NFL: Good Morning FootballGMFB Wednesday Hour 2: Lions/Vikings, Hail Mary Beef, and Jim Nagy
Hour Two of the Good Morning Football Podcast begins with the matchup between the Lions and Vikings. Hosts Jamie Erdahl, Kyle Brandt, Peter Schrager, Akbar Gbajabiamila, and Isaiah Stanback explain how they see the matchup playing out. Kyle wants to see the player who 'catches' a Hail Mary get more credit. Also, Jim Nagy drops by to discuss how Senior Bowl alums are performing in the NFL, plus who are the early candidates for this year's game.
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That's right, this is Good Morning Football. We are presented by old Trapper Beef Jerkey and it's a Wednesday, which means we have what's your Beef which is coming up this hour.
I think Kyle Brandt is gonna wear that hat today for us.
That is Isaiah stand back at the table for the second hour of GMFY.
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It's been through and a half months on the show. And that the first bled it I bobbled.
The Demaggio fifty six game hitting streak is over. Jimmy Man, I'm sorry, it's fine. You had a great streak. You've done a wonderful job.
This is Peter Schragger and Kyle Brant. Wait like this, Peter Sreger, Kyle Brant isaiya, welcome back to the table. Yesterday we had a heck of a sh It was trades and another trade, but then the Jerry Jones thing kind of shockingly flew under the radar because answered happened. What was the Lincoln Dallas you cover that you have on the pregame show for the Cowboys.
It's a lot of things going on in Dallas right now.
Obviously a lot of people are trying to dive in and find out exactly what's.
Going on with mister Jones.
And the reality is, you know, pressure burst pipes, and I think he was just tired of the conversation in regards to decisions that he's making and just like anybody, right if you if you feel some.
Type of way about the decisions that you make.
And he made this statement obviously in the interview that everybody's talking about. He's like, you know, if I was to make a list of everything that I've ever done wrong, we'll be here all day long. Everybody makes the mistakes. I'm aware of the things that I could have done better in my lifetime.
I don't need you to keep.
Forcing the issue in terms of pushing the question. So that's what happened yesterday. He got a little testy and pushed back a little bit on the radio host, and that's what's going on in regards down to the Dallas But luckily there was enough trading going on yesterday that kind of pushed that story to the.
Back pressure bursts a question, can you set up can you set up the who are those guys, Sean?
And who are they? Do they work for the Cowboys?
Do you know the situation?
Yeah?
So it's a it's the fan down there in Dallas, right, so one O five three of the fan. It's the local big sports radio station down there, and they have a partnership with the Dallas Cowboys. So Jerry Jones has an agreement with him where he does an interview with them every single day.
So this is guys that he talks to all the time.
Everybody obviously coming off of a game where you just got you know, the breaks beat off of you, you know at home, you know you have a lose, losing streak, and it just happened to be on your birthday, you know. The last thing he wanted to be addressing was continuous questions in regards the decisions that he was making. Man, everybody again is trying to push the envelope. What are you gonna do? What's gonna be your response? He's like, I sign McCarthy. McCarthy's here is even his last year. Like, I'm not making any major changes, so stop asking me the question.
And then he was on his way to Atlanta to the owners meetings and reporters tried to address Jerry Jones there and he's like, not now unless you want me to know exactly.
Cool.
Let's go off on a game on Sunday that we are looking forward to so much, which is the Vikings are coming off the buy. They remain undefeated after beating the Jets in London a couple of weeks back, and then of course the Alliance they enter at four and one. This is an NFC North battle we are looking forward to, and of course partially led by the defense in Minnesota and their coordinator Brian Flores addressing what it's going to be like to face the line's offense.
It's a talented team really across the board. They play physical. They don't really have a lot of weaknesses. You know, normally you can you know, you watch the tape and you say, hey, we're going to tack them here. That's not really the case with this group. So really, from the backs to the tight ends, to the receivers, to the old line or the quarterback, to the play caller, all of it is you know, high level.
They do a really nice.
Job against an aggressive play caller, and I guess you'll see some of this this weekend. How does that change things for a defensive coach trying to counter that?
I mean, I try to fight fire with fire. You know that's just me. I mean some other people are different, all right.
Those are great comments from their Vikings decordinator. Now, if you consider point differential, this is a set that people like to obsess over, but it's essentially how badly teams are beating up on other teams. Not only do the Vikings Lions sit at the top two in.
The NFL, the entire division does that?
Chicago, that's Free Bay and then you see the Bills sit there. But how ridiculous is it that the NFC North has real estate at the top of the highest point differential conversation so far this season?
