Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, and Manti Te’o answering Throwdown Thursday questions - is Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin or Dak Prescott and Brian Schottenheimer under the microscope more? Is golf or pickleball the better sport to participate in past your prime? Ryan Fitzpatrick joins the show and talks about the Cleveland Browns QB situation, the Aaron Rodgers fit in Pittsburgh, and how the Buffalo Bills can reach the Super Bowl level.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football, Everybody, what's happening There's day July tenth.
We're live in New York and La Jamie Erdle, Mantai Tao,
Kyle Brown. We got it going on in New York
and Los Angeles. Who's a golf tournament happening this week?
So we have Ryan Fitzpator coming on the show from
said golf tournament. But that doesn't mean we're to talk
about to him about the sticks, Kyle. We got to
ask him a whole load of questions going on in
the NFL right now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, I mentioned Fitzpatrick shows up with some pretty impressive
golf attire as well. I've been picturing like a loud
Loud shirt, which is why I wear this shirt that
consists mostly of golf teas. But I bet he completely
dunks on it, and that's why we're bringing him in.
But let's talk some stealers made right now or some
cowboys this Good Morning Football. Start the show. Pull it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Football, that's right, GMTB. Everybody Happy Thursday. Kyle Brandt was
once told by an NFL executive high ranking that this
was their favorite segment on our show is the last
first segment of our Thursday shows, throw Down Thursday. I
personally am dealing with a throwdown Thursday of myself. It's
my oldest daughter's sixth birthday today, Kyle, I got to
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decide between ice cream cake or cupcakes for the day.
I think I should do both. I mean, Kyle, you're
the one that has oldest kids in the room. What
are your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I would avoid the ice cream cake because that's basically
a time bomb. You have, it melts, so the second
you get it out, you're on the clock, and the
last thing you need at that kind of birthday party
is more pressure. Also, the cupcake, you just hand one
to each child, and so there's no case I got
the bigger piece. I got the corner piece. There is
residual garbage with the rapper, but you have the can
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out there, not worried about that. Cupcakes are nearly undefeated
a child's birthday. Just make sure you don't do like
ten vanilla or a ten chakoa, because there will be
an eleventh child. They didn't get the one they wanted. Jamie.
I don't have any thoughts on this other than that,
but I'm sure you'll make the right choice.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
This is why we keep him around. Veteran, you know,
an absolute veteran in the room when it comes to parenting.
I will follow you into the darkness when it comes screen,
Kyle Brant says, throw it. On Thursday with football related conversation,
shall we first topic on deck? Steelers head coach Mike
Tomlin and his team reports a training camp in just
two weeks. He's got a new quarterback again, and this
time it's Aaron Rodgers, though under center. Meanwhile, the Cowboys
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quarterback Deak Prescott has a new head coach and Brian Schottenheimer,
who is under the microscope more in the scenarios entering
training camp. Is it Rogers and Tomlin or is it
Dak and Shoddy?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Mantay?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I think Rogers is always on the microscope, but I
am going to go with Dak and Shoddy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And the reason why is this? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So, if you are the Dallas Cowboys are the fan
base and you're looking at Dak Prescott, we just surrounded
you again with a whole bunch of weapons. You got
George Pickens, Ceedee, Lamb, Jake Ferguson is a really good
tight end, and you just revamped your whole old your
defense is always going to show up for you. So
when you got rid of Mike McCarthy, was it. It's
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all on you now, Dak. So if things don't work out,
if the team doesn't look any different, now we know
what the problem or who the problem was, because there's
always I don't know if you remember this, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But there's that debate of who was at fault here?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Why does the Dallas Cowboys always fall short of their goals?
Is it because of Dak Prescott or is because of
Mike McCarthy. And so when I watched this team this year,
I don't think you could say I think you could
say that this is the best offense that the Dallas
Cowboys have had in a very very long time. And
KB brought up the comparisons between or not even the comparisons,
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the similarities between George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb in their
physical appearance, even not even their their abilities to play
this game. There are two of the most dominant when
it comes to running routes, comes to making explosive plays,
and you put them both on the same team. Now,
and you got to see is magic going to happen
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from this?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So if I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Of a dual that's under the microscott a microscope more,
I got to say that it's Dak Prescott and it's shoddy.
So that's why I'm going right.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right, Let's go back nine years. The year is
twenty sixteen. Brian Schottenheimer is the quarterbacks coach in Indianapolis.
Mike Tomlin is winning his last playoff game. It's Mike
Tomlin and the Steelers. That's how much has changed. It's
been nine years and since the steelerway and the Tomlin
a way has shown up in so much as won
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a playoff game. There is a large, large faction of
the Steeler fan base who is usually a very content, excited,
positive fan base because they.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Have so much success.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That is like, I'm so sick of this era. I'm
so tired of it. I'm so tired of hearing he
always gets to the playoffs. I'm so tired of hearing
he's never subbed five hundred off And I understand it completely.
And now you go to the man behind the curtain,
Aaron Rodgers on his third team in four years and
he's old and he's talented, and maybe it works, maybe
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a dozen't, But I think the Cowboys have a little
bit of a grace period. At least there's some good
will with Brian Schottenheimer. The Steelers are like, I don't know,
it's our best player is holding out. Our quarterback is
the oldest player in the league with which we have
no experience, with no backstory, with no relationship with We
will destroy him the second he throws an incomplete pass.
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We have no growth period at all. We need to
win now, and we need to win a playoff game now.
So I don't know. I think it's the Steelers. I
think their training camp is going to be fascinating. I
don't know if TJ. Watt's going to be there. Najie
Harris is gone, Aaron Rodgers is there, George Pickens is gone,
and it's all the orchestration of Mike Tomlin, who the
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media treats like a god, and the Steelers are ready
for some serious results.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think it's them.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
One of the more fascinating things that occurs when I,
as Kyle loves to hear that I sign up for
these little publication interviews, is like when I go on
a Steelers.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Podcast if you will.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They always ask me like, well, this is what's happening locally,
and they're in our opinion of Mike Tomlin, what's the
national narrative? And I always like, no other team or
market does that. They care so much about what their
head coach is seen as nationally versus because they understand
what their microscope or their little snow globe looks like.
In Pittsburgh, it's one of the most intense environments to
be in. That against the Cadallas Cowboys is a crazy
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thing to say. Coming up on the show, we have
Ryan Fitzpatrick coming on from the golf tournament. He's participating
in this week's American Century Classic golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So here's a question.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Which is a better past your prime past time to
pick up past your prime pastime? To say that sometimes
best to pick up is it golf, mantai or pickleball.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I got a new found love for golf.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm not saying that I am a golfer, but watching
professional golfers actually compete it's actually an art.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But I just came from Utah.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I just moved to California from Utah, and Utah loves
pick a ball, and I picked it up over there,
and let me tell you, I love playing pick a ball.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm not saying that I'm great, but I will say this.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The thing I hate about playing pick the balls because
I come from a football background. Jamie and KB, you know,
there's like when you're in a game, right and you
look across the across the sideline, you start to.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Measure people out. He's like, there's a reason why.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Back in the old days used to have that big,
old white cowboy collar.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's to make you look more manly.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
And sometimes when you watch these guys coming out of
the tunnel, you're like, oh, that guy's that guy's gonna
be mean. That guy's come without even playing against the guy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The thing I hate about pick a ball is somebody
could look.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Like they just came from Whole Foods and they go
across the court on you and they just start murdering you,
kind of like how Kyle did the first hour in
that Little Dan that Dan Trivia thing. It's so unpredictable, Okay,
and so I'd like to step on I'm not just
stepping out.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm used to stepping on the.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Court and looking at people and start to analyze them, like, oh,
I got this person. I got I can definitely beat
this person. That doesn't happen in pick a ball. But
that's so the beauty about it is everybody can play it,
and it starts to get really intense. And for me
and my family, it gets intense. And we just have
one rule. Don't put me and my wife on the
same team, because then it starts, we start arguing and it.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Just gets way too competitive. So I got to say,
pick a ball.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's pickaball. It's fun, it's easy, and it's cheap. There
you go, golf, listen. Golf is so hard, Golf is
so time consuming, golf is so expensive. There's a lot
that's wonderful about it, and I adore it. I like
being outside. You can be with your friends, you can gamble,
you can drink, you can smoke, you can do all
these incredible things. It's great. It takes four to five hours.
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It's expensive as hell, and more than anything, it is
frustrating as hell. I don't want to spend my free
time on a Sunday morning. If I'm going to take
it away from my family throwing clubs and swearing, I'm
pissed off the entire time I'm golfing because I'm not
good and I don't have the time to become good.
Pick a ball is nothing but giant ping pong. Think.
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Think a few steps over here, Dink. You can do
the same things. You can drink and smoke and gamble
and all that stuff if you want to do it,
but you're do it on a concise, little court. You
can much more easily play co ed. You can play
with kids, and you can play in a half an
hour if you want, for twenty bucks. It is so
much easier for golf. For all its glory and all
its prestige and all its fancy clubs, it does nothing
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but piss you off, and I'm tired of being pissed
off in my free time. I think it's pick a ball,
and I think it's pick a ball on a running way, runaway, short, fun, cheap,
easy done.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm in I disagree wholeheartedly with both of you. I
do think it's golf. And the question is past your prime?
