NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Monday Hour 1: Same Bears? Saints Offense, Raiders and Bucs Roll!
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the Texans win over the Bears. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila discuss the Saints amazing offense over the Cowboys. The Raiders are real while the Ravens are frustrated. Plus, the Bucs put together an impressive win over the Lions.
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Good Morning Football.
Hey, everybody, welcome to Good Morning Football.
We are presented as always my old Trapper Beach Turkey. We're also live in Los Angeles, as we always are.
I'm Jamie here at all.
That's Akbar Box BMLL and Peter Schrager Kyle Brand in New York City.
What are you chuckling about?
We're getting ready to come on. And I took a buy the chocolate and I was trying to hurry up there to it before I came on, and I'm like, what pressure.
It's your caffeinated chocolate.
Akbar has a billion caffeinated chocolate bars right here just in case he needs it, and he cuts it pretty close. You know who doesn't need caffeinated chocolate. This is a Scott Hansen appreciation moment. There were ten one o'clock or early games yesterday in the early window on red Zone. Scott Hansen could barely catch his breath as he would say, Kyle, it is the busiest window we will have in the twenty twenty four season.
There was a beautiful thing.
To watch the Decca Box.
Decca Box and as he said over and over yesterday, the single most exciting phase of all season.
The Decca box and Scott awesome, awesome jobs.
As we sit around wait and anticipates that Saints Raiders super Bowl this year, Guys, the Derek Carr game, it's going to be unbelievable. Should we get to lead blocker dollars? Listen the question.
Janson didn't have to talk during because it was Sunday Night Football.
It was the lone game on here we go.
All right, so Caleb one week one most number one overall picks, don't do that.
But he had a lot of help.
CJ strouted on a lot of winning and as c J Stroud, the rady rookie the year, watches fourth and seventeen, got to throw some kind of catching run.
He goes to Donday again and it's just nothing in the game is over.
The Texans go to two and zero, the Bears go to one and one. Caleb was sacked seve been times. Hopefully those guys play for a long time. I know one of them is really good. I know one of them is really talented.
At this point, needs a lot of help.
That was not a great night for the Bears, but the Texas took care of business nineteen to thirteen. We just saw them. Hopefully we see a lot of them. Hopefully our kids grow up watching them. Let's hear from the two quarterbacks in this game.
C J. Stroud, Caleb Williams. It's football.
It's hard to win in the NFL. I'm happy, of course, I'm not satisfied. I'll never be satisfied. There's always things that you can point out. We're not gonna let one half the football make us put our head and we're gonna stay confident. We're gonna stay taking shots, we're gonna stay betting on us. So I definitely understand. You know, we need to be better.
You know we didn't. We didn't execute the way we needed to. We're gonna keep getting better. Everything's about the responses. You know, it's week two. It's what the guys are Obviously, I'm, you know, a young guy, but understanding this a long season. I'm understanding that it's week two, understanding that we're gonna respond and just get better every day.
You know, I'm trying to figure out what the glow was behind this Sunday night match up ahead of it, and then Tariko comes on the Sunday Night broadcast and he's like, welcome back to Houston for the first time in five years for our broadcast. It's like, Okay, this is fun. That Texans are great. They qualify for Sunday Night Football. Peter, what stood out to you though, when you look at what so many were watching, which is this number one verse, number two young quarterback battle.
Yeah, that the NFL is humbling, and that Caleb Williams is a rookie, and that when you get to the big leagues there's gonna be guys who are bigger, faster, stronger.
Chris Collinsworth mentioned it on the broadcast.
He said, in every game Kayleb Williams has ever played in his life, he's been the best athlete on the field.
Well, last night he might not have been, as the.
Defense just absolutely engulfed him from Houston. I'm looking at will Anderson Junior with a sack and a half, Danil Hunter with a sack and a half. They pressured him about fifteen times. He threw two interceptions.
They cost havoc.
This Texans defense carried the load yesterday and gosh, Caleb Williams was under durest being tire game.
I don't even.
Blame him for these two picks. Yeah, he threw them away, and this is like one of those sacks. The offensive line couldn't protect him, and even when he did scramble out, he would overthrow players Like, this is the NFL. This isn't Cal Berkeley, this is in Oregon State, and this certainly isn't Washington State at a one o'clock game on the PAC twelve network. This is every week. This is what awaits you. Derek Stingley is a top five pick. Jalen Petrie is a star safety in this league.
They both got him.
