All Episodes

September 29, 2025 • 40 mins

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Chiefs putting together an impressive game against the Ravens. Hosts Kyle Brandt, Manti Te'o, and Isaiah Stanback discuss the Bears win over the Raiders.  Kyle explains why this Bears team appears to be different. Plus, The table delivers their Game Balls before Manti gives his award for Defensive Player of the Week!

The Good Morning Football Podcast is part of the NFL Podcast Network

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mark as Played
Transcript

Episode Transcript

Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio. Hey, welcome to Good Morning Football. We
are in our tenth season as a show. We love football,
we love Monday mornings. We are energized. We are by coastal.
We are presented by old trapper Beef Jerky. That's my guy,
Manti Tale, that's my guy's standback.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
How are we feeling in La friends? Fairly right? Brother,
I'm a little nervous. Guys, I'm a little nervous. I'm
a little nervous. We've got a tie and a survival
Do I go on? Do have a travel meeting? Should
we have the people? I don't know? Okab, we got
to see the people.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
What Manti is talking about is we do the survivor
pool episode and he's he's like, in four weeks steep
against Jamie, Manti decided to take the Packers on the road.
They didn't win, but they also didn't lose. So is
Manti out. We'll get into it this week. In the meantime,
Highlights takes comedy, friendship, and positivity. On a Monday morning,

(00:59):
It's Good Morning Football.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Roll in. Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
That is the number one jerky in the jerky game.
It is Old Trapper. It is an old classic, and
really so are we. You're looking at the beautiful sterling
Los Angeles set, and you're looking at me like the
Wizard of Oz on a.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Giant screen in New York City. But I'm happy because
my boys.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
Are here and we are Mantiteyo where Isaiah standback.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I am Kyle Brand.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Jamie Erdahl fighting her way back from Ireland, undoubtedly on
a plane, just chatting somebody zero off in her nice
Jamie Erdall Minnesota way after she did an incredible job
covering Vikings and Steelers, and we look forward to having
her back. But in the meantime, guys, can we just
get into this highlight because we're gonna We're gonna do
a shorter highlight for more discussion, and I know we

(02:01):
have a lot to say.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
There's a blue football helmet.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
For some reason, no one understands Packers, Cowboys Micah. This
has felt like a media event as much as a
football game. Thirty four to thirty, What a score, George Pickens,
what a day? Say what you want about the Micah trade.
We'll see how it plans out. George Pickens was awesome yesterday,
absolutely awesome. I tip my hat to George Pickens. Great

(02:23):
day for him. We're a tight at thirty seven, we're
in overtime.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Wike up.

Speaker 1 (02:27):
Gosh, that's a big play with Dak have scored, I think,
but I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
All I know is that Mike ha made sure he
did not watch the clock.

Speaker 1 (02:36):
Now, if the clock runs out on the Packers, who
are currently down three, the game is over and they
lose an overtime and really embarrassing fashion. You tell me,
should this clock have expired? Watch the ball hit the ground?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I have it done correctly. I think there was one
second left when the ball hit the group. However, depend
on who you ask.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Sometimes the home team gets a little extra second off.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
They did not.

Speaker 1 (02:59):
That timekeeper, whoever hear she was, was all over it,
and they really preserve the tie for the Packers.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Who kick a field goal.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
I don't even know if there's ever been a forty
to forty game before. I'm gonna bet my life that
there hasn't been scoring goami forty to forty.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
No one knows how to act.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Very bizarre, odd thing to watch afterwards, though, we heard
from a kind of angry Micah Parsons taken away.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
A line pissed off. You know, I'm very disappointed or
just overall how we performed. You know, I even told
Jordan to decide, you know, thank you for having our
back today. Jordan played like the player he was, and
we let him down. We didn't lived to the expectations
on defense. There's only one thing from me, and I
told y'all from the beginning, all I know is go.

(03:48):
So from the snap of that football, it was just
about killing four and now it's on to whoever the
Bengals got up, just killing that opponent. I just didn't
think we did a great job today.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
All right, he says he wants to kill the opponent.
He does not, but it's kind of this only fitting.
The game ended in a tie. This is the second
highest scoring tie in NFL history.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
I think we have something to look at in the
history of this. But either way, man, Titeo, there it is,
there we go.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
This is a highest scoring We had a forty three
forty three sloberknocker in the early sixties.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
That's unbelievable. That goes way back, that is.

Speaker 1 (04:26):
Nineteen sixty four, and then in the sixties they were
getting nuts again. There's there's Last Night and then Bill
Broncos went thirty eight thirty eight. And how about Panthers Bengals.
I mean, would that have been that have been cam
Andy Dalton. I'm trying to place that one, thirty seven
to thirty seven. I don't remember that game. Somewhere on ESPN,
Peter's talking about it. All right, takeaways from this one.

(04:48):
Mantiteo and Isaiah standback forty to forty.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Manti, where is your mind going this one?

Speaker 5 (04:52):
My mind goes immediately to the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys,
Deck Prescott. That Prescott is the best quarterback in the
NFC East right now, one of the best in the
entire NFL. Guys, the Packers defense week one gave up
thirteen points to Detroit. Second week eighteen points to the Commanders,
then thirteen points last week against the Browns. This is
one of the best defenses in.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The NFL and they put up forty on them. Boys.
He put up forty without ceed Lamb.