Eater, This one is juicy.
Take your first bite of Fvikings Lions ahead of this weekend.
I look forward to talking about this game today, Tomorrow, Friday, Saturday.
And Sunday. I cannot wait for this game. I also love the cerebral part to this game.
You've got two of the great tecticians going at it. Ben Johnson's offense is a thing of beauty. Right now, they have now kicked the snot out of the Seahawks and the Cowboys and consecutive weeks, and have done so with a flair and a style that we don't see at other offenses and we don't see on week to week basis is this offensive coordinator from the Lions is putting on a show every single week, and they do so with trick plays and a little bit of sizzle to their We know David Montgomery's going to run the ball down their throat and that is the hard part of that offense. Then there is the razzle dazzle.
This was to an offensive bring that in. They had the other one to skin in that they tried. Here this the hook and ladder to Penny. This is what Ben Johnson has And you know what, the thing that's.
Scary, this is just scratching the surface of a playbook that goes deeper and deeper and deeper.
He's not unveiling this in the second half.
Look at that face.
He's not unveiling this in the second half of a Week six game unless he knows he's got stuff for Week seven, Week eight, week nine, the playoffs and oh yeah, maybe just maybe for New Orleans and the Super Bowl.
So you have him on one side, but then you.
Got that dude in that black vest, flat brimmed hat. Brian Flores is not here to play around. And Brian Flores probably was watching on Sunday as the Vikings were on thereby, and Brian Flor is probably like, oh, is that right? You want to do some trick plays with your offensive line, You want to do hooking laterals. Just wait to what we have in store for Jared Goff this weekend. If I can indulge one more time, and I'm sorry to everyone else in this I know there's eighteen different people in the boxes right now. Can we roll the Brian Flores sound one more time and just check the glint in his eye as he's wearing this puffy vest, flat brim hat and he talks about fighting fire with fire, because this guy, he is not taking any prisoners on Sunday.
It's a talented team really across the board. They play physical, They don't really have a lot of weaknesses. You know, normally you can, you know, you watch the tape and you say, hey, we're going to tack them here. That's not really the case with this group. So really, from the backs to the tight ends, to the receivers, to the old line, or the quarterback, to the play caller. All of it is, you know, high level. They do a really nice.
Job against an aggressive play caller. And I guess you'll see some of this this weekend. How does that change things for a defensive coach trying to counter that?
I mean, I try to fight fire with fire. You know, that's just me. I mean, really, some other people are different.
That is some line.
That's just me.
Some of other people are different. Take a swig of that water and just smile. I am so here for Ben Johnson versus Brian Flores.
Guys.
I would love it if the game started at about five minutes. That's how excited I am for this one.
Well, Peter, I think the way that's gonna materialize on there, it would be cool to see those two go at it. But the way we're gonna look at it is it's gonna be the offensive line. And I'm looking at how the offensive line for coach Johnson is going to take on the pressure of Brian Flora's defense and the way they attack. And so that's why this offensive line is gonna be so critical in this especially the way they protect when you look at the way they bring pressure and then the way they apply especially upfront, like with the sacks. They can beat you one on one, they can bring Harrison down, they can use Grinner to go ahead, beat you on the one on ones.
This is what.
And then of course Andrew Van Ginkle, like he makes plays everywhere on that play. But this is a team that is bringing pressure. It feels like all the time. So when I look at Penny Sewell, I look at Decker, and I go, can these guys handle it? Can they keep your man, my man, Jared Goff upright in the pocket so he can make plays. And then the running backs as well, they're going to have to participate too in making sure that they can handle all of the protection calls, to make sure they pick up because we know.
If you're sending more than they can block. We got issues.
You got some issues.
But I'm gonna go ahead and go to the Minnesota side of things right and put some respect on mister Sam Donald.
I know you like the Minnesota he is.
I know you like he's wearing.
She's always in a rocky block bar.
It's subt just like his shirt has just settled undefeated underneath it.
Yes, you see his sonic has been underfead. So it's all good. But Sam Donald is balling this year and everybody needs to put some respect on it. I'm one as well as most like other people. It's like when you hear Sam Donald, you understand what his history's been and you kind of kind of show his career along to the side until you have to put recognized game and see what he's doing this year. He is top five in terms of record. Obviously, those guys are undefeated. He's top five and passing touchdowns, top five in passing yards per tenth and only thing that he's not in the top five in is he's seventh in passer rating. This dude is a killing man to man defense. He's top two in every cube.
