August 25, 2025 • 43 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with takeaways from the Bears win over the Chiefs. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te'l and Isaiah Stanback look at the batch of coaches in the AFC West. LB Eric Kendricks drops by to discuss what's next for his career and who was the hardest QB he ever tried to sack. Plus, what teams are already getting a jump on Tuesday's roster deadline?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football, Everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
On a Monday, August twenty fifth, Jamie heard a manc
I Teo Isaiah's stand back in La Kyle Brant in
New York.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And it's not just any other Monday. It is the
monday in which preseason football has been concluded. We have
rust cutdown day tomorrow. On a Tuesday, Kyle, I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Feeling all sorts of stinctly sensations about regular season football.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So am I. But I gotta tell you, I'm deep
in a book right now. We just had Walt Anderson,
the lead of NFL officiating analysts. He left me with
the NFL rule book, like the real unabridged one. Guys,
I'm reading right now, Like are you down by contact
if someone touches your hair? I don't know. It's all
the answers are here. This is an incredible thing, Isaiah.
This would hit home for you. I'll have the answer shortly.
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It's Good Morning Football, Good football.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, that's right, Jamie Mantai Kyle, Isaiah, Kyle. Last hour,
you began the show by sleeping on the table. This hour,
you are starting to show not paying attention whatsoever because
you are elbow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Deep in the NFL rule book.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But I do need the answer to the question that
you just heat up to Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, So what I said was, let's say a
guy goes down, he falls, or whatever, and he's not down.
In the NFL, he has to be touched. If someone
touches his long hair that's billowing out of the back
of his helmet, is he down? The answer is yes,
that is part of the body. But then it's if
you touch his towel or his hooded sweatshirt thing, you
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are not down because that's not part of the body.
So I'm fascinated by the rule book right now, I'm
done rest of the show. I'm just reading this. Sorry.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Weirdly, Isaiah's bringing both the hair and the foota today,
so we should do it afar it later where Manti
has to try to down Isaiah on the field, but
we have to do hair or hoodie.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You're if I touch the hoodie, but he's down.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If I touched the hair, Kyle, it makes me want
you to do the highlight of Bear's chiefs.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But do it in the voice in.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Which but like read the read the rule book in
your highlight voice or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You know what I mean, Like, well, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Just referencing that rulea dot r dot seven dot two seven. Guys,
this is a segment right here. We're gonna do it
missiating a week or something like that. We got all
kinds of fun here. But in the meantime, Chiefs Bears
preseason with all sorts of stars all over the field.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Is it just me?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Here's preseason different this year? We got Mahomes. He's not
just warming up. This dude is playing. Watch what he's doing.
Mahomes in the pocket, comes in front of Monte's sweater.
Who thinks he was helped Mahomes doing his sideline thing
Like it's week fifteen. He is, shoot you Smith Schuster
for nineteen yards? All right? Not bad? Not bad? Number nine?
Juju back there. Kevin Byron on the coverage. But Checko
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is in the game. Touchdown, p Checko, Chiefs in Arrowhead
the Kingdom. They take the lead. I'm gonna talk about
the score this one. I feel like it matters. What's next?
Kelsey catches the ball? Yes, Travis Kelsey uk the old
head catches the ball. Kelsey's out there with the twenty
yard catch. He had two catches in this game. Rashi
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Rice touched them. Malves is spreading the ball all around
with all his receivers. If you just tuned in now,
you'd be like, wow, Bear Chiefs is really fired up.
What do you tell me next? Caleb Williams plays, Oh, yes,
he does, very sharp in his preseason debut against the
Bills in week two. Not so much here. That is
Alamide's the key as the receiver. They like a lot
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and it's completely off on the timing. Wait you see
the Ben Johnson cut away. Watch Ben Johnson what he
thinks of the time? He being right? Oh, all right,
So Caleb rallies though we're in a two minute situation,
under a minute left to go in the first half.
Second and ten Roma Dunsay got it wide open. Caleb
hits him. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
tick tick. They got a bunch of time outs this
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preseason doesn't matter. Sore inside the five A Dunday with
a nice run after the catch, first and goal thirty
one seconds. Timing pattern got him a Dunees eight touchdown. Guys,
the chief Stars are making plays. The Bears stars and
waiting are making plays. This is real action here. This
is the final tune up. Caleb with a sweat, with
an intensity. Who cares about the score? Up at the
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end of this thing, it did feel like it mattered.
The point is Mahomes looks good. Caleb a little shaky start,
but then he iron things out. However, though, let's hear
about the man of the hour, Bears head coach Ben Johnson, Ben,
how did you feel about your team's performance in this
preseason game?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Offensively? First two possessions was really sloppy football that you
know has plugged us in and out of camp so far,
and unfortunately that's what we got here tonight. I'm still
learning this group as well, because we say this is
our first time on the road and we were going
to find out what type of road team we were
going to be. And you know, if the first quarter
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is really any indication, it's not good enough.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So we got to get better in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
He's got a standard trying to hold his guys to it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The biggest takeaway from that Bears Chiefs game Mantai as
we saw it.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Over the weekend, well, number one, it was an entertaining game.
I was so grateful for that last game of the preseason.
But the number one thing that I took away from
this was the Chiefs neutralizing a pass rush. That's the
number one thing that I took about took from this
game when I saw them play the Bears, not only
from the run game, but staying on the running backs topic,
they started utilizing a scatback like we haven't seen that
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for a while.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
For the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Their scat back is Rashard Smith, number thirty, rookie out
of SMU. You started to see him run a little bit,
and what does that do? How does that neutralize a pass?
Russ Well far a linebacker who's in man and man
coverage and you know this Isaiah on a running back
who is he's shifty and he's fast.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
We utilize this call called a hit call. Now what
does that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That means for my defensive end if this, if this
running back goes outside the tackle, you are required to
hit him.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You see how that neutralizes a past rush.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, not only that, but they have quick screen games.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We saw that to Travis Kelce. We saw that too Worthy,
We saw that too. Rushi rites We saw that a
lot in this preseason game.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But I couldn't I couldn't help but see that pass rush,
that pass pro by that old line. Like there was
one play on the third down where you saw Trey Smith.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Whack a d lineman and then peel around.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I don't know if we have that clip, but he
peels around and he finishes off another defensive lineman. So
that's the thing that I took from this game, Isaiah,
was an emphasis on neutralizing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
A past rush.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I took away the fact that the Chiefs might be
dogg on more dangers than we've ever seen them be
in the history of everydon all right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And the reason why I.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Say that is because these guys all have something to prove.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Think about it.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
When you go to Patrick Mahomes, he had one underwhelming
statistical year and he lost in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We know how competitive he is.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Travis Kelcey, people are saying that he's watched, he has
a lot to prove. Isaiah Pacheco, coming off with injury,
can't he still be the do.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Don't don't don't do?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Can he still be that guy the old line? Absolutely
guy demolished by the defensive line at the Philadelphia Eagles.
Last time we saw them in a regular season game,
obviously in the Super.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Bowl by the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Rashid Rice coming off with injury, also has some off
field things that he has to try to make people
forget about. Steve Spago, He's going to do do Spag
stuff on the defense side of the ball. But this
team is armed and dangerous. These guys got the ball out,
as you said earlier, Kyle, to absolutely everybody. There were
seventeen different guys who had receptions in this game. There
were nine different guys who carried the ball across the
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line of scrimmage. These guys are going to spread the
rock around. They have all their resources and they all
have something to prove.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, quick sweat from the Chiefs there they look
sharp as hell. That looked like a basketball game to me.
Mahomes running the point, just up and down in the
gym somewhere sharp. You hit a shot, You hit a shot,
alube here behind the back, just fine, like we'll see
you in the opener. The Chiefs going a lot of
games this year that the Chiefs are. The Chiefs were
in the middle of the dynasty. The Bear Samir are interesting.
Ben Johnson chose his horse and he is riding it.
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He is not getting off that horse, and that horse
is like, I'm not I'm pressed, I'm not happy. That's
the horse right there. This is guys, this is the
end of a preseason game, a preseason game in which
his backups made enough plays to quote unquote win the
game at the end, and he was more pissed off.
I've seen coaches of two and fourteen teams lose by
forty in a regulation game more as pissed as Ben
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Johnson is. And I absolutely adore it. Because there's a
take you could have in this game about the Bear
starter starting sloppy, to say, well, you know, I was
encouraged by the way they bounce back from that he had.
That's nonsense. I'm not patronizing these guys. I'm not saying
any of this stuff because my offense is my team.
Caleb should have got the snap earlier, lamine Z a
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Kia should have had the timing betters, nonsense, we were
gonna find out what time road team. We were not good,
not good. I just love it. I just love it
because so many of the Bear stars are young. Look
at that, By the way, DeAndre Swift. We'll talk about
that later. Caleb has never had anybody scream at him
and saying you're not good enough, you're not doing this.
It's so good because I know it's gonna flip when
the opener starts. Once the opener starts, all that great
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Santini tough life on the driveway stuff from Ben Johnson,
he's going to be super encouraging and positive. But right
now he's cracking skulls and I absolutely adored it. I
think it's the right thing. I can name past Bears
coaches who would have said it's great to come into
Arrowhead and walk away with the w Who cares that?
No one cares about that. Ben Johnson says, the offense
looks sloppy, unacceptable. That's what they need and they got it.
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We'll see the Bears opening night at home primetime against
the Vikings. I think I'll have them ready.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm fascinated that you said that coming the regular season,
it will flit, because I was just going to ask
you that when Dan Campbell was hired, there was questions
about the way he goes about operates his team in
his life. Is that sustainable? Are guy's going to buy
into it or are they going to get sick of it?
I would feel the same way though, if the tough.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Love thing just went on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But you're saying that, you think by the time September
first rolls around that we are going to see a
new style of Ben Johnson's. He's going to keep him
on his toes, if you will.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I am seeing an image of its soldier field at
nights And let's say Caleb throws a big touchdown past
I don't know, Cole Comet in the fourth quarter of
that game, comes to the sideline. I think it's a
big hug from Ben Johnson. I think it's it's smiling.
I think it's a pats on the back. All of
that stuff. Now, if it's the opposite and the offense
isn't there and it's a pick six, like, there's not
going to be a lot of like, it's okay, that's
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not his style. Bears have had many coaches like that.
Where are they now? Who the hell knows? That's not
his style. He's going to be I'm going to clean
it up a little bit. He's going to be a
bit of a football jerk. And I think that's exactly
what they need.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We appreciate that so much. Antai question for you. You
look at the chief side of things. Kyle keeps saying,
this preseason hits different. It's odd seeing Mahomes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We saw Joe Burrow sling it on Monday Night football
for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You look at the Chiefs, the way they're operating their
preseason does elicit different feelings about the way Kansas City
is doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, I just don't want to see how often they're playing.
