Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Bears last second collapse agains the Lions. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila discuss watching football through Thanksgiving. Ravens WR Zay Flowers looks at his matchup against the Eagles on Sunday. Plus, the Dolphins narrative in the cold continues in Green Bay.
Stay tuned for Mad Minute coming up in Hour 2 of the GMFB Podcast!
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Good morning football, Happy recovery day day after Thanksgiving.
Everybody. This is good morning football.
We are live in La New York. Maybe a little Baltimore shaken in there. It's Friday, November twenty ninth. This is Akbar Bushban Millet. That's Kyle Brandt. There's Peter Schrager. I'm Jamie Erdal. Everybody. Good morning to you, Akwar. How was your Thanksgiving?
My Thanksgiving was amazing. It was real chill the family. We all got together watch football, you know, had some food. We'll talk about the food stuff later, but.
It was good.
It was real good.
I love what about you, guys. I love to hear it.
There's incredible football to talk about. But people are tuning in this morning to hear one of us react to the crazy.
Thing that happened yesterday. Peter, just talk about Jelly Roll.
Go ahead, Yeah, First of all, First of all, I got to tell you Shaboozie.
First killed it, Shaboozy.
Then Lady Wilson killed it, and then she brings out jelly as a surprise guest, and he sings, somebody saved me, and it takes me to a different plane. I'll tell you what, guys, jelly roll the movements here. But I'll tell you Kyle. We will get to your Bear's reaction shortly. But first, Jamie, we got to go through the highlights of everything we.
Must, so we got to review everything that happened yesterday. But let us start with the first game of the day, because, frankly, to Kyle's annoyance, the rest of the day kind of went as it was supposed to, which he hates.
He always embraces change.
But the other thing Kyle embraces is questionable play calling at the end of a game, and then we have to talk about it.
Kyle, take it away.
Yeah, there was no change at the end of linees Bears, I'll just tell you that right now.
But let's go to the highlight. Let's go to Detroit, Michigan.
This is the Lions eighty fifth Thanksgiving game, eighty fifth.
Of course, they have lost seven in a row, blowout.
Right, it doesn't look like a very competitive game.
But no, let's go to the fourth quarter.
Bears down twenty three to seven, and Caleb's gonna find Ketan for the second time, and Keenan Allen stirring the pot, cooking up a shocker.
I knew this game was gonna be close. The Bears by the Lion's tough.
And we got all kinds of action, but we're skipping a ton of stuff here. At the end of a crazy drive for the Bears, Darius Smith gets a free run on Caleb Williams with nobody blocking him, and you're just gonna watch the clock tick down. Bears down three, They have a timeout. Who they're saying, stay on it, don't call the timeout, all right, fine.
But then Romo's boy starts to come up a seven seconds six Wait, what the hell's going on?
This is it? This is the last play of the game. They didn't call the time out. They throw out the Roman Domday. It has no chance in The game is over. The game is over. The Bears had a timeout and they ran out of time, and they lose again, and they haven't won in almost two months. The lines win credit to them.
They survived, and they had a great first half, but.
They were woefully outplayed and the second half and still one Lions eleven and one Bears four. And imagine an eleven and one team winning at home, and we're gonna go to the losing head coach and the quarterback about what in the holy hell.
Happened at the end of that game.
So right there, we like to play that we had and we were hoping that he's gonna call it, you know, get the ball snapped and then we would have called time out right there. But once it's under seven there, you know, then you're you're you call time out there, then you're basically throwing the ball to the end zone because once it's under twelve, we can't throw it inside with no timeout. And it was third going into fourth, you know, so that's that's a big deal. So it was third going into fourth. That's why I wanted to preserve the time out. I think we handled it the right way. I do believe that. You know, you just rewrecked the play. Get it in bounce and call time out. And that's why we held it and didn't work out the way we wanted it to.
We can call the time out, we cannot surprise. I'm not gonna say surprise or or not. Just my job is to go out there and make plays. My job is to get everybody lined up and that's it. Win games. So didn't do that today. You know, I could have gave Rome a you know, maybe a little bit more of a jump ball in that situation instead of maybe trying to throw it over his shoulder anything like that. But you know, with that situation, that's not what happened. Man.
We could put a Senate committee together and pick apart that transcript about how that game ended and what was said, what was not said, what was decided to do or not to do.
Peter Schrager, I'll go to you first. Maybe just walk us.