You be category.
When you're talking about Manda Man.
Nine touchdowns, zero interceptions, you guys know who plays a lot of Manda Man Detroit Detroit and Aaron Glenn.
They like to play man to man.
They like to play, matter of fact, forty three percent Manda Man whenever there's got your playing defense.
So what does he have at his disposal?
When you start talking about how he can light up the Detroit Lions. Well he has to Justin Jefferson, right, he has a Jordan Addison out there that's killing it. If you want to play man to man, okay, good luck against those two. And by the way, if you do want to play Manda man, how about the linebackers, right, linebackers and safeties.
Who are they responsible for?
Well, they're responsible for the running un backs, right, so you might be getting Aaron Jones back. You just picked up a Cam Akers right, who, by the way, has a great relationship with Kevin O'Connor from his time back with the Rams.
And then they might be getting back some tight end by the name of t J.
Hogginson who just happens since twenty twenty two to be the best receiving tight end besides Travis Kelce in the league. So good luck trying to play a Manda man at these guys, because Sam Darnold will dice you up.
You know, this game is good and deep because we don't often throw around the coordinators as much as we do in the picuially the quarterbacks the tenth storyline, you know, but in this one's big, and you know why it's big. There's an interesting nugget. There is one team in the NFL that has had the same head coach and two coordinators for three straight seasons, only one out of thirty two, and it's the Detroit Lions.
It's the only team often scored defense quarter head coach, you guys.
And Johnson and Glenn and Campbell. It's the only team in the league that has that. And that's the reason why they might be the best team in the league. I think they There's an interesting thing here in that the dirty little secret about the Vikings undefeated record. Sam Donold gets hit a lot, and maybe more than you might think.
In fact, we have the statistics to back it up.
Take a look at this in terms of how much a quarterback gets hit, how much he gets sacked statistically lining up against everybody else. All right, So it's the sack rate nine point three is the fourth highest in the league.
And guys, due respect to the three teams above them, those teams aren't going anywhere. They have terrible rits. Expect it from those.
Of course, Deshaun Watson can't go anywhere. The Patriots, The Patriots and the Titans have been really bad. And then so you have those three teams and then a five to ohero team. Understand what that means. Nine point three percent of the time he is getting sacked. That's a lot. So isn't it interesting that the Lions just lost their best pass rusher? Now normally Notchison. Just put a napkin on if you're forking knife and go get Sam Donald. He's gone, his leg's broken. The surge of successful our hearts are broken for it. And I think the Lions are in a lot of ways too. Who is that guy who's going to step up? Because I have seen the mockups of everyone from Max Crosby to Sadarius Smith in Lions Jerseys. I haven't heard anything coming from the Lions about going to spend some money or draft picks on a pass rusher. And Dan Campbell has said next man up about sixty times in the last twenty four hours.
Is it?
Because if they can't touch Sam Donald, who everyone seems to be touching with their pass rush, then maybe the Lions do have a problem. So watch the absence of Hutchinson, the blocking of the Vikings. I normally don't go into your own line talk, but I really think this is a massive deal because if the Lions can't touch Donald in this game, they may have bigger problems moving forward, and the Hutchinson thing looms.
Large this one.
To Kyle's point, like to be able to nitpick these small parts of the game just means that there's going to be a lot of layers. This to me is like a battle of wills, and it's not first shot, it's last shot.
Think about this.
The Vikings have not trailed in a game this entire season. For three minutes and twenty six seconds, the Vikings have been behind in a game. Otherwise they're beating teams, So that creates kind of an emotional standard of like we get up on top and we stay on top. The Lions are coming off of back to back forty point wins. Okay, when I was in high school, my high school football team two thousand and three, they were beating everybody in the conference and they're pulling their starters. By the middle of the third quarter, they were beating the brakes off everybody. They get their butts handed to them in the state championship that November because they actually went toe to toe with the team.
And the guys are like, we don't play in the fourth quarter. What is this? They totally ran rough shot over them.
They come back the next year they win the whole thing, but the coach made them stay in the entire game. These two teams, the Vikings are used to beating everybody. The Lions are used to beating everybody. What is this going to look like? If this thing goes into overtime and this thing has to be played for the full sixty minutes, this will be an emotional game of wills and I cannot wait.
Peter, You're right, it needs to kick off in five minutes.
NFC North, let's go no exactly.
You know the two thousand and three, two thousand and four Breck Mustangs because you're a Minnesota guy as.
Well, But that is not the point here, Tom.
Even though you and I could go on that history.
