Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o and Rashad Jennings reacting to the Washington Commanders signing Von Miller. Later, they discuss Micah Parsons comments about his contract situation. Rob Gronkowski joins and talks about Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft, Mike Vrabel, and dating Tom Brady.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Good Morning Football Everybody on a Thursday, July seventeenth of fact,
Jamie or at All hanging out in Los Angeles, Man
Titeo and Rashad Jennings, Kyle Brandt with his clean and
crisp looking Polo. My goodness, the Polo Collection has been
flexing this summer.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Kyle.
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You are updated, you are invested, and you are ready
to roll in a new season on GMFP, which means
there's NFL news coming out today.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Correct, there is, guys, and I don't want to flex
any harder on you. But what major New York area
sporting events did I attend last night? And what major
Dallas Cowboys starred did I see? There? I'm on in
the town on a Wednesday night. It's going to be incredible.
I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Let's start the show, Rion, Let's go good mom.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's right, it's called GMFB and we love that you're here. Jamie, Manti, Rashad,
Kyle quick breakdown of Kyle Brant. If anybody doesn't know,
he constantly is talking about how I don't like to
talk to people. I like to go home and just
be with my wife and my kids. But then all
of a sudden, he's like, I was out in New
York last night and I ran into an NFL major
superstar and he's just bragging about stories about living near
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New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Which one is it, Kyle? Who are you?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Are you social butterfly, social light or are you say
at home dad?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Which is it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know how it is, guys, Every once in a while,
you got to be the hero dad to do the
jingle all the way and get Turbo Man for Jamie.
And last night I have had weeks and weeks and
weeks and weeks and months of orders, not requests, but
orders to get tickets for the Liberty Versus Fever game.
When Kaitlyn Clark comes to town. I got them. We
go to Barclays and Caitlyn Clark is not playing and
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she's injured with a groin and she sat out the
entire damn game. We still loved it. Breonna Stewart amazing
the scene at Barclay's sold out. There's my daughter and
I that Zevelyn. She's going into fourth grade. And if
you look over my like over my left shoulder, so
camera right. Micah Parsons was courtside from them and they
put him on the Jumbo drawn and he got the
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Jesus boot out of him by Barklayson with a lot
of Giants fans. But he was a good dude about it,
and the Liberty put on an amazing show. Caitlyn Clark notwithstanding.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That's fantastic, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Does everyone play basketball like she's actively asking you to
go to these games?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, she does. She wants to go and she was
very very upset that Kaitlyn Clark got injured the night before. Yeah,
but it's okay. What can you do that? Sports Brianna
Stewart was awesome. It was a great night. Great night.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's so cool, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Where to go and Michah Parsons showing up for the
stars as well, exactly. We got to talk about him
today and the state of the nation with the Cowboys.
But first some news that emerged overnight from our guy
NFL insider Tom Pella Sero. He's reporting that eight time
Pro Bowl Van Miller is signing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
With the contending Commanders.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They had been talked about that Miller in his epic
past rushing era was going to seek out a team
that was in need of a guy like that coming
off a defensive line. Now Miller is a super Bowl
champion with the Broncos and the Rams. Through his first
shout out to the Hogs by saying what's good. And
that's a photoshopped image of von Miller playing in a
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Washington Commandagers.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's what it would look like everybody. So Rashan you,
I assume.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No von Miller, You've played adjacent to him in your
time in the NFL. What do you make of his
choice to go to Washington and the Commanders picking him
up on defense.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think it's a smart move for him. I think
it's a smart move for the Commanders. I mean, they
were the oldest team in the NFL last year. In
in addition to a von Miller to the defense, they
stay the oldest team in the NFL. So I think
what they're doing is putting their They're counting on their
defense and relying on their offense and especially and now
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a Jaden Daniels. And how I look at it is this,
when I order something from Amazon, I don't rely on
it to show up If it says gonna be there
Friday evening. I count on it to show up. And
so what I'm knowing there's the commanders now is I'm
counting on the defense to actually carry us, and then
that allows me to rely on my office. Now, when
you rely on something, you're depending it with full trust. Now,
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there was a dating phase with Jada Daniels first year.
Now they're getting into a marriage. And to trust somebody.
You don't need to trust somebody with your money if
you don't give them your credit card. You don't need
to trust somebody with your food unless you give them
the utensils. And you don't need to trust anybody with
your heart until you give it to them.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
So what did they do?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Now They've given Jaden Daniels the true keys to the ship.
So I think it's good for the commanders to pick
up a von Miller.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
He's a stout player, for sure.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
I like it too, Rushat, And you said counting on this,
counting on that. I think a lot of people may
assume that when you have somebody like von Miller come in,
you're counting on him to be the old von Miller.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
He's not going to be the old von Miller. Guys
and talking about the word counting. He's going to be
on a snap count. He's going to be a situational player.
He's going to be somebody if you look get dan
Quinn and that defense. Last year, they blitzed more in
dan Quinn's career than he's used to blitzing. He doesn't
want to blitz on third downs, guys, he doesn't want
to blitz on first and second. But last year he
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had to bring some pressure and the only way that
he could do it is by sending up blitz.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Now you have somebody like von Miller.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
He's not gonna play on first down, he's probably not
gonna play on second down, but you bet on third
down when dan Quinn wants to drop coverage and drop
zone that you're going to see. I guess the number
twenty four, he said, Jamie, you're gonna see whatever number
von Miller is playing, you're going to see him coming
off the edge. Now, this reminds me a lot when
we signed Dwight Freenie when I was with the San
Diego Chargers, we signed Dwight Freeney and he was after
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he spent eleven years in Indianapolis. We didn't sign Dwight
Freeney to play first, second, and third down. It was
just situational awareness, and I think it's a great fit
for somebody like von Miller, who at this point in time,
I think he's ring chasing you. You accomplish everything you
wanted to accomplish in this game by being a player.
Now go get as many supposes you can. And so
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I like this matchup, this matching with the Commanders on
von Miller.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is a really meaningful signing for me. The message
really clear to me is that the Commanders are trying
to win the Super Bowl this year. This year, let's
get it done now that you don't bring in von
Miller to be a building block or a piece to
the future. This is a very specific player and phase
of his career. The Rams did the same thing with
von Miller, it worked. The Bills tried the same thing
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with von Miller, it didn't work. And dwy Freedez's a
perfect example. It wasn't just the Chargers that sign him.
Man Side is a Hall of Famer and in the last
four years of his career was on four separate teams,
each one of them trying to get him in. It's
like a basketball equivalent of like, just come off the
bench and hit a couple threes. That's all we want
you to do. We don't need you to build our
defense around anything like that. They're bringing in. So when
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they play Philadelphia in the playoffs, von Miller gets a
sack against Jalen Hurts, and that would be worth the
entire signing. And I think they're saying right now, we
brought in a new tackle, we're bringing in a new
pass rusher. We're going to figure out our wide receivers somehow,
but let's do it now with the cheap quarterback. And
don't laugh about the Commanders winning the Super Bowl this year.
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Joe Burrow was in the Super Bowl in his second year.
Patrick Mahomes won the Super Bowl in his second year
as a starter. This is the new normal, cash in now.
There's no like well, Jayden will continue to evolve and
will finally No, it's a now league. Now, you don't
need to sign von Miller. You'll probably be a perfectly
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fine defense without him. But it's that one thing where
in the divisional round or the title game he hits
a corner three and you haven't heard from him in
two and a half months, but he's been on the roster.
Von's been in big games and sacked Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
I think it says the message is very clear. We
want every single little piece, we want to win the
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Super Bowl this year, and we're bringing in a guy
who was trying to do it with his third team.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Well, I like that, KB, and I'm going to make
a basketball reference to his comments. You bring in somebody
like Ray Allen to the Boston Celtics and he's later
in his career and then he hits a game winning,
championship winning three pointer when you really need him. That's
the type of signing this is, in my opinion with
Von Miller. Now, we talk about Duo's earlier in the week,
and we talked about the connection between a wide receiver
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and his quarterback and why the nonverbals in that situation
are come and play for the offense defensively. That version
is this, we have a connection and an understanding where
I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
That side of the field.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The royal revis was that for the Jets, I don't
got to worry about wherever he's at. For Bobby Wagner
in the middle. Now I don't have to worry about
where von Miller's at. I don't have to worry about
Jalen hurt scrambling to that side. I can just worry
about what's opposite of him. So this eliminates a whole
bunch of problems that could arise for.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
The Commander's defense.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Now that you have somebody like von Miller aka Ray
Allen shooting on one side of the one side of
the field.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Got I just literally went into a deep dive in
my brain of like the really good Celtics team circle
like twenty eight to fourteen, with like now on the team,
Like who's the Kevin Garnett, Who's It's just you just
rattled my brain and that Ray Allen from the corner.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was perfect, Mansie.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The Commanders, as we all know, split the regular season
series with the division winning NAY Super Bowl champion Eagles.
