March 6, 2025 • 28 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Cody Kessler, D’Marco Farr and Joshua Morrow discussing how optimistic the Chicago Bears should be following their decision to bring in two offensive lineman. Following DK Metcalf’s trade request, the GMFB crew wonders what’s going on with the Seattle Seahawks and then they react to Travis Kelce’s comments announcing that he’s coming back for another season.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football. It was not pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We're going to talk about the Bears and why there
might be some optimism brewing. So yesterday in the middle
of our show, we had to bring Ian Rappaport in
our NFL network insire because news broke Ian and it
probably made Caleb Williams pretty happy when this news hit
his phone.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
There's actually been a couple big news items for the
Chicago Bears. The biggest, though, you're right, during the show yesterday,
Joe Tooney, the multi year All Pro Pro bowler, one
of the best cards in the NFL, thirty two years old,
due for a new contract, was traded from the Kentas
City Chiefs to the Chicago Bears. Ryan Poe's The Gentleman
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add it again very active thus far. First trading for
Jonah Jackson, who of course his coach Ben Johnson had
in Detroit, and now trading for Joe Toney, who polls
himself was within Kansas City and for the Kansas City Chiefs,
this one makes a lot of sense for them, I
would say, similar to what they did with Tyreek Hill.
Move on from a player about to get his third contract,
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collect the money or the cap space, I should say,
get a draft pick, and simply move on to the
Chicago Bears. Nothing is more important than protecting Caleb Williams. Nothing,
and so if you have an all pro guard to
slid in there, potentially do a new deal with him
at some point. But even if you don't, this is
one of the best in football. Protect Caleb Williams. Talking
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about the optimism for the Bears, this helps.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Give it absolutely all right, let's take that and run
with it, because that twenty twenty four video, it really
took a dark turn. And now we know that Joe
Tooney is going to be in Chicago after agreeing to
terms with the Chiefs, and then of course Joondah Jackson
now arrives from the La Rams. Kyle, what optimism about
the Chicago Bears going into last season? Are you prepared
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to reframe that excitement with this team once again in
the Windy City?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Down right? Damn right?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Listen, If you're not excited in March and April, when
are you excited? Let me tell you about the Bears.
The Bears are going to push people around next year. Now,
I don't know if they're gonna win yet, we'll figure
that out. They are going to push people around, all right.
The Joe Toney signing, of course, it's good for Caleb,
of course. I don't see it that way though. I
see it as representative of where this team is going
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about where Ben Johnson wants to go. Do you remember
never mind golf in the defense, Dan Campbell and Equanimius.
Do you remember the way the Detroit Lions ran the
ball last year? It was really really badass. This is
what Ben Johnson wants to do with the Joe Toney signing,
and it's not done.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I saw this report from Jeremy Fother that they're looking
at Durham Smite, that tied end from the Dolphins, who
Ben Johnson has a deep relationship with. I don't know
if you win a Super Bowl with Durham Smite, I
don't care you run the ball with them. They are
putting together assets and it's not just gonna be DeAndre Swift,
mark my words. They will add a running back through
free agency or the draft. I just like this because
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last year at this time for the Bears, through the draft,
it was quarterbacks and receivers and tight ends and all
this wonderful stuff. It was all sugar. It was sugar
and sweetness. Ben Jonson says, it's time for steak. Let's
put some steak on this plate. We're gonna go to
Gibson's and do the Viagra Triangle Special and do about
a fifty ounce.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ribbi right on the play.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
We're gonna run because, mark my words, the Vikings, Lions
packers all really, really good against the run. And nobody
knows that better than Ben Johnson. He has a PhD.
In the NFC North. Those teams are great against the run.
You gotta fight that, and you don't fight that with
wide receivers and DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You gotta add to that. You want to know what.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Twenty twenty two, Mattie Rafluse gets hired. All right, let's
see how he made his foray into his first free
agency as Ben Johnson. Before we even get there is
adding someone like Joe Tuning.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Other pieces you look up to.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Twenty twenty two Transaction report the Bears add Byron Pringle,
Tayvon Young, Trevor Simeon. Due respect to those guys, this
is a different type of thing going on. If you
want change if you want a new era, they're already
making it. We haven't even hit free agency yet. We'll
see if they win. Well, you figure that out in
the fall. They will push people around and they will
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be physical. The Toney signing, it's great for Caleb. It's
better for the run game. That's what Ben Johnson wants
to establish.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Guests me fired up.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah, I'm not even a Bears fan, and Kyle, you
got me fired up over here, but I'm damn let's go.
I was ready to be all in on the Bears
as soon as they hired Ben Johnson. I think that
is the best hire of the offseason. It's a home
run for them hiring within the division as well. But
Ben Johnson is one of the best offensive lines in football.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He's also a young coach, and.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
That means he's a player's coach, and I think that's
great for Caleb.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He's only thirty eight years old.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
We saw what he did in Detroit, what Jamier gives
and David Montgomery in the different ways he used Jamison
Williams right. He was them the ball through the airs.
And they also give him some run game things and
give him some endo rounds. And he had some big
plays on the ground, whether they use Sam Laporta.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It was so much from the watch, and.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Then Amin Ross Saint Brown would get his touches. What
that tells me is he's going to go to Chicago
and do the same thing. They have a lot of
great pieces on offense. He can get everybody their touches
because he did the same thing in Detroit. I love that,
and like Kyle said, the most important thing, he knows
what it takes to win in the NFC North. He
knows what it takes late in November, late in December
and those cold weather games. How to run the football
while you go get Joe Tooney and Jonah Jackson. How
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to go out there and dominate the game and then
play great defense. I really like like he mentioned Tooney
and Jackson for the run game, but they also are
two of the highest guards when it came to win
rate in pass protection last season.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That is very important.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
If you invest the number one overall pick in your quarterback,
you can't just invest in him. You have to invest
in your offensive line. You have to invest in the
guys around him. Said the same thing with Drake May.
If you want to set these guys up for success,
you have to do exactly what the Bears.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Are doing right now. And they also have a lot
of money.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
To spend this offseason, so I think they're going to
continue to get better. I don't know, Kyle if I'm
ready to go all in on the Bears, but they
are definitely going to make it as a contender in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I guess, like the Raiders, this is one of the
smartest moves the Bears have made in the long time,
hiring Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I like the Joe Toney signing.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You plan him at left guard and say do what
you do best. I do worry about our wonder about
Jonah Jackson and where they play him, because it was
an adventure trying to move him to center and it
didn't work out. There wasn't a place for him, and
now he's in Chicago, so where you play him along
that line of scrimmage is going to be very very interesting.
But I think it's all It's all up to what
Caleb Williams does and supporting him, and I thought he
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had a great supporting cast. It just seems like the
plan was a little hit or miss there. DeAndre Swift
is a close to one thousand yard back and he's
a guy you can't sleep on. So I agree with Kyle.
Get him some help, make it a two headed monster.
