February 6, 2025 • 40 mins
NFL Network Insiders Tom Pelissero, Judy Battista, Ian Rapoport & Mike Garafolo are live from New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl LIX. They pay to tribute to the life and legacy of Bears Owner Virginia McCaskey who died at the age of 102. Eagles WR AJ Brown and Chiefs CB Trent McDuffie join the show as they gear up for a Super Bowl rematch. Plus, the Insiders speak with Bengals guard Cody Ford live from radio row, preview the NFL Honors and their 2024 Innie Awards!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Mike Garatfullo, Judy Batista,
and Ian Rappaport.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I am Tom Pellicero.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are just seventy two hours out, little less than
from Super Bowl fifty nine here in New Orleans. We're
only about two hours away from NFL Honors, which you
could watch live on NFL Network. The Red Carpet Show starts.
After this show. We're gonna give out some awards. We're
calling them the Innies. Yea, it's pretty good. Hopefully I
win one, or John Snider would say the Oudies. We
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got a lot of fun planned on the course, which
is why we're show. And it all leads up to yeah,
that was implied. Ian, you didn't have to say it,
but thanks for hitting that one right.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
On the nose. Eagles Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The rematch to Super Bowl fifty seven coming up not
far from where we sit inside the Caesars Superdome on Sunday. Meanwhile,
a long way across the city, we are on the
Red Carpet, but we're not, but they are some of
the NFL stars showing up, including Ravens running back Dereck Henry.
I know we've got calling Wolf among others standing by
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mj Acostro, Wiz Cam Jordan part of that show as well.
Sam Darnold's No House. Max Crosby is in the house.
You'll find out tonight the MVP, the Offensive and Defensive
Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, most prestigious
of all, the final honor even after this year's Hall
of Fame class, you'll find out the Walter Payton NFL
Man of the Year Award winner. Here are the winners
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from the past ten years. A lot of names you
certainly know. You know that they end up with that
symbol on their chest for the rest of their playing careers.
The Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, of course,
named after the late Bears legend. Another Bears legend sadly
no longer with us, Virginia Hallis McCaskey, who inherited the
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Chicago Bears from her father, George Hallis, but avoided the
spotlight during four plus decades. His principal owner, has died
at age one hundred and two. Mccaskey's family announced through
the team that she died today. She had owned the
Bears since her father's death on October thirty four.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
First nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Here's NFL film Scott Graham with Moore on a football
life Well lived.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Virginia McCaskey saw just about everything in the NFL and
had the scrap book to prove it. She also happens
to have been NFL Royalty, the eldest child of George Hallis,
and while the world called him Papa Bear, to her,
he was plain old Dad.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It was wonderful because she was always so thoughtful of
my friends.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Helllos and the Chicago Bears were already household names by
the time Virginia toddled off to grammar school, but that
didn't stop the occasional bout of school yard jealousy.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They think. The only time I got the attention to
the boys is when I got into an argument in
the school playground about knowing Grange, and that was, oh, no,
you don't, you don't know him. So I came home
that night and told my dad, and he got an
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autograph picture from Red that yes he knew me, and
he thought I was swell.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In the nineteen thirties and forties, the Bears won a
whopping six NFL championships, and Virginia saw them all.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She knew all the.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Players too, like star quarterback Sid Luckman, who led the
nineteen forty team to the greatest route in titled game history.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Remember going to the memorial service when Sid Luckman died
and the young rabbi admitted that he didn't know anything
about football, and he talked about the championship game and
said the score was I understand the score was seventy
three to zero, and we all kind of jerked the
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no at seven to nothing. My favorite championship was nineteen
sixty three because by that time he was sixty eight
years old and people were saying he ought to retire,
the game had passed him by. That's the one that
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really hurt, and he wound up winning the championship that year.
That was good.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And here comes Way bursting over the guard.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Mate to ten was Sicono.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Bag to be the Giants the championship.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
George Hallis did more than coach the game, he built
it so after his death in nineteen eighty three, Virginia
continued his work leading the Bears for more than three decades,
ultimately turning the team over first to son Michael and
later to George. Both represented the next generation of the
Hellis family trade. Virginia mca her stewardship of the Bears
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was not so much a duty but a daughter's joy.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I loved my dad and his life was football, and
so it became my life.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement a short time
ago saying, Virginia Hallis McCaskey, the matriarch of the Chicago
Bears and daughter of George Hallis, the founder of the NFL,
leaves a legacy of class, dignity, and humanity. Faith, Family
and football in that order were her north stars, and
she lived by the simple adage to always do the
right thing. The Bears that her father's started meant the
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world to her, and he would be proud of the
way she continued the family business with such dedication and passion.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the McCaskey and
Hallis families and Bears fans around the world. We certainly
echo those condolences here on this show, Judy Battista, you
knew Virginia Hallis McCaskey, tell us about the woman you
knew well.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I mean, she was really the last direct link to
the founding of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
She was born less.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Than three years after her dad was you know famously
at the car dealership in Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
When the league was formed.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
She went on a barnstorming tour when she was a
toddler with her dad and Red Grange, an effort to
promote the fledgling league. So she was buddies with Red
Grange from the time she was a child. You heard
her say in that clip there that like kids at
school did not believe that she knew Red Grange. Ye,
she knew Red Grange. When she was an adult, she
would sit in the stands at Soldier Fields with her dad,
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and her dad at that point was you know, in
his eighties, and she watched him be enraptured by the game,
how passionate he was, how worked up he would get
over every play, And she went home after the first
one of those games. This was in the seventies, and
she was worried about his well being. She thought like,
is it a good thing for an eighty year old
to get this wound up over a football game? And
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then after a few days she thought about a thought
like what a gift to be eighty years old and
still be so passionate about something and only a few
years later her father passed away. She was never supposed
to inherit the Bears. She was George Hollis's oldest child,
but her younger brother was supposed to inherit the Bears.
Her younger brother passed away before her father did, and
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so she took over the team. She was very much
in the background as an owner. She let her husband
and then her sons run the franchise, although she was
very very involved in decision making. Even though you didn't
hear very much from missus McCaskey, she was involved really
up until very close to the end of her life
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and everything that was going on day to day at
the Bears.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
You talk about the passion at age eighty.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
She was ninety one when the Bears fired Phil Emery
and Mark Dressman, and George McCaskey was asked about his
mother's reaction and he said, quote, she's pissed.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Said, I don't know if.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
You can refer to a ninety one year old woman
in that regard, but that's how angry she is. And
she had been on the earth for eight of the
nine Bears championships that they had won in their history,
and she wanted to see that number grow to ten.
So she certainly had the passion for winning and the
passion for this franchise, and they did a great job
off the field as well.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
She has done a.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Great job with the Bears Care Program, trying to improve
the lives of those in the inner city in Chicago.
So a great loss not only to the Bears organization
and to the NFL, but also to the Chicago area.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
There's so much to this, so much to remember and
appreciate of Virginia mccaskey's incredible life. There is also the
football part of it and the franchise part of it,
and obviously for the Chicago Bears. It is worth noting,
guys that George McCaskey has in fact been running the
Bears on a day to day basis for some time
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you pull up to Bears training camp sometimes he's just
out there greeting fans, shaking their hands. That will continue.
In min understanding is nothing really will change as far
as the running of the Bears goes with today's events.
Still needs to gather the thirty percent necessary to be
the controlling owner. That's a process that will be ongoing
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and potentially takes some time, but certainly, Virginia Hollis McCaskey
Tom leaves the Bears in excellent shape, with a franchise quarterback,
with a new coach, with a pretty stocked roster, and
with George McCaskey running the show as he has done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
The Hallis McCaskey families. As Judy mentioned, go back to
the very origins of the National Football League and let
the record show the oldest rivalry there is the most
played rivalry. The final game of Virginia mccaskey's life happened
to be a Bears win over the Packers. Tributes rolled
in from around the NFL from a variety of different
organizations and individuals throughout the course of the day, once
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again emphasizing how big the impact was of Virginia Hollis
mccaskey's life and the impact of her family. Are Stacey Dales,
who covers the Bears closely and lives in Chicago. She's
covering the Eagles for US this week, but Stacy, this
news about one of the patriarchs of the most famous
football family, certainly in Chicago, one of the most famous
(10:13):
in the NFL. Her passing today What stood out to
you about the life of Virginia hallis.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Mccask Yeah, Hey, Tom, it's a very sad day. Our
deepest condolence is here at NFL Network on behalf of
all of us to the McCaskey family and the Bears organization.
It's a sad day because we have literally lost in
icon and a legend. Most of us that want to
understand history in the National Football League that really began
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back in nineteen twenty she lived it. She didn't have
to google the history of the NFL. She literally lived
history of the NFL. She was born in nineteen twenty
three and so a year after its inception, and obviously
her father, the Great Papa Bear, George Halliw taught her
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many things along the way, but she was born into
football and so for a life spent in this game,
you can imagine her passion and as Judy talked about,
for her to take over in nineteen eighty three after
the passing of her father and to in a couple
of years go to a Super Bowl was very special.
But I think what's important here is to the core.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
She loved the Bears.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
She guys, was as passionate as any diehard Bears fan
that you will find, but she was also very humble.
