August 21, 2024 • 38 mins
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with Brian Flores responding to Tua's criticism. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt Peter Schrager and Akbar Gbajabiamila discuss how coaching players has changed for those who are old school. Drew Bledsoe drops by to talk Brady roast and his thoughts on Tua's comments. Kirk Cousins answers Kyle's breakdown of his playlist! Plus, Jim Nagy reveals some of the Senior Bowl Watch List!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey, everybody, this is our show. It's called Good Morning Football.
We are presented by bez Buy. We're so happy you're here.
I'm Jamie Erdal, this is Akbar Bazavia Mela Good Morning.
And there's Peter Schragger. There's Kyle Brandt there in New
York City. We like pride ourselves here on GMFFE being
coast to coast. Gentlemen, we take the lead block out
to you first, because Peter, you've been enjoying the past
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couple days away from us. We need your takes on
the following topics because there's a lot to unpack. We
begin with Brian Flores's response to a tongue of Iloa.
If you missed it first, We're going to start with Tua.
We'll set the table there. Two days ago, Tua was
on jan Lebtard Show and he was asked about the
inherent differences between Brian Flores as a head coach of
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the Miami Dolphins into his first few years in Miami
compared to what Mike McDaniel has done for Tua in
the last few years. Tua was very specific about the changes.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
If you woke up every morning and I told you
you suck at what you did, that you don't belong
doing what you do, that you shouldn't be here, that
this guy should be here, that you haven't earned this right,
and then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude,
you are the best fit for this, like you are accurate,
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you are the best whatever you are this you are that,
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other? You see what I'm saying, and then
you hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
and more you start to actually believe that, I don't
care who you are, you can be the president of
the United States. You have a terrible person that's telling
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you things that you don't want to hear or that
you probably shouldn't be hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You're going to start to believe that about yourself. And
so that's sort of like what ended up happening.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And it was basically been what two years of training
that out of not just me, but you know a
couple of the guys as well that have been here
since my rookie year.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yesterday, Brian Flores was scheduled to meet with the media.
Flores now is the defensive coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings,
and he appeared at the podium flanked by a few
players that play for the Vikings currently. Many thought that
as support of Flores as he addressed to his comments.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Look, I'm human, so that hit me in a way
that you know wasn't I wouldn't say it was positive
for me. But at the same time, you know, I've
got to use that and say, hey, how can I
how can I grow from that? How can I be better?
And that's really that's really where I'm at from from
that standpoint. Do I feel like, you know that's me?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But how can I grow from that situation and create
a create a world where that's not the case that
anyone says that about about Brian Flores.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
In the spirit of two sides to every story, Peter,
we at the table, Kyle was here with us, got
to kind of unpack to his comments first, and now
we're all going to respond to Brian Flores. But since
we didn't get to chat yesterday, Peter, I want to
hear what you have to think about Tua and then
take us to Brian Flores.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Well, I think the entirety of this is actually a
really good public conversation about coaching, about playing, about mental health.
I think it's really good to have this out in
the open. And Flores comes from the old school, Belichick,
you just packed it. Nothing leaves this building. We don't
talk publicly, we don't air it out. But when Tua
is going to name his name and really be as
vulnerable and as candid as he was, Flores has to respond.
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And I think it's comfortable for Flores to probably go
up there to be like, look, I'm a Vikings coach
that was years ago. Like I'm focusing on what Harrison
Smith does on defense. No, I'll talk about it. Here's
what I know about Brian Flores. I know Brian Flores
grew up in Brownsville, New York, in a rough area
of Brooklyn, if I'm being candid, went to Poly Prep
where he was a star player, goes to BC.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
And he said in that press conference.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Yesterday that we didn't call like look, look like coaches
are my are my idols growing up? Like my Pop
Warner coach like took me out of a bad situation
for a lot of other people and made my life
like gave me a light my high school coach at
poly Prep like really like was my you know, my
guiding light in that situation to b c to that
he loved it so much that he wanted to become
a coach himself. I think that Brian probably saw that
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and I didn't speak to him, and I haven't spoken
to Flora's on the Tua situation in quite a while,
but like, I think he had to see that and say, Okay,
it's finally my time to address this. And he didn't
say yeah, but Tua stunk or Tua shouted aplay, or
I wanted I wanted justin Herbert or Ryan Fitzpatrick was there,
why would we start Tua? And said he was, like,
I heard that, it hurt, and we're moving on, and
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you know, it wasn't easy for him to listen to that.
The fact that we're having this public conversation about being
discouraging and talking down to players and talking about that
wasn't happening in the Parcels era. That wasn't happening necessarily
in the Belichick era. So we look at coaches now
where do players always want to play. They want to
go to LA to play for Sean McVay because it
looks like it's a blast. They want to go play
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for Andy Reid because he makes the best version of yourself.
Like the era of I'm coach, your player, I talked
down to you, and I'm a red you know what,
and you're gonna get out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I don't know if that exists anymore.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Even Sean Payton, who's an old school coach, has seemingly
softened a little bit in this era as opposed to
his early days with the Saints. I love that we're
having the public conversation, and I love that Flora's addressed
them publicly and did so in such a way where
he didn't disrespect to it, and he also didn't deny anything.
Is that here's where we're at. We're moving on, and
it's unfortunate that he talked about it that way and
that was his experience.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Yeah, And the part that I loved was the fact that,
you know, in the beginning of that press conference, he
says that he was going to learn from this, and
I think that's really all that you can do is
really learn from that situation. And I'm sure even in
it hurting him, Brian Flora saying that there's an area
for growth and that recognition, not going taking the high
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road and not kind of going back at Tua. I thought,
that's what volume of the type of man and the
coach is. But and I said this again yesterday, that
it doesn't have to be that tool was wrong, that
coach Flores is wrong. I think there's something to learn here.
I do know this though, you know, just from the
player's psyche, from the player's mindset, and just in general
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you talk about it being a general public conversation about
what an athlete might go through, is that it takes
ten positives to erase one negative. And so I found
it interesting that Tuas said it took them about two
years to kind of overcome that. And it is a
really when we talk about mental health and you talk
about the struggles of trying to overcome self doubt and all.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The other stuff.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
It is a high performance sport. I mean it is
it can be taxing on you as a person. And
so in their situation, you had two people who came
into a situation where it wasn't by choice, you know
what I mean, flor and came into Tua came into
the situation, and you know, it happens. Sometimes the chemistry
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of two a coach and player doesn't work out, and
it's okay. So I don't think we need to demonize anything,
but we need to learn, Like Coach Floor said, you
learn from this situation. I will say lastly on that
part is that you know, there was a reporter who
asked if he had reached out, and I hope, I
really hope that at some point they can have a
conversation so they can kind of wrap that up and
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so they can kind of grow from it and continue,
because you know, forgiveness is giving up the hope that
the past could be any different. It happened, It is
what it is. Now you got to move forward.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was surprised at the restraints and the poise. Can
you imagine right now, Brian Flores, he's trying to run
the Vikings defense, He's trying to get together, he's trying
to get ready for the opener, and someone comes and
taps him on the shoulder and it's like, coach, you know,
there's a news story right now where Tua went on
a local show that he talks to all the time
with a pretty big platform and pretty much just teed
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off on you about things that happened three years ago,
and is telling everyone that you bullied him and said
he was a loser and whatnot. He's like, oh my god,
it's tough for him at this point. It's August, it's
football season time. Not only to have to deal with
that and step aside from his duties as the Vikings
d corner has nothing to do with the Dolphins, but
to not say, oh really, because I got my story
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to tell too. Tua was afraid of his own shadow.
I benched him because Fitzpatrick was better and Jacoby was better.
If we're gonna do like he could have, I'm sure
there's a lot of things he could have said about
Tua and maybe perceived weaknesses that he had, and he
didn't do any of that. And I think it's especially
strong because listen, this is a classically trained Bill Belichick coach.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Not only are you nothing with.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The media, Belichick spent twenty years teeing off on Tom
Brady at every chance he got. Brady, Tom Brady, not
Tua tongue Iiloa. Tom Brady was sitting there with five
Super Bowl rings at one point, and Brady and Balchick's
telling him how terrible this throw was, how awful you
are in this drive in front of the team. So
to Flores, that's what you do and that's how you
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toughen guys up. But I think there's also there's a
lot of context here is very well established. Brian Fluores
wanted Justin Herbert to be the Dolphins quarterback. He did
not get him because allegedly ownership wanted to so immediately
when he's saying things like you're not supposed to be here,
which is one of the alleged quotes, it's right on
the nose, like I didn't want you. But I also
think like this idea of this is how I coach,
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and I don't break it. I think is ignorant. I
think it's prideful. I think it's lazy. And I would
look at parenting the same way. I don't think you
coach every player the same. I don't think you parent
every kid the same, whether that's in your living room
or your little league baseball coach different kids, different needs,
and the real artful successful coaches say, here are my
core values as a coach. But I'm going to go
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above and beyond to figure out what makes this player tick.
I got fifty three of them, and it's really difficult.
But if someone as important as the quarterback we just
draft in the first round, if this kid is not
responding to what I'm putting in, do I just stay it.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm like, I don't care. Then fit with me. No,
Like you.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Gotta swallow your ego and say, all right, well he's
not taking the tough love. Maybe he and I go
out and get a beer together or play.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Corn hoole or something.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It sounds like Flora's, the first time head coach at
the time, was not willing to bend, and it sounds
like he pretty much broke to it. I think that
Brian Flores will be a head coach again someday. The
players like him. He's a really talented guy, and I
think he'll be different. And whoever that quarterback is, he's
gonna be great because Flora's is gonna be like, whatever
you want, let's do it. Surprised that he has showed
that much restraint, but impressed.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
I don't know, because it's the quarterback and Floraes is
a classically trained defense to the coach how this went.
