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August 13, 2025 • 32 mins

Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Manti Te’o and Terron Armstead examining how they feel about the Buffalo Bills now that James Cook returned to practice - what one word would you use to describe the anticipation you have for Josh Allen’s season. WHITEBOARD WEDNESDAY - which NFL team will you remain flexible and fluid on? Prior to Shedeur Sanders, who was the most polarizing rookie?

 

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to Good Morning Football, present of by SOTVA. It's Wednesday,
August thirteenth. Jamie Earl and Mansid Sao here in Los Angeles,
hanging with us, our former dolphin, our friend Tarn Armstead.
And Kyle Brands is in New York City, but he
appears to be unwell.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Kyle.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
I would like to know what's happening on the show,
but I all, more importantly, what's going on with you?

Speaker 4 (00:34):
Thrilled.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
Tron Armstett is here, thrilled. There's big news coming from
the Buffalo Bill not thrilled. I like to play dodgeball
with my son and his friends.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
That's all the boys against the Dad.

Speaker 5 (00:43):
I chuck heat.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
I go high heat, ninety nine miles per hour. Yesterday
I threw one. My shoulder snapped, crackled, popped.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
It's a disaster.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
The good news is I still hit the child that I.

Speaker 4 (00:54):
Was throwing at.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
The better news is I'm on medication. And who knows
what the hell I'm going to say today? It's going
to be this kind of show, Good Morning Football.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Let's start it.

Speaker 6 (01:01):
Oh, Welcome to Good Morning Football is ent it by SPA.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
That's right. Good Morning football, everybody, Jamie, Manta, Taran and
Kyle Tarn When did you're going to sign this show
on a Wednesday for you already to have that good
Morning Football hat? You look great, my friend. Awesome to
see you.

Speaker 5 (01:32):
I appreciate it. Great to see you as well. Good
morning everyone.

Speaker 7 (01:36):
I was in the studio about a month ago, and
you know they they sent me off with another.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
So I'm rocking up in a b hat this morning.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Perfect. Everyone's got a wonderful looking accessory on, except Kyle's
is not an accessory. It's an injury. Kyle, once again,
you look to be in pain. And Manti just asked
me in the commercial break to play trivia where you
have to answer us and by raising your right hand,
and that's the only way he.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Would be Listen, wait till you see my whiteboard answers.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
It's going to be a disaster.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
I also want to point out I think I've done
two thousand shows and I can't get a Good Morning
Football hat.

Speaker 5 (02:09):
It's ron.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
I'm glad you got one and put it to good
use today. I'm ty I'm Lupia's Hell yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
We can see that. You know what, we don't know
what will come out of Kyle Brand's mouth, and that's
the beauty of Good Morning Football. What we do know
is we're going to get information from Tom Pelisa right
now and that pertains in the Buffalo Bills and news
out of their training camp, which I'm sure they are
very relieved to say in August that James Cook has
finally resolved his contract situation, if you will. He has

(02:35):
been holding in, he has been unavailable to them because
of this. Tom, what is the latest in the news
that's breaking this morning.

Speaker 8 (02:42):
James Cook and the Buffalo Bills have a deal, Jamie.

Speaker 4 (02:46):
It is a four year, forty eight million.

Speaker 8 (02:49):
Dollar contract extension that locks up Jimbo in Buffalo through
the twenty twenty nine season. Now, this follows Cook's return
to practice on Tuesday. There's been a lot of back
and forth over the past nine days or so, Cook executing.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
A hold in.

Speaker 8 (03:05):
Telly reporters that this was about business. Well, the business
did not get done until Cook got back onto the field.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
The sides had not been that far apart.

Speaker 8 (03:15):
Cook at one point and said he wanted fifteen million
dollars per year, but it had become apparent in recent
weeks that that was not where this was going to
get done. This is a very strong deal negotiated by
his agent, Zach Hiller and Matt Lys of LAA. It
gives him thirty million dollars guaranteed, locks him up again
for the next five seasons, including the year he had

(03:36):
left on his existing contract. He had over twenty touchdowns
last season. There is no question about the value James Cook.

Speaker 5 (03:42):
Has to the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 8 (03:44):
It was just a matter of figuring out what the
right number was going to be. He now makes twelve
million dollars per year. He is one of many players,
the young guys on that Bill's Robster, that the front
office has locked up through the course of this off season.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
So no more hold in.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
We got a fewer on the league, Jamie.

