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Speaker 3: It's Wednesday, February twenty six, twenty twenty five. Jamieard A,
Speaker 3: Manti Tayo, Peter Schreger with the field behind him, a
Speaker 3: little different backdropper him.
Speaker 4: Cody Kessler back at the table. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2: How we feeling great?
Speaker 4: Great, amazing good.
Speaker 3: Mantai is like salivating overseeing quarterbacks rock down the hallway.
Speaker 3: He's like, those guys stand down, Mantile, Right, we got
Speaker 3: to watch those guys throw. This weekend, a bunch of
Speaker 3: the executives are talking. They are in town in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: They have a signed podium availability, and then they've also
Speaker 3: stopped by and talk to some of our NFL network personnel.
Speaker 3: Browns DM Andrew Berry was one of the many executives
Speaker 3: and coaches to meet with the media on Tuesday. Cleveland
Speaker 3: has the second pick in April's draft. Now, there's also
Speaker 3: been speculation that maybe they draft Colorado star cornerback slash
Speaker 3: wide receiver Travis Hunter.
Speaker 4: How you categorize him is upper your opinion no matter what.
Speaker 3: He won the Heisman Trophy playing both offense and defense.
Speaker 4: So could Brian Callahan.
Speaker 3: The head coach of Tennessee select him with the number
Speaker 3: one overall pick. Listen to those two gentlemen, Andrew Berry
Speaker 3: and Brian Callahan as they give their different opinions on
Speaker 3: where exactly Travis Hunter could excel initially in the NFL.
Speaker 5: I'd say this in terms of you know, Travis Hunter
Speaker 5: cornerback a receiver of the answers, yes, so he can.
Speaker 6: He can play.
Speaker 5: He can play both, and I think that's what makes
Speaker 5: him special. You'll be with see him as as a
Speaker 5: receiver primarily first, but I think part of again, what
Speaker 5: makes him a bit of a unicorn is the fact.
Speaker 6: That he can do both at a high level.
Speaker 7: You got to put your teeth in a position first,
Speaker 7: and then you see where you can you can add
Speaker 7: him in. So those are all conversations that we have
Speaker 7: as we work through the process. And where you know
Speaker 7: a player like him, what do you do with a
Speaker 7: player like him? And where do you first start him?
Speaker 7: And where does he help you on all sides of
Speaker 7: the ball so he can return punts?
Speaker 6: He could you know?
Speaker 7: I mean, he's he's got a really unique skill set
Speaker 7: that I don't think there's many players you can compare
Speaker 7: him to.
Speaker 1: So where did you first start?
Speaker 6: I would say you probably start him.
Speaker 7: He probably starts at corner, and then you find ways
Speaker 7: to interject him too the offense. As he gets more comfortable,
Speaker 7: he plays more and more offensively. But I think his
Speaker 7: corners is probably his starting point in my opinion. You
Speaker 7: might get varying opinions on that, but and then I
Speaker 7: think he's got a real role as a receiver.
Speaker 3: Well, those varying opinions don't matter a coach because you
Speaker 3: have the number one pick, and if you draft Travis Hunter,
Speaker 3: then you get to decide how he plays, all right.
Speaker 3: Peter Schrager and Tom Pelisera are in Indianapolis, and they
Speaker 3: have the distinct honor of knowing a ton of these
Speaker 3: guys and knowing maybe how these teams would go with
Speaker 3: Travis Hunter. Guys, quick question first and foremost, just for
Speaker 3: anybody watching and ready to ingest the combine this weekend,
Speaker 3: where is Travis Hunter working out? Because is he with
Speaker 3: the corners? Is he with the wide receivers? Maybe walk
Speaker 3: us through where this young man's weekend begins when it
Speaker 3: comes to these teams evaluating him.
Speaker 8: Tom I'll defer to you on whether he is working
Speaker 8: out or if he's going to be. But going into
Speaker 8: this combine process, there has always been this thought that
Speaker 8: he is a corner first and then a wide receiver,
Speaker 8: because that's what we've al We've seen and Charles Woodson
Speaker 8: was a two way player in college, but when he
Speaker 8: got to the NFL, it was he's a corner first
Speaker 8: and we'll use him in some plays. Troy Brown, of course,
Speaker 8: was used as a defensive back.
Speaker 2: Julian Edelman was used as the defensive back.
Speaker 8: We have not really seen a true two way player
Speaker 8: since maybe Chuck bitten Erik did in the sixties in
Speaker 8: the NFL. And yet to hear Andrew Berry, Who's got
Speaker 8: the second pick, and to hear Brian Callahan's got the
Speaker 8: first pick? Both say diverging things of hey, corner or
Speaker 8: wide receiver really tells you it's a unicorn prospect and
Speaker 8: maybe a Tier one guy.
Speaker 2: But as far as the workouts.
Speaker 8: Go, Jamie, there's been a cloud of mystery around Travis
Speaker 8: Hunter coming into this day.
Speaker 9: Yeah, he's with the defensive backs group, so that's the
Speaker 9: group he's doing the measurements with and the interviews. Everything's
Speaker 9: set up by a schedule. They're staggered in terms of
Speaker 9: the days. So if he works out, which he is
Speaker 9: not actually confirmed at this point, that would occur on
Speaker 9: Friday night.
Speaker 6: I mean.
Speaker 9: The last true two way player I can think of
Speaker 9: was Deon Sanders had won really big year as a
Speaker 9: wide receiver in Dallas.
Speaker 2: He wanted to play offensively.
Speaker 9: They would take shots to him. He put up, We'll
Speaker 9: love to look up the numbers, but he put up
Speaker 9: some actual numbers to get.
Speaker 8: A forty seven yard perception in the Super Bowl against
Speaker 8: the Steelers.
Speaker 2: They went deep to him.
Speaker 9: Yes, Yeah, So that's that's probably the closest cop and
Speaker 9: Travis Hunter is that rare. It just so happens that
Speaker 9: he played for Deon Sanders, which I'm sure was part
Speaker 9: of the the pitch way back in the day when
Speaker 9: he first recruited him.
Speaker 2: At a prior school here.
Speaker 9: But certainly that is one of the intriguing prospects in
Speaker 9: this entire draft process. There's some of the top prospects
Speaker 9: that are not going to work out here, including shud
Speaker 9: Or Sanders. Beyond some we're going to see. You'd sew
Speaker 9: the quarterbacks walking in here. Kim Wore, by the way,
Speaker 9: still undecided as of a few minutes ago. I checked
Speaker 9: in on that again whether he's going to throw. But
Speaker 9: all those other quarterbacks you saw, Jackson, Dart, Dylan Gabriel.
Speaker 9: Expect all of them to be out there and they're
Speaker 9: throwing session on Saturday.
Speaker 8: And they just were walking by us too, and I
Speaker 8: was coming into the stadium. All the quarterbacks they go
Speaker 8: in a group and Shador Sanders is there.
Speaker 2: Like you see them all they all are here.
Speaker 8: And what they're gonna be doing this morning, Jamie is
Speaker 8: they're going to be talking to the different NFL teams,
Speaker 8: So there are player interviews going on. These quarterbacks are
Speaker 8: getting measured all the sorts of different things.
Speaker 2: They just some of them might not be working out,
Speaker 2: Shador being one of them.
Speaker 8: Back to Travis Hunter though, Tom before we close the loop.
Speaker 8: You know, you look at this top five, you look.
Speaker 2: At the big names in this thing.