You know, Tom's like me, like, please stop talking about Minnesota. There were some trades, Jamie.
I don't know a whole lot about the Breck Mustang's history because some of us weren't private school kids.
So let's went to public school like everybody else.
We had to grind it out and scratch for every inch we got in this world. I'm saying, if you want a public school breakdown. I'm happy to tell you about the ninety ninety Dina Hornets a baseball team. I was on the one three out of twenty games.
Wowis bunny?
You've seen the movie Mighty Ducks. Oh, the character Adam Banks that they call cake Eater? Where did he come from? Dinah, Minnesota? So you, my friend, is my going to the the cake Eater?
So it's like I'm explaining a lot.
The Hawks are the true heroes in that movie. I think that anybody objectively looking at it and thinking about how Gordon Bombay decided to ruin a kid's life by making him leave all of his friends to go play for a terrible team with a couple of figure stares.
Tom, what is your what is the acronym free nine?
Now?
What is it? Tell us? Tom?
Go ahead, Tom, every day I need attention it is?
I would say that I'm not really I would not really fall into that category, although I guess I am on TV floor living every day.
So that a lot of trades yesterday. Can you tell us about them? Please?
We're professionals here, absolutely, Jamie, think about this. From August twenty ninth through October thirteenth, we had zero trades league wide. On Monday, the Seahawks broke the seal. They acquired Roy Robertson Harris for the Jaguars. Then on Tuesday we got three trades. Let's start out with the big one that broke during this show yesterday. Davante Adams is officially a New York Jet, the Jets sending a conditional third round pick in the twenty twenty five draft to of the Raiders for Aaron Rodgers old buddy. The Jets also agreed to take on adams entire remaining salary, which is around eleven point six million dollars. The Raiders did not want to eat any money. They wanted to have the opportunity to get a second round pick, and this can become a second if Adams makes All Pro or is active in an AFC Championship game or in the Super Bowl, not to be undone in the AFC East. The Buffalo Bills also made a big trade. It is Amari Cooper heading from the Browns to of the Bills for a deal that involves Cleveland getting a third round pick. Now the Bills, as well as the Saints and the Jets and the Steelers, among others were in on DeVante Adams, but they did not have the flexibility to take on that eleven point six million dollars in salary. The Browns had converted almost the entire salary for Mario Cooper this season to a signing Bowens back in March for salary cap purposes, so the Bills get him on their roster now for around eight hundred thousand dollars for the rest of the year.
We also got another trade.
Late in the day involving another contender. It is the Minnesota Vikings who are reacquiring running back Cam Acres from the Houston Texans in exchange for a flop of late round picks in twenty twenty six. Then you think that this is just a flashback. No, is the second straight year that the Vikings have acquired Cam Akers in a trade last year from the Rams, now from the Texans. For anybody freaking out they have Aaron Jones on their fantasy team, I can tell you this is not because of any long term concerns with Aaron Jones, who of course dropped out of that game a couple of weeks ago in London because of a hip injury. This is just adding another quality back that knows Kevin O'Connell's system. They go back to la in those days together. So cam Akers now slotting in for a Vikings team that possibly will even have Aaron Jones this week. And by the way, Jamie, we've still got twenty days until the NFL trade deadline. So clear your calendar. I've already cleared mind. I'll be here, I'm sure every day between now and November fifth.
Okay, good Tom, because yesterday it was a wild and it was like, did we miss a memo that of facts that went through that they moved the date up. But my goodness, are we expecting a lot more activity or was that the surge and now it's going to fall off?
I think that anytime, Jamie, you have teams begin to make what look like splash moves. You have various owners, you have gms, you have coaches who look at this and say, why aren't we making a move. So certainly there's going to be speculation about what becomes of Hasan Reddick, who has permission at least short term, to seek a trade from the New York Jets. There are certainly other teams like the Steelers, like the Saints, potentially among other teams that are still in the wide receiver market. We still got remember, three sets of games before we get to the trade deadline here, so there's a lot of teams that might be a one to two win team they're trying to fare out. Are we going to make a post these coming weeks or are we going to end up in sel Moode. Not everybody's to that point yet, but let's see how things evolve here in the coming weeks.
Perfect.
Appreciate you, Tom. We got back to Minnesota. Nice, just fine, all right? Coming up a friend of our show, Jim Naggy.
We know and we love him.
The Reese Senior Bole executive director Go Blue. Jim Naggy joins the show to discuss the game a Lums and how those players.
Are now off to a hot start in twenty twenty four. Plus Kyle has beef.
