December 2, 2025 • 35 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Manti Te’o, Willie Colon and Mike Garafolo reacting to the Patriots victory over the Giants. Buyin or Keep Tryin - The Chicago Bears and Ben Johnson’s mentality? The Eagles turning around their offense? Jaguars head coach Liam Coen joins the show and talks about his goals of the season, the message he sends to his players ahead of their next matchup, and Trevor Lawrence’s presence on their football team.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper. Some
business to attend to here on GMFB. Indeed, it is
a Tuesday, December second. Kyle Brandt is in parts known.
He is on his way to Chicago. I believe to
hallis Hall to interview the starting quarterback, and we will
hear from both him and Caleb Williams later this week.
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I'm sure across programming here on NFL Network that, therefore, Mike,
g and Willie are in New York. You guys got
your hands on a New York Post.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are we covering the football these days?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
On the backpage of the post? Michy, this is a baseball.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Town, Jamie Ye, yeah, Sarah combined, we're not going to
do the record.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So we're talking about baseball here, So we'll do our
best to bring the football. I'm usually angry runs on Tuesday, no, Kyle,
so we'll call it slightly perturbed.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Slightly perturbed, exactly joyful Tuesdays. No, how dare we? I
think it's hating tomorrow. So those who are tuned in
just hang with us until then. Let's see what happened
on Monday night football.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Shall we?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Giants Pats a classic matchup. Patriots are a comfortable eleven
and two Giants uncomfortable two and eleven. We'll talk about
both of these teams now. They both hit the buye
very strange late week fourteen by to face each other
on Monday night, and now you get a break everybody.
Let's hear from both quarterbacks after this Patriots went, I.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
Think, you know, one to win before the bye. We're
trying to, you know, want to win every game. And yeah,
the bye week's huge. It felt like a long time coming,
but uh, you know we're here and we got some
important football after the bye week.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
So we're looking forward to. You'll stay in and getting.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Healthy and having guys you'll want to get better, and
I'm looking forward to you'll get some guys back and
then make a uh you'll make a push. When football,
you gonna strut the count down the road.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
This is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm
in the pocket or outside the pocket. Like it's I've
played this way my whole entire life. This shouldn't be
like any shocker at anybody if you've along with my
career and we're not playing like I'm not playing soccer
out here, like you're gonna get hit. Things happen. It's
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part of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Soccer players are like what we do, We hit each other.
Keep your arms and feet inside the cart, Jackson Dart,
at least that's what your quarter your coach would like
you to do. That's on the NFC side of things.
Giants wouldn't be on the screen. On the AFC side.
The Patriots now have a two and a half game
lead just within their division on the Buffalo Bills. They
are eleven and two. They both had ten wins with
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the Broncos heading into last night, but now they take
over once again the number one overall seed in the AFC.
The Patriots winners of ten straight after last night's beat
of the Giants, best record in the NFL. When you
look at this game, Manti kind of look at that
quarterback with the cutoff leave, very jarring to go for
the cutoff leave on Drake, made of the turtleneck on
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Jackson Dart.
Speaker 9 (03:00):
A complete different right, and you're talking about a complete
difference in this New England Patriots offense.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
How good is that offense?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Man?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Can anybody at this table, Jame, can you tell me
who Drake May's favorite target isn't?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Can't?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And I don't think he wants to disclose either.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Can you guys tell me who his favorite target is?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It doesn't matter because it all equates to this, is it?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And that's what's so crazy about Drake May and this offense? Right?
Speaker 9 (03:30):
He threw to eight different targets last night, and every
one of them had three or four catches on the
night Kyle Williams came into that game that that touchdown
to you saw on this one right here, Kyle Williams
had fourteen plays.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He only ran nine routes. He kind of touched on
on one of them. That's Drake May.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Like when we played Julio Jones, when I was with
the Saints and we played Julio Jones with Atlanta Focus,
we had coverages based on where this man was. If
it was doubles two by two, we had a certain
coverage fils three by one, depending on where this man
was in that formation, we had a certain coverage. Why
cause we're trying to take him away? Or are you
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going to take away in the New England Patriots. Are
you going to take away Stefan Diggs? Are you going
to take away Booty? Are you going to take away
Kyle Williams? Are you going to take away Hunter? Henry Drake May.
I call him the Iron Chef. The guy just keeps
cooking and he keeps serving to different guys every single week.
And he might have a secret ingredient. There is really
no secret ingredient. The only secret is is they're going
to continue to get yards and score touchdowns no matter
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who you guard, no matter who you target, He's targeting everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And that's for me.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
What poses the biggest streat about the New England Patriots
offense with Drake May at the helm right now, is
a guy doesn't have a go to. His only goal
to is making touchdowns with different receivers. So, Willie, when
I look at this Patriots offense, they're lethal, They're very,
very disciplined, and they don't have a favorite, they don't
have a giveaway and so for a defense, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I agree with you, man, the offense has been coming
at a high level. But I got to give a
shout out to their defense man. Their defense has been
solid and consistent. They've they've held offenses to twenty three
points of fewer over the last ten games. Giants last
night got boxed up and sent home with their cleats.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
In the hand.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They held the Giants that what four to eleven on
third down. And when you talk about with this defense
really really does well, is they play with no ego.
They all rally to the football, they get after the quarterback,
whether it's Harold Landry or is the Christian Christian Goanzalez
on the back end. They played solid defense all through
all four quarters. And if you're the Patriots right now,
this is the type of random football you need when
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you want to travel to other.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Stadiums and make us at half statement games.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This hit on the sideline, man, Jackson Dart, I got
no words for you. Get out of bounds like this
isn't the defense fault, This is your fault. Defense, hunt
the football, seaball get ball. And when you get opportunity
to make a statement hit like that at home, this
just gets.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
The fans rallied up. This gets them fired up.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So congratulations to the Patriots defense man. They've been money
good thus far, and you need them this time of year.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
I got to ask you, brother, that's an offensive guy.
What is your reaction to when offensive guys do this
to a defender. I get you're trying to protect your teammate,
but it was a play that was perfectly clean. Instead
of getting on your teammate, offensive guys tend to get
on the defender for making a great play. What is
your take on those types of plays? Because there are
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there are some WILLI where You're like, man, that's a
dirty play, and I get that, But when I see
old linemen and tight ends coming and charging a defender
after that, I'm like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I love to know your thoughts. Will you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
First of all, it's part of our creed to defend
out quarterback at all times, even if he's in.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
A parking lot he gets hit bost shopping guard.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But nevertheless, you do you do have to tell the
young fellow when you get to the sideline and say,
hey man, when the ball's in your hand, you're alive,
and this is in practice, they will hit you. And
he has to be a lot smarter. And Jackson daughter
is a young quarterback. I understand this is his play style,
but he has to understand he's the face of this franchise.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
They expect him to play another.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ten years with the Giant, and if you continue to
play like this, that won't happen.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So he has to be smart, get.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Out of bounds, protect himself, protect the football, and just
play cleaner. This is dumb, so young fella just being you.
Gotta be smarter, though.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Let's understand I started the Patriots. I want to come
back to that in a second, but let's start with
the Patriots. Let's understand what kind of a hammer lock
they have on the AFC right now.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
If they're on a buy.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
If the Bills win next week and then the Bills
beat the Patriots the week after that, and then the
Bills beat the Browns and the Patriots lose to the
Baltimore Ravens, the Patriots are still in first place heading
into Week seventeen in the NFL. That's what kind of
lead they have in the AFC East. That we're looking
at the potential division champions here, and they look good
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on a number of fronts. All those receivers were talking about.
I'm old enough to remember when the Patriots needed help
with the receiver position so much so that they were
going after Brandon Ayuk last year, trying to make a
trade for him before the season last year. Now, all
of a sudden, they've got more than they can possibly
handle it the position. Great job by Mike Brabil, Great
job by Elliott Wolf and the front office getting that
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position set. Now back to the Giants, Back to Jackson Dart.
I don't know what he's trying to prove. We're not
playing soccer out there. Yeah, Jackson, we're not playing soccer
out there. We're playing football. We're playing full contact football.
He just came off a concussion. I mean, I'll go
back to a month ago when he first got the
starting role and he came in, he was taking hits,
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and I reported that they were already talking to him,
and at the time, Brian Dabele was the head coach.
They were already talking to him about not taking hits.
And daball had had that previously with Josh Allen, who
is still learning that lesson as wet.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Josh Allen is a lot bigger.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Than Jackson Dart, and he's taken shots that they don't
want him to take. I don't know what it's going
to take for him to go. You know what, I
don't have to prove anything here. I need to be
able to protect myself and stay on the field, to
protect my team, to protect my job security.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
When is that going to happen. If it's not going
to happen after this game last night, I don't know when.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
And it's just going to take so long that there's
going to be bumps along the way and bumps and bruises. Jackson, Police,
protect yourself, Pyle, you don't have to prove anything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kafa's over there trying to talk to Jackson Dart about this.
