NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Saturday Special: D'Andre Swift, Roger Goodell, Aaron Rodgers, and Week 5 picks!
The Saturday edition of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with a look back at a visit from Bears RB D'Andre Swift. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Sara Walsh, Kyle Brandt, Michael Robinson, Manti Te'o, and Steve Wyche welcome NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to the set to discuss Sunday's London matchup between the Jets and Vikings. Kyle gives a preview of his upcoming interview with Jets QB Aaron Rodgers before we look at the best games coming in NFL Week 5 with a Mad Minute.
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Good Morning Football.
Welcome to Good Morning Football, presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerki. We are live in Los Angeles. Jamie Arnol has been joining us live from London. That's why she's not here. I'm Sarah Walsh filling in for her. She's going to be back on the show again. We've got Kyle Brandt out there in New York. We've got Man Titeo, We've got the original NFL am host and Steve Wish now back reincarnated on Good Morning Football.
This morning.
My game ball very simple. Chicago Bears running back DeAndre Swift. You damn right, DeAndre Swift, do your thing. One hundred and sixty five total yards and a touchdown. Guess what, guys, you benched him in fantasy and he made you look like an idiot. Huge day in a huge win for DeAndre Swift.
The running back of.
Chicago Bears ran that old Jim Harbaugh number four. And it is possible to talk about DeAndrea Swift in any form of media without mentioning his last name is the same of a famous pop star. It has nothing to do with her, has everything to do with him and the Bears and the stats, and is running and is receiving. DeAndre Swift. I don't even have a ball in here. If I did, I would give it to you. All I can give you, sir, is my respect. You had a great day and you'll have another one.
That's right.
That was Monday. I said it. It's now Friday. We got him. No further introduction necessary. Chicago Bear's running back, DeAndre Swift.
What's up, my man? How are we doing? What's going on? Yeah? How y'all done? Dude? It's good to see you.
It's great to see you. Everybody say hi to DeAndre. He's there in the eight four to seven North suburbs of Chicago. We got all our friends here excited to talk to you. Listen, DeAndre, you saw it. That was Monday. I personally and we as a show, we're so excited with how you played. I know you're thinking about the Panthers coming to Social Field in a couple but let's just take a hot minute, dude. Let's look back on that Rams game, because you were incredible.
What was it like?
It was amazing, It was amazing. It was electric. First and got the winning at home. Fans showed up.
We did.
We did a good job coming out with the win. For definitely felt good to be able to contribute for the team.
Yeah, DeAndre, I mean we just finished the first quarter of the season, and for the past two weeks, it seems like you and the offense are starting to get in.
A little groove. Does it feel like that to you?
You know, like, are you guys starting to feel like you're in a little rhythm?
I feel like we getting there. Definitely getting better each week as far as finding the rhythm offensively doing those types of things. So I feel like last week was kind of the best week we had offensively as far as finding that rhythm and everything like that and just trying to find ways to keep it going each week.
Jenner, there was so much excitement around you guys this preseason Hard Knocks, the Caleb Watch, and you have been there for all of it. How much growth have you seen from your rookie quarterback already?
I've seen a lot. I've seen a lot. Like I said, it's getting bet every single week. But his mentality even in practice, just never being complacent, always having an urge to get better. That's the type of things that I see from the outside looking at and the experienced aspect of it. You can't really simulate that unless it's a game like situation. So just seeing his progressions and his growth his game and something something.
To see that's really good stuff.
And so DeAndre, you know, Steve White here from week to week, what are you seeing defenses try to prioritize against you, to slow you down.
You got a bookie quarterbacky kind of want to throw everything at him, whether it's different looks, different coverages, different types of blisses, show one thing pre snap, go to another thing, post snapped, all those types of things. So he has a lot on his plate, but I feel like he's doing a good job manage it and progressing each week.
You know, DeAndre, when you guys started the season, it was it was slow going at first with the running game, and there was a lot of times you got the ball and there wasn't a lot of places to go. You're getting tackled in the backfield, just a lot of short runs. And you had this incredible breakout against the Rams. But you know, through a month when the running game isn't really working, there's chirping. There's internet, this internet that were you hearing some of that stuff? And how do you respond?
I'll be lying if I tell you I didn't hear see anything. I have a phone, so it's hard to kind of not see anything, hear anything. But I just go to work every single day with the mentality of getting better. It ain't gonna rain forever. That's kind of my mentality is keep going to work every single day. Finally ways to get better, and that's all I can do.