She and her late ed husband ed eleven kids, a
very big family, and so there's a lot of grieving
that is taking place. Despite her passing away at one
hundred and two years old and just so beloved around
the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She would only be so pleased.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
You guys, in her final couple of months to see
that on her birthday, one hundred and two years old,
January the fifth, her Chicago Bears, her beloved Bears, would
go into lambeau Field and beat the Packers on a
field goal. And then really, as you guys touched upon
to see a kind of a changing of the guard
with Ben Johnson coming in, the Bears feel very optimistic
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about their future. And I remind you when her father,
George Hallis passed away in nineteen eighty three, he was
responsible for hiring the great Hall of Famer Mike Ditka,
who took that eighty five Bears team to a Super
Bowl and won it. So call it an omen. I
know she's looking down on us right now, and to
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see really the level of gratitude for her around the
National Football League and some of the other women. You know,
she was at a time in taking over the Chicago Bears,
really one of the very few women in such a
strong position of power back in that time. And to
hear from Martha Ford and her comments today from the
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Detroit Lions and of course Sheila Hamp, Sheila Ford Hamp
taking over the current owner of the Detroit Lions, two
very strong business women, and to see theirs and their
respect and the friendship that they held with Virginia Hallis
McCaskey is just so incredible and it is a sad
day again, but here are some of those comments to
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come from Martha Firestone forward, heartbroken to hear of the
passing of my friend Virginia McCaskey, friends for more than
sixty years, two of the most powerful business women in
this game we love and really in business alone. And
then the job that Sheila Hamp has done with her Lions. Again,
just the impact that somebody like Virginia McCaskey has had
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on this incredible league of all thirty two but certainly
the women within it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Stacey, thank you very much more from you as we
talk about Super Bowl fifty nine. A little bit later,
as you're perched there outside of the Eagles Hotel once again.
Virginia Hallis McCaskey, a member of one of football's first families,
has passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She was one hundred two years old.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Welcome back to New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
It is quite the scene there at night, Bourbon Street
starting to fill up even more as each passing as
more Eagles fans. That's what you've been hanging out right
upon the city. I've been known to frequent there. Went
to a fine restaurant there, not dressed like this, but
maybe I should have been. Cody Ford, Bengals guard joining
us here on the set for the Insiders here at
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Radio Row.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
You played both of these teams during the regular season,
the Kansas City Chiefs the Philadelphi Eagles. Both guys got
really good guys upfront. Talk to me about Chris Jones
Jalen Carter, what those two guys in particular bring.
Speaker 12 (14:37):
I think right now it goes without saying Chris Jones
is one of the best in the game. And then
Jalen Carter, I think he's right there behind him. So
those two guys leading those fronts up front, it's gonna
be a good game.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
So you got for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
You got Cam Jurgens little banged up doing the back injury,
got Landon Dickerson doing with a somewhat significant knee injury.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Both those guys are going to be limited.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Talk about this offensive line, egos, offensive line in general,
and if those guys are not quite one hundred percent,
how much of a difference do you think that could make.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
I don't think it will make that much of a difference,
just because you know they are they are coached by
one of the best in the game, and then they
have guys like Lane and Jordan who are holding down
the tackle spots and you know they're big leaders in
that room. I think whoever has to step up and
go in or feel right right away, I want.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
To talk about your situation. You're heading into free agency here.
Once we finish up with the Super Bowl, we're going
to be talking about where some players are going to
be landing in the twenty twenty five season. You've got
the versatility, you played pretty much everywhere on that offensive
line there. As you get into free agency, how valuable
is that for you? And what teams are looking for,
certainly having a guy that can play anywhere as a
valuable tool.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
I think it's just you know, for me, it's about
being you know, a team first guy, and wherever a
team wants me to play is where you know I'm
going to be happy at. And if they wanted to
play left tackle, left guard, right guard, right tackle, whatever
it may be, I'm going to go out there perform
my best, giving my all, and you know that to
take to speak for yourself.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
There's been a lot of a lot of Bengals conversations
this week.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Obviously, Joe Burrow has made the rounds.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
There's been plenty of discussion of Jamar Chase, Gie Higgins,
Trey Hendrickson and what's going to happen there.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Obviously, I assume you have been following.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
What is the sort of can you describe the state
of flux of these Cincinnati Bengals superstars right now?
Speaker 12 (16:26):
I mean, we got we got a few of them,
and you know, I think they'll they'll find a way
to get it all done to where we keep everybody.
They want to keep everybody. You know, those guys want
to be there just like everyone else in the locker room,
and I think they'll find a way to get done.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
You said we, I mean you could still potentially return
this sin to that. I'm sure that's something if it
all works out, that you would welcome it sounds like it. Uh,
this team was not that far away from being here.
It was a slow start, but we saw how good
you guys were late in the season.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
What's the lesson from this season.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
For the twenty twenty four Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 12 (16:58):
We just gotta start fast. I think we start faster.
You know, a couple of plays here, a couple of
plays there. We look up at the end of the
season and it's a different ball game.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
The end of the season, though, you guys were on fire.
I mean it was really like we had the crazy
Broncos game and it was really insane, but you really
were on fire.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
What was that like?
Speaker 10 (17:18):
You know, obviously, look you start the way you did,
everyone's kind of like, ah, not going to make the
playoffs next year?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Next year?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What was the end of the season? That run?
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Like?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Being part of it so fun?
Speaker 12 (17:28):
That was some of the best football in the atmosphere
of the locker room. The guys were all, you know,
bought in, We all knew the mission, we all knew
the goal, and everyone was just locked in it was
some of the most like best one football I've ever
played in my entire life.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
So how do you take that and kind of let's
I don't know where you're going to be, right if
it is in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Sinci, how do you guys take that kind of moving forward?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
I think we just have to build off that. You know,
that's that's how we ended the season. We ended the season,
you know, on the right foot, and we just take
that into the off season and in the training camp
and we know where it takes.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
You talked about how much fun, you talked about how
well you guys were playing. How about your quarterback in particular,
you're in the huddle with him. He's got a bunch
of different nicknames, Joe Shisty, all that stuff. What does
he give me your best Joe Burrow in the huddle,
in the locker room. Story that shows the kind of
guy and the kind of quarterback that he is.
Speaker 12 (18:16):
I don't really had too many stories Joe's He's the
same guy he is on the field as he is
off the field. He's cool, calm, collect and you know,
we get in certain situations where you know it's a
little tight game and he doesn't blink an eye, And
I think that's the great thing about Joe is you
know he's not going to miss a step no matter
the situation.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Well, I mean there are plenty of times where games
on the line or it's like all right, we you know,
got to have a drive. And I do wonder like
people can get nervous. It's okay to be nervous, right.
Do you not look at him in the huddle and
go like, dude, like, are you not feeling this?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know? No, I kind of look.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
At it like Joe's not nervous. Well, I got to
be nervous for it, you know.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
I kind of look at it that way, and I
feed off of his energy to the best I can.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I want to get back to this game that we're
gonna see on Sunday, because the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line
one of the best in the league, some people think
maybe the best. Jalen Hurts has done a nice job
diagnosing things. Their coaching staff excellent. But they're gonna see
Steve Spagnolo on the other side, and you've seen him,
the Bengals have seen him. What kind of challenge is
that for a team, especially when there's two weeks to
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prepare and you know you're gonna see some exotic Flittz packages.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
You just gotta be you know it's coming. The good
thing is that you know it's coming. The pressure's coming.
Just be prepared. And also everyone just communicate, be on
the same page and it'll work out.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
How are you gonna how are you gonna watch this game?
I mean, are you gonna watch it?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Like when you sit down on your couch and I
don't know if you're someone who maybe has a beverage
or two, could be a soda, could be something else. Yeah,
do you watch like a fan? Or are you looking
at like? All right, they bring this package. Here's how
I would block this? Do you texting guys like? Do
you see what they did there?
Speaker 12 (19:53):
I'm watching it as as a football player. I'm watching
especially playing the offensive line. My eyes are locked onto
the offensive line. See going on?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right?
Speaker 8 (20:01):
In a little over a month, we're gonna find out
where you're gonna play your football. In twenty twenty five,
you're sitting here on the set with the insiders.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
You know, we we eat scoops.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's what we do.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
That's how you feed us.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
So when it comes time, you know who to dial
up and let us know. We'll throw all the numbers
out there too. We'll let people know what kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Pack you appreciate.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You appreciate you man.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Best of luck to you.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Thank you for seeing you in twenty twenty five. On
the field and on the Insiders once again. Cody Ford,
free agent to be offensive lineman, coming at you. I
said offensive line because he plays a little bit of everything.
Coming up aj Brown, he goes wide receiver, joins us
go one on one with him.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
When the Insiders returns.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
NFL Honors, it's an hour and a half away live
here on NFL Network, Luminarias like Fred Warner in the
house at the Singer Theater. Miiles Carrett is there as well.
What team will we be on by the end of
the night, sticker, maybe we'll know, Probably not. UH nominees
for the Defensive Player of the Year. Miles Garrett, of course,
is one of them. Offensive Player of the Year, Lamar Jackson,
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say Kwan Barkley, Joe Burrow, Jabbar Chase and Derrick Henry
all up for that award.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You will get the winners of.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That and everything else throughout the course of NFL Honors Tonight,
we Meanwhile, here at the Insiders in New Orleans giving
out the first annual ANY Awards. It was mainly an
excuse for us to order tuxedos.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
This we got.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We're on the gray carpets. That's what we got, kind
of like the red carpet, but like careful of Judy
Batista in rapport, Tom Pilisero. Here back at Radio Row
our first award tonight from the Insiders to the Course
to twenty twenty four season Best Photo Shot, and the
winner is going to be this is true in Rappaport,
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it's Ian, Yes, in Antonio Pierce's starter jacket. This had
a happier ending for Ian than it did for Antonio Pierce,
who was fired unceremoniously the next day by Antonio Pierce.
