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GMFB Monday Hour 2: New Cowboys hype? Ron Rivera, and Will Levis

Published Aug 19, 2024, 6:31 PM

Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with a new season of hope for the Cowboys.  Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt,and Akbar Gbajabiamila discuss what achievement would excite Cowboys fans this season. How does Ron Rivera feel about what the rookie quarterbacks are showing right now?  Plus, Titans QB Will Levis drops by to discuss his mayo-inspired fragrance and what he expects in his second year in Tennessee!

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Hey, everybody, welcome. It's that Good Morning Football presented by best Buy. Hello to our friends at best Buy. I'm jamieer at All. This is akbar Barjibamilli Kyle Brandt. We are live here in Los Angeles, a bar. We are know a few weeks into preseason. There's a lot of games going on at all times. How is it feeling ingesting all of it?

You know, it's good. It's fun.

You know.

It's a lot of a lot of.

Football, a lot lot of football watching all the little small things.

You know.

I have huge respect for the men and women this weekend who broadcasted preseason games play by play on the field. It's so difficult. There's so many players. You don't know them. The stars aren't out there. I was watching some local preseason coverage. I texted somebody that we all know and I said, hey, great job, eat enthusiasm on the call. And this person text back, it's just a four hour infomercial for the team, you know.

It is.

All you do is just say the team is so great and all the players are so great and nailed every draft pick, but I find them very charming.

This time I watched who.

Was this person?

I'm not going to say it.

It's someone we all.

Know, one of our new attendees at the table. I listened to this weekend Isaiah Standback. He sounded on the Cowboys.

Brother, it wasn't Isaiah, though. That was a good line about the infomercial back they.

Want that out there?

Kyle, where do you take us?

Well?

Would you want to go to Las Vegas? Let's do it. I think that's where we're going. We'll guess what.

I was actually texting with the guy who's calling his.

Game, Rich Cannon. You were texting with Rich Cannon, Rich Cannon, here are.

Your teammates with Gannon?

I was, I was so cool former MVP.

All right, well Gardner Minshew winning MV I don't know that'd be fun, that'd be really fun. So an o Conno's trying to win the job, and it looks like he's actually going to win the job. And then this, I'm not joking. I think this has decided right here. I think he was going to get me the starting quarterback through a.

Pick six and it was over.

I think Minshew won the job based on that play, and listen, Pierce talked about it afterwards that everything was evaluated.

They both threw a ton of passes.

It was a huge mistake, and I think right here in the middle of the run back he turns the Mintion's like, you've got the job.

You're starting week one.

Hey, O'Connor.

I hope you're going to be back. You're a good story. He played a lot last year. But the Raiders have a quarterback. He has a mustache, but that doesn't narrow it down. It's one of those guys, all right, So this is the best thing ever, Jamie tell us about this.

Okay, So Brandon Aubrey hits a sixty six yard field goal preseason. You're inside, you're in a dome. Whatever, we don't care. What we do care about is the fact that Mike McCarthy had this fantastic reaction to it. It was so authentic. He looked so thrilled and frankly, we'll see this out of Mike McCarthy a lot this day. So we love the happiness and the joy. Yeah, Brandon Aubrey, I know I can get three points on the board with granted Aubrey Now the Cowboys offense looks all right, You'll be all right, Mike McCarthy. So Cowboys this year, let's just enter a new era?

Is it though?

Is it a new chapter? How do the Cowboys create something that would generate the same reaction that Mike McCarthy did after Brandon Aubrey Schoolgal, if you are a Cowboys fan, you, Kyle, you got to paint a Rembrandt here te us up on a scenario that would have Cowboys fans.

Yeah, there's a lot, and there's a lot of ways you could go, and you know, some of them are a little heavier, like if you said that, you know, the Jones family finally hired a proper GM and I don't even feel that way, or if they redirected their image from selling and money to just pure winning.

But listen, I will make that face.

The seconds they advance to an NFC title game, I will be here.

Yeah, that's me. They don't even have to win the game.

I don't care if they win this title game, just get there.

Win the divisional round game. I'll do that.

