NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Thursday Hour 2: Rams future, Davante Adams talks, and Nate Tice
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with tonight's Vikings/Rams matchup. Hosts Sherree Burruss, Peter Schrager, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Manti Te'o explore the possibilities of the Rams looking at trades depending on tonight's outcome. How does the table feel about Davante Adams delivering a fiery speech to his new teammates? Nate Tice drops by to explain what has Caleb Williams and the Bears rolling. Plus, Mike the Miz joins the table to talk about the Browns and Jameis Winston starting this weekend.
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Welcome to Good Morning Football, brought to you by Old Trapper Beef Jerkey. It is a Thursday. We are here in Los Angeles, also in New York City alongside Mantown Teo at the table Akwar Baja Biamila. I am Shery Burris. That is our good friend Peter Schrager and Shregs. It is an exciting night because we are starting finally week eight here Thursday in Los Angeles.
We got a game tonight on Amazon that is going to be between the Vikings and the Rams, and there's a certain sense of urgency for both teams. The Vikings of course dropped that game that we had so highly anticipated against Detroit, and in the Rams they won, but they're in the headlines for other news.
Shery, I'm excited for this game already, all right.
Thankfully there was no traffic coming in for the game. Across the street, we're gonna start a little game we love to play here called three and out on a Thursday. Three topics you go around the horn. We're gonna start across the street. Viking some Rams playing at Sofi Stadium. A lot of rumors surrounding the Rams this week. Want to ask you, guys, what does tonight's game mean for them?
Looking big picture?
But Peter is starting with you also, there's all these questions around Cooper Cup.
Yeah.
Look, I went to the Rams Packers game in person a few weeks back. Sherry Burriss, I believe I saw you at that contest there, and we're walking around the sidelines and there's this little club underneath at so Far called Bootsy Bellows. And I've never seen this at an NFL stadium before, an active nightclub going on during the game. And you know me, I like to fancy myself a big night owl and a guy that can go out there and burn it on both ends. So I dipped in and I walked in and I said, all right, I'm in the club. Things are great, but I'm watching on the field and this ain't the Rams team that I remember when we started talking about them before the season.
They lost to the Packers.
They go on there by and then they beat the Raiders, but they do so in kind of this weird fashion where they base it on their defense and not the offense.
They can't move the ball.
But then we get the news that Cooper Cup's coming back this week, as all the trade rumors are going on.
I look at the schedule and.
It's two and four Rams going up against the five to one Vikings. If Cooper Cup can get on the field and they can find a way to get a win and they go three and four, who knows they be pooka Nkuas coming back quicker than we think. Suddenly they can get four and four with another win. Then you look at the NFC West and it's Seahawks up and down, Niners their own issues, Cardinals sub five hundred? Is it not worth keeping Cooper Cup for at least till the trade.
Deadline to see where we're at?
To me, Cooper Cup was never being traded this week despite all the rumors, and though I am sure there have been conversations with other teams necessarily proactive, I think teams have been calling based on Cupp being a veteran with a huge salary and who can help a team right away.
I think the Rams are not giving up on the season just yet.
In fact, I think Stafford and Cup and the eventual return of Nikuah lifts this entire team. I would not be shocked if the Rams won tonight. They're partying in bootsy bellows and all that trade talk goes away. You're not trading Cooper Cup if you win two straight games and you're looking at the NFC West standings and you're still alive, especially with the fact that they were three and six last year at one.
Point and made a run and made the playoffs.
So a loss.
Tonight we could be talking Cooper Cup trade stuff, and we could do it the entire week leading up to the trade deadline. Win, I'd say put your phones away to that Cooper Cup.
He's going to be a Ram. Yeah.
This is this is a very difficult one because you know, you look at the opposite side of this, Peter. If they lose these two, especially to a five to one Vikings that is playing really good, and we know that's going to be a tall order for the Rams to beat them, even in their home term here right across the street at Sofi Stadium. Then they're going up against you know, we've had the tell of two stories for the Seattle Seahawks, you know, so, but you know they've gotten the coming off of a win. This is a very good team. They're four and three. I think this is difficult for them because if they lose these two games. I don't know that you need to keep Cooper Cup. You're going our season is done. Like at that point, they have nothing. I don't know that they can they can they can manage.
Yeah, that was the buzzer.
You didn't want to say anything.
Man toalk. I left you out. I'm sorry, I forgot that we even had.
A time.