They lost in the NFC title games with the Birds obviously,
who went on to win Super Bowl fifty nine. Okay,
so now they've quote unquote bolstered their pass rush, if
you will, if we're all truly acknowledging that maybe it'll
come mostly on third down, and when he comes out,
he's supposed to don'tk on everybody, and that's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Von Miller Rashan.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'll ask you look at the commanders, what is the
difference maker? What is going to have to be the
secret sauce for the commanders to usurp the Philadelphia Eagles
and win this tough division.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Well, already history is kind of planning their favor as
we know in the NFC East, there has not been
any team that's consecutively won the division outside of twenty
years now, and that was Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
So it's back and forth. This is a tough division.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think right now they're going to have to lean
heavily on their run game, controlling the clock. You got
a veteran team, which we know, you have more experience,
you're savvier, but a little.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Bit longer in the tooth. You can get tired. There's
a long season. You got to keep everybody healthy.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Conservative, but they are a physical, heavy handed team. I'm
saying right now, especially when we bring over Deebo Samuel,
what is he right, He's a He's a specimen of
a player that is a running back, slash receiver, slash
utility player.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You know, he's like a larger person Harvin. He could
do it all.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And so when you think about this kind of team
and how they built to play, and I know they're
gonna pay Scary Terry at some point.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You believe that, I believe that you can't.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
There's no way we can be talking about the Commanders
in chasing a chip without bringing Intary.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
It's going to happen. Hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yeah, it's a step of what I said yesterday with show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
What number one you just said, you got to you
gotta sign Scary Terry. And the reason why is because
if you watch the NFC Championship, you saw how the
Eagles were able to take away Scary Terry. You can't
depend on one one receiver out there if you're the Commanders,
because you had to resort to zach Ertz.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
A lot in the NFC Championship.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So you need to have Deebo, Samuel zach Ertz and
Skaritarry out there to even get a chance go to
the playoffs and win this division. Now, when I look
at what they need to do, Number one, Jayden can't
have as sophomore slump. That's number one, Like you have
to be able to figure out how am I going
to how am I going to structure this offense so
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that he continues and builds off of a strong rookie campaign.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Jaden Daniels has to be electric. Number Two, you have.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
To be able to keep those athletic quarterbacks that you
have in your division in the pocket. That's why they're
signing of von Miller is so important, and it's crucial
for their success this year because you have a guy
now that can keep these guys in the pocket without
sending up Blitz or possibly keeping Bobby Wagner Frankly Luvu
in the middle to spy these guys. You get let
von Miller do his thing. And number three, it's the
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same kryptonite as all teams. Stay healthy. Like if you
even want chance, you have to have all your pieces
out there. You have to stay healthy. So with those
three things, Kyle, I think they have a pretty good
chance of being a contender in NFC East.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, they just listen. They got to slay the Eagles somehow, somehow.
And there's a really interesting schedule quirk. And for the
level of God, please don't bring up the schedule. You know,
I can't stand that. But in the last three weeks
of the Commander's schedule versus Philadelphia, versus Dallas at Philadelphia.
So we're not going to have our answer to this
question in a long time. It's one of these things
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where the Commanders and Eagles don't play until almost Christmas
for the first time, and then they play twice in
three weeks, and then who knows if we get a
third time in four or five weeks. It's all there's
so worlds are going to change by the time we
see Eagles Commanders. But honestly, like they have to do
something about the tuss push. The Commanders are like exhibit
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A of the effectiveness of that plate. Frankie Lulu is
still jumping over the line. He's still there, standing in
an empty state, jumping over the line, trying to stop
this thing. There's a lot of things I'm looking forward
to in the twenty twenty five season. I don't know
if illing Ford anything as much as the first time
the Eagles try to run the toush push against the Commanders,
because that maniac, I don't know what he's capable of,
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but he's gonna bet his life to try to stop
this thing, and he won't. They dropped fifty five points
on him. Guys, it was a slacking. It was a
terrible end to a wonderful Commander's season. And that's fine.
But a lot, a lot has to change, and a
lot will change. This isn't one of those Jamie, Like
it's like, hey, right out of the gate, it's week
two Eagles command No, no, no, no, no, Like this game is
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six months from now. It is so so you know,
we got those countdowns now, forty three days still kickoff
or whatever, like it's like four hundred days until Commander's Eagles.
And I only say that because there will be injuries,
there will be transactions, there'll be the ups and down.
I don't even know who these teams are going to be.
Then it makes it all the more mysterious.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, and with that you said they do meet late.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
But first out of the gate, the game one, we
got Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles Week one.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
You have Giants Commanders week one.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
So we're gonna have some things.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We're gonna know a little bit of something.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, right out the gate.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But like you said, it's not a promise, it's not
a promisary note to lean.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Kyle, what you're implying is that the figuring out for
the commanders of the Tush Push is going to be
a stocking stuffer. In terms of that being week sixteen
and eighteen, that is the responsibility of Dan Quinn and
Joe Witch Junior. But Kyle, I want to tee you
up quickly. Someone has been on my mind as it
pertained to the Commanders, and that is Cliff Kingsbury and
the fact that what he did in this role in
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can you just give us a brief history lesson on
the experience that we watch Cliff Kingsbury go through in
the NFL away from the NFL, and what he has
done with this rookie soon to be second year quarterback,
I believe is truly something magical and it speaks to
what he can do with the capability of an offense.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, listen, I like Cliff. My knock on Cliff is
always he doesn't do a ton of winning. You know,
he's this coach who's looking at his very smart and
all schematically brilliant, and he loves quarterbacks and he's a
cool dude. But like, whether it be in college or
whether it be is the Arizona Cardinals head coach. There
aren't the real net results. It's just and at some
point it has to be about that. So he takes
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a step back. He goes from being a head coach
and getting Kyler to the playoffs and all that too, like,
just give me the reins and I'm going to go
behind a real, truly grizzled head coach and Dan Quinn
and I'm just gonna do the whiz kid thing and
give me Jaden and I'll run the offense and I'll
do this. It was a brilliant, brilliant year for him,
really really was like it was it may be the
best year of his career at any position, in any
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job he's had, and he's had a lot. And now
it's just like, what do you do for the follow up?
And I know that if we talk sophomore slump, this
sophomore slump that I don't know, I almost want to
call it taboo. I'm on our show for that. And
Matti said it earlier and I said it now that
it's not only is it like a stock wrote phrase,
it's also just so negative. So if you guys are
down with it, I am up for a full taboo
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designation on the term sophomore slump because I don't want
to see it and I don't want to say it perfect,
we'll put it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
On the list.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's officially xnade from commentary unless you're mocking it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We love that, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The way you just explained it, I think you could
have taken Ben Johnson's name and applied that parallel to it.
This whiz kid offensive brilliance. But hopefully he's gonna ruin
and shred that narrative about becoming a head coach, and
hopefully he gets some wins under his belt. The Chicago Bears, however,
the Lions are hoping that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
The NFC is spicy this year.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
People, let's go, so is GMFB this hour.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The pride, the protest still up, let's out, the pride
is still let the.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Person mars puts it down and cuss Themma, he's sacked again.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wow, we're gonna have a turn over.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Let's talk, du.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I mean we exploded and Brush Young never had a chance.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
When he gets going like that, it.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Is literally like he was hunting.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You don't about ever player the mom.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't want anybody to be concerned that When we
go for two, it's going to feel like it's good morning,
NFC East.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's not our second topic. I'm going for two.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We will split out of the division and we're going
to go to the AFC West. But first we'll talk
about the Cowboys. Even though we just spent twenty minutes
on the Commanders. Michael Parsons favorite players, Ceed Lamb got
paid last summer. Will it be Edge Rusher Century for
the Cowboys this summer? To decide on Michah Parsons and
we'll kind of payment he will get. Parsons was asked
this week if he was worried he didn't have a
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long term deal yet, he replied, I just work harder.
Like to me, I look at it like if people
don't see your value, you don't cry and sit down,
just work harder. I'm just going to get mine no
matter what end quotes.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's quite the take for Shad.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So he's going to show up, He's going to show
him what he's worth and he's going to force their hand.
What are your thoughts on this take from Micah?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I love this take.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
This is a football take one hundred percent. You know
as an athlete, and we learn this. You learn to
fall in love with the process more than outcome, and
if you can do that, you're probably supersedu your original goal.
And Michael Parson's out there having fun. He's with the
Dallas Cowboys. He's a hard worker, he plays hard, he
has fun hard, he has his podcast, he's making money
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off the film, and he's anticipating a big contract. Everybody
that watches football knows it will come.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
We don't know if it's going to be with.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The Dallas Cowboys or if they could do a mysterious
trade and stack up picks, but we know, and he
knows he's going to get paid, so he's focused on
the prize. He's not a concern with the noise.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I love this. I love this take by him. Well,
you talk about process and trusting the process.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I think by now Michael Parsons isn't word, and either
am I or anybody that follows the Cowboys during this
time of year are word. It's like the Fast and
Furious series. We know it's going to happen, even though
you're on Fast ten. Like we know the past ten movies,
it was all the same. How many times have you
heard Jerry Jones during training camp, in the middle of
a training camp, have these disputes with his players, whether
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it be Dak Prescott, Zach Marin, CD Lamb. There's always
something that comes up around this time of year when
it comes to extending his players. Now, I love the
fact too to your point where Shot, I love the
fact that you know, Michael Parsons is going to come
out there and he's going to set up precedence that
the best player is going to be out there to
lead this team. I think that it speaks to him
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as a leader, as being selfless, as being one of
the better players in the NFL, not just for the
Dallas Cowboys, but showing his dedication and his love for
his for the game of football and his teammates, for
being in this type of situation but still being out there. Kyle,
I think it sets a good trajectory for the Dallas
Cowboys heading into this year.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, Michah has this this luxury, this this privilege, if
you will, of just being like, I know, I'm so good,
i am so calentult A lot of guys don't have that.
