NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Thursday Hour 1: AFC Best? Tua Return, and NFL Week 8 Trivia
Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with which team is the best in the AFC? Hosts Sherree Burruss, Peter Schrager, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Manti Te'o debate if the Chiefs or Ravens sit atop the conference. The table asks what expectations there are for Tua and Tyreek as the reunite this weekend for the Dolphins. Plus, Peter looks ahead to NFL Week 8 with some historical trivia!
Stay tuned for Nate Tice coming up in Hour 2 of the GMFB Podcast!
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Welcome do Good Morning Football brought to you by our friends at Old Trapper Beef Jerky Live in Los Angeles and New York City. It is Thursday, October twenty Four's starting to get a little of the Halloween decorations out. I'm sure Burris alongside Ochbar, Baja Biamila, our friend Menti Tao is at the table. And then in New York City, Hey, we have Peter Schrager, which I don't know, Peter, if you and Ackbar did this on purpose that you're wearing similar matching jackets.
Today, I went with this.
We like it.
Little green och Bars looks better in the leather. I'm going here the little thing we call a shacket. This is like a shirt jacket thing. But we're feeling good and I love seeing Manti at the table as well.
Awesome show ahead, guys, Let's get after it.
Let's get to the lead block.
All right, we're still buzzing about the news breaking yesterday, the Chiefs trading for DeAndre Hopkins.
Kansas City remains the league's lone undefeated team.
The offense certainly needing a boost after just so many injuries.
Already this season.
We're gonna take a look at what this Chief's offense could look like moving forward. Take a look at this savior worthy Justin Watson. DeAndre Hopkins added in there now, Mike, give ju Ju Smith Schuster back on there you have Travis Kelcey, Kareem Hunt. Remember Marquise Brown, Isaiah Pacheco and Rashi Rice are on ir So. Definitely a new look Chiefs here, but certainly still six to zero atop the AFC that cannot be denied. But in Baltimore they might have something to say about the top team, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens ripping off five straight wins and have done. So we might add in dominating fashion one corner we have the two time defending champions and the other the number one contender. We are talking Chiefs versus Ravens. So I have to ask, who.
Do you think Peter is playing better football? Right now?
What a cool question because you look at the standings and you see a six and zero, and then you see a four and two or five and two, and you say, well, the Chiefs also beat the Ravens when they played, so obviously it's got to be the Chiefs. But this is not about standings, this is not about power ranking. It's who's playing better football right now? And I have a complicated answer. I would say the Ravens are playing more dominating football.
That's on the offensive side of the ball.
I still think the Ravens have some holes on defense and don't.
Be starting throwing crabkicks.
At me in Baltimore.
But if you're watching the.
Ravens this season, teams can still move the ball all over the Ravens. We know what the Raiders did in the fourth quarter when Minshew was able to find the end zone and hit DeVante Adams and Rock Bowers. But even on Monday, when I'm watching a forty one to eighteen lead disappear at the end and it actually became a ten point game late and the Buccaneers were able to move the ball, and look at that Baltimore defense.
It's not what we're used to.
Zach Orr is a thirty two year old defensive coordinator. He comes in here and they are not at the tops at any of these rankings. If you look at defense and their stats, and on a full screen, if we have it here. Their defense still leaves a lot to be desired passing defense, specifically, they're twenty six points per game allowed. They're last in passing yards games allowed. For all the talk we do about Humphrey and Stevens and of course Kyle Hamilton, you could throw the ball all over the Ravens. So I say this, who's playing better football right now? Who's more dominating? Look, Lamar is my pick for the National Football League's MVP at this moment. That offense, to me, is the best offense in football. And if I'm having to pick on a neutral field right now.
Who I'd rather watch? It's the Ravens. But the Chiefs can move the ball when they have to. They find a way to win when they have to.
And in those big moments, I have no faith or no precedent that the Ravens pass defense can stop. Josh Allen can stop, Patrick Mahomes can stop.
Oh, I don't know.
You pull out whatever team that can throw the ball through the air. And I'm not so certain that the Zach Worr defense can do the job in a big spot in January. So who's playing better football right now? It's complicated. The Ravens better on offense, the Chiefs way better on defense. We'd have to see it again for us to know who exactly would win in a game like that.
Yeah, I think it is a complicated question. It is very hard to get into it. But I think if you're saying, hey, look here, how do you call it out?
Straight and simple?
