NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Wednesday Hour 2: Commanders/Ravens Preview, Fab Five Rookies, and Uniform Beef
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with a preview of the Commanders/Ravens matchup. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbajabiamila explain the implications for both teams. Peter delivers his Fab Five Rookies before Akbar has beef with the throwback uniforms! Plus, Kyle gives a peek at his upcoming interview with Bears QB Caleb Williams.
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Hey, everybody, welcome to Good Morning Football. We are presented by Old Trapper, Beef, Jerky off Bar, Buzz Bamilla and I sit here live in Los Angeles. Peter Scheger and Kulibrant are live in New York City.
We got to get right to it.
We have to get right to the lead block because this game takes up so much time in our in our emotional landscape preparing for this week.
Okay, brave. It's head coach John Harbaugh.
He's seen a lot of quarterbacks come through his division in the DMV area. Now he has high praise for the commander's first year QB.
Take a listen.
I just you know, I see a really good quarterback. I mean, you know, it's every week you you look at the quarterback. That's where the offense starts. Jaden Daniels is you know. Heck, he's played what five games now, and he's been one of the best in the league for five games so far as a rookie. Every quarterback plays their own unique way. Similarities, differences, you know, is always that part of it. But we just have to look at him and how he fits into their offense and prepare for their offense as run by him. And that's a big challenge and we got our hands full of that. So that's how we look at it as a defense.
All right.
These teams are both coming off of win streaks into this game. They both sit atop their division. We never saw this coming, Peter. We are obsessed with it. Come week six showdown between Ravens Commanders one Eastern on CBS on Sunday.
Where do you go, Peter? Take us there.
I love setting the table here on a Wednesday because it's like, all right, we just got through week five. Now we flipped the page and it's a new set of games. And the first thing you see at one o'clock in the afternoon, How rare do you get an early window game of the week. And that's what this is. And there's so much to really pick apart here.
You've got our.
Embedded MVP, our guy that we've been owing an eyeing over since twenty nineteen in Lamar Jackson.
And then you've got this fresh.
New blood who is doing the same things that Lamar did in his first year as a starter, which was his second year as an NFL player, where he's taking the league by storm and they're both playing in this Beltway DMV and I know Baltimore people are like, we're not DMV.
I'll say that we're different.
We're our own little world.
That the thing.
Yeah, it's down there in that Maryland, Virginia, DC area and there's like this awesome geographic field of.
This where it's like a Battle of the Beltway. And it's early enough in the season where it's like, is this a Super Bowl preview? Can you even say that with a straight face? You can, because no two teams.
Are playing better football over the last three weeks of football than the Ravens and the Commanders. Just as an aside, jaded and Lamar Jaden comes in obviously this red hot start as a rookie, Lamar as the reigning MVP and like, these guys make you believe anything as possible in the NFL. You know, Lamar Jackson comes in as this decorated college player, he's now won two MVPs and does it on his terms with no agent and be able to negotiate his own deal.
He wouldn't run a forty Peter coming out wouldn't.
Run a forty if they asked him the run running back in wide receiver.
No molse, he said, screw you, and guess what.
He's right here and he's three and two and looks as good as ever looked. Then you go to Jaden, the new breed of a quarterback where he was at one school, had to transfer, goes to a new school, wins a Heidsman, the new cool plays fifty five games in college, has injuries in college, and then he gets into the league and he's doing it at such an amazing rate. I cannot wait to see these two two quarterbacks not only play, I want to see them interact beforehand. I want to see all the dialogue that they have if there's anyone micd up afterwards. I can't wait for this one. And it's one of those rare where it's like, you're the king right now and you own this market, and you've owned this market since you got in the league in twenty eighteen. But I'm coming And is it just respect? Is it just hey, I respect you, or is it I'm coming for that crown. I love this stuff. They only play once every four years, so it's not going to be a division rivalry twice a year and all that savor it while you can Jaden vsus Lamar Part one, I'm here for it.
I can't wait.
It's a big time game and those two are the headliners, and so it's easy to get caught up in that. But there's something else that's quietly happening too, because I'm following more and more in love with with the Washington Commanders. That defense has gotten so much better, and especially when you think about them bringing b Wags over b Wags has kind of changed the culture quietly amongst the players and just the way they're playing their dogs out there right now. You look at Frankie Louvu, you look at Dorence Armstrong. Both those guys both have three sacks. They leave the team with their sacks and they are applying so much pressure and I love to see that. Defensively, they're stepping up. I mean a weakness that I think that was addressed by bringing in dogs who can play. And then on the other side, you look at the other side with the Baltimore Ravens, that's a defense that is elite. That's gonna be a big time matchup. So not only are gonna have offensive firepower going, but you're also gonna have a match of the defensive mind stopping two offensive powerhouses on both.
