July 28, 2025 • 41 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with Patrick Mahomes from Chiefs camp. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te'l and Isaiah Stanback discuss Aiden Hutchinson making his return to the Lions. Kyle recaps his time at Steelers camp including a conversation with Aaron Rodgers. Plus, Hall of Famer LeRoy Butler looks forward to the Packers season and his expectations for Jordan Love!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Back You're backpacks back to school for Good Morning Football.
It's Monday, July twenty eighth. I don't care when your kids'
school starts. I care about today. It's the first day
of GMFB season. Kyle's wearing Apolo. Everything's very alarming. Math
I sayo is here? Isaiah standback as well. We're all
hanging in La Kyle back in his office space in
Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Kyle back from Latrolle was it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I made it back from Western Pennsylvania, and guys, I
can't believe this is true. Tell me if I'm wrong.
We got Chargers Lions on Thursday night? Is that really true?
Is it Monday night? We have a game on Thursday.
I don't care if it's preseason posts. We got a game.
Let's talk some football.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's Good Morning Football starting the show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You heard me say it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oxnard, Elsa Gundo, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. That's where this crew was
stationed for back Together weekend. So in case anyone's confused,
the Dallas Cowboys do practice in Oxtar and Isaiah, you
were there because you're a Cowboys guy.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Absolutely, Yeah, Dallas is always a good time. You know,
fans are always going to show up in detail, Detown, Oxnard,
doesn't matter where they're at, they travel deep. But yeah,
they kicked it off and they had some paths on,
so they were out there banging around.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You got to hear some paths hidden.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
We always liked that time of the year because we know.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That football is near. Cowboys are looking good. We'll talk
about it though.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, Okay, good Manson and I were at Chargers camp,
and Kyle, I know now we can hear you, So
go ahead with your diet tribe about your bus.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, I had no dietribe, Jamie. I just you just
heard that you mentioned company memo and immediately my audio
just went out.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So's okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So the company memo in the last three years had
been to start a daylight today with the Chiefs because
they would have been the defending Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
However, with the block that is not how.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We will reference the Kansasity Chiefs today. Of course that
title goes to the Philadelphia Eagles, but it does make
the Chiefs training camp a little more fascinating.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They are not the defending champs.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Our own Kim we checks the Steve Smith Senior caught
up with Patrick Mahomes yesterday as the chiefs QB. It
sounds ready to get back to work.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
I thought we did a lot of great things, you know, cool,
We got the referees out here, we got the pads on.
They felt the most real that we've been since the
Super Bowl. And you saw guys going hard. They're practice hard.
We had some mistakes. You saw guys learn from that,
and of course Coach Rey ordered the hottest day that
we could have for the first day of pads. You know,
he does that every year as soon as like every year.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What an interest for you guys thought passed.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
On with first day in past the heat, you got
the refs out here.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
How would you what would you give today's grade on
on the practice?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Yeah, I would say it was about a B B
maybe B plus. You know, there was procedural things that
we did, the referees got us on, and there were
some refs that we made mistakes offensively, But I love
how the guys competed, and I think that's something that
when you put these pads on in you're here, it's
not about making mistakes. You learned from those mistakes, how
you're going to respond And I thought the guys responded
well and we got it cleaned up as practice went on.
But there's definitely a room to improve, and that's why
(03:09):
we're here now.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
There's some rotations and some competitions on the O line.
Your protection is not all about talent. It's also about
your timing and your trust. How do you feel you're
doing with those guys getting these live reps. How long
do you think it'll take until you know they kind
of adapt to your tempo and your speeding cadence.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
I think they've done a great job so far. You know,
competition breeds excellence, and I think Coach Red always preached
to that is that you've got to go out there
and compete. And obviously today it was first day of patch.
You get a real feel. But we have a good
defensive line. We had a lot of blitzes from spats.
So these guys are gonna get tested. Coach Rees gonna
throw them into the fire and we'll see who comes
out the best man. And so I'm just excited for
the rest of the camp. How's we've build that chemistry
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and get ourselves ready to go for the season.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The signature bounce and Patrick Mahomes walked looked very serious.
His tone and his answers was kind of intense. This
is all for late July at this point when you
look at what Patrick Mahomes had to say here, Isaiah,
what do you make of it?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
In the words of Ricky Bobby, I like the way
he's talking.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
You're talking to whatever he wants to.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
He's a winner.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
This dude's seventeen and three in the postseason. This dude
is three and one in the Super Bowl. But the
thing is that one, that one is really.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Hanging on his shoulder right now. He doesn't like the
way that feels.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
They got scraped up by the Philadelphia Eagles last year,
and everybody knows that that is going to be his
driving force. They were not the offense that they wanted
to be last year. That is going to be his
driving force. So when you hear Patrick Mahomes talking about
how intense he is, how serious practice is, and how
they have a B or a B plus, those are
the things that are residing in his head.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
The excellence is the standard.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I know Kyle was in Pittsburgh and you know, and
coach Thomas said the standard is a standard, but I'm
sure that Patrick Mahomes and the Ken City Chiefs have
a standard. And what they were last year they didn't
finish a job. Now he's focused again.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I like that, Isaiah.
Speaker 11 (04:50):
And you know, for the fans at home, having reefs
at training camp, that isn't that isn't a new thing.
Usually when the pads come on on the first day,
there are refs there to help regulate the practice and
make sure that it's more organized. Now, the thing that
does stand out to me, and I've never heard this
said before other than when I had to go to
training camp, is when Patrick Mahomes brought up Andy Reid
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picking the hottest day. Now, that does stand out to
me because Sean Payton would do the same thing to
us in New Orleans, where he would pick the hardest
stage to go pads, we'll do two minute drill, we
we'll go live. And so there's a precedence that Andy
Reid I think is setting early in this training camp
to tell him, man, we're back to business like I
think we cruised for the past few years because they've
been used to winning so much that let's let's harden
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our shell a little bit, and so I like the
precedents that Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes has kind of
set for this team leading into this year.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
See, I just thought the refs were there so they
could start holding the Chief's hand even earlier this year.
Just kidding guys, just a little icebreaker at the top.
Here's here's what I think about the Chiefs and what
I'm seeing from Mahomes. This is the most interesting season
from Mahomes and the Chiefs in years, potentially even ever,
because there's so much change. The last time we saw
Patrick Mahomes play a game, he got shellacked in the
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Super Bowl and said I didn't play to my stand.
He threw an interception for the first time in almost
three hundred throws. Patrick Mahomes threw his first career playoff
pick six in twenty one playoff games. He had never
done that, and the Chiefs were broken in that game.
Now they show up and Patrick Mahomes' number one wing
man is going to be thirty six years old, his
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number one wide receiver is facing a suspension. Arguably his
best lineman is gone, and I think some of the
invincibility is gone. I think a little bit of the
aura is gone. And we know that the three peat
is gone. There's no three peet, there's no Chiefs pete.
That's all gone. What's not gone, though, is that the dynasty.
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They are still in the middle of a dynasty. Guys
Joe Montana didn't win three in a row, Terry Bradshaw did,
and Tom Brady, Troy Aikman. It's still the Chiefs. They
lost the Super Bowl, they were still in the Super Bowl.
And here's the measure of the Chiefs right now. All
those things I said about this guy's gone, and this
guy's old, and this guy this the Chiefs Open, Chargers Eagles,
(07:04):
Charger's Eagles. It's not great. Would anybody have the gall
to say I think the Chiefs are going to be
ze two to start the season. Hell no, And that's
playing against the Super Bowl champ and a continually ascending
Chargers team coach by Jim Harbaugh. I would never say
that about them. Despite all that I still listed. They're
still the Chiefs. They are still in the middle of
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the dynasty. Just a lot has felt like it's changed
outside of that since that Super Bowl. And it's the
most interesting season I can remember from them in years.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And how Jarring. It is for them as well.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I would think, even though travel's all the same, that
first game against Chargers has to happen in Sapaalo, Brazil,
and that doesn't make that second week any easier on
the Kansas City Chiefs. Now they had to face the Eagles,
who rolled through the NFC on the way to the
Super Bowl. They didn't have to face the Detroit Lions.
So the Lions were decimated with injury at the end
of last season. Aiden Hutchinson on that list. He's back
and ready to go for twenty twenty five. He's put
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the work in after recovering from the old classic tibfib
if you will, and his head coach Dan Campbell can
certainly see it.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
This guy is all about business. He knows how hard
he tried to work to get back for the playoffs.
I mean he was grinding that whole time and then
you know we fell short there. But he was still
putting in the work and while everybody else was on vacation,
not that they weren't working, he was up here grinding. Man,
getting back with our group. You know, Brett Fisher did
a hell of a job with him, and he's a worker.
(08:24):
That's all that matters. Man. He works on every little thing.
He doesn't get down in the dumps, he doesn't have
bad days, and because of that, he just he continues
to get better.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's a great take, and the fact that your coach
is aware that you're in the building is vital, especially
for the Lions and Aden Hudginson's Stacy Dale's let's bring
you into the conversation. You are at Lions training camp
this morning. I see players already arriving walking behind you, Stacy.
I have to ask, first and foremost.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
How hot is it there?
Speaker 13 (08:51):
Well, Jame, I've been melting for three days here in
the Midwest and Eastern time zone, so like kind of
over the humidity, but it's we're actually under a heat
advisory here at Allen Park as we get ready for camp.
What news is they practice early? That's a Dan Campbell
standard and am and rob By the way players walking
behind me just Aman ros Saint Brown.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sure, classic, Well, let's talk Dan Campbell. Since he had
that decision. He may have picked the hottest day like
Andy Reid, but at least he shifts it up a
little bit. Talking about Aiden Hutchinson, coach always gives off,
great vibes and great takes on one of his star
defensive players. What's this showing up like in Detroit? How
does this track for the Lions through start a training camp?
Speaker 13 (09:28):
Yeah, Jamie, oh, and those of you on the set,
I want to put this in perspective. We're not necessarily
talking about comeback player of the year at this point
with Aiden Hutchinson. We're talking about defensive player of the year.
