh, Like he's got this. I gotta check that box.
I'm finished business.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Seemfully he does. I think he tapped on something too.
I really like both of these teams, and I like
the Niners a lot and what they stand for, and
I love Lynch and Shanahan, and I feel like if
I was in the same walk of life as those guys,
I'd be friends.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
With a lot of the forty nine ers I really do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But I'd like to play a clip that was around
this week from Jared Goff and it was looked at
as something that provided some levity, but I think there
was a little bit more going on.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Here's the clip. A lot of really good players obviously, but.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Maybe oh, thank you, I said, thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, maybe that view.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Though as the superstars like maybe the forty nine.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Ers you have or other all right, never mind, I
mean guys like the same Brown you same Brown was
first team All Pro? So right right, sorry, continue, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I'm sorry, absolutely, But do you feel like there this
is a chance?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Yeah, I know you're getting at Yes, I do. I
think I think we've got a lot ton ton of
great players who maybe haven't had the national stage that
up to this point that a lot of a lot
of the other guys have. And obviously they have a
ton of good players as well, and a ton of
Pro bowlers and All Pro players over there, and it's yeah,
we feel like, you know, we've got a lot of
good players too though, like you mentioned, and excited to
play on another national stage and be able to showcase.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That fun moment.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But there's a subtext there that I really relate to.
And my only beef with that moment is that I
wish that Jared would have kept going and said, you
know what, I got time today. I wish you would
have sat back and said, all right, they have all
these stars and were these lines. I was winning this
conference when Brock Purdy was a college freshman. Trent Williams
was a first team All Pro in his twelfth season,
Penny's first team All Pro in his third season. I
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think Jamier has all the ability of McCaffrey. I think
Hushinson has all the ability of Bosa. I think Laporta
has everything Kittle has and more. And I'm n roth
the first team All Pro No. Forty nine er has
caught as many balls as he has since Rice. And
let me just take a second to get into the
coaching Campbell and Shanahan, Pinky and the brain, the gym
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teacher versus the science professor, Metallica versus Mozart.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Dan Campbell was winning games as a head coach in
this league interim when Kyle Shanahan was coordinating an eight
and eight Falcons team. Kyle Shanahan took over a brilliant
franchise with the legacy of winning and continued it. To
his credit, Dan Campbell took a tenement and built it
into a temple.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's coaching. And then there's this point spread.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Las Vegas is making Detroit a seven and a half
point dog. A fourteen to five team is a seven
and a half point dog.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And maybe it's just me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I feel like if there was a different logo representing
that team, then that blue line, that point spread might
be a little different, and the game might be looked
at a little bit different. The Lions are not a Cinderella.
This is not eight mile. This is not your one shot,
This is not your one opportunity. There is not mom spaghetti.
I think there's going to be confetti, and I think
Las Vegas is wrong. And in a couple of weeks
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you can tell him yourself. Let's go like the Lions, Okay,
lines to the super Bowl. That's my pick.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Do you want to pick a score?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Twenty nine to twenty seven Detroit game winning field goal
Michael Badgeley's time badly twenty nine to twenty seven, The
Lions going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
God, this is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Table looks good so far, we don't have a clean
sweep which is comfortable.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It feels good, doesn't it something?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
It does feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Here are some facts about the quarterback for the San
Francisco forty nine Ers, born December twenty seventh, nineteen ninety nine.
His parents name Sean and Carrie Purdy. As we all know,
he was the final pick in the twenty twenty two draft.
These are facts. There is allegedly a war brewing surrounding
Brock Purty and the facts about his football legacy. This
is uncovered by sf gate dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
There is not a.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Single NFL player currently whose Wikipedia page has been edited more.
Since December eleventh of twenty twenty two, the day that
Party took over as quarterback for the forty nine Ers,
then for the forty nine Ers, then Brock Party, nine
hundred and twenty two times people have gone in and
changed his name, changed, his nickname, changed, his relevance, changed
his facts, his height, his weight, perhaps where he was born.
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People can't handle the truth about Brock Purty, all right,
not You can pick any NFL player up until this point.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Tom Brady, former active doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Purty's factual existence online has been edited more a quote
from the SFGate article this is a fantastic thing, then
you should go read it was first uncovered and is
still very undefined legacy with a near constant stream of
editors of removing characteristics that we characterize as vandalism, persistent,
disruptive editing, and inaccurate fact meant to troll. This has
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led to brock Perty's Wikipedia page to be semi protected.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Forty nine ers protect this man this weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
All right, Brock Purty and the San Francisco forty nine ers,
I picked you to be in the super Bowl on
August thirty. First, I pick you to be in the
super Bowl on January twenty sixth forty nine ers are
going to Las Vegas at the hands of Brock Purty.
And no matter how many times do you want to
call him any which kind of quarterback that you damn
will please, it doesn't matter, because he's going to be
a Super Bowl contending quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
A lot of his stuff on Wikipedia says what lack
citations out of those Yes, there's a little note lack site.
That's a good nickname for pretty lax.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Citation by Purty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, cam's been doing a Super Bowl let's find out
if we do it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So we got a beautiful, beautiful fifty fifty even like
a checkerboard style Lions Niners, Lions Niners.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love it. Bang Bank Bank Bank Bank, I'm very
proud of it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All Right, we AFC still to come on our final
hour of Good Morning Football.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Before day weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The countdown is on to another epic events stentifal honors.
Which player are going to take home hard where this season?
We're going to go through all the nominees a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Plus a really happens for be Like in Baltimore. I'm
talking about the Schragger family arriveing and just.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Ready to rock and roll in their Sylvester Morris jerseys
will break down.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Their homefield evantage to be next. Do you have thoughts here?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Maybe let's good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
All right, this Sunday, you're gonna see something that hasn't
happened but taken place in fifty three years. That is
an AFC Championship game being played in the city of Baltimore. Yes,
despite appearing in five conference championships since then, Charms City
hasn't hosted an AFC championship game since the NFL and
the AFL merged in nineteen seventy. If you're wondering how
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that game went, please let me do the honor of
tossing to legendary voice John Facinda for a recap from
NFL Films in their archives. Thank you NFL Films of
the nineteen seventy AFC Championship game between the Baltimore Colts
and the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
The miracle makers from Oakland and the AFC Championship Games.
Almost immediately, high powered Oakland attack felt the full pressure
of the Cult defense, and almost immediately the high powered
Oakland defense felt the full pressure of the Cult attack.
Although at least three touchdowns just barely missed connections, there
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were enough completions to give the Raiders one of their
worst days in years. John United has kept the Raiders
off balance with his running game. Tom Nawatski ran well,
but usually his job was to clear the way for
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Norm Boula. Baltimore defeated Oakland twenty seven to seventeen and
became the first champion of the American Football Conference.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I get chills. I love that stuff and hope you
guys enjoyed at home and here at the table. That
game featured names like Johnny United. But Sunday's AFC Championship
game is going to be a star studed Baltimore affair.
Ray Lewis and Reed will be in attendance as the
legends of the game, alongside former Ravens Terrell tisisl Suggs,
Jonathan Ogden and Kwan Bolden, Todd Heap, Dennis Pitta, Matt Stover.
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With this in mind, guys, I have a simple question
for you at the table. What is the scene going
to be like in Baltimore on Sunday? Jason mcordy, you
will be there calling it for Westwood One.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
You just put up a picture of all of those
legends and you said there hasn't been a home conference
Shami again since nineteen seventy. So you think about it,
those guys coming in and Ray Lewis and Hot and
if they play that song, are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Crazy?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The fans are going to be with those legends, what
they represented. Their super Bowl is going to be so crazy.
As the young kids will say, it's going to be
lit at M and T Banks Stadium. I'm so happy
I'll be in the building to witness it.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'm so thrilled that Joe Flacco had the Flacco assance that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He did this season.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That being said, it makes me kind of sad that
it negates him from this list. I feel like he'd
be a great part of that group to come back
and fire the crowd up. But I guess the fact
that he was playing for the Browns like last week,
he can't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Now, come on, let's get the black going there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's true, I got it a few years. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just marveling on the nineteen seventy thing. Okay, so
here's the deal. The equivalent of that would be young people,
Our kids are grandkids watching this weekend's game in twenty
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That is the year.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What blows my mind is we're watching how they kick
and how how they throw. There's gonna be a time,
if you give it long enough, where people watch Mahomes
and Lamar this weekend they're like, look how ridiculous that look.
