The Saturday Edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the possibility of Russell Wilson reviving his career with the Giants. Actor Owen Wilson leads Whiteboard questions with the most surprising team this season. Plus, CBS reporter Tracy Wolfson looks back at the moments she covered last season and what's to come in 2025!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was anything but terrible to start the season last
year in Pittsburgh Russell Wilson. It was all working with
the Steelers, but things spiraled as Pittsburgh lost their final
five games of the season and the teams went their
separate way from Russ at quarterback. The Giants then sighed
Russell Wilson to a deal in March, and he has
now explained on the WAVE original seven PM in Brooklyn
with Carmelo Anthony podcast what drew him to New York
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in Big.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Blue, Turn on the film and Washington's guy in Malik
neighbors Man, This dude is a superstar.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I saw him watching the film and just before I
try to make decisions, try to get a clear understanding
of who the players are this and then obviously you
see the highlights and everything else. But when you watch
every single catch and every single app in every play,
you get to see the kind of player he is. Man,
He's dynamic, he touches that football.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He gone, he gone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It seems like a good place to start with buying
or keep trying. You got Malik Neighbors and Russell Wilson.
Do you think Isaiah will start with you buying or
keep trying? Blik Neighbors will usher in a Russell Wilson
career renaissance this season?
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Buying or keep trying renaissances?
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Renaissance it's such a strong word. You know what I
am going to say. Yeah, I'm gonna say keep trying.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
I'm a Russell Wilson believer. I've always been a big
fan of Russell Wilson. I think he still has a
lot left in the tank, but it's gonna you know,
he needs more than just one receiver, right, And I
understand that that's a young gun that they're going to
be continuing to put it in the limelight. He's the
he's the future of the franchise, and that's awesome, But
Russell Wilson needs more help, right. Russell Wilson needs tight ends,
he needs multiple receivers. He needs a running game. I
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still consider him one of the better play action quarterbacks
in the game, So you know, if he doesn't have
a rus solid running game, he truly can't be who
he's who he's really made out to be. So I'm
gonna go ahead and keep trying on this one. He
just needs more than that one guy, John Renaissance, Jay
Rob what do you think?
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Yeah, I'm picking up what I'm picking up what Isaiah's
putting down. I'm keep trying as well. Like I think
Renaissance is really strong. I mean, we're not talking about
Benjamin Button here. He's he's going the wrong way, right,
And he's had an outstanding career, right, I mean, he's
he's been a pro bowler ten times, he's been a
Super Bowl champion. Is Walter Payton Man of the Year.
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But it's gonna take more than just mylik neighbors to
really get that. I mean, it takes nine other guys.
And the Leak's an outstanding player. But Russ has had
a great career. You know, there's a reason they drafted Jackson,
you know, Dart in the first round. This is kind
of a bridge situation to try to get Jackson going.
But but I'm gonna I'm going to keep trying here,
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like Isaiah on on the you know, the renaissance of
Russ's career here in New York.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, we we get seduced by this in the media
because of what you're talking about the breath of his
career and the stature and all the things that he's
done and all the things that we watched him do
ten years ago. Listen, likely at this time next year,
we're going to be talking about us Wilson a different team.
That's just how it works now. You would think it
was crazy. Last year was on the Steelers. Before that,
he was on the Broncos. I mean, this is three
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years in a row a team has said we're ready
to move on from Russell Wilson. So I don't think
we're going to be talking about a superstar season here
for the New York Giants. I would be shocked if
he was starting for the Giant still at the end
of the season. I would be stunned if he was
starting by the middle of the season. There's too many
other things going on here, not only the massive Jackson
Dart factor where they're going to want to get to
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him when it's time. I still think Jamis is not
an irrelevant factor. I really do think that Jamis's talent level,
experience level, and the factor that everybody loves Jamis in
the locker room and if you start out two and
three and there's some injuries, like there'll be movement for Jamis.
He has that type of cultural personality. So I would
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love to be positive here. We're in New York and
as I said yesterday to John, we've been here as
a show, and I've been here as a show for
nine years, and the Giants are almost always average or bad.
I would really like this thing to work out and
to catch lightning in a bottle. And oh my god,
what do you do with Jackson Dart now? Because Russell
looks like our franchise quarterback. It's a great career he's had.
I imagine it will continue next year on another team
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if he wants to keep playing.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I mean, Kyle, I can't believe that you can go
with the first quarterback name, the sun quarterback name, and
not say Jackson Darr You're going to fall off your
chair if we're looking at the rookie quarterback to come
in for the Giants at some point, because that with
Cam Skataboo and everything that there's going to be a
huge title change for the Giants.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What's not changing in Cincinnati a quarterback is the fact
that Joe Burrow is leading the team. Last year he
led the league in passing and touchdowns, but sadly, it
was not enough for the Bengals to make the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
Burrow said that if he had played.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Better last season, can you imagine the Bengals would have
made the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Guys, are you buying this or you keep trying Isaiah?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I am driving by this right. I'm definitely not buying this.
I'm gonna keep trying this.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Was forty three and nine, forty three touchdowns, nine interceptions.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There's not much.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
More that you can do at the quarterback position in
this league to be at the top of the league
best and passing best and touchdowns all this stuff. The
defense is what killed the Cincinnati Bengals. His past year,
twenty fifth in defense, give it up twenty five points
a game. That's what killed your playoff hopes. It wasn't Jujoe,
and I understand that you're the man, you're the QB,
say all the right things. Okay, cool speaking on behalf
of the team, But it was your defense. And that's
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that's reality right now. That's what your organization has to face.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Yeah, and just to kind of piggyback on some of that,
I keep trying on this as well. You know, Isaiah
mentioned the stats forty three and nine touchdown interception ratio.
He had the third best quarterback rating in the league.
He was sacked the fifth most times at you know,
forty eight. I mean, he can't throw it on his back,
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and they had the thirtieth ranked rushing attack. So there
was a lot of factors that you know, attributed to
Cincinnati not making it, but it certainly wasn't Joe Burrow.
You know, Isaiah touched on the defense. We talked about
Trey Hendrickson yesterday and trying to get him back. They've
got a new coordinator now, Golden on defense, so there's
a lot of things that they're trying to churn here.
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I'm excited that they've got Tea and Chase back there,
but you know, Joe Burrow just needs to keep playing
at the level he keeps you know, he keeps playing
at and the rest of the team needs to get
up to Joe's level in order for them to make
a push there in January.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I respect for you guys, just Sam, I'll screw it,
I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He's got to play better. Hey, they lost to the Commanders.
He had ninet incompletions in that game. Out of thirty
eight passes, you got to clean that up. Joe, You're
only at seventy six percent completion. Do you understand, like
this is they won the last five As we mentioned,
I feel like if the Bengals had snuck in, they
could have won the AFC like they he was so
good and they finally figured it out. They could have
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been there against the Eagles in the Super Bowl. It's
just for posterity. We have to remember that in twenty
twenty four, the Bengals, of course played the Ravens. In
those two games against the Ravens, Joe Burrow threw for
nine touchdowns in about nine hundred yards and they lost
both times. It's insane the way that team was wired.
The passing leader, the receiving leader, the sack leader, and
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they couldn't even sniff a wild card.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
You respect Joe Burrow here.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If he threw for eight thousand yards, he still would
have said this. No one believes you, Joe, but we
do believe you're being a leader. So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, let's spend it forward, Kyle, in the spirit of
the question that you asked Isaiah. Last segment, are you
flirting with putting the Bengals at the top of the
AFC and Northex season because judging by some things you
said yesterday about the Bengals and Joe Burrow and the
fact that they were down last.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Year, what does your heart tell you about the Bengals
right now?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, if we step back into the DFC North, you know,
one of my guidelines, I always pick the Steelers to
make the playoffs. They will make the playoffs next year,
like they did last year and the year before, But
that them is a wild card.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, they're the strangest team of all time. I'm
just going to set them aside. Baltimore will be in
the playoffs. We're not missing the playoffs. So, Jamie, it's
a great question because we're always so tempting when we
see those logos and say, oh, three will make it. Yeah, Well, listen,
I'm not even gonna be flipping about this. Their best
defensive player is stopping us foot on the ground and
saying like I'm holding out games. That is a massive
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fissure in their team in their locker room. If they
don't have Trey Hendrickson, who the heck do they have
who's going to sack anybody. It really is contingent upon
that Baltimore's in, Pittsburgh's in Cleveland, No, and Cincinnati TVD.
