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Seth Freakin Rollins who has to
address everybody. Former Pro
Bowler Super Bowl winning quarterback Chris Harris Jr is
here in Los Angeles. We love it.
And Kyle Brandt is in New York City. And Kyle you’re lucky this
morning. You know why. There’s
two shot where you have to sit next to Seth. And he’s got this
suit on. You know, you got it’s
just you alone there in New York. Kyle Rollins is always
incredible. It’s great to see
you, Chris. Rock chalk Jayhawk guys. We’re going to talk
football. We’re having another
WWE superstar come on today. And plus it’s tush Ageddon. Guys
this could be the end of the
tush push as we know it. Our reporters are standing by. I
took to the streets in
Manhattan. And if you think Seth is dressed great, wait till you
see the plunging neckline on Tom
Pelissero. Let’s start the show. Good morning. Football. Come on.
Good morning football. We’re
going to have the rest of the crew give their take on that big
vote. As Kyle was saying, the
push tush Armageddon could be happening today. We got Chris.
We got Seth in studio. Kyle is
in New York. This is what I was talking about with the suit.
Still, I’m still popping the
tush. Mageddon. What an awful time. What a terrible, terrible.
It’s the apocalypse. Oh, I hate
it. I hate every second of it. Oh, God, it makes me cringe,
man. It could be over. It could
be all over. We’re going to talk about some other things that
make us cringe in terms of, like
saying slogans we never want to hear again. Push, push could be
among them. And then, of course,
Olympics. I mean, Chris, you think about it back in the day,
you could have been playing
representing your country for the Olympics. We’re going to get
into all of that because the
speculation is over. Yesterday, NFL clubs voted in favor of
allowing NFL players to try out
for an Olympic flag football team competing in the 2028 Los
Angeles Olympic Games. Looking
to do it on home turf, participating in those games.
NFL players are now going to be
eligible to compete for their national team. Visit NFL.com.
Backslash flag football to learn
more. You know, we were talking about the push mageddon
whatever, but Kyle Brandt at the
top of the show had me at plunging neckline and Tom
Pelissero. So that is where we
start this morning. We got Tom along with Judy Battista there
at the owners meeting. Standard
two buttons. Really? Hey, he was trying to sell Tom some double
stick. Yeah, we were just trying
to sell the show. Tom, give the people what they want. Yeah.
Come on. Either that or tell us
more about the flag football vote and the other rule changes
we’re going to see today. Well,
they voted on flag football yesterday that NFL players are
going to be allowed to
participate in the Olympics. There are some restrictions. We
should be clear. Your entire
team is not going to disappear to Los Angeles for the Summer
Olympics. One player per team,
per country is the restriction right now, but this is a huge
boost for flag football, Tom,
and really a huge boost for American football. That flag
football is going to be on the
world stage. I sat down yesterday with Justin Jefferson,
who you just saw in that video.
His exposure in recent years have been playing in the Pro
Bowl games, in the flag football
game. Now, Justin Jefferson, who’s the global ambassador for
the NFL on flag football, was
not committing to playing in 2028, but it makes sense. It’s
three years down the line. A lot
of things can happen between now and then. But he also made clear
this is a dream to go and try to
win a gold medal for your country. We also had Brian
Asamoah, his teammate from the
Vikings here who is getting the national team going, and Ghana
was just part of a tryout camp.
There’s a lot of talent around the world. Go back to 1992,
there were not a lot of
countries that could compete with team USA in basketball, but
watching Charles Barkley dunk on
people from Angola inspired a lot of people. And that’s where
you get the Dirk Nowitzki and
others. Perhaps this is the NFL’s opportunity to take the
sport global and have a similar
type of an effect. Today we get into some of the tackle football
playing rules changes, including
the one that Kyle mentioned on the tush push. The Packers filed
a new version of their proposal
to ban the tush push on Monday night, and it’s much broader.
This very much mirrors the rule
from back that was on the books from the start of the NFL in
1920, all the way through 2005,
banning all instances of pushing or pulling the runner in any
direction, among other things.
Here, it’s a way for the Packers and the league to say this is
not specifically about the tush
push, but there are a couple of reasons that the league
specifically believes that that
play is problematic. Well, number one, there’s a whole
contingent of people who say
this just is not a football play. That’s one thing. The
other thing is the health and
safety issue. Doctor Allen Sills, the chief medical officer
for the NFL, went to the
competition committee and said there’s no injury data now.
That’s just a matter of luck.
Fortunately, nobody has been hurt. But the fear on this play
is that the forces being
generated by the pushing is that it would cause a his word, not
mine, catastrophic injury. And
he said to them, do you want to wait for a catastrophic injury
to happen? And then you have to
react to it? Or do you want to be proactive and get the play
out of the game? Now, back in
the March meeting, when the rule was much more specifically
written, it was not as broadly
written as it’s going to be today. There were 16 votes in
favor of banning it. That’s
still eight short of approval. That’s that’s a lot of arm
twisting that has to take place.
Having said that, it’s clear that the league wants this play
out of the game and that counts
for a lot. If Roger Goodell is doing the arm twisting with the
owners, I would expect that this
vote might be pretty close, though, because there is still a
contingent of people, including
a lot of coaches in the league, who say, listen, the
Philadelphia Eagles are really
successful with this play. It’s incumbent on us to stop it.
There are a few other matters
that are going to be considered too, including reseeding the
players, the playoffs, which is
probably not going to generate much interest here, but could be
laying the groundwork for
future. I’d be surprised if the reseeding issue even gets to a
vote. We’ll see. It’s a Lions
proposal, so they would have the option to table it again. And
then we also have tweaks to the
onside kick, which they are hoping is going to be able to
uptick a little bit the recovery
rate. It’s not some drastic type of an overhaul here. It’s
basically you can now declare
any time if as long as you’re trailing, not just in the fourth
quarter, but also tweaking the
alignment. It was only three out of 50 onside kicks last year
that were recovered. They don’t
want the percentage to go way up, but they would like it to be
higher than 6%. And Tom and Judy
at league meetings, I would imagine that folks nationwide
just checking their phone all
day long to find out what’s going to happen with this tush
push. Can we stop talking about
it? Can we come up with something else? That is Judy and
Tom doing important work there
in Minneapolis. Okay, so that’s being voted on at the league
meetings today. Seth, we already
know how you feel about the actual saying of it, that it
makes you cringe. How do you
want to see this vote go today? Push, push. Maybe it’s on the
tip of everybody’s tongue. And
look, let the ballers ball, man. Let the ballers ball. What are
we talking about here? It’s not
a football play. It’s not safe. It’s American tackle football.
None of it is safe. Yes, sir.
What are we talking about here, guys? Just let them push each
other. It’s only a couple of
yards, and I feel the same way some of these teams feel. I know
Tom mentioned it. They mentioned
it over there. It’s like if you got to stop it, stop it. It’s a
fun little kind of like, you
know, math equation to figure out how are we going to stop
this play? Look, it doesn’t work
all the time, but it’s like an extra point. It works most of
the time. And I think you just
got to let these guys get after it, man. This is the epitome.
Look at it. Look at look at the
pushes being pushed man. You love to see it. Look these boys
spent a lot of time in the
weight room all right. They’re working on the touches. So just
let them be pushed, all right?
They want the spotlight on the tush I love it. It’s a football
play. Let let it ride, man. It’s
the football play of all football plays. It’s just
straight helmet to helmet. Man
on man. Let’s go. Tush on. Push I want it, keep it, I love it.
Wait, Chris, before you jump in,
just leave this for box up because I’m seeing it out of the
corner of my eye. My box has.
It’s on this side. What a dream. If I’m just going to scream,
this might be my new profile
pic. That’s your little avatar, Chris. Just leave it. When? When
I had to face the tush push with
the Saints, right? We had to add an extra ten minutes of practice
every day just to prepare for
this one play that you might see 2 or 3 times a game, right? So I
think it definitely does need to
be shut out or shut out the game. It’s just time consuming
right now. It’s like an extra
ten minutes. You have to prepare for this play. Wait, you want it
out of the game because you
don’t want ten minutes more of practice? Let me just boil this
down here. That’s what you’re
saying. Yeah. It’s like when you play, you’re annoyed. You play
against Lamar Jackson. You got a
whole extra week of preparation for his running style. Right?
And for this same play, this
adds more studying, more, more practice in which we got to stop
this one play that we might only
see once or twice a game. So I’m like, let’s take it out of it, I
understand this, I get this.
Well, Chris, when you were with the Saints, you played the
Eagles and they did the tush
push. How did it go? We stopped it though. When I was with the
Saints. You stopped it. We
stopped it. We I mean we practiced all week on it. I mean
it’s not just ten minutes. It
seemed like we didn’t care about any of the plays. Jalen hurts
was running all week. Right.
We’re going to stop this tush push right. And it we were hyped
up and it did change the game.
It was a big play for us to be able to win that game down there
in Philly. But it’s something
that man, it’s just so tedious. Nobody wants to sit there and do
extra work of that every week.
All right, Seth, I love your response, Seth, because I agree
with you. I do think it’s not
only a football play. I think it’s the ultimate football play.