Yeah, are you talk about how you guys are involving and learning this and getting better week to week. But you have a new offensive coordinator Shane Waldron as well. How much has it been a learning curve for him to try to figure out what each of you does?
Well?
Yeah, I feel like he got a lot of has played as well. New team, new system, new players, So it takes time to I guess, learn and see what we're good at and that type of thing. Like I said, fall in all the offense, the coaches, I feel like we all progressing together each week.
We appreciate you being on with us. We know that you've got things to do. You're very focused on the Panthers come into your house this weekend. What should Bears fans be excited about in this matchup?
Just another trying to get another wins from last week. Just being consistent. That's what it's about in this league, Just trying to keep stacking wins one week at a time. So hopefully fans show up and show well, as I know they will looking forward to it.
Yeah, Andre, I joked about it in the intro, but you also mentioned that you have a phone. What is it like in twenty twenty four to be doing something in the media and the public eye and have your last name be Swift? Because I've seen memes, It's everywhere.
It's a popular last name.
What's that like?
It's cool?
It's cool, you know what I mean.
I embrace it.
I see everything involved with the last name, with Taylor and everything like that.
It's cool to me. Yeah, it is.
It is, DeAndre. We love it.
When Kyle asked that question, I'm telling you, I sat up in the studio.
I'm like, oh, this is a good one.
I mean, look, he's the other Swift in.
The NFL up here, Like he is the Swift?
Are you AT's the only Swift?
Are you a Swift?
Ye, I know a couple of songs. I'm not about to share it and act like I know the whole. I know a couple of songs. I know a couple of songs.
What song you rock with?
What's What's how goes?
She was?
Am?
I singing it right? She's the captain and I want to bleacher what's that song up?
I don't know what it's about to day that one?
You got a Shazam down one.
Yeah, I'm dropping the ball for Jamie on the spot there.
Swift on, swift from Adam Rank.
You belong with me, Adam, break belonged to me to break.
Back there because you belong with me. We got you, We got you. DeAndre hey the agent man.
Have a great game, have a great later.
But no, that's a professional. You take the when you're done. You just take that. I f b out you're done. I'm getting out of here.
Going he going to the hand zone. That's sure, swift Lee.
We got Bears and Panthers on Sunday, more Good Morning Football.
After this.
Good morning, Welcome back to Good Morning Football. We are very excited here in our LA studios and we have a very special guest, a gentleman the Commissioner of the National Football League, mister Roger Goodell.
Welcome, thank you grool to be here.
What brings you to Los Angeles?
You guys, right, yeah, this.
I was out in San Francisco on Sunday, had some meetings so pire yesterday and stayed to be with you guys.
Awesome.
Our show is now coast to coast, so we figured we hit a couple of different markets here and hit you with some questions. If you don't mind us just popping you, is this a test? I would like to start in the Nation's Capital. I think the best story one month into the season is this Washington Commander's franchise and this young Rokie quarterback and.
What he's brought. You have been with the league.
For many years. You're a historian of the game to see that market so enthused right now and energized with what Jaden and also the new coaching staff an ownership group has brought. What's it like having the Commanders being on top of the NFC East and really having the Nation's Capital as one of the top teams.
Well, I like the way you say historian. That means I've been here a long time, so I've seen this history, but the reality is, you know, I also grew up in Washington and I know what that franchise means.
To that community.
It really does, and I think to see that excitement start coming back, you can see they're on the right path. Got a great young quarterback tq' is doing great. I just think that team is on the rise, and it's going to be fun for the league because you know, the nation's capital, that's where it's at, and I think it'll be fun for the lead to have him back.
Very cool.
You probably couldn't be more thrilled with how the International series started in Brazil, but also what we have coming into this weekend an undefeated Vikings team and Aaron Rodgers led Jets team, but then the irony that Sam Darnold is quarterbacking the Vikings. Do you follow stories like this and when guys just kind of really hit a lull but then the resurgence within the league.
Yeah, to me, it's part of what makes our game so much fun is to see kids that you know, maybe don't have a good start at one team and they move off. I think he's now on his FOURT team, I believe, and you know, to see him get in the right system. And I really give a lot of credit to Kevin. And you know, the GM crazy is just you know, to get the right kind of guy to fit their system. He's getting the most out of them. Got great teammates. It's always great to throw to JJ, but you know you've got to give them credit to you know, his determination to get back in there and say I can do this. And when you see someone try to overcome that and try to build on the failures he may have had. Uh, that's just something you take your hat off to.
