Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager and Akbar Gbajabiamila discussing what a win would mean for Aaron Rodgers and the New York Jets on Thursday Night Football vs. the New England Patriots. Peter tests everybody with NFL Trivia and then the Honeybadger, Tyrann Mathieu joins the show and talks about how he’s made it 12 years in the NFL, he shares why the Saints offense has been so explosive, and he reacts to the original report about him before the NFL draft.
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It's Thursday, September nineteenth.
We're live here in Los Angeles and New York City. This is off Bar Baja Biavilla. I'm Jamie her at All. That's Peter Schrager, That's Kyle brand akbar. Are you slowly but surely understanding the cadence of our show. Tuesday's Angry Runs YEP, Wednesday's fab Five, Thursdays Shrager Trivia, Shregs.
What do you have on tap for us today?
So many good matchups this weekend. We are going back in the history of books and we're going to have the NFL Films Archives assist us. We're going to give you some great trivia previewing some of the matchups that you'll see this weekend. Jamie, I can't wait. We got a game tonight that's actually a beautiful and I'm.
Very excited to see that Peter's here today. I was a little nervous. I thought that he was going to announce his sun retirement to run the basketball program at his alma mater, Emory University. Peter, we love you, we missed it and everything, but maybe this is the last show for Strakes.
I'm going to be yeah, I respect Woj and I think he's a wonderful insigner. I'm going to do my best to stay on this show for at least the reminder of the episode Let's go.
Every We all know that feeling, though Woch just says I'm gonna throw this phone into the ocean and move along with my life.
But like he just keeps going with basketball. We love that for Woj. We respect Woj. Nice job, Kyle, good shout out to start the day. Aaron Rodgers. I don't know if there's.
Ever a woje bomb with Rogers, We'll just go to the Jets who had the source WOJ bomb.
No, probably a schefter or rap sheet.
Actually is set to make his first start at MetLife Stadium since last season, when he lasted just four plays. We certainly all remember it. Half of the table was at the game to see it happen. It was really heartbreaking for the Jets at all the expectations last season. Earlier this week, though, Rogers was asked if getting another chance to play in front of this home crowd will feel emotional.
It's always emotional. If you love the game, is always emotions. So there'll be an emotion this week as there always is during the anthem and seeing our crowd and night games and the excitement driving up to the stadium and seeing the tailgate happening. So it's always fun.
It's always fun.
But it is a short week for the Jets and for a forty year old quarterback, it is a night game at Jet Life. Peter, when you think of the entire package for this game, what do you think tonight will mean for Rogers?
Yeah, it's incredible.
The emotions are going to be high, both for Aaron and for the Jets fan base. I would like to take the pulse of the Jets fan before coming on before one of their primetime games. I've got a good friend Danny Glazer, great guy's got the lot e tailgate going on. His boy Dennis. The kabob guys already getting the kabobs going. This is what they do, this is their ritual, and there is this.
Eerie calm going into tonight.
Two Patriots linemen are out, Juwan Bentley is out, Patriots just got beaten. If ever, there was a window for a Jets home opener to end up okay and without some catastrophic ending, it feels like this evening, however.
They're always is doubt.
The Jets haven't beaten New England at home since twenty fifteen. Robert Sala's never won a game on a short week. The Jets are playing their third game in eleven days. Oh and the last time the Jets went on a Thursday was Week nine in twenty seventeen. They have lost the last six Thursday games since. Rogers's gonna be full of emotions, you.
Know, Ackbar spoke about it yesterday.
Is there a post traumatic feeling to this that, Hey, the last time I was on this carpet, the last time I was on this field, the last time I saw these bright light in this building, my entire career was put in jeopardy after just three snaps of a football.
All that stuff is hovering.
And yet the Jets, this game is for them, This game is for them to take this one. This game is for them to go two in one, get a nice little lead on the Patriots in the division, and to.
Put aside all of those Ghosts once and for all.
I want Danny to enjoy this game. I want Dennis the Bob guy to enjoy this game.
And I want to.
See the Jets fans go in there with clear eyes and a clear head.
