December 3, 2024 • 34 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, Akbar Gbajabiamila and Isaiah Stanback reacting to the breaking news that Azeez Al-Shaair has been suspended 3-games following his illegal hit on Trevor Lawrence. Then they go “IN THE BOOTH” where they give awards to broadcasters who deserve to be recognized following their calls over the weekend. Later, Akbar takes us through his fan experience where he hit up 3 different games in 3 different cities.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:35):
It's Tuesday, December third. This is Akbarbaja Bimilla.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
That's Peter Schrager, There's Kyle Brandt, and here is Isaiah
standback at the table. This is a really fun and
busy hour. Akbar was on a three game and one
day trip over the weekend. Isaiah's here to give his
takes on some controversial plays from over the weekend. We
had angry runs last hour.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Guys. We got to get to.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Business, all right, because the highlights, not just the two plays,
not the short give us everything. Kyle Brandt of the
Jamus Instant experience from Monday Night Football, you got it.
Speaker 5 (01:07):
I will do it all with cameos by Bone Nicks.
Let's see what happened in Browns at Broncos forty one
to thirty two. All right, the Broncos going to buy
their eight and five, they're probably gonna make the playoffs
unless the Colts also do something crazy and they're going
to a buy.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
But let's hear from the winning coach and.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
The quarterback and up with Jamis, let's talk to Sean.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Payton and Bonix.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Obviously, when we go back and look at that tape,
we're going to look at a lot of things defensively
that we would have done differently.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We have to.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
And yet you know, we had two interceptions for touchdowns
a third interception. I told him in the locker room,
you know, uh, look at it wasn't pretty. And yet
in the end, you know, we did what we had
to do.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
Especially late, I saw three turnovers and you know, key
parts of the game. Not only turnovers are hard to
you know, get, but to return for touchdowns that's even harder.
So and the fact that they did it twice, it
was it was crazy. It's kind of nice. You know,
I'm over there sitting, you know, the benches is you
got the heaters over there, and I don't even have
to move, So it's pretty nice for the offense.
Speaker 9 (02:16):
We're talking about Bonex's out for either rookie teacher under
a full little sports Blazer.
Speaker 10 (02:20):
It's all right, we'll get that Connell.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You got going right?
Speaker 10 (02:23):
I think I look good?
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Yeah, bullets, all right, we'll see him at NFL Honors
when he's twice in that code that Offensive Rookie of
the Year award.
Speaker 10 (02:29):
Okay, did you watch the manic Titans?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I know it's day.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
We'll get there playoff picture really quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
If the playoffs are today, it would.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Be Bills hosting Broncos, it would be Steelers hosting Ravens,
and it would be Texans hosting Chargers. In your Saturday
afternoon Houston Special, probably streaming on Amazon, I would imagine,
or Peacock or whatever. We're gonna get to the playoff
matches in a bit.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
But I call it that they're on the couch and
bring me my pad time.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
Let's I mean, we got actually some serious news and
a ruling from the league will.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
Toss to you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, you see the Texans there at the fourth spot
in the AFC playoff picture right now.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They lead the AFC South.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They solidified that spot more so on Sunday with a
win over the Jaguars. But during that game, you saw
their linebacker, a six year linebacker with the Texans a
Ziz al Shaiir take a hit to Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Of course he was carted off the field. Tom Pellasaro
joining us now on GMFB with a ruling from the
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NFL about.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That hit that al Shaiir did to Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
That's right, Jamie.
Speaker 11 (03:37):
The NFL is suspending Texans linebacker a Zi's al Shaiir
for the next three games for repeat violations of the
NFL's health and safety rules, including that hit that knock
Trevor Lawrence out of Sunday's game. John Running, the NFL's
vice president of football Operations, writing in a letter to
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al Shair, that after the illegal hit, you proceed to
engage in a brawl, which you escalated when you pulled
an opponent down to the ground by his face mask.
At the referee announced he were disqualified for the hit
and your unsportsman like acts. You removed your helmet and
re engaged with your opponent while walking down and across
the field, which started another physical confrontation near the end zone.
Your lack of sportsmanship and respect for the game of
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football and all those who play, coach and enjoy watching
it is troubling. It does not reflect the core values
of the NFL. Now, al Shair, under the Collective Bargaining Agreement,
does have the right to appeal this to an NFL
NFLPA jointly appointed appeals officer. Barring a successful suspension, the
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soonest he would be allowed to be back on the
field would be week seventeen. This is, of course, as
Runyon noted in that letter, not the first time that
al Shair has been disciplined.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
He has been fined in the past.
Speaker 11 (04:51):
There was an incident early in the season this year
in which he punched Bears running back Roshawn Johnson in
the face mask. No flag was thrown, so there was
no ejection possible in that case. This time around, al
Shaiir ejected and now suspended for the next three games.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
All right, Tom, appreciate all of that. Yeah, there's a
lot of layers to this. After the hit by as
He's Elshaiyer on Sunday, there were a ton of people
coming out with clips of past behaviors by lschai Year
on the field. So in reference to the repeat violations,
this was just in one circumstance on Sunday against the Jaguars,
John Runyon laid it all out there from the NFL,
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the face mask, the unsportsmanlike conduct, but it all began
Peter with that hit on the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence. Peter
just unpacked the three game suspension for us, but also
your thoughts on the situation as a whole, because Texans
had coached Miko Ryans also came out tried to stand
by his player.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But there's just a lot of layers to this well.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I think it's difficult to separate the player and the
person and the actual play because from all accounts I've
spoken to Robert Salad, to Miko Ryans, guys who've had
him on their defense. He's a beloved player in the
locker room and one of those guys that you look
to be your leader on deep been in the league
for six years, obviously has been very successful repeat offender.
I think back to Vontez perfect like, you're not looked
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at in the same light when you do this time
and time again, and you have a lot of plays
in the league has a database of other plays that
you've made and that obviously played a role.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
But I think the most important.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Part of this is that last thing, where after the
referee announced that he was disqualified. He then took off
his helmet and started a brawl, like that's the next thing.
So it's three games, and let me tell you something,
he's a good player, Like that's major and that probably
win the AFC South. But that's three key games in
their season going into the playoffs. And then you get
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him back December week seventeen, the Christmas Day game. It's
going to be like a wrestler coming out of the
locker room.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
He's back, reinstated, but of course he can't appeal.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
As Tom Pellisero noted, the guys who are doing the appeals,
it's Jordy Nelson, Derek Brooks, Ramon Foster. It's a paid
position that the NFLPA and the NFL both pick and
they get to do the pl So.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
That's really interesting. There is obviously come on.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Obviously, so you've got three games. It could go down
to two, but the league had to acted, I think
one d the past history and then also the all right,
it's not enough that I had this dirty hit. Let's
take off my helmet, let's fight that. That's no place
for the league for that.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, you know this this whole situation there there
is a lot of layers to this, or there are
a lot of layers to this. First, I totally agreed that,
you know, his antics and the freakiss that happened afterwards
should not have happened. Now, clearly he was responding to
the push that happened afterwards and this whole thing. But
I think we need to go back to the genesis
of this. And I'm talking about just this play alone,
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not his previous behavior. I'm not condoning any of that.
The hit that he put on Trevor Lawrence, to me,
was a football hit. It was a football move made. Now.
I get that the NFL is trying to legislate the
violence unnecessary violence either of the game. I commend the
NFL for that, But in this situation, he's within three yards.
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I've gone back during the commercial break and I've just
kept watching it over and over and I'm thinking, how
could he have done anything differently? And it's very difficult
to see this. And I love that we're playing this
in full speed because you see as he comes within
three year boom, he makes that hit. As a defensive player,
as you're committing to a move and committing to a
tackle like, there's nothing you can do to try to
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get me to move or any defender to move out
of the way. It happens way too fast. I do
think that there needs to be a look at how
quarterbacks take slides and maybe perhaps something totally different. I'm
not a rules guy whatever, but maybe there's some sort
of new technique that they can implement that gets quarterbacks
out of this position. There is no way on God's
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green earth that Aziz al Shaier could try to prevent
that type of it when he's out there trying to
make it play. How many times have we seen quarterbacks
in this situation go out there and they start to
gesture as if they're going to slide and then move around.
They need to eliminate that out the game as well,
so that way defensive players are going and having to
make that decision, because it's impossible to make that type
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of decision that fast. So I'm just saying to me,
I think that they need to reconsider this and teaching
a new technique for quarterbacks.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
I respect your opinion in regards to how difficult of
a position it is for defenders.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I get it right.
Speaker 12 (09:23):
As a former quarterback who like to get out the
pocket and run. I understand what it is to be
in that position where you make a decision to now
make myself defenseless. Right, I'm giving myself up per the
rules and saying, hey, I am no longer protecting myself.
