December 18, 2025 • 36 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o, and Mike Garafolo preview the big-time matchup between the Seahawks-Rams. Then they discuss what’s on the line between the Packers-Bears rematch. Bears WR DJ Moore joins the show and talks about Caleb Williams’ TD pass, and winning football.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's fading right, pitch no good and the Rams are
in first place.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Last time obviously it wasn't my best effort.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Throw Smith's heels pitch intercepted at the thirty.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Five fourteen under the belt, and then trying to turn
around and play in a couple of days. It's tough,
especially for somebody as old as I am.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Ah, there's no weakness. This is as complete of a
football team as.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
There is no Well day, got a great opponent that
we're playing in a tough environment as well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's the best? That's the kind of football you want
to be playing in December.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So much yelling, so much passion, so much competition in
the NFC West, and it continues tonight on Indeed, it
is the fourth day of the work week, at least
for us, it is a Thursday. There is a football game.
All of these things are confirmed. And that was just
specifically for Kyle Brandt.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Okay, Kyle and.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Mike, carefula, you were missed at the holiday party last night.
I know that being a bicoastal show is a challenge
at times, but you two was certainly missed at the
NFL holiday party. I know you would have brought the
festive cheer.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, oh, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That was last night.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We would have engaged in some shenantigans. Yes, just imagine
what we would have done.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yes, wow, thank does anybody not have their job this morning?
I'm glad to see you guys both still do We're
still here?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yes, Quike, we kept a classy all good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We were there for the morale. You got a c
and be seen and just show face and be like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Happy holidays to you and yours. All right, moving on,
speaking of I'd like to see that. Say that to
Ian Rappaport as well. Rapsheet, Good morning to you. Welcome
inside GMFB rap sheet news out of Miami yesterday. I
did not was not full of cheer because Mike McDaniel
made a decision about the quarterback room moving.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Forward, They sure did.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
I can't believe there was a holiday party last night.
I guess my invite got lost on the interweb somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's get to the Miami
Dolphins and really what is a franchise changing move, A
significant quarterback move to a taugo I who has been
their starting quarterback for the last several years, so much
so they paid him a contract more than fifty.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Million dollars per year.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
He has been benched, and certainly this is a signal
from the organization they are moving on from someone who
has been their starting quarterback again for the last many
many years. A potential moving on from him in the offseason.
A lot to get to there, It's going to be expensive.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
They can do it, cap hits a lot.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
But what this week is about is not about the
fact that Tua tugo I is going to be the
third slash emergency quarterback. It's that Quinn yours the seventh
round are from Texas who really impressed in college then
surprisingly fell to the seventh round, is lead frog Zach
Wilson and is going to be the starting quarterback this week.
Now likely that would mean he's a starting quarterback for
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the final two games after that, But just focusing on
this week, see like behind the scenes, he really impressed.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
One thing.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Mike McDaniels says they wanted someone who could run the
offense with conviction.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
They believe they will get that from yours.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Actually should be a really exciting game on Sunday. Another
exciting game tonight, maybe the best Thursday game.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
We've seen in a very, very long time.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Team.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Charles Cross the starting tackle for the Seahawks, really one
of the better tackles, certainly one of the best players
on the Seahawks team. He is out this week with
a hamstring injury minor standing. It's a two to four
week injury, so could miss games after this, but should
be back for the playoffs, which, honestly, this time of year,
the only thing that matters, I would say. Similar situation
for Devonte Adams, a star receiver for the Los Angeles
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Tramps who has been a touchdown machine.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
He is doubtful this game with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Now list it is out, they wanted to kind of
lead the light on for him see maybe somehow, some way,
if he could maybe get in in like a red
zone package or something.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
It's not looking great, but at least they want to
give him a chance.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
So don't expect him to play tonight, but the hope
is the next game, if there's enough time to recover,
you can see Devanta out there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Make a good point rap sheet. It's like, yeah, why
line them up if he can't go full bore wide receivers,
specially guys with that kind of speed and talent, you
don't want to mess with the hamstring. Moving forward, we
look squarely at ram Seahawks. It kicks off Week sixteen
tonight in an epic NFC.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
West showdown for Prime Video.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Matt Safford and Sam Darnold are both in the spotlight tonight. Yesterday,
Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald actually talked about the magnitude
of this divisional matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's y'all's job to put all the meaning behind it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's our job to go play great football.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's all good. I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's exciting, but every game's exciting. There's a lot of
stuff that happens in the NFL, you know. And my
message to our team was we are really fortunate and
blessed and should feel really confident in the work that
we've done up to this point to put ourselves in
this position where we have a lot of great players.
They are ready to go. We trust each other. I
feel like we're a connected team. I feel like we're
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a tough team, and so let's go, let's go do it.
You know, let's go, let's go rip it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You know, Mike McDonald, I resent that it's not our
job to make it a big deal. You're the one
that's battling for the top spot in the NFC West,
all right, it already is a big deal. The standings
make it a big deal. The NFC playoff picture MANSI
make it a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This thing was already baked.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It in the oven before the media even touched it.
It means a lot Ramseyhawks tonight. So what do you
want to say from this, Well, you bring.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Up the oven thing, right, Jamie.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
There's a star wide receiver that is currently in the
oven and he's trying to recuperate, and that's DeVante Adams.
And so for me, it's going to be how are
they the La Rams offense going to handle this dynamic
of an offense without one of their star players. And
it takes me back to Pukaku's very first game in
the NFL September tenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
They didn't have Cooper Cup.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
They had a very young running back in Kaien Williams
and all Pooka did was have fifteen targets ten catches
in one hundred nineteen yards. The target and the catches
were the most in the rookie for rookies since nineteen
ninety two, and he hasn't slowed down since then. Now
the Devonte Adams, if you look at how though the
Rams utilize him, they utilize him mainly in.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The red zone.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
They go into thirteen personnel, one running back, three tight
ends and they put him out there one on one
with the dB and C. For Matt Stafford, he tries
to see are they going to double him or are
they going to single cover at him? And they get
him the barf. He's in single coverage. Puka Nicole can
do that. So how much are they going to put
on Pukah's plate for this game? That's what I'm going
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to be looking at, Mike g And if Puko, which
I am confident he can can take on that workload.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Good things should continue for the La Rams offense.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Matt Ty, I don't know how many games you end
up playing there up in Seattle and how many times
you face the Twelfth Man over the course of your career. Quice,
it was hard for twice there you go two times
that it was probably hard for you to hear some
things going on, although I guess not so much for
you because you were on the defense. Usually it's louder
and the offenses out there. Point being, that was and
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has been an incredibly difficult place for teams to play.
It has not been so much over the last season plus.
Now they're on a roll right now, but they lost
some games earlier in the season, and around October, Mike
McDonald's continued something that he and John Schneider had said
in the off season about we want to re establish
our home field advantage. We want to make this once
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again a place we gotta win at home.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We got to help make that happen.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
If this isn't the spot for that tonight, for the
twelves to show up, to make all the noise they
possibly can, to make this as difficult as possible on
the Rams eleven and three, eleven and three. I mean,
this is maybe the best late season Thursday game we've
had since the first game that Aaron Rodgers while the
playing way back it was ackers Cowboys when I didn't
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have NFL Network, it wasn't available in my local cable provide.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I had to go to the bar to go watch
the game.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It was awesome, unbelievable environment.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So this is the tonight, fans, this is the tonight twelves.
Raised that flag, hit those bleachers in end zone. Make
it as loud as you possibly can.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Because Mike McDonald and the Seahawks want to re establish
home field advantage here it is got.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I am so in lockstep with you. This is Seahawks
prom tonight. This is a big deal and I want
to watch Amazon and what they do with it. I
want the largest company in the world to properly hype
one of the best teams in the NFL. You don't
want to talk about the Seahawks. I've said it all
season long. There's something about them with that logo and
that brand that is just doesn't sizzle nationally. I don't care.
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You have the Rams, we get it. It's Stafford, it's McVeigh,
it's the beautiful thing. It's all great. It's the Seahawks
night to be at home and to remind the world
we exist, and now on that we exist, we're really good.
Do you guys know how good this team is? Generally
have three losses. Their three losses on the season are
by four points, by three, and by two that this
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team is a breadth away from a fourteen to oh team.
They have never lost by more than four points. Additionally,
it's okay, Amazon, if you want to leave the camera
Mike McDonald on the sideline for I know mcvay's gonna
be on a lot. God bless you do it. It's
Mike McDonald. Make sure to spell his name right. It's mac.
It's not a capital D. This week, Sean mcvay's second
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baby has gotten more coverage than Mike McDonald's eleventh win.