But gosh, I've been covering this league too many years to say it's just gonna be clear and easy and be a thirty eight to nothing victory. Gerrodmeo's guys are gonna fight that Patriots team looks at that logo across and sees a Jets team that they have owned the last decade, and I assure you this one will be a battle to the very end.
Oh Okay, the matchup is gonna be good. I mean, I really do think this is going to be a really good matchup for Thursday night football game. Aaron Rodgers can feel comfortable. I know that this a place where he got injured coming back here, but he's played two full games already.
He's good.
I mean, he's been pressured thirteen times, he's been hit six times. Then you take a turn around, he's been sacked three times and he's not on the injury report, So that's a good thing. I think tonight is a great opportunity for the New York Jets to go two and one and get a divisional win. That's huge for them now, especially from last year when you think about that, they finished the season seven and ten. If you start the season, I think you guys would appreciate this. Statistically, if he starts the season two and one, that's a playoff chance of fifty five percent, rather one and two give you a twenty five percent chance. So this is something that the Jets haven't done in a very long time. They haven't been to the playoffs in a very long time. So this gives them the opportunity to get this win and increase their odds of getting to the playoffs.
Yeah, listen, we can talk a lot of Rogers. If they lose this game, there's gonna be a lot of crap going on. That's just strictly winning loss to the Patriots whatnot. I was there last year and I remember being in the area and it was such a huge deal. It was bigger than a football game. It was Roger's debut for the Jets. I would say, I do want to go, I want to go, and I got down there and I got to be down like kind of around the tunnel and everything, and I remember being like, I just want to go for the opening. Maybe I'll stay for a quarter and then I can go home, go to sleep, do the show the next day. I don't even care about the game. I remember he went down. I was standing next to a group of first responders on nine to eleven who had held the flag that day, and I remember the second he went down, this firefighter next to me goes, oh, he's done. Look at him. He's done, And I go, what do you mean he's done? And he was right, he was done. The image I will never forget from that night, and we go all full circle.
Now.
I leave the game shortly afterwards. I want to come home, get ready for the show. I just wanted to check him with the game. I leave, and since there had been crazy weather that night, if you remember, like huge storms and everything, there was a lot of people coming in late. There was a full family us father, a mother, a son, and a daughter, and the daughter was on the father's shoulders and they were coming into the game late. All four of them had brand new green number eight Jets jerseys on all for them. They bought him for the family, and they're coming in having no idea what happened. The play had already happened. The injury, it had already happened. They're coming in late. They didn't even know. And they were still so excited to see the Aaron Rodgers Jets. They would never see him play. They would never see him play that night, they would never see him play the entire night. It was a loaded emotional night for fan bases and families and hope and disasters and dreams all this time later, guys, it's gonna be okay, all right, I don't think that this is some massive sentimental return. I think the big deal was his return to the field in week one. I really do. I think him getting back on the field and he plays in primetime and then he plays week two, Week three. Guys, it's a football player who got injured. It's a football player that's been injured before. There's been other players injured before. There's another players injured early before. Let's not keep going on emotionally and like this is Mary Todd retraining to Ford's theater. All right, it's not that bad of a thing. And there is this whole New York paranoia pessimism. We're cursed and we're always happens to the Jets. It's like there's a lot of that going on. He came back, he looks healthy, he looks strong. I know it's the first home game and everything like that, but like, if you believe in that there's some sort of curse about this and it's a doomed night, you believe in wear wolves and nonsense. It's football. He's healthy, he's solid. Be positive about this. This is not some wild, crazy, doomed night for you. He should be fine. The Jets should win. They're better in their home, they have a better roster and a better quarterback. It's gonna be okay. That family go back to the games night again. Those kids, they're a year older. Now, where are the jerseys again? You're gonna see him for the whole game. I really believe that.
Yeah, and for that.
On a personal note, for Aaron Rodgers, this win also means a lot to him because it would be his one hundred and fiftieth win, which makes him sixth of all time for quarter and win. So you know, Aaron Rodgers loves his stats, and so you know that's in the back of his mind too, Like he's going to join another you know, elite group of quarterbacks. So thea good for Aaron Rodgers.
