February 11, 2025 • 30 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, and Omar Ruiz examining how Patrick Mahomes’ Super Bowl 59 loss impacts his legacy. After the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl victory, the hosts take a look at under-the-radar players that made a huge difference.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Good morning football.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right, this is good morning football, everybody. We are
surviving and thriving. We are live in LA and New York.
It's Tuesday, February eleventh. Here's Omar ruiz In for Akbar
Bajab millit today, Peter Stagger, Kyle Brant, I'm Jamie her
at all. Peter, you had an awesome week on Fox.
Fox killed it, crushed it. How humanizing was it yesterday
to be delayed seventeen and a half hours in the
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New Orleans airport before you got home New York.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I wouldn't want it any other way.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Jamie's part of the grind. It humbles you at grounds you.
One minute you're dancing to Kendrick Lamar with Michael Vick
and Charles Woodson on the field at halftime. The next
minute you're line forty in the Starbucks line and the
person spells your name wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's just what it is. It's the job we do,
it's the life we live. They spell Peter wrong. Yeah,
well all right, Well those people were hard, Peter. I
saw I saw the ratings numbers for Fox. We're pretty big.
I was told no one was going to watch the
super Bowl the year because the Chiefs right.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Apparently the halftime show is the number one rated halftime
show too, and apparently everyone's going to tune.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Off the TV. So I, oh, no NFL is doing
all right? I guess yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I saw a video somebod who took out of a
cruise ship that they were on, of the entire cruise
ship out on the deck singing Kendrick Kamar but no one.
You know, it was awesome. The lowercase a necklace was
where it was at. All right, Lee Block gumt b all.
We got to talk about Kansas City and how it
was a difficult day for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense.
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It just seemed like they never had a going From
the second the clock struck we're going to start him.
Things were tough and it only got harder as the
night went on.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, the Eagles, they have gone to a knee twice.
They can do it again and end the game they
filled out the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Congratulate them as Super Bowl fifty nine champions.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
The Eagles are celebrating, and well they should.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The Philadelphia Eagles getting their second Lombardi Trophy in their
long history that dates back to the nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Curtis the final score Eagles forty. She's twenty two.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
If Patrick Mahomes cared to he could wallpaper probably many
rooms in his house with newspapers that were printed from
super Bowls that he has won in the past. But
this weekend in New Orleans was not his time. Sagwan
Barklay got the newspaper treatment. What does Sunday's loss mean
for Patrick Mahomes and his place Peter in NFL history
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and what he is trying to create?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, it was a three and a half hour
game and the Chiefs ran sixty five offensive plays, and
to me, it's it's heartbreaking that three and a half
hours and sixty five plays are going to dictate whether
Mahomes is considered the greatest of all time or just
another good quarterback. We talked about Montana never in a
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Super Bowl. We talked about Bradshaw and never losing a
Super Bowl, talked about Brady going to ten.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now Mahomes, who would have been the first ever to
get a.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Three peat, has to say, well, I've had a really
good NFL career and I'm in the conversation, but I
can't in good faith say I've had as good a
stretch as those guys.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I would like to say this.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It probably sucks today for Patrick Mahomes and it'll suck tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But I think those sixty.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Five plays and those three and a half hours are
going to help the next ten years of his career
because they will fuel him. Just as we are on
Good Morning Football on a Tuesday morning, the two days
after the Super Bowl saying all right, got to go
back to work.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That's what Mahomes is gonna do.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And the fortunate thing is he's not thirty five years old,
he's not thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This isn't his last chance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
This will spur him to go on into his thirties
and try to erase those three.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And a half hours, those sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Five offensive plays, to kind of rewrite the script another time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But I will take this one more direction too.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Mahomes was the loser on Sunday, and it could have
been very easy to wallow, and it could have been
very easy to just take that one in the gut
and say I'm going to disappear. Patrick Mahomes stood at
that podium for thirteen minutes, more than the maximum amount
of time. Thirteen minutes and answered every question and looked
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every reporter in the eye, and when asked about the
Super Bowl, had this to.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Say, anytime you lose a Super Bowl, it's the worst
filling in the world. They'll stick with you the rest
of your career. I mean, these will be the two
losses that will motivate me to be even better to
the rest of my career, because you only get so
few of these, and you have to capitalize on these,
and they hurt probably more than the winds feel good.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So Mahomes got out there in front of that Gatorade
sign and just answered every question.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He owned it.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I think in twenty twenty five, the way Mahomes handled
that defeat is almost as impressive as the way he's
handled the victories. Think about all the youth sports that
we're involved in right now and the way that we
try to teach these kids how to play sports, how
to handle winning and losing, how to get up the
next day.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
He doesn't even know it. Mahomes is twenty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He's got three young kids who aren't even playing youth sports.
He doesn't even know the example that he set in
being a gracious loser. He went out there after the game,
and he gave Jalen Hurts a hug and they spoke
and it'll be miked up, and he was okay with losing,
and he was okay with understanding that this is how
you handle this. I think we're in a really toxic
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time with youth sports. I think we're in a really
toxic time with maybe college athletics. Patrick Mahomes is a throwback.
Patrick Mahomes owned his loss, and Patrick Mahomes stood in
front of the media and answered questions in a rational
and fair way. I think in his loss, though it
won't be able to be held in Brady and Montana
conversation just yet. As far as Super Bowl greatness, I
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think Patrick Mahomes showed us a great example and is
really a good ambassador for the NFL on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's a really good take because we see the influence
he has in uth sports. I see it all the time.
You normally see it in kids throwing Nola passes and
wanting to wear the sunglasses like he wears, has the
haircut and all that stuff is really cool. Totally different
gear here on this one in which he just had
nothing to do with style or athletic talent, but cerebral
sensibility leadership. It was a really good take and that
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will age really really well. I also, I personally, I
get a little exasperated. We have to talk about sports
this way like this, We have to do this. It's
just what we do, and it's I think ESPN in
a lot of ways they're the worldwide leader. They set
the tone and it's embraced debate on the other channels,
and it's just it kind of comes back to us
sometimes where everything has to be compared to the greatest
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ever or the worst ever, or the biggest ever. And
I think Peter brings up a good point. We were
looking at maybe the greatest quarterback ever or any team
sport athlete ever on his way there and then in
sixty five offensive plays. Now all he talks Now he's
not and he's not raying. It's over what they had
a really, really, really tough game. The good news that
Mahomes has going for him is he has so much
goodwill in the sports and in the media that the
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story of this can be a year from now and
we remember that Super Bowl against the Eagles where it
wasn't his day and he fought back from that, and
the Chiefs made changes. Now they have something to work
for instead of let's win four in a row. It's
not like they're beaten down. And that is a really
unique place for him to be and to come back
from this in terms of like where does it in
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his place in history? So I see a lot of
like Montana never had a game like that. Well, Montana
only made it to four Super Bowls. He's already been
to five. So my intending to have those problems Brady
never played that pullet. First of all, let's just remember
a few things. Mahomes is three and two in super Bowls.