But I always thought Ian this, this was a good
look on you.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I mean, I still think it's a good look.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
In fact, did I inquire about getting a similar Raiders
jacket to wear sometimes?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, yeah, I mean the neck is not is not
exactly problems, But I think.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
I got to say to get them to get the well,
it's fine to get the first ever ANY Award, celebrating
some of the great moments of our show.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It's something that I will probably forget.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
We have a runner up for this award as well,
and it is the rafting one down the Whitewater Rapids
ian saving his phone for some reason. Somebody gave me
an or I better be wearing two life jackets there.
I don't think, Judy, that one's gonna end well for me.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, that you look like you're going to hit a
rock probably there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'm definitely going face first into the first round. A
lot more any awards throughout the course the show as
we take up to the Red Carpet Show on NFL
Network time though right now for Active Mic presented by
Wells Fargo Active Cash Credit Card, Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He's active out on the field.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They certainly hope he will be on Sunday against the Eagles.
But first, very active interview with our guy Cameron wilk today, Trent,
three years.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Three super Bowls for you?
Speaker 9 (23:28):
What to start?
Speaker 13 (23:30):
How do you and this team continue to keep your
hunger as you started your career with all this winning.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Yeah, man, I think for me personally, it's humbling to
be in this moment. You know, I think a lot
of guys around here are just humbled to be back
here again, you know, for the Thursday time.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
And really it's just this calmness about.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
It, you know.
Speaker 14 (23:48):
I think everybody's got this quiet confidence and we understand
we have a game we gotta play, you know, so
taking this weekend as we can, being where our feet are,
but understanding we gotta get back to when it comes
to football.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
You've made a knack of when Spags calls that cornerback blitz,
of making plays just like you did in the AFC
Championship game. If you ever put a teach tape out,
what is the key to executing the perfect cornerback blitz man?
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Don't out disguise yourself, you feel me, Don't show the
cordivate that's you blitzing.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
As soon as he sees it, he's sending in somebody
your way.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
You're gonna have to worry about a blocker, so the
best thing you do don't show it and hopefully it
opens up.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
You've had a heck of a career so far, but
your roles changed since the last time you played there.
As you prep for Aj and Davonte, how do you
see your matchups and how you attack each one of
those two guys.
Speaker 14 (24:39):
Yeah, I mean with aj Brown, I think it's is
gonna be a physical game. You know, he's a big guy, strong,
got a really strong hand. One of those dudes that
you're gonna have to just compete with each and every down,
whether it's run past and he brings it, you know,
all four cours and Davante.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I mean, he's a Speetzter, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14 (24:56):
Heis and winner, So you gotta have a lot of
respect for him, and when it to him, especially about technique,
you know, get your hands on them and be ready
to run because that boy's fast.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
I'm looking down at your twenty two and for people
at home that may not know your story about your
older brother, your brother who passed away, can you explain
the value of twenty two for you?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Percent?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Man?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
This number really was kind of like a gift to me.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
You know, I never asked for it before, and in
college coaches gave it to me without knowing my story.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Really, and it's gonna be ten years shoot on.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
The tenth of February, so yeah, really, it's just for
me a way to remember his name, you know, and
play for something bigger than myself. You know, my family
is so important to me, so whenever they see the
twenty two, it's kind of just a mark for them and.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Allows me to play for something that I'm proud of.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
What would your brother say if he was here watching
you right now, man, I think.
Speaker 14 (25:47):
He would just be smiling, you know what I mean,
happy to be here again and ready to just watch
us go out there and play.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Appreciate you, Trent.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Thanks man, you're Trent McDuffie talking about going up against
those Eagles wide receivers. AJ Brown leads the team with
nine first down receptions in the twenty twenty four postseason.
We'll be looking to add that on Sunday, but first
he talked with our Stacy Dales.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
AJ Brown, you made a comment this week that you
can't bring old feelings into new opportunities. I think it's
my favorite quote of the week. Where did that come from?
And it certainly applies to your nine years you know.
Speaker 15 (26:26):
I think that just comes from like life and trials
and tribulations that you face, and you know, you get
awarded the same same opportunity, but it's different, you know,
everything is about it is different, even though he even
though we're going against the same person.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
But it's still different.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
So you have inspired me this season, Like so many
on the outside, I have heard from countless people that
they've been contacted by teachers and the impact on reading.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
That you've had.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
How do you feel about that and the impact?
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I feel amazing about it because another audience, you know,
not just.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Sports fans, but authors of writers, you know, and they're
reaching out trying to get me to read their book,
and you know, and it's like I inspired, you know, the.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
Younger generation to read.
Speaker 15 (27:13):
It's I got pictures in my school or with me
reading a book, and it's like, if AJ has time
to read, so if AJ can find time to read.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So can you.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Which is funny, you know, because growing up.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
I didn't really like to read.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
But uh, you know, I found a joy and I
found a piece in it. It's calmness in it.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
And so the other thing I love about you, Aj,
and I think we've all come to learn, is how
selfless you are, despite the superstar that you are. Your
selflessness this year, what impact do you think that that
has had on your teammates?
Speaker 15 (27:47):
I think, uh, I think it had a huge impact
because you know, you see guys like me, Smitty, you know, Uh,
you don't really have a choice.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
But to buy in.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
You know, if God's like me buying in and being
selflessen and being happy for you know, someone's else s's sists,
you know. And even though even though you want what
you want, you know, and you're putting that to the side,
that you know, it shows you can't hide that, you
can't fake that. And and I think, uh, I think
we've just done a great job as a team of
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buying in.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
You know, for the for the most important thing.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
You told me after the NFC Championship, Jalen Hurts as
a warrior, I think your chemistry and your trust factor
together is significantly underrated.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Can you describe that trust factor?
Speaker 15 (28:36):
Just knowing knowing uh where to be at the right time,
thinking the same thing at the same time, you know,
just get not to give away to some game plan,
but just just being on the same page. And you
know that take countless hours, all season work, you know,
years and years, just just just preparating.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
Yeah, just lastly, what can what are you expecting from
saquon yourself and this offense against the Chiefs defensively Sunday?
Speaker 15 (29:07):
No, I can't make any predictions and I won't but
I can't tell you that we're gonna go out here
and give maximum effort and playoff hardy.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
So you know we're gonna let the chills far where
they make. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Love it, Thank you awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
NFL Honors forty nine ers tight end George Kittle is
in the house. So is Lyons quarterback Jared Goff, who
is one of the nominees for one of the big
awards of the night, the NFL MVP, along with some
luminaries Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Saquon Barkley, and Joe Burrow.
Red Carbon show starts at the top of the Our
(29:43):
NFL Honors starts at eight pm Eastern time. But first
we still got more awards. Here on the Insiders.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
There are the Hall of Fame finalists for the class
of twenty twenty five. We will find out who gets in.
Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Willie Anderson. You can read this list.
Antonio Gates, Tory Halt, He's been waiting for a while.
Luke Keigley, first time on the ballot, Eli Manning a
first time on the ballot. Our very own Steve Smith Senior.
My fingers are crossed for him, Come on nine Suggs Tailor,
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Vina Terry, Reggie, Wayne, Darren Woodson, Marshall Yander. But first,
of course we have another ANY Award. This is very prestigious,
the Any Award. This is most ambitious shirt and oh
my chrup up what this is amazing? Mark cross with
like the pastoral.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Scene behind him, frozen.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Like a watercolor situation. Look at that nice blue velvet chair.
Though as an.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Accent we do a quick just switch where it's the
backdround becomes the shirt comes the back.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Chairs fake right way, that's a real chair.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I think that's a real chair. It's beautiful.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I'm not on that day because I totally would have
crushed him.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Don't remember that half share too.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's very nice. It's really quite beautiful, and it's his
dropped at home. Is fantastic, Mike, the.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Innies roll on, you know.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
We posted on exit that's what we're calling them, and
somebody said you can't call him that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Watch me.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Here's the next Inny going to Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman
for best.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
Guest appearance in the off season.
Speaker 16 (31:15):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
We toldal I don't know why they were taking pictures
that day. I think the helmet aud so, yeah, it
was media day.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So what did I do?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Reach behind me? Not that little black one there that
wouldn't fit, but the other one there is we are
by the way, you know, you know this was summer time,
this summer. Sure, yeah, but I mean there's an athlete
and a not athlete right there. You're an athlete having
these guys on the show, and we love having these
guys right here in the NFL for many years to come.
One of them is going to go home as the
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Offensive Rookie of the Year, probably going to be Jaden Daniels,
but those guys also on that lift list with him?
What he already won the Pepsi Award for Rookie of
the Year. Do we we gotta get to that later
in the show. I think I blew that one too.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Boom both uh.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Here is the Offensive Player of the Year nominee list,
Lamars Jackson, Semon Barkley, Joe bra Are we gonna see
Saquon Barkley walk out if he wins the award? Like
Christian McCaffrey last year a surprise appearance. Yeah, I was
paying attention at the show. Some of us were not
drinking alcoholic beverages during the show last year.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Not trueest I was uh.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Tonight, the stars are out in New Orleans to kick.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Off Super Bowl fifty nine weekend.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Find out who will take home the game's most PW
that talks with hosts Snoop Dogg. Don't miss NFL Honors,
presented by Invisi Line on Fox, NFL Network and also
streaming on NFL Plus. Don't Forget though subscription required for
NFL Plus. Subscribe now tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
The NFL continues to leave a lasting legacy in the
surrounding communities of the Super Bowl host city through the
super Bowl Legacy Grant Program. This year, more than three
million dollars in grant funding will help support local nonprofits
benefiting underserved groups in New Orleans.