That's how good they think he can be coming into
this season. He took the pads off, or excuse me,
took the gloves off back in OTAs when he got
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bumped around a little bit. Obviously there are no pads,
speaking of pads, but you know, you get your footstepped
on here and there, and he was ready to go.
He literally has attacked this rehab after that horrific leg
injury from his season ago. And just to further put
this in perspective, he played five games right a season
ago eight in Hutchinson as he gets ready to go
into his fourth season. They had the bye in week five,
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they go into week six, he suffers the injury. He
had seven and a half sacks through those five games,
seven tackles for loss, and seventeen quarterback hits. He was
on pace for somewhere like, let's put a guess on it,
fifteen sixteen sacks and that was coming off his previous
season of.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Eleven and a half sacks.
Speaker 13 (10:34):
He looks fantastic and he is really the cornerstone of
this defense.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Stacy big question.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
I know there's a lot of heat and I saw
a clip that Lions were going live like they were
tackling earlier in the week. What are the sights and
sound as far as the physicality of that camp, because
we know Dan Quinn likes to go live a lot
during his camp.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Yes, Coach Campbell loves to and at the same time,
you got to be super smart about it because that's
kind of the culture that he is. It's a fantastic question.
It's the culture he's established here in Detroit. They got
to pull these guys back a bit until they put
the pads on and they didn't actually practice yesterday, but
things have gotten chippy.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's what the players want.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
That's the mindset of these offensive been defensive coordinators, and
it's something certainly Dan Campbell doesn't want a Taylor back.
Got to be careful though, guys We got a long
stretch here in training camp and they play a game
in what.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is it, four days?
Speaker 13 (11:25):
The Hall of Fame game is coming up, and so
they got to be careful about what they're doing out here.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Stacey. It's great to see you there, and I know
we're going to snap our fingers and you're going to
be standing in the dark in the stadium on Thanksgiving
in front of the marching band as they warm up
talking about the Lions like you are every single year
like a boss. I asked, I bring that up because
I want to know this, Stacy. You've covered this team
for a long time, the pre Campbell, the dark years,
(11:50):
all of that, and now this great ascension. What is
different this year that you're picking up in twenty twenty five.
We've been through the introductory period with Campbell, they've won.
What are you seen out there that's different that you
haven't seen before.
Speaker 13 (12:02):
Well, it's a really interesting question that you raise, Kyle,
because this thing has become a well oiled machine with
Dan Campbell, and people are talking habitually about the coordinator changes.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Right, you lose.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
Ben Johnson and all of a sudden, Johnny Morton steps in.
You lose Aaron Glenn and all of a sudden, Kelvin
Shepherd steps in, zero drop off, same personnel in many respects,
and obviously they've added some pieces, but they feel really
good about the continuity, and they feel really good about
how fine tune this thing is. I was talking to
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somebody in the league who was here at the start
of camp, and when you look at some new regimes
around the NFL and you consider this regime, Dan has
this thing marching in a really strong and very directed,
very intentional sort of flow. And so that's what the
players pick up on. Like you talk to any of
these veterans, I'm and Rob Saint Brown just walk behind us.
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They feel really good about this offense. There's been a
lot said about Johnny Morton taking over with Jared Goff.
Here's what's really important, and this is something a lot
of people haven't talked about, but as I've spoken of
folks here with the Lions, he was here in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He was a senior.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Offensive assistant and that was the same year that the
great offensive mind, Ben Johnson took over, who's now the
head coach with the Chicago Bears, and Johnny Morton was
instrumental in help build and helping to build that offensive
game plan and that sort of scheme that Jared Goff
became so good in. So there's going to be a
lot of carryover obviously for Ben Johnson's offense. Johnny Morton's
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going to put his stamp on it, but he's been
here and he knows these guys, and he and Jared
Goff have a really good relationship.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Stacy. Everything I'm hearing about the Lions and really.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
About the web that is now weaving throughout the NFC North,
I am just glad that you are going to be
there to hold our hand through all this, because if
it is a massive game in the NFC North, Stacy
Dale is going to be all over at Stacy, stay cool,
try to stay dry. It's a great sleeveless polo. Thanks
again to Tommy Muhammad. Trading Camp Live comes your way
at noon Eastern. We will be roaming around NFL training
camps for eight hours. Is clocket with people like that,
(14:06):
and we were all part of Back Together weekend over
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Including a face and a name that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You have not heard nearly enough, but for a good
reason over the summer, Sherry Burst is back on GMSB Cherry,
the real question is schematically, how is it going from
zone parenting to a mandaman?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You got two kids now, yeah, I.
Speaker 14 (14:26):
Told the parallel parenting. I have the baby, my husband
has the toddlers. Somehow we have survived. Yes, it's been
so wonderful. I have been what time is it been
up about this time?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes, morning, over the last couple of months.
Speaker 14 (14:38):
Yeah, sure, great, we'll call it that work coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Please.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
It's so great to see you guys. It's neat to
be back. Was that the forty nine ers this weekend?
Not to brag, it was a little chilly, okay, but
it's awesome that we're ready to get going.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, we do have the long sleeve polos in case
you need to be warming up so and they're not
as used as often as they should be.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But Cherry Burst, wonderful to see you. We're going to
hear from Sherry, George.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Kittle and you hung out with stop Christian McCaffrey the
New as well.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Cherry mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We're gonna check in on the forty nine ers camp.
We're gonna hear from those guys. What else happened?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have you ever been to Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Arnold Palmer is
from there. So it's rolling rock beer. And that's where
the Steelers. My there is. That's the newest inhabitant. There's
a lot of them, though I shouldn't say that. Jalen Ramsey,
DK Metcalf. There's DK right there, looking monstros as always.
I spoke to all these guys. I sat with that guy.
I'm gonna debrief all of the things I learned, saw
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and felt in Steelers camp right after this, including Rogers
response to Terry Bradshaw's visceration of him JIMFB right after this,
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We're not gonna fight about a lot of things, but
if you reheat an egg, then I'm gonna throw hands.
Why is Kyle Brandt walking through the streets of western
Pennsylvania with a two box? And Kyle, if you say
that's breakfast, I'm gonna have to fight you for three
thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Pay no attention to the tourist walking through the plains
of western Pennsylvania in the rain, on the side of
the road with a to go box from breakfast. Jamie,
you know what's in that box?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Tell me Scrapple Scrapple.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Was so good that I took it with me to go.
I had just been at this beautiful, charming American diner
in which the tone was set in western Pennsylvania. When
the lady comes and says, takes your drink orders, I say,
can I have some coffee? And like an idiot, I said,
do you have almond milk? And she's like, no, honey.
I was like, that's right, Donna, it's not that the place.
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No almond milk, just cow milk. And then we walked home,
my son and I in the rain and I had
to go. But it was just like, welcome to Latrobe.
But the other welcome I got was across the board
from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Well not only incredibly professional, hospitable.
There's a lot to talk about there now because it's
Mike Tomlin's nineteenth training camp, But none of them have
been like this. Everybody has new faces. I don't know
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if anybody has new household famous faces like the Steelers
do Jalen Ramsey, DK Metcalf, John new Smith all below
the fold because there is a new starting quarterback and
he has been in this league more than two decades.
I got to sit with the oldest player in the
National Football League, and here's a bit of myself and
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number eight for the Pittsburgh Steelers twenty one seasons CSI
couldn't do it, gun Smoke, couldn't do it. This guy's
been on the air as long as Gray's Anatomy. It
is number eight for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers, what's up, dude?
That sounds kind of weird, isn't it, doesn't it? Gray's
Anatomy is still on too, still on. That's impressive. How's life?
(17:48):
It's good.
Speaker 15 (17:49):
I didn't know what to expect getting hear you last Tuesday,
checking to the dorms, realizing I was sharing a bathroom
in a shower. But man, I missed it. I really did.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Jim Carrey had this quote when he was thinking about retiring,
and Jim Carrey said, I've done enough enough. I am enough.
As a fan of yours, that was how I felt
about you last year, twenty years retired. I did you, Yeah,
I'm ready. You weren't ready you? And DeShawn Yeah, DeShawn too.
I didn't follow that, but I'm like, I've seen enough.
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He's amazing, He's done everything. It wasn't enough for you, though,
why not?
Speaker 15 (18:23):
I fell in love with this game when I was
six years old, and I wanted to have that closure
and get back to the game one more time the
way that it's given to me as I thought about
my life, Really, everything special in my life is because
of this game, and I want to give back to
it one more time and have fun with it. And
I just felt like this is what I was supposed
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to do.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
To that point. I did a project recently good Morning Football,
where I looked at all of the players who got
married in the offseason in this era, and across the board, overwhelmingly,
the next football season they played were incredible, like career
highs across the board. And I don't think it's a coincidence,
including guys you know, like Davante, you showed up and
said you got married in the off season. How does
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it change how you feel as a man, and how might.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
It affect your play?
Speaker 15 (19:10):
How much time do you have?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Whatever you want? Buddy? It's you.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
You know, when you meet the right one and you're
with the right one, your whole world changes in a second.
And to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
the scenes There's no better feeling in the world. When
you have that stability and that rock behind you at
the house, you feel like you could do anything.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'm always very amused, Aaron, by your observations of the media. Okay,
everybody's gonna get a little squirreling. Now someone had a
nuclear take on you. Terry Bradshaw Number twelve from the Steelers.
Terry Bradshaw says, rogers to the Steelers. I wrote it
down because I want to get it right. It's a joke.
Stay in California, chew on bark and whisper to the gods.
Speaker 15 (20:01):
I whispered to the gods every single day, Damn right.
I've known Terry for a long time being a part
of Fox. Terry's a legend. He's an absolute legend. He
won four Super Bowls, He's had a legendary career in
the media. But Terry, like a lot of people, doesn't
know me, and so he's got an idea of what
he thinks about me based on what I've done, the documentary,
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what I've said, Darkness, Retreat, whatever the hell you want
to talk about. I'd love to get to know Terry
on a deeper level, and I feel like, if he
gave me a chance to get to know him, they
would have a good friendship. Because for me, I have
nothing but the utmost amount of respect and deference for
what the greats have done, because they laid the foundation
for us to be able to play in this great game,
(20:45):
to be paid like kings, and to carry on the
tradition of excellence that guys like the Bradschids of the
world in the seventies, because of how they played and
how they carried themselves, they were able to have this
opportunity to still play this great game, to get paid
really well, to set ourselves up for our future. So
I'd love to get to Notary on a deeper level
if he's open to it, and maybe we can go
(21:07):
choose some bark or whatever the hell he's talking about together.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Sounds like fun. Yeah, I'll choose some bark any day.
