Good Morning Football: TNF Preview, Survivor Picks Week 2, Roquan Smith Joins the Show

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1:43 – TNF Preview
15:13 – Injury Updates
18:20 – Roquan Smith Interview
32:08 – NFL Trivia
42:20 – Throwdown Thursday
57:42 – Talking Heads
01:11:27 – Week 2 Survivor Picks

Morning football. We are
presented by Old Trapper beef
jerky as always. Thursday, September 18th. It’s week three
in the NFL season. Jamie Erdahl,
Manti Te’o, Kyle Brandt and Mike Garafolo in New York. This
is your breakfast table ahead
of Thursday Night Football. And listen we got bills Dolphins
tonight. But Kyle we have a
Baltimore Ravens joining the show this hour. Oh yeah. Roquan
Smith big time star big time
linebacker big time team Baltimore Ravens. Mike and I
are going to hold it down here
from New York as we start today. I’ve never been less clear
about what I’m allowed to say
on the air. But we do have bills. Dolphins tonight. Let’s
have a show. I hope it’s not my
last. Let’s have some fun and get into it. Good morning.
Football. Come on. Welcome to
Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper.
That’s right, everybody, this
is Gmfb on a Thursday. Welcome inside. Jamie Mante Kyle and
Mike G. Mike, great to see you.
I like this multi hat Mike Garafolo experience that we’re
seeing from you. So you were on
with us last week Thursday Friday now today. How is it
going balancing being such a
prolific insider that you are and then coming to Gmfb and
doing New York, LA based trivia
that apparently is going to involve food. When you got a
dome like this, Jamie, you got
to wear. You got to keep it covered as much as possible.
It’s great. You know, have a
little fun with you guys at night. Have a little fun with
the insiders. It’s Mike with
breakfast and a late night snack. Or dinner for seven.
Exactly. Breakfast with Mike G
and the rest of the crew here. Let us begin, shall we? Since
week three kicks off in a
western New York as Miami travels to Buffalo. Did you
know that including the
playoffs. The bills have won six straight games against the
Dolphins? It’s a pretty long
clip. Tua Tagovailoa had nothing but praise for his
quarterback counterpart tonight
that he is facing in the reigning MVP. He’s a top tier.
You know, if it’s not with his
arm, it’s with his legs. You know that dude can do literally
anything he wants. So that
definitely different skill set for me. I can’t do half of what
he does when it comes to
running the ball and and any of that. And then with how he can
just chuck a ball down the
field, you know, with how far and the arm strength that he
has, you know, he’s, he’s
supreme when it when it comes to that. So it’s going to be
fun. Get to see him get to play
play him again. And we’ll see. The first step to telling the
truth is acknowledgment and
awareness for what you can do, and maybe for what your
competitor can do to a very
honest. In his assessment about Josh Allen. He’s been watching
him quarterback for a long time.
Manti. So we look ahead to Dolphins Bills tonight. What
are you going to be watching in
this AFC. Well if we’re going to acknowledge anything Jamie
and I’m sorry to talk over you
for like 0.5 seconds. But it’s the defense I know we’re going
to talk about quarterbacks and
all of that. It’s the Miami Dolphins defense. They are
giving up around 3.7 points per
drive guys. So if you’re an offense right and you go
against this Miami Dolphins
defense, you can bet that you’re going to at least get a
field goal in that drive. They
are giving up 75% 75% of the time. They’re giving up a point.
So that is at a clip guys that
if you’re a fantasy football owner, if you’re a fan of
whoever is going against the
Miami Dolphins, I know we have survivor later today, Jamie.
And just giving you a hint of
where I’m going to go with this thing because this defense for
the Miami Dolphins are giving
up a lot of points. They’re not getting a lot of stops. They
have zero takeaways. The time
of possession for the Dolphins is very last in the NFL. And
guess what the time of
possession for for the bills is first. So the math isn’t math.
It’s not math for the Miami
Dolphins right now. So if I’m looking at anything Jamie, it’s
the fact that the Dolphins
can’t seem to stop anybody on defense. They can’t keep the
points down. And now you’re
about to go against a Buffalo Bills team that for the past
two weeks that offense has put
up a lot of points. And so that’s where I’m going with it
Mike G. But it lends myself to
what I want to look for tonight. And I hate to be Joe Q public
on this one because a lot of
folks want points. They want offense, they don’t like that
defensive battle. And it’s like,
if you’re a real true football fan, sometimes you love the
defensive battle. I want points,
I want a lot of points tonight. And guess what? When these two
teams have played the last
couple of years under Mike McDaniel, there’s been points
30, 27, 48, 20, 32, 29. Had
that game up there in the snow a couple of years ago on a
Saturday where they were going
back and forth at each other. So I want to see points tonight.
I want to be Joe Q tonight. I
want 60 plus put on the board tonight on a Thursday night to
get my week three going.
There’s been a lot of low scoring games across the NFL
the first couple of weeks. I
want fireworks tonight. Mike McDaniel and this offense
supposed to provide that. And I
want to see it. All right Mike. So I’ll I’ll meet you halfway.
I want a lot of points tonight
too. I would like them to be somewhat evenly distributed. I
know there’s going to be a lot
of points. I would like a little on each side. Here’s the
deal. There is a 50% chance
coin flip chance that tonight’s going to be a bills blowout. If
you just look at the history of
these two teams and how they’re doing now, there’s a very small
chance it’s going to be a
Dolphins win. So I’m hoping for some kind of competition. And
if that sounds like I’m just
condescending to the Dolphins during the Josh Allen era, the
Dolphins have lost to the bills
by 17, by 21, by 25, by 28 by 30, and by 35. It is pretty
much hitting every number on
the salad bar. And now we have a quote that Dolphins fans are
getting self-loathing about
from their franchise quarterback, who’s incredibly
well paid about the rival in
their own division, saying, I can’t do half the things that
he does. It’s not that I wish.
All right, so first a little context. Josh and Tua
absolutely love each other.
They constantly gush about each other. It goes both ways. The
phrase here was not the best
choice of words. It’s not that I wish Tua hadn’t said it. I
wish that it wasn’t true, I
really do. But it is true. Okay, because Tua does not have the
ability, the production or
anything Josh has going on, but he pretty much does have the
paycheck. Tua makes $53 million
a year and he’s saying, well, I can’t. I’m not even in his
stratosphere. That’s basically
how the quote is being interpreted. It reminds me of
when golfers were trying to
beat Tiger in the late 90s, early 2000, and they would just
gush about him like, I can’t
hit like that. I can’t make that shot. The difference is,
in golf, you’re paid according
to how well you play. It’s it’s a totally different thing. It’s
the same game. Check if Tua
wins tonight or loses by 70. So it’s a quote that does not land
well. Tua needs to play well in
this game, but I also think you have to look to the Miami
Dolphins head coach Mike
McDaniel. Is this Mike McDaniel’s last stand? I’ll
just be candid about it. I
don’t like talking about coaching changes and all that
stuff because there’s real
people and real lives involved, but let’s just call it what it
is. I remember Mike McDaniel
coming into the league as a head coach, and it was so cool
and so fun and so fresh and so
entertaining. And now it’s like, I don’t care that he wears cool
sunglasses or has an expensive
watch or has an odd quote. It’s really gone dark. It’s gotten
rotten. It’s died on the vine.
It’s not interesting anymore. It’s not entertaining anymore.
But that’s I’m in the media.
Who cares what I think? What are the Dolphins players think?
Do they have something tonight?
Do you go to Western New York and just be like, we don’t have
it anymore? I don’t really like
playing for this guy. I my motivation is lost. We had our
cockamamie players only meeting.
Is this it? Do they lose by 35 points tonight? The whole thing
blows up. Or do they fight? Do
they try to save their head coach? Do they try to save
their season? How do they show
up? Because this could get really ugly against Josh Allen
tonight. They could get
annihilated like they have before. I’m looking to see if
the Dolphins Dolphins players,
body language, effort, everything early. If there’s an
early touchdown by the bills
and if it’s seven nothing after three minutes and the Dolphins
have a turnover like this can
go bad really fast. The Dolphins will tell you
everything about them tonight
and everything about their coach. Kyle. What you’re
implying is that you want to
see some buy in from the Dolphins. And the fans are
looking at the players to see
how they feel about the head coach. I saw this take online
about the Mike McDaniel
experience, which is and this is what you’re alluding to,
that at the beginning. And
frankly, the first season or two, people were kind of
chuckling with him. That and he
would show up at the press conferences and he would say
these strange things and the
deadpan delivery, and it was all very entertaining, but it
went along with just this crazy
Mustang Sally offense. Now he’s standing up there and we’re
teetering on people laughing or
chuckling at him. And it’s just it’s kind of a strange place to
be in for a head coach of an
NFL team. But his personality is certainly one of 32 in the
NFL. Mansi, I ask you this
because you can be like this, but you got to win. Who had a
who had an offbeat personality
that you played for when you were in the NFL? Well, I played
in my career and my NFL career
for three coaches. Mike McCoy, Sean Payton and Matt Nagy was
my last year with, well, with
the bears. And I would have to say Sean Payton. It wasn’t he
was weird. It was just he was
such a stickler for the details at at depths that I’ve never
seen before, ever witnessed.
