June 5, 2024 • 17 mins
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Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Super Bowl Champion Jason McCourty discuss how they see Derrick Henry fitting in with the Ravens. With Henry teaming up with Lamar Jackson, the table delivers their all-time QB/RB duos?
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to Good Morning Football Live in New York City.
I'm Jamie eard Alders, Peter shrag or, Jason mccordy, Kyle Brant.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
What's happening? How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
P Shragg's voice listed as probable going to stretch out
on the field before the game.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Peter, I like it. This is your flu game exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Let's put a ball on what happened in Baltimore in
their backfield. Derek Lamar Junior Henry, that's his middle name.
It works now with the Baltimore Ravens. What do we
make of Derek Lamar j Henry Junior. Excuse me as
a Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Raven Derek Henry played against the Ravens in the twenty
nineteen Divisional round and kicked their butt. They then had
the Pro Bowl and the entire Ravens staff in front
office got a chance to look at Derek Henry up close.
And then they go to it international play this year
and Derek Henry is still terrified. Then this was like
a match made over the course of five years.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
It was just what is this?
Speaker 6 (01:12):
This specimen and how do we get our hands on him? Finally,
Derrick Henry is a Baltimore Raven. After all those times
they played against each other, in all those great games
he's had, I'll tell you, I love this fit. I
love it for not only the team and the roster,
and for Todd Mounkin and for Lamar. I get caught
into these cliches sometimes, but I love it for the city.
I think that the way that Derrick Henry plays so tough,
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so big, just a brawling body and kind of a
unicorn at the position. These days, now you get your scatbacks,
you get your different type of all purpose guys. Dereck
Henry is give me the ball up the gut and
I'm gonna run over somebody. And he does it with
such grace and such power. I think this was a
huge jolt for a team. They got to the AFC
Championship game and was knocking on the door. And if
(01:56):
Flagerious Snead doesn't knock the ball loose from Jay Flowers,
we don't know what happens, but we do know this
in key moments, Yeah, in the run all together, they
were throwing the ball in the second half that entire
I don't know if they abandoned the run. If they
have Derrick Henry in the backfield, who they know cauld
pick up four yards, we know could pick up five hours,
who we know can throw a jump pass touchdown, which
(02:18):
is exactly what he did against them in the playoffs
in twenty nineteen. Derek Henry has kicked the Ravens butts
time and time again. Now he's gonna kick him up
for them. I love this signing. It's a great fit
and at that price. Look Henry, thirty year old running back,
whatever he is. I understand it seems like it's not
as much as Sakuan, but at that price it actually
makes a lot of sense for both sides.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Good signing, Baltimore, great fit.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
And Kyle yesterday was giving us a little bit of
trivia question, So I have one for you guys today.
There have been two other Titans players that have played
their entire career in Tennessee or Houston and then been
able to go over to Baltimore in their thirties. Can
you name those two players?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
The late Steve McNair, Yes, Ate McNair and one more,
Derek Mason. I know you were gonna get it.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Those two guys did the same thing in their thirties
going over to Baltimore having success. I look at this
for Derek Henry in a lot of people look at
this and say, without watching the film or watching what
Derek Henry did this past year, well he's a running
back who's falling off. Derek Henry led all running backs
and rushes attempted last year. He was second in rushing
yards behind Christian McCaffrey. So don't just sit there and
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say something about this guy. He gets double digit touchdowns,
you feel like every single season. But I think, to
your point shirts, what he means to this offense and
just the mentality.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And way he runs the ball.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
You're gonna look in a backfield and there's gonna be
Derek Henry standing in the shotgun next.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
To Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
And now when Lamar Jackson puts the ball in Derrik
Henry's gut, you got to decide, are you going downhill
on Derrick Henry but risking the fact that Lamar pulls
it and now he's getting on the edge. We saw
a lot more from the passing game from Lamar Jackson
last year with the edition of Zay Flowers. Odell Beckham
Junior is still a free agent, so who knows whether
he'll be.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Back in the fold for them.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
But when you have a guy like Derek Henry to
be able to and the ball off and trust that
he can get it done, it changes things.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I look at this for Titans fans as well.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
And AJ Brown was in his prime, he was coming
up in a contract, you traded him to Philly, and
you watch him go to Philly and just go off
as a star receiver for them. Now Derrek Henry, I know,
they got a ton of mileage out of Derrick Henry
in a ton of success. But if you watch Derrick
Henry now go to Baltimore and they have a lot
of success and Derrick Henry goes for over a thousand
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yards and their team that is playing at the end
of the season, has to be a sickening feeling of
just seeing this type of guy, what he's meant to
that city and now that he's moving on and the
fact that he's going to a great Baltimore Ravens team.
To your point, that just couldn't get over the hump.
