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GMFB Friday Hour 2: Bijan Robinson and Cowboys Camp slumping?

Published Aug 2, 2024, 5:21 PM

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with an update on the Giants situation with Daniel Jones.  Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila welcome Falcons' RB Bijan Robinson to the show to discuss his first interactions with Kirk Cousins.  Plus, is the attendance at Cowboys camp starting to slump?

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Good Morning Football.

Hey, everybody, welcome inside Good Morning Football, presented by The Farmer's Dog. We are live in Los Angeles and New York City. There is Kyle Brant Peter Schrager over Baja Biamilla's left shoulder.

I'm Jamie urdall Akbar.

New to the breakfast table here on Good Morning Football. There was a football game last night. Tell us new routine because I assume you're watching games.

A little differently now that you're on the show with us.

Yeah, you know what. I was actually watching it in.

My bed, hey, because it's an early morning, cold.

Early boarding call time, and I was just sitting there watching it on my little tablet and just kind of enjoying it.

But I still love it.

Football's back, Yeah, perfect, and you're looking at it a whole new way. In case you missed it, Kyle, show the good people what a shot sheet looks like and how we go through highlights here on GMFB.

This is a beautiful shot sheet. It is chuck full of highlights for their preseason action that you want and crave. Let's go to Canton, Ohio, home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame, also the hometown of nineties rocker Marilyn Manson. If you didn't know that, you can write down a little nuggets and they're big football guy Maryland Manson, Cjrat, Kayla Wlliams did not play a snap will be playing also in the regular season. These two teams face off. Let we're just get a lot of this. This the new kickoff pause is a landing zone and it's the setup zone. All right, We're gonna learn this on the fly. I think Buck and Aikman and Lisa Saltas said a great job last night explaining it. The holder can come out and help with the holby. He's got to get the heck off the field. The coverage team is not allowed to go until the returner catches the boss, as a little bit of a false start, if you will. There also another change if there is a touchback that comes out to the thirty, not to twenty, not the twenty five to the thirty yard line. There were no huge returns last night, but we know there's still to come. Canoouts a lot of weather this time of year. It's either a wildly excessive heat or some sort of rain that makes the game stop, which it did, and they're like, everybody go home twenty one to seventeen.

Parents get a.

Huge win, undefeated in this season. After the game, Steve Wis's always stacking Dubs caught up with the aforementioned camp makers, who looked great.

What about 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 that 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 staying on top of us. We swarming, you know, That's what he preached to swarm, and that's what we did tonight. We swarmed all around 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 try to paint a narrative well of who I am at the running back position or how it goes at the running back. But I just wanted to come out and show people I'm still me. I still make plays when given an opportunity, and I'll continue.

To do that, all right.

So the Bears one they kicked off preseason. I've disappeared. There's two Peters.

One off bar and long ti. I know, let's do it again. No, I'm just kidding, Okay, So the Bears one. So we saw.

Bears kicked off preseason with the textles last night. It's because a couple of the big names they are going into the Hall of Fame. Very good Kyle, and we just saw the Bears. There was a quick clip during the broadcast last night of their Hard Knocks and the Rookie Show, which we all love, and we think we're going to have it on GMF later. So stay tuned because you see Caleb Williams and a fantastic response out of Tyson Pagent about one of the clips. Anyways, speaking of Hard Knocks, the off seat he's in appearance of Hard Knocks with the New York Giants happened this summer. John Mara, the owner, came out and said he wanted to opt into this version of Hard Knocks because he thought it would take the heat off of the Giants participating in the training camp version. Speaking of the training camp version, Daniel Jones is there because he's got this massive contract that they gave to him, and as of last March, instead of Saquon Barkley. It's going to be an adjustment for Jones, though, who is the guy now in the Giants offense?

Mara wants all the Daniel Jones.

Doubters to have some faith in their QB who is earning a lot of cash.

How do you feel about Daniel Jones that contract and where things stand down quarterback?

Yeah, and listen, I'm still happy we gave him that contract because I thought he played really well for us in twenty two. Last year, he got hurt, and you know, let's be honest, when he was playing, we weren't blocking anybody. So let's give him a chance with a better offensive line with some weapons around him to see what he can do. I was nervous about giving up too much to go and get a quarterback, but I was prepared to let him do that if that's what they wanted to do. We made a decision to stay with Daniel and had a weapon form. I think that's going to work out for him.

Peter, your thoughts on that, I mean, I just unpack it what mister Mara had had to say about his quarterback.