I will put the hat on, I will grow out a great beard. I will adjust my body type to look like Mike McCarthy.

Whatever I have to do, I.

Will make that face.

Okay, That's all I ever want from this team. And until that they do it, it's exhausting for me to talk about it. And I've covered this for many many years. It's win a divisional round football game, and I'll make that face.

Bar what would make you make that face?

You know what?

You and I are speaking the same language. I support everything you're saying, and I'm gonna support it, support it even more.

Go on.

It's been a very long time since the Dallas Cowboys have been to the super Bowl, to have won a super Bowl. In fact, I'm just gonna go play a little game with you guys, all right, thirty years ago, it's almost that time. Do you know what the price of gas was where you were, where you grew up? Thirty years ago? This is almost thirty years of a nineteen.

Ninety I was five years old. I would not know what the part.

Oh that's why I got my driver's license in ninety five. Oh you did so.

Yeah, it was like it was upper one dollars. I feel like it was like a dollar ninety two or something.

Okay, a little lower, a dollar twenty seven. Oh, how boys, we're in the super Bowl. Okay, how about this? How much was it for a movie ticket back then on.

A first run theater? Not those second runs? For a buck? I think, what do I think? It's like seven dollars? Oh?

I was going to go five?

How much was it?

Four forty two?

That's great? All right.

Jerry Jones's fifty three years old. I mean that's almost seven years from now. I'll be fifty three. Huh, Like it's been a long time. So that's the face I'm gonna make the Dallas Cowboys make it to the super Bowl.

I'm right there with you.

Were you born that was five? Okay, I'm kindergarten half ta kindergarden and you were getting your drivers morning or afternoons Jamie, yeahhhh, I're in a morning show.

Ironic.

I know.

I would make you make that face somewhere else.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's into late January for the Cowboys. Just because I like attainable things and things that are realistic. Time I go Dak Prescottland winning an MVP. Sure, you know like it just it's something that a fan can say, remember all those years that we just couldn't figure out what the right combination of coaches or players or But man, Dak Prescott had that hell of a twenty twenty four season, and they just hang their hat on it and they talk about that for the next thirty years. Like the last time that a quarterback was an MVP finalist for the Cowboys, I don't know when it was. I don't know what the price of the movie ticket or the cost of gas or gallon of milk, I don't care. But if Dak Prescott won MVP in twenty twenty four, I think the fans would do that.

See but I think like that'd be perfect because we'd go to NFL Honors, which let's say it's a couple of days for the Super Bowl Cowboys and playing in that game like it's gonna be the Niners or the Eagles or something, and Dak has to put this soon on and go up and make a speech about his the MVP and they lost in the wild card round again, Like that's that's the same old stuff, over and over.

We got it.

I would rather have Dak have the worst season of his career and they get to the title game, and I'm sure he would too.

Yeah, you're probably sure Prescott would have that face once he becomes the highest paid quarterback.

That's yes, it's made a lot of.

Money for a lot of years.

We love that face, though. We're gonna just keep watching Mike McCarthy make that face. And then it begs the question, because we were talking about this before the show started, what is something that would happen to us, either once in a lifetime or every day that makes you make that Mike McCarthy face.

It happens to me on Friday.

I flew cross country with my family, all right, and we're at the gate and corralling the kids and stuffing food in their face and everything. And I heard on the on the PA the following passenger, please come to the desk Kyle Brandt.

Crap. I'm I going to the principal's office? What did I do?

And I go up there and I'm like, I'm Kyle Brant and they're like, oh, can I have your boarding past?

Yeah, you've been upgraded.

I go yeah, yeah.

Now the problem is with my wife and kids, and I'm a gentleman, so I take my jacket and throw it across the mud puddle for my wife to walk on. My wife got to go up and I was back in seat fifty seven thousand with the kids, and so she got to have my seat.

Wow.

Yeah, So I went on both of those.

I was very gentlemanly of yes, thank you.

That was Brooke.

After that, that was yeah.

When you get that you've been upgraded.

Cross country too, that's a big sacrifice by you.

Not even screens in the back of the seat. I had nothing to do. It was ridiculous. Actually, I ate a lunchable.

