Two highlights from Peter's reporting this week on Good Morning Football. Peter shares his beef with online injury experts and then the five rookies that impressed him the most in week 9.
It's time for a segment called What's Your Beef? Presented by Old Trapper Beef Jerkey. It's something that's on your chest you just want to get out and on a Wednesday, have a beef. It's with all the injury experts out there and online. What do you mean is that even a professional injury expert? Is that a job title? Well, there are some actual doctors online who do this type of stuff. And these aren't the guys I'm talking about. This isn't targeted them. It's my friends on my fantasy football text chain. It's the guy whose kid is in your son's fifth grade class, who all have takes on injuries in the moment. I want to take you back to Monday night. It's pouring rain. It's around ten pm Eastern on the East Coast. I've got the kids in bed, and I've got Baker and Mahomes going at it, blow for blow pass or passing what looks like potentially the game of the year. Chiefs are down seventeen to ten, and Mahomes does what Mahomes does. He dances, he maneuvers, and he throws this unorthodox, ill advised, but awesome touch passes. Samaj p RN, but something's wrong. He goes down, then he's off to the dreaded blue tent. It's a lower leg injury. We know that that's fine, and if Lisassalters wants to come on and give us an update, I'm willing to listen. But that's when my phone began to light.
Up with texts.
ACL texted my friend Josh, who works as an accountant in New Jersey.
Ough Achilles.
Done for the year was the text from my college pal Aaron. Aaron works in marketing. The game went to commercial Tampa wents three and out and guess who comes trotting out onto the field after this moment. It's Patrick Mahomes. And yes he had a slight limp, but the dude did not miss a snap. And guess what he did. He marched down the field on a fifteen play drive, doing Mahomes things and scoring a touchdown. So why does this anger me? Well, it doesn't really and I'm not angry. If anything, it's just an observation. Consider this a Larry Davids style annoyance. More than anything, I just wonder to everyone who texted someone with the word ACL or oh, that's an Achilles in the moment. What's the win? What's the win in speculating on sports injuries? What is the satisfaction that you get jumping to conclusions on the health of somebody else, like say, you're right, okay, Well that sucks. You're not going to get a pat on the back for being accurate on your assumption. I'm based on the broadcast copy. And if you're wrong, as everyone was on Monday, there's really nothing but a bizarre tweet from Monday night, still sitting in your timeline showing that you're not only way over your skis, but that you're some terrible down Kyle. We talk about this all the time, all the time. The worst form of this is the person on Twitter with blue check who just rushes to tweet two words whenever there's a bad injury.
Oh no, that's the tweet. Oh no, you're the worst.
Next time, spare us. You're all in poor and gravitas of oh no, and stop being doctor. Drake Ramore on Twitter. This trend, this social media trend of instant medical analysis by people who are not doctors, is worse than merely saying not a doctor in real life. When I play with on TV. This is so much worse. This is I'm not a doctor in real life. I'm not a doctor on TV, but I like to pretend one in the moment on social media because I just need to have everyone know that I've got my eyes and I know that injury. There are some great sports doctors out there. Doctor Neil Ela Trotsch's out in LA is a wizard. He has rebuilt careers. Doctor Anderson is the best in his field when it comes to foot injuries. If those guys want to rush to their phones and tweet seconds after an injury.
I'll listen.
I have a captive audience, but I don't need the guy who's got a gambling company sponsored podcast who once hit a parlay it had a viral tweet about his toast.
Weighing on injuries. I'm good, that's my beef.
All right, loaded, loaded class. This week of rookies, how do you stack just five of them? The Los Angeles Rams had about five on defense alone. Who stepped up. But we're going to do our best to give you the top five rookies of the week. And if your guy is not on it, please let us know. It's part of the story. We do this because we want to interact and engage with you, the fans. Let's start off with number five and let's go to Western New York where the running back Ray Davis makes the list for the second time this season. Ray Davis now with a one two duo with Jimbo Cook and was doing his thing on Sunday against the Dolphins. Davis for the dad four carries in two catches, but he had the biggest play of the game. When it happened, It's so good that I want to see it twice. Can we go to the call of Ray Davis with the big tie breaking touchdown on Sunday.
Ellen out of the backfield, Davis room to Rome.
Oh, we got by four.
The broker tackle in there by following he's off to the Racers and our sixty three yard touchdown catch and run, and I'm the Bills will recapture the lead.
Ray Davis was a Day three pick and he is proving to be a game breaker for the Buffalo Bills. You had him with second round pick. Keyon Coleman. It looks like Brandon Bean did a pretty good job in the twenty twenty four NFL Draft. Let's go to number four, I mentioned the LA Rams. They are loaded with rookie talon on defense and one of them was absolutely outstanding throughout the game on Sunday. We know about Jared Verse, get to know Brandon Fisk. Braden Fisk was dominant in this game as the big man led all rookies with two sacks on the afternoon. He wears number fifty five.
