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February 7, 2025 • 11 mins

Highlights from Peter's reporting this week on Good Morning Football. Peter has an interview with Saquon Barkley, Game Changers for Kansas City, and news on the Myles Garrett trade request.

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Speaker 1 (00:07):
The season with Peter Schrager is a production of the
NFL in partnership with iHeartRadio.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's got to be a topic there.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
They have to acknowledge it. They're obviously seeing it. And
I thought Roger Goodell during his press conference earlier in
the day dismissed it as well.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It does seem.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Like you're talking about someone with a tinfoil hat and
a truther saying the league is rigging this. The league,
the script, the script, the script. But it's become this
topic that just hasn't stopped over the last seventy two hours,
especially going back if you want to go back to
last week during the game against the Buffalo Bills that said,
I had the rare opportunity to be with these guys
off Mike as we were setting up to get ready

(01:01):
to go on stage. I was just chatting with Mahomes
and Kelsey and Andy Reid and Harrison Butker, and this
was like the energy right here. It was just all
of us just hanging out and it's not this crazy
lights on and question and interrogation post game, and we
were talking about everything from the young guy stepping up

(01:22):
to what Mahomes a Mavericks fan thought of Luca and
the trade, and then Kelsey was joking around saying, dude,
I had to watch Lebron leave as a Cavs fan
and he had to come all the way back again.
Maybe Luca comes back in ten years and you guys
win with Luca and we're all laughing. But the vibe
with this Chiefs team from top to bottom because interviews

(01:43):
with Brett Veach and with a lot of the assistant coaches,
there is an experience and there is a hey, we've
done that, we've done this, we've been there, we've done
that type feel. But also there's different guys on this
team than in past years. Kareem Hunt is back on
this team looking for his first Super Bowl win. DeAndre
Hopkins that stuff really matters. They want to get Dap

(02:04):
that Lombardi Trophy, and of course you think about what
they want to achieve with historic, historic lens with this
So I feel like Kelsey put that out there, we're
fishing a barrel. We're gonna chop at that. But it
obviously is a topic. But I do think that this
team knows going into this game that there are far

(02:24):
greater sights than silencing the fans. About whether the refs
are helping them out. You think of him running in
the snow and slapping his helmet and yell. Yet that
isn't the dynamic of Saquon last night, And it's not
really the dynamic of Saquon off the field. Great, great
young man, obviously very composed, very calm, but like I tried,

(02:44):
I went to the Giants thing, he wasn't entertaining it.
There was a fan who said, you know, do you
have a message to Giants fans? It went viral in
New York because he's like, I still have a lot
of love for you, guys, I still have a lot
of feel for you. He he is locked in. And
Kyle made the point, I guess last week, Saquon's never
won it, Pop Warner, He's never woned high school, He's

(03:05):
never won a com and this is the furthest he's
ever gotten in an NFL season. He truly feels locked
in right now. I asked him, I said, you know,
Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders, so Danian, Tomlinson, these guys never
got to a super Bowl. Do you have a second
to even acknowledge just how far you've been. He's like
I never look at it that way. I am more
concerned about coming home with the Lombardy and then we

(03:26):
can look back on it after that job is done.
So he's not really enjoying the moment like we would expect.
Maybe if he's looking around and thinking, wow, I was
playing in front of an empty giant stadium last year
and look at this now.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
He's not in that mind frame, Jamie. He is dialed in.
We like Miles Garrett.

Speaker 3 (03:42):
He's a great ambassador for the sport. He is a
different kind of player than just all ball. He's got
interest outside of football, and he's done it the right way.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
You know, he's an eight year veteran.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
I thought like, wow, he's in his fifth year, six er, no,
eight years, just twenty nine years old, still can play
in the prime of his career, and I see him
as still the top pass rusher in the NFL, maybe
the most dominant. So you're telling me that he's available
and really the money and Mike hasn't gotten into all
the contracts stuff like, you know, it's a twenty five

(04:13):
million dollar number, which sounds like it's wild. But if
you're telling me that Nick Bosa makes more, I mean
I think Garrett's right there. If he gets traded, he'll
probably want an extension. I would think teams are gonna
line up to give a first round pick for Miles Garrett.
Then if you're a Cleveland you suddenly have the number
two overall pick, and there's this kid up, Duel Carter
coming out of Penn State. Do you do the old

(04:35):
Justin Jefferson move with Minnesota And that's a different caliber
of player.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
But they had Stefan Diggs.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
He was unhappy they moved him, and then they immediately
just drafted someone in his replacement and said, Okay, well
got rid of him. We could draft this guy, and
this guy might be better. And it was Jefferson. But
for Cleveland, what a mess. You have one of the
best players in football entering really the prime of his career,
still can do it at that level, and he's a
true ambassador of the town in the city and he's saying,

(05:02):
I don't want to play another down for this team.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
A shame. And yet we've been down these roads before.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Okay, there's countless cliches and football talk about establishing the run.
I think has to be more than establishing the run.
I think the Eagles need to run all over the
Kansas City Chiefs, and Saquon needs to be the exact same.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Guy that he has been this entire playoff run.

Speaker 3 (05:25):
If Saquon gets going and has one of these type
of games, they can beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 (05:31):
In fact, they will beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
Tak Kwon Barkley has been an absolute legend this season,
and his playoff performances have been perfectly fitting for a
regular season that was historic. He has gashed the Rams,
the Commanders, and of course in the wildcard round, got
it going when they had to win that game as well.
I'll say this about the prospect of him.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Doing this stuff.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Kyle brought this up last week and it shocked me.
It was one of the stats that I said, WHOA,
These Bagnolo's defenses don't allow teams to run the ball.
If you look at the most rushing yards versus the
Chiefs in the playoffs since twenty nineteen, that.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Is a good six year span.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
No one has broken the century mark, not a single player.
I'm here saying Saquon can go for one fifty one
seventy five, two hundred, because that's.

