December 25, 2024 • 43 mins
The Good Morning Football Podcast begins with Christmas Day Football! Hosts Sherree Burress, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila discuss how today's games affect the playoff landscape. The table remembers emotional sports memories before Peter delivers his Fab Five Rookies for the week! Plus, we learn more about Ravens Defensive Coordinator Zack Orr.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, brought to you by Old
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
We are coming to you coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Wednesday, December twenty fifth, So a very Merry Christmas to
all and happy Hanukkah. I'm Sherry Burris alongside Akbar Baja Biamilla,
Kyle Brandt and Peter Schrager.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now we know Peter and Kyle, you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Guys are there on the East coast, so your mornings
have certainly already started with young ones too.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How would your Christmas so far? Kyle leastard with you guys.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's wonderful. It's great to say everybody, thank you everyone
for watching. Merry Christmas. I'm in the basement right now.
I can hear Bing Crosby through the floor. I can
hear young footsteps. And let me give you my setup.
I got my Polar Express mug because I can still
hear the bell. I got my everything bagel. That's how
I get down, and I want you guys to understand
I got the bag of the wrapping paper already. I'm
a blue guy for this team. I am going to
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do what Cam Hayward does today. I do the dirty
work and I pick up the rapping. But Peter, I know,
for me, some of the magic of Christmas and Santa
Claus is stepping away from my children opening presents to
get on the Good Morning Football Google doc and submit
my answers for Whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
That really is what makes it magical for me. What
about you?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Isn't that so funny that you know there's such a
festive feeling right outside this door and the kids are
running around. It's the first night of Hanukah here in
this house. Everyone's excited, nice and yet and yet I'm
studying offensive line. What's Wanya Morris up to for the
Kansas City Chiefs, because that's what we bring to.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
You every morning, a bar.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
It's bright and early on the West coast. How is
it over there in your household?
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Well, it's actually dark and early over here on the
West coast because the sun still is just starting to
try to quick creep up. But so I woke up
around two o'clock to start get getting my day started.
I like to kind of get slow motion into it,
and I'm thinking the house is going to be peaceful
as they go down to my studio and I'm like, okay, cool,
and the kids are up playing video games. I'm like,
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stead away, what do you guys? What are you doing?
And they we're all together, so it was cool to
see them together but not fighting. But I'm like, dang,
come like really, two o'clock in the morning. I don't
know what time they're going to wake up for Christmas
opening up gifts. Maybe till noon, who knows.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, you guys are going to have like a brunch
opening presence. I have a toddler at.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Home, so she'd better still be sleeping if not help
my husband. It's just so fun to be able to
get the presence, anticipate their reaction. And I know we
are so thankful that all the viewers at home join
us every morning, but especially.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Today for the holiday. But we do have business attend to.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
As you said, nothing screams holiday like talking about offensive Lineman,
Chiefs and Seals.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Let's get to the lead block. We have a double
header coming.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Your way today on Netflix, Steelers hosting the Chiefs that
in the afternoon Ravens and Houston. They take on the Texans.
But Russell Wilson let's start the day early. He and
the Steelers trying to hand the Chiefs only their second
loss on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The season, and Wilson says he knows it could come
down to who scores last.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
Well, the nation full league games are always close, but
they've done a really good job this year in particular
of winning these close games. You know, even when the
game hasn't gone their way the whole game or whatever
it is, they find a way. It's what championship teams do.
They find a way throughout the season. And I think that,
you know, for us, you know, I think it's getting
to the fourth quarter understanding that we got to be
rock solid in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, you gotta be good because we know that the
Chiefs have won so many one score games already this season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But we want to dive into this game first on.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Netflix, Chiefs Steelers, Peter As, you're sitting down, your kids
are playing with all their presidents, you're watching TV.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What are you watching for in this one?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know, this one starts right and early on these
coast o'clock Eastern like it's a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
So we're excited.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
The gifts will be open, everyone will be festive, and
I think there's been a narrative for the first thirteen
weeks of the season that the Chiefs have a major
Achilles hill and it's their offensive line. But in the
last three weeks, the Chiefs offensive line has been awesome
and they have kept Patrick Mahomes upright, and they were
up to the challenge last week against Houston. Let's take
a look at this case masterpiece the move that they
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made here to fix around the offensive line, because they
did something that you don't see very often. They took
one of the best guards of his generation, Joe Tooney,
and they moved him in week thirteen to left tackle.
And since he's gone over there, Tooney has been incredible.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
And it's a great story really.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Because Joe Toney wasn't asked and this wasn't suggested by
the offensive line coach. The story I got is that
Joe Toney said, look, we are getting ravaged at that
left tackle spot. I played guard in my entire career.
Moved me to left tackle. I can do it. He's
done that. This offensive line's been awesome. I'm going to
go as far as saying this in a roster that
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is filled with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Chris
Jones and now DeAndre Hopkins. I can argue that the
team MVP for the twenty twenty four Kensity Chiefs has
been Joe Tooney, an offensive lineman. That's how big this
has been, and you better believe they know what's coming.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Let's go back to a wild card.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Game twenty twenty one Steelers versus Chiefs on a Sunday night,
and who decided to start the game by reckon shop
on what was also viewed as a Kansas City offensive
line with issues.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
Pleaded his case to Noah Vail Williams just now get back.
He drops it again ahead a good second time and
it's picked up by Team J Watton with the playof live.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Into the end zone. Begos. But who would have thunk it?
Speaker 11 (05:58):
The Pittsburgh Steelers, after doing absolutely nothing on offense, are
going to take the lead on a mistake by the
Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Chiefs would obviously go on to win that game.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
It's part of their lore coming back after that early
score for the Steelers.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
But watch that today, watch that offensive line.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Don't fall for the.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Lazy narrative that it's as bad as it was earlier
in the season. It's pretty darn good. And Joe Tooney's
been doing his job.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It is Peter and I you know, my wife has
asked me for the last several weeks, so what do
you want for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
We have Christmas? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And then it occurred to me at eight oh four
Eastern on our show when I saw Creed Humphrey as
the opening conversation, Phylujah, don't want to do with Peter.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You know me better than Brook knows me. That's amazing.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I want I do mind that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You don't get that on other shows. You don't get
that from other voices. That's Peter. That's what he brings
to the table. I want to know what the Steelers
are bringing to the table today because my take on
this game is the Steeler should win. The Steelers should
win this game with what the Chiefs are going through
schedule wise, with where.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
They are playing at home.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I just heard Russell Wilson say, the championship teams find
a way. Is this a championship team, because what championship
teams do not do is lose three in a row
in December. You do not lose to Baltimore, Philly and
Kansas City all.
Speaker 12 (07:13):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
That's a tough streak.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I understand it. Those are all title contenders. You can't
go for three and that then you're not a title contender.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It's that simple.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And we got this George Pickens thing now is happening,
And I understand there's been a lot of playing hung
on the George Pickens' injury for the fact that Russ
is not playing that well the last.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Couple of weeks. I guess.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So if George Pickens is that important and he is
that much of a game changer, which I hope and
suspects that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
He might be, he's back today, folks. He's here for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Russ.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It's time to cook. It's time to go back to
November because December.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Has not been pretty.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
There's no shame to Baltimore and Philly if you're just
some middling team that's not going anywhere, not with that
logo on your helmet with the Steelers. Not in twenty
twenty four, when we're suspecting great things are coming. You
can't lose the three tititle contenders in row in December.
There is never a great team on a three game
losing streak.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
To play every team.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
On your schedule that matters, you lose to also by
two scores each time. I think the Pittsburgh Steels should
look to win this game. And given what I think
Kansas City's got going on schedule wise, a team that
never loses, screw it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I think Pittsburgh is gonna win.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
This game today and they're gonna beat the Chiefs, and
the Chiefs will have lost number two and then they'll
figure it out in the last week of the season.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Kyle, you are such a scrooge. Man, You're such a screwge.
Why you hate you wearing Kansas City color?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Man?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You look good by the way. I mean, you just
don't hate on the Chiefs like that. They've been doing
pretty good. You know, you mentioned George Pickens, you know,
coming back. He's like the shining star on the Christmas tree.
But what good is a shining star on a Christmas
tree if the presents aren't all that good? And right
now there's a little concern for me when I look
at the Joey Porter Junior being out in this game.
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The Chiefs they get back of course Hollywood Brown. I
know everybody thinks when they think about Hollywood Brown, they
think about his vertical speed when they got him. But
this last game against the Texans, you saw him doing
a lot of stuff horizontally, and you they're utilizing his
speed to get out Horizona. And I look at Xavier
going up north, I see up to the north pole.
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Then I see, of course Hollywood Brown stretching it out horizontally.
I think this could be an offense, excuse me, defensive
nightmare for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Pittsburgh Steelers they really
struggled against that against the Ravens, and the Ravens you
saw them getting and hitting a lot of stuff on
the outside. We know how fast Hollywood Brown is, so
I think that this for everything that they're going to
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get back with George Pickens. I think that the thing
that's going to hurt the Steelers the most is losing
and not having Joey Porter Junior out there to defend them.
And I know they haven't been impressive offensively. I get that,
but I do see in that last game that there's
something different about this offense that's going to go off
on Christmas. Yes, it's a short week for them. Who cares.
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They played hobble, they play without their best players. They
do whatever it takes to win. I've talked about it before.
The will to win is higher than anyone. It's just
not a stat that shows up.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
There's a lot on the line though, for Kansas City.
With the win, they clinch the AFC one seed. That
means they get the first run by and home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So let's see if the Chiefs can pull this off.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But again, we know Pittsburgh also needing to bounce back.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That game coming your way, Santa.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Bringing joy of football around the world with this doubleheader up. First,
the game just we were talking about Chiefs against Steelers
coming your way one pm Eastern. Then the afternoon four
thirty pm Eastern, Ravens against the Texans, a Christmas Day
doubleheader on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We certainly can't wait. But coming up, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Gonna chat with Saint superstar Tyrann Matthew. How does the
Honey Badger celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
If you want to know, stay right here, Kyle, And.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
How rude of it was was it of us to
put Tyrone Matthew in angry runs on the receiving end
of Anger runs this because Christmas. He's one of the
best people in the whole league and we put them
in that. Plus, I'm dreaming of a why Board Wednesday
on Christmas. I don't think we've ever done it on
Christmas before, but we are doing it today. It's an
undefeated segment. What player needs to cook this weekend? Who's
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got that dog and them? And what is the Christmas
present from the football world that will make you cry?
