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GMFB Friday Hour 1: Bears win HOF Game and Rob Gronkowski

Published Aug 2, 2024, 4:24 PM

Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Bears winning the Hall of Fame Game.  Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila welcome Rob Gronkowski to the show. Gronk gives his thoughts on Tom Brady's upcoming booth debut.  Plus, Gold Medalist Portia Woodman-Wickliffe is awarded a special Angry Runs scepter!

Stay tuned for Falcons RB Bijan Robinson coming up in Hour Two of the GMFB Podcast!

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Good Morning Football.

That's right, this is Good Morning Football presented by the Farmer's Dog. We are nearly one week into our home in Los Angele.

Yeah, that went by fast, it went, didn't.

I'm jamier at all. That is Akwar, Bunsby and Miller.

There is Peter Schrager.

There is Kyle Brandt. You guys, there were a lot of extracurriculars to our first week here on GMFB LA. I'm looking forward to like season when there's games and we just get to get in, get out, talk football and call ourselves a day at nine am, West Coast.

Yeah.

Yeah, the story we will write itself.

Yeah for sure, exactly. Akwar, I know you're still getting to use You're need to know all of us.

Yep.

But this is like such a thrilling time because when Kyle Brandt does a highlight, we just like to let.

Loose, let it ride. Kyle, please do us the honors. Oh I got it right here, my friend's real actual highlights. The lead block of the blue Football much going to can't Ohio, Peter, we have the twenty twenty fourth class been going on this weekend, of course, but we also have the Rookie of the Year from last year and then the Rookie year from this year. We'll find out. Given this is all about this, all right. That is the landing zone of the new kickoff policy, and then we also have the setup zone that's on the other team's forty yard line. This is what it looks like from the kick returners perspective. Now we're gonna get into this all season long. They're also the holder gets involved and runs off. More on that in a little bit. However, you cannot leave to cover the kick until it is caught. The touchbacks come out to the thirty yard line. Here is some of the history they were trying it out and Canton and we'll be doing it for real in a few weeks. Again that touchback to the thirty yard line. So we'll learning this, we'll educate you in this, and we're gonna enjoy this. You mentioned a cocast Bears win the game. As Caleb looks on with the earpiece, you're gonna see some of that classic Midwestern weather in August, right. This is kind of thing you see with Glenn Powell and twisters they actually end the game early says suspended this everybody go home, thanks for coming. Twenty one to seventeen is a final score. If you had Texans in your preseason elimination.

Pool, you are out done.

Sorry one and done by really good football though, and we learned to kickoff rulf And in the meantime, Steve weish always classing up the joint he was with cam Akers. Has been through a lot, but looked awesome last night. Take it away, Steve, what.

About the what you guys have done throughout training camp to just come out and perform like that initially your first four series.

I think it's a testament to the way we work, you know, in the Houston heat and the resilience that we have to work in the heat and get better and stay on top of the mental things and the physical aspect.

Of course.

I think it's just a testament to the way we work to coach, stay on top of us. We swarm, you know, That's what he preached to swarm, and that's what we did tonight. We swarmed all the the place from offense to defense, especially those first.

Few drive and last thing, just for you performing like you did tonight. How does that make you feel going forward?

Make me feel like I'm steal me? You know, obviously a lot of people gonna go and try to paint a narrative of who I am at the running back position or how it goes at the running back, but just wanted to come out and show people I'm steal me. I still make plays when given an opportunity, and I'll continue to do that.

And if it's August first, that's got to be a pretty good feeling because the rest is ahead of you, young man. This is like a Ron Burgundy moment for the Chicago Bears.

Bears win. No, indeed, yes, he the Bears win.

It was called on the account of clouds and rain and thunderstorms, but it happened twenty one to seventeen. And like the guys.

Mentioned, if you had the Texans.

In your pool, you are done for preseason. But we can start again on week one. I can't wait to hear everyone's takes on this because it was real live football to talk about how far we start with you and one of the names that we heard several times in that highlight.

Yeah, Colin Johnson.

And in fact, I think a lot of people are becoming familiar with the name Colin Johnson. But let me tell you before you show any video of what Colin Johnson did, Peter Kyle, I want to ask you guys, do you guys know why he bawled out? And do you know how tall Colin Johnson is?

Oh, here we go.

I need the answers to all this stuff Colin Johnson dossier, Okay.

But I also know that he did so with Keenan Allen not there and DJ Moore not there, and yes, that's the opportunity here.