I don't have a take right now until we figure
out Henderson, not.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Only Trey Henderson, but their first round draft pick on
defense is also a whole dingy. Also just uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, that was a little weird too, Roylands awkward too.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
As was the interview on the draft stage. If we're
going to just keep startfling back to that, yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Why are you mad? I'm just trying to figure it out,
all right? That was buying or keep trying?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Good football, Good football.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Peter Dagger and On Wilson are teeing up the questions
for Whiteboard Wednesday today. Usually it's my job. Instead today
I get to play. I'm so happy to have my
job taken from me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
This is so exciting. First question, Peter, take it away.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Every season fans say that this is going to be
the Cowboys. Here another team whose storyline is about to
surprise everyone is man, I don't know, do you have
a sleeper team.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
I'd love to see.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
I mean, it's not going to surprise people, but I
love I'm a Cowboys fan, but I love the Detroit Lions,
and you know they're coach and you just get kind
of he used to play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
I will say, I'm excited to see Caleb Williams year two.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I think it could be good with the Bear Yeah.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
I think they can win some games.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I like the Dolphins too.
Speaker 13 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Man, I mean, should we even answer our question?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Look at those guys, I know, Kyle, this is thrilling
for us.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
All right, there is the question at hand.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It's which team this season is going to deliver a
surprise performance, headline worthy performances.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Isaiah, E're up first?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
All right, look ahead and keep this thing off. I'm
gonna go with the Las Vegas Raiders. Yes, the new
regime out there, obviously, the stadiums there. You bring in
Pete Carroll, you true ahead and trade for Gino Smith.
You have asking Gentt, right, you have all the things.
I think these guys are going to make a wreckus
over there in the AFC. They have a tough division.
They have a very tough division. But I think that
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they are going to get to it at least being
even on the season on the sea.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
All right, John first, Whiteport answer, let's yeah, here we go.
No fresh So I wanted to go. I wanted to
go with my guys down in Tampa, Jason light who
shout out to Jason who helped me at Nickels State
and offered me a scouting opportunity. But I feel like
the Bucks really aren't under the radar. They won the
division the last few years. Uh, They've got a great roster.
I'm going to go out west with another co work
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we got of mind and go with Elly Arizona Cardinals
Manti Austin for Jonathan Gannon, retooled that defense and the
offense over the off season and they won eight games
last year. Don't be surprised if they turned some heads
this fall.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Damn right. I love Cardinals, Jamie knows. I'm always screaming
for the Cardinals. They won eight last year after four
the year before. I feel like they're one of these
teams that're just about to break through in the West.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
And I love that. But Jamie, who do you got?
Surprised him?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'm looking at my what I drew and I'm holding
one eye closed, and I'm like, is it doesn't work?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Doesn't track it?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It looks like I say, his shirt pat the Patriot.
And there's a reason I'm a flirt with the Patriots
for making being the surprise team this season. And Kyle
made fun of me for it yesterday, but I have
an entire reason why.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
And here's the clip. It's just happened in late April.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
I'm all fighting, uh to protect them with everything like that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
That's well, Gambell, he's gonna fight and die to protect
his quarterback with everything he's got, and he's gonna do
it while we're in pat the Patriot logo, right, Kyle,
My team's the Patriots. And that was absolutely an interpretive
interpretation of the logo.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, you don't have to die, man, It's just take
it easy. You might be injured, you might be very tired.
Let's keep you on this side of the grass. You know,
it's so fun to have these guys and Owen Wilson
and Peter Dager on here. And by the way, just
quick observation, Peter Dager better takes than Peter Schrager. I'm
already way more of a fan than him. And Peter
Nager is not over on some other network now screaming
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off the Nicks and Cowboys and Lebron, so I like
him better. I also feel like I'm so protective of
this show. In this segment, I'm like, oh, and Wilson,
great to have you on.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Could you just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Pick one team, don't shout out five teams, don't break
the segment, but it is awesome to have you here.
This is simple and speaking of the Jay Robs here,
I'm going to put this team up. I think you've
heard of them, Titans, and I wrote at the bottom
they exist, they do exist. I know that they've gone
into this void. I'm not sure who that player is
in the red jersey. We're not allowed to speak about
him because we're part of the national media. We should
probably take this video off before we get fined and
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kicked off the air. But that is the number one
overall pick in the draft. They are in a crap division,
and I know we're not supposed to talk about that division,
that team, or that player, but I think we will
be this year. I like Cam Moore. I like the Titans.
I remember the Titans.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Jay rob quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Did it ever get annoying when you're at the Titans
organization that the national spotlight just refuses to.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Ever beyond no matter what.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
You guys were the number one seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Everyone's like, eh, right, yeah, I mean that's just come on,
I don't know, it's what we just learned to deal
with it down there.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You shouldn't fight the power, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Next question, ok, very.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Let's do.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's not my job today, Kyle, it's Owen Wilson's job.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
He's got the second question, Whiteboard Wednesday. Take it away.
Speaker 13 (13:33):
I play a former pro golfer whose nickname is Stick.
The athlete with the best all time nickname is I
can say one for golf that I like. Ernie El's
the big easy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 13 (13:48):
But gosh, yeah, I'm interested to see how they answer
this because there's some great nicknames in sports.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, first, well, stick is a great golf nickname, so
like already Apple TV plus crushing it and I like
the singular suggestion. Owen Wilson, you are not the first
person that Colin Brand has given feedback for during Whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Go ahead, Isaiah.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
All right, you guys know I'm from Seattle. I wapped
my talent all the time right hardly there, but always repping.
But there was a dude who played basketball there. He
was just one heck of a defender and he had
the sticky hands right, his sticky hands. He was known
for his defense. The glove Gary Payton. Gary Payton had
the best nickname.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He thinked about. His shoes were fit like a glove.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
That he had icons and video games.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Right, if you had had the mint on your on
your icon, you knew that you had a really good defender.
Gary Payton had the best nickname in the history at
Everdom Everdom.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Good. Yeah, the glove is the glove is a great one.
I'll admit in back in nineteen eighty five, I had
the T shirt. I was rocking the tough skins with
the Chuck Taylor converse walking around school. William Fridge Parry,
great answer, nice Jim McMahon. You thought he was going
to hand it to Walter Payton. Nope, sticks it in
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the belly of the big fellow and he rumbles in
for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Outrageous neck roll too on the fridge right, incredible stop
that his own Gi Joe figure.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I mean, it was a cultural icon.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
There were the fridge ats, his own cheerleader and as
a rookie in eighty five.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
I'm sure he probably had his own barbecue line at
some definitely standard definitely.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Look at that and he was like the fridge was
like three hundred pounds, and everyone felt like he was
eight hundred. You could not believe there's a three hundred
pounds defensive tackle in the league.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Absolute legend. Igt you should.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Have a sponsorship with Seers at some point, all right,
so everybody knows. I grew up in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My dad is a doctor, and when I was a kid,
I had the great benefit of being brought to Timberwolves
games and my dad was friends with the guy that
worked with the team. And one time I got brought
down into the hallway outside the locker room and I
was like seven or eight, and I'm standing outside and
I don't get to go in the locker room with
all the players.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I got put into this trainer's room and all the
shoes were on the wall.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And my logic was, if I touched every pair of
sneakers in this room, I would.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Touch Kevin Garnett's shoes.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So mine is big ticket because I loved KG from
ninety five to two thousand and seven. And then to
circle it all the way back the Timberwolves era of
Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I love Big Ticket. I love KG and I actually.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Got to cover him then when I worked in Boston,
which was like a total full circle woman. But at
one point as an eight year old child, I did
touch Kevin garnett sneakers and probably Wally's er Bak two.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
So there it is Big Ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh, I love Wallace Wow, great one. I love also
that the Gary Payton went Isaiah. I remember at the
end of his career when he was on the Lakers,
he had a very tough series against the Tony Parker Spurs,
and Tony Parker was wearing him out, and they get
to the VMA's and Jamie Fox's host I think it
was the SP's. Jamie Fox is hosting Gary Payton's right
in the front. He's like, we got the glove here.
I think you had a hole in that sob and
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everyone just died because of what Tony Parker had done
to him. He was roasting him at the end. That
Lakers team was ridiculous. Carl Malone two. This is very
simple for me. I go back to the late eighties
in South ind Indiana, early nineties in the NFL. Rocket
is Mail. I don't know if I'd be sitting here
without Raheeb. Rocket is mal A is my favorite player
as a child, as a Notre Dame fan growing up,
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I used to go to the Notre Dame Michigan game
every year with my dad.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
We went in an.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Arbor on the turf against the boat shem Beckler Wolverines.