I'm seeing how they're playing, like you can't you can't
miss how aggressive they're firing off the ball on both
sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. You see that
defensive line doing what they're doing and being disruptive. Now,
I do think because there are three preseas in games
instead of four, and now these guys have an extra week,
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I think some coaches are starting to switch their mentality
and approach. For back in the day, starters played the
first preceson game, probably a quarter, second preceson game, a
little bit more third pieces in game like a half,
and then fourth prices in game wouldn't play at all.
Now I think it's starting to flip a little bit
where starters aren't really playing the first game, and then
they're started to increase their reps as we go. So
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I think there's a little change that's happening on the
NFL front as far as how coaches are seeing this
preseason chapter and how they're approaching it.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's actually being cool to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
With that in Kansas City, let's welcome in our NFL
Network insider Tom Pilasero.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Tom, we saw a.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Bunch of moves made over the weekend, but let's look
at that team we were just discussing in Kansas City,
decisions to be made before tomorrow's roster.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Cut down day. What's happening with the Chiefs.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Well, the Chiefs did make a trade yesterday bringing back
a familiar face. Derek Noddy, defensive tackle and member of
three of their Super Bowl winning teams, is now a
Chief once again, in a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Trade with the New York Jets. This is one of.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Those late round conditional PICKSWAP deals, meaning that no, he
probably wasn't gonna make the Jets roster. They've made a
couple of trades in recent days for defensive tackles that
made notty expendable. He sent seven years with the Chiefs
now is back with them once again. There is no
trade yet involving the Cowboys star pass rusher Michael Parsons,
who continues to be on the sideline as he deals
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with what he has said is a low back issue
and of course a contract. There's the photo right there
of Parsons relatively brief stay on a training table in
the middle of the Cowboys preseason game over the weekend.
Michael Parsons has said before he has now wanted to
be held to closed door negotiations that took place without
his agent. Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner, has said in
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his mind that negotiation already happened and he felt like
he had a handshake deal in place with Michael way
back in March. So we're just ten days away from
the opener here. Michael Parsons has been engaged in walkthroughs
and meetings, but he's not done anything on the field.
There are conditioning aspects to this and other things that
would certainly make these next few days very important. Somebody
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ultimately is going to have to budge otherwise Michael Parsons
potentially could not be on the field next Thursday night.
There's no signs at this point the Cowboys are considering
trade possibilities with Michaeh Parsons, but certainly one of the
biggest situations we'll be monitoring here in the coming days. Meanwhile,
the cutdown deadline is at four pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Time on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
There could be some notable names that end up being
moved prior to then. One to watch is Kyle Dugger,
the Patriots safety who they just extended last year after
making him their transition player. Dougger is not the fit
right now that the Patriots want with a new defensive
scheme and a new regime, so they have been having conversations,
as our Ian Rappaport nottd yesterday, with other teams, but
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potentially trading Dougger. He's you eleven million dollars this year.
That's a pretty big number. Is the Patriots are willing
to eat at least some of that money. No trade, though,
is imminent at this point, and Dougar I should note
here Jamie not the only player acquired under one of
the prior regimes in New England who potentially could be
available here in the trade.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, Tom, that's good to know. Like you said, lots
of track. I'm sure we'll catch everything we need to
know on the Insiders on NFL Network as well.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We'll talk to you in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Here's the question on GMFB that I have for you
in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
When I say the.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Words Willy Wonka or a Walkman or dare I say
the atari VCS Kyle, how does that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Make you feel?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I'm looking at the AFC West coaches and how they
all connect to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That makes me feel like we used to have a
real civilized country here. You know. Now it's all gone
to waste. We used to there, used to be a
decent nation. I can't wait here we have to say
about it, Jamie, you got my attention. Plus in studio guests,
I think he's in studio. I hope he is. Veteran
linebacker Eric Kendricks. This guy brings the boom. I love
this guy, his takes and his former team. J. J. McCarthy,
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the NFC North the best. Yeah, what's up man? Welcome?
Good morning football? Where you get every water in a can.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
If you're gonna be any good, you gotta beat the
best teams. You have to beat them and so if
this division is loaded with that, that's what's gonna make
us what we are. And uh, you know, going against
Andy and Sean and Jimmy down there, that it couldn't
be any more challenging.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Back in mid January, by hiring Pete Carrol, the Las
Vegas Raiders rounded out the most prolific group of head
coaches in a single division in NFL history, with Carol
joining Andy Read, Jim Harbaugh Sean Payton. This foursome made
NFL history as the first set of head coaches in
a division to all have coached in the Super Bowl.
And that fact is the most boring part about these
four football stories. Harboff, Peyton, Carrol, and Reid carry chapters
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in the football history books over the last fifty five years.
But what does that look like compared to everything else
that happened in the world.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Don't be alarmed.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
This is not meant to make anyone feel old. Instead,
we're here to appreciate the vintage, long tenured nature of
success in this division.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All roads lead us here to the twenty twenty five
AFC West. We begin in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
One January, the first of two hundred and five episodes
of All in the Family airs on CBS. Executives were
nervous that Archie Bunker and Company would offend. Instead, the
show became a cultural phenomenon in the number one series
in America from seventy one through nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
In March, the Fight of the Century.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Fraser threw down at Madison
Square Garden. Growing up at this time, you would have
been highly impacted by shows.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And events like these.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
For example, perhaps on a quiet street in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania,
Sean Payton was growing up in a suburb of Philadelphia
in nineteen seventy one. Sean Payton was eight years old
and he was being raised an Eagles and Phillies fan.
Perhaps a young Sean Payton visited the newly opened Veterans
Stadium in seventy one a couple of times, but he
also may have begged his parents to buy him a
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ticket to the movie theater to see the original Willy
Wonka in the Chocolate Factory when it hit theater is
in June of seventy one. Now, let's check in on
another eight year old in nineteen seventy one, Iowa City
beginning of.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The school year the Harbaugh House.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
While chasing his big brother John down the street after
school at Roosevelt Elementary, Jim Harbaugh had a jacket pulled
over his eyes and was struck by an Iowa City
mail truck. Jim broke his leg in two places and
wore a cast for the first six months of six
of first grade. He would later meet the driver of
the mail truck named Dan McGivern to review the story.
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Later in the fall of seventy one, October first disney
World would open in Florida. Only ten thousand people showed
up intentionally. This was a quiet rollout executed by Disney
to avoid the insanity that was overwhelmed by the nineteen
fifty five opening of Disneyland. Also in October of seventy one,
Pete Carroll's twenty years old and he had recently transferred
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to the University of the Pacific. In this article from
The Pacific In it reads, Carroll has earned the reputation
that is so valuable to those who dwell in the
no man's land of the defensive secondary.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He's a hitter.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The mayor of Ding City is what head coach Homer
Smith called him. He roams his secondary turf with reckless
abandon Now, lastly, would it surprise you if I told
you you would have seen a thirteen year old Andy
Reid in nineteen seventy one, Because you have Andy Reid
competed in the punt, Pass and kick competition in December
of seventy one during a Monday night football broadcast.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Its memories. It's football and it had only just begun.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I take you to nineteen seventy nine. In the early
part of the year, the world was ravaged by the
oil crisis. So when I say the words gas shortage
to people like Pete Carroll, the memory triggered will likely
be sitting in lines at a gas station on the
day that you even number license plate was allowed to
get gas.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Having graduated from Pacific.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Pete Carroll, now twenty eight, is in the big boy
job ranks as a DV coach at Ohio State. His
oldest son, Brennan, is born in nineteen seventy nine March
it was a good time to be a kid because
Nickelodeon was launched in the next month in April of
seventy nine. You would recognize you can't do that and
be comforted to know that slime has been around since
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the late seventies. In the summer of seventy nine, June
Sony releases The Walkman. The words portable and personal had
never been paired together before with music, So I do
wonder if Andy Reid was given a new Walkman upon
transferring to BYU. In the summer of seventy nine, Reid
left Glendale Junior College to become a part of Jim
McMahon's line as a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Backup tackle for the Cougars.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Andy was so enigmatic in his football IQ that his
head coach, Lavelle Edwards would hire him as a grad
assistant to Launchreed's coaching career. Also in the fall of
seventy nine, Harbaugh and Peyton we're shoulders deep in their
high school football days. Jim n Arbor still was playing
alongside his brother at Pioneer High School. John was a
senior DV and Jim was a sophomore quarterback for the JV.
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Their dad was an assistant at Michigan at the time
and elsewhere in the Midwest. Sean Payton's family had moved
to Naperville, Illinois, where Peyton was playing for the Naperville
Central High School team and he would play quarterback. However,
still backing up in seventy nine, he'd be the starter
in eighty two and finally to close out nineteen seventy nine.
If you were holiday shopping for any one of these
young men, the ATARIVCS was the number one Christmas gift
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at a time. The console came with two joy six, a.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Paddle controller, and a game, and the game was Combat.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's a look at the seventies and all.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Roads lead west in the AFC West.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
If you will, this is a five day experience, and
you can guess tomorrow it'll be eighties, and so on and.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So forth until we take you.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
To current day, twenty twenty five, with those four coaches
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Back on third down, quick pass, broke it up and
intercepted by Kendrick on a deflex of it.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Eric Kendricks Johnny on the spot. It's just a slant
route on that right side of the Panthers formation and
Eric Kendrick gets his second interception of the season.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Johnny on the spot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Takes a lot of skill to be in the right position, though,
if you're linebacker Eric Hendricks with that play getting it
done on the field for the Cowboys and he's at
the table with us now for the breakfast table. Look up,
many people know you in the Vikings Purple.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Are you? Are you done playing? Are you still? What's
going on with you these days?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No? No, No, I'm definitely playing. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
I feel like it come out of a solid season,
still having fun. Body feels great. It's looking to be
asset to a team.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I love that we know your shoulder is in good
shape because you're posting videos doing walking handstands. Dude, what's
going on? I think we have the video. This is
a good way to show that you're ready to play football.
What is going on in this video? Go ahead and
roll in? And how many takes did this take? Talk
us through it? It was actually the first take.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
I actually hurt my shoulder like fourth or fifth game
of the season, So I had shoulder surgery this past
this past year. And if anyone knows me, really knows
that I could crank out handstands anywhere and just kind
of just do them Disneyland, on the field, doesn't matter.
I just kind of crank them out. So I think
I was just eager to do that. You don't have
the video this is about like, you know, three got
to do it in studio and a half months Yeah,
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like three and a half months after my surgery. I
was just kind of like asked my doctor, Hey, am
I good to do handstand?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Cranked it out?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, that's that is a real question.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We right, I have the handstunds, but we've got a
lot of things that you did on video, especially on
the field. Now, you spent ten years in the NFL,
and I didn't know this, but your first sack was
against Sean Payton.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now Peyton man I mean Champagne.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I just said Payne, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Peyton Manning. Now, my mom loved Peyton Manning.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
And I remember when I first played against the Broncos
and Peyton man was a quarterback. My mom's first reaction
after the game wasn't like how was it, Sonny? It
was like, how was it playing against Peyton Manny? When
you had that play?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What did what was that?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
An interaction with your mom like like how did it
take us through that?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It was crazy because I wasn't really supposed to be blitzing,
but I was. I was an ad rush, so I
had the running back and the band coverage and I
kind of looped around and I really wanted to hit him,
but if you know the Manning brothers, they kind of
just fall. So I kind of went right off to
the top of him and got my first sack. And
I remember after the game I came up to him.