Pastor prime? Do you know what you have when you're
past your prime? A lot of time? Okay, so I
don't need the game to go for thirty minutes. I
don't need to show up, play and get done.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And walk away.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I need something to take six hours. If I'm past
your prime and I'm done doing my regular day job.
I want close proximity to great ocean views, which you
can do while you're golfing, or frankly just great being
outside all the time. I'm great, six hours done, great, Uh,
drink cart Like proximity to a transfusion is fine with me,
and then a fantastic lunch at the end of the
golf round. Pickleball is stressing me out right now because
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it's everyone's getting real intense about it, and all of
a sudden, I'm seeing the former athletes do it, and
they're all jacked up a mountain dew about like, yeah,
we're so good at it. I don't need that in
my past my prime activity. I just need to be
average at something. And I think, Kyle, if golf's going
to make you have that much rage, so I don't
think that's a golf issue. I think that's like, maybe
you have to take something a little less seriously when
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you go to do the past your prime activity.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Listen, I've seen some stuff out on the golf course
one of the biggest viral videos this week is some
guy getting beat up and thrown into a pond by
an ex hockey player on a golf course. It's terrible.
People get mad out there, they get angry out there,
and frankly, like Jamie, I don't know where you're coming
up with these these hours and hours of times. You
got three kids at home, you got a demanding job.
I don't understand the time. And I'll speak to my brethren.
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My dude's in their four You work here all week,
you're working your butt off. You're not away from your
family and your kids. You can go to your wife
and kids and say, yeah, babe, I'm going to need
six hours on Sunday to not only hit the range
before the round, to play an entire eighteen and then
have drinks afterwards. Like where, how do you justify that
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in your household? I want more importantly, why do you
want to do that? You want to be away from
your family that long on the weekend play an hour
of pickleball from a golf course.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think Kyle, you yourself lectured us earlier this week about
the devils in the details. The quote literally says past
your prime I'm not saying right now. The most golf
my husband does right now is when he packs a
suitcase has go on a work trip. He doesn't do
it in the state of California. It's not right now.
It's like when I am done and the kids are
in high school or in college, and.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have six hours, I don't just want to have.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
An activity that takes up thirty minutes. What am I
doing for the next twelve and a half hours of
my day? I want the activity that takes me an
hour to drive to six hours of my life. I
get to have lunch and a beverage and then I
get to go home.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Do you great, baby? Do you play pickleball? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I do? Are you with the ground like I just casually?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I'm not good?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I just I can hit it. Anybody can be good.
You can learn in two minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So there's two types of pickleball players, right, so you
have a teammate. Some they allow both teammates to come
up to the kitchen, which is that little line. Or
there's players like me where you get so competitive, where
I told my wife just stand the back.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'll stay at the kitchen and.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Get everything that comes across this net and we start.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Going, so what type of player are you? KB?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Are you want to stand in the kitchen or you
share share the wealth.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm in the kitchen. I passed the line, I break
all the rules. If you put me on the back line,
I'm done. But again, I would much rather do that
try to step up to the fifty seven hundred tee
of the round I'm playing and hook my four hundredth
ball into the water. Again, I just I'm over golf.
I've tried my whole life to get into it. Maybe
some day and when I don't have kids and wife,
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I'll rededicate myself to it. But right now, there's absolually
no way I can justify the time I've only.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Played pickleball one time in my life. And as the
someone person who was that guy's teammate when I played pickleball,
I can tell you what kind of team at Kyle
Brandt is. We approach this segment on television and Kyle's like.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's fine, we'll make good TV.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Very quickly upon our walk out of the tunnel. During
our intro, did I realize that this was not just
a regular TV segment. Kyle Brandt was actively trying to
teach eat the skill set and the advantage points to
winning at pickleball, and I was like, pulled up, I've
never done this before.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
He takes it more seriously.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Than his just thirty minutes I'm out on the court
stance that he's trying to tell us that he's all
about No, that guy was in it to win it,
and he was actively dedicated to make this absolute rookie
who's just trying to mess around and have a funny
TV segment. We were trying to win and we did not.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Kyle, So I do apologize. No, that's all right, But
normally I have four or five gimlets when I play,
so I am a completely different person. I'm not allowed
to drink on TV as of yet from my contract.
So I was very serious that there. Yay, we got
to rework that for you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, coming up, Yeah, I'm GMFP no because there's only
one guy allowed in the kitchen and you both are
just at the nest right there.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Coming up on our show is it for throw Down Thursday?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
We have a guest.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We are gonna have a segment later We're go teams
are gonna go from worse to first, we got to
peg him against each other from last season and find
the team that is gonna come out of the basement
and rise up to the kitchen, if you will, and
cook themselves a gourmet meal in the playoffs next season.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Maybe they'll do it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Kyle, what else?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Well, tell you what else? Live from Tahoe fits Magic.
He's coming in and you know you love his takes.
You love him on Amazon, you love his beard, you
love his great story.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We love it all, and we're gonna ask him it
all right after this, there he is, Yeah, he looks great.
I can't tell. Oh he moved. Look at him with
those beautiful trees.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Right after this, Fitzpatrick throws for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
For all the ladies out there, I'm taking I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
May they like playing with Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's nothing, I mean, I think we just have to
stay humble good. He's gonna roll with it.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
We gotta make sure we know how to handle success
and all those things.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Quicks it right on the money, Tua Trutch on the
field for the first time.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Even Fitch is the motivation.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well, this is magic.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Send chest, there's mine's a and for my wife, get
the kids to bed.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's getting late. He's here. We love them, You love him,
everybody loves them, and we love him, especially when he's
coming from a place of tranquility, specifically a gorgeous golf
tournament on a wonderful day. And look at him. Ryan Fitzpatrick,
how we feeling, baby, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Yeah, feel great.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I am in Lake Tahoe at the American Century Championship,
ready to play some golf, even though you hate it, Kyle,
I'm here, I'm ready.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I'm ready to compete.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It is absolutely gorgeous out here right now, and we're.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Going to ask a lot about the tournament. We have
a lot of things to get into, but I'm going
to make the sharp left turn fits from Tahoe to Cleveland, Ohio,
because they have the most fascinating quarterback room right now,
the Cleveland Browns. Just for everybody watching at home, Joe
Flacco is there, Kenny Pickett's there, who you traded actual
draft capital for, and a player a third round rookie,
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a fifth round rookie. And that's not to mention Deshaun Watson,
who's making almost fifty million bucks this year and has
been publicly disavowed by the owner, how is this quarterback
room going to shake out? And what do you make
of it?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Yeah, it's an insane situation right now. I think, you know,
if I was a betting man, Joe Flacco is going
to go into the year as the starter. You know,
he has history there, He's had a lot of success there,
and I think it's a great story. He's a guy
that will bring calm. He's a guy that's going to
be able to get them off on the right foot.
And then you know, as the season goes along, when
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you draft guys early and when you have young, exciting guys,
and I know they're excited about Gabriel, you know, we
could see him inserted into the lineup, say week seven,
Week eight, week nine, if they've lost a few games.
You know, as a guy that's been a bridge quarterback
in his career, usually that's about the time you look
at the bye week and that's about the time you
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get replaced. But I'm excited to see Joe and you know,
he did such a great job in Cleveland a few
years ago and looking forward to seeing what he does
again this year.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can imagine you have so much experience and you're
able to pull that parallel so beautifully fits. You also
know what it's like to jump in and out of
locker rooms and organizations and make it work no matter
where you're at. Aaron Rodgers now has that as a
new skill set because he tried to make it work
last year with the Jets and now he's in Pittsburgh.
How have you felt about this journey for Rogers and
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what is this fit like for him now in the
Mike Tomlin led Pittsburgh system.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
You know, it's an interesting one for him in the
tail end of his career because he's one of the
most talented quarterbacks to ever play the game. And I was, actually,
he's up here playing, so I was talking to him yesterday.
He's the only remaining member of the two thousand and
five draft class that I was a part of.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, and I'll tell you I was.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I threw some passes at Ty than you this year
and I don't know how he's still doing it. I mean,
it is absolutely amazing. Yeah, the team and you know,
aside from the the stuff the Pat McAfee and all
the conspiracy theories and those types of things, when he's
one on one and when he's in a team setting,
in a locker room setting. He is very charismatic. He's
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going to be able to win those guys over. They
know that he brings a certain level of play with him.
And you know what have we said about Pittsburgh since
Roethlisberger left. They've got a great defense, but they don't
have a quarterback. They keep trying to find a quarterback.
So this is a good situation for him to land
into and to see what can happen there.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, the two Jamie's points you said, you know, in
your long career, you've been in a lot of locker
rooms and one of those locker rooms was with the
Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now Josh Allen the NFL MVP. Last season he led
them to the AFC Championship.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You being a former Buffalo Bill, you knowing him very well.