Speaker 17 (32:53):
New Orleans really does put something special to the Super Bowl.
It's like one on one is five and it's because
of the enthusiasm and passion. Frankly, the pride you have
in your community and you know how to do big events.
And I just think how you've added so much to
the super Bowl and this is your weekend. This is
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your weekend to show off your community to the world
and to show the resilience that you always show, the
way you pulled together as a community, and the things
that make us so proud of being here and the
people here. This is a big weekend for you, and
I know you're going to do it well, and so
thank you for all the hospitality and thank you for
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being who you are.
Speaker 16 (33:38):
As we welcome the NFL and fans from around the
world to our city, let us remember that this moment
goes beyond football. It is about creating lasting memories, building
stronger connections, and leaving a legacy of service, unity and inspiration.
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Thank you all again for being here today, for giving
your time, your energy, and your hearts to this effort. Together,
we are ensuring Super Bowl fifty nine is remembered not
just for the plays on the field, but the incredible
impact it had on the lives of the people who
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make New Orleans the vibrant, resilience city we know and love.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Big Night in New Orleans, stars keep coming out across
the red carpet, including Giants rookie receiver Malik Neighbors walking
into NFL Honors, which kicks off disbaud now Ur Patser Tan,
one of the nominees for the defensive Player on the
award some believe, yes, multi time guest here on The
Insiders going up against TJ. Watt, Trey Hendricks, and Miles
(34:51):
Garrett and Zach Bond of a Zach Bond with the
Defensive as Lord nomination. Catch all the winners lower and
hour from now on NFL Honors right here on NFL Network.
All right, so everybody on Earth, Christian's gonna gonna bring
this up. I'm on Earth, so I'm gonna ask you
(35:12):
it to. There's been a long history of the Madden
Curse and questions about being on the cover of that
game bad things potentially can happen.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Are you superstitious at all?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Does anything in the back of your mind when you
get the call say like, I don't need to invite
bad juju into this situation. Just tell me, tell me
the thought process from that perspective.
Speaker 13 (35:32):
No, I mean, I think that stuff is kind of
myth and you know, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
But I'm I'm I'm excited to be on cover.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We love you, Christian. That was my fault, all right.
I will take that one.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Get Insider's Curse, the idiot or the best thing it's
the worst player predictions, but best insiders. Curse Christian, this
Madden curse thing, it's just totally to controung You're not
gonna have a weird achilles in training camp and then
never play the whole.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I think he might never talk to us again, or
at least he was there.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
He was there to pitch that.
Speaker 16 (36:07):
That.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
That makes me cringe watching that.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
I feel so bad.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
I feel like we contribute it to the injury.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
You are, Mike, and I didn't. You and Tom did
and we're fine. I don't know what this we stuff is.
It's so sorry, you guys like we're fine.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
More innies from here in New Orleans. Ahead of the
real awards wars a little bit. I think there'd be
more worse NFL honors. NFL dishonors is what they'll call it.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
The sacer Theater.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's where it's gonna start eight pm Eastern Time. More
insiders coming up right after this. No surprise, Jade Daniels
is your Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Year. That
award has already been presented. The other NFL Rookie of
the Year Offensive Rookie of the Year is vote on
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by the Associated Press panel of fifty people who cover
the league. That's gonna be given away on the NFL
Honors later tonight. He read carpet already active. He got
Josh Allen and Nealley Seinfeld.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Making an appearance together. We've also got some coaches making
their way down, Bill Belicher, that guy in the house,
University of North Carolina Striots coach that took me a
second of Kevin O'Connell was on my wife's flight for
Minneapolis actually earlier today. He is up for the NFL
Coach of the Year honors along with Sean Payton, Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That was definitely his dad unhandling. Yeah, Andy Reid, it
definitely wasn't as well. That war will be handed out tonight.
First though, we got a couple more innies for you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Those are the Insiders Awards we're giving out throughout the
course of this show. This one for best Hesea prop
and no surprise, that is gonna go to our Jane
Slater for the time back when Jerry Jones said that
there's leaves followed, they're waiting for those leaves to fall
on Ceedee Lamb's contract and Jane decided to play that out.
I can't remember how long she talks before grabbing the problem. Yeah,
(38:01):
here comes Your hands are not the props.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
She likes to talk with her hands. Long time is
talking almost as long as Jerry.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Right here and there, there's the leaf flower that time
you get those leaves moving.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Didn't tell us this was coming. This was a sensation.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
One of my favorite moments.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Yeah, best insider. Scoop goes to me. Apparently, uh, I
broke the Devate. I don't. I don't know if any
of this is accurate, but I'm gonna take it. It's
thank you. I'd like to thank everyone who made this.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Possible, the Jets, Woody Johnson, the Raiders, DeVante.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Adams, and Ian Rappaporto. I think really brought you.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Just sitting there seething because he believes he broke the Pezare.
Speaker 7 (38:38):
They were saying that.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
I said he was hurt, and I'm telling you he's
not coming back to the Raiders. Trust me like I
think that I got the pre Scoop is what they're
giving me. Yeah, we also broke Brandon. I you caught
air if I'm not mistaken, So I'll take the real
credit for that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
There he is.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Thank you, I thank my mom.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Where it has had to have been on September right
for the little thing going so to a point for
Mike zero four, Ean, Saquon Barkley and the Eagles taking
on the Chiefs on Sunday, Sekua could become the eighth
player in NFL history bewein NFL MVP and Super Bowl
MVP in the same season. First, of course, he's going
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to have to take home that NFL MVP tonight at
NFL Honors. Take a look at the comparison here, Emmett
Smith in nineteen ninety three, Saquon Barkley in twenty twenty four,
two of the best running back seasons that we have
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
All The issue, of course.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Here is there's some quarterbacks who had awfully good seasons
here too, Mike.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Me. Yeah, We've got a lot of other mics.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Here's what I'm watching Belmont Barkley slap himself in the
head and then I'm seeing him here this week trying
to keep those emotions and check. It's his birthday, He's
playing in his first Super Bowl. All this stuff has
got to feel like destiny to him. But the players
can't think like that. You gotta think, like, oh, you
gotta go out and make it happen. You can't just
assume it's.
Speaker 12 (39:58):
Going to happen.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Judy, I just want to know why does he slap
himself in the head.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
He was upset that he did that after the game.
He's like, I gotta keep my emotions in check. He
doesn't need to keep anything.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
It looks it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
He's all about like because then he scored in the
NFC Championship game and he went, you know, I think
he did like this. You know we got to keep
it in checks soon as he was in the ends,
we do we did?
Speaker 5 (40:16):
We see him on the red carpet? Do we know
if he's going to be in the house, he.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Won't be on the red last year.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
I don't get the white I mean a white dinner,
walk the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
If you're in the game, you'll just come out.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Why what else is he think he's going over the
game plan?
Speaker 7 (40:28):
He's been game planning for thirteen.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
He listened to Eagles fans. No one should be doing
anything else, including applying for other jobs. How they think
if you're also in the mix, Well, I guess the
doors closed and we gotta go thirty minutes exactly, so
we gotta go
Welcome inside with the Insiders alongside Mike Garatfullo, Judy Batista,
and Ian Rappaport.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
I am Tom Pellicero.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
We are just seventy two hours out, little less than
from Super Bowl fifty nine here in New Orleans. We're
only about two hours away from NFL Honors, which you
could watch live on NFL Network. The Red Carpet Show starts.
After this show. We're gonna give out some awards. We're
calling them the Innies. Yea, it's pretty good. Hopefully I
win one, or John Snider would say the Oudies. We
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got a lot of fun planned on the course, which
is why we're show. And it all leads up to yeah,
that was implied. Ian, you didn't have to say it,
but thanks for hitting that one right.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
On the nose. Eagles Chiefs.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
The rematch to Super Bowl fifty seven coming up not
far from where we sit inside the Caesars Superdome on Sunday. Meanwhile,
a long way across the city, we are on the
Red Carpet, but we're not, but they are some of
the NFL stars showing up, including Ravens running back Dereck Henry.
I know we've got calling Wolf among others standing by
(01:02):
mj Acostro, Wiz Cam Jordan part of that show as well.
Sam Darnold's No House. Max Crosby is in the house.
You'll find out tonight the MVP, the Offensive and Defensive
Player of the Year, Coach of the Year, most prestigious
of all, the final honor even after this year's Hall
of Fame class, you'll find out the Walter Payton NFL
Man of the Year Award winner. Here are the winners
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from the past ten years. A lot of names you
certainly know. You know that they end up with that
symbol on their chest for the rest of their playing careers.
