May 12, 2025 • 43 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast delivers the news of QB Derek Carr retiring. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Shawne Merriman, Mitch Morse, and Will Blackmon debate what the QB competition in New Orleans will look like. Which side of the ball should Travis Hunter play on this season? Plus, what is the 2024 moment that is still stuck in your mind?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Sean Merriman, Mitch Morris, Will Blackman, Welcome in morning everybody. Great, No,
we're good.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, I'm ready to rock.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, good you should be, because we just found out
a single game that's being played next year next season.
It's the Cowboys. There, it's the Eagles. This is not
oh Thanksgiving, oh an October on Sunday night football. This
is a kickoff. This is how we set the tone
start the season. Thursday, September fourth, it's the defending Super
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Bowl champions Philadelphia Eagles posting Dak Prescott and his newly
minted wide receiver room. Look at that NFC East matchup.
It's a beautiful thing. The NFL did it right. Let's
go Ian Rappaport, Good morning to you, our NFL Network
insider with us this morning rap Sheet. I'd love to
pick your brain about this game, but I think we
have a couple months to do that. Before we do,
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let's talk Pittsburgh and their ota offseason workouts are scheduled
for late May. Do we think we'll have a decision
about what free agent quarterback named Aaron Rodgers will be
doing up until that time, and will he be wearing
Steelers stripes for workouts?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, it does seem like the options for Aaron Rodgers
something we've discussed over the past course of the past
a couple of days and weeks and months, and might
discuss the eternity is It does seem Aaron Rodgers will
either play for the Pittsburgh Steelers at some point this
offseason or maybe even by the start of training camp
of twenty twenty five. Who knows or retire now. Rogers,
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in public interviews talking to Pat mcavee show, most recently
said retirement was an option. If it's ano retirement, it
does seem like these Steelers are the choice, something they
are confident in, something Art Rooney has gone public and
saying he believes will happen. The steeers of how hope
it will happen. Really, everything they've done this offseason has
been gearing toward Aaron Rodgers being their quarterback. They just
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have not gotten firm and final word from Rogers that
it is definitively his choice. No one knows for sure
why that is. No one knows for sure why the
process for Rodgers has taken so long. But from the Steelers' perspective,
even with OTA's starting relatively soon, even with mandatory mini
camp coming, they have no choice but just to wait,
and they are okay with that as long as that
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ends up with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback. Meanwhile, we
did get some finality for the New Orleans Saints. Their
ongoing saga revolving around their starting quarterback, Derek Carr has
now ended it ended this weekend with a retirement from
car He officially retired from the NFL. This is something
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these Saints announced. Car put out a statement expressing his
unwavering gratitude toward the organization, the fans, everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Who followed him.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Simply, he is stepping away. As far as the reasons why,
and this is again something that we have addressed many
times over the course of the last month or so.
Car suffered a shoulder injury late last season. He began
his rehab this season. Again, his work this season could
not get to one hundred percent. Tried an injection, tried
to rehab, try to make it go. Realize at that
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point it was not going to be one hundred percent
without surgery.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Surgery was needed.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
If that was the case, he was not going to
play against until twenty twenty six. Instead, he retires, and
the financials are important. Car gets the ten million dollars
and a roster bonus that he got earlier this offseason.
He gives back thirty million dollars that was otherwise guaranteed
to him. Gives back thirty million dollars, helps the Saints
with their salary cap space not this year the next
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year and looking like Tyler shuk as a real chance
to be their start and.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you for all of the draft quarterback conversations that
we had leading up to that weekend in Green Bay.
Having the Tyler Schuck QB one conversation was just not
one that we expected. But here we are. You could
have a lot of conversations about Derek Carr and what
he did with the Raiders and what he did with
the Saints. But in the spirit of finding out the
first game of next season, the kickoff game, let's move
the ball forward a little bit. Let's talk about what
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the Saints should do at quarterback again, Mitch Sean, Will
Blackman here, We'll all start with you. What you think
the Saints should now do? Saints Shuck should do at quarterback? Will,
what do you think, well do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Thank you, oldn I mean, yeah, I'm still surprised based
on what just happened. We just transpire, But I mean,
now you full on have a quarterback competition. Obviously you
have Spencer rightlerd there, Jake Hayner and Tyler Shook and
so yeah, you bring him in showing he was a.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
High draft pick.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But still I think it's important to for Kellen Moore
to have that quarterback competition because you just don't know
you've seen. You have film on Spencer and film on
Jake Hanner in actual games, and now you have Shook,
who is pretty much of the same age, you know,
to compete.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
So that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's it's full on open quarterback competition, and I think
that's what they should do.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Should do Shook that a Fredian slip.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Right, I think to your point, it's an open quarterback competition.
This is something that I don't think snuck up on
the Saints. Yeah, this is something that they might have
been talking about in the back. This is something that
Derek Carr is probably mulling over with his family and
the Good Lord himself on if this is something he
wants to do. And so it'll be interesting to see
what happens. Like you said, this is an old man
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in a rookie's body coming in here playing football. I
think they're not going to bring this guy in without
giving him a true opportunity, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I think. Look, I've been in a situation before.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I had a bad knee injury in two thousand and eight,
who I had to make a decision if I wanted
to play or not or get a surgery. Because when
you go down into a long rehab process. You try
to do all the banded workouts, work out the little muscle,
see if you can get through the injections. They're probably
talking about the PRP and Stem say he probably got
it all and realized he couldn't he wasn't gonna be ready.
I think this puts them in a very very bad
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situation going into the season. And I believe that they
knew a little bit earlier, they probably would have acted
a little bit differently in the draft and acted a
little bit differently during the off season. And I think
Kellen Moore is scrambling. You know, he's had justin Herbert
there with the charges now going and trying to figure
out what these guys are going to do for it.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I think they're scrambling. Yeah that hurts and Herbert, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, law to your point. Yeah, he leaves the Cowboys
to go take the OC job with the Eagles, he
wins a Super Bowl, and while he's in town, he
just so happens to stumble into a head coaching job
with the New Orleans Saints, and this is the quarterback
situation he finds himself in. Not Mitch Morris in your
final season with the kinsas City Chiefs. You were playing
on an offensive line with Alex Smith as a quarterback.
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But there was a rookie quarterback sitting on the bench
that got to watch for a year. And his name
is Patrick. His name is Patrick Mahomes. You look at
this quarterback room and the fact that they have Tyler
Schuck there, can you just speak to how beneficial it
is if a guy gets to sit and watch for
an entire season. And now this young man and Tyler
Schuck and whoever they would have picked doesn't have that luxury.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Totally.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
I think as a rookie, we can all attest your
head's in a blunder. You are absolutely going through it.
And at the quarterback position that's amplified to the tenth
degree if you have any opportunity, whether it's sitting back
behind a seasoned veteran or just going through the offense
with the coordinators, all this stuff and just seeing how
it's done. Time on task. It's not sexy, but it's
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the truth in this game. If you can get time
on task without actually having to put your foot in
the fire, if you're going to beat benefits of.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Trimmer and I've always been against rookie quarterback starting, I
don't like it. I think the development process hasn't been
there for a long time.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I've been in a situation.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Where Drew Brees was the starting quarterback, he got injured
and Philip Rivers was allowed to come off the bench, and,
believe it or not, seven games. If you sit on
the bench seven eight games or half a season in NFL,
you get a chance to catch up with the pace
up the game. You get a chance to learn to
playbook a little bit better. And Jen passed the torch.
If you're starting day one as a rookie, I mean,
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the fire is thrown at you. You're trying to figure
things out. So I've seen it first hand what it
can do for a quarterback just sitting out for a
little bit until they go and be a starter.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I had the luxury of being in Green Bay
when I was drafted there, Brett Farr was a starter,
sit on the bench and there was really zero pressure,
very zero pressure on Aaron, Like I remember two thousand
and seven Farvar's hurts or Aaron came in and you know,
played against the Cowboys. He had an unbelievable game where
we were like okay, like we see what he can do,
but again he still got to sit behind forever and
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watch what's going on. So it is beneficial when you
have a veter in the room that you can watch.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If you're a Saints fan this morning, though maybe you
feel a little up arms because decisions had to be
made a couple weeks back in Green Bay to take
a quarterback on who that would be one QB that
the Saints decided to pass up on at Shadur Sanders,
who is now checking out his locker in Cleveland. He's
beginning his career there as Rockie Minnie camp is unfolding
for the Browns right now, and Shadoor Sanders was asked
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about Tom Brady's message to him after he slid all
the way down to the fifth round and.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Last month draft, my story's gonna be similar. You know,
I was a late round drift prick. But we're here now,
so none of that stuff matters. That just mattered on
the day and I'm just excited to be hearing, ready
to work, Like my job here is to prove people wrong,
like I prove myself right. That's that's that's I and
(09:47):
I fully self belief. You know and uh what those
people say, that's that's just their opinion. So I don't
truly care. They don't really live in my mental space
about that type of stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Really doesn't do anything for me.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But thirty one other NFL teams might want to live
in their management or owners' mental space because they want
to know why they allowed that quarterback to slide the
way that he did to the third round in the
NFL Draft. Considering all the fury that we said, we
heard and saw about Shador Sanders and the fact that
he is now in a very crowded quarterback room in Cleveland.
Will do you think other teams will regret allowing that
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to happen last month?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't think teams will regret because this was such
a deep draft in other positions and guys had to
go based on their board what they needed, So I
understand why the quarterback situation was what it was for
your door.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
But I would say I do.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I watched the whole interview, and I do love how
he started off like he said, hey, there are some
things that I need to work on, and he goes
back to like, hey, but the team, like, we look good.
We did well, we practice hard, and that's how it
should be. That's what it should be for him based
on his situation, Like, that's what I would do. I
would come in there, especially I went fifth round. I
slid four rounds. Apparently I'm going there with a good attitude.