No, he stole my under He is six six. He had to catch radus. Now, you can't roll the highlight of Colin Johnson.

But yes, he's six six and he used that height to his advantage. But I'll tell you why I really connected with the dude on the rial. It's because I understand this kid was a practice squad player. You know, he's been in the league for a little bit now, but he's now starting to kind of get his wings under him. He's starting to feel confident. He's got some veteran receivers around him, he's starting to feel that the competition is going up with Keenan Allen there. But I don't know this kid, but I just love the way he bowled out the tallest wide receiver in the NFL, just like I'm the tallest host here at six six I'm just going from keeping putting that out there, the six to sixth part out there. But shout out to Colin Johnson though, for having a great first game in the Hall of Fame game.

I remember there was guys in the preseason. Victor Cruz made a name for himself come years ago, Richie James made a name for himself.

Colin Johnson made a name for himself. And he's also got.

Four more games to do it, or three more games to do it. We'll hope to see what he can do in the rest of the preseason. But you know, a lot of the Bear starters didn't play. Now that the game has already been playing, we don't need to lie to you, folks. There were backups in all night. It wasn't the starter, So it wasn't the true Bears. There wasn't the true Texans. But we did get to see Caleb Williams, and we talked about on the show yesterday, like would you put a rookie on an open microphone?

Would you put him out there the Bears did.

Here's what Kayleb Williams sounded like. Just a little taste of the Kayleb Williams experience. As they interviewed him from the sideline, What did.

You want to show if you had been able to get out here tonight.

Yeah, it's been a while since I've been on the football field since noving by team, and so you know, been able to.

Hear get out here and play a game that time was coming soon.

We just got a I think.

A sack fumble.

They recovered it, but you know, just to.

Get back out here, get back on the field, my toe, coach holl exciting.

It feels to be back out on the field finally.

And so when I was just a little ups let alone, just getting out here to play.

All right. So just a taste of his personality.

Now, what I'm told and what we heard is that he is going to take snaps in the preseason at some point. So you saw him. He was leadership, he was doing all the stuff on the sidelines. Great, we saw a little hard knocks clip.

It was cool. Hopefully we'll get that later in the show.

But just a taste of the Caleb Williams experience. That's all I wanted, just a little appetizer, and we got to see him talk to him and he was in great spirits.

So that's my takeaway.

This is fine, Colin Johnson, all that great, but there's more to come and that's the future right there.

Really the star of the game in the spotlight was from Caleb and CJ. Stroud by the new kickoff policy, Like that's what we were looking at last night, and before we even roll the tape, like there was I think a concern maybe amongst fans that oh, there's gonna be a million kickoff returns down and everyone's going to be for a touchdown. No, Like, the coverage was actually really good and he was fascinating watching the broadcast describe it and they line up here and they can't do this, they can't do this. There is one thing really deep in the weeds I thought was fascinating and took the broadcast to a great place. You know, you see kickoffs over the years where the wind keeps blowing the ball off the tee and after a while one of the guys comes over it, puts his finger on it, and then after the kick he gets up and runs down in coverage roll the video. Now the fact now the kicker is isolated, he's not with the rest of the coverage people. So the holder comes out and I'll hold it in case of heavy wind, and then he has to immediately take the team, get the hell off. If there were to be a kick return broken, he cannot participate in the play whatsoever. Get off the field. So we're running this and keep running this, and Buck starts saying, it's like my guy, Mojo Mojo. I'm like, who is Mojo? And then sure enough, this is Mojo Mojo. Let's go to the Houston Oilers in the seventies, Peter, I knew you would love this, all right. So that is William Van Lackey aka Mojo Mojo. What watch where this goes? It is a Houston Oilers equipment manager and he.

Does a bow Mojo Simone Biles, Eat your heart out, seriously.

That was Mojo's job was to go out, get the thing, get the hell off the field. And he became this beloved figure with the Oilers. That was his only joby Blue, which is so great. He for sixteen years was with the Oilers. He was he would do the team's laundry every day, but on game day it was showtime. That was it. Every time. It was like you could have had Hall of Famers, return of the Kicks, and everybody's going Mojo Mojo. It's a crazy story. It's a little bit of a sad ending. Mojo passed away at the team facility. The next day, the Oilers wore Mojo on their uniforms. They won the game, and they chanted Mojo in on of that tea fetcher who had a moment last night because of the new kickoff policy, so we'll see how the kickoffs go in the regular season. If no other reason than the fact that they brought in video of Mojo to Good Morning Football, I think it's the greatest problem.

