November 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Manti Te’o, Mike Garafolo and Seth Rollins answering a Throwdown Thursday question - Do you trust Caleb Williams or Baker Mayfield more in a late-game situation? GOING FOR 2 - what are your expectations for Shedeur Sanders first start? Will Aaron Rodgers beat the Bears? Dolphins CB Jack Jones joins the show and talks about his clutch interception!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome inside our cornacopia of Thanksgiving celebration.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Look at we're so festive now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You have like a whole set set up in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Seth rawlins edible. No it's not. It's just the gold
pumped in. You should trying to bite it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Jamie Mansei, Mike Garrafola and Seth Frank and Rollins here.
We have a great games this weekend, which means that
we gotta line them up, as you just said, and
knock them down and throw down Thursday. Three topics football
to address like. Two former Oklahoma quarterbacks will be under
center for their respective teams in Week twelve, with both
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looking to.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Maintain their division lead.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The NFC South leading Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield
take on the Rams here in La right across the street,
and Caleb Williams and the NFC North leading Bears play
host to the Stealers.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It just sounds so good to Seth.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Both spoke to the media yesterday, Baker on his return
to SOFI and Caleb on the high stakes at hand.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's no way for me to you know, Sugcoat it
that was pivotal in my career, in my journey, I've
told you guys that helped me find the football or
the fund and football again. That joy and just getting
to learn from those guys something I'm forever grateful for.
And it'll be fun to go back and see some
familiar faces.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I don't ever flip into this is a higher state
game than the other. That's never my It's you know,
you know, you start you start following to that trap,
and you know, you start looking at records or you
start looking at you know, where teams are, where other
teams are, and where we're at, and you start comparing
and do all these different things, and so then you
start getting distracted with you know, where you want to
go and where you want to be. You know, each
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and every game, you know means the world. For that week.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That was a lot of words from myself to just
set up the fact that these guys were good in
college and now they get to play this weekend and
we want to talk about them, shall we? Who are
you taking if it comes down to a game winning
drive on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Because of what Caleb has done with the.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Bears this season, he's taken on the Steelers, or is
it Baker Mayfield all of his magic against the.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Rams man time.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I love Baker Mayfield, everybody knows that on this show.
But I don't think you can dismiss how Caleb Williams
has been playing late in game winning situations. Not only
Caleb Williams, but the Chicago Bears. Now, the Chicago Bears
right now are going to play the Steelers, and you
got the Bucks playing the Rams. So when I look
at this as an entire equation, not only how Caleb
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Williams is playing, how the Bears are playing as a
cohesive unit, special teams, and all of that against a
Steelers team who's defensively has a really good pass rush,
which Caleb Williams has seen to neutralize on most teams.
I got to give the nod to Caleb Williams. I
have been liking how he's been running around looking like Houdini.
Like I don't know, it's a little strange to me
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because he's been doing this for the past two years,
running around, but for some reason the past few weeks
it's just been looking spectacular. I mean, he did it
against the Giants, whose D line front is terrifying. Like
we've seen what that front has been able to do
with so many quarterbacks. Yet Caleb Williams scores a game
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winning touchdown against against the Giants to win the game,
and so I got.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
To go with Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Guys, Mike Gee, I'm sorry, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You know, my first knee jerk reaction was I just
remembering off the top of my head, like Baker's got
a bunch of them this year, and I look at you,
He's got four. It's like, oh, okay, Wow, you got
to go with that guy.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Caleb's got five.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I mean, this is incredible what he's been doing late
in games, which when you go back to Week one,
you say, oh, he was great early, but then he folded.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Down the stretch. So it's really tough, really tight. I
am going with Baker though.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The reason I'm going with Baker is I can't get
that thought out of my head about how he led
the comeback for the Rams when he got there like
five minutes before the game a couple of years ago
and had to figure out everything on the fly.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
In his ability to do that.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
That is about as difficult as it gets at any level, really,
but at the NFL level to be able to do it.
I know the Bucks aren't at full strength. And if
Mike Evans was there, and eventually he will be back,
you'd have a different thought about their receiving corps.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
But I'm going with my man, Baker.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
But man, it's closer than I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
So ah, with a tear in my eye. The Chicago
Beres defending first place in the NFC North and we're
a week away from Thanksgiving. I can't even believe. I
can't even believe what kind of timeline we're living in.
It's unbelievable. There is zero chance right now I'm taking
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Baker Mayfield, zero chance. I'm taking Caleb Williams, the cardiac kid,
the man who's got five come from behind wins in
the fourth quarter this season. He's a stud man. He's
a stud. You can say what you want about his
accuracy on the simple throw. Is holding onto the ball
too long when push comes to shove, when it is
crunch time. Put the ball in the kid's hands. He
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will make it happen. And I will tell you the difference, man, TI,
I will tell you the difference. So you said, He's
been doing this running around for the last two seasons.
This year he's making plays for some reason. That reason
is in Johnson. I am telling you the culture. I
know it's the clichest word in the book, but the
culture in Chicago is different. With Ben Johnson, the play
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calling is better than we have ever seen it as
a Chicago Bears fan. On offense, it is lights out.
He understands situational football. He understands win and how to
use those timeouts. He understands what it takes to put
his guys in the best.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Situation to win the game.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
And that's what you're seeing in Chicago. I am so
stoked on this team. I'm so excited as a fan
to have a competitive team at this point in the season.
Not only competitive but leading the division, leading the division.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
So I'm hyped.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
I'm never taking Baker Mayfield over Campblee. They ain't gonna happen, man, Todd,
you ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
You forgot one thing. What did I get?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's the belief, Like that's the number one thing that
I see when I watch the Bears. It's the belief
that Ben Johnson has instilled in this team. That no
matter how far down they are late in the fourth,
that there's a belief like we can still win this game.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
That's the thing, is that belief word.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
This is the longest stretch you've had that. I love
football too, right.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Oh my goodness, I love football so much this season.
I can't even believe how much I love football. I
can't even But you're right. That belief is a real thing.
That's a real thing. And as a fan, it's a
real thing. I'm telling you. We go into these games
every year as Bears team and I say, as a fan,
I'm like, there's no way they're gonna win this game.
There's no way they're gonna win. They get down, I'm like,
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there's no way they're gonna win this game inch by inch.
This season, Ben Johnson, even from a fan base perspective,
he's been pulling me along tooth and now he's saying, no,
we're gonna win. We're gonna win good, better, best, right,
And now I'm saying it now, I'm feeling it. So
that belief that that goes all the way from the
top down. Man, it's exciting to be advant in Chicago.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The second and final question on Throat on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, sometimes you kind of kind of see the
difference and you really got this actually might be the
most polar opposite of options that you guys are going
to have here for Throat on Thursday. Bill's Texans Tonight
for Thursday night Football.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So let's match up some weather between these two cities,
shall we.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
What would you rather deal with the elements of the
blizzards in Buffalo or the baking humidity in Houston?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Mantai, Okay, okay, okay, I need some I need some
specifications on this. So a blizzard in Buffalo, New York
usually means you're snowed in and you can't go anywhere.
And if that is the case, I don't like the humidity.
I lived in New Orleans for three years when I
played with the Saints. The humidity down there is insane.
It gets just walk outside if you have glass on
fogged up, it's over done. But I don't want to
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get trapped in my house in a blizzard in Buffalo,
New York, so I would go with the humidity of Houston.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
At least my ac can work and I can drive
our own places.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So that's that's where I got mag g as long
as I can get on my house.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Well, you know, I'm a Northeast guy by birth and
by raised that way, so you'd think i'd say, well,
the change of the seasons. And if you'd asked me
ten years ago, I probably would have said, I can.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Handle a blizzard, and in the winter, it's supposed to snow.
