Hour One of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with hosts Jamie Erdahl, Peter Schrager, Kyle Brandt, Akbar Gbajabiamila, Mike Garafolo, and Isaiah Stanback reacting to the Kansas City Chiefs thrilling victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on MNF - should the Buccaneers have gone for a two point conversion? WE IN OR WE OUT - Saquon Barkley’s spinning jump is the most athletic play in NFL history? Later, we receive a trade alert from the Cincinnati Bengals!
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Good Morning Football Listen. We figured since there is so much going on today, we wanted to add more people to our party. This is Good Morning Football. We are presented by old Trapper Beef Jerkey. Live in LA and New York City. It's Tuesday, November fifth, Election day, everybody, and trade deadline day. Just depends on what you're celebrating. This is Mike Girafolo here at the table for the day, A couple of days. I think, yes. Isaiah stand back here as well. Ak Barbaja Biamilla of course in his seat. The gentleman in New York, Peter Scheger and Kyle Brandt. Peter, I like your accessory that you decided to adorn yourself with today.
I woke up early, I woke up six am. I was on the lines. I got done by I voted.
It feels good. I feel glad to be an American citizen. I kissed my wife, I kissed my kids, I walked a dog. I don't have I feel like an American this morning.
Go look all right, go Peter, excellent, excellent, plus gentlemen, everybody good to see you today. I'm back from my posting time in Minnesota. I go to Germany tonight.
So you just dropped in on us. You're literally dropped in on us for a day. Fine day.
You will see me from Munich in a couple of days.
Kyle, what else do we have on tap today?
All kinds of stuff and I think we collectively have a larger population than all of Minnesota today on the show, Jamie, it's great to see you. And we're gonna go to the state of Missouri and that is where the Buccaneers and Chiefs game played.
Here we go, So this is a good one.
You got the red jerseys, you got Kelsey and Mahomes. The Chiefs a one thirteen straight going into last year. Mahomes has never been seven to zero before, and already in the fourth quarter, down seven, he plipped it to some a JP run for Tessa. But we've seen that before. You don't like seeing that. We have seen it before, but you don't see it much. Mahomes take cares themselves and this is a weird thing, and the left foot goes down and kind of buckles over.
He would go down, leave the game.
But the problem is is that the Bucks had a three and out following that, so we didn't have a long break. Mahomes comes right back out, Johnson out. He's all day, tough kind of leader you can believe in a twenty twenty four, you're right, Holmes in twenty twenty four, you know i'n seen all and tick tick, you.
Won't believe this.
Kareem hunts and ball game Chiefs wing eight and oh eight and oh launch the fire rocks. He waves goodbye. Baker Mayfield sitting there wishes it had been tails or heads or whatever it was. Mahomes keeps on winning eight and oh thirty to twenty four in overtime. The Bucks really fought hard without a couple of their big guns.
But the Chiefs are the Chiefs are the Chiefs. Afterwards, let's go to.
Patrick Mahomes, but also Tampa Bay Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles on some decision making.
Whenever you do something and it's not like he said, it's non contact, you don't know exactly what happens, and you get that sharp pain, you always fear the worst. That's why you, uh, I kind of sat there on the on the sideline for a second, and just kind of took a breath, and as time went on and I kind of realized it wasn't as bad as it looked or felt, I was able to kind of recuperate myself and get back on the football field.
We want to get it. The overtime, with the wet conditions on the field, we felt like we had to go on overtime instead of go for two. So we had our shots. You know, we lost the game. I mean, it's tough. You don't get it. You don't take anything from it, but the loss. And we can't get used to losing, and that's the biggest thing. We're not going to get used to losing. We had some good plays, we took our swings. They connected more than we did. You know, we fought, but it wasn't good enough. So we got to get ready next week for another one.
Some might say, have you not learned your lesson before? When you have the opportunity to beat the Chiefs, you might as well try to jump on it and capitalize. The Bucks instead tied the game, Kyle, and they went on to as Todd Bowles just said, took their shots, but they lost to the Chiefs at home in Kansas City, Kyle, you think they should have gone for two of the bucks.
Oh God, yes, God, yes, go for two. You just scored, You got all the momentum. And this is different. This is not just any team in any stadium. You're in Arrowhead. You have seen the Chiefs in overtime. You have seen them win a Super Bowl in overtime. You've seen them win an AFC title game in overtime. Guys, this isn't even the first time this has happened to the Buccaneers. Earlier this season, they go to overtime against the Falcons. The Falcons score a touchdow on the first possession. They never get it one play to win the game and flip the table. There's a whole bunch of times this past weekend where teams scored late could have gone for two. Take Miami and Buffalo as a bunch of them. In every situation they kicked, in every situation they lost. Todd Bowles is a great football man who has seen it all. I think you're there, You're underdog, you're hurt. You know, you don't have the weapons.