I mean, I feel like there might be a little oversaturation of sports documentaries and content. There we go, there's an F one racer who's being followed and a track star was being followed, and Netflix bought it for this much, and Apple Puts bought it for this much.

How has there not been a Mojo documentary? That's an incredible story sixteen years with the team. I think every team now should have someone like Mojo whose job is to run out and get it. In the case of the high winds, that should be an every time thing. We used to have dogs doing that, we got kids doing it. Need more of that. But look how cool Mojo is. I love this marriage.

The fact that Joe Buck was the one that had this call in during the broadcast is perfect because this video footage is actually clearer than Joe Buck when he called into our show.

Yesterday, which is like so perfect.

The fact that that is from this seven and DS and the Houston Oilers game, and the fact that the clearer image and like, I'm gonna go m for Mojo, Goto, this is a mojo.

This is happening.

You got some serious mojo right now today.

So great, you know what.

I love that. That's great that you brought that in. And there, I will say, though, I played on that turf, that old school artificial turf, and I remember when I had my first skin graph because I took off all the skin on my arm. Mojo's out there like full own diving on that hard carpet, and I'm like, I wonder how many skin graph how many times he had the like little rugburd on there. But shout out to Mojo for just going in hard man that that's the hardest teeth that's're out.

Never see, it's a new job.

It's a new job, and Mojo.

Doc's gonna be huge.

Yes, you're writing Mojo Doc huge. Do it with the dogs, the kids doing it, that's fine, We'll get kids other jobs in the stadium. We need like a full blown adult doing this in dedicated.

Fashions, a hoople life Mojo.

We're not done with our coverage in Canton.

Saturday.

It's the moment that many have been waiting for since this year's Hall of Fame class was announced at NFL Honors. It's the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Shriman Ceremony. It's happening at noon Eastern right here on NFL Network. Pre show kicks off an hour earlier, eleven am Eastern. You know the music, you know the jackets, you know the names going in. It all unfolds, all the speeches and everything that will bring you to tears on Saturday, speaking of let's go one of the best to ever do it. Rob Gronkowski, he's joining us. This is mussy TV. He's in a tight window. We have questions, we need answers, Gronk Europe.

I guess that's all he is.

I want to hear about a cellular coverage. That's Gronk Canna tell us advice and tell us everything. Guys, all right, that's who I want to talk to. That is maybe the angriest runner alive New Zealand rugby player and gold medal winner right after this part, So what man Wickclift with the new gold medal? Will she get an angry run scepter? Right after this? Knock going Zealand zeeling love that.

Good mon.

He's one of the greatest players to ever play the game. He's also one of the biggest personalities and we are so happy to have him join us on the show with no further ado.

Mister, thank you, Peter, Thank you very much.

Man.

It's an honored to get introduced from you. Thank you.

Yes, yes, that was my introduction.

Before we get to football, and before we get to why you're joining us today, I gotta ask, what was it like at that Michael Rubin white party?

Hey go these photos?

Was Gronk hanging out with every celebrity known demand, dressed in white with that goofy smile of your tail.

Here, I'm happy for you. You look amazing commuting here.

But like tell us, Yes, the White Party was one of the best experiences I've ever been. So I couldn't believe just how many well known people were just in one house, gathered under one roof. It was just really cool and you could just be yourself there as well.

You can dance, you can rock out, you can socialize with other you know, well known people. That it was just really really cool.

Michael Ruben's the only guy who can get that done and get so many people on their one roof at his house. So just a great experience. And Peter, I know that you want to get invited to that party, the whole freaking band that you keep bringing it up to me everything time you've seen you that.

Sot to it. Oh man, I understand, I understand.

I understand that your girlfriend is one of the most successful swimsuit models of all time and the two of you have a great relationship. I also understand that you get a plus one to this party, and we're pretty good friends and you can ask me anytime you want you have it.

Hopefully next year I get a plus two and then.

A plus two.

Wel you, gronk you know when you're not private jetting it over to the Hamptons. I mean, I know that you've teamed up with T Mobile to help pay it forward to young athletes. Tell us more about that.

Well, first off, I dident private jet to the Hamptons.

I took the ferry.

I drove my car onto the ferry and took it from Connecting.

Gum to the Hampton.

Thanked me about five grand right there because the ferry was about eighty dollars. So well, and then we're talking about the T Mobile you know campaign that's going on right now.

