March 31, 2025 • 40 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with NFL League Meetings in Florida. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Manti Te'o discuss the topics being discussed by owners and coaches. Will a team select Prospect Jaxson Dart in the Top 10 of the NFL Draft? The table discusses more topics from the League Meetings including seeding changes and the future of the 'tush push'.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I always love that open because nobody knows that Peter
Schrogger is giving his bagel order during that delivery. We
just muted him. Welcome inside GMFB, everybody. We're live in
LA and New York City today. It's Monday, March thirty first,
the final day in March of twenty twenty five. I'm
Jamie ard Allmantiteo here of course, Kyle Brant, great to
see you. I was off last week. I tried to
stay away from the news Peter Schuger, but there was
(00:45):
one little note on a Friday after GMFP was off
the year that I could not stay away from Peter.
What are we doing over the next couple of hours
besides talking football, which I know you are oh so
good at.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes, I'd love to get back to the football. But
if you didn't follow Andrew Marshand or Ryan Glaspiegel on Friday,
the rumors are true. Today is my last day on
Good Morning Football. I end with great feelings. We're going
to celebrate today. I love everyone on this show. It's
all good, but this will be the last episode I
will be on this program, and with a heavy heart,
(01:15):
I'm stepping away. But it's also for good reasons and
for a bright future, and hopefully we'll all still be
crossing paths and we can talk about ball elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
My reaction, Peter's actually shock because when I heard that
there was big news, I thought it was your mock
draft was coming in.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, all right, so you leaving the show. That's a
pretty big deal. I'm going to have to adjust to that,
and we talk about it a lot this morning, I
promise you, and I know Jamie's thoughts and everyone has thoughts,
and you watching at home have thoughts and likely some emotion,
and we will have the same as the show endoors,
and we're going to try to do some things that
Peter likes this morning. And that's a very short little thing. Yeah,
it's like basically one thing. So we'll try to find it.
(01:54):
We've been looking for it for almost nine years, and
maybe today we'll be able.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
To do it.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Strake.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
When I heard the news on Friday, I told Jamie
I felt like a guard or a four that got
signed to the Dallas Mavericks and was looking forward to
playing with Luka Doncic and right when I get on
the scene, He's gone, what the heck?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Man, I hope we are trying to figure this thing out.
Bo I'm we're really gonna miss you, brother. We're gonna
do it right by you today. Man, that's a really
nice compliment.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You have been a plus and unbelievable since joining the
show this season. Rest assured we will be talking a
lot in the future and you're unbelievable and that's really
kind Luca.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I'll take it five time. All nbas So I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Saying when he said that's me on the phone the
other day, I was like, you got to say that
in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Peter will love that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's the ultimates of the cab. All right, Peter, do
us the honors please for you one final time? Why
don't you take it away?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Wow? All right, it is time for the lead block, Hollo.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The NFL Annual Meeting is taking place today and the
AFC coaches will be speaking to the hoard of media
members that I've gathered there today as we have not
an arrival shot of players coming off a bus, but
coaches in suits that they have laid out because it
feels like the first day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of school for them.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Peter Schrager, I want to ask you today, in the
list of AFC coaches, who are you truly looking forward
to hearing from today? Take it away, Peter Whore you go.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Let me set the seat a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
So right now, as we are here on television, all
of the reporters who are at the league meetings, this
is why they were sent. They get an opportunity to
actually speak to the coaches in a casual setting, and
the league puts them all in a conference room and
they all have their own table, and you get to
ask whatever you want to any coach, and it might
be the only time all off season you have unfettered
(03:34):
access to an NFL head coach leading all the way
up to training camp.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So you better empty the bag.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It could be about draft, it could be about your
roster management. It could be about an off season issue
that you want to get address.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You gotta fill your notebook.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And to me, I'd go right to that Pittsburgh table
and I would sit right down next to Mike Tomlin
because I got to know what's the vibe on the
Steelers front as far as the quarterback goes. Now, he
briefly spoke yesterday on.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Camera to the in house reporter there.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
In Pittsburgh, said, I don't believe in a deadline for Rogers.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
That's not how this works. It's not gonna be a deadline.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I also remember Mike Tomlin when Leveon Bell was was
holding out, saying we'd rather have volunteers than hostages. If
you remember that, it's at this event that was not
storing with Leveon's endless holdout of so many years back.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I just think Tomlin is so.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So good with the media, and he's got he's got
such amazing sayings on that press conference. But this is
a little uncomfortable though, because they're waiting on someone else.
It's not the Mighty Steelers, and the Mighty Steelers being
the ones who are picking and choosing what they want.
They're clearly waiting on Rogers's decision. And Tomlin's already saying like,
I'm not putting a deadline on this guy. He's a
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forty one year old future Hall of Famer. He'll come
to us when we wants to or he'll But as
the days tick my, we're at the league meetings right now,
like the draft is in a couple of weeks, when
are we going to find out on Rogers? And I
would be asking Tomlin all those questions, as uncomfortable might
get after the first five minutes.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
SRICKX, I love how you've been talking about how they're
waiting on somebody. There's a coach that I'm really excited
to listen to and hear from. His name is Sean Payne.
In twenty eighteen, we as in the New Orleans Saints
played the La Rams in the NFC Championship Game, and
there was a play that happened which is categorized as
(05:26):
a no call PI that just erupted the whole city
of New Orleans. Now, the reason why I say that
you referenced the waiting on Champayne didn't wait on anybody
ever since the end of that game. All the way
up leading up to these meetings, he was trying to
meet with NFL executives, with anybody that would listen to
him to change these rules. Heading into twenty nineteen, all
(05:48):
of a sudden, the NFL implemented a rule allowing the
review of past interference calls.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
That was just implemented the very next year.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
So Champayne is one of those guys, where he's not
going to wait on anybody. He's not going to wait
on any rules. He's going to go out there and
change the rules himself. But I'm really also looking forward
to hear about Shawn's reaction to the success that the
Broncos have had in the past two years. Guys, I
don't think we can harp enough of how magical the
past two years have been for Sean Payton over there
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in Denver. In twenty twenty two, when they traded for
Russell Wilson, it was categorized as one of the worst
trades in NFL history. I don't think it's because of
the fact that they traded for Russell Wilson. Is what
they gave up fort Russell Wilson. They gave up a
first round pick in twenty twenty two, a second round
pick in twenty twenty two, a fifth round pick, and
a twenty twenty three first round pick, second round pick,
and three players. So there's a whole bunch of people
(06:39):
that they let go for Russell Wilson. He goes to Denver,
they have a losing season. I think they tied a
record in Denver for the most losses in one season.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
With twelve losses.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Sean Payton comes in the next year, two years into
Russell Wilson's contract, they release them. Sean Payton wasn't going
to wait on anything. He goes, They drop Boon Nicks,
They do a whole bunch of things. They make it
to the playoff. This year, they have a top five defense,
Patrick shirt Tan wins the Defensive Player of the Year.
I would love to hear what Sean has to say
about these type of things going into twenty twenty five,
(07:10):
and then what he thinks.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
About some certain Peter wants to hear from a veteran
guy in the AFC. You want to hear from a
veteran coach in the NFL. I go from one end
of each of the spectrum on each side. I need
when the season rolls around a seventy four year old
Pete Carroll and when the season rolls around a forty
year old Liam Cohen, I want to hear from both
of these guys.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I want to hear from the Raiders head coach and
the Jaguars head coach, because one of those guys, we
did not do it on this show, but was easy
fodder when he had his introductory press conference in Jacksonville
not too long ago. Liam Cohen, you will forever have
the table at least here to redo whatever way you
want to cheer on your team. And Pete Carroll, you
are back in the AFC. I'm sure you had to
(07:50):
stop here, but you are longtime Seahawks coach and now
you're in the AFC. So I want to hear from
both these guys just because you have a vast difference
of experience when it comes to the head coaches meeting.
And Kyle, I specifically liked your tweet yesterday with the
crack knuckles because I cannot wait this week for when
you get to unpack the coach's picture.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, normally we would unpack the coach's picture today, but
today is a different day here in good morning football,
and a lot today, a lot of the things are
coming up. Peter Schrager and Peters usually want that, but
today doesn't matter. Peter, you get it, you know, Peter,
A lot of people watch the show over the years,
they watch like in a bar, you know, like and
there's no sound or anything like that. I could watch
the coaches the annual meeting. I don't need any sound.
(08:30):
I just want the sweet, sweet visuals. I like this
thing better than some games. This right here, terrible carpeting,
not suits, sport code work, coach with untucked shirts and
lanyards and maybe significant others or maybe reporters, and it's
just like it is such awkward television. And this is
only like they're coming out of the paddock.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You get clad Stone and sneak.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's go with McDermott like they just why they sit
down in the tables and then there's this weird dynamic
where there's people at the tables with them, there's arms
wrapping around them, there's cameras, there's iPhones, there's microphones.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It's so awkward.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's not a normal's media session where someone is up
at a lectern talking.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
It's intermixed. The fashion is weird, the conversations are weird.
The coaches don't.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Want to say anything about anything. They're trying to have
coffee and some corn beef hash.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And that brings me to Peter. I'm just going to
see you up. It's a rite of spring.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Can you please talk about this event that room as
it pertains to food.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Thank you. This is how I want my final show
to go.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
This is what Good Morning Football brings you that none
of these others.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You'll get the transcripts in the quotes. Here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They put them all on a conference room, but they
put out like a little breakfast buffet, and the media
gets there before the coaches get there. So if you're
a media member, you're going to be sitting at a
table with a head coach. So say Aaron Glenn is
sitting there, eleven reporters from the New York media are
gonna be hovered around them. For whatever reason, these reporters,
all of them, not just New York, everyone feels the
(10:00):
need to get a plate of eggs, a plate of
French toasts, a plate of pa cakes, a plate of
a plate of fruit. And as they're interviewing the coaches, Kyle,
they're just shoveling food with ketchup everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
And it is the most nauseating thing that we do
as an.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
NFL media, the fact that we can't hold off until
after we interview the coach for the one time the
entire offseason to get that food. I mean, you will
find a line thirty deep of reporters trying to get
those running scrambledgg not great not a great content, all
a runny scrambled egg just to eat it in front
of Sean Payton while they ask him Queen.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think some of them missed the beginning of the
session just because they're still in line for food. You
have Nick Sirianni sitting here and Sean McDermott and they're like, oh,
they're starting back.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I've been waiting in line with his eggs. Benny at
the end.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now, Peter, we're also a show of news, the boots
on the ground and I have groundbreaking news.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Please tell me you spoke to someone there. I did.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
According to NFL Media's Mike Garrett Folo, this is real.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Time breaking news. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
For the first time in the history of the events,
there is no breakfast.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Service, no food.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The eggs are gone, the English muffins are gone.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Peter, it's gone. Mike Garafalo says, no breakfast.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Maybe they just got to go to the gift shop
in the lobby and buy.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Some trail mix or something.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I would think maybe now that that Peter's off the books,
they can take that money.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
And buy some Princes says none. There's a ton of
salary cap space. Then I'm out.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You can provide some eggs.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I wanted to see Pete Prince got eating a Danish
that's right in front of him.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I have the event that shame's movies face. No, so
thank you, Mike. That's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's blown up now that it's bigger than Rogers of
the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
No food to Palm Beach. Sorry to tell it right
the headline.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
My gosh, Peter, that was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
There is nothing worse than just not only having someone
eat ketchup with eggs on, but having the ketchup left
on the tablecloth after the fact. You've got to sit
down and talk.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
To Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Come on, what are we doing as a group. At
least they nullified it today. Peter Schreger, we love you.