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I'm gonna work hard, I'm gonna maund my business, and
I'm just gonna get to work. And that is that
is what he's done. So I think his answers they
accept the similar part, like that's I understand him similar
terms of him working towards approved. But unless you got Belichick,
there's it's a little a little different there.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, I think it's just gonna be tough in general,
and I believe that he will be the starter at
some point, but you know, it's it's the opportunity, and
he won't have a lot of opportunity. So how it
goes is even the reps, and so how it goes
in training camp, You're gonna have the first and second
team taking most of most of the steps, and then
we start getting down to the third and fourth team
and so forth. You're practically on scout team. That's really
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where you get your reps at. And so how often
is he going to go in and start to be
able to implement what he's learning in the playbook. How
often he's going to get a chance to have a
bad day and come back the second time. Because you're
not gonna get one or two series to prove yourself.
So if you go out and have a bad day
or two, you throw some interceptions, you're off the playbook
a little bit. The next time you make an opportunity
to show where you can do again, maybe the following week,
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So you don't you don't have a lot of opportunity
in that situation.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I do. Now, I'll say this.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
I believe he will be the starter, and I believe
he is in a really good situation.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Because he's not forced to go out and perform right away.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
But I think what's going to be working against him
is his opportunity he's going to get to get on
the field to show what he can do.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
What makes you say that so confidently? He's got four
other guys in the room with him, He's got another
draft pick that was drafted ahead of him, and a
couple of veterans. Why in an eighteen seventeen game season
it should do. We're going to be a QB one
at some point.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Well, I think, for one, you're talking about Flacco being
a starter. That's not what He's forty years old now right,
so he's already he's not the long term plan no
matter how you look at it.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
So he's kind of wiped off the board.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
They're going to start looking at the second, third, and fourteen,
and so I think that you know Flacoh, because he
has experience, he's going to go on there and do
what he needs to do as a vet look good
early on. He can go and get the job done.
But he's not going to be the long term plan.
So if you're the Cleveland Browns, just start looking at okay,
second thirteen and fourteen.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
So I don't see.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Four quarterbacks in that way on the depth charge. I
look at okay, flac Oa can go out here and
get it done now. But who are we going to
move forward with behind him? And that is where your
door is going to get his opporunity to get on
a field bead.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, if I'm should door, I do see an opportunity.
You know, it was different when I was drafted to
Green Bay. I had Charles Woodson and Al Harris like
I could have wishful think it, but I know I'm
not seeing the field because we got I got too
all the famers in front of me. So with him,
like you said, Sean, I see an opportunity because you
don't know obviously with flack Old getting comeback played the year,
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you know he's familiar with that often he had great success,
but there isn't a long term option.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
So I can see what you're saying on that point.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
If I'm should do or the only thing I'm worried about.
And he does a good job of seeing to compartmentalize
everything outside of what's going on in the building winning
over your team.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Listen, the guys, the Vets left on Thursday, but they're
still watching everything that's going on. They're watching all these
interviews just like us. And I thought, to your point,
he did great. That interview is saying I have a
lot to work on, but it's the little things you
do every day to win the guys over and then
let the football thing take care of itself.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
And I know we've only seen like little clips here
and there, but it seems like that the players are
leaning towards him, they're joking around with him, They spending
a lot of time so I see the chemistry, and
at some point in time, I think that the players
in this team are going to be pushing force your door.
Especially if he looks good in camp, he looks good
early under the season, the rest of his teammates I
believe will start pushing him forward to be the starter
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at some point.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Mitch, I'm sitting here kicking around an exercise on my
little note card here, and I'm listing off the quarterbacks
that you have snapped the ball to so far. My
working list is Alex Smith, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and
Trevor Lawrence. Am I missing Nick Folesow?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Nick Foles? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That Super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
On that absolutely?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That being said, that's perfect. That's five quarterbacks, which is
the amount of quarterbacks the Cleveland Brown staff right now?
How hard does that make it for alignment, specifically a
center to figure out who the right guy is, who
the best fit for.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
The offense questions? I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And if you are a veteran center or offensive lineman,
does a coach or coordinator ever come to you you
and be like, can you what's going on out there?
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
I would say no, they never asked that. I think
what they would catch up as a little nuances how
you're communicating all that stuff. In regards to the quarterbacks
I played for, it was an embarrassment of riches. My
whole career is Mitch Morris looked a lot better from
the people he was surrounded by. And that's just the case.
But I would say the thing for especially veteran offensive
linemen or veteran players with a young guy coming in,
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big personality, unfortunately, everything's kind of set against you. If
I see one thing that I think is reinforcing what
everyone's saying, you're screwed. But if you come in here
and you show that you're wanted the guys, you're easy
to coach. We can have this communication. Especially at quarterback.
You're still the queue, I'm still the center, like so
it's still going to be a give and take. Set
the standard and just let it flow. So I think
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that's the biggest thing, is just being able to see
the same thing. And then it's the unfortunate thing of
the whole thing is it's just going to take rep
after rep, time after time until you build this rapport
that sometimes doesn't take any communication. It's very subtle and
not community.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Give yeah and to your point, both of you guys
should his last post, he posted all the rookies on
social media saying like, hey man, I'm supporting all these guys.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We had a good time.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He loves the camaraderie, he loves all that stuff. So
he is he is working the end after work in
the He's going to be in a good teammate right.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
As are we. We are being a good teammate. I
guess with the rest of our TV partners in the NFL,
we're sharing the ball in the possession. Because the twenty
twenty five NFL season is happening. We get to make
an announcement tomorrow which we're thrilled about, and before the
highly anticipated NFL schedule release, which I know you all
know is on Wednesday, May fourteen at eight pm Eastern,
which you can check out on nfl dot com slash
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Schedule release, we get to make an announcement for an
international game here on GMFB tomorrow. Stay tuned on our show.
But for the remainder of the day, we've got to
talk about the Jaguars and the fact that they have
an absolute workforce that we're not even sure what position
we're going to see him at the fact that the
Jags jumped up and got that athlete to come to
town as an incredible thing. Plus, apparently he's a great
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seat made on an airplane. I don't know if you
saw this story over the weekend. This lovely older woman
was like, look at this sweet, sweet boy, you said
next to me, He's like, well, I was, mam. I
was the number two overall pick who was perfect. Plus,
the twenty twenty four season was full of dmorable moments.
If you can't pick the Saquon Barkley reverse hurt all,
which one would you pick? What's the one that's gonna
stick in your brain for all of time to calm
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in your football memory JMFB twenty twenty four, Look Back
twenty twenty five, Spin Ahead, We're looking at everything.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Good morning football.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Time for the Roundup presented by Roundup for Lons. You
know that if you sit next to somebody on an
airplane and you take a selfie, it's gonna go on
social media and then Sandy Hawkins Combs is gonna tell
the story. I have the most wonderful flight home from Denver.
She met the nicest young man he offered to put
my bag in the overhead compartment. He was me with
the yes, ma'am, no, ma'am lo and behold. After a
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couple of other plane passengers took selfies with him, she goes,
who am I sitting next to? And he says, I'm Travis.
I was drafted by the Jags. And now she already
told her sons that she wants this Jersey United Airlines.
Thank you for my seat assignment. Okay, Sandy, we love you.
I'm so sweet. Travis Hunter, way to go. It'll be
a stand up young man.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's that's the way to do it. You know, I
tried my best to be a good seat mate on
the airplane. You usually i'm the guy where I throw
the air buds in, the headphones in. I want the
window seat. I'm on my business. But if someone catches
me before the flight leaves, you know, I'm actually I'm
actually very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You will acquies with her selfie request. Yeah, that's a
good story.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
At least he was her first class. He got the money. Now, so.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
We've been at It would have been embarrassed if he
was like an exit roll.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
So I'm like that.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
She posted thirty two a. All right, So the Jags,
it sounds like he was working his way back from
Colorado to Jacksonville to hit up Jags rookie mini camp
over the weekend. And that was Travis Hunter, the second
overall pick. He's been taking reps with the offense, but
head coach Liam Cohen has now said that the plan
is for him to work with the defensive unit this week. Hunter,
of course, played both wide out and corner at Colorado.
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So here's the question, and this has been it for
months now, but at least now we know the team
and the coach and the nature of which this young
man is going to start his NFL career. What do
we think about Travis Hunters taking snaps already on both
sides of the ball this early in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, this is exactly what they were going to do.
They were so excited to go up and draft this
man that they literally gave him the keys to Jacksonville, like, look,
we want you to be our savior, and this is
the time of year where you get to experiment. When
I was asked to switch to receiver at Boston College,
they said, hey, try it out in spring football, Like,
get the reps there, we'll allow you to play both
sides of the football, but get the reps now. So
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I love the fact that hey go to offense this week.
Next week we'll try a defense. So this is the
time to get this done.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. I mean, I think for
me personally, he's going.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
To make the bigger impact on defense because I think
he can go out there and it's easy to learn defense,
go out there and have turnovers and make a big play.
But this was going to happen anyway. He was going
to play both sides of the ball at some point.
But I just I still and I still feel in
my heart he shouldn't be playing a lot of snaps
on both sides of the ball like half him is
a starter and then start creating packages. But I think
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as a defensive player he can get out there and
make an immediate impact.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It's going to take a while for.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Him to get impactful on the offense side of the ball,
and you know it's a lot of time in and
chemistry that has to go on. But I think him
getting on the defenside of balls where he's going to
make his biggest impact and then create some packages during
the season on the offense.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So knowing that it does take some time for a
guy to find chemistry and work the routes correctly, is
it wise that they started him on offense this really
in the offseason or did you kind of shake your
head at that thinking, no, no, no, he should have
been on defensive start.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
No, I think they were smart because he's going to
struggle is more on the offense side of the ball,
So let's get him as many snaps as we can
because we know we can throw him on on the
defensive side. He can go in there and start and
shut down and be athletic. Use This athleticism is explosion.
You can put him on the defense side of the
ball and he's going to be fine. The offense where
I think he's going to need some works. I know,
I saw a few memes going out there when he's
running his routes or on the offense side of the
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ball and zig zagly what. But I think he's going
to play a lot regardless, but on the defense side
of the ball, he's going to be more impactful.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
At the gate.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
He is a remarkable football player to watch, tremendous, unbelievable.
What we're even discussing an offensive guy playing defense, defense
playing offense. I think physically he can do it all.
The thing that I don't people think people talk about
enough is the install. Yes, you have two different installs
that are very intensive, both on offense and defense. And
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talking to the guys that are st jacksonvill right now,
Liam Cohen's offense is not the easiest thing to get.
