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Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the returns of Sean Payton and Saquon Barkley! Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila explore the Steelers decision to move to Russell Wilson. Peter lines up some trivia heading into tonight's Broncos/Saints matchup. Plus, Ravens WR Zay Flowers on being part of the Lamar Jackson/Derrick Henry offense!
Stay tuned for Vikings HC Kevin O'Connell in Hour 2 of the GMFB Podcast!
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Good Morning Football. What's happening, everybody?
This is Good Morning Football. I was ab to say it like that just to match Melissa Effidges.
Yeah, you got stretch out Ergie.
Good Morning Football.
We are presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerkey as always, live in La It's Akwarbaja Biamila. I'm Jamie r at All, live in New York City. That's Peter Schrager and Kyle Brandt. Guys, Peter, Kyle, we got a busy show today. Anybody just want to toss out a guest or two that we're gonna have on.
Yeah?
Sure, And we're having the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings, Kevin O'Connell's an undefeated team, maybe the best team in all of football.
He's coming on showing off. He's ever come on the show.
How about Zay Flowers from the Baltimore Ravens. Does he want to step right up?
Does who had about sixteen targets in the first four minutes last week?
Does he want let's sep right up. He'll be on the show as well.
We're going to have guys from London.
Yeah, London, I was gonna say.
And Kevin O'Connell he went to is it North San Diego State? Come on, guys, you guys knew he went to Santa State and you just left me on an island you're supposed to participate in there.
And Ryan Fitzpatford as well had a Thursday Night Football and Steve West London. I don't think we have to be here, Fitz like we just like, let's just toss the.
Interviews at this point.
I guess now we got some stuff to talk about. Thursday Night Football. This is the event which we sit in front of which he's up throwdown Thursday. First we hear from Shadow, let's go. We'll be making his return to New Orleans. He had this to say earlier this week about his first game back down the Bayou.
Certainly there'll be emotions going back there with players, But I do think that comes up quite a bit, you know, in our league, with players, and in this case, certainly the amount of time that I was there, I understand it. I don't think there's going to be a lot of flowers and warm fuzzy for yours truly, and I get it.
Maybe He's not a flowers and warm Fuzzy's kind of guy. And that's okay, let's go throw it on Thursday. First topic, because there's another highly anticipated return happening in the NFL this weekend, and it's sick On Barkley going back to Met Life to take on the Giants, wearing an Eagles uniform of all things. All right, more anticipated return is it Sean Payton to New Orleans or Saquon to Met Life?
Off bar you go first, Yeah, I'm gonna have to go with Saquon to Met Life. I think Sean Payton coming back to New Orleans. You know, I get it, he was there, want to their first super Bowl for them, But you know that is a very centralized thing. The answer here really is again Barkley going back to New York. We all remember, of course hard Knocks and you know, trading off and the emotions that went around that. But I look at this and I go, this is an opportunity, and you know that he wants to show off and show out against the New York Giants. I mean, already he's been spectacular for you know, the Phill the Eagle, four hundred and two rush yards already this year, he's fourth in the NFL and rushing. You know, Maris sitting back like.
Why do we do this again? What was the reason?
Especially what they're going through in the run games over there with the Giants. I'm looking forward to this one. This is gonna be good.
That one is going to be the headline on the weekend in New York and Philly.
And I understand that.
I got to give a little context to tonight.
In New Orleans.
I think everyone expects Sean Payton comes back conquering hero banner on the roof, and.
Hey, look look what he did. He helped revitalize New Orleans.
Oh that's true.
How Sean Payton left New Orleans is still a very curious situation down there in the Big Easy. Remember he left with years on his contract, left in twenty twenty two to retire, goes away, goes to Fox and less than twelve months later asks the Saints to let him out of his contract so that he can then go and pursue these twenty million dollar jobs elsewhere. He interviewed with the Panthers, he interviewed with the Cardinals, he interviewed with, of course, the Broncos. He then went to Mek Loomis and Miss Benson and said, guys, is there any way you'll let me out?
Okay?
Is it? Can you?
Then you might have to trade first round picks and get things back in return to get me out of that contract.
So he goes, he leaves.
There are fans in New Orleans who thinks that once Drew Brees left and things got a little rough, Sean Payton left them high and dry and then took the money and ran somewhere else. He said, there's not going to be warm and fuzzies there. I got a lot of insight from Jeff Duncan, who is the voice.
