December 20, 2025 • 30 mins
The Saturday Edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast looks back at Super Bowl Champion Tyrann Mathieu discussing Philip Rivers' return and the future of the Chiefs. With the Dolphins starting Quinn Ewers, what does this mean for Tua Tagovailoa? Plus, Bears WR DJ Moore looks ahead to a matchup with the Packers with the NFC North on the line.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning, Mom, you're like some great go half a bit.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Trade interception. Tyron Matthew stepped in.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Tons of people screamed my name, honey Badger.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
What a play by the Badger. Picked him by the badger,
Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Pick him out.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
An outstanding past, broken up by Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
People like Tom Brennon, they always thow the fun. Brady
throwing over the bittle. Let it checked off, Tyrone Matthew.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Come full of swagger. That's one of the better things I've.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Bring to the game.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
Oh we love a highlight reel, especially if it's twelve
electric season's worth, super Bowl Championship and three Pro Bowls.
Our first guest today on GMP announced back in July
that he was officially hanging up the cleave. So we've
miss seeing him on the field, but he's been keeping
busy with family life, charity work, and a brand new
pod that we can't wait to hear more about. Welcome
(01:20):
back to gmt B. Former NFL safety.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Time about.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Gosh, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
The Honey Badger's five months into retirement. How's your life
these days? What do you fill your days with?
Speaker 8 (01:35):
My friends?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's father good. I'll keep it real with you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Obviously, it's an adjustment, you know, going from doing something
you know, every day every second, you know, just living
breathing it to to really not having a lot to do.
And so thank God for my kids. They keep me busy.
And you know, obviously this game too, you know, I
think it's it's a beautiful thing that guy's able to
walk away from the game and still be a part
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of it, whether it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Be coaching TV. So that's that's been fun for me.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
I think it's important for you to keep it real
in that answer, honestly because it helps other guys who
are just entering retirement space and being like, well, if
someone after twelve years says it's hard to make the adjustment,
then that helps them as well. So I think that's important. Secondly, Tyron,
you know, we were all about Philip Rivers last week.
It was crazy to hear the news that he worked out,
that he signs the deal, he gets the start.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What did you make.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Of Philip Rivers after five years a forty four year
old puts those things back on and plays quarterback the
way he did for the Colts in Seattle last weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I mean, that's that's inspiring, you know, and it says
a lot about about players, right, just their ability to adapt.
And you know, I look over the course of my
football life, and you know, I've come across so many
great teammates that just so many different, you know, unique
situations and they find a way to kind of rise
to it. And so I was definitely one of those
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guys that was rooting.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
For Philip, you know last week.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Obviously I didn't want anybody to fall on him too hard,
but other than that, you know, it makes me proud man,
because football players they do have that adaptability and they
can they can maneuver through a lot of different circumstances.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Yeah, they can maneuver.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
You're exactly right, bro, not only on the field, but
off of the field, especially with adversities. And one of
your former teammates, Patrick Mahomes, are all heartbroken to see.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Him go down the way he did.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
But number one, have you reached out Tom had any
kind of conversation with him? And number two, what is
your thoughts on how the twenty twenty five season ended
up for the Ken City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, well, I think you know, obviously, me and Patrick,
you know, we've always been close, you know, really since
my time in Case. You know, I think, you know,
the season didn't go the way that they wanted to go,
and I think those guys they've been doing so well
that I mean, it's this seems a bit strange, right,
but I actually think it's the time for these guys
to kind of reload and kind of retool, you know.
(04:01):
I felt like these guys have a lot of young
pieces that in my opinion, a lot of these guys
they may be the future, or they may be even
you know, they may lead to those guys getting.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
More assets right down the line.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And so I'm just looking forward with to seeing, you know,
how this team responds, because this is their first bit
of adversity, you know, outside of losing the Super Bowl, right, so.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm excited to see that.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm excited to see who coach Reid and Spags and
just that whole organization rally around him and see what
these guys are able to bring back next season.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Well, tying the reality of it is, the Chiefs are
not in the playoffs, and we haven't seen this in years.
As everybody on TV is talking about, you're a football expert,
not only as a player, but now as you talk
about it, you're an expert of the game. Let's talk
about the AFC. What are you predicting for the AFC.
Who's the team you're watching? What do you think it's
going to look like?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh man, he put me on the spot. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I tell you two teams I'm really excited to see
continue to play down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think one of them is Denver.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think that team with Sean Payton and just the
confidence that that that those guys have, and you know,
the confidence that those guys are playing with. I think
both Nicks, you know, his ability to just create nothing
out of something. I think that adds value, you know,
down the stretch. And then obviously they're playing great defense,
right And then another team for me is one of
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my one of.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
My old teams. I took a pitch stop there for
like six months.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, you know, in between Arizona and Kansas City, and uh,
that'll probably be the Texans. I think. I think the
way that they play defense is scary. You know, you know,
just just hitting people like that and their ability to
affect affect the game up front and in the back end.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think their coverage and rush. Uh, you know that ability.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
There, I mean that that that adds, that adds tremendous value,
you know, down the stretch. I don't think anybody want
to play, you know, either one of those teams.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
That's a good point that Texans have taken advantage of
the a f C South that was right for the taking. Tyron,
I want to ask you about a project that you've
been working on recently. And before I ask you, the
content on your new show. Uh, your podcast is called
in the Bayou at Tyron Matthew. Uh, I'm from Tyrann.
This is a question just to you. I'm from Minnesota,
but I covered SEC football for four years and I
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learned a lot about SEC culture football. Baton Rouge, little Village,
Little Italy, the Italian restaurant and Baton Rouge like one
of the best, one of my favorites. Isn't it down
the Bayou?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Like?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Didn't I learn nothing else but that it's called down
the Bayou. Why is it in the Bayou with Tyron Mathew?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, because because you know I guess, you know, if
you kind of see where where my house at in particular,
I mean we surrounded, you know by the water and
just like right now.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Middle of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But you know, it's really it's really just me and
my my good friends from highest to one of my
best friends for you know, fifteen years, and you know,
we're just talking about everything that Deana. You know, we're
talking about sports, we're talking about culture, and we're just
we're actually really trying to shine a positive light, you know,
on Louisiana. And you know, so outside of like the
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food and you know, all the festivals in the Bourbon Street,
there's a lot of great people here. It's a lot
of great cultures tradition here, and we just want to
be one of the one of the few people that's
highlighting that and kind of pushing that forward.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well, it's great content, and I think it's important those
great shows are really well done when it is two
friends just sitting there talking about some of their favorite things.
But on your show in the Bayou, Tyer Matthew, you're
trying to you're trying to stand up for Tyler Shuck.
Can you make your case here on GMFB as to
why you people need to have the back of the
rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, I just I just think it's so critical.
