Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast continues discussions on Thanksgiving Day NFL matchups! Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, and Akbar Gbaja-Biamila discuss the free agent running backs making huge impacts on their current teams. Peter reveals his Fab Five Rookies of the Week before Senior Bowl Exec. Jim Nagy drops in to discuss the stories of Bo Nix and the College Football regular season coming to a close.
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I'm welcome Insight, Good Morning Football Life. You're in LA and New York City. It's a Wednesday, November twenty seventh.
This is our propos via Milla. That's Peter Schrager. There is Kyle Brandt. I'm Jamie Erdahl.
It's a very fun show for the day before Thanksgiving. We spoke with the Jones family last hour. Lady Wilson will see her at the halftime performer during the Giants Cowboys game.
That was all in our first hour.
This hour, we have Jim Naggy, We got Schreger's five and YouTube. Gentlemen in New York have some new segment that you're going to talk about and go to touchdown calls or something from the season.
So we watch all the games on the weekend and in a lot of times as a show, we're texting about how great the broadcasting calls are.
We've been working very hard with our producers.
I'm on as the man steering the ship here and we are gonna debut a new segment where we maybe give some love to the announcers and the best calls of the weekend.
It's going to be on later this hour. We can't wait.
Some awesome all right, This first segment that we're going to do three and out just kind of a bummer. I realized is the name of the segment. It's because something you avoid is doing a three and out. So I guess we'll play three and out, but I guess we have to punt to commercial at the end of it.
So here we go.
Three Yeah, true like that.
Wait to spin it, Kyle. Three minutes on the clock and our first down.
We're looking at.
The Thanksgiving night game again. Dolphins packers guys.
One minute each. What would a win mean for the Dolphins? Peter, You're up first.
They killed the narrative that they've been dealing with since Mike McDaniel and Tua really got under center that they can't win games in the cold. And this includes a tough one on a Saturday night a couple of years ago in Buffalo where they thought they had the bills on the ropes, and then Josh Allen was Superman, and then last year in the playoff game.
Where they were missing a lot of key defenders.
I can make excuses all day long bottom line is the Dolphins do not win in the cold, and this game in Green Bay is going to be in the cold, and it's going to be on national television, and they have a chance to erase a lot of these narratives that follow this team.
The only way to do.
It is to slay the dragon. I said in the first hour of the show. The Buccaneers as a franchise couldn't win squat and cold weather for years.
They went into.
Philly in a playoff game, beat them, and they won the Super Bowl in San Diego the next game. The Dolphins have won three straight games. I don't really feel like we need to talk about them if they lose on Thursday night. Three straight's great beating Drake May is great beating whoever's great. Go win in cold weather and do it in a game that I know. I know they are aware of the narrative that spins around this.
Team, and I think to add to that, it just it's the adding of pressure to the Chargers and to the Broncos. That to me is the immense pressure that they because you can't ignore them. They win this game in the cold, get rid of the narrative. Well, you can't actually get rid of the narrative. You can only rewrite it, maybe just a little bit, but it's still going to be there because people are always going to remember it. But I think, to me, this is a case to say that they are legitimate team now making that push. They're just outside here, you know, in this AFC race for the wildcard, that wildcard spot, You've got the Chargers at six, You've got the Broncos at seven. Right there, here come the Dolphins and it would be a big win against a very good Green Bay Packers team.
The weather stuff is fun, and we talked about that to start the show, but honestly, that is a secondary storyline to the fact that the Dolphins are playing for their season.
This is everything. Five and seven. I think it's over.
I don't think you're gonna make some miracle run and just win out at five and seven. But this is a massive, massive night. If Miami wins this game, it's boom. Not only did they beat a really good Packers team on the road and all the cold weather stuff, then it's like, look the hell out, because I will do if you want to do hashtag check the schedule. They play the Jets next Jets are terrible. Houston's not playing well. San Francisco's not playing well. Cleveland's not a great team. They played the Jets again. There's a realistic thing that they are the perfect like an all time come running team down December, because this is not an up and emerging team we're just learning about. It's not really even the Broncos with the rookie quarterback. It is a machine that we have seen before. They can get really really hot, really cocky, and then come tearing down the stretch. If they lose this game and it's thirty one to nine, I cannot tell you how uninteresting that is. It's over, and there might be a lot of things that are over if they lose this one thirty one to nine, but certainly the come running factor down the stretch and everything, it is way more interesting for all of us, not Packers fans. If the Dolphins win, but the Packers might smoke them, it means a lot. It's a big game for Miami.