Through how you saw that unfold, what some of the coaches or people with the Bears have said subsequently, because this is a really bad look for a lot of people that decide how that game ends for the Chicago Bears.
Well before it came on air, I asked my eight year old son mel I said, Okay, now about to go on.
We watched this game, we experienced it.
He goes, you got to talk about the coach, Dad, you got to talk.
About the coach.
Coach left the time out on the board, and I said, I do have to talk about the coach. I take no joy coming in here and crushing a coaching staff that's going through a five game losing streak. It's the holiday season, it's the last thing I want to do. But the amount of late game gaffs that this team has suffered, and I can't pin it on a rookie quarterback who hasn't been there and done that. To go through this and have a time out left at the end where it seems like it's panic, panic, panic, and to leave it and then to try to explain it afterwards, it's not acceptable to the fan base, it's not acceptable to the players, and you can sense the players losing patients, thought Keenan Allen's comment after the game. If we haven't shown so, thought the players did well enough to win. I thought Kyler Gordon, who's a veteran there kind of rolling his eyes saying, I'm not going to comment on the end of the game.
It's been going that way for a couple of weeks. Not to through shot and fraud or to make Bears fans feel any worse.
But let's relive it one more time, but this time let's hear it with Anton Romo on the call. Let's take it away, CBS, how we all experienced it, all, forty million of us yesterday on the couch.
No one touched them and down Cohes Williams so Darius Smith.
Well, this is supposed to be a quarterback drawn.
They have a light box, buckets running for fifteen seconds, and it's third and twenty six and the one time out left.
This is like the light box.
You could have gotten numbers, but just did get better.
Hurr eight and oh, this is disaster in the making here. You're gonna have to do something when it comes down to this play and complete and the game is over, completely boxed at the end by the Bears.
Can't believe they didn't take a time out.
You just assumed they would have taken.
They're looking around like what just happened.
It's a devastating way to lose a football game. And if five games left, obviously the Bear season is over. I can't imagine they're going to rally the troops and go on some crazy run.
Here.
I think of what could have been obviously in this game. But they've had three division games all have been losses by a combined seven points. I watched last week against Minnesota where Caleb takes a terrible sack in overtime, and I don't know, over the years, Iberflus isn't great in these close games or late game ones. He's five to nine in one score games, and he's two in fifteen against the NFC North in his three years there. So it's hard for me to do anything but to say what could have been? And I understand if Bears fans this morning are feeling like they were cheated of a win, a game that they could have at least hied or won, but ockbar, I'm just miserable here for Bears fans. There's obviously a Lions fan base that's feeling pretty good somewhere and thinking, Okay, we escaped the close one.
They escaped a close one, and it was I'm still kind of like trying to get my brain around what was happening. I mean, you didn't have to be a football expert to go, yo, what are you guys doing? And they missed the opportunity to take advantage of a very banged up Lions defense. I mean you saw during the game guys were dropping left and right. I mean they looked dominant early on. Talking about that Lions defense, that Lions defense looked very, very dominant early on. They shut down Caleb Williams. Caleb Williams, that first half was not productive. That offense wasn't productive. They didn't get into the red zone. And when I look at this defense, you know with Pascal Onu, Zuruque Rodriguez, all those guys are just dropping left and right. And the backup guys, you know, you talk about next man up. Those guys have to step up and think it all right, But they let the Bears back in the game. You guys just talked about it, you know, Peter. They didn't capitalize when they needed to, and especially by managing the clock situation. That's just bad coaching from the from I mean from the top. That starts at the top. I don't even put that on Caleb Willys. I'll put that on the coach. But in the end, I think the Lions they got that w They broke that seven game street we were talking about yesterday, But you know it was it shouldn't have been that close. Just to put it like simple, it shouldn't have been that close. The Lions clearly made some mistake too early on in the game. They should have capitalized on some of that. They should have put this game away in that first half.
Bears losses at this point feel like Friends episodes. This was the one where they ran out of time with the time out. There's the one where they lost on a hail Mary while their defensive back was looking at the crowd. There's the one where they got a field goal blocked against the Packers, the one where they take the sack against the Vikings. And again this is they ran out of time with a timeout. It's almost impossible to do. And this team has gone from promising to bad to broke into historic. This is a special Bears team, guys, in the sense that this team will be remembered. This team, I think actually will be studied. I know, Bears fans finally remember it, finally remember the two thousand and one Bears team, the Mike Brown team, where every single thing at the end of a game would always seem to go their way.