You know, I think a lot of guys they show
up right, and they want to be a part of
the community. I think these guys want to be embraced
by the community. And you know, I guess it's it's
up to us as fans right to accept these guys
into root form and support them. And I think Tyler
is you know, I think he's in a good situation. Obviously,
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he's part of a great organization. And you know, I
think his ability to to make plays and we was
talking about that with both Nicks, right, just kind of
making that out of something, and you know, he has that, right,
and he's been he's been kind of turning up each
and every week. You know, you can kind of see
the Saints putting more and more on his plate as
the season goes on, and so I'm excited to really see,
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you know, how he finished this season out, but mostly
how they begin to kind of build around him going forward.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I really do think, you know, I don't put them
on level with Drew Brees.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But I do think they could provide some type of spark,
you know for New Orleans.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
All Right, Bro, you said takes something and put it,
take nothing to make something out of it. That kind
of embodies your entire career. I remember just watching at
LSU and you and I share being finalists for the
Heisman Trophy Award.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
This year.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
There was an individualt of Texas Tech, a linebacker that
I thought was worthy of at least being a finalist,
but he wasn't. He had seven force for almost and
four interceptions. He took the ball away for you. I
got to ask you on this show, Bro, what is
it going to take in your mind, in your opinion,
a defender winning the Heisman.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Trophy a work?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Because a lot of people said that I should have wanted.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
But I always tell people, and I never said this
all on live television. I said, well, if you think
I should have wanted Tyrant should have want it because.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
That boy was just cold at all aspects of the
game of football.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
But in your mind, what is it going to take, Bro,
for a defender to win that award?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Man, I guess you're obviously you know, a down offensive year,
you know, because this, I mean, it's such an offensive sport, right,
Like people want to see offensive guys. Uh you know, uh,
they want to see these guys score touchdowns. And you know,
but from a defensive perspective, you know, if you go back,
like guys like Charles Woodson, right, those guys were actually
kind of you know, making plays on offense as well.
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So I think you know, who's ever in that position.
I think the head coach of that team needs to
kind of take into consideration, like, hey, this dude is
having a hot hand on defense, maybe we need to
put him in some goal line packages and and get
him maybe you know, four or five easy touchdow I
was on the one yard line, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
So, but it is it's tough, man, It's tough.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I feel like the finders they just have to you know,
you almost have to play you know perfect, you know,
to even be to even be mentioned in the Heisman.
But yeah, man, I think I think it comes down
to coaches and and uh, you know, just kind of
putting these guys on the office.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And you know, still are some points.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
We love a good necessary humble brag. This is for you,
Mantai and Tyr, and you're like, you have to play
perfect to even be considered.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I mean, it's my worst quality. I'm perfectionate.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Real quick, tell us about everything you're doing in the community.
You just participated in an event, uh with Payaway. Just
tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So, I mean every year we uh you know, we
uh we go in the community for Christmas and we
have a Christmas dinner and obviously, you know, we partner
with Son of a Saint who provided the kids and
the families for us.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And then obviously Pale Way, we partner with these guys.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Actually our first year of partnering with them, but they
actually helped us get the gifts, and so it was
a big wish list of gifts, and obviously you gave them,
you know, some money for the holidays, uh, you know,
food and all that type of stuff. And you really
just want to set the table for these families, man,
because when I think about holiday season, I always think
about my grandmother and always think about family. I think
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about good music, I think about you know, just good times,
and you want this for these people and so hopefully
we were able to kind of set that stage for
them to really have a blessed holiday season.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Because that's what it's really all about, Tyrone.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
It's so amazing listening to you. Well, let's just talk
about your upbringing and where you grew up in Louisiana whatnot.
That that piece of artwork over your shoulder is stunning.
Just who is that and is it? I have to
assume as by like a local artist or something, and
so it's so eye catching.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, well so actually this is my daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
A guy actually I don't I don't even know this kid, right,
like he just this is like this something special. But
he like made this for me. I want to say
maybe two years ago. It was probably my second season
in the UH in New Orleans and yeah, he just
like he's like had this picture for me, and I
was like, you know that that's pretty that's pretty neat.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So yeah, I mean I found it. I found it.
I found a good stop for UH.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But yeah, that's my kids right there were missing one
actually she wasn't born yet.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
She's five months old. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So so yeah, we gotta add when we got a
photoshop for.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
That's what the holidays are for the updated family photo
Tyron Matthew in the Bayou with Tyron Matthew. Everything that
you're doing for your native state, we love that. For Louisiana.
We always love when you come on GMF man. You
really bring a lot.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
To our table.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
God Holidays. Happy Holidays, Tyron, Happy holidays.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Good mon football.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Up until last weekend, there was a flicker of hope
for the Miami Dolphin season. They played well ever since
they went to Madrid, but they lost to the Steelers
on Monday night and that eliminated Miami officially from the
playoff picture. The offense looked reverted back to how they
were at the start of the season. Head coach Mike
McDaniel now who's asked to consider making a change at
the quarterback position for the rest of the season, and
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here's what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
The quarterback play last night was not good enough. And
so for me, everything's on the table. There's still a
lot left in the day. Like I said before, fourteen
hours removed from the game. So you know, I don't
trivialize any decision I make, particularly you know, one where
someone touches the ball every play. So there's multiple things
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that have to be thought through, but ultimately we need
to have better play at that position.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Yea reality because Tuatungue of Iiloa leads the NFL right
now in interceptions this season with fifteen. He's backed up
on the depth chart for the Dolphins by Zach Wilson
and Rookie Quinn. Yours, Mike Garafalo, Can you extrapolate at
all in this situation going on in Miami?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
How much extrapolating do you need? Because I think the
quote said a lot right there. I mean, this is
on the table. Everything's on the table. That's not a
great sign. Now it's a complicated issue here for.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The Dolphins for multiple reasons.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Let's start with the elephant in the room, the fifty
four million dollars that two a tongue of Iiloa has
fully guaranteed next year. So to be able or to
potentially make a change, right now, what are you saying
about next year? And I know that there's been some talk, well,
if they do this, maybe they're taking him off the
field so that he doesn't get hurt and potentially trigger
more and maybe affect his trade trade value.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Right Like, if you're potentially benching a.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Guy and you've got that fifty four million on top
of it that a team would have to take on
the market for what is the market for that, like,
I mean, you could potentially eat some of that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I mean, we're that's the next step.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
But the question is who's making that decision, because we're
looking at the potential for at coaching change here.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Mike McDaniel has gotten this team to respond.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And a lot of people think that there won't be
a change in the head coaching position.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We've got an interim GM right now in.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Miami in Champ Kelly, and there's going to be a
full search there for the general manager potentially that situation
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now, the other part of this, and you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
That the depth chart, Jamie, You've got Zach Wilson there,
but you've also got Quinn Yours. You're a rookie seventh
rounder who during the preseason in training camp, we saw
some spurts from him, and there's some potential for a
guy that a lot of people considered it at one
point much higher than a seventh round pick. So is
this a chance for you to get him in there
and see him and see what you've got in him
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as a potential quarterback of the future.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
There's a lot going on here.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
McDaniel intimated that we will find out more today when
the team returns to practice. They're on a little bit
of a later schedule today because of the Monday night
game and traveling back. But I think today could be
a pivotal day for the Miami Dolphins in a lot
of ways, because when you say everything's on the table
with Tua Tuga by low, we did not play well
the other day, Mantai and opens the door for a
lot of things.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Buddy, Yeah, And you can't fault the Dolphins for trying
to do what's best for their franchise and listen to it.
