October 1, 2024 • 31 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Isaiah Stanback discussing the New York Jets following their loss against the Denver Broncos - who is the leader on the Jets? NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell joins the breakfast table and talks about the Washington Commanders exciting start to their season, he explains why the new kickoff rule is incomplete right now, and then he touches on the NFL’s expansion all over the world. Sky Sports NFL Analyst Phoebe Schecter joins the show and describes the energy of NFL football in the UK, and then she explains the biggest hurdles they face translating American Football to the audience in the UK.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was a perfect night for Jared Goff, and I'm
sure Aaron Rodgers would have wanted that at home against
the Broncos on Sunday, they did not. We're going to
spend the dial forward to Jets Vikings on Sunday morning
from London.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
This game has meaning the Vikings are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's a very important game as the Jets sit two
and two. What's also important is the relationship between head
coach and quarterback. After the game on Sunday, after a
smattering of false starts for the Jets, Robert Sala said,
We've got to figure it out whether or not we
are good enough to handle all of the cadence. If
you know Aaron Rodgers after twenty years, the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Man loves his cadence. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Then Rogers comes out and says we could just hold
players accountable too well. Sala then was asked again on Monday,
and the coach had a different tune.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
We got to figure it out whether or not we're
we're good enough to handle all the uh, We're ready
to handle all the kidens. Cadence had not been an
issue all camp felt like our operation had been operating
pretty good. Obviously, Uh, today it took a major step back.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Yesterday I was, I was, I was mentioning operation. We're
always going to push the envelope with cadence always, but
but with regards to operation, uh, you know, getting in
out of the huddle, getting too the line of scrimmage
of the communication that's being had, We're uh, those are
all things that we can continue to look at and
clean up. But from a cadence standpoint, that's part of
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what makes us who we are, and we're going to continue.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
To always push push the envelope on that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Perhaps it's fair to say Robert Shala doesn't want to
say the word chadence anymore, Peter. He wants to now
use operational as the interchangeable word. There Where do we
sit right now with Rogers and solid in cadence, Kate?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
And perhaps he shouldn't use the word cadence. He's a
defensive coach, and I think the second he starts talking
about the offensive cadence, and I think there's a lot
of sensitivities there from a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers, who's
a four time MVP and has been doing it for
twenty years.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I also think the market matters.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
I think in New York, when you have fans who
drove two hours in the rain and sat in the
rain and watched that offensive performance and saw five fall starts,
it's easy fodder for sports media to take after it.
I think the Jets is an incredible one, But on
Monday morning, you've got boomerisias In coming out saying there's
major issues between Sala and Rogers.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
You've got Damien Woody on ESPN saying.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It was a horrible coaching performance and the loss.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Is on Sala. This is why New York's different than Jacksonville.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
It's why New York is different than Cincinnati. It's why
New York is different than Seattle. This is what's going
to happen when you start losing, especially with expectations that
were built so high. The question is can you rise
above it? Can you galvanize around it? Can you be
the team and the group that says block out the noise?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
So many coaches in the past haven't been able to.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I think it got to Adam Gase when he was
the coach of the Jets. I think it got to
Joe Judge when he was the coach of the Giants,
and once it starts, it could be an avalanche.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
The only thing that can really truly stop it is wins.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
And you watch on Thursday night from last week, and
I was in the building at MetLife. It was as
if the Jets had just won the Super Bowl. It
was so so positive and everyone was so excited, and
Rogers is smiling and Sala's fifth pumping them and it's great,
and everyone in the media is.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Like, hey, this team could go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
It took ten days before we're already back at this point.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
It could happen so fast.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
I am fascinated by this week because the cadence thing
is not even a real issue. I think football heads
can probably talk on it better. I don't think it's
a cadence thing. I think it's more of a okay,
when the chips are against us, when we're when we're
in the corner here, we got a fight. Are we together?
Are are we going to be the ones pointing fingers?
And are we listening to Wfan in the morning? Are
we reading the New York Post on Tuesday morning? What
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are we doing to prepare for the Minnesota Vikings, who
by the way, have their former number three overall pick
coming against them in London, who looks like he might
be an MVP performer. A lot of cool storylines, but
the Jets, this is a key week going to London.
Can you stay together or can does it all come
undone before we even get to Halloween.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Well, first of all, I agree with everything you said, Peter.
I would say this too after the game, Like if
you listen to and Rogers comments, if you listen to
Robert Solace comments.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Who sounded like the coach.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
Rogers Rogers Rogers did, Rogers sounded like the mo mature guy.
Rogers sounded like the one that was just kind of
seeing this thing as a kind of a moment, not
necessarily a problem. And it did seem like Robert Salad
was reacting to the media ups and downs that happens
in New York. To your point, it's a very unique place,
and I always wondered when this issue was going to.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Show up New York, because, yeah, this.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Team is gonna meet adversity, the team is gonna go
through ups and downs, They're gonna be looking for a leader.
Oftentimes that's the head coach, right, But the head coach
doesn't even seem like he sounds like the most mature
guy in the room. And so I'm not gonna say
it's a problem in New York because I do think
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this is a one time issue with the false starts
and things like that. For thirteen penalties, that's a real issue,
and that does go to coaching. That does speak the coach,
and it does speak to what you're doing at practice.
But I don't know, man, it's just interesting. Aaron Rodgers
sounded like the coach after the game. I don't know
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what that means, but Aaron Rodgers sounded like the more
mature guy. And as this season goes through more, if
it's ups and downs, I'm just gonna be looking at
who sounds like the true leader of this franchise because
I think they may have an issue there.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Well, listen, this is an advantage we have as a
show that a lot of other shows do not. We
are a bicoastal show. You guys are in California right now.
I'm in New York, and I have to tell you
I had a very cool experience yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I went to the Jets facility.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
I was there for a long time, and I sat
down with Aaron Rodgers for a long time and we
talked and it's something that's going to be airing this weekend,
coming up on game day morning, and it was a
whole deal, and we talked about everything, guys, and we
talked about this stuff too, just to give a little
taste of.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It we're at. And I remember this was yesterday. This
is Monday.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
This is Monday, in the middle of the day, less
than twenty four hours after a really miserable loss and
miserable conditions in which Rogers didn't play well, and there's
a postgame with he and the head coach maybe back and.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Forth, and he still sat down.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
So we talked a lot about how the things he's
had to deal with, and he said, he's like, you know,
I'm also fighting.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Father time right now.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
And I said, how's that fight going, And he goes,
it's a dead heat right now. We're changing blows in
the middle of the ring and it's a dead heat.
I'm like, all right, and I said, well, the good
news is now you get to a lot of the
other side of the world to.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Go to London, and he was like whoo.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
So we had a lot of jokes about that, Jamie,
which I'm sure you can follow up with Rogers because
you'll sit with him. But on the topic of jokes, Monday,
after a day that's that miserable for the Jets, and
it was a pretty miserable day, you got to have
some sort of icebreaker. So I made a lot of
jokes about the Cadence. I just I just went right
at it, and I said that, you know, I'm hearing
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reports that you went into Sala's office and cleared off
his desk and said, you're not taking my cold from
my cold dead hands, Bob, You're not taking my Kiden's
And he laughed. He laughed at all of them. There's
a lightness to him, and I think we forget this
because he can come across as so cerebral and so
heavy as he did in that press conference. He's been
through everything. He's been through terrible things, he's been through
great things. There's not a lot of things that rattle him.