Speaker 8: Travis Hunter no brainer as far as top five pick
Speaker 8: at this.
Speaker 9: Point, right, I would be very surprised, But I would
Speaker 9: be very surprised if he doesn't end up being a
Speaker 9: top five pick. I mean, you can make a case
Speaker 9: certainly that Travis Hunter is the number one prospect in
Speaker 9: this draft. But also there's part of it is traditional value.
Speaker 9: You hear abdual Carter from Penn Stage is battling the
Speaker 9: shoulder injury, not gonna be ready out here, but he's
Speaker 9: gonna be ready to participate at his pro day. You
Speaker 9: don't see a ton of corners getting drafted number one overall.
Speaker 2: You don't see a ton of wide receivers ben't.
Speaker 9: Drafted number one overall. Iley at in recruitingly is an
Speaker 9: athlete who can do a lot of different things here
Speaker 9: between him, between abdual Carter and then certainly potentially Cam Moore,
Speaker 9: depending how this entire process shakes out, there's several different
Speaker 9: directions we could end up going at number one, but
Speaker 9: it's not gonna be a long way for Travis Hunter
Speaker 9: on draft.
Speaker 8: Yeah, what's also back to you guys curious what the
Speaker 8: ex players have to say, Anti Teo and Cody Kessler.
Speaker 2: Travis Hunter the unicorn prospect.
Speaker 6: At this draft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he absolutely is.
Speaker 3: What a compliment we hear all the time about offensive
Speaker 3: lineman that could move positions down the line and how
Speaker 3: versatile that could be. But when you have a true
Speaker 3: two way player and if he is listened as an athlete,
Speaker 3: no what he would batten eyelash Travis Hunter Man, TI,
Speaker 3: what do you think about how teams are you know,
Speaker 3: putting the verbal thought out there about what he is
Speaker 3: as a.
Speaker 4: Player in the NFL.
Speaker 10: I totally agree that he's a Unicorn player. He's so special.
Speaker 11: I love watching Travis Hunter play, and I think what
Speaker 11: really makes him specialist Three things. Number One, he has
Speaker 11: elite ball skills, whether it's going up and high point
Speaker 11: in the ball, his body contorted in some weird way,
Speaker 11: he always finds a way to come down with the football.
Speaker 11: Number Two, he has extraordinary Now when I say extraordinary,
Speaker 11: he has extraordinary football.
Speaker 10: Like you you saw the highlight.
Speaker 11: You saw him as a corner play high, then jump
Speaker 11: all overund and get an interception.
Speaker 10: He has done that throughout his entire career.
Speaker 11: That's but not least. He's an elite competitor. This guy
Speaker 11: just wants to win. He's going to do whatever you
Speaker 11: need him to do to win. He's averaged Jamie one
Speaker 11: hundred and thirteen plays a game in college, that's a
Speaker 11: lot of games. So I know we compared him to
Speaker 11: a unicorn, but I like to compare him to a
Speaker 11: similar horse, like Oh figure, he's more of a Ferrari.
Speaker 10: He's an negotic car.
Speaker 11: Now what I mean by that is he's a high
Speaker 11: performance performance vehicle. But after a certain amount of mileage,
Speaker 11: that thing starts to wear down. No matter how many
Speaker 11: times you change the oil, no matter how many times
Speaker 11: you rotate the tires, it starts to break down a
Speaker 11: little bit. And when he's averaged one hundred and thirteen,
Speaker 11: plays a game in college, going to the NFL, if
Speaker 11: I am a GM, I'm looking at Travis as a
Speaker 11: one way player. I am because you don't take the
Speaker 11: Ferrari out just to go to the grocery store.
Speaker 10: You take it out to make a statement.
Speaker 11: And Travis Hunter is a player that is used to
Speaker 11: making statements.
Speaker 10: He made loud statements in college. He won the Heisman.
Speaker 11: I'm excited to see what he does in the NFL
Speaker 11: when he makes the statements.
Speaker 4: There, do you have a Ferrari I wish.
Speaker 10: I definitely wouldn't take.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, take it to the grocery store.
Speaker 4: This is where you would take it.
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 12: It's interesting to me because Andrew Berry says he's a
Speaker 12: wide receiver and he'll play a little bit of dB
Speaker 12: than Brian Callahan, who's an offensive minded coach, said that
Speaker 12: we're going to start him out at dB and then
Speaker 12: he'll play a little bit of wide receiver. It just
Speaker 12: shows the versatility that he has, which is so valuable.
Speaker 12: If you draft Travis Hunter, you're basically getting two players
Speaker 12: for the price of one draft pick. That's how good
Speaker 12: he is. He can play at a very high level
Speaker 12: on either side of the football. I went and watched
Speaker 12: his tape again and I watched him as a wide receiver,
Speaker 12: elite ball skills.
Speaker 6: He can go out and get the football.
Speaker 12: Not the biggest guy in the world, but his body control,
Speaker 12: his strength right there. His hand strength is unbelievable. Right,
Speaker 12: He's so exciting when he has the football in his hands.
Speaker 12: And it's hard for me to say put him on defense.
Speaker 12: He is such a playmaker with the ball in his hands.
Speaker 12: I just would love to see him on offense. But
Speaker 12: then I go back and watch the defensive side of
Speaker 12: things as a dB, and then I go I'm torn again.
Speaker 12: I understand it why I think he excels and Manti
Speaker 12: makes a great points, But for.
Speaker 6: Me is he has a cheat sheet at all times.
Speaker 6: And what I mean by that is he is a
Speaker 6: wide receiver that knows what a dB thinks. He can
Speaker 6: go out there and know how to attack a dB.
Speaker 6: He knows if he's playing inside leverage, I.
Speaker 12: Can attack that because I play the same position.
Speaker 6: And then when he goes to dB, he's inside the wide.
Speaker 12: Receiver's mind right. He knows spacing, alignment concepts. He excels
Speaker 12: at both sides of the football. So that is his
Speaker 12: cheat sheet all times.
Speaker 6: Look, I'll tell you this.
Speaker 12: If I'm a quarterback on any of the teams at
Speaker 12: the top and they go out and draft Travis Hunter
Speaker 12: and I'm on that football team, I promise you, at
Speaker 12: five am the next morning, I am at the doorstep
Speaker 12: of my GM, my head coach, my offensive coordinator, and
Speaker 12: I am telling them what they Travis Hunter wide receiver
Speaker 12: cut up that we need to put this on office,
Speaker 12: that's how good he is. But then I understand the
Speaker 12: argument'm putting on defense. But whoever does draft Travis Hunter,
Speaker 12: they're getting great competitor, h but they're going to make
Speaker 12: their team immediately better.
Speaker 3: Peter, we may be creating a fistfight between quarterbacks and
Speaker 3: defensive coordinators, like, no, he's mine, No, he's mine, no
Speaker 3: matter where he goes.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and nobody's played the snaps he has, as Cody
Speaker 8: and Manti are saying, this is not just one of those. Hey,
Speaker 8: let's throw him in some splash plays and maybe get
Speaker 8: him into the red zone like he was a full
Speaker 8: time wide receiver and a full time defensive back. Quick
Speaker 8: anecdote from me UCF down in Orlando was playing Colorado
Speaker 8: this year and Charles Woodson, who's a who's a teammate
Speaker 8: of mine over at Fox, is the last defensive player
Speaker 8: to win the Heisman Trophy before Travis Hunter, did a
Speaker 8: sit down with Travis.