We got one more round of ween. Are we out
with shregs on GMFB today?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What do you have in store for us? My friends?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well, if you know this show, you know I love
this segment. We interre out and you know I wouldn't
want to.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
End my last day on Good Morning Football without talking
about Jackson Dart.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That is where we're going. Hey, The news was that
he had a great pro day. We're gonna talk a
little Jackson Dart and back to some football when we
get back here.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
It is perfect because you hate draft talk that's not
about quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Like, let's talk to quarterbacks. I don't care, they're gonna go. Plus,
we will continue to discuss and debate the.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Most talked about play in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
There it is. You love it, you hate it? Uh, push, push,
get out to a quarter some eggs, please, I believe
that here. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Good football.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
The NFL Draft is less than a month away.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
And on Friday afternoon, Jackson Dart had his pro day
at Ole Miss and from all accounts, he was outstanding.
I know it's just a pro day, but I and
Rappaport said that people were blown away by what this
guy did in his workout in front of NFL scouts, coaches,
and personnel. It's a round of we inner, we out,
and we start right there with Jackson Dart, a name
(13:30):
we're getting used to, jax Son, who is the older
brother of Diesel Dart, also in name.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Here is our statement and.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Tell us, whether you think you're it, you're out on this.
A team will end up selecting Jackson Dart in the
top ten of April's NFL Draft.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Manti, he's not going there in any of the mock drafts.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Is he gonna end up going in top ten when
it's all set and.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Done, Shrigs, I am out on this one. The reason
being is this, Okay, there are only two teams in
my opinion, in the top ten that need a quarterback.
That is the first pick and the second pick, Cleveland
and Tennessee. Other than that, I mean, you could bring
up the New York Giants and the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I think you don't sign.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
If you're the Giants, you don't sign Russell Wilson and
Jameis Winston if you're going to sign a quarterback in
the first round.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Same thing with the Raiders.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
You don't sign General Smith if you're going to sign
a quarterback in the first round.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So it limits it down to two.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Now, cam Ward, in my opinion, and I think we
all can agree, is the number one overall quarterback in
this class. Now, after cam it's a toss up between
Shador and Jackson Dart in my opinion. So if cam
Ward doesn't go one, he's going.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
To go two. After that, there's really.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
No other team that's going to draft a quarterback in
the top ten, let alone the first round. So I
am out on this, Peter, as far as Jackson Dart
going in the.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Top ten, you are just full of reasonable takes today,
and it's making me uncomfortable, Manside, because you put thought
into these questions, and the only thing I put thought
into is making sure Peter had a great final day
on GMFB. And so normally I would have a reasonable
thought out on what to do with Jackson Dart the
top ten. I'm so far in on this because I'm
like the girl crying she like hugs her wine bottle
(15:11):
or finishing the chocolate cake, and like, I'm all about
the most drastic thing a team can do right now
in this moment, in the top ten in the NFL draft,
draft Jackson Dart draft and one, I don't even care
what happens right now. Whatever it takes to just make
the headlines and to have Schreger talk about it and
make GMF be great.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This is sure. Why not he got an.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Exit in his name for crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That just screams Jackson Dart is.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Coming up the draft, Darts and now he's a top
ten fig what is happening.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
This is the greatest rise.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I'm so deep into my emotional coffee cup right now
on this show. Manty's coming at us with Sean Payton
takes and how the good Broncos have turned things around
the last five years, and how reasonable teams. I need
a quarterback. I don't even know what's happening right now.
Sure I'm in on this because Peter, it's your last day.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And I love you man.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You know I love my quarterbacks, and you know I
love everyone who tells us that there will not be
quarterbacks taken and then they always rise. But Kyle, we've
been through this. This is our ninth draft together. Your
thoughts on Jackson Dart top ten.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I just have.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have a lot of memories of we went to
Philadelphia for the draft.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
This was Brown's number one. They took Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
This ended up being the Mahomes Draft, the Trubisky Draft,
all of that, And I just remember we had someone
on the show I'm not going to name. He was
sitting there at the table with us, and he kept
trying to talk about all these like third and fourth
round prospects, and Peter kept redirecting the conversation to the quarterbacks,
and this guest eventually was like kind of frustrated.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
He's like, but why do you want to talk about
the quarterbacks so much?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And we're like, cause we're doing a TV.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Show here, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We're not trying to pad our resume and kiss up
to some sid from some D three school that you know, like,
we're trying to talk about the quarters doing a show. So, Peter,
it's in one of many things that I just personally
have learned from you over the years about NFL media
and about what pops and also is about what's authentic,
and really rule number one about the draft is talk
(17:01):
about the quarterbacks. But rule number one A is the
quarterback go. People want them. I know there's some safety
that you saw in a mock draft. No one gives
a damn about a safety. They want the quarterbacks. And
I've learned that. And I also so I think Mansim
makes the lucid point of you look at the top ten,
who needs a quarterback? There's people who trade in for
the top ten for a quarterback. They're gonna trade up
(17:21):
for Jackson Dart. Let me explain something to you another
lap around this world.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We've had.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I've been around here long enough to do the COVID
draft in which the Green Bay Packers, who had Aaron Rodgers,
traded up for Jordan Love, who just led the nation
in interceptions. People do drunk stuff for quarterbacks. My answer
is yes, and equivocally I think Jackson go in the
top ten because I have another lesson from Peter, and
it is pay attention to what the bleep Peter is.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yes, you shut up, I'm talking now.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Peter has said fifty times over the last seventy two hours,
I don't know those Saints, those Saints, the Saints, the Saints.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Of Rogers, Saint Saint Saints.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Peter, You've said a lot of Saints lately, and now
you're geting uncomforted because you're like, w I don't necessarily
have that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I listen to Peter, and if he says the word
enough times, I'm go look at the Saints. You know
what the Saints draft, Saint draft at nine. Do you
think the Saints are in love with their quarterback situation?
You don't think the Saints might like to inject a
young quarterback below Derek Carr, especially someone who played in
the South part of the country and has got a
cool name, and they might like in the Saints Nation.
I think, yes, I think he goes number ten. I
(18:25):
get rather top ten, maybe even number nine unless someone
jumps it. The teams are so thirsty for quarterbacks, they're
spitting dust.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Listen to Peter, I'm in on this.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, and like, I appreciate you saying all that stuff,
and in all honesty, you look at it. Even last
year in the draft it was, well, this seem doesn't
need a quarterback, this seam doesn't need a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Well, they all.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Six way in the top twelve. I go back to
the Mahomes draft. Alex Smith's the quarterback of the Kansas
City Chiefs. Drew Brees is the quarterback of the New
Orleans Saints. Andy Reid trades up to ten to get Mahomes,
and after the fact, Sean Payton says, we were going
to take them at eleven, So don't get locked into Well,
this team already has Gino.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Smith's thirty five years old.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, this shoe the Falcons did last year looks what
it a six years old and.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They took a quarterback in the top eight, So I
know Jackson Dart doesn't have the same buzz of Mahomes
or maybe even a.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Pennox last year.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Hank tight There's not a lot of quarterbacks in this draft,
and Jackson Darty's to the second or the third, he
might very well go in the top ten. Okay, our
second one goes to the rules committee, which I saw
kaylen Call had this report that the touchbush got heated
in the conversations. There's another interesting rule that the Lions
are proposing, and that is to change the playoff seatings
(19:38):
based on record and not just division winners. If you
recall the top four teams in the playoffs every year,
the home teams are the division winners.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
The new rule.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Proposal would be like, if you had a better record
as a wild card team, you could be home in
a playoff game against a division winner.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We in? Are we out?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
The NFL should change its seedings for the playoffs and
reward the best record over just the division winners. When
it comes to who's hume home in the wild card round?
Mantai he start us off.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Shricks again, I'm out, I'm out.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
And the reason being is the only seed that really
means anything in the playoffs is a one seed.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
That's it. All you want is to buy. If you
don't have to buy, it really.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Doesn't matter because the facts are, if you're a team
where whether you're home or away really matters, number one,
probably you're not in the playoffs. And number two, if
you are in the playoffs, you're not going to last
that long because if you playing at home really makes
a big difference on how you perform and your wins
and all of that stuff, you're not going to get
that far. So for me, it's listen, leave it the
way it's at because we had an example last year,
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and we had these examples every single year in the
Wildcard round when the Vikings played the Rams, obviously we
had the Fires here in LA. They moved the game
to Glendale, Arizona, where the Cardinals play. So both teams
are technically technically now playing away games, and the Rams
win that game twenty seven to nine. The Rams were
actually ten and seven and the Minnesota Vikings were three,
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So technically this in this situation, it should have been
in Minnesota, but they're both playing away games, so what's
the difference. So I'm out on this, Peter, I think
you should just keep it the sing tell me that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The Lions don't think that the NFC North is going
to be the best division for the next ten years
without actually saying it to me, this is all the
Lions are doing, because if the Lions didn't have that
fifteenth win over the Vikings in Week eighteen, they would
have been the fourteen win Vikings. They would have had
to go on to Row to La or two Arizona.