Understands that from a business standpoint, he said after the
game that he felt he left he let his teammates down.
The NFL is all about what have you done for
me lately? And I think Tool would be the first
to admit that what he's done for the Miami Dolphins
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lately hasn't been good enough.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
And listen, this is going.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
To be the first time that a franchise benched a
franchise quarterback in an attempt to put their team in
the best position to win. And I think the equation
and the question that they have to ask themselves is
does number one give you a better opportunity today? And
at the end of the twenty twenty five season to
win football games or does somebody else on.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
The depth chart do so.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
If they feel like somebody else does, they will play them.
And I don't think that tool or my self for
anybody who is a fan of the game of football
or the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Will fault him for that. It's part of the process
as part of the business.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
At the end of the day, it is a game
that is run by a business, and if you don't
produce at the level that we feel you're supposed that
your team feels they're supposed to, there are going to
be changes that have been made. And it's going to
happen for everybody in the NFL, regardless if you're a
franchise quarterback or somebody that's on a parctice squad. You've
got to be able to put forth some some value.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, Listen, there's a two A hive out there, and
I respect it, and I think even the two of
hive is pretty quiet right now because there are people
who can get into the numbers and analytics that can
point out to his assets.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
You can get into the tape.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
There's all sorts of ways to justify him and to
glorify him. The problem is that it just doesn't have
it from the hip, unsophisticated analysis. He doesn't seem like
a few years now, like the guy who's like, that's
my guy, who's gonna win playoff games.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And that is the most important test.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Whether you're a coach, whether it's a fan of the couch,
you can see the guys are gonna win playoff games.
Drake May is gonna win some playoff games. We know
that already. It's been very rare at a time into
his career, and there have been times, fleeting times when
you're like, oh, hell yeah, well I think we can
win playoff games with Tua in January.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
The contract situation is an absolute mess. And this is
yet another byproduct of the absence of a middle class
and quarterbacks, where if you're a certain age and you
play at a certain level, you have to get a massive,
massive amount of money, even if you're not worth that
amount of money, like Tua is not, it's still sitting there. Lastly,
all I want for Christmas is a Zach Wilson comeback
story in a year when we got Daniel Jones, Sam
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Darnold again, Mac Jones, I want that guy. Why can't
he have his turn? This guy who is eviscerated worry
number zero?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Is he number zero on the Dolphins?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
The picture seems to say that he is the number
that he's wearing. I don't even know this. This would
be amazing, and I hope it's something about like the
number of people who believed in on Macter the Jets
got rid of him, or a special thing like that. Zach,
you little dimple faced, a wrong armed demon. I want
you out there, baby, you deserve it. If all those
other guys can have their second shot, give me Zach
Wilson playing out a string in the last couple of
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games for a bad Dolphins team and just.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Lighting it the hell up.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
What numbers he might?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Zero?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And that's exactly the number of options you have outside
of Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
If you ask me number zero.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Z dub, how to BYU light it up? I want
the jersey already, put it under the tree, I asked
my wife. I want some vinyl records and some meat
smoking stuff. Nay, I want to teal zero Zach Wilson
jersey that I will wear with fist in the air
rooting for him in the final a.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
To his contract and also Zach Wilson's contract. They got
like six million, two of the best contracts for the
players in the history of the ENDM.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (20:11):
Yeah, I've seen them all the way through. I didn't
take my eyes off of it because I was like,
you give me a chance on this, and I better
come down with it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 13 (20:19):
First down Williams on the whole directing traffic, d J.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Second of the day.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
No, DJ made a heck of a play there right
on the back line as well.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
That was one of those highlight moments.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
There two touchdowns on that day for number two. It's
a beautiful time in Chicago right now for football, and
we have one of the best players and most interesting
people in the entire NFL. You know him, you love him,
the wide receiver for Chicago Bears. DJ Moore, what's up, baby, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Hello, I'm going amazing this morning. How are y'all? We're
doing great? Dude?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
How's life right now?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, life is amazing.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
I'm on the other side of this five hundred things,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I know, and there's so much going on. DJ.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
We have seen you over the years catch a lot
of passes and a lot of touchdowns. We never seen
one like that that. We just showed the one from
Caleb on the sideline back of the end zone. It's
a really breathtaking play and it brought the house down
in Soldier Field. When that's going on, do you have
a sort of like no, Caleb, don't or yes do
Like what is going on through your head?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Just take us through everything.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
It's a fascinating play.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I was on the back side, and.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
Once once I got over there, I knew I had
left the corner. I was like he might throw this,
And when he threw it, I was like no, no, no,
no in my head.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But then I'm like.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, because I knew I had the
ball when they jumped in front of me.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I was excited.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I bet, and you were not the only one your head.
Coach Ben Johnson was obviously asked about the completion after
the game and in the press conference. While he was
in awe of it, He's still not surprised.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Let's take a listen to coach real.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Quick, I would say ninety nine percent of quarterbacks. You
tell him, don't don't even waste your time looking back
there and trying to make that throws. There's usually bad
things that happen, and yet he's got the ability to
make that throw. And you know, DJ made a heck
of a play there right on the back line as well.