I'm the thing.

We had lunchables, Pat, that's I'm I'm back in thirty seven eat lunch not even those like adult fancy ones, A damn lunchable with the squares of like an American.

Cheek rough oh rough, you know what to make me.

I was thinking I had one answer upon coffee, and then I thought, you know what, No, I'm gonna change it.

I love food, but food is expensive. It's really really expensive.

So there's nothing better than when you're saying I'm at home, I'm chilling, I'm just gonna go.

I don't know why I'm doing this.

Nobody orders food, and actually, yeah, you actually actually order food like this, so you get your door dash going and you're going, you know what, I'm just gonna try to be a little bit more conservative here. I'm just gonna order two items and then door Dash comes to your door. You open up the little box and boom, you've got extra chicken wing yet and you've got all this other stuff that you didn't order, and you're looking around like if I take it in my stealing like they dropped it off in my house.

You take it in and then you're.

Like, yeah, like, oh.

Man, it's about to be a feast. I got four kids, you know what I mean? Like, oh, yeah, everybody's eating now. So yeah, that's have you had that?

That's a really good one. I was actually just thinking, is that because you're a frequent orderer of that? Do you think they're rewarding you for coming to them so often? Or was it an accident?

No, it was an accident.

Right now, there's got twelve kids that got two little wings to eat for twelve kids.

Yes, well, not my fault.

So we're sitting at this desk and I'm looking at ear screen. I'm living my life right now by baby monitors. I just I got them everywhere. I got the three kids at home. I can hear their sound machines through the baby monitor, and frankly, I feel like I hear phantom white noise. Sometimes it's not good, that's horrible. It does. But the face that I make when I is when the four month old starts to stir and then she puts herself back to sleep. Yeah, I didn't have to go in there. I didn't have to put the sucker in her mouth. I didn't have to feed her. It was there was no bodily obligation to the four month old. In a five minute span, she just starts to she opens her eyes and it's like high stress. This is I'm high stakes. I'm over this monitor, like what are you doing?

We're doing here?

And then she goes back to sleep, and I'm.

Like, let's go.

Yeah, you over there studying it like a quarterback of the sideline.

And I proposed a toast that I would just I like to toast to Jamie and all women in her position right there.

The phrase that Jamie just used a bodily obligations. That is a loaded phrase. God bless you, God bless all women with their bodily obligations. We love you. Good morning football. I hope all your dreams come true, thank you, we love you so much.

Alongside alongside August, yeah, alongside August being preseason, it's also National breastfeeding month, so congratulations. Every month should be bodily obligations. Everybody is a new mom of three. Here, here we go. I guess who's on the network this week. It's us talking about bodily obligations, but also it's Bears, Chiefs, Bears, Chiefs. This is the final week that going on at home.

He's got babies, that's true, and.

A third on the way. Congratulations to the Mahomes family. They play for real in a couple of weeks. But first, Kansas City will host Bears on Thursday night. Kickoff is a twenty eastern right here on NFL Network. That's also killableers on the left. You have to do You are obligated to mention his name, Kyle. This one really fires you up. What is happening later?

Oh no, there's Will Levis's bodily obligations with mayonnaise inside his mouth at all points.

Will's coming on the show.

I love this student really exciting season coming up for the Titans. They open against Caleb Williams and the Bears in Chicago. They can flip the table and we're gonna talk about mayonnaise and maybe dry heave. Coach Ron Rivera joins us with his thoughts on Caleb.

Everybody's got thoughts, Jane Daniels, the rest of the rookie class.

You know, Ron's one of our best friends.

Here.

We'll get all his thoughts right after this. It's good morning football on a Monday. Coming in.

Hey, Kyle, what is Levis's botery obligation?

Just crushed Bicep Crows? I guess are Rus a rich quarterback I've ever seen.

That's why I look like when I get mayonnise on my sands. By the way, I like mayonnaise. I'm at the table raising my hand yes to Mayonnaie's.

It's too early in the morning to talk to movies. Good money.

Hey, welcome back to our show. This is Ron Rivera. He's a head former head coach. He's a super Bowl champion. We love to ask Ron questions about everything that's going on. Let's circle back to Chicago.