I can't wait to see him in that uniform. I
said yesterday, I wonder if he's going to go back
to his college number, that old school number two in
the backfield for the Baltimore Ravens. I mean, you look
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at what rap sheet talked about Danil Hunter Derek Henry
both signing. I don't know if there's two guys that
look better in their uniform than those two guys, arms, size,
everything that they have.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Unbelievable total package. Real quick question career wise.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
So now he's at this point in his career thirties,
I'm sure there were other offers. He chooses Baltimore. Do
you think that's because he's like, it's time for me
to get my ring or is this not really in
the heads of every player. I know you had a
long journey before he finally got you.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I definitely think it is.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
And there's no guarantee no matter what team to go to,
that I'm gonna go get him.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
But I think you give yourself a chance.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
And I think for Derek Henry, you're looking at it,
You're like, all right, I was in Tennessee, like a
lot of my time.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
There, we weren't winning many games.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
For Derrick Henry, they felt like they were truly competing
for a Super Bowl, and there's a different feeling on
that team in that locker room where you're like, you
know what, we have a legit chance to make it
and actually win the Super Bowl. We have a quarterback
who's a former MVP of Lamar Jackson. Two times you
have a shot, So I think that means a ton
to him, and you're going to a really good organization
knowing that they're doing it.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I still think he's got wheels left on him. I
had that game in London and just watching him walk
around where the team stayed the Titans at the time.
He's not this guy that limbers around with like ice
bags on his knees, and he walks into the production
room looking all like he still looks like he has
years and miles left on those legs, which is great
for the Ravens. Did you see what our guys at
Jimmy Seafood did for Jimmy's Jimmy makes an offer and says, camp,
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you know, we hope Derek Henry's coming to Baltimore. Then
they up it and they say free crab cakes for life,
for life, and he says, I'm pulling up for show,
and then Jimmy says, the King has spoken.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
They all they like committed.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It was a it was an Instagram handshake, okay, and
now I mean Jimmy's. They might be out some money,
but at least they got King Henry and Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I'm gonna have some time off in the next few months.
I'm gonna have to make a trip to Baltimore down
OTAs or something and go grab lunch.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You have to bring, you have to bring Derek get
the free crab.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, I'm going. Well, I'm just parting, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We know that if a city offered you free chips
and salsa for life, you would be there in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So we know that.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Why do you think I'm away from the table right now.
I got the offer. I got it just happened. It's
funny you say that, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Listen this, listen. This is obviously big news.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
If you're out there in them Angry Run Street like
I am all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
We had to scramble the jets.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yesterday we had an emergency meeting of the Angry Runs
Council to address Derrick Henry going to the Baltimore Ravens
and guys, this is a beautiful, beautiful thing because listen,
speaking strictly in the Angry Runs, Dereck Henry did not
win one last year.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He did not.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
He went wired and wired. Will Levis won one on
the Titans. Derrick Henry did not. Meanwhile, Najie Harris is
taking over. He's got next. And yet I feel like
Henry going to the Ravens and the Angry Run senses.
You know, it's a little bit of like a Stella
got her groove back. Remember that, you know, Stella's not
really feeling it. She's not like coming into her prime.
Then she goes down to the Caribbean, she meets Ty
(07:40):
Diggs and Tate Diggs is, I would like to dance
with you, like, all right, come on now. I feel
like that's Lamar and Harbaugh saying that to Derrick Henry.
Let me just give you a little scenario in which
you were in the AFC North or anywhere on the
Baltimore Ravens schedule.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You play outside linebacker.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know, Jason, maybe you're one of those little
fast guys who plays in the secondary and Lamar is
a you know, in the under the center, and he
does some crazy fake motion jet sweep thing, and then
he tosses it out wide to Derrick Henry, who has
pat ricard in front of him in space. So if
you can even navigate through the pat ricard problem, and
it's a substantial one, then your reward.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Is Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I feel like he's going to get his groove back,
and there's some juice. There's some more nasty, as if
they needed more nasty. I'm looking forward to the Ravens
in the playoffs next year. Whoever is trying to tackle
that man get through recard. Good luck, you're gonna need it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Good morning football.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All right, time for whiteboard Wednesday. The Ravens are prepared
to have a brand new King Henry in Baltimore. Right
behind they're reigning MVP and Lamar Jackson. Those two have
the potential to be one of the most lethal quarterback
running back thoughs in the NFL in twenty twenty four.
But if things go well, they could land on an
all time list as quarterback running back duo of all time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Peter is all right, So.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
For years, John Elway would get all the way to
the Super Bowl and he would be the best quarterback
in football.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
They'd get to the Super Bowl and whether it.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Was Montana and Jerry Rice, or whether it was Washington,
whether it was a Giants, they would come up just short.