But if you wanted to get a line of former
Patriots defensive players who would talk about Brian Flores in
a positive way, it would be a line around this
block in Manhattan. It starts first and foremost with our
old colleague Jason Gordhordy, and it goes to Dante High Tower,
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and it goes to Patrick Chung, and it could go
through the list. And it's like, but like you said,
this is a quarterback. This is a rookie quarterback. And
he had a veteran in Ryan Fitzpatrick in the room
who he thought he had better chance to win with
very unique situation. And I think you're right, though it's
never been confirmed on either side. I don't think Flores
would have picked to over Herbert if that was a decision,
if we were go back and ask him in twenty
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twenty in that draft.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, and I'm glad for Brian Flora is that he
has players from his past defensive coaching that would stand
up for him from his current role with the Minnesota
Vikings defensively that would defend him. But I take an
issue with the Brian Flores head coaching version. Apparently now
that we're hearing about and if Brian Flores, I always
I believe this is someone's saying something about you and
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it is not true. I believe that you will come
out and say this is not true. He would have
looked in the camera. But the fact that he said
that hurt me. I understand where I have room for growth.
I think he now acknowledges that some of that was
not the right way to go about things, and that
the way Tua interpreted it is exactly how it went down.
What I take great issue with is the fact that
tuatunga Iloa again I spoke on this yesterday, came from
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the greatest college football program at the time. You have
Chuo arrives in Miami as your rookie quarterback and says,
if you want to know anything about me and how
to set me up for success, why don't you reach
out to my college coach, who mind you is also
a defensive minded coach who mind you is also from
the Bill Belichick coaching family. They're not from He's not
under Nick Saban the tree. He's part of the family.
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So if Nick Saban can change the way that he
approached to a tongue of Ioloa to put him in
his greatest lights when he was in college. How come
Brian Flores can't reach out because you guarantee you too
wor to put him on the phone and said, if
you want to know anything about me and how to
put me in a great spot, talk to Nick Saban.
And the fact that Brian Flores didn't at the time
have the space or the capacity to do that, I
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put that on him. And if and when he does
get another head coaching opportunity, I certainly hope he approaches
to Kyle's point, parenting and coaching differently for each individual player,
because putting them in the best spot, both on the
field and off the field is the most imperative part
of success.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
You know, Jamie, I love what you're saying, But you know,
and I also know this, that there's no real blueprint
right when you're dealing with different personalities. And I think
the expectation if I had to kind of pick at
kind of how to handle this, I think to me,
to have the expectations that Brian Flores would have known
how it was impacting him, it's a little misleading, I
think to be as a grown man to be able
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to say Hey, you know what, this is how I'm
feeling about this. Even if you had to internalize this,
you know, a year later or whatever. Now of course
you know you got paid, you're feeling good, whatever, even
now that you're comfortable. He's a way to be able
to go up and pick up the phone and say, hey, coach,
I need to talk to you about this. This is
how this impacted me. I think to go to the
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media because to me, real resolution comes in being able
to confront the person who did it to you, rather
than go to the media. The media makes it big.
Then he's doing a response from the outside, like just
like I'm a grown man because I know if one
of my coaches ever disrespect him like that and I
felt some type of way afterwards, I'm calling that person.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So just to bring a full circle, the initial question
of Tuo was not specifically like hey, let's just rail
on Brian Flowers right now, was about how are you different,
and so that's kind of where it came from. But
it wasn't about like two, It wasn't like, hey, let
me come in and just like beat down on Brian Flores.
It was about how Tua has changed over the last
couple of years, and we're happy to see two of
the where he's at right now, the final week of
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the preseason. We're happy that this is here. Kicks off
on Thursday night when the Chiefs play host to the Bears.
You can see it right here on NFL Network. It'll
be at eight twenty pm Eastern and you can stream
it NFL Plus, which I beg of you just to
try out, because if you don't have Plus, you're not
ready for the regular season. And plates be ready for
the regular season. Yesterday Kyle went searching for Easter eggs
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in Kirk cousins seventeen song Birthday playlist. Then Kyle may
have gotten the greatest gift of all back from Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, because everybody talked about this how great early two
thousands pop rock I broke it down. Cousins watched and
he reached out to us with a plot twist will
blow your mind.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Speaking of plot to us, we got Drew.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Bledsoe on the show. We love this guy.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
First pick in.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The nineteen ninety three draft. He was at that roast
of Brady's got a million thoughts about football and wine,
and we just love these Drew Bledsoe highlight of the best.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Arms to ever throw a football.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Ever, the sports ever, and maybe you talks and Ben
coach you never know LEDs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Right after this we listen to Brisbee.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Who do we got there?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Eighty eight?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Good morn football, great, great memories of watching this guy play.
It's just a rocket arm, a great career, and he's
gone on to do incredible things after football.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know him, you love him.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
He's a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He is Drew Bled. So what's up, Drew?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We're about to get back to the good time of
the sports here. You know, we had this night, a
nice little interlude, you know, with the Olympics, this sum
which gave us something that we really like to watch
for a little while. But now, you know, you know,
pre season football is just not that interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But we're about to get back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I can't wait, believe us, we hear you. We can't
wait for the opener. And there's so many places to go.
You got this beautiful stone fireplace and you're sipping your
mug and he's just living to Drew bled zone life.
But I wanted to throw you right into what we
were just talking about. So It's a big story this
week where two A talk about load. The Dolphins quarterback
really fired some shots at his former head coach Brian
Flores about his treatment of him and I he was
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too hard on him. I look at you. You played
for the oldest of the old school, Parcels, Belichick.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're the number one overall pick.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What are your memories of how they treated you when
you came in and how has it changed over the
last twenty five thirty years to what we have now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You know, Parcels, you know, and playing quarterback for Parcels, man,
you better have thick skin and you better be able
to just like sometimes you just need to wear ear muffs.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Man, he was right in your ear all the time,
just badgering you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I had Pete Carroll, who was different. Pete was actually
quite a pleasure to play for. And then Belichick's Belichick,
you know, and he's, uh, he's not gonna pull any punches.
But I do think that it's that it has changed.
And I think the case and point for how it's
changed is the fact that Bill Belichick is not on
an NFL sideline this year. You know, I think everybody's
going younger. They want they want. You know, there's more
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of a positive approach to UH to coaching, and that's
definitely changed. I can see that from a player perspective.
If you're going to be parcels, you've got to be parcels.
You got to be funny, right, you know, you can't
just be mean. And you know, from a fan perspective,
so yeah, I can see where it's changed, and I
don't I don't think it's great optics. For two, it's
not not I don't think it's ever cool to take
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shots at somebody after they're gone. But at the same time,
you know, it is indicative of where where the game's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Wow, totally.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
You know, we saw you at the at the roast
of Brady this summer. We also saw at the Jersey thing,
and then of course Brady is at the Fanatics Fest
talking with Steven A doing stuff like Brady's been out there,
but Brady's really going to be out there this fall
when he's the number one answer for Fox. You were
in the obviously the locker room with him, but you saw.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Like Tom Brady the broadcaster.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What's your initial thoughts to someone who knows him pretty well?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You know, I'm sure. I'm sure he'll do a great
job at it.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
And you know the thing that people look at when
that they miss when they talk about broadcasts and whether
they succeed or fail, it's the guys that do the
work that are great at And it's really that simple.
You know. You look at Akerman, you look at Romo.
You know there's guys that broke in and you know,
like everybody looks at Romo like he's you know, he's
predicting the future. Oh how do you predict that play?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
And well, he went to practice, he saw what they
ran from that formation, and that's activist and that's what
they did, right. So I know that Tommy will work
it to death. I will get kind of tired of
his squeaky ass voice, but but but I know, I
know he'll do a great job calling the game.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
All Right, I'll let the guys pick your brain about
roasting Tom Brady in just a second. Since you went
there and now you've invited us in with that squeaky
voice comment, but I have to pick your brain about
the rookie quarterback conversation that everyone seems to be having.
Seems very heavy this year since they were half a
dozen picked in the first round, your first overall back
in nineteen ninety three, you start right away. Brady has
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this talk about lack of development for these quarterbacks. Where
do you stand on this in terms of teams that
are in need young quarterbacks and being thrown into the
fire right away.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
You know, it's such an individual decision for each quarterback.
Right some quarterbacks, I felt like I was ready to
play right, I felt like I was ready to get.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
In there and go.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
But then you've seen other quarterbacks that sit for a
year or two and it's very beneficial for him. And
so I think the coaches as they're looking at these guys,
they have to determine, Okay, is it the right time
for this guy? Is he ready to go now? Because
you also have to take into account, you know, is
your team ready for them to play? Because you put
a guy in there early and your team's not at
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that level yet. Now you can mess with that guy's
confidence and mess with the rest of his career by
throwing it out there when your team's not ready to
support it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So there are a lot of things that go into it.