From me, it comes down to the w's and right now, nobody is winning better than the Kansas City Chiefs, and I think it says a lot about how they're doing in adversity.
You go with adversity six and zero.
I don't get it.
This is an offense that hasn't been producing the way we know. This is a team that has been known traditionally for the type of offensive production that they've.
Had, and they struggled in that. Look, they beat the San.
Francisco forty nine ers by ten points, but when you think about it, they had zero passing touchdowns in this game.
Like, wait, what they.
Had one hundred and forty five yards passing. What does this tell me? This team has intestinal fort or two. They find a win to win, and this is where you judge a team. Yeah, okay, you look at the Baltimore Ravens. They're cooking right now, all things on all cylinders. Right now, they're looking like they're playing good. Obviously, we know defensively, like you talked about, Peter struggling on the backside there on the with the defensive in the passing game. But when I look at a team, I want to measure them by how they handle adversity, and right now they're finding a way to win. They're undefeated even when having adversity in the passing game. Running has been there. Their their staple. Right now, they've been able to get be very, very effective in the run game.
And I love it.
I love what Peter you're saying is it's a tell of two different stories. Where the Ravens that's the offensive team, that's the offensive highlight that we're watching weekend and week out. But it's the defense for the Chiefs that's been their strong that's been their stronghold, that's been the strong point of this team. I would have to say, as of October twenty fourth, it's the Ravens for me, like you don't have you can't look past Lamar.
Jackson and his five touchdowns that he just threw.
Yet last week, and you know, Mark Andrews and that connection he didn't up. You know, earlier in this season, you didn't see that connection, and everybody was like, oh wow, I wonder if Isaiah likely has replaced Mark Andrews.
Hold up, everybody, Mark.
Andrews is still there and he's still producing at a very high level. And not to mention, Derrick Henry leads the NFL in rushing yards, in rushing touchdowns.
And by the way, Keton Mitchell, I don't.
Know if anybody anybody remembers this young cat, the rookie Keaton Mitchell is on his way back. So this offense is continuing to look dangerous with Zay Flowers and all of those guys. Now the Ravens, to Peter's point, the Ravens defense, they do need to play with a little bit more consistency. I know, after the Bills game, we were talking about all this, that Ravens defense.
They're they're dominating people.
Yeah, past few weeks they haven't been up to that type of caliber that we've been used to seeing the Ravens defense for so many years and that dominance. So if they're able to get that consistency there, it's going to be scary. And so for me at right now, at October twenty fourth, it's the Ravens.
It's interesting.
So yesterday the Chiefs come out and they show that they're the aggressors in the situation. They look at the landscape and they say, okay, DeAndre Hopkins can help us where we might be suffering from injuries and might be weak. The pass rush for the Ravens, which was great against the Bills Manta in that Sunday night game. I was like, this is the complete version of the Ravens, their offense and their defense. I know it's early in the season, in week four, week five, whenever that was, but it was like, that's what that's goin to do the Ravens then, not on offense, they don't need a Cooper Cup, they don't need a wide receiver. Do the Ravens start looking for pass rushers and I look at names around the league that could be, you know, on the block. And last year they got a career year at a Jenevian Clowney.
He's thirty years old.
Right now, Genevian Clowney is wasting away in Carolina on a team that's going nowhere. Did they pick up the phone and say, I know he signed for big money last year with you guys, Is there any way you'll eat some of the salary that's left and we can bring them back for this stretch run. I look at Zadarius Smith, who's in the division over there in Cleveland.
I look at some of these.
Teams that we expected to be maybe playoff contender, teams that have these big veteran pass rushers, and I wonder if they do the same thing they did last year when they brought in a Kyle van Noy and a Clowney and they added some of those veteran guys to just.
Get them over the hump.
I do think this defense right now, which is so strange talking about a Baltimore team, is there achilles heel and I just don't know if that's going to be there in the backbone of the team when it matters in the cold weather in January and who knows, maybe even February.
Something I think we also need to consider is this is only the second year for Lamar Jackson in this offense under offensive cordator Todd Monkin, still really getting their legs under them, and they don't play preseason, so those first two games. I'll give you guys a mulligan on those. Also, Peter, as you mentioned, this is just the first year under defensive coordinator Zach Or. Last year it was Mike McDonald who is now the head coach in Seattle. So for me, the fact that Baltimore hasn't missed a beat, but the fact that they had these new coordinators at both those positions really I think is a testament to what they're able to do.