You know.
There's almost this creepy relationship the Chiefs have with overtime where it always works out. If I'm a buck yours fan this mont I said, you know what, let's run our best play, let's punch this thing in, let's win the game.
I am disappointed they didn't go for it.
I don't have the history books in front of me.
I guess it was the AFC Championship game and they lost to Cincinnati, where Cincinnati had the Von Bell interception in overtime and then went on to win. Other than that, like, I don't have a long list of Mahomes coming up short in overtime.
This doesn't happen. He finds a way.
He's eight and.
Two, and I like, I don't want to call the decision to go for one a loser mentality or a soft mentality.
But like, if you say let's go for two and.
You get on those buses and you didn't complete, you can hold your head up high and you look at each other and say, you man, we went for it.
Like we were down our top two guys.
We were on the road in the rain, and we said, screw it, let's go ride with Baker.
I think Baker's and I think Baker finds a way.
I'll go back to Dan Campbell last year against the Cowboys when they had this play and they got called for the penalty and they were all the way back at like the ten yard line, and he still was like, we're on the road, We're going for two. They didn't get it, and we sized him up and down. Of course as a media, that's what we do. Why don't just take the extra point? But that Lion's team came out of that, which was in week sixteen, and we're like, all right, take care of business in seventeen, take care of business in eighteen.
And then they won two playoff games, like a coach.
Believes in Peter Brian Dable Week one with Saquon remember that one.
It's the tight they went for it. Get him in, bro, let's go.
I don't know what the Bucks goal is here. And I know Bowles has had some questionable late game decisions, having god Win in at that game, and of course last year in the playoff game, is going in for that handshake when there's still like sixty seconds left on the clock and a time out. There's all these Todd Bowles late game questions.
My thing is, screw it. You're the ten Bay Buccaneers.
You're down two players, you're a five hundred team, Just go for it, just try it.
But again, it's not my job in the balance.
Fellas.
I hear you guys, and I respect you guys' opinion, but I don't agree with you guys in this.
When you guys talk about the buck in the.
Years, Okay, these guys sent the kans City Chiefs, the defending champs, to overtime, and you're missing your top three weapons, So why would you take a risk at not even giving your.
Defense a chance?
And last time I checked Todd Bowles, what type of coaches he defensive coach?
Right, so name a defensive coach.
Is not going to give his defense an opportunity to go into overtime and defend themselves. I don't disagree with his ability to send these guys it's overtime and put it in the hands.
Of a flip of a coin, because if they.
Would, if they would have won that coin toss, I don't have no doubt, shadow of a doubt that Baker Mayfel would take those guys down and they would have scored.
Yeah, and I agree with you, as Isaiah. Look, I know the analytics and all of this other stuff. But I'm right there with coach Bowls, like you're in that situation, secure the tie, and then take it into overtime. Look, you look at the way the defense played against this Kansas City Chiefs team. You believe that they had an opportunity They weren't. I mean the Tampa Bay Buccaneers they were in this game, so they knew and they felt like, you know what, we can take these dudes down. Like I know they're making some plays here in there, but we can take them down. So I'm not mad at them in that situation, especially.
When I look at it.
Look, you go for two and they lose, We're all sitting here saying, what were they thinking about? It's just that Monday morning quarterback in this case, it's Tuesday morning, you know where you just you think about that situation.
So I'm with balls on that, But.
Also, real quick, what that communicates to your locker room. If we go for two, right and we don't get it, and all of a sudden, you got to go in there and talk to your defense and be like, you know what, we didn't even give you guys a chance, right, and you have licked those guys in the eyes.
As a defensive coach and show it.
You just show them that you had no faith in them defending against those guys, not.
Against anybody, Isaiah, I got heard.
It's against Patrick Mahomes and Kelsey.
This is Harrison Buker.
You're not against Mason Rudolph and and you know whoever the Titans are rolling out. We're talking about the greatest offense of all time in count When this isn't just a how do you look at your defense and say, I'm sorry to give you a shot against Harrison Bucker is gonna get a sixty five yarder?
Like?
I disagree completely, And I don't think we're Monday morning quarterback in this thing.