So yeah, that was that was one of those highlight
moments there.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
So what is it about your connection with Caleb DJ
that makes coach so confident that, like, you know what,
you can look back there in the end zone if
you got DJ in back there.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
I think it just comes down to me in detailed
throughout the weekend, them building trust with with each of
the receivers, and then on that play, just having a
lot of trust to me to just throw it back
across his body like that in the back of the
end zone.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Oh yeah, this team, this Bears team, you guys are
fun and a lot of arms.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Your head coach is fun.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I mean, take me inside that locker room when he's
flexing the shirtless and he's talking about not a lot
of rush, you know, you know he does sometimes I
just hear it.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Sometimes it just falls from the rafters around here.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You hear what I'm talking about I mean, this guy
was an unbelievable offensive coordinator. Yeah, it's translating the head
coach with stuff like that.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
Yeah, he just brings the energy every day he starts
it and then it just trickles down to everybody in
the building and all the way down to us. And
we just got to reciprocate that energy and go out
there and do our thing.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
DJ. Bro, you seem like a real laid back, chill dude.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
And after your performance, coach gave it the game ball
and you said after he after he presented it to you,
that I ain't fall I ain't fall off.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Tell us what's the meaning behind that?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
And it was there a message that you were trying
to send to your teammates or to the rest of
the NFL.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
No, I wasn't really trying to send a message. It
was more for me, like, uh, just the just the
way the year was going and everything. I just needed
that confidence just to keep keep going even though we
went and you still got to have that little competitive
edge in yourself that you want to be better each
and every week.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Dude, You've been on such an incredible journey and I
want to get into the history of you when you
were a senior in high school EMM TEP Institute Charter,
you were twelve and two. The team three years at
Maryland did not have a winning record, five years in
Carolina did not have a winning record. Two years prior
in Chicago did not have a winning record. In other words,
what I'm saying, DJ, this is your first season with
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a winning record since high school. And I don't bring
that up to be negative.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I know you've been through a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
That's a lot of coaches, a lot of teammates, a
lot of hustle, a lot of sacrifice. How good does
it feel to be winning right now?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I mean, it feels amazing.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
I get to see what everybody else get the hype
about plan in December and January, so I'm looking forward
to it. And this year has been fun outside of the
stats and everything, just building a bond with this team
has been fun.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
DJ.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Is that what you meant at the beginning of this
interview when you said it's good to be on this
side of five hundred? Is it that much in your
brain when someone asks you, how are you.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
A little bit? Because it'd be.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Now that I'm on the winning side, people are more
excited that for me that I am and instead of dang,
why are you not getting the ball, it's more like, oh, he's.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
On a team now, So I'm very grateful.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, we're grateful to watch you play. And I know
there's a lot of people in the Bears community that
are grateful for you and the human that you are
because you are a Walter Payton and a ful Man
of the Year nominee this season, which congratulations for that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
What's going on with the More two.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Life Foundation and what it has done for the Chicago community, thank.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
You and Mortal Life Foundation has been all over the
city of Chicago, whether it's giving back, giving out food,
just camps and just being in people's lives. It's just
been amazing this year and we hope to keep going.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
When you're the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award
nominee for the Chicago it's got to mean something differently,
especially when the award is presented by someone close to
Walter Payton, his son Jared. How special was that and
to be a part of this legacy for the Bears.
Speaker 12 (26:14):
It was amazing when I seen him come through the
back door, when they surprised me with my family, I
was real surprising. I really didn't know what was going
on at the beginning. Then I was like, wait, hold on,
this is Walter Payon's son, Jared, and I'm like, am
I getting nominated? And then they revealed that I am,
and I was a little emotional.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
DJ, I gotta ask you a fun question.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
So I don't know if you knew this, but my
last year in the NFL was with the Chicago Bears,
and I know Hollas Hall very very well, and you
do too. Now there are three football fields at Hollis Hall.
There's a practice field that's right outside the building, There's
a Walter Payton Center, which is the indoor facility, and
then there's a field that's all overy by that train tracks. Now, DJ,
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does coach Ben Johnson punish the team after a loss
by going all the way to the train tracks, Because
when Matt Nagy was our coach after a loss, he
would make us in the middle of December practice on the.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Field by the train tracks. How is it for you?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Right now?
Speaker 12 (27:14):
Those fields are snowed over, so we haven't been back here.
We've been on fields one and two. They go and
we use the Walton Peyton Center just for walkthroughs. But
other than that, we outside in the freezing code with
no heaters or nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Like. It will be Saturday night against the Packers. Man,
just DJ, you've been around this before. You know, the
game in Green Bay came up short. You were frustrated,
all you guys where I know you want this badly?
How does the team feel? How do you feel? It's
huge matchup on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Nobody's really talking about the matchup.
Speaker 12 (27:44):
I think everybody understands the assignment at hand, and we
just got to go out there and get get it
up with it.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Let's see number two get his hands on that ball.
I can't wait to watch this game. But DJ, before
you go, we have a weird piece of video they
want to show you, and all you like the stuff.
So a couple of years ago I came to House
Hall and I sit down and Aaron brings you guys over,
and it was you and it was Justin Fields, who
I absolutely love, and we got on the topic, the
three of us, about how Justin had been a pescatarian
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means he just seats fish, and maybe he had now
expanded to other things. And you guys got on a
term A couple of years ago that I did not know,
and you had to teach me. Watch this video because
this is a weird one, but I always look back
on it fondly.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
How's the vegan life?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:27):
I'm off for the vegan life on pescatarian Now.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Will you join the pescatarian army or you're out on that?
I'm good?
Speaker 12 (28:32):
Yeah, you're going to catch with the glizzies hot dog
chicken tenders?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I'm not sure what a glizzy is.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's a hot dog.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
It's the New Nicks when.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All right?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Was I wrong? Should I have known? Or I just
don't know what to make of that?
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Now you shouldn't know. We put the guzsye term on you.
So yeah, that means hot dogs. But I don't eat
hot dogs. I do eat the chicken tenders and stuff
like that, but not the hot dogs.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
All right, So it's interesting because of all DJ then
not hot dogs are gizzies. So glizzies they came up
again because when Coach took his shirt off, he said
he would do that so that all of Chicago could
get free glizzies from the Winner Circle downtown.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So you did not go.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
This was first of all DJ, take us through this.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
What was this like for you?
Speaker 12 (29:24):
I think A reporter asked me, did I think he
was ever going to do it? I said, yeah, but
it has to be like a meaningful game for him.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
To do it.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
And then when we beat the yes, he did it.
And then that wasn't the only thing that happened in
the locker room. We had somebody hole in the ceiling.
And yes, they don't keep that to myself.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, the internet thinks that the puncher's name rhymes with
ohm Radunze.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
I don't know, he doesn't know.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
That's awesome, DJ, incredible to see you genuinely really really happy,
impressed and proud with you about the Walter Payton nomination.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Help you win the thing.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
You will carry that thing with dignity.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Great player, great dude, and have the hell of a
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:28):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Trade interception. Tyron Matthew stepped in.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Tons of people screamed my name, honey Badger.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
What a play by the Badger. Picked him by the badger,
Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Pick him out.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
An outstanding past, broken up by Tyron Matthew.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
People like Tom Brennon, they always thow the fun. Brady
throwing over the bittle. Let it checked off, Tyrone Matthew.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Come full of swagger. That's one of the better things I've.
Speaker 6 (00:56):
Bring to the game.
Speaker 7 (00:59):
Oh we love a highlight reel, especially if it's twelve
electric season's worth, super Bowl Championship and three Pro Bowls.
Our first guest today on GMP announced back in July
that he was officially hanging up the cleave. So we've
miss seeing him on the field, but he's been keeping
busy with family life, charity work, and a brand new
pod that we can't wait to hear more about. Welcome
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back to gmt B. Former NFL safety.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Time about.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Gosh, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (01:30):
The Honey Badger's five months into retirement. How's your life
these days? What do you fill your days with?
Speaker 8 (01:35):
My friends?
Speaker 3 (01:37):
It's father good. I'll keep it real with you guys.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Obviously, it's an adjustment, you know, going from doing something
you know, every day every second, you know, just living
breathing it to to really not having a lot to do.
And so thank God for my kids. They keep me busy.