Well, you know, very excited about the play at the quarterback. I right, an great, but not just the quarterback, but the whole unit, the team as a whole. To be honest, because when you look at them, they're kind of working their way already in the regular season shape because a lot of their defensive guys are playing. A lot of those guys are getting geared up, and that's going to help the young quarterback out an awful lot. It really is.

Well listen.

Ackbar made a great point to start the show that there's a lot of hype about Kayla Wims deservedly so he's got his own show on HBO and his usc the number one pick. Meanwhile, the guy drafted right behind him, so the Commanders looks really really good.

Doesn't have as much hype? Does he deserve it? Coach, how are you feeling about Jaden Daniels, Well.

James has done a very nice job. If you watch what they're doing Cliff Kingsbury's offense, he's spreading the ball out already, and you really haven't seen the whole offense because when you watch the things that they did the other night against Miami, there was no real red zone offense being shown for the quick throws getting the ball out of his hands quickly, so he's hiding those things. A lot of quick passes in this game against Miami. That one was to Terry McLaurin is a tremendous offensive player and a big, big target for Jade, and so you're going to see him throw the ball to him an awful lot more.

Coach, now that you're here, you feel like sometimes you can use like the grown up at the table. Can you write us a permission slip to be excited about the rookie quarterbacks? Are we allowed to do it?

Yes?

I really do think so, just because there's a number of them that are playing very very well. I mean Bo Nicks we just talked about who's having a phenomenal start. But another guy that's kind of quietly going along about it has been Drake May. You know, he's done some real nice things in New England. You know, it's a new offense there. They brought in Jacoby Rissett, who's very familiar with this offense. You know, it's one of those things that when you have a young player and you have a guy like a Jacoby Risseaid who loves working with young guys, This guy, Drake May is going to make an impact at some point this season.

Okay, So while we want to lead with optimism and excitement, about the rookie quarterbacks to circle back to k Williams. So some of the things that you do read at times is that he's throwing too often out of the pocket, he's holding the ball, holding onto the ball for too long. Are we leaning too much into the touch this too much?

That?

What are some things that maybe he could fix by the regular season?

Oh?

Exactly that. And I think the thing that everybody has to understand is the style offense are going to play. They really haven't been showing a lot of it. Again, you know, you look at what they do and it's very much what they did with McVeigh. And the big part of it is just because of the reason of the of the offense. It's about spreading the ball out, getting the quarterback moving outside the pocket every now and then, and it's about making the plays downfield. He has the whole package. He really does. This young man has the skill set to move the ball, throwing it quickly, making good decisions, holding onto the ball, extending the play in the pocket, throwing the ball downfield and making those explicit plays, and then on the move he can improvise. He's very patient. You pointed it out during this early in the segment about a guy that has the ability to make people miss and then throw the ball downfield.

Yeah, coach, let's talk preseason because there's been a lot of chatter two about starters playing in the preseason. You know, Nick Sirianna, he was saying, you know, look, they get a lot of work in practice. You know, we get a lot of these joint practices where they get to see some of that work. And then on flip side, you get a guy like Antonio Pierce. Antonio Pierce, he goes out and say, look, if you healthy, you're gonna play. You're gonna play. Where do you sit on that?

Well?

You know, again, there are certain players that you got to be really aware of and really careful with, and those are the guys that don't play as often. Okay, but they got a lot of work during the preason. So I see what Nick's saying. But the thing that you want to see is you want to see, especially when you have a new coordinator, what these guys do. You know, do they react very well to this new coach? So we got to play the starters to find that if they come to this island, do they have rapport with this guy? Can they tell them what they're seeing on the field, and does he understand them, and does he put him in the best position and win. So playing young guys playing veteran guys, a lot of it is dependent on your team. You got a veteran team, you're not going to play them as much. You got a younger team, a new coaching staff, you should play him a little bit more because you've got to find it out exactly who they are. I can remember one time when I was a coordinator back in San Diego and I did this one year. We didn't blitch at all, didn't blitz at all in the preseason. Okay, we wanted to hide what we're going to do. It took us three weeks before we started blitzing. Well, so the next preseason, every game we blitzed. I mean we blitzed. I got confronted a couple of times by other coordinators on the other team that came and said, what are you doing it's the preseason. Well, yeah, we're practicing, we're learning to play the game. So to me, that's what it's about, is.