Talk.
Sheese. This is this is, this is what I think.
Bringing Puka in the cool back and Cooper Cup you're you're there, You're almost there, right, So you need somebody and people that can get that ball into the red zone. Once they get into the red zone, that's when Kyrien Williams is almost unstoppable. He's scored rushing touchdowns in every game this season. I believe you just need that help to get into that red zone. And you having Cooper cup back and eventually Pook on the cool back, it's going to give you so many opportunities down there in that red zone to you know, convert them two touchdowns. So just you waited this long, Just wait another week or two and it's gonna be fine.
It will tell the difference. You're right. In two weeks, we'll absolutely nowhere.
Yeah, in the NFC West, they're all they're all in one little group, like they're all one game away from each other. I was looking at the NFC West standings. Seahawks is four and three, Rams are two and four. Everybody in between. The Cardinals and the Niners are three and four.
If they win tonight.
If the Rams win tonight, now you're in third place in the NFC West.
So just wait. Patience is a virtue.
You're fine, Peter, echoing that same sentiment second down. DeVante adams first game with the Jets did not go the way he planned. Speaking to the media yesterday, echoing Aaron Rodgers' statement on lack of energy on the sideline in the loss on Sunday to the Steelers, listen to this.
It's not really my personality to see something that's not right and to just let it go on, regardless of with this from the coaches, players, you know, management, support staff, whoever. So obviously it was it was a lack of energy and urgency out there, and it was appearance, especially coming from you know, I've played on teams that have that winning culture and just basically I just took a moment to let him know. Like I had reservations about speaking up too early and being too vocal too early, but I feel like in my mind I said if that because I need to you know, we don't have time and I gotta do whatever I gotta do to help to stay move forward. And lack of energy. I mean that's a prerequisite to be able to go out there and have a good year or have a good play or you know whatever it is. So in my mind it was something that I wouldn't have been able to sleep if I didn't speak.
Up on it.
Seventeen just walked in the building and said it was apparent. I don't know how much more of a spark they could possibly need. But akbar, what do you think of what Devanta Adams had to say?
Well, first off, I think just to make it clear when he says if that, he means forget that. He doesn't want that, and you know he doesn't want to be a part of that. He's talking about culture right here, but understanding the culture that he's walked into. I don't know any other way to say it. But the New York Jets. They have a losing culture and that's what he's walked into, and he's identifying it, and he's stuck in this hard place where Okay, I'm walking to the vibes ain't right. I see it when you talking about guys on the sideline and somebody scores a touchdown or makes a play and everyone's just kind of sitting in their own place. I think what we have is we have a collection right now of talent. Davante Adams, Hassan Reddick, Aaron Rodgers. It's cool if you got the personnel, but that doesn't do anything for changing culture if you can't get somebody to speak up and be a vocal leader and hold people accountable. I like what Davante Adams is doing here. He's calling everyone out and he's making sure everyone's accountable to bringing up the energy, because energy is real.
Let me give some context here too.
So Breis Hall has this amazing play in the game, and what Adams was talking about was he was disappointed with the lack of celebration on the sidelines, the lack of energy and juice. After Breese Hall has this huge play for the touchdown that should get the entire sidelines fired up in a game that they needed, and he looked around and the guys were kind of like ho hum.
So apparently, and this comes from.
Jets sources, in the game, they lose historic fashion thirty one straight points.
They give up.
They go to the locker room and there's.
DeVante Adams giving a fiery speech.
He had just.
Gotten there Tuesday morning, doesn't know some of these players, and he's the one chewing out the team and he's the one motivating them.
And it was.
Apparently a very inspiring speech. And that's the story.
It's wow, you just got here and you're serving as that veteran leader.
I love it.
I think he's got the skins on the wall to do it. He's been a veteran of the league for a while, but I'm not sure if it's enough to save this team now that they're two and five. Manti, your thoughts just got there?
Yeah, no, I love it. It reminds me when I was with the Chargers, you know, Chargers.
I don't think they've.