It’s just back to the roots of
football. But, Seth, let me appeal to your manhood and give
you a scenario. All right. This
fall, the Ben Johnson bears. It just works. They’re awesome.
They come out, they’re five and
one, they’re seven and two, they’re killing it. They get
into the playoffs, Seth. They
win in the playoffs. They get all the way to the NFC title
game in Lincoln Financial Field
against the Eagles. And with five seconds left in the game
and the bears up five, the
Eagles come out and push push their way through the bears into
the Super Bowl. Are you
outraged? How are you feeling then? Oh, I’ll lose my mind. You
turn me. You turn me right
against it. Right against it. Immediately. I’ll go anti-Bush
Bush in a heartbeat. I’m loyal
to my Chicago Bears. Understand that I’m loyal to my bears first
and foremost. If that happens,
it will not. It will not happen. If it happens, I promise you I
will go. I will go full bore the
other direction. I will put ban the bush bush. I’ll be the first
guy out there with a sign in
Manhattan. I’ll be right there. I’ll be anti Bush from the get
go. I’ll get a coalition
started, I promise you. I actually think as as Jalen Hurts
is about to cross the plane, I
think Seth will run on the field and he’ll stop him and he’ll be
ejected by Eagles security. But
that’s where Seth’s fanhood goes. Listen we you you can be
the 12th man. But what we need
on the show right now is we need a 12th man or woman, because we
are a show of the people, by the
people and for the people. And to that note, guys, I did the
work yesterday. I left the
studio. I went into the streets here in lower Manhattan, and I
talked to NFL fans, real diehard
fans on the eve of the tush push vote, and I want to see what
they think it’s going to be
voted on, as we know in the league meetings and NFL
headquarters is uptown, what
about the people on the streets in New York from all different
fan bases? Do they want to see
the tush push banned? Let’s find out. Hello, I am coming to you
today from lower Manhattan on
the eve of the historic tush push vote. Regards to the
Philadelphia Eagles. Of course,
we know Philadelphia is the cradle of democracy in this
country, so we today are going
to utilize some democracy to find out whether this place
should stay or go in the eyes of
the people. And just like our founding fathers did, they will
vote yay or nay on the tush
push. Let’s find out. I will say I’m kind of contrarian. So we’re
gonna put we’re gonna go with
the nay. All right. 1 to 0. Save the tush, push go birds and save
the tush. Push. Who is your
favorite football team? Of course. It’s the eagles. The
birds. Okay. The birds, the
birds. We are everywhere here. There’s a lot of transplants in
New York. Yes, of course we
should save it. Of course. Why is that? Because it was the
greatest play designed by the
greatest team. She even does the wings. The Packers sound like
losers going after this play. I
think other teams should just get better at it. This guy has
takes. You should be on. Good
morning football. You should come by. You have takes. Good.
Yes. Thank you I love that go
commanders a commander’s fan. You guys are coming out of the
woodwork now. Washington
commanders. Let’s go. Jayden I’m not a fan of the tush push. Why
is that? Because it is too good.
Nay, it should be taken away. Yes, it should be taken away.
Why is that? Because they do it
well against us. So I don’t want them to do that against us. Save
the tush. Push food delivery
drivers. Let your voices be heard. What do you think about
these? These people who are
saying, no more tush push. I think it’s absolute bull. First
of all, they marched off that
just because only one team is dominating on the tush push. Mad
and soft. What do you say to
Philadelphia fans who will say to you, you guys are soft, go
hit the gym and then you can
stop it. Haven’t heard that before. Actually, I have. A lot
of times people are jealous that
they’re so good at it here that Jets fans are saying, you people
are jealous. So I see this guy
walking down the sidewalk. He’s got two beautiful dogs. He’s got
a big sweatshirt on. What would
you say to those other teams who are saying, no, no, no, it’s not
a football play. You have to ban
them. Get over it. Yeah. They want to take it away from us.
It’s only Philly. It’s because
we’re Philly. They hate us because they ain’t us. If any
other team could figure out how
to do it, they would do it. It’s a no brainer, brother. The rest
of the NFL, I suggest you figure
out how to do it. Otherwise, stop hating on us. I have a
feeling both these dogs are in
favor of keeping the tush push, because the tush push is about
having them dogs. The dog
mentality, having that dog in you. The tush push is part of
football. And if you can’t stop
it, that’s not our problem. That’s what’s called a perfect
take. You drop the mic, bam bam.
He slam dunked it. All right. We have been out here for over
three hours. My megaphone is out
of batteries and the yay votes are out as well. They stuffed
the ballot box. I will say a
minority here in the nay but a vocal minority. We’ve heard from
all different fans from around
the league. They are passionate to ban, but they just don’t have
the raw numbers. Will the vote
go the same way? Will it go? Yay! Do the birds keep the tush?
Push! Can you hear me, New York?
They can hear, but they’re over it. We’ll find out soon. All
right. So what did we learn out
there on the street? First thing I learned is there are a lot of
Eagles fans living in Manhattan.
Tons of them out of nowhere. And they, as I said, stuffed the
ballot box. If this was the
vote, then we would be keeping the tush push because the yeas
way outnumbered the nays in the
fan vote. It’s not the vote. They don’t get to vote, but they
let their voices be heard. Also,
in true New York style, shout out to the woman who kicked us
off the street corner and told
us we’re not allowed to work there. And you guys, you should
have seen these New Yorkers.
They could not give a bleep. I’m going right up to their face
saying sir. Sir save the tush
push. And they don’t even look at me. I am in their ear with
this thing and they don’t care.
New York never changed but they want to save the tush push. Seth
Rollins, they agree with you.
Respect, man. Respect. I respect the effort that you put in three
hours for Jimmy Hart. You went
all the way, I appreciate that. Good. Good on you, Kyle.
Respect, man. Thanks, Seth.
Thank you buddy. Appreciate you Chris. Just why can’t you just
tell the other teams whatever
you guys did that worked? You spent ten minutes at practice.
You said you stopped it. I mean,
can’t you just spread that around? Well, first you got to
have the guys that can do it,
right. You got to have some big boys up front that can push
those guys back. And when we
played them, they had Kelce and he was the best center at able
to get low and to move guys
forward to move that pile. So you got to have some good big D
linemen up front that can get
real low. And it’s about the it’s really the lowest man wins,
right. If you come out too high
you’re going to get pushed back and they’re going to get the
first down. So you got to have
guys that are trained and stay low who can get under those guys
and push them back and be able
to hold their ground because it’s hard to stop them for think
about it, they only got to get
one yard, sometimes even less than that. And really, if you
saw the birds fans out there in
New York, isn’t this the ultimate honor that literally
everyone’s like, we got to
change this because you guys are so good. So if it doesn’t go the
Eagles way, I mean what an honor
for those guys Kyle. God’s work. That’s what you’re doing out
there on the streets of New
York. And if it’s not God’s work, it’s probably an Emmy
after what we just saw. Still to
come here on Gmfb, Tennessee took cam Ward first overall in
this year’s draft. Is he being
overshadowed by other rookie signal callers? Kyle, I think I
know what your answer is going
to be coming up on Whiteboard Seth. Basically a Whiteboard
Wednesday Pro. At this point we
have a whiteboard rookie at the table. That would be Chris in
the commercial break. Kyle,
you’ll get this in the commercial break. He’s like, do
I write it down now? And we were
like, no, absolutely not. I mean, sometimes we make it up
when we hear other people’s
answers like, you can’t. And I was like, flip that thing
around. Do you have any advice
for him, Kyle? Because this is serious business here. I said,
no, I don’t want to see that
board. Chris, on the board itself, Seth knows this. Explore
the space. Don’t write some
little dumb one point font here. Express yourself. It’s your
tapestry with which to paint. Go
ahead. Okay. Are you good? You feel good? Yeah. I’m ready.
Okay, so here’s the first one.
Yesterday on Gmfb, we posed the question, who would make a
bigger impact in their rookie
year, cam Ward or Travis Hunter. And you know Kyle had a lot of
thoughts on that. So Kyle we
want to you know pick everyone’s brains. Let’s listen to what
Kyle had to say about it. Yeah
yeah. This question is so insulting to cam Ward and so
disrespectful. It just keeps
piling and piling. We’re talking about a quarterback, a starting
quarterback in the NFL. Okay?
Kyle thinks that maybe we’re not talking about cam Ward enough.
Wow. Which other player do you
think we should be talking about more? Seth. Oh come on now. You
know are we talking we’re not
talking rookies. We’re talking anybody, right? We’re talking
anybody, buddy. We’re talking
anybody we want. All right. Okay, I’ll tell you right now.
Here it is. I’ll tell you who we
should be talking about. Who’s going to be the MVP right now?
Jordan, blow it out. You know
who we should be talking about. That’s right, my guy, the Bears
Caleb Williams with Ben Johnson
at the helm. Breakout season coming. Look this ain’t no Shane
Waldron situation. This ain’t no
eberflus situation. This is the wizard Ben Johnson with one of
the top quarterbacks in draft
history last year. Look take last year he had a great rookie
year. But let’s take it away.
All right let’s move it. Let’s move away. We’re moving in a
whole different direction. Great
draft. We got a great offensive line in front of him this year.
