GMFB Selects: Kyle Brandt's Best Cuts Week of 09/29/2025

A selection of the best Kyle Brandt cuts from the Week of September 29th:

• Cam Ward goes quotable
• We have a Coach and a QB
• The best of Bill Murray
• The cool kid in the Big Apple
• The playoffs need the Ravens
• Matt Stafford wrestling comp
• Vikings overseas

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
I remember vividly being a little kid and watching Troy
Aikman in his rookie year go zero to eleven as
a starter and the Cowboys were one and fifteen, and
Aikman looked back on that years later and reflected He's like,
I just remember thinking, what does it take to win
a game in this league? Am I ever going to
win a game? And I understand that, and that's relatable.
I'm surfing cam Ward. It's tricky because I like the

(00:46):
fact that he's just not bsing. He's like, I'm not
going to come up here and say we need to
execute better, or it's we need to.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Make better play. He's just like, I am going to
just be.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Completely honest in myself. And I think there's a respect
in that. I think there's a respect from the media
in the locker room. It's a little tricky because especially
the word that he chose, it's such a memorable quote
and it's something that will get you really skewered, and
that can follow you, and that can follow you and
your team and your coach because the internet and the
comedians there and the people who draw the conversation. They

(01:17):
love slogans and they love catchphrases and the three words,
So I guess it's two words are very catchy, and
if you go own five and six, those words will
just follow you around until you do something about it.
But I've always respected from Cam wored there's an irony
and that really no one ever talked about him from
the second that he was drafted, before he was drafted,
after he was drafted, and he's one of the most

(01:37):
candid rookie quarterbacks we've ever seen. And this came up
in training camp, this came up after the draft. He's
put himself in a position where he now has to
play really well and the team has to play really
well or you just are a punchline. We know what's
going on, guys. The head coach is I will I
will just say besieged. He's having his own awkward press
conferences and the team looks really, really bad.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
So I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
It's a bold strategy to come out there and say
that about yourself, but it puts the target on him
because if you continue to be what you say you are,
all you'll ever hear is just that the team is
heavily flawed.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Heavily flawed.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
The defense was really bad against the Raiders. The offensive
line has problems, but that's who cares.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Really.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
What I feel after one month of football is that
I think Caleb is going to be the Bears quarterback
for a long time. I think Bears the Ben Johnson
is going to be the Bears coach for a long time.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
And that is just a win. Like Caleb has it.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
He's not perfect, He's got a lot to learn, but
my god, he is so talented. We already knew that
he's starting to put it together. Now he's going to
be the quarterback for a long time.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
Now.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
As far as this season, guys, I don't know. And
Seth listen, it's easy to forget last year the Chicago Bears.
The twenty twenty four Chicago Bears under Matt Eberfluss, were
four and two to start the season and then proceeded
to lose ten in a row and fire their coats.
So they were even doing better than the Bears are
doing now record wise. But this thing just feels different.

(02:59):
And if you tell me after a month, Caleb looks
really good and Ben Johnson seems the part It's really
all I need to know. Are they seven and ten?
Are they nine and eight? I don't terribly care. I
care that they have a quarterback and a coach, and
I think they do. The Bill Murray in the nineties
was churning out bangers. She's doing stuff like a Groundhog Day.
He's doing What About Bob and a few other things.

(03:20):
And then he takes like a three year break and
he goes away for a while, and then he drops
this movie with the Fairly Brothers called Kingpin, in which
he plays Big Urn aka Ernie McCracken, a bowler. In
the scene in which he's sitting there in the diner
and he says tanker Ray and tab and the waitress
brings it over and he says, keep it coming, sweets,

(03:41):
I got a long drive ahead of me. You want
to do me a favor, wash off that perfume before
we come back to our table.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It is an.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Unbelievable display in which Woody Harrelson just leaves the scene
because it's so good. My take on his performance is
Big Ernie McCracken. It is Bill Murray's funniest performance of
his career. And I know that's a hot take in Ghostbusters,
Pete Fankman is great, he's kind of odd. In Caddy Shack.
Carl Speckler's just so over the top and weird. In
Groundhog Day, Phil Connors, it's mostly driven by the device

(04:07):
of the plots and pure funny. I'm gonna play a
bowler with a comb over. And Big Ern is finally
above the law. I think the funniest performance of his career.
And the informercial with the kids and the lady. We
can go on and on and on. Big Urn is
above the law.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
And my pick.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
You guys are talking from the football perspective, I totally respect.
I'm here in New York and I just want to
talk a little bit about the vibes and the feeling here.
It's so important what happened in that last weekend the
game against the Chargers, because over so many years the
Giants have had a cool problem. Not only are they
not good, they haven't been cool at all, like the product,

(04:44):
the image, everything has been bad.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
They don't win, and they're not fun.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
They play in this cold gray edifice in New Jersey
with this cold, great product. You know how depressing you
have to be for the local football fans. To look
for something more optimistic, they have to go to a
Jets game.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
And that is absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
But if you look at these Giants quarterbacks over the years,
Into Jackson, Dark, Phil Simms, cool, played the coldest Super
Bowl of all time, Eli Manning. You think he's the
dorky little brother. Put him in a big game, and
he's the coolest guy on the planet. They have been
missing that sort of swagger and flamboyance and cool factor
for a long time. And I've told the story before.