To sign me up for that. It was a first class,
top shelf response from Rogers to the Bradshaw line. And
you know, I look at Rogers right now and there's
that was about half of what we talked about. If
you want the whole thing, it's on my social I
think of what Mike Tomlin likes to say, and one
of those tomlinisms is we want volunteers, not hostages. In
(21:31):
other words, people who want to be there. Rogers has
actually no need to be there whatsoever. He doesn't need
to make money, he doesn't need to prove anything, he
doesn't need to get in the Hall of Fame, none
of that. He's playing his twenty first season because he
really likes Tomlin and he wants to keep playing ball.
That is the very definition of volunteers, not hostages. And
Rogers aura vibes, whatever you want to call it was
(21:53):
really great. It was cool to soak up Kyle.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It was so well done. You could have as many.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
People will said what's your twenty one feel like? Or
so you got married? What's the response? And you didn't
have to quote the actual Terry Bradshaw take to the
man's face.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It took some guts to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well done, but you're right, we didn't get to see
the entire thing. I would just like a brief recap
from you on the Nobu experience that the Steelers got
with their new guy Rodgers, because we heard for a year,
we heard a couple years back that the Jets they
flew in and.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They're having the Malibu experience.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Rogers is like, no, come to vote, no boo, I'm
going to show you on Malibu the way I do
it with some dolphins too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah. So Rogers hosted the wide receivers, several of them,
and he tells this amazing story that at least one
of the wide receivers had never seen the ocean, any ocean,
the Pacific ocean. And so they're sitting there at NOBU.
Imagine you've never seen the ocean. You're overlooking the Pacific
at this super fancy, fancy sushi place. And as they're
watching out there and eating, dolphins start swimming by and
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cascading through the water. And this wide receiver suggests that
or even accused Rogers of arranging the dolphins, hiring or wrangling.
Did you set this up? And he's like, I did
not set up the dolphins, dude. But that's the kind
of like bonding experience they had, and that just says it.
I'll imagine you're forty one years old and you live
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in Malibu and here's your wide receiver twenty three or something.
Did you set up the dolphins, dude? I did not.
Just a great little chance.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
First of all, Kyle, great interview with Aaron Rodgers. But
for those that didn't get the opportunity to tune in,
that wasn't the only great interview that you had. You
also had an opportunity to sit down with the man himself,
mister Mike Tomlin, who has no losing seasons during his
time there. What was that experience like learning from Mike
Tomlin and hearing all about the Mike Tomlin sisms.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, if you're sitting at home and you're a fan,
or you're someone in media like me who has never
sat with Mike Tomlin, you're obviously aware of him, the reputation,
the aura, all that. I can only tell you that
the second he sits down, there is an electricity. And
I was really really taken aback by his presence, by
his warmth, which doesn't get his credited. I mean, it
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was the easiest interview I've ever done because he just
sits there. Every single thing he says is compelling, every
single thing is intense. And you know, listen, I said
to him, I said, coach, nobody can say your name
and media without someone immediately saying he's never had a
losing season. This is this fact that just follows you around.
I think your supporters use it in a weird way.
I think your detractors use it. It means a lot
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of different things to different people. What does it mean
to you? And he is like, not much, really not much.
You know, a lot of that is a different past.
We don't use a cumulative approach here at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And let's be honest. Some of the players I'm coaching
right now, they were in car seats when that streak started.
So I don't go around puffing my chest out about that.
It was another incredible answer. He knows what time it is.
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He knows the Steelers are in a tough time right now.
They haven't won a playoff game in a long time.
He knows, and he looks around the field that those
those players that they brought in, they violate the Steeler
way of plug and play. That's unusual too. Miga Fitzpatrick
is just gone. Jalen Ramsey is just there. And I
think it's because I understand what time it is and
it's not working the way they need it to and
they need to make some changes. Tomlin was electric, even
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someone who's done this a long time like me. And
it's that with a lot of coaches and a lot
of players different, different, different and I see why he
gets the love he gets there. He deserves it.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Yeah, KB, you talked about people that have come and
gone and plugging playing all of that. One guy that
is loved in the Brent House that also plays for
the Steelers as TJ. Watt, tell us a little bit
about him and how that defense is looking, because there's
been some highlights coming out of camp where they're looking
pretty good early on.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Well, I mean TJ is like the happiest guy in camp.
As you can imagine, this guy's zooming around on an
e bike. He's saying hi to everybody, is signing autographs.
He just got the huge contract and he's arguably one
of the top five best players in the entire NFL.
But I have to make this, I have to make
this personal. I have a son who's going into sixth grade,
and my son, Calvin's hero hero is TJ.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Watt.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's not just his favorite football player, he's his favorites athlete,
his favorite public figure. Calvin dresses up TJ. Watt for Halloween.
Run the picture this like his whole room is TJ.
Watt the towel, and then on Halloween he's got the
arm sleeve, He's got the pains, got everything like this.
This is an incredible culmination for me that he gets
to meet his hero. And I think people at home
(26:19):
should know. You see these guys as athletes, and you
see all this money they make. When I have a sit,
when I have an exchange like I did with TJ. Watt,
he was so kind and so generous and so cool
and so well beyond the call of duty. My son
was trembling when he walked away from him. He was
he was walking on air. And there is still a
(26:40):
time in twenty twenty five when little kids meet their
heroes and they live up to all their expectations. I
was so taken aback and so thankful to TJ, to
everybody with the Steelers from making that moment for me happen.
We were there to work, but an eleven year old
kid had his absolute life made by meeting his hero,
and I'm so thankful for it.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I really miss saying this. Sherry Burris is joining us
on the show now, back after after a couple months
having a baby in marsh Cherry. We missed you you
were your epic return to the network was part of
Back Together Weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Where did you go? Who did you see?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And how is it leaving the baby for the first time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
It's really good to see you, guys.
Speaker 14 (27:17):
I cried only a couple times yesterday leaving the baby
for the first time. So this is day one back
like part B right. Got to go to San Francisco
forty nine Ers yesterday. Incredible to be back for Back
Together Weekend. It's a little brisk in the Bay Area,
and it was really cool to start the season at
the forty nine ers because guys, the Super Bowl is
at Levi Stadium. Seven months more football then we'll figure
(27:40):
out who's playing in that game.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But starting here.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
George Kittle, he has been a key piece of this offense,
signed the contract extension in the offseason. He said it
is great to get that done for the.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
First time in his career.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
He remembers there's no quarterback battle rock party securing that
position looking good, also signing a contract extension. A lot
of questions though about the wide receivers.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
But I had a really great.
Speaker 14 (28:04):
Conversation with the forty nine ers tight end take a lesson.
Speaker 16 (28:07):
It was one of my first years of that quarterback
controversy of my entire career, which is really exciting. Good
job Kyle and John in the front office, so that's
been really fun. And just like when you get all
the contracts and stuff done before OTAs or during OTIS,
then like that whole rest of the off season you
just focus on football.
Speaker 14 (28:23):
The Super Bowl is going to be hosted with your
year right right there, it's my home office. What is
it going to take for you guys to be playing
that game early February here in your bound backyard.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Oh great question. Let's see.
Speaker 16 (28:35):
In my personal opinion, I think we still have a
fantastic offense. I know we lost, you know, two key
pieces of our offense. Debo Harder replaced Deebo, one of
my favorite teammates, just an absolute problem, the matchup problem,
all the things we did with him in the backfield
and moving them around and stuff.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
So that's hard to replace.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
And then we lost Aaron Banks to the Packers, so
happy for him to go out there and get paid
much deserved. I think the guys that you know have
replaced those two players are both very solid players, and
we have like guys that can take over and take
some of those reps. But I also think it'll be
a really good challenge for you know, Shanahan to kind
of change your offense up a little bit because you
can't rely on Deebo to you know, play running back
in the slot stuff. So I think it'll be good
for our entire offense and then on defense for us
(29:12):
to win a lot of games. We have a lot
of young guys and a lot of young guys need
to step up. A lot of the young guys need
to play at a high level early and so hopefully
this training camp will prepare them to do that.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Fun one for you. I saw also online you took
up the camera. You were behind the scenes a little
excellent work.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I tried my best. Yeah, I'll do better.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
So I can't switch positions with you.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
I can't play football, but if you were in my shoes,
yes you're on the front of the camera. Now, what
questions are you asking about this forty nine Ers team
this season?
Speaker 16 (29:37):
I would ask, hey, Fred Warner, what are your thoughts
in the defense? Who do you think specifically needs to
step up? And what are your favorite competition battles going
on through training camp? Who are you going to have
your eyes on and then on offense, what offensive players,
what offensive linemen are you really watching? They're going to
fill those holes, you know? And do you have a
six guy? Do you have a swing tackle? Do you
(29:57):
have guys that can step up if somebody goes down?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Awesome?
Speaker 14 (30:00):
Well, we can't wait to see those questions answer. George
stanks for the time.
Speaker 16 (30:02):
I'm not going to answer, but somebody will.
Speaker 14 (30:05):
Oh, broadcast food Camp, when is that?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
We need to get George Kittle in here.
Speaker 14 (30:09):
I was so nervous though, actually for that Kittle really
can kind of be like you know, random, kind of
keeps you on your toes. So we appreciate the time
with George. There was no question about meeting Christian McCaffrey though.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
It was really cool.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
He just welcomed the daughter as we know him and
his wife, Olivia. This is the first time I got
to meet McCaffrey, and I gave him a little gift
on behalf of NFL Network GMFB. You guys were so
welcoming and loving giving us a GMF baby onesie, so
we made sure.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Collette McCaffrey had one.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
Also made sure to ask mom is doing well? So
Olivia hope you're taking care of yourself. Girl Collet, Welcome
to the world. Happy birthday. I'm sure he is also
not getting any sleep with a newborn at home, but
as you guys know, that's just kind of part for
the course as we all have kids.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, absolutely, sheery. Good job waiting to get the branding
out there on the babies. It's not girls us, it's
the NFL player's babies. One cherry. Awesome to have you back.