Sides of the ball.
But I'm actually loving the way this is gonna match up. And then I also one to two go on the other side too. I'm all over the place with this. But Derrick Henry, Derrick Henry is not and I said this before, he was the Shaquille O'Neill to Kobe Bryant, which is Lamar Jackson, and it is worked out exactly this way. So I'm loving this combination. He is not just a downhill player. He's a guy that when he gets out into the open, he'll take a little one cup. People think because he two hundred and fifty pounds he's built like me.
We're like the same size.
Like he's a d lineman running back, and you just think he's just a bulldozer. Straight down, he'll take a one step jag on you and try to break to the outside. He's a diverse and very good running back. I love Derrick Henry in this game matchup. So I'm watching this whole thing. But my whole breakdown is really defense. How they're gonna stop Derrick Henry and how the heck are they gonna stop this young kid?
And Jane Daniels eye candy?
What bar?
We got to credit you. I remember when you first made the Derrick Henry shack comparison.
It was early.
Come on, ogbar, He's not gonna be shack on the Lakers. He might be able to still have some good performances. Look, he has been unbelievable, better than anybody thought, certainly better than I thought. You were one of the few people who's like, no, he's going to be lights out, and he has been. I would just say I can't think of a week six game that is this excited, this anticipated. This is a big weekend. I think for some people that I certainly roll with big apple picking weekends is a.
Big app It's right, it's been.
Nice, Kyle, Yeah, great, it's forty dollars rapples, Peter. We're not going like a you know, kite surfing.
I'm talking about a Sunday at the orchard. Give me one. Well.
My point is, if you're gonna get dragged, and no one is not dragged to apple picking, get it done early. You can get there at eight, get it done. You want to be here for the one o'clock Eastern kickoff. We're seeing CBS on the screen there. I contribute to the NFL today and CBS I am this weekend and I suggested them, you know, maybe I'll give you something about Commanders Ravens.
I have some content on that. And they were like, we're good on that. We're going big on that. We're the whole shows. Heup is full there.
Yeah, we are doing a lot. You know, JJ and Matt Ryan and they they're all talking about Commander's Ravens and that's just part of the excitement. I think the part of the excitement for Jaydeon Daniels is if you wanted to poke holes in him and bend over backwards to do so. There is not the hashtag signature win. The competition has not been great. Giants, Bengals, Cardinals, Browns, that's who they've beaten. And fine, they've beaten them really well. This is Stratospair's stuff. If you go into Baltimore and beat the Ravens and beat Lamar, this is not you know, going to Arizona and beating Kyler Murray and you know, I like the Cardinals. This is totally different. This is, Oh my god, he beat the two time MVP. He won in Baltimore with the smoke and the nelly and all the hell that stuff. I think it really if you think we're talking a lot of Jadan Daniels, now, this is a rocket to the moon Jaden Daniels. I have already been like, this is the kind of game where there's going to be extensive breakdowns of Jayden and Lamar's embrace after the game. There's going to be lip reading body language experts, there's going to be six hundred cameras surrounding the two of them, and the reason they're doing it. It feels like the superstar and the guy who's got next. Now Mahomes is Mahomes and all that, but like this is just too cool, too big, and frankly, like I don't think the Commander's defense can stop the Baltimore offense.
I just haven't seen that, and I almost.
Don't want them to because I want it to be first to forty I would love forty one to thirty eight. And if it's a Justin Tucker walk off kicker on the other side, fine, but I'm so excited I can't picking done early were you going you I.
Get that, you might get that.
You look at Cincinnati Baltimore last week. Joe Burrow threw for three ninety two and five touchdowns, Like, there's no reason that Jayden Daniels can't light this team up. But I also will say this, and here I am white man on television, scared we go.
I just got done watching the Evolution of the Black Quarterback.
Did documentary on Amazon, and they interviewed Charlie Ward and Shaq Harris and all these guys who weren't quarterbacks in the NFL, and a lot of those reasons being we just can't see it well all the different people that laid the groundwork. You've got Jaden Daniels, who people think is too slight and wouldn't maybe necessarily have been a quarterback.
In the NFL in the nineteen nineties.
And then you've got Lamar Jackson, who has defied every stereotype for quarterback play in the NFL based on build.
Style, all that stuff.
Two awesome young African American quarterbacks playing in that backyard where it is the DMV, where there's geographical ties to every local person in the building. During they're torn between the two I can't wait for this, and I think it shows how far we've come as a league and that we're just talking about football and not look, here's what we had Like this is awesome.