I like the concept of something that goes from interesting being catapulted into fascinating, and that's what happens in our second down with three running backs made massive impacts on their team.
This season with their.
Arrivals Saekwon bark Lay to Philadelphia, Dereck Henry to Baltimore, and of course Josh Jacobs to the apforementioned Green Bay Packers.
Which free agent acquisition.
Do you believe has made the most impact at that position?
Barkley, Henry or Jacobs? Peter?
Isn't it crazy in a year where everyone said, you know, the running back position is dead and you can draft anyone in the sixth or seventh round and just plug them in.
The three best running backs are.
Three players that were free agent acquisitions, and I think all of them are gotten at bargain prices. Now that I've given that monologue, I'm gonna say Dereck Henry, and I know Saquan is the leader for the MVP, but I think Derrick Henry adds an element to a very good Ravens offense that makes them excellent for this stretch run. We're gonna get in cold weather games now, folks, We're gonna be going games where you're gonna be hosting the Steelers over you know, Christmas weekend, and you're gonna be playing the Texans in a big spot where you need to get those.
Those yard is late.
Saquan is as dynamic a running back as the NFL has seen over the last five season. Dereck Henry is your Mariano Rivera. Derek Henry is for a team that got to the AFC Championship Game a year ago, gets them to the next level. I think is the biggest and most important part of that Baltimore offense. But having Derek Henry behind him is a security blanket like you don't even know. I think Derek Henry makes the biggest impact and we haven't even seen his biggest impact yet, which is gonna be able to the final stretch of the season.
The biggest impact to me. I love what those guys have done for their squad, But the biggest impact to me statistically just with the eyeball test and everything else, Sakwon Barkley. Saquon Barkley is having a year and we know that. And this is not has nothing to do with the jumps and the explosive you know, two hundred and fifty five yards gait. I'm just talking about consistently how he is impacted the team. When you think about the ability to convert on third downs right now, when you look at what sa Kuon Barkley is doing right now. He's had sixteen third down conversion that's more than any of those guys that we've real you know, we've talked about with Josh Jacobs and Dereck Henry. Then you turn around and you talk about the increase from last year, because when I'm looking at biggest impact, what couldn't the Eagles do last year that they're doing now? And you think about an eleven percent in in their ability to run the ball, And that's all because they have a solid running back or dynamic running back. And Saykuon Barkley, so he has changed this offense a lot. He gives them the ability to do multiple things. You have to respect, you have to respect this run game that opens everything else, of course vertically, But I like Sakuon Barkley for this one.
The crazy thing about this question isn't that we're listing these three running backs who've made a difference. Is that we're not even mentioning Joe Mixon, who has been the best player on the Houston Texans, or Aaron Jones or Aaron Jones who will be in the playoffs for the Vikings. There's all kinds of players who've gone all around. Listen, this question is impossible to answer right now. If you ask me, I think it would probably be Dereck Henry in a nose just because he's diversified the Ravens offense. This question will be answered in January, because I promise you say Kwai can win the MVP this year, and if we're sitting there in a divisional round, he has sixteen carries for thirty eight yards and a loss, that is what will be remembered. Same thing for Dereck Henry, Satan to Josh Jacob, All this regular and stuff is fine. Those guys were brought in to win playoff games. We'll have this discussion in two months.
Okay, third down this one. I'm just looking at what I have to.
Ask you guys here, and you guys ready to work. Right, It's three minutes on the clock, third and twenty six, one more Thanksgiving Day game. We got to look at Giant Zac Cowboys. Guys, make a case why this game still matters?
Peter, do you have any Pride Giants?
Any Giants have lost fourteen of the last fifteen games to the Dallas Cowboys.
The Giants have not led in a single game. Over the last six weeks, they've not led.
The Giants have only led for eighty five total minutes this entire season.
Think about all the they're.
Sixty minutes in one game, Giants have led for eighty five total minutes, and it's Thanksgiving. This game last year was the highest rated regular season game in NFL history.
Congrats to CBS. I don't know if we're getting close to that with these two units, but I'll tell you what.
If I'm a Giants player, I'm hearing all this, and I'm listening to all this, and I'm thinking, I know Daniel Jones in here, but I share a Takwana play in the NFL moving forward, I have any pride at all Giants, any pride whatsoever. You respond to that horrific performance Sunday against Tampa Bay and you bring it on national TV or maybe forty million people, and the love of my life, Landy Wilson, are watching.
You know.
