Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Daily, where we are excited for
Speaker 1: the first time to welcome a member of Quarterback Island
Speaker 1: onto the show. Oh and by the way, like another
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and another couple of the greatest players in
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 2: It's a big time show here on Radio Row. And
Speaker 2: I'm with my friend Jordan Rodrigue of the Athletic. Are
Speaker 2: you ready, Jordan?
Speaker 3: I am so heck and fired up right now. Greg, Like,
Speaker 3: this is just it's just a paradise today. Honestly, we
Speaker 3: get this beautiful stage that I heeartbuilt for us. We're
Speaker 3: here with some really great people. Eric is behind the
Speaker 3: proverbial glass even though it's just air at this point,
Speaker 3: and we are talking to some phenomenal people today.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a great team dinner last night at Jacomo's.
Speaker 1: If you've ever been to New Orleans, been to Jacomo's,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. That that to me
Speaker 1: like made me feel like, Okay, we're here. Super Bowl
Speaker 1: week I started It's New Orleans.
Speaker 4: Greg hit the Greg Zone.
Speaker 1: The alligator cheesecake was popping, and uh now we're back
Speaker 1: and look it's all like the best cut to meat today.
Speaker 1: We got Jaden Daniels to start the show. We have
Speaker 1: David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs coming up together. We got
Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua, another All Pro, and then we're wrapping up
Speaker 1: the show with Jordan Love and I'm looking I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to it so much. I don't feel like I
Speaker 1: gotta say much more.
Speaker 3: Right, these guys will do all of the talking and
Speaker 3: I cannot wait to hear them.
Speaker 1: Okay, so Jordan will be with me on this ride
Speaker 1: with all these interviews.
Speaker 2: Let's start with Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 1: So excited to be welcoming into the show the Pepsi
Speaker 1: Zero Sugar Rookie of the Year. We got a big
Speaker 1: ass trophy right in front of me. That trophy is
Speaker 1: taller than I am. Jaden Daniels, Welcome to the show man,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. How y'all doing we are?
Speaker 3: We're doing great. We're really excited to talk to you.
Speaker 3: You are our favorite player all year. We do a
Speaker 3: segment called Quarterback Island. You were the first rookie voted
Speaker 3: onto Quarterback Island this year.
Speaker 4: Yes, you were.
Speaker 5: I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: She says that to everyone. I don't. I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: I heard just to start out and we'll talk about
Speaker 1: the award that you want. But I know that I've
Speaker 1: heard you know through some birdies that that you're a hooper,
Speaker 1: and uh, I hate that the NBA is kind of
Speaker 1: stealing the NFL shining right now.
Speaker 2: I want I want your take. I'm like, what's been
Speaker 2: going on?
Speaker 1: The Luca trade, the Jimmy Butler trade, Like, what's your
Speaker 1: thoughts here?
Speaker 5: It's been crazy.
Speaker 6: I'm a Laker fan, so I love I love that
Speaker 6: Lucas l A good answer, Yeah, I love.
Speaker 5: That Lucas is on the Lakers. Now. I can't wait
Speaker 5: to go to a game.
Speaker 6: I was gonna go to the game regardless of Lebron,
Speaker 6: but now you got Lebron and Luca, so I was like, man,
Speaker 6: I gotta go see that.
Speaker 3: How's that gonna work? Like, what's the distribution look like
Speaker 3: with that offense?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 6: Oh man, move out the way and let the buckets.
Speaker 6: They're great players for a reason. Everybody said the same
Speaker 6: thing about Luca and Kyrie obviously went to the finals.
Speaker 5: So I like Luca and Lebron too. Love it.
Speaker 3: It's a little jade and Daniel Terry McLaurin actually.
Speaker 5: Got a little.
Speaker 2: What's your style on the court.
Speaker 5: You guys.
Speaker 2: Do you guys play the Commanders?
Speaker 5: You got any we do not play.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna just go on the record and say this,
Speaker 6: Bobby Wagner, please tag him. I will beat Bobby Wagner
Speaker 6: in a basketball game. He thinks he's better than me.
Speaker 3: So okay, Jada, And I'm so glad you said that.
Speaker 3: On my notes, I said, I have it written here,
Speaker 3: you can see it. Bobby thinks he can hoop.
Speaker 1: Word thinks, yeah, thinks you You joined this team, the Commanders,
Speaker 1: and you know, naturally there there's expectations about you obviously
Speaker 1: coming into the league, of what you can do, what
Speaker 1: you can't do, and one of the things watching it.
Speaker 1: Obviously the team improved throughout the course of the season,
Speaker 1: but one thing I thought just watching you week to
Speaker 1: week was some of the things people thought maybe were
Speaker 1: things you got to work on when you came into
Speaker 1: the league. By the end of the year, it seemed
Speaker 1: like you really had improved. I'm actually thinking of a
Speaker 1: very specific play really sticks in a head from the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship where you just rip that ball in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field to Jimmy Brown, and I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about how coming out as a prospect, They're like, well,
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's got to be able to
Speaker 1: read the middle of the field, whether he's going to
Speaker 1: go to the middle of the field. Do you feel
Speaker 1: like you were able to improve doing that during the season.
Speaker 1: What else do you think you got better at as
Speaker 1: a pro I just got.
Speaker 6: Better as a as a player. You find things obviously
Speaker 6: come out of college. Going to the pros, you got
Speaker 6: to find different things to improve on. This is a
Speaker 6: totally different game. So, I mean all the college prospects,
Speaker 6: you know, people probably go criticize what they can or
Speaker 6: can't do, but by the time you get the pros,
Speaker 6: man kind of what you just learn and you just
Speaker 6: get better, especially it comes from practice.
Speaker 3: It's cool because you could see the way that this
Speaker 3: offense really matured and manifested around you and what you
Speaker 3: can do not just your leadership, but your ability. And
Speaker 3: it looked like Cliff was putting pieces into it every
Speaker 3: single week, and Terry was putting pieces into it.
Speaker 4: Every single week.
Speaker 3: That offensive line that you had, I know, you love
Speaker 3: those guys putting peace into it. We we have Sam
Speaker 3: Cosmy on our Personal show All Pro Team, First Team.
Speaker 4: By the way, here you go, and I just.
Speaker 3: You know, we I wanted to know how that worked,
Speaker 3: like you were a true collaborator in that, and you
Speaker 3: could really see that about mid season onward. It was
Speaker 3: showing up on the field all of the input that
Speaker 3: you personally had in that offense as well.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's just that's kudos to cliff Man.
Speaker 6: You know, you could go somewhere. Coaches were like, this
Speaker 6: is my scheme, this is my system, is my way.
Speaker 6: But cliff Man, he just wanted it was best for
Speaker 6: the players. So he's a truth player coach. He always
Speaker 6: want us to go out there be our best, play fast,
Speaker 6: and people had ideas or people had input, you know,
Speaker 6: he would listen to it and like ultimately, if I
Speaker 6: didn't like to play, he would take it out. He
Speaker 6: don't want us to run any bad plays that we
Speaker 6: didn't feel comfortable with.
Speaker 4: That's cool.
Speaker 2: Do you do you feel like you got better at
Speaker 2: avoiding hit.
Speaker 4: Were worried about you early on.
Speaker 3: We were like, we gotta get this guy on quarterback Island.
Speaker 2: Don't get please?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah for sure, because now you got to think
Speaker 6: about like college, you're trying to fight for to get drafted.
Speaker 6: You know, you got got maybe played through some injuries
Speaker 6: stuff like that. But now in the pros it's like
Speaker 6: I gotta play seventeen games, I gotta play hopefully longer
Speaker 6: that so I gotta be available and so that that's
Speaker 6: kind of.
Speaker 1: My iver seen someone quite like you though that on
Speaker 1: the sidelines, you're pretty smooth with it where you you
Speaker 1: look so relaxed at This is the thing that got
Speaker 1: me with you that sometimes you were doing things that
Speaker 1: you almost look better as.
Speaker 2: The pro than you even even in college.
Speaker 1: And part of it was that running ability, like you'd
Speaker 1: get towards the sideline and you'd almost make the defenders
Speaker 1: laugh at just making them miss and then just kind
Speaker 1: of like slide out of bounds. Does your heart rate
Speaker 1: not beat like a little faster.
Speaker 5: When not at all?