Both these guys deserve this platform.
And thank you to all the great quarterbacks and people who led the way to make us have this moment today.
Yeap, Peter, We're not that far removed from the first Super Bowl that featured two starting black quarterbacks and Patrick Mahomes Jalen Hurts, and now we have to appreciate and understand the story. But the fact that Peter's point, this is week six and this is just part of the conversation and it's really cool and I know you appreciated that so much, Peter. Two things I want to pick your brain on as it pertains to this game. One is Kyle has been harping on the fact that it flex it to Sunday Night NBC take this game. There is real TV possessiveness when it comes to windows and networks and time slots and the number of times that a network like CBS can say, don't touch our game. This is our game. We're leaving it on CBS. Also, just a little history on the Ravens and Washington as a whole, the history, the anger, the battles that they've had, and the fact that if I'm John Harbaugh, I might be sitting here and seeing like a nice, resurgent Washington football team. Commanders come in and be like, no, no, this has been my area of expertise now in the last ten years since I've been coaching.
You're not going to come in and beat us.
Like, there has to be a pride factor here for Harbaugh in this matchup specifically.
Yeah.
Look, I think first with the network side of it, which is so smart that you didn't bring that up. The network puts together a list of all the games that they would want in a desired order one to ten before the season.
They hand that before the schedules.
Come out, and then an NFL network people in the NFL they've sorted all out. That's Mike North and Annie Bows and Charlotte Carey and that team.
Fine.
I don't think anyone thought Baltimore Washington this was just going to be a generic CBS one o'clock game.
I also don't know.
If they protected it or not, but this was like when you assigned Nance and Romo to a one o'clock Washington Commander's game. A commander's team that has no primetime games at the moment. It tells you where the Jaden Daniels train is going. Secondly, the history is rich. It used to be Redskins in DC, Colts in Baltimore. All right, Colts leave for about ten years and then it's just all Redskins. It was all Redskins fans in DC, and then the Ravens come and it's kind of this like thing, like we don't even pay attention. And now for the last two decades it's been all Ravens with success, and Washington hasn't been good. This is the first time in my recent memory that both these teams are good at the same time.
And that's twenty years being in the same market as friends. I have beat with Mike North, Peter.
I know the history is great, but Mike, we love you. You didn't love Jade Daniels coming out. He doesn't have a primetime game until week eleven. I actually heard if I'm not making all Jade and Daniels in his locker has a picture of Mike North long hair, Yeah, like Balboa has a picture of Drago's a schedule maker, Mike North, who makes the schedule Jade Daniels.
I've heard. I can't confirm.
Oh, there's a picture in his locker and every day when he gets ready, he looks at schedule maker and schedules are Mike North to motivate himself because he doesn't have any primetime games till week eleven. Caleb got prime Dalis right, come on, mi.
J Stroud texted Jayden Daniels after that, the Texans never had had prime time. Stroud texted him that picture of Mike North and goes.
Here, here's who you focus on this year. This is what I focused on last year.
Wow, here's that question. I'm not quite sure how this works. If I'm going to say, when the Commanders beat the Ravens, when can they start flexing, because I would say that they would get a primetime game before that week eleven. Is there a way to flex after Week six?
Yeah, I'm not sure.
If we if it starts still, it used to start in week like thirteen or fourteen, the flexing, I think they moved it earlier.
Op.
Part's a good question. I do assume we will be seeing plenty more in the last half of the season of Jayda and Daniels and big games in the category.
Of friends of the show, though the schedule makers at the NFL are like top of our list.
So we just want everyone to know Mike North is like one.
Of the sweetest people ever in like this is.
All hates Jane Dan hate Jayden, hate some hate hate command here the.
Commanders hate Shane Daniels.
Hate l Usu.
You know what, Mike, don't deny the schedules right there?
Oh, thank you?
Week eleven.
Week eleven, Ian Rappaport, Good morning to you again, my friends, and it's week six.
Were is upon us.
We just did the NFL today treatment of one game. It took up our entire eblock. What else we have to look at a week.
Six West, Yeah, there's some other games and some other situations in the NFL.
Will start with the New Orleans Saints.
They're starting quarterback expect to miss a couple weeks at least with an abdominal strain, essentially a tiny tear in.
His abdominal muscle.
This according to me and colleague Mike Garafolo, that means Derek Carr not expected to play this week, not expected to play next week. They have two games in ten days, tough schedule for the New Orleans Saints. So you're going to have another starting quarterback out there, and I'm sure you know the assumption will be while it's just, you know, the backup, it might not be the backup. It might actually be Spencer Rattler, the rookie really impressed in training camp and then going through some things, they certainly have a decision to make.