To your point, this is the exact scenario we all
look at, or the example from twenty twenty four, but
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it was the Lions as the one seed and they
still got beat by a young, up and coming team
and the Commanders that came into their building. So I
also look at the fourteen win Vikings. It would have
been cool for them to host a game.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm in on this.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I do think teams that have, you know, in the
teams of wins Kyle in a single regular season deserve
a home game and make it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Harder for the guy like it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Just it makes every game count more, I think in
the regular season.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So I'm in.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I'm in change it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I want the best teams in the best games. This
is not something radical. You win the division, you still
get an automatic bid.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
You're still going, you still eat.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You could be six and eleven, and if the math
works out, you are going to the playoffs with your
terrible record. You just don't, on top of that, get
a home game. It's a little ridiculous. Get you get
to go because you beat up on your crappy division
and you're terrible, but you get to get in because
your division's even more terrible.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
You don't also get a home game. Anything.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
For me, that is better games, better teams playing with
better advantages. I need a little more peter than Marshawn
once had a crazy run on a subpipe hundred team.
I understand that happened if like a decade ago, it
was great. It had nothing to new with their record. Okay,
I know that that happened on the subpipe hundred team,
and everyone always brings that up.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah. I don't see its material to the debate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I just think it is it is furnishing it better
for the teams that have earned it, and I support that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I think it's fitning that this conversation is happening while
there's all the owners of the league meetings.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I think this will never be changed. It will never
be overturned.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And my reasoning is every NFL owner goes into an
offseason thinking I have a one and four chance of
hosting a playoff game this season, and they like that.
They like the fact knowing if we just win our division,
we can have all of our home crowd and we
could sell out tickets, sell the.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Jerseys, and we have a home game.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
If you don't have that opportunity, it's like, well, there's
four good teams in this We're never going to be
better than those four teams.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
But every year, with.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
The parody in this league, there is a one in
four chance that an NFL team can host a playoff
game as long as we keep it as.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Is, and winning divisions matters.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The second you start wiping this out, divisions don't even
the rivalries matter, But the divisions don't really matter. I
think a division crown still does matter. And you get
a reward for that, you get to host a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That's just a small potatoes, that's a pathetic outlook. You're
looking at the look at the thirty two teams and
win a super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Is it really like.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That big of a cherry on top that you get
to host a wild card game that you're going to lose.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Because your team is bad. Like I guess, it's good for.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Business and optics and the fans get to come to
a playoff game.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know what the fans want to come to. We
want to come to a parade.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Philadelphia just had their second one in about five or
six years.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Think about thirty two, not four.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Leave it to p shregs the football purists.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He wants to leave it as it is.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
All these potential world changes are being discussed.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Probably will at the annual league meeting.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We're going to check in with Florida, our guys boots
on the ground in a couple of minutes. On Friday,
LA twenty eight revealed their updated plans for where all
flag football Olympic competition will take place in twenty twenty eight,
right here in Los Angeles and as approved by the
LA City Council last week. Flag's first ever Olympic venue
will be in the Stadium and Exposition Park, pending IOC
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sign up. The beautiful open air stadium and one of
LA's newest, is located just beyond the city's iconic skyline
and adjacent to the historic LA Coliseum. The highly anticipated
Flag Games will take place in the heart of one
of LA twenty eight's main Olympic competition zones. This is
another very exciting step along the road to flag football's
LA twenty eight Olympic debut. And on a side note,
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the fact that we questioned the NFL's choice of Jalen
Hurts being the guy that throws the flaming football to
the top of the coliseum, and now that when went
on to win a Super Bowl, we should really look
at the script to get you guys just kidding. Coming up,
we're gonna head back out to the Annual Meeting for
the latest with our insiders, and we're going to keep talking.
Peter Schrager on a Monday, March thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
First Good Morning Football, Well.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Kyle Brand started our show by saying he wanted to
hear from a bunch of coaches. Peter started as well.
Peter Schragers last day on gm AB, he said, let's
hear from Mike Tomlin. Well, Tomlin's got thoughts on Aaron Rodgers.
Let's blend all the topics together in the off season.
We got it. Here's the Steelers head coach from the
Annual league meeting on that quarterback.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
He's a free agent. As you guys know, he came
to visit last Friday. We had a really productive day.
He's been in this thing a long time. I've been
in this thing a long time. But there's no substitute
for you know, intimacy and spending time together getting to
know one another in a non competitive environment. And so
that was really good. But I don't have any new
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updates in terms of where the process is. We'll see
where it leaves us.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Judy Bautista with a front row with the pen in
hand and the notepad. We love you, Judy Bautista. Peter,
your thoughts on Tomlin's comments, Man, they were no breakfast
being served. Everyone was in on that conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Kyle and I both marveling at two things.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Gy Batista taking the notes, getting it down and transcribing
it as we see her on the grounds.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
And to Tomlin's sweating sweat looked like the Jordan peele Gre.
Can we see that again? It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That is like, you talk about body language and we've
got PR consultants who talk about hydra.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Can you roll the b roll again? Tomlin is stripping sweat.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's not just that he's sweating. Is that Tomlin is
usually the coolest, coolest, and he.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Is the coolest. Yeah, he's super chill. He's got my
cool phrases. I got it good. And I have to
ask how much.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Of it is the conditions in that room and how
much of it is the topic?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
And is it eight twenty, is it ninety ten or
is it fifty to fifty? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's just that is a profuse amount of perspiration. This
still is not doing in any justice. But the video,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I've never We've been watching Tomlin for a decade.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I don't think I've ever seen Mike Tomlin flinch, let
alone sweat.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
No Roethlisberger is throwing it. It's s Antonio in the
back of the end zone. Cool now, Rogers. Wow, all right,
take with that what you will.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
I guess I've got no breakfast and no AC.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's a good point, Jytiza shreks.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
We need to update that they got AC in that room,
because it looks like they got no breakfast, no AC.
There's some issues over there, all right, mit, Ti Tie.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
There's a new scandal in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It's called buffet Gate, and it's the fact that those
reporters have not been provided with food this morning, and
we're getting furious. Mike Garrafolo is furious that there was
no food provided this morning.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
But yes, I want to shout out some of the reporters.
It should be fed and what's going on?
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Yes, all right, so let's let's first provide the context
on the sweating. Mike Tomlin arrived sweating, so I am
going to believe that he had himself a workout.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yep, and that show up here. Now.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Sometimes I take a shower like George Costanza doesn't take No,
it doesn't, I.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Continue to sweat. I think that.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
So it wasn't about the line of questioning. He entered facility.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
And I do TV and then right after Peloton, I
gotta have a fan right there, just to make sure
that you're not dealing with that.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I think, guys, you guys missed all this.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
Obviously, Mike and I are on the pre workout situation
for tom onin.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
This is why we're here.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
By the way, this was not the only topic that
Mike Tomlin addressed that I also talked about something you
guys have been discussing the future of Aaron Rodgers as
potentially the Steelers quarterback Tomlin's saying there's no timeline. Did
talk about Mike how the personal meeting they had with him,
the visit that's been widely reported was really positive. Talked
about just the process of getting to know him, digging
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into their schemes a little bit, talking to the coaches,
having all the kind of meetings that you actually don't
really get when someone is a free agent because it's
just not enough time.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They got time.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
And I don't know if you know this, but Aaron
Rodgers is taking his time wanting to make sure that
this fit is a perfect one.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
The exact quote from Mike Tomlin was quote, there is
no substitute for intimacy, which our guy, Kevin Patch true
tweeted and said, I tell my wife that all the time.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, sure, tweet by Kevin There.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Look, it is a process for Aaron Rodgers, and my
understanding is the latest step in the prog in the process,
excuse me, was over the weekend at UCLA, he threw
to DK metcalf, they did have a throwing session, the
two of them together, According to sources informed of that workout.
So Rogers going through the process and checking all the boxes,
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and I assume it was a good throwing session there
with him and Metcalf. So we'll see if that leads
to him saying you know what, Yeah, I'm fully and
I like that guy. I like that target right there elsewhere.
Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Titans, very popular today.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Yeah, well he's got the number one overall pick. That
makes you popular at these things. Our cam Wolf is here,
by the way, and remember he interviewed cam Ward at
his pro day and he said, I turned to the
Titans and I said, I'm solidifying it today.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I asked Callahan about that.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
He says, yeah, I like confidence, and when you're a
the number one overall picker in the mix, at least
there's a lot that comes with it. So to have
fun with that, he said, he thought it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Was a good thing.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
Yeah, And kalan also said they're open for anything at
the number one pick, which is technically true, but the
way it is tracking now, Mike, it's only seems like
the Titans are moving closer, as Kalen said, to coming
up with the decision that they will likely keep the
number one pick. It's not there yet. It's still a process.
They still need to go to Colorado Pro Day, still
need to work out Shador Sanders, maybe do another zoom
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with cam Ward, but they are moving closer and closer
to saying, you know what, cam Ward is a franchise quarterback.
We got a lot to fix on this team, but
quarterback is number one. Just handing in the card and
telling anyone else, no, we are not open for trades.
At some point, this is going to be our guy.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Kyle.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Well, listen, it's Mike. We have to get to this.
You broke major news this morning, and I appreciate you.
One of our favorite things about the annual meeting is
reporters holding a tape recorder at a head coach while
they stuffed their face with a croissant with jelly and butter,
and they just.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Eat and eat.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You have some news this morning, and I need Jeremy
Fowler to be fed today at this event. And you
tell me if there's a development there.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Yeah, it is no longer a breakfast. It is a
coaches what they call it a gathering or just the
coaches prest comfort.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I didn't pay attention to any of the email. There
was no food. Somebody you don't know where they could
have picked that up. I got coffee. There was air
conditioning it.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Up the old side of the hotel in what looked
like a huge shipping container. So I thought it was
a trap. I thought we were all going in there
and we were gonna get picked up and just lifted
and just sent into the ocean.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
You know, there are several people here who would actually
enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
But that did not happen.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
And I would say this, I've long been an anti
breakfast person, not in general. I love breakfast as a meal,
but I'm saying breakfast here, like you don't like to
have the Bill Belichick meme right where he's drinking the
orange juices, you rightous question like that. Nobody wants to
be eating on chemeras. So they said, you know what
we'll do right, The breakfast will feed you after now.