Like Sean Payton would do research on the refs like we
knew his his spouse, kids,
where they went to school. We knew when we went to certain
fields, like he required all of
us to wear certain cleat a certain length of a screw in,
and if we’re out at stretch, he
would literally patrol through the stretch lines and look at
your cleats like people thought
that he was patrolling to, like, check on the players. If we
played at Lambeau, he was
patrolling to make sure that we all had screw ins and a certain
length. If it wasn’t, he would
send you in the room. Now that was Sean, but we won, you know?
So that was the difference
between him and Mike McDaniel. It’s like we’re going to win.
Like we made it to the playoffs
every single year. We had something going. And so it made
sense. When you have a stickler
like that like the recipe works. So I would have to say it was
Sean Jamie. Like he there was a
level to him that I’m like, wow, this guy goes through some
details that most don’t. Yeah,
well, Kyle, I know you said you don’t like to do this in terms
of in-season coaching changes,
but the really jarring and early one that we saw last year
was with the New York Jets
within the same division. We saw Robert Saleh and the Jets
come back from London, and he
was let go on a Monday after six weeks into the season. Do
you have a feel for the
schedule that do you have a litmus test, if you will, for
normally, this is how long
teams need to see a guy into a season before we start having
to have these conversations. It
usually doesn’t happen before week four, but I hope it’s week
three that Mike McDaniel
coaches his butt off tonight and they come and put on a show
and the Dolphins show up and
have a competition and show some signs of life. I like Mike
McDaniel. I think the league is
more interesting with him in it. I think to his larger point,
most coaches in the league are
just normal personality guys. Sean McDermott, John Harbaugh,
there’s nothing wrong with them.
They’re great, but they don’t have all these eccentricities.
If you are a unique personality
coach like Mike McDaniel is like Dan Campbell is, and if it
goes, it goes quickly. It’s
that’s why most of these head coaches do respect are pretty
boring. You get the eccentric
ones. Somebody like due respect Rex Ryan when it comes off the
rails it comes off fast and it
happens quickly. Mike McDaniel is a different dude. If you
lose someone, you can lose them
quickly. I hope he gets them back tonight. Mike. Dolphins
loss A bad Dolphins loss opens
up the door to a lot of things. Questions about the head coach.
Questions about the quarterback.
Questions about the front office. Questions about Tyreek
Hill who could potentially be a
guy that could be dealt around the trading deadline. So that’s
where we are with this one. And
I’ll just say that the people in the coaching world that I’ve
had these conversations with
over the last couple of weeks here, really over the last
couple of days, are talking
about what Kyle is talking about. Is this it is this the
point where Mike McDaniel has
to coach for his job in this game against the Buffalo Bills?
They’re already saying on the
other side of this game, Joe Brady, the offensive
coordinator who’s going to be a
hot candidate. He might be a fit for that. They’re already
measuring the office for the
next guy to come in here. That’s where this is. And
there’s the quote. Listen,
McDaniel said a couple of weeks ago. Well, the good news is it
can’t get any worse. Get Josh
Allen down tonight, Mike, I’m telling you, it can get worse.
I’m rooting for him I don’t
none of us want 41 to 3 Buffalo. We really don’t. Let’s have a
good game. But like may the
best team win. Mike you better coach them up. It feels like
amongst other things like maybe
plugging in the defense. They need some like PR reevaluation
because like who is out there
saying that I can’t do half the things the other quarterback
can. And then you got a coach
saying it can’t get any worse. Mike G last one for you inside
the locker room to what Kyle
was just saying that, you know, if things go they go quickly.
Some strange quotes, some
strange feelings vibes. If you will have come out of the
Dolphins locker room. What do
you hear from Miami from around the league, of what the buy in
and investment is amongst the
team, amongst the 53? It’s not what they thought it was going
to be coming in. When they were
talking about chemistry and how they felt they were going to be
much better from that
standpoint, who are the leaders there? I know that they’re
trying to to find them, and
some guys are trying to step up. But if you don’t get the
results on the field, Jamie,
all that’s just chatter. You got to back it up with the
product on the field. It’s not
happening. And after a game like this, if it is a bad loss,
everybody’s going to be kind of
looking around against toward one another and being a
Thursday game. You just linger
on that. You simmer on that even longer. Which is why a lot
of times we do see coaching
changes after these games. So it is a precarious spot for the
Miami Dolphins. Manti brings up
the point about the Dolphins defense and that, you know, it
really lends itself to through
17 games, you got to have all three phases clicked in. Kyle,
I’ll ask you a Western New York
check in, if you will. You know, crazy Sunday Night Football
game to start the season for
the bills. But the Josh Allen MVP experience is it going
accordingly that this team
would have thought in 2025 that you have checked in with the
fans and what you know of the
bills, like, is this as advertised in Buffalo? Well, I
think the most refreshing thing
that’s happened in the first two games for Buffalo,
especially last week, was James
Cook. I mean, he looked like a superstar and they paid him and
they weren’t going to pay him,
and maybe they didn’t have to pay him as much as he wanted.
That all seemed to work out. He
looks like he should. He looks like the second best player on
the bills offense, and they got
a bunch of other role players and that’s fine. But like if
they just roll out the same
Josh just Superman us out of this thing, they’re going to
lose in the playoffs again.
James Cook has to become not a star, but like a superstar in
the league this year. And last
week he looked like it. Mike talk to Brandon Beane before
the game against the Jets. And
he said the most impressive thing for him with Josh Allen
against the Ravens was that he
didn’t try to play what he called hero ball. He took what
the defense gave him. They were
even on the game winning drive. There were checkdowns. There
was a scramble. I’ve had plenty
of conversations with been over the years about how Josh Allen
takes too many hits and those
kinds of things, but also what he does with the football they
feel like. Despite the fact
that he was the MVP last year, despite the Super Bowl
aspirations, he’s off to a
great start with regard to running things the way that you
should run them from the
quarterback standpoint, he’ll have those moments, and
sometimes those moments will be
superhero moments, not super mistake moments, but they love
the fact that he’s staying
within himself and the team in the offense right now. All
right, so it’s an AFC East
matchup on Thursday Night Football. The Dolphins are in
Buffalo. But let’s stay there.
When we check in with Ian Rapoport within the division if
you will the New York Jets.
Despite what we always seem to say about the Jets their
seasons have not started this
way. It’s their first zero two start Ian since 2021. And after
facing the bills last week
their quarterback came in and into the medical tent. What’s
going on with Justin Fields and
Justin Fields already ruled out by head coach Aaron Glenn. That
means you’re going to see Tyrod
Taylor this week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Obviously
not what you want. You start
zero two. You’d like to have your starting quarterback out
there Justin Fields suffered a
concussion in that game. Was not able to finish. And
generally what happens here is
a guy goes through the week it’s Wednesday. Say how is he
feeling as the head coach. It’s
Thursday. You say oh how’s he feeling. Is he going to
practice? Aaron Glenn is pretty
up front about injuries, pretty honest, basically about
everything. Decided to say, you
know what, we know that Justin Fields is not going to play.
Let’s just say it on Wednesday.
Move forward this week knowing for sure that Tyrod Taylor, the
very experienced backup, is
going to be the starter and hope the team rallies around
him. Work on getting that first
win for the San Francisco 49 hoe responds and whether or not
he’s able to practice, but at
least putting him on the field in week two gives him a shot.
If not Mac Jones, who played
really, really well against the New Orleans Saints, will start
against the Arizona Cardinals
in what’s shaping up to be a pretty big game. But the fact
that Brock Purdy is out there
to start the week, at least to sign that next week probably
should be on the field. And
then for tonight’s game, you mentioned the urgency from the
Miami Dolphins trying to get
that first win, trying to really show up. And you know
they scored points last week.
Obviously last week it was the defense that was an issue. But
it’s all easier if they have
Jaylen Waddle out on the field. One of their two star receivers
Tyreek Hill is the other.
Jaylen Waddle suffered a shoulder injury in last week’s
game. He is officially listed
as questionable. Going to work out pregame. They hope he is
able to go but no guarantees
early on. All right Rapsheet thank you so much. Yeah the
Dolphins hope to make things
work because they are a part of the NFL international slate.
Later this season they’ll play
the Commanders in Madrid, but it all begins next Sunday,
September 28th. NFL network six
games four cities Dublin, London, Berlin and the
aforementioned Madrid. Right
here on NFL network. You can stream this thing on NFL plus,
but what kicks everything off
is Vikings, Steelers Sunday morning football. As always
it’s going to be electric. And
I get to go I leave I leave for Dublin on Tuesday. It’s going
to be really fun. We are going
straight from Dublin to New York and Los Angeles. Nothing
more American than that. It’s
trivia guys. It’s a trivia Thursday. The production staff
has picked Manti and myself
against Kyle and Mike G. Fight with the ones at your breakfast
table. We are in arms. Manti.
Lockstep. We’re going to take them down. We’re always in arms
and we’ve got to win this. Plus,
Kyle, what you got? I got a video of Tom Rathman blocking
for Steve Young and I’m falling
off my chair. Plus, look at this number zero in your
program for the Baltimore
Ravens. One of the biggest hitters, one of the best
players. Roquan Smith right
after this we’re talking everything Baltimore AFC NFL
great guest great player. Don’t
go anywhere. Good morning I’m exactly where I should be,
where I want to be. Hunters
hunt. They hunt. Lead them to hunt. Bro. 60 minutes this time,
you understand? Finish this man.