Dennis Allen and these Saints coaches.
There's actually a real possibility that we see Spencer Ratler out on the field this week for New Orleans. Meanwhile, for the New England Patriots, we are going to see a new quarterback as well. At moment that Patriots fans have been absolutely waiting for forever. Drake May, the number three overall pick, expected to make his first NFL start this Sunday against the Texans and going forward, got a little bit of action in this seasons, got hit a couple of times, went back in. It was Jacoby Brissett who remained as the starter.
That has all.
Changed now as the Patriots begin their practice week, it is their highly touted rookie expected to be the quarterback. And then I would say a mild surprise yesterday afternoon for the Philadelphia Eagles. Devin White, who they signed this offseason to some great fanfare, the former Pro Bowl for the Tampa Bay Bucks. He really never quite fit in with the Philadelphia Eagles. I know it's something Vic Fanjo didn't really see a fit for. In his defense, he has now been released. So Devin White, who they tried to trade over the last couple weeks found no takers, now a free agent halfway through the season.
Guys got to address what's going on in Philadelphia. No team didn't need to buy any less than the Eagles did coming up because they just became anonymous essentially.
Last week.
I got to turn the page on the Eagles and see what they have for the remainder of the season.
Rap sheet, Thank you so much. There's a couple of rookies.
Out there that deserve perhaps the primetime treatment. We get that, but we have our own version of primetime treatment on this program, and it's called Shrigger's Fabulous Five. It's what rookie shined in Week five. Peter's gonna put a spotlight on him. There's a list we tweeted out, you guys, have beef with it.
It's all a thing we got going on here.
Good morning football.
Hello.
Those are five numbers and we do this every week. It's the top five rookies of the week.
It's Shrigger's Fab five.
Let's get right into it, the top five rookie performances of week five.
And at number five, we start.
Off with Giants rookie running back Tyrone Tracy. Tyrone Tracy gets the nod if we find out that Devin Singletary isn't gonna go on Saturday night. He's added to this about everyone's fantasy team. And in the rare instance actually they were exceeds expectators that it was like, I pick this guy up one waiver.
It's he was amazing.
The Giants knew they had this guy a Ferrari in the garage, if you will.
He'd been sharing carries with Eric.
Gray, and of course Devin Singletary just had a chance to break out, had an outstanding training camp and now is.
Stepping it up in real life. Here.
Tyron Tracy played a little bit in those first few games, and then against.
Seattle gets the nod.
One hundred and twenty nine rushing yards on eighteen carries in a win in a win, most rushing yards by a New York Giants player since Saquon did it in Week ten of twenty twenty two.
Now that's cool about this iron Giant.
Tracy was a wide receiver at Purdue. They moved him to running back. When he performed at the Combine this year, his family was in the crowd.
Cheering for it, and as a local product, they were.
All there rooting for him, and in Seattle they were rooting for a lot.
Let's go to number four.
We go to the defensive side of the ball, and we go to a guy that Packers fans are falling in love with, Evan Williams, number thirty three. This guy has been an absolute terror this season. He's been awesome the first four weeks. Week five, he gets the start and he's all over the field.
If you're on the.
Packers' blogs or the Packer message boards, you would know this guy has talked about more than Jordan Love Yeah, and more than more than Josh Jacobs did more.
Than all of them.
Evan Williams lined up next to Xavier McKinney, has been all over the field. He had ten tackles and two passes defended. Look at this cool stat. We got first career start in your last ten seasons, usually a safety.
Right.
Look at these two names.
Brian Branch for the best in the game to the Lions, and of course Buddha Baker, a perennial all pro. Evan Williams did the same thing week five against the Rams.
Number three.
Can we go to those throwback uniforms?
Can we see some Ferris Bueller? Can we get some bone Nicks?
Bo Nicks is number three on our list and Payton afterwards say he's got a little fairst Bueller and them.
We just still don't know what that means. I guess mischievous. But bo Nicks had fun with it.
Put on his Instagram, did a whole cut up with Ferris. So I'm like, I'd love to show this on there, but we can't. That TwixT commercial theme song you have the.
Song oh yeah, yellow, yeah yeah.
Boom boom boom boom.
All right, and Boneecks in those old school uniforms played the role.
This wasn't like he did a week before against the Jets where he got a win in rainy weather.
No, Bonecks played awesome and had the stats to match career high.
One hundred and seventeen point two passer rating.
He had career high as a completion percentage, passing, touchdowns, and passer rating, and he broke the streak of eight straight losses for the Raid for.