Manti real quick. Just on the tone that Vrabel continues
to exude from the sideline for the Patriots, it's celebrating
the special team touchdown. It's everything that he's brought the building.
But the roster is more by and large, very similar
to what they had last year. You really have to
look at what Rabel has brought to the table for
this Patriots team to go to eleven wins.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Well, we mentioned it. It's a selfless kind of attack.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
You know, nobody really cares who gets the ball, nobody
cares who gets the praise. It's all about what does
the Patriots do? Do we get the win. Do we
play the way that Coach Rabel wants to see us play?
And it's just so indicative of what we saw in
training camp. Right, you see coach Mike Rabel getting into
the scrap.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He's the guy at the bottom of the pile.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
So if you're a rookie or if you're a veteran
player like Stefan Diggs, and you see your head coach,
not the string coach, not that the trainer, the head
coach at the bottom of a pile, the head coach
that's in a walkthrough, that's doing the show team for
your offense. It's easy for a guy, right Willly, It's
easy for a guy to fall in line, Like if
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the leader of our crew is willing to go those
links to ensure victory for us and ensure it's success.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Why can't I do it?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
And when I watch his Patriots team, that's what I see,
from top to bottom is guys who understand that this
is the culture that is built here. Now, this is
the Mike Vrabel Patriots. It's a little edgy and there's
some passion, but there's also discipline in this whole thing.
And I think when you bring combined all of that
into a big part of gumbo.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You get the number one team in the AFC in
New England, Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Can you imagine you're not allowed to take any naps
and you must protect your quarterback even in a market basket,
parking lot and a shopping cart is putting form. I mean,
those are the kind of news headlines that we have
to check in with Tom Pellisero about. I think Justin
Herbert is saved from any arawan, parking lot, shopping cart mishaps. However, Tom,
that doesn't mean that he will go without injury this season.
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The Chargers quarterback had surgery yesterday, was the latest on
his fractured non throwing hand.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
I wouldn't even be able to push a grocery cart
with a broken left hand. Justin Herbert might play a
game of American football in six days after undergoing that procedure.
The Chargers announced all on Monday that Herbert did undergo
what it termed successful surgery to repair a fracture in
his left hand or into the Chargers Herbert's play status
is day to day and the status for next Monday's
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game against Philadelphia will.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Be determined later in the week.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
Now, this is a guy Justin Herbert, that we have
seen play through all kinds of injuries during his career.
Jim Harbaugh said yesterday, Justin is elite at it in
terms of high pain threshold.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
There is a functionality.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Aspect of this though too.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
For Justin Herbert.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
We'll see whether or not that all translates into him
being out there as he wants to be on Monday
Night against the Eagles. Lions wide receiver aman Ross Saint
Brown's status for Thursday's game against the Cowboys is up
in the air because of the ankle injury that he
suffered on display on Thanksgiving. It looked really bad at
the time, but as I reported the next day, it's
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a low ankle spray. There's even a possibility that aman
Ross Saint Brown could be back this week. However, it's
going to depend on part on how that ankle is
healing and.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
All so the schedule.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
Lions don't play another game until December fourteenth. Possible they
could just decide to hold him back, give an extra
ten days to recover. We'll get his final status on Wednesday. Meanwhile,
Lions quarterback Terry On Arnold was placed on injured reserve
on Monday, i am told he is now scheduled to
undergo shoulder surgery. He is out for the rest of
the season. This was the shoulder that Arnold originally injured
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against the Bengals back in Week five. At that time,
it was believed that he needed season ending shoulder surgery
right away, but he got a second opinion improbably he
returned about a month later. I'm told it just got
to a point where he could not continue to move
forward with that shoulder. With that shoulder injury, that's why
he is now going to undergo surgery.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
And the Lions have.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
An uphill battle just to get into the playoffs. Jamie,
are going to have to move forward without.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Their top corner.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You want have to refresh your website is actually a thing.
The Bears have the number one seed the NFC this
after they beat the Eagles last week, and the Panthers
helped him out by taking down the La Rams over
the weekend. Now, during his most recent press conference yesterday,
Bears had coach Ben Johnson said that none of this
really matters, none of this hive, no blowing up the
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Bears because this team still has to earn their spot.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
Wait doesn't mean anything. You know, there's five games left,
so we got we got a long ways to go,
and we have not been guaranteed a spot in the
tournament yet. We have to earn that right and the
only way you can earn that right is by finding
a way to win the next game. So that's that's
where our sole focus is.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Nothing fires me up more than coaches refersing the playoffs
like the tournament. It's the greatest thing ever. Ben Johnson
never changed. You're being very humble and honest. At the
same time, Bears don't have an easy stretch over the
next five games. So Mansai, are you buying or selling
what Ben Johnson is saying? That it's not going to
hand it. They're not given us spot just yet.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's not being handed and everything that he's say. You
know that shirt that KB wears the good better best.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
For those people who've been living on a rock and
don't know what that's referring to. I want to show
you what this thing is referring to by what the
coach has to say after the games. So you're good
becomes better, and you're better becomes best. Jamie, you said
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they're the number one seed in the NFC. That doesn't
mean that they're the best. All that means and will
you notice, it just means you have a week one
by Super Bowl champ means you're the best. And I
think that coach Ben Johnson understands that and he knows that.
So when it comes to the Chicago Bears, I am
buying the fact that coach Ben Johnson has his eye.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
On one thing and one thing alone.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
He didn't come over to Chicago to be the number
one team in the NFC. He came to Chicago to
take them to a Super Bowl and win it. And
the best thing about it is when your franchise quarterback
shows this emotionless type of reaction after a game winning
field goalk a few months, a couple of weeks ago,
that shows buying from everybody else. So it is scary
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if you're going against the Chicago Bears and.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
You have a stoic head coach, you.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Have a stoic franchise quarterback, and they understand that right
now they're not good, They're at the better point.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Now they're working on becoming the best.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
They're really good.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Number one NFC, number one place in the NFC.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
But that just means you have a week one by
for that tournament. Hopefully they become the best in the
Super Bowl will it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
While I've been impressed with the identity he's been able
to build in Chicago, and their identity is simple.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
They run it on anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Their top two in rushing yards and yards per game
this season, and when you talk about what they do
from inside the tackles man, they go right at you.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
And pretty much.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What Ben Johnson has been able to do was take
what he's done in Detroit between Montgomery and Gibbs and
pre put Swift and Manungai in the same position, Swift
being a more home run exposive back, manunguy being the hammer,
and that's really been the identity. They are able to
go into any building, any stadium to say, hey, we're
not going to keep this simple.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
We're going right at you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And it's really taking the bricks off of Caleb Williams
shoulders because he has a run game to lean on
and he has a defense to back him up. The
Bears are a complete team, probably one of the most
complete teams in the NFC, and it's solely because what
Ben Johnson has been able to do Hi He's been
able to orchestrate this run game between these two running backs.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
They're fishing in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They have the ability to kill you between the twenties,
and when you talk about their ability to close turn
on the tape against the Eagles that last six minutes
of the fourth quarter, that's Manung Guy and Swift coming
downhill time after time with a level of ferocity and
fearlessness that a lot of teams don't want to go
against this time of the year. And that's all because
of Ben Johnson and how he has his offense humming.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'm gonna lean on keep trying here.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I understand the message, right, Like, we can get here,
we can get the number one seed, and then we
can fall off the table and it won't have mattered at.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
All, and everybody's gonna remember how we ended the season.
I get that part.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Even if you make the playoffs as the one seed
and you go on and done, everybody's gonna remember.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
That as well.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I am all for that, Ben Johnson. I get the message.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I do.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
But I was on the field after the game the
other day. I saw the way that Caleb Williams left
the field. I heard Jonathan Owens telling his teammates. It's
real now, right, It's real. It's real because everybody had
been saying, oh, this team had been fatten up on
a soft schedule. Well, here they are beating the Super
Bowl champs and champs and beating them convincingly. And then
in the postgame locker room, this man decided that everybody
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in Chicago deserve free hot dogs. Take the shirt off
right there? There are yeah victory vibes. That's what victory
vibes look like on a black Friday when you just
meet the.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Super Bowl champs in their house.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I love it though, because I remember that old clip
of Belichick showing the Patriots player Bill Belichick straight laced
Bill showing the Patriots a game against the Denver Broncos
in which they were celebrating after a touchdown. And then
here's the reaction from the Broncos players.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Games already over. You could see their reactions.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You work so hard at your craft and what you do,
you should celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So I love the fact.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
And there's the long term perspective in mind right now,
but the short term of enjoying what they have accomplished
to get to the number one season.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Can we see that clip again, can we rerac the
video of the bear celebrating in the locker room into it?