And then he got this guy in the backfield with him,
Terrell Davis. I'm going John Elway and Torel Davis. Terrell
Davis might have been the best running back in football
for a four year span, and John Elway did not
get those two rings until he had TD behind him.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Tote in the rock.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
We know about Terrell Davis's incredible Super Bowl and as
we're showing him getting handoff from Bobby Brister, we don't want.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
To minimize his career.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
It's not just he was in the shadow of Lway.
Terrell Davis a Hall of Famer in his own right.
Dear colleague of ours for many years. Loved him as
a Bronco in the old uniforms and then in the
new uniforms. He won rings in both of them. Terrell
Davis John Elway awesome duo. I don't know if there
was ever a more dynamic one too. Remember that Broncos
team that seconds run. They start off the season like
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thirteen and h lost to the Giants in the game
and then eventually went on and rotted it off in
the playoffs and beat the Falcons.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
And blew them out. So Lay and TD, those are
my guys.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Tough as nails and amazing individual careers as individuals, but
then of course as teammates and at tandem.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Love them.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I love that when you talk about like the transition
to new uniforms, when you're one of the best players,
you want to go out and get that new cool
uniform and it's gonna be Elway or TD. And in
that vein, I'm going with Air McNair and Eddie George.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You talk about scary duos from a quarterback, from a
running back.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Eddie George comes in, he's six to two hundred and
forty pounds, and we're talking about Derek Henry Lamar Jackson.
Derek Henry comes in, He's sixty three, two hundred and
forty eight pounds. So you talk about I couldn't imagine
being on defense and Eddie George is running downhill. But
in the very next play, Aaron McNair makes three people
miss in the backfield and then launches won forty yards
down the field. These guys played together for eight seasons.
(11:00):
They had the third most wins during that time. They
were just so fun and electric. And I remember being
a kid when those Titans uniforms first hit, and it
was like people became fans of the Tights just because
they thought the uniforms are really cool. And you got
a chance to watch these two guys go at it,
and they were fantastic and so fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
So I love it. I really liked that combination as well.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Kyle, this is right where you lived, man, what are
you hitting us with?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You know what, though, I'm gonna zag I actually think
the scariest running back of all time is Barry Sanders,
because I think guys, you could be scared of getting
embarrassed trying to tackle him, getting injured, getting cut, getting fired,
whatever it may be. I still think that the reason
John Lynch had to wait so long to get in
the Hall of Fame is because of Barry Sanders. If
you pull up Barry Sanders highlights on YouTube, John Lynch
is in half of them, and it's not pretty. However,
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I'm going to make a little statement here. My tandem
is Barry and Scott Mitchell, and I'm gonna pull from
the headlines and for the love of God, don't put
us on Instagram. I'm just taking a moment to soapbox
about Scott Mitchell. If you have not read Dan Pompey's
peace about Scott Mitchell in The Athletic and you followed
football in the nineteen nineties, I highly recommend it. It's
a fascinating thing in which Scott Mitchell says, Hey, I'm
(12:03):
done being your punch line for the Barry Sanders era.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm not here for it. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Scott Mitchell, thirty years ago in nineteen ninety four was
the crown jewel of free agency.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
If we were doing free agent frenzay.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
In nineteen ninety four, all we would talk about is
Scott Mitchell. Every single coach wanted him with adult from
the Dolphins, where he was back in a band reno.
They wooed him, they begged him, and eventually they gave
him the second highest signing bonus in NFL history five
million dollars in nineteen ninety four, bigger than Reggie White's
the year before, to go to the Packers. No, Scott
Mitchell was not the perfect quarterback. Yes, he made mistakes,
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but he is calling out everybody, from Jeff Daniels to
M and M say enough with the bleeping kicking me around.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I haven't had it anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I had spent a lot of my youth watching Scott Mitchell.
I respected his game. I respect the way he went
about it. So just for this one segment, I want
to say, Barry, of course, but Scott Mitchell, I respected.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Your game and I like the way you handle yourself.
I don't care very good, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean any opportunity to jump on a soapbox that
evolves Barry Sanders, Kyle's gonna take it. Kyle hank Tight,
have your second one ready. There are a handful of
free agents who have signed with division rivals this week,
including players like Saquon Barkley, Patrick Queen, Aaron Jones at
the Purple Sombrero now your favorite division rival free agent
signing Peter in NFL history.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Okay, so some of these are personal, all right. I
broke this news oh in twenty fifteen, so I have
a real heart for this one.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
And when it happened, it was a huge We.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Were talking about an All Pro running back and a
three time Pro bowler who fell disrespected by his team
DeMarco Murray signing with the Philadelphia Eagles from the Dallas Cowboys.