Speaker 8 (04:02):
But James Cook now back on the field ready to
roll for the twenty twenty five season on a new
deal four years and forty eight million dollars with the
Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
It's a good point, Tom, and I'm sure the rest
of your day will be busy because you said there's
a couple of names still and that means the Bills
must be relieved. Tom PELI, Sarah, thank you so much.
If anything else breaks, I'm sure we can rely on you.
But since there are twenty five days away from Sunday
Night football and the Bills will be hosting the Ravens
that evening, how do we feel about the Bills now
that we know this about James COKEMANSI, now that we

(04:32):
know that Josh Allen is coming off an MVP season.
We know the facts here, but now this is a
feel question.

Speaker 9 (04:38):
Well what's feeling? I'm feeling excited about it?

Speaker 3 (04:40):
And now I was excited from watching the Hard Knocks episodes.
Episode two came out and watching just how that city
of Buffalo is, like how the Bills mafia really rallies
behind their team. It really reminded me of high school.
You know, it's a real small town feel. Everybody knows everybody.
But to see the support that they've had for their players,
but they're also players from other teams. You know that

(05:01):
they've donated to so many players like Tyler Boyd, then
that team for beating the Ravens and allowing them to
go into the playoffs, then they donate to Tool.

Speaker 9 (05:09):
Last year, they donated to a whole bunch.

Speaker 3 (05:11):
Of Lamar Jackson when he sprained his ankle in the
divisional playoff game, which the Bills won and beat the Ravens.
They going and donate to his favorite charity. So I
look at the Bills mafia and I'm not even part
of the Bills mafia, and I'm excited for him.

Speaker 9 (05:23):
I want the best for them.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
I hope that they're able to finish the job this year,
and it's looking very promising when you have the reigning MVP,
when you have somebody that throws the ball well, that
runs the ball well, that commands of offense, and I'm
so One of the things I love about Hard Knocks
is you get a glimpse inside the player, inside the
locker room, inside the dorms that they say at. And
I've learned a lot about that team, and it's a

(05:47):
team that's filled with resilient players and resilient coaches. I
didn't know that coach had skin cancer until I watch
The Hard Knocks, and so it's just a team that
is filled with resilient men, and it's a resilient city.

Speaker 9 (06:01):
And I'm really rooting for them, toront.

Speaker 5 (06:03):
I'm not man Todd Uh. The Bills are very confident.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
They are very confident as they have very high expectations
for themselves in this season. They were able to get
past the Ravens last last year in the playoffs ultimately
then then pass that test of be throwing in Patrick
Mahons and getting to the super Bowl.

Speaker 5 (06:24):
So that's to be seeing what I do know about
the Bills. So those those.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Guys up front and allowing seven guys to be back
in coverage, that's when they're most dangerous.

Speaker 5 (06:32):
On defense.

Speaker 7 (06:33):
They've been trying to figure out this rush specialist position.
Von Miller was the acquisition for a few years. Now
they move on from him and they bring in Joey Bocha.
But I believe they got a gut in house that
can really change the dynamic defense and allow them to
be that elite level and get past the Chiefs and
the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (06:52):
And that's Greg rus He's He's.

Speaker 7 (06:54):
A very dynamic, very explosive pass rusher off the edge.

Speaker 5 (06:59):
I think he's going now into his fifth fifth year.

Speaker 7 (07:01):
He had a sax last year, but they will almost
double that production and his pursuit to get after the passers.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
That will really unlock everything on his defense.

Speaker 7 (07:10):
And you know, I think the Bills may have a
chance to move forward and get to the big dance.

Speaker 4 (07:15):
Yeah, Russo Groot, that's a homegrown talent.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
They've been liking him for years and there's kind of
this feeling with him that we're waiting for you to
become a star, and maybe this year is dear he
becomes a star. As far as James Cook, I think
they had to do it, I'm glad that they did
it because there's a lot of ways to look at this.
There's a lot of things you could see where it's, well,
he's not on the field that much. Well, there's so
much production from the other running backs. Well it's an

(07:40):
expensive running back. You could look at all those things.
The one thing the Buffalo Bills do not want to
look at is they don't want to look out on
the field in late January when you know as well
as I do, they're going to be in Arrowhead.

Speaker 4 (07:51):
It's going to be in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
It's going to be twenty three to nineteen Kansas City,
and the Bills are struggling to run the ball and
they can't do it, and the Chiefs defense is swarming
Allan and they're passing all over the place, and Alan
is trying to do Alan Ball and it's just not working.

Speaker 4 (08:04):
And they don't have James.

