July 8, 2025 • 38 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o and Willie Colon looking at the most intriguing storylines this season. Manti gives a list of top-5 defensive players being overlooked and then they analyze the state of the Cincinatti Bengals.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Tuesday, July eleventh, We're live in LA and New York,
as we always are.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm Jamie Art.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'll here's man Site Teo wearing a fantastic faded denim
straight out of nineteen eighty seven. Kyle Brandt here as
well with Willie Cologne in New York. We got caps
in front of us. Kyle, what do the caps mean?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well, normally we have a no cap policy here on
Good Morning Football. Now we have thirty two caps. I'm sorry,
I'm a little distracted. I'm frantically searching my surface here
for the depth chart of one position for one specific team.
And I'll tell you what it's going to be right
after this, because we're gonna play all kinds of games.
We've got Willie got Mantab, we got Jamie, we got me,
and we got Good Morning Football.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Let's start the show. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Don't ever check the searches.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That's right, it's GMFB.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's early July, which means we're all kind of coming
back together. Kyle Brant, Willie Colomb, Manti Taeo Jamie Yard
all here when Kyle comes back on the show, specifically Kyle,
it feels like you're this big brother figure that we
feel like we have to report things to tell us,
tell you about our summer, see how life is like. So, Kyle,
Manti recently moved to southern California, and we just so
happened to move to the same neck of the warp.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It just so happened, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I've done something egregious in my life twice in the
last two weeks that I do feel the need to
tell you about, and I just want to.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Gauge your assessment of it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I take my kids on a little walk usually between
six and seven pm, to get to get past the
bedtime scaries, you know, right before we hit bathtime, books,
bed the whole the run of bees.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I have now twice in the last.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Couple of weeks, just showed up at the Tao household
with my children, knocked on the door just to say hello,
and we just come in and we hang out.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We stand in the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Foyer for about fifteen twenty minutes, and then we leave
and I just went with like your assessment before we
hear from Manti as to how he feels about this
about a neighbor just showing up at your home knocking,
and a coworker mind you just to say hello.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, I just feel like, having never been there, I
feel like the Tailhouse is probably just so welcoming and warm.
I feel like the second you get on the property,
the grass is perfect.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's like a Koi pond.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They open it up and they give you some tea,
and it smells good in there, and there may be
some sort of like no.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Mistay thing going on.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Like I just feel like if the energy is great
in the Tailhouse, smells.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Like home cooking.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, like, oh, what's that cooking back there?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I feel like the Tailhouse is a Lowe Moss wonderful place, right.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
So I don't blame you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh that's a lovely assessment.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But I was more specifically asking you, how do you
feel about somebody doing that at your house?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Oh, here's how I feel, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I feel like you did this whole conversation so you
could tell the people, well, before we go to bed,
we do bath in bed and walk. My god, Jamie,
just throw them to bed and say turn the lights off.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Weeks. You don't have to do all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Kyle is actively appointing the question, so I won't ask
it a third time. So we're a week away from
the team's reporting to training camp.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
We're going to grab the cap of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The team whose storyline that we are most intrigued by.
MATI you get to go first on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And what are are you looking for? Giants? Okay, yes,
I will pass my neighbor this.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
New York Giants hat. Bestiecent I'm the most perfect mom
on the planet. Talk about another being at a certain way.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We're the besties over here.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
What's the question?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I just said it? What grabbed the cap of the storyline?
By the story?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Intriguing storyline I got to I still think about Manti's house.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
This is a good house to be a part of.
Right now to the New York Giants. I like the
storyline going into the New York Giants. Obviously with the
pressure of Brian Dabon Joe Shane, they're on the hot seat.
I mean, I think that's an understandment about what the
hot seed is for them. Now they go and get
Jackson Dart. The storyline to me that is the most
intriguing is this, does Jackson Dart start on day one.
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If he doesn't, how long do you keep.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Him on the bench?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Brian Daball, do you play Russell Wilson? Do you play Jamis?
And if those two start doing well, do you just
stash Jackson Dart for the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
If those two don't do.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Well, how long do you keep Jackson Dart on the bench?
Do you wait till the later in the season so
that you're on an uptick going into the season into
the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
That's the storyline that I'm going to be inclued in on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I'm going to go with this because so Bro I
have set as my homepage, like I have set the
Cleveland Browns websites depth chart. I'm so fascinated by this
because I want to know what the hell they're going
to do at quarterback. You know the deal they got
Deshaun Watson kind of Flaco Picket, two different rookies.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I've done the research. Sorry, So the Browns website, they.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Don't release their twenty twenty five web depth chart yet.
So you go to the broadcast partners, right, all right,
CBS has them like all piled up over on the end.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
They're not committing. ESPN doesn't even have.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Shdur Sanders on the depth chart because it only goes
four deep in their format.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Sitting here refreshing thee Browns.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Dot Com like I'm trying to get Taylor tickets or
something like, I'm just so eager, refreshed, refreshed. So when
they first dropped that one, I am so fascinated to
find out where in the holy hell that these guys
lined up, because they could do Quarterback season three just
on the Browns room, and I feel like I wish
they wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Yeah, for me, it's the Dallas Cowboys, and hopefully I
can find them. Oh here they go?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, how about them?
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Cow about them? And the bottom line of stars. To
Brian's shot in the hammer, can't he bring fresh energy?
I got a big old mask got head, so oh yeah,
but cant he bring candy, bring fresh energy and really
get this team back to playing elite football. You gotta
understand this team was seven to ten last.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Year, but they didn't quit.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
They still fought tough through every game in the season.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Valley.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
It was ugly.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
They got rid of Mike McCarthy, But Brian, excuse me,
Brian Schottenheimer, he was gonna have to re establish the
run game. They got a young officive line. They could
have went running back early. They went office line and
got Tyler Booker out of out of Alabama. And on
top of that, Dak Prescott. He's a new man, he's
a father, he's a husband, and he's a thirty two
year old quarterback coming off a hamstring. How can they
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protect him?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
How can they.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Establish a run game, and how can they bring new
energy into the building. Because I'm gonna be honest with you,
the Dallas Cowboys on my dark horse. I see this
team playing a lot better with the addition to George Pickens.
Now you have CD Lamb, you have a tight end.
This team could be a lot better and Able will
be better for this upcoming season.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I feel like calling the Cowboys the dark horse is
an oxymoron. It just feel like it shouldn't ever exist,
no matter what. They are the brightest horse in the race,
and you always are keeping an eye on it no
matter But I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Rely, I grab. I wasn't gonna play, but.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I couldn't not grab after seeing Brian Dable, we know
what he always looks like on camera now we're seeing
we know it's Tafanski. Always looks like we're looking at
Schottenheimer with the backwards visor. I'm going to go with
the Las Vegas Raiders as my most intriguing storylineating camp,
because what's Pete Carroll going to get into. Did he
have like an assistant coach or a trainer inside like
a bubble that was like flying around at Manda Mini Camp.
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He's wrestling players during the stretch lines. I need him
to drop the skincare routine. The man is in his
what mid seventies.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Or what is he?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't even know how old he is, and he
looks like he's a spry thirty six year old.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I am fascinated by the coaches in.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The AFC West, but specifically I want to know what's
going on with the Las Vegas Raiders and their rookie
running back and Gino Smith's revival two point zero maybe,
So I'm going with the Raiders for most intriguing storyline
out of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Love that James Meagan topic no cap.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Grab the cap of the player or coach that you
would want to hear. Miked up footage of at training
camp Manti is actively searching for I.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Believe a baby blue cap.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Okay, guys, you know that friend that has that laugh
that is so contagious that you don't even know what
he's laughing at.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You just start laughing already.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
For me, if I was to listen to somebody, I
want to be entertained, and I want to know number one,
what he's saying, because is so it's so entertaining. If
you ever listened to Xavier Legett, have you ever listened
to him talk?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I if he was miked up, screw the play.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I wouldn't even care.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
About his catches, his touchdowns, how fatty runs, how big
the guy is.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I just want to listen to this guy talk anything he.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Says to me with that twang, because I have a
little twang too.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, you got something.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's just so entertaining to me. Look, look look at that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Look at that.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
He is an entertaining player to listen to, and he
just reminds me of that friend that got that hysterical laugh.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Jerry O.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Tooucher was a teammate of mine at the Chargers, and
he had one of those laughs. Xavier Legette to me
has one of those twangs where no matter what he says,
it's gonna be hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
For me, it's the Minnesota Vikings and JJ Orphy.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
I'm excited about JJ because he's falling into the right situation.