Speaker 2: When they were in Orlando for that game.
Speaker 8: He said, Travis Hunter stuck around for about an hour afterwards,
Speaker 8: just picking his brain, asking him all sorts of questions.
Speaker 8: Charles came back and was absolutely blown away by the
Speaker 8: young man.
Speaker 2: So if you want to talk about someone.
Speaker 8: Who respects history and just there for the sit down
Speaker 8: and was out of there, was out with his friends,
Speaker 8: playing on his phone. No, Travis Hunter was engaged. He
Speaker 8: loves the game and he wants to be a difference maker,
Speaker 8: so he's about the right stuff. Also, this isn't a
Speaker 8: razzle dazzle player that says hey look at me.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 8: No, he's playing both sides of the ball because it's
Speaker 8: what helped his team be the best they could be.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I met Travis Hunter in holy at the Polley Bowl.
Speaker 11: He was there representing because he played in the Polynesian
Speaker 11: Football Bowl. And he's a good kid man. He's such
Speaker 11: a good dude, and I really empathize and sympathize for him.
Speaker 11: And this is where our world's kind of cross is.
Speaker 11: I know that he's going through a lot of stuff
Speaker 11: outside of the football field, but he's handling it with
Speaker 11: such maturity and just his priorities. I saw him leaving
Speaker 11: the lobby one time, but the hotels like, hey, Truv,
Speaker 11: where are you going.
Speaker 10: He's like, I'm gonna go. Fish man.
Speaker 11: His mind and his reality is is football and fishing
Speaker 11: and family.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 10: And that's the recipe for me.
Speaker 11: That you talk about Ferrari, you talk about a unicorny
Speaker 11: you know it's better than a unicorn. Is a Hall
Speaker 11: of famer, And this is a type of talent that
Speaker 11: he could possibly be a Hall of Famer if you
Speaker 11: take care of him, if you make sure that he's
Speaker 11: not doing one hundred plays a game.
Speaker 10: So I love Travis Hunt.
Speaker 11: I'm personally a big fan of him, and I can't
Speaker 11: wait to see where he goes.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and his loyalty is what stands out to me. Right.
Speaker 6: He followed Coach Prime.
Speaker 12: And I know people give Coach Prime a hard time
Speaker 12: with his personality and he can be out there, but
Speaker 12: when you watch Coach Prime's clips inside the locker room,
Speaker 12: inside the team meetings, he is doing a great job
Speaker 12: of helping these young men get to where they need
Speaker 12: to be. Travis Hunter is one of those players. When
Speaker 12: they left Jackson State and went to Colorado, he followed him.
Speaker 6: I promise you.
Speaker 12: Now I know nil in college football, you're not allowed to,
Speaker 12: but I promise you. There were some teams telling him,
Speaker 12: don't go to Colorado. They are a struggling program. Come
Speaker 12: to our program. We can pay you better. We can
Speaker 12: do all these things, but he stayed loyal to Shador Sanders,
Speaker 12: to coach Prime, to his teammates in Colorado. That makes
Speaker 12: me excited to play with the type of guy like that.
Speaker 12: I guess said, Whoever, whatever team gets Travis Hunter, they're
Speaker 12: getting a great competitor, but they're also getting a great.
Speaker 2: Player and great early.
Speaker 3: I've told the story before, Peter's heard it, but I'll
Speaker 3: remind you too that years ago when I was at CBS,
Speaker 3: I was around the twenty nineteen LSU team that won
Speaker 3: the national championship, and they were crazy talented, and I
Speaker 3: remember at Ogeron at the time, there was a rookie
Speaker 3: corner at the time, Derek Singley junior, and Coach O
Speaker 3: was like, listen, if we didn't have this team, he
Speaker 3: would be like wide receiver one or two. And then
Speaker 3: you realize, like, well, that's because Jamar Chase and Justin
Speaker 3: Jefferson were there and like Derek Singley. So the fact
Speaker 3: that you have a guy like that who has great
Speaker 3: ball skills and he becomes the Texans corner that he
Speaker 3: is today, it really lends itself to like, Wow, a
Speaker 3: guy that can have that type of athleticism that type
Speaker 3: of hands, that type of football IQ read an offense,
Speaker 3: you can excel at that position.
Speaker 4: Peter, I am.
Speaker 3: Reminded of years back when there was the Eli Manning
Speaker 3: conversation of where he wanted to go, and there was
Speaker 3: a lot of what the player wanted. What are you
Speaker 3: hearing from really the Travis Hunter camp and does he
Speaker 3: have a preference? Is there any salesmanship going from the
Speaker 3: teams in terms of, hey, if we draft you or
Speaker 3: if we trade up for you, we will be honor
Speaker 3: you and have you in the position that you want
Speaker 3: to be in.
Speaker 2: No, I don't think it's that. I think it's interesting
Speaker 2: you say that.
Speaker 8: I almost think of Lamar Jackson a few years ago
Speaker 8: here at the Combine when there were teams that wanted
Speaker 8: him to work out at different positions and he was like, no,
Speaker 8: I'm a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Travis Hunter, we haven't heard that out of him, Like, hey, no,
Speaker 2: I'm either one.
Speaker 8: But there was also a difference between the stigma of
Speaker 8: asking a quarterback to play something else. With him, it's
Speaker 8: corner and its wide receiver, and I think he's open
Speaker 8: to anything. I would imagine he'd like to play both,
Speaker 8: that's for sure. But I don't think he's one of
Speaker 8: those players or has the power leverage to go into
Speaker 8: one of these top teams and say, hey, I better
Speaker 8: be able to play both of these.
Speaker 2: Or don't draft me. I'm not getting that feeling.
Speaker 8: But it's a great question, Jamie, because there have been
Speaker 8: players in the past who want to dictated what position
Speaker 8: they play at the NFL.
Speaker 3: Peter, in about twenty minutes, you got a friend coming
Speaker 3: on that set with you. Who is it who's stopping
Speaker 3: by to talk with you on GMFP.
Speaker 2: Sean McDermott's coming back. We're going to have a heart
Speaker 2: to heart with Sean McDermott and we're going to break
Speaker 2: it all down his.
Speaker 8: GM Brandon Bean spoke publicly yesterday, so did Sean at
Speaker 8: the podium. We're gonna have my mom on Good Morning Football.
Speaker 8: Bills fans, stay tuned. Sean McDermott coming in here, another
Speaker 8: big season from the Bills, knocking on the door.
Speaker 2: He's got the MVP quarterback. Can they get over the hump?
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk with Sean after this, cool Peter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can puff your chest a little bit more
Speaker 3: when you have an MVP in your room, But what
Speaker 3: else can the Bills do this offseason to differentiate themselves
Speaker 3: within the AFC.
Speaker 4: Plus, Cody Kessler is here this week.
Speaker 3: He will be a first timer with Whiteboard Wednesday.
Speaker 4: We were trying to coach him up before this.
Speaker 3: He seems like he knows what's gonna happen.
Speaker 4: I think he does not know what's about to happen.
Speaker 3: As Kyle Brant would say, it's an undefeated segment.
Speaker 4: Whiteboard Wednesday. Look at that combine, Rep, Rep Rep. We'll
Speaker 4: be right back.
Speaker 2: Good morning football.
Speaker 4: White Ford Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Every buddy, we are proud to be presented by Harbor
Speaker 3: Freight today for Whiteboard Wednesday. Look at the athletes rolling in.
Speaker 3: I don't think it should just be assigned to Trevis Hunter.