Won a Super Bowl yet, but I remember when I was there. We're struggling, you know, and the culture wasn't a winning culture. We're trying to figure out how do we solve this riddle. And we'd sign guys like Jared Johnson and Dwight Freeni and Jacoby Jones and Brandon Meban, And this was an attempt to kind of adopt people from winning cultures to teach a talented roster like ours of what it takes to win. We had Eric Woddle, we had you know, Philip Rivers, Danny wood Head, Keenan Allen. We had a whole bunch of talent on our team. It's just we didn't know what we didn't know. We didn't know what it took to win, like how the Seahawks were winning at that time, like the Baltimore Ravens were winning at that time. We just needed some guidance, and so we would bring these guys in to teach and to mentor and to stand up in front of the team and say the things that they wanted to say and kind of teach us. That's why it's so exciting for the Charges right now. They brought him the head man, Jim Harball. Why it is because he knows how to win. He knows how to develop a winning culture. And so I like what Devonte Adams, you know brought to that locker room not only in his talent, but in his leadership style and then also his ability to ability to know what winning looks like and what losing looks like and to have the courch to stand up on day two, day three, whatever it was and say, hey, listen, this is what it's going to take. And I ain't going to sit back and watch this thing go.
And I'll just say this, like a two or five team in the last four seasons, they've made a playoff team. So we've seen that. We've seen four teams do that ex season. We've seen a team do that in each of the last four seasons. So it is very possible and I like it. I love it a lot. I think there's an opportunity and a chance.
He did more than just echo Aaron Rodgers message also for twenty years. He told the Athletic Aaron Rodgers said, that was the realist locker room speech he has heard in twenty years.
And to their former.
Head coach, we saw Robert Sala back on a sideline for the first time. He was spotted at Packer's practice yesterday.
Peter.
We know Matt Lafleur, the head coach in Green Bay is very good friends with Robert Sala. What do you think about him showing up in Green Bay?
Yeah, look, let's take a listen first here, because we've got to hear what Floor said about it before we even get to Sala.
We've been close for a really long time. We can shoot your roommates together back at Central Michigan. So we thought it was a good idea just to bring him here. And he's helping us on the offensive side of the ball. I think that's always a good deal to have that perspective, you know, that defensive perspective on that side of the balls. I think it's beneficial on both accounts too, you know, just for him and for us.
All Right, So there was the head coach talking about bringing Robert Sala in defense guy, but also going to be touching a little bit of the offense.
Peter, do you like this idea?
I love this idea.
And it's you know, we talked so much about x's and o's and coaching hiring.
Practically, this is just you know, his boy helping him out.
In a way when Sala needs it. He's down, he's not feeling great, he's in a rut. He gets fired, and Matt Laflour picked up the phone and says, dude, just get back into the locker room and hang with us and mental health wives. This is what you want to see in life, someone who's got your.
Back when things don't go right in your career.
We've got a place for you.
Not only are they friends, Robert Sala's best man at his wedding was Matt Lafleur. They shared an apartment together when they worked as gas at Central Michigan. They go so far that Brian Kelly, who was the head coach at the time, had them in this little corner office and would barely address them.
And the two of them are like two boys, like what.
Do you need?
They go back so deep and so yes, Sala will help with some offensive concepts.
I don't know how much he's going to help on the offensive side of the all. I'm not dismissing that.
I think more than anything, this was for Robert Salah and Matt Lafleur is a good man to say, hey, we got you. There's always a place in my sideline for you, and I'm your boy.
Through thick and thin.
You got a place here in Green Bay.
I love this stuff, man, Peter, you just knocked that out of the park on that brother, because that's exactly what I saw when I saw this whole transaction going down. And you know, find you a friend like Matt Lafleur. Man, that's that's that's the type of friends you need. You know, everybody's going to be in your corner when you're hired to be the head coach for the New York Jets. They're gonna be in your corner when you're having all this success no matter what you're doing in life. But who's going to be in your corner when you get fired? Who's going to be in your corner when you're in rock bottom? Who's going to be there to say, buddy, we're good, let's get together, let's let's have a chat. Come over to our practice, come over to Green Bay. I don't know what you're gonna do. I really don't need you here, but you're my buddy, You're my brother. I just want you to know that I love you, and you always have an ear to listen. I love it again. It's it's it's a good lesson for all of us in this world in society. Man, just be a good friend man, and and and look out for your friends that are really going through some stuff because you never know what people are going through. Obviously we know what Robert Sola was going through with the with the firing, but a lot of people are going through and facing battles that you don't know. So be a good friend, reach out, say hey, bro, let's let's get together sometimes.
So I love it.
