November 25, 2025 • 38 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o and Willie Colon sharing the Hall of Fame Semifinalists. Buyin or Keep Tryin - Will Shedeur Sanders starting wreck havoc on the NFL? Later, Kyle takes listener phone calls on GMFB Radio.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right, everybody, a very special GMFB on a Tuesday
of Thanksgiving week. We are always thankful for family and
especially this game that we love. Jamie Mansion, Jimmy wil
and Twiller.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, Ray, Okay, good Willie, welcome back. While we love
to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We can't wait to have your insights on the following segment.
Because Manti, we get to list off a couple of
special names that are on a very distinct list this morning,
and we announced this last week that as a crew,
we get the distinct honor here on Good Morning Football
to announce the twenty six Modern era players named as
semi finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class
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of twenty twenty six. So there are five modern era
players who are making the cut on their first year
of eligibility. Those are your epic first ballot gentlemen. They
played all their last game in twenty twenty. So we
begin with those names, the five first time eligible players.
We're gonna go around the horn, Kyle. We each have
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a couple names that we are going to whack poetic
about and Kyle, you are up first, my friend, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm so glad I'm up first, because this is an
honor and this is someone I had spent years and
years watching.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
He was the thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Second overall pick in the two thousand and one draft
by the San Diego Chargers. Eventually he made his way
to New Orleans to the Saints, who became one of
the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He is a thirteen time Pro Bowler.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He is a Super Bowl champion, and he is now
a semi finalist for the Hall of Fame Class of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Drew Breese, Let's go Drew all right.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Twenty seasons, most of those seasons coming to member of
the Saints, but all of us remember the real one.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
As a Charger, his name has.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The record books all over at New Orleans, second all
time in passing yards and touchdown passes period. Breeze won
his only Super Bowl appearance over Peyton Manning and the
Colts thirty one to seventeen, earning MVP honors. Drew Brees
a semi finalist in his very first year of eligibility.
I don't imagine we're going to be waiting very long
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Drew Brees, an all time great and an all time
gentleman and an all time family man. I'm thrilled to
announce his name and man, Tai, I know you respect
him more as much as anybody.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I respect him.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I love of a former teammate of mine, one of
the greatest to ever do it. And it's just so
fitting that next up as another former teammate. A quarterback
who played seventeen seasons in the NFL, primarily as a
member of the San Diego Chargers. He's an eight time
Pro bowler, the twenty thirteen Comeback Player of the Year,
and one of my favorite teammates. A semi finalist for
the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty six, Philip Rivers.
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He was part of one of the most famous trades
in NFL history, drafted forth by the Giants. He was
then traded to the Chargers for Eli Manning. The rest
is history.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
An elite, elite.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Playmaker with a throwing style all of his own, Rivers
is currently the seventh on the all time passing list.
While he never appeared in the Super Bowl, Philip Rivers
left his mark on the NFL. Congratulations to my friend.
I'm being named a semifinalist to the Hall of Fame
class of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Willie our next semi finals played all seventeen seasons with
the Arizona card News.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
His second in the NFL record.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Books for total receptions and receiving yards, both behind Hall
of Famer Jerry Rice. He's card News legendary wide receiver
Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Fitz made eleven Pro Bowls and led the NFL and
receptors twice. During his seventeen year career.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
He topped one thousand yards receiving nine times, tied for.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The fourth most ever. He helped the Cardinals reach their
only Super Bowl in two.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Thousand and eight while setting posted the records with five
hundred and forty six receiving.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yards and seven touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Congratulations fitz and in an era where all we can
see sometimes are great tight ends making great plays, next
up the best to do it at the position. He
played seventeen seasons in the NFL, including sixteen wearing a
star on his helmet in Dallas. He's the Cowboys all
time leading receiver in both receptions and receiving yards and
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appeared in more games than any other Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is tight end Jason Witten, the former third round picks.
Dependability and toughness made him a fixture in Dallas, where
he was a two time All Pro, an eleven time
Pro Bowler and tying the most for Pro Bowls by
a Cowboys player in franchise history. During his career, he
hauled in more than twelve hundred receptions for more than
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thirteen thousand receiving yards and seventy four touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
He is Jason Witten, Kyle, and he's on the list.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
He certainly is.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There was no surprise whatsoever there And God, Jason Witten
went through so much too, and having to be a
leader off the field with all those Cowboys too.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I have so much respect for him.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
How about this sixteen year NFL career is incredible? A
sixteen year NFL career as a running back is a miracle.
And that's exactly what our next semifinalists pulled off. Drafted
in the third round by the forty nine ers because
of durability concerns, Frank Gore played two hundred and forty
one games as a running back, the most in NFL history.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Everybody loves Frank Gore. Here he is in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Frank Gore rushed for sixteen thousand plus yards, third all
time ever, only behind Emmett and Walter. The picture of longevity.
It's just something to marvel at. And it's also one
of these things that we say we.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
May never see again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It may never be duplicated any team, any down between
the tackles in space.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Frank Gore was not just a running back.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He was a feature back and a fixture for years
and years and years. Congratulations to one of a kind
running back semifinalist Frank Gore.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All Right, that was just the five of the first
time I'm Modern era nominees for this year's semi finalist
list for the twenty twenty six Hall of Fame class.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
For the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Two quarterbacks are running back and a couple of past catchers.
An epic list, but we last saw those guys play
in twenty twenty. There are more to include, which is
twelve players who are actually finalists from last year's class.
It means they are automatically jettison too this year's semi
finalist list. This list also includes two players who are
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not in their first year of eligibility. But are reaching
the semi finalisttage for the first time, and those two
are offensive linemen Lomas Brown, who retired following the two
thousand and two season, and defensive lineman Kevin Williams, whose
career ended following the twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So we take a look at all.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Twenty six names as here. They are listed in alphabetical order.
We mentioned already Drew and Loamas Brown, Willie Anderson on
the list, Jarry Evans, Larry Fitzgerald, Frank Gore, Rodney Harrison
on the left side of your screen. Then Tory Holt,
Louke Keikley, Eli Manning, Robert Mathis, Philip Rivers, Steve Smith Senior,
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and Terrell Suggs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So many friends of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We're so proud of this, proud of them as well
in their careers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Fred Taylor, Earl.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thomas, Adam Vinitari Hines, Ward, Reggie, Wayne Richmond, Web, Vince
Wilford and Kevin william Steve was Snowski, Jason Whitten, Darren
Woodson and Marshall Yanna.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
What a great list, Manti, Oh my gosh, what a list.
Who stands out to you? Who want to who do
you want to give their flowers to not that this
isn't enough to have Rivers fork.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I think it's fitting for me to talk about my
former teammates, Drew Brees and Philip Rivers. Drew Brees, he
is a surgeon. He was so surgical in the way
that he played this game. And when you're that surgical
and that precise, there is very little, sometimes no room
for error when you're going to get somebody like Drew Brees. Now,
Philip Rivers was a different cat. Philip Rivers was a
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lot like Peyton Manning. When you hear these quarterbacks nowadays,
when they talk about at the line of scrimmage, the
verbridge at which Jay us, you hear them saying opposite, opposite,
or kill kill. What that means is when they go
into the to the huddle, majority of these quarterbacks have
two plays. They have their primary play and then they
check to something that counters that primary play. Guys like
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Philip Rivers, they had the entire one hundred plays playbook
at their disposal. And I had to go against this
man every single day in practice and to hear him
go from a no back offensive look with no running
backs in the backfield and switch to a two back
by bringing a tight end as a fullback and bringing
the running back in who is now lineup at wide receiver. Like,
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imagine how hard it was to go against somebody like
that every single day and what that did for me
in my career and preparing me for what's to come
early so early in he was one of the greatest
competitors that I've ever played with.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And played against.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
So I had to give my flowers to my two
former teammates, well deserved, Willie.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Yeah, that's great, man Ty, I gotta do the same.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I see Harris wood on that list, and I can't
think about how much he mentioned me in my career.
You talk about a guy who was just a stand
up model of what Steeler is and what he should
be like. You're talking about toughness, grit, heart, play with pride,
played through injuries. He was an iron man. We love
about Woody, Man and man Ty and everybody. You may
notice when you talk about who sets the tone on
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your team, it usually goes to a lineback or defensive end.
Never your slot receiver who's five ten and Haines Ward
played with so much grit in heart, he traveled man.
It was in a stadium where people wasn't trying to
knock his head off, he wasn't trying to knock their
head off. He was a walking heel. He was the villain.
He was awesome. And I also got a shout out
Jason Witten. Jason went was the ultimate iron man played
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for so long at one position. He was the most
complete tight end in the game. He blocked, he caught,
he was dependable, he was clutching the red zone, and
he was flat out awesome. He made me want to
play tight end. I love Jason Witten, and I hope
he gets the NOD. Congratulations to both gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Great choices, great era.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
This is so hard like there.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
These are some of my heroes, and then some of
them are my colleagues. You know, when I was in
in my twenties and thirties, Steve Smith Senior, who was
just Smith back then, was my favorite player in the NFL.
I was obsessed with everything Steve did before I even
met him as a colleague. I can talk about all
of them, all of them, but I will actually double
back to Frank Gore, one of the guys we just announced,
fascinating career, prolific career. I said it a lot in
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the introduction. Third all time in rushing is an insane fact.