You know, I don't like the idea.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
That sometimes there's pressure to put these guys on the
field just because of whether they were drafted. That's the
wrong way to approach it. You got to look at
the look at the guy and look at whether he's
actually ready to go on the field and whether your
team is ready for him to be on the field.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Jerreal, Man, I got to say, you're one of the
coolest dudes I know. Man, I watched that roast. I
was at that roast, and you had me in stitches.
I was a little nervous because I'm like, well, this
is Drew Bledsoe, Like, you know, does he have comedic chops?
But you did a tremendous job. But you are a
quote unquote speech. I mean you went to work and
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you were so calm, popping the collar. Like, how much
preparation did you put into that? Like, you got to
let me know because if there was no prepping, you
just rolled off out of bed out that bro, you
need to stop the wine business and you need to
get straight into comedy.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Now there was some prep time.
I'm not gonna lie about that.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
You know, I wasn't too nervous about it because you know,
I mean, I've been speaking in public for years and years,
and that was probably the most prepared I've been for
something I was going to say publicly, just because I'd
had to run through it with my wife and my
kids because they were so nervous.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
My kids, my kids.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Each individually called me like, all right, Dad, what are
you going to say? They were so nervous because like
all I hear from me are bad dad jokes and
you know, super you know, inappropriate stuff and inappropriate times,
and uh so they're like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Go do comedy. So that it made me run through
the whole routine with them.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
My wife did veto I think, I think that's out there,
and my wife did veto one joke which I've never
told publicly and I still won't because she's like, no,
that's over the line. That's over the line. So then
she had to chime in and help me with one
of them.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So and then you know, and then the uh we went.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
We did go back and forth with the writers and
they're they're great at what they do, so they helped take,
you know, some of the ideas that I had and
put them in sequence so that things things rolled.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So yeah, there was.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
There was some prep time for sure, The problem for
me was that a week later I started looking back
at it, and I came up with an entirely different
routine and entirely different script that I think would have
actually so so that that's the other part.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So now I hope there's another roast, and I hope
I get.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
A Yeah, Drew, you know that, like these comedians, they
do a special, they premiered on Netflix, then a year
later they do another special.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I feel like we need round two and you can
use your next best stuff and you've been workshopping.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Yeah, I just want to know who's going to be next,
you know, I mean who can follow that one?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Right?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
I mean you could do like you could do Peyton
and Eli at the same time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That would be kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Kelsey for Belichick, mat Me Kelsey Belichick Kelsey. Let's let's tall,
Let's see Taylor get a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Of the Yeah, never mind, that'd be pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Quarterback here obviously a legendary one, and we always talk
about depth charts, but you're also in the wine game.
And if you don't know, everyone look up Drew Bloodsoe
and wine and what he does up there and.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Webs family winery.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
It's incredible and it's been It's it's not just overnight success.
This has been the test of time. So Kyle and
I had this idea, why don't you give us your
depth chart, your top four grapes?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Great, what's the grape depth?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Give it to us a depth chart, and give it
to us stack it up.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
All right, Okay, Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna put Cabernet
as as as number one. Uh you know, always has been,
you know, for I mean thousands, well maybe at least
at least hundreds of years, So I'm always gonna put
that out number one.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's still my favorite. Number two for me though, And
this would.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Be a personal favorite, like Desert Island wine would be Nebolo.
I love the ones from northern Italy, Burlo Barbarasco. We've
actually planted a little bit of that just to see
if we can replicate what happens in Italy. Pima No
War would be be third on that depth chart. And
just to uh just to round out, maybe add a
little diversity of the quarterback room, I'm gonna throw out
a white wine.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We're gonna have We're gonna have some some chardenay in there.
Just just what.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
About Margitina Merlowe?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got to put Merlot in there?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
All that there's a I mean, this is this is
this is another whole show that we can do a
deep dive.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But yeah, I MA all back. I love me low
I love Sarah. I mean we didn't even talk about
I mean we can. I can. I can peek out
tough with you for hours.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
All right, listen, you only got so many spots the
ma all back. They got to turn in their playbook there,
we don't. They only have so many spots in the
great room, Drew, you have so many things going on
FanDuel Sunday Ticket YouTube. But we remiss not asking this.
Twenty six years ago, the number one movie in the
United States of America was a movie called There's Something
About Mary. Brett Favre has a memorable, if not exactly
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perfect performance in the movie. The rumor is he was
the third choice, second choice with Steve Young, who did
not agree with the content, and the first choice was
Drew Bledsoe, who was not able to appear in the movie,
according to the Internet, because he got injured moshing at
a concert. Can you please settle the truth about the
legend of you and there's something about Mary.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Okay, so there's truth to this. But I was not
first choice. I was second choice. Cameron Diaz had a
crush on Steve Young, and so Steve Young was first,
but he wouldn't do it because good Mormon boyman, and.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It didn't didn't fit with his beliefs.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I was the second place because the Fairly Brothers are
from the New England area, and so they reached out
and it was soon after I did a little mosh pit,
you know, nightclub incident in Boston, the big news. But
I was also out here at our cabin in Montana,
and I just didn't I just didn't feel like movement.
I just didn't like going anywhere and doing it. So
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they put they so they handed it down too far.
Who uh, his acting chops are terrible. I would so,
you know, I do feel bad that that the movie
didn't come off as great as it would have had
I played the department.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh no, I have an idea, Drew. I don't think
we need a subject that gets roasted by multiple people.
I think you just get to roast multiple peace, like
you get to stand up there and just have the list.
Because man you are just ready to fire on anybody
that we bring up. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
As long as there, as long as they're my generation,
I can get after him.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I know, Drew. We love you man, Thank you for
joining us. Salud salu to the entire bled Cell family
are the best. Bit.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I want to tour the wall of walla belly.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Here we go, Drew, So everybody, welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 11 (26:29):
Aaron Rodgers has yet to play in the preseason. We
still don't know if we'll see him suit up against
the Giants on Saturday. But as for training camp work,
Rogers says it's the hardest camp he's had in the
last seven or eight years, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
I give Robert a lot of credit because he from
the start of the off season said this is going
to be a tough training camp, and I think it's
been a lot of reps for the ones. He told
me the other day we were somewhere in the neighborhood
of three hundred more reps I think at this point
of camp and then last year.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
And it feels like it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But it's good.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
I think it's going to allow us to maybe be
a little more ready and We've been fortunate with injuries.
You know, we haven't had a ton of injuries so far,
so I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's been great.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
He talked to the older guys, had a lot of
complaints for many of those guys. Young guys don't know
any better, so it's been good.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
Meanwhile, Bill's quarterback Josh Allen, the middle of a six
year deal, putting him thirteenth among quarterbacks and average per
year salary according to over the Cap. But despite the
recent run on mega quarterback contract, Alan says he's just
fine with his take home check.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Listen, everyone's going to have their day, and I'm happy
that everyone's getting what they're worth, right And I think
that as the game progresses and guys keep getting paid again,
the market is the market. And I've got no problem
with where I'm at right now. And you know, I
had my day a couple of years ago, and I'm
sure someday I'll have it again, you know. But I
think the main thing is the main thing, and that's
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playing football to the best of my ability, and everything
else will take care of itself.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
Alan just turning twenty eight this pass spring, so he
will be in line for another massive Payday down the road,
but for now, as you heard in the focus on
the Ultimate Prize bringing the first Lombardi Trophy to Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Kirk Cousins gave us a gift, and it's right here.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Seventeen weeks in a season, seventeen tracks, Week one, Track one.
I think he is saying to his team it just
takes some time. Week seven, I'm coming out of my
cage and I'm doing just fine. Now he's starting to
play better.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
They're playing the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They're playing in Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Good Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We're gonna play really well. We got this and guess what.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
They played the Panthers twice. Churs got Good Charlotte on
the playlist twice.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
You think that's a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Now we're flexing on food fighters.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Best of you at Las Vegas?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What is someone who comes back from a trip from Las.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Vegas a good Christian boy?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let Kirk Cousins say, I got another confession to make,
and I'm gonna need the best, the best, the best
of you to beat these.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I mean, come on, this is Gardner Grohle. They meet
somewhere in the middle, all right, Kirk sees all of
this for what it is. Back to Washington, pretty personal.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Game for him.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Room five is a direct reference to the quarterback he
will be facing.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
It, guys more five.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It All the answers are out there laugh at Cousins, fine,
but do not be laughing when he ends up probably
in the middle of the playoff.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Raise all right, that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's me hooton and holler and on set in La
talking about Peter kirk Cousins customized playlist for the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It was his birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
They gave him the auks. I said, he burned the
CD of just his favorite songs. We do the whole list,
the break down. I think there's all these hidden messages
in it. And shortly after I do the segment, I
get a text from and it was from kirk Cousins,
a birthday boy, and he says the tech says, I
was watching the show and he sent me a voice recording,
a voice recording that I have right here in reaction
(30:00):
to that segment, not only reacting to it, but also
a big plot Twitt. So what I'm gonna do right now,
I'm gonna break some news here. The internet fell in
love with that playlist. I don't know if it's exactly
what you think it is, so I'm just gonna put
it up to my microphone. And this is Cousin's voice
text memo to me yesterday after watching the show, here
you go.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You killed it.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
On Good Morning Football this morning, as always, but with Chucklin,
because yesterday at practice, I'm used to always hearing you know,
trap music, gangster wrap the whole practice, and I'm always like,
can we have a little bit of diversity, like maybe
one every ten songs, we could.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Get some some other genre, and usually.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
It falls on deaf hears, but yesterday it was like
one song after night there was another was like Foo Fighters,
Good Charlotte, all American rejects.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I was like, man, I like this song.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I like this song.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Like this song.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
So after practice, onto the our, you know, coach's assistant,
who's the DJ, and I said Madison.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Like, I got to give you an at a boy that.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Was an awesome practice playlist, and she said, well.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
That was because it was your birthday.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
That was all for you.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
So she just basically guessed that I would like and
she guessed correctly, but unfortunately the list was actually my
literal practice playlist, which I.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Would have loved to put one together. Maybe I can
have future birthdays in the league and do that.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
But that was literally the coaches assistant just guessing.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
What I would like.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But she basically has me pegged.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
So that was the story.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
But yeah, it was. It was a huge birthday gift.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
When you're used to listening to gangster rap over and
over and over.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
To get a little food fighters in there was at
the end of the world for me. So I hope
you're doing well. What a voice note. That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Thank you Kirk for watching and listen, this is I
said plot to us. Peter, your thoughts about hearing how
it actually went down.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Shout out to Madison. Shout out to Madison.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And by the way, Cousin says, you're the genius behind them.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
She guessed perfectly, And shout out to Cousins for an
awesome voice note. And I gotta say, I'm curious to
see the rest of the team's performance. When you have
ever clear in the All American Rejects playing in the
background as opposed to a little Dirk and little Baby, what.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Well, listen, I know that right now, and Jamie and
La are probably shell shocked. Just to clarify this for
the Internet. It turns out Kirk did not make this playlist.