What does he and the Buffalo Bills need to do
to only make it to the Super Bowl? But it
always seems when it gets to Kansas City, how do
they get past that?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Interesting enough? I talked to Josh yesterday too. This American
Century Championship is crawling with qbs. You know, he's he's
had a lot on his plate this offseason, a little wedding,
which you know, yeah, that can be good play, that
can calm things down, and a lot of traveling different things.
But Josh is such a great leader, and I think
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what you've seen over the last few years, especially this
is his team. This team has taken on his personality.
You even see some of the things that the rookies
say coming in. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this
guy came up to me and introduced himself and made
me feel part of it. They have something really special
going on in Buffalo right now, and it's those pesky Chiefs.
But I'll tell you what, and Kyle's I think the
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same thing. I think this is our year, baby. I
think this is our year to get over those Chiefs
in the playoffs and do it because they've been so close.
And there's a lot of enthusias as I'm around him
and Josh, you know, MVP.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
Now, Josh is a really special player.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know. Well, it'd be very cool if he got
the the wedding ring and the Super Bowl ring, like
back to back. Like that. That is called just being
on a heater. And never mind what I think. I'm
sure you've seen it fits that that Peyton's been talking
that he relates to Josh and he had to get
over his enemy, and he finally did it. You mentioned Josh,
you've seen him, You've seen Aaron. You are at the
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American Century Celebrity Golf Champion of Tahoe. Never mind who's
good or bad at golfing fits because you know, I
hate that stuff. Who's interesting to talk to, who's interesting
to see? Like, give us drop some more names. We
live for this stuff, like just take us around the
around the course.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Well it it's an insane lineup.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
And the cool thing about this is you don't know
who you're gonna get paired with every day. And so
you know, day one, which is the tournament, starts on
Friday for us and with Vrabel and DeMarcus Ware which
marcusly do Rabel his kids come. Uh, you know, it's
so much fun to play with him. But then it's
it's the comedians. It's Colin Jost, it's Larry the Cable,
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the guy, Larry the Cable Guy, Nate pargot Si. You know,
last night Jacoben plays in the event and he did
a little set for everybody, and so just to be
able to dip into all these different you know, not
just football, not just baseball. A Miles teller last night,
it's a pretty cool Tjoshi who just retired. Matthew could
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Chuck to get to talk to him for a little bit.
It's a star studded lineup and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Absolutely, it seems so. But when I look at the list, though,
and I'm just literally going down the tea times for
these guys, every name I see, I'm like, oh, veteran,
Oh veteran. When you're a vent you got the time
to golf in the summer. You're not going to see
Jen Daniels on that list because he's a young guy.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He's trying to work it out.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
He's trying to make sure his second year goes well
with the Commanders. He led the Washington all the way
to the NFC title game last season. What is the
league in for with Jen Daniels? Do you think in
the year two experience?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You know, it was such an insane first year for him.
I think with Cliff Kingsbury, that's a great pairing. You know,
they're a great match for each other, and he just
he continued to do things throughout the year that rookies
shouldn't do. It wasn't just his athleticism and his ability
to escape the pocket, although those are things when you're
young that can help, but standing in there, you know,
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in the face of blitzers that are unblocked and throwing
dimes down the field, the way the team and really
the city rallied around him, the excitement surrounding them now,
it just hasn't been there in a long time.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
So, you know, with quarterbacks, it's interesting c J. Stroud.
We saw it last year.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
He took a step back and he had such an
amazing rookie year. I don't think that's going to happen
with Jayden. I think this team is too talented. I
think they've got a lot of great people around him.
Kingsbury really understands them, so I'm excited to see what happens.
But they are certainly a team that everybody wants to
play for now, which we haven't been able to say
in a long time, and certainly a team that is
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no longer circled as an automatic win. When you're going
to play Washington.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
FITZI I know you probably remember this, but I played
against you in twenty eighteen when you played for the
Bucks and you came to New Orleans and you threw
for like over four hundred yards and like four or
five touchdowns. Yeah, and fitsmagic and all of that stuff. Well,
there's a quarterback over there by the name of Baker
Mayfield who's been there for two years now on the
NFC South twice. What is it about Baker Mayfield. He's
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one of the most underrated quarterbacks in this league. What
is it about Baker Mayfield to you that stands out
the most.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
I'll tell you what. Baker's here as well. Doesn't have
a great golf game right now. Doesn't have a great
golf game. Okay, That's why I love him, because you
gravitate towards him. Just having some guys that I played
with and threw to in Tampa that are still there,
with Mike and Chris Godwin, they love the guy. He competes,
he gives him a chance, and you know that's going
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to be an interesting situation too, with losing Liam Cone
and having Josh guars Art and having been with a
new coordinator. Baker's really going to help him out. And Josh,
I was with him in Miami's a really smart guy.
He's a Yale guy, So that's going to be see
how that plays out. But when you sit, when you
sit and look at the quarterbacks around the league, the
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must watch like must see TV guys, Baker's right up
there with all of them. I say, he's probably, you know,
Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield, Lamar Jackson one two three, probably
for me. But my son Jake Baker's his favorite quarterback
and he's now changed his name to Jaker.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I love that. Jacob Fitzpatrick, that's awesome. I think it's
got a ring to it. Before you go fits, let's
finish with golf. You know, I've heard Charles Barkley talk
about before everybody makes fun of his swing, and he says, listen,
I've been the NBA a VP, I've been to the finals.
I've played against Michael Jordan. But when I'm standing over
that golf ball, I am so terrify. It's like I'm
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not even myself. When you're on the first t and
all the famous people there and the movie stars and
this guy and that guy and that girl, like do
you find a calm or are you terrified as well?
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Yeah, I'm just a very average golfer, and so The
problem here at the American Century is the people that
are standing around watching think that you're professionals. They think
they're at a PGA event, and so they're standing in
places could not be standing. No, No, I think that's
what You just hope that you get through the weekend
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without hitting anybody with the ball, and if you do
hit him with the ball, that they don't get hurt.
And you could sign a glove and give it to them.
But I think that's a number one thing. And why
I am nervous out here, it's not because I don't
want to be embarrassed and top a ball or hit
one in the water. It's because I did not want
to hit some you know, seven year old lady that
sits out there to see George Kittle.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And I'm sorry I left you with a permanent welt
on your back. But here's an autographed glove from Ryan
Fitzpatrick to make you feel better. Fitz tell us about
Whole seventeen because that's where they go nuts, right, Like
what's that? Like?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
So they throw a basketball hoop on there and you
get to shoot a little bit. But that's essentially the
whole all the fans kind of congregate around seventeen. It's
right on the water, so you're going to see fifty
to one hundred boats out there. You're going to see
some other things. They've got my eighteen year old son
on the bag, so he's going to learn some things,
ladies and bikinis and seeing things he probably hasn't seen before.
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It is, it's electric. It's so much fun. The wind
is really swirling, so it's not necessarily the easiest hole
to hit two. And they'll let you know if you
don't put it on the green, they'll give you a
few booze.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
But it is.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
It is an awesome spectacle and really fun to be
a part of.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well, you were an awesome dad man then we were
all parents here and we love that you're doing that
and participating like that. So hit him high green and
fair ways, try not to take anybody's eye out fits
and say hi to Jaker for us. You're the man,
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
All right, you guys are the best.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Thank you, you're a man. Brother.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Thanks see if it's take care brother.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
G MFB rolls on.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
But we got a new friend on the screen, MANSI,
Look who's joining.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
DMan played books played Arizona Car.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Nos.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I mean we played a preseason game, right, Chase.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I hated going against the Car that was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Brother, Yeah, hey, jug but nice Nicosis explore too explosive
on this game, because we're going to go against.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You a Jammie exactly, all right, So Chase Evans here,
Kyle Brandton, New York goes to our team, and now
you and I are a team. We're gonna play this game.
Since the NFL realigned its divisions back in two thousand
and two, a team has gone from worst to first
in its division twenty times. As we take a look
at last year's last place teams in the North on
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the AFC NFC side, you got the b and the Bears, respectively,
and so on and so forth. You know these names
because they were kind of at the top of the
draft for twenty twenty five this spring. So we're gonna
tee up a segment that we are calling Chasing First
in honor of our friend here, Chase Edmunds. So here
he is, he's here to help. We're gonna give a
team that finished in last place in their division last year,
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and then thirty seconds on the clock to make your
case why that team will be going from worst to first. So,
Kyle and Chase, you're up first. Your available teams for
this round are either I'm gonna give you two teams.
Once your name comes up, you have to pick that
team and make a case for it, and then the
other person has to make the case with the other team. Okay,
so we're gonna flip this coin. Kyle and Chase, you're up.
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You have to pick between the forty nine Ers and
the Giants. Okay, so who's ever face we land on?
Pick your team and make your case worse to first.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Chase, you're up, first.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Pick.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I'm ready, brother, give me give me Big Blue to Giants.
I'm gonna make the case that the Jobs can go
from worse to first.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Yes, they Giants can go from.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Worse to first because I believe, arguably will have the
best defensive line unit in football. I get really nostalgic
forty nine ers feeling when the Niners had drafted Nick
Bosa with the second pick.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Do you know where they ended up? Kyle that year?