Yeah, it's also good business. I mean I love the friendship part of it, but it's also good business when you think about it. The personality of a defensive minded coach is totally different of that of an offensive coach. And offensive coach is like, oh, we can run this play, and they're very like, oh yeah, we can do this, and we can run this dragon, we can run this post. Defensive coach like how we got to defend about that? They're very skeptical. You've been around defensive coaches. Their mindsets are different. So you bring a Robert Salah into on the offensive side, and then as they're drawing up their fancy plays, you have somebody a who can challenge it defensively schematically, and then someone who's also not afraid of challenging because like that's my boy, Like that's my I tell them, I'll tell them his breastank I you know, cause that's my guy. Like we were roommates, you know, we were in a little cubicle together. So you need somebody who's not afraid to challenge your concepts, and who better than to bring in a defensive mind like Robert Sala.
Absolutely, yep, you got to think they're gonna.
Stop buzzing me. I wouldn't even finish was on the buzz.
It was like a warning buzz out.
You better watch out.
The producers are gonna just close your mic. All right, let's get around to some of the news around the league as you look ahead two week eight, bringing in our insider now Tom Peliser here this morning. Tom, do you have a friend who would tell you you have bad breath? First off, and dog were almost bitswater Cooper cut making his return tonight for Thursday Night Football. Tell us more on the latest of that, also that ankle injury.
I've got some good friends.
I can't say I've ever been accused of having sinky breath, but I'm also a big breath mint guy. Toothbrushing multiple times a day. In terms of Robert Sala. I would add two. Don't be surprised if some other friends of Sala also have him in their buildings as this season go on, maybe a week or two in Green Bay. There's other coaches he knows around the league. It's something good for a coach in this position to do, which is get out see how other people do things. Maybe you can help them a little bit along the way as well. All right, let's set up Thursday night football some key injuries to watch as the Vikings take on the Rams. Let's start with Cooper Cupp, who is off the injury report, officially ready to roll back in the lineup for the first time since he suffered his ankle injury back in Week two. That certainly is a huge piece of the Rams offense that they've been missing. Could be the last time we see Cooper Cup in a Rams uniform. He has been the subject of trade talks in recent weeks, but he will be suiting up tonight at Sofi Stadium. As for their other top wide receiver, Pooka Nakoula, who has not played since he's suffered a knee injury back in Week one, they just opened up Nakoua's practice window a couple of days ago, but he's listed as questionable, and my understanding is there is now optimism that Pooka Nikua could play tonight. He's not gonna go out there probably and play seventy snaps.
He's only had one.
Real practice, but he's had a good week. They put him through some things yesterday. I would imagine they'll put him through some more things today. If all goes well, it seems like we're trending toward Pooka Nakoua at least being active for the Rams tonight. As for the Vikings and their tight end TJ. Howkinson, who has not played since his knee injury last season. He liked Pookin Nakua remains on injured reserve. No firm word yet on the status of TJ.
Hawkinson.
They have up until one pm Pacific time today to activate him from IR. My guest, just a guest at this point, is that we do not see Hawkinson tonight, and his season debut waits until next Sunday against the Colts. But again, we've still got several hours to go for final decisions on activating not just TJ. Hawkinson, but potentially pookin Nakua as well.
Sherry.
A lot to wait for and I know Tom you'll bring us the latest. So also, Rams fans, don't give up hope is what we're hearing. We appreciate you, Tom coming up here next WWE Superstar the Miss joining GMFB Awquar.
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Football Bears fan has been filling pretty good for about ten days. They went early in London, had a bye week and they have been riding high. But what is next for Chicago. Let's bring in NFL analyst Nate Tice. We love having on the show. Who breaks it down by hitting the film room? Nate, you look at the tape, which we love having on the show. What does the tape show that backs up Caleb Williams's growth as a quarterback over the first six weeks of the season.
Yeah, with Caleb is not just the physical talent, it's the mental and maturity and playing the quarterback position that's been really standing out. Sometimes we use all twenty two, but sometimes we also need the TV.
Copy to see this.
So we're gonna start with a little friendly interaction. I'll call it between center Coleman Shelton for the Bears and Caleb Williams, and we'll lead on from there.
Come thirty two thirty two, thirty fire man.
So why does Coleman Shelton sell it sound like Bill Paxton and Aliens saying game over?
Game over? Is he thinks this is a run play?
And why Caleb is so calm and why he is saying I got it, I got it?
Is he has answers to detest on this play.
And when you pan back out and watch his play, you can see Caleb Williams not only giving the run play.
You hear him saying thirty two.