We got a great scheme. Defense
is going to be right where it’s at I feel good about Caleb
Williams. We need to be talking
positive about this man. I seen a lot of negative in the news
lately about Caleb Williams.
They want to come to Chicago. His dad this his dad that. Let’s
talk about positivity and Caleb
Williams and I’m telling you MVP candidate this season MVP
candidate. Give it to me. Did
that bug you at all. Which part? The part the Caleb and the news.
Not wanting to go to Chicago.
All of that you know you know what bothered. No it didn’t
bother me. Well have you seen a
good quarterback in Chicago? Of course no one wanted to come to
Chicago. This man took it upon.
He said, you know what? When he went to Chicago for the visit,
he said, you know what, I love
this. I’m gonna do this. I’m going to turn this team around.
We’re going to figure this out.
Absolutely. I’m with the city and I’m with that. I dig that
man, and we’re going to get
there. Here we go, year two. I’m telling you, man, I’m telling
you, there’s the positivity.
Chris I like it. I’m gonna go with Marvin. Maserati. Harrison.
Oh okay. Yeah. Cool. Right. I
just think that thing up. It’s time. It’s time I my spelling.
Hopefully I got it right. Right.
Yeah. I think you’re good. I think this is the playmaker.
Right. He’s been hearing all
about all these big time receivers. Jamaar Chase Roman
Odunze all these big time guys
are trying to move ahead of him, right? He’s the number one
receiver drafted in the last
year’s draft. I’m excited about this guy taking the next leap in
his sophomore year with Kyler
Murray. He only had 800 yards, 60 receptions. He didn’t get he
didn’t even crack ten
touchdowns, right. So from a guy Marvin Harrison Jr. I expect him
to have at least 15 touchdowns
next year. A thousand yards. He has to get over 100 yards 100
receptions right 60 receptions
as the number one receivers. That’s not good enough. So I
expect Marvin Harrison Jr. We
expect him to have a big year next year 15 plus touchdowns.
And Kyler Murray and him start
to build that connection that they need to have I like that, I
like that, I like that and I
like that. Larry Fitzgerald was asked if he’s going to mentor
Marvin Harrison Jr this year.
He’s like, I would, but the guy’s dad is Marvin Harrison. He
was better than I am. He’s fine.
Like he doesn’t need me. This is simple for me. The player we
should be talking about more
this offseason. Guys, it’s still cam Ward. This is the number one
pick in the draft. And you’re
not allowed to say his name. He’s the Phantom. It’s like he
doesn’t exist. You can’t even
talk about him. You can’t find him. When I say his name, it’s
like when I say Voldemort.
People shudder in media. Don’t talk about cam Ward. I get fined
by the FCC every single time I
talk about him, and I’ll talk about him some more. Did you
guys know this? I just found
this out. If you go to Nflshop.com and you order a cam
Ward jersey, they send you a
Shedeur Sanders jersey. That’s that’s just how it works. They
say we don’t have any. But here
here’s this backup for the Browns who got drafted 5000
picks after cam Ward. Enjoy this
jersey. We don’t have any. We don’t recognize the player
you’re talking about. It’s still
cam Ward I’m still on that bandwagon. And if Seth’s hyping
up Caleb for the MVP, I’m hyping
cam Ward for the rookie of the year already I don’t care. I’ll
tell you what I don’t like is
that gimmick infringement you got at the top of that card
there. I do not appreciate that
sir. I see that I got spies over here. You keep that out of
there. You can tell I’m a
rookie. Brand. It’s got a ring to it. I wasn’t supposed to. I
wasn’t supposed to necessarily
throw one in here. But I was thinking about it when Chris was
talking about Harrison. Because
this is someone I spoke to last week, and we talk about Travis
Hunter and how much attention
Travis Hunter is getting for going to Jacksonville.
Jacksonville in general doesn’t
get a lot of attention. And maybe that’s perhaps why Brian
Thomas Jr did not get the
attention. I don’t think that this guy deserved, by the way,
ten touchdowns more than 1200
yards last season as a rookie. So we’re talking about Travis
Hunter. And we should. But he’s
getting paired with this guy. This guy had an unbelievable
season and I don’t think he was
talked about enough. He told me he wants to be a bigger, better
leader in year two. Could be an
awesome pairing. All right. Next up in honor of Seth freakin
Rollins joining us today along
with Chris Harris junior, we’ve got two gentlemen who love to
verbally chirp their opponents,
which we love the wrestler and the DB, who would make a great
duo on the WWE mic would be I
mean, this is Seth. What do you got? Seth? Oh, this is going to
be a good time. Ha ha ha. All
right. So, you know, normally we go in a direction. Where it’s a
positive spin like I did with
Caleb over there. Positive. Right. Yeah. I’m going to go oh
you’re going this side I’m going
negative. I’m going to come up with an incredible heel team. Of
losers. How many powers on the
team of jokes of Jaire Alexander the Packer, the punk, the joke
and CM punk the absolute worst?
Now look, both these boys know how to hold a microphone. I’m
not going to take that away from
either of them. No doubt about it. They know how to put a
microphone to the lips. They
know how to create controversy and I respect that. However, we
got losers right here. What we
got is losers. We got people with bad perspectives is what we
got. We got Alexander, who’s a
packer, a known loser. We understand that he’s going to
get smoked by DJ more, smoked by
Roma Downs all season long. And speaking of getting smoked, are
the man I put down at
WrestleMania CM Punk the Man this Saturday, Saturday night’s
main event I’m going to put
down. Yeah, understand right here. Great duo on the mic. Good
for getting beat two. Good for
getting beat. A couple of losers on the board today. I’m going to
go home. Time for that. Chris
the hometown hero from Tulsa Oklahoma Goldberg. Bill right.
And then I want I was going to
go with myself I’m going to go with Josh Jacobs. Right. Josh
Jacobs being another hometown
hero from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Right. Josh Jacobs and Bill
Goldberg. Right. I want to see
Goldberg come out there. Boom. And you know, when he comes in
and all the fire, he’s the only
wrestler you know, that just stood right in the fire. He did.
Right right there in the
entrance. Right. So seeing him come out with Josh Jacobs, a guy
nobody wants to tackle. Right.
And then you put him together with Goldberg. I see us winning.
I see them winning. Right? I
don’t know about your team, but my team’s a bunch of losers.
Losers, losers. They got no
chance versus those two guys. Absolutely not. At least we got
teammates. We have a couple
teammates you know J.R well J.R might still be there next year
right. But we know Goldberg is
he he’s in WWE Hall of Fame right. He Goldberg I don’t know.
He’s still an active performer.
He’s still playing. He’s still searching for one more match out
there. So we’ll see. We don’t
know what Goldberg’s future is here. Well from what I hear,
Seth, if he goes against your
team, he’ll just kick your guys in the head and knock him
unconscious. But that’s
different. Yeah. All right, end their career. I got I got the
million dollar guys. I got Ted
DiBiase, the Million Dollar Man, and I have Darrelle Revis, who
is a fantastic player, but even
a more fantastic money earner. Darrelle Revis made $10 million
stepping out of bed in the
morning. And Ted DiBiase, there’s your Hall of Famer with
the Million Dollar belt. I want
these two together. Money incorporated to Great One’s The
Million dollar dream the sleeper
hold. You couldn’t beat it. I used to put it on my little
sister. I love these two. That’s
my tandem. What do you got, Kyle? You’re really pushing your
luck here with that whiteboard.
All right, you’re really, really getting on my nerves. Rip off
all your stuff, okay? All the
stuff you do. Are we going cash in for cash in? I know we left
Chris out on this. What are we
doing here, man? Hey, don’t you push it any further. I swear to
God, I’m coming in with this
briefcase. I’m coming in to cash. Hold on, I gotta, I gotta,
I gotta call my wife. She’s got
red hair and a cool accent and a good nickname. Just let me get
back to you, okay? Hold just a
second. What’s the next question? I didn’t dare, sir.
You couldn’t hang, bro. The man
wouldn’t take you out on a date for nothing, man. All right, I’m
not available. Go ahead, Sarah,
let’s go before Seth and I start fighting. Come on. Yeah. Let me
bail you out of this one last
whiteboard. After today, we may never have to say tush push
again. Somehow, I don’t think
that that’s ever going to happen. But in its honor, what
is a sports nickname that has
always annoyed you, Seth? Oh, dude, this one’s so easy. This
is an easy one for me. This is.
Look, my entire life I’ve had to deal with this nonsense. And I
just am so sick of it. And I
finally get to air my grievance. Let’s hear this. Oh, good. Okay,
America’s team, the Dallas
Cowboys, America’s team are. And I could vomit. They haven’t been
America’s team for, like, 50
years. What? What world are we living in here? It hurts me.
Every time I hear it, I turn on
the broadcast. I hear Tony Romo, America’s team. Oh, I just want
to smash my head into this
laptop. I’m going to cash in this money in the bank contract
on myself. That’s how angry it
makes me. I hate it. They are not America’s team. They haven’t
been America’s team. They’re
never going to be America’s team again. You understand? Never,
ever, ever again. It’s over for
you, Dallas. You’re done. You’re roasted, you’re toasted. You’re
not even America’s team in your
own division. You got the commanders on the come up. You
got the Eagles defending
champions. You’re out man. You’re done. It’s over. I’m so
sick of it. Can we get a new new
nickname for the Dallas Cowboys? Anything anything anything
besides America’s team. Gross.