Well, first off, congratulations to the Giants. They're celebrating their one hundred years of franchise and they were there yesterday commemorating that. It's interesting because Mara has history here. Twenty years ago to the year in the draft, they traded everything to move up to number one in the draft and select Eli Manning with the pick. And at the time, all of people said they give up too much, They gave away too much, They mortgaged everything, they gave away star players, they also gave away draft picks. Well, there's never been a regret with that decision. Eli Manning won two Super Bowl championships.

This year.

We go to the draft and as we're watching Hard Knocks, we see Brian Dabele says he absolutely would trade up for Jaden Daniels. Mike Kafka, the offensive coordinator, says he would absolutely trade up for Drake May. The phone calls, the meetings they were done with Elliott Wolf, the GM of the new England Patriots moved to number three and it was just too rich for their blood. They did not move up to go get Drake May. They didn't even offer anything of that sign. So they stand pat here with Daniel Jones. It is a risk. The risk is this Daniel Jones this year is not good. He's still making this money. Now you're stuck with Daniel Jones, and then you're just good enough. Well, you're not going to have a top three pick, you're not going to have a top four pick, and you can't get up that high in the draft.

Again.

I think it's fascinating what John Marras said just now is that instead of nuclear bombing this thing and drafting another quarterback like the Cardinals did when they had Josh Rosen as a top ten pick and the next year took Kyler Murray number one. Overall, let's support this guy better. They bring in illuminaor they bring in Runyon. They go and they get another running back in Tyrone Tracy in the draft. They get Motor Singletarian free agency, and they of course get Malik Neighbors, who's viewed as a number one wide receiver, and Theo Johnson, a tight end who they get on Day three out of Penn State, who they really liked in the pre draft process. Who Shay Tierney actually coached at the Senior Bowl this year, and Tierney, of course is one of the offensive coaches. This is interesting. Twenty years ago they blew it all up. They had Kerry Collins. They said, we're gonna go and get Daniel Jones, they got Kirk Kirk Warner. They said, let's make that work. This year, they actually go conservative. They stay where they're at, and they draft the Leak Neighbors, a wide receiver, and they get a bunch of offensive linemen. I'm very interested to see how this goes because I think internally they're very confident the hard knocks. They look like they had a lot of conviction in Daniel Jones and Neighbors, and they're good externally. Should they have given the farm for Drake may or Jaden Daniels.

Time will tell what I learned in that, and it was really interesting. I love hard knocks because you get a chance, at least for me as a former player, being able to see what are the conversations being had on the other side. You know, you're in the locker room, so you don't get the privilege of hearing that, right, some of it is hearsay, But now with all these cameras, you get to see like, yes, they thought about it, they highly considered moving off of Daniel Jones, but like you said, Peter, it was just a little too rich for their blood. But what that tells me is that they know that you know, you know, yes they've paid him, but do they really have the quarterback that they want. I look at, you know, a guy like Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones one about one thirty eight percent of his games, and it's like, that's the quarterback that you're looking to build for your future. So I think what mar was saying is like, we're going to build around it. We're going to get offensive linemen to protect him. We're going to give you a stud wide receiver as you mentioned with Elik Neighbors. But if he doesn't get it done with all of this money that they've spent in supporting him, then the question is like, how do you handle Daniel Jones. So I'm still watching to see how Daniel Jones matures. I do believe players can mature later in their career if they're not like boom right away, like going off the chart.

But we'll see what they have in Daniel Jones.

I just think his stock is really low right now. His paycheck's really high, at stock's really low. His reputation amongst fans, amongst anybody the internet, he's just a punchline. Everybody just beats the crap out of him. I was just the last week I was reading the Onion did all hold Daniel Jones story? It's pretty funny, But I mean, if the Onion's doing stories about you and people are just downing, I think it's very important to remember why we got here because achbar, you know, can he blow up? Can he have this search? He had it? And I know he looked really rough last year, and I know he's maybe not the coolest guy or whatever. Against the Minnesota Vikings in the NFL postseason, he looked like a franchise quarterback. Rolled the videotape because this was why they paid him, because he won this game. This is a playoff game on the road in which he was nearly perfect, twenty four to thirty five, three hundred yards, two touchdowns, He ran for seventy eight yards. They smacked around a very very good Vikings team, and it was like, oh, those crazy Josh Allen comparisons to Daniel Jones, which made me have an age. Well, I promise you on this day. They were like, I see it. I completely see it. And the Giants were like, well, we're paying, We're sending a week got our guy. And I also do think it has something to do with his personality. I do think they like that he is kind of like Eli and that he doesn't have a lot of things to say, and he seems like a New York athlete who can perform keep his mouth shut.