You have a responsibility to protect me as well. And
that was taken advantage of by the repeat offender thing
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that Peter brought up. That is major when you start
looking in terms of has he learned his lesson? Right,
there was something that happened earlier this season where he
punched somebody that didn't get flagged, right, but he has
repeat offenses of this, So he's showing that not only
have I done something like this before, I now have
a lack of emotional intelligence. And because I have a
lack of emotional intelligence, is I have to I'm now
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I'm now giving myself up to the league to say,
for you guys to make a decision on what should
be done to me for me to learn my lesson.
He put somebody in in dire harm. I mean, the
reality is when Trevor Lawrence gave himself up, he could
have seriously been injured. Obviously, he's okay now, we've seen
the tweet from him.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
He had a concussion, but it could have been a
lot worse.
Speaker 12 (10:25):
And he did that with the understanding and the trusting
of how the league.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Has set it up.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
When I give myself up, you are now responsible for
protecting me. There's a there's a lesson to be learned
from that moment. He did not learn his lesson in
that moment. He not only need to get the penalty,
then he started a fight, and then he got the ejection,
and then he went ahead and and and started another
brawl by taking off his helmet. H emotional and lack
of emotional intelligence. But the NFL has a responsibility. They
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have a responsibility not only to protect their players, but
they have a responsibility for the optics of the league.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And when you go out there and you show what.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
You did, there are not only millions of sponsors, sponsors
with millions of dollars out there, but you also have
responsibility to the next generation of kids and who are
so when you show your lack of control, that's what's
going to be the result of it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Three game suspension.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And I think we're all on this and hold on,
go ahead, Ibar, you want to get back and go ahead.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
I'm just gonna make this real quick. I don't think
it's his responsibility necessarily in that moment. I think A
we're doing a lot not here, but in general, that
the national conversation is doing a lot of pilo on.
I think A it's an injustice to continuously show this
hit on slow motion because it does not do it
like any service as to what happened in real time.
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We're talking about a real time game. It should only
be played in real time speed so people can really
get an understanding of it. I've seen way too much
of the slow motion. Secondly, we talk about responsibility. It's
hard to have responsibility when you're talking about a defensive player.
He's also in a defenseless Once you start to launch
and commit, you're in a defensives position. You cannot make
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a move out of that. That is very, very difficult.
I just wanted to make sure I stated that and
made that clear.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Kyle, tell it. I respect that you're passionate about it.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I feel the same way we all do is that
don't let the takeaway be if you see this headline
and say suspended three games for that hit, it wasn't
suspended three games for the hit. It's the aftermath, it's
all of it. If he just does the hit, gets
ejected and walk off, I don't think it would be
three games. I also, I do identify with some of
the defensive players like you, Akbar. There definitely is an
emerging deal where quarterbacks take advantage of the rules to
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protect them as they should, whether it's sliding, whether it's
the stuff where you're creeping down the sideline waiting for
somebody to hit you. And I do think that there
are quarterbacks in real time who are exploiting it.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I don't think this was that.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You watch this in real time, fast motion, slow motion,
you go, oh my god, what is he doing?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
This does not pass the eye test for me personally.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And also this is not new all shaw Here is
not someone who is new to football. He is not
playing in an era when the rules are starting to change.
When you have guys who are out there to hit,
like Bernard Pollard or Dante Whitne, who are like, how
am I supposed to do my job? Alsha Here has
been in the league six years with this type of
understanding in college and high school. He is twenty seven
years old. This is the way the game has been
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played for years. This is not a new thing where
the league drops a rule and the defensive players don't
know how to adjust. This is a long time player
who was brought up and educated in football under these
type of rules. So the worst part to me, after
the physicality and the violence is after he does you what, well,
look at what do you mean you threw a forearm
to the head of a sliding player?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Dude? It's like, I don't not sh'll look in at villify.
I don't know. Think youhod kicked out of the league.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It was not a good play, and it's a guy
who should know better, who's a veteran, and who didn't.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
I would also says there's fifty quarterback slides a week.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
None of the guys look like they're about to.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Get murdered on the field, like that was one that
really stood out where that way that hit. One second
thing I would say, repeat offender is one thing he
has been.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
He has been flagged. I mean, you go through this.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
This is his third unnecessary roughness violation this season alone,
and in twenty twenty three he was fined a lot
of money for a roughing the passer and also a
face mats. So again I mentioned vonte' berfect. It's not
everything in a silo here.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
This is a a.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Big sample size and this guy so that they threw
the book out him, and hopefully he stops playing that
way and hopefully we can all move on and coming
into the playoffs. When the Texans are out there, we
celebrate because he made a big play and did so
in a legal fashion.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There's a lot of statements after the fact out there.
Trevor Lawrence has come out and said he's at home
and he appreciates all the love. A Zizel Shair has
an explanation and an apology online if you want to
go and read that, and then his head coach, Tamika
Ryans had the players back yesterday and also has really
that side of the argument that the quarterbacks are the
ones that maybe should consider the different body positions they're
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putting themselves in game. But the league has said it
it is three game suspension for the six year linebacker
for the Texans.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A zizl Shair.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
He, as Tom Pelisero mentioned, does have the ability to appeal.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
This with the NFL and the NFLPA.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
We will continue to monitor this year on GMFB.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
There it is New York City is the media capital
of the world, and we want to take this moment
to welcome you into the booths with the king of.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
All media, Peter Schrager. And Peter, what do we like
to do during this segment?
Speaker 9 (15:09):
This is a segment that we pay tribute to, not
the players, not the coaches, not the amazing, amazing decision
makers in the front office, but to the men and
women who call the games. Is it in the booth
where we give out awards each week for the best
broadcasting skills of the week. Kyle, should we start off
with our first award?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I think we should and we go to our friends
at NBC. The first award is his best play call.
It could be a touchdown, it could be a fumble,
could be anything. In this case, it was something truly
special and these two gentlemen really captured it. Let's go
to our guys, Mike Turco and Chris Collinsworth. This is
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Behind Cooper who brought it in, pitched it by talent.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What's gonna go on? Spectacular touchdown?
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Oh my bopos, it is showtime in Buffalo, Polly, what
a play I mean, We're talking about having fun in
the snow.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That'll get you through surgery.
Speaker 14 (16:15):
Josh Allen's my fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Not kidd you. It just showed up. I got a
touchdown pass.
Speaker 14 (16:22):
And whatever the other touchdown was reception to move ahead
of Jack paying you're playing Jack.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We're sitting here giggling, and we're not even giggling about
Amari Cooper, lads and Josh Allen.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
We're giggling about the booth.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
They're so happy, and it's like it's pure, it's real ALTURNI.
It's like Chris is having a blast, Mike's having Mike's
sit up there with a boot on his leg about
to get a chilling surgery, and he's in the snow.
Probably took an elevator up there with a giant car.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Who knows.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Meanwhile, Chris is talking about being his son in Fantasy
Football live on the air.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
As the play happens, Chris just starts going no, no,
and as always, it's bedlam, there's snow. It's a hugely
unusual play to Rico is all over everything. It gets
it to laterals and he's gonna score and he gets
the pilot. Just every single little bit before he was
the night before Achilles surgery for Miketerico, I.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Had Achille surgery, I assure you.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
The night before I think I had a bottle of
whiskey and a rosary and that's all. I wasn't calling
a game. I were doing anything intelligible like Mike was.
Both of those guys were great. Sorry to Jack, cons
were picking up the lassus.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Yeah it took yel But you know what, the playoffs
are just ahead, That's true, and what else is just ahead?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Our second award, Peter define the open Book Award.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
The open Book Award is where things go a little
bit sideways and an announcer share some thoughts on his
own playing career, but maybe also some info from his
personal life.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We love these two guys.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Let's go to Joe Buck and our friend Troy Aikman
for the Open Book Award.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Last night.
Speaker 15 (17:52):
Winston wouldn't have caught him either. He runs a five
flat forty. I think I think I could run.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I could beat him.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
Are you saying that you could beat Jamis in a
sprint now or back back in the day, the Glory day?
Well in the day for sure. I tore my hamstring
a year ago at Barry's boot Camp, and I'll be darn.
I mean that thing still has him healed up, and
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it hurts when I walked, So that's why I said
maybe maybe.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
All right, See that's great. You know what's great about that, Peter.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
They're telling that story in the tight game. Oh this
is not thirty eight to three in the fourth quarter.
We got a suit out going on, and we're hearing
about Troy at Barry's. And I know you love it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I mean, Barry's boot Camp.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
You gotta do the floor exercise, you gotta do the treadmill,
and then of course you've got to do the other.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Lunges and all that whatever else.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Troy's bringing us into the Barr's boot Camp session.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
In Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Can you imagine being the instructor in that session and
you know that Troy Aikman's there. It is Wow, Troy
Aikman's in my class. And all of a sudden, some
guys on the ground whaling with his torn hamstring, and
you would probably about the store manager.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
How about him?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
What did you do to Troy?