Look that's Lamar Jackson. Look how strange the way he
threw the ball. Look at the way they kicked. Look
at the uniforms in Mahomes and Hailsey were and they
look so weird.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That time always blows my mind like that and that.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
This seemed cutting edge, state of the art. This was
like the game of the future, technology science picture that
right there. And at some point the game this weekend
is going to look absolute stone age when this leaguas
and another fifty four years away. I love watching this.
Just remember when we were watching Mahomes and Lamar and
they're like, they look like they're in outer space. It's
going to look stone age one year when we're way
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down the road. So appreciate it as it goes by.
You don't get a lot of games like this.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
They've won AFC Championship games on the road, obviously, and
the most famous one was in New England recently when
they want their most recent run and winning in Foxboro
a year after Lee Evans tragically dropped the pass. Ye
more on the fairly more on the coverage, Sure, I
just I feel good for Baltimore fans. This is what
you get. This is why we always talk about the
one seed, and we talk about how important the one
seed is. Yes, the bye and the rest and the
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being able to watch during the wildcaround, but for those
fans and for all those folks in San Francisco also
you get a home championship game. It's one of the
coolest things that's very rare to come by.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It really is my favorite thing about the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So the way the kickers kicked, I wish Justin Tucker
could just do it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Maybe they're way up and he just you set up
the field goal and you just not only is that straight,
it's just like that. Oh, it's just your leg is locked.
It's all tow You just go bam. It's ridiculous. It
worked though, right down the middle sometimes barefoot.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It still feel like Tucker, who is sixty plus yard
are doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You probably could probably should, Peter.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That's a lot of segments for you. Very Baltimore heavy.
We're about to make our AFC picks very interested in its.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Sweat feeds.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Thursday eighth, it's happening. The Stars are out in Las
Vegas to kick off Super Bowl fifty. A weekend by stars,
I mean Kyle Brant Jason McCarty will be there celebrate
the twenty twenty three NFL season with host Keegan Michael Key.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You can watch on.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
CBS, you can watch an NFL network, or you can
stream it on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
An NFL Plus you can visit unfil.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Dot com slash Honors for more. Love the logo love
the red carpet. You think in Vegas, it's gonna shine there.
All the NFL Honors nominies were announced yesterday. Here's a
look at who's up for. Really, one of the most
prestigious awards of the night is the AP Most Valuable
Player Award. We always say it's a quarterback driven league.
Christian McCaffrey up there as one of the options. You
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can find the full list of nominees for every ward
at NFL dot com.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Though, Jason woos to you look.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
At the MVP list and it's so fascinating because everybody's
been saying lamar, lamar, lamars, just like.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is it going to be him?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Are we going to have a surprise in that one.
I'm always looking at the defensive side of the ball,
and I look at the defensive players of the year.
You look at the listen, there's so many guys that
get after the quarterback. You see Deron bland Is on
that listen. We talked about him all season long, set
the record for pick six, has had nine of them
on the season, so it's awesome to see him up there.
But I look at the rest of those guys, and
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I look specifically at Miles Garrett and TJ. Watt, and
these guys have been incredible. And you look at the numbers,
and Watt surpasses Miles Garrett in every stat that you
can think of, sacks, interceptions, passes, defense, all of it
snaps the whole thing. And Miles Garrett's been so impactful.
He's been the best player on one of the best
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defenses all season long. And Miles Garrett, he's a guy
that I picked for Defensive Player of the Year at
the very beginning of the season. Crosby has been mad,
Max has been a mad man, and obviously Michael Parsons
had an early exit from the playoffs. But those guys
have gotten after quarterbacks and have been incredible. I just
I can't bring myself to look past TJ. Watt for
this Defensive Player of the Year award. And I know
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I went with Miles Garrett. I'm sticking with him, but TJ.
Watt has impacted the game at so many levels. Were
watching them intercept passes, sack quarterbacks, and just to impact
he has when he's not out there on the field
for his team they cannot find a way to win
those games. So just so much fun watching these guys,
and either you're getting after and you're sacking the quarterback
or deron Blantz case, you're intercepting and scoring. Those are
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the guys that are the top players on defensive side
of the ball.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Wat's the best defensive player the league.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
In my opinion, it's an interesting one that category because
Bland made five massive plays. Massive it's five plays, but
they're really big. But it was five plays, and so
you just can't get away from that. Though, oh my god,
he had five pick sixes. Of course, he wasn't the
best defensive player in the league. Did he have the
best season? Maybe he certainly have the best first half.
So that's one where I'm really gonna be intrigued.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Who's there.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And for a lot of reasons, the biggest word of
the night is the comeback player of the year in
the sense that there's some drama and there's some intriguing,
there's some real story and listen, there's serious articles written
about this. There's a lot of goofy memes about this.
So you have Flacco, who was in the many ways
of the story of the year. You have DeMar Hamlin,
who's maybe the story of the generation, and you have
Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I think those are the three.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
A lot of the takes are okay, DeMar Hamlin had
this incredibly tragic thing happened to him that he recovered
from to be on the team this year, but he
didn't greatly contribute to the team.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He was on some special teams and stuff. How do
you pick him.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Over Baker or Flacco who had these massive run from
the front campaigns as playing quarterback. Here's my take on it,
and here's why I will feel satisfied and happy when
DeMar Hamlin wins, which I think he will. I like
the comeback player of the year that when you're coming
back from something other than not being a good player.
What I mean is like Baker didn't blow his knee out,
Joe Flacco didn't have to go through some terrible medical
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thing that he recovered from. I always had problems last
year with Gino Smith when a comeback Player of the
Year over Christian McCaffrey. Gino would come back from being
a backup quarterback. McCaffrey had a massive knee injury. I
see if Jordy Nelson blew his knee out, came back
the next year amazing. Eric Barry had cancer came back.
I like that, give me something other than you know.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Baker didn't make it work with the Panthers, Like.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That's what he's coming back from. He just couldn't play
ball good enough. And same with Flacco. He had a
lot of chances, couldn't play well enough.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Hamlin had something happened to his body and his heart
and his soul and came back to play professional football.
To me, that is why I respect it, and if
he wins, I'll be very proud of it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I looked at all the categories, the fact that the
Texans could take him four. Oh, if they could, they
could go offensive and defensive, Rookie of the Year, they
could go Coach of the Year, and then Assistant Coach
of the Year and Bobby Slowick, which is important too.
We're waiting to see if Slowick takes one of the
final two head coaching vacancies.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
His list.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
His name is on those lists. But the Texans could
go four, which is cool.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, we'll also be doing Angry Run of the Year,
and the Texans won that last year. We're looking at
our finalists right now, and I I don't think there'll
be a textant among them, but we have some familiar face.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We stacked the box with some personal favorites of the table.
Are you just go on pure best run?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Looking at the nominees, let's just say our old friend
Nase will very likely be a nominee. Will he be there?
How will that go? He's got to be there, so
we'll see. It's a complication together maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Or maybe just the sanctity of the name of the segment.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
You have to I agree, Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
We're down to just four teams and now we have
to bite off the AFC side of things. We've already
made our NFC picks earlier in the show. The table
is split. Two for the forty nine ers, two for
the line. Now, quarterbacks, MVPs. You're up, all right. It's Chiefs,
it's Ravens, it's Patrick.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Mahomes, and it's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Of course, there's ten other guys in the field as
well at any given moment. But Jason, start us off
and make a case for your guys.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I'm sitting here, You're talking, and I'm still thinking. I'm
just like, my goodness, Mahomes is so good. We looked
at Josh Allen going into that game last week and
it just felt like destined for Buffalo to win and
everything that they've gone through, the record midway through the season,
fourteen percent chance to make the playoffs, Mahomes had to
go on the role to win a game in the playoffs,
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and it's just like, well, he's never done it, and
Josh Allen has been electric. Nope, Nope, it was Mahomes
making the plays at the end. It was Kelsey catching
touchdown pass when he hasn't done it for months on end,
and they find a way they get it done his
handing the ball off to Isaiah Pacheco. But then on
the other side, you look at the Baltimore Ravens and
it's just like they got Todd Monkin as their offensive coordinator,
all the drama with Lamar in the offseason and has
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led to this point the number one seed in the
AFC home field throughout They're going to be at MNT
Banks Stadium and they have so many weapons for Lamar
to get the ball to and it comes back and
it's just like, but how do I go against the Chiefs?