Fer Bowl? There we go, and I'm not saying I'm
not saying that baby go go to the Super Bowl.
But I do believe that with the best defensive.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
Line unit in football, you have a factor where you
can have a lot of plays that just get messed up,
and that's something that Xen knows cannot solve.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, n this is great. Yeah, I thought you were
going to jump on the Niners. You went for I
feel like the harder one. So that love a.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Gets like that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
This made my job easy. In fact, start the clock.
I'll go with the Niners right now because I don't
even believe that they were in last place last year.
I think we researched that wrong. That can't possibly be true.
I don't care who was hurt. I know Shanahan was
their coach. I know they had Warner and Bosa and Kittle.
And listen, Christian mc affrey's going to be back. We're
going to find him, get him, get back in the mix.
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Are you really that enchanted by anybody else in the
NFC West? Are you?
Speaker 8 (30:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I love the Cardinals, he love the Seahawks. Are the
Rams just completely infallible? They're definitely gonna win the No,
Shannan's been there, They've been to two damn Super Bowls.
You tell me they can't win the West. You're crazy,
let's go.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I like that start, Chase. I like the fact that
you brought you brought up that pass rush. That pass
rush is gonna be something to.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Deal with you.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I agree with you, that man, Ti. You know I
should have brought up who I should have brought up?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
College of Scataboo.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yes, you want to take it one second. You don't
need thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Reason enough, reason enough that the Giants could make the jump.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Okay, Manti.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Our sculpture is the Raiders and the Patriots. Okay, So
whose ever face pops the first? You get to pick
and then make your argument. And I swear if I go.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
On, are we frozen on my face?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's like a half davy faced all right, that's fine,
screw it. I'll go with the New Engle Patriots.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Listen. I am a fan.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I am a Mike Rabelstan if you will, if you're gonna,
if you use if you're a kid that uses terminology
like that, you know what happened to me. In late April,
I got the distinct opportunity to go to Green Bay
and be a part of the draft experience, a draft
in which Will Campbell was drafted as the best offensive lineman.
He comes across the stage and I just saw the
tears flowing and it was emotion that I love. But
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what I love secondarily was the rage that he had
in his voice in the protection and the dedication to
his quarterbacks. Whether it be at LSU or now in
New England. I think Bill Campbell will help anchor an
offensive line that is going to protect Rick May. We
will have an excellent second season. Plustefon Digs's there, And
I love Mike Crable.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Get him, sister, Huh say that?
Speaker 7 (31:50):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Star m'clock. I got the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
So this is the thing about the Raiders is some
people know how to lose and see some people know
how how to win.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Pete Carroll knows how to win. He's done it at
all levels.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Now you bring in Genal Smith that understands what it
means to win with Pete Carroll, that's going to allow
that locker room to understand what that dynamic looks like.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And then you bring Ashton Genty.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Now, I hope Ashton Genty stands straight up because the
AFC westo stand straight up just like him, because he's.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Going to run a lot of a lot of the arts.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Drop Bowers is there, that play action past dynamics is
going to be there, but people don't realize that the
defense is going to be.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Something to mess with.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I was about to go, as you're going, I realize
in this game now, and I wonder Kyle and Chase
if you can agree. All of a sudden, You're like,
I'm making this sweetly optimistic argument for this team that
has to go up against the Bills twice year like that,
I just am like, it's a tough lift. And I
feel the same about the Giant, essentially every team that
we've heard so far.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
But the front of this segment is trying to figure
out the moment when the person doesn't believe the stuff
that they're they're just preaching it. Sometimes you can tell
they actually do believe it, but sometimes they're like, you're
full of me. You don't think they're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Kyle off camera when Manti was going, I was.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Over here Leary on the wall like this, just thinking
about like, well the worst is yet to come.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Get ready, here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Okay, you guys are up again. You guys are up
again too. Bears and Saints. Cha all right, you know
what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I'm gonna take the Saints, all right, start the clock quickly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know why? Because Kellen Moore is going to be
the next Sean McVay. He's gonna be the greatest coach
we have ever seen. He's gonna make Sean McVay look
like Jim Tom Sule, like we're gonna just coach our
pants off. Because I don't know. If there's a quarterback
in New Orleans, Tyler Shook, that might be the starter.
Sometimes you catch lightning at the bottle. I think Shook's
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gonna be brock Perty. I think More is going to
be Sean McVay. And I'll ask again, are you really
terrified of anything in the South Tampa Bay? I may
eighty five Bears, No, the Saints, And you can tell
I really believe what I'm saying. You gotta take the
Bears now.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Chase, Absolutely, Kyle. I appreciate you return in the favor.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
You got it.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
You guys can go ahead to start my clock. Give
me the Chicago Bears going first in the Nfcwhere Ben
Johnson coming there? I think he's gonna revamp Caleb Williams
for his year or two you talked about when Ben was.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
With Jared Goff.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Jared Goff had career high seventy three percent completion percentage,
thirty seven touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
They revented that entire offensive line. Kayler's knocking against that, Kyle, I.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
Think your Bears are going to be really in due
for a really good year in the NFC North this year.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, what about my Saints in the South though?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Hey, you know me, I'm a little biased from the
Tampa Bays. I'm so glad you took the Saints for me.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I actually thought Kyle was going to swing for that approach,
which is just a blatant takedown of the other three
teams instead of trying to figure out how the actual
team could make it work.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Prepose it.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Welcome work out there, did great? Great. Yeah, you know
what it makes me think, like when the first round
of power rankings come out preseason, I'm sure the Eagles
will be one. I wonder who will thirty two be
because I think last year it was either the Panthers
or the Patriots, and a lot of people have optimism
for them this year. I don't want to cast this
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on the Saints. But there's just a lot of questions
and the Derek Carr thing was very unusual. So we'll
see mat Tie and Jamie. You are up again. You
guys have Browns and Titans.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I think we do have the Browns and the Titans.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Come home.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Go for it. Go, this is gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Come on, you have to get stuck with the I'm
gonna I'm gonna take on the Browns, okay, because you
have a star my clock.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm not doing this any.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Earlier than I have to. You have a former Coach
of the Year and Kevin Stefanski, who is a brilliant mind.
And you know what he has, if you want to
spin it in a positive light, an embarrassment of riches.
He has literally an entire deck of cards of quarterbacks
that he could just pick from. He could play, won
a game, and he would still have a left over
one for the next week that they have to play
a game. Okay, at this point, we're just going to
rewrite the rules for quarterbacks that you can carry five.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I don't think the Browns have to make any decisions.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
About their quarterbacks because they're just gonna play a different
guy every quarter and that's how they're going.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
To be team.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That's how they're gonna take down the Baltimore Ravens. And
you know their defense is pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Rock them up, Rock them up, Scott my clock, we're
gonna go back to back on I'm talking about quarterbacks.
We talked about quarterbacks. You have a lot of quarterbacks
in your room.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
There's only one.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
His name is cam Whard and he's number one, and
they're gonna be number one in their division. Why because
they got cam Ward And he was talking about Calvin Ridley. Now,
Calvin really runs some of the best routes you ever
you ever seen. You have Tyler Lockett, you have Tony Pollard,
and oh, by.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
The way, you have a really really good defense.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
That defensive front, it's been they've been solid for a
number of years. So Brian Callahan all he needed was
a quarterback. He got in in the first round with
the first overall pick, with the number one on their team.
His name is cam Ward and there's gonna be a
lot of touchdowns score for the Tennessee Titans with that duo.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh wow done, Calvin.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Really some of the segments should be called heavy lifting.
I feel like mad in the squad wrack right now.
Six hundred pounds on the front squad.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
That's spot. I love it, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Don't hurt yourself, right, Kyle and Chase, you're up. You
will be teed up now as we see. Oh no,
there's no more teams.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Boom, We're done. I want to keep going again, kp
She wanted more do the Saints again?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
No, I think we should redo it just for the
New Orleans Saints, that.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Is, Kyle Tyler, shuck the Super Bowl.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
You g h oddly adding that voodoo magic while you
had brother, We're going to need a lot more than that.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, you're right, all right, Chase Edmonds, thanks so much, GMFB, everybody.
That was a hard game. I'm not sure you're going
to see that one again.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Good Morning Football, Everybody, what's happening There's day July tenth.
We're live in New York and La Jamie Erdle, Mantai Tao,
Kyle Brown. We got it going on in New York
and Los Angeles. Who's a golf tournament happening this week?
So we have Ryan Fitzpator coming on the show from
said golf tournament. But that doesn't mean we're to talk
about to him about the sticks, Kyle. We got to
ask him a whole load of questions going on in
the NFL right now.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, I mentioned Fitzpatrick shows up with some pretty impressive
golf attire as well. I've been picturing like a loud
Loud shirt, which is why I wear this shirt that
consists mostly of golf teas. But I bet he completely
dunks on it, and that's why we're bringing him in.