I would also say, breakfast is now. So we're talking
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to you guys. We might miss it, and it's my last.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Day on Good Morning Football. I love you guys both
so much. I would be remissed by the mask it is.
I told you I'd be remissed if I.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
First of all, you guys look like Miami Dolphins matching suits.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Like I'll have ours here. Yes, i'd be asked.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I want to ask the coffee selection for you at
at the Palm Beach Hotel.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
You're at, what are we going with today?
Speaker 10 (32:25):
I'm a coffee slifing coffee. I'm a simple man. Trigger
I don't know if you know this. I'm sort of
little maintenance kind of guy. So I just go drip coffee,
a little bit of cream and three Stevia's. I used
to go with like equal or sweeten low, and then
I found out those are bad for me.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
So Stevie is a plant mic. A lot of people
don't know that.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Hello.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
So that's what I put in my coffee. It keeps
me going. These are long days. It's long nights of you.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Want to hit the toush.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Push it all by the way before we get out
of here, because I mean, actually we just burned a
lot of time here.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, go talk about it.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Push a topic of conversation with these coaches here. Sean
McDermott patiently against it because of the health and safety,
even though there is no data that leads anyone to
believe that the play is a problem from a health
and safety standpoint. So make leading the push to ban
the tush push, but some other folks in there, John
Harball being one of them, saying that he believes is
a football play, so it should be a spirited, heated
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discussion over the.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Next day or so. Here way to get that in mic.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yes, that was like a total hijack of a coffee
conversation where all we really wanted to know was whether
or not rap Sheet drinks Duncan I think I thought
you were powered by Duncan raps sheet. I thought that's
what we were going to go with you on the.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
News to help you get nil money right.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
We don't care about your steams and whether or not
a plan. We care about what your cups said money.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
I'll just be I'll just if you want to get there.
I'm open for business for any coffee company except for one.
It started as a it started as more of a
Duncan thing. Duncan's has not been interested. So I would
say this any coffee company except again except for one
which one.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Pizza is a good Caribou Folks on the line, Ye coffee,
great coffee.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Cabo's got great caramels, They're delicious, Caribou is.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Great, great.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And Rappaport and I always drink Folders and Maxwell House
every single morning to start my news.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And when I go to ten.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Powle NFL events and get coffee, I always bring a
switch blade and pepper spray just in case.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
That's not what he needs it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
League meetings, everybody.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
With the Helton see give the players since as you said,
there is really no data to say there's injury.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
It's like, what are you saying anytime you get in.
It's two things. It's it's force added force number one,
and then the posture of the players, you know, being
asked to execute that type of play. That's where that's
where my concern comes in.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You continue to run the play if it remains and
you have concerns about the safety, you'll continue to run
because I think he ran it quite a bit last year.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
A form of it, right, A form of it, So
I think that's a it's a loose term really in
terms of what defines a push push you know, so
there's there's different forms of it out there. I know
we are one of the teams that people identify that
run it.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
That's fair.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
You know there's other teams as well. So I just look,
we're gonna We're gonna always act in a way that's
best for the health and safety of the players, and
I think that's the responsible way to go.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It's a good follow up because you can't just be
a coach that doesn't run it. The fact that people
are actually saying, but Sean mcdermoty, you do run it.
So how do you think this is going to go
in the future, Peter gut feeling, gut check and when
you know, Kyle just said, we always listen when you talk.
You think this thing is going to be banned.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I think they're gonna keep it, and I think it's
gonna be an ongoing discussion over the next several offseasons.
The data is not there. It's not They did a
big statistical study and there's no injury data that proves
that it has to be overturned.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
The NFL would would definitely.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Do it if there was some real statistics saying that
there was injuries.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
But there's not.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
And if you just don't like because it's aesthetically unpleasing,
that's not enough.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
And the truth of the matter is this.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Nick Sirianni's a head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kellen
Moore is a head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
Shane Steichen is a head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.
Jonathan Gannon is a head coach of the Aritona Cardinals.
All of those guys have greatly benefited from the Tush push.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
That's four votes right there. And I do believe there.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Becomes this machismo in this, and it's do you want
to be the coach to be like, well, we couldn't
stop it, so we had to overturn it. If the
injury data was there, I think they would change it,
but I'm not one voting, and the competition committee is
barently having some very heated discussions about it.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
The injury data is not there.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The only information that we know is the guys who
run it, and they say it's less dangerous than a
standard running play up the middle that they would have
to run instead. In other words, the Eagles weren't allowed
to do it, and Jalen Hurt says to turn around
and hand it to Saquon that play presents more of
an injury risk than the Tush push. So listen, I
love Sean McDermott. Whatever version of there running they ain't working.
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If they would have worked, they would have been in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Last year. They tried it, So don't tell me you
can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Shawn's very team was stopped more than once by the
AFC champion, the Chiefs. It can be stopped. The reason
I don't, I mean I almost. I want to use
the word outrage. I think I will be outrage if
this is banned. I am so strongly against banning it
because I don't see any argument to ban it. I've
addressed this for months. What are you saying It's not football?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yes it is. It's the very basis of football. You push,
we push.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Who pushes harder in anything that is a callback to
when football was football.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I love it. And don't tell me the injuries, and
don't tell me it's ugly. Like, I don't see the case.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So if you do it because people be like we
don't like it, that sucks, and so does your argument.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I hope they never been it. I love it.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah, I echo everything that you guys said. Brothers. It's
it's not going anywhere, and in my opinion, it shouldn't
go anywhere. There's no injuries to it. It's a violent play,
but it's not a dangerous.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Play, okay.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
And I love the fact that k but you pointed
out the difference between the Saquon barklay thing and that
push push is all about the distance between the defender
and the ball carrier. Everybody's so close that there's really
no danger in the play. I do think that Sean
McDermott made a good point about the added force thing,
because defenders, when it's a field goal block play, we
are not allowed to push a Dan lineman forward. That's
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a penalty. So I do see a little bit of
argument with that Sean McDermott has In that case.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
There are specific words or phrases on this show that
for the last nine plus years, you know, they've become touchdownes,
and I do believe that the touchbush is firmly entering
itself into that alexicon for GMFB. Another one is that
every morning on the show you heard the music open.
In this last offseason, we changed our tune from a
wonderful gentleman that I think was from Pennsylvania to an
actual Grammy winning superstar singing good Morning Football, and that,
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of course is front of our show. Melissa Ethridge, Peter
how do you know Melissa Ethridge so well? Why is
she so such a close and personal friend of this show?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
What a left turn, quite a left turn from the
touch push to one of my favorite musicians. We love
the lists a fan and they used that diehard Chiefs
fan and she was along on the ride. And guess what,
as Good Morning Football was sitting at APEX all these
years the Chiefs went on this dynasty.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Why do we bring up Melissa Ethridge? She sent you a.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Sweet little video, Peter Schrager, we want to hear from
Melissa Ethridge?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Is going up?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Peters AGMFP Hey Peter, Melissa Ethridge. I just wanted to
thank you for all the incredible years of doing Good
Morning Football and as a football lover for your knowledge.
And I mean it was you who got me excited
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about this new prospect that the Chiefs drafted, moved up
for in the draft to get this new quarterback and
that we should all be excited about him. And you
were so right. Your football knowledge is just unparalleled. I
wish you the best in everything you're going to do.
I'm sure we'll see you out there, man. I will
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miss you from Good Morning Football. I love you, you
know I do.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
What an amazing Melissa, what a sweet lady, and obviously
he's become a friend.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
And I saw her Broadway sh show the first night.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
And really, uh, Melissa, Linda, then the whole crew out
there with the Ethridge family, like, we so appreciate you
for being a fan. And if that's representative of any
of you viewers at all, I'm seeing some of the
tweets and all that, Guys, this is not about me.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
This is a a it's a show for a couple
of weeks from the draft.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I appreciate it, but truly it comes to the bottom
of my heart. I appreciate anyone who's watching or reaching out.
And Melissa Ethridge, hats off to you. Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Peter, really well said Melissa Ethridge, very well said. We
appreciate you, Peter Schreeger. Mostly we listen to you today,
we will not it is about you, buddy. It's your
last day on GMFB, and we're talking about how much
we love you because you mean the world to a
lot of football fans, especially that one right there who
loves the Chiefs and ever so proudly puts her Chief's
flag on the same street. Los Angeles that I believe
Sean McVay lives on, which is just a pleasus who
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I always love that open because nobody knows that Peter
Schrogger is giving his bagel order during that delivery. We
just muted him. Welcome inside GMFB, everybody. We're live in
LA and New York City today. It's Monday, March thirty first,
the final day in March of twenty twenty five. I'm
Jamie ard Allmantiteo here of course, Kyle Brant, great to
see you. I was off last week. I tried to
stay away from the news Peter Schuger, but there was
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one little note on a Friday after GMFP was off
the year that I could not stay away from Peter.
What are we doing over the next couple of hours
besides talking football, which I know you are oh so
good at.
Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yes, I'd love to get back to the football. But
if you didn't follow Andrew Marshand or Ryan Glaspiegel on Friday,
the rumors are true. Today is my last day on
Good Morning Football. I end with great feelings. We're going
to celebrate today. I love everyone on this show. It's
all good, but this will be the last episode I
will be on this program, and with a heavy heart,
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I'm stepping away. But it's also for good reasons and
for a bright future, and hopefully we'll all still be
crossing paths and we can talk about ball elsewhere.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
It'll be fine.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
My reaction, Peter's actually shock because when I heard that
there was big news, I thought it was your mock
draft was coming in.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Not yet.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
No, all right, so you leaving the show. That's a
pretty big deal. I'm going to have to adjust to that,
and we talk about it a lot this morning, I
promise you, and I know Jamie's thoughts and everyone has thoughts,
and you watching at home have thoughts and likely some emotion,
and we will have the same as the show endoors,
and we're going to try to do some things that
Peter likes this morning. And that's a very short little thing. Yeah,
it's like basically one thing. So we'll try to find it.
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We've been looking for it for almost nine years, and
maybe today we'll be able.
Speaker 6 (01:57):
To do it.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
Strake.
Speaker 8 (01:58):
When I heard the news on Friday, I told Jamie
I felt like a guard or a four that got
signed to the Dallas Mavericks and was looking forward to
playing with Luka Doncic and right when I get on
the scene, He's gone, what the heck?