And you know, obviously this game too, you know, I
think it's it's a beautiful thing that guy's able to
walk away from the game and still be a part
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of it, whether it.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Be coaching TV. So that's that's been fun for me.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
I think it's important for you to keep it real
in that answer, honestly because it helps other guys who
are just entering retirement space and being like, well, if
someone after twelve years says it's hard to make the adjustment,
then that helps them as well. So I think that's important. Secondly, Tyron,
you know, we were all about Philip Rivers last week.
It was crazy to hear the news that he worked out,
that he signs the deal, he gets the start.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What did you make.
Speaker 7 (02:29):
Of Philip Rivers after five years a forty four year
old puts those things back on and plays quarterback the
way he did for the Colts in Seattle last weekend.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
I mean, that's that's inspiring, you know, and it says
a lot about about players, right, just their ability to adapt.
And you know, I look over the course of my
football life, and you know, I've come across so many
great teammates that just so many different, you know, unique
situations and they find a way to kind of rise
to it. And so I was definitely one of those
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guys that was rooting.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
For Philip, you know last week.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Obviously I didn't want anybody to fall on him too hard,
but other than that, you know, it makes me proud man,
because football players they do have that adaptability and they
can they can maneuver through a lot of different circumstances.
Speaker 8 (03:18):
Yeah, they can maneuver.
Speaker 9 (03:19):
You're exactly right, bro, not only on the field, but
off of the field, especially with adversities. And one of
your former teammates, Patrick Mahomes, are all heartbroken to see.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
Him go down the way he did.
Speaker 9 (03:28):
But number one, have you reached out Tom had any
kind of conversation with him? And number two, what is
your thoughts on how the twenty twenty five season ended
up for the Ken City Chiefs.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, well, I think you know, obviously, me and Patrick,
you know, we've always been close, you know, really since
my time in Case. You know, I think, you know,
the season didn't go the way that they wanted to go,
and I think those guys they've been doing so well
that I mean, it's this seems a bit strange, right,
but I actually think it's the time for these guys
to kind of reload and kind of retool, you know.
(04:01):
I felt like these guys have a lot of young
pieces that in my opinion, a lot of these guys
they may be the future, or they may be even
you know, they may lead to those guys getting.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
More assets right down the line.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
And so I'm just looking forward with to seeing, you know,
how this team responds, because this is their first bit
of adversity, you know, outside of losing the Super Bowl, right, so.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I'm excited to see that.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm excited to see who coach Reid and Spags and
just that whole organization rally around him and see what
these guys are able to bring back next season.
Speaker 10 (04:34):
Well, tying the reality of it is, the Chiefs are
not in the playoffs, and we haven't seen this in years.
As everybody on TV is talking about, you're a football expert,
not only as a player, but now as you talk
about it, you're an expert of the game. Let's talk
about the AFC. What are you predicting for the AFC.
Who's the team you're watching? What do you think it's
going to look like?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Oh man, he put me on the spot. I'll tell you.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
I tell you two teams I'm really excited to see
continue to play down the stretch.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think one of them is Denver.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I think that team with Sean Payton and just the
confidence that that that those guys have, and you know,
the confidence that those guys are playing with. I think
both Nicks, you know, his ability to just create nothing
out of something. I think that adds value, you know,
down the stretch. And then obviously they're playing great defense,
right And then another team for me is one of
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my one of.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
My old teams. I took a pitch stop there for
like six months.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Uh, you know, in between Arizona and Kansas City, and uh,
that'll probably be the Texans. I think. I think the
way that they play defense is scary. You know, you know,
just just hitting people like that and their ability to
affect affect the game up front and in the back end.
Speaker 3 (05:43):
I think their coverage and rush. Uh, you know that ability.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
There, I mean that that that adds, that adds tremendous value,
you know, down the stretch. I don't think anybody want
to play, you know, either one of those teams.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
That's a good point that Texans have taken advantage of
the a f C South that was right for the taking. Tyron,
I want to ask you about a project that you've
been working on recently. And before I ask you, the
content on your new show. Uh, your podcast is called
in the Bayou at Tyron Matthew. Uh, I'm from Tyrann.
This is a question just to you. I'm from Minnesota,
but I covered SEC football for four years and I
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learned a lot about SEC culture football. Baton Rouge, little Village,
Little Italy, the Italian restaurant and Baton Rouge like one
of the best, one of my favorites. Isn't it down
the Bayou?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Like?
Speaker 7 (06:29):
Didn't I learn nothing else but that it's called down
the Bayou. Why is it in the Bayou with Tyron Mathew?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Well, because because you know I guess, you know, if
you kind of see where where my house at in particular,
I mean we surrounded, you know by the water and
just like right now.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
Middle of it.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
But you know, it's really it's really just me and
my my good friends from highest to one of my
best friends for you know, fifteen years, and you know,
we're just talking about everything that Deana. You know, we're
talking about sports, we're talking about culture, and we're just
we're actually really trying to shine a positive light, you know,
on Louisiana. And you know, so outside of like the
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food and you know, all the festivals in the Bourbon Street,
there's a lot of great people here. It's a lot
of great cultures tradition here, and we just want to
be one of the one of the few people that's
highlighting that and kind of pushing that forward.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Well, it's great content, and I think it's important those
great shows are really well done when it is two
friends just sitting there talking about some of their favorite things.
But on your show in the Bayou, Tyer Matthew, you're
trying to you're trying to stand up for Tyler Shuck.
Can you make your case here on GMFB as to
why you people need to have the back of the
rookie quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
I mean, I just I just think it's so critical.
You know, I think a lot of guys they show
up right, and they want to be a part of
the community. I think these guys want to be embraced
by the community. And you know, I guess it's it's
up to us as fans right to accept these guys
into root form and support them. And I think Tyler
is you know, I think he's in a good situation. Obviously,
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he's part of a great organization. And you know, I
think his ability to to make plays and we was
talking about that with both Nicks, right, just kind of
making that out of something, and you know, he has that, right,
and he's been he's been kind of turning up each
and every week. You know, you can kind of see
the Saints putting more and more on his plate as
the season goes on, and so I'm excited to really see,
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you know, how he finished this season out, but mostly
how they begin to kind of build around him going forward.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I really do think, you know, I don't put them
on level with Drew Brees.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
But I do think they could provide some type of spark,
you know for New Orleans.
Speaker 9 (08:36):
All Right, Bro, you said takes something and put it,
take nothing to make something out of it. That kind
of embodies your entire career. I remember just watching at
LSU and you and I share being finalists for the
Heisman Trophy Award.
Speaker 8 (08:49):
This year.
Speaker 9 (08:50):
There was an individualt of Texas Tech, a linebacker that
I thought was worthy of at least being a finalist,
but he wasn't. He had seven force for almost and
four interceptions. He took the ball away for you. I
got to ask you on this show, Bro, what is
it going to take in your mind, in your opinion,
a defender winning the Heisman.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Trophy a work?
Speaker 8 (09:08):
Because a lot of people said that I should have wanted.
Speaker 9 (09:10):
But I always tell people, and I never said this
all on live television. I said, well, if you think
I should have wanted Tyrant should have want it because.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
That boy was just cold at all aspects of the
game of football.