But let's talk some stealers made right now or some
cowboys this Good Morning Football. Start the show. Pull it.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Football, that's right, GMTB. Everybody Happy Thursday. Kyle Brandt was
once told by an NFL executive high ranking that this
was their favorite segment on our show is the last
first segment of our Thursday shows, throw Down Thursday. I
personally am dealing with a throwdown Thursday of myself. It's
my oldest daughter's sixth birthday today, Kyle, I got to
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decide between ice cream cake or cupcakes for the day.
I think I should do both. I mean, Kyle, you're
the one that has oldest kids in the room. What
are your thoughts.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
I would avoid the ice cream cake because that's basically
a time bomb. You have, it melts, so the second
you get it out, you're on the clock, and the
last thing you need at that kind of birthday party
is more pressure. Also, the cupcake, you just hand one
to each child, and so there's no case I got
the bigger piece. I got the corner piece. There is
residual garbage with the rapper, but you have the can
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out there, not worried about that. Cupcakes are nearly undefeated
a child's birthday. Just make sure you don't do like
ten vanilla or a ten chakoa, because there will be
an eleventh child. They didn't get the one they wanted. Jamie.
I don't have any thoughts on this other than that,
but I'm sure you'll make the right choice.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
This is why we keep him around. Veteran, you know,
an absolute veteran in the room when it comes to parenting.
I will follow you into the darkness when it comes screen,
Kyle Brant says, throw it. On Thursday with football related conversation,
shall we first topic on deck? Steelers head coach Mike
Tomlin and his team reports a training camp in just
two weeks. He's got a new quarterback again, and this
time it's Aaron Rodgers, though under center. Meanwhile, the Cowboys
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quarterback Deak Prescott has a new head coach and Brian Schottenheimer,
who is under the microscope more in the scenarios entering
training camp. Is it Rogers and Tomlin or is it
Dak and Shoddy?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Mantay?
Speaker 4 (02:42):
I think Rogers is always on the microscope, but I
am going to go with Dak and Shoddy.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
And the reason why is this? Okay?
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So, if you are the Dallas Cowboys are the fan
base and you're looking at Dak Prescott, we just surrounded
you again with a whole bunch of weapons. You got
George Pickens, Ceedee, Lamb, Jake Ferguson is a really good
tight end, and you just revamped your whole old your
defense is always going to show up for you. So
when you got rid of Mike McCarthy, was it. It's
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all on you now, Dak. So if things don't work out,
if the team doesn't look any different, now we know
what the problem or who the problem was, because there's
always I don't know if you remember this, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
But there's that debate of who was at fault here?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Why does the Dallas Cowboys always fall short of their goals?
Is it because of Dak Prescott or is because of
Mike McCarthy. And so when I watched this team this year,
I don't think you could say I think you could
say that this is the best offense that the Dallas
Cowboys have had in a very very long time. And
KB brought up the comparisons between or not even the comparisons,
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the similarities between George Pickens and Ceedee Lamb in their
physical appearance, even not even their their abilities to play
this game. There are two of the most dominant when
it comes to running routes, comes to making explosive plays,
and you put them both on the same team. Now,
and you got to see is magic going to happen
(04:07):
from this?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So if I'm thinking.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Of a dual that's under the microscott a microscope more,
I got to say that it's Dak Prescott and it's shoddy.
So that's why I'm going right.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
All right, Let's go back nine years. The year is
twenty sixteen. Brian Schottenheimer is the quarterbacks coach in Indianapolis.
Mike Tomlin is winning his last playoff game. It's Mike
Tomlin and the Steelers. That's how much has changed. It's
been nine years and since the steelerway and the Tomlin
a way has shown up in so much as won
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a playoff game. There is a large, large faction of
the Steeler fan base who is usually a very content, excited,
positive fan base because they.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Have so much success.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
That is like, I'm so sick of this era. I'm
so tired of it. I'm so tired of hearing he
always gets to the playoffs. I'm so tired of hearing
he's never subbed five hundred off And I understand it completely.
And now you go to the man behind the curtain,
Aaron Rodgers on his third team in four years and
he's old and he's talented, and maybe it works, maybe
(05:11):
a dozen't, But I think the Cowboys have a little
bit of a grace period. At least there's some good
will with Brian Schottenheimer. The Steelers are like, I don't know,
it's our best player is holding out. Our quarterback is
the oldest player in the league with which we have
no experience, with no backstory, with no relationship with We
will destroy him the second he throws an incomplete pass.
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We have no growth period at all. We need to
win now, and we need to win a playoff game now.
So I don't know. I think it's the Steelers. I
think their training camp is going to be fascinating. I
don't know if TJ. Watt's going to be there. Najie
Harris is gone, Aaron Rodgers is there, George Pickens is gone,
and it's all the orchestration of Mike Tomlin, who the
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media treats like a god, and the Steelers are ready
for some serious results.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think it's them.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
One of the more fascinating things that occurs when I,
as Kyle loves to hear that I sign up for
these little publication interviews, is like when I go on
a Steelers.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Podcast if you will.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
They always ask me like, well, this is what's happening locally,
and they're in our opinion of Mike Tomlin, what's the
national narrative? And I always like, no other team or
market does that. They care so much about what their
head coach is seen as nationally versus because they understand
what their microscope or their little snow globe looks like.
In Pittsburgh, it's one of the most intense environments to
be in. That against the Cadallas Cowboys is a crazy
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thing to say. Coming up on the show, we have
Ryan Fitzpatrick coming on from the golf tournament. He's participating
in this week's American Century Classic golf tournament.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
So here's a question.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Which is a better past your prime past time to
pick up past your prime pastime? To say that sometimes
best to pick up is it golf, mantai or pickleball.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
I got a new found love for golf.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I'm not saying that I am a golfer, but watching
professional golfers actually compete it's actually an art.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But I just came from Utah.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I just moved to California from Utah, and Utah loves
pick a ball, and I picked it up over there,
and let me tell you, I love playing pick a ball.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
I'm not saying that I'm great, but I will say this.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
The thing I hate about playing pick the balls because
I come from a football background. Jamie and KB, you know,
there's like when you're in a game, right and you
look across the across the sideline, you start to.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Measure people out. He's like, there's a reason why.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Back in the old days used to have that big,
old white cowboy collar.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
It's to make you look more manly.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
And sometimes when you watch these guys coming out of
the tunnel, you're like, oh, that guy's that guy's gonna
be mean. That guy's come without even playing against the guy.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
The thing I hate about pick a ball is somebody
could look.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
Like they just came from Whole Foods and they go
across the court on you and they just start murdering you,
kind of like how Kyle did the first hour in
that Little Dan that Dan Trivia thing. It's so unpredictable, Okay,
and so I'd like to step on I'm not just
stepping out.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I'm used to stepping on the.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
Court and looking at people and start to analyze them, like, oh,
I got this person. I got I can definitely beat
this person. That doesn't happen in pick a ball. But
that's so the beauty about it is everybody can play it,
and it starts to get really intense. And for me
and my family, it gets intense. And we just have
one rule. Don't put me and my wife on the
same team, because then it starts, we start arguing and it.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Just gets way too competitive. So I got to say,
pick a ball.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
It's pickaball. It's fun, it's easy, and it's cheap. There
you go, golf, listen. Golf is so hard, Golf is
so time consuming, golf is so expensive. There's a lot
that's wonderful about it, and I adore it. I like
being outside. You can be with your friends, you can gamble,
you can drink, you can smoke, you can do all
these incredible things. It's great. It takes four to five hours.
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It's expensive as hell, and more than anything, it is
frustrating as hell. I don't want to spend my free
time on a Sunday morning. If I'm going to take
it away from my family throwing clubs and swearing, I'm
pissed off the entire time I'm golfing because I'm not
good and I don't have the time to become good.
Pick a ball is nothing but giant ping pong. Think.
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Think a few steps over here, Dink. You can do
the same things. You can drink and smoke and gamble
and all that stuff if you want to do it,
but you're do it on a concise, little court. You
can much more easily play co ed. You can play
with kids, and you can play in a half an
hour if you want, for twenty bucks. It is so
much easier for golf. For all its glory and all
its prestige and all its fancy clubs, it does nothing
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but piss you off, and I'm tired of being pissed
off in my free time. I think it's pick a ball,
and I think it's pick a ball on a running way, runaway, short, fun, cheap,
easy done.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
I'm in I disagree wholeheartedly with both of you. I
do think it's golf. And the question is past your prime?
Pastor prime? Do you know what you have when you're
past your prime? A lot of time? Okay, so I
don't need the game to go for thirty minutes. I
don't need to show up, play and get done.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
And walk away.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
I need something to take six hours. If I'm past
your prime and I'm done doing my regular day job.
I want close proximity to great ocean views, which you
can do while you're golfing, or frankly just great being
outside all the time. I'm great, six hours done, great, Uh,
drink cart Like proximity to a transfusion is fine with me,
and then a fantastic lunch at the end of the
golf round. Pickleball is stressing me out right now because
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it's everyone's getting real intense about it, and all of
a sudden, I'm seeing the former athletes do it, and
they're all jacked up a mountain dew about like, yeah,
we're so good at it. I don't need that in
my past my prime activity. I just need to be
average at something. And I think, Kyle, if golf's going
to make you have that much rage, so I don't
think that's a golf issue. I think that's like, maybe
you have to take something a little less seriously when
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you go to do the past your prime activity.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Listen, I've seen some stuff out on the golf course
one of the biggest viral videos this week is some
guy getting beat up and thrown into a pond by
an ex hockey player on a golf course. It's terrible.