You might get more explosive runs out of swift or
out of the backfield, like you see there. A tremendous player,
but it is tough, absolutely tough. We talked about this
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when Kyle was in studio. Name one great Chicago quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's hard. It's hard. You go all the way back,
never had one.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
It is tough to play quarterback in Chicago. It gets
cold in December, tough to throw the football. But we'll
see what Ben Johnson has. We'll see if you can
get Caleb Williams going. But I like the direction in
Chicago's headed.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I'm a big Kayleb Williams guy because obviously he's a
Sooner despite following the Sith Lord to your school.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah yeah, own him, Josh, Kayleb Williams is a Sooner.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
But when the Bears drafted him, I like Roma Dunsa
Why they didn't take that Fuaga guy instead. If you
draft a quarterback number one overall, your next pick has
to be an alignment.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Especially when you have DJ Moore and Kenan Allen on
the less.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well to your point, though, Joshua, the Bears at the
number ten pick right now, if you're looking at Charles Davis,
if you're looking at DJ who we all love and follow,
Daniel Jeremiah, they both have them taking Calvin Benjamin, Kelvin Banks,
excuse me, the tackle out of Texas right this year
at least so Kyle. It kind of bolsters your point
that they're building for the run game and for offensive production.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah, I agree, Jamie, and I think if you're tuning
in right now, we should address the lower third.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
On the bottom of the screen.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Is it okay to be excited about the Bear? What
does that mean? Well, the context is there was a
lot of excitement about the Bears in the last offseason.
I was the drum major out in front of it.
And the season was cataclysmic.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It was awful.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
The team was not just bad, they were completely broken.
They fired the head coach. I think a lot of
the excitement is not just about what's going on. It's
not about joke tooing, it's not about getting a guard.
It's still about the head coach. And last year when
they were drafting all these players and it's going to
be Joe Leverett and Roma Doomsay and Keenan Allen. When
the Bears fans were screaming about that and tweeting about that,
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if someone would say, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Great, do you like your head coach?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
How about Matt Everrafluss, and the response to that would
be like, well we got Roma Doomsay, though, never mind that,
who cares? No, no, no, no, I'm asking you about the coach.
Do you like the coach? Did you see what Keenan
Allen did? It was complete ignoring it, and there was
an awareness of the Bears fans that I'm not sure
we have a guy on the sideline who is going
to lead us to the playoffs. And they found out
that they didn't. Now, listen, we don't know if Ben
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Johnson is, but damn if he isn't, and he's not
the guy, who the hell.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is that's the excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
It's okay to get hurt again, That's what I'm saying.
It's okay to go out and date again. Get up,
open the blinds, take a shower, go out, have some breakfast,
get outside.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's okay. That's what we do in the Springs. Sure. Yeah,
the most important thing too.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
And the last thing I'll say about this is when
you invest in your quarterback right, you got him, get
offensive linemen around him, and he cannot take sixty eight
sacks every year. Now, I know some of those are
on Caleb. I'm not going to just say that it's
the offensive line's fault. He holds the ball sometimes too long.
He can help himself by throwing away and trying to
picking up some of those extra yards. The superman Clark
can't in comparison, right, No one to eat it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
No when to go down.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
The defense is going to win some that's okay, don't
compound the problem. But he is not going to last long,
whether you like him, whether you don't, whether you think
he's the answer, if he continues to take hits like
he is. So I love that they're addressing offensive line
because it shows that they really love their investment in Calebly,
I want to look at.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You two guys at the front of the table here. DeMarco,
you are the side line analysts for the La Rams.
We played for the Rams. You are a Cowboys fan.
You guys live within the NFC. You watch the NFC
North unfold. Last year, the Vikings were on one. The
Lions looked great, the Packers held their own. Is there
something that the NFC North is quite powerful? There's something
to fight with here? Or is it right for the
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Bears to bubble up to the surface a little bit?
Just give me a state of living in the NFC.
Just look directly at the North from me.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Okay, So I'm not sure if the Lions could overcome
the loss of two of their coordinators. I know Jared
Goff's not going anywhere, and Detroit is not going to
lose what they've gained over the last couple of seasons.
They are Super Bowl contenders, but we'll see. This is
new for them. Green Bay, I had to adjust how
I felt about Jordan Love. I have to put him
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in with one of the great quarterbacks in the league
because Green Bay has been pretty good since he's been
quarterback there.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But the Bears, the Bears to.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Me, have always been their brand has been physical and defense,
and they've been anything but over the last couple of years.
So it's weird. I know, you have to support the quarterback.
Like I said, it's tough to play there. But if
the Chicago Bears want to get back into the race
in the North, they're going to have to get physical.
I like what Kyle said, They're going to push people around.
That's a good start, that's how you developed that brand.
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But yeah, I mean to get to where Chicago needs
to be in the North, it's going to be a
tough road to hope. Maybe the rest of the division
comes back to them and they ascend. But it all
starts and ends with what Caleb Williams brings you at quarterback.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I think Minnesota takes a step back just because if
McCarthy is ready. I think Starnold had an incredible year.
I don't know if McCarthy's going to be quite as efficient.
And I think the Vikings were just had an incredible
run flash. I think the Lions will their pieces are
in place. They're going to be solid in stay. So
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Chicago could ascend to that number two spot. I think
they could. Yeah, because I just love Kayleb Williams, because yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sooner, Kyle, anything else you want to get off your chain,
since you wanted to appropriately therapize and correct why the
lower third is existing right there? Anything else you got
on the Bears that you want to well.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm good. Other than I correct myself.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I mentioned that the Dolphins head and Durham Smite that
they may get him. They've got him, like he's going
to the Bears. Rap sheet has reported it, and listen,
you may sit at home. Durham Smythe Durham Smite is
a blocking tight end. He is really good at it.
Going back to college. He is a tough, physical guy.
Ben Johnson, they're showing their hand right now, guys, they're
showing their hand. We're going to protect and we're going
to punch. It's going to be a physical team for
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all the trick plays and the flea flickers that's coming.
But they are starting with the steak and then they
will get to the sugar, not the other way around
that they had the last couple of years, and I
like it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Kyle, can you give us just a quick geographical reference
for the Viager Triangle in Chicago just for those who
heard that correctly, if.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Anyone doesn't know what that term means.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Okay, So right in downtown Chicago, there is this cool
little era and it is cool where there's very expensive
steakhouses and very expensive restaurants and it's very touristy.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But as it was explained to me.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
They call it the Viagra triangle because let's say that
there are a lot of like, kind of slick fat
cats who are maybe with like in their fifties, maybe sixties,
maybe even seventies, who are looking for friends at the restaurants.
And if you want that kind of person and you
want to date that kind of person, there they are
waiting for you. There is your real free agency frenzy
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or adult a great restaurant do in Great Steaks.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Number ninety eight wearing the silver and black is an
absolute menace for the Las Vegas Raiders defense. And now
Max Crosby is going to stay there a little bit longer.
Ian Rappaport, welcome back. Inside. We get a lot of
news that we got to cover as we inch closer
to free agent frenzy coming this Monday. Let's start with
one of the big paydays or extensions if you will,
that happened in Vegas yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's right, a massive three year extension for Max Crosby.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Not a free agent acquisition, but really just as good.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
As one, because had this deal not gone through, had
Max not really bought into the new Raiders regime, that
was very real chance that he was going to be
on the move. He wanted to see a clear plan,
wanted to be locked in long term, and the Raiders
got it done in.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
A way that I would say, rarely do you see
what the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
It was clean, it was decisive, it was fast, and
it made Max Crosby highly paid. It's a three year,
one hundred and six point five million dollar deal, ninety
one point five million dollars guaranteed key number here, thirty
five point five million dollars average per year new money.