You know what, I'm for other reasons than what you're
gonna imply, Mike Garfulo. So you know, mant I just
got done talking about how stoic Caleb b looks after
a win. I can't find Caleb Williams in the front
row of this celebration.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Is he three guys back?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Is this not what he's in?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Like how this coach is celebrating and who's bought into it?
I feel like as a character study in and of itself, Willie,
you've been in locker rooms. Maybe the head coach that
you play for aren't losing their minds like this, But
if you are so participatory to the point where you
are jumping around and you are within spraying distance of
spit essentially, and when he's freaking out, you have to
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buy into what the coach is.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Caleb Williams, there's nowhere to be seen in this melee.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I don't think that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I think the bigger issue is that Ben Johnson needs
to find some son.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
He looks a little pale though for me, come.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
On, but overall man like This is what you want
from your head coach. Anytime he's geeked out of his mind,
he's tweaking in front of the boys, you gotta support it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So no, I'm not mad at we're over Caleb. Caleb
somewhere I can't see it. We get there, you go
love it now.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Listen, you're in Chicago. Yeah, you're in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's November.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Push in December.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Forget the tan.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I'll tell you what, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm not just gonna imply it.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'm gonna flat out say it. Ben Johnson's a stud.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Yeah, show it again, because a lot of times you
get that head coaching job and you start to get
a little loose. I've seen super Bowl winning head coaches
that fall off the table.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My man is shredded. When is he fitting that workout?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
And he's got a whole game plan to design better
than anybody else in the league.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Right now, go get it, Ben, show it off.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I'm there for I'm just saying that you guys are
allowed to say that guy's a stud. Just feels a
little strange sometimes when I do it. So Hey, by
all means, go congratulations, coach. Wait to stay on it
with the team. And with your life as well. Eagle's
head coach Sirianni has been asked multiple times this season
if there will be any changes at offensive play caller.
He told reporters in speaking to the media yesterday that
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evaluation he doesn't see making any type of change when
it comes.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To that side of the ball.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
Obviously we evaluate, we're evaluating everything, and now you don't
have as much time as you as you have in
a normal bye week, but you know it's a mini
buy and so you know, everything was being evaluated. You know, well,
we'll think about some different things that we want to do,
you know, as all over the place, you know, scheme everything.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So just to clarify, Nick, Kevin still is the play caller.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, shout out to that press member, because like we've
seen a lot of random play calling changes throughout the
season already, Dan Quinn, Dan Campbell.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So Kevin Batulo is.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The offensive play caller. Mansie, are you buying into what
Sirianni is saying that the Eagles can get this thing
back on track at status quo or you keep.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Trying I'm keep trying on this jam And the reason
why I keep trying on this because I think that
the Eagles offense.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There has been so.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Much made of AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts that I
think they forgot what their bread and butter is. And
that's the run game with Sakwon Barkley. This past week
he had thirteen carries for fifty six yards.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Thirteen carries.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Let me remind you, guys, this is a dude that
was close to breaking Eric Dickerson's record last year. And
you saw the type of offense that that was. So
there's so much being focused on outside of the run game.
How can we get AJ Brown included? How can we
get Devonte Smith included? How can we get Jalen Hurts going?
All of this happens when number twenty six is clicking.
Like matter of fact, check out this graphic. This is
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last year compared to this year. Look at his numbers.
It is almost double. All of that is double of
what he did of what he's doing this year. That
is how the Eagles were explosive. They're explosive because defenses
have to worry about that man number twenty six running
the ball. And when you have to worry about the
run game like that, that opens up AJ Brown, That
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opens up stuff for Jalen Hurts get the run game going,
and I don't know if there's enough attention Jamie and
Willie on the run game enough to make this offense
start clicking.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So Willie, I'm going to keep trying train.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I do buy that they're going to get it together.
I don't think Kevin Patulu has been disastrous. I think
he's just been inconsistent. And I agree with you Man Todd.
The run game has been insufficient and insufficient. And I
also think right now, as far as the red zone,
the Eagles are pretty They're doing pretty well in the
red zone. I think the issue right now is there's
been so much distraction between AJ Brown and what they
were last year.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It's hard as a young offensive.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Corinted to navigate some of the things while trying to
keep it simple. I think right now what the Eagles
need to do is understand that they have to be
better on third down. Over the last three games, they've
been ten to thirty five. They have to be better
in that regard. Fine AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst has to
be a better processor when he's under center and trying
to figure out what the defense is trying to do
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to them. All of these little nuances of things. Yeah,
you want the Eagles to have an identity before week fourteen,
and the fact that we're having this conversation now is
But I also think these are some of the walls
you go through when you're a young office of Cornet.
I think Sirianni and Nick Petullo will excuse me, Kevin
Petullo will write the ship. It's just a matter of time.
Hopefully they get it right before the playoff.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I have talked so much about this Eagles offense, and
I'm going to talk so much about the Eagles offense
moving forward that I'm going to take a pass on
this one, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I'm gonna talk about something else instead.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I'm gonna talk to the idiots who threw eggs at
Kevin Patulo's house recently.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Off Are you kids? Are you adults?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You do sound grown in that video that you posted
on social media.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
You morons.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
You are now involving Kevin Petullo's family, and that pisses
me off for a number of reasons, one of which
is the fact that on Sunday, when we do our
live shots from the field, Kevin's family is right there.
I talk to them every single game. His wife Nicole
is there, an unbelievably wonderful person who supports her husband
as much as she possibly can on game days and
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during the week as well. His daughter Lauren, who's an
unbelievable golfer who just announced college commitment. Congratulations, Lauren, You've
worked so hard on that. She had a bogie free
round this summer. I think she's got a sixty eight.
So Lauren, you keep doing you. His son Logan, they've
now given him a pass where he can roam and
take pictures with his camera, take such unbelievable pictures. The
players love them and ask for them and post them.
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His parents are there as well, so you are now
involving his family, and they're very nervous from what I understand,
and rightfully so, as their home has.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Been attacked at this point.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
And I'll just say it goes beyond just the egging
of the house right now, leave the family out of it.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
This is also.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Furthering an opinion of a fan base that I grew
up a part of in Philadelphia. Look, it takes one
person to throw a snowball. Well, there's a bunch of
people who throw a snowball at Santa, and it's not
like that Santa deserved it, by the way, But regardless,
it takes one idiot to throw a battery at JD.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Drew, which is not excusable.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
And it takes these morons throwing eggs at the house
of the offensive coordinator for play calls that may be
screwed up the fantasy game.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Maybe cost you a bet.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I have no idea, but if you want to go
to the games, you want to boo.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
You want to say fire.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Kevin Patulo have at it. That's part of the job description.
He understands that. Leave the family out of it. I
hope you see this, and I hope you get caught
because the Morristown Police is on the case, and you
know who else is on the case, Big Dom Desandro.
And there's nothing that happens in Philadelphia or South Jersey
the Big Dom doesn't know about. So they're coming for you,
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and I hope they catch you, and I hope you're
prosecuted the fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
One more time.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Idiots get up more to get him Big Dom.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You're just mad because Lauren Petulo is better at golf
than you. Coming up on GMFP, getting right congratulations you Yeah,
at a girl, That's what I'm talking about, Mike, God
is bad.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Guys.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
Winners win, winners win, and we continue to find ways
to win defensively, offensively, special teams. That is what it's
all about, all three phases, playing your soft There's plenty
to clean up, guys, plenty. So proud of you guys
coming in and getting hard wins on the road in division.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Wins matter, that's it.
Speaker 13 (26:26):
Keep winning one week at a time, go one and
oh every single week.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Wins matter, especially when you can stack them. Heading into December,
the Jacksonville Jaguars are on a three game win streak.
So we got to ask this guy about it. We
got him, Jaguars head coach Liam Good.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What's on?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Comech what's going on? Guys? Thanks for having me on. Guys.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, this is fantastic. Thank you so much for taking
time out of your Tuesday to spend with GMFB coach
you just your presence in the locker room. It's so
important for those guys. As your first year at head coach.
You are the three seed in the NFL or in
the AFC right now with an eight and four record,
number one wrong your division? Are you exactly where you
thought this team would be in this moment, or did
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you even put mile markers out for this season in
your first year as head coach.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
Yeah, we didn't really put any mile markers out.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Honestly.