People get mad out there, they get angry out there,
and frankly, like Jamie, I don't know where you're coming
up with these these hours and hours of times. You
got three kids at home, you got a demanding job.
I don't understand the time. And I'll speak to my brethren.
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My dude's in their four You work here all week,
you're working your butt off. You're not away from your
family and your kids. You can go to your wife
and kids and say, yeah, babe, I'm going to need
six hours on Sunday to not only hit the range
before the round, to play an entire eighteen and then
have drinks afterwards. Like where, how do you justify that
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in your household? I want more importantly, why do you
want to do that? You want to be away from
your family that long on the weekend play an hour
of pickleball from a golf course.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
I think Kyle, you yourself lectured us earlier this week about
the devils in the details. The quote literally says past
your prime I'm not saying right now. The most golf
my husband does right now is when he packs a
suitcase has go on a work trip. He doesn't do
it in the state of California. It's not right now.
It's like when I am done and the kids are
in high school or in college, and.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I have six hours, I don't just want to have.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
An activity that takes up thirty minutes. What am I
doing for the next twelve and a half hours of
my day? I want the activity that takes me an
hour to drive to six hours of my life. I
get to have lunch and a beverage and then I
get to go home.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Do you great, baby? Do you play pickleball? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:05):
I do? Are you with the ground like I just casually?
Speaker 3 (12:07):
I'm not good?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
I just I can hit it. Anybody can be good.
You can learn in two minutes.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
So there's two types of pickleball players, right, so you
have a teammate. Some they allow both teammates to come
up to the kitchen, which is that little line. Or
there's players like me where you get so competitive, where
I told my wife just stand the back.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
I'll stay at the kitchen and.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Get everything that comes across this net and we start.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Going, so what type of player are you? KB?
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Are you want to stand in the kitchen or you
share share the wealth.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
I'm in the kitchen. I passed the line, I break
all the rules. If you put me on the back line,
I'm done. But again, I would much rather do that
try to step up to the fifty seven hundred tee
of the round I'm playing and hook my four hundredth
ball into the water. Again, I just I'm over golf.
I've tried my whole life to get into it. Maybe
some day and when I don't have kids and wife,
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I'll rededicate myself to it. But right now, there's absolually
no way I can justify the time I've only.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Played pickleball one time in my life. And as the
someone person who was that guy's teammate when I played pickleball,
I can tell you what kind of team at Kyle
Brandt is. We approach this segment on television and Kyle's like.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
It's fine, we'll make good TV.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Very quickly upon our walk out of the tunnel. During
our intro, did I realize that this was not just
a regular TV segment. Kyle Brandt was actively trying to
teach eat the skill set and the advantage points to
winning at pickleball, and I was like, pulled up, I've
never done this before.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
He takes it more seriously.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Than his just thirty minutes I'm out on the court
stance that he's trying to tell us that he's all
about No, that guy was in it to win it,
and he was actively dedicated to make this absolute rookie
who's just trying to mess around and have a funny
TV segment. We were trying to win and we did not.
Speaker 1 (13:41):
Kyle, So I do apologize. No, that's all right, But
normally I have four or five gimlets when I play,
so I am a completely different person. I'm not allowed
to drink on TV as of yet from my contract.
So I was very serious that there. Yay, we got
to rework that for you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Okay, coming up, Yeah, I'm GMFP no because there's only
one guy allowed in the kitchen and you both are
just at the nest right there.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's right. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Coming up on our show is it for throw Down Thursday?
Speaker 1 (14:06):
We have a guest.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
We are gonna have a segment later We're go teams
are gonna go from worse to first, we got to
peg him against each other from last season and find
the team that is gonna come out of the basement
and rise up to the kitchen, if you will, and
cook themselves a gourmet meal in the playoffs next season.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
Maybe they'll do it.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Kyle, what else?
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Well, tell you what else? Live from Tahoe fits Magic.
He's coming in and you know you love his takes.
You love him on Amazon, you love his beard, you
love his great story.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
We love it all, and we're gonna ask him it
all right after this, there he is, Yeah, he looks great.
I can't tell. Oh he moved. Look at him with
those beautiful trees.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
Right after this, Fitzpatrick throws for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
For all the ladies out there, I'm taking I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
May they like playing with Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
It's nothing, I mean, I think we just have to
stay humble good. He's gonna roll with it.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
We gotta make sure we know how to handle success
and all those things.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
Quicks it right on the money, Tua Trutch on the
field for the first time.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Even Fitch is the motivation.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Well, this is magic.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
Send chest, there's mine's a and for my wife, get
the kids to bed.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
It's getting late. He's here. We love them, You love him,
everybody loves them, and we love him, especially when he's
coming from a place of tranquility, specifically a gorgeous golf
tournament on a wonderful day. And look at him. Ryan Fitzpatrick,
how we feeling, baby, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Yeah, feel great.
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I am in Lake Tahoe at the American Century Championship,
ready to play some golf, even though you hate it, Kyle,
I'm here, I'm ready.
Speaker 8 (15:46):
I'm ready to compete.
Speaker 7 (15:48):
It is absolutely gorgeous out here right now, and we're.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
Going to ask a lot about the tournament. We have
a lot of things to get into, but I'm going
to make the sharp left turn fits from Tahoe to Cleveland, Ohio,
because they have the most fascinating quarterback room right now,
the Cleveland Browns. Just for everybody watching at home, Joe
Flacco is there, Kenny Pickett's there, who you traded actual
draft capital for, and a player a third round rookie,
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a fifth round rookie. And that's not to mention Deshaun Watson,
who's making almost fifty million bucks this year and has
been publicly disavowed by the owner, how is this quarterback
room going to shake out? And what do you make
of it?
Speaker 7 (16:25):
Yeah, it's an insane situation right now. I think, you know,
if I was a betting man, Joe Flacco is going
to go into the year as the starter. You know,
he has history there, He's had a lot of success there,
and I think it's a great story. He's a guy
that will bring calm. He's a guy that's going to
be able to get them off on the right foot.
And then you know, as the season goes along, when
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you draft guys early and when you have young, exciting guys,
and I know they're excited about Gabriel, you know, we
could see him inserted into the lineup, say week seven,
Week eight, week nine, if they've lost a few games.
You know, as a guy that's been a bridge quarterback
in his career, usually that's about the time you look
at the bye week and that's about the time you
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get replaced. But I'm excited to see Joe and you know,
he did such a great job in Cleveland a few
years ago and looking forward to seeing what he does
again this year.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
I can imagine you have so much experience and you're
able to pull that parallel so beautifully fits. You also
know what it's like to jump in and out of
locker rooms and organizations and make it work no matter
where you're at. Aaron Rodgers now has that as a
new skill set because he tried to make it work
last year with the Jets and now he's in Pittsburgh.
How have you felt about this journey for Rogers and
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what is this fit like for him now in the
Mike Tomlin led Pittsburgh system.
Speaker 7 (17:45):
You know, it's an interesting one for him in the
tail end of his career because he's one of the
most talented quarterbacks to ever play the game. And I was, actually,
he's up here playing, so I was talking to him yesterday.
He's the only remaining member of the two thousand and
five draft class that I was a part of.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
Yeah, and I'll tell you I was.
Speaker 7 (18:03):
I threw some passes at Ty than you this year
and I don't know how he's still doing it. I mean,
it is absolutely amazing. Yeah, the team and you know,
aside from the the stuff the Pat McAfee and all
the conspiracy theories and those types of things, when he's
one on one and when he's in a team setting,
in a locker room setting. He is very charismatic. He's
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going to be able to win those guys over. They
know that he brings a certain level of play with him.
And you know what have we said about Pittsburgh since
Roethlisberger left. They've got a great defense, but they don't
have a quarterback. They keep trying to find a quarterback.
So this is a good situation for him to land
into and to see what can happen there.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yeah, the two Jamie's points you said, you know, in
your long career, you've been in a lot of locker
rooms and one of those locker rooms was with the
Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Now Josh Allen the NFL MVP. Last season he led
them to the AFC Championship.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
You being a former Buffalo Bill, you knowing him very well.
What does he and the Buffalo Bills need to do
to only make it to the Super Bowl? But it
always seems when it gets to Kansas City, how do
they get past that?
Speaker 7 (19:10):
Interesting enough? I talked to Josh yesterday too. This American
Century Championship is crawling with qbs. You know, he's he's
had a lot on his plate this offseason, a little wedding,
which you know, yeah, that can be good play, that
can calm things down, and a lot of traveling different things.
But Josh is such a great leader, and I think
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what you've seen over the last few years, especially this
is his team. This team has taken on his personality.
You even see some of the things that the rookies
say coming in. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this
guy came up to me and introduced himself and made
me feel part of it. They have something really special
going on in Buffalo right now, and it's those pesky Chiefs.