And Lassiter is a guy who everyone coveted coming out of the University of Georgia and he got him as well. This is going to be a long season for Caleb Williams, and yet that Bears defense is good enough to keep them in games, so they're going to be relevant throughout. But don't get a twisted This isn't college ball, this isn't the Pac twelve, and this is a humbling sport. The Houston Texans defense brought it and they got them to win last night.
Yeah, you look at Caleb pressure. Forty eight percent of the time, he was under that constant pressure, you know. On the other side, though, the other quarterback that everyone was talking about was, of course my man, c J. Stroud, and c J. Stroud to me showed real development. It's very easy in the second year to kind of fall back on the success that you had, but he didn't show that. He came out here and I thought he wanted to compete, and he competed in a big way. We know all of the attributes that he has, but what I like about what they have going is the development and the wide receivers. You look at the wide receiver corps. They've got Collins, they got Tank Dale, they got Stefan Diggs, and Nico Collins in this game showed up to me as the number one wide receiver. That is huge. And then this play right here, that touchdown.
C J.
Strout we talked about that development. The way he was able to look off the underflow running back in Joe Mixon and to be able to fake that linebacker out and find Nico Collins on the top end. Like that is some advanced stuff from CJ. Stroud, and I think they should feel comfortable that their quarterback is growing now.
Stroud is growing. I like that people got to see it. I don't know how many people saw CJ.
Stroud last year, maybe last time he really saw him play, of course in the playoffs, so bank in college, he's good.
He took care of business. He's really cool.
He's really calm, and like Houston, deserves a lot of out of credit. I have to talk about Chicago, and I have to say a few things that like Bears fans don't want to hear. Last night was a huge deal for them. Week one whatever, sloppy, but then against that Texan game, we'll really go nuts. He looked a lot Calebly, it looked a lot like Justin Fields like it was very, very reminiscent of the Justin Fields Bears deal.
And that there was a.
Lot of scrambling. He's constantly under attack. There's the scramble where he breaks two tackles and then a third tackle and oh my god, then the fourth guy just gets them and it's like pinball. When he's not scrambling. There was a lot of checkdowns, a lot of short stuff, and then a lot of oh my god, he's going long and then he either misses.
Or it's intercepted.
I felt like I was watching Justin Fields again and it was like it was number eighteen, but it was number one.
It was just a little bit different.
Frustrating for Bears fans for sure, because again the old line looked really bad, and if you have concerns about that, they were justified.
The running game did nothing.
If you have concerns about ebra Flus, there's some strange decisions by him on the challenges.
There's a couple of them that everyone watching the.
Game, including the announcers, is like, yes, definitely not going to be overturned the second we saw it.
So it was a deflating game for the Bears.
And it's like, if you're of that mind that okay, patients pass patience, Yeah, sure.
In c J.
Strowd's second game in the NFL, he had three hundred and eighty four yards.
And two touchdowns with no interceptions. Three eighty four. Caleb is nowhere near there.
We lost Caanan Allen already, he was out, so of course the patients.
Of course, it's only a second game, and he's really talented.
It's really already eerily familiar to last year's Bears offense, even last year's quarterback. I think they have the Colts next, and the Colts who knows what's talking about? Texans looked really good, Bears. It's not just that it wasn't great, it's that it's frustratingly familiar. And it's not that it wasn't great. It wasn't different yet. Maybe it will be, but it isn't now.
Yeah, this does feel like the conversation after last night. You lends itself to appreciating CJ. Stroud for what he brings to the table. At this point in Stroud's career, he's played the full football season, and by that I mean he's put seventeen games on tape, and right now he sits at the fourth most passing yards for a quarterback through seventeen games in his career. The three that lead him are Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert.
And Joe Burrows.
C J.
Stroud is right there.
He has paced himself through a full seventeen game season.
Kayla Williams is not there yet.
And not only did we see some frustration in him just getting ransacked behind his offensive line last night when he was able to get the ball out, we saw some really poor timing, some really poor placement by the football and Chris Collinsworth by the end of the game even called out what his wide receivers were feeling.
Listened to this third and four.
To gain the Texans great pressure.
Well, yeah, it's coting back shoulder from bull incomplete.
Bring up fourth Down'll bring on the field goal unit.
And I know what Dj Moore is thinking. He goes, look, man, I squeeze that corner to the middle of the field. I left you five yards on the boundary out there. There was a lot of room for that back shoulder. Just not enough time on task yet. Between those two that was an opportunity.
When I heard Chris Collinsworth say not enough time on task, I felt like I was talking to my five year old, which is not I'm not patronizing Kileb Williams. I just think that that's how young we see this quarterback play man.
He Caleb Williams look frustrated, and.