The tricky thing about Rogers is that he might say to the stats don't mean anything to me, they don't bother me, and then after the game he would drop out on you. We're like, well I did join some elite company with a touchdown pass, or he would say this doesn't really mean a lot. It's not going to be emotional. This is football, and then after the game be like, well that was very impactful for me. It's like, we can't really track sometimes where he's taking us.
A couple of things that I don't know.
I can't speak to the psyche of Aaron Rodgers and what this might mean to him. But back to Peter's point where he began with Dennis the Kabob Guy, I think this has impact greater emotional impact on the surrounding supporting cast of people, whether it be Dennis the kabab Guy all the way up to Robert Sola. That is a long line of people that are relying on the success and health of this one quarterback, you know, the idiom elephant in the room or key on your back. I'm going to go cross section here, I'm gonna go. Elephant on your back is the fact that Rogers is coming back to met Life Stadium or Jet Life and like that is heavy.
That is burdensome.
There's a loaded situation happening here with this elephant on your back and a monkey in the room. Is very chaotic, it's very unstable. You can't get control of it. Everyone's emotions are all over the board. This is a ridiculous situation a year in the making.
I just want to get it over with.
At this point, we already got past the first four snaps. It was so funny after the Monday night game the Jets forty nine ers, they had George Kittle up on the set. ESPN did and even Kittle asked during the highlight, why does that play?
Why does that say? Four snaps into the game. It's like bum boom boom.
It was four snaps in the Rogers season. And he didn't get hurt. He got past it. It was like, man, just let's just move a past all of these you know, hurdles if you will, and then you know, we can move on with the rest of the season. If I was anywhere from Dennis the Kabob guy, up to Robert solid I love Kebob, so a lot of attention will be given Rogers in the return, and rightfully so. As we take another look at a key figure, and Peter mentioned this Robert Sala, the head coach. Peter, that blew my mind. Sala never won on a short week. What does a win tonight mean for the Jets head coach?
Yeah, I mean this is this is a guy who is in the crucible right now. And after Week one was talking that his team was completely unprepared for that San Francisco offense. Whereas Kyle Shanahan knew Sala's defense and said, oh, well here's how you beat it, Jordan Mason.
Da da da dah. We do it and we get it figured it out.
I look at this thing with Sala now, and it's there are a lot of ghosts of Jets pass, not just even his past Jets past. I know Belichick's out on the other sideline, but the Jets don't beat the Patriots.
Go beat the Patriots. I know that that.
There was Zach Wilson, and it was Tim Boyle and whatever.
Host of characters.
The last few years.
The Jets don't win on Thursdays, go win on a Thursday. I know that the Jets have this history of just you know, thinking it up at home.
These home over go win like this could silence a lot of people.
Everyone says the Jets will be as good as Rogers and Sala takes and we know Rogers, if he's healthy, is gonna be Rogers.
But what the heck is solid? Look at his record, look at all this stuff.
You're up two one, You're going into October maybe three in one.
It's a whole different script.
We're talking contract extensions, we're talking optimism, we're talking you're not the butt of jokes in this city, but rather a.
Guy that people rally around.
I know he hasn't lost that locker room yet, but that fan base, they're still not sold on Sala. So a big win tonight in front of them where they don't go home disappointed for one of the first times in a long time in a primetime spot.
Well, the Jets fans, they need an entry point for their ranker and their hate. They need someplace to put it. So if you just look at the battlefield, like the roster's really good and talented. You have the quarterback, now, who is Rogers where do I put this. I can put it at ownership. I don't know the GM. Again, the roster's really good. I let's go to the coach. Let's go to the coach who is bold and and muscular and outspoken and is a big target in the media. So let's go after him. And it's again, I don't know that Robert Salah can't win these games. He just hasn't. Like, he just hasn't been the guy I know. I've seen Rogers win massive games since I feel like I was in college. Robert Sala hasn't done it. And so it's like, believe me, this Patriots team is tough, and they run and they play good defense. If they win this thing twenty to seventeen, I think the newspapers tomorrow will have the coach because he's the entry point. And that's not even his fault. That's just the deal here. So he's needs some wins. He needs a wins tonight.