You have Jordan Addison, you have excuse me, Justin Jefferson
and t. J.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Hawkinson.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
You got understand the Viken said goodbye to Aaron Rodgers said,
we don't want your services here because we got a
young man we believe in and we believe that he can.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Be the future for the Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
This team is ready to win now and they put
the franchise on this young man's back. We understand that
right now with the Brian Flores defense, this office line,
run game, JJ McCarthy's walking into a perfect situation.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, all he has to do is play quarterback. He's
been given the keys to the poors.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Just don't crash it, young man, and if he's able
to do that, he's going to shock the world.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So I'm intrigued by his storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's a good answer, because we want to get to
know him. A very important player in the league this year,
JJ McCarthy. So we want to get to know him,
it gets an answer just because it's just funny.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Like I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I would love it, Like I used to watch Peaky
Blinders and they would have to have subtitles sometimes because
you can understand what they're saying they're speaking English. Like
that's what I would love for le Get. But I'm
going to go with the third archetype. I want someone
who just talks so much, bleep, NonStop, always running his mouth,
always looking at start fights. Give me Daniel Jones micd
up just like absolutely person a bluestring.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
No, not at all. I want to see what Daniel
Jones says.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Imagine if you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Mike Daniel Jones up and it was just wow, like
it's all I didn't know you talked like this was
all like f bombs and like political takes and all
this controversial stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Maybe Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Has this thing deep inside him where he's taken so
much stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He's just ready to explode.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And he's in a quarterback competition now in a new
city and he's trying to make a new reputation. Is
it really just as Gollie g Huckleberry as I think
it is, or does he really have like an edge
to him.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Does he have any edge? Does he have any like.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Getting the guy's face at all? Because he has looked
at as such a boy scout. I want the tape
to re if that's true or not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh man, I okay, I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm thinking about the fact that Daniel Jones has a scepter,
and I just can't believe that that level of anger
you ever qualified him for an anger run segment, let
alone win it and to be give to it to
him internationally. And Kyle, as I remind you again that
interaction that I had with him in which I bestowed
upon him the scepter in Germany, it was went exactly
how you thought it would. And let's just say the
micd up version was probably just as awkward as you
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can imagine it. Grab the cap of the player that
you would love to be roommates with at training camp
now was what I have heard from former players. Mantai
is at like training camp, you kind of start to
get on each other's nerves, and like is August and
you're at some college dormitory, so like you got to
be very specific and you got to be selective about
which roommate you have during training camp.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I'm definitely selected, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I'm definitely selective of this person because I did go
to a training camp with him.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
He is one of my best friends.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
I know his wife Lindsay, his son Cooper, his daughter Carter,
even his dog Sammy.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
His dog and my dog were the best of friends.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
So that would be Alex Anzeloni the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
There was a clip that I had talking about Habachi
k but.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
You mentioned earlier Hibachi in the middle of in the
beginning of our.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Show, I had a video of look at that. I
had a video of.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Me and I called his nickname for me was Blanco.
I just called him Blanco Nick. I had a clip
of me and Blanca at a Hibachi type restaurant and
he caught ten straight shrimp in his mouth. And I
asked my wife, it's like, I'm a totist to the
producers and have them played, and she's like, that's not
a good idea. Oh, that's against the bro code.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So I didn't send them.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I didn't send it to McLean because I didn't want
people to think, oh, why would you wanted to be
a roommate.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I wanted to be my roommate because he's my brother.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Okay, I love him.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
That's my dog, and so I would, I would. I
would want Alex Anzeloni to be my incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Eye to mouth coordination as well. That's goods.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Yeah for me. I'm staying in New York. I'm going
with Famous Jameis Winston.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
He's a riot.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
He's the type of guy that would read me a
Goosebumps book and we could play shadow puppets. So I
appreciate it. I appreciate Famous Jamis. He's he's gonna keep
me happy during the dog days of camp. And also
what I love about him, he loves them dubs, really
likes to win.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
He likes to eat them dumbs. So I'll be stacking them.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
Dubs, eating them dubs with Jameis Winston. Uh. And I
can't imagine what he'll get me to watch man. I
missing detriaut about everything that goes on and what comes
out of his mouth. So Jameis Winston, I would love
it for him to be my room.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The loudest room, the loudest room.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You Oh my god, So Willie Willie training camp physically exhausting,
right of course, mentally exhausting at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You want to come back to that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You want screaming and doves and all that you don't
you want to break.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
I want the spirit you You got to keep it hot,
you keep it high.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
From your family.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You're away from the wife.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You need somebody to keep you motivated, keep that batter
in your back and your quarterback, O. Love relationship is important.
I want to get to know my guy.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There's only one man for my job, and you guys
all it is Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's my roommate. Sit there, shut up, don't say anything.
I want silence.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I want a.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Roommate who's neat, who's courteous, who's polite, who doesn't want
to talk to me? Who I don't want to talk
to you. I don't even know if Marcus Mariota is there.
I don't care. I want to come back to the
room at the end of the day, much like after
this show.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I want the opposite of James. I don't want to
say anything. Flea would be great too. BLACKO is a
big guy's a little older. You know what.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Flack of might be good, probably the best for you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Black I might be good, but I think he is
a little more to say than Marcus Mariota, who just
I think is just sitting there in silence doing Sudoku
or the knitting or something.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's my perfect dream man.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I've answered Marcus Mariota for fifty questions like this, even
when he retires, I will still always say Mariota, because
what is the currency I want in my life?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Silence?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
And I think he would he would pay it true
that happens the dead.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Just now.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Oh no, KB just picked an NFL NFC East team
when I thought he was going to go another NFC
East team with the Giants to go Camp Scataboo as
his roommate, and he picked.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Up Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, well, well, I actually somehow on the planet of football,
Kyle values silence more than running backs. And like, I
know that that's like not supposed to happen, but I
do think that that's how that exists.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I don't want to be roommates with Skataboo. I want
to be Scataboo, so like that's that's a completely different thing.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And I still we still haven't met in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Person, so someday we will, and it's possible we couldn't
be roommates because of his restraining order. But Cam, I
know I love you and I'm I'm cool like that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh my gosh, all right, still the cop that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Go cap on GMF. So the cup.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Manti, like Kyle, has been digging into the depth charts
of the Cleveland Browns quarterback room. Manti has also been
studying furiously next to me on a list of defensive
guys that don't get enough credit.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Manti's got the list. We are going to honor it, and.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
It's almost like guys that we got to put on
our radar before next season. Kyle's gotta take notes today.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Here at JIMFB, we love lists, and so I have
another one of those lists for you. I have five players,
defensive players on different positions of the field that I
think that are flying a little bit under the radar
heading to twenty twenty five that you should have on
your radar. So first, we have an interior d lineman
for the Denver Broncos. Now, when you're part of the
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Denver Broncos, obviously you could be going under the radar
when you're playing with the likes of the defensive Player
of the Year in pre Patrick Surtan, we got a
quarterback like bow Knicks, but Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Allen he is he led the NFL.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
With forty quarterback hits. There's only been five that have
done the same thing. JJ Watt, TJ Watt, Nick Bosa,
and Aaron Donald.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Now you may be asking, so.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Who's one of the top the interior defensive linemens in
the NFL.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
I think a lot of people would say Chris.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Jones, But we have a statistic that's just going to
show exactly how dominant Zach Allen is. So if you
look at the twenty twenty four season, Zach Allen had
fifteen TFLs tackle for loss and Chris Jones had nine
eight point five sacks. For Zach Allen, Chris Jones had
five forty quarterback hits as I explained earlier, and sixty
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seven QB pressures. Obviously, it's a lot easier to go
under the radar when you have one of the best
deepense is in the NFL, which the Denver Broncos do have.
But when you're a guy like Zach Allen, he's somebody
that's been flying under the radar, but soon he should
be on your radar, and he's definitely on the quarterbacks radar. Next,
the Minnesota Vikings has one of the best defenses in
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twenty twenty four, but often this guy.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Went under the radar because of various things.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
You have a lot of pressure, but the leader of
that pressure was Jonathan Grenard.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
In the last two years, that have been only.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Five players that had twelve or more sacks, Miles Garrett,
Michael Parsons, the Neil Hunter, Trey Hendrickson, and Jonathan Grenard.
He was one of those focal points.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Of that defense. Matter of fact, he had a hat trick.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
In one of his games in against his former team
in the Houston Texans. And if you don't believe me,
just listen to what Brian Callahan, the head coach for
the Tennessee Titans, had to say about Grenard. He may
be one of the most underrated edge players in.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
All of football.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
So if you don't believe me, ask some but who's
actually had to go against him, had to prepare against him.
There's a lot of people that are going to have
to prepare against Grenard heading into twenty twenty five season.
And I don't think he's going to be under the
radar anytime longer the Detroit Lions. They've been one of
the best teams in NFL for a long time. But
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when you have a head coach like Dan Campbell, who's
very outspoken, you go to four, you're going for four
downs a lot.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
In the NFL.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Sometimes guys on the defensive side could get overlooked or
could be going under the radar. Jack Campbell has been
that man in the middle for the Lions.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
The former first round pick for the.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Lions had led the team in tackles with one hundred
and thirty one tackles.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
This is the kicker though, guys, he.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Only played seventy three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
So for somebody like Jack.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Campbell to leave his team but only play three quarters
of the snaps, that's just it's unheard of.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
And here's another stat.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
He recorded the defensive stop on eighteen percent of run plays.
That's typer second amongst all defenders in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
So without their defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, they're going to
need somebody like.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Jack Campbell to step in there and be that cornerstone
on that defense. And if they increase his play from
seventy three to one hundred. I can imagine that that
tackle total is just going to continue to increase over time.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
One of my favorite players.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
To watch in the NFL is Kyler Gordon, aka Spider Man,
but I think he is more of Batman right now
because he's been living in the shadows of his Pro
Bowl teammate Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
But this guy is somebody.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
That I love to watch. It's very very rare that.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You find a player that can play the run.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Just as well as they do the past. Kyler Gordon
is a lot like that. He reminds me of Tyron
Matthew his ability to be very, very disciplined in the past,
but you can send him off the edge. He had
some big hits on the quarterback this year, but he
gets his hands on the ball a lot like Honey
Badger did his entire career. So going into the off season,
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going into this season with Dennis Allen as his defensive coordinator,
Dennis Allen was my defensive porter in New Orleans, I
know that Kyler is going to have a lot of
freedom in that defense, a lot of freedom to make
a lot of plays for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And I don't think he's going.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To be flying under the radar for much longer.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Last, but not least, this one is a little special
to me. New Broncos safety tallanov hu Funga. Now, injuries,
especially injuries and back to back years, will result in
guys flying under the radar. That's the case for Tallano Hufungo.