This is the exact opposite of that.
And it's so confusing. It's not that they're bad, it's just they're special. They always figure it out. Let me see some Bears.
For the love of God.
Do you know that the Bears have scored more points than their opponents this year?
Figure that out.
That's true, They've scored more points than their opponents.
Did you know that Caleb Williams has set the all time rookie record for passes without an inner.
That's current.
Did you know that the Lions went nearly a month without scoring in the second getting at a point in the second half zero second that point, the Bear scored twenty yesterday in the second half. It's all true. But with all of that, they've lost six games in a row. And you know what, you know, yesterday was Thanksgiving a lot of people, including myself. I watched planes, trains, and automobiles yesterday, and I think then the game reflected that last night was del Griffith is clearing his sinuses in bed and Neil Page finally screams and loses it and gets out of bed.
It finally happened, all right.
Remember Neil Page a chicagoan, a Bears fan who references the Bears in the movie, And I feel like Bears finally finally get up and they start screaming and they say, you know, I mean, didn't you notice when you started losing? Eventually the fans started reaching for the vomit bag. Then they give you some kind of clue like maybe, hey, these guys aren't enjoying it. You know, every week is not a soul crushing loss. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are football or my frustrating or understandable losses.
You're a miracle. Your losses have none of that. They're not even understandable.
Accidentally, honey, I like you to meet Matt Eberflus.
He's got some interesting losses for you. Oh and here's a.
Gun so you can blow your brains out. You'll thank me for it. I could tolerate.
Any Giants Cowboys game for hours.
I could watch Cooper Rush and Drew Lock go back and forth with a big smile on my face.
They'd say, how can you stand it? I'd say, I've been with Matt Eberflus.
I can take anything.
You know what they say?
They say, I know what you mean.
I like what we did there.
Guy, whoa.
It's like having a coach who is a chatty Kathy doll. I expect him to have a little string that you pull out on his chest and snap back.
And said, I wouldn't pull it back and step it back.
He went, by the way, when you're playing those little games, when you just need to make one play at the end to win the game, here's an idea. Score a point and makes it so much more interesting for the fans.
That's all I got.
Guys.
You had me with the one where the Bear season became a friend's episode. Just from my observation, the quarterback communication with the coach at fifteen seconds on the playclock, that thing gets cut off. There was still seven seconds left on the game for when that time hit fifteen seconds, So.
At any given point, for twenty.
Seconds before that, Eberflus could have screamed into.
Cale Williams's helmet call it time out. He has the full power to do that. I won't say who it was.
I was calling a game once and there was a coordinator who was under fire a little bit, and someone actually made the joke said, can you check on the sideline if that guy's plug is even plugged into something for him to communicate with anybody? Like you see all this b roll of Matt Ebraflu walking around and he's yelling at people and he's talking into the thing, Like, where was the decision making in the end. This is something we could talk about for years and days, and Kyle can quote movies and any of his John Hughes conversations, shregs. That's what was glaring to me was the quarterback communication.
And look, Chicago is the second biggest media market that we have in the NFL, and that's a diehard fan base, and there's twenty or thirty credentialed reporters who just write about the team, let alone new podcast. You know it's going to be a bloodbath for the next three days for eber Flus.
It will be.
And I think what kills you the most as a Bears fan is after the Hill, Mary, he says he would have played it exactly the same way, and after this one, I like what we did here, and he tries justifying it by saying, well, if it's third going into fourth, and if it there's no like, gosh, we screwed that up, or that's on us, or we let Caleb.
Down, or because.
Kyle, I mean, Kyle, I want to bring you back in plays trains and automobiles aside, Like what an awesome comeback that was, and like that, what a cool moment that could have been in like a bright spot in a terrible year where Caleb's getting better every.
Week and you're like, you just wanted to feel victory one time, and I need to be so morbid.
On this Friday after Thanksgiving when it's a defensive time.
But like I felt for Bears fan yesterday and there was.
No contrition afterwards. You didn't even get the like, ah, what a coastal faruy. It was like I thought, we did all right there, and that's what kills you.
In the second half of that game against I think the best team in football, the Bears were a better team with a better quarterback like Caleb was great in the second half, and that was a season making, not season saving, but season making win a national Tubs.
Everybody can feel good.
Just to pull from the headlines.
Listen, we don't call for coaches jobs explicitly on the show.
We try to be as respectful as we can.