Smart guy, smart kid. Football is his life. It seems
like who says he can't do it? It's just going to
be a beautiful thing to see, matriculous.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
What makes a Liam Cohen offense complex? What makes it
hard for a young man like that?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
I would just say it's the multitude of things. Also,
just so many things in one play that you can
either check in or check out depending on which is
every offensive defensive scheme, but just the multitude of maybe packages,
how that's run. Everything's based off the wide zone. So
for offense might not be too hard. I know, the
route schemescire going to be a little bit intense.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, at the end of the day, it is still
up to the coach and the coordinators to simplify it. Yes,
Like you know, right now, I'm coaching high school football
and I have you know, some four thousand and five stars.
I'm like, we got to have the best eleven on
the field at all times, so we can't have a
dude sitting there like he needs to be on the field.
And I like to go back to when Liam Cohen
was with the Rams and all the things they did
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with Cooper Cup in terms of putting him in the backfield,
having motion actually hand the ball up to him, like
they're going to find creative ways to get him the
football now. And I know I keep going back to myself,
but when I moved to offense, Yeah, we had a
pro style offense. The install was crazy. So coach is like,
you know what we're going to start. You roll quick game, slants,
screens and go balls. So I pretty much I was
(23:09):
now later right like the candy I got, I either
got it now down the field. They asked me to
run a couple of dig routes. I'm like, Coach, I'm
not ready to run the dig routes yet. So they're
gonna get the football to him now. Getting warmed up,
But I do think he's just going to be impactful
no matter.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Where he is.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Mitch, you just got done playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
That is the team that you retired with. You live
in Jacksonville Silver Early, which means you were snapping the
ball to Trevor Lawrence all of last season. What do
you think that? Why is the Travis Hunter selection going
to work for a Trevor Lawrence led offense.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Well, Trevor is a forty year old man stuck in
a twenty five year old man's body. Trevor is mature,
he's stoic, and he's a playmaker. I know he gets
a lot of flak from the outside on what expectations
are thrown on him. He hasn't lived up to whatever,
But as a guy in that locker room, he's got
command of the guys, he's got his finger on the
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pulse everything going on, and he's just an easy dude
to get around, which often doesn't make a good fall
player every time, but it sure gets you to where
you need to go to make that next step. I
think Liam's going to give him an opportunity to grow, evolve.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Understand what his.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Not his downfalls were before, but what might have been
impeding his progress. And then you give him a guy
like Travis Hunter, who I mean, can like you said,
can get it now or get it later. He can
take the top off it, dude, or you can get.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Up to him quickly.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
So just any tool you can get as a quarterback,
you can't have. An embarrassment of riches is not a
thing in the NFL for skill positions, and you get
a guy like this, it's going to be a really
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You mentioned the complexity of the install both on offense
and on defense, and we've talked before just about you
can't be in two places at once when it comes
to team meetings throughout the week. And there's also that's
just the mental side of it. There's also the physical
wear and tear. Can we do a quick exercise. I
have in front of me some research from when you
three gentlemen played Hope Wait, And obviously all playing in
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different air has different positions, So take this information with
a grain of salt. But when I tell you the
fact that we're going to try to ask this rookie
to play a ton of snaps in a single game,
in a week in a season, Sean Merriman, do you
know the most amount of snaps you ever had in
a game was.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I'm thinking Indianapolis called seventy plus seventy five.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
How do you the.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, you know, you don't forget that.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I know I remember that because that was the tighters
I've ever been in my time life. I was looking
up at this guy said, I don't care. We want
to lose at this point. God, please help me give
me some oxygen. So I remember exactly what that when
that moment was.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was one game and it was just circumstantial.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Well, you know, they would a lot of quick snap,
a lot of her going, dude, you got to get
up to run the football. I mean a lot of
slantch and alpatters, line back up, line back up. If
I'm not mistaken, I think it was on a Sunday night.
It was on a Sunday night football game. It was
a yeah, seventy five snaps, and I just remember looking
paid like, if you snap this ball again, yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's over because I can't. I'm done. If you have
one more play, I'm just it's a rat.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Okay, this is really fun. So the most you ever
had in a season, and maybe it was that one,
was seven hundred and ninety one. Okay, So Mitch, do
you remember the most snaps you had in a game.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
I want to say, like ninety two.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Maybe, how do you guys know this spot off.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Was in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It was yes, yeah, it was it ninety two. The
most you had seen was eleven hundred.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Different, Dade, Like we're working in a box.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Still, it's a lot, and yours will black men. Since
you want to even guess in the in the tens,
you want to get close.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I'm going to say maybe eighties.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Seventy seven.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
One of these numbers I got, you don't have the
Are we going to take any one of these numbers?
And does double them for this young man? Is this
how this is going to work?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Well, I think that's what's going to come down to him.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
People forget and like he's a great player, he's tremendous,
but he's still a human being. Like you have one body,
and so you're going to have some plays where you're
just gassed out. You have some plays where you know
you have that quick ankle roll and you need to
go and check it and tape it up, and so
there's a lot to go through a game. So there's
nothing about his talent. I always thought that he should
played both sides of the ball, but he's still a
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human being.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You can't run him too the dirt.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I don't think it's smart to run him through the dirt,
especially of the long football season. It's not college anymore,
and you know that rookie wall happens. Every one of
these rookies are going to hit that rookie wall where
you get somewhere in the middle of the season and
you're like, Okay, well I got a whole nother seeds
called season to go here. So I think that that's
the most important you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Three, being able to guess within five snaps of how
many you had most in the game. It's somebody being
like I was born on a Saturday night. I remember it.
It's like, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Now you're just so dog tired that you never forget it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You never want to do it. Yet, Oh my god,
we're back on GMFB. We discussed earlier about your doors
Sanders getting a chance to start for the Browns, but
let's not forget that there was a quarterback drafted ahead
of him, Dylan Gabriel, just fighting for airtime at this point.
He was taken in the third round Cleveland also has
Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett competing for reps and Deshaun
(28:10):
Watson still on the roster, but Gabriel says that he
is no stranger to a healthy quarterback competition.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
It's not new to me.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I've done it at you know, every stop, and I've
done it, you know, at every level. So thank goodness
for that and great preparation that. But also know that,
you know, my competition is yesterday. You know, how can
I be better than I was yesterday? So that's what
I'm focused on, and continue to create an environment that
you want to be a part of, and that's all
(28:40):
you can do.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's what Jackson Dart's trying to do in New York,
and the rookie quarterback for the Giants is competing for
playing time with Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. These quarterback
rooms and twenty twenty five are insane, he was asked.
Jackson Dart was asked if he heard from the two
veteran qbs as he has started his first recie minting camp.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Oh, yeah, they've been great. You know.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
They were some of the first people to text me
when I got drafted, and I thought that was just
super cool. You know, those those are guys that I've
looked up to for such a long time. And I've
said this before, Like I remember I was wearing Russ's
jersey with the Seahawks when you want a Super Bowl. So,
like I said, these guys have been, you know, people
who I've really looked up to, and you know, I
hold him in the highest regards. So I think for
(29:23):
me being in the situation, being able to be a
sponge and you know, soaking.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
All the information that I can will help elevate me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
And then at the same time, you know, I just
want to compete and make everybody else better in the
room as well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm not sure if it was that media session, but
just remember that Jackson Darter of the Weekend in his
first media availability in New York. If everybody can introduce
themselves and then ask their question, then I'll get to
know you better. I'm like, oh, he's in New York. Everybody,
so is Josh Allen. He's in Western New York. He
likes to play in the snow. We have some memorable
moments from twenty twenty four. Are going to double up
on anybody. We'll find out next won't we GMFB when
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we return.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We are slowly finding out what next season is going
to look like. But before we see the entire schedule
on Wednesday, let's look back at the twenty twenty four
NFL season. It was filled with unforgettable sights and sounds,
and our friends at NFL Films were always right there
to capture them. Let's take a look.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
What up to you?
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Go outside thus for footballs and friends, nay for children?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Follow you? What today? Well? What do care?
Speaker 8 (30:40):
What tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Energy?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Energy? Energy?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
We're stepping on the field of dominate ay man.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I've paid him to do this, I've never told him
to do to the NFL season's underway. Turn on the
after hers he's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh my god, oh my god, American football up due
South American.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Side to presume by' that's that hunk who's got throcking.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Sodaculo gave you the penalty of Germany.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
A second staff ninety sez.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Won here again.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
That's one hundred is it?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
At Miles Garrett Food the hundred sacks, Jamar Chase, He's
gunning for the triple crown.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
The bulls in scoops.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
It in on from the Willa Corinto.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Oh, Mark checks him.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
He's so to me scanning. Nobody's open.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
He's running a tall ny is a touchdown? Just other
Mowgley football. Here comes the hail Mary. But the game
on the line. The bull's taught cross.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
That's a marr to jade.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
What a rookie sees? Experience points.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
This rookie quarterback, Wow, said one portly.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He has took broke the two thousand guard working bum.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
You are ready a bit money back in the world.
I'm thinking a bit player.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
Derrick Henry continues to rewrite the NFL record book. Lamar
Jackson now has the most quarterback rushing.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yard in history.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Could Kansas City three people in the NFL has ever
done it? And not flowing teams out. People think they're
more vulnerable than ever.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
And you kill me Christmas Day, the debut of the
NFL on Netflix, Jared.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Stumbles coming out of them.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
I think he did that compens.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
That's just straight up Shenanigan's right there.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Oh baby, how beautiful is that?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Herbie Joseph Another interception.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Mike Evin one thousand plus eleventh seasons in the roll,
come on.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
To interpid spinning free is a ghost out rest out
johnath Dambu, I really have pageantry of football.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
There's nothing like him. This is behind Cooper who brutted
(33:58):
in pitched it back to Allan who's gonna He's a
feast with a appital be Oh the play of the
year in the NFL. Say that I'm proud of you
would be the massive understaper.
Speaker 12 (34:12):
The road to Super Bowl fifty nine goes through the
Motor City.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
The Broncos on their way to the playoffs at Houston, Texans,
champions of the AFC South.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
What a turnaround, Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
The Buccaneers are playoff back.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
The students punched their playoff ticket book on diving catch
thirty seventh playoff.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Appearance for the Packers.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
Sad Man on.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
The Fan, Welcome to the postseason and wild card weekend.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
It is a privilege to be here in Arizona.