That makes him the highest paid edge in the NFL
and sets the market for guys like Michael Parsons, Miles Garrett,
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and potentially Trey Hendrickson. We also had some news in
the edge market late last night. Joey Bosa, one of
the faces of the Chargers franchise, five time pro bowler
one of the most highly paid defensive ends in the NFL,
was informed of his release.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There was some questions.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
About whether or not the Chargers would want to back.
In fact, they did want to back, just had a
smaller number saves about twenty five million against the Cat.
Theoretically there's a chance he could end up returning there,
but don't be surprised if at least the San Francisco
forty nine ers consider consider bringing in Joey Bosha alongside
Nick Bosa on the edges for San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
It's really cool. It'd be like if TJ and JJ
had ever played together.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
We'll see what happens in the meantime. Ian.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know if the Bears need another wide receiver,
but the Hariboo company that makes gummy bears and gummy
worms is located in Chicago, Illinois, so it might be
a desirable landing spot for Dk Metcalf, who lives on
those things. He wants out of Seattle. Tell us everything
and where this is going.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, I think that company exists mainly because of my kids,
Max and Jude, who eat those things.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Every snack is about some sort of harriboo you got,
like the cherries, you got the snakes anyway, Yep, yeah,
a lot there. Yes, let's talk about DK Metcalf and
his trade request from Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yes. Ay.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Sources told me and Collie Tompos that these conversations, which
have been going on for the course of the last
I would take two months really ever since the season ended,
came to it yesterday he met with Seattle Brass and
Gordon Love his request to seek a trade. They've agreed
to at least explore. Now the price is going to
be high. He's going to want a new contract, but
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there are in fact several teams interested. He would be,
no doubt the top receiver available. Those other good receivers
available at the free agent market, but a lot of
them are older. This is a twenty seven year old
in his prime, does want a new deal, but yes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Teams are going to be inquiring.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And then Seattle also said goodbye to one of their legends,
Tyler Lockett, the veteran receiver made some of the biggest
plays for Seattle over the last decade, was deformed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Of his release, and it's sad.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Releases are always sad, but this one was sort of
like a mutual hug. Seahawk said thank you, Lockett said
thank you, just agreed to kind of move apart, go
their separate ways with appreciation of what one has done
for the other. I would imagine he will be a
highly honored member of that franchise moving forward as of
now sixty and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
All right, well, at least the candy shelves will be
safe in Seattle moving forward, maybe if the Seahawks are
able to execute this. It's the rap sheet kids and
it's DK Metcalf that are into the gummy bears. We've
got that all straight. Let's get into DK Metcalf, because
this was massive news yesterday. Once you move on from
one wide receiver to have the room look at themselves,
Kyle and say no, I don't want to be here
anymore either.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What was your initial.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Reaction to this massive star within the NFL and a
big time wide receiver that oftentimes in last coal beers
had been just used as a decoy within this offense.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think there's a lot of that going around.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Is that you got big name guys and big contract
guys looking around and saying, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What's the future? What are we up to? DK?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Six seasons in, he's twenty seven years old and he
wants a fresh start. It's same deal with Miles Garrett
a little bit older. But it's like, I think I
might have spent enough time here. I think if you're
looking at DK Metcalf to go and get him, and
if you're a fan base who wants k Metcalf, I
just look at it as a very expensive luxury item.
This is a Ferrari. Not in the physical sense I'm
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talking this. I'm just talking about in terms of the expense,
the splash.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It is going to be very expensive.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Like Ian said, like the big time draft picks and
then big time money.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
If you are a team.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That has your quarterback situation set, who has your defensive end,
who has your left tackle, you got all the pieces,
and you got a coach and you think like, I
don't know, I want to kind of do for our
team what aj Brown did for the Eagles, and one
of those things where you add the big time and
you're going to spend This is going to be very,
very expensive.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But if you're a team.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
That you have a home and you have your kids
taking care of and you just are like, damn it,
I'm buying a Ferrari, Well, then there's one right there
who wants out of his current home right now, go
get it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Other than that, and if you.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Don't have all your stuff taken care of, I would
move on to the next asset because you're going to
pay through the teeth for this.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah, and we talked about it earlier. The team that
comes to mind is the New England Patriots. If I'm
Drake May, I am on the phone right now. I'm
at the front doorstep Mike Rabel's office saying we need
to get this man in New England. But first I'll
say this, I want to give a shout out to
Tyler Locket. Unbelievable wide receiver, so much fun to watch,
someone that I watched when I was in the league.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He's just such a great player, the king of not taking.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Hits, right, that's even so good catching the ball, getting down,
not taking unnecessary hits. And that's why you laugh so
long in the NFL. So he's going to be missing Seattle.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The other thing too, I'll say about DK, it's interesting.
I mean, it's not like they're a team that's struggling.
They won ten games last year.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I know he only had five touchdowns, didn't get to
a thousand yards, but I was surprised when DK said that.
But the guy that comes to mind for me is
Jackson Smith and Jigbum And I know we can't put
the tweet up, but he said on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Basically, what the heck is going on?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Everyone's leaving now?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Tyler Lockett's released DK Metcalf wants out, what does that
mean for me? Well, he's on a rookie contract, so
he can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But it's just for me.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
It's really interesting what is going on in Seattle right
now because the first question you asked us are they
going to a rebuild? Is you know, what's the future
like for Gino Smith? What's the future like for that offense?
So I don't know, but if i'm Drake May, I'm
telling you right now, I'm on the phone saying let's
get DK Metcalf to New England.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I think the other great fit for him would be
Green Bay. That if you carried him opposite Jayden Reid.
I think one of the problems with Green Bay is
they've got a bunch of, you know, second tier guys.
If you added DK Metcalf to Christian Watson and Jayden Reid,
I think Jordan Love takes a huge leap.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I agree, and that would probably Incord Metcalf.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, yeah, I go up and get it.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I do wonder what Metcalf would do and would he
like going to play with Drake May. I mean Russell
Wilson was his quarterback. Geno Smith was his quarterback. I
don't know where you have them ranked, but to go
to a Drake May, I wondered what.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That interest him.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
If I'm him, I want to go to some ghost
some place where they have an elite quarterback where I
can show all my skills.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Lockett to me was by far the scarier receiver of
the two. Dk Metcalf was a lot of sizzle, not
a ton of steak.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He looks the part. He is. Scary is all get
out when.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
You see the guy warm up, but when the game happens,
I don't know. Sometimes he just checks out. He makes
a lot of mistakes and they seem to be not
in sync a lot. So if I'm him and you
think you're better than what you are, I think I'm
headed to a place to where I know that guy
is elite, maybe headed for Canton someday that can deliver
me the football when I needed most.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Regardless of how much I.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Think Josh is all over it, I think Josh I
like the Packers pick a lot and let's just pull
from the headlines. Back during Super Bowl Week, their star
running back Josh Jacobs is going around radio row saying
we need a number one receiver. He wasn't mixing words
at all. So we got guys, we need a guy
who is a proven number one. And watching the Packers
last year, they're one of these teams has a nice
collection of wide receivers. There's some talented guys. There is
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obviously not that guy. There is not a AJ Brown,
there is not a Jamar Chase. There is not you know,
the Bills version of steff On Diggs. And when Diggs
got added to the Bills, Josh Allen skyrocket and let's
do something for Jordan Love that that season last year,
that certainly the end of it was not up to
the Packers standard. It's not up to the Matt Lafleur standards.
