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Speaker 1: right you bet you Okay? Wait, So Matt Ryan went where?

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Speaker 1: And then Marcus Mariota's back and he's playing. And then

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Speaker 1: Jamis is he here? It is right here on Good

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Speaker 1: Morning Football. Quarterbacks run the league. He got you covered.

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Speaker 1: Tom Fellas will break it down for us a momentary ly.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Brand is here. Maurice jonesdrew living legends around me today.

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Speaker 1: As our producer Grillo would say in my ear to

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Speaker 1: kick off the show, let's get two guys so much

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Speaker 1: gonna talk Jamis, Mike Singletary is on our program, we'll

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Speaker 1: talk Dion Sanders and his impact. But let's get to it.

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Speaker 1: Tom Pilla, Sero, what's going on? Matt Ryan trade, Mario

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Speaker 1: to back Jamis brought back what he got. Well, this

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Speaker 1: is really Lee block all fallout from the Deshaun Watson trade. Remember,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons and Colts had actually been talking last week

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Speaker 1: before the Watson trade. The price of that time was

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Speaker 1: were already in negotiations with Marcus Mariota, who agrees to

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Speaker 1: Very much setting up Mariota as a potential bridge to

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Speaker 1: meanwhile the Saints of course also we're in on Deshaun Watson.

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Speaker 1: But plan B was always Jamis Winston. He performed at

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Speaker 1: and of course a bit of a message and indictment,

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Speaker 1: happy for Matt Ryan. This is exciting late in his career.

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Speaker 1: I think the Colts are a better team today than

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Speaker 1: After Kyle Shanahan left and they went through different play callers.

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson can play to at least forty five. He's

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Speaker 1: It's if we were doing the true apples to apples.

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Speaker 1: I like the bicep too. So DeVante goes back to

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Speaker 1: play with his college quarterback. I'd really be interested in

423
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Speaker 1: how interested how interested Chris Godwood would be in going

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Speaker 1: back to play with Tracey McSorley, his college quarterback. I

425
00:20:57,508 --> 00:20:59,108
Speaker 1: think it was on the Cardinals last year. That's not

426
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Speaker 1: really on the table. I think the crux of this is,

427
00:21:02,828 --> 00:21:04,828
Speaker 1: is it interesting that someone wants to go back and

428
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Speaker 1: play with Brady and maybe he doesn't want to go

429
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Speaker 1: back and play with Rogers. Totally unfair, probably, but there's

430
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Speaker 1: also a little bit of that. I also think if

431
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Speaker 1: it was the Tampa Bay Packers and they're down in

432
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Speaker 1: Florida and it's beautiful and the state taxes and all that, Mike,

433
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Speaker 1: this also would be a different conversation. I think Green

434
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Speaker 1: Bay is still sort of a tough sell to young

435
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Speaker 1: players for a myriad of reasons, and maybe one of

436
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Speaker 1: which is Rogers. I don't think it's a huge deal.

437
00:21:31,828 --> 00:21:33,908
Speaker 1: I just I would only share an anecdote about the

438
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Speaker 1: power of Brady and NFL Honors. Got to talk to

439
00:21:36,948 --> 00:21:39,428
Speaker 1: Mike Evans came by. Everybody loves Big Mike, great guy,

440
00:21:39,548 --> 00:21:42,708
Speaker 1: great player, and we of course hammered him with Tom

441
00:21:42,748 --> 00:21:44,828
Speaker 1: Brady questions, and he was such a good sport about it.

442
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Speaker 1: And as he walked away, I said, you know what, Mike,

443
00:21:47,548 --> 00:21:50,148
Speaker 1: at some point, at some point in your career, you

444
00:21:50,188 --> 00:21:52,268
Speaker 1: won't have to be asked about your quarterback because it

445
00:21:52,348 --> 00:21:55,148
Speaker 1: was always about Johnny Football, then Jaymiss and now it's

446
00:21:55,148 --> 00:21:57,788
Speaker 1: always about Brady. And he's like, you know what, I

447
00:21:57,948 --> 00:22:00,548
Speaker 1: love talking about Tom Brady. Man. Anytime I'll talk about

448
00:22:00,588 --> 00:22:03,028
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, it's totally cool. So I think that is

449
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Speaker 1: the allure, and I thought that's volumes. I think it's

450
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Speaker 1: a big deal. To your point, Kyle, sometime in twenty

451
00:22:10,188 --> 00:22:14,668
Speaker 1: twenty eight, maybe you'll be talking to our producers on

452
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Speaker 1: this show and you'll say, I need to cut up

453
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Speaker 1: because Brady retired, and I want to talk about his legacy.

454
00:22:19,948 --> 00:22:21,908
Speaker 1: Why is the Hall of Famer, Why he's the greatest

455
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Speaker 1: of all time? And it'll be because he lured players

456
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Speaker 1: out of retirement, and you'll look at you'll find that

457
00:22:26,468 --> 00:22:28,828
Speaker 1: Sarah Walsh bite, you know, and it'll be part of

458
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Speaker 1: the montage of the many players that we've heard want

459
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Speaker 1: to play with him. And there will be no negativity

460
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Speaker 1: ever about Tom Brady from any former players. So it's

461
00:22:36,948 --> 00:22:38,828
Speaker 1: less about Aaron Rodgers and what goes on with him.

462
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Speaker 1: But this does bolster the legacy and what he is

463
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Speaker 1: because we've never heard a single negative thing. In fact,

464
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Speaker 1: you know, Brady leaves money on the table to make

465
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Speaker 1: sure others get paid and all of that. You hear

466
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Speaker 1: about these phone calls and these conversations. You don't really

467
00:22:52,268 --> 00:22:55,708
Speaker 1: hear about that with Aaron Rodgers. Maybe in bringing Randall cobback,

468
00:22:55,788 --> 00:22:57,308
Speaker 1: and that's fair, but I think it's more about how

469
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Speaker 1: special Tom Brady is and nothing against Aaron Rodgers. You've

470
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Speaker 1: got something else to get you here very quickly. There's

471
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Speaker 1: a last impromptu one I wanted to bring, um MJD.

472
00:23:07,108 --> 00:23:11,108
Speaker 1: We're getting somebody, get MGD some coffee, and then someone

473
00:23:11,188 --> 00:23:17,308
Speaker 1: else said, hold on, said let's stay here, wake up MGD. No, MJD.

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Speaker 1: I also just heard you say. This is literally what

475
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Speaker 1: MJD said in the commercial break before we came on.

476
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Speaker 1: Arey said, just so you guys know what's kind of

477
00:23:24,588 --> 00:23:27,068
Speaker 1: windy here. So if my power gets knocked out and

478
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Speaker 1: I can't do the show, it's not it's just what's happening.

479
00:23:30,428 --> 00:23:33,148
Speaker 1: So like, are you just what's up? It's four twenty

480
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Speaker 1: in the morning. What I don't understand when people talking

481
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Speaker 1: about wake up, most people are sleep right. Well, it's uh,

482
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Speaker 1: it's good. My internet's going in and out as I'm

483
00:23:45,188 --> 00:23:47,228
Speaker 1: telling you now, the mics keep going in and out.