Loves the Chiefs. I appreciate what they do.
I'm definitely glued to all these Ravens games. And you have to also think about the addition of Derrick Henry, which was almost Sarah Chilles here when they played the Chiefs in that AFC Championship game.
For you, Walk Bar.
When you think of the addition of Dereck Henry. We talked about the tools that Patrick Mahomes has. How much can they rely on Dereck Henry if we take a step back big picture, can he be that game changer.
They've been looking for?
He is?
I mean absolutely, It's an element that no one can stop. Now I've said it the whole time. This is to me is flashback going back to Sha Chill O'Neil and Kobe Bryant. That was the combo, and I think everyone knows it, like there's no disrespect on this offense and what.
They're able to do.
Dereck Henry asked that element that there's a toughness to it. His ability to get outside, his ability to run downhill, whether you're doing zone running, gap run. I mean, he this is a dude can do it all in my opinion, And then when you're supported with the quarterback who also aids in the run game, it makes it very hard. From a defensive standpoint, this is a nightmare to defend because you just don't especially once they start implementing and doing that RPO.
It's just it is very confusing.
It keeps you lighter on your feet, and when you're lighter on your feet, you're kind of a little bit wishy washy and trying to figure out how they're going how to dissect their game. So they're very, very lethal.
You have to respect the run in the passive a mantai you can speak to that too, being a linebacker having to tackle Derek Henry running at you full speed.
Yeah.
No, you just took back to the game against the Buccaneers. The first half, I remember watching it and Derek Henry are trying to figure out, why isn't Derek Henry in the game, Why isn't he playing, Why isn't he getting more snaps? And you look at the score and it's a lot closer than a lot of people anticipated. And then the second half comes around and Derek Henry just goes off.
He starts getting the touches.
I think he had like twenty plus touches in the second half, and you see these explosive runs coming from him.
You see you start seeing.
The Office starts to catch its groove and start to hit a stride, and all of it is predicated around that man right there, Derek Henry. When Derek Henry is able to have these type of runs, the type of candidate runs for Anger, runs for Kyle Brant usually that it's a good thing for the Baltimore Ravens. So Derek Henry is such a big part of this offense. As he's going, this office is going to continue to get a lot of success.
And what he does is not just gain yards, and it's like an avalanche. And once he starts going, it's just it's like it just builds a builds and it's demoralizing for the defense. Come the fourth quarter, you don't want to tackle Derek Henry like you did in the first quarter. So they could start off the game going to him, but when he gets going in that second half, he's the ultimate closer.
He is the Mariano.
Rivera of the NFL right now, and it's they've gone to him and that's his cutter and it's basically lower my shoulder and try to tackle me.
There are business decisions.
That were being made again with the tambay bucket defense on some of those runs, and I don't blame them to get in front of that thing as like getting in front of a locomotive, So that could be the difference, but they have to get.
A lead to really rely on that.
I don't think you can win playoff games if you're down a touchdown or down ten points just handing it off to Derek Henry and saying, hey.
Go do your thing.
Fortunately, Lamar is throwing the ball better than he ever had before as well.
Yeah, and I'll just say this, I'll button it up with this. You know, we cannot underestimate what it means to go undefeated. In the NFL. That is extremely hard. I wish I could reach out to Stats and to our research department saying, hey, can you pull up numbers on fortitude your will to win? Like that is a big thing that the Kansas City chief they have the experience and they have the fortitude. No one, there's no measurement for it, and no one can vend that.
Absolutely. That's a great point.
Brieven's taking on the Browns at one pm Sunday then Chiefs Raiders as at four to twenty five Eastern, So you don't have to choose.
You can watch both.
Games, but there will be definitely a lot to watch for. In news around the league on Sunday, we now bring in our NFL Network insider Tom Belasaro to get us up to date on all.
Things going around the league. Here Tom, looking.
At that Dolphins game, it sounds like quarterback to a tongue of Iloa could be back.
What more do you have for us?
We'll Sheerrey.