I tell you, I mean I get it. Two and nine, four and seven. This game matters because this is a game that is especially with the Cowboys. It is woven into the American fabric of who we are. I go back to my childhood and I think about Thanksgiving. You can't have Thanksgiving without looking at the Cowboys and watching Cowboys on TV. And I think about that ice smell turkey, and I also smell football. So this is important just because it doesn't matter what the record is. We're talking about holding up traditions and things that matter to the family and keeping the family together. This would be like essentially not having Fourth of July or having Fourth of July with no fireworks, right, This would be like having Christmas with no joy.
Can you imagine Christmas.
With no joy? Can you imagine? Or how about this super Bowl with no halftime? You have to have you absolutely have to have football and Cowboys watching football.
There. It is right there.
That's why it met.
That's your case. I like it.
It's beautifully well said. That was actually a very moon. It's a terrible game, terrible, But this is.
The luxury we have, the privilege we have of the NFL. The question we ask you is what else are you gonna watch? You tell me you're not gonna watch Giants?
Cowboys? Yes you are, Yes you are? What a million of you are you are gonna watch?
I don't care if it's said three to nhing final score you're watching because honestly, what else are you gonna watch? I look at it this way. I mean Thanksgiving afternoon. You already watched Playing Strands and Autobiles. That's the fact of Thanksgiving movie.
And I have this to say about the Dutch movement. Touched okay.
Dutch is a nineteen ninety one movie starring Ed O'Neil, who you know from Married with Children but Modern Family. He was in the prime of Married with Children and you might not recognize him. That's Ethan Embery on the left from Cam't hardly way.
That's him as a child.
Dutch is a nineteen ninety one movie written by John Hughes, who also wrote and directed Playstrays and Automobiles. And it's this stuffy kid who takes a ride with this crazy guy Dutch. And it's a road trip movie. It's not that good, but it's in with the backdrop of Thanksgiving. And I'm seeing this movement online now and I think it's this ironic movement of.
Like, Dutch is absolutely underrated. I'm telling you, and you know what it is.
We are so all obsessed and all consumed with Christmas movies, and we want to watch Christmas.
Movies for months and months and months.
There's this push now to be like, we want to do that in November two.
So people are digging up Dutch that.
I rented from Benny's Video in Lagrange, Illinois in nineteen ninety two, and there was fifty copies available.
No one gave a crap about Dutch.
But now because Netflix makes Christmas movies that we want Thanksgiving movies, and people are going back to Dutch. I'm gonn og on Dutch. I've been there with Dutch. I've been on that corner with Dutch. Don't all you Johnny Comeways be like, I've always liked Dutch.
No, you haven't. Stop it. I'm a Dutch guy.
You're not.
It's not that good.
I promised question for you, a couple questions. Yeah, because I have not seen Dutch.
Hutch.
I have no place in my memory for Dutch.
Not that good. Peter John Hughes.
Did Home Alone in ninety a Christmas movie that's an all time classic, and Dutch in ninety one. He goes Christmas. Okay.
Secondly, Bill Simmons, the Rewatchables, you're a stuntlement. Have they done Dutch yet? Because I would love to watch this movie and then here full commentary on Dutch.
Probably, if we're lucky, Van Lathan and Chris Ryan and Bill Simmons will do the Dutch episode. I wasn't invited to the Dutch episode, Peter, So if we're all listen, guys, but have that.
I don't think it's that good of a movie.
God, listen, when Kyle goes in on early nineties films, I always have to do like the solid Wikipedia dive. And when I tell you how many times Kyle has referenced a movie that I do not know and the sentence that leads it is The film was poorly received critically at a box office bomb, although it's gained it made for full following after its home video release.
Kyle stopped seeing us up on.
These movies these hipsters now and watch people are gonna tweet me like I lost some respect for you today. Brand Dutch is a great movie and coming of age tale.
I'm out.
I'm not watching the show anymore. Yes you are, and you're not watching Dutch? Okay, goodbye d never heard of it?
Rap sheet, Ian Rappaport, get in here. When it comes to Dutch.
I don't care about who's care about who's playing.
I want to know if you rented Dutch at Benny's Video wherever you grew up.
I have seen Dutch by the way, that's it. It's properly rated. It's kind of man seems fine O'Neil with children, he's kind of funny. I don't know. I'd say it's decent. I wouldn't rewatch it, by the way. Other no intereship development. My dad has now become a huge fan of Rewatchables's make sure to tell your friend Kyle Brandt that I really enjoyed, and then they'll tell me what episode do you watch? So Kyle, just want to let you know my dad enjoys your work. I'm obviously it's.
Likes the Roadhouse episode. Yeah, thank you.
Ian.
All right, let's get what's in the news and then we'll talk about unders.