You know, like he talks like he knows exactly who
and what he is. You get other guys who are
gonna want I'm gonna unfollow the team. I'm so media
that'll show him, or I'm gonna tweet some dumb emoji
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that no one understands. Micah's like, I don't really care.
I'm Micah, I know what team I've played for, I
know who I am. Like, it'll work. It's refreshing. Actually
it's I wouldn't recommend it to all these guys. And listen,
we're seeing all kinds of issues around the league now,
whether it's with the Bengals or whether it's the Trey
Hendrickson or anybody like that. Those guys aren't aren't Micah,
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and they're not Dallas, and they listen. Trey Hendrickson's probably like,
I led the league in sacks last year? Where were you?
He's like, I don't know. I'm just different. I'm younger
than you are, I play for a different team than you,
I played for a different owner, and it's probably very frustrating,
but it kind of makes me smile. And I listen.
It's like, I know I keep bringing this up, but
I'm in the same arena as Michael Parsons last night
in New York. Like it was just a random place
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and like I just cannot tell you if you didn't
know what was going on. And this is me and
my daughter. But he Micah was courtside, like his feet
on the court. If you didn't know he was having
issues with wanting a new contract, like you would think
that they just paid him four hundred million. His body
language was so loose and so light and so giggling
is with his friends, and like you would never know
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by looking at him, like that's the guy who wants
is frustrated's not getting a new contract. You know why,
because he's not frustrated because it's like, I'm Micah, I'll
get paid. I'm not really worried about it. I think
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He's got the star and his helmet kind of no
matter who he plays for, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Going for two second topic, The video came out Manny
Pakia professional boxer returning to the ring this Saturday, and
instead of getting the authentic like I'm dripping in sweat
in Las Vegas workout, he just took it to the
air conditioning. He went indoor, he went climate control, bounced
around on the rate in the Raiders' facility, which is
an amazing look. And frankly, the feat with the running
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back moves looks sweet for Manny Pakia for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Do you have a boxer that could.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Best describe a team heading into the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, first, first of all, forty six moving like that.
That's a nice cut, man. I have to admit that, yes, yes,
one hundred percent. And I have to go with Floyd Mayweather.
Money may is in comparison to the Philadelphia Eagle, And
let me try to break this down for you. So
obviously he's more precision over the over the flashroom and
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the way that he fights. And I think I think
the Eagles are built like an old school team. They're gritty,
they're gonna run, first play defense, don't air the ball
out a whole ton.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Consistency, consistency.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The Philadelphia Eagles are very consistent, making the playoffs last
four years. When you look at Money Mayweather, he's consistently
at the top of the board. He's a champion. That's
exactly what Money may is. What are the Philadelhia Eagles?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
They're champions. When you look at Jalen Hursts, what is.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
He He's loved, but he's also hated.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
It's like just like.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Money May And why is he hated because both of
them kind of tamper with this little style that they
just you can't stop that Philly shell is a Philly shell.
That defense. Oh he doesn't want to fight. Oh, they
just want to push toush. It's the comparison. And so
they're built the same. They look to say, but you
can't stop them. You're either paying to watch them, to
boo or cheer for them. But I see them in
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the exact same.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I love the fact you said you either love them
or you hate them, because the guy the team that
I'm gonna go with, you definitely love them or you're
gonna hate them. And that's the Dallas Cowboys. Now follow me, guys,
I'm comparing the Dallas Cowboys to Jake Paul.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Okay, just follow me, guys.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Okay, You're both two different entities that have large followings.
Some you have probably Jake Paul, you have more following
than some champions. Dallas Cowboys you have more followings.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Than some champions.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
You're both global brands, like Jake Paul is known everywhere.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
You sell out stadiums.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Nothing you sell out stadiums, and when you're in stadiums,
they're either gonna love you or they're gonna boo you,
like how Michael Parson's got booed last night at the game.
And you're worth lots of money. But this is where
it all comes home from me. Every single year we
struggle with the question is it time to take you
serious or not? Every time Jake Paul is out there,
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it's like, should I take you serious.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
As a fighter?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Should I take you serious as a boxer?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
And the Dallas Cowboys every single year.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I'm like, should I take you serious?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
You're looking so good so early, But should I take
you serious?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
So I've got Jake Paul, Kyle and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Hmm, that's strong. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
The problem with the Cowboys is that they they have
to play the Eagles. That's not like sixty year old
Mike Tyson, that's like in his prime, a tomato in
his corner like that. Their opponent is very, very very different. Also, like,
I gotta be honest, it's a little sidebar here. I
hate seeing the manupac. Yeah, I was fighting. What are
we doing? Man? I know boxing is a brutal sport,
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and maybe he's got bills to pay or other things,
but like we're forty six years old. Like after that
one Manuel Marquez knock out, I never want to see
him boxing again. He's an all time legend. He's beloved
in his native Philippines. I don't know who he's boxing
or what he's boxing. I just I'm like, come on, Manny,
like he's quick and I get it. I just I
get nervous for these guys. I've watched a lot of
Manipaco fights over the years, and I just seems like
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it may be the best times in the safest times
are behind him. But with that sidebar aside, I'm gonna
go the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I used to still am
be a big fan of a gentleman named butter Bean.
You guys familiar with butter Bean. Butter Be a big,
old bald dude who would just show up, show up
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and throw out haymakers. And he once beat up Johnny Knoxville.
And why are the Steelers butter Bean? It's like every
year you kind of look at him, You're like, this
is the guy, and then showing up. But they're five
hundred they're over five hundred, They're in the playoffs, and
Aaron Rodgers is like, does he still have it? He's
got a great beard and he's like, I still I'm
gonna trust Butterbean. I apparently we don't have other there's Rogers.
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I just think they still have that right hand. And
I don't know if they're gonna, you know, be the
world heavyweight champion and have a belt. But it's always
gonna be fun to watch. You're not gonna be able
to turn away. A lot of people say what the
hell is this? And then you watch, You're like, oh,
I like this. I think that's gonna be the.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Stealers, the share man.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I don't know who that guy is, but I like
his name. And Kyle, it's a perfect parallel to answer
your question, Kyle Mario Barrios, who is the thirty year
old welterweight champion. Me talking about boxing is the parallel
to me talking about wrestling.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I got nothing, but.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He's gonna fight Manny Paccio. I guess as a reigning champion,
you get to come out of retirement just at will,
call a guy up and be like, let's have a
title fight. That's what you get when you are a
man paccio or a raiding champion. We will be watching
the show and the boxing match this weekend. I gotta
get out of here because I can't get that box.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
We have Bronc on the show. I'm sure he could
make a parallel about boxers and teams. What was his
name again? Your guy Kyle butter Bean?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Butter Bean?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, butter Bean? Great, Yeah, but we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh, superhuman. They can't defend him. I'll sorry, he's covered.
Even when he's covered, he's open. Look big boys like
that did stop him, cannot stop him.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I don't even know how.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I'm the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, Cooky, it's
the best play in the year.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Imagine you left your job one day and you said,
I don't even know how I did that. That's how
this guy would get down. One of the realest dudes ever,
a national treasure, and he's the host of the Dudes
on Dudes podcasts with Julian Let's get him in here.
What's up, Gronk? How we doing, baby?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Man?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
You're always bringing the juice to the table, no matter
what time of the day it is.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Man, I respect that of you. Man, I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We all love you too. It's awesome that you're here.
We had a lot to talk about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Everybody this morning across the country is talking about Shane Gillis,
the comedian who did his monologue last night at the SPEC.
He had a lot of different jokes, some on the line,
some over the line, but he definitely had some Coach
Belichick content. What is it like, Rob in this era
now where everyone's making jokes about Coach and what he's
doing off the field, Like, what is that like for
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you to watch someone who played for him for so long?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Man, It's shocking in a way because of just how
uptight of an organization that I was a part of,
and how we just kept our lips sealed, you know,
throughout the whole journey, you know, when the New England
Patriots dynasty was alive, you know, other way in other ways.
You know, it's fun and it's just all just being lighthearted.
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But I'm excited for Coach Belichick to see what he
does you and C this year.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
I think that's most important.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
I think he's going to have some you know, tricks
in his pockets to you know, shut everyone up and
get put all the attention back on football because that's
what he really loves to do. But Shane Gillis. Last night,
I was chilling with my friend and I was like, Oh,
the SP's are tonight and Shane Gillis is hosting it.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
I was like, we got to watch.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
The opening because I know the opening monologue is gonna
be fire. It's Shane Gillis, and I was more than
happy that I put it on because he absolutely dominated
and he was on fire and he did such a
great job.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It was It got people talking, dude, and I knew
you wouldn't miss it. We also have been talking about
the podcasts, all right, So you and Jules, you recently
interviewed the boss man. Robert Kraft comes on the pod
and when you guys asked him about his best decision
he has made as an owner of the Patriots, he
had this to say. We have a clip dudes on dudes,
it was your best decision that you've made as an
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owner to date.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Getting Bill Belichick to come to the Patriots. I gave
up a number one draft pick coach who had only
won a little over forty percent of his game in
nineteen ninety nine was a big risk, and I got
hammered in the Boston media, but I think we did okay.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, So Rob you get this great clip and
then Coach now has a response to it in which
Bill Belichick says, as I told Robert multiple times through
the years, I took a risk by taking the New
England Patriots job because everyone told me it was going
to come with many internal obstacles, We're going to have
to change everything. It was a really good response. What
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do you make of mister kraft statement and then Coach's response?