Brady started three and two in Super Bowls. Also, Tom
Brady went nine years without even making a Super Bowl.
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It's almost a damn decade without being there and winning one.
So Mahomes is doing just fine. It was not a
great day for him. He did not look like himself.
The Chiefs looked like a total imposters out of nowhere
after being good all year. So I'm not going to
sit here and from the hip and say that goat
debate's over. It's not over. It's not even close to over.
Mahlmes is going to be back. He's gonna be back
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for years to come. We may at some point get
a post Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and then we may
see a new side of him. We're gonna get post
Travis Kelce soon. It's all. There's so much left. So
anybody who's senior saying all satisfied and righteous that the
realiggest winner of that Super Bowl with Tom Brady, because
that goat debate is over. No, it's not. It's still
getting started, and you know it, it's halfway through.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Like you mentioned, Kyle, that Tom Brady was three and
two through his first five Super Bowls, and that's the
same record that Patrick Mahomes has. I think we've all
seen the graphic at some point following the NFL where
Tom Brady's first half of his career is hall of
fame worthy and the second half of his career hall
of fame worthy if you judge them independently, and so
far through the first half of Patrick Mahomes's career certainly
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hall of fame worthy with those three super Bowl titles,
And yeah, I want to see him come back in
a maniacal way, relentlessly to come back from this loss,
to be able to come back the way he did
from that Tampa loss and win a couple more in
those three seasons after that Super Bowl fifty five loss.
But for Patrick Mahomes, who you know, I think was
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so good this year throughout the regular season, just managing
the game, controlling the outcomes, being able to win games,
to be able to get to a super Bowl, even
though they had somewhat deficiently different spots in that roster,
to be able to get to a super Bowl and
through a Buffalo Bill's team in a way that Joe
Montana didn't. He got blown out in the playoffs before
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they would get to the super Bowl round in some seasons.
And you can say the same thing for the Pittsburgh
Steelers and Terry Bradshaw on some of those other quar
quarterbacks that had those perfect records in the Super Bowl.
I think it's the same thing when you talk about
the NBA and Michael Jordan and some of those comparisons
Lebron James that yes they lost in the finals, they
lost in the Super Bowl, but they were good enough
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to get there and didn't get blown.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Out in the earlier rounds.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So I think this further cements Patrick Mahomes legacy that
getting to the Super Bowl is helping to define his legacy.
And I think he'll come back in the second half
of his career and look forward to see how much
more winning he does. But the good will, I think, Kyle,
that you mentioned is why it was so laughable last
week that the Chiefs were being painted as these villains,
because he is such a good face for the NFL.
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He is such a good guy when you see what
he does, all the stuff behind the scenes. Yeah, it'll
be interesting to see him come back and maybe embrace
this villain role even further and come back with some
relentlessness try to win more Super Bowls.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Go ahead, Peter, I see you raise your hand.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I just another thing, like the pressure that was on
this team coming into this game, like seventeen week season,
then to an eighteen weeks games into an eighteen week season,
and then they go twenty weeks and they go all
buildings all the In a weird way, I wonder if
this loss, like can we just stop with.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That evil empire? Like that narrative's done, They stop with
the refs narrative. That's done. If they had won this
Super Bowl and.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Done three straight like, I don't know if I could
have handled the narratives going into next year, And if
I can't handle it, I don't know how that team
would have handled it going for four straight considered that
this team was getting all the calls and that they're
they're unlikable and Taylor Swift's like losing like this in
a weird way, it kind of clears out the nasal
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system and we could start anew for next year And
if you want to love the Chiefs again, you can,
and you can do so without being so you know,
cynical about the whole process that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, I think this game ended up being a healthy
reset for a lot of players and how we look
at them. I look at Jalen Hurts. Can we flip
to the other quarterback of the team that won.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
The Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And where does this put everyone's opinion of Jalen Hurts
as a quarterback and how he plays the position, because
there is so much to be said about There's so
much that was being said about how he can't do
this without Saquon and he shouldn't have had that contract
given to him, and here he is riding around on
a float right now. In Orlando, and he's won a
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national championship and now a super Bowl like this, this
is a Jalen Hurts quarterback that he's a made man.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Peter, So, where does this.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Put you in your working definition of Jalen Hurts and
what he can do in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, No, he's one of the guys. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
He's in that conversation we talk about Lamar and Allen
and Burrow so much. Those guys do not have the
Super Bowl title. Burrow of course has been there, but
Jalen Hurts is back in that conversation. If he ever left,
it was because of a bad year last year.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It really was. They finished the season. I think.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know now you've got apologists everywhere coming out and
say if you hate our seam RG three, Like if
you hated him last year, it don't come to it.
He wasn't as good as those guys last year, and
he's had rough spots in the biggest moments his two
Super Bowl games. This guy has been the best player
on the field in a loss and now in a win.
I have no problem putting Jalen Hurts in the same
conversation as those other young quarterbacks. And I do put
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them a little notch above the Justin Herberts and some
of the other guys who haven't even come close.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
To the playoff success.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I like that Patrick Mahomes picture over Jamie's shoulder there
with the mouthguard hanging out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Anyways, have the best photos, minimizers. I just feel like
I'm hanging with Mahonies over here, you know, with like
the mouth guard going out look at him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It was a great night, Marty, Scott Hanson and your
uncle over your shoulder.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Scott Hanson.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
As we've always said, Uncle Jerry, face of NFL media,
and now Uncle.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Jerry, the friend of the face of NFL media.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
There, Buddy go the trivia buddies in a bar. It
was like the greatest thing I've ever seen unfold.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So is this hour of television Good Morning Football still
to come?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
For the second time.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
In organizational history, the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champion.
So we keep the Birds talk flowing. Let's each pick
an underrated player, perhaps an Eagle that we just have
not spoken about enough just yet, that deserves a shout
out for their contribution to maybe not only Super Bowl Sunday, Peter,
but their championship season.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Can I tell you an awesome story. Jylex Hunt story
is so cool. So in twenty nineteen, he's at Cornell
the Ivy League and he's playing safety.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's a big safety.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
He's make a tackle all over the Ivy League and
he ends up transferring during the COVID season to a
school called Houston Baptist. All Right played the season at
Houston Baptist and then while he's there, they change the
school's name to Houston Christian. And he's playing in front
of this field where it's like a high school field
where people could just like walk the track during the games.
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That's where he's playing. He dominates at this FCS school.