The Rocket had two kick returns for a touchdown. The
following week's SI cover said rocket Man and we had
a legend who was born.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
People think his.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Name is actually Rocket.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
His name is Rakeeeb.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And of course you know his brother Kadre, who was
the Missile and the Rocket was incredible on the Cowboys
and the Raiders. And I really mean this a guy
who is responsible for me loving football and being here
and providing for my family by talking about football. I
would love to have the Rocket on the show someday.
Just an absolute hero of mine. And I have no
snarky joke or anything, just true, pure love for this
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guy as an athlete and what he meant to a
little kid in the eighties. So thank you Rocket, wherever
you are come on the show Man.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Man Listen, Kyle, I am going to text Rocket when
we get off the show. Rocket is a friend of mine.
You know Rocket, Absolutely, he's in Dallas. He's a great
one of the greatest human beings, most positive people you've.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Ever met in your life.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
He's still an energy ball. We will make sure that
gets done.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That's like you telling me that you know Spider Man
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You have his number of hots.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Isaiah, You're like a celebrity to me. Now we already
know the segment.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Coolest person in Isaiah's Kyle's like, it's Rocket and that's it.
That's the only option. All right, perfect, Okay, last Whiteboard Wednesday.
We're here for it. Take it away at guys. From
the Stars of Stick.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
My favorite Owen Wilson character is I don't think I
could give my take here, you guys take it for me.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Come on, couldn't you have one? Peter Dagger? Come on?
You got a list?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And then there was time spent on IMDb last night. Isaiah,
I know you you took almost all the options. At first,
you couldn't decide. I'll give you a beat to write
your answer before you go.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'm trying to remember his actual name, but anyways, I
can't think right up to the top. Owen Wilson in
Wedding Crashers. In Wedding Crashers, he absolutely killed it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Was what was his name again?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It was anyways, we'll figure I don't know John Beckwett.
That's right, John beckwith and Wedding Crashers one of my
favorite movies. One of probably the most under rated movies
out there. You want to laugh, go turn on Wedding Crashes.
These guys absolutely kill it in netflick and shout out
to Owen for for making me laugh all those years.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
When you're growing up with kids, you watch a lot
of Disney movies. I'm gonna go with him as the
voice of the famous and Lightning McQueen. It's my attempt
at the Lightning bolts are there he is, And shout
out to disney Land in California. If you've never gone
and wrote ridden the cars ride, they take you through
Radiator Springs. I mean you're in a car, you erase
(19:34):
another car. Great experience, s Lightning McQueen fan favorite in
my house.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Excellent answer, A great answer mine.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
I have to go like this Hansel from Zoolander.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
My gosh, it's so good, so hot, right now.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So many excellent quotes out fancy, so many excellent quotes.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I know, stop it.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
They're in the computer, We're inside the whiteboard.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
This one was just so ridiculous, and in the amount
of ridiculousness on the screen at any given time during
this movie, you're so distracted by the actual main character
is Zoolander. But then Hansle comes along and you're like,
I can't what is happening with you is?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
It's insane?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And then now the fact that there is a social
media sensation of people bumping into each other in the
Hansole line of excuse me, bruh, you're excuse and I'm
not your bro.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Kyle, it's a great answer too.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It brings me to mind because Owen Wilson has played
the lead in huge, massive, successful, critically adored movies, but
he's always incredible in the tiny little roles, usually with
Ben Stiller, whether it be at Hansoul or the guy
in the cable, guy who's out on the date, or
Mine Kevin from Meet the Parents. This is the idea
blonde boyfriend.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I was able to salvage this wood from an old
seaman's chapel in Nantucket. I got the twin Subz's the
Viking Range. I got in some wireless IPOs and stuff,
just skyrocket, What kind of business are you in?
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Greg's and mail nerves? He absolutely cooks for that entire movie,
that entire scene. He is in a scene with Robert
de Niro, who's a prodigy and Ben Stiller who's blowing
up because of the movie, and steals every scene that
he's in in his dumb sweater and his kopa getting
burned down, which put out about seventy hours from one
piece of wood. He's always incredible in those like just
(21:16):
let me cook rolls and I don't think he's ever
better than Meet the Parents.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Gosh, so good. There's a lot of options.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
I didn't know he was in that Very serious?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Is it? Behind Enemy Lines?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Kyle?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I got nothing one? Yeah, what is that about?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I've never seen that night c So two thousand that
came out in two thousand and two, and it's about
a soldier, a pilot who gets shot down behind enemy lines.
He's running around in a flight suit and there's machine guns,
like he can do it all, but he can't do
anything better than he can playing a golfer on stick
on Apple TV and queuing up Whiteboard Wednesday. Oh, I
know everybody's freaking out about Happy Gilmore two on Netflix. Uh,
(21:51):
I think stick is the golf platform that everyone's going
to be.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Freaking out about.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Absolutely, And now we will not do this segment any.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Other way except stars and celebrities asking us the questions.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Come morning, foot Mall.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
C Mony foot More comes down to one last play,
and it's gonna be getting longer by the second.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You're all the way back at the thirty yard line.
Now you can step into it.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Here comes the hail Mary with the.
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Game on the line, and the ball is tat tat.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's a miracle. It's still a brown. Oh my goodness.
He's so cool, calm and collected. How are you right now?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Can you describe that final play?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Nothing but God? Man, nothing but God?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What is it about this Commander's team?
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Yeah? Keep fighting, man, we keep fighting. We have It's
a great locker room, great brotherhood man.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Nobody else I'll rather go to war.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Jade and Daniels truly look so unbothered.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Seconds after that hail Mary, one of the biggest plays
that to find the twenty twenty four season. And there's
Tracy Wolfson standing there trying to get to the bottom
of the moment from the NFL and CBS joining GMFB.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Tracy, great to see you, my friends.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I love being on. Thank you so much. I heard
Jane earlier the Girl Gang. I mean, this is really awesome, so.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Thanks for having me, absolutely so, Tracy.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You are a part of so many moments like that
in the regular season, yet you are able to capture
it so perfectly that one specifically, you have to treat
it so differently because that's a rookie right there.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
When you were walking up to Jaden, What was going
through your mind?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It's often a question that we asked, but how are
you approaching that interview?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, first off, you just want the emotion. You're just
teeing them up. You want to get too complicated, and
I just was in shock at his reaction.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And we can go back to the other hail Mary
I did, which is Rogers to Rogers back in twenty fifteen.
Sorry Cynthia, but I mean it was that one. Rogers
was elated. He compared it to winning the Super Bowl. Here,
Jayden Daniels is just so calm about it, and like
you said, he's a rookie. You don't really know is
our first time covering him. But that's what stands out
(24:22):
about Jayden Daniels. It's just another day at the office
for him. He's wise beyond his years. I think we
all saw that in his first season. It was really
incredible and all you want is to see that emotion.
He was like, I know it was going to be all.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Good all along.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Maybe you're like the indicator of when a hail mary
is going to.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Work because he's brought up at Aaron Rodgers jail Mary
and you cover a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Of games in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
How do you feel about the potential marriage between Aaron
Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Do you think it's going to be magical? Are there
going to be lots of hail mary's. What do you
think is gonna happen?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I don't know talk about potential, I mean, is it
going to happen? I think we all we all kind
of want it to happen, especially for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
They're so important to the league.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I know for CBS we have a lot of Steelers
game potentially on our schedule.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I love being around Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I enjoy covering him, although it didn't get much of
a chance to get when he was with the Jets,
considering they weren't good enough to be on our air
all the time. But I will say I would like
to see him. I think it would be a tremendous
marriage for them, certainly with Mike Tomlin as a head coach.
He seems to make anything work. There's always success there
in Pittsburgh. They have a better defense, of course, and
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then you know they have weapons, and so just throw
Aaron Rodgers out there. But the problem is the longer
it takes, the longer this isn't going to work. They
certainly need time to get out there and gel and
I'm sure there's frustration in the locker room. And then
you have Mason Rudolph and who's going to start in
place if Rogers isn't there.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
So a lot of question marks still in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
And I won't believe it until I actually see it
when Rogers shows up there.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Tracy.
Speaker 15 (25:59):
First of all, congratulations on your Emmy. That's incredible. I
got to start by that. And I was watching that
clip of the Hail Mary, I couldn't help but think
that that Commander's team this year reminded me so much
of the twenty twenty one Bengals team where they kind
of came out of nowhere and you had the young
quarterback in Joe Burrow, and they just went on this
magical run and the country just fell in love with them.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Did you feel that way?
Speaker 15 (26:23):
And what do you think is going to be happening
this year for the Bengals to take that next step
and get back into AFC postseason contention after two years
of missing the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yeah, I mean, certainly that was a magical year for them.