I was like, hey, man, like you were my first sack,
and just kind of looked.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
At me like cool, who cares? Like you know, I
was a realokie, you know.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
So you know, we actually talked about that story later
on in life, and it was we had a good
laugh about it.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
He's still on your sack mantle, so it's all good. No, So,
anybody who knows you and knows your game understands that
you were a tackling machine, right you. You love getting
guys down to the ground. Nobody gets around you. Who
was the most difficult quarterback for you to sack?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's a hard question.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I feel like there's a couple that I haven't sacked,
but I think the one that I have sacked that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Was the hardest for me to get. There was Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
That was my favorite quarterback growing up, and I remember
we played him a couple of years early on in
my career, and I kind of just bounced off of
him and he threw a downfield to Antony Brown, and
it was kind of like, man, this guy is large,
you know what I mean. But here I am getting
the sack and I kind of had to put my
whole body weight on him and slam them to the ground.
So I was super hyped about that one because I
was obviously my favorite quarterback growing up.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
So you had him wrapped or you had him wrapped
up in the middle and wrapping him up, what was
your mind?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So I was so juice, you know. I had a
free rush out of him. It wasn't like I had
to be anybody.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
It was just like a miss missing protection and I
got I got a free hit.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So it was it was. It was lovely.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
So it wasn't it wasn't getting to him, it was
getting him on the ground.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Yeah, it was getting Like I said, I bounced off
of him earlier in my career, like what the you know,
like this dude is a pinball Eric.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What I love about when guys show up at the table,
whether or not they're still playing thinking about something. You're
clearly here because maybe you're trying, like media on for
size if you will being on TV, so we have
to ask about the vikings.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, because now you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Take a look at Minnesota and the fact that JJ
McCarthy is kind of the topic du jour if you will,
all preseason long, what have you seen from the quarterback?
Watched practices, preseason games. It's a unique situation teams will experience.
He's the second your quarterback that hasn't played before.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
You know, I feel like I've heard a lot of
great things about him, first of all, first from his
character standpoint first and foremost. You know, obviously he showed
us good things, but you know, I really trusted and
Kevin O'Connell, you know, to really raise him, you know,
in this little in the system. You know, I feel
like last year wasn't ideal for him. He was hurt,
you know, obviously as a competitor you want to be
in there. But grand scheme of things, I don't think
it was a bad thing for him to sit and
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observe and really learned the game of football, and it
fl was a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
I think he's in great hands and uh, you know,
JJ's down there somewhere, So just throw it up, you know,
just just just just throw it somewhere downfield where JJ's at.
You know, you be all right.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
I know Kyle know about the d Brown But Lizabeth,
you were in Dallas last year, all right, you played
with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You've also dealt with.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Uh the ownership of mister Jerry Jones as well as
the GM Jerry Jones. What is your take as to
what's taking place downer right now?
Speaker 9 (25:59):
I feel like we never know really what to expect,
you know. I feel like, you know, you can't you
can't get caught guessing at the same time. But I
know I know two things. You know, they love the
theatrics in Dallas and then you know they love their
their talented they draft, so you know, I assume that
they're going to get something done.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And being able to see different organizations. So Eric, like
there's this impression of the Cowboys that they are a
content company that does football on the side instead of
a football Come does content on the side. Did you
feel that stuff like it's all about theatrics and shows
and selling jerseys and making Netflix specials and then you know,
we'll get to the football.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I feel like it's a little bit of that for sure.
You know, I feel like you can't avoid it, you know,
walking through the building. You know, the star, the media attention,
the hype, the fan base.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You really can't avoid it.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
But you know, I feel like once you get in
that in the in the in the locker room, you know,
once you get in the behind the team meeting rooms,
you know, you try to make that separation as best
as you can. I feel like sometimes it naturally just blends.
But that's that's that's the name of the sport. You know,
you got to be able to still compete.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know what, We had one of your former longtime
teammates here, We had Anthony barr and studio last week,
and he was telling us how he just couldn't stand
playing the Packers, Like there's a healthy hate vikings pas Ackers.
I totally get it. But from what I understand, it
wasn't Aaron Rodgers or any quarterback that drove you nuts.
It was a particular offensive coordinator who may now be
a head coach. Tell us about this. I love that, Yeah, yeah,
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Ben Johnson. You know it's a love hate relationship.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
You know, I feel like you you appreciate playing against him,
but you also hate it because the game plan is
always changing. You know that he makes adjustments at by
the quarter, by the drive, by the half, and you
kind of just kind of forced to chase it around
to see to see where you're going. But you know,
I'm really I'm really curious to see what they what
they do in Chicago because I feel like they've been
building their team out for a couple of years now
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and they're sleeper team.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
I feel like, like I said, with Ben Johnson's my
favorite coordinator. Love hate him, but at the same time,
I think he's going to get things cracking there.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Well, tell us a little bit about Aaron Rodgers, Eric,
how is that going against him? Like, how is that
rivalry between the two of you?
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Yeah, you know, I feel like I learned so much
football by playing against him, you know, the cat and
mouse game, the chess game on the field. You know,
we played them two games in a row every year
for the you know, the division, and it just made
football so fun for me early on, and it got
me addicted to that. You know, that that back and
forth between the quarterback and linebacker play and just the
adjustments that you have to make during the game.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That to be successful.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, besides training this offseason and doing handstands, you had
a cameo in a Fresh Prince bro.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This guy was everywhere, like, tell us about that? What
was that? Like? That was that was actually two years ago.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
But I feel like in the off seasons, I I
tried to try to join my friends whatever whatever job
they do or you know, I try to shadow them
and see see see what I like. But at the
same time, I got offered this opportunity, and I'm like, man,
I've been in LA for how long. I've never done
anything with film or TV. Let me go ahead and
check this out, Like, let me go ahead and see
what this is about. Showed up arms on set, you know,
have a new found respect for actors and actresses and
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things like that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Crazy it was with uh, you know, it was with
a couple of other NFL guys, so it was made
it cool.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That's unbelievable. Like we did not even think that this
interview was going to go there to the Fresh Prince
like that's so cool. We thought he'd talking about football.
Fresh Prince is great, but I'm going to go back
to football. Eric, before you go asked Antony Anthony, the
same thing. Most talented guy you've ever played with and
most talented player you've ever played against.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
That's a good question. Most talented guy I've ever played with.
I'm gonna say a wild card here. I'm gonna say
Harrison Smith. You know, I feel like, uh, we had
a Notre Dame guy right here at the table. But
you know, I feel like JJ would be the obvious answer,
you know, from a from an athletic standpoint, But Harrison Smith,
you know, he really taught me my mentality getting to
the league, as far as toughness, physicality, you know, being
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be a consistent player every day, day in and day out,
and just you know, having your own process. You know,
Harrison Smith is the guy who has his own process
and you can't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can't argue with you with it. The proof is
in the pudding.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
And I mean he's one of the most consistent players
I know in the league ever to live. So shout
out to Harry as against man player to play against hardest,
not say Aaron Rodgers. I feel like, yeah, I feel
like I feel like I've been in coverage so many
times Aaron Rodgers and sticky coverage too, and he kind
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of just throws the ball up on his back foot
and it just kind of finds the person's hands.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Frush, you know.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Super frustrating, but we've had we definitely had a lot
of battles.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Ek before we let you get out out of here. Man,
I want you to go to the one shot right.
Let everybody out there know, as they're starting to figure
out their rosters right now, they're gonna get cut down
days tomorrow. Talk to all the gms out there and
let them know saying, if you guys haven't watched my film, this.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Is why you guys need to pick me up on
your squad. Go ten straight years.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Of consistent work, you know what I mean? For real though,
when you know when everything's sorting out and you know
realize you need a linebacker to play in this league.
I feel like it's a little bit of an underrated
position somehow. But you know, just know I'm going to
be there, communicating, studying, doing what we got to do.
Make getting ball carriers now, just like I've always been
done in ten years.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Straight, put that green dot on no matter what, you
just jump in and run playbook.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Man.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
I'm just just having fun still, so it's great.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You can tell it's awesome to see here. Stay healthy, stay.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, and we can't wait for one of the insiders
to tell us where Kendrick's after disappearance on the right football.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And after he takes.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
A guy on scoop and score, he'll do a handstand
in your end zone after the six.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Good mon football well.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Cut down day is quickly approaching. That's Tuesday at four
pm Eastern. Teams have to trim their rosters down to
fifty three players, but the Buccaneers wasting no time in
making a decision on Shiloh Sanders. The ndrafted rookie safety,
was waved Sunday following his ejection for fighting Bill's tight
end Zach Davidson.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
You just saw it right there.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Don't punch a helmet with your hand man, amongst other things.
Bucks head coach Topples after the game, called Sanders punch inexcusable.
Shiloh is the brother of Brown's rookie QB Shador Sanders
and son of the Hall of Fame Dion Sanders. Recorded
four tackles during three preseason games.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
There with Tampa b only get the Raiders.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
They may be looking to add a quarterback to their
room after QB eight and O'Connell suffered a fractured wrist
Saturday night there against the Cardinals, head coach Pete Carroll
calling it quote a big blow for us. With O'Connell
now effected the miss between six to eight weeks, Gino
Smith and sixth round rookie Cam Miller are the two
remaining quarterbacks left there on their roster. Now the Giants,
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they have the opposite problem. The team currently four quarterbacks
on the roster. Russell Wilson named the starter last month,
but the question is who will be number two rookie
Jackson Dart or veteran Jameis Winston. Brian da Will, when
asked Sunday, simply said, we'll see.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
So we have some.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Quarterbacks, like we've talked about that have just six guys
in the room.
Speaker 11 (32:59):
Manti, where do you think Jackson Dart should be?
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Should he be QB two from what you've seen so
far as preseason?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Of course, of course he should be QB two. Are
you arguing that he should be QB one? That shouldn't
be the case. I think Russell Wilson's QB one, and
Jackson Dart said that he should be QB one. Russell's
the one that's meeting with Elik neighbors. Russell Wilson is
doing everything. Russell Wilson has been a cultural piece there
for the New York Giants, and that has been great
to see. Now, Jackson Dart should be QB two. How
he's been playing, how he's been performing. I think he's
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done exceptionally well. And I think leading into this offseason,
there's a lot of talk about the New York Giants and.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Their quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I think it's it's one of the better situations if
you ask me, so I think he should be QB two.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Isaiah, Yeah, it can go either way from me.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
I think he's done a heck of a job as
a rookie, coming in and performing and really getting his
team behind him, giving the coaches to have confidence in him.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The city's behind him now.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
But I'll be okay with Jameis Winston was number two
as well, right, So, I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Don't really think it matters two or three.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It really comes down to whatever the team is and
based upon the situation, who you think is most prepared
for that opponent.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Should you need to go to your number two guy?