And when you have the star running back just saying
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what everyone else is thinking that we got some good receivers,
we need a real number one receiver. I don't know
those kind of moved for green Bay. Maybe a little
out of character to spend the draft picks and the
capitol they're going to have to do to get DK Metcalf.
But man, if he jumps into green Bay, that shock
and all stuff right there, I would like him absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So it was twenty nineteen DK Metcalf comes out when
he was on the scene, Kyle, you guys were a
couple of years into GMFB. He used this massive, dude,
big personality and he goes to Seattle. Can you just say,
refresh us on what the expectation was for dk Metcalf
coming into the NFL. And when a guy asks to
leave a team and resets his own identity, maybe he's
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in an offense, Like what is the outlook for him
within a new team, whether it may be the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Packers or not.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Well, Mattcalf's entry into the league is always hilarious for me.
It always sticks out because it is a perfect example
of NFL draft bs schlock analysis. People didn't like him
in the draft, and you could look it up. It's like, well,
you know, his hips are a little high coming out
of his routes.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Look at him. Just take a picture of him and
look at his body. Watch the tape of him.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I understand you have a job to do and talk
about his catch radius. And then people passed on him.
You could look it up. The people who were drafted
in front of him, I'm not gonna mention their names,
infamous infamous names. Then Wiley Pete Carroll comes in and
two seconds later, Pete's ripping his shirt off to show
DK that he still got it. And he was awesome
from the get go. So he's also a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Look at this guy's hips are two inches too Hi
come out of his route, So.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're gonna pass on him? What are we doing? Just
drap them?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I will always think of this of like I understand,
the analysis gets really deep, and that's some of the
stuff we celebrate. You know what I like more than
the analysis. I just like the anatomy. I like it better.
And this guy's second to none. If there's a dude
who's a super freak physically, maybe you don't let yourself
be hissh hooked by deep, deep, deep minutia about his
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route running.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Go get him. I just remember.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
A couple of years later, the Seahawks as a show
go to Munich, Germany, and the Seahawks are playing the
first ever regular season game in the NFL in Germany,
and it's the Seahawks and it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And this guy gets off the plane and has to
find a cheeseburger immediately in the land of Meat and
potatoes DK back off of just walking around the streets
of Germany like I landed. I wanted to stay awake,
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and he went out and find of Germany a cheese
steak and cheeseburger in Germany.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Excuse me and.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The fact that he still looks like that needs all
the kiddie we can't wait. This is a new found
excitement that we might see in free agency. Frenzy not
a free agent, I get that, but it's gonna take
something for a teams again. I'm basically exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love playing.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
I still feel like I could play it at a
high level, and possibly at a higher level than I
did last year. I don't think it was my best outing,
you know. I think I let my guys down in
a lot more moments than I than I helped them,
especially if you look at my track record and how
I've been in years past. I just, you know, I
I want to give it a good run. I got
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a bad taste in my mouth on how I ended
the year and and uh, how well I was playing,
and you know how accountable I was for the people
around me. And I love so many people in Kansas City,
both in that facility, uh, in the community and it's
home for me now. And you know, I don't uh,
I don't want to leave that life.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yet.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
I put in a lot of a lot of hard
work and I put in a lot of you know,
focus into into being the best that I can for
case and last year it just, uh, it didn't end
well for us, and I just I feel like there's
a responsibility in me to to play out the contract
that I initially signed to give Kansas City and the
Chiefs organization everything that I got, and uh, and that's
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what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Jason and Travis Kelsey kicked the tires on a lot
of topics on the New Heights podcast. Kyle, but this
is one that everybody was interested in beyond his dating life,
which anytime he goes down that avenue, people want to
know the answer. But Kyle, Chiefs fans, the NFL, they
wanted to know if Travis Kelsey was coming back. And
there's your answer. What's your reaction to that? And why
he did it?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
No respects because I think the proper context, especially is
that Travis could make a ton of money without playing
another down of football. Guys stay on because they want
to hit the check again, and I get it. Keep
making the money and then you have to decide what
you're going to do after football.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He already has all that set up.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
He could probably make much more money not playing football
than he could play in football and risking injury, that
can everything that comes with it. He wants to play,
and that's a guy where you're like normally when someone
says it's not about the money, like, of course it's
about the money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
For him, it's not.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
He actually wants to play, and I think NFL players
have this infatuation with ending things right and he wants
to do it. He said it himself. I wasn't that
great last year. He has nothing to prove, first ballot,
Hall of Famer, multiple times super Bowl champion, maybe the
greatest tight end who ever lived, all these lists. He's like,
I got money, I got future, I got everything. I
just want to play football again for those people and
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those fans and for myself and my teammates. That's as
peer as it gets, and I'm not a skeptic of it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I respect it, nothing but respect for Kelsey.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
He's tremendous and I'm in some circles he is the
greatest head end to ever live or ever play the game.
I hope he's not making a big mistake in coming back,
because I mean, you ended in the Super Bowl, no
shame in that, and you lost to Philadelphia. This could
end worse for you next season if you try to
come back. And I've heard this before from older coaches,
if you're thinking about retirement, you already are so coming
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back forward trying to finish it out. I get that,
and Kyle, I think you hit it right on the head.
You always want to try to finish it right in football,
but that rarely ever happens in the National Football League.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
I think he's making the right choice because the Chiefs
still have a good window here. And I also like
having players in the league that I like rooting for,
and he's easy to root for, so'm I speak for
all fans, mister Kelsey, thank you for coming back.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
And the first thing that stands out to me as
a former player is the accountability. I love that he
came out and didn't blame anybody else. He said I
wasn't at my best. I still think I can play
better than I did a year ago, but it was
my fault. I made a mistake here. I did things wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Right. I'm with josh on that, you know, I think he.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Is going to come back because he wants to end
on the right note and fans like watching that, right,
you want that superhero effect.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
But I will say this, you have two greats.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
And Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey, and now they have
extra motivation. So I don't know exactly what that means,
and they didn't need it, but now they have a
chance to make another run. And Travis Kelsey's going to
get right this offseason and have another go at it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
At the end of the clip, he says, plays out
the contract that I signed. He's entering the final year
of that. So clearly he had a commitment in his
mind to Kansas City that he wanted to fulfill. The
Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelsey experience is one of the most
electric teammate battery combinations that you can see in terms
of pitcher and catcher. They are amazing and their friendship
is one that is covered internationally and I think it's
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an amazing story that will continue to unfold.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football. It was not pretty.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
We're going to talk about the Bears and why there
might be some optimism brewing. So yesterday in the middle
of our show, we had to bring Ian Rappaport in
our NFL network insire because news broke Ian and it
probably made Caleb Williams pretty happy when this news hit
his phone.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
There's actually been a couple big news items for the
Chicago Bears. The biggest, though, you're right, during the show yesterday,
Joe Tooney, the multi year All Pro Pro bowler, one
of the best cards in the NFL, thirty two years old,
due for a new contract, was traded from the Kentas
City Chiefs to the Chicago Bears. Ryan Poe's The Gentleman
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add it again very active thus far. First trading for
Jonah Jackson, who of course his coach Ben Johnson had
in Detroit, and now trading for Joe Toney, who polls
himself was within Kansas City and for the Kansas City Chiefs,
this one makes a lot of sense for them, I
would say, similar to what they did with Tyreek Hill.