He has more rushing yards than Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin,
Adrian Peters and Ladanian, Tomlins and Eric Dickers. I think
he going he's looking down on those guys. The case
for Frank Gore is just he is probably the most
durable back of all time. And it's fascinating because he
was great at Miami and slipped in the draft because
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k me concerns and teams are like, I don't know
if we can trust Gore to carry the load.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
He did it for close to two decades.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
If he were going to build a case against Frank Gore,
which sometimes how this thing goes, it got weird.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
At the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He played on about seven different teams, and every year
it would be he's changing uniforms, and now he's on
the Dolphins, and now he's on the Bills, and now
he's on the cat I mean he's on the Jets.
I have no memory of Frank Gore on the Jets.
I think was he on the Adam Gates Jets or
was that Le'Veon? But I don't even Remember that's not
against him.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
He kept playing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He was really good with the Colts, but it was
just strange at the end. The aggregator word will get
thrown around, and the fact that maybe Frank Gore was
never in the conversation for best running back in the league.
He was in the era of LT and an Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But he's just so aliked. He's such a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Every teammate, every coach, every official, everybody loves Frank Gore.
And when you walk in and you make the case
for Frank Gore and you say, well, sixteen thousand rushing
yards on the dot, third all time, behind only Peyton
and Emmett, Frank Gore, everybody, and you vote yes for
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And I have a feel that's how it will go down.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Frank Gore.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Anytime he shows up at one of those former team
games they put him on camera for the broadcast, You're like, Oh, nice,
that's Frank Gore.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
That's awesome. He's such a likable guy. And that's where
I go as well.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Larry Fitzgerald, you always seem to say that about him,
and not only was his career long and prolific, but
he found success so early and often with the Arizona
Cardinal said, I'm a little bit biased, but very rarely
do you have a young man come out of a
Minneapolis prep school and go on to be great in
college as a bolittanikof winner, but also to be great for.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
As long as he was in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Larry Fitzgerald is crazy talented fourteen hundred catches, nearly eighteen
thousand receiving yards, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But just an absolute warrior, so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Many sixteen games played, sixteen games started, he barely got hurt.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
He was so durable. He was a quarterback's best friend.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And one of those quarterbacks is also wearing a gold jacket.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And Kurt Warner. I absolutely love Larry Fitzgerald. I loved
watching him play.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
He was a ball boy for the Vikings when he
was a young boy growing up. And the fact that
he went on to become Larry Fitzgerald of great and
now he is a semi finalist for the Pro Football
Hall of Fame is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Kyle, I love to see it really well.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Put Jamie, and I know you speak from the heart
on that we celebrate all these names. I'll just put
this out there and Larry Fitzgerald' getting.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
In first ballot. He ain't gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is what we're watching right here. Playoff run that
year we took the Cardinals to the Super Bowl. I've
never seen wide receiver play better than that, Rice, Calvin Johnson,
Randy Moss. He was the best player in the world
for that month period and beyond.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Of course, he was always prolific.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That Super Bowl run, he was so far the best
player on the field and did everything in the Super
Bowl to beat the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
He tried, he.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tried, he was just the Cardinals defense couldn't make the stop.
But I've never seen the position played better than that
Super Bowl run. And I predict from the hip that
Larry Fitzgerald will being on the first ballot.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Well, I also want to point out to a few
things about these guys, Drew, Larry fitz Philip Not only
were their play on the field fitting for a Hall
of Famer, who they are as human beings, as men
or Hall of Fame men, and so I know what
these guys are eventually going to get and I hope
their first ballot, but they've already been in the Hall
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of Fame as far as far as human beings, I'll
tell you a short story about Drew Brees when we
went to Minnesota to play Minnesota in the divisional game
with the Minneapolis Miraclees and his wife, brit They flew
every wife and spouse for free to Minnesota on their
dimes so that they could be there to support their
husbands and their boyfriends. And that's just the type. And
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Drew didn't even announce it to any of the guys.
I found out from my wife to say, hey, I'm
going to the Minnesota games, Like, how are you going
to Minnesota games? She's like, Oh, the Breeze has bought
a whole plane to take us all there. That's the
type of human being that these people are. And I've
played against Larry Fitz and I can tell you firsthand
he's a guy that will run you over and then
pick you up and say, hey man, great, great game,
great play. You're going to have a fantastic career. So
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I just wanted to commend these men not only on
how they played the game, but what they stood for
and the character which they had. So congratulations to all
the semifinalists in this year's class.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Absolutely really well set a couple of Walter Payton Man
of the Year not only nominees, but winners on this
list as well. Once again from GMFB and from all
football fans, a big time congratulations to all twenty six
players who are now named as a semi finalist for
the twenty twenty sixth class of the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. Back on dm McBee, we are going to
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welcome Tom Pelasero in.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Now, lots of news.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
To cover before we address buying or keep trying.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh my god, Tom, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Bro?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is that your high school basketball jersey?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
This is I believe my fourth grade basketball jersey right here.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
The Dinah Junior.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Wolves still fits like a charm. I do this for
you guys mostly, but also.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
In honor mean back in.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
The lineup before the Bengals. He is expected to return
to action and start on Thursday night against the Ravens.
That's Lessen eleven weeks after he suffered that severe turf
toe injury that required surgery. He is a little bit
ahead of schedule, and he now joins a Bengals team
that's one and eight since he got injured, but somehow
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still just three games back in the AFC North and trying,
just like they did a year ago, to make an
improbable run. In other injury news, Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy
is in the concussion protocol. He reported concussion symptoms on
the flight home from Green Bay, the five step process
to get cleared that does not often happen in this
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day and age within a practice week. They're not yet
ruling him out, but undrafted rookie Max Brozmer is going
to get the first team reps this week. Rosmer, now
barring clearance for McCarthy, is in line to start on
Sunday against Seattle. Meanwhile, Senor Sanders will get another start
for the Browns. Kevin Stefanski announcing that Dylan Gabriel has
cleared the concussion protocol, but it once again will be
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Sanders making his first home start this week against the
forty nine Ers. The Browns course beat the Raiders in Sanders'
starting debut. Now you can only imagine what the environment
is going to be like in Cleveland for Shador the
first time starting on his own field.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I mean, Tom, great, whatever you just said about JJ
and the brown and the Vikings and the Browns, but
I have so many questions right now. First fault props
to you, thank you so much for feeling so willing
and for serkin that I thought, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That side by side.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
When I put it on, I thought it was going
to look slightly different than it does now that I
see it. So yeah, first and last time you'll you'll
see that a good Are you building a.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Weight room in your house right now? What is going on?
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yeah, something's going on to sell and Hammer next door
tried to get some help with maybe distracting the noise.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It didn't work, but hey, you.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Know, as long as you're looking at this, I really tried.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
To distract your fault. That's Tom, Tom.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Your news report could have been that Patrick Mahomes is
retiring to play baseball and we wouldn't have heard a
single word of what you said. Here's what I want,
Dinah Wolves. I think you said, give me a stout
and report on Pellicero Junior Wolves.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
This is circa nineteen eighty nine nineteen ninety undersized point
guard thought he was a much better shooter than he
actually won. Once got the play when the Timbrels were
playing in the Metro Dome, met Pooh Richardson pregame highlight
of childhood. Also, he dine Hornet's twenty twenty five state
football champs.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So how about that, all.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Right, gradual, we gotta get you some.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, we got the off camera.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now you have the shorts onto.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
This jersey does not go as far down as it
needs to.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
If I were to stand up, you can see a
little maybe which nobody wrong?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Tom? Is that a reversible jersey?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
We got a little bit on the inside, you know it?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Man, time, We got enough. Wait, we don't need you
to reverse that thing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, We're good on that.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh my gosh, Tom, well done. I honestly just don't
really want to move on.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Topics are trying to make it stay on camera, you know,
like just Tom, just hanging the two shot, will you.
The Browns are coming off a twenty four to ten
win against the Raiders, as Brown's head coach Kevin Stefanski
is sticking with rookie quarterback should Dour Sanders as Tom
just mentioned, and they're going to play the forty nine
ers on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Should Door will start this week obviously, you know, number
one job of quarterback is to win, So excited to
get that first win under his belt and then next
thing is improvement and that's what young players do, certainly
young quarterbacks. Do you get one game better and that's
just from working at it. So that'll be our focus.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Just so everybody knows. Tom's not going to stick around
for buying or keep trying, even though we asked him to.
A question for you guys, now, Shouldeur Sanders and the
Cleveland Browns making this decision going.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Forth with this quarterback?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Do you think this will affect the playoff picture in
the final quarter of the season Mantai, if the Bear,
if the Browns, if you will con Reek havoc?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, I think just the Browns in general have thenity
opportunity to wreak some havoc.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Will they make the playoffs? No, However, they are.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Playing a few people that may have some impact in
those guys that we have in the eight nine seeding
that are the Houston Texans and the Chiefs. What I
mean by that is on December twenty, first, the Browns
play the Bills. Now, what the Browns do very well
is they run the ball, and that's something that the
Bills have struggled against. And then also we saw what
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happened when Josh Allen and the offense played against the
Houston Texans, who had.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
A really good rush.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Guys, the Cleveland Browns rush is better.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Than the Houston Texans rush.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
And so when we saw Josh Allen and the rest
he was under and trying to make things happen, and
Will Anderson Junior and Danil Hunter, I'm doing what they
did to the offensive line and Josh Allen. The Texans
are the sixth ranked pass rush defense, the Browns are two. Like,
that's how good this Miles Gary and company front is.