But two years ago, in his first year as a starter,
he was a first team All Pro player for the
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San Francisco forty nine ers. Now you put Tallano Hufonga
with a defense like the Denver Broncos next to Patrick Shirtan.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
You have a rush like they have, you have blitzing
like they have.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
That's the kind of stuff that talanoa who Fungal can do.
He's a lot like Troy Paul Lamalo. He's in the
middle of the field. Sometimes it's coming off the edge.
So he's been flying under the radar of the past
two years due do some injuries.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
But don't don't.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Forget that this guy is also an All Pro caliber
team player.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Here's the least I like that, man, here's the lest
that a lot. Zach Allen. Zach Allen jumps off the
table for me. I think he had a hell of
a year last year. I love the way he uses
his hands, his ability to drop center and get after
the quarterback, never stops his speed on contact. But beware,
the Broncos will be another dark horse in the NFL
next year. Especially with the year number two for Boat
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Knicks and shar Payne together, I make for Didley Combo.
I thought bolt Knicks was overshadowed by the success of
Jayden Dames, and right now I think this is the
year we look at bot Knicks in a different light,
especially with the defense to backup. They got a lot
of guys from San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
They were already big dogs in their division.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Now they make it step forward, and I think the
Bronco is going to make a big leap this year.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Who I like that, you guy, So basically, Manty, you
got Broncos an NFC North. That's the entire list, that's
where your concentration is, which is good.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I've always been a Kyler Gordon fan. I've always thought
he's got superstar potential. I look at this list, man, tie,
and I you know, it's not time yet, it's not
time to pick playoff teams or anything like that. But man,
that NFC North is completely fascinating. I think it's contingent
on two people, and it's really going to dictate this thing.
Can JJ McCarthy play and can Ben Johnson coach? And meanwhile,
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these guys, those three dudes right there in the middle
are going to be right in the thick of it.
So when it comes time to making playoff teams. I
don't know if you're struggling with the NFC North, but
I know I am.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Absolutely it's this kind of stress of the Minnesota Vikings
defense gives people trying to pick playoff teams this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Time of year.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I look at that Jonathan Garnard's selection and I remember
years back, I think it was maybe a month or
two into me getting this job, sitting next to Jason mccordy.
Brian Flores is the new defensive coordinator in Minnesota, and
I said, you know the Vikings defense, what do you
think he goes? Just give it a year, give it
two years for Flores to get his guys into this defense,
and they'll.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Be flying around.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Three years later, Flores has his guys, and Grenard is
part of that. He's a cornerstone coming over from Houston
last season, and he has become a total personality part
of that Minnesota Vikings events, and he's a heck of
a player and now he's going to be a part
a major part of why the Vikings are successful again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But in just an absolutely ruthless division.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I love those players.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Matter of fact, Greannard, speaking of Grenard, he was so
under the radar that when I was researching this hole
list Jamien, I actually had to research some of the
stuff that he did. But when you turn on the
film and you watch the Minnesota Bikings and how they operate,
you just see Grenard everywhere on the field, yep, just
causing havoc in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So I really like that list.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
I think those are players that we're going to hear
a lot on Sundays and Mondays and a mon whenever
the game's Thursdays. These are guys that are just dominant
and they may not get the recognition, but I hope
that just my little effort to get them some notoriety,
that they put a little bit more respect on them.
But the Broncos, to your point.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
The Broncos got a defense.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
On them, like that's yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Benito, Like you got Drake rain Law there. The NFC
North and Afcus.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It's going to be a battle.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And well done on the Spider Man Batman thing with
Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
That was very good. We love that guy. On GMTB
front of the show, there's the list Mantai's defensive players.
Don't say he didn't tell you to keep an eye
out for these guys when we are there. He is
Kyler and his shoes matched the look.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
They're always so excellent. That's the list. We'll be back
on GMFB. Netflix.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Quarterback season two has returned and it's streaming now on Netflix.
You got the characters right there, Joe Burrow, Jared Goff
and Kirk Cousins running it back for a second season
on Netflix. The first was when he was very purple
and now he's with the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Put us from last year, so we got hurt and
he got benched.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's a whole debacle that Netflix was there to document.
So Netflix takes us inside the Bengals roller coaster. Specifically
though last season with Joe Burrow and the team, they
were on fire, but things didn't stay great for the
Bengals throughout the whole season.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What has Dave consistent.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Throughout the years though, is cool Joe's high fashion and
play on the field.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Here's a look at the best of.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Burrow third and six April with Selim.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Here's the past cats leaping up anywhere, putting it down.
It's team Higgins and the Bacos aren't extra point.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Away from the time the game.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I talked about the adjustments. How high level we're talking
about one of.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
The great back shoulder throwers the game is seen in
a while.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
He throws these balls perfectly all the time.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Seats can't get there in time work.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
For the executed Joe taking off. Oh, he's got a
tune round by taking all the way and seven to
ten pilot, he's for the touchdown. Everybody to the left.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Burrow takes off to the right, walking about.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
It and shows the wheels for forty seven yards.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Whoa Burrow is just thinking him He knew it was
gonna come from this direction. One guy here and nothing
the rest of the way there man coverage, you're gonna
see everybody chasing a person down the field. And who
would have ever imagined it's the legs of Joe Burrow
that explode on the scene here in the opening.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Border on first down, Burrow with time looking.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Deep looking for Chase.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
He's got it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Pincher bar Chase on the deep ball for the touchdown
sixty three yards Burrow to Chase.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
And Joe Burrow with the strike sniper from downtown.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
What a shot.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Williams had a block and Brown had a block.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
The two jackals going Deep's go Chase at the time.
Speaker 11 (26:59):
You'll can Chase hit a good dome Touchtom six at
sixty four large. As soon as Burrow escapes the pocket,
Jamar Chase recognizes that he.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Converts a five yard drag route into a deep pass.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
And Burrow finds him for the touchdown.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Burrow, looking has time dancing around pocket breaking down, eludes
it another man.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
He skips around, throws for the.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Touchdown after a Joe Burrow.
Speaker 13 (27:32):
Two step by his time and it's a seven to
six ball game.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You cannot allow somebody with Joe Burrow's skill set this
much time in the pocket.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That shows you how good this offense is. Turn I
want a.
Speaker 11 (27:53):
Crab Higgins touchdown cit Tonati.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
This is again a demonstration of quarterbacks understanding their receivers,
understanding their strengths and having the confidence and give them
a chance to go up and hit the football over
the top of everyone else. And what Joe Burrow did
intelligently enough was put the ball up there and say
go get it, number eighty five.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
No matter who could beat with you for the football,
I know you'll come down with it.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
From the pocket.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
Burrow now stepping back, trying to find some breathing room,
and it's still alive. As he throws head, it's caught
by Higgins. What a sensation'll play by Joe Burrow and
a catch by Higgins.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And this is why you have a hope, Cincinnati. This
is what he's been doing his whole career. He just
extends and dustings. It's dead, it's gone. Nope, this is
Joe Burrow.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
This is a completely different Bengal team.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The twelve yard line for a first down, Burrow.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Circling back and looking and throwing, and zone Jar.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Chase crying a touchdown. I'll that for making some help.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
As soon as Burrow starts to scramble around.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
You're gonna see Chase snup at the top right.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
He's just gonna sneak back inside.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
And then that's just Burrow throwing a dart. But he
absolutely has to make a throw. J play action finding
love going.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Game it's cart.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
He goes into the store.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Ja Linle Ramsay's fellow down and just like.
Speaker 12 (29:41):
That, in twelve seconds, a seventy five yard touchdown.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
The Burrow hairs it out and let's trying to take
a four point lead.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
And Joe Burrow, as he's done all season long, the
ability to step up and rate a little space.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
We barely plean eight minutes, curl pocket till as growing
to stop, just masterfully gets to Higgins.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Just cover the world.
Speaker 14 (30:13):
He's just been incredible in just making stuff happen off
the scramble, just running out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Of attecudes to conscribe what we're seeing.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I feel like there's plenty of plays in the NFL
where guys have to be completely parallel to the ground,
do something ridiculous, and then immediately that just jettisons itself
to the top of the list. That was Joe Burrow
and other worldly quarterback performances in.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
His top ten plays.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now, the Bengals finished third in the AFC North last season.
Coming into this here though, the Bengals will compete in
the AFC North yet again. But teams are getting better,
they're trying to fix their problems. Along with that, the
Bengals are trying to adjust as well, specifically defensively. Man Ti,
when you look at the Bengals and how they fit
within this puzzle piece of a division, what do you
make of them right now?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
I think they're a team to watch out for it Jamie.
You know, they did finish third in the AFC North. However,
they won their last five games. You know, I think
it's a tale of two different teams. In the beginning
of the first half the season, they had their defensive
roles and you know, leaked a little bit into the
third quarter of the season. But when you're a team
like the Bengals, when you're any team in the NFL,
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you want to be able to be on an upward
trajectory heading into the offseason. And I think there couldn't
be a team that was heading in a more higher
trajectory than the Cincinnati Bengals. I like what they have offensively.