Ew. Gross. Ew. Ew. Thank you. Hey, Seth. I mean, the Texans
are really good. Are the Cowboys
even Texas’s team? No. Absolutely not. Is there a team
in San Antonio? Is there an
Arena League team there? I don’t even know. How about the
Longhorns? Give me the. Give me.
Yeah. Hook em horns. Let’s go. Give me that arch Manning. I’ll
take it all day, every day.
That’s right. All right, Chris, what do you got, man? I was
thinking I was like, man, I hate
the Raiders. That was always my thing. I’m tired of the black
hole, right? That was the place
always going there. Right? Hearing that black hole. But
they was never. They never
figured we never had any fear going in there, right? No, I was
scoring there. And all I would
see is everybody flicking me off and all that. But it wasn’t
real, right? So I’m going with
the Raiders. Y’all need to change the name, right? Y’all
need a new name. Y’all haven’t
won in a long time, right? So I’m tired of the black hole. I’m
tired of going in to Raider
Nation. It’s not very scary right. Broncos going to come in
there. They should have a chance
to win right. So let’s go with let’s end that name. It’s not
very scary. And I believe that
the Broncos will go on the Raider Nation or in the black
hole so-called black hole and
win this year. Absolutely I’m into it. Those are great answers
there in Vegas. The black hole
was like an Oakland thing, right? They got a new name. They
got to change that now. Gone.
Get that out of here. All right you guys went Raiders. Cowboys I
got a deep cut. I’m going from
the world of professional wrestling. Maybe the stupidest
nickname and stupidest gimmick
I’ve ever seen. Seth, I’m all due respect. The Red rooster was
horrible. That is a terrible,
terrible gimmick. Due respect to the wrestler, there was a guy.
And this is not like in the 70s.
This is their 90s. His gimmick was he would have like a red
mohawk and walk around doing
rooster movement. It was so bad and so painful. He had Bobby
Heenan as his manager, and Bobby
Heenan would openly crap on him and all his stand ups and say,
this guy’s got nothing. Red
rooster. I love you, buddy. This wasn’t it, man. I just can’t
secretly Team Rollins. You don’t
even know how much that means to me. That’s so good. Terry
Taylor, shout out to Terry
Taylor, the Red rooster who’s now a coach for WWE down to NXT
in Orlando, Florida. He is my
rival, Terry Taylor almost. I wouldn’t even be here right now
if Terry Taylor had his way when
he came down to developmental. Seth freakin Rollins would not
be sitting at this table now.
That’s a tale for another time. But he is a rival of mine. Kyle,
you don’t even know how much
that popped me. Thank you so much, Team Rollins. I love you,
buddy. Is we can blow up the
next segment. We can do that story. Next. Rooster with a
mohawk. Oh, man. Yeah. Oh, if I
could, in my prime, I would stomp the red rooster straight
into the mat all day, every day.
I took this a different way because I know we were doing
nicknames, but we were
originally talking about the tush push, which some people,
Seth said, make some cringe just
hearing it. There is a saying, and I know Kyle, we debated on
the show. I think it happened
the weekend before I was on that week, and we talked about it a
lot and it creeped me out. It
grosses me out. I’m actually annoyed. I even it was the first
thing that popped in my head.
I’m annoyed I wrote this on a whiteboard because I don’t even
want up there. I hate it, I
can’t even say it. I hate it so much. Oh, the double doink.
Yeah, it just grosses me out. We
talked about it then. Like we should call it something else, I
don’t know. Here’s the video of
it. I refuse to circle with a slash. We can put it up. We just
can’t say. We don’t need to put
it up. We don’t need to put it up. Oh, I know you’re gonna make
me sick. Just watch it. Sorry.
I’m with you. We can erase that from the lexicon. It’s gone,
it’s gone. And by the way,
Doink. Another annoying wrestling nickname, too. That’s
right. We did it all. Oh, there
we go. More gmfb coming up. Give me a give me a big Ole red with
a line through it. Get out of
here. Get that gone. Cristian we have Chris Harris Jr today on
the show a cornerback. We have
Seth Rollins who hyped Chicago. So let’s bring in a guy who does
both. In addition to hosting the
NFL players second podcast. He’s a legend. He’s an icon. He’s a
friend of the show Charles
Peanut Tillman. What’s up baby how are we doing? What’s going
on. How y’all doing. Good
morning everybody. Peanut baby we’re doing great. Look at this
crew. Peanut, what do you think
Sarah says you. Chris, I love it. It’s a good one. I’m
jealous. I’m not there. Well,
well you are. You’re here with us always in our hearts. And
you’re here virtually, and
you’re always here with us. And our excitement about the bears.
Let’s just check in right now.
Peanut. It’s May. It’s the downtime in the NFL. But a lot
of stuff has happened with the
bears since the last time we talked. What is your state of
the nation right now with
Chicago Bears? How are you feeling right now? State of the
nation, Chicago Bears I think we
got a good team. You know, everyone knows we’re still in a
rebuilding phase. I think we got
to get that first year out. Teach the cats the new
philosophy with Coach Ben
Johnson. Second year, I think we’ll be fine. I think we’ll be
at the competition playoff
competing level. Man, I love that optimism, peanut, I
appreciate that. And so as
someone who’s been a part of some incredible Chicago Bears
teams and specifically some like
legendary defenses, what I want to know is give me like an
inside perspective. What does
that feel like? You know, it’s easy in retrospect to look back
and say, oh, that was an
incredible defense. Look at the numbers. But when you were in
it, when you’re in the middle of
it, when you’re having these incredible years, what does it
feel like? Man? What do you know
in the moment that you’re doing something special, that this
defense is untouchable? Do you
do you can you feel that? Can you sense that? I think you do.
But at the same time, you just
try to keep a basic, normal routine. One of our coaches say,
don’t, don’t read the papers.
Don’t, don’t, don’t smell your own. You know what? Because the
minute you do, you’ll start to
your play will start to diminish. I was very, very
fortunate to be on some really
good teams, with some really good players and some amazing
coaches, and they did a really
good job of just keeping us humble and they kept us working
hard. Coach Marinelli he’s a
number one just to Ron Rivera our DC one year. Bob Babich of
the DC. One year we had and we
just had some really good teams, really good defenses. And they
did a really good job of just
doing the basics, keeping the fundamentals and keeping the
main thing, the main thing.
Obviously all eyes are always on the quarterback, right? So
there’s so much talk about Caleb
Williams and we always hear that the biggest jump, the biggest
growth that players experience
is from year one to year two. So feasibly, what do you expect to
see out of Caleb Williams in
year two? Now? I expect to see his his stats go way up by at
least 3,040%. You said it in
your second year. That’s where you always see the growth from
whatever position. The game
slows down a little bit. I know there was a controversy with
with Caleb in the in the film
study. He’s got the right people in place. I’m sure when he’s
watching film this year with
Coach Johnson, he will be a okay. Yo, peanut, man, you got
the most signature play, right?
The peanut punch. Yes, sir. Who introduced you to that? Right.
Because if you look at your
numbers like you lead, you lead the league in forced fumbles.
You got a high number of
interceptions, right? But who put you on game on the peanut
punch. Now it’s really your own.
Now you got your own signature. Play that coaches tell. Say it’s
named after you. Yeah yeah yeah.
So take it back to Copperas Cove, Texas. My defensive
coordinator, Rodney Southern, he
was the first person to kind of put a bug in my ear about the
peanut punch. We played Woolford
college one year. I played safety had about 20 or 20
tackles and they didn’t have
anyone to account for me. And I just kept running the lane at
free safety and I just kept
getting all these tackles on the on the option player. And my
coach basically just said, hey
man, if you just would have swatted at the ball, you would
have had a bunch of fumbles. And
that’s where I kind of was like, okay, let me, let me figure this
thing out. So yeah, I got to
give all that all that credit to Coach Rodney Southern, my high
school defensive coordinator.
Love shouting out the old coaches. Everybody loves their
high school coaches. We love the
headlines right now. Peanut, you got the peanut punch. You got
the tush push. It is being voted
on today. It could change the game. It could change the face
of the Super Bowl champions.
Should the league ban the tush push, or should the Eagles be
allowed to keep doing it? I’m a
fan of no, because from what I read and I talked to an
official, you’re not supposed to
aid the runner. And in my view, what they’re doing, they’re
aiding the runner. So I would
say I would say no to it. That’s just me. That’s just that’s just
my opinion. I feel like the
rules already favor the offense enough. Cut us some slack. Give
us a rule. That’s how I see it.
Maybe I like it, I respect it. Chris is into that. Save us the
time, man. Listen, you and Roman
Harper, you host the NFL players second acts. I always love
watching you. I loved Roman
Harper. He was one of the rare guys who’d be out there playing
in the NFL with gray hair. I
totally respected that because now I have it. Like, I think
it’s cool that he did that. But
you talked to these dudes about their second act, and sometimes
it’s difficult to get to that
second act for them. Of all the conversations you’ve had,
peanut, which is one that really
sticks out to you that we should go listen to. Oh, wow, Cam
Newton gave gave a good pod.