All right, we can cover it. It's okay. Last week,
the Seahawks had a home, gritty, tough, gut check win,
and all of the talk was on the old fart
losing quarterback on the other team. The Seahawks did win
that game. Okay, they did win. They kicked six field goals,
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they won, They made the stop at the end. It's
okay to talk about the Seahawks. You should talk about
the Seahawks. I hope they win tonight because it's gonna
be oh my god. They're twelve and three. I guess
we have to talk. You're not just trying to beat
the Rams. Tonight you're trying to be the media production meetings,
media segment producers, media suits upstairs, or turn on the
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TV and their giant corner offs and say, why is
the Seahawks on here? Give me more cowboys? What Shador doing?
Never mind what Shador is doing? What's Sam doing? He's
winning again? And tonight is the Seahawks prompt. Now, don't
blow it, don't lay no egg, don't come out, have
five turnovers and lose by two touchdowns, because then there's
nothing I can do for you. I'm not omnipping in.
I can only do you so much. It's the prom
Tonight's put on your boat, tie, bring your little little
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corsage and have some fun.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I just want to see you handle this right, because
you deserve it. One of the best teams in the NFL.
Tonight should be the night Kyle.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's a good point because you know Amazon, the birthplace
that is the native land of Amazon, is it not
bell U Washington? Seattle, Washington, Like they should have a
couple extra plugins.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Available to them. Of course, of Thompson, the.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Native daughter of Seattle, Washington, I believe so she's gonna
have a big old homecoming.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Richard, this has gonna be the night. If not not,
when this is the night, Come on Prime, let me
run this by you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So both of these teams tonight, with a win, they
are then in the driver's seat for the number one
overall seed in the NFL. Right, this could be the
fourth time in organizational history on both sides that this
happens for the Rams. The last time they were the
number one overall scene in the NFC it was seventy eight,
ninety nine and one for the Seahawks more recent five
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thirteen and fourteen. How much Mantill ask you this not
only does this game impact what's happening in the division,
but all of a sudden you think of the NFC
landscape and the fact that teams will have to go
through the Eagles. They got to go to Seattle, the
Eagles go to go to Rams. How much juice does
that give you moving forward into January as well?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I think if you look at that playoff picture, Jamie, everybody,
besides the rent, they don't want to go to Seattle
in the playoffs. You don't want to have that, to
Mike G's point, you don't want to have that crowd
and that crowd noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Here in LA they do say Rams House and all
of that stuff. But if you ask everybody.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
On that list between playing at so Far and playing
in Seattle, which one is the more rowdy and which
quarterback would rather sit in a pocket and direct traffic
at what stadium? Everybody's going to say they'd rather be
in LA than up there in Seattle. So if I
had to ask all of those quarterbacks on the list, Jamie,
they don't want to go to Seattle for the playoffs,
just with all that crowd noise.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
If you're Sam Darnald and you're just looking at that
full screen graphic, Jamie, and you know he is because
you know he's up early, he can't sleep, and he's
definitely watching Good Morning Football.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You get ready for this game.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
You're looking at it eleven and three and I'm sitting
in the five spot.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
It is possible.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
He just did this last year.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
You lost to the Rams fourteen and three last year,
and we're in a wild card spot.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We've got to go on the road and we lose,
Like this can't happen again.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Like that's got to be the prevailing motivational fire stoking
thought inside Sam Darnold today and he's more competitive than
he looks.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Kyle.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
I mean, I know he's got that so cal cool
about him, but he's got that fire inside.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So that's what jam right who does. Huge night for
Sam Brown I said that one of the biggest games
of his career, I mean, huge, huge spot for him
because we're saying, well, you don't want to go to
Seattle for a playoff game, Sure of course not, but listen,
you lose tonight. I'm not saying the Seahawks are They're
going to be the playoff but like, you want to
go to Chicago in January for a playoff game? Do
you want to go to Philadelphia? Like that's what tonight is.
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There's huge stakes. It's not just same division blah blah blah.
Like this is really going to determine how the playoff
chips fall. Like this is I feel like in a
lot of ways, Seahawks are playing for their lives right
now because if we tune in a few weeks from
now and they're losing at whatever horrible playoff destination they
have to go to because they lost this game, this
is the reason their season ends. It's not because they
lost the playoff game. It's because they lost tonight and
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had to play there for that playoff game. It's big time. Indeed,
it is all right, that's my little game, shall we.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You might be doing some holiday shopping for your family
and you're like, should.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I buy that for my mother in law?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Or should I keep trying in the next door.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But let's apply it to football topics. Shall we.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Bears face the Packers again on Saturday night. This time,
and despite the outcome of their previous matchup in Green Bay,
Kayleb Williams remains fully confident in himself and his team.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
If I play how I played less you know this this
past game, or you know, if I play better than that,
we got a we got a real shot to you know,
do whatever we want in this in this league. I'm
excited for it. I think I think everybody's excited for it.
I think, you know, even even Djack said it. After
you know the game is. You know, we we feel
as if we let them off the hook. You know,
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we want to go out there and play our brand
of football and it gives us the best shot to
uh go win the game. And that's starting fast, you know,
playing physical executing plays the way that we we know
we can offense, defense, special teams, and like I said,
we're we're excited to go, you know showcase that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I bet he is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And while Caleb is saying all the right things to
stay confident and breathe life into his team, the Bears
still have to take care of business against the Packers
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Are you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Buying that the Bears will definitively show up on Saturday
Mansai and bring their brand of football?
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Yes, I am buying that they will show up on
game day and play their brand of football. The reason
being is I think they learned a valuable less and
in the first game against the Packers the first half versus
the second half, and I think we all spoke on
the show about it.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Finally felt like they woke.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Up in the second half, and if you look at
what they did differently in the second half, they they
relied on their run game, Kyle Munungui, DeAndre Swift. I
know that Caleb has elite arm talent and he had
to highlight play to DJ Moore. What I don't think
is going to happen is Ben Johnson is going to
be like Okay, cool. I saw that play. Let's air
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it out even more because with Michael Parsons being out
of the game, I think they're going to run at
whoever replaces Michael Parsons. I don't know who it's going
to be, but usually when offenses see a new guy
in there is like single, a rookie cornerback, They're just
going to target them and keep going at them every
single every single play. And the identity of this Chicago
Bears offense, Mike ge is that they run the ball,
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and they run the ball very physically and they're very, very.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Good at it. So having Caleb be able to throw these.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
Passes is a cherry on the top. But what makes
the ice cream Sunday is that run game that they
have with DeAndre Swift and Common Mike g.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, one eight on the ground against the Packers in
that game a couple of weeks ago. I just you
know these things that the line in this league is
just it's just so thin between us asking a question
like this or can the Bears do it again? And
that line was the last play of the game sure
for the Bears, and a play that was schemed up
well and covered well.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Although see that.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Dj Moore, who's going to join the show shortly That
little move behind the light of scrimmage, that was a
slight variation on what they had done previously against the
Eagles in the court with the col Comet touchdown that
wound up stealing the game, and that allowed Keyshaw Nixon
to cover col Comet because the person that was supposed
to cover Comet actually went up and covered.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Swift in the flat.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I forget exactly who that was, but that allowed for
the cover to Like, it's just so wild that this
play had three little variations that resulted in it being
an incompletion instead of a game when he passed.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So am I buying Yeah, I'm buying it.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I'm buying it because they all did and they did
a good job of as Mattie said, when they were
down fourteen to three, I kind of looked at it
and was like, oh, like, this is the point at
which this team is either going to respond and show
that they deserve to be in the mix, or they're
going to roll over and played it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
They didn't.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They hung in there, they battled back, and that last
play that goes the other way. We're asking a different
question here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
No doubt and there's so many fun dynamics in this
and one of the witches. You know, I have a
pretty good sense of the Bears fans pulse, and I
am on a lot of text chains of all kinds
Chicago people, and for years up to and including a
couple of weeks ago, it was Packers still have their number.
Packers own them, I do, and on we'll do something.
The Packers always figure out a way in the end.
A funny thing has happened in the last two weeks,
which which personally makes me a little nervous, where most
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of the Bears fans I talked to and Reid are saying,
we got this, we got this, this is our night.
This is really going to be a coronation. I'm talking
to some people like I think we roll them. And
the reason I think a lot of that is is
the Michael Parsons injury. That is a huge, huge deal
and the second Mike MICA's knee went, you knew it
was going to affect this game and every other game.
A weird thing has happened with that injury, as well
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as Christian Watson going down. We don't know if he'll
play really or if he'll be himself. It's put pressure
on the Bears to win this game because it's not
just the Packers or your daddy or you got You
lost it on the road, you win at home. Now
it's like, well, if you can't beat him, now, when
are you going to beat him? You're supposed to be
the next best thing you got, the next best head coach,
next best quarterback, our best defensive player is out. And
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we still went into your house and beat you. That's
a tough loss. If they go to Soldier Field the
Packers and win without Micah, maybe without Watson who crushed
the Bears in that game, and without all the other players,
that is a big flex and that is a tough,
tough loss for Chicago and you go oh and two.