You got ratings going crazy, man, you know, you got streaming, you got you know, all the different platforms. Just what excites you about the National Football League right now?
Just in general?
Man, with all the ever changing media platforms.
Well, I think all that is another opportunity for us. I mean, I think we have the greatest content in the world. I mean, everybody wants to see every aspect of the NFL. They want to see our players. I want to see our coaches. I want to see the teams. They want to see Kyle. I see you in the background there, kud they do.
He's like OZ back there, honestly, Like sometimes you see his body language.
I'm like, oh God, what's wrong, Commission, come over to this, this large Orrellian monitor that we have there in that beautiful sell Roger.
I'm in New York City. I'm in our Good Morning Football's Lower West Side condo, of course, home of the league headquarters where your office is. And you know what we do really well here at the NFL. We're really good at branding, and I like that we branded the new kickoff rule the dynamic kickoff, and it really feels that way. We're a month into it. What do you think about the early returns of the dynamic kickoff?
You know, we.
Always said this is going to be a work in progress. I guess if I had degrade it, I'd say it's an incomplete right now, and only in this sense. We wanted to bring back more returns, but we wanted to do it safely. So we have more returns. I think we had an eighty five percent increase in returns. That'll give us more data to find out is it working. Are we seeing the safety level go back to the same safety levels we see at the line of scrimmage place. So far that looks pretty good, but it's really early to tell. And there's really not enough data yet. I think I think it's going to come out where we've brought the safety back into that play, and then I think we'll have to make a few changes on the kickoff that will I think lead to a lot more kickoff returns.
I think the touch back moving it up a little bit.
Maybe if could do the touchback and move it to thirty five, you know, I think that would be a game changer right away.
Yeah, I think that it would everything.
I've talked to the coaches and as you know, our special teams coaches are looking at this. I've talked to some of them and I think there will be a change, whether we make it immediately after the season. We're going to have a competition committee in the next week.
So Jamie's headed to London this afternoon. You'll probably be there at some point I imagine for the next.
Week, next week following week. Yep.
Another big league initiative is the flag football and something that we have seen, you know, explode and you know we've all got kids and they're all playing flag football. The sky is the limit, obviously. How does the NFL play a role and kind of curating and guiding this thing to this amazing youth sport and how it can lead to more fans and of course more players at the next level.
Well, our international team and all our clubs have really done a great job, you know. They in Troy Vincent back in New York and Peter O'Reilly runs international and all our events. The idea here is to give kids an opportunity to play. And I'm what I'm most excited about is young women playing the game. I see it in I was with Steve Young last year and he brought his entire team up, thirty young women and two of his daughters are on.
The team, and it was just to see their.
Confidence and the empowerment that gave them to say we're playing and they were wonderful young women and it was just great to see so and Steve, as a coach, said, I fell back in love with the game by coaching these young women. So I think that's the thing we're trying to share with people, the joy of playing this game, all the values of playing this game. You know, what it takes to be on a team that you know is trying to accomplish something bigger than themselves. I think young women and young boys are learning those lessons, and I think that's great, and it's just another funnel to get them into the game, either as tackle players at some point in time or to move on and.
Take another role.
And we've had fun with the Olympics in twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles, and I don't know if the NFL players are involved, and I don't think we're there yet, but the fact that it's an Olympics sport is a huge milestone as well.
It's a huge milestone, and I think doing that on an international basis. Listen, that's the pinnacle of sports on an international basis. So we're really looking forward to that, whether players are in it from the NFL level or whether we're going to have great athletes out there, and it's gonna be a lot of fun.
I was going to ask about something that is very jarring for us to see sometimes during the week, which is the turn of Bill Belichick's personality in the media.
Is very concerning to me. I don't understand it.
Were you prepared for this version of Bill Belichick?
Knowing him, I just made you very nervous with saying.
The word jar.
You did get my what I wanted you know, if you're if you ever sit around with Bill and you talk football, that's where he is. I'm sure in front of the camera, and we all know it's a little bit different. But when you get him back and you talk to him about the game of football.
It really you see the joy he has.