We will start with the New York Giants, Oh my god, Professor quarterback situations.
Daniel Jones, the former.
Giants quarterbacks, still trying to pick where he wants to go. Wouldn't be surprised if he ends up doing what I think a lot of veterans do this time of year, a sign of the practice squad practice, get involved, and then wait figure out. This is the start of the game week right now, so today would make a solid opportunity for him to make a choice.
Hasn't happened yet.
It wouldn't be surprised if it say it would be surprised if it's a practice squad. Some of the teams to watch, the Minnesota Vikings, who I would think it's fair to say, probably have a need at backup quarterback forty nine ers still deal with this brock Perty injury. Maybe the Raiders if he wants to go out and play immediately. Maybe the Dolphins they've had backup quarterback issues as well. Daniel Jones' decision should be coming soon. His former team, the New York Giants. With that game we cannot wait to watch on Thanksgiving, mostly because it's absolutely the best thing on TV compared to all the other things on TV. Tommy DeVito slated to start, but that comes through an asterisk.
He's pretty bagged up.
He's dealing with essentially full body soreness plus a right form injury. Giants think he's going to be able to go, but he's got to go out there and throw today. The fact that Drew lock took first team reps as indicative that at least it's up.
In the air.
There is also a twenty twenty one thriller called Dutch, and the tagline is you get one time to be big time. And that is what I'm going to reference Ian Rapaport when he does the news ninety one twenty twenty one, two.
Very different films. It looks like, go ahead, take a gander.
Goodbye, that's a good pool. Thank you.
Well, I mean, just look at the is Google or Dutch and you can be amazed at what comes up. Guys, you're gonna say to the booth, there's some new faces up there. There's some awkward exchanges when it comes to the fist pomp for the high five. Tom Brady's trying to figure it out. I wonder if he makes it into our new segment with Peter and Kyle, who take us into the booth with things that we love from the year.
Yeah that was months ago. We're gonna do ripping from this past weekend. We're gonna go back from awards for the good stuff. There's enough awards for the players.
Let's credit some of the announcers, plus Peter rookies.
We always do Fab five on Wednesdays.
We've got to give the five best rookie performances and love.
Did Lad McConkie make it again? We'll see.
Good Morning Football. It's Wednesday.
He recapped the top five rookie performances of the previous week, and we're gonna start off with a big fella at number five. I've been wanting to get this guy onto the list all season long because he makes splash plays and they're not razzled dazzle, they're splash in a different way. I'm talking about Tennessee Titans second round pick.
And nose tackle to Andre Sweat. The to Andre Sweat experience is one that must be watched.
He's three hundred and sixty six pounds. He lines up next to Jeffrey Simmons and.
He is a load.
Where's number ninety three. He is a huge personality.
At the University of Texas and he's a huge person three hundred.
And sixty six pounds.
He had a sack in a big moment.
We're gonna play the call for that sack later on in the show and you're gonna love it. But take a look at this The heaviest players to get a sack in NFL history.
Now he's got a long way to go to match.
Big Ted Washington, who I know was a teammate of Okbars, Big Chris Jenkins, who of course had an excellent NFL career, and Baron Tanner down there in three sixty. But to Andre and a world where linebackers wear two hundred pounds, we still have big men in football. We had three hundred and sixty six pounds. He's playing some of the best football off his rookie season. Second round pick to and Andre Sweat in a Titans win, we see you, your number five, number four quarterback who lost but.
Showed us some really good things. Caleb Williams. Welcome back to the list, Caleb.
It was great to see Caleb throwing the rock the way he did. It's a guy who set the Bears rookie passing yards and passing touchdown records. Last week against Minnesota, he was really good. This is the team that scored twenty seven points out there being.
Awful the last sever weeks.
He had two passing touchdowns in the loss after having zero in four straight games, and he snapped that streak of one hundred and sixty five pass attempts about a touchdown.
He also led them back on a furious.
Comeback in the fourth quarter and they tied it and got to overtime. Look, we could beat Caleb wh when he loves in, and we could beat that Bears offense down.
They were not the problem Sunday, and they were good when it mattered most.
And Caleb after age horrible stretch and it looked like hit the rookie wall bounced back three hundred and forty passing yards, two touchdowns.
Venus apters.
You make the Fab five when you play like that, even in a loss.
Number three. We talked about all the veteran.
Running backs on this season, whether it be Sakuon Barkley and Derrick Henry and Josh Jacobs and Joe Mixon and Aaron Jones. Still love some rookie running backs and Bucky Irving's back on the list. Bucky Irving came into the mong Lands last week and was like, give.