Good job getting some of those takes from those guys
and Kittle. Look out, gentlemen at the table. You've been
warned because Kittle's ready.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
It's mister Lambeau leave himself through a Butler. He joined
us on the show from the NFL Draft in late April.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We get to talk to him and uh much more
to come on GMFB this hour. Gam a baby so sweet.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
Good morning football. Nor Butler from the Lightsome Butler. It
makes him pay for it.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
You talk about his student des one right there.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Intercepted.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
Wow, what a.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Great interception by Buttle.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Thoty my comb or ball it crown.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You could not watch a Packers game in the nineties
for five seconds without that guy. Making a play. It's
just how it was back then. It's number thirty six
for the Green Bay Packers. It's Leroy Butler, the profile
Hall of Famer.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
What's up, Lroy?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
How are we doing right.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
For the young ones? Larroy? They may not know that
you are the og, you are the godfather, you are
the Thomas Edison of the Lambeau Leap. We have some
new Packers this year, as we do every year, but
some high profile guys on offense. Especially what would you
say to them and how to do the Lambeau Leap
and maybe how not to do it?
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Well, that's a great question because I think sometimes when
you're a rookie, you hear about it, but you really
don't know. I would suggest to them if you're a
defensive player.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
We do have a low wall for defensive player. We're
not lay.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Offensive players.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
It doesn't matter, but it does help if the fan
is paying attention, because sometimes they have the beer in
their hand and then I'm not giving up my broad
and beer.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They're gonna move. The rest of the people pull you up.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
And it's about being on top of the wall with
our shareholders because we don't have an owner. It policy
is our new president. But anytime you can say hot
to and fans is awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, I think game ball every time for a Packers
home game goes to the fan that sacrifices the spotted
cow in order to lift the fan up. It's I
think it's the ultimate active teammate. Leroy, so wonderful to
see you. Last we hung out. It was at the
NFL Draft and it was in Green Bay, and it
was such an awesome kind of start for the season,
(33:42):
especially when the team spent their first round pick on
a wide receiver. Training camp has started. Training camp is
all about the H word, hope, how we feeling, what's
our hopeful scale act in terms of this Packers offense,
this team this season.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
That's why I love this show because you ask amazing
questions because I like to hear that kind of pressure.
Let's be honest, we got to be Detroit. I want
to play the Commanders. Will guess what that the second game, Well,
Martin Murphy, I'll going president said after twenty three years,
(34:17):
like you pointed out, we have a receiver in the
first round.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
The crowd went crazy.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Now I will say this though, Jordan love to me,
I'm excited about I took him with the seventh pick
in my fantasy draft. Any time you get married, you
play out of your mind. So I'm expecting him in
that third year to take that No. Puny attended that
leap into the upper echelon quarterbacks in battle for a championship.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
It's called tattletown for a reason.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Man, listen, I know you want to dance and go away,
but I'm not gonna let it go away.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I need you to hit that thing one more time
for me.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just you gotta bring that thing back.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
I just need to see it.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
They put my spleen.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
I turn fifty seven Saturday already.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Man, three years ago you got your gold jacket, but
you have a teammate in Sterling Sharp who is going
to be getting his this week.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Right. So with that being said, for those young.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Bucks that aren't necessarily up on his game and what
he was like, please let everybody know what type of
player he was.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
I'll make this real quick because I love Sterling because
ever since I met him, I study how to cover people.
It was something you know that in basketball they have
the crossover, Like who did it?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You know?
Speaker 8 (35:37):
Tim Hardaway, Aibody the way not the Internet, Sterling Sharp
invented what we call the clamp and advice.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
Because two people was committed to.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Him, and he told Brad Faire, I don't care throw
me the ball. I said, why do you not care
if you're double? Because I can beat you guys. I'm
like sterling, how break this down? I attacked the weakest guy.
Weekest cover guys is safety, The weakest tackler.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Is the corner.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Pends on what the route is.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
Okay, it makes sense now, So I'm so happy he
gets a chance to get into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame with all the other great receivers that he
played with in the nineties because he had one hundred
catches when it was hard Leroy.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
So there's another titan that's in the going into a
hall of fame. And I played with played against him
in practice every single day, and that's Antonio Gates. You
going against Sharp every single day in practice. Give us
you must have some memories of going up against this
guy in practice.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
What are some of those?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Well, first of.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
All, I'm upset because I told the producer to put
my head on your body.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I don't know if y'all can google that. Lee Haney
was his bodybuilder.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
And shout out to rest of peat Hulk and these
big muscular guys. I was going to the waiting room,
so still didn't end up bitch of four o five,
I said, I'm just doing one eighty five. I'm shoving
match with him, and this is true story my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They threw a hitch round.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
I was a corner and I ran utter the attack
and I.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yell down, help do that. In the pro I said, man,
I'm one hundred.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
From Duba County.
Speaker 10 (37:29):
Help.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
I was just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Just sometimes you need help.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
More people.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Help people. Right, You're right, you're dude, You're a National Treasurer.
You're You're already in the Hall of Fame for guests
on this show. And speaking of help, I know you're
going to be giving Sterling a lot of help doing
this thing and the media because Sterling is kind of
(38:02):
a guy let his play talk for himself. I know
you're very good at that.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Is that accurate, cal That's such a platinum question because
I want people to embrace him because he really is
shocked by this. He never really want this was not
his goal, but sometimes I told him, and God is good.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
My mom's my herote. Today's her birthday.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
She passed in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Sometimes it's not up to you, but now you're want
of four hundred people to ever play in the National
Football League.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Embrace it.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
We embrace you, Loroi Butler. You're the man at number
thirty six, a legends, one of our favorites, and enjoy
enjoyed this whole process because you've really earned it. Thank
you so much, ma'amor I need that body though, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I always like saying this.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Our fleets of reporters are out in full force.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
For Inside Training Camp Live. It's happening. It all starts today, well,
doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
It continues today, twelve noon Eastern. Right there, smack in
the middle of the day, you're looking at Lions practice footage,
the ever healing warm up for the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The red jersey.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Stacey Dale's was already with us on GMFB, which means
she is already stationed for Inside Training Camp Live. It's
all rolling on today NFL networking of a plus New
Eastern Let's.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Check in on the New York Giant. Shall we up there?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
The quarterbacks again warming up Russ Soll Wilson. Now we're
in that blue Helmet and Wilson had some takes on
how training camp has started with a new team for
him once again as QB one.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Coach Dave Ball is awesome.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Man.
Speaker 17 (39:34):
He's so he's so cerebral, but he's also so competitive,
and I'm competitive. Anybody knows me, Like, I just want
every play to be right, you know, for us to
be excellent and to us to bring that edge and practice.
I mean, we got to make like I said, practice
harder than the game and that that feeling of what
a game championship moment feels like. And I think Coach
da Ball does a great job that all the way
from the meeting room and even in OTAs and what
(39:56):
the level of communication and level of accountability, level communication,
the level of focus that he wants us to have
and wants us to bring. And I think that it
Mary's up really well. And so I love Coach Dabs
and what he's doing and how he's setting us up
for success.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
I don't know if it's the Red Jersey, but that
Russell Wilson experience with the Giants, Kyle, it's like all
I want to talk about and all I want to
focus on.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Same for you, Yeah, I mean I don't know what
else they're doing at the running game. I don't know
if they have any new running backs from Arizona State,
but just all I want to talk aboutout No, I don't, guys,
you know my affection from for Cam Scattabu, the rookie
running mary is what's up forty four? And listen, he's
showing the energy, he's showing the personality. He's hanging with
Jackson Dart constantly. But then you see headlines like the
(40:38):
USA today that says Cam Scataboo quote seemingly everywhere in
Giants camp. And that's what I'm talking about. He caught
a touchdown pass from Jackson Dart, he caught a touchdown
pass from Jamis Winston. He is energetic, He is everything
you want him to be. And I'm telling you, guys,
I'm not just doing stick here. We're all looking at
all these high profile rookies in the first round and
(41:00):
that's fine, they'll be great. Watch a month into this season,
We're like, Wow, Scatapoo, for real, I Am not just
making jokes and bouncing off the walls. This guy can
play and they're going to use him. And Davil loves him.
I'm telling you, scataboo macau.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
How are the calves? Y'all know you're a calf guy.
How are the calves?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
He gets to see him in person on Friday.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It's it's the best calves since and Ergo. That's what
we want. They look great.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
Fantastic calv guy, Big calf guy.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Back You're backpacks back to school for Good Morning Football.
It's Monday, July twenty eighth. I don't care when your kids'
school starts. I care about today. It's the first day
of GMFB season. Kyle's wearing Apolo. Everything's very alarming. Math
I sayo is here? Isaiah standback as well. We're all
hanging in La Kyle back in his office space in
Lower Manhattan.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
Kyle back from Latrolle was it?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I made it back from Western Pennsylvania, and guys, I
can't believe this is true. Tell me if I'm wrong.
We got Chargers Lions on Thursday night? Is that really true?
Is it Monday night? We have a game on Thursday.
I don't care if it's preseason posts. We got a game.
Let's talk some football.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's Good Morning Football starting the show.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
You heard me say it?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Oxnard, Elsa Gundo, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. That's where this crew was
stationed for back Together weekend. So in case anyone's confused,
the Dallas Cowboys do practice in Oxtar and Isaiah, you
were there because you're a Cowboys guy.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Absolutely, Yeah, Dallas is always a good time. You know,
fans are always going to show up in detail, Detown, Oxnard,
doesn't matter where they're at, they travel deep. But yeah,
they kicked it off and they had some paths on,
so they were out there banging around.