In this game and the passion and the historical perspective to it. He's he's a he's just such a student of the game. And you know, since I lost John Madden, who has played an incredible role to he brought that perspective. He saw everything on the field, and he looked at tape and he was he was Bill's in a lot of ways filled that role. He's been someone that if you can call and you can studied, well, he's down in an NFL film all day, so I figured I'd get a free call. But he really he he really has a good feel for the game and it's something that can help us.
It's been said that Belichick kept a mattress in his office in New England.
Does he have one at films?
You know, I haven't checked that one because it will have to charge him a little different.
So if he if he stayed.
Overnight, that's the point, Roger.
We remember when the first London game was played and it felt really like history. It was really really special, and now it's this is what we do. There's multiple countries, multiple continents. Can you give us a taste of the future of where this might go? I know that Peter is part of an investment group that's trying to build a stadium in Bora Bora, But short of that working, is there anywhere we might land as a league, Like, what's the future of this?
We're not going to take Peter's road map Torgen Market. They love football there, you know, I do, uh, And so my perspective goes back to the nineties and being in both you know, when we went to Japan and we went to Berlin and what you saw was fans that really didn't understand the game. Now you go over to London and it's you know, you have a hard time telling you.
Whether you're in London or whether you're in the Middle Land.
You know, it's just the fans there are sophisticated. They understand the game, they appreciate the game. And for me, that's what I think gives us so much confidence that our game can be a global game, and when we were down in.
Brazil a few weeks ago, it was just it was the.
Same thing, you know, just a lot of enthusiasm, excitement over the game, and I believe great potential.
So we'll be back there. I'm sure we're going to continue to grow.
I think we'll end up going to sixteen games at some point in time. The owners have already authorized us to go to eight, but I'm confident, particularly if we can do the restructuring of the season, that we would get to sixteen point.
I have to imagine you, I've been thinking about that having a full slate in Europe.
Do you have an advance not necessarily Europe, we got a rest big in the world.
Yes, internationally, sixteen games internationally.
My mistake.
Do you have people that do this, like scouting years in advance of just the logistics to answer questions that teams might have. If you're the forty nine ers and you're being asked to do X, Y and Z, you want to probably have all of the solutions before teams come to you with concern.
Yeah, you're absolutely right, Jamis, and the answer is yes. I mean, we're already looking at several markets. We don't have Peter's list a bit, but we do have a lot of markets that.
Are interested in the game.
But we have to go do the work because one of the things that we do, particularly with Brazil, it was a key factor for us. You want the teams to feel like it was not disruptive to the season, but it you know, they went that they loved the trip. I went to Jordan Malatta because that, to me, that was the best one. Right, Yeah, how was the trip? How was a plane? You know, everything was great and you know, the coaches were good, the players were great. Everybody felt like this was a great trip. It was not disruptive that they were able to prepare properly when they got back. I went back and checked afterwards. Everyone recovered really well. So and that's an eleven hour trip for these guys. So when you see that we learned something from every one of the games and say, okay, what can we do next ultimately and how do we continue to expand this?
But I do think we can do this.
I think the scheduling, you know, we may have to make changes to that in some ways, probably roster sizes, do some other things, but I do think it's something we'll do more real.
Quick super Bowls in New Orleans. We've got a few months to get there. What's one thing you're looking to see between now and that day.
Where we get out, Well, you know, there's so much. I keep reminding myself. We're just centering eight week five here at this point, and there's so much and there's so many changes between now and then, But it also goes really fast. And you know, no one loves football more than I do, so I love watching everything I can. I'm looking forward to go over to the international games. I'm really looking forward to that run up to the playoffs. Super Bowl time is just a blasphemy.
So I must the.
Earliest New Orleans Super Bowl memory?
What do you have? What sticks out?
Madden?
I will tell you what it is. It earlier than it was nineteen eighty six. I was Pete Roselle's driver.
This is incredible.
So, okay, it was the best thing of the Bears Patriots Bears Patriots. Wasn't a great game, no, but but I was up in the booth with Pete and we had an officiating her.
Oh, it was not a good day for Pete. He was upset.
But the reality is I spent the entire week with Pete basically living in his in his room. I was his sort of go to to everything, and it was it was the experience of a lifetime to me. I never thought that I would even be that close to much less driving him around town.
And now you're the commissioner. Now I'm the commission He had a lot to do with that, I'm sure. And it wasn't for my driving skills.
You know, it's tough.
Those streets are talk I mean, also was not.