Dj Moore when you take the helmet off when you're still on the.
Ground, it just got real.
You got for yeah, and.
Collins Worth, good for him for calling it right out. Ian Rappaport, time for you to join our show this morning here on Good Morning Football. I unfortunately there were some injuries yesterday, including after a really fun day to be seen in Minnesota. Not great to see Justin Jefferson walk down the tunnel to the locker room.
No, not great to see.
But more of a scare for Justin Jefferson than anything I was believing.
I thought the same thing.
See Justin Jefferson limping off being helped by two staffers.
You're like, oh, hey, this is not good going into the tent.
Turns out just a quad contusion for the star receips for the Minnesota Vikings. He told reporters after the game he'll be ready to go for week three.
Seemed like one of those.
Kind of like a Charlie horse, you know we used to get when you were a kid. Seemed like one of those that was painful at the time, Probably not painful after. Kevin O'Connor described him as.
Day to day.
So for the feel good Minnesota Vikings, no issues there. For the Los Angeles Rams another week, another receiver injury. Last week it was Pooka Nakua getting placed on injury reserve with a PCL spreing. This week, Cooper Cup after four catches thirty seven yards, come down with an ankle injury. He's gonna have tests today just to determine the severity and really what kind is it a high ankle? Is it a low ankle? How long is he going to be out? He was downgraded to doubtful yesterday, which maybe because of the score of it, certainly not a great sign. We will see today about his status. And then for the Kansas City Chiefs, a little more under the radar injury, but it's certainly potentially significant. Isaiah Pacheco, their star running back, someone who seemed to be poised to have a breakout season, and he left the game, left the locker room in a walking boot and crutches. He's going to have an X ray and a mri CT scan today. The focus, my understanding, is on the bone, the fibula on his ankle, just to see what is going on there. I don't, honestly right now know the prognosis. I know the fact that he walked up the field was okay. We will see what severity there is for his bone.
Yeah, adrenaline can give you a lot of gifts, though ian and an injury like that, the Chiefs have something i'd football. They travel to Atlanta so they get the full week of rest ahead of Week three.
Ian, thank you so much. After the break. Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones yesterday called the Cowboys loss at home, quote extraordinarily disappointing. We're breaking down exactly what happened in Dallas, and also, what's up Saints?
Yeah, you remind the Cowboys. Let's talk some Saints, dammit.
And speaking of disappointing, the Ravens lost to the Raiders at home in a game they had a ten point lead in the fourth quarter, and Lamar said they have to find their mojo.
Lamar finds themselves at zhe and to two and again though the Raiders won, we don't need to show Lamar show the Raiders good Moon football.
You know what I like when Peter Schrager says this place has become a house of horrors for a team. Minnesota has become a house of horrors for the San Francisco forty nine ers, especially when your former backup quarterback does this to you. That is Sam Darnald. That was justin Jefferson. That was ninety seven yards for Jefferson. Juttas went the entire length of the field.
Donald's heels were in the end zone.
Minnesota went nuts. The skull clap was electric. Donald fired up and rightfully so. Vikings win this one twenty three to seven. The forty nine Ers have not won in the state of Minnesota since nineteen ninety two.
Lions Arsus's Buccaneers. There's Baker gotta win last week. He's good friends with Jared Goff off the field. How would they do it on the field? Here another win for the Bucks. They're two and zero and they get revenge after that great divisional round game a year ago.
Buccaneers talk a lot more about that one coming up, though. Saints Cowboys.
Prescott's won fourteen straight regular season home games. Of course, last time we saw him home, they were getting slaughtered by the Packers. Surely that wouldn't happen again. We need to come up with some sort of regional nickname for their offense, like best Show on terf except it's like Bennetzer, So I don't know.
What it is. We're gonna work on that, all right.
The Bayeu Boys, the Bye You Boys will workshop it, trust me.
His album.
Kamara just captually had four touchdowns in the game.
He ran for three, he caught one. The Saints absolutely destroyed.
The Cowboys, Jerry's throwing hands in week two and Derek Carr is your MVP front runner.
There.
It is just like we all thought we're gonna talk about the Saints a bunch after this forty.
Four to nineteen annihilation.
The Saints have like ninety some points or something through to two weeks, and guess what we're talking about a guy who you thought maybe his starre and faded on the field. We're certainly going after week two like we all predicted to. Alvin Kamara and Jerry World go ahead forty one.