Speaker 6: If somebody gets a good hit on me, like I'm
Speaker 6: gonna let them know you got a good hit on me,
Speaker 6: Like as long as I'm not seriously injured, that's a
Speaker 6: different story. But like I mean, I bounce back up
Speaker 6: every time and move on to the next play.
Speaker 3: You're so called and we just get a kick every
Speaker 3: time we watch you play, like you're so beyond your years.
Speaker 4: I often say.
Speaker 3: You're like a forty year old quarterback and like a
Speaker 3: twenty two year old's body, the way that you read
Speaker 3: the field, the way that you're calm and you galvanize people.
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you about some of the speeches
Speaker 3: that I heard from Terry. Okay, so Terry, some of
Speaker 3: his hype speeches that we've seen clips of, and some
Speaker 3: of the ways that he addresses teammates in the locker room.
Speaker 3: What is that like for you learning about him and
Speaker 3: getting to know him as a teammate, as a leader
Speaker 3: on that team.
Speaker 5: Man, Terry's very passionate.
Speaker 6: Like those clips that they posted, I've never seen them,
Speaker 6: so I never knew like Terry was saying something like
Speaker 6: that before going out to the game, because we the quarterbacks,
Speaker 6: go out before so we're already on the field. But Man,
Speaker 6: Terry is a great human being, very passionate about the
Speaker 6: game and what he does. And I think everybody just
Speaker 6: sees that through the clips, like he's talking from his
Speaker 6: heart and that's really how he feels.
Speaker 5: And he loves this game. He gives this game everything
Speaker 5: that he has.
Speaker 4: We just loved watching you guys all year.
Speaker 3: The Commanders such a breath of fresh air in every
Speaker 3: phase of that building, from the coaching staff to the
Speaker 3: front office to the players on the roster, that perfect
Speaker 3: blend of veterans and young players and free agents. One
Speaker 3: of our favorite players on this show and another one
Speaker 3: of our first team All pros on NFL Daily, Frankie Louvo.
Speaker 1: Man big oo ooh, what's it like going up against
Speaker 1: him in practice?
Speaker 6: And came carry man where he wears a blacked advisor.
Speaker 5: He just runs around. He has a knack for being
Speaker 5: around the football.
Speaker 6: So but he's a great person, Like a great person
Speaker 6: you could talk to himbout anything buried down to earth.
Speaker 5: And I think that's just how our whole locker room was.
Speaker 6: You got guys that been in the league, that's done stuff,
Speaker 6: accomplished a lot of things, and they have all the
Speaker 6: right to, you know, be have an ego, but everybody
Speaker 6: once you walk to the door, everybody drops the egos
Speaker 6: and everybody's just going to work.
Speaker 5: And cares about each other.
Speaker 3: And Jaden, one of the reasons you have that trophy
Speaker 3: that you earned, every like centimeter of that trophy, a
Speaker 3: beautiful trophy in front of us right now, is because
Speaker 3: not only did they bring you into their fold, but
Speaker 3: like you led them for sure, and so there was
Speaker 3: such a mix of personalities. I remember this shot after
Speaker 3: one of your wins earlier in the season, and Bobby
Speaker 3: and Frankie are just sitting their arms crossed as you're
Speaker 3: with one of the sideline reporters, and they're so fired up,
Speaker 3: like they're ready to run through a wall after the
Speaker 3: game for you. Yeah, and so I guess taking all
Speaker 3: of that energy and channeling it as a leader, how
Speaker 3: did you learn to lead all of this mix of people,
Speaker 3: veterans and young players in that building.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think that.
Speaker 6: Came with who I am and like being myself and
Speaker 6: having a way to connect with everybody in the locker
Speaker 6: room and just.
Speaker 5: Really just being available.
Speaker 6: Like I wasn't coming in thinking I was better than
Speaker 6: anybody because of where I was drafted at.
Speaker 5: It was a more so like, hey, I'm a rookie.
Speaker 6: At the end of the day, man, I've been here,
Speaker 6: I still got a lot to learn. I can't wait
Speaker 6: to meet you guys, and stuff like that, And that's
Speaker 6: kind of how that relationship built. And then overtime people
Speaker 6: started seeing like me and Bobby are banters and after
Speaker 6: games teammates waiting for each other, but just supercided and
Speaker 6: happy to be with each other.
Speaker 1: But now, but now you're here, you got some you
Speaker 1: got some pelts on the wall. You know, you got
Speaker 1: this beautiful ward. You got very close to this game
Speaker 1: here the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: Are you ready?
Speaker 1: First of I know you've gotten to know the Commander's fans,
Speaker 1: but man, I've had a lot of Washington fans in
Speaker 1: my life. And the improvement that you have given to
Speaker 1: them and just their daily demeanor. They're so much happier
Speaker 1: now that Jayden Daniels is in their life, after.
Speaker 3: What we've been through.
Speaker 1: They're just like they're just lighter. Like are are you
Speaker 1: ready for about seven primetime games next year? Like at
Speaker 1: least one of them is going to be against Eagles,
Speaker 1: Another one of them is going to be against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: And it's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be like kind of that next step.
Speaker 1: You ready to carry all that and car carry these
Speaker 1: fans in their hopes for the next handful of years.
Speaker 5: I'm ready.
Speaker 6: Me personally, I like playing night games. Oh no, it's
Speaker 6: just something about just saying, you know, you play at
Speaker 6: the dark, you come to l G, you play only
Speaker 6: nighttime game.
Speaker 5: So now I'm just like a custom to it. It was
Speaker 5: kind of different.
Speaker 6: Now I have to play at one pm instead of
Speaker 6: six pm.
Speaker 5: It's different my life playing primetime games.
Speaker 2: So it's gonna be tough to top your first one
Speaker 2: there against the Bengals.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that was that was crazy and uh that
Speaker 6: one and then Sunday night against the.
Speaker 5: Falcons that that was another crazy game.
Speaker 6: But I'm excited because I mean that just gives everybody,
Speaker 6: all the fans, a chance to come out and really
Speaker 6: support us under the lights and pack out the stadium.
Speaker 2: Oh man.
Speaker 1: I used I always to always talk the NFL, even
Speaker 1: when it was like Jim Zorn's team and Mark Brunell
Speaker 1: is starting back and they put them in primetime five
Speaker 1: six times because it's a national team when they weren't
Speaker 1: any good. Now they got Jayden Daniels, You got the
Speaker 1: pepsi U Rookie of the Year. What what does it
Speaker 1: mean to you to get this award? We're taping this Thursday.
Speaker 1: There's another awards show, NFL Honors, that will be Thursday night.
Speaker 1: I have a feeling you're picking up more hardware. But
Speaker 1: what does it mean to win this award in particular?
Speaker 6: I think this war in particular obviously like our draft class. Obvious,
Speaker 6: there's a lot of different weapons. I couple with my friends. Well,
Speaker 6: everybody's my friend in the draft class, but really close friends,
Speaker 6: two of them that were out for this war.
Speaker 5: But this is more so because it's voted by the fans.
Speaker 6: So it just shows that the respect I have other
Speaker 6: people's fan bases, and obviously you know Washington has the
Speaker 6: best fans.
Speaker 5: In the country.
Speaker 2: Wait to who are you? Who are the close friends?
Speaker 5: Wait, teammates?
Speaker 6: You have ex teammates, elite neighbors and Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 4: Did you just send them a selfie of you holding it?
Speaker 5: No, yeah, I have. I don't think they know. I
Speaker 5: got to just I gotta, I gotta FaceTime.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Jade and Daniels, everything obviously that you're given.
Speaker 2: We were saying all your kind of.
Speaker 4: We told everyone so commanders to me.
Speaker 2: It was kind of the story of this season with
Speaker 2: you leading the way. So appreciate you, Thank you for
Speaker 2: having me.
Speaker 1: Thank you all right, Jordan, I think I'm in love
Speaker 1: James Daniels, that's my guy.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: I felt like I was going to pass out, like
Speaker 3: we're such fan boys.
Speaker 2: Half of it.
Speaker 3: I know we threw out all journalistic responsibility. That's fine, though,
Speaker 3: I don't care, because Jada Daniels is so special, I mean,
Speaker 3: how brilliant. I mean, he just came in. He was
Speaker 3: so comfortable. Some players come up here and they're so nervous.