I love giving back to the community, that's for sure.

And yesterday T Mobile and I we just announced Friday Night five g Lights and.

It's a nationwide competition inviting high school to share their stories for a chance to win a.

Multi million dollars stadium makeover.

And the prizes include one hundred thousand dollars cash grant, a new state of the arch scoreboard, the ultimate tailgate party for the whole entire community within that high school region.

And Trager, I know you love the party.

I saw you in the Hamptons this summer and you're behind the DJ booth.

You're one week old, weapon. I won't say anything more because you may it fired, but I know you love the party like that. Also, Robs on Fire.

Five Key, Power, Throne Show and Grown shows are pretty cool.

I've seen two of them in my life, and my favorite price is the Rock Fitness.

My family's company will be.

Upgrading the weight room so these kids can stay strong and stay fit and dominate out on the football field.

Man, that's pretty cool.

Rob you are a master of this because you were able to just denigrate Peter Schrager in between your sponsorship. I mean, I think that's incredibly skilled of you. We have to take you to football now. Tom Brady your other team now at Fox along with Shregs. He's entering his rookie year. Now you are the vet on TV compared to Tom Brady. How do you think he's going to do? I know there's a lot of expectation. What advice have you given him?

Yes, I think Tom Brady is going to absolutely dominate in the booth.

He'll definitely have his up and downs.

Of course, anyone entering a new gig in life, you're going to have to have some lessons that you're going to have to learn.

And overall, I think he's going to be very successful.

The advice I would give him is, don't overthink and just be yourself, you know, go out there and share that.

Gift that he was born with. And that gift is the knowledge of football that he has.

And he has the most knowledge for the game of football that any x any former football player out there.

So just go out and share that.

Knowledge with the world, and he will absolutely dominate.

I don't you know. I will never put anything past him.

And he has all this time to prepare, and when he has time to prepare.

He will always be on his A game. So Tom Brady's gonna dominate. I can't wait for it.

Oh, okay, it's gonna dominate it.

We'll all be watching.

Listen. We want to bring in a friend of ours here, Gronka. We used to know him as Joey mullen Naro, but apparently now he's just going by Rob Gronkowski. So can we bring in new Rob Gronkowk, there he is, and new Rob Gronkowski, go ahead and say hello to the old Rob Gronkowski.

Go ahead, what's up? Good morning football, And what's up Gronk? It's me Gronk. Here to talk to gronks.

Great, what are you up to this weekend?

Well, I got a question for you of the gronk. My first question, as everyone's been talking all summer about Tom's roast. It was pretty hilarious, right, what do you think? I want to know who do you think had the worst time on stage that night?

Tom or Ben a Flack? Oh? Man, that's solid question. I saw Tom.

He was sipping a lot of tequila while he was on the stage.

I would have to go with Ben Affleck. I know Tom hasn't joined himself. I know he got roasted pretty bad at times, but Ben.

Affleck just showed up, He did his thing, and then he ran out of there, So I don't think he enjoyed it that much or if he was staved.

It definitely was Hey, it definitely wasn't us. Bro We absolutely crushed. We were hilarious. Finally, Bronk. My other question, we spent years having coach Belichick get on us and coach us up. Now I wanted to see if we had any advice to coach him up about dating in twenty twenty four, since his buddy knew young love life is out there for the public.

Oh my goodness, hey to tell you the truth, Fake Rob Grandcostle, or should I say that, New and approved Rob Gronkowski.

We don't have to give any dating advice to coach Blichick.

We need dating advice from coach Balicheck actually, because he's.

Absolutely dominating the game. He has a new beautiful lady out there, and he's just a joint life, not coaching anymore. So you gotta give the props a coach Ballicheck. He's running the show, all right, running the show.

Oh boy, oh wow, New Rob you are incredible. Thank you so much. New Rob's a go ahead, baby, we got We gotta thank the old Rob.

Old Rob. We love you so much. Say goodbye, New Rob. Got it out.

I left the high schoolers out there Friday night, five glights dot Com.

Thank you guys for having me. I love you guys. I'll see you guys too.

We love you too.