As far as I read from the Chicago Tribune, Matt Eberflu's schedule to have a press his normal press conference this morning on Friday in the next couple of hours. That at least was the schedule. I don't know if anything's changed. They flew back last night, so everybody stand by. If he does it, it's going to be a feeding frenzy. If he doesn't do it, it's going to be a feeding frenzy. So that is going to happen real time of Good Morning Football this morning.
Yeah, this is a real black This is a real Black Friday for the Chicago Bears. I know we're talking about the bad call there for the play call, but think about this. They missed out on a great opportunity in this game. Emanuel Moseley was out. You had Carlton Davis out of this game, so that secondary was weak.
I know we're talking. I don't want to pooh poo on Caleb Williams.
Caleb Williams didn't take advantage of a very hurt and wounded Lions team. They had a lot of guys in game, guys before the game who weren't playing. So that's why Caleb Numbers looked really good, like as he was getting into this thing in that second half.
But like, make no mistake.
About it, he didn't take and nor did the coaches take advantage of a very wounded Lions team.
All Right, we're gonna check out with Ian Rapport real quick about Black Friday after the blurk.
Okay, plus, we have a guest coming on.
We got to get to the news, we got to get to the highlights. But we have a Baltimore raven star on our show coming up just in a couple of minutes.
All right, stay tuned.
Good mon football.
A talent as bright as his smile, that is Save Flowers, the second year wide receiver for the Baltimore Ravens.
He's on the show. Happy Thanksgiving to you today.
Awesome to see you.
Awesome to see you.
Man.
Listen, Lamar Jackson calls a play and you have to go, Yes, chef, but yesterday did you.
Cook on Thanksgiving? Once you roll.
Out, yeah, I was the QB yesterday.
So I have some macaroni, Yeah, barbecue, chicken so frys.
Oh, no desert though I can't cook, No deserve.
Just wait for my dad because I'm a sweet potato pot where I was at home this year?
Oh okay, Well, we all hit our faces off and are just lying around in like comfy.
Sweatpants and clothes. You're in the gym right now, so we respect it. That's the flex. We like that to have a huge, huge game this.
Weekend's say, you know, the NFL Saquon and the Eagles are coming into town.
It's probably the game of the weekend.
What do you got, How are you feeling and does this feel like a major matchup inside that Ravens flock room, even though they're from the other conference.
No, not really.
I think we just treat it week the same, like really going to were thinking it's a bigger game than the next because every game count. So we just going in and try to play out a game and do what we do best.
You do it well, say we love watching you.
Yesterday you got to have the day off, and when you weren't doing the fried ribs and the macaroni and everything, I know you saw the end of Bears Lions.
What did you make of that man? From a player's perspective?
Oh, I can't even tell you, because it was crazy. He should have caught the time out, that's all I think. I think he should have just caught the time out, gotten them back together and tried to pick out the first down from there. But you know, everybody got their own game, and he said he thought it was right, So that's the only thing we can leave it at.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know. You try not to to ruffle any further feathers. You don't want to be post support material, but you're right to sh call the time out. But let's talk about you for a minute. Right now. Because four games with more than one hundred receiving yards this season. You know what's worked with you so well in this Todd Monkin offense. And where have you seen yourself grow the most?
I say, just trusting the process and like a bout more experience, like looking at defenses, recognize what's going on, being able to communicate with Lamar without even talking, and just run around on the field because Lamar a two play quarterback, so he scrambled around and I get to run around and use my quickness to get open. So that's been a big part. Scrambled drill and being able to win.
Man, the men, Well, it's worked, and your offense is clicking and it's been really fun to watch. And the other thing that we love about this time of year, besides teams that are streaking to the playoffs, is the My Cause, My Cleats initiative. Now you have this collaboration going on with call of Duty. What's going on with that? Look at those shoes? Oh my goodness, mark us through everything here, man.
So we are doing the endownment with call of Duty from My Cause myklees. You know they help military vets getting it on hot paid high quality jobs and they helped. Since two thousand and nine, they helped over one hundred and forty thousand, So that's double the size of MBT banks. So imagine how loud that is you put all them in there. That's one hundred and forty thousand people that they helped. And you know, it's always been a big thing to me because I got vets in my family that into jaws and being able to meet living for their family outside the military once they're done. So there's always been a big passion to me to give back, no matter what it is, Veterans Children's Hospital, giving away food, turkey, jaws, whatever it was, it was always my thing to give back.