Speaker 3: I guess we shouldn't be shocked because this is just
Speaker 3: how he's been, you know what, We've seen him play
Speaker 3: and on the sideline.
Speaker 4: But man, what a great, great young man.
Speaker 2: He's so present, you know, in a way that I'm
Speaker 2: jealous of.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you check out sometimes, No, just.
Speaker 1: Like he's he's in the moment. He's not thinking about
Speaker 1: any thing else. And it's so stupid because we don't
Speaker 1: know him. We just spend thirteen minutes with him or
Speaker 1: whatever it was. But even in that short time, you
Speaker 1: can just see how he is someone that you.
Speaker 2: Adroitly mentioned would follow.
Speaker 1: You know that he is a person who, just by
Speaker 1: the way he carries himself, is going to have thirty
Speaker 1: five year old zach Ertz talking about looking up up
Speaker 1: to him and that you kind of can't teach that.
Speaker 1: And to be fair, that was what the commanders were saying,
Speaker 1: and a lot of people around the NFL were saying
Speaker 1: coming into the draft of like, yeah, we know Caleb's
Speaker 1: great and Drake may is great, but this is why
Speaker 1: Jaden's great, yeah, in a different way, and why he's
Speaker 1: our guy.
Speaker 2: And right now all those people look really smart.
Speaker 4: I was gonna.
Speaker 3: I was so happy we got to tell him that
Speaker 3: he was our first quarterback, our first rookie quarterback on
Speaker 3: Quarterback Island this season.
Speaker 4: And I also didn't.
Speaker 3: Throw you under the bus and say you tried to
Speaker 3: get Caleb Williams on before the season started, even even
Speaker 3: though you I know, if.
Speaker 2: You wanted to throw me on a nice start, you
Speaker 2: could have said that.
Speaker 1: Even last week I was talking with with Nate Tice
Speaker 1: about whether.
Speaker 2: You take Drake me ahead of him. I can't. I
Speaker 2: can't do it now.
Speaker 4: I would never do that to you. Greg.
Speaker 1: No, he was great, and uh he's It's such a
Speaker 1: value add when a quarterback like that comes into the league.
Speaker 2: I remember it with Justin Herbert. I think Jayden Daniels
Speaker 2: is at an even higher level.
Speaker 1: But just knowing that this guy's going to be in
Speaker 1: your life, especially with that team, which I talked to
Speaker 1: him a little bit about the NA like it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of commanders.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: Also looking forward to one of the New America's team,
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions now suddenly came into our lives the
Speaker 1: last few years in large part because Jamir Gibbs and
Speaker 1: David Montgomery proved that front office right that they are
Speaker 1: gonna be one of the best backfields in the late
Speaker 1: for a long time.
Speaker 2: They are joining the show next.
Speaker 1: All right, we are here on NFL Daily with two
Speaker 1: of my favorite running backs in the league who just
Speaker 1: happened to be the best running back duo in the
Speaker 1: league here with Bounty, Jamir Gibbs and David Montgomery. And
Speaker 1: I gotta say even before we start, you guys are
Speaker 1: you're a vibe. You're like beatboxing together. You're helping each
Speaker 1: other out, your your teammates all the time.
Speaker 8: Now for sure, for sure, this is uh, this is
Speaker 8: my dog, my brother, anything that means in close quarters,
Speaker 8: this is this is my homie. So just being able to,
Speaker 8: you know, have somebody like that, and I think it's
Speaker 8: a special and I'm grateful.
Speaker 3: Question really free each of you. You spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time with each other this year, spent a lot
Speaker 3: of time with each other on radio row. I know
Speaker 3: you guys are so busy doing the circuit this entire
Speaker 3: day with Bounty. Is there anything you didn't know about
Speaker 3: each other that now you know or you're gonna sort
Speaker 3: of file away and maybe a maybe a moment that
Speaker 3: you shared together that you had to be Okay.
Speaker 4: Now I know that about this guy now.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 8: To be honest, when I first met Jamiir, I didn't
Speaker 8: know like his story. And I met his parents and
Speaker 8: I'm like, okay, I get it now, and he sat
Speaker 8: down and told me about it, and I just appreciate
Speaker 8: it and respect him so much more for the things
Speaker 8: that he's been through to be able to be like
Speaker 8: in the position he is, to be who he is.
Speaker 8: You know, it's definitely like it's a beautiful thing to
Speaker 8: see Jamiir.
Speaker 3: We saw you really help him out. We're not going
Speaker 3: to say how we saw you really help him out
Speaker 3: before the show.
Speaker 4: You guys, you guys can tell the story. You could
Speaker 4: tell the story. We witnessed it. It was a wholesome, a
Speaker 4: wholesome moment.
Speaker 9: Let me tell him, Well, Jamiir had a bogger and
Speaker 9: I had.
Speaker 10: He had a bigger and I was helpful.
Speaker 3: This is what happens when you let him tell the story.
Speaker 3: Do that again, and Greg do this all the time.
Speaker 3: Like it.
Speaker 2: Whatever you learned from from David?
Speaker 1: How about maybe his running style or or as a pro, like,
Speaker 1: what have you learned from him?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 5: He's he's don't like this.
Speaker 11: You know he was you know it was a bigger guy,
Speaker 11: you know, sure, but you know he moves extremely well.
Speaker 11: So when I first seen him move like you're gonna
Speaker 11: make a juke, I was like, it was quick.
Speaker 4: I like the face that you just say. That was
Speaker 4: some skepticism right there.
Speaker 11: And then two thirty five, but yeah, as more you know,
Speaker 11: the more you know with them, it's like it's more
Speaker 11: of a I expect him to do this now.
Speaker 9: So, bro, can you stop hitting me with your.
Speaker 5: To move or else?
Speaker 2: I can't be.
Speaker 9: You just want to text me?
Speaker 11: I can't be still exciting?
Speaker 4: Come on, I have to ask.
Speaker 3: So, when you guys all through this year, when plays
Speaker 3: come in, when you guys are installing game plans and stuff,
Speaker 3: was there anything that surprised you? Because I feel like
Speaker 3: after certain number we had so much fun watching the
Speaker 3: Lions this year because it just was any given day
Speaker 3: you'd see some stuff that you just didn't believe was
Speaker 3: still going to be pulled back from you know, nineteen
Speaker 3: seventies football, or they would do some format ben Jons
Speaker 3: would do some formations where you'd be like, wait, is
Speaker 3: that is that the wing team?
Speaker 4: What's going on?
Speaker 3: And he would do little trickerations out of it? Is
Speaker 3: it is there? Ever, how did you discuss those things?
Speaker 3: Is there anything that ever surprised you?
Speaker 2: Guys? H?
Speaker 9: I mean well, there wasn't really no discussion.
Speaker 4: It was like we're doing this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, he put he would just show a video and
Speaker 11: he was like, y'all like it. Everybody, Yeah, we're doing it.
Speaker 11: Even if we didn't like him, we were yeah, we're
Speaker 11: still and then we just then we just practiced, like
Speaker 11: then we'll go one on ones. We see if it
Speaker 11: works on them. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't. But
Speaker 11: we're still running the game for brothers.
Speaker 1: So how did you guys decide that he that Jamir
Speaker 1: got to be sonic and you were not.
Speaker 2: It's pretty evident, is it. I don't know what.
Speaker 9: He runs like a four to three dog, like a
Speaker 9: four to five or six.
Speaker 2: It's like Knuckles known as slower. I don't know.
Speaker 8: Knuckles is fast also, but that people don't know, like yeah,
Speaker 8: all hedgehogs are most hedgehogs are fast.
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I didn't know that they were separate.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but he's he's known for his speed and his
Speaker 8: quickness and swiftness.
Speaker 9: Like but Nuncles is also fast too, and he can.
Speaker 9: Yeah he hit hard too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he hits. And that's the thing, Knuckles. I
Speaker 4: mean you hear him the name. It's physicality, it's forced.
Speaker 3: And I know that you know you take a special
Speaker 3: relish in playing that kind of football.
Speaker 4: I know you like to run down people.
Speaker 5: Nah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 8: I think for me, I think I do appreciate like
Speaker 8: my running styff, being able to run people over.
Speaker 9: But it's kind of like Josh said, too, I can
Speaker 9: move to you like that.