Speaker 9 (09:21):
But in your mind, what is it going to take, Bro,
for a defender to win that award?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Man, I guess you're obviously you know, a down offensive year,
you know, because this, I mean, it's such an offensive sport, right,
Like people want to see offensive guys. Uh you know, uh,
they want to see these guys score touchdowns. And you know,
but from a defensive perspective, you know, if you go back,
like guys like Charles Woodson, right, those guys were actually
kind of you know, making plays on offense as well.
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So I think you know, who's ever in that position.
I think the head coach of that team needs to
kind of take into consideration, like, hey, this dude is
having a hot hand on defense, maybe we need to
put him in some goal line packages and and get
him maybe you know, four or five easy touchdow I
was on the one yard line, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
So, but it is it's tough, man, It's tough.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
I feel like the finders they just have to you know,
you almost have to play you know perfect, you know,
to even be to even be mentioned in the Heisman.
But yeah, man, I think I think it comes down
to coaches and and uh, you know, just kind of
putting these guys on the office.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
And you know, still are some points.
Speaker 10 (10:26):
We love a good necessary humble brag. This is for you,
Mantai and Tyr, and you're like, you have to play
perfect to even be considered.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
I mean, it's my worst quality. I'm perfectionate.
Speaker 10 (10:37):
Real quick, tell us about everything you're doing in the community.
You just participated in an event, uh with Payaway. Just
tell us a little bit about that.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
So, I mean every year we uh you know, we
uh we go in the community for Christmas and we
have a Christmas dinner and obviously, you know, we partner
with Son of a Saint who provided the kids and
the families for us.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
And then obviously Pale Way, we partner with these guys.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Actually our first year of partnering with them, but they
actually helped us get the gifts, and so it was
a big wish list of gifts, and obviously you gave them,
you know, some money for the holidays, uh, you know,
food and all that type of stuff. And you really
just want to set the table for these families, man,
because when I think about holiday season, I always think
about my grandmother and always think about family. I think
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about good music, I think about you know, just good times,
and you want this for these people and so hopefully
we were able to kind of set that stage for
them to really have a blessed holiday season.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Because that's what it's really all about, Tyrone.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
It's so amazing listening to you. Well, let's just talk
about your upbringing and where you grew up in Louisiana whatnot.
That that piece of artwork over your shoulder is stunning.
Just who is that and is it? I have to
assume as by like a local artist or something, and
so it's so eye catching.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, well so actually this is my daughter.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
A guy actually I don't I don't even know this kid, right,
like he just this is like this something special. But
he like made this for me. I want to say
maybe two years ago. It was probably my second season
in the UH in New Orleans and yeah, he just
like he's like had this picture for me, and I
was like, you know that that's pretty that's pretty neat.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
So yeah, I mean I found it. I found it.
I found a good stop for UH.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
But yeah, that's my kids right there were missing one
actually she wasn't born yet.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
She's five months old. Congratulations.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So so yeah, we gotta add when we got a
photoshop for.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
That's what the holidays are for the updated family photo
Tyron Matthew in the Bayou with Tyron Matthew. Everything that
you're doing for your native state, we love that. For Louisiana.
We always love when you come on GMF man. You
really bring a lot.
Speaker 8 (12:45):
To our table.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
God Holidays. Happy Holidays, Tyron, Happy holidays.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Good mon football.
Speaker 7 (13:08):
Up until last weekend, there was a flicker of hope
for the Miami Dolphin season. They played well ever since
they went to Madrid, but they lost to the Steelers
on Monday night and that eliminated Miami officially from the
playoff picture. The offense looked reverted back to how they
were at the start of the season. Head coach Mike
McDaniel now who's asked to consider making a change at
the quarterback position for the rest of the season, and
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here's what he had to say.
Speaker 11 (13:33):
The quarterback play last night was not good enough. And
so for me, everything's on the table. There's still a
lot left in the day. Like I said before, fourteen
hours removed from the game. So you know, I don't
trivialize any decision I make, particularly you know, one where
someone touches the ball every play. So there's multiple things
(13:57):
that have to be thought through, but ultimately we need
to have better play at that position.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
Yea reality because Tuatungue of Iiloa leads the NFL right
now in interceptions this season with fifteen. He's backed up
on the depth chart for the Dolphins by Zach Wilson
and Rookie Quinn. Yours, Mike Garafalo, Can you extrapolate at
all in this situation going on in Miami?
Speaker 5 (14:18):
How much extrapolating do you need? Because I think the
quote said a lot right there. I mean, this is
on the table. Everything's on the table. That's not a
great sign. Now it's a complicated issue here for.
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The Dolphins for multiple reasons.
Speaker 5 (14:31):
Let's start with the elephant in the room, the fifty
four million dollars that two a tongue of Iiloa has
fully guaranteed next year. So to be able or to
potentially make a change, right now, what are you saying
about next year? And I know that there's been some talk, well,
if they do this, maybe they're taking him off the
field so that he doesn't get hurt and potentially trigger
more and maybe affect his trade trade value.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
Right Like, if you're potentially benching a.
Speaker 5 (14:55):
Guy and you've got that fifty four million on top
of it that a team would have to take on
the market for what is the market for that, like,
I mean, you could potentially eat some of that.
Speaker 4 (15:03):
I mean, we're that's the next step.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
But the question is who's making that decision, because we're
looking at the potential for at coaching change here.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
Now.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Mike McDaniel has gotten this team to respond.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
And a lot of people think that there won't be
a change in the head coaching position.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
We've got an interim GM right now in.
Speaker 5 (15:19):
Miami in Champ Kelly, and there's going to be a
full search there for the general manager potentially that situation
as well.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Now, the other part of this, and you mentioned.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
That the depth chart, Jamie, You've got Zach Wilson there,
but you've also got Quinn Yours. You're a rookie seventh
rounder who during the preseason in training camp, we saw
some spurts from him, and there's some potential for a
guy that a lot of people considered it at one
point much higher than a seventh round pick. So is
this a chance for you to get him in there
and see him and see what you've got in him
(15:50):
as a potential quarterback of the future.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
There's a lot going on here.
Speaker 5 (15:53):
McDaniel intimated that we will find out more today when
the team returns to practice. They're on a little bit
of a later schedule today because of the Monday night
game and traveling back. But I think today could be
a pivotal day for the Miami Dolphins in a lot
of ways, because when you say everything's on the table
with Tua Tuga by low, we did not play well
the other day, Mantai and opens the door for a
lot of things.
Speaker 9 (16:14):
Buddy, Yeah, And you can't fault the Dolphins for trying
to do what's best for their franchise and listen to it.
Understands that from a business standpoint, he said after the
game that he felt he left he let his teammates down.
The NFL is all about what have you done for
me lately? And I think Tool would be the first
to admit that what he's done for the Miami Dolphins
(16:35):
lately hasn't been good enough.
Speaker 8 (16:36):
And listen, this is going.