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And the next day he's sitting around laughing about the
Cadence thing. And he had continued to put it off
as a thing like the push hugged mishap thing that
the media runs with it is not a story.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
My intuition sitting there with him is that I do
not think think Robert Salah will utter anything whatsoever about offensive.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Operation for the rest of the season. I think it
is a whole.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Now, never mind Cadence, We're not going to hear the
word huddle, We're not going to hear the word that
it's gonna be all taboo. They will not say any
of that stuff. I just it's It was an incredible piece,
and he's a he's a He's got a heavy load
on his shoulders in terms of the football right now.
And there's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Coming from that.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I can tell you guys more and I will can
you tell you more throughout the week. But for the
sake of the Cadence thing, Rogers made his comment about
maybe you can hold them accountable. That's one option. I
think that will be the option that Jets go with
moving forward. That was the vibe I got to know.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
The general has spoken. Kyle.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Hey, look, man, I'm glad you shared that that interview.
I didn't know that you had had an interview with
with with Aaron And to hear that quote that him
and father time were kind of running he I get it.
I totally understand and and and that's why it behooves me,
Like why they go all in for these last couple
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of years, just you see what I'm saying, and focus
their offensive team around just Aaron Rodgers man to me,
they need to continue to find this run game. They
need to get this offensive line fixed, because the crazy
part about it is the young and old.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
The offensive line is young and old. They make young.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Mistakes and old mistakes. Like I'm just they got to
figure some stuff out in this defense.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
They don't have much room for error.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Right, I mean, I think about the last time you
had almost forty year old quarterback who won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
That was what Peyton Manning in twenty fifteen. Ready Brady
with the Bucks.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Brady with the Bucks.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Yeah you know, but I mean but those guys, I
mean they had defense, they had teams around them. So
I just this Jets team really want to finish it strong.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
They got to get their football right.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
The other thing the way that season is gone is
that Rogers and everyone with the Jets would talk about
we need to get.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Off the roller coaster this season. Get off the roller coaster.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
I mean, can you think of a bigger four game
roller coaster than that. It's been exactly that. The Niners
game is terrible. Then we're way up, way up, and
then there's this terrible loss right now at home. And
he went on a long, long I would call it
a sermon about the mentality of same old Jets, about
the Jets fans, about the Jets organization, and the roller coaster.
And he's like, you know what's crazy. I hate roller coasters.
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I don't like riding them at all. I am not
that guy, and we needed to get off it, so
all conscious he doesn't.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
He actually did a kind of customach and all that.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
He could control. He could control some of it too.
And I know we all have a relationship with Aaron.
It's like, you know, the visual of him with the
towel on his face in the rain and just looking
so forlorn, and that's a meme.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
That's that's what you can't say. You can't look at
the camera and be like, what do you guys? Why
would you know? What's what's wrong here? Everything's great, it's rosy.
It doesn't look great.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
And I asked him about it directly. I said, you know,
the picture of you with the towel. You know, the
number one Internet joke this week is and there's the
moment Aaron Rodgers officially became a New York Jet and
we talked about it, and he had a very passionate
risk it.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
We'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm glad that he had answers for you as it
pertains to this image and the comments from his head
coach after the game, because I spoke with his teammates
yesterday ahead of the game Sunday morning against the Vikings,
and I don't know if they're just waiting for Rogers
who speak because his teammates, the young ones that I
spoke to yesterday, I won't even say who it was
they are taking a queue from him. They wouldn't answer
(11:26):
really any question in terms of the challenges that this
team is be saying. They were like, we're gonna wait
and watch the tape. We're gonna wait and watch the
tape against the Broncos. Could we talk tomorrow then I
want some follow up on this. So I'm wondering if
they're waiting for him to come out and take a
queue from their leader.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
To your point, who the leader is?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Welcome back to Good Morning Football.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
We are very excited here in our LA studios and
we have a very special guest, a gentleman.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
The commissioner of the National Football League was Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, good morning, welcome, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
I'm grilled to be here.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
What brings you to Los Angeles?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You guys right this.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
I was out in San Francisco on Sunday at some meetings,
so here yesterday and stayed to be with you, guys.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Awesome.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Our show is now coast to coast, so we figured
we hit a couple of different markets here and hit
you with some questions.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
If you don't mind us just popping you, is.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
This a test?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I would like to start in the Nation's Capital. I
think the best story one month into the season is
this Washington Commander's franchise and this young rookie quarterback and
what he's brought. You have been with the league for
many years, you were a historian of the game. To
see that market so enthused right now and energized with
what Jaden and also the new coaching staff an ownership
group has brought. What's it like having the Commanders being
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on top of the NFC East and really having the
Nation's capital is one of the top teams.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Well, I like the way you say historian.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
That means I've been here a long time, so I've
seen this history.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
But the reality is, you.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Know, I also grew up in Marshington, and I know
what that franchise means to that community. It really does,
and I think to see that excitement start coming back,
you can see they're on the right path. Got a
great young quarterback, DQ is doing great. I just think
that team is on the rise and it's going to
be fun for the league because you know, the nation's capital,
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that's where it's at, and I think it'll be fun
for the lead to have him back.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You probably couldn't be more thrilled with how the International
series started in Brazil, but also what we have coming
into this weekend an undefeated Vikings team and Aaron Rodgers
led Jets team, but then the irony that Sam Darnold
is quarterbacking the Vikings. Do you follow stories like this
and when guys just kind of really hit a lull
but then the resurgence within the league.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Yeah, to me, it's part of what makes our game
so much fun is to see kids that you know,
maybe don't have a good start at one team and
they move off. I think he's now on this four team,
I believe, and you know, to see him get in
the right system. And I really give a lot of
credit to Kevin And you know, the GM crazy is
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just you know, to get the right kind of guy
to fit their system. He's getting the most out of them.
Got great teammates. It's always great to throw to JJ,
but you know, you've got to give them credit to
you know, his determination to get back in there and
say I can do this. And when you see someone
try to overcome that and try to build on the
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failures he may have had, that's just something you take
your hat off to.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
You got ratings going crazy, man, you know, you got streaming,
you got you know, all the different platforms. Just what
excites you about the National Football League right now? Just
in general, man, with all the ever changing media platforms.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Well, I think all that is another opportunity for us.
I mean, I think we have the greatest content in
the world. I mean, everybody wants to see every aspect
of the NFL. They want to see our players, I
want to see our coaches, I want to see the teams.
They want to see Kyle. I see you in the
background there, Kyd.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
They do yeh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He's like oz back there honestly, Like sometimes you see
his body language.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'm like, oh God, what's wrong.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Commission come over to this this large or Willian monitor
that we have there in that beautiful seven Roger.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'm in New York City.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
I'm in our Good Morning Football's Lower West Side condo,
of course, home of the league headquarters where your office is.
And you know what we do really well here at
the NFL. We're really good at branding, and I like
that we branded the new kickoff rule the dynamic kickoff,
and it really feels that way.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
We're a month into it.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
What do you think about the early returns of the
dynamic kickoff?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
You know, we always said this is going to be
a work in progress. I guess if I had degrade it,
I'd say it's an incomplete right now, and only in
this sense. We wanted to bring back more returns, but
we wanted to do it safely, so we have more returns.
I think we had an eighty five percent increase in returns.
That'll give us more data to find out is it working.
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Are we seeing the safety level go back?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
To the same safety.