Obviously you can talk about Jamar, Chase t Higgins, Joe Burrow,
but Chris Brown as a running back has been extremely
productive for them. Now they have some questions on a defense,
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but again, their latter end of the season, they were
a scary team and I remember that watching that game
against Denver coming down to the wire and for them
to beat a Bonis Denver team that was trying to
get into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Those are those types.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Of wins that heading into this season, I'm thinking to
myself like, Okay, this is a team to watch out
for in a very very good conference like the AFC North.
And so that's how I see the Bengals heading into
the season.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and ask of the question,
the Bengals will win the AFC North if they start faster.
This team doesn't start well in the first four games
of the season. Back to back years they've been nine
and eight overall. Like Mantali is saying, yeah, they have
an offense. They struggle on defense because they simply don't
have one outside of Trey Hendricks. Hendricks overall, they got
to establish a run game. They have revamped this office
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line and this scheme to go with it. But they
have to start faster in the season, win more games
early so when the back end of the season gets murky,
they've restacked enough doubles where they can crawl into the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
So for me, they just have to start faster.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
They have to develop a run game, and they're going
to have to figure out how to keep Joe Burrow
healthy so when they get deep into the season that
he's still on the field making plays for them.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's bizarre to watch those highlights, the ones from last year,
especially because we're seeing all the spectacular football being played.
The Bengals were four and eight at one point last year.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
YEP, just disastrous.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
They were just a terrible record before they started ripping
off wins then coming up short.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
They'll win the AFC North.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
If Lamar Jackson retires, goes play baseball or something. Do
you understand the Bengals last year scored seventy two points
against the Ravens and two games and lost both games.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Seventy two. The Bengals will have a shot at the NFC.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
North if they can get not eleven guys, but one
guy to crouch down, put his arms around and wrap
them around someone who has the football on the other team,
just one person out of eleven, because last year they
had zero. Hendrickson was good when it was the quarterback,
but nobody did anything that tackling wise, defensive wise, anywhere.
He can't score seventy two against the Ravens and lose
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both games.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
It's a bizarre season they had last year.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm personally excited to talk about next season because that
we've talked so much now about the Bengals last year,
what they didn't do. We know they started slow, we
know the defense sucked, we know Burrow and Chase were great.
I'm so excited for the new versions have something new
to talk about. I'm sure they are too.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Will you bring up a good point about Trey Hendrickson
and just the defensive shift that they're going to have
to make. They can't figure out this contract with Tree Henderson,
they do not have their first round pick and Shamar
Stewart signed yet, which is also equally on equally uncomfortable
when you address this team, Willie, if you were on
this fifty three man roster, how would you feel about
walking into a training camp or a locker room with
these two defensive potential stalwarts you have they don't want
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to appear because the team doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Want to invest in them. How would that make you feel?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Yeah, I would feel nervous and unsettled, solely because Trey
hendricks is all we have on the defensive side of
the ball.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
You know what Joe Burrier could do. We talk about
what cops mentioned.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
I mean, Joe Burrow threw forty touchdowns last season. They
were losing football games defensively, they just couldn't stop anybody.
If I score one hundred points and you score one
hundred and one points, you win the game. And that's
all the defense. So they struggle stopping a run. Trey
Hendricks has been upset with this contract situation for some
time now, and you're walking into a training camp that
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this Bengo team wants to talk about new things.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
How can they get better?
Speaker 10 (34:53):
How can they compete in division that has gotten better.
Say what you want about the Pittsburgh Sailors, but they
want to be competitive.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
They're finding no way to win.
Speaker 10 (35:01):
By getting Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Ramsey, DK metcalf On, on
and on. So they're telling the world, Yeah, we're with
at expendables at this point, but we have enough superheroes
that have experienced that have been in big time situations
where we can compete against the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
And so if you're in the Bengals right now and
you're looking at the rest of the division, how do
you fail?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Right now unsettled.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
You're unsettled going into a training camp that's looking for
a new way out of the hole you in. And
I gotta be honest, Zach Taylor is on the hot
seat because this falls on him too. Good coaches find
a way to adjust. You don't have a defense, you
have an offense. How can you bring a new format
to this ball club that can make fans believe that
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you're the future of this.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Franchise and you can leave these guys We'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
There's a lot of we'll see about it. And Jamie,
you mentioned you mentioned Shamar Stewart. So they take him
seventeenth overall, first round pick, and since then there's been
this standoff in which he's made some points and maybe
he has some good points to make.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
That's a different segment as someone.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Who is there on the draft stage, Jamie, when he
was drafted, tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
It felt like the vibe.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Were off from the get go.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
What are your.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Memories and what are your impressions of that night that
we're looking at right here.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I'll take you back twenty four hours before this, this
young man appeared on Good Morning Football with Us. He
showed up in the press box and sat down with
Tom Tellasara, and I could not have been brighter, could
not have been more engaged, could not have been more
committed to this experience he was about to have in
Green Bay that weekend. The body language that I saw
from that man walking across the stage after that hug,
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I'm about to come out of that tunnel and get
the first interview with him after he gets picked by
the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Was frustrated.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I was surprised that the sunglasses never came off, which
I understand is a fashion choice at times, but that
one felt deliberate, like he didn't want to show his
true emotions surrounded.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Being picked by the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I've heard from somebody, if someone can confirm this that
Shamar Stewart I don't think ever took a meeting with
the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't think there was a lot
of conversation that went down between this team and.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
This defensive player that he's elected.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
So maybe at the in the moment he was like, man,
I'm coming from Texas A and m I know nothing
about Cincinnati, but here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Then he comes over to me on.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
The draft stage and he essentially is alluding to some
people are gonna own up to the fact that they've
done wrong, which means I should have been picked at
some point between one through sixteen. There was odd frustration
with maybe where he went in the draft, both physically
and with the number where he got picked. But the
entire thing has been bumpy. It's been uncomfortable. And now
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to Kyle's point, I do think he has some great
terms in which he is trying to get into his contract,
but it doesn't make the whole ownership of the situation
look great for the Bengals with how they're managing their
defense specifically.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah, look what KB said. Let's look forward to twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
We talked about twenty twenty four a lot, so let's
look at the twenty twenty five Bengals and what changes
do they have.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Well, you have Al.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Golden Back as your defensive coordinator and Al Gordlin if
you didn't know, he passed two three years. He was
a defensive coordinator for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and
one thing I do know about him is they want
a pressure and so talking about their who ends Trey
Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart, you can't pressure if you don't
have those two in the game.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Yea.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
So those are definitely things that is on the to
do list for the Bengals heading into this season.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's just a brutal scenario the Bengals find themselves in
because you've got a great defense that you're always compared
to in the division and the Steelers. You don't know
which quarterback you're chasing around in Cleveland, and you do
know which quarterback you're chasing around in Baltimore, and that
guy's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So Bengals buckle up.
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Tuesday, July eleventh, We're live in LA and New York,
as we always are.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm Jamie Art.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
I'll here's man Site Teo wearing a fantastic faded denim
straight out of nineteen eighty seven. Kyle Brandt here as
well with Willie Cologne in New York. We got caps
in front of us. Kyle, what do the caps mean?
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Well, normally we have a no cap policy here on
Good Morning Football. Now we have thirty two caps. I'm sorry,
I'm a little distracted. I'm frantically searching my surface here
for the depth chart of one position for one specific team.
And I'll tell you what it's going to be right
after this, because we're gonna play all kinds of games.
We've got Willie got Mantab, we got Jamie, we got me,
and we got Good Morning Football.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Let's start the show. You're gonna love it.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Don't ever check the searches.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
That's right, it's GMFB.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
It's early July, which means we're all kind of coming
back together. Kyle Brant, Willie Colomb, Manti Taeo Jamie Yard
all here when Kyle comes back on the show, specifically Kyle,
it feels like you're this big brother figure that we
feel like we have to report things to tell us,
tell you about our summer, see how life is like. So, Kyle,
Manti recently moved to southern California, and we just so
happened to move to the same neck of the warp.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It just so happened, Kyle.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
I've done something egregious in my life twice in the
last two weeks that I do feel the need to
tell you about, and I just want to.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Gauge your assessment of it.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I take my kids on a little walk usually between
six and seven pm, to get to get past the
bedtime scaries, you know, right before we hit bathtime, books,
bed the whole the run of bees.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I have now twice in the last.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Couple of weeks, just showed up at the Tao household
with my children, knocked on the door just to say hello,
and we just come in and we hang out.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
We stand in the.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Foyer for about fifteen twenty minutes, and then we leave
and I just went with like your assessment before we
hear from Manti as to how he feels about this
about a neighbor just showing up at your home knocking,
and a coworker mind you just to say hello.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Well, I just feel like, having never been there, I
feel like the Tailhouse is probably just so welcoming and warm.
I feel like the second you get on the property,
the grass is perfect.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
There's like a Koi pond.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
They open it up and they give you some tea,
and it smells good in there, and there may be
some sort of like no.
Speaker 4 (02:23):
Mistay thing going on.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Like I just feel like if the energy is great
in the Tailhouse, smells.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Like home cooking.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
Yeah, like, oh, what's that cooking back there?
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I feel like the Tailhouse is a Lowe Moss wonderful place, right.