Then the second layer of this is this is a
quote unquote dream season for Bears fans. If you finished
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let's just say you finished twelve and five and you're
zero to two against those guys, is that not a
gut punch? It sucks, I believe me. I know. If
you go twelve and five losing the wild card, let's say,
and like the Packers got you twice, it's sickening really
because it doesn't feel like the mission was accomplished. And
if you think you know Ben Johnson, a competitive psychopath
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who really really takes a lot of pride in being
the Bears coach, this will destroy him if he loses
this game, Like, it will really rip him apart, because
that drive by a handshake with Matt Lafleur was a
I'll see you in two weeks, bleep bleep, like that's
I got you in two weeks. Ben Johnson, you can't
show up and say I'm the next best thing and
I got the Bears going where I want him to go,
and you lose both times to the Packers. You can't
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do it. It's similar to like we've seen, you know,
Ohio State Michigan, where Ohio still have this great season
and lose the Michigan or vice versa, whatever it is,
it's a big, big, big scar in the season. So
Ben Johnson, don't say you're the next best thing when
you lose the Matt Lafluur twice. If that happens. Strangely,
in the last two weeks, there has become a lot
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of pressure on the upstart Bears to win this game.
If they lose it on a last second field goal
or boy whatever, bad even though all the great things
this season can't go on through the Packers just can't
do it.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Okay, but you brought up a dynamic with Michael Parsons
not being in the game that brought me back to
a time where we were able to just dictate where
the quarterback will mic point stuff. And Jeff Hafley, the
defensive coordinator for the Packers, he is really creative in
finding ways to dictate where the offense slides their protection.
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We've seen it so many times where they'll line up
Michael Parsons in different places trying to influence a quarterback
to say, hey, we're going to slide to Michael Parsons
and then he drops into coverage. Now that Micah isn't
in the game, he doesn't have the acepist sleeve, so
I'm going to be looking into Oh, so, how does
Jeff Halfley utilize the other guys on his defense? How
does he utilize guys like Rashaun Gary and Edrin Cooper?
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How does he use them in ways that he didn't
use them before? Because I think one of the more
creative things that he would do was he would use
his d line in that way, especially on third downs,
and some like Caleb Williams. I think when Myel Parsons,
we're all sad to see him go. But from a
schematics standpoint and from a competitive standpoint, like okay, I
don't have to worry about the mind games that Jeff
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Hafley is going to run against us because I don't
have to worry about number one being here and not
being there there. So, KB, you brought up a great
point as far as the dynamic of Michael Parson's absence
being in this game couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Be a bigger factor, massive factor, because Caleb Williams has
been the best scrambler in the NFL this year, the
number one. He's been better than Lamar, better than Alan,
no matter what you want to say, just evading Sacks,
doing those blindside spins out of nowhere. He's been fantastic
as a scrambler. I love for Sean Garrey. He cannot
run Caleb down. Parsons can run him down. Parsons could
run anybody down. He is the terminator. He is the
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complete game changer. That's why he's Micah and everybody else's not.
I love the Packers front. I love Rashaan Gary comes
on the show all the time. He can't do physically
what Michael Parsons can do, and we all know that.
So Parsons was the one who's like, he's the Caleb slayer,
He's the one who's going to get him. And honestly,
as a fan like they had such a fun dynamic
in the last game. There was talk back and forth.
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There was talk after I'm so pissed that Michael Parkson's
isideen this game Sky. I want to watch him chase
Caleb all night. But in the football sense, massive, massive deal.
Those other guys are great and they'll get the job
done in their own ways. They cannot do to Caleb
what Micah could. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Let me ask you guys this because this is all
Bears Packers Bears packers, and Saturday Night is going to
be fantastic. But there is a Lions conversation to be
had too within this division. Are the Lions entering creeping
into your thoughts at all? Because they don't loom large
the same way that they have in the last couple
of seasons. The way the Lions faltered against the Rams
last weekend, did it farewell. They are officially lurking.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
They are square at.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Eight and six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If this doesn't go well for them, let's say on
Christmas Day against the Vikings, this becomes a Detroit issue
and the Bears Packers are now bubbling to the surface.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Mantile. Your thoughts on the Lions right.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Now, Well, I think Dan Campbell summed it up in
his postgame pressure after the Rams Brams loss, where he said,
now we know what the top of the NFC looks like.
That just shows me that Dan Campbell understands that where
his team is right now, they're not at the upper echelon.
They're not where they used to be the past two
three years of being the one or the two seed,
or being like the Seattle Seahawks the LA rounds were like, man,
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we have only three losses, yet we're the fifth seed.
That's where the Lions have been. But that's not where
they are this year. Right now, it's looking like what
Ben Johnson and the Bears are doing and what the
packer Matt Laflorina Packers are doing, the Lions are almost
looking up and like, Okay, that's what that looks like.
And so I think that's why Jamie. To this point,
we're looking at these two teams specifically and what they've
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been able to do successfully throughout this year.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
You get to the point of the season where you
look back and you go week five, October fifth just
feels like an eternity, hego, feels like a different year
from where you are right now, not just with football,
with everything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Life, with life.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I mean, we've had a couple of major holidays since then,
We've got one more around the corner and one happening
right now. October fifth is the last time a consecutive
result happened for the Lions because since then lost when
this is not the Lions that you expected or have
experienced the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's why I don't have a.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Great feel for them, because it's like up down, up,
down up.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Have you seen the thing with Jamir Gibbs where his
game lagos three touchdowns zero three zero, haven't no, He
has this incredible symmetry where he either scores three touchdowns
or zero, like week after week after week, we.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Are going to have to do a deep dive into
the seesaw that has been the Detroit Lions season right now.
That's kind of but It's actually impressive that they've been
able to do that because of all the things we
talked about coming into the season, losing both coordinators in
at times when it looked so bad.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean, go back to Week one.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
We thought, oh, what is Lion's season is not going
to be offensively and then Dan Campbell takes over play calling.
So I'm almost impressed with the up and down, but
the fact that they've been able to respond to some
of these loss.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, Jamie, I'll give you a bottom line about the Lions.
What's fascinating about them is we started the conversation with
the Bears, Mike mentioned it has been a long season.
The Lions kicked the snot out of the Bears in
Week two, fifty two to twenty one in the Ben
Johnson Return to Detroit game. They destroyed them. After the game,
Ben Johnson is asked just how demoralizing was Oh, not
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to moralizing at all, and he said this quote that
Bears fans have hung on too, which is, we expect
our team to play our best football in December. Well
we're in December right now. It's December eighteenth. They play
the Lions, Bears last week of the regular season, probably
maybe both of them fighting for things. That is the
referendum on the Ben Johnson Lions. You lost fifty two
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to twenty one to year old Buddies Week two. You
said you'd be better in December. What do you have
now in Bears Lions too. It's a fascinating one. I
know it's a couple of weeks away, but that's where
the Lions link. They got Steelers at home. I think
that's a good game that to Tray can win that game.
They're at Minnesota, I don't know what Minnesota's deal is.
And then last one at Soldier Field, maybe for a
playoff against the team they destroyed three months ago.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, I've seen them all the way through.
Speaker 11 (25:55):
I didn't take my eyes off of it because I
was like, you're giving me a chance on this and
I better come down with it.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And that's what happened. First down, Williams directing traffic. Second
of the day.
Speaker 12 (26:13):
No DJ made a heck of a play there right
on the back line as well. That was one of
those highlight moments there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Two touchdowns on that day for number two. It's a
beautiful time in Chicago right now for football, and we
have one of the best players and most interesting people
in the entire NFL. You know him, you love them.
The wide receiver for Chicago Bears, DJ Moore, what's up baby? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Good morning man.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
Hello, I'm going amazing this morning.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
How are y'all?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're doing great, dude? How's life right now?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Life is amazing.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
I'm on the other side of this a five hundred things,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I know. And there's so much going on. DJ. We
have seen you over the years catch a lot of
passes and a lot of touchdowns. We never seen one
like that that. We just showed the one from Caleb
on the side line back at the end zone. It's
a really breathtaking play and it brought the house down
in Soldier Field. When that's going on, Do you have
a sort of like no, Caleb, don't or yes do?
Like what is going on through your head? Just take
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us through everything, because it's a fascinating play.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I was on the back side, and once once I
got over there, I knew I had left the corner.