484
00:23:48,388 --> 00:23:50,748
Speaker 1: It's all over the place. Listen, it's it's we're we're

485
00:23:50,748 --> 00:23:52,868
Speaker 1: gonna fight through this adversity that we have right now,

486
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Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna keep continue to be champions

487
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Speaker 1: for good, good anything else. Kyle and I have both

488
00:24:02,268 --> 00:24:04,148
Speaker 1: done that. Kyle and I have taken that chord that's

489
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Speaker 1: in the Wally yanked it when we want to get

490
00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:09,988
Speaker 1: off the show early. It's a thing. It happens, talk

491
00:24:10,028 --> 00:24:12,308
Speaker 1: about it Tuesday. Ever here it is Tommy, you get

492
00:24:12,348 --> 00:24:17,308
Speaker 1: to go first. I first covered the NFL in two

493
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Speaker 1: thousand and three, which would mean this coming season will

494
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Speaker 1: be twenty years of covering the NFL. And I have

495
00:24:23,908 --> 00:24:27,468
Speaker 1: never seen two weeks in the off season with more

496
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Speaker 1: trade madness than we just had. Let's run through and

497
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Speaker 1: here just a recapp This is all in the past

498
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Speaker 1: two weeks. Starting out March eighth, Russell Wilson traded from

499
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Speaker 1: the Seahawks to the Broncos for two first round picks,

500
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Speaker 1: two second round picks, three players in a partridge in

501
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Speaker 1: a pair tree. The next day, Carson Wentz traded for

502
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Speaker 1: the Colts to the Commanders for draft picks. March tenth.

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Speaker 1: The day after that, Khalil Mack traded for the Bears

504
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Speaker 1: to the Chargers. Two days later, March twelfth, Amari Cooper

505
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Speaker 1: traded from the Cowboys to the Browns. March sixteenth, Yanni

506
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Speaker 1: Kingway traded, as he is every year, this time from

507
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Speaker 1: the Raiders to the Colts. The next day, DeVante Adams,

508
00:25:02,228 --> 00:25:04,108
Speaker 1: one of the big one for the Packers, to the

509
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Speaker 1: Raiders for draft picks. The next day, Deshaun Watson traded

510
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Speaker 1: for the Texans to the Browns for a boatloaded draft

511
00:25:10,308 --> 00:25:12,988
Speaker 1: picks actually ended up being six overall selections, and then

512
00:25:13,148 --> 00:25:16,948
Speaker 1: yesterday Matt Ryan traded from the Falcons to the Colts

513
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Speaker 1: for a third round pick in this year's draft. According

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Speaker 1: to NFL research, the players traded this season combined for

515
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Speaker 1: thirty three Pro Bowl selections, which is the most Pro

516
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Speaker 1: Bowl selections by in any officially seven day span since

517
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Speaker 1: trades couldn't become official to last Wednesday, the most since

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Speaker 1: at least nineteen ninety four. This has been absolutely wild

519
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Speaker 1: and by the way, we are not done yet. Ah Tom,

520
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Speaker 1: that was great and you were a huge part of it.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on twenty years. I will pick up with where

522
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Speaker 1: you ended there. We wanna talk about Matt Ryan for

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Speaker 1: a second, because this is the way this works. Go

524
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Speaker 1: to happen again yesterday, Big Matt Ryan news or anything

525
00:25:54,148 --> 00:25:56,828
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan news comes out, hits social media, and you

526
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Speaker 1: give it about three minutes, sometimes two minutes, and here

527
00:26:01,068 --> 00:26:04,308
Speaker 1: they come here, this person, Jake Query, the Colts scoringly

528
00:26:04,428 --> 00:26:07,188
Speaker 1: just left your respective seasons, Johnathan Taylor, Rodrigo, blanket shift.

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00:26:07,228 --> 00:26:10,268
Speaker 1: Easy for Matt to remember they're twenty eight and three

530
00:26:10,548 --> 00:26:13,308
Speaker 1: and there's a million the Falcons should have waited until

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Speaker 1: Monday three, twenty eight to trade Matt Ryan more and

532
00:26:17,188 --> 00:26:19,508
Speaker 1: more and more all the twenty eighth three jokes Matt

533
00:26:19,588 --> 00:26:22,028
Speaker 1: Ryan is easily we're twenty eight third round picks. That's

534
00:26:22,068 --> 00:26:25,988
Speaker 1: from punished Mitt Romney and Indianapolis needs to offer Matt

535
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Speaker 1: Ryan twenty eight point three million dollars from lousy smartch madness.

536
00:26:29,868 --> 00:26:33,268
Speaker 1: And that is four of four thousand that came out yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Can we revisit this for a second, because now that

538
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Speaker 1: he's leaving Atlanta, I think we have to Falcons Patriots

539
00:26:39,628 --> 00:26:42,788
Speaker 1: super Bowl. A lot of blame goes around, a lot

540
00:26:42,908 --> 00:26:47,348
Speaker 1: on Kyle Shanahan, very very little on Matt Ryan. If

541
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Speaker 1: you're blaming him for that. You are wrong. Let's go

542
00:26:49,988 --> 00:26:52,988
Speaker 1: to the end of the game. There's five minutes in change.

543
00:26:53,188 --> 00:26:55,828
Speaker 1: The Falcons are up eight. This is what Matt Ryan

544
00:26:55,908 --> 00:26:58,508
Speaker 1: refers to as the play to win the Super Bowl.

545
00:26:58,748 --> 00:27:01,228
Speaker 1: He makes it, makes a killer throw on the run.

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00:27:01,348 --> 00:27:04,028
Speaker 1: Julio Jones does the rest. They're on the twenty two

547
00:27:04,108 --> 00:27:07,068
Speaker 1: yard line, up eight. Under five to go, would have

548
00:27:07,148 --> 00:27:09,428
Speaker 1: been a thirty nine yard field goal to go up eleven.

549
00:27:09,548 --> 00:27:13,228
Speaker 1: If they don't gain another yard, it's over. But two

550
00:27:13,348 --> 00:27:17,948
Speaker 1: plays later, go on Kyle Shanahan's back. They're dialing up passes.

551
00:27:18,268 --> 00:27:21,308
Speaker 1: The line gets beat, Matt Ryan is gonna get sacked.

552
00:27:21,548 --> 00:27:24,628
Speaker 1: He loses twelve yards. So they're totally screwed, right, and

553
00:27:24,668 --> 00:27:27,188
Speaker 1: it's the biggest meltdown of all time. No no, no, no, no.

554
00:27:27,588 --> 00:27:30,468
Speaker 1: On the next play, it's third and twenty three, Matt

555
00:27:30,548 --> 00:27:32,828
Speaker 1: Ryan says, the hell with this, I'm going to win

556
00:27:32,948 --> 00:27:36,268
Speaker 1: this game. He hits Mohammed Sanu to put them back

557
00:27:36,348 --> 00:27:39,708
Speaker 1: in a gimme field goal range. Crisis averted. They're going

558
00:27:39,788 --> 00:27:42,188
Speaker 1: up eleven. They're going to Disney World. Matt Ryan's Super

559
00:27:42,188 --> 00:27:46,868
Speaker 1: Bowl champ alas offensive holding on the play. It comes

560
00:27:46,948 --> 00:27:50,468
Speaker 1: back they punt, the defense gives up a ninety one

561
00:27:50,548 --> 00:27:54,508
Speaker 1: yard drive and the two point conversion. Ryan never gets

562
00:27:54,548 --> 00:27:56,748
Speaker 1: the ball and overtime, the twenty eight to three meltdown

563
00:27:56,868 --> 00:28:02,148
Speaker 1: is complete and the jokes haven't stopped since. Again, awful meltdown.