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And so I'm looking at this Cleveland Browns team and
their abilities to really cause some havoc late for some guys,
impossibly get some people that's in the lurking column into
the playoff picture.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yeah, I'm with you, man Todd. But if you're the
Browns right now, it's been a bad season, you've been
living in football purgatory. But there's an opportunity to get right.
You got Shador, he's your spark, he's young, he's poised,
he has to play with a purpose in order to
get another start. But if you're the defense and you're
this team led by Miles Garrett, this is an opportunity
to shake things up. Like you mentioned, you got opportunity
to play the Niners, beat the Niners at home, and
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you play the Bills if you're.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Able to get them. This to shakes up the whole
playoff picture.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
So if you're the Browns right now, turn a negative
into a positive, Rod Schador's popularity wave and get going.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Man, you got a chance to really upset some teams.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, the Browns all of a sudden, You know, we're
gonna talk Browns in the last six weeks because we
got this, and we got Miles Garrett chasing the sack record,
which we probably think he's gonna get.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You got could get it next week for all we know.
I just think it's very interesting for Shador.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We don't talk a ton of Shador here, and we
don't because the Browns are not relevant in the playoff picture.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
But Shador has a six game test. Now, let's call
it what it is. This is a six game audition.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If Chador doesn't play well, if he plays poorly, and
I hope he does, that might be it.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
In Cleveland, there's a fifth round pick. Like, we're gonna
see a lot of you do. We like you do.
We like your future. If not, I think we move on.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But if he does, if he catches lightning in a bottle,
if he shows the Browns like, not only do I
have the talent, I have potential.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I fit the part. My post isn't bouncing.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm going against Pittsburgh and TJ's in my face and
I'm ready for this. I got this, which I really
hope happens six games. This is determined history. And if
it's not with Cleveland, maybe it's somewhere else. But I
just feel like a lot of us treat the last
six weeks of the year as like, Y, screw it.
I'll put on ten pounds, you know what I mean, Like,
I'll get it done in January and I'll start afresh.
The Browns have this thing where they're like, we're out
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of the playoffs, we're gonna try it. Let's see what
Shoudur has got. Let's lock and load. And maybe Dylan
Gabriel has a role too. But Chador, just play well,
just play confidently, give us your best game. Then we'll
see where the ball bounces. After six games, we have
a six game audition. In the meantime, Miles Ged will
probably have six Sacs every single week. That's what we'll
be watching for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Some of those real maniacs finished the final six weeks
of the year and they set the tone for twenty
twenty six, like, oh, I'm going to lose my ten
before I even hit the new year. We're not one
of those people here on GMFB. We like to let
it go until the new year, then we reset. But
I understand what the Brown's is doing. Maybe they're projecting
on the next season. Are the Rams projecting for the
next ten years?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
At quarterback?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
While their coach might be, Matthew Stafford continues to build
on his MVP candidacy as the Rams blew out the
Buccaneers to capture the best record on the NFC side
of things. They're head coach Sean McVay can see stafford
Stellar play extending well beyond twenty twenty five.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
I think he's being incredibly smart but aggressive, and you know,
it's just like anything else he's at Fine Wine. He's
just getting better with age, but he's playing really well.
He's in total command. You like that one. So I
think he's going to play for about ten more years now.
So I'm really happy for Matthew.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
He's aromatic, he's okey. You put him in a bottle
for ten more years, and who knows what we're going.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
To get out of Stafford. He ages like a fine wine.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well done, coach, We appreciate it. Here's the question for
the near thirty eight year old Matthew Stafford, in terms
of buying or keep trying. McVeigh thinks that Stafford can
go for ten more years?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Are you buying this man?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Time?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Why are you giggling?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He could play for eternity mentally because he's one of
the sharpest guys, But as far as physically, I think
he probably has two maybe three. I think what does
fit for Matt Stafford and for Sean McVay is how
Sean McVay runs his program, especially in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
His starters don't play.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That lengthens, in my opinion, a career to some point. Now,
Matt Stafford is older in age, he's a lot wiser,
and he for the first time in his career with
the line with the Rams. He has a really good
old line that has kept him fairly clean. And so
the way that they these guys have been playing, I'll
be biased, I hope that he plays for ten years,
but the realities are he's not going to I think
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for the next two to three years is that window.
I think a lot of this is predicated on whether
they win the Super Bowl or not this year. We'll
see what he decides. But for a saw mcfah and
the Rams, I think you would want him to do
two to three years.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You draft the quarterback to.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
For him to mentor because I can't think of a
better quarterback to mentor anybody than number nine right now
and how he's playing. He's a last of a dying
breed and a hope he plays for as long as
he can.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Man tal, what are we doing right now?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
You're not watching the Rams do the best show in
the NFL. He's not agent, he's elite. He's popping off
the tape.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Can we get this shimmy? Look at this loop?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Loose back thirty six year old lighting up the NFL
with the weapons he has between Polk and Devant Adams,
that big thirteen personnel, three tight ends, one runner back,
one receiver. Sean McVay has really put a culture in
the system around us Matthew Stafford for him to play
as long as he wants to play. There's no ceiling
for this man. The man is lighting up the NFL.
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He's a clear runaway with the MVP. I don't even
think there's the quarterback close to playing as well as
he is playing right now. He's a fish shit in
the pocket. Guys are rallying bottom. Think about it. Davonte
Adams is thirty three years old. He's a Jerney man,
and he's out of his mouth. He's going, I'm having
the most fun I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
In my career.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
By the way, Davonte Adams played for Aaron, playing with
Aaron Rodgers. Now he's looking at Stafford like, this is
my new hot wife.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Look at her. She's hot, she's old, but she's great.
So my point to.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It all, Man Todd, we have to fall in love
with who Stafford is. He is him, He is the MVP.
The Rams are going to the super Bowl. Just put
on the tape.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I did, I mean, I was.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I wasn't expecting that like Willy to come at me
like that. I think from the airy terrace that energy
is kind of coming back downstairs and I.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Love it now.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Which on that with read the sentiment read a sentiments
called buying in.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I brought in you. No, Willy, you went all in.
You ain't just buying in.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You put all that chips in the middle of this table.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And I support that. I support that.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
What about you, Kate, Well, you're talking about the man
like you see you're citizen. The man is clearly the
number one quarterback in the league.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I'm talking about him as if we had a staff
kawn on him for the whole preseason about where we were,
like worried if he was going to play or not.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's where I'm coming from, Willie, and.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
He was addressing the question out another ten years and
he all he said was two to three, putting him
to bed tomorrow. James coming at you, Willie, just clarifying
Kyle buying or keep trying.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Listen, here's what I'm buying.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm good. That's helpful.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Someone has to be one.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Willie Cologne went up to the angry Paris, a different
Willie Cologne came down. If you've been watching the show
the whole time, you know what I'm talking about. If
you're one of these people tuning in, that's what they
tell us. People do you don't, But Willy, like you
blew a microchip or something.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I'm possessed by the mean, the spirit of the anger
Grons has entered my body, part of you.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I'm incredible. I thank you for the welcome. Do we start?
Are we done with this? Have to give an answer
on the rams? Do you? I don't know how much
time we have left.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, be careful, Kyle, because whatever you say is
coming for you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You don't want to you want to go. You know why.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
He's good, he's old, he's got McVeigh. I get it.
I'm going to say the same crap you guys just said.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Great, the fans are calling on GMFB Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Kyle, You're not done with your work here you Yeah,
that's happening. That's why Kyle wants to go to break.
She's got to take a breezer before you guys call
in a three three T L K K y L E.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
G MFB Radio originating here from New York City, the
media capital of.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The world, and it is Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We're going to take live calls during this segment right
now in our little phone studio about what you, my friends,
are thankful for? Very simple, what are you thankful for?
In the football world? About your team, your favorite player.
I'm thankful for you guys calling the segment. We started
it a couple of months ago. It was a crazy idea.
You guys have been good though. You've been lucid, you've
been coherent, you've been passionate. There's been no baba booie,
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although I would welcome it. So I'm very thankful for you.
But that's it for me. Let's go to the phones.
The prompts, as we call it, is, what are you
thankful for?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
In the NFL? Right now? We go to line two.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Scott, the Patriots fan calling from Arizona. Scott, you have
thirty seconds. What are you thankful for right now?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Kyle?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm thankful the drought is over. The Patriots are back.
People may say we're spoiled. We're not spoiled. We had
the eighties and nineties, which were terrible, long drought. We're back.
We're going to win the Super Bowl. Bring on the Rams.
We've seen that story before. The greatest show on turf.
No more Patriots twenty twenty five. Let's go Scott.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Happy Thanksgiving. I can't I buye it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Though you referred to it as a drought, when it
doesn't rain for twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That's not a drought. And don't come to me saying, well,
we had.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The eighties, we had the nineties. In the eighties you
went to a super Bowl. In the nineties, you went
to a super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I'm sorry you didn't win either of those super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But I can't invite all thirty two fan bases to
call in and have you guys whining about a drought
that you somehow crawled through.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
On your hands and knees.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm happy for you, guys, but I have to at
least draw a line of bs somewhere. Patriots fans unbelievable,
mine too, here's someone who.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Maybe went through a drought.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Bengals fans, all right, Matthew and Vancouver. I love a
Canadian Bengals fan. Line five on the Bengals. What are
you thankful for?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Go?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
I'm thankful for Good Morning Football.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
First of all, love your show, watch every morning.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
I'd me too much appreciated. And I'm also thankful that
Joey he's coming back.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
What I'm concerned about is May.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
It's a little bit too soon. What are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, Matthew, Clean, lean and mean a fifteen second call
where he asks a question to the host.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's fine, Matthew. My thoughts are I want to see.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Joe Burrow and I want to see him on Thursday
they play in the Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I love Joe Flacco, I love Jake Brown.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's time for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Now you might be saying, why even bother the season's
over that Joe Burrow wants to play. It's not even
December yet. You don't just put them on the shelf.