And our guy Jim Naggy at the Senior Bowl finds
Jylex Hunt out of Houston Christian and he invites him
to the Senior Bowl. And he goes to the Senior
Bowl and he's an absolute menace in practices, moving obviously
from the safety spot to a pass rusher role.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
He was the Southland Conference to Play Defensive.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
He was an All American and he leads Houston Christian
with thirteen.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And a half sacks. He was going to the Senior
Bowl and became the.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
First player ever to receive the Senior Bowl honor from
that school, and of course he was from the FCS,
so like that's a cool story.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We'll see. He was an undrafted free agent in the
third round.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
The third round, Howie Roseman says, I am taking the
converted safety from Cornell who went to Houston Baptist which
was eventually Houston Christian, and I'm going to draft Jalx
Hunt in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. Sure enough,
he gets drafted, and there's Jalx Hunt on Super Bowl Sunday,
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absolutely unblockable, dominating Joe Tooney, and.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
He's making plays all over the field.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Jalx Hunt in the Super Bowl had five.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Pressures four Maurice, he had a quarterback hit, and he
had a half sack.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He was everywhere all over the field. A converted safety
from Cornell who would go to Houston Baptist which would
eventually be called Houston Christian. They of course knew of
his career, but he confirmed it at the Combine and
at the Senior Bowl. A testament to that front office,
a testament to Howie Roseman, but a testament to Alec Halabi,
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a testament to Dave Caldwell, a testament to all the
minds in Philadelphia who helped.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Put their draft board together.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And then of course Jeremiah Washburn and the great Vic
Fangio for making Jylex Hunt the man he is now
dominated the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Jlex Hunt, we see you, and that.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Is a testament to the Philadelphia Eagles and all the
many minds that helped put that finished product on the field.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Peter, I have run up against some Cornell safeties in
my time. Great program. There the Big Red ethic of
New York, some good players. They're not sacking Patrick Mahomes
in the Super Bowl. Due respect to all the Big
Red I love you guys. You know that that's a
different type of deal right there. That is an incredible,
incredible journey. Find me an Eagle on Super Bowl Sunday
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who did his job better than Jake Elliott. You can't
do it. Oh, it's absolutely money. Jake Elliot, the kicker
is a suit time Super Bowl champ. And as we
did back in twenty seventeen, let's tell the story for
those who have not heard it. This is really interesting.
Jake Elliot is from the Chicago suburbs, Western Springs, Lagrange,
Illinois when he was a freshman at Lions Township High School.
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A freshman, there was a pep rally in the school's
football stadium and he was randomly pulled out of the
stands with some other students to do a silly field
goal kicking contest for some laughs in front of the crowd.
He steps up there as a fourteen year old freshman
and absolutely drills a field goal during the pep rally.
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The place goes nuts. Who is this little skinny freshman kid.
Lions Township football coach Kurt Weinberg's like, dude, you really
got it. We need a kicker. You should come beyond
the team. He's like, I'm a tennis player. I don't
play football. Nothing happens of it. Two years later, when
Jake Elliott, now a two time Super Bowl champ, is
a junior, he's playing tennis. He's on the tennis team
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for Lions. The coach comes over is like, we really
do need a kicker. You should come try out. Just
come try. He comes and tries out. He says, I
think I'm gonna be on the football team. In his
first game on the varsity team, this tennis player makes
a fifty two yard field goal. You don't see fifty
two yard field goals in high school very much. It's
incredibly rare. Total natural gets a full scholarship to Memphis,
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is then drafted in the fifth round by the Bengals,
who cut him in training camp. The Eagles sign him,
and the rest is history. He was nails against the
Chiefs on Sunday, didn't miss a single kick, even made one,
had to make it again because of a penalty, and
drilled that one and all because someone at Lion's Township
High School said, you, Jake Elliott, this freshman, come out
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here and try a field goal with the other YAHOO
kids cheering for the team. That is how the journey started.
That's where it is now, with two rings on his fingers.
Disney movie. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
It's a Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's better than the Brock Party movie. I think it is.
You know the Eagles have that Tony Danzen movie where
he's the kicker and he's the fish guy whatever, garbage
man collecting. Yeah, whatever it was. Jake Elliott should have
a movie too, The pep Rally Kicker. And we went
over this story years ago in twenty seventeen. It's still cooler,
It's still out there. Pep Rally, dude, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, I think my unsung hero doesn't have the obscure
backstory of Lions Township or Houston Baptist. But Howie Rosman
in that front office getting Mackai Becton from the bright light.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Let's go of the big Apple.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You saw Peter's picture with Mackay on the field there,
you see him with his son. How emotional Mackai Becton was.
You guys know his backstory by now. The number eleven O.
We're all picked in twenty twenty to the New York
Jets out of Louisville, destined for greatness, supposed to be
one of the greatest linemen of all time, and of
course doesn't live up to the bright lights of the
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big city. In the New York Jets, he's labeled a
bus and then the genius of Jeff Stotlin takes over,
gets his hands on Mackai Becton.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
They coach him up, they get.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Him playing with confidence, and he becomes part of that
blockbuster offensive line. And Jordan Malatta and Lane Johnson of
course get the headlines there.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Jason Kelce was.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
There for years, but for Mackai Becton to get in there,
and I think what really was an emotional moment for
me looking at that story was Bradley Cooper is introducing
the Eagles to go on to the field at the Superdome.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The first player.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Out of the tunnel for the Philadelphia Eagles, big number
seventy seven, Mackai Beckton. And then to bring that story
first full circle and win the Super Bowl with the
Philadelphia Eagles, and to celebrate that way, to have his
due brought. It's one of those Super Bowl storylines that
we love to see where you can get a guy to,
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you know, really make up for what's been the first
part of his career and this now is how he'll
be remembered in NFL lore. So good on Mackai Becktin
for coming back from that and now forever he'll be
called the Super Bowl Champion.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Got your stories, all three of you were so awesome
and they have such heartwarming in its nature. I'm going
to tread lightly with my CJ. Gardner Johnson shout out
here because I think the way that CJGJ conducts his
business sometimes is like people lose their minds, and I
don't technically agree with some of the stuff that he
puts on his social media and how he tries.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
To control people.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
However, I will always welcome growth when it comes to
a football player and how he conducts business on the field.
And I was reminded Kyle yesterday we were standing in
the press conference room.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
By a local photographer that was around.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He goes, those are two guys on the Eagles that
used to play for the Saints that are now Super
Bowl champion with the Eagles, and it was Zach Bond
and CJ.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The fact that CJDJ starts his.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Career with the Saints, he goes to Philly, he goes to.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The Lions last year on a one year deal. Howie
Roseman brings him back. He is the player who hit
that shot in training camp last August to cancel practice.
And really that may be the beginning of the Eagles
really coming together and becoming this tight knit team that
ended up winning a Lombardy.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
But in December, CJ.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Gardner Johnson tried to get back into his old antics
in the divisional game against the Washington Commanders. He starts
to engage in some nefarious behavior. I think we have
the video here. It is in the regular season. This
is the one game in a fifteen game stretch at
the Eagles loss and it.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Was against the Commanders.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
What did I do? What did I do?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
CJ. Gardner Johnson get under some people's skin, let's say,
when he's playing.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So he gets booted from this game, and you know,
the Eagles ended up giving up a ton of points
at Jaydon Daniels. He gets kicked out of the game
and a lot of flak for this because it's like, dude,
keep it together on the field.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Now he's playing in a Super.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Bowl and he delivers a hit on Travis Kelcey during
this game that I thought sent a message. This is
like the old clip when Kobe ran through sal in
the Olympics and he's like, I'm just gonna, yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Paul Gasol, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go right through the guy's chest
and knock him down, like their best friend.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Send a message. I think CJ.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Gardner Johnson's had a mess message verbally and physically. It's
Travis Kelcey in that moment. He didn't like it, but
Gardner Johnson stands.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Up and put his hands down by his side.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He's like, I will not engage in this, even though
he kind of started it. So you deserve a shout out,
not like in the most like you're amazing. Like I
understand some of the antics that he gets into, but
I also think he was a big part emotionally of
what the Eagles accomplished.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Jamie.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
After the game, he's on the bus and he's doing
a video and I'm watching all the content and he's
singing the lyrics to our girl, Glo Rilla.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So I don't know. I don't know if he well.