Speaker 9 (30:54):
You know, with mister Kraft's statement, RKK statement, I don't
think there was truly any aimosity towards what he was saying.
He was just kind of generally speaking that it was
a big risk. I feel like that because he was
taking Coach Belichick, who was just hired as the head
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coach from the New York Jets, and he was taking
him and stealing him, and that's really never been done before, and.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
That was a risky play. And I feel like.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
He was saying it kind of in a more general
way of that's why it was a risk, Not anything
against Coach Belichick, just a way that it was done.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
And then with.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Coach Belichick coming back and saying that it was a
risk for him to take the job, well, I mean
we were just firing back, I feel like, because I
feel like he figed out the context of what RKK said.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
But it's a risk in any job that you take.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And MSS and Coach Belichick, he loves to be hands
on and he kind of loves to make sure that
everything is run in the organization how it needs to
be run, you know, in the right way, so he
can coach and develop the players.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
Out on the football field.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
And he did an excellent job and it could have
been a better match from the get go.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
But Kron, to your point, I love this era that
Belichick actually had something to say about the quote and
it wasn't just like I'm not sure I didn't catch that,
which I think there was a time in which we
would have heard coach do that. Now, mister Kraft obviously
still at the Helm in New England, and he had
a tough decision to make to move on from a
first year head coach, to bring Mike Rabel back into
the system, into the fold, into the organization that you
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know and love so well, what do you think Rabel
has to do now to get this thing back to
an era in which that was as successful and try
to match that that you had going with the Patriots.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Yes, well, I think Mike Rabel is doing an excellent
job so far. I mean, you really can't question any
of the moves that he has done this year in
free agency and in the draft. I think they smacked
it out of the park. What we really got to
see now is how coach Rabel can bring this team
together so they can have that chemistry to go out
and play together as a team and go out there
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and win games and possibly have a shot at making
the playoffs and winning the division and if not winning
the division, at least getting a wild card so they
can compete in the playoffs. That's what he has to do.
He has to bring this team together. Because all the
moves in the offseason have been done in the draft
and free agency.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
Maybe they're going to make.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Another splash, you know, before the trade deadline, because they
have about fifty sixty million dollars left and spending, so
they're going to maybe go out and make a trade
to see, you know, to amp up a position that
you know, that they need.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
To progress at, you know, throughout the season.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
But other than that, he has been doing such a
great job and you can't really question him yet, and
you got to just see how he does once the
season hits.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
No doubt, Vrabel and Old Pat's legend Gronk. Let's talk
about another one, you know who was on fire right now? Tom.
Like Tom, he's got a million business ventures. He's all
out there doing his thing. I see him on yachts.
He's showing up in places. He always looks happy. Never
mind what's true and not true about his personal life. Rob.
If someone were to call you, let's say it's Sophia
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Bargera or Sydney Sweener, anybody, and they call you and
they say, Rob, what would be your advice on dating Tom? Like,
what should I do? What should I not do? What
would you tell him?
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Oh, that's a great question. Well, first off, I would
just say, congratulations, you landed one of the most handsomest
men of all that who was in better shape and
better looking than when he was playing the game of football.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
Which is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
But there's one thing I would say is just to
try and keep you know, your your dating life with him,
a little private, you know, don't be out there. He
likes toe, you know, get to know you first before
anything hits the market.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
I like that, Rob, I like that when you referenced
what you liked about the hats and what they did
in this offseason, especially with the draft.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
And we know the story of your Draft night.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
And last month we had John Robinson as a call
host on this show on JIMFB and he shared his
experience at the very moment New England shose you let's
take listen.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Bill finally gives me the thumbs up, and there's like
twenty seconds and Nick's call in the league to make
sure the trade goes in. And I said, Jimmy, you
got it, and he goes, I got it, Rob Gronkowski,
tight end Arizona. Jimmy takes off sprinting. He gets the
card into the table with like two seconds left. The
Baltimore rep is standing right there. He turns in his
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card at the same right after our So our pick
is in. You know, we jumped ahead of Baltimore. We
had forty two. Baltimore was immediately on the clock at
forty three and they were ready to pick. We get
Rob Grinkowski. They take Sergio Kendall, a linebacker out of Texas.
They thought we were clamoring up to get Sergio. We
thought they were clamoring up to get rob.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
So o receive bro.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
We kind of know the story with seeing that in
that perspective, what kind of thoughts come to mind?
Speaker 9 (36:14):
Yes, the New England Patriots, we're playing chess while the
Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
We're playing checkers.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
That right now, and you know, it was one of
the greatest things that happened to me. Actually, it was
the greatest thing that happened to me in my career,
was that the New England Patriots drafted me and traded
up for me at the forty second pick, because I
am pretty sure that the Baltimore Ravens were going to
select me with the forty third pick. But I appreciate
New England stepping up and showing how bad that they
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wanted me that they were willing.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
To trade up for me.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
And mister Robinson, thank you for looking out for me,
and thank you for believing in me.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
And trusting in me.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
It was just an honor to play for the Patriots
for nine years that I was there and win three
Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Baby you always put it so eloquently, Gronk, and for
them to trust you is one thing, but for t
Mobile to trust you it is another thing. For the
second year in a row, up with Tea Mobile for
their Friday Night five g Lights competition, you were on
last year talking about it. Now this year they're adding
even more star power and they got you to recruit
one Patrick Mahomes to be.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
A part of this competition. What's this all about?
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yes, well, Friday Night five gen Lights is back and
it's bigger and better this year. Last year of Nola
High School in Oklahoma one and the grand prize was
about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to remake your
high school football field and remodel it. And now this
year it's bigger and better. The grand prize is one
million dollars. On top of that, Rock Fitness, my family's
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brand is going to make over do a remakeover of
the whole entire fitness gym, so it's going to be
all brand new. These kids can work out and stay strong,
just like myself and just like you guys on the
NFL Network. And there's also going to be twenty five
finalists that get twenty five thousand dollars as well, just
to upgrade their facilities, which is super cool.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
So it's my second year.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Doing this campaign and I recruited Patrick Mahomes to join
me this year to represent the campaign. And if you
want more information on how the register and how to
get your school involved to possibly win this grand prize,
you can go to Friday Night fiveg lights dot com.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Rot. You're a major competitor, man.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Every time I see you competing in something, I think
we competing in basketball. At some point we're gonna have
to compete in some pickleball, man. But through this specific competition,
you get a chance to witness teams come together in
communities across the country for Friday night.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Football and a good time.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Now, I got a question, though, what's been the biggest
experience for you this far that you will take away
from this opportunity?
Speaker 9 (38:47):
Oh all right, that's a great question, but god, it
really is. But doing this campaign since it's for high school,
I mean that's where my football career started. It so
it brings back all the memories and joy that I
had throughout my high school time. I remember one of
my good friends, he's about five eight one hundred and
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eighty pounds and he was our defensive tackle.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
On our high school football team.
Speaker 9 (39:12):
So shout out to the Duke's shout out baby.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Just a guy that has no fear and.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
One hundred eighty pounds at defensive tackle. Just you got
to laugh about that. That's just incredible and all those
good memories that you have. My high school quarterback still
claims I owe him a million dollars because I actually
left my high school in Buffalo and went to the
high my high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he said
he claims I ruined his career and that he.
Speaker 10 (39:39):
Wasn't getting scouted him. So I owed a million dollars.
To this day, I'll pay up. I will pay up
one day.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
One day.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Rob, what's that guy's name?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Shout him out?
Speaker 10 (39:49):
Five Star Dolmond. Now he called himself five stars, and
that's what we.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Will know him as.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
I won a brillion. What's interest my million?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sure it's going to hit the benmo, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
It's really cool that you're doing this. I know even
the greatest pro football players ever always look back so
affectionately at high school football, and you're perfect for that
Friday nights five g lights dot com. You stuck the
landing on the pitch too, Gronk, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
We love you. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Man awesome. Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
You're the man. Brother.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Thank you brother, See you later.
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good Morning Football Everybody on a Thursday, July seventeenth of fact,
Jamie or at All hanging out in Los Angeles, Man
Titeo and Rashad Jennings, Kyle Brandt with his clean and
crisp looking Polo. My goodness, the Polo Collection has been
flexing this summer.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Kyle.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
We are proud of you.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You are updated, you are invested, and you are ready
to roll in a new season on GMFP, which means
there's NFL news coming out today.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Correct, there is, guys, and I don't want to flex
any harder on you. But what major New York area
sporting events did I attend last night? And what major
Dallas Cowboys starred did I see? There? I'm on in
the town on a Wednesday night. It's going to be incredible.
I'll tell you all about it.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
Let's start the show, Rion, Let's go good mom.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
That's right, it's called GMFB and we love that you're here. Jamie, Manti, Rashad,
Kyle quick breakdown of Kyle Brant. If anybody doesn't know,
he constantly is talking about how I don't like to
talk to people. I like to go home and just
be with my wife and my kids. But then all
of a sudden, he's like, I was out in New
York last night and I ran into an NFL major
superstar and he's just bragging about stories about living near
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New York City.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Which one is it, Kyle? Who are you?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Are you social butterfly, social light or are you say
at home dad?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Which is it?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
You know how it is, guys, Every once in a while,
you got to be the hero dad to do the
jingle all the way and get Turbo Man for Jamie.
And last night I have had weeks and weeks and
weeks and weeks and months of orders, not requests, but
orders to get tickets for the Liberty Versus Fever game.