Move on from a player about to get his third contract,
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collect the money or the cap space, I should say,
get a draft pick, and simply move on to the
Chicago Bears. Nothing is more important than protecting Caleb Williams. Nothing,
and so if you have an all pro guard to
slid in there, potentially do a new deal with him
at some point. But even if you don't, this is
one of the best in football. Protect Caleb Williams. Talking
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about the optimism for the Bears, this helps.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Give it absolutely all right, let's take that and run
with it, because that twenty twenty four video, it really
took a dark turn. And now we know that Joe
Tooney is going to be in Chicago after agreeing to
terms with the Chiefs, and then of course Joondah Jackson
now arrives from the La Rams. Kyle, what optimism about
the Chicago Bears going into last season? Are you prepared
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to reframe that excitement with this team once again in
the Windy City?
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Down right? Damn right?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Listen, If you're not excited in March and April, when
are you excited? Let me tell you about the Bears.
The Bears are going to push people around next year. Now,
I don't know if they're gonna win yet, we'll figure
that out. They are going to push people around, all right.
The Joe Toney signing, of course, it's good for Caleb,
of course. I don't see it that way though. I
see it as representative of where this team is going
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about where Ben Johnson wants to go. Do you remember
never mind golf in the defense, Dan Campbell and Equanimius.
Do you remember the way the Detroit Lions ran the
ball last year? It was really really badass. This is
what Ben Johnson wants to do with the Joe Toney signing,
and it's not done.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Guys.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
I saw this report from Jeremy Fother that they're looking
at Durham Smite, that tied end from the Dolphins, who
Ben Johnson has a deep relationship with. I don't know
if you win a Super Bowl with Durham Smite, I
don't care you run the ball with them. They are
putting together assets and it's not just gonna be DeAndre Swift,
mark my words. They will add a running back through
free agency or the draft. I just like this because
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last year at this time for the Bears, through the draft,
it was quarterbacks and receivers and tight ends and all
this wonderful stuff. It was all sugar. It was sugar
and sweetness. Ben Jonson says, it's time for steak. Let's
put some steak on this plate. We're gonna go to
Gibson's and do the Viagra Triangle Special and do about
a fifty ounce.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Ribbi right on the play.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
We're gonna run because, mark my words, the Vikings, Lions
packers all really, really good against the run. And nobody
knows that better than Ben Johnson. He has a PhD.
In the NFC North. Those teams are great against the run.
You gotta fight that, and you don't fight that with
wide receivers and DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You gotta add to that. You want to know what.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Twenty twenty two, Mattie Rafluse gets hired. All right, let's
see how he made his foray into his first free
agency as Ben Johnson. Before we even get there is
adding someone like Joe Tuning.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Other pieces you look up to.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Twenty twenty two Transaction report the Bears add Byron Pringle,
Tayvon Young, Trevor Simeon. Due respect to those guys, this
is a different type of thing going on. If you
want change if you want a new era, they're already
making it. We haven't even hit free agency yet. We'll
see if they win. Well, you figure that out in
the fall. They will push people around and they will
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be physical. The Toney signing, it's great for Caleb. It's
better for the run game. That's what Ben Johnson wants
to establish.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Guests me fired up.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Yeah, I'm not even a Bears fan, and Kyle, you
got me fired up over here, but I'm damn let's go.
I was ready to be all in on the Bears
as soon as they hired Ben Johnson. I think that
is the best hire of the offseason. It's a home
run for them hiring within the division as well. But
Ben Johnson is one of the best offensive lines in football.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He's also a young coach, and.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
That means he's a player's coach, and I think that's
great for Caleb.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He's only thirty eight years old.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
We saw what he did in Detroit, what Jamier gives
and David Montgomery in the different ways he used Jamison
Williams right. He was them the ball through the airs.
And they also give him some run game things and
give him some endo rounds. And he had some big
plays on the ground, whether they use Sam Laporta.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
It was so much from the watch, and.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Then Amin Ross Saint Brown would get his touches. What
that tells me is he's going to go to Chicago
and do the same thing. They have a lot of
great pieces on offense. He can get everybody their touches
because he did the same thing in Detroit. I love that,
and like Kyle said, the most important thing, he knows
what it takes to win in the NFC North. He
knows what it takes late in November, late in December
and those cold weather games. How to run the football
while you go get Joe Tooney and Jonah Jackson. How
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to go out there and dominate the game and then
play great defense. I really like like he mentioned Tooney
and Jackson for the run game, but they also are
two of the highest guards when it came to win
rate in pass protection last season.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
That is very important.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
If you invest the number one overall pick in your quarterback,
you can't just invest in him. You have to invest
in your offensive line. You have to invest in the
guys around him. Said the same thing with Drake May.
If you want to set these guys up for success,
you have to do exactly what the Bears.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Are doing right now. And they also have a lot
of money.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
To spend this offseason, so I think they're going to
continue to get better. I don't know, Kyle if I'm
ready to go all in on the Bears, but they
are definitely going to make it as a contender in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
I guess, like the Raiders, this is one of the
smartest moves the Bears have made in the long time,
hiring Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
I like the Joe Toney signing.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
You plan him at left guard and say do what
you do best. I do worry about our wonder about
Jonah Jackson and where they play him, because it was
an adventure trying to move him to center and it
didn't work out. There wasn't a place for him, and
now he's in Chicago, so where you play him along
that line of scrimmage is going to be very very interesting.
But I think it's all It's all up to what
Caleb Williams does and supporting him, and I thought he
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had a great supporting cast. It just seems like the
plan was a little hit or miss there. DeAndre Swift
is a close to one thousand yard back and he's
a guy you can't sleep on. So I agree with Kyle.
Get him some help, make it a two headed monster.
You might get more explosive runs out of swift or
out of the backfield, like you see there. A tremendous player,
but it is tough, absolutely tough. We talked about this
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when Kyle was in studio. Name one great Chicago quarterback.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
It's hard. It's hard. You go all the way back,
never had one.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
It is tough to play quarterback in Chicago. It gets
cold in December, tough to throw the football. But we'll
see what Ben Johnson has. We'll see if you can
get Caleb Williams going. But I like the direction in
Chicago's headed.
Speaker 8 (07:15):
I'm a big Kayleb Williams guy because obviously he's a
Sooner despite following the Sith Lord to your school.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah yeah, own him, Josh, Kayleb Williams is a Sooner.
Speaker 8 (07:26):
But when the Bears drafted him, I like Roma Dunsa
Why they didn't take that Fuaga guy instead. If you
draft a quarterback number one overall, your next pick has
to be an alignment.
Speaker 6 (07:38):
Especially when you have DJ Moore and Kenan Allen on
the less.
Speaker 3 (07:42):
Well to your point, though, Joshua, the Bears at the
number ten pick right now, if you're looking at Charles Davis,
if you're looking at DJ who we all love and follow,
Daniel Jeremiah, they both have them taking Calvin Benjamin, Kelvin Banks,
excuse me, the tackle out of Texas right this year
at least so Kyle. It kind of bolsters your point
that they're building for the run game and for offensive production.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah, I agree, Jamie, and I think if you're tuning
in right now, we should address the lower third.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
On the bottom of the screen.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Is it okay to be excited about the Bear? What
does that mean? Well, the context is there was a
lot of excitement about the Bears in the last offseason.