I think I think our guy CJ.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Gardner Johnson's a big Glila fan, even though she's a
Steelers fan. I think that might have to be an
introduction that maybe we can help negotiate, as we are
fans of Gloriala and she is part.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Of our families right absolutely. I saw her in the
concourse of the Super Bowl. I said, high, I said,
you were with our guys in New York. I love
those guys. She remembered you. We loved gim At, we
love Gloriala, go glow.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Exactly all right, coming up our friends at NFL Films.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh, what did they cook up something special.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A look at low rookie, the birthday boy, Cooper Dejean's
is big Pig six during Super Bowl fifty nine and
probably give it the NFL film's treatment, like only they can.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Myhomes hasn't seen many situations like this.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It was third at sixteen.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
That goes Mahomes. He's rushing, he's looking.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's intercepted.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
It's intercepted. The twenty five down the fore side is
the gene.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That's your change, that products pow that could protect Cooper, productos,
the productstown. You keep doing that, you want a better one, keep.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Going, Let's go Cooper Dejine to me is a cool
story because I think he gets a second round pick
and he wasn't starting at first round week eight, week nine,
and gets put in the lineup and got better every
single week.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I had the opportunity to interview him after the game, and.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He was just awestruck, like dumbfounded, like it was one
of those things like he couldn't even gather the emotions
and thoughts to put it all into comprehension over what
had just occurred. Now, of course, it was sae Quon's
twenty eighth birthday, it was Jean's twenty second birthday, had
to pick six in the Super Bowl, and he shut
down whatever chief receiver was against him. I think Cooper
(26:14):
dejen is one of these guys that went in as
like this is a fun story.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's a white corner. Ha, he's a CB one guy
exciting white. I don't play that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't play that game. I don't even find that
stuff funny, Like we don't do it, don't. I don't
do it on this show. And I don't find Rachel
jokes like funny. It is like what he looks like and.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
How it is.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's not for me to joke that way. How about
we respect him as a player. It's a CB one.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This guy was locked down the second half of the season.
It was great in the playoffs and saved its best
for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Cooper degene arrived. Whatever race he is, he's a damn
good corner. He wins the race. He's fast. What's cool
about this too, is that that's his first interception of
his career. Yeah, you've never had one. He's He's got
his hands on all the balls in the in the
air this year and pass deflections and a bunch of
tackles and stuff, first career interception and a touchdown. You know,
the whole birthday thing that I scoffed at all week
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is it's cool, it's fine. I was doing that in jest,
but just I think this is something that'll look back on.
It's a draft story, it's a super Bowl story, it's
a birthday story. It's like, now we're at the Eagles now,
try to pick who has the best individual story, because
this is incredible, and I wish right now I could
just talk to the basketball foot as we have it.
We don't. I didn't, and by the way, we shouldn't
because I didn't ask for it. It just occurred to
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me though, because I feel like we aired that in
Cooper Jean playing high school basketball and dunking like months ago,
and now everywhere I scoll it's just him dunky, and
so we'll play it more. Yes, there's a lot of that.
It's kind of like when we used to run the
Jordan My a lot of rugby footage and then everyone
does it. We can run both of them tomorrow, you
know what, Let's do that tomorrow. Production note Cooper Gene basketball,
join my Lotta and then whatever else Heylex Hunt taking
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the SATs, get into Carnaats do that. And if there
is footage of Jake Elliott and a PEP rally Linstimeship
High School, we want that too, olmar.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I gotta be honest with you. My favorite part of
the weekend is this right here. It's so much fun
with you, man, It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You're you're so.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
You know, like manuine people, and then there's genuine, genuine people.
You're like the most genuine dude I've ever met. Like,
there's no like, You're not a talk ship behind someone's
back kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You don't curse, you don't.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Drink, you don't want.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
And I am so not that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Person out it's been in race. Great Rus, you're a
little broken. I'm if you want to take this out
sis you Yeah, it's time to sell them before.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
We should take a shot at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hold on, we got shots at tequila. Yeah, we got
we got it one handed. Who you think it's out to?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Cheers brother, I went this dude, this has been a block.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
It's great TV, A really good deal.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
We needed.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Burnsus building jamis up. You're awesome. You don't drink, you
don't swear. I'm so not that person.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You don't talk about people behind their backs.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Peter, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Bert Kreischer, Burt Kreischer is a diehard Florida State fan.
He went there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He always jokes, I went there for the best eight
years of my life. He was there during Derek Brooks
and during the Bobby Bowden years.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So he and James have a relationship.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
They have a really good conversation on this thing on
Fox about who they would have had do the halftime
show instead of Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know the NFL doesn't want to hear those thoughts, but.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
They're very open and Little Wayne is talking about what
juvenile means to New Orleans and what Little Wayne means
to New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It's really good stuff. Jamis and Bert were great. You know,
I'm watching Jamis just be incredible all week and in
the stands doing shots and stuff. He beat the Steelers
this year like he played really good football in spots.
This is not this guy who's retired and going around
doing podcasts like he is still a stuf Harding caliber
quarterback in the NFL. It is just years left in
his career, and yet when it's over, I can't wait
to watch him do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, and stand next to that man who just constantly
lifts his shirt up and entertaining.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
The friendship we never knew we needed. Happy Tuesday after
the super Bowl, everybody for creat
Good morning football.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
That's right, this is good morning football, everybody. We are
surviving and thriving. We are live in LA and New York.
It's Tuesday, February eleventh. Here's Omar ruiz In for Akbar
Bajab millit today, Peter Stagger, Kyle Brant, I'm Jamie her
at all. Peter, you had an awesome week on Fox.
Fox killed it, crushed it. How humanizing was it yesterday
to be delayed seventeen and a half hours in the
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New Orleans airport before you got home New York.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
I wouldn't want it any other way.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Jamie's part of the grind. It humbles you at grounds you.
One minute you're dancing to Kendrick Lamar with Michael Vick
and Charles Woodson on the field at halftime. The next
minute you're line forty in the Starbucks line and the
person spells your name wrong.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
It's just what it is. It's the job we do,
it's the life we live. They spell Peter wrong. Yeah,
well all right, Well those people were hard, Peter. I
saw I saw the ratings numbers for Fox. We're pretty big.