Merry Christmas, Happy Honikah, beautiful, time to be alive.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Time for a round of white Board Wednesday. Again the
gifts that just keep on giving here on Good Morning Football. Kyle.
I know we opened up with Angry Runs Home ed
ishit yesterday a first and the real.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
MVP besides Jacob, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Was your dog, Sammy as we're seeing right here, the
best girl ever. But the player that needs to have
the dog in him the final two weeks of the season, Peter,
get us going first, who do you have?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Okay, Well, as my whiteboard is being looked for in
a stack of packages, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Going to go with white paper and yeah it's okay, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
This is it. This is my guy right here.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Okay, Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I don't know if you guys saw the old clip
from a podcast, but c J. Stroud was talking about
the playoffs and he was like, all due respect to
Kyle Hamilton, you can't have Kyle Hamilton covering Travis Kelsey.
Better believe the Ravens put that in their back pocket.
You better believe the Ravens are ready for today.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
The Ravens have two more games.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
They have an opportunity to still win the AFC North,
and they have an opportunity to still have a home
playoff game. They also still have an opportunity to knock
down the Texan, something that I think would be really
important for them considering they might be their first round
opponent if things don't go well in the division.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Kyle Hamilton's awesome. The use them everywhere. As we're focused
on that.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Cheap versus Steelers game in the early window, keep an
eye number fourteen.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I think he's one of the best defensive players in
football and he'll show up, especially if c. J. Stroud
was caught saying something on a hot mic over the
off season.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
All right, hot Mike, I got a hot take, a
hot take. But when you guys think ofrunner, who's the
one player you think of when you think of angry runner, right,
it's Isaiah Pichecko, Isaiah p Checko, Isaiah Puchecko to bring
that dog back out in him. Of course, you know
he's healthy and he's back. But the one thing I
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love about watching Isaiah Pachecko is just how hard he
runs every single time. And he's gonna need that going
up against a very good Steelers run defense, and this
game is gonna be predicated not just on the ability
to throw the ball, but it's his ability to run
the ball. We saw Derrick Henry go off, and I'm
not saying Derrick Henry and Isaiah Pachecko are the same
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type of runners, but their vulnerabilities within this really good
run defense that Isaiah Pacheco and his running style can
take advantage of. So I'm expecting the Kansas City Chief
to spread out this defense, spread them out, go empty,
spread out, and then every now and again line Isaiah
Pacheck out there and see him run down hard and
pop up ro hard. I like him. I like Isaiah
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Pacheco to bring that dog out.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The Checko is a dog. Sammy's a dog.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
She's back.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
She crashed the set again.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Also by coincidence, today Sammy's birthday. Sammy, Sammy like the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yeah, you better be you better be careful.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Kirk kurb Street is probably watching and none too pleased
that your dog is getting all the spotlight.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
We only have room for one dog loving guy.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I mean, what are we doing here that I don't
get to travel privately though?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
With Sammy?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The only you know what I got my perk is
Sammy gets all the old trappers. She can get Peter,
and that's what we're really thankful for on this Christmas Right, Sammy.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Right, get out, you're being honest.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Sports TV all right, go to the next question.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
I'm gonna sneak my dog. I'm gonna seek get my
dog at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You hear me.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, we got you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh good, because it's important that I get in my
DeVante Smith answer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, I'll be very quick on this one. Guys.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
The profile thing that happened with Devonte's You see my
cool ring light from Amazon in the background.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
You might know this.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
He had a big drop here.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
We have to play.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
He said, it's on me. I taught the hard ones.
I dropped the the easy ones. You know they call
him skinny Batman. Let's you know what Batman loves vengeance.
You know if Tom Hardy broke Batman's damn back and
he goes into some pit and did some push ups
and all of a sudden his spine was healed, that's
what we need from Davonte Smith.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Go get it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You had some of the best hands on the going
the damn Heisman Trophy at wide receiver in the twenty
first century. Let's go make some makeup catches vengeance, Davonte Smith,
Ben Jim all right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Moving on to the next one. Berkershire is during this
show a little bit later. He's a Florida State alum,
and he talked before about the first time he saw
Chief Aciola. I'm sure I got his name right writing
on renegade and he began to cry. So our next question,
the sports memory that makes you emotional is what moment
where do you go?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Back to Peter Well, I.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Start with twenty twenty four, which has been the worst
New York Giants football season than any of these Giants
fans have ever seen. It's the one hundred year of
the Giants statistically across the board. It's been the worst season.
So I'm going to bring them back the better memories.
To Tampa, Florida to nineteen ninety one January, and I
was a young boy just falling in love with football,
and my team was the New York Giants. I'm going
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to toss to my favorite play. It's from mark Ingram,
you know, the running back, his father who was a
great wide receiver. And we're gonna get the broadcast call
of it, Super Bowl twenty five, Whitney Houston to.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
This hot settler throwing. It's caught by Ingram. He has
to get to the nineteen for a first down, and
he does.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
Oh every now and then in a football play. In
a football game, rather, you can look back to a
play and it might set the tone for everything that
happens after that.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
If the Giants win.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
This game, they may look back to this catch and
run by mark Ingram.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Look how big that patches on the left shoulder.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
And of course you know how this thing ends. Nor
would missus the field goal. I remember running around my childhood.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Home like a maniac.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Here as a Giants fan.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Just falling in love with football.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Obviously the Bills haven't won, since we're hoping for that
to change at some point.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Pepper Johnson, Martin Leady.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
All the footage, but I see that, and I remember
the Sports Illustrated cover of Everson Walls just with his
hands like this, knowing he was a Super Bowl champion
Giants nineteen ninety my favorite football team of all time,
marking from my favorite play of all time fighting for
that first down.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Peter, I appreciate that you cleansed the palate. I have
to spread some holiday cheer with you and just follow up.
This is a very fun topic on Christmas. Is this
the worst Giants season of your lifetime since you've been alive?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean this.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is Thanks for bringing that up, Kyle.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, the Jets.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
The Jets and the Giants are having two of the
respect of the worst football seas.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
It was over by the time apple picking was done
in New York, so.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Apple picking will never be done in New York. We
go right into three coating season.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
All right, Listen the video of this kid online crying
about Josh Allen and how much he hates Josh Allen.
I've seen it a thousand times, and it's a reminder
that Josh Allen is so fun to watch and so
electric for most of us.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
If you're a kid, it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Doesn't matter if they beat your team, you hate them.
And I have never hated any human beings and any
walk of life ever more than the bad boy pistons
of the ladies and early nineties.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I used to cry when they would beat the Bulls.
I hated them. I hated Bill.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Ambier, I hated Dennis Rodman, I hated Mark Aguire, Benning,
the Marco Wave, Johnson. I certainly hated Isaiah Thomas. I
kind of respected Joe Dumark because everybody respected dumartin anybody.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Did, but I used to.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I mean, I remember after those Eastern Conference finals that
I would sco to my room and just cry because
that Michael Jordan couldn't beat them. And so I've come
as an adult to respect them because I like bad
guys and I like heels, and they were such unapologetic.
I guess the only word I can say on TV
is jerks. That you just don't see that in sports anymore.
And I used to hate them so much. Now at
this point I kind of missed them. I wish there
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was some bad Boy Pistons around. I'm sure the NBA
does too, based on what I've seen lately, But in
the NFL, I wish we had some We don't really have.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It right now. Oh man, man, you took me way
back with that one. That that was the golden era
for me that time. And I too did not like
the Detroit Pittson's back then, the bad boys. There was
something cool about them, but I didn't like them. Mine
is a little bit more personal and in emotions. I
want you guys to just kind of lean in a
little bit on this one. So a lot of people
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don't know this, but I didn't start playing football until
nineteen ninety seven, which was my senior year in high
school at Crenshaw High School. My high school coach really
was on me, you should play like your brother, you
should play I say, no, I'm a basketball player. I'm
going to the NBA. Well that never happened, So I
go to San Diego State on a football scholarship. I'm
still very very green to football, and in my sophomore year,
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I had the cool opportunity to work security at Super
Bowl thirty two that took place down in San Diego.
It was the Denver Broncos against the Green Bay Packers.
And I actually got fired from that game because I
wasn't pantedos about the fourth quarter. I was sent home
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because I kept looking at the game. But it was
the very first time and that I realize, like, you
know what, I want to do this professionally. I start
to set my dream. But I will never forget this
game for as long as I live. You know, watching
John Elway Terrell Davis, who I've become very very cool with,
you know, to watch him and the way he played
in this game and the way he ran Brett for
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of all of them, I mean, it was just one
of those ones that kind of just changed my life
in my perspective about football. So when I think of
this game, I get emotional because I remember where I
was new to football. But this is what made me
fall in love with the game. This game right here,
I have a Packer memory.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Also when the Packers won the Super Bowl against the
Pittsburgh Steelers, it brings all the feels for me. Also,
any game seven of the Stanley Cup Final, I will
watch it regardless of who's in it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But moving on, did you guys happen to get to.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
See the Lions fan who got a Jared GoF cutout
for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Fantastic?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That is all we needed, Jared Goff, you got a
huge fan club there. What present as an adult, let's clarify,
would make you just absolutely lose your mind. Just the
best present ever, Peter.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I love that that Christmas party that we just watched,
there's not.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
A single child in the absolutely that's the point screaming
and freaking out about Jared Goff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I love what do you got there?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I don't know if you guys saw this one and
replay review?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Have you seen this? Guys, show the tweet if you can. Guys,
someone someone.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Went on eBay and put this thing on eBay yesterday.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It's on the eBay. It's one of these monster replay
review machine. I want one.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
How they got one, Someone somehow got one, put it
on like a face book marketplace, and it's the actual
full machine.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I think it's it's non functioning. Kyle.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
We get so much free crap because we work with
the NFL.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
I gotta ask your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
This would be the ultimate instant replay HD with the
hood machine. Put it right there in the man cave.