The Walter Payton Man of the Year Award, of course,
named after the late Bears legend. Another Bears legend sadly
no longer with us, Virginia Hallis McCaskey, who inherited the
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Chicago Bears from her father, George Hallis, but avoided the
spotlight during four plus decades. His principal owner, has died
at age one hundred and two. Mccaskey's family announced through
the team that she died today. She had owned the
Bears since her father's death on October thirty four.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
First nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Here's NFL film Scott Graham with Moore on a football
life Well lived.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Virginia McCaskey saw just about everything in the NFL and
had the scrap book to prove it. She also happens
to have been NFL Royalty, the eldest child of George Hallis,
and while the world called him Papa Bear, to her,
he was plain old Dad.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It was wonderful because she was always so thoughtful of
my friends.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Helllos and the Chicago Bears were already household names by
the time Virginia toddled off to grammar school, but that
didn't stop the occasional bout of school yard jealousy.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
They think. The only time I got the attention to
the boys is when I got into an argument in
the school playground about knowing Grange, and that was, oh, no,
you don't, you don't know him. So I came home
that night and told my dad, and he got an
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autograph picture from Red that yes he knew me, and
he thought I was swell.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
In the nineteen thirties and forties, the Bears won a
whopping six NFL championships, and Virginia saw them all.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
She knew all the.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Players too, like star quarterback Sid Luckman, who led the
nineteen forty team to the greatest route in titled game history.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Remember going to the memorial service when Sid Luckman died
and the young rabbi admitted that he didn't know anything
about football, and he talked about the championship game and
said the score was I understand the score was seventy
three to zero, and we all kind of jerked the
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no at seven to nothing. My favorite championship was nineteen
sixty three because by that time he was sixty eight
years old and people were saying he ought to retire,
the game had passed him by. That's the one that
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really hurt, and he wound up winning the championship that year.
That was good.
Speaker 5 (04:30):
And here comes Way bursting over the guard.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Mate to ten was Sicono.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Bag to be the Giants the championship.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
George Hallis did more than coach the game, he built
it so after his death in nineteen eighty three, Virginia
continued his work leading the Bears for more than three decades,
ultimately turning the team over first to son Michael and
later to George. Both represented the next generation of the
Hellis family trade. Virginia mca her stewardship of the Bears
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was not so much a duty but a daughter's joy.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I loved my dad and his life was football, and
so it became my life.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released a statement a short time
ago saying, Virginia Hallis McCaskey, the matriarch of the Chicago
Bears and daughter of George Hallis, the founder of the NFL,
leaves a legacy of class, dignity, and humanity. Faith, Family
and football in that order were her north stars, and
she lived by the simple adage to always do the
right thing. The Bears that her father's started meant the
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world to her, and he would be proud of the
way she continued the family business with such dedication and passion.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the McCaskey and
Hallis families and Bears fans around the world. We certainly
echo those condolences here on this show, Judy Battista, you
knew Virginia Hallis McCaskey, tell us about the woman you
knew well.
Speaker 6 (06:01):
I mean, she was really the last direct link to
the founding of the NFL.
Speaker 5 (06:06):
She was born less.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Than three years after her dad was you know famously
at the car dealership in Canton, Ohio.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
When the league was formed.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
She went on a barnstorming tour when she was a
toddler with her dad and Red Grange, an effort to
promote the fledgling league. So she was buddies with Red
Grange from the time she was a child. You heard
her say in that clip there that like kids at
school did not believe that she knew Red Grange. Ye,
she knew Red Grange. When she was an adult, she
would sit in the stands at Soldier Fields with her dad,
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and her dad at that point was you know, in
his eighties, and she watched him be enraptured by the game,
how passionate he was, how worked up he would get
over every play, And she went home after the first
one of those games. This was in the seventies, and
she was worried about his well being. She thought like,
is it a good thing for an eighty year old
to get this wound up over a football game? And
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then after a few days she thought about a thought
like what a gift to be eighty years old and
still be so passionate about something and only a few
years later her father passed away. She was never supposed
to inherit the Bears. She was George Hollis's oldest child,
but her younger brother was supposed to inherit the Bears.
Her younger brother passed away before her father did, and
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so she took over the team. She was very much
in the background as an owner. She let her husband
and then her sons run the franchise, although she was
very very involved in decision making. Even though you didn't
hear very much from missus McCaskey, she was involved really
up until very close to the end of her life
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and everything that was going on day to day at
the Bears.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
You talk about the passion at age eighty.
Speaker 8 (07:46):
She was ninety one when the Bears fired Phil Emery
and Mark Dressman, and George McCaskey was asked about his
mother's reaction and he said, quote, she's pissed.
Speaker 7 (07:56):
Said, I don't know if.
Speaker 8 (07:57):
You can refer to a ninety one year old woman
in that regard, but that's how angry she is. And
she had been on the earth for eight of the
nine Bears championships that they had won in their history,
and she wanted to see that number grow to ten.
So she certainly had the passion for winning and the
passion for this franchise, and they did a great job
off the field as well.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
She has done a.
Speaker 8 (08:17):
Great job with the Bears Care Program, trying to improve
the lives of those in the inner city in Chicago.
So a great loss not only to the Bears organization
and to the NFL, but also to the Chicago area.
Speaker 9 (08:28):
No doubt about it.
Speaker 10 (08:29):
There's so much to this, so much to remember and
appreciate of Virginia mccaskey's incredible life. There is also the
football part of it and the franchise part of it,
and obviously for the Chicago Bears. It is worth noting,
guys that George McCaskey has in fact been running the
Bears on a day to day basis for some time
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you pull up to Bears training camp sometimes he's just
out there greeting fans, shaking their hands. That will continue.
In min understanding is nothing really will change as far
as the running of the Bears goes with today's events.
Still needs to gather the thirty percent necessary to be
the controlling owner. That's a process that will be ongoing
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and potentially takes some time, but certainly, Virginia Hollis McCaskey
Tom leaves the Bears in excellent shape, with a franchise quarterback,
with a new coach, with a pretty stocked roster, and
with George McCaskey running the show as he has done.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
The Hallis McCaskey families. As Judy mentioned, go back to
the very origins of the National Football League and let
the record show the oldest rivalry there is the most
played rivalry. The final game of Virginia mccaskey's life happened
to be a Bears win over the Packers. Tributes rolled
in from around the NFL from a variety of different
organizations and individuals throughout the course of the day, once
(09:50):
again emphasizing how big the impact was of Virginia Hollis
mccaskey's life and the impact of her family. Are Stacey Dales,
who covers the Bears closely and lives in Chicago. She's
covering the Eagles for US this week, but Stacy, this
news about one of the patriarchs of the most famous
football family, certainly in Chicago, one of the most famous
(10:13):
in the NFL. Her passing today What stood out to
you about the life of Virginia hallis.
Speaker 11 (10:18):
Mccask Yeah, Hey, Tom, it's a very sad day. Our
deepest condolence is here at NFL Network on behalf of
all of us to the McCaskey family and the Bears organization.
It's a sad day because we have literally lost in
icon and a legend. Most of us that want to
understand history in the National Football League that really began
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back in nineteen twenty she lived it. She didn't have
to google the history of the NFL. She literally lived
history of the NFL. She was born in nineteen twenty
three and so a year after its inception, and obviously
her father, the Great Papa Bear, George Halliw taught her
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many things along the way, but she was born into
football and so for a life spent in this game,
you can imagine her passion and as Judy talked about,
for her to take over in nineteen eighty three after
the passing of her father and to in a couple
of years go to a Super Bowl was very special.
But I think what's important here is to the core.
Speaker 7 (11:22):
She loved the Bears.
Speaker 11 (11:24):
She guys, was as passionate as any diehard Bears fan
that you will find, but she was also very humble.
She and her late ed husband ed eleven kids, a
very big family, and so there's a lot of grieving
that is taking place. Despite her passing away at one
hundred and two years old and just so beloved around
the National Football League.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
She would only be so pleased.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
You guys, in her final couple of months to see
that on her birthday, one hundred and two years old,
January the fifth, her Chicago Bears, her beloved Bears, would
go into lambeau Field and beat the Packers on a
field goal. And then really, as you guys touched upon
to see a kind of a changing of the guard
with Ben Johnson coming in, the Bears feel very optimistic
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about their future. And I remind you when her father,
George Hallis passed away in nineteen eighty three, he was
responsible for hiring the great Hall of Famer Mike Ditka,
who took that eighty five Bears team to a Super
Bowl and won it. So call it an omen. I
know she's looking down on us right now, and to
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see really the level of gratitude for her around the
National Football League and some of the other women. You know,
she was at a time in taking over the Chicago Bears,
really one of the very few women in such a
strong position of power back in that time. And to
hear from Martha Ford and her comments today from the
(12:49):
Detroit Lions and of course Sheila Hamp, Sheila Ford Hamp
taking over the current owner of the Detroit Lions, two
very strong business women, and to see theirs and their
respect and the friendship that they held with Virginia Hallis
McCaskey is just so incredible and it is a sad
day again, but here are some of those comments to
(13:11):
come from Martha Firestone forward, heartbroken to hear of the
passing of my friend Virginia McCaskey, friends for more than
sixty years, two of the most powerful business women in
this game we love and really in business alone. And
then the job that Sheila Hamp has done with her Lions. Again,
just the impact that somebody like Virginia McCaskey has had
(13:34):
on this incredible league of all thirty two but certainly
the women within it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Stacey, thank you very much more from you as we
talk about Super Bowl fifty nine. A little bit later,
as you're perched there outside of the Eagles Hotel once again.
Virginia Hallis McCaskey, a member of one of football's first families,
has passed away.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
She was one hundred two years old.
Speaker 7 (14:01):
Welcome back to New Orleans.