Stephen. Damn. Yeah. Cam Newton gave a good one. We did Thomas
Davis Luke Kuechly did a good
one. Josh Norman is a good one Isaiah his was great. Mike we
did Mike Singletary you got to
watch Mike Singletary. There’s more to Mike Singletary that’s
that won’t be coming up Darren
Woodson. You just were in Dallas with Emmitt Smith LaDainian
Tomlinson was a good one. He’s
coaching up there in the in the Dallas area man they’re all good
there. The second platform gives
us it gives players an opportunity to just discuss
their their story. Whether
you’re a Hall of Famer, whether you’re you play you play 2 or 3
years. We got a really good
crew. I think we’re doing some good stuff giving these former
players a chance to just talk
about what they’re doing so we can really celebrate you, what
you played, what you did in the
league and then how we can celebrate you. What you’re doing
now. Chris Harris, he was on a
pod. He came on and he can tell you how it was. Oh it was great
man. They do a great job over
there. And like you said, it’s a good opportunity to really, you
know, share your story. And you
know, everybody’s going through that second act, you know, once
you retire. And it’s just good
to plug in with y’all. Yeah, absolutely. And the guys enjoy
it. I get satisfaction from it.
Just listening to the stories. Like I said, we all have a story
and we’re all just trying to get
everyone’s story out there. We all want to be heard and seen.
So and that’s what we’re trying
to do. We see you, we hear you, and we want other people to see
you and hear you as well. I love
that man, I love that. That’s awesome. I so for your second
act, peanut, you made a little
stop at the FBI training academy. So I want to know for
you what was more challenging an
NFL training camp or FBI training academy? Nothing will
ever compare to an NFL training
camp. It’s cool. Like looking at it as a fan and then you’re
like, oh wow, that looks cool. I
wish I could go out there. Chris Harris again. He will agree.
It’s different when you’re
finally out there now. Training camp today may be a little bit
easier than when I came back in
oh three. That training camp, training camp was real. It was
tough. It was difficult. And you
could go back five years back in like the mid 90s, early 2000,
football League was a little bit
different. It was a lot harder. It just made it difficult. Yeah.
Nothing will compare to an NFL
training camp, especially your first one as a rookie. They
might get a little easier when
you become a vet, but when you’re a rookie, you’re doing
everything because you’re a
rookie. So you’re running here, you’re taking these extra snaps,
taking all the special teams,
helping them with equipment. Yeah, man. The training camps,
they rough. See, that’s the kind
of takes you get from Charles Peanut Solomon. We love you,
man. You always come by anytime.
You’re always welcome for Seth, Chris and Sarah. Charles. Peanut
Tillman. Thanks, buddy.
Appreciate you guys. Have a good back, it’s back. Here it is. We
got a Pro Bowler. We got a Super
Bowl winning quarterback. What kind of props do you have? You
got a ring over there. What do
we got? I didn’t bring nothing today. He’s got a coffee mug.
Kyle, what do you got there in
New York? I got a New York Post. I’m still reading the paper,
folks. And the headlines would
be mystery. WWE superstar crashes the show to join Seth
Rollins and in fact, engage in
combat this hour. Who’s it going to be? Tweet us your guesses.
It’s good morning, football. We
always got tricks up our sleeve. Let’s go. Come on. Good morning
football. Welcome in to Gmfb.
You know already this morning we had Peanut Tillman on. And you
guys here at the desk how they
were looking up his stats because they were like this is
unbelievable. And how many times
he forced fumbles. Here’s the most unbelievable stats we’ve
heard this morning off of the
field I have twins. Seth’s got a kid. This man over here has five
daughters two, five, six, eight,
ten. How about those stats? Wow. They definitely keep me busy,
man. Definitely going to start
having gray hairs real early, you know? But they’re definitely
fun. And seeing them active,
playing all their sports and doing good in school man it
definitely is a blast. Wait
2568, ten. What’s the morning look like? This is this must be
relaxing. A lot of screaming, a
lot of yelling. You know, a lot of hair getting done. You know,
a lot of stuff. You got a lot of
bathrooms, dog. Oh, we do, we do? Yeah. I bet you they got you
in that backpedal, Chris. Like
back in your playing days. You’re just out of there, man.
See you later. Fast. Fast to the
game room, man. Or to my little man cave man. I’m fast there,
man. Are they watching dad this
morning? Oh, man. Oh, no. They’re at school now, so
depending on if they got up
early, they hopefully they got to catch about ten minutes. Oh
well we hope so. All right. We
want to get to our insiders. I know Seth had some questions
about was the deep the be
getting deeper there from Tom P and you know what Tom you were
saying. You move the mic. You
can’t you’re blocking. Yeah there’s a big there we go. There
we go. This is not take that
button. Abnormal amount of skin. You look great. I know what time
of day we’re on. Now. You tune
into the insiders, 7 p.m. Eastern, and now get a little
bit weird. But right now,
keeping it professional, I don’t want to give you too much sex.
This at this hour of the day,
guys. Whoa! Wow. Whoa, I love it, Judy. Let’s go to Judy the
professional over there. Judy,
what do you got? Help! Save us! Judy, what’s happening there at
the league meetings? All right,
well, first, let’s talk about what happened yesterday. NFL
players are now allowed to
participate in the Olympics in flag football. The owners gave
their approval to that
yesterday. Still a few details to be worked out with the
players union, but they are
certainly looking forward to players. It will only be one
player per team, per country who
will be allowed to participate, but certainly the expectation is
this is going to be a huge boost
for flag football and for American football generally. Now
let’s turn our attention to
today. It’s all touch push all the time. Maybe this is the last
time we’re going to talk about
the tush push, because the owners are expected to vote on a
proposal that would not just
eliminate what we think of as the tush push, as we have seen
the Philadelphia Eagles so
successfully run. But a broader rule change that actually was on
the books 20 years ago or so.
You can’t push, you can’t pull, you can’t throw, you can’t lift,
you can’t do anything to assist
a runner other than block form. Obviously, Tom, twofold issue
here. A lot of people say this
doesn’t really look like a football play. Anyway. A lot of
concern about the health and
safety aspect of the tush push. And this is unique because
there’s no data to say that this
is a health and safety issue, in part because you have such a
small sample size. This play
gets run 50 to 100 times in a given season, depending on how
exactly you define the play. Out
of thousands and thousands of plays here. But what owners have
been told, it’s been emphasized
to them by the medical experts, among others, is that the
biomechanics of it? It’s the
posture, the play. It’s all that mass coming together that
potentially you could have an
issue down the line that plus this looking more like a rugby
play to certain people. That’s
part of the argument for those who want to outlaw it. The
Packers actually broadened this
proposal, as you mentioned, Judy, after the March meeting
when it seemed to be very
targeted at the tush push. Now, this is all pushing, all pulling
some interesting debates.
They’re going to be in the room right behind us here in less
than an hour. We’ll see if it
gets a vote this morning. If not, then then potentially when
it’s the one per club privilege
session this afternoon, it could come back up there. So stay
tuned here in the next several
hours. We also are going to have discussion today. Judy, on the
Lions proposal about playoff
reseeding. I don’t get the sense that this has a lot of momentum
here. And then onside kick,
which is a small tweak, but one they hope maybe can give them a
little bit of an uptick in the
recovery rate. All right. Let’s go back to reseeding for the
playoffs. Because this is a
concept that has come up occasionally in the past. And
there has always been strong
resistance to the idea that you would take the reward away for
winning the division, that you
should be the higher seed. You should host the playoff games.
This, though, is a concern
reseeding because the question is we’re getting to the end of a
17 game season and you’re seeing
teams often resting, players going into sometimes even the
16th week, the 17th week of the
season. And the league doesn’t like the look of that. It’s a
competitive equity situation.
And frankly, as they look down the road at the potential of an
18 game regular season, that
would only be more opportunities for teams to rest players going
into the final weeks. That is
the concern. That is why this is coming up. Again, reseeding for
the playoffs. I don’t get the
sense either, that it has much momentum. Now. I do get the
sense that this is laying the
groundwork for people to start thinking about this as they
approach negotiations to go to
an 18 game regular season. That may be when they then reconsider
reseeding. I know that Kyle has
been out on the streets this morning working it, asking
people if they want the push
push back. Kyle, can you get a sign about how many buttons I
should have open on my shirt? I
want to know what the people want because that’s really what
I’m here to do is deliver.
Listen, if you want me to go out on the street, I will come back
with some magic Mike responses.
Tom, I think you stuck the landing. You’re a little bit on
the razor’s edge, but I think
that’s perfect right there. It’s a little double stick tape.
We’ve all done it. You look
great. You’re reporting great. And I will take my megaphone and
ask him about your shirt if you
need me to. Tom. No tape needed, baby. This is just all natural
physique right here. And a
little wax and never hurt anybody. Thank you, thank you
Tom. Thank you Judy.