I was told no one was going to watch the
super Bowl the year because the Chiefs right.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Apparently the halftime show is the number one rated halftime
show too, and apparently everyone's going to tune.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Off the TV. So I, oh, no NFL is doing
all right? I guess yeah, I guess yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I saw a video somebod who took out of a
cruise ship that they were on, of the entire cruise
ship out on the deck singing Kendrick Kamar but no one.
You know, it was awesome. The lowercase a necklace was
where it was at. All right, Lee Block gumt b all.
We got to talk about Kansas City and how it
was a difficult day for Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs offense.
(01:43):
It just seemed like they never had a going From
the second the clock struck we're going to start him.
Things were tough and it only got harder as the
night went on.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, the Eagles, they have gone to a knee twice.
They can do it again and end the game they
filled out the Eagles.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
Congratulate them as Super Bowl fifty nine champions.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
The Eagles are celebrating, and well they should.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The Philadelphia Eagles getting their second Lombardi Trophy in their
long history that dates back to the nineteen.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Curtis the final score Eagles forty. She's twenty two.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
If Patrick Mahomes cared to he could wallpaper probably many
rooms in his house with newspapers that were printed from
super Bowls that he has won in the past. But
this weekend in New Orleans was not his time. Sagwan
Barklay got the newspaper treatment. What does Sunday's loss mean
for Patrick Mahomes and his place Peter in NFL history
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and what he is trying to create?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
You know, it was a three and a half hour
game and the Chiefs ran sixty five offensive plays, and
to me, it's it's heartbreaking that three and a half
hours and sixty five plays are going to dictate whether
Mahomes is considered the greatest of all time or just
another good quarterback. We talked about Montana never in a
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Super Bowl. We talked about Bradshaw and never losing a
Super Bowl, talked about Brady going to ten.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Now Mahomes, who would have been the first ever to
get a.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
Three peat, has to say, well, I've had a really
good NFL career and I'm in the conversation, but I
can't in good faith say I've had as good a
stretch as those guys.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I would like to say this.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
It probably sucks today for Patrick Mahomes and it'll suck tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But I think those sixty.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Five plays and those three and a half hours are
going to help the next ten years of his career
because they will fuel him. Just as we are on
Good Morning Football on a Tuesday morning, the two days
after the Super Bowl saying all right, got to go
back to work.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
That's what Mahomes is gonna do.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
And the fortunate thing is he's not thirty five years old,
he's not thirty six years old.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
This isn't his last chance.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
This will spur him to go on into his thirties
and try to erase those three.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And a half hours, those sixty.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Five offensive plays, to kind of rewrite the script another time.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
But I will take this one more direction too.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Mahomes was the loser on Sunday, and it could have
been very easy to wallow, and it could have been
very easy to just take that one in the gut
and say I'm going to disappear. Patrick Mahomes stood at
that podium for thirteen minutes, more than the maximum amount
of time. Thirteen minutes and answered every question and looked
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every reporter in the eye, and when asked about the
Super Bowl, had this to.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
Say, anytime you lose a Super Bowl, it's the worst
filling in the world. They'll stick with you the rest
of your career. I mean, these will be the two
losses that will motivate me to be even better to
the rest of my career, because you only get so
few of these, and you have to capitalize on these,
and they hurt probably more than the winds feel good.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So Mahomes got out there in front of that Gatorade
sign and just answered every question.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
He owned it.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
I think in twenty twenty five, the way Mahomes handled
that defeat is almost as impressive as the way he's
handled the victories. Think about all the youth sports that
we're involved in right now and the way that we
try to teach these kids how to play sports, how
to handle winning and losing, how to get up the
next day.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
He doesn't even know it. Mahomes is twenty nine years old.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
He's got three young kids who aren't even playing youth sports.
He doesn't even know the example that he set in
being a gracious loser. He went out there after the game,
and he gave Jalen Hurts a hug and they spoke
and it'll be miked up, and he was okay with losing,
and he was okay with understanding that this is how
you handle this. I think we're in a really toxic
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time with youth sports. I think we're in a really
toxic time with maybe college athletics. Patrick Mahomes is a throwback.
Patrick Mahomes owned his loss, and Patrick Mahomes stood in
front of the media and answered questions in a rational
and fair way. I think in his loss, though it
won't be able to be held in Brady and Montana
conversation just yet. As far as Super Bowl greatness, I
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think Patrick Mahomes showed us a great example and is
really a good ambassador for the NFL on this Tuesday morning.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
It's a really good take because we see the influence
he has in uth sports. I see it all the time.
You normally see it in kids throwing Nola passes and
wanting to wear the sunglasses like he wears, has the
haircut and all that stuff is really cool. Totally different
gear here on this one in which he just had
nothing to do with style or athletic talent, but cerebral
sensibility leadership. It was a really good take and that
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will age really really well. I also, I personally, I
get a little exasperated. We have to talk about sports
this way like this, We have to do this. It's
just what we do, and it's I think ESPN in
a lot of ways they're the worldwide leader. They set
the tone and it's embraced debate on the other channels,
and it's just it kind of comes back to us
sometimes where everything has to be compared to the greatest
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ever or the worst ever, or the biggest ever. And
I think Peter brings up a good point. We were
looking at maybe the greatest quarterback ever or any team
sport athlete ever on his way there and then in
sixty five offensive plays. Now all he talks Now he's
not and he's not raying. It's over what they had
a really, really, really tough game. The good news that
Mahomes has going for him is he has so much
goodwill in the sports and in the media that the
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story of this can be a year from now and
we remember that Super Bowl against the Eagles where it
wasn't his day and he fought back from that, and
the Chiefs made changes. Now they have something to work
for instead of let's win four in a row. It's
not like they're beaten down. And that is a really
unique place for him to be and to come back
from this in terms of like where does it in
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his place in history? So I see a lot of
like Montana never had a game like that. Well, Montana
only made it to four Super Bowls. He's already been
to five. So my intending to have those problems Brady
never played that pullet. First of all, let's just remember
a few things. Mahomes is three and two in super Bowls.
Brady started three and two in Super Bowls. Also, Tom
Brady went nine years without even making a Super Bowl.
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It's almost a damn decade without being there and winning one.
So Mahomes is doing just fine. It was not a
great day for him. He did not look like himself.
The Chiefs looked like a total imposters out of nowhere
after being good all year. So I'm not going to
sit here and from the hip and say that goat
debate's over. It's not over. It's not even close to over.
Mahlmes is going to be back. He's gonna be back
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for years to come. We may at some point get
a post Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes and then we may
see a new side of him. We're gonna get post
Travis Kelce soon. It's all. There's so much left. So
anybody who's senior saying all satisfied and righteous that the
realiggest winner of that Super Bowl with Tom Brady, because
that goat debate is over. No, it's not. It's still
getting started, and you know it, it's halfway through.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Like you mentioned, Kyle, that Tom Brady was three and
two through his first five Super Bowls, and that's the
same record that Patrick Mahomes has. I think we've all
seen the graphic at some point following the NFL where
Tom Brady's first half of his career is hall of
fame worthy and the second half of his career hall
of fame worthy if you judge them independently, and so
far through the first half of Patrick Mahomes's career certainly
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hall of fame worthy with those three super Bowl titles,
And yeah, I want to see him come back in
a maniacal way, relentlessly to come back from this loss,
to be able to come back the way he did
from that Tampa loss and win a couple more in
those three seasons after that Super Bowl fifty five loss.