And I started thinking and I was just like, well,
for me personally, I can pick against the Chiefs because
I was there in twenty eighteen when we went into
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Arrowhead and we took down the Chiefs, and it was
one of the games that Mahomes in that conference championship
game was not able to advance for Kyle you talking
about it earlier in the show where the Bengals they
did it. They went in the Arrowhead, they took down
the Chiefs, and Joe Burrow found a way to get
to the Super Bowl, which brings me to my point.
This year, I think the Baltimore Ravens they find a
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way to get to the Super Bowl. I picked Lamar
Jackson and these Ravens to go to the Super Bowl
way back in August, and I'm sticking with that pick.
I think the Baltimore Ravens have a chance Sunday to
go in there at homemat Banks Stadium. Legends of plenty,
ray Lewis, to ed Reed To t Sizel and all
of those guys, and I think in front of them,
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they win the AFC and they win their chance and
punch their ticket to head to Vegas and play in
Super Bowl fifty eight. The first time Lamar Jackson gets
a doing in his career.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Pretty awesome, amazing for Jason.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Now, if you're watching Home, Jason has Ravens Lions, Super.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Bowl Ravens Lions, Ravens pretty juicy.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I haven't slept in a couple of days because of
this pick. And it's not because of the fact that
my wife's from Baltimore, my father in laws from Baltimore,
or my son where's a Lamar Jackson Jersey to school
every single day. I haven't slept because this is the
hardest game I think I've ever had to pick for
this show. And I say that because my mind in
every which way, is pushing me one way. In my
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heart and my stubbornness and my ego is pushing me another.
Let me explain.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Let's see the margin of victory what the.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Ravens have done this season against really good teams. Let's
see that they beat the Lions at home by thirty two.
They beat the Seahawks, who were the number two seed
in the NFC at the time, by thirty four. They
went into San Francisco and they won by fourteen, but
that one felt like it was thirty. Yep, they beat
the Dolphins by thirty seven points. That was for the
number one seed in the AFC, and then last week,
after being ten to ten, they outscored the Texans twenty
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four to nothing in the second half and they won
that game.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I go from that to defensive ranks. I look at
the Ravens here.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I think, if there's any unit in football that's gonna
suffocate and give mahomes hell, it's these guys. I did
a whole soliloquy earlier in the show about guys like
Jadevian Clowney and Gino Stone and kyle Vin Noy and
how they're getting contributions from everybody. Every single piece of
my mind is telling me Ravens and I.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Look at the injury report, which matters. Joe Toney is
a huge piece of what they do. In the Kansas
City run game.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
If you're gonna beat the Ravens, Pacheco needs to get
seventy five yards.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know if he can do that without.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Tuny in the middle. Willie Gay is a huge part
of their defense. He didn't practice yesterday. I think that's
a huge part. But I've got ego and I've got
my own career to worry about. And guys, here's something
I ran before my Super Bowl pick, and we'll run
it again here I am making Super Bowl selections the
past few years on the show.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
I think the Chiefs finally get over the hump, finally
get into the Super Bowl. I think Andy finally gets
a chance to go and go face to face with
another coach other than Bill Belichick in the biggest game
of his career.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Super Bowl fifty four. Fifty years, the Chiefs have waited
to get to this point.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Guess who I have representing the National Football Conference.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In the Super Bowl. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All the
Super Bowl champs out about him blocks.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
This year's Super Bowl champion feature a quarterback who has
yet to win an NFL playoff. I'm taking the Los
Angeles Rams to take this thing home and this guy
to cement his place in NFL history.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
The Los Angeles Rams, our world champion.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The winner a.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Super Bowl fifty seven in Glendale, Arizona this February will.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Be Chas City Chiefs, led by linebacker Nick.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
He kicks the check up my Kansas City for the
second time.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Get four seasons.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Belong party Chumpy as a Red and Gold reflection.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Go on, Peter, So what I do this year?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
One more clip?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
You have a second clip the winner, with the exact
score being thirty four.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
To twenty eight.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Remember that now thirty four to twenty eight, and with
second year cornerback Trent mcdumpy returning a pick six late
in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Quarter, the Kansas City Chiefs will yet again be your
Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
All right, that's been eight minutes of me talking.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Here we go. He check right, Pat myself on the back.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Thank you that. My heart says Chiefs, my brain says Ravens.
And at the end of the day, I gotta provide
for my family, the Kansas City Chiefs. I gotta win
this game, and they are going to take care of business.
And my prediction will be right again. I'm going with
the Kansas City Chiefs. If they can somehow keep it close.
Patrick Mahomes will find a way. I cannot get off
that block. I'm sorry, Ravens fans. I do believe you
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guys are worthy competitors.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I've got the Chiefs in this one. You feel okay, no, okay,
go vomit. I'm going, Ravens. I'm gonna go Ravens. Wow,
why not? You know, Peter, I'll go off of you.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You said a lot of your instincts about picking the
Niners and the Lions. Was it just feels like the
Niners year, right, It's in tangible, sort of a gut feeling.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It just feels like the Ravens year.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
To me, it feels like they have waited their turn,
They've put in their time. You get the home field advantage,
you get the new offense, and in the ninny gritty
of it, listen, these games, when everybody's got stars, there's
two star quarterbacks. They are won and lost by role players.
And I think the Ravens role players are slightly better
and maybe slightly more dependable than the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Real.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I'm talking, we're gonna have a huge catch by Isaiah
likely Odell, Zay Flower, Patrick Ricard, someone is going to
make a huge play for Baltimore. Homes is going to
be incredible, and Kelsey and Rice and all that. I
think there's a little drop off after those three players,
and I don't think the Ravens drop off is as steep.
They win at home, they go to the Super Bowl,
it just feels like they're oo Ravens.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I love these games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These feel like if you are attending these games in
either San Francisco or Baltimore, like you've been invited to
the best party of the weekend. You've got this. This
is the greatest wedding you've ever been to. Prom If
that's your cup of tea the millennia, I don't really care,
but I specifically go to a wedding table invitation.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Like you scan, you find your name. Where am I sitting?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
When Jim Harbaugh recently won a national championship for Michigan,
he said, I finally get to sit at the cool
table of my family. His dad, Jack Harbaugh, won an
NCAA Division one two A title with Western Kentucky back
in two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
He is a title winner.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
His brother John Harbaugh, who Jim famously lost to in
the Harba Bowl in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
He has been to and won a Super.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Bowl, but finally Jim got one from Michigan and he
got to be at the winner's table.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
And winter's tables at weddings are cool.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
But what's cooler is if you don't even ever go
to your table or you sit there for your salad
and then you get up and you go hang at
the bar for the rest of the wedding. And that bar,
to me represents coaches that have been to two Super Bowls,
coaches that have maybe won.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Both Super Bowls that they have attended. I am going
with the Baltimore Ravens because.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I cannot deny a Harbaugh and the winning nature that
this family has adopted in twenty twenty four. Specifically, I
think John Harbaugh has taking his drink, having his appetizers,
saying dad, brother, I'll see you later at table number one.
I'm going to the bar, and I'm joining the likes
of other coaches like Mike Tomlin, like Sean McVay, like
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Vince Lombardi, like Tom Coughlin, who have been to two
Super Bowls, specifically Lombardi and Coughlin winning both of those
Super Bowls that they have attended. It's an incredible list
of multiple coaches that have been to multiple Super Bowls.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I think Harbaugh.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
John not just his second one this weekend with a
win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
There we go a lot of love for the Ravens. Guys.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Quickly, let's wrap around the table, say your Super Bowl matchup.