Of New Orleans Saints media.
And when I say I got a lot of insight anything he writes, anything he tweets, I read, and I read with.
A close eye. This is Jeff Duncan yesterday.
Some bitterness definitely still remains Insigned Saint's Headquarters over Sean Payton's abrupt departure in twenty twenty two, so much so that officials did not want Drew Brees's Hall of Fame induction ceremony to be held in the same night as Peyton's return to New Orleans. On Thursday, it will be an emotional night in the super Dome, but do not expect warmon fuzzies. And if he goes over there, it hugs up to Cam Jordan and Marshaun.
Lattimore and Kamara. Great, that's our guy.
I don't know if that thing ended as cleanly as everyone thinks, so just keep an eye on that tonight. If you're expecting this to be a jumbo tron tribute to Sean Payton when he comes back as a Denver Broncos head coach on.
The outside kicking the Super Bowl. Guys, you had bags on your head. So he brought a Super Bowl to New Orleans. I understand the divorce was a little ugly, but imagine, let's compare it, Peter to the Saquon one.
Imagine right now, Sean.
Payton was the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he was coming back as a division rival. That Peyton thing's interesting, and I'm glad you provided that context because I actually did not know that. But the Saquon thing is fantastic. And it even got more interesting yesterday because earlier in the week we were saying, do you think that the Giants fans will boot Saquon, and I personally thought they did. Saquon comes out on record and says, I don't think the Giants fans will boom me, and I think if they weren't going to they might.
Now because he said that.
So Saquon kind of like called his shot like the bambino and said, no, they won't boom me, and I think you might have almost dared them to do it.
Saquon. My take is yes, I think.
That the fact that look I like sa Quan, He's a great player. I think he did not live up the expectations as a Giants. Now he's not coming in as I don't know, a Seahawk or a Charger. He's coming in as an Eagle. If Giants fans are already so mad, they're so pissed off about how the season is going with their own team, their home games are always terrible, and now here comes Saquan and he always great.
He's on a better.
Team now and he's gonna show off like someone on Instagram saying that they glowed up.
I think they're gonna be mad about it.
I think they're gonna boo them, and especially now because he said they won't this.
Is my choice. You know.
Colin's interesting, you know, yeah, I look at Saquon and I could see why he might make that kind of proclamation like they won't boot me.
Of course, because.
Everyone saw the emotional pool that happened in the inside the decision making of letting go of Saquon Barkley. Here's a running back that wanted his value, like you can't you can't hate you can't hate them for that, or can't blame them for wanting his values. So it's not like he said get me out of here like a maybe like a Davante, you know, out of Las Vegas. He was just like he wanted to be there, just like pay me.
So it will be underestimating you're underestimating something. Okay, what is underestimating the fact that he went to the hated Philadelphia Eagles and no matter who's wearing that uniform, they're gonna boo the hell out of them. And then it's Saquon, their guy who goes to the egles logic and reason and business. It takes a it takes a backseat to a lot of fans. I have your jersey, how could you as a Saquon Barclays a giant. There's thirty other teams. How could you go to them? That is where the crux of it is. And I was already talking to some friends and on the text chain they're calling.
Them snake Kwan. So yes, that.
Exists, don't I don't think everyone's looking at this.
Logically, it's Giants and Eagles. From the Giants.
He gave everything he had to the organization. I stand with Saquon and supporting they better not. I know I'm an LA guy, but I mean, gosh, I mean, he gave you what he had, like they didn't keep him.
He didn't.
But when Shreig says logic and reason and business aside, all hell is going to break you.
I mean, my goodness, that is a So you're saying on being logical, Yeah, yeah, you're being rational.
That's not a Giants fan.
Right, all right, that's a more captivating storyline this weekend, as if we only have two to pick from, but we're going to go with two juicy ones at this point. Pittsburgh quarterback situation, Russell Wilson, Justin Field. What did Justin Fields do to find himself in this precarious position? But here we are questioning who's going to start this weekend or is it the fact that Devonte Adams appeared in New Jersey on Tuesday and will be available to the New York Jets offense and Aaron Rodgers this weekend.
Peter, take it away.
Give me DeVante.