That's how it's what. But then I had kids, and
when the kids are home.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
On a snow day, it just ruins everything. And I
hate to say that as someone who rooted for snow
when he was younger.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Snow day, Yeah, let's go out and play. Now my
kids are like, can we go out in the snow?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Like, I've got things to do, I've got places to be,
and like I've seen it in Buffalo where it's up
to the top of the doorway and I'm thinking, they're
not getting out of their house for five six days.
Don't do that to me.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Maybe when they're older and out of the house, I
go back to love in the snow. But now that
that is like right there is getting me hard palpitations.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Hey, I understand this, Mike.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You as as a father, I get that you don't.
You don't want to be locked in with your kids
for too long. A right, we love them, We love them, Bob.
We can't be locked in them. We're there with him
for too long. So I understand that, right. But at
the end of the day, I can't be doing no
Houston humidity. I can't do it. I lived in Tampa
for a few years. I can't do it. Mantai. Hit
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the nail on the head. You got with the It's
not even the glasses, right, it's not just the glasses.
You walk out in a long sleeve shirt. You're trying
to dress nice for anything. Done over, hair gone huge
out to here? All right? You can't. You can't live
your life like that, man, you cannot live. I'm from
the Midwest, right, I'm from Iowa. You understand this, Jamie.
Snow is just part of it. It's part of the
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It's part of living, man. It's part of a good
winter experience, you know. And so we can deal with snow.
Snow is fine, it's cozy, it's good. You want me
to stay inside my house all day, two days, three days,
I'm in. I love my house.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I got a great house.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Put it, put the fire on. Let's watch some Christmas movies,
Let's get some hot cocoa, let's feel good about some things.
I don't need all that humidity. I don't need all
that sweat. I'm worried about sending my kid outside.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It's too hot.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
She's gonna get sunburned, she's gonna you know, it's dehydration.
It's a lot that could go wrong in that heat, right, Totally,
so I'm going with that blizzard totally.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I do think it might be the Midwestern things that's it.
I can't imagine what that man bott does in the humidity.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I don't want to know. You don't want to know.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
It is bad.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I like it too. I'd beel like you would have
used to pick the humidity.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I like a good reason to stay in my
house for several days now, So I think I would
go with the blizzard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You just like, you just prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Plus, if you're in Buffalo, you just get like takeout
wings delivered in advance before the blizzard sets in, and
you got them to reheat. You got fresh celery, the chop,
you got the ranch like, and it's all going to
work for days.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
That's what I know you must say it. You didn't
say check.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Throw it on Thursday. Dat your blue cheese. Until then,
let's find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
From Ann Rappaport and apparently once again we're going to
check in on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Yeah, we are, because Joe Burrow is starting to become
one of the more interesting stories in the NFL. Joe
Burrow opened his twenty one day window last week. It
was about two months from having sured you're tore pare
a Grade three turf toe and what everyone talked about
involved in the situation and wives, so that Burrow was
targeting Thanksgiving, but you know, probably more likely that December
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game the first week against the Bills. Well, he was
a full participant yesterday, which is a good sign that
things are going as the Cincinnati Bengals had hoped. And
just a couple of minutes ago, Zach Taylor was on
seven hundred WLW local radio and was asked point blank,
is there a chance Joe Burrow starts Sunday, not next Thursday,
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but this Sunday against the Patriots, And he simply said,
I don't know yet. In other words, there is actually
a chance that Joe Burrow starts on Sunday. But the
Bengals want to know is how he comes back in
the building today, basically, how sore is his foot after
yesterday's full participation.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Can he protect himself?
Speaker 11 (11:47):
Is it something where he's going to re injure himself
quickly or is there some ground where he can play
and be the Joe Burrow that we know and love,
even though his mobility will no doubt be limited. This
is a fascinating, fascinating story, and the fact that there's
at least a chance Burrow plays on Sunday is something
also a chance Aaron Rodgers plays on Sunday. Different injury,
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much less severe, though still a fractured left wrist for
Aaron Rodgers a small bone, but easy for me to say,
it's not my risk. Rogers is expected to practice today
after not practicing yesterday, so the most important thing for
him is whether or not he can protect himself. Paint
tolerance is not an issue. Rogers worth pushing to play for,
among the reasons that it is the Chicago Bears he
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is playing, And as he said yesterday, I have enjoyed
many a Sunday, Monday Thursday in that city. It is
a great Sports Town, never mind the fact that he
beats them all the time. And then one other massive
storyline for this Sunday, the moment everyone has been waiting
for it. When I say everyone, I mean the entire world.
Shadoor Sanders is going to start. Dylan Gabriels in the
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Kickcushy protocol, not how you want to get the starting.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Job, but it's the NFL.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Sometimes that happens.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Shadoor Sanders is going to start. He's going to get
a full week of reps with the Ones, the first
time that has happened.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's going to have a.
Speaker 11 (13:02):
Game plan tailor to him, and he is going to
be out there the startest question to prove that he
is the franchise quarterback for the Browns.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Does that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Be among the six hundred million people watching the Browns
this Sunday.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Shu Sanders is getting his first NFL start on Sunday
against the Raiders, which is now a key moment for
the rookie quarterback. Yesterday, at his press conference, Sanders shared
his excitement with the media about the big day ahead.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
I know a lot of y'all gonna be there. I
know you can't miss it. You cannot miss this moment.
It'll be definitely exciting. We're going out there with a purpose,
going out there mentally ready, no distractions, know anything. I'm
doing everything I need to to prepare to be the
best version of myself as possible. With the circumstances. Everything
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gotta be sped up, and that's great. You know, I
like pressure in life. I'm just excited for everything. So
you know, I feel like I'm the god. I know
I'm the god, but you know, you just have to
be able to see.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
People have said so much about that young man, but
boy does he have an infectious smile. It has not
changed in all of the coverage on Shador Sanders. Sanders
will become the forty second starting quarterback for the Browns
franchise this Sunday. Adam to the list, put him on
the sweatshirt. He's going to make a name for himself.
What do we guys think of what this moment will
be like for him?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Manti, I know he's excited and he should be. I
know everybody's excited as well. I'm excited for the young man.
I'm really excited to see how he's able to manage
a game, an NFL game during the season. We saw
some glimpse of him in the preseason, and he did
extremely well in that first preseason game. But guys in
the NFL know this, Like the game preseason, the speed,
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it's totally different during the season, and then as you
inch closer towards December and January, the speed of the
game increases. And so he's coming into a time where
people are playing at a level and at speed he
hasn't seen yet. Now he's going to have a full
week of preparation. I mean, I'm glad that he has
that because now it's like, okay, show us what you
can do. As far as what I want to see,
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I don't have any expectations as far as what I
want to see. What I don't want to see is
that little celebration he does. What I don't want to see.
I hope that he just continues to have this selfless
persona that he's shown so far, like really team oriented,
be the leader in there, be calm, be collected. I
think as long as he makes it about the Cleveland
Browns and not about Shadur Sanders, I think he would
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be just fine, because I think coming in there trying
to establish yourself as a leader, the last thing you
want to do is make it all about you. Like
the crowd wants it to be all about you, the
fans want it to be all about you. But your
teammates want all wants it all about to be the Browns.