I will start mine is Ravens Lions.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Peter, forty nine Ers, Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Ravens Lions on with Kyle Ravens forty nine Ers, Peter,
I believe that is your pick from September.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I'm rolling with the date I came to the dance with.
I said before the season is going to be Niners Chiefs.
Everything in my heart tells me go with the Chiefs.
That's your gut, that's what you gotta do. But my
brain is telling me the Ravens might roll in this game.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's a tough pick. It's a great game. That's what
it means. It's a great game.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I think a collective ex hill just came out of
the room for Good Morning Football. These are our championship
Sunday picks.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Peter, kick us off.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Forty nine Ers, Chiefs. One of them's on the road
Kansas City. But in a lot of people's lines, you
can't pick against Mahomes. That's the favorite in some thoughts.
And then forty nine Ers. Look, they've been the best
team in the NFC all season. I'm not abandoning them now.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah, they've been. Really I'm rolling with the Lions. I
feel like Jared Goff, Dan Campbell. They've been able to
do this season has been so much fun to watch,
and I think they have the weapons on the outside
to get it done. And then Baltimore Ravens and the
Kansas City Chiefs. We got Mahomes, we got Lamar Jackson.
I absolutely love both quarterbacks. I just feel like with
Lamar has been so incredible this season. It was my
MVP pick of the year. I think he finds a
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way to pull it up.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Raven it's been the best team in the AFC all season.
Cannaban in him Now.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Lions, I think there's some sort of stink on them
where they have incredible roster from stop to bottom, just
like the Niners do. And yet the Niners are looked
at as this juggernaut and the Lions are a Cinderella.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
They're not a Cinderella. I like Detroit.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You have said repeatedly, not a Cinderella. You put the
laundry in, get the stink off, like they're gonna go
to San Francisco and take your business again. The Lions
as a fan base in Las Vegas, that just feels
like so stressful and awesome all at the same time.
You too, repeat and Peter and I line up in
the NFC, but I went with the Ravens at home.
I can't negate what they did to the Texas last
weekend and what they've been doing all season long.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
This is awesome. I feel so long.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You guys' good.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
So do you guys feel good about me being on
the only one on the cheeks again?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is last week we did this. You all took Buffalo, I.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Took Kansas City, But yet you all went back again
and bet bet against Andy Reid and against Patrick Mahomes
and Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I just picked a team that I like nothing against.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I love Patrick Mahonmes, I love it. You feel good,
but I feel.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
You talked about the Ravens all day to day, guys,
I like you don't.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Remember I talked about you to you guys? Feel good
about that?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
It's like here, I've been taking any acids every hour?
That are you sure?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
All day?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Enjoy your weekend.
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Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
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live in New York City.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
It's Friday, January twenty sixth.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
I'm Jamie r Ata, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Jason mccordy.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
Kyle, Yeah, you have been on the grit train, if
you will.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
But how pleased are you that it is like still rolling,
still steamrolling? Because you've been kind of annoyed to some
people who think Dank Campbell inauthentic at best, but like
this is who he is.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I may get into that shortly. Oh I saw Dan Campbell.
It's something to say about. You know, hey, man, if
you're not on the wagon now, we don't want you.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Don't launch it. Sit. It is way, way, way too late.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The time to get on the Campbell wagon was the
middle of the twenty twenty two season and we had
way past that.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
I'm gonna go middle the twenty time my two seasons
for my NFCI as well.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
All right, how do you feel about your picks? Jack?
Speaker 5 (01:08):
I feel pretty good about my picks. I think I'll
let you know Monday morning how I felt about my pack.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
It's great, Peter, you're going to the game this weekend.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
We know you were considering what you're supposed to wear
because you were picking the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Those are the guys you came to the dance with.
What do you do?
Speaker 6 (01:23):
I have a sick feeling in my stomach. Is it?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
This is mess This is really messy.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
I really We'll get into the AFC picks in a
little bit, but I am I didn't sleep last night.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Okay, it's just tough going to dance with somebody.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
There's somebody better.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
It's okay.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I have been on the Chiefs train the whole way,
and last week I looked in the camera and I
told the audience and I will not pick against the
Chiefs as long as they're still playing there. It is
the Bills, And it was just real.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
So you think that would be it? Right? You have?
There's a lot of this in my in my in
my brain right now.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Don't like dancing like sugar plump fairries.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Press discreetly wear a hat?
Speaker 4 (01:55):
Okay, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Ian Rappaport, please stave off this pain a little bit
longer of us making our NFC and AFC Championship wend
picks with news from around the league. What do we
absolutely need to know before we headed into this weekend?
Speaker 7 (02:10):
First of all, I was hoping the Trigger would pick
against the Ravens and then go to the Ravens game
with his son while not wearing a hat no sunglasses,
so everyone could just mention him that they didn't like
his pons fun theater.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
For me, it's practically breaking news.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Where Tony Gonzales, Chiefs Jersey, whoever you want, let's go, great.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
Time Swift, Let's get.
Speaker 7 (02:38):
Taylor Swift Chiefs Jersey would be absolutely poetic and you
should one hundred percent to that.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I'm surprised we're not wearing one now.
Speaker 7 (02:43):
Anyway, Let's get to the coaching news. Dave Canalis is
the new Carolina Panthers head coach, which is a phrase
I certainly did not expect to be saying if you
had asked me a couple of days ago, two weeks ago,
months ago.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
This is really under the radar.
Speaker 7 (02:58):
Candidate, the offensive coordinator for the Buccaneers, after they interviewed
like eleven people and couldn't really find the right fit,
ended up on Canal so turned it to be a
fantastic move for Todd Bowles and the Bucks. He got
Baker Mayfield right, had this offense humming, and I think
it wasn't just that it was the leadership in the building.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
It was the juice that he had.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
This is what Carolina wants to bring to their organization
and to Bryce Young, who needs to get right after
a tough year last year. The Atlanta Falcons also found
their new head coach. It is one of their old assistants,
one of their old interim coaches, Raheem Morris, the Rams
defensive coordinator. If you last geting one in the Rams building,
this has been a guy who should have been a
head coach a while ago. They have been stumping from
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Morris because inside their building they have seen it. They
have understood why this guy should be a head coach
and back at the organization where you spend so much time.
Now he is in Raheem Moritz and herits a roster
that is ready to win. Justinaatei a quarterback, which is
probably the same Dame could have scept the Falcons last year,
but a really really solid higher for Atlanta. Meanwhile, on
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the field, one of the biggest questions going into this weekend.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Will Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Play for the forty nine X rays were negative on
the shoulders, so no fracture, just a really bad bruise.
I know he's having trouble with stiffness, a lot of pain,
but he was able to practice on a limited basis yesterday.
At least that gives him a chance to play. We'll
see if he rams up participation today, but at least
Deebo Samuel has a shot.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
All right, that'd be great news for the forty nine ers,
and it leads us right into our leadoff hitter for
GMFB in the final hour.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Before conference championship weekend. Ian, thank you.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
So much time to make our picks for championship Sunday.
We start, as we mentioned in the NFC, with these
two powerhouses.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
It's a three seed Detroit Lions. For the last two weeks.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
They have hosted playoff games, they have dominated. They take
that emotional vandwagon and they took it on the road
out west to head to San Francisco to face the
number one seed, a forty nine Ers.
Speaker 5 (04:52):
Jason ut offers such a tough matchup, so much fun
in this one. I've talked about it all week long
Brock party, and you just love this kid because he's
come in you know where he was drafted death story.
He's been told a million times he wins, and he's
continued to be doubted, and you just love that story
where you just overcome and you overcome and you overcome.
And now here he is on the doorstep of an
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opportunity to get to the Super Bowl. And all we're
talking about is what Brock Purdy can't do and the
odds Deebo Samuel may Or may not play, all the
things going into this game. And on the other side,
we have Jared gob the quarterback of the Detroit Lions,
who was in the Super Bowl years ago representing the
La Rams and didn't perform the way he wanted to,
and now here he has an opportunities. Are two franchises
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that have been completely different, Lion's hoping to make their
first Super Bowl appearance, while the forty nine ers have
won many of them and played in so many as well.