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Okay Dak Prescott Week one played the Eagles two big
drop passes.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
To Ceedee Lamb.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
They could have won that game. Goes into overtime. The
next week against the Giants puts up another forty. The Bears,
they lose last week puts up forty against this deep
Dak Prescott. There wasn't a lot of talk about him
this past offseason. The only thing that you heard talk
about him is his little riding the horse Durn priests
their training camp during warm ups.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's it.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Other than that, he's been quiet. He has been quiet
on a field with stats. I don't know what his
stats are, guys, but number four is playing at a
superhuman level right now. So I go to Dak Prescott,
I go to the offense without ceed Lamb, the number
one wide receiver, they still managed to get the job
done offensively.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
So that's where I go with it. Where do you guys?

Speaker 6 (06:03):
Hell yeah, I'm gonna right there with you. But I'm
gonna give credit where credit is due. Brian Schottenheimer called
one heck of a game for the Dallas Cowboys. I
also want to give some love to the offensive line because, oh, lineman,
they don't get the love they need to, but they
that they need. But these guys were playing with their
second string center, their third string right guard versus a
defense that has Rashaan Gary, Kwaiy Walker and Michael Parsons,

(06:25):
and these guys gave up one sack that was really
a tackle for no loss right there at the end
of the game. Michael Parson's saving a touchdown. This offensive
line did one heck of a job and allowed for
Dak Prescott, un to your point, Man Tye, to go
out there and do what he did. In terms of
Michael Parsons being angry, I understand why he's angry. He
came into the Dallas Cowboys building to try to go

(06:45):
out there and have a showing. He had his family
out there in his suite that he's still paying for.
He wanted to light up the scoreboard in terms of sacks.
He was unable to do so. You see the frustration
on his face. This is one of the most the
biggest competitors that you've ever come across. He competes at
absolutely everything. I mean, he was not able to go
out there and be dominant. They held him on under
a control for majority of the game. They held as

(07:06):
defense on a control from majority of game, and eventually
they were resulted in a tie. As we talked about
earlier in the show, y'all missed it, go back and
watch it.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
We don't like ties. Up here, we don't like the ties.
Card Brandt loves ties. We will talk about that some more.
I love ties. They're just so weird. I like weird.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
We see a lot of conventional games, guys, I get it.
One winner, one loser. It's so odd.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
But here's the thing, and I'm going to get absolutely
hammered for this.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Without me saying they should, our intrepid social media staff
put a.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Poll out to the world.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Do you like ties? Do you hate ties? This might
be the most one sided pole in show history.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Let's bring it up.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
You know what, I'm happy with my thirteen point two.
Those are my people right there. I love my thirteen
point two. I don't want to win this pole. I'm
glad and I rolled with that thirteen too. I will say,
this really strange ending to the game. And I mean,
like the last minute. It's I've heard the take this
morning that the Packers were playing for the tie. Really,

(08:04):
clock management look conservative, look tentative. We saw the clock
nearly expired on them. The end of the game is
so the Cowboys get a field goal, all right, it's
forty to thirty seven. The end of the game, we're
seeing some of this now six yard pass a run,
negative three yard pass, negative one yard pass. It's like,
why weren't these end zone shots? Any of them except

(08:27):
for the last one. They almost cost them the game.
I guess you might say, well, because they wanted to
make sure.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
That they can get the tie. It was a weird thing.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
If you're coming down that you want to win, right,
you're not playing for the tie.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Although awaiy, I will go back to you.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
Was this tie the biggest Dallas Cowboys win in a
long time? The way this game was going coming into it,
you could not afford for Mica to come in have
three sacks and green Bay to absolutely clean.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Your clock in that building.

Speaker 1 (08:55):
Again, I suspect that Jerry Jones is thrilled with a tie.
His team scored forty points, Micah was mostly held in check.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Pickens looked great. I feel like this was a huge
win for Dallas. Tell me I'm wrong again.

Speaker 6 (09:07):
I think there was a little bit of a redemption
story there, But I don't think that they liked the
result of a tie. But I do think that they
were able to go out there and prove to themselves
as they're trying to dig themselves out of rut that
they are a competitive team. There's nobody that's going to
argue that Green Bay is not one of the most
respected and competitive teams in the league. So for you
to go out there and tie against him after two
years ago they came in that same building and disrespected

(09:27):
you in the playoffs with majority of those same contributors
offensively for them, that was huge for the Dallas Cowboys.
That allows for them to get back on the bandwagon.
Know that is not them saying, oh, let's give ourselves
a little bit of pat on our back. That's just
the reality. This team was going in a bad way. Defensively,
they've been They've been getting all kinds of slapped across
across the face in the media.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Their offense is starting to figure it out.

Speaker 6 (09:47):
They've had some big injuries offensively, Ceedee Lamb, offensive lineman.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Starters, all that jazz.

Speaker 6 (09:52):
This allows for them to get back on board and say, hey,
we know what we can be. We just were just
tie this ball game with some backups primarily, and we
know now that our number two receiver can actually play
like a one when he's Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (10:05):
Look at it. That record one two and one. It's
so weird and I just love it. One two and one,
and it's just what do they have another tie?

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Who knows they might, But listen, if either of these
teams get to the playoffs, there's a couple teams that
will very likely be waiting for him.

