August 7, 2024 • 40 mins
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the future of Brandon Aiyuk. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila debate potential landing spots for the WR. White Board Wednesday looks at rookies to watch this season and what childhood toy you want to see make a comeback!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
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Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hi, everybody, welcome to Good Morning Football live here in
Los Angeles. I'm Jimmy or at all. There is a
bar Bushbiavilla, lovely color on you.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Out in New York City is Peter Schrager and Kyle
Brandt's back inside from camp. Spent the last few days
Jets Camp, Giants camp. Guys, I have to tell you
something something.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Are you doing breaking news? We should have a ticket
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I feel like a true Californian. Experienced my first earthquake
last night. Oh okay, okay, so I'm I'm more to
raise in the Midwest. I'm sitting in my house. All
the children are asleep, It's very quiet, and then I
start to think, like, wow, it sounds like a wind
storm outside, which is a very common thing to happen
in Minnesota. So it's I'm upstairs, and then all of
(01:10):
a sudden, the house starts to wiggle, and I'm like,
that's not wind that and I just sat there quietly,
not sure what I should do. I realized how ill
prepared I am for this experience, and then I did
what everyone naturally would do, is I tweeted about it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So it happens what you do now.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You know, if you if you're from LA, you know,
you don't really move or do anything or sweet about
okay till it's like a six point zero and then.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm six qualified.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They used to say, you're supposed to go in a doorframe. No,
you're supposed to go right away and tweet about it.
It's a really special moment though, Like I remember when
I moved to New York and the first time in
New yorker gave me the middle finger.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was like, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I really I really belong here now. So Jamie, that
welcome to California.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's exactly right, And I swear I will never do
it again. I just had to put it out there
and document it. And I do feel like it was
like a welcome party.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You should have hit me up, you should have called
me like, hey, what do I was that real?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Is that exactly how I assessed it? Okay Akwar told
me the advice was I would have gotten out of
the house, and I was like, well I did not
do that. So here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
We're in our house.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is GMFP. We're gonna start with the lead block
a few hours so north of us Brandon, a Yuk.
Brandon and a Yuk might be on the move. According
to Ian Rappoport, it's more likely that Ayuk will be
traded rather than re sign with the forty nine Ers.
The team is having discussions so far, reportedly with the Steelers,
the Browns, and the Patriots about a deal. Kyle Shanahan
(02:31):
said yesterday to not rule anything out, but Christian McCaffrey
might have had a slip of tong and is already
viewing Ayuk in the past tense.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
No, for me, I don't deal with it. You know,
that's not part of my job. It's not part of
my position. I think obviously as a as a former
teammate or you know, teammate of his. In general, any
teammate that you have, you love, you respect them, you
want the best for them. As far as the business
side of this game goes, it's always difficult, and so
I stay out of it completely. You know, that's that's
(03:03):
way above my pay grade, and I just try to
focus on what I can do every single day. But
obviously we always wish the best for any of our teammates,
whether they're here or not. Obviously we hope he's here.
Just you know, it's it's a it's a tough part
of the business.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
How badly did Chris Rose and Steve Voice want to
pounce on that when he said it? But they led
the answer right out, Peter. It feels like this could
be just a matter of time. Initial thoughts on Brandon,
what you heard from McAffrey yesterday, But really, how this
is all unfolding.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
I gotta give Steve Weis and Chris Rose a ton
of credit from that clip because I.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Wouldn't be the same journalists they would be. I'd be, oh,
what you say?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What you say?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
And you know what, because I've got this cozy studio
here in the air condition, I could put my shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Up on the table.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Let's get back to that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Let's roll it back a few times. What did McCaffrey
say about Ayuka.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Let's go ahead, obviously as a as a former teammate
or you know, teammate of his in general. Obviously, as
a as a former teammate or you know teammate of
his in general.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, to see it one more time.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Here's a done deal to me, see yuh peace wet
Like that's it.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
That's a slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He probably so mad at himself as he walked away
from why did I say that?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Barket, Like, do not bring that up tomorrow to start
your show please, Like here's McCaffrey, most polished guy in
the league, has never said a wrong thing, like is
mister America very likable? Offensive player of the year like
break and I heard that.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
And I'm like, ooh, that's a slip. That's a slip,
he said the Emperor former.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I gotta think you because all book gone. The question
is does you want to go anywhere else? Because from
what we hear Matt Mioko, who I shouted out last show, like.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
This guy's on it. He's in San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He works for NBC and Comcast out there. He's like, yeah,
New England's no longer in the mix. He doesn't want
to play for New England. So okay, who else is left?
We heard about Cleveland. I gotta think Pittsburgh's the place.
I've been hearing about Pittsburgh and IUK since the draft.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
And you look at the Pittsburgh Steelers and you look
at their depth chart, at wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
And you've got George Pickens, and you've got a bunch
of things in parentheses.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You've got Roman Wilson.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Who's a rookie who played at Michigan last year. You
got Van Jefferson who's bounced around the league, Calvin Austin.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Were waiting to see Scotty Miller. We know he was
in Atlanta last year, but he was the Tampa.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Hero of that game against the Packers. And then Quez
Watkins who used to play for the Eagles. Like you
at Brandon Ayuk and George Pickens, and then we're talking
about possibly challenging the Bengals and the Ravens and the
Browns and the AFC North, and you add that with
obviously what they got at quarterback. I thought the moves
at quarterback were instrumental and it moved them in the
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right direction.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
But they can't be done yet.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
The Steelers need one more piece that they're going to compete.
It's Brandon Ayuk. It's at the wide receiver position. And
when the star player on the team accidentally slips and
says former, I mean current, I see, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Let's move on.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
The Niners are trying to get to the super Bowl.
Win that thing. I don't think they want to hear
about Brandon Ayuk anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Well, if they're trying to Peter trying to make it
to the super Bowl, this is the window to do it.
We've seen now over the last several years they've been very,
very close. They keep getting better and better. Obviously they
you know, they have their slip ups here and there
and not being able to being able to get to
the super Bowl. But you don't let a guy like
Brandon Ayuk walk out. You gotta make it work. And
(06:26):
I get it, Brandon, and you probably got real salty
feelings about maybe not being able to get the money
that he wants, right, But you know, we talked about
the alternative obviously. You know, you look at where he
played his ball. He played ball and you know Nevada,
or played high school ball in Nevada.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Went to school in Arizona.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I mean, he's a California get played pro ball in California,
so he's been on the West Coast his whole life.
I'm not quite sure, you know, this is kind of
worth maybe going out and playing out in cold weather
Steelers or bad New England, like they got to find
a way to make it work on both sides. I
think about and Kyle, I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings,
but I think about Jerry Krouse breaking up that nineteen
(07:05):
ninety eight Chicago Bulls, I mean, coming off of their
sixth title. Everybody was like, what are we doing? This
is where I'm gonna be looking at Lynch. I'm like, man,
you got to not crous this forty nine ers team,
because I think everybody understands that the forty nine ers
are so close, They're right there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why can't you make it work? The Eagles made it work.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
They were able to get sa Kwon Barkley and keep
aj Brown and keep all of their star players and
not really lose.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They have their core team.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
In place, so this is an opportunity for them to
keep that core team. Whatever you gotta do, you do
not let this guy walk out now, I will say,
and I don't know how old the clip was, but
it's really weird, really weird to see Brandon Aiyuk walking
on the field and dap it everybody up on the hoodie,
just walking whatever the holdout, hold in whatever he's doing,
(07:52):
and just chilling. And then y'all about to ship him
out something just I don't know what I'm feeling right now,
but I'm like, I'm actually kind of lightweight pissed, like
you guys would let the you know, the forty Niners
would let him walk out like that, if you just
trade it, that's a bad move for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He's trying to say face like he's trying to show
whatever team he goes to, like I'm still a professional.
Look at me, like these guys are about to ship
me out, but like I'll come to your field too,
and I'll dap everybody up, Like I don't think it
doesn't matter what hoodie he has on wherever he goes,
he wants to get paid and he's going to be
friendly to anybody on the field.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, well, listen, the late Jerry Krouse broke up the
team because he had ten years of psychological abuse. He
hated Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, bullied him psychologically every turn,
called them crumbs. He had some kind of issues going
on that I don't think the Niners have going on
and made Jerry Krouse rest in peace. I just am
here with the Brandon Ayuk thing, and I said yesterday, listen,
he's a really good player. I think he's about the
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ninth most important player on the forty nine ers roster.
And everybody clutched their pearls about that and disrespectfulness, because
how dare you not say everybody's the best player ever,
make the most money ever.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I stand by it. I stand by it completely, and listen.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think the forty nine Ers it's a question of
limits with Ayuk and ceilings with Ayuk. I think they
really like him. I don't think their head over heels
in love with him. I think he's important to their offense.
I don't think he's crucial to their offense. I think
he's very good. I don't think he's a superstar. I
mean this is a guy who like they do things
differently there. They have a very expensive fullback, they have
(09:18):
a great tight end, they have a running back who
catches seventy balls, all right, and you look at this Brandon.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yu because really the wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Two, he's thirty six in the league in targets, thirty six,
So it's like he's not that involved, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Not that crucial.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And if you look up at the top of the
league in targets, you got your CD Lambs and Tyreek's
and Davonte Marquee guys where the offense goes through them.
I don't think that's the case here, And that's okay.
And if everyone thinks this is crazy and Akbayer respect you,
they can't let him leave.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Brent, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I will side with the front office who makes the
decisions to go to four title games and two Super
Bowls in the last five years. They know what they're doing.
And just in case you needed more proof that maybe
this is moving on the video tape, please go on
Good Morning in San Francisco, roll the video tape.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
As a former teammate or you know teammate of his
in general obviously as a as a former teammate or
you know teammate of his in general, so.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Mad about it or he's probably so mad. I just
Christian again, such a good guy. So that's a big misspeak.
You can't say that in that interview at that time. Sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I wonder what brock Perty would have to say that matter.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Fine, he has so money option you got dressed him out.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I think so he really depends on them. The third
and long, I mean we saw that in the the
Little highlight clip where I mean, we can't forget that
that catch, that face mask catch.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
All we go, he got their.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Third down, guys, they got their They're good, let's go.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Let's to me.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
This is hanging over this team.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
It's a cloud and he hey, look to Kyle's point,
they've had success five years, four title games, two super Bowls.