It was made for him and Madison just guessed the
songs that he would like and was just nailing them all.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
What do you guys think?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
In La do you feel cheated that you did the
whole da Vinci code and it was nothing to do
with his personal like his personal selection, I.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Think I'm further validated. It even seats a deeper da
Vinci code, Jamie, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I first of all, again shout out to her cousins
for going on a deep dive on a Good Morning
Football segment in mid August. The guy loves ball, he
loves a talkball, he loves Kyle Brandt. The fact that
you sent you the voice message gave you the clearance
to play it, And then shout out to Madison, who
gotten at a boy after practice.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Kirk.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We love you, we appreciate you, And like I said yesterday,
Kirk and I the exact same age and that was
exactly ninth grade for us.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I need a little I need a little more time
because you wouldn't believe there's another plot twist. Okay, other
person who watches our show is named Brian Bell. Brian
Bell is the lead guitarist for Weezer. He's a big
Rams fan, and he watches the show every day and
he messages kind of often about it. I saw what
you did today, Brian Bell after the segment yesterday, says, honestly,
I was kind of disappointed Weezer didn't make the list, Like,
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how are we not there at least like Island in
the last pipe? Yeah, And so I then go to
Kirk and I say, you know, Weezer was kind of
disappointed that they did make your list. The whole group rivers,
quoting Kirk, says, all right, I'm going to make an
actual birthday playlist next year. So tell Weezer they have
three hundred and sixty four days to impress me and
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make the list. So next year, next August thirty, seventh birthday.
Who knows happen with the Falcons this year? Shout out
to Weezer. Everyone's like, what hell's creed? You guys got
three hundred and sixty some days, and then Kirk will
put you on. I appreciate no creed, by the way,
I know, I thought it was cool, like yeah, yeah,
I agree, that's Madison.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Remember that the triangle of GMFB offense would be Kirk, Cousins,
Weezer and Kyle always looks amazing. That's the birthday boy.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh oh that's me. Oh yeah, that's me.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Good mon, football, Welcome back to the show. We are
now days away from the start of the college football season,
which means we're already thinking twenty twenty five NFL Draft,
and my brain goes immediately to who's going to be
at the twenty twenty five Senior Bowl the Senior Bowls.
Watchless actually drops today, So let's welcome the executive director
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of the Senior Bowl or friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, Jim nag let's go. What's going on, my friend.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Good to be on, guys, good to be back on.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
It's great to be having you here, especially today.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
You've been waiting for this.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
You tweeted about it a few weeks ago. Eyeballs the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What do we got going today?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
And what should face.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Of the NFL Draft be looking at to come from
your offices down there in Mobile, Alabama later this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, eight and fifty nine players.
Speaker 14 (35:12):
This is a big list this year, guys, And again
it's because this is the last year of the extra
COVID year, so it's a huge senior class.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
This is the first year we put on a watch
list where the juniors.
Speaker 14 (35:23):
Were eligible, right, the NFL kind of made that ruling
last November that juniors could be added to All Star Games.
So there's eighty one juniors on this year's list, so
that adds to it.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
And then we put specialists on.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
We didn't have pickers and snappers and punters on in
the past, so that's why the number is so big.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
But a big day, a big day.
Speaker 14 (35:40):
For our sponsor reesis all these schools are cranking out
graphics with flying Reese's cups and flying Reese's pieces and
shout up to fam U stepped up their game. They
had their two guys that made the watch list, probably
somewhere over there in Tallahassee to a grocery store buying
Reese's cups in the store in a little video. So
just a fun day here around the office watching all
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these schools create content around around our game.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Jaggy said. Two players from Florida A and M University
buying Reeses in the grocery store with two on the list.
This is the biggest list yet, Jim, that we've seen.
Tell us how it was compiled and in terms of
bragging rights, fam you's got two which schools both the
most players.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Yeah, it is the biggest list by far. Usually there's things,
you know, four to five hundred players, so this is
a big list. In terms of the most players, it's
all miss They've got twenty one. The SEC dominated this year.
They've got the five most schools. I think we've got
eleven schools that there were fifteen players, and seven of
those come from the SEC, so.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
They've got about seventy more players in the Big Ten.
Speaker 14 (36:41):
The Big Ten came in second, and then I think
it's ACC and Big twelve. So as you would imagine,
the Power four came in with the most players in
the list. But yeah, it's a great starting point for us.
We watched tape since going back to really last January.
Our staff was upstairs watching these guys even before we.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Played the twenty twenty four version of the Resa's Senior Bowl.
So a lot of hard work.
Speaker 14 (37:01):
We've watched tape on all these players and it's just
a starting point, you know. I really like to emphasize
for all the guys that didn't make the list. We
had seven players last year that played in the Senior
Bowl here in Mobile that weren't on the watch list
last year, and they all got drafted. And two of
those guys, Marshaun Lloyd running back from USC and Elijah
Jones at cornerback from Boston College. Those guys win in
the third round. They were top hundred picks and they
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weren't on the watch list. So if you're not on
the list and you're a player out there and you're watching,
we will still be watching you this fall, and you've
got just as good a chance to make the game
as the guys that made the watch list.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Jim, last year, you were so big on bow nick
h of course, look what happened. He makes it. We're
going to wrap here because the show is coming to
a conclusion, but I wanted you to give an opportunity
to tell the viewers where they can find the list
and where they can follow these guys all year long
on your Senior Bowl content.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
Yeah, Senior Bowl dot com. We'll have the full watch
list up there. You can sort it by player, you
can sort it by school to find your favorite guys.
And then I would say on find us on X
I've got an account there Senior Bowl. At Senior Bowl,
I'll be posting that stuff all day. So I appreciate
you guys having me on to promote this thing and
look forward to an all fall and talking about these
college players.
Speaker 9 (38:06):
A Jim Real quest, I appreciate. I appreciate the San
Diego State sticker right there.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I see it.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
I see you, baby, I see you.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Representing for you, Akbar, go buy Reese's Peanut Butter Stop.
So we appreciate you. Jim Nagy, we'll talk to you
this fall. Go check out the list.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Good Morn Football
Good Morning Football is the production of the NFL in
partnership with iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Good Morning Football.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Hey, everybody, this is our show. It's called Good Morning Football.
We are presented by bez Buy. We're so happy you're here.
I'm Jamie Erdal, this is Akbar Bazavia Mela Good Morning.
And there's Peter Schragger. There's Kyle Brandt there in New
York City. We like pride ourselves here on GMFFE being
coast to coast. Gentlemen, we take the lead block out
to you first, because Peter, you've been enjoying the past
(00:45):
couple days away from us. We need your takes on
the following topics because there's a lot to unpack. We
begin with Brian Flores's response to a tongue of Iloa.
If you missed it first, We're going to start with Tua.
We'll set the table there. Two days ago, Tua was
on jan Lebtard Show and he was asked about the
inherent differences between Brian Flores as a head coach of
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the Miami Dolphins into his first few years in Miami
compared to what Mike McDaniel has done for Tua in
the last few years. Tua was very specific about the changes.
Speaker 4 (01:16):
If you woke up every morning and I told you
you suck at what you did, that you don't belong
doing what you do, that you shouldn't be here, that
this guy should be here, that you haven't earned this right,
and then you have somebody else come in and tell you, dude,
you are the best fit for this, like you are accurate,
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you are the best whatever you are this you are that,
Like how would it make you feel listening to one
or the other? You see what I'm saying, and then
you hear it. You hear it regardless of what it is,
the good or the bad, and you hear it more
and more you start to actually believe that, I don't
care who you are, you can be the president of
the United States. You have a terrible person that's telling
(01:59):
you things that you don't want to hear or that
you probably shouldn't be hearing.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
You're going to start to believe that about yourself. And
so that's sort of like what ended up happening.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
And it was basically been what two years of training
that out of not just me, but you know a
couple of the guys as well that have been here
since my rookie year.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Now.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yesterday, Brian Flores was scheduled to meet with the media.