It was six weeks ago today. The Tua toungo I Loois suffered his latest concussion this week and on Wednesday he is now back on the practice field and things continue to trend toward him being cleared and returning to the starting lineup on Sunday against the Cardinals. Officially, Tua listed as a limited participant in practice on Wednesday. That is standard as you're making your way through the NFL NFLPA Concussion Proto call what I was told was in practice, Tua looked like Tua. He is ripping it all over the field. He's hitting bombs to Tyreek Hill. This is the guy that they have been missing during his absence. Now again under the concussion Protocol, it's five steps. The final step is you need to be cleared by an independent neurologist. That final clearance is after you practice for a couple of days to see how your brain and body respond. He could get the green light as soon as Friday. As for Commanders quarterback Jaden Daniels, He's got a big matchup this week against Kayleb Williams and the Bears, but Daniel's status remains clouded as.
He deals with a rib injury.
Dan Quinn said that he is going through treatment and meetings.
He quote came out strong.
The attitude has been fantastic, like you'd expect.
Those rib injuries can be tricky, even if it's.
Not broken ribs, they have to see how he feels get later on in the week before determining whether or not he's able to go. If not, it would be Marcus Mariota getting a pretty high profile start this week against Chicago. We also will not have in answers until later in the week. On the status the Seahawks wide receiver dk Metcalf, who is dealing with a Grade one mcl sprain after banging his knee in the Seahawks game last week. Mike McDonald said the plan is no practice wedins there Thursday, get him out there Friday, see.
How he feels.
Obviously a huge part literally and figuratively of that Seattle offense. They got a big game this week against the Bills.
Sure all right, Tom, thank you so much. Looking like Friday is the data circle. If you're looking for some of those other injury updates, we appreciate you, Tom.
Thank you well.
Coming up it is Thursday. You know that means it is time for trivia, Peter. This always makes me so nervous.
What do you have today?
Nervous? Fun?
This is fun.
We have fun with this.
We go through all the matchups and we.
Do trivia around the matchups. In this case, we'll see if we can get some Eagles trivia on the boy. Plus, we just heard from Tom that Tua is back on the field and looks like he's playing well. But there's someone who might be extremely happy to hear that news that's not even at our breakfast table.
It might be the guy he's throwing to. We're gonna get some.
Sound from Tyreek after this, and we're gonna break down all things Miami Dolphins, who are back with.
Tua in the lineup. Good morning football.
We're back, baby, man, We're back, Baby, start me this week.
Baby, let's go all.
Right time for beneath the surfer presented by Microsoft Surface that right there is a rightfully excited Tyreek Hill for.
To a tongue of I Looa's return.
I'm gonna take a picture here on our Microsoft surface. We're gonna sort of break them down and see what you're expecting from the two we get expected to see, as we said, to a tongue of Iloa back out there on the field. They're taking on the Cincinnati Bengals. But Mantai, I want to start with you. You have a personal connection to to I know this is very personal to you. What are you expecting to see from TUA this weekend.
I'm so glad that this segment is entitled what is called Beneath the Surface, because we're gonna go beneath the surface on this one. I have no expectations for two on Sunday, I have zero, And I strongly believe that expectations often rob us of the opportunity to create memories in the present, in the now. And I was reminded of that lesson yesterday when I dropped my little brother off for his two year LDS mission, and as I waved goodbye to him in that parking lot, all the regrets of the times where I put my expectations above needing to create these memories with my brother kicked in. I remember him calling me sometimes and asking me to play video games. I don't really play video games, but my brother does, and he asked me if I would play Call of Duty or Fortnite with him, And instead of agreeing to create that memory with him, I put my expectations above that. I said, you know, there are so many other productive things that you could be doing right now. You should be studying film, you should be working out, do some extra work, do all of these different things, and all the calls where he would ask me to go to raising canes or betels, which is a Mexican spot out there in Utah, and I would respond to, man, you know, I'm on a diet, and I would lecture him about food and nutrition and why he has to do all of these things. My expectation was for him to be really good at football. Well I stood over there on that sidewalk with a whole bunch of regrets and no memory.
So what am I going to do on Sunday?
I'm going to sit there on my couch with my wife and my children, and I'm going to enjoy the mere fact that Tool Tongua by Law is back playing football. I don't have any expectations. If he throws two touchdowns, if he throws two picks, I'm just going to be grateful that I'm.
There to experience it.
And it's going to be a beautiful day for me and my family to watch somebody who.
I know and who I love play this game. So that's a great no expert, no expectations.
That's a great person.
Yeah, it's a great personal touch.
YEA beautiful and best of luck to your brother. And that's a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing it. Obviously, there's expectations from the football field, but I think we all.
Just are just happy to see too a back and.