Jets are favored against the Patriots for tonight. They have not done so since twenty eleven to be favored going into the game, which, to Peter's point, just go out there and take your business and then we'll be talking about you in a different light tomorrow morning.
What's up everybody, and let's get into this one at Shriker's NFL Trivia. It's a preview of this weekend's matchups, but we do it through the lens of the history of when these two teams in the past. It's for us at the table, it's also for you at home to play along.
Let's have fun. Let's go in ochbar Europe first.
Okay, let's go.
Saints take on the Eagles this weekend.
In nineteen ninety three, the Saints hosted the Eagles for a highly anticipated NFC wild Card game in the Superdome. Achbar, I ask you which Eagles defender silenced the Superdome with a playoff game ceiling pick six in the second half. Was it a Seth Joyner?
Was it B.
Eric Allen?
Was it C.
Clyde Simmons?
Or was it D.
Reggie White?
Akbar, Let's go okay, Uh, definitely not Reggie White.
I don't I don't know, that's not it.
Clyde Simmons. In nineteen ninety three, I was in eighth grade. I'm not sure that I actually remember the only name that I recognized that could be an interceptor guy would be e Allen. So I'm gonna go Eric on this one. He's got beautiful eyes. By the way, that's just a su he does.
Great looking, Yeah, great looking guy, great looking cornerback.
Two? Was it right?
Let's go to Merrill Reese, the radio voice of the Philadelphia Eagles.
Take a listen, and let's hear who got the pick six?
Second and ten Saints at the wrong fifteen back goes a bear again under her lust, he intercepted and running in for a touchdowns Terra Allen. And now we'll tell you that this is Belva. The Eagles are heading for Dallas. Thirty five to twenty. The Eagles have blown the loop off the super Dome.
The Eagles up blowing.
The loop off the super Dome.
Donner, Wow, that was a straight off of name just.
You ready? Eyes yep and the eyes.
Whatever works man.
That pick six kept off twenty nine.
Straight points scored by the Eagle as they would win thirty six to twenty, giving the Saints another year where they hadn't won a playoff game after that, But the Eagles would then get blown out by the Cowboys the next week. But we're on the board Akbar's got one Hey in the books.
Jamie, Oh, thank you, Kyle. Some great emotional summers.
Keep it going, okay.
The Colts and the Bears famously squared off in Super Bowl forty one, and the Bayton Manning won the MVP. I ask you which player ran the ball twenty one times for one hundred and thirteen yards and has many NFL fans saying, even now, many years later, probably should have won the MVP. Was it a Dominic Rhodes? Was it B Joseph and Dye?
Was it C?
Edger and James or was it d our former colleague Marshall Fack.
I feel like you're trying to beat me with the popular names that I won't take the bait. I like to fight against the green. A lot of people might have that argument. P MVP's a quarterback award, so we got to give to a quarterback. I'm not gonna go C or D because that's what I'm trying to be baited with. I know it's a popular name, but that's I know, Peter. I'm thinking like a producer. It's either A or B. I have no I know Joseph Dye, right, I remember the name, not like I recall watching him, I'm gonna go, b.
I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go Joseph Dye.
Joseph and Dye had ten catches in that game.
He was awesome. He had ten receptions. He wasn't the guy who tolded the rock though. That was Dominic Rhoades. Let's go to Dominic Rhoades. He led all ball carros for the game. Bears running back Thomas Jones had a good day too, but this was the Dominic Rhodes game.
On one hundred and thirteen yards.
He came out there, he had a huge day for the Colts and it was roads and a die. Now, Peyton did have two forty seven and a touchdown, but he also threw an interception. But when it mattered most, it was Dominic Rhodes. Just grin out the yards, a lot of carries, a lot of yards. Jamie, it's all right, we have another shot later in again for you to get back here.
Guess yeah, well, thank you.
I do think you should have won MVP now that I just heard, that's that one.
There you go, there you go, there you go. That was really the new era of like the super MPP is going to be the star. We've had enough of this Larry Brown deal, like we're just gonna get We're not giving it to this backup running back. We're doing it the narrative.