Speaker 12 (34:49):
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to those who have been
tirelessly fighting fires for the past week and Houston.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Let's take away Fred ro Oh, this has just been
Oh Ravens.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
That can guess.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
After a week of tragedy.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
The Rams Chimp, you're a lag by Dallas.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
Gotta the corunch Commanders, see you at Detroit.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
The truck beat is on. You can't talk, Jayton Daniels.
We're going to the NFIT Championship game playoff path to
playoff Chelsea. We hadn't been ioff the Chavshi. There goes
Berkley through the snow all the way home to the
Championship Game seventeen. He's a scoring machine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Kansas City, here we comes.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
The matchup America has been longing for.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
If everyone wanted a heavyweight fight, you got it today.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
The Chiefs go to the Super Bowl for a chance
for a three team take one. Barkley, he touched it
and he took it to the house.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
They're the number one d in the league for a reason.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
They played like it today. Every day was sacrificed just
for opportunities like this. And I can't be more proud
of this group. And we got one movie. The Weight
Lives over the coldel for Eagles.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
The Cancel City Chiefs are about to collide in Super
Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
On January first, our cherished French quarter experiencing attack.
Speaker 9 (36:24):
Together, we rise, together, we heal, and together we will
carry your memory with us forever.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
At the bugs. Gottle, what.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Hurts?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
He's going deep? Good Jaha thought, so hurts. He's a
touchdown that goes. My Home's lucky. It's intercepted and j
Chain has that brought touchdown. Oh my god, Oh my god.
(36:59):
The homes is back. He fires over the bottle. Don't
accept that again.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
The Eagles looking to run some clock or maybe it's sore.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
The dagger hurts.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Going deep for off to the Jase Sat.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Touchdown.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
It's over.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
The Philadelphia Eagles have one Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Oh look at the Gator d Here it goes Gnahart's
gonna smile.
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Now they have baked the Kansas City Jeeps forty to
twenty two.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
If you're getting believable, I'm so proud.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
I love you.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
You're a beauty.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
I can watch it every day. I really could watch.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I was very comfortable right now.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I was perfect. Is the confetti, it's the tears, the
fact that the Eagle won the Super Bowl, but thirty
one now are resetting and trying to do that next season.
Let's look at some of the other memorable moments though,
from the last five or six minutes of Our Lives
twenty twenty four was awesome. Will do you have a
single play and was it featured in there that you
(38:19):
want to look back at.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, we're going to go to Landover, Maryland to my
former team, the Washington Redskins football team Commanders. We're gonna
go watch Jaden Daniels hail Mary at the end of
the game. Like obviously an unbelievable play, but just what
it signified in terms of, like I've been there, I
played for that team, the dark energy that was there,
like difficult to play, all the drama, all the nonsense,
(38:41):
and for him to do that, it really set the
tone for our franchise, like we have our guy wait here.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
And plus it was you know, one of.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
His many fourth quarter comebacks, fourth quarter game winning drives.
I mean, just an outstanding, memorable play that's going to
be there, not just in my mind, but history forever.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
You know what, will I'm sorry to be negative, Mats,
don't want to bring down the positive miss you have,
but being a former Bill Josh Allen not getting that
first down in the AFT Championship that as a as
a Bill's former Bill, as a Bills fan, this will
sting forever because its just to me personally, I think
(39:20):
a lot of people in the country this is a
first down, and I think.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Preaching that ball over just a little.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
Bit more will just stain people's memories. I can't go
as positive as will this morning Bill's fans. I don't
want to ruin your morning by so I started this off,
but this one, this one hurts, and I still feel.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Listen to the day.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'm gonna jump Mitch in the line because I'm gonna
speak directly Western New York. It's okay, I for you,
I have for you. Unfortunately, it's in the regular season,
and frankly in this juncture that does not matter. But
it was snowing and the Bills are playing the forty
nine ers and Amari Cooper had a smile on his
face after this game because who has the audacity at
the goal line in the snow where you cannot get
(40:00):
your footing to catch a one handed pass in Josh
Allen and go, you know what, I'm not to get this.
I'm gonna flip it back to you, you maniac, you
crazy crazy people in the red zone? What are you doing?
Only Josh Allen could accomplish this. It was like a
semi superman. It was perfect. And I'm sorry Bill's fans
that Sean Merriman woke up this morning and chose my.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
All right, that was like a good yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
I appreciate you. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you
for uplifting for me.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
As a curse, the curse of an offensive lineman is
when you watch a game, your heart rate immediately goes
up about twenty beats per minute, and you only watch
the offensive line. That's just the nature of the Bay.
I feel like it's offensive line, and our moms are
the only guys that watched office.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
That's just true.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
So for me, the Super Bowl, I don't know about you, guys,
I'm watching it. I'm really hoping it's gonna be a
good game, sitting there watching with popcorn all that jazz,
and then I turn it on and it just keeps
a snowball effect for the Philadelphia Eagles. It just keeps
going and going, and Kansas City is just having a
tough time getting it. And then I see this play
by Landon Dickerson, their left guard, where listen, he just
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does this fun will spend right here. Oh and then
he goes and kills the guy right after that, and
not only did he do that? He was on a
bum knee that he had to get surgery right after
this game. So just to see this, you don't get
coach to do that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That's just truth, and that's just the supposed to do
a full three sixty, find a different guy to block
and buy your quarterback.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
Well, there's well, there's two schools. One is block with
perfect technique and one is when you watch the film
the next day. Did you block the guy excellent?
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Did he hit the quarterback?
Speaker 10 (41:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (41:30):
That was something special. I won't forget very soon.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh my god, you're telling me. They and when it
comes to the toush push and nothing, you're just looking
for guys doing a whirling dervish essentially and blocking two
guys on one play.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Well, much like moms, I'm just hoping everyone gets up
and then yeah, besides that, it's just guys hanging out
and then hopefully they listen to Twitter search engine. Yeah,
is a hell of a thing when you find out
and his offensive lineman, nothing's constructive. It's all listen, your
mom's gonna find out about speaking to mothers, and then
you're gonna have a tough time sleeping. So when something
(42:03):
goes well for the offensive line US fact guys.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
And typically you don't hear anything into or something wrong,
so when.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
It goes wrong, like you, we need guys like you, ambassadors.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Of the hall, few and far between. Pal, I'm just
trying to do my past.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Welcome to GMFB. We had three plays, two of which
were by the MVP, one was by the rookie of
the offensive Rookie of the Year, and then one was
by an offensive lineman. We'll be right back on GMFB.
It was a perfect move back at twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Four playing with a guy like Mitch. Mitch was just
one of those humans that he was who he was
every day he came to work. He was straightforward, he
made his calls, he made his points, and he kept
everybody on the line comfortable. And you know, as a player,
I can respect that because you know, like it's very
hostile in the trenches, and Mitch was one of those
guys that kept it calm.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
And then he was one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
That you know, like when it was time to speak
up and bark, he would bark. And Mitch was just
one of those guys that you know, set the tone
quietly but also could set the tone loudly with his speed.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
You must have. You must have bought some dinners out
there totally. I don't serve an awesome do you have?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Docor's just sitting in our studio the day that you
retired and announced it, and that was authentically from the
hot heart. We just put the social media up that
you had retired, and that's what he had to say
about you.
Speaker 7 (43:16):
Well, now it's my turn, right, Can I talk a
little bit about Dion? You only have only twenty seconds.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Talk about Didion?
Speaker 7 (43:21):
First of all, an amazing football player, amazing friend, authentically himself,
unbelievable person, philanthropic. When you're in his personal square, it flourishes.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
Dean.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
I love you, pal, I really do.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Oh my gosh, no snark this morning on gim If
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Don't panic, You're in the right place. Okay, Yes, it's me.
I'm Jamie. This is Will Blackman. Okay, like you, he
goes over here. This is Mitch Morris. You played for
the Chiefs and the Bills and the Jags. Yes, that's correct,
all right, perfect, Mitch Morris is here. And then look
at this man, Sean Merriman. You have to stay for
more than one segment, okay, yes, okay, and he's here
(00:31):
for two whole hours. It's GMFB. It starts right now.
I'm here, it's me, Good Morning Football. Why are you
so far away? Get in here, gmf B. Everybody, come on,
(00:53):
what are we doing. We're here to talk about football, guys.
Sean Merriman, Mitch Morris, Will Blackman, Welcome in morning everybody. Great, No,
we're good.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Yeah, I'm ready to rock.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Okay, good you should be, because we just found out
a single game that's being played next year next season.
It's the Cowboys. There, it's the Eagles. This is not
oh Thanksgiving, oh an October on Sunday night football. This
is a kickoff. This is how we set the tone
start the season. Thursday, September fourth, it's the defending Super
(01:23):
Bowl champions Philadelphia Eagles posting Dak Prescott and his newly
minted wide receiver room. Look at that NFC East matchup.
It's a beautiful thing. The NFL did it right. Let's
go Ian Rappaport, Good morning to you, our NFL Network
insider with us this morning rap Sheet. I'd love to
pick your brain about this game, but I think we
have a couple months to do that. Before we do,
(01:45):
let's talk Pittsburgh and their ota offseason workouts are scheduled
for late May. Do we think we'll have a decision
about what free agent quarterback named Aaron Rodgers will be
doing up until that time, and will he be wearing
Steelers stripes for workouts?