If they make this move and all of a sudden,
party can't complete a pass because the ana Vayuk, they'll
wear the egg on their face. But at this point,
as we move into preseason and you don't want this
thing hanging around Anymoreffrey.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Maybe you said former on purpose. I'm going all the
way now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Maybe he decided to put it out there, say a
former excuse me a currency?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean like Christian's taking some leadership role there.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
I'm went all the way over, say and those in
those meetings that they would feel even the ability to
save form, Like do you think there's some conversations going
on when Ayuk's not in the building amongst the players
and amongst the coaches about Ayuk.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
This is the stuff I'm talking about. But when you
have a slip like that saying former, well.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I will say this though, and Kyle you said this,
you know, you talked about the rankings for Brandon ak
Brandon Nyuk is the most in the last two seas,
the most targeted wide receiver for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I mean, but that's because you're going by position. You
still have Debo, you have Christian McCaffrey of Georg Kittle
because they don't play that position. It doesn't mean that
I'm just no.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
No, no, no, it's a unique it's a fair point.
But what I'm saying is we can't take away his value.
We can't say that. I'm like, I'm pro Brandon Nayuk.
I'm programs staying on the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But the Kyles the beauty of the Kyle Shanahan offense
is the creativity of it and the fact that he
doesn't rely on this traditional wide receiver one two mentality.
He has all these options. Clearly, it's worked thus far
because he's been able to do it with the offensive
weapons without having to rely on a wide receiver too.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
In Brandon and I, so we just jump off, We
just jump off the man and not give him his bag.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He should get his bag.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And here's I think he's very good and very productive.
He's a very good and and honestly, he's a homegrown
player like they drafted him.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Those are the guys that you want to pay. He's young,
he's good.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I just think he probably wants more money than they
want to give him. I think it's that's something they
don't want to be done with Brandon Aayuk. They don't
want to move on from him. He wants a huge contract.
We have too many players and too many players that
are getting paid. I'm sorry, Brandon, the ball doesn't bounce
your way, and if you have to do it somewhere else,
we'll root for you every time you got up.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Not saying we shouldn't, we don't. I'm not saying I
don't think he should get paid. He can get paid
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's really good. He's really good, And to Peter, I
think Peter made the point yesterday. He could go anywhere
they could get something for him, a wider back that
probably could still lead the team in targets at the
wide receiver position, and they'd still be okay. They'd probably
get a draft pick out of it, and then he
will get paid. It just isn't going to be in
a forty nine er jersey, which.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It sucks, but when we look at the trade partners,
youet two of the three on the list of potentials,
even though we still list the Patriots and out Peters
saying that and Patriots are out, he.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Doesn't want to go there.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The point is, NFL Network has preseason games this week
as a part of our Week one preseason slate. Thursday
is Panthers head up to Foxboro for girod Mayo. We're
in the headset for the first time and Drake May's debut. Friday,
the Texans visit the Steelers. All eyes are going to
be on the Pittsburgh quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Naturally.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Both games kickoff at seven pm Eastern right here on
NFL Network and he cold stream it on NFL Plus.
Preseason Week one games are of course on our air.
Here we go Thursday, Friday. Jayden Daniels. That's also this weekend.
The Commanders announced yesterday that Jayden Daniels will be playing
against the Jets on Saturday. What other rookies are we
looking forward to watch this weekend?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Whiteboards next.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Plus he got Speaking of Jerry Krause, he got the
Chicago Bulls intro music on HBO last night. If you
watch Hard Knocks, they played the nineties Bulls intro music
for Caleb.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
What about that offense?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who's his Ron Harper, who's his Tony Kukos, Who's.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Gonna be hit the corner? Three?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Like Craig Hodges on the first title run, We're gonna
talk Bears.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are they gonna live up to this hype? Are they
gonna put points on the board.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
This is good morning football, not former current television show
that you're watching right now, and we.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Love you for it. Good football.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Cale Williams going from USC to the Chicago Bears yesterday,
he had this to say about the new look and
Bears offense and him at the lead of it.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
We're gonna be explosive. And that doesn't mean that explosives
are drawback fifty yard bombs s for you know, as
the higher you get is gonna be a lot tougher,
and so there's gonna be a few of those, but
explosive wise, whether it's screen game, run game, quick game,
getting the ball in our guys hands and letting them
work guys.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Caleb Williams is the most exposed young player right now.
The coverage of him is wall to wall at this point, Peter,
if you compile all of your early impressions of this
young man, what do you make of the Bears quarterback?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, look, last night was the first Hard Knock, so
we got an extended view of Caleb, and I came
on the show yesterday live from Giants Camp and I
provided this commentary on what I wanted to see from
Caleb Williams on Hard Knocks. What it was was me saying,
you know what, I want to see how he does
on the Rookie Show. If he comes onto the Rookie
Show and he says, I'm too cool for this, I'm
(15:52):
gonna do a rap lyric and I'm gonna try to
do it right, or I'm gonna sing a very basic song,
or do my fight song and I'm gonna take it
very self seriously.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Then I'm gonna be like I might be out on
this guy.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Instead, He's sang John Legends Ordinary People was terrible, had
the worst high pitched voice and was completely clowned for it,
and with the Veterans for Thrones, and he was smiling
and loving it. I like humility, and I feel like
just a little bit we're seeing some humility. Now there's
confidence there, but I love seeing him lean into the
humility part of it and be a butt of the joke,
(16:23):
which he was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
On Hard Knocks.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
And I think that's a good barometer for how he's
perceived by his teammates, that he's just one of the guys.
Because also, I'll say this on Hard Knocks last night,
he's hanging with Tyson Bagent, and he's hanging with Austin Reid,
and he's hanging with Brett Rippon, and it doesn't look
like he's better than them. It doesn't look like he's
keeping them from an arms leanth like. It seems like
he's one.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Of the guys. And I think that is so important.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
When you're the first overall pick and you're the most
hyped rookie in the NFL maybe since Andrew Lucky.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Here Elsen, you're not from the Midwest, You come in
and you everybody knows that you made a bunch of
money last in the year through Nil's everybody. The first
thing you have to do is go in front of
the team and say, my signing bonus is twenty five
point five million dollars. That's tough, that's tough to set
yourself apart. You've been in commercials. You're one of the
first true celebrity quarterbacks to come out of college in
terms of money and endorsements and things like that. And
(17:14):
yet you listen to him and like, you may hate
the Bears, you may be a Packers fan, and I
can spend. He doesn't come off unlikable. He comes off
pretty confident, pretty relaxed. And there's this time of year,
in this day and age, like when you're in camp
and getting as many reps as he does, people are
looking for that phone video of like, ooh, a pick
six that he threw.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Look at this terrible throw.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All the memes are like, Caleb Williams are already off
to a great start, and he'll show some you know,
embarrassing and completion. I haven't seen much of that, and
I think a lot of that is just how many
players are around him. He has so many good players
and so many experienced players that just throw it in
the vicinity of number two DJ Moore, and he'll make
you look good, calm, relaxed, no weird SoundBite yet, no
(17:57):
terrible cell phone video yet, just looks cool and looks
composed and there's a long way till the opener again.
I'm gonna say this lot in this month, a home
game at Soldier Field against the Tennessee Titans. It was
almost like the Bears could pick their schedule, Like, what's
a soft rollout? Can you give us a home game
against a team with also a young quarterback, maybe a
new coach.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Like, let's don't don't let us open against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, it couldn't be a better opener home against the
Titans Week one.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
We'll see it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
There's a long time from them, but I like what
I see. I can't come up with anything not to Like,
there's always something that people don't like in this day
and age. You see anything, they're like, yeah, but he
does this or he's douchey.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I was watching it all man, I was. I was
taking it in.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, I wanted to see kind of like you get
a real good feel, especially in the locker room environment
and camp environment. You get a real good feel about
how guys are. And everything about him made me like him.
I didn't know, and I still don't know, you know
him from from anything else, Like, so this is my
first time really getting to see his interactions with his
(19:01):
other teammates. But it made me think, like, Yo, this
dude's got the juice. You can see the setup everything
around it is set up for Caleb Williams to be
able to go out there and just shine and do
his thing, and so for that, I'm for him. The
one thing I don't like, I know, yeah, I'm about
to get negative.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I like the fact that I love the fact that
that Nick Saban was there, But I don't like the
expectations that are being set for Caleb Williams. And he
can't control that. I can't control that, no one else can.
But this just seems like a recipe for disaster. They
had me all up in my feelings. They had the
Chicago Bulls thing playing. Then they get the dude on
(19:39):
the mic, Kyle. You probably know his name. I don't
know his name, but it sounds super authentic. I was
sitting there like no, and I start I was like, oh,
oh my goodness. I was like, in there, I'm going
if he does not live up to this expectation, he's done, done,
done right, because there's just so much of the build up.
(20:00):
But I love what Nick Saban said when he was
talking about, you know, liv up to the expectation, and
sometime what gets lost in that is the development. He's
still a young quarterback. Yes he's got all the intangibles,
all the skill sets, but he still has to learn
and get developed. So we just got to be careful
that the expectation doesn't ruin this young kid, you know
what I mean. Like that's the part that was like, oh,
(20:22):
like Nick Saban was he was preaching over there, like
they should have put some church music behind him.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I actually think that worry and stress that you have
about him implies is how likable he's been, because at
this point you're not really rooting for him to stumble
like everyone. It goes back to the combine Peter if
you remember, and you can speak to.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
This as well.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
It was like Pete, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Where people really started to look for like, well, look
at him. He's not showing up, he's not engaging in
as many meetings as we thought, he's not submitting his medicals.
And then when you hear the justification, it's like, well,
why would he if he knows he's just going to
go to Chicago, why would he expose himself that way
to other thirty one other teams. If he knows, he's
just going to go to Chicago. And now the things
that Peter and everyone else has said about Chicago when
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they met with him, it was always like, let's go
playbook because you're our guy. Now you're like, well, that
makes sense. And he wouldn't expose, he wouldn't disclose his medicals.