Speaker 2 (06:24):
Just what he does.

Speaker 3 (06:26):
That's insulting to that defense and the Chiefs commitment to
stopping the run. I know, Mahomes and Kelsey is sexy
to talk about. I know for years it was about
Tyreek Hill, and I know in the last couple of
years it's been like, Wow, the Chiefs just always find
a way on offense. The real story of the twenty
twenty five Chiefs has been their defense. Eight sacks against

(06:48):
the Texans, stopping Josh Allen and James Cook when it
mattered most last time in their game in the AFC
Championship Game, and now it's going to be stopping Saquon.
Sequon's that dude. He has been going absolutely wild this season.
No one's been really able to contain him. One defense
might be able to. It's the Kansas City Chiefs. Kansas
City Chiefs Jalen Watson were number thirty five. You don't

(07:09):
hear his name a lot, but they look at him
as an absolute dog at the other side of Trent McDuffie.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Jalen Watson roll the footage if we got it.

Speaker 3 (07:18):
I don't know if we do, but he's a Chief
stud corner, one of these young defensive backfield players.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Thank you, Jamie for a company me here.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
If you're outside of Kansas City, you probably don't know
the work that Watson does in that building. Speaking with Spags,
speaking with that defensive group on Monday Night's opening night,
his name kept on coming up, Absolute stud it's mcduffy
on one side, it's him on the other.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
I think he's gonna make a play.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
He's gonna have to cover either DeVonta Smith or of
course AJ Brown, and he's gonna make a play.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
That is my game changer, the name that no one's
talking about.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
And I think there's gonna have to be another option
besides Kelsey. And in recent weeks we've seen players like
Xavier Worthy step up and make plays in Kareem Hunt. Sure,
but I'm looking at a three time First Team All
Pro and a potential Hall of Famer who who is
thirty two years old and embarking upon his first Super
Bowl appearance. Sunday afternoon, as everyone was flying into New Orleans,

(08:13):
this tweet ran across my timeline and I had to
share it with the show. This is from DeAndre Hopkins
as he was getting ready to prepare for his first
ever Super Bowl week.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
To all the kids out.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
There living in small towns and small houses with single parents,
to the kids who see violence, who see loss, who
don't get the resources that deserve, but who still have
big dreams.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Know that I was a kid in your.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Exact shoes, and this week I'm playing in the super Bowl.
Don't give up, work hard, keep believing where you start
doesn't determine where you end. And there was another moment
from DeAndre thoughtful, introspective Monday Night's opening night. Brandon Marshall,
the former wide receiver, is having fun with the Chiefs
players and says, hey, you're a really fashionable guy.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
What are you going to wear to the super Bowl?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
And DeAndre Hopkins, who is so introspective now and is
such a just a man of confidence but also one
with his truthest feeling, says, my dad died in nineteen
ninety two. He was five months old and his father
passed away and left him just a few belongings and
one of them was a vintage mink coat.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
A vintage mink coat, and.

Speaker 3 (09:17):
DeAndre Hopkins said, I always said I'll only get to
wear that thing if I am getting to the super
Bowl or if it's my wedding day. Well, I'm not
getting married anytime soon, so DeAndre Hopkins is going to
be rocking his late father's mink coat as he walks
into Super Bowl Sunday, and he brought it with him
down here to New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
This is all very very real.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
For Hopkins thirty two years old. I'm not saying it's
his last stop, but this was a guy who was
a first team All Pro from twenty seventeen to twenty nineteen.
Has bounced around the league the last few years, and
he hasn't had that mega game for the.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Chiefs just yet. But when I tell you speaking.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
To the players on Monday night about the other guys,
DeAndre Hopkins' name keeps on coming up as a player
that they're not only playing four, but as a player
who can lead them to the ms land one more time.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
It's a different Chiefs team than other years.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
DeAndre Hopkins is one of those reasons why an incredible story.
He's gonna be rocking the MiG coat from his late father,
and I think he's going to have to play a
big game if the Chiefs are going to get by
the Eagles on Sunday. I look at the Chiefs and
I look at Kelsey and Mahomes, and when they first
got together in twenty seventeen, and the first really started
playing in twenty eighteen they were still finding themselves, and

(10:31):
then twenty nineteen on it has been.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Hit after hit after hit after hit.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
They have defined that generation. They've also grown. I say,
Boys to Men are Kelsey and Mahomes. You think about
the nineties, and you think about it started with Motown Philly,
so you had just a little taste of it in
ninety one, and then in ninety two they come out
end of the Road and then it's all make love
to you.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
It's one sweet day. It's of course on bended knee.
I mean, there's just hit after hit after hit.

Speaker 3 (10:58):
I look at these guys and the irony is I
went Kansas City Chiefs for Boys to Men, not Philadelphia
Yearshladelphia Roots. I just think about the group of a
generation for me in the nineties was Boys to Men
and they spanned the entire decade.

Speaker 2 (11:15):
And then the team of a generation for this current
era are these guys. So that is it.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
Of course, we can go a million different directions with
which Boys to Men's song best describes the canvasity chase.
But I'll let that up to you guys. And hopefully
it's not end up the road.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
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