Speaker 6 (01:30):
You got to hear some paths hidden.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
We always liked that time of the year because we know.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
That football is near. Cowboys are looking good. We'll talk
about it though.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Right, Okay, good Manson and I were at Chargers camp,
and Kyle, I know now we can hear you, So
go ahead with your diet tribe about your bus.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Jersey.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
No, I had no dietribe, Jamie. I just you just
heard that you mentioned company memo and immediately my audio
just went out.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
So's okay, perfect.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
So the company memo in the last three years had
been to start a daylight today with the Chiefs because
they would have been the defending Super Bowl champion.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
However, with the block that is not how.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
We will reference the Kansasity Chiefs today. Of course that
title goes to the Philadelphia Eagles, but it does make
the Chiefs training camp a little more fascinating.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
They are not the defending champs.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Our own Kim we checks the Steve Smith Senior caught
up with Patrick Mahomes yesterday as the chiefs QB. It
sounds ready to get back to work.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
I thought we did a lot of great things, you know, cool,
We got the referees out here, we got the pads on.
They felt the most real that we've been since the
Super Bowl. And you saw guys going hard. They're practice hard.
We had some mistakes. You saw guys learn from that,
and of course Coach Rey ordered the hottest day that
we could have for the first day of pads. You know,
he does that every year as soon as like every year.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
What an interest for you guys thought passed.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
On with first day in past the heat, you got
the refs out here.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
How would you what would you give today's grade on
on the practice?
Speaker 7 (02:49):
Yeah, I would say it was about a B B
maybe B plus. You know, there was procedural things that
we did, the referees got us on, and there were
some refs that we made mistakes offensively, But I love
how the guys competed, and I think that's something that
when you put these pads on in you're here, it's
not about making mistakes. You learned from those mistakes, how
you're going to respond And I thought the guys responded
well and we got it cleaned up as practice went on.
But there's definitely a room to improve, and that's why
(03:09):
we're here now.
Speaker 9 (03:10):
There's some rotations and some competitions on the O line.
Your protection is not all about talent. It's also about
your timing and your trust. How do you feel you're
doing with those guys getting these live reps. How long
do you think it'll take until you know they kind
of adapt to your tempo and your speeding cadence.
Speaker 7 (03:26):
I think they've done a great job so far. You know,
competition breeds excellence, and I think Coach Red always preached
to that is that you've got to go out there
and compete. And obviously today it was first day of patch.
You get a real feel. But we have a good
defensive line. We had a lot of blitzes from spats.
So these guys are gonna get tested. Coach Rees gonna
throw them into the fire and we'll see who comes
out the best man. And so I'm just excited for
the rest of the camp. How's we've build that chemistry
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and get ourselves ready to go for the season.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
The signature bounce and Patrick Mahomes walked looked very serious.
His tone and his answers was kind of intense. This
is all for late July at this point when you
look at what Patrick Mahomes had to say here, Isaiah,
what do you make of it?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
In the words of Ricky Bobby, I like the way
he's talking.
Speaker 10 (04:05):
You're talking to whatever he wants to.
Speaker 6 (04:06):
He's a winner.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
This dude's seventeen and three in the postseason. This dude
is three and one in the Super Bowl. But the
thing is that one, that one is really.
Speaker 6 (04:15):
Hanging on his shoulder right now. He doesn't like the
way that feels.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
They got scraped up by the Philadelphia Eagles last year,
and everybody knows that that is going to be his
driving force. They were not the offense that they wanted
to be last year. That is going to be his
driving force. So when you hear Patrick Mahomes talking about
how intense he is, how serious practice is, and how
they have a B or a B plus, those are
the things that are residing in his head.
Speaker 6 (04:35):
The excellence is the standard.
Speaker 5 (04:37):
I know Kyle was in Pittsburgh and you know, and
coach Thomas said the standard is a standard, but I'm
sure that Patrick Mahomes and the Ken City Chiefs have
a standard. And what they were last year they didn't
finish a job. Now he's focused again.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
I like that, Isaiah.
Speaker 11 (04:50):
And you know, for the fans at home, having reefs
at training camp, that isn't that isn't a new thing.
Usually when the pads come on on the first day,
there are refs there to help regulate the practice and
make sure that it's more organized. Now, the thing that
does stand out to me, and I've never heard this
said before other than when I had to go to
training camp, is when Patrick Mahomes brought up Andy Reid
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picking the hottest day. Now, that does stand out to
me because Sean Payton would do the same thing to
us in New Orleans, where he would pick the hardest
stage to go pads, we'll do two minute drill, we
we'll go live. And so there's a precedence that Andy
Reid I think is setting early in this training camp
to tell him, man, we're back to business like I
think we cruised for the past few years because they've
been used to winning so much that let's let's harden
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our shell a little bit, and so I like the
precedents that Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes has kind of
set for this team leading into this year.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
See, I just thought the refs were there so they
could start holding the Chief's hand even earlier this year.
Just kidding guys, just a little icebreaker at the top.
Here's here's what I think about the Chiefs and what
I'm seeing from Mahomes. This is the most interesting season
from Mahomes and the Chiefs in years, potentially even ever,
because there's so much change. The last time we saw
Patrick Mahomes play a game, he got shellacked in the
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Super Bowl and said I didn't play to my stand.
He threw an interception for the first time in almost
three hundred throws. Patrick Mahomes threw his first career playoff
pick six in twenty one playoff games. He had never
done that, and the Chiefs were broken in that game.
Now they show up and Patrick Mahomes' number one wing
man is going to be thirty six years old, his
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number one wide receiver is facing a suspension. Arguably his
best lineman is gone, and I think some of the
invincibility is gone. I think a little bit of the
aura is gone. And we know that the three peat
is gone. There's no three peet, there's no Chiefs pete.
That's all gone. What's not gone, though, is that the dynasty.
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They are still in the middle of a dynasty. Guys
Joe Montana didn't win three in a row, Terry Bradshaw did,
and Tom Brady, Troy Aikman. It's still the Chiefs. They
lost the Super Bowl, they were still in the Super Bowl.
And here's the measure of the Chiefs right now. All
those things I said about this guy's gone, and this
guy's old, and this guy this the Chiefs Open, Chargers Eagles,
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Charger's Eagles. It's not great. Would anybody have the gall
to say I think the Chiefs are going to be
ze two to start the season. Hell no, And that's
playing against the Super Bowl champ and a continually ascending
Chargers team coach by Jim Harbaugh. I would never say
that about them. Despite all that I still listed. They're
still the Chiefs. They are still in the middle of
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the dynasty. Just a lot has felt like it's changed
outside of that since that Super Bowl. And it's the
most interesting season I can remember from them in years.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
And how Jarring. It is for them as well.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I would think, even though travel's all the same, that
first game against Chargers has to happen in Sapaalo, Brazil,
and that doesn't make that second week any easier on
the Kansas City Chiefs. Now they had to face the Eagles,
who rolled through the NFC on the way to the
Super Bowl. They didn't have to face the Detroit Lions.
So the Lions were decimated with injury at the end
of last season. Aiden Hutchinson on that list. He's back
and ready to go for twenty twenty five. He's put
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the work in after recovering from the old classic tibfib
if you will, and his head coach Dan Campbell can
certainly see it.
Speaker 12 (08:02):
This guy is all about business. He knows how hard
he tried to work to get back for the playoffs.
I mean he was grinding that whole time and then
you know we fell short there. But he was still
putting in the work and while everybody else was on vacation,
not that they weren't working, he was up here grinding. Man,
getting back with our group. You know, Brett Fisher did
a hell of a job with him, and he's a worker.
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That's all that matters. Man. He works on every little thing.
He doesn't get down in the dumps, he doesn't have
bad days, and because of that, he just he continues
to get better.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's a great take, and the fact that your coach
is aware that you're in the building is vital, especially
for the Lions and Aden Hudginson's Stacy Dale's let's bring
you into the conversation. You are at Lions training camp
this morning. I see players already arriving walking behind you, Stacy.
I have to ask, first and foremost.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
How hot is it there?
Speaker 13 (08:51):
Well, Jame, I've been melting for three days here in
the Midwest and Eastern time zone, so like kind of
over the humidity, but it's we're actually under a heat
advisory here at Allen Park as we get ready for camp.
What news is they practice early? That's a Dan Campbell
standard and am and rob By the way players walking
behind me just Aman ros Saint Brown.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Sure, classic, Well, let's talk Dan Campbell. Since he had
that decision. He may have picked the hottest day like
Andy Reid, but at least he shifts it up a
little bit. Talking about Aiden Hutchinson, coach always gives off,
great vibes and great takes on one of his star
defensive players. What's this showing up like in Detroit? How
does this track for the Lions through start a training camp?
Speaker 13 (09:28):
Yeah, Jamie, oh, and those of you on the set,
I want to put this in perspective. We're not necessarily
talking about comeback player of the year at this point
with Aiden Hutchinson. We're talking about defensive player of the year.
That's how good they think he can be coming into
this season. He took the pads off, or excuse me,
took the gloves off back in OTAs when he got
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bumped around a little bit. Obviously there are no pads,
speaking of pads, but you know, you get your footstepped
on here and there, and he was ready to go.
He literally has attacked this rehab after that horrific leg
injury from his season ago. And just to further put
this in perspective, he played five games right a season
ago eight in Hutchinson as he gets ready to go
into his fourth season. They had the bye in week five,
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they go into week six, he suffers the injury. He
had seven and a half sacks through those five games,
seven tackles for loss, and seventeen quarterback hits. He was
on pace for somewhere like, let's put a guess on it,
fifteen sixteen sacks and that was coming off his previous
season of.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Eleven and a half sacks.
Speaker 13 (10:34):
He looks fantastic and he is really the cornerstone of
this defense.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
Stacy big question.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
I know there's a lot of heat and I saw
a clip that Lions were going live like they were
tackling earlier in the week. What are the sights and
sound as far as the physicality of that camp, because
we know Dan Quinn likes to go live a lot
during his camp.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Yes, Coach Campbell loves to and at the same time,
you got to be super smart about it because that's
kind of the culture that he is. It's a fantastic question.