Me that rock.
I love that he wears that number seven. Remember playoff Leonard for Nett used to wear that at the running back spot for the Bucks. Bucky Evering's like, I got this now, Baker Mayfield gets a lot of the love for throwing this block here, but the.
Run was pretty excellent too.
Bucky Irving had another.
Huge day, one hundred and fifty one.
Scrimmage yards and a rushing touchdown. He had eighty seven rushing yards and he had sixty seven receiving yards.
This one here an awesome little bubble screen. They got him right to the goal line.
Then he's fighting, fighting, fighting, Bucky.
When you talk about players who have had eighty plus rushing yards, a rushing touchdown, and sixty plus receiving yards in a rookie season, there's only been a select few.
And he's a pretty good list.
The great Crew Resall, sa Quon, Alvin Kamara, Dalvin Cooking, Creehunt all had outstanding rookie seasons. Bucky Irving, we see you. It's been a few weeks. You guys lost a bunch of games four and yet of bye week, so we haven't bet on the list. Bucky Irving back on the list at number three.
Number two.
We go to the defensive side of the ball on a team that we haven't talked much about their rookie class because they don't have a ton of rookie picks.
But guess who's playing really well.
Chop Robinson out at Penn State for the Miami Dolphins. Chop Robinson was all over the field Sunday against the Patriots, maybe the best player on the field. And I want to show you the moment that Chop made himself known to the crowd with one of the coolest moves you'll see on a sack. Here's Chop Robinson getting to Drake May early on in Sunday's win.
Robinson last week was credited with six pressures. What a rookie.
Here he comes again. This time he gets to May. Boy, what did Anthony Weaver tell us?
He feels like his kid is close to a.
Breakthrough and he is becoming a force for Miami.
It's a loss of nine.
I need the bald breakdown because at the swim move into a duck move and like Chuck Smith and all the different great pass rushing technicians, Von Miller does the pass rush summit. Like I need more because Chop Robinson is doing it all. This guy had a second and a half, three quarterback hits.
He defended two passes.
He'll do it eight quarterback pressures in one game.
Like he was all over the field.
Chop is a rookie comes out of Penn State, fell out.
Of the first round.
A lot of people were surprised by that. You look at this, the highest pressure rate in the game by a rookie since twenty twenty and three, so two years.
Those are some big names.
Will Anderson, Will Anderson and Tooley who's been having an outstanding two years for the Chargers.
Chop Robinson, welcome to the list.
We're gonna be hearing a lot about you on Thursday night when tomorrow you'll be in Green Bay. And as a cold weather player from Penn State, I think the weather will not affect Top Robinson number one. We have a offensive Rookie of the Year race now, and it didn't seem like that would be the case ten weeks into the season. It looked like Jaden Daniels was already practicing his speech. Bow Knicks was amazing again. Bow Nicks is number one for the second straight week here on the Fab five, and bow Knicks was outstanding. Here is my favorite of the Bonnicks plays on Sunday. A touchdown pass to Courtland, something that is perfectly thrown.
Second down nine.
He's going deep to the end zone.
Sutton cut Tuxtown Portland Sutton and for the first time centraarly in the game, the Broncos have taking the lead.
This game was a lot closer than the final score indicated.
The Raiders were hanging in here. Bonnicks wouldn't let it get out of hand.
Bonick was like, We're not gonna go beat the Falcons the way we did and.
Then lose to the Raiders. Knicks was awesome yet again. This guy he leads.
The NFL with eight passing touchdowns and zero interceptions since Week ten. So in the last three weeks, then includes a Chiefs.
Game, it includes Falcons.
And then it includes this one here against the Raiders.
Bonnicks has been awesome. And I think I said it on Monday. I really mean this.
It would have been really easy for the Broncos to just kind of like cower and go into the hole and going to a corner after losing to the Chiefs on a locked field goal.
They've done just the opposite.
They've gotten really great responses from these guys and they haven't even had their bye week yet, so the best is yet to come. And I think bo Nicks is solidly in that conversation with Jaden Daniels. If anything, Jayden was the first half offensive rookie of the year, and I think bo Nicks has been the second half. It's going to be a race to the finish, which makes it really exciting in advance of NFL honors and a real covened award. There it is my five guys. I love this list because it includes first round picks like Nix and Caleb, second round picks like Choppin' cam Andre, and then Day three guys like Bucky Irving all over the board. Kyle, your thoughts on this week's Fat five.