If he's healthy. They might have rushed it last week
if they put him out there and we thought they
were going to they said no, they took another l
But on Thursday, we the fan, the people have our Thanksgiving,
we have our Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Fantastic. I'm happy about it. I can see why you're concerned,
but I think you should play.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Next line three, let's go to the California caller named James. James,
part of the Packers nation from coast to coast. James,
a Packers fan. You have thirty seconds. Tell us what
you're thankful for.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Go good morning, Kyle. I'm very thankful to tell you O.
The than has started and Jordan Loveskins started getting hot,
get some touchdown passes. I never thought as a Packer
than I'm fan, i'd be saying I'm thankful to Dallas
for anything, But I am thankful for Michael Parsons and
the game changer that he is. I'm thankful for your
Chicago Bears and the fact that they've made the rival
routes between the Green Bay Packers something meaningful this year,
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and the fact that we get to play you guys
twice coming up here very short period of time. I'm
thankful that Josh Shacobs and the Jadan.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Reed come James, I respect it, Josh Shacobs, Jayden Reed.
I like the names out there. I like Emmanuel Wilson.
This guy has come in and back up. Josh Jacobs
has been great, putting out big numbers and running the
ball and everything. And you're right there, does still see
this looming thing out here in this celebratory Bears season,
in this a little bit purgatory Packers season, there's still
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a lot of business sell because they played twice. Remember
Caleb last year as a rookie won in Lambeau and
was not afraid to talk about it in the off season.
I think the Packers heard that didn't like it, but
they have a game coming up and they already got
it flex, So we're gonna see a lot of Packers
bears moving forward. Lot to still be settled in the
NFC North. Moving on forty nine Ers fan, Chris and Mayne.
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I love a maniac up there. Chris, talk to me
about what you're thankful for for the forty nine ers
because they got to win last night.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Go just like Patton Oswaal and Big Fan, I have
four gone all my work responsibilities to focus on this moment,
to show my thanks for Rock Purty and like any
good thing giving family dinner table, start an argument. Shame
on the analysts that tried to start a Mac Jones
quarterback controversy. My guy was top five at MVC voting,
was undefeated in his repose, elbowly voted in the nifty Championship,
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was the Jake Cody extra point in green lud cream
law Achilles care away from winning a Super Bowl. I'm
thank her for for Rock Purty and at the final
two my shot absolutely.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Chris, you had so much to say.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
You're up there in Maine, it's getting cold, you're putting
your thoughts together. Also, Chris, he did have three interceptions
in the first half last night. It wasn't as if
he came out and shut up all the haters. I
like rock Party, but this is an interesting timing for
your call. I almost feel like you had that call
in your draft folder from last week and you had
the Patton Oswald, the reference and the big fan. And
then despite Perty throwing three touchdowns in the first half
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last night, he said, I screw I'll.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Go with it anyway. I don't want to write a
new call. I get it. Patton Oswald, love you. Also
the voice of Ratatui. Next Colts fan, Corey the call
in Indiana. I like when they're from the state the
team is in. I have respect it, but I like
it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Colts go to the by they lose to the Chiefs,
and Ara had in a close game. But Corey, tell
us what you're thankful for. You have thirty seconds, use them,
your boy, Corey aka mad Dog, I'm thankful that we
have a positive record right now, at this point in
the season, right.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
And put some respect on our name.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
JP has eleven and ninety seven yard He's averaging almost
one hundred yards of a game.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Who else is doing that?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
He's the MVP JP two.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
K baby Corey. How does this season end for the Colts.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
We're going all the way, super Bowler, But win it
for Jim.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Win it for Jim, mister Ers.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
They do have a lot going on for them in
that sense, and they rode that the first half of
the season. That was interesting that not only Jim may
ersa passed away the owner, but another Indiana icon and
Gene Hackman, who's is.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
The coaching Hoosiers also passed away.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And then in the meantime they've had an incredible first
half and now we're coming down the stretch lose to
the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Is this team for real?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
As there's still any sort of Fugesi factor at all?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I'd like to see them win this week. But lastly,
I like this to take an Eagles fan, take.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Your caricature of a passionate, maybe argumentative Eagles fan, and
put them in the city.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Of Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Jim, the Birds fan in Vegas, so many.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Ways to go with You're always fascinating chean.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
But Jim, as the phone is ringing, tell me what
are you thankful for?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
My man?
Speaker 13 (35:29):
I'm thankful for jailing hurts. I'm thankful for Nick Cherryani.
I'm thank you for Vic Bango. We love our defensive
coinage that looked like birds, look like eagles. Jim Johnson,
Dallas still sucks. We're still the chance. And I was
there in New Orleans when we won the Super Bowl.
I witnessed it with my own eyes. And we're coming back.
We're coming back, and I'm angry.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
You guys just lost the Dallas. You're up twenty one
or nothing. What happened there?
Speaker 14 (35:55):
You know you gotta keep them pedal in the medal
and not fumble the ball every time you get a chance.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
You know what I mean, bumbling brother, Take out.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Take that l take that fuel and come back.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Jim, where are you at right now? Are you?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Where do you like to go on the strip. You
like to go to Manda laid Bay. You have to
go to old school the Mirage.
Speaker 14 (36:14):
Give us a tip the Bolagio. I was there in
that commercial with the Bolagio two years ago. Yeah, I
was in there with the dealer in the commercials. You said,
Nick Foles, we're going back.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
We're going back, baby, all right, Jim, I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Jim is referencing he's in some commercial a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Good for you, Jim. I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Blajo always classy, Ocean's eleven and all the fountains are beautiful.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
All right, guys, get in here, Inglewood.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I like my man who said, I'm Corey in Indiana
actually aka mad Dog in Indiana. I always love in
the radio game when people give themselves nicknames.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Let's go Manti Jamie and then Willie.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Downstairs in New York City, who has the best call?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Bro?
Speaker 5 (36:52):
I like James from California, the Packers fan.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
He had a lot to be thankful for. That's why
I like him.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He is grateful for the Bears being good so that
these games late in the season are going to be
very competitive and relevant. He's also grateful for the as
Cowboys for giving them Michael Parce's He had a lot
to be grateful for, and I was grateful that he
had a take.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
I liked Willie.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I'm I might have recency bias because I like Jim
in Vegas. Like Jim seems to be a man about
the people. I was hearing Oceans eleven as you talked.
He's like I was in New Orleans watching the Eagles
win last year. I was in the villagio in that commercial, Jim,
it's all working. I'm a little concerned that you're not
as angry as you should be as an Eagles fan.
But like you did say your emotions about the Cowboys,
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so I guess that tracks really christ the Klum.
Speaker 10 (37:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
I like Chris Ramin a forty Niners fan, and Maine
seems odd, but nevertheless, man, he's passionate about the boys.
They weren't great, but they got the job done too.
They have in the back six of the season. I
like personality.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I like someone who's comfortable on the air, and that
was Jim in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Jim My, man, you're up early right now. It's like
not even seven o'clock am in Las Vegas. Are you
on the felt? Are you at the either way, you
are the best.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Caller in Jim atthe radio and a day we had
several of them. I'm thankful for you, Scott, Matthew, James, Chris,
Corey and Jim.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Thank you so much for calling, and thank you for watching,
and we will see you next week.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
We're up here
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
That's right, everybody, a very special GMFB on a Tuesday
of Thanksgiving week. We are always thankful for family and
especially this game that we love. Jamie Mansion, Jimmy wil
and Twiller.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Yes, Ray, Okay, good Willie, welcome back. While we love
to see you.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We can't wait to have your insights on the following segment.
Because Manti, we get to list off a couple of
special names that are on a very distinct list this morning,
and we announced this last week that as a crew,
we get the distinct honor here on Good Morning Football
to announce the twenty six Modern era players named as
semi finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame's Class
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of twenty twenty six. So there are five modern era
players who are making the cut on their first year
of eligibility. Those are your epic first ballot gentlemen. They
played all their last game in twenty twenty. So we
begin with those names, the five first time eligible players.
We're gonna go around the horn, Kyle. We each have
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a couple names that we are going to whack poetic
about and Kyle, you are up first, my friend, Jamie.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
I'm so glad I'm up first, because this is an
honor and this is someone I had spent years and
years watching.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
He was the thirty.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Second overall pick in the two thousand and one draft
by the San Diego Chargers. Eventually he made his way
to New Orleans to the Saints, who became one of
the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
He is a thirteen time Pro Bowler.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He is a Super Bowl champion, and he is now
a semi finalist for the Hall of Fame Class of
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4 (01:45):
Drew Breese, Let's go Drew all right.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Twenty seasons, most of those seasons coming to member of
the Saints, but all of us remember the real one.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
As a Charger, his name has.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
The record books all over at New Orleans, second all
time in passing yards and touchdown passes period. Breeze won
his only Super Bowl appearance over Peyton Manning and the
Colts thirty one to seventeen, earning MVP honors. Drew Brees
a semi finalist in his very first year of eligibility.