Speaker 4 (01:58):
Well, it does seem like the options for Aaron Rodgers
something we've discussed over the past course of the past
a couple of days and weeks and months, and might
discuss the eternity is It does seem Aaron Rodgers will
either play for the Pittsburgh Steelers at some point this
offseason or maybe even by the start of training camp
of twenty twenty five. Who knows or retire now. Rogers,
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in public interviews talking to Pat mcavee show, most recently
said retirement was an option. If it's ano retirement, it
does seem like these Steelers are the choice, something they
are confident in, something Art Rooney has gone public and
saying he believes will happen. The steeers of how hope
it will happen. Really, everything they've done this offseason has
been gearing toward Aaron Rodgers being their quarterback. They just
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have not gotten firm and final word from Rogers that
it is definitively his choice. No one knows for sure
why that is. No one knows for sure why the
process for Rodgers has taken so long. But from the Steelers' perspective,
even with OTA's starting relatively soon, even with mandatory mini
camp coming, they have no choice but just to wait,
and they are okay with that as long as that
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ends up with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback. Meanwhile, we
did get some finality for the New Orleans Saints. Their
ongoing saga revolving around their starting quarterback, Derek Carr has
now ended it ended this weekend with a retirement from
car He officially retired from the NFL. This is something
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these Saints announced. Car put out a statement expressing his
unwavering gratitude toward the organization, the fans, everyone.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
Who followed him.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Simply, he is stepping away. As far as the reasons why,
and this is again something that we have addressed many
times over the course of the last month or so.
Car suffered a shoulder injury late last season. He began
his rehab this season. Again, his work this season could
not get to one hundred percent. Tried an injection, tried
to rehab, try to make it go. Realize at that
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point it was not going to be one hundred percent
without surgery.
Speaker 6 (03:53):
Surgery was needed.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
If that was the case, he was not going to
play against until twenty twenty six. Instead, he retires, and
the financials are important. Car gets the ten million dollars
and a roster bonus that he got earlier this offseason.
He gives back thirty million dollars that was otherwise guaranteed
to him. Gives back thirty million dollars, helps the Saints
with their salary cap space not this year the next
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year and looking like Tyler shuk as a real chance
to be their start and.
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Thank you for all of the draft quarterback conversations that
we had leading up to that weekend in Green Bay.
Having the Tyler Schuck QB one conversation was just not
one that we expected. But here we are. You could
have a lot of conversations about Derek Carr and what
he did with the Raiders and what he did with
the Saints. But in the spirit of finding out the
first game of next season, the kickoff game, let's move
the ball forward a little bit. Let's talk about what
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the Saints should do at quarterback again, Mitch Sean, Will
Blackman here, We'll all start with you. What you think
the Saints should now do? Saints Shuck should do at quarterback? Will,
what do you think, well do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Thank you, oldn I mean, yeah, I'm still surprised based
on what just happened. We just transpire, But I mean,
now you full on have a quarterback competition. Obviously you
have Spencer rightlerd there, Jake Hayner and Tyler Shook and
so yeah, you bring him in showing he was a.
Speaker 5 (05:11):
High draft pick.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
But still I think it's important to for Kellen Moore
to have that quarterback competition because you just don't know
you've seen. You have film on Spencer and film on
Jake Hanner in actual games, and now you have Shook,
who is pretty much of the same age, you know,
to compete.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
So that's what it is.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
It's it's full on open quarterback competition, and I think
that's what they should do.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Should do Shook that a Fredian slip.
Speaker 7 (05:36):
Right, I think to your point, it's an open quarterback competition.
This is something that I don't think snuck up on
the Saints. Yeah, this is something that they might have
been talking about in the back. This is something that
Derek Carr is probably mulling over with his family and
the Good Lord himself on if this is something he
wants to do. And so it'll be interesting to see
what happens. Like you said, this is an old man
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in a rookie's body coming in here playing football. I
think they're not going to bring this guy in without
giving him a true opportunity, you know.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
I think. Look, I've been in a situation before.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
I had a bad knee injury in two thousand and eight,
who I had to make a decision if I wanted
to play or not or get a surgery. Because when
you go down into a long rehab process. You try
to do all the banded workouts, work out the little muscle,
see if you can get through the injections. They're probably
talking about the PRP and Stem say he probably got
it all and realized he couldn't he wasn't gonna be ready.
I think this puts them in a very very bad
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situation going into the season. And I believe that they
knew a little bit earlier, they probably would have acted
a little bit differently in the draft and acted a
little bit differently during the off season. And I think
Kellen Moore is scrambling. You know, he's had justin Herbert
there with the charges now going and trying to figure
out what these guys are going to do for it.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
I think they're scrambling. Yeah that hurts and Herbert, yes.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Yes, law to your point. Yeah, he leaves the Cowboys
to go take the OC job with the Eagles, he
wins a Super Bowl, and while he's in town, he
just so happens to stumble into a head coaching job
with the New Orleans Saints, and this is the quarterback
situation he finds himself in. Not Mitch Morris in your
final season with the kinsas City Chiefs. You were playing
on an offensive line with Alex Smith as a quarterback.
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But there was a rookie quarterback sitting on the bench
that got to watch for a year. And his name
is Patrick. His name is Patrick Mahomes. You look at
this quarterback room and the fact that they have Tyler
Schuck there, can you just speak to how beneficial it
is if a guy gets to sit and watch for
an entire season. And now this young man and Tyler
Schuck and whoever they would have picked doesn't have that luxury.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Totally.
Speaker 7 (07:31):
I think as a rookie, we can all attest your
head's in a blunder. You are absolutely going through it.
And at the quarterback position that's amplified to the tenth
degree if you have any opportunity, whether it's sitting back
behind a seasoned veteran or just going through the offense
with the coordinators, all this stuff and just seeing how
it's done. Time on task. It's not sexy, but it's
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the truth in this game. If you can get time
on task without actually having to put your foot in
the fire, if you're going to beat benefits of.
Speaker 8 (07:58):
Trimmer and I've always been against rookie quarterback starting, I
don't like it. I think the development process hasn't been
there for a long time.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
I've been in a situation.
Speaker 8 (08:06):
Where Drew Brees was the starting quarterback, he got injured
and Philip Rivers was allowed to come off the bench, and,
believe it or not, seven games. If you sit on
the bench seven eight games or half a season in NFL,
you get a chance to catch up with the pace
up the game. You get a chance to learn to
playbook a little bit better. And Jen passed the torch.
If you're starting day one as a rookie, I mean,
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the fire is thrown at you. You're trying to figure
things out. So I've seen it first hand what it
can do for a quarterback just sitting out for a
little bit until they go and be a starter.
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I had the luxury of being in Green Bay
when I was drafted there, Brett Farr was a starter,
sit on the bench and there was really zero pressure,
very zero pressure on Aaron, Like I remember two thousand
and seven Farvar's hurts or Aaron came in and you know,
played against the Cowboys. He had an unbelievable game where
we were like okay, like we see what he can do,
but again he still got to sit behind forever and
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watch what's going on. So it is beneficial when you
have a veter in the room that you can watch.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
If you're a Saints fan this morning, though maybe you
feel a little up arms because decisions had to be
made a couple weeks back in Green Bay to take
a quarterback on who that would be one QB that
the Saints decided to pass up on at Shadur Sanders,
who is now checking out his locker in Cleveland. He's
beginning his career there as Rockie Minnie camp is unfolding
for the Browns right now, and Shadoor Sanders was asked
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about Tom Brady's message to him after he slid all
the way down to the fifth round and.
Speaker 9 (09:27):
Last month draft, my story's gonna be similar. You know,
I was a late round drift prick. But we're here now,
so none of that stuff matters. That just mattered on
the day and I'm just excited to be hearing, ready
to work, Like my job here is to prove people wrong,
like I prove myself right. That's that's that's I and
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I fully self belief. You know and uh what those
people say, that's that's just their opinion. So I don't
truly care. They don't really live in my mental space
about that type of stuff.
Speaker 5 (10:00):
Really doesn't do anything for me.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
But thirty one other NFL teams might want to live
in their management or owners' mental space because they want
to know why they allowed that quarterback to slide the
way that he did to the third round in the
NFL Draft. Considering all the fury that we said, we
heard and saw about Shador Sanders and the fact that
he is now in a very crowded quarterback room in Cleveland.
Will do you think other teams will regret allowing that
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to happen last month?
Speaker 5 (10:25):
I don't.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
I don't think teams will regret because this was such
a deep draft in other positions and guys had to
go based on their board what they needed, So I
understand why the quarterback situation was what it was for
your door.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
But I would say I do.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I watched the whole interview, and I do love how
he started off like he said, hey, there are some
things that I need to work on, and he goes
back to like, hey, but the team, like, we look good.
We did well, we practice hard, and that's how it
should be. That's what it should be for him based
on his situation, Like, that's what I would do. I
would come in there, especially I went fifth round. I
slid four rounds. Apparently I'm going there with a good attitude.
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I'm gonna work hard, I'm gonna maund my business, and
I'm just gonna get to work. And that is that
is what he's done. So I think his answers they
accept the similar part, like that's I understand him similar
terms of him working towards approved. But unless you got Belichick,
there's it's a little a little different there.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Yeah, I think it's just gonna be tough in general,
and I believe that he will be the starter at
some point, but you know, it's it's the opportunity, and
he won't have a lot of opportunity. So how it
goes is even the reps, and so how it goes
in training camp, You're gonna have the first and second
team taking most of most of the steps, and then
we start getting down to the third and fourth team
and so forth. You're practically on scout team. That's really
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where you get your reps at. And so how often
is he going to go in and start to be
able to implement what he's learning in the playbook. How
often he's going to get a chance to have a
bad day and come back the second time. Because you're
not gonna get one or two series to prove yourself.
So if you go out and have a bad day
or two, you throw some interceptions, you're off the playbook
a little bit. The next time you make an opportunity
to show where you can do again, maybe the following week,
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So you don't you don't have a lot of opportunity
in that situation.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
I do. Now, I'll say this.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
I believe he will be the starter, and I believe
he is in a really good situation.
Speaker 5 (12:11):
Because he's not forced to go out and perform right away.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
But I think what's going to be working against him
is his opportunity he's going to get to get on
the field to show what he can do.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
What makes you say that so confidently? He's got four
other guys in the room with him, He's got another
draft pick that was drafted ahead of him, and a
couple of veterans. Why in an eighteen seventeen game season
it should do. We're going to be a QB one
at some point.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Well, I think, for one, you're talking about Flacco being
a starter. That's not what He's forty years old now right,
so he's already he's not the long term plan no
matter how you look at it.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
So he's kind of wiped off the board.
Speaker 8 (12:41):
They're going to start looking at the second, third, and fourteen,
and so I think that you know Flacoh, because he
has experience, he's going to go on there and do
what he needs to do as a vet look good
early on. He can go and get the job done.