When Kaitlyn Clark comes to town. I got them. We
go to Barclays and Caitlyn Clark is not playing and
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she's injured with a groin and she sat out the
entire damn game. We still loved it. Breonna Stewart amazing
the scene at Barclay's sold out. There's my daughter and
I that Zevelyn. She's going into fourth grade. And if
you look over my like over my left shoulder, so
camera right. Micah Parsons was courtside from them and they
put him on the Jumbo drawn and he got the
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Jesus boot out of him by Barklayson with a lot
of Giants fans. But he was a good dude about it,
and the Liberty put on an amazing show. Caitlyn Clark notwithstanding.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
That's fantastic, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Does everyone play basketball like she's actively asking you to
go to these games?
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Yes, she does. She wants to go and she was
very very upset that Kaitlyn Clark got injured the night before. Yeah,
but it's okay. What can you do that? Sports Brianna
Stewart was awesome. It was a great night. Great night.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
That's so cool, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Where to go and Michah Parsons showing up for the
stars as well, exactly. We got to talk about him
today and the state of the nation with the Cowboys.
But first some news that emerged overnight from our guy
NFL insider Tom Pella Sero. He's reporting that eight time
Pro Bowl Van Miller is signing.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
With the contending Commanders.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
They had been talked about that Miller in his epic
past rushing era was going to seek out a team
that was in need of a guy like that coming
off a defensive line. Now Miller is a super Bowl
champion with the Broncos and the Rams. Through his first
shout out to the Hogs by saying what's good. And
that's a photoshopped image of von Miller playing in a
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Washington Commandagers.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
That's what it would look like everybody. So Rashan you,
I assume.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No von Miller, You've played adjacent to him in your
time in the NFL. What do you make of his
choice to go to Washington and the Commanders picking him
up on defense.
Speaker 5 (03:32):
I think it's a smart move for him. I think
it's a smart move for the Commanders. I mean, they
were the oldest team in the NFL last year. In
in addition to a von Miller to the defense, they
stay the oldest team in the NFL. So I think
what they're doing is putting their They're counting on their
defense and relying on their offense and especially and now
(03:53):
a Jaden Daniels. And how I look at it is this,
when I order something from Amazon, I don't rely on
it to show up If it says gonna be there
Friday evening. I count on it to show up. And
so what I'm knowing there's the commanders now is I'm
counting on the defense to actually carry us, and then
that allows me to rely on my office. Now, when
you rely on something, you're depending it with full trust. Now,
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there was a dating phase with Jada Daniels first year.
Now they're getting into a marriage. And to trust somebody.
You don't need to trust somebody with your money if
you don't give them your credit card. You don't need
to trust somebody with your food unless you give them
the utensils. And you don't need to trust anybody with
your heart until you give it to them.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
So what did they do?
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Now They've given Jaden Daniels the true keys to the ship.
So I think it's good for the commanders to pick
up a von Miller.
Speaker 6 (04:42):
He's a stout player, for sure.
Speaker 7 (04:44):
I like it too, Rushat, And you said counting on this,
counting on that. I think a lot of people may
assume that when you have somebody like von Miller come in,
you're counting on him to be the old von Miller.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
He's not going to be the old von Miller. Guys
and talking about the word counting. He's going to be
on a snap count. He's going to be a situational player.
He's going to be somebody if you look get dan
Quinn and that defense. Last year, they blitzed more in
dan Quinn's career than he's used to blitzing. He doesn't
want to blitz on third downs, guys, he doesn't want
to blitz on first and second. But last year he
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had to bring some pressure and the only way that
he could do it is by sending up blitz.
Speaker 6 (05:20):
Now you have somebody like von Miller.
Speaker 7 (05:22):
He's not gonna play on first down, he's probably not
gonna play on second down, but you bet on third
down when dan Quinn wants to drop coverage and drop
zone that you're going to see. I guess the number
twenty four, he said, Jamie, you're gonna see whatever number
von Miller is playing, you're going to see him coming
off the edge. Now, this reminds me a lot when
we signed Dwight Freenie when I was with the San
Diego Chargers, we signed Dwight Freeney and he was after
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he spent eleven years in Indianapolis. We didn't sign Dwight
Freeney to play first, second, and third down. It was
just situational awareness, and I think it's a great fit
for somebody like von Miller, who at this point in time,
I think he's ring chasing you. You accomplish everything you
wanted to accomplish in this game by being a player.
Now go get as many supposes you can. And so
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I like this matchup, this matching with the Commanders on
von Miller.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
This is a really meaningful signing for me. The message
really clear to me is that the Commanders are trying
to win the Super Bowl this year. This year, let's
get it done now that you don't bring in von
Miller to be a building block or a piece to
the future. This is a very specific player and phase
of his career. The Rams did the same thing with
von Miller, it worked. The Bills tried the same thing
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with von Miller, it didn't work. And dwy Freedez's a
perfect example. It wasn't just the Chargers that sign him.
Man Side is a Hall of Famer and in the last
four years of his career was on four separate teams,
each one of them trying to get him in. It's
like a basketball equivalent of like, just come off the
bench and hit a couple threes. That's all we want
you to do. We don't need you to build our
defense around anything like that. They're bringing in. So when
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they play Philadelphia in the playoffs, von Miller gets a
sack against Jalen Hurts, and that would be worth the
entire signing. And I think they're saying right now, we
brought in a new tackle, we're bringing in a new
pass rusher. We're going to figure out our wide receivers somehow,
but let's do it now with the cheap quarterback. And
don't laugh about the Commanders winning the Super Bowl this year.
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Joe Burrow was in the Super Bowl in his second year.
Patrick Mahomes won the Super Bowl in his second year
as a starter. This is the new normal, cash in now.
There's no like well, Jayden will continue to evolve and
will finally No, it's a now league. Now, you don't
need to sign von Miller. You'll probably be a perfectly
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fine defense without him. But it's that one thing where
in the divisional round or the title game he hits
a corner three and you haven't heard from him in
two and a half months, but he's been on the roster.
Von's been in big games and sacked Hall of Fame quarterbacks.
I think it says the message is very clear. We
want every single little piece, we want to win the
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Super Bowl this year, and we're bringing in a guy
who was trying to do it with his third team.
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Well, I like that, KB, and I'm going to make
a basketball reference to his comments. You bring in somebody
like Ray Allen to the Boston Celtics and he's later
in his career and then he hits a game winning,
championship winning three pointer when you really need him. That's
the type of signing this is, in my opinion with
Von Miller. Now, we talk about Duo's earlier in the week,
and we talked about the connection between a wide receiver
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and his quarterback and why the nonverbals in that situation
are come and play for the offense defensively. That version
is this, we have a connection and an understanding where
I don't have to worry about.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
That side of the field.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
The royal revis was that for the Jets, I don't
got to worry about wherever he's at. For Bobby Wagner
in the middle. Now I don't have to worry about
where von Miller's at. I don't have to worry about
Jalen hurt scrambling to that side. I can just worry
about what's opposite of him. So this eliminates a whole
bunch of problems that could arise for.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
The Commander's defense.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Now that you have somebody like von Miller aka Ray
Allen shooting on one side of the one side of
the field.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Got I just literally went into a deep dive in
my brain of like the really good Celtics team circle
like twenty eight to fourteen, with like now on the team,
Like who's the Kevin Garnett, Who's It's just you just
rattled my brain and that Ray Allen from the corner.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
It was perfect, Mansie.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
The Commanders, as we all know, split the regular season
series with the division winning NAY Super Bowl champion Eagles.
They lost in the NFC title games with the Birds obviously,
who went on to win Super Bowl fifty nine. Okay,
so now they've quote unquote bolstered their pass rush, if
you will, if we're all truly acknowledging that maybe it'll
come mostly on third down, and when he comes out,
he's supposed to don'tk on everybody, and that's.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Von Miller Rashan.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I'll ask you look at the commanders, what is the
difference maker? What is going to have to be the
secret sauce for the commanders to usurp the Philadelphia Eagles
and win this tough division.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Well, already history is kind of planning their favor as
we know in the NFC East, there has not been
any team that's consecutively won the division outside of twenty
years now, and that was Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
So it's back and forth. This is a tough division.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
I think right now they're going to have to lean
heavily on their run game, controlling the clock. You got
a veteran team, which we know, you have more experience,
you're savvier, but a little.
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Bit longer in the tooth. You can get tired. There's
a long season. You got to keep everybody healthy.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Conservative, but they are a physical, heavy handed team. I'm
saying right now, especially when we bring over Deebo Samuel,
what is he right, He's a He's a specimen of
a player that is a running back, slash receiver, slash
utility player.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
You know, he's like a larger person Harvin. He could
do it all.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
And so when you think about this kind of team
and how they built to play, and I know they're
gonna pay Scary Terry at some point.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
You believe that, I believe that you can't.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
There's no way we can be talking about the Commanders
in chasing a chip without bringing Intary.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
It's going to happen. Hallelujah.
Speaker 7 (10:50):
Yeah, it's a step of what I said yesterday with show.
Speaker 6 (10:52):
That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
What number one you just said, you got to you
gotta sign Scary Terry. And the reason why is because
if you watch the NFC Championship, you saw how the
Eagles were able to take away Scary Terry. You can't
depend on one one receiver out there if you're the Commanders,
because you had to resort to zach Ertz.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
A lot in the NFC Championship.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
So you need to have Deebo, Samuel zach Ertz and
Skaritarry out there to even get a chance go to
the playoffs and win this division. Now, when I look
at what they need to do, Number one, Jayden can't
have as sophomore slump. That's number one, Like you have
to be able to figure out how am I going
to how am I going to structure this offense so
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that he continues and builds off of a strong rookie campaign.