I do I really do?
We know that Rogers throws Hail Mary's and Rogers this and Rogers that, and it's great, He's incredible every time he's thrown. When I promise you someone has caught the ball and had at least a fifty percent stake in that play.
But I don't think they get appreciate it.
No, Remember, we're going deep on all these gentlemen because they deserve it.
Right after this good football, what's your beef? That's the question. Trapper is the jerky.
It's delicious, it's perfectly seasoned, and it's very high in protein.
So we enjoy it here.
It's a big part of the show if you watch it, a lot of old Trapper, and that's the way we like it. It also lads us off to a segment where we have our own personal beef something or someone and there's something that's been bothering me that's actually part of a very cool thing that's gone on this week and for years. Aaron Rodgers throws a lot of hail Mary's and he completes a lot of them.
It's awesome.
You can run the videotape. You saw this right there at MetLife Stadium. I was there with my son. We were blown away.
It's so cool. Rogers is gonna just huck one by about.
Sixty yards in the air, and Alan Lazard catches it and just brings the house down. My beef is in the wake of it, and even before it happened.
It's incredible. Aaron Rodgers does it again.
Rogers the Master, Rogers can make miracles happen. Rogers, Rogers, Rogers, Rogers, Rogers. Okay, the problem is that over the years, as this hail and Mary lore of him has been built up, I don't think there's enough appreciation being given to the gentleman catching the ball, which is an incredibly hard part of it. I saw something afterwards where it's like only Rogers could do it. Guys, every NFL quarterback in the league could make that throw. It's a pro throw. It is about sixty yards. I can fill some high school quarterbacks out.
Of New Jersey who can make that throw.
It's great, it's accurate, but the catch by Lazard was unbelievable. It should get way, way more credit than it does. And Lazart's not the first person, probably not even the last person. So in the name of this and recognizing these people and making them our champions, here, good morning football.
Let's take a look back at.
These hail mary's that you've seen so many times now if you're a football fan, but through the lens of oh my god, how awesome was the catch?
Let's start with the one that started it all.
Twenty fifteen, an untimed down in Detroit's Rogers makes what he calls the purest throw of his career. But never mind that Rogers, pay attention to the one from cal that catches it. Roll it snap to Rogers, scrambles to his left under pressure, rolling right, escapes right side, looking.
Rainbows high and deep into the end zone, and it is for a touchdown, a leaping.
Touchdown catches made of the Packers at one unbelievable and unbelievable finish.
And by the way, they don't even say the guy's name, Richard Rogers, also from cow third round pick, again.
Richard Rogers.
Richard Rodgers had eight catches in that game, a career high.
It was his only game of his career with one hundred plus yard.
He would play seventy more career games. He would score seven more touchdowns and went out to play with the Eagles and the Chargers.
And you know what, how about a little where are they now?
Richard Rodgers now works as a sports performance coach and a trainer. And what if I were to tell you that that was not even the craziest play.
His family has been involved with.
His father, Richard Rodgers Senior also played football at Cal was the special teams captain on the play against Stamford, and was both the second and fourth player.
To lateral the ball on that.
Is on the field, Rogin, that's his father.
Richard Rodgers Junior.
Richard Rogers Senior, we see you and appreciate the fact that he high pointed that in traffic. Not Davante him. He did it, and Richard Rodgers, we appreciate you. Next twenty fifteen Divisional if you know, you know, and only the real ones know.
Jeff Janice roll it with sound. What's the catch?
He reset Starks Rogers is gonna roll away, throws it up in the air, says a prayer, and Janis.
Does all the stuff.
Oh please, what a cat.
That's insane.
Oh my, that may be one of the great throws ever made, moving to his left, falling away and launching a perfect throw.
I love you, Chris. It was a great throw. It was a hell of a.
Catch by that man, that is Jeff Janis. I've been thrown picking twenty fourteen out of Saginaw Valley State happens to be the alma miner of Matt Lafleur. All these years later, guys, He had only had four catches only in his life in the NFL.
Before this game.
You know, he also had another touchdown in this game and another de facto hail Mary on the same drive.
Seven catches for Jeff Janis.
Remember I said, anybody can make that throw against the against the Bills. Nobody can make that throw that Rogers made against the Cardinals. I'm going to give him that one. It's absolutely spectacular. There's a high school kid making.
That throw, but Jeff Janis makes the catch.
He only had thirteen more catches in his career after that play. He signed with the Browns in twenty eighteen and never played again.
The where they now is delicious. I love it.