Put it right next to the NBA Jam and.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
The Street Fighter and the big screen TV.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I want one of these.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I don't think Peter in somebody's basement and like, oh,
all right, that's cool. You got golden tea, you got
you gotta kiss pinball machine that's on.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And that's more and.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
That's more coveted and rare than Joe Burrow's batmobile.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There's only one of those guys that we know.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Of right now. Well that Peter.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Maybe that is if you can fit that under the
tree of machine and Peter goes under the hood and
he's just looking at like you know.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
What is in bounds or not.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I'd be like, if you get the right, if you
get the call right, Peter, Like.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Some tickets come out, you know, you get signs to
go and and like you can exchange them.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
And get it.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
You get a you can get a you can get
a medical tents as your.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I want to save up three hundred tickets to get
a pylon. Yeah, can I have the pilon up there
at a yard marker? Is six thousand tickets? Wow, that's
so great.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Uh, this is a.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Relatable one, Like the reaction that I would get. It's
not even a gift it's if I look at.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
My calendar app.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Let's say it's a Wednesday or Thursday, and I scroll
over to Saturday, and there's nothing on it. There's no dots,
there's no basketball practice, there's no hockey practice, no lacrosse practice.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
No recital, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Just sit there on my big old butt on a
Saturday for the entire day. Uber eats breakfast, who breads lunch,
who breads dinner? All of that, I would cry and
fall to my knees like I have just won Michael
Jordan's first title, crying over the.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Larry and Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
If I just had a Saturday with no youth sports
and no Cub scouts, none of that stuff, I'll never
have it, but.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I would love to have it.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I'm sitting here on Christmas morning talking to you guys
with a half eaten bagel.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's the schedule for me right now.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I want a replay machine, and I want a free
Saturday to sit home all day and play with my
replay machine.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Okay, all right. I don't know about playing with the
replay machine. I don't know about looking into an empty,
non functioning replay booth, but that does sound cool. It's
cool just to have one. Mine is gonna be a
little different. Mine is if all of a sudden, I
got a phone call, and of course I'm going to
do his father's voice.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
Hey, hogbarn, this is the great Al Davis calling. You
instructed Mark Davis to give you ownership of the Las
Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
That would make me go nuts. I would do the
Tom cruise. I would jump on the couch like.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The won't whoa whoa?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We can't well, okay, I would jump on the couch.
This is a chair with the rollers on it that
that almost went bad for me, But I would do
that if I got I'll just give me five percent,
give me three percent. I don't care. I will just
take what effort.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
That's I'm just I'm thinking about the segments we can
do with the replay machine.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
You mentioned the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Obviously you could put the talk rule in there, but
Peter will do a segment about with Peter's replay machine.
What call would you like to undo? I also want
to know, Peter does that replay machine? Can you clear
browser history on that sucker?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I feel like you might need to.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Again.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Doesn't it have the old TV scutings like the old
tree clear you'd have to like update it with like
a like a plasma TV here. So look at that.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I'm telling you one of these things and I'll up far.
By the way, five percent of the Raiders is like
four hundred million dollars, So I don't think you're getting that.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh I know.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
That's why I would go crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
If she's watching.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
If Beyonce could just give me a call and be like,
hey girl, I got a plane for you. Let's go
to Houston. I'm out of here. Well, time now for
a little news from around the league. Looking man Bridget Condon,
Good morning, my girl, and Mary, Christmas to.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
You, Merry Christmas to you, I coast to coast. I
love a little action and two gals on the network
for Christmas. We love to see it, Sherry, I know,
and you and I weren't the only nice ones on
Santa's nice list this season, because apparently the Steelers offense
were as well. We got a big coming game coming
up this afternoon between the Steelers and the Steelers are
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going to get someone's pretty pretty important back with them
for that big game against the Chiefs. Wide receiver George
Pickens officially removed from the injury report. He's good to
go for today's games. Pickens, the Steelers top receiver, has
missed the past three games with a hamstring injury. Russell
Wilson will be happy to get him back, as Pittsburgh
has gone one in two in the games without Pickens.
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On the other side of the ball, Chiefs Pro Bowl
defensive tackle Chris jo is listed as questionable for the game.
He's dealing with a calf injury he suffered in the
Week sixteen win over the Texans. Jones was limited in
practice Tuesday after missing Monday session. In other injury news,
Packers head coach Matt Lafleur saying Monday wide receiver Christian
Watson suffered a knee brews in the Monday night's win
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over the Saints lafore adding the wide out does have
a chance to play in the big NFC North showdown
against the Vikings on Sunday, and the NFL Fan of
the Year contest presented by Captain Morgan is back. Let's
hear it for the New England Patriots Fan of the Year,
Dan Sweeney. Dan has been a Pats fan since childhood.
Do you remember sitting in the family car listening to
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games on the radio before they were even televised. Since
nineteen ninety seven, Dan and his wife have attended all
ten of the Patriots Super Bowl appearances, along with matchups
in London, Germany, and multiple US destinations. To learn more
about all thirty two nominees and vote for your favorite,
visit nfl dot com Backslash Fan of the Year. Saturday
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on NFL Network, We've got a triple header of action.
First at one Eastern, it's the Chargers and Patriots, follow
by the Broncos and Bengals. Then it's a huge NFS
matchup as the Cardinals visit the Rams at eight Eastern.
Coverage begins with NFL Game Day kickoff at ten am
Eastern on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus. Coming
up next Saint Safety. In front of the show, Tyron Matthew,
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He joins us this Christmas morning, so.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Good Morne.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
What's up everybody? Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And tall you rookies out there, there's a hope you
could be on the Shriekers Fab five. It's the list
of the top five rookie performances of the week. We
start off with Week sixteen's performances, and we start off
in Miami where very quietly, Chop Robinson, the Penn State product,
has been absolutely unblockable of late, and he was dominant
in this game against the forty nine Ers, Shaw with
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what sounds like some bon Jovi behind us, going in
there and getting the sack there and then he does
the Chop boo, which is so good. He's tied for
the rookie lead with six sacks this season, and he's
just two and a half sacks away from Jalen Phillips's
franchise rookie record. Becoming the starter in Week five, Chop
Robinson has the third highest pressure rate and the fifth
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best pass rate in the entire NFL. Not just rookie,
that's Chop Robinson, that's defense. And that is a guy
who shows up on Schrager's Fab five for dominating the
forty nine Ers offensive line. But there may be no
more dominant rookie this season in all of football than
my number four pick, and.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
That's Brock Bowers.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Bowers just did it again, and he did so in
a Raiders win.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
What is with the bon JOVII, Guys, I love this
all right. Brock Bowers eleven catches for ninety.
Speaker 15 (29:52):
Nine yards in Week sixteen's win, and in this case,
he becomes the third rookie tight end in the history
of the NFL to have one thousand receiving yards in
a season.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
But that's not a in the cool stat Guys. He
still has two more games left. Rock Bauers is just
four catches away from breaking the rookie record for most
catches in a season.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Is this the kids bop version? And this is unbelievable?
What version of bon Jovi is this? I'm here for it.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Rock Bauers is a kid.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Will put him in there.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Four catches away from tying Pukunakua five catches which you
might get in the first quarter this weekend for having
the most catches of anybody ever.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In a rookie season.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
The only number four on the list.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Why because Brian Thomas Junior did it again in Jacksonville
in that same game, that same Jaguars versus Raiders game.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Brian Thomas was all.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Over the field another great one career high and receiving
yards one hundred and thirty two receiving yards nine catches. Guys,
take a look at this stat here.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
This is for everyone to see.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Plus receiving yards most consecutive games for a rookie since
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
He's on the list with five.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
He's had five straight games of seventy five receiving yards
in morning.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
He's not doing this with Eli Manning or Brock Purdy.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Or for Dante Colepepper or even Brad Johnson or Randall
Cunningham burn him the rock. He's doing this with a
combination of Trevor Lawrence and now Mac Jones has thrown
him the passes. Brian Thomas awesome again. In a wide
receiver class that is loaded with Neighbors and Harrison and
at Doonsay and all the others, Brian Thomas Junior has
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been the number one rookie wide receiver in the league
this season, number two on.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
The Fab five.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
We go to a rookie quarterback making.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
His debut in a huge, huge Week sixteen game, and
who got the win Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
The stats add up and also does the film.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
This guy was great. Back to the jovie third.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Falcons quarterback in the last forty seasons to win his
first career start. The other two good company, Michael Vick
and Matt Ryan. He was eighteen to twenty seven for
two hundred and two yards and he got a win
in his first career start. And now they have this
massive Sunday night game against Washington where Pennick suddenly has the.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Weight of the world on his shoulders.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
He looked up to the task.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
They got a big lead early, they got to pick
six early from Jesse Bates, and they ran away from there.
But if you're a rookie quarterback getting a key win
that put your team in first place in the division, yeah,
I don't care about your stats.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
You are number two on the list, but number one
might have been the.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Best performance of any player on any team, any year
and any tenure.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
And that's my man.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Jade and Daniels. Jadan Daniel's been on this list more
than anybody this season.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
And Jayden Daniels had five touchdown passes on Sunday and
he had the play of the season for the Washington Commanders.
And that includes a hell mary pass he through earlier
this year against the Bears with the chip stacked against
him and a touchdown to win. Let's go to Joe
Davis and Greg Olsen. Greg Olsen will be on Netflix
today for the call they had on Sunday Day for Fox.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
Second in goal ten seconds, Daniels fires in Zoe, tux down.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
Tamis in cruder, preposterous, five turnovers and the league with
seconds remaining.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
You're looking for your legacy moment as a.
Speaker 16 (33:26):
Young quarterback, revitalizing a franchise that has been desperate for success.
You bring it all the way back against arkably the
best team in football.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
And how fun is this? In a day today? Where
we get.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes, two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks
going at it Sunday Nights NBC game with Tariico and Collinsworth.