Speaker 11 (16:08):
Levels we see at line of scrimmage plays. So far,
that looks pretty good, but it's really early to tell
and there's really not enough data yet. I think it's
going to come out where we've brought the safety back
into that play, and then I think we'll have to
make a few changes on the kickoff that will I
think lead to a lot more kickoff returns.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I think the.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Witch back, moving it up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Maybe I could do.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
The touchback and moving to thirty five, you know, I
think that would be a game changer right away.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, I think that everything.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
I've talked to the coaches and as you know, our
special teams coaches are looking at this. I've talked to
some of them, and I think there will be a change,
whether we make it immediately after the season. We're going
to have a competition committee in the next week.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
So Jamie's headed to London this afternoon. You'll probably be
there at some point I imagine for.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
The next week, next following week. Yep.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Another big league initiative is the flag football and something
that we have seen explode. And you know, we've all
got kids and they're all playing flag football.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
The sky is the limit.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Obviously, how does the NFL play a role in kind
of curating and guiding this thing to this amazing youth sport,
and how it can lead to more fans and of
course more players at the next level.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Well, our international team and all our clubs have really
done a great job, you know. They in Troy Vincent
back in New York, and Peter O'Reilly runs international and
all our events. The idea here is to give kids
an opportunity to play. And I'm what I'm most excited
about is young women playing the game.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I see it in them.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
I was with Steve Young last year and he brought
his entire team up, thirty young women. He coached the
flag football and two of his daughters are on the team.
Is awesome, and it was just to see their confidence
and the empowerment that gave them to say we're playing.
And they were wonderful young women and it was just
great to see so and Steve, as a coach, said,
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I fell back in love with the game by coaching
these young women. So I think that's the thing we're
trying to share with people, the joy of playing this game,
all the values of playing this game. You know what
it takes to be on a team that you know
is trying to accomplish something bigger than themselves. I think
young women and young boys are learning those lessons and
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I think that's great, and it's just another funnel to
get them into the game, either as tackle players at
some point in time, or to move on and.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Take another role.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
We've had fun with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight
in Los Angeles, and I don't know if the NFL
players are involved, and I don't think we're there yet,
but the fact that it's an Olympics sport is a
huge milestone as well.
Speaker 11 (18:42):
It's a huge milestone, and I think doing that on
an international basis, Listen, that's the pinnacle of sports on
an international basis. So we're really looking forward to that,
whether players are in it from the NFL level or
whether we're going to have great athletes out there, and
it's going to be a.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I was going to ask about something that is very
jarring for us to see sometimes during the week, which
is the turn of Bill Belichick's personality in the media.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Is very concerning to me. I don't understand it. Were
you prepared for this version of Bill Belichick. Knowing him,
I just made you very nervous saying the word what
I wanted.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
You know, if you're if you ever sit around with
Bill and you talk football, that's where he is. I'm
sure in front of the camera, and we all know
it's a little bit different. But when you get him
back and you talk to him about the game of football,
it really you see the joy he has in this
game and the passion and the historical perspective to it.
He's he's a he's just such a student of the game.
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And you know, since I lost John Madden, who was
played an incredible role to be brought that perspective. He
saw everything on the field, and he looked at tape
and he was he was Bill's in a lot of
ways filled that role. He's been someone that if you
can call and you can studies, well, he's down in
an NFL.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Film all day, so I figured I'd get a free call.
But he really, he really has a good feel for
the game and it's something that can help us.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's been said that Belichick kept a mattress in his
office in New England.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Does he have one at films?
Speaker 11 (20:17):
You know, I haven't checked that one, because it will
have to charge him a little different so if he's
stayed overnight.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yes's good point, Roger.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
We remember when the first London game was played and
it felt really like history. It was really really special,
and now it's this is what we do. There's multiple countries,
multiple continents. Can you give us a taste of the
future of where this might go? I know that Peter
is part of an investment group that's trying to build
a stadium in Bora Bora, but short of that working,
is there anywhere we might land as a league, Like,
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what's the future of this?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
We're not going to take Peter's road map.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
To amerging market.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
They love football there, you know I do, and so
my perspective goes back to the nineties and being in
both you know, when we went to Japan and we
went to Berlin and what you saw was fans that
really didn't understand the game. Now you go over to
London and it's you know, I have a hard time
telling you whether you're in London or whether you're in
the Middle Lands or you know, it's just the fans
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there are sophisticated. They understand the game, They appreciate the game,
and for me, that's what I think gives us so
much confidence that our game can be a global game.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And when we were down in Brazil a few weeks ago,
it was just it was the.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Same thing, you know, just a lot of enthusiasm, excitement
over the game, and I believe great potential.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So we'll be back there. I'm sure we're going to
continue to grow.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
I think we'll end up going to sixteen games at
some point in time. The owners have already authorized us
to go to eight, but I'm confident, particularly if we
can do the restructuring of the season, that we would
get to sixteen.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
At this point.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I have to imagine you, I've been thinking about that
having a full slate in Europe.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Do you have an advance necessarily Europe, We've got a
rest big.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
In the world, Yes, internationally, sixteen games internationally.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
My mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Do you have people that do this, like scouting years
in advance of just the logistics to answer questions that
teams might have. If you're the forty nine ers and
you're being asked to do X, Y and Z, you
want to probably have all of the solutions before teams
come to you with concern.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Yeah, You're absolutely right, Jamis, And the answer is yes.
I mean we're already looking at several markets. We don't
have Peters lists a bit, but we do have a
lot of markets that are interested in the game. But
we have to go do the work because one of
the things that we do, particularly with Brazil, it was
a key factor for us.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You want the teams to.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Feel like it was not disruptive to the season, but
it you know, they went that they loved the trip.
I went to Jordan Malatta because that, to me, that
was the best one. Right, Yeah, how was the trip? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
How was a plane?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
You know, everything was great and you know, the coaches
were good, the players were great. Everybody felt like this
was a great trip. It was not just up to
that they were able to prepare properly when they got back.
I went back and checked afterwards. Everyone recovered really well.
So and that's an eleven hour trip for these guys.
So when you see that we learned something from every
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one of the games and say, okay, what can we
do next ultimately and how do we continue to expand this?
Speaker 6 (23:24):
But I do think we can do this.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
I think the scheduling, you know, we may have to
make changes to that in some ways, probably roster sizes,
do some other things, but I do think it's something
we'll do more real.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Quick super Bowls in New Orleans. We've got a few
months to get there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
What's one thing you're looking to see between now and
that day where we can out?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Well, you know, there's so much. I keep reminding myself.
We're just entering week five here at this point, and
there's so much and there's so many changes between now
and then, but it also goes really fast. And you know,
no one loves football more than I do, so I
love watching everything I can. I'm looking forward to go
over to the international games. I'm really looking forward to
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that run up to the playoffs. Super Bowl time is
just a blasphemy.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
So I'm I'm the.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Earliest New Orleans Super Bowl memory. What do you have
what sticks out? Madden?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I will tell you what it is.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
It earlier than that.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
It was nineteen eighty six. I was Pete Roselle's driver.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
This is incredible.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
So okay, it was the best thing of the Bears
Patriots Bears Patriots. Wasn't a great game, no, but but
I was up in the booth with Pete and we
had an officiating her.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh it was not a good day for Pete. He
was upset.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
But the reality is I spent the entire week with
Pete basically living in his in his room. I was
his sort of go to to everything, and it was
it was the experience of a lifetime to me. I
never thought that I would even be that close to
much less driving them around town.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
And now you're the commissioner, now I'm the committeer.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
He had a lot to do with that, I'm sure.