Speaker 7 (02:35):
So I don't blame you.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh that's a lovely assessment.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But I was more specifically asking you, how do you
feel about somebody doing that at your house?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Oh, here's how I feel, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
I feel like you did this whole conversation so you
could tell the people, well, before we go to bed,
we do bath in bed and walk. My god, Jamie,
just throw them to bed and say turn the lights off.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Weeks. You don't have to do all that stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Kyle is actively appointing the question, so I won't ask
it a third time. So we're a week away from
the team's reporting to training camp.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
We're going to grab the cap of.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
The team whose storyline that we are most intrigued by.
MATI you get to go first on this one.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
And what are are you looking for? Giants? Okay, yes,
I will pass my neighbor this.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
New York Giants hat. Bestiecent I'm the most perfect mom
on the planet. Talk about another being at a certain way.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
We're the besties over here.
Speaker 6 (03:25):
What's the question?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
I just said it? What grabbed the cap of the storyline?
By the story?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Intriguing storyline I got to I still think about Manti's house.
Speaker 8 (03:35):
This is a good house to be a part of.
Right now to the New York Giants. I like the
storyline going into the New York Giants. Obviously with the
pressure of Brian Dabon Joe Shane, they're on the hot seat.
I mean, I think that's an understandment about what the
hot seed is for them. Now they go and get
Jackson Dart. The storyline to me that is the most
intriguing is this, does Jackson Dart start on day one.
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If he doesn't, how long do you keep.
Speaker 7 (03:59):
Him on the bench?
Speaker 8 (04:00):
Brian Daball, do you play Russell Wilson? Do you play Jamis?
And if those two start doing well, do you just
stash Jackson Dart for the twenty twenty five season.
Speaker 9 (04:11):
If those two don't do.
Speaker 8 (04:12):
Well, how long do you keep Jackson Dart on the bench?
Do you wait till the later in the season so
that you're on an uptick going into the season into
the twenty twenty sixth season.
Speaker 7 (04:23):
That's the storyline that I'm going to be inclued in on.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
I'm going to go with this because so Bro I
have set as my homepage, like I have set the
Cleveland Browns websites depth chart. I'm so fascinated by this
because I want to know what the hell they're going
to do at quarterback. You know the deal they got
Deshaun Watson kind of Flaco Picket, two different rookies.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
I've done the research. Sorry, So the Browns website, they.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Don't release their twenty twenty five web depth chart yet.
So you go to the broadcast partners, right, all right,
CBS has them like all piled up over on the end.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
They're not committing. ESPN doesn't even have.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Shdur Sanders on the depth chart because it only goes
four deep in their format.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Sitting here refreshing thee Browns.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Dot Com like I'm trying to get Taylor tickets or
something like, I'm just so eager, refreshed, refreshed. So when
they first dropped that one, I am so fascinated to
find out where in the holy hell that these guys
lined up, because they could do Quarterback season three just
on the Browns room, and I feel like I wish
they wouldn't.
Speaker 10 (05:24):
Yeah, for me, it's the Dallas Cowboys, and hopefully I
can find them. Oh here they go?
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, how about them?
Speaker 10 (05:30):
Cow about them? And the bottom line of stars. To
Brian's shot in the hammer, can't he bring fresh energy?
I got a big old mask got head, so oh yeah,
but cant he bring candy, bring fresh energy and really
get this team back to playing elite football. You gotta
understand this team was seven to ten last.
Speaker 6 (05:46):
Year, but they didn't quit.
Speaker 10 (05:48):
They still fought tough through every game in the season.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Valley.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
It was ugly.
Speaker 10 (05:53):
They got rid of Mike McCarthy, But Brian, excuse me,
Brian Schottenheimer, he was gonna have to re establish the
run game. They got a young officive line. They could
have went running back early. They went office line and
got Tyler Booker out of out of Alabama. And on
top of that, Dak Prescott. He's a new man, he's
a father, he's a husband, and he's a thirty two
year old quarterback coming off a hamstring. How can they
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protect him?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
How can they.
Speaker 10 (06:15):
Establish a run game, and how can they bring new
energy into the building. Because I'm gonna be honest with you,
the Dallas Cowboys on my dark horse. I see this
team playing a lot better with the addition to George Pickens.
Now you have CD Lamb, you have a tight end.
This team could be a lot better and Able will
be better for this upcoming season.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I feel like calling the Cowboys the dark horse is
an oxymoron. It just feel like it shouldn't ever exist,
no matter what. They are the brightest horse in the race,
and you always are keeping an eye on it no
matter But I hear what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Rely, I grab. I wasn't gonna play, but.
Speaker 3 (06:43):
I couldn't not grab after seeing Brian Dable, we know
what he always looks like on camera now we're seeing
we know it's Tafanski. Always looks like we're looking at
Schottenheimer with the backwards visor. I'm going to go with
the Las Vegas Raiders as my most intriguing storylineating camp,
because what's Pete Carroll going to get into. Did he
have like an assistant coach or a trainer inside like
a bubble that was like flying around at Manda Mini Camp.
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He's wrestling players during the stretch lines. I need him
to drop the skincare routine. The man is in his
what mid seventies.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Or what is he?
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I don't even know how old he is, and he
looks like he's a spry thirty six year old.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
I am fascinated by the coaches in.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The AFC West, but specifically I want to know what's
going on with the Las Vegas Raiders and their rookie
running back and Gino Smith's revival two point zero maybe,
So I'm going with the Raiders for most intriguing storyline
out of training camp.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Love that James Meagan topic no cap.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Grab the cap of the player or coach that you
would want to hear. Miked up footage of at training
camp Manti is actively searching for I.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Believe a baby blue cap.
Speaker 8 (07:44):
Okay, guys, you know that friend that has that laugh
that is so contagious that you don't even know what
he's laughing at.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
You just start laughing already.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
For me, if I was to listen to somebody, I
want to be entertained, and I want to know number one,
what he's saying, because is so it's so entertaining. If
you ever listened to Xavier Legett, have you ever listened
to him talk?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Oh hell yeah.
Speaker 9 (08:05):
I if he was miked up, screw the play.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I wouldn't even care.
Speaker 8 (08:09):
About his catches, his touchdowns, how fatty runs, how big
the guy is.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
I just want to listen to this guy talk anything he.
Speaker 8 (08:16):
Says to me with that twang, because I have a
little twang too.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Yeah, you got something.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
It's just so entertaining to me. Look, look look at that.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
Look at that.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
He is an entertaining player to listen to, and he
just reminds me of that friend that got that hysterical laugh.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Jerry O.
Speaker 8 (08:31):
Tooucher was a teammate of mine at the Chargers, and
he had one of those laughs. Xavier Legette to me
has one of those twangs where no matter what he says,
it's gonna be hilarious.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
For me, it's the Minnesota Vikings and JJ Orphy.
Speaker 10 (08:47):
I'm excited about JJ because he's falling into the right situation.
You have Jordan Addison, you have excuse me, Justin Jefferson
and t. J.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
Hawkinson.
Speaker 10 (08:56):
You got understand the Viken said goodbye to Aaron Rodgers said,
we don't want your services here because we got a
young man we believe in and we believe that he can.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Be the future for the Minnesota.
Speaker 10 (09:04):
This team is ready to win now and they put
the franchise on this young man's back. We understand that
right now with the Brian Flores defense, this office line,
run game, JJ McCarthy's walking into a perfect situation.
Speaker 6 (09:16):
Well, all he has to do is play quarterback. He's
been given the keys to the poors.
Speaker 10 (09:20):
Just don't crash it, young man, and if he's able
to do that, he's going to shock the world.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
So I'm intrigued by his storyline.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
That's a good answer, because we want to get to
know him. A very important player in the league this year,
JJ McCarthy. So we want to get to know him,
it gets an answer just because it's just funny.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Like I would love to see that.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
I would love it, Like I used to watch Peaky
Blinders and they would have to have subtitles sometimes because
you can understand what they're saying they're speaking English. Like
that's what I would love for le Get. But I'm
going to go with the third archetype. I want someone
who just talks so much, bleep, NonStop, always running his mouth,
always looking at start fights. Give me Daniel Jones micd
up just like absolutely person a bluestring.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
No, not at all. I want to see what Daniel
Jones says.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Imagine if you.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Mike Daniel Jones up and it was just wow, like
it's all I didn't know you talked like this was
all like f bombs and like political takes and all
this controversial stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Maybe Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Has this thing deep inside him where he's taken so
much stuff.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
He's just ready to explode.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And he's in a quarterback competition now in a new
city and he's trying to make a new reputation. Is
it really just as Gollie g Huckleberry as I think
it is, or does he really have like an edge
to him.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Does he have any edge? Does he have any like.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Getting the guy's face at all? Because he has looked
at as such a boy scout. I want the tape
to re if that's true or not.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Oh man, I okay, I'm just sitting here.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I'm thinking about the fact that Daniel Jones has a scepter,
and I just can't believe that that level of anger
you ever qualified him for an anger run segment, let
alone win it and to be give to it to
him internationally. And Kyle, as I remind you again that
interaction that I had with him in which I bestowed
upon him the scepter in Germany, it was went exactly
how you thought it would. And let's just say the
micd up version was probably just as awkward as you
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can imagine it. Grab the cap of the player that
you would love to be roommates with at training camp
now was what I have heard from former players. Mantai
is at like training camp, you kind of start to
get on each other's nerves, and like is August and
you're at some college dormitory, so like you got to
be very specific and you got to be selective about
which roommate you have during training camp.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I'm definitely selected, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (11:19):
I'm definitely selective of this person because I did go
to a training camp with him.