It's the culture he's established here in Detroit. They got
to pull these guys back a bit until they put
the pads on and they didn't actually practice yesterday, but
things have gotten chippy.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's what the players want.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
That's the mindset of these offensive been defensive coordinators, and
it's something certainly Dan Campbell doesn't want a Taylor back.
Got to be careful though, guys We got a long
stretch here in training camp and they play a game
in what.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Is it, four days?
Speaker 13 (11:25):
The Hall of Fame game is coming up, and so
they got to be careful about what they're doing out here.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
Stacey. It's great to see you there, and I know
we're going to snap our fingers and you're going to
be standing in the dark in the stadium on Thanksgiving
in front of the marching band as they warm up
talking about the Lions like you are every single year
like a boss. I asked, I bring that up because
I want to know this, Stacy. You've covered this team
for a long time, the pre Campbell, the dark years,
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all of that, and now this great ascension. What is
different this year that you're picking up in twenty twenty five.
We've been through the introductory period with Campbell, they've won.
What are you seen out there that's different that you
haven't seen before.
Speaker 13 (12:02):
Well, it's a really interesting question that you raise, Kyle,
because this thing has become a well oiled machine with
Dan Campbell, and people are talking habitually about the coordinator changes.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Right, you lose.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
Ben Johnson and all of a sudden, Johnny Morton steps in.
You lose Aaron Glenn and all of a sudden, Kelvin
Shepherd steps in, zero drop off, same personnel in many respects,
and obviously they've added some pieces, but they feel really
good about the continuity, and they feel really good about
how fine tune this thing is. I was talking to
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somebody in the league who was here at the start
of camp, and when you look at some new regimes
around the NFL and you consider this regime, Dan has
this thing marching in a really strong and very directed,
very intentional sort of flow. And so that's what the
players pick up on. Like you talk to any of
these veterans, I'm and Rob Saint Brown just walk behind us.
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They feel really good about this offense. There's been a
lot said about Johnny Morton taking over with Jared Goff.
Here's what's really important, and this is something a lot
of people haven't talked about, but as I've spoken of
folks here with the Lions, he was here in twenty
twenty two.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
He was a senior.
Speaker 13 (13:11):
Offensive assistant and that was the same year that the
great offensive mind, Ben Johnson took over, who's now the
head coach with the Chicago Bears, and Johnny Morton was
instrumental in help build and helping to build that offensive
game plan and that sort of scheme that Jared Goff
became so good in. So there's going to be a
lot of carryover obviously for Ben Johnson's offense. Johnny Morton's
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going to put his stamp on it, but he's been
here and he knows these guys, and he and Jared
Goff have a really good relationship.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Stacy. Everything I'm hearing about the Lions and really.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
About the web that is now weaving throughout the NFC North,
I am just glad that you are going to be
there to hold our hand through all this, because if
it is a massive game in the NFC North, Stacy
Dale is going to be all over at Stacy, stay cool,
try to stay dry. It's a great sleeveless polo. Thanks
again to Tommy Muhammad. Trading Camp Live comes your way
at noon Eastern. We will be roaming around NFL training
camps for eight hours. Is clocket with people like that,
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and we were all part of Back Together weekend over
the weekend.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Including a face and a name that.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
You have not heard nearly enough, but for a good
reason over the summer, Sherry Burst is back on GMSB Cherry,
the real question is schematically, how is it going from
zone parenting to a mandaman?
Speaker 3 (14:24):
You got two kids now, yeah, I.
Speaker 14 (14:26):
Told the parallel parenting. I have the baby, my husband
has the toddlers. Somehow we have survived. Yes, it's been
so wonderful. I have been what time is it been
up about this time?
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Yes, morning, over the last couple of months.
Speaker 14 (14:38):
Yeah, sure, great, we'll call it that work coffee.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Please.
Speaker 14 (14:43):
It's so great to see you guys. It's neat to
be back. Was that the forty nine ers this weekend?
Not to brag, it was a little chilly, okay, but
it's awesome that we're ready to get going.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, we do have the long sleeve polos in case
you need to be warming up so and they're not
as used as often as they should be.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
But Cherry Burst, wonderful to see you. We're going to
hear from Sherry, George.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Kittle and you hung out with stop Christian McCaffrey the
New as well.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Cherry mentioned it.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
We're gonna check in on the forty nine ers camp.
We're gonna hear from those guys. What else happened?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Kyle?
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Have you ever been to Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Arnold Palmer is
from there. So it's rolling rock beer. And that's where
the Steelers. My there is. That's the newest inhabitant. There's
a lot of them, though I shouldn't say that. Jalen Ramsey,
DK Metcalf. There's DK right there, looking monstros as always.
I spoke to all these guys. I sat with that guy.
I'm gonna debrief all of the things I learned, saw
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and felt in Steelers camp right after this, including Rogers
response to Terry Bradshaw's visceration of him JIMFB right after this,
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
We're not gonna fight about a lot of things, but
if you reheat an egg, then I'm gonna throw hands.
Why is Kyle Brandt walking through the streets of western
Pennsylvania with a two box? And Kyle, if you say
that's breakfast, I'm gonna have to fight you for three
thousand miles away.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Pay no attention to the tourist walking through the plains
of western Pennsylvania in the rain, on the side of
the road with a to go box from breakfast. Jamie,
you know what's in that box?
Speaker 10 (16:21):
Tell me Scrapple Scrapple.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Was so good that I took it with me to go.
I had just been at this beautiful, charming American diner
in which the tone was set in western Pennsylvania. When
the lady comes and says, takes your drink orders, I say,
can I have some coffee? And like an idiot, I said,
do you have almond milk? And she's like, no, honey.
I was like, that's right, Donna, it's not that the place.
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No almond milk, just cow milk. And then we walked home,
my son and I in the rain and I had
to go. But it was just like, welcome to Latrobe.
But the other welcome I got was across the board
from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Well not only incredibly professional, hospitable.
There's a lot to talk about there now because it's
Mike Tomlin's nineteenth training camp, But none of them have
been like this. Everybody has new faces. I don't know
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if anybody has new household famous faces like the Steelers
do Jalen Ramsey, DK Metcalf, John new Smith all below
the fold because there is a new starting quarterback and
he has been in this league more than two decades.
I got to sit with the oldest player in the
National Football League, and here's a bit of myself and
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number eight for the Pittsburgh Steelers twenty one seasons CSI
couldn't do it, gun Smoke, couldn't do it. This guy's
been on the air as long as Gray's Anatomy. It
is number eight for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Aaron Rodgers, what's up, dude?
That sounds kind of weird, isn't it, doesn't it? Gray's
Anatomy is still on too, still on. That's impressive. How's life?
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It's good.
Speaker 15 (17:49):
I didn't know what to expect getting hear you last Tuesday,
checking to the dorms, realizing I was sharing a bathroom
in a shower. But man, I missed it. I really did.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
Jim Carrey had this quote when he was thinking about retiring,
and Jim Carrey said, I've done enough enough. I am enough.
As a fan of yours, that was how I felt
about you last year, twenty years retired. I did you, Yeah,
I'm ready. You weren't ready you? And DeShawn Yeah, DeShawn too.
I didn't follow that, but I'm like, I've seen enough.
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He's amazing, He's done everything. It wasn't enough for you, though,
why not?
Speaker 15 (18:23):
I fell in love with this game when I was
six years old, and I wanted to have that closure
and get back to the game one more time the
way that it's given to me as I thought about
my life, Really, everything special in my life is because
of this game, and I want to give back to
it one more time and have fun with it. And
I just felt like this is what I was supposed
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to do.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
To that point. I did a project recently good Morning Football,
where I looked at all of the players who got
married in the offseason in this era, and across the board, overwhelmingly,
the next football season they played were incredible, like career
highs across the board. And I don't think it's a coincidence,
including guys you know, like Davante, you showed up and
said you got married in the off season. How does
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it change how you feel as a man, and how might.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
It affect your play?
Speaker 15 (19:10):
How much time do you have?
Speaker 1 (19:12):
Whatever you want? Buddy? It's you.
Speaker 15 (19:13):
You know, when you meet the right one and you're
with the right one, your whole world changes in a second.
And to have that person that unconditionally loves you behind
the scenes There's no better feeling in the world. When
you have that stability and that rock behind you at
the house, you feel like you could do anything.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
I'm always very amused, Aaron, by your observations of the media. Okay,
everybody's gonna get a little squirreling. Now someone had a
nuclear take on you. Terry Bradshaw Number twelve from the Steelers.
Terry Bradshaw says, rogers to the Steelers. I wrote it
down because I want to get it right. It's a joke.
Stay in California, chew on bark and whisper to the gods.
Speaker 15 (20:01):
I whispered to the gods every single day, Damn right.
I've known Terry for a long time being a part
of Fox. Terry's a legend. He's an absolute legend. He
won four Super Bowls, He's had a legendary career in
the media. But Terry, like a lot of people, doesn't
know me, and so he's got an idea of what
he thinks about me based on what I've done, the documentary,
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what I've said, Darkness, Retreat, whatever the hell you want
to talk about. I'd love to get to know Terry
on a deeper level, and I feel like, if he
gave me a chance to get to know him, they
would have a good friendship. Because for me, I have
nothing but the utmost amount of respect and deference for
what the greats have done, because they laid the foundation
for us to be able to play in this great game,
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to be paid like kings, and to carry on the
tradition of excellence that guys like the Bradschids of the
world in the seventies, because of how they played and
how they carried themselves, they were able to have this
opportunity to still play this great game, to get paid
really well, to set ourselves up for our future. So
I'd love to get to Notary on a deeper level
if he's open to it, and maybe we can go
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choose some bark or whatever the hell he's talking about together.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
Sounds like fun. Yeah, I'll choose some bark any day.
To sign me up for that. It was a first class,
top shelf response from Rogers to the Bradshaw line. And
you know, I look at Rogers right now and there's
that was about half of what we talked about. If
you want the whole thing, it's on my social I
think of what Mike Tomlin likes to say, and one
of those tomlinisms is we want volunteers, not hostages. In
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other words, people who want to be there. Rogers has
actually no need to be there whatsoever. He doesn't need
to make money, he doesn't need to prove anything, he
doesn't need to get in the Hall of Fame, none
of that. He's playing his twenty first season because he
really likes Tomlin and he wants to keep playing ball.