Easy to try it, to go down twice just to figure out my way around.
I would have mentioned, Wow, this was fantastic. Thank you so much for joining us. Have an amazing rest of the season. Hopefully we'll talk to you again and enjoy eure Rope when you go over there as well.
Look forward to it. Thank you, guys, thanks for all you do. Absolutely glad to have you back.
Thank you, thank you.
It was too long while you were gone.
It was when we're fresh as a daisy. And international games coming up this month in November.
You're gonna drink a beer again in Germany.
If you're there, let's go.
That's the Tea's the TV.
Talk, Good morning football.
Welcome back to Good Morning Football. That music means we are about to leave the country. Go to picturesque London. Right there at Buckingham Palace, there's royalty and there is Jamie Erdahl. Who is royalty here on good Morning I mean, I'm sitting in the Queen's chair here on Good Morning Football, right Jamie? And I got to tell you, if there's one thing I look forward to at the International Games, you'd said last hour you look forward to giving updates on when teams are arriving. Who doesn't need that information? I look forward to every year? What's Jamie going to wear in London? Because you're very on brand. You always have this London look. You're very buttoned up today. You look like you might be going to a hunting lodge after this to sip some tea.
I don't know.
Yeah, she looks so she's got her she's got her tweet on.
I got my momket nearby.
Correct, she's probably got some boots on.
We can't see those.
Cool.
I understand that you had quite a travel day yesterday.
What can you tell us about that? What happened?
Yeah, well what happened was this goes back to a conversation where we created content last week on the show, and we all had a long drawn out inspection of what kind of international flyers we all are now. Kyle Brant would prefer the person next to him speak a different language than he does, then he doesn't have to talk to them. I admitted that I am a chatty Cathy. I like to make friends on the flight, and it's because it allows me to make parallels to the football game on Sunday. I made a friend on my flight here. She had come to LA, this friend from London to get over a really bad breakup. Okay, so she spent a couple days Los Angeles and then we were on the flight back from LA to London. So I said, so did you do it? Did you get over your breakup? She said, I think I did. I think I became a better person. But the true test will come on Monday when I have to go back to work and see my ex. They work together. I did not get her contact information to follow up. I kind of regret that. That being said, it made me think about Sam Donald and the New York Jets and how man, what a bad breakup that was, What a bad version of himself as a quarterback he was with the New York Jets, and no matter how big of a person which he has become, because every time he's been asked about playing the Jets this week he says things like, you know what, I never played well enough that I thought I should have when I was in New York. You know, I tried to do right by the team. He is being a bigger person, But you have to imagine that the true test for Sam Donald, even though the players aren't the same, the coaches aren't the same, will come on Sunday for him emotionally to go up against his former team in the New York Jets. Now he has that friend, that wingman that's really trying to bolster his soul in Kevin O'Connell right now this week, Kevin O'Connell saying, I don't have a lot of interest in talking about former versions of Sam Darnold. I think we should remain totally present with Donald. So when he plays the quarterback position well as he has been doing, that's all it is that he's being a great quarterback, and you move on from there. So he's got the friend who's trying to have his back. Get over this breakup, He's going to go see his X on Sunday. And even if he says Sam Donald that he doesn't care and he's a better and bigger person, I think we're all here for the juiciness that lies within trying to face an X.
I give Sam total credit. I'm a mary petty person when it comes to these kind of things.
So I give I hold grudges.
So you talked about Sam Donald going up against his former team, But Jamie, as you really dig into this weekend, what are some of the other storylines that you can tell us more about for Sunday?
Well, I can't stop thinking about Aaron Jones and the fabulous weekend he had last weekend at Lambeau going up against his former team. Are you sensing a trend here? It has to be emotional for him though he's such a loved player and teammate in the NFL.
We love him on show.
He's somebody that sits with us on GMFB for hours in the offseason. And then Aaron Rodgers comes out this week and says that's one of his favorite teammates he's ever been around. He brings moxie to a huddle. He is a smart player. That is a guy you want coming out of your backfield. There was a certain love that Rogers had in speaking about his former running back, and my goodness to the Vikings fans, and I can assume Kevin O'Connell love having Aaron Jones in Purple. The resurgence of this running back in his career has been so impressive, and this was not He wasn't expected to drop off. It's just that the Packers wanted to move on from him and go to Josh Jacobs. It must have been felt great for Aaron Jones last weekend going up against the Packers, and I can imagine there will be a hug between Rogers and Jones on Sunday. But I am really excited to see how the run game travels because I think that is a very easy thing to rely on offensively when you have to go international.