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 8: I can really like I didn't drop a couple of people,
Speaker 8: like mixing them. But it don't get a lot of
Speaker 8: credit just because of.
Speaker 4: Cut that because he's two fourth.
Speaker 8: Again number twos making donuts over.
Speaker 1: Now, you know who you remind me of a little
Speaker 1: bit sometimes in terms of making people miss in like
Speaker 1: a small hole physical But Frank.
Speaker 9: Gore, I'm with that. I can work with Frank or
Speaker 9: or like, well, who.
Speaker 4: Did you not want to say it, say it.
Speaker 9: Don't say nothing, don't because Earl Campbell.
Speaker 2: Campbell, he's just big. I know the next question thinking
Speaker 2: of the largest where he want to be.
Speaker 4: I see your base. I see what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I haven't Frider and Perry or something like who you're
Speaker 2: trying to go.
Speaker 5: That's crazy work. I was gonna say, but that's too much.
Speaker 5: That was joke.
Speaker 2: That was a bad joke. I feel bad. I feel
Speaker 2: bad about that joke. But I actually want to make
Speaker 2: an apology.
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, you need to.
Speaker 2: I know what you're doing.
Speaker 5: You do okay?
Speaker 4: Oh, I am aware you guys.
Speaker 1: You guys are the subject of the worst tweet I
Speaker 1: ever had, and Lions fans have never.
Speaker 4: Let me forget it rightfully, so by.
Speaker 1: This time meeting you eyes for the first time. The
Speaker 1: worst tweet I ever had was after they drafted Jamir.
Speaker 1: I said the difference between Gibbs and Montgomery and their
Speaker 1: old crew Jamal Williams and DeAndre Swift was not that big,
Speaker 1: and it was partly because I liked I like those
Speaker 1: two players. They're not bad players. I thought they were.
Speaker 1: I thought they were good. But I gotta take a
Speaker 1: big l and the reason I know I tweeted. That
Speaker 1: is because every time one of you guys scores a touchdown,
Speaker 1: one of your Lions fans comes at me with that tweet,
Speaker 1: just saying saying how wrong I was. So can you
Speaker 1: can you tell them to get off my back? Like
Speaker 1: we we've been saying how great you are for a
Speaker 1: couple of years.
Speaker 5: I think you need to eat that.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 2: Because you were wrong, but I'm apologizing. We all make mistakes.
Speaker 2: You've had negative plays. You guys have probably had.
Speaker 9: Time ill that you know what.
Speaker 2: I did that too, though I did not delete it,
Speaker 2: it's still out there. So every time.
Speaker 9: Once you deleted, once you deleted, I'll talk to like management.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have like constant secondhand shame for this
Speaker 3: because it does come up often and I have to say,
Speaker 3: did you agree?
Speaker 5: Yeah? No, god no, did you like the tweet?
Speaker 2: I mean it took me like two weeks to like.
Speaker 8: But you know what, you know, credit to you, Like
Speaker 8: I'm not mad at you at all, Like you don't
Speaker 8: understand like when Jamir got drafted the like everything that
Speaker 8: we he took, I took, and it took a while
Speaker 8: for us to put like the horse blinders on of
Speaker 8: how much they hated us without even knowing us, Like,
Speaker 8: but it was okay, Like we appreciated that.
Speaker 9: So every time that we had an opportunity to showcase.
Speaker 5: What we were capable of of doing it together, we.
Speaker 9: Had so much more gratitude and appreciate it.
Speaker 2: You felt that too, You felt that.
Speaker 5: It's just like, damn, I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 9: I mean, I heart my feelings, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: Feeling I'm like, I was like, I was like, whatever.
Speaker 3: It's just so cool though, because I was we were
Speaker 3: talking right before when you know, you were dealing with
Speaker 3: your clean Nex situation, and we were just saying, you
Speaker 3: guys play with such joy. There's force, there's physicality, there's
Speaker 3: like elite vision, there's speed, there's all the moves and
Speaker 3: it just works so perfectly.
Speaker 4: Especially behind that O line. And I know you guys
Speaker 4: love those guys.
Speaker 3: So much, definitely, but there's like this joy too, and
Speaker 3: there's like this free you guys just play so free
Speaker 3: but so controlled at the same time. I mean, and
Speaker 3: to do that as a tandem too, where you're lifting
Speaker 3: each other up, you know, I mean, I know we
Speaker 3: troll and all of that, but like you're lifting each
Speaker 3: other up. I just I love that and I kind
Speaker 3: of want to know, like where that comes from. Why
Speaker 3: is it so you just fell into step like immediately
Speaker 3: with each other.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.
Speaker 9: I mean we're both pretty selfless humans.
Speaker 8: I mean I come from a real rough like background,
Speaker 8: you know, and when I was a kid, I didn't
Speaker 8: have anything. I kind of alluded to to Jamir's story,
Speaker 8: he had a tough upbringing also, so like for me,
Speaker 8: I can speak for myself personally, when you're not used
Speaker 8: to having things, when you do get things, like you
Speaker 8: show so much more.
Speaker 9: Gratitude and appreciation for it.
Speaker 8: So like me being able to like have somebody like
Speaker 8: Jamior and me to be in a position to where
Speaker 8: I'm in an NFL and I'm on a team that's
Speaker 8: really good. Like when I was a kid, it was
Speaker 8: just a dream.
Speaker 9: It was merely a dream.
Speaker 8: It was merely a thought that I didn't have no pathwhere,
Speaker 8: no like rhyme or reason of how I knew I
Speaker 8: was gonna get there.
Speaker 9: But it was a dream.
Speaker 8: But I got an opportunity to be placed in this position.
Speaker 8: You know, y'all sho would being who y'a shoe is
Speaker 8: for me and bless me with such a you know,
Speaker 8: amazing person.
Speaker 9: I think it makes my job so much easier.
Speaker 8: It makes me want to come to work to be
Speaker 8: like the best version of myself because he went through
Speaker 8: and I know what I went through. And it's like,
Speaker 8: you got to show some kind of appreciation to your
Speaker 8: life for the thing that you've been through. When you
Speaker 8: get to a place where you can showcase who you
Speaker 8: are how you can help.
Speaker 2: That's beautiful. And I think you found the right coach right,
Speaker 2: It was so beautiful. More credit. You're saying, David's a
Speaker 2: good talker.
Speaker 1: But before you go, tell us, tell us what you're
Speaker 1: doing here this week with Bounty.
Speaker 2: Let me go.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so me and Jamiir recently partner with Bounty.
Speaker 8: Obviously, if you and again if you guys ever have
Speaker 8: a mess, you know to go to Bountie. Then another
Speaker 8: thing that you know, you can't have football without wings.
Speaker 11: You can't have wings without Bounty.
Speaker 3: Yes, question like what if I am the mess? Is
Speaker 3: boundy going to fix that?
Speaker 4: Do we think?
Speaker 9: Actually picked up a lot of my message to outside.
Speaker 2: Of don't don't.
Speaker 1: The best in the league and yes, the key to
Speaker 1: my son Walker's Juggernaut fantasy team. Both these running backs
Speaker 1: Gibbs and David Montgomery.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining.
Speaker 9: Appreciate it all.
Speaker 1: Right, Jordan, Well we did it in.
Speaker 2: In just twelve minutes.
Speaker 1: We distilled the Montgomery Gibbs vibe to its total essence.
Speaker 2: I understand them completely, you know, I love them.
Speaker 3: I can't believe you brought up your take from after
Speaker 3: the draft.
Speaker 4: First of all.
Speaker 3: Second of all, I physically died next to you as
Speaker 3: you did. But I thought they handled it great, and
Speaker 3: you handled it great. Second of all, I loved their dynamic.
Speaker 3: They are such siblings, like little brother, older brother. Like
Speaker 3: Jamir was like trolling David the whole time.
Speaker 4: You know, they were picking on each other. They were like,
Speaker 4: I just loved it there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm half kidding about distilling to the essence
Speaker 1: because you kind of saw it all. You saw how
Speaker 1: much it means to them, but you also saw their
Speaker 1: playful dynamic.
Speaker 2: And Montgomery came up here so serious. I was like, Oh,
Speaker 2: what is this going to be like?