I was the drum major out in front of it.
And the season was cataclysmic.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
It was awful.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
The team was not just bad, they were completely broken.
They fired the head coach. I think a lot of
the excitement is not just about what's going on. It's
not about joke tooing, it's not about getting a guard.
It's still about the head coach. And last year when
they were drafting all these players and it's going to
be Joe Leverett and Roma Doomsay and Keenan Allen. When
the Bears fans were screaming about that and tweeting about that,
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if someone would say, okay.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Great, do you like your head coach?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
How about Matt Everrafluss, and the response to that would
be like, well we got Roma Doomsay, though, never mind that,
who cares? No, no, no, no, I'm asking you about the coach.
Do you like the coach? Did you see what Keenan
Allen did? It was complete ignoring it, and there was
an awareness of the Bears fans that I'm not sure
we have a guy on the sideline who is going
to lead us to the playoffs. And they found out
that they didn't. Now, listen, we don't know if Ben
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Johnson is, but damn if he isn't, and he's not
the guy, who the hell.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Is that's the excitement.
Speaker 5 (09:14):
It's okay to get hurt again, That's what I'm saying.
It's okay to go out and date again. Get up,
open the blinds, take a shower, go out, have some breakfast,
get outside.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
It's okay. That's what we do in the Springs. Sure. Yeah,
the most important thing too.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
And the last thing I'll say about this is when
you invest in your quarterback right, you got him, get
offensive linemen around him, and he cannot take sixty eight
sacks every year. Now, I know some of those are
on Caleb. I'm not going to just say that it's
the offensive line's fault. He holds the ball sometimes too long.
He can help himself by throwing away and trying to
picking up some of those extra yards. The superman Clark
can't in comparison, right, No one to eat it.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
No when to go down.
Speaker 6 (09:47):
The defense is going to win some that's okay, don't
compound the problem. But he is not going to last long,
whether you like him, whether you don't, whether you think
he's the answer, if he continues to take hits like
he is. So I love that they're addressing offensive line
because it shows that they really love their investment in Calebly,
I want to look at.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You two guys at the front of the table here. DeMarco,
you are the side line analysts for the La Rams.
We played for the Rams. You are a Cowboys fan.
You guys live within the NFC. You watch the NFC
North unfold. Last year, the Vikings were on one. The
Lions looked great, the Packers held their own. Is there
something that the NFC North is quite powerful? There's something
to fight with here? Or is it right for the
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Bears to bubble up to the surface a little bit?
Just give me a state of living in the NFC.
Just look directly at the North from me.
Speaker 7 (10:28):
Okay, So I'm not sure if the Lions could overcome
the loss of two of their coordinators. I know Jared
Goff's not going anywhere, and Detroit is not going to
lose what they've gained over the last couple of seasons.
They are Super Bowl contenders, but we'll see. This is
new for them. Green Bay, I had to adjust how
I felt about Jordan Love. I have to put him
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in with one of the great quarterbacks in the league
because Green Bay has been pretty good since he's been
quarterback there.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
But the Bears, the Bears to.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
Me, have always been their brand has been physical and defense,
and they've been anything but over the last couple of years.
So it's weird. I know, you have to support the quarterback.
Like I said, it's tough to play there. But if
the Chicago Bears want to get back into the race
in the North, they're going to have to get physical.
I like what Kyle said, They're going to push people around.
That's a good start, that's how you developed that brand.
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But yeah, I mean to get to where Chicago needs
to be in the North, it's going to be a
tough road to hope. Maybe the rest of the division
comes back to them and they ascend. But it all
starts and ends with what Caleb Williams brings you at quarterback.
Speaker 8 (11:31):
I think Minnesota takes a step back just because if
McCarthy is ready. I think Starnold had an incredible year.
I don't know if McCarthy's going to be quite as efficient.
And I think the Vikings were just had an incredible
run flash. I think the Lions will their pieces are
in place. They're going to be solid in stay. So
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Chicago could ascend to that number two spot. I think
they could. Yeah, because I just love Kayleb Williams, because yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Sooner, Kyle, anything else you want to get off your chain,
since you wanted to appropriately therapize and correct why the
lower third is existing right there? Anything else you got
on the Bears that you want to well.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm good. Other than I correct myself.
Speaker 5 (12:13):
I mentioned that the Dolphins head and Durham Smite that
they may get him. They've got him, like he's going
to the Bears. Rap sheet has reported it, and listen,
you may sit at home. Durham Smythe Durham Smite is
a blocking tight end. He is really good at it.
Going back to college. He is a tough, physical guy.
Ben Johnson, they're showing their hand right now, guys, they're
showing their hand. We're going to protect and we're going
to punch. It's going to be a physical team for
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all the trick plays and the flea flickers that's coming.
But they are starting with the steak and then they
will get to the sugar, not the other way around
that they had the last couple of years, and I
like it.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Kyle, can you give us just a quick geographical reference
for the Viager Triangle in Chicago just for those who
heard that correctly, if.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Anyone doesn't know what that term means.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Okay, So right in downtown Chicago, there is this cool
little era and it is cool where there's very expensive
steakhouses and very expensive restaurants and it's very touristy.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
But as it was explained to me.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
They call it the Viagra triangle because let's say that
there are a lot of like, kind of slick fat
cats who are maybe with like in their fifties, maybe sixties,
maybe even seventies, who are looking for friends at the restaurants.
And if you want that kind of person and you
want to date that kind of person, there they are
waiting for you. There is your real free agency frenzy
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or adult a great restaurant do in Great Steaks.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Number ninety eight wearing the silver and black is an
absolute menace for the Las Vegas Raiders defense. And now
Max Crosby is going to stay there a little bit longer.
Ian Rappaport, welcome back. Inside. We get a lot of
news that we got to cover as we inch closer
to free agent frenzy coming this Monday. Let's start with
one of the big paydays or extensions if you will,
that happened in Vegas yesterday.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
That's right, a massive three year extension for Max Crosby.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Not a free agent acquisition, but really just as good.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
As one, because had this deal not gone through, had
Max not really bought into the new Raiders regime, that
was very real chance that he was going to be
on the move. He wanted to see a clear plan,
wanted to be locked in long term, and the Raiders
got it done in.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
A way that I would say, rarely do you see
what the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
It was clean, it was decisive, it was fast, and
it made Max Crosby highly paid. It's a three year,
one hundred and six point five million dollar deal, ninety
one point five million dollars guaranteed key number here, thirty
five point five million dollars average per year new money.
That makes him the highest paid edge in the NFL
and sets the market for guys like Michael Parsons, Miles Garrett,
(14:41):
and potentially Trey Hendrickson. We also had some news in
the edge market late last night. Joey Bosa, one of
the faces of the Chargers franchise, five time pro bowler
one of the most highly paid defensive ends in the NFL,
was informed of his release.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There was some questions.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
About whether or not the Chargers would want to back.
In fact, they did want to back, just had a
smaller number saves about twenty five million against the Cat.