Speaker 7 (11:23):
He is one of my best friends.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
I know his wife Lindsay, his son Cooper, his daughter Carter,
even his dog Sammy.
Speaker 7 (11:30):
His dog and my dog were the best of friends.
Speaker 8 (11:32):
So that would be Alex Anzeloni the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 9 (11:36):
There was a clip that I had talking about Habachi
k but.
Speaker 8 (11:39):
You mentioned earlier Hibachi in the middle of in the
beginning of our.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Show, I had a video of look at that. I
had a video of.
Speaker 8 (11:47):
Me and I called his nickname for me was Blanco.
I just called him Blanco Nick. I had a clip
of me and Blanca at a Hibachi type restaurant and
he caught ten straight shrimp in his mouth. And I
asked my wife, it's like, I'm a totist to the
producers and have them played, and she's like, that's not
a good idea. Oh, that's against the bro code.
Speaker 4 (12:05):
So I didn't send them.
Speaker 8 (12:06):
I didn't send it to McLean because I didn't want
people to think, oh, why would you wanted to be
a roommate.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
I wanted to be my roommate because he's my brother.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Okay, I love him.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
That's my dog, and so I would, I would. I
would want Alex Anzeloni to be my incredible.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Eye to mouth coordination as well. That's goods.
Speaker 10 (12:23):
Yeah for me. I'm staying in New York. I'm going
with Famous Jameis Winston.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
He's a riot.
Speaker 10 (12:30):
He's the type of guy that would read me a
Goosebumps book and we could play shadow puppets. So I
appreciate it. I appreciate Famous Jamis. He's he's gonna keep
me happy during the dog days of camp. And also
what I love about him, he loves them dubs, really
likes to win.
Speaker 4 (12:47):
He likes to eat them dumbs. So I'll be stacking them.
Speaker 10 (12:49):
Dubs, eating them dubs with Jameis Winston. Uh. And I
can't imagine what he'll get me to watch man. I
missing detriaut about everything that goes on and what comes
out of his mouth. So Jameis Winston, I would love
it for him to be my room.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
That would be.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
The loudest room, the loudest room.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
You Oh my god, So Willie Willie training camp physically exhausting,
right of course, mentally exhausting at the end of the day.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
You want to come back to that.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You want screaming and doves and all that you don't
you want to break.
Speaker 10 (13:20):
I want the spirit you You got to keep it hot,
you keep it high.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
From your family.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
You're away from the wife.
Speaker 10 (13:27):
You need somebody to keep you motivated, keep that batter
in your back and your quarterback, O. Love relationship is important.
I want to get to know my guy.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
There's only one man for my job, and you guys
all it is Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
That's my roommate. Sit there, shut up, don't say anything.
I want silence.
Speaker 6 (13:46):
I want a.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Roommate who's neat, who's courteous, who's polite, who doesn't want
to talk to me? Who I don't want to talk
to you. I don't even know if Marcus Mariota is there.
I don't care. I want to come back to the
room at the end of the day, much like after
this show.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I want the opposite of James. I don't want to
say anything. Flea would be great too. BLACKO is a
big guy's a little older. You know what.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
Flack of might be good, probably the best for you.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Black I might be good, but I think he is
a little more to say than Marcus Mariota, who just
I think is just sitting there in silence doing Sudoku
or the knitting or something.
Speaker 4 (14:17):
That's my perfect dream man.
Speaker 1 (14:18):
I've answered Marcus Mariota for fifty questions like this, even
when he retires, I will still always say Mariota, because
what is the currency I want in my life?
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Silence?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
And I think he would he would pay it true
that happens the dead.
Speaker 4 (14:32):
Just now.
Speaker 8 (14:33):
Oh no, KB just picked an NFL NFC East team
when I thought he was going to go another NFC
East team with the Giants to go Camp Scataboo as
his roommate, and he picked.
Speaker 4 (14:44):
Up Marcus Mariota.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
Yeah, well, well, I actually somehow on the planet of football,
Kyle values silence more than running backs. And like, I
know that that's like not supposed to happen, but I
do think that that's how that exists.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
I don't want to be roommates with Skataboo. I want
to be Scataboo, so like that's that's a completely different thing.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
And I still we still haven't met in.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Person, so someday we will, and it's possible we couldn't
be roommates because of his restraining order. But Cam, I
know I love you and I'm I'm cool like that.
Speaker 3 (15:14):
Oh my gosh, all right, still the cop that's perfect.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Go cap on GMF. So the cup.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Manti, like Kyle, has been digging into the depth charts
of the Cleveland Browns quarterback room. Manti has also been
studying furiously next to me on a list of defensive
guys that don't get enough credit.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Manti's got the list. We are going to honor it, and.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
It's almost like guys that we got to put on
our radar before next season. Kyle's gotta take notes today.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 8 (15:43):
Here at JIMFB, we love lists, and so I have
another one of those lists for you. I have five players,
defensive players on different positions of the field that I
think that are flying a little bit under the radar
heading to twenty twenty five that you should have on
your radar. So first, we have an interior d lineman
for the Denver Broncos. Now, when you're part of the
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Denver Broncos, obviously you could be going under the radar
when you're playing with the likes of the defensive Player
of the Year in pre Patrick Surtan, we got a
quarterback like bow Knicks, but Zach.
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Allen he is he led the NFL.
Speaker 8 (16:16):
With forty quarterback hits. There's only been five that have
done the same thing. JJ Watt, TJ Watt, Nick Bosa,
and Aaron Donald.
Speaker 7 (16:27):
Now you may be asking, so.
Speaker 8 (16:29):
Who's one of the top the interior defensive linemens in
the NFL.
Speaker 7 (16:32):
I think a lot of people would say Chris.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
Jones, But we have a statistic that's just going to
show exactly how dominant Zach Allen is. So if you
look at the twenty twenty four season, Zach Allen had
fifteen TFLs tackle for loss and Chris Jones had nine
eight point five sacks. For Zach Allen, Chris Jones had
five forty quarterback hits as I explained earlier, and sixty
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seven QB pressures. Obviously, it's a lot easier to go
under the radar when you have one of the best
deepense is in the NFL, which the Denver Broncos do have.
But when you're a guy like Zach Allen, he's somebody
that's been flying under the radar, but soon he should
be on your radar, and he's definitely on the quarterbacks radar. Next,
the Minnesota Vikings has one of the best defenses in
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twenty twenty four, but often this guy.
Speaker 7 (17:23):
Went under the radar because of various things.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
You have a lot of pressure, but the leader of
that pressure was Jonathan Grenard.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
In the last two years, that have been only.
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Five players that had twelve or more sacks, Miles Garrett,
Michael Parsons, the Neil Hunter, Trey Hendrickson, and Jonathan Grenard.
He was one of those focal points.
Speaker 9 (17:44):
Of that defense. Matter of fact, he had a hat trick.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
In one of his games in against his former team
in the Houston Texans. And if you don't believe me,
just listen to what Brian Callahan, the head coach for
the Tennessee Titans, had to say about Grenard. He may
be one of the most underrated edge players in.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
All of football.
Speaker 8 (18:01):
So if you don't believe me, ask some but who's
actually had to go against him, had to prepare against him.
There's a lot of people that are going to have
to prepare against Grenard heading into twenty twenty five season.
And I don't think he's going to be under the
radar anytime longer the Detroit Lions. They've been one of
the best teams in NFL for a long time. But
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when you have a head coach like Dan Campbell, who's
very outspoken, you go to four, you're going for four
downs a lot.
Speaker 7 (18:29):
In the NFL.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
Sometimes guys on the defensive side could get overlooked or
could be going under the radar. Jack Campbell has been
that man in the middle for the Lions.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
The former first round pick for the.
Speaker 8 (18:43):
Lions had led the team in tackles with one hundred
and thirty one tackles.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
This is the kicker though, guys, he.
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Only played seventy three percent of the snaps.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
So for somebody like Jack.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Campbell to leave his team but only play three quarters
of the snaps, that's just it's unheard of.
Speaker 7 (19:00):
And here's another stat.
Speaker 8 (19:01):
He recorded the defensive stop on eighteen percent of run plays.
That's typer second amongst all defenders in the NFL.
Speaker 7 (19:08):
So without their defensive coordinator Aaron Glenn, they're going to
need somebody like.
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Jack Campbell to step in there and be that cornerstone
on that defense. And if they increase his play from
seventy three to one hundred. I can imagine that that
tackle total is just going to continue to increase over time.
Speaker 4 (19:26):
One of my favorite players.
Speaker 8 (19:28):
To watch in the NFL is Kyler Gordon, aka Spider Man,
but I think he is more of Batman right now
because he's been living in the shadows of his Pro
Bowl teammate Jalen Johnson.
Speaker 7 (19:39):
But this guy is somebody.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
That I love to watch. It's very very rare that.
Speaker 7 (19:44):
You find a player that can play the run.
Speaker 8 (19:47):
Just as well as they do the past. Kyler Gordon
is a lot like that. He reminds me of Tyron
Matthew his ability to be very, very disciplined in the past,
but you can send him off the edge. He had
some big hits on the quarterback this year, but he
gets his hands on the ball a lot like Honey
Badger did his entire career. So going into the off season,
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going into this season with Dennis Allen as his defensive coordinator,
Dennis Allen was my defensive porter in New Orleans, I
know that Kyler is going to have a lot of
freedom in that defense, a lot of freedom to make
a lot of plays for the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 7 (20:21):
And I don't think he's going.