You see when we're clicking like that, I mean it usually it's been a lot of complimentary football around here. Guys playing big time football offensively, defensively, special teams wise, just speaking for the offense, when you're able to go out there and execute, limit the limit, the self inflicted wounds, have explosive plays like man, it's like the sky's the limit. So it feels good right now, obviously I know y'all know. Mean, I'm not too into the hype. So it's a win, but we gotta keep moving.
Well, that's underplaying it.
I mean, the Saints have had ninety one points put up on the board in the first two weeks of the season. Peter, is this the offense that you just never saw coming? But my goodness, do you love seeing it?
Well, let's first set the stage here. This is Dallas's home opener. They're coming off a huge win. Doc got his money, he got my.
Before the game.
He got one of the Paul brothers out there, and he's with Mike Tyson and Paul.
Logan, Paul the bigger one.
Yeah, Logan, Paul's out there, Mike Tyson, Jerry Jones, Charlotte Jones, Steven Joes, Brady's out there, Aaron Andrew and it's a it's a parade out there in the middle of the field of toll Over. They open up the doors to the stadium at day and all the fans come flooding in and it's like we're we're doorbusting for this cowboys scene.
I love that. And then the Saints, by the way, it was Jake Paul. It was Jake Paul. Whatever.
Saints score six touchdowns on their first six possessions, and Derek Carr looks unbelievable.
This thing was over before it started. Carr's doing bombs, so sheet who I love wearing number twenty two. That's really cool.
And he's not a running back, he's a wide receiver wearing twenty two.
I don't have to think about that. That's gotta be some others.
I'm sure little Duff ball past the Kamara becomes a big play and you're saying, wow, this all offense, Like we're the same players, are there?
What is going on?
Can I introduce you guys to Clint Kubiakh? Does that name? Do? Cleen? To Clint Kubiak at eight twenty two in the morning on the East Coast. Clint Kubiak is the offensive coordinator. They hired him from.
San Francisco, where last year he was the passing game coordinator working with Purdy, and that offense out there in San Francisco is obviously Gary Kubiak's son, fifteen years in the league, has bounced around as far as the offensive roles go. But Clint came in and it felt like it was a bit of a lateral move because he's not.
The head coach. Dennis Allens so the head coach.
But he went from being the offensive passing game coordinator for a Shanahan team, which basically means you're never gonna call the plays to running the offense in New Orleans. And if you want to see a huge delta between a team last year and this year through two weeks, it's the New Orleans Saints offense. Credit to Derek Carr, credit to all the other players on offense, and credit to that offensive line, including my guy tala Ya c Fuwanga, who was basically just removing people yesterday. But Clint Kubiak's name needs to be household soon enough. The Saints, they're the best offense in sports two weeks into the season.
And Peter Clint Kubiak did an amazing job play calling against this defense for the Dallas Cowboys. You know, you look at that Dallas Cowboys defense and what they did to the Cleveland Browns the week before, and look at how they utilize Michael Parson. We remember we were talking about this last week. They were like, uh, well, they're showing the offense here, but we were talking about defensively. They were picking their poison. Like Michael was like, I'm gonna go with this offensive lineman, I'm gonna hit that one. And he had a bunch of quarterback hits. He had a bunch of he had a sack in that game. He was at them, And so what is Clint Kubiak do is that, you know what, I know how We're gonna freeze him. We're gonna do rhythm pass, We're gonna hit him with the short, nice routes. We're gonna hit them with the screen game, the play action. That was the way they were able to slow down this defense. And it was the only way you could, especially when you think about having what you were talking about with talis Vluaga, a rookie offensive lineman going up against a Michaeh Parson. If you have quick games, you really throw the defensive lineman off, you throw the defense off. They're constantly having to play catch up. And that offense could never catch up to this explosive offense. Back to back games with forty plus points. I mean, that's impressive.
I'm gonna say it again. I've said this with last week thirty two.
Thirty two is where the New Orleans Saints ranked preseason on this show and any other show in terms of buzz hype conversation the New Orleans Saints. Did we do a single segment on them in the summer, did anywhere anyone on ESPN do a single segment on the New Orleans Saints over the summer, I don't think so. There was more buzz on the Panthers. There was more buzz on the Patriots. We talked about them a lot. The Saints were just nothing, nothing, and now they've completely lit the world on fire in their first two weeks and they get is so cool.
We knew that they were going to have those old war horses on defense.
They always have the De Mario and Cam and those guys are great, they really are. I just didn't see this Derek Carr coming through the first two weeks looking this good. It's been unbelievably fun to show. And I want to make another point about Good Morning Football. We are not taking this game pushing it into a Cowboys conversation.
We have bylaws here, all right.