You got such a cool matchup, Jamie.
I mean, this is I feel like you really deserved this. I know it's a long travel over there, and can you can you imagine anybody sitting at home the Jamie Rdal who has three young children and gets a little private time on the plane to just unplug and watch a movie and is sitting there chit chatting, chit chatting. Not only have made about someone's personal life, Jamie, you got to get one of those masks. You gotta recline, you gotta put the headphones on. You can take the girl out of Minnesota. But she's bringing Minnesota to London. I can't believe how nice you are on a plane, she said.
I came to get over a breakup. But I said, Champagne, do tell what are we talking about? What are we coming into? It lasted.
It lasted for the first the entire country.
Once we hit the.
Ocean and we started to really get it halfway to lot it then I hit the recline on the seat. But I was in on this story, and really the utmost disappointed myself, Kyle, I told you that I wanted I always exchange email A dresses.
I don't know what was wrong with me.
I didn't I want to know how the story ends, but I know how my story will end. On Sunday, We're gonna get answers about Arnold Jet.
Jamie.
It's a great report.
I think if you start a flight and turn to the person next to you and say, I want to tell you about my breakup. You should be on the do not fly list.
But that's just so.
I sat down and talked to someone seat by seat. It was basically I was in the middle seat, he was in the aisle seat. And it happened to be the Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who is going to be playing in this game. Of course, just to set the stage, this happened on Monday, a few days ago. Remember, on Sunday they had a really tough i'll just call it miserable loss at home in terrible conditions to the Broncos in which Rogers was batted around all over the field. The next day, less than twenty four hours later, he sat down to talk with me for game day morning. You'll see the whole thing this weekend. And imagine after that context, he's talking about his fight with father time.
Here's a clip.
What do you like about still rocking and still playing football in your forties?
Like the football part of.
It, just fighting against father time? You know, I think there's something beautiful about that. Now it changes the way you prefer for sure. In my twenties, I could eat a bag of Starburs, jelly beans and a couple of cheese verders from five guys, and ever think twice about it. Now you got to be a little bit smarter about what's going in and how you spinished. But I love that the chance to beat back Father Time and then continue on this and play the way I want to play.
How's that fight going?
Which a stalemate right now?
Really?
Yeah?
And listen, respect after two rounds, it's father Time in the corner, Two rogers in the corner, two spitting in the bucket, putting his mouthguard in. Listen, guys, there's a lot more where that came from, and there's a lot more football to play. That fight with Father Time is no joke, especially when you also have to fight Mother Nature on the same day. No more starburst jelly Beans, thought Mike Rop You know what that's like. Your body is temple.
Yeah, no more starbars jelly Beans.
Great job, Kyle.
Great job of having the courage to sit down with Aaron after the weekend he had just had, after all the memes I've seen from sitting on the sideline with a towel over his head. Man, So great job by you getting answers from Aaron Rodgers. But I thought it was interesting to hear Aaron Rodgers talk. First of all, father Time is undefeated. Okay, Father Time always wins, all right, so we do know that. But it's just interesting to see Aaron Rodgers. I never played with a quarterback that was I don't want to say this, oh, but that's basically what I'm saying this seasoned right that even when you look at him, like you.
See his big grown out.
A little bit like he looks like the wise.
The wise football guy in the Jets, you know, organization, like like he could be the coach, you know. And just the fact that he survived this long to be able to just be a dictator on the field and be basically a coach on the fielder basically an offensive coordinator on the field. I think it's just interesting to hear his perspective on the game.
You know, we've seen you.
Know, Tom Brady and other quarterbacks play for a long time. But I just think it's interesting to see him in real time talk about his fight.
With Father Time.
But again, we got to remember Father Times undefeated man Time.
Yeah, it's beautiful, Mike Bro.
You know, we go through that little transition we call it the maturation process of the NFL football player, our rookie year in the Popeyes pete us getting all the burgers.
It doesn't matter.
We're just eating anything and everything. But you start to get later in your career, and I remember I was talking to Philip Rivers and Eric Weddew and they were tlling me later in their career how they make it a goal every off season to lose a pound, to just lose a pound, and to get lighter and lighter and lighter. Is because we start to realize that one our body doesn't respond the way that they used to. It doesn't heal at the rate that it used to, and it's not going to it's fall the time.