Like everything he's done, people are looking for the bait
and he hasn't given to them. That answer to Stacy
Dale's was I thought, awesome, He's like, we're gonna be explosive.
Now let me tell you why you shouldn't misinterpret that,
like he has the answer to any time anyone is
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gonna want to backfire on him. But to your point,
off bar you being stressed about him tripping is just
I think it is proof as to why he is so.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Likable and also too because I realized when the expectation
is high, that you know people are coming after you,
and that's what I don't want people coming after him.
So and it's just like when I when I look
at them, I'm like one mess up. Like Kyle just
says something like, well we'll see how many you know
how this develops in the other episodes and any other
episodes he says one bad thing, and people are ready
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to probably make it, make a pivot, you know, and
they're looking for something to take on.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
So we'll see.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I also think in that market it's really interesting. So
it's the first time the Bears have done hard knocks
out and it's also the first time the Bears have
had a number one overall pick at quarterback in our
generation that we've been watching.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
But like they traded up to.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Number two to get Trubisky didn't work out. They traded
up number eleven to get Justin Fields. I think we're
all fans of Justin Fields, but it didn't work out.
So there's this added pressure of it being on the Bears.
It's not like he's c J. Stroud or Bryce Young
going to the Texans or the Panthers, which have had success.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I've been up, I've been down to one.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They could have homes, you know, Like there's a lot and.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Like as we're watching Jayden Daniels footage and as we're
watching Drake may footage, like you don't want to miss
on this one, and the fact that it was a
slam dunk and it was like, they're not meeting with
anyone else. It's gonna be Caleb Williams from the start,
Like there is an added level of expectation, there is
added pressure, and it's the pressure out of ten is
eleven right now on Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I'm trying as hard as I can to have a
Caleb Williams conversation. And I really am tired of saying
the name justin Fields. And I know why you do it,
Peter and most people do it. I'm just I'm kind
of going cold turkey. It's like it's it's pathetic, and
it's sad to keep looking back that people have nothing
to do with him and Tribisky. I mean, Caleb was
I think in junior high when they drafted Trubisky and
you come in there and then none of the players
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were there and none of the coaches were there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The hype is fine, bring the hype.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I I disagree, Far be it from me to disagree
with Nick Saban, Like this is twenty twenty four. Every
number one overall pick who is a quarterback, who specially
goes to a big market, the hype's never going to
be low.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The expectation never gonna get low. Youree, he'll be the
guy like it don't.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
My body was like I was like what, yes, it's like,
it's not you mad, but you ain't gonna be coaching.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
If it takes a year three that's what.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
He'll be gone. And like we just toss C. J.
Stroud like light it up. So it's different.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You don't sit down for three years and then warm
up like Week one Titans, Week two primetime against the Texas.
The hype is real. Hype's not going away. The media
has changed, the industry's changed. Embrace it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
The guy does.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The guy looks like he's very calm. He's played at Oklahoma,
he's played at USC like he's been there.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He's eddy.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So the hype isn't gonna be just put away in
a sock drawer somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's there. Can you play through it? I don't know
if he can.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You don't know. I don't know if he knows. We'll
find out.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
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morning to you. What's going on around the league? Well,
good morning, Jamie. The big story out of Niners camp.
Of course, as you guys talked about all morning, Brandon
Ayuk and will he still be in San Francisco, But
as they get said to take on the Titans on Saturday,
we do have some concerning news about running back Christian McCaffrey.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan announcing McCaffrey will miss a couple
of weeks of practice as he's dealing with a calf
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strain and unlikely to play in the preseason. Shanahan also
said McCaffrey suffered the injury a couple of days ago, but.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Luckily he didn't pull anything. And more NFC West injuries,
as Ram said, coach Sean McVay said wide receiver Poopa
Nakula is considered week to week as he deals with
a knee injury, but the injury isn't anything serious, so
good news for all you fantasy managers out there, like
they says, there's no threat Nikola will miss the season
opener against the Lions.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And as we all know.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill had himself a week voted
number one on the Players NFL's Top one hundred lists,
than followed by signing a big fat extension. Well, he'll
crediting the Dolphins organization for his elitist accomplishments.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
I'm grateful to be in this position, you know, I
told coach McDaniel, Man, without you, I still be getting
ranked number fifteen in Kansas City, you know. So it's
also man to be a part of this man with
Chris Grier, mister Ross even to a man like helping
me become a better player.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Man.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
So I'm excited. Man, I'm grateful, Like I won't. I
won't never take any of this for granted.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Well, Tyreek, they're really praising his head, coach, But don't
go anywhere more. GMF becoming our way.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I think on the table, I.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
See boards, I see markers, whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 12 (26:08):
Coming your way next, Good.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Morning football, It's Wednesday. We're gonna bust out the whiteboards.
Preseason Week one officially kicks off tomorrow night and into
the weekend. Your first topic is as follows rookie that
you have your eye on in pre season week one,
Kyle Brant, whatever you're chuckling about, righting on your board.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I'm on the gram.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
As you can see Schrager if you're just watching Good
Morning Football for the first time. Everyone else has a
twelve year head start on Instagram with me. I just joined,
so I'm trying to get those followers up into the
double digits. And this is the guy that I've been watching,
Maleek Neighbors. Yesterday, Kyle and I were at Giants practice
and it was a Molik Neighbors showcase. He was catching
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balls on Tarry Arnold, catching balls on Kirby Joseph, and
he was dominant. It's only August sixth, and he is
a rookie wide receiver. And yet when I watched this
guy at practice, I'm like, is he the best player
on the field right now? He was unstoppable yesterday And
when we spoke to Joe Shane and Brian Dable, you
couldn't get the Chesshire grin off their faces over how
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good he's been. Just a rookie, and yet he's been
explosive and he's been dominant.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Now, we had fistic cuffs yesterday at practice.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Does that carry over into the first preseason game against
the Lions.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
We know he and Kirby, Joseph and Terry and Arnold.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Went at it.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I don't know if those guys are gonna be on
the field. I don't know if the Lak Neighbors gonna
be on the field.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
But I'll be watching week one Thelik Neighbors because I remember, yes,
I do, when Victor Cruz put on a show in
the preseason, he made a name against the Jets.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I think this could be the day from Elik Neighbor.
It's little different story.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
It's sicked overall pick, but I can't wait to see
Malik dressing up for the Giants on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well, Peter, you know who hasn't been fighting. I was
talking to coach Ball last night, Jim Harball, and he's
saying they haven't had one fight in practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh but at the Bolt.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
But I will tell you the one rookie I'm looking
forward to, and I'm keeping my eye on his. Out
of the Chargers, mister Brendan Rice, they got rid of
Keenan Allen and Keenan Allen's gone, and you know, I'm
trying to figure out what this wide receiver, you know,
unit is going to look like. I think there's a
great opportunity for him to come out of nowhere. I
like this kind of thing. He's a seventh round pick,
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he's a son, of course the Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
And this is one of those guys who I think
we're going to be talking about. I know, you know,
you like McConkey, you know, over there, but I think
this is a guy that we're going to be talking
a lot about.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
You know, Brendan Rice.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
People are gonna forget, but when you look at what
he did at USC, twelve touchdowns, I mean, the dude
was amazing. He had a last year. His last year USC,
he really kind of blossomed. I think he came into
his own. I don't think people put him under the
same umbrella as his father. So he gets to stand
out on his own, and I hope he stands out
with the Chargers ockbar.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We have incredible synergy here.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I love this because Chargers they're going to play on
the eighth this weekend at one o'clock and you're talking
about a Chargers wide receiver. Well, when they throw it
to Rice Deep, I'm going to be looking at a
Raiders safety, the master of puppets.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Raiders rookie Trey Taylor. That's the guy I'm looking at.
You know why I'm looking at him.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Trey Taylor was the guy who had the Mahomes puppet
a couple of weeks ago in training camp and had
it and did the impression, and there was a Taylor.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's the guy.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Trey Taylor is who I'm looking at. And he's still
on the team, Peter, Now, he's still on the team.
In fact that if you look up his draft profile,
Lance Zerlin says he is a really good player and
has a shot at making the team.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Also, we love this guy because he went to Air Force.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Of all the people who would have Patrick Mahomes puppet
in training camp and become a viral moment.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He is a safety.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
He'll be going up against that Chargers offense this weekend.
If this guy makes the team, and he is as
a seventh round pick out of Air Force makes the team.
Despite that early video incident that I'm sure Antonino and
Pierce did not love. That's a real story. That's the
documentary I want. That's my guy, Trey Tailor. The Master
of Puppies is already Guy's nickname. That's why I'm watching
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this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Can't let him be a disposable hero. Kyle, all right,
we've all heard coach talk at the podium.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Jamie, that's a deep cut.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You obviously googled Master of Puppets, and I'm impressed you
did the work. It was a very heavy song about
war and the damages it does to the body and
the mind.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's an incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I was gonna check it with Ac Particy if you
were classically trained in the Metallica references.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, So we're gonna have the same bank.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, you will do what I say when I say it's.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
That we No, that's kiss Topic two. We heard coach
talk at the podium. We know coach speak, but every
now and then we actually get a coach who's brutally honest.
And Jim Schwartz, the Browns offensive coordinator, delivered that this week.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Can I be vague and non committable though, here's a question. Yeah,
what's a question with this one?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
What do you wish that coaches were more honest about Peter.
You must have in your years of press conference attendance,
you must have.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
That one thing.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And you're like, come on, coach, just give me there.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
You're a little one looking for you know. It's funny.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
We talked to these coaches and Andy Reid is one
of the greats, and Andy Reid always says, you know,
I want these players to be the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And when he was.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Asked about Travis Kelcey and his off season, he's like, hey, look,
I want Travis to enjoy life because he should enjoy
life and he's earned that, and as long as he's
ready on Sundays, that's all that matters.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
And I appreciated that.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Across the league, you asked these coaches about things that
come up on social media, and they're always like, well
I didn't see that, or they're like, you know that
that's him on his off time.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It's it.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I wish one time a coach would be like, you
know what. I hated the fact that this player went
on social media after the game and answered a fan.