They really it was kind of Joe Burrow's coming out party.
It put them on the map. They were a threat
every time they stepped on the field. They were a
threat to the Chiefs. You know, I think what's been
the issues there on Kelsey, you know better than anyone
being around this team, is these slow starts these last
two seasons have certainly set them back.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It hurts morale in a locker room.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
It's not a great feeling going in behind the eight
ball already, especially in a difficult division, the difficult schedule.
And you know, I love Joe Burrow taking the blame
for this season. He had probably the best season of
his career. He was in the MVP talks. It is
certainly not Joe Burrow. I think there needs to be
an improvement on the defensive side.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I don't believe it was lou Anarumo's fault either.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
I think it's providing the playmakers out there on the
defensive side of the ball to give them some balance.
And I think that's what we haven't seen from the
Cincinnati team. And hopefully we do al Golden coming in,
but you need to have the right players there.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Certainly on the offensive side. They don't really seem to
have some issues there.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
They just need to be able to have more balance,
and they certainly can't start from behind coming.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Into this season with the schedule they have, and certainly
in that AFC North that is so challenging. As we
talked with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
If potentially they get Rogers, then you of course have
Baltimore and Lamar Jackson to deal with, and then the
rest of that schedule where you'll be playing, you know,
those other difficult teams on the road. So I think
that's the key for the Bengals this year is certainly
getting off to that quick start.
Speaker 16 (28:10):
Justice for lou We love to see lou get some
of the shine in an indian As situation for him there.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
We love oil.
Speaker 16 (28:17):
We also love the Kansas City Chiefs and I know
you cover them a lot, but are they the top
dogs in the FC? Because I have to wonder, Tracy,
what is it going to take for Lamar Jackson and
Harball to get over the hump and a hoisted trophy?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
When we talk about how tricky that just one division is.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I mean you talk both sides of the ball right there,
because when you talk about the Chiefs, and yes, I
feel like I should have an apartment there there all
the time.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
But I do love covering them.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
They're one of my favorite teams to be around, and
they are always the team to beat. I mean, how
can they not be. And I think they're more motivated
than ever coming off a Super Bowl loss. And when
you think about them, you know, Patrick Mahomes, you know,
comes off frustrated, right, didn't feel like he played his best.
You know, they didn't have really the weapons all together
at the wide receiver position. You talk about Rashid Rice
(29:08):
and Xavier Worthy in Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
They didn't play one game together.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
If they can stay healthy, they can be out on
that field, and then you throw in Travis Kelce, who
seems to be reinvigorated. I mean, this team again is
going to be that team to beat. And then you
talk about Steve Spagnola and what he's built on the
defensive side of the ball, and certainly that's been the
reason for these last two years that they've been able
to get so far, not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
What Patrick Mahomes in this offense has done.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
And of course they've committed more to the run game,
something Andy Reid doesn't necessarily love, but he knew that
he had to embrace. And I love how this team
is made up. So again, they certainly are going to
be the hunted. Yes, he talk about Lamar Jackson, talk
about Baltimore. I'd love to see them take the next step.
I really saw a maturity from Lamar Jackson this year,
(29:56):
and not only on the field and his progressions, but
even off the field. And I think they're just waiting
to take that next step. That's always what it it's
gonna come down Tom. I'm sure Cincinnati will be in
the mix again, no doubt, and of course Buffalo we've
got those four you know, big teams that always wind
up colliding come playoff time, and you know, throwing at
(30:16):
Denver and maybe at Houston, and who knows what Pittsburgh
does if they do get Rogers. But it should be
really an exciting season in the AFC.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Tracy, you're all over it this morning.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
We appreciate it so much, And of course that is
why a couple of weeks back you won your second
consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Sideline Reporter.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
I mean, we've got one of those trophies up there.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Where's the other one.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
We got to get the bam bam and.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The backdrop for these interviews where it is, don't hid
it that trick is coming this Yeah, exactly, Terracy.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
It's just your coverage is just so thorough and great.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
And what I often say about being on television, specifically
in this role, is like people have to like to
want to be around you. You have to be a
likable person for Lamar, for James Daniels, for these coaches
to come up and want to talk repeatedly. You just
said you should have a condo in Kansas City because
of how many production meetings you might have to sit
with Andy Reid er Patrick mahomes. What's something that people
might not know about the intricacies of this job and
(31:16):
the one that you carry that people covet so much.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I think there's two things.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
I think one thing is you just pointed out, Jamie
that the relationships you build with these coaches and players
make your job easier and allow you to do a
better job.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
When you get onto the sidelines.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
When you're in these meetings, the trust factor they have
with you, certainly the interview process becomes a little bit easier,
you get better.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Soundbites out of it.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
That trust and building that trust and keeping that trust
is so important, and it develops over the years. Certainly
twenty years in this business, eleven years in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
It takes time.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And even the relationships I built in college when I
covered college football and NANCC have carried over to the NFL.
That certainly helped as well. And I think second, it's
really the stuff you do behind the scenes. Of course,
that prep work we know going INCA games, but when
we're on the field, it's not just those thirty second bites.
It's not the five times you're on the air, but
(32:12):
it's everything you're doing during the game behind the scenes,
the communication you have with the booth. Everything I'm telling
Jim and Tony, maybe off.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Camera in a time out, in a commercial break.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Everything I'm talking to my producer Jim Rickoff or my
director Mike Arnold. I might be saying, this is happening
over here, make sure you get a camera over here.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
This is what the official just said. This is what
the quarterback told the offensive line. A lot of that stuff.
First off, you can't get on the air. You don't
have time.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
It's not the right time of a game. You might
be in a red zone. They might have just called
time out. We might be going back to commercial break.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
So all of that communication. There's so much I'm doing
behind the scenes that no one really sees. That's really
important to the broadcast.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
And it's so hard to see the whole field were
ground level.
Speaker 16 (32:57):
I don't think people realize how hard that job is.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And you're back by the end of the day when
you hear it too.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
But I'm maneuver my way everywhere, and I think you learn,
like as you know and Jamie you know this really well,
is like you learn where to be at what time.
And Patrick Mahomes throws an interception, You're going right over
to Mahomes to see his reaction, and you're just hoping
you don't miss something because you can't be on both
sidelines at once, and so I think that comes with
(33:25):
feel and comes with.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Overtime of being in this business. But I love that part.
I'm like a you know, investigative reporter down there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yes, it's a classic, Like the play's going this way,
and I swear Tracy's eyes probably go to the head
coach or the coordinator like she's watching.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
For the reaction. Everybody else is watching the ball go
that way.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But that's what makes you great, Tracy Wilson, Thank you
so much for coming and always a pleasure to discuss
the NFL and your entirety of your covered Tracy, You're great.
There she has two time Emmy winner Tracy Wilson.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Good football.
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
It was anything but terrible to start the season last
year in Pittsburgh Russell Wilson. It was all working with
the Steelers, but things spiraled as Pittsburgh lost their final
five games of the season and the teams went their
separate way from Russ at quarterback. The Giants then sighed
Russell Wilson to a deal in March, and he has
now explained on the WAVE original seven PM in Brooklyn
with Carmelo Anthony podcast what drew him to New York
(00:47):
in Big.
Speaker 4 (00:47):
Blue, Turn on the film and Washington's guy in Malik
neighbors Man, This dude is a superstar.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
You know.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
I saw him watching the film and just before I
try to make decisions, try to get a clear understanding
of who the players are this and then obviously you
see the highlights and everything else. But when you watch
every single catch and every single app in every play,
you get to see the kind of player he is. Man,
He's dynamic, he touches that football.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
He gone, he gone.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
It seems like a good place to start with buying
or keep trying. You got Malik Neighbors and Russell Wilson.
Do you think Isaiah will start with you buying or
keep trying? Blik Neighbors will usher in a Russell Wilson
career renaissance this season?
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Buying or keep trying renaissances?
Speaker 7 (01:27):
Renaissance it's such a strong word. You know what I
am going to say. Yeah, I'm gonna say keep trying.
Speaker 8 (01:34):
Listen.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
I'm a Russell Wilson believer. I've always been a big
fan of Russell Wilson. I think he still has a
lot left in the tank, but it's gonna you know,
he needs more than just one receiver, right, And I
understand that that's a young gun that they're going to
be continuing to put it in the limelight. He's the
he's the future of the franchise, and that's awesome, But
Russell Wilson needs more help, right. Russell Wilson needs tight ends,
he needs multiple receivers. He needs a running game. I
(01:56):
still consider him one of the better play action quarterbacks
in the game, So you know, if he doesn't have
a rus solid running game, he truly can't be who
he's who he's really made out to be. So I'm
gonna go ahead and keep trying on this one. He
just needs more than that one guy, John Renaissance, Jay
Rob what do you think?