564
00:28:02,308 --> 00:28:05,508
Speaker 1: The Falcons should wear that that was a Matt Ryan thing.

565
00:28:05,828 --> 00:28:08,148
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan did not throw an interception in that game.

566
00:28:08,388 --> 00:28:11,468
Speaker 1: He threw six and completions in that game. The Falcon's

567
00:28:11,588 --> 00:28:14,788
Speaker 1: defense gave up a total of twenty four first downs

568
00:28:14,988 --> 00:28:17,188
Speaker 1: and then three hundred and forty six yards in the

569
00:28:17,348 --> 00:28:22,468
Speaker 1: second half alone. It is a lame, low hanging, dumb

570
00:28:22,788 --> 00:28:27,148
Speaker 1: joke that you should stop making. They're not funny anymore.

571
00:28:27,388 --> 00:28:29,028
Speaker 1: And you know what, the worst part is, they're not

572
00:28:29,148 --> 00:28:31,868
Speaker 1: even true. If you're still making twenty eight or three

573
00:28:31,948 --> 00:28:33,868
Speaker 1: jokes about Matt Ryan as he starts in this new

574
00:28:33,908 --> 00:28:37,028
Speaker 1: phase of his career, the joke is on you. That's it.

575
00:28:38,028 --> 00:28:41,108
Speaker 1: Get him, Kyle, you tell him. Yeah, I was gonna say,

576
00:28:41,228 --> 00:28:43,068
Speaker 1: the only reason Matt Ryan gets he's the face of

577
00:28:43,148 --> 00:28:46,188
Speaker 1: the franchise. That's all. It's okay, it comes with the territory.

578
00:28:46,228 --> 00:28:48,828
Speaker 1: Well get all the money, you get all the jokes. Okay,

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna talk about is the mindset of Pro Day,

580
00:28:51,388 --> 00:28:53,148
Speaker 1: and we're gonna go to running back Breece Hall out

581
00:28:53,148 --> 00:28:56,428
Speaker 1: of Iowa State. This is the thing you he he

582
00:28:56,548 --> 00:28:58,908
Speaker 1: did everything he needed to do with the combine. The

583
00:28:59,028 --> 00:29:01,228
Speaker 1: Pro day is just to kind of solidify and check

584
00:29:01,268 --> 00:29:02,628
Speaker 1: all the boxes off. So you just want to go

585
00:29:02,668 --> 00:29:04,908
Speaker 1: out there. You want to look athletic, you want to

586
00:29:04,908 --> 00:29:06,828
Speaker 1: do all the drills, you want to catch all the passes,

587
00:29:06,868 --> 00:29:08,748
Speaker 1: you want to look smooth, you want to continue to

588
00:29:08,748 --> 00:29:10,548
Speaker 1: show that you're in great shape. I remember when I

589
00:29:10,668 --> 00:29:13,548
Speaker 1: was in Pro Day at UCLA a long time ago,

590
00:29:14,148 --> 00:29:16,428
Speaker 1: and it might have been the hardest work out of

591
00:29:16,468 --> 00:29:18,388
Speaker 1: my life because I worked out for four hours, four

592
00:29:18,428 --> 00:29:21,948
Speaker 1: and a half hours straight of catching passes, doing running

593
00:29:21,948 --> 00:29:25,148
Speaker 1: back routes, catching punch with John Harball, who had me

594
00:29:25,628 --> 00:29:28,428
Speaker 1: like spin around four times, have a ball in one hand,

595
00:29:28,828 --> 00:29:30,428
Speaker 1: run and catch the other ball. Like it's all these

596
00:29:30,468 --> 00:29:32,628
Speaker 1: different things. Coaches just trying to wear you out to

597
00:29:32,708 --> 00:29:34,228
Speaker 1: see if you can do it, if you're willing to

598
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Speaker 1: do it. It's all a mindset game to me. Breeze

599
00:29:37,228 --> 00:29:39,308
Speaker 1: Hall is one. He's one of the top guys in

600
00:29:39,388 --> 00:29:41,748
Speaker 1: the draft. He has an opportunity to kind of solidify

601
00:29:41,788 --> 00:29:43,708
Speaker 1: yourself in the back end of that first round possibly

602
00:29:43,788 --> 00:29:47,028
Speaker 1: being getting drafted. You know what, go out there with

603
00:29:47,108 --> 00:29:50,828
Speaker 1: the great mindset that you're gonna dominate this this pro

604
00:29:50,948 --> 00:29:54,268
Speaker 1: day and you'll you'll do it. And again it's understand

605
00:29:54,308 --> 00:29:56,788
Speaker 1: they're trying to get you tired. The whole purposes is

606
00:29:56,868 --> 00:30:01,268
Speaker 1: to see you work under pressure or under a not

607
00:30:01,468 --> 00:30:05,788
Speaker 1: I guess advantageous mindset or your environment, and all you

608
00:30:05,828 --> 00:30:07,228
Speaker 1: gotta do is go out there and play well, You'll

609
00:30:07,268 --> 00:30:11,068
Speaker 1: be fine. Let's talk about this. I brought it up

610
00:30:11,188 --> 00:30:13,828
Speaker 1: in these terms, Matt Ryan. I'm excited about it, sure,

611
00:30:14,308 --> 00:30:18,068
Speaker 1: but is it enough? Are they better than the Titans?

612
00:30:18,148 --> 00:30:19,708
Speaker 1: That's what they have to be. They have some money

613
00:30:19,748 --> 00:30:21,508
Speaker 1: to play with, of course they do that they haven't spent.

614
00:30:21,988 --> 00:30:24,028
Speaker 1: Is it enough for them to dethrone King Henry and

615
00:30:24,068 --> 00:30:27,028
Speaker 1: the Titans in the AFC South and GD Well, I'll

616
00:30:27,068 --> 00:30:30,268
Speaker 1: say this, kay, I believe it is. But if it isn't,

617
00:30:30,668 --> 00:30:32,908
Speaker 1: is it enough to beat Jacksonville the last game of

618
00:30:32,948 --> 00:30:34,748
Speaker 1: the year to go to the playoffs last year? I

619
00:30:34,948 --> 00:30:38,148
Speaker 1: think so. I believe that if Matt Ryan is there,

620
00:30:38,228 --> 00:30:39,988
Speaker 1: the culture in the playoffs and they're a team that

621
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Speaker 1: no one wants to play because of the way they

622
00:30:42,028 --> 00:30:44,348
Speaker 1: run the ball, they play defense. And so if you're

623
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Speaker 1: Chris Ballan or you're this organization or you're these players

624
00:30:47,308 --> 00:30:49,028
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, you come in with a different hope, a

625
00:30:49,068 --> 00:30:52,468
Speaker 1: different belief, like, hey, he's done it before, he's accomplished

626
00:30:52,508 --> 00:30:56,548
Speaker 1: in the National Football League. He doesn't make mistakes, and

627
00:30:56,668 --> 00:30:58,788
Speaker 1: and all the times you see him, he's even killed.