I hated the fact that this guy after a loss
was seen at a club and doing social media. I
hated the fact that afterwards, when I said my words
that this player had to give some subtle, cryptic, quite
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frankly lame tweet that like, we're all.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Dissecting, coach, what's you thinking about your player unfollowing the
team on Twitter?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
You know, I haven't seen that story yet.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Get a chance.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I want an honest answer.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
I want an honest answer to be like, yo, dude,
stop it, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Doesn't help the fact. So I want to hear some honesty.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
They saw it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's like, I was out on the can, I was
scanning and.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I saw it.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I follow him, I was pooping, I had my phone open.
I saw what this player I did and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, and I hated it.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Okay, I would love to see that.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Okay, I want to take over for Rockbar because I
have one that I think from the top of the show,
it totally applies. Specifically, I just want brutal honesty out
of Kyle Shanahan about what he thinks. When Chritian McCaffrey
said former teammate like with it a Freudian slip, what
are you actually talking about? We need the honest answer
because when we heard former, and then later in the
interview actually in the same answer, McCaffrey's like, and I
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really hope he is in the building, and I want
him to be a question what did you mean? And
Kyle Shanahan, we want to know the honest answer to
the fact that there was a bit of a former
teammate situation that happened during an ITC interview yesterday. Kyle,
what do you got?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're just kicking McCaffrey and the shins over and over
on that he deserves it and can't say former. This
is its first week of August.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I guess this is a low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But coach, just for one week or maybe just one day, dude,
just tell us that we should draft in fantasy.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Can you just let us know? Can you just tell us?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And you know what, there is a comp I remember
vividly this. This is a throwback twenty thirteen the Buffalo Bills.
Twenty thirteen Bills not a great team. The offensive coordinator
is Nathaniel Hackett. Okay, and he comes out in August
and this is a quote from Nathana Hackett. It's real simple.
We're gonna give CJ. Spiller the ball until he throws up.
He's either got to tap out or throw up on
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the field.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Let's just put it that way. And everyone was like,
thank you draft CJ.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Spiller.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The coach just said he's literally gonna have to puke
to be not given them.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Breddie Jackson had more carries by so I thinks I
probably got hurt.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I hate to say it, but I would just love
that right now.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
If someone just came out, if Demiko Ryans was like, look,
we plan to get Joe mixed in three hundred touches
this year, great, I will draft him early.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
They never do that. They know we want to hear
that information.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
If you can tell us about the Cooper cups before,
and if you could tell us about listen, lad mcconkey's
legitally going to catch eighty balls for this year and
we don't just say it. Please just for one day
would help us a lot.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I like how you wrote with the dude at the
front of your board too, like, dude, just tell us please,
we love our god.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Dude, come on all right.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
During yesterday's show, we debated if the slipping slide because
there's two to to video of I'm engaging a slip
and slide was the best backyard water sport. Peter brought
up his son Mel he got a super soaker as
a gift, and then Betty was a one year old
is not handling it well and it was too extreme
at this point. So for our last question on the whiteboard,
Wed was what is one toy from your childhood that
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makes you nostalgic? Because Peter had a great breakdown of
the what the water gun used to be.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Like, Yeah, used to have this little plastic water pistol
with like a little plastic piece of tongue.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
You'd put it under the sink and you'd put.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
The piece in to plug it, and then the plug
would go through that hole.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
So then the water pistol was done. And it was like,
there's something really nice about that. Kyle Ackbar, Jamie maybe
you as well. I know Kyle and.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Ackbar are big WWE slash WWF fans, oh wrestling buddies.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Wrestling buddies. If you were like a twelve year old
kid and everybody else is talking about Teddy.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Bears and there, and they're fluffy a cabbage patch kid,
a wrestling buddy of the Ultimate Warrior, and those are
the armbands I have right there on this thing.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Those are my armbands.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
You could take this thing and you could pick it up,
and you could slam it on a couch and you
could jump on your bed, and you can pile drive
and you can.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Go off the rim and it was it's really a
stuffed animal, but you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Felt like a man.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
You were like, I'm gonna I got my wrestling buddy,
and this is Hogan and Snook.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
But again, I'll tell you this. It was really a
teddy Bear. It really was what it was. But it
was like a cool teddy beg.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I want a ted I want a million dollar man, okay,
And I don't want Virgil.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
I want a million dollar Man's Virgil.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah that's Virgil. No, no, no, we don't.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's with Virgil.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
For me, I didn't have a lot of toys growing up.
We had to sneak playing the old school Nintendo and
it was this game that made me fall in love
with football. That's right, Tech Moobo and Bo Jackson. If
they could just bring this back to me. You know,
I know that Madden's got all the four k's in
the eight k's and the beautiful graphics, but there was
nothing more beautiful than seeing those block players with no fundamentals,
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just sliding around the screen and all you have to
do was just hand the ball off to Bo Jackson
and you knew he was gonna break. For one, if
you weren't playing with Bo Jackson, you were playing with
Jerry Rice. And don't forget the Mark brothers too, because
I loved playing with them as well.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
For the Dolphins, duper and Clayton.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Absolutely shout out cap Boso the Bears tight end. Right now,
we're in this golden age of lawn games.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
You know, there's a million things.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And it's it's corn hole, and it's can jam, and
it's a spike ball, and every time you go online
there's some new dude bros who quit their corporate jobs
and came up with a new game, and big things
are coming. We invented the new game to play in
the parking lot or your yard. Let me take you
a time called, let's call it nineteen eighty seven where
your dad might go out in the front yard, have
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a few michelobes and just decide to throw around these
things called lawn darts. This was a real thing when
they would give you basically a miniature javelin and you
would chuck it fifty feet up in the air and
a full ass metal spike would come down into the
yard and you try to get in the little ring
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and then the other person would throw it back. But
you're just basically thrown around giant machetes all over your
yard and no one thought twice very dangerous, and you're
halfway in the bag and the yard isn't that big.
And of course they were like compleately banned because you
heard all these stories about terrible things happened. But like
that's classic eighties and now they're out there and they're
all rounded at the bottom or they have like sand
bags at the bottom. Back in the day, they would
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get they would get hammered, go out in the art
and just throw spears around, and that was a Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Lawn darts don't ever bring them back.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
But I remember a day where like there wasn't a
yard that didn't have a lawn dark You look at
the roof and there's the nerve frisbee up there that
someone threw, and then there's a lawn darts in the yard,
and there's a.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Pogo ball in the driveway.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's how it's I haven't thought of a pogo bawl
long and then you.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Have a skipp it, you know that one. They're all
on the driveway. That's what we did it nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I haven't so long over.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Skipp it's really the beginning of the Achilles injury.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I avoided lawn darts at all costs. Yeah, I'll side
mine in just to bolster the you get back in
the kitchen and stop talking about football argument. The easy
bake oven was a great toy for me as a kid,
like to have the command of creating your own baked
goods was a great thing to be able to do
at the age of between five and ten. And frankly,
I wish we could bring it back, and I can't
wait for my kids to make brownies with a light overtop.
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I mean, it's a great thing. Summer games in Paris
coming to a close, looking ahead to LA hosting the
twenty eight Olympics, and of course flag football coming on deck. Now,
Jalen Hurts qualified as one of those guys who could
make anything look cool. At this point, that must be
awesome for the Colisee. I'm being an LA guy.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, that was fire right there. Seeing that. That's iconic
right there, seeing that ball go up there like that.
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
That's gonna be really interesting to have football a part
of the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Like, that's a big move. It's a big move.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Gentlemen in New York thoughts.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I've got a take on this, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
I've got to take if I'm justin Herbert and Matthew Stafford,
I'm pissed off used to leave this guy and spent
the money to fly him across the country to come
into our city and do some lovely drama. Like I'm Stafford,
I got a Super Bowl championship, I'm Herbert, I'm the future.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
We're in LA.
Speaker 8 (39:53):
You could save costs on money, NFL. You could just
use my guys. Give the two LA guys a chance.
Really good, you're gonna fly, Jalen Hurts in, come on,
that's a really good.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Motivation chip on my shoulder.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Very nice.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I like mosting for that.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Still a great
Speaker 3 (40:10):
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Speaker 3 (00:34):
Out in New York City is Peter Schrager and Kyle
Brandt's back inside from camp. Spent the last few days
Jets Camp, Giants camp. Guys, I have to tell you
something something.
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Are you doing breaking news? We should have a ticket
right now.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I feel like a true Californian. Experienced my first earthquake
last night. Oh okay, okay, so I'm I'm more to
raise in the Midwest. I'm sitting in my house. All
the children are asleep, It's very quiet, and then I
start to think, like, wow, it sounds like a wind
storm outside, which is a very common thing to happen
in Minnesota. So it's I'm upstairs, and then all of
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a sudden, the house starts to wiggle, and I'm like,
that's not wind that and I just sat there quietly,
not sure what I should do. I realized how ill
prepared I am for this experience, and then I did
what everyone naturally would do, is I tweeted about it.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
So it happens what you do now.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
You know, if you if you're from LA, you know,
you don't really move or do anything or sweet about
okay till it's like a six point zero and then.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I'm six qualified.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
They used to say, you're supposed to go in a doorframe. No,
you're supposed to go right away and tweet about it.
It's a really special moment though, Like I remember when
I moved to New York and the first time in
New yorker gave me the middle finger.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
I was like, I feel like.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I really I really belong here now. So Jamie, that
welcome to California.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That's exactly right, And I swear I will never do
it again. I just had to put it out there
and document it. And I do feel like it was
like a welcome party.
Speaker 5 (01:59):
You should have hit me up, you should have called
me like, hey, what do I was that real?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Is that exactly how I assessed it? Okay Akwar told
me the advice was I would have gotten out of
the house, and I was like, well I did not
do that. So here we go.
Speaker 6 (02:09):
We're in our house.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
This is GMFP. We're gonna start with the lead block
a few hours so north of us Brandon, a Yuk.
Brandon and a Yuk might be on the move. According
to Ian Rappoport, it's more likely that Ayuk will be
traded rather than re sign with the forty nine Ers.