Speaker 4 (20:22):
To be flying under the radar for much longer.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
Last, but not least, this one is a little special
to me. New Broncos safety tallanov hu Funga. Now, injuries,
especially injuries and back to back years, will result in
guys flying under the radar. That's the case for Tallano Hufungo.
But two years ago, in his first year as a starter,
he was a first team All Pro player for the
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San Francisco forty nine ers. Now you put Tallano Hufonga
with a defense like the Denver Broncos next to Patrick Shirtan.
Speaker 9 (20:56):
You have a rush like they have, you have blitzing
like they have.
Speaker 8 (21:00):
That's the kind of stuff that talanoa who Fungal can do.
He's a lot like Troy Paul Lamalo. He's in the
middle of the field. Sometimes it's coming off the edge.
So he's been flying under the radar of the past
two years due do some injuries.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
But don't don't.
Speaker 9 (21:12):
Forget that this guy is also an All Pro caliber
team player.
Speaker 10 (21:17):
Here's the least I like that, man, here's the lest
that a lot. Zach Allen. Zach Allen jumps off the
table for me. I think he had a hell of
a year last year. I love the way he uses
his hands, his ability to drop center and get after
the quarterback, never stops his speed on contact. But beware,
the Broncos will be another dark horse in the NFL
next year. Especially with the year number two for Boat
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Knicks and shar Payne together, I make for Didley Combo.
I thought bolt Knicks was overshadowed by the success of
Jayden Dames, and right now I think this is the
year we look at bot Knicks in a different light,
especially with the defense to backup. They got a lot
of guys from San Francisco.
Speaker 6 (21:51):
They were already big dogs in their division.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Now they make it step forward, and I think the
Bronco is going to make a big leap this year.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Who I like that, you guy, So basically, Manty, you
got Broncos an NFC North. That's the entire list, that's
where your concentration is, which is good.
Speaker 4 (22:04):
Interesting.
Speaker 1 (22:05):
I've always been a Kyler Gordon fan. I've always thought
he's got superstar potential. I look at this list, man, tie,
and I you know, it's not time yet, it's not
time to pick playoff teams or anything like that. But man,
that NFC North is completely fascinating. I think it's contingent
on two people, and it's really going to dictate this thing.
Can JJ McCarthy play and can Ben Johnson coach? And meanwhile,
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these guys, those three dudes right there in the middle
are going to be right in the thick of it.
So when it comes time to making playoff teams. I
don't know if you're struggling with the NFC North, but
I know I am.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
Absolutely it's this kind of stress of the Minnesota Vikings
defense gives people trying to pick playoff teams this.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Time of year.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I look at that Jonathan Garnard's selection and I remember
years back, I think it was maybe a month or
two into me getting this job, sitting next to Jason mccordy.
Brian Flores is the new defensive coordinator in Minnesota, and
I said, you know the Vikings defense, what do you
think he goes? Just give it a year, give it
two years for Flores to get his guys into this defense,
and they'll.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Be flying around.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
Three years later, Flores has his guys, and Grenard is
part of that. He's a cornerstone coming over from Houston
last season, and he has become a total personality part
of that Minnesota Vikings events, and he's a heck of
a player and now he's going to be a part
a major part of why the Vikings are successful again.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
But in just an absolutely ruthless division.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
I love those players.
Speaker 8 (23:18):
Matter of fact, Greannard, speaking of Grenard, he was so
under the radar that when I was researching this hole
list Jamien, I actually had to research some of the
stuff that he did. But when you turn on the
film and you watch the Minnesota Bikings and how they operate,
you just see Grenard everywhere on the field, yep, just
causing havoc in the backfield.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
So I really like that list.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
I think those are players that we're going to hear
a lot on Sundays and Mondays and a mon whenever
the game's Thursdays. These are guys that are just dominant
and they may not get the recognition, but I hope
that just my little effort to get them some notoriety,
that they put a little bit more respect on them.
But the Broncos, to your point.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
The Broncos got a defense.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
On them, like that's yeah, they do.
Speaker 7 (24:02):
Benito, Like you got Drake rain Law there. The NFC
North and Afcus.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
It's going to be a battle.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
And well done on the Spider Man Batman thing with
Kyler Gordon.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
That was very good. We love that guy. On GMTB
front of the show, there's the list Mantai's defensive players.
Don't say he didn't tell you to keep an eye
out for these guys when we are there. He is
Kyler and his shoes matched the look.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
They're always so excellent. That's the list. We'll be back
on GMFB. Netflix.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Quarterback season two has returned and it's streaming now on Netflix.
You got the characters right there, Joe Burrow, Jared Goff
and Kirk Cousins running it back for a second season
on Netflix. The first was when he was very purple
and now he's with the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (24:45):
Put us from last year, so we got hurt and
he got benched.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
It's a whole debacle that Netflix was there to document.
So Netflix takes us inside the Bengals roller coaster. Specifically
though last season with Joe Burrow and the team, they
were on fire, but things didn't stay great for the
Bengals throughout the whole season.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
What has Dave consistent.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
Throughout the years though, is cool Joe's high fashion and
play on the field.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
Here's a look at the best of.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
Burrow third and six April with Selim.
Speaker 11 (25:16):
Here's the past cats leaping up anywhere, putting it down.
It's team Higgins and the Bacos aren't extra point.
Speaker 6 (25:25):
Away from the time the game.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
I talked about the adjustments. How high level we're talking
about one of.
Speaker 11 (25:31):
The great back shoulder throwers the game is seen in
a while.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
He throws these balls perfectly all the time.
Speaker 11 (25:37):
Seats can't get there in time work.
Speaker 4 (25:39):
For the executed Joe taking off. Oh, he's got a
tune round by taking all the way and seven to
ten pilot, he's for the touchdown. Everybody to the left.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Burrow takes off to the right, walking about.
Speaker 10 (25:58):
It and shows the wheels for forty seven yards.
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Whoa Burrow is just thinking him He knew it was
gonna come from this direction. One guy here and nothing
the rest of the way there man coverage, you're gonna
see everybody chasing a person down the field. And who
would have ever imagined it's the legs of Joe Burrow
that explode on the scene here in the opening.
Speaker 10 (26:23):
Border on first down, Burrow with time looking.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
Deep looking for Chase.
Speaker 9 (26:31):
He's got it.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Pincher bar Chase on the deep ball for the touchdown
sixty three yards Burrow to Chase.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
And Joe Burrow with the strike sniper from downtown.
Speaker 4 (26:46):
What a shot.
Speaker 6 (26:53):
Williams had a block and Brown had a block.
Speaker 9 (26:55):
The two jackals going Deep's go Chase at the time.
Speaker 11 (26:59):
You'll can Chase hit a good dome Touchtom six at
sixty four large. As soon as Burrow escapes the pocket,
Jamar Chase recognizes that he.
Speaker 4 (27:13):
Converts a five yard drag route into a deep pass.
Speaker 6 (27:15):
And Burrow finds him for the touchdown.
Speaker 12 (27:21):
Burrow, looking has time dancing around pocket breaking down, eludes
it another man.
Speaker 4 (27:28):
He skips around, throws for the.
Speaker 7 (27:29):
Touchdown after a Joe Burrow.
Speaker 13 (27:32):
Two step by his time and it's a seven to
six ball game.
Speaker 1 (27:37):
You cannot allow somebody with Joe Burrow's skill set this
much time in the pocket.
Speaker 4 (27:42):
That shows you how good this offense is. Turn I
want a.
Speaker 11 (27:53):
Crab Higgins touchdown cit Tonati.
Speaker 14 (27:57):
This is again a demonstration of quarterbacks understanding their receivers,
understanding their strengths and having the confidence and give them
a chance to go up and hit the football over
the top of everyone else. And what Joe Burrow did
intelligently enough was put the ball up there and say
go get it, number eighty five.
Speaker 4 (28:16):
No matter who could beat with you for the football,
I know you'll come down with it.
Speaker 6 (28:24):
From the pocket.
Speaker 13 (28:24):
Burrow now stepping back, trying to find some breathing room,
and it's still alive. As he throws head, it's caught
by Higgins. What a sensation'll play by Joe Burrow and
a catch by Higgins.
Speaker 11 (28:39):
And this is why you have a hope, Cincinnati. This
is what he's been doing his whole career. He just
extends and dustings. It's dead, it's gone. Nope, this is
Joe Burrow.
Speaker 7 (28:48):
This is a completely different Bengal team.
Speaker 4 (28:53):
The twelve yard line for a first down, Burrow.
Speaker 10 (28:57):
Circling back and looking and throwing, and zone Jar.
Speaker 4 (29:05):
Chase crying a touchdown. I'll that for making some help.
Speaker 11 (29:09):
As soon as Burrow starts to scramble around.
Speaker 7 (29:11):
You're gonna see Chase snup at the top right.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
He's just gonna sneak back inside.
Speaker 12 (29:16):
And then that's just Burrow throwing a dart. But he
absolutely has to make a throw. J play action finding
love going.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
Game it's cart.
Speaker 9 (29:35):
He goes into the store.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Ja Linle Ramsay's fellow down and just like.
Speaker 12 (29:41):
That, in twelve seconds, a seventy five yard touchdown.
Speaker 7 (29:46):
The Burrow hairs it out and let's trying to take
a four point lead.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
And Joe Burrow, as he's done all season long, the
ability to step up and rate a little space.
Speaker 12 (30:00):
We barely plean eight minutes, curl pocket till as growing
to stop, just masterfully gets to Higgins.