Speaker 9 (16:38):
To be the first time that a franchise benched a
franchise quarterback in an attempt to put their team in
the best position to win. And I think the equation
and the question that they have to ask themselves is
does number one give you a better opportunity today? And
at the end of the twenty twenty five season to
win football games or does somebody else on.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
The depth chart do so.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
If they feel like somebody else does, they will play them.
And I don't think that tool or my self for
anybody who is a fan of the game of football
or the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 8 (17:07):
Will fault him for that. It's part of the process
as part of the business.
Speaker 9 (17:11):
At the end of the day, it is a game
that is run by a business, and if you don't
produce at the level that we feel you're supposed that
your team feels they're supposed to, there are going to
be changes that have been made. And it's going to
happen for everybody in the NFL, regardless if you're a
franchise quarterback or somebody that's on a parctice squad. You've
got to be able to put forth some some value.
Speaker 6 (17:30):
Yeah, Listen, there's a two A hive out there, and
I respect it, and I think even the two of
hive is pretty quiet right now because there are people
who can get into the numbers and analytics that can
point out to his assets.
Speaker 8 (17:41):
You can get into the tape.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
There's all sorts of ways to justify him and to
glorify him. The problem is that it just doesn't have
it from the hip, unsophisticated analysis. He doesn't seem like
a few years now, like the guy who's like, that's
my guy, who's gonna win playoff games.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
That's my guy.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
And that is the most important test.
Speaker 6 (17:58):
Whether you're a coach, whether it's a fan of the couch,
you can see the guys are gonna win playoff games.
Drake May is gonna win some playoff games. We know
that already. It's been very rare at a time into
his career, and there have been times, fleeting times when
you're like, oh, hell yeah, well I think we can
win playoff games with Tua in January.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
The contract situation is an absolute mess. And this is
yet another byproduct of the absence of a middle class
and quarterbacks, where if you're a certain age and you
play at a certain level, you have to get a massive,
massive amount of money, even if you're not worth that
amount of money, like Tua is not, it's still sitting there. Lastly,
all I want for Christmas is a Zach Wilson comeback
story in a year when we got Daniel Jones, Sam
(18:38):
Darnold again, Mac Jones, I want that guy. Why can't
he have his turn? This guy who is eviscerated worry
number zero?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Oh my god?
Speaker 6 (18:48):
Is he number zero on the Dolphins?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Mike?
Speaker 6 (18:52):
The picture seems to say that he is the number
that he's wearing. I don't even know this. This would
be amazing, and I hope it's something about like the
number of people who believed in on Macter the Jets
got rid of him, or a special thing like that. Zach,
you little dimple faced, a wrong armed demon. I want
you out there, baby, you deserve it. If all those
other guys can have their second shot, give me Zach
Wilson playing out a string in the last couple of
(19:14):
games for a bad Dolphins team and just.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
Lighting it the hell up.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
What numbers he might?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Zero?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Zero?
Speaker 6 (19:20):
And that's exactly the number of options you have outside
of Zach Wilson.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
If you ask me number zero.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
Z dub, how to BYU light it up? I want
the jersey already, put it under the tree, I asked
my wife. I want some vinyl records and some meat
smoking stuff. Nay, I want to teal zero Zach Wilson
jersey that I will wear with fist in the air
rooting for him in the final a.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
To his contract and also Zach Wilson's contract. They got
like six million, two of the best contracts for the
players in the history of the ENDM.
Speaker 8 (20:08):
Good morning.
Speaker 12 (20:11):
Yeah, I've seen them all the way through. I didn't
take my eyes off of it because I was like,
you give me a chance on this, and I better
come down with it.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
And that's what happened.
Speaker 13 (20:19):
First down Williams on the whole directing traffic, d J.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Second of the day.
Speaker 13 (20:31):
No, DJ made a heck of a play there right
on the back line as well.
Speaker 8 (20:34):
That was one of those highlight moments.
Speaker 6 (20:35):
There two touchdowns on that day for number two. It's
a beautiful time in Chicago right now for football, and
we have one of the best players and most interesting
people in the entire NFL. You know him, you love him,
the wide receiver for Chicago Bears. DJ Moore, what's up, baby, Welcome.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Hello, I'm going amazing this morning. How are y'all? We're
doing great? Dude?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
How's life right now?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
Well, life is amazing.
Speaker 12 (21:06):
I'm on the other side of this five hundred things,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (21:12):
I know, and there's so much going on. DJ.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
We have seen you over the years catch a lot
of passes and a lot of touchdowns. We never seen
one like that that. We just showed the one from
Caleb on the sideline back of the end zone. It's
a really breathtaking play and it brought the house down
in Soldier Field. When that's going on, do you have
a sort of like no, Caleb, don't or yes do
Like what is going on through your head?
Speaker 4 (21:32):
Just take us through everything.
Speaker 8 (21:33):
It's a fascinating play.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
I was on the back side, and.
Speaker 12 (21:39):
Once once I got over there, I knew I had
left the corner. I was like he might throw this,
And when he threw it, I was like no, no, no,
no in my head.
Speaker 3 (21:45):
But then I'm like.
Speaker 12 (21:46):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, because I knew I had the
ball when they jumped in front of me.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
I was excited.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
I bet, and you were not the only one your head.
Coach Ben Johnson was obviously asked about the completion after
the game and in the press conference. While he was
in awe of it, He's still not surprised.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Let's take a listen to coach real.
Speaker 13 (22:05):
Quick, I would say ninety nine percent of quarterbacks. You
tell him, don't don't even waste your time looking back
there and trying to make that throws. There's usually bad
things that happen, and yet he's got the ability to
make that throw. And you know, DJ made a heck
of a play there right on the back line as well.
So yeah, that was that was one of those highlight
moments there.
Speaker 7 (22:27):
So what is it about your connection with Caleb DJ
that makes coach so confident that, like, you know what,
you can look back there in the end zone if
you got DJ in back there.
Speaker 12 (22:39):
I think it just comes down to me in detailed
throughout the weekend, them building trust with with each of
the receivers, and then on that play, just having a
lot of trust to me to just throw it back
across his body like that in the back of the
end zone.
Speaker 5 (22:52):
Oh yeah, this team, this Bears team, you guys are
fun and a lot of arms.
Speaker 4 (22:56):
Your head coach is fun.
Speaker 5 (22:57):
I mean, take me inside that locker room when he's
flexing the shirtless and he's talking about not a lot
of rush, you know, you know he does sometimes I
just hear it.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Sometimes it just falls from the rafters around here.
Speaker 5 (23:12):
You hear what I'm talking about I mean, this guy
was an unbelievable offensive coordinator. Yeah, it's translating the head
coach with stuff like that.
Speaker 12 (23:20):
Yeah, he just brings the energy every day he starts
it and then it just trickles down to everybody in
the building and all the way down to us. And
we just got to reciprocate that energy and go out
there and do our thing.
Speaker 8 (23:32):
DJ. Bro, you seem like a real laid back, chill dude.