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Man, I hope we are trying to figure this thing out.
Bo I'm we're really gonna miss you, brother. We're gonna
do it right by you today. Man, that's a really
nice compliment.
Speaker 4 (02:18):
You have been a plus and unbelievable since joining the
show this season. Rest assured we will be talking a
lot in the future and you're unbelievable and that's really
kind Luca.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
I'll take it five time. All nbas So I'm.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Saying when he said that's me on the phone the
other day, I was like, you got to say that
in the show.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Peter will love that.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's the ultimates of the cab. All right, Peter, do
us the honors please for you one final time? Why
don't you take it away?
Speaker 5 (02:40):
Wow? All right, it is time for the lead block, Hollo.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
The NFL Annual Meeting is taking place today and the
AFC coaches will be speaking to the hoard of media
members that I've gathered there today as we have not
an arrival shot of players coming off a bus, but
coaches in suits that they have laid out because it
feels like the first day.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Of school for them.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Peter Schrager, I want to ask you today, in the
list of AFC coaches, who are you truly looking forward
to hearing from today? Take it away, Peter Whore you go.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Let me set the seat a little bit.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
So right now, as we are here on television, all
of the reporters who are at the league meetings, this
is why they were sent. They get an opportunity to
actually speak to the coaches in a casual setting, and
the league puts them all in a conference room and
they all have their own table, and you get to
ask whatever you want to any coach, and it might
be the only time all off season you have unfettered
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access to an NFL head coach leading all the way
up to training camp.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
So you better empty the bag.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
It could be about draft, it could be about your
roster management. It could be about an off season issue
that you want to get address.
Speaker 5 (03:46):
You gotta fill your notebook.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
And to me, I'd go right to that Pittsburgh table
and I would sit right down next to Mike Tomlin
because I got to know what's the vibe on the
Steelers front as far as the quarterback goes. Now, he
briefly spoke yesterday on.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
Camera to the in house reporter there.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
In Pittsburgh, said, I don't believe in a deadline for Rogers.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
That's not how this works. It's not gonna be a deadline.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
I also remember Mike Tomlin when Leveon Bell was was
holding out, saying we'd rather have volunteers than hostages. If
you remember that, it's at this event that was not
storing with Leveon's endless holdout of so many years back.
Speaker 5 (04:26):
I just think Tomlin is so.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
So good with the media, and he's got he's got
such amazing sayings on that press conference. But this is
a little uncomfortable though, because they're waiting on someone else.
It's not the Mighty Steelers, and the Mighty Steelers being
the ones who are picking and choosing what they want.
They're clearly waiting on Rogers's decision. And Tomlin's already saying like,
I'm not putting a deadline on this guy. He's a
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forty one year old future Hall of Famer. He'll come
to us when we wants to or he'll But as
the days tick my, we're at the league meetings right now,
like the draft is in a couple of weeks, when
are we going to find out on Rogers? And I
would be asking Tomlin all those questions, as uncomfortable might
get after the first five minutes.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
SRICKX, I love how you've been talking about how they're
waiting on somebody. There's a coach that I'm really excited
to listen to and hear from. His name is Sean Payne.
In twenty eighteen, we as in the New Orleans Saints
played the La Rams in the NFC Championship Game, and
there was a play that happened which is categorized as
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a no call PI that just erupted the whole city
of New Orleans. Now, the reason why I say that
you referenced the waiting on Champayne didn't wait on anybody
ever since the end of that game. All the way
up leading up to these meetings, he was trying to
meet with NFL executives, with anybody that would listen to
him to change these rules. Heading into twenty nineteen, all
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of a sudden, the NFL implemented a rule allowing the
review of past interference calls.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
That was just implemented the very next year.
Speaker 8 (05:55):
So Champayne is one of those guys, where he's not
going to wait on anybody. He's not going to wait
on any rules. He's going to go out there and
change the rules himself. But I'm really also looking forward
to hear about Shawn's reaction to the success that the
Broncos have had in the past two years. Guys, I
don't think we can harp enough of how magical the
past two years have been for Sean Payton over there
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in Denver. In twenty twenty two, when they traded for
Russell Wilson, it was categorized as one of the worst
trades in NFL history. I don't think it's because of
the fact that they traded for Russell Wilson. Is what
they gave up fort Russell Wilson. They gave up a
first round pick in twenty twenty two, a second round
pick in twenty twenty two, a fifth round pick, and
a twenty twenty three first round pick, second round pick,
and three players. So there's a whole bunch of people
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that they let go for Russell Wilson. He goes to Denver,
they have a losing season. I think they tied a
record in Denver for the most losses in one season.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
With twelve losses.
Speaker 8 (06:48):
Sean Payton comes in the next year, two years into
Russell Wilson's contract, they release them. Sean Payton wasn't going
to wait on anything. He goes, They drop Boon Nicks,
They do a whole bunch of things. They make it
to the playoff. This year, they have a top five defense,
Patrick shirt Tan wins the Defensive Player of the Year.
I would love to hear what Sean has to say
about these type of things going into twenty twenty five,
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and then what he thinks.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
About some certain Peter wants to hear from a veteran
guy in the AFC. You want to hear from a
veteran coach in the NFL. I go from one end
of each of the spectrum on each side. I need
when the season rolls around a seventy four year old
Pete Carroll and when the season rolls around a forty
year old Liam Cohen, I want to hear from both
of these guys.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Today.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
I want to hear from the Raiders head coach and
the Jaguars head coach, because one of those guys, we
did not do it on this show, but was easy
fodder when he had his introductory press conference in Jacksonville
not too long ago. Liam Cohen, you will forever have
the table at least here to redo whatever way you
want to cheer on your team. And Pete Carroll, you
are back in the AFC. I'm sure you had to
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stop here, but you are longtime Seahawks coach and now
you're in the AFC. So I want to hear from
both these guys just because you have a vast difference
of experience when it comes to the head coaches meeting.
And Kyle, I specifically liked your tweet yesterday with the
crack knuckles because I cannot wait this week for when
you get to unpack the coach's picture.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Yeah, normally we would unpack the coach's picture today, but
today is a different day here in good morning football,
and a lot today, a lot of the things are
coming up. Peter Schrager and Peters usually want that, but
today doesn't matter. Peter, you get it, you know, Peter,
A lot of people watch the show over the years,
they watch like in a bar, you know, like and
there's no sound or anything like that. I could watch
the coaches the annual meeting. I don't need any sound.
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I just want the sweet, sweet visuals. I like this
thing better than some games. This right here, terrible carpeting,
not suits, sport code work, coach with untucked shirts and
lanyards and maybe significant others or maybe reporters, and it's
just like it is such awkward television. And this is
only like they're coming out of the paddock.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
You get clad Stone and sneak.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
Let's go with McDermott like they just why they sit
down in the tables and then there's this weird dynamic
where there's people at the tables with them, there's arms
wrapping around them, there's cameras, there's iPhones, there's microphones.
Speaker 5 (09:07):
It's so awkward.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
It's not a normal's media session where someone is up
at a lectern talking.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
It's intermixed. The fashion is weird, the conversations are weird.
The coaches don't.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Want to say anything about anything. They're trying to have
coffee and some corn beef hash.
Speaker 5 (09:21):
And that brings me to Peter. I'm just going to
see you up. It's a rite of spring.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Can you please talk about this event that room as
it pertains to food.
Speaker 5 (09:30):
Thank you. This is how I want my final show
to go.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
This is what Good Morning Football brings you that none
of these others.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
You'll get the transcripts in the quotes. Here's the deal.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
They put them all on a conference room, but they
put out like a little breakfast buffet, and the media
gets there before the coaches get there. So if you're
a media member, you're going to be sitting at a
table with a head coach. So say Aaron Glenn is
sitting there, eleven reporters from the New York media are
gonna be hovered around them. For whatever reason, these reporters,
all of them, not just New York, everyone feels the
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need to get a plate of eggs, a plate of
French toasts, a plate of pa cakes, a plate of
a plate of fruit. And as they're interviewing the coaches, Kyle,
they're just shoveling food with ketchup everywhere.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
And it is the most nauseating thing that we do
as an.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
NFL media, the fact that we can't hold off until
after we interview the coach for the one time the
entire offseason to get that food. I mean, you will
find a line thirty deep of reporters trying to get
those running scrambledgg not great not a great content, all
a runny scrambled egg just to eat it in front
of Sean Payton while they ask him Queen.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I think some of them missed the beginning of the
session just because they're still in line for food. You
have Nick Sirianni sitting here and Sean McDermott and they're like, oh,
they're starting back.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
I've been waiting in line with his eggs. Benny at
the end.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Now, Peter, we're also a show of news, the boots
on the ground and I have groundbreaking news.
Speaker 5 (10:55):
Please tell me you spoke to someone there. I did.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
According to NFL Media's Mike Garrett Folo, this is real.
Speaker 5 (11:01):
Time breaking news. I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
For the first time in the history of the events,
there is no breakfast.
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Service, no food.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
The eggs are gone, the English muffins are gone.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
Peter, it's gone. Mike Garafalo says, no breakfast.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Maybe they just got to go to the gift shop
in the lobby and buy.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Some trail mix or something.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
I would think maybe now that that Peter's off the books,
they can take that money.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
And buy some Princes says none. There's a ton of
salary cap space. Then I'm out.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
You can provide some eggs.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
Oh that's a shame.
Speaker 4 (11:40):
I wanted to see Pete Prince got eating a Danish
that's right in front of him.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
I have the event that shame's movies face. No, so
thank you, Mike. That's everywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
It's blown up now that it's bigger than Rogers of
the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (11:52):
No food to Palm Beach. Sorry to tell it right
the headline.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
My gosh, Peter, that was incredible.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
There is nothing worse than just not only having someone
eat ketchup with eggs on, but having the ketchup left
on the tablecloth after the fact. You've got to sit
down and talk.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
To Andy Reid.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Come on, what are we doing as a group. At
least they nullified it today. Peter Schreger, we love you.
We got one more round of ween. Are we out
with shregs on GMFB today?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
What do you have in store for us? My friends?