I don't imagine we're going to be waiting very long
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Drew Brees, an all time great and an all time
gentleman and an all time family man. I'm thrilled to
announce his name and man, Tai, I know you respect
him more as much as anybody.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I respect him.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
I love of a former teammate of mine, one of
the greatest to ever do it. And it's just so
fitting that next up as another former teammate. A quarterback
who played seventeen seasons in the NFL, primarily as a
member of the San Diego Chargers. He's an eight time
Pro bowler, the twenty thirteen Comeback Player of the Year,
and one of my favorite teammates. A semi finalist for
the Hall of Fame Class of twenty twenty six, Philip Rivers.
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He was part of one of the most famous trades
in NFL history, drafted forth by the Giants. He was
then traded to the Chargers for Eli Manning. The rest
is history.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
An elite, elite.
Speaker 5 (03:00):
Playmaker with a throwing style all of his own, Rivers
is currently the seventh on the all time passing list.
While he never appeared in the Super Bowl, Philip Rivers
left his mark on the NFL. Congratulations to my friend.
I'm being named a semifinalist to the Hall of Fame
class of twenty twenty six.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Willie our next semi finals played all seventeen seasons with
the Arizona card News.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
His second in the NFL record.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Books for total receptions and receiving yards, both behind Hall
of Famer Jerry Rice. He's card News legendary wide receiver
Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Fitz made eleven Pro Bowls and led the NFL and
receptors twice. During his seventeen year career.
Speaker 6 (03:41):
He topped one thousand yards receiving nine times, tied for.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
The fourth most ever. He helped the Cardinals reach their
only Super Bowl in two.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
Thousand and eight while setting posted the records with five
hundred and forty six receiving.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Yards and seven touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Congratulations fitz and in an era where all we can
see sometimes are great tight ends making great plays, next
up the best to do it at the position. He
played seventeen seasons in the NFL, including sixteen wearing a
star on his helmet in Dallas. He's the Cowboys all
time leading receiver in both receptions and receiving yards and
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appeared in more games than any other Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
To do it.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
This is tight end Jason Witten, the former third round picks.
Dependability and toughness made him a fixture in Dallas, where
he was a two time All Pro, an eleven time
Pro Bowler and tying the most for Pro Bowls by
a Cowboys player in franchise history. During his career, he
hauled in more than twelve hundred receptions for more than
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thirteen thousand receiving yards and seventy four touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
He is Jason Witten, Kyle, and he's on the list.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
He certainly is.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
There was no surprise whatsoever there And God, Jason Witten
went through so much too, and having to be a
leader off the field with all those Cowboys too.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
I have so much respect for him.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
How about this sixteen year NFL career is incredible? A
sixteen year NFL career as a running back is a miracle.
And that's exactly what our next semifinalists pulled off. Drafted
in the third round by the forty nine ers because
of durability concerns, Frank Gore played two hundred and forty
one games as a running back, the most in NFL history.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Everybody loves Frank Gore. Here he is in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (05:26):
Frank Gore rushed for sixteen thousand plus yards, third all
time ever, only behind Emmett and Walter. The picture of longevity.
It's just something to marvel at. And it's also one
of these things that we say we.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
May never see again.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
It may never be duplicated any team, any down between
the tackles in space.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
Frank Gore was not just a running back.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
He was a feature back and a fixture for years
and years and years. Congratulations to one of a kind
running back semifinalist Frank Gore.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
All Right, that was just the five of the first
time I'm Modern era nominees for this year's semi finalist
list for the twenty twenty six Hall of Fame class.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
For the NFL.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Two quarterbacks are running back and a couple of past catchers.
An epic list, but we last saw those guys play
in twenty twenty. There are more to include, which is
twelve players who are actually finalists from last year's class.
It means they are automatically jettison too this year's semi
finalist list. This list also includes two players who are
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not in their first year of eligibility. But are reaching
the semi finalisttage for the first time, and those two
are offensive linemen Lomas Brown, who retired following the two
thousand and two season, and defensive lineman Kevin Williams, whose
career ended following the twenty fifteen season.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
So we take a look at all.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Twenty six names as here. They are listed in alphabetical order.
We mentioned already Drew and Loamas Brown, Willie Anderson on
the list, Jarry Evans, Larry Fitzgerald, Frank Gore, Rodney Harrison
on the left side of your screen. Then Tory Holt,
Louke Keikley, Eli Manning, Robert Mathis, Philip Rivers, Steve Smith Senior,
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and Terrell Suggs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
So many friends of the show.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
We're so proud of this, proud of them as well
in their careers.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Fred Taylor, Earl.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Thomas, Adam Vinitari Hines, Ward, Reggie, Wayne Richmond, Web, Vince
Wilford and Kevin william Steve was Snowski, Jason Whitten, Darren
Woodson and Marshall Yanna.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
What a great list, Manti, Oh my gosh, what a list.
Who stands out to you? Who want to who do
you want to give their flowers to not that this
isn't enough to have Rivers fork.
Speaker 5 (07:33):
I think it's fitting for me to talk about my
former teammates, Drew Brees and Philip Rivers. Drew Brees, he
is a surgeon. He was so surgical in the way
that he played this game. And when you're that surgical
and that precise, there is very little, sometimes no room
for error when you're going to get somebody like Drew Brees. Now,
Philip Rivers was a different cat. Philip Rivers was a
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lot like Peyton Manning. When you hear these quarterbacks nowadays,
when they talk about at the line of scrimmage, the
verbridge at which Jay us, you hear them saying opposite, opposite,
or kill kill. What that means is when they go
into the to the huddle, majority of these quarterbacks have
two plays. They have their primary play and then they
check to something that counters that primary play. Guys like
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Philip Rivers, they had the entire one hundred plays playbook
at their disposal. And I had to go against this
man every single day in practice and to hear him
go from a no back offensive look with no running
backs in the backfield and switch to a two back
by bringing a tight end as a fullback and bringing
the running back in who is now lineup at wide receiver. Like,
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imagine how hard it was to go against somebody like
that every single day and what that did for me
in my career and preparing me for what's to come
early so early in he was one of the greatest
competitors that I've ever played with.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
And played against.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
So I had to give my flowers to my two
former teammates, well deserved, Willie.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
Yeah, that's great, man Ty, I gotta do the same.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
Man.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
I see Harris wood on that list, and I can't
think about how much he mentioned me in my career.
You talk about a guy who was just a stand
up model of what Steeler is and what he should
be like. You're talking about toughness, grit, heart, play with pride,
played through injuries. He was an iron man. We love
about Woody, Man and man Ty and everybody. You may
notice when you talk about who sets the tone on
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your team, it usually goes to a lineback or defensive end.
Never your slot receiver who's five ten and Haines Ward
played with so much grit in heart, he traveled man.
It was in a stadium where people wasn't trying to
knock his head off, he wasn't trying to knock their
head off. He was a walking heel. He was the villain.
He was awesome. And I also got a shout out
Jason Witten. Jason went was the ultimate iron man played
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for so long at one position. He was the most
complete tight end in the game. He blocked, he caught,
he was dependable, he was clutching the red zone, and
he was flat out awesome. He made me want to
play tight end. I love Jason Witten, and I hope
he gets the NOD. Congratulations to both gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Great choices, great era.
Speaker 7 (09:55):
Jamie.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
This is so hard like there.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
These are some of my heroes, and then some of
them are my colleagues. You know, when I was in
in my twenties and thirties, Steve Smith Senior, who was
just Smith back then, was my favorite player in the NFL.
I was obsessed with everything Steve did before I even
met him as a colleague. I can talk about all
of them, all of them, but I will actually double
back to Frank Gore, one of the guys we just announced,
fascinating career, prolific career. I said it a lot in
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the introduction. Third all time in rushing is an insane fact.
He has more rushing yards than Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin,
Adrian Peters and Ladanian, Tomlins and Eric Dickers. I think
he going he's looking down on those guys. The case
for Frank Gore is just he is probably the most
durable back of all time. And it's fascinating because he
was great at Miami and slipped in the draft because
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k me concerns and teams are like, I don't know
if we can trust Gore to carry the load.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
He did it for close to two decades.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
If he were going to build a case against Frank Gore,
which sometimes how this thing goes, it got weird.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
At the end of his career.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
He played on about seven different teams, and every year
it would be he's changing uniforms, and now he's on
the Dolphins, and now he's on the Bills, and now
he's on the cat I mean he's on the Jets.
I have no memory of Frank Gore on the Jets.
I think was he on the Adam Gates Jets or
was that Le'Veon? But I don't even Remember that's not
against him.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
He kept playing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
He was really good with the Colts, but it was
just strange at the end. The aggregator word will get
thrown around, and the fact that maybe Frank Gore was
never in the conversation for best running back in the league.
He was in the era of LT and an Adrian Peterson.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
But he's just so aliked. He's such a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Every teammate, every coach, every official, everybody loves Frank Gore.