And so for Chardure, my own thing is keep it
about the team, keep about the.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Browns, and get the win, and you'll be just fine.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I don't know, man time, if he throws a touchdown,
I think you kind of see the celebration and maybe
I'm just saying, you prepare yourself. Listen, you don't change
your stripes overnight. Okay, So I'm not saying it's a
bad thing.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I'm just saying I would expect that if he does something,
he's gonna make sure he's letting you know he's enjoying it. Jamie,
you mentioned it forty second starting quarterback for the Cleveland
brown since nineteen ninety nine. I asked research. I said,
you know, how does this stack up? Like give me
whoew seth cover your ears? Because the Bears and Commanders
are tied for second with thirty.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Like it's not even close. It's forty two and then thirty.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Now you've probably wondered who's at the bottom of the list.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Seth cover your ears again.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Just the Green Bay Packers have only eight quarterbacks since
nineteen ninety nine to start a game.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Incredible, and some of.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Those were like week seventeen, we don't even need this game,
so we'll just throw Matt Flynn in or whoever it
wound up being. So that being said, what I want
to see is Shadora Sanders make a case to be.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Like we could stop at forty two.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I can be the guy. But what he's gonna have
to do is one of the knocks on him in
the draft process when you talk to scouts in personnel guys,
he kind of like sort of drifted out through the
back of the pocket and really didn't hang in there,
like that's gonna happen right there, somebody's coming right down
the barrel right at your mugg and what you're gonna
have to do is stand your ground and deliver a
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football to your own guy. See that right there? Like
that was sort of the knock on him that he
did a little bit too much of that and he
held the ball a little too long. It's got to
come out quick, and it's got to come out set
in the face of a guy who's gonna try to
spear you. Who's the best spearer in the history of
the ww'no that off the top of my head.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh, don't work, that's the guy.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Don't work.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Learn. Okay, that's a good one. He's got a good one.
I mean, there's something a lot of spears out there, Edge, Roman, Reigns,
bron Breaker. I've been on the receiving end of a
lot of these spears. I don't know who's the best.
To be fair, I'll tell you who's got a pretty
good spear in the NFL, though, and that's Max Crosby.
That's Max Crosby. And he's gonna be on the other
side of that game, and he's gonna be eyeball in
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Sdeur Sanders and he cannot wait to get after Shadi Sanders.
Let me tell you, he wants Shadi Sanders to back
up in that pocket. He is going to catch him.
He's gonna spear him. He's gonna do whatever he has
to do to get him on the ground. And that's
going to be a task for Shadier Sanders. I don't
care if you've got a week to prepare. I don't
care if you've got a year to prepare. Max Crosby
is unpreparable for I don't know if that's work, but
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that's what we're at and what I want to see
out of Chadoor and maybe it's not him. What I
want to see is how his team responds to him,
because you see quarterbacks come in in these situations. A
good example of this earlier in the year, Jackson Dart
comes in in place of Russell Williams, and you see
how the team in New York rallied around Jackson Dart, right,
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they were excited to play with this dude. Now, I
don't know. I'm not in the Cleveland locker room. I
don't know how they feel about Shadir Sanders. I know
he rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But
when he's on your side, sometimes that confidence rubs off
and we like that swagger, but sometimes it rubs people
the wrong way. It rubs veterans the wrong way. It's
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got people feeling like, oh, you think this is about you,
you think you're the star of the show. Okay, Well,
I don't care about playing for you. You're not gonna
make this a team game, like Manti said, If you're
not gonna make this a team game, you're gonna make
this about you, then I'll take my foot off the gas.
So I'm curious to see how this team responds playing
with and for Shadear Sanders. That's gonna be That's gonna
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be my tell what's it going to look like going forward?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
In the case of Shador Sanders, perhaps receiving the business
from Max Crosby, he probably does run scout team though
against Miles Garrett, so he does an old thing or
two maybe about some of those guys messing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
With him in the backfield. Moving on on, going for two.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
If Aaron Rodgers is good to go following this wrist
injury he suffered last weekend, Rogers and the Steelers will
be traveling to play the Chicago Bears in Chicago, place
that Rodgers is quite familiar with.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Therefore, naturally, he was.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Asked his thought on the matchup, and here's.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What he had to say.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
There's incentive for every opponent, but I have enjoyed many
a Sunday and Monday and thursdays in that city. It's
a great sports town, phenomenal sports fans, and great place
to play.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He really chose to say a great place to play
and not just a great place to win, which could
have been easy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Lee understood from Rogers.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Seth Rollins has just been like grunting and growling across
the table for me ever since we even I can't
take it all right, Rogers commands, the city of Chicago
is a great place to go and play, and they're
phenomenal sports fans. What do we think about Rogers and
that man si sly little smirk that he had during
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that delivery.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I'm gonna keep mine' brief because I want to hear
what Seth you got to say. I think that he's
a great promoter right now. He's being a very very
good promoter at the game. He's getting everybody riled up.
And with that, Mike g I'll pat to you so
that you could pass it to Seth.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah, I'll be brief too, but I'll tee you upset
with something from his own world, which is a lot
of times you get the mic in the middle of
the ring and you're talking to somebody and you're buttering
them up, and you're saying how great they are. And
then as soon as they Bamnam just getting the sneak
attack right in the middle of the ring.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
There.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
That's what that feels like, right there.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
This guy, this guy, this guy, man, this guy, he's
just always you know what it's there's so many things.
There's so many things. I don't even know where to begin.
I'll tell you where I to begin. I hope that
his little wrist is okay, all right. I hope that
he suits up this Sunday in Chicago, because this is
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not the same Bears team that he has faced years
and years and years and years in Chicago. This is
not the same and he's not on the same team
that he was in Green Bay. This Steelers team is
not those Packers teams. And he is not the same
Aaron Rodgers that he's always been. Right he's on the
backside of his career. So I hope, I hope that
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he shows up in Chicago with that game. That'll some
gigs Sunday. It's some gid Menursday. Why don't you throw
some Saturdays in there too. I'm sure you had some
saturdays in Chicago that are real nice as well. All right,
throw it all in there. That's fine, And I'll tell
you what. This is gonna be a different story, right,
You're going to get the first place Chicago Bears. This
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is two first place teams going head to head in Chicago.
Ben Johnson's gonna stick to you, man. Then this sound's
gonna find a way to blitz and drop you on
your back. I swear, I swear We're not gonna come
out of here next week having the same conversation about
about Aaron Rodgers owning the Chicago Bears. He's gonna be
giving up his ownership, all right. He's gonna be seating
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that ownership finally back to somebody who deserves it. He't
don't deserve it. Okay, he didn't deserve it. I'm sticking.
Don't give me that. You gotta put a caption in there,
caps in there.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Everybody knows.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Everybody knows Aaron Rodgers fields.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
You made A good point, Mike Gee, if you want
to put this in the wrestling sphere. Every hero needs
a good villain, every baby face needs a good heel.
Aaron Rodgers is the perfect heel, the perfect foil for
the baby faces of twenty twenty five. The Chicago Bears.
Now's our time, Chicago, rally up and take down this scumbag.
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Let's go bare dow, bare dow.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I mean god, he's just in the three p sixty here, seth.
You got him back there over your left shoulder, your
left injured shoulder.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I got him here over r right.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
What's he doing back there?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Put him away, sling it, put.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Him away, put him, get him on, get him out.
He I'm talking about him.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
That was me? Jo?