They gonna follow your lead. They’re gonna follow your lead,
right? You individually. But
together we’ll tear. Them together, bro. Can you imagine,
man standing behind you with a
gold jacket on? One of the best to ever do it. And you’re about
to go take the field and try to
play with the strength that he is speaking into your ear. That
is Ray Lewis talking to our
friend of the show, linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens,
Roquan Smith. What’s going on.
Let’s go. Roquan get in here. Let’s go real quick. Yeah you
look great bud. How are you I’m
doing great. Thank you guys so much for having me. Absolutely
we love when you come on. Got
to ask you this though. There’s Ray Lewis in the tunnel. You
guys must have such a cool
friendship and what you’re putting on the field, he must
be so proud of. What’s the most
important thing that Ray Lewis has told you in all of your
interactions about the game of
football? Yeah, so much respect for Ray Lewis. And I would just
say at the end of the day, just
be yourself. That’s the main thing that he says. Be yourself,
not trying to be anything that
you’re not, and just instill fear and play the game to the
last whistle. And if there’s
another whistle, continue to go and make sure you let your
opponents know after they
finish playing you that, hey, they know who they’ve played.
Roquan, how do you instill fear?
How do you do that on the field? I feel like you instill fear on
the field. But first and
foremost, knowing what to do and knowing what possibly could
come out of certain situations.
And then when the ball is in an individual’s hand, making that
individual play and hitting
that person as hard as you can within the rules, in the rules,
that’s the important part. But
go ahead, Kyle. You did it all day Roquan because I want you
to get comfortable right now
I’m going to read you the stats you had last week as the AFC
Defensive Player of the week 15
tackles three tackles for a loss. You took a fumble to the
house a partridge in a pear
tree across the board. You did it all dude. Was that the best
game you’ve ever played? Was it
up there? I would definitely say that game is probably one
of them. As far as statistic
wise, one of the best games I’ve played, but I’ll have to
look back in the archives for
sure, because some of the games you tend to forget over the
time. But yeah man, it was
definitely a pretty sweet game. It was awesome being able to
get the dub at home, and it was
awesome. And I’m excited about more opportunities to come. One
of those highlights, Roquan,
was that scoop and score. Reading through some of this,
you said that you probably were
just sprinting down the field, tapping back into your running
back days. Take me through that.
As you see the ball sort of rolling through you and you
just bust a move to the end
zone. Yeah, absolutely. It was a great play by T Rob. Number
95 being able to get the ball
out. And then when I seen the ball I always run to the ball.
And I was like oh it’s a free
gift a free gift on the ground. Let me pick it up and go and
make sure no one catch me. And
that’s what I did. I hit a gear for like the first 1015. Then I
realized I looked up at the
jumbotron and realized nobody was close by. So I said, I can
cool off of it a little bit,
bro. It’s good to see you, brother. It’s really good to
see you, my man. It’s good to
see you doing a lot of great things. Now I want people to
get a better picture of you
because I know you very well. I’m going to give you a
scenario, and I want you to
tell me in three words what you would do. You have an
opportunity to get a pick, or
you have an opportunity to deliver a message and get a hit.
Which one is Roquan Smith
taking? Oh man I have to go with the pick man I would love
a big hit. But that turnover
that turnover is different. That turnover is different man.
And I got the ball back in
Lamar’s hands. Hey that’s a good day. Oh that’s a that’s a
oh that’s true. Yeah yeah. The
guys that don’t touch the football very often. You tell
them you got a chance to touch
the football. They want to touch the football. There’s no
doubt about that. Roquan that
week one game against Buffalo. So much went into that
physically emotionally. How did
you guys reset and get ready for week two knowing that it’s
a 17 game season one game as
big as it was doesn’t define you right. Absolutely. Yeah.
Like you said, one game
definitely doesn’t define you. And we know we did not play to
our standard. And that Buffalo
game. And we knew that wasn’t what we wanted to put out there
on film. Played three quarters
but didn’t finish in the fourth quarter and just know how much
that hurt. And but the great
thing about it is that, hey, all weaknesses were revealed
throughout week one. You would
rather that right then as opposed to later in the year,
and I feel like it just added
more fuel to our fire, and knowing that we can’t let our
foot off the pedal at all until
there’s no life left in our opponent. That’s what a quote.
That’s that’s a linebacker
right there. That’s right. Roquan is broken. It’s an
incredible quote. But Roquan
we’re looking at the schedule. Week eight you play the Chicago
Bears. And for those of us who
have followed your career since 2018 so interested in your
reflections, your time there,
your departure from there and the fact that since you left
there, they’ve really struggled
to get it together. Yeah, absolutely. I have a tremendous
amount of respect for the city
of Chicago, a great place. I felt like where I grew into a
man there. They drafted me so
always extremely grateful for that. But I’m definitely very
excited for when I week do come
to just show exactly who I am as a player. And I think it’s
going to be an awesome
opportunity. Excited for the players over there. And yeah,
hopefully they can get things
rolling over there. But hey, that’s their job to figure out,
not mine. And I’ll just be
excited for the opportunity. When we do get to play them,
I’ll make sure I’m ready. Okay,
people don’t know this, but I finished my my career in
Chicago and I knew a young
Roquan Smith. Roquan you’ve now been in the league for some
years now brother. What. What’s
the growth been like for you since the day that I met you
over there for Chicago to now.
What’s the growth like been for you as a player as a person, as
a leader. What’s that look like
for you? Absolutely. Yeah, man, I got a tremendous amount of
respect for you as well. Still
remember those days? And yeah. So I would definitely say it’s
something I’ve learned as a
player, just like how to game, how the game works, how the
game works on the field as well
as the business side of things, and then just being yourself
regardless of the situation
that you’re in, the circumstances just always being
yourself day in and day out and
appreciating the good people that you come across in the
locker rooms, like yourself and
many others, I’ve come across and cherish those relationships
because you know how much they
actually mean to you. Roquan, no matter where you’ve been,
whether it been in college,
Chicago and now Baltimore, the fans feel so invested in you
because you take on the
identity of the place, the building and the jersey that
you wear and that goes beyond
the field for you. So you’re involved now in something
called Core to Action. Can you
explain this to us? Yeah, absolutely. Call to action I
think that’s a great a great
initiative to where it’s like just having an impact in the
communities. And like I feel as,
as a player, if you’re only a great player and don’t do much
in the community, I don’t feel
like you really uphold your end of the bargain. So I feel like
it’s something that’s dear to
my heart. Being able to have an impact in the community, be
amongst the kids, putting a
smile on their faces, some less privileged individuals just
being there for them in a sense.
And just like understanding that football is not forever,
but the way you make someone
feel, those impacts can last forever. So that’s just
something that’s dear to me,
and I care about it a lot. I can tell, and it’s cool that
you do. And Call to Action is
probably the best name of anything like that I’ve ever
heard. It is absolutely perfect
and it’s a great cause. You guys absolutely nailed it.
Another guy who checks all
those boxes on the field in the community is your quarterback.
Lamar Lamar is at this point
now where everyone respects him. Everyone loves him. And yet he
carries around this burden of
he has to deliver a Super Bowl. He’s got to get the big one.
He’s got to bring it home. And
every time he goes answers any questions, it’s about that.
What is that like for him? How
do you think he deals with that? Yeah, absolutely. I can only
imagine how he deals with it.
But from my opinion, I know that no one wants to win a
Super Bowl, probably outside of
myself and him more than him. Like that guy puts in the work
on a daily, a great dude if
anyone ever gets to know him. Very humble, down to earth. Got
a tremendous amount of respect
for him. The way he works, the way he lead this team day in
and day out. And hey, I know
what time we definitely will hoist that Lombardi. And that’s
the plan. And we got to take it
one game at a time. But I just know that guy and know how he
thinks and his goals and
motives. So I’m excited for the world to continue to see who he
is as a person and as well as a
player. If someone was new fan to the NFL and they would say,
what’s a great defense
historically look like? I would say, look no further than a
Baltimore Ravens defense year
in and year out. It just has the definition and the tenacity
that you’d want on the field,
and you’ve always been a part of that. You are 28 years young,
but you’re coordinator on
defense is 33 Zach or he’s young, he’s talented and he’s
got a crazy story when it comes
to football. What’s this Zach or defense like, and how do you
feel like it connects to the
history that a Ravens defense has? Absolutely. First and
foremost, I have a tremendous
amount of respect for Z0, as we call him, who he is as a person,
what he stands for. The guy
never budges on anything. Despite some adversity, he’s
faced adversity throughout his
life, throughout his football life, and that reflects in the
way he called as well and not
so worried about like the outside noise, but more so
worried about the individuals
that’s in the room. And I know what he instilled in us as a
bunch of relentless dudes who’s
going to instill fear, play in and play out into our opponent
and never take one play off,
one snap off, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the
job done. And if that takes 65
minutes, 60 minutes, whatever the case may be, we’re willing
to do that and willing to put
it on the line for each other every single snap and let the
other team know after they
played us, hey, I don’t want to play those guys again. Feels
like you didn’t blink when you
gave that answer. That’s an answer for a defense. That’s
macdonald-Smith everybody. Man.