Flores now is the defensive coordinator with the Minnesota Vikings,
and he appeared at the podium flanked by a few
players that play for the Vikings currently. Many thought that
as support of Flores as he addressed to his comments.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Look, I'm human, so that hit me in a way
that you know wasn't I wouldn't say it was positive
for me. But at the same time, you know, I've
got to use that and say, hey, how can I
how can I grow from that? How can I be better?
And that's really that's really where I'm at from from
that standpoint. Do I feel like, you know that's me?
Speaker 7 (02:55):
No?
Speaker 6 (02:56):
But how can I grow from that situation and create
a create a world where that's not the case that
anyone says that about about Brian Flores.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
In the spirit of two sides to every story, Peter,
we at the table, Kyle was here with us, got
to kind of unpack to his comments first, and now
we're all going to respond to Brian Flores. But since
we didn't get to chat yesterday, Peter, I want to
hear what you have to think about Tua and then
take us to Brian Flores.
Speaker 8 (03:19):
Well, I think the entirety of this is actually a
really good public conversation about coaching, about playing, about mental health.
I think it's really good to have this out in
the open. And Flores comes from the old school, Belichick,
you just packed it. Nothing leaves this building. We don't
talk publicly, we don't air it out. But when Tua
is going to name his name and really be as
vulnerable and as candid as he was, Flores has to respond.
(03:43):
And I think it's comfortable for Flores to probably go
up there to be like, look, I'm a Vikings coach
that was years ago. Like I'm focusing on what Harrison
Smith does on defense. No, I'll talk about it. Here's
what I know about Brian Flores. I know Brian Flores
grew up in Brownsville, New York, in a rough area
of Brooklyn, if I'm being candid, went to Poly Prep
where he was a star player, goes to BC.
Speaker 9 (04:04):
And he said in that press conference.
Speaker 8 (04:05):
Yesterday that we didn't call like look, look like coaches
are my are my idols growing up? Like my Pop
Warner coach like took me out of a bad situation
for a lot of other people and made my life
like gave me a light my high school coach at
poly Prep like really like was my you know, my
guiding light in that situation to b c to that
he loved it so much that he wanted to become
a coach himself. I think that Brian probably saw that
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and I didn't speak to him, and I haven't spoken
to Flora's on the Tua situation in quite a while,
but like, I think he had to see that and say, Okay,
it's finally my time to address this. And he didn't
say yeah, but Tua stunk or Tua shouted aplay, or
I wanted I wanted justin Herbert or Ryan Fitzpatrick was there,
why would we start Tua? And said he was, like,
I heard that, it hurt, and we're moving on, and
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you know, it wasn't easy for him to listen to that.
The fact that we're having this public conversation about being
discouraging and talking down to players and talking about that
wasn't happening in the Parcels era. That wasn't happening necessarily
in the Belichick era. So we look at coaches now
where do players always want to play. They want to
go to LA to play for Sean McVay because it
looks like it's a blast. They want to go play
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for Andy Reid because he makes the best version of yourself.
Like the era of I'm coach, your player, I talked
down to you, and I'm a red you know what,
and you're gonna get out of it.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
I don't know if that exists anymore.
Speaker 8 (05:21):
Even Sean Payton, who's an old school coach, has seemingly
softened a little bit in this era as opposed to
his early days with the Saints. I love that we're
having the public conversation, and I love that Flora's addressed
them publicly and did so in such a way where
he didn't disrespect to it, and he also didn't deny anything.
Is that here's where we're at. We're moving on, and
it's unfortunate that he talked about it that way and
that was his experience.
Speaker 9 (05:42):
Yeah, And the part that I loved was the fact that,
you know, in the beginning of that press conference, he
says that he was going to learn from this, and
I think that's really all that you can do is
really learn from that situation. And I'm sure even in
it hurting him, Brian Flora saying that there's an area
for growth and that recognition, not going taking the high
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road and not kind of going back at Tua. I thought,
that's what volume of the type of man and the
coach is. But and I said this again yesterday, that
it doesn't have to be that tool was wrong, that
coach Flores is wrong. I think there's something to learn here.
I do know this though, you know, just from the
player's psyche, from the player's mindset, and just in general
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you talk about it being a general public conversation about
what an athlete might go through, is that it takes
ten positives to erase one negative. And so I found
it interesting that Tuas said it took them about two
years to kind of overcome that. And it is a
really when we talk about mental health and you talk
about the struggles of trying to overcome self doubt and all.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
The other stuff.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
It is a high performance sport. I mean it is
it can be taxing on you as a person. And
so in their situation, you had two people who came
into a situation where it wasn't by choice, you know
what I mean, flor and came into Tua came into
the situation, and you know, it happens. Sometimes the chemistry
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of two a coach and player doesn't work out, and
it's okay. So I don't think we need to demonize anything,
but we need to learn, Like Coach Floor said, you
learn from this situation. I will say lastly on that
part is that you know, there was a reporter who
asked if he had reached out, and I hope, I
really hope that at some point they can have a
conversation so they can kind of wrap that up and
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so they can kind of grow from it and continue,
because you know, forgiveness is giving up the hope that
the past could be any different. It happened, It is
what it is. Now you got to move forward.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
I was surprised at the restraints and the poise. Can
you imagine right now, Brian Flores, he's trying to run
the Vikings defense, He's trying to get together, he's trying
to get ready for the opener, and someone comes and
taps him on the shoulder and it's like, coach, you know,
there's a news story right now where Tua went on
a local show that he talks to all the time
with a pretty big platform and pretty much just teed
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off on you about things that happened three years ago,
and is telling everyone that you bullied him and said
he was a loser and whatnot. He's like, oh my god,
it's tough for him at this point. It's August, it's
football season time. Not only to have to deal with
that and step aside from his duties as the Vikings
d corner has nothing to do with the Dolphins, but
to not say, oh really, because I got my story
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to tell too. Tua was afraid of his own shadow.
I benched him because Fitzpatrick was better and Jacoby was better.
If we're gonna do like he could have, I'm sure
there's a lot of things he could have said about
Tua and maybe perceived weaknesses that he had, and he
didn't do any of that. And I think it's especially
strong because listen, this is a classically trained Bill Belichick coach.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
Not only are you nothing with.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
The media, Belichick spent twenty years teeing off on Tom
Brady at every chance he got. Brady, Tom Brady, not
Tua tongue Iiloa. Tom Brady was sitting there with five
Super Bowl rings at one point, and Brady and Balchick's
telling him how terrible this throw was, how awful you
are in this drive in front of the team. So
to Flores, that's what you do and that's how you
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toughen guys up. But I think there's also there's a
lot of context here is very well established. Brian Fluores
wanted Justin Herbert to be the Dolphins quarterback. He did
not get him because allegedly ownership wanted to so immediately
when he's saying things like you're not supposed to be here,
which is one of the alleged quotes, it's right on
the nose, like I didn't want you. But I also
think like this idea of this is how I coach,
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and I don't break it. I think is ignorant. I
think it's prideful. I think it's lazy. And I would
look at parenting the same way. I don't think you
coach every player the same. I don't think you parent
every kid the same, whether that's in your living room
or your little league baseball coach different kids, different needs,
and the real artful successful coaches say, here are my
core values as a coach. But I'm going to go
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above and beyond to figure out what makes this player tick.
I got fifty three of them, and it's really difficult.
But if someone as important as the quarterback we just
draft in the first round, if this kid is not
responding to what I'm putting in, do I just stay it.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
I'm like, I don't care. Then fit with me. No,
Like you.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Gotta swallow your ego and say, all right, well he's
not taking the tough love. Maybe he and I go
out and get a beer together or play.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Corn hoole or something.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
It sounds like Flora's, the first time head coach at
the time, was not willing to bend, and it sounds
like he pretty much broke to it. I think that
Brian Flores will be a head coach again someday. The
players like him. He's a really talented guy, and I
think he'll be different. And whoever that quarterback is, he's
gonna be great because Flora's is gonna be like, whatever
you want, let's do it. Surprised that he has showed
that much restraint, but impressed.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
I don't know, because it's the quarterback and Floraes is
a classically trained defense to the coach how this went.
But if you wanted to get a line of former
Patriots defensive players who would talk about Brian Flores in
a positive way, it would be a line around this
block in Manhattan. It starts first and foremost with our
old colleague Jason Gordhordy, and it goes to Dante High Tower,
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and it goes to Patrick Chung, and it could go
through the list. And it's like, but like you said,
this is a quarterback. This is a rookie quarterback. And
he had a veteran in Ryan Fitzpatrick in the room
who he thought he had better chance to win with
very unique situation. And I think you're right, though it's
never been confirmed on either side. I don't think Flores
would have picked to over Herbert if that was a decision,
if we were go back and ask him in twenty
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twenty in that draft.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Well, and I'm glad for Brian Flora is that he
has players from his past defensive coaching that would stand
up for him from his current role with the Minnesota
Vikings defensively that would defend him. But I take an
issue with the Brian Flores head coaching version. Apparently now
that we're hearing about and if Brian Flores, I always
I believe this is someone's saying something about you and
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it is not true. I believe that you will come
out and say this is not true. He would have
looked in the camera. But the fact that he said
that hurt me. I understand where I have room for growth.
I think he now acknowledges that some of that was
not the right way to go about things, and that
the way Tua interpreted it is exactly how it went down.