I have it, guys, over under What week does Jackson's
Jackson Dart make his first start as the Giants. I
have it over under week four point five. I think
it's going to be pretty early. I think he's going
to be the starter of this team, maybe a month
into the season. It's going to be close. The first
four games are very very difficult. If there's something like
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two and two and Russ has been kind of decent
er average, I think they go to it. I do.
He's looked too good. Time is now if he looks
comfortable and the team really needs a little juice after
a month of football, I think it is right there
in that four point five area. But Jamie, I'm looking
at something this morning. Are you familiar. There's a video
going around right now of Jackson Dart's younger brother, Diesel Dart,
who is a high school player. He's got this video
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out there, and Diesel Dart looks like it has it
going on too, So we'll see him down the road
at some point. I've been early investor in Diesel Dart.
In the meantime, Jackson Dart, I have it a week
four point five.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The over underlag I've never so badly wanted to go
back in time, and if I could, I would go
into I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
The delivery room of the Jart kids' parents.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
When they're going I have the kid and be like,
what should we name them? Jackson with an ex Diesel?
Like what I want to be a part of those conversations, Okay,
Like I need to know, because after having name a
couple of kids myself, I just didn't have the guts
to do that.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
But like, I want to know what that's all about.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
I mean, what a name for a quarterback? Like you're
really setting your kid up to Jackson Dart like show.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, and I the Diesel too.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, I've told the story before on GMFB. It but
like we affectionately call my mother in law Diesel. She's
like the sweetest little lady from Minnesota, but we call
her her nickname is the Diesel and it obviously has
an ode to like long time and favorite sports heroes.
But like Diesel is like, so Diesel Dart, Like I'm
already You're already on my draft board.
Speaker 10 (35:45):
Fantasy line them up all right? More GMFB rolling on here.
We got to come up with some other nicknames then, but.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Then they're their names. Like that's what's great.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It's like Jackson with an X, like that's not a
birth certificate, man, Like, that's a joy, Like I love that,
you know, let's call it Jackson, but with an X,
like that's such a decision.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, you know, love it.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
Fur all right.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Seahawks Packers happening over the weekend. There's Jordan Love newly married,
I believe from over the holiday on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Congratulations to him. But that means.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Malik Willis is trying to launch to Matthew Golden, who
jumps back.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's in front of the defender.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That is a big time thirty nine yard contested catch.
Great for the newly drafted wide receiver out of Texas,
Jalen Milroe getting the start. The third round pick out
of Alabama making a name for himself.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
For the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Drops back, HiT's Cody White off the left side, who
goes in untouched the m zone for an eighteen yard hed.
Seahawks then get on the board. They would trail the
Packers twenty to seven. That was Jalen Milroe's first touchdown
in a Seahawks jersey. Fourth quarter now Seahawks still trailing
Milroe bumbles the snap. This is recovered by Aaron Mosby
at the thirty one yard line.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That would ice out the game.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Sam Darnold looking on in street clothes, everyone just preparing
for that regular season start to twenty twenty five. Seahawks
would lose that game twenty to seven to the Packers. Now,
of course, that is just one single highlight from over
the weekend. There must have been some plays, some events
if you will, or had us saying, MANSI, there's no way,
there's no way that happened.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Manti WIT's yours.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Well, this guy got highlights, he got plays. You guys
know the name Aiden Huntington, undrafted free agent of Tulane Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He started off after Aiden Hutchinson. He played like lions.
The end he did liked him.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
He had one and a half sacks, He had two
TFLs and a forced fumble. Aiden has led the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And special teams tackles.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
So for the undrafted free agent out of Tulane, the
green wave, the green wave was cracking everywhere for the
Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
And so when you watch this guy, man, you.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Talk about production, this guy had production.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I can't look at that without thinking that our graphics people,
and they are intrepid, they are professionals, but we would
never misspell Aiden Hutchinson for to read Aiden Huntington.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's all my brain does. I just want to correct it.
I get it, all right?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Can I take you to the Lions, but not to
Aiden Hudgins. Shall we to Isaac Toyota? No Isaac Teslaw.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
If you that's his name? And I'm in love with
Isaac Teslaw, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
He's the third round pick and yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, that was the whole point.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And he was on my did you catch that the
first list of the preseason?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Did you catch him.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Doing this with Isaac Teslav with his homemade Teslaw jersey
that he walked into the Lions for his interview. I
can't get over that. I think he needs to wear
it when he comes out of the tunnel, maybe for
the first time for the Lions.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
An incredible start.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
For him, and the fact that he is clearly feeling
himself well enough Sherry to do the worm after a touchdown.
Speaker 11 (38:48):
Yea, And that's like a real throwback.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
I feel like so many of these guys are doing
who knows what kind of celebrations, which leads me to
mine Chicago Bears.
Speaker 11 (38:57):
We have Jada Walker. He's doing the Jupy slide.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Now, yeah, catch.
Speaker 10 (39:03):
First off was insane, but then to pull this. My
knees hurt just watching them do this.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
I don't understand it, but they are so hype and
I just love his reaction.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
You did this? Who was the hater to hit him
in the middle of it? Right, somebody on his sideline
watched this.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
He starts hitting this thing, flewid is all get out
and somebody look at this, what.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Are you doing? That's a pure hater righton walk.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's all I can think of.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
It as two weeks he's done it. Two weeks in
a row. He did it. He did the other week
as well.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah he's been he's been doing it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah. You you were a professional athlete, you were too, Like,
can you guys even begin to do this? Is this
something that you could use your athleticism to do? I
don't know how to start. No, no no.
Speaker 11 (39:47):
Chance standing out yourself?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Oh lord?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, trying to open here your way? I don't know. No, no, do.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
It like that's like a little you can do a
scare bro.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I can go like this around, but ain't no way.
I can just look I'm.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
More to go more in north South.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, Manti's more, but Daniel heel guy. I don't know
if you know that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, quarterback. I
like that. Mattha got up and skipped around the table.
My nine year old daughter can do that. Man, I'm
trying to look at I know a lot of them
a text. I mean, that's one of them. All right,
Hey Manta, you ever like rub your stomach and touch
your head at the same time. Look at me. I'm
bro Jackson. I'm a crazy athlete. My second grade teacher
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make fight. You want a crazy athleticism. This is also
on the Bears. Like we've seen a lot of guys
do a lot of leaps over tacklers. It's just something
that happens. It's always a great highlight. And then Saquon
turned it into this stratospheric thing. Last you're doing it backwards.
You don't see it a lot from starters in the
preseason rolled the DeAndre Swift. Jandre Swift is the RB
one for the Bears, and he's doing this in the
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month of August three two one lift off. It's pretty clean, guys,
and as I always say about hurdles, don't come to
me with the hurdle unless you can run out of
the hurdle, because if you just fall down after you hurdle,
it's pretty much the same as a tackle. He got
a few more yards after the hurdle. And I want
to say this about DeAndre Swift. Serious football talk at
this point, there was a lot of calling out for
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the Bears need to add a new running back. They
need to draft this, they need to trade for this.
They need to go get Brian Robins Jr. Ben Johnson
said no, no, no, no no, We're going to Deandres Swift.
We got a big room after him. Some other guys
are gonna be tribute, but he is the guy We're
gonna march out with all these glistening weapons. So I
feel like, Doandre Swift heard that, knows that, and he's
already showing out in the presets. I think it's gonna
make plays this year. Hmm. That was pretty dope.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
The fact that he hit the ground with momentum running
away from Chris Jones, that was real. Yeah, all right,
So I am going to change it up a little bit,
and I'm not going to say there's no way I'm
going to take it out of the Bonis Dictionary. I say,
ain't no way that you get cut from seven teams,
and then this is what you post online. Ben Denucci
goes ahead. It says, not many beers better than the airport.
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I just got cut from the for the fourth first
sorry for a seventh time beer. Trust me, you wouldn't
under the stand. You know what, Ben, I would not understand.
I only got cut five times.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I got cut seven times. But you deserve that beer.
I call the game. You came in through a pig.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
I understand it wasn't the greatest of situations. I know
your last name, Issus Shador Sanders. It's okay, it's all good,
but you had a bad situation as well, and you
ended up at the bar getting a little drinking drink.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You deserve this, sir.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
That is my new favorite thing about Bend de Nucci,
and it took the place of Bend de Nucci announcing
his own signings.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Like Bend de.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Nucci, you have to remember is the player. Every time
he signs the team, he's like breaking news. According to me,
I've signed with a certain team, and now he's even
breaking the news with on tap Kyle.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, this is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I'm just excited and I hope this doesn't happen. Ben,
if you're watching, But next year, if he gets cut
again and there's another beer at another airport that I
can't wait for that I want to see that next
airport beer. I hope he makes a team. But if
he doesn't, a nice tall one never hurt anybody in
that situation. Ben, you're the man.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Ben's do you want the tall boy or just a
short pour And.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
He's like, I just got caught for my seventeen Give
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Me the eighteen houses, you know,
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football, Everybody.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
On a Monday, August twenty fifth, Jamie heard a manc
I Teo Isaiah's stand back in La Kyle Brant in
New York.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
And it's not just any other Monday. It is the
monday in which preseason football has been concluded. We have
rust cutdown day tomorrow. On a Tuesday, Kyle, I'm.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Feeling all sorts of stinctly sensations about regular season football.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
So am I. But I gotta tell you, I'm deep
in a book right now. We just had Walt Anderson,
the lead of NFL officiating analysts. He left me with
the NFL rule book, like the real unabridged one. Guys,
I'm reading right now, Like are you down by contact
if someone touches your hair? I don't know. It's all
the answers are here. This is an incredible thing, Isaiah.
This would hit home for you. I'll have the answer shortly.
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It's Good Morning Football, Good football.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
Yeah, that's right, Jamie Mantai Kyle, Isaiah, Kyle. Last hour,
you began the show by sleeping on the table. This hour,
you are starting to show not paying attention whatsoever because
you are elbow.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Deep in the NFL rule book.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
But I do need the answer to the question that
you just heat up to Isaiah.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, So what I said was, let's say a
guy goes down, he falls, or whatever, and he's not down.
In the NFL, he has to be touched. If someone
touches his long hair that's billowing out of the back
of his helmet, is he down? The answer is yes,
that is part of the body. But then it's if
you touch his towel or his hooded sweatshirt thing, you
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are not down because that's not part of the body.
So I'm fascinated by the rule book right now, I'm
done rest of the show. I'm just reading this. Sorry.