And I say this because of the fact that the Jets are not just doubling down. I said it's earlier the week they're trippling down, quadripling. Doubling down on the season would be firing your head coach. Tripling down would be changing the offensive play caller. They quadrupled down now, and they traded for Devonte Adams, paying him a huge sum of money this year. And it's to just give another reason for Rogers to be happy and to have some that he can trust. It's very rare you see a quarterback call out a wide receiver.
The way that he did Mike Williams on Monday night.
And that was before he even knew he had Davante Adams waiting in the wings already in New Jersey.
The timeline goes.
That Adams flew to New Jersey was trying to get in touch with Rogers Monday night.
Rogers didn't pick up.
Finally, Rogers picks up the phone and Adams says, I've been traded, and Aaron Rodgers said in the press conference, say my heart dropped. He said to who, he said to the Jets, and I'm here and he shows up like in the facility in the morning. It says't is it going to help?
I think?
Is it gonna get them to the playoffs? I hope?
Is it gonna necessarily be an impact right away?
Maybe it's all fascinating. It's fascinating.
Bigger storyline, DeVante Adams dropped in Aaron Rodgers's lap and guess what, Rogers smiled leafy.
I think the more captivating story here is justin Fields in this situation and the idea that he potentially could not be the starter. You know, Kyle, you mentioned it and you just dropped a little nugget. I believe it was yesterday when you said, like, this is going to be the first time in NFL history that a quarterback who's gone four and two will lose his potentially lose his starting job. And I think everybody knows. Since the beginning, I've been a big, huge fan of Russell Wilson. I thought this should be Russell Wilson's job, and I'm all for it, and I go yeah. Emotionally, I was like, yeah, Russell, give him his opportunity. But then I like blasted our research department and I said, I wanted to look at some of these key performance metrics. I'm not going to inundate you with the numbers, but I'll just tell you what I took away from it is the idea that Justin Filds is ballin. He's playing I don't want to say ballin. That might be a little hyperbody, but he's playing good football. He's playing well. And when you look at his percentage based on some of the numbers of some of the elite quarterbacks right now, he's he's got the comps right now. So I'm going, what is it? And I started going, and I'm in bed and I'm tossing around trying to get round.
I'm like, what could this be? And I go, aha, aha, keeping you up at night?
Yes, it is keeping me up, but maybe not really. But I did think about it before I went to bed, and I thought, this has to be something that Mike Tomlin is. What Mike Tomlin is witnessing in practice, you remember when that buzz was going around like, man, there's this kid over in Kansas City when Alex Smith was a quarterbacks, like, we have to get to find a way to get this kid in the game. I think maybe there's a comparison where they're saying what Russell Wilson is providing in practice is undeniable, even though we have justin Fields who's putting up pretty good numbers for the Steelers.
Yeah, I mean, if Russ comes out and plays like a young Patrick Mahomes and Kansas City, then this is going to be the greatest decision in the history of the Steelers. Listen, the more captivating storyline. I see it two and a four and I see it four in the two all right. I mean, I know that Davante's accomplishment is going to get Rogers completion percentage from sixty one to sixty eight, and that'll be incredible. But there are two and fourteen that hasn't won a game in a month. I'm going to talk about the Steelers because this, as Akbar alluded to, is unprecedented. This is really really interesting. It's never happened in history where a quarterback's when four and two have been bench for performance or otherwise. Also, I think it's fascinating that what Mike Tomlin is saying is good is not good enough. We are very good and Fields has been very good. I want to be great. And isn't that really encapsulate this whole era of Steelers football and Mike Tomlin football. They have been good, they get to the playoffs, They've never been great in years, they don't win in the playoffs, and he's saying, I'm gonna make a move here, a gambit for the rest of the season. I know Field's numbers, I'm good, I know our record is good.
I'm gonna go.
With Russ because I got a gut and I have seen him here. People have theories about why this is happening. There's even things about that they don't want to give the Bears a fourth round pick because the amount of snap that Fields plays I.
Think are ridiculous.
Fields has had trouble with the center quarterback exchange. Is that why it's being benched. No, I don't think it's anything in the weeds like that. I think it's as simple as Tomlin wants to do this. It's a really strange thing matchup wise, because if you're playing the Jets, their pass defense has been excellent and you're thinking Russe will be a better passer, so you're going to the lines. Then the Jets couldn't tackle anyone last week, So why wuldn't you go with Field? Just run around and run it right up the middle. He doesn't care. I'm going with Russ and it is a risk. You know what it reminds me of. Reminds me of back in the day. There was a show called Deerland No Deal, and you would get this family that would come on the show and it's like, you know, they're school teachers or something.