What do you need to do?

Do it for your team, Do it for your reasons, not for anybody else's if you want to blitz, blitz, if you want to throw the ball deep, throw the ball deep. You know I'll say this too when you watch the way Sean Payton is coaching right now. He's coaching bow knicks to win. Sure, he's playing, he's using his offense. He's giving this young man an opportunity to grow within his system because he's doing those things. He played his starters in the preseason. The idea is to give this kid an opportunity to grow and develop. That's what you've got to do. It's about your team.

It's a rhythm, it's a dance, it's a cadence, it's a movement thing. And if you're not doing it until the lights are on until the regular season, it can't take some time to get into the rhythm.

Rod.

I think it's amusing that maybe some of the younger viewers only know you as a coach and you're this gentleman, this aerudyite, thoughtful football man.

They don't have memories of you as a player. I do make no mistake.

Ron was a linebacker on the greatest defense of all time and would take your head off if he needed to across the middle.

To that point.

We saw over the weekend Patrick Mahomes threw an around the back pass. It's a professional defense to Travis Kelce, how would that have played in the eighty five Bears locker room or maybe in another era and.

The other era, Well, I'll tell you right now. Buddy Ryan Well called everybody up on the defense, brought him in. He said, don't ever let him do that to us again. Next time he does something like that, he better be on. I mean, that was the mentality, and you know it because you cheered for guys. Definitely for whatever reason you you're insane.

Very therapeutic.

Yeah, but I actually did think that afterwards when they were talking about it, they were all joking and saying, I actually think they were covering it up because there was a level of potential disrespect that you're out there doing that to us. But I feel like any other team, especially team that had it done to him, be like, we're not ever seeing this bs again. Like somebody's got to do something about this, right, oh.

Without a doubt.

And you know you can feel that sense from the defense when you watch them after the play happened. They kind of look around at each other and you can see they're all thinking, you know, if there's a chance man we're going to get we got to hit him, We got to drill him.

How infuriating is this as a defender because now you're chasing him and you're not just going after his body anymore. You are trying to have your arms out like a basketball defender because it is a behind the back pass and you got to have your wingspan out to maybe tip something that you might not know is coming from from back there.

Absolutely, and again that's what's happening is quarterbacks today are so nifty, okay, I mean they have the ability to make people miss. You know, they're no longer the standback read the target in the pocket anymore. That's kind of what this game is coming to is that again, and your quarterback has to have the ability to move around, extend plays and then be creative enough to make place. Patrick Mahomes just took it to another level throwing the ball behind his box.

You know what this is like? This is kind of like, and tell me if you agree with this.

It's almost like being up sixty points in the game and you go for a touchdown another touchdown.

It's like it's just It is a level of disrespect. It is like, like, what are we doing here? Do you agree with that? Like it was?

It was likely it really was because but again people always say, well, if you don't want us to score, stop us, shop us.

You know it is.

It's like, it's like these these cocky defensive coordinators are constantly blitzing the preseason.

I mean, what is with those right? What do you do? It's preseason?

Tell us tell us who called you out? Won't do it smart. We will see how this week unfolds as coaches begin to name their starters. But for things like that and decisions and news, we always turn to Sherry Burris, who is outside because it's a beautiful day in Los Angeles.

Yes it is.