But for Patrick Mahomes, who you know, I think was
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so good this year throughout the regular season, just managing
the game, controlling the outcomes, being able to win games,
to be able to get to a super Bowl, even
though they had somewhat deficiently different spots in that roster,
to be able to get to a super Bowl and
through a Buffalo Bill's team in a way that Joe
Montana didn't. He got blown out in the playoffs before
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they would get to the super Bowl round in some seasons.
And you can say the same thing for the Pittsburgh
Steelers and Terry Bradshaw on some of those other quar
quarterbacks that had those perfect records in the Super Bowl.
I think it's the same thing when you talk about
the NBA and Michael Jordan and some of those comparisons
Lebron James that yes they lost in the finals, they
lost in the Super Bowl, but they were good enough
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to get there and didn't get blown.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Out in the earlier rounds.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
So I think this further cements Patrick Mahomes legacy that
getting to the Super Bowl is helping to define his legacy.
And I think he'll come back in the second half
of his career and look forward to see how much
more winning he does. But the good will, I think, Kyle,
that you mentioned is why it was so laughable last
week that the Chiefs were being painted as these villains,
because he is such a good face for the NFL.
(10:38):
He is such a good guy when you see what
he does, all the stuff behind the scenes. Yeah, it'll
be interesting to see him come back and maybe embrace
this villain role even further and come back with some
relentlessness try to win more Super Bowls.
Speaker 6 (10:49):
Go ahead, Peter, I see you raise your hand.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
I just another thing, like the pressure that was on
this team coming into this game, like seventeen week season,
then to an eighteen weeks games into an eighteen week season,
and then they go twenty weeks and they go all
buildings all the In a weird way, I wonder if
this loss, like can we just stop with.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That evil empire? Like that narrative's done, They stop with
the refs narrative. That's done. If they had won this
Super Bowl and.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Done three straight like, I don't know if I could
have handled the narratives going into next year, And if
I can't handle it, I don't know how that team
would have handled it going for four straight considered that
this team was getting all the calls and that they're
they're unlikable and Taylor Swift's like losing like this in
a weird way, it kind of clears out the nasal
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system and we could start anew for next year And
if you want to love the Chiefs again, you can,
and you can do so without being so you know,
cynical about the whole process that goes into it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, I think this game ended up being a healthy
reset for a lot of players and how we look
at them. I look at Jalen Hurts. Can we flip
to the other quarterback of the team that won.
Speaker 6 (11:55):
The Super Bowl?
Speaker 2 (11:56):
And where does this put everyone's opinion of Jalen Hurts
as a quarterback and how he plays the position, because
there is so much to be said about There's so
much that was being said about how he can't do
this without Saquon and he shouldn't have had that contract
given to him, and here he is riding around on
a float right now. In Orlando, and he's won a
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national championship and now a super Bowl like this, this
is a Jalen Hurts quarterback that he's a made man.
Speaker 6 (12:23):
Peter, So, where does this.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Put you in your working definition of Jalen Hurts and
what he can do in the NFL.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, No, he's one of the guys. Now.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
He's in that conversation we talk about Lamar and Allen
and Burrow so much. Those guys do not have the
Super Bowl title. Burrow of course has been there, but
Jalen Hurts is back in that conversation. If he ever left,
it was because of a bad year last year.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
It really was. They finished the season. I think.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
You know now you've got apologists everywhere coming out and
say if you hate our seam RG three, Like if
you hated him last year, it don't come to it.
He wasn't as good as those guys last year, and
he's had rough spots in the biggest moments his two
Super Bowl games. This guy has been the best player
on the field in a loss and now in a win.
I have no problem putting Jalen Hurts in the same
conversation as those other young quarterbacks. And I do put
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them a little notch above the Justin Herberts and some
of the other guys who haven't even come close.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
To the playoff success.
Speaker 4 (13:21):
I like that Patrick Mahomes picture over Jamie's shoulder there
with the mouthguard hanging out.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Anyways, have the best photos, minimizers. I just feel like
I'm hanging with Mahonies over here, you know, with like
the mouth guard going out look at him.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
It was a great night, Marty, Scott Hanson and your
uncle over your shoulder.
Speaker 1 (13:38):
Scott Hanson.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
As we've always said, Uncle Jerry, face of NFL media,
and now Uncle.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Jerry, the friend of the face of NFL media.
Speaker 6 (13:45):
There, Buddy go the trivia buddies in a bar. It
was like the greatest thing I've ever seen unfold.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
So is this hour of television Good Morning Football still
to come?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
For the second time.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
In organizational history, the Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champion.
So we keep the Birds talk flowing. Let's each pick
an underrated player, perhaps an Eagle that we just have
not spoken about enough just yet, that deserves a shout
out for their contribution to maybe not only Super Bowl Sunday, Peter,
but their championship season.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Can I tell you an awesome story. Jylex Hunt story
is so cool. So in twenty nineteen, he's at Cornell
the Ivy League and he's playing safety.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
It's a big safety.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
He's make a tackle all over the Ivy League and
he ends up transferring during the COVID season to a
school called Houston Baptist. All Right played the season at
Houston Baptist and then while he's there, they change the
school's name to Houston Christian. And he's playing in front
of this field where it's like a high school field
where people could just like walk the track during the games.
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That's where he's playing. He dominates at this FCS school.
And our guy Jim Naggy at the Senior Bowl finds
Jylex Hunt out of Houston Christian and he invites him
to the Senior Bowl. And he goes to the Senior
Bowl and he's an absolute menace in practices, moving obviously
from the safety spot to a pass rusher role.
Speaker 8 (15:08):
He was the Southland Conference to Play Defensive.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Player of the Year.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
He was an All American and he leads Houston Christian
with thirteen.
Speaker 1 (15:15):
And a half sacks. He was going to the Senior
Bowl and became the.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
First player ever to receive the Senior Bowl honor from
that school, and of course he was from the FCS,
so like that's a cool story.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
We'll see. He was an undrafted free agent in the
third round.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
The third round, Howie Roseman says, I am taking the
converted safety from Cornell who went to Houston Baptist which
was eventually Houston Christian, and I'm going to draft Jalx
Hunt in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. Sure enough,
he gets drafted, and there's Jalx Hunt on Super Bowl Sunday,
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absolutely unblockable, dominating Joe Tooney, and.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
He's making plays all over the field.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
Jalx Hunt in the Super Bowl had five.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
Pressures four Maurice, he had a quarterback hit, and he
had a half sack.