Which is the run play? It's thirty two power I'm gonna guess. Then you also see him signaling to Roman Dues at the top of the screen. Hey, running out route here. That's what that little O is. Sorry, Bears coaches, I'm giving away your hand signals. But he's giving a little O here. Run a little quick out route which is bypass the blitz. Don't worry about the run play, don't worry about blocking it. I got the answer here. Not even gonna throw the bubble. I'm gonna signal the out route and solve the answer to this blitz test. But that's what that fire means. Fireman meant fire zone blitz. If you remember Dick lebow back with the Steelers, that's what Coleman, sheheld was saying.
Didn't matter.
Killer Williams had the answer because his maturity, his understanding of the offense is really that advanced level so far.
May you think he's actually showing some vintage Aaron Rodgers househo.
Not just the arm talent.
And again this is just the mental side we see, you know, Aaron Rodgers really doing the sheriff at the line of scrimmage. He really wants to control. Caleb Williams is getting that same control too. So again we're gonna look at another TV copy. The Bears use no huddle at one of the highest rates in the NFL. And this is not just warp NFL warp speed get there no huddle stuff. This is him controlling and hanging huddle and signaling and giving place to the rest of his teammates. So again we're gonna go to another TV copy where you can hear kill about the controls of the offense. So what he is saying there, sticky is it's their term for stick, which is a common concept in the NFL. Again, sorry Bears coaches, But what stick is is you're gonna see a flat route by the tight end and then an out route from the receiver at the top of the screen. So what he is doing here is he is telling the entire offense what to do. He is truly drawing a play up in the sand, using a code word here, but using that code word to get everybody else on the same page. And again, because they use so much no huddle, they are using what healed see the defense and control the offense to get to that play. So you see the flat route, you see the out route from these guys, and when you roll the tape you can see this playing out. And thank god he goes to the top of the screen, by the way, because they run the right route at the top the bottom of the route. Might have got a little miscommunication there working on these things when you get to know huddle, But Again, this is a stick concept, and this is Caleb Williams yelling Sticky Sticky, everybody knows what to do. We're getting the we're getting the defense reeling, running a simple cover, boom hits a nice simple game there from a no huddle situation, creating another first down.
Again, this is very advanced uff.
You don't see professional quarterbacks that were getting paid forty million dollars ever have this control. And this is a rookie in its first month of the season. It's really impressive.
Yeah, it is outstanding by the rookie Sticky Sticky, though they could be a little bit more covert. I mean I could figure that out on defense, right, I know what's going on, Sticky Sticky.
You just twig three by one version of twig.
Yeah or something.
Yeah, you know, I know you think you think we get on it.
Yeah, we've seen him show command. Of course, we're talking about Katle Williams with the pre snap. But after the step what really stands out.
To you man, So this is what gets the highlights. Is not only just the creation stuff. It's and this is where some Aaron Rodgers comparisons come to. It's just the arm talent and the overall sense of calm that Cale Williams plays with. So we're seeing the pre snap process and now we're gonna see in the post snap process. So now we're gonna get back to that sweet sweet Alt twenty two. And this is an empty formation with nobody else in the backfield.
Caleb Williams empty. You have to operate quick as a quarterback.
And you generally hopefully can push the ball, so you don't have the defense clamping down because they know you have to get the ball off quick. Right here you see Caleb Willians seeing the linebacker. He could take the early, easy throw underneath, get a five yard game, no one will be mad at him. Instead, he hangs in there, hits Roman Duze on the inbreaker right as he's passing. The linebacker goes for a huge game. That's a difference between the deficiency and explosiveness. And Caleb Williams, even when he's an empty he pushes the ball. And you see the other guys that are up with him, Josh Allen, Matthew Stafford, Brock Purdy. These are guys that push the ball and can operate intelligently. And this is what Cale can do. So it's not his his physical sense and his physical ability. Yeah, that's going to get you the number one pick. It's this mental side that he's showing off pre and post net. It's extremely mature. It's very, very impressive. But I just got to reiterate how impressive this is to see from a young quarterback in the NFL.
That is impressive.
Breakdown eight.
I feel like I'm a smarter football fan and someone who hasn't played the game, but I want to look at the Vikings. I know you have deep Minnesota ties, so I have to ask you the most important question of the morning, the crossover between Justin Jefferson and Timberable star Anthony Edwards. What did you think with this jersey swap?