This is one of a story.
And they'd be looking at two hundred and eighty grand and right there on the table, bird in hand, and leave and go back to Des Moines with two hundred and eighty thousand, and you know what they would do. They would say, no deal, Howie, I want the million. It's like, what you don't want to take the two underneaga, I've got million is out there. And of course they go back with three cents or something and they cry and how he hugs them. The Steelers are saying no deal. Justin I'm closing it. I'm the banker up there, the shadowy banker on the phone. No, I want the million. And this difference is it's Mike Tomlin. He's not a school teacher from Des Moines. He's a guy who's been there before. It's a big risk because if you sit fields and they lose to the Jets, and Rust looks like he has often in the last few years, then Steelers fans, who already have a short hues with Mike tom because he never wins playoff games, are going to go absolutely. I rates it's very interesting. It's never happened in history. But I do respect that Mike Toman is saying enough of this good is not good enough.
I think Rust canna make us great. He just better make him look good.
Kyle, that takes one of your best. It was near perfection. It had every little flavor that you needed, football history, a pop culture reference, a great picture of dealer and her deal. However, one factual inaccuracy is that Howie Mandel does not hug people when they lose millions of dollars.
He just doesn't.
He pats them on the back.
Called Joe Shakespeare head, I got to take a laugh on out he would never ever do.
I'm out of here. He actually doesn't even shake hands. Fist.
Sorry, sorry, you just lost a million dollars.
Shout out to Megan Markle Mega.
It's where she got her start.
Peter Schrager. Yes, side, Prince Harry was a big dealer.
Jodio fans, very sad deal. Nine catches one hundred and thirty two yards all.
Against the Commanders.
We've got Zave Flowersy Graves wide receiver from Baltimore coming up. He's going against Tampa Monday night, Kyle, there's more importantly what's coming up next?
Not more important, but.
You know, best segment of the week, My favorite segment every single week.
Peter tell us about it sports trivia.
We do Shreggons NFL Trivia.
We're starting with that guy, Sean Payton onside kicking the Super Bowl shock, Peyton Manning and the Boys, and then we.
Go back to Denver.
We're gonna talk a little Saints history.
What about the pre Sean Payton era?
Good football.
It's that time a week Shregger's NFL Trivia, and we have lots of great matchups coming up this weekend with some historical ties, including the Saints and the Broncos. Well, Sean Payton is coaching against his former team for the first time after so many years of great success.
In New Orleans.
Let's bring up a trivia question around tonight's Pacific matchup. Saints and Broncos. They're not division rivals, they're not in the same conference.
So Achbar, you're first.
Up, and I ask you.
The last time.
The Broncos played in New Orleans against the Saints team that wasn't coached by Sean Payton was Week eleven of the two thousand and four NFL season. Who are the head coaches of that game? Remember the last Saints Broncos game in New Orleans where Sean Payton wasn't coaching the Saints. Was it A Jim Mora and Wade Phillips, Was it B Jerry Glanville and Gary Kubiak, Was it C Jim Haslett and Mike Shanahan? Or was it D June Jones and Dan Reeves?
Ochbar, You're on.
It, okay.
Jules Jones, No, wasn't there because I believe he was at at the University of Hawaii and s.
Nice I was playing.
Glanville, Jerry Landfill, No, I just remember that from the track that they.
Used to wear.
Jim Moral, It's gotta be Seed.
Just gosh, I don't know why I don't remember Jim Haslett.
Yeah, this has to be a yeah.
Mike Shenhan absolutely one hundred percent.
See far great reasoning. The correct answer is.
See you're on the ball. God.
Let's go through the details of this game. The Broncos beat the Saints that day with Broncos starting quarterback Jake Plummer underd center.
Plumber through two touchdowns.
Now for the Saints, they put up a ton of.
Yards because their quarterback it was Aaron Brooks.
Brooks through for three.
Hundred and seventy seven yards. Oh no, but he also threw three pick day Will Sell, Yeah, Wills, we saw.
You could with that. Ed McCaffery you so, I thought it.
Was Ashley Louis out of Hawaii.
I thought it might have been. It all comes together been.