Speaker 14 (27:16):
It was just trying to improve in multiple phases, right Ultimately, Offensively,
want to be able to try to run the football better. Defensively,
try to stop the run a little bit better. And
special teams keep being special. And we've had great ops
from all three phases that have helped us get to
this point right now. To be able to go play
meaningful games in November and December, that's really all you
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can ask for in this league, and our guys are
excited about the opportunities.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Of course, I'm a real big fan of you. I
got to ask you before I ask my question, I
got to ask you this. Did you utter the two sexist.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Words post game to your team? Did you give them
a victory Monday?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yesterday? Absolutely? Man, these guys arened it.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Now. The reason why I asked you that question, coach,
was to set up this the question.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Want to ask so because you gave them a victory Monday,
You're going to see the team for the first time
in the team setting tomorrow, what is your message going
to be to them heading into this week where you
host Indianapolis coach at EverBank Stadium.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What's that message?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Now, let's go want to know this week again.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
I mean, that's really been the message for since to
buy is just to been focusing on ourselves, really locked
in on us. Right, if we can handle ourselves, play
better football each and every week and continue to get
better as a team, That's the beautiful thing about this
game is you can win and still have so much
to clean up and improve upon, and that allows us
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to keep coaching.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
If we were.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
Playing our best football weekend and week out, you know,
there's not a lot more to coach, and you're just
got to have to work it within the results base business.
And for us, it's always been about the process and
our process throughout the week, our preparation and then letting
it go rip on Sundays and see what the results are.
So hey, we've got new standards in terms of the
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way that we're trying to do things, the way that
we trying to prepare and get.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
These guys to go play.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
So this is a statement opportunity though for us coming
up in this Sunday against Indy statement.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Indeed, look at that that's so beautiful on the bottom,
by the way, eight and four, eight and four, And
they took it away just as I was talking about, sorry,
control them. The Texans, by the way, lurking as well.
We thought this was going to be a runaway for
Indianapolis in the division and here it comes down the
stretch a three team race. This is super exciting, and
it's got to be exciting in Jacksonville. Look, we talk
a lot of cowboys here, we talk a lot of Chiefs,
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a lot of Eagles.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And I understand your fan base.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
They get pissed at us a lot of times because
it's like, hey, what about us? You know, talk about
us enough? Well, how energized right now? Do you feel
that they are?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Right now?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
You're on with us here on Good Morning Football. We're
talking plenty of Jaguars. How are the vibes down there
in Jacksonville with the fan base.
Speaker 14 (29:50):
Nah, they've been fantastic. If you really go back and
look at the Monday night game against Kansas City, unbelievable
atmosphere that the entire community, the city Duval County was
out here for I mean This has been every opportunity
unity that they've had to come out and support us
in big time games this season. So far they have
and I'm going to need it again this Sunday here
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at home in the bank. Get everybody involved and look,
it's cool to be able to be a part of winning, right,
everybody wants to ultimately win. It is the end result
that everybody's hunting up.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Our fans. We want to make them proud.
Speaker 14 (30:25):
We want to put a product on the field that
our entire community and city are proud of. It means
a lot to our players. And this Sunday is no
different Coach.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
This is more for you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
These grown men in the Jacksonville Jaguars have really brought
into your philosophy.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 14 (30:41):
I mean a lot of the conversations that I had
with players that were either here from previous years or
some of the guys that we were able to acquire
and pro free agency and through the draft, we're all
in alignment with kind of what we needed to do
to improve as a team and ultimately to find our edge. Right,
to play with an edge and find our edge as
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a team, and what that is think our players have
been able to buy into that. They have, you know,
put that on tape each and every week. I think
the best compliment ultimately you can get as a coach
is to hear man your players play their tails off, right.
I mean there's always great scheme, cute plays, everybody runs
cool stuff, and we hope to do the same. But ultimately,
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if we can go out and play anybody, anytime, any place,
I mean that's our mindset right now. And if you
can go out and play you know, fundamental, complimentary football,
but doing it with an edge, that's the greatest compliment
we can have as coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
About a month ago in the Athletic there was a
beautiful article that came out about your late mother, Beth
and your relationship with her. Your father, Tim is also
a football coach. How having parents as educators both in
the school setting but also on a football field, how
has that shaped you become the head coach and the
philosophy that you live within.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's a great question.
Speaker 14 (32:00):
You know, I grew up, like you mentioned, with educators,
and education is so was so important to my family
growing up. Coaching and teaching go hand in hand. Ultimately,
you do these things you coach, you teach to try
to make an impact in young people's lives. Ultimately, that's
why you do this. You know, I love scheme. You
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love to win. That is the result. But what you're
doing along the way, whether it's at Maine, whether it's
at Kentucky, or whether it's at the Jacksonville Jaguars, you're
trying to ultimately make people better and help them alone
their path in life. And when you grew up, my
mom was a history teacher, my dad was obviously a
football coach, and everything he mentioned, those they mentioned to
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me growing up was what you do and how you
perceive yourself. But also what you're trying to do to
help people is make sure you can go home every
day and be proud of what you see in the mirror.
And that's no different than what I tell our players
on Sundays before we go out and play. Hey, guys, win, loser, draw,
Let's be able to go after this game, go home
and look ourselves in the mirror and be proud of
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what we see.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Coach, I will be to take the opportunity. I got
to shout out Hofstra you.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Math, I didn't know we were rivals. You brought that
up right before.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
We were on air.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I'm glad I did win that game, even though Hoten
doesn't have a program, and you maths still thriving.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I want to speak. I want to speak to your relationships.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Man, you and Baker make a feel when you were
with the Boss had a great relationship. Now you're with
Trevor Lawrence. Can you speak about your relationship with him
and how do you continue to help him grow immature.
Speaker 14 (33:34):
Trevor, from the very beginning of our conversations and dialogue
have been extremely honest and open, and something that he
mentioned to me very early on was that, man, all
I want to do is continue to try to improve
and go win. I mean, that's been his message from
the moment that I got with him.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It wasn't about, man, I.
Speaker 14 (33:54):
Want to be a pro bowler, I want to be
a Hall of Famer, I want to set every Jacksonville
Jaguar record. It was I'd like to really go out
and improve and help this team win. If you can
start with that as a quarterback, a selfless mindset, that's
something to be said for. And if you look at
Trevor Lawrence, the two things that I know that he
is without question is he's physically and mentally tough. And
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when your quarterback is physically and mentally tough, the rest
kind of takes care of itself. Right, you're gonna make throws,
You're gonna miss throws. But the resiliency, the toughness, the
mindset and mentality that Trevor's brought to our team this
year in some crucial moments in big time games, and
that's all you can ask for. I've been very proud
of Trevor the way that he's continued to grow within
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a difficult system to learn a little bit different than
something he's been used to. He's put a lot of
time into this and I respect Trevor Lawrence for doing
all those things.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Coach, Is the hair on Trevor Lawrence as impressive as
he thought it was going to be from watching it
on TV.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
To meeting him. Good question.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 14 (34:58):
I mean, you see that, and ye, that's what so
many people see it. You know, I don't know what
he uses for shampoo conditioner, but I do know he's
got some good flow.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Everybody sees that about Trevor.
Speaker 14 (35:11):
They don't see the guy that just gets up off
the mat every single game. Every time he takes hits,
he's running quarterback sneaks, you know, getting drilled, getting up
and making plays. And that's what we see. That's what
we see in our locker room. That's why our players
have ultimate respect for him, and I think he's getting
better each and every week.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Nothing more emblematic than that play against the Chiefs a
couple of weeks back. That was a ridiculous finish of
that game.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
We are so honored that you came on, like we said,
on a Tuesday and shout out to you as a
first year head coach. Victory Monday is always appreciated by
here at the table, and I'm sure the guy's in
your locker room, Liam Cohen. Everybody, good luck this weekend
and down the stretch.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Coach. Look, thank you guys. I appreciate you having me
on
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a Tuesday, December second. Kyle Brandt is in parts known.
He is on his way to Chicago. I believe to
hallis Hall to interview the starting quarterback, and we will
hear from both him and Caleb Williams later this week.
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I'm sure across programming here on NFL Network that, therefore, Mike,
g and Willie are in New York. You guys got
your hands on a New York Post.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Are we covering the football these days?
Speaker 4 (00:40):
On the backpage of the post? Michy, this is a baseball.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Town, Jamie Ye, yeah, Sarah combined, we're not going to
do the record.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
Yeah, not good.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
So we're talking about baseball here, So we'll do our
best to bring the football. I'm usually angry runs on Tuesday, no, Kyle,
so we'll call it slightly perturbed.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Slightly perturbed, exactly joyful Tuesdays. No, how dare we? I
think it's hating tomorrow. So those who are tuned in
just hang with us until then. Let's see what happened
on Monday night football.
Speaker 6 (01:09):
Shall we?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Giants Pats a classic matchup. Patriots are a comfortable eleven
and two Giants uncomfortable two and eleven. We'll talk about
both of these teams now. They both hit the buye
very strange late week fourteen by to face each other
on Monday night, and now you get a break everybody.
Let's hear from both quarterbacks after this Patriots went, I.