Speaker 1: And then I realized, no, he's like the straight man
Speaker 1: that seems really serious. But then he's funny as hell,
Speaker 1: which I should have figured out with when, like within
Speaker 1: thirty seconds of meeting me He's like, man, I got
Speaker 1: a big ass booger.
Speaker 4: They helped each other out.
Speaker 2: It was great.
Speaker 1: I am a I'm a bigger fan of those two guys.
Speaker 1: Now after listening to him, we're gonna take a quick break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back on the other side with Pooka
Speaker 1: Kua really excited about this one back on NFL Daily
Speaker 1: and yeah, the stars they keep coming out for this
Speaker 1: big show on radio Row Poka Nakua, wide receiver of
Speaker 1: the LA Rams All Pro through two years, He's done
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 2: Welcome to the show, Puoka, thank you very much.
Speaker 10: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad to see you in a different setting.
Speaker 3: I was just saying, you got your NPR look going
Speaker 3: here today. You're ready to podcast a little bit.
Speaker 10: Try to switch it up right.
Speaker 12: Radio requires a different little a different uniform than I'm
Speaker 12: used to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do not need you podcasting anytime soon. Keep playing,
Speaker 1: keep playing, Keep you on the field. Was a really
Speaker 1: interesting year from you, Pooka, because obviously you missed that time.
Speaker 1: But one thing I've been talking about on this show,
Speaker 1: we do our own little All Pro team, and I
Speaker 1: had you. We made sure to have you on our
Speaker 1: second team. Because you missed that time. But on a
Speaker 1: per snap basis, like a per target basis, that was
Speaker 1: one of the most efficient wide receiver seasons I've ever seen.
Speaker 2: That the numbers back it up.
Speaker 1: So I was curious, like, what subtleties, what things do
Speaker 1: you think you got like better at from a rookie
Speaker 1: year to your second year, because I think that got
Speaker 1: slept on a little bit this season.
Speaker 12: I think, yeah, trying to be more efficient at the
Speaker 12: top of the routes, at the line of scrimmage, I thought.
Speaker 12: I think I caught the ball at a definitely more
Speaker 12: consistent rate, man, and just trying to be as physical
Speaker 12: as I can after the catcher. I think that's a
Speaker 12: it's a It's a big part of my game when
Speaker 12: it was in my first year, and I think it's
Speaker 12: a it's always going to be a part of my game.
Speaker 10: That's how I love to play the game of football.
Speaker 12: It it brings me excitement and enjoy when I get
Speaker 12: to hit somebody. So I hope, yeah, yeah, yeah, And.
Speaker 3: It's cool Puka, like you you were you had this
Speaker 3: record breaking rookie season and I remember talking to you
Speaker 3: after it and you were so mad at yourself and
Speaker 3: I couldn't figure out why, and you're like the drops.
Speaker 4: I want to get those. I want to make those better.
Speaker 3: But not only those not You didn't just fix those,
Speaker 3: you also changed your body too.
Speaker 4: You've you've been open about this, the way that.
Speaker 3: You trained, some of the throwing up that happens, but
Speaker 3: you really dedicated yourself to basically finding even the smallest
Speaker 3: things that you weren't personally happy with despite all of
Speaker 3: the accolades and success, and going about fixing it.
Speaker 4: What was that process like for you?
Speaker 10: I think it's a huge tribute to the people around me.
Speaker 12: I think of all my support system in the BRAMS facility,
Speaker 12: in that organization, the relationships that I've built with my teammates,
Speaker 12: with my coaches, and the people in that staff, and
Speaker 12: then my family.
Speaker 10: I had come from a football family. I have five older.
Speaker 12: Brothers or four older brothers, and my little brother, who's
Speaker 12: in college, is always even sending me tips and reminders,
Speaker 12: so I'm constantly reminded on things that i can do better.
Speaker 12: But I'm also I receive a lot of praise and
Speaker 12: support from those people, and it makes going about to
Speaker 12: try to be better that much more exciting one because
Speaker 12: I want that for myself, but then also the people
Speaker 12: around me are helping me be the best version of myself,
Speaker 12: so I can achieve those things.
Speaker 2: I saw your little brother playing on the Polynesian Bowl,
Speaker 2: I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah, shout out to the Steve Wis and the Polynesian Bowl,
Speaker 1: underrated event on NFL Network every year you played on that. Once,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about your seasons just now. Do you
Speaker 1: have a favorite catch? Is there something that that pops
Speaker 1: in your head and you're proud of that that was
Speaker 1: a great moment.
Speaker 12: Well, I think of the one that Tom Brady in
Speaker 12: the Bills game. We had over the shoulder catch on
Speaker 12: the sideline and I ran for one. Uh for one
Speaker 12: of the best quarterbacks of all time to say that
Speaker 12: that was a pretty awesome catch for one of the
Speaker 12: ones that you've seen, and I know he's seen plenty
Speaker 12: of them, so that was really cool.
Speaker 1: So our producer Eric is a Bills fan. He's over
Speaker 1: here shaking our head. But but my son said it
Speaker 1: back back in your rookie year. It's actually a sound
Speaker 1: drop that that we use on the show that we
Speaker 1: watched your game. It was against the vikings of your
Speaker 1: rookie year, and I had to call in and do
Speaker 1: a little report after the game from the stadium, and
Speaker 1: and my nine year old son at the time shouted.
Speaker 2: You out, really, I love that, so that that pops
Speaker 2: up on the show. So we said we should have
Speaker 2: played that too at the Bills.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know because of all the blocking rookie, do
Speaker 3: you know I have to ask and I bug you
Speaker 3: about this a lot, but not on this front.
Speaker 4: Not the cameras favorite run play.
Speaker 10: It's I think there's no better run play than duo.
Speaker 12: I think it's just it's as simple as uh football
Speaker 12: gets in the in the best way possible, and I
Speaker 12: enjoy I enjoyed the challenges that that play presents and
Speaker 12: the excitement that it also presents.
Speaker 1: What are they because the average fan does not know
Speaker 1: what you would be doing on a play on a
Speaker 1: duo play, so.
Speaker 12: I guess it kind of depends me on what formation
Speaker 12: if we're if we're in a three by one trying
Speaker 12: to run due or on a two by two run duo.
Speaker 12: But for the most part, in two by two du
Speaker 12: I normally have some kind of short motion to line
Speaker 12: up to execute my job. And then honestly, it doesn't
Speaker 12: matter if it's a corner of safety or a linebacker
Speaker 12: who's ever in front of me. That's where in the
Speaker 12: opposite color will eventually get hit by me on that side.
Speaker 10: That's my job.
Speaker 12: I'm not going to pass up color because that guy
Speaker 12: could potentially block up, end up tackling car and him.
Speaker 10: That's my I can't let that happen.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of my favorite things you said all year was, well,
Speaker 3: I do love to run duo, you know, Puka, you
Speaker 3: also run so much pre snap and I've compared it
Speaker 3: with Matthew at times that you're running the four hundred
Speaker 3: meter around the curve, some of those long looping motions
Speaker 3: into those digs that you run, Like, did you feel
Speaker 3: better this year more? You know, like the cardio was
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit because you had you ran probably
Speaker 3: like several thousand yards before you would even run.
Speaker 10: Your route last year. I mean, I think so.
Speaker 12: It definitely provides a fun little of challenge and it
Speaker 12: requires the best of my salmina and my conditioning. But
Speaker 12: I think there's definitely room for improvement in me. That
Speaker 12: I mean, it's hard. Sometimes you got to make sure
Speaker 12: that the motion is believable or when I am actually motioning,
Speaker 12: and to get to the motion prep that's required to
Speaker 12: be able to run a route after that, after motioning
Speaker 12: from one side of the field to the other, or
Speaker 12: trying to motion and then insert in the sea gap.
Speaker 10: There a lot of moving parts when you get into
Speaker 10: the linement and stuff like that.
Speaker 12: So it's always it keeps me on my toes because
Speaker 12: if I'm not, I will end up on my back
Speaker 12: looking up at the sky.
Speaker 1: And I'm a football door, so I pay attention to
Speaker 1: all the next gen stats and the numbers, and they
Speaker 1: back up everything. You both are saying that whatever the
Speaker 1: rankings are for the most amount of motion run or
Speaker 1: the most amount of catches in motion or any type
Speaker 1: of motions, that it's like Poka nakua and then it's
Speaker 1: a deep all it's a number two, so they have
Speaker 1: you on the move. The catch that stands out to me,
Speaker 1: probably because it was so recent, was that one on
Speaker 1: the sideline in the snow against the Eagles, which you.