The coaches Kate Mafia online has been doing backflips all week about Dayla Williers and there's this sense of Okay, they lost again, and maybe the writing is on the wall for some of the Bears, But my god, the stuff that Caleb put on tape this week, like six or seven wow throws. So the Bears are like, well, we lost, but there's this assurance now that I think we still have the guy.
It's nice to see him on.
The learning one of our favorite people on this program. You know, college football season's winding down. That means the draft season is building up. You might have seen that Joe Shane and a lot of the Giants brass was at Colorado yesterday. Stuff like that gets us talking. And now someone who's going to be very integral in our draft coverage over the next few months is the executive director of the Reese's Senior Bowl.
Our buddy, Jim Naggy Joe Man morning, guys. Yes, Jim, great to have you.
I just gave bon Nicks the award as the best rookie of the Week.
I did it last week too.
He was at the Senior Bowl last year and he's shining in Denver. People were surprised he went twelfth overall, people were surprised he went in the first round. But you were a bon Knicks advocate throughout the draft process. Based on what you saw now twelve months later after seeing him excel at the NFL, what's your impression on bon Nicks his rookie year in Denver, Peter, it's.
Been so impressive.
I didn't see your segment, so I don't know what stats you threw out to support what Bo's doing, but I saw one this week and it's pretty amazing. You know, over a ten game stretch, over the last ten years, all the quarterbacks twenty plus touchdowns, less than two interceptions over at ten game stretch, H's Mahomes, Brady Breeze and Rogers and now bow Nicks and talking to the guys in the building out there in Denver, like we're seeing what's happening on the field, what we're not seeing.
Is what's happening in the building.
And they say to them, that's the most impressive thing is what he's certainly not coming across like a rookie in the building, all his preparation, all the leadership stuff that you would expect from a guy that.
Started sixty college games.
I think a lot of people took shots at Bowl last year during the draft process about his age and everything.
But I'll tell you what, the guys.
In Denver right now are excited that he is an older guy and that he's been through a lot.
Jim Will, we're a little bit up against it, but I want to make sure you give you your proud popa moment, because that's always your vibe. Besides bow Nicks and fellow senior bowler Josh Allen, which other alum do you have your eyes on right now?
Good?
Good question.
Come out.
I'd say Brighton fist the defensive tackle for the La Rams right now. Five sacks in the last five game, six on the season. Was really one of the stories the last Year's Senior Bowl where we flipped him teams on game day. Practice with one team all week, went to the other team on game day. You know, the pairing to he and Jerry Birth out there with the Rams. I think less need nailed that one. Great chemistry with those guys, and so it's been cool to watch him all the guys out in La Lad mcconkey's another one who's on face for like eleven hundred yards for the Chargers.
So some cool stuff right back there in your backyard is so far.
Absolutely, Lad's been a star.
Jim.
It's been really cool to see some of the juniors and seniors receive their invitations to the Reese's Senior Bowl.
As we inch closer to the end of.
College football season, they're posting about being able to participate.
How's the roster shaping up.
We've got about fifty guys, and the big one is cam Ward, the Heisman hopeful quarterback from Miami. We did a really cool invite in Mario Christovaul's office last week.
So excited to get Cam down here.
We've had first drunk quarterbacks eight of the last nine years. Hopefully Cam and some of these other guys will get on board, will continue that tradition.
I think you're as well versed and as well informed as anybody in the world when it comes to these prospects. And I mean that, and I cannot wait to see the full list of Senior Bowl invites plenty more of those. Cam Ward, congratulations and Jim, congrats to you. The recent Senior Bowl is still number one in the game and is still kicking button.
Man.
Thank you guys, have a great Thanksgivin, thanks for having me on. We appreciate everything you do for the Senior Bowl.
So you too, Hey, thank you all that man, good mon.
We'd like to welcome you into the booth as we celebrate the greatest accomplishments and accolades in all of NFL broadcasting. I am Kyle Brent with me as always is Peter Schrager partner.
How are we feeling.
I'm feeling good. You know, it's a Chris cold in the air. Got off the plane, walked right in here and said, okay, it's the holiday season in the city.
Let's go.
That's the man right there.
We see so many awards for players, for coaches, I really think they are under celebrated, analysts, broadcasters, sideline reporters, and we mean.
To end that today.
Should we get after it on Thanksgiving week? Welcome you into the booth our very Firxactly that we want to give out is very simple.
It's just best play call.
And you remember that Commander's Cowboys game.
That went down.
We're gonna go to Joe Davis and Greg Olsen from the Fox Network who had quite a call in their hands.
Here is our best play call of the week. Take it away, fellas now for minute no time outs. Daniels stores down the.
Sidelines for turn.
Leon strax twice. Washington, Oh my.