You know, Pigna never won the wet ball, the whole thing.
The Rex Grossman was the Colt MVP that day, Rex gros the wet day and Mother Nature.
Prince, Yeah, the rain happened.
Let's go, yeah, what we got?
Yes, Yes, the Ravens are playing the Cowboys this weekend. The Ravens beat the Cowboys on a Saturday night in Dallas with an eighty two yard touchdown run by the great Lauren McLain.
He toted the ball, he went and did it all right.
Question, is this the night that Lauren mcclan put the Cowboys to sleep? On Saturday evening? In two thousand and eight, the top grossing movie in December of that year. December two thousand and eight was one of these four day four Christmases b Australia c role models or d Marlee and me think about Laurron McLean, yeah, and then go from there.
Well, McLean a good name for Christmas. Australia was a disaster. They thought if we just get Jackman and Kidman and bring him out there and shoot some beautiful scenery and some koalas. It'll be a big disaster. I have a weird memory about Marley and Me and Marley and Me. If I'm not mistaken, and sometimes I am. I believe it was released literally on Christmas Day. I think it came out of December twenty fifth, two thousand and eight, and everybody flocked to it. And it's puppies, and it's based on the novel, and Aison was cooking and on Wilson was cooking, and even though it only came out at the end of December, it wouldn't have the whole month with which to grow money. I think Marlee and Me blowing up on Christmas Day and then carrying out the rest of December is going to carry the day here. I think it's Marley and Me, although knowing Peter, he likes those whack comedies, it might have been role models. That might be why you picked thing. I don't think Rouse is a big hit. I'm gonna go Marley and Me big time. Little Puppy sat on it.
Not Stifler, mclovin and Rudd, not I like I like the movie LARPing.
Yes, what is it called LARPing everything?
Yes? There, you know.
The correct answer is the Marley and Me.
Come on, now, Marley and Me.
Did open on Christmas.
I know, I remember it. I remember this.
It broke the record for the highest Christmas Day opening of all time. It grows in just six days, one hundred and forty three dollars.
Everybody loves dogs.
That's insane.
America loves dogs, and everyone loved that book.
Everywhere on a plane that year.
It was just Marley and Me with the world's worst weeping.
Yeah, I mean it was it. Last chapter stuff, last chapter with hipsco folks.
You know they are on the red carpet.
Come on, Marley and Me.
You nailed it.
Yeah, I know it. I'm two for two this year, and then I got last week as well. It's good, Thank you very much.
All Right, we're.
Gonna wrap it with a question that we're all going to weigh in on.
Okay, and the order is gonna go as follows.
It's gonna go what was that counterclockwise or clockwise. We're gonna start with Jamie. We're then gonna go Acbar. Then we're gonna go Kyle then we're gonna go to me. All right, The Chiefs take on the Falcons this weekend.
If you're thing Chiefs Falcons history, is there any Listen?
The last time the Chiefs played the Falcons in Atlanta was in week thirteen, twenty sixteen. Okay, let's start a little play on our monitor here. Let's show it, and then we're gonna ask you what happens on the play.
Here is where we're at on the field. We have this cool aerial cam. You've got Matt Ryan at quarterback, a man in motion.
We'll stop the camera there. Here are your choices, Jamie. We start with you, what happens on this play. Julio Jones goes for a sixty three yard touchdown reception. Eric Berry goes for a pick six touchdown interception return. Mohammed Sanu throws a pass to Julio Jones or Matt Ryan scrambles for a seventy five yard touchdown run.
Jamie, we'll start with you, then akbar then Kyle.
Okay, I'm gonna go be Eric Barry, and after the fact, when I'm right, I'm gonna tell you why I know I'm right.
Okay, all right, So it looked like they were in cover two there. I'm gonna imagine that they did some sort of uh little toss to Mohammed Sanu. Sanu then did some freaky thing and tossed it uh to pass it to Julio Jones. That's just my guess, okay.