Speaker 6 (18:59):
You broke akman? But let's go to the let's go
to the real bars. Troy's doing orange theory.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Now he's not doing that, no kidding, No.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Probably Troy get in that orange zone.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But I liked that Buck was all over it and
a whole notunt of second Troy. Never mind James throwing
his fifth fourth interception or whatever it is. Do you
mean you could beat him now or back in the day?
And then Troy didn't really answer. We do a visual
aid though, Can we roll Jamis Winston's forty? I think
Jamis clocked in at a four to nine coming out
of Florida state number one overall pick all right, so
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could Troy be hamstring aside, boot camp aside?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Do you think Troy Ekman could beat him now?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Right?
Speaker 9 (19:33):
That's very confident, borderline cocky that when he was in
his playing days he could have burned him. Now, I
remember Troy as an amazing quarterback, efficient passer.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yes, at four nine?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Does Troy run a four nine in nineteen ninety one?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I think he does pre hamstring Listen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'd like to see I like to see us Johnson
raise him too. I want to set all of that,
and I love that Buck would not let that go.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's a perfect call. It is our Open Book Award Peter,
what's next? It's so good?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Our next one is is it a similar vein? It's
off the rails commentary. We go to a great Thursday
night game again with Turiico, but this time Jason Garrett
in the booth.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
We enjoyed this thoroughly. Take a listen. You were once
the recipient of a boat in Turkey leg.
Speaker 16 (20:13):
I sure was. And John Madden meant so much to football, and.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
You had a heck of a game that day, by
the way, you think it for over three hundred yards?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Would you beat?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We beat Bay Packers. The key question is what happened
to the Turkey leg?
Speaker 16 (20:26):
You know something? I had it in the freezer. It
was in tinfoil for how long? I've probably had her
for fifteen years? And then we finally moved and you know,
I called my wife the other day, I said, we
still have the turfle leg. She said, Noah, it's long gone.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Hope not.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
That's unbelievable looking back in the nineteen ninety fourth season,
and listen, it reminds.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You of what people do it. What is the tradition
with the wedding cake. You take a piece of the
wedding cake.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And then the first down of it fifteen years in
the Garrett family freezer and she finally say, tet this
thing on it, and he finally moves.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
And they're like, all right, we're cleaning out the freezer.
Wait the turkey leg it has to go. Unbelievable story.
I love that, Jason Garrett taking us there. We had
another one from a former Cowboys quarterback. We've heard about
the touch push for many years.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Everyone knows it's the.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Touch push, tush push, touch push. Here's Tony Romo with
the uh he said, what award from this week?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
But again, this is when Hurtz gets it. Anyway, Oh,
here comes Jim your favorite.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
The tushy pushy, The tushy pushy, the tushy pushy.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I thought, I never mind when you play it several times.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
In a row.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Even yeah, I don't think he said it three times,
and I think I know why. Wow, that just cleared
my sinuses. The tush push is a perfect nickname. Tony
knows what it is. You just leave it, there's no
need to change it, or you're doing it to make
nance laugh.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I think he's doing it to be called it the
tushy pushy, which can so easily be.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm reminded of like bulging discs and backs and
all that.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Like that is Romo flying close to the Do you
think he's doing intentionally? Yeah, I think he knows that
it's called the toast push.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I think he is trying to be silly and bus
Nance's chops and give a nickname a nickname. Now I'm
excited for them to call the next Eagles game when
we got to get Romo in the Eagles game, because
I want Jalen Hurts the lineup, but the one and
just let Romo cook.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
That was really good.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
Say that at home three times fast. Just don't say
it in front of your kids.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
The last one, yes, is an old friend of ours.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
An old friend of ours, our former colleague and pushy
favorite people.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
And it's Melissa Stark.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Oh yeah, we we always get the stories of I
spoke with this player and he told me this and
a lot of times.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
To be honest, it's it's fine.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Very rarely does it break through.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
We thought this Melissa's Stark sideline report was simply awesome.
Let's go back to Buffalo, Melissa, take it away.
Speaker 17 (22:53):
Khalil Shakir is ready to run through a wall for
his quarterback, and you think I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
No.
Speaker 17 (22:57):
He told me that if Josh came to him and said,
grab your shield and sword, we're going to battle, with
no other details, he would fall in line behind him,
no questions asked. Khalil said, when your quarterback is putting
his body on the line every single play, it makes
you want to go above and beyond for him. Josh,
all right, so you threw for a touchdown and received
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a touchdown on the same play. Can you walk us
through that?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yeah, I threw bad balls.
Speaker 18 (23:24):
I was worried I was gonna get tipped up in
the air pick, so I was just kind of chasing it.
I made eye contact with Coope, he's a vet saw men.
Put my hands out, He tossed it to me and
had to.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Make a play.
Speaker 18 (23:33):
Is that how they score it? I get a passing
and receiving you doo. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 17 (23:37):
And Chris Collinsworth is very excited because he started you
on his fantasy team.
Speaker 18 (23:40):
I love that, so did I.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, good to hear it.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
That's great, and I loved that. Melissa was ready with
the clarification. Statistically, because there's another micd up package of
Josh on the sideline asking his team, it's how do
they score?
Speaker 17 (23:54):
That?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
He genuinely wanted to know Melissa had it certainly a
producer and talked to her and it's a passing and receiving.
But how about the khalis secure sword and shield story
with a shield and a sword.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
And nothing else.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Will you go to war with me?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
It reminds me of like the john snow gift you guys, and.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It comes from Lady Stark. How perfect is that? It unbelievable?
Speaker 9 (24:14):
See, this is what we're doing, guys.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
We're going back to the table here.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
We gave out all these wonderful accolades.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
We like to celebrate the.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Folks who are traveling on a holiday weekend and provided
these games. Jamie, I know all this is close to
your heart, having done.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
A million games in your career.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Your takeaways from this week's in the Booth.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I always love him respect.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
What Melissa Stark does is very hard and being big
bang and have all the information right there. You know
what else is really tough? Chro What are you doing
at Berry's boot camp? I mean, just like go for
a jog in your neighborhood. Man, do you know how
hard you have to push yourself on a treadmill. That's
not Troy, that's Trico and Jason Garrett. We love them,
but that is insane. The fact that you're tearing your hamstring,
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not when you play, not when you are over exerting
yourself actually in a foot race with the player. Nay
on a treadmill work Troy. I respect it, but please
take it down a notch, maybe into the maybe just
the push pace.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
You know, I'm torn between Tony Romo, Oh yeah, I'm
not going and then and then.
Speaker 19 (25:16):
Tony Romo, and of course Chris Collins because you know Chris,
he's just so excited about everything. I gotta tell you
about this guy right here.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Oh man, this guy is such a cool receiver.
Speaker 19 (25:29):
I mean, like the way he drags it out just
makes you just excited about football. So yeah, Chris is
it's pretty good. He gets really excited.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
I love all of them, but I have to get
a T shirt made with a Tony Romo quote and
the Eagles in there in their goal line formation.
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Go ahead, pushy push she push.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
She say it twice. I'm not saying it three times.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
But that's why I need a shirt right there, of
the Philadelia T shirt you wear the school and the
principal makes you turn it inside out.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Yeah big, you know what? Yeah exactly, that's into the booth. Well,
you do it every week and.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
If you think you hear something during the week, send
it to us.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Pat JMFB.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
We'll say if you can make the show.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Get roma on Eagles games more all Eagles.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Time for Beneath the Surface presented by a Microsoft Surface.
I have an image here that I will not show
you yet because off bar Budja Biamila had an insane Sunday.
You threw this out at us on Friday and we
were all like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Tell us this whole story, and when it is time
for me to show this picture at this part of
the story, then I'll show it with my surface here.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Okay, Oh yeah, So you know I had this this
past weekend. I had a Football Warrior weekend. I mean
it was unforgettable. It was a worldwin adventure. So here
it is. I went on this ultimate fan experience, attending
three NFL games and one epic day. Now, I have
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to say it was the first time I think anyone
has ever done this, So it might be a world record.
Speaker 15 (27:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
We got to check into that, but I'm gonna walk
you guys through this. So my first stop I went
to MetLife Stadium, where the energy was surprisingly electric. Eighty
one thousand fans passionately backing their team. It kind of
felt like a family reunion. Now, It's like there, I
am right there with Davante Adams, you know what I'm saying,
had a little pregame talk right there. You know, came
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dapting me up real quick, but you know, I was saying, like,
in that energy you felt with the Jets fans, it's
like going to a family reunion. Family members are bickering
at themselves, but they're kind of protective over each other,
and they dare you to criticize one of their family members.