I thought the best part was the behind the scenes stuff. You could see Anthony Edwards his you know, if we yell, if we make a shot, all of us non basketball players yell.
Kobe ye, he yelled, he Tony romo, which I thought was amazing.
Not Brady, not payting Tony Romo. He was like, no, I'm a gun slinger.
I love this. So I really liked this jersey swap.
Of course, Moss and KG are going to be guys that I have a deep place in my heart. But then you see, just I hopefully can see this with other combinations. You know, maybe Cale Williams and Counter Bdard. Maybe get a little hockey crossover there, Ronal o'cona and Bejhon Robinson get a little baseball in there.
Or how'd we go?
How we go to Indiango Anthony rich Sin and Caitlyn Clark.
I like that, there we go they a little football and basketball there, two young stars that you know, hopefully we see Anthew Richard's staying healthy and continuing, but Katelyn Clark is obviously a star in all of sports right now.
I like that, Nate, These are all great ideas.
I had Gunner Henderson and Zay Flowers and Kyle very aptly said guns and roses, and I said, we got it, Like, what are we doing here?
That's perfect?
That is what are we doing?
What are we doing?
It's perfect?
Ye?
Their PR team should pay you right now.
Come on, it's all we do, Nate, I got it. I'm being completely honest here. I listen at like the edge of my seat when you're breaking this stuff down.
The sticky sticky.
If I'm the defense on the Jaguars.
I've been playing football my whole life, Like, don't you know that route is coming quickly?
What were your thoughts?
Like?
How can they not adjust in real time?
You can know what's coming. But everybody's got to know that.
And that's why even when you steal signals in college, I was always like, well, you still got to stop it. And I think that's a little bit of that. Also, are they messing with us? Are they is sticky means something else maybe? And the heat and the bolts are flying sometimes I think sometimes defenders are a little hesitanting out. That's acbar you play defense, I know for men out For me, we'll just say it. I'm like, all right, you guys still got to stop the throw. He still got to stop the situation. So I think that's why they have confidence in it. Hopefully I didn't ruin it for him though.
Nate, awesome stuff.
We love love watching your stuff every week here, but we could also find in depth game film over at NFL Pro Nate Tice, thank you for joining the show, my friend.
Thanks for having me.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm Omar Race and Panthers head coach Dave Canalis announcing that quarterback Andy Dalton suffered a sprained right thumb after he was involved in a car crash Tuesday, and the injury is significant enough to keep Dalton out of Sunday's game against the Broncos, which means last year's top overall pick Bryce Young will once again start for Carolina. Young says he's not viewing this as a chance to win back the job on a full time basis. He simply wants to play.
Well, you know, for me, it's just just day, White Day again. I'm not really a huge, big picture, send a message, big thing. Again. I want to do everything I can to be the best I can today during meetings, in practice, and then obviously do everything I can to help the team on on Sunday whatever comes from that. And you know how housings are perceived in the building throughout the World League. That's always stuff, no matter what it is, stuff I can't control. So again, I just want to do all I can to help the team. And oh, that's really where my focus is.
And a couple pieces of news out of San Francisco's wide receiver Debo Samuel has been released from the hospital and was at the team's facility on Wednesdays he recovers from pneumonia. Head coach Kyle Shanahan saying Samuel is doing better than expected and has a chance to play Sunday night against the Cowboys, and Shanahan also saying running back Christian McCaffrey will not return to practice this week as previously expected. CMC still recovering from that achilles tendonitis that's forced him to miss the entire year so far. Shanahan's saying hopefully his all pro running back returns next week.
There bye week, and don't go anywhere.
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We all know that you are a die hard Cleveland Browns fan and you saw running back Nick Chubb get into the end zone in his return last week. How amazing was that for you? How amazing was that for the city, and that, you know, for everybody who were Browns fans.
It's a new season for the Cleveland Brownship. We're going to the super Bowl. We heard it here first, folks, because our heartbeat is back. Nick Chubb has always been the heartbeat of that offense. Now with the rust off, people are like saying, well, you lost with Nick Chubb. He's getting the rust off all right. Now we're a ground and pound team. Now we're gonna run the ball, We're gonna play solid defense, and we're gonna go to the super Bowl. Like woa you asked me two weeks ago, or maybe a week ago we lost Amari Cooper.
I was like, you know what we're done. Let's look to the draft.
Let's find ourselves what we need and figure it all out.