It's a little chili, but I am not one to complain. But good news Jamie for you. Over the world weekend that I saw the Vikings looking to lock down their secondary Gilly locks Defaun Gilmour headed to the Land of ten Thousand Lakes. NFL Network insider Eden Rapaport is reporting the free agent corner agreed to terms on a one year, ten million dollars deal with Minnesota. Gilmour will be on his fiftheam in the last five seasons, after starting all seventeen games for the Cowboys in twenty twenty three. An NFL Network insider Tom Pelisara is reporting Steelers running back Jalen Warren will be out multiple weeks due to a hamstring injury he suffered in Saturday's preseason game against the Bills. We're seeing that here, Tom ads warren status for the season opener is actually now up in the air. And Dolphin's wide receiver Tyreek Hill is having a back and forth with Olympic track star Noble Lives about who's faster, because of course they are. Well the China looks like he's ready to end the debate posting on X sign the contract and lock in that fifty yard race. Else says he'll quote dodging smoke, but it looks like Heill is ready for a fifty yard dash off if you will. Gotta tell you, guys, getting a little drake. Kendrick Lamar Beef. I am team j J Cole.

I am just staying out of this.

Jamie all right.

I heard you guys talking about this the commercial, and I was like, I got no juice on the back end of this I just I don't get involved with Ja Coleah.

Tyreek might have to go Jake Cole on this one. I don't know he's gonna get no Allows.

I love the Cheetah, but there's no way he's beating no Allows his drive phase, his acceleration.

I mean, come on, hey, Tyrek, I know you fast, but you ain't that fast.

J Cole is just remove yourself from the conversation. Is that what you said?

Yea, yeah, that.

Tyrek just got you know what I'm a I'm a I'm a move over.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Ron, I don't know the J Cole reference.

I don't know if you know, we know the Switzerland real.

Yeah, you know you'd be listening to J cole all right.

Time for go Bigger this season and this one really feels like time for Gopager this season. Presented by Best by Kyle. There was a play this weekend involving a big fella that we have to tap into.

Lyles and Tyreek Hill are irrelevant guys. It's Elijah Chatman could beat both of them. This happened in the middle of the Giants preseason game, and it's my favorite preseason play of all time.

The Texans are going to break a run down the far sideline, and you're gonna.

Keep your eye on undrafted rookie defensive tackle Elijah Chatman, who says, not on my watch, I'm chugging down.

The sideline ninety four. It's gonna get him. He goes, it's sixteen miles an hour. This guy has three bills.

He is chasing someone who's five foot five and in weighs over one.

Hundred pounds less than him.

Elijah Chatman, Remember the name undrafted SMU coach.

Can you imagine the respect that you must have for a guy going this type of effort down the sideline.

Tremendous amount of respect, especially the fact that he made the play downfield. It just shows his teammates this is what efforts all about. So young man like that, Hey he just got a big point from the coaching stuff. He's got a chance to make football. Yeah, something like that.

Damn right, I totally agree. You know, this is the type of stuff that coaches. You know how coaches they come Wait, look this is how they come into.

The meeting room.

They come into the meeting room Monday. You know they always got the old man walk like this. Their booty's sticking out. Guys, I want to show you something on film.

Here.

Take a look at this film right here. Look at this.

You see this next fall running and they sit there and they start poking at the bill.

Everybody, Oh, if they got the laser pointer. Look at this.

This is how you hustle.

Right here. Look at this guy. I want you to freeze the right there, that's ninety four.

Look at it. What are you doing back over there?

Look at this guy? He knocks down that running back. Come for all the way down.

You know what you've got Tuesday off and Wednesday off, big fellow and he made the team.

There you go, Hey, if I had eleven Elijah Chapman's out here, we're gonna win the super Bowl. You go take it to He didn't have to make that play. It wasn't his responsibility. He's a defensive tackle. He didn't care and he was like we saw a dk Metcalf rundown Buddha Baker.

Dk Metcalf is like a track star.

It's kind of what he does running down a safety and this is an all time great play. And like you show your kids display look when he does not weigh Buddha by one hundred and fifty pounds. The guy that Elijah Chadoran down is that weighs as much as one of his shoes. It's an incredible, incredible Ever, I think.

It's better than this. I like Elijah Moore.

Yeah, I will say this though, I al sayd this is a fabulous, It's amazing. But this is what's crazy is the fact that linemen now are starting to run times that we never right or I'll never forget. I forget how far long ago was. But when Toront Armstead offensive lineman and he runs like a four to seven at the combined, I'm like, what, three hundred pounders running four to sevens. It's a common thing now to say it used to be like a five point two, five to three and that was season.