Speaker 8 (14:03):
It is quite the scene there at night, Bourbon Street
starting to fill up even more as each passing as
more Eagles fans. That's what you've been hanging out right
upon the city. I've been known to frequent there. Went
to a fine restaurant there, not dressed like this, but
maybe I should have been. Cody Ford, Bengals guard joining
us here on the set for the Insiders here at
(14:24):
Radio Row.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 8 (14:26):
You played both of these teams during the regular season,
the Kansas City Chiefs the Philadelphi Eagles. Both guys got
really good guys upfront. Talk to me about Chris Jones
Jalen Carter, what those two guys in particular bring.
Speaker 12 (14:37):
I think right now it goes without saying Chris Jones
is one of the best in the game. And then
Jalen Carter, I think he's right there behind him. So
those two guys leading those fronts up front, it's gonna
be a good game.
Speaker 5 (14:49):
So you got for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 10 (14:51):
You got Cam Jurgens little banged up doing the back injury,
got Landon Dickerson doing with a somewhat significant knee injury.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
Both those guys are going to be limited.
Speaker 10 (15:00):
Talk about this offensive line, egos, offensive line in general,
and if those guys are not quite one hundred percent,
how much of a difference do you think that could make.
Speaker 12 (15:07):
I don't think it will make that much of a difference,
just because you know they are they are coached by
one of the best in the game, and then they
have guys like Lane and Jordan who are holding down
the tackle spots and you know they're big leaders in
that room. I think whoever has to step up and
go in or feel right right away, I want.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
To talk about your situation. You're heading into free agency here.
Once we finish up with the Super Bowl, we're going
to be talking about where some players are going to
be landing in the twenty twenty five season. You've got
the versatility, you played pretty much everywhere on that offensive
line there. As you get into free agency, how valuable
is that for you? And what teams are looking for,
certainly having a guy that can play anywhere as a
valuable tool.
Speaker 12 (15:44):
I think it's just you know, for me, it's about
being you know, a team first guy, and wherever a
team wants me to play is where you know I'm
going to be happy at. And if they wanted to
play left tackle, left guard, right guard, right tackle, whatever
it may be, I'm going to go out there perform
my best, giving my all, and you know that to
take to speak for yourself.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
There's been a lot of a lot of Bengals conversations
this week.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
Obviously, Joe Burrow has made the rounds.
Speaker 10 (16:07):
There's been plenty of discussion of Jamar Chase, Gie Higgins,
Trey Hendrickson and what's going to happen there.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Obviously, I assume you have been following.
Speaker 10 (16:18):
What is the sort of can you describe the state
of flux of these Cincinnati Bengals superstars right now?
Speaker 12 (16:26):
I mean, we got we got a few of them,
and you know, I think they'll they'll find a way
to get it all done to where we keep everybody.
They want to keep everybody. You know, those guys want
to be there just like everyone else in the locker room,
and I think they'll find a way to get done.
Speaker 8 (16:40):
You said we, I mean you could still potentially return
this sin to that. I'm sure that's something if it
all works out, that you would welcome it sounds like it. Uh,
this team was not that far away from being here.
It was a slow start, but we saw how good
you guys were late in the season.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
What's the lesson from this season.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
For the twenty twenty four Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 12 (16:58):
We just gotta start fast. I think we start faster.
You know, a couple of plays here, a couple of
plays there. We look up at the end of the
season and it's a different ball game.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (17:07):
The end of the season, though, you guys were on fire.
I mean it was really like we had the crazy
Broncos game and it was really insane, but you really
were on fire.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
What was that like?
Speaker 10 (17:18):
You know, obviously, look you start the way you did,
everyone's kind of like, ah, not going to make the
playoffs next year?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
Next year?
Speaker 5 (17:24):
What was the end of the season? That run?
Speaker 11 (17:26):
Like?
Speaker 5 (17:26):
Being part of it so fun?
Speaker 12 (17:28):
That was some of the best football in the atmosphere
of the locker room. The guys were all, you know,
bought in, We all knew the mission, we all knew
the goal, and everyone was just locked in it was
some of the most like best one football I've ever
played in my entire life.
Speaker 10 (17:41):
So how do you take that and kind of let's
I don't know where you're going to be, right if
it is in.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Sinci, how do you guys take that kind of moving forward?
Speaker 12 (17:49):
I think we just have to build off that. You know,
that's that's how we ended the season. We ended the season,
you know, on the right foot, and we just take
that into the off season and in the training camp
and we know where it takes.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
You talked about how much fun, you talked about how
well you guys were playing. How about your quarterback in particular,
you're in the huddle with him. He's got a bunch
of different nicknames, Joe Shisty, all that stuff. What does
he give me your best Joe Burrow in the huddle,
in the locker room. Story that shows the kind of
guy and the kind of quarterback that he is.
Speaker 12 (18:16):
I don't really had too many stories Joe's He's the
same guy he is on the field as he is
off the field. He's cool, calm, collect and you know,
we get in certain situations where you know it's a
little tight game and he doesn't blink an eye, And
I think that's the great thing about Joe is you
know he's not going to miss a step no matter
the situation.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Well, I mean there are plenty of times where games
on the line or it's like all right, we you know,
got to have a drive. And I do wonder like
people can get nervous. It's okay to be nervous, right.
Do you not look at him in the huddle and
go like, dude, like, are you not feeling this?
Speaker 2 (18:49):
You know? No, I kind of look.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
At it like Joe's not nervous. Well, I got to
be nervous for it, you know.
Speaker 9 (18:54):
Okay.
Speaker 12 (18:55):
I kind of look at it that way, and I
feed off of his energy to the best I can.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
I want to get back to this game that we're
gonna see on Sunday, because the Philadelphia Eagles offensive line
one of the best in the league, some people think
maybe the best. Jalen Hurts has done a nice job
diagnosing things. Their coaching staff excellent. But they're gonna see
Steve Spagnolo on the other side, and you've seen him,
the Bengals have seen him. What kind of challenge is
that for a team, especially when there's two weeks to
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prepare and you know you're gonna see some exotic Flittz packages.
Speaker 12 (19:23):
You just gotta be you know it's coming. The good
thing is that you know it's coming. The pressure's coming.
Just be prepared. And also everyone just communicate, be on
the same page and it'll work out.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
How are you gonna how are you gonna watch this game?
I mean, are you gonna watch it?
Speaker 10 (19:38):
Like when you sit down on your couch and I
don't know if you're someone who maybe has a beverage
or two, could be a soda, could be something else. Yeah,
do you watch like a fan? Or are you looking
at like? All right, they bring this package. Here's how
I would block this? Do you texting guys like? Do
you see what they did there?
Speaker 12 (19:53):
I'm watching it as as a football player. I'm watching
especially playing the offensive line. My eyes are locked onto
the offensive line. See going on?
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right?
Speaker 8 (20:01):
In a little over a month, we're gonna find out
where you're gonna play your football. In twenty twenty five,
you're sitting here on the set with the insiders.
Speaker 7 (20:06):
You know, we we eat scoops.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
That's what we do.
Speaker 7 (20:10):
That's how you feed us.
Speaker 8 (20:11):
So when it comes time, you know who to dial
up and let us know. We'll throw all the numbers
out there too. We'll let people know what kind of.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Pack you appreciate.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
You appreciate you man.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Best of luck to you.
Speaker 8 (20:22):
Thank you for seeing you in twenty twenty five. On
the field and on the Insiders once again. Cody Ford,
free agent to be offensive lineman, coming at you. I
said offensive line because he plays a little bit of everything.
Coming up aj Brown, he goes wide receiver, joins us
go one on one with him.
Speaker 7 (20:36):
When the Insiders returns.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
NFL Honors, it's an hour and a half away live
here on NFL Network, Luminarias like Fred Warner in the
house at the Singer Theater. Miiles Carrett is there as well.
What team will we be on by the end of
the night, sticker, maybe we'll know, Probably not. UH nominees
for the Defensive Player of the Year. Miles Garrett, of course,
is one of them. Offensive Player of the Year, Lamar Jackson,
(21:10):
say Kwan Barkley, Joe Burrow, Jabbar Chase and Derrick Henry
all up for that award.
Speaker 2 (21:15):
You will get the winners of.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
That and everything else throughout the course of NFL Honors Tonight,
we Meanwhile, here at the Insiders in New Orleans giving
out the first annual ANY Awards. It was mainly an
excuse for us to order tuxedos.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
This we got.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
We're on the gray carpets. That's what we got, kind
of like the red carpet, but like careful of Judy
Batista in rapport, Tom Pilisero. Here back at Radio Row
our first award tonight from the Insiders to the Course
to twenty twenty four season Best Photo Shot, and the
winner is going to be this is true in Rappaport,
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it's Ian, Yes, in Antonio Pierce's starter jacket. This had
a happier ending for Ian than it did for Antonio Pierce,
who was fired unceremoniously the next day by Antonio Pierce.
But I always thought Ian this, this was a good
look on you.
Speaker 5 (22:11):
I mean, I still think it's a good look.
Speaker 10 (22:13):
In fact, did I inquire about getting a similar Raiders
jacket to wear sometimes?
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Well, yeah, I mean the neck is not is not
exactly problems, But I think.
Speaker 10 (22:24):
I got to say to get them to get the well,
it's fine to get the first ever ANY Award, celebrating
some of the great moments of our show.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
It's something that I will probably forget.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (22:36):
We have a runner up for this award as well,
and it is the rafting one down the Whitewater Rapids
ian saving his phone for some reason. Somebody gave me
an or I better be wearing two life jackets there.