Theoretically there's a chance he could end up returning there,
but don't be surprised if at least the San Francisco
forty nine ers consider consider bringing in Joey Bosha alongside
Nick Bosa on the edges for San Francisco.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
It's really cool. It'd be like if TJ and JJ
had ever played together.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
We'll see what happens in the meantime. Ian.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
I don't know if the Bears need another wide receiver,
but the Hariboo company that makes gummy bears and gummy
worms is located in Chicago, Illinois, so it might be
a desirable landing spot for Dk Metcalf, who lives on
those things. He wants out of Seattle. Tell us everything
and where this is going.
Speaker 4 (15:44):
Yeah, I think that company exists mainly because of my kids,
Max and Jude, who eat those things.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
All the time.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Every snack is about some sort of harriboo you got,
like the cherries, you got the snakes anyway, Yep, yeah,
a lot there. Yes, let's talk about DK Metcalf and
his trade request from Seattle.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Yes. Ay.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Sources told me and Collie Tompos that these conversations, which
have been going on for the course of the last
I would take two months really ever since the season ended,
came to it yesterday he met with Seattle Brass and
Gordon Love his request to seek a trade. They've agreed
to at least explore. Now the price is going to
be high. He's going to want a new contract, but
(16:23):
there are in fact several teams interested. He would be,
no doubt the top receiver available. Those other good receivers
available at the free agent market, but a lot of
them are older. This is a twenty seven year old
in his prime, does want a new deal, but yes.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
Teams are going to be inquiring.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
And then Seattle also said goodbye to one of their legends,
Tyler Lockett, the veteran receiver made some of the biggest
plays for Seattle over the last decade, was deformed.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Of his release, and it's sad.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
Releases are always sad, but this one was sort of
like a mutual hug. Seahawk said thank you, Lockett said
thank you, just agreed to kind of move apart, go
their separate ways with appreciation of what one has done
for the other. I would imagine he will be a
highly honored member of that franchise moving forward as of
now sixty and eighteen.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
All right, well, at least the candy shelves will be
safe in Seattle moving forward, maybe if the Seahawks are
able to execute this. It's the rap sheet kids and
it's DK Metcalf that are into the gummy bears. We've
got that all straight. Let's get into DK Metcalf, because
this was massive news yesterday. Once you move on from
one wide receiver to have the room look at themselves,
Kyle and say no, I don't want to be here
anymore either.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
What was your initial.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Reaction to this massive star within the NFL and a
big time wide receiver that oftentimes in last coal beers
had been just used as a decoy within this offense.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
I think there's a lot of that going around.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Is that you got big name guys and big contract
guys looking around and saying, what am I doing here?
Speaker 2 (17:49):
What's the future? What are we up to? DK?
Speaker 5 (17:51):
Six seasons in, he's twenty seven years old and he
wants a fresh start. It's same deal with Miles Garrett
a little bit older. But it's like, I think I
might have spent enough time here. I think if you're
looking at DK Metcalf to go and get him, and
if you're a fan base who wants k Metcalf, I
just look at it as a very expensive luxury item.
This is a Ferrari. Not in the physical sense I'm
(18:11):
talking this. I'm just talking about in terms of the expense,
the splash.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
It is going to be very expensive.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
Like Ian said, like the big time draft picks and
then big time money.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
If you are a team.
Speaker 5 (18:21):
That has your quarterback situation set, who has your defensive end,
who has your left tackle, you got all the pieces,
and you got a coach and you think like, I
don't know, I want to kind of do for our
team what aj Brown did for the Eagles, and one
of those things where you add the big time and
you're going to spend This is going to be very,
very expensive.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
But if you're a team.
Speaker 5 (18:41):
That you have a home and you have your kids
taking care of and you just are like, damn it,
I'm buying a Ferrari, Well, then there's one right there
who wants out of his current home right now, go
get it.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Other than that, and if you.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Don't have all your stuff taken care of, I would
move on to the next asset because you're going to
pay through the teeth for this.
Speaker 6 (18:57):
Yeah, and we talked about it earlier. The team that
comes to mind is the New England Patriots. If I'm
Drake May, I am on the phone right now. I'm
at the front doorstep Mike Rabel's office saying we need
to get this man in New England. But first I'll
say this, I want to give a shout out to
Tyler Locket. Unbelievable wide receiver, so much fun to watch,
someone that I watched when I was in the league.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
He's just such a great player, the king of not taking.
Speaker 6 (19:17):
Hits, right, that's even so good catching the ball, getting down,
not taking unnecessary hits. And that's why you laugh so
long in the NFL. So he's going to be missing Seattle.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The other thing too, I'll say about DK, it's interesting.
I mean, it's not like they're a team that's struggling.
They won ten games last year.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
I know he only had five touchdowns, didn't get to
a thousand yards, but I was surprised when DK said that.
But the guy that comes to mind for me is
Jackson Smith and Jigbum And I know we can't put
the tweet up, but he said on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Basically, what the heck is going on?
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Right?
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Everyone's leaving now?
Speaker 6 (19:44):
Tyler Lockett's released DK Metcalf wants out, what does that
mean for me? Well, he's on a rookie contract, so
he can't do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
But it's just for me.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
It's really interesting what is going on in Seattle right
now because the first question you asked us are they
going to a rebuild? Is you know, what's the future
like for Gino Smith? What's the future like for that offense?
So I don't know, but if i'm Drake May, I'm
telling you right now, I'm on the phone saying let's
get DK Metcalf to New England.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I think the other great fit for him would be
Green Bay. That if you carried him opposite Jayden Reid.
I think one of the problems with Green Bay is
they've got a bunch of, you know, second tier guys.
If you added DK Metcalf to Christian Watson and Jayden Reid,
I think Jordan Love takes a huge leap.
Speaker 6 (20:22):
I agree, and that would probably Incord Metcalf.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Well, yeah, I go up and get it.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
I do wonder what Metcalf would do and would he
like going to play with Drake May. I mean Russell
Wilson was his quarterback. Geno Smith was his quarterback. I
don't know where you have them ranked, but to go
to a Drake May, I wondered what.
Speaker 2 (20:38):
That interest him.
Speaker 7 (20:39):
If I'm him, I want to go to some ghost
some place where they have an elite quarterback where I
can show all my skills.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
And I agree with you.
Speaker 7 (20:47):
Lockett to me was by far the scarier receiver of
the two. Dk Metcalf was a lot of sizzle, not
a ton of steak.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He looks the part. He is. Scary is all get
out when.
Speaker 7 (20:58):
You see the guy warm up, but when the game happens,
I don't know. Sometimes he just checks out. He makes
a lot of mistakes and they seem to be not
in sync a lot. So if I'm him and you
think you're better than what you are, I think I'm
headed to a place to where I know that guy
is elite, maybe headed for Canton someday that can deliver
me the football when I needed most.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Regardless of how much I.
Speaker 5 (21:20):
Think Josh is all over it, I think Josh I
like the Packers pick a lot and let's just pull
from the headlines. Back during Super Bowl Week, their star
running back Josh Jacobs is going around radio row saying
we need a number one receiver. He wasn't mixing words
at all. So we got guys, we need a guy
who is a proven number one. And watching the Packers
last year, they're one of these teams has a nice
collection of wide receivers. There's some talented guys. There is
(21:42):
obviously not that guy. There is not a AJ Brown,
there is not a Jamar Chase. There is not you know,
the Bills version of steff On Diggs. And when Diggs
got added to the Bills, Josh Allen skyrocket and let's
do something for Jordan Love that that season last year,
that certainly the end of it was not up to
the Packers standard. It's not up to the Matt Lafleur standards.