It's Jaden Daniels versus Michael Pennix with a ton of
playoff implications on the line.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
That is pretty cool. Here's the Fab five for the
list for the week of Week sixteen. Hey, look, the
cream is rising to the top.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
All of these guys were first round back in April.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
It's twenty How that works?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Jaydon's Daniels, Michael Fennix, Brian Thomas, Brock Bauers Chop Robinson
and the Kids Bop version of Bon jovies.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
It's my life, Kyle, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
It's now or never, Peter, I ain't gonna live forever.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
And I love the list.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's been a great hip listen as much as I
love these my all time favorite of twenty twenty fourth
this is the last time we do it is Beingie
Bishop of.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Course in the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who is ready to go today, Peter.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
But it's a great list, and brock Bowers is having
one of the greatest seasons of all time in any
sport for a terrible team.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
I'm so glad you guys are giving him that love
and recognition because it is hard to recognize talent, especially
on a team that hasn't been winning. But Chop Robinson,
I think is another cool one. The name, the name
fits it. I mean, he's got the moves, he got
everything for it, so it's cool to see his name
on the list. But going back to Jane Daniels, I
believe now since I'm keeping I'm the official Tally Guide
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now for James Daniels, I believe this is now number
eleven for Jane Daniels on the Rookie list. Number one.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, absolutely Peter, I light that you have players that
aren't just on playoff teams that I think I'm gonna
go with Jaden Daniels here. Washington pr posted that before Sunday,
Washington lost ninety eight straight games when they were trailing
by thirteen plus points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
So the fact that he was able to pull that off,
we see him do it twice now with the Hail Mary.
Kind of play.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Good job Jaden, hey and on behalf of the Pride
of Sayerville, New Jersey. I'd like to toss some knockoff
on Joby right to commercial. Let's go that is Shregger's
bab fod guys.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Peter hot take, Richie carried that band, Richie mpp of.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
That band got out to head of lock Layer here.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Welcome back to a very festive good morning football here
on the NFL Network.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
You know, earlier this week I gave the Coach.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Of the Week award to a thirty two year old
defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. His name is Zach
Orr and he was much maligned earlier in the season
and as the Raven's defense is given up a lot
of touchdowns, but they have turned it around and they've
been one of the best units in football.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
Or is thirty two years old.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
He's a defensive coordinator one of the best football teams
in the league, and yet many do not know his
incredible story. Here's a wonderful piece our NFL network colleagues
put together on the story.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Of zach Orr.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
Taken down. Zach Orr di acepted by Zacharo beit that suck.
Speaker 17 (36:31):
He flew around, he played hard, he was physical, he
was all over the field.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
He just said, young man, you're not playing football. Your
neck could explode. And it was the best thing that
ever happened. Yet kind of thick always told him a
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biscuit away from a down lineman.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
My dad he played nine years in the lead.
Speaker 18 (37:06):
I looked up to my dad man, and at a
very early age, I just wanted to do everything that
he did be like him. When everybody asked me what
I want to be when I grow up, I said,
I want to be an pessional football player in the
National Football League. I never was the most talented player.
It was all based off of me having some guy
given ability, but it was based off of me just
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having to outwork people.
Speaker 19 (37:29):
He just breaking records of un team. I know he's
making All Conference. When people are inviting through interviews, I said, man,
he has an opportunity to make it to the league.
Speaker 18 (37:39):
I felt real confident that if I had a chance
to get into an NFL building and show my abilities,
that I would have a chance to stick around.
Speaker 17 (37:51):
We're thrilled to sign him as a free agent, but
you know, we signed a lot of guys as free agents.
You always wonder is it going to translate at the
NFL level.
Speaker 18 (37:59):
First couple of years was manly on special teams.
Speaker 17 (38:01):
He just kind of continued to rise with every child
jenny face. He thought, okay, well what's the limit. He
got his opportunity to be a starting linebacker and it
just continued.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Not the Raven's defense comes up big.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Their best defensive player this season is an undrafted player
named Zach Orr.
Speaker 19 (38:19):
Excitement was through the roof for our family seeing him
being the first year started making six team All Pro.
You know, I think he didn't even hit his prime yet.
Speaker 17 (38:28):
People coming down he's gonna be a top linebacker in
National Footballleague.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
For a long time, Skoy was a limit.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
It's the game of the year. Un Christmas twenty sixteen.
Speaker 18 (38:40):
It was a big time game. Knew it was gonna
be a physical game going into it.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
There he goes the workhorse in the league right now,
leveon delver tackler.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Hello, Zachary Or He.
Speaker 18 (38:51):
Gave me a little head fake and then he accelerated
into me and lowered the shoulder and toil me.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Actually ran me over crazy.
Speaker 18 (38:58):
Enough, and I felt my left side and my body
kind of go numb for a little bit. And we
just expect him to hear I had to do some rehab.
You might have to go in and fix something.
Speaker 20 (39:08):
Between the MRIH and a cat skin, we had a
complete view of zach snack and what they found was
this abnormality of the cerviable one vertebrae. There's a cleft
here that did not fully form. And so what would
happen is if you load the head like this, that
would push the c one out in an explosive manner.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
You said, at any time, it could have been little
league football. You could have took a shot the wrong
way and you would have been dead.
Speaker 18 (39:37):
He said, My recommendation is you had to stop playing
football immediately.
Speaker 12 (39:44):
Up told zachar In reality, God gave him the greatest
Christmas gift he ever got.
Speaker 18 (39:51):
But I wasn't really trying to hear it. In my
peak physical shape, I just had the best year of
my career. I felt like, honest, I can go out
there and play a game at that moment if I
needed to. I was back home with my parents, and
when teams started reporting back, when players started reporting.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Back, that's when it hit me.
Speaker 18 (40:14):
I was like, man, I'm I'm not a national football
player anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:18):
Cried a lot.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
It's something that I put something much work into. Not
being able to live that out that's what really hurt.
Speaker 19 (40:29):
Whenever you see someone your loved one parton or maybe
going through a little depression, you wanna make sure you're
there for no matter what. Everybody had to be strong
for him. We told him playing the game is only
one aspect of it.
Speaker 18 (40:43):
My older brother, he's a football coach, so you know,
he'd be like, man, come up to practice.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
I know you still love bass or stay around.
Speaker 19 (40:50):
Right.
Speaker 18 (40:51):
It definitely started feel a void and I was like, okay, man,
like this is fun. I know what I want to do.
Speaker 17 (40:59):
You know, it comes from a coaching families. Dad's a coach,
his brother's a coach, so it's kind of easy just
to say, you know what, what if we tack fact?
You know, in some capacity, I started from ground zero.
Speaker 18 (41:08):
I had to build myself up as coach, proved myself
as a coach.
Speaker 17 (41:12):
He did the dirty work, you know, he did all
the hard jobs. He broke down the tape, he ran
the prospects back and.
Speaker 7 (41:17):
Forth through the airport.
Speaker 17 (41:19):
That's how you build yourself up into having a chance
to be successful.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
It was just him going to work and doing it
how y'all doing.
Speaker 17 (41:31):
Zach Orr has been named the Ravens defensive coordinator, replacing
Mike McDonald, and it's had a fast rise.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
He's just thirty one years old and now the DC
in Baltimore.
Speaker 18 (41:41):
I'm having more fun than I did as a player.
I feel like I'm impacting more people lives, not only
just in this building, but outside this building.
Speaker 12 (41:51):
Everything happens for a reason. He had to go through
the difficult part to get to where he is now.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
My dad was totally right.
Speaker 18 (42:04):
That was the best gift that you've got, because you know,
it made you realize that a there's more to life
than this, and honestly felt like I found my purpose.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Absolutely inspiring story Zach Orr had his playing days taken
away from him, and yet he invested himself and put
the faith into a different profession, coaching. He'll be manning
the sidelines for the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens today. They'll be
up against the Houston Texans. The game is on Netflix
at four o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Beyonce will be the halftime entertainment.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
But keep an eye on Zach Orr and what that
defense does to steymy that Bobby Slowick offense in Houston. Zach,
we see you, We love you in an awesome story,
and I know Christmas might be bad memories of that game,
but look how life has turned out just eight years later.
Zach Orr, defensive coordinator of the NFL. Beyonce, we see you,
and we're back on Good Morning Football after this
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, brought to you by Old
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
We are coming to you coast to coast.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Wednesday, December twenty fifth, So a very Merry Christmas to
all and happy Hanukkah. I'm Sherry Burris alongside Akbar Baja Biamilla,
Kyle Brandt and Peter Schrager.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Now we know Peter and Kyle, you.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Guys are there on the East coast, so your mornings
have certainly already started with young ones too.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
How would your Christmas so far? Kyle leastard with you guys.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's wonderful. It's great to say everybody, thank you everyone
for watching. Merry Christmas. I'm in the basement right now.
I can hear Bing Crosby through the floor. I can
hear young footsteps. And let me give you my setup.
I got my Polar Express mug because I can still
hear the bell. I got my everything bagel. That's how
I get down, and I want you guys to understand
I got the bag of the wrapping paper already. I'm
a blue guy for this team. I am going to
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do what Cam Hayward does today. I do the dirty
work and I pick up the rapping. But Peter, I know,
for me, some of the magic of Christmas and Santa
Claus is stepping away from my children opening presents to
get on the Good Morning Football Google doc and submit
my answers for Whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
That really is what makes it magical for me. What
about you?
Speaker 6 (01:32):
Isn't that so funny that you know there's such a
festive feeling right outside this door and the kids are
running around. It's the first night of Hanukah here in
this house. Everyone's excited, nice and yet and yet I'm
studying offensive line. What's Wanya Morris up to for the
Kansas City Chiefs, because that's what we bring to.
Speaker 7 (01:47):
You every morning, a bar.
Speaker 8 (01:49):
It's bright and early on the West coast. How is
it over there in your household?
Speaker 7 (01:54):
Well, it's actually dark and early over here on the
West coast because the sun still is just starting to
try to quick creep up. But so I woke up
around two o'clock to start get getting my day started.
I like to kind of get slow motion into it,
and I'm thinking the house is going to be peaceful
as they go down to my studio and I'm like, okay, cool,
and the kids are up playing video games. I'm like,
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stead away, what do you guys? What are you doing?
And they we're all together, so it was cool to
see them together but not fighting. But I'm like, dang,
come like really, two o'clock in the morning. I don't
know what time they're going to wake up for Christmas
opening up gifts. Maybe till noon, who knows.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Okay, you guys are going to have like a brunch
opening presence. I have a toddler at.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Home, so she'd better still be sleeping if not help
my husband. It's just so fun to be able to
get the presence, anticipate their reaction. And I know we
are so thankful that all the viewers at home join
us every morning, but especially.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Today for the holiday. But we do have business attend to.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
As you said, nothing screams holiday like talking about offensive Lineman,
Chiefs and Seals.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Let's get to the lead block. We have a double
header coming.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Your way today on Netflix, Steelers hosting the Chiefs that
in the afternoon Ravens and Houston. They take on the Texans.