Speaker 7 (30:10):
Just cover the world.
Speaker 14 (30:13):
He's just been incredible in just making stuff happen off
the scramble, just running out.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Of attecudes to conscribe what we're seeing.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
I feel like there's plenty of plays in the NFL
where guys have to be completely parallel to the ground,
do something ridiculous, and then immediately that just jettisons itself
to the top of the list. That was Joe Burrow
and other worldly quarterback performances in.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
His top ten plays.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
Now, the Bengals finished third in the AFC North last season.
Coming into this here though, the Bengals will compete in
the AFC North yet again. But teams are getting better,
they're trying to fix their problems. Along with that, the
Bengals are trying to adjust as well, specifically defensively. Man Ti,
when you look at the Bengals and how they fit
within this puzzle piece of a division, what do you
make of them right now?
Speaker 8 (30:53):
I think they're a team to watch out for it Jamie.
You know, they did finish third in the AFC North. However,
they won their last five games. You know, I think
it's a tale of two different teams. In the beginning
of the first half the season, they had their defensive
roles and you know, leaked a little bit into the
third quarter of the season. But when you're a team
like the Bengals, when you're any team in the NFL,
(31:13):
you want to be able to be on an upward
trajectory heading into the offseason. And I think there couldn't
be a team that was heading in a more higher
trajectory than the Cincinnati Bengals. I like what they have offensively.
Obviously you can talk about Jamar, Chase t Higgins, Joe Burrow,
but Chris Brown as a running back has been extremely
productive for them. Now they have some questions on a defense,
(31:36):
but again, their latter end of the season, they were
a scary team and I remember that watching that game
against Denver coming down to the wire and for them
to beat a Bonis Denver team that was trying to
get into the playoffs.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Those are those types.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
Of wins that heading into this season, I'm thinking to
myself like, Okay, this is a team to watch out
for in a very very good conference like the AFC North.
And so that's how I see the Bengals heading into
the season.
Speaker 10 (32:03):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go ahead and ask of the question,
the Bengals will win the AFC North if they start faster.
This team doesn't start well in the first four games
of the season. Back to back years they've been nine
and eight overall. Like Mantali is saying, yeah, they have
an offense. They struggle on defense because they simply don't
have one outside of Trey Hendricks. Hendricks overall, they got
to establish a run game. They have revamped this office
(32:24):
line and this scheme to go with it. But they
have to start faster in the season, win more games
early so when the back end of the season gets murky,
they've restacked enough doubles where they can crawl into the playoffs.
Speaker 6 (32:34):
So for me, they just have to start faster.
Speaker 10 (32:37):
They have to develop a run game, and they're going
to have to figure out how to keep Joe Burrow
healthy so when they get deep into the season that
he's still on the field making plays for them.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's bizarre to watch those highlights, the ones from last year,
especially because we're seeing all the spectacular football being played.
The Bengals were four and eight at one point last year.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
YEP, just disastrous.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
They were just a terrible record before they started ripping
off wins then coming up short.
Speaker 4 (33:00):
They'll win the AFC North.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
If Lamar Jackson retires, goes play baseball or something. Do
you understand the Bengals last year scored seventy two points
against the Ravens and two games and lost both games.
Speaker 4 (33:11):
Seventy two. The Bengals will have a shot at the NFC.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
North if they can get not eleven guys, but one
guy to crouch down, put his arms around and wrap
them around someone who has the football on the other team,
just one person out of eleven, because last year they
had zero. Hendrickson was good when it was the quarterback,
but nobody did anything that tackling wise, defensive wise, anywhere.
He can't score seventy two against the Ravens and lose
(33:35):
both games.
Speaker 4 (33:36):
It's a bizarre season they had last year.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
I'm personally excited to talk about next season because that
we've talked so much now about the Bengals last year,
what they didn't do. We know they started slow, we
know the defense sucked, we know Burrow and Chase were great.
I'm so excited for the new versions have something new
to talk about. I'm sure they are too.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
Will you bring up a good point about Trey Hendrickson
and just the defensive shift that they're going to have
to make. They can't figure out this contract with Tree Henderson,
they do not have their first round pick and Shamar
Stewart signed yet, which is also equally on equally uncomfortable
when you address this team, Willie, if you were on
this fifty three man roster, how would you feel about
walking into a training camp or a locker room with
these two defensive potential stalwarts you have they don't want
(34:15):
to appear because the team doesn't.
Speaker 2 (34:16):
Want to invest in them. How would that make you feel?
Speaker 10 (34:19):
Yeah, I would feel nervous and unsettled, solely because Trey
hendricks is all we have on the defensive side of
the ball.
Speaker 6 (34:25):
You know what Joe Burrier could do. We talk about
what cops mentioned.
Speaker 10 (34:28):
I mean, Joe Burrow threw forty touchdowns last season. They
were losing football games defensively, they just couldn't stop anybody.
If I score one hundred points and you score one
hundred and one points, you win the game. And that's
all the defense. So they struggle stopping a run. Trey
Hendricks has been upset with this contract situation for some
time now, and you're walking into a training camp that
(34:49):
this Bengo team wants to talk about new things.
Speaker 6 (34:52):
How can they get better?
Speaker 10 (34:53):
How can they compete in division that has gotten better.
Say what you want about the Pittsburgh Sailors, but they
want to be competitive.
Speaker 6 (34:59):
They're finding no way to win.
Speaker 10 (35:01):
By getting Aaron Rodgers, Jalen Ramsey, DK metcalf On, on
and on. So they're telling the world, Yeah, we're with
at expendables at this point, but we have enough superheroes
that have experienced that have been in big time situations
where we can compete against the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 6 (35:15):
And so if you're in the Bengals right now and
you're looking at the rest of the division, how do
you fail?
Speaker 4 (35:19):
Right now unsettled.
Speaker 10 (35:21):
You're unsettled going into a training camp that's looking for
a new way out of the hole you in. And
I gotta be honest, Zach Taylor is on the hot
seat because this falls on him too. Good coaches find
a way to adjust. You don't have a defense, you
have an offense. How can you bring a new format
to this ball club that can make fans believe that
(35:41):
you're the future of this.
Speaker 6 (35:42):
Franchise and you can leave these guys We'll see.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
There's a lot of we'll see about it. And Jamie,
you mentioned you mentioned Shamar Stewart. So they take him
seventeenth overall, first round pick, and since then there's been
this standoff in which he's made some points and maybe
he has some good points to make.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
That's a different segment as someone.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
Who is there on the draft stage, Jamie, when he
was drafted, tell me I'm wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:05):
It felt like the vibe.
Speaker 4 (36:06):
Were off from the get go.
Speaker 6 (36:07):
What are your.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
Memories and what are your impressions of that night that
we're looking at right here.
Speaker 3 (36:11):
I'll take you back twenty four hours before this, this
young man appeared on Good Morning Football with Us. He
showed up in the press box and sat down with
Tom Tellasara, and I could not have been brighter, could
not have been more engaged, could not have been more
committed to this experience he was about to have in
Green Bay that weekend. The body language that I saw
from that man walking across the stage after that hug,
(36:33):
I'm about to come out of that tunnel and get
the first interview with him after he gets picked by
the Bengals.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Was frustrated.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
I was surprised that the sunglasses never came off, which
I understand is a fashion choice at times, but that
one felt deliberate, like he didn't want to show his
true emotions surrounded.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Being picked by the Bengals.
Speaker 3 (36:51):
I've heard from somebody, if someone can confirm this that
Shamar Stewart I don't think ever took a meeting with
the Cincinnati Bengals. I don't think there was a lot
of conversation that went down between this team and.
Speaker 2 (37:02):
This defensive player that he's elected.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
So maybe at the in the moment he was like, man,
I'm coming from Texas A and m I know nothing
about Cincinnati, but here we go.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
Then he comes over to me on.
Speaker 3 (37:11):
The draft stage and he essentially is alluding to some
people are gonna own up to the fact that they've
done wrong, which means I should have been picked at
some point between one through sixteen. There was odd frustration
with maybe where he went in the draft, both physically
and with the number where he got picked. But the
entire thing has been bumpy. It's been uncomfortable. And now
(37:31):
to Kyle's point, I do think he has some great
terms in which he is trying to get into his contract,
but it doesn't make the whole ownership of the situation
look great for the Bengals with how they're managing their
defense specifically.
Speaker 4 (37:43):
Yeah, look what KB said. Let's look forward to twenty
twenty five.
Speaker 8 (37:46):
We talked about twenty twenty four a lot, so let's
look at the twenty twenty five Bengals and what changes
do they have.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Well, you have Al.
Speaker 8 (37:51):
Golden Back as your defensive coordinator and Al Gordlin if
you didn't know, he passed two three years. He was
a defensive coordinator for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and
one thing I do know about him is they want
a pressure and so talking about their who ends Trey
Hendrickson and Shamar Stewart, you can't pressure if you don't
have those two in the game.
Speaker 6 (38:09):
Yea.
Speaker 8 (38:10):
So those are definitely things that is on the to
do list for the Bengals heading into this season.
Speaker 3 (38:15):
It's just a brutal scenario the Bengals find themselves in
because you've got a great defense that you're always compared
to in the division and the Steelers. You don't know
which quarterback you're chasing around in Cleveland, and you do
know which quarterback you're chasing around in Baltimore, and that
guy's not going anywhere.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
So Bengals buckle up.
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