We hope you stay healthy. We wish you well. We talk to you
again. All right. Good luck to
the Baltimore Ravens. Absolutely. Thank you guys.
Absolutely. All right. Monday
night as darkness falls over m t Bank Stadium you’re going to
look at that. It’s a series
that you can see for the Ravens. Roquan Smith a part of an
incredible defense a team that
on Gmfb you would say man that team is loaded. Oh let her know.
Here he goes. He gone. This is
where my love of the game was But I am somebody. Time for
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That’s just the appetizer for
the weekend. The Steelers they take on the Patriots on Sunday.
And to say there’s an age
disparity between the two quarterbacks is an
understatement. Drake Maye just
turning 23 years old Aaron Rodgers playing in his 21st
season in the NFL. Well Maye
spoke Wednesday about growing up and learning from Rodgers.
She was hard to emulate the way
he spins it. I mean, he spins it with the best of them. Yeah,
we’re trying to I remember in
eighth grade I was playing baseball and different sports
and you know, looked up, you
know, grip how to hold a football. So I looked up Aaron
Rodgers grip. And you know I’ve
had the grip ever since. So yeah just I think just little
things I think his play fakes
are unbelievable I think the way he gets defenders. He got
someone last week on a play
fake and just his intensity his you know his cadence is one of
the best in the league. You
know. You know I’m not gonna get there this early in my
career but try to work towards
it. He’s he’s so good at drawing guys offsides and take
advantage of big plays. And I
think he’s just a special talent. Moving guys and moving
defenders and throwing in tight
windows. It’s pretty cool to watch. Yeah. May has a long
list of things he has picked up
from Aaron Rodgers and as the saying goes, imitation is the
sincerest form of flattery. Now
coming up, we have much more gmfb coming up. Jamie and Manti
taking on Kyle and Mike G in
trivia now has struggled going up against Kyle. I mean,
haven’t we all? Jamie as his
teammate will work out better. all day Sunday on NFL network.
Gmfb trivia. The letters are
turned on their side because that’s how our brain flip flops.
Sometimes when we play this
against each other. Now normally trivia is question to
person, question to person.
Today we’re going two on two. All right it’s New York versus
LA Kyle and Mike G up against
each other. And man Ty and I against against those two guys.
We have selected various niches
if you will niche I. And that’s where our trivia will begin
okay. So Mike G and Kyle, are
you ready for your first question. We are are you ready
Jamie. Come on now. Let’s get a
little competition here. You have to ask us if we’re ready.
You know damn well we’re ready.
No, we asked Mike G because we’re in. Are you ready? We’re
actually Mike G. Mike G is
prepared. All right. Important clarification. The Raiders are
heading to Washington, D.C. to
take on the commanders this Sunday. These two franchises
met in Super Bowl 18 way back
in January of 1984. We all remember you might remember the
iconic 74 yard touchdown run by
Marcus Allen. Allen finished with 191 rushing yards. He won
a Super Bowl MVP. But here’s
the question who was the Raiders leading receiver in
that game? All right may have
been Marcus Allen, but who caught the most passes Todd
Christensen option a, b Cliff
branch C Did Marcus Allen also take the cake in receiving or D
dokie Williams Mike you get in
there first. Let’s talk about it. I thought we were getting
New York questions. Yeah. We’re
not getting New York questions. We’re not getting Washington
and LA. I don’t understand, but
trust us, we’re in New York. Not a rip in the space time
continuum, I think. I think the
one that shouts out to me would be Christensen. But my
advantage in this competition,
Mike, is I know the Gmfb staff very well, and they’d be so
pleased with themselves if the
answer was also Marcus Allen. So, Jamie, are you good with
that? Mike, can we go see?
Let’s go see Marcus Allen. Kyle, your confidence in your knowing
of the Gmfb staff is wavering
because, again, you like to fall on that sword a lot. It’s
not true. It’s B. Jamie, oh, no.
All right. If it was Christensen, I’d say we we
fumbled it. But if I fumbled it
because I spent the entire evening researching New York
based questions. Okay, Raiders
versus Washington, I don’t. What are we doing? Listen, you
might not know the production
staff, but the staff knows you, and they’re trying to help you
out with 90s NFL history.
That’s the alleyway that you’re in right now. I should have led
with that. Brandt’s finished
with a half a dozen catches 94 yards and a TD that game. All
right moving on Kyle. You get
to ask our first question. Bring it on. All right. You
guys are in LA. So I’ll ask you
something about jets. Dolphins. Here we go. Yeah. All right
Jamie you’re going to like this
one Taco Bell. Oh no. Oh for sure. At least the Doritos
Locos Tacos. Yo quiero. For the
first time on March 8th, 2012, celebrating Taco Bell’s 50th
anniversary of Living Mass. The
following month was the 2012 draft, where Andrew Luck and
Robert Griffin the third, were
the first two picks. Oh yeah, who was the third quarterback
drafted in the 2020 2012 Post
Taco Loco draft? Was it a Brandon Weeden, b Ryan
Tannehill, c Jake Locker or d
EJ Manuel? First of all, those tacos are delicious. Yes,
definitely. I thought we were
winning right when Taco Bell because I know Jamie loves Taco
Bell, and we couldn’t hear the
rest of the question because my stomach was grumbling. This is
your era you were at. You were
playing in college. Yeah. So you’d be aware of some of these
guys I have. I, I think it’s
either B or C Jamie. That’s where I’m going with it. I was
going to say B, so say b Miami
Dolphins Ryan Tannehill. Is that where we’re going? Jamie I
feel like Taco Bell. I know the
production staff well enough to know that while they’re trying
to trick us with a Cleveland
Browns draft pick when Brandon Weeden I don’t I’m going to go
I’m going to go Tannehill to
the Miami Dolphins. Or the final answer okay. So with the
confidence goes RG three goes.
And then who is the third quarterback to go draft. Oh
loco roll it El Jefe with the
eighth pick in the 2012 NFL draft the Miami Dolphins select
Ryan Tannehill quarterback
Texas A&M. Ooh yo quiero Tannehill yeah, don’t offend
anybody I go to Miami. Go to
Taco Bell. Long time Miami. Dolphin obviously used to be a
wide receiver at A&M. We talked
about that really great career then had a nice run with the
Titans as well. There he is.
Ended up being, I would say not the greatest pick of all time,
but a very good pick. They
Tannehill was in the playoffs with Miami and made it work out.
But Jamie get back to us
because we got some catching up to do. Yes please. Yes, I
locked in when I heard Taco
Bell. Such good crunch. All right, here we go. Steelers.
Patriots are facing off this
Sunday. In January of 1998. Put you guys in that head space
right now in the divisional
round the Steelers won a 7 to 6 slugfest against the Patriots,
the fewest points in a playoff
win since 1970. What was the number one movie in January of
1998? A good Will hunting B
Titanic. These are good. Was it C The Truman Show or D Mulan
these are good. All right,
Truman Show and Mulan are summer movies. I know that for
a fact. Wow. Knockout. I can
take the rest. So good. Will Hunting and Titanic were out in
theaters at the same time.
Titanic was in its heyday in December. In fact, I know a fun
fact about Titanic that even in
1997, money. It earned $1 million on Christmas Day in the
United States, people on
Christmas were going to see Titanic for like the eighth or
ninth time. So since it became
the highest grossing movie of all time in 98, I think it
would carry over. Unless, you
know, those Disney movies are sneaky. But if Mike says Mulan
is a summer movie, good Will
hunting as much as it was respected and was honored at
the Academy Awards, did not
have the financial punching power, as Larry Merchant might
say, as Titanic. So I’m going
to just go with Titanic. We’re going B, and if we’re wrong,
we’re going down with the ship.
Yes, that’s right, we’re just going to play a fiddle right
here. It’s been an honor to
play trivia with you, Mike. What do you got? All I know is
that Mike G would have pulled
Kyle up on that door that was floating in the middle of the
ocean. You guys are correct. It
is indeed Titanic. Titanic topped the box office for 15
consecutive weekends. To Kyle’s
point, people just kept going back, setting a modern era
record for consecutive weekends
as the number one movie in the box office. Well done guys,
well done guys, you’re my
number one. Listen, Jamie, it breaks down like this. Near,
far, wherever you are. Yes.
Yeah. My heart will go on. You know whose heart will not go on?
Jack’s because he froze to
death in the water. All right, the. Oh, and two chiefs and the.
Oh and two giants are meeting
Sunday Night Football this weekend. The oh and three bowl.
The last time two winless teams
met on Sunday Night Football in week three or later. Oh my god
there’s Mike Tyson. Oh my gosh.
It was in 2002. The zero and three Seahawks with Shaun
Alexander and his 27 kids
defeated Jamie’s zero and three. Vikings 48 to 23. Burger King
which of these items was on the
Burger King 99 cent value meal in 2002? What is this? I’m
reading the question for the
first time a journey. All right. Jane oh two. How old are you in
zero two? Jamie in zero two. I
was 1412. Okay. And Manthai, you were at the Pokey Bar in
Oahu? I don’t know if you were
at the Burger King. Tell me I was wrong. In oh two. There’s
only there’s only a McDonald’s
in my on my side of the island. So there was no burger. 1314.