Speaker 2 (10:18):
And they played yesterday as well in Tampa. Eagles. Bucks
lived up to the hype.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Guys, we can talk about this the Bucks. They play
the Eagles better than anybody in the league. But the
Eagles are already up fourteen to three, and then the
Dallas Goddard Shuttle pass.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
There's your vertical passing game. It's technically vertical. Right twenty
four to six. The Bucks are getting rolled up. But
hold on. If Baker a.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
Clock, he's got his own personal witching hour every single week,
and he goes downfield for that crazy there's your rookie
of the year. He think I'm joking a Mecca Egbuca amazing.

Speaker 2 (10:50):
In the season so far.

Speaker 1 (10:51):
He scores every five minutes, it feels like. And then
hold on, Bucky tries to go left.

Speaker 2 (10:56):
Bucky goes right, but it's a bubble. The Eagles recover.
It just feels like they're.

Speaker 1 (11:01):
About to put this thing away, but again, the Bucks
won't quit. They'd like it dramatic every single time Bucks
first turnover this seasons, turn this touch push right, gotcha got.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
The Eagles they're such jerks.

Speaker 1 (11:16):
They get They suck you in with that play and
then they do that pretty little thing on the outside.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
What the hell are you supposed to do? Just take it.
Fourth quarter, Buccaneers trailing thirty one to twenty three.

Speaker 1 (11:25):
That's a dangerous depth at eight points. Baker was doing
this all day, dancing and dancing. This is his worst
play of the season right here, because he makes magic
and then he does this worst part about it was
on a first and ten, and I know Baker knows
that you got.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
That's just a bad, bad throw. I think he got
caught up in the moment.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
He was doing a lot of escaping from that relentless password.

Speaker 2 (11:44):
I mean that says everything he knows. He can't do
that really, really tough play.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
They would have another chance. Here's a fourth and ten
down eight. They're gonna need to touch that.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
At a two point over the middle, to ot and
see you later. Don't worry about whether it's a fumble
or not. The play is over, the play is done,
and Baker gets.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
Their first loss. Sirianni four and oh, pick away at them.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
Guys, you know what I say to that? Four and
oh thirty one to twenty five.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
We are now into the phase of the season in
which aj Brown is getting mere curial. But let's hear
from the quarterbacks first, Jalen. Jalen hurts, what do you
think of how your team is doing?

Speaker 2 (12:22):
Your undefeated team? Take it away.

Speaker 7 (12:26):
You can be on top one day and at the
bottom of the next. You know, so this game is
very humbling, and I take that approach in it. You
just gotta be of the notion of getting better, stretching
yourself every day, trying to grow every day, having that
competitive mentality with things every day. And that's that's what
we have as a team, That's what I have, and
I just want to continue to build off of that.

Speaker 2 (12:47):
Duty grew throughout the game a little bit.

Speaker 7 (12:50):
Yeah, but it goes back to we were just kind
of lifeless to begin with.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
In the first half.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
You gotta punch in the mouth corner half time, look
at the scoreboards, You're like, all right, what are we
gonna do now?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
But we were too good to wait to get hit
in the mouth. We got to come not swinging. We
got to play better. It was ninety degrees in Florida.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
I love weather reports, you know that, but that did
not stop the Eagles from getting the job done. Guys, listen,
this could be the NFC title game, This could be
a playoff game. These two teams gave us a classic.
It felt like early a September version of that Matt
Ta teo. Takeaways from Eagles Bucks.

Speaker 5 (13:21):
My biggest takeaway, KB is this again, the special teams
and the defense for the Eagles win them the game.
I mean, their first touchdown was a block punt return
for a touchdown.

Speaker 2 (13:31):
That that has been.

Speaker 5 (13:32):
What looks like the Eagles entire team and what they've
been able to do. I look at a guy like
Cooper Dejen like there's a stat that's not going to
be on the stat table.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Guys.

Speaker 5 (13:42):
He gets a taunting play and the very next play
he gets an interception. Now the interception is called back,
but all game long, all you kept hearing was three names.
Cooper Dejen, Quinnion Mitchell, and Jahad Campbell. The rookie out
of Alabama has been phenomenal since he's gotten more and
more and more reps in this game. So my biggest takeaway, guys,
is how long can the Eagles offense keep this up?

Speaker 2 (14:02):
How long?

Speaker 5 (14:03):
Matter of fact, lit's just be more specific, how long
Cansas defense and the special teams hold this team until
the offense hopefully gets things rolling. Because this defense and
this special teams for two weeks straight now, guys blocked
field goal last week against the Rams, return for a
touchdown to seal the game, block punt for a touchdown
to score their first touchdown of the game yesterday. The

(14:25):
question is for me, guys, Isaiah, is how long can
they keep this up?

Speaker 6 (14:28):
That's a good question, And let me go ahead and
lay it out there, because I know Kyle's going to
try to beat me over ahead about it. Yes, four
and four and no, I still don't like how they're winning.
And you don't have to like how they're winning because
ultimately the goal of the game is to walk away
with a W and that's exactly what Philadelphia is doing.
But I'm gonna bring up the same point that I
brought up about two to three weeks ago. Kevin Patulo,

(14:49):
their new offensive coordinator, has to get more creative with
their schemes and their formations and all the other things
that are going to assist them in their passing game.
It's not hurting them right now. They're winning ball games
in the first quarter of the season. But we know
that defensive coordinator in this league adjust, They adapt. They
are able to decipher what you start doing. They're able
to start looking at analytics after four games of the season,

(15:11):
start seeing, Okay, when you're in this fortmation, you do this,
when you run this motion, you do this, they can
start really start picking it up, picking you apart. So
I want to see him get in his bag a
little bit more. And he's also going to have to
start figuring out how to manage aj Brown. There's only
so many books that AJ Brown careed all right to
keep him nice, cool, calm and collected.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
On the bitch. He is not happy right now.