And when you walk in and you make the case
for Frank Gore and you say, well, sixteen thousand rushing
yards on the dot, third all time, behind only Peyton
and Emmett, Frank Gore, everybody, and you vote yes for
the Hall of Fame.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
And I have a feel that's how it will go down.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Frank Gore.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Anytime he shows up at one of those former team
games they put him on camera for the broadcast, You're like, Oh, nice,
that's Frank Gore.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
That's awesome. He's such a likable guy. And that's where
I go as well.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Larry Fitzgerald, you always seem to say that about him,
and not only was his career long and prolific, but
he found success so early and often with the Arizona
Cardinal said, I'm a little bit biased, but very rarely
do you have a young man come out of a
Minneapolis prep school and go on to be great in
college as a bolittanikof winner, but also to be great for.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
As long as he was in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Larry Fitzgerald is crazy talented fourteen hundred catches, nearly eighteen
thousand receiving yards, are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
But just an absolute warrior, so.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Many sixteen games played, sixteen games started, he barely got hurt.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
He was so durable. He was a quarterback's best friend.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
And one of those quarterbacks is also wearing a gold jacket.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And Kurt Warner. I absolutely love Larry Fitzgerald. I loved
watching him play.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
He was a ball boy for the Vikings when he
was a young boy growing up. And the fact that
he went on to become Larry Fitzgerald of great and
now he is a semi finalist for the Pro Football
Hall of Fame is wonderful.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Kyle, I love to see it really well.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Put Jamie, and I know you speak from the heart
on that we celebrate all these names. I'll just put
this out there and Larry Fitzgerald' getting.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
In first ballot. He ain't gonna wait.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
This is what we're watching right here. Playoff run that
year we took the Cardinals to the Super Bowl. I've
never seen wide receiver play better than that, Rice, Calvin Johnson,
Randy Moss. He was the best player in the world
for that month period and beyond.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
Of course, he was always prolific.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
That Super Bowl run, he was so far the best
player on the field and did everything in the Super
Bowl to beat the Steelers.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
He tried, he.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
Tried, he was just the Cardinals defense couldn't make the stop.
But I've never seen the position played better than that
Super Bowl run. And I predict from the hip that
Larry Fitzgerald will being on the first ballot.
Speaker 5 (13:34):
Well, I also want to point out to a few
things about these guys, Drew, Larry fitz Philip Not only
were their play on the field fitting for a Hall
of Famer, who they are as human beings, as men
or Hall of Fame men, and so I know what
these guys are eventually going to get and I hope
their first ballot, but they've already been in the Hall
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of Fame as far as far as human beings, I'll
tell you a short story about Drew Brees when we
went to Minnesota to play Minnesota in the divisional game
with the Minneapolis Miraclees and his wife, brit They flew
every wife and spouse for free to Minnesota on their
dimes so that they could be there to support their
husbands and their boyfriends. And that's just the type. And
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Drew didn't even announce it to any of the guys.
I found out from my wife to say, hey, I'm
going to the Minnesota games, Like, how are you going
to Minnesota games? She's like, Oh, the Breeze has bought
a whole plane to take us all there. That's the
type of human being that these people are. And I've
played against Larry Fitz and I can tell you firsthand
he's a guy that will run you over and then
pick you up and say, hey man, great, great game,
great play. You're going to have a fantastic career. So
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I just wanted to commend these men not only on
how they played the game, but what they stood for
and the character which they had. So congratulations to all
the semifinalists in this year's class.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Absolutely really well set a couple of Walter Payton Man
of the Year not only nominees, but winners on this
list as well. Once again from GMFB and from all
football fans, a big time congratulations to all twenty six
players who are now named as a semi finalist for
the twenty twenty sixth class of the Pro Football Hall
of Fame. Back on dm McBee, we are going to
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welcome Tom Pelasero in.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Now, lots of news.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
To cover before we address buying or keep trying.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Oh my god, Tom, what are you doing?
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Is that?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Bro?
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is that your high school basketball jersey?
Speaker 8 (15:28):
This is I believe my fourth grade basketball jersey right here.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
The Dinah Junior.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Wolves still fits like a charm. I do this for
you guys mostly, but also.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
In honor mean back in.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
The lineup before the Bengals. He is expected to return
to action and start on Thursday night against the Ravens.
That's Lessen eleven weeks after he suffered that severe turf
toe injury that required surgery. He is a little bit
ahead of schedule, and he now joins a Bengals team
that's one and eight since he got injured, but somehow
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still just three games back in the AFC North and trying,
just like they did a year ago, to make an
improbable run. In other injury news, Vikings quarterback JJ McCarthy
is in the concussion protocol. He reported concussion symptoms on
the flight home from Green Bay, the five step process
to get cleared that does not often happen in this
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day and age within a practice week. They're not yet
ruling him out, but undrafted rookie Max Brozmer is going
to get the first team reps this week. Rosmer, now
barring clearance for McCarthy, is in line to start on
Sunday against Seattle. Meanwhile, Senor Sanders will get another start
for the Browns. Kevin Stefanski announcing that Dylan Gabriel has
cleared the concussion protocol, but it once again will be
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Sanders making his first home start this week against the
forty nine Ers. The Browns course beat the Raiders in Sanders'
starting debut. Now you can only imagine what the environment
is going to be like in Cleveland for Shador the
first time starting on his own field.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
I mean, Tom, great, whatever you just said about JJ
and the brown and the Vikings and the Browns, but
I have so many questions right now. First fault props
to you, thank you so much for feeling so willing
and for serkin that I thought, yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That side by side.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
When I put it on, I thought it was going
to look slightly different than it does now that I
see it. So yeah, first and last time you'll you'll
see that a good Are you building a.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Weight room in your house right now? What is going on?
Speaker 8 (17:32):
Yeah, something's going on to sell and Hammer next door
tried to get some help with maybe distracting the noise.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
It didn't work, but hey, you.
Speaker 8 (17:39):
Know, as long as you're looking at this, I really tried.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
To distract your fault. That's Tom, Tom.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Your news report could have been that Patrick Mahomes is
retiring to play baseball and we wouldn't have heard a
single word of what you said. Here's what I want,
Dinah Wolves. I think you said, give me a stout
and report on Pellicero Junior Wolves.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
This is circa nineteen eighty nine nineteen ninety undersized point
guard thought he was a much better shooter than he
actually won. Once got the play when the Timbrels were
playing in the Metro Dome, met Pooh Richardson pregame highlight
of childhood. Also, he dine Hornet's twenty twenty five state
football champs.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
So how about that, all.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Right, gradual, we gotta get you some.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
Yeah, we got the off camera.
Speaker 1 (18:23):
Now you have the shorts onto.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
This jersey does not go as far down as it
needs to.
Speaker 8 (18:35):
If I were to stand up, you can see a
little maybe which nobody wrong?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
Tom? Is that a reversible jersey?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
We got a little bit on the inside, you know it?
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Man, time, We got enough. Wait, we don't need you
to reverse that thing.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All right, We're good on that.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh my gosh, Tom, well done. I honestly just don't
really want to move on.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Topics are trying to make it stay on camera, you know,
like just Tom, just hanging the two shot, will you.
The Browns are coming off a twenty four to ten
win against the Raiders, as Brown's head coach Kevin Stefanski
is sticking with rookie quarterback should Dour Sanders as Tom
just mentioned, and they're going to play the forty nine
ers on Sunday.
Speaker 9 (19:17):
Should Door will start this week obviously, you know, number
one job of quarterback is to win, So excited to
get that first win under his belt and then next
thing is improvement and that's what young players do, certainly
young quarterbacks. Do you get one game better and that's
just from working at it. So that'll be our focus.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Just so everybody knows. Tom's not going to stick around
for buying or keep trying, even though we asked him to.
A question for you guys, now, Shouldeur Sanders and the
Cleveland Browns making this decision going.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Forth with this quarterback?
Speaker 2 (19:50):
Do you think this will affect the playoff picture in
the final quarter of the season Mantai, if the Bear,
if the Browns, if you will con Reek havoc?
Speaker 5 (19:58):
Yeah, I think just the Browns in general have thenity
opportunity to wreak some havoc.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Will they make the playoffs? No, However, they are.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
Playing a few people that may have some impact in
those guys that we have in the eight nine seeding
that are the Houston Texans and the Chiefs. What I
mean by that is on December twenty, first, the Browns
play the Bills. Now, what the Browns do very well
is they run the ball, and that's something that the
Bills have struggled against. And then also we saw what
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happened when Josh Allen and the offense played against the
Houston Texans, who had.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
A really good rush.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Guys, the Cleveland Browns rush is better.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Than the Houston Texans rush.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
And so when we saw Josh Allen and the rest
he was under and trying to make things happen, and
Will Anderson Junior and Danil Hunter, I'm doing what they
did to the offensive line and Josh Allen. The Texans
are the sixth ranked pass rush defense, the Browns are two. Like,
that's how good this Miles Gary and company front is.
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And so I'm looking at this Cleveland Browns team and
their abilities to really cause some havoc late for some guys,
impossibly get some people that's in the lurking column into
the playoff picture.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
We'll see.
Speaker 6 (21:08):
Yeah, I'm with you, man Todd. But if you're the
Browns right now, it's been a bad season, you've been
living in football purgatory. But there's an opportunity to get right.
You got Shador, he's your spark, he's young, he's poised,
he has to play with a purpose in order to
get another start. But if you're the defense and you're
this team led by Miles Garrett, this is an opportunity
to shake things up. Like you mentioned, you got opportunity
to play the Niners, beat the Niners at home, and
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you play the Bills if you're.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
Able to get them. This to shakes up the whole
playoff picture.
Speaker 6 (21:32):
So if you're the Browns right now, turn a negative
into a positive, Rod Schador's popularity wave and get going.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
Man, you got a chance to really upset some teams.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yeah, the Browns all of a sudden, You know, we're
gonna talk Browns in the last six weeks because we
got this, and we got Miles Garrett chasing the sack record,
which we probably think he's gonna get.