Now.

Last year was absolutely horri You just heard the owner say, we didn't block anybody. I just recently saw Darren Waller on with Ross Tucker. Darren Waller was a tight end for the Giants last year. He goes he had no chance, like, we couldn't block anything. I'm paraphrasing, but he just bottom mined it like that. Normally, as a fan, I'm a little bit of an eye roller about those excuses for quarterbacks. Oh they had a new coordinator again, Oh, they couldn't block anybody.

It's the NFL. It's hard.

But when you start to hear people like the owner and a guy like Waller, who was pretty much part of the offensive line, saying how terrible they were. Maybe Jones isn't as bad as the Onion wants us to believe. That playoff game was a rembrandt. It was beautiful block form. We'll see what the hell happens. I know the stock is really low. I'm trying to stay positive, but we're gonna know really quickly this season in the first month, did they make the biggest mistake in the history of the franchise paying him that? Or maybe are they a little smarter than somebody on a message board. We'll find out.

Yeah, the money, the money is spent already, right, like, that's the money and.

It's going that.

The mistake would be not doing everything to get a quarterback in this year's draft. I found fascinating about Hard Knocks and I watched every episode. I thought it was excellent. If you haven't watched it, go find it. They focus on Jayden Daniels, which seemed like a long shot. They focus on Drake May which seems like a long shot. There is no conversation about JJ McCarthy, no legitimate conversation. In fact, the scouts in the opening meeting about J. J. McCarthy are like, he doesn't even call his own plays. You know, the center and the offensive line call out the coverage, and it's like there was no they were right.

They were out.

Michael Pennix went eighth overall and had a lot of heat, like they weren't interested. Bo Nicks went twelfth overall. They exider it so as much as it's like, yeah, they did the quarterback work, they like Daniel Jones more than those three other quarterbacks who other teams valued enough to take in top twelve picks, both Pennix and Nicks going at the you know where they went, and of course McCarthy going to Minnesota where he was rumored to be loved by the Giants at one point. So I think it's interesting. It's like, yes, they didn't they didn't trade the farm to get those first three quarterbacks, but they also could have taken any of the other three, and other teams did value them as first round picks after them.

I also think it's important to reassess what the personality of the quarterback playing for one of the New York football teams does to the media market, because you're seeing Aaron Rodgers there with the Jets, and how he's kind of unflappable, he delivers his personality that he is unfazed by people and the way they evaluate him and his personality. Then we had years of Eli Manning with the Giants, and Eli was Eli, and then you have Daniel Jones come in. He gets paid, he's not playing up to his standard or frankly, the media's standard of him, and he's not delivering the personality the way that the media market craves it.

And then you have a minute with the backup last year.

I'm totally blanking on his name right now, Peter, Yeah, oh, thank you, Tommy Devido, And it was like they just pounced on him because they wanted that personality. I know, Kyle and Peter, you can speak to this so well having lived in New York for as long as you guys have, and just knowing what the teams want, with the media wants, so with the fans might want, and how that also has kind of hindered Daniel Jones a little bit in terms of his personality.

Well, the biggest win Daniel Jones had this offseason was he shouted up at Zach Bryan conson got on stage and sang with the guy and everyone was like, Oh, he's got a pulse like a sentient human beings. Oh he's singing. You know, he's got it, he can do it. He's a guy, He's someone. You know, what's the song to Selva?

What's Daniel Joe?

What's the one that Zach Brian ends every con?

I don't know who Zach Frn's music.

Some Sugar on Me, Salvation Puppets. He brings on, he brings on somebody everyone, and he brought on Daniel Jones and it was great and like the fans, like as silly as it sounds, they were like, yeah, that was cool, Like it's good to see that. So maybe that's changing. But like Daniel Jones is not gonna be.

What it sounds like running back though he was a running back.

Got motor singletary.

Great, very good, very good. NFL Network. We have hours and hours and.

Hours of football talk coming your way. It's why we're called what we are. Insight Trading Camp Live coming up at noon Eastern, Brian Baldinger will break down Giants practice and over at Jets camp.

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Speaking of Jets and Giants camp, I believe one Peter Schrager and Kyle Brant will be out there Monday and.

Tuesday of next week.