Speaker 6 (11:34):
Jaden Daniels has to be electric. Number Two, you have.
Speaker 7 (11:37):
To be able to keep those athletic quarterbacks that you
have in your division in the pocket. That's why they're
signing of von Miller is so important, and it's crucial
for their success this year because you have a guy
now that can keep these guys in the pocket without
sending up Blitz or possibly keeping Bobby Wagner Frankly Luvu
in the middle to spy these guys. You get let
von Miller do his thing. And number three, it's the
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same kryptonite as all teams. Stay healthy. Like if you
even want chance, you have to have all your pieces
out there. You have to stay healthy. So with those
three things, Kyle, I think they have a pretty good
chance of being a contender in NFC East.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Yeah, they just listen. They got to slay the Eagles somehow, somehow.
And there's a really interesting schedule quirk. And for the
level of God, please don't bring up the schedule. You know,
I can't stand that. But in the last three weeks
of the Commander's schedule versus Philadelphia, versus Dallas at Philadelphia.
So we're not going to have our answer to this
question in a long time. It's one of these things
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where the Commanders and Eagles don't play until almost Christmas
for the first time, and then they play twice in
three weeks, and then who knows if we get a
third time in four or five weeks. It's all there's
so worlds are going to change by the time we
see Eagles Commanders. But honestly, like they have to do
something about the tuss push. The Commanders are like exhibit
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A of the effectiveness of that plate. Frankie Lulu is
still jumping over the line. He's still there, standing in
an empty state, jumping over the line, trying to stop
this thing. There's a lot of things I'm looking forward
to in the twenty twenty five season. I don't know
if illing Ford anything as much as the first time
the Eagles try to run the toush push against the Commanders,
because that maniac, I don't know what he's capable of,
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but he's gonna bet his life to try to stop
this thing, and he won't. They dropped fifty five points
on him. Guys, it was a slacking. It was a
terrible end to a wonderful Commander's season. And that's fine.
But a lot, a lot has to change, and a
lot will change. This isn't one of those Jamie, Like
it's like, hey, right out of the gate, it's week
two Eagles command No, no, no, no, no, Like this game is
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six months from now. It is so so you know,
we got those countdowns now, forty three days still kickoff
or whatever, like it's like four hundred days until Commander's Eagles.
And I only say that because there will be injuries,
there will be transactions, there'll be the ups and down.
I don't even know who these teams are going to be.
Then it makes it all the more mysterious.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, and with that you said they do meet late.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
But first out of the gate, the game one, we
got Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles Week one.
Speaker 6 (14:08):
You have Giants Commanders week one.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
So we're gonna have some things.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
We're gonna know a little bit of something.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Yeah, right out the gate.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
But like you said, it's not a promise, it's not
a promisary note to lean.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
It's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Kyle, what you're implying is that the figuring out for
the commanders of the Tush Push is going to be
a stocking stuffer. In terms of that being week sixteen
and eighteen, that is the responsibility of Dan Quinn and
Joe Witch Junior. But Kyle, I want to tee you
up quickly. Someone has been on my mind as it
pertained to the Commanders, and that is Cliff Kingsbury and
the fact that what he did in this role in
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can you just give us a brief history lesson on
the experience that we watch Cliff Kingsbury go through in
the NFL away from the NFL, and what he has
done with this rookie soon to be second year quarterback,
I believe is truly something magical and it speaks to
what he can do with the capability of an offense.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Well, listen, I like Cliff. My knock on Cliff is
always he doesn't do a ton of winning. You know,
he's this coach who's looking at his very smart and
all schematically brilliant, and he loves quarterbacks and he's a
cool dude. But like, whether it be in college or
whether it be is the Arizona Cardinals head coach. There
aren't the real net results. It's just and at some
point it has to be about that. So he takes
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a step back. He goes from being a head coach
and getting Kyler to the playoffs and all that too, like,
just give me the reins and I'm going to go
behind a real, truly grizzled head coach and Dan Quinn
and I'm just gonna do the whiz kid thing and
give me Jaden and I'll run the offense and I'll
do this. It was a brilliant, brilliant year for him,
really really was like it was it may be the
best year of his career at any position, in any
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job he's had, and he's had a lot. And now
it's just like, what do you do for the follow up?
And I know that if we talk sophomore slump, this
sophomore slump that I don't know, I almost want to
call it taboo. I'm on our show for that. And
Matti said it earlier and I said it now that
it's not only is it like a stock wrote phrase,
it's also just so negative. So if you guys are
down with it, I am up for a full taboo
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designation on the term sophomore slump because I don't want
to see it and I don't want to say it perfect,
we'll put it.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
On the list.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
It's officially xnade from commentary unless you're mocking it.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
We love that, Kyle.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
The way you just explained it, I think you could
have taken Ben Johnson's name and applied that parallel to it.
This whiz kid offensive brilliance. But hopefully he's gonna ruin
and shred that narrative about becoming a head coach, and
hopefully he gets some wins under his belt. The Chicago Bears, however,
the Lions are hoping that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
The NFC is spicy this year.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
People, let's go, so is GMFB this hour.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
The pride, the protest still up, let's out, the pride
is still let the.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Person mars puts it down and cuss Themma, he's sacked again.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Wow, we're gonna have a turn over.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Let's talk, du.
Speaker 8 (16:51):
I mean we exploded and Brush Young never had a chance.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
When he gets going like that, it.
Speaker 6 (16:57):
Is literally like he was hunting.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
You don't about ever player the mom.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
I don't want anybody to be concerned that When we
go for two, it's going to feel like it's good morning,
NFC East.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
It's not our second topic. I'm going for two.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
We will split out of the division and we're going
to go to the AFC West. But first we'll talk
about the Cowboys. Even though we just spent twenty minutes
on the Commanders. Michael Parsons favorite players, Ceed Lamb got
paid last summer. Will it be Edge Rusher Century for
the Cowboys this summer? To decide on Michah Parsons and
we'll kind of payment he will get. Parsons was asked
this week if he was worried he didn't have a
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long term deal yet, he replied, I just work harder.
Like to me, I look at it like if people
don't see your value, you don't cry and sit down,
just work harder. I'm just going to get mine no
matter what end quotes.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
It's quite the take for Shad.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
So he's going to show up, He's going to show
him what he's worth and he's going to force their hand.
What are your thoughts on this take from Micah?
Speaker 6 (17:57):
I love this take.
Speaker 5 (17:57):
This is a football take one hundred percent. You know
as an athlete, and we learn this. You learn to
fall in love with the process more than outcome, and
if you can do that, you're probably supersedu your original goal.
And Michael Parson's out there having fun. He's with the
Dallas Cowboys. He's a hard worker, he plays hard, he
has fun hard, he has his podcast, he's making money
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off the film, and he's anticipating a big contract. Everybody
that watches football knows it will come.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
We don't know if it's going to be with.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
The Dallas Cowboys or if they could do a mysterious
trade and stack up picks, but we know, and he
knows he's going to get paid, so he's focused on
the prize. He's not a concern with the noise.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
I love this. I love this take by him. Well,
you talk about process and trusting the process.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
I think by now Michael Parsons isn't word, and either
am I or anybody that follows the Cowboys during this
time of year are word. It's like the Fast and
Furious series. We know it's going to happen, even though
you're on Fast ten. Like we know the past ten movies,
it was all the same. How many times have you
heard Jerry Jones during training camp, in the middle of
a training camp, have these disputes with his players, whether
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it be Dak Prescott, Zach Marin, CD Lamb. There's always
something that comes up around this time of year when
it comes to extending his players. Now, I love the
fact too to your point where Shot, I love the
fact that you know, Michael Parsons is going to come
out there and he's going to set up precedence that
the best player is going to be out there to
lead this team. I think that it speaks to him
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as a leader, as being selfless, as being one of
the better players in the NFL, not just for the
Dallas Cowboys, but showing his dedication and his love for
his for the game of football and his teammates, for
being in this type of situation but still being out there. Kyle,
I think it sets a good trajectory for the Dallas
Cowboys heading into this year.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, Michah has this this luxury, this this privilege, if
you will, of just being like, I know, I'm so good,
i am so calentult A lot of guys don't have that.
You know, like he talks like he knows exactly who
and what he is. You get other guys who are
gonna want I'm gonna unfollow the team. I'm so media
that'll show him, or I'm gonna tweet some dumb emoji
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that no one understands. Micah's like, I don't really care.
I'm Micah, I know what team I've played for, I
know who I am. Like, it'll work. It's refreshing. Actually
it's I wouldn't recommend it to all these guys. And listen,
we're seeing all kinds of issues around the league now,
whether it's with the Bengals or whether it's the Trey
Hendrickson or anybody like that. Those guys aren't aren't Micah,
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and they're not Dallas, and they listen. Trey Hendrickson's probably like,
I led the league in sacks last year? Where were you?
He's like, I don't know. I'm just different. I'm younger
than you are, I play for a different team than you,
I played for a different owner, and it's probably very frustrating,
but it kind of makes me smile. And I listen.