But he's not going to be the long term plan.
So if you're the Cleveland Browns, just start looking at okay,
second thirteen and fourteen.
Speaker 5 (12:57):
So I don't see.
Speaker 8 (12:58):
Four quarterbacks in that way on the depth charge. I
look at okay, flac Oa can go out here and
get it done now. But who are we going to
move forward with behind him? And that is where your
door is going to get his opporunity to get on
a field bead.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, if I'm should door, I do see an opportunity.
You know, it was different when I was drafted to
Green Bay. I had Charles Woodson and Al Harris like
I could have wishful think it, but I know I'm
not seeing the field because we got I got too
all the famers in front of me. So with him,
like you said, Sean, I see an opportunity because you
don't know obviously with flack Old getting comeback played the year,
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you know he's familiar with that often he had great success,
but there isn't a long term option.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
So I can see what you're saying on that point.
Speaker 7 (13:37):
If I'm should do or the only thing I'm worried about.
And he does a good job of seeing to compartmentalize
everything outside of what's going on in the building winning
over your team.
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Right.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Listen, the guys, the Vets left on Thursday, but they're
still watching everything that's going on. They're watching all these
interviews just like us. And I thought, to your point,
he did great. That interview is saying I have a
lot to work on, but it's the little things you
do every day to win the guys over and then
let the football thing take care of itself.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
And I know we've only seen like little clips here
and there, but it seems like that the players are
leaning towards him, they're joking around with him, They spending
a lot of time so I see the chemistry, and
at some point in time, I think that the players
in this team are going to be pushing force your door.
Especially if he looks good in camp, he looks good
early under the season, the rest of his teammates I
believe will start pushing him forward to be the starter
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at some point.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Mitch, I'm sitting here kicking around an exercise on my
little note card here, and I'm listing off the quarterbacks
that you have snapped the ball to so far. My
working list is Alex Smith, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, and
Trevor Lawrence. Am I missing Nick Folesow?
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Nick Foles? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (14:41):
That Super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
On that absolutely?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
That being said, that's perfect. That's five quarterbacks, which is
the amount of quarterbacks the Cleveland Brown staff right now?
How hard does that make it for alignment, specifically a
center to figure out who the right guy is, who
the best fit for.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
The offense questions? I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And if you are a veteran center or offensive lineman,
does a coach or coordinator ever come to you you
and be like, can you what's going on out there?
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Well?
Speaker 7 (15:07):
I would say no, they never asked that. I think
what they would catch up as a little nuances how
you're communicating all that stuff. In regards to the quarterbacks
I played for, it was an embarrassment of riches. My
whole career is Mitch Morris looked a lot better from
the people he was surrounded by. And that's just the case.
But I would say the thing for especially veteran offensive
linemen or veteran players with a young guy coming in,
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big personality, unfortunately, everything's kind of set against you. If
I see one thing that I think is reinforcing what
everyone's saying, you're screwed. But if you come in here
and you show that you're wanted the guys, you're easy
to coach. We can have this communication. Especially at quarterback.
You're still the queue, I'm still the center, like so
it's still going to be a give and take. Set
the standard and just let it flow. So I think
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that's the biggest thing, is just being able to see
the same thing. And then it's the unfortunate thing of
the whole thing is it's just going to take rep
after rep, time after time until you build this rapport
that sometimes doesn't take any communication. It's very subtle and
not community.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Give yeah and to your point, both of you guys
should his last post, he posted all the rookies on
social media saying like, hey man, I'm supporting all these guys.
Speaker 5 (16:14):
We had a good time.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
He loves the camaraderie, he loves all that stuff. So
he is he is working the end after work in
the He's going to be in a good teammate right.
Speaker 2 (16:22):
As are we. We are being a good teammate. I
guess with the rest of our TV partners in the NFL,
we're sharing the ball in the possession. Because the twenty
twenty five NFL season is happening. We get to make
an announcement tomorrow which we're thrilled about, and before the
highly anticipated NFL schedule release, which I know you all
know is on Wednesday, May fourteen at eight pm Eastern,
which you can check out on nfl dot com slash
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Schedule release, we get to make an announcement for an
international game here on GMFB tomorrow. Stay tuned on our show.
But for the remainder of the day, we've got to
talk about the Jaguars and the fact that they have
an absolute workforce that we're not even sure what position
we're going to see him at the fact that the
Jags jumped up and got that athlete to come to
town as an incredible thing. Plus, apparently he's a great
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seat made on an airplane. I don't know if you
saw this story over the weekend. This lovely older woman
was like, look at this sweet, sweet boy, you said
next to me, He's like, well, I was, mam. I
was the number two overall pick who was perfect. Plus,
the twenty twenty four season was full of dmorable moments.
If you can't pick the Saquon Barkley reverse hurt all,
which one would you pick? What's the one that's gonna
stick in your brain for all of time to calm
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in your football memory JMFB twenty twenty four, Look Back
twenty twenty five, Spin Ahead, We're looking at everything.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Good morning football.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Time for the Roundup presented by Roundup for Lons. You
know that if you sit next to somebody on an
airplane and you take a selfie, it's gonna go on
social media and then Sandy Hawkins Combs is gonna tell
the story. I have the most wonderful flight home from Denver.
She met the nicest young man he offered to put
my bag in the overhead compartment. He was me with
the yes, ma'am, no, ma'am lo and behold. After a
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couple of other plane passengers took selfies with him, she goes,
who am I sitting next to? And he says, I'm Travis.
I was drafted by the Jags. And now she already
told her sons that she wants this Jersey United Airlines.
Thank you for my seat assignment. Okay, Sandy, we love you.
I'm so sweet. Travis Hunter, way to go. It'll be
a stand up young man.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's that's the way to do it. You know, I
tried my best to be a good seat mate on
the airplane. You usually i'm the guy where I throw
the air buds in, the headphones in. I want the
window seat. I'm on my business. But if someone catches
me before the flight leaves, you know, I'm actually I'm
actually very nice.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
You will acquies with her selfie request. Yeah, that's a
good story.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
At least he was her first class. He got the money. Now, so.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
We've been at It would have been embarrassed if he
was like an exit roll.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
So I'm like that.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
She posted thirty two a. All right, So the Jags,
it sounds like he was working his way back from
Colorado to Jacksonville to hit up Jags rookie mini camp
over the weekend. And that was Travis Hunter, the second
overall pick. He's been taking reps with the offense, but
head coach Liam Cohen has now said that the plan
is for him to work with the defensive unit this week. Hunter,
of course, played both wide out and corner at Colorado.
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So here's the question, and this has been it for
months now, but at least now we know the team
and the coach and the nature of which this young
man is going to start his NFL career. What do
we think about Travis Hunters taking snaps already on both
sides of the ball this early in the offseason.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, this is exactly what they were going to do.
They were so excited to go up and draft this
man that they literally gave him the keys to Jacksonville, like, look,
we want you to be our savior, and this is
the time of year where you get to experiment. When
I was asked to switch to receiver at Boston College,
they said, hey, try it out in spring football, Like,
get the reps there, we'll allow you to play both
sides of the football, but get the reps now. So
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I love the fact that hey go to offense this week.
Next week we'll try a defense. So this is the
time to get this done.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
Yeah, yeah, I love it. I mean, I think for
me personally, he's going.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
To make the bigger impact on defense because I think
he can go out there and it's easy to learn defense,
go out there and have turnovers and make a big play.
But this was going to happen anyway. He was going
to play both sides of the ball at some point.
But I just I still and I still feel in
my heart he shouldn't be playing a lot of snaps
on both sides of the ball like half him is
a starter and then start creating packages. But I think
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as a defensive player he can get out there and
make an immediate impact.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It's going to take a while for.
Speaker 8 (20:31):
Him to get impactful on the offense side of the ball,
and you know it's a lot of time in and
chemistry that has to go on. But I think him
getting on the defenside of balls where he's going to
make his biggest impact and then create some packages during
the season on the offense.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
So knowing that it does take some time for a
guy to find chemistry and work the routes correctly, is
it wise that they started him on offense this really
in the offseason or did you kind of shake your
head at that thinking, no, no, no, he should have
been on defensive start.
Speaker 8 (20:57):
No, I think they were smart because he's going to
struggle is more on the offense side of the ball,
So let's get him as many snaps as we can
because we know we can throw him on on the
defensive side. He can go in there and start and
shut down and be athletic. Use This athleticism is explosion.
You can put him on the defense side of the
ball and he's going to be fine. The offense where
I think he's going to need some works. I know,
I saw a few memes going out there when he's
running his routes or on the offense side of the
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ball and zig zagly what. But I think he's going
to play a lot regardless, but on the defense side
of the ball, he's going to be more impactful.
Speaker 5 (21:25):
At the gate.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
He is a remarkable football player to watch, tremendous, unbelievable.
What we're even discussing an offensive guy playing defense, defense
playing offense. I think physically he can do it all.
The thing that I don't people think people talk about
enough is the install. Yes, you have two different installs
that are very intensive, both on offense and defense. And
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talking to the guys that are st jacksonvill right now,
Liam Cohen's offense is not the easiest thing to get.
Smart guy, smart kid. Football is his life. It seems
like who says he can't do it? It's just going to
be a beautiful thing to see, matriculous.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
What makes a Liam Cohen offense complex? What makes it
hard for a young man like that?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
I would just say it's the multitude of things. Also,
just so many things in one play that you can
either check in or check out depending on which is
every offensive defensive scheme, but just the multitude of maybe packages,
how that's run. Everything's based off the wide zone. So
for offense might not be too hard. I know, the
route schemescire going to be a little bit intense.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
Yeah, at the end of the day, it is still
up to the coach and the coordinators to simplify it. Yes,
Like you know, right now, I'm coaching high school football
and I have you know, some four thousand and five stars.
I'm like, we got to have the best eleven on
the field at all times, so we can't have a
dude sitting there like he needs to be on the field.