The Broncos versus the Raiders.
Important Nix is now just one win behind Drew Lock and John Oway for most wins by a rookie starting for the Broncos.
Already ready, no, that is it? Bone Nix is on his way, mister Ferris Buehler, which leads to our top two.
In the last few weeks, these guys have been the top two, and I'm sorry to.
The Fits of Chicago.
I still have Jaded Daniels as one, Caleb as number two.
Caleb's been unbelievable.
First Bears rookie to ever throw for three hundred passing yards, two passing touchdowns and zero interceptions in a game.
Caleb Williams was terrific.
Against the Panthers on Sunday twenty to twenty nine, three h four at his passing yards per attempt was ten and a half yards.
So this is not dinking dunk.
We're getting a lot out of him here, and of course you love that last one passer rating one hundred and twenty six point.
Two, and he does.
He's doing it, and he's getting better and better every single week. But Number one can't hype this guy enough on this show. He's gonna pay the bills for us. If we can get this guy to do any better. I would love to see it. I love coming in the morning and talking about Jaden Daniels.
He was outstanding again, did.
Everything you possibly could against a good Browns defense. Like you're talking about Miles Garrett breathing down his neck and some of these star defenders. The Browns have a huge payroll and Jaden Daniels just went to work on him. Jaden Daniels yet again a monster game. Washington is the first team since the nineteen seventy merger to have scored one hundred and fifty more points in their first five games of a season with a rookie starting quarterback.
That's how good he's been.
First team since Kyle the merger in stub Merger. One of my favorite praises, Daniels is the first player in NFL history with one thousand passing yards to two hundred and fifty rushing yards in his first five games, and he's doing it in the first five games of the season. It's not like we're inserting him in week eleven after he's had ten weeks to get comfortable. This Commander's team. They've got thirty one points per game, that's best in the league. The completion percentage he leads the league. His passer rating leads the league.
And as far as rushing.
Yards from the quarterback spot he leaves the league, he ranks.
Since Secty's having all these things. And then if you look here for all three of these rookie.
Quarterbacks, and we got to give love to Nicks and Caleb as well.
They started off a little.
Rough, but in the last two weeks eight and one, their last three weeks eight.
And one, and they have done it all stat wise. You can look at all that gobbily cook if you want.
The truth of the matter is these rookie quarterbacks are delivering. And we get Drake May on the field yeah this week. So there you have it, folks, Schrager's vabulous five. We go, Tyrone, Tracy.
We Go, Evan Williams. If you're a drinker, you love that name.
And if you're a Packers fan, you love it even more, and then of course you go three two one the big name quarterbacks, Nicks, Caleb Daniels. If we forgot your favorite player, I know Brock Bauers had a big day and a loss A lot of times. I like giving winning players love because it means they were celebrating the locker room afterwards. No receivers on this list, but a lot of quarterbacks and some safety and a versus running back who used to be a receiver.
Kyle, your thoughts on the Fab five.
It's cool that you share the stories and the running backs to positions fensive backs. I want one of these weeks to just have all them quarterbacks lined up, just Drake May back.
Then.
The only one I don't want to see is Michael Pennox because I don't want Couzins.
To get hurt. But I liked it there. It's really cool that Nick's there.
I thought it was gonna take a while before bow Knicks was there, but it's great to see Drake May Next week, I want you on Peter's lift in this segment, do you hear me?
I hope so, Kyle, can I interest you and some Spencer Rattler maybe next week he could make the top five and have.
That whole list. Good cor Peter, I love that Tyron Tracy is there.
Yet I feel kind of badly for him because in a week where the Giants kind of got things back on track, they kind of figure things out, the Jets are like, no, let me just like take all the headlines from you.
I feel badly he could be totally celebrating.
Tyron Tracy right now.
The Jets are like, this should be Tyron Tracy week. You're right, you're right, and now it's fired Solo week.
You're right, you see Tyron Tracy. That's why we have strikes fab five.
I appreciate too the death that you go too, because Evan Williams for the Packers, the dude's a baller, So I appreciate that. It's very easy to go with the big name offensive players. So that that one I appreciate. But then you and I, you and I are are sympatico on jayde Daniels because both you and I said that he was going to be Rookie of the Year.
I'm still in prison bar and he continues to get it. I didn't expect this, did you. I mean, he exceeds my expectations. Do you see it going like this?
Yeah, I'd be lying if I say, oh, yeah, this is exactly.
How I saw.
I knew he's gonna be big, but I didn't think he was gonna be like this. And then the fact that you just see him getting better. Sometimes you get like the spike and the surge, and then you just plateau. He just keeps getting better, getting out of the pocket, extending plays, not necessarily always wanting to rush. He's outstanding well.