So for me, you know, I'm an analyst, I said,
I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. I'm gonna keep to myself.
So I didn't say anything about the Jets fans, but
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they did start off hot in that game. But for
a West Coast guy like myself, it was so cold
in that game, thirty seven degrees, but it felt more
like twenty nine with the windshill but the excitement was
worth it, for sure. It was so big. I mean,
this picture right here, this is a picture going to
the Baltimore game. When I went down to Baltimore. I
left that game, got to Baltimore, and I thought the
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Philly fans were the ones that were the crazy ones
and that were intense, but no, it was the Raven fans.
I went up to this guy, say, hey, what do
you feel about this sa Quon?
Speaker 19 (28:22):
This Saquon touchdown? He gives me the straight flip. I
was like, oh, okay, that's how we're doing it over there.
But it was it was a lot of fun. So yeah,
I leave the Medlife game. I go straight to Baltimore.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
That was my first time at M and T's Bank Stadium,
and you could just see the green and the purple everywhere.
Everyone was so electric. They wanted to see Derek Henry
say kwon Bark League and who else did you see?
And then I ran into the Great ed Reed. Ed
Reid was there. We had a real good conversation about defense.
We talked about, you know, the state of the Ravens.
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But the one thing that I did notice that I
had to call ed Reid out. The Great Hall of
Famer Ed Reid. I said, Yo, what's up with your
Super Bowl ring? This is Super Bowl forty seven ring. Here,
zoom in in on this one real quick. He doesn't
have it on a chain, he doesn't wear it on
his finger because he's not really a jewelry guy. He's
actually wearing it on a shoelace from his Super Bowl cleats.
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So that's how hard Where is it? When he goes
out he puts it on there? He said, I have
spending all that money on his chains. Man, Come on.
I was like, you know what, I'm digging your swagger.
But I had to move like Jagger though, and get
out of that game. Bolting to the fourth quarter for Buffalo.
That's where it all went down. That was an amazing game.
The weather was intense. I had to brace myself for
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this bone chilling temperature at high Mark Stadium. This is
the first time I had been there since two thousand
and six when I got let go of the Chargers.
But this time I was going in as a fan
and it was I mean it was. They were out
in full force. Now I'm mad that I missed the
chance to jump through a table because that was That
was something I was really looking forward to. But they
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go out into this whole shout song and I'm like,
what is this shout song?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It just shout.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I can't sing the whole thing here, so I asked
to do I say, this is your song? And I
just started giving him the look like it didn't build
Like you think Bill's Mafia, you think something hardcore, you
think something that's gonna kind of get kind of something, Yeah,
bring upthenticity. There was none of that. But I did
have to chicken out a little bit. I say, I
am not watching this game outside. I got into the
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box and it was warm and cozy in there in
the box seats. I had some authentic Buffalo Wings for
the first time, and I learned how they kind of
came up with the name and where it originated from.
It originated from the city, from at Anchor Bar, how
about that right there in Buffalo. So that was pretty cool.
But this was also special. My good friend Mahomie ron Curry,
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Ronald Curry, this is the quarterbacks coach right there, and
former teammate quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills, and we
were talking about Josh Allen and just how he kind
of brings us looseness to the team and the energy
that he brings. He's a fun dude. But then we
started reminiscing about the last time we were together in
the snow. Check this out. This was back in two
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thousand and four against the Denver Broncos. Of course Broncos
played Monday night. And he makes this handed catch and
there it is with the snow Angel right there, and
he goes up and that was big time. I'll never
forget that play. That was thick. That was the last
time we were together in the snow. So that was
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that right there, And of course we would go on
to win that game twenty five to twenty four in
Week twelve. So I actually afterwards we're talking to Ron Curry.
I got reunited with a mentor of mine, Andre Reid.
Andre Reid was there and we started talking, going back
and forth. I was trying to show him how to
run routes, so we were teasing about that. There he
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is the great Hall of Famer Andre Reid. We got
to know each other down in San Diego and just
been friends ever since. And then he bullied me. He
bullied me. It made me do my very first snow
Angel just like you saw Ron Curry doing there after
the touchdown, I had to do my very first snow
angel I got. You know, I didn't get too wet,
but it just felt like a kid. But it was fun.
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It was out there out there with everyone out there there,
it is right there. I'm getting myself ready, here we go.
That was the biggest of us snow angel on the planet.
Nobody's ever had a bit snow angel that day.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Very good technique for having never done that before.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Yeah so you're jagging down before you did that, Yeah
I did. I did not want to get anything. You're
Kyle talking about that house. Don't crevices into the crevices
of the crevas. But this game was pretty fun, I
have to say. For me, you know, I'm gonna wrap
this up as a fan. This one first time he
enjoyed the game as a fan. You know, typically has
been as an analyst or as a player. But to
go out on this experience and hit up three different
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games in three different cities, it was really cool to
get the energy. And this is why to me, while
the NFL is such a big game, it's a big spore.
You get it when you're going out to these different environments.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 19 (32:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you exhausted after I was exhausted.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
I was. I was on adrenaline the entire time. I
got to see a bunch of people. And I have
to give a shout out too, by the way, to Alexa.
Alexa out in Buffalo is a huge fan. She saw
me out there on the fielding. She stops goes, what
are you doing here? Oh my gosh, I love Good
Morning football?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 10 (33:16):
I was like, I'm just being a fan here. So
shout out to Alexa in Buffalo, who loves all of
us here on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Perfect.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
That was dope, really cool, Ochbar, what are a cool
legs work?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I really think he might be right on this.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
This might be a Guinness World BOCO World Records thing.
Speaker 10 (33:32):
And he did it on the East Coast, which is great.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
I don't know if anyone's ever attended three games in
one day besides you, so we might have to look
into that. I'd also like to quickly shout out Ronald Curry,
who might have been the greatest high school athlete of
all time. Grew up in Virginia and was All State
Virginia basketball, All State Virginia football and was doing so
in an era when Alan i Verson and Michael Vick
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were both there. And I've had no recollection of this play,
Kerry Collins hitting him in the back of the end zone.
Pretty cool, Ochbar that you were there for that and play,
and then you were there to see him twenty years
later as he's coaching in the NFL.
Speaker 15 (34:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:08):
Yeah, No, it's pretty cool too, man, just to see
his growth from a wide receivers coach down with the
Saints and down over here to Buffalo. Yeah. And I
learned a lot about Buffalo, about Josh Allen too, so
it was really cool to hear his perspective. I know
what I see on tape and now just to get
to know the person. I'm a big fan. Like his
name is in that conversation, it's MVP, but that we
can talk about that later.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
I think that was impressive that you were able to
do that. I'm super happy that you got the experience.
That more impressive with Ronald Curry's snow Angel. He went
frontal at the snow Angel. I don't have anybody giving him
credit for that. That's dedication right there, that's diving in.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, I think someone could make it to all three
games in Florida, but you'd have to have the Jags,
the Dolphins, and the Bucks be really good because right
now you're working on three cities up and down ninety
five and in Western New York teams are great, so
we need Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Stepping up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Plus.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I bet you'd sign up for that trip.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
I would sign up for Yeah, I know, Oh yeah,
you can.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Ditch that jacket exactly Offar.
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That's Peter Schrager, There's Kyle Brandt, and here is Isaiah
standback at the table. This is a really fun and
busy hour. Akbar was on a three game and one
day trip over the weekend. Isaiah's here to give his
takes on some controversial plays from over the weekend. We
had angry runs last hour.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
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Speaker 2 (00:57):
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Speaker 5 (01:07):
I will do it all with cameos by Bone Nicks.
Let's see what happened in Browns at Broncos forty one
to thirty two. All right, the Broncos going to buy
their eight and five, they're probably gonna make the playoffs
unless the Colts also do something crazy and they're going
to a buy.
Speaker 6 (01:21):
But let's hear from the winning coach and.
Speaker 5 (01:23):
The quarterback and up with Jamis, let's talk to Sean.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Payton and Bonix.
Speaker 7 (01:28):
Obviously, when we go back and look at that tape,
we're going to look at a lot of things defensively
that we would have done differently.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
We have to.
Speaker 7 (01:36):
And yet you know, we had two interceptions for touchdowns
a third interception. I told him in the locker room,
you know, uh, look at it wasn't pretty. And yet
in the end, you know, we did what we had
to do.
Speaker 8 (01:51):
Especially late, I saw three turnovers and you know, key
parts of the game. Not only turnovers are hard to
you know, get, but to return for touchdowns that's even harder.
So and the fact that they did it twice, it
was it was crazy. It's kind of nice. You know,
I'm over there sitting, you know, the benches is you
got the heaters over there, and I don't even have
to move, So it's pretty nice for the offense.
Speaker 9 (02:16):
We're talking about Bonex's out for either rookie teacher under
a full little sports Blazer.