I don't think, Judy, that one's gonna end well for me.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Yeah, that you look like you're going to hit a
rock probably there.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
I'm definitely going face first into the first round. A
lot more any awards throughout the course the show as
we take up to the Red Carpet Show on NFL
Network time though right now for Active Mic presented by
Wells Fargo Active Cash Credit Card, Trent McDuffie.
Speaker 2 (23:15):
He's active out on the field.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
They certainly hope he will be on Sunday against the Eagles.
But first, very active interview with our guy Cameron wilk today, Trent,
three years.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Three super Bowls for you?
Speaker 9 (23:28):
What to start?
Speaker 13 (23:30):
How do you and this team continue to keep your
hunger as you started your career with all this winning.
Speaker 14 (23:36):
Yeah, man, I think for me personally, it's humbling to
be in this moment. You know, I think a lot
of guys around here are just humbled to be back
here again, you know, for the Thursday time.
Speaker 9 (23:46):
And really it's just this calmness about.
Speaker 12 (23:48):
It, you know.
Speaker 14 (23:48):
I think everybody's got this quiet confidence and we understand
we have a game we gotta play, you know, so
taking this weekend as we can, being where our feet are,
but understanding we gotta get back to when it comes
to football.
Speaker 13 (24:01):
You've made a knack of when Spags calls that cornerback blitz,
of making plays just like you did in the AFC
Championship game. If you ever put a teach tape out,
what is the key to executing the perfect cornerback blitz man?
Speaker 14 (24:14):
Don't out disguise yourself, you feel me, Don't show the
cordivate that's you blitzing.
Speaker 9 (24:19):
As soon as he sees it, he's sending in somebody
your way.
Speaker 14 (24:22):
You're gonna have to worry about a blocker, so the
best thing you do don't show it and hopefully it
opens up.
Speaker 13 (24:27):
You've had a heck of a career so far, but
your roles changed since the last time you played there.
As you prep for Aj and Davonte, how do you
see your matchups and how you attack each one of
those two guys.
Speaker 14 (24:39):
Yeah, I mean with aj Brown, I think it's is
gonna be a physical game. You know, he's a big guy, strong,
got a really strong hand. One of those dudes that
you're gonna have to just compete with each and every down,
whether it's run past and he brings it, you know,
all four cours and Davante.
Speaker 9 (24:53):
I mean, he's a Speetzter, you know what I mean.
Speaker 14 (24:56):
Heis and winner, So you gotta have a lot of
respect for him, and when it to him, especially about technique,
you know, get your hands on them and be ready
to run because that boy's fast.
Speaker 13 (25:04):
I'm looking down at your twenty two and for people
at home that may not know your story about your
older brother, your brother who passed away, can you explain
the value of twenty two for you?
Speaker 9 (25:15):
Percent?
Speaker 4 (25:17):
Man?
Speaker 9 (25:17):
This number really was kind of like a gift to me.
Speaker 14 (25:19):
You know, I never asked for it before, and in
college coaches gave it to me without knowing my story.
Speaker 9 (25:24):
Really, and it's gonna be ten years shoot on.
Speaker 14 (25:27):
The tenth of February, so yeah, really, it's just for
me a way to remember his name, you know, and
play for something bigger than myself. You know, my family
is so important to me, so whenever they see the
twenty two, it's kind of just a mark for them and.
Speaker 9 (25:40):
Allows me to play for something that I'm proud of.
Speaker 13 (25:43):
What would your brother say if he was here watching
you right now, man, I think.
Speaker 14 (25:47):
He would just be smiling, you know what I mean,
happy to be here again and ready to just watch
us go out there and play.
Speaker 9 (25:54):
Appreciate you, Trent.
Speaker 1 (25:55):
Thanks man, you're Trent McDuffie talking about going up against
those Eagles wide receivers. AJ Brown leads the team with
nine first down receptions in the twenty twenty four postseason.
We'll be looking to add that on Sunday, but first
he talked with our Stacy Dales.
Speaker 11 (26:15):
AJ Brown, you made a comment this week that you
can't bring old feelings into new opportunities. I think it's
my favorite quote of the week. Where did that come from?
And it certainly applies to your nine years you know.
Speaker 15 (26:26):
I think that just comes from like life and trials
and tribulations that you face, and you know, you get
awarded the same same opportunity, but it's different, you know,
everything is about it is different, even though he even
though we're going against the same person.
Speaker 9 (26:43):
But it's still different.
Speaker 11 (26:44):
So you have inspired me this season, Like so many
on the outside, I have heard from countless people that
they've been contacted by teachers and the impact on reading.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
That you've had.
Speaker 11 (26:55):
How do you feel about that and the impact?
Speaker 9 (26:58):
I feel amazing about it because another audience, you know,
not just.
Speaker 15 (27:01):
Sports fans, but authors of writers, you know, and they're
reaching out trying to get me to read their book,
and you know, and it's like I inspired, you know, the.
Speaker 12 (27:12):
Younger generation to read.
Speaker 15 (27:13):
It's I got pictures in my school or with me
reading a book, and it's like, if AJ has time
to read, so if AJ can find time to read.
Speaker 7 (27:21):
So can you.
Speaker 9 (27:21):
Which is funny, you know, because growing up.
Speaker 7 (27:24):
I didn't really like to read.
Speaker 15 (27:26):
But uh, you know, I found a joy and I
found a piece in it. It's calmness in it.
Speaker 11 (27:30):
And so the other thing I love about you, Aj,
and I think we've all come to learn, is how
selfless you are, despite the superstar that you are. Your
selflessness this year, what impact do you think that that
has had on your teammates?
Speaker 15 (27:47):
I think, uh, I think it had a huge impact
because you know, you see guys like me, Smitty, you know, Uh,
you don't really have a choice.
Speaker 12 (27:59):
But to buy in.
Speaker 15 (28:00):
You know, if God's like me buying in and being
selflessen and being happy for you know, someone's else s's sists,
you know. And even though even though you want what
you want, you know, and you're putting that to the side,
that you know, it shows you can't hide that, you
can't fake that. And and I think, uh, I think
we've just done a great job as a team of
(28:20):
buying in.
Speaker 9 (28:21):
You know, for the for the most important thing.
Speaker 11 (28:24):
You told me after the NFC Championship, Jalen Hurts as
a warrior, I think your chemistry and your trust factor
together is significantly underrated.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
Can you describe that trust factor?
Speaker 15 (28:36):
Just knowing knowing uh where to be at the right time,
thinking the same thing at the same time, you know,
just get not to give away to some game plan,
but just just being on the same page. And you
know that take countless hours, all season work, you know,
years and years, just just just preparating.
Speaker 11 (28:59):
Yeah, just lastly, what can what are you expecting from
saquon yourself and this offense against the Chiefs defensively Sunday?
Speaker 15 (29:07):
No, I can't make any predictions and I won't but
I can't tell you that we're gonna go out here
and give maximum effort and playoff hardy.
Speaker 9 (29:15):
So you know we're gonna let the chills far where
they make. Let's see what happens.
Speaker 11 (29:18):
Love it, Thank you awesome.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
NFL Honors forty nine ers tight end George Kittle is
in the house. So is Lyons quarterback Jared Goff, who
is one of the nominees for one of the big
awards of the night, the NFL MVP, along with some
luminaries Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Saquon Barkley, and Joe Burrow.
Red Carbon show starts at the top of the Our
(29:43):
NFL Honors starts at eight pm Eastern time. But first
we still got more awards. Here on the Insiders.
Speaker 6 (29:50):
There are the Hall of Fame finalists for the class
of twenty twenty five. We will find out who gets in.
Eric Allen, Jared Allen, Willie Anderson. You can read this list.
Antonio Gates, Tory Halt, He's been waiting for a while.
Luke Keigley, first time on the ballot, Eli Manning a
first time on the ballot. Our very own Steve Smith Senior.
My fingers are crossed for him, Come on nine Suggs Tailor,
(30:10):
Vina Terry, Reggie, Wayne, Darren Woodson, Marshall Yander. But first,
of course we have another ANY Award. This is very prestigious,
the Any Award. This is most ambitious shirt and oh
my chrup up what this is amazing? Mark cross with
like the pastoral.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Scene behind him, frozen.
Speaker 6 (30:33):
Like a watercolor situation. Look at that nice blue velvet chair.
Though as an.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Accent we do a quick just switch where it's the
backdround becomes the shirt comes the back.
Speaker 5 (30:46):
Chairs fake right way, that's a real chair.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
I think that's a real chair. It's beautiful.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I'm not on that day because I totally would have
crushed him.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
Don't remember that half share too.
Speaker 6 (30:56):
It's very nice. It's really quite beautiful, and it's his
dropped at home. Is fantastic, Mike, the.
Speaker 7 (31:02):
Innies roll on, you know.
Speaker 8 (31:03):
We posted on exit that's what we're calling them, and
somebody said you can't call him that.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Watch me.
Speaker 8 (31:07):
Here's the next Inny going to Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman
for best.
Speaker 7 (31:12):
Guest appearance in the off season.
Speaker 16 (31:15):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (31:15):
We toldal I don't know why they were taking pictures
that day. I think the helmet aud so, yeah, it
was media day.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
So what did I do?
Speaker 8 (31:23):
Reach behind me? Not that little black one there that
wouldn't fit, but the other one there is we are
by the way, you know, you know this was summer time,
this summer. Sure, yeah, but I mean there's an athlete
and a not athlete right there. You're an athlete having
these guys on the show, and we love having these
guys right here in the NFL for many years to come.