We watch and we pray and we hope that all goes well and he can finish the season and it's no more of what we were discussing the last six weeks and it's oh wait to have finish the season strong. For Dolphins fans, there's football, there's also Hey, I pay my season tickets, I buy the jerseys, I bring my family on Sundays, I spend my Sunday. They want to see some winning football. And they were a Super Bowl contender before the season started to a.
Win down and they were not. They're two and four, they're at home.
They have had some terrible losses at home this season, including the Tennessee game, which is still a head scratcher for me. It's let's get a win on the board here and let's see two shine and let's see him, you know, get this team back on track. Because the AFC is loaded right now. There are so many good teams and yet there's still is a window for the Dolphins.
So what do I expect to see?
Expect them to beat the Arizona Cardinals, who are traveling across the country and playing a team that was supposed to.
Be a Super Bowl contender before the year.
Happy to see two back.
I pray that he's healthy and I will be white knuckleing this one at points if he gets hit, but that's just what it is.
His doctors have cleared him, and to it wants to play.
So here I am to support it and let's see if you can get a win when they need it most.
Yeah, and thank god, I mean thank god that he's back. And you know, we all know his history and his medical history and what he's endured, and to see him make that jump back, you know, some may have concerns, but taus all in. I think what the offense should expect. I think what the team should expect is that they got their leader back, they got their dog back, the guy who's going to help them really kind of restabilize this offense, especially when you look at the production. The production clearly dropped down for Tyreek. His numbers got cut Wattle, his numbers got cut down. They have to start relying on the run game to try to give this offense some sort of chance until Tua gets back. Now, Tua's, you know, potentially going to be back for this game. Man, I can't wait to see those deep shots, those deep passes, see Tyreek Hill going doing his thing. Look, Tyrek Hill only has like one touchdown on the season. We haven't seen those explosive plays out of him. I think he had like one or two targets last week, you know. So I like this for the offense. You know they're sitting there too, and four just right under the Buffalo Bills in the AFC East, there's an opportunity.
To get back in there.
I think we're gonna start marching at the Dolphins name again, especially if they beat the Arizona Cardinals. I think now all of a sudden, we're paying attention again.
Yeah, you look at this picture. I have the wrong one. My apologies there. We have two antireek here. The connection is just undeniable. But I think we can all agree here at the table, in football fans in general, that we are wishing to the best that he is healthy and he remains that way as he gets back out there on the field. So our next question we have Eagles and Mangles, who have won their last three of four games. We're seeing here Jalen Hurts and Joe Burrow. Which team do you think is playing better right now? Peter, I'm going to start with you here.
I still questions about the Eagles offense.
It seems like it stops and goes, stops and goes, but their defense has been dominant. One of the undercover stories the last two weeks has been how the Eagles have emerged and absolutely dominated the Browns and the Giants. This past week, against the Giants, the Eagles defense sack Daniel Jones I think eight times.
They hit him a bunch of other times, and.
It's really truly a testimon into what Vic Fangio has been able to do with these guys. I mean, last year, the big story was their defense isn't good enough.
Defense isn't good enough. They were ten to one and they fired.
Their defensive coordinator because the defense wasn't good enough.
Well, they've allowed ten points per game.
Since Week six. That's the fewest in the NFL.
And they have now allowed one hundred and eighty one and a half yards and three and a half yards per.
Play in that time. As well.
Now, granted, they've played against the Browns and the Giants, two anemic offenses. But if we say that, we know that Jalen Hurts and Devonte and Saquon are gonna eventually all get on the same page and score at an easier pace, and now they have a defense.
I think it's the Eagles over the Bengals.
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say I think that it's the Bengals. You know, when you think about you know which team is playing better. I look at the defensively. Defensively, they've gotten a lot better. They got bj Hill back, Sheldon Rankings back, they're playing You look at the last couple of weeks. They've given up less of a fourteen or few points in the last two games that they've been playing. So I'm looking at the production and I look at the Eagles and are going a lot of this has to do with their big playability, but that can only take you so far. Last in that last game against the Giants, they were one of thirteen and third down conversions.
That's not good.
That's not good.
Yeah. I like the Eagles on this one.
I think that the Eagles office looked really different with AJ Brown in it compared to when AJ Brown wasn't in it, And to have that wide receiver one. You see the impact that not having the wide receiver one has on an offensive team. You think about the Rams with Cooper cup being gone and Pooper and Naku will be gone. You think about the Chiefs how important it is for them to have a wide receiver one. They go on sign DeAndre Hopkins. Think about the Texans and how they were so explosive. The Nico Collins goes down and it looks a little bit different. So having AJ Brown back on that field, you see these numbers. Look at the difference in the production with A J.