But I'll tell you what, and Kyle's I think the
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same thing. I think this is our year, baby. I
think this is our year to get over those Chiefs
in the playoffs and do it because they've been so close.
And there's a lot of enthusias as I'm around him
and Josh, you know, MVP.
Speaker 8 (20:07):
Now, Josh is a really special player.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
I know. Well, it'd be very cool if he got
the the wedding ring and the Super Bowl ring, like
back to back. Like that. That is called just being
on a heater. And never mind what I think. I'm
sure you've seen it fits that that Peyton's been talking
that he relates to Josh and he had to get
over his enemy, and he finally did it. You mentioned Josh,
you've seen him, You've seen Aaron. You are at the
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American Century Celebrity Golf Champion of Tahoe. Never mind who's
good or bad at golfing fits because you know, I
hate that stuff. Who's interesting to talk to, who's interesting
to see? Like, give us drop some more names. We
live for this stuff, like just take us around the
around the course.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Well it it's an insane lineup.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
And the cool thing about this is you don't know
who you're gonna get paired with every day. And so
you know, day one, which is the tournament, starts on
Friday for us and with Vrabel and DeMarcus Ware which
marcusly do Rabel his kids come. Uh, you know, it's
so much fun to play with him. But then it's
it's the comedians. It's Colin Jost, it's Larry the Cable,
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the guy, Larry the Cable Guy, Nate pargot Si. You know,
last night Jacoben plays in the event and he did
a little set for everybody, and so just to be
able to dip into all these different you know, not
just football, not just baseball. A Miles teller last night,
it's a pretty cool Tjoshi who just retired. Matthew could
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Chuck to get to talk to him for a little bit.
It's a star studded lineup and it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Absolutely, it seems so. But when I look at the list, though,
and I'm just literally going down the tea times for
these guys, every name I see, I'm like, oh, veteran,
Oh veteran. When you're a vent you got the time
to golf in the summer. You're not going to see
Jen Daniels on that list because he's a young guy.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
He's trying to work it out.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
He's trying to make sure his second year goes well
with the Commanders. He led the Washington all the way
to the NFC title game last season. What is the
league in for with Jen Daniels? Do you think in
the year two experience?
Speaker 7 (22:05):
You know, it was such an insane first year for him.
I think with Cliff Kingsbury, that's a great pairing. You know,
they're a great match for each other, and he just
he continued to do things throughout the year that rookies
shouldn't do. It wasn't just his athleticism and his ability
to escape the pocket, although those are things when you're
young that can help, but standing in there, you know,
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in the face of blitzers that are unblocked and throwing
dimes down the field, the way the team and really
the city rallied around him, the excitement surrounding them now,
it just hasn't been there in a long time.
Speaker 8 (22:38):
So, you know, with quarterbacks, it's interesting c J. Stroud.
We saw it last year.
Speaker 7 (22:42):
He took a step back and he had such an
amazing rookie year. I don't think that's going to happen
with Jayden. I think this team is too talented. I
think they've got a lot of great people around him.
Kingsbury really understands them, so I'm excited to see what happens.
But they are certainly a team that everybody wants to
play for now, which we haven't been able to say
in a long time, and certainly a team that is
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no longer circled as an automatic win. When you're going
to play Washington.
Speaker 4 (23:08):
FITZI I know you probably remember this, but I played
against you in twenty eighteen when you played for the
Bucks and you came to New Orleans and you threw
for like over four hundred yards and like four or
five touchdowns. Yeah, and fitsmagic and all of that stuff. Well,
there's a quarterback over there by the name of Baker
Mayfield who's been there for two years now on the
NFC South twice. What is it about Baker Mayfield. He's
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one of the most underrated quarterbacks in this league. What
is it about Baker Mayfield to you that stands out
the most.
Speaker 7 (23:38):
I'll tell you what. Baker's here as well. Doesn't have
a great golf game right now. Doesn't have a great
golf game. Okay, That's why I love him, because you
gravitate towards him. Just having some guys that I played
with and threw to in Tampa that are still there,
with Mike and Chris Godwin, they love the guy. He competes,
he gives him a chance, and you know that's going
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to be an interesting situation too, with losing Liam Cone
and having Josh guars Art and having been with a
new coordinator. Baker's really going to help him out. And Josh,
I was with him in Miami's a really smart guy.
He's a Yale guy, So that's going to be see
how that plays out. But when you sit, when you
sit and look at the quarterbacks around the league, the
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must watch like must see TV guys, Baker's right up
there with all of them. I say, he's probably, you know,
Josh Allen, Baker, Mayfield, Lamar Jackson one two three, probably
for me. But my son Jake Baker's his favorite quarterback
and he's now changed his name to Jaker.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
I love that. Jacob Fitzpatrick, that's awesome. I think it's
got a ring to it. Before you go fits, let's
finish with golf. You know, I've heard Charles Barkley talk
about before everybody makes fun of his swing, and he says, listen,
I've been the NBA a VP, I've been to the finals.
I've played against Michael Jordan. But when I'm standing over
that golf ball, I am so terrify. It's like I'm
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not even myself. When you're on the first t and
all the famous people there and the movie stars and
this guy and that guy and that girl, like do
you find a calm or are you terrified as well?
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Yeah, I'm just a very average golfer, and so The
problem here at the American Century is the people that
are standing around watching think that you're professionals. They think
they're at a PGA event, and so they're standing in
places could not be standing. No, No, I think that's
what You just hope that you get through the weekend
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without hitting anybody with the ball, and if you do
hit him with the ball, that they don't get hurt.
And you could sign a glove and give it to them.
But I think that's a number one thing. And why
I am nervous out here, it's not because I don't
want to be embarrassed and top a ball or hit
one in the water. It's because I did not want
to hit some you know, seven year old lady that
sits out there to see George Kittle.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
And I'm sorry I left you with a permanent welt
on your back. But here's an autographed glove from Ryan
Fitzpatrick to make you feel better. Fitz tell us about
Whole seventeen because that's where they go nuts, right, Like
what's that? Like?
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Yeah, it's insane.
Speaker 7 (26:16):
So they throw a basketball hoop on there and you
get to shoot a little bit. But that's essentially the
whole all the fans kind of congregate around seventeen. It's
right on the water, so you're going to see fifty
to one hundred boats out there. You're going to see
some other things. They've got my eighteen year old son
on the bag, so he's going to learn some things,
ladies and bikinis and seeing things he probably hasn't seen before.
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It is, it's electric. It's so much fun. The wind
is really swirling, so it's not necessarily the easiest hole
to hit two. And they'll let you know if you
don't put it on the green, they'll give you a
few booze.
Speaker 8 (26:51):
But it is.
Speaker 7 (26:52):
It is an awesome spectacle and really fun to be
a part of.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
It's great.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Well, you were an awesome dad man then we were
all parents here and we love that you're doing that
and participating like that. So hit him high green and
fair ways, try not to take anybody's eye out fits
and say hi to Jaker for us. You're the man,
Thanks for coming on.
Speaker 8 (27:11):
All right, you guys are the best.
Speaker 3 (27:12):
Thank you, you're a man. Brother.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Thanks see if it's take care brother.
Speaker 3 (27:17):
G MFB rolls on.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
But we got a new friend on the screen, MANSI,
Look who's joining.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
DMan played books played Arizona Car.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Nos.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I mean we played a preseason game, right, Chase.
Speaker 5 (27:32):
I hated going against the Car that was twenty eighteen.
Speaker 9 (27:35):
Brother, Yeah, hey, jug but nice Nicosis explore too explosive
on this game, because we're going to go against.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You a Jammie exactly, all right, So Chase Evans here,
Kyle Brandton, New York goes to our team, and now
you and I are a team. We're gonna play this game.
Since the NFL realigned its divisions back in two thousand
and two, a team has gone from worst to first
in its division twenty times. As we take a look
at last year's last place teams in the North on
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the AFC NFC side, you got the b and the Bears, respectively,
and so on and so forth. You know these names
because they were kind of at the top of the
draft for twenty twenty five this spring. So we're gonna
tee up a segment that we are calling Chasing First
in honor of our friend here, Chase Edmunds. So here
he is, he's here to help. We're gonna give a
team that finished in last place in their division last year,
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and then thirty seconds on the clock to make your
case why that team will be going from worst to first. So,
Kyle and Chase, you're up first. Your available teams for
this round are either I'm gonna give you two teams.
Once your name comes up, you have to pick that
team and make a case for it, and then the
other person has to make the case with the other team. Okay,
so we're gonna flip this coin. Kyle and Chase, you're up.
(28:47):
You have to pick between the forty nine Ers and
the Giants. Okay, so who's ever face we land on?
Pick your team and make your case worse to first.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
Chase, you're up, first.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Pick.
Speaker 9 (28:59):
I'm ready, brother, give me give me Big Blue to Giants.
I'm gonna make the case that the Jobs can go
from worse to first.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
Yes, they Giants can go from.
Speaker 9 (29:06):
Worse to first because I believe, arguably will have the
best defensive line unit in football. I get really nostalgic
forty nine ers feeling when the Niners had drafted Nick
Bosa with the second pick.
Speaker 5 (29:18):
Do you know where they ended up? Kyle that year?