What I take great issue with is the fact that
tuatunga Iloa again I spoke on this yesterday, came from
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the greatest college football program at the time. You have
Chuo arrives in Miami as your rookie quarterback and says,
if you want to know anything about me and how
to set me up for success, why don't you reach
out to my college coach, who mind you is also
a defensive minded coach who mind you is also from
the Bill Belichick coaching family. They're not from He's not
under Nick Saban the tree. He's part of the family.
(12:23):
So if Nick Saban can change the way that he
approached to a tongue of Ioloa to put him in
his greatest lights when he was in college. How come
Brian Flores can't reach out because you guarantee you too
wor to put him on the phone and said, if
you want to know anything about me and how to
put me in a great spot, talk to Nick Saban.
And the fact that Brian Flores didn't at the time
have the space or the capacity to do that, I
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put that on him. And if and when he does
get another head coaching opportunity, I certainly hope he approaches
to Kyle's point, parenting and coaching differently for each individual player,
because putting them in the best spot, both on the
field and off the field is the most imperative part
of success.
Speaker 9 (13:02):
You know, Jamie, I love what you're saying, But you know,
and I also know this, that there's no real blueprint
right when you're dealing with different personalities. And I think
the expectation if I had to kind of pick at
kind of how to handle this, I think to me,
to have the expectations that Brian Flores would have known
how it was impacting him, it's a little misleading, I
think to be as a grown man to be able
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to say Hey, you know what, this is how I'm
feeling about this. Even if you had to internalize this,
you know, a year later or whatever. Now of course
you know you got paid, you're feeling good, whatever, even
now that you're comfortable. He's a way to be able
to go up and pick up the phone and say, hey, coach,
I need to talk to you about this. This is
how this impacted me. I think to go to the
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media because to me, real resolution comes in being able
to confront the person who did it to you, rather
than go to the media. The media makes it big.
Then he's doing a response from the outside, like just
like I'm a grown man because I know if one
of my coaches ever disrespect him like that and I
felt some type of way afterwards, I'm calling that person.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So just to bring a full circle, the initial question
of Tuo was not specifically like hey, let's just rail
on Brian Flowers right now, was about how are you different,
and so that's kind of where it came from. But
it wasn't about like two, It wasn't like, hey, let
me come in and just like beat down on Brian Flores.
It was about how Tua has changed over the last
couple of years, and we're happy to see two of
the where he's at right now, the final week of
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the preseason. We're happy that this is here. Kicks off
on Thursday night when the Chiefs play host to the Bears.
You can see it right here on NFL Network. It'll
be at eight twenty pm Eastern and you can stream
it NFL Plus, which I beg of you just to
try out, because if you don't have Plus, you're not
ready for the regular season. And plates be ready for
the regular season. Yesterday Kyle went searching for Easter eggs
(14:45):
in Kirk cousins seventeen song Birthday playlist. Then Kyle may
have gotten the greatest gift of all back from Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Yeah, because everybody talked about this how great early two
thousands pop rock I broke it down. Cousins watched and
he reached out to us with a plot twist will
blow your mind.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
Speaking of plot to us, we got Drew.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Bledsoe on the show. We love this guy.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
First pick in.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
The nineteen ninety three draft. He was at that roast
of Brady's got a million thoughts about football and wine,
and we just love these Drew Bledsoe highlight of the best.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
Arms to ever throw a football.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Ever, the sports ever, and maybe you talks and Ben
coach you never know LEDs.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Right after this we listen to Brisbee.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
Who do we got there?
Speaker 9 (15:27):
Eighty eight?
Speaker 8 (15:27):
I love that.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Good morn football, great, great memories of watching this guy play.
It's just a rocket arm, a great career, and he's
gone on to do incredible things after football.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
You know him, you love him.
Speaker 5 (15:52):
He's a gentleman.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
He is Drew Bled. So what's up, Drew?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 7 (15:58):
We're about to get back to the good time of
the sports here. You know, we had this night, a
nice little interlude, you know, with the Olympics, this sum
which gave us something that we really like to watch
for a little while. But now, you know, you know,
pre season football is just not that interesting.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
But we're about to get back.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I can't wait, believe us, we hear you. We can't
wait for the opener. And there's so many places to go.
You got this beautiful stone fireplace and you're sipping your
mug and he's just living to Drew bled zone life.
But I wanted to throw you right into what we
were just talking about. So It's a big story this
week where two A talk about load. The Dolphins quarterback
really fired some shots at his former head coach Brian
Flores about his treatment of him and I he was
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too hard on him. I look at you. You played
for the oldest of the old school, Parcels, Belichick.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
You're the number one overall pick.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
What are your memories of how they treated you when
you came in and how has it changed over the
last twenty five thirty years to what we have now?
Speaker 7 (16:50):
You know, Parcels, you know, and playing quarterback for Parcels, man,
you better have thick skin and you better be able
to just like sometimes you just need to wear ear muffs.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Man, he was right in your ear all the time,
just badgering you. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (17:00):
I had Pete Carroll, who was different. Pete was actually
quite a pleasure to play for. And then Belichick's Belichick,
you know, and he's, uh, he's not gonna pull any punches.
But I do think that it's that it has changed.
And I think the case and point for how it's
changed is the fact that Bill Belichick is not on
an NFL sideline this year. You know, I think everybody's
going younger. They want they want. You know, there's more
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of a positive approach to UH to coaching, and that's
definitely changed. I can see that from a player perspective.
If you're going to be parcels, you've got to be parcels.
You got to be funny, right, you know, you can't
just be mean. And you know, from a fan perspective,
so yeah, I can see where it's changed, and I
don't I don't think it's great optics. For two, it's
not not I don't think it's ever cool to take
(17:43):
shots at somebody after they're gone. But at the same time,
you know, it is indicative of where where the game's gone.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Wow, totally.
Speaker 8 (17:50):
You know, we saw you at the at the roast
of Brady this summer. We also saw at the Jersey thing,
and then of course Brady is at the Fanatics Fest
talking with Steven A doing stuff like Brady's been out there,
but Brady's really going to be out there this fall
when he's the number one answer for Fox. You were
in the obviously the locker room with him, but you saw.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Like Tom Brady the broadcaster.
Speaker 8 (18:10):
What's your initial thoughts to someone who knows him pretty well?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
You know, I'm sure. I'm sure he'll do a great
job at it.
Speaker 7 (18:15):
And you know the thing that people look at when
that they miss when they talk about broadcasts and whether
they succeed or fail, it's the guys that do the
work that are great at And it's really that simple.
You know. You look at Akerman, you look at Romo.
You know there's guys that broke in and you know,
like everybody looks at Romo like he's you know, he's
predicting the future. Oh how do you predict that play?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Right?
Speaker 7 (18:38):
And well, he went to practice, he saw what they
ran from that formation, and that's activist and that's what
they did, right. So I know that Tommy will work
it to death. I will get kind of tired of
his squeaky ass voice, but but but I know, I
know he'll do a great job calling the game.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
All Right, I'll let the guys pick your brain about
roasting Tom Brady in just a second. Since you went
there and now you've invited us in with that squeaky
voice comment, but I have to pick your brain about
the rookie quarterback conversation that everyone seems to be having.
Seems very heavy this year since they were half a
dozen picked in the first round, your first overall back
in nineteen ninety three, you start right away. Brady has
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this talk about lack of development for these quarterbacks. Where
do you stand on this in terms of teams that
are in need young quarterbacks and being thrown into the
fire right away.
Speaker 7 (19:27):
You know, it's such an individual decision for each quarterback.
Right some quarterbacks, I felt like I was ready to
play right, I felt like I was ready to get.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
In there and go.
Speaker 7 (19:38):
But then you've seen other quarterbacks that sit for a
year or two and it's very beneficial for him. And
so I think the coaches as they're looking at these guys,
they have to determine, Okay, is it the right time
for this guy? Is he ready to go now? Because
you also have to take into account, you know, is
your team ready for them to play? Because you put
a guy in there early and your team's not at
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that level yet. Now you can mess with that guy's
confidence and mess with the rest of his career by
throwing it out there when your team's not ready to
support it.
Speaker 2 (20:07):
So there are a lot of things that go into it.
You know, I don't like the idea.
Speaker 7 (20:11):
That sometimes there's pressure to put these guys on the
field just because of whether they were drafted. That's the
wrong way to approach it. You got to look at
the look at the guy and look at whether he's
actually ready to go on the field and whether your
team is ready for him to be on the field.
Speaker 9 (20:22):
Jerreal, Man, I got to say, you're one of the
coolest dudes I know. Man, I watched that roast. I
was at that roast, and you had me in stitches.
I was a little nervous because I'm like, well, this
is Drew Bledsoe, Like, you know, does he have comedic chops?
But you did a tremendous job. But you are a
quote unquote speech. I mean you went to work and
(20:43):
you were so calm, popping the collar. Like, how much
preparation did you put into that? Like, you got to
let me know because if there was no prepping, you
just rolled off out of bed out that bro, you
need to stop the wine business and you need to
get straight into comedy.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah, I appreciate it. Now there was some prep time.
I'm not gonna lie about that.
Speaker 7 (21:01):
You know, I wasn't too nervous about it because you know,
I mean, I've been speaking in public for years and years,
and that was probably the most prepared I've been for
something I was going to say publicly, just because I'd
had to run through it with my wife and my
kids because they were so nervous.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
My kids, my kids.
Speaker 7 (21:17):
Each individually called me like, all right, Dad, what are
you going to say? They were so nervous because like
all I hear from me are bad dad jokes and
you know, super you know, inappropriate stuff and inappropriate times,
and uh so they're like, you can't.