I know it seems like it's distant memory, and I
think I remember that at the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Time, it was huge.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
DeMarco Murray was coming off a great run as the
Dallas Cowboys number one, and where's he gonna go?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Of all places, he chooses to go to Chip.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Kelly's spread offense.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Where he would go to Philly.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
But one of the main reasons why his quarterback, Sam
Bradford from college was the quarterback with the Eagles. Wow,
all this stuff sounds just like it's like, what like
Sam Bradford.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And Chip Kelly and the Eagles and.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, DeMarco Murray.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
At the time, this was massive.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Howie Roseman making a big splash then uh he was
the offensive player of the Year in twenty fourteen, he
led the NFL in rushing yards and touchdowns. The next
offseason jumps to the division rival hated Eagles. It was
massive at the time and I was lucky to have
the quick Twitter fingers at the time. Big moment in
my career got me the job on Good Morning Football, Peter.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Real quick question like how how did you become so
close with DeMarco Murray. Was it like through representation or
coaching or whatever, like, how does that work?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
We don't know's.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Sources sources never say I was somehow involved in this one,
and I wasn't breaking every news piece, but this one.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Mm okay, he got the green light.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Demarcol Murray aka the Kid, came to Tennessee after that,
Stay and Billy. The one thing you love about those rivals,
I get to New England and the one thing I
had played against the Jets before, but it just hit
different when I got to New England. Jets week Bill
would have it up there and would always be New
England Pagers versus Jets always say MF Jets. That just
lets you know where the disdain is for the New
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York Jets. So you think if a player is gonna
jump shit, I'm going with the guy. Darrell Reeves revis
Island when he was a New York Jets. He called
Bill Belichick a jerk on ESPN. He also said, you
know what, Tom Brady is in a hole on the
field sometimes, and this is a rivalry that they don't
like each other.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Not only did he leave the.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Jets and join the Patriots, he won a Super Bowl
with the Patriots and then went back to the New
York Jets. So when you talk about division rivals, teams
not like each other. And then Darrell Reeves, the best
cornerback of his generation, one of the best to ever
be out there on the football field, him switching between
these two teams and absolutely balling for the Patriots, helping
dictate their entire defense on a Super Bowl one.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
And then he goes back with his old teammates. He's like, yeah, fellas,
look what I got. I got me a ring. Now
we can just go out there and play and have fun.
So I'm going with Darrel Reeves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's a really good one. I had forgotten all that
beef that he had to the chit chat before him. Kyle,
where do you take us? Maybe a division that is
dismantled by now or chain. So I feel like you
can dip your toe in history at this point.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I can, but I'm actually gonna dip it in the
same pool that Jason did. January third, two thousand, it
was announced that Bill Belichick was gonna be the head
coach of the New York Jets. January fourth, two thousand. Oh,
We're gonna have a press conference. This is gonna be great.
We're gonna announce Belichick's the future. This guy shows up
and does the ropendope and literally writes on a cocktail napkin,
I resign as HC of the nyj He didn't even
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write out the words head.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Coach, HC. Belichick, Jets, Pats. It was an all timer.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
If the media existed the way it did now back then,
it would have been a full mushroom cloud over the
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It probably was. Anyway, I'm gonna be the head coach
of the Jets.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Psych, I'm actually gonna be head coach of the Patriots,
your rival, and we're gonna go and win six Super Bowls.
You know what the best part is, guys, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
He was asked about it in The Dynasty, this Patriots documentary,
and he had great, really really interesting, colorful insight into it.
They said, what was going on that day, Bill, and
he goes.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I don't have anything to doubt about that, and that
was it.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Like he says about every single thing in the whole
doc that's my moment, Belichick, from the Jets to the Pats.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Kyle, you were on one yesterday about heel turn and
how we shouldn't be using it for something that might
qualify as a top five heel turn right there.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, that's Hollywood Hogan Bash at the Beach in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I will completely take it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I wish that napkin still existed. I wish she was
in a museum somewhere. I wish she was in Canton somewhere.
What happened to that napkin? You know, Peter, they probably
have to think that's been spread out for the reporters
to stuff their faces with bare claws and stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I bet that napkin was part of that.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I think Darren Ravel has that napkin somewhere who's selling
at like a live auction. Yeah, and I think Revel
is the guy who relics. I'm gonna go with that one.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I bet that's his connection.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Good Morning Football,
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to Good Morning Football Live in New York City.
I'm Jamie eard Alders, Peter shrag or, Jason mccordy, Kyle Brant.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
What's happening? How are you?
Speaker 5 (00:32):
P Shragg's voice listed as probable going to stretch out
on the field before the game.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
Peter, I like it. This is your flu game exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Let's put a ball on what happened in Baltimore in
their backfield. Derek Lamar Junior Henry, that's his middle name.