Speaker 8 (23:51):
What he's me?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Ja plays back to trol looking tros.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Thirty five five, Jack golts Jack Jones with the interception, Ari.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
On the throne right to him, like Jack Jones just
got like in front of his tight end.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Hurts pits it off, Jack Jones's first interception of the season.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
And what a better time to have that?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What a better time is right than then?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Jack jones overtime pick set the table for the Dolphins
win in Madrid.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And he's here or at the table.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Fresh off of Oma Magie. What I can't believe you're
here on a bye week. You're seventeen times was away
from that interception.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
How are you feeling finely good?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We're so glad to see you so Jack you Uh,
it's great to see you here, but it was even
better to see you on the sideline of that game
because you had that pick and I was very lucky
just have been standing there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You ran right by me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
In your face, you were like seventeen times where Juice
is smiling. He was it a relief not only in
that game but also for you personally after what's probably
been like a really challenging season.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Oh yeah, I think it.
Speaker 14 (25:09):
Was a relief, you know, really for the game because
when we went into overtime, it was a couple of
times in the game where it started leaning their way
a little bit. It was a little worried, but you know,
we we we stayed together as a team. And that
player right there, it just kind of sealed it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We got it.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
You're in Madrid, Real Madrid, Christiano Ronaldo, the legendary soccer player.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
You hit the Ronaldo celebration. Was that a spur of
the moment.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Did you have that plan going in?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Yeah? I had that plan going there. I had to
make sure I hit that.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
I knew I was gonna make a play that day,
and I was like, when I do that's gonna be
the celebration.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But that wasn't the only thing, Jack, that you had planned,
because according to Jordan Brooks, you said that you called
your shot.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
What did you say to like, what happened? What does
he mean by that?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Noah?
Speaker 14 (25:59):
Yeah, So when overtime came, JB lee in the league
and tackles right now and just when you watch this film, man,
he he flying around the field making plays. So I
went up to him and I told him myself, Look, JB,
if you stopped the run, you're gonna throw me a pick.
Like I felt like I should have had a couple
of picks throughout the game. But I'm like, JB, if
you stopped to run, he's gonna throw me a pick.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Catch it, Like that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So Jack, just listening to you real quick and referencing
Jordan Brooks like we had him in a production meeting
before the game.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That guy is so.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Serious, he's so locked in. You guys have a very
different personality. Do you mess with him just to try
to loosen him up?
Speaker 14 (26:36):
Yeah, for sure, JB my dog, But he got like
a dad attitude. He got like a dad. You know,
he's always serious. It's always Bob. But we need that,
you know, especially from our leader and the guy who's
running the defense, so we need that.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Well what did he say after? Did he say anything
after to you?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
After you up? He just we were just all celebrating.
It was it was all smile. That was just like
a dad.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
How was Madrid for you? I mean, I want to
talk about it from a preparation standpoint, because, like you know,
your creature of habit right as we all are as athletes,
we want to like lock in kind of do the
same thing over and over and over. But traveling overseas
whole different ballgames. So how did you guys prepare and
what's it like going overseas to have to play a game?
Like from a mental standpoint or a preparation standpoint.
Speaker 14 (27:29):
It's a little different because you know, overseas the time
change kind of get to you, so you're a little
jet like the first couple of days. But you got
to fight through that and find a way to have
a good practice because you know, the things that you
do in practice leads to the game.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
So we can't have sloppy practices.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
So we were just going out there trying to stay
together and make sure everybody was locked in, you know,
during the practice locked in and meetings, locked.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
In on their assignments.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
And when Sunday come, you know, there's no question what
to do or any hesitation.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Go out there and make full speed decisions.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Jack's been the year of clutch plays for you. Let's
go back to the play that you made against the
Jets week four, when you punch the ball out at
the goal line, brailn All and take us through that play,
because that wound up being a huge swing in that game.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Yeah. So we was in a man car and I
had to my man my fit.
Speaker 14 (28:16):
I was in the A gap and at first I thought,
you know, they wasn't gonna block me. I was gonna
shoot the A gap because usually lineman on account for corners.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
In the box.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
So I thought I was going to shoot through and
make the tackle on the back football. When I shot
the gap, my man actually came and blocked me.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But I don't know. I just wasn't done yet. I
didn't want to give.
Speaker 14 (28:34):
Up on a play. So I turned around, found the ball,
punched at it, and you know, luckily he was reaching
for the end zone. He had too much dip on
his chip. But you know I pushed it out and
you know it was a good play.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Well well, Jack, we talked a little bit before this
segment even started, and we talked about how the season
started for you guys and then now it just seems
to turn.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
And you brought up, yeah, we got the juice. Now,
when did that juice start? From your perspective in that
locker room? When did that juice start? What happened?
Speaker 14 (29:07):
I wouldn't put a day on it, but it was
just like throughout the whole year, we knew it was
a good team, and it was something missing, Like, you know,
the games that we was losing, It was close games
and we felt like we could have came out, you know,
victorious in those games. But it was just something in
a building where it was like, we know we got it,
but we gotta find it.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
And once we find it.
Speaker 14 (29:29):
You know, we're not gonna let it go and we're
gonna capitalize on it. And I just think that's where
we're at. But I don't I don't know which day
or which game it was that really had that spark.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, Jack, I now I'm going to become really self
conscious about having too much dip on my chip moving.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Forward, like, is that an insult of compliments? I can't
tell what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Nah, it's just a he tried to do too much.
You know, on the go line, you gotta just run
it in.
Speaker 14 (29:57):
And you know, I mean he was in traffic, it
would be different than you know it.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Was on the sideline.
Speaker 14 (30:01):
You yeah, maybe one player around, but you in the
middle of with ten guys around, you don't want to
be reaching the ball out light, So you know that's
too much different.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Hits every time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Dolphins have been really fun to watch this month and
the season for the defense at least a lot. A
lot has to do with you. Jack Jones, friend of
our show. You're gonna come back next season again.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
In sext offseason.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Absolutely, I'm gonna come back every time.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
There we go, right, a local boy.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He's in town because it's the bye and this is
how he's spending it. Six fifty one am Pacific and
Jack Jones is sitting in a red chair on GMFP.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Look at him. Go awesome to have you man,
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome inside our cornacopia of Thanksgiving celebration.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Look at we're so festive now.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
You have like a whole set set up in front
of you.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Seth rawlins edible. No it's not. It's just the gold
pumped in. You should trying to bite it.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Jamie Mansei, Mike Garrafola and Seth Frank and Rollins here.
We have a great games this weekend, which means that
we gotta line them up, as you just said, and
knock them down and throw down Thursday. Three topics football
to address like. Two former Oklahoma quarterbacks will be under
center for their respective teams in Week twelve, with both
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looking to.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Maintain their division lead.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
The NFC South leading Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Baker Mayfield
take on the Rams here in La right across the street,
and Caleb Williams and the NFC North leading Bears play
host to the Stealers.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
It just sounds so good to Seth.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Both spoke to the media yesterday, Baker on his return
to SOFI and Caleb on the high stakes at hand.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There's no way for me to you know, Sugcoat it
that was pivotal in my career, in my journey, I've
told you guys that helped me find the football or
the fund and football again. That joy and just getting
to learn from those guys something I'm forever grateful for.
And it'll be fun to go back and see some
familiar faces.