This game comes down to both running backs, electric Jamir
Gibbs Christian McCaffrey. I've racked my brain going back and
forth so much. Just something that tells me in my
mind is so hard to go against the San Francisco
forty nine ers. Kyle Shanahan when he's in the lab
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and he's drawn up plays. These guys have been there before.
A lot of these guys on this team, they have
the experience. They've been there and they've done it. They've
made the plays. Defense is incredible, from Fred Warner all
the way through, all the names that you see, But
there's something about when your heart just keeps on telling
Detroit Lions. I am rolling with the Lions to win
this one and make the first ever Super Bowl appearance.
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I don't care what people are saying the super Bowl
fifty eight. The logo has read in it that means
the forty nine ers have to represent right and all
these different things, the Ravens Purple, I don't care about
any of those colors.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I'm rolling with the Lions.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
I think they have enough. I think the weapons on
the outside, with Jameson Williams, with Amar Ross, Saint Brown,
with the two headed monster in the backfield.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I think Jared Goff makes all the right decisions.
Speaker 5 (06:41):
He has the temperament, he has the savviness, he's a veteran.
I think he gets them there. I think Aaron Glenn's
led defense. They make enough plays, they keep everything in
front of them, and they win this game.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
I'm all with the Lions on this.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Fantastic that Lions on the road too, on the road
to the super Bowl.
Speaker 6 (07:00):
Okay, earlier this offseason, I do the podcast The Season
with Peter had Brad Holmes, the general manager of the
Lions on He's on with me for two hours. And
that might be a lot of listening about front office
talk for you if you're not into that kind of stuff.
But if you want to listen to a guy who
believed in what he had on the field and the
roster that he had assembled, she go listen to him.
In July because I came at him pretty straight across
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and said, no one else is drafting or running back
and an inside linebacker with the two picks in the
top twenty. You know what are you doing? He said,
we are so excited to get players. I don't care
what positions they play. I want players. I want this
roster to be loaded with players. And you say, well,
everyone wants them to be a little of players. No. No,
he saw these guys as positionless players, and that's representative
of what this Lion's team has been all season, whether
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it's Jamier Gibbs lining up at wide receiver, running back,
or even throwing a block, whether it is Sam Laporta
being one of the best rookie tight ends we've ever
seen stepping up right away. Is it Brian Branch who
could fill in it and be an all world safety
out of the gates at a Clemson in his first year.
And of course Jack Campbell an unheard of thing, an
inside linebacker taken in the top twenty, making plays all
over the field. And that went along with a unit
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that has already been playing well in the last eight
weeks this season, last year, and then into this one.
I love what the Lions are doing, but this feels
like the forty nine Ers year. This feels like the
seas have parted. There's no more Rogers, there's no more Brady.
This feels like the forty nine Ers were on a
crash course with either the Eagles or the Cowboys. Neither
one of those teams could go the distance. And now
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you have this upstart Lions team that I quite frankly love.
I picked them to win the NFC North this year.
I said all summer that I thought they were gonna
beat the Chieps Week one. They did, yet I feel
like this is a forty nine Ers NFC and it's
a forty nine Ers season. It has been since day one,
the way this thing has gone. If you get Deebo
Samuel on the field, they don't lose. I think Debo's
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gonna go and I think the forty nine Ers take
care of business. And it's Brock Perdy getting to the
super Bowl, the last pick in the draft from a
year ago, but also one of the best quarterbacks in
all of football this year. I'm going Kyle Shanahan slays
a few Dragons, gets a big win in the forty
nine Ers advance and they play in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Kind of an unfulfilled destiny for Shanna.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Huh, Like he's got this. I gotta check that box.
I'm finished business.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Seemfully he does. I think he tapped on something too.
I really like both of these teams, and I like
the Niners a lot and what they stand for, and
I love Lynch and Shanahan, and I feel like if
I was in the same walk of life as those guys,
I'd be friends.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
With a lot of the forty nine ers I really do.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
But I'd like to play a clip that was around
this week from Jared Goff and it was looked at
as something that provided some levity, but I think there
was a little bit more going on.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Here's the clip. A lot of really good players obviously, but.
Speaker 8 (09:35):
Maybe oh, thank you, I said, thank you.
Speaker 9 (09:38):
Well, maybe that view.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Though as the superstars like maybe the forty nine.
Speaker 8 (09:43):
Ers you have or other all right, never mind, I
mean guys like the same Brown you same Brown was
first team All Pro? So right right, sorry, continue, I'm sorry,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I'm sorry, absolutely, But do you feel like there this
is a chance?
Speaker 8 (10:04):
Yeah, I know you're getting at Yes, I do. I
think I think we've got a lot ton ton of
great players who maybe haven't had the national stage that
up to this point that a lot of a lot
of the other guys have. And obviously they have a
ton of good players as well, and a ton of
Pro bowlers and All Pro players over there, and it's yeah,
we feel like, you know, we've got a lot of
good players too though, like you mentioned, and excited to
play on another national stage and be able to showcase.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
That fun moment.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
But there's a subtext there that I really relate to.
And my only beef with that moment is that I
wish that Jared would have kept going and said, you
know what, I got time today. I wish you would
have sat back and said, all right, they have all
these stars and were these lines. I was winning this
conference when Brock Purdy was a college freshman. Trent Williams
was a first team All Pro in his twelfth season,
Penny's first team All Pro in his third season. I
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think Jamier has all the ability of McCaffrey. I think
Hushinson has all the ability of Bosa. I think Laporta
has everything Kittle has and more. And I'm n roth
the first team All Pro No. Forty nine er has
caught as many balls as he has since Rice. And
let me just take a second to get into the
coaching Campbell and Shanahan, Pinky and the brain, the gym
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teacher versus the science professor, Metallica versus Mozart.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Let me tell you something.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Dan Campbell was winning games as a head coach in
this league interim when Kyle Shanahan was coordinating an eight
and eight Falcons team. Kyle Shanahan took over a brilliant
franchise with the legacy of winning and continued it. To
his credit, Dan Campbell took a tenement and built it
into a temple.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
That's coaching. And then there's this point spread.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Las Vegas is making Detroit a seven and a half
point dog. A fourteen to five team is a seven
and a half point dog.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
And maybe it's just me.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
I feel like if there was a different logo representing
that team, then that blue line, that point spread might
be a little different, and the game might be looked
at a little bit different. The Lions are not a Cinderella.
This is not eight mile. This is not your one shot,
This is not your one opportunity. There is not mom spaghetti.
I think there's going to be confetti, and I think
Las Vegas is wrong. And in a couple of weeks
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you can tell him yourself. Let's go like the Lions, Okay,
lines to the super Bowl. That's my pick.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Do you want to pick a score?
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Twenty nine to twenty seven Detroit game winning field goal
Michael Badgeley's time badly twenty nine to twenty seven, The
Lions going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
God, this is fantastic.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Table looks good so far, we don't have a clean
sweep which is comfortable.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It feels good, doesn't it something?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
It does feel good.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Here are some facts about the quarterback for the San
Francisco forty nine Ers, born December twenty seventh, nineteen ninety nine.
His parents name Sean and Carrie Purdy. As we all know,
he was the final pick in the twenty twenty two draft.
These are facts. There is allegedly a war brewing surrounding
Brock Purty and the facts about his football legacy. This
is uncovered by sf gate dot com.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
There is not a.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
Single NFL player currently whose Wikipedia page has been edited more.
Since December eleventh of twenty twenty two, the day that
Party took over as quarterback for the forty nine Ers,
then for the forty nine Ers, then Brock Party, nine
hundred and twenty two times people have gone in and
changed his name, changed, his nickname, changed, his relevance, changed
his facts, his height, his weight, perhaps where he was born.
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People can't handle the truth about Brock Purty, all right,
not You can pick any NFL player up until this point.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Tom Brady, former active doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Purty's factual existence online has been edited more a quote
from the SFGate article this is a fantastic thing, then
you should go read it was first uncovered and is
still very undefined legacy with a near constant stream of
editors of removing characteristics that we characterize as vandalism, persistent,
disruptive editing, and inaccurate fact meant to troll. This has
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led to brock Perty's Wikipedia page to be semi protected.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Forty nine ers protect this man this weekend.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
All right, Brock Purty and the San Francisco forty nine ers,
I picked you to be in the super Bowl on
August thirty. First, I pick you to be in the
super Bowl on January twenty sixth forty nine ers are
going to Las Vegas at the hands of Brock Purty.