If you want to have your feels the best Thanky mobile, check it out. Rob Nocassi, You're the best. Come back anytime on Good Morning Football. Enjoy your off season and we'll see you with Shregs on Sunday mornings on Fox. The NFL announcing the twenty twenty five Pro Bowl Games presented by Verizon will once again return to Orlando, Florida. They got to run it back in Lando, kasaid it was a good time. The multi day events will feature eighty eight of the NFL's top players. Is the AFC and NFC will show off their on field and off the field skills and fun competitions and compete in flag football at Camping World Stadium on Sunday, February second. Solway is a nice little bridge between playoffs and the Super Bowl twenty twenty five. Bands interested in receiving the latest information can register at nfl dot com slash Pro Bowl Games for exclusive ticket pre sale and VIP package opportunities.

I kind of want to go this year.

I'm going to tee it up and just see if I can find an opportunity to get to Camping World Stadium.

Sherry bursts with the news.

Which kind of crappy news if you're considering being a Charges fan.

Yeah, absolutely, mew thinking.

With Jim Harbaugh now running the show here, there's high hopes for the Chargers in LA this season, but they received concerning news about their star quarterback, the dem announcing Justin Herbert was diagnosed with a planter fascia injury in his right foot. He's expected to be out for at least two weeks. Herbert's in a walking boot during that time, but he is expected to be ready for the start of the regular season. And the news also not so great for Titans wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins either NFL Network insider Tom Peliso reporting Hopkins suffered an injury during practice. He's expected to miss about four weeks. Hopkins led Tennessee in receiving yards last season, eclipsing one thousand yards for the first time since twenty twenty. And we know the Ravens season didn't end as they hoped after their loss to the Chiefs in the AFC Championship Gate Well, Lamar Jackson spoke with Mike ham and Mark Ross and said that loss is still tough and hard to put behind him.

I mean, I'm very competitive and I hate losing, so I really think about it almost every day. He for real, like, we were so close, but you know, it's a new season. Can't dwell on the past, even though I still do a little because we were so close. But new season, no new opportunity. That's how I look at it.

They get another chance Week one against the Chiefs.

And you know why.

Because football is back and NFL Network has every NFL preseason game, including twenty one live. It is time for some football the NFL preseason starting August eighth through August twenty fifth here on NFL Network. Blackout restrictions apply. Also shooting on NFL Plus. Subscription required for NFL Plus. Now when we come back, we'll be joined by Olympic gold medalists and one of the angriest runners you will ever see.

Are you kidding me?

Look at this new Zealand rugby star for Shaw Woodman Wickcliffe.

You do not want to miss her more.

GMFB is on the way.

Good Morning Football.

Hey, welcome back to Good Morning Football. It's early August in a summer month of an Olympics.

Have you been watching?

Of course I watched some moan biles. I was in tears in sunny Lee. They were going off.

And now track and field is starting. Hikari Richardson just ran yesterday on GMF overtime on Roku. We caught up with a New Zealand rugby player. There's a reason behind this Porsche Woodman Wickliffe. She was on gmfb OT. She is a gold medal now her second, and her running style or her playing style, let's just say it qualifies perfectly for our show.

This is not gmfb OT, It is gm w R Good Morning Women's Rugby OT. It is the coolest sport right now in the world, women's rugby. And as proof of that, we're about to bring on someone I am so excited to talk to because she might be the angriest runner the GMFB has ever seen that the world has ever seen. Please welcome fresh off another gold medal, gold medal rugby player, Porshaw wood Man Wicklan.

Yea great.

My voice is a lot of celebrating, a lot of cheering.

But I'm Heggie, you should be happy.

I'm a little bit nervous to talk to you. But we just have to get into this New Zealand. You're representing them so proudly, so beautifully. You beat Canada to become gold medals at the part the paras Olympics. This is your second gold medal. You're wearing it right now. Show it to us and tell us what it felt like to get it.

Is it coming through.

Yeah? Oh yeah, oh yeah, I look at that. That's cool.

That's so cool.

That's beautiful, absolutely amazing. Oh man, this blur is mine.

It's stunning.

That's okay, we got it. Tell us about it.

Unbelievable, Like you said, this is our second, our second gold medal, getting to represent my country, my family. Unbelievable. Just I'm proud of myself, to be absolutely honest. I'm one of the old girls in the team, but still carving up on the field. I don't know if it's a common term, carving it up.

Sure, yeah, bring it back, yeah yeah.

But listen, we we could have had Patrick Mahomes on here, Tom Brady, some of these international icons from American football. No, no, no, we wanted you, Porsicha and roll the videotape. When we saw this, we said, find her, get her on the show. This is some of the best stuff I have ever look at that and.

Maybe right there, your goodness, my god, she waited to be caught up with and then she dealt with her. This nice excited young woman we're talking to right now turns into this maniac and.