It works now with the Baltimore Ravens. What do we
make of Derek Lamar j Henry Junior. Excuse me as
a Baltimore.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Raven Derek Henry played against the Ravens in the twenty
nineteen Divisional round and kicked their butt. They then had
the Pro Bowl and the entire Ravens staff in front
office got a chance to look at Derek Henry up close.
And then they go to it international play this year
and Derek Henry is still terrified. Then this was like
a match made over the course of five years.
Speaker 7 (01:11):
It was just what is this?
Speaker 6 (01:12):
This specimen and how do we get our hands on him? Finally,
Derrick Henry is a Baltimore Raven. After all those times
they played against each other, in all those great games
he's had, I'll tell you, I love this fit. I
love it for not only the team and the roster,
and for Todd Mounkin and for Lamar. I get caught
into these cliches sometimes, but I love it for the city.
I think that the way that Derrick Henry plays so tough,
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so big, just a brawling body and kind of a
unicorn at the position. These days, now you get your scatbacks,
you get your different type of all purpose guys. Dereck
Henry is give me the ball up the gut and
I'm gonna run over somebody. And he does it with
such grace and such power. I think this was a
huge jolt for a team. They got to the AFC
Championship game and was knocking on the door. And if
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Flagerious Snead doesn't knock the ball loose from Jay Flowers,
we don't know what happens, but we do know this
in key moments, Yeah, in the run all together, they
were throwing the ball in the second half that entire
I don't know if they abandoned the run. If they
have Derrick Henry in the backfield, who they know cauld
pick up four yards, we know could pick up five hours,
who we know can throw a jump pass touchdown, which
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is exactly what he did against them in the playoffs
in twenty nineteen. Derek Henry has kicked the Ravens butts
time and time again. Now he's gonna kick him up
for them. I love this signing. It's a great fit
and at that price. Look Henry, thirty year old running back,
whatever he is. I understand it seems like it's not
as much as Sakuan, but at that price it actually
makes a lot of sense for both sides.
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Good signing, Baltimore, great fit.
Speaker 8 (02:39):
And Kyle yesterday was giving us a little bit of
trivia question, So I have one for you guys today.
There have been two other Titans players that have played
their entire career in Tennessee or Houston and then been
able to go over to Baltimore in their thirties. Can
you name those two players?
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Wow?
Speaker 6 (02:55):
The late Steve McNair, Yes, Ate McNair and one more,
Derek Mason. I know you were gonna get it.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
I love it.
Speaker 8 (03:07):
Those two guys did the same thing in their thirties
going over to Baltimore having success. I look at this
for Derek Henry in a lot of people look at
this and say, without watching the film or watching what
Derek Henry did this past year, well he's a running
back who's falling off. Derek Henry led all running backs
and rushes attempted last year. He was second in rushing
yards behind Christian McCaffrey. So don't just sit there and
(03:28):
say something about this guy. He gets double digit touchdowns,
you feel like every single season. But I think, to
your point shirts, what he means to this offense and
just the mentality.
Speaker 7 (03:37):
And way he runs the ball.
Speaker 8 (03:38):
You're gonna look in a backfield and there's gonna be
Derek Henry standing in the shotgun next.
Speaker 7 (03:42):
To Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
And now when Lamar Jackson puts the ball in Derrik
Henry's gut, you got to decide, are you going downhill
on Derrick Henry but risking the fact that Lamar pulls
it and now he's getting on the edge. We saw
a lot more from the passing game from Lamar Jackson
last year with the edition of Zay Flowers. Odell Beckham
Junior is still a free agent, so who knows whether
he'll be.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Back in the fold for them.
Speaker 8 (04:02):
But when you have a guy like Derek Henry to
be able to and the ball off and trust that
he can get it done, it changes things.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
I look at this for Titans fans as well.
Speaker 8 (04:10):
And AJ Brown was in his prime, he was coming
up in a contract, you traded him to Philly, and
you watch him go to Philly and just go off
as a star receiver for them. Now Derrek Henry, I know,
they got a ton of mileage out of Derrick Henry
in a ton of success. But if you watch Derrick
Henry now go to Baltimore and they have a lot
of success and Derrick Henry goes for over a thousand
(04:30):
yards and their team that is playing at the end
of the season, has to be a sickening feeling of
just seeing this type of guy, what he's meant to
that city and now that he's moving on and the
fact that he's going to a great Baltimore Ravens team.
To your point, that just couldn't get over the hump.
I can't wait to see him in that uniform. I
said yesterday, I wonder if he's going to go back
to his college number, that old school number two in
the backfield for the Baltimore Ravens. I mean, you look
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at what rap sheet talked about Danil Hunter Derek Henry
both signing. I don't know if there's two guys that
look better in their uniform than those two guys, arms, size,
everything that they have.