If you win the game forty four to nineteen to go two and oh, we'll talk about you. I don't care what market you're in, OK care if you're a high school team. I'm sure if you flip a few channels away. They're making this a cowboys thing. We are going to talk about the Saints fans and Peter's who Dad, or who day?
Who Dad? We're gonna do who dat this morning? Derek Carr.
Like last week, we had this conversation about, like, man is Baker Mayfield the coolest guy in the NFL, And he really is even after another week. Derek Carr looks amazing, He looks funny, looks cool. The vibe is contagious and it's not often that with him. There's a guy that some of us know who maybe doesn't.
Work for us anymore.
We used to talk about Derek Carr and he used to say, good guy, good quarterback. That's not really a guy that you worry about when you have that quarterback that week, I don't know, they looked like the Cowboys weren't worried about him.
Ei there and they just lit up another touch on here, another one.
The game's not even going on and he's somehow still scoring Saints. We're talking about you. We respect what you're doing. Nice job, do.
It again, Kyle.
Thank you for laying down the bylaws. I always like appreciate saying within the rules. Please, because Alvin Kamara was unbelievable yesterday. He had four touchdowns. He had four touchdowns and the last time he had that many touchdown was in twenty twenty when he had six touchdowns.
Kamara has been this guy for the Saints. Why he was left.
Untapped for a few seasons, we are not sure. And frankly, after listening to Peter Opine about Kubiak, maybe that's the reason why Koubiac comes.
From San Francisco.
He learns under Kyle Shanahan, he learns the passing game coordinator ways, and then he comes He's like, wait a second, I have Alvin Kamara, who I get to play with now, Peter. I have to imagine that Kubiak looks at this coming for the Christian McCaffrey and a Deebo Samuel and he's like, Okay, I've learned a couple of things now, and look what I can apply against a really good Cowboys defense.
Absolutely, and to do that in Dallas, Jamie is such a statement as well.
But you're right, we saw Kamara get.
His, we saw Shaheed get his, but we also saw guys like Olave and Taysom Hill.
Everyone was involved.
So look, it's two weeks into the season, but you're talking about two games where you put up forty points or more, and that is legit and Klink Kubiak has found.
His way in Alvin Kamara. Welcome back to our conversations in the first hour of the show.
It's been a while. Let's go to Kansas City with what might felt like a playoff game yesterday.
Burrow Mahomes doing it again.
Burrow trying to avoid starting zero to two for the fourth time in five NFL seasons.
Let's get right to the.
Fourth quarter here, Mahomes on fourth and sixteen.
This is the game. It incomplete, ends it and it's incomplete. Game over Bengals with pregnant pause.
Dejon Anthony is who the penalty is on.
It's a pass interference.
Burrow knows outcomes Bucker, who anyfield.
Will ever been more perfect than this than more of a no doubter.
Down, a no doubter game over, game over, It's over Burrow. His dissatisfaction with that call is known, and Mahomes is looking for Joe.
He's gonna slap in five, do the whole thing. Taylor swept in the house.
Chiefs twoo, Aaron Rodgers and the Jets travel to Tennessee and Rogers never started owing to his career and he was trying to leave no doubt. Bill Levis man, he's still trying to hang in there, and Brian Callen is trying to breathe confidence into him. Levis would go nineteen for twenty eight, had a touchdown. He also had a kick and I lost fumble. Titans, they had more special teams issues. Roberts Sollaz said, I don't care. We are one in one, twenty four to seventeen.
Your final all right.
The Ravens have not been owing to since twenty fifteen.
The movie called The Intern was in the box office. But you can tell us about the Intern. Yeah, it was actually great. It's an Anne Hathaway Robertson here at ps correct The husband's cheating on her the whole time. Who knews?
Oh fourth quarter, Baltimore's up sixteen to thirteen. Surely they're going to put this thing away. Dereck Henry a touchdown. He didn't do much in the first half, but he did pour it on a litt in the second half. We're still kind of waiting on the returns there. Lamar so excited because it felt like that was the win. Look at Raiders always losing their downtown in the fourth quarter.
Most teams do but not this team. Devonte touched and there was a thought maybe Antonio is going to go for two in the lead. He doesn't. He ties it.
It's twenty three all DeVante Adams was the best player in this game in the second half.
Guys, the Raiders are in Baltimore. That's it. Raiders win Baltimore oh and two.
Remember they lost week one because the Isaiah likely toe on the line at Arrowhead. Well, they lost Week two because the Raiders came in and were better than them in the second half. Twenty six, twenty three, Raiders win Ravens.
Oh and two.