I was like, he might throw this, and when he
threw it, I was like no, no, no no in
my head. But then I'm like yes, yes, yes, yes,
because I knew I had the ball when they jumped
in front of me.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I was excited, I bet, and you were not the
only one. Your head coach Ben Johnson was obviously asked
about the completion after the game and in the press
conference while he was in awe of it, He's still
not surprised by it.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Let's take a listen to coach.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
Real quick, I would say ninety nine percent of quarterbacks,
you tell him, don't even waste your time looking back
there and trying to make that throw.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
There's usually bad.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
Things that happen, and yet he's got the ability to
make that throw. And you know DJ made a heck
of a play there right on the back line. Well,
so yeah, that was that was one of those highlight
moments there.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So what is it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
About your connection with Caleb DJ that makes coach so
confident that, like, you know what, you can look back
there in the end zone if you got DJ in
back there.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
I think it just comes down to me in detailed
throughout the weekend, them building trust with with each of
the receivers, and then on that play, just having a
lot of trust to me to just throw it back
across his body like that In the back of the
end zone.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Oh yeah, this team, this Bears team. You guys are
fun and a lot of harms. Your head coach is fun.
I mean, take me inside that locker room when he's
flexing the shirtless and he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Not a lot of rust. You know, you know he does.
I just hear it.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Sometimes it just falls from the rafters around here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You hear what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I mean, this guy was an unbelievable offensive coordinator. Yeah,
it's translating the head coach with stuff like that.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Yeah, he just brings it every day he starts it,
and then it just trickles down to everybody in the
building and all the way down to us, and we
just got to reciprocate that energy and go out there
and do our thing.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
DJ Bro, you seem like a real laid back, chill dude.
And after your performance, coach gave it the game ball
and you said after after he presented it to you,
that I I ain't fall off.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Tell us what's the meaning behind that?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
And was there a message that you were trying to
send to your teammates or to the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Now, I wasn't really trying to send a message. It
was more for me, like just the way the year
was going and everything, I just needed that confidence just
to keep going even though we went and you still
got to have that little competitive edge in yourself that
you want to be better at each and every week.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Dude, You've been on such an incredible journey. And I
want to get into the history of you. When you
were a senior in high school Emma tap Institute, Charter,
you were twelve and two. The team three years at
Maryland did not have a winning record, five years in
Carolina did not have a winning record, two years prior
in Chicago did not have a winning record. In other words,
what I'm saying, DJ, this is your first season with
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a winning record since high school. And I don't bring
that up to be negative. I know you've been through
a lot. That's a lot of coaches, a lot of teammates,
a lot of hustle, a lot of sacrifice. How good
does it feel to be winning right now?
Speaker 11 (30:24):
I mean it feels amazing. I get to see what
everybody else get the hype about playing in December and January,
so I'm looking forward to it. And this year has been fun.
Outside of the stats and everything just building a bond
with this team has been fun.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
DJ.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Is that what you meant at the beginning of this
interview when you said it's good to be on this
side of five hundred? Is it linger that much in
your brain when someone asks you, how are you.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
A little bit because it'd be.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Now that I'm on the winning side, people are more
excited that for me that I am and instead of dang,
why are you not getting the ball, it's more like, Oh,
he's on a winning team now, So I'm very grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, we're grateful to watch you play, and I know
there's a lot of people in the Bears community that
are grateful for you and the human that you are
because you are a Walter Payton and a ful Man
of the Year nominee this season, which congratulations for that.
What's going on with the More to Life Foundation and
what it has done for the Chicago community, thank you.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
And Mortal Life Foundation has been all over the city
of Chicago or there's giving back, giving out food, just
camps and just being in people's lives has just been
amazing this year and we hope to keep going.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
When you're the Walter Peyton Man of the Year award
nominee for the Chicago Bears got to mean something differently,
especially when the award is presented by someone close to
Walter Payton, his son jareded How special was that? And
to be a part of this legacy for the Bears, it.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Was amazing when I seen him come through the back door.
When they surprised me with my family, I was real surprising.
I really didn't know going on at the beginning. Then
I was like, wait, hold on, this is Walter Payton's son, Jared,
And I'm like, am I getting nominated? And then they
revealed that I am, and I was a little emotional.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
DJ, I gotta ask you a fun question.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
So I don't know if you knew this, but my
last year in the NFL was with the Chicago Bears.
And I know Hollas Hall very very well, and you
do too. Now, there are three football fields at Hollis Hall.
There's a practice field that's right outside the building, There's
a Walter Payton Center, which is the indoor facility, and
then there's a field that's all oway by the train tracks. Now, DJ,
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does coach Ben Johnson punish the team after a loss
by going all the way to the train tracks, because
when Matt Naggi was our coach after a loss, he
would make us in the middle of December practice on
the field by the train tracks.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
How is it for.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
You right now? Those fields are snowed over, so we
haven't been back here.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
We've been on.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
Fields one and two there go, and we used the
Walter Payton Center just for dudes. But other than that
we outside in the freezing code with no heaters or nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Kisyche, you will be Saturday night against the Packers man,
Just DJ, You've been around this before. You know, the
game in Green Bay came up short. You were frustrated,
all you guys where I know you want this badly?
How's the team feel? How do you feel? It's huge
matchup on Saturday night?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Nobody was really talking about the matchup.
Speaker 11 (33:26):
I think everybody understands the assignment at hand, and we just.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Got to go out there and get get it up
with it. Let's see number two get his hands on
that ball. I can't wait to watch this game. But DJ,
before you go, we have a weird piece of video
they want to show you and all you like this stuff.
So a couple of years ago I came to Houase
Hall and I sit down and Aaron brings you guys over,
and it was you and it was Justin Fields, who
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I absolutely love. And we got on the topic, the
three of us, about how Justin had been a pescatarian
means he just seats fish, and maybe he had now
expanded to other things. And you guys got on a
term a couple of years ago that I did not know,
and you had to teach me. Watch this video because
this is a weird one. But I always look back
on the fond lit how's the vegan life?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
You know, I'm off for the vegan life. I'm pescatarian.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Now, will you join the pescatarian army or you're out
on that?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm good?
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Yeah, you're going to catch them with the glizzies hot
dog chicken tenders?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Is that true? I'm not sure what a glizzy is.
That's a hot dog. It's the new nicka win all right?
Was I wrong? Should I have known? Or I just
don't know what to make of that?
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Now you shouldn't know. We put the guzsie term on you.
So yeah, that means hot dogs. But I don't eat
hot dogs. I do eat the chickens. And stuff like that,
but not the hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right, So it's interesting because first of all, DJ,
they're not hot dogs, are glizzies. So glizzies they came
up again because when coach took his shirt off, he
said he would do that so that all of Chicago
could get free glizzies from the Winner Circle downtown. So
you did not go. This was first of all, DJ,
take us through this. What was this like for you?
Speaker 11 (35:06):
I think a reporter asked me that I think he
was ever going to do it. I said, yeah, but
it has to be like a meaningful game for him
to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And then when we did the.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yes, he did it.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
And then that wasn't the only thing that happened in
the locker room. We had somebody uh hole in the
ceiling and yes, they going to keep that to myself.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Well, the internet thinks that the puncher's name rhymes with
Omra Dunda.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He doesn't know. That's awesome, DJ, incredible to see you
genuinely really really happy, impressed and proud with you about
the Walter Payton nomination. Help you win the thing. You
will carry that thing with dignity. Great player, great dude,
And how the hell of a night on Sunday night,
my mom Saturday night. Yeah, he said, we got to
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put that one on you. It's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I kind of felt the same way, but I like.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I was like, I've never been stiffer. What's it's a
hot dog, bro,
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
It's fading right, pitch no good and the Rams are
in first place.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Last time obviously it wasn't my best effort.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Throw Smith's heels pitch intercepted at the thirty.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
Five fourteen under the belt, and then trying to turn
around and play in a couple of days. It's tough,
especially for somebody as old as I am.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Ah, there's no weakness. This is as complete of a
football team as.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
There is no Well day, got a great opponent that
we're playing in a tough environment as well.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
What's the best? That's the kind of football you want
to be playing in December.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
So much yelling, so much passion, so much competition in
the NFC West, and it continues tonight on Indeed, it
is the fourth day of the work week, at least
for us, it is a Thursday. There is a football game.
All of these things are confirmed. And that was just
specifically for Kyle Brandt.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Okay, Kyle and.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Mike, carefula, you were missed at the holiday party last night.
I know that being a bicoastal show is a challenge
at times, but you two was certainly missed at the
NFL holiday party. I know you would have brought the
festive cheer.
Speaker 5 (01:25):
Yeah, oh, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That was last night.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
We would have engaged in some shenantigans. Yes, just imagine
what we would have done.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yes, wow, thank does anybody not have their job this morning?
I'm glad to see you guys both still do We're
still here?