As we talked about last at the top of this hour with him, is like he everyone always trying to get on, like that was that guy's heisman moment, Like maybe this is his this weekend's signature win that he needs against the Ravens.
Jerry, what we got We did just get some news in the Jets, Robert Sala, their former head coach, making a statement. But before we get to that, as you may remember, he was replaced by defensive coordinator jeff Oldbrick, who is now going to serve as the injured coach for the rest of the season. Sawid going just twenty and thirty six in three seasons in New York. The defense not the problem. Is Gang Green rate second in the NFL in yards allowed per game, but twenty seventh overall in total offense. Here's Jets owner Woody Johnson on why he made this decision to make a change.
I wanted to give this team the most opportunity to win this season. I feel that we had to go in a different direction, and that's why I did that today. This change, the change that we made today that I made, I believe will bring new energy and positivity that will lead to more wins starting now. You know, I've been doing this for twenty five years now. This is probably the best team I've had in twenty five years. I just felt that the best way to go forward with a new direction. It's not an easy decision. This required a lot of soul searching and you know, looking back at my experience in sports and particularly with the New York Jets for twenty five years, and so I took it. I took I took it very seriously. And that's why I made the decision because I thought it. I thought and think that it's going to make us more competitive and it's going to help us reach the goals that the team.
And I want to accomplish, so I was the owner, and as I mentioned, Robert's all releasing a statement just this morning thinking Jets players, coaches, and fan saying, in quote, every one of you were all in and made sacrifices for one another that will never be forgotten.
I wish you all the very best and the remainder of the season. And Jamie, in very true Robert Sola fashion, he ended his statement with all gas, no breaks.
Oh we love that from Sala. We always have.
This is a strange time and I actually really appreciated Sherry.
Thank you.
Jeff Ulbrick in his opening press conference yesterday just acknowledging the work that Sala did and the fact that his firing was still on the shoulders of the coaches that were in that building. I thought that was really a big of Ulbrick in the fact that he's taking.
Over this position now.
Since we have to continue to talk about this and how the Jets move forward, this becomes the conversation and the question at hand to here on GMFP, Peter, if you have one person that you want to take your eyes to and watch operates over the next few days as this team tries to get things back on track ahead of Monday Night Football in the season, who's that one person for you?
This is a bizarre season for the Jets, Jets fans, and that's saying a lot considering what they've been through in recent years. But I think there's no situation in football that's more bizarre than this Hassan Reddick deal.
Hassan Redick is still not with the Jets.
He's missing out on eight hundred thousand dollars every time he's in step foot on the field, and his contract is it gonna end? And then it's gona be like, Okay, he's a free agent and he's gonna lose millions and millions of dollars when not playing.
Here was Woody Johnson, the owner of the Jets, making a pleato Redtic to just join the team yesterday on this.
Call, Dom, get in your car, drive down ninety five and come to the New York Jets and we can we can meet you and give you an escort right into the building and you'll fit right in and you're gonna love it here, and you're going to feel welcome and you're going to accomplish great things with us.
Wow, this seems very welcoming. To me, and I don't think it was solid.
The reason why he wasn't there, Hassan Reddick, I know you're out in South Jersey somewhere. I know it's about two hours and if traffic is bad, maybe.
Two and a half.
We'll get you an easy pass the whole thing. Show up on Monday, be a hero. Show up on Monday, sack Josh Allen and look to the crowd like you could still do this thing. Hassan Reddick, it is not too late to join the Jets and make some money along the way.
I would just Hassan Reddick responded. He said, would he get in your car, drive to the Wells Fargo, take out a huge pile of money and pay me what I want and what I deserve? Are you crazy? You guys need me now more than you did a training camp. You're bad now, you're two and three now, this is leverage, right, I'm not gunning up to ninety five if anything, send the jet for me. You need me, go to the bank in your car and then I'll show up. That's what he should say.
But what he did sound like he was trying to maybe send a little Batman signal and saying yo, I got some money man for you. Just drive in over here. We're not gonna put the business out there like that. Come over here and let's get something. And he did say escort like a you told about police escort, because if you told about police escort, that means they want to make sure that the goods get there to the facility so they can pay them. I'm just saying, Hassan man, love your game, man, love it. That'd be nice to see you over there doing it.
So you're saying, as Hassan Reggae exits on the turnpike, that brings trucks just following him, and they both yet escorted into it.
Because escort is a weird terminology to use telling somebody to drive.
So you're saying, we will bring police.