Speaker 2 (21:30):
Go do comedy. So that it made me run through
the whole routine with them.
Speaker 7 (21:33):
My wife did veto I think, I think that's out there,
and my wife did veto one joke which I've never
told publicly and I still won't because she's like, no,
that's over the line. That's over the line. So then
she had to chime in and help me with one
of them.
Speaker 2 (21:44):
So and then you know, and then the uh we went.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
We did go back and forth with the writers and
they're they're great at what they do, so they helped take,
you know, some of the ideas that I had and
put them in sequence so that things things rolled.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
So yeah, there was.
Speaker 7 (21:56):
There was some prep time for sure, The problem for
me was that a week later I started looking back
at it, and I came up with an entirely different
routine and entirely different script that I think would have
actually so so that that's the other part.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
So now I hope there's another roast, and I hope
I get.
Speaker 8 (22:14):
A Yeah, Drew, you know that, like these comedians, they
do a special, they premiered on Netflix, then a year
later they do another special.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
I'm with you.
Speaker 8 (22:22):
I feel like we need round two and you can
use your next best stuff and you've been workshopping.
Speaker 7 (22:26):
Yeah, I just want to know who's going to be next,
you know, I mean who can follow that one?
Speaker 10 (22:31):
Right?
Speaker 7 (22:31):
I mean you could do like you could do Peyton
and Eli at the same time.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
That would be kind of funny.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Kelsey for Belichick, mat Me Kelsey Belichick Kelsey. Let's let's tall,
Let's see Taylor get a little bit.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
Of the Yeah, never mind, that'd be pretty fun.
Speaker 8 (22:51):
Quarterback here obviously a legendary one, and we always talk
about depth charts, but you're also in the wine game.
And if you don't know, everyone look up Drew Bloodsoe
and wine and what he does up there and.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
Webs family winery.
Speaker 8 (23:02):
It's incredible and it's been It's it's not just overnight success.
This has been the test of time. So Kyle and
I had this idea, why don't you give us your
depth chart, your top four grapes?
Speaker 5 (23:13):
Great, what's the grape depth?
Speaker 8 (23:14):
Give it to us a depth chart, and give it
to us stack it up.
Speaker 7 (23:18):
All right, Okay, Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna put Cabernet
as as as number one. Uh you know, always has been,
you know, for I mean thousands, well maybe at least
at least hundreds of years, So I'm always gonna put
that out number one.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
It's still my favorite. Number two for me though, And
this would.
Speaker 7 (23:35):
Be a personal favorite, like Desert Island wine would be Nebolo.
I love the ones from northern Italy, Burlo Barbarasco. We've
actually planted a little bit of that just to see
if we can replicate what happens in Italy. Pima No
War would be be third on that depth chart. And
just to uh just to round out, maybe add a
little diversity of the quarterback room, I'm gonna throw out
a white wine.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
We're gonna have We're gonna have some some chardenay in there.
Just just what.
Speaker 9 (24:00):
About Margitina Merlowe?
Speaker 2 (24:01):
You got to put Merlot in there?
Speaker 7 (24:03):
All that there's a I mean, this is this is
this is another whole show that we can do a
deep dive.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But yeah, I MA all back. I love me low
I love Sarah. I mean we didn't even talk about
I mean we can. I can. I can peek out
tough with you for hours.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
All right, listen, you only got so many spots the
ma all back. They got to turn in their playbook there,
we don't. They only have so many spots in the
great room, Drew, you have so many things going on
FanDuel Sunday Ticket YouTube. But we remiss not asking this.
Twenty six years ago, the number one movie in the
United States of America was a movie called There's Something
About Mary. Brett Favre has a memorable, if not exactly
(24:45):
perfect performance in the movie. The rumor is he was
the third choice, second choice with Steve Young, who did
not agree with the content, and the first choice was
Drew Bledsoe, who was not able to appear in the movie,
according to the Internet, because he got injured moshing at
a concert. Can you please settle the truth about the
legend of you and there's something about Mary.
Speaker 7 (25:03):
Okay, so there's truth to this. But I was not
first choice. I was second choice. Cameron Diaz had a
crush on Steve Young, and so Steve Young was first,
but he wouldn't do it because good Mormon boyman, and.
Speaker 2 (25:17):
It didn't didn't fit with his beliefs.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
I was the second place because the Fairly Brothers are
from the New England area, and so they reached out
and it was soon after I did a little mosh pit,
you know, nightclub incident in Boston, the big news. But
I was also out here at our cabin in Montana,
and I just didn't I just didn't feel like movement.
I just didn't like going anywhere and doing it. So
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they put they so they handed it down too far.
Who uh, his acting chops are terrible. I would so,
you know, I do feel bad that that the movie
didn't come off as great as it would have had
I played the department.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Oh no, I have an idea, Drew. I don't think
we need a subject that gets roasted by multiple people.
I think you just get to roast multiple peace, like
you get to stand up there and just have the list.
Because man you are just ready to fire on anybody
that we bring up. It's fantastic.
Speaker 7 (26:12):
As long as there, as long as they're my generation,
I can get after him.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
I know, Drew. We love you man, Thank you for
joining us. Salud salu to the entire bled Cell family
are the best. Bit.
Speaker 9 (26:22):
I want to tour the wall of walla belly.
Speaker 3 (26:24):
Here we go, Drew, So everybody, welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 11 (26:29):
Aaron Rodgers has yet to play in the preseason. We
still don't know if we'll see him suit up against
the Giants on Saturday. But as for training camp work,
Rogers says it's the hardest camp he's had in the
last seven or eight years, and that's a good thing.
Speaker 12 (26:43):
I give Robert a lot of credit because he from
the start of the off season said this is going
to be a tough training camp, and I think it's
been a lot of reps for the ones. He told
me the other day we were somewhere in the neighborhood
of three hundred more reps I think at this point
of camp and then last year.
Speaker 5 (26:59):
And it feels like it.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
But it's good.
Speaker 12 (27:01):
I think it's going to allow us to maybe be
a little more ready and We've been fortunate with injuries.
You know, we haven't had a ton of injuries so far,
so I like it.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
It's been great.
Speaker 12 (27:10):
He talked to the older guys, had a lot of
complaints for many of those guys. Young guys don't know
any better, so it's been good.
Speaker 11 (27:18):
Meanwhile, Bill's quarterback Josh Allen, the middle of a six
year deal, putting him thirteenth among quarterbacks and average per
year salary according to over the Cap. But despite the
recent run on mega quarterback contract, Alan says he's just
fine with his take home check.
Speaker 13 (27:34):
Listen, everyone's going to have their day, and I'm happy
that everyone's getting what they're worth, right And I think
that as the game progresses and guys keep getting paid again,
the market is the market. And I've got no problem
with where I'm at right now. And you know, I
had my day a couple of years ago, and I'm
sure someday I'll have it again, you know. But I
think the main thing is the main thing, and that's
(27:56):
playing football to the best of my ability, and everything
else will take care of itself.
Speaker 11 (28:00):
Alan just turning twenty eight this pass spring, so he
will be in line for another massive Payday down the road,
but for now, as you heard in the focus on
the Ultimate Prize bringing the first Lombardi Trophy to Buffalo.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Kirk Cousins gave us a gift, and it's right here.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Seventeen weeks in a season, seventeen tracks, Week one, Track one.
I think he is saying to his team it just
takes some time. Week seven, I'm coming out of my
cage and I'm doing just fine. Now he's starting to
play better.
Speaker 5 (28:31):
They're playing the Panthers.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
They're playing in Charlotte.
Speaker 5 (28:36):
Good Charlotte.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
We're gonna play really well. We got this and guess what.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
They played the Panthers twice. Churs got Good Charlotte on
the playlist twice.
Speaker 5 (28:43):
You think that's a coincidence.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Now we're flexing on food fighters.
Speaker 5 (28:46):
Best of you at Las Vegas?
Speaker 1 (28:49):
What is someone who comes back from a trip from Las.
Speaker 5 (28:51):
Vegas a good Christian boy?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Let Kirk Cousins say, I got another confession to make,
and I'm gonna need the best, the best, the best
of you to beat these.
Speaker 5 (29:00):
Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
I mean, come on, this is Gardner Grohle. They meet
somewhere in the middle, all right, Kirk sees all of
this for what it is. Back to Washington, pretty personal.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Game for him.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
Room five is a direct reference to the quarterback he
will be facing.
Speaker 7 (29:17):
It, guys more five.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
It All the answers are out there laugh at Cousins, fine,
but do not be laughing when he ends up probably
in the middle of the playoff.
Speaker 5 (29:29):
Raise all right, that was yesterday.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
That's me hooton and holler and on set in La
talking about Peter kirk Cousins customized playlist for the Falcons.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
It was his birthday.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
They gave him the auks. I said, he burned the
CD of just his favorite songs. We do the whole list,
the break down. I think there's all these hidden messages
in it. And shortly after I do the segment, I
get a text from and it was from kirk Cousins,
a birthday boy, and he says the tech says, I
was watching the show and he sent me a voice recording,
a voice recording that I have right here in reaction
(30:00):
to that segment, not only reacting to it, but also
a big plot Twitt. So what I'm gonna do right now,
I'm gonna break some news here. The internet fell in
love with that playlist. I don't know if it's exactly
what you think it is, so I'm just gonna put
it up to my microphone. And this is Cousin's voice
text memo to me yesterday after watching the show, here
you go.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
You killed it.