Speaker 7 (01:32):
Think, you know, one to win before the bye. We're
trying to, you know, want to win every game. And yeah,
the bye week's huge. It felt like a long time coming,
but uh, you know we're here and we got some
important football after the bye week.
Speaker 6 (01:42):
So we're looking forward to. You'll stay in and getting.
Speaker 7 (01:44):
Healthy and having guys you'll want to get better, and
I'm looking forward to you'll get some guys back and
then make a uh you'll make a push. When football,
you gonna strut the count down the road.
Speaker 8 (01:54):
This is football, Like I'm gonna get hit if I'm
in the pocket or outside the pocket. Like it's I've
played this way my whole entire life. This shouldn't be
like any shocker at anybody if you've along with my
career and we're not playing like I'm not playing soccer
out here, like you're gonna get hit. Things happen. It's
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part of the game.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Soccer players are like what we do, We hit each other.
Keep your arms and feet inside the cart, Jackson Dart,
at least that's what your quarter your coach would like
you to do. That's on the NFC side of things.
Giants wouldn't be on the screen. On the AFC side.
The Patriots now have a two and a half game
lead just within their division on the Buffalo Bills. They
are eleven and two. They both had ten wins with
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the Broncos heading into last night, but now they take
over once again the number one overall seed in the AFC.
The Patriots winners of ten straight after last night's beat
of the Giants, best record in the NFL. When you
look at this game, Manti kind of look at that
quarterback with the cutoff leave, very jarring to go for
the cutoff leave on Drake, made of the turtleneck on
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Jackson Dart.
Speaker 9 (03:00):
A complete different right, and you're talking about a complete
difference in this New England Patriots offense.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
How good is that offense?
Speaker 7 (03:07):
Man?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
Can anybody at this table, Jame, can you tell me
who Drake May's favorite target isn't?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Can't?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
And I don't think he wants to disclose either.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Can you guys tell me who his favorite target is?
Speaker 6 (03:20):
It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
It doesn't matter because it all equates to this, is it?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Right?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
And that's what's so crazy about Drake May and this offense? Right?
Speaker 9 (03:30):
He threw to eight different targets last night, and every
one of them had three or four catches on the
night Kyle Williams came into that game that that touchdown
to you saw on this one right here, Kyle Williams
had fourteen plays.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
He only ran nine routes. He kind of touched on
on one of them. That's Drake May.
Speaker 9 (03:45):
Like when we played Julio Jones, when I was with
the Saints and we played Julio Jones with Atlanta Focus,
we had coverages based on where this man was. If
it was doubles two by two, we had a certain
coverage fils three by one, depending on where this man
was in that formation, we had a certain coverage. Why
cause we're trying to take him away? Or are you
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going to take away in the New England Patriots. Are
you going to take away Stefan Diggs? Are you going
to take away Booty? Are you going to take away
Kyle Williams? Are you going to take away Hunter? Henry Drake May.
I call him the Iron Chef. The guy just keeps
cooking and he keeps serving to different guys every single week.
And he might have a secret ingredient. There is really
no secret ingredient. The only secret is is they're going
to continue to get yards and score touchdowns no matter
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who you guard, no matter who you target, He's targeting everybody.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And that's for me.
Speaker 9 (04:31):
What poses the biggest streat about the New England Patriots
offense with Drake May at the helm right now, is
a guy doesn't have a go to. His only goal
to is making touchdowns with different receivers. So, Willie, when
I look at this Patriots offense, they're lethal, They're very,
very disciplined, and they don't have a favorite, they don't
have a giveaway and so for a defense, that's a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I agree with you, man, the offense has been coming
at a high level. But I got to give a
shout out to their defense man. Their defense has been
solid and consistent. They've they've held offenses to twenty three
points of fewer over the last ten games. Giants last
night got boxed up and sent home with their cleats.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
In the hand.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
They held the Giants that what four to eleven on
third down. And when you talk about with this defense
really really does well, is they play with no ego.
They all rally to the football, they get after the quarterback,
whether it's Harold Landry or is the Christian Christian Goanzalez
on the back end. They played solid defense all through
all four quarters. And if you're the Patriots right now,
this is the type of random football you need when
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you want to travel to other.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Stadiums and make us at half statement games.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
This hit on the sideline, man, Jackson Dart, I got
no words for you. Get out of bounds like this
isn't the defense fault, This is your fault. Defense, hunt
the football, seaball get ball. And when you get opportunity
to make a statement hit like that at home, this
just gets.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
The fans rallied up. This gets them fired up.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
So congratulations to the Patriots defense man. They've been money
good thus far, and you need them this time of year.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
I got to ask you, brother, that's an offensive guy.
What is your reaction to when offensive guys do this
to a defender. I get you're trying to protect your teammate,
but it was a play that was perfectly clean. Instead
of getting on your teammate, offensive guys tend to get
on the defender for making a great play. What is
your take on those types of plays? Because there are
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there are some WILLI where You're like, man, that's a
dirty play, and I get that, But when I see
old linemen and tight ends coming and charging a defender
after that, I'm like, what are we doing?
Speaker 3 (06:23):
I love to know your thoughts. Will you.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
First of all, it's part of our creed to defend
out quarterback at all times, even if he's in.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
A parking lot he gets hit bost shopping guard.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But nevertheless, you do you do have to tell the
young fellow when you get to the sideline and say,
hey man, when the ball's in your hand, you're alive,
and this is in practice, they will hit you. And
he has to be a lot smarter. And Jackson daughter
is a young quarterback. I understand this is his play style,
but he has to understand he's the face of this franchise.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
They expect him to play another.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Ten years with the Giant, and if you continue to
play like this, that won't happen.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
So he has to be smart, get.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Out of bounds, protect himself, protect the football, and just
play cleaner. This is dumb, so young fella just being you.
Gotta be smarter, though.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Let's understand I started the Patriots. I want to come
back to that in a second, but let's start with
the Patriots. Let's understand what kind of a hammer lock
they have on the AFC right now.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
If they're on a buy.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
If the Bills win next week and then the Bills
beat the Patriots the week after that, and then the
Bills beat the Browns and the Patriots lose to the
Baltimore Ravens, the Patriots are still in first place heading
into Week seventeen in the NFL. That's what kind of
lead they have in the AFC East. That we're looking
at the potential division champions here, and they look good
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on a number of fronts. All those receivers were talking about.
I'm old enough to remember when the Patriots needed help
with the receiver position so much so that they were
going after Brandon Ayuk last year, trying to make a
trade for him before the season last year. Now, all
of a sudden, they've got more than they can possibly
handle it the position. Great job by Mike Brabil, Great
job by Elliott Wolf and the front office getting that
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position set. Now back to the Giants, Back to Jackson Dart.
I don't know what he's trying to prove. We're not
playing soccer out there. Yeah, Jackson, we're not playing soccer
out there. We're playing football. We're playing full contact football.
He just came off a concussion. I mean, I'll go
back to a month ago when he first got the
starting role and he came in, he was taking hits,
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and I reported that they were already talking to him,
and at the time, Brian Dabele was the head coach.
They were already talking to him about not taking hits.
And daball had had that previously with Josh Allen, who
is still learning that lesson as wet.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Josh Allen is a lot bigger.
Speaker 5 (08:31):
Than Jackson Dart, and he's taken shots that they don't
want him to take. I don't know what it's going
to take for him to go. You know what, I
don't have to prove anything here. I need to be
able to protect myself and stay on the field, to
protect my team, to protect my job security.
Speaker 4 (08:46):
When is that going to happen. If it's not going
to happen after this game last night, I don't know when.
Speaker 5 (08:51):
And it's just going to take so long that there's
going to be bumps along the way and bumps and bruises. Jackson, Police,
protect yourself, Pyle, you don't have to prove anything.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Kafa's over there trying to talk to Jackson Dart about this.
Manti real quick. Just on the tone that Vrabel continues
to exude from the sideline for the Patriots, it's celebrating
the special team touchdown. It's everything that he's brought the building.
But the roster is more by and large, very similar
to what they had last year. You really have to
look at what Rabel has brought to the table for
this Patriots team to go to eleven wins.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Well, we mentioned it. It's a selfless kind of attack.
Speaker 9 (09:24):
You know, nobody really cares who gets the ball, nobody
cares who gets the praise. It's all about what does
the Patriots do? Do we get the win. Do we
play the way that Coach Rabel wants to see us play?
And it's just so indicative of what we saw in
training camp. Right, you see coach Mike Rabel getting into
the scrap.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
He's the guy at the bottom of the pile.
Speaker 9 (09:41):
So if you're a rookie or if you're a veteran
player like Stefan Diggs, and you see your head coach,
not the string coach, not that the trainer, the head
coach at the bottom of a pile, the head coach
that's in a walkthrough, that's doing the show team for
your offense. It's easy for a guy, right Willly, It's
easy for a guy to fall in line, Like if
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the leader of our crew is willing to go those
links to ensure victory for us and ensure it's success.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Why can't I do it?