Speaker 1 (08:06):
Cook out there, the guy who is a superhero last
year in Arrowhead, who scored one of the most dramatic,
one of the most incredible touchdowns that Bills have seen
in the entire Allen era on a fourth down.

Speaker 4 (08:16):
Who does that play? You need that guy when you
go to Arrowhead.

Speaker 1 (08:20):
And I'm not talking about it in the regular season
game against the Chiefs. I'm talking about in the playoff game.
The Bills are a one game team. They have to
win one game this year that they can seem to
never win and to go into that. Don't tell me
about how much percentage this time he's on the field.
Tell me about the percentage of the time that James
Cook is in the end zone. This is a huge
season for the Bills. They have to have that guy.

(08:42):
Maybe it's not the most fiscally responsible thing, and running
back this they got to win a Super Bowl. And
you know, there's a lot of comparisons to Josh now
about he's going into year eight and there's there's comparisons
that are starting to come up about Josh and Peyton
Manning about what they went through. Josh has been through
seven seasons. Peyton, through seven seasons had been to one
title game. Josh has been to two. He's actually a

(09:03):
head of where Peyton Manning had been at this point
in his career.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
The difference is, guys.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
The difference is that Peyton spent the bulk of his
career with a Hall of Fame receiver in his huddle,
with a Hall of Fame running back in his huddle,
with another wide receiver who's going to be in the
Hall of Fame in his huddle, not to mention a
Hall of Fame pass rusher on the other side, has
Josh Allen ever in seven years had a future Hall
of Famer in his huddle? Frank Gore doesn't really count.

(09:30):
It's at the end he has not had that. I
don't know if he's ever.

Speaker 4 (09:33):
Going to have that.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
I don't see a guy who's going to be Marvin
Harrison and Reggie Wayne Diggs has gone. Maybe he would
have become that, and maybe guys in his huddle now
will become that. But you know, damn well, this is
not apples to apples with him and Peyton Manning. It's
a different deal. He carries more of the load, he
does more of the work. You have to help him
as much as you can. If you can't get measuring
James and Reggie Wayne, you Dan well On Nett better

(09:54):
not take away James Cook.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
They didn't.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
Big baller being strikes again and there's no excuses if
they lose this year.

Speaker 4 (10:00):
He's done his job and now it's time for the
Bills to win.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Kyle, are you challenging the Bill to go out and
get a Hall of Fame worthy pass catcher or are
you saying that James Cook will suffice just within a
different capacity.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
Yeah, I mean you got to draft them like that's
the way. They just haven't done that, And Diggs would
have been the guy who goes on to be a
Hall of Famer. He spends six more years with Allen
and that's re ends up that thing dissipated. They don't
have those guys. They didn't draft Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne.
They did Dwight Freeney, but they did draft James Cook,
and he's one of the best weapons that Josh Allen
has ever had in his huddle. And to let him

(10:32):
go away because we just don't want.

Speaker 4 (10:33):
To pay it. It would have made sense. There's a
take for it.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
I just can't see them going into Arrowhead in January
and being like, we lost our best our best runner.

Speaker 4 (10:43):
We lost them. He's gone.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
He scores more touchdowns than almost any being in the
league and we just didn't want to pay him.

Speaker 4 (10:47):
Oh we lost again. They won't do that now. If
they lose, they lose with their boots on.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
This is always a little stressful when we do this
next exercise because this is a visual and of verbal medium.
So when I ask you to please give me one
word that describes your anticipation for Josh Allen's twenty twenty
five season, deliver the word. But also you're allowed a
few more if you want to explain why that word.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Well, two thirds of our party is like negative. Nancy's
on the show this morning. There's like a negativity coming
on from my brothers on this show. I'm hopeful, Okay,
I'm hopeful when it comes to Josh Allen, Like I'm
hopeful that when he gets to the end and he
is an Arrowhead that I don't care who's with him, Like,
take over the game, Josh Allen, Like do what you do?
Be Superman now, when he did see the Chiefs last

(11:28):
year in the playoffs, I think there was a level
of angst there that he wasn't playing as fluid, he
wasn't as relaxed, And that's I understand that situation when
you're you're going against somebody that you've lost to. I mean,
I figuring lost to Kyle Brant all the time and
get anxiety right before trivia.

Speaker 9 (11:43):
So I get it, Josh Allen.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
But I'm hopeful, just like I'm hopeful I'm gonna be
him in trivia one day. I'm hopeful for you, Josh Allen,
that you're going to be Patrick Mahomes, and I hope,
I'm hoping that.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
It this year.