I mentioned Lamar's never been oh and two, and it's been a long time for this guy. It's been since twenty fifteen. He might have seen the intern I bet his brother did. But let's hear from John Harbaugh.
We define in our season. You know, we're just going to not be defined by everybody. It's going to say that we're not any good. You know that we're done, that the season's over after two games. That's what's going to be said. You understand that. You know it's but they're not here, they're not inside, and no one inside's going to say that we got to take care of our stuff, take care of our business, take care of our work. We know that we're a good football team, and we've got to go keep getting better and better and better and define the season by the way we play.
The word inevitable keeps coming up when I think about how the Ravens had started this season, which is and sometimes that can be taken as a good thing, and in this case, it's not a great thing.
Both games for them came down to the final play. They lose both games.
It feels like if the Ravens are there, it's inevitable that like they're going to cough it up.
Peter. So frustrating for Baltimore.
Yeah, and it's not like this is just a one year thing. This is a issue that the Bravens have had for quite a bit. Now you look at how they lost this game. They're up ten points in the fourth quarter at home to a Raiders team that the offense hasn't done anything for the first seven quarters of the season.
The stat that I got that is that it's.
Wild comes from Josh Dubau at the Associated Press. John Harbaugh, who we reverely consider one of the great coaches of the NFL has the most blown double digit leads in the fourth quarter of any coach since at least nineteen ninety one. That's the ninth time this has happened as Ravens head coach.
It's just a weird thing.
It's a good So how do you close out these teams?
How do you close it out? They haven't been able to.
This was again home opener. Everyone jacked, everyone.
Excited, and you come so close to the Chiefs.
You call a good loss for the Ravens.
I thought they could hold their head high.
Did they go to the Kansas City with three new offensive linemen, a new offensive line, coach, new defensive quarter of the one to yesterday?
It was horrible.
And it's in the beating sun in Baltimore, and the fans all come there.
I mean, Jacobe Jones was honored before the game.
There wasn't a dry eye in the stadium, Like it's a beautiful moment.
And they come out and they're in the league. Then to give that game away, and you know who they play this week?
Play the Cowboys this week, and like Cowboys are gonna be angry, Cowboys are gonna want to get away three three in the AFC, so I think that that was the worst.
I mean, Giants fans can cry all they want and Cowboys.
That loss for the Ravens was the worst loss for any team in the NFL. Yes too, because of the hole they put themselves in, and that was a winnable game against an offense they shouldn't be able to move up and down the field on them in the fourth quarter.
Kyle, I'm going to follow your lead on can we just talk about the Raiders. Let's not talk about the Ravens. To me, this is a conversation about the Raiders and the attitude that they're taking on. They really I was at the game last week. You know, they're just kind of watching the temperament. They lost that game, of course to the Chargers, but the attitude that this team is taking on, especially a defense, they're starting to act like Antonio Pierce. They're playing like Antonio Pierce. It is contagious and I'm seeing it. That first half against the Chargers. They dominated. The Chargers had a hard time converting. I look at this game the first half, they dominated, and when you think about a good team, to me, a solid team. Yes, it's scheme, but attitude is so important. And I'm seeing an attitude from the Raiders that looks like like old school Raiders mentality. And I'm looking at this play right here with Max Crosby. This is a great play. You can see right there, Christian Wilkins in on that pig play, sacrificing himself so then that Max Crofby can come around on that play and get that sack. That to me, it's not only coordination, but it's also an attitude like, yeah, I'm Christian Wilkins, but yeah, I'm still gonna go out there. I'm gonna put my up out there for the team so my man Crosby can wrap around and get that sack. They brought that type of pressure. They frustrated Lamar Jackson. They shut down that offense which is supposed to be very explosive with Say and Labar and all of that. I love the way the Raiders are playing. And you know what, not a lot of people were talking about the Raiders as well, not a lot of people that we weren't talking about doing it, and we weren't talking about the Raiders.
You're right, and look what happened. And listen, I beat this to death. I know I try to tell the people Week one is a liar. Don't pay attention so much to Week one. The Raiders went on the road, the Jets went on the road, the Browns win on the road. All these teams that look terrible Week one, guys, focus on Week two. Week two for the Raiders, a game in which Max krist We played every single snap, in which Gardner Minshew was better than Lamar Jackson, in which Devonte Adams came out was the best player in the game for the second half. I like this team because I don't know if they're perfect.
I don't know if they're going to the playoffs any of that.
I feel like you really have to kill them to get him out. This game was down, the Ravens are like, oh, we got it. We're at home, like Peters saying, it's Sonny, we're here, we're celebrating, we're great, We're up ten. Then they lost, and I feel like that's that Antonio Pierce thing, that's the Max Crosby thing.