Professional as always. We love you. Thank you Sarah. Yeah, look
at poor Judy. She’s like, I’ll
just take the single shot next time. She didn’t ask for it
changing in front of us. We’re
talking about Tom’s chest. All right. We want to ask Chris your
reaction to. Well, they covered
a lot of topics. Obviously the tush push, the reseeding which
we’re going to get into. And
then there’s the flag football Olympic thing. And I know just
talking to you this morning,
your face sort of lit up when I said, oh my gosh, can you
imagine ever being allowed to
play in the Olympics? And a lot of these guys are so excited
about the opportunity that could
be there. What do you think when you think back to your playing
days, if you would have ever
been given an opportunity like that to represent the country,
oh, definitely. I would have
definitely tried to go in, but it would have been hard because
they’re only taking one player
from each team, and I would have had to go against Von Miller and
Peyton Manning. But I doubt, I
doubt Peyton Manning plays flag football, but I don’t see any
other quarterbacks playing in
this. I see more of a skill, guys. Hopefully you get your top
receiver guys. Tyreek Hill,
Justin Jefferson, Ja’Marr Chase and then you get your best
defensive backs right. Get your
pasta and sauce Gardner Derek Stingley Fitzpatrick you know
it’s going to be fun. And I
think it’s going to be huge. And you know the NFL we’re greedy
right. We want the holidays. We
want we want to take advantage of every we want the Olympics.
We want everything right. We
want all the notoriety that we can possibly get in the NFL. So
I think it’s huge and I’m happy
for those guys getting a chance to go win a gold medal. I
understand this perspective and
I appreciate it, and I love representing your country. But
listen, as a fan, if my top
receiver goes out and tears his ACL playing flag football and
then misses the season, I am
going to lose my mind. All right. If Jalen Johnson, my
number one, wants to play flag
football and goes out there and tears his whole ankle up.
Achilles gone, God forbid knock
on wood. But if it happens, what am I going to do. All right.
What is the whole Chicago Bears
fanbase going to do? The risk, in my opinion, does not outweigh
the reward. So I don’t love it,
I get it, I understand it from a player’s perspective. It’d be
awesome to go out there and win
a gold medal for your country. That’s cool. But man, I’m out
here living vicariously through
my team. I need them to do well. If they don’t do well, I cry.
All right. This hurts my family
at home. My daughter, my wife. You understand? You got five of
them. You don’t want them to see
you cry. I don’t want my baby girl to come to me. Daddy, why
do we have to root for this team
that stinks so bad? Well, Jalen Johnson tore his ACL, you know,
playing flag football. Excuse
me, excuse me. She’s not going to understand this I can’t
explain it to her. All she’s
going to see is tears. All she’s going to see is tears. So just
let’s back it up a little bit.
All right. Let’s just pump the brakes on this. That’s all I’m
saying. Let’s just rethink it.
Listen, I hear you, I hear you. And we’ve seen the name Robert
Edwards floating around this
week. Robert Edwards, infamously 20 years ago, blew out his knee
playing a football game at the
Pro Bowl. And he was never the same. It’s not a fun story, but
to me, I think this is very good
news because there’s one thing that is bigger than your team,
than our teams, and it is our
country. And I like the idea of amateur players who have been
playing flag football for a
while, and they’ve been stewards of the sport, and that’s great
getting to showcase in the
Olympics. I think they deserve that. However, I am not going to
sit here idly by and watch the
United States of America lose in football to another country. I’m
not going to do it. I don’t care
what kind of football it is. Tackle football, flag football.
And I will bring your attention
to the reason why I feel this way, because everyone wants to
talk about the 1992 Dream Team,
and we’ve all done it. I will bring your attention to the 1988
men’s Olympic basketball team,
which is the last team to feature Nonprofessionals. There
you go. You got Danny Manning
and David Robinson and J.R. Reid. Before they were pros,
guys, they took the bronze in
the 88. They lost in basketball. Not only lost, they lost to the
Russians. Nay they lost to the
Soviets, the commies, the Reds going out there with with those
guys, two different guys named
Charles Smith, including the one who lost 57 straight layups
against the Bulls. And legend
has it is still shooting layups in Madison Square Garden. They
had a guy who’s literally name
was bimbo and we said enough. We’re not losing to anybody.
We’re going to unleash the
hounds and hit you with Ewing and Jordan and Bird and Magic.
You send the amateurs there to
protect the pros. We’re going to take a loss from somebody. We’re
going to lose the Angola. We’re
going to lose the Madagascar. We’re going to lose the Bleep in
Canada. I will not stand for it.
Unleash hell. Give them Lamar Jackson breaking the pocket and
throwing it 70 yards to Jamar
Chase in the back of the end zone. And the United States of
America will win via the NFL
firepower. That’s my message to you. Seth. What do you got. Well
here’s the thing. You got me I’m
in. I’m I’m all in. Well, I just don’t subscribe to the idea of,
like, I know you’re saying like,
you can’t have these star players, but as you were talking
about that, we’re watching video
of them playing in the Pro Bowl. I mean, and, you know, Chris, I
mean, things can happen. Working
out happens in off seasons, whatever. So I just think you
can’t have that sort of
mentality. I mean, these guys are doing stuff like that
anyway. It’s also not going to
be I think. And we were looking up some of the rules. I think
the first idea that crossed
people’s minds when it was this Olympic team that it’s this huge
roster and like, you’re going to
just see this mass exodus of NFL players jump over. It’s ten
players. I believe it’s ten
players. And then Judy was talking about it. It’s only one
per team. So not even every NFL
team will have a player on there. But I’m with Kyle on it.
And I also just think the
opportunity we saw it, you know, like in the in the golf world
when these PGA tour golfers have
a chance to go win an Olympic gold medal, I mean it’s just
something they’ve never been
able to do before. I think it’s awesome. I think it’s awesome to
put on the jersey. I think it
will be incredible and you can’t worry about the other stuff.
That’s my take. America. All
right. America, there we go. All right, all right, we’re
switching Seth. All right. We
know the decision on the flag football that is out there.
There’s other rule changes Judy
mentioned. I think it’s really interesting, the one about the
divisional playoff seedings, the
rule change would give the home field advantage to the team with
the best record, not just the
division winner. So you can have home field advantage without
winning the division. Chris,
we’ll start with you. Do you want to see a change to
divisional playoff seeding? This
wouldn’t affect Wild Card weekend, but it would be
reseeded after that. I don’t
want to see a change because those divisional games are big
rivalries, right. When we’re in
the AFC West, we knew every time we played Kansas City it was
going to be a huge game and
those games are double right. If you change this, then those
games are just regular games in
the season now. Now they don’t mean as much. There’s not too
much importance to this game
versus divisional round. So I wanted to keep it the same. I
love the way it is right now. We
have great rivalries going on in the NFL, from the bears to the
Lions to the Packers to the
bears. You know Raiders, Broncos, Chiefs, Broncos. So we
have these rivalries the Giants,
Cowboys. We need to keep that there. We need to keep the
divisional rivalries. And then
you know if you win that you get that easy bid to the playoffs.
And I think the Jaguars the AFC
South division is that division. That’s kind of making everybody
mad because you know you see the
Texans making it very easily to the playoffs every year. So I
see that that’s probably the
reason why ownership and guys around the NFL want to make a
change. Look I get it I
understand that. And as far as rivalries go obviously
Bears-packers I just did a draft
pick in green Bay. It felt so good to go out there and just
hurt all those Packer fans right
in their backyard. But look, it’s about winning. The league
is about winning. It doesn’t
matter if you win two games against your division. It
doesn’t matter if you win the
rest of your, you know, non-divisional games. It’s about
winning. Winning is winning.
That’s that’s what this league is about. That’s what any sports
league is about, right? That’s
the bottom line. And so I say sure let’s do it. Let’s let’s
reshuffle. You can’t be afraid
of change. All right. This isn’t going to kill the division
rivalries. You still got to play
these teams twice a year. You know they’re still got to go to
Lambeau. Packers still got to
come to soldier. It’s still going to happen. It’s all going
to be there. It’s not going to
go away. But you’re just going to prioritize winning. And the
people who win the most get the
opportunity to host that game at the end of the season. And I dig
that. I don’t be afraid of
change, man. Don’t be afraid. It’s okay. It’s going to be all
right. You just changed your
answer in the last question. Yeah, exactly. We can change a
little bit and still have fun.
We can still compete. I can still hate green Bay. It’s not
going to stop me from hating the
Packers. It’s not going to stop me from wanting to see Jordan
Love get taken down. Come on
now. It’s all good. We’re still in it. I’m with you. I agree
with Seth. Listen, this this is
polarizing. People feel very strongly both ways. And I
respect both sides. Listen, the
divisional matchups still count if you win the division, even at
seven and ten, you are still in
the playoffs. It doesn’t matter. It is an automatic bid to the
playoffs, winning your division.
You just don’t get to go to the playoffs and host a playoff
game, which to me is ridiculous.
And I’ll give you reasons why I’m in favor of this. Here are
my reasons. Here are starting
quarterbacks in the National Football League in Week 18 of
last season Mitch Trubisky,
Carson Wentz, Tanner Magee Davis Mills. You know who wasn’t
starting week 18 Josh Allen
Jalen Hurts Matthew Stafford Reed Ryan Dunleavy’s piece about
this in the New York Post. It’s
not great guys. That’s not a good product for the final week
of the season to have all these
studs on the bench and all of these guys no one wants to
watch. Starting the game, C.J.