But Russell Wilson let's start the day early. He and
the Steelers trying to hand the Chiefs only their second
loss on.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
The season, and Wilson says he knows it could come
down to who scores last.
Speaker 9 (03:24):
Well, the nation full league games are always close, but
they've done a really good job this year in particular
of winning these close games. You know, even when the
game hasn't gone their way the whole game or whatever
it is, they find a way. It's what championship teams do.
They find a way throughout the season. And I think that,
you know, for us, you know, I think it's getting
to the fourth quarter understanding that we got to be
rock solid in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Yeah, you gotta be good because we know that the
Chiefs have won so many one score games already this season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But we want to dive into this game first on.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Netflix, Chiefs Steelers, Peter As, you're sitting down, your kids
are playing with all their presidents, you're watching TV.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
What are you watching for in this one?
Speaker 6 (04:02):
You know, this one starts right and early on these
coast o'clock Eastern like it's a Sunday afternoon.
Speaker 7 (04:06):
So we're excited.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
The gifts will be open, everyone will be festive, and
I think there's been a narrative for the first thirteen
weeks of the season that the Chiefs have a major
Achilles hill and it's their offensive line. But in the
last three weeks, the Chiefs offensive line has been awesome
and they have kept Patrick Mahomes upright, and they were
up to the challenge last week against Houston. Let's take
a look at this case masterpiece the move that they
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made here to fix around the offensive line, because they
did something that you don't see very often. They took
one of the best guards of his generation, Joe Tooney,
and they moved him in week thirteen to left tackle.
And since he's gone over there, Tooney has been incredible.
Speaker 7 (04:46):
And it's a great story really.
Speaker 6 (04:48):
Because Joe Toney wasn't asked and this wasn't suggested by
the offensive line coach. The story I got is that
Joe Toney said, look, we are getting ravaged at that
left tackle spot. I played guard in my entire career.
Moved me to left tackle. I can do it. He's
done that. This offensive line's been awesome. I'm going to
go as far as saying this in a roster that
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is filled with Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey and Chris
Jones and now DeAndre Hopkins. I can argue that the
team MVP for the twenty twenty four Kensity Chiefs has
been Joe Tooney, an offensive lineman. That's how big this
has been, and you better believe they know what's coming.
Speaker 8 (05:28):
Let's go back to a wild card.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Game twenty twenty one Steelers versus Chiefs on a Sunday night,
and who decided to start the game by reckon shop
on what was also viewed as a Kansas City offensive
line with issues.
Speaker 10 (05:43):
Pleaded his case to Noah Vail Williams just now get back.
He drops it again ahead a good second time and
it's picked up by Team J Watton with the playof live.
Speaker 7 (05:55):
Into the end zone. Begos. But who would have thunk it?
Speaker 11 (05:58):
The Pittsburgh Steelers, after doing absolutely nothing on offense, are
going to take the lead on a mistake by the
Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 8 (06:08):
Chiefs would obviously go on to win that game.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
It's part of their lore coming back after that early
score for the Steelers.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
But watch that today, watch that offensive line.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
Don't fall for the.
Speaker 8 (06:17):
Lazy narrative that it's as bad as it was earlier
in the season. It's pretty darn good. And Joe Tooney's
been doing his job.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
It is Peter and I you know, my wife has
asked me for the last several weeks, so what do
you want for Christmas?
Speaker 5 (06:27):
We have Christmas? I don't know.
Speaker 7 (06:28):
I don't know. I really don't know.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
And then it occurred to me at eight oh four
Eastern on our show when I saw Creed Humphrey as
the opening conversation, Phylujah, don't want to do with Peter.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
You know me better than Brook knows me. That's amazing.
Speaker 7 (06:41):
I want I do mind that.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
You don't get that on other shows. You don't get
that from other voices. That's Peter. That's what he brings
to the table. I want to know what the Steelers
are bringing to the table today because my take on
this game is the Steeler should win. The Steelers should
win this game with what the Chiefs are going through
schedule wise, with where.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
They are playing at home.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
I just heard Russell Wilson say, the championship teams find
a way. Is this a championship team, because what championship
teams do not do is lose three in a row
in December. You do not lose to Baltimore, Philly and
Kansas City all.
Speaker 12 (07:13):
In a row.
Speaker 7 (07:14):
That's a tough streak.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
I understand it. Those are all title contenders. You can't
go for three and that then you're not a title contender.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
It's that simple.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
And we got this George Pickens thing now is happening,
And I understand there's been a lot of playing hung
on the George Pickens' injury for the fact that Russ
is not playing that well the last.
Speaker 5 (07:29):
Couple of weeks. I guess.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
So if George Pickens is that important and he is
that much of a game changer, which I hope and
suspects that.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
He might be, he's back today, folks. He's here for Christmas.
Speaker 7 (07:40):
Russ.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
It's time to cook. It's time to go back to
November because December.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
Has not been pretty.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
There's no shame to Baltimore and Philly if you're just
some middling team that's not going anywhere, not with that
logo on your helmet with the Steelers. Not in twenty
twenty four, when we're suspecting great things are coming. You
can't lose the three tititle contenders in row in December.
There is never a great team on a three game
losing streak.
Speaker 7 (08:01):
To play every team.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
On your schedule that matters, you lose to also by
two scores each time. I think the Pittsburgh Steels should
look to win this game. And given what I think
Kansas City's got going on schedule wise, a team that
never loses, screw it.
Speaker 7 (08:13):
It's Christmas.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
I think Pittsburgh is gonna win.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
This game today and they're gonna beat the Chiefs, and
the Chiefs will have lost number two and then they'll
figure it out in the last week of the season.
Speaker 7 (08:22):
Kyle, you are such a scrooge. Man, You're such a screwge.
Why you hate you wearing Kansas City color?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Man?
Speaker 7 (08:28):
You look good by the way. I mean, you just
don't hate on the Chiefs like that. They've been doing
pretty good. You know, you mentioned George Pickens, you know,
coming back. He's like the shining star on the Christmas tree.
But what good is a shining star on a Christmas
tree if the presents aren't all that good? And right
now there's a little concern for me when I look
at the Joey Porter Junior being out in this game.
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The Chiefs they get back of course Hollywood Brown. I
know everybody thinks when they think about Hollywood Brown, they
think about his vertical speed when they got him. But
this last game against the Texans, you saw him doing
a lot of stuff horizontally, and you they're utilizing his
speed to get out Horizona. And I look at Xavier
going up north, I see up to the north pole.
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Then I see, of course Hollywood Brown stretching it out horizontally.
I think this could be an offense, excuse me, defensive
nightmare for the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Pittsburgh Steelers they really
struggled against that against the Ravens, and the Ravens you
saw them getting and hitting a lot of stuff on
the outside. We know how fast Hollywood Brown is, so
I think that this for everything that they're going to
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get back with George Pickens. I think that the thing
that's going to hurt the Steelers the most is losing
and not having Joey Porter Junior out there to defend them.
And I know they haven't been impressive offensively. I get that,
but I do see in that last game that there's
something different about this offense that's going to go off
on Christmas. Yes, it's a short week for them. Who cares.
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They played hobble, they play without their best players. They
do whatever it takes to win. I've talked about it before.
The will to win is higher than anyone. It's just
not a stat that shows up.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
There's a lot on the line though, for Kansas City.
With the win, they clinch the AFC one seed. That
means they get the first run by and home field advantage.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So let's see if the Chiefs can pull this off.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
But again, we know Pittsburgh also needing to bounce back.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
That game coming your way, Santa.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Bringing joy of football around the world with this doubleheader up. First,
the game just we were talking about Chiefs against Steelers
coming your way one pm Eastern. Then the afternoon four
thirty pm Eastern, Ravens against the Texans, a Christmas Day
doubleheader on Netflix.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
We certainly can't wait. But coming up, we're.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Gonna chat with Saint superstar Tyrann Matthew. How does the
Honey Badger celebrate Christmas?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
If you want to know, stay right here, Kyle, And.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
How rude of it was was it of us to
put Tyrone Matthew in angry runs on the receiving end
of Anger runs this because Christmas. He's one of the
best people in the whole league and we put them
in that. Plus, I'm dreaming of a why Board Wednesday
on Christmas. I don't think we've ever done it on
Christmas before, but we are doing it today. It's an
undefeated segment. What player needs to cook this weekend? Who's
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got that dog and them? And what is the Christmas
present from the football world that will make you cry?
Merry Christmas, Happy Honikah, beautiful, time to be alive.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 7 (11:28):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Time for a round of white Board Wednesday. Again the
gifts that just keep on giving here on Good Morning Football. Kyle.
I know we opened up with Angry Runs Home ed
ishit yesterday a first and the real.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
MVP besides Jacob, Josh Jacobs.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Was your dog, Sammy as we're seeing right here, the
best girl ever. But the player that needs to have
the dog in him the final two weeks of the season, Peter,
get us going first, who do you have?
Speaker 6 (11:57):
Okay, Well, as my whiteboard is being looked for in
a stack of packages, I'm.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Going to go with white paper and yeah it's okay, Yeah.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
This is it. This is my guy right here.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Hamilton.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
Okay, Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
I don't know if you guys saw the old clip
from a podcast, but c J. Stroud was talking about
the playoffs and he was like, all due respect to
Kyle Hamilton, you can't have Kyle Hamilton covering Travis Kelsey.
Better believe the Ravens put that in their back pocket.
You better believe the Ravens are ready for today.
Speaker 7 (12:26):
The Ravens have two more games.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
They have an opportunity to still win the AFC North,
and they have an opportunity to still have a home
playoff game. They also still have an opportunity to knock
down the Texan, something that I think would be really
important for them considering they might be their first round
opponent if things don't go well in the division.
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Kyle Hamilton's awesome. The use them everywhere. As we're focused
on that.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Cheap versus Steelers game in the early window, keep an
eye number fourteen.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
Kyle Hamilton.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
I think he's one of the best defensive players in
football and he'll show up, especially if c. J. Stroud
was caught saying something on a hot mic over the
off season.