I don't know if they're going to have a lot of leads in this season.
I just don't. I don't know if they're that set up. But when they're down, they're going to keep fighting. This is you know, they scored on the final four drives of the game against him, said what you want about Lamar, Derek Henry whatnot? The Ravens defense is where their money is supposed to be made. Four straight scoring drives to end the game. That's why they if they give up three straight, they're going to overtime. They're probably winning. The Raiders said, screw it, let's go win this thing. Go back to California. The hell with it.
Four straight drives.
You have to kill this team to beat them, and the Ravens couldn't.
So I thought.
Another thing that was really interesting is that Lamar Jackson starts OH to two and the last time an MVP started his season a raigning MVP at OH to two.
Was our colleague Kurt Warner.
Unfortunately he did it back in two thousand and two. Warner and his team would go on to miss the postseason. But I'm curious about to you guys out of New York and Okbar, I want to hear this from you too. Do you think that's more of an indictment on the MVP race from last season and the fact that Kyle you've talked about this just kind of stumbled into an inevitable Lamar Jackson MVP. And it wasn't like he was this runaway, So why would we expect him to enter this season just totally shot out of a cannon. It's the last quarterback to do that. Oh and two is back in two thousand and two. Because you expect the MVP to come firing.
Well, listen, I've said this before. It was a very strange MVP last year. And we don't have to bring up last year.
He didn't have the stats, he didn't have this crazy cool story. He was just kind of like the quarterback on the best team for most to seeing the n DP was really, we're a.
Big win against the Niners at night. Yeah, and then it was like it's over. It's over.
But like there's I would be interested to know this, when's the last time an MVP started season oh and three? Because I mean, I can't think of a time that's happened if they.
Were the starter.
And to Peter's point, Baltimore and Dallas next year and next week is already like is Dallas gonna be one and two.
Or Baltimore gonna owen three? Can see that one of them the.
Sky is falling at needs to know that fact, toy.
Let's get on it, Peter, is that America's Game of the week. Is Brady just getting a condo in Dallas to start the season.
I'm not sure. Yeah, I k kind of sucks though I don't like that guy. It might be nance Romo.
I can't imagine Brady gets three Cowboys games in a We'll see.
I don't know what network gets on.
Very cool. I always like calling an America's Game of the Week.
All right, so look up, two young exciting quarterbacks faced off in prime time. They were in the spotlight. We got to talk about c. J. Stroud and Kayleb Williams, which we had the better night. It's an obvious answer, but we got to dissect it a little bit.
Good Morning Football.
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Look at that starting Monday off on the right note. We don't want to look now though, but after the wind over, the brock goes on Sunday, the Steelers sitting two and o to start the season for the first time since twenty twenty oh. By the way, Pittsburgh made the playoffs last seven times.
They started two and oh.
Quarterback Justin Fields happy with the win, but know they still have some things they.
Need to clean up.
I think we all know its hard to win in this league.
So being able to start start off too and oh with two away games has been great and it's, you know, great moment I'm going into next week. But kind of like I said, it's just on the offense side of the ball.
We got to be better.
We got to you know, stop with the penalties and stuff like that, and you know, we all got to be better, including me. So if we get that and the way with our defense is playing, if we get rolling on offense and scoring twenty eight points plus a game, then we'll being in shape.
And then in our first installment of replay review, where we'll look at an official review of a play from Sunday, we're looking at Calvin Ridley making this spectacular grab a touchdown against the Jets.
After a further review, there was no clear.
And obvious contact really before he landed the end zone.
So yeah, that's good for a touchdown.
It stood also incredible grab there by Ridley and Christian Gonzales, the talented Colombian cornerback, is entering his second year with the Patriots. This Latino Heritage Month, he sat down with us discussing the importance of food, family and culture.
No, I'm Christian Zalez, New England Patriots cornerback.
Eight to set Yould and Colombo get it, Tim Gold Sunnish nine Colomba soup, pretty man, I set you a good night of him.
And growing up, my dad was always in the kitchen. He was the main cook of the house. Probably my favorite dish that my dad makes us Colombians probably the fried fish and some rice.
That's kind of what it is in Colombia.
It's real simple food.
You know.
The big thing is sitting down at them together. My favorite restaurant in Boston is Opanola. You know, if I'm missing home, missing you know, a little homesick, a little family sick, can go over there and just get the taste of it. The New England Patriots like Christian Gonzales.