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Oh yes, Quike, we kept a classy all good.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
We were there for the morale. You got a c
and be seen and just show face and be like,
you know what.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Happy holidays to you and yours. All right, moving on,
speaking of I'd like to see that. Say that to
Ian Rappaport as well. Rapsheet, Good morning to you. Welcome
inside GMFB rap sheet news out of Miami yesterday. I
did not was not full of cheer because Mike McDaniel
made a decision about the quarterback room moving.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Forward, They sure did.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
I can't believe there was a holiday party last night.
I guess my invite got lost on the interweb somewhere.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Anyway.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's get to the Miami
Dolphins and really what is a franchise changing move, A
significant quarterback move to a taugo I who has been
their starting quarterback for the last several years, so much
so they paid him a contract more than fifty.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
Million dollars per year.
Speaker 7 (02:23):
He has been benched, and certainly this is a signal
from the organization they are moving on from someone who
has been their starting quarterback again for the last many
many years. A potential moving on from him in the offseason.
A lot to get to there, It's going to be expensive.
Speaker 8 (02:38):
They can do it, cap hits a lot.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
But what this week is about is not about the
fact that Tua tugo I is going to be the
third slash emergency quarterback. It's that Quinn yours the seventh
round are from Texas who really impressed in college then
surprisingly fell to the seventh round, is lead frog Zach
Wilson and is going to be the starting quarterback this week.
Now likely that would mean he's a starting quarterback for
(03:01):
the final two games after that, But just focusing on
this week, see like behind the scenes, he really impressed.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
One thing.
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Mike McDaniels says they wanted someone who could run the
offense with conviction.
Speaker 8 (03:11):
They believe they will get that from yours.
Speaker 7 (03:13):
Actually should be a really exciting game on Sunday. Another
exciting game tonight, maybe the best Thursday game.
Speaker 8 (03:20):
We've seen in a very, very long time.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Team.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
Charles Cross the starting tackle for the Seahawks, really one
of the better tackles, certainly one of the best players
on the Seahawks team. He is out this week with
a hamstring injury minor standing. It's a two to four
week injury, so could miss games after this, but should
be back for the playoffs, which, honestly, this time of year,
the only thing that matters, I would say. Similar situation
for Devonte Adams, a star receiver for the Los Angeles
(03:47):
Tramps who has been a touchdown machine.
Speaker 8 (03:50):
He is doubtful this game with a hamstring injury.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
Now list it is out, they wanted to kind of
lead the light on for him see maybe somehow, some way,
if he could maybe get in in like a red
zone package or something.
Speaker 8 (03:59):
It's not looking great, but at least they want to
give him a chance.
Speaker 7 (04:02):
So don't expect him to play tonight, but the hope
is the next game, if there's enough time to recover,
you can see Devanta out there.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Make a good point rap sheet. It's like, yeah, why
line them up if he can't go full bore wide receivers,
specially guys with that kind of speed and talent, you
don't want to mess with the hamstring. Moving forward, we
look squarely at ram Seahawks. It kicks off Week sixteen
tonight in an epic NFC.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
West showdown for Prime Video.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Matt Safford and Sam Darnold are both in the spotlight tonight. Yesterday,
Seahawks head coach Mike McDonald actually talked about the magnitude
of this divisional matchup.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
It's y'all's job to put all the meaning behind it.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
It's our job to go play great football.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
It's all good. I get it.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
It's exciting, but every game's exciting. There's a lot of
stuff that happens in the NFL, you know. And my
message to our team was we are really fortunate and
blessed and should feel really confident in the work that
we've done up to this point to put ourselves in
this position where we have a lot of great players.
They are ready to go. We trust each other. I
feel like we're a connected team. I feel like we're
(05:04):
a tough team, and so let's go, let's go do it.
You know, let's go, let's go rip it.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
You know, Mike McDonald, I resent that it's not our
job to make it a big deal. You're the one
that's battling for the top spot in the NFC West,
all right, it already is a big deal. The standings
make it a big deal. The NFC playoff picture MANSI
make it a big deal.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
This thing was already baked.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
It in the oven before the media even touched it.
It means a lot Ramseyhawks tonight. So what do you
want to say from this, Well, you bring.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Up the oven thing, right, Jamie.
Speaker 9 (05:34):
There's a star wide receiver that is currently in the
oven and he's trying to recuperate, and that's DeVante Adams.
And so for me, it's going to be how are
they the La Rams offense going to handle this dynamic
of an offense without one of their star players. And
it takes me back to Pukaku's very first game in
the NFL September tenth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 5 (05:55):
They didn't have Cooper Cup.
Speaker 9 (05:56):
They had a very young running back in Kaien Williams
and all Pooka did was have fifteen targets ten catches
in one hundred nineteen yards. The target and the catches
were the most in the rookie for rookies since nineteen
ninety two, and he hasn't slowed down since then. Now
the Devonte Adams, if you look at how though the
Rams utilize him, they utilize him mainly in.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The red zone.
Speaker 9 (06:16):
They go into thirteen personnel, one running back, three tight
ends and they put him out there one on one
with the dB and C. For Matt Stafford, he tries
to see are they going to double him or are
they going to single cover at him? And they get
him the barf. He's in single coverage. Puka Nicole can
do that. So how much are they going to put
on Pukah's plate for this game? That's what I'm going
(06:37):
to be looking at, Mike g And if Puko, which
I am confident he can can take on that workload.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Good things should continue for the La Rams offense.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Matt Ty, I don't know how many games you end
up playing there up in Seattle and how many times
you face the Twelfth Man over the course of your career. Quice,
it was hard for twice there you go two times
that it was probably hard for you to hear some
things going on, although I guess not so much for
you because you were on the defense. Usually it's louder
and the offenses out there. Point being, that was and
(07:04):
has been an incredibly difficult place for teams to play.
It has not been so much over the last season plus.
Now they're on a roll right now, but they lost
some games earlier in the season, and around October, Mike
McDonald's continued something that he and John Schneider had said
in the off season about we want to re establish
our home field advantage. We want to make this once
(07:24):
again a place we gotta win at home.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
We got to help make that happen.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
If this isn't the spot for that tonight, for the
twelves to show up, to make all the noise they
possibly can, to make this as difficult as possible on
the Rams eleven and three, eleven and three. I mean,
this is maybe the best late season Thursday game we've
had since the first game that Aaron Rodgers while the
playing way back it was ackers Cowboys when I didn't
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have NFL Network, it wasn't available in my local cable provide.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I had to go to the bar to go watch
the game.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
It was awesome, unbelievable environment.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
So this is the tonight, fans, this is the tonight twelves.
Raised that flag, hit those bleachers in end zone. Make
it as loud as you possibly can.
Speaker 6 (08:06):
Because Mike McDonald and the Seahawks want to re establish
home field advantage here it is got.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
I am so in lockstep with you. This is Seahawks
prom tonight. This is a big deal and I want
to watch Amazon and what they do with it. I
want the largest company in the world to properly hype
one of the best teams in the NFL. You don't
want to talk about the Seahawks. I've said it all
season long. There's something about them with that logo and
that brand that is just doesn't sizzle nationally. I don't care.
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You have the Rams, we get it. It's Stafford, it's McVeigh,
it's the beautiful thing. It's all great. It's the Seahawks
night to be at home and to remind the world
we exist, and now on that we exist, we're really good.
Do you guys know how good this team is? Generally
have three losses. Their three losses on the season are
by four points, by three, and by two that this
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team is a breadth away from a fourteen to oh team.
They have never lost by more than four points. Additionally,
it's okay, Amazon, if you want to leave the camera
Mike McDonald on the sideline for I know mcvay's gonna
be on a lot. God bless you do it. It's
Mike McDonald. Make sure to spell his name right. It's mac.
It's not a capital D. This week, Sean mcvay's second
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baby has gotten more coverage than Mike McDonald's eleventh win.
All right, we can cover it. It's okay. Last week,
the Seahawks had a home, gritty, tough, gut check win,
and all of the talk was on the old fart
losing quarterback on the other team. The Seahawks did win
that game. Okay, they did win. They kicked six field goals,
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they won, They made the stop at the end. It's
okay to talk about the Seahawks. You should talk about
the Seahawks. I hope they win tonight because it's gonna
be oh my god. They're twelve and three. I guess
we have to talk. You're not just trying to beat
the Rams. Tonight you're trying to be the media production meetings,
media segment producers, media suits upstairs, or turn on the
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TV and their giant corner offs and say, why is
the Seahawks on here? Give me more cowboys? What Shador doing?
Never mind what Shador is doing? What's Sam doing? He's
winning again? And tonight is the Seahawks prompt. Now, don't
blow it, don't lay no egg, don't come out, have
five turnovers and lose by two touchdowns, because then there's
nothing I can do for you. I'm not omnipping in.