Speaker 3: I think every guy appearing this weekend is an athlete
Speaker 3: and he is fighting for a spot in the NFL
Speaker 3: Draft and onto a fifty three men roster next season.
Speaker 3: But since we are less than twenty four hours away
Speaker 3: from the twenty twenty five NFL Combine being held at
Speaker 3: Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, here comes our first Whiteboard
Speaker 3: Wednesday question.
Speaker 4: Cody, are you ready?
Speaker 6: I'm ready?
Speaker 4: Okay, your third in lines.
Speaker 3: You get to see two examples before you, Peter, then Manti,
Speaker 3: then Cody. Peter was a legendary combine performance that you,
Speaker 3: having been to so many in person, we'll never forget.
Speaker 2: Okay, let me write one down. Okay, Okay, I know
Speaker 2: exactly and it ten years ago I was here.
Speaker 8: Kiddeta Yukon shows up named Byron Jones and jumps twelve
Speaker 8: feet three inches in a broad jump, and everyone was like,
Speaker 8: that's never been done before. Forty six year record. Byron
Speaker 8: Jones shows up and just jumps old feet and everyone's like,
Speaker 8: what what did that really just happen? Whoa jump higher
Speaker 8: than a two feet higher than an NBA rim and.
Speaker 2: He jumps it vertically and unbelievable, and then.
Speaker 8: He goes into horizontally, then he goes into the vertical
Speaker 8: jump and jumps at forty five himself right there, So
Speaker 8: twelve three unbelievable jump from Byron Jones, it has never
Speaker 8: been broken.
Speaker 2: It is still the.
Speaker 8: Record, and at the time everyone was just like whoa, whoa,
Speaker 8: whoa what? And since then, we've seen Julio Jones try
Speaker 8: to break it, We've seen aj Green try.
Speaker 2: To break it. Nobody has done what he did right there,
Speaker 2: It's one of the coolest things you'll see they're jumping
Speaker 2: around town. That was Byron Jones.
Speaker 8: He'd go on to be a first round pick for
Speaker 8: the Dallas Cowboys and a really good player, made a
Speaker 8: lot of money in this league, and then got a
Speaker 8: payday from the Dolphins. Byron Jones came from a military family,
Speaker 8: Yukon product.
Speaker 2: We're here for it, the Byron Jones broad jump. I'll
Speaker 2: never forget where I was when that happened.
Speaker 13: Oh cool shrikes.
Speaker 10: I'm gonna throw curve and this is honest truth.
Speaker 11: My favor was Tom Brady's m okay authentically.
Speaker 10: Tom Brady's authentically.
Speaker 11: If you think about forty yard dash five two eight
Speaker 11: vertical twenty four inches agility drill, which is a five
Speaker 11: ten five four point three eight, okay, and you think
Speaker 11: about all those numbers and you think, man, like this
Speaker 11: guy's not going to mount to nothing.
Speaker 10: Well, here's some of the numbers.
Speaker 11: Seven times Super Bowl champ, most Super Bowls ever, five times.
Speaker 6: Super Bowl MVP.
Speaker 11: He has a whole bunch of Pro Bowls, three time
Speaker 11: NFL MVP, and you can keep racking up the accolades.
Speaker 11: So the thing I love about Tom Brady's combine is.
Speaker 11: It reminds me that it's not about ability, it's about capability.
Speaker 11: It's not about what you're able to do, is what
Speaker 11: you're willing to do. And that's what separates the good
Speaker 11: from the greats. And this is what we're going to
Speaker 11: hear about. Tom Brady's name forever. His name is eeshton Stone.
Speaker 11: He's gonna be a first ballot Hall of Famer and
Speaker 11: it's because of the things that he did on top
Speaker 11: on the field and then the type of mentality did
Speaker 11: that he has.
Speaker 10: So my favorite one is Tom Brady.
Speaker 12: All Right, Cody, I'm going with DK metcalf, Oh, the
Speaker 12: candy Man back in twenty nineteen. He measures in at
Speaker 12: six three, two hundred and thirty. Yeah, and then he
Speaker 12: goes out and runs a four three three thirty. He
Speaker 12: jumps forty inches. And then he also goes in there
Speaker 12: and lets you know that he's strong and puts up
Speaker 12: twenty seven reps on the bench press.
Speaker 6: Very impressive.
Speaker 12: But the best thing for me that week was that
Speaker 12: there was a lot of questions about can you get
Speaker 12: in and out of breaks?
Speaker 6: Is he too stiff? Is he too big to play
Speaker 6: wide receiver?
Speaker 12: You know that photo came out of him, you know,
Speaker 12: flexing on everybody. He went out there, did the gauntlet drill,
Speaker 12: did it perfectly, was so smooth.
Speaker 6: He went out there and did a great job in
Speaker 6: the route running.
Speaker 12: But the thing that set out to me the most,
Speaker 12: and I think everyone will agree on this, is the
Speaker 12: moment after the combine on the sideline, when they had
Speaker 12: him miked up. He called his mom and he said,
Speaker 12: we did it right, And he calls it. I watched
Speaker 12: it about ten times last night. It's so emotional. But
Speaker 12: he tells her we did it, and she responds back
Speaker 12: to him and says, I know you would because I'm
Speaker 12: not worried about what everyone else is saying. I knew
Speaker 12: what we knew, and that was that you were going
Speaker 12: to go out there and do it. And then he goes, mom,
Speaker 12: I'm going to cry, and then he cries. And it
Speaker 12: was so relatable. And you use the word yesterday you
Speaker 12: said it humanizes players. When we watched those micd up situations,
Speaker 12: it was so relatable because it wasn't just a football
Speaker 12: player thing that you could watch. It was someone who
Speaker 12: who's a parent. At your job, when you put all
Speaker 12: that hard work in and all that effort and then
Speaker 12: it pays off that emotional release that you have.
Speaker 6: It was just such a great moment.
Speaker 12: I'm glad they captured that and that'll be NFL Combine
Speaker 12: history forever.
Speaker 3: Absolutely well, a lot of these events are very memorable
Speaker 3: and it's what we always expect out of the NFL Combine.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 3: Naturally, the league is always looking for new and innovative
Speaker 3: ways to promote their events that they host. Peter, So,
Speaker 3: is there another combine drill that you would like to
Speaker 3: see implemented into this weekend? And whether it be serious, silly,
Speaker 3: or maybe character defining, what would you want to see
Speaker 3: added to the weekend in Indianapolis.
Speaker 8: I think we've done it all as far as physical
Speaker 8: skills have been explored. I think we've done flipped every term.
Speaker 8: I'm looking for the mentals and I'm alost looking for
Speaker 8: the heart and the passion.
Speaker 2: What do I mean? Do you love football? Do you
Speaker 2: love football?
Speaker 8: Do you love it so much that you in your
Speaker 8: free time think about football?
Speaker 2: Do you play Madden when you're off theg or are
Speaker 2: you doing something different? Are you thinking football? I want
Speaker 2: to know who knows the game, who loves the game,
Speaker 2: and it's close to our show. I'm out NFL trivia.
Speaker 2: Do you know they brought this out at the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 8: By the way, the Manning brothers had this on that
Speaker 8: Thursday night when they were doing the quarterback DROs, they
Speaker 8: were like asking trivia questions.
Speaker 2: And I really liked it.