It just mean everything. Put it on for everybody back in Columbia.
To me, it means a lot to be able to represent the Colombian heritage and even just a Latino heritage as a whole. Now you feel the love and the support in Colombia all the way here in Boston. Sode Key, sod.
La, pretty awesome. They've got to go check out that spot neast. I'm hit at Boston, so to come here though.
On GMFB a look at the place we needed to rewind rewatch.
In order just to believe. I know, if you get confusing.
Sometimes sometimes we tell you to don't change the channel, to put your remote away and just watch our show all day. Other times we say grab the remote and tell us which play that you would like to rewind that on Peter, what's your moment from week two?
A lot of talk last week and what the heck was going on in Arizona and why wasn't Marvin Harrison Junior get and he touches.
Let's go to the first quarter of a game.
Agains the team they haven't beaten at home in nine straight. Contest Kyler Murray for Marvin Harrison Junior's first NFL touchdown.
It is a precise pass, but.
It's even better footwork from a guy that will be an NFL superstar if he's not already. After yesterday, Harrison was outstanding.
Check Out this catch on the side. Look at those seat The footwork marvelous. Everyone in the rams saying incomplete.
He's like, no, I caught it first touchdown pass, you'd have another outstanding play.
Look at this footwork. Ooof unbelievable.
You're talking about a fourth overall pick and you're gonna be talking about a guy whose name are gonna.
Be mentioning a lot.
I was so happy to see him light it up yesterday after a slow week one.
That was a thing of beauty.
Now I know.
In the Lions Buccaneers game, it felt like Aiden Hutchison was having a slumber party in the Lions backfield.
This is not that.
This is a quarterback on linebacker crime. Keep your eyes on Baker Mayfield frankly, he's probably trying to escape Hutchinson.
Oh my god, Malcolm Rodriguez, are your ankles?
Okay?
We love Rodrigo from Hard Knocks two summers ago, but man, he tried to put the brakes on. And maybe you can blame the tur for something slippery.
But watch it, watch it. WHOA my goodness, that is a man one mixtape stuff.
Baker's like, I got it, but mostly I was terrified.
Look at it. Look at it.
Oh, Aiden hunches his face. It's like, oh no, that's my buddy who's feeling himself.
And the bucks they did great off Bark all right, So for me, I have one that was pretty special. We've been hearing a lot of Milik Neighbors, but then he's got Daniel Jones as this quarterback. Well, i'm gonna give you something. I'm gonna go biblical here. It's Sunday, right, I'm gonna go to church. The second greatest commandment is to love thy neighbor. And this is exactly how you're supposed to love thy neighbor. On this play right here, Daniel Jones does an amazing job and Malik Neighbors but then running that shallow route getting in the zone against the zone defense, having those guys run up against each othing. To watch here, he gets the three stooges right there run up against each other with that shallow rope. That's a great route there by Belief Neighbors, I absolutely love it. That set up him having another big play touchdown in the game. Malik Neighbors, I like this. He's going to start going to church on Sundays.
Hmm, command well, I hope he goes to the end zone too. They need a lot of that from him. I have a question for the audience. It's a little bit off color. Have you ever been escorted against your will out of a bar? You ever have a bad night? They say, hey, you're on here, buddy.
That's what it felt like the Buccaneers did to David Montgomery. If you want to out tough the Lions, you're gonna have to do.
It with a whole group. Watch Montgomery, one of the hardest runners. The raining angry runs, champ yah YadA, Yavi, picks him up.
They all just escort him out of the establishment is set him down on the curb and say try again next week and you're out of here.
This had a lot about how Tampa played this game.
It was toughness against toughness. That is six people carrying Montgomery. It's really a compliment to Montgomery that took six bouncers to get him out right.
You have the club.
I think there were two games.
Yesterday that had a real playoff steak feel to it.
I think it was Chiefs Begals. I think it was Bucks Lions.
Bucks won that one because, as we've seen him twice in this segment, be faster and more physical.
The lines will fight again. But Tampa was awesome yesterday.
That's great. Say yes to that question that Kyle asked.
No, I was just like I totally get I used to be a bouncer.
Oh you did the escort? Have you ever carried somebody out like.
The beltzer at the Blue Tattoo in San Diego? Shout out? I mean that place is no longer existing Blue Tattoo. Yeah, that was my first college job was as a bouncer.
What was your approach?
Like A yeah, but I just used to do the peck bounce like this, like the and they just walked peck bounce and they's like, come.
On, you're going with me?
The classic peck bounce.
Want too.
It's nine years on the show. I don't think anyone said peck Bounce