So stay tuned on Good Morning Football percented by the Farmer's Dog for those guys getting out of the New York studio, God forbid. Fantasy Draft season is almost upon us, and no doubt John.

Robinson will be off the board early. Guess what he's.

Coming on the show.

He's gonna talk his takes on mustard condiments and run game and maybe a new quarterback in Atlanta.

Really thus, oh yeah, we got all kinds of things to talk to Vijon about, including you know, he has his own mustard. I'm not joking.

It's brilliant for real.

And I'm not I'm not kidding. Aaron Rodgers Garrett Wilson have said their tense looking conversations are no big deal. We talked about him.

A lot, Rogers and Chester too.

I think Rogers. Yeah, something he has like a hallucingenic mustard. Ladies, start your engines.

Yeah, baby, Peter.

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Good Morning.

I want to respectfully and humbly destroy whoever is in front of me, and we love Bijon Robinson from the Atlanta Falcons. What's up, be Jon?

Good morning?

How you doing man?

I'm doing awesome. I'm doing awesome. How you guys doing good to be back on the show with y'all.

We're doing great. You're always doing awesome. You got this vibe about you, they say, Aura, you just got this smile. I want to know. You're in training camp now. Of course, you just had your first professional off season after a very long rookie year.

What did you do.

What was the highlight of Bejon's off season?

Tell us, Yeah, So, first of all, I mean it was a great off season. You know, I never had an off season be this long before, So you know, I have some good time to just kind of relax enjoy my family more than I'm used to because in college, like it's more so I see them a couple of days, maybe a week, and then I got to go.

Back to college.

But you know, I think I want to do a little bit of for more things, Like I want to be at DJ. So I've been doing like DJ lessons this off season. I've been trying to like get into acting a little bit so just do a couple of little cameos here and there. But you know, trying to stay trying to stay busy, trying to stay doing things, and just keep repping at those little things.

So I can, you know, just do more than just play football.

All right?

Well, I'm supposed to ask you about Kirk Cousins, but I have to go off script because you're.

The one that brought up cameos and acting. What have you been in? Where are we going to see you?

I know you mentioned this to us last year, but the fact that you keep bringing it up means something must.

Be working for you. Are Are you going to appear in something on the silver screen?

Yes? I was.

I actually disappeared in something last week. It's this Disney Channel show called Bunked. On the show last week, yep, and I was like throughout the whole show. And then there's another thing that's coming out. It's a cool show on Netflix. But I gotta I gotta keep it quiet for a second, and.

Then it's a team's tea. Okay, quickly, Bjon.

Then your quarterback first impressions are obviously important. I want to know what it's been like working with Kirk cousins. Coming from what you had in college versus your first year in the NFL and working with someone with such a presence about him, both on the field statistically, the kind of QB he's been on a couple different teams.

What's the offense feeling right now?

Yeah, I mean we all love Kirk like he he just came in with such a presence and just such positivity and wanting to be the best player that he can be, not just for himself, but you know, for this whole entire offense, and you know, for me, like having a guy like him and having you know, just his expertise and you know how many years he's been in the league, Like it really helps me out a lot because when we're on the field and you know, we might want to run something a little different, or he might want me to be in a different spot so he can get the ball there. Like all that communication is something that I'm not used to, and you know, I just really appreciate him a lot. And then obviously having a quarterback like him helps us in the helps us in the run game a lot as well, and even just lining up in different spots and getting the ball from him and practice, Like, you know, he places it perfect pretty much every time. So like, it's definitely a good feeling having a having Kirk Baer and just his leadership and you know him even teaching me how to be a how to be a leader.

It's it's pretty cool, all right.

So, Bjon, So you're the young guy. I know Kirk Cousins very well. Loved the guy. So you got all the style and the swag. We've seen the viral videos of the chain. Do you have anything jewelry game for for Kirk Cousins, You have something picked out from the jewelry store that you're gonna lace them up with because you know, if you.

Put it on him, he'll wear it.

Yeah.

So I'm not I'm not too big into the to the to the chains and stuff, but you know I want to.

I want to see if he can, like, you know.

Rock a nice little bracelet from me the bracelet game, you know, you know, like a like a cool little friendship bracelet.

So I'm like, hey, that's the way to do it right there, Like get your quarterback to be your best friend, you know, speaking you know, speaking of relationships too. What about Roy Hill Morris, I mean, what do you, how are you feeling about being in this training camp under a new coach?

So raheem.