Speaker 8: I liked knowing which players knew which teammates of theirs,
Speaker 8: and where they went to school. NFL trivia Like some
Speaker 8: of the most endearing stuff is when you hear a
Speaker 8: young college kid say the player that I looked up
Speaker 8: to or that I wanted to be when I was
Speaker 8: a kid was Jerry Rice.
Speaker 2: Why is that interesting?
Speaker 8: Because there's no way that they grew up watching Jerry Rice.
Speaker 2: They're too young for that. That means they went back
Speaker 2: to NFL films. They went back to hearing old things.
Speaker 8: I love the fact that some of these players truly
Speaker 8: love ball.
Speaker 2: And if you don't love ball and you don't love trivia,
Speaker 2: we could work on that. That's fine. If you run
Speaker 2: a fast forty, that's cool.
Speaker 8: But if you have the total package and you can
Speaker 8: do both, well, then that's the pick for me.
Speaker 4: Trigger I love it.
Speaker 3: It's like, Okay, that's great, You're done with meeting with
Speaker 3: your thirty second team. Now you'll go into this room
Speaker 3: and this is Peter Schrager and he will be hosting it.
Speaker 4: Be a second on camera, and your results will be
Speaker 4: sent to all thirty two. Congratulations and good luck.
Speaker 1: Like that.
Speaker 8: I want to know when the Browns, when the Browns
Speaker 8: drafted Cody Kessler in the third round of the NFL Draft,
Speaker 8: who are the other two quarterbacks ahead of him on
Speaker 8: the depth chart. It's Robert Griffin the third, and it's
Speaker 8: Josh mccownt I want you to know that.
Speaker 2: I want you to know that.
Speaker 11: Okay, hold on, I don't know if you know the
Speaker 11: type of anxiety, the level of anxiety that I get
Speaker 11: before Thursday's it is more than probably when they go
Speaker 11: to meet at their train station with these guys.
Speaker 6: So Shreks, I am.
Speaker 10: I'm in on it, Shregs, I love it. I love
Speaker 10: it to the combine.
Speaker 4: That's why he's in on it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but I'm what Shregs were. I want something to reveal.
Speaker 11: I want I want to drill that can reveal a
Speaker 11: lot of things to me. And I think the thing
Speaker 11: that reveals the most in this type of situation is
Speaker 11: a competitive period, like a one on one period.
Speaker 10: These guys go in groups.
Speaker 11: If we could get them, the wide receivers and the
Speaker 11: dbast together just for a just for a moment, just
Speaker 11: to do one on ones because for me, one on
Speaker 11: ones reveal of things. Number One, it reveals your technique.
Speaker 11: How do you utilize technique? And it is on full
Speaker 11: display when you're one on one with somebody. Number two,
Speaker 11: what's your competitive greatness? Like how well do you get
Speaker 11: Do you rise to the occasion, do you step up
Speaker 11: to the line or you kind of power back and
Speaker 11: shy away from the competitiveness? Number three, just how well
Speaker 11: do you respond to adversity because you're gonna get beat
Speaker 11: You are like a DBI is gonna get moss, he's
Speaker 11: going to get jooped out. Receiver is gonna get hemmed up.
Speaker 11: A linebacker is going to get beat by a running back.
Speaker 11: But how do you respond to that adversity? And if
Speaker 11: I am a GM, those are the types of qualities,
Speaker 11: those are the types of traits that I want to
Speaker 11: see in a future pick of mind.
Speaker 10: So I would love to see more competitive peers.
Speaker 6: I'm going to go with a QB throwback or a
Speaker 6: double pass. Let me explain.
Speaker 12: Now, we had a lot of time, we got a
Speaker 12: lot of topics on this episode.
Speaker 6: This one stumped me the most.
Speaker 12: When we were talking about okay, why well Wednesday, maybe
Speaker 12: throw around some ideas.
Speaker 6: So what I mean by that is.
Speaker 12: We're gonna go have the quarterbacks after the drills are done, right,
Speaker 12: you throw on the run, you do the scramble drill,
Speaker 12: you throw the routes on area.
Speaker 6: There's nothing else you can really do on the field.
Speaker 12: You do all the board work inside before What I
Speaker 12: want to see is is the quarterbacks come out, pitch
Speaker 12: it to the running back. Let's do a reverse keet
Speaker 12: your butt down the sideline and let's see if.
Speaker 6: You can catch an over shoulder pad. Right.
Speaker 12: Let's see who's athletic and who's not. And I'll even
Speaker 12: double down in it. Bring the receivers over and let's
Speaker 12: see who can throw right, because you'll never know if
Speaker 12: you're in the Super Bowl and you walk over and
Speaker 12: run a run Philly special.
Speaker 6: You may need that right going down there and scoring
Speaker 6: a touchdown.
Speaker 12: You may also need to be Jared Goff and I'm
Speaker 12: gonna our Saint Brown drops an absolute dime in the
Speaker 12: bucket down the sideline. And also you can go out
Speaker 12: there and brag a little bit. Quarterbacks like to say
Speaker 12: that we have the best hands on the field. I
Speaker 12: truly believe that. I will always live by that. But
Speaker 12: I think that would be awesome if the quarterbacks to
Speaker 12: be out there after they're done throwing and do all that. Now,
Speaker 12: if they ever do do that and the quarterbacks get hurt, huh,
Speaker 12: don't put it on me. I don't want I don't
Speaker 12: want them to say Kesler came up with this idea,
Speaker 12: But I think it'd be pretty cool to see, you
Speaker 12: know what quarterbacks can do the Philly Special or the
Speaker 12: throwback to goth in the en zone, and see if
Speaker 12: they ever can use it in the games.
Speaker 13: I like it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna have to put hands grade in the combine
Speaker 3: research with these quarterbacks.
Speaker 4: Now, really good idea, Cody all Right.
Speaker 3: Yesterday on GMFP overtime, we talked to Will you know
Speaker 3: Will Packer because of the films that he has produced.
Speaker 3: He's had his hand in Straight Out of Compton Girls
Speaker 3: Trip and personally, yesterday I asked him if it was
Speaker 3: possible to make a sequel to one of my favorite movies,
Speaker 3: one that I watch every time it's on TV. It's
Speaker 3: called Obsessed. Take a listen can there be an obsess
Speaker 3: to Jamie?
Speaker 2: Ali lard dies at the end, what are we going
Speaker 2: to do?
Speaker 3: I feel like her eyes fluttered at the end.
Speaker 11: Of I don't know, I'm feeling maybe I kind of
Speaker 11: like it Obsessed to y'all heard.
Speaker 2: To hear from it?
Speaker 3: I would help with the pop up two at random
Speaker 3: theaters to make sure that thing goes to thirty million.
Speaker 4: I like you, okay, all right, if you haven't seen.
Speaker 3: Obsess, it's Beyonce, it's Indriselba, it's Ali Larterer, and it's tremendous.
Speaker 3: So playing off that there must be a movie out
Speaker 3: there that you have seen, Peter a thousand times, and
Speaker 3: then you say, you know what, I demand.
Speaker 4: A sequel to this film, Peter? What is that movie?
Speaker 2: Come on? What are we doing? What are we talking about?
Speaker 14: This?
Speaker 2: Is it right here? Draft day two? What happens to
Speaker 2: all that? What happens to Sunny Weaver? I mean, it's
Speaker 2: one of the most aggressive draft I've ever seen. Is
Speaker 2: he working the next April? Do we even know?