628
00:30:58,828 --> 00:31:01,188
Speaker 1: There's no high and low, there's no roller coaches. I

629
00:31:01,268 --> 00:31:04,468
Speaker 1: get motion sickness, so I prefer that as well. And

630
00:31:04,668 --> 00:31:07,068
Speaker 1: this is the thing. He's gonna be that calming effect

631
00:31:07,188 --> 00:31:09,588
Speaker 1: in the huddle where I felt like last year when

632
00:31:09,628 --> 00:31:11,988
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz would make mistakes, we would hear and I

633
00:31:12,028 --> 00:31:13,788
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys watched a little end season

634
00:31:13,868 --> 00:31:16,028
Speaker 1: the Hard Knocks, but he would go to Frank Wright

635
00:31:16,068 --> 00:31:18,468
Speaker 1: and be like, I'm okay, I'm okay, and Frank was like,

636
00:31:18,588 --> 00:31:20,788
Speaker 1: I know you're okay. And so he was still dealing

637
00:31:20,828 --> 00:31:24,068
Speaker 1: with trauma from the Eagles, right, So this you don't

638
00:31:24,108 --> 00:31:25,908
Speaker 1: even have that issue here with Matt Ryan. It's going

639
00:31:25,988 --> 00:31:27,508
Speaker 1: to kind of be a clean slate. He'll be ready

640
00:31:27,508 --> 00:31:31,628
Speaker 1: to go. Yeah, this is this is Maddie Ice that

641
00:31:31,788 --> 00:31:34,508
Speaker 1: that's not just a catchy nickname. We've seen enough miked

642
00:31:34,588 --> 00:31:36,548
Speaker 1: up packages with him over the year to know that

643
00:31:36,948 --> 00:31:38,828
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan will yell at a receiver when I receiver

644
00:31:38,908 --> 00:31:42,028
Speaker 1: needs yelled at. Like he is perhaps flawed as a

645
00:31:42,148 --> 00:31:44,468
Speaker 1: quarterback in some ways, but not as a leader. He

646
00:31:44,628 --> 00:31:47,188
Speaker 1: really isn't. And the question about the South, let's just

647
00:31:47,348 --> 00:31:49,468
Speaker 1: let's back up for a second. The Colts, the twenty

648
00:31:49,588 --> 00:31:51,788
Speaker 1: twenty two Colts. Are they as good as the guys

649
00:31:51,828 --> 00:31:54,668
Speaker 1: in the West and in the North? No, probably not,

650
00:31:54,948 --> 00:31:57,628
Speaker 1: but who cares. They don't have to. They play in

651
00:31:57,668 --> 00:32:01,228
Speaker 1: the South. He is immediately better than Carson Wentz. I

652
00:32:01,348 --> 00:32:04,068
Speaker 1: think he's the best quarterback in the division. And I

653
00:32:04,148 --> 00:32:06,628
Speaker 1: think he is worth at least another win, if not two,

654
00:32:06,708 --> 00:32:09,148
Speaker 1: if not three. And they've got this thing here where

655
00:32:09,148 --> 00:32:11,108
Speaker 1: they're a little bit like the Bills are set up

656
00:32:11,188 --> 00:32:14,748
Speaker 1: where the West the quarterbacks are so good, it's gonna

657
00:32:14,748 --> 00:32:17,708
Speaker 1: be tough. If you can sit in your little vacation

658
00:32:17,788 --> 00:32:19,908
Speaker 1: spot in the South and maybe get a little fat

659
00:32:19,988 --> 00:32:22,388
Speaker 1: on some teams that are still building something. That's how

660
00:32:22,428 --> 00:32:24,148
Speaker 1: you end up winning the division. That's how not only

661
00:32:24,188 --> 00:32:25,788
Speaker 1: the division, that's how you're like, oh my god, the

662
00:32:25,828 --> 00:32:27,828
Speaker 1: Colts got a home game in the playoffs. The Colts

663
00:32:27,908 --> 00:32:31,588
Speaker 1: got two. This is a very very good core of players,

664
00:32:31,788 --> 00:32:33,668
Speaker 1: and I don't think that they're done. And we're gonna

665
00:32:33,668 --> 00:32:36,108
Speaker 1: see how they draft, and they usually draft really well.

666
00:32:36,548 --> 00:32:38,308
Speaker 1: So what it comes down to, are they better than

667
00:32:38,348 --> 00:32:40,628
Speaker 1: the Titans? I don't know. It is Matt Ryan better

668
00:32:40,668 --> 00:32:43,188
Speaker 1: than Ryan Tanner? I think he is. Let's be honest, guys,

669
00:32:43,268 --> 00:32:45,468
Speaker 1: Ryan Tanneh Hall left us with a really really bad

670
00:32:45,588 --> 00:32:48,508
Speaker 1: taste in her mouth, an abysmal performance and the loss

671
00:32:48,548 --> 00:32:50,508
Speaker 1: of the Bengals, a game they would have won if

672
00:32:50,588 --> 00:32:53,628
Speaker 1: he was just average average and they win that game

673
00:32:53,708 --> 00:32:56,828
Speaker 1: and he was terrible, terrible, And I don't take pleasure

674
00:32:56,828 --> 00:32:58,948
Speaker 1: in saying it, but we all saw it. I do think,

675
00:32:59,028 --> 00:33:01,148
Speaker 1: and look, I'm not making a prediction right now that

676
00:33:01,228 --> 00:33:03,188
Speaker 1: the Colts win the South. I think that they're much

677
00:33:03,268 --> 00:33:04,588
Speaker 1: better than last year. And I think they have the

678
00:33:04,588 --> 00:33:06,388
Speaker 1: best quarterback in the division, and that's as good as

679
00:33:06,428 --> 00:33:07,948
Speaker 1: we can do in March. I like how they're set

680
00:33:08,068 --> 00:33:12,108
Speaker 1: up in that division. Part of the challenge for Carson

681
00:33:12,188 --> 00:33:15,388
Speaker 1: Wentz taking over in Indianapolis last year was he followed

682
00:33:15,668 --> 00:33:19,548
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers, a guy with a huge personality everyone gravitates

683
00:33:19,588 --> 00:33:21,708
Speaker 1: toward everybody in the building fell in love with. And

684
00:33:21,788 --> 00:33:24,868
Speaker 1: that's not an indictment of Carson Wentz. Their leadership styles,

685
00:33:24,908 --> 00:33:28,348
Speaker 1: their personalities are just so different. Matt Ryan is a

686
00:33:28,428 --> 00:33:32,148
Speaker 1: lot closer to Philip Rivers than he is to Carson Wentz.

687
00:33:32,268 --> 00:33:35,388
Speaker 1: And certainly in terms of play style, the Colts feel

688
00:33:35,468 --> 00:33:38,868
Speaker 1: like they don't need a quarterback to single handily win games.

689
00:33:39,188 --> 00:33:41,428
Speaker 1: Hand the ball off to Jonathan Taylor, throw to the

690
00:33:41,468 --> 00:33:44,308
Speaker 1: receivers who become open off play action because everybody thinks

691
00:33:44,308 --> 00:33:47,468
Speaker 1: you're handing the ball to Jonathan Taylor, play to the defense.