I mean, man like that dude is one of the best dudes that I've ever met, just as a person, and you know, he just brings so much positivity in the building every single day. And having him here and having to learn from him and all his experiences and you know, all the all the different places he's been to. I think this is the perfect fit for him right here, just for this, for this team, you know, being a little younger and you know, having that fire, but he he exues it perfectly. And I think just our relationship building up from where from where when I first met him to now, it's it's been incredible, man. So you know, I really appreciate coach Coach Morris for for everything that he's been doing up to this point.

And I know he's going to be.

Successful here just just for who he is as a person, and I know that God is going to protect him and make sure that he does what he needs to do.

So yeah, I appreciate Coach Morris a lot.

V Jean, I got two questions for you. The first one goes back to your cameo on bunks. So I've got a seven year old son. He really likes the show. We talk a lot about Camp KICKI Waka up in May. What was your role on the show. Were you a counselor were you a guest appearance? Camp Kiki Walker tell us about it.

Yeah, so I was actually so I actually played myself, but I had to act throughout the whole throughout the whole show episode. But I was actually there for a wedding on the show, and I was coming in from from football and I had to just go show up, make an appearance, and then try to be the saver of the wedding kind of.

But that was that was more of my role.

But it was like really fun though, just like seeing the set, seeing Camp Kiki Walker, like seeing how they all operating there. It was definitely a fun, fun experience that I won't forget.

I can't wait to see it and I'll be watching second one is back to this summer. I have a podcast called The Season with Peter Schreger. I had Zach Robinson, your offensive coordinator, You're a new offensive coordinator on the show, and he said he was at a game where Oklahoma State, his alum, where he's an alum played Texas and you ran for about one fifteen three touchdowns and he said that guy's good. Well, now he has you in his offense. And I said, if you were doing fantasy football, He's like, I do not do fantasy football. I said, well, if you were to do fantasy football, would you advise drafting Bijon first overall? And he just gave a smirk and was kind of like, yeah, yeah, I probably would. So how are you being used in the offense early on and it's August fantasy draft season? Would you make the case that you should be the first overall pick in fantasy drafts nationwide?

Yeah?

So, you know, I love this offense a lot just because there's you know, he puts us all in the best situations possible, and you know, I just really enjoy, you know, getting to talk to him every single day and you know, trying to find the best situation possible, whether it's running routes or whether it's running the football, and he takes all that information in and really, here's me, here's the players. You know, he asks us questions, so he's always trying to learn every single day while he's trying to make you know, the best offense he can make in the NFL. But you know, for me with the fantasy like, I love the fantasy players and I love them a lot, So I play like I gotta be humble in the situation, like, obviously I want you to take me.

That's all. That's all I'll say on that. I'll say all that.

Okay, all right, be John.

I'm gonna try to get you to brag about something else. So every March I take a week off from this show because I love football so much. But one week at a year, I get a different assignment and I go work at CBS and I cover March Madness and I'm all in on.

Basketball and I'm loving it.

And then I put my head out of the sand and I try to see who's got the right bracket going. Who had a good touch on the nt DOUAA tournament this year. Jean Robinson makes headlines this past March because you had a perfect bracket coming out of the first weekend of the tournament.

How did you figure this? Tell us how this unfolded?

Yeah, so it was actually like super random.

So the March Madness page they just like DM me, and you know, I saw it and they're like, hey, johnn like, do you want to make a bracket?

Like I think it'll be fun.

And I was like, you know, I don't really watch that much college basketball, but I can just wing it. So I met the bracking in like five minutes, and I was just kind of guessing on, you know, everybody who was going to win or not win. And then when they posted it, like people are like, yeah, the beajhon doesn't know ball, like he just put this bracketing together for no reason, like get him out of here.

And I was like, yeah, yeah, pretty much like y'all are y'all right?

And then after that first after that first day, like it was perfect and people are like losing their minds like this can't be like this can't be right. Then the second day, like it kept on going for a little bit and then ended. But just that whole like twenty twenty eight hours or thirty something hours like was it was pretty insane. It was pretty insane.

I mean, you must have been kind of going by the way of the NFL because you had Oakland beating whoever they beat, and like people couldn't even figure out where the fact that Oakland is a college in Michigan. You're probably like, yeah, the Raiders and whatever.

Yeah, the Oakland they made it. So I was like, you know, this could be a cool upset.

We loved that for you. Did you play hoops in high school?

Uh?

No, I didn't.