I remember Eric Barry did have a pick six of Matt Ryan at one point, because Matt Ryan had just come on the show endorsing Dan and Yogurt, and we made jokes the next day that his least favorite yogurt fivor was Barry television. But I feel like it was on the other end of the field. I remember the play. So just hoping that acbar is right. I'm gonna throw in because Mohammed Sanu is the greatest non quarterback passer of all time. And I say that due respect to Walter Payton. Nobody can chuck it like Sanu. So I hope there's a highlight of him doing so.
All right, So Jamie says Eric Berry pick six the Tennessee legend. You guys both say Sanou out of Rutgers to Julio Jones. Let's go to the actual call, Dave the director take it away.
Oh, it's the Barry Damn Landa.
Has the Walter on twenty five, ran out of the shotgun.
Where's guy?
He's at the twenty five Ericlana hit the fift town talk touched up, turns Old City on the giant mistake quite many Ice Ryan who gets hard with the pick six.
Near the end of the second cutter.
Okay, thet game, I was there, so use the Greg Gumbel play by play. You didn't use the trend three and analysts.
You use the radio call as the trick.
But if anyone is wearing a red leather jacket, which I knew was safe that day because Falcons got the red and the Chiefs got the red.
Then I'm safe on the sideline. But you would have.
Seen me as Eric Barry ran by me. And that was the year he came back into playing. It was like an amazing story, and I had the postgame interview with Eric Barry was so great.
So thank you Peter for the tea up.
Whoa that was cool.
Well, Eric Berry a kid, a local kid goes back to Atlanta after overcoming cancer and pick six against the Atlanta Falcons and Jamie Erdall on the sideline.
Can we run it back.
One more time, Dave, can we run that one more time? What sideline were you on?
Jamie?
Do you remember?
I don't, right, I can't recall you know what, Peter, if it was?
When was it in the game? Can't Was it late?
Second half?
Second half?
You know, like the classically trick. I'm trying to set up for a postgame interview. Maybe I'm trying to hedge my bed.
Not late.
Okay, let's see it.
Let's see if we can watch the sidelines go full screen here, get rid of me and Jamie. Let's say if we can get Jamie Ertle on a red jack of the sideline.
You know that's a photographer. I think I'm on the game.
I know there's actually I'm gonna find it. What is it, Jiff for Gift, whatever it is, there is a funny Jiff for Gift.
Of me from that game doing a little dance. I'm gonna find it and we'll pull it up all little.
You probably would have been camera side, right you probably?
Oh you were. I mean you just circle, You're just constantly circling. So yeah, thanks Peter Man. What a memory.
I forgot it.
Job, thank you, Joe got it.
It's weird to see Chiefs highlights from just before the Mahomes. Yeah, that year, it's not going to work out for them, but soon.
The help was coming, which is why on the NFL and CBS was assigned to it because it was not a Mahomes game yet. That's why Shrager, we love it. Coming up next, Tyron Matthew. Tyron Matthew joining the show. He knows a thing or two about fig six running it back. We love the honey Badger. He's coming on GMFB.
Wait, clean quarter of football.
You see what they can make of it.
Start here and a double cover j It's a pick. Tyron Matthew gets him an interception.
I mean he's been making those plays since he came into the league.
Tried to force the ball.
To lamb a bit.
Tyron Matthew knows exactly like where he's at and comes down with a back to back turnover. That's just what he does. It's what he does. This is one of the best football players in the League's on a two to oh team and one of the most exciting, one of the most watchable football players pound for pound ever. You know him, you love him. We got him. Tyron Matthew from the New Orleans say, how we doing.
Good morning, Good morning guys.
It's great to see you. It's crazy though, Tyron, and I know you relate to this. The honey Badger is in season twelve. How the hell did that happen?
Man, Man, I don't know. You know, a lot of hard work, you know, I've always been surrounded by some great teammates that just inspired me. You know, coaches as well. So there's been a lot of people that you know, they're the reason why you know, I'm still you know, playing you know this game.
Yeah, man, I gotta ask you, Tyran man, because the other side of the ball of your offense scored ninety one point bro, like in two games. You know, you see them every day in practice, you know, tell us what's making them so successful right now?
Well, I think everybody is just bought in, man.