Speaker 9 (23:36):
And after your performance, coach gave it the game ball
and you said after he after he presented it to you,
that I ain't fall I ain't fall off.
Speaker 8 (23:44):
Tell us what's the meaning behind that?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
And it was there a message that you were trying
to send to your teammates or to the rest of
the NFL.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
No, I wasn't really trying to send a message. It
was more for me, like, uh, just the just the
way the year was going and everything. I just needed
that confidence just to keep keep going even though we
went and you still got to have that little competitive
edge in yourself that you want to be better each
and every week.
Speaker 6 (24:08):
Dude, You've been on such an incredible journey and I
want to get into the history of you when you
were a senior in high school EMM TEP Institute Charter,
you were twelve and two. The team three years at
Maryland did not have a winning record, five years in
Carolina did not have a winning record. Two years prior
in Chicago did not have a winning record. In other words,
what I'm saying, DJ, this is your first season with
(24:30):
a winning record since high school. And I don't bring
that up to be negative.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I know you've been through a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:35):
That's a lot of coaches, a lot of teammates, a
lot of hustle, a lot of sacrifice. How good does
it feel to be winning right now?
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I mean, it feels amazing.
Speaker 12 (24:43):
I get to see what everybody else get the hype
about plan in December and January, so I'm looking forward
to it. And this year has been fun outside of the
stats and everything, just building a bond with this team
has been fun.
Speaker 8 (24:58):
DJ.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Is that what you meant at the beginning of this
interview when you said it's good to be on this
side of five hundred? Is it that much in your
brain when someone asks you, how are you.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
A little bit? Because it'd be.
Speaker 12 (25:12):
Now that I'm on the winning side, people are more
excited that for me that I am and instead of dang,
why are you not getting the ball, it's more like, oh, he's.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
On a team now, So I'm very grateful.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
Well, we're grateful to watch you play. And I know
there's a lot of people in the Bears community that
are grateful for you and the human that you are
because you are a Walter Payton and a ful Man
of the Year nominee this season, which congratulations for that.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
What's going on with the More two.
Speaker 7 (25:38):
Life Foundation and what it has done for the Chicago community, thank.
Speaker 12 (25:44):
You and Mortal Life Foundation has been all over the
city of Chicago, whether it's giving back, giving out food,
just camps and just being in people's lives. It's just
been amazing this year and we hope to keep going.
Speaker 5 (25:59):
When you're the Walter Peyton Man of the Year Award
nominee for the Chicago it's got to mean something differently,
especially when the award is presented by someone close to
Walter Payton, his son Jared. How special was that and
to be a part of this legacy for the Bears.
Speaker 12 (26:14):
It was amazing when I seen him come through the
back door, when they surprised me with my family, I
was real surprising. I really didn't know what was going
on at the beginning. Then I was like, wait, hold on,
this is Walter Payon's son, Jared, and I'm like, am
I getting nominated? And then they revealed that I am,
and I was a little emotional.
Speaker 8 (26:36):
DJ, I gotta ask you a fun question.
Speaker 9 (26:37):
So I don't know if you knew this, but my
last year in the NFL was with the Chicago Bears,
and I know Hollas Hall very very well, and you
do too. Now there are three football fields at Hollis Hall.
There's a practice field that's right outside the building, There's
a Walter Payton Center, which is the indoor facility, and
then there's a field that's all overy by that train tracks. Now, DJ,
(26:57):
does coach Ben Johnson punish the team after a loss
by going all the way to the train tracks, Because
when Matt Nagy was our coach after a loss, he
would make us in the middle of December practice on the.
Speaker 8 (27:09):
Field by the train tracks. How is it for you?
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Right now?
Speaker 12 (27:14):
Those fields are snowed over, so we haven't been back here.
We've been on fields one and two. They go and
we use the Walton Peyton Center just for walkthroughs. But
other than that, we outside in the freezing code with
no heaters or nothing.
Speaker 6 (27:29):
Like. It will be Saturday night against the Packers. Man,
just DJ, you've been around this before. You know, the
game in Green Bay came up short. You were frustrated,
all you guys where I know you want this badly?
How does the team feel? How do you feel? It's
huge matchup on Saturday night?
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Nobody's really talking about the matchup.
Speaker 12 (27:44):
I think everybody understands the assignment at hand, and we
just got to go out there and get get it
up with it.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
Let's see number two get his hands on that ball.
I can't wait to watch this game. But DJ, before
you go, we have a weird piece of video they
want to show you, and all you like the stuff.
So a couple of years ago I came to House
Hall and I sit down and Aaron brings you guys over,
and it was you and it was Justin Fields, who
I absolutely love, and we got on the topic, the
three of us, about how Justin had been a pescatarian
(28:12):
means he just seats fish, and maybe he had now
expanded to other things. And you guys got on a
term A couple of years ago that I did not know,
and you had to teach me. Watch this video because
this is a weird one, but I always look back
on it fondly.
Speaker 4 (28:25):
How's the vegan life?
Speaker 3 (28:27):
You know?
Speaker 8 (28:27):
I'm off for the vegan life on pescatarian Now.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
Will you join the pescatarian army or you're out on that?
I'm good?
Speaker 12 (28:32):
Yeah, you're going to catch with the glizzies hot dog
chicken tenders?
Speaker 3 (28:35):
Is that true?
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I'm not sure what a glizzy is.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
It's a hot dog.
Speaker 8 (28:41):
It's the New Nicks when.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
All right?
Speaker 6 (28:47):
Was I wrong? Should I have known? Or I just
don't know what to make of that?
Speaker 12 (28:51):
Now you shouldn't know. We put the guzsye term on you.
So yeah, that means hot dogs. But I don't eat
hot dogs. I do eat the chicken tenders and stuff
like that, but not the hot dogs.
Speaker 6 (29:02):
All right, So it's interesting because of all DJ then
not hot dogs are gizzies. So glizzies they came up
again because when Coach took his shirt off, he said
he would do that so that all of Chicago could
get free glizzies from the Winner Circle downtown.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
So you did not go.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
This was first of all DJ, take us through this.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
What was this like for you?
Speaker 12 (29:24):
I think A reporter asked me, did I think he
was ever going to do it? I said, yeah, but
it has to be like a meaningful game for him.
Speaker 3 (29:29):
To do it.
Speaker 12 (29:30):
And then when we beat the yes, he did it.
And then that wasn't the only thing that happened in
the locker room. We had somebody hole in the ceiling.
And yes, they don't keep that to myself.
Speaker 6 (29:46):
Well, the internet thinks that the puncher's name rhymes with
ohm Radunze.
Speaker 8 (29:52):
I don't know, he doesn't know.
Speaker 6 (29:56):
That's awesome, DJ, incredible to see you genuinely really really happy,
impressed and proud with you about the Walter Payton nomination.
Speaker 3 (30:03):
Help you win the thing.
Speaker 4 (30:04):
You will carry that thing with dignity.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Great player, great dude, and have the hell of a
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