The team is having discussions so far, reportedly with the Steelers,
the Browns, and the Patriots about a deal. Kyle Shanahan
(02:31):
said yesterday to not rule anything out, but Christian McCaffrey
might have had a slip of tong and is already
viewing Ayuk in the past tense.
Speaker 7 (02:42):
No, for me, I don't deal with it. You know,
that's not part of my job. It's not part of
my position. I think obviously as a as a former
teammate or you know, teammate of his. In general, any
teammate that you have, you love, you respect them, you
want the best for them. As far as the business
side of this game goes, it's always difficult, and so
I stay out of it completely. You know, that's that's
(03:03):
way above my pay grade, and I just try to
focus on what I can do every single day. But
obviously we always wish the best for any of our teammates,
whether they're here or not. Obviously we hope he's here.
Just you know, it's it's a it's a tough part
of the business.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
How badly did Chris Rose and Steve Voice want to
pounce on that when he said it? But they led
the answer right out, Peter. It feels like this could
be just a matter of time. Initial thoughts on Brandon,
what you heard from McAffrey yesterday, But really, how this
is all unfolding.
Speaker 8 (03:31):
I gotta give Steve Weis and Chris Rose a ton
of credit from that clip because I.
Speaker 6 (03:36):
Wouldn't be the same journalists they would be. I'd be, oh,
what you say?
Speaker 2 (03:40):
What you say?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
And you know what, because I've got this cozy studio
here in the air condition, I could put my shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Up on the table.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Let's get back to that.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Let's roll it back a few times. What did McCaffrey
say about Ayuka.
Speaker 7 (03:51):
Let's go ahead, obviously as a as a former teammate
or you know, teammate of his in general. Obviously, as
a as a former teammate or you know teammate of
his in general.
Speaker 6 (04:03):
Yeah, to see it one more time.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Here's a done deal to me, see yuh peace wet
Like that's it.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
That's a slip of the tongue.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
He probably so mad at himself as he walked away
from why did I say that?
Speaker 8 (04:17):
Barket, Like, do not bring that up tomorrow to start
your show please, Like here's McCaffrey, most polished guy in
the league, has never said a wrong thing, like is
mister America very likable? Offensive player of the year like
break and I heard that.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
And I'm like, ooh, that's a slip. That's a slip,
he said the Emperor former.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
I gotta think you because all book gone. The question
is does you want to go anywhere else? Because from
what we hear Matt Mioko, who I shouted out last show, like.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
This guy's on it. He's in San Francisco.
Speaker 8 (04:48):
He works for NBC and Comcast out there. He's like, yeah,
New England's no longer in the mix. He doesn't want
to play for New England. So okay, who else is left?
We heard about Cleveland. I gotta think Pittsburgh's the place.
I've been hearing about Pittsburgh and IUK since the draft.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
And you look at the Pittsburgh Steelers and you look
at their depth chart, at wide receiver.
Speaker 8 (05:06):
And you've got George Pickens, and you've got a bunch
of things in parentheses.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
You've got Roman Wilson.
Speaker 8 (05:11):
Who's a rookie who played at Michigan last year. You
got Van Jefferson who's bounced around the league, Calvin Austin.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Were waiting to see Scotty Miller. We know he was
in Atlanta last year, but he was the Tampa.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Hero of that game against the Packers. And then Quez
Watkins who used to play for the Eagles. Like you
at Brandon Ayuk and George Pickens, and then we're talking
about possibly challenging the Bengals and the Ravens and the
Browns and the AFC North, and you add that with
obviously what they got at quarterback. I thought the moves
at quarterback were instrumental and it moved them in the
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right direction.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
But they can't be done yet.
Speaker 8 (05:45):
The Steelers need one more piece that they're going to compete.
It's Brandon Ayuk. It's at the wide receiver position. And
when the star player on the team accidentally slips and
says former, I mean current, I see, let's go.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Let's move on.
Speaker 6 (05:58):
The Niners are trying to get to the super Bowl.
Win that thing. I don't think they want to hear
about Brandon Ayuk anymore.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
Well, if they're trying to Peter trying to make it
to the super Bowl, this is the window to do it.
We've seen now over the last several years they've been very,
very close. They keep getting better and better. Obviously they
you know, they have their slip ups here and there
and not being able to being able to get to
the super Bowl. But you don't let a guy like
Brandon Ayuk walk out. You gotta make it work. And
(06:26):
I get it, Brandon, and you probably got real salty
feelings about maybe not being able to get the money
that he wants, right, But you know, we talked about
the alternative obviously. You know, you look at where he
played his ball. He played ball and you know Nevada,
or played high school ball in Nevada.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Went to school in Arizona.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
I mean, he's a California get played pro ball in California,
so he's been on the West Coast his whole life.
I'm not quite sure, you know, this is kind of
worth maybe going out and playing out in cold weather
Steelers or bad New England, like they got to find
a way to make it work on both sides. I
think about and Kyle, I'm sorry if this hurts your feelings,
but I think about Jerry Krouse breaking up that nineteen
(07:05):
ninety eight Chicago Bulls, I mean, coming off of their
sixth title. Everybody was like, what are we doing? This
is where I'm gonna be looking at Lynch. I'm like, man,
you got to not crous this forty nine ers team,
because I think everybody understands that the forty nine ers
are so close, They're right there.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Why can't you make it work? The Eagles made it work.
Speaker 5 (07:25):
They were able to get sa Kwon Barkley and keep
aj Brown and keep all of their star players and
not really lose.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
They have their core team.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
In place, so this is an opportunity for them to
keep that core team. Whatever you gotta do, you do
not let this guy walk out now, I will say,
and I don't know how old the clip was, but
it's really weird, really weird to see Brandon Aiyuk walking
on the field and dap it everybody up on the hoodie,
just walking whatever the holdout, hold in whatever he's doing,
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and just chilling. And then y'all about to ship him
out something just I don't know what I'm feeling right now,
but I'm like, I'm actually kind of lightweight pissed, like
you guys would let the you know, the forty Niners
would let him walk out like that, if you just
trade it, that's a bad move for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
He's trying to say face like he's trying to show
whatever team he goes to, like I'm still a professional.
Look at me, like these guys are about to ship
me out, but like I'll come to your field too,
and I'll dap everybody up, Like I don't think it
doesn't matter what hoodie he has on wherever he goes,
he wants to get paid and he's going to be
friendly to anybody on the field.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Yeah, well, listen, the late Jerry Krouse broke up the
team because he had ten years of psychological abuse. He
hated Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, bullied him psychologically every turn,
called them crumbs. He had some kind of issues going
on that I don't think the Niners have going on
and made Jerry Krouse rest in peace. I just am
here with the Brandon Ayuk thing, and I said yesterday, listen,
he's a really good player. I think he's about the
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ninth most important player on the forty nine ers roster.
And everybody clutched their pearls about that and disrespectfulness, because
how dare you not say everybody's the best player ever,
make the most money ever.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
I stand by it. I stand by it completely, and listen.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
I think the forty nine Ers it's a question of
limits with Ayuk and ceilings with Ayuk. I think they
really like him. I don't think their head over heels
in love with him. I think he's important to their offense.
I don't think he's crucial to their offense. I think
he's very good. I don't think he's a superstar. I
mean this is a guy who like they do things
differently there. They have a very expensive fullback, they have
(09:18):
a great tight end, they have a running back who
catches seventy balls, all right, and you look at this Brandon.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Yu because really the wide receiver.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Two, he's thirty six in the league in targets, thirty six,
So it's like he's not that involved, he's.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Not that crucial.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
And if you look up at the top of the
league in targets, you got your CD Lambs and Tyreek's
and Davonte Marquee guys where the offense goes through them.
I don't think that's the case here, And that's okay.
And if everyone thinks this is crazy and Akbayer respect you,
they can't let him leave.
Speaker 2 (09:50):
Brent, you're an idiot.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
I will side with the front office who makes the
decisions to go to four title games and two Super
Bowls in the last five years. They know what they're doing.
And just in case you needed more proof that maybe
this is moving on the video tape, please go on
Good Morning in San Francisco, roll the video tape.
Speaker 7 (10:09):
As a former teammate or you know teammate of his
in general obviously as a as a former teammate or
you know teammate of his in general, so.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Mad about it or he's probably so mad. I just
Christian again, such a good guy. So that's a big misspeak.
You can't say that in that interview at that time. Sorry.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
I wonder what brock Perty would have to say that matter.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Fine, he has so money option you got dressed him out.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
I think so he really depends on them. The third
and long, I mean we saw that in the the
Little highlight clip where I mean, we can't forget that
that catch, that face mask catch.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
All we go, he got their.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Third down, guys, they got their They're good, let's go.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
Let's to me.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
This is hanging over this team.
Speaker 8 (10:56):
It's a cloud and he hey, look to Kyle's point,
they've had success five years, four title games, two super Bowls.
If they make this move and all of a sudden,
party can't complete a pass because the ana Vayuk, they'll
wear the egg on their face. But at this point,
as we move into preseason and you don't want this
thing hanging around Anymoreffrey.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Maybe you said former on purpose. I'm going all the
way now.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Maybe he decided to put it out there, say a
former excuse me a currency?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I mean like Christian's taking some leadership role there.
Speaker 8 (11:22):
I'm went all the way over, say and those in
those meetings that they would feel even the ability to
save form, Like do you think there's some conversations going
on when Ayuk's not in the building amongst the players
and amongst the coaches about Ayuk.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
This is the stuff I'm talking about. But when you
have a slip like that saying former, well.
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I will say this though, and Kyle you said this,
you know, you talked about the rankings for Brandon ak
Brandon Nyuk is the most in the last two seas,
the most targeted wide receiver for the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
I mean, but that's because you're going by position. You
still have Debo, you have Christian McCaffrey of Georg Kittle
because they don't play that position. It doesn't mean that
I'm just no.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
No, no, no, it's a unique it's a fair point.
But what I'm saying is we can't take away his value.
We can't say that. I'm like, I'm pro Brandon Nayuk.
I'm programs staying on the forty nine.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
But the Kyles the beauty of the Kyle Shanahan offense
is the creativity of it and the fact that he
doesn't rely on this traditional wide receiver one two mentality.