I can only do you so much. It's the prom
Tonight's put on your boat, tie, bring your little little
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corsage and have some fun.
Speaker 5 (10:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I just want to see you handle this right, because
you deserve it. One of the best teams in the NFL.
Tonight should be the night Kyle.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
It's a good point because you know Amazon, the birthplace
that is the native land of Amazon, is it not
bell U Washington? Seattle, Washington, Like they should have a
couple extra plugins.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Available to them. Of course, of Thompson, the.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Native daughter of Seattle, Washington, I believe so she's gonna
have a big old homecoming.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Richard, this has gonna be the night. If not not,
when this is the night, Come on Prime, let me
run this by you guys.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
So both of these teams tonight, with a win, they
are then in the driver's seat for the number one
overall seed in the NFL. Right, this could be the
fourth time in organizational history on both sides that this
happens for the Rams. The last time they were the
number one overall scene in the NFC it was seventy eight,
ninety nine and one for the Seahawks more recent five
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thirteen and fourteen. How much Mantill ask you this not
only does this game impact what's happening in the division,
but all of a sudden you think of the NFC
landscape and the fact that teams will have to go
through the Eagles. They got to go to Seattle, the
Eagles go to go to Rams. How much juice does
that give you moving forward into January as well?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
I think if you look at that playoff picture, Jamie, everybody,
besides the rent, they don't want to go to Seattle
in the playoffs. You don't want to have that, to
Mike G's point, you don't want to have that crowd
and that crowd noise in the playoffs.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
Here in LA they do say Rams House and all
of that stuff. But if you ask everybody.
Speaker 9 (11:55):
On that list between playing at so Far and playing
in Seattle, which one is the more rowdy and which
quarterback would rather sit in a pocket and direct traffic
at what stadium? Everybody's going to say they'd rather be
in LA than up there in Seattle. So if I
had to ask all of those quarterbacks on the list, Jamie,
they don't want to go to Seattle for the playoffs,
just with all that crowd noise.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
If you're Sam Darnald and you're just looking at that
full screen graphic, Jamie, and you know he is because
you know he's up early, he can't sleep, and he's
definitely watching Good Morning Football.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
You get ready for this game.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
You're looking at it eleven and three and I'm sitting
in the five spot.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
It is possible.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
He just did this last year.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
You lost to the Rams fourteen and three last year,
and we're in a wild card spot.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
We've got to go on the road and we lose,
Like this can't happen again.
Speaker 6 (12:39):
Like that's got to be the prevailing motivational fire stoking
thought inside Sam Darnold today and he's more competitive than
he looks.
Speaker 5 (12:47):
Kyle.
Speaker 6 (12:47):
I mean, I know he's got that so cal cool
about him, but he's got that fire inside.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So that's what jam right who does. Huge night for
Sam Brown I said that one of the biggest games
of his career, I mean, huge, huge spot for him
because we're saying, well, you don't want to go to
Seattle for a playoff game, Sure of course not, but listen,
you lose tonight. I'm not saying the Seahawks are They're
going to be the playoff but like, you want to
go to Chicago in January for a playoff game? Do
you want to go to Philadelphia? Like that's what tonight is.
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There's huge stakes. It's not just same division blah blah blah.
Like this is really going to determine how the playoff
chips fall. Like this is I feel like in a
lot of ways, Seahawks are playing for their lives right
now because if we tune in a few weeks from
now and they're losing at whatever horrible playoff destination they
have to go to because they lost this game, this
is the reason their season ends. It's not because they
lost the playoff game. It's because they lost tonight and
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had to play there for that playoff game. It's big time. Indeed,
it is all right, that's my little game, shall we.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
You might be doing some holiday shopping for your family
and you're like, should.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
I buy that for my mother in law?
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Or should I keep trying in the next door.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
But let's apply it to football topics. Shall we.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Bears face the Packers again on Saturday night. This time,
and despite the outcome of their previous matchup in Green Bay,
Kayleb Williams remains fully confident in himself and his team.
Speaker 10 (14:04):
If I play how I played less you know this this
past game, or you know, if I play better than that,
we got a we got a real shot to you know,
do whatever we want in this in this league. I'm
excited for it. I think I think everybody's excited for it.
I think, you know, even even Djack said it. After
you know the game is. You know, we we feel
as if we let them off the hook. You know,
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we want to go out there and play our brand
of football and it gives us the best shot to
uh go win the game. And that's starting fast, you know,
playing physical executing plays the way that we we know
we can offense, defense, special teams, and like I said,
we're we're excited to go, you know showcase that.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
I bet he is.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
And while Caleb is saying all the right things to
stay confident and breathe life into his team, the Bears
still have to take care of business against the Packers
this weekend.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Are you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Buying that the Bears will definitively show up on Saturday
Mansai and bring their brand of football?
Speaker 9 (14:57):
Yes, I am buying that they will show up on
game day and play their brand of football. The reason
being is I think they learned a valuable less and
in the first game against the Packers the first half versus
the second half, and I think we all spoke on
the show about it.
Speaker 5 (15:10):
Finally felt like they woke.
Speaker 9 (15:11):
Up in the second half, and if you look at
what they did differently in the second half, they they
relied on their run game, Kyle Munungui, DeAndre Swift. I
know that Caleb has elite arm talent and he had
to highlight play to DJ Moore. What I don't think
is going to happen is Ben Johnson is going to
be like Okay, cool. I saw that play. Let's air
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it out even more because with Michael Parsons being out
of the game, I think they're going to run at
whoever replaces Michael Parsons. I don't know who it's going
to be, but usually when offenses see a new guy
in there is like single, a rookie cornerback, They're just
going to target them and keep going at them every
single every single play. And the identity of this Chicago
Bears offense, Mike ge is that they run the ball,
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and they run the ball very physically and they're very, very.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
Good at it. So having Caleb be able to throw these.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
Passes is a cherry on the top. But what makes
the ice cream Sunday is that run game that they
have with DeAndre Swift and Common Mike g.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
Yeah, one eight on the ground against the Packers in
that game a couple of weeks ago. I just you
know these things that the line in this league is
just it's just so thin between us asking a question
like this or can the Bears do it again? And
that line was the last play of the game sure
for the Bears, and a play that was schemed up
well and covered well.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Although see that.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Dj Moore, who's going to join the show shortly That
little move behind the light of scrimmage, that was a
slight variation on what they had done previously against the
Eagles in the court with the col Comet touchdown that
wound up stealing the game, and that allowed Keyshaw Nixon
to cover col Comet because the person that was supposed
to cover Comet actually went up and covered.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Swift in the flat.
Speaker 6 (16:51):
I forget exactly who that was, but that allowed for
the cover to Like, it's just so wild that this
play had three little variations that resulted in it being
an incompletion instead of a game when he passed.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
So am I buying Yeah, I'm buying it.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
I'm buying it because they all did and they did
a good job of as Mattie said, when they were
down fourteen to three, I kind of looked at it
and was like, oh, like, this is the point at
which this team is either going to respond and show
that they deserve to be in the mix, or they're
going to roll over and played it.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
They didn't.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
They hung in there, they battled back, and that last
play that goes the other way. We're asking a different
question here.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
No doubt and there's so many fun dynamics in this
and one of the witches. You know, I have a
pretty good sense of the Bears fans pulse, and I
am on a lot of text chains of all kinds
Chicago people, and for years up to and including a
couple of weeks ago, it was Packers still have their number.
Packers own them, I do, and on we'll do something.
The Packers always figure out a way in the end.
A funny thing has happened in the last two weeks,
which which personally makes me a little nervous, where most
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of the Bears fans I talked to and Reid are saying,
we got this, we got this, this is our night.
This is really going to be a coronation. I'm talking
to some people like I think we roll them. And
the reason I think a lot of that is is
the Michael Parsons injury. That is a huge, huge deal
and the second Mike MICA's knee went, you knew it
was going to affect this game and every other game.
A weird thing has happened with that injury, as well
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as Christian Watson going down. We don't know if he'll
play really or if he'll be himself. It's put pressure
on the Bears to win this game because it's not
just the Packers or your daddy or you got You
lost it on the road, you win at home. Now
it's like, well, if you can't beat him, now, when
are you going to beat him? You're supposed to be
the next best thing you got, the next best head coach,
next best quarterback, our best defensive player is out. And
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we still went into your house and beat you. That's
a tough loss. If they go to Soldier Field the
Packers and win without Micah, maybe without Watson who crushed
the Bears in that game, and without all the other players,
that is a big flex and that is a tough,
tough loss for Chicago and you go oh and two.