Speaker 10 (30:20):
On Good Morning Football this morning, as always, but with Chucklin,
because yesterday at practice, I'm used to always hearing you know,
trap music, gangster wrap the whole practice, and I'm always like,
can we have a little bit of diversity, like maybe
one every ten songs, we could.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Get some some other genre, and usually.
Speaker 10 (30:36):
It falls on deaf hears, but yesterday it was like
one song after night there was another was like Foo Fighters,
Good Charlotte, all American rejects.
Speaker 5 (30:44):
I was like, man, I like this song.
Speaker 2 (30:45):
I like this song.
Speaker 8 (30:46):
Like this song.
Speaker 10 (30:47):
So after practice, onto the our, you know, coach's assistant,
who's the DJ, and I said Madison.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Like, I got to give you an at a boy that.
Speaker 10 (30:53):
Was an awesome practice playlist, and she said, well.
Speaker 13 (30:55):
That was because it was your birthday.
Speaker 7 (30:56):
That was all for you.
Speaker 10 (30:57):
So she just basically guessed that I would like and
she guessed correctly, but unfortunately the list was actually my
literal practice playlist, which I.
Speaker 2 (31:07):
Would have loved to put one together. Maybe I can
have future birthdays in the league and do that.
Speaker 10 (31:11):
But that was literally the coaches assistant just guessing.
Speaker 5 (31:16):
What I would like.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
But she basically has me pegged.
Speaker 13 (31:19):
So that was the story.
Speaker 8 (31:21):
But yeah, it was. It was a huge birthday gift.
Speaker 7 (31:23):
When you're used to listening to gangster rap over and
over and over.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
To get a little food fighters in there was at
the end of the world for me. So I hope
you're doing well. What a voice note. That's it.
Speaker 1 (31:34):
Thank you Kirk for watching and listen, this is I
said plot to us. Peter, your thoughts about hearing how
it actually went down.
Speaker 5 (31:40):
Shout out to Madison. Shout out to Madison.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
And by the way, Cousin says, you're the genius behind them.
Speaker 8 (31:46):
She guessed perfectly, And shout out to Cousins for an
awesome voice note. And I gotta say, I'm curious to
see the rest of the team's performance. When you have
ever clear in the All American Rejects playing in the
background as opposed to a little Dirk and little Baby, what.
Speaker 2 (32:01):
Do you think?
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Well, listen, I know that right now, and Jamie and
La are probably shell shocked. Just to clarify this for
the Internet. It turns out Kirk did not make this playlist.
It was made for him and Madison just guessed the
songs that he would like and was just nailing them all.
Speaker 2 (32:17):
What do you guys think?
Speaker 9 (32:18):
In La do you feel cheated that you did the
whole da Vinci code and it was nothing to do
with his personal like his personal selection, I.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Think I'm further validated. It even seats a deeper da
Vinci code, Jamie, what do you think?
Speaker 3 (32:32):
I first of all, again shout out to her cousins
for going on a deep dive on a Good Morning
Football segment in mid August. The guy loves ball, he
loves a talkball, he loves Kyle Brandt. The fact that
you sent you the voice message gave you the clearance
to play it, And then shout out to Madison, who
gotten at a boy after practice.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Kirk.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
We love you, we appreciate you, And like I said yesterday,
Kirk and I the exact same age and that was
exactly ninth grade for us.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
I need a little I need a little more time
because you wouldn't believe there's another plot twist. Okay, other
person who watches our show is named Brian Bell. Brian
Bell is the lead guitarist for Weezer. He's a big
Rams fan, and he watches the show every day and
he messages kind of often about it. I saw what
you did today, Brian Bell after the segment yesterday, says, honestly,
I was kind of disappointed Weezer didn't make the list, Like,
(33:20):
how are we not there at least like Island in
the last pipe? Yeah, And so I then go to
Kirk and I say, you know, Weezer was kind of
disappointed that they did make your list. The whole group rivers,
quoting Kirk, says, all right, I'm going to make an
actual birthday playlist next year. So tell Weezer they have
three hundred and sixty four days to impress me and
(33:42):
make the list. So next year, next August thirty, seventh birthday.
Who knows happen with the Falcons this year? Shout out
to Weezer. Everyone's like, what hell's creed? You guys got
three hundred and sixty some days, and then Kirk will
put you on. I appreciate no creed, by the way,
I know, I thought it was cool, like yeah, yeah,
I agree, that's Madison.
Speaker 3 (33:59):
Remember that the triangle of GMFB offense would be Kirk, Cousins,
Weezer and Kyle always looks amazing. That's the birthday boy.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
Oh oh that's me. Oh yeah, that's me.
Speaker 8 (34:26):
Good mon, football, Welcome back to the show. We are
now days away from the start of the college football season,
which means we're already thinking twenty twenty five NFL Draft,
and my brain goes immediately to who's going to be
at the twenty twenty five Senior Bowl the Senior Bowls.
Watchless actually drops today, So let's welcome the executive director
(34:47):
of the Senior Bowl or friend of the show.
Speaker 2 (34:49):
Yeah, Jim nag let's go. What's going on, my friend.
Speaker 5 (34:52):
Good to be on, guys, good to be back on.
Speaker 8 (34:54):
It's great to be having you here, especially today.
Speaker 5 (34:57):
You've been waiting for this.
Speaker 8 (34:59):
You tweeted about it a few weeks ago. Eyeballs the
whole thing.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
What do we got going today?
Speaker 2 (35:03):
And what should face.
Speaker 8 (35:04):
Of the NFL Draft be looking at to come from
your offices down there in Mobile, Alabama later this afternoon.
Speaker 5 (35:10):
Yeah, eight and fifty nine players.
Speaker 14 (35:12):
This is a big list this year, guys, And again
it's because this is the last year of the extra
COVID year, so it's a huge senior class.
Speaker 5 (35:20):
This is the first year we put on a watch
list where the juniors.
Speaker 14 (35:23):
Were eligible, right, the NFL kind of made that ruling
last November that juniors could be added to All Star Games.
So there's eighty one juniors on this year's list, so
that adds to it.
Speaker 5 (35:32):
And then we put specialists on.
Speaker 14 (35:33):
We didn't have pickers and snappers and punters on in
the past, so that's why the number is so big.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
But a big day, a big day.
Speaker 14 (35:40):
For our sponsor reesis all these schools are cranking out
graphics with flying Reese's cups and flying Reese's pieces and
shout up to fam U stepped up their game. They
had their two guys that made the watch list, probably
somewhere over there in Tallahassee to a grocery store buying
Reese's cups in the store in a little video. So
just a fun day here around the office watching all
(36:01):
these schools create content around around our game.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Jaggy said. Two players from Florida A and M University
buying Reeses in the grocery store with two on the list.
This is the biggest list yet, Jim, that we've seen.
Tell us how it was compiled and in terms of
bragging rights, fam you's got two which schools both the
most players.
Speaker 14 (36:20):
Yeah, it is the biggest list by far. Usually there's things,
you know, four to five hundred players, so this is
a big list. In terms of the most players, it's
all miss They've got twenty one. The SEC dominated this year.
They've got the five most schools. I think we've got
eleven schools that there were fifteen players, and seven of
those come from the SEC, so.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
They've got about seventy more players in the Big Ten.
Speaker 14 (36:41):
The Big Ten came in second, and then I think
it's ACC and Big twelve. So as you would imagine,
the Power four came in with the most players in
the list. But yeah, it's a great starting point for us.
We watched tape since going back to really last January.
Our staff was upstairs watching these guys even before we.
Speaker 5 (36:57):
Played the twenty twenty four version of the Resa's Senior Bowl.
So a lot of hard work.
Speaker 14 (37:01):
We've watched tape on all these players and it's just
a starting point, you know. I really like to emphasize
for all the guys that didn't make the list. We
had seven players last year that played in the Senior
Bowl here in Mobile that weren't on the watch list
last year, and they all got drafted. And two of
those guys, Marshaun Lloyd running back from USC and Elijah
Jones at cornerback from Boston College. Those guys win in
the third round. They were top hundred picks and they
(37:23):
weren't on the watch list. So if you're not on
the list and you're a player out there and you're watching,
we will still be watching you this fall, and you've
got just as good a chance to make the game
as the guys that made the watch list.
Speaker 8 (37:33):
Jim, last year, you were so big on bow nick
h of course, look what happened. He makes it. We're
going to wrap here because the show is coming to
a conclusion, but I wanted you to give an opportunity
to tell the viewers where they can find the list
and where they can follow these guys all year long
on your Senior Bowl content.
Speaker 14 (37:48):
Yeah, Senior Bowl dot com. We'll have the full watch
list up there. You can sort it by player, you
can sort it by school to find your favorite guys.
And then I would say on find us on X
I've got an account there Senior Bowl. At Senior Bowl,
I'll be posting that stuff all day. So I appreciate
you guys having me on to promote this thing and
look forward to an all fall and talking about these
college players.
Speaker 9 (38:06):
A Jim Real quest, I appreciate. I appreciate the San
Diego State sticker right there.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
I see it.
Speaker 9 (38:11):
I see you, baby, I see you.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
Representing for you, Akbar, go buy Reese's Peanut Butter Stop.
So we appreciate you. Jim Nagy, we'll talk to you
this fall. Go check out the list.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
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