Speaker 8: Obviously we have so many different storylines. Does he stay
Speaker 8: with Jennifer Garner's character or is that like just like
Speaker 8: a flash in the pan over Draft weekend that like,
Speaker 8: I think we love each other.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Can I marry the owner's daughter? I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 8: You go through it all, and there's so many different stories,
Speaker 8: and there's the players themselves. I want to see how
Speaker 8: it all turned out. And then ten years later they're
Speaker 8: all on different teams. One of them is demanding a
Speaker 8: new contract. The coach Dennis Leary's he's now an offensive
Speaker 8: coordinator in the XFL. Like, we go a lot of
Speaker 8: different ways here, but I want.
Speaker 2: To see Draft day two.
Speaker 8: I want to catch up with those characters, and I
Speaker 8: want to do.
Speaker 2: It all over again.
Speaker 4: Hostner's everywhere right now too.
Speaker 10: I think that plays in true Strigger fashion. I love it.
Speaker 11: Shrigs me a Night's tale it is. You talk about
Speaker 11: watching a movie a thousand times. I could watch this
Speaker 11: movie a thousand times and a thousand times more. Now
Speaker 11: I don't know if we could make a sequel because
Speaker 11: we don't keep that legendary Heath ledgerd isn't with us anymore.
Speaker 11: But this was my all time one of my favorite movies.
Speaker 11: Alert Bong Liechtenstein. Heath Ledger plays this guy. His name
Speaker 11: is William Thatcher. He's born in very very humble beginnings,
Speaker 11: he kind of plays as a knight named Alrich von
Speaker 11: Lichten signed from Gelderland. But then he works this way
Speaker 11: up and does a lot of things in his life
Speaker 11: where they find out that he has some royalty and
Speaker 11: at the end of the day he performs as hisself
Speaker 11: as William Thatcher and I just love this movie, so
Speaker 11: I'm not sure if we could do a sequel, but
Speaker 11: this is one of my all time favorite movies.
Speaker 3: I think there's always a way that these people could
Speaker 3: have kids, and then the sequel can be about them.
Speaker 4: You can always be done Manti like Keith Ledgers ago.
Speaker 6: What a great pull too by Mantia.
Speaker 12: I'm saying with the Will Packer okay side of things,
Speaker 12: and what a great interview yesterday. By the way, it
Speaker 12: got me inspired. I thought we were I forgot we
Speaker 12: were on TV. Yeah, and I was sitting here with
Speaker 12: a motivational speaker. But what a great guy to be around.
Speaker 12: I'm going with straight out of Compton too.
Speaker 6: Oh.
Speaker 12: Will Packer was an executive producer on that movie. And
Speaker 12: fun fact, we actually went and saw that movie as
Speaker 12: a team when I was at USC in twenty fifteen.
Speaker 12: One of those team bonding, get out of the locker room,
Speaker 12: go out and do it together. I think it would
Speaker 12: be so cool if you continued to follow the history of.
Speaker 6: Music on the West Coast.
Speaker 12: Right, And there's a little litle bit of a cameo
Speaker 12: from Snoop Dogg, an actor that played Snoop Dogg with
Speaker 12: Tupac also in that movie. How cool would it be
Speaker 12: to follow them and how they continued to be a
Speaker 12: big staple in West Coast music. And then also, I
Speaker 12: don't want to spill the movie, one of the actors
Speaker 12: in the movie or one of the characters in the movie,
Speaker 12: something sad happens at the end, but then ice Cube
Speaker 12: and Doctor Dre continue to go on. It'd be cool
Speaker 12: to kind of follow them a little bit and see
Speaker 12: what happened. So I wouldn't mind a straight out of
Speaker 12: Compton too, and maybe a spin off off of that.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, the sequel to the movie I'm sure
Speaker 3: the Bills want is can Josh Allen be MVP for
Speaker 3: a second time again. Sean McDermott is getting ready to
Speaker 3: sit down with Peter Schreger at the NFL combine in Indianapolis.
Speaker 3: He's the head coach of the Buffalo Bills. What does
Speaker 3: he think about his team, his quarterback and how they
Speaker 3: can improve within the AFC, because as we know from
Speaker 3: Josh Allen all too well that MVP was just.
Speaker 4: Not enough for the quarterback.
Speaker 3: We have their head coach next on GMFB with Peter
Speaker 3: Schreeger Shrikes Take it Away.
Speaker 2: Good Morning Football. Welcome back to GMFB.
Speaker 8: We're live here in Indianapolis, and we're here with one
Speaker 8: of the top coaches in the NFL, the Buffalo Bill's
Speaker 8: head coach, mister Sean McDermott.
Speaker 2: Welcome back to the show.
Speaker 13: It's great to be here, great to be here.
Speaker 15: I love I feel like I'm an assistant on the
Speaker 15: studio on the team. Right.
Speaker 2: This is no joke.
Speaker 8: I feel like Martin Short you always go on with
Speaker 8: like David Letterman, and it was like the America's Guests.
Speaker 2: You're a Good Morning Football's guest. You love having you on.
Speaker 8: You're always great and you are part of the family.
Speaker 8: And it's another off season. Now we turn the page again,
Speaker 8: but can't help but look back on last year and
Speaker 8: just if you could take a moment to talk about
Speaker 8: what this team accomplished.
Speaker 2: Maybe what's your quarterback accomplished? Along the way as well.
Speaker 13: Yeah, great season. We can't forget the type of year
Speaker 13: we had. Really.
Speaker 15: I mean, everyone wants to win the last game of
Speaker 15: the year, and we'll get there at some point, but
Speaker 15: you know, between now and then, the journey has been incredible,
Speaker 15: the amount of success we've been able to sustain. Josh
Speaker 15: Allen winning MVP. Super proud of him his accomplishment. That's
Speaker 15: a once in a lifetime deal. So just super proud
Speaker 15: of him and happy for him.
Speaker 8: We were watching a best of like miked up yesterday
Speaker 8: on Good Morning Football, and there's this awesome jovial scene
Speaker 8: in the locker room where Josh Allen's like.
Speaker 2: All right, Monday's off.
Speaker 8: Coaches, you got to come in, but the players were
Speaker 8: and I'm like, we forget everyone thinks about the end
Speaker 8: of the season, but it's like, what amazing moments of
Speaker 8: elation you guys had, and all these teams It's only
Speaker 8: gonna be one team that husts Lombardi at the end.
Speaker 8: But like, we can't take away from the amazing year
Speaker 8: that all your players and your coachings have had.
Speaker 13: Yeah, I appreciate you saying that and acknowledging that.
Speaker 15: Yeah, it's the journey, right, I mean, you want to
Speaker 15: be happy at your job, you want to have fun
Speaker 15: at your job. I think we do a great job
Speaker 15: of balancing balancing that and all the while trying to
Speaker 15: win games and bring a World championship to Buffalo.
Speaker 8: And then you go to the Super Bowl week and
Speaker 8: the Chiefs are playing the Eagles, and this could be
Speaker 8: a sour moment, but then you guys had this awesome
Speaker 8: moment on Thursday night where he is crowned VP, and
Speaker 8: I thought it was pretty cool you actually flew in
Speaker 8: and attended as well.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we did.
Speaker 15: You know, we felt like, you know, he was going
Speaker 15: to be the MVP. We wanted to be there to
Speaker 15: support him naturally, and knowing that he was going to
Speaker 15: have a lot of support down there as well. But
Speaker 15: even if he just if he knew we were there
Speaker 15: right with our hand on his back, and just so
Speaker 15: proud of him. Like I said, he's worked so hard
Speaker 15: to get to where he's at, so many questions about him,
Speaker 15: about his ability coming out of Wyoming, and just again
Speaker 15: can't be more proud of him and what he's meant
Speaker 15: to our team but also our community.