Speaker 6 (15:31):
He's not getting enough targets, he's not getting enough opportunities
to make plays. Last week he took care of business,
but the other three games he's been quiet as a mouse.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I'm trying to be quiet right now. I'm to try
to taking the breath, So everybody just stay with me.
I love you, guys. I respect you, guys, And there's few.

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Things I care less about than how a team is winning.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
I don't care in September, I don't care in October.
I can give you a list of things I don't
care about. I don't care that Jalen hurts that have
any passing yards in the second half.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Zero passing yards. He also has zero losses on the season.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
I don't care that Saquon is not going to run
for two thousand yards this season. He has also zero
losses on the season. We are so drunk right now
in our commentary about the power rankification of teams and
that what looks good and you have to win with
style points. You know what's better than winning with style points,

(16:30):
winning with actual points.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
Guys.

Speaker 1 (16:33):
If we're coming down the home stretch right now and
it's week sixteen, I might have some concerns about the Eagles.
They look right for the Pickens. It's not even October yet.
We haven't even got out the boxes of Halloween decorations yet.
It's four and oh just period stack period, wins period.

(16:56):
The time to get better and the time to look
impressive and the time to evolve is after Thanksgiving.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
That is two months from now.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
I can tell you some team you want to pull
up numbers, Teams that run up big, up and down
the field numbers. The Ravens got great numbers. They have
huge stats. How's that going for them? Who cares win
the game? Good coaches and good players evolve as the
season goes on. It's an incredible thing. Like we're sitting
here waiting for the Eagles to apologize and to be

(17:26):
crestfallen after the game and frustrate and he goes.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
Fans are the same way. I see them out.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
There, furious you're four and oh you are one of
the best teams in the league. I don't care if
Jalen Hurts goes a month without a passing yard, if
he goes that month with winning, For the love of God,
it's gonna be Okay. It's early. You're undefeated. Breathe it,
accept it, learn it, live it. I'm tired of it.
Man titayo.

Speaker 5 (17:50):
Well, we're learning a lot on this show about my
brother Kyle number one.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
He loves ties.

Speaker 5 (17:54):
However, he does love air about how you win.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
He just wants you to win.

Speaker 5 (17:59):
We're learning so much about my brother Kyle brant On
this show.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
And I love it.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
I love ties, I love tie food. Anything you want
like I like the till right, No, I don't. Let's
get the latest from around the league. I was just
trying to think of another tie.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
I love that. I don't get in here. My take
on ties, My take on ties is just that they're
just so odd.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
I just think it's really strange theater. I like watching
it us that beautiful tie. I like ties.

Speaker 9 (18:35):
You don't wear ties not to be on your show
where it ties?

Speaker 2 (18:37):
Never for me.

Speaker 9 (18:38):
I love ties. I also like tie food by some
of the other stuff. It's a different conversation for a
different time. And let's talk about the Detroit Lions and
some of the injuries they suffered. There is a possibility
that this coming week to the lines they have neither
of their starting quarterbacks will start with dj Read, who
seems to have the more significant injury of the two.
Dj Read, by the way, made a sick sick interception

(19:00):
yesterday not to play. He was hurt on that was
later he suffered a hamstring injury ended up being carted off.
Listen to Dan Campbell after the game. Certainly seems like
there's a real possibility that DJ read could be an
injured reserve candidate, potentially missing a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
And for the lines defense.

Speaker 9 (19:15):
Which you know certainly has had its moments, certainly had
a moment yesterday, this would be a potential crushing blow.
And then for Terry on Arnold, one of the other
starting cornerbacks, he also went down an injury, this time
a shoulder injury.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
Dan Campbell saying not nearly as bad.

Speaker 9 (19:32):
We'll see about his availability for this week's game. Possibility
he could be out not as severe as the DJ
Reid injury.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Thank you, Ian, I like the words, not as severe
about any player whatsoever. Thank you very much more from
Ian Rappaport later, he's on fire this morning.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
It's great.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
It's nice to say positive words, right, Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Maybe the Colts are not as severe as we thought?

Speaker 1 (19:54):
Or did they show up in LA and while too
through at well did an incredible thing in Seanmavay, I
still think is the best coach in the NFL. They
get to three and one, very very competitive game against
the Colts.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Man t Taya, what else are the people are gonna
get from us this morning? What else?

Speaker 5 (20:08):
Well, they already know Kyle loves ties. He doesn't care
about winning, but he also loves the Bears. Bearson Raiders
came down to the wire. Ben Johnson even got a
little snippy in a much needed win that's coming.

Speaker 1 (20:19):
Up on GMFP on a Monday. I stand with the
d Kikawalla. All right, we looked at this one so
excited for it. Colts Rams, Yes, sir, Colts Rams.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Daniel Jones looking up the Dniana Jones figures, I love him.

Speaker 1 (20:45):
They got the hat and they got the whip, fortune
and glory. But Daniel Jones says, it's not the years,
it's the mileage.

Speaker 2 (20:51):
That's exactly what I don't know Mitchell should have said,
because its.

Speaker 1 (20:53):
Milets came up a little short at the goal line
where he just straight up fumbled the ball.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
What a play. This was not at a Shawn Jackson
where he like chucked it early. He was trying to
transfer it and it's just.