Jeff Janis now owns Janis Tyron Auto in East Tawis, Michigan. We called Janis Tyron Auto. We tried to get Jeff on the phone. We couldn't.
We asked a lot of questions. They ended up hanging up on us. I think they thought it was a prank or something. Oh yeah, sure you're calling from the NFL.
He's still he's what he calls himself a white tailed junkie in Michigan, which I think means he shoots Jeff Janis.
We salute you, We respect you.
Unbelievable catch, which brings us to the twenty sixteen Wildcard round.
Through the icy night in Wisconsin.
Let's go to lambeau Field and let's again appreciate the catch.
Giants looking for a stump, They're gonna air it out. Rogers does this better than anybody en zone touchdown.
Unbelievable man who does that better than Aaron Rodgers?
It's incredible.
Now, Randal Cobb, household name me for a football fan. We don't have to talk about what he's doing now. Great looking guy, great player at Kentucky, all over the place.
And did he.
Push off in that play? Absolutely veteran savvy move.
You just give a little touch and fall back in the back of the end zone. You know what's really cool. That's not remembered.
He had two more touchdowns in this game, two in the second half. The only game of Randall Cobb's career where he had three touchdowns in a game. He went to the Cowboys, he went to the Texans, went back to the Packers again.
Of course he's on the Jets last year.
I remember he came on the show when he rejoined the Packers, and he was living at Rogers house, and he told us, man, Aaron's got incredible, very expensive toilets in his house.
We're like, I bet he does. Must be nice.
Lastly, we go back to New Jersey. It's Jets versus Bills. It's the end of the first half and Rogers makes a pretty pedestrian hill Mary throw. But my god, look at the catch by Alan Lazard.
Look at the catch.
Roll it.
Sean Benchnett, two man rush, Rogers says.
Looking moving up, winding up.
Long arching spiral, thrown down the middle in the end zone.
Jet to cut pot. They're gonna call it tuxdown. He looked the down, he caught the ball.
It's a Jets tuxdown fifty two yards held und of believable.
Again, no name Alan Lazard, Guys, I understand that is not Rogers making magic. That is Alan Lazard making magic. You want to know, so it's magic. Look that guy right there you're looking at leads the NFL in touchdown receptions.
He leads the entire league.
It is not Tyreek Hill or Ceedee Lamb or Justin Jefferson.
It is Alan Lazard. Respect him.
He had a really tough game last week in London before this one where we had drops, including in the end zone, and then was awesome against Buffalo. I end with one final SoundBite from Aaron Rodgers himself. I think really sums up this whole thing. I know, he's a quarterback and he's famous, and we give him credit all over Instagram. Remember the guys who catch the passes. And we'll go back after the third hail Mary after the game against the Giants, Rogers summed it up perfectly about what I'm saying.
Go ahead.
That's three in the last calendar year or so a little more than that. But it's fun every single time. It's fun. Yeah, I think we're starting to believe anytime that ball goes up there, we got a chance. Yeah. I can throw it pretty good, but it's got to happen on the other end as well.
And I couldn't have said it any better about these hail Mary's. He can throw it pretty good, but it's gotta happen on the other end as well.
Champion Rogers, all you want. We here stand for the.
Other Rogers, for Janie, for Cobb and Lizard, the real heroes of the hail Mary.
Absolutely love this man.
I absolutely love you know.
We should break catches, guys. We should.
We should name these intercession blessings like this should be called the divine grabs. Like I think if we give it a name, then that way they can go, oh, hell Mary, because it's a hell Mary, the hell Mary, and then with the divine grab, Alanlizard with the divine grab because it just stops at the hell Mary. It's you're asking for hell Mary. You gotta catch it. So the divine grab, that's what we're gonna call this intercession.
I got some.
Breaking news here, guys.
This is kind of crazy actually, and I don't know if the news desk is aware.
Sara's here.
This is from the Jets.
Jeff Janis has now been signed by the New York Oh, I'm kidding.
They called the Tires Shop.
They called the Tires Shop and Jeff the white Tail.
That's it.
If Rogers wants it, Rogers gets it.
Janis come right back seven.
Years remove he listen. I like to segment there. The thing is, when you're playing quarterback.
I played quarterback back in college, and I have a handful of these these opportunities. You feel like you have mind control over the ball for whatever reason.
As a quarterback.
You heard Aaron Rodgers talking about, you know, say, I can slay that thing, but somebody has to catch it.
In your hit.
When you throw the ball, you're literally throwing it to a spot. So the fact that Aaron Rodgers had been able to complete some of these over his career.