Speaker 3 (16:14):
He was everywhere all over the field. A converted safety
from Cornell who would go to Houston Baptist which would
eventually be called Houston Christian. They of course knew of
his career, but he confirmed it at the Combine and
at the Senior Bowl. A testament to that front office,
a testament to Howie Roseman, but a testament to Alec Halabi,
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a testament to Dave Caldwell, a testament to all the
minds in Philadelphia who helped.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Put their draft board together.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
And then of course Jeremiah Washburn and the great Vic
Fangio for making Jylex Hunt the man he is now
dominated the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Jlex Hunt, we see you, and that.
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Is a testament to the Philadelphia Eagles and all the
many minds that helped put that finished product on the field.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
Peter, I have run up against some Cornell safeties in
my time. Great program. There the Big Red ethic of
New York, some good players. They're not sacking Patrick Mahomes
in the Super Bowl. Due respect to all the Big
Red I love you guys. You know that that's a
different type of deal right there. That is an incredible,
incredible journey. Find me an Eagle on Super Bowl Sunday
(17:24):
who did his job better than Jake Elliott. You can't
do it. Oh, it's absolutely money. Jake Elliot, the kicker
is a suit time Super Bowl champ. And as we
did back in twenty seventeen, let's tell the story for
those who have not heard it. This is really interesting.
Jake Elliot is from the Chicago suburbs, Western Springs, Lagrange,
Illinois when he was a freshman at Lions Township High School.
(17:45):
A freshman, there was a pep rally in the school's
football stadium and he was randomly pulled out of the
stands with some other students to do a silly field
goal kicking contest for some laughs in front of the crowd.
He steps up there as a fourteen year old freshman
and absolutely drills a field goal during the pep rally.
(18:06):
The place goes nuts. Who is this little skinny freshman kid.
Lions Township football coach Kurt Weinberg's like, dude, you really
got it. We need a kicker. You should come beyond
the team. He's like, I'm a tennis player. I don't
play football. Nothing happens of it. Two years later, when
Jake Elliott, now a two time Super Bowl champ, is
a junior, he's playing tennis. He's on the tennis team
(18:27):
for Lions. The coach comes over is like, we really
do need a kicker. You should come try out. Just
come try. He comes and tries out. He says, I
think I'm gonna be on the football team. In his
first game on the varsity team, this tennis player makes
a fifty two yard field goal. You don't see fifty
two yard field goals in high school very much. It's
incredibly rare. Total natural gets a full scholarship to Memphis,
(18:50):
is then drafted in the fifth round by the Bengals,
who cut him in training camp. The Eagles sign him,
and the rest is history. He was nails against the
Chiefs on Sunday, didn't miss a single kick, even made one,
had to make it again because of a penalty, and
drilled that one and all because someone at Lion's Township
High School said, you, Jake Elliott, this freshman, come out
(19:11):
here and try a field goal with the other YAHOO
kids cheering for the team. That is how the journey started.
That's where it is now, with two rings on his fingers.
Disney movie. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 9 (19:20):
It's a Disney movie.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
It's better than the Brock Party movie. I think it is.
You know the Eagles have that Tony Danzen movie where
he's the kicker and he's the fish guy whatever, garbage
man collecting. Yeah, whatever it was. Jake Elliott should have
a movie too, The pep Rally Kicker. And we went
over this story years ago in twenty seventeen. It's still cooler,
It's still out there. Pep Rally, dude, unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Yeah, I think my unsung hero doesn't have the obscure
backstory of Lions Township or Houston Baptist. But Howie Rosman
in that front office getting Mackai Becton from the bright light.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Let's go of the big Apple.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
You saw Peter's picture with Mackay on the field there,
you see him with his son. How emotional Mackai Becton was.
You guys know his backstory by now. The number eleven O.
We're all picked in twenty twenty to the New York
Jets out of Louisville, destined for greatness, supposed to be
one of the greatest linemen of all time, and of
course doesn't live up to the bright lights of the
(20:16):
big city. In the New York Jets, he's labeled a
bus and then the genius of Jeff Stotlin takes over,
gets his hands on Mackai Becton.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
They coach him up, they get.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Him playing with confidence, and he becomes part of that
blockbuster offensive line. And Jordan Malatta and Lane Johnson of
course get the headlines there.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Jason Kelce was.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
There for years, but for Mackai Becton to get in there,
and I think what really was an emotional moment for
me looking at that story was Bradley Cooper is introducing
the Eagles to go on to the field at the Superdome.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
The first player.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Out of the tunnel for the Philadelphia Eagles, big number
seventy seven, Mackai Beckton. And then to bring that story
first full circle and win the Super Bowl with the
Philadelphia Eagles, and to celebrate that way, to have his
due brought. It's one of those Super Bowl storylines that
we love to see where you can get a guy to,
(21:10):
you know, really make up for what's been the first
part of his career and this now is how he'll
be remembered in NFL lore. So good on Mackai Becktin
for coming back from that and now forever he'll be
called the Super Bowl Champion.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Got your stories, all three of you were so awesome
and they have such heartwarming in its nature. I'm going
to tread lightly with my CJ. Gardner Johnson shout out
here because I think the way that CJGJ conducts his
business sometimes is like people lose their minds, and I
don't technically agree with some of the stuff that he
puts on his social media and how he tries.
Speaker 6 (21:46):
To control people.
Speaker 2 (21:47):
However, I will always welcome growth when it comes to
a football player and how he conducts business on the field.
And I was reminded Kyle yesterday we were standing in
the press conference room.
Speaker 6 (21:57):
By a local photographer that was around.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
He goes, those are two guys on the Eagles that
used to play for the Saints that are now Super
Bowl champion with the Eagles, and it was Zach Bond
and CJ.
Speaker 6 (22:07):
Gardner Johnson.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
The fact that CJDJ starts his.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Career with the Saints, he goes to Philly, he goes to.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
The Lions last year on a one year deal. Howie
Roseman brings him back. He is the player who hit
that shot in training camp last August to cancel practice.
And really that may be the beginning of the Eagles
really coming together and becoming this tight knit team that
ended up winning a Lombardy.
Speaker 6 (22:29):
But in December, CJ.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Gardner Johnson tried to get back into his old antics
in the divisional game against the Washington Commanders. He starts
to engage in some nefarious behavior. I think we have
the video here. It is in the regular season. This
is the one game in a fifteen game stretch at
the Eagles loss and it.
Speaker 6 (22:48):
Was against the Commanders.
Speaker 9 (22:49):
What did I do? What did I do?
Speaker 6 (22:51):
CJ. Gardner Johnson get under some people's skin, let's say,
when he's playing.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
So he gets booted from this game, and you know,
the Eagles ended up giving up a ton of points
at Jaydon Daniels. He gets kicked out of the game
and a lot of flak for this because it's like, dude,
keep it together on the field.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
Now he's playing in a Super.