I love that.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Weirdly, Isaiah's bringing both the hair and the foota today,
so we should do it afar it later where Manti
has to try to down Isaiah on the field, but
we have to do hair or hoodie.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That's the question.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
You're if I touch the hoodie, but he's down.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
If I touched the hair, Kyle, it makes me want
you to do the highlight of Bear's chiefs.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
But do it in the voice in.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Which but like read the read the rule book in
your highlight voice or something like that.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
You know what I mean, Like, well, I'm.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Just referencing that rulea dot r dot seven dot two seven. Guys,
this is a segment right here. We're gonna do it
missiating a week or something like that. We got all
kinds of fun here. But in the meantime, Chiefs Bears
preseason with all sorts of stars all over the field.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Is it just me?
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Here's preseason different this year? We got Mahomes. He's not
just warming up. This dude is playing. Watch what he's doing.
Mahomes in the pocket, comes in front of Monte's sweater.
Who thinks he was helped Mahomes doing his sideline thing
Like it's week fifteen. He is, shoot you Smith Schuster
for nineteen yards? All right? Not bad? Not bad? Number nine?
Juju back there. Kevin Byron on the coverage. But Checko
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is in the game. Touchdown, p Checko, Chiefs in Arrowhead
the Kingdom. They take the lead. I'm gonna talk about
the score this one. I feel like it matters. What's next?
Kelsey catches the ball? Yes, Travis Kelsey uk the old
head catches the ball. Kelsey's out there with the twenty
yard catch. He had two catches in this game. Rashi
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Rice touched them. Malves is spreading the ball all around
with all his receivers. If you just tuned in now,
you'd be like, wow, Bear Chiefs is really fired up.
What do you tell me next? Caleb Williams plays, Oh, yes,
he does, very sharp in his preseason debut against the
Bills in week two. Not so much here. That is
Alamide's the key as the receiver. They like a lot
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and it's completely off on the timing. Wait you see
the Ben Johnson cut away. Watch Ben Johnson what he
thinks of the time? He being right? Oh, all right,
So Caleb rallies though we're in a two minute situation,
under a minute left to go in the first half.
Second and ten Roma Dunsay got it wide open. Caleb
hits him. Tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick
tick tick. They got a bunch of time outs this
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preseason doesn't matter. Sore inside the five A Dunday with
a nice run after the catch, first and goal thirty
one seconds. Timing pattern got him a Dunees eight touchdown. Guys,
the chief Stars are making plays. The Bears stars and
waiting are making plays. This is real action here. This
is the final tune up. Caleb with a sweat, with
an intensity. Who cares about the score? Up at the
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end of this thing, it did feel like it mattered.
The point is Mahomes looks good. Caleb a little shaky start,
but then he iron things out. However, though, let's hear
about the man of the hour, Bears head coach Ben Johnson, Ben,
how did you feel about your team's performance in this
preseason game?
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Offensively? First two possessions was really sloppy football that you
know has plugged us in and out of camp so far,
and unfortunately that's what we got here tonight. I'm still
learning this group as well, because we say this is
our first time on the road and we were going
to find out what type of road team we were
going to be. And you know, if the first quarter
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is really any indication, it's not good enough.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
So we got to get better in a hurry.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
He's got a standard trying to hold his guys to it.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
The biggest takeaway from that Bears Chiefs game Mantai as
we saw it.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Over the weekend, well, number one, it was an entertaining game.
I was so grateful for that last game of the preseason.
But the number one thing that I took away from
this was the Chiefs neutralizing a pass rush. That's the
number one thing that I took about took from this
game when I saw them play the Bears, not only
from the run game, but staying on the running backs topic,
they started utilizing a scatback like we haven't seen that
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for a while.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
For the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Their scat back is Rashard Smith, number thirty, rookie out
of SMU. You started to see him run a little bit,
and what does that do? How does that neutralize a pass?
Russ Well far a linebacker who's in man and man
coverage and you know this Isaiah on a running back
who is he's shifty and he's fast.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
We utilize this call called a hit call. Now what
does that mean?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
That means for my defensive end if this, if this
running back goes outside the tackle, you are required to
hit him.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
You see how that neutralizes a past rush.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Well, not only that, but they have quick screen games.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
We saw that to Travis Kelce. We saw that too Worthy,
We saw that too. Rushi rites We saw that a
lot in this preseason game.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
But I couldn't I couldn't help but see that pass rush,
that pass pro by that old line. Like there was
one play on the third down where you saw Trey Smith.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Whack a d lineman and then peel around.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I don't know if we have that clip, but he
peels around and he finishes off another defensive lineman. So
that's the thing that I took from this game, Isaiah,
was an emphasis on neutralizing.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
A past rush.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I took away the fact that the Chiefs might be
dogg on more dangers than we've ever seen them be
in the history of everydon all right.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
And the reason why I.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
Say that is because these guys all have something to prove.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Think about it.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
When you go to Patrick Mahomes, he had one underwhelming
statistical year and he lost in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
We know how competitive he is.
Speaker 6 (06:55):
Travis Kelcey, people are saying that he's watched, he has
a lot to prove. Isaiah Pacheco, coming off with injury,
can't he still be the do.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Don't don't don't do?
Speaker 6 (07:02):
Can he still be that guy the old line? Absolutely
guy demolished by the defensive line at the Philadelphia Eagles.
Last time we saw them in a regular season game,
obviously in the Super.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Bowl by the Eagles.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Rashid Rice coming off with injury, also has some off
field things that he has to try to make people
forget about. Steve Spago, He's going to do do Spag
stuff on the defense side of the ball. But this
team is armed and dangerous. These guys got the ball out,
as you said earlier, Kyle, to absolutely everybody. There were
seventeen different guys who had receptions in this game. There
were nine different guys who carried the ball across the
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line of scrimmage. These guys are going to spread the
rock around. They have all their resources and they all
have something to prove.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
I mean, quick sweat from the Chiefs there they look
sharp as hell. That looked like a basketball game to me.
Mahomes running the point, just up and down in the
gym somewhere sharp. You hit a shot, You hit a shot,
alube here behind the back, just fine, like we'll see
you in the opener. The Chiefs going a lot of
games this year that the Chiefs are. The Chiefs were
in the middle of the dynasty. The Bear Samir are interesting.
Ben Johnson chose his horse and he is riding it.
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He is not getting off that horse, and that horse
is like, I'm not I'm pressed, I'm not happy. That's
the horse right there. This is guys, this is the
end of a preseason game, a preseason game in which
his backups made enough plays to quote unquote win the
game at the end, and he was more pissed off.
I've seen coaches of two and fourteen teams lose by
forty in a regulation game more as pissed as Ben
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Johnson is. And I absolutely adore it. Because there's a
take you could have in this game about the Bear
starter starting sloppy, to say, well, you know, I was
encouraged by the way they bounce back from that he had.
That's nonsense. I'm not patronizing these guys. I'm not saying
any of this stuff because my offense is my team.
Caleb should have got the snap earlier, lamine Z a
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Kia should have had the timing betters, nonsense, we were
gonna find out what time road team. We were not good,
not good. I just love it. I just love it
because so many of the Bear stars are young. Look
at that, By the way, DeAndre Swift. We'll talk about
that later. Caleb has never had anybody scream at him
and saying you're not good enough, you're not doing this.
It's so good because I know it's gonna flip when
the opener starts. Once the opener starts, all that great
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Santini tough life on the driveway stuff from Ben Johnson,
he's going to be super encouraging and positive. But right
now he's cracking skulls and I absolutely adored it. I
think it's the right thing. I can name past Bears
coaches who would have said it's great to come into
Arrowhead and walk away with the w Who cares that?
No one cares about that. Ben Johnson says, the offense
looks sloppy, unacceptable. That's what they need and they got it.
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We'll see the Bears opening night at home primetime against
the Vikings. I think I'll have them ready.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
I'm fascinated that you said that coming the regular season,
it will flit, because I was just going to ask
you that when Dan Campbell was hired, there was questions
about the way he goes about operates his team in
his life. Is that sustainable? Are guy's going to buy
into it or are they going to get sick of it?
I would feel the same way though, if the tough.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Love thing just went on and on and on.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
But you're saying that, you think by the time September
first rolls around that we are going to see a
new style of Ben Johnson's. He's going to keep him
on his toes, if you will.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I am seeing an image of its soldier field at
nights And let's say Caleb throws a big touchdown past
I don't know, Cole Comet in the fourth quarter of
that game, comes to the sideline. I think it's a
big hug from Ben Johnson. I think it's it's smiling.
I think it's a pats on the back. All of
that stuff. Now, if it's the opposite and the offense
isn't there and it's a pick six, like, there's not
going to be a lot of like, it's okay, that's
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not his style. Bears have had many coaches like that.
Where are they now? Who the hell knows? That's not
his style. He's going to be I'm going to clean
it up a little bit. He's going to be a
bit of a football jerk. And I think that's exactly
what they need.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
We appreciate that so much. Antai question for you. You
look at the chief side of things. Kyle keeps saying,
this preseason hits different. It's odd seeing Mahomes out there.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We saw Joe Burrow sling it on Monday Night football
for a while.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You look at the Chiefs, the way they're operating their
preseason does elicit different feelings about the way Kansas City
is doing stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Well, I just don't want to see how often they're playing.
I'm seeing how they're playing, like you can't you can't
miss how aggressive they're firing off the ball on both
sides of the ball, offensively and defensively. You see that
defensive line doing what they're doing and being disruptive. Now,
I do think because there are three preseas in games
instead of four, and now these guys have an extra week,
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I think some coaches are starting to switch their mentality
and approach. For back in the day, starters played the
first preceson game, probably a quarter, second preceson game, a
little bit more third pieces in game like a half,
and then fourth prices in game wouldn't play at all.
Now I think it's starting to flip a little bit
where starters aren't really playing the first game, and then
they're started to increase their reps as we go. So
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I think there's a little change that's happening on the
NFL front as far as how coaches are seeing this
preseason chapter and how they're approaching it.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
It's actually being cool to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
All right.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
With that in Kansas City, let's welcome in our NFL
Network insider Tom Pilasero.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Tom, we saw a.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Bunch of moves made over the weekend, but let's look
at that team we were just discussing in Kansas City,
decisions to be made before tomorrow's roster.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Cut down day. What's happening with the Chiefs.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Well, the Chiefs did make a trade yesterday bringing back
a familiar face. Derek Noddy, defensive tackle and member of
three of their Super Bowl winning teams, is now a
Chief once again, in a.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Trade with the New York Jets. This is one of.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Those late round conditional PICKSWAP deals, meaning that no, he
probably wasn't gonna make the Jets roster. They've made a
couple of trades in recent days for defensive tackles that
made notty expendable. He sent seven years with the Chiefs
now is back with them once again. There is no
trade yet involving the Cowboys star pass rusher Michael Parsons,
who continues to be on the sideline as he deals
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with what he has said is a low back issue
and of course a contract. There's the photo right there
of Parsons relatively brief stay on a training table in
the middle of the Cowboys preseason game over the weekend.