Gosh, for anyone on Washington gets too fired up, Remember we've seen a miss pat ready for the time low snap.
It is oh good, and the worst special teams day in history has a fitting finish.
I'm not even sure what we just watched.
A missed extra point and a missed opportunity for dan Quinn and the Commanders.
It was the best call of the weekend. It also might have been the best call of the year. There's Joe Davis, he's the play by play man, and there's Greg Olsen, our friend of the show who's on the color commentary there for Fox. Olson of course a two time Sports Any Award winner, so he's got his accolades. But this might be the biggest honor of all.
And also so great because he knows all his stuff, but he's so relatable and in that moment he just goes to I don't even know what to say right now, which is what we were thinking. He didn't go into the gap integrity of the offensive line. They need to maintain this and that's all great, and he can, but there's a moment where you just say, I got nothing based on what we just saw, and it was incredible.
And Davis as well.
Joe Davis is excellent. We love him in the World series. We love them there.
Now our next award is for when things maybe go off the rails. The director is going to show you something in the booth that you have to respond. There is no one more adaptable to these moments than our friend who is playing hurt on Sunday, mister Mike Terico. Here is what Chris Collinsworth during a pre Thanksgiving game in LA.
This is a turkey farm right before Thanksgiving?
Will we just present that through oh dear visual amusement, we wish those turkeys well.
Now, who has that role on our staff?
But bringing the turkey out? Yeah, man, there you go one of the legends, Kyle. Well, we have to say this first.
The gentleman on the left, the inimitable Mike Turrico, tore his achilles and is sitting there in the booth cracking wise about turkeys and crediting the staffer while elevating his achilles tendon, which is.
One of the worst injuries the human body can go through.
Here, how many times you think these guys have had to talk over the b roll of the turkeys and the turkey coop a thousand times and they still made it a result fun. I liked it that Mike played on the idea that now all these turkeys are going to be killed at eating, but we wish them well. And how classy is it to shout out the staffords noman whose job, yall, is to take a turkey puppet and put it on TV.
It's just so good.
That's a puffet that.
I hope it was a puppet. Even the puppet will die, but they all die. This is put the puppet down.
After the game.
They put the puppet down, just tear, shreds, hit the stuffing out of it. We have a lot of categories here to get to an into the booth, but this is probably the fan favorite one. There's always enthusiasm when.
A large player makes them play.
An offensive lineman makes a touchdown catcher. In this case, a nearly three hundred and seventy pound man makes a play. We go from the CBS Network to Princeton two thousand and one graduate Ross Tucker on Tovandre Sweat. Take it away, ROSSI, I've been waiting for Sweat to make a play.
This guy just jumps off. Look at that three hundred and seventy pounds. Watch the big man move here. It's going to be a stunt. He is to penetrate all the left club Shack Mason, So Shaq Mason had all of his weight forward because that's a three hundred and seventy pound man.
That was awesome. I love it.
There's nothing quite like the excitement.
That's Tom McCarthy, that's Adam Archiletta.
It was McCarthy and Tucker on this one. Now, Jay Feely, J Feeley, I'm sorry, my bad, my bad. Archileto was also going to field my bad. Got everyone in the segment, IL read myny first time.
I look get Jay Michigan alum's great kicker, Ross Tucker, Kyle.
You know, well, well, the most honest thing that Ross said in that call is I've been waiting for Tavandre Sweat to make a play. Ross went into that game. He studied every Titan in every Texan c J. Stroud, whatever, Will Levis, whatever, all those guys.
He was waiting for Tavandre Sweat.
To make a play because Ross Tucker gets out of bed in the morning just wanted to see big guys do what he did. I mean, listen, I go way back with Ross's a lifelong friend of mine. You should see Rossi's got. He has two daughters who are very into musical theater. Can you imagine him at the audience when they bring down Yes, no, they do a frozen not let it go? And Ross's in the audience with the same enthusiasm for Elsa that he has for Tbandre Sweat.
And that's what makes Ross Ross. We love you Ross.
We also love Kaylee Hartongue. And I'll tell you what. There's this new part.
Of the NFL broadcast where players are required to be interviewed during games and right before kickoff.
We saw on Sunday Pukanakua did.
One with Melissa Stark, and on Thursday night we got our best Player interview of the week with the great Kaylee Hartongue and our friend Jameis Winston.
What will it take tonight?
The horse was prepared for battle, but big comes from the Lord. So I'm depending on the Lord. Is that the message to the team day by day, one play at a time, that's the message.
Weather conditions tonight we're expecting wins up to fifteen miles per hour in a wintery mix.