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well, if you know this show, you know I love
this segment. We interre out and you know I wouldn't
want to.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
End my last day on Good Morning Football without talking
about Jackson Dart.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
That is where we're going. Hey, The news was that
he had a great pro day. We're gonna talk a
little Jackson Dart and back to some football when we
get back here.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
It is perfect because you hate draft talk that's not
about quarterbacks.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Like, let's talk to quarterbacks. I don't care, they're gonna go. Plus,
we will continue to discuss and debate the.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Most talked about play in the history of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
There it is. You love it, you hate it? Uh, push, push,
get out to a quarter some eggs, please, I believe
that here. Look at that.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Good football.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
The NFL Draft is less than a month away.
Speaker 4 (13:09):
And on Friday afternoon, Jackson Dart had his pro day
at Ole Miss and from all accounts, he was outstanding.
I know it's just a pro day, but I and
Rappaport said that people were blown away by what this
guy did in his workout in front of NFL scouts, coaches,
and personnel. It's a round of we inner, we out,
and we start right there with Jackson Dart, a name
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we're getting used to, jax Son, who is the older
brother of Diesel Dart, also in name.
Speaker 5 (13:40):
Here is our statement and.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Tell us, whether you think you're it, you're out on this.
A team will end up selecting Jackson Dart in the
top ten of April's NFL Draft.
Speaker 5 (13:51):
Manti, he's not going there in any of the mock drafts.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Is he gonna end up going in top ten when
it's all set and.
Speaker 8 (13:57):
Done, Shrigs, I am out on this one. The reason
being is this, Okay, there are only two teams in
my opinion, in the top ten that need a quarterback.
That is the first pick and the second pick, Cleveland
and Tennessee. Other than that, I mean, you could bring
up the New York Giants and the Raiders.
Speaker 5 (14:13):
I think you don't sign.
Speaker 8 (14:14):
If you're the Giants, you don't sign Russell Wilson and
Jameis Winston if you're going to sign a quarterback in
the first round.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
Same thing with the Raiders.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
You don't sign General Smith if you're going to sign
a quarterback in the first round.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
So it limits it down to two.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
Now, cam Ward, in my opinion, and I think we
all can agree, is the number one overall quarterback in
this class. Now, after cam it's a toss up between
Shador and Jackson Dart in my opinion. So if cam
Ward doesn't go one, he's going.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
To go two. After that, there's really.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
No other team that's going to draft a quarterback in
the top ten, let alone the first round. So I
am out on this, Peter, as far as Jackson Dart
going in the.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Top ten, you are just full of reasonable takes today,
and it's making me uncomfortable, Manside, because you put thought
into these questions, and the only thing I put thought
into is making sure Peter had a great final day
on GMFB. And so normally I would have a reasonable
thought out on what to do with Jackson Dart the
top ten. I'm so far in on this because I'm
like the girl crying she like hugs her wine bottle
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or finishing the chocolate cake, and like, I'm all about
the most drastic thing a team can do right now
in this moment, in the top ten in the NFL draft,
draft Jackson Dart draft and one, I don't even care
what happens right now. Whatever it takes to just make
the headlines and to have Schreger talk about it and
make GMF be great.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
This is sure. Why not he got an.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Exit in his name for crying out loud?
Speaker 2 (15:31):
That just screams Jackson Dart is.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Coming up the draft, Darts and now he's a top
ten fig what is happening.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
This is the greatest rise.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
I'm so deep into my emotional coffee cup right now
on this show. Manty's coming at us with Sean Payton
takes and how the good Broncos have turned things around
the last five years, and how reasonable teams. I need
a quarterback. I don't even know what's happening right now.
Sure I'm in on this because Peter, it's your last day.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
And I love you man.
Speaker 4 (15:56):
You know I love my quarterbacks, and you know I
love everyone who tells us that there will not be
quarterbacks taken and then they always rise. But Kyle, we've
been through this. This is our ninth draft together. Your
thoughts on Jackson Dart top ten.
Speaker 5 (16:09):
I just have.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I have a lot of memories of we went to
Philadelphia for the draft.
Speaker 5 (16:13):
This was Brown's number one. They took Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
This ended up being the Mahomes Draft, the Trubisky Draft,
all of that, And I just remember we had someone
on the show I'm not going to name. He was
sitting there at the table with us, and he kept
trying to talk about all these like third and fourth
round prospects, and Peter kept redirecting the conversation to the quarterbacks,
and this guest eventually was like kind of frustrated.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
He's like, but why do you want to talk about
the quarterbacks so much?
Speaker 1 (16:35):
And we're like, cause we're doing a TV.
Speaker 5 (16:37):
Show here, all right.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
We're not trying to pad our resume and kiss up
to some sid from some D three school that you know, like,
we're trying to talk about the quarters doing a show. So, Peter,
it's in one of many things that I just personally
have learned from you over the years about NFL media
and about what pops and also is about what's authentic,
and really rule number one about the draft is talk
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about the quarterbacks. But rule number one A is the
quarterback go. People want them. I know there's some safety
that you saw in a mock draft. No one gives
a damn about a safety. They want the quarterbacks. And
I've learned that. And I also so I think Mansim
makes the lucid point of you look at the top ten,
who needs a quarterback? There's people who trade in for
the top ten for a quarterback. They're gonna trade up
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for Jackson Dart. Let me explain something to you another
lap around this world.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
We've had.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I've been around here long enough to do the COVID
draft in which the Green Bay Packers, who had Aaron Rodgers,
traded up for Jordan Love, who just led the nation
in interceptions. People do drunk stuff for quarterbacks. My answer
is yes, and equivocally I think Jackson go in the
top ten because I have another lesson from Peter, and
it is pay attention to what the bleep Peter is.
Speaker 5 (17:48):
Yes, you shut up, I'm talking now.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Peter has said fifty times over the last seventy two hours,
I don't know those Saints, those Saints, the Saints, the Saints.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Of Rogers, Saint Saint Saints.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
Peter, You've said a lot of Saints lately, and now
you're geting uncomforted because you're like, w I don't necessarily
have that.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I listen to Peter, and if he says the word
enough times, I'm go look at the Saints. You know
what the Saints draft, Saint draft at nine. Do you
think the Saints are in love with their quarterback situation?
You don't think the Saints might like to inject a
young quarterback below Derek Carr, especially someone who played in
the South part of the country and has got a
cool name, and they might like in the Saints Nation.
I think, yes, I think he goes number ten. I
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get rather top ten, maybe even number nine unless someone
jumps it. The teams are so thirsty for quarterbacks, they're
spitting dust.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Listen to Peter, I'm in on this.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Yeah, and like, I appreciate you saying all that stuff,
and in all honesty, you look at it. Even last
year in the draft it was, well, this seem doesn't
need a quarterback, this seam doesn't need a quarterback.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
Well, they all.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Six way in the top twelve. I go back to
the Mahomes draft. Alex Smith's the quarterback of the Kansas
City Chiefs. Drew Brees is the quarterback of the New
Orleans Saints. Andy Reid trades up to ten to get Mahomes,
and after the fact, Sean Payton says, we were going
to take them at eleven, So don't get locked into Well,
this team already has Gino.
Speaker 5 (19:02):
Smith's thirty five years old.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Yes, this shoe the Falcons did last year looks what
it a six years old and.
Speaker 4 (19:08):
They took a quarterback in the top eight, So I
know Jackson Dart doesn't have the same buzz of Mahomes
or maybe even a.
Speaker 5 (19:14):
Pennox last year.
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Hank tight There's not a lot of quarterbacks in this draft,
and Jackson Darty's to the second or the third, he
might very well go in the top ten. Okay, our
second one goes to the rules committee, which I saw
kaylen Call had this report that the touchbush got heated
in the conversations. There's another interesting rule that the Lions
are proposing, and that is to change the playoff seatings
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based on record and not just division winners. If you
recall the top four teams in the playoffs every year,
the home teams are the division winners.
Speaker 5 (19:47):
The new rule.
Speaker 4 (19:48):
Proposal would be like, if you had a better record
as a wild card team, you could be home in
a playoff game against a division winner.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
We in? Are we out?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
The NFL should change its seedings for the playoffs and
reward the best record over just the division winners. When
it comes to who's hume home in the wild card round?
Mantai he start us off.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
Shricks again, I'm out, I'm out.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
And the reason being is the only seed that really
means anything in the playoffs is a one seed.
Speaker 5 (20:16):
That's it. All you want is to buy. If you
don't have to buy, it really.
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Doesn't matter because the facts are, if you're a team
where whether you're home or away really matters, number one,
probably you're not in the playoffs. And number two, if
you are in the playoffs, you're not going to last
that long because if you playing at home really makes
a big difference on how you perform and your wins
and all of that stuff, you're not going to get
that far. So for me, it's listen, leave it the
way it's at because we had an example last year,
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and we had these examples every single year in the
Wildcard round when the Vikings played the Rams, obviously we
had the Fires here in LA. They moved the game
to Glendale, Arizona, where the Cardinals play. So both teams
are technically technically now playing away games, and the Rams
win that game twenty seven to nine. The Rams were
actually ten and seven and the Minnesota Vikings were three,
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So technically this in this situation, it should have been
in Minnesota, but they're both playing away games, so what's
the difference. So I'm out on this, Peter, I think
you should just keep it the sing tell me that.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
The Lions don't think that the NFC North is going
to be the best division for the next ten years
without actually saying it to me, this is all the
Lions are doing, because if the Lions didn't have that
fifteenth win over the Vikings in Week eighteen, they would
have been the fourteen win Vikings. They would have had
to go on to Row to La or two Arizona.
To your point, this is the exact scenario we all
look at, or the example from twenty twenty four, but
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it was the Lions as the one seed and they
still got beat by a young, up and coming team
and the Commanders that came into their building. So I
also look at the fourteen win Vikings. It would have
been cool for them to host a game.
Speaker 5 (21:46):
I'm in.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
I'm in on this.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
I do think teams that have, you know, in the
teams of wins Kyle in a single regular season deserve
a home game and make it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Harder for the guy like it.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Just it makes every game count more, I think in
the regular season.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So I'm in.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
I'm in change it.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
I want the best teams in the best games. This
is not something radical. You win the division, you still
get an automatic bid.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
You're still going, you still eat.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
You could be six and eleven, and if the math
works out, you are going to the playoffs with your
terrible record. You just don't, on top of that, get
a home game. It's a little ridiculous. Get you get
to go because you beat up on your crappy division
and you're terrible, but you get to get in because
your division's even more terrible.