Stroud also pulled in the middle of the game. It’s a problem. We
can’t have the grand finale of
the regular season be a soft toss competition between backup
quarterbacks. We find problems
with the product, we eliminate them, make it more competitive.
You still get your bid. If your
division sucks and so do you. You just don’t get to host a
game. You go on the road and
take your loss like you deserve because you’re sub 500. I’m in
favor of the change. I don’t
apologize for it. Yeah, I’m actually surprised that it’s as
polarizing as it is, Kyle,
because I think it’s sort of common sense in that regard. All
right, Seth Freakin Rollins
isn’t the only WWE superstar on the show today. Move over. Seth.
Oh, Mikey, we got this guy
coming. I mean, we were keeping for emergencies. This is so fun
and this is why I love our show.
We’ve had Seth Rollins with us as we have many times. We love
him. He’s part of the family
here and today. He’s just kind of been in the middle of the
ring, just kicking and doing his
Seth Rollins thing. But then you get what you call in pro
wrestling a pop where someone
else comes out of the dressing room, the place goes nuts,
Seth’s face drops, and we got
action. And that pop is coming from a legend named The Miz. Get
in here, Mike hit the music,
bringing The Miz. There he is. Pop music hit a pop. Let’s go,
baby, let’s talk some football.
Good morning football I don’t know how I feel about. All
right, listen, man, I don’t know
how I feel about Seth. What’s the relationship between you and
Mike? Let’s talk about it.
Competitive rivalry. But, you know, our daughters like each
other, so there’s a personal
friendship there. But look, I just he’s kind of. It’s my. This
is my turf, Miz. It’s my turf,
man. What are you doing? You know what? I’ll give you another
thing all over. I know, but
here’s the thing. You didn’t have the guts to get in the car
and come down here. You live in
Los Angeles. You could have been here. You could have been
sitting right next to me. No, I
got to take my kids to school. So as soon as I’m done here, I’m
getting in a car and ship them
off to school. So that’s what I’m doing. All right, well,
let’s just dig into it, man.
Let’s just get into the football chat. Let’s just go right into
it. Look, the Browns have had
some issues with starting quarterbacks okay. But look the
bears too. So we’re on the same
team here. But look I’m reading the prompter because it’s
bonkers. The Browns have had
4044 zero starting quarterbacks since 1999. That’s crazy. So
they took two in the draft this
year. Two. Why not just add some more into the room? Dillon
Gabriel Sanders how are we
feeling about whatever strategy the Cleveland Browns have at
quarterback this year? This is
your soapbox. Tell us about how you feel at the quarterback
position in Cleveland. Mike more
quarterbacks the merrier in my opinion. Look just ship them all
in to the Cleveland Browns
because we got to pick one of them. We got to find our
franchise quarterback. We had
our franchise quarterback in Baker Mayfield. But what
happens. We send him away. We
trade him away and give him to somebody else. And then we take
someone else’s franchise
quarterback and give him the worst contract in NFL history.
So what do we do? We’re like,
listen, we’re in a draft. There’s Sanders sitting there at
the fifth round. Let’s just put
him on the team. The circus that is the Cleveland Browns is
happening once again. And I’m
all for it. Look, I love Big Top pee wee. When I saw it way back
when I was a child. And I love
seeing the circus that is the Cleveland Browns, no matter who
is at quarterback, whether it’s
Jameis Winston or Sanders, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, Dillon
Gabriel, give them all to me.
Give them all because I’m going to find a franchise quarterback
sooner or later. You posted your
state of the Browns analysis, right. And you said that the
Browns are going to win the
Super Bowl. Are you going to stand on that today? 100%? Are
you kidding me? When Sanders
takes over the starting quarterback and he has all the
plethora of draft picks that we
have gotten, and we have Myles Garrett on defense, not to
mention adding a mason Graham at
defensive tackle. The quarterbacks aren’t going to be
able to throw. So what do we
have at offense? Offense. We have two new running backs
because we drafted them and
they’re all fresh. They’re ready. They’re hungry. They’re
dogs. And we have Njoku. We have
Judy. I mean what else could you possibly want in a Super Bowl
caliber team than the Cleveland
Browns? And not to mention a two time, two time coach of the year
in Kevin Stefanski. Let’s go
baby. We’re going to the Super Bowl I love it I love it. You’re
laughing. You’re going to come
back here next year and you’re going to pat me on the back and
say, you know what, Miz? You
were right, I hope so I like it, I hope so. Hey, we want you to
take us behind the curtain here
a little bit because you and Seth are friends. You’ve had
epic battles in the ring. Give
us, give us some behind the scenes stuff with Seth. What
sticks out to you about facing
each other? Facing each other? Seth is the greatest in-ring
technician I have ever wrestled
in my entire career. Wow. And it’s. And it’s not even close.
He is unbelievably talented
physically, but people don’t understand the mental capacity
it takes to be a top caliber
main event superstar. And a lot of people call John Cena the
greatest of all time. I think
when Seth Rollins is done in WWE and professional wrestling,
we’ll be talking about his name
as the greatest of all time. Because mentally, physically, he
has all the gifts to become that
person. I mean, people call Shawn Michaels Mr. WrestleMania.
I mean, if you watched the main
event on Saturday this year in Vegas, you would have saw Mr.
Main Event in that ring and Seth
freakin Rollins. Well, that’s very kind. I appreciate that,
Mike. Thank you very much. And
you know what? I was kind of upset, though, was all that
footage was just The Miz beating
me up. It was all just Miz DDT. Me. I called him before and
said, look, I’m going to put him
over. Mike, all right? So to that point, Seth, hold on,
because I want to hear more
about this stuff’s fascinating that Mike just said about in the
ring. I want to hear you guys
talk about each other outside the ring. And honestly, Mike,
start with Seth. Tell us
something that we might not know about him outside the ring. And
then Seth do the same for The
Miz. I mean, it’s easy to go with great father, great
husband, but I’m going to go
with a little different route. The guy thinks about
professional wrestling 24 over
seven, not just inside the ring, but also outside the ring. He
has his own school, where not
only does he teach these people and give them the opportunity to
listen to him and learn from a
professional wrestler, that is literally in the main event of
WrestleMania, but he also gives
them the platform he uses his Instagram to put over these
these up and coming superstars
that may not have that platform for him, and that just shows
what a great person he is, dude,
I was going to say, Mike, I’ll cut you a check after we’re done
here. Look, the thing I can say
tons of stuff about Mike, but what I will say is my wife and I
have this conversation. Wife,
also wrestler, the man, Becky Lynch. We have this conversation
all the time. And in my opinion,
The Miz is the most underrated, underappreciated, surefire Hall
of Famer in the history of our
industry. And that’s that’s that’s so. But that’s and I’m
saying that. So I want to jump
in with the way Kyle framed it. I want to say a little bit about
him in the ring because he’s a
consummate professional outside of the ring. He is a consummate
professional. He is one of the
hardest working dudes I have ever seen in WWE, because he
will do anything at the drop of
a dime, and I mean anything. Every single week. For the last
20 years, Miz has been with the
company for like two decades now. No matter what he’s asked
to do, he does it with a smile
on his face. And I have seen top guys, top girls come and go and
they complain and they whine and
moan. You get to the top and the responsibility doesn’t get
easier. Ladies and gentlemen,
the higher you get on the totem pole, the harder it gets and the
more work you’re asked to do.
And for Mike to be able to do this for 20 years, stay super
healthy 99% of the time, and be
able to go and do every single thing that he’s asked to do.
From hosting television shows to
jumping on Good Morning Football. He’s, you know, an
avid golfer. He’s got to be a
dad. He’s got to be he’s doing all of it all the time. And he
does it with a smile on his
face. And I think if you are an up and coming wrestler, Mike
mentioned my school. If anybody
from my school is listening or watching or anybody who wants to
be a top star in this industry,
look no further than The Miz. He is the guy that you should
aspire to be. He is that good of
a dude and that good of a performer. Thanks, man. All
right, what a great show today.
A lot of positivity, a lot of positivity now. And now we’re
talking about you and all the
things you do. You’re wearing another hat coming up. You are
going to be hosting the reboot
of American Gladiators. One of my favorite shows of all time as
a kid. So tell us about your
history with American Gladiators. Who was your
favorite gladiator growing up?
What are your memories of the show? Favorite Gladiator?
Growing up was Turbo and Siren.
Turbo because I liked his name and siren because she couldn’t
hear and they had to have like a
separate kind of go for her. And I always thought that was really
cool, that she couldn’t hear and
that she was so strong and so dominant as a gladiator. But
man, let me tell you, when they
told me I was going to be the host of this reboot of American
Gladiators, I couldn’t believe
it. I was a huge fan when I was a young kid. Like, I wanted to
be in the hamster wheels, which
were called Atlaspheres. I wanted to roll on them because I
had a hamster, and I thought it
would be really, really cool to do it. Yeah, sure. And now I get
to host it. I get to lead the
pack, and we’ve had our meetings. And let me tell you,
not only are they keeping the
nostalgia of the old American gladiators that we have known to
love, but they are they are
injecting a lot of fireworks into it and are up updating it
and making it absolutely
amazing. I’ve met all our gladiators. They are incredible,
amazing personalities, big guys.