Now I'm looking at it and go, wait a second, here, this is a new lease on life. Let's go. Let's go Cleveland, Let's go Browns.
I brought a championship because we might not win a championship, but you can buy a championship on WW shop.
I bought your own chimpion.
I bought my own customizable championship That's what you do when you're a Cleveland Browns fan and you have this a bit where you're like, you know what, we can do this, we can win this, and then in reality you think, gosh, the Baltimore Ravens are in the EFC North and this is going to be very difficult with Derrick Henry and Lamar Jackson. I mean literally probably gonna be the MVP and Offensive Player of the years.
Wow, well, I mean, am I wrong? No? You're not? Show me who else?
We talked about that a lot on this show. And I know you talked about Nick Chubb coming back and that being a new season. You're you have a new quarterback in Jamis Winston coming back.
What are your thoughts about him back there?
I mean, what's the first four letters of his name? W I n S. The guy wins baby. He likes to eat w's all day long. So whether you like him or you hate him, you know you're going to be entertained by him. And let's face it, he knows how to he knows how to get.
A team behind him, right.
He's he's a quarterback to get a team and lead a team. And that's what I'm most excited about, you know, to see the difference and see what kind of energy he can bring, because anytime he's on the microphone, you know, he brings a good energy. And so it'll be interesting to see if he can just get rid of the interceptions and a little bit more touchdowns.
Yeah, Mike, I'm watching on my you know, Instagram feed, and I just get these old wrestling clips.
I don't know what, the algorithm just knows my interests. And it was.
Hulk Hogan, the Rock and then Cain, and Cain gives this speech that you know, he blows Hogan and the Rock out of the water, and I'm like, this is incredible. That's how I feel watching Jamis give one of these pregame speeches amongst the legends in the NFL. You think it's gonna be other guys, and then Jamis gives one and you're like, you're ready to run through a wall.
Let's listen to one. The magic of the promo King, mister Jamis Winston.
He does about having fun.
Man, sir, remember the time you played the fast.
Football game with your life?
Yes, sir, remember the.
Time after that.
Victor you went to see the pizza.
Maybe a long way back to Cleveland. That's not laid.
Everything. You got all the lots to day.
Let's have a game remain well, I'll remember, let's go, that's my quarterback, quarterback.
Let's go tell the ball off the Nick Chubb.
Let him sore, baby, let's go.
Don't throw. And that's not Miles Garrett on defense.
I mean, my gosh, this team is what you want in a super Bowl caliber type team.
Wow, they cutting promos out there, man, he don't even go to promo class man.
Well you talked about it. Mel Garrett just continues to be a beast. He's really just a physical specimen. When you look at his size, how do you feel like he would translate in the wrestling world? And just how impressed are you when he steps out there on the football.
Oh my gosh, it should have happened at SummerSlam when we were in Cleveland, but it did not. But man, I'll tell you what, just watching him be able to man handle every single offensive line and to the quarterback, it is so much fun to have that type of ability on defense, you know, and as a quarterback, imagine it's probably a nightmare. And he is literally like Jason out there. I mean, we are in the Halloween spirit. So yeah, he's like the biggest villain to a quarterback that anyone can ever see, and it's great to have him on our team.
Do you still take him down even as a Cleveland Brown I.
Don't want to. I don't want I don't want any part of that. You know, I agree, you know.
Like a little fun fact, I was with Miles Garrett south of France this summer and he was working out. He asked me, invited me to come work out with him, and he has his shirt off and everyone's gawking at him over there, and I'm like, now, I'm cool. He's sitting up there all these big rants. I'm like, no, man, there's no way I'm messing around with you. You don't get me hurt, man, Like the dude is in adonnas. So speaking of that, in his size, if there was a football player out there that you could pick to be a tag team partner with you, who would be in the n FL.
I'm gonna still.
Stick with my Cleveland Browns, and I'm gonna go David Nijoku. I stood next to David and I like tight ends as w W E superstars.
To be honest, with you.
George Kittle two actually right right next to us at SOFI Stadium, Russell Mania. Uh. He actually helped Pat McPhee beat me in a ring, so I wasn't too happy with him.
Uh.
You know, you look at Travis Kelcey. You look at all these tight ends. They're big, they're gigantic, and they're athletic, and they can talk. And so I think David Njoku would do a very good job in the NFL one the w WE.
Okay, real quick, I'm gonna put you on a hot seat between Manty and I. Who do you want as attack ting? You can only pick one quick answer?