Speaker 7 (05:02):
Unbelievable total package. Real quick question career wise.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
So now he's at this point in his career thirties,
I'm sure there were other offers. He chooses Baltimore. Do
you think that's because he's like, it's time for me
to get my ring or is this not really in
the heads of every player. I know you had a
long journey before he finally got you.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
I definitely think it is.
Speaker 8 (05:20):
And there's no guarantee no matter what team to go to,
that I'm gonna go get him.
Speaker 7 (05:24):
But I think you give yourself a chance.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
And I think for Derek Henry, you're looking at it,
You're like, all right, I was in Tennessee, like a
lot of my time.
Speaker 7 (05:30):
There, we weren't winning many games.
Speaker 8 (05:32):
For Derrick Henry, they felt like they were truly competing
for a Super Bowl, and there's a different feeling on
that team in that locker room where you're like, you
know what, we have a legit chance to make it
and actually win the Super Bowl. We have a quarterback
who's a former MVP of Lamar Jackson. Two times you
have a shot, So I think that means a ton
to him, and you're going to a really good organization
knowing that they're doing it.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
The right way.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I still think he's got wheels left on him. I
had that game in London and just watching him walk
around where the team stayed the Titans at the time.
He's not this guy that limbers around with like ice
bags on his knees, and he walks into the production
room looking all like he still looks like he has
years and miles left on those legs, which is great
for the Ravens. Did you see what our guys at
Jimmy Seafood did for Jimmy's Jimmy makes an offer and says, camp,
(06:17):
you know, we hope Derek Henry's coming to Baltimore. Then
they up it and they say free crab cakes for life,
for life, and he says, I'm pulling up for show,
and then Jimmy says, the King has spoken.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
They all they like committed.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It was a it was an Instagram handshake, okay, and
now I mean Jimmy's. They might be out some money,
but at least they got King Henry and Baltimore.
Speaker 8 (06:36):
I'm gonna have some time off in the next few months.
I'm gonna have to make a trip to Baltimore down
OTAs or something and go grab lunch.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You have to bring, you have to bring Derek get
the free crab.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Of course.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, I'm going. Well, I'm just parting, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
We know that if a city offered you free chips
and salsa for life, you would be there in a heartbeat.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
So we know that.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Why do you think I'm away from the table right now.
I got the offer. I got it just happened. It's
funny you say that, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (06:59):
Listen this, listen. This is obviously big news.
Speaker 5 (07:01):
If you're out there in them Angry Run Street like
I am all the time.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
We had to scramble the jets.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yesterday we had an emergency meeting of the Angry Runs
Council to address Derrick Henry going to the Baltimore Ravens
and guys, this is a beautiful, beautiful thing because listen,
speaking strictly in the Angry Runs, Dereck Henry did not
win one last year.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
He did not.
Speaker 5 (07:19):
He went wired and wired. Will Levis won one on
the Titans. Derrick Henry did not. Meanwhile, Najie Harris is
taking over. He's got next. And yet I feel like
Henry going to the Ravens and the Angry Run senses.
You know, it's a little bit of like a Stella
got her groove back. Remember that, you know, Stella's not
really feeling it. She's not like coming into her prime.
Then she goes down to the Caribbean, she meets Ty
(07:40):
Diggs and Tate Diggs is, I would like to dance
with you, like, all right, come on now. I feel
like that's Lamar and Harbaugh saying that to Derrick Henry.
Let me just give you a little scenario in which
you were in the AFC North or anywhere on the
Baltimore Ravens schedule.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
You play outside linebacker.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I don't know, Jason, maybe you're one of those little
fast guys who plays in the secondary and Lamar is
a you know, in the under the center, and he
does some crazy fake motion jet sweep thing, and then
he tosses it out wide to Derrick Henry, who has
pat ricard in front of him in space. So if
you can even navigate through the pat ricard problem, and
it's a substantial one, then your reward.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Is Derrick Henry.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I feel like he's going to get his groove back,
and there's some juice. There's some more nasty, as if
they needed more nasty. I'm looking forward to the Ravens
in the playoffs next year. Whoever is trying to tackle
that man get through recard. Good luck, you're gonna need it.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Good morning football.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
All right, time for whiteboard Wednesday. The Ravens are prepared
to have a brand new King Henry in Baltimore. Right
behind they're reigning MVP and Lamar Jackson. Those two have
the potential to be one of the most lethal quarterback
running back thoughs in the NFL in twenty twenty four.
But if things go well, they could land on an
all time list as quarterback running back duo of all time.
Speaker 4 (09:08):
Peter is all right, So.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
For years, John Elway would get all the way to
the Super Bowl and he would be the best quarterback
in football.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
They'd get to the Super Bowl and whether it.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Was Montana and Jerry Rice, or whether it was Washington,
whether it was a Giants, they would come up just short.