Speaker 10 (02:20):
It's all right, we'll get that Connell.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
You got going right?
Speaker 10 (02:23):
I think I look good?
Speaker 9 (02:24):
Yeah, bullets, all right, we'll see him at NFL Honors
when he's twice in that code that Offensive Rookie of
the Year award.
Speaker 10 (02:29):
Okay, did you watch the manic Titans?
Speaker 4 (02:30):
I know it's day.
Speaker 9 (02:32):
We'll get there playoff picture really quickly.
Speaker 6 (02:35):
If the playoffs are today, it would.
Speaker 9 (02:36):
Be Bills hosting Broncos, it would be Steelers hosting Ravens,
and it would be Texans hosting Chargers. In your Saturday
afternoon Houston Special, probably streaming on Amazon, I would imagine,
or Peacock or whatever. We're gonna get to the playoff
matches in a bit.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
But I call it that they're on the couch and
bring me my pad time.
Speaker 9 (02:58):
Let's I mean, we got actually some serious news and
a ruling from the league will.
Speaker 10 (03:03):
Toss to you.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Well, you see the Texans there at the fourth spot
in the AFC playoff picture right now.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
They lead the AFC South.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
They solidified that spot more so on Sunday with a
win over the Jaguars. But during that game, you saw
their linebacker, a six year linebacker with the Texans a
Ziz al Shaiir take a hit to Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence.
Of course he was carted off the field. Tom Pellasaro
joining us now on GMFB with a ruling from the
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NFL about.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
That hit that al Shaiir did to Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 10 (03:36):
That's right, Jamie.
Speaker 11 (03:37):
The NFL is suspending Texans linebacker a Zi's al Shaiir
for the next three games for repeat violations of the
NFL's health and safety rules, including that hit that knock
Trevor Lawrence out of Sunday's game. John Running, the NFL's
vice president of football Operations, writing in a letter to
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al Shair, that after the illegal hit, you proceed to
engage in a brawl, which you escalated when you pulled
an opponent down to the ground by his face mask.
At the referee announced he were disqualified for the hit
and your unsportsman like acts. You removed your helmet and
re engaged with your opponent while walking down and across
the field, which started another physical confrontation near the end zone.
Your lack of sportsmanship and respect for the game of
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football and all those who play, coach and enjoy watching
it is troubling. It does not reflect the core values
of the NFL. Now, al Shair, under the Collective Bargaining Agreement,
does have the right to appeal this to an NFL
NFLPA jointly appointed appeals officer. Barring a successful suspension, the
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soonest he would be allowed to be back on the
field would be week seventeen. This is, of course, as
Runyon noted in that letter, not the first time that
al Shair has been disciplined.
Speaker 6 (04:49):
He has been fined in the past.
Speaker 11 (04:51):
There was an incident early in the season this year
in which he punched Bears running back Roshawn Johnson in
the face mask. No flag was thrown, so there was
no ejection possible in that case. This time around, al
Shaiir ejected and now suspended for the next three games.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
All right, Tom, appreciate all of that. Yeah, there's a
lot of layers to this. After the hit by as
He's Elshaiyer on Sunday, there were a ton of people
coming out with clips of past behaviors by lschai Year
on the field. So in reference to the repeat violations,
this was just in one circumstance on Sunday against the Jaguars,
John Runyon laid it all out there from the NFL,
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the face mask, the unsportsmanlike conduct, but it all began
Peter with that hit on the quarterback, Trevor Lawrence. Peter
just unpacked the three game suspension for us, but also
your thoughts on the situation as a whole, because Texans
had coached Miko Ryans also came out tried to stand
by his player.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
But there's just a lot of layers to this well.
Speaker 9 (05:49):
I think it's difficult to separate the player and the
person and the actual play because from all accounts I've
spoken to Robert Salad, to Miko Ryans, guys who've had
him on their defense. He's a beloved player in the
locker room and one of those guys that you look
to be your leader on deep been in the league
for six years, obviously has been very successful repeat offender.
I think back to Vontez perfect like, you're not looked
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at in the same light when you do this time
and time again, and you have a lot of plays
in the league has a database of other plays that
you've made and that obviously played a role.
Speaker 10 (06:18):
But I think the most important.
Speaker 9 (06:20):
Part of this is that last thing, where after the
referee announced that he was disqualified. He then took off
his helmet and started a brawl, like that's the next thing.
So it's three games, and let me tell you something,
he's a good player, Like that's major and that probably
win the AFC South. But that's three key games in
their season going into the playoffs. And then you get
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him back December week seventeen, the Christmas Day game. It's
going to be like a wrestler coming out of the
locker room.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
He's back, reinstated, but of course he can't appeal.
Speaker 9 (06:51):
As Tom Pellisero noted, the guys who are doing the appeals,
it's Jordy Nelson, Derek Brooks, Ramon Foster. It's a paid
position that the NFLPA and the NFL both pick and
they get to do the pl So.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
That's really interesting. There is obviously come on.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
Obviously, so you've got three games. It could go down
to two, but the league had to acted, I think
one d the past history and then also the all right,
it's not enough that I had this dirty hit. Let's
take off my helmet, let's fight that. That's no place
for the league for that.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, you know this this whole situation there there
is a lot of layers to this, or there are
a lot of layers to this. First, I totally agreed that,
you know, his antics and the freakiss that happened afterwards
should not have happened. Now, clearly he was responding to
the push that happened afterwards and this whole thing. But
I think we need to go back to the genesis
of this. And I'm talking about just this play alone,
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not his previous behavior. I'm not condoning any of that.
The hit that he put on Trevor Lawrence, to me,
was a football hit. It was a football move made. Now.
I get that the NFL is trying to legislate the
violence unnecessary violence either of the game. I commend the
NFL for that, But in this situation, he's within three yards.
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I've gone back during the commercial break and I've just
kept watching it over and over and I'm thinking, how
could he have done anything differently? And it's very difficult
to see this. And I love that we're playing this
in full speed because you see as he comes within
three year boom, he makes that hit. As a defensive player,
as you're committing to a move and committing to a
tackle like, there's nothing you can do to try to
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get me to move or any defender to move out
of the way. It happens way too fast. I do
think that there needs to be a look at how
quarterbacks take slides and maybe perhaps something totally different. I'm
not a rules guy whatever, but maybe there's some sort
of new technique that they can implement that gets quarterbacks
out of this position. There is no way on God's
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green earth that Aziz al Shaier could try to prevent
that type of it when he's out there trying to
make it play. How many times have we seen quarterbacks
in this situation go out there and they start to
gesture as if they're going to slide and then move around.
They need to eliminate that out the game as well,
so that way defensive players are going and having to
make that decision, because it's impossible to make that type
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of decision that fast. So I'm just saying to me,
I think that they need to reconsider this and teaching
a new technique for quarterbacks.
Speaker 12 (09:18):
I respect your opinion in regards to how difficult of
a position it is for defenders.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
I get it right.
Speaker 12 (09:23):
As a former quarterback who like to get out the
pocket and run. I understand what it is to be
in that position where you make a decision to now
make myself defenseless. Right, I'm giving myself up per the
rules and saying, hey, I am no longer protecting myself.
You have a responsibility to protect me as well. And
that was taken advantage of by the repeat offender thing
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that Peter brought up. That is major when you start
looking in terms of has he learned his lesson? Right,
there was something that happened earlier this season where he
punched somebody that didn't get flagged, right, but he has
repeat offenses of this, So he's showing that not only
have I done something like this before, I now have
a lack of emotional intelligence. And because I have a
lack of emotional intelligence, is I have to I'm now
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I'm now giving myself up to the league to say,
for you guys to make a decision on what should
be done to me for me to learn my lesson.
He put somebody in in dire harm. I mean, the
reality is when Trevor Lawrence gave himself up, he could
have seriously been injured. Obviously, he's okay now, we've seen
the tweet from him.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
He had a concussion, but it could have been a
lot worse.
Speaker 12 (10:25):
And he did that with the understanding and the trusting
of how the league.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Has set it up.
Speaker 12 (10:30):
When I give myself up, you are now responsible for
protecting me. There's a there's a lesson to be learned
from that moment. He did not learn his lesson in
that moment. He not only need to get the penalty,
then he started a fight, and then he got the ejection,
and then he went ahead and and and started another
brawl by taking off his helmet. H emotional and lack
of emotional intelligence. But the NFL has a responsibility. They
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have a responsibility not only to protect their players, but
they have a responsibility for the optics of the league.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
And when you go out there and you show what.
Speaker 12 (10:56):
You did, there are not only millions of sponsors, sponsors
with millions of dollars out there, but you also have
responsibility to the next generation of kids and who are
so when you show your lack of control, that's what's
going to be the result of it.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Three game suspension.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
And I think we're all on this and hold on,
go ahead, Ibar, you want to get back and go ahead.