Huh, I'm going I.
Got for you. Peter Man.
I got a folding chair for him.
Let's go ask about me.
I I want to come in there.
I'm like Irwin are Schweitzer, irs Let's go, Barry Horrowitz.
I would have given you one of these. Let's do it. You're also a golfer, dude, I love this. We have this question in prompt.
I don't know if you have it.
Prepared, but if you could pick three NFL players for a golf.
For some who are you going with? All right? So I actually had this happen.
We have an American Century Championship golf tournament with celebrities, and this year I got to play with Travis and Jason Kelce, and let me tell you, it was probably the most fun ever. And we had a huge crowd with us. Right the first day, I was like, oh my God, like, thousands of people are here to watch me play golf. I better play like Tiger Woods didn't. But it was a lot of fun. And then the next day I wasn't with Travis and Jason Kelce, and I realized quickly that I wasn't the bell of the ball. They were there to see Travis. But man, it was a lot of fun. And knowing Travis for probably about seven years now for when he first came into the league, just being Cleveland guys, and uh, he's still the same guy that I knew way back then today, so the fame hasn't gone to his head. The hard work ethic that Cleveland instilled in him and Jason has transpired into the NFL, and I love seeing their success.
I love saying it too.
I gotta ask you, though, as a performer and someone who has done so many things in front of millions of people and.
Entertainment when you're up there on the tea box? Is it so nerve wracking?
I feel my hand there watching You couldn't feel my like.
I was like, you know, going into a tournament where there's thousands of people, I usually use energy, but and I use my nerves. You don't do that in golf, like I couldn't feel. I'm like, why are you playing so poorly? I'm like, you don't get it. I'm not used to a thousands of people while I'm playing golf. I'm used to like three of my buddies just hanging out. And you know, you don't have people like chanting, like merch fraternal like you know, who did you watch? Like you know the WWE superstars? Who did you watch growing up? Bernie car No, no, no, not football, but in wrestling. Ultimate Warrior was always my favorite. I would paint my face but streamers on my arm, cut promos on my mom all day long, and then she would just yell at me for being too loud. But yeah, I used to love Ultimate Warrior. I love the tag team of the Rockers, Sewn Michaels, Marty Jeannetti.
Those were all my favorites.
Growing up as a kid, you well, you know, for me, it was Hulk Hogan, yeh, mister wonderful Paul Lorndolf. You know those two were like my my extreme favorite growing up.
Peter, how about you, Peter?
I liked Earthquake and tug Boat guys' those are my guys.
What a tag team was the Bushwhackers? That was me, the Bushwhackers.
I love it, I love it.
I love the rock like Rock Goldberg, like those are those are guys. I had the rock bottom and a spear Let's go away.
I always wonder, like ten years from now, if people will be like the mizz Yeah, you know, you never know, you know, I've had I've had many accolades with with WW.
I've done a lot of things.
But I'm always curious, like what the kids are into, Like right now, it's like Cody Rhoads and like Seth Rollins. If they say the Missiness like I don't like him, He's not very nice, so I'm like the bad guy.
But you're part of the attitude era. Man, you're part of the attitude era. You know, like people still dig that. Man, that's cool.
I have a group text with my cousins.
You made me watch wrestling.
I told him you're coming on the show.
Awesome, Like I'm.
Let me tell you you're making an impact WrestleMania forty one. The miss here with us, Insidia, We appreciate you.
Take good care of that belt.
Can enjoy the rest of the brown season.
My friend. Here we go the Browns go to the super Bowl, so I can give it to them. Oh to New Orleans.
Pass that along.
It's awesome. Superstar Well, Sunday.
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You know it's funny all those faces I watched on Sunday for Jaguars Patriots and our guy Kyle Brant was.
Holding it down with Colleen Cherld.
It's funny.
Now we've got actual matchups that everyone's talking about, and they all come out of the woodwork to.
Get off the show. How many people on.
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In the morning.
Now, as for this weekend.
I cannot wait for this Eagles Bengals game. I feel like both teams are quietly ascending and one of them is going to take off with this.
One's the game I'm excited for on Sunday.
You know.
And the game that I'm excited for, the Bucks versus the Falcons. This is an NFC NFC South, a little fight right here there, fight for that first place.
So it's gonna be pretty good.
I like, I like the Chiefs first to Raiders.
The be Hop Let's go be Hop hop? Will he be?
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