And it wasn't for my driving skills.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
It's tough streets to talk, I mean, also easy to.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Try it, to go down twice just to figure out
my way around.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
I mentioned, this was fantastic. Thank you so much for
joining us. Have an amazing rest of the season. Hopefully
we'll talk to you again and enjoy eure Rope when
you go over there as well.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Look forward to it. Thank you, guys, thanks for all
you do. We're glad to have you back.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It was too long while you were going.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It was when we're fresh as a daisy.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And International Games coming up this month in November.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You're gonna drink a beer again in Germany if you're there,
let's go that the t's and TV talk.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know if you've heard the NFL is heating
to London this week.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
The Vikings are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm supposed to say they try to approve, defy and no,
but it just feels better saying the Vikings are undefeated
when they take on the Jets at in London nine
thirty am Eastern.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Right here on NFL Network.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It's the International Series and it always delivers an incredible atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You will not want to miss this.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
This game can also be streamed on NFL Plus. If
you are already watching our show in the UK, perhaps
on Sky Sports NFL.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We have their analyst, Phoebe's schector here this morning. Phoebe,
what's happening girl?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
How are you?
Speaker 12 (26:14):
It's so good to see you and I cannot wait
to have you back over here.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Phoebean, I always get to hug it out on the field.
When we see each other on the sideline. I love
catching up. I love watching everything that you bring to
that market because with your history with the NFL and
coaching and flag football, I think you're such a unique voice,
and the fact that you're a woman doing it's very
important and I always appreciate what you're doing. All right, Phoebe,
talk to us about the energy and how it's changed
(26:39):
for you and your time in London being on TV there,
whether it be the build up and the prominence of
flag football and the NFL's arrival and the fact that
these games keep rolling out.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
I mean, it's just incredible. And I think the best
example of this is last year when the Bills were over,
I was doing my laps with tight Ends coach Rob
Boris and he said, well, what is a noise level
going to be?
Speaker 11 (26:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That's that?
Speaker 12 (27:00):
You know, it's pretty even the poor thing at the
end of the game, and he was like, that was
like a Bill's home game. I mean, the fans over
here are so passionate and this may be their one
opportunity to see a real, live NFL game. So this passion,
the energy for this sport. It is happy on all levels,
from grassroots through to having you amazing people over during
(27:23):
our NFL International series.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
What's up, Phoebe, be good to see you. What's going down?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Good?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Good, good good good?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
All right, So I want to ask you about the
more intriguing storyline heading into this Viking Jet Vikings Jets
game is and Anon Rodgers and the Jets rebounding after
bad loss, or the Vikings they're undefeated with Sam Donald
and they're looking like world beaters.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
I mean, this is such a tricky one, right because,
first off, Aaron Rodgers coming over here is a gift.
I remember when he was here with Green Bay and
literally you could feel the floor rumbling when he ran
onto that field. But right now having an undefeated team,
which may be the first time in international history to
have a team four and oh coming over here in
the Vikings, how do you not get excited to see
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not just Sam Darnold, but this Vikings defense that is
finding ways to win in creative way that I've never
even seen happen with all these different athletes. So I
think the Vikings, they've had history here before with ending
the double doink versus the Saints, they would find a
way to leave with with a special something.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
I've got to ask, you, know, you've got this great
career over there, and yet there's still fans who are
still learning the game, and yet we also have crossed
the bridge to where it's most to understand the game.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So how do you balance teaching new and then assuming
the viewer is familiar with what it is, and at
what point do you kind of weigh them together and say,
all right, we could talk about this like it's any
other or sport that they're familiar with, like soccer, if
you will.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
It's such a great question because that's really a finite line.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Right.
Speaker 12 (29:05):
You've got these amazing kind of football nerds from the
eighties and nineties from when NFL Europe was around, and
then we've got brand new viewers to our show into
this sport. I think the biggest hurdles immediately are terminology, right.
We love to find different ways in the NFL to
say the same thing over and over again. Is it
a go, is it a fade, is it a same
(29:25):
or you know, looking at the fact that within like
you said, soccer football here, you've got eleven people on
the field and they play the whole time. Well, one
of the surprising things for fans is actually we have
eleven people for offense, for defense, and then you have
special teams. So understanding that kind of rolling sub mentality
has really helped people to kind of grasp why there
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are so many people on an NFL team.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, and your approach and your relatability, Phoebe, I think
is what's helpful to the viewers in the UK as well.
You know every level I'm talking You played flag football,
you played tackle football, and you did a coaching internship
with the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is a very obvious.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Question when we get to head coaches and coordinators who
played both levels. Now I want to ask you this,
what do you enjoy doing more coaching or playing?
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Oh, Jbie, that's such a tough one, but I have
to say, you know, I had the pleasure of working
with Josh Allen and Sean McDermott at the Bills and
when you and I'm sure it's the same for you guys,
right when you show up to work every single day
and you're there to be better, not just for yourself
but for everybody around you, that operation of elite mindset,
(30:35):
I mean, it's just there's nothing comparable.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Now.
Speaker 12 (30:38):
I love playing for my country and to be able
to represent Great Britain on the largest stage possible and
hopefully in twenty twenty eight Olympics. But when you get
to coach and you get to educate and make people
better and almost more so help people discover what they
didn't know about themselves. I think that's the real beauty
within coaching. It's just helping to elevate and empower.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean, what an answer.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
She hit us with the operation of an elite mindset
and also tease the fact that she might be in
La for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Phoebe checkter, everybody,
my goodness. You can see her on sky Sports NFL.
We love Phoebe. We have round all the time, and
she is welcoming the NFL now onto her turf, her
grass in the coming weeks.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Phoebe wonderful to see you say
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Well, thank you guys,
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Speaker 2 (00:24):
It was a perfect night for Jared Goff, and I'm
sure Aaron Rodgers would have wanted that at home against
the Broncos on Sunday, they did not. We're going to
spend the dial forward to Jets Vikings on Sunday morning
from London.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
This game has meaning the Vikings are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's a very important game as the Jets sit two
and two. What's also important is the relationship between head
coach and quarterback. After the game on Sunday, after a
smattering of false starts for the Jets, Robert Sala said,
We've got to figure it out whether or not we
are good enough to handle all of the cadence. If
you know Aaron Rodgers after twenty years, the.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Man loves his cadence. Okay.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Then Rogers comes out and says we could just hold
players accountable too well. Sala then was asked again on Monday,
and the coach had a different tune.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
We got to figure it out whether or not we're
we're good enough to handle all the uh, We're ready
to handle all the kidens. Cadence had not been an
issue all camp felt like our operation had been operating
pretty good. Obviously, Uh, today it took a major step back.
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Yesterday I was, I was, I was mentioning operation. We're
always going to push the envelope with cadence always, but
but with regards to operation, uh, you know, getting in
out of the huddle, getting too the line of scrimmage
of the communication that's being had, We're uh, those are
all things that we can continue to look at and
clean up. But from a cadence standpoint, that's part of
(01:48):
what makes us who we are, and we're going to continue.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
To always push push the envelope on that.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Perhaps it's fair to say Robert Shala doesn't want to
say the word chadence anymore, Peter. He wants to now
use operational as the interchangeable word. There Where do we
sit right now with Rogers and solid in cadence, Kate?
Speaker 7 (02:05):
And perhaps he shouldn't use the word cadence. He's a
defensive coach, and I think the second he starts talking
about the offensive cadence, and I think there's a lot
of sensitivities there from a quarterback like Aaron Rodgers, who's
a four time MVP and has been doing it for
twenty years.