I love it. Porsche.

Tell us about you running angry and what it means to you and how you do it.

Lea and Nick well me, it's all about this running as hot as a man, right, I'm considered one of the biggest players on the field and I'm going to use everymount of this.

Wow, this is incredible, This is so good, it's unbelievable. Porsche, I've got to ask you the all blacks we knew from New Zealand obviously, like, tell us about your teammates, your team and what this run was like and how fun it was for this squad in particular from New Zealand to win the women's rugby gold medal.

Yeah.

So obviously it's only been three years since the last Olympics Tokyo. That was a crazy time. Twenty twenty Olympics COVID all of that was.

Just out of this world. So we stuck around.

We wanted to experience an Olympic Games with all our family, a sell out stadium if possible, and so we've been working really, really hard. We've been through some highs and lows, our captain stuff at an acl and three at the end of last year. But we've got some really young and amazing talented girls coming through. I'm really really grateful they've been able to play alongside them and hopefully show them a bit of you know what I can do and they'll inspire them to do what they're doing. But ultimately to firstly get to the Olympics amazing. Not everyone gets that opportunity. Secondly, to come out with a gold medal playing against the side like Canada. They've been rising throughout the ranks over the last few seasons and it was an awesome game, awesome tournament. It was hot out on that field, but to play in front of sixty six thousand people in that Defrance.

That was amazing.

I kind of Yeah, it's not enough words to describe the feeling and the emotions that we went through.

Well, we love hearing all of them. Poor Chap, however, you're you say you're one of the oldest members of the team. However you're quite youthful in your time spent in the sport. This only started for you your rugby journey back in twenty twelve. And walk us through how Facebook played a part in it.

Yeah, you've done your researcher, right, I like that. Well, yeah, back in the day.

So in twenty twelve, Facebook ad came out and it was a big thing at the top.

Go football in Rio twenty sixteen.

I was currently a professional athlete with netball, and I was like really young. I think I was nineteen or twenty when that came out. So I just wanted to have a cracket Olympics. You know, for me, going to Olympics was an ultimate dream. Didn't know what sport I wanted to do, but thought if this was an opportunity then I was going to take it in every chant then and enjoy every chance I get.

So, yeah, went along to one of the lights.

Did some trials, drooms, whatever, and then just loved it and was managed to stay throughout.

The whole program. And Yeah, now twelve years later, three medals, silver and two golds around my neck.

Amazing.

Yeah. You know, Portia, you know there are rumors flying out there that you plan to retire. Tell us what went into that decision and what do you plan to do next?

Yeah.

You know, as a female athlete, we have to think about having kids, and I at the age of thirty three, where the potential to come back after having babies probably isn't ast as great for rgby players, and so my ultimate dream is to have babies, and I wanted to get to a point where I finished the Olympics.

I have opportunities around the world.

There's a competition in America, there's Japan, there's a rugby league union, rugby league competition in Australia. Like, there's all these opportunities, and I want to try a little bit of everything. So the idea was get to Paris being the beast state that I think I can be. Have a year and a half to try different opportunities, and then I'm going to pop out babies as much as i can.

Oh, that's wonderful, It is so cool.

We love you, and I know that everybody watching in the United States loves you when you have those babies, and we wish you the best with that. When they get a little older, I want you to show them this. This is what we call the Angry Scepter, and this is our gold medals, the closest thing we have. We send this thing to all the biggest, baddest, toughest American football players. All the big stars have one Porsche. You have to earn this thing by trucking people with pure malice and rage. Roll the video tape. We are going to send you a sceptor and the shirt. You only have to earn this sucker and that individual right there gets what will you accept it? And will you please honor the sceptor?

Oh my gosh, these.

Runs, dude, Absolutely well, that's an honor in itself.

You, It's an honor to talk to you.

Do you watch the NFL, like, do you have an awareness for the the fact that your game is liken so much to what Kyle if Frankly is obsessed with watching every Sunday which is Angry Runners.

I don't follow it as much.

Always looked at it and thought, man, those guys are crazy.

You know, the fact that you can run into each other.

You've got all these pads, which I imagine would make you feel really immortal, invincible and invincible and like you could do anything. So I've always actiously kind of, you know, wanted a devil at NFL. But there's just so many different things and I have to learn a completely different game. But yeah, I love the similarities. I love the mongolelness of NFL. I love being able to run over people in rugby. So yeah, I admire NFL did big time Kyle.