He has all these options. Clearly, it's worked thus far
because he's been able to do it with the offensive
weapons without having to rely on a wide receiver too.
Speaker 5 (12:21):
In Brandon and I, so we just jump off, We
just jump off the man and not give him his bag.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
He should get his bag.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
And here's I think he's very good and very productive.
He's a very good and and honestly, he's a homegrown
player like they drafted him.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Those are the guys that you want to pay. He's young,
he's good.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
I just think he probably wants more money than they
want to give him. I think it's that's something they
don't want to be done with Brandon Aayuk. They don't
want to move on from him. He wants a huge contract.
We have too many players and too many players that
are getting paid. I'm sorry, Brandon, the ball doesn't bounce
your way, and if you have to do it somewhere else,
we'll root for you every time you got up.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Not saying we shouldn't, we don't. I'm not saying I
don't think he should get paid. He can get paid
somewhere else.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
That's all.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
That's really good. He's really good, And to Peter, I
think Peter made the point yesterday. He could go anywhere
they could get something for him, a wider back that
probably could still lead the team in targets at the
wide receiver position, and they'd still be okay. They'd probably
get a draft pick out of it, and then he
will get paid. It just isn't going to be in
a forty nine er jersey, which.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It sucks, but when we look at the trade partners,
youet two of the three on the list of potentials,
even though we still list the Patriots and out Peters
saying that and Patriots are out, he.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Doesn't want to go there.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
The point is, NFL Network has preseason games this week
as a part of our Week one preseason slate. Thursday
is Panthers head up to Foxboro for girod Mayo. We're
in the headset for the first time and Drake May's debut. Friday,
the Texans visit the Steelers. All eyes are going to
be on the Pittsburgh quarterback situation.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Naturally.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
Both games kickoff at seven pm Eastern right here on
NFL Network and he cold stream it on NFL Plus.
Preseason Week one games are of course on our air.
Here we go Thursday, Friday. Jayden Daniels. That's also this weekend.
The Commanders announced yesterday that Jayden Daniels will be playing
against the Jets on Saturday. What other rookies are we
looking forward to watch this weekend?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
Whiteboards next.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
Plus he got Speaking of Jerry Krause, he got the
Chicago Bulls intro music on HBO last night. If you
watch Hard Knocks, they played the nineties Bulls intro music
for Caleb.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
What about that offense?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Who's his Ron Harper, who's his Tony Kukos, Who's.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Gonna be hit the corner? Three?
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Like Craig Hodges on the first title run, We're gonna
talk Bears.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Are they gonna live up to this hype? Are they
gonna put points on the board.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
This is good morning football, not former current television show
that you're watching right now, and we.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Love you for it. Good football.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Cale Williams going from USC to the Chicago Bears yesterday,
he had this to say about the new look and
Bears offense and him at the lead of it.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
We're gonna be explosive. And that doesn't mean that explosives
are drawback fifty yard bombs s for you know, as
the higher you get is gonna be a lot tougher,
and so there's gonna be a few of those, but
explosive wise, whether it's screen game, run game, quick game,
getting the ball in our guys hands and letting them
work guys.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Caleb Williams is the most exposed young player right now.
The coverage of him is wall to wall at this point, Peter,
if you compile all of your early impressions of this
young man, what do you make of the Bears quarterback?
Speaker 8 (15:29):
Well, look, last night was the first Hard Knock, so
we got an extended view of Caleb, and I came
on the show yesterday live from Giants Camp and I
provided this commentary on what I wanted to see from
Caleb Williams on Hard Knocks. What it was was me saying,
you know what, I want to see how he does
on the Rookie Show. If he comes onto the Rookie
Show and he says, I'm too cool for this, I'm
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gonna do a rap lyric and I'm gonna try to
do it right, or I'm gonna sing a very basic song,
or do my fight song and I'm gonna take it
very self seriously.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
Then I'm gonna be like I might be out on
this guy.
Speaker 8 (16:01):
Instead, He's sang John Legends Ordinary People was terrible, had
the worst high pitched voice and was completely clowned for it,
and with the Veterans for Thrones, and he was smiling
and loving it. I like humility, and I feel like
just a little bit we're seeing some humility. Now there's
confidence there, but I love seeing him lean into the
humility part of it and be a butt of the joke,
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which he was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
On Hard Knocks.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
And I think that's a good barometer for how he's
perceived by his teammates, that he's just one of the guys.
Because also, I'll say this on Hard Knocks last night,
he's hanging with Tyson Bagent, and he's hanging with Austin Reid,
and he's hanging with Brett Rippon, and it doesn't look
like he's better than them. It doesn't look like he's
keeping them from an arms leanth like. It seems like
he's one.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Of the guys. And I think that is so important.
Speaker 8 (16:46):
When you're the first overall pick and you're the most
hyped rookie in the NFL maybe since Andrew Lucky.
Speaker 1 (16:52):
Here Elsen, you're not from the Midwest, You come in
and you everybody knows that you made a bunch of
money last in the year through Nil's everybody. The first
thing you have to do is go in front of
the team and say, my signing bonus is twenty five
point five million dollars. That's tough, that's tough to set
yourself apart. You've been in commercials. You're one of the
first true celebrity quarterbacks to come out of college in
terms of money and endorsements and things like that. And
(17:14):
yet you listen to him and like, you may hate
the Bears, you may be a Packers fan, and I
can spend. He doesn't come off unlikable. He comes off
pretty confident, pretty relaxed. And there's this time of year,
in this day and age, like when you're in camp
and getting as many reps as he does, people are
looking for that phone video of like, ooh, a pick
six that he threw.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Look at this terrible throw.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
All the memes are like, Caleb Williams are already off
to a great start, and he'll show some you know,
embarrassing and completion. I haven't seen much of that, and
I think a lot of that is just how many
players are around him. He has so many good players
and so many experienced players that just throw it in
the vicinity of number two DJ Moore, and he'll make
you look good, calm, relaxed, no weird SoundBite yet, no
(17:57):
terrible cell phone video yet, just looks cool and looks
composed and there's a long way till the opener again.
I'm gonna say this lot in this month, a home
game at Soldier Field against the Tennessee Titans. It was
almost like the Bears could pick their schedule, Like, what's
a soft rollout? Can you give us a home game
against a team with also a young quarterback, maybe a
new coach.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
Like, let's don't don't let us open against the Ravens.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
Okay, it couldn't be a better opener home against the
Titans Week one.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
We'll see it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
There's a long time from them, but I like what
I see. I can't come up with anything not to Like,
there's always something that people don't like in this day
and age. You see anything, they're like, yeah, but he
does this or he's douchey.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I don't see it.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
I was watching it all man, I was. I was
taking it in.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Yeah, I wanted to see kind of like you get
a real good feel, especially in the locker room environment
and camp environment. You get a real good feel about
how guys are. And everything about him made me like him.
I didn't know, and I still don't know, you know
him from from anything else, Like, so this is my
first time really getting to see his interactions with his
(19:01):
other teammates. But it made me think, like, Yo, this
dude's got the juice. You can see the setup everything
around it is set up for Caleb Williams to be
able to go out there and just shine and do
his thing, and so for that, I'm for him. The
one thing I don't like, I know, yeah, I'm about
to get negative.
Speaker 7 (19:17):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
I like the fact that I love the fact that
that Nick Saban was there, But I don't like the
expectations that are being set for Caleb Williams. And he
can't control that. I can't control that, no one else can.
But this just seems like a recipe for disaster. They
had me all up in my feelings. They had the
Chicago Bulls thing playing. Then they get the dude on
(19:39):
the mic, Kyle. You probably know his name. I don't
know his name, but it sounds super authentic. I was
sitting there like no, and I start I was like, oh,
oh my goodness. I was like, in there, I'm going
if he does not live up to this expectation, he's done, done,
done right, because there's just so much of the build up.
(20:00):
But I love what Nick Saban said when he was
talking about, you know, liv up to the expectation, and
sometime what gets lost in that is the development. He's
still a young quarterback. Yes he's got all the intangibles,
all the skill sets, but he still has to learn
and get developed. So we just got to be careful
that the expectation doesn't ruin this young kid, you know
what I mean. Like that's the part that was like, oh,
(20:22):
like Nick Saban was he was preaching over there, like
they should have put some church music behind him.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
I actually think that worry and stress that you have
about him implies is how likable he's been, because at
this point you're not really rooting for him to stumble
like everyone. It goes back to the combine Peter if
you remember, and you can speak to.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
This as well.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
It was like Pete, that's.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Where people really started to look for like, well, look
at him. He's not showing up, he's not engaging in
as many meetings as we thought, he's not submitting his medicals.
And then when you hear the justification, it's like, well,
why would he if he knows he's just going to
go to Chicago, why would he expose himself that way
to other thirty one other teams. If he knows, he's
just going to go to Chicago. And now the things
that Peter and everyone else has said about Chicago when
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they met with him, it was always like, let's go
playbook because you're our guy. Now you're like, well, that
makes sense. And he wouldn't expose, he wouldn't disclose his medicals.
Like everything he's done, people are looking for the bait
and he hasn't given to them. That answer to Stacy
Dale's was I thought, awesome, He's like, we're gonna be explosive.
Now let me tell you why you shouldn't misinterpret that,
like he has the answer to any time anyone is
(21:23):
gonna want to backfire on him. But to your point,
off bar you being stressed about him tripping is just
I think it is proof as to why he is so.
Speaker 5 (21:32):
Likable and also too because I realized when the expectation
is high, that you know people are coming after you,
and that's what I don't want people coming after him.
So and it's just like when I when I look
at them, I'm like one mess up. Like Kyle just
says something like, well we'll see how many you know
how this develops in the other episodes and any other
episodes he says one bad thing, and people are ready
(21:54):
to probably make it, make a pivot, you know, and
they're looking for something to take on.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
So we'll see.
Speaker 8 (22:00):
I also think in that market it's really interesting. So
it's the first time the Bears have done hard knocks
out and it's also the first time the Bears have
had a number one overall pick at quarterback in our
generation that we've been watching.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
But like they traded up to.