692
00:33:47,588 --> 00:33:49,748
Speaker 1: Those are the opportunities that are going to be there.

693
00:33:49,748 --> 00:33:51,228
Speaker 1: And if we can pull up the graphic again on

694
00:33:51,308 --> 00:33:55,068
Speaker 1: what the Colts got in aggregate between the trades of

695
00:33:55,268 --> 00:33:58,028
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz to the Commanders and then making the trade

696
00:33:58,348 --> 00:34:01,828
Speaker 1: with Matt Ryan, really you're talking about upgrading your pick

697
00:34:01,948 --> 00:34:05,068
Speaker 1: in the second round, your upgrading your pick third round.

698
00:34:05,348 --> 00:34:08,268
Speaker 1: You're also getting an additional pick in twenty twenty three

699
00:34:08,348 --> 00:34:10,868
Speaker 1: that is probably going to become a second round pick

700
00:34:10,988 --> 00:34:13,428
Speaker 1: next year. And you get a guy in Matt Ryan

701
00:34:13,508 --> 00:34:16,708
Speaker 1: who comes cheaper than Carson Wentz would have been in

702
00:34:16,908 --> 00:34:19,428
Speaker 1: terms of cash. All of which is to say this

703
00:34:19,788 --> 00:34:22,708
Speaker 1: wasn't Chris Ballard and company going out and making another

704
00:34:22,868 --> 00:34:25,428
Speaker 1: huge move and spending all kinds of draft capital. Look

705
00:34:25,468 --> 00:34:29,348
Speaker 1: at it, they actually gained draft capital to get a

706
00:34:29,548 --> 00:34:33,828
Speaker 1: former NFL MVP. We saw the stats earlier between Matt Ryan,

707
00:34:33,908 --> 00:34:35,548
Speaker 1: what he was doing several years ago, when he's done

708
00:34:35,588 --> 00:34:38,148
Speaker 1: the past few years. He's had four different play callers

709
00:34:38,388 --> 00:34:41,548
Speaker 1: in that time, from Kyle Shanahan to Steve Sarksian to

710
00:34:41,708 --> 00:34:45,068
Speaker 1: Dirk Cutter to Arthur Smith. Get him some stability, get

711
00:34:45,148 --> 00:34:47,268
Speaker 1: him a running game, get him a supporting cast. That's

712
00:34:47,308 --> 00:34:50,908
Speaker 1: what he's gotten, Indie. He has a running gaming as

713
00:34:50,948 --> 00:34:52,908
Speaker 1: a solid core. Like Kyle is saying, I actually don't

714
00:34:52,908 --> 00:34:54,948
Speaker 1: think they have enough draft picks to fix some of

715
00:34:54,988 --> 00:34:56,788
Speaker 1: the problems that they have. I like Matt Ryan, but

716
00:34:56,828 --> 00:34:59,508
Speaker 1: if you're wanting to compete with Derrick Henry and company,

717
00:34:59,628 --> 00:35:02,668
Speaker 1: you're going to have to hit free agency. I've dug

718
00:35:02,708 --> 00:35:04,828
Speaker 1: into this team, I think more than all the others

719
00:35:04,828 --> 00:35:06,868
Speaker 1: because it was just obvious this is a team that's

720
00:35:06,908 --> 00:35:08,468
Speaker 1: going to spend the most and the one I'm gonna

721
00:35:08,468 --> 00:35:10,828
Speaker 1: have to talk about on Good Morning Football the most

722
00:35:10,868 --> 00:35:13,308
Speaker 1: because they have the most money and they want to win,

723
00:35:13,428 --> 00:35:15,188
Speaker 1: and they're gonna go get a quarterback, and they dealt

724
00:35:15,228 --> 00:35:18,108
Speaker 1: their one who was very expensive away, So I had

725
00:35:18,508 --> 00:35:20,588
Speaker 1: like a plan for them for what to do, get

726
00:35:20,668 --> 00:35:24,028
Speaker 1: Toron Armstead get They do have issues to fix, and

727
00:35:24,148 --> 00:35:25,908
Speaker 1: they can't fix them in free agency. I don't know

728
00:35:25,948 --> 00:35:27,628
Speaker 1: why they don't, and I don't care that they draft

729
00:35:27,668 --> 00:35:31,628
Speaker 1: well necessarily, perennially or historically, go do it. You need

730
00:35:31,668 --> 00:35:35,748
Speaker 1: a left tackle. Matt Ryan is going to get sacked,

731
00:35:36,228 --> 00:35:38,628
Speaker 1: wear and tear already. He gets hit all of the time.

732
00:35:38,668 --> 00:35:40,748
Speaker 1: He's not going to move back. There's not a finesse guy,

733
00:35:41,068 --> 00:35:42,988
Speaker 1: so you need to protect him. You're a left tackle spot.

734
00:35:43,108 --> 00:35:45,148
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? Are you gonna add Toron Armstead?

735
00:35:45,348 --> 00:35:48,388
Speaker 1: He was waiting, apparently reportedly to see where Deshaun Watson

736
00:35:48,468 --> 00:35:50,148
Speaker 1: was going to go. Okay, Arena, are you gonna make

737
00:35:50,188 --> 00:35:52,068
Speaker 1: it work with Eric Fisher somehow? And then I look

738
00:35:52,108 --> 00:35:54,868
Speaker 1: at the receiver spot. They don't have a receiver outside

739
00:35:54,988 --> 00:35:59,228
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman that has played any meaningful snaps. So maybe

740
00:35:59,268 --> 00:36:01,068
Speaker 1: do they go get a Julio Jones. I'd love to

741
00:36:01,108 --> 00:36:03,868
Speaker 1: see that reunite him with Matt Ryan, see if that

742
00:36:03,908 --> 00:36:06,108
Speaker 1: can happen. Darius Leonard certainly wants that to happen, and

743
00:36:06,148 --> 00:36:08,628
Speaker 1: I'm with him or out of Jarvis Landry. You need

744
00:36:08,668 --> 00:36:10,148
Speaker 1: a receiver. I think it should be a veteran. I

745
00:36:10,188 --> 00:36:12,908
Speaker 1: think it should be in free agency. And I love

746
00:36:12,948 --> 00:36:15,588
Speaker 1: the front seven. I love Yunike and gowk Way, But

747
00:36:16,028 --> 00:36:17,948
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think the secondary still has a

748
00:36:17,988 --> 00:36:20,348
Speaker 1: lot of questions in Indie. So the fact that they

749
00:36:20,388 --> 00:36:22,108
Speaker 1: don't pick until the second round, they just give up

750
00:36:22,148 --> 00:36:23,828
Speaker 1: one of their third rounders. They have some later picks,

751
00:36:23,868 --> 00:36:26,628
Speaker 1: they don't have this hemium draft capital to go do it.