This is one of the ways for people to catch up with her so that she can stiff arm them back where they came from. And if you saw the clip this week, Derek Henry watched some of your highlights and loved them. He loves the women's rugby game. We are sending this to you, Porsche along with that gold medal. It is our way of honoring you on Good Morning Football. Porsche, Woodman Wick Cliff. Congrats on that future family. He's gonna be badasses. Let's go. Thank you for joining us.

Amazing, Thank you so much. What I'm exolote on that is to receive it. Ben was an incredible moment. I told to you all, peace out, Love you all.

Peace She's amazing.

Peace out, love you, peace out, love you all. Right. This tweet just came in from Mike Reagan. Been watching Good Morning Football since August twenty sixteen. That segment with Gronk and New Gronk has got to be top five all time. Thank you, Mike Reagan. I think you're absolutely right. Here's the backstory and we'll tweet out the entire segment. Of course, if you follow us, we're gonna have Rock Gronkowski on the show, which is awesome. Love Gronk. It's always a good time. And yesterday we're thinking we could ask Gronk the typical stuff whatever he's up to, ask about Tom, asking him about Bill. But hold on, Joey mullin Aro, is this incredible talent who's out there if you haven't seen him, he's amazing. He does impressions, he does content is all this stuff. He does this great Gronk impression. We're friends with him. I reached out. I said, Joey, do you want to come on as Gronk and interview Gronk? Absolutely hell, yes, I'll do it. Gets up in the morning, comes on, ask Gronk questions some like kind of like on the edge questions too, No, and Gronk, real Gronk just absolutely rolled. It could have been cooler. It was an all time segment and like Peter, we didn't know how that was going to go, but it went great. Joey moln Arrow, thank you so much. You're the best. Everybody follow him.

You know, when you're asking about the greatest coach of all times, current dating life, we can't do it on the good.

When your new Gronk, you can do it. You can go for it.

So New Gronk did the job, and it was a fantastic impression. Thank you Joey, and thank you Gronk for playing along.

I just like the dancing in the movie.

We all got into it in a moment.

It felt like we were talking to two Gronks.

That was his twin brother. For sure, he belongs in the Gronk family.

I do think now we just need mol and Arrow at the ready at all times with impressions of anyone we're interviewing, because he can get away with anything at this point, like, oh, we have kind of a dicey topic.

Get Joey in here. We can ask him about Bill Belichick.

And what he's been doing this offseason.

It was perfect. It was perfect.

And shout out to that walk viewer for making an unofficial top five and putting that Segmond in it. Since the beginning of time on GMFB, speaking of our show time for Food for Thought presented by The Farmer's Dollars, two nights on NFL Network, the top ten players of twenty twenty four will be revealed. Here is what numbers twenty through eleven looked like. This has been a slow roll on the network all week long. Guys, what stands out to you as the top one hundred section has unfolded. Here we go twenty through eleven off far.

Eure a first.

Well this morning.

Right here, I'm looking straight at MICHAEH.

Parsons.

Michael Parson at the number seventeen spot just doesn't look right. Michael Parsons should not be behind Dak Prescott. In fact, he should be. I'm cool with Dak Prescott, love Dak Prescott. He should be at that sixteen spot. But I think Michael Parsons needs to be in the top ten. Why he's only only he joins Reggie White as the only other player with three in his first three seasons to have thirteen plus sex. Like, you know how hard that is to come out that we're talking about Hall of Famer Reggie White, the late great Reggie White. But this is the way he impacts the game. I love his game since day one he came into the league. I've just been looking at Mike. There are guys who make plays and you can run off all the stats, but when I watch it, I see how he impacts and how the lines have to adjust to him, and how they have to game plan just for Michael Parsons. That's how you know you have a game changer. So I'm putting him in the top ten for sure.

Hey that man.

Yeah, and Ochbar to your point, I'm looking at this twenty to eleven, like Max Crosby's in the top ten? Is Max Crosby better than Michael Parsons. These are the conversations that will have when you look at this top one hundred list. I would think teams game plan for both of them, but they might look at Michael Parsons as the more dangerous player. On the other side of all, it's a the way at seventeen.

Similarly, Josh Allen at twelve.

I mean to me, it's like it's Mahomes and it's Josh Allen, and it's Burrow and Lamar and like those are your top four quarterbacks, and you might throw in a Rogers or a Stafford or.

A Strap, But like twelve even players better than are there are eleven.

Players you'd start a team with before Josh Allen.