Speaker 9 (10:09):
And when I watch his Patriots team, that's what I see,
from top to bottom is guys who understand that this
is the culture that is built here. Now, this is
the Mike Vrabel Patriots. It's a little edgy and there's
some passion, but there's also discipline in this whole thing.
And I think when you bring combined all of that
into a big part of gumbo.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
You get the number one team in the AFC in
New England, Patriots.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Can you imagine you're not allowed to take any naps
and you must protect your quarterback even in a market basket,
parking lot and a shopping cart is putting form. I mean,
those are the kind of news headlines that we have
to check in with Tom Pellisero about. I think Justin
Herbert is saved from any arawan, parking lot, shopping cart mishaps. However, Tom,
that doesn't mean that he will go without injury this season.
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The Chargers quarterback had surgery yesterday, was the latest on
his fractured non throwing hand.
Speaker 10 (10:53):
I wouldn't even be able to push a grocery cart
with a broken left hand. Justin Herbert might play a
game of American football in six days after undergoing that procedure.
The Chargers announced all on Monday that Herbert did undergo
what it termed successful surgery to repair a fracture in
his left hand or into the Chargers Herbert's play status
is day to day and the status for next Monday's
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game against Philadelphia will.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Be determined later in the week.
Speaker 10 (11:18):
Now, this is a guy Justin Herbert, that we have
seen play through all kinds of injuries during his career.
Jim Harbaugh said yesterday, Justin is elite at it in
terms of high pain threshold.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
There is a functionality.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Aspect of this though too.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
For Justin Herbert.
Speaker 10 (11:33):
We'll see whether or not that all translates into him
being out there as he wants to be on Monday
Night against the Eagles. Lions wide receiver aman Ross Saint
Brown's status for Thursday's game against the Cowboys is up
in the air because of the ankle injury that he
suffered on display on Thanksgiving. It looked really bad at
the time, but as I reported the next day, it's
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a low ankle spray. There's even a possibility that aman
Ross Saint Brown could be back this week. However, it's
going to depend on part on how that ankle is
healing and.
Speaker 6 (12:04):
All so the schedule.
Speaker 10 (12:05):
Lions don't play another game until December fourteenth. Possible they
could just decide to hold him back, give an extra
ten days to recover. We'll get his final status on Wednesday. Meanwhile,
Lions quarterback Terry On Arnold was placed on injured reserve
on Monday, i am told he is now scheduled to
undergo shoulder surgery. He is out for the rest of
the season. This was the shoulder that Arnold originally injured
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against the Bengals back in Week five. At that time,
it was believed that he needed season ending shoulder surgery
right away, but he got a second opinion improbably he
returned about a month later. I'm told it just got
to a point where he could not continue to move
forward with that shoulder. With that shoulder injury, that's why
he is now going to undergo surgery.
Speaker 4 (12:50):
And the Lions have.
Speaker 10 (12:50):
An uphill battle just to get into the playoffs. Jamie,
are going to have to move forward without.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Their top corner.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
You want have to refresh your website is actually a thing.
The Bears have the number one seed the NFC this
after they beat the Eagles last week, and the Panthers
helped him out by taking down the La Rams over
the weekend. Now, during his most recent press conference yesterday,
Bears had coach Ben Johnson said that none of this
really matters, none of this hive, no blowing up the
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Bears because this team still has to earn their spot.
Speaker 11 (13:23):
Wait doesn't mean anything. You know, there's five games left,
so we got we got a long ways to go,
and we have not been guaranteed a spot in the
tournament yet. We have to earn that right and the
only way you can earn that right is by finding
a way to win the next game. So that's that's
where our sole focus is.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Nothing fires me up more than coaches refersing the playoffs
like the tournament. It's the greatest thing ever. Ben Johnson
never changed. You're being very humble and honest. At the
same time, Bears don't have an easy stretch over the
next five games. So Mansai, are you buying or selling
what Ben Johnson is saying? That it's not going to
hand it. They're not given us spot just yet.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
It's not being handed and everything that he's say. You
know that shirt that KB wears the good better best.
Speaker 9 (14:07):
For those people who've been living on a rock and
don't know what that's referring to. I want to show
you what this thing is referring to by what the
coach has to say after the games. So you're good
becomes better, and you're better becomes best. Jamie, you said
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they're the number one seed in the NFC. That doesn't
mean that they're the best. All that means and will
you notice, it just means you have a week one
by Super Bowl champ means you're the best. And I
think that coach Ben Johnson understands that and he knows that.
So when it comes to the Chicago Bears, I am
buying the fact that coach Ben Johnson has his eye.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
On one thing and one thing alone.
Speaker 9 (14:51):
He didn't come over to Chicago to be the number
one team in the NFC. He came to Chicago to
take them to a Super Bowl and win it. And
the best thing about it is when your franchise quarterback
shows this emotionless type of reaction after a game winning
field goalk a few months, a couple of weeks ago,
that shows buying from everybody else. So it is scary
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if you're going against the Chicago Bears and.
Speaker 6 (15:14):
You have a stoic head coach, you.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
Have a stoic franchise quarterback, and they understand that right
now they're not good, They're at the better point.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
Now they're working on becoming the best.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
They're really good.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Number one NFC, number one place in the NFC.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
But that just means you have a week one by
for that tournament. Hopefully they become the best in the
Super Bowl will it.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
While I've been impressed with the identity he's been able
to build in Chicago, and their identity is simple.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
They run it on anybody.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
Their top two in rushing yards and yards per game
this season, and when you talk about what they do
from inside the tackles man, they go right at you.
Speaker 6 (15:48):
And pretty much.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
What Ben Johnson has been able to do was take
what he's done in Detroit between Montgomery and Gibbs and
pre put Swift and Manungai in the same position, Swift
being a more home run exposive back, manunguy being the hammer,
and that's really been the identity. They are able to
go into any building, any stadium to say, hey, we're
not going to keep this simple.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
We're going right at you.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
And it's really taking the bricks off of Caleb Williams
shoulders because he has a run game to lean on
and he has a defense to back him up. The
Bears are a complete team, probably one of the most
complete teams in the NFC, and it's solely because what
Ben Johnson has been able to do Hi He's been
able to orchestrate this run game between these two running backs.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
They're fishing in the red zone.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
They have the ability to kill you between the twenties,
and when you talk about their ability to close turn
on the tape against the Eagles that last six minutes
of the fourth quarter, that's Manung Guy and Swift coming
downhill time after time with a level of ferocity and
fearlessness that a lot of teams don't want to go
against this time of the year. And that's all because
of Ben Johnson and how he has his offense humming.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I'm gonna lean on keep trying here.
Speaker 5 (16:51):
I understand the message, right, Like, we can get here,
we can get the number one seed, and then we
can fall off the table and it won't have mattered at.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
All, and everybody's gonna remember how we ended the season.
I get that part.
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Even if you make the playoffs as the one seed
and you go on and done, everybody's gonna remember.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
That as well.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
I am all for that, Ben Johnson. I get the message.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
I do.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
But I was on the field after the game the
other day. I saw the way that Caleb Williams left
the field. I heard Jonathan Owens telling his teammates. It's
real now, right, It's real. It's real because everybody had
been saying, oh, this team had been fatten up on
a soft schedule. Well, here they are beating the Super
Bowl champs and champs and beating them convincingly. And then
in the postgame locker room, this man decided that everybody
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in Chicago deserve free hot dogs. Take the shirt off
right there? There are yeah victory vibes. That's what victory
vibes look like on a black Friday when you just
meet the.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Super Bowl champs in their house.
Speaker 5 (17:42):
I love it though, because I remember that old clip
of Belichick showing the Patriots player Bill Belichick straight laced
Bill showing the Patriots a game against the Denver Broncos
in which they were celebrating after a touchdown. And then
here's the reaction from the Broncos players.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
Games already over. You could see their reactions.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
You work so hard at your craft and what you do,
you should celebrate it.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
So I love the fact.
Speaker 5 (18:04):
And there's the long term perspective in mind right now,
but the short term of enjoying what they have accomplished
to get to the number one season.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Can we see that clip again, can we rerac the
video of the bear celebrating in the locker room into it?
You know what, I'm for other reasons than what you're
gonna imply, Mike Garfulo. So you know, mant I just
got done talking about how stoic Caleb b looks after
a win. I can't find Caleb Williams in the front
row of this celebration.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Is he three guys back?
Speaker 6 (18:31):
Is this not what he's in?
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Like how this coach is celebrating and who's bought into it?
I feel like as a character study in and of itself, Willie,
you've been in locker rooms. Maybe the head coach that
you play for aren't losing their minds like this, But
if you are so participatory to the point where you
are jumping around and you are within spraying distance of
spit essentially, and when he's freaking out, you have to
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buy into what the coach is.