Speaker 8 (02:18):
I also think the market matters.
Speaker 7 (02:20):
I think in New York, when you have fans who
drove two hours in the rain and sat in the
rain and watched that offensive performance and saw five fall starts,
it's easy fodder for sports media to take after it.
I think the Jets is an incredible one, But on
Monday morning, you've got boomerisias In coming out saying there's
major issues between Sala and Rogers.
Speaker 8 (02:40):
You've got Damien Woody on ESPN saying.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
It was a horrible coaching performance and the loss.
Speaker 8 (02:46):
Is on Sala. This is why New York's different than Jacksonville.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
It's why New York is different than Cincinnati. It's why
New York is different than Seattle. This is what's going
to happen when you start losing, especially with expectations that
were built so high. The question is can you rise
above it? Can you galvanize around it? Can you be
the team and the group that says block out the noise?
Speaker 8 (03:05):
So many coaches in the past haven't been able to.
Speaker 7 (03:08):
I think it got to Adam Gase when he was
the coach of the Jets. I think it got to
Joe Judge when he was the coach of the Giants,
and once it starts, it could be an avalanche.
Speaker 8 (03:16):
The only thing that can really truly stop it is wins.
Speaker 7 (03:21):
And you watch on Thursday night from last week, and
I was in the building at MetLife. It was as
if the Jets had just won the Super Bowl. It
was so so positive and everyone was so excited, and
Rogers is smiling and Sala's fifth pumping them and it's great,
and everyone in the media is.
Speaker 8 (03:37):
Like, hey, this team could go to the super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (03:39):
It took ten days before we're already back at this point.
Speaker 8 (03:43):
It could happen so fast.
Speaker 7 (03:44):
I am fascinated by this week because the cadence thing
is not even a real issue. I think football heads
can probably talk on it better. I don't think it's
a cadence thing. I think it's more of a okay,
when the chips are against us, when we're when we're
in the corner here, we got a fight. Are we together?
Are are we going to be the ones pointing fingers?
And are we listening to Wfan in the morning? Are
we reading the New York Post on Tuesday morning? What
(04:06):
are we doing to prepare for the Minnesota Vikings, who
by the way, have their former number three overall pick
coming against them in London, who looks like he might
be an MVP performer. A lot of cool storylines, but
the Jets, this is a key week going to London.
Can you stay together or can does it all come
undone before we even get to Halloween.
Speaker 9 (04:24):
Well, first of all, I agree with everything you said, Peter.
I would say this too after the game, Like if
you listen to and Rogers comments, if you listen to
Robert Solace comments.
Speaker 6 (04:36):
Who sounded like the coach.
Speaker 9 (04:40):
Rogers Rogers Rogers did, Rogers sounded like the mo mature guy.
Rogers sounded like the one that was just kind of
seeing this thing as a kind of a moment, not
necessarily a problem. And it did seem like Robert Salad
was reacting to the media ups and downs that happens
in New York. To your point, it's a very unique place,
and I always wondered when this issue was going to.
Speaker 8 (05:03):
Show up New York, because, yeah, this.
Speaker 9 (05:07):
Team is gonna meet adversity, the team is gonna go
through ups and downs, They're gonna be looking for a leader.
Oftentimes that's the head coach, right, But the head coach
doesn't even seem like he sounds like the most mature
guy in the room. And so I'm not gonna say
it's a problem in New York because I do think
(05:28):
this is a one time issue with the false starts
and things like that. For thirteen penalties, that's a real issue,
and that does go to coaching. That does speak the coach,
and it does speak to what you're doing at practice.
But I don't know, man, it's just interesting. Aaron Rodgers
sounded like the coach after the game. I don't know
(05:49):
what that means, but Aaron Rodgers sounded like the more
mature guy. And as this season goes through more, if
it's ups and downs, I'm just gonna be looking at
who sounds like the true leader of this franchise because
I think they may have an issue there.
Speaker 10 (06:05):
Well, listen, this is an advantage we have as a
show that a lot of other shows do not. We
are a bicoastal show. You guys are in California right now.
I'm in New York, and I have to tell you
I had a very cool experience yesterday.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
I went to the Jets facility.
Speaker 10 (06:17):
I was there for a long time, and I sat
down with Aaron Rodgers for a long time and we
talked and it's something that's going to be airing this weekend,
coming up on game day morning, and it was a
whole deal, and we talked about everything, guys, and we
talked about this stuff too, just to give a little
taste of.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
It we're at. And I remember this was yesterday. This
is Monday.
Speaker 10 (06:35):
This is Monday, in the middle of the day, less
than twenty four hours after a really miserable loss and
miserable conditions in which Rogers didn't play well, and there's
a postgame with he and the head coach maybe back and.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Forth, and he still sat down.
Speaker 10 (06:47):
So we talked a lot about how the things he's
had to deal with, and he said, he's like, you know,
I'm also fighting.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Father time right now.
Speaker 10 (06:53):
And I said, how's that fight going, And he goes,
it's a dead heat right now. We're changing blows in
the middle of the ring and it's a dead heat.
I'm like, all right, and I said, well, the good
news is now you get to a lot of the
other side of the world to.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
Go to London, and he was like whoo.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
So we had a lot of jokes about that, Jamie,
which I'm sure you can follow up with Rogers because
you'll sit with him. But on the topic of jokes, Monday,
after a day that's that miserable for the Jets, and
it was a pretty miserable day, you got to have
some sort of icebreaker. So I made a lot of
jokes about the Cadence. I just I just went right
at it, and I said that, you know, I'm hearing
(07:28):
reports that you went into Sala's office and cleared off
his desk and said, you're not taking my cold from
my cold dead hands, Bob, You're not taking my Kiden's
And he laughed. He laughed at all of them. There's
a lightness to him, and I think we forget this
because he can come across as so cerebral and so
heavy as he did in that press conference. He's been
through everything. He's been through terrible things, he's been through
great things. There's not a lot of things that rattle him.
(07:50):
And the next day he's sitting around laughing about the
Cadence thing. And he had continued to put it off
as a thing like the push hugged mishap thing that
the media runs with it is not a story.
Speaker 8 (08:00):
Now.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
My intuition sitting there with him is that I do
not think think Robert Salah will utter anything whatsoever about offensive.
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Operation for the rest of the season. I think it
is a whole.
Speaker 10 (08:11):
Now, never mind Cadence, We're not going to hear the
word huddle, We're not going to hear the word that
it's gonna be all taboo. They will not say any
of that stuff. I just it's It was an incredible piece,
and he's a he's a He's got a heavy load
on his shoulders in terms of the football right now.
And there's a lot more.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Coming from that.
Speaker 10 (08:30):
I can tell you guys more and I will can
you tell you more throughout the week. But for the
sake of the Cadence thing, Rogers made his comment about
maybe you can hold them accountable. That's one option. I
think that will be the option that Jets go with
moving forward. That was the vibe I got to know.
Speaker 6 (08:43):
The general has spoken. Kyle.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Hey, look, man, I'm glad you shared that that interview.
I didn't know that you had had an interview with
with with Aaron And to hear that quote that him
and father time were kind of running he I get it.
I totally understand and and and that's why it behooves me,
Like why they go all in for these last couple
(09:04):
of years, just you see what I'm saying, and focus
their offensive team around just Aaron Rodgers man to me,
they need to continue to find this run game. They
need to get this offensive line fixed, because the crazy
part about it is the young and old.