Yep. All right, Jamie, you’re
going to have to be a hero here I want you oh two. There’s a 99
cent value meal at the BK. They
have a hot dog on that sucker, a quesadilla, chicken noodle
soup or a baked potato. What is
the answer? Ain’t no way they’re charging $1 for a baked
potato. Ain’t no way I’m going
to stop you right there. What? I’m gonna stop you right there.
Unfortunately, I do think I
know the answer. Okay, James, take it away. Put the team on
your back. Jamie. Erdahl. So
I’m going to pit. I’m gonna pit branches against each other
because Wendy’s. I love a good
Wendy’s chili and baked potato. It’s delicious. You put the
chili on top of the baked
potato. There was a Burger King near the school that I went to,
and I remember distinctly
thinking, I wonder if the Burger King baked potato was as
good as Jamie Cook as the
Wendy’s one. I’m not going to tell you the answer, because
what if someday I want a Burger
King sponsorship? So I won’t say what my opinion was.
However, I do believe that it
is baked potato cooked. Jamie, I’m glad you’re on my team,
cook. We’re going deep, guys.
Is it all right? Is it? I want to make a clean edit point
right here so Jamie can get
this on her Emmy reel. Nice and clean. All right, we got it.
Everybody just cut it there.
Ladies and gentlemen, the answer is baked potato. Jamie
Erdahl. The best there is. The
best there ever was. Look at those suckers. That is what
they looked like. And there was.
I actually think there was chili on the menu, too. I’d
have to look it up, but like,
guys, this is. That’s what it is. Potato. Did you have, like,
options or is it just potato?
I’m a plain baked potato girl so I don’t even think yeah just
just butter for me and some
green onion. But yeah that’s what it is. Unfortunately I do
remember that. And you know
what I do also remember is in this day in history, we beat.
Yes we did in trivia my first
time. Yeah, I blame you. I got no comeback. You you guys had
baked potato for the win. The
only football question, right? Yeah. Yeah. Football question.
And last question. Oh well yeah.
There it is. It has nothing to do with LA in New York. And
Kyle’s going to take that one
to the grave. We love you guys. Gmfb trivia everybody. That is
the most schizophrenic segment
we’ve ever done. There’s 12 different personalities going
on. Pine nuts, pine nuts, pine
nuts. They don’t have plates at Burger King. Come on. It’s in a
box. It’s in a box. At cabinets
to go. Quality cabinets, going to talk about the bucks
here. Now to start our
conversation for Throwdown Thursday. Three topics on the
clock A lot to get to
especially consider that Baker Mayfield has been excellent.
Monday night in his home state
of Texas, Mayfield threw two touchdowns and led the
Buccaneers on a game winning
drive to walk away with a 20 to 19 victory. Despite trailing
late in both games this season,
Baker Mayfield loves how resilient his teammates in
Tampa Bay are. Yeah, mentally
tough group guys being on the same page in chaotic moments,
being able to do the little
details right in a two minute drill. That’s it’s good to see
from the practice field to the
game field, being able guys just to execute. And like I
said, post game, you know,
sometimes it’s simple plays and guys just doing above and
beyond like Bucky did on some
of those checkdowns and putting us in a position to be able to
score was that moment in the
game. You took a pretty hard hit, and I mean, it looked like
you could have been seriously
hurt, and you sprang right back up and just started jawing with
C.J. Gardner-johnson. Just
what’s the mentality like in those moments for you? We don’t
take any. It’s about it. Put
the blur right in front of his mouth there. Baker Mayfield
talking his Bleep if you will.
The Buccaneers have been great to watch for the first time in
the Super Bowl era. The
Buccaneers are a team that has gone on game winning drives to
finish their first two games of
the season. They are two. And oh, that’s on the NFC side of
things. On the AFC side of
things, the magic is within the sparkle of the Indianapolis
Colts and Daniel Jones. This
team has scored on every possession. It feels like that
they played in the first two
games of the season. They’re not punting ever. It’s the Bucs
and the Colts for the better
story to start this 2025 NFL season. Man, who do you go with?
Man, this is a hard one, but
come on it’s Daniel Jones and I got some news. His name his
name is no longer Danny Dimes.
It’s Indiana Jones. Oh it’s Indiana Jones now. And the
reason why this narrative and
this story about him and the Colts is so it’s so great. It’s
because not so long ago in the
offseason that the Colts were a part of the conversation of
quarterback situations and
quarterback rooms that we find intriguing. Everybody was
talking about the Browns, the
Steelers, all of that stuff. The Colts are right in that
conversation, and now they’re
tied for second in points per game with 445 total points.
Guys, these guys are putting
points on the board and not to mention their defense. Not to
mention your points. I wish
points, yards, not to mention their defense has a new
defensive coordinator in Lou
Anarumo from the Cincinnati Bengals. They’re taking the
ball away. Cam Bynum is doing
his dances that we’ve been used to seeing him do as a Minnesota
Viking. So guys I got to go
with the Indianapolis Colts and Indiana Jones. They’re the best
story right now. Yeah well
they’re the best because they’re the most unlikely. I do
have to say two weeks in. Bill
Simmons, a friend of mine who I work with sometime pointed out,
he said, I’m not getting hooked
by the Colts like I got hooked by the Saints last year. And
that is a big insult to the
Colts, because if you remember the 2024 Saints, it was Derek
Carr two and zero lighting up
the sky, scoring 40 points and then it all completely fell
apart. That is a real zag to
what has been a positive story. Not my take. That’s why I’m
still going to go. I’m still
going to go with the Colts though. It’s there. Find me
anybody who you could be an
Indianapolis beat reporter, a national reporter, anything who
are like Colts two and zero.
Colts looking great. I just don’t think it was there. I
don’t even know inside the
Colts building if they were being honest. Everybody had the
bucks really being good, Baker
being good. I like the surprises. I like the surprises
on twos. I like the surprise
two and O’s. And of all of them, the Colts are the number one.
The Colts being two and zero is
more surprising than the Chiefs being zero and two to me, more
surprising than the Texans
being zero and two. And I like different flavors when you’ve
done this thing a long time. So
it’s the Colts. Mike, who do you like? Mike Baker Mayfield
and the Buccaneers or Daniel
Jones as the Colts? That’s a better story. It’s Thursday
right? Yeah I think back in the
90s Thursday on NBC was must see TV. Was that the night they
called must See TV. I remember
TGIF that was Friday but I think Thursday was Must See TV.
They called it. It was mad
about You, friends. Seinfeld. I think that was the lineup. Sure.
In that order to me the Bucs
are must see TV and Baker like I. I covered the Giants as a
beat reporter from oh 4 to 2012.
I had nine years of Eli Manning. I’ve told Eli this, you’re much
more entertaining after your
career than you were during. Oh, we’ve got Baker Mayfield now
posting on his own Instagram,
going face to face, nose to nose with CJ Gardner. Johnson
built different ten toes down.
That’s the caption you get that from a quarterback in today’s
NFL. Give me that all the time.
This is a great picture there. The picture of him going nose
to nose with CJ is fantastic
and I do. But from a story standpoint I’ll go. Todd Bowles,
who is facing his former team
and never really got a fair shake with the New York Jets
and has now got himself some
incredible structure. He and Jason White, the general
manager, extended on the same
day. They’re two and zero despite playing two road games.
All the injuries on the
offensive line, they lost Cody Mock for the season and the
fact that he’s over turned over
offensive coordinator three years in a row. And the way
it’s going for Josh Grizzard,
he might get a head coaching job at some point. Mike, are
you saying that Daniel Jones
Instagram is not electric right now? I bet he’s got all kinds
of trash to talk. I know Daniel
Jones constantly popping off. He’s basically new. Eli, like
he’s the same guy. He’ll stare
a hole through you. But at first to close the loop on the
offensive coordinator. Yes.
They couldn’t get anybody to take the job the first time it
went to Dave Canales. Now they
had people beating down the doors when it went to Josh
Grizzard. Good on you Todd
Bowles. That’s really good. Mike G you want to earn some
things. Plus the bucks are
playing the Jets this weekend. It’s all coming up roses. All
right. Next up on Throwdown
Thursday the Browns are hosting the Packers on Sunday. This is
a matchup of two of the game’s
best defensive lineman Micah Parsons and Myles Garrett.
They’re the only players with
ten plus sacks in each of the previous four seasons. Kevin
Stefanski knows his team is
going to have their hands full, though, going up against Micah
and the pack. I’ll start with
their defense talent at all three levels, obviously
bringing over Micah Parsons,
bringing a great player to an already great defense. We have
to expect him to be anywhere.
He could be off the ball. He can be on either side, he can
be up the middle, so there’s
really no telling on where they can utilize him, especially in
a short in a small sample size.
All right. Two of the best pass rushers on the planet I was
going to say the NFL. It’s on
the planet. You got Micah Parsons Myles Garrett. You must
pick who the bigger game
wrecker is okay. So if you look at these two guys, one guy,
Michael Parsons, was on a team
once that had the number one offense in the NFL. The other
one Myles Garrett, the
Cleveland Browns I don’t think the Cleveland Browns had a top
offense in the league since
he’s got there. So I’d have to go with Myles Garrett. Not only
has he Defensive Player of the
year, but he plays the run just as good as he plays the pass.