Speaker 2 (23:09):
Bowl and he delivers a hit on Travis Kelcey during
this game that I thought sent a message. This is
like the old clip when Kobe ran through sal in
the Olympics and he's like, I'm just gonna, yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:23):
Paul Gasol, thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Yeah, I'm just gonna go right through the guy's chest
and knock him down, like their best friend.
Speaker 6 (23:28):
Send a message. I think CJ.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
Gardner Johnson's had a mess message verbally and physically. It's
Travis Kelcey in that moment. He didn't like it, but
Gardner Johnson stands.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
Up and put his hands down by his side.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
He's like, I will not engage in this, even though
he kind of started it. So you deserve a shout out,
not like in the most like you're amazing. Like I
understand some of the antics that he gets into, but
I also think he was a big part emotionally of
what the Eagles accomplished.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Jamie.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
After the game, he's on the bus and he's doing
a video and I'm watching all the content and he's
singing the lyrics to our girl, Glo Rilla.
Speaker 1 (23:59):
So I don't know. I don't know if he well.
I think I think our guy CJ.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Gardner Johnson's a big Glila fan, even though she's a
Steelers fan. I think that might have to be an
introduction that maybe we can help negotiate, as we are
fans of Gloriala and she is part.
Speaker 6 (24:12):
Of our families right absolutely. I saw her in the
concourse of the Super Bowl. I said, high, I said,
you were with our guys in New York. I love
those guys. She remembered you. We loved gim At, we
love Gloriala, go glow.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Exactly all right, coming up our friends at NFL Films.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Oh, what did they cook up something special.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
A look at low rookie, the birthday boy, Cooper Dejean's
is big Pig six during Super Bowl fifty nine and
probably give it the NFL film's treatment, like only they can.
Speaker 9 (24:41):
Myhomes hasn't seen many situations like this.
Speaker 1 (24:46):
It was third at sixteen.
Speaker 9 (24:48):
That goes Mahomes. He's rushing, he's looking.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
It's intercepted.
Speaker 9 (24:56):
It's intercepted. The twenty five down the fore side is
the gene.
Speaker 1 (25:19):
That's your change, that products pow that could protect Cooper, productos,
the productstown. You keep doing that, you want a better one, keep.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
Going, Let's go Cooper Dejine to me is a cool
story because I think he gets a second round pick
and he wasn't starting at first round week eight, week nine,
and gets put in the lineup and got better every
single week.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
I had the opportunity to interview him after the game, and.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
He was just awestruck, like dumbfounded, like it was one
of those things like he couldn't even gather the emotions
and thoughts to put it all into comprehension over what
had just occurred. Now, of course, it was sae Quon's
twenty eighth birthday, it was Jean's twenty second birthday, had
to pick six in the Super Bowl, and he shut
down whatever chief receiver was against him. I think Cooper
(26:14):
dejen is one of these guys that went in as
like this is a fun story.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
It's a white corner. Ha, he's a CB one guy
exciting white. I don't play that.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
I don't play that game. I don't even find that
stuff funny, Like we don't do it, don't. I don't
do it on this show. And I don't find Rachel
jokes like funny. It is like what he looks like and.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
How it is.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
It's not for me to joke that way. How about
we respect him as a player. It's a CB one.
Speaker 3 (26:39):
This guy was locked down the second half of the season.
It was great in the playoffs and saved its best
for the super Bowl.
Speaker 1 (26:45):
Cooper degene arrived. Whatever race he is, he's a damn
good corner. He wins the race. He's fast. What's cool
about this too, is that that's his first interception of
his career. Yeah, you've never had one. He's He's got
his hands on all the balls in the in the
air this year and pass deflections and a bunch of
tackles and stuff, first career interception and a touchdown. You know,
the whole birthday thing that I scoffed at all week
(27:07):
is it's cool, it's fine. I was doing that in jest,
but just I think this is something that'll look back on.
It's a draft story, it's a super Bowl story, it's
a birthday story. It's like, now we're at the Eagles now,
try to pick who has the best individual story, because
this is incredible, and I wish right now I could
just talk to the basketball foot as we have it.
We don't. I didn't, and by the way, we shouldn't
because I didn't ask for it. It just occurred to
(27:28):
me though, because I feel like we aired that in
Cooper Jean playing high school basketball and dunking like months ago,
and now everywhere I scoll it's just him dunky, and
so we'll play it more. Yes, there's a lot of that.
It's kind of like when we used to run the
Jordan My a lot of rugby footage and then everyone
does it. We can run both of them tomorrow, you
know what, Let's do that tomorrow. Production note Cooper Gene basketball,
join my Lotta and then whatever else Heylex Hunt taking
(27:49):
the SATs, get into Carnaats do that. And if there
is footage of Jake Elliott and a PEP rally Linstimeship
High School, we want that too, olmar.
Speaker 5 (27:58):
I gotta be honest with you. My favorite part of
the weekend is this right here. It's so much fun
with you, man, It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
You're you're so.
Speaker 5 (28:08):
You know, like manuine people, and then there's genuine, genuine people.
You're like the most genuine dude I've ever met. Like,
there's no like, You're not a talk ship behind someone's
back kind of guy.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
You don't curse, you don't.
Speaker 7 (28:22):
Drink, you don't want.
Speaker 5 (28:27):
And I am so not that.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Person out it's been in race. Great Rus, you're a
little broken. I'm if you want to take this out
sis you Yeah, it's time to sell them before.
Speaker 5 (28:42):
We should take a shot at the end of the game.
Speaker 1 (28:46):
Hold on, we got shots at tequila. Yeah, we got
we got it one handed. Who you think it's out to?
Speaker 5 (28:52):
Brother?
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Cheers brother, I went this dude, this has been a block.
Speaker 5 (28:59):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
It's great TV, A really good deal.
Speaker 9 (29:08):
We needed.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Burnsus building jamis up. You're awesome. You don't drink, you
don't swear. I'm so not that person.
Speaker 4 (29:18):
You don't talk about people behind their backs.
Speaker 6 (29:21):
Peter, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Bert Kreischer, Burt Kreischer is a diehard Florida State fan.
He went there.
Speaker 3 (29:27):
He always jokes, I went there for the best eight
years of my life. He was there during Derek Brooks
and during the Bobby Bowden years.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
So he and James have a relationship.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
They have a really good conversation on this thing on
Fox about who they would have had do the halftime
show instead of Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 1 (29:40):
I know the NFL doesn't want to hear those thoughts, but.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
They're very open and Little Wayne is talking about what
juvenile means to New Orleans and what Little Wayne means
to New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
It's really good stuff. Jamis and Bert were great. You know,
I'm watching Jamis just be incredible all week and in
the stands doing shots and stuff. He beat the Steelers
this year like he played really good football in spots.
This is not this guy who's retired and going around
doing podcasts like he is still a stuf Harding caliber
quarterback in the NFL. It is just years left in
his career, and yet when it's over, I can't wait
to watch him do this stuff.
Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, and stand next to that man who just constantly
lifts his shirt up and entertaining.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
The friendship we never knew we needed. Happy Tuesday after
the super Bowl, everybody for creat
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