Speaker 10 (11:15):
I'm just gonna make this real quick. I don't think
it's his responsibility necessarily in that moment. I think A
we're doing a lot not here, but in general, that
the national conversation is doing a lot of pilo on.
I think A it's an injustice to continuously show this
hit on slow motion because it does not do it
like any service as to what happened in real time.
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We're talking about a real time game. It should only
be played in real time speed so people can really
get an understanding of it. I've seen way too much
of the slow motion. Secondly, we talk about responsibility. It's
hard to have responsibility when you're talking about a defensive player.
He's also in a defenseless Once you start to launch
and commit, you're in a defensives position. You cannot make
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a move out of that. That is very, very difficult.
I just wanted to make sure I stated that and
made that clear.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
Kyle, tell it. I respect that you're passionate about it.
Speaker 5 (12:06):
I feel the same way we all do is that
don't let the takeaway be if you see this headline
and say suspended three games for that hit, it wasn't
suspended three games for the hit. It's the aftermath, it's
all of it. If he just does the hit, gets
ejected and walk off, I don't think it would be
three games. I also, I do identify with some of
the defensive players like you, Akbar. There definitely is an
emerging deal where quarterbacks take advantage of the rules to
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protect them as they should, whether it's sliding, whether it's
the stuff where you're creeping down the sideline waiting for
somebody to hit you. And I do think that there
are quarterbacks in real time who are exploiting it.
Speaker 6 (12:36):
I don't think this was that.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
You watch this in real time, fast motion, slow motion,
you go, oh my god, what is he doing?
Speaker 6 (12:42):
This does not pass the eye test for me personally.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And also this is not new all shaw Here is
not someone who is new to football. He is not
playing in an era when the rules are starting to change.
When you have guys who are out there to hit,
like Bernard Pollard or Dante Whitne, who are like, how
am I supposed to do my job? Alsha Here has
been in the league six years with this type of
understanding in college and high school. He is twenty seven
years old. This is the way the game has been
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played for years. This is not a new thing where
the league drops a rule and the defensive players don't
know how to adjust. This is a long time player
who was brought up and educated in football under these
type of rules. So the worst part to me, after
the physicality and the violence is after he does you what, well,
look at what do you mean you threw a forearm
to the head of a sliding player?
Speaker 6 (13:28):
Dude? It's like, I don't not sh'll look in at villify.
I don't know. Think youhod kicked out of the league.
Speaker 5 (13:31):
It was not a good play, and it's a guy
who should know better, who's a veteran, and who didn't.
Speaker 9 (13:35):
I would also says there's fifty quarterback slides a week.
Speaker 10 (13:38):
None of the guys look like they're about to.
Speaker 9 (13:39):
Get murdered on the field, like that was one that
really stood out where that way that hit. One second
thing I would say, repeat offender is one thing he
has been.
Speaker 10 (13:48):
He has been flagged. I mean, you go through this.
Speaker 9 (13:50):
This is his third unnecessary roughness violation this season alone,
and in twenty twenty three he was fined a lot
of money for a roughing the passer and also a
face mats. So again I mentioned vonte' berfect. It's not
everything in a silo here.
Speaker 10 (14:03):
This is a a.
Speaker 9 (14:05):
Big sample size and this guy so that they threw
the book out him, and hopefully he stops playing that
way and hopefully we can all move on and coming
into the playoffs. When the Texans are out there, we
celebrate because he made a big play and did so
in a legal fashion.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
There's a lot of statements after the fact out there.
Trevor Lawrence has come out and said he's at home
and he appreciates all the love. A Zizel Shair has
an explanation and an apology online if you want to
go and read that, and then his head coach, Tamika
Ryans had the players back yesterday and also has really
that side of the argument that the quarterbacks are the
ones that maybe should consider the different body positions they're
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putting themselves in game. But the league has said it
it is three game suspension for the six year linebacker
for the Texans.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
A zizl Shair.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
He, as Tom Pelisero mentioned, does have the ability to appeal.
Speaker 3 (14:46):
This with the NFL and the NFLPA.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
We will continue to monitor this year on GMFB.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
There it is New York City is the media capital
of the world, and we want to take this moment
to welcome you into the booths with the king of.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
All media, Peter Schrager. And Peter, what do we like
to do during this segment?
Speaker 9 (15:09):
This is a segment that we pay tribute to, not
the players, not the coaches, not the amazing, amazing decision
makers in the front office, but to the men and
women who call the games. Is it in the booth
where we give out awards each week for the best
broadcasting skills of the week. Kyle, should we start off
with our first award?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I think we should and we go to our friends
at NBC. The first award is his best play call.
It could be a touchdown, it could be a fumble,
could be anything. In this case, it was something truly
special and these two gentlemen really captured it. Let's go
to our guys, Mike Turco and Chris Collinsworth. This is
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Behind Cooper who brought it in, pitched it by talent.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
What's gonna go on? Spectacular touchdown?
Speaker 14 (16:01):
Oh my bopos, it is showtime in Buffalo, Polly, what
a play I mean, We're talking about having fun in
the snow.
Speaker 4 (16:13):
That'll get you through surgery.
Speaker 14 (16:15):
Josh Allen's my fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Not kidd you. It just showed up. I got a
touchdown pass.
Speaker 14 (16:22):
And whatever the other touchdown was reception to move ahead
of Jack paying you're playing Jack.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
We're sitting here giggling, and we're not even giggling about
Amari Cooper, lads and Josh Allen.
Speaker 10 (16:36):
We're giggling about the booth.
Speaker 9 (16:37):
They're so happy, and it's like it's pure, it's real ALTURNI.
It's like Chris is having a blast, Mike's having Mike's
sit up there with a boot on his leg about
to get a chilling surgery, and he's in the snow.
Probably took an elevator up there with a giant car.
Speaker 10 (16:50):
Who knows.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
Meanwhile, Chris is talking about being his son in Fantasy
Football live on the air.
Speaker 5 (16:55):
As the play happens, Chris just starts going no, no,
and as always, it's bedlam, there's snow. It's a hugely
unusual play to Rico is all over everything. It gets
it to laterals and he's gonna score and he gets
the pilot. Just every single little bit before he was
the night before Achilles surgery for Miketerico, I.
Speaker 6 (17:14):
Had Achille surgery, I assure you.
Speaker 5 (17:16):
The night before I think I had a bottle of
whiskey and a rosary and that's all. I wasn't calling
a game. I were doing anything intelligible like Mike was.
Both of those guys were great. Sorry to Jack, cons
were picking up the lassus.
Speaker 9 (17:26):
Yeah it took yel But you know what, the playoffs
are just ahead, That's true, and what else is just ahead?
Speaker 5 (17:30):
Our second award, Peter define the open Book Award.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
The open Book Award is where things go a little
bit sideways and an announcer share some thoughts on his
own playing career, but maybe also some info from his
personal life.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
We love these two guys.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
Let's go to Joe Buck and our friend Troy Aikman
for the Open Book Award.
Speaker 10 (17:50):
Last night.
Speaker 15 (17:52):
Winston wouldn't have caught him either. He runs a five
flat forty. I think I think I could run.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
I could beat him.
Speaker 15 (18:00):
Are you saying that you could beat Jamis in a
sprint now or back back in the day, the Glory day?
Well in the day for sure. I tore my hamstring
a year ago at Barry's boot Camp, and I'll be darn.
I mean that thing still has him healed up, and
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it hurts when I walked, So that's why I said
maybe maybe.
Speaker 6 (18:24):
All right, See that's great. You know what's great about that, Peter.
Speaker 5 (18:29):
They're telling that story in the tight game. Oh this
is not thirty eight to three in the fourth quarter.
We got a suit out going on, and we're hearing
about Troy at Barry's. And I know you love it.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
I mean, Barry's boot Camp.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
You gotta do the floor exercise, you gotta do the treadmill,
and then of course you've got to do the other.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Lunges and all that whatever else.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Troy's bringing us into the Barr's boot Camp session.
Speaker 10 (18:46):
In Fort Worth, Texas.
Speaker 5 (18:47):
Can you imagine being the instructor in that session and
you know that Troy Aikman's there. It is Wow, Troy
Aikman's in my class. And all of a sudden, some
guys on the ground whaling with his torn hamstring, and
you would probably about the store manager.
Speaker 10 (18:57):
How about him?
Speaker 4 (18:58):
What did you do to Troy?
Speaker 6 (18:59):
You broke akman? But let's go to the let's go
to the real bars. Troy's doing orange theory.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Now he's not doing that, no kidding, No.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Probably Troy get in that orange zone.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
But I liked that Buck was all over it and
a whole notunt of second Troy. Never mind James throwing
his fifth fourth interception or whatever it is. Do you
mean you could beat him now or back in the day?