Brown compared to.
How he is, how the age how they are without AJ Brown. So just having that one key piece on the field has been such.
A big difference for the Egles. So they struggled a little bit a few weeks.
But against the Giants, I thought that that offense looked they looked extremely leaf with AJ Brown back, and say Kwon Barkley doing his thing.
Yeah, and it's.
Worth noting too both teams which is kind of, you know, kind of funny to me. Both teams are coming off you know those wins playing Cleveland and the Giants, so they both played the same thing, like they've had weaker opponents that they've dominated against. I think this matchup should be, you know, be the telltale answer that shoot out.
To me, it's like similar way we could grade them that they face similar opponents.
Right, Thanks NFL for scheduling it like that.
Omar, what do you got for us?
Omar Ruiz, Hey, good to see you well.
Because Jayden Daniels is nursing that rib injury, It's unknown if we'll get Caleb Williams against Jayden Daniels on Sunday in the Battle of the top two draft picks, but it will be a homecoming for Williams, who grew up in the DC and Maryland areas, and it'll also be a reunion for Williams and Commander's offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury, as the duo worked together at USC last season, and Williams spoke Wednesday about the Josh Kingsbury is doing currently in Washington.
You go over to ask all all the players and they say they love him, probably.
Because you know he's a players coach.
And and so knowing him, you know, knowing how much he loves football and things like that. It just brings, you know, brings joy to his players and things like that. So you know, it was it was, uh, you know it was I've texted him back and forth every once in a while like, uh, you know, great game, this and that, and he's done the same. So it's you know, been cool building that relationship with him in college and then obviously been the pro about to go play against him.
And Sunny will get another reunion when Patrick Mahomes faces off against his a f C West nemesis in the person of Max Crosby. The pair of quite the history with each other, as we all saw on that Netflix documentary Quarterback, and Mahomes says he knows he has to keep an eye on Crosby at all times.
Yeah, I mean you have to know where he's at on every single snap because he plays extremely hard every single snap and he's extremely talented. And I think for have a guy that be that talented and that have that high of the high of a motor, that's special, it takes a lot because you don't always feel great and you might not be getting he gets chipped or he gets whatever it is. He don't know what that bothering. He doesn't know what that effect him. He just keeps playing extremely hard every single snap. And so a great challenge for us to go up against him in that defense, and so I think the guys are ready for it.
You can't wait to see Mahomes with de Hop this weekend and live from Munich and a little more than a couple of weekends from now, the Giants square off against.
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All right, it's Thursday, and the segment we do is called Schrigger's NFL Trivia. What we do is we preview the weekend's matchups by going back in time and asking trivia questions around the historical context between those two teams. We've got oc Bar, We've got Share, We've got Mantai Ochbar, I'm gonna start with you.
You're up for the first.
Yeah, you got you got there, I tho bar all.
Right, lead up, You're lead up.
Big NFC rivalry this week when the Cowboys take on the forty nine Ers.
Now, we know these two teams have so much history. Maybe some of the.
Best games in NFL history came between these two squads. But I'm gonna go back to the twenty eleven season. The Cowboys beat the forty nine Ers in Week two of the twenty eleven season on legs of a seventy seven yard overtime reception by which Dallas receiver Tony Romo was the quarterback. Who did you connect with on a seven seven yard play to set up a game winning field goal? Was it A Miles Austin B. Des Bryant, CE, Jason Witten or.
D Jesse Holly?
Okay, fun fact, Jason Witten's birth is May sixth.
That has nothing to do with anything.
May sixth.
Is that your birthday?
It is?
That's the reason why.
Okay, all right, all right, let's get back to otherwise.
It's a really weird fact.
Jesse Holly. Oh, I genuinely don't know here. I'm gonna take a shot here. I'm going Dez Bryant. This one has to be a Miles Austin Jason Wooden. I know that he's ever had a seventy seven yard I can't read it. It says, yeah, seventy seven yard over. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Miles Austin. No way, it's Jason. But happy birthday in the future.
In the future, May sixth, We love Jason and we love Miles Austin, former Mammoth University star. Uh, let's go to Tom Brenneman and coach Brian Billick for the call in this awesome overtime battle out in Candlestick. Let me go for the big in a minute.