Fer Bowl? There we go, and I'm not saying I'm
not saying that baby go go to the Super Bowl.
But I do believe that with the best defensive.
Speaker 9 (29:28):
Line unit in football, you have a factor where you
can have a lot of plays that just get messed up,
and that's something that Xen knows cannot solve.
Speaker 1 (29:37):
Well, n this is great. Yeah, I thought you were
going to jump on the Niners. You went for I
feel like the harder one. So that love a.
Speaker 3 (29:44):
Gets like that.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
This made my job easy. In fact, start the clock.
I'll go with the Niners right now because I don't
even believe that they were in last place last year.
I think we researched that wrong. That can't possibly be true.
I don't care who was hurt. I know Shanahan was
their coach. I know they had Warner and Bosa and Kittle.
And listen, Christian mc affrey's going to be back. We're
going to find him, get him, get back in the mix.
(30:07):
Are you really that enchanted by anybody else in the
NFC West? Are you?
Speaker 8 (30:13):
You know?
Speaker 1 (30:13):
I love the Cardinals, he love the Seahawks. Are the
Rams just completely infallible? They're definitely gonna win the No,
Shannan's been there, They've been to two damn Super Bowls.
You tell me they can't win the West. You're crazy,
let's go.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
I like that.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
I like that start, Chase. I like the fact that
you brought you brought up that pass rush. That pass
rush is gonna be something to.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
Deal with you.
Speaker 5 (30:34):
I agree with you, that man, Ti. You know I
should have brought up who I should have brought up?
Speaker 8 (30:38):
College of Scataboo.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
Yes, you want to take it one second. You don't
need thirty.
Speaker 2 (30:46):
Reason enough, reason enough that the Giants could make the jump.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Okay, Manti.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
Our sculpture is the Raiders and the Patriots. Okay, So
whose ever face pops the first? You get to pick
and then make your argument. And I swear if I go.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
On, are we frozen on my face?
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's like a half davy faced all right, that's fine,
screw it. I'll go with the New Engle Patriots.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Listen. I am a fan.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
I am a Mike Rabelstan if you will, if you're gonna,
if you use if you're a kid that uses terminology
like that, you know what happened to me. In late April,
I got the distinct opportunity to go to Green Bay
and be a part of the draft experience, a draft
in which Will Campbell was drafted as the best offensive lineman.
He comes across the stage and I just saw the
tears flowing and it was emotion that I love. But
(31:30):
what I love secondarily was the rage that he had
in his voice in the protection and the dedication to
his quarterbacks. Whether it be at LSU or now in
New England. I think Bill Campbell will help anchor an
offensive line that is going to protect Rick May. We
will have an excellent second season. Plustefon Digs's there, And
I love Mike Crable.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Get him, sister, Huh say that?
Speaker 7 (31:50):
All right?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Star m'clock. I got the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (31:54):
So this is the thing about the Raiders is some
people know how to lose and see some people know
how how to win.
Speaker 3 (31:59):
Pete Carroll knows how to win. He's done it at
all levels.
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Now you bring in Genal Smith that understands what it
means to win with Pete Carroll, that's going to allow
that locker room to understand what that dynamic looks like.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
And then you bring Ashton Genty.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
Now, I hope Ashton Genty stands straight up because the
AFC westo stand straight up just like him, because he's.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Going to run a lot of a lot of the arts.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Drop Bowers is there, that play action past dynamics is
going to be there, but people don't realize that the
defense is going to be.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
Something to mess with.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I was about to go, as you're going, I realize
in this game now, and I wonder Kyle and Chase
if you can agree. All of a sudden, You're like,
I'm making this sweetly optimistic argument for this team that
has to go up against the Bills twice year like that,
I just am like, it's a tough lift. And I
feel the same about the Giant, essentially every team that
we've heard so far.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
But the front of this segment is trying to figure
out the moment when the person doesn't believe the stuff
that they're they're just preaching it. Sometimes you can tell
they actually do believe it, but sometimes they're like, you're
full of me. You don't think they're gonna win.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
It's fun.
Speaker 2 (33:00):
Kyle off camera when Manti was going, I was.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
Over here Leary on the wall like this, just thinking
about like, well the worst is yet to come.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Get ready, here we go.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Okay, you guys are up again. You guys are up
again too. Bears and Saints. Cha all right, you know
what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
I'm gonna take the Saints, all right, start the clock quickly.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You know why? Because Kellen Moore is going to be
the next Sean McVay. He's gonna be the greatest coach
we have ever seen. He's gonna make Sean McVay look
like Jim Tom Sule, like we're gonna just coach our
pants off. Because I don't know. If there's a quarterback
in New Orleans, Tyler Shook, that might be the starter.
Sometimes you catch lightning at the bottle. I think Shook's
(33:57):
gonna be brock Perty. I think More is going to
be Sean McVay. And I'll ask again, are you really
terrified of anything in the South Tampa Bay? I may
eighty five Bears, No, the Saints, And you can tell
I really believe what I'm saying. You gotta take the
Bears now.
Speaker 5 (34:11):
Chase, Absolutely, Kyle. I appreciate you return in the favor.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
You got it.
Speaker 9 (34:19):
You guys can go ahead to start my clock. Give
me the Chicago Bears going first in the Nfcwhere Ben
Johnson coming there? I think he's gonna revamp Caleb Williams
for his year or two you talked about when Ben was.
Speaker 5 (34:29):
With Jared Goff.
Speaker 9 (34:30):
Jared Goff had career high seventy three percent completion percentage,
thirty seven touchdowns.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
They revented that entire offensive line. Kayler's knocking against that, Kyle, I.
Speaker 9 (34:39):
Think your Bears are going to be really in due
for a really good year in the NFC North this year.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, what about my Saints in the South though?
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Hey, you know me, I'm a little biased from the
Tampa Bays. I'm so glad you took the Saints for me.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (34:53):
I actually thought Kyle was going to swing for that approach,
which is just a blatant takedown of the other three
teams instead of trying to figure out how the actual
team could make it work.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Prepose it.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
Welcome work out there, did great? Great. Yeah, you know
what it makes me think, like when the first round
of power rankings come out preseason, I'm sure the Eagles
will be one. I wonder who will thirty two be
because I think last year it was either the Panthers
or the Patriots, and a lot of people have optimism
for them this year. I don't want to cast this
(35:23):
on the Saints. But there's just a lot of questions
and the Derek Carr thing was very unusual. So we'll
see mat Tie and Jamie. You are up again. You
guys have Browns and Titans.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
I think we do have the Browns and the Titans.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Come home.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Go for it. Go, this is gonna be funny.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Come on, you have to get stuck with the I'm
gonna I'm gonna take on the Browns, okay, because you
have a star my clock.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
I'm not doing this any.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
Earlier than I have to. You have a former Coach
of the Year and Kevin Stefanski, who is a brilliant mind.
And you know what he has, if you want to
spin it in a positive light, an embarrassment of riches.
He has literally an entire deck of cards of quarterbacks
that he could just pick from. He could play, won
a game, and he would still have a left over
one for the next week that they have to play
a game. Okay, at this point, we're just going to
rewrite the rules for quarterbacks that you can carry five.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
I don't think the Browns have to make any decisions.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
About their quarterbacks because they're just gonna play a different
guy every quarter and that's how they're going.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
To be team.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
That's how they're gonna take down the Baltimore Ravens. And
you know their defense is pretty good.
Speaker 4 (36:21):
Rock them up, Rock them up, Scott my clock, we're
gonna go back to back on I'm talking about quarterbacks.
We talked about quarterbacks. You have a lot of quarterbacks
in your room.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3 (36:31):
There's only one.
Speaker 4 (36:32):
His name is cam Whard and he's number one, and
they're gonna be number one in their division. Why because
they got cam Ward And he was talking about Calvin Ridley. Now,
Calvin really runs some of the best routes you ever
you ever seen. You have Tyler Lockett, you have Tony Pollard,
and oh, by.
Speaker 3 (36:45):
The way, you have a really really good defense.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
That defensive front, it's been they've been solid for a
number of years. So Brian Callahan all he needed was
a quarterback. He got in in the first round with
the first overall pick, with the number one on their team.
His name is cam Ward and there's gonna be a
lot of touchdowns score for the Tennessee Titans with that duo.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Oh wow done, Calvin.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Really some of the segments should be called heavy lifting.
I feel like mad in the squad wrack right now.
Six hundred pounds on the front squad.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
That's spot. I love it, I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Don't hurt yourself, right, Kyle and Chase, you're up. You
will be teed up now as we see. Oh no,
there's no more teams.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
Boom, We're done. I want to keep going again, kp
She wanted more do the Saints again?
Speaker 2 (37:32):
No, I think we should redo it just for the
New Orleans Saints, that.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Is, Kyle Tyler, shuck the Super Bowl.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
You g h oddly adding that voodoo magic while you
had brother, We're going to need a lot more than that.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Yeah, you're right, all right, Chase Edmonds, thanks so much, GMFB, everybody.
That was a hard game. I'm not sure you're going
to see that one again.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
All the program,
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