Mike Shanahan went into New Orleans and the Broncos blew out the Saints the last time New Orleans was coached by a team other than Sean Payton facing Denver in New Orleans, We'll see it tonight. Sean Payton, the coach of the Broncos facing his old buddy Dennis Allen, the coach of the Saints.
All right, ackbar, we're on the board. Well, let's gone.
We start off on some Ruben Drones highlights.
That's how we start to show we have.
Another return this weekend.
Saquon Barkley goes back to met life on Sunday.
Before Saquon, who was the last.
NFL running back to be selected in the top three picks of.
The NFL Draft?
Was it a Adrian Peterson, b Ladanian, Tomlinson, CE, Todd Gurley or d Trent Richardson? So Saquan went second overall in twenty eighteen?
Huh before him?
Who was the last NFL running back to go in the top three?
Was Zekil Elliott not a top three pick?
He was not? He was fourth overall. Good job.
I like that, I thought you.
I was like, I'm true questioning me for okay, I don't Vikings did not take Adrian Peterson in the top three, Okay, I know that much. Todd Gurley was not a top three pick. I don't have the draft history on LT just in my back pocket, and I hate to land on this one, but unfortunately I'm fairly certain it's d but I hate that it's because I think it ended up being a disappointment because he came out of Unbama.
So D Richardson right, Jamie.
Good reasoning all of this is great. I mean, you really went through it. But I can't give you the answer. For that answer, I go to our boss, Commissioner.
Roger Goodell. At the draft for some year with some player come so close. It was Trent Richardson.
Third.
We have the list of all the top three picks, because this is a cool list. Here the last five running backs selected in the top three. What an interesting list. Saquon, Trent Richardson, Reggie Bush. We go all the way back to John Carter, who was the last first overall running back taken. I love this gentry from from Poise State.
Could he go first over He's like Don Yards of Carry's unbelievable.
John Carter a year later was doing a cameo on Jerry Maguire.
Yes, and now, Jamie, you would.
Write Richardson was a disappointment, and he was traded from the Browns to the cult first round pick, but then his career kind of fizzled out. Uh, and he's no longer in the NFL. But Jamie, great job. We're two for two here.
Oh man, for tressure on me, Peter, you ask me about adventures in babysitting or something like that.
Come back in the day.
Ago, Elizabeth schu On. I don't have that one, Kyle.
The last time the Jets played the Steelers in a playoff game in Pittsburgh, this happened.
Willie Gay picks.
The ball up and returns the ball fifteen yards.
For a touchdown.
Steelers would go on to beat the Jets in the AFC Championship Game twenty four to nineteen.
Incredible, right, Steelers go hockeyly.
The question is this the winner of Best Male Athlete at the twenty eleven sps us A Jim er ferdet b derk Nowitzki, Cee fadeor a million Echo or d footballer Wayne Rooney Fad or fascinating guy.
Grew up in Ukrainian Soviet Union, longtime fighter and pride and then strike forced Peter probably the most famous mixed martial artist to never fight UFC.
I rememberuld go in the jungles and trained dude.
Yeah, I mean Fader and I want to talk about fatal for the rest of the show, and then not to mention Jimmer, I remember what I think.
Jimmer dropped fifty two on San Diego States, and Jimmer his name became a verb and he was an incredible thing. Not so much for Sacramento Kings. I wish it was either of them, but I think it is Dirk Novitski, whose idol is David Hasselhoff, and I believe in twenty eleven is that's when they beat the Heatles, as they were calling themselves at the time, not one, not two, not three. I'll go b big Dirk Nowitzki, the seven footer.
Guys, we're three for three, Yirk.
Best male athlete.
Dirk Nowitzki helped lead the MAVs to their first NBA championship that year.
Yeah, he was named Finals MVP.
And he averaged more than twenty eight points per game eight rebounds, and in the six game series against Miami, he and Jason Terry found away with Jason Kidd at the point to get.
By Lebron Wade and Chris By.
And Mario Chalmers. Can Chalmers?
I did that series?
Can? I just yeah?
On Ackbar, like Kyle, of all the games, did you have to like mention San Diego State, did you have to.
Yeah, I scored fifty two points.
Again, I promise if you had scored thirty, I wouldn't have. But Achbar, we're on document that you went to San Diego State, and we're on document the Jimmy for det scored fifty two on you guys in that series.