Speaker 7 (12:58):
All right, hot Mike, I got a hot take, a
hot take. But when you guys think ofrunner, who's the
one player you think of when you think of angry runner, right,
it's Isaiah Pichecko, Isaiah p Checko, Isaiah Puchecko to bring
that dog back out in him. Of course, you know
he's healthy and he's back. But the one thing I
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love about watching Isaiah Pachecko is just how hard he
runs every single time. And he's gonna need that going
up against a very good Steelers run defense, and this
game is gonna be predicated not just on the ability
to throw the ball, but it's his ability to run
the ball. We saw Derrick Henry go off, and I'm
not saying Derrick Henry and Isaiah Pachecko are the same
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type of runners, but their vulnerabilities within this really good
run defense that Isaiah Pacheco and his running style can
take advantage of. So I'm expecting the Kansas City Chief
to spread out this defense, spread them out, go empty,
spread out, and then every now and again line Isaiah
Pacheck out there and see him run down hard and
pop up ro hard. I like him. I like Isaiah
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Pacheco to bring that dog out.
Speaker 5 (14:03):
The Checko is a dog. Sammy's a dog.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
She's back.
Speaker 7 (14:06):
She crashed the set again.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Also by coincidence, today Sammy's birthday. Sammy, Sammy like the
Lord Jesus Christ.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Yeah, you better be you better be careful.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Kirk kurb Street is probably watching and none too pleased
that your dog is getting all the spotlight.
Speaker 8 (14:21):
We only have room for one dog loving guy.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
I mean, what are we doing here that I don't
get to travel privately though?
Speaker 5 (14:28):
With Sammy?
Speaker 4 (14:29):
The only you know what I got my perk is
Sammy gets all the old trappers. She can get Peter,
and that's what we're really thankful for on this Christmas Right, Sammy.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Right, get out, you're being honest.
Speaker 5 (14:40):
Sports TV all right, go to the next question.
Speaker 7 (14:43):
I'm gonna sneak my dog. I'm gonna seek get my
dog at some point.
Speaker 5 (14:46):
You hear me.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, we got you.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Oh good, because it's important that I get in my
DeVante Smith answer.
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Yes, I'll be very quick on this one. Guys.
Speaker 4 (14:53):
The profile thing that happened with Devonte's You see my
cool ring light from Amazon in the background.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
You might know this.
Speaker 5 (14:59):
He had a big drop here.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
We have to play.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
He said, it's on me. I taught the hard ones.
I dropped the the easy ones. You know they call
him skinny Batman. Let's you know what Batman loves vengeance.
You know if Tom Hardy broke Batman's damn back and
he goes into some pit and did some push ups
and all of a sudden his spine was healed, that's
what we need from Davonte Smith.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Go get it.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
You had some of the best hands on the going
the damn Heisman Trophy at wide receiver in the twenty
first century. Let's go make some makeup catches vengeance, Davonte Smith,
Ben Jim all right.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Moving on to the next one. Berkershire is during this
show a little bit later. He's a Florida State alum,
and he talked before about the first time he saw
Chief Aciola. I'm sure I got his name right writing
on renegade and he began to cry. So our next question,
the sports memory that makes you emotional is what moment
where do you go?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
Back to Peter Well, I.
Speaker 6 (15:47):
Start with twenty twenty four, which has been the worst
New York Giants football season than any of these Giants
fans have ever seen. It's the one hundred year of
the Giants statistically across the board. It's been the worst season.
So I'm going to bring them back the better memories.
To Tampa, Florida to nineteen ninety one January, and I
was a young boy just falling in love with football,
and my team was the New York Giants. I'm going
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to toss to my favorite play. It's from mark Ingram,
you know, the running back, his father who was a
great wide receiver. And we're gonna get the broadcast call
of it, Super Bowl twenty five, Whitney Houston to.
Speaker 7 (16:18):
This hot settler throwing. It's caught by Ingram. He has
to get to the nineteen for a first down, and
he does.
Speaker 11 (16:30):
Oh every now and then in a football play. In
a football game, rather, you can look back to a
play and it might set the tone for everything that
happens after that.
Speaker 7 (16:42):
If the Giants win.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
This game, they may look back to this catch and
run by mark Ingram.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Look how big that patches on the left shoulder.
Speaker 6 (16:50):
And of course you know how this thing ends. Nor
would missus the field goal. I remember running around my childhood.
Speaker 7 (16:55):
Home like a maniac.
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Here as a Giants fan.
Speaker 7 (16:58):
Just falling in love with football.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
Obviously the Bills haven't won, since we're hoping for that
to change at some point.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Pepper Johnson, Martin Leady.
Speaker 6 (17:04):
All the footage, but I see that, and I remember
the Sports Illustrated cover of Everson Walls just with his
hands like this, knowing he was a Super Bowl champion
Giants nineteen ninety my favorite football team of all time,
marking from my favorite play of all time fighting for
that first down.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
Peter, I appreciate that you cleansed the palate. I have
to spread some holiday cheer with you and just follow up.
This is a very fun topic on Christmas. Is this
the worst Giants season of your lifetime since you've been alive?
Speaker 7 (17:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I mean this.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
Is Thanks for bringing that up, Kyle.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, the Jets.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
The Jets and the Giants are having two of the
respect of the worst football seas.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
It was over by the time apple picking was done
in New York, so.
Speaker 5 (17:45):
Apple picking will never be done in New York. We
go right into three coating season.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
All right, Listen the video of this kid online crying
about Josh Allen and how much he hates Josh Allen.
I've seen it a thousand times, and it's a reminder
that Josh Allen is so fun to watch and so
electric for most of us.
Speaker 7 (18:01):
If you're a kid, it.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
Doesn't matter if they beat your team, you hate them.
And I have never hated any human beings and any
walk of life ever more than the bad boy pistons
of the ladies and early nineties.
Speaker 5 (18:11):
I used to cry when they would beat the Bulls.
I hated them. I hated Bill.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Ambier, I hated Dennis Rodman, I hated Mark Aguire, Benning,
the Marco Wave, Johnson. I certainly hated Isaiah Thomas. I
kind of respected Joe Dumark because everybody respected dumartin anybody.
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Did, but I used to.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
I mean, I remember after those Eastern Conference finals that
I would sco to my room and just cry because
that Michael Jordan couldn't beat them. And so I've come
as an adult to respect them because I like bad
guys and I like heels, and they were such unapologetic.
I guess the only word I can say on TV
is jerks. That you just don't see that in sports anymore.
And I used to hate them so much. Now at
this point I kind of missed them. I wish there
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was some bad Boy Pistons around. I'm sure the NBA
does too, based on what I've seen lately, But in
the NFL, I wish we had some We don't really have.
Speaker 7 (18:55):
It right now. Oh man, man, you took me way
back with that one. That that was the golden era
for me that time. And I too did not like
the Detroit Pittson's back then, the bad boys. There was
something cool about them, but I didn't like them. Mine
is a little bit more personal and in emotions. I
want you guys to just kind of lean in a
little bit on this one. So a lot of people
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don't know this, but I didn't start playing football until
nineteen ninety seven, which was my senior year in high
school at Crenshaw High School. My high school coach really
was on me, you should play like your brother, you
should play I say, no, I'm a basketball player. I'm
going to the NBA. Well that never happened, So I
go to San Diego State on a football scholarship. I'm
still very very green to football, and in my sophomore year,
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I had the cool opportunity to work security at Super
Bowl thirty two that took place down in San Diego.
It was the Denver Broncos against the Green Bay Packers.
And I actually got fired from that game because I
wasn't pantedos about the fourth quarter. I was sent home
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because I kept looking at the game. But it was
the very first time and that I realize, like, you
know what, I want to do this professionally. I start
to set my dream. But I will never forget this
game for as long as I live. You know, watching
John Elway Terrell Davis, who I've become very very cool with,
you know, to watch him and the way he played
in this game and the way he ran Brett for
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of all of them, I mean, it was just one
of those ones that kind of just changed my life
in my perspective about football. So when I think of
this game, I get emotional because I remember where I
was new to football. But this is what made me
fall in love with the game. This game right here,
I have a Packer memory.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Also when the Packers won the Super Bowl against the
Pittsburgh Steelers, it brings all the feels for me. Also,
any game seven of the Stanley Cup Final, I will
watch it regardless of who's in it.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
But moving on, did you guys happen to get to.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
See the Lions fan who got a Jared GoF cutout
for Christmas?
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Fantastic?
Speaker 3 (21:22):
That is all we needed, Jared Goff, you got a
huge fan club there. What present as an adult, let's clarify,
would make you just absolutely lose your mind. Just the
best present ever, Peter.
Speaker 5 (21:34):
I love that that Christmas party that we just watched,
there's not.
Speaker 4 (21:37):
A single child in the absolutely that's the point screaming
and freaking out about Jared Goff.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
I love what do you got there?
Speaker 8 (21:43):
I don't know if you guys saw this one and
replay review?
Speaker 7 (21:47):
Have you seen this? Guys, show the tweet if you can. Guys,
someone someone.
Speaker 5 (21:51):
Went on eBay and put this thing on eBay yesterday.
Speaker 7 (21:53):
It's on the eBay. It's one of these monster replay
review machine. I want one.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
How they got one, Someone somehow got one, put it
on like a face book marketplace, and it's the actual
full machine.
Speaker 7 (22:07):
I think it's it's non functioning. Kyle.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
We get so much free crap because we work with
the NFL.
Speaker 7 (22:13):
I gotta ask your thoughts.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
This would be the ultimate instant replay HD with the
hood machine. Put it right there in the man cave.
Put it right next to the NBA Jam and.
Speaker 8 (22:23):
The Street Fighter and the big screen TV.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
I want one of these.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
I don't think Peter in somebody's basement and like, oh,
all right, that's cool. You got golden tea, you got
you gotta kiss pinball machine that's on.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
And that's more and.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
That's more coveted and rare than Joe Burrow's batmobile.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
There's only one of those guys that we know.
Speaker 7 (22:45):
Of right now. Well that Peter.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Maybe that is if you can fit that under the
tree of machine and Peter goes under the hood and
he's just looking at like you know.
Speaker 7 (22:57):
What is in bounds or not.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
I'd be like, if you get the right, if you
get the call right, Peter, Like.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Some tickets come out, you know, you get signs to
go and and like you can exchange them.