Escorts like on game day, We're going to escort you the same way into the facility.
All right.
I know I'm a sentimentalist when it comes to the protection of a really good locker room corps and not saying the jets of some great locker room right now, but the defense they have a going on right now. If I'm Jeff Ulbrick Peter, he's kind of I think a guy of old school nature and protect his locker room and his defense. If you're Jeff Ulbrick, are you falling over yourself to.
Say, yeah, Woody, I double down. I want Hassan Reddick.
Here, Or you say our defense is fine right now. Their rush defense could be better, but our defense in general is fine in terms of protecting the sanctity of what the Jets have going on defensively, Or am I crazy?
No, You're right, I mean the defense is great, Kyle, I'm gonna take this way off the board.
The Major League two. Sure, Jack Parkman was that the player. Yeah, Jack Parkman. He was originally with the Indians, and then he goes to the White Sox. Yeah, and they're like, we don't we don't want this guy. We don't want it. And maybe Parkman what they want, you know, maybe that's what it was like. They don't need him, Like we're good, we have this magic team. We don't need a Jack Parkman. Originally it's klu heywood.
Clear, that's Jack Parkman's in the sequel No, and they're like, fine, we don't like him. He's this We're disillusioned.
To the Jack Parkman.
That's good, Peter, I listen, we're all watching the Jack Parkman or otherwise I'm looking. I want to see Jeff Olbrich, this new guy, because he seems to be part of what I'm now calling like the CREA team coaches. He's got the Dan Campbell X player thing, you know, Salah for all his his musculature and his physique, and as he was not an ex NFL player, this guy was the linebacker. And we showed the picture earlier from on the forty nine ers. It looks like some sort of action figure that a kid would draw in the back of his notebook. It's awesome. But also the Robert Solid firing, and we talked about this when it happened. The fire was missing that guy that we fell in love with in San Francisco on the sideline, who actually physically needed a staff member to restraining from going on the field. I have not seen that guy screaming and hollering inflectioning in a long time. He looks like a shell of himself. He looks unhappy, he looks miserable. I mean, this is the guy. Where is this dude? I haven't seen him two years, maybe three years. I feel like that guy is still the coach of the Jets. Who is that person is like he's been abducted?
Is he gone?
I have not seen him in years, and the Jets fans want to see him. I think the Jets players wanted to see him, and I understand maybe he's trying to be a little more presidential as head coach to help with that. Get out there and be yourself rode him the horse that got you there and now because it's taking you out now, I feel like, again I said it earlier, I think SAWA's personality is firable, meaning like he's not a guy who's going to fight you in your office if you say we're letting you go. He's not a mic Vabel, He's not a Sean Payton. From my perspective, that guy who the hired in San Francisco was not that guy, and I feel like he lost his way.
Interesting.
I saw a flash Ofmanim on Sunday in London, but it was when the defense made this huge play, specifically when Quincy Williams scooped up a bobbled ball and he ran down the field with it, and like, that's Kinkie Williams player, like he Sala wanted to draft him in San Francisco and then the Jags got him, and the Jags cut him, and then he brought him to the Jets. Like Quincy Williams is a Robert solid guy and like Sala was so fired up for him. We didn't show it on the broadcast, but like I saw a flash of a Kyle, But to your point, it's not who he was in his wearing his head coaching hat.
Yeah. I will say this though, guys will go get nuts for him. They're going to run through one for Jet the Beast.
Jake May is starting.
We're gonna talk about the Patriots and throw back uniforms and Sam Donald, who's on a bi oh throwback uniform.
Sorry, I'm like, why am I saying Donald?
In that Trevor Lawrence is headed to London to take on the Bears. We're going to talk about alternate uniforms, throwback status and how they have us feeling a certain way.
Good mon football, all right, time for what's your Beef? Presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerky. Now, this is personal to me. All these color wave uniforms in the NFL. I am digging it.
I love it.
I see these teams out there, They're rocking their Oregon Duck inspired color schemes, mixing it up, keeping it fresh, and honestly, I'm a little jelly.
I'm jealous.
In Week one, we saw the New York Giants debut their century red uniform, which was a commemoration of the team's one hundredth season. Now, I know a lot of people thought the look was ugly, but I personally.
I liked it. I thought it was nice.
It's kind of like the Tesla cyber truck. It's like ugly good, you know what I mean? Like, what is that the brown and the red and the blue?
Eh? You know so? But I liked it.
It was cool. It was something different. We hadn't seen it in a while. Right now, how about the Texans? They blew me away in Week five at NRG Stadium, rocking that h town alternate unis. Come on me, there is sporting a little What is that old English font?