Speaker 9 (11:53):
Now you have your running.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Back, and to Kb's point, he hasn't had a big
target for him, Jamie. For those of you at home,
like everybody needs that comfort blanket, everybody needs that receiver
that and you don't know what the heck is going
on when you don't know where that blitz is coming from.

Speaker 9 (12:07):
When you don't know what the coverage is. I know
that I'm going to go to this guy.

Speaker 3 (12:11):
Nine times out of ten, Josh Allen hasn't had that guy,
So I'm hopeful that this year that even though he
still doesn't have that guy, Khalil Shakira has been has
become his dude.

Speaker 9 (12:21):
I'm hopeful that it'll all work.

Speaker 3 (12:23):
Out in the end and hopefully we'll be in the
super Bowl or playing deep into the playoffs this year.

Speaker 2 (12:27):
Now, to defend the negative nancies as Mantai just called them, now,
Tron played for the Dolphins when the Bills were on
the absolute up and up and securing their spot in
the acast. And for the other negative nancy in the
bottom left or right of your screen, he snapped his
shoulder in half last night playing dodgeball against a dozen
twelve year olds. So like I think in touch situation,
there's yeah, like there's a little wiggle room for the

(12:48):
why So toront go ahead and give us your one
word of your anticipation.

Speaker 7 (12:51):
Thank you for that context day. My one word for
Josh Allen is married. No, not really. My one word
that I have, I like anticipation twenty five is an
ED certified? Can he establish himself as decertified MVP the
best player in the league. He won the award last

(13:13):
year with a steller performance, but a lot of talk
about if him.

Speaker 5 (13:17):
Or Lamar Jackson should have been the MVP.

Speaker 7 (13:20):
I think this is the perfect opportunity for him to
repeat that same style performance. Buffalo Bills will need that
same style performance in order for them to move on
late in January and February and try to get to
the big dance. My one knock against Josh Allen has
been just some untimely carelessness with the ball. Would he

(13:41):
would put the ball in harm's way with risky throws
or risky decisions?

Speaker 5 (13:45):
Last year he did not do that.

Speaker 7 (13:47):
Last year he was a protector of the football six interceptions,
and I think that was the biggest jump and the
biggest reason he was able to secure the MVP. So
if he's fixed that one area of his game, he's
elite and everything else.

Speaker 1 (14:01):
Honestly saying, I wrote mine down, and I included a
question you got to put up with my left handed.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
Handwriting mine is my word is inevitable.

Speaker 1 (14:09):
Question mark, because that word gets thrown around sometimes that
these young quarterbacks who are so good, Oh, they'll get
one event inevitably they'll break through.

Speaker 4 (14:19):
It's inevitable.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (14:21):
That's naive as hell. There is no guarantee.

Speaker 1 (14:24):
Josh Allen's ever going to break through, or Joe Burrow
or Lamar, those guys may go their entire careers and
never win a Super Bowl. Lamar and Josh may never
even play in one. Dan Rayno never won a super Bowl.
We can go up and down the list. I remember
vividly when Aaron Rodgers won the Super Bowl. He's a
very young player. People are like, well, he may get
two or three or four or five at this point,
never even got back, never back. So this idea that

(14:45):
give him enough shots and he will do Peyton to
Brady and eventually break through.

Speaker 4 (14:49):
There's no guarantee of that. Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
So if this is the year, or if it's next
year or next year, and you only get so many
bites at the apple, if it's inevitable, question mark, you.

Speaker 4 (14:58):
Got to cash one of them in.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
And he does everything he can possibly do, and he
moves planets and he makes miracles, and they still don't win.
So anyone who thinks it's just a given that eventually
he will break through and deliver the.

Speaker 4 (15:11):
Super Bowl, it is not.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
There are sad, sad stories about talents of his caliber
who never even snipped the thing. So it's a no
apologies type league. You get so many shots and if
you don't catch them in you got to.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Move on the same way that if you are a
dad of young kids in this forties, it's inevitable that
you will suffer an injury at the hand of trying
to play a child's game with them. Kyle, seriously, Dodgeball.
It's always this time of year with you on this show,
like you have playoff predictions to make my friend, you
have scepters to hang a hand out. What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (15:43):
Well?