And no matter how many times do you want to
call him any which kind of quarterback that you damn
will please, it doesn't matter, because he's going to be
a Super Bowl contending quarterback.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Incredible.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
A lot of his stuff on Wikipedia says what lack
citations out of those Yes, there's a little note lack site.
That's a good nickname for pretty lax.
Speaker 5 (14:23):
Citation by Purty.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Well, cam's been doing a Super Bowl let's find out
if we do it.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
So we got a beautiful, beautiful fifty fifty even like
a checkerboard style Lions Niners, Lions Niners.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I love it. Bang Bank Bank Bank Bank, I'm very
proud of it.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
All Right, we AFC still to come on our final
hour of Good Morning Football.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Before day weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
The countdown is on to another epic events stentifal honors.
Which player are going to take home hard where this season?
We're going to go through all the nominees a little bit.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Plus a really happens for be Like in Baltimore. I'm
talking about the Schragger family arriveing and just.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
Ready to rock and roll in their Sylvester Morris jerseys
will break down.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Their homefield evantage to be next. Do you have thoughts here?
Speaker 10 (15:04):
Maybe let's good morning.
Speaker 6 (15:17):
All right, this Sunday, you're gonna see something that hasn't
happened but taken place in fifty three years. That is
an AFC Championship game being played in the city of Baltimore. Yes,
despite appearing in five conference championships since then, Charms City
hasn't hosted an AFC championship game since the NFL and
the AFL merged in nineteen seventy. If you're wondering how
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that game went, please let me do the honor of
tossing to legendary voice John Facinda for a recap from
NFL Films in their archives. Thank you NFL Films of
the nineteen seventy AFC Championship game between the Baltimore Colts
and the Oakland Raiders.
Speaker 9 (15:58):
The miracle makers from Oakland and the AFC Championship Games.
Almost immediately, high powered Oakland attack felt the full pressure
of the Cult defense, and almost immediately the high powered
Oakland defense felt the full pressure of the Cult attack.
Although at least three touchdowns just barely missed connections, there
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were enough completions to give the Raiders one of their
worst days in years. John United has kept the Raiders
off balance with his running game. Tom Nawatski ran well,
but usually his job was to clear the way for
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Norm Boula. Baltimore defeated Oakland twenty seven to seventeen and
became the first champion of the American Football Conference.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
I get chills. I love that stuff and hope you
guys enjoyed at home and here at the table. That
game featured names like Johnny United. But Sunday's AFC Championship
game is going to be a star studed Baltimore affair.
Ray Lewis and Reed will be in attendance as the
legends of the game, alongside former Ravens Terrell tisisl Suggs,
Jonathan Ogden and Kwan Bolden, Todd Heap, Dennis Pitta, Matt Stover.
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With this in mind, guys, I have a simple question
for you at the table. What is the scene going
to be like in Baltimore on Sunday? Jason mcordy, you
will be there calling it for Westwood One.
Speaker 5 (17:30):
You just put up a picture of all of those
legends and you said there hasn't been a home conference
Shami again since nineteen seventy. So you think about it,
those guys coming in and Ray Lewis and Hot and
if they play that song, are you crazy?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Crazy?
Speaker 5 (17:46):
The fans are going to be with those legends, what
they represented. Their super Bowl is going to be so crazy.
As the young kids will say, it's going to be
lit at M and T Banks Stadium. I'm so happy
I'll be in the building to witness it.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I'm so thrilled that Joe Flacco had the Flacco assance that.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
He did this season.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
That being said, it makes me kind of sad that
it negates him from this list. I feel like he'd
be a great part of that group to come back
and fire the crowd up. But I guess the fact
that he was playing for the Browns like last week,
he can't do it.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
Now, come on, let's get the black going there.
Speaker 1 (18:14):
It's true, I got it a few years. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just marveling on the nineteen seventy thing. Okay, so
here's the deal. The equivalent of that would be young people,
Our kids are grandkids watching this weekend's game in twenty
seventy eight.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That is the year.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
What blows my mind is we're watching how they kick
and how how they throw. There's gonna be a time,
if you give it long enough, where people watch Mahomes
and Lamar this weekend they're like, look how ridiculous that look.
Look that's Lamar Jackson. Look how strange the way he
threw the ball. Look at the way they kicked. Look
at the uniforms in Mahomes and Hailsey were and they
look so weird.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
That time always blows my mind like that and that.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
This seemed cutting edge, state of the art. This was
like the game of the future, technology science picture that
right there. And at some point the game this weekend
is going to look absolute stone age when this leaguas
and another fifty four years away. I love watching this.
Just remember when we were watching Mahomes and Lamar and
they're like, they look like they're in outer space. It's
going to look stone age one year when we're way
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down the road. So appreciate it as it goes by.
You don't get a lot of games like this.
Speaker 6 (19:18):
They've won AFC Championship games on the road, obviously, and
the most famous one was in New England recently when
they want their most recent run and winning in Foxboro
a year after Lee Evans tragically dropped the pass. Ye
more on the fairly more on the coverage, Sure, I
just I feel good for Baltimore fans. This is what
you get. This is why we always talk about the
one seed, and we talk about how important the one
seed is. Yes, the bye and the rest and the
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being able to watch during the wildcaround, but for those
fans and for all those folks in San Francisco also
you get a home championship game. It's one of the
coolest things that's very rare to come by.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
It really is my favorite thing about the nineteen seventies.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
So the way the kickers kicked, I wish Justin Tucker
could just do it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Maybe they're way up and he just you set up
the field goal and you just not only is that straight,
it's just like that. Oh, it's just your leg is locked.
It's all tow You just go bam. It's ridiculous. It
worked though, right down the middle sometimes barefoot.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
It still feel like Tucker, who is sixty plus yard
are doing it.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
You probably could probably should, Peter.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
That's a lot of segments for you. Very Baltimore heavy.
We're about to make our AFC picks very interested in its.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Sweat feeds.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Thursday eighth, it's happening. The Stars are out in Las
Vegas to kick off Super Bowl fifty. A weekend by stars,
I mean Kyle Brant Jason McCarty will be there celebrate
the twenty twenty three NFL season with host Keegan Michael Key.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
You can watch on.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
CBS, you can watch an NFL network, or you can
stream it on Paramount Plus.
Speaker 4 (20:44):
An NFL Plus you can visit unfil.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Dot com slash Honors for more. Love the logo love
the red carpet. You think in Vegas, it's gonna shine there.
All the NFL Honors nominies were announced yesterday. Here's a
look at who's up for. Really, one of the most
prestigious awards of the night is the AP Most Valuable
Player Award. We always say it's a quarterback driven league.
Christian McCaffrey up there as one of the options. You
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can find the full list of nominees for every ward
at NFL dot com.
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Though, Jason woos to you look.
Speaker 5 (21:13):
At the MVP list and it's so fascinating because everybody's
been saying lamar, lamar, lamars, just like.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Is it going to be him?
Speaker 5 (21:18):
Are we going to have a surprise in that one.
I'm always looking at the defensive side of the ball,
and I look at the defensive players of the year.
You look at the listen, there's so many guys that
get after the quarterback. You see Deron bland Is on
that listen. We talked about him all season long, set
the record for pick six, has had nine of them
on the season, so it's awesome to see him up there.
But I look at the rest of those guys, and
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I look specifically at Miles Garrett and TJ. Watt, and
these guys have been incredible. And you look at the numbers,
and Watt surpasses Miles Garrett in every stat that you
can think of, sacks, interceptions, passes, defense, all of it
snaps the whole thing. And Miles Garrett's been so impactful.
He's been the best player on one of the best
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defenses all season long. And Miles Garrett, he's a guy
that I picked for Defensive Player of the Year at
the very beginning of the season. Crosby has been mad,
Max has been a mad man, and obviously Michael Parsons
had an early exit from the playoffs. But those guys
have gotten after quarterbacks and have been incredible. I just
I can't bring myself to look past TJ. Watt for
this Defensive Player of the Year award. And I know
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I went with Miles Garrett. I'm sticking with him, but TJ.