I love todd balls. I'm a big proponent of todd balls. If you called me this morning, I'd have one word of advice. Forget the angel on your shoulder, Just look at the pirate on your chest there with an actual buccaneer.
Yeah, kick the extra point?
Or would he take what is his and what is not his as well? Sometimes you just got to be a pirate tad both.
All right, well, regardless of whatever decision was made and how you feel about it. This morning, once again, the Chiefs walk away with a win. Peter, they sit undefeated and even Mahomes had to take a beat during that game, make sure he was right within himself, and of course he was quarterbacking yet another win for the Chiefs. Peter unpack what is once again a really interesting way to lift a win in Kansas City for the Chiefs.
The dude goes.
Into the blue tent, and I think I speak for a collective football viewing nation and we all were like, wait, what this just not only could end our twenty twenty four Chiefs you know, dynasty run, it could also completely alter the landscape.
Of the season.
It was maybe the scariest two minutes of football this season. Not like this, not like this, don't take us this way.
If they're gonna lose, I want them to lose.
And if he's gonna go down, don't make it non.
Contact weird on a cool.
Touchdown play like this one really had us all No. He goes to the bluetet they're showing Carson Wentz on the.
ESP No, No, and.
Like that's not the story.
I don't want Carson Wentz.
I don't know if we have the footage. It takes me back to their first Super Bowl run.
There was a Thursday night game and Mahomes was out there and he makes a play and Thursday night game, he goes out and his knee pops out and they put in Matt Moore, and Matt Moore had to hold the fort down for a couple of weeks. Lost a game like it wasn't pretty, and then as good as Matt Moore played that game, I believe they won that game. Mahomes had to miraculously come back early from injury and then like took his team on its ride. I'm like, is this the story is Wentz gonna have to play a big role, lost in all of the two point conversion talk and lost in the DeAndre Hopkins you know, welcome to the Country of the Chiefs Country world. This was the wild story that Mahomes got up and didn't miss a snap.
Peter.
It was really cool to see DeAndre Hopkins do what he did, considering he just arrived in Kansas City fresh off of another one of these trade deadline deals, and we have another one this morning here on GMFB.
Ian Rapacort, good morning to you.
Of course, we have to have all of the insiders on the show today to make sure we have every inch of this day covered and rap sheet.
Where do you take us?
Right now?
We have a trade. The trade deadline is off and running. Sources say the Detroit Lions have traded for Brown's standout edge, Zadarius Smith at long last, the most rumored trade we've had really over the last several weeks. The Detroit lines, who of course lost Aiden Hutchinson, have been looking to fill that void over.
The last several weeks.
They now land someone to do exactly that, a veteran pass rusher, probably the top.
Pass rusher available.
So here are the terms.
It is Zadarius Smith and a twenty twenty six to seventh rounder going to Detroit for a twenty twenty five to fifth and a twenty twenty.
Five to six.
So essentially, what the Cleveland Browns do is they move on from a player who had generated value for them. Obviously, it's been the kind of season that it is. For the Browns they are more in I would say cell mode than anything else. And for the Lions, they acquire a pass rusher who they believe can help you one of the final pieces for which should be a deep playoff run Zadarius Smith at long last goes to the Lions.
Massive addition, you hit it right on the nose, scrap sheet without eight hundreds and the Lions how to do something here, considering they are continuing to rack up wins and take care of business within their division. Mike g the Lions, they knew what they have at stake here and they needed Zidarius.
That was the best fit.
Just working out the compensation over the last couple of days and Ian hit it on the head. The Browns, I don't know if we'll have another move by the end of the day, but they're going to look to see if they can get.
Some value back.
They realize where their season is right now. Wouldn't be surprised if they wind up making another move by the time the day is over.
I'm not trying to take this stinger or the buzzer out of this one. This has been the most rumored trade maybe in NFL history. We heard about this on Friday and Saturday, and then obviously it goes down on Tuesday morning. But the Lions just extra help now. They didn't need it the last few weeks. But trust me, when it goes down to December and January, Zidarias Smith will be on the field him and making key plays, whether or not they needed him or not.
I like great teams making moves.
You don't stand pat because listen the dirty little secret. They went into Green Bay and pushed them around. In that game, they did not sack Jordan Love once. There were zero sacks in the rain in a sloppy game, they had none. So they're not trying to get to the divisional round. This is not a title game move. This is an unfinished business. We're going to perfect this machine and win the Super Bowl this year.
Move.