Speaker 1 (15:43):
Listen not to mention. I have a bleep in six
hour flight to California today. That's going to be nice
and comfortable. I can't wait for that thing. I'm going
to be in a real mood on the plane, but
I'm going to see you guys tomorrow. It was like
I could see like a mushroom cloud come out of
my shoulder. It's that sickening certainty when you know, oh,
I didn't just pull a muscle, this is I'm not hurt.
I think I'm injured, So emergency room, potential, a doctor's

(16:08):
business coming up, and I'm just too damn busy with
Good Morning Football. So we're just going to fight through
it and I'm going to do my thing. I'm going
to hit the meds and we're going to have some party.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Time for whiteboard Wednesday. We're going to start here in
Los Angeles, where on Monday, Rams head coach On McVay
had the following to say about his quarterback, Matthew Stafford
and the sore back he's been dealing with.

Speaker 10 (16:31):
You know, like we've said we're going to be flexible
and fluid. I think more than anything, I feel for
Matthew because of how much he wants to be out
there and feel good. Ultimately what ended up happening. Had
a great workout, felt good, but then you know, come
in today and it doesn't feel great, and so didn't
think that was the right decision to be able to
push him.

Speaker 5 (16:49):
We've kind of.

Speaker 10 (16:49):
Always talked about flexibility being fluid with some of the plans.

Speaker 2 (16:54):
Kyle Brant said on Monday that flexible and fluid not
the words or adjectives do you want to hear when
it comes to a quarterback like Stafford. Other words that
we don't like to hear is that Kyle Brandt is
probable to participate in this segment. However, his handwriting will
be questionable. So while we are all monitoring teams as
we approach prediction week, we have to start discussing teams

(17:15):
that may or may not be in the field of fourteen. Now,
toront Arms Diad, new to the media, recently retired a
legendary career. This is it, man. You got to start
picking teams and you've got to stand by it. So
we don't need you to pick them now. However, what
I am wondering for our first question on whiteboard Wednesday,
which team are you feeling flexible or fluid about? Mantai
when you're looking at your fourteen.

Speaker 3 (17:36):
Well, there's a lot of things you said questionable. I'm
not questionable about this. I had questions before Week one
of preseason. But the Patriots, this is a team that
I'm looking at.

Speaker 9 (17:45):
I had one eye on them. I have both eyes
on them now.

Speaker 3 (17:48):
I think we can all agree after Week one of
the preseason that the New England Patriots performed the best
out of all The New England Patriots performed the best
Week one preseason. Now, the reason why they need why
I'm fluid and flexible is because they needed to be.

Speaker 4 (18:02):
They needed to be.

Speaker 3 (18:03):
Fluid and flexible in the past three years, they had
three different head coaches, also three different quarterbacks. So with that,
as Mike Brabel comes back to New England, there's going to.

Speaker 9 (18:13):
Be some there's going to be.

Speaker 3 (18:14):
Some culture changes, but yet a sense of the past,
him being a former player for the Patriots winning Super
Bowls with the Patriots. It's going to be a blend.
So they need to be fluid, they need to be flexible,
and the Patriots are a team that I'm definitely going
to have my eyes on and that I'm going to
be fluid and flexible as this as this season kind
of goes throng oo.

Speaker 7 (18:33):
So I think you, I think you're doing this on purpose.
You're showing love to all these AFCs problems.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
I knew you was coming on today, brother, I knew
you was coming on today.

Speaker 7 (18:42):
The Miami Dolphin, I'm going I'm rocking with the team,
not just because I just played for him for the
last three years, but I truly believe that the Miami
Dolphins are really close, really close.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
They have so much talent on the on the offensive
side of the ball, along and with two.

Speaker 7 (19:00):
Under center, you have a chance to win every game.
Every team can't say that it's a very small amount
of teams in the NFL that can say that. So
with all his weapons, Tyreek Hiell, Jalien Waddle, it's just
and with the addition of Darren Waller, he as an
element a red zone threat that too.

Speaker 5 (19:20):
It just hasn't had throughout his career.

Speaker 7 (19:23):
That that really the offense to me, I'm excited fot
Miami Dolphins campaign.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
When it comes to picking playoff teams, I've said this before, Jamie.
You know there's really three groups. There's the group that
you really like and know they get a spot. There's
the group that you're like, I'm out on that team
this year. And then there's that troublesome middle group where
you're like, there's a lot going for you. I like
you as a team. I just don't know if I
have a spot. I only get so many spots. It's
not personal. You know who I'm fluid with and flexible with.

(19:51):
I don't know yet if I have a spot for this.
And I'm sorry to the Dallas Cowboys organization, not for me.
What I'm saying about what I drew that is my
best attempt at a Dallas Cowboys star after with my
left hand, it looks more like a star fish. But
like I, we ask everybody, yeah, it does look like Patrick.
And does anybody have does everybody have a spot for
the Cowboys. I think we all think the Eagles are
gonna be in the playoffs. We all like the Commanders.