And when you have the star running back just saying
(22:03):
what everyone else is thinking that we got some good receivers,
we need a real number one receiver. I don't know
those kind of moved for green Bay. Maybe a little
out of character to spend the draft picks and the
capitol they're going to have to do to get DK Metcalf.
But man, if he jumps into green Bay, that shock
and all stuff right there, I would like him absolutely.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
So it was twenty nineteen DK Metcalf comes out when
he was on the scene, Kyle, you guys were a
couple of years into GMFB. He used this massive, dude,
big personality and he goes to Seattle. Can you just say,
refresh us on what the expectation was for dk Metcalf
coming into the NFL. And when a guy asks to
leave a team and resets his own identity, maybe he's
(22:40):
in an offense, Like what is the outlook for him
within a new team, whether it may be the.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Packers or not.
Speaker 5 (22:47):
Well, Mattcalf's entry into the league is always hilarious for me.
It always sticks out because it is a perfect example
of NFL draft bs schlock analysis. People didn't like him
in the draft, and you could look it up. It's like, well,
you know, his hips are a little high coming out
of his routes.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Look at him. Just take a picture of him and
look at his body. Watch the tape of him.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
I understand you have a job to do and talk
about his catch radius. And then people passed on him.
You could look it up. The people who were drafted
in front of him, I'm not gonna mention their names,
infamous infamous names. Then Wiley Pete Carroll comes in and
two seconds later, Pete's ripping his shirt off to show
DK that he still got it. And he was awesome
from the get go. So he's also a cautionary tale.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Look at it.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Look at this guy's hips are two inches too Hi
come out of his route, So.
Speaker 2 (23:34):
We're gonna pass on him? What are we doing? Just
drap them?
Speaker 5 (23:38):
I will always think of this of like I understand,
the analysis gets really deep, and that's some of the
stuff we celebrate. You know what I like more than
the analysis. I just like the anatomy. I like it better.
And this guy's second to none. If there's a dude
who's a super freak physically, maybe you don't let yourself
be hissh hooked by deep, deep, deep minutia about his
(23:59):
route running.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
Go get him. I just remember.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
A couple of years later, the Seahawks as a show
go to Munich, Germany, and the Seahawks are playing the
first ever regular season game in the NFL in Germany,
and it's the Seahawks and it's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
And this guy gets off the plane and has to
find a cheeseburger immediately in the land of Meat and
potatoes DK back off of just walking around the streets
of Germany like I landed. I wanted to stay awake,
(24:24):
and he went out and find of Germany a cheese
steak and cheeseburger in Germany.
Speaker 5 (24:28):
Excuse me and.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
The fact that he still looks like that needs all
the kiddie we can't wait. This is a new found
excitement that we might see in free agency. Frenzy not
a free agent, I get that, but it's gonna take
something for a teams again. I'm basically exactly.
Speaker 2 (24:43):
I love playing.
Speaker 9 (24:44):
I still feel like I could play it at a
high level, and possibly at a higher level than I
did last year. I don't think it was my best outing,
you know. I think I let my guys down in
a lot more moments than I than I helped them,
especially if you look at my track record and how
I've been in years past. I just, you know, I
I want to give it a good run. I got
(25:05):
a bad taste in my mouth on how I ended
the year and and uh, how well I was playing,
and you know how accountable I was for the people
around me. And I love so many people in Kansas City,
both in that facility, uh, in the community and it's
home for me now. And you know, I don't uh,
I don't want to leave that life.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yet.
Speaker 9 (25:23):
I put in a lot of a lot of hard
work and I put in a lot of you know,
focus into into being the best that I can for
case and last year it just, uh, it didn't end
well for us, and I just I feel like there's
a responsibility in me to to play out the contract
that I initially signed to give Kansas City and the
Chiefs organization everything that I got, and uh, and that's
(25:46):
what I'm going to do.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
Man.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Jason and Travis Kelsey kicked the tires on a lot
of topics on the New Heights podcast. Kyle, but this
is one that everybody was interested in beyond his dating life,
which anytime he goes down that avenue, people want to
know the answer. But Kyle, Chiefs fans, the NFL, they
wanted to know if Travis Kelsey was coming back. And
there's your answer. What's your reaction to that? And why
he did it?
Speaker 5 (26:07):
No respects because I think the proper context, especially is
that Travis could make a ton of money without playing
another down of football. Guys stay on because they want
to hit the check again, and I get it. Keep
making the money and then you have to decide what
you're going to do after football.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
He already has all that set up.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
He could probably make much more money not playing football
than he could play in football and risking injury, that
can everything that comes with it. He wants to play,
and that's a guy where you're like normally when someone
says it's not about the money, like, of course it's
about the money.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
For him, it's not.
Speaker 5 (26:37):
He actually wants to play, and I think NFL players
have this infatuation with ending things right and he wants
to do it. He said it himself. I wasn't that
great last year. He has nothing to prove, first ballot,
Hall of Famer, multiple times super Bowl champion, maybe the
greatest tight end who ever lived, all these lists. He's like,
I got money, I got future, I got everything. I
just want to play football again for those people and
(26:58):
those fans and for myself and my teammates. That's as
peer as it gets, and I'm not a skeptic of it.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
I respect it, nothing but respect for Kelsey.
Speaker 7 (27:05):
He's tremendous and I'm in some circles he is the
greatest head end to ever live or ever play the game.
I hope he's not making a big mistake in coming back,
because I mean, you ended in the Super Bowl, no
shame in that, and you lost to Philadelphia. This could
end worse for you next season if you try to
come back. And I've heard this before from older coaches,
if you're thinking about retirement, you already are so coming
(27:28):
back forward trying to finish it out. I get that,
and Kyle, I think you hit it right on the head.
You always want to try to finish it right in football,
but that rarely ever happens in the National Football League.
Speaker 8 (27:38):
I think he's making the right choice because the Chiefs
still have a good window here. And I also like
having players in the league that I like rooting for,
and he's easy to root for, so'm I speak for
all fans, mister Kelsey, thank you for coming back.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
And the first thing that stands out to me as
a former player is the accountability. I love that he
came out and didn't blame anybody else. He said I
wasn't at my best. I still think I can play
better than I did a year ago, but it was
my fault. I made a mistake here. I did things wrong.
Speaker 2 (28:03):
Right. I'm with josh on that, you know, I think he.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Is going to come back because he wants to end
on the right note and fans like watching that, right,
you want that superhero effect.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
But I will say this, you have two greats.
Speaker 6 (28:14):
And Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey, and now they have
extra motivation. So I don't know exactly what that means,
and they didn't need it, but now they have a
chance to make another run. And Travis Kelsey's going to
get right this offseason and have another go at it.
Speaker 3 (28:24):
At the end of the clip, he says, plays out
the contract that I signed. He's entering the final year
of that. So clearly he had a commitment in his
mind to Kansas City that he wanted to fulfill. The
Patrick Mahomes Travis Kelsey experience is one of the most
electric teammate battery combinations that you can see in terms
of pitcher and catcher. They are amazing and their friendship
is one that is covered internationally and I think it's
(28:45):
an amazing story that will continue to unfold.
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