Speaker 1 (21:04):
Slipped out of his hand and then just rocketed out
the bend zone. That turns into a touchback. That's a
tough play, really really tough. Jonathan Taylor did it once too,
he said he talking about it.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Twenty twenty and the fourth we got a good game
to two two, Well, hey.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
Nobody's catching him. You can stop running. That is an
eighty eight yard strike. Stafford finished three seventy five and three.

Speaker 2 (21:27):
Rams are one of the top five teams in the NFL.
Are the Colts. We'll find out.

Speaker 1 (21:31):
Michael Pittman Junior now intercepted by Cam Curl Cam Curl,
and that's Adedi Mitchell, who also had a tough holding
penalty to nullify a breathtaking Jonathan Taylor touchdown.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
Rams three and one.

Speaker 1 (21:45):
Colts three and one just looked like two good teams
having a close game.

Speaker 2 (21:48):
But let's hear from Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
Matthew, what were you saying during that eighty eight yard
touchdown strike.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
To two to two?

Speaker 8 (21:58):
I'm saying wild stuff. I was actually miked up today,
you know. I was coming off the field. I'm like, hey, man,
we're gonna have to We're going to have to do
some heavy editing. He'll probably just be a lot of silence.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
But I don't even know. I just go crazy.

Speaker 8 (22:12):
I'm just so excited for our team, so excited for
that moment. Twitch you play for so I'll save the
expletives for you. But it was it was fun No.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
I want to hear him release the Stafford cut.

Speaker 1 (22:23):
I want to hear what he said on the Matthew
Stafford not known for sound bites. If he says he
had one, I want to.

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Hear it, all right, Matt tie.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
I also want to hear your thoughts on a very
interesting matchup and turn out to be very interesting game.

Speaker 5 (22:35):
Rams called, well, you hear you heard a lot of
things when it came to Pukin No Cool. That's the
thing that you may not hear what Matt Stafford said,
you know on those miked up but you heard a
lot about Pucino Cool in this game. Like he had
thirteen receptions one hundred and seventy yards in a touchdown.
It almost seemed like he was getting the ball on first, second,
and third down. Devonte Adams going over They over there

(22:55):
to La Rams.

Speaker 2 (22:56):
Really open things up for Pokin the Cool.

Speaker 5 (22:58):
And it seems like Matt Stafford and Pokin the Cool
are continuing to pick up where they left off. The
past two years been nice for the LA rounds, been
nice for the for Shaw, McBay and the offense. And
if they continue to keep it up, it's gonna be
something that we're going to hear a lot about throughout
the year.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
KB Poka Nocool Nicoole is absolutely unconscious right now.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
I mean he's it's Cooper Cup won the Triple Crown
a few years ago. They let him go, and now
Nkou is on track to do that as well. Let's
get though to Las Vegas, Nevada, when the Chicago Bears
come to town. This is two teams trying to get
to two and two. Gino, you got opening win, opening
week win against the Patriots, and then not much since.
Gent speaking of not much, that's been the Gentee story

(23:39):
for what's this Ashton gent Byron can't get him a o' bar.

Speaker 2 (23:43):
It was incredible yesterday for the Bears. Ashton Genty, the
rookie who.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
And I went back to his old stance and there's
a hole to do about this and stands in the backfield.
Hit it by far his best game a very young career,
and look every bit that where they picked.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Him fourteen to nine. Kind of a flat game here.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
I just mentioned the secondary Oh my gosh, ars rounder
Stephenson credible interception that was one of three thrown by
Gino two to Kevin Bayard and then we got Caleb
fourteen and I look at this bleeping laser bath.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Roma Doonsay.

Speaker 1 (24:17):
The Nevada native has scored a touchdown in every single
game this year for the Bears. He's doing Walter Payton things.
I'm not even exaggerating. Sixteen fourteen. Look at the nance
on again, Ashton gent. He's dancing, he's scoring, he's receiving.
But we're into the fourth quarter now, twenty four to
nineteen on a second and eleven klebs first.

Speaker 2 (24:38):
But guess who that is again, Romadonsay. This is a big,
very important drive for Caleb. They're going to the bye
after this. They needed a win, all right, DeAndre Swift touchdown.
But wait a minute thirty and change left for the Raiders.

Speaker 1 (24:52):
Two timeouts. The Raiders got a big kick return. It
looks like they're definitely gonna win. They give the ball
to gents, they stuff them. They doesn't get the first
down here. Okay, but it's all right, this is twenty
twenty five. You bring your kicker out. They never miss
mix to Daniel Carlson for the win.

Speaker 2 (25:06):
Blocked walk off game over. The Bears block the kick.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
That is exactly the kind of thing that happens to
the Bears Josh Blackwell. As Caleb celebrates, he would hug
DJ Moore right afterwards. The Bears at two and two,
now go into the bye the Raiders and absolutely teeth
breaking one and three loss and guess where we're going

(25:33):
the Bears locker room afterwards, which was turned up to eleven.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's special today.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Oh yeah. I don't know if people know this is
the eighth hundredth win. Whoa.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
So thanks to everyone in this room, every player, staff person,
our head coached, all our coaches. This is for Virginia
McCaskey and the McCaskey family. We're gonna get his ball
to George on the play spar downright bring.

Speaker 2 (26:24):
I mean, Bet Johnson. That is a unique. Dude, are
you kidding?