Speaker 8 (22:11):
Number two to get Trubisky didn't work out. They traded
up number eleven to get Justin Fields. I think we're
all fans of Justin Fields, but it didn't work out.
So there's this added pressure of it being on the Bears.
It's not like he's c J. Stroud or Bryce Young
going to the Texans or the Panthers, which have had success.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
I've been up, I've been down to one.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They could have homes, you know, Like there's a lot and.
Speaker 8 (22:32):
Like as we're watching Jayden Daniels footage and as we're
watching Drake may footage, like you don't want to miss
on this one, and the fact that it was a
slam dunk and it was like, they're not meeting with
anyone else. It's gonna be Caleb Williams from the start,
Like there is an added level of expectation, there is
added pressure, and it's the pressure out of ten is
eleven right now on Kayleb Williams.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I'm trying as hard as I can to have a
Caleb Williams conversation. And I really am tired of saying
the name justin Fields. And I know why you do it,
Peter and most people do it. I'm just I'm kind
of going cold turkey. It's like it's it's pathetic, and
it's sad to keep looking back that people have nothing
to do with him and Tribisky. I mean, Caleb was
I think in junior high when they drafted Trubisky and
you come in there and then none of the players
(23:10):
were there and none of the coaches were there.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
The hype is fine, bring the hype.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
I I disagree, Far be it from me to disagree
with Nick Saban, Like this is twenty twenty four. Every
number one overall pick who is a quarterback, who specially
goes to a big market, the hype's never going to
be low.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
The expectation never gonna get low. Youree, he'll be the
guy like it don't.
Speaker 8 (23:31):
My body was like I was like what, yes, it's like,
it's not you mad, but you ain't gonna be coaching.
Speaker 6 (23:36):
If it takes a year three that's what.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
He'll be gone. And like we just toss C. J.
Stroud like light it up. So it's different.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
You don't sit down for three years and then warm
up like Week one Titans, Week two primetime against the Texas.
The hype is real. Hype's not going away. The media
has changed, the industry's changed. Embrace it.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
The guy does.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
The guy looks like he's very calm. He's played at Oklahoma,
he's played at USC like he's been there.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
He's eddy.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
So the hype isn't gonna be just put away in
a sock drawer somewhere.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
It's there. Can you play through it? I don't know
if he can.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
You don't know. I don't know if he knows. We'll
find out.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
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morning to you. What's going on around the league? Well,
good morning, Jamie. The big story out of Niners camp.
Of course, as you guys talked about all morning, Brandon
Ayuk and will he still be in San Francisco, But
as they get said to take on the Titans on Saturday,
we do have some concerning news about running back Christian McCaffrey.
Head coach Kyle Shanahan announcing McCaffrey will miss a couple
of weeks of practice as he's dealing with a calf
(24:54):
strain and unlikely to play in the preseason. Shanahan also
said McCaffrey suffered the injury a couple of days ago, but.
Speaker 10 (25:01):
Luckily he didn't pull anything. And more NFC West injuries,
as Ram said, coach Sean McVay said wide receiver Poopa
Nakula is considered week to week as he deals with
a knee injury, but the injury isn't anything serious, so
good news for all you fantasy managers out there, like
they says, there's no threat Nikola will miss the season
opener against the Lions.
Speaker 6 (25:22):
And as we all know.
Speaker 10 (25:23):
Dolphins wide receiver Tyreek Hill had himself a week voted
number one on the Players NFL's Top one hundred lists,
than followed by signing a big fat extension. Well, he'll
crediting the Dolphins organization for his elitist accomplishments.
Speaker 11 (25:39):
I'm grateful to be in this position, you know, I
told coach McDaniel, Man, without you, I still be getting
ranked number fifteen in Kansas City, you know. So it's
also man to be a part of this man with
Chris Grier, mister Ross even to a man like helping
me become a better player.
Speaker 10 (25:53):
Man.
Speaker 11 (25:54):
So I'm excited. Man, I'm grateful, Like I won't. I
won't never take any of this for granted.
Speaker 10 (25:59):
Well, Tyreek, they're really praising his head, coach, But don't
go anywhere more. GMF becoming our way.
Speaker 2 (26:04):
I think on the table, I.
Speaker 10 (26:05):
See boards, I see markers, whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 12 (26:08):
Coming your way next, Good.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Morning football, It's Wednesday. We're gonna bust out the whiteboards.
Preseason Week one officially kicks off tomorrow night and into
the weekend. Your first topic is as follows rookie that
you have your eye on in pre season week one,
Kyle Brant, whatever you're chuckling about, righting on your board.
Speaker 2 (26:38):
Okay, here you go.
Speaker 6 (26:39):
I'm on the gram.
Speaker 8 (26:41):
As you can see Schrager if you're just watching Good
Morning Football for the first time. Everyone else has a
twelve year head start on Instagram with me. I just joined,
so I'm trying to get those followers up into the
double digits. And this is the guy that I've been watching,
Maleek Neighbors. Yesterday, Kyle and I were at Giants practice
and it was a Molik Neighbors showcase. He was catching
(27:03):
balls on Tarry Arnold, catching balls on Kirby Joseph, and
he was dominant. It's only August sixth, and he is
a rookie wide receiver. And yet when I watched this
guy at practice, I'm like, is he the best player
on the field right now? He was unstoppable yesterday And
when we spoke to Joe Shane and Brian Dable, you
couldn't get the Chesshire grin off their faces over how
(27:25):
good he's been. Just a rookie, and yet he's been
explosive and he's been dominant.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Now, we had fistic cuffs yesterday at practice.
Speaker 8 (27:33):
Does that carry over into the first preseason game against
the Lions.
Speaker 6 (27:37):
We know he and Kirby, Joseph and Terry and Arnold.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Went at it.
Speaker 6 (27:40):
I don't know if those guys are gonna be on
the field. I don't know if the Lak Neighbors gonna
be on the field.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
But I'll be watching week one Thelik Neighbors because I remember, yes,
I do, when Victor Cruz put on a show in
the preseason, he made a name against the Jets.
Speaker 6 (27:53):
I think this could be the day from Elik Neighbor.
It's little different story.
Speaker 8 (27:56):
It's sicked overall pick, but I can't wait to see
Malik dressing up for the Giants on Saturday.
Speaker 5 (28:01):
Well, Peter, you know who hasn't been fighting. I was
talking to coach Ball last night, Jim Harball, and he's
saying they haven't had one fight in practice.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
Oh but at the Bolt.
Speaker 5 (28:11):
But I will tell you the one rookie I'm looking
forward to, and I'm keeping my eye on his. Out
of the Chargers, mister Brendan Rice, they got rid of
Keenan Allen and Keenan Allen's gone, and you know, I'm
trying to figure out what this wide receiver, you know,
unit is going to look like. I think there's a
great opportunity for him to come out of nowhere. I
like this kind of thing. He's a seventh round pick,
(28:32):
he's a son, of course the Hall of Famer Jerry Rice.
And this is one of those guys who I think
we're going to be talking about. I know, you know,
you like McConkey, you know, over there, but I think
this is a guy that we're going to be talking
a lot about.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
You know, Brendan Rice.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
People are gonna forget, but when you look at what
he did at USC, twelve touchdowns, I mean, the dude
was amazing. He had a last year. His last year USC,
he really kind of blossomed. I think he came into
his own. I don't think people put him under the
same umbrella as his father. So he gets to stand
out on his own, and I hope he stands out
with the Chargers ockbar.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
We have incredible synergy here.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I love this because Chargers they're going to play on
the eighth this weekend at one o'clock and you're talking
about a Chargers wide receiver. Well, when they throw it
to Rice Deep, I'm going to be looking at a
Raiders safety, the master of puppets.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
Raiders rookie Trey Taylor. That's the guy I'm looking at.
You know why I'm looking at him.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Trey Taylor was the guy who had the Mahomes puppet
a couple of weeks ago in training camp and had
it and did the impression, and there was a Taylor.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
That's the guy.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Trey Taylor is who I'm looking at. And he's still
on the team, Peter, Now, he's still on the team.
In fact that if you look up his draft profile,
Lance Zerlin says he is a really good player and
has a shot at making the team.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
Also, we love this guy because he went to Air Force.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Of all the people who would have Patrick Mahomes puppet
in training camp and become a viral moment.
Speaker 2 (29:56):
He is a safety.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
He'll be going up against that Chargers offense this weekend.
If this guy makes the team, and he is as
a seventh round pick out of Air Force makes the team.
Despite that early video incident that I'm sure Antonino and
Pierce did not love. That's a real story. That's the
documentary I want. That's my guy, Trey Tailor. The Master
of Puppies is already Guy's nickname. That's why I'm watching
(30:17):
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Can't let him be a disposable hero. Kyle, all right,
we've all heard coach talk at the podium.
Speaker 2 (30:23):
Jamie, that's a deep cut.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
You obviously googled Master of Puppets, and I'm impressed you
did the work. It was a very heavy song about
war and the damages it does to the body and
the mind.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
That's an incredible.
Speaker 3 (30:35):
I was gonna check it with Ac Particy if you
were classically trained in the Metallica references.
Speaker 4 (30:40):
No, I don't.
Speaker 6 (30:40):
Okay, So we're gonna have the same bank.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Okay, you will do what I say when I say it's.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
That we No, that's kiss Topic two. We heard coach
talk at the podium. We know coach speak, but every
now and then we actually get a coach who's brutally honest.
And Jim Schwartz, the Browns offensive coordinator, delivered that this week.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Can I be vague and non committable though, here's a question. Yeah,
what's a question with this one?
Speaker 3 (31:10):
What do you wish that coaches were more honest about Peter.
You must have in your years of press conference attendance,
you must have.
Speaker 4 (31:16):
That one thing.
Speaker 3 (31:17):
And you're like, come on, coach, just give me there.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
You're a little one looking for you know. It's funny.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
We talked to these coaches and Andy Reid is one
of the greats, and Andy Reid always says, you know,
I want these players to be the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
And when he was.
Speaker 8 (31:29):
Asked about Travis Kelcey and his off season, he's like, hey, look,
I want Travis to enjoy life because he should enjoy
life and he's earned that, and as long as he's
ready on Sundays, that's all that matters.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
And I appreciated that.