752
00:36:26,748 --> 00:36:31,308
Speaker 1: So God, let's go Ballard, Let's go get some pieces

753
00:36:31,588 --> 00:36:33,868
Speaker 1: and really go all in. If you want me to

754
00:36:33,948 --> 00:36:36,348
Speaker 1: feel well, you have to play your off season cards

755
00:36:36,468 --> 00:36:47,148
Speaker 1: right the rest of the season or man or even

756
00:36:47,188 --> 00:36:49,748
Speaker 1: if it's plopped looking lifting up, if it plopped over

757
00:36:49,828 --> 00:36:52,148
Speaker 1: the funny shops one in five, guy, you got to

758
00:36:52,228 --> 00:36:55,428
Speaker 1: be on him, Rannie, when you're going, man, get back,

759
00:36:56,948 --> 00:37:00,228
Speaker 1: get him, good on him? No no no check prol

760
00:37:00,788 --> 00:37:07,028
Speaker 1: check prol coming on coming on? Ran up? Now down?

761
00:37:13,348 --> 00:37:18,148
Speaker 1: How to hold me? I like that kind of party.

762
00:37:18,868 --> 00:37:25,268
Speaker 1: I like that kind of party. Baby, all right, we

763
00:37:25,468 --> 00:37:27,748
Speaker 1: love this kind of party. How good is that that

764
00:37:27,908 --> 00:37:30,588
Speaker 1: gentleman is coming on the show right now. He is

765
00:37:30,868 --> 00:37:33,388
Speaker 1: a legend. He has a Super Bowl champ, he went

766
00:37:33,468 --> 00:37:36,748
Speaker 1: to ten Pro Bowls, and he is a Hall of Famer.

767
00:37:37,188 --> 00:37:40,028
Speaker 1: Mike Singletary, we are so excited to have you back

768
00:37:40,148 --> 00:37:42,428
Speaker 1: on Good Morning Football, and we have to get right

769
00:37:42,508 --> 00:37:45,068
Speaker 1: into it. We watched the Vincance footage. We love the

770
00:37:45,148 --> 00:37:47,428
Speaker 1: screaming in the leadership. Mike. There's a lot of theories

771
00:37:47,428 --> 00:37:50,668
Speaker 1: about this out there. Why did you get the name Samurai?

772
00:37:50,788 --> 00:37:52,788
Speaker 1: And Mike, where did it come from? Settle it once

773
00:37:52,828 --> 00:37:56,988
Speaker 1: and for all, Um, Samurai came from me making a

774
00:37:57,108 --> 00:38:00,628
Speaker 1: lot of noise. I always made noise. I mean, either

775
00:38:00,668 --> 00:38:03,228
Speaker 1: I'm making a call, I'm trying to make an adjustment,

776
00:38:03,668 --> 00:38:06,668
Speaker 1: or if I'm hitting somebody. It was always you know what,

777
00:38:08,228 --> 00:38:11,908
Speaker 1: you know, something like that, And the guy made fun

778
00:38:11,988 --> 00:38:14,788
Speaker 1: of it and we had a lot of fun with it.

779
00:38:17,508 --> 00:38:20,068
Speaker 1: An honor to be joined by such a legend. What's

780
00:38:20,108 --> 00:38:21,828
Speaker 1: again a good Morning Football? My good to see you.

781
00:38:22,468 --> 00:38:26,428
Speaker 1: Nineteen eighty five was a long long time ago. Yet

782
00:38:26,548 --> 00:38:30,068
Speaker 1: somehow this nineteen eighty five Bear squad has withstood the

783
00:38:30,228 --> 00:38:33,348
Speaker 1: test of time. The game has changed offense over defense.

784
00:38:33,388 --> 00:38:36,348
Speaker 1: All of that the speed, the size of the players, rules,

785
00:38:36,428 --> 00:38:40,108
Speaker 1: even what is it about the nineteen eighty five Bear

786
00:38:40,268 --> 00:38:45,028
Speaker 1: squad that has withstood the test of time? Why such magic? Well,

787
00:38:45,108 --> 00:38:47,508
Speaker 1: first of all, I agree with it was a long

788
00:38:47,708 --> 00:38:51,748
Speaker 1: time ago, um, but I think more than anything else,

789
00:38:51,868 --> 00:38:55,108
Speaker 1: we just had a lot of guys that were their

790
00:38:55,148 --> 00:38:57,748
Speaker 1: own guys. I mean, we were we were crazy, We

791
00:38:58,388 --> 00:39:02,348
Speaker 1: we we had fun. H We played the game in

792
00:39:02,508 --> 00:39:07,188
Speaker 1: such a way that it just there was not a

793
00:39:07,308 --> 00:39:13,348
Speaker 1: lot left to think about. We expressed every feeling, every thought, everything,

794
00:39:13,548 --> 00:39:16,588
Speaker 1: sometimes the fan who was thinking. We expressed it on

795
00:39:16,668 --> 00:39:20,988
Speaker 1: the field and we had fun doing it. And you

796
00:39:21,068 --> 00:39:23,508
Speaker 1: expressed it before games as well. Take me back to

797
00:39:23,628 --> 00:39:27,068
Speaker 1: that magical night before Super Bowl's funny it was the

798
00:39:27,268 --> 00:39:30,508
Speaker 1: night before the meetings, your defensive coordinator, Buddy Ryan. He

799
00:39:30,668 --> 00:39:32,508
Speaker 1: made a speech. What was it and how did the

800
00:39:32,548 --> 00:39:39,988
Speaker 1: teammates react? Well, it was it was just one of

801
00:39:40,068 --> 00:39:43,268
Speaker 1: those one of those nights. You know. First of all,

802
00:39:43,388 --> 00:39:48,068
Speaker 1: it was his last night as coach of the Bears,

803
00:39:48,908 --> 00:39:54,708
Speaker 1: and we had talked before the meeting as we always did,

804
00:39:54,788 --> 00:39:57,388
Speaker 1: and it was a little bit different. And then the

805
00:39:57,548 --> 00:39:59,948
Speaker 1: last thing he said, would you guys will always be

806
00:40:00,068 --> 00:40:02,908
Speaker 1: my heroes? And he left the room and when he

807
00:40:02,988 --> 00:40:05,628
Speaker 1: left the room, I'm looking around, I'm like, what the

808
00:40:05,708 --> 00:40:10,148
Speaker 1: heck was that? And you know, Dan Hampton throws the

809
00:40:10,268 --> 00:40:14,308
Speaker 1: chair and Steve McMichael knocked down the camera and um

810
00:40:14,708 --> 00:40:17,908
Speaker 1: it was it was on. We were ready to play,

811
00:40:18,028 --> 00:40:25,548
Speaker 1: and I mean he was ready to go. All right. Mike, Uh, listen,

812
00:40:25,828 --> 00:40:27,668
Speaker 1: you you had a tremendous career, but one of your

813
00:40:27,668 --> 00:40:30,628
Speaker 1: teammates obviously had another one in Walter Payton. His reward

814
00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:33,228
Speaker 1: that I was nominated for Walter Payton Man the Year,

815
00:40:34,188 --> 00:40:37,268
Speaker 1: kind of what was his his what was it like?

816
00:40:37,348 --> 00:40:39,348
Speaker 1: Why was he so beloved in the community of Chicago.