Speaker 2: Know obviously what happened after that. You're not gonna say.
Speaker 1: That's your favorite catch of the year, but explain to
Speaker 1: me what playing in that game and then what that moment,
Speaker 1: what you're feeling like after making that catch on a
Speaker 1: drive in a game like that.
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I definitely wouldn't say it's one of my
Speaker 12: favorite catches, but.
Speaker 5: It was a badass catch.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess, yeah, just yeah, that was the play.
Speaker 12: We had an opportunity to take a shot we needed
Speaker 12: to play at time, and that's that's my job to
Speaker 12: try to try to come down with it. And then,
Speaker 12: uh just the feeling of a sight of the job's
Speaker 12: not finished. We're right there, We're one explosive play doesn't
Speaker 12: get you into the end zone all the time.
Speaker 10: So Dahn like, man, we're right there.
Speaker 12: We have another opportunity to make a couple of plays
Speaker 12: and then the last play was obviously thrown to me.
Speaker 10: So that's why.
Speaker 12: That that catch definitely does sting a little bit because
Speaker 12: I wasn't able to come up with the one that
Speaker 12: was potentially going to make the game different game making
Speaker 12: play for us. And uh so that's another motivator added
Speaker 12: to the list in the off season workouts to be
Speaker 12: here next time I come to the Super Bowl. I
Speaker 12: want to be able to be in one of the
Speaker 12: jumpsuits that I just barely saw on the on ESPN.
Speaker 12: And I know everybody in our RAMS organization feels that way.
Speaker 2: See, I just.
Speaker 1: Want to I want to normalize remembering great plays, even
Speaker 1: if the losing effort.
Speaker 2: The Julio Jones catching the Super Bowl.
Speaker 10: That's what that's one of the best ye.
Speaker 9: Reminded me of.
Speaker 2: So I want to remember the Jalen Hurts performance in
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl. Yet that yes they ended up losing,
Speaker 2: but he that's all. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But we can.
Speaker 3: We could do this with you forever, Puka, because we
Speaker 3: just like hearing how you think and how you see
Speaker 3: the field and how you study and how is that
Speaker 3: part of it opened up, not just as a receiver,
Speaker 3: but you're looking at all the layers in the run game.
Speaker 3: I know it's a passion of yours as well, just
Speaker 3: to look at all of those layers and how things
Speaker 3: unfold and how has that.
Speaker 4: Grown for you.
Speaker 10: I think it's been so fun.
Speaker 12: I think of the people who I've been around in
Speaker 12: the facility that Matthew and Kop and the guys who
Speaker 12: and Tyler Higbee and Rob Havenstein and the guys who
Speaker 12: have been playing football at a high level for a
Speaker 12: long time, and they understand the nuances and they understand
Speaker 12: the variances and how everything is. It looks different, but
Speaker 12: it ends up maybe feeling the same when you're actually
Speaker 12: executing some of these things. So to be able to
Speaker 12: watch it and help communicate and man, you try to
Speaker 12: understand what somebody else is doing, so you can not
Speaker 12: I don't want to use the word empathize, but you
Speaker 12: can understand. The more I can help, I can help
Speaker 12: motivate you or maybe not do my job differently because
Speaker 12: I can't go block the defense the defensive end for you,
Speaker 12: at least.
Speaker 10: Not all the time.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean it's definitely, It's definitely happened, maybe once
Speaker 12: or twice. But the ability to discommunicate with everybody and
Speaker 12: make sure that we all are on the same page
Speaker 12: trying to execute our job bring satisfaction to me, and
Speaker 12: I know when we do, because it nomally ends up
Speaker 12: with us being an end zone.
Speaker 10: Everybody else is satisfied to that end.
Speaker 1: What did it mean to have someone to watch do
Speaker 1: what he does? In Cooper Coupy obviously announced that the
Speaker 1: Rams are trying to trade him. You had a post
Speaker 1: about it, like what what what does he meant to you?
Speaker 12: He's He's been the best mentor for me in my life.
Speaker 12: I come from a big family and never knew what
Speaker 12: the football, the world, and that journey and the NFL
Speaker 12: experience would be like for me. But from the moment
Speaker 12: I stepped into the RAMS facility, he's been nothing but welcoming.
Speaker 10: He's took me right under his wing.
Speaker 12: He's telling me what it's like to be a professional,
Speaker 12: to go out here and to train, train hard in
Speaker 12: the off season, to train hard end season, to prepare
Speaker 12: for every game as if it is a Super Bowl
Speaker 12: on Sunday, and just to take care, be a great teammate,
Speaker 12: be a great father, be great husband. I've been able
Speaker 12: to witness all of those things firsthand, and I do
Speaker 12: feel truly blessed to have their relationship I do with
Speaker 12: Cooper cup.
Speaker 1: Tell us about go Bowling dot com. You're talking about
Speaker 1: this week. You also got Pepsi. You're the first person
Speaker 1: I double jack get it you get it done that
Speaker 1: You got a jacket.
Speaker 2: With both of them.
Speaker 12: So I'm teaming up with Go Bowling and Pepsi. We
Speaker 12: have a bowling event going on tomorrow. I just barely
Speaker 12: got my bowling ball shipped out here for this event.
Speaker 12: I took a bowling class in high school. My basketball
Speaker 12: coach taught our bowling class, so I spent a decent
Speaker 12: amount of time at the bowling alley, I would say,
Speaker 12: And so I'm excited.
Speaker 10: I say, I'm bowl about a two hundred.
Speaker 4: Of course he does save some for the rest of that.
Speaker 12: God. No, I'm excited to see everybody come out and
Speaker 12: hopefully if people have some of their bowling balls too.
Speaker 10: I got my Rams bullying ball.
Speaker 12: That'll be nice out there'll probably hopefully I can get
Speaker 12: lanes sixteen and it is by the wall.
Speaker 10: I don't know how the bowling alley is set up,
Speaker 10: but it'll be fun.
Speaker 12: And if you go, yeah, if you go to go
Speaker 12: bowling dot com, you can get a free coupon for
Speaker 12: a free game, and everybody deserves a free game of bowling.
Speaker 12: It's nice to get out there on the lanes get
Speaker 12: a strike. So I'm super excited and I'm blessed the
Speaker 12: team up with these two people, and I'm super excited
Speaker 12: for everybody to come out to the event tomorrow.
Speaker 9: Here in New Orleans.
Speaker 12: Come please if you want to see me bowl, really great,
Speaker 12: I think I can't potentially do that for you. And
Speaker 12: if you want to hang out and drink some nice
Speaker 12: cold drinks, you guys are welcome to come.
Speaker 4: To Like literally, what can't this dude do?
Speaker 1: We can now confirm in person pookakua rules rules.
Speaker 10: Thank you, thankye, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're we're three for three. I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't know what to jinx it. But
Speaker 1: this is a great day here on NFL Daily, no
Speaker 1: matter what happens. And of course the next interview is
Speaker 1: going to be great because it's with Jordan Love, one
Speaker 1: of my favorite quarterbacks. Just in terms of style, Like
Speaker 1: who is Jordan Love? We'll try to find out, all right,
Speaker 1: wrapping up the show in style only high quality guests today,
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Speaker 5: Know, just saying saying it's not as fancy.
Speaker 3: Your name in full is much cooler than mine, and
Speaker 3: your life is much cooler than mine.
Speaker 4: So I think you win on this one.
Speaker 2: And your watch is fancy enough. We talk about you
Speaker 2: all the time on NFL Daily.
Speaker 1: I have enjoyed watching you know, you've progressed over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years, Like what what was different for
Speaker 1: you the second second time around coming back as the
Speaker 1: starter this year.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, uh, you know, year two, being in it, Uh,
Speaker 7: you kind of know what you're getting yourself into. You've
Speaker 7: you've you've walked the uh you've walked in that in
Speaker 7: those shoes for a year, so you know all the
Speaker 7: things that are going to be asked you throughout the season.
Speaker 7: And then obviously, you know, having my contract extension, it
Speaker 7: just got amplified even more stuff. So you know, I'm
Speaker 7: I'm still finding my way and navigating through it, but
Speaker 7: I'd say just having a better understanding of what I'm
Speaker 7: getting myself into and what what a full season at
Speaker 7: the starting quarterback is gonna be.