Guys, Yes, tour attendant in his finger in Game one and then played Game four with one hundred and one degree fever and still had the game winning basket and beat Lebron loved her shout out to JJ Berea, one of my favorite mavericks on that seam Puerto.
Rican point guard love JJ Brea awesome.
Right, yeah, all right, guys, are you ready for the video?
All?
Yeah, definitely.
Maybe The premiere game of Sunday is in the late afternoon and it's the Chiefs and the forty nine Ers. Now we know they've faced off in two Super Bowls the last five years, but you go back to nineteen ninety four, Joe Montana faced the San Francisco forty nine Ers as a Kansas City Chief. It was the only time he played against the Niners. Time he played against Steve Young in nineteen ninety four. What happens on this key third quarter play?
Look at the ads, dandies.
Oh my gosh, this is Week two Montana versus Young in Arrowhead.
What happens?
Hey?
Marcus Allen runs an eight yard touchdown run? B JJ Burden has an eight yard TD reception. See Dion Sanders has a pick six on Montana? Or d tight end Keith Cash, brother of Carrie, had an eight yard touchdown catch.
We'll go Jamie Achbar Kyle. Oh, I'm on record.
I always want the splash play, So I'm just gonna take a primetime pick six?
Akbar Will was D?
So what was it?
D Cash? Keith Cash?
I just I don't remember that, but it just seems like it'd be Keith Cash.
Yeah, perfect, all right.
Dian was Defensive Player of the Year this year.
We would remember and see it often if he had a pick six off Montana, which he did not.
JJ Burton strikes me as.
Someone Peter just googled on that depth chart to include a the screen.
So I'm gonna go with Actually.
Burnett were great receivers for the Chiefs.
Peter, have you say so? Marcus Allen eight yard touchdown? It it kills me in this that the running backs are in three point stances, both of them in the back.
I just love it so much. It's great. I go with Marcus Allen.
It looked like it was Kimball Anders in the back from Kimba Anders.
Let's find out and let's go to the great Pat summer Ale and John Madden for the call.
Motion in Montana looking up the med one us down this time to Keith Cash. Joe Montana started to carry the ball off and then he's got He's going back into the huddle, so they are going for two.
The super cooltan.
I love Joey, love John, JJ Burden, Willie Davis, keep Cash, Marcus Allen a very fun Chiefs team.
That was the only time he would ever face the forty nine ers. It was also the only time he'd ever faced Steve Young and Joe. Montana's Chiefs got the best of the Niners that day. The Niners would go on to win the Super Bowl, but the Chiefs won that afternoon.
All those legends in that clip, and the clip is still won by Pat Summer all I gotta love the Keith Cash touchdown.
That's all he says.
Takes fun.
Yeah, god so good. I love you here. Keith Cash.
I just looked it up. Keith Cash from I.
Don't know where's the cash from Texas?
His brother Kerry was a great tight end also, and now they got the cash Pod.
Now the cash Pod.
That's right, they beat the Kelsey's cool.
Jim a B On a Thursday.
You hear that music, you know we are taking you.
Across the pond.
Steve Weisch remains there and he will be allowed back after this game, even though it feels like he's been there for a month. Steve, we appreciate your dedication.
To the cause.
Specifically ahead of.
This weekend, it's Jaguars Patriots. Both teams sit at one in five. But if you had to pick a side at this point, is there a storyline or an angle that one of these teams might be in desperation win mode?
Yes, Jamie, and I've been here for a week to have the Jaguars, and that is the team, even with their head coach Doug Peterson and their quarterback Trevor Lawrence said Sunday's game against the one win Patriots is a must win and you better believe it is. I mean, look, you look at the way the Jaguars have played. They lose to a rookie quarterback Caleb Williams last week. They're playing a Patriots team also with Drake made the rookie making his second start.
They can't lose a.
Game like this because, of course it doesn't look well. So Doug Peterson said yesterday that they've just got to be smarter, and he's right. The self inflicted wounds that this team has caused, the penalties, the drop passes, Trevor Lawrence, missing open receivers, and the blown coverages are things that absolutely have haunted this team week after week. So you can't have these type of chronic mistakes. But here's another reason why the Jaguars have got to get back in the win column. Please show their next four games when they get back to the mainland. First off, remember they're not taking a bye. Then they're playing the Packers, the Eagles, the Vikings, and the Lions. Those teams have a combined sixteen and five record before the Jaguars have the buy. Plus, we also know head coach Doug Peterson could be on a little shaky ground, especially if they lose this game and fall to one and six. It's not just this season's record, guys, it bridges back to last season.