Speaker 1 (26:27):
A good?

Speaker 2 (26:28):
Better best? I'm never at rest. He's got this whole
thing he does and it works and it works in
the game.

Speaker 1 (26:32):
That was Kevin Warren, the president and CEO of the Bears,
handing out the ball, mentioning MS McCaskey, who has the
patch on the jerseys and everything. Simple take about this
game for the Bears. I have seen a hundred Bears teams.
It feels like they would have los that game one
hundred out of a hundred times. Absolutely, they that Bears
teams don't win that game. That is a perfect Bears loss.
Carlson comes out, he kicks the field goal. I mean,
they really kind of mismanaged the end of the game.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
The Bears. Their go ahead score to Swift was way
too early. They left way too much time in the clock.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
They give up the big kick return, they don't get
the two point conversion that would give him a three
point lead, and they still won.

Speaker 2 (27:04):
They still won. It was not a great game for
the Bears.

Speaker 1 (27:07):
Their defense was poor, they got run all over, they
did not put up huge numbers offensively.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
And they won.

Speaker 1 (27:14):
They won these The Chicago Bears don't win games like that.
It's just not something that's in their fabric right now.
But it's becoming that way. And this Ben Johnson, he
is one of the most unique coaches in the league.
He's almost like becoming Jim Harbaugh level unique.

Speaker 2 (27:28):
And as you know, that is from a different planet.
I understand.

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Dan Campbell's this big, muscular guy with a steep point.
Who is this Madiac that is just this normal, clean
cut dude who looks like he could be your local realtor,
but on the sideline he gets into this like.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Axe murderer mode. I mean that guy is a family
man with a wife and kids. What is he doing.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
It's almost like remember when Adam Gates was introduced as
the Jets head coach and he had these bug guys
and everyone freaked out about who's this lunatic. The difference
is now Ben Johnson's showing up and.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
We got a couple of wins.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
He's going into the by I just have never seen
a head coach and this is not.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
Like as the goes block. This is earlier in the game. Guys.
He is exceptionally unique.

Speaker 1 (28:08):
And if you look at those locker room shots, the
players are buying in. There's an enthusiasm and that is
another win for the Bears.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
They don't win that game. I don't mean this team.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
I mean the Bears find a way to lose that
game yesterday, find a way to win.

Speaker 2 (28:20):
They made a damn play. He loved to see it. Man.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
They found a way to get their hands on the ball.
They had three interception. Kevin Bayern had two interceptions, but
looked like the same exact play him coming from the
deep half and robbing the little carrier also.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Had the block field goal.

Speaker 5 (28:34):
But the thing that I noticed and KB alluded to
in the highlight was Ashen Genty and his performance.

Speaker 2 (28:40):
Not only his performance, but how.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
He stood a little background the first three weeks of
the season, Ashon Gentsy was towed by his coaches in
training camp that he had to change up his stands.
If you know anything about Ashon Genty in college, he
had this. He had that stance where he had stand
straight up. Well, they wanted him to change it. Week one,
he changed it. Week two, Week three, well, week one,
Week two all the way two.

Speaker 2 (29:01):
Week three he had one hundred.

Speaker 5 (29:03):
And forty seven scrimmage yard total, one rushing touchdowns.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Last night he went back to his Michael.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Meyers standing straight up with his hands to his side,
and the guy ran for one hundred and fifty five
yards and had three touchdowns. It was like Ashton Dentschi
was like, I'm tired of this.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
I was a Heisman finalist because of how I ran
the ball.

Speaker 2 (29:23):
I'm gonna go back to what I do. I'm gonna
stand away.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
I want to stand I'm gonna run the way I
want to run, and things happened for Ashton.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
Genty and the offense.

Speaker 5 (29:31):
Who didn't have any rushing yards, the guy had two
rushing touchdowns and a touchdowns where he.

Speaker 2 (29:36):
Caught a pass.

Speaker 5 (29:36):
So I was so happy that Ashton Genty went back
to his old ways and it showed in how he played.

Speaker 6 (29:41):
Isaiah Listen, I don't understand why you would draft somebody
so high after having the success that he had in college,
just to tell him, no, what you did that made
you successful, which is why.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
We have you here. Yeah, don't do that anymore. I
let the man play. You see the result of it.

Speaker 6 (29:55):
But the guy who's handing him the ball off and
I know he doesn't need me to say this because
he already took accountability for it after the game.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
Geno Smith has to play better.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
You are the Las Vegas Raiders playing in the AFC West.
This is his second three interception game. There's the probability
of your team winning a game where you turning the ball.

Speaker 2 (30:17):
Over three times on your shoulders.

Speaker 6 (30:21):
It puts your team in such a corner that that
doesn't matter what you do defensively.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
You're probably gonna lose the ball game, and in terms
of the distribution.

Speaker 6 (30:29):
They have to figure out offensively how to get more
people involved. It really feels as if it's either going
to be Ashton gent or it's gonna be Brock Powers,
And if it's not either one of those two, then
this team literally seems.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
Like they have no identity offensively.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
So Gino has to take it upon himself to make
sure that they're always in a good down the distance,
that he's making good decisions, and that he starts finding
a way to distribute the ball to some of these
other playmakers, because right now, teams only have the key
in on the one running back and at one tight end.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Can you even fathom caring about your running back stance?
Is there anything less important than that strength? I respect
chim Kelly, all he's done. If Ashton Jenny wants to
stand back words with his butt board the line on
his legs, bread, let him do whatever the hell he wants,
all right. The stance is that this is a very
unimportant little detail. Honestly, just let him stand how he wants.