They didn't have to make it, And that's my favorite kind of move. When you were already good, you didn't have to make it. You did it anyway, big time, big time. I still think the lines are gonna win the Super Bowl.
Yea, Kyle.
I didn't think that they had to make it, but I think that they needed somebody. They needed a dog upfront to be able to go hunt the quarterback. You talk about eight Hudgson, This dude has seven and a half sacks prior to his injury. Now since then, they've only averaged one point seven sacks per game, So they need somebody to go hunt the quarterback, and now they have their man.
Yeah, and they have somebody who understands too, the NFC, NFC North. His last double digit sex season ten sacks is when he was with the the Minnesota Vikings. So I think this is a perfect opportunity, the perfect fit. Yes, he's a veteran guy, he understands line play, but also he brings a different level of production. This is smart. I'm saying it. I've been saying it. The Lions are making moves. They're standing on business and they're not just sitting back going, hey, you know, we've got the next man up. They wouldn't found that next dude.
And Jamie, just to reiterate, teams did those around potentially for Miles Garrett Cleveland Brown saying why would you trade him away? He's a foundational piece of the franchise. He wasn't going anywhere. So everybody understood Zadaria Smith.
Was gonna be good to clear that up, rap sheet, bring you back into the circus we have going on here today on GMFB, as Peter said, this Zadaria Smith move was one that was rumored. Now it seems to be getting closer to official what else are we looking at down the stretch.
Yeah, I'd say there's a couple of big names that we've been discussing for the last several weeks who may or may not be traded today. We'll start with Mike Williams, the Jets receiver who you know, as soon as they traded for Devine Adams, I think everyone was like, well, this see, Mike.
Williams is going to be gone. Where's he going to go?
Pittsburgh Steelers have been one of the teams who've had discussions his old team. The Chargers are another team, except he's still currently on the Jets. So where do they stand from I understanding, the Jets are at least open to a deal, the right deal. He does bring value to them, and yes, Alan Wizard one and I are, but there is still a possibility I would say the Jets deal him. Another one to keep an eye on. Marshawn Ladam. Where the standout corner for the New Orleans Saints. They fired Dennis Allen yesterday. A lot of times that signals the team kind of rebuilding.
Or retooling a little bit.
Could teams pride the Pro Bowl corner from the Saints, which shall see today.
It's a Tuesday morning and in a segment we call we got a full house today, and I am so excited to get into this segment. I'm wearing a tie because it's election day, but it's also trade deadline day.
I do feel people.
Old man prefessorial Cardigan with my eye voted thing.
Just to let you know. I voted Peter Short.
By the way, socks I do those Ian Rappaport Chubbys shorts somewhere.
Yeah, here's how this is gonna work.
I'm gonna make a statement, and you guys tell me whether you're innering out. So let's just roll the tape because I could watch this for three straight hours.
I wanted to.
The Saquon play yesterday made waves around the league. It's one of the coolest plays you'll ever see.
And you're gonna watch it one more time here and.
Just be in awe. How he does that.
It's insane, and yet are we creatures and prisoners of the moment.
Here's my statement.
Squon Barkley's athletics spin into a reverse hurdle is the most athletic play in NFL history. This gave us an excuse to go into the archives. Akbar, We're gonna start with you in or out.
Okay, Before I tell you where I'm going with this, I just want to say I have been fortunate to see a lot of different sports in my life. I've worked the Olympics, college football, I've done some basketball, ninjas, NFL ninjas. I've never ever in my life seen anything like this. I am so in on this, and for the.
Very first it's never happened.
For the very first time, I'm going to announce something here that this play right here can only be done by a ninja. So I am coining Sakwon Barkley as the next.
American Ninja Warrior. Yes, Kwon Barkley is a ninja warrior.
Take a look at this. Only ninjas can do things like this. This is ridiculous. To go backwards in the middle of the field and to jump up there. You see Daniel gill over there work in the obstacle course, that's exactly what Saquan. So, Saquon, where's my camera right there? Saquon, I need you to come out on American Ninja Warrior and come crush the course.
You're a ninja, forget it. That's my ninja right there. How do I follow that? And how do I follow that by by going to the negative?
I guess, I guess I'm out because you're not negative, not negative.
It's just it's it's just so hard to stack it up against some of these other I mean, it's top five, right, it's top three whatever. But I just the first play I thought of last night was this play.
Back in two thousand. I forgot the date. Two thousand.
Uh well, I believe it was twelve into the endzone sixth the landing far.