So if I’m thinking if I’m a
linebacker and I got a D in that, I can depend on him on
first, second and third down
and he’s going to wreck the game no matter if you run or
pass the ball against me. I got
to go with number 95, the Defensive Player of the year
Myles Garrett. He’s already
doing it this year Mike G. So I hope that he continues it for
the Cleveland Browns because
they’re going to need it. Yeah. If Jerry Jones was the owner of
the Browns and said we’re
trading Myles Garrett because we need to stop the run, that’s
not going to pass the smell
test on that one, but I do. I got in that head in my head,
the the sequence from week one
where he was in the two sacks in a row, and then he was in on
the third one as well. And the
Cleveland Browns do a great job of the day. After the game,
they’ll show Andrew Siciliano
calling the play by play. Our buddy from the booth there. He
looked like he was ready to
jump out of the booth. He was so excited. It was like play
after play after play. And the
way that a guy can impact the game in clusters, the way that
Myles Garrett does all, you
know, all power to you, Micah Parsons. And like Kevin
Stefanski said, you can be
anywhere. And that’s a headache for offenses. I’ll go Myles
Garrett though. Yeah I mean I
have to do the bad TV thing here. And I have to agree with
you guys. I say Myles Garrett
as well. Just I think just more productive maybe just a little
bit more feared. I thought you
know, Joe Burrow, before he got injured last week had
interesting insight into Myles
Garrett. He was saying Myles is a great guy and he takes care
of you out there. What does
that mean? You know he doesn’t try to hurt you. He tackles you
the proper way. Like he plays
like a professional and he’s a great player and a great guy. I
thought that was really
interesting compliment from from Joe Burrow. So he takes
care of you and he doesn’t try
to hurt you, and he takes steps to make sure he plays the game
clean. And yet he still totally
dominates it. I know that Micah Parsons is maybe at this point
he’s a little younger, maybe a
tad more explosive if we’re splitting hairs. But I don’t
think anybody in the league
wouldn’t take Mike, wouldn’t take Myles Garrett as the
number one pass rusher. Right
now he’s the defensive player of the year. He’s currently
leading the NFL in sacks again
after two weeks. I mean, if you watched that series last week
against the Bengals, week one
against the Bengals when he blew up Joe Burrow coming right
down the middle. Then he had
back to back sacks on back to back plays. It was like he
takes over the game from that
position and maybe Micah will. But I have to go. Garrett Kyle
when when Joe Burrow answered
that question, did you explicitly ask him about Myles
Garrett or did you ask him who
are some of the toughest guys that get after you? Like, how
did that answer come to be? It
was just he was Joe was watching video of Myles Garrett
coming right down the middle of
the line and blowing Joe up with a huge hit that was viral
after week one, and I expected
him to be like, yeah, that was crazy. And he’s just like, nah,
I mean, that’s just football.
And it didn’t hurt the hit. And he’s like, and that’s really
kind of Myles deal. He he takes
care of you out there. Which I thought was like a super classy
thing to say. So you know not a
lot blows blows Joe’s hair back and that didn’t either. Yeah
that’s really cool. All right
throw down Thursday. Moving on to topic three. Last one. It’s
been well documented time and
time again on Gmfb that Kyle has a favorite rookie actually
two of them. Can you imagine a
pair of cams on Throwdown Thursday. You have Titans
quarterback the number one
overall pick cam Ward and Giants running back Cam Skardu.
Check out the following
reactions though. From Skardu on the sideline with Russell
Wilson and then followed by Cam
Ward’s family after the number one overall pick threw his
first touchdown pass. Wilson in
the gun back to throw. Deep ball to the end zone. He goes.
The ball is caught by Wan’dale
Robinson. I’m talking about way to step up now he’s going to
roll back to the right. Back
past the 3025 throws across his body to the back pylon. He’s
gone. Wow. It’s a good look.
All right here’s the question. Who had the better reaction to
a score for their team. Is it
cam jostling Russell Wilson after that touchdown pass. Cam
or Cam Ward’s family in the
suite. Yeah first and foremost Cam Ward’s throw was that was
insane. It was it was insane.
We covered it on the show earlier in the week. However
when you have a teammate that
celebrates your wins the way that scat celebrated that win
with Russell Wilson, I had to
check to make sure that that wasn’t after he scored the
touchdown, because scat did
have a touchdown in that game. But the way that he celebrated,
I was like, wait, did he do
that before? Like after he scored or after Russell Wilson
made the play? And when I heard
it was after Russell Wilson threw that touchdown that told
me everything I needed to know
about the type of teammate that you got in Cameron and in cam,
the type of player that he is,
how he loves. So I got to give it to cam because it is very,
very rare that you find a
teammate, let alone a person in this world that would celebrate
your wins as much as they
celebrate their own. So you got to freaking angry, run and now
you got one of them. So I love
that guy. I’m a sucker for family reactions, especially
parent. I’m a parent myself now,
so you know all the sacrifices that go into just being a
parent of a regular kid, let
alone an NFL quarterback. And I go back to week one, Calvin
Ward in the stands in Denver,
pacing and hanging on the railing like, couldn’t even
deal with everything that he
was seeing on the field there in his son’s first NFL game.
And then to see the reaction
after he throws the touchdown and the entire family. If you
feel like you’re almost on the
journey with the Ward family, it’s only been two weeks and I
feel like I’m a member of the
family. We got the POV perspective right here. Love it.
Great reaction to that
touchdown there. Many more to come for cam I’m actually Mike
I’m going with Calvin Ward to
Cam Ward’s father. It’s not just that he threw the
touchdown. That play was heart
wrenching because he’s rolling hard right. And you throw it up
in the air like a rainbow. I’m
sure that the Ward family was like, oh no, oh no, no. Oh yes.
Like it was a full spectrum of
emotions. I think you’re tapping into something as a
father. If you have a son or
daughter who maybe it’s their first time ever playing Little
League and they’re like seven
years old and a fly ball gets hit to them and you’re like, oh,
no, no. And then if they catch
it, it’s like you’re actually crying in the stands. You’re so
excited and so involved. So cam
is excited like that, getting out of bed in the morning. He
is riling up Russell Wilson who
is playing in the NFL when cam was in fourth grade. That’s a
cool dynamic but I have to go
with Calvin Ward. I’m too much of a sucker as a dad. The
sequence in Parenthood with
Steve Martin and his son catching a fly ball. Kevin in
right field. Yeah. It’s
unbelievable. I’m going to go with that one too. But
specifically, I want to
describe the video from the family box again. And then I
want to play it because if you
can imagine as that play unfolds, it’s that I don’t
think many fans got on their
feet while the play was unfolding because they’re
probably like, oh no, he’s
going to have to throw it out of bounds. It’s the dad that
has the faith in the finish of
the play. Calvin Ward is actually the one that stands up
first in the box and then pay
close attention to the hip swivel. And it’s the old
classic. Like Ali Raisman’s
parents in the stands at the Olympics when they’re leaning
as the daughter’s doing the
bars, he’s kind of got the oh, staying body language. Yeah,
the body language. It’s awesome.
Yeah, I love it. Yeah. It’s the commitment to the act and the
finish of the quarterback. And
frankly, they all kind of look like that. Just ain’t no thing
for cam Ward. They used to it.
Get used to it. Exactly. All right. That was it for
Throwdown Thursday. We had
Danny Dimes and Baker Mayfield. We had Cam and Cam Ward. And we
had who is our second throwdown
Thursday I can’t even remember now. I’ve already blanked on me
Micah and Miles. There we go.
Good names in the NFL. Rams Eagles playing this weekend.
It’s a rematch of their classic
playoff game from last season. We’re having so many of those
for the Eagles. I guess that’s
what happens when you play for as long as you do into the
season. We are discussing this
game in a very unique gmfb way. You’re gonna have to check it
out. Kyle. Plus, we’ll see who
if anybody made it past week two of survival. If you hear me
say. Plus I got distracted and
I didn’t do my job and I had to take a lap. If you have to pick
just one team to win this
weekend independent of point spread, just straight up win,
who would you pick and more
importantly, who would Jamie and Mantei pick? We’re going to
do it right after this. There’s
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ahead of week three in the NFL. So with that, it’s our first
ever gmfb in-season press
conference with a joint effort ahead of the Rams Eagles game
Sunday, 1:00 on Fox. And I have
the very special gift to be able to speak with head coach
of the Philadelphia Eagles,
Nick Sirianni, who, of course, we all know and appreciate his
takes on his team, but also
those who are across the field coach Sirianni Andy Reid was
quite vocal about the tush push
earlier this week. It is what your team is known for and you
yourself must have a comment
about it. Coach, what say you on the tush push as it stands
today? Well, Jamie, I think. Oh,
now you look good. There you go. There we go. Well, Jamie, I
think Andy’s tush was in the
same seat that mine was in. So, again, we have a lot of respect
for him and what he’s done over
the course of his career. But obviously, a lot of people have
some thoughts about this tush
push. And at first it was a question of of health. Right.