Speaker 4 (21:48):
You got could get it next week for all we know.
I just think it's very interesting for Shador.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
We don't talk a ton of Shador here, and we
don't because the Browns are not relevant in the playoff picture.
Speaker 4 (21:56):
But Shador has a six game test. Now, let's call
it what it is. This is a six game audition.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
If Chador doesn't play well, if he plays poorly, and
I hope he does, that might be it.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
In Cleveland, there's a fifth round pick. Like, we're gonna
see a lot of you do. We like you do.
We like your future. If not, I think we move on.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
But if he does, if he catches lightning in a bottle,
if he shows the Browns like, not only do I
have the talent, I have potential.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
I fit the part. My post isn't bouncing.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
I'm going against Pittsburgh and TJ's in my face and
I'm ready for this. I got this, which I really
hope happens six games. This is determined history. And if
it's not with Cleveland, maybe it's somewhere else. But I
just feel like a lot of us treat the last
six weeks of the year as like, Y, screw it.
I'll put on ten pounds, you know what I mean, Like,
I'll get it done in January and I'll start afresh.
The Browns have this thing where they're like, we're out
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of the playoffs, we're gonna try it. Let's see what
Shoudur has got. Let's lock and load. And maybe Dylan
Gabriel has a role too. But Chador, just play well,
just play confidently, give us your best game. Then we'll
see where the ball bounces. After six games, we have
a six game audition. In the meantime, Miles Ged will
probably have six Sacs every single week. That's what we'll
be watching for the Browns.
Speaker 2 (23:03):
Some of those real maniacs finished the final six weeks
of the year and they set the tone for twenty
twenty six, like, oh, I'm going to lose my ten
before I even hit the new year. We're not one
of those people here on GMFB. We like to let
it go until the new year, then we reset. But
I understand what the Brown's is doing. Maybe they're projecting
on the next season. Are the Rams projecting for the
next ten years?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
At quarterback?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
While their coach might be, Matthew Stafford continues to build
on his MVP candidacy as the Rams blew out the
Buccaneers to capture the best record on the NFC side
of things. They're head coach Sean McVay can see stafford
Stellar play extending well beyond twenty twenty five.
Speaker 10 (23:41):
I think he's being incredibly smart but aggressive, and you know,
it's just like anything else he's at Fine Wine. He's
just getting better with age, but he's playing really well.
He's in total command. You like that one. So I
think he's going to play for about ten more years now.
So I'm really happy for Matthew.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
He's aromatic, he's okey. You put him in a bottle
for ten more years, and who knows what we're going.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
To get out of Stafford. He ages like a fine wine.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
Well done, coach, We appreciate it. Here's the question for
the near thirty eight year old Matthew Stafford, in terms
of buying or keep trying. McVeigh thinks that Stafford can
go for ten more years?
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Are you buying this man?
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Time?
Speaker 3 (24:20):
Why are you giggling?
Speaker 10 (24:21):
Well?
Speaker 5 (24:22):
He could play for eternity mentally because he's one of
the sharpest guys, But as far as physically, I think
he probably has two maybe three. I think what does
fit for Matt Stafford and for Sean McVay is how
Sean McVay runs his program, especially in the preseason.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
His starters don't play.
Speaker 5 (24:41):
That lengthens, in my opinion, a career to some point. Now,
Matt Stafford is older in age, he's a lot wiser,
and he for the first time in his career with
the line with the Rams. He has a really good
old line that has kept him fairly clean. And so
the way that they these guys have been playing, I'll
be biased, I hope that he plays for ten years,
but the realities are he's not going to I think
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for the next two to three years is that window.
I think a lot of this is predicated on whether
they win the Super Bowl or not this year. We'll
see what he decides. But for a saw mcfah and
the Rams, I think you would want him to do
two to three years.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
You draft the quarterback to.
Speaker 5 (25:17):
For him to mentor because I can't think of a
better quarterback to mentor anybody than number nine right now
and how he's playing. He's a last of a dying
breed and a hope he plays for as long as
he can.
Speaker 4 (25:26):
Man tal, what are we doing right now?
Speaker 6 (25:28):
You're not watching the Rams do the best show in
the NFL. He's not agent, he's elite. He's popping off
the tape.
Speaker 4 (25:35):
Can we get this shimmy? Look at this loop?
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Loose back thirty six year old lighting up the NFL
with the weapons he has between Polk and Devant Adams,
that big thirteen personnel, three tight ends, one runner back,
one receiver. Sean McVay has really put a culture in
the system around us Matthew Stafford for him to play
as long as he wants to play. There's no ceiling
for this man. The man is lighting up the NFL.
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He's a clear runaway with the MVP. I don't even
think there's the quarterback close to playing as well as
he is playing right now. He's a fish shit in
the pocket. Guys are rallying bottom. Think about it. Davonte
Adams is thirty three years old. He's a Jerney man,
and he's out of his mouth. He's going, I'm having
the most fun I've ever had.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
In my career.
Speaker 6 (26:14):
By the way, Davonte Adams played for Aaron, playing with
Aaron Rodgers. Now he's looking at Stafford like, this is
my new hot wife.
Speaker 4 (26:20):
Look at her. She's hot, she's old, but she's great.
So my point to.
Speaker 6 (26:24):
It all, Man Todd, we have to fall in love
with who Stafford is. He is him, He is the MVP.
The Rams are going to the super Bowl. Just put
on the tape.
Speaker 4 (26:37):
I did, I mean, I was.
Speaker 5 (26:40):
I wasn't expecting that like Willy to come at me
like that. I think from the airy terrace that energy
is kind of coming back downstairs and I.
Speaker 4 (26:47):
Love it now.
Speaker 6 (26:49):
Which on that with read the sentiment read a sentiments
called buying in.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
I brought in you. No, Willy, you went all in.
You ain't just buying in.
Speaker 5 (26:58):
You put all that chips in the middle of this table.
Speaker 4 (27:01):
And I support that. I support that.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
What about you, Kate, Well, you're talking about the man
like you see you're citizen. The man is clearly the
number one quarterback in the league.
Speaker 5 (27:09):
I'm talking about him as if we had a staff
kawn on him for the whole preseason about where we were,
like worried if he was going to play or not.
Speaker 4 (27:17):
That's where I'm coming from, Willie, and.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
He was addressing the question out another ten years and
he all he said was two to three, putting him
to bed tomorrow. James coming at you, Willie, just clarifying
Kyle buying or keep trying.
Speaker 4 (27:31):
Listen, here's what I'm buying.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
I'm good. That's helpful.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Someone has to be one.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Willie Cologne went up to the angry Paris, a different
Willie Cologne came down. If you've been watching the show
the whole time, you know what I'm talking about. If
you're one of these people tuning in, that's what they
tell us. People do you don't, But Willy, like you
blew a microchip or something.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
I'm possessed by the mean, the spirit of the anger
Grons has entered my body, part of you.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
I'm incredible. I thank you for the welcome. Do we start?
Are we done with this? Have to give an answer
on the rams? Do you? I don't know how much
time we have left.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
I mean, be careful, Kyle, because whatever you say is
coming for you.
Speaker 3 (28:12):
You don't want to you want to go. You know why.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
He's good, he's old, he's got McVeigh. I get it.
I'm going to say the same crap you guys just said.
Let's go.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
Great, the fans are calling on GMFB Radio.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
Kyle, You're not done with your work here you Yeah,
that's happening. That's why Kyle wants to go to break.
She's got to take a breezer before you guys call
in a three three T L K K y L E.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
G MFB Radio originating here from New York City, the
media capital of.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
The world, and it is Thanksgiving week.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
We're going to take live calls during this segment right
now in our little phone studio about what you, my friends,
are thankful for? Very simple, what are you thankful for?
In the football world? About your team, your favorite player.
I'm thankful for you guys calling the segment. We started
it a couple of months ago. It was a crazy idea.
You guys have been good though. You've been lucid, you've
been coherent, you've been passionate. There's been no baba booie,
(29:07):
although I would welcome it. So I'm very thankful for you.
But that's it for me. Let's go to the phones.
The prompts, as we call it, is, what are you
thankful for?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
In the NFL? Right now? We go to line two.
Speaker 1 (29:18):
Scott, the Patriots fan calling from Arizona. Scott, you have
thirty seconds. What are you thankful for right now?
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Kyle?
Speaker 7 (29:25):
I'm thankful the drought is over. The Patriots are back.
People may say we're spoiled. We're not spoiled. We had
the eighties and nineties, which were terrible, long drought. We're back.
We're going to win the Super Bowl. Bring on the Rams.
We've seen that story before. The greatest show on turf.
No more Patriots twenty twenty five. Let's go Scott.
Speaker 4 (29:50):
Happy Thanksgiving. I can't I buye it.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Though you referred to it as a drought, when it
doesn't rain for twenty minutes.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
That's not a drought. And don't come to me saying, well,
we had.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
The eighties, we had the nineties. In the eighties you
went to a super Bowl. In the nineties, you went
to a super Bowl.
Speaker 4 (30:06):
I'm sorry you didn't win either of those super Bowls.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
But I can't invite all thirty two fan bases to
call in and have you guys whining about a drought
that you somehow crawled through.
Speaker 4 (30:15):
On your hands and knees.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
I'm happy for you, guys, but I have to at
least draw a line of bs somewhere. Patriots fans unbelievable,
mine too, here's someone who.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Maybe went through a drought.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Bengals fans, all right, Matthew and Vancouver. I love a
Canadian Bengals fan. Line five on the Bengals. What are
you thankful for?