Speaker 8 (31:40):
Across the league, you asked these coaches about things that
come up on social media, and they're always like, well
I didn't see that, or they're like, you know that
that's him on his off time.
Speaker 4 (31:48):
It's it.
Speaker 8 (31:49):
I wish one time a coach would be like, you
know what. I hated the fact that this player went
on social media after the game and answered a fan.
I hated the fact that this guy after a loss
was seen at a club and doing social media. I
hated the fact that afterwards, when I said my words
that this player had to give some subtle, cryptic, quite
(32:09):
frankly lame tweet that like, we're all.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Dissecting, coach, what's you thinking about your player unfollowing the
team on Twitter?
Speaker 6 (32:15):
You know, I haven't seen that story yet.
Speaker 4 (32:18):
Get a chance.
Speaker 6 (32:19):
I want an honest answer.
Speaker 8 (32:20):
I want an honest answer to be like, yo, dude,
stop it, Like what are you doing?
Speaker 6 (32:24):
Doesn't help the fact. So I want to hear some honesty.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
They saw it.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
He's like, I was out on the can, I was
scanning and.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
I saw it.
Speaker 6 (32:29):
I follow him, I was pooping, I had my phone open.
I saw what this player I did and I hated it.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
Yeah, and I hated it.
Speaker 6 (32:36):
Okay, I would love to see that.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
Okay, I want to take over for Rockbar because I
have one that I think from the top of the show,
it totally applies. Specifically, I just want brutal honesty out
of Kyle Shanahan about what he thinks. When Chritian McCaffrey
said former teammate like with it a Freudian slip, what
are you actually talking about? We need the honest answer
because when we heard former, and then later in the
interview actually in the same answer, McCaffrey's like, and I
(33:00):
really hope he is in the building, and I want
him to be a question what did you mean? And
Kyle Shanahan, we want to know the honest answer to
the fact that there was a bit of a former
teammate situation that happened during an ITC interview yesterday. Kyle,
what do you got?
Speaker 1 (33:13):
We're just kicking McCaffrey and the shins over and over
on that he deserves it and can't say former. This
is its first week of August.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
I guess this is a low hanging fruit.
Speaker 1 (33:21):
But coach, just for one week or maybe just one day, dude,
just tell us that we should draft in fantasy.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Can you just let us know? Can you just tell us?
Speaker 1 (33:29):
And you know what, there is a comp I remember
vividly this. This is a throwback twenty thirteen the Buffalo Bills.
Twenty thirteen Bills not a great team. The offensive coordinator
is Nathaniel Hackett. Okay, and he comes out in August
and this is a quote from Nathana Hackett. It's real simple.
We're gonna give CJ. Spiller the ball until he throws up.
He's either got to tap out or throw up on
(33:51):
the field.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
Let's just put it that way. And everyone was like,
thank you draft CJ.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
Spiller.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
The coach just said he's literally gonna have to puke
to be not given them.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Breddie Jackson had more carries by so I thinks I
probably got hurt.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
I hate to say it, but I would just love
that right now.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
If someone just came out, if Demiko Ryans was like, look,
we plan to get Joe mixed in three hundred touches
this year, great, I will draft him early.
Speaker 2 (34:14):
They never do that. They know we want to hear
that information.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
If you can tell us about the Cooper cups before,
and if you could tell us about listen, lad mcconkey's
legitally going to catch eighty balls for this year and
we don't just say it. Please just for one day
would help us a lot.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
I like how you wrote with the dude at the
front of your board too, like, dude, just tell us please,
we love our god.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
Dude, come on all right.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
During yesterday's show, we debated if the slipping slide because
there's two to to video of I'm engaging a slip
and slide was the best backyard water sport. Peter brought
up his son Mel he got a super soaker as
a gift, and then Betty was a one year old
is not handling it well and it was too extreme
at this point. So for our last question on the whiteboard,
Wed was what is one toy from your childhood that
(34:57):
makes you nostalgic? Because Peter had a great breakdown of
the what the water gun used to be.
Speaker 8 (35:02):
Like, Yeah, used to have this little plastic water pistol
with like a little plastic piece of tongue.
Speaker 6 (35:07):
You'd put it under the sink and you'd put.
Speaker 8 (35:09):
The piece in to plug it, and then the plug
would go through that hole.
Speaker 6 (35:12):
So then the water pistol was done. And it was like,
there's something really nice about that. Kyle Ackbar, Jamie maybe
you as well. I know Kyle and.
Speaker 8 (35:19):
Ackbar are big WWE slash WWF fans, oh wrestling buddies.
Speaker 6 (35:26):
Wrestling buddies. If you were like a twelve year old
kid and everybody else is talking about Teddy.
Speaker 8 (35:31):
Bears and there, and they're fluffy a cabbage patch kid,
a wrestling buddy of the Ultimate Warrior, and those are
the armbands I have right there on this thing.
Speaker 6 (35:41):
Those are my armbands.
Speaker 8 (35:42):
You could take this thing and you could pick it up,
and you could slam it on a couch and you
could jump on your bed, and you can pile drive
and you can.
Speaker 6 (35:49):
Go off the rim and it was it's really a
stuffed animal, but you.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
Felt like a man.
Speaker 8 (35:55):
You were like, I'm gonna I got my wrestling buddy,
and this is Hogan and Snook.
Speaker 6 (36:01):
But again, I'll tell you this. It was really a
teddy Bear. It really was what it was. But it
was like a cool teddy beg.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
I want a ted I want a million dollar man, okay,
And I don't want Virgil.
Speaker 8 (36:11):
I want a million dollar Man's Virgil.
Speaker 4 (36:17):
Yeah that's Virgil. No, no, no, we don't.
Speaker 2 (36:22):
That's with Virgil.
Speaker 5 (36:23):
For me, I didn't have a lot of toys growing up.
We had to sneak playing the old school Nintendo and
it was this game that made me fall in love
with football. That's right, Tech Moobo and Bo Jackson. If
they could just bring this back to me. You know,
I know that Madden's got all the four k's in
the eight k's and the beautiful graphics, but there was
nothing more beautiful than seeing those block players with no fundamentals,
(36:48):
just sliding around the screen and all you have to
do was just hand the ball off to Bo Jackson
and you knew he was gonna break. For one, if
you weren't playing with Bo Jackson, you were playing with
Jerry Rice. And don't forget the Mark brothers too, because
I loved playing with them as well.
Speaker 4 (37:01):
For the Dolphins, duper and Clayton.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
Absolutely shout out cap Boso the Bears tight end. Right now,
we're in this golden age of lawn games.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
You know, there's a million things.
Speaker 1 (37:11):
And it's it's corn hole, and it's can jam, and
it's a spike ball, and every time you go online
there's some new dude bros who quit their corporate jobs
and came up with a new game, and big things
are coming. We invented the new game to play in
the parking lot or your yard. Let me take you
a time called, let's call it nineteen eighty seven where
your dad might go out in the front yard, have
(37:32):
a few michelobes and just decide to throw around these
things called lawn darts. This was a real thing when
they would give you basically a miniature javelin and you
would chuck it fifty feet up in the air and
a full ass metal spike would come down into the
yard and you try to get in the little ring
(37:53):
and then the other person would throw it back. But
you're just basically thrown around giant machetes all over your
yard and no one thought twice very dangerous, and you're
halfway in the bag and the yard isn't that big.
And of course they were like compleately banned because you
heard all these stories about terrible things happened. But like
that's classic eighties and now they're out there and they're
all rounded at the bottom or they have like sand
bags at the bottom. Back in the day, they would
(38:14):
get they would get hammered, go out in the art
and just throw spears around, and that was a Tuesday afternoon.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Lawn darts don't ever bring them back.
Speaker 1 (38:21):
But I remember a day where like there wasn't a
yard that didn't have a lawn dark You look at
the roof and there's the nerve frisbee up there that
someone threw, and then there's a lawn darts in the yard,
and there's a.
Speaker 2 (38:29):
Pogo ball in the driveway.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's how it's I haven't thought of a pogo bawl
long and then you.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
Have a skipp it, you know that one. They're all
on the driveway. That's what we did it nineteen eighty seven.
Speaker 4 (38:39):
I haven't so long over.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
Skipp it's really the beginning of the Achilles injury.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
I've never heard of that.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I avoided lawn darts at all costs. Yeah, I'll side
mine in just to bolster the you get back in
the kitchen and stop talking about football argument. The easy
bake oven was a great toy for me as a kid,
like to have the command of creating your own baked
goods was a great thing to be able to do
at the age of between five and ten. And frankly,
I wish we could bring it back, and I can't
wait for my kids to make brownies with a light overtop.
(39:10):
I mean, it's a great thing. Summer games in Paris
coming to a close, looking ahead to LA hosting the
twenty eight Olympics, and of course flag football coming on deck. Now,
Jalen Hurts qualified as one of those guys who could
make anything look cool. At this point, that must be
awesome for the Colisee. I'm being an LA guy.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Yeah, that was fire right there. Seeing that. That's iconic
right there, seeing that ball go up there like that.
I can't wait.
Speaker 5 (39:29):
That's gonna be really interesting to have football a part
of the Olympics.
Speaker 4 (39:33):
Like, that's a big move. It's a big move.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Hmm.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Gentlemen in New York thoughts.
Speaker 6 (39:37):
I've got a take on this, Jamie.
Speaker 8 (39:39):
I've got to take if I'm justin Herbert and Matthew Stafford,
I'm pissed off used to leave this guy and spent
the money to fly him across the country to come
into our city and do some lovely drama. Like I'm Stafford,
I got a Super Bowl championship, I'm Herbert, I'm the future.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
We're in LA.
Speaker 8 (39:53):
You could save costs on money, NFL. You could just
use my guys. Give the two LA guys a chance.
Really good, you're gonna fly, Jalen Hurts in, come on,
that's a really good.
Speaker 6 (40:02):
Motivation chip on my shoulder.
Speaker 12 (40:04):
Very nice.
Speaker 4 (40:05):
I like mosting for that.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
Still a great
Speaker 3 (40:10):
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