I actually stopped in high school because you know, I did like a lot of seven on seven and stuff. But you know, I'm yeah, I kind of lost my touch in basketball. But it's all good. It's all good.

Now you got that touch in football. What you need is more touches in football, and it sounds like we're getting that this year. But before you go, this is important. A lot of people out there watching today. Let's say it's lunchtime for them, and they got this. They have like a ham sandwich, but it's a little dry and maybe they could use some sort of condiment on it to make it a little bit more delicious. Is there anything you can recommend to those people?

Yeah?

So you know, I have I have my mustard, Beijon mustards in it's good. Actually it's actually the official mustard. Yeah, it's actually the official mustard of the Atlanta Falcons. Now wow yeah wow, yeah, which is really cool, which is really cool. You know that's that's a big blessing right there. But yes, you know, I think it's a very good mustard for you know, people to enjoy, not just like with eating, but just taking a picture with it, smiling with it. That's whole point of it. Just have fun. Yeah, it's it's something that I think, you know, people will continue to enjoy and to like.

Bjon.

You don't know this about me, man, but I love food and I'm a foodie. They called me snack bar. Can you please send your boy some Bejon mustard?

Man?

You know what I mean, Like, can you send that to me?

I'll make sure that a good cent literally when I get here.

Now, I appreciate you, Matt, I appreciate you.

Problem.

And so this guy is the eighth overall pick. He is maybe the most talented running back in the NFL. He's at Camp kichi Waka. He's doing a DJ thing and he has his own mustard, and he's some sort of NCAA basketball savana prodigy, a prodigy. Bjon, you are incredible one of the best personality player combos we have in this league right now. The future of the position I'm running back to. You're the best man thank you so much.

Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, I appreciate you.

Guys.

Hey, we're back on Good Morning Football. Judy Batista speak to this. She's at Jets training camp.

Someone has the audacity to take a bite of a donut at training camp, a blueberry donut, mind.

You, and then put it back in the box.

Listen, if you're gonna have a donut, well you're working in television, at least have the guts to eat the whole thing and not put it back in the box. Judy, my goodness, how dare they?

That's rude.

I mean, all I can tell you, guys, is we're turning on each other.

Here.

It is hot and humid, and we're eating donuts, and it's it's really I'm surrounded by animals at this point, Jamie, I don't know what to tell you. It's a disaster. Nobody has touched the donuts since that was discovered, by the way, I mean, now, dont because.

They're scared of you duty.

You put them on blast. You took a picture of it, and then you said, how could you put in the box? You tweeted that picture of donut. I said, bring the donuts out here. So I can eat a whole thing.

As I'm talking to Duty Pee, So I'm gonna keep going, Judy, what are we looking for for the offense?

Development?

And everything that you've been seeing from Rogers and Garrett Wilson as they bark at each other this week.

So they've been barking at each other. But I would say things are going really well here. I was out here on Saturday and the offense was crisp, and most importantly, Aaron Rodgers was moving really really well. If you didn't know that he had blown out his achilles, you would not have known from watching him on Saturday. Since then, they've put on the pads. They had one practice that was a little bit rough, but then they came back the next day and Rogers was nearly perfect in the red zone. The video that everybody has seen of him and Garrett Wilson sort of barking at each other. I know people aren't used to seeing that because they don't watch practice every day, but for those of us who are around practice a lot, that kind of stuff is not unusual. These are highly competitive guys. Aaron Rodgers thinks the world of Garrett Wilson. When we talked to Aaron on Saturday, he told Baldy and me how much he thinks of Garrett Wilson. He wants Garrett Wilson to elevate his game. He's talking about getting him to practice at a level. He thinks he can be among the best wide receivers in the league. He talked about him in the same breath as DeVante Adams, which is about as high a praise as you can give. So I don't think there's any issues there. I look forward to seeing them on the field together.

Yeah, yesterday you're down the show. I said, if they're healthy, like Garret Wilson's the top three wide receiver, we just haven't seen it yet. But if they're healthy, it can be that way. I gotta tell you this X and Instagram. It's a toxic place and there's all these debates. Yet nothing triggered me more than this image of the doughnut this morning.

It's a bad.

And it's there's also this there's also the person that like will take half a bagel. They'll like, they slice the bagel and they'll tak it'll leave the other half, and it's like, I don't want to eat your half a bagel, Judy do we have any leads on who this might be. Is it's someone from the Jets media, someone from our NFL network? Is this big dom from really old who I know is often the guy running the show.