It's not by chance. It's my skill.
Baby.
It's like a remote.
You're like, let me just move these guys around and then like land and you're just not gonna get a receiver's no credit, Well get you yourself.
Call the tire place. That's amazing dedication.
No, I did not.
It was I was producer in Lakwan and apparently the conversation didn't go well.
And I still think they might have thought they were being pranked. But he can illustrate it. We should call them again and again.
And by the way, if you were in that Michigan area and you need a deal on a tire, you can do a lot worse than Janie Tire.
And Auto and East howis Michigan. Okay, go and give them a I'm sure they got a great deal there.
I mean, I mean with your name, like, hey, this is Kyle Brandt. I mean like, oh, shoot, you know what I mean, like you would have got them.
You think the Kyle Branton, well, you know so many people.
You probably claim that you know the owner and the mechanic there and Janis tyron.
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That Mason play looking like Davante Adams because, of course, yesterday the big news out of New York was the Jets acquiring superstar wide receiver Davante Adams in that trade with the Raiders, and excitement all the way around from owner Woody Johnson to quarterback Aaron Rodgers and of course interim head coach Jeff Ulbrich.
I'm ecstatics super excited.
Not only an elite player as we all know, but the relationship with him and Aaron just takes his.
Value to a whole nother space for us.
So I'm super excited and got an opportunity to actually meet him this morning, which was even better. You know, I knew him obviously from tape and everything that we've seen as a football player, but to get to know the man a little bit this morning was special, Like.
You can just feel it on him.
Just not only that elite player, but an elite human being, and teammates.
So excited him to get him into the mix.
Meanwhile, in Pittsford, quarterback Russell Wilson expected to get first team reps in practice this week, potentially putting him in line to make his season debut and start on Sunday against those Jets.
Here's head coach Mike Tomlin.
Over the course of the week, I got comfortable with his theability to display his health. Now it's about, you know, knocking the rust off. He did some of that last week. He is in consideration this week. We'll see where that leads us.
Man.
Both guys at the quarterback position are scheduled to work tomorrow and we'll just walk it day by day, all geared toward putting ourselves in in best position to win the football game.
Remember over the off season it was Mike Tomlin saying that Russell Wilson had the pole position and how imposition to play.
Coming up next.
Jim Naggy joins us from the Senior Bowl, who's he got an eye on. Never too early to talk about the twenty twenty five NFL Draft. That's next on Good Morning Football, Good Morning Football.
The slogan for the Reese's Senior Bowl is the best of the best, and the Senior Bowl will find you no matter where you are, whether you're playing at Shepherd University and you're Tyson Bagent, or you're playing at Alabama or Texas, Jim Naggy and his guys at the Senior Bowl will find you, invite you, and then have you perform in front of thirty two NFL teams. He is the face and the man behind the Rees's Senior Bowl. Let's bring him onto the show.
Executive director Jim Knack.
Jim doing great, theater, doing great.
Hey, look Jim, we love having you on the show, and we bring you on a bunch because tomorrow, all right, Thursday Night Football is going to feature two different rookie quarterbacks.
And both of these rookie.
Quarterbacks competed at the Senior Bowl as recent as January.
Spencer Rattler and Bo Nicks.
You had both of these guys for a week in Mobile.
Give us a little bit of a preview or.
Behind the scenes on what you saw unfiltered. A week of Rattler and Knicks as players and as gentlemen and young men.
Yeah, I think the common denominator between both these guys was that they faced a lot of adversity. You know, when I worked for the Seahawks, coach Carroll was always big on drilling down on what guys had overcome in their lives, and you know, you focus on that with other positions.
I don't know if the league as a whole really.
Was doing that at the quarterback position, and I felt like during last year's draft process talking to teams, they were doing that more. We've seen a lot of quarterbacks in recent years kind of struggle. You know, they get to the NFL. They never faced adversity before it finally hits them in the NFL. They don't really know how to deal with it. So these two guys, I mean, Spencer Ratler gets beat out at Oklahoma by Caleb Williams and has to go and kind of resurrect his career at South care Line, and then bo Nicks went through his struggles at Auburn and goes out to Oregon and kind of, you know, reinvents himself. So this should be a really fun one. You know, Spencer was throwing the ball great in the first half. Saints defense couldn't stop anyone last week, so he ended up having to throw forty times, not a great formula for any rookie quarterback. And then we've seen Bo, I mean, Bo's already ripped off a three game winning streaks. So it's exciting for us to have two rookies going up against each other right down the road in New Orleans. So we'll see how it goes. But we're excited for both those guys.