It's like, I know I keep bringing this up, but
I'm in the same arena as Michael Parsons last night
in New York. Like it was just a random place
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and like I just cannot tell you if you didn't
know what was going on. And this is me and
my daughter. But he Micah was courtside, like his feet
on the court. If you didn't know he was having
issues with wanting a new contract, like you would think
that they just paid him four hundred million. His body
language was so loose and so light and so giggling
is with his friends, and like you would never know
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by looking at him, like that's the guy who wants
is frustrated's not getting a new contract. You know why,
because he's not frustrated because it's like, I'm Micah, I'll
get paid. I'm not really worried about it. I think
it's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
He's got the star and his helmet kind of no
matter who he plays for, is what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
I like it all right.
Speaker 2 (21:27):
Going for two second topic, The video came out Manny
Pakia professional boxer returning to the ring this Saturday, and
instead of getting the authentic like I'm dripping in sweat
in Las Vegas workout, he just took it to the
air conditioning. He went indoor, he went climate control, bounced
around on the rate in the Raiders' facility, which is
an amazing look. And frankly, the feat with the running
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back moves looks sweet for Manny Pakia for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Do you have a boxer that could.
Speaker 2 (21:54):
Best describe a team heading into the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, first, first of all, forty six moving like that.
That's a nice cut, man. I have to admit that, yes, yes,
one hundred percent. And I have to go with Floyd Mayweather.
Money may is in comparison to the Philadelphia Eagle, And
let me try to break this down for you. So
obviously he's more precision over the over the flashroom and
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the way that he fights. And I think I think
the Eagles are built like an old school team. They're gritty,
they're gonna run, first play defense, don't air the ball
out a whole ton.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
Consistency, consistency.
Speaker 5 (22:31):
The Philadelphia Eagles are very consistent, making the playoffs last
four years. When you look at Money Mayweather, he's consistently
at the top of the board. He's a champion. That's
exactly what Money may is. What are the Philadelhia Eagles?
Speaker 6 (22:43):
They're champions. When you look at Jalen Hursts, what is.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
He He's loved, but he's also hated.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
It's like just like.
Speaker 5 (22:49):
Money May And why is he hated because both of
them kind of tamper with this little style that they
just you can't stop that Philly shell is a Philly shell.
That defense. Oh he doesn't want to fight. Oh, they
just want to push toush. It's the comparison. And so
they're built the same. They look to say, but you
can't stop them. You're either paying to watch them, to
boo or cheer for them. But I see them in
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the exact same.
Speaker 7 (23:11):
I love the fact you said you either love them
or you hate them, because the guy the team that
I'm gonna go with, you definitely love them or you're
gonna hate them. And that's the Dallas Cowboys. Now follow me, guys,
I'm comparing the Dallas Cowboys to Jake Paul.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Okay, just follow me, guys.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
Okay, You're both two different entities that have large followings.
Some you have probably Jake Paul, you have more following
than some champions. Dallas Cowboys you have more followings.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Than some champions.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
You're both global brands, like Jake Paul is known everywhere.
Speaker 6 (23:44):
You sell out stadiums.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
Nothing you sell out stadiums, and when you're in stadiums,
they're either gonna love you or they're gonna boo you,
like how Michael Parson's got booed last night at the game.
And you're worth lots of money. But this is where
it all comes home from me. Every single year we
struggle with the question is it time to take you
serious or not? Every time Jake Paul is out there,
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it's like, should I take you serious.
Speaker 6 (24:10):
As a fighter?
Speaker 1 (24:10):
Should I take you serious as a boxer?
Speaker 7 (24:12):
And the Dallas Cowboys every single year.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
I'm like, should I take you serious?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
You're looking so good so early, But should I take
you serious?
Speaker 6 (24:20):
I'm not so sure.
Speaker 7 (24:21):
So I've got Jake Paul, Kyle and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6 (24:25):
Hmm, that's strong. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
The problem with the Cowboys is that they they have
to play the Eagles. That's not like sixty year old
Mike Tyson, that's like in his prime, a tomato in
his corner like that. Their opponent is very, very very different. Also, like,
I gotta be honest, it's a little sidebar here. I
hate seeing the manupac. Yeah, I was fighting. What are
we doing? Man? I know boxing is a brutal sport,
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and maybe he's got bills to pay or other things,
but like we're forty six years old. Like after that
one Manuel Marquez knock out, I never want to see
him boxing again. He's an all time legend. He's beloved
in his native Philippines. I don't know who he's boxing
or what he's boxing. I just I'm like, come on, Manny,
like he's quick and I get it. I just I
get nervous for these guys. I've watched a lot of
Manipaco fights over the years, and I just seems like
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it may be the best times in the safest times
are behind him. But with that sidebar aside, I'm gonna
go the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I used to still am
be a big fan of a gentleman named butter Bean.
You guys familiar with butter Bean. Butter Be a big,
old bald dude who would just show up, show up
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and throw out haymakers. And he once beat up Johnny Knoxville.
And why are the Steelers butter Bean? It's like every
year you kind of look at him, You're like, this
is the guy, and then showing up. But they're five
hundred they're over five hundred, They're in the playoffs, and
Aaron Rodgers is like, does he still have it? He's
got a great beard and he's like, I still I'm
gonna trust Butterbean. I apparently we don't have other there's Rogers.
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I just think they still have that right hand. And
I don't know if they're gonna, you know, be the
world heavyweight champion and have a belt. But it's always
gonna be fun to watch. You're not gonna be able
to turn away. A lot of people say what the
hell is this? And then you watch, You're like, oh,
I like this. I think that's gonna be the.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Stealers, the share man.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
I don't know who that guy is, but I like
his name. And Kyle, it's a perfect parallel to answer
your question, Kyle Mario Barrios, who is the thirty year
old welterweight champion. Me talking about boxing is the parallel
to me talking about wrestling.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I got nothing, but.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
He's gonna fight Manny Paccio. I guess as a reigning champion,
you get to come out of retirement just at will,
call a guy up and be like, let's have a
title fight. That's what you get when you are a
man paccio or a raiding champion. We will be watching
the show and the boxing match this weekend. I gotta
get out of here because I can't get that box.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
We have Bronc on the show. I'm sure he could
make a parallel about boxers and teams. What was his
name again? Your guy Kyle butter Bean?
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Butter Bean?
Speaker 3 (26:50):
Yeah, butter Bean? Great, Yeah, but we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh, superhuman. They can't defend him. I'll sorry, he's covered.
Even when he's covered, he's open. Look big boys like
that did stop him, cannot stop him.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
I don't even know how.
Speaker 9 (27:28):
I'm the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history, Cooky, it's
the best play in the year.
Speaker 1 (27:41):
Imagine you left your job one day and you said,
I don't even know how I did that. That's how
this guy would get down. One of the realest dudes ever,
a national treasure, and he's the host of the Dudes
on Dudes podcasts with Julian Let's get him in here.
What's up, Gronk? How we doing, baby?
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (27:57):
How you doing?
Speaker 5 (27:57):
Man?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
You're always bringing the juice to the table, no matter
what time of the day it is.
Speaker 10 (28:03):
Man, I respect that of you. Man, I love it.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
That's the truth.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
We all love you too. It's awesome that you're here.
We had a lot to talk about.
Speaker 6 (28:11):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Everybody this morning across the country is talking about Shane Gillis,
the comedian who did his monologue last night at the SPEC.
He had a lot of different jokes, some on the line,
some over the line, but he definitely had some Coach
Belichick content. What is it like, Rob in this era
now where everyone's making jokes about Coach and what he's
doing off the field, Like, what is that like for
(28:33):
you to watch someone who played for him for so long?
Speaker 6 (28:37):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (28:39):
Man, It's shocking in a way because of just how
uptight of an organization that I was a part of,
and how we just kept our lips sealed, you know,
throughout the whole journey, you know, when the New England
Patriots dynasty was alive, you know, other way in other ways.
You know, it's fun and it's just all just being lighthearted.
(29:01):
But I'm excited for Coach Belichick to see what he
does you and C this year.
Speaker 10 (29:05):
I think that's most important.
Speaker 9 (29:07):
I think he's going to have some you know, tricks
in his pockets to you know, shut everyone up and
get put all the attention back on football because that's
what he really loves to do. But Shane Gillis. Last night,
I was chilling with my friend and I was like, Oh,
the SP's are tonight and Shane Gillis is hosting it.
Speaker 10 (29:25):
I was like, we got to watch.
Speaker 9 (29:26):
The opening because I know the opening monologue is gonna
be fire. It's Shane Gillis, and I was more than
happy that I put it on because he absolutely dominated
and he was on fire and he did such a
great job.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
It was It got people talking, dude, and I knew
you wouldn't miss it. We also have been talking about
the podcasts, all right, So you and Jules, you recently
interviewed the boss man. Robert Kraft comes on the pod
and when you guys asked him about his best decision
he has made as an owner of the Patriots, he
had this to say. We have a clip dudes on dudes,
it was your best decision that you've made as an
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owner to date.
Speaker 11 (30:05):
Getting Bill Belichick to come to the Patriots. I gave
up a number one draft pick coach who had only
won a little over forty percent of his game in
nineteen ninety nine was a big risk, and I got
hammered in the Boston media, but I think we did okay.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
All right, So Rob you get this great clip and
then Coach now has a response to it in which
Bill Belichick says, as I told Robert multiple times through
the years, I took a risk by taking the New
England Patriots job because everyone told me it was going
to come with many internal obstacles, We're going to have
to change everything. It was a really good response. What
(30:51):
do you make of mister kraft statement and then Coach's response?