That mark would put.
Them at two and eleven before they head back to the States. That's not good when you have that type of losing go over two seasons.
Wait, that is brutal.
I think that schedule officially qualifies itself as a gauntlet over the next four weeks. But you're always winning when you're across the pond, Steve Boys, should we appreciate you get back here when you are done with that game? Omar Ruiz in studio with us for the news.
Omar, how about that next four when the Jags come back?
Yeahoza, NFC North staring down.
It's just hard to believe that they were seven and three at one point and number one seed in the AFC before everything fall aparts, and it's continuing into this season.
Meanwhile, the Saints are getting.
Set to host the Broncos on Thursday night foot well, but New Orleans will be without their top wide receiver for this one, potentially for the season. Head coach Dennis Allen announcing wide receiver Rashid Shahed, the touchdown machine, will undergo meniscus surgery and as a candidate for injured reserve. NFL Network insider Ian Rappaport reporting that Shaheed just needs a meniscus trim. He could return this season, but if it's a full repair, it would.
End the white out season.
Meanwhile, Vikings running back Aaron Jones did not practice on Wednesday as he deals with a hamstring injury, but head coach Kevin O'Connell says he's hopeful Jones will be able to play Sunday against a Lion. What a huge showdown that will be. By the way, Coach O'Connell will join us live in the next hour as Tech Power right off bar and Tom Brady making his first visit to the Raiders facility on Wednesday as an official minority owner of the franchise, as he was welcome with open arms by the Raiders staff. There you see Mark Davis, the owner, also in attendance. Brady now owns five percent of the team. Coming up next, Jamie took him in her Fantasy wide receiver draft and he hasn't let her down.
Ravens Ride receiver Fay.
Flowers joins the show when we come back on Good Morning Football, Ran.
Good Morning Football, there's a pass and look out here.
He goes.
It's say Flowers down the sideline and all the way.
To the Washington twenty yard line.
And he just kept running against the Commanders.
That's Zay Flowers.
He's our next guest here on GMFB.
What's happening, Say, good morning.
Say we could not stop talking about that game last weekend. We wanted to talk about it so much ahead of time during it. After the fact, you guys went out and took care of business against the Commanders. But more importantly, it was a career day for you. How big did that smile of yours get on a day like that where you kept hearing your name called and you delivered.
You know, we just had to be ready.
You know, we practiced this every day and we got We got Derek Herry, we got we got a lot of players. We got Mark Andrews, Isaiah lightly was shot. Baman Charlie call out everybody stepping up and doing their part. So and Lamar make my job way easier. So when your name call, there's not a lot of pressure on you to just do your job.
So I feel like.
Everybody been having good games and I just been the one being able to get open and do what I had to do to get the ball.
Zay. We're sitting there watching that game.
We're texting each other at halftime and like, I think Jay is gonna have three hundred yards in this game.
He's gonna do a Calvin Johnson. What the hell?
And then it just disappears. It's like Todd got your name? Your name is Zay Flowers. What happened in the second half?
Man, I thought we're gonna set records.
I mean, we fed the key.
You get him the ball?
Hey, no, they dropping back for the past. You give it a twenty two. Nobody want to tackle him running full speed. So I ain't mind letting Derek take over that second half and let other guys do what they had to do to make because win. So I had fun at first. My smile was going, and we let the Key take over the second.
You know, you gave your guys, I mean a lot to be excited about. But you guys started the season oh and two, and then you guys go on this amazing win streak four games. You guys have this game against the Buccaneers. What was the turnaround? Like, how did you guys turn that around? What was the locker room mindset? Starting off at oh and two and then now to where you guys are today.
I mean, I feel like we had the same mindset the whole time. We just you know, the old line was getting used to each other. We had a new defensive coordinator, and this was our second year in the offense, and we ain't play in the preseason with each other. So once we got to feel for each other and once we knew everything and the offensive line got a better feeling of playing with each other.
That we was going to start clicking.
It was only a matter of time before that happened.
You know, coaches can go off like on that Monday morning meeting, you know how they go off on us?
Right?
Was coach throwing stuff around?
Was he like calling guys out?
Like?
What was it that just lit a fire on to you guys? Because you're right, you guys are a different team.