Speaker 2: And last year, a lot of the storylines in training
Speaker 2: camp when we were talking.
Speaker 8: To guys, was like, how are you gonna do it
Speaker 8: without this guy? People step up, people step up, and
Speaker 8: a lot of players did step up. One of my
Speaker 8: favorite players of the year is wild Card Round Josh
Speaker 8: running around on a fourth and one.
Speaker 2: And hits Ty Johnson in the back of the end
Speaker 2: zone and it's like a the courage to call that play,
Speaker 2: be to execute it, and.
Speaker 8: Then see it's Ty Johnson making the catch, this third
Speaker 8: down running back who of course makes this huge play.
Speaker 8: You have to be so proud of the way that
Speaker 8: everyone stepped up despite some departures from the roster.
Speaker 15: Well, we had that, and you're always going to have that.
Speaker 15: You're always going to have guys graduate, so to speak.
Speaker 15: And you know, by Josh and his leadership, others stepped
Speaker 15: up right. And it's never about one person or one
Speaker 15: player or one coach.
Speaker 13: It's really about the team.
Speaker 15: And with Josh's leadership and the way he led our
Speaker 15: team this year, it just brought everybody else's level of
Speaker 15: play and performance.
Speaker 10: Though.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and yesterday we got some news who was reported
Speaker 8: that Khalil Shakir got a new deal. That's a player
Speaker 8: that had an outstanding season less you're the Boise State product.
Speaker 8: If you want to talk about a little bit what
Speaker 8: he brought, knowing the departures at the wide receiver position
Speaker 8: last season.
Speaker 15: Well, when you talk about Khalil, you talk about consistency, dependability, availability.
Speaker 15: Sometimes there's players that fly under the radar, right, and
Speaker 15: he's one of them, and so we reward guys that
Speaker 15: work hard, guys that earn the right and then he's
Speaker 15: very consistent and what a team guy. So I just
Speaker 15: can't be more grateful of him and his family, and
Speaker 15: you know, the results have been on the field, but
Speaker 15: his impact off the field has been immeasurable.
Speaker 8: For you got all these different free agents this year.
Speaker 8: We can go through the list. That's not what the
Speaker 8: point of this segment is. I do want to ask
Speaker 8: about James Cook, Jimbo who had an outstanding breakout season,
Speaker 8: incredible running back, big piece of this. Anytime you got
Speaker 8: a free agent of that type of caliber, and we're
Speaker 8: here at the COMBA, which kind of like the first step,
Speaker 8: how do you proceed in? What's the conversations and do
Speaker 8: you ever consider reaching out to the player himself as
Speaker 8: a head coach?
Speaker 15: Well, I do, I try and stay in touch with
Speaker 15: the players, especially the ones that are in these situations.
Speaker 15: And unfortunately, this is a business, right, we try and
Speaker 15: be as transformational and caring for the players as we can.
Speaker 15: And even though it's a business, there's times then that
Speaker 15: the business does show up the business part of the business,
Speaker 15: and sometimes these things have a way of working themselves out.
Speaker 15: But to your point, communication is important.
Speaker 8: I think about this build seam. You guys have had
Speaker 8: so many amazing seasons. He came up just short this year,
Speaker 8: but there are signs that this will happen.
Speaker 6: Know.
Speaker 8: I also think back in the nineties Marv Levy and
Speaker 8: like the Sir Andrews speech that he gave that one
Speaker 8: year after.
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl.
Speaker 8: What is the message now as we turn the page
Speaker 8: yet again and it's like, hey, gentlemen, we got to
Speaker 8: get back up off the mat and we've got to
Speaker 8: fight again.
Speaker 15: Well, I think again, you want to keep things in perspective, right,
Speaker 15: we're all shooting for that.
Speaker 13: We work extremely hard.
Speaker 15: This is not a hobby, it's a job and it's
Speaker 15: a profession and we spend a lot of time trying
Speaker 15: to become the best in the world at something and
Speaker 15: so it doesn't come easy.
Speaker 13: But we respect that process.
Speaker 15: And through all the journey and adversity that you go through,
Speaker 15: I think you develop character, and within that you discover
Speaker 15: or continue to discover or rediscover even your purpose.
Speaker 13: And that's why we're in Buffalo.
Speaker 15: We've got the best fans in the NFL, and we're
Speaker 15: there to win a world championship, but we're also there
Speaker 15: to bring hope and purpose.
Speaker 13: To a community.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: I thought one of the cool moments of the season,
Speaker 8: you guys play the shootout against the Rams and you
Speaker 8: come up just sure, but then Detroit is it and
Speaker 8: you guys take care of business on the road and
Speaker 8: show like, hey, we can do that. This seam has
Speaker 8: gotten better and better and better. What would you like
Speaker 8: to see from this group of men next season that
Speaker 8: maybe we can fine tune and maybe do something a
Speaker 8: little differently to even get even better the following year.
Speaker 13: Well, you know, every year is different.
Speaker 15: Uh, You've got to start over every season, shregs, and
Speaker 15: you know that. I think the biggest thing right now
Speaker 15: for us is to get healthy where we need to
Speaker 15: get healthy, have a great offseason, and then start anew
Speaker 15: with a new team that we're gonna put together this offseason.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of.
Speaker 8: The plays that we loved on NFL Network was Josh
Speaker 8: Allen throws it to a Marii Cooper mark.
Speaker 2: And throws a little pick.
Speaker 8: I don't know if I ever got your your statement, like,
Speaker 8: obviously that's all improminent.
Speaker 13: Well, no, that I called it. I mean, Joe Brady
Speaker 13: gets a heck of a lot of credit, and I
Speaker 13: calved that play.
Speaker 2: They're rare that I'm gonna chime in, it's a guy
Speaker 2: do that play.
Speaker 15: We didn't know My brother and I did that in
Speaker 15: the backyard, you know, years ago and snow playing snow football.
Speaker 13: Right, Hey, I'm gonna catch it. I'm gonna pitch it
Speaker 13: back to me.
Speaker 2: Let me do it.
Speaker 8: But your reaction in real time, just think it's through,
Speaker 8: like you see something like that, like this is that
Speaker 8: guy's a free cut even But also it worked you.
Speaker 15: No, I'm like I was probably like every fan in
Speaker 15: the stadium and every fan at home going oh yeah yeah,
Speaker 15: and then it does.
Speaker 13: I'm like with Josh, doesn't surprise me.
Speaker 2: That works. You and Andy have this great relationship.
Speaker 8: Obviously, Andy Reid, you guys were on the same staff
Speaker 8: and now you're going up and down playing against each
Speaker 8: other all these years. The regular season, all the years
Speaker 8: in the postseason, andy falls short of the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Do you give Andy a text? Do you give Andy
Speaker 2: a call.
Speaker 8: Knowing he's had all these moments of elation, but he
Speaker 8: might be feeling pretty down up for the way that
Speaker 8: thing ended.
Speaker 13: Well, yes and no.