Speaker 5 (01:22):
I don't ever flip into this is a higher state
game than the other. That's never my It's you know,
you know, you start you start following to that trap,
and you know, you start looking at records or you
start looking at you know, where teams are, where other
teams are, and where we're at, and you start comparing
and do all these different things, and so then you
start getting distracted with you know, where you want to
go and where you want to be. You know, each
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and every game, you know means the world. For that week.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
That was a lot of words from myself to just
set up the fact that these guys were good in
college and now they get to play this weekend and
we want to talk about them, shall we? Who are
you taking if it comes down to a game winning
drive on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Because of what Caleb has done with the.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Bears this season, he's taken on the Steelers, or is
it Baker Mayfield all of his magic against the.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Rams man time.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
I love Baker Mayfield, everybody knows that on this show.
But I don't think you can dismiss how Caleb Williams
has been playing late in game winning situations. Not only
Caleb Williams, but the Chicago Bears. Now, the Chicago Bears
right now are going to play the Steelers, and you
got the Bucks playing the Rams. So when I look
at this as an entire equation, not only how Caleb
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Williams is playing, how the Bears are playing as a
cohesive unit, special teams, and all of that against a
Steelers team who's defensively has a really good pass rush,
which Caleb Williams has seen to neutralize on most teams.
I got to give the nod to Caleb Williams. I
have been liking how he's been running around looking like Houdini.
Like I don't know, it's a little strange to me
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because he's been doing this for the past two years,
running around, but for some reason the past few weeks
it's just been looking spectacular. I mean, he did it
against the Giants, whose D line front is terrifying. Like
we've seen what that front has been able to do
with so many quarterbacks. Yet Caleb Williams scores a game
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winning touchdown against against the Giants to win the game,
and so I got.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
To go with Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
Guys, Mike Gee, I'm sorry, that's where I'm going.
Speaker 7 (03:16):
You know, my first knee jerk reaction was I just
remembering off the top of my head, like Baker's got
a bunch of them this year, and I look at you,
He's got four. It's like, oh, okay, Wow, you got
to go with that guy.
Speaker 8 (03:26):
Caleb's got five.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
I mean, this is incredible what he's been doing late
in games, which when you go back to Week one,
you say, oh, he was great early, but then he folded.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
Down the stretch. So it's really tough, really tight. I
am going with Baker though.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
The reason I'm going with Baker is I can't get
that thought out of my head about how he led
the comeback for the Rams when he got there like
five minutes before the game a couple of years ago
and had to figure out everything on the fly.
Speaker 8 (03:49):
In his ability to do that.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
That is about as difficult as it gets at any level, really,
but at the NFL level to be able to do it.
I know the Bucks aren't at full strength. And if
Mike Evans was there, and eventually he will be back,
you'd have a different thought about their receiving corps.
Speaker 8 (04:03):
But I'm going with my man, Baker.
Speaker 7 (04:05):
But man, it's closer than I thought it was going
to be.
Speaker 9 (04:07):
So ah, with a tear in my eye. The Chicago
Beres defending first place in the NFC North and we're
a week away from Thanksgiving. I can't even believe. I
can't even believe what kind of timeline we're living in.
It's unbelievable. There is zero chance right now I'm taking
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Baker Mayfield, zero chance. I'm taking Caleb Williams, the cardiac kid,
the man who's got five come from behind wins in
the fourth quarter this season. He's a stud man. He's
a stud. You can say what you want about his
accuracy on the simple throw. Is holding onto the ball
too long when push comes to shove, when it is
crunch time. Put the ball in the kid's hands. He
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will make it happen. And I will tell you the difference, man, TI,
I will tell you the difference. So you said, He's
been doing this running around for the last two seasons.
This year he's making plays for some reason. That reason
is in Johnson. I am telling you the culture. I
know it's the clichest word in the book, but the
culture in Chicago is different. With Ben Johnson, the play
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calling is better than we have ever seen it as
a Chicago Bears fan. On offense, it is lights out.
He understands situational football. He understands win and how to
use those timeouts. He understands what it takes to put
his guys in the best.
Speaker 8 (05:31):
Situation to win the game.
Speaker 9 (05:33):
And that's what you're seeing in Chicago. I am so
stoked on this team. I'm so excited as a fan
to have a competitive team at this point in the season.
Not only competitive but leading the division, leading the division.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
So I'm hyped.
Speaker 9 (05:46):
I'm never taking Baker Mayfield over Campblee. They ain't gonna happen, man, Todd,
you ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 8 (05:51):
You forgot one thing. What did I get?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
That's the belief, Like that's the number one thing that
I see when I watch the Bears. It's the belief
that Ben Johnson has instilled in this team. That no
matter how far down they are late in the fourth,
that there's a belief like we can still win this game.
Speaker 8 (06:05):
That's the thing, is that belief word.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
This is the longest stretch you've had that. I love
football too, right.
Speaker 9 (06:11):
Oh my goodness, I love football so much this season.
I can't even believe how much I love football. I
can't even But you're right. That belief is a real thing.
That's a real thing. And as a fan, it's a
real thing. I'm telling you. We go into these games
every year as Bears team and I say, as a fan,
I'm like, there's no way they're gonna win this game.
There's no way they're gonna win. They get down, I'm like,
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there's no way they're gonna win this game inch by inch.
This season, Ben Johnson, even from a fan base perspective,
he's been pulling me along tooth and now he's saying, no,
we're gonna win. We're gonna win good, better, best, right,
And now I'm saying it now, I'm feeling it. So
that belief that that goes all the way from the
top down. Man, it's exciting to be advant in Chicago.
I love it.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
The second and final question on Throat on Thursday.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
You know, sometimes you kind of kind of see the
difference and you really got this actually might be the
most polar opposite of options that you guys are going
to have here for Throat on Thursday. Bill's Texans Tonight
for Thursday night Football.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
So let's match up some weather between these two cities,
shall we.
Speaker 10 (07:07):
What would you rather deal with the elements of the
blizzards in Buffalo or the baking humidity in Houston?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Mantai, Okay, okay, okay, I need some I need some
specifications on this. So a blizzard in Buffalo, New York
usually means you're snowed in and you can't go anywhere.
And if that is the case, I don't like the humidity.
I lived in New Orleans for three years when I
played with the Saints. The humidity down there is insane.
It gets just walk outside if you have glass on
fogged up, it's over done. But I don't want to
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get trapped in my house in a blizzard in Buffalo,
New York, so I would go with the humidity of Houston.
Speaker 8 (07:49):
At least my ac can work and I can drive
our own places.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So that's that's where I got mag g as long
as I can get on my house.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Well, you know, I'm a Northeast guy by birth and
by raised that way, so you'd think i'd say, well,
the change of the seasons. And if you'd asked me
ten years ago, I probably would have said, I can.
Speaker 8 (08:07):
Handle a blizzard, and in the winter, it's supposed to snow.
That's how it's what. But then I had kids, and
when the kids are home.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
On a snow day, it just ruins everything. And I
hate to say that as someone who rooted for snow
when he was younger.
Speaker 8 (08:22):
Snow day, Yeah, let's go out and play. Now my
kids are like, can we go out in the snow?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Like, I've got things to do, I've got places to be,
and like I've seen it in Buffalo where it's up
to the top of the doorway and I'm thinking, they're
not getting out of their house for five six days.
Don't do that to me.
Speaker 6 (08:39):
I can't.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Maybe when they're older and out of the house, I
go back to love in the snow. But now that
that is like right there is getting me hard palpitations.
Speaker 8 (08:48):
Hey, I understand this, Mike.
Speaker 9 (08:49):
You as as a father, I get that you don't.