You said you've done the Olympics, you'd see this. The landing right there to get into the end zone there, it's amazing. I mean, like the flip itself, we've seen that. To be able to stick the landing as well.
Uh.
I gotta put that as my number one.
Okay, all right, all right, I see what you guys did there. Hayden, he's gonna bring the hate out. Listen.
I'm not gonna say that is the most athletic play. I'm gonna say it's the most risque play that I've ever seen. I think the fact that you even have the goal to go ahead and do a jump backwards over another grown man while looking at him between your legs.
I think the level of disrespect is on an all time high. But I'm gonna have to say that I I'm out on.
The fact that it was the most athletic play because with Mike Giju show right, there was absolutely insane.
He saw where he was flipping. I hear what you're saying. He jumped over something he couldn't see you. I've seen you do it before. You never seen me jump over nothing. I ain't never seen before.
I can't jump over I have to see what I'm jumping over like it's never been done.
The dude in Ninja, I hear you, I hear you. I mean I'm in on this. I'm in. It's the Saquon thing.
Looks like when you just start button mashing in a VAM and something crazy happens. I think there are little kids who probably saw that play and they're gonna be football fans for lives because they saw that play.
And yet let me just.
Offer an alternative. Okay, can we go to the Dome please. I want you to keep an eye on the late great Larry Allen.
This is on offense.
Troy Coman is gonna throw an interception and his three hundred and forty pound guard is going to run down the linebacker number seventy three, Get him big, Larry. Yes, there is absolutely no reason or need or explanation for a man that big and strong to run that fast.
Larry Allen is a Hall of Famer as a blocker.
In my opinion, he's a Hall of Famer as a sprinter and a tackler as well, wherever he is up there, Peter, I love the Saquon.
I love that, Larry Allen.
Now it's awesome that you showed that because I immediately went to big men doing insane athletics.
Oh yeah as well, and.
I went through it.
I'm like, all right, bj Raji catching touchdown, don Terry.
Poe doing the jump pass touchdown. That's where my head went immediately.
Also that in football you get these enormous three hundred pound plus players doing things as limber as Olympians in their one hundred eighty one and ninety pounds.
But I think it's Saquon too, Jamie, are you going Saquon? Also?
I am only because the reference point is NFL history, and NFL history for me just started and ended on Sunday, when I led the skull clap in Minnesota. So yes, it's the most athletic thing I've ever seen, because I watched no football on Sunday except Vikings Colts. Except for that one play did get brought up to me in the stadium and people were like, did you see what Saque did? So I'll just go in on it because that's the only thing I saw besides the Vikings one and myself.
Jamie, if if you said no and offer Jordan Addison's catch, I would have been fine with that.
Also, that was athletic as well. All right.
Next up, we do a television show you see all the Boxes. We're very intense. We love to just talk sports and go from this voice to that voice. It's election day and this is where politics and news tries to do what we do on sports and be fast and hard hitting. But I go to a certain member of our NFL media family. I believe the face of NFL media is Scott Hands, all right, and on Sundays, not only see the face, he is the voice that takes.
Us from game to game to game.
Are we missing an opportunity as a country to use our great voice and face in a larger form. My statement is this more than just being the face of NFL media. Scott Hanson should be the face of election coverage tonight.
Are we in? Are we out?
Mike Garrafulla, We've known Scott for a long time. This guy helps pay the bills over here? Should he not be the narrator over there?
I'm in. I think it's a great fit.
Uh.
Scott is a knowledgeable guy.
Could easily make the transition where are we on bathroom breaks?
That's the first thing that I know.
The second thing when I was asked this and I thought to myself, can we flip it around? Like could we have KORNACKI then do red Zone?
Or maybe like John King.
Who I love to watch in the election coverage, but he's so you know, it's the witching hour, you know, like.
He I don't know if that works the other way around. I mean, I'm going with Scott as well.
I think the fact that we have a six box up right now, we can go to an eight bux and he can cover all the battleground states. I think that he can handle it no problem at all. Yeah, I'm going I'm going in on this one.
I can see it now, Scott Hansen sitting up there with the bright lights, and he's sitting there, ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news. We can now project that the next president of the United States is I'll leave that Blake before but I could see him going all in and you're just sitting there going, oh, my goodness, I can't believe it, the forty seven president.
Yeah, I'm out on this. I'm out.
Scott Hanson should run for president. He's not covering the election. Scott Hanson should be on the ballot, not talking about the ballots. Got Hanson, You're my new politico, and I.