Speaker 2 (31:14):
How's that.

Speaker 8 (31:21):
Game?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Bo? Let me give this gameball real quick? Eric Armstead,
where are you at?

Speaker 5 (31:28):
It is so much fun to watch you guys play
this game.

Speaker 2 (31:31):
We're just getting better and better. Guys, We're getting better
and better, better and better. Breaks out today, Eric Son
of break here.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
We got got to do all three two three. Jaguars
are three and one. That matters, and that's Liam Cohen.
Just moments after he was almost in some kind of
scrap with the strongest coach in the NFL, Robert Sala
over some words that were said, or keep my name
out of your mind. It was like it really intense.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
You can watch it.

Speaker 1 (31:59):
Good for the Jaguars, Good for coach Cohen. Happy you
have three and one is no joke. But guys, we
each have game ball. This is an official NFL football man, Titey.
You can give it to anybody or anything in the
NFL after what you saw this week.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Who are you gonna give it to?

Speaker 5 (32:12):
We're gonna go to Dublin KB, and I'm gonna give
this to Kenneth Gainwell, the running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Listen,
Kenny Gainwell two years ago was rotating with Deantrey Swift
and the Eagles backfield took a backseat to Saquon last year.

Speaker 2 (32:25):
Get to his shot.

Speaker 5 (32:26):
This week as a starter because Jalen Warren was down
and the guy just went and set career highs for
rushing yards, scrimmage yards, and rushing tds.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
He had a little under it.

Speaker 5 (32:35):
I think ninety nine rush yards and two rushing tds.
So my game ball goes to Kenneth Gainwill of the
Pittsburgh Steelers.

Speaker 6 (32:43):
Keep it up, Okay, go Zay, you're going with Gaywell,
I'm gonna see if you.

Speaker 2 (32:47):
Guys want to.

Speaker 6 (32:48):
I know where you did the trivia earlier read, but
I'm gona ahead, stand up real quick. I'm gonna do
one post to see if you guys know who this is.

Speaker 2 (32:53):
Who's that George Pickens? Bag with George Pickens all day long?
George Pickens been the Dallas Cowboys, went out.

Speaker 6 (32:59):
There, had eight receptions, one hundred.

Speaker 2 (33:01):
And thirty four yards and two tudies.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
He had to step in as the number one guy
for CD LAMB. Last year of Pittsburgh, he had three
touchdowns on the year. He already has four touchdowns on
the year for the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Through the first four games.

Speaker 6 (33:15):
I'm no mathematician, but I believe he's gonna track for seventeen.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
Touchdowns at this particular rate. I like everything that he's doing.
He stepped up in a major way. You get my
game ball, missus George.

Speaker 10 (33:24):
That math is mathing. I'm going to go on the
defensive side of the ball.

Speaker 5 (33:27):
Kyle.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
I think you said the Ravens.

Speaker 10 (33:30):
Chiefs game was like the Hunger Games, right, Yes, Linebacker
Nick Bolton says, I volunteer as tribute. This man was
absolutely playing out of his mind watching this game. Every time,
I just felt like, man, look at that Nick bolt
is making a play. He had a career high five
quarterback preussures. It's just insane to think that the Chiefs

(33:51):
are finding themselves right and he is one of these
guys leading the way. So I am sending this game
ball all the way to Kansas City. Nick Bolton enjoy
it with a side of burnt end smile.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
I like going into a linebacker. Well.

Speaker 1 (34:04):
I also, like I said, we do this our own way.
I'm going to do it my own way. I'm going
to give my game ball to a player on a
losing team. The best player I saw in any game
on any field yesterday was Max Crosby from the Raiders.
Oh my god, Caleb Williams. After the Win said, well,
he's the best player I've ever played against.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Caleb just straight up said it.

Speaker 1 (34:23):
Crosby was so by far the best player in this game.
The second best player wasn't even close. That's his first
career interception. It came on one of three balls that
he batted down all day.

Speaker 2 (34:34):
It was just plays like that, NonStop.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
I actually can't believe the Bears won just because they
were going against Crosby. I know statistically it wasn't his
best game.

Speaker 2 (34:42):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (34:43):
I have never seen him more dominant, more of a problem,
just all day long. Max Crosby, your team could not
pull it out for you, but you left it all
on the field. I don't care if you want or
you lost. I didn't see anybody better in the NFL yesterday.
The number ninety eight for the Las Vegas Raiders, Max Crosby,
I give it to you with pride.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
I'll put that step on the with you, KB.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Max Crosby was out of his mind and I know
you picked him in our in a prediction week to
be Defensive Player of the Year. He's been playing that
and more for the Raiders. That guy ninety eight is.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Everywhere for the Raiders.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
It is beautifulness at which they won, just up just
because of him and Kyle.

Speaker 6 (35:18):
When he balls out like that, you can't just call
him Max Cross. You got to call him by his
real name, that Max. That's exactly what he was.

Speaker 2 (35:26):
It's amazing.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
It's just it's like, I feel like he was an
NBA player who had sixty points and the team still lost.

Speaker 2 (35:31):
You know what I mean? Like, what else can I
possibly do? Guys? That is a nice bit of variety
and a pot pourrie here.