Speaker 8 (09:18):
The offensive line is young and old. They make young.
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Mistakes and old mistakes. Like I'm just they got to
figure some stuff out in this defense.
Speaker 8 (09:25):
They don't have much room for error.
Speaker 9 (09:29):
Right, I mean, I think about the last time you
had almost forty year old quarterback who won a Super Bowl.
Speaker 8 (09:34):
That was what Peyton Manning in twenty fifteen. Ready Brady
with the Bucks.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Brady with the Bucks.
Speaker 9 (09:39):
Yeah you know, but I mean but those guys, I
mean they had defense, they had teams around them. So
I just this Jets team really want to finish it strong.
Speaker 6 (09:48):
They got to get their football right.
Speaker 10 (09:51):
The other thing the way that season is gone is
that Rogers and everyone with the Jets would talk about
we need to get.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
Off the roller coaster this season. Get off the roller coaster.
Speaker 10 (09:58):
I mean, can you think of a bigger four game
roller coaster than that. It's been exactly that. The Niners
game is terrible. Then we're way up, way up, and
then there's this terrible loss right now at home. And
he went on a long, long I would call it
a sermon about the mentality of same old Jets, about
the Jets fans, about the Jets organization, and the roller coaster.
And he's like, you know what's crazy. I hate roller coasters.
(10:19):
I don't like riding them at all. I am not
that guy, and we needed to get off it, so
all conscious he doesn't.
Speaker 8 (10:24):
He actually did a kind of customach and all that.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
He could control. He could control some of it too.
And I know we all have a relationship with Aaron.
It's like, you know, the visual of him with the
towel on his face in the rain and just looking
so forlorn, and that's a meme.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
That's that's what you can't say. You can't look at
the camera and be like, what do you guys? Why
would you know? What's what's wrong here? Everything's great, it's rosy.
It doesn't look great.
Speaker 10 (10:50):
And I asked him about it directly. I said, you know,
the picture of you with the towel. You know, the
number one Internet joke this week is and there's the
moment Aaron Rodgers officially became a New York Jet and
we talked about it, and he had a very passionate
risk it.
Speaker 6 (11:04):
We'll get to it.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Listen.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
I'm glad that he had answers for you as it
pertains to this image and the comments from his head
coach after the game, because I spoke with his teammates
yesterday ahead of the game Sunday morning against the Vikings,
and I don't know if they're just waiting for Rogers
who speak because his teammates, the young ones that I
spoke to yesterday, I won't even say who it was
they are taking a queue from him. They wouldn't answer
(11:26):
really any question in terms of the challenges that this
team is be saying. They were like, we're gonna wait
and watch the tape. We're gonna wait and watch the
tape against the Broncos. Could we talk tomorrow then I
want some follow up on this. So I'm wondering if
they're waiting for him to come out and take a
queue from their leader.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
To your point, who the leader is?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
Welcome back to Good Morning Football.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
We are very excited here in our LA studios and
we have a very special guest, a gentleman.
Speaker 8 (11:52):
The commissioner of the National Football League was Roger Goodell.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Oh, good morning, welcome, thank you.
Speaker 6 (11:59):
I'm grilled to be here.
Speaker 8 (12:00):
What brings you to Los Angeles?
Speaker 6 (12:02):
You guys right this.
Speaker 11 (12:05):
I was out in San Francisco on Sunday at some meetings,
so here yesterday and stayed to be with you, guys.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Awesome.
Speaker 7 (12:11):
Our show is now coast to coast, so we figured
we hit a couple of different markets here and hit
you with some questions.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
If you don't mind us just popping you, is.
Speaker 6 (12:19):
This a test?
Speaker 7 (12:21):
I would like to start in the Nation's Capital. I
think the best story one month into the season is
this Washington Commander's franchise and this young rookie quarterback and
what he's brought. You have been with the league for
many years, you were a historian of the game. To
see that market so enthused right now and energized with
what Jaden and also the new coaching staff an ownership
group has brought. What's it like having the Commanders being
(12:43):
on top of the NFC East and really having the
Nation's capital is one of the top teams.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
Well, I like the way you say historian.
Speaker 11 (12:50):
That means I've been here a long time, so I've
seen this history.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
But the reality is, you.
Speaker 11 (12:55):
Know, I also grew up in Marshington, and I know
what that franchise means to that community. It really does,
and I think to see that excitement start coming back,
you can see they're on the right path. Got a
great young quarterback, DQ is doing great. I just think
that team is on the rise and it's going to
be fun for the league because you know, the nation's capital,
(13:18):
that's where it's at, and I think it'll be fun
for the lead to have him back.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
Very cool.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You probably couldn't be more thrilled with how the International
series started in Brazil, but also what we have coming
into this weekend an undefeated Vikings team and Aaron Rodgers
led Jets team, but then the irony that Sam Darnold
is quarterbacking the Vikings. Do you follow stories like this
and when guys just kind of really hit a lull
but then the resurgence within the league.
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Yeah, to me, it's part of what makes our game
so much fun is to see kids that you know,
maybe don't have a good start at one team and
they move off. I think he's now on this four team,
I believe, and you know, to see him get in
the right system. And I really give a lot of
credit to Kevin And you know, the GM crazy is
(14:05):
just you know, to get the right kind of guy
to fit their system. He's getting the most out of them.
Got great teammates. It's always great to throw to JJ,
but you know, you've got to give them credit to
you know, his determination to get back in there and
say I can do this. And when you see someone
try to overcome that and try to build on the
(14:26):
failures he may have had, that's just something you take
your hat off to.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
You got ratings going crazy, man, you know, you got streaming,
you got you know, all the different platforms. Just what
excites you about the National Football League right now? Just
in general, man, with all the ever changing media platforms.
Speaker 11 (14:47):
Well, I think all that is another opportunity for us.
I mean, I think we have the greatest content in
the world. I mean, everybody wants to see every aspect
of the NFL. They want to see our players, I
want to see our coaches, I want to see the teams.
They want to see Kyle. I see you in the
background there, Kyd.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
They do yeh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
He's like oz back there honestly, Like sometimes you see
his body language.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I'm like, oh God, what's wrong.
Speaker 10 (15:11):
Commission come over to this this large or Willian monitor
that we have there in that beautiful seven Roger.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
I'm in New York City.
Speaker 10 (15:22):
I'm in our Good Morning Football's Lower West Side condo,
of course, home of the league headquarters where your office is.
And you know what we do really well here at
the NFL. We're really good at branding, and I like
that we branded the new kickoff rule the dynamic kickoff,
and it really feels that way.
Speaker 8 (15:39):
We're a month into it.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
What do you think about the early returns of the
dynamic kickoff?
Speaker 11 (15:45):
You know, we always said this is going to be
a work in progress. I guess if I had degrade it,
I'd say it's an incomplete right now, and only in
this sense. We wanted to bring back more returns, but
we wanted to do it safely, so we have more returns.
I think we had an eighty five percent increase in returns.
That'll give us more data to find out is it working.
(16:05):
Are we seeing the safety level go back?
Speaker 6 (16:07):
To the same safety.
Speaker 11 (16:08):
Levels we see at line of scrimmage plays. So far,
that looks pretty good, but it's really early to tell
and there's really not enough data yet. I think it's
going to come out where we've brought the safety back
into that play, and then I think we'll have to
make a few changes on the kickoff that will I
think lead to a lot more kickoff returns.