Michael Parsons has said before he has now wanted to
be held to closed door negotiations that took place without
his agent. Jerry Jones, the Cowboys owner, has said in
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his mind that negotiation already happened and he felt like
he had a handshake deal in place with Michael way
back in March. So we're just ten days away from
the opener here. Michael Parsons has been engaged in walkthroughs
and meetings, but he's not done anything on the field.
There are conditioning aspects to this and other things that
would certainly make these next few days very important. Somebody
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ultimately is going to have to budge otherwise Michael Parsons
potentially could not be on the field next Thursday night.
There's no signs at this point the Cowboys are considering
trade possibilities with Michaeh Parsons, but certainly one of the
biggest situations we'll be monitoring here in the coming days. Meanwhile,
the cutdown deadline is at four pm Eastern.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Time on Tuesday.
Speaker 7 (13:36):
There could be some notable names that end up being
moved prior to then. One to watch is Kyle Dugger,
the Patriots safety who they just extended last year after
making him their transition player. Dougger is not the fit
right now that the Patriots want with a new defensive
scheme and a new regime, so they have been having conversations,
as our Ian Rappaport nottd yesterday, with other teams, but
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potentially trading Dougger. He's you eleven million dollars this year.
That's a pretty big number. Is the Patriots are willing
to eat at least some of that money. No trade, though,
is imminent at this point, and Dougar I should note
here Jamie not the only player acquired under one of
the prior regimes in New England who potentially could be
available here in the trade.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Okay, Tom, that's good to know. Like you said, lots
of track. I'm sure we'll catch everything we need to
know on the Insiders on NFL Network as well.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We'll talk to you in a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Here's the question on GMFB that I have for you
in the next segment.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
When I say the.
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Words Willy Wonka or a Walkman or dare I say
the atari VCS Kyle, how does that.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Make you feel?
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I'm looking at the AFC West coaches and how they
all connect to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
That makes me feel like we used to have a
real civilized country here. You know. Now it's all gone
to waste. We used to there, used to be a
decent nation. I can't wait here we have to say
about it, Jamie, you got my attention. Plus in studio guests,
I think he's in studio. I hope he is. Veteran
linebacker Eric Kendricks. This guy brings the boom. I love
this guy, his takes and his former team. J. J. McCarthy,
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the NFC North the best. Yeah, what's up man? Welcome?
Good morning football? Where you get every water in a can.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Good morning.
Speaker 8 (15:28):
If you're gonna be any good, you gotta beat the
best teams. You have to beat them and so if
this division is loaded with that, that's what's gonna make
us what we are. And uh, you know, going against
Andy and Sean and Jimmy down there, that it couldn't
be any more challenging.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Back in mid January, by hiring Pete Carrol, the Las
Vegas Raiders rounded out the most prolific group of head
coaches in a single division in NFL history, with Carol
joining Andy Read, Jim Harbaugh Sean Payton. This foursome made
NFL history as the first set of head coaches in
a division to all have coached in the Super Bowl.
And that fact is the most boring part about these
four football stories. Harboff, Peyton, Carrol, and Reid carry chapters
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in the football history books over the last fifty five years.
But what does that look like compared to everything else
that happened in the world.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Don't be alarmed.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
This is not meant to make anyone feel old. Instead,
we're here to appreciate the vintage, long tenured nature of
success in this division.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
All roads lead us here to the twenty twenty five
AFC West. We begin in nineteen seventy.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
One January, the first of two hundred and five episodes
of All in the Family airs on CBS. Executives were
nervous that Archie Bunker and Company would offend. Instead, the
show became a cultural phenomenon in the number one series
in America from seventy one through nineteen seventy five.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
In March, the Fight of the Century.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Between Muhammad Ali and Joe Fraser threw down at Madison
Square Garden. Growing up at this time, you would have
been highly impacted by shows.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
And events like these.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
For example, perhaps on a quiet street in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania,
Sean Payton was growing up in a suburb of Philadelphia
in nineteen seventy one. Sean Payton was eight years old
and he was being raised an Eagles and Phillies fan.
Perhaps a young Sean Payton visited the newly opened Veterans
Stadium in seventy one a couple of times, but he
also may have begged his parents to buy him a
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ticket to the movie theater to see the original Willy
Wonka in the Chocolate Factory when it hit theater is
in June of seventy one. Now, let's check in on
another eight year old in nineteen seventy one, Iowa City
beginning of.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
The school year the Harbaugh House.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
While chasing his big brother John down the street after
school at Roosevelt Elementary, Jim Harbaugh had a jacket pulled
over his eyes and was struck by an Iowa City
mail truck. Jim broke his leg in two places and
wore a cast for the first six months of six
of first grade. He would later meet the driver of
the mail truck named Dan McGivern to review the story.
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Later in the fall of seventy one, October first disney
World would open in Florida. Only ten thousand people showed
up intentionally. This was a quiet rollout executed by Disney
to avoid the insanity that was overwhelmed by the nineteen
fifty five opening of Disneyland. Also in October of seventy one,
Pete Carroll's twenty years old and he had recently transferred
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to the University of the Pacific. In this article from
The Pacific In it reads, Carroll has earned the reputation
that is so valuable to those who dwell in the
no man's land of the defensive secondary.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
He's a hitter.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The mayor of Ding City is what head coach Homer
Smith called him. He roams his secondary turf with reckless
abandon Now, lastly, would it surprise you if I told
you you would have seen a thirteen year old Andy
Reid in nineteen seventy one, Because you have Andy Reid
competed in the punt, Pass and kick competition in December
of seventy one during a Monday night football broadcast.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Its memories. It's football and it had only just begun.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I take you to nineteen seventy nine. In the early
part of the year, the world was ravaged by the
oil crisis. So when I say the words gas shortage
to people like Pete Carroll, the memory triggered will likely
be sitting in lines at a gas station on the
day that you even number license plate was allowed to
get gas.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Having graduated from Pacific.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Pete Carroll, now twenty eight, is in the big boy
job ranks as a DV coach at Ohio State. His
oldest son, Brennan, is born in nineteen seventy nine March
it was a good time to be a kid because
Nickelodeon was launched in the next month in April of
seventy nine. You would recognize you can't do that and
be comforted to know that slime has been around since
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the late seventies. In the summer of seventy nine, June
Sony releases The Walkman. The words portable and personal had
never been paired together before with music, So I do
wonder if Andy Reid was given a new Walkman upon
transferring to BYU. In the summer of seventy nine, Reid
left Glendale Junior College to become a part of Jim
McMahon's line as a.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Backup tackle for the Cougars.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Andy was so enigmatic in his football IQ that his
head coach, Lavelle Edwards would hire him as a grad
assistant to Launchreed's coaching career. Also in the fall of
seventy nine, Harbaugh and Peyton we're shoulders deep in their
high school football days. Jim n Arbor still was playing
alongside his brother at Pioneer High School. John was a
senior DV and Jim was a sophomore quarterback for the JV.
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Their dad was an assistant at Michigan at the time
and elsewhere in the Midwest. Sean Payton's family had moved
to Naperville, Illinois, where Peyton was playing for the Naperville
Central High School team and he would play quarterback. However,
still backing up in seventy nine, he'd be the starter
in eighty two and finally to close out nineteen seventy nine.
If you were holiday shopping for any one of these
young men, the ATARIVCS was the number one Christmas gift
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at a time. The console came with two joy six, a.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
Paddle controller, and a game, and the game was Combat.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
That's a look at the seventies and all.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Roads lead west in the AFC West.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
If you will, this is a five day experience, and
you can guess tomorrow it'll be eighties, and so on and.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
So forth until we take you.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
To current day, twenty twenty five, with those four coaches
in the NFL.
Speaker 4 (21:03):
Back on third down, quick pass, broke it up and
intercepted by Kendrick on a deflex of it.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
Eric Kendricks Johnny on the spot. It's just a slant
route on that right side of the Panthers formation and
Eric Kendrick gets his second interception of the season.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Johnny on the spot.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Takes a lot of skill to be in the right position, though,
if you're linebacker Eric Hendricks with that play getting it
done on the field for the Cowboys and he's at
the table with us now for the breakfast table. Look up,
many people know you in the Vikings Purple.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
Are you? Are you done playing? Are you still? What's
going on with you these days?
Speaker 1 (21:37):
No? No, No, I'm definitely playing. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (21:39):
I feel like it come out of a solid season,
still having fun. Body feels great. It's looking to be
asset to a team.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (21:45):
I love that we know your shoulder is in good
shape because you're posting videos doing walking handstands. Dude, what's
going on? I think we have the video. This is
a good way to show that you're ready to play football.
What is going on in this video? Go ahead and
roll in? And how many takes did this take? Talk
us through it? It was actually the first take.
Speaker 9 (22:03):
I actually hurt my shoulder like fourth or fifth game
of the season, So I had shoulder surgery this past
this past year. And if anyone knows me, really knows
that I could crank out handstands anywhere and just kind
of just do them Disneyland, on the field, doesn't matter.
I just kind of crank them out. So I think
I was just eager to do that. You don't have
the video this is about like, you know, three got
to do it in studio and a half months Yeah,
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like three and a half months after my surgery. I
was just kind of like asked my doctor, Hey, am
I good to do handstand?
Speaker 1 (22:29):
Cranked it out?
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Yeah, that's that is a real question.
Speaker 4 (22:32):
We right, I have the handstunds, but we've got a
lot of things that you did on video, especially on
the field. Now, you spent ten years in the NFL,
and I didn't know this, but your first sack was
against Sean Payton.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
Now Peyton man I mean Champagne.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
I just said Payne, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Peyton Manning. Now, my mom loved Peyton Manning.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
And I remember when I first played against the Broncos
and Peyton man was a quarterback. My mom's first reaction
after the game wasn't like how was it, Sonny? It
was like, how was it playing against Peyton Manny? When
you had that play?
Speaker 1 (23:01):
What did what was that?
Speaker 4 (23:02):
An interaction with your mom like like how did it
take us through that?
Speaker 9 (23:05):
It was crazy because I wasn't really supposed to be blitzing,
but I was. I was an ad rush, so I
had the running back and the band coverage and I
kind of looped around and I really wanted to hit him,
but if you know the Manning brothers, they kind of
just fall. So I kind of went right off to
the top of him and got my first sack. And
I remember after the game I came up to him.
I was like, hey, man, like you were my first sack,
and just kind of looked.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
At me like cool, who cares? Like you know, I
was a realokie, you know.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
So you know, we actually talked about that story later
on in life, and it was we had a good
laugh about it.