Watt has impacted the game at so many levels. Were
watching them intercept passes, sack quarterbacks, and just to impact
he has when he's not out there on the field
for his team they cannot find a way to win
those games. So just so much fun watching these guys,
and either you're getting after and you're sacking the quarterback
or deron Blantz case, you're intercepting and scoring. Those are
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the guys that are the top players on defensive side
of the ball.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Wat's the best defensive player the league.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
In my opinion, it's an interesting one that category because
Bland made five massive plays. Massive it's five plays, but
they're really big. But it was five plays, and so
you just can't get away from that. Though, oh my god,
he had five pick sixes. Of course, he wasn't the
best defensive player in the league. Did he have the
best season? Maybe he certainly have the best first half.
So that's one where I'm really gonna be intrigued.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Who's there.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
And for a lot of reasons, the biggest word of
the night is the comeback player of the year in
the sense that there's some drama and there's some intriguing,
there's some real story and listen, there's serious articles written
about this. There's a lot of goofy memes about this.
So you have Flacco, who was in the many ways
of the story of the year. You have DeMar Hamlin,
who's maybe the story of the generation, and you have
Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
I think those are the three.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
A lot of the takes are okay, DeMar Hamlin had
this incredibly tragic thing happened to him that he recovered
from to be on the team this year, but he
didn't greatly contribute to the team.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
He was on some special teams and stuff. How do
you pick him.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Over Baker or Flacco who had these massive run from
the front campaigns as playing quarterback. Here's my take on it,
and here's why I will feel satisfied and happy when
DeMar Hamlin wins, which I think he will. I like
the comeback player of the year that when you're coming
back from something other than not being a good player.
What I mean is like Baker didn't blow his knee out,
Joe Flacco didn't have to go through some terrible medical
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thing that he recovered from. I always had problems last
year with Gino Smith when a comeback Player of the
Year over Christian McCaffrey. Gino would come back from being
a backup quarterback. McCaffrey had a massive knee injury. I
see if Jordy Nelson blew his knee out, came back
the next year amazing. Eric Barry had cancer came back.
I like that, give me something other than you know.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Baker didn't make it work with the Panthers, Like.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
That's what he's coming back from. He just couldn't play
ball good enough. And same with Flacco. He had a
lot of chances, couldn't play well enough.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Hamlin had something happened to his body and his heart
and his soul and came back to play professional football.
To me, that is why I respect it, and if
he wins, I'll be very proud of it.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
I looked at all the categories, the fact that the
Texans could take him four. Oh, if they could, they
could go offensive and defensive, Rookie of the Year, they
could go Coach of the Year, and then Assistant Coach
of the Year and Bobby Slowick, which is important too.
We're waiting to see if Slowick takes one of the
final two head coaching vacancies.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
His list.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
His name is on those lists. But the Texans could
go four, which is cool.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Well, we'll also be doing Angry Run of the Year,
and the Texans won that last year. We're looking at
our finalists right now, and I I don't think there'll
be a textant among them, but we have some familiar face.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
We stacked the box with some personal favorites of the table.
Are you just go on pure best run?
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Well?
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Looking at the nominees, let's just say our old friend
Nase will very likely be a nominee. Will he be there?
How will that go? He's got to be there, so
we'll see. It's a complication together maybe.
Speaker 4 (25:25):
Or maybe just the sanctity of the name of the segment.
Speaker 11 (25:28):
You have to I agree, Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
We're down to just four teams and now we have
to bite off the AFC side of things. We've already
made our NFC picks earlier in the show. The table
is split. Two for the forty nine ers, two for
the line. Now, quarterbacks, MVPs. You're up, all right. It's Chiefs,
it's Ravens, it's Patrick.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
Mahomes, and it's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Of course, there's ten other guys in the field as
well at any given moment. But Jason, start us off
and make a case for your guys.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
I'm sitting here, You're talking, and I'm still thinking. I'm
just like, my goodness, Mahomes is so good. We looked
at Josh Allen going into that game last week and
it just felt like destined for Buffalo to win and
everything that they've gone through, the record midway through the season,
fourteen percent chance to make the playoffs, Mahomes had to
go on the role to win a game in the playoffs,
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and it's just like, well, he's never done it, and
Josh Allen has been electric. Nope, Nope, it was Mahomes
making the plays at the end. It was Kelsey catching
touchdown pass when he hasn't done it for months on end,
and they find a way they get it done his
handing the ball off to Isaiah Pacheco. But then on
the other side, you look at the Baltimore Ravens and
it's just like they got Todd Monkin as their offensive coordinator,
all the drama with Lamar in the offseason and has
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led to this point the number one seed in the
AFC home field throughout They're going to be at MNT
Banks Stadium and they have so many weapons for Lamar
to get the ball to and it comes back and
it's just like, but how do I go against the Chiefs?
And I started thinking and I was just like, well,
for me personally, I can pick against the Chiefs because
I was there in twenty eighteen when we went into
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Arrowhead and we took down the Chiefs, and it was
one of the games that Mahomes in that conference championship
game was not able to advance for Kyle you talking
about it earlier in the show where the Bengals they
did it. They went in the Arrowhead, they took down
the Chiefs, and Joe Burrow found a way to get
to the Super Bowl, which brings me to my point.
This year, I think the Baltimore Ravens they find a
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way to get to the Super Bowl. I picked Lamar
Jackson and these Ravens to go to the Super Bowl
way back in August, and I'm sticking with that pick.
I think the Baltimore Ravens have a chance Sunday to
go in there at homemat Banks Stadium. Legends of plenty,
ray Lewis, to ed Reed To t Sizel and all
of those guys, and I think in front of them,
(27:58):
they win the AFC and they win their chance and
punch their ticket to head to Vegas and play in
Super Bowl fifty eight. The first time Lamar Jackson gets
a doing in his career.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Pretty awesome, amazing for Jason.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
Now, if you're watching Home, Jason has Ravens Lions, Super.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Bowl Ravens Lions, Ravens pretty juicy.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
I haven't slept in a couple of days because of
this pick. And it's not because of the fact that
my wife's from Baltimore, my father in laws from Baltimore,
or my son where's a Lamar Jackson Jersey to school
every single day. I haven't slept because this is the
hardest game I think I've ever had to pick for
this show. And I say that because my mind in
every which way, is pushing me one way. In my
(28:38):
heart and my stubbornness and my ego is pushing me another.
Let me explain.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
Let's see the margin of victory what the.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
Ravens have done this season against really good teams. Let's
see that they beat the Lions at home by thirty two.
They beat the Seahawks, who were the number two seed
in the NFC at the time, by thirty four. They
went into San Francisco and they won by fourteen, but
that one felt like it was thirty. Yep, they beat
the Dolphins by thirty seven points. That was for the
number one seed in the AFC, and then last week,
after being ten to ten, they outscored the Texans twenty
(29:07):
four to nothing in the second half and they won
that game.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
I go from that to defensive ranks. I look at
the Ravens here.
Speaker 6 (29:13):
I think, if there's any unit in football that's gonna
suffocate and give mahomes hell, it's these guys. I did
a whole soliloquy earlier in the show about guys like
Jadevian Clowney and Gino Stone and kyle Vin Noy and
how they're getting contributions from everybody. Every single piece of
my mind is telling me Ravens and I.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Look at the injury report, which matters. Joe Toney is
a huge piece of what they do. In the Kansas
City run game.
Speaker 6 (29:38):
If you're gonna beat the Ravens, Pacheco needs to get
seventy five yards.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
I don't know if he can do that without.