Zay, I know you just alluded to it, but I'd like to hear more about that. I even played call of duty for a really long time, but there's that connection with your family.
Could you tell us a little bit more about why this is so special.
Too, especially because I've been playing call of duty since I was like six or seven years old. So being able to work with them and being able to just do my calls, my cleats in the NFL has always been a dune to me because at first I thought it was just creating cleats, but now I know the real story behind it.
All right, and this is so cool that you're doing this, and especially before this big game having those cleats. Ravens fans are going to show up and show out on Sunday. What's your message to the fans as this is going to be a four to thirty start, late afternoon weather, getting there, some coming down. Say you guys need every last fan in that building too. If there's a Ravens fan watching at home, what would be your message to them coming to the game on Sunday.
I'll turn the bake up.
I mean they do it every time.
They always they always come out home all way, no matter where we at, they always come out and do they things. So just come out and bring the energy like they always do.
You always bring it to Oh yeah, bar.
Is gonna go. It's gonna be awesome. So he's gonna witness firsthand.
Yeah, I'm gonna be turn the show.
Make sure is a good game.
We're gonna make sure is a good game for the Ravens.
Always do day flowers.
We appreciate you man, Happy Thanksgiving and let us know what's on your holiday menus.
December rolls on all.
Right, got you, thank you, thank you?
All right.
Middle game of the day yesterday, It was gonna be a lot to unpack. Brian Dable had to make some changes at quarterback. Drew Lock with Tommy DeVito down gets the start Lock on a one year deal for the Giants.
He's fighting for a spot and an opportunity.
Here somehow with six points lead to that moment. That is the largest lead the Cowboys have retained this season. It continued to be a tough day for Drew Locke as he gets stripped when he tries to do a rush himself.
But the concern here becomes Ceedee.
Lamb, who aggravates a pre existing shoulder injury on the right side.
He's getting checked out. He would not return to the game.
Seven plays later, Cowboys at the goal line again. That is Ricodowbell who punches this one in and the Cowboys snap a much too long home win streak. They have consistently dominated the Giants. They do so again with a twenty seven to twenty Thanksgiving Day win and the Giants two and ten. The Cowboys check the schedule.
Yeah they're coming, And you heard Micah Parsons afterwards talking that way all right, Jordan Love.
He is out. Kyle.
There you got customary temperature shot by the NBC cameras.
Fourth quarter.
Now Dolphins still fighting down sixteen, a two scored game.
They go for it on the one.
Fourth and goal to a you do Kway Walker the University of Georgia first round pick.
Sack again comes up short in the call.
Whether the numbers were there start off the game eight for eight went thirty two or forty.
But it was that guy in Turkey.
Afterwards, Packers win thirty to seventeen, and.
If I'm being honest, it wasn't even that close.
It was special.
I think obviously the joke is not getting a turkey leg last year.
So to be able to come in here, get the win, get the.
Turkey leg after it was very delicious and just a little some to celebrate.
I wouldn't say any of the things that we're out there, as far as the elements are going to be used as an excuse for the reason as to why we started slow.
You know, when you're on the road, it's.
Always tough to communicate and operate at such a high level the way you want to. I would say from my standpoint, and from our team standpoint, we're not going to use any of that as an excuse as to why we you know, we didn't get the start that we wanted.
Okay, let's look at the NFC playoff fixture, all the drama in Detroit yesterday.
I guess what its a win? We don't I asked for excuses lyon tyle eleven and one Eagles. They're the two seed. They play the Ravens in Baltimore.
How about that three seed, the Seahawks quietly NFC West leaders, and the Falcons the four.
But then we get to the wildcards.
A nine and two Viking team they play Arizona this weekend. A nine and three Green Bay team and Washington, despite their woes of late, are still in the wild card. But the Packers improved to nine and three Jamie with another home victory at Lambeau.
It's a really good look in NFC playoff picture.
For the first time in NFL history, a division has three teams that have nine plus wins at Thanksgiving Day, and that's the NFC North. The Packers look great, the Lions, the Cowboys, Let's inspect inspect Packers. Dolphins, though from yesterday, Peter Man. They continue to impress with this Lafleur coach team.
I like that because Jason Garrett is on there and I guess it's like late second quarter and he's like, I think Matt Lafleur is the.
Most underappreciated coach in the NFL, and I couldn't agree more.
Forget the Aaron Rodgers transition into Jordan Love and all the drama that went into that, and how successful last year was.