Oh my goodness, Jesse.
Holly that one.
Shut shut it up?
Oh Man, Can I tell you about Jesse Holly?
Yes?
Can I tell you about Jesse hollyock bar. Jesse Holly got to.
The NFL in maybe the most inexplicable of ways. He was on a show called Fourth and Long that aired on Spike TV for one season in two thousand and nine. It was hosted by Michael Irvin, and contestants competed for the eightieth spot on the Cowboys training camp roster.
Jesse Holly won the show, got to training camp, and then was in the field for the biggest moment of a game against the forty nine ers. How about this. Seventy seven yards.
Those seventy seven yards you just saw were seventy seven of the one hundred and sixty nine career receiving yards that Jesse Holly had as an NFL player.
That is a cool story.
And that's a heck of a trivia.
That's a heck of a trivia right there.
That's why we do trivia, Sherry, Are you ready for the next one?
No, but yes, let's go.
Let's go share, Let's go.
I love that, all right?
I share?
Got this all right? The Saints play against the Chargers.
This weekend, the last time the Chargers actually beat the Saints.
Who was the Chargers starting quarterback? Was it a Drew Brees?
Was it b Ryan Leaf? Was it c Philip Rivers? Or was it d Craig Wheelahan?
Not good one Offward just says wow next to me, it's still some confidence right here. I know Ryan Leaf is a friend of the show, front of the program. I don't think Ryan it Drew Brees?
No, no, no, something.
About it is just saying Philip Rivers to me.
I don't know what it is about him.
That's just when I think Chargers football, that's the quarterback I think of.
I know he was there for so long. Yeah, the Chargers beat the Saints. I mean, these two guys they played for these teams. This is not great.
I'm going to go with ce Philip Rivers will have the biggest cheering squad if I get this one.
I like that.
Kay, okay, right, they're nodding at the tablet feet see is my final answer?
Peter?
All right, well, the correct answer is.
A Drew Drew Brees playing for the San Diego Chargers, Yes, all the way back in four through for two hundred and fifty seven yards and four touchdowns, and they beat the Saints and this.
Was insane Diego by a final score of forty three to seventeen. We're looking at Ladanian, Tomlinson, Drew Bies and my favorite an Ocbar and Mett.
How you telling me my favorite Chargers uniforms not the powder Blues. I love these uniforms.
Right here, Antonio tron means blue, may tromp means blue.
There you go, there's right.
There, number twenty casim osgood great San Diego State, Aztec and special teams.
Demon Jerry, you don't blame me for getting these wrong.
Fincon's two thousand and four, since the Chargers have beaten the Saints and the quarterback was ironically.
Drew Brees twenty years ago, right A four.
That's I would have got that one wrong.
That makes me feel mad. All right, you got to bring it home. We're not holding her.
Ok here, It's okay, dude, We're good.
We got it.
Panthers and Broncos famously played in a Super bowls Peyton Manning's second Super Bowl ring it was DeMarcus Ware's first, and Von Miller obviously dominated That.
Was soon fifty.
The very next season, after Peyton Manning retired, the Broncos hosted the Panthers in Week one of the NFL season. Who was the starting quarterback for the defending Super Bowl champion Broncos in Week one of that.
Twenty sixteen season?
Was it A Mark Sanchez?
Was it B?
Paxton Lynch? Was it C Joe Flacco?
Or was it D Trevor Simeon?
I know it wasn't A. I know it was in C. It's between B and D, and it just so happened to be the year.
After I left the Chargers. Peter, I'm gonna go D Trevor Simeon.
That's my answer, Pete, I love come on.
I love your conviction.
Come on, go to Northwestern whichever.
Let's let's not show you any highlights, but instead, let's go to Alan Michaels for the opening introduction the roster of the starting lineup, NBC, September twenty sixteen.
Let's take a look.
Let's take a look at the Bronco offense. Trevor Simmons season Javich Nebraska. You got it, SMU, let's go.
Simeon would actually get the winning that game.
They knocked Cam Newton around, and if you remember, Simeon threw for one hundred and seventy eight yards and a touchdown and the Broncos would get the win twenty one to twenty over their Super Bowl opponents, the Panthers. Cam Newton some shots at.
The game late.
There's a big controversy the next morning and whether they should have been calling some penalties or not. They would finish the season nine and seven, missing out in the playoffs.
With Trevor Simeon as one of their quarterbacks.