I think that entire group, you know, from the offensive line, you know, all the way to skilled players outside. I think all those guys are just really inspired right now. And you know, I think that they know that that that it's a great system, right and I think all those guys are just you know, like I said, excited about it.
Look I look at this team. And it's not just offense. It's not just Derek Carr. You guys are doing it on defense also. And it's not these young you it's the Mario Davis, it's Cameron George. Like you guys all stuck around and said, we're not done with this yet.
We're not.
We're not rebuilding.
We still have it.
Talk about what's going on in that defensive room because I love the mix of young and old and the veterans and the youth, and you guys are leading the way.
Yeah, man, I think it's a it's a good mixture of young guys, you know, older guys. I think our coaches do an outstanding job. And I think defensively for the Saints, man like like, we just have a certain way that we want to play the game. And you know, I think these first couple of weeks, you know, we've been able to display that tarn.
One of my favorite things that I used to love when you're at LSU, when you've played in the NFL, is just your personality that comes out on the field, especially when you.
Make an electric play.
We're seeing some stuff from your quarterback recently that I, for one, have really jumped onto.
We got him talking smack to J. C.
Horn.
He's like, I had three touchdowns specifically on you. He's doing the Michael Jackson in the end zone in Dallas. Speak about your quarterback please and his behavior recently.
Man, he's feeling good.
You know, he's playing confident and you know, like I said, Man, I think as a team, you know, we just inspired. We put a lot of work in this off season, and you know, I think we recognized to that man like like we all we got right like and you know, so I think that ability to just continue to just gel and bond with each other, I think that's a big reason why you know, we're all feeling, you know, pretty confident, you know going forward.
It's been the coolest story of the first couple of weeks, and I know you guys want to continue that.
Tyron.
I've followed you on Twitter for years and I feel like you kind of tweet like you play like it's very emotional, very passionate, and like you're very team oriented. There's a tweet that you had that caught my attention. So let's just bring this up because I mentioned earlier you season it makes us all feel old. I can't believe it. Just finish my twelfth minute camp. I'm about to rerun my draft profile.
Lol.
So, Tyron, we did the work and we got the draft profile right here. I'm just gonna give you some gems and we can react to them. So, Tyron Matthew coming into the draft quote he can get pinballed around in a crowd like a JV player, average straight line speed for his size, and maybe the riskiest player in the entire twenty thirteen draft. We're twelve seasons later, You've been an All Pro, You've been a Super Bowl champ, You're still at the top of your game. What's it like to look back on that and hear those soundbites?
Man, it's funny. You know, I think, no, not everybody really knows you. And I think me as a football player, not many people were able to understand me. And you know, when I came into the league, you know, I thought it was so many questions, but you know, I thought the main question was I don't think people really took into account how much I love football and how much I was willing to commit to the game and really give to the game. And you know, I think that along with you know, playing with great players and coaches. Is a big reason why I'm still playing this game to date. It's because, you know, genuinely in my heart, man, like like I owe this game, you know everything, and I'm still in love with it. And so, you know, I look back on that now and I say, man, those people don't really they didn't really realize how much this game, you know, really meant to me.
Yeah, and you've not only fulfilled expectations, you've exceeded them. And I think everyone at home watching is like, oh, that guy's been a fixture in our living rooms for the last decade, nearly a decade and a half. Look, we showed your interception against Dallas a few minutes ago.
That was the thirty fourth of your career.
But I want to show you the first interception of your Yeah, I want to see if you remember this play and if you could take us through it. Of course it's ironic who it's against, but take us through. Do you remember picking off Drew Brees and it was that Devreie Henderson who you're covering on that.
One that was that was actually that was actually Lance Moore on that place, Yeah, Lance Moore. About two plays before that, I got a pass in the Paris call. I actually like jumped a slant route like two or three plays before this, and I said, man, like once they get once they crossed the fifty, I was like, man, I knew they're gonna try to take a shot, and so I just stayed on top of Lance on that play, uh and just came down with it. Now we got beat really bad that day, but it felt good to pick off Drew Brees, you know, uh, in front.
Of my hometown crowd.
You know, I'm looking at the names there. You've got You've got Lance Moore.