Speaker 6 (16:29):
I think the.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Witch back, moving it up a little bit.
Speaker 6 (16:32):
Maybe I could do.
Speaker 11 (16:32):
The touchback and moving to thirty five, you know, I
think that would be a game changer right away.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
Yeah, I think that everything.
Speaker 11 (16:38):
I've talked to the coaches and as you know, our
special teams coaches are looking at this. I've talked to
some of them, and I think there will be a change,
whether we make it immediately after the season. We're going
to have a competition committee in the next week.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
So Jamie's headed to London this afternoon. You'll probably be
there at some point I imagine for.
Speaker 6 (16:56):
The next week, next following week. Yep.
Speaker 7 (16:59):
Another big league initiative is the flag football and something
that we have seen explode. And you know, we've all
got kids and they're all playing flag football.
Speaker 8 (17:08):
The sky is the limit.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Obviously, how does the NFL play a role in kind
of curating and guiding this thing to this amazing youth sport,
and how it can lead to more fans and of
course more players at the next level.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
Well, our international team and all our clubs have really
done a great job, you know. They in Troy Vincent
back in New York, and Peter O'Reilly runs international and
all our events. The idea here is to give kids
an opportunity to play. And I'm what I'm most excited
about is young women playing the game.
Speaker 6 (17:38):
I see it in them.
Speaker 11 (17:39):
I was with Steve Young last year and he brought
his entire team up, thirty young women. He coached the
flag football and two of his daughters are on the team.
Is awesome, and it was just to see their confidence
and the empowerment that gave them to say we're playing.
And they were wonderful young women and it was just
great to see so and Steve, as a coach, said,
(18:01):
I fell back in love with the game by coaching
these young women. So I think that's the thing we're
trying to share with people, the joy of playing this game,
all the values of playing this game. You know what
it takes to be on a team that you know
is trying to accomplish something bigger than themselves. I think
young women and young boys are learning those lessons and
(18:22):
I think that's great, and it's just another funnel to
get them into the game, either as tackle players at
some point in time, or to move on and.
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Take another role.
Speaker 7 (18:31):
We've had fun with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight
in Los Angeles, and I don't know if the NFL
players are involved, and I don't think we're there yet,
but the fact that it's an Olympics sport is a
huge milestone as well.
Speaker 11 (18:42):
It's a huge milestone, and I think doing that on
an international basis, Listen, that's the pinnacle of sports on
an international basis. So we're really looking forward to that,
whether players are in it from the NFL level or
whether we're going to have great athletes out there, and
it's going to be a.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
Lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I was going to ask about something that is very
jarring for us to see sometimes during the week, which
is the turn of Bill Belichick's personality in the media.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Is very concerning to me. I don't understand it. Were
you prepared for this version of Bill Belichick. Knowing him,
I just made you very nervous saying the word what
I wanted.
Speaker 11 (19:22):
You know, if you're if you ever sit around with
Bill and you talk football, that's where he is. I'm
sure in front of the camera, and we all know
it's a little bit different. But when you get him
back and you talk to him about the game of football,
it really you see the joy he has in this
game and the passion and the historical perspective to it.
He's he's a he's just such a student of the game.
(19:42):
And you know, since I lost John Madden, who was
played an incredible role to be brought that perspective. He
saw everything on the field, and he looked at tape
and he was he was Bill's in a lot of
ways filled that role. He's been someone that if you
can call and you can studies, well, he's down in
an NFL.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Film all day, so I figured I'd get a free call.
But he really, he really has a good feel for
the game and it's something that can help us.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
It's been said that Belichick kept a mattress in his
office in New England.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Does he have one at films?
Speaker 11 (20:17):
You know, I haven't checked that one, because it will
have to charge him a little different so if he's
stayed overnight.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yes's good point, Roger.
Speaker 10 (20:25):
We remember when the first London game was played and
it felt really like history. It was really really special,
and now it's this is what we do. There's multiple countries,
multiple continents. Can you give us a taste of the
future of where this might go? I know that Peter
is part of an investment group that's trying to build
a stadium in Bora Bora, but short of that working,
is there anywhere we might land as a league, Like,
(20:47):
what's the future of this?
Speaker 6 (20:49):
We're not going to take Peter's road map.
Speaker 8 (20:51):
To amerging market.
Speaker 11 (20:55):
They love football there, you know I do, and so
my perspective goes back to the nineties and being in
both you know, when we went to Japan and we
went to Berlin and what you saw was fans that
really didn't understand the game. Now you go over to
London and it's you know, I have a hard time
telling you whether you're in London or whether you're in
the Middle Lands or you know, it's just the fans
(21:17):
there are sophisticated. They understand the game, They appreciate the game,
and for me, that's what I think gives us so
much confidence that our game can be a global game.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
And when we were down in Brazil a few weeks ago,
it was just it was the.
Speaker 11 (21:32):
Same thing, you know, just a lot of enthusiasm, excitement
over the game, and I believe great potential.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
So we'll be back there. I'm sure we're going to
continue to grow.
Speaker 11 (21:43):
I think we'll end up going to sixteen games at
some point in time. The owners have already authorized us
to go to eight, but I'm confident, particularly if we
can do the restructuring of the season, that we would
get to sixteen.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
At this point.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
I have to imagine you, I've been thinking about that
having a full slate in Europe.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Do you have an advance necessarily Europe, We've got a
rest big.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
In the world, Yes, internationally, sixteen games internationally.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
My mistake.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
Do you have people that do this, like scouting years
in advance of just the logistics to answer questions that
teams might have. If you're the forty nine ers and
you're being asked to do X, Y and Z, you
want to probably have all of the solutions before teams
come to you with concern.
Speaker 11 (22:24):
Yeah, You're absolutely right, Jamis, And the answer is yes.
I mean we're already looking at several markets. We don't
have Peters lists a bit, but we do have a
lot of markets that are interested in the game. But
we have to go do the work because one of
the things that we do, particularly with Brazil, it was
a key factor for us.
Speaker 6 (22:42):
You want the teams to.
Speaker 11 (22:43):
Feel like it was not disruptive to the season, but
it you know, they went that they loved the trip.
I went to Jordan Malatta because that, to me, that
was the best one. Right, Yeah, how was the trip? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (22:54):
How was a plane?
Speaker 11 (22:55):
You know, everything was great and you know, the coaches
were good, the players were great. Everybody felt like this
was a great trip. It was not just up to
that they were able to prepare properly when they got back.
I went back and checked afterwards. Everyone recovered really well.
So and that's an eleven hour trip for these guys.
So when you see that we learned something from every
(23:18):
one of the games and say, okay, what can we
do next ultimately and how do we continue to expand this?
Speaker 6 (23:24):
But I do think we can do this.
Speaker 11 (23:27):
I think the scheduling, you know, we may have to
make changes to that in some ways, probably roster sizes,
do some other things, but I do think it's something
we'll do more real.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
Quick super Bowls in New Orleans. We've got a few
months to get there.
Speaker 7 (23:41):
What's one thing you're looking to see between now and
that day where we can out?
Speaker 11 (23:48):
Well, you know, there's so much. I keep reminding myself.
We're just entering week five here at this point, and
there's so much and there's so many changes between now
and then, but it also goes really fast. And you know,
no one loves football more than I do, so I
love watching everything I can. I'm looking forward to go
over to the international games. I'm really looking forward to
(24:09):
that run up to the playoffs. Super Bowl time is
just a blasphemy.