And Jim.
Let's go over to the Packers because that offense, it's looking pretty good and a lot of those players are actually Senior Bowl alons.
Yeah, car, you know we're not We're not fans of teams in the office here.
We root more for players.
But the Packers have drafted eighteen of our guys over the last three years. They had eight out of last year's game.
So you look at that lineup.
You look at Jordan Love here, I mean the guys he's thrown to, Jordan Love, Jadeen Reed, Dontavian Wicks, Christian Watson, Romeo Dobbs. All those guys were Senior Bowl guys, so they're fun to watch. They're fun to watch we've got a connection law those players. But I'll put you on another guy, Peter, I'll put you on another rookie.
I know you do your your top five's rookies. I just saw that with it with our guy Ray Davis.
Evan Williams.
Sign Williams.
Last week in the NFL.
I had him last week.
I know we showed a little love to Cooper, Dijon or Dejane or whoever you say it out there in the college football world.
I knew yours. I knew you were on it.
Peter.
Here's list has so many different layers to it. It's very complicated, but it always is ultimately right. Let's talk about who's going to be next, though, Jim, we're looking at this weekend, this Saturday. Just tell us names that we might be watching in college football this weekend that can end up being in Mobile come February.
Well, I think you just go to the biggest game of the weekend, and it might be the biggest game of the year so far, the Georgia Texas game. Look at what's going on in Austin this weekend. You've got You've got this football game, you got the Formula one race. I don't know what hotel rooms are going for in Austin right now. But you know, it's only week seven in the NFL, but I think we're already seeing some team that are looking forward. If you're a fan base, you're probably already hoping your team's going to go get a quarterback. And there's going to be two good ones in this game, Carson Beck for Georgia and Quinn Ewrs for Texas. You've got you know, Carson Beck is coming off his best game of the year, probably the quickest release in this year's draft class. And then you're going against Quinn Yours, who probably is the strongest arm in this year's draft class. So should be a fun, one, big stage game. There's gonna be a ton of NFL scouts at that.
Game dialing into that one. So yeah, check that one out.
If you're looking for two of the top quarterbacks in this year's class, those are two of them.
Hey, Jim, So the Jets fan base over there trying to get familiarized with their new interim head coach.
You know, if Jeff Obrick aka.
Brick, I had them before a short stand out there in Seattle when I was out there, but last year. You know, he was a head coach at the Senior Bowl. So what can you tell us from your perspective him as a coach?
What can they expect from him?
Yeah, I'll bring you back to twenty twenty two.
We had the Jets staff down here with coach Saliv Brick was on that staff obviously, and Dan cam on the Lions where the other staff. And I was walking by the meeting rooms one day and Brick was given a pretty passionate speed to the team and I kind of eavesdropped on it, and he was talking about his time at.
The Senior Bowl as a player.
He was kind of an under the radar linebacker from the University of Hawaii that nobody really knew about.
And he just talked about the value of the game and made him a third round.
Draft pick, so you know, and just then I watched him the rest of the week, I watch him with the guys, and so, you know, fast forward to this year. The league office always asks us, you know, do you do you have someone in mind that you would like to coach a team? And Brick was that guy this year, and thank god we got him. I called Joe Douglas the GM and he was fired up for Brick to come down and do it. So, you know, I would equate him to if Jets fans want to know, like what he's all about.
I think there's a real genuine quality to him.
He's really connected with his players, so kind of Dan campbellish, you know, spending some time around dying down heremobile similar guy, former player, just a real dude, a real dude that the players are going to play for.
Well, it's not just players that the Senior Bowl produces, it's coaches too. Listen, Jim, do is this like an unboxing situation? Like if these guys get these hats and that means they get invited to the game, Like, how does this work?
So yeah, Jamie, we are going on year five of sending the hats out, so we're we've got zoom calls with all our scouts next week for three days full of zoom calls. They're pretty exhausted, but we will. We'll be sending out invites here in about three weeks and they come in a box. Shout out to New Era, thank you for these great hats and the players. They'll get these these hats in a box and that's the official invite. So appreciate you guys having me back on to UH to unveil this thing this year.
That's cool, my ma'am, my man, Jimy the best.
Thanks, thank you so much, dude, you're the best, Jamiere the Man.
Enjoy this weekend's games and we'll be watching all those senior ball alum this week.
I appreciate you.
Guys, Appreciate the mayor of Mobile him Nage.
We love them.