Speaker 6 (23:35):
He's still on your sack mantle, so it's all good. No, So,
anybody who knows you and knows your game understands that
you were a tackling machine, right you. You love getting
guys down to the ground. Nobody gets around you. Who
was the most difficult quarterback for you to sack?
Speaker 1 (23:47):
That's a hard question.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
I feel like there's a couple that I haven't sacked,
but I think the one that I have sacked that.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Was the hardest for me to get. There was Ben Roethlisberger.
Speaker 9 (23:56):
That was my favorite quarterback growing up, and I remember
we played him a couple of years early on in
my career, and I kind of just bounced off of
him and he threw a downfield to Antony Brown, and
it was kind of like, man, this guy is large,
you know what I mean. But here I am getting
the sack and I kind of had to put my
whole body weight on him and slam them to the ground.
So I was super hyped about that one because I
was obviously my favorite quarterback growing up.
Speaker 6 (24:15):
So you had him wrapped or you had him wrapped
up in the middle and wrapping him up, what was
your mind?
Speaker 1 (24:19):
So I was so juice, you know. I had a
free rush out of him. It wasn't like I had
to be anybody.
Speaker 9 (24:23):
It was just like a miss missing protection and I
got I got a free hit.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
So it was it was. It was lovely.
Speaker 4 (24:28):
So it wasn't it wasn't getting to him, it was
getting him on the ground.
Speaker 9 (24:31):
Yeah, it was getting Like I said, I bounced off
of him earlier in my career, like what the you know,
like this dude is a pinball Eric.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
What I love about when guys show up at the table,
whether or not they're still playing thinking about something. You're
clearly here because maybe you're trying, like media on for
size if you will being on TV, so we have
to ask about the vikings.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
Okay, because now you.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Let's do it.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Take a look at Minnesota and the fact that JJ
McCarthy is kind of the topic du jour if you will,
all preseason long, what have you seen from the quarterback?
Watched practices, preseason games. It's a unique situation teams will experience.
He's the second your quarterback that hasn't played before.
Speaker 9 (25:06):
You know, I feel like I've heard a lot of
great things about him, first of all, first from his
character standpoint first and foremost. You know, obviously he showed
us good things, but you know, I really trusted and
Kevin O'Connell, you know, to really raise him, you know,
in this little in the system. You know, I feel
like last year wasn't ideal for him. He was hurt,
you know, obviously as a competitor you want to be
in there. But grand scheme of things, I don't think
it was a bad thing for him to sit and
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observe and really learned the game of football, and it
fl was a little bit different.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
You know.
Speaker 9 (25:30):
I think he's in great hands and uh, you know,
JJ's down there somewhere, So just throw it up, you know,
just just just just throw it somewhere downfield where JJ's at.
You know, you be all right.
Speaker 6 (25:44):
I know Kyle know about the d Brown But Lizabeth,
you were in Dallas last year, all right, you played
with Michael Parsons.
Speaker 1 (25:51):
You've also dealt with.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
Uh the ownership of mister Jerry Jones as well as
the GM Jerry Jones. What is your take as to
what's taking place downer right now?
Speaker 9 (25:59):
I feel like we never know really what to expect,
you know. I feel like, you know, you can't you
can't get caught guessing at the same time. But I
know I know two things. You know, they love the
theatrics in Dallas and then you know they love their
their talented they draft, so you know, I assume that
they're going to get something done.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
And being able to see different organizations. So Eric, like
there's this impression of the Cowboys that they are a
content company that does football on the side instead of
a football Come does content on the side. Did you
feel that stuff like it's all about theatrics and shows
and selling jerseys and making Netflix specials and then you know,
we'll get to the football.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
I feel like it's a little bit of that for sure.
You know, I feel like you can't avoid it, you know,
walking through the building. You know, the star, the media attention,
the hype, the fan base.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
You really can't avoid it.
Speaker 9 (26:42):
But you know, I feel like once you get in
that in the in the in the locker room, you know,
once you get in the behind the team meeting rooms,
you know, you try to make that separation as best
as you can. I feel like sometimes it naturally just blends.
But that's that's that's the name of the sport. You know,
you got to be able to still compete.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
You know what, We had one of your former longtime
teammates here, We had Anthony barr and studio last week,
and he was telling us how he just couldn't stand
playing the Packers, Like there's a healthy hate vikings pas Ackers.
I totally get it. But from what I understand, it
wasn't Aaron Rodgers or any quarterback that drove you nuts.
It was a particular offensive coordinator who may now be
a head coach. Tell us about this. I love that, Yeah, yeah,
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Ben Johnson. You know it's a love hate relationship.
Speaker 9 (27:19):
You know, I feel like you you appreciate playing against him,
but you also hate it because the game plan is
always changing. You know that he makes adjustments at by
the quarter, by the drive, by the half, and you
kind of just kind of forced to chase it around
to see to see where you're going. But you know,
I'm really I'm really curious to see what they what
they do in Chicago because I feel like they've been
building their team out for a couple of years now
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and they're sleeper team.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
You know.
Speaker 9 (27:43):
I feel like, like I said, with Ben Johnson's my
favorite coordinator. Love hate him, but at the same time,
I think he's going to get things cracking there.
Speaker 4 (27:49):
Well, tell us a little bit about Aaron Rodgers, Eric,
how is that going against him? Like, how is that
rivalry between the two of you?
Speaker 9 (27:55):
Yeah, you know, I feel like I learned so much
football by playing against him, you know, the cat and
mouse game, the chess game on the field. You know,
we played them two games in a row every year
for the you know, the division, and it just made
football so fun for me early on, and it got
me addicted to that. You know, that that back and
forth between the quarterback and linebacker play and just the
adjustments that you have to make during the game.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
That to be successful.
Speaker 4 (28:15):
Well, besides training this offseason and doing handstands, you had
a cameo in a Fresh Prince bro.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
This guy was everywhere, like, tell us about that? What
was that? Like? That was that was actually two years ago.
Speaker 9 (28:25):
But I feel like in the off seasons, I I
tried to try to join my friends whatever whatever job
they do or you know, I try to shadow them
and see see see what I like. But at the
same time, I got offered this opportunity, and I'm like, man,
I've been in LA for how long. I've never done
anything with film or TV. Let me go ahead and
check this out, Like, let me go ahead and see
what this is about. Showed up arms on set, you know,
have a new found respect for actors and actresses and
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things like that.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
But it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 9 (28:50):
Crazy it was with uh, you know, it was with
a couple of other NFL guys, so it was made
it cool.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
That's unbelievable. Like we did not even think that this
interview was going to go there to the Fresh Prince
like that's so cool. We thought he'd talking about football.
Fresh Prince is great, but I'm going to go back
to football. Eric, before you go asked Antony Anthony, the
same thing. Most talented guy you've ever played with and
most talented player you've ever played against.
Speaker 9 (29:13):
That's a good question. Most talented guy I've ever played with.
I'm gonna say a wild card here. I'm gonna say
Harrison Smith. You know, I feel like, uh, we had
a Notre Dame guy right here at the table. But
you know, I feel like JJ would be the obvious answer,
you know, from a from an athletic standpoint, But Harrison Smith,
you know, he really taught me my mentality getting to
the league, as far as toughness, physicality, you know, being
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be a consistent player every day, day in and day out,
and just you know, having your own process. You know,
Harrison Smith is the guy who has his own process
and you can't.
Speaker 1 (29:43):
You can't argue with you with it. The proof is
in the pudding.
Speaker 9 (29:46):
And I mean he's one of the most consistent players
I know in the league ever to live. So shout
out to Harry as against man player to play against hardest,
not say Aaron Rodgers. I feel like, yeah, I feel
like I feel like I've been in coverage so many
times Aaron Rodgers and sticky coverage too, and he kind
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of just throws the ball up on his back foot
and it just kind of finds the person's hands.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
Frush, you know.
Speaker 9 (30:13):
Super frustrating, but we've had we definitely had a lot
of battles.
Speaker 6 (30:16):
Ek before we let you get out out of here. Man,
I want you to go to the one shot right.
Let everybody out there know, as they're starting to figure
out their rosters right now, they're gonna get cut down
days tomorrow. Talk to all the gms out there and
let them know saying, if you guys haven't watched my film, this.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
Is why you guys need to pick me up on
your squad. Go ten straight years.
Speaker 9 (30:32):
Of consistent work, you know what I mean? For real though,
when you know when everything's sorting out and you know
realize you need a linebacker to play in this league.
I feel like it's a little bit of an underrated
position somehow. But you know, just know I'm going to
be there, communicating, studying, doing what we got to do.
Make getting ball carriers now, just like I've always been
done in ten years.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
Straight, put that green dot on no matter what, you
just jump in and run playbook.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Man.
Speaker 9 (30:54):
I'm just just having fun still, so it's great.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You can tell it's awesome to see here. Stay healthy, stay.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
Well, and we can't wait for one of the insiders
to tell us where Kendrick's after disappearance on the right football.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
And after he takes.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
A guy on scoop and score, he'll do a handstand
in your end zone after the six.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Good mon football well.
Speaker 10 (31:30):
Cut down day is quickly approaching. That's Tuesday at four
pm Eastern. Teams have to trim their rosters down to
fifty three players, but the Buccaneers wasting no time in
making a decision on Shiloh Sanders. The ndrafted rookie safety,
was waved Sunday following his ejection for fighting Bill's tight
end Zach Davidson.
Speaker 11 (31:50):
You just saw it right there.
Speaker 10 (31:51):
Don't punch a helmet with your hand man, amongst other things.
Bucks head coach Topples after the game, called Sanders punch inexcusable.
Shiloh is the brother of Brown's rookie QB Shador Sanders
and son of the Hall of Fame Dion Sanders. Recorded
four tackles during three preseason games.
Speaker 11 (32:08):
There with Tampa b only get the Raiders.
Speaker 10 (32:11):
They may be looking to add a quarterback to their
room after QB eight and O'Connell suffered a fractured wrist
Saturday night there against the Cardinals, head coach Pete Carroll
calling it quote a big blow for us. With O'Connell
now effected the miss between six to eight weeks, Gino
Smith and sixth round rookie Cam Miller are the two
remaining quarterbacks left there on their roster. Now the Giants,
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they have the opposite problem. The team currently four quarterbacks
on the roster. Russell Wilson named the starter last month,
but the question is who will be number two rookie
Jackson Dart or veteran Jameis Winston. Brian da Will, when
asked Sunday, simply said, we'll see.
Speaker 11 (32:54):
So we have some.
Speaker 10 (32:55):
Quarterbacks, like we've talked about that have just six guys
in the room.
Speaker 11 (32:59):
Manti, where do you think Jackson Dart should be?
Speaker 10 (33:02):
Should he be QB two from what you've seen so
far as preseason?