And then Troy didn't really answer. We do a visual
aid though, Can we roll Jamis Winston's forty? I think
Jamis clocked in at a four to nine coming out
of Florida state number one overall pick all right, so
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could Troy be hamstring aside, boot camp aside?
Speaker 6 (19:31):
Do you think Troy Ekman could beat him now?
Speaker 7 (19:33):
Right?
Speaker 9 (19:33):
That's very confident, borderline cocky that when he was in
his playing days he could have burned him. Now, I
remember Troy as an amazing quarterback, efficient passer.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
Yes, at four nine?
Speaker 10 (19:43):
Does Troy run a four nine in nineteen ninety one?
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (19:46):
I think he does pre hamstring Listen.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
I'd like to see I like to see us Johnson
raise him too. I want to set all of that,
and I love that Buck would not let that go.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
It's a perfect call. It is our Open Book Award Peter,
what's next? It's so good?
Speaker 9 (19:58):
Our next one is is it a similar vein? It's
off the rails commentary. We go to a great Thursday
night game again with Turiico, but this time Jason Garrett
in the booth.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
We enjoyed this thoroughly. Take a listen. You were once
the recipient of a boat in Turkey leg.
Speaker 16 (20:13):
I sure was. And John Madden meant so much to football, and.
Speaker 6 (20:17):
You had a heck of a game that day, by
the way, you think it for over three hundred yards?
Speaker 10 (20:21):
Would you beat?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
We beat Bay Packers. The key question is what happened
to the Turkey leg?
Speaker 16 (20:26):
You know something? I had it in the freezer. It
was in tinfoil for how long? I've probably had her
for fifteen years? And then we finally moved and you know,
I called my wife the other day, I said, we
still have the turfle leg. She said, Noah, it's long gone.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Hope not.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
That's unbelievable looking back in the nineteen ninety fourth season,
and listen, it reminds.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
You of what people do it. What is the tradition
with the wedding cake. You take a piece of the
wedding cake.
Speaker 5 (20:51):
And then the first down of it fifteen years in
the Garrett family freezer and she finally say, tet this
thing on it, and he finally moves.
Speaker 9 (20:57):
And they're like, all right, we're cleaning out the freezer.
Wait the turkey leg it has to go. Unbelievable story.
I love that, Jason Garrett taking us there. We had
another one from a former Cowboys quarterback. We've heard about
the touch push for many years.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
Everyone knows it's the.
Speaker 9 (21:11):
Touch push, tush push, touch push. Here's Tony Romo with
the uh he said, what award from this week?
Speaker 4 (21:20):
But again, this is when Hurtz gets it. Anyway, Oh,
here comes Jim your favorite.
Speaker 10 (21:25):
The tushy pushy, The tushy pushy, the tushy pushy.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I thought, I never mind when you play it several times.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
In a row.
Speaker 5 (21:38):
Even yeah, I don't think he said it three times,
and I think I know why. Wow, that just cleared
my sinuses. The tush push is a perfect nickname. Tony
knows what it is. You just leave it, there's no
need to change it, or you're doing it to make
nance laugh.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
I think he's doing it to be called it the
tushy pushy, which can so easily be.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Yeah, I'm reminded of like bulging discs and backs and
all that.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
Like that is Romo flying close to the Do you
think he's doing intentionally? Yeah, I think he knows that
it's called the toast push.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I think he is trying to be silly and bus
Nance's chops and give a nickname a nickname. Now I'm
excited for them to call the next Eagles game when
we got to get Romo in the Eagles game, because
I want Jalen Hurts the lineup, but the one and
just let Romo cook.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
That was really good.
Speaker 10 (22:21):
Say that at home three times fast. Just don't say
it in front of your kids.
Speaker 6 (22:25):
The last one, yes, is an old friend of ours.
Speaker 9 (22:27):
An old friend of ours, our former colleague and pushy
favorite people.
Speaker 10 (22:33):
And it's Melissa Stark.
Speaker 9 (22:34):
Oh yeah, we we always get the stories of I
spoke with this player and he told me this and
a lot of times.
Speaker 10 (22:40):
To be honest, it's it's fine.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
Very rarely does it break through.
Speaker 9 (22:44):
We thought this Melissa's Stark sideline report was simply awesome.
Let's go back to Buffalo, Melissa, take it away.
Speaker 17 (22:53):
Khalil Shakir is ready to run through a wall for
his quarterback, and you think I'm kidding.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
No.
Speaker 17 (22:57):
He told me that if Josh came to him and said,
grab your shield and sword, we're going to battle, with
no other details, he would fall in line behind him,
no questions asked. Khalil said, when your quarterback is putting
his body on the line every single play, it makes
you want to go above and beyond for him. Josh,
all right, so you threw for a touchdown and received
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a touchdown on the same play. Can you walk us
through that?
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Yeah, I threw bad balls.
Speaker 18 (23:24):
I was worried I was gonna get tipped up in
the air pick, so I was just kind of chasing it.
I made eye contact with Coope, he's a vet saw men.
Put my hands out, He tossed it to me and
had to.
Speaker 10 (23:32):
Make a play.
Speaker 18 (23:33):
Is that how they score it? I get a passing
and receiving you doo. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 17 (23:37):
And Chris Collinsworth is very excited because he started you
on his fantasy team.
Speaker 18 (23:40):
I love that, so did I.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Oh, good to hear it.
Speaker 5 (23:46):
That's great, and I loved that. Melissa was ready with
the clarification. Statistically, because there's another micd up package of
Josh on the sideline asking his team, it's how do
they score?
Speaker 17 (23:54):
That?
Speaker 5 (23:54):
He genuinely wanted to know Melissa had it certainly a
producer and talked to her and it's a passing and receiving.
But how about the khalis secure sword and shield story
with a shield and a sword.
Speaker 10 (24:06):
And nothing else.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Will you go to war with me?
Speaker 5 (24:08):
It reminds me of like the john snow gift you guys, and.
Speaker 6 (24:11):
It comes from Lady Stark. How perfect is that? It unbelievable?
Speaker 9 (24:14):
See, this is what we're doing, guys.
Speaker 10 (24:17):
We're going back to the table here.
Speaker 9 (24:18):
We gave out all these wonderful accolades.
Speaker 10 (24:20):
We like to celebrate the.
Speaker 9 (24:21):
Folks who are traveling on a holiday weekend and provided
these games. Jamie, I know all this is close to
your heart, having done.
Speaker 6 (24:28):
A million games in your career.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Your takeaways from this week's in the Booth.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
I always love him respect.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
What Melissa Stark does is very hard and being big
bang and have all the information right there. You know
what else is really tough? Chro What are you doing
at Berry's boot camp? I mean, just like go for
a jog in your neighborhood. Man, do you know how
hard you have to push yourself on a treadmill. That's
not Troy, that's Trico and Jason Garrett. We love them,
but that is insane. The fact that you're tearing your hamstring,
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not when you play, not when you are over exerting
yourself actually in a foot race with the player. Nay
on a treadmill work Troy. I respect it, but please
take it down a notch, maybe into the maybe just
the push pace.
Speaker 10 (25:09):
You know, I'm torn between Tony Romo, Oh yeah, I'm
not going and then and then.
Speaker 19 (25:16):
Tony Romo, and of course Chris Collins because you know Chris,
he's just so excited about everything. I gotta tell you
about this guy right here.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Oh man, this guy is such a cool receiver.
Speaker 19 (25:29):
I mean, like the way he drags it out just
makes you just excited about football. So yeah, Chris is
it's pretty good. He gets really excited.
Speaker 12 (25:37):
I love all of them, but I have to get
a T shirt made with a Tony Romo quote and
the Eagles in there in their goal line formation.
Speaker 19 (25:44):
Go ahead, pushy push she push.
Speaker 4 (25:48):
She say it twice. I'm not saying it three times.
Speaker 12 (25:50):
But that's why I need a shirt right there, of
the Philadelia T shirt you wear the school and the
principal makes you turn it inside out.
Speaker 6 (25:58):
Yeah big, you know what? Yeah exactly, that's into the booth. Well,
you do it every week and.
Speaker 9 (26:05):
If you think you hear something during the week, send
it to us.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
Pat JMFB.
Speaker 10 (26:11):
We'll say if you can make the show.
Speaker 5 (26:12):
Get roma on Eagles games more all Eagles.
Speaker 6 (26:15):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Time for Beneath the Surface presented by a Microsoft Surface.
I have an image here that I will not show
you yet because off bar Budja Biamila had an insane Sunday.
You threw this out at us on Friday and we
were all like, I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Tell us this whole story, and when it is time
for me to show this picture at this part of
the story, then I'll show it with my surface here.