At a surprise.
They had so much hype going into the season and they have exceeded expectations. When Love is on the field, despite him throwing all these interceptions early on last night, was a showcase to the rest of the league. It was a showcase that, Yeah, talk about Detroit and.
Philly and do your thing. We can do a thing.
Also here Tucker Kraft nailing guys there banging it is headed to them Owen's shoulder.
We'd love that. And then of.
Course the defense just suffocating to a. Tuard's numbers were good last night, but it's all empty calories because when it mattered, Green Bay stopped him every single time. This green Bay offense is electric. If it's not Christian Watson, it's Jayden Reid. If it's not Jaden Reid, it's Craft. If it's not Craft, it's Josh Jacobs lowering and his shoulder and getting the job done at the goal line.
I picked the Packers to go to the Super Bowl before the season. I have never wavered. I still think they're going to do that.
And I think the Lion as promising as they've been in the Eagle sub dominant they've been, I think they have a worthy opponent there in Green Bay. I think Green Bay can hang with those guys with that home and on the road, as we saw them blow out the Cowboys in a playoff game last year, and they gave San Francisco everything they could for sixty minutes in the Divisional round.
Packers Lions next week, Thursday Night Football.
Let's go.
We're ready. We'll see it.
I hope we get that game three times this year. We probably will get it three times. Packers Dolph is a terrible game, guys, terrible, absolutely awful game.
I felt bad for.
The broadcasters in the network, But the Packers banged in a field goal right before halftime to go up three touchdowns. It's like warm up the buses, warm up the leftovers, whatever you want to do, watch a movie, and.
I just credit that all to the Packers.
It's funny Peter reference Matt Lafleur, and I know he was referenced on the broadcast.
I was going to get up this morning and be like, how amazing is Matt Lafleur because I saw a nugget about Lafleur.
We think, we know he's good, and he wins, and he went to Rogers and he went to Love. Do you know in the first six seasons for a head coach Battleafloor has wins than Bill Kower, Mike Holmgren and Andy Reid.
He's more wins than those guys.
There's one coach, ever, and it's George Seffert, who won the Super Bowl the forty nine ers, who has more wins in his first six seasons than Matt Lafleur.
Lafleur is amazing, and I listen, he's got to cash one of these in.
He's got to get to the super Bowl at some point. But I mean, he's so young, and Love is so young. It's all just so promising. I'm just very very impressed with him, and I don't know how this is going to shake out in the North. We could all be sitting here and the Lions and Packers are eliminated in the Vikings are in the NFC title game.
We don't know.
I have very little to say about this game. I watched it through closed fingers.
It was boring.
The Dolphins can't play in the cold, I guess Peter said finally to it put us some stats.
Is that going to end the storyline? Of course not? Of course, next thing in play.
Anywhere that's even fifty nine degrees and I bring up the shots of them in the cold. I would have really liked that storyline to go away. But the only thing that's going away right now is the twenty twenty four Dolphins weird season.
They're done, they're not making the playoffs. Time to talk about other teams.
Yeah, Kyle, this storyline, this narrative, it continues. I know how much you love it. So we'll be talking about that code stuff again and again and again until two approves us wrong. But I think you know you talked about Matt Laflor being young. This whole team is young.
To me.
That's why I'm so excited about this. When you look at the youngest team in the NFL. I looked at this and I say, you know what, they could be a formidable force in the NFC. And when I look at two spots especially, I look at Jaden Reid and he showed up in critical situations. Now, when you look at the numbers, he's not gonna have gaudy numbers in this game, but in critical situations, he gave you two touchdowns and he's really showing his versatilities, his versatility in different ways. But I think it's his abilities to make play after the catch. He's got a knack for that, especially in that end zone area. What I notice is that as they started to stack the box trying to take Josh Jacobs's game out of it, what they started to do is go into some of those screen game. Obviously you saw him on the carry as well. Sometimes that screen game can be an extension of the outside run. If you have some problems getting on the outside, we know to do what Josh Jacobs could do. Josh Jacob, he showed up in a big way. We talked about them stacking up that box, and I loved how he showed up in the passing game as well. He is on pace to have a season like he had back in twenty twenty two when he ran for sixteen hundred plus yards.
Like this is the.
Type of level he's having. He's able to run in between the tackle, which is hard nosed football. That's what you love when you're watching football. You just love the guys. But you know what, I don't have to be jiggy with it and get off to the outside.