Not anymore. They're running like four eighths now.

I feel like there's a segment off bar of you just impersonating different position. Coach how oh yeah, man, you just stuck the landing on the D line. Coach walking in with his butt out. I mean, my son, that was an admirable effort up there. Ron Rivera, thank you so much for talking about it. He will not imitate how you walk into a meeting.

I'm not here.

No, no, we won't even do it. Dead coach. All right, coming up, Will Levis? Yeah, baby, we kind of wish we could say he's in the house. He's not. He's he's coming to us via video conference call. But my god, it smells a jar ameo and it just that all hell breaks loose.

Electric Factory. Let's go Levis, get in.

Here right after this. Good morning football.

All right. He's young, he's talented, he's jacked out.

Of his gord.

He is one of our favorite young players in the National Football League. He's Titans quarterback.

There is, there is.

What's up, guys, Thanks for having me.

We have so much to talk about about a very exciting Titans team that's coming just around the corner. But dude, like, let's just let's just get into this. We got the fragrance here, we're wearing it, we're loving it. Take us to this amazing Mannaise commercial.

What was it like to shoot it? You absolutely killed it?

Dude.

First I got to hear what's your opinion? Smell good? What?

Yeh?

Smells really good?

Subtle, It's kind of like it's powerful and it sneaks up on you. Kind of like the Titans, you know what I mean, I really am into it. What do you guys think?

I mean, I'm going to be smelling it for the next three days because Kyle sur sprayed that like a hundred times.

You know what will too.

I love the notes of egg whites. I love the notes of mayonnaise, the notes of citrus. It's like a weird blend. Yeah, it really like it's like a summer for smell.

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Well, it smells good.

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I got it.

You know Van Helmans for making the partnership light and enjoyable and something that everyone could could laugh about.

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Just talk over it.

I love this.

This was an eight hour shoot that we did it here at our facility, so you know, we grinded it out, and I was on that couch for quite some time making sure that they got the right shots, and you know, they had all the bases covered, and I'm glad they did because it came out really, really good. And they told me to lean into it and be as serious as possible, and that was the only way it would be as funny as it was. And I'm really proud of kind of how it all came together.

You should be proud, will you should be proud? I have a question, because I've watched this a hundred times, and I know it might sound creepy, but I'm not going to be ashamed of it. How many pieces of bread slathered with mayonnaise did you have to eat? Because you didn't get a single dullip of mayonnaise on your face when you cleared that thing into your mouth.

I think it was just a couple of takes. Luckily they weren't going to make me do that too many times. But I don't think I swallowed it piece of bread, So there was that.

Okay, let's talk some titans, dude, like we could talk manny Is all day. Last year, you come in as a rookie, you make some splashes, you make waves.

We'd love some of the stuff you did. But right now it's like year two and what do you know?

You guys open Week one at Chicago against this whole hard knocks hepe machine and everything. How are you feeling right now as a quarterback and how are you feeling as a team.

I'm excited.

I mean, these past few weeks of camp, I feel like we've really just kept our nose down to the grindstone and have improved in so many important areas. And a couple of preseason games, there's been some guys that have gone out there and done some really really good things and earn some opportunities for themselves. And I think that we're gonna get some opportunities as the starters to go out there in New Orleans and get some more reps together, which is going to be really important. So we'll see how the week goes, and I'm excited to finish off the rest of this kind of preseason run and dive into the regular season. You know, Chicago, I know that they're going to be ready for us, and they're going to be jumping that first game of the season. Like you said, the hype around them with hard Knocks and all that, We're going to lean into it, and I know we're excited to go out there and just do our best to get our season started off on the right note.

I need to go back and watch the Hard Knocks.

I haven't gotten started on it yet, but it will be fun to watch that leading up to Week one, you know.

And there's been big change on the offense.

You guys, of course lose Derek Henry, but you guys get replace him with a guy like Tony Pollard, So the change of the pieces are different for this team. How has in your opinion, the twenty twenty four Titans come together during training camp?

They've come together, you know, quite nicely. I'd sad.