Okay, all right?

Who we got here?

I don't want to out the names of the still, but I mean, all I can tell you is we're the only people here, So it's one of us who's very I know and very What was the point?

I have some thoughts here. I watch a lot of true crime. I watched Presumed Medison over the summer. I think Judy is incredibly intelligent as a very high IQ. I believe Judy is the one who the bite and took the picture to put the scent off of her.

Judy, I think you did it.

I rest my case, tell.

You did it because if I were going to do that, I would eat the chocolate donuts.

Because I love chocolate. I would not go after the blueberry.

Are going to beat the chocolate donut?

Blueberry?

Just what someone would go after the blueberry?

Would say, Oh my gosh, I still think.

She did it.

Jesus sweating now, She's like, get me off the shot. I don't want to talk about this. Don anymore.

Thank you, Judy, You're doing God's work for journalism out there.

Talk to you a little bit.

Cherry Burris checking in with you. Judy's outside at Jet's camp. Cherry Burst is outside ten feet from us. What's happening, Jerry, Well, Jamie.

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Here with us on NFL Network and coming up. Jerry Jones has said he's all lay in on his team, but are the Cowboys fans feeling the same way? Big deal or No Big Deal? That's when Good Morning Football returns.

Good Morning Football.

Welcome back to Good Morning Football.

Here we are.

This is Dak Prescott, and this is adorable Dak hanging out at camp. This is what we love about training camp. Football is family, Dad Prescott, Dad Prescott.

However, oh no, what do you mean?

However?

What There's a lot of buzz coming out of Cowboys camp that maybe the fan attendant isn't what it used to be. So we figured we play a game called big Deal or No Big Deal. The facts are in that there is talk online. We saw Mike Lombardi and Pat McAfee talking about it yesterday and it's been spreading around the West coast. It up in ox Nord. There has been a dip in attendance no a Cowboys camp. So here's the statement. Okbar, you tell me the Cowboys faithful. The fans seemed to be sending a mess to Jerry Jones and the Boys by not showing up in droves to OXNAR this year. Big deal or no big deal.

I'm gonna say no big deal. Probably a couple of reasons. There are other teams in California. I think people probably really interested to see who else is out there? What else can we see, Especially if you're a Cowboys fan, you've probably seen enough of it. And then the second part of that is is that you know you don't have your main attraction sign. You got the holdouse to hold ins to hold somewhere else. So I say it's not a big deal.

This is no big deal for me either. You know, money is things are expensive right now?

Okay, Like if you want to fly to Los Angeles and drive to Cowboys camp, or do you want to buy a ticket to a regular season game and just stay in Texas?

Southwest is doing away with just pick your own seat.

Okay, Now you've got to pay for your seat assignment on the airlineine you got wheels falling off.

Planes left and right.

Why would I fly to LA to go to Cowboys training camp when I can just stay safe in my home state of Texas and see a.

Game in the regular season. This is no big deal, And.

Frankly, the only level of importance is that baby being at training camp about five months old. I think that baby looks and it's a beautiful thing. The only person I care about being a Cowboys camp.

Well, I care about that baby too. But I would say a big deal because Cowboys would tell you it's not about flying at all. We're America's team.

We're all over.

We don't have to fly. We have Cowboys fans and every nook and cranny in the world, like including massive amounts of fans in California. Listen, I can speak auto biographically about this. I as a fan fifteen twenty years ago. I used to go to Cowboys training camp just to watch because I wasn't even involved in any of this stuff. I would go to those Bill Parcell's teams. I would see too. I would see the late Marion Barber, I'd see Julius Jones. I love those teams. It's a couple hour drive from LA It's a while, but again that means nothing. There are enough Cowboys fans in Oxnard alone to fill up the stands and the barricades and whatnot. Here's why I put it. Listen, you go see a comic, a stand up comic that you really like, and the set just crushes and it's really really funny. Nine months later it comes through your town again. Kind of the same set, kind of the same Ah, you laugh a little less hard. Nine months later, Oh great, I'm sure they got new stuff. It's the same set. It's the same joke that you've seen three times now. I'm just not funny. The fourth time they come through, you say, I don't think I'm gonna go. I think I'll just stay in. It seems to be the same routine over and over. Maybe if there is some new material, I might give you my dollar or more preciously, my time. But I've seen the set already. I think maybe I'll wait till you get some new material. Peter, that's my t that's a great analogy.