Speaker 13 (23:08):
And get it.
Speaker 6 (23:08):
You get a you can get a you can get
a medical tents as your.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
I want to save up three hundred tickets to get
a pylon. Yeah, can I have the pilon up there
at a yard marker? Is six thousand tickets? Wow, that's
so great.
Speaker 7 (23:23):
Uh, this is a.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
Relatable one, Like the reaction that I would get. It's
not even a gift it's if I look at.
Speaker 7 (23:29):
My calendar app.
Speaker 4 (23:30):
Let's say it's a Wednesday or Thursday, and I scroll
over to Saturday, and there's nothing on it. There's no dots,
there's no basketball practice, there's no hockey practice, no lacrosse practice.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
No recital, no nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
Just sit there on my big old butt on a
Saturday for the entire day. Uber eats breakfast, who breads lunch,
who breads dinner? All of that, I would cry and
fall to my knees like I have just won Michael
Jordan's first title, crying over the.
Speaker 7 (23:56):
Larry and Larry O'Brien Trophy.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
If I just had a Saturday with no youth sports
and no Cub scouts, none of that stuff, I'll never
have it, but.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
I would love to have it.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
I'm sitting here on Christmas morning talking to you guys
with a half eaten bagel.
Speaker 5 (24:08):
That's the schedule for me right now.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
I want a replay machine, and I want a free
Saturday to sit home all day and play with my
replay machine.
Speaker 7 (24:15):
Okay, all right. I don't know about playing with the
replay machine. I don't know about looking into an empty,
non functioning replay booth, but that does sound cool. It's
cool just to have one. Mine is gonna be a
little different. Mine is if all of a sudden, I
got a phone call, and of course I'm going to
do his father's voice.
Speaker 13 (24:37):
Hey, hogbarn, this is the great Al Davis calling. You
instructed Mark Davis to give you ownership of the Las
Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
Let's go.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
That would make me go nuts. I would do the
Tom cruise. I would jump on the couch like.
Speaker 2 (24:54):
The won't whoa whoa?
Speaker 7 (24:56):
We can't well, okay, I would jump on the couch.
This is a chair with the rollers on it that
that almost went bad for me, But I would do
that if I got I'll just give me five percent,
give me three percent. I don't care. I will just
take what effort.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
That's I'm just I'm thinking about the segments we can
do with the replay machine.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
You mentioned the Raiders.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Obviously you could put the talk rule in there, but
Peter will do a segment about with Peter's replay machine.
What call would you like to undo? I also want
to know, Peter does that replay machine? Can you clear
browser history on that sucker?
Speaker 5 (25:27):
I feel like you might need to.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Again.
Speaker 7 (25:32):
Doesn't it have the old TV scutings like the old
tree clear you'd have to like update it with like
a like a plasma TV here. So look at that.
Speaker 6 (25:38):
I'm telling you one of these things and I'll up far.
By the way, five percent of the Raiders is like
four hundred million dollars, So I don't think you're getting that.
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Oh I know.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
That's why I would go crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
If she's watching.
Speaker 3 (25:51):
If Beyonce could just give me a call and be like,
hey girl, I got a plane for you. Let's go
to Houston. I'm out of here. Well, time now for
a little news from around the league. Looking man Bridget Condon,
Good morning, my girl, and Mary, Christmas to.
Speaker 14 (26:04):
You, Merry Christmas to you, I coast to coast. I
love a little action and two gals on the network
for Christmas. We love to see it, Sherry, I know,
and you and I weren't the only nice ones on
Santa's nice list this season, because apparently the Steelers offense
were as well. We got a big coming game coming
up this afternoon between the Steelers and the Steelers are
(26:27):
going to get someone's pretty pretty important back with them
for that big game against the Chiefs. Wide receiver George
Pickens officially removed from the injury report. He's good to
go for today's games. Pickens, the Steelers top receiver, has
missed the past three games with a hamstring injury. Russell
Wilson will be happy to get him back, as Pittsburgh
has gone one in two in the games without Pickens.
(26:50):
On the other side of the ball, Chiefs Pro Bowl
defensive tackle Chris jo is listed as questionable for the game.
He's dealing with a calf injury he suffered in the
Week sixteen win over the Texans. Jones was limited in
practice Tuesday after missing Monday session. In other injury news,
Packers head coach Matt Lafleur saying Monday wide receiver Christian
Watson suffered a knee brews in the Monday night's win
(27:12):
over the Saints lafore adding the wide out does have
a chance to play in the big NFC North showdown
against the Vikings on Sunday, and the NFL Fan of
the Year contest presented by Captain Morgan is back. Let's
hear it for the New England Patriots Fan of the Year,
Dan Sweeney. Dan has been a Pats fan since childhood.
Do you remember sitting in the family car listening to
(27:34):
games on the radio before they were even televised. Since
nineteen ninety seven, Dan and his wife have attended all
ten of the Patriots Super Bowl appearances, along with matchups
in London, Germany, and multiple US destinations. To learn more
about all thirty two nominees and vote for your favorite,
visit nfl dot com Backslash Fan of the Year. Saturday
(27:55):
on NFL Network, We've got a triple header of action.
First at one Eastern, it's the Chargers and Patriots, follow
by the Broncos and Bengals. Then it's a huge NFS
matchup as the Cardinals visit the Rams at eight Eastern.
Coverage begins with NFL Game Day kickoff at ten am
Eastern on NFL Network and streaming on NFL Plus. Coming
up next Saint Safety. In front of the show, Tyron Matthew,
(28:17):
He joins us this Christmas morning, so.
Speaker 7 (28:20):
Don't go anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:33):
Good Morne.
Speaker 7 (28:35):
What's up everybody? Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah.
Speaker 6 (28:38):
And tall you rookies out there, there's a hope you
could be on the Shriekers Fab five. It's the list
of the top five rookie performances of the week. We
start off with Week sixteen's performances, and we start off
in Miami where very quietly, Chop Robinson, the Penn State product,
has been absolutely unblockable of late, and he was dominant
in this game against the forty nine Ers, Shaw with
(29:01):
what sounds like some bon Jovi behind us, going in
there and getting the sack there and then he does
the Chop boo, which is so good. He's tied for
the rookie lead with six sacks this season, and he's
just two and a half sacks away from Jalen Phillips's
franchise rookie record. Becoming the starter in Week five, Chop
Robinson has the third highest pressure rate and the fifth
(29:22):
best pass rate in the entire NFL. Not just rookie,
that's Chop Robinson, that's defense. And that is a guy
who shows up on Schrager's Fab five for dominating the
forty nine Ers offensive line. But there may be no
more dominant rookie this season in all of football than
my number four pick, and.
Speaker 7 (29:39):
That's Brock Bowers.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
Bowers just did it again, and he did so in
a Raiders win.
Speaker 8 (29:45):
What is with the bon JOVII, Guys, I love this
all right. Brock Bowers eleven catches for ninety.
Speaker 15 (29:52):
Nine yards in Week sixteen's win, and in this case,
he becomes the third rookie tight end in the history
of the NFL to have one thousand receiving yards in
a season.
Speaker 6 (30:03):
But that's not a in the cool stat Guys. He
still has two more games left. Rock Bauers is just
four catches away from breaking the rookie record for most
catches in a season.
Speaker 7 (30:19):
Is this the kids bop version? And this is unbelievable?
What version of bon Jovi is this? I'm here for it.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
Rock Bauers is a kid.
Speaker 7 (30:28):
Will put him in there.
Speaker 6 (30:29):
Four catches away from tying Pukunakua five catches which you
might get in the first quarter this weekend for having
the most catches of anybody ever.
Speaker 8 (30:37):
In a rookie season.
Speaker 7 (30:39):
The only number four on the list.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Why because Brian Thomas Junior did it again in Jacksonville
in that same game, that same Jaguars versus Raiders game.
Speaker 7 (30:48):
Brian Thomas was all.
Speaker 6 (30:49):
Over the field another great one career high and receiving
yards one hundred and thirty two receiving yards nine catches. Guys,
take a look at this stat here.
Speaker 8 (31:01):
This is for everyone to see.
Speaker 6 (31:04):
Plus receiving yards most consecutive games for a rookie since
nineteen seventy.
Speaker 7 (31:09):
He's on the list with five.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
He's had five straight games of seventy five receiving yards
in morning.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
He's not doing this with Eli Manning or Brock Purdy.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
Or for Dante Colepepper or even Brad Johnson or Randall
Cunningham burn him the rock. He's doing this with a
combination of Trevor Lawrence and now Mac Jones has thrown
him the passes. Brian Thomas awesome again. In a wide
receiver class that is loaded with Neighbors and Harrison and
at Doonsay and all the others, Brian Thomas Junior has
(31:39):
been the number one rookie wide receiver in the league
this season, number two on.
Speaker 7 (31:44):
The Fab five.
Speaker 8 (31:45):
We go to a rookie quarterback making.
Speaker 6 (31:46):
His debut in a huge, huge Week sixteen game, and
who got the win Michael Pennix Junior.
Speaker 8 (31:53):
The stats add up and also does the film.
Speaker 7 (31:56):
This guy was great. Back to the jovie third.
Speaker 6 (32:00):
Falcons quarterback in the last forty seasons to win his
first career start. The other two good company, Michael Vick
and Matt Ryan. He was eighteen to twenty seven for
two hundred and two yards and he got a win
in his first career start. And now they have this
massive Sunday night game against Washington where Pennick suddenly has the.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Weight of the world on his shoulders.
Speaker 7 (32:20):
He looked up to the task.
Speaker 6 (32:21):
They got a big lead early, they got to pick
six early from Jesse Bates, and they ran away from there.
But if you're a rookie quarterback getting a key win
that put your team in first place in the division, yeah,
I don't care about your stats.
Speaker 8 (32:33):
You are number two on the list, but number one
might have been the.
Speaker 6 (32:35):
Best performance of any player on any team, any year
and any tenure.
Speaker 7 (32:41):
And that's my man.
Speaker 8 (32:41):
Jade and Daniels. Jadan Daniel's been on this list more
than anybody this season.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
And Jayden Daniels had five touchdown passes on Sunday and
he had the play of the season for the Washington Commanders.