Speaker 9 (30:54):
You know, with mister Kraft's statement, RKK statement, I don't
think there was truly any aimosity towards what he was saying.
He was just kind of generally speaking that it was
a big risk. I feel like that because he was
taking Coach Belichick, who was just hired as the head
(31:14):
coach from the New York Jets, and he was taking
him and stealing him, and that's really never been done before, and.
Speaker 10 (31:20):
That was a risky play. And I feel like.
Speaker 9 (31:23):
He was saying it kind of in a more general
way of that's why it was a risk, Not anything
against Coach Belichick, just a way that it was done.
Speaker 10 (31:33):
And then with.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Coach Belichick coming back and saying that it was a
risk for him to take the job, well, I mean
we were just firing back, I feel like, because I
feel like he figed out the context of what RKK said.
Speaker 10 (31:48):
But it's a risk in any job that you take.
Speaker 9 (31:52):
And MSS and Coach Belichick, he loves to be hands
on and he kind of loves to make sure that
everything is run in the organization how it needs to
be run, you know, in the right way, so he
can coach and develop the players.
Speaker 10 (32:07):
Out on the football field.
Speaker 9 (32:09):
And he did an excellent job and it could have
been a better match from the get go.
Speaker 2 (32:14):
But Kron, to your point, I love this era that
Belichick actually had something to say about the quote and
it wasn't just like I'm not sure I didn't catch that,
which I think there was a time in which we
would have heard coach do that. Now, mister Kraft obviously
still at the Helm in New England, and he had
a tough decision to make to move on from a
first year head coach, to bring Mike Rabel back into
the system, into the fold, into the organization that you
(32:36):
know and love so well, what do you think Rabel
has to do now to get this thing back to
an era in which that was as successful and try
to match that that you had going with the Patriots.
Speaker 9 (32:47):
Yes, well, I think Mike Rabel is doing an excellent
job so far. I mean, you really can't question any
of the moves that he has done this year in
free agency and in the draft. I think they smacked
it out of the park. What we really got to
see now is how coach Rabel can bring this team
together so they can have that chemistry to go out
and play together as a team and go out there
(33:10):
and win games and possibly have a shot at making
the playoffs and winning the division and if not winning
the division, at least getting a wild card so they
can compete in the playoffs. That's what he has to do.
He has to bring this team together. Because all the
moves in the offseason have been done in the draft
and free agency.
Speaker 10 (33:28):
Maybe they're going to make.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
Another splash, you know, before the trade deadline, because they
have about fifty sixty million dollars left and spending, so
they're going to maybe go out and make a trade
to see, you know, to amp up a position that
you know, that they need.
Speaker 10 (33:41):
To progress at, you know, throughout the season.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
But other than that, he has been doing such a
great job and you can't really question him yet, and
you got to just see how he does once the
season hits.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
No doubt, Vrabel and Old Pat's legend Gronk. Let's talk
about another one, you know who was on fire right now? Tom.
Like Tom, he's got a million business ventures. He's all
out there doing his thing. I see him on yachts.
He's showing up in places. He always looks happy. Never
mind what's true and not true about his personal life. Rob.
If someone were to call you, let's say it's Sophia
(34:14):
Bargera or Sydney Sweener, anybody, and they call you and
they say, Rob, what would be your advice on dating Tom? Like,
what should I do? What should I not do? What
would you tell him?
Speaker 9 (34:25):
Oh, that's a great question. Well, first off, I would
just say, congratulations, you landed one of the most handsomest
men of all that who was in better shape and
better looking than when he was playing the game of football.
Speaker 10 (34:39):
Which is pretty remarkable.
Speaker 9 (34:42):
But there's one thing I would say is just to
try and keep you know, your your dating life with him,
a little private, you know, don't be out there. He
likes toe, you know, get to know you first before
anything hits the market.
Speaker 7 (34:59):
I like that, Rob, I like that when you referenced
what you liked about the hats and what they did
in this offseason, especially with the draft.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
And we know the story of your Draft night.
Speaker 7 (35:10):
And last month we had John Robinson as a call
host on this show on JIMFB and he shared his
experience at the very moment New England shose you let's
take listen.
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Bill finally gives me the thumbs up, and there's like
twenty seconds and Nick's call in the league to make
sure the trade goes in. And I said, Jimmy, you
got it, and he goes, I got it, Rob Gronkowski,
tight end Arizona. Jimmy takes off sprinting. He gets the
card into the table with like two seconds left. The
Baltimore rep is standing right there. He turns in his
(35:42):
card at the same right after our So our pick
is in. You know, we jumped ahead of Baltimore. We
had forty two. Baltimore was immediately on the clock at
forty three and they were ready to pick. We get
Rob Grinkowski. They take Sergio Kendall, a linebacker out of Texas.
They thought we were clamoring up to get Sergio. We
thought they were clamoring up to get rob.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
So o receive bro.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
We kind of know the story with seeing that in
that perspective, what kind of thoughts come to mind?
Speaker 9 (36:14):
Yes, the New England Patriots, we're playing chess while the
Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 10 (36:18):
We're playing checkers.
Speaker 9 (36:20):
That right now, and you know, it was one of
the greatest things that happened to me. Actually, it was
the greatest thing that happened to me in my career,
was that the New England Patriots drafted me and traded
up for me at the forty second pick, because I
am pretty sure that the Baltimore Ravens were going to
select me with the forty third pick. But I appreciate
New England stepping up and showing how bad that they
(36:42):
wanted me that they were willing.
Speaker 10 (36:44):
To trade up for me.
Speaker 9 (36:45):
And mister Robinson, thank you for looking out for me,
and thank you for believing in me.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
And trusting in me.
Speaker 9 (36:51):
It was just an honor to play for the Patriots
for nine years that I was there and win three
Super Bowls.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Baby you always put it so eloquently, Gronk, and for
them to trust you is one thing, but for t
Mobile to trust you it is another thing. For the
second year in a row, up with Tea Mobile for
their Friday Night five g Lights competition, you were on
last year talking about it. Now this year they're adding
even more star power and they got you to recruit
one Patrick Mahomes to be.
Speaker 3 (37:14):
A part of this competition. What's this all about?
Speaker 9 (37:17):
Yes, well, Friday Night five gen Lights is back and
it's bigger and better this year. Last year of Nola
High School in Oklahoma one and the grand prize was
about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to remake your
high school football field and remodel it. And now this
year it's bigger and better. The grand prize is one
million dollars. On top of that, Rock Fitness, my family's
(37:41):
brand is going to make over do a remakeover of
the whole entire fitness gym, so it's going to be
all brand new. These kids can work out and stay strong,
just like myself and just like you guys on the
NFL Network. And there's also going to be twenty five
finalists that get twenty five thousand dollars as well, just
to upgrade their facilities, which is super cool.
Speaker 10 (38:02):
So it's my second year.
Speaker 9 (38:04):
Doing this campaign and I recruited Patrick Mahomes to join
me this year to represent the campaign. And if you
want more information on how the register and how to
get your school involved to possibly win this grand prize,
you can go to Friday Night fiveg lights dot com.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Rot. You're a major competitor, man.
Speaker 5 (38:22):
Every time I see you competing in something, I think
we competing in basketball. At some point we're gonna have
to compete in some pickleball, man. But through this specific competition,
you get a chance to witness teams come together in
communities across the country for Friday night.
Speaker 6 (38:36):
Football and a good time.
Speaker 5 (38:38):
Now, I got a question, though, what's been the biggest
experience for you this far that you will take away
from this opportunity?
Speaker 9 (38:47):
Oh all right, that's a great question, but god, it
really is. But doing this campaign since it's for high school,
I mean that's where my football career started. It so
it brings back all the memories and joy that I
had throughout my high school time. I remember one of
my good friends, he's about five eight one hundred and
(39:07):
eighty pounds and he was our defensive tackle.
Speaker 10 (39:10):
On our high school football team.
Speaker 9 (39:12):
So shout out to the Duke's shout out baby.
Speaker 1 (39:16):
Just a guy that has no fear and.
Speaker 9 (39:19):
One hundred eighty pounds at defensive tackle. Just you got
to laugh about that. That's just incredible and all those
good memories that you have. My high school quarterback still
claims I owe him a million dollars because I actually
left my high school in Buffalo and went to the
high my high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and he said
he claims I ruined his career and that he.
Speaker 10 (39:39):
Wasn't getting scouted him. So I owed a million dollars.
To this day, I'll pay up. I will pay up
one day.
Speaker 6 (39:45):
One day.
Speaker 1 (39:46):
Rob, what's that guy's name?
Speaker 6 (39:47):
Shout him out?
Speaker 10 (39:49):
Five Star Dolmond. Now he called himself five stars, and
that's what we.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Will know him as.
Speaker 10 (40:00):
I won a brillion. What's interest my million?
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Sure it's going to hit the benmo, I'm sure.
Speaker 6 (40:08):
Rob.
Speaker 1 (40:08):
It's really cool that you're doing this. I know even
the greatest pro football players ever always look back so
affectionately at high school football, and you're perfect for that
Friday nights five g lights dot com. You stuck the
landing on the pitch too, Gronk, thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
We love you. We'll see you soon.
Speaker 10 (40:23):
Man awesome. Thank you guys for having me.
Speaker 6 (40:25):
You're the man. Brother.
Speaker 1 (40:26):
Thank you brother, See you later.
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