Speaker 5 (22:24):
You don't also get a home game. Anything.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
For me, that is better games, better teams playing with
better advantages. I need a little more peter than Marshawn
once had a crazy run on a subpipe hundred team.
I understand that happened if like a decade ago, it
was great. It had nothing to new with their record. Okay,
I know that that happened on the subpipe hundred team,
and everyone always brings that up.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
Yeah. I don't see its material to the debate.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I just think it is it is furnishing it better
for the teams that have earned it, and I support that.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I think it's fitning that this conversation is happening while
there's all the owners of the league meetings.
Speaker 5 (22:54):
I think this will never be changed. It will never
be overturned.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
And my reasoning is every NFL owner goes into an
offseason thinking I have a one and four chance of
hosting a playoff game this season, and they like that.
They like the fact knowing if we just win our division,
we can have all of our home crowd and we
could sell out tickets, sell the.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
Jerseys, and we have a home game.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
If you don't have that opportunity, it's like, well, there's
four good teams in this We're never going to be
better than those four teams.
Speaker 5 (23:20):
But every year, with.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
The parody in this league, there is a one in
four chance that an NFL team can host a playoff
game as long as we keep it as.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
Is, and winning divisions matters.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
The second you start wiping this out, divisions don't even
the rivalries matter, But the divisions don't really matter. I
think a division crown still does matter. And you get
a reward for that, you get to host a playoff game.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
That's just a small potatoes, that's a pathetic outlook. You're
looking at the look at the thirty two teams and
win a super Bowl?
Speaker 5 (23:47):
Is it really like.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
That big of a cherry on top that you get
to host a wild card game that you're going to lose.
Speaker 5 (23:51):
Because your team is bad. Like I guess, it's good for.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Business and optics and the fans get to come to
a playoff game.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
You know what the fans want to come to. We
want to come to a parade.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
Philadelphia just had their second one in about five or
six years.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
Think about thirty two, not four.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
Leave it to p shregs the football purists.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
He wants to leave it as it is.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
All these potential world changes are being discussed.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Probably will at the annual league meeting.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We're going to check in with Florida, our guys boots
on the ground in a couple of minutes. On Friday,
LA twenty eight revealed their updated plans for where all
flag football Olympic competition will take place in twenty twenty eight,
right here in Los Angeles and as approved by the
LA City Council last week. Flag's first ever Olympic venue
will be in the Stadium and Exposition Park, pending IOC
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sign up. The beautiful open air stadium and one of
LA's newest, is located just beyond the city's iconic skyline
and adjacent to the historic LA Coliseum. The highly anticipated
Flag Games will take place in the heart of one
of LA twenty eight's main Olympic competition zones. This is
another very exciting step along the road to flag football's
LA twenty eight Olympic debut. And on a side note,
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the fact that we questioned the NFL's choice of Jalen
Hurts being the guy that throws the flaming football to
the top of the coliseum, and now that when went
on to win a Super Bowl, we should really look
at the script to get you guys just kidding. Coming up,
we're gonna head back out to the Annual Meeting for
the latest with our insiders, and we're going to keep talking.
Peter Schrager on a Monday, March thirty.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
First Good Morning Football, Well.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Kyle Brand started our show by saying he wanted to
hear from a bunch of coaches. Peter started as well.
Peter Schragers last day on gm AB, he said, let's
hear from Mike Tomlin. Well, Tomlin's got thoughts on Aaron Rodgers.
Let's blend all the topics together in the off season.
We got it. Here's the Steelers head coach from the
Annual league meeting on that quarterback.
Speaker 7 (25:49):
He's a free agent. As you guys know, he came
to visit last Friday. We had a really productive day.
He's been in this thing a long time. I've been
in this thing a long time. But there's no substitute
for you know, intimacy and spending time together getting to
know one another in a non competitive environment. And so
that was really good. But I don't have any new
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updates in terms of where the process is. We'll see
where it leaves us.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Judy Bautista with a front row with the pen in
hand and the notepad. We love you, Judy Bautista. Peter,
your thoughts on Tomlin's comments, Man, they were no breakfast
being served. Everyone was in on that conversation.
Speaker 5 (26:26):
Kyle and I both marveling at two things.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Gy Batista taking the notes, getting it down and transcribing
it as we see her on the grounds.
Speaker 5 (26:34):
And to Tomlin's sweating sweat looked like the Jordan peele Gre.
Can we see that again? It was unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (26:41):
That is like, you talk about body language and we've
got PR consultants who talk about hydra.
Speaker 5 (26:46):
Can you roll the b roll again? Tomlin is stripping sweat.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's not just that he's sweating. Is that Tomlin is
usually the coolest, coolest, and he.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Is the coolest. Yeah, he's super chill. He's got my
cool phrases. I got it good. And I have to
ask how much.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
Of it is the conditions in that room and how
much of it is the topic?
Speaker 5 (27:03):
And is it eight twenty, is it ninety ten or
is it fifty to fifty? I don't know.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
It's just that is a profuse amount of perspiration. This
still is not doing in any justice. But the video,
I mean.
Speaker 5 (27:13):
I've never We've been watching Tomlin for a decade.
Speaker 4 (27:14):
I don't think I've ever seen Mike Tomlin flinch, let
alone sweat.
Speaker 5 (27:17):
No Roethlisberger is throwing it. It's s Antonio in the
back of the end zone. Cool now, Rogers. Wow, all right,
take with that what you will.
Speaker 8 (27:26):
I guess I've got no breakfast and no AC.
Speaker 3 (27:28):
It's a good point, Jytiza shreks.
Speaker 8 (27:32):
We need to update that they got AC in that room,
because it looks like they got no breakfast, no AC.
There's some issues over there, all right, mit, Ti Tie.
Speaker 5 (27:39):
There's a new scandal in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (27:41):
It's called buffet Gate, and it's the fact that those
reporters have not been provided with food this morning, and
we're getting furious. Mike Garrafolo is furious that there was
no food provided this morning.
Speaker 5 (27:51):
But yes, I want to shout out some of the reporters.
It should be fed and what's going on?
Speaker 9 (27:57):
Yes, all right, so let's let's first provide the context
on the sweating. Mike Tomlin arrived sweating, so I am
going to believe that he had himself a workout.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
Yep, and that show up here. Now.
Speaker 9 (28:09):
Sometimes I take a shower like George Costanza doesn't take No,
it doesn't, I.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Continue to sweat. I think that.
Speaker 9 (28:14):
So it wasn't about the line of questioning. He entered facility.
Speaker 10 (28:17):
And I do TV and then right after Peloton, I
gotta have a fan right there, just to make sure
that you're not dealing with that.
Speaker 5 (28:24):
I think, guys, you guys missed all this.
Speaker 10 (28:26):
Obviously, Mike and I are on the pre workout situation
for tom onin.
Speaker 5 (28:29):
This is why we're here.
Speaker 10 (28:30):
By the way, this was not the only topic that
Mike Tomlin addressed that I also talked about something you
guys have been discussing the future of Aaron Rodgers as
potentially the Steelers quarterback Tomlin's saying there's no timeline. Did
talk about Mike how the personal meeting they had with him,
the visit that's been widely reported was really positive. Talked
about just the process of getting to know him, digging
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into their schemes a little bit, talking to the coaches,
having all the kind of meetings that you actually don't
really get when someone is a free agent because it's
just not enough time.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They got time.
Speaker 10 (29:02):
And I don't know if you know this, but Aaron
Rodgers is taking his time wanting to make sure that
this fit is a perfect one.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
The exact quote from Mike Tomlin was quote, there is
no substitute for intimacy, which our guy, Kevin Patch true
tweeted and said, I tell my wife that all the time.
Speaker 5 (29:16):
Yeah, sure, tweet by Kevin There.
Speaker 9 (29:18):
Look, it is a process for Aaron Rodgers, and my
understanding is the latest step in the prog in the process,
excuse me, was over the weekend at UCLA, he threw
to DK metcalf, they did have a throwing session, the
two of them together, According to sources informed of that workout.
So Rogers going through the process and checking all the boxes,
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and I assume it was a good throwing session there
with him and Metcalf. So we'll see if that leads
to him saying you know what, Yeah, I'm fully and
I like that guy. I like that target right there elsewhere.
Brian Callahan, the head coach of the Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (29:49):
Titans, very popular today.
Speaker 9 (29:51):
Yeah, well he's got the number one overall pick. That
makes you popular at these things. Our cam Wolf is here,
by the way, and remember he interviewed cam Ward at
his pro day and he said, I turned to the
Titans and I said, I'm solidifying it today.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
I asked Callahan about that.
Speaker 9 (30:02):
He says, yeah, I like confidence, and when you're a
the number one overall picker in the mix, at least
there's a lot that comes with it. So to have
fun with that, he said, he thought it.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Was a good thing.
Speaker 10 (30:09):
Yeah, And kalan also said they're open for anything at
the number one pick, which is technically true, but the
way it is tracking now, Mike, it's only seems like
the Titans are moving closer, as Kalen said, to coming
up with the decision that they will likely keep the
number one pick. It's not there yet. It's still a process.
They still need to go to Colorado Pro Day, still
need to work out Shador Sanders, maybe do another zoom
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with cam Ward, but they are moving closer and closer
to saying, you know what, cam Ward is a franchise quarterback.
We got a lot to fix on this team, but
quarterback is number one. Just handing in the card and
telling anyone else, no, we are not open for trades.
At some point, this is going to be our guy.
Speaker 8 (30:49):
Kyle.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Well, listen, it's Mike. We have to get to this.
You broke major news this morning, and I appreciate you.
One of our favorite things about the annual meeting is
reporters holding a tape recorder at a head coach while
they stuffed their face with a croissant with jelly and butter,
and they just.
Speaker 5 (31:04):
Eat and eat.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
You have some news this morning, and I need Jeremy
Fowler to be fed today at this event. And you
tell me if there's a development there.
Speaker 9 (31:13):
Yeah, it is no longer a breakfast. It is a
coaches what they call it a gathering or just the
coaches prest comfort.
Speaker 5 (31:18):
I didn't pay attention to any of the email. There
was no food. Somebody you don't know where they could
have picked that up. I got coffee. There was air
conditioning it.
Speaker 9 (31:25):
Up the old side of the hotel in what looked
like a huge shipping container. So I thought it was
a trap. I thought we were all going in there
and we were gonna get picked up and just lifted
and just sent into the ocean.