Like a lot of people thought
that it was an injury issue even though there were no
injuries. So I think, again,
some folks have said that it doesn’t look like a football
play. But then when Andy runs
the Rose Bowl in the Super Bowl, everybody’s talking about him
being this genius, even though
that’s talk about it, coach. Talk about it, coach. And now,
you know, obviously I think
people are saying that this play is now hard to officiate.
Right. So obviously I think
we’re going to run this play into the ground as much as we
possibly can this season,
because I think there’s a chance that, again, this play
is going to be out outlawed
this upcoming season. So we’re going to give this play its
victory tour, its retirement
tour, sort of like Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter again,
nicely done coach. Nicely done.
Makes sense. Coach Sirianni thank you. That Sirianni, if
you could pass the microphone
down the table to the coach you are going against this weekend
and Sean McVay, first coach, I
must ask how is your foot doing after you yourself exposed your
injury report of a blown out
plantar fascia? How are you feeling now? It’s a little bit
of plantar fascia. It just
makes me the ultimate competitor gets. Jamie I
appreciate the question. You’re
a consummate professional. I always enjoyed your work. Going
back to Nesn, covering the
Boston Bruins top notch organization. Top to bottom Ray
Bourque, Bobby Orr, tush push
man. It’s a physical play. It’s what we preach about all the
time. We not me. The standard
is the standard. You know, Jamie, there’s something
special about being a part of
something bigger than yourself. You know, Jamie, I have a son
now. As a mother of three,
you’ve done the ultimate tush push full respect. But my son
and I were hitting the five man
sled in my backyard just yesterday. He’s almost two
years old now. We got him
driving that thing like he’s cam freakin Jergens and pull up
pants. But Nick Sirianni, heck
of a competitor. Eagles. Heck of a team. Heck of a challenge
to stop. And I just really
enjoy the competition. I love the heck out of the game of
football. Jamie. Coach, I’ve
always appreciated your dedication to researching even
the depths of my own personal
work resume. So thank you very much, coach McVay, and shout
out to all those women who have
labored in the actual form of the tush push. That was an
excellent parallel that you
made, coach. Moving on. Thank you. Jamie. You absolutely. You
yourself have a very young and
prolific defense with the LA Rams. And they’re going up
against the Eagles this weekend.
We are lucky to have the reigning rookie Defensive
player of the year in Jared
verse. Joining us in this Gmfb style press conference ahead of
this matchup. We do Jared how
can you stop the tush push. Well Jamie you know you got to
understand the tush push don’t
mean nothing to me. Do you understand who I worked out
with this year Aaron Donald I
went to Aaron Donald’s house. He had he had a workout. There
was four circuits, guys. It was
just all arms. Just all arms. And then we went four circuits
of straight corn, straight
cardio. And then he looks at me and he says, are you ready for
the workout? I was like, I’ve
been there for 45 minutes already. Then his wife comes
walking in and he’s like, I was
like, call the police. And she thought I was kidding. I was
like, no, for real, call the
police. I even actually thought about telling him that I had to
go home and see my mom, but
he’s like, give the keys to my assistant. So I was like, man,
I got plans. I want to go watch
some film. Did I watch some film? No, I didn’t watch
because then he wanted to do
eight hours, eight hours of straight arm. So you think the
tush push means something to me?
Jamie? It don’t mean nothing to me. Jamie. I just worked out
with Aaron. Donald. They. They
try to run it on us. Last year, twice. It didn’t work. It
didn’t work. Once they dropped,
jumped offsides twice. So I worked out with Aaron Donald.
It didn’t work yesterday. Last
year. I ain’t worried about it. You know, it’s odd though Jared,
because the defense isn’t
allowed to push back at all. So I don’t think that arm workout
is going to help you whatsoever
in your advancement. But good luck with those Aaron Donald
workouts. Moving on from Jared
verse to Jalen Hurts. Somebody who knows a thing or two about
viral offseason workout videos.
Bending the bar, if you will. But the thing about bending the
bar is that you got to use
those arms to throw a passing touchdown, everyone. Jalen
hurts is up in arms, pun
intended about you not throwing a passing touchdown season yet
this season. Do you care? Yeah
Jamie I had a purpose before they had an opinion. Jamie you
know this is about the process
for me. It’s just about winning. You see winning is is rent is
due every single day. And I’m
here just to do what I do. You know, I’m not really worried
about anything outside of our
locker room. I love our locker room. I love what we have going
and whatever is required of me
as a quarterback, whether it’s to run 20 touchdowns or pass 20
touchdowns, that’s what I’m
willing to do. You know, I’m used to doing things on a level
that a lot of people have a lot
of scrutiny for. But again, I had a purpose before they had
an opinion. And that purpose
has brought me to be a Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl MVP.
So I’m going to continue to do
what I’ve been doing. We really appreciate all of those
insights from the characters I
know, truly. Put it on a pillowcase that’s Rams Eagles
ahead of this weekend. Moving
on. I’m telling you, the access we have gained here on Gmfb is
intense, unknown to mankind.
Here we go. Lions. Ravens. I think we have these coaches
here as well. I can’t imagine,
coach Campbell, you are coming off a 50 burger against the
Chicago Bears. Many people this
summer said your offense was going to be a disaster because
you lost your offensive
coordinator. The genius mastermind behind it all. Is
your offense fixed? Ain’t no
thing. Oh, man. Man man. Say your prayers, little one. Don’t
forget, my son to include
everyone, man. You know what, Jamie? People want to say that
Ben Johnson was the master
master. But Jared Goff and Jameson Williams are no puppets,
man. Wherever our coordinators
may roam in their careers, man, they may become harvesters of
sorrow, man. And that’s sad,
but true, man. But for us, the memory remains and we turn the
page, man. And hell yes, we run
up the score. We had motivation, man fueled fire. That which I
desire, man. We’re on to week
four and we’re off to never, never land, man. Yeah you are
coach. Appreciate that. And do
you need another cop? How’s your stop there. How’s. No we
can’t we can’t wait I want to
go back to Coach Campbell. Coach that coffee intake. Is
that. What are you good for the
day? Are you getting those extra jitters on when it comes
to your. I’m just worried about
that coffee cup in your hand. Coffee and kettlebells, man,
that’s how I beat up weenies
like Garafolo next to me. Who doesn’t want to go after me? I
shove him in lockers like a
nerd. Garafolo, get up here and carry your weight in this
program, man. We’re doing a
segment here. Garafolo. Put something together for once.
Let’s go. No, Garafolo is part
of the working press corps ahead of this game for the NFL.
I don’t know who you’re talking
about. Only press I do is bench and incline, man. Let’s go.
Come on now, get him off the
screen. Because I got to talk to Coach Harbaugh. That’s how
we have access. Who we have
access to next. Lions at Ravens is the game we just heard from
the Lions head coach now coach
Harbaugh. Lions. Ravens. Do you deem this a Super Bowl preview?
Well, as John Harbaugh who
doesn’t answer much of anything, I definitely would not answer
this question in week one of
the great characters joins the segment. No doubt about it,
because frankly, it is a week
by week league. And when you talk about whether it’s a Super
Bowl, nobody cares. Work harder.
That is the mantra that we have here at the Castle in Owings
Mills, Maryland. But if it is a
Super Bowl preview, who’s going to have it better than us? As
NFL fans know? Mike coach, you
are ruining the mystery by popping out from behind the
head coach. Harbaugh moving on
to the player portion of this Gmfb press conference. Derrick
Henry, the King at the castle.
Why are you going to take another angry run scepter home
this week? How does that look?
Well, Jamie, you know, Coach Campbell just talked about
kettlebells. I ran up, I ran up
a hill 150 yards long with 100 pound kettlebells. And if you
ever watch my workouts, I. I
throw up 100 pound dumbbells on a bosu ball with one hand and,
you know, so when I try to
stiff arm these guys, there’s nothing compared to the 1,000
pound dumbbells that I’d be
squatting with. So it’s just a part of my workouts. I’ve been
doing it for a lot of a lot of
years now, and I don’t know if you saw my offseason workout,
but I’m continuing to do the
things I need to do. I think I won six angry runs now. Jamie,
I’m looking to win 12 this year,
so it’s just going to be another step in my long career
Hall of Fame career for sure.
Unfortunately for you, Derrick, you’re going to have to go up
against cam. So taking six more
home this season would be quite difficult, especially since you
yourself and at this press
conference are seated next to Alex Anzalone who is going to
try to take you down. Alex, let
me ask you this. How does one tackle Derrick Henry? Well, you
see this beautiful locks that I
have right here. Jamie, my name is Alex Anzalone. It looks like
Jamie. Yeah, but you know what?
They also call me. They call me Thor. Jamie. And I don’t know
if you ever watched the movie
Ragnarok, but I also fought a guy named Hulk in there, and I
ain’t scared of nobody. And if
you saw that movie, I beat up Hulk without my without my
hammer. So if you think I’m. If
you think I’m worried about somebody who has six angry
scepters, I ain’t scared. Why?
Because I beat up the Hulk and I didn’t even have my hammer
with me. And I’m bringing the
hammer with me. This. This game, so I ain’t worried. Just. Just
watch my locks, man, I love you.
You’re my best friend. Nah. Well done everybody. The first
DMV press conference of the
year, Mike G. You yourself have sat in the seats of some of
those press conferences. I
can’t imagine the access that we just got. It’s incredible.