And then he got this guy in the backfield with him,
Terrell Davis. I'm going John Elway and Torel Davis. Terrell
Davis might have been the best running back in football
for a four year span, and John Elway did not
get those two rings until he had TD behind him.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Tote in the rock.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
We know about Terrell Davis's incredible Super Bowl and as
we're showing him getting handoff from Bobby Brister, we don't want.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
To minimize his career.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
It's not just he was in the shadow of Lway.
Terrell Davis a Hall of Famer in his own right.
Dear colleague of ours for many years. Loved him as
a Bronco in the old uniforms and then in the
new uniforms. He won rings in both of them. Terrell
Davis John Elway awesome duo. I don't know if there
was ever a more dynamic one too. Remember that Broncos
team that seconds run. They start off the season like
(10:05):
thirteen and h lost to the Giants in the game
and then eventually went on and rotted it off in
the playoffs and beat the Falcons.
Speaker 7 (10:11):
And blew them out. So Lay and TD, those are
my guys.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Tough as nails and amazing individual careers as individuals, but
then of course as teammates and at tandem.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Love them.
Speaker 8 (10:21):
I love that when you talk about like the transition
to new uniforms, when you're one of the best players,
you want to go out and get that new cool
uniform and it's gonna be Elway or TD. And in
that vein, I'm going with Air McNair and Eddie George.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
You talk about scary duos from a quarterback, from a
running back.
Speaker 8 (10:37):
Eddie George comes in, he's six to two hundred and
forty pounds, and we're talking about Derek Henry Lamar Jackson.
Derek Henry comes in, He's sixty three, two hundred and
forty eight pounds. So you talk about I couldn't imagine
being on defense and Eddie George is running downhill. But
in the very next play, Aaron McNair makes three people
miss in the backfield and then launches won forty yards
down the field. These guys played together for eight seasons.
(11:00):
They had the third most wins during that time. They
were just so fun and electric. And I remember being
a kid when those Titans uniforms first hit, and it
was like people became fans of the Tights just because
they thought the uniforms are really cool. And you got
a chance to watch these two guys go at it,
and they were fantastic and so fun to watch.
Speaker 7 (11:16):
So I love it. I really liked that combination as well.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
Kyle, this is right where you lived, man, what are
you hitting us with?
Speaker 4 (11:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (11:22):
You know what, though, I'm gonna zag I actually think
the scariest running back of all time is Barry Sanders,
because I think guys, you could be scared of getting
embarrassed trying to tackle him, getting injured, getting cut, getting fired,
whatever it may be. I still think that the reason
John Lynch had to wait so long to get in
the Hall of Fame is because of Barry Sanders. If
you pull up Barry Sanders highlights on YouTube, John Lynch
is in half of them, and it's not pretty. However,
(11:42):
I'm going to make a little statement here. My tandem
is Barry and Scott Mitchell, and I'm gonna pull from
the headlines and for the love of God, don't put
us on Instagram. I'm just taking a moment to soapbox
about Scott Mitchell. If you have not read Dan Pompey's
peace about Scott Mitchell in The Athletic and you followed
football in the nineteen nineties, I highly recommend it. It's
a fascinating thing in which Scott Mitchell says, Hey, I'm
(12:03):
done being your punch line for the Barry Sanders era.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
I'm not here for it. I'm not gonna do it.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Scott Mitchell, thirty years ago in nineteen ninety four was
the crown jewel of free agency.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
If we were doing free agent frenzay.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
In nineteen ninety four, all we would talk about is
Scott Mitchell. Every single coach wanted him with adult from
the Dolphins, where he was back in a band reno.
They wooed him, they begged him, and eventually they gave
him the second highest signing bonus in NFL history five
million dollars in nineteen ninety four, bigger than Reggie White's
the year before, to go to the Packers. No, Scott
Mitchell was not the perfect quarterback. Yes, he made mistakes,
(12:35):
but he is calling out everybody, from Jeff Daniels to
M and M say enough with the bleeping kicking me around.
Speaker 4 (12:41):
I haven't had it anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
I had spent a lot of my youth watching Scott Mitchell.
I respected his game. I respect the way he went
about it. So just for this one segment, I want
to say, Barry, of course, but Scott Mitchell, I respected.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Your game and I like the way you handle yourself.
I don't care very good, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
I mean any opportunity to jump on a soapbox that
evolves Barry Sanders, Kyle's gonna take it. Kyle hank Tight,
have your second one ready. There are a handful of
free agents who have signed with division rivals this week,
including players like Saquon Barkley, Patrick Queen, Aaron Jones at
the Purple Sombrero now your favorite division rival free agent
signing Peter in NFL history.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Okay, so some of these are personal, all right. I
broke this news oh in twenty fifteen, so I have
a real heart for this one.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
And when it happened, it was a huge We.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Were talking about an All Pro running back and a
three time Pro bowler who fell disrespected by his team
DeMarco Murray signing with the Philadelphia Eagles from the Dallas Cowboys.