(20:13):
The Cowboys are just one of these tweener teams. For me,
I picked them last year. It burned me bad, but
that got hurt. There's just so much mystery, there's so
much noise. They're definitely getting in the playoffs. I can't
say they are, but I also can't say they're not.

Speaker 4 (20:26):
That's the point of this.

Speaker 1 (20:27):
I'm flexible and I'm fluid with the Cowboys right now.
But again, that could just be my painkillers talking.

Speaker 9 (20:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:33):
I was gonna say, you seem so like calm and
steady about that tape them out. Yeah, exactly. I can't
quite track your emotional steadiness today, but it must be
the pain killers. Topic number two on Whiteboard Wednesday. I
don't know if we have tron backs, so we're just
gonna roll with the two of you, and I will
participate if I have to. Topic number two comes to us
from the New York Giants social media team, which by
the way, that group has been killing it.

Speaker 9 (20:54):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
They had the clip earlier with the players trying to
guess like different female products. It was hysterical. Now the
players were asked if they could go to any concert,
regardless of time and place, who would they want to see?
Here's part of the clip.

Speaker 11 (21:07):
Who's your dream concert that are alive? I would say
my dream concert would definitely be Michael Jackson. Coldplay was
super cool. Dream concert? Oh man, hemb amboy, But I've
seen that concert Buddy the Stars Lit Up? That was
aspired Daddy Morgan Wallace.

Speaker 8 (21:22):
Man, I wish I could go see Michael Jackson perform,
you know, that would have been cool.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
My wife is a big concert person.

Speaker 7 (21:27):
I want to go to a Beyonce concert, but she
won't let me go to be Beyonce concert. I would
like to go to like a Beyonce jay Z like
on their final tour, type of New Edition, jagged Ish
one to twelve, the boy groups that ain't around anymore.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
All right, here we go. There's the question at hand,
dream concert past or present? MANSI, what would you love
to attend? Who would you like to see?

Speaker 9 (21:52):
Well, I've said this person on this show many a times.
This is actually a third time, so hopefully third times
a charm Adele.

Speaker 3 (21:58):
I want to go to an Adele concert.

Speaker 5 (22:00):
Listen.

Speaker 3 (22:00):
I don't need nobody coming down from the raptors coming.

Speaker 9 (22:03):
Up through this. I don't need any of that.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
I just need to be able to listen to hear
her sing there. I think she had some concerts in
Vegas every weekend for a number of years. I was
trying to get some of those tickets, and I looked
at that price. I was like, yeah, maybe not, but Adele.
I would love to go to an Adele concert. I
think that once she's going to sing the whole time,
so she's not going to just in Timberlake me and

(22:26):
I have to sing the whole thing myself because you
don't want to hear me sing. But I always have
been a fan of Adele. I was actually playing Adele
when I came in the morning today just because of
this question.

Speaker 9 (22:36):
Huge fan of Adele. I would want to go to
an Adele concert.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
All right, perfect, I'm going to take tron Spot because
I never get to play. I've seen this band four times.
This is like the thing. I went to this concert
with my dad. A bunch of times. But I never
saw Journey with Steve Perry as the lead singer. I
always saw the subsequent lead singers. But like the original
albums that I listened to in my dad's car sitting
in the back seat on the way to basketball practice

(23:00):
was with Steve Perry. He just I mean, it was electric.
Now there are subsequently are fantastic, Kyle wildly talented, but
this original experience is one that I would want to see,
and I'd se him for a fifth, six or seven
time if it was Steve Perry up there, Steve.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
The voice, Perry Journey takes a lot, a lot of
craps sometimes, Hi, I love Journey unapologetically. I don't care
everybody loves their songs. You bop your head, you sing
all the words. I'd love to go to a Steve
Perry Journey concert two, like in like nineteen eighty two
or something. You guys said Adele and Steve Perry. I
feel like I should do like Slayer or Pantera, just
to cleanse the palate of everybody. But I'm gonna do

(23:34):
my own thing. This is a deep pull. There's ever
any concert I could go to in history. I mean,
you could give me Michael Jackson in his prime or
led Zepp on the If I could be in the
Ed Sullivan Theater to see the Beatles, No, take me
into that nightclub when it's the Teenage Mutant, Ninja Turtles
and Vanilla Ice doing Ninja rap in the middle of
a kung fu fight scene.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
Ninja Ninja Rap. I am so into this. This is
my dream concert. Go Ninja Go, Ninja Go.