But what we can do is watch what we eat.
We can stretch, we can do all of the extra stuff to put us in the best position to be able to play on a game day. So it's so beautiful to see that from all ahead. It's kind of like our kids. You're kind of telling them, like do this, do this. No matter how much you tell them, they're not going to listen until they get older and then they realize like, oh yeah, that knew a little something about what not to eat and all of that stuff. So all for all them rookies out there. If you want a long career, watch what you eat. Yeah I'm not saying I have to pop eyes, but you know, cut it down a little bit.
It's just a little bit.
Yeah, just cut it down a little bit.
Not that advice is one pound each off season. I also think you look at Aaron Rodgers when you see that it's twenty years that he's been in the league, I almost feel like it's a typo that he's been around for just so long and a testament to what you're talking about.
Manti.
I doctor players on the Commanders, and I remember, I think was Jonathan Allen said how much he spends on his own personal care of getting his IV, a messeuse, a chef, and you don't think about the parts that go into the off the field aspect and why these guys are so successful, which I think is also a testament to why we have seen Aaron Rodgers so be able to play this way, particularly coming off that Achilles injury at his age.
Absolutely all the inflammation that could be in your body at that age, you know what I mean, having to recover and it can actually get tiresome being, you know, an older.
Player, because you got to think about it.
It's not like Aaron Rodgers need the money, you know, so you start to ask yourself, why am I doing this? Why am I still getting up My bank account looks like this, and I'm just tired of But it's.
The love of the game.
So again, great job Kyle for in the courage, for going out there and talking to Aaron after a tough day.
Yeah, I covered Tom in the last years of his career. You want to talk about a guy that takes care of himself. I mean, obviously it's well chronicled what he eats, and probably more chronicled, but he doesn't eat. I mean, no one was as psycho as him in terms of taking care of himself. So unfortunately it's get an old guys. It's Sunday Morning Football Live from London at nine to thirty am.
So you know who's up early, old folks long.
Getting up early exclusively on NFL Network.
I mean, I'm up early now. He's Aaron Rodgers.
And the Jets taken on Justin Jefferson.
And the Vikings at Tottenham Hawk Spurs Stadium in London. Ry shine and watch the Jets and Vikings on NFL network and streaming on NFL plus time for a round of mad minutes sixty seconds on the clock. We're going to keep the international theme going. So here we go the four no Vikings.
Against the two Jets.
Steve, can the Vikings go five and oh?
By the way, don't take up all of Kyle's time. He's going to get very very answer.
Go on, Steve, Sarah, that's James and gentlemen.
Vikings absolutely can go five and oh. And I like what Stacey was talking about, justin Jefferson thinking that he's the best player on the field, regardless of Sauce Gardner. That's gonna be the map. But JJ he doesn't think anybody can stop stop him, including Sauce.
There, I saved you some time. Yeah.
I like the fact that the Vikings can go five and zero, and if they're able to continue that firepower on offense to the air with Sam Darnold, they will go five and zero because once they get that distance, now, Brian Flores and that defense can get a little nasty with their blitz coverages and they're blitzing tactics. So I'm looking forward to seeing this game in London.
See Sarah and Mantiz what you don't know. Sometimes you actually want the other people to talk longer, you want them to take.
Up more time.
But here's what I want. I've said this from before. It's just from a pure fan perspective. If you like the drama and if you like the storylines of the Jets, I'm so excited for the Jets first false start.
You know what's gonna happen. Just do you know?
It's gonna give me one and that's gonna USh this the second day false start with Rogers. Caden's maybe in a game in London that might be in the rain. Who knows the shots of Rogers immediately, then the shots to Sala on the bench. The football will talk about the rest of the show. I need at least one false start for the human experience.
I just want to watch it.
Kyle got almost thirty seconds there.
Bengals get their first win of the season and they are playing host now to the Ravens who steamrolled the Bills last week. Mantai, how are you seeing this one play out?
Man?
I'm seeing this Ravens continue that that that Ravens defense continued, that dominance like watching them be able to disguy's coverage, watching Kyle Hamilton come off the edge, watching Roqwan Smith run silent, Asieline, I'm really looking forward to watching them go against Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase and T Higgins and all the guys they got on that side with Cincinnati. So this is going to be another AFC North Classic or UFC North as all four likes to call it, and I'm looking forward yep.