817
00:40:39,428 --> 00:40:40,788
Speaker 1: Talk about some of the things he did off the

818
00:40:40,868 --> 00:40:45,428
Speaker 1: field throughout your playing time with him. The first thing

819
00:40:45,508 --> 00:40:49,908
Speaker 1: about Walter is he was a great person. Um, and

820
00:40:50,148 --> 00:40:53,548
Speaker 1: he really exemplified but a lot of guys really want

821
00:40:53,588 --> 00:40:57,468
Speaker 1: to be and and every franchise wants of Walter Payton.

822
00:40:57,548 --> 00:41:01,428
Speaker 1: He handled himself with such class and dignity and h

823
00:41:01,468 --> 00:41:05,228
Speaker 1: he was always doing the right thing and and he

824
00:41:05,388 --> 00:41:09,668
Speaker 1: made fans feel like a million bucks. He was just

825
00:41:09,828 --> 00:41:12,948
Speaker 1: a great guy and he was tough. Nobody out worked him.

826
00:41:13,188 --> 00:41:18,268
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many great things to say about him. Family, man, businessman,

827
00:41:18,988 --> 00:41:25,108
Speaker 1: and um, just just a tremendous example. Now he wasn't

828
00:41:25,228 --> 00:41:27,108
Speaker 1: just a great football player and a great guy off

829
00:41:27,148 --> 00:41:30,148
Speaker 1: the field, h he was a great prankster as well.

830
00:41:30,988 --> 00:41:32,308
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit of a story, or tell

831
00:41:32,348 --> 00:41:34,068
Speaker 1: us a story about kind of what happened with the

832
00:41:34,148 --> 00:41:38,108
Speaker 1: heat bomb at the Pro Bowl practice? Oh? Man, why

833
00:41:38,148 --> 00:41:39,908
Speaker 1: do I have to go to that one? Uh? He

834
00:41:40,108 --> 00:41:42,748
Speaker 1: never admitted he did it, but I knew he did,

835
00:41:42,868 --> 00:41:45,788
Speaker 1: and he knew that when when I felt that, Uh,

836
00:41:46,108 --> 00:41:48,108
Speaker 1: you know, first of all, that was my first time

837
00:41:48,188 --> 00:41:50,828
Speaker 1: going into Pro Bowl and and I didn't know that,

838
00:41:51,308 --> 00:41:55,828
Speaker 1: you know, that was the initiation. But I'm outside and man,

839
00:41:56,428 --> 00:42:00,828
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I'm I'm on fire, and that Jockstrap,

840
00:42:00,988 --> 00:42:03,228
Speaker 1: I said, what the heck is? You know? What's up

841
00:42:03,308 --> 00:42:06,628
Speaker 1: with that? And uh? I noticed Walter and some of

842
00:42:06,668 --> 00:42:10,108
Speaker 1: the other guys over there snickering and laughing, and I'm like,

843
00:42:10,548 --> 00:42:14,388
Speaker 1: wait a minute, but what's going on here? And I

844
00:42:14,588 --> 00:42:16,828
Speaker 1: I was I was in tears. Man. It was it

845
00:42:17,028 --> 00:42:19,388
Speaker 1: was really hot, and I thought I had something. I

846
00:42:19,468 --> 00:42:22,388
Speaker 1: thought something was up. I'm like, oh, what was going on?

847
00:42:23,468 --> 00:42:26,228
Speaker 1: But you know, I asked him later, Walthing, did you

848
00:42:26,308 --> 00:42:28,788
Speaker 1: do that? No? Mike, I would never do that. I mean,

849
00:42:28,868 --> 00:42:31,588
Speaker 1: you know you're line. I know you line, but it

850
00:42:31,828 --> 00:42:38,308
Speaker 1: was the moment. I'm telling you, Mike, tough to transition

851
00:42:38,348 --> 00:42:40,268
Speaker 1: off that, but I'm gonna try. It's a new day

852
00:42:40,468 --> 00:42:42,868
Speaker 1: for the Bears. You got a new head coach, new GM,

853
00:42:43,028 --> 00:42:45,068
Speaker 1: new look on the roster with Kalil Mack traded to

854
00:42:45,148 --> 00:42:48,268
Speaker 1: the Chargers. What were your thoughts on the Mac trade?

855
00:42:48,348 --> 00:42:50,948
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on the overall current state of

856
00:42:51,028 --> 00:42:55,428
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears. Well, I think, first of all, Khalil

857
00:42:55,868 --> 00:42:59,468
Speaker 1: Uh been a great player for a number of years,

858
00:42:59,588 --> 00:43:03,228
Speaker 1: and to see him go is is top. I mean,

859
00:43:03,508 --> 00:43:07,308
Speaker 1: I I don't really understand it, but I'm sure they

860
00:43:07,388 --> 00:43:10,788
Speaker 1: have their reasons for it. You know, maybe he was

861
00:43:10,828 --> 00:43:13,748
Speaker 1: a guy that he wants to rush more, and maybe

862
00:43:13,908 --> 00:43:17,028
Speaker 1: they're gonna play a defense that it calls for him

863
00:43:17,068 --> 00:43:19,908
Speaker 1: to do some things that that maybe he's not comfortable with.

864
00:43:20,308 --> 00:43:23,508
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I know he's a great player

865
00:43:23,548 --> 00:43:25,828
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that in San Diego he's gonna do

866
00:43:25,868 --> 00:43:28,708
Speaker 1: a great job. As far as the Bears are concerned,

867
00:43:28,868 --> 00:43:32,548
Speaker 1: I just think that I think they have a solid coach.

868
00:43:33,708 --> 00:43:35,588
Speaker 1: I've heard a lot of good things about him and

869
00:43:36,068 --> 00:43:39,668
Speaker 1: hopefully it works out well. I know Alan and William

870
00:43:39,748 --> 00:43:43,148
Speaker 1: the defensive coordinator, I know he'll do a good job.

871
00:43:44,148 --> 00:43:46,428
Speaker 1: I worked with him in Minnesota a few years and

872
00:43:46,828 --> 00:43:51,388
Speaker 1: he's an excellent coach. Really excited about him and just

873
00:43:51,548 --> 00:43:55,028
Speaker 1: hoping that everything comes together and and uh, you know,

874
00:43:55,268 --> 00:43:57,708
Speaker 1: the offensive line is better and ready to go, and

875
00:43:58,308 --> 00:44:01,428
Speaker 1: I know defensively they're gonna get after it. So excited

876
00:44:01,468 --> 00:44:06,788
Speaker 1: about what they're gonna do. From a legend's mouth to

877
00:44:06,868 --> 00:44:09,388
Speaker 1: the football god's ears. I'm hoping for that too, being

878
00:44:09,468 --> 00:44:13,908
Speaker 1: from Chicago. Now, speaking of exciting, you're up to something

879
00:44:14,108 --> 00:44:16,348
Speaker 1: very exciting and intense. As always, that's the word I

880
00:44:16,388 --> 00:44:20,068
Speaker 1: would associate with Mike Singletary. First, you have some adventures

881
00:44:20,108 --> 00:44:22,148
Speaker 1: in the jungles of Panama. Can you please tell me

882
00:44:22,148 --> 00:44:25,508
Speaker 1: about this reality show that you're starring in. They're participating

883
00:44:25,548 --> 00:44:29,228
Speaker 1: in and there's a charity aspect I understand as well. Yes,

884
00:44:29,748 --> 00:44:35,988
Speaker 1: Beyond the Edge CBS Wednesday night, eight o'clock Central. Very

885
00:44:36,068 --> 00:44:41,508
Speaker 1: excited about to show. Just I temporarily lost my mind

886
00:44:42,188 --> 00:44:44,148
Speaker 1: when they call me about to show. My wife said,

887
00:44:44,188 --> 00:44:46,628
Speaker 1: I know you're not going to do that show, and

888
00:44:46,748 --> 00:44:49,948
Speaker 1: I thought, you know what that sounds exciting to me.