I know it seems like it's distant memory, and I
think I remember that at the.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
Time, it was huge.
Speaker 6 (13:39):
DeMarco Murray was coming off a great run as the
Dallas Cowboys number one, and where's he gonna go?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Of all places, he chooses to go to Chip.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Kelly's spread offense.
Speaker 7 (13:50):
Where he would go to Philly.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
But one of the main reasons why his quarterback, Sam
Bradford from college was the quarterback with the Eagles. Wow,
all this stuff sounds just like it's like, what like
Sam Bradford.
Speaker 7 (14:03):
And Chip Kelly and the Eagles and.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Yeah, DeMarco Murray.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
At the time, this was massive.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Howie Roseman making a big splash then uh he was
the offensive player of the Year in twenty fourteen, he
led the NFL in rushing yards and touchdowns. The next
offseason jumps to the division rival hated Eagles. It was
massive at the time and I was lucky to have
the quick Twitter fingers at the time. Big moment in
my career got me the job on Good Morning Football, Peter.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Real quick question like how how did you become so
close with DeMarco Murray. Was it like through representation or
coaching or whatever, like, how does that work?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
We don't know's.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Sources sources never say I was somehow involved in this one,
and I wasn't breaking every news piece, but this one.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Mm okay, he got the green light.
Speaker 8 (14:47):
Demarcol Murray aka the Kid, came to Tennessee after that,
Stay and Billy. The one thing you love about those rivals,
I get to New England and the one thing I
had played against the Jets before, but it just hit
different when I got to New England. Jets week Bill
would have it up there and would always be New
England Pagers versus Jets always say MF Jets. That just
lets you know where the disdain is for the New
(15:09):
York Jets. So you think if a player is gonna
jump shit, I'm going with the guy. Darrell Reeves revis
Island when he was a New York Jets. He called
Bill Belichick a jerk on ESPN. He also said, you
know what, Tom Brady is in a hole on the
field sometimes, and this is a rivalry that they don't
like each other.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
Not only did he leave the.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Jets and join the Patriots, he won a Super Bowl
with the Patriots and then went back to the New
York Jets. So when you talk about division rivals, teams
not like each other. And then Darrell Reeves, the best
cornerback of his generation, one of the best to ever
be out there on the football field, him switching between
these two teams and absolutely balling for the Patriots, helping
dictate their entire defense on a Super Bowl one.
Speaker 7 (15:49):
And then he goes back with his old teammates. He's like, yeah, fellas,
look what I got. I got me a ring. Now
we can just go out there and play and have fun.
So I'm going with Darrel Reeves.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
That's a really good one. I had forgotten all that
beef that he had to the chit chat before him. Kyle,
where do you take us? Maybe a division that is
dismantled by now or chain. So I feel like you
can dip your toe in history at this point.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
I can, but I'm actually gonna dip it in the
same pool that Jason did. January third, two thousand, it
was announced that Bill Belichick was gonna be the head
coach of the New York Jets. January fourth, two thousand. Oh,
We're gonna have a press conference. This is gonna be great.
We're gonna announce Belichick's the future. This guy shows up
and does the ropendope and literally writes on a cocktail napkin,
I resign as HC of the nyj He didn't even
(16:29):
write out the words head.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
Coach, HC. Belichick, Jets, Pats. It was an all timer.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
If the media existed the way it did now back then,
it would have been a full mushroom cloud over the
New York Post.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
It probably was. Anyway, I'm gonna be the head coach
of the Jets.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
Psych, I'm actually gonna be head coach of the Patriots,
your rival, and we're gonna go and win six Super Bowls.
You know what the best part is, guys, I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
He was asked about it in The Dynasty, this Patriots documentary,
and he had great, really really interesting, colorful insight into it.
They said, what was going on that day, Bill, and
he goes.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
I don't have anything to doubt about that, and that
was it.
Speaker 5 (17:00):
Like he says about every single thing in the whole
doc that's my moment, Belichick, from the Jets to the Pats.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Kyle, you were on one yesterday about heel turn and
how we shouldn't be using it for something that might
qualify as a top five heel turn right there.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Yeah, that's Hollywood Hogan Bash at the Beach in nineteen
ninety six.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I will completely take it.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
I wish that napkin still existed. I wish she was
in a museum somewhere. I wish she was in Canton somewhere.
What happened to that napkin? You know, Peter, they probably
have to think that's been spread out for the reporters
to stuff their faces with bare claws and stuff.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
I bet that napkin was part of that.
Speaker 6 (17:31):
I think Darren Ravel has that napkin somewhere who's selling
at like a live auction. Yeah, and I think Revel
is the guy who relics. I'm gonna go with that one.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I bet that's his connection.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
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