I'm gonna run down the middle.
They took that away and he showed don't forget y'all, y'all tripping chill right, He told the defense to pretty much chill. Y'all forgot that I got hands, and he showed that he had hands. So he showed up in the receiving game as well. But this team having that type of level with Josh Jacobs and Jaden Reid, don't be surprised if they upset somebody in that playoff move and move deeper into the playoffs.
Yeah.
I gave their GM Brian Goodakouns to my game ball last week and might be deserving to double down again this week. You know it's Thanksgiving Day. You got the volume, you're muting the game, you turn it back up. So you're kind of popping in and out of conversations from the NBC broadcast, And there was one defensive series for the Packers where Lucas van Ness just like popped off the screen and it then they showed Goodakouns and it was like this man has orchestrated and the Trico and Jason Garrett talked about it how gudakuns has risen up through this Packers organization and maintained a culture that does not have a single owner, this culture of everybody owns this team.
It's Green Bay's team.
And the fact that Brian Gudakunz has drafted the way that he has signed guys the way that he has and maintained this type of team and picked that head coach to lead it is I think undersold.
It's underappreciated.
It's really amazing what is going on with the Packers. And just one drive Lucas van Nes, who I think Peter they've mentioned on the broadcast, like never started in college, comes and gets drafted by the Packers and has he not started.
A game yet at that position. He just off the side of the field. It's just like, no, I'll take down to it once or twice if I have to.
He's been awesome. Where's the number ninety?
And they have all these other guys, so you're like, wait, he's on the team.
Who's that guy, Who's that that guy? Who's that guy? They're loaded, they're loaded, they're young.
As Akbar said, And I'm not just trying to lift heavy weights here. I honestly think not only is this regular season game a massive one against Detroit, I think they might see them again in the playoffs.
It's perfect.
It was good to learn a couple of things about the Packers, and we also knew found out some things about the Dolphins about the rest of the season.
Here we go. We got more GMFB coming your way.
We're going to recap Thursday, and we have more guests coming on the show.
Good morning Football.
Get in here.
Ian Rapaport. Happy Thanksgiving to you, buddy. We love talking to you yesterday. We know it was a long day for you, but I hope you had some time with some family and some food and a lot of football. But it does not stop today, rep Sheet because it's Black Friday game between the Raiders and the Chiefs.
What do the Chiefs have coming back to their team.
The Chiefs got reinforcements coming back to their team. Rarely, rarely do you have this kind of news this late in the season. But a couple of their better players are making their season debut.
Re debut.
Figure that out for the Kansas City Chiefs, say, We'll start with Isaiah Pacheck, who did play early in the season, just a brief cameo for the Kansas City Chiefs, ended up breaking his fibula midway through September.
We have not seen him since.
It has been an injury reserve, been practicing for the last couple weeks.
Actually probably could have played.
Last week in that tight one against the Carolina Pathers wanted to be safe, knew they had a short reek coming. So Pacheco plays today off IR ready to well, not even on the injury reports. You're going to get a full go Isaiah Pacheco. And then Charles Demnahu, one of their pass rushers who of course toy is acl in the AFC Champion Championship Game last year, has also been on IR has not been seen. He is expected to play today as well.
So the Kennesseity Chiefs, a.
Couple of their better players are back and then the Las Vegas Raiders they get a quarterback back they lost one. They get when Gardner Minshew, of course officially yesterday went to injury reserve with that fractured collar bone, and Aidan O'Connell, who had been on IR with a broken thumb admissed the last more than a month. He is officially back and starting.
For the Raiders.
They hoping for them they can kickstart this offense. And now let's send it to Sherry for some more news.
All right, great news there you and hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgetting. Certainly the Lions did with that incredible finish over the Chicago Bears wide receiver. I'm and Ross Saint Browns poke with our very own Stacey Dale's after that incredible finish, What.
Does it mean to win on Thanksgiving in front of all these fans.
It's good finding God a Thanksgiving win. It's been a long time, but it's awesome. You know, it's a good at Thanksgiving winning, but more importantly, just get a win in general, big division opponent. Bears are a good team. I mean they follow it to the end. It was a crazy games.
Got we got the dove.
You knew it was gonna like there was just this feeling.
In the second half they were going to claw back. What was your reaction to the way things ended?
It was one of the crazy any that I've ever been a part of since being here in Detroit.
It was I'm just on the sideline. I wish I could go.