Think that should run for office someday. Look at him. I would love to I would love to everybody. I would love to hear him talk about the economy. That would be great.
Oh he would well listen, We've done this segment for years. I have never, in any segment, any topic, been more.
In than I am for this. And I'm in.
Especially because I like the idea that you would go to like one of these like David Muir from ABC News, and he would say, we now bring in NFL network Scott Hansen, and he goes during his podium, he goes welcome ladies and gentlemen to the Red White and Blue zone. And behold this sequento box a fifty states at.
Once in all, let's go to Pennsylvania.
You know the story, second state admitted to the Union, state in which the Constitution was written.
Classic battlegrounds.
Look, Kamala Harris, We're going to chart at yourn out yardage like Franco Harris back in the day, looking for those critical critical nineteen electoral votes.
David Muir back to you. We're in Mariopa County and Scott, Yeah, we got it out. Check in on North Carolina. North Carolina.
North Carolina has gone blue.
I don't believe it. Wow, not too late. Come white and Blue zone, Red white and blue zone.
Hey, folks, we're giving away these ideas for free.
Take them if you want them. We're here.
Scott will work.
I know that perfect. What about a collab with Kurnaki? Yeah, exactly right. I don't think we can handle that.
Well, come back on, but Kyle, until we get to break, just take us to Iowa and Scott Hanson because that's all we I mean, Iowa might be the best Scott Hanson impression ever.
Kyle Cook continue.
Iowa, of course, the home of tight End University, Iowa, guys.
And there we go, going into election night.
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That's right, Jamie. The Bengals, Yes, the Bengals have. I've made a trade for a player. They are acquiring running back Khalil Herbert from the Bears in exchange for a twenty twenty five seventh round draft pick. This was a priority for Cincinnati in the backfield, with their starting running back Zach Moss sidelined indefinitely because of a neck injury suffered last week in practice, and Khalil Herbert, they get a player who has close to eighteen hundred rushing yards over his four NFL seasons, but had fallen behind DeAndre Swift to Roshawn Johnson on the depth chart in Chicago. Who's a healthy scratch. The past couple of weeks, as the Bears sought a trade partner in concert with Herbert's agents Sam Sankowitz and Chris Cabot of Equity Sports, they find a home in Cincinnati. Of course, the Bengals also do have Chase Brown. You would think Khalil Herbert now factors heavily in the mix for that team. He's got a chance to earn himself a lot of money into contract here. And why have I making it out such a big deal of the Bengals making a trade. This is just the second time in the past fifty plus years that they have acquired a player during the season. He did it back in twenty twenty when the actually traded Carlos done Laft of Seattle got a guy named bj Finney in addition to a draft pick in return. Now they add Khalil Herbert to a Bengals offense that has been going strong in the midst at up and down.
Start and Tom Let's add a little context here the reason for the trade for the Bengals. You heard Zach Taylor say the other day that Zach Moss, the running back, is out indefinitely. Let's try to define that a little further. You and I have done some reporting on this, and our understanding is he is expected to miss the rest of the regular season at least. He's got that neck injury that he suffered last week, or was discovered last week, I should say. They don't know for sure how long he was playing with it. They believe it was a recent injury. Right now, the early medical evaluations, according to our sources, are that surgery's not going to be required, but he's going to have to rest for a period of about two months and then get reevaluated after that. So Chase Brown the leader in the backfield for the Bengals. Zach Moss has figured prominently as well this season, and the expectation is that they will be without him for at least the rest of the regular season.
Top break for Zach Moss.
Bengals play Thursday night in Baltimore. Mike Jim, you were mentioning Mike Williams earlier. Ian was at least I think of the Buccaneers as a team that might need an addition at wide receiver, Like, do we see the Buccaneers making moves? Where's the business going to come today?
Well, see, I don't know about the Buccaneers. We know the Pittsburgh Steelers have been nosing around on wide receivers. We're keeping an eye on a number of players. As he's o Ja Lari for the Giants. Let's talk about him for a second, because that's a player that a lot of teams have interest in right now. But the Giants are saying, we're not just going to give him away. It's not going to be a late third day of the draft pick like a sixth or a seventh round pick. It's going to have to be higher than that. And so far they've held firm to that and have not had a team come up to meet that. The Cardinals and the Lions that made trades for pass rushers are one of the teams in on him, So perhaps he sticks with the Giants.
All right, it's trade deadline day, it's election day, it's the day after Monday Night football.
The Chiefs remain undefeated.
We'll keep talking about them and everyone else here on GMFF.
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