One of them is going to go home as the
(31:43):
Offensive Rookie of the Year, probably going to be Jaden Daniels,
but those guys also on that lift list with him?
What he already won the Pepsi Award for Rookie of
the Year. Do we we gotta get to that later
in the show. I think I blew that one too.
Speaker 7 (31:54):
Boom both uh.
Speaker 8 (31:56):
Here is the Offensive Player of the Year nominee list,
Lamars Jackson, Semon Barkley, Joe bra Are we gonna see
Saquon Barkley walk out if he wins the award? Like
Christian McCaffrey last year a surprise appearance. Yeah, I was
paying attention at the show. Some of us were not
drinking alcoholic beverages during the show last year.
Speaker 7 (32:13):
Not trueest I was uh.
Speaker 8 (32:15):
Tonight, the stars are out in New Orleans to kick.
Speaker 7 (32:17):
Off Super Bowl fifty nine weekend.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
Find out who will take home the game's most PW
that talks with hosts Snoop Dogg. Don't miss NFL Honors,
presented by Invisi Line on Fox, NFL Network and also
streaming on NFL Plus. Don't Forget though subscription required for
NFL Plus. Subscribe now tonight.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
The NFL continues to leave a lasting legacy in the
surrounding communities of the Super Bowl host city through the
super Bowl Legacy Grant Program. This year, more than three
million dollars in grant funding will help support local nonprofits
benefiting underserved groups in New Orleans.
Speaker 17 (32:53):
New Orleans really does put something special to the Super Bowl.
It's like one on one is five and it's because
of the enthusiasm and passion. Frankly, the pride you have
in your community and you know how to do big events.
And I just think how you've added so much to
the super Bowl and this is your weekend. This is
(33:15):
your weekend to show off your community to the world
and to show the resilience that you always show, the
way you pulled together as a community, and the things
that make us so proud of being here and the
people here. This is a big weekend for you, and
I know you're going to do it well, and so
thank you for all the hospitality and thank you for
(33:37):
being who you are.
Speaker 16 (33:38):
As we welcome the NFL and fans from around the
world to our city, let us remember that this moment
goes beyond football. It is about creating lasting memories, building
stronger connections, and leaving a legacy of service, unity and inspiration.
(34:00):
Thank you all again for being here today, for giving
your time, your energy, and your hearts to this effort. Together,
we are ensuring Super Bowl fifty nine is remembered not
just for the plays on the field, but the incredible
impact it had on the lives of the people who
(34:22):
make New Orleans the vibrant, resilience city we know and love.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Big Night in New Orleans, stars keep coming out across
the red carpet, including Giants rookie receiver Malik Neighbors walking
into NFL Honors, which kicks off disbaud now Ur Patser Tan,
one of the nominees for the defensive Player on the
award some believe, yes, multi time guest here on The
Insiders going up against TJ. Watt, Trey Hendricks, and Miles
(34:51):
Garrett and Zach Bond of a Zach Bond with the
Defensive as Lord nomination. Catch all the winners lower and
hour from now on NFL Honors right here on NFL Network.
All right, so everybody on Earth, Christian's gonna gonna bring
this up. I'm on Earth, so I'm gonna ask you
(35:12):
it to. There's been a long history of the Madden
Curse and questions about being on the cover of that
game bad things potentially can happen.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Are you superstitious at all?
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Does anything in the back of your mind when you
get the call say like, I don't need to invite
bad juju into this situation. Just tell me, tell me
the thought process from that perspective.
Speaker 13 (35:32):
No, I mean, I think that stuff is kind of
myth and you know, whatever happens happens.
Speaker 9 (35:38):
But I'm I'm I'm excited to be on cover.
Speaker 3 (35:42):
All right.
Speaker 2 (35:42):
We love you, Christian. That was my fault, all right.
I will take that one.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Get Insider's Curse, the idiot or the best thing it's
the worst player predictions, but best insiders. Curse Christian, this
Madden curse thing, it's just totally to controung You're not
gonna have a weird achilles in training camp and then
never play the whole.
Speaker 5 (36:02):
I think he might never talk to us again, or
at least he was there.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
He was there to pitch that.
Speaker 16 (36:07):
That.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
That makes me cringe watching that.
Speaker 5 (36:10):
I feel so bad.
Speaker 7 (36:11):
I feel like we contribute it to the injury.
Speaker 5 (36:13):
You are, Mike, and I didn't. You and Tom did
and we're fine. I don't know what this we stuff is.
It's so sorry, you guys like we're fine.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
More innies from here in New Orleans. Ahead of the
real awards wars a little bit. I think there'd be
more worse NFL honors. NFL dishonors is what they'll call it.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
The sacer Theater.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
That's where it's gonna start eight pm Eastern Time. More
insiders coming up right after this. No surprise, Jade Daniels
is your Pepsi zero Sugar Rookie of the Year. That
award has already been presented. The other NFL Rookie of
the Year Offensive Rookie of the Year is vote on
(36:54):
by the Associated Press panel of fifty people who cover
the league. That's gonna be given away on the NFL
Honors later tonight. He read carpet already active. He got
Josh Allen and Nealley Seinfeld.
Speaker 7 (37:06):
How about that.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Making an appearance together. We've also got some coaches making
their way down, Bill Belicher, that guy in the house,
University of North Carolina Striots coach that took me a
second of Kevin O'Connell was on my wife's flight for
Minneapolis actually earlier today. He is up for the NFL
Coach of the Year honors along with Sean Payton, Dan Quinn.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
That was definitely his dad unhandling. Yeah, Andy Reid, it
definitely wasn't as well. That war will be handed out tonight.
First though, we got a couple more innies for you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Those are the Insiders Awards we're giving out throughout the
course of this show. This one for best Hesea prop
and no surprise, that is gonna go to our Jane
Slater for the time back when Jerry Jones said that
there's leaves followed, they're waiting for those leaves to fall
on Ceedee Lamb's contract and Jane decided to play that out.
I can't remember how long she talks before grabbing the problem. Yeah,
(38:01):
here comes Your hands are not the props.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
She likes to talk with her hands. Long time is
talking almost as long as Jerry.
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Right here and there, there's the leaf flower that time
you get those leaves moving.
Speaker 2 (38:13):
Didn't tell us this was coming. This was a sensation.
Speaker 5 (38:16):
One of my favorite moments.
Speaker 7 (38:17):
Yeah, best insider. Scoop goes to me. Apparently, uh, I
broke the Devate. I don't. I don't know if any
of this is accurate, but I'm gonna take it. It's
thank you. I'd like to thank everyone who made this.
Speaker 8 (38:27):
Possible, the Jets, Woody Johnson, the Raiders, DeVante.
Speaker 7 (38:31):
Adams, and Ian Rappaporto. I think really brought you.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
Just sitting there seething because he believes he broke the Pezare.
Speaker 7 (38:38):
They were saying that.
Speaker 8 (38:39):
I said he was hurt, and I'm telling you he's
not coming back to the Raiders. Trust me like I
think that I got the pre Scoop is what they're
giving me. Yeah, we also broke Brandon. I you caught
air if I'm not mistaken, So I'll take the real
credit for that.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
There he is.
Speaker 7 (38:52):
Thank you, I thank my mom.
Speaker 1 (38:55):
Where it has had to have been on September right
for the little thing going so to a point for
Mike zero four, Ean, Saquon Barkley and the Eagles taking
on the Chiefs on Sunday, Sekua could become the eighth
player in NFL history bewein NFL MVP and Super Bowl
MVP in the same season. First, of course, he's going
(39:15):
to have to take home that NFL MVP tonight at
NFL Honors. Take a look at the comparison here, Emmett
Smith in nineteen ninety three, Saquon Barkley in twenty twenty four,
two of the best running back seasons that we have
ever seen.
Speaker 2 (39:30):
All The issue, of course.
Speaker 1 (39:31):
Here is there's some quarterbacks who had awfully good seasons
here too, Mike.
Speaker 5 (39:37):
Me. Yeah, We've got a lot of other mics.
Speaker 8 (39:41):
Here's what I'm watching Belmont Barkley slap himself in the
head and then I'm seeing him here this week trying
to keep those emotions and check. It's his birthday, He's
playing in his first Super Bowl. All this stuff has
got to feel like destiny to him. But the players
can't think like that. You gotta think, like, oh, you
gotta go out and make it happen. You can't just
assume it's.
Speaker 12 (39:58):
Going to happen.
Speaker 5 (39:59):
Judy, I just want to know why does he slap
himself in the head.
Speaker 8 (40:02):
He was upset that he did that after the game.
He's like, I gotta keep my emotions in check. He
doesn't need to keep anything.
Speaker 5 (40:08):
It looks it's amazing.
Speaker 8 (40:09):
He's all about like because then he scored in the
NFC Championship game and he went, you know, I think
he did like this. You know we got to keep
it in checks soon as he was in the ends,
we do we did?
Speaker 5 (40:16):
We see him on the red carpet? Do we know
if he's going to be in the house, he.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Won't be on the red last year.
Speaker 5 (40:20):
I don't get the white I mean a white dinner,
walk the red carpet.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
If you're in the game, you'll just come out.
Speaker 5 (40:25):
Why what else is he think he's going over the
game plan?
Speaker 7 (40:28):
He's been game planning for thirteen.
Speaker 1 (40:30):
He listened to Eagles fans. No one should be doing
anything else, including applying for other jobs. How they think
if you're also in the mix, Well, I guess the
doors closed and we gotta go thirty minutes exactly, so
we gotta go
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