I'm seeing Kenny Stills on the field, like this is a moment in time, and you were on those Bruce Arians Cardinals teams.
Like, I'm a lot of nostalgia.
Patrick Peterson on the other side, like, very cool to see this.
And you have that ball?
I do I still have that ball.
Actually, I have all my interceptions balls, so I tried my best to keep them off. So yeah, man, my my pool, my pool table room is like field with balls.
Well, maybe maybe you'll add one in this next game. I know you're you're looking and you've seen probably a lot of film and I'm sure you watch what happened to the Eagles on Monday night? Now, in your experience, what is it like preparing for a team who's coming off of a crushing loss like this? I mean you could take advantage of them in any which way, right, But are you going in with this mindset like we're going to make sure we keep them pin down?
Yeah? Absolutely.
You know we're at home, you know, we're in front of our crowd, our fans, and you know we want to play. We want to continue to play our best ball. And you know, we know that Eagles are a competitive team. They're a really good team, and you know, good teams don't like losing two games in a row. So we know that those guys are going to come in, you know, with their.
Hair on fire.
They're gonna be ready to roll, you know, and get that bad taste out of them mouth, and it'll be a good game. I think both these teams, you know, we match up, you know, pretty evenly, and you know it's really going to come down to, uh, you know, defense, right, and how can we take the football away and what type of fail position you know we can give our offense. So I think defensively, man, we're just looking forward to a great challenge. Sae Quan is playing great, the offensive line is still humming, and so we recognize that, you know, we're gonna get that best shot, you know, especially from those guys best players.
Tyron, When I asked you this next question, I don't want you to think that I'm baiting you into making some proclamation about the Saints in Week three.
I just am curious for you what it feels like.
Good?
Okay, okay, good, okay, good? But when?
But when you think that the super Bowl is being played in New Orleans, when you think that you are a native son of New Orleans, you went to LSU, and now the big Game is being played there in February, how much does it mean to you and to your family and your teammates, are the team and the fans that this game is coming to New Orleans and what I I feel like to play in it?
Yeah, I mean, you know, like if you ever been to New Orleans, like you, you recognized early on that like we love to celebrate, we love to have a good time, and so I think the super Bowl being in New Orleans again is just great for the community. You know, we got a lot of great people here. You know, we know how to have fun, We know how to party right, and so you know, we we look forward to you know, you know, just being hospitable, you know what I mean. And you know, uh, you know, I played in two super Bowls, won one, you know, and I recognize, like man, like that it takes so much work, like everybody has to be bought in and you have to be playing your best football at the right time. And you know, so even though we're off to a great start this season, I would like to see us just continue to get better and hopefully you know, hit our peak in November, December, January, you know, because like like, the teams that play well all in those areas are the teams that are really going to have a chance to you know, play for the trophy. But yeah, I mean, it'll be an honor, uh to to be able to to make it that far. But I recognize too, like man, it's it's a lot of work and it's a lot of time between you know, week three and you know, the super Bowl.
It's a great answer, and I'm gonna push you for one more before we say goodbye. You talked about buying, You talked about hard work, Tyron. Let's talk about you and media. Man, you went to the broadcast boot camp and you did it, and you you kind of set yourself up and then you tweeted like you got a whole new appreciation for I don't know, frankly, what we do. Dude, How was that because you can do this after you want to play?
What was it?
Like? That was eye opening?
You know, I think being able to you know, call games, being able to be in.
The studio doing radio, like you recognize it's a lot of work.
That you know, that that that that people put in, you know, just to talk great about us and to tell great stories and you know, so yeah, man like, it was so fun. Like my brain was somewhat fried towards the end, but man like, it was a great experience. I did a lot of my segments with Logan Ryan and honestly, I'm still playing.
But it's amazing to see.
Him on TV now, like calling games, you know, and you know, just a couple of months ago, we were like nervous, you know, in the green room, you know what I mean, getting ready to do that.
So it's fun. It's fun. It's fun to see you.
Already know that there's a green room. That's where you hang out. Tyrone Matthews, stay well. We love having you on the show. See this weekend.
Good luck, thank you, let me turn
Out, thank you, John Man.