Speaker 15: You know, he reached out to me after our game,
Speaker 15: and I've reached out to him after There's there's been
Speaker 15: you know, games we've beaten him as well, and so
Speaker 15: it's a tough business. It's hard to win one game,
Speaker 15: let alone a super Bowl, and he was on the
Speaker 15: on the losing end of this one. And but he's
Speaker 15: won a lot, right, So but you know, my admiration,
Speaker 15: my respect for Andy Reid runs deep, and I've learned
Speaker 15: so much from him. Having said that, though our games
Speaker 15: are extremely competitive for a reason, he wants to beat
Speaker 15: me and I want to beat him, and I think
Speaker 15: that's high level competition and good for the game.
Speaker 8: You guys both work together in Philly, which then brings
Speaker 8: up your job also that you were another hat here.
Speaker 8: The Competition Committee and the Tush push has been a
Speaker 8: big topic of conversation. You're in those conversations, you're in
Speaker 8: those meetings, just give us a maybe even fifteen thirty
Speaker 8: second summary of what we're looking at as we have
Speaker 8: these conversations about potentially banning this play that has been
Speaker 8: so advantageous for the Eagles.
Speaker 13: Well, it's been a good play. Rights, it's been a
Speaker 13: good play. I can't argue that.
Speaker 15: I think there's just things every year you have to
Speaker 15: talk about.
Speaker 13: You have to whether it's changed or not, you have
Speaker 13: to talk about.
Speaker 15: It because it is a unique style of play with
Speaker 15: unique call it techniques. And again give credit to the
Speaker 15: Eagles what they've been able to create been very creative
Speaker 15: and you know, kind of trail blazing in a way
Speaker 15: around the league a little bit. So it's just something
Speaker 15: we have to talk about. We'll see where it goes.
Speaker 15: But we have to give it to Doe.
Speaker 2: At least my last one.
Speaker 8: There was footage of Josh Allen and his new fiance
Speaker 8: in Italy going around. They were enjoying the Europeans. Do
Speaker 8: you get the invite like they're going to go do
Speaker 8: like Milan Fashion Week? Is Sean McDermot getting the text, coach,
Speaker 8: you want to we got a spot on you know,
Speaker 8: if you want to sit front row at the fashion show?
Speaker 15: No, yees, no, no, they sent it, but I have
Speaker 15: a filter, right, and so yeah, I spent most of
Speaker 15: my off season in Buffalo and the Elements, and we
Speaker 15: look forward to that.
Speaker 13: I love skiing and being around Buffalo.
Speaker 15: So yeah, no, no clear imitation came through on my phone.
Speaker 13: But we'll see.
Speaker 14: No.
Speaker 8: I mean, just for the viewers at home, I've been
Speaker 8: been to Italy, I've been to Buffalo, like Milan has
Speaker 8: nothing on Buffalo like.
Speaker 2: I just I think everyone would say great, right, you agree,
Speaker 2: and that's it.
Speaker 15: That's where Bill's I mean, Bill's Mafia is everywhere right there,
Speaker 15: every course, But to be around Buffalo. You know, sometimes
Speaker 15: we get the question of hey, where do you go
Speaker 15: on the off season, Well, we live in Buffalo. Love this,
Speaker 15: We're members of the community and we love it there.
Speaker 15: So I think that's the real part of being in
Speaker 15: Buffalo and being the head coach of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 2: So cool.
Speaker 8: Sean McDermott, thank you, Big, season ahead, Big, a couple
Speaker 8: of weeks ahead. Good luck and as always, we appreciate
Speaker 8: you coming on the show.
Speaker 13: I love being with you.
Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you.
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Speaker 3: Bronco and Ford Musting.
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Speaker 16: The NFL honors the resilience and contributions of Black American
Speaker 16: labors whose hard work and determinations have shaped our nation's
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Speaker 16: African Americans moved from the South to northern, Western and
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Speaker 14: The problems of well paying jobs in the automotive industry
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Speaker 16: McKinlay Thompson Junior, was the first African American designer hired
Speaker 16: at Ford Motor Company in nineteen.
Speaker 14: He helping the first generation Bronco as well as the Mustang,
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Speaker 16: Thompson worked for the company for nearly thirty years, paving
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Speaker 3: The New York Giants currently hold the third overall pick
Speaker 3: in the draft and they are in need of quarterback.
Speaker 3: They currently only have Tommy DeVito on their roster, so
Speaker 3: their general manager, Joe Shane spoke to reporters on Monday
Speaker 3: at the Combine in Indianapolis, and he talked about the
Speaker 3: team's plans to bolster their quarterback room.
Speaker 17: You know, yeah, we don't know what's going to happen
Speaker 17: in the draft. We don't know who's going to be there.
Speaker 17: You know, when we get around these kids, they may
Speaker 17: or may not be a fit for us. So you know,
Speaker 17: we're gonna have to dress the position somewhere. And even
Speaker 17: if you get a young quarterback, you'd like to have
Speaker 17: a vet, you know, in the room with them to
Speaker 17: show them the ropes and how to be a pro. So,
Speaker 17: you know, we're looking at all different avenues.
Speaker 6: It's, hey, is this.
Speaker 17: Guy going to be really good for a young quarterback
Speaker 17: or is this guy at starter? Can we get a
Speaker 17: guy in the draft or if we do, should we
Speaker 17: have a guy that's more of a guy that can
Speaker 17: develop and show a guy how to be a pro. So,
Speaker 17: you know we're going to look at you know, vets,
Speaker 17: We're gonna look at the draft, We're gonna look at
Speaker 17: trade candidates. You know, we're gonna look at under every
Speaker 17: rock to you know, find the best prospect for us
Speaker 17: going in the twenty five season.
Speaker 4: Peter.
Speaker 3: After Joe Shane was first asked about Saquon Barkley yet again,
Speaker 3: then he's asked about the quarterback and this team, Joe
Speaker 3: Shane having to answer everything as it pertains to the Giants.
Speaker 3: Your thoughts on his take on what the Giants to
Speaker 3: do with the quarterback position.
Speaker 8: Well, remember he didn't draft Daniel Jones as a Dave
Speaker 8: gettleman pick.
Speaker 2: He re signed Daniel Jones for those two years.
Speaker 8: So it's still in this freshman like, I haven't had
Speaker 8: my quarterback yet.
Speaker 2: I haven't had my quarterback yet.
Speaker 8: The third overall pick, we know he can get at
Speaker 8: least one of the top two quarterbacks.
Speaker 2: We don't expect quarterbacks to go.
Speaker 8: One and two with either obdual Carter or Travis Hunter
Speaker 8: being in there. So cam Ward or Shador Sanders. I
Speaker 8: would imagine not only every rock being lifted, but every
Speaker 8: question you can imagine and every single piece of dialogue
Speaker 8: they can have with those two players to see if
Speaker 8: they are worthy of the third overall pick. But I
Speaker 8: wouldn't leave out the other option, which is a veteran
Speaker 8: quarter back, if those two guys don't blow them away.
Speaker 8: I look at Matthew Stafford, I look at Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 8: I look at Derek Carr, I look at Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 8: There are a lot of names that might be available
Speaker 8: in Sam Darnold as a big swing maybe as well.
Speaker 8: So they're looking at everything, and I certainly don't know
Speaker 8: what they are doing at this moment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're entering conspiracy theory.
Speaker 3: Theory territory, Peter, when it comes to matt Stafford and
Speaker 3: different people that are in Stafford's life and where.
Speaker 4: They are hired.
Speaker 3: We will continue to talk to the Giants and thirty
Speaker 3: one other picks in the NFL Draft ahead of the combine.
Speaker 4: We'll be right back on GMFB. Great first hour, everybody.
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