Then the second layer of this is this is a
quote unquote dream season for Bears fans. If you finished
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let's just say you finished twelve and five and you're
zero to two against those guys, is that not a
gut punch? It sucks, I believe me. I know. If
you go twelve and five losing the wild card, let's say,
and like the Packers got you twice, it's sickening really
because it doesn't feel like the mission was accomplished. And
if you think you know Ben Johnson, a competitive psychopath
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who really really takes a lot of pride in being
the Bears coach, this will destroy him if he loses
this game, Like, it will really rip him apart, because
that drive by a handshake with Matt Lafleur was a
I'll see you in two weeks, bleep bleep, like that's
I got you in two weeks. Ben Johnson, you can't
show up and say I'm the next best thing and
I got the Bears going where I want him to go,
and you lose both times to the Packers. You can't
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do it. It's similar to like we've seen, you know,
Ohio State Michigan, where Ohio still have this great season
and lose the Michigan or vice versa, whatever it is,
it's a big, big, big scar in the season. So
Ben Johnson, don't say you're the next best thing when
you lose the Matt Lafluur twice. If that happens. Strangely,
in the last two weeks, there has become a lot
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of pressure on the upstart Bears to win this game.
If they lose it on a last second field goal
or boy whatever, bad even though all the great things
this season can't go on through the Packers just can't
do it.
Speaker 9 (20:07):
Okay, but you brought up a dynamic with Michael Parsons
not being in the game that brought me back to
a time where we were able to just dictate where
the quarterback will mic point stuff. And Jeff Hafley, the
defensive coordinator for the Packers, he is really creative in
finding ways to dictate where the offense slides their protection.
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We've seen it so many times where they'll line up
Michael Parsons in different places trying to influence a quarterback
to say, hey, we're going to slide to Michael Parsons
and then he drops into coverage. Now that Micah isn't
in the game, he doesn't have the acepist sleeve, so
I'm going to be looking into Oh, so, how does
Jeff Halfley utilize the other guys on his defense? How
does he utilize guys like Rashaun Gary and Edrin Cooper?
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How does he use them in ways that he didn't
use them before? Because I think one of the more
creative things that he would do was he would use
his d line in that way, especially on third downs,
and some like Caleb Williams. I think when Myel Parsons,
we're all sad to see him go. But from a
schematics standpoint and from a competitive standpoint, like okay, I
don't have to worry about the mind games that Jeff
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Hafley is going to run against us because I don't
have to worry about number one being here and not
being there there. So, KB, you brought up a great
point as far as the dynamic of Michael Parson's absence
being in this game couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Be a bigger factor, massive factor, because Caleb Williams has
been the best scrambler in the NFL this year, the
number one. He's been better than Lamar, better than Alan,
no matter what you want to say, just evading Sacks,
doing those blindside spins out of nowhere. He's been fantastic
as a scrambler. I love for Sean Garrey. He cannot
run Caleb down. Parsons can run him down. Parsons could
run anybody down. He is the terminator. He is the
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complete game changer. That's why he's Micah and everybody else's not.
I love the Packers front. I love Rashaan Gary comes
on the show all the time. He can't do physically
what Michael Parsons can do, and we all know that.
So Parsons was the one who's like, he's the Caleb slayer,
He's the one who's going to get him. And honestly,
as a fan like they had such a fun dynamic
in the last game. There was talk back and forth.
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There was talk after I'm so pissed that Michael Parkson's
isideen this game Sky. I want to watch him chase
Caleb all night. But in the football sense, massive, massive deal.
Those other guys are great and they'll get the job
done in their own ways. They cannot do to Caleb
what Micah could. That's a big deal.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Let me ask you guys this because this is all
Bears Packers Bears packers, and Saturday Night is going to
be fantastic. But there is a Lions conversation to be
had too within this division. Are the Lions entering creeping
into your thoughts at all? Because they don't loom large
the same way that they have in the last couple
of seasons. The way the Lions faltered against the Rams
last weekend, did it farewell. They are officially lurking.
Speaker 5 (22:43):
They are square at.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Eight and six.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If this doesn't go well for them, let's say on
Christmas Day against the Vikings, this becomes a Detroit issue
and the Bears Packers are now bubbling to the surface.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Mantile. Your thoughts on the Lions right.
Speaker 9 (22:53):
Now, Well, I think Dan Campbell summed it up in
his postgame pressure after the Rams Brams loss, where he said,
now we know what the top of the NFC looks like.
That just shows me that Dan Campbell understands that where
his team is right now, they're not at the upper echelon.
They're not where they used to be the past two
three years of being the one or the two seed,
or being like the Seattle Seahawks the LA rounds were like, man,
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we have only three losses, yet we're the fifth seed.
That's where the Lions have been. But that's not where
they are this year. Right now, it's looking like what
Ben Johnson and the Bears are doing and what the
packer Matt Laflorina Packers are doing, the Lions are almost
looking up and like, Okay, that's what that looks like.
And so I think that's why Jamie. To this point,
we're looking at these two teams specifically and what they've
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been able to do successfully throughout this year.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
You get to the point of the season where you
look back and you go week five, October fifth just
feels like an eternity, hego, feels like a different year
from where you are right now, not just with football,
with everything.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Life, with life.
Speaker 6 (23:50):
I mean, we've had a couple of major holidays since then,
We've got one more around the corner and one happening
right now. October fifth is the last time a consecutive
result happened for the Lions because since then lost when
this is not the Lions that you expected or have
experienced the last couple of years.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's why I don't have a.
Speaker 6 (24:09):
Great feel for them, because it's like up down, up,
down up.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Have you seen the thing with Jamir Gibbs where his
game lagos three touchdowns zero three zero, haven't no, He
has this incredible symmetry where he either scores three touchdowns
or zero, like week after week after week, we.
Speaker 6 (24:22):
Are going to have to do a deep dive into
the seesaw that has been the Detroit Lions season right now.
That's kind of but It's actually impressive that they've been
able to do that because of all the things we
talked about coming into the season, losing both coordinators in
at times when it looked so bad.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
I mean, go back to Week one.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
We thought, oh, what is Lion's season is not going
to be offensively and then Dan Campbell takes over play calling.
So I'm almost impressed with the up and down, but
the fact that they've been able to respond to some
of these loss.
Speaker 1 (24:48):
Yeah, Jamie, I'll give you a bottom line about the Lions.
What's fascinating about them is we started the conversation with
the Bears, Mike mentioned it has been a long season.
The Lions kicked the snot out of the Bears in
Week two, fifty two to twenty one in the Ben
Johnson Return to Detroit game. They destroyed them. After the game,
Ben Johnson is asked just how demoralizing was Oh, not
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to moralizing at all, and he said this quote that
Bears fans have hung on too, which is, we expect
our team to play our best football in December. Well
we're in December right now. It's December eighteenth. They play
the Lions, Bears last week of the regular season, probably
maybe both of them fighting for things. That is the
referendum on the Ben Johnson Lions. You lost fifty two
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to twenty one to year old Buddies Week two. You
said you'd be better in December. What do you have
now in Bears Lions too. It's a fascinating one. I
know it's a couple of weeks away, but that's where
the Lions link. They got Steelers at home. I think
that's a good game that to Tray can win that game.
They're at Minnesota, I don't know what Minnesota's deal is.
And then last one at Soldier Field, maybe for a
playoff against the team they destroyed three months ago.
Speaker 5 (25:53):
Yeah, I've seen them all the way through.
Speaker 11 (25:55):
I didn't take my eyes off of it because I
was like, you're giving me a chance on this and
I better come down with it.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
And that's what happened. First down, Williams directing traffic. Second
of the day.
Speaker 12 (26:13):
No DJ made a heck of a play there right
on the back line as well. That was one of
those highlight moments there.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
Two touchdowns on that day for number two. It's a
beautiful time in Chicago right now for football, and we
have one of the best players and most interesting people
in the entire NFL. You know him, you love them.
The wide receiver for Chicago Bears, DJ Moore, what's up baby? Welcome?
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Good morning man.
Speaker 11 (26:40):
Hello, I'm going amazing this morning.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
How are y'all?
Speaker 1 (26:44):
We're doing great, dude? How's life right now?
Speaker 5 (26:47):
Life is amazing.
Speaker 11 (26:49):
I'm on the other side of this a five hundred things,
so I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
I know. And there's so much going on. DJ. We
have seen you over the years catch a lot of
passes and a lot of touchdowns. We never seen one
like that that. We just showed the one from Caleb
on the side line back at the end zone. It's
a really breathtaking play and it brought the house down
in Soldier Field. When that's going on, Do you have
a sort of like no, Caleb, don't or yes do?
Like what is going on through your head? Just take
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us through everything, because it's a fascinating play.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
I was on the back side, and once once I
got over there, I knew I had left the corner.