All Right, guys, all right, we're gonna go to some video clues.
Now, okay, two different ones.
Chiefs and Raiders have a rich history.
I could have gone to one thousand different Chiefs and Raiders moments, but I'm gonna go more recent, and we're all gonna take a shot here, all right. In twenty twenty, John Gruden's Raiders went into Arrowhead and beat the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs. After the game, Gruden's Raiders celebrated by doing what a planting Raiders flags at midfield in Arrowhead b The entire team famously signed their names in the visiting locker room. See they drove extra laps around Arrowhead Stadium on the team bus or d John Gruden worn Andy Reid's style Hawaiian shirt to the postgame presser and flex on the Chiefs.
We're gonna go around the horn here.
Take a second, think about these three four scenarios.
Sherry mantai achbar. We'll go in that orror.
Sherry.
You first, I mean, I'm a pretty petty person, so I would write my name.
On the visiting locker room.
But I'm gonna go with d that he wore a Hawaiian shirt.
Okay, I think that's all.
Josh Chekos went off.
I think this was I'm gonna go see they're driving extra laps around Arrowhead Stadium on a team bush.
Well, I think.
Okay, ockbar, Yeah, I think I'm gonna go with the signing of the wall if I'm not mistaken. I think that is a thing where they have a wall inside of the Kansas City Chiefs locker room and you go there and you sign your name, but not everybody typically does it. But I think maybe John Gruden go, you know what, everybody signs the wall. So I'm gonna go sign that sign that wall in Arrowhead Stadium.
Okay, wheels on the bus.
Let's go to the sad here, Let's go to the sound and we'll find out exactly what they did.
Hey, John, Today Andy Reid mentioned a couple of times the victory lamp you guys took in case the first game exactly was the victory lamp? And is that something that you think about this week as far as bolting board material.
Or anything like that.
Not really.
I mean, you can find a small alley bus driver in Kansas City who made some Snike comments when we got on the bus. Maybe that's why we drove around the stadiums to partick him off.
That's a ridiculous.
Next question, Amanti, you're here today.
They drove extra laps around Arrowhead and let everyone see we owned this place today.
John Gruden and one of the pettier coaches and also one of the saltier ones. All right, one more bonus video.
Let's get some random football action between a random matchup. I don't have a long history of Titans in Lions history. Kyle Vandenbosch comes to mind, having played for both teams. They had an absolute shootout in twenty twelve that went to overtime. They go to the overtime period and it's fourth down and overtime and the Titans are playing the Lions, and the Lions have the ball and they're like, we're going for it on fourth down. We're not kicking a field goal. What happens on this play? Was it a let's get the clues up here. A Calvin Johnson game winning touchdown? B michela Shore game winning touchdown see Titus Young shout out to Boise State game winning touchdown? Or d did the Titans defense stuff the Lions and win.
Forty four to forty one.
In that game, Cherry, we go to you first, then Manti, then Akbar. Were loving trivia this morning, the most random game ever. I have no doubt you guys remember exactly where you were for Titans Lions.
It's coming to mind as we talk about it. Kudos to you, Peter and our producers for coming up with insane questions this morning. I'm gonna go with D because the only defensive answer on the board.
I'm gonna go for some reason, Titus Young. There was a highlight of around Titus Young at some point during his NFL career, and I think it happened to be this game. Gonna go see Okay, Titus show.
Okay, look twelve years ago, remember it clearly. My twins were born. I remember it clearly. I can still see them coming out. I'm gonna go with Calvin Johnson in this game. And who else would you throw it to in the situation. Calvin Johnson.
Okay.
When you go through the legendary broadcast tandems and NFL history, at some point in the list, you get to Ron Pitts, who we love, and Mike Martz, who was calling games for Fox that season.
Ron Pitts Mike Martz on the call, take.
It away, gentle goal, peterr Foes hold it back, doesn't.
I don't know what he got it.
They look like, yes, everybody's little more. Let's go.
Look at that great John Ryan's defense stuff from the Lions.
The Titans defense stuffed them. Titans win the game. Ron Pitts, Mike Mark, Sherry Burris.
You're a champion, yes, Peter, that's that's a that's amazing, Peter. The anxiety of this whole Thursday's day, it's like it's so bad.
If I would have known we had a John Grutin thing, I would have called John and said, can you can get.
Defense one more time? But we're still going here on GMSB.
Let's go got Albert Hainsworth. I didn't get any points.