He was the second.
Round pick of the Los Angeles Rams. He was college teammates with Jared Verse at Florida State. They went Florida State, Florida State. Of course, Fisk is the guy who gets less headlines, but he has been outstanding this season in just his first year on the field. Take a look at this year most quarterback pressures and this is of any rookies last week and look who are number one and two both Fisk and Purse. He was a dominant player and I love that Jared Verse tweeted about how well Briden Fisk played on Sunday. These guys are going to be a one to two wrecking ball to deal with for the NFC West for years to come. Number three week back to offense and very rarely to I include a player who played on a losing team. But when you are your team's entire offense, you make the list. Drake May, Welcome to the Fab five.
Oh.
Drake May was awesome in the loss against Tennessee. And by awesome, I mean he was everything for his team in this game.
May was all.
Over the field doing it just about everything he possibly could. He had ninety five rushing yards, he had two hundred and six passing yards, and he became the first Patriots player with at least two hundred passing yards in ninety rushing yards in a game since Babe Parilli did it in nineteen sixty four. Ironically against the Houston Oilers, same franchise. May has really been fantastic on a terrible offensive squad, just making it happen. And I thought his Hail Mary that went about ten yards at the end of the game was so good that we need to see it again. This sent the game to overtime. Here is the radio call of Drake May's touchdown.
Four seconds to go back two steps, looks to the end zone, he pumps, he backs up, He slides left. He looks in the left corner. Now he rolls to his right. He pulls up in the middle of the field. Drake May alludes a defender running to his left looking to the end zone, trying to keep the play alive. Falling down, he throws to the endzone.
It's cuts on it, touchdown.
Hold on.
Ray David said, Oh my god, man, what a play about me? I told you we're going over time.
So good, so dang good.
He's been so good.
Guys.
Look at this highest percentage of total team yards from any player.
It's awesome.
You look at the last two times. Look, let's take the London game against Jacksonville. He was ninety three percent of the team's total yard. Guys, he accumulated for ninety five percent of the team's total yards. Drake May, with very little help, is doing it all in New England. It's pretty cool because we think the Bears found their guy at number one, We think the Patriots found their guy at number three, and we know that the Washington Commanders found their guy at number two in the and he's number two. This week, Jaden Daniels won again and was fantastic. He comes to the number two on our list for his performance against the Giants. The numbers two hundred nine passing yards, two touchdowns only through seven incompletes and random ball third thirty five yards. Guy continues to play well in big moments. He was also three for three for ninety one passing yards and a touchdown on deep passes, meaning he's efficient on these long balls. Here, this one here to Zike has put the game away. Guys, he's got seven wins. He's just the eighth player and third rookie since nineteen fifty with seven wins and one hundred plus passer rating on the year since nineteen fifty. This includes guys like Mahomes and Prescott and Roethelsberger and all these big names about Kurt Warner and Lenny Dawson in their career years.
Jaden Daniels is doing it also.
Jaden daniels seven to two wins matter to me. This guy's awesome, but he's not the number one rookie of the week. Number one rookie of the week. We head out to the Pacific Northwest, where a third round pick out of the U was absolutely outstanding when it mattered most. The number one rookie on the FAB five is ram's third round pick, safety Cameron Kitchens. Cameron Kitchens had an early in the game interception of Geno Smith with out here, which was huge.
This was in the red zone.
But I'd like to go to the call Kenny Albert Jonathan Vilma for the game changing play of week number nine. Mister cam Kitchens, welcome to the Fab five.
Good where's Nicoll from the sixth stiff? Can't find a new walk back pedaling your drives picked off interception of the episode, have brought back out Jit Old Smith picked off by Kitchens. Caberon Kitchens takes it all the way back, the longest interception return in Rams franchise history book.
My good one hundred three yards awesome, hundred three yards. Now, the tricky thing on that one was who does drop the ball right for the goal line? But he recovers it, so we're gonna give it all that. Look at this guys ever in NFL history, I like that last one. Four others you don't even get your names edd edred and the cam Kinschen's be one hundred.
And three yards redid it off?
Kevin kobb It tied for the longest non special teams touchdown by a rookie all time. The last one to do it Columbus Tigers rookie Pete Barnum had a one hundred and three yard pick six and twenty six against the Kenton Bulldogs. E. T.
Barnum, b T.
Barnum did it. B T. Barnom ran a circus and ran back touchdown interceptions all the time. Guys, there you have it, the Fab five. Some interesting names on this list. I could have included Jared Verus. I could have included Omar Spates, an undrafted rookie for the Rams who had the fourth down key stop in overtime. But this is why I love doing this list. You never know who's going to make it. And yes, Lad McConkie had a big day and Marvin Harrison Junior had a big day, and we could go a million different places, but it's my list, my list, my order.
Here we go.