Speaker 10 (31:35):
You know, there are several people here who would actually
enjoy that.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
But that did not happen.
Speaker 10 (31:39):
And I would say this, I've long been an anti
breakfast person, not in general. I love breakfast as a meal,
but I'm saying breakfast here, like you don't like to
have the Bill Belichick meme right where he's drinking the
orange juices, you rightous question like that. Nobody wants to
be eating on chemeras. So they said, you know what
we'll do right, The breakfast will feed you after now.
I would also say, breakfast is now. So we're talking
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to you guys. We might miss it, and it's my last.
Speaker 5 (32:06):
Day on Good Morning Football. I love you guys both
so much. I would be remissed by the mask it is.
I told you I'd be remissed if I.
Speaker 4 (32:13):
First of all, you guys look like Miami Dolphins matching suits.
Speaker 5 (32:15):
Like I'll have ours here. Yes, i'd be asked.
Speaker 4 (32:19):
I want to ask the coffee selection for you at
at the Palm Beach Hotel.
Speaker 5 (32:23):
You're at, what are we going with today?
Speaker 10 (32:25):
I'm a coffee slifing coffee. I'm a simple man. Trigger
I don't know if you know this. I'm sort of
little maintenance kind of guy. So I just go drip coffee,
a little bit of cream and three Stevia's. I used
to go with like equal or sweeten low, and then
I found out those are bad for me.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
So Stevie is a plant mic. A lot of people
don't know that.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
Hello.
Speaker 10 (32:41):
So that's what I put in my coffee. It keeps
me going. These are long days. It's long nights of you.
Speaker 5 (32:48):
Want to hit the toush.
Speaker 9 (32:48):
Push it all by the way before we get out
of here, because I mean, actually we just burned a
lot of time here.
Speaker 5 (32:53):
Yeah, go talk about it.
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Push a topic of conversation with these coaches here. Sean
McDermott patiently against it because of the health and safety,
even though there is no data that leads anyone to
believe that the play is a problem from a health
and safety standpoint. So make leading the push to ban
the tush push, but some other folks in there, John
Harball being one of them, saying that he believes is
a football play, so it should be a spirited, heated
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discussion over the.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
Next day or so. Here way to get that in mic.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
Yes, that was like a total hijack of a coffee
conversation where all we really wanted to know was whether
or not rap Sheet drinks Duncan I think I thought
you were powered by Duncan raps sheet. I thought that's
what we were going to go with you on the.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
News to help you get nil money right.
Speaker 3 (33:34):
We don't care about your steams and whether or not
a plan. We care about what your cups said money.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
I'll just be I'll just if you want to get there.
I'm open for business for any coffee company except for one.
It started as a it started as more of a
Duncan thing. Duncan's has not been interested. So I would
say this any coffee company except again except for one
which one.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Pizza is a good Caribou Folks on the line, Ye coffee,
great coffee.
Speaker 9 (34:04):
Cabo's got great caramels, They're delicious, Caribou is.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Great, great.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
And Rappaport and I always drink Folders and Maxwell House
every single morning to start my news.
Speaker 5 (34:16):
And when I go to ten.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Powle NFL events and get coffee, I always bring a
switch blade and pepper spray just in case.
Speaker 5 (34:24):
That's not what he needs it.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
League meetings, everybody.
Speaker 9 (34:34):
With the Helton see give the players since as you said,
there is really no data to say there's injury.
Speaker 11 (34:38):
It's like, what are you saying anytime you get in.
It's two things. It's it's force added force number one,
and then the posture of the players, you know, being
asked to execute that type of play. That's where that's
where my concern comes in.
Speaker 4 (34:53):
You continue to run the play if it remains and
you have concerns about the safety, you'll continue to run
because I think he ran it quite a bit last year.
Speaker 11 (35:00):
A form of it, right, A form of it, So
I think that's a it's a loose term really in
terms of what defines a push push you know, so
there's there's different forms of it out there. I know
we are one of the teams that people identify that
run it.
Speaker 5 (35:14):
That's fair.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
You know there's other teams as well. So I just look,
we're gonna We're gonna always act in a way that's
best for the health and safety of the players, and
I think that's the responsible way to go.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It's a good follow up because you can't just be
a coach that doesn't run it. The fact that people
are actually saying, but Sean mcdermoty, you do run it.
So how do you think this is going to go
in the future, Peter gut feeling, gut check and when
you know, Kyle just said, we always listen when you talk.
You think this thing is going to be banned.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (35:40):
I think they're gonna keep it, and I think it's
gonna be an ongoing discussion over the next several offseasons.
The data is not there. It's not They did a
big statistical study and there's no injury data that proves
that it has to be overturned.
Speaker 5 (35:51):
The NFL would would definitely.
Speaker 4 (35:53):
Do it if there was some real statistics saying that
there was injuries.
Speaker 5 (35:58):
But there's not.
Speaker 4 (35:59):
And if you just don't like because it's aesthetically unpleasing,
that's not enough.
Speaker 5 (36:03):
And the truth of the matter is this.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
Nick Sirianni's a head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles. Kellen
Moore is a head coach of the New Orleans Saints.
Shane Steichen is a head coach of the Indianapolis Colts.
Jonathan Gannon is a head coach of the Aritona Cardinals.
All of those guys have greatly benefited from the Tush push.
Speaker 5 (36:21):
That's four votes right there. And I do believe there.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
Becomes this machismo in this, and it's do you want
to be the coach to be like, well, we couldn't
stop it, so we had to overturn it. If the
injury data was there, I think they would change it,
but I'm not one voting, and the competition committee is
barently having some very heated discussions about it.
Speaker 5 (36:38):
The injury data is not there.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
The only information that we know is the guys who
run it, and they say it's less dangerous than a
standard running play up the middle that they would have
to run instead. In other words, the Eagles weren't allowed
to do it, and Jalen Hurt says to turn around
and hand it to Saquon that play presents more of
an injury risk than the Tush push. So listen, I
love Sean McDermott. Whatever version of there running they ain't working.
(36:59):
If they would have worked, they would have been in
the Super Bowl.
Speaker 5 (37:01):
Last year. They tried it, So don't tell me you
can't stop it.
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Shawn's very team was stopped more than once by the
AFC champion, the Chiefs. It can be stopped. The reason
I don't, I mean I almost. I want to use
the word outrage. I think I will be outrage if
this is banned. I am so strongly against banning it
because I don't see any argument to ban it. I've
addressed this for months. What are you saying It's not football?
Speaker 5 (37:25):
Yes it is. It's the very basis of football. You push,
we push.
Speaker 1 (37:29):
Who pushes harder in anything that is a callback to
when football was football.
Speaker 5 (37:34):
I love it. And don't tell me the injuries, and
don't tell me it's ugly. Like, I don't see the case.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
So if you do it because people be like we
don't like it, that sucks, and so does your argument.
Speaker 5 (37:43):
I hope they never been it. I love it.
Speaker 8 (37:45):
Yeah, I echo everything that you guys said. Brothers. It's
it's not going anywhere, and in my opinion, it shouldn't
go anywhere. There's no injuries to it. It's a violent play,
but it's not a dangerous.
Speaker 5 (37:53):
Play, okay.
Speaker 8 (37:54):
And I love the fact that k but you pointed
out the difference between the Saquon barklay thing and that
push push is all about the distance between the defender
and the ball carrier. Everybody's so close that there's really
no danger in the play. I do think that Sean
McDermott made a good point about the added force thing,
because defenders, when it's a field goal block play, we
are not allowed to push a Dan lineman forward. That's
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a penalty. So I do see a little bit of
argument with that Sean McDermott has In that case.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
There are specific words or phrases on this show that
for the last nine plus years, you know, they've become touchdownes,
and I do believe that the touchbush is firmly entering
itself into that alexicon for GMFB. Another one is that
every morning on the show you heard the music open.
In this last offseason, we changed our tune from a
wonderful gentleman that I think was from Pennsylvania to an
actual Grammy winning superstar singing good Morning Football, and that,
(38:46):
of course is front of our show. Melissa Ethridge, Peter
how do you know Melissa Ethridge so well? Why is
she so such a close and personal friend of this show?
Speaker 4 (38:53):
What a left turn, quite a left turn from the
touch push to one of my favorite musicians. We love
the lists a fan and they used that diehard Chiefs
fan and she was along on the ride. And guess what,
as Good Morning Football was sitting at APEX all these
years the Chiefs went on this dynasty.
Speaker 5 (39:06):
Why do we bring up Melissa Ethridge? She sent you a.
Speaker 3 (39:09):
Sweet little video, Peter Schrager, we want to hear from
Melissa Ethridge?
Speaker 5 (39:11):
Is going up?
Speaker 6 (39:12):
Peters AGMFP Hey Peter, Melissa Ethridge. I just wanted to
thank you for all the incredible years of doing Good
Morning Football and as a football lover for your knowledge.
And I mean it was you who got me excited
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about this new prospect that the Chiefs drafted, moved up
for in the draft to get this new quarterback and
that we should all be excited about him. And you
were so right. Your football knowledge is just unparalleled. I
wish you the best in everything you're going to do.
I'm sure we'll see you out there, man. I will
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miss you from Good Morning Football. I love you, you
know I do.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
What an amazing Melissa, what a sweet lady, and obviously
he's become a friend.
Speaker 5 (40:03):
And I saw her Broadway sh show the first night.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
And really, uh, Melissa, Linda, then the whole crew out
there with the Ethridge family, like, we so appreciate you
for being a fan. And if that's representative of any
of you viewers at all, I'm seeing some of the
tweets and all that, Guys, this is not about me.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
This is a a it's a show for a couple
of weeks from the draft.
Speaker 4 (40:21):
I appreciate it, but truly it comes to the bottom
of my heart. I appreciate anyone who's watching or reaching out.
And Melissa Ethridge, hats off to you. Awesome, thank you.
Speaker 3 (40:28):
Peter, really well said Melissa Ethridge, very well said. We
appreciate you, Peter Schreeger. Mostly we listen to you today,
we will not it is about you, buddy. It's your
last day on GMFB, and we're talking about how much
we love you because you mean the world to a
lot of football fans, especially that one right there who
loves the Chiefs and ever so proudly puts her Chief's
flag on the same street. Los Angeles that I believe
Sean McVay lives on, which is just a pleasus who
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does yah
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