Speaker 1 (24:00):
If my shoulder wasn't disconnected from the rest of my body,
I would do the dance right now.

Speaker 4 (24:04):
The final act the third acts.

Speaker 1 (24:06):
Of Teenage Munion Jourtles two, Secret of the Ooze. There
were no secrets about the coolest guy in that nightclub,
and it was Vanilla Ice, Rob van Winkle, we see you.
I would be there. I would be fist pumping, I'd
be dancing. I'd be doing it in my parachute pants.
I love that show. I give anything to be at it.
Any super Bowl you could give me two in history. No,
I say Vanilla and the four Bros from the Sewers.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
I love that concert. I wish I could be. They're
just looking at the pictures making me weepy.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
I have never needed photographic support in Kyle's explanation that
I did in that reference. That was well done and
I'm so glad that we had that picture. Secret of
v show.

Speaker 4 (24:40):
Jimmy, go Ninja go, Ninja go.

Speaker 1 (24:43):
That's just what you say, and the roof comes down,
I will hurt myself.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
I'll do it for those guys.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
It's an amazing I know Splinter will take care of
me and April O'Neil.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
It's gonna be wonderful, all right, Shoulder Sanders might just
be the most intriguing. That might not be the adjective
that all people use, because you elicit quite the reaction
when you bring him up. So fascinating and controversial, perhaps
rookie in NFL history. He may have taken this from
many other names. Last Friday Night's game was the highest

(25:12):
rated preseason NFL games of all time. This Saturday, the
Browns played the Eagles one pm Eastern NFL Network. I'm
sure the viewership will try to top it. Here's the
question before Shahduur Sanders, who was the most polarizing rookie?

Speaker 4 (25:24):
Kyle?

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Did you erase your board? And already have a new
answer because I am worried about your left handed handwriting
and you're allegedly supposed to go first on this.

Speaker 1 (25:32):
Yeah, well, listen, this one. I could just write in
the sand. Everybody knows this. If you are around at
this point, Shadura is starting to give vibes of another
player and another quarterback.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
And I'm not even going to write it down.

Speaker 1 (25:46):
If you were there, you remember, just just roll the
sound of this guy.

Speaker 12 (25:52):
And with the twenty fifth pick in the twenty ten
NFL Draft, the Denver Broncos select Tim Tebow, quarterback Florida.

Speaker 13 (26:03):
Congratulations for that young man who did not lose.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
His composure one bit as he.

Speaker 13 (26:08):
Was picked the cart limb from limb figuratively at the combine.

Speaker 4 (26:12):
And not throwing there and of course the senior ball.

Speaker 5 (26:14):
But he's a first round draft choice.

Speaker 4 (26:16):
All said and done, so listen. A lot to talk
about with Tibo.

Speaker 1 (26:21):
Of course, he goes towards the end of the first
round the Josh McDaniels Broncos. It was a surprise to everybody,
much like it was a surprise the Shaduur went fifth.
And we could talk about Tbo as the player and
Tibo mania and all that, and we've done that in
another segment.

Speaker 4 (26:33):
What I'm starting to see is. I think a lot
of the stuff with Shadur is.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I think generally he's very likable, and I think that
the public and the Internet sees that he's a likable dude,
and they have nothing against him. I think the conversation
about Shadeur is off putting, and people are sick of
the conversation and the topic and maybe what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (26:50):
Right now, but they like him.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Tebow is like the nicest person you've ever met in
your life, like the greatest teammate, the hardest worker, like
just a wonderful person top to bottom. People got sick
of hearing about Tbou having nothing to do with him.

Speaker 4 (27:03):
That's the same I see. It's nothing about the player, it's.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
The media coverage, which we're participating with right now. And
Schudor hasn't even played a game yet. We'll see what
happens when the regular season starts. But my my career
covering the NFL, in any regard, there's never been anything
like Tiba.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
I have Johnny football, Somebody's got to do it.

Speaker 12 (27:21):
With the twenty second pick in the twenty fourteen NFL Draft,
the Cleveland Brown select Johnny Manziel Burnbouck, Texas A and L.

Speaker 13 (27:33):
There you have it, Johnny football is coming to the
state of Ohio.

Speaker 5 (27:38):
After all, it was a long.

Speaker 13 (27:40):
Wait tonight for Johnny Manziel. But he's going to the
AFC nor.

Speaker 7 (27:47):
I don't think there has been another with more anticipation
coming out of college with a bigger name.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Rap songs. Drake made a song about the guy.