Speaker 9 (02:11):
Yeah, I'm picking up what I'm picking up what Isaiah's
putting down. I'm keep trying as well. Like I think
Renaissance is really strong. I mean, we're not talking about
Benjamin Button here. He's he's going the wrong way, right,
And he's had an outstanding career, right, I mean, he's
he's been a pro bowler ten times, he's been a
Super Bowl champion. Is Walter Payton Man of the Year.
(02:33):
But it's gonna take more than just mylik neighbors to
really get that. I mean, it takes nine other guys.
And the Leak's an outstanding player. But Russ has had
a great career. You know, there's a reason they drafted Jackson,
you know, Dart in the first round. This is kind
of a bridge situation to try to get Jackson going.
But but I'm gonna I'm going to keep trying here,
(02:55):
like Isaiah on on the you know, the renaissance of
Russ's career here in New York.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, we we get seduced by this in the media
because of what you're talking about the breath of his
career and the stature and all the things that he's
done and all the things that we watched him do
ten years ago. Listen, likely at this time next year,
we're going to be talking about us Wilson a different team.
That's just how it works now. You would think it
was crazy. Last year was on the Steelers. Before that,
he was on the Broncos. I mean, this is three
(03:21):
years in a row a team has said we're ready
to move on from Russell Wilson. So I don't think
we're going to be talking about a superstar season here
for the New York Giants. I would be shocked if
he was starting for the Giant still at the end
of the season. I would be stunned if he was
starting by the middle of the season. There's too many
other things going on here, not only the massive Jackson
Dart factor where they're going to want to get to
(03:42):
him when it's time. I still think Jamis is not
an irrelevant factor. I really do think that Jamis's talent level,
experience level, and the factor that everybody loves Jamis in
the locker room and if you start out two and
three and there's some injuries, like there'll be movement for Jamis.
He has that type of cultural personality. So I would
(04:02):
love to be positive here. We're in New York and
as I said yesterday to John, we've been here as
a show, and I've been here as a show for
nine years, and the Giants are almost always average or bad.
I would really like this thing to work out and
to catch lightning in a bottle. And oh my god,
what do you do with Jackson Dart now? Because Russell
looks like our franchise quarterback. It's a great career he's had.
I imagine it will continue next year on another team
(04:23):
if he wants to keep playing.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
I mean, Kyle, I can't believe that you can go
with the first quarterback name, the sun quarterback name, and
not say Jackson Darr You're going to fall off your
chair if we're looking at the rookie quarterback to come
in for the Giants at some point, because that with
Cam Skataboo and everything that there's going to be a
huge title change for the Giants.
Speaker 9 (04:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
What's not changing in Cincinnati a quarterback is the fact
that Joe Burrow is leading the team. Last year he
led the league in passing and touchdowns, but sadly, it
was not enough for the Bengals to make the playoffs.
Speaker 10 (04:49):
Burrow said that if he had played.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Better last season, can you imagine the Bengals would have
made the playoffs?
Speaker 6 (04:55):
Guys, are you buying this or you keep trying Isaiah?
Speaker 7 (04:59):
I am driving by this right. I'm definitely not buying this.
I'm gonna keep trying this.
Speaker 9 (05:06):
Dude.
Speaker 7 (05:06):
Was forty three and nine, forty three touchdowns, nine interceptions.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
There's not much.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
More that you can do at the quarterback position in
this league to be at the top of the league
best and passing best and touchdowns all this stuff. The
defense is what killed the Cincinnati Bengals. His past year,
twenty fifth in defense, give it up twenty five points
a game. That's what killed your playoff hopes. It wasn't Jujoe,
and I understand that you're the man, you're the QB,
say all the right things. Okay, cool speaking on behalf
of the team, But it was your defense. And that's
(05:33):
that's reality right now. That's what your organization has to face.
Speaker 9 (05:39):
Yeah, and just to kind of piggyback on some of that,
I keep trying on this as well. You know, Isaiah
mentioned the stats forty three and nine touchdown interception ratio.
He had the third best quarterback rating in the league.
He was sacked the fifth most times at you know,
forty eight. I mean, he can't throw it on his back,
(05:59):
and they had the thirtieth ranked rushing attack. So there
was a lot of factors that you know, attributed to
Cincinnati not making it, but it certainly wasn't Joe Burrow.
You know, Isaiah touched on the defense. We talked about
Trey Hendrickson yesterday and trying to get him back. They've
got a new coordinator now, Golden on defense, so there's
a lot of things that they're trying to churn here.
(06:19):
I'm excited that they've got Tea and Chase back there,
but you know, Joe Burrow just needs to keep playing
at the level he keeps you know, he keeps playing
at and the rest of the team needs to get
up to Joe's level in order for them to make
a push there in January.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
I respect for you guys, just Sam, I'll screw it,
I'll buy it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Why not.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
He's got to play better. Hey, they lost to the Commanders.
He had ninet incompletions in that game. Out of thirty
eight passes, you got to clean that up. Joe, You're
only at seventy six percent completion. Do you understand, like
this is they won the last five As we mentioned,
I feel like if the Bengals had snuck in, they
could have won the AFC like they he was so
good and they finally figured it out. They could have
(06:56):
been there against the Eagles in the Super Bowl. It's
just for posterity. We have to remember that in twenty
twenty four, the Bengals, of course played the Ravens. In
those two games against the Ravens, Joe Burrow threw for
nine touchdowns in about nine hundred yards and they lost
both times. It's insane the way that team was wired.
The passing leader, the receiving leader, the sack leader, and
(07:19):
they couldn't even sniff a wild card.
Speaker 9 (07:21):
You respect Joe Burrow here.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
If he threw for eight thousand yards, he still would
have said this. No one believes you, Joe, but we
do believe you're being a leader. So that's cool.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Okay, let's spend it forward, Kyle, in the spirit of
the question that you asked Isaiah. Last segment, are you
flirting with putting the Bengals at the top of the
AFC and Northex season because judging by some things you
said yesterday about the Bengals and Joe Burrow and the
fact that they were down last.
Speaker 10 (07:43):
Year, what does your heart tell you about the Bengals
right now?
Speaker 1 (07:47):
Well, if we step back into the DFC North, you know,
one of my guidelines, I always pick the Steelers to
make the playoffs. They will make the playoffs next year,
like they did last year and the year before, But
that them is a wild card.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
Cleveland.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
I mean, they're the strangest team of all time. I'm
just going to set them aside. Baltimore will be in
the playoffs. We're not missing the playoffs. So, Jamie, it's
a great question because we're always so tempting when we
see those logos and say, oh, three will make it. Yeah, Well, listen,
I'm not even gonna be flipping about this. Their best
defensive player is stopping us foot on the ground and
saying like I'm holding out games. That is a massive
(08:17):
fissure in their team in their locker room. If they
don't have Trey Hendrickson, who the heck do they have
who's going to sack anybody. It really is contingent upon
that Baltimore's in, Pittsburgh's in Cleveland, No, and Cincinnati TVD.
I don't have a take right now until we figure
out Henderson, not.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Only Trey Henderson, but their first round draft pick on
defense is also a whole dingy. Also just uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Yeah, that was a little weird too, Roylands awkward too.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
As was the interview on the draft stage. If we're
going to just keep startfling back to that, yes, it was.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
Why are you mad? I'm just trying to figure it out,
all right? That was buying or keep trying?
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Good football, Good football.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Peter Dagger and On Wilson are teeing up the questions
for Whiteboard Wednesday today. Usually it's my job. Instead today
I get to play. I'm so happy to have my
job taken from me.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
This is so exciting. First question, Peter, take it away.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Every season fans say that this is going to be
the Cowboys. Here another team whose storyline is about to
surprise everyone is man, I don't know, do you have
a sleeper team.
Speaker 9 (09:31):
I'd love to see.
Speaker 12 (09:32):
I mean, it's not going to surprise people, but I
love I'm a Cowboys fan, but I love the Detroit Lions,
and you know they're coach and you just get kind
of he used to play for the Cowboys.
Speaker 11 (09:44):
I will say, I'm excited to see Caleb Williams year two.
Speaker 9 (09:47):
I think it could be good with the Bear Yeah.
Speaker 11 (09:48):
I think they can win some games.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
I like the Dolphins too.
Speaker 13 (09:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (09:52):
Man, I mean, should we even answer our question?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Look at those guys, I know, Kyle, this is thrilling
for us.