Speaker 3: Like, It's cool because you guys, a lot of you
Speaker 3: are growing up together on that roster and you're leading
Speaker 3: people you know into battle every weekend. But you're also
Speaker 3: you guys are all growing together in many ways. So
Speaker 3: I guess how do you balance that the line to
Speaker 3: walk between you're also learning, you're also growing, but you
Speaker 3: also galvanize people.
Speaker 4: You have to take them with you out of the huddle.
Speaker 7: No, I mean, that's that's the fun part about it
Speaker 7: is we got such a young team and had that
Speaker 7: my first year and and like you said, we've been
Speaker 7: able to kind of be in this thing together and
Speaker 7: grow it and develop with each other, which is, uh,
Speaker 7: it's fun. It's fun to be able to build these
Speaker 7: memories with the guys and just kind of kind of
Speaker 7: know where we started and know where we're working to
Speaker 7: and we're still not there yet, but you know, there's
Speaker 7: a lot more work, but.
Speaker 5: It's a fun process to be around. It's a great
Speaker 5: group to be around, a lot of young energy.
Speaker 3: You're you're so calm though, like we one of the
Speaker 3: reasons we love watching you plays because you can make
Speaker 3: the craziest throws we've seen in a long time. But
Speaker 3: you're you're so collected and you're so even throughout the
Speaker 3: course of a game. Now, I've covered your coach, Matt
Speaker 3: for a while, and I've covered that whole coaching tree,
Speaker 3: and I know what they are like in the heads
Speaker 3: A safe space, semi safe space, nobody's listening to right,
Speaker 3: So what is he like in the headset? And it
Speaker 3: must be so unique And you hear this all the
Speaker 3: time from quarterbacks everywhere. You can't talk back, So how
Speaker 3: do you tell him? How do you tell him, Okay,
Speaker 3: I got it. You know, when using body language that
Speaker 3: you know national television is not going to be covering.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: So I mean I think I think to start with that,
Speaker 7: I mean, I was able to learn from someone who
Speaker 7: did an all time a great job of doing the
Speaker 7: you know, the body language on the field when you
Speaker 7: can't talk back to a coach, and I was able
Speaker 7: to see that communication elite, elite.
Speaker 5: But no, I think Mass've done an awesome job.
Speaker 7: I think his time with Aaron and someone who's uh,
Speaker 7: you know, a Hall of Famer and been in the
Speaker 7: league and he's so composed on the field too, and
Speaker 7: handles himself a certain way, and Matt, you know, fed
Speaker 7: off that and was able to build this thing with
Speaker 7: me and he gets to see my personality out there
Speaker 7: and like you said, I'm a very calm player on
Speaker 7: trying to be as calm as possible.
Speaker 5: On the field.
Speaker 7: So so Matt knows that, he knows that I'm kind
Speaker 7: of in the zone when I'm out there, and he
Speaker 7: gives me the information I need and it's kind of
Speaker 7: drawn at that, but you know, you'll see me doing
Speaker 7: some body language like I'm good.
Speaker 5: I got the player or you know, I need it again.
Speaker 5: Things like that where you know, masking me doing a
Speaker 5: long time. He knows how to communicate with quarterbacks on
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 3: Well, when he loses it, it's usually in the direction
Speaker 3: of the official, So I think everyone's safe from that.
Speaker 5: Yes, it's not going on in my home.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, you're such a fascinating player.
Speaker 1: I think about the preseason games that you played when
Speaker 1: Aaron was the starter, because that's my first introduction to
Speaker 1: you at the pro level, and it was an interesting
Speaker 1: like window I think into what you've been as a starter,
Speaker 1: which was Man, you had some crazy throws, as Jordan's
Speaker 1: were talking about.
Speaker 2: You had some like really high highs.
Speaker 1: You had some some downs, And I think about some
Speaker 1: of those throws that you make in terms of the
Speaker 1: difficulty and trying to go for that, and I almost
Speaker 1: have a problem like coming up with a comp for you.
Speaker 1: Do you have any like players that you would come
Speaker 1: to yourself, because I remember thinking watching those preseason games
Speaker 1: that's coming too the process, Like he's a really unique style.
Speaker 1: Usually you can kind of pair him with someone that
Speaker 1: came before. But I struggle with that. So maybe you
Speaker 1: can help me.
Speaker 5: Man, No, I don't have any comparisons.
Speaker 7: I don't like comparing, you know, I'm trying to stay
Speaker 7: away from the comparison game. Like you said, this could
Speaker 7: be my game, you know, this could be my own
Speaker 7: way of playing.
Speaker 5: But I don't know. I think to that point. It's
Speaker 5: just I'm a confident player.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 5: I play with confidence. I throw the ball with confidence.
Speaker 7: And I believe I can make a lot of throws
Speaker 7: works out and see as it doesn't work out, you know,
Speaker 7: And that's that's how you got to play quarterback, you know.
Speaker 7: You you you got to live and learn and grow,
Speaker 7: and well, you can't.
Speaker 5: Go out there scared. You got to be confident in
Speaker 5: what you're doing and go make those plays.
Speaker 3: See I love that, And I'm not I'm not comparing
Speaker 3: you at all to anybody. But you know, I've covered
Speaker 3: Matthew Stafford as well for a long time, and he
Speaker 3: knows because he believes he can make any throw. And
Speaker 3: I feel a little bit of that energy with you
Speaker 3: as well. You can really any our mangle, and then
Speaker 3: you can also create out of structure. You can do
Speaker 3: all of these these things that just make the gorgeous
Speaker 3: plays unfold.
Speaker 4: But you try things that a lot of people wouldn't try.
Speaker 3: And it's very cool because you're so young, and so
Speaker 3: you have this confidence where you're like, whoa, he just
Speaker 3: tried that, and when it works, it's amazing.
Speaker 4: How do you assess risk when you're playing?
Speaker 5: That's a great question.
Speaker 7: Well, I think I think to that point, like I
Speaker 7: said before, being behind Aaron Rodgers and that was an
Speaker 7: eye opening experience coming out of college and just seeing
Speaker 7: all right, this guy is making no look pastes he
Speaker 7: I mean, how is he weighing these risks and reward
Speaker 7: and he's making everything work so easily. And so I
Speaker 7: got to see that and I was like, man, I
Speaker 7: want to try some of this stuff. I want to
Speaker 7: try implementing some of this into my game. And you know,
Speaker 7: you tried in practice. If it works, you know, you
Speaker 7: might keep doing something. If it doesn't work, you might
Speaker 7: coach might be a don't try that again, you know.
Speaker 7: So I think practice is the perfect place to try
Speaker 7: some of that stuff.
Speaker 1: That it's such a fascinating guy to bring up, actually,
Speaker 1: because when I think about his career, I actually think
Speaker 1: about that how you put it risk assessment, That he's
Speaker 1: had different parts of his career where he was really
Speaker 1: going for it. There was some to his career. People
Speaker 1: thought he was like too conservative. So it's like figuring
Speaker 1: out that balance. Has it been exponential? Actually get into play,
Speaker 1: because it's something that I do wonder. You're such a
Speaker 1: unique player in that you you probably had the talent
Speaker 1: to play faster than than you did. How how was
Speaker 1: that time waiting for it? Like waiting to play? Like,
Speaker 1: how did that help you?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 9: It was.
Speaker 5: It was an interesting time.
Speaker 7: It was, Uh, you know, the longer went on, the
Speaker 7: tougher it got, because you're eager to get out there.
Speaker 7: You want to be on the field with the guys
Speaker 7: you do all this practice and you want to you
Speaker 7: want to go showcase your.
Speaker 5: Talent as well. So but it was great.
Speaker 7: It was a great opportunity for me, great experience to
Speaker 7: be able to sit behind Aaron watch the team we had.
Speaker 7: We had a phenomenal team my first couple of seasons
Speaker 7: in Green Bay.
Speaker 5: And and just watch how it all unfolded.
Speaker 7: And and and to be a part of it being practice,
Speaker 7: you know, doing scout team and have my little time
Speaker 7: that I got to you know, work on my skills
Speaker 7: and try and hone it all in and and like
Speaker 7: you said, the preseason games were kind of my my
Speaker 7: baby to go out there and and and.