Out there and help out with the defense. They they still tall, man, they were doing great, and I'm.
Just glad we came out with doing certainly happy to end that losing street. But Giants defensive tackle Dexter Lawrence telling reporters after the loss to the Cowboys, who suffered a dissocated elbow in the third quarter of the game, he will undergo an AMRI to determine the extent of the injury, Laurence adding he hopes to be able to keep playing though through this injury. Now, it was quite the feast for the winning on Thanksgiving. Hopefully there's still some leftovers to be had. But when we come back toeing the guys sharing their own memorable moment Thanksgiving Day.
We love doing the show together. We love watching football, but perhaps what we love more is being with our family on a holiday. Would you is why you see us in these four boxes right now, Peter, let's go around the horn.
Start with you. How was your Thanksgiving Day?
Well, if you're looking at our show today, you're saying, where the heck is Peter Shaker.
I am my father in law's office, which could also be just a Baltimore sports playground with all this Baltimore Colts.
And Ravens and Orioles.
M I don't have much love for Baltimore sports, but I've adopted it, and I've adopted Baltimore, and I've adopted a lot of my wife's side of the family.
We had a great one yesterday was with her cousins in Bethesda, Maryland. It was great.
It was fun having Betty and mel get to hang with his cousins. But then we brought out the main event. This is the rib roast. Baby three smokers in the back. Spent all day working on this. We love talking about our kids and it's very warm and fuzzy, but I think this is bigger crowd pleaser, the rib roast from chef Jordan Golden. I had two pieces of that and just covered it in horse Radish and it was awesome.
Ye absolutely, they say these days you're supposed to write down when you eat, like in a food journal or a log or something.
Guys, I got a.
Box from yesterday. Check it out.
Look at what I did yesterday.
Final the upper left hand corner, and we'll go row by row coffee.
I woke upstairs after the show.
They had biscuits and gravy ready, six champagnes, that's an estimate. Buffalo chicken dip and onion dip next column. Little smokies are like cocktail weenies. I had some irresponsible pretzel rods for no reason. Three bourbons, two red wines. Then we get to dinner, turkey, beef tenderland, which is comfortable to what you put out, peter stuffing and stuff mushers, mass potatoes, green beans to be healthy, cranberries, and then I hit the sugar apple pie, cherry pie, pumpkin pie sampler. And then in a stuffed, drunken stupor late night, I just had some irresponsible sour cream and onion pringles for absolutely no reason.
That was the day. I'm proud of it. I've done better, I've done worse.
Put that up on a poster, hang it in the loub as every wise ass says, ogbar, what did you do.
Okay, First off, I counted the calories. That was about forty three hundred calories. That's a gun muster for you right there. I'm actually impressed by that.
You know.
For me, it was cool, it was easy.
Everything is kind of surrounded around the food and getting the family together.
We didn't have a lot of guests.
It was just us, and uh, I couldn't wait, and I do this thing where I starve myself, and I starved myself and I can't wait. So I said, you know what, I'm showing you the food right here. I'm gonna play a little game here. We don't have numbers on them, but I'm gonna start with you, Peter. I want you to that back left corner. Can you can you guess what that is?
Do a little little trivia but I don't know.
All right, No, nope, that's a crab cake.
Jamie.
Okay, Jamie, I'm gonna go with you on this one. Keep that up, all right, Jami, I'm gonna go with you. Right there in the bottom in the middle, what do you think that is?
That's the sweet potato casserole because I see the marshmallows on top.
Yes, there you go. That's what I'm talking about.
And Kyle right there to the right of the sweet potato castle role, what is that?
What at a picture that was that was taken months ago, maybe at a child's birthday party, which is why there's mac and cheese on the place.
And I have to tell you the one of the cheese that my wife put it was new. This is a new one. She puts smoked gouda. In the smoked gouda, it was fire.
That's perfect plate looks delicious. Listen.
I had a transformational Thanksgiving. This is what my Thanksgivings used to look like. I'm from Minnesota. I used to be freezing at Thanksgiving. And let me tell you what I did yesterday, my friends, I went outside, I went for a walk. And where did I find myself on Thanksgiving Day?
At the beach? Everybody? My goodness, the change.
That my life has gone through from Minnesota to New Jersey to the beach in la All I want to know in my mind, Peter, what are you doing with that red cup behind you? What kind of party are the Schrieger's getting after in Baltimore?
Huh?
I see a red show. Look up