Speaker 4 (18:54):
Caleb Williams, there's nowhere to be seen in this melee.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
I don't think that's the issue.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I think the bigger issue is that Ben Johnson needs
to find some son.
Speaker 6 (19:02):
He looks a little pale though for me, come.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
On, but overall man like This is what you want
from your head coach. Anytime he's geeked out of his mind,
he's tweaking in front of the boys, you gotta support it.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
So no, I'm not mad at we're over Caleb. Caleb
somewhere I can't see it. We get there, you go
love it now.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
Listen, you're in Chicago. Yeah, you're in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (19:26):
It's November.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
Push in December.
Speaker 6 (19:27):
Forget the tan.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I'll tell you what, Jamie.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
I'm not just gonna imply it.
Speaker 4 (19:31):
I'm gonna flat out say it. Ben Johnson's a stud.
Speaker 5 (19:33):
Yeah, show it again, because a lot of times you
get that head coaching job and you start to get
a little loose. I've seen super Bowl winning head coaches
that fall off the table.
Speaker 4 (19:43):
My man is shredded. When is he fitting that workout?
Speaker 5 (19:47):
And he's got a whole game plan to design better
than anybody else in the league.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Right now, go get it, Ben, show it off.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
I'm there for I'm just saying that you guys are
allowed to say that guy's a stud. Just feels a
little strange sometimes when I do it. So Hey, by
all means, go congratulations, coach. Wait to stay on it
with the team. And with your life as well. Eagle's
head coach Sirianni has been asked multiple times this season
if there will be any changes at offensive play caller.
He told reporters in speaking to the media yesterday that
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evaluation he doesn't see making any type of change when
it comes.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
To that side of the ball.
Speaker 12 (20:19):
Obviously we evaluate, we're evaluating everything, and now you don't
have as much time as you as you have in
a normal bye week, but you know it's a mini
buy and so you know, everything was being evaluated. You know, well,
we'll think about some different things that we want to do,
you know, as all over the place, you know, scheme everything.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
So just to clarify, Nick, Kevin still is the play caller.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, shout out to that press member, because like we've
seen a lot of random play calling changes throughout the
season already, Dan Quinn, Dan Campbell.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
So Kevin Batulo is.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
The offensive play caller. Mansie, are you buying into what
Sirianni is saying that the Eagles can get this thing
back on track at status quo or you keep.
Speaker 9 (21:00):
Trying I'm keep trying on this jam And the reason
why I keep trying on this because I think that
the Eagles offense.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
There has been so.
Speaker 9 (21:06):
Much made of AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts that I
think they forgot what their bread and butter is. And
that's the run game with Sakwon Barkley. This past week
he had thirteen carries for fifty six yards.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Thirteen carries.
Speaker 9 (21:19):
Let me remind you, guys, this is a dude that
was close to breaking Eric Dickerson's record last year. And
you saw the type of offense that that was. So
there's so much being focused on outside of the run game.
How can we get AJ Brown included? How can we
get Devonte Smith included? How can we get Jalen Hurts going?
All of this happens when number twenty six is clicking.
Like matter of fact, check out this graphic. This is
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last year compared to this year. Look at his numbers.
It is almost double. All of that is double of
what he did of what he's doing this year. That
is how the Eagles were explosive. They're explosive because defenses
have to worry about that man number twenty six running
the ball. And when you have to worry about the
run game like that, that opens up AJ Brown, That
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opens up stuff for Jalen Hurts get the run game going,
and I don't know if there's enough attention Jamie and
Willie on the run game enough to make this offense
start clicking.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
So Willie, I'm going to keep trying train.
Speaker 6 (22:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I do buy that they're going to get it together.
I don't think Kevin Patulu has been disastrous. I think
he's just been inconsistent. And I agree with you Man Todd.
The run game has been insufficient and insufficient. And I
also think right now, as far as the red zone,
the Eagles are pretty They're doing pretty well in the
red zone. I think the issue right now is there's
been so much distraction between AJ Brown and what they
were last year.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
It's hard as a young offensive.
Speaker 1 (22:35):
Corinted to navigate some of the things while trying to
keep it simple. I think right now what the Eagles
need to do is understand that they have to be
better on third down. Over the last three games, they've
been ten to thirty five. They have to be better
in that regard. Fine AJ Brown, Jalen Hurst has to
be a better processor when he's under center and trying
to figure out what the defense is trying to do
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to them. All of these little nuances of things. Yeah,
you want the Eagles to have an identity before week fourteen,
and the fact that we're having this conversation now is
But I also think these are some of the walls
you go through when you're a young office of Cornet.
I think Sirianni and Nick Petullo will excuse me, Kevin
Petullo will write the ship. It's just a matter of time.
Hopefully they get it right before the playoff.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
I have talked so much about this Eagles offense, and
I'm going to talk so much about the Eagles offense
moving forward that I'm going to take a pass on
this one, Jamie.
Speaker 4 (23:22):
I'm gonna talk about something else instead.
Speaker 5 (23:23):
I'm gonna talk to the idiots who threw eggs at
Kevin Patulo's house recently.
Speaker 4 (23:29):
Off Are you kids? Are you adults?
Speaker 5 (23:33):
You do sound grown in that video that you posted
on social media.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
You morons.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
You are now involving Kevin Petullo's family, and that pisses
me off for a number of reasons, one of which
is the fact that on Sunday, when we do our
live shots from the field, Kevin's family is right there.
I talk to them every single game. His wife Nicole
is there, an unbelievably wonderful person who supports her husband
as much as she possibly can on game days and
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during the week as well. His daughter Lauren, who's an
unbelievable golfer who just announced college commitment. Congratulations, Lauren, You've
worked so hard on that. She had a bogie free
round this summer. I think she's got a sixty eight.
So Lauren, you keep doing you. His son Logan, they've
now given him a pass where he can roam and
take pictures with his camera, take such unbelievable pictures. The
players love them and ask for them and post them.
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His parents are there as well, so you are now
involving his family, and they're very nervous from what I understand,
and rightfully so, as their home has.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Been attacked at this point.
Speaker 5 (24:33):
And I'll just say it goes beyond just the egging
of the house right now, leave the family out of it.
Speaker 6 (24:40):
This is also.
Speaker 5 (24:42):
Furthering an opinion of a fan base that I grew
up a part of in Philadelphia. Look, it takes one
person to throw a snowball. Well, there's a bunch of
people who throw a snowball at Santa, and it's not
like that Santa deserved it, by the way, But regardless,
it takes one idiot to throw a battery at JD.
Speaker 4 (24:56):
Drew, which is not excusable.
Speaker 5 (24:59):
And it takes these morons throwing eggs at the house
of the offensive coordinator for play calls that may be
screwed up the fantasy game.
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Maybe cost you a bet.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
I have no idea, but if you want to go
to the games, you want to boo.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
You want to say fire.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Kevin Patulo have at it. That's part of the job description.
He understands that. Leave the family out of it. I
hope you see this, and I hope you get caught
because the Morristown Police is on the case, and you
know who else is on the case, Big Dom Desandro.
And there's nothing that happens in Philadelphia or South Jersey
the Big Dom doesn't know about. So they're coming for you,
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and I hope they catch you, and I hope you're
prosecuted the fullest extent of the law.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
One more time.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Idiots get up more to get him Big Dom.
Speaker 2 (25:47):
You're just mad because Lauren Petulo is better at golf
than you. Coming up on GMFP, getting right congratulations you Yeah,
at a girl, That's what I'm talking about, Mike, God
is bad.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Guys.
Speaker 13 (26:02):
Winners win, winners win, and we continue to find ways
to win defensively, offensively, special teams. That is what it's
all about, all three phases, playing your soft There's plenty
to clean up, guys, plenty. So proud of you guys
coming in and getting hard wins on the road in division.
Speaker 4 (26:24):
Wins matter, that's it.
Speaker 13 (26:26):
Keep winning one week at a time, go one and
oh every single week.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
Wins matter, especially when you can stack them. Heading into December,
the Jacksonville Jaguars are on a three game win streak.
So we got to ask this guy about it. We
got him, Jaguars head coach Liam Good.
Speaker 3 (26:43):
What's on?
Speaker 6 (26:44):
Comech what's going on? Guys? Thanks for having me on. Guys.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Oh, this is fantastic. Thank you so much for taking
time out of your Tuesday to spend with GMFB coach
you just your presence in the locker room. It's so
important for those guys. As your first year at head coach.
You are the three seed in the NFL or in
the AFC right now with an eight and four record,
number one wrong your division? Are you exactly where you
thought this team would be in this moment, or did
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you even put mile markers out for this season in
your first year as head coach.