Speaker 6 (09:59):
All right, there is the question at hand.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
It's which team this season is going to deliver a
surprise performance, headline worthy performances.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Isaiah, E're up first?
Speaker 7 (10:07):
All right, look ahead and keep this thing off. I'm
gonna go with the Las Vegas Raiders. Yes, the new
regime out there, obviously, the stadiums there. You bring in
Pete Carroll, you true ahead and trade for Gino Smith.
You have asking Gentt, right, you have all the things.
I think these guys are going to make a wreckus
over there in the AFC. They have a tough division.
They have a very tough division. But I think that
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they are going to get to it at least being
even on the season on the sea.
Speaker 9 (10:32):
All right, John first, Whiteport answer, let's yeah, here we go.
No fresh So I wanted to go. I wanted to
go with my guys down in Tampa, Jason light who
shout out to Jason who helped me at Nickels State
and offered me a scouting opportunity. But I feel like
the Bucks really aren't under the radar. They won the
division the last few years. Uh, They've got a great roster.
I'm going to go out west with another co work
(10:53):
we got of mind and go with Elly Arizona Cardinals
Manti Austin for Jonathan Gannon, retooled that defense and the
offense over the off season and they won eight games
last year. Don't be surprised if they turned some heads
this fall.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Damn right. I love Cardinals, Jamie knows. I'm always screaming
for the Cardinals. They won eight last year after four
the year before. I feel like they're one of these
teams that're just about to break through in the West.
Speaker 9 (11:19):
And I love that. But Jamie, who do you got?
Surprised him?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
I'm looking at my what I drew and I'm holding
one eye closed, and I'm like, is it doesn't work?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Doesn't track it?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
It looks like I say, his shirt pat the Patriot.
And there's a reason I'm a flirt with the Patriots
for making being the surprise team this season. And Kyle
made fun of me for it yesterday, but I have
an entire reason why.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
And here's the clip. It's just happened in late April.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
I'm all fighting, uh to protect them with everything like that.
Speaker 6 (11:46):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
That's well, Gambell, he's gonna fight and die to protect
his quarterback with everything he's got, and he's gonna do
it while we're in pat the Patriot logo, right, Kyle,
My team's the Patriots. And that was absolutely an interpretive
interpretation of the logo.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Well, you don't have to die, man, It's just take
it easy. You might be injured, you might be very tired.
Let's keep you on this side of the grass. You know,
it's so fun to have these guys and Owen Wilson
and Peter Dager on here. And by the way, just
quick observation, Peter Dager better takes than Peter Schrager. I'm
already way more of a fan than him. And Peter
Nager is not over on some other network now screaming
(12:21):
off the Nicks and Cowboys and Lebron, so I like
him better. I also feel like I'm so protective of
this show. In this segment, I'm like, oh, and Wilson,
great to have you on.
Speaker 7 (12:28):
Could you just.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
Pick one team, don't shout out five teams, don't break
the segment, but it is awesome to have you here.
This is simple and speaking of the Jay Robs here,
I'm going to put this team up. I think you've
heard of them, Titans, and I wrote at the bottom
they exist, they do exist. I know that they've gone
into this void. I'm not sure who that player is
in the red jersey. We're not allowed to speak about
him because we're part of the national media. We should
probably take this video off before we get fined and
(12:51):
kicked off the air. But that is the number one
overall pick in the draft. They are in a crap division,
and I know we're not supposed to talk about that division,
that team, or that player, but I think we will
be this year. I like Cam Moore. I like the Titans.
I remember the Titans.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Jay rob quickly.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Did it ever get annoying when you're at the Titans
organization that the national spotlight just refuses to.
Speaker 9 (13:14):
Ever beyond no matter what.
Speaker 7 (13:15):
You guys were the number one seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Everyone's like, eh, right, yeah, I mean that's just come on,
I don't know, it's what we just learned to deal
with it down there.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
You shouldn't fight the power, Jamie.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Next question, ok, very.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
Let's do.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
It's not my job today, Kyle, it's Owen Wilson's job.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
He's got the second question, Whiteboard Wednesday. Take it away.
Speaker 13 (13:33):
I play a former pro golfer whose nickname is Stick.
The athlete with the best all time nickname is I
can say one for golf that I like. Ernie El's
the big easy.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Oh I like that.
Speaker 13 (13:48):
But gosh, yeah, I'm interested to see how they answer
this because there's some great nicknames in sports.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Okay, first, well, stick is a great golf nickname, so
like already Apple TV plus crushing it and I like
the singular suggestion. Owen Wilson, you are not the first
person that Colin Brand has given feedback for during Whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Go ahead, Isaiah.
Speaker 7 (14:07):
All right, you guys know I'm from Seattle. I wapped
my talent all the time right hardly there, but always repping.
But there was a dude who played basketball there. He
was just one heck of a defender and he had
the sticky hands right, his sticky hands. He was known
for his defense. The glove Gary Payton. Gary Payton had
the best nickname.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
He thinked about. His shoes were fit like a glove.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
That he had icons and video games.
Speaker 7 (14:30):
Right, if you had had the mint on your on
your icon, you knew that you had a really good defender.
Gary Payton had the best nickname in the history at
Everdom Everdom.
Speaker 9 (14:39):
Good. Yeah, the glove is the glove is a great one.
I'll admit in back in nineteen eighty five, I had
the T shirt. I was rocking the tough skins with
the Chuck Taylor converse walking around school. William Fridge Parry,
great answer, nice Jim McMahon. You thought he was going
to hand it to Walter Payton. Nope, sticks it in
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the belly of the big fellow and he rumbles in
for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Outrageous neck roll too on the fridge right, incredible stop
that his own Gi Joe figure.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
I mean, it was a cultural icon.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
There were the fridge ats, his own cheerleader and as
a rookie in eighty five.
Speaker 9 (15:13):
I'm sure he probably had his own barbecue line at
some definitely standard definitely.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Look at that and he was like the fridge was
like three hundred pounds, and everyone felt like he was
eight hundred. You could not believe there's a three hundred
pounds defensive tackle in the league.
Speaker 9 (15:24):
Absolute legend. Igt you should.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Have a sponsorship with Seers at some point, all right,
so everybody knows. I grew up in Minnesota.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My dad is a doctor, and when I was a kid,
I had the great benefit of being brought to Timberwolves
games and my dad was friends with the guy that
worked with the team. And one time I got brought
down into the hallway outside the locker room and I
was like seven or eight, and I'm standing outside and
I don't get to go in the locker room with
all the players.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
I got put into this trainer's room and all the
shoes were on the wall.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
And my logic was, if I touched every pair of
sneakers in this room, I would.
Speaker 6 (15:57):
Touch Kevin Garnett's shoes.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
So mine is big ticket because I loved KG from
ninety five to two thousand and seven. And then to
circle it all the way back the Timberwolves era of
Kevin Garnett.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I love Big Ticket. I love KG and I actually.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Got to cover him then when I worked in Boston,
which was like a total full circle woman. But at
one point as an eight year old child, I did
touch Kevin garnett sneakers and probably Wally's er Bak two.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
So there it is Big Ticket.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
Oh, I love Wallace Wow, great one. I love also
that the Gary Payton went Isaiah. I remember at the
end of his career when he was on the Lakers,
he had a very tough series against the Tony Parker Spurs,
and Tony Parker was wearing him out, and they get
to the VMA's and Jamie Fox's host I think it
was the SP's. Jamie Fox is hosting Gary Payton's right
in the front. He's like, we got the glove here.
I think you had a hole in that sob and
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everyone just died because of what Tony Parker had done
to him. He was roasting him at the end. That
Lakers team was ridiculous. Carl Malone two. This is very
simple for me. I go back to the late eighties
in South ind Indiana, early nineties in the NFL. Rocket
is Mail. I don't know if I'd be sitting here
without Raheeb. Rocket is mal A is my favorite player
as a child, as a Notre Dame fan growing up,
(17:02):
I used to go to the Notre Dame Michigan game
every year with my dad.
Speaker 9 (17:04):
We went in an.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Arbor on the turf against the boat shem Beckler Wolverines.
The Rocket had two kick returns for a touchdown. The
following week's SI cover said rocket Man and we had
a legend who was born.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
People think his.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Name is actually Rocket.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
His name is Rakeeeb.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
And of course you know his brother Kadre, who was
the Missile and the Rocket was incredible on the Cowboys
and the Raiders. And I really mean this a guy
who is responsible for me loving football and being here
and providing for my family by talking about football. I
would love to have the Rocket on the show someday.