Speaker 10 (26:42):
Okay, Oh yeah, So you know I had this this
past weekend. I had a Football Warrior weekend. I mean
it was unforgettable. It was a worldwin adventure. So here
it is. I went on this ultimate fan experience, attending
three NFL games and one epic day. Now, I have
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to say it was the first time I think anyone
has ever done this, So it might be a world record.
Speaker 15 (27:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 10 (27:07):
We got to check into that, but I'm gonna walk
you guys through this. So my first stop I went
to MetLife Stadium, where the energy was surprisingly electric. Eighty
one thousand fans passionately backing their team. It kind of
felt like a family reunion. Now, It's like there, I
am right there with Davante Adams, you know what I'm saying,
had a little pregame talk right there. You know, came
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dapting me up real quick, but you know, I was saying, like,
in that energy you felt with the Jets fans, it's
like going to a family reunion. Family members are bickering
at themselves, but they're kind of protective over each other,
and they dare you to criticize one of their family members.
So for me, you know, I'm an analyst, I said,
I'm gonna keep my mouth shut. I'm gonna keep to myself.
So I didn't say anything about the Jets fans, but
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they did start off hot in that game. But for
a West Coast guy like myself, it was so cold
in that game, thirty seven degrees, but it felt more
like twenty nine with the windshill but the excitement was
worth it, for sure. It was so big. I mean,
this picture right here, this is a picture going to
the Baltimore game. When I went down to Baltimore. I
left that game, got to Baltimore, and I thought the
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Philly fans were the ones that were the crazy ones
and that were intense, but no, it was the Raven fans.
I went up to this guy, say, hey, what do
you feel about this sa Quon?
Speaker 19 (28:22):
This Saquon touchdown? He gives me the straight flip. I
was like, oh, okay, that's how we're doing it over there.
But it was it was a lot of fun. So yeah,
I leave the Medlife game. I go straight to Baltimore.
Speaker 10 (28:33):
That was my first time at M and T's Bank Stadium,
and you could just see the green and the purple everywhere.
Everyone was so electric. They wanted to see Derek Henry
say kwon Bark League and who else did you see?
And then I ran into the Great ed Reed. Ed
Reid was there. We had a real good conversation about defense.
We talked about, you know, the state of the Ravens.
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But the one thing that I did notice that I
had to call ed Reid out. The Great Hall of
Famer Ed Reid. I said, Yo, what's up with your
Super Bowl ring? This is Super Bowl forty seven ring. Here,
zoom in in on this one real quick. He doesn't
have it on a chain, he doesn't wear it on
his finger because he's not really a jewelry guy. He's
actually wearing it on a shoelace from his Super Bowl cleats.
(29:16):
So that's how hard Where is it? When he goes
out he puts it on there? He said, I have
spending all that money on his chains. Man, Come on.
I was like, you know what, I'm digging your swagger.
But I had to move like Jagger though, and get
out of that game. Bolting to the fourth quarter for Buffalo.
That's where it all went down. That was an amazing game.
The weather was intense. I had to brace myself for
(29:37):
this bone chilling temperature at high Mark Stadium. This is
the first time I had been there since two thousand
and six when I got let go of the Chargers.
But this time I was going in as a fan
and it was I mean it was. They were out
in full force. Now I'm mad that I missed the
chance to jump through a table because that was That
was something I was really looking forward to. But they
(29:58):
go out into this whole shout song and I'm like,
what is this shout song?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
It just shout.
Speaker 10 (30:04):
I can't sing the whole thing here, so I asked
to do I say, this is your song? And I
just started giving him the look like it didn't build
Like you think Bill's Mafia, you think something hardcore, you
think something that's gonna kind of get kind of something, Yeah,
bring upthenticity. There was none of that. But I did
have to chicken out a little bit. I say, I
am not watching this game outside. I got into the
(30:24):
box and it was warm and cozy in there in
the box seats. I had some authentic Buffalo Wings for
the first time, and I learned how they kind of
came up with the name and where it originated from.
It originated from the city, from at Anchor Bar, how
about that right there in Buffalo. So that was pretty cool.
But this was also special. My good friend Mahomie ron Curry,
(30:45):
Ronald Curry, this is the quarterbacks coach right there, and
former teammate quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills, and we
were talking about Josh Allen and just how he kind
of brings us looseness to the team and the energy
that he brings. He's a fun dude. But then we
started reminiscing about the last time we were together in
the snow. Check this out. This was back in two
(31:06):
thousand and four against the Denver Broncos. Of course Broncos
played Monday night. And he makes this handed catch and
there it is with the snow Angel right there, and
he goes up and that was big time. I'll never
forget that play. That was thick. That was the last
time we were together in the snow. So that was
(31:27):
that right there, And of course we would go on
to win that game twenty five to twenty four in
Week twelve. So I actually afterwards we're talking to Ron Curry.
I got reunited with a mentor of mine, Andre Reid.
Andre Reid was there and we started talking, going back
and forth. I was trying to show him how to
run routes, so we were teasing about that. There he
(31:49):
is the great Hall of Famer Andre Reid. We got
to know each other down in San Diego and just
been friends ever since. And then he bullied me. He
bullied me. It made me do my very first snow
Angel just like you saw Ron Curry doing there after
the touchdown, I had to do my very first snow
angel I got. You know, I didn't get too wet,
but it just felt like a kid. But it was fun.
(32:09):
It was out there out there with everyone out there there,
it is right there. I'm getting myself ready, here we go.
That was the biggest of us snow angel on the planet.
Nobody's ever had a bit snow angel that day.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Very good technique for having never done that before.
Speaker 10 (32:22):
Yeah so you're jagging down before you did that, Yeah
I did. I did not want to get anything. You're
Kyle talking about that house. Don't crevices into the crevices
of the crevas. But this game was pretty fun, I
have to say. For me, you know, I'm gonna wrap
this up as a fan. This one first time he
enjoyed the game as a fan. You know, typically has
been as an analyst or as a player. But to
go out on this experience and hit up three different
(32:44):
games in three different cities, it was really cool to
get the energy. And this is why to me, while
the NFL is such a big game, it's a big spore.
You get it when you're going out to these different environments.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
That's amazing.
Speaker 19 (32:56):
Yeah yeah, yeah, you exhausted after I was exhausted.
Speaker 10 (32:59):
I was. I was on adrenaline the entire time. I
got to see a bunch of people. And I have
to give a shout out too, by the way, to Alexa.
Alexa out in Buffalo is a huge fan. She saw
me out there on the fielding. She stops goes, what
are you doing here? Oh my gosh, I love Good
Morning football?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 10 (33:16):
I was like, I'm just being a fan here. So
shout out to Alexa in Buffalo, who loves all of
us here on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (33:23):
Perfect.
Speaker 9 (33:24):
That was dope, really cool, Ochbar, what are a cool
legs work?
Speaker 6 (33:28):
I really think he might be right on this.
Speaker 9 (33:29):
This might be a Guinness World BOCO World Records thing.
Speaker 10 (33:32):
And he did it on the East Coast, which is great.
Speaker 9 (33:34):
I don't know if anyone's ever attended three games in
one day besides you, so we might have to look
into that. I'd also like to quickly shout out Ronald Curry,
who might have been the greatest high school athlete of
all time. Grew up in Virginia and was All State
Virginia basketball, All State Virginia football and was doing so
in an era when Alan i Verson and Michael Vick
(33:55):
were both there. And I've had no recollection of this play,
Kerry Collins hitting him in the back of the end zone.
Pretty cool, Ochbar that you were there for that and play,
and then you were there to see him twenty years
later as he's coaching in the NFL.
Speaker 15 (34:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (34:08):
Yeah, No, it's pretty cool too, man, just to see
his growth from a wide receivers coach down with the
Saints and down over here to Buffalo. Yeah. And I
learned a lot about Buffalo, about Josh Allen too, so
it was really cool to hear his perspective. I know
what I see on tape and now just to get
to know the person. I'm a big fan. Like his
name is in that conversation, it's MVP, but that we
can talk about that later.
Speaker 12 (34:29):
I think that was impressive that you were able to
do that. I'm super happy that you got the experience.
That more impressive with Ronald Curry's snow Angel. He went
frontal at the snow Angel. I don't have anybody giving him
credit for that. That's dedication right there, that's diving in.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
Yeah, I think someone could make it to all three
games in Florida, but you'd have to have the Jags,
the Dolphins, and the Bucks be really good because right
now you're working on three cities up and down ninety
five and in Western New York teams are great, so
we need Florida.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
Stepping up a little bit.
Speaker 4 (34:56):
Plus.
Speaker 3 (34:56):
I bet you'd sign up for that trip.
Speaker 10 (34:57):
I would sign up for Yeah, I know, Oh yeah,
you can.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Ditch that jacket exactly Offar.
Speaker 3 (35:01):
Well done,
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