That is the very definition of volunteers, not hostages. And
Rogers aura vibes, whatever you want to call it was
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really great. It was cool to soak up Kyle.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It was so well done. You could have as many.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
People will said what's your twenty one feel like? Or
so you got married? What's the response? And you didn't
have to quote the actual Terry Bradshaw take to the
man's face.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
It took some guts to do that.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well done, but you're right, we didn't get to see
the entire thing. I would just like a brief recap
from you on the Nobu experience that the Steelers got
with their new guy Rodgers, because we heard for a year,
we heard a couple years back that the Jets they
flew in and.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
They're having the Malibu experience.
Speaker 2 (22:24):
Rogers is like, no, come to vote, no boo, I'm
going to show you on Malibu the way I do
it with some dolphins too.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Yeah. So Rogers hosted the wide receivers, several of them,
and he tells this amazing story that at least one
of the wide receivers had never seen the ocean, any ocean,
the Pacific ocean. And so they're sitting there at NOBU.
Imagine you've never seen the ocean. You're overlooking the Pacific
at this super fancy, fancy sushi place. And as they're
watching out there and eating, dolphins start swimming by and
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cascading through the water. And this wide receiver suggests that
or even accused Rogers of arranging the dolphins, hiring or wrangling.
Did you set this up? And he's like, I did
not set up the dolphins, dude. But that's the kind
of like bonding experience they had, and that just says it.
I'll imagine you're forty one years old and you live
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in Malibu and here's your wide receiver twenty three or something.
Did you set up the dolphins, dude? I did not.
Just a great little chance.
Speaker 6 (23:24):
Man.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
First of all, Kyle, great interview with Aaron Rodgers. But
for those that didn't get the opportunity to tune in,
that wasn't the only great interview that you had. You
also had an opportunity to sit down with the man himself,
mister Mike Tomlin, who has no losing seasons during his
time there. What was that experience like learning from Mike
Tomlin and hearing all about the Mike Tomlin sisms.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Well, if you're sitting at home and you're a fan,
or you're someone in media like me who has never
sat with Mike Tomlin, you're obviously aware of him, the reputation,
the aura, all that. I can only tell you that
the second he sits down, there is an electricity. And
I was really really taken aback by his presence, by
his warmth, which doesn't get his credited. I mean, it
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was the easiest interview I've ever done because he just
sits there. Every single thing he says is compelling, every
single thing is intense. And you know, listen, I said
to him, I said, coach, nobody can say your name
and media without someone immediately saying he's never had a
losing season. This is this fact that just follows you around.
I think your supporters use it in a weird way.
I think your detractors use it. It means a lot
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of different things to different people. What does it mean
to you? And he is like, not much, really not much.
You know, a lot of that is a different past.
We don't use a cumulative approach here at the Pittsburgh Steelers.
And let's be honest. Some of the players I'm coaching
right now, they were in car seats when that streak started.
So I don't go around puffing my chest out about that.
It was another incredible answer. He knows what time it is.
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He knows the Steelers are in a tough time right now.
They haven't won a playoff game in a long time.
He knows, and he looks around the field that those
those players that they brought in, they violate the Steeler
way of plug and play. That's unusual too. Miga Fitzpatrick
is just gone. Jalen Ramsey is just there. And I
think it's because I understand what time it is and
it's not working the way they need it to and
they need to make some changes. Tomlin was electric, even
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someone who's done this a long time like me. And
it's that with a lot of coaches and a lot
of players different, different, different and I see why he
gets the love he gets there. He deserves it.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Yeah, KB, you talked about people that have come and
gone and plugging playing all of that. One guy that
is loved in the Brent House that also plays for
the Steelers as TJ. Watt, tell us a little bit
about him and how that defense is looking, because there's
been some highlights coming out of camp where they're looking
pretty good early on.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Well, I mean TJ is like the happiest guy in camp.
As you can imagine, this guy's zooming around on an
e bike. He's saying hi to everybody, is signing autographs.
He just got the huge contract and he's arguably one
of the top five best players in the entire NFL.
But I have to make this, I have to make
this personal. I have a son who's going into sixth grade,
and my son, Calvin's hero hero is TJ.
Speaker 6 (25:57):
Watt.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
It's not just his favorite football player, he's his favorites athlete,
his favorite public figure. Calvin dresses up TJ. Watt for Halloween.
Run the picture this like his whole room is TJ.
Watt the towel, and then on Halloween he's got the
arm sleeve, He's got the pains, got everything like this.
This is an incredible culmination for me that he gets
to meet his hero. And I think people at home
(26:19):
should know. You see these guys as athletes, and you
see all this money they make. When I have a sit,
when I have an exchange like I did with TJ. Watt,
he was so kind and so generous and so cool
and so well beyond the call of duty. My son
was trembling when he walked away from him. He was
he was walking on air. And there is still a
(26:40):
time in twenty twenty five when little kids meet their
heroes and they live up to all their expectations. I
was so taken aback and so thankful to TJ, to
everybody with the Steelers from making that moment for me happen.
We were there to work, but an eleven year old
kid had his absolute life made by meeting his hero,
and I'm so thankful for it.
Speaker 2 (26:59):
I really miss saying this. Sherry Burris is joining us
on the show now, back after after a couple months
having a baby in marsh Cherry. We missed you you
were your epic return to the network was part of
Back Together Weekend.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Where did you go? Who did you see?
Speaker 2 (27:13):
And how is it leaving the baby for the first time.
Speaker 6 (27:16):
It's really good to see you, guys.
Speaker 14 (27:17):
I cried only a couple times yesterday leaving the baby
for the first time. So this is day one back
like part B right. Got to go to San Francisco
forty nine Ers yesterday. Incredible to be back for Back
Together Weekend. It's a little brisk in the Bay Area,
and it was really cool to start the season at
the forty nine ers because guys, the Super Bowl is
at Levi Stadium. Seven months more football then we'll figure
(27:40):
out who's playing in that game.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
But starting here.
Speaker 14 (27:42):
George Kittle, he has been a key piece of this offense,
signed the contract extension in the offseason. He said it
is great to get that done for the.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
First time in his career.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
He remembers there's no quarterback battle rock party securing that
position looking good, also signing a contract extension. A lot
of questions though about the wide receivers.
Speaker 3 (28:03):
But I had a really great.
Speaker 14 (28:04):
Conversation with the forty nine ers tight end take a lesson.
Speaker 16 (28:07):
It was one of my first years of that quarterback
controversy of my entire career, which is really exciting. Good
job Kyle and John in the front office, so that's
been really fun. And just like when you get all
the contracts and stuff done before OTAs or during OTIS,
then like that whole rest of the off season you
just focus on football.
Speaker 14 (28:23):
The Super Bowl is going to be hosted with your
year right right there, it's my home office. What is
it going to take for you guys to be playing
that game early February here in your bound backyard.
Speaker 6 (28:32):
Oh great question. Let's see.
Speaker 16 (28:35):
In my personal opinion, I think we still have a
fantastic offense. I know we lost, you know, two key
pieces of our offense. Debo Harder replaced Deebo, one of
my favorite teammates, just an absolute problem, the matchup problem,
all the things we did with him in the backfield
and moving them around and stuff.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
So that's hard to replace.
Speaker 16 (28:50):
And then we lost Aaron Banks to the Packers, so
happy for him to go out there and get paid
much deserved. I think the guys that you know have
replaced those two players are both very solid players, and
we have like guys that can take over and take
some of those reps. But I also think it'll be
a really good challenge for you know, Shanahan to kind
of change your offense up a little bit because you
can't rely on Deebo to you know, play running back
in the slot stuff. So I think it'll be good
for our entire offense and then on defense for us
(29:12):
to win a lot of games. We have a lot
of young guys and a lot of young guys need
to step up. A lot of the young guys need
to play at a high level early and so hopefully
this training camp will prepare them to do that.
Speaker 14 (29:21):
Fun one for you. I saw also online you took
up the camera. You were behind the scenes a little
excellent work.
Speaker 6 (29:27):
I tried my best. Yeah, I'll do better.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
So I can't switch positions with you.
Speaker 14 (29:31):
I can't play football, but if you were in my shoes,
yes you're on the front of the camera. Now, what
questions are you asking about this forty nine Ers team
this season?
Speaker 16 (29:37):
I would ask, hey, Fred Warner, what are your thoughts
in the defense? Who do you think specifically needs to
step up? And what are your favorite competition battles going
on through training camp? Who are you going to have
your eyes on and then on offense, what offensive players,
what offensive linemen are you really watching? They're going to
fill those holes, you know? And do you have a
six guy? Do you have a swing tackle? Do you
(29:57):
have guys that can step up if somebody goes down?
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Awesome?
Speaker 14 (30:00):
Well, we can't wait to see those questions answer. George
stanks for the time.
Speaker 16 (30:02):
I'm not going to answer, but somebody will.
Speaker 14 (30:05):
Oh, broadcast food Camp, when is that?
Speaker 3 (30:07):
We need to get George Kittle in here.
Speaker 14 (30:09):
I was so nervous though, actually for that Kittle really
can kind of be like you know, random, kind of
keeps you on your toes. So we appreciate the time
with George. There was no question about meeting Christian McCaffrey though.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
It was really cool.
Speaker 14 (30:22):
He just welcomed the daughter as we know him and
his wife, Olivia. This is the first time I got
to meet McCaffrey, and I gave him a little gift
on behalf of NFL Network GMFB. You guys were so
welcoming and loving giving us a GMF baby onesie, so
we made sure.
Speaker 3 (30:38):
Collette McCaffrey had one.
Speaker 14 (30:40):
Also made sure to ask mom is doing well? So
Olivia hope you're taking care of yourself. Girl Collet, Welcome
to the world. Happy birthday. I'm sure he is also
not getting any sleep with a newborn at home, but
as you guys know, that's just kind of part for
the course as we all have kids.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yeah, absolutely, sheery. Good job waiting to get the branding
out there on the babies. It's not girls us, it's
the NFL player's babies. One cherry. Awesome to have you back.