Speaker 14 (27:13):
Yeah, we didn't really put any mile markers out.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
Honestly.
Speaker 14 (27:16):
It was just trying to improve in multiple phases, right Ultimately, Offensively,
want to be able to try to run the football better. Defensively,
try to stop the run a little bit better. And
special teams keep being special. And we've had great ops
from all three phases that have helped us get to
this point right now. To be able to go play
meaningful games in November and December, that's really all you
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can ask for in this league, and our guys are
excited about the opportunities.
Speaker 9 (27:41):
Of course, I'm a real big fan of you. I
got to ask you before I ask my question, I
got to ask you this. Did you utter the two sexist.
Speaker 3 (27:48):
Words post game to your team? Did you give them
a victory Monday?
Speaker 6 (27:54):
Yesterday? Absolutely? Man, these guys arened it.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Now. The reason why I asked you that question, coach,
was to set up this the question.
Speaker 9 (28:04):
Want to ask so because you gave them a victory Monday,
You're going to see the team for the first time
in the team setting tomorrow, what is your message going
to be to them heading into this week where you
host Indianapolis coach at EverBank Stadium.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
What's that message?
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Now, let's go want to know this week again.
Speaker 14 (28:19):
I mean, that's really been the message for since to
buy is just to been focusing on ourselves, really locked
in on us. Right, if we can handle ourselves, play
better football each and every week and continue to get
better as a team, That's the beautiful thing about this
game is you can win and still have so much
to clean up and improve upon, and that allows us
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to keep coaching.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
If we were.
Speaker 14 (28:41):
Playing our best football weekend and week out, you know,
there's not a lot more to coach, and you're just
got to have to work it within the results base business.
And for us, it's always been about the process and
our process throughout the week, our preparation and then letting
it go rip on Sundays and see what the results are.
So hey, we've got new standards in terms of the
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way that we're trying to do things, the way that
we trying to prepare and get.
Speaker 6 (29:05):
These guys to go play.
Speaker 14 (29:07):
So this is a statement opportunity though for us coming
up in this Sunday against Indy statement.
Speaker 5 (29:12):
Indeed, look at that that's so beautiful on the bottom,
by the way, eight and four, eight and four, And
they took it away just as I was talking about, sorry,
control them. The Texans, by the way, lurking as well.
We thought this was going to be a runaway for
Indianapolis in the division and here it comes down the
stretch a three team race. This is super exciting, and
it's got to be exciting in Jacksonville. Look, we talk
a lot of cowboys here, we talk a lot of Chiefs,
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a lot of Eagles.
Speaker 4 (29:34):
And I understand your fan base.
Speaker 5 (29:36):
They get pissed at us a lot of times because
it's like, hey, what about us? You know, talk about
us enough? Well, how energized right now? Do you feel
that they are?
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Right now?
Speaker 5 (29:44):
You're on with us here on Good Morning Football. We're
talking plenty of Jaguars. How are the vibes down there
in Jacksonville with the fan base.
Speaker 14 (29:50):
Nah, they've been fantastic. If you really go back and
look at the Monday night game against Kansas City, unbelievable
atmosphere that the entire community, the city Duval County was
out here for I mean This has been every opportunity
unity that they've had to come out and support us
in big time games this season. So far they have
and I'm going to need it again this Sunday here
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at home in the bank. Get everybody involved and look,
it's cool to be able to be a part of winning, right,
everybody wants to ultimately win. It is the end result
that everybody's hunting up.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
Our fans. We want to make them proud.
Speaker 14 (30:25):
We want to put a product on the field that
our entire community and city are proud of. It means
a lot to our players. And this Sunday is no
different Coach.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
This is more for you.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
These grown men in the Jacksonville Jaguars have really brought
into your philosophy.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 14 (30:41):
I mean a lot of the conversations that I had
with players that were either here from previous years or
some of the guys that we were able to acquire
and pro free agency and through the draft, we're all
in alignment with kind of what we needed to do
to improve as a team and ultimately to find our edge. Right,
to play with an edge and find our edge as
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a team, and what that is think our players have
been able to buy into that. They have, you know,
put that on tape each and every week. I think
the best compliment ultimately you can get as a coach
is to hear man your players play their tails off, right.
I mean there's always great scheme, cute plays, everybody runs
cool stuff, and we hope to do the same. But ultimately,
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if we can go out and play anybody, anytime, any place,
I mean that's our mindset right now. And if you
can go out and play you know, fundamental, complimentary football,
but doing it with an edge, that's the greatest compliment
we can have as coaches.
Speaker 3 (31:37):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
About a month ago in the Athletic there was a
beautiful article that came out about your late mother, Beth
and your relationship with her. Your father, Tim is also
a football coach. How having parents as educators both in
the school setting but also on a football field, how
has that shaped you become the head coach and the
philosophy that you live within.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's a great question.
Speaker 14 (32:00):
You know, I grew up, like you mentioned, with educators,
and education is so was so important to my family
growing up. Coaching and teaching go hand in hand. Ultimately,
you do these things you coach, you teach to try
to make an impact in young people's lives. Ultimately, that's
why you do this. You know, I love scheme. You
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love to win. That is the result. But what you're
doing along the way, whether it's at Maine, whether it's
at Kentucky, or whether it's at the Jacksonville Jaguars, you're
trying to ultimately make people better and help them alone
their path in life. And when you grew up, my
mom was a history teacher, my dad was obviously a
football coach, and everything he mentioned, those they mentioned to
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me growing up was what you do and how you
perceive yourself. But also what you're trying to do to
help people is make sure you can go home every
day and be proud of what you see in the mirror.
And that's no different than what I tell our players
on Sundays before we go out and play. Hey, guys, win, loser, draw,
Let's be able to go after this game, go home
and look ourselves in the mirror and be proud of
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what we see.
Speaker 6 (33:04):
Coach, I will be to take the opportunity. I got
to shout out Hofstra you.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
Math, I didn't know we were rivals. You brought that
up right before.
Speaker 6 (33:12):
We were on air.
Speaker 1 (33:13):
I'm glad I did win that game, even though Hoten
doesn't have a program, and you maths still thriving.
Speaker 6 (33:19):
I want to speak. I want to speak to your relationships.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Man, you and Baker make a feel when you were
with the Boss had a great relationship. Now you're with
Trevor Lawrence. Can you speak about your relationship with him
and how do you continue to help him grow immature.
Speaker 14 (33:34):
Trevor, from the very beginning of our conversations and dialogue
have been extremely honest and open, and something that he
mentioned to me very early on was that, man, all
I want to do is continue to try to improve
and go win. I mean, that's been his message from
the moment that I got with him.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
It wasn't about, man, I.
Speaker 14 (33:54):
Want to be a pro bowler, I want to be
a Hall of Famer, I want to set every Jacksonville
Jaguar record. It was I'd like to really go out
and improve and help this team win. If you can
start with that as a quarterback, a selfless mindset, that's
something to be said for. And if you look at
Trevor Lawrence, the two things that I know that he
is without question is he's physically and mentally tough. And
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when your quarterback is physically and mentally tough, the rest
kind of takes care of itself. Right, you're gonna make throws,
You're gonna miss throws. But the resiliency, the toughness, the
mindset and mentality that Trevor's brought to our team this
year in some crucial moments in big time games, and
that's all you can ask for. I've been very proud
of Trevor the way that he's continued to grow within
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a difficult system to learn a little bit different than
something he's been used to. He's put a lot of
time into this and I respect Trevor Lawrence for doing
all those things.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
Coach, Is the hair on Trevor Lawrence as impressive as
he thought it was going to be from watching it
on TV.
Speaker 6 (34:55):
To meeting him. Good question.
Speaker 3 (34:57):
Yeah, that's a great one.
Speaker 14 (34:58):
I mean, you see that, and ye, that's what so
many people see it. You know, I don't know what
he uses for shampoo conditioner, but I do know he's
got some good flow.
Speaker 6 (35:08):
But that's the thing.
Speaker 4 (35:09):
Everybody sees that about Trevor.
Speaker 14 (35:11):
They don't see the guy that just gets up off
the mat every single game. Every time he takes hits,
he's running quarterback sneaks, you know, getting drilled, getting up
and making plays. And that's what we see. That's what
we see in our locker room. That's why our players
have ultimate respect for him, and I think he's getting
better each and every week.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Nothing more emblematic than that play against the Chiefs a
couple of weeks back. That was a ridiculous finish of
that game.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Coach.
Speaker 2 (35:38):
We are so honored that you came on, like we said,
on a Tuesday and shout out to you as a
first year head coach. Victory Monday is always appreciated by
here at the table, and I'm sure the guy's in
your locker room, Liam Cohen. Everybody, good luck this weekend
and down the stretch.
Speaker 6 (35:52):
Coach. Look, thank you guys. I appreciate you having me
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