And I like to go back to when Liam Cohen
was with the Rams and all the things they did
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with Cooper Cup in terms of putting him in the backfield,
having motion actually hand the ball up to him, like
they're going to find creative ways to get him the
football now. And I know I keep going back to myself,
but when I moved to offense, Yeah, we had a
pro style offense. The install was crazy. So coach is like,
you know what we're going to start. You roll quick game, slants,
screens and go balls. So I pretty much I was
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now later right like the candy I got, I either
got it now down the field. They asked me to
run a couple of dig routes. I'm like, Coach, I'm
not ready to run the dig routes yet. So they're
gonna get the football to him now. Getting warmed up,
But I do think he's just going to be impactful
no matter.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
Where he is.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Mitch, you just got done playing for the Jacksonville Jaguars.
That is the team that you retired with. You live
in Jacksonville Silver Early, which means you were snapping the
ball to Trevor Lawrence all of last season. What do
you think that? Why is the Travis Hunter selection going
to work for a Trevor Lawrence led offense.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Well, Trevor is a forty year old man stuck in
a twenty five year old man's body. Trevor is mature,
he's stoic, and he's a playmaker. I know he gets
a lot of flak from the outside on what expectations
are thrown on him. He hasn't lived up to whatever,
But as a guy in that locker room, he's got
command of the guys, he's got his finger on the
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pulse everything going on, and he's just an easy dude
to get around, which often doesn't make a good fall
player every time, but it sure gets you to where
you need to go to make that next step. I
think Liam's going to give him an opportunity to grow, evolve.
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Understand what his.
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Not his downfalls were before, but what might have been
impeding his progress. And then you give him a guy
like Travis Hunter, who I mean, can like you said,
can get it now or get it later. He can
take the top off it, dude, or you can get.
Speaker 5 (24:30):
Up to him quickly.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
So just any tool you can get as a quarterback,
you can't have. An embarrassment of riches is not a
thing in the NFL for skill positions, and you get
a guy like this, it's going to be a really
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
You mentioned the complexity of the install both on offense
and on defense, and we've talked before just about you
can't be in two places at once when it comes
to team meetings throughout the week. And there's also that's
just the mental side of it. There's also the physical
wear and tear. Can we do a quick exercise. I
have in front of me some research from when you
three gentlemen played Hope Wait, And obviously all playing in
(25:03):
different air has different positions, So take this information with
a grain of salt. But when I tell you the
fact that we're going to try to ask this rookie
to play a ton of snaps in a single game,
in a week in a season, Sean Merriman, do you
know the most amount of snaps you ever had in
a game was.
Speaker 8 (25:23):
I'm thinking Indianapolis called seventy plus seventy five.
Speaker 10 (25:28):
How do you the.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
Yeah, you know, you don't forget that.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
I know I remember that because that was the tighters
I've ever been in my time life. I was looking
up at this guy said, I don't care. We want
to lose at this point. God, please help me give
me some oxygen. So I remember exactly what that when
that moment was.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
It was one game and it was just circumstantial.
Speaker 8 (25:48):
Well, you know, they would a lot of quick snap,
a lot of her going, dude, you got to get
up to run the football. I mean a lot of
slantch and alpatters, line back up, line back up. If
I'm not mistaken, I think it was on a Sunday night.
It was on a Sunday night football game. It was
a yeah, seventy five snaps, and I just remember looking
paid like, if you snap this ball again, yeah.
Speaker 5 (26:06):
It's over because I can't. I'm done. If you have
one more play, I'm just it's a rat.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
Okay, this is really fun. So the most you ever
had in a season, and maybe it was that one,
was seven hundred and ninety one. Okay, So Mitch, do
you remember the most snaps you had in a game.
Speaker 7 (26:20):
I want to say, like ninety two.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
Maybe, how do you guys know this spot off.
Speaker 7 (26:26):
Was in Philadelphia?
Speaker 2 (26:27):
It was yes, yeah, it was it ninety two. The
most you had seen was eleven hundred.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 7 (26:35):
Different, Dade, Like we're working in a box.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
Still, it's a lot, and yours will black men. Since
you want to even guess in the in the tens,
you want to get close.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
I'm going to say maybe eighties.
Speaker 2 (26:46):
Seventy seven.
Speaker 7 (26:47):
Yeah, that's good, that's good.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
One of these numbers I got, you don't have the
Are we going to take any one of these numbers?
And does double them for this young man? Is this
how this is going to work?
Speaker 5 (26:58):
Well, I think that's what's going to come down to him.
Speaker 8 (27:00):
People forget and like he's a great player, he's tremendous,
but he's still a human being. Like you have one body,
and so you're going to have some plays where you're
just gassed out. You have some plays where you know
you have that quick ankle roll and you need to
go and check it and tape it up, and so
there's a lot to go through a game. So there's
nothing about his talent. I always thought that he should
played both sides of the ball, but he's still a
(27:20):
human being.
Speaker 5 (27:20):
You can't run him too the dirt.
Speaker 8 (27:21):
I don't think it's smart to run him through the dirt,
especially of the long football season. It's not college anymore,
and you know that rookie wall happens. Every one of
these rookies are going to hit that rookie wall where
you get somewhere in the middle of the season and
you're like, Okay, well I got a whole nother seeds
called season to go here. So I think that that's
the most important you.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
Three, being able to guess within five snaps of how
many you had most in the game. It's somebody being
like I was born on a Saturday night. I remember it.
It's like, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 7 (27:46):
Now you're just so dog tired that you never forget it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
You never want to do it. Yet, Oh my god,
we're back on GMFB. We discussed earlier about your doors
Sanders getting a chance to start for the Browns, but
let's not forget that there was a quarterback drafted ahead
of him, Dylan Gabriel, just fighting for airtime at this point.
He was taken in the third round Cleveland also has
Joe Flacco and Kenny Pickett competing for reps and Deshaun
(28:10):
Watson still on the roster, but Gabriel says that he
is no stranger to a healthy quarterback competition.
Speaker 5 (28:17):
It's not new to me.
Speaker 10 (28:19):
I've done it at you know, every stop, and I've
done it, you know, at every level. So thank goodness
for that and great preparation that. But also know that,
you know, my competition is yesterday. You know, how can
I be better than I was yesterday? So that's what
I'm focused on, and continue to create an environment that
you want to be a part of, and that's all
(28:40):
you can do.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
That's what Jackson Dart's trying to do in New York,
and the rookie quarterback for the Giants is competing for
playing time with Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. These quarterback
rooms and twenty twenty five are insane, he was asked.
Jackson Dart was asked if he heard from the two
veteran qbs as he has started his first recie minting camp.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Oh, yeah, they've been great. You know.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
They were some of the first people to text me
when I got drafted, and I thought that was just
super cool. You know, those those are guys that I've
looked up to for such a long time. And I've
said this before, Like I remember I was wearing Russ's
jersey with the Seahawks when you want a Super Bowl. So,
like I said, these guys have been, you know, people
who I've really looked up to, and you know, I
hold him in the highest regards. So I think for
(29:23):
me being in the situation, being able to be a
sponge and you know, soaking.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
All the information that I can will help elevate me.
Speaker 11 (29:29):
And then at the same time, you know, I just
want to compete and make everybody else better in the
room as well.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
I'm not sure if it was that media session, but
just remember that Jackson Darter of the Weekend in his
first media availability in New York. If everybody can introduce
themselves and then ask their question, then I'll get to
know you better. I'm like, oh, he's in New York. Everybody,
so is Josh Allen. He's in Western New York. He
likes to play in the snow. We have some memorable
moments from twenty twenty four. Are going to double up
on anybody. We'll find out next won't we GMFB when
(29:55):
we return.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
We are slowly finding out what next season is going
to look like. But before we see the entire schedule
on Wednesday, let's look back at the twenty twenty four
NFL season. It was filled with unforgettable sights and sounds,
and our friends at NFL Films were always right there
to capture them. Let's take a look.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
What up to you?
Speaker 10 (30:28):
Man?
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Go outside thus for footballs and friends, nay for children?
Speaker 5 (30:38):
Follow you? What today? Well? What do care?
Speaker 8 (30:40):
What tomorrow?
Speaker 5 (30:42):
Energy?
Speaker 10 (30:42):
Energy? Energy?
Speaker 3 (30:43):
We're stepping on the field of dominate ay man.
Speaker 5 (30:45):
I've paid him to do this, I've never told him
to do to the NFL season's underway. Turn on the
after hers he's gone.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
Oh my god, oh my god, American football up due
South American.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Side to presume by' that's that hunk who's got throcking.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
Sodaculo gave you the penalty of Germany.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
A second staff ninety sez.
Speaker 2 (31:18):
Won here again.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
That's one hundred is it?
Speaker 3 (31:21):
At Miles Garrett Food the hundred sacks, Jamar Chase, He's
gunning for the triple crown.
Speaker 5 (31:29):
The bulls in scoops.
Speaker 6 (31:30):
It in on from the Willa Corinto.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Oh, Mark checks him.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
He's so to me scanning. Nobody's open.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
He's running a tall ny is a touchdown? Just other
Mowgley football. Here comes the hail Mary. But the game
on the line. The bull's taught cross.
Speaker 6 (32:03):
That's a marr to jade.
Speaker 9 (32:05):
Kids.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
What a rookie sees? Experience points.
Speaker 12 (32:14):
This rookie quarterback, Wow, said one portly.
Speaker 3 (32:19):
He has took broke the two thousand guard working bum.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
You are ready a bit money back in the world.
I'm thinking a bit player.
Speaker 12 (32:28):
Derrick Henry continues to rewrite the NFL record book. Lamar
Jackson now has the most quarterback rushing.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Yard in history.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Could Kansas City three people in the NFL has ever
done it? And not flowing teams out. People think they're
more vulnerable than ever.
Speaker 6 (32:46):
And you kill me Christmas Day, the debut of the
NFL on Netflix, Jared.
Speaker 5 (33:01):
Stumbles coming out of them.
Speaker 12 (33:03):
I think he did that compens.
Speaker 6 (33:05):
That's just straight up Shenanigan's right there.
Speaker 5 (33:07):
Oh baby, how beautiful is that?
Speaker 6 (33:10):
Herbie Joseph Another interception.
Speaker 4 (33:14):
Mike Evin one thousand plus eleventh seasons in the roll,
come on.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
To interpid spinning free is a ghost out rest out
johnath Dambu, I really have pageantry of football.