I mean, we practiced the same way, we did everything the same. Coach Hart's actually came in and just talked about what we could have did better.
And we felt like we.
Beat ourselves in those first two games. So it wasn't really oh, this team did this to us, or they beat us this way. I felt like we just beat ourselves, and we knew once we got rid of those penalties and mistakes that we was going to have a good run.
Zay.
I love going to Baltimore and watching games in that building. There is such a vibe, There is such a rooted history from different eras that just bleeds into these games. Take a second to talk about the Ravens fans, because I think that, you know, we talk about the Steelers and the Cowboys as these national brands, but there might be no more passionate fan base than what is.
There in Baltimore.
And oh yeah, really, how you guys feed off them in the second half of that game.
I think, yeah, we do got a passionate fan base. Because I'll tell you one story we was in. We was at the forty nine Ers last year on Christmas I think it was, and they was doing a national anthem, and doing a national anthem, Avens fans always go oh in the middle of it, oh, And I turned and looked at my coach. I'm like, they loud and he was like, yeah, that's our fans, And I was like, well, that's crazy.
I ain't know they traveled like that.
So ever since then, I see how passionate they've been for the team, and even when we're home and away, it still feel like a home game.
Yeah, three thousand miles away too, in San Francisco on a holiday.
It's incredible. And the Ravens fans are electric, and you know they love number eight. They love Lamar.
Say, we've been watching Lamar play since you were in high school in Florida.
We've been watching this for a long time. I think it's really interesting that we still don't know a lot about him.
He lives a private life, and we know about homes and Rogers and Alan and all those guys. Is there something about Lamar that you could share with us that we may not know as a guy as a person?
Like, what's he like? Tell us something in the manner?
Here, clown?
For real?
Here, clown. He'd liked to joke around a lot.
But he looks serious. But he joke around a lot. Here, clown though, for sure?
HEYZ give a story or no, I.
Want to give a little story on Latmar or something. Let me see what story.
I got a story that was funny?
This? Yeah, may be on the plane.
Oh no, it is.
It's just it's just like the stuff you do, Like he'll just say something out of nowhere, like just remind you of something from a longer goes. You know, me and him from the same place back at home. So he will remind you of a song. He'll remind you of a dance. He'll do a little dance and that to get your memory going, Like, yo, you remember that. I'd be like, yeah, bro, my big brothers.
Used to do that.
And it'll just be stuff like that.
But he liked to if we play this game where he like knock you, like if you do something wrong. And in the game one time I forgot I think I ran the wrong route in the middle of the game, he's just playing around here, like come in, let me knock you real quick, like knocking over head and my shoulder.
That's cool. Get your head right.
You know who's gotten the whole team right. It feels like at times you mentioned him already. What is it like playing with Derrick Henry The guy was an absolute unit. I'm sure for you to watch in the NFL.
Now he's your teammate.
What's that like.
I'm just glad here on our team because we don't got to tackle them, we ain't got to run about him running at the Hotspez and being that big and just trying to take them down. But having them on my team, it made my job easier and make everybody on the field job easier, and make the route runners be able to run routes. Lamar can hand it off instead of always like pulling in and running. So we've got a lot of options to just go out there and play football the way we want to, and Coach Monkin have been doing a great job of balancing out both of them so far.
Heysay, we go to Ravens and it's always Mark Andrews and now you've got Likely, and you've got Cohler, and you've got Derek Henry in the backfield and Justice Hill. It's always like the receivers are like the last ones mentioned, and yet you guys are having quite a season as well.
What's it like inside that room? Maybe not given the national love of other.
Wide receivers and maybe wide receiver groups that you hear about from thirty one other teams.
I mean, we don't. We don't.
I mean we're passionate about it, because you know, it's like a thing going around saying the Ravens receivers, the Ravens don't have receivers and this and that, but don't have Dereck Henry. So we always had a good Russian game. So it's like you always got to balance it out. And if you're a rushing game, good, you just got to keep going with what you want to you the games.
Yeah, but someone like you have to capitalize and catch the ball and run with that ball after the fact. So congratulations on a career day to use a flowers.
Thank you, great season thus far.
And if it happened to have you on the fantasy roster, you're having a great Jamie.
Talk about it. You're talking business man. We love you. Yes, thank you, thank you boy. Good Jamie drafted you early. Yep.