Speaker 6 (24:14):
So I'm I'm the.
Speaker 8 (24:15):
Earliest New Orleans Super Bowl memory. What do you have
what sticks out? Madden?
Speaker 6 (24:19):
I will tell you what it is.
Speaker 8 (24:20):
It earlier than that.
Speaker 11 (24:21):
It was nineteen eighty six. I was Pete Roselle's driver.
Speaker 8 (24:24):
This is incredible.
Speaker 11 (24:25):
So okay, it was the best thing of the Bears
Patriots Bears Patriots. Wasn't a great game, no, but but
I was up in the booth with Pete and we
had an officiating her.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh it was not a good day for Pete. He
was upset.
Speaker 11 (24:40):
But the reality is I spent the entire week with
Pete basically living in his in his room. I was
his sort of go to to everything, and it was
it was the experience of a lifetime to me. I
never thought that I would even be that close to
much less driving them around town.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
And now you're the commissioner, now I'm the committeer.
Speaker 11 (24:58):
He had a lot to do with that, I'm sure.
And it wasn't for my driving skills.
Speaker 8 (25:02):
It's tough streets to talk, I mean, also easy to.
Speaker 11 (25:06):
Try it, to go down twice just to figure out
my way around.
Speaker 7 (25:08):
I mentioned, this was fantastic. Thank you so much for
joining us. Have an amazing rest of the season. Hopefully
we'll talk to you again and enjoy eure Rope when
you go over there as well.
Speaker 11 (25:18):
Look forward to it. Thank you, guys, thanks for all
you do. We're glad to have you back.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Thank you, thank you.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
It was too long while you were going.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It was when we're fresh as a daisy.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
And International Games coming up this month in November.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
You're gonna drink a beer again in Germany if you're there,
let's go that the t's and TV talk.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know if you've heard the NFL is heating
to London this week.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
The Vikings are undefeated.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
I'm supposed to say they try to approve, defy and no,
but it just feels better saying the Vikings are undefeated
when they take on the Jets at in London nine
thirty am Eastern.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
Right here on NFL Network.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
It's the International Series and it always delivers an incredible atmosphere.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
You will not want to miss this.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
This game can also be streamed on NFL Plus. If
you are already watching our show in the UK, perhaps
on Sky Sports NFL.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
We have their analyst, Phoebe's schector here this morning. Phoebe,
what's happening girl?
Speaker 6 (26:14):
How are you?
Speaker 12 (26:14):
It's so good to see you and I cannot wait
to have you back over here.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
Phoebean, I always get to hug it out on the field.
When we see each other on the sideline. I love
catching up. I love watching everything that you bring to
that market because with your history with the NFL and
coaching and flag football, I think you're such a unique voice,
and the fact that you're a woman doing it's very
important and I always appreciate what you're doing. All right, Phoebe,
talk to us about the energy and how it's changed
(26:39):
for you and your time in London being on TV there,
whether it be the build up and the prominence of
flag football and the NFL's arrival and the fact that
these games keep rolling out.
Speaker 12 (26:50):
I mean, it's just incredible. And I think the best
example of this is last year when the Bills were over,
I was doing my laps with tight Ends coach Rob
Boris and he said, well, what is a noise level
going to be?
Speaker 11 (26:59):
Like?
Speaker 1 (27:00):
That's that?
Speaker 12 (27:00):
You know, it's pretty even the poor thing at the
end of the game, and he was like, that was
like a Bill's home game. I mean, the fans over
here are so passionate and this may be their one
opportunity to see a real, live NFL game. So this passion,
the energy for this sport. It is happy on all levels,
from grassroots through to having you amazing people over during
(27:23):
our NFL International series.
Speaker 9 (27:25):
What's up, Phoebe, be good to see you. What's going down?
Speaker 1 (27:32):
Good?
Speaker 6 (27:33):
Good, good good good?
Speaker 9 (27:34):
All right, So I want to ask you about the
more intriguing storyline heading into this Viking Jet Vikings Jets
game is and Anon Rodgers and the Jets rebounding after
bad loss, or the Vikings they're undefeated with Sam Donald
and they're looking like world beaters.
Speaker 12 (27:51):
I mean, this is such a tricky one, right because,
first off, Aaron Rodgers coming over here is a gift.
I remember when he was here with Green Bay and
literally you could feel the floor rumbling when he ran
onto that field. But right now having an undefeated team,
which may be the first time in international history to
have a team four and oh coming over here in
the Vikings, how do you not get excited to see
(28:14):
not just Sam Darnold, but this Vikings defense that is
finding ways to win in creative way that I've never
even seen happen with all these different athletes. So I
think the Vikings, they've had history here before with ending
the double doink versus the Saints, they would find a
way to leave with with a special something.
Speaker 13 (28:32):
I've got to ask, you, know, you've got this great
career over there, and yet there's still fans who are
still learning the game, and yet we also have crossed
the bridge to where it's most to understand the game.
Speaker 7 (28:45):
So how do you balance teaching new and then assuming
the viewer is familiar with what it is, and at
what point do you kind of weigh them together and say,
all right, we could talk about this like it's any
other or sport that they're familiar with, like soccer, if
you will.
Speaker 12 (29:01):
It's such a great question because that's really a finite line.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
Right.
Speaker 12 (29:05):
You've got these amazing kind of football nerds from the
eighties and nineties from when NFL Europe was around, and
then we've got brand new viewers to our show into
this sport. I think the biggest hurdles immediately are terminology, right.
We love to find different ways in the NFL to
say the same thing over and over again. Is it
a go, is it a fade, is it a same
(29:25):
or you know, looking at the fact that within like
you said, soccer football here, you've got eleven people on
the field and they play the whole time. Well, one
of the surprising things for fans is actually we have
eleven people for offense, for defense, and then you have
special teams. So understanding that kind of rolling sub mentality
has really helped people to kind of grasp why there
(29:48):
are so many people on an NFL team.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
Well, and your approach and your relatability, Phoebe, I think
is what's helpful to the viewers in the UK as well.
You know every level I'm talking You played flag football,
you played tackle football, and you did a coaching internship
with the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is a very obvious.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Question when we get to head coaches and coordinators who
played both levels. Now I want to ask you this,
what do you enjoy doing more coaching or playing?
Speaker 12 (30:13):
Oh, Jbie, that's such a tough one, but I have
to say, you know, I had the pleasure of working
with Josh Allen and Sean McDermott at the Bills and
when you and I'm sure it's the same for you guys,
right when you show up to work every single day
and you're there to be better, not just for yourself
but for everybody around you, that operation of elite mindset,
(30:35):
I mean, it's just there's nothing comparable.
Speaker 7 (30:38):
Now.
Speaker 12 (30:38):
I love playing for my country and to be able
to represent Great Britain on the largest stage possible and
hopefully in twenty twenty eight Olympics. But when you get
to coach and you get to educate and make people
better and almost more so help people discover what they
didn't know about themselves. I think that's the real beauty
within coaching. It's just helping to elevate and empower.
Speaker 3 (31:00):
I mean, what an answer.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
She hit us with the operation of an elite mindset
and also tease the fact that she might be in
La for the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Phoebe checkter, everybody,
my goodness. You can see her on sky Sports NFL.
We love Phoebe. We have round all the time, and
she is welcoming the NFL now onto her turf, her
grass in the coming weeks.
Speaker 3 (31:19):
Phoebe wonderful to see you say
Speaker 7 (31:20):
Well, thank you guys,
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