Just an absolute hero of mine. And I have no
snarky joke or anything, just true, pure love for this
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guy as an athlete and what he meant to a
little kid in the eighties. So thank you Rocket, wherever
you are come on the show Man.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Man Listen, Kyle, I am going to text Rocket when
we get off the show. Rocket is a friend of mine.
You know Rocket, Absolutely, he's in Dallas. He's a great
one of the greatest human beings, most positive people you've.
Speaker 6 (17:54):
Ever met in your life.
Speaker 7 (17:55):
He's still an energy ball. We will make sure that
gets done.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
That's like you telling me that you know Spider Man
like that.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
That's incredible.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
You have his number of hots.
Speaker 6 (18:05):
Isaiah, You're like a celebrity to me. Now we already
know the segment.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
Coolest person in Isaiah's Kyle's like, it's Rocket and that's it.
That's the only option. All right, perfect, Okay, last Whiteboard Wednesday.
We're here for it. Take it away at guys. From
the Stars of Stick.
Speaker 11 (18:22):
My favorite Owen Wilson character is I don't think I
could give my take here, you guys take it for me.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Come on, couldn't you have one? Peter Dagger? Come on?
You got a list?
Speaker 3 (18:35):
And then there was time spent on IMDb last night. Isaiah,
I know you you took almost all the options. At first,
you couldn't decide. I'll give you a beat to write
your answer before you go.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (18:46):
I'm trying to remember his actual name, but anyways, I
can't think right up to the top. Owen Wilson in
Wedding Crashers. In Wedding Crashers, he absolutely killed it.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Was what was his name again?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It was anyways, we'll figure I don't know John Beckwett.
That's right, John beckwith and Wedding Crashers one of my
favorite movies. One of probably the most under rated movies
out there. You want to laugh, go turn on Wedding Crashes.
These guys absolutely kill it in netflick and shout out
to Owen for for making me laugh all those years.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
When you're growing up with kids, you watch a lot
of Disney movies. I'm gonna go with him as the
voice of the famous and Lightning McQueen. It's my attempt
at the Lightning bolts are there he is, And shout
out to disney Land in California. If you've never gone
and wrote ridden the cars ride, they take you through
Radiator Springs. I mean you're in a car, you erase
(19:34):
another car. Great experience, s Lightning McQueen fan favorite in
my house.
Speaker 6 (19:39):
Excellent answer, A great answer mine.
Speaker 10 (19:41):
I have to go like this Hansel from Zoolander.
Speaker 6 (19:44):
My gosh, it's so good, so hot, right now.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
So many excellent quotes out fancy, so many excellent quotes.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I know, stop it.
Speaker 10 (19:55):
They're in the computer, We're inside the whiteboard.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
This one was just so ridiculous, and in the amount
of ridiculousness on the screen at any given time during
this movie, you're so distracted by the actual main character
is Zoolander. But then Hansle comes along and you're like,
I can't what is happening with you is?
Speaker 6 (20:11):
It's insane?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And then now the fact that there is a social
media sensation of people bumping into each other in the
Hansole line of excuse me, bruh, you're excuse and I'm
not your bro.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Kyle, it's a great answer too.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
It brings me to mind because Owen Wilson has played
the lead in huge, massive, successful, critically adored movies, but
he's always incredible in the tiny little roles, usually with
Ben Stiller, whether it be at Hansoul or the guy
in the cable, guy who's out on the date, or
Mine Kevin from Meet the Parents. This is the idea
blonde boyfriend.
Speaker 9 (20:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
I was able to salvage this wood from an old
seaman's chapel in Nantucket. I got the twin Subz's the
Viking Range. I got in some wireless IPOs and stuff,
just skyrocket, What kind of business are you in?
Speaker 9 (20:55):
Greg?
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Greg's and mail nerves? He absolutely cooks for that entire movie,
that entire scene. He is in a scene with Robert
de Niro, who's a prodigy and Ben Stiller who's blowing
up because of the movie, and steals every scene that
he's in in his dumb sweater and his kopa getting
burned down, which put out about seventy hours from one
piece of wood. He's always incredible in those like just
(21:16):
let me cook rolls and I don't think he's ever
better than Meet the Parents.
Speaker 6 (21:19):
Gosh, so good. There's a lot of options.
Speaker 10 (21:21):
I didn't know he was in that Very serious?
Speaker 6 (21:24):
Is it? Behind Enemy Lines?
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Kyle?
Speaker 6 (21:26):
I got nothing one? Yeah, what is that about?
Speaker 1 (21:29):
I've never seen that night c So two thousand that
came out in two thousand and two, and it's about
a soldier, a pilot who gets shot down behind enemy lines.
He's running around in a flight suit and there's machine guns,
like he can do it all, but he can't do
anything better than he can playing a golfer on stick
on Apple TV and queuing up Whiteboard Wednesday. Oh, I
know everybody's freaking out about Happy Gilmore two on Netflix. Uh,
(21:51):
I think stick is the golf platform that everyone's going
to be.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Freaking out about.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Absolutely, And now we will not do this segment any.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
Other way except stars and celebrities asking us the questions.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Come morning, foot Mall.
Speaker 14 (22:20):
C Mony foot More comes down to one last play,
and it's gonna be getting longer by the second.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
You're all the way back at the thirty yard line.
Now you can step into it.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Here comes the hail Mary with the.
Speaker 14 (22:36):
Game on the line, and the ball is tat tat.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It's a miracle. It's still a brown. Oh my goodness.
He's so cool, calm and collected. How are you right now?
Speaker 5 (22:51):
Can you describe that final play?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Nothing but God? Man, nothing but God?
Speaker 5 (22:57):
What is it about this Commander's team?
Speaker 9 (23:01):
Yeah? Keep fighting, man, we keep fighting. We have It's
a great locker room, great brotherhood man.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
Nobody else I'll rather go to war.
Speaker 10 (23:09):
Jade and Daniels truly look so unbothered.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
Seconds after that hail Mary, one of the biggest plays
that to find the twenty twenty four season. And there's
Tracy Wolfson standing there trying to get to the bottom
of the moment from the NFL and CBS joining GMFB.
Speaker 6 (23:22):
Tracy, great to see you, my friends.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
I love being on. Thank you so much. I heard
Jane earlier the Girl Gang. I mean, this is really awesome, so.
Speaker 10 (23:30):
Thanks for having me, absolutely so, Tracy.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
You are a part of so many moments like that
in the regular season, yet you are able to capture
it so perfectly that one specifically, you have to treat
it so differently because that's a rookie right there.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
When you were walking up to Jaden, What was going
through your mind?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
It's often a question that we asked, but how are
you approaching that interview?
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Well, first off, you just want the emotion. You're just
teeing them up. You want to get too complicated, and
I just was in shock at his reaction.
Speaker 8 (24:00):
And we can go back to the other hail Mary
I did, which is Rogers to Rogers back in twenty fifteen.
Sorry Cynthia, but I mean it was that one. Rogers
was elated. He compared it to winning the Super Bowl. Here,
Jayden Daniels is just so calm about it, and like
you said, he's a rookie. You don't really know is
our first time covering him. But that's what stands out
(24:22):
about Jayden Daniels. It's just another day at the office
for him. He's wise beyond his years. I think we
all saw that in his first season. It was really
incredible and all you want is to see that emotion.
He was like, I know it was going to be all.
Speaker 5 (24:36):
Good all along.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
Maybe you're like the indicator of when a hail mary
is going to.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Work because he's brought up at Aaron Rodgers jail Mary
and you cover a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Of games in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
How do you feel about the potential marriage between Aaron
Rodgers and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 6 (24:49):
Do you think it's going to be magical? Are there
going to be lots of hail mary's. What do you
think is gonna happen?
Speaker 8 (24:54):
I don't know talk about potential, I mean, is it
going to happen? I think we all we all kind
of want it to happen, especially for the Steelers.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
They're so important to the league.
Speaker 8 (25:04):
I know for CBS we have a lot of Steelers
game potentially on our schedule.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I love being around Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 8 (25:11):
I enjoy covering him, although it didn't get much of
a chance to get when he was with the Jets,
considering they weren't good enough to be on our air
all the time. But I will say I would like
to see him. I think it would be a tremendous
marriage for them, certainly with Mike Tomlin as a head coach.
He seems to make anything work. There's always success there
in Pittsburgh. They have a better defense, of course, and
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then you know they have weapons, and so just throw
Aaron Rodgers out there. But the problem is the longer
it takes, the longer this isn't going to work. They
certainly need time to get out there and gel and
I'm sure there's frustration in the locker room. And then
you have Mason Rudolph and who's going to start in
place if Rogers isn't there.
Speaker 5 (25:51):
So a lot of question marks still in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (25:54):
And I won't believe it until I actually see it
when Rogers shows up there.