(05:21):
I live in the New York suburbs. I want you
to pay attention to that. I am in the heart
of Giants country, Giants fans everywhere I go to my
sixth grader school, the sixth graders come out of the school,
nobody's wearing a Giants jersey. These are huge NFL fans,
these kids I see josh Allen Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes.
Even worse, I see Jaden Daniels Arrival of the Giants.

Speaker 3 (05:44):
My own son, my flesh and blood, goes to school in.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
Giants' territory wearing a Jalen Hurts jersey and no one.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
Bats an eye.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
In nineteen eighty seven, if he did that my son's
gonna get jumped, it'd be over. I'd have to go
and help him and get him out of the principal's office.
You don't wear an Eagles jersey here. They don't care
now because honestly, the only Giants jersey that you see
at my kids' school are Saquon jerseys. And that's a
whole different kind of embarrassment. The fact that they could
get the Jackson Dart jersey.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
And that's a cool guy.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
He plays well, he's got a swagger, he's fun. The
Giants have been missing all of that. And I mean, listen,
you may roll your eyes at this, but I don't
know if you're paying attention.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
There's a whole.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Young generation of fans who are falling in love with
the NFL and they need heroes. And I'm talking about
fans that are too young for Josh Allen, for Joe Burrow,
for Lamarchette.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Who's gotten next.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
These fans are looking at this guy and be like,
that kid's incredible. I want to go on play Roadblocks
and watch the NFL and talk about Jackson Dart. They
have something cool and young, and if he continues to
play well, like you guys are saying, there's nothing like
being a star in New York, and there's nothing like
being a star quarterback. He has the potential, has to
keep balling, and he will have this city in love

(06:55):
with him. They probably have the best roster in the NFL.
It's either them are Philadelphia like the rosters so crazy
and a veteran head coach. My feeling is stubborn, stuck.

Speaker 3 (07:05):
I don't want to.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Let the Ravens go. I like the character that they represent.
I like who they are. I like that they are
scary and intimidating, and they also have this interesting story
where they can never quite finish. With Lamar, I want
to see them either finish or fail again.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
That's a big part of the NFL season. So I
will say this.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Let's say Lamar comes back in a few weeks. Let's
say that the Ravens are two and five at the time.
That could be a really cool chapter for Lamar to
come back and say I took this team at two
and five and.

Speaker 3 (07:31):
We still were in the playoffs. We still in genuar.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
We've seen the Ravens be the ultimate front runner, the
ultimate assumption that they're going to be there. I would
love to come tearing down the stretch team in December.
Who you got right and got healthy and you don't
want to play. I don't want to see the playoffs
without the Lamar Jackson Ravens. They're just too important of
a character and I hope they get it together. I have,
for some reason with Seth here, I just have pro

(07:53):
wrestling on the mind, and Seth, I'm interesting what you
think of this. I have a pro wrestling comp for
Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 3 (08:00):
It's this guy right here. It's Randy Orton.

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Dude, this is the guy longevity, consistency.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
He's not always the face of things, but he's.

Speaker 2 (08:10):
Always super respected, and he's powerful and dominant. And there's
been resurgencies laid in their careers, and their careers just
seem to keep getting better and better, huge physical talents.
Randy Orton is won the belt, Stafford has won the
Lombardi Like, this is my guy, Seth, tell me I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I love both these dudes. We all have families. We've
been on trip.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sometimes when you kind of are just ready for the
trip to be over, you just want to go home.
You just want to sleep in your own bed. Jamie
I'm gonna go right to you. I mean, how about
these guys. They go to Ireland, Great, they lose to
the Steelers.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Oh they get to come home. No, they stay.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
They stay in Europe to play another game in Europe.
If you lose this one and you lose the Cleveland
you're like, oh.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
My god, zero for two in Europe.

Speaker 2 (08:56):
I really respect the Vikings organization, like we're up for it.
We have Vikings phones over there, but like sometimes you
just want.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
The trip to end.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
They've been sitting there just waiting to play this game.
I hope for their sake that they win it.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
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(09:28):
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