Speaker 1 (35:37):
On our game balls, that's what we do, pot parri
there is more Max Crosby.

Speaker 2 (35:41):
I don't care that he lost. Great win for the Bears.
Ninety eight was awesome, and we.

Speaker 1 (35:45):
Go with our instincts here on the show looking I'm
surprised to didn't house this sucker. We will talk more
about the winning teams, including your favorite one.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Right after this.

Speaker 5 (36:02):
Good it is time for my Defensive Pro Player of
the Week. We're headed to San Francisco, where the Jags
beat the Niners, led by linebacker Devin Lloyd.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
The former You Tall You.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
Not only led the Jags and tackles, they also snacked
two interceptions. Lloyd became the first linebacker in Jags franchise
history with two picks in game. For all of these reasons,
Devin Lloyd is my Defensive Pro Player of the Week.
Analyze a Game Like a Pro with NFL Plus Premium
get access to NFL Pro and over ninety five unique
player and team performance stats an All twenty two film

(36:37):
for an advanced analytics platform available on desktop and mobile web.
Devin Lloyd had a party in San Francisco. Sherry Burris,
I've heard you're talking about another type of party.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
In San Francisco next year. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (36:51):
Yeah, there's a really big game happening in Santa Clara.
If you're keeping chack at home, only one hundred and
thirty two days until the Super Bowl, but really, who's counting?

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Yeah we are.

Speaker 10 (37:01):
There was big news yesterday Apple Music, the NFL, fell
and Rock Nation announcing one of the most influential artists
of generation, Bad Bunnies, performing during the Apple Music Super
Bowl sixty halftime show. They're in Santa Clara, California, Sunday,
February eighth, and be sure to tune into Super Bowl
sixty and Bad Buddies performance. We will certainly be watching

(37:22):
that will be coming your way on NBC we've.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
All watched my pall our whole lives.

Speaker 1 (37:27):
We think we've seen it all, and yet every single
week there's something we've seen and we're like, no, there
is no way that just happened. And we have a
segment called There's no Way, Man Tai, What made you
feel that way yesterday?

Speaker 5 (37:37):
Well, if you want to know anything about football, watch football.
Just watch Fred Warner play the game of football, and
not only as a linebacker. Just watched the effort of
which he plays, and he epitomizes what it means to
be a great, but he also epitomize is what it
means to It ain't over till it's over, and there's
Fred Warner.

Speaker 2 (37:53):
Guys, the game's over.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
The Jacksonville Jaguards are trying to take in ye and
there coach fifty four from the top rope, Isaiah, you
like to say, I'm coming from the top. He came
from the top rope and tried his best to do
something to affect this game. Fred Warner continues to be
that for the San Francisco four nine ers. He represents
the game.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
The way it should be.

Speaker 5 (38:12):
And that was one of the players I was like,
there's no way, Fred just try to do it at
an end of the game.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
I love it, Fred, Okay, I feel that, man. So
you and I are both about the same weight. Okay,
two and fifty pounds. Wo ff there, two hund fifty pounds.
If we just happen to put on what ninety maybe
even one hundred pounds, do you think that we could
do anything like what we're about to see right now?
This dude, Dexter Lawrence, big sexy dex He puts his
hands up in the air like he does not even care.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
Gets the interception, it.

Speaker 6 (38:40):
Starts to high step his way towards the his zone.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Now he doesn't get there, but look at him, pick
these knees up.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
That is a lot of human being right there.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Balls in the right hand. He's doing the right thing.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
I cannot believe the athleticism of this dude, and he
might have the best celebration in the league.

Speaker 2 (38:57):
Shout out the sexy decks you on that thing. I
can't believe you just did that.

Speaker 1 (39:01):
I love that you pointed out he has the proper
ball security with hands, so it's to fend off tackler.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
That's pretty funny.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Listen, I'll give you an improper ball security. Let's just
get into this ad and I Mitchell the Dananapolis Colts ad.
He makes an amazing play in the middle of a
very tight game. Watch you can barely even see him
catch it. He does so effortlessly and he's not doing
the Deshaun Jackson here. But he goes to switch the
ball to start celebrating and it just flies out of
his hands and it's over and he takes a seventy

(39:31):
six yard touchdown and turns it into a touch back
for the Rams. Guys, that twenty two year old player,
very young, very talented. I don't play that this played
it to make fun of him or anything. Jonathan Taylor
did the same thing last year. It's just you just
lose yourself. Man, It's just a boneheaded thing. I don't
think he was doing like trying to look cool. I

(39:52):
just think he was in the moments and he transferred it,
but obviously like it never ever happened. And ADAMAI Mitchell
is so athletic and so talented. This could be just
a small little footnote in the great things he's gonna do.
I still when I saw it, I go whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
there's no way.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
That guy just trying to chancel the ball and it
shot out of his hands. It did. Coleches still have
it and so will he. Guys. This has been a
fun hang this morning. You can miss you.

Speaker 6 (40:16):
Gotta come to l a hang out with the brothers.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
Yeah, already, can come to New York. That'd be great.
I love you.
Advertise With Us

Hosts And Creators

Jamie Erdahl

Jamie Erdahl

Jason McCourty

Jason McCourty

Kyle Brandt

Kyle Brandt

Peter Schrager

Peter Schrager

Popular Podcasts

Cardiac Cowboys

Cardiac Cowboys

The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.

The Joe Rogan Experience

The Joe Rogan Experience

The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.