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Tracy.
Speaker 15 (25:59):
First of all, congratulations on your Emmy. That's incredible. I
got to start by that. And I was watching that
clip of the Hail Mary, I couldn't help but think
that that Commander's team this year reminded me so much
of the twenty twenty one Bengals team where they kind
of came out of nowhere and you had the young
quarterback in Joe Burrow, and they just went on this
magical run and the country just fell in love with them.
Speaker 6 (26:21):
Did you feel that way?
Speaker 15 (26:23):
And what do you think is going to be happening
this year for the Bengals to take that next step
and get back into AFC postseason contention after two years
of missing the playoffs.
Speaker 8 (26:34):
Yeah, I mean, certainly that was a magical year for them.
They really it was kind of Joe Burrow's coming out party.
It put them on the map. They were a threat
every time they stepped on the field. They were a
threat to the Chiefs. You know, I think what's been
the issues there on Kelsey, you know better than anyone
being around this team, is these slow starts these last
two seasons have certainly set them back.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It hurts morale in a locker room.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
It's not a great feeling going in behind the eight
ball already, especially in a difficult division, the difficult schedule.
And you know, I love Joe Burrow taking the blame
for this season. He had probably the best season of
his career. He was in the MVP talks. It is
certainly not Joe Burrow. I think there needs to be
an improvement on the defensive side.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
I don't believe it was lou Anarumo's fault either.
Speaker 8 (27:22):
I think it's providing the playmakers out there on the
defensive side of the ball to give them some balance.
And I think that's what we haven't seen from the
Cincinnati team. And hopefully we do al Golden coming in,
but you need to have the right players there.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Certainly on the offensive side. They don't really seem to
have some issues there.
Speaker 8 (27:41):
They just need to be able to have more balance,
and they certainly can't start from behind coming.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
Into this season with the schedule they have, and certainly
in that AFC North that is so challenging. As we
talked with Pittsburgh.
Speaker 8 (27:54):
If potentially they get Rogers, then you of course have
Baltimore and Lamar Jackson to deal with, and then the
rest of that schedule where you'll be playing, you know,
those other difficult teams on the road. So I think
that's the key for the Bengals this year is certainly
getting off to that quick start.
Speaker 16 (28:10):
Justice for lou We love to see lou get some
of the shine in an indian As situation for him there.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
We love oil.
Speaker 16 (28:17):
We also love the Kansas City Chiefs and I know
you cover them a lot, but are they the top
dogs in the FC? Because I have to wonder, Tracy,
what is it going to take for Lamar Jackson and
Harball to get over the hump and a hoisted trophy?
Speaker 6 (28:29):
When we talk about how tricky that just one division is.
Speaker 5 (28:34):
Yeah, yeah, it's hard.
Speaker 8 (28:35):
I mean you talk both sides of the ball right there,
because when you talk about the Chiefs, and yes, I
feel like I should have an apartment there there all
the time.
Speaker 5 (28:44):
But I do love covering them.
Speaker 8 (28:46):
They're one of my favorite teams to be around, and
they are always the team to beat. I mean, how
can they not be. And I think they're more motivated
than ever coming off a Super Bowl loss. And when
you think about them, you know, Patrick Mahomes, you know,
comes off frustrated, right, didn't feel like he played his best.
You know, they didn't have really the weapons all together
at the wide receiver position. You talk about Rashid Rice
(29:08):
and Xavier Worthy in Hollywood Brown.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
They didn't play one game together.
Speaker 8 (29:12):
If they can stay healthy, they can be out on
that field, and then you throw in Travis Kelce, who
seems to be reinvigorated. I mean, this team again is
going to be that team to beat. And then you
talk about Steve Spagnola and what he's built on the
defensive side of the ball, and certainly that's been the
reason for these last two years that they've been able
to get so far, not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (29:33):
What Patrick Mahomes in this offense has done.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
And of course they've committed more to the run game,
something Andy Reid doesn't necessarily love, but he knew that
he had to embrace. And I love how this team
is made up. So again, they certainly are going to
be the hunted. Yes, he talk about Lamar Jackson, talk
about Baltimore. I'd love to see them take the next step.
I really saw a maturity from Lamar Jackson this year,
(29:56):
and not only on the field and his progressions, but
even off the field. And I think they're just waiting
to take that next step. That's always what it it's
gonna come down Tom. I'm sure Cincinnati will be in
the mix again, no doubt, and of course Buffalo we've
got those four you know, big teams that always wind
up colliding come playoff time, and you know, throwing at
(30:16):
Denver and maybe at Houston, and who knows what Pittsburgh
does if they do get Rogers. But it should be
really an exciting season in the AFC.
Speaker 6 (30:25):
Tracy, you're all over it this morning.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
We appreciate it so much, And of course that is
why a couple of weeks back you won your second
consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Sideline Reporter.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
I mean, we've got one of those trophies up there.
Speaker 6 (30:39):
Where's the other one.
Speaker 2 (30:40):
We got to get the bam bam and.
Speaker 3 (30:42):
The backdrop for these interviews where it is, don't hid
it that trick is coming this Yeah, exactly, Terracy.
Speaker 6 (30:50):
It's just your coverage is just so thorough and great.
Speaker 3 (30:53):
And what I often say about being on television, specifically
in this role, is like people have to like to
want to be around you. You have to be a
likable person for Lamar, for James Daniels, for these coaches
to come up and want to talk repeatedly. You just
said you should have a condo in Kansas City because
of how many production meetings you might have to sit
with Andy Reid er Patrick mahomes. What's something that people
might not know about the intricacies of this job and
(31:16):
the one that you carry that people covet so much.
Speaker 5 (31:20):
I think there's two things.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
I think one thing is you just pointed out, Jamie
that the relationships you build with these coaches and players
make your job easier and allow you to do a
better job.
Speaker 5 (31:30):
When you get onto the sidelines.
Speaker 8 (31:32):
When you're in these meetings, the trust factor they have
with you, certainly the interview process becomes a little bit easier,
you get better.
Speaker 5 (31:39):
Soundbites out of it.
Speaker 8 (31:41):
That trust and building that trust and keeping that trust
is so important, and it develops over the years. Certainly
twenty years in this business, eleven years in the NFL.
Speaker 5 (31:50):
It takes time.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And even the relationships I built in college when I
covered college football and NANCC have carried over to the NFL.
That certainly helped as well. And I think second, it's
really the stuff you do behind the scenes. Of course,
that prep work we know going INCA games, but when
we're on the field, it's not just those thirty second bites.
It's not the five times you're on the air, but
(32:12):
it's everything you're doing during the game behind the scenes,
the communication you have with the booth. Everything I'm telling
Jim and Tony, maybe off.
Speaker 5 (32:20):
Camera in a time out, in a commercial break.
Speaker 8 (32:24):
Everything I'm talking to my producer Jim Rickoff or my
director Mike Arnold. I might be saying, this is happening
over here, make sure you get a camera over here.
Speaker 5 (32:31):
This is what the official just said. This is what
the quarterback told the offensive line. A lot of that stuff.
First off, you can't get on the air. You don't
have time.
Speaker 8 (32:39):
It's not the right time of a game. You might
be in a red zone. They might have just called
time out. We might be going back to commercial break.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Who knows.
Speaker 8 (32:46):
So all of that communication. There's so much I'm doing
behind the scenes that no one really sees. That's really
important to the broadcast.
Speaker 6 (32:53):
And it's so hard to see the whole field were
ground level.
Speaker 16 (32:57):
I don't think people realize how hard that job is.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
And you're back by the end of the day when
you hear it too.
Speaker 8 (33:02):
But I'm maneuver my way everywhere, and I think you learn,
like as you know and Jamie you know this really well,
is like you learn where to be at what time.
And Patrick Mahomes throws an interception, You're going right over
to Mahomes to see his reaction, and you're just hoping
you don't miss something because you can't be on both
sidelines at once, and so I think that comes with
(33:25):
feel and comes with.
Speaker 5 (33:26):
Overtime of being in this business. But I love that part.
I'm like a you know, investigative reporter down there.
Speaker 3 (33:32):
Yes, it's a classic, Like the play's going this way,
and I swear Tracy's eyes probably go to the head
coach or the coordinator like she's watching.
Speaker 6 (33:38):
For the reaction. Everybody else is watching the ball go
that way.
Speaker 3 (33:41):
But that's what makes you great, Tracy Wilson, Thank you
so much for coming and always a pleasure to discuss
the NFL and your entirety of your covered Tracy, You're great.
There she has two time Emmy winner Tracy Wilson.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
Good football.
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