I would go one step further here and say, when you were going to those Cowboys camp fifteen twenty years ago, and they were on hard Knocks and Too is on the team and Romo's on the team, there were no rams, there were no chargers, there were no Saints. There's three other teams that are in LA that are in LA proper right now. You can go on a fifteen minute uber ride and get to the Rams or the Chargers, or you can go and go see the Saints in Orange County where.

The Rams and Charger is not there. Last year though too, so they're.

Down from USh.

Yeah, and don't forget I do. Don't forget, y'all. I mean, one of the biggest things they came back to their market. The Lost Vegas.

Raiders are in town. And that's a.

Whole bunch of people going out in Orange County.

There's only so many fans in LA and ox Nord. It's about an hour outside of LA. It's one hundred degrees. I'm going to say that there's other competition that.

I'm jumping back in.

Listen, guys, the last time we saw this team, they got embarrassed. That was a really, really embarrassing end to their season and left a terrible taste in the mouth of a lot of Cowboys fans at home.

Again.

There comes a point where people are like, even the diehards are like, I'm just frustrated. I can't take this anymore. I'm not really feeling it right now. I think we can all agree that in the Dak Prescott Mike McCarthy era, this might feel like a low point in terms of hype and optimism. I really, especially since you got all the guys holding out so we can make all the LA conditional of the factors and traffic and da da da da da. It's tough right now. That was a tough loss, and it's not the first one.

I said this on the show on Tuesday. I went out Monday and I had a friend tell me that, you know, parked in front of Nobu in Malibu is a giant Cowboys buss, which means Jerry and or Steven are at Nobu and Malibu. And they didn't go subtly in an uber. They took that Cowboys bus. They still think they're America's team. They still act like when they come to LA it's an event. But I think the fans are reacting and I would go back to the Rams point. The Rams have made the playoffs six of the last seven years. They have Pooka Nakua who's a fun player, Cooper Cup who's a fun player, and their fan experience, Like I went, I guess as an unbiased person. I went and saw it firsthand on Tuesday. Here at Loyola Marymount. You could walk on the field, fans are getting autographs. You're not driving two hours to get there. I think over the last few years that the Rams and Chargers have established themselves quite a bit, and maybe the Cowboys aren't the only draw in town anymore, which they were for many many years.

Nothing more relatable than going to a sushi restaurant stilts over the Pacific Ocean.

Peter.

I'm glad you brought this up, though, because this is not the second time that you have said I had a friend to see the Cowboys bus outside of Nobu.

Peter, Were you the friend? Did you go up to camp and see it? Because you keep producing this friend.

I didn't see it. I got a texted picture. I didn't see it. Apparently it was right out there in front, but I didn't see it myself. But uh, it's you couldn't miss it, and it's always at the combine. It's like it's a statement. It's like we're here, and we're here and everyone should flock to us. No boo in Malibu. I have not been to And if anyone wants to invite me next time I'm out in l A.

I'm here for I got you, man, I got you.

I go bonding trip.

I've never been. So we'll take the whole team.

I'll take the let's.

Go put that card Down's card down, Baby Temporas team.

That's a barge bill.

Everyone's like, let's go the boss up there.

We're gonna have a GMFB bus. We're gonna go packers put this sweet out.

And then we got a special box on our doorstep here in Los Angeles. It is the new redefined Winter White uniform as what we're gonna call it from the packers. You're going to see it later this season. And there's nothing cooler than when you get a box and this is the first thing you see that comes out the box warning do not open until eight a m.

Central on August first. And what is inside that box? What was inside that box that bar throwing.

Got?

Oh look at kin sparkles like barkle golden.

Imagine like them wearing this like in December when it's like snowing, the ground.

Is all white. You can't see them on the field.

I can imagine this like the white on white. You get the kind of completed. Look, oh yeah, in a snowing game, Billy.

You know what I like that they broke out of the traditional old school and they went new school. You know what, They've officially been updated, they updated their software.

This is Peter. Your thoughts.

I love it, I really love it. And I were saying yesterday a lambou field the tradition, Lombardi, sometimes the Packers live in the past. This is very much in the future, Jamie. As they wrapped the week, your thoughts on this.

Well, I don't know.

My my Minnesota blood is like, I'm kind of my arm like going lamp as I hold this.

Right acker hearted. It is so hard with this uniform. It is pretty. I am sorry. It is the thing of beauty.

Love guys.

That was our first week from d the l A Here on NFL Network.

Sherry yak Bar, Peter Kyle, goodbye, Good morning football,