Speaker 5: And showcase what I can be. So it was an
Speaker 5: interesting time.
Speaker 7: Like I said, the longer went on, the tougher guy,
Speaker 7: the more eager I was to be able to get.
Speaker 5: Out there in the field.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and part of it's probably I mean, you're
Speaker 3: stressing these dvs out, Like I'm sure they're in the
Speaker 3: locker room, like we have the worst day today because
Speaker 3: we're supposed to be on scout team and he's just
Speaker 3: dicing us up left and right and all of that.
Speaker 3: But one thing that's not stressful is like, you're the
Speaker 3: face of this franchise now, and that's a storied franchise,
Speaker 3: and I know that the fan base loves you. And
Speaker 3: I saw some things in the winter months. There was
Speaker 3: some snow you were like helping people get their cars
Speaker 3: out of snow or something like that year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, But like I.
Speaker 3: Mean, what is it like for you. You're really in
Speaker 3: the community and like people are like, that's Jordan freaking love.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, yeah, no, you don't have to help push
Speaker 3: my car please. No injuries, like you know, those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. What is that like for you being in
Speaker 3: that community, it's awesome.
Speaker 5: It's an awesome place to play, an awesome place to live.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 7: I think it's a very small town. It's not like
Speaker 7: any other NFL place. And I tell people all the time,
Speaker 7: I think everybody in Green Bay is a Packer fan.
Speaker 7: And they know everybody. Oh, you'll tell you they love football.
Speaker 7: They love the team. Uh, you know they're gonna stick
Speaker 7: with us, the kind of the ride or die fans
Speaker 7: right there. And you know, they show up for the
Speaker 7: games and let us hear it and give us a
Speaker 7: support and they're awesome.
Speaker 5: You know, they're they love football.
Speaker 7: I think is the heart of it is they love football,
Speaker 7: love and enjoying the games and love the players.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think New Orleans is almost the closest comp
Speaker 1: in New Orleans is so much bigger. But the connection
Speaker 1: that it does feel like a small town here and
Speaker 1: just how much they love their team and when they
Speaker 1: see their players in the community, I'm curious. So you're
Speaker 1: pulling off throws that are impressed us. Who makes you gas?
Speaker 2: Like when they when they make a throw?
Speaker 5: Who makes you go play? Right now?
Speaker 2: It could be now, it could be in the past.
Speaker 7: I mean there are so many quarterbacks. Like, so the
Speaker 7: fun part is about playing quarterbacks. You watch film every
Speaker 7: week and you're watching every other quarterback. I like to
Speaker 7: try and watch as many quarterbacks as I can and
Speaker 7: just see what they're doing. And obviously I think Patrick
Speaker 7: Mahomes is the start of that. You know, the guy
Speaker 7: has proved himself so many times and he's about trying
Speaker 7: to do a three peet.
Speaker 5: But I mean the place he does, the phenomenal ways to.
Speaker 7: Keep players live and somehow just have that magic is
Speaker 7: always something that you love to watch and a lot
Speaker 7: I love to watch quarterbacks that can create off schedule
Speaker 7: and you know, play outside of the system, because that's
Speaker 7: I like implementing stuff like that into my game.
Speaker 5: So it's fun to take notes and things like that.
Speaker 9: From these guys.
Speaker 3: My dream for like some great like theme from a
Speaker 3: for a sitcommerce show is like all of you guys
Speaker 3: are in a group chat together and you're like talking.
Speaker 3: It's just about the group chat. You guys are all talking.
Speaker 3: Was like, no, no, no, everyone's in a group chat together.
Speaker 3: And like you see, Patrick Mahomes now sometimes draws a
Speaker 3: little criticism for the way that he understands the rules
Speaker 3: and extends plays in certain ways.
Speaker 4: But like, are you guys all secretly like nice job?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 4: That was awesome, Like, no.
Speaker 5: But maybe one day we'll start that for sure. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: Jordan, you're here with Toyota, the official automotive partner of
Speaker 1: the NFL.
Speaker 2: Tell us what you're doing with them?
Speaker 7: No, So I'm I got started with Toyota about halfway
Speaker 7: through the season. You know, there was some some cool
Speaker 7: buzz going around about Toyota through and conspiracy theories that
Speaker 7: I'm a Toyota than Merchant.
Speaker 5: I played better.
Speaker 4: During this statistically true.
Speaker 7: Statistically is very true. I saw the numbers from last
Speaker 7: year this year. Trust me, I've seen everything, and uh,
Speaker 7: it's just a it's a very cool opportunity that I
Speaker 7: think the fans in Green Bay actually started and you know,
Speaker 7: started drawing these comparison is, putting stuff on social media.
Speaker 5: And it was just a very cool way that.
Speaker 7: This all came about with Toyota, that they reached out
Speaker 7: and wanted to, you know, work together.
Speaker 1: They better repaying you because you got them more more
Speaker 1: free pub before you.
Speaker 2: Even working with them than anyone. Because yeah, I was
Speaker 2: hearing about toyleta. It took me a second.
Speaker 3: I know, like you sat down and I literally was like, oh,
Speaker 3: Toyota thought, yeah, that's how strong the brand is at
Speaker 3: this point.
Speaker 1: That's what you want to do though, because that's that's
Speaker 1: the money time of years, that's the time of year
Speaker 1: you wanted about.
Speaker 7: Yeah exactly, I mean, Toyota thought, someone just tell me
Speaker 7: we got to extend the date to Toyota than to
Speaker 7: go all over to super Bowl.
Speaker 5: That's that's fair.
Speaker 4: I'm so happy right now you're.
Speaker 1: Basically taking that portion of our program. You're our last
Speaker 1: guest on today's show. Appreciate how thank you? Thank you Jordan,
Speaker 1: there goes Jordan Love. We needed i'll say, a double
Speaker 1: to complete the cycle. No, because they were all to
Speaker 1: go four for four. That's the better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it happened.
Speaker 4: Good vibes, I know, what a great day. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: And he he was so nice.
Speaker 3: I knew he would be, because you don't push strangers
Speaker 3: cars out of the snow if you're if you're a mean.
Speaker 4: Guy like he just I like him a lot. It's cool.
Speaker 4: I didn't have the heart.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 3: We told Jayden at the start of the show that
Speaker 3: he was our first rookie on quarterback. Island didn't have
Speaker 3: the heart to sell Jordan that he had moved off
Speaker 3: quarterback up, but it was because the injury.
Speaker 4: You know, I had some injury.
Speaker 2: Things injury related.
Speaker 3: For the most part, I love that he does not
Speaker 3: camp himself to anybody because he is so unique. To
Speaker 3: your point, Greg, I mean, he is such a unique player.
Speaker 1: And uh, he's been in the league five years, that's
Speaker 1: the sneaky part. Yeah, yeah, but he's only been the
Speaker 1: starter of two years. That the vision is absolutely loaded.
Speaker 1: The show was absolutely loaded. Our show on Friday is
Speaker 1: absolutely loaded as well. We got Jonathan Taylor coming up
Speaker 1: of the Colts, a lot of great guests.
Speaker 2: I'm like trying to think of them all. I know
Speaker 2: right now, it's like totally burning.
Speaker 4: It's been such a gift my brain.
Speaker 2: We're gonna have a show on Friday.
Speaker 1: We'll even have some extra because we have some more
Speaker 1: interviews even coming. We're gonna drop that on the Saturday feed.
Speaker 1: But today it's been a joy. We need to go
Speaker 1: off into the New Orleans night.
Speaker 2: What do you what do you got going here?
Speaker 1: Jordan's things, secret life sources agency. This is why she's
Speaker 1: making the big box. She is the insider, but it
Speaker 1: doesn't get any more inside than Jayden.
Speaker 2: Datas Jordan Love.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why Notavid.
Speaker 1: Montgomery, let's hit that hit that music. Eric, Let's get
Speaker 1: out of here. Yes, we will be finishing our time
Speaker 1: at Radio Row on Friday.
Speaker 2: I want you to say.
Speaker 4: It when you bat for the cycle.
Speaker 3: Were every single guest and you rip it all day.
Speaker 4: You know, football is back
Speaker 1: Ripping like a Jordan Love grow thirty five yards across
Speaker 1: his body to see Friday