Speaker 4 (30:33):
Go?
Speaker 9 (30:34):
I'm thankful for Good Morning Football.
Speaker 11 (30:36):
First of all, love your show, watch every morning.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
I'd me too much appreciated. And I'm also thankful that
Joey he's coming back.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
What I'm concerned about is May.
Speaker 7 (30:46):
It's a little bit too soon. What are your thoughts
on that?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Well, Matthew, Clean, lean and mean a fifteen second call
where he asks a question to the host.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
That's fine, Matthew. My thoughts are I want to see.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
Joe Burrow and I want to see him on Thursday
they play in the Thanksgiving game.
Speaker 4 (31:02):
I love Joe Flacco, I love Jake Brown.
Speaker 7 (31:05):
I don't care.
Speaker 4 (31:06):
It's time for Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
Now you might be saying, why even bother the season's
over that Joe Burrow wants to play. It's not even
December yet. You don't just put them on the shelf.
If he's healthy. They might have rushed it last week
if they put him out there and we thought they
were going to they said no, they took another l
But on Thursday, we the fan, the people have our Thanksgiving,
we have our Joe Burrow.
Speaker 4 (31:27):
Fantastic. I'm happy about it. I can see why you're concerned,
but I think you should play.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Next line three, let's go to the California caller named James. James,
part of the Packers nation from coast to coast. James,
a Packers fan. You have thirty seconds. Tell us what
you're thankful for.
Speaker 12 (31:43):
Go good morning, Kyle. I'm very thankful to tell you O.
The than has started and Jordan Loveskins started getting hot,
get some touchdown passes. I never thought as a Packer
than I'm fan, i'd be saying I'm thankful to Dallas
for anything, But I am thankful for Michael Parsons and
the game changer that he is. I'm thankful for your
Chicago Bears and the fact that they've made the rival
routes between the Green Bay Packers something meaningful this year,
(32:06):
and the fact that we get to play you guys
twice coming up here very short period of time. I'm
thankful that Josh Shacobs and the Jadan.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Reed come James, I respect it, Josh Shacobs, Jayden Reed.
I like the names out there. I like Emmanuel Wilson.
This guy has come in and back up. Josh Jacobs
has been great, putting out big numbers and running the
ball and everything. And you're right there, does still see
this looming thing out here in this celebratory Bears season,
in this a little bit purgatory Packers season, there's still
(32:34):
a lot of business sell because they played twice. Remember
Caleb last year as a rookie won in Lambeau and
was not afraid to talk about it in the off season.
I think the Packers heard that didn't like it, but
they have a game coming up and they already got
it flex, So we're gonna see a lot of Packers
bears moving forward. Lot to still be settled in the
NFC North. Moving on forty nine Ers fan, Chris and Mayne.
(32:55):
I love a maniac up there. Chris, talk to me
about what you're thankful for for the forty nine ers
because they got to win last night.
Speaker 11 (33:01):
Go just like Patton Oswaal and Big Fan, I have
four gone all my work responsibilities to focus on this moment,
to show my thanks for Rock Purty and like any
good thing giving family dinner table, start an argument. Shame
on the analysts that tried to start a Mac Jones
quarterback controversy. My guy was top five at MVC voting,
was undefeated in his repose, elbowly voted in the nifty Championship,
(33:22):
was the Jake Cody extra point in green lud cream
law Achilles care away from winning a Super Bowl. I'm
thank her for for Rock Purty and at the final
two my shot absolutely.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Chris, you had so much to say.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
You're up there in Maine, it's getting cold, you're putting
your thoughts together. Also, Chris, he did have three interceptions
in the first half last night. It wasn't as if
he came out and shut up all the haters. I
like rock Party, but this is an interesting timing for
your call. I almost feel like you had that call
in your draft folder from last week and you had
the Patton Oswald, the reference and the big fan. And
then despite Perty throwing three touchdowns in the first half
(33:55):
last night, he said, I screw I'll.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
Go with it anyway. I don't want to write a
new call. I get it. Patton Oswald, love you. Also
the voice of Ratatui. Next Colts fan, Corey the call
in Indiana. I like when they're from the state the
team is in. I have respect it, but I like
it all right.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
Colts go to the by they lose to the Chiefs,
and Ara had in a close game. But Corey, tell
us what you're thankful for. You have thirty seconds, use them,
your boy, Corey aka mad Dog, I'm thankful that we
have a positive record right now, at this point in
the season, right.
Speaker 7 (34:24):
And put some respect on our name.
Speaker 1 (34:26):
JP has eleven and ninety seven yard He's averaging almost
one hundred yards of a game.
Speaker 6 (34:31):
Who else is doing that?
Speaker 7 (34:32):
He's the MVP JP two.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
K baby Corey. How does this season end for the Colts.
Speaker 1 (34:37):
We're going all the way, super Bowler, But win it
for Jim.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
Win it for Jim, mister Ers.
Speaker 1 (34:43):
They do have a lot going on for them in
that sense, and they rode that the first half of
the season. That was interesting that not only Jim may
ersa passed away the owner, but another Indiana icon and
Gene Hackman, who's is.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
The coaching Hoosiers also passed away.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And then in the meantime they've had an incredible first
half and now we're coming down the stretch lose to
the Chiefs.
Speaker 4 (35:03):
Is this team for real?
Speaker 1 (35:03):
As there's still any sort of Fugesi factor at all?
Speaker 4 (35:06):
I'd like to see them win this week. But lastly,
I like this to take an Eagles fan, take.
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Your caricature of a passionate, maybe argumentative Eagles fan, and
put them in the city.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Of Las Vegas.
Speaker 1 (35:18):
Jim, the Birds fan in Vegas, so many.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Ways to go with You're always fascinating chean.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
But Jim, as the phone is ringing, tell me what
are you thankful for?
Speaker 4 (35:28):
My man?
Speaker 13 (35:29):
I'm thankful for jailing hurts. I'm thankful for Nick Cherryani.
I'm thank you for Vic Bango. We love our defensive
coinage that looked like birds, look like eagles. Jim Johnson,
Dallas still sucks. We're still the chance. And I was
there in New Orleans when we won the Super Bowl.
I witnessed it with my own eyes. And we're coming back.
We're coming back, and I'm angry.
Speaker 12 (35:51):
Jim.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
You guys just lost the Dallas. You're up twenty one
or nothing. What happened there?
Speaker 14 (35:55):
You know you gotta keep them pedal in the medal
and not fumble the ball every time you get a chance.
Speaker 13 (36:01):
You know what I mean, bumbling brother, Take out.
Speaker 7 (36:04):
Take that l take that fuel and come back.
Speaker 4 (36:08):
Jim, where are you at right now? Are you?
Speaker 1 (36:10):
Where do you like to go on the strip. You
like to go to Manda laid Bay. You have to
go to old school the Mirage.
Speaker 14 (36:14):
Give us a tip the Bolagio. I was there in
that commercial with the Bolagio two years ago. Yeah, I
was in there with the dealer in the commercials. You said,
Nick Foles, we're going back.
Speaker 4 (36:24):
We're going back, baby, all right, Jim, I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:27):
Jim is referencing he's in some commercial a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Good for you, Jim. I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:31):
Blajo always classy, Ocean's eleven and all the fountains are beautiful.
Speaker 4 (36:36):
All right, guys, get in here, Inglewood.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
I like my man who said, I'm Corey in Indiana
actually aka mad Dog in Indiana. I always love in
the radio game when people give themselves nicknames.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
Let's go Manti Jamie and then Willie.
Speaker 1 (36:49):
Downstairs in New York City, who has the best call?
Speaker 4 (36:51):
Bro?
Speaker 5 (36:52):
I like James from California, the Packers fan.
Speaker 4 (36:55):
He had a lot to be thankful for. That's why
I like him.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
He is grateful for the Bears being good so that
these games late in the season are going to be
very competitive and relevant. He's also grateful for the as
Cowboys for giving them Michael Parce's He had a lot
to be grateful for, and I was grateful that he
had a take.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
I liked Willie.
Speaker 2 (37:10):
I'm I might have recency bias because I like Jim
in Vegas. Like Jim seems to be a man about
the people. I was hearing Oceans eleven as you talked.
He's like I was in New Orleans watching the Eagles
win last year. I was in the villagio in that commercial, Jim,
it's all working. I'm a little concerned that you're not
as angry as you should be as an Eagles fan.
But like you did say your emotions about the Cowboys,
(37:32):
so I guess that tracks really christ the Klum.
Speaker 10 (37:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:35):
I like Chris Ramin a forty Niners fan, and Maine
seems odd, but nevertheless, man, he's passionate about the boys.
They weren't great, but they got the job done too.
They have in the back six of the season. I
like personality.
Speaker 1 (37:48):
I like someone who's comfortable on the air, and that
was Jim in Las Vegas.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
Jim My, man, you're up early right now. It's like
not even seven o'clock am in Las Vegas. Are you
on the felt? Are you at the either way, you
are the best.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
Caller in Jim atthe radio and a day we had
several of them. I'm thankful for you, Scott, Matthew, James, Chris,
Corey and Jim.
Speaker 4 (38:08):
Love you guys.
Speaker 1 (38:09):
Thank you so much for calling, and thank you for watching,
and we will see you next week.
Speaker 4 (38:12):
Happy Thanksgiving everybody.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
We're up here
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