I think our locker room, other than just the talent across the board that our organization has made an effort to put together this offseason with the additions that they've made, I feel like the people that we have in this locker room is really what makes it special. And we come into work every day, you know, I see people with smiles on their faces, excited to get after it and to work to get themselves better and the people around them better. So I just feel like the environment culture that we've established year is really heading in the right direction, and all of us are doing our best to maintain it and improve it as much.

As we can.

Well, I think that's something about you, man. You're always excited to get after it. And I'm excited to say, you're the only human being in history to have your own fragrance and your own scepter.

Let's get into it.

Last season, this dude won an angry run scepter against the Dolphins with one of the baddest runs of the year.

I love this play role to play, for the love of God.

This is Titans Dolphins. You get off me.

I'm gonna tuck this ball. Jalen Rams, you better get out of the way.

He didn't.

You trucked him. You got the scepter?

Will you have this crazy energy and this physicality that I think is contagious as how?

What makes you different? And dude, are you getting another sceptor this year or what I.

Think it would be in my coaches in my career's best interest if that was the one scepter that I got.

But I do say it's probably my favorite trophy I've ever gotten. And Kyle, you're.

Gonna it's gonna kill you to hear this, but I might need to get a new one at some point. It might have gotten broken and move recently, so I might I might be asking for a new scepter, if that's possible. But yeah, no, like I said, I don't know. I'm I'm a football player at heart.

You know.

I started playing football as a running back linebacker. Only knew how to play it physically aggressively, and that was the only way I felt like you could play or else you have a better chance of going out there and getting yourself hurt. So, I mean, I always had that kind of hard nose mentality, and I know that being a quarterback that comes with more responsibility in the decisions of being able to.

Slide and protect your team.

But you know, I just feel like that's always going to be a part of my game and how I play, and it's something you can't really take out of me.

Well, this is a table of truth. I just want to give you one last opportunity. Did the scepter actually get broken in a move or were you fighting somebody with.

The might there might have been some Harry Potter Wizard battles going on. But no, I do remember it just coming down in a box and it was it was a little broken, but.

New. One of those. I need to just win another one.

Yeah, I will get you a replacement. That's not the first time you will win another. Remember Josh Allen's got four of those things. Well, like, there's more scepters in your future, vodkadavra, all that stuff.

I'll send it to you. I promise, I got you.

Thank you, Hey, will I got I got to ask you real quick because this is so cool. A lot of players, you know, have food related products. Now we have Bijon who has his Bijon Musterson.

Have you tried or or heard of his? Of his mustard?

I have, and that name is incredible. I haven't I haven't tried it, but I have heard of it.

We got it.

What I have it right here? Because I know, oh, that's probably a little too much.

Want me to spy some.

You know what, well, head, spray a.

Little sprayonnaise there here, just the sprits of mayonnaise right on your hot dog here.

That is amazing breakfast right here. But the best way to take this down when you have muchison.

Hot dog, I know do drinking?

Oh my god, I'm pretty sure that's yeah, Well, Levis can't believe it.

That right there is the way to go.

Right there.

You want to have breakfast, You got to.

Have that, Levis eight.

That that that musterson right there, That right there is an amazing breakfast.

Will what do you say to that?

Hey man, you made you made me believe it, so I've done crazy stuff.

Yeah, let's just chuck it down here.

Body language experts would say, Will is not comfortable with this, Well, why are you doing this?

Will can't believe? And then you're gonna have to call poison control right now?

Dude, did you read the ingredients label?

This is very alarming, Levis, You're speechless. We're speechless. Work a speechless kind of show. But I will tell you this.

We love you, ma'am.

We're so excited for this season to happen. We want to send you scepters. We want to hype you up. Thank you so much for joining us, and go absolutely kill it this year. Dude, you're the best, hey Will, thank you, bro, Never you so much.

Guys, con do anything.

I'll never have bad breath ever, again.

Will stay healthy? Will You're the best? Yeah, spray him on the way out. He knows what it smells like.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang.

There you go, Love, it's the best. See you dude.

Perfume dem nase on g m FB.

How far you drink you dropped? How does my breast milk?

It smells like perfume. Will Will have stressed for you. Stay well, well,