889
00:44:50,148 --> 00:44:53,748
Speaker 1: I think it's time for a challenge like this in

890
00:44:53,868 --> 00:44:57,668
Speaker 1: my life. So very thankful I did it, not sure

891
00:44:57,708 --> 00:45:00,508
Speaker 1: if I would do it again, but man, it was tough,

892
00:45:01,628 --> 00:45:05,428
Speaker 1: but it was. It was good get back home, I'll

893
00:45:05,468 --> 00:45:07,868
Speaker 1: put it that way, but it was really challenging in

894
00:45:08,308 --> 00:45:13,588
Speaker 1: who stop, I can't wait. I bet the Samurai came

895
00:45:13,628 --> 00:45:16,588
Speaker 1: out again, Mike, and I loved him doing it. Did

896
00:45:16,908 --> 00:45:20,068
Speaker 1: light your own fire, but for a charitable reason. Mike,

897
00:45:20,108 --> 00:45:22,868
Speaker 1: before you go, you did such an hilarious job explaining

898
00:45:22,908 --> 00:45:26,028
Speaker 1: why you were Samurai. Mike. Your teammates that you've played with,

899
00:45:26,108 --> 00:45:29,468
Speaker 1: I've never seen a greater collection of nicknames Samurai Mike,

900
00:45:29,548 --> 00:45:31,788
Speaker 1: and Sweetness and Iron Mike and the Punky QB and

901
00:45:31,908 --> 00:45:34,828
Speaker 1: Mongo and Mama's Boyotis and Fast Willie and Gary the

902
00:45:34,908 --> 00:45:38,388
Speaker 1: Hitman Fence. He just kept going and going, so indulges

903
00:45:38,508 --> 00:45:40,348
Speaker 1: was just a little trip down memory land. I'm gonna

904
00:45:40,388 --> 00:45:42,348
Speaker 1: give you some of the great nicknames to your teammates

905
00:45:42,628 --> 00:45:44,388
Speaker 1: and just tell us what your favorite memories of them.

906
00:45:44,468 --> 00:45:48,908
Speaker 1: Let's start off with with an icon. William the Refrigerator Perry.

907
00:45:50,028 --> 00:45:54,708
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, William the Refrigerator Perry. William always ate by himself.

908
00:45:55,388 --> 00:45:56,908
Speaker 1: This is the guy. He didn't want to see you,

909
00:45:57,908 --> 00:46:00,788
Speaker 1: he didn't want to let you watch you meet this guy.

910
00:46:01,228 --> 00:46:04,828
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, he's a piece of work. That guy

911
00:46:04,948 --> 00:46:07,468
Speaker 1: just just a big kid having fun. Remind you of

912
00:46:07,508 --> 00:46:11,468
Speaker 1: Brutus on Popeye, but just just a big bully. The

913
00:46:11,628 --> 00:46:14,988
Speaker 1: one could tell him anything, and he knew everything if

914
00:46:15,308 --> 00:46:17,588
Speaker 1: you ask him. But a great kid, A great kid.

915
00:46:19,388 --> 00:46:21,508
Speaker 1: Loved him and he wins the Super Bowl as a rookie. Next,

916
00:46:21,788 --> 00:46:24,348
Speaker 1: another Hall of Famer, a nickname that does not celebrated

917
00:46:24,348 --> 00:46:27,268
Speaker 1: as much as it should be, the Colonel Richard Dent.

918
00:46:29,228 --> 00:46:33,508
Speaker 1: Colonel Colonel was just I'm more proud of Colonel than

919
00:46:33,668 --> 00:46:36,068
Speaker 1: than anyone. He is the guy that came in. I

920
00:46:36,148 --> 00:46:39,828
Speaker 1: think he's the seventh round pick out of Tennessee State.

921
00:46:40,708 --> 00:46:43,868
Speaker 1: And from the day he got there, he was just um,

922
00:46:44,228 --> 00:46:46,868
Speaker 1: he's a kid that that's working his tail off and

923
00:46:47,628 --> 00:46:50,028
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, Buddy had to teach him a

924
00:46:50,108 --> 00:46:54,508
Speaker 1: lesson early on, but he got that lesson pretty well,

925
00:46:54,668 --> 00:46:57,668
Speaker 1: and m he was off and running. He was just

926
00:46:58,628 --> 00:47:03,068
Speaker 1: a dynamite player and always believed in himself. And that

927
00:47:03,468 --> 00:47:06,108
Speaker 1: was the thing about him. He always believed in himself.

928
00:47:06,228 --> 00:47:09,948
Speaker 1: And then that was great, and of all the players

929
00:47:09,988 --> 00:47:11,988
Speaker 1: on that Super Bowl twenty team, Richard Dent took whom

930
00:47:12,068 --> 00:47:14,308
Speaker 1: the MVP. I think Buddy taught a lot of lessons

931
00:47:14,348 --> 00:47:16,468
Speaker 1: to a lot of players, Mike, and let's give one more.

932
00:47:16,748 --> 00:47:18,628
Speaker 1: A very close friend of the show, one of the

933
00:47:18,668 --> 00:47:22,468
Speaker 1: guys we absolutely love current head coach of the Washington Commanders,

934
00:47:22,988 --> 00:47:28,348
Speaker 1: Riverboat Ron Rivera, Riverboat Ron River Ron Rivera was the

935
00:47:28,428 --> 00:47:32,228
Speaker 1: guy in the back of the plane playing whatever game

936
00:47:32,308 --> 00:47:36,028
Speaker 1: they played, Jim Roman or whatever it was. He was

937
00:47:36,148 --> 00:47:42,068
Speaker 1: always a smart guy, fun and just kept everything going.

938
00:47:42,268 --> 00:47:46,788
Speaker 1: He was he was a frankst himself, but just always

939
00:47:46,828 --> 00:47:50,508
Speaker 1: had a funny line to say, but always worked hard

940
00:47:51,268 --> 00:47:56,508
Speaker 1: and you knew someday was going to be a coach. Mike,

941
00:47:56,828 --> 00:47:59,508
Speaker 1: this was a treat. You are the classic gentleman. You

942
00:47:59,628 --> 00:48:03,188
Speaker 1: are intense, but you're also extremely, extremely generous. At least

943
00:48:03,228 --> 00:48:05,988
Speaker 1: half of our cast here watched you doing Lens Crafter's

944
00:48:05,988 --> 00:48:09,188
Speaker 1: commercials in Chicago Land back in the day, through Canton

945
00:48:09,308 --> 00:48:11,948
Speaker 1: now to the Jungles of Panama. So thank you so much.

946
00:48:12,028 --> 00:48:14,788
Speaker 1: This was really incredible for us. Thanks Mike, Thank you