You don't want to be locked in with your kids
for too long. A right, we love them, We love them, Bob.
We can't be locked in them. We're there with him
for too long. So I understand that, right. But at
the end of the day, I can't be doing no
Houston humidity. I can't do it. I lived in Tampa
for a few years. I can't do it. Mantai. Hit
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the nail on the head. You got with the It's
not even the glasses, right, it's not just the glasses.
You walk out in a long sleeve shirt. You're trying
to dress nice for anything. Done over, hair gone huge
out to here? All right? You can't. You can't live
your life like that, man, you cannot live. I'm from
the Midwest, right, I'm from Iowa. You understand this, Jamie.
Snow is just part of it. It's part of the
(09:31):
It's part of living, man. It's part of a good
winter experience, you know. And so we can deal with snow.
Snow is fine, it's cozy, it's good. You want me
to stay inside my house all day, two days, three days,
I'm in. I love my house.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
I got a great house.
Speaker 9 (09:46):
Put it, put the fire on. Let's watch some Christmas movies,
Let's get some hot cocoa, let's feel good about some things.
I don't need all that humidity. I don't need all
that sweat. I'm worried about sending my kid outside.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
It's too hot.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
She's gonna get sunburned, she's gonna you know, it's dehydration.
It's a lot that could go wrong in that heat, right, Totally,
so I'm going with that blizzard totally.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Me too.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
I do think it might be the Midwestern things that's it.
I can't imagine what that man bott does in the humidity.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
I don't want to know. You don't want to know.
Speaker 8 (10:14):
It is bad.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I like it too. I'd beel like you would have
used to pick the humidity.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
But I like a good reason to stay in my
house for several days now, So I think I would
go with the blizzard.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
You just like, you just prepare for it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Plus, if you're in Buffalo, you just get like takeout
wings delivered in advance before the blizzard sets in, and
you got them to reheat. You got fresh celery, the chop,
you got the ranch like, and it's all going to
work for days.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
That's what I know you must say it. You didn't
say check.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Throw it on Thursday. Dat your blue cheese. Until then,
let's find out what's going on.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
From Ann Rappaport and apparently once again we're going to
check in on Joe Burrow.
Speaker 11 (10:48):
Yeah, we are, because Joe Burrow is starting to become
one of the more interesting stories in the NFL. Joe
Burrow opened his twenty one day window last week. It
was about two months from having sured you're tore pare
a Grade three turf toe and what everyone talked about
involved in the situation and wives, so that Burrow was
targeting Thanksgiving, but you know, probably more likely that December
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game the first week against the Bills. Well, he was
a full participant yesterday, which is a good sign that
things are going as the Cincinnati Bengals had hoped. And
just a couple of minutes ago, Zach Taylor was on
seven hundred WLW local radio and was asked point blank,
is there a chance Joe Burrow starts Sunday, not next Thursday,
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but this Sunday against the Patriots, And he simply said,
I don't know yet. In other words, there is actually
a chance that Joe Burrow starts on Sunday. But the
Bengals want to know is how he comes back in
the building today, basically, how sore is his foot after
yesterday's full participation.
Speaker 9 (11:45):
Can he protect himself?
Speaker 11 (11:47):
Is it something where he's going to re injure himself
quickly or is there some ground where he can play
and be the Joe Burrow that we know and love,
even though his mobility will no doubt be limited. This
is a fascinating, fascinating story, and the fact that there's
at least a chance Burrow plays on Sunday is something
also a chance Aaron Rodgers plays on Sunday. Different injury,
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much less severe, though still a fractured left wrist for
Aaron Rodgers a small bone, but easy for me to say,
it's not my risk. Rogers is expected to practice today
after not practicing yesterday, so the most important thing for
him is whether or not he can protect himself. Paint
tolerance is not an issue. Rogers worth pushing to play for,
among the reasons that it is the Chicago Bears he
(12:30):
is playing, And as he said yesterday, I have enjoyed
many a Sunday, Monday Thursday in that city. It is
a great Sports Town, never mind the fact that he
beats them all the time. And then one other massive
storyline for this Sunday, the moment everyone has been waiting
for it. When I say everyone, I mean the entire world.
Shadoor Sanders is going to start. Dylan Gabriels in the
(12:51):
Kickcushy protocol, not how you want to get the starting.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Job, but it's the NFL.
Speaker 9 (12:54):
Sometimes that happens.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Shadoor Sanders is going to start. He's going to get
a full week of reps with the Ones, the first
time that has happened.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
He's going to have a.
Speaker 11 (13:02):
Game plan tailor to him, and he is going to
be out there the startest question to prove that he
is the franchise quarterback for the Browns.
Speaker 9 (13:09):
Does that happen? I don't know.
Speaker 11 (13:11):
Be among the six hundred million people watching the Browns
this Sunday.
Speaker 3 (13:18):
Welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 2 (13:19):
Shu Sanders is getting his first NFL start on Sunday
against the Raiders, which is now a key moment for
the rookie quarterback. Yesterday, at his press conference, Sanders shared
his excitement with the media about the big day ahead.
Speaker 12 (13:32):
I know a lot of y'all gonna be there. I
know you can't miss it. You cannot miss this moment.
It'll be definitely exciting. We're going out there with a purpose,
going out there mentally ready, no distractions, know anything. I'm
doing everything I need to to prepare to be the
best version of myself as possible. With the circumstances. Everything
(13:53):
gotta be sped up, and that's great. You know, I
like pressure in life. I'm just excited for everything. So
you know, I feel like I'm the god. I know
I'm the god, but you know, you just have to
be able to see.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
People have said so much about that young man, but
boy does he have an infectious smile. It has not
changed in all of the coverage on Shador Sanders. Sanders
will become the forty second starting quarterback for the Browns
franchise this Sunday. Adam to the list, put him on
the sweatshirt. He's going to make a name for himself.
What do we guys think of what this moment will
be like for him?
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Manti, I know he's excited and he should be. I
know everybody's excited as well. I'm excited for the young man.
I'm really excited to see how he's able to manage
a game, an NFL game during the season. We saw
some glimpse of him in the preseason, and he did
extremely well in that first preseason game. But guys in
the NFL know this, Like the game preseason, the speed,
(14:47):
it's totally different during the season, and then as you
inch closer towards December and January, the speed of the
game increases. And so he's coming into a time where
people are playing at a level and at speed he
hasn't seen yet. Now he's going to have a full
week of preparation. I mean, I'm glad that he has
that because now it's like, okay, show us what you
can do. As far as what I want to see,
(15:08):
I don't have any expectations as far as what I
want to see. What I don't want to see is
that little celebration he does. What I don't want to see.
I hope that he just continues to have this selfless
persona that he's shown so far, like really team oriented,
be the leader in there, be calm, be collected. I
think as long as he makes it about the Cleveland
Browns and not about Shadur Sanders, I think he would
(15:30):
be just fine, because I think coming in there trying
to establish yourself as a leader, the last thing you
want to do is make it all about you. Like
the crowd wants it to be all about you, the
fans want it to be all about you. But your
teammates want all wants it all about to be the Browns.
And so for Chardure, my own thing is keep it
about the team, keep about the.
Speaker 8 (15:49):
Browns, and get the win, and you'll be just fine.