I gotta go and check this out. But I think it's the.
Old English font that they had on the helmet and the color, the blues, the red, I mean all of it. I hadn't seen it before. It was fresh to death. And then my other favorite in week four, the Detroit Lions on Monday Night football at Ford Field, sporting the all black unis with the metallic Honolulu blue or whatever that color that is.
That was sick. You can't deny it.
That helmet, as Peter would like me to say, them unis, they slap I made it was black with the red with the black Lions up in there like that was great. So I know you're saying, OK, for a you're giving all these love to this, to these unis. What's your beef. I'll tell you what my beef is. My beef is is that the team that I grew up loving. I'm gonna keep it together here. I'm just trying not to cry. The team that I grew up loving because of Super Bowls in the eighties and the cool factor made possible by the rap group NWA. Yeah, I'm talking about the Creators. Still, I'm wearing the same old jerseys. Like, don't get me wrong, the silver and black is the most iconic colors in all of sports. It's legendary. But it's time for a refresh. Mark Davis, I got your number. I'm gonna text you because it's time we need to make changes. I am demanding new Jersey color waves. Give me that all black chrome silver delete on the jerseys right with the Matt black helmet, with the silver Raiders emblem. I mean something that makes a massive statement.
Right now, the Raiders have three options.
They have their home, they're away, and the so called alternative, which is the whatever they call it, the white with the silver.
I'm not hating on it. It's cool, but let's keep it real.
They've only got one true alternate and we know that what I just talked about. But for the Raiders to join the party and bring some of that heat. We got the colors that everybody wants. Let's get a color wave that makes the silver and black fans proud. Okay, I want that for my Raiders. So that's my beef. Mark Davis, you'll hear from me, so please.
I'm torn. I love the take, Okbar, I love the take.
To me.
There are like two or three franchises Stealers, Raiders, forty nine, forty nine ers where.
I don't need the crazy, funky.
But after I saw the Giants go to those ones on week one, maybe all things are out the window. Maybe Okbar's right, Maybe the Raiders need like an all black or all silver pants everything, like, maybe it's time for the Raiders to bring somebody out.
Okbar could be right.
I think the Raiders have the best uniforms in the NFL. If I remember asked that by a fan, Raiders have best uniforms, untouchable. Don't touch it, Akbar, You're wrong. I stay, stay with them. I don't need anything from them, Just keep it classic.
Did you hear everybody going crazy over the orange Crush. I'm like that was the same Raider uniform. Nobody's giving us the same love that they will give the Orange Crush. It's the old school, different broncosm. I grew up watching that. There was nothing impressive about that.
I want the Broncos uniforms now, are horry.
I believe you were able to compliment the Tesla truck in the Western pocrasation.
That was really impressive. He called it ugly good.
I'm like, no one has ever been able to do that in the history of the Tesla truck.
The thing is ainus looking.
Oh, the Bears are going to London. The Bears are three and two, The Bears are playing the Jaguars are coming off a win, and in anticipation of that, I got to sit down with Caleb Williams, the Bears quarterback. I know this is Jaden Central, and I know that we talk a lot of Jaden here. There was another rookie quarterback out on the field last week and next week, and Bears fans expectations for him are of course meteoric. So one of the questions I wanted to ask him was what do you think when you hear yourself referred to as not only the future of the franchise, but the Savior, the Messiah? And he had some fun with it and referenced a very, very very popular film franchise. This is just a taste might sit down with Kayleb Williams. I have some terms and some phrases that the Bears fans have used to describe you and what you mean to the future of the franchise, because this is my favorite one. You're ready, Messiah, Messiah.
I think when I when I hear that, I think of Dune. You know, even that movie. I couldn't have done it all by himself. So it goes to having the team, and you know, the guys behind you and believe in you, and believing in offense, believing each other, and having that bond to be able to go out there and win.
So it's kind of funny, all right.
So if you're someone who's like, yeah, I love the Bears and Caleb, I don't know what the hell he's talking about right there.
That is that Timothy.
Chalomey character about a basically a messiah figure who saves an entire group of people and liberates them, and those people in this case would be the Bears fans. Caleb was unbelievably cool. There's a lot more coming on Game Day kickoff this weekend. We talked all about the the Jaden comparison. His goal is to be Brady one day. He's a really really different dude and he doesn't apologize for it.
Which is what makes me love him. Oh, I love it. We talked about this, Sarah.
He went movie reference right away like that.
I mean, you should have seen it, Jamie. I was freaking out, like I love you, I love you. And there's even more where that came from.
He knows, he
Knows, Oh Dune, Cale's like, yes, scale of myln his son al Kayib