Absolutely not. This is a ridiculous number to me.

I think Josh Allen is a top three player, if not top five, if we're being generous to other guys. Quarterbacks the most important position. Buffalo Bills are in the playoffs every single year. This guy throws him on his back and goes, how's Josh Allen not in the top ten twelve?

That's egregious to me. Well, again, it's not a fact. It is what the players think of him and how the players vote them. So reads of that what you will. I look at CJ. Stroud, who is at twenty after one season of football, one very good season. I like to find out these guys' debuts the first time they ever appear on the list. I said, oh, I sec. Twenty is a super super high debut. You didn't start off this soft thing when you're sixty four, work your way into the thirties and twenty top ten. Who knows twenty is incredible and it speaks to how good he was last year, but also how much people respect him. Also, FYI looked it up. What is the highest debut ever for a player? All right, in the history of the Top one hundreds going on for years, in years and years, when a player first appears in the top one hundred, what is the highest debut ever? Peter says he has a guest. Peter go ahead and guests, I would.

Guess because in his second season he won the MVP.

I would guess Lamar Jackson. Lamar Jackson debuted on the Top one hundred list at number one.

Wow, I was number clear one.

Following his MVP season. Yes, I'm Mahomes who after his second season was unbelievable. Lamar is won, So C J. Stroud twenty is pretty incredible, not even close to Lamar at one. That's the market arter spoiling it.

That's okay.

At this point you feel badly that Lamar just didn't get put on the list, like as a rookie, just put him on there. We haven't seen a single snap of football yet he should living on there. I looked at this list and well, first of all, I see dollar signs for Jerry Jones.

Sorry because the fact.

That these three names sit on this board eleven through twenty is crazy. But Justin Jefferson at eighteen and mind boggling to me for a couple of reasons, the fact that I think he is a better wide receiver than at eighteen, Peter, I like how you phrased that, Like do you really have seventeen more important players in the league than a Justin Jefferson in terms of the Vikings offense? But also what direction does this go in without Kirk Cousins. Now I'm a little worried. Justin Jefferson got paid, and that's great and I'm happy for his bank account, but how does the Vikings offense progress with him? In terms of Sam Darnold, JJ McCarthy, where this team is going, the division that they play in. I can't believe there's such a difference between Ceede Lamb at thirteen and Justin Jefferson at eighteen. But that stood out to me, And then when I looked at the bigger picture, I'm just a little worried about the movement, if you will.

And you know what I think or what I would love to know. And maybe this is a Peter question, like when do they get the players to actually do this polling because if it's during training camp, I know this for a fact, you're tired, you don't feel like filling anything out. This is ridiculous because it looks like they were playing a very bad joke on Justin Jefferson. Look at this board over here again, he wears number eighteen. Maybe they got confused in them this is number eighteen. Oh yeah, he should be eighteen, Like, well, no, he's not the number eighteenth.

Player in the league, right, are you kidding me?

Come on, Peter, speak some truth to this.

Peter, Do you know this? Do they do it twin camp?

Yeah, they don't do it dirt turning. They do it during the season.

They'll grab the guys and they'll throw them in after like a practice and they'll be like, can you fill out this ballot to the voter's credit, which is the players? It's complicated. It's like twenty twenty four and like the face of Jefferson was hurt last year, so I'm sure a lot of them were like, I can't put Jefferson ahead of CD, who's having a career season.

But if you're looking at it just blank slate and you're.

Looking at a top one hundred players, justin Jefferson, who I believe was number.

Two last year overall.

Really I think so, Like I think Justin Jefferson, to your point, Jamie is top ten.

Handsful to what Jamie's saying is look ahead, like where does Jefferson land next year? Like, just look into the future. He's going to be playing with some combination of Donald McCarthy or maybe just one of them. Is he going to be up at ten next year? After this season, when like everyone is looking at all three of the other teams in their division with the Vikings and not as much them, I would take a shot and I will say Jefferson will actually be in the twenties next year. And I know that's negative, but I'm going to second healthy.

He'll go up.

That's for a greater that's for a greater conversation. Number one in our hearts and on the personality charts. So we'll circle back to Rob Gronkowski. The way we started this segment, he was on our show. He sent us off in style, and now we officially have a top five segment on GMFB.

I mean, look at this, like rank that's broke Wave.

Please somebody, because you got the original.

And then you got.

To commit.

And then he says, Okay, I'll do it because everybody else is doing it.

I want to get it.

Good football