Speaker 7 (15:53):
I don't know, man time, if he throws a touchdown,
I think you kind of see the celebration and maybe
I'm just saying, you prepare yourself. Listen, you don't change
your stripes overnight. Okay, So I'm not saying it's a
bad thing.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
I'm gonna say.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
I'm just saying I would expect that if he does something,
he's gonna make sure he's letting you know he's enjoying it. Jamie,
you mentioned it forty second starting quarterback for the Cleveland
brown since nineteen ninety nine. I asked research. I said,
you know, how does this stack up? Like give me
whoew seth cover your ears? Because the Bears and Commanders
are tied for second with thirty.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Like it's not even close. It's forty two and then thirty.
Speaker 7 (16:34):
Now you've probably wondered who's at the bottom of the list.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Seth cover your ears again.
Speaker 7 (16:39):
Just the Green Bay Packers have only eight quarterbacks since
nineteen ninety nine to start a game.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Incredible, and some of.
Speaker 7 (16:47):
Those were like week seventeen, we don't even need this game,
so we'll just throw Matt Flynn in or whoever it
wound up being. So that being said, what I want
to see is Shadora Sanders make a case to be.
Speaker 8 (16:57):
Like we could stop at forty two.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
I can be the guy. But what he's gonna have
to do is one of the knocks on him in
the draft process when you talk to scouts in personnel guys,
he kind of like sort of drifted out through the
back of the pocket and really didn't hang in there,
like that's gonna happen right there, somebody's coming right down
the barrel right at your mugg and what you're gonna
have to do is stand your ground and deliver a
(17:20):
football to your own guy. See that right there? Like
that was sort of the knock on him that he
did a little bit too much of that and he
held the ball a little too long. It's got to
come out quick, and it's got to come out set
in the face of a guy who's gonna try to
spear you. Who's the best spearer in the history of
the ww'no that off the top of my head.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
Oh, don't work, that's the guy.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
Don't work.
Speaker 9 (17:39):
Learn. Okay, that's a good one. He's got a good one.
I mean, there's something a lot of spears out there, Edge, Roman, Reigns,
bron Breaker. I've been on the receiving end of a
lot of these spears. I don't know who's the best.
To be fair, I'll tell you who's got a pretty
good spear in the NFL, though, and that's Max Crosby.
That's Max Crosby. And he's gonna be on the other
side of that game, and he's gonna be eyeball in
(18:01):
Sdeur Sanders and he cannot wait to get after Shadi Sanders.
Let me tell you, he wants Shadi Sanders to back
up in that pocket. He is going to catch him.
He's gonna spear him. He's gonna do whatever he has
to do to get him on the ground. And that's
going to be a task for Shadier Sanders. I don't
care if you've got a week to prepare. I don't
care if you've got a year to prepare. Max Crosby
is unpreparable for I don't know if that's work, but
(18:24):
that's what we're at and what I want to see
out of Chadoor and maybe it's not him. What I
want to see is how his team responds to him,
because you see quarterbacks come in in these situations. A
good example of this earlier in the year, Jackson Dart
comes in in place of Russell Williams, and you see
how the team in New York rallied around Jackson Dart, right,
(18:48):
they were excited to play with this dude. Now, I
don't know. I'm not in the Cleveland locker room. I
don't know how they feel about Shadir Sanders. I know
he rubs a lot of people the wrong way. But
when he's on your side, sometimes that confidence rubs off
and we like that swagger, but sometimes it rubs people
the wrong way. It rubs veterans the wrong way. It's
(19:10):
got people feeling like, oh, you think this is about you,
you think you're the star of the show. Okay, Well,
I don't care about playing for you. You're not gonna
make this a team game, like Manti said, If you're
not gonna make this a team game, you're gonna make
this about you, then I'll take my foot off the gas.
So I'm curious to see how this team responds playing
with and for Shadear Sanders. That's gonna be That's gonna
(19:33):
be my tell what's it going to look like going forward?
Speaker 2 (19:36):
In the case of Shador Sanders, perhaps receiving the business
from Max Crosby, he probably does run scout team though
against Miles Garrett, so he does an old thing or
two maybe about some of those guys messing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
With him in the backfield. Moving on on, going for two.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
If Aaron Rodgers is good to go following this wrist
injury he suffered last weekend, Rogers and the Steelers will
be traveling to play the Chicago Bears in Chicago, place
that Rodgers is quite familiar with.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Therefore, naturally, he was.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
Asked his thought on the matchup, and here's.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What he had to say.
Speaker 13 (20:07):
There's incentive for every opponent, but I have enjoyed many
a Sunday and Monday and thursdays in that city. It's
a great sports town, phenomenal sports fans, and great place
to play.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
He really chose to say a great place to play
and not just a great place to win, which could
have been easy.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
Lee understood from Rogers.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Seth Rollins has just been like grunting and growling across
the table for me ever since we even I can't
take it all right, Rogers commands, the city of Chicago
is a great place to go and play, and they're
phenomenal sports fans. What do we think about Rogers and
that man si sly little smirk that he had during
(20:53):
that delivery.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
I'm gonna keep mine' brief because I want to hear
what Seth you got to say. I think that he's
a great promoter right now. He's being a very very
good promoter at the game. He's getting everybody riled up.
And with that, Mike g I'll pat to you so
that you could pass it to Seth.
Speaker 7 (21:06):
Yeah, I'll be brief too, but I'll tee you upset
with something from his own world, which is a lot
of times you get the mic in the middle of
the ring and you're talking to somebody and you're buttering
them up, and you're saying how great they are. And
then as soon as they Bamnam just getting the sneak
attack right in the middle of the ring.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
There.
Speaker 8 (21:22):
That's what that feels like, right there.
Speaker 9 (21:26):
This guy, this guy, this guy, man, this guy, he's
just always you know what it's there's so many things.
There's so many things. I don't even know where to begin.
I'll tell you where I to begin. I hope that
his little wrist is okay, all right. I hope that
he suits up this Sunday in Chicago, because this is
(21:47):
not the same Bears team that he has faced years
and years and years and years in Chicago. This is
not the same and he's not on the same team
that he was in Green Bay. This Steelers team is
not those Packers teams. And he is not the same
Aaron Rodgers that he's always been. Right he's on the
backside of his career. So I hope, I hope that
(22:09):
he shows up in Chicago with that game. That'll some
gigs Sunday. It's some gid Menursday. Why don't you throw
some Saturdays in there too. I'm sure you had some
saturdays in Chicago that are real nice as well. All right,
throw it all in there. That's fine, And I'll tell
you what. This is gonna be a different story, right,
You're going to get the first place Chicago Bears. This
(22:30):
is two first place teams going head to head in Chicago.
Ben Johnson's gonna stick to you, man. Then this sound's
gonna find a way to blitz and drop you on
your back. I swear, I swear We're not gonna come
out of here next week having the same conversation about
about Aaron Rodgers owning the Chicago Bears. He's gonna be
giving up his ownership, all right. He's gonna be seating
(22:51):
that ownership finally back to somebody who deserves it. He't
don't deserve it. Okay, he didn't deserve it. I'm sticking.
Don't give me that. You gotta put a caption in there,
caps in there.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
Everybody knows.
Speaker 9 (23:03):
Everybody knows Aaron Rodgers fields.
Speaker 8 (23:05):
But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 9 (23:06):
You made A good point, Mike Gee, if you want
to put this in the wrestling sphere. Every hero needs
a good villain, every baby face needs a good heel.
Aaron Rodgers is the perfect heel, the perfect foil for
the baby faces of twenty twenty five. The Chicago Bears.
Now's our time, Chicago, rally up and take down this scumbag.
(23:30):
Let's go bare dow, bare dow.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
I mean god, he's just in the three p sixty here, seth.