Speaker 6 (29:42):
Tuny in the middle. Willie Gay is a huge part
of their defense. He didn't practice yesterday. I think that's
a huge part. But I've got ego and I've got
my own career to worry about. And guys, here's something
I ran before my Super Bowl pick, and we'll run
it again here I am making Super Bowl selections the
past few years on the show.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
I think the Chiefs finally get over the hump, finally
get into the Super Bowl. I think Andy finally gets
a chance to go and go face to face with
another coach other than Bill Belichick in the biggest game
of his career.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Super Bowl fifty four. Fifty years, the Chiefs have waited
to get to this point.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Guess who I have representing the National Football Conference.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
In the Super Bowl. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. All the
Super Bowl champs out about him blocks.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
This year's Super Bowl champion feature a quarterback who has
yet to win an NFL playoff. I'm taking the Los
Angeles Rams to take this thing home and this guy
to cement his place in NFL history.
Speaker 11 (30:46):
The Los Angeles Rams, our world champion.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
The winner a.
Speaker 6 (30:51):
Super Bowl fifty seven in Glendale, Arizona this February will.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
Be Chas City Chiefs, led by linebacker Nick.
Speaker 11 (31:03):
He kicks the check up my Kansas City for the
second time.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Get four seasons.
Speaker 5 (31:09):
Belong party Chumpy as a Red and Gold reflection.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Go on, Peter, So what I do this year?
Speaker 6 (31:21):
One more clip?
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Let's go.
Speaker 13 (31:23):
You have a second clip the winner, with the exact
score being thirty four.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
To twenty eight.
Speaker 13 (31:30):
Remember that now thirty four to twenty eight, and with
second year cornerback Trent mcdumpy returning a pick six late
in the fourth.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
Quarter, the Kansas City Chiefs will yet again be your
Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
All right, that's been eight minutes of me talking.
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Here we go. He check right, Pat myself on the back.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Thank you that. My heart says Chiefs, my brain says Ravens.
And at the end of the day, I gotta provide
for my family, the Kansas City Chiefs. I gotta win
this game, and they are going to take care of business.
And my prediction will be right again. I'm going with
the Kansas City Chiefs. If they can somehow keep it close.
Patrick Mahomes will find a way. I cannot get off
that block. I'm sorry, Ravens fans. I do believe you
(32:15):
guys are worthy competitors.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
I've got the Chiefs in this one. You feel okay, no, okay,
go vomit. I'm going, Ravens. I'm gonna go Ravens. Wow,
why not? You know, Peter, I'll go off of you.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
You said a lot of your instincts about picking the
Niners and the Lions. Was it just feels like the
Niners year, right, It's in tangible, sort of a gut feeling.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
It just feels like the Ravens year.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
To me, it feels like they have waited their turn,
They've put in their time. You get the home field advantage,
you get the new offense, and in the ninny gritty
of it, listen, these games, when everybody's got stars, there's
two star quarterbacks. They are won and lost by role players.
And I think the Ravens role players are slightly better
and maybe slightly more dependable than the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Real.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
I'm talking, we're gonna have a huge catch by Isaiah
likely Odell, Zay Flower, Patrick Ricard, someone is going to
make a huge play for Baltimore. Homes is going to
be incredible, and Kelsey and Rice and all that. I
think there's a little drop off after those three players,
and I don't think the Ravens drop off is as steep.
They win at home, they go to the Super Bowl,
it just feels like they're oo Ravens.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
I love these games this weekend.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
These feel like if you are attending these games in
either San Francisco or Baltimore, like you've been invited to
the best party of the weekend. You've got this. This
is the greatest wedding you've ever been to. Prom If
that's your cup of tea the millennia, I don't really care,
but I specifically go to a wedding table invitation.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
Like you scan, you find your name. Where am I sitting?
Speaker 3 (33:40):
When Jim Harbaugh recently won a national championship for Michigan,
he said, I finally get to sit at the cool
table of my family. His dad, Jack Harbaugh, won an
NCAA Division one two A title with Western Kentucky back
in two thousand and two.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
He is a title winner.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
His brother John Harbaugh, who Jim famously lost to in
the Harba Bowl in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
He has been to and won a Super.
Speaker 3 (34:01):
Bowl, but finally Jim got one from Michigan and he
got to be at the winner's table.
Speaker 4 (34:05):
And winter's tables at weddings are cool.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
But what's cooler is if you don't even ever go
to your table or you sit there for your salad
and then you get up and you go hang at
the bar for the rest of the wedding. And that bar,
to me represents coaches that have been to two Super Bowls,
coaches that have maybe won.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
Both Super Bowls that they have attended. I am going
with the Baltimore Ravens because.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
I cannot deny a Harbaugh and the winning nature that
this family has adopted in twenty twenty four. Specifically, I
think John Harbaugh has taking his drink, having his appetizers,
saying dad, brother, I'll see you later at table number one.
I'm going to the bar, and I'm joining the likes
of other coaches like Mike Tomlin, like Sean McVay, like
(34:47):
Vince Lombardi, like Tom Coughlin, who have been to two
Super Bowls, specifically Lombardi and Coughlin winning both of those
Super Bowls that they have attended. It's an incredible list
of multiple coaches that have been to multiple Super Bowls.
Speaker 4 (35:01):
I think Harbaugh.
Speaker 3 (35:02):
John not just his second one this weekend with a
win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
There we go a lot of love for the Ravens. Guys.
Speaker 1 (35:09):
Quickly, let's wrap around the table, say your Super Bowl matchup.
I will start mine is Ravens Lions.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
Peter, forty nine Ers, Chiefs.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
Ravens Lions on with Kyle Ravens forty nine Ers, Peter,
I believe that is your pick from September.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
I'm rolling with the date I came to the dance with.
I said before the season is going to be Niners Chiefs.
Everything in my heart tells me go with the Chiefs.
That's your gut, that's what you gotta do. But my
brain is telling me the Ravens might roll in this game.
Speaker 2 (35:39):
It's a tough pick. It's a great game. That's what
it means. It's a great game.
Speaker 3 (35:44):
I think a collective ex hill just came out of
the room for Good Morning Football. These are our championship
Sunday picks.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Peter, kick us off.
Speaker 6 (35:51):
Forty nine Ers, Chiefs. One of them's on the road
Kansas City. But in a lot of people's lines, you
can't pick against Mahomes. That's the favorite in some thoughts.
And then forty nine Ers. Look, they've been the best
team in the NFC all season. I'm not abandoning them now.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
Yeah, they've been. Really I'm rolling with the Lions. I
feel like Jared Goff, Dan Campbell. They've been able to
do this season has been so much fun to watch,
and I think they have the weapons on the outside
to get it done. And then Baltimore Ravens and the
Kansas City Chiefs. We got Mahomes, we got Lamar Jackson.
I absolutely love both quarterbacks. I just feel like with
Lamar has been so incredible this season. It was my
MVP pick of the year. I think he finds a
(36:24):
way to pull it up.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Raven it's been the best team in the AFC all season.
Cannaban in him Now.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Lions, I think there's some sort of stink on them
where they have incredible roster from stop to bottom, just
like the Niners do. And yet the Niners are looked
at as this juggernaut and the Lions are a Cinderella.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
They're not a Cinderella. I like Detroit.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
You have said repeatedly, not a Cinderella. You put the
laundry in, get the stink off, like they're gonna go
to San Francisco and take your business again. The Lions
as a fan base in Las Vegas, that just feels
like so stressful and awesome all at the same time.
You too, repeat and Peter and I line up in
the NFC, but I went with the Ravens at home.
I can't negate what they did to the Texas last
weekend and what they've been doing all season long.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
This is awesome. I feel so long.
Speaker 2 (37:00):
You guys' good.
Speaker 6 (37:01):
So do you guys feel good about me being on
the only one on the cheeks again?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
This is last week we did this. You all took Buffalo, I.
Speaker 6 (37:06):
Took Kansas City, But yet you all went back again
and bet bet against Andy Reid and against Patrick Mahomes
and Kelsey.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
I just picked a team that I like nothing against.
Speaker 2 (37:14):
I love Patrick Mahonmes, I love it. You feel good,
but I feel.
Speaker 5 (37:19):
You talked about the Ravens all day to day, guys,
I like you don't.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
Remember I talked about you to you guys? Feel good
about that?
Speaker 4 (37:26):
It's like here, I've been taking any acids every hour?
That are you sure?
Speaker 2 (37:31):
All day?
Speaker 4 (37:32):
Enjoy your weekend.
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