Good job getting some of those takes from those guys
and Kittle. Look out, gentlemen at the table. You've been
warned because Kittle's ready.
Speaker 3 (31:13):
Look at this guy.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
It's mister Lambeau leave himself through a Butler. He joined
us on the show from the NFL Draft in late April.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
He's back.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
We get to talk to him and uh much more
to come on GMFB this hour. Gam a baby so sweet.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
Good morning football. Nor Butler from the Lightsome Butler. It
makes him pay for it.
Speaker 6 (31:48):
You talk about his student des one right there.
Speaker 10 (31:52):
Intercepted.
Speaker 13 (31:53):
Wow, what a.
Speaker 6 (31:54):
Great interception by Buttle.
Speaker 10 (31:57):
Thoty my comb or ball it crown.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
You could not watch a Packers game in the nineties
for five seconds without that guy. Making a play. It's
just how it was back then. It's number thirty six
for the Green Bay Packers. It's Leroy Butler, the profile
Hall of Famer.
Speaker 6 (32:15):
What's up, Lroy?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
How are we doing right.
Speaker 1 (32:19):
For the young ones? Larroy? They may not know that
you are the og, you are the godfather, you are
the Thomas Edison of the Lambeau Leap. We have some
new Packers this year, as we do every year, but
some high profile guys on offense. Especially what would you
say to them and how to do the Lambeau Leap
and maybe how not to do it?
Speaker 8 (32:37):
Well, that's a great question because I think sometimes when
you're a rookie, you hear about it, but you really
don't know. I would suggest to them if you're a
defensive player.
Speaker 6 (32:48):
We do have a low wall for defensive player. We're
not lay.
Speaker 10 (32:54):
Offensive players.
Speaker 8 (32:55):
It doesn't matter, but it does help if the fan
is paying attention, because sometimes they have the beer in
their hand and then I'm not giving up my broad
and beer.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
They're gonna move. The rest of the people pull you up.
Speaker 8 (33:12):
And it's about being on top of the wall with
our shareholders because we don't have an owner. It policy
is our new president. But anytime you can say hot
to and fans is awesome.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
No, I think game ball every time for a Packers
home game goes to the fan that sacrifices the spotted
cow in order to lift the fan up. It's I
think it's the ultimate active teammate. Leroy, so wonderful to
see you. Last we hung out. It was at the
NFL Draft and it was in Green Bay, and it
was such an awesome kind of start for the season,
(33:42):
especially when the team spent their first round pick on
a wide receiver. Training camp has started. Training camp is
all about the H word, hope, how we feeling, what's
our hopeful scale act in terms of this Packers offense,
this team this season.
Speaker 8 (33:56):
That's why I love this show because you ask amazing
questions because I like to hear that kind of pressure.
Let's be honest, we got to be Detroit. I want
to play the Commanders. Will guess what that the second game, Well,
Martin Murphy, I'll going president said after twenty three years,
(34:17):
like you pointed out, we have a receiver in the
first round.
Speaker 7 (34:20):
The crowd went crazy.
Speaker 8 (34:22):
Now I will say this though, Jordan love to me,
I'm excited about I took him with the seventh pick
in my fantasy draft. Any time you get married, you
play out of your mind. So I'm expecting him in
that third year to take that No. Puny attended that
leap into the upper echelon quarterbacks in battle for a championship.
Speaker 6 (34:46):
It's called tattletown for a reason.
Speaker 5 (34:49):
Man, listen, I know you want to dance and go away,
but I'm not gonna let it go away.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
I need you to hit that thing one more time
for me.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Just you gotta bring that thing back.
Speaker 6 (34:58):
I just need to see it.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
They put my spleen.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
I turn fifty seven Saturday already.
Speaker 5 (35:07):
Man, three years ago you got your gold jacket, but
you have a teammate in Sterling Sharp who is going
to be getting his this week.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
Right. So with that being said, for those young.
Speaker 5 (35:18):
Bucks that aren't necessarily up on his game and what
he was like, please let everybody know what type of
player he was.
Speaker 8 (35:24):
I'll make this real quick because I love Sterling because
ever since I met him, I study how to cover people.
It was something you know that in basketball they have
the crossover, Like who did it?
Speaker 1 (35:37):
You know?
Speaker 8 (35:37):
Tim Hardaway, Aibody the way not the Internet, Sterling Sharp
invented what we call the clamp and advice.
Speaker 10 (35:49):
Because two people was committed to.
Speaker 8 (35:52):
Him, and he told Brad Faire, I don't care throw
me the ball. I said, why do you not care
if you're double? Because I can beat you guys. I'm
like sterling, how break this down? I attacked the weakest guy.
Weekest cover guys is safety, The weakest tackler.
Speaker 6 (36:13):
Is the corner.
Speaker 10 (36:15):
Pends on what the route is.
Speaker 8 (36:18):
Okay, it makes sense now, So I'm so happy he
gets a chance to get into the Pro Football Hall
of Fame with all the other great receivers that he
played with in the nineties because he had one hundred
catches when it was hard Leroy.
Speaker 11 (36:30):
So there's another titan that's in the going into a
hall of fame. And I played with played against him
in practice every single day, and that's Antonio Gates. You
going against Sharp every single day in practice. Give us
you must have some memories of going up against this
guy in practice.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
What are some of those?
Speaker 6 (36:46):
Well, first of.
Speaker 8 (36:46):
All, I'm upset because I told the producer to put
my head on your body.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I don't know if y'all can google that. Lee Haney
was his bodybuilder.
Speaker 8 (36:59):
And shout out to rest of peat Hulk and these
big muscular guys. I was going to the waiting room,
so still didn't end up bitch of four o five,
I said, I'm just doing one eighty five. I'm shoving
match with him, and this is true story my rookie year.
Speaker 1 (37:15):
They threw a hitch round.
Speaker 6 (37:16):
I was a corner and I ran utter the attack
and I.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yell down, help do that. In the pro I said, man,
I'm one hundred.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
From Duba County.
Speaker 10 (37:29):
Help.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
I was just unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Just sometimes you need help.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
More people.
Speaker 1 (37:41):
Help people. Right, You're right, you're dude, You're a National Treasurer.
You're You're already in the Hall of Fame for guests
on this show. And speaking of help, I know you're
going to be giving Sterling a lot of help doing
this thing and the media because Sterling is kind of
(38:02):
a guy let his play talk for himself. I know
you're very good at that.
Speaker 8 (38:05):
Is that accurate, cal That's such a platinum question because
I want people to embrace him because he really is
shocked by this. He never really want this was not
his goal, but sometimes I told him, and God is good.
Speaker 10 (38:20):
My mom's my herote. Today's her birthday.
Speaker 6 (38:22):
She passed in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 8 (38:24):
Sometimes it's not up to you, but now you're want
of four hundred people to ever play in the National
Football League.
Speaker 6 (38:33):
Embrace it.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
We embrace you, Loroi Butler. You're the man at number
thirty six, a legends, one of our favorites, and enjoy
enjoyed this whole process because you've really earned it. Thank
you so much, ma'amor I need that body though, yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I always like saying this.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Our fleets of reporters are out in full force.
Speaker 3 (38:51):
For Inside Training Camp Live. It's happening. It all starts today, well,
doesn't start.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
It continues today, twelve noon Eastern. Right there, smack in
the middle of the day, you're looking at Lions practice footage,
the ever healing warm up for the quarterbacks.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
The red jersey.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Stacey Dale's was already with us on GMFB, which means
she is already stationed for Inside Training Camp Live. It's
all rolling on today NFL networking of a plus New
Eastern Let's.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
Check in on the New York Giant. Shall we up there?
Speaker 2 (39:21):
The quarterbacks again warming up Russ Soll Wilson. Now we're
in that blue Helmet and Wilson had some takes on
how training camp has started with a new team for
him once again as QB one.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Coach Dave Ball is awesome.
Speaker 8 (39:34):
Man.
Speaker 17 (39:34):
He's so he's so cerebral, but he's also so competitive,
and I'm competitive. Anybody knows me, Like, I just want
every play to be right, you know, for us to
be excellent and to us to bring that edge and practice.
I mean, we got to make like I said, practice
harder than the game and that that feeling of what
a game championship moment feels like. And I think Coach
da Ball does a great job that all the way
from the meeting room and even in OTAs and what
(39:56):
the level of communication and level of accountability, level communication,
the level of focus that he wants us to have
and wants us to bring. And I think that it
Mary's up really well. And so I love Coach Dabs
and what he's doing and how he's setting us up
for success.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
I don't know if it's the Red Jersey, but that
Russell Wilson experience with the Giants, Kyle, it's like all
I want to talk about and all I want to
focus on.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Same for you, Yeah, I mean I don't know what
else they're doing at the running game. I don't know
if they have any new running backs from Arizona State,
but just all I want to talk aboutout No, I don't, guys,
you know my affection from for Cam Scattabu, the rookie
running mary is what's up forty four? And listen, he's
showing the energy, he's showing the personality. He's hanging with
Jackson Dart constantly. But then you see headlines like the
(40:38):
USA today that says Cam Scataboo quote seemingly everywhere in
Giants camp. And that's what I'm talking about. He caught
a touchdown pass from Jackson Dart, he caught a touchdown
pass from Jamis Winston. He is energetic, He is everything
you want him to be. And I'm telling you, guys,
I'm not just doing stick here. We're all looking at
all these high profile rookies in the first round and
(41:00):
that's fine, they'll be great. Watch a month into this season,
We're like, Wow, Scatapoo, for real, I Am not just
making jokes and bouncing off the walls. This guy can
play and they're going to use him. And Davil loves him.
I'm telling you, scataboo macau.
Speaker 6 (41:15):
How are the calves? Y'all know you're a calf guy.
How are the calves?
Speaker 3 (41:17):
He gets to see him in person on Friday.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
It's it's the best calves since and Ergo. That's what
we want. They look great.
Speaker 10 (41:28):
Fantastic calv guy, Big calf guy.
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