Speaker 7 (27:58):
I mean you, you really can't argue with Johnny Manziel,
Johnny Football, Heisman Trophy winner twenty two Well Baby O'Brien
Award man an Award AP College Player of the Year
SEC Offensive Player to get like the accolades were insane
him coming into the league.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
Was so much hype, so much anticipation. I'm going Johnny Football.

Speaker 2 (28:17):
It's a good one. That's a really good one.

Speaker 9 (28:18):
Man. Yeah, that's a really good one. Now.

Speaker 3 (28:21):
But I don't even know with my guy, if we
have some film on him, I don't think he went
to the draft. Matter of fact, I know he didn't
go to the draft, and I don't he didn't have
no cameras at his place.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
As as well as reported.

Speaker 3 (28:33):
But this guy was with somebody that played at the
University of Notre Dame areas a linebacker.

Speaker 9 (28:40):
Matter of fact, Tron, he was.

Speaker 3 (28:42):
I think he got second in that Heisman that year
that your guy got it, Johnny Manziel.

Speaker 9 (28:48):
But you talk about somebody.

Speaker 3 (28:50):
That When I googled him, there's a whole bunch of
different stuff that popped up on this dude. I don't
know which stuff to read, but from what I saw
is he had an electric college.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
Career, and then the national Championship comes around.

Speaker 3 (29:00):
At Alabama and his team just gets stumped, and so
this narrative starts to come out. And then a week later,
everybody finds out that he's a victim of some catfishing
ding and it just goes berserk. He has he gets drafted,
he was slated to be, from what I heard, a
top ten pick, and then he drops to the second
round and he has a thirty eighth overall pick to
the San Diego Chargers, has an injury ridden career as

(29:23):
a Charger, goes to the Saints and plays with you.
I think Tront he has a teammate w yours in
New Orleans for a few years, had a really good
time there, but played eight years, finished in Chicago.

Speaker 4 (29:34):
But it would have to be this guy over over here,
incredible breakdown.

Speaker 1 (29:39):
Not knowing that player, but now being an analyst, would
you have, looking looking back, suggested teams should take that
player given all the stuff you talked about and the
stuff that happened off the field, Like, would you draft
that player.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Because I know what that because I am that player.
I would say this in all honesty and serious seriousness.
I had a great conversation with Tom tellsk who was
the general manager for the Chargers at that time, and
when the documentary came out and he started to hear
all the things that I was going through, I wouldn't

(30:12):
I wouldn't have drafted that player because that player wasn't
the player that once donned the gold helmet. And when
I say that, I mean from a confidence standpoint like
his his the demons that were going through his head
were a lot scarier than the ones that he was
playing on the football field at that time, so he
needed to get himself right. Unfortunately for the Chargers they
got that version. Fortunately for the Saints they got the

(30:32):
one in the gold helmet. And it just so happened
that he was wearing another kind of gold helmet with
the Saints, and I was able to play some really
good football down there in New Orleans. But as a Charger,
I really struggled mentally and emotionally, and so I wouldn't
have drafted him myself if I had the opportunity, knowing
what I was going through mentally. But if I had
the player that played in New Orleans, I definitely would.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
Have drafted them.

Speaker 7 (30:54):
You definitely had a great time in New Orleans, brother,
and we were super excited when you came over. We
knew about all the off the off the field situations
that was happening. But man, from the from the day,
the first day you walk into the locker room down in.

Speaker 5 (31:08):
New Orleans, it was just you jump right into the family.
We didn't didn't miss it at all. That who that
nation really like here is you? Oh for sure? For sure, man, Listen.

Speaker 7 (31:19):
I'm appreciative of our time we had together, great memories,
great moments. I wish we would have got a chance
to fight for Super Bowl, But that's another conversation so close.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Man, Tay, you just needed to play your entire career
in gold helmets and you'd be in the gold jacket
right now, you know, I Mean, there's just only so
many It's Okay, it's all right, man, I get you, bro.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (31:40):
When it comes to answers like that, your humility always shines.
I always appreciated it, that good sense that you about
it all all right? That was why board Wednesday on GMFB, Kyle,
does it blow your mind that the two of the
answers come from the same draft class?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Most fulled up?

Speaker 1 (31:54):
No, it's an incredible draft class. And listen, I was
rooting hard for Manti to win that Heisman.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
That's all right though, Manty.

Speaker 3 (31:59):
We got the Emmy coming up, KB, we got the Emmy.
We're here now, We're here now baby,
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