You got him back there over your left shoulder, your
left injured shoulder.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I got him here over r right.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
What's he doing back there?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
No?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Put him away, sling it, put.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
Him away, put him, get him on, get him out.
He I'm talking about him.
Speaker 14 (23:51):
That was me? Jo?
Speaker 8 (23:51):
What he's me?
Speaker 9 (23:52):
Ja plays back to trol looking tros.
Speaker 7 (24:05):
Thirty five five, Jack golts Jack Jones with the interception, Ari.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
On the throne right to him, like Jack Jones just
got like in front of his tight end.
Speaker 13 (24:15):
Hurts pits it off, Jack Jones's first interception of the season.
Speaker 8 (24:21):
And what a better time to have that?
Speaker 3 (24:25):
What a better time is right than then?
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Jack jones overtime pick set the table for the Dolphins
win in Madrid.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
And he's here or at the table.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Fresh off of Oma Magie. What I can't believe you're
here on a bye week. You're seventeen times was away
from that interception.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
How are you feeling finely good?
Speaker 6 (24:44):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
We're so glad to see you so Jack you Uh,
it's great to see you here, but it was even
better to see you on the sideline of that game
because you had that pick and I was very lucky
just have been standing there.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
You ran right by me.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
In your face, you were like seventeen times where Juice
is smiling. He was it a relief not only in
that game but also for you personally after what's probably
been like a really challenging season.
Speaker 6 (25:08):
Oh yeah, I think it.
Speaker 14 (25:09):
Was a relief, you know, really for the game because
when we went into overtime, it was a couple of
times in the game where it started leaning their way
a little bit. It was a little worried, but you know,
we we we stayed together as a team. And that
player right there, it just kind of sealed it.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
We got it.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
You're in Madrid, Real Madrid, Christiano Ronaldo, the legendary soccer player.
Speaker 8 (25:34):
You hit the Ronaldo celebration. Was that a spur of
the moment.
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Did you have that plan going in?
Speaker 6 (25:39):
Yeah? I had that plan going there. I had to
make sure I hit that.
Speaker 14 (25:44):
I knew I was gonna make a play that day,
and I was like, when I do that's gonna be
the celebration.
Speaker 1 (25:49):
But that wasn't the only thing, Jack, that you had planned,
because according to Jordan Brooks, you said that you called
your shot.
Speaker 8 (25:56):
What did you say to like, what happened? What does
he mean by that?
Speaker 6 (25:59):
Noah?
Speaker 14 (25:59):
Yeah, So when overtime came, JB lee in the league
and tackles right now and just when you watch this film, man,
he he flying around the field making plays. So I
went up to him and I told him myself, Look, JB,
if you stopped the run, you're gonna throw me a pick.
Like I felt like I should have had a couple
of picks throughout the game. But I'm like, JB, if
you stopped to run, he's gonna throw me a pick.
Speaker 3 (26:20):
Catch it, Like that's so cool.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
So Jack, just listening to you real quick and referencing
Jordan Brooks like we had him in a production meeting
before the game.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
That guy is so.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Serious, he's so locked in. You guys have a very
different personality. Do you mess with him just to try
to loosen him up?
Speaker 14 (26:36):
Yeah, for sure, JB my dog, But he got like
a dad attitude. He got like a dad. You know,
he's always serious. It's always Bob. But we need that,
you know, especially from our leader and the guy who's
running the defense, so we need that.
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Well what did he say after? Did he say anything
after to you?
Speaker 6 (26:55):
After you up? He just we were just all celebrating.
It was it was all smile. That was just like
a dad.
Speaker 9 (27:07):
How was Madrid for you? I mean, I want to
talk about it from a preparation standpoint, because, like you know,
your creature of habit right as we all are as athletes,
we want to like lock in kind of do the
same thing over and over and over. But traveling overseas
whole different ballgames. So how did you guys prepare and
what's it like going overseas to have to play a game?
Like from a mental standpoint or a preparation standpoint.
Speaker 14 (27:29):
It's a little different because you know, overseas the time
change kind of get to you, so you're a little
jet like the first couple of days. But you got
to fight through that and find a way to have
a good practice because you know, the things that you
do in practice leads to the game.
Speaker 6 (27:42):
So we can't have sloppy practices.
Speaker 14 (27:43):
So we were just going out there trying to stay
together and make sure everybody was locked in, you know,
during the practice locked in and meetings, locked.
Speaker 6 (27:51):
In on their assignments.
Speaker 14 (27:52):
And when Sunday come, you know, there's no question what
to do or any hesitation.
Speaker 6 (27:56):
Go out there and make full speed decisions.
Speaker 7 (28:00):
Jack's been the year of clutch plays for you. Let's
go back to the play that you made against the
Jets week four, when you punch the ball out at
the goal line, brailn All and take us through that play,
because that wound up being a huge swing in that game.
Speaker 6 (28:12):
Yeah. So we was in a man car and I
had to my man my fit.
Speaker 14 (28:16):
I was in the A gap and at first I thought,
you know, they wasn't gonna block me. I was gonna
shoot the A gap because usually lineman on account for corners.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
In the box.
Speaker 14 (28:25):
So I thought I was going to shoot through and
make the tackle on the back football. When I shot
the gap, my man actually came and blocked me.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
But I don't know. I just wasn't done yet. I
didn't want to give.
Speaker 14 (28:34):
Up on a play. So I turned around, found the ball,
punched at it, and you know, luckily he was reaching
for the end zone. He had too much dip on
his chip. But you know I pushed it out and
you know it was a good play.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Well well, Jack, we talked a little bit before this
segment even started, and we talked about how the season
started for you guys and then now it just seems
to turn.
Speaker 8 (28:56):
And you brought up, yeah, we got the juice. Now,
when did that juice start? From your perspective in that
locker room? When did that juice start? What happened?
Speaker 14 (29:07):
I wouldn't put a day on it, but it was
just like throughout the whole year, we knew it was
a good team, and it was something missing, Like, you know,
the games that we was losing, It was close games
and we felt like we could have came out, you know,
victorious in those games. But it was just something in
a building where it was like, we know we got it,
but we gotta find it.
Speaker 6 (29:28):
And once we find it.
Speaker 14 (29:29):
You know, we're not gonna let it go and we're
gonna capitalize on it. And I just think that's where
we're at. But I don't I don't know which day
or which game it was that really had that spark.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
Yeah, Jack, I now I'm going to become really self
conscious about having too much dip on my chip moving.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Forward, like, is that an insult of compliments? I can't
tell what is it?
Speaker 6 (29:51):
Nah, it's just a he tried to do too much.
You know, on the go line, you gotta just run
it in.
Speaker 14 (29:57):
And you know, I mean he was in traffic, it
would be different than you know it.
Speaker 6 (30:00):
Was on the sideline.
Speaker 14 (30:01):
You yeah, maybe one player around, but you in the
middle of with ten guys around, you don't want to
be reaching the ball out light, So you know that's
too much different.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Hits every time.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Dolphins have been really fun to watch this month and
the season for the defense at least a lot. A
lot has to do with you. Jack Jones, friend of
our show. You're gonna come back next season again.
Speaker 3 (30:21):
In sext offseason.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Absolutely, I'm gonna come back every time.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
There we go, right, a local boy.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
He's in town because it's the bye and this is
how he's spending it. Six fifty one am Pacific and
Jack Jones is sitting in a red chair on GMFP.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
Look at him. Go awesome to have you man,
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