The contenders are going to have a lot of work cut out for them.
But man, I mean, this is going
to be an incredible reboot. I cannot wait for people to see
it, and I can’t wait to get into
it and actually film it. We’re going to be doing that in very
shortly. So I’m I’m excited man.
My three favorite players that I would want to be American
Gladiators would be. I want to
see Saquon Barkley out there. Right. The guy’s legs are huge.
I don’t know how y’all going to
be able to stop him. And then who would be your three players
that you would want to be
American Gladiators in the NFL? I’ll go I’m going to go with
Myles Garrett of course, because
one of my ultimate defensive player I mean that’s easy right?
That’s easy. But then I’m going
to go with two tight ends. I’m going to go George Kittle and
I’m going to go with Travis
Kelce because of personality. Like a Gladiator has to have a
great personality and got to be
out there right. Not only do that be physically dominating,
but they got to be someone
either you’re going to root for or you’re going to boo. Kind of
like a WWE superstar. Mike, I
love that you mentioned turbo. It’s fascinating. Ian Rapoport
just tweeted that turbo is going
to be starting at quarterback for the Browns this year. So
they’re bringing him in and
they’re going to have all the talent. We’re going to be ready
I’m starting that linebacker.
Put him in the room. There’s been so much positivity. And
there was this whole love fest
between Mike and Seth. And we adore that guys next segment.
They’re going to fight. We’re
going to ring the bell and they’re going to fight. It’s
going to be Browns versus bears.
Don’t go anywhere Miz good morning. Football continues
after this. Ring the bell. Burn
it down. At ease. We know welcome to G meets WWE. And this
match is scheduled for two
falls. Introducing. First, he believes Caleb Williams will be
an MVP this year. He thinks the
Dallas Cowboys are not America’s team, and he thinks Jaire
Alexander is a loser. Seth
freakin right. His opponent, the pride of Parma, Ohio, one of
seven strangers picked to live
in a house, work together, and have their lives taped six two,
220 pounds of charisma The Miz.
Gentlemen, how are we feeling? Seth? I’m feeling good. I’m
feeling spry. I’m all warmed up.
Coffees down. Let’s go baby, let’s rock and roll. Give it to
me. What you got, Kyle? All
right, Mike and Seth, we have a Die Hard Bears fan and Seth, a
die hard Browns fan. And, Mike,
what we’re going to do is we’re going to go through two rounds
in which you will each have the
floor in competition. I know there’s a lot of respect, but
throw that out of the ring and
reach for a chair. Here’s the first tee up and we are going to
start with you, Seth. Both of
these fan bases, let’s just say have been through a lot. Mike
already has the chair. They’ve
been through a lot. I want you to convince the people and
convince me, the judge, that
your team’s fan base has endured more over the years and the
decades. Seth, you will go first
on behalf of the Chicago Bears. 60s on the clock. The floor is
yours. My team, the Chicago
Bears, one of the storied franchises in NFL history. Been
to the mountaintop, won a Super
Bowl. I know what it feels like. Have been on a landslide since
1986. In January, all we’ve done
is go down and when you’re at the top, it’s painful. On the
downside, the other side of
this, the Browns, they don’t know nothing about
championships. They don’t know
nothing about greatness. So they don’t know nothing about pain.
You understand me? They know
nothing about pain. What’s pain is getting this close. Getting
back to the Super Bowl and
losing. Blowing it to Peyton Manning. After Devin Hester
returns the opening kickoff to
give the bears the lead. And now you’ve got to suffer defeat.
What pain is, is the double
doink. The double doink is pain, man. It’s pain that lives in my
soul forever and ever because we
reached the top. Once you reach the top, you understand what
that feels like to be on the
back side of it. On the losing side of it. You will never
understand real pain. Because
you’ll never understand real success. Man, that’s the truth.
That’s the truth, man. The Miz
60s for the Browns. Pass the mic and start the show. January
11th, 1987 seven year old miss
was watching the AFC Championship Game. The Browns
are up by seven. The Denver
Broncos are on the two yard line. They are backed up all the
way in the two yard line. We
have a legendary, I guess thing happening called the Drive. Then
the following year, 1988 The
Fumble. Then in 1994, Art Modell says, after a ten and six
season, we’re moving the Browns
to Baltimore Ravens. You ever lost a team, like, literally
hand over the Baltimore Ravens
in 1995? Two? And not only that, they win two Super Bowls as the
Baltimore Ravens. Then we get
our team back and we go through 4040 quarterbacks. We have
literally the worst record in
NFL history, the worst team in NFL history zero and 17. Shall I
keep going? The worst contract
in history. It’s over. It’s over. Ring the bell. It’s over.
Pop out, tap out. Tag out I
tried, I tried I mean the truth is the runaway was The Miz and
the Browns, which really kind of
makes you the loser because it was so easy to talk about. It’s
a fantastic case, but hold on,
Seth. Round two. So Miz wins one to nothing right now, but round
two. This may be a little more
difficult for The Miz. The round two If Miz wins, it’s over.
Which of these teams will win a
Super Bowl sooner? From this day moving forward? Miz, you’re
going to go first on this one.
Then Seth, you get to respond. Miz on behalf of the Browns 60s
who will win a Super Bowl
sooner? Why is it your team? Look, I was upset when we didn’t
take Travis Hunter, but guess
what happened? We got a bunch of draft picks and we got a dog in
Mason Graham. No quarterback in
the AFC North is going to be able to throw the ball because
we got Myles Garrett and Mason
Graham on that line. Not to mention we got Sanders in the
fifth round. He’s a first
rounder I had him in the first round. That’s who I actually
wanted. But guess what. Not only
did we get Mason Grant, we got Sanders. We got we got so many
running backs. I mean, look at
our running backs. Now you got Judkins and you got Sampson, who
are absolute dogs. We have Njoku
and Fannin as tight ends. We have an insane defense. Ward
Newsome you name it, we’ve got
it. The Cleveland Browns are going to the Super Bowl. And
that is the bottom line because
The Miz said so. Not Stone cold, but The Miz said so. Thank you
very much. Have a nice day. The
Cleveland Browns are awesome. O, wow. Incredible. Seth 60s I
think The Miz just worked harder
in that 60s than he did in the whole match against Cena. Like
that was heavy lifting Miz, but
that’s why you’re a pro. Seth. Respond. Why will the bears win
a Super Bowl sooner than the
Browns? I mean, look, in Chicago, we are built to win
within the next few years, if
not this year. Right now, the Cleveland Browns, there is no
light at the end of that tunnel.
There is no light at the end of that tunnel. It’s just it’s
bleak. It’s darkness. It’s
terrible. In Chicago you’ve got a rookie, you know. You know
who’s who’s throwing the ball.
You know who’s throwing the ball in Chicago. And you know who
he’s throwing to. You got D.J.
Moore, you got Rome Odunze. All right, you got Loveland. You got
Kmet. Swift’s in the backfield.
I mean, look, we got we got a team that’s ready to go. We got
a coach. And look I’ll give you
coach credit two time coach of the year. But I mean there is no
light at the end of that. The
front office has botched that whole system there. You play in
a very very difficult division
with the Bengals Joe Burrow. He’s going to he’s going to
torch you. All right. And Lamar
Lamar Jackson is going to torch you I don’t even care who’s
throwing the ball in Pittsburgh
for you. The Steelers are going to beat you twice. It’s rough
pickings in Cleveland and
Chicago. We’re on the upswing baby Chicago we’re built to win.
It’s going to happen. We’re
ready to go. We’re the talk of the town where the sexy team
this year we’re going to win a
Super Bowl in the next five years. No doubt about it. What
are you talking about? Ring the
bell. Ring the bell. All right, listen, I’m tempted to give it
to Mike because he works so
hard, but I think Seth came with better takes and effort. And we
have a tie, guys. So in the case
of a tie, we have a surprise tiebreaker. Whoever wins this
tiebreaker wins this briefcase
right here. Money in the bank. You know it’s coming. These guys
do not know this category is
coming. But Mike Seth listen up. You will have just 30s for the
tiebreaker and you will both go
simultaneously. So be ready. Your tiebreaker tee up is you
need to name as many players
from your team, but it has to be former players. Nobody currently
on the roster. Former bears for
Seth, former Browns for Miz 30s whoever names more wins, go
Johnny Manziel, Brian McMahon,
Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, Dick Butkus, Mike Singletary, Steve
McMichael, Richard Dent, William
Perry, Brian Urlacher, Lance Briggs, Charles Tillman, Mike
Brown, Tommie Harris, Mitch
Trubisky. We got Cade Mcnown, Rashaan Salaam. We can just go
with Ozzie Newsome, Eric
Metcalf, Kevin Mack. Stop the count. Stop the count. All
right. Mike’s last one was Kevin
Mack Seth went with Cade Mcnown and Rashaan Salaam which is
absolutely incredible. Give me
the number for Mike please. What does Mike have. All right listen
Mike the Miz is final number was
11. Browns named Seth Rollins was 16. Seth it’s over. Got the
case. The bears won. Hit the
music. Yeah. Cade McDowell. Seth. Acceptance. Do me baby.
Yeah. Yes, sir. That’s why he
lost. Yes, sir. None of the 40