And that includes a hell mary pass he through earlier
this year against the Bears with the chip stacked against
him and a touchdown to win. Let's go to Joe
Davis and Greg Olsen. Greg Olsen will be on Netflix
today for the call they had on Sunday Day for Fox.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
Second in goal ten seconds, Daniels fires in Zoe, tux down.
Speaker 16 (33:14):
Tamis in cruder, preposterous, five turnovers and the league with
seconds remaining.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
You're looking for your legacy moment as a.
Speaker 16 (33:26):
Young quarterback, revitalizing a franchise that has been desperate for success.
You bring it all the way back against arkably the
best team in football.
Speaker 7 (33:38):
And how fun is this? In a day today? Where
we get.
Speaker 6 (33:41):
Russell Wilson and Patrick Mahomes, two Super Bowl winning quarterbacks
going at it Sunday Nights NBC game with Tariico and Collinsworth.
It's Jaden Daniels versus Michael Pennix with a ton of
playoff implications on the line.
Speaker 7 (33:53):
That is pretty cool. Here's the Fab five for the
list for the week of Week sixteen. Hey, look, the
cream is rising to the top.
Speaker 6 (34:02):
All of these guys were first round back in April.
Speaker 7 (34:05):
It's twenty How that works?
Speaker 6 (34:06):
Jaydon's Daniels, Michael Fennix, Brian Thomas, Brock Bauers Chop Robinson
and the Kids Bop version of Bon jovies.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
It's my life, Kyle, what do you got?
Speaker 4 (34:16):
It's now or never, Peter, I ain't gonna live forever.
Speaker 5 (34:19):
And I love the list.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
It's been a great hip listen as much as I
love these my all time favorite of twenty twenty fourth
this is the last time we do it is Beingie
Bishop of.
Speaker 5 (34:27):
Course in the Pittsburgh Steelers. Who is ready to go today, Peter.
Speaker 4 (34:30):
But it's a great list, and brock Bowers is having
one of the greatest seasons of all time in any
sport for a terrible team.
Speaker 7 (34:36):
I'm so glad you guys are giving him that love
and recognition because it is hard to recognize talent, especially
on a team that hasn't been winning. But Chop Robinson,
I think is another cool one. The name, the name
fits it. I mean, he's got the moves, he got
everything for it, so it's cool to see his name
on the list. But going back to Jane Daniels, I
believe now since I'm keeping I'm the official Tally Guide
(34:56):
now for James Daniels, I believe this is now number
eleven for Jane Daniels on the Rookie list. Number one.
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Yeah, absolutely Peter, I light that you have players that
aren't just on playoff teams that I think I'm gonna
go with Jaden Daniels here. Washington pr posted that before Sunday,
Washington lost ninety eight straight games when they were trailing
by thirteen plus points in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
So the fact that he was able to pull that off,
we see him do it twice now with the Hail Mary.
Kind of play.
Speaker 6 (35:23):
Good job Jaden, hey and on behalf of the Pride
of Sayerville, New Jersey. I'd like to toss some knockoff
on Joby right to commercial. Let's go that is Shregger's
bab fod guys.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
Peter hot take, Richie carried that band, Richie mpp of.
Speaker 7 (35:42):
That band got out to head of lock Layer here.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Welcome back to a very festive good morning football here
on the NFL Network.
Speaker 7 (35:53):
You know, earlier this week I gave the Coach.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
Of the Week award to a thirty two year old
defensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens. His name is Zach
Orr and he was much maligned earlier in the season
and as the Raven's defense is given up a lot
of touchdowns, but they have turned it around and they've
been one of the best units in football.
Speaker 7 (36:09):
Or is thirty two years old.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
He's a defensive coordinator one of the best football teams
in the league, and yet many do not know his
incredible story. Here's a wonderful piece our NFL network colleagues
put together on the story.
Speaker 7 (36:21):
Of zach Orr.
Speaker 16 (36:26):
Taken down. Zach Orr di acepted by Zacharo beit that suck.
Speaker 17 (36:31):
He flew around, he played hard, he was physical, he
was all over the field.
Speaker 12 (36:38):
He just said, young man, you're not playing football. Your
neck could explode. And it was the best thing that
ever happened. Yet kind of thick always told him a
(37:00):
biscuit away from a down lineman.
Speaker 8 (37:02):
My dad he played nine years in the lead.
Speaker 18 (37:06):
I looked up to my dad man, and at a
very early age, I just wanted to do everything that
he did be like him. When everybody asked me what
I want to be when I grow up, I said,
I want to be an pessional football player in the
National Football League. I never was the most talented player.
It was all based off of me having some guy
given ability, but it was based off of me just
(37:27):
having to outwork people.
Speaker 19 (37:29):
He just breaking records of un team. I know he's
making All Conference. When people are inviting through interviews, I said, man,
he has an opportunity to make it to the league.
Speaker 18 (37:39):
I felt real confident that if I had a chance
to get into an NFL building and show my abilities,
that I would have a chance to stick around.
Speaker 17 (37:51):
We're thrilled to sign him as a free agent, but
you know, we signed a lot of guys as free agents.
You always wonder is it going to translate at the
NFL level.
Speaker 18 (37:59):
First couple of years was manly on special teams.
Speaker 17 (38:01):
He just kind of continued to rise with every child
jenny face. He thought, okay, well what's the limit. He
got his opportunity to be a starting linebacker and it
just continued.
Speaker 5 (38:10):
Not the Raven's defense comes up big.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Their best defensive player this season is an undrafted player
named Zach Orr.
Speaker 19 (38:19):
Excitement was through the roof for our family seeing him
being the first year started making six team All Pro.
You know, I think he didn't even hit his prime yet.
Speaker 17 (38:28):
People coming down he's gonna be a top linebacker in
National Footballleague.
Speaker 8 (38:31):
For a long time, Skoy was a limit.
Speaker 7 (38:36):
It's the game of the year. Un Christmas twenty sixteen.
Speaker 18 (38:40):
It was a big time game. Knew it was gonna
be a physical game going into it.
Speaker 11 (38:44):
There he goes the workhorse in the league right now,
leveon delver tackler.
Speaker 7 (38:48):
Hello, Zachary Or He.
Speaker 18 (38:51):
Gave me a little head fake and then he accelerated
into me and lowered the shoulder and toil me.
Speaker 7 (38:56):
Actually ran me over crazy.
Speaker 18 (38:58):
Enough, and I felt my left side and my body
kind of go numb for a little bit. And we
just expect him to hear I had to do some rehab.
You might have to go in and fix something.
Speaker 20 (39:08):
Between the MRIH and a cat skin, we had a
complete view of zach snack and what they found was
this abnormality of the cerviable one vertebrae. There's a cleft
here that did not fully form. And so what would
happen is if you load the head like this, that
would push the c one out in an explosive manner.
Speaker 12 (39:28):
You said, at any time, it could have been little
league football. You could have took a shot the wrong
way and you would have been dead.
Speaker 18 (39:37):
He said, My recommendation is you had to stop playing
football immediately.
Speaker 12 (39:44):
Up told zachar In reality, God gave him the greatest
Christmas gift he ever got.
Speaker 18 (39:51):
But I wasn't really trying to hear it. In my
peak physical shape, I just had the best year of
my career. I felt like, honest, I can go out
there and play a game at that moment if I
needed to. I was back home with my parents, and
when teams started reporting back, when players started reporting.
Speaker 7 (40:13):
Back, that's when it hit me.
Speaker 18 (40:14):
I was like, man, I'm I'm not a national football
player anymore.
Speaker 7 (40:18):
Cried a lot.
Speaker 18 (40:21):
It's something that I put something much work into. Not
being able to live that out that's what really hurt.
Speaker 19 (40:29):
Whenever you see someone your loved one parton or maybe
going through a little depression, you wanna make sure you're
there for no matter what. Everybody had to be strong
for him. We told him playing the game is only
one aspect of it.
Speaker 18 (40:43):
My older brother, he's a football coach, so you know,
he'd be like, man, come up to practice.
Speaker 8 (40:47):
I know you still love bass or stay around.
Speaker 19 (40:50):
Right.
Speaker 18 (40:51):
It definitely started feel a void and I was like, okay, man,
like this is fun. I know what I want to do.
Speaker 17 (40:59):
You know, it comes from a coaching families. Dad's a coach,
his brother's a coach, so it's kind of easy just
to say, you know what, what if we tack fact?
You know, in some capacity, I started from ground zero.
Speaker 18 (41:08):
I had to build myself up as coach, proved myself
as a coach.
Speaker 17 (41:12):
He did the dirty work, you know, he did all
the hard jobs. He broke down the tape, he ran
the prospects back and.
Speaker 7 (41:17):
Forth through the airport.
Speaker 17 (41:19):
That's how you build yourself up into having a chance
to be successful.
Speaker 7 (41:23):
It was just him going to work and doing it
how y'all doing.
Speaker 17 (41:31):
Zach Orr has been named the Ravens defensive coordinator, replacing
Mike McDonald, and it's had a fast rise.
Speaker 7 (41:37):
He's just thirty one years old and now the DC
in Baltimore.
Speaker 18 (41:41):
I'm having more fun than I did as a player.
I feel like I'm impacting more people lives, not only
just in this building, but outside this building.
Speaker 12 (41:51):
Everything happens for a reason. He had to go through
the difficult part to get to where he is now.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
My dad was totally right.
Speaker 18 (42:04):
That was the best gift that you've got, because you know,
it made you realize that a there's more to life
than this, and honestly felt like I found my purpose.
Speaker 6 (42:17):
Absolutely inspiring story Zach Orr had his playing days taken
away from him, and yet he invested himself and put
the faith into a different profession, coaching. He'll be manning
the sidelines for the Baltimore Baltimore Ravens today. They'll be
up against the Houston Texans. The game is on Netflix
at four o'clock Eastern.
Speaker 8 (42:36):
Beyonce will be the halftime entertainment.
Speaker 6 (42:38):
But keep an eye on Zach Orr and what that
defense does to steymy that Bobby Slowick offense in Houston. Zach,
we see you, We love you in an awesome story,
and I know Christmas might be bad memories of that game,
but look how life has turned out just eight years later.
Zach Orr, defensive coordinator of the NFL. Beyonce, we see you,
and we're back on Good Morning Football after this
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