How will that impact your ability.
To throw the ball?
I'm so happy and grateful that the Lord is best me to play in some snow to be true football weather in Cleveland, Ohio, at Huntington bank Field today to get him the glory.
It's a beautiful day, all right. So we know Jamis is a star. You've seen the clip a thousand times. Can we just talk about hard time? Oh God, the poise to sit there and know what you're getting is incredible, But the follow ups make the answers. You've seen Jameis talk about the snow. That's the answer of the NFL season. The fact that Kaylee stayed in her shoes and went to the weather question is the reason we got that monologue from James.
And there's something very subtle about when the weather gets cold and the sideline reporters m hm, put the hat on, no logo, no nothing, You put the hat on, you're ready for the conditions.
She was ready for everything.
It's like we would never have gotten the eruption guitar solo from Eddie van Halen unless the guitar tech had it tuned perfectly and handed the instrument to Eddie to make that magic. Kaylee three straight questions in the face of one of the most bizarre interviews in NFL history.
It doesn't work without.
Can I quickly do? Jamis?
When when you ask me what's the feeling like to play in the conditions?
Go so, Jamis snow in the forecast.
What's the feeling to play in the in the condition She didn't laugh, She se they laugh. I came apart immediately. When Peter's doing it she was doing it for realms. I think a thousand people.
It was Incrediblely, let's finish up with a friend of us, a colleague.
A friend of our own, chaos around you, who has courage under fire? You know her, you love her, NFL media legend, Jane Slater.
Go ahead, thank you.
Oh Marble.
Casual fans will likely not recognize a number of players on the field as they are dealing with a lot of injuries as well as we're players out for the season.
We got some good news to start with.
To Ron Bland returns at corner, but opposite Kim Trayvon Diggs, Well, he's out dealing with a groin injury.
Mark, all right, this is the Courage under Fire Award.
Not only is there a marching band behind carry, then she behind Jane. Then you do another segment and if you look at the background, it just happens to be jay Z and Michael Rubin and out of here and a huge commotion and Jane's talking about treyvon Diggs's injury.
Hew.
Look, I don't bow to the altar of jay Z. I don't think like she should have stopped.
But the fact that she is distracted, it's very distracting.
But everyone's in a mob behind you, and she just keeps gotting going on, talking about Marquith Bell.
And I give Jane a lot of credit. It's called the Courage under Fire Award. She kept to the thing. Marching band, no problem, jay Z, no problem. Jane Slader's got an injury report to provide.
Yeah, you don't see a lot of marching bands in pregame at NFL games.
That is a commander's game.
But you know what, I look at Jane, and we've worked with Jane for years and years and years.
James, I look, I covered the Dallas Cowboys.
You think I can't handle a couple of susaphones behind me? And my report about Austin Eckler is a lower leg injury. She could do it with anything by jet engine behind her, jay Z. Doesn't matter. Those are our award winners. So many great ones. Ross Tucker, Kaylee Hartsong, Mike Tarico, Joe Davis, and Greg Olson.
Thank you for join us into the booth.
Will send them all on social media works let us know if you've seeing something this week.
I like to do live action promo reas, like right about now, you're probably taking your turkey out of the brine bag, get a dry it overnight, and then tomorrow morning you put that sucker in the oven with us. At eight am Eastern, it's Good Morning Football. Then ten am Eastern, you got Rich Eyes and Steve marych Kurt Warner, Trill McCoy, Colleen Wilf, Cynthia Freeland put a lineup.
Ian Rappaport. That's your game.
Day Morning Crew gets you all set for Thanksgiving games on the third annual John Madden Thanksgiving Celebration.
Here's what it looks like.
And the guys just got done with their into the booth segment. She got Bears, Lions, Giants, Cowboys, Dolphins, Packers. That's on Thursday, and then of course the prime Black Friday game Raiders at Chiefs. I might have to go iron Man Award to the NBC crew who is in La Sunday night. They got to go to Green Bay on Thursday. And then I believe that's same Tarko.
Collins or with Melissa Stark crew. They're gonna be in buff on the week over the weekend. So that's awesome.
Wow, I'm into it, and we will, of course on Good Morning Football be on the air. We are always on on Thanksgiving. It's a pleasure to be on Thanksgiving. We'll be on tomorrow, we'll be on Friday. We are here for Thanksgiving, aren't we?
From our family to yours. Yeah, safe travel, and yeah, go to that Bills giving.
You're gonna go to Buffalo. We're gonna do what Kyle did. He can't here, and then he flew back perfectly.
Yeah,