I was like, he might throw this, and when he
threw it, I was like no, no, no no in
my head. But then I'm like yes, yes, yes, yes,
because I knew I had the ball when they jumped
in front of me.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
I was excited, I bet, and you were not the
only one. Your head coach Ben Johnson was obviously asked
about the completion after the game and in the press
conference while he was in awe of it, He's still
not surprised by it.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Let's take a listen to coach.
Speaker 12 (27:47):
Real quick, I would say ninety nine percent of quarterbacks,
you tell him, don't even waste your time looking back
there and trying to make that throw.
Speaker 5 (27:56):
There's usually bad.
Speaker 12 (27:57):
Things that happen, and yet he's got the ability to
make that throw. And you know DJ made a heck
of a play there right on the back line. Well,
so yeah, that was that was one of those highlight
moments there.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So what is it.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
About your connection with Caleb DJ that makes coach so
confident that, like, you know what, you can look back
there in the end zone if you got DJ in
back there.
Speaker 11 (28:21):
I think it just comes down to me in detailed
throughout the weekend, them building trust with with each of
the receivers, and then on that play, just having a
lot of trust to me to just throw it back
across his body like that In the back of the
end zone.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
Oh yeah, this team, this Bears team. You guys are
fun and a lot of harms. Your head coach is fun.
I mean, take me inside that locker room when he's
flexing the shirtless and he's talking about.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Not a lot of rust. You know, you know he does.
I just hear it.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Sometimes it just falls from the rafters around here.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
You hear what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6 (28:55):
I mean, this guy was an unbelievable offensive coordinator. Yeah,
it's translating the head coach with stuff like that.
Speaker 11 (29:02):
Yeah, he just brings it every day he starts it,
and then it just trickles down to everybody in the
building and all the way down to us, and we
just got to reciprocate that energy and go out there
and do our thing.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
DJ Bro, you seem like a real laid back, chill dude.
And after your performance, coach gave it the game ball
and you said after after he presented it to you,
that I I ain't fall off.
Speaker 5 (29:26):
Tell us what's the meaning behind that?
Speaker 9 (29:28):
And was there a message that you were trying to
send to your teammates or to the rest of the NFL.
Speaker 11 (29:33):
Now, I wasn't really trying to send a message. It
was more for me, like just the way the year
was going and everything, I just needed that confidence just
to keep going even though we went and you still
got to have that little competitive edge in yourself that
you want to be better at each and every week.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Dude, You've been on such an incredible journey. And I
want to get into the history of you. When you
were a senior in high school Emma tap Institute, Charter,
you were twelve and two. The team three years at
Maryland did not have a winning record, five years in
Carolina did not have a winning record, two years prior
in Chicago did not have a winning record. In other words,
what I'm saying, DJ, this is your first season with
(30:13):
a winning record since high school. And I don't bring
that up to be negative. I know you've been through
a lot. That's a lot of coaches, a lot of teammates,
a lot of hustle, a lot of sacrifice. How good
does it feel to be winning right now?
Speaker 11 (30:24):
I mean it feels amazing. I get to see what
everybody else get the hype about playing in December and January,
so I'm looking forward to it. And this year has been fun.
Outside of the stats and everything just building a bond
with this team has been fun.
Speaker 1 (30:41):
DJ.
Speaker 2 (30:41):
Is that what you meant at the beginning of this
interview when you said it's good to be on this
side of five hundred? Is it linger that much in
your brain when someone asks you, how are you.
Speaker 5 (30:50):
A little bit because it'd be.
Speaker 11 (30:54):
Now that I'm on the winning side, people are more
excited that for me that I am and instead of dang,
why are you not getting the ball, it's more like, Oh,
he's on a winning team now, So I'm very grateful.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Well, we're grateful to watch you play, and I know
there's a lot of people in the Bears community that
are grateful for you and the human that you are
because you are a Walter Payton and a ful Man
of the Year nominee this season, which congratulations for that.
What's going on with the More to Life Foundation and
what it has done for the Chicago community, thank you.
Speaker 11 (31:26):
And Mortal Life Foundation has been all over the city
of Chicago or there's giving back, giving out food, just
camps and just being in people's lives has just been
amazing this year and we hope to keep going.
Speaker 6 (31:41):
When you're the Walter Peyton Man of the Year award
nominee for the Chicago Bears got to mean something differently,
especially when the award is presented by someone close to
Walter Payton, his son jareded How special was that? And
to be a part of this legacy for the Bears, it.
Speaker 11 (31:57):
Was amazing when I seen him come through the back door.
When they surprised me with my family, I was real surprising.
I really didn't know going on at the beginning. Then
I was like, wait, hold on, this is Walter Payton's son, Jared,
And I'm like, am I getting nominated? And then they
revealed that I am, and I was a little emotional.
Speaker 5 (32:18):
DJ, I gotta ask you a fun question.
Speaker 9 (32:19):
So I don't know if you knew this, but my
last year in the NFL was with the Chicago Bears.
And I know Hollas Hall very very well, and you
do too. Now, there are three football fields at Hollis Hall.
There's a practice field that's right outside the building, There's
a Walter Payton Center, which is the indoor facility, and
then there's a field that's all oway by the train tracks. Now, DJ,
(32:39):
does coach Ben Johnson punish the team after a loss
by going all the way to the train tracks, because
when Matt Naggi was our coach after a loss, he
would make us in the middle of December practice on
the field by the train tracks.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
How is it for.
Speaker 11 (32:53):
You right now? Those fields are snowed over, so we
haven't been back here.
Speaker 5 (32:59):
We've been on.
Speaker 11 (33:00):
Fields one and two there go, and we used the
Walter Payton Center just for dudes. But other than that
we outside in the freezing code with no heaters or nothing.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Kisyche, you will be Saturday night against the Packers man,
Just DJ, You've been around this before. You know, the
game in Green Bay came up short. You were frustrated,
all you guys where I know you want this badly?
How's the team feel? How do you feel? It's huge
matchup on Saturday night?
Speaker 5 (33:25):
Nobody was really talking about the matchup.
Speaker 11 (33:26):
I think everybody understands the assignment at hand, and we just.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
Got to go out there and get get it up
with it. Let's see number two get his hands on
that ball. I can't wait to watch this game. But DJ,
before you go, we have a weird piece of video
they want to show you and all you like this stuff.
So a couple of years ago I came to Houase
Hall and I sit down and Aaron brings you guys over,
and it was you and it was Justin Fields, who
(33:49):
I absolutely love. And we got on the topic, the
three of us, about how Justin had been a pescatarian
means he just seats fish, and maybe he had now
expanded to other things. And you guys got on a
term a couple of years ago that I did not know,
and you had to teach me. Watch this video because
this is a weird one. But I always look back
on the fond lit how's the vegan life?
Speaker 5 (34:09):
You know, I'm off for the vegan life. I'm pescatarian.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
Now, will you join the pescatarian army or you're out
on that?
Speaker 5 (34:13):
I'm good?
Speaker 11 (34:14):
Yeah, you're going to catch them with the glizzies hot
dog chicken tenders?
Speaker 1 (34:17):
Is that true? I'm not sure what a glizzy is.
That's a hot dog. It's the new nicka win all right?
Was I wrong? Should I have known? Or I just
don't know what to make of that?
Speaker 11 (34:33):
Now you shouldn't know. We put the guzsie term on you.
So yeah, that means hot dogs. But I don't eat
hot dogs. I do eat the chickens. And stuff like that,
but not the hot dogs.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right, So it's interesting because first of all, DJ,
they're not hot dogs, are glizzies. So glizzies they came
up again because when coach took his shirt off, he
said he would do that so that all of Chicago
could get free glizzies from the Winner Circle downtown. So
you did not go. This was first of all, DJ,
take us through this. What was this like for you?
Speaker 11 (35:06):
I think a reporter asked me that I think he
was ever going to do it. I said, yeah, but
it has to be like a meaningful game for him
to do it.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
And then when we did the.
Speaker 5 (35:13):
Yes, he did it.
Speaker 11 (35:15):
And then that wasn't the only thing that happened in
the locker room. We had somebody uh hole in the
ceiling and yes, they going to keep that to myself.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
Well, the internet thinks that the puncher's name rhymes with
Omra Dunda.
Speaker 5 (35:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
He doesn't know. That's awesome, DJ, incredible to see you
genuinely really really happy, impressed and proud with you about
the Walter Payton nomination. Help you win the thing. You
will carry that thing with dignity. Great player, great dude,
And how the hell of a night on Sunday night,
my mom Saturday night. Yeah, he said, we got to
(36:01):
put that one on you. It's not your fault.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I kind of felt the same way, but I like.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
I was like, I've never been stiffer. What's it's a
hot dog, bro,
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