It’s all because of the brand.
Gmfb. Everybody knows, right? Come here. Kyle, how’s your
voice box? I don’t know what
you mean. I’ve just been sitting here listening to the
coaches. Jamie, what are you
talking about? My voice box is fine as it always is. What do
you mean? It’s a great segment.
I hit it off talking. I had it off. You didn’t have to do any
talking. Talking? Yeah, my
favorite kind. Yeah, man. Ride these pythons. Garafolo. Hey!
Beat him. Take that down to
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Presented by Progressive Insurance, the Chargers defense
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Raiders, coming up with three
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nine measly points. Ashton
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They fake it to him. Smith
throws almost picked up on a carom. Gets into the hands of
Jalen Henley. Smith on the move.
Scanning as he seen him in the open. Now he just chucks it way
downfield. And it’s going to be
intercepted. Third and 15 pressure again down the middle
end zone. Shot carom and
intercepted third tonight for Smith. The Chargers have been a
really fun watch to start this
season especially considering the challenges that involve in
traveling to another country
taking on the Chiefs. It’s all coming up for the LA Chargers.
However, some teams are not as
lucky. No Justin Herbert, a starting quarterback for the
Chargers. But Jamie, it’s just
the start of week three. That quarterback carousel already
starting to turn. Just
yesterday, Kyle gave us an incredible breakdown of Carson
Wentz’s career. Sunday, he’ll
be starting for his sixth team in the last six seasons. That’s
an NFL record he started for
the Vikings when they take on the Bengals when he grew up in
North Dakota. But now he’s
going to get to play for the team he cheered for as a kid. I
grew up rooting for this team.
You know, it’s it’s one of those things you play long
enough and you can kind of
forget about those things because it’s just it’s football.
You’re bouncing around teams.
But being here, I kind of alluded to it when I first got
here, just how cool it is for
me to know, you know, I used to cheer for the guys that I’m
walking down the hallway seeing.
You used to come to the Metrodome and I was waving the
towel. I was, you know, part of
the Skol chant, all the things. And so running out of that
tunnel this week will probably
hit me a little bit different in a really cool, kind of
surreal way. So I’m excited for
that. Believe it or not, my family was already planning to
come. So now everybody’s. Now
there’s even more coming. So. But yeah, everybody’s pretty
excited again. You never wish
for injuries in those capacities. But just the way
this is happening to get a
chance team I grew up for close to home. All the things. Yeah
everybody’s excited for the
chance. Looking forward to that Big West fan group in the
stands. But coming up, did
Jamie or Manti survive their week two picks? Maybe both of
them. Well, either way, they’re
going to pick again to see if maybe they can survive in a
game of survival. When Gmfb
comes back. For. The international games are back on
NFL network, and here day on Paramount Plus. This is
survival 2025. I’m envious of
your your toenails. Thank you. I got the Denver Broncos
beating the Tennessee Titans on
an island of at Tennessee Baltimore Ravens. You
will sail me into week three of
survival. And from the shores of victory to the teeth of week
three, survival survives based
on the strength of Jamie Erdahl and Manti Te’o’s picks during
week two. But this is
relentless. We don’t take victory laps. We make picks
going directly into the
following week, and we are looking at a gantlet of a
schedule of week three. Teams
have figured themselves out. There’s no surprises. Will our
two combatants remain standing
a week from now? Here’s the deal. In this football helmet,
I have two names, two cards,
rather each with a name on it. One card says Jamie. One card
says Manti. I will reach in,
pull out only one card and that. Wow, that music is so loud I
can’t even stay in character.
All right, when the card is pulled out, that person will
have the first pick of any game
they want on the slate, except for the team that they’ve
already picked. The second name,
which. Yes, Jamie. Oh, I was just going to tell you that in
hopes of this thing continuing
on last year and every year, this always has like an
international flavor to it. So
hopefully survival survives. Kyle, I just wanted to get to
you before you pick the names
to say that this thing could go to Dublin next week. So let’s
hope that survival is a great
point. Yeah, let’s see if Erdahl can doubling down on her
success here. You know how it
works. One name comes out. They get first pick. I’m going to
mix them up because they’re
giant cards. I don’t know which one is which. I don’t know
which one is which, but I do
know I have one in my hand now. And with the first pick of
survival Week three. Oh, Manti
Te’o, you can pick any teams you want except for the two
that you’ve already picked,
which we just saw in the clip. The floor is yours. Thank you
brother, just a recap. So my
first week I picked the Broncos versus the Titans. And then my
second week I picked the Rams
versus the Titans. Now Titans. Yeah. And against the Titans
for both. Now I do love the
Titans I love what they have. And I will say week one I was a
little bit nervous especially
all the way to the third quarter. So I chose not to go
against a team that’s playing
against the Titans. Rather, I don’t want to wait that long. I
don’t want to be Sunday, and
I’m waiting to see if my team is going to win or lose. I just
rather get it away with tonight,
all right? I just rather get it out of the way. So I am going
to choose the Buffalo Bills,
taking on the Dolphins at home at Highmark Stadium tonight at
515 Pacific Standard Time. So
by 815 I should know whether I survived or not. And I can
enjoy the rest of my weekend.
So I got the bills. Jamie Erdahl you alluded to that
earlier. Jamie I didn’t you
Jamie, can we offer commentary on Manti’s pick give you a
little more time to think about
who you might want because you got the second pick. Mike
Garafolo what do you think
about Manti taking the bills at home on a short week in
survival? I love the idea of
feed up on the Sunday, knowing that the hay is already in the
barn. I love that concept. What
we’ve seen from Miami so far. Well, they all of a sudden on a
short week turn it up. I know
people, some people have an anti division policy. I like
the play you might want to save
if you’re in the you might want to save the bills for later.
But Manti wants the easy
victory or at all. You’re up. Well Kyle I was when I was
perusing the schedule as one
does when they get to keep playing and survival, which
somebody like Kyle and Axel
don’t get to do. This was a really tough slate in week
three. Kyle, can you just
gander at some of the games for me and tell me why some of
those matchups would have been
really, really hard to select and see what jumps out to you
because you, my friend, have a
lot of rules that you normally would like to follow in
survival if you were still
playing. Are we asking for help? No. My system. No, Jamie, I got
it. And listen, I got knocked
out week one, but I usually win this one, all right? My system
is never, ever, ever, ever pick
a road team. I don’t care if they’re favored by three
touchdowns. Never pick a road
team. Never pick a divisional matchup. A rule that Manti just
broke. Divisional opponents
know each other well. They played each other for years.
And the last rule that Mike
alluded to never, ever save a team. You’re going to say, well,
I’ll save the bills for week
six. You’re going to be out week three. Just use them and
get along as any way you can.
So Jamie, with that, I have looked at the schedule. I would
not have made Manti’s pick even
though the bills will probably win. Do you want me to tell you
my favorite pick or do you want
to have the floor? Yeah. So I’m going to show Manci what my
pick is and let’s see if it is
the same logic. Let’s see if it’s the same. Yeah go ahead
Kyle. Well home team not
divisional opponent. And I’m not going to save them. They
hit all three rules I’m taking
Seattle Seahawks this week at home against the New Orleans
Saints. Wow that’s a good one.
That’s a really good one Kyle. It’s not what I have on my card.
It is not. We led this hour
with Baker Mayfield and the bucks. And they are hosting the
New York Jets New York Jets
team that doesn’t have Justin Fields. So I’m going with the
Buccaneers. And I think by the
end of the weekend, Manti and I will know that indeed, we are
still surviving on the survival
island. And Kyle, if you remember, a couple of years ago,
I think I was in London and
your mic was open or hot during the commercial break, and I was
able to hear your logic in
survival ahead of the segment. And I like took your pick right
out from underneath you. So be
careful, man. If we’re playing this thing and I’m in Dublin
next week, I could just take
your team right out from underneath you. So you might
think I’m all distracted. And
you know, Jim, I know you have. You got that spice to you? I do
know that Mike G. If you had a
game, would you have chosen Mike G. If you if you could
choose. I like the Seattle play
because as much as Kyle’s policies don’t save a team or
whatever, I also like to take a
team that I’m probably not going to take in a lot of spots
going forward, and Seattle
seems to fit that bill, so I like that one right there. I
also like, you know, I think
it’s going to be few and far between for the Saints for
victories this this season. So
I kind of like going against the Saints wherever I can.
Jimmy, if I’m talking on a hot
mic. And the worst that happened was you took my
survival pick. That is a win.
That is a big win. I just got nervous with you even telling
that story. I was nervous about
it. But also, you took Tampa at home? Yep. They are in the
creamsicles this weekend. Like
it’s all coming up. Tampa. I think it’s a good pick. I like
survival too. But Tampa is an
excellent pick. That’s that’s it. And there it is. Go ahead.
What do you think Mike I think
I think that’s a that’s a pic of a guy who shouldn’t have
been out in week one. That’s
what I think right here. I’m not talking about Axel. Yeah.
Listen I thought the Mike
Vrabel Pats week one against Pete Carroll I thought they’d
at least get the win. They
looked terrible in that game. But I’m out. It doesn’t matter.
I have a really good feeling
we’re going to be playing this