Speaker 5 (33:37):
There's nothing like him. This is behind Cooper who brutted
(33:58):
in pitched it back to Allan who's gonna He's a
feast with a appital be Oh the play of the
year in the NFL. Say that I'm proud of you
would be the massive understaper.
Speaker 12 (34:12):
The road to Super Bowl fifty nine goes through the
Motor City.
Speaker 8 (34:15):
The Broncos on their way to the playoffs at Houston, Texans,
champions of the AFC South.
Speaker 5 (34:20):
What a turnaround, Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 2 (34:23):
Let's go.
Speaker 6 (34:23):
The Buccaneers are playoff back.
Speaker 8 (34:25):
The students punched their playoff ticket book on diving catch
thirty seventh playoff.
Speaker 6 (34:30):
Appearance for the Packers.
Speaker 10 (34:32):
Sad Man on.
Speaker 12 (34:34):
The Fan, Welcome to the postseason and wild card weekend.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
It is a privilege to be here in Arizona.
Speaker 12 (34:49):
We extend our heartfelt appreciation to those who have been
tirelessly fighting fires for the past week and Houston.
Speaker 5 (34:58):
Let's take away Fred ro Oh, this has just been
Oh Ravens.
Speaker 12 (35:02):
That can guess.
Speaker 10 (35:05):
After a week of tragedy.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
The Rams Chimp, you're a lag by Dallas.
Speaker 12 (35:11):
Gotta the corunch Commanders, see you at Detroit.
Speaker 5 (35:15):
The truck beat is on. You can't talk, Jayton Daniels.
We're going to the NFIT Championship game playoff path to
playoff Chelsea. We hadn't been ioff the Chavshi. There goes
Berkley through the snow all the way home to the
Championship Game seventeen. He's a scoring machine.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
Kansas City, here we comes.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
The matchup America has been longing for.
Speaker 6 (35:45):
If everyone wanted a heavyweight fight, you got it today.
Speaker 5 (35:48):
The Chiefs go to the Super Bowl for a chance
for a three team take one. Barkley, he touched it
and he took it to the house.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
They're the number one d in the league for a reason.
Speaker 5 (36:00):
They played like it today. Every day was sacrificed just
for opportunities like this. And I can't be more proud
of this group. And we got one movie. The Weight
Lives over the coldel for Eagles.
Speaker 10 (36:14):
The Cancel City Chiefs are about to collide in Super
Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 6 (36:19):
On January first, our cherished French quarter experiencing attack.
Speaker 9 (36:24):
Together, we rise, together, we heal, and together we will
carry your memory with us forever.
Speaker 5 (36:32):
At the bugs. Gottle, what.
Speaker 9 (36:35):
Hurts?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
He's going deep? Good Jaha thought, so hurts. He's a
touchdown that goes. My Home's lucky. It's intercepted and j
Chain has that brought touchdown. Oh my god, Oh my god.
(36:59):
The homes is back. He fires over the bottle. Don't
accept that again.
Speaker 6 (37:10):
The Eagles looking to run some clock or maybe it's sore.
Speaker 3 (37:12):
The dagger hurts.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Going deep for off to the Jase Sat.
Speaker 6 (37:19):
Touchdown.
Speaker 5 (37:20):
It's over.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
The Philadelphia Eagles have one Super Bowl fifty nine.
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Oh look at the Gator d Here it goes Gnahart's
gonna smile.
Speaker 8 (37:32):
Now they have baked the Kansas City Jeeps forty to
twenty two.
Speaker 6 (37:41):
If you're getting believable, I'm so proud.
Speaker 9 (37:44):
I love you.
Speaker 7 (37:52):
You're a beauty.
Speaker 2 (37:54):
I can watch it every day. I really could watch.
Speaker 5 (37:56):
I was very comfortable right now.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
I was perfect. Is the confetti, it's the tears, the
fact that the Eagle won the Super Bowl, but thirty
one now are resetting and trying to do that next season.
Let's look at some of the other memorable moments though,
from the last five or six minutes of Our Lives
twenty twenty four was awesome. Will do you have a
single play and was it featured in there that you
(38:19):
want to look back at.
Speaker 3 (38:20):
Yeah, we're going to go to Landover, Maryland to my
former team, the Washington Redskins football team Commanders. We're gonna
go watch Jaden Daniels hail Mary at the end of
the game. Like obviously an unbelievable play, but just what
it signified in terms of, like I've been there, I
played for that team, the dark energy that was there,
like difficult to play, all the drama, all the nonsense,
(38:41):
and for him to do that, it really set the
tone for our franchise, like we have our guy wait here.
Speaker 5 (38:46):
And plus it was you know, one of.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
His many fourth quarter comebacks, fourth quarter game winning drives.
I mean, just an outstanding, memorable play that's going to
be there, not just in my mind, but history forever.
Speaker 8 (38:58):
You know what, will I'm sorry to be negative, Mats,
don't want to bring down the positive miss you have,
but being a former Bill Josh Allen not getting that
first down in the AFT Championship that as a as
a Bill's former Bill, as a Bills fan, this will
sting forever because its just to me personally, I think
(39:20):
a lot of people in the country this is a
first down, and I think.
Speaker 5 (39:24):
Preaching that ball over just a little.
Speaker 8 (39:25):
Bit more will just stain people's memories. I can't go
as positive as will this morning Bill's fans. I don't
want to ruin your morning by so I started this off,
but this one, this one hurts, and I still feel.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Listen to the day.
Speaker 2 (39:38):
I'm gonna jump Mitch in the line because I'm gonna
speak directly Western New York. It's okay, I for you,
I have for you. Unfortunately, it's in the regular season,
and frankly in this juncture that does not matter. But
it was snowing and the Bills are playing the forty
nine ers and Amari Cooper had a smile on his
face after this game because who has the audacity at
the goal line in the snow where you cannot get
(40:00):
your footing to catch a one handed pass in Josh
Allen and go, you know what, I'm not to get this.
I'm gonna flip it back to you, you maniac, you
crazy crazy people in the red zone? What are you doing?
Only Josh Allen could accomplish this. It was like a
semi superman. It was perfect. And I'm sorry Bill's fans
that Sean Merriman woke up this morning and chose my.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
Stop.
Speaker 2 (40:22):
All right, that was like a good yeah.
Speaker 5 (40:24):
I appreciate you. I appreciate it. Thank you, thank you
for uplifting for me.
Speaker 7 (40:28):
As a curse, the curse of an offensive lineman is
when you watch a game, your heart rate immediately goes
up about twenty beats per minute, and you only watch
the offensive line. That's just the nature of the Bay.
I feel like it's offensive line, and our moms are
the only guys that watched office.
Speaker 5 (40:41):
That's just true.
Speaker 7 (40:42):
So for me, the Super Bowl, I don't know about you, guys,
I'm watching it. I'm really hoping it's gonna be a
good game, sitting there watching with popcorn all that jazz,
and then I turn it on and it just keeps
a snowball effect for the Philadelphia Eagles. It just keeps
going and going, and Kansas City is just having a
tough time getting it. And then I see this play
by Landon Dickerson, their left guard, where listen, he just
(41:03):
does this fun will spend right here. Oh and then
he goes and kills the guy right after that, and
not only did he do that? He was on a
bum knee that he had to get surgery right after
this game. So just to see this, you don't get
coach to do that.
Speaker 2 (41:16):
That's just truth, and that's just the supposed to do
a full three sixty, find a different guy to block
and buy your quarterback.
Speaker 7 (41:21):
Well, there's well, there's two schools. One is block with
perfect technique and one is when you watch the film
the next day. Did you block the guy excellent?
Speaker 5 (41:28):
Did he hit the quarterback?
Speaker 10 (41:29):
No?
Speaker 7 (41:30):
That was something special. I won't forget very soon.
Speaker 2 (41:33):
Oh my god, you're telling me. They and when it
comes to the toush push and nothing, you're just looking
for guys doing a whirling dervish essentially and blocking two
guys on one play.
Speaker 7 (41:41):
Well, much like moms, I'm just hoping everyone gets up
and then yeah, besides that, it's just guys hanging out
and then hopefully they listen to Twitter search engine. Yeah,
is a hell of a thing when you find out
and his offensive lineman, nothing's constructive. It's all listen, your
mom's gonna find out about speaking to mothers, and then
you're gonna have a tough time sleeping. So when something
(42:03):
goes well for the offensive line US fact guys.
Speaker 5 (42:06):
And typically you don't hear anything into or something wrong,
so when.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
It goes wrong, like you, we need guys like you, ambassadors.
Speaker 7 (42:12):
Of the hall, few and far between. Pal, I'm just
trying to do my past.
Speaker 2 (42:15):
Welcome to GMFB. We had three plays, two of which
were by the MVP, one was by the rookie of
the offensive Rookie of the Year, and then one was
by an offensive lineman. We'll be right back on GMFB.
It was a perfect move back at twenty twenty.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
Four playing with a guy like Mitch. Mitch was just
one of those humans that he was who he was
every day he came to work. He was straightforward, he
made his calls, he made his points, and he kept
everybody on the line comfortable. And you know, as a player,
I can respect that because you know, like it's very
hostile in the trenches, and Mitch was one of those
guys that kept it calm.
Speaker 5 (42:47):
And then he was one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
That you know, like when it was time to speak
up and bark, he would bark. And Mitch was just
one of those guys that you know, set the tone
quietly but also could set the tone loudly with his speed.
Speaker 5 (43:01):
You must have. You must have bought some dinners out
there totally. I don't serve an awesome do you have?
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Docor's just sitting in our studio the day that you
retired and announced it, and that was authentically from the
hot heart. We just put the social media up that
you had retired, and that's what he had to say
about you.
Speaker 7 (43:16):
Well, now it's my turn, right, Can I talk a
little bit about Dion? You only have only twenty seconds.
Speaker 5 (43:20):
Talk about Didion?
Speaker 7 (43:21):
First of all, an amazing football player, amazing friend, authentically himself,
unbelievable person, philanthropic. When you're in his personal square, it flourishes.
Speaker 5 (43:30):
Dean.
Speaker 6 (43:31):
I love you, pal, I really do.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
Oh my gosh, no snark this morning on gim If
we all love, we'll be right back. Look at the
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