Speaker 4 (33:04):
Of course, of course he should be QB two. Are
you arguing that he should be QB one? That shouldn't
be the case. I think Russell Wilson's QB one, and
Jackson Dart said that he should be QB one. Russell's
the one that's meeting with Elik neighbors. Russell Wilson is
doing everything. Russell Wilson has been a cultural piece there
for the New York Giants, and that has been great
to see. Now, Jackson Dart should be QB two. How
he's been playing, how he's been performing. I think he's
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done exceptionally well. And I think leading into this offseason,
there's a lot of talk about the New York Giants and.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Their quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
I think it's it's one of the better situations if
you ask me, so I think he should be QB two.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Isaiah, Yeah, it can go either way from me.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
I think he's done a heck of a job as
a rookie, coming in and performing and really getting his
team behind him, giving the coaches to have confidence in him.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
The city's behind him now.
Speaker 6 (33:49):
But I'll be okay with Jameis Winston was number two
as well, right, So, I mean, I.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
Don't really think it matters two or three.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
It really comes down to whatever the team is and
based upon the situation, who you think is most prepared
for that opponent.
Speaker 1 (34:00):
Should you need to go to your number two guy?
I have it, guys, over under What week does Jackson's
Jackson Dart make his first start as the Giants. I
have it over under week four point five. I think
it's going to be pretty early. I think he's going
to be the starter of this team, maybe a month
into the season. It's going to be close. The first
four games are very very difficult. If there's something like
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two and two and Russ has been kind of decent
er average, I think they go to it. I do.
He's looked too good. Time is now if he looks
comfortable and the team really needs a little juice after
a month of football, I think it is right there
in that four point five area. But Jamie, I'm looking
at something this morning. Are you familiar. There's a video
going around right now of Jackson Dart's younger brother, Diesel Dart,
who is a high school player. He's got this video
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out there, and Diesel Dart looks like it has it
going on too, So we'll see him down the road
at some point. I've been early investor in Diesel Dart.
In the meantime, Jackson Dart, I have it a week
four point five.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The over underlag I've never so badly wanted to go
back in time, and if I could, I would go
into I don't know.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
The delivery room of the Jart kids' parents.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
When they're going I have the kid and be like,
what should we name them? Jackson with an ex Diesel?
Like what I want to be a part of those conversations, Okay,
Like I need to know, because after having name a
couple of kids myself, I just didn't have the guts
to do that.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
But like, I want to know what that's all about.
Speaker 10 (35:20):
I mean, what a name for a quarterback? Like you're
really setting your kid up to Jackson Dart like show.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, and I the Diesel too.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
Yeah, I've told the story before on GMFB. It but
like we affectionately call my mother in law Diesel. She's
like the sweetest little lady from Minnesota, but we call
her her nickname is the Diesel and it obviously has
an ode to like long time and favorite sports heroes.
But like Diesel is like, so Diesel Dart, Like I'm
already You're already on my draft board.
Speaker 10 (35:45):
Fantasy line them up all right? More GMFB rolling on here.
We got to come up with some other nicknames then, but.
Speaker 2 (35:51):
Then they're their names. Like that's what's great.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
It's like Jackson with an X, like that's not a
birth certificate, man, Like, that's a joy, Like I love that,
you know, let's call it Jackson, but with an X,
like that's such a decision.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
Yeah, you know, love it.
Speaker 11 (36:08):
Fur all right.
Speaker 3 (36:10):
Seahawks Packers happening over the weekend. There's Jordan Love newly married,
I believe from over the holiday on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Congratulations to him. But that means.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Malik Willis is trying to launch to Matthew Golden, who
jumps back.
Speaker 2 (36:23):
It's in front of the defender.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
That is a big time thirty nine yard contested catch.
Great for the newly drafted wide receiver out of Texas,
Jalen Milroe getting the start. The third round pick out
of Alabama making a name for himself.
Speaker 2 (36:36):
For the Seahawks.
Speaker 3 (36:37):
Drops back, HiT's Cody White off the left side, who
goes in untouched the m zone for an eighteen yard hed.
Seahawks then get on the board. They would trail the
Packers twenty to seven. That was Jalen Milroe's first touchdown
in a Seahawks jersey. Fourth quarter now Seahawks still trailing
Milroe bumbles the snap. This is recovered by Aaron Mosby
at the thirty one yard line.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
That would ice out the game.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
Sam Darnold looking on in street clothes, everyone just preparing
for that regular season start to twenty twenty five. Seahawks
would lose that game twenty to seven to the Packers. Now,
of course, that is just one single highlight from over
the weekend. There must have been some plays, some events
if you will, or had us saying, MANSI, there's no way,
there's no way that happened.
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Manti WIT's yours.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Well, this guy got highlights, he got plays. You guys
know the name Aiden Huntington, undrafted free agent of Tulane Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (37:26):
He started off after Aiden Hutchinson. He played like lions.
The end he did liked him.
Speaker 4 (37:32):
He had one and a half sacks, He had two
TFLs and a forced fumble. Aiden has led the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
And special teams tackles.
Speaker 4 (37:42):
So for the undrafted free agent out of Tulane, the
green wave, the green wave was cracking everywhere for the
Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
And so when you watch this guy, man, you.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
Talk about production, this guy had production.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
I can't look at that without thinking that our graphics people,
and they are intrepid, they are professionals, but we would
never misspell Aiden Hutchinson for to read Aiden Huntington.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
That's all my brain does. I just want to correct it.
I get it, all right?
Speaker 3 (38:08):
Can I take you to the Lions, but not to
Aiden Hudgins. Shall we to Isaac Toyota? No Isaac Teslaw.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
If you that's his name? And I'm in love with
Isaac Teslaw, all right.
Speaker 3 (38:19):
He's the third round pick and yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Yeah, that was the whole point.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
And he was on my did you catch that the
first list of the preseason?
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Did you catch him.
Speaker 3 (38:30):
Doing this with Isaac Teslav with his homemade Teslaw jersey
that he walked into the Lions for his interview. I
can't get over that. I think he needs to wear
it when he comes out of the tunnel, maybe for
the first time for the Lions.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
An incredible start.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
For him, and the fact that he is clearly feeling
himself well enough Sherry to do the worm after a touchdown.
Speaker 11 (38:48):
Yea, And that's like a real throwback.
Speaker 10 (38:50):
I feel like so many of these guys are doing
who knows what kind of celebrations, which leads me to
mine Chicago Bears.
Speaker 11 (38:57):
We have Jada Walker. He's doing the Jupy slide.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Now, yeah, catch.
Speaker 10 (39:03):
First off was insane, but then to pull this. My
knees hurt just watching them do this.
Speaker 11 (39:08):
I don't understand it, but they are so hype and
I just love his reaction.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
You did this? Who was the hater to hit him
in the middle of it? Right, somebody on his sideline
watched this.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
He starts hitting this thing, flewid is all get out
and somebody look at this, what.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Are you doing? That's a pure hater righton walk.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
That's all I can think of.
Speaker 1 (39:29):
It as two weeks he's done it. Two weeks in
a row. He did it. He did the other week
as well.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah he's been he's been doing it.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Yeah. You you were a professional athlete, you were too, Like,
can you guys even begin to do this? Is this
something that you could use your athleticism to do? I
don't know how to start. No, no no.
Speaker 11 (39:47):
Chance standing out yourself?
Speaker 5 (39:49):
Oh lord?
Speaker 1 (39:49):
Yeah, trying to open here your way? I don't know. No, no, do.
Speaker 6 (39:57):
It like that's like a little you can do a
scare bro.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
I can go like this around, but ain't no way.
I can just look I'm.
Speaker 11 (40:05):
More to go more in north South.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
No, Manti's more, but Daniel heel guy. I don't know
if you know that guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, quarterback. I
like that. Mattha got up and skipped around the table.
My nine year old daughter can do that. Man, I'm
trying to look at I know a lot of them
a text. I mean, that's one of them. All right,
Hey Manta, you ever like rub your stomach and touch
your head at the same time. Look at me. I'm
bro Jackson. I'm a crazy athlete. My second grade teacher
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make fight. You want a crazy athleticism. This is also
on the Bears. Like we've seen a lot of guys
do a lot of leaps over tacklers. It's just something
that happens. It's always a great highlight. And then Saquon
turned it into this stratospheric thing. Last you're doing it backwards.
You don't see it a lot from starters in the
preseason rolled the DeAndre Swift. Jandre Swift is the RB
one for the Bears, and he's doing this in the
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month of August three two one lift off. It's pretty clean, guys,
and as I always say about hurdles, don't come to
me with the hurdle unless you can run out of
the hurdle, because if you just fall down after you hurdle,
it's pretty much the same as a tackle. He got
a few more yards after the hurdle. And I want
to say this about DeAndre Swift. Serious football talk at
this point, there was a lot of calling out for
(41:16):
the Bears need to add a new running back. They
need to draft this, they need to trade for this.
They need to go get Brian Robins Jr. Ben Johnson
said no, no, no, no no, We're going to Deandres Swift.
We got a big room after him. Some other guys
are gonna be tribute, but he is the guy We're
gonna march out with all these glistening weapons. So I
feel like, Doandre Swift heard that, knows that, and he's
already showing out in the presets. I think it's gonna
make plays this year. Hmm. That was pretty dope.
Speaker 6 (41:37):
The fact that he hit the ground with momentum running
away from Chris Jones, that was real. Yeah, all right,
So I am going to change it up a little bit,
and I'm not going to say there's no way I'm
going to take it out of the Bonis Dictionary. I say,
ain't no way that you get cut from seven teams,
and then this is what you post online. Ben Denucci
goes ahead. It says, not many beers better than the airport.
(41:59):
I just got cut from the for the fourth first
sorry for a seventh time beer. Trust me, you wouldn't
under the stand. You know what, Ben, I would not understand.
I only got cut five times.
Speaker 1 (42:12):
I got cut seven times. But you deserve that beer.
I call the game. You came in through a pig.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
I understand it wasn't the greatest of situations. I know
your last name, Issus Shador Sanders. It's okay, it's all good,
but you had a bad situation as well, and you
ended up at the bar getting a little drinking drink.
Speaker 1 (42:27):
You deserve this, sir.
Speaker 3 (42:28):
That is my new favorite thing about Bend de Nucci,
and it took the place of Bend de Nucci announcing
his own signings.
Speaker 2 (42:34):
Like Bend de.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
Nucci, you have to remember is the player. Every time
he signs the team, he's like breaking news. According to me,
I've signed with a certain team, and now he's even
breaking the news with on tap Kyle.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
Yes, this is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (42:48):
I'm just excited and I hope this doesn't happen. Ben,
if you're watching, But next year, if he gets cut
again and there's another beer at another airport that I
can't wait for that I want to see that next
airport beer. I hope he makes a team. But if
he doesn't, a nice tall one never hurt anybody in
that situation. Ben, you're the man.
Speaker 2 (43:03):
Ben's do you want the tall boy or just a
short pour And.
Speaker 3 